Precisely the questions I've been asking myself lately. As I said in an email to a friend just this morning: "[The people who lead this country] . . . are blinded by their own egoistic need to think of themselves as exceptional. That's what the idea of American exceptionalism is really about. People always personalize nationalism, it's a form of narcissism. Now you can disagree or not. But that is a form of ignorance, which is itself a kind of stupidity. For all their Ivy League schooling and privilege these people are not very smart."
I see your point entirely. But it remains a question for me, how these people can evince almost no humanity. Perhaps the point Caitlin Johnstone frequently makes answers it: people who are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the top and amass power and wealth are psychopathic.
The tremors hadn't finished and the West was already thinking how it could use this tragedy to inflict regime change on Turkey and how to do to Syria what it did to Libya.
It is my seldom humble opinion that the US has been thinking about how to make those two things happen for years now. All they're really thinking is how can get to my desired goal easier by exploiting these tragedies?
I read Ms. Bartletts report someplace else and was almost physically ill. The outrageous thing is that I'm really an atheist and I find this to be an abomination before humanity. As I think about it though, it's not so surprising, is it? When Patrick says The West, who's he talking about? Most of them are old colonial powers. They are accustomed to physically and mentally abusing their colonial populations, stealing their wealth and their goods (and that includes the United States). The only way I can console myself here is to think of the ancient Egyptians. In their cosmology, after you died, your heart went on one side of a scale and a feather on the other. If your heart was weighted down by your evil deeds in life, your heart would sink and, if it were bad enough, would sink low enough that your heart would be snapped up by the Nile Crocodile and you would disappear forever.
I don't know...I am unable to formulate a response to this intellectually obscene and Evil response to this from Our unelected "leadership".The Banality of Evil. God shall not be mocked.
We shall not escape the wrath of this egregious inhumane response as, ...a 'Nation', because of these secular tweeds comfortable and 'full of' Themselves'.
Good to see the many comments on Patrick's latest article. I feel the empathy and sadness of P.L.'s heart as he is a compassionate man, and a very sentient being, unlike the dead, unscrupulous souls who control the willfully ignorant populations of the decadent West and it's subservience to the most murderous nation in recorded history, the USA.
Cara MariAnna makes good points in her first post. "Exceptionalism? The American people? That is a coded word, in my opinion, for the "Master Race" baloney the Nazis used in convincing too many (but not all) Germans they were the "exceptional people" of Europe in order for them to do the evil deeds of the psychopathic Chancellor, who's policies left the nation in ruin, and the lives of between 5-7 million exceptional (master race) people by war's end. Good point relating narcissism with nationalism, too! A study of empires substantiates Cara's statement IMO.
To Boris Petrov, I'm ashamed of my fellow citizens as well, especially the faux liberal/progressive types who think voting for DemoRATS rather than Repulsive Party candidates, are in denial when the crimes committed by the D's are pointed out, and come up with a plethora of excuses in defending them.
Yes Cara, even with their Ivy League schooling, and I'm referring to the Democratic Party faithful, they are not very smart in the long run, as they are part of the problem.
But Boris, the old-fashioned "Mafia" in the US, in it's heyday, were small fry compared to the giant capitalist corporations, Wall Street, and the infamous "international bankers" who work for world conquest, and not just for control of big city crime syndicates. I wouldn't use the term "mafia" myself, but I do understand the context of your use of it.
If I may add a frightening, but sober assessment to P.L.'s article, and what's in store for humanity on this globe, read this and judge for yourself.
I'm at a loss how this can continue. I know the American people are propagandised and (still!) believe they're the good guys and their patriotism and all kinds of other beliefs they've bought into that gives them the right to do what they do. But for the life in me I cannot explain the European attitude. Though James Baldwin has written profoundly on the Western mindset. It has always been very sobering and now it is downright frightening. What we have created we will experience, and it will throw us in a total panic. Will that be a clue to change our ways?
The Tactical Use of H.A.A.R.P.? And-by Whom? About 4 Nations are known to have and /or be aware of this Technology.
Clearly, if some😈👹 Dark-side freaks in some U.S.Agency did This ...in their covert demonic glee they wouldn't Send any substancial🐕🦺 Assistance.(???!!!) Would they.
NOTHING surprises upright, rectitudinal Citizens of moralityand character these "DAYS".
Good thoughts, except "...British journalist Vanessa Beeley: “The US and its proxy Kurdish separatist forces...'". Those "Kurdish separatists" and their Autonomous Administration in the area of Rojava deserve better than this politically motivated slight. Beeley might take a minute to understand the inspiring, egalitarian, FEMINIST, and very democratic systems the people of this area have been struggling to maintain in the face of Turkish aggression, being used and then abandoned by the USA... seriously, it is a shameful lack of journalistic integrity there. We should consider what her motivations are. Otherwise, it is just SHOCKING LAZINESS. And why is that paragraph included in the first place? What does it have to do with the earthquake aid? Have you yourself actually read ANYTHING about Rojava? Are you motivated to malign them in such an obtuse fashion, or are you suffering from simple ignorance?
Thanks for this contribution. I assume you address Ms. Beeley. Ifnot I propose you should, and, if I may, suggest you track her down and put these matters to her. (Bartlett's Twitter address, given at the end, would be one place to begin.) I would myself be interested in her responses to your points.
Dear Sir, I apologize for the lack of clarity. Yes, I address Ms. Beeley, and Ms Bartlett for quoting her. Honestly, I'm just confused. For example "Reports on UN aid reaching northern Syria via Türkiye also downplayed the presence of Al-Qaeda terrorists in the areas mentioned, as well as Türkiye’s years-long support for Syrian anti-government forces. " If she means by "anti government forces" the Autonomous Administration, hasn't Turkiye been attacking them for quite a while? https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/turkish-syria-airstrikes-risk-to-us-troops-00070671 Anyway... I'm not sure what the point of writing to either of them is. They seem to have an agenda bleeding into somewhat polluting their reportage, but I agree about the sanctions, and I realize that it is a complex situation there. I appreciate your taking a minute to reply to my outburst. I have great respect for you.
Precisely the questions I've been asking myself lately. As I said in an email to a friend just this morning: "[The people who lead this country] . . . are blinded by their own egoistic need to think of themselves as exceptional. That's what the idea of American exceptionalism is really about. People always personalize nationalism, it's a form of narcissism. Now you can disagree or not. But that is a form of ignorance, which is itself a kind of stupidity. For all their Ivy League schooling and privilege these people are not very smart."
They are not “blinded” -- the 1% US mafia are -- vicious criminals.
I see your point entirely. But it remains a question for me, how these people can evince almost no humanity. Perhaps the point Caitlin Johnstone frequently makes answers it: people who are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the top and amass power and wealth are psychopathic.
One is ashamed for being an American for years. The 1% mafia that rules us are vicious criminals.
Hopefully this time they will be defeated and us 99% “red, blue and in-between” will get rid of the fascist US War uniparty for good.
Stand with Russia - it is on the right side of history and - it fights for all of us.
I'm reminded of a large Hurricane having hit Cuba just within last decade, and the US wouldn't allow medicine through......
The tremors hadn't finished and the West was already thinking how it could use this tragedy to inflict regime change on Turkey and how to do to Syria what it did to Libya.
It is my seldom humble opinion that the US has been thinking about how to make those two things happen for years now. All they're really thinking is how can get to my desired goal easier by exploiting these tragedies?
Of course.
https://rumble.com/v299aod-this-is-horrible-and-putin-says-no-more-redacted-with-natali-and-clayton-mo.html
Scott Ritter – Hydrogen Cyanide gas in Ukraine – US and OPCW silence
I read Ms. Bartletts report someplace else and was almost physically ill. The outrageous thing is that I'm really an atheist and I find this to be an abomination before humanity. As I think about it though, it's not so surprising, is it? When Patrick says The West, who's he talking about? Most of them are old colonial powers. They are accustomed to physically and mentally abusing their colonial populations, stealing their wealth and their goods (and that includes the United States). The only way I can console myself here is to think of the ancient Egyptians. In their cosmology, after you died, your heart went on one side of a scale and a feather on the other. If your heart was weighted down by your evil deeds in life, your heart would sink and, if it were bad enough, would sink low enough that your heart would be snapped up by the Nile Crocodile and you would disappear forever.
Thank You for the Tragic Commentary.
I don't know...I am unable to formulate a response to this intellectually obscene and Evil response to this from Our unelected "leadership".The Banality of Evil. God shall not be mocked.
We shall not escape the wrath of this egregious inhumane response as, ...a 'Nation', because of these secular tweeds comfortable and 'full of' Themselves'.
Good to see the many comments on Patrick's latest article. I feel the empathy and sadness of P.L.'s heart as he is a compassionate man, and a very sentient being, unlike the dead, unscrupulous souls who control the willfully ignorant populations of the decadent West and it's subservience to the most murderous nation in recorded history, the USA.
Cara MariAnna makes good points in her first post. "Exceptionalism? The American people? That is a coded word, in my opinion, for the "Master Race" baloney the Nazis used in convincing too many (but not all) Germans they were the "exceptional people" of Europe in order for them to do the evil deeds of the psychopathic Chancellor, who's policies left the nation in ruin, and the lives of between 5-7 million exceptional (master race) people by war's end. Good point relating narcissism with nationalism, too! A study of empires substantiates Cara's statement IMO.
To Boris Petrov, I'm ashamed of my fellow citizens as well, especially the faux liberal/progressive types who think voting for DemoRATS rather than Repulsive Party candidates, are in denial when the crimes committed by the D's are pointed out, and come up with a plethora of excuses in defending them.
Yes Cara, even with their Ivy League schooling, and I'm referring to the Democratic Party faithful, they are not very smart in the long run, as they are part of the problem.
But Boris, the old-fashioned "Mafia" in the US, in it's heyday, were small fry compared to the giant capitalist corporations, Wall Street, and the infamous "international bankers" who work for world conquest, and not just for control of big city crime syndicates. I wouldn't use the term "mafia" myself, but I do understand the context of your use of it.
If I may add a frightening, but sober assessment to P.L.'s article, and what's in store for humanity on this globe, read this and judge for yourself.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-super-rich-destroy-our-minds/5807433
More later.
I'm at a loss how this can continue. I know the American people are propagandised and (still!) believe they're the good guys and their patriotism and all kinds of other beliefs they've bought into that gives them the right to do what they do. But for the life in me I cannot explain the European attitude. Though James Baldwin has written profoundly on the Western mindset. It has always been very sobering and now it is downright frightening. What we have created we will experience, and it will throw us in a total panic. Will that be a clue to change our ways?
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/syria-disaster-exposed-us-true-face-major-threat-to-world-pe
Can it Be -
The Tactical Use of H.A.A.R.P.? And-by Whom? About 4 Nations are known to have and /or be aware of this Technology.
Clearly, if some😈👹 Dark-side freaks in some U.S.Agency did This ...in their covert demonic glee they wouldn't Send any substancial🐕🦺 Assistance.(???!!!) Would they.
NOTHING surprises upright, rectitudinal Citizens of moralityand character these "DAYS".
Good thoughts, except "...British journalist Vanessa Beeley: “The US and its proxy Kurdish separatist forces...'". Those "Kurdish separatists" and their Autonomous Administration in the area of Rojava deserve better than this politically motivated slight. Beeley might take a minute to understand the inspiring, egalitarian, FEMINIST, and very democratic systems the people of this area have been struggling to maintain in the face of Turkish aggression, being used and then abandoned by the USA... seriously, it is a shameful lack of journalistic integrity there. We should consider what her motivations are. Otherwise, it is just SHOCKING LAZINESS. And why is that paragraph included in the first place? What does it have to do with the earthquake aid? Have you yourself actually read ANYTHING about Rojava? Are you motivated to malign them in such an obtuse fashion, or are you suffering from simple ignorance?
Cameron.
Thanks for this contribution. I assume you address Ms. Beeley. Ifnot I propose you should, and, if I may, suggest you track her down and put these matters to her. (Bartlett's Twitter address, given at the end, would be one place to begin.) I would myself be interested in her responses to your points.
Rgds.
P.L.
What to believe? No idea.https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/regime-forces-ask-for-half-of-humanitarian-assistance-by-aanes-and-heyva-sor-65477
Dear Sir, I apologize for the lack of clarity. Yes, I address Ms. Beeley, and Ms Bartlett for quoting her. Honestly, I'm just confused. For example "Reports on UN aid reaching northern Syria via Türkiye also downplayed the presence of Al-Qaeda terrorists in the areas mentioned, as well as Türkiye’s years-long support for Syrian anti-government forces. " If she means by "anti government forces" the Autonomous Administration, hasn't Turkiye been attacking them for quite a while? https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/turkish-syria-airstrikes-risk-to-us-troops-00070671 Anyway... I'm not sure what the point of writing to either of them is. They seem to have an agenda bleeding into somewhat polluting their reportage, but I agree about the sanctions, and I realize that it is a complex situation there. I appreciate your taking a minute to reply to my outburst. I have great respect for you.
Typical.