When we were kids wind, gas, flatulence Farting, letting rip, Guffing, breaking wind, fluffing, bottom belching, burping and whatever euphemism you can think of was considered quite a Laugh.
“And people still laugh about as much as they ever did, despite their shrunken brains. If a bunch of them are lying around on a beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos
We used to Accuse suspected culprits of Silent but deadly outrages in accordance with a ritual of rhymes.
He who smelt it dealt it,,
He who said the rhyme did the crime,
And so it would go on. Almost half a century has passed since all of that seemed so funny of course its another sort of Gas which is proving the tragic-comedy farce in international relations this past Month, Year, 7 years pick an anniversary.
Novichock which I think of as NoviBollocks.and Chlorine Gas, Sarin Gas, WMD’s Anthrax
Stern-faced News anchors trotting out repeated buzz phrases, Highly Likely, Of a Type only made in,
International Rules based order. On and on they drone, Talking points is what I think the spin people call them. I blogged about Karaoke Pop Idol Politics before where everyone seems to say the same thing hoping to be making it their own due to their own particular devotion and obvious belief in the point of censure or approbation.
But rather than risk repeating myself… I have realised that actually repeating oneself is exactly what one has to do with the old narratives, Lies Tricks and spoofs that keep turning up like Jennings Minors ripping great smelly farts.
The Woman Who Ideologically Ruined AIPAC’s Mission in the United States (Part II)
…by Jonas E. Alexis & Gwenyth Todd
With North Korea very much occupying MSM discourse at the moment, I had been wondering about the State of Israel’s nuclear capabilities and the name Vanunu has re-emerged in my consciousness. I remember the press reports from 1986. Mordechai is 10 years older than me, it is sobering to think he has been a political prisoner since then.
Gwenyth Todd, a former American political adviser, now lives in Australia. (Matthew Abbott/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)
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On 12 October 2000, Cole was the target of an attack carried out by al-Qaeda in the Yemeni port of Aden, when two suicide bombers detonated explosives carried in a small boat near the warship, killing 17 sailors, injuring 39 others, and damaging the ship.[1] On 29 November 2003, Cole engaged in her first overseas deployment after the bombing and subsequently returned to her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, on 27 May 2004 without incident.
USS Cole underway in August 2002
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As a student of monetary history, I have kissed a lot of frogs, that´s what I always say, some of the inconvenient truths of Political Economy like the truths of Realpolitik are kept from the public, Hilary Clintons two Stories admitted in the 2016 campaign, is something of the sort. And yet and yet! Carol Quigley says it best in Tragedy and Hope.
Quigley’s words.p.232 tragedy and Hope.
´´but criticism should have been directed rather at the hypocrisy and lackof realism in the ideals of the wartime propaganda and at the lack of honesty of the chief negotiators in carrying on the pretense that these ideals were still in effect while they violated them daily, and necessarily violated them. The settlements were clearly made by secret negotiations, by the Great Powers exclusively, and by power politics. They had to be. No settlements could ever have been made on any other bases. The failure of the chief negotiators (at least the Anglo-Americans) to admit this is regrettable, but behind their
reluctance to admit it is the even more regrettable fact that the lack of political experience and political education of the American and English electorates made it dangerous for the negotiators to admit the facts of life in international political relationships.”
Let´s emphasise that last bit!
“..the even more regrettable fact that the lack of political experience and political education of the American and English electorates made it dangerous for the negotiators to admit the facts of life in international political relationships.”
For a full analysis of this idea see this article about Henry Kissinger’s Doctoral Thesis.
Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822 (1957)
Credit to A. Bradley Potter, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
http://www.classicsofstrategy.com/2016/02/henry-kissinger-a-world-restored-1957.html
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Did Israel just Fart?
WHo´s Got Gas?
This article Is Very persuasive but leaves out a crucial piece of analysis. That analysis relates to the End Games for various political factions in The Syria Conflict. No Article on Syria or the Middle East and North Africa can be offered in a sensible context without at least passing mention in the lede in, to Petro Dollar Hegemony and The Export of Natural Gas via the competing Gas Pipe Line infrastructure projects.It is interesting that Mc Master wrote a book revealing the mangling and distortion of intelligence regarding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/02/jon-ronson-staring-at-goats-and-alex.html
H. R. McMaster
Not The Grub Street Journal 
https://web.archive.org/web/20170428105122/http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.com:80/2017/04/wag-dog-greater-israel-zionism-and-its.html
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