… and it is so sad, the hobbling, the overweight, the sick-looking, all those heavy breathers at Walmart, but not just there, on this repugnant day of half-masts
How many half masts for the Vietnamese the USA and Australia and France and Canada and (see graphic) bombed back to the stone age?
Halfway along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Rebecca Rusch finally learned to slow down. The now 48-year-old endurance mountain biker had come to Southeast Asia in February 2015 to find her father, who had disappeared near the end of the Vietnam War. But what she found in Laos was a deeper connection to any place she’d ever been.
Red Bull had sent her there to ride the 1,144-mile length of a Vietnam War–era supply route. Her journey is chronicled in the documentary Blood Road which will be screened onboard the Intrepid in New York City this Tuesday, and released online and on DVD and BlueRay the same day. (The documentary won the Audience Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival in March, and Best of the Fest at the Bentonville Film Festival last month.) Rusch rode with a picture of her dad, Air Force Captain Stephen Rusch, in her backpack, and took a detour to his crash site in Southern Laos.
The wreckage of her father’s F4-E Phantom II fighter-bomber was long gone, precious metal repurposed by local villagers, but around her lay the unexploded ordnance of the war; her father and his fellow airmen had dropped 2.5 million tons of explosives on this small country half a century ago. For Rusch, that discovery has given her a reason to keep riding her bicycle beyond just winning races: It’s given her the chance to face the past and try to improve the future. (source)
So, that 9/11, those false flags, all of that, today, at Walmart, where my fellow men and women, children and even dogs are flagging big time. This is not a great picture of the American Nightmare/Dream. There will be blood and it’s a country too old too young to do any good. A No Good Country for No Good Old Men?
Oh, Vietnam, Oh Cry for me, 9/11:
On the anniversary of the CIA-sponsored coup against the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvador Allende, Lowkey speaks to survivor Roberto Navarrete and investigative journalist John McEvoy.
What is ‘Britain and the Other 9/11’?
A feature-length documentary co-directed by documentary filmmaker Pablo Navarrete and investigative journalist John McEvoy.
For most people in Britain, 11 September marks the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centres in New York.
In Chile, the date resonates for another reason.
On 11 September 1973, a military coup was launched against Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. That morning, British-made Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda, Chile’s presidential palace, while tanks patrolled the surrounding streets of Santiago.
By the end of the day, Allende was dead and the Chilean military had taken power. What followed was a 17-year-long military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, under which thousands of civilians were killed, and tens of thousands more were tortured.
The US government’s role in the Chilean coup is well known. US President Richard Nixon infamously ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile, and launched a series of covert operations against Allende’s government.
The UK government’s role in the death of Chile’s democracy and the rise of the Pinochet regime is less known.
Britain and the Other 9/11 explores the secret history of British interference in Chile’s democracy, the friendship that emerged between Margaret Thatcher and Pinochet, and the New Labour government’s decision to allow the Chilean dictator to evade justice for crimes against humanity.
The film draws on years of archival research and Freedom of Information work by John McEvoy.
In June 2023, we travelled to Chile to meet and interview the relatives of British nationals who were killed by the Pinochet regime, torture survivors, award-winning Chilean journalists, and former Chilean officials. We also spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, the grandson of the former Chilean president, about Britain’s hidden hand in Chile.
We are now filming in the UK and plan to release the documentary in early 2024.
Those half masts?
So many tributes to the firemen and cops? September 11, 2001? Not looking too sad, these fucking monsters, no?
The half-masts for the UkroNazi’s? For the Russians?
Highlights
- Osama bin Laden, America’s bogeyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US-sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA-sponsored guerilla training camp.
- The architects of the covert operation in support of “Islamic fundamentalism” launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the “Global War on Terrorism” in the wake of 9/11.
- President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1985
- Under the Reagan administration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic “freedom fighters”. In today’s world, the “freedom fighters” are labelled “Islamic terrorists”.
- In the Pashtun language, the word “Taliban” means “Students”, or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA.
- The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda.
Bring you half-mast minds up to speed NOW: 9/11 ANALYSIS: From Reagan’s Al Qaeda Sponsored War on Afghanistan to George W. Bush’s 9/11
Complete monsters —
Fucking READ:
Listen up, man, listen up —
So, Mearsheimer says:
The coming recriminations will be ugly and will hinder Ukraine’s efforts to stay in the fight against Russia.
Second, many in the West will argue that the time is now ripe for diplomacy. The failed counteroffensive shows that Ukraine cannot prevail on the battlefield, so the argument will go, and thus it makes sense to reach a peace agreement with Russia, even if Kyiv and the West must make concessions. After all, the situation will only get worse for Ukraine if the war continues.
Regrettably, there is no diplomatic solution in sight. There are irreconcilable differences between the two sides over security guarantees for Ukraine and territory, which stand in the way of a meaningful peace agreement. For understandable reasons, Ukraine is deeply committed to getting back all the land it has lost to Russia, which includes Crimea and the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. But Moscow has already annexed those territories and made it clear that it has no intention of returning them to Kyiv.
The other unresolvable issue concerns Ukraine’s relationship with the West. For understandable reasons, Ukraine insists that it needs a security guarantee, which can only come from the US and NATO. Russia, on the other hand, insists that Ukraine must be neutral and must end its security relationship with the West. In fact, that issue was the main cause of the present war, even if American and European foreign policy elites refuse to believe it.[62] Moscow was unwilling to tolerate Ukraine joining NATO. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to see how both sides can be satisfied on either the territorial or neutrality issue.
In addition to those obstacles, both sides view each other as an existential threat, which is an enormous obstacle to any kind of meaningful compromise. It is hard to imagine, for example, the US taking its gunsights off Russia in the foreseeable future. The most likely result is that that the war will go on and eventually end in a frozen conflict with Russia in possession of a significant portion of Ukrainian territory. But that outcome will not put an end to the competition and conflict between Russia and Ukraine or between Russia and the West.
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Now now, we know this saying: Native Americans have their own 9/11 each year, and in the USA, what’s that? The rate of U.S. deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and suicide climbed 11 percent in 2021. While an all-time record, 209,225 Americans lost their lives due to alcohol, drugs or suicide during the year, these deaths continued a two-decade trend of sharply increasing fatalities due to substance misuse and suicide in the U.S.
In a recently published article in the Lancet, we provide new data showing that between 1999 and 2013, premature deaths among Native Americans increased by a far greater margin: nearly 30%. These deaths started at a much higher rate to begin with, and unfortunately the inequities have only deepened in recent years. We found that as of 2020, Native Americans had a premature death rate double that of white Americans. A disparity of this magnitude between ethnoracial groups should be inconceivable in our society. [“Deaths of despair and Indigenous data genocide”]
Half masts:
Data on Native communities are often missing from public health research, he adds, because “our numbers are small and we often get folded into a category like ‘Other’ instead of being reported distinctively for indigenous peoples.”
While the recent rise in deaths among white Americans is, of course, alarming, Gone says, that the factors driving these deaths have affected Native communities for much longer.
“Indian country problems rise and fall with the economy like everyone else’s,” he says, “but we’re just used to a lack of resources and opportunities for a whole bunch of reasons that go way back.”
He adds that “colonial subjugation” by European settlers and historical attacks on the ways of life and livelihoods of indigenous communities have shaped the health and lifespans of Native communities since the early days of this country.
“Part of what I think we’re seeing in these [rising rates of] deaths of despair are attacks on livelihoods,” he says, “and decline in the ability to have good livelihoods.”
“If you look at matters of poverty, education, decreased employment opportunities, restricted access to other kinds of resources that are typically associated with these kinds of health disparities,” says Manson, “they’re very powerful and widely present in American and Alaska Native communities.”
Half masts: Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says. (source)
Redacted is proud to present “Peace, War and 9/11.” In this captivating documentary filmed six months before his passing, eminent scholar and lifelong peace activist Graeme MacQueen shares his final words on 9/11, the 2001 anthrax attacks, and the goal of abolishing war.
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So, poor souls, my fellow Americans, you are in it with me, with us, and the time for change is yesterday. So many ways to be free!
The pigs of the world hire the pigs of the world to kill our free-dumb!
And the monsters are still murdering =
Half mast for those Residential Schools?
Paul Haeder, Author 