It seems increasingly obvious that Trump knows there is information out there that will sink him. And he may actually believe that distracting people with one half-baked headline-grabbing measure after another, constantly attacking the press, and above all his projectile lying, will mask the situation and keep him safely in office until he is rescued by events (fire, anyone?).
If that works, the American people shouldn't be surprised, having taken their eyes off the ball for so many years.
My guess would be that because the AC condenser needs airflow, putting it behind the grill gets some 'free' airflow owing to the movement of the vehicle.
"But the president [Clinton, from the context] made the UN weapons inspectors leave Iraq so that he could bomb it, and they never went back in."
Not really.
"Prior to the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1441 in November 2002 giving Iraq a “final opportunity” to comply with its disarmament requirements under previous Security Council resolutions. At issue was Iraq’s failure to provide an adequate accounting of its prohibited weapons programs or to convince UN inspectors that its weapons of mass destruction had been destroyed as Baghdad claimed.
UN weapons inspectors worked in Iraq from November 27, 2002 until March 18, 2003. During that time, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) conducted more than 900 inspections at more than 500 sites. The inspectors did not find that Iraq possessed chemical or biological weapons or that it had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program.
Although Iraq was cooperative on what inspectors called “process”—allowing inspectors access to suspected weapons sites, for example—it was only marginally cooperative in answering the questions surrounding its weapons programs. Unable to resolve its differences with Security Council members who favored strengthening and continuing weapons inspections, the United States abandoned the inspections process and initiated the invasion of Iraq on March 19."
You don't understand. These organizations aren't suppressing anyone's views. Here is Alan Dershowitz describing Big Hillel's organizational opposition to free discussion of BDS:
"I don’t think this is a free-speech issue. The people who want divestment and boycotts have plenty of opportunity to speak on campus. The question is a branding one. You can see why Hillel does not want its brand to be diluted.”
Ten years ago a documentary called "Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land' explored US media failings on the subject of IP, partly by comparing coverage of the same events here and in Europe.
Let's not forget that for Israel, fears of Iranian nukes serve as a propaganda justification for what they really want, unending sanctions. Israel does not think Iran is going to nuke them, but by waving around cartoonish pictures of bombs and engaging in an equally inept lying campaign about Iran, Netanyahu hopes to prevent Iran [a country of 80 million with natural resources and a well-educated population] from rising to its proper place among the countries of the region, a process that would necessarily diminish Israel's ability to act with impunity.
Israel and her tireless special pleaders can't have that, can they?
"Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander who destroyed Adolf Hitler"
More accurately, "who helped the Russians destroy Adolf Hitler. The Red Army chewed up at least twice the number of Germans as the rest of the Allies combined.
AIPAC may have decided to back off, but it's only "recouler pour mieux sauter." As the time comes to transition to a permanent deal on Iranian nuclear activities, there is still the possibility (likely IMO) that Israel will stage some incident designed to make the Iranians into two-faced and dangerous bogeymen. In this connection I note the extensive and little-discussed involvement of Israel with Iran's northern neighbor, Azerbaijan.
If such a thing occurs, it is certain that AIPAC will be coordinating its US strategy with the perpetrators.
Israel does not fear Turkey and cannot brook any other rising regional power. The ENTIRE PURPOSE of the sanctions program is to keep Iran down. The Iranian nuclear program is just the peg from which the sanctions are hung.
I wonder if there has ever been, anywhere, a secret data collection program that has not been compromised by people with access to it eager to advance their own agendas.
The problem is that merely by having access to the data, you occupy a position of COVERT power. And even if you start out Simon-pure, you will be corrupted eventually.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and covert power corrupts undetectably and incurably.
Today, the Saudis are described as cautiously optimistic about the Iranian nuclear accord-in-progress. This removes a major impediment, leaving Israel alone (except for her US allies on the political right) in being opposed to this agreement, the next agreement, and any agreement that doesn't reduce Iran's economy to the level of what post-WW2 Germany would have been under the Morgenthau plan so wisely rejected by Roosevelt and Marshall.
How much do you want to bet that the Brits' reaction will be modulated in order to conceal the mutual back-scratching-- we do for the Brits what their law might not allow them to do against their own citizens, while they do for Uncle Sam what the law might not allow the USG to do against Americans?
As stated, even the Israelis don't believe Iran is working on a bomb, nor do they believe Iran would use one on Israel. The sanctions are in place because they keep Iran's economy behind the 8-ball.
And it's Iran's economic potential that bothers Israel, because a strong Iranian economy would allow Iran to become strong enough militarily to to oppose Israeli designs in the region.
Surely we don't think Israel has been cozying up to the Kurds, the Georgians, and now the Azeris just for the benefits of trade, do we?
This is the same Wendy Sherman who characterized Iranians as having "deception in their DNA."
Putting aside the fact that such a dumb TV-script-like remark can be made about anyone including especially Americans and Israelis, one question is why she was not disqualified. The second question is, who decided that she should remain as a spokeswoman for the US after demonstrating such an unacceptable bias?
Just imagine if the roles were reversed. Not that Russia has one-tenth the number of people engaged in the type of activity that the US has thru bloated signals intelligence bureaucrazies and gigantic budgets for private contractor involvement, but just assume that a Russian lieutenant colonel with deep knowledge of everything Russia was doing in the realms of sigint and electronic spying and data-gathering showed up in the transit lounge of JFK airport asking for asylum.
"Peace Propaganda, and the Promised Land" is a hour-long documentary on the abject capitulation of American (but not European) media on issues relating to Israeli treatment of Palestinians on their own land.
Even though the Bedouins are Israeli citizens, the same self-censorship factors are at work here. Does anyone expect US networks to suddenly come from behind the chicken wire to report something like this?
That other similar injustices may exist, unaddressed by those in favor of boycotting Israeli products, does not make their actions and ideas hypocritical; arguing that it does is part of the time-tested strategy of "deny, deflect, distract, and defame."
So little is made on the West Bank that a boycott of those products is a trivial distraction, a tool whose only value lies in taking our eyes off the ball and preventing effective wider action.
It seems increasingly obvious that Trump knows there is information out there that will sink him. And he may actually believe that distracting people with one half-baked headline-grabbing measure after another, constantly attacking the press, and above all his projectile lying, will mask the situation and keep him safely in office until he is rescued by events (fire, anyone?).
If that works, the American people shouldn't be surprised, having taken their eyes off the ball for so many years.
My guess would be that because the AC condenser needs airflow, putting it behind the grill gets some 'free' airflow owing to the movement of the vehicle.
"But the president [Clinton, from the context] made the UN weapons inspectors leave Iraq so that he could bomb it, and they never went back in."
Not really.
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/iraqchron
You don't understand. These organizations aren't suppressing anyone's views. Here is Alan Dershowitz describing Big Hillel's organizational opposition to free discussion of BDS:
"I don’t think this is a free-speech issue. The people who want divestment and boycotts have plenty of opportunity to speak on campus. The question is a branding one. You can see why Hillel does not want its brand to be diluted.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/us/members-of-jewish-student-group-test-permissible-discussion-on-israel.html
So, that's it, right? End of discussion?
Ten years ago a documentary called "Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land' explored US media failings on the subject of IP, partly by comparing coverage of the same events here and in Europe.
It is still relevant.
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=117
"Once it has done that . . . then Israel’s mind will turn to “peace”."
No, there remains southern Lebanon and the Litani water.
Let's not forget that for Israel, fears of Iranian nukes serve as a propaganda justification for what they really want, unending sanctions. Israel does not think Iran is going to nuke them, but by waving around cartoonish pictures of bombs and engaging in an equally inept lying campaign about Iran, Netanyahu hopes to prevent Iran [a country of 80 million with natural resources and a well-educated population] from rising to its proper place among the countries of the region, a process that would necessarily diminish Israel's ability to act with impunity.
Israel and her tireless special pleaders can't have that, can they?
"Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander who destroyed Adolf Hitler"
More accurately, "who helped the Russians destroy Adolf Hitler. The Red Army chewed up at least twice the number of Germans as the rest of the Allies combined.
AIPAC may have decided to back off, but it's only "recouler pour mieux sauter." As the time comes to transition to a permanent deal on Iranian nuclear activities, there is still the possibility (likely IMO) that Israel will stage some incident designed to make the Iranians into two-faced and dangerous bogeymen. In this connection I note the extensive and little-discussed involvement of Israel with Iran's northern neighbor, Azerbaijan.
If such a thing occurs, it is certain that AIPAC will be coordinating its US strategy with the perpetrators.
Israel does not fear Turkey and cannot brook any other rising regional power. The ENTIRE PURPOSE of the sanctions program is to keep Iran down. The Iranian nuclear program is just the peg from which the sanctions are hung.
I wonder if there has ever been, anywhere, a secret data collection program that has not been compromised by people with access to it eager to advance their own agendas.
The problem is that merely by having access to the data, you occupy a position of COVERT power. And even if you start out Simon-pure, you will be corrupted eventually.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and covert power corrupts undetectably and incurably.
Paul Ryan's element in the Catholic spectrum might sooner [assassinate] the Pope than heed his words.
Today, the Saudis are described as cautiously optimistic about the Iranian nuclear accord-in-progress. This removes a major impediment, leaving Israel alone (except for her US allies on the political right) in being opposed to this agreement, the next agreement, and any agreement that doesn't reduce Iran's economy to the level of what post-WW2 Germany would have been under the Morgenthau plan so wisely rejected by Roosevelt and Marshall.
How much do you want to bet that the Brits' reaction will be modulated in order to conceal the mutual back-scratching-- we do for the Brits what their law might not allow them to do against their own citizens, while they do for Uncle Sam what the law might not allow the USG to do against Americans?
Well, what is Netanyahu's Plan B? Stir up some trouble along the Azerbaijan border?
As stated, even the Israelis don't believe Iran is working on a bomb, nor do they believe Iran would use one on Israel. The sanctions are in place because they keep Iran's economy behind the 8-ball.
And it's Iran's economic potential that bothers Israel, because a strong Iranian economy would allow Iran to become strong enough militarily to to oppose Israeli designs in the region.
Surely we don't think Israel has been cozying up to the Kurds, the Georgians, and now the Azeris just for the benefits of trade, do we?
This is the same Wendy Sherman who characterized Iranians as having "deception in their DNA."
Putting aside the fact that such a dumb TV-script-like remark can be made about anyone including especially Americans and Israelis, one question is why she was not disqualified. The second question is, who decided that she should remain as a spokeswoman for the US after demonstrating such an unacceptable bias?
"A report has surfaced?" No link, no way to evaluate-- the same as no report at all.
Maybe because Dahlan is a western and Israeli stooge?
Just imagine if the roles were reversed. Not that Russia has one-tenth the number of people engaged in the type of activity that the US has thru bloated signals intelligence bureaucrazies and gigantic budgets for private contractor involvement, but just assume that a Russian lieutenant colonel with deep knowledge of everything Russia was doing in the realms of sigint and electronic spying and data-gathering showed up in the transit lounge of JFK airport asking for asylum.
The question answers itself.
Why indeed? Take a look at this:
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=117
"Peace Propaganda, and the Promised Land" is a hour-long documentary on the abject capitulation of American (but not European) media on issues relating to Israeli treatment of Palestinians on their own land.
Even though the Bedouins are Israeli citizens, the same self-censorship factors are at work here. Does anyone expect US networks to suddenly come from behind the chicken wire to report something like this?
That other similar injustices may exist, unaddressed by those in favor of boycotting Israeli products, does not make their actions and ideas hypocritical; arguing that it does is part of the time-tested strategy of "deny, deflect, distract, and defame."
So little is made on the West Bank that a boycott of those products is a trivial distraction, a tool whose only value lies in taking our eyes off the ball and preventing effective wider action.
Amazing the chutzpah of Yerushalmi to claim that Obama "went to the US Congress over the Israeli public’s head."
Is the Israeli public is entitled to have some sway over how the US president relates to the US Congress?
This policy reminds me of "If they're dead they're VC."