Bulletin #706
Subject: Who Are the Terrorists
Today, Who Are Their Victims, And What Do Both Parties Really Want?
16 July 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Recently a friend of mine,
who is a local French goat herder, told me that sheep farmers in the area would
occasionally buy a goat from him to raise the IQ of their flock.
While milking his goats,
--with names like Spinoza, Dostoyevsky, George Sand, and Ghandhi
(who was born without horns)-- my friend cited a
passage from Marcel Proust :
Peut-être l’immobilité des choses autour de nous leur
est-elle imposée par notre certitude que ce sont elles et non pas
d’autres ; par l’immobilité de notre pensée en face d’elle. Toujours
est-il que, quand je me réveillais ainsi, mon esprit s’agitant pour chercher,
sans y réussir, à savoir où j’étais, tout tournait autour de moi dans
l’obscurité, les choses, les pays, les années.
And he made excellent cheese with their milk.
When I
returned from the countryside, I visited my doctor because of a minor ear
infection. We spoke as we often do about world events and the various
interpretations in the social media. When I said goodbye, he reminded me that
the 14 of July was once again approaching, a
collective memory of cutting off the head of the king. I looked at him; then
added, “When the French began thinking for themselves!”
He nodded and I departed to meditate on this hopeful thought as I bicycled
homeward in the rain.
Who is to
say that philosopher workers will not one day replace the self-appointed
philosopher kings and their contemporary corporate administrators?
Brexit, un choc
historique, une chance historique
http://la-bas.org/newsletter/1er-juillet-1916-beau-temps-sur-la-somme-134
The 11 items below suggest it is time for us to
think for ourselves, and to draw new conclusions from the empirical evidence that faces us.
Thus far, the establishment ideologues have got it wrong and their metaphysics
will destroy us.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American
Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of
Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced
Study of American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of
California-San Diego
a.
George
W. Bush Dancing and Laughing It up with the Obamas at the Dallas Memorial
Must Watch Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45099.htm
How much more proof do you need that this is all one big reality TV show?
Posted July 14, 2016
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b.
The July 14 Attack in Nice:
Hollande
to extend state of emergency in France
Scores killed after truck ploughs
into crowd.
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c.
From: Edward S. Herman
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Subject: Bush-Blair conversation.
WORD FOR WORD, THE ASTONISHING PHONE CONVERSATION
Bush: Hello, hello.
Blair: Hi, how are you?
Bush: I’m fine. Fine.
But, hey, most important, how are you… you’re being so courageous. Really, really brave. Your body language.
Truly. I watched you on TV. Terrific.
Real leadership will be remembered. Believe me.
Blair: Yeah, well. It’s hard sometimes. Believe
me. But you’re doing pretty well yourself.
Bush: What me? I’m just ready to kick ass.
(Blair
laughs nervously, then says French President Jacques
Chirac is ‘causing trouble’ over Blair’s hopes of a second UN resolution
backing war.)
Bush: Yeah, but what did the French ever do for
anyone? What wars did they win since the French Revolution?
Blair: Yeah, right. Right.
(More
jokes about the French. Blair tries again.)
Blair: So, er… where
do we go from here?
Bush: I’d like to do the second [UN] resolution
Friday. We need closure… call in the chips with Chile, the Mexicans… close it
down.
(Pause. Sound of breathing. Bush says new intelligence suggests Saddam is
about to ‘offload’ weapons of mass destruction (WMD).)
Blair: Yeah. Well, er,
let me explain how we see it… I want to take the Europeans with me so Friday
might be a little early…
(Long silence. They deride Hans Blix,
the UN weapons inspector who had not found any WMD and wanted war delayed. Bush
mocks ‘that no count’ Blix.)
Bush: And you know what? We could put a bug in
on this and make sure Chirac gets to hear it. When that son of a bitch [Saddam]
hits Europe, they’ll be saying: ‘Where were George and Tony?’
(Laughter.)
Blair: We’ve got to make people understand we
aren’t going to war because we want to but because there is no alternative.
Bush: Yeah. I’ve got a big speech coming up
tomorrow so I’ll put some words in on that… but I have to do something about my
body language. Your body language is great. How do you do it?
Blair: Yeah.
(Blair’s
attempt to get through to Bush on the timing of the new resolution, and hence
the war, has failed. He knows it. Before he hangs up, Bush tries to bolster
Blair.)
Bush: Y’know, Tony,
the American people will never forget what you’re doing. People say to me, you
know, is Prime Minister Blair really with you all the way? Do you have faith in
him? And I say yes, because I recognise leadership
when I see it. And true courage. He won’t let us down.
Blair (laughing): Well, it might be my epitaph.
Bush (laughing): Like, RIP here lies a man of courage, you mean?
Blair (nervously): Yeah, right.
(Blair
pleads with Bush for ‘words’ on a possible Israel-Palestine peace deal but an
impatient Bush wants to go.)
Bush: I’ve got to hop off to Texas. Hang on in
there. And – cojones.
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d.
Don’t Call Him “Bernie”
Anymore:
the Sanders Sell-Out and the
Clinton Wars to Come
by Gary Leupp
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e.
Blair Damned. But Did The Chilcot
Report Go Far Enough?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45085.htm
by Daniel Margrain
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f.
Insanity
or Lies?
NATO Reaffirms Its Bogus Russia Narrative
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/11/nato-reaffirms-its-bogus-russia-narrative/
by
Robert Parry
President Obama and NATO leaders signed on to the
false narrative of a minding-its-own-business West getting sucker-punched by a
bunch of Russian meanies, a storyline that suggests
insanity or lies.
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g.
Genocide by
Prescription
The
‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working Class in America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45092.htm
by James Petras
and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD
The
United States is a country, almost hermetically closed to the rest of the real
world, brainwashed to the core with lies and propaganda.
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h.
Democracy And
The Future Of The United States
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45091.htm
by Peter Koenig and Alessandro
Bianchi
Alessandro Bianchi from the Anti- Diplomatico in Italy interviewed distinguished author and
economist Peter Koenig on Democracy
and the Future of the United States.
The
Interview was published in Italian.
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i.
Why is the Capitalist West Fighting with
Capitalist Russia?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16735
Alexandr Buzgalin and Paul
Jay discuss the antagonism between Russia and US despite the former adopting
'Jurassic Park capitalism' since the demise of the USSR
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j.
‘If NATO
Encroaches On Nuclear Russia, It Will Be Punished’
https://www.rt.com/news/350986-russia-nato-encroachment-punishment/
by Sergey Karaganov
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k.
The outrageous strategy to
destroy Russia
http://www.voltairenet.org/art....
by Arthur
Lepic