Tony Blair looks like a gargoyle now, no longer able to conceal his infection of evil. Reminds me of that old X-Files episode appropriately titled “Grotesque.”
History will not record Reagan, Clinton, Albright, Bush, Powell, Blair, Cheney, Kristol, et. al, as criminals because "History" is written by their press agents ("journalists"), who are are paid by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics.
That's incredible; thanks for finding it! These people are—medically speaking—psychopaths, and there's a strong correlation between psychopathy and individuals with low I.Q's. In short, they're dangerous idiots.
Never would have happened if Blair and the EU had not encouraged the secession of Slovenia and Croatia. There were also many Serbs slaughtered or ethnically cleansed, and NATO encouraged Muslim intransigence, brutality and criminality in Bosnia and later Kosovo. Plenty of blame to go around. People need to mind their own business.
History will not record Reagan, Clinton, Albright, Bush, Powell, Blair, Cheney, Kristol, et. al, as criminals because "History" is written by their press agents ("journalists"), who are are paid by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics.
Many comments here are using words like hubris, overconfidence, best intentions and "they got it wrong". Like Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary or McNamara saying "we were wrong" in the fog of war. You know that's Hollywood bullshit. It was always deliberate lies, sabotage and murder from the beginning. Please set your readers straight.
Those sanctimonious so called leaders like Blair and the like will go down in history as the criminals they have shown themselves to be .The world is waking up slowly to their crimes .
We in the West should never have gone into so many countries to steal their wealth / resources . Just like the fake pandemic was declared to cull the population of the planet , 9/11 was planned in order to invade how many countries now ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARtGrSrvCA
We have been lied to par excellence and most have followed the narrative like good sheeple herded by the border collie .
Let the Afghan people deal with their Taliban as the same goes for Iraq ,Iran,Libya etc. The changes will not come about through the barrel of the gun .Those days are dying a welcomed death .Humanity has better tools to effect positive changes for nations that mistreats it's citizens .
Do your due diligence Melissa .The information is out there and it is up to everyone to inform themselves .You will hardly find any info on social media as the tech industry is highly concentrated and manages the narrative so we the public only / mostly read / hear the message they want you to get.You could start by watching https://www.thriveon.com/media/plandemic-ii-indoctornation-full-movie
Blair is essentially spewing the same tired old "stab in the back" logic that was used by militarists after Vietnam and by Hitler about WW I. At least Hitler had a scrap of truth on which to base his argument, as Zionists did actually conspire to promote US entry into WW I in exchange for the Balfour Declaration. But he conflated Zionism with Germany's own rapidly assimilating and patriotic Jewish population and the poorer Jewish populations of Eastern Europe, who just wanted to be left alone. In fact, the Eastern European Orthodox and Bund were both opposed to Zionism for different reasons. The reduction of "Jewish" to "Zionist" and the long, repeated use of the "stab in the back" narrative are the two most important accomplishments of Nazism, for which Zionists and neo-cons are forever grateful.
If this were a movie, those listed would be exactly the ones the audience would loudly cheer at the climax perishing in molten lava. The Greeks called it catharsis; we know it increasingly fleetingly as justice, and the fact that they haven't each met with some gruesome end is my constant best ongoing argument against belief in any sort thing like karma. A blind squirrel with a cheese grater could do better.
With our Fifth Estate no longer operating in its intended role and our politics worse than worthless, it's worth pondering from which quarter should a long-overdue reckoning reasonably come?
If you punch someone in the face then there's a better than even chance you'll get punched back. If a government screws a population sooner or later they take matters in their hands to rectify the situation.
This is just cause and effect; far removed from the idea of past life wrongs or goods being rectified by some cosmic arbiter to explain everything good or bad that happens in one's life, which for me rests on way too many unprovable assumptions.
In addition, I find it morally reprehensible to say a little girl who gets raped was simply working out her karma from a past life -- a statement I actually heard.
Karma is an attempt to still believe in a just universe with a loving God when reality would seem to demonstrate that neither actually exists.
Please indulge a stereotype : Bush profiteering ideologue and Blair kaleidoscope loving idealist come together to do something. We got to do something -911!
So that is my bigger point, our hubris is we always feel like we have to do something - overreach - and it always gets us in trouble. Our reach exceeds our grasp. We are so arrogant.
Once it becomes apparent that our plan is failing typical human lying and duplicity lead to a cover up. There are always myriad practical reasons we cannot extricate ourselves from something that is obviously failing but that’s not the hubris, that is mundane and everyday and everyone.
I still don’t think it begins sinister, I think it begins with empathy and good intentions (and if you call me an optimist or even gullible I will take it as a compliment - lol).
Hubris, hubris, hubris. Their plan only failed if their stated goals were legitimate (they were not). If their goal was to plunder resources, assure Israel's position of dominance in the Middle East, install American-friendly puppet regimes, deflect domestic attention from legitimate concerns, institute greater infringements against political adversaries, grease the wheels for the next intervention, appear strong and bold instead of callow and weak, then they succeeded quite well.
And in what universe does one cast Tony Blair as an idealist?
Good article, I’m going to quibble a little bit with Caitlin‘s ordering of things - nothing super duper, i’m sure Caitlin gets this.
I think it began with typical western liberal overconfidence, arrogance and self belief : hubris.
After that it became a pack of lies.
They didn’t go in because they are liars; they went in because they are truth seekers, concerned global citizens, altogether earnest and well-meaning. They were as we are - self-deluding. Confidence lead to arrogance, western managerial genius can cure the suffering of those ancient lands - perpetual, interminable suffering - “ oh isn’t it terrible we have to do something“
We have to do something is the hubris of our time. We know no boundaries we do not respect history or entropy or gravity we are free from fate we author our own.
Well turns out they were wrong and then they spent 20 years spending gigantic amounts of money, lying and killing and then the whole thing goes for a shit in six days and they are exposed to the light of day (which Caitlin captures beautifully).
I think it’s an important point because we are going to do it again and with the noblest of intentions.
Completely disagree. Before they lied to us, they lied to themselves. Most of that humanitarian claptrap is only for public consumption because it doesn't land to tell folks their sons and daughters are being sacrificed for the illegal access to raw materials. Behind closed doors I doubt humanitarian concerns even come up, except for a cover story. Our government publicly supports too much utter crap for it to be otherwise.
They knew what they were doing. They went in because they were pro-Zionists (PNAC), corporate lackeys, imperialists, warmongers, and profiteers. Putting the willful murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people down to a well-meaning hubris (there's a phrase) doesn't quite cut it in my book. Their tombstones should never read: They Meant Well, or we will be excusing their crimes twice.
I really don't think so. Our stated concern for injustice is spotty, inconsistent, and politically motivated, always. Thinking such protests ever constitute a legitimate rationale for invasion as so-often stated just doesn't wash. Just one example: Our current wailing over China's supposed mistreatment of their Muslim minority while Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians is supported, abetted, and encouraged.
Again, Share with us your thoughts on the usage of the words. “Psychopath” and “sociopath”. How might we tell the difference between someone so labeled and an “asshole”?
I suggest a systems theory approach. The dynamics of certain social systems, such as unregulated, predatory capitalism, cast essentially normal folks into roles of perpetrators and enablers, See Phillip Zimbardo’s “The Lucifer effect”.
That’s a fairly concise definition but it may be entirely wrong. The brain science may reveal that the people we would agree are psychopaths/sociopaths have intact neurological systems that allow them to recognize emotional suffering in others.
This joke is said to be viral on Chinese social media: "“If you ever feel useless … Just remember that the United States took four presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and 20 years … TO REPLACE TALIBAN WITH TALIBAN!”
Caitlin, can you never use that opening photo of Bliar again? It makes me physically ill and psychologically troubled for hours...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (by Oscar Wilde)
Tony Blair looks like a gargoyle now, no longer able to conceal his infection of evil. Reminds me of that old X-Files episode appropriately titled “Grotesque.”
History will not record Reagan, Clinton, Albright, Bush, Powell, Blair, Cheney, Kristol, et. al, as criminals because "History" is written by their press agents ("journalists"), who are are paid by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics.
Remember when Raytheon put on a Beyonce concert to promote Adam Schiff?
That's wild. Every atom, every cell, of the US political, economic, and media systems is directed at promoting war. How sick is this?
Once again -- thank you sooo much - I was not aware of that.
Wow -- is there perhaps a link for that?
Just found it -- truly despicable -- that human excrement is among leading Congress war-mongers. Thank you so much for reminding us all.
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/36073/
That's incredible; thanks for finding it! These people are—medically speaking—psychopaths, and there's a strong correlation between psychopathy and individuals with low I.Q's. In short, they're dangerous idiots.
There are idiots, damned idiots, and psychopathic idiots!
FULLY agree - although I am happy that the bastard contributed to break up of Yugoslavia by bombing Serbian army.
-- Sarajevo murderous siege lasted longer than Stalingrad's.
-- Just in Srebrenica -- 7,000++ Moslem men and boys were slaughtered...
Never would have happened if Blair and the EU had not encouraged the secession of Slovenia and Croatia. There were also many Serbs slaughtered or ethnically cleansed, and NATO encouraged Muslim intransigence, brutality and criminality in Bosnia and later Kosovo. Plenty of blame to go around. People need to mind their own business.
'History' gets rewritten. They did it plenty of times. It will happen to them...
Remember when Raytheon put on a Beyonce concert to promote Adam Schiff?
Truly despicable -- that human excrement is among leading Congress war-mongers and recipient of arm industry donations.
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/36073/
Congressmen Holding Concert Fundraisers Could See a Beyonce Bump | Politics | US News
History will not record Reagan, Clinton, Albright, Bush, Powell, Blair, Cheney, Kristol, et. al, as criminals because "History" is written by their press agents ("journalists"), who are are paid by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics.
If there is a history recorded, I think it cannot but record the truth. Because if we keep living in lies, then it is likely game over.
Many comments here are using words like hubris, overconfidence, best intentions and "they got it wrong". Like Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary or McNamara saying "we were wrong" in the fog of war. You know that's Hollywood bullshit. It was always deliberate lies, sabotage and murder from the beginning. Please set your readers straight.
I can't stand the phrase, "war of choice." Because it was a war of opportunity, greed and lies.
Those sanctimonious so called leaders like Blair and the like will go down in history as the criminals they have shown themselves to be .The world is waking up slowly to their crimes .
We in the West should never have gone into so many countries to steal their wealth / resources . Just like the fake pandemic was declared to cull the population of the planet , 9/11 was planned in order to invade how many countries now ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARtGrSrvCA
We have been lied to par excellence and most have followed the narrative like good sheeple herded by the border collie .
Let the Afghan people deal with their Taliban as the same goes for Iraq ,Iran,Libya etc. The changes will not come about through the barrel of the gun .Those days are dying a welcomed death .Humanity has better tools to effect positive changes for nations that mistreats it's citizens .
Wait, fake pandemic? Could u pls elaborate?
Do your due diligence Melissa .The information is out there and it is up to everyone to inform themselves .You will hardly find any info on social media as the tech industry is highly concentrated and manages the narrative so we the public only / mostly read / hear the message they want you to get.You could start by watching https://www.thriveon.com/media/plandemic-ii-indoctornation-full-movie
Come on man “CJ” he’s killing it!
You might like to read this. It pretty much covers it..
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkNZkUSL8FCdT4Om8UwsUaHWshQ9RnL3/view?usp=sharing
I’m going to stand in for Guy St. H
I notice he reads CJ Hopkins. If you actually want a fulsome and intelligent dissenting opinion about the pandemic go to CJ Hopkins substack.
If?
If you don’t want to hear a dissenting opinion, have at it, call us cranks and conspiracy theorists, have fun.
Blair is essentially spewing the same tired old "stab in the back" logic that was used by militarists after Vietnam and by Hitler about WW I. At least Hitler had a scrap of truth on which to base his argument, as Zionists did actually conspire to promote US entry into WW I in exchange for the Balfour Declaration. But he conflated Zionism with Germany's own rapidly assimilating and patriotic Jewish population and the poorer Jewish populations of Eastern Europe, who just wanted to be left alone. In fact, the Eastern European Orthodox and Bund were both opposed to Zionism for different reasons. The reduction of "Jewish" to "Zionist" and the long, repeated use of the "stab in the back" narrative are the two most important accomplishments of Nazism, for which Zionists and neo-cons are forever grateful.
Those Luciferians responsible for the war will, as always, be portrayed as heroes in history books
If this were a movie, those listed would be exactly the ones the audience would loudly cheer at the climax perishing in molten lava. The Greeks called it catharsis; we know it increasingly fleetingly as justice, and the fact that they haven't each met with some gruesome end is my constant best ongoing argument against belief in any sort thing like karma. A blind squirrel with a cheese grater could do better.
With our Fifth Estate no longer operating in its intended role and our politics worse than worthless, it's worth pondering from which quarter should a long-overdue reckoning reasonably come?
You contradict yourself. You say you don't believe in Karma, but then you talk about due reckoning.
If you punch someone in the face then there's a better than even chance you'll get punched back. If a government screws a population sooner or later they take matters in their hands to rectify the situation.
This is just cause and effect; far removed from the idea of past life wrongs or goods being rectified by some cosmic arbiter to explain everything good or bad that happens in one's life, which for me rests on way too many unprovable assumptions.
In addition, I find it morally reprehensible to say a little girl who gets raped was simply working out her karma from a past life -- a statement I actually heard.
Karma is an attempt to still believe in a just universe with a loving God when reality would seem to demonstrate that neither actually exists.
So no, no contradiction.
Karma, what goes around comes around - I see no evidence this is true - A silly cliché, wishful thinking.
That definitely is a good example.
Please indulge a stereotype : Bush profiteering ideologue and Blair kaleidoscope loving idealist come together to do something. We got to do something -911!
So that is my bigger point, our hubris is we always feel like we have to do something - overreach - and it always gets us in trouble. Our reach exceeds our grasp. We are so arrogant.
Once it becomes apparent that our plan is failing typical human lying and duplicity lead to a cover up. There are always myriad practical reasons we cannot extricate ourselves from something that is obviously failing but that’s not the hubris, that is mundane and everyday and everyone.
I still don’t think it begins sinister, I think it begins with empathy and good intentions (and if you call me an optimist or even gullible I will take it as a compliment - lol).
Hubris, hubris, hubris. Their plan only failed if their stated goals were legitimate (they were not). If their goal was to plunder resources, assure Israel's position of dominance in the Middle East, install American-friendly puppet regimes, deflect domestic attention from legitimate concerns, institute greater infringements against political adversaries, grease the wheels for the next intervention, appear strong and bold instead of callow and weak, then they succeeded quite well.
And in what universe does one cast Tony Blair as an idealist?
Ok
Good article, I’m going to quibble a little bit with Caitlin‘s ordering of things - nothing super duper, i’m sure Caitlin gets this.
I think it began with typical western liberal overconfidence, arrogance and self belief : hubris.
After that it became a pack of lies.
They didn’t go in because they are liars; they went in because they are truth seekers, concerned global citizens, altogether earnest and well-meaning. They were as we are - self-deluding. Confidence lead to arrogance, western managerial genius can cure the suffering of those ancient lands - perpetual, interminable suffering - “ oh isn’t it terrible we have to do something“
We have to do something is the hubris of our time. We know no boundaries we do not respect history or entropy or gravity we are free from fate we author our own.
Well turns out they were wrong and then they spent 20 years spending gigantic amounts of money, lying and killing and then the whole thing goes for a shit in six days and they are exposed to the light of day (which Caitlin captures beautifully).
I think it’s an important point because we are going to do it again and with the noblest of intentions.
There was NEVER any noble intention -- only the war racket.
US Created Al Qaeda & $2 Trillion War In Afghanistan—Aug 19 – OUTSTANDING Summary
https://youtu.be/rxHrdicNwss
Completely disagree. Before they lied to us, they lied to themselves. Most of that humanitarian claptrap is only for public consumption because it doesn't land to tell folks their sons and daughters are being sacrificed for the illegal access to raw materials. Behind closed doors I doubt humanitarian concerns even come up, except for a cover story. Our government publicly supports too much utter crap for it to be otherwise.
They knew what they were doing. They went in because they were pro-Zionists (PNAC), corporate lackeys, imperialists, warmongers, and profiteers. Putting the willful murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people down to a well-meaning hubris (there's a phrase) doesn't quite cut it in my book. Their tombstones should never read: They Meant Well, or we will be excusing their crimes twice.
Fully agree.
US Created Al Qaeda & $2 Trillion War In Afghanistan—Aug 19 – OUTSTANDING Summary
https://youtu.be/rxHrdicNwss
I dig that, hard-core. Probably a mix of both wouldn’t you say?
I really don't think so. Our stated concern for injustice is spotty, inconsistent, and politically motivated, always. Thinking such protests ever constitute a legitimate rationale for invasion as so-often stated just doesn't wash. Just one example: Our current wailing over China's supposed mistreatment of their Muslim minority while Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians is supported, abetted, and encouraged.
Again, Share with us your thoughts on the usage of the words. “Psychopath” and “sociopath”. How might we tell the difference between someone so labeled and an “asshole”?
A psychopath and sociopath, respectively, lack any empathy.
I suggest a systems theory approach. The dynamics of certain social systems, such as unregulated, predatory capitalism, cast essentially normal folks into roles of perpetrators and enablers, See Phillip Zimbardo’s “The Lucifer effect”.
That’s a fairly concise definition but it may be entirely wrong. The brain science may reveal that the people we would agree are psychopaths/sociopaths have intact neurological systems that allow them to recognize emotional suffering in others.
They way to tell an asshole is how they were reared.
Very nicely written. George W. Bush should be remembered as the most evil president to ever occupy the White House.
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I am realizing, however, that commenting online is just producing a virtual doppelganger of myself, so I will refrain from saying anything more.
As always Blair again being a weapon of mass destruction. Why doesn’t he just shut up and and retire.
This joke is said to be viral on Chinese social media: "“If you ever feel useless … Just remember that the United States took four presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and 20 years … TO REPLACE TALIBAN WITH TALIBAN!”
Mighty fine awful pic of Blair!
What is happening in the streets of Melbourne Caitlin? Speaking of crimes.
Bin-Laden actually died in July 2001.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article213772.html
Bin-Laden had nothing to do with 9/11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Q61BWOkzw&ab_channel=TalesoftheAmericanEmpire
Al Queda did not even exist when 9/11 occurred.
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-case-study-in-national-shame.html?m=1
Was all a ruse to occupy Afghanistan in order to harass Russia and China.
So are you saying that RAWA lied?