Richard Stanley
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It's been a few weeks since I've updated this thread and a LOT has happened in that time. To summarize, Trump has found excuses to tack towards the left and globalism on a number of fronts. There are rumblimgs aplenty on the right, albeit that Trump still seems to have the support of his less ideologically driven populists that are still in thrall with his rhetoric. As such, the following excerpt discusses one reaction to the recent bombings of Syria and Afghanistan. The latter bomb, named MOAB (nicknamed Mother Of All Bombs), seems an apocalyptic OT reference to the conflicts (including against Moab) between the Judge era Israelites and their neighbors, just prior to the establishment of the Judaic Kingdom of David. David is interesting here because he is recorded as having his great-grandmother, Ruth, who was from Moab, and not being a descendant from Jacob. This is counter to the later Jewish tradition that mandated that Jews must have a Jewish mother. But, according to the canon, a Moabite elite would have descended from Lot, who was Abraham's nephew. My inference being that these conflicts have too many elite connections on both sides, even in the Bible.
Also interesting to note is that the term 'reactionary' below used to be, at least, a pejorative term from the left perspective, but maybe some on the right have accepted this?
Read the whole story and note the comment from the former Israeli legislator near the end. There are a lot of links in the rest of the piece.
Also interesting to note is that the term 'reactionary' below used to be, at least, a pejorative term from the left perspective, but maybe some on the right have accepted this?
Read the whole story and note the comment from the former Israeli legislator near the end. There are a lot of links in the rest of the piece.
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I think I speak for every right-wing, reactionary, America-first conservative in America when I say: Cut out the foreign adventures. Cut our taxes instead.
Later that day I got even angrier when I read a report that was making its way around right-wing websites. The topic was the chemical strike in Syria that led the Donald to order that cruise-missile strike.
The report is titled "Assessment of White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017" and it was authored by Theodore Postol, an MIT professor who is among the world's leading experts on chemical weaponry.
In 14 pages, Postol demolishes the Trump administration's extended press release claiming proof that Syrian aircraft delivered that gas strike. Here's the key sentence:
"I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the U.S. government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria at roughly 6 to 7 a.m. on April 4, 2017."
Postol writes that "the report contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft. In fact, the report contains absolutely no evidence that would indicate who was the perpetrator of this atrocity."
The central piece of evidence cited in the administration's report is what appears to be the remains of a rocket casing photographed in a crater on a street where the attack occurred. The rocket body showed evidence of an implosion from above rather than an explosion from within, he writes. (see video below)
The most likely explanation, he writes, is that the casing was placed in the crater and a bomb of some sort was detonated above it.
"The explosive placed on top of the pipe would cause it to be suddenly crushed up like a tube of toothpaste hit by a mallet," he writes. "Just as the toothpaste would be sprayed out from the toothpaste tube, so will the sarin be sprayed from the metal tube."
Who could have placed that bomb there? Postol doesn't speculate. His specialty is explosions, not politics. ...
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/04/donald_trump_is_taxing_my_patience_he_got_taken_in.html
I think I speak for every right-wing, reactionary, America-first conservative in America when I say: Cut out the foreign adventures. Cut our taxes instead.
Later that day I got even angrier when I read a report that was making its way around right-wing websites. The topic was the chemical strike in Syria that led the Donald to order that cruise-missile strike.
The report is titled "Assessment of White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017" and it was authored by Theodore Postol, an MIT professor who is among the world's leading experts on chemical weaponry.
In 14 pages, Postol demolishes the Trump administration's extended press release claiming proof that Syrian aircraft delivered that gas strike. Here's the key sentence:
"I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the U.S. government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria at roughly 6 to 7 a.m. on April 4, 2017."
Postol writes that "the report contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft. In fact, the report contains absolutely no evidence that would indicate who was the perpetrator of this atrocity."
The central piece of evidence cited in the administration's report is what appears to be the remains of a rocket casing photographed in a crater on a street where the attack occurred. The rocket body showed evidence of an implosion from above rather than an explosion from within, he writes. (see video below)
The most likely explanation, he writes, is that the casing was placed in the crater and a bomb of some sort was detonated above it.
"The explosive placed on top of the pipe would cause it to be suddenly crushed up like a tube of toothpaste hit by a mallet," he writes. "Just as the toothpaste would be sprayed out from the toothpaste tube, so will the sarin be sprayed from the metal tube."
Who could have placed that bomb there? Postol doesn't speculate. His specialty is explosions, not politics. ...
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/04/donald_trump_is_taxing_my_patience_he_got_taken_in.html
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