Some of you may know about the recent "mistake" made by the US Forces in attacking the Syrian Army directly with an air strike in Deir Ezzor "during" the US requested ceasefire. They killed 60 Military personnel and injured 100.
Beyond the questions of incompetence as they had reportedly done two days of intelligence gathering prior to the attack and have known for quite some time that the Syrian Army was attempting to hold that area from the terrorist coalition, one still has to wonder what they were doing flying a bombing mission during a ceasefire they requested, in the first place? Not to mention what they're doing there at all considering they have no permission or provision from the UN or anyone else to be in Syria.
Hoping of course that they could turn around the progress the Syrians, Russian and Iranian forces have been making against their attempts at yet another illegal regime change.
Well, Russia and Syria bit back!
An aerial bombardment in Allepo hit an Operations Room used to direct Terrorist factions against the Syrian Government and guess who was in it: "this semi-secret facility was operated by US, British, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari intelligence personnel. Over two dozen Israeli and western intelligence officers were killed."
If ever there was proof required that the US backed forces are the instigators of another illegal attempt at regime change, this is it. It's also why you will not be hearing about this on CNN.
Jason_K416 said: This is upsetting...but not surprising at all. Jews working with Arabs and Turkish, as well as the west against Syria...
Maybe if each country minded their own fucking business...
I have such strong feelings for & against what you said.
Ultimately, it is only individuals who suffer & experience some other individual imposing / forcing their way upon others.
If I were imprisoned or abused or impoverished in one nation, unable to escape, I sure would love & appreciate somebody coming to MY rescue. Well, that implies ONE nation (an abstract set) IMPOSING/invading/AFFECTING in the quantum mechanical sense another nation.
I worked out a Mathematical MetaTheory of Justice for people to abstract all their feelings, fears, angers, etc to examine from a formal logistical setting, where one COUNTS logical inconsistencies.
It is LOGICALLY impossible for ANYONE to NOT be logically inconsistent. But, some are MUCH more than another.
As we all know, an injustice is a formal logical inconsistency, ultimately violating the Golden Rule, e.g. I enjoy my privacy therefore others should, too.
My formal system now makes rules depend upon whom they are enforced or imposed. Laws (in my system) depend upon the political opinions of individuals. That way, you can hold individuals responsible for the laws that they would impose upon others.
Remember: ANY law - no matter how fair or unfair - can be imposed upon the person who created that law.
I made a YouTube channel called the Ultimate Reductionist. A few old videos of me. I would make a LOT more, if I had the means - money technology editing skills. But I made one old video on the preliminaries of justice.
But, don't worry. All the atoms will sort themselves out when Zoltan Istvan or Dr Jill Stein or Clifton Roberts or John McAfee gets elected United States President in November.
Jason_K416 said: Assuming elections mean a damn thing...
Oh good. Then I don't have to obey any laws written by any president or politician whom I don't like. Nor does anyone else. That is why I proudly wear a button that says "Bomb All Prisons. Free All Prisoners."
Jason_K416 said: Assuming elections mean a damn thing...
Afraid I have to agree. It's obvious there's a power struggle in the American Government with the neocon warmongering military industrial complex doing whatever they can to promote more war and suffering for the sake of profit and control. Even a ceasefire agreed to by one hand (Kerry-Obama) is quickly followed by a direct attack on the Syrian Military and too likely, the destruction of the Aid Convoy. Lets face facts and stop mincing words: the US Government has launched a "WAR" against yet another sovereign government completely in line with their "doctrines" of global control, with no legal or moral basis. The balance of the "Five Eyes" (vassals) too spineless and beholden to even voice a logical word in decent, contribute to the madness.
Put another way for those who still don't/won't quite understand: "We're the BAD GUYS!"
If you fail to see that then you too have become a victim of their concerted effort to subjugate the people though the western press. Look elsewhere for your news, please!
Millions of people are being bombed out of their homes, cut off from water, food, and medical supplies, a generation of uneducated and radicalized children at the fore, men women and children trying to find safety or sleep in a downpour of bombs, all for the "security" of a failing and never worthy (or for that matter "exceptional") war state.
Clarification: In as much as the term "exceptional" is sometimes used to describe "a child with learning difficulties" in that vein, I completely agree with Obama's declaration. Any other reference, is arrogance beyond belief.
Imagine your little daughter/son or granddaughter/son waking in the night frightened and sobbing wondering why bombs are blowing up all around and may strike them too at any moment. What would you say? And what, as the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, do we say to them?
Any ideas? I'll give you a moment...
A new US President? How will that help with Kagan, Nuland, McCain, AIPAC who (along with countless others) and the massive "profits" at stake for the M.I.C., Wall Street, Clinton Foundation etc. all motivated to... motivate the next seated president to their narcissistic ways.
Socialized Election Campaigns, Public Lobbying only (I.E. - no direct contact with lawmakers), a Lobby Fund Pool where no funds go directly to any candidate or party etc. etc. there are countless ways to correct this failing system, but a new President? You're fooling yourself if you think it's going to be that easy, the destruction WILL continue.
"If the dumbshit Western peoples and the corrupt EU, UK, Canadian, Japanese, and Australian political puppets don't wake up ASAP, war will be upon us, a war that cannot be won.
The criminal neoconservatives must immediately be removed from power in Washington before the insane fools start World War 3. The CIA and the Pentagon must be put under tight constraints. And Donald Trump needs a massive trustworthy security guard. The European governments need to immediately disband the NATO alliance. Life on the planet is at stake. No more provocations from Washington. Period. The insanity must stop. Now."
I should note that his reference to Trump is designed to suggest that anyone, even a sitting president, will be up against massive forces determined to profit at all costs. And too that like the vast majority of the non-western world he sees Trump as perhaps more focused on problems at home than abroad. Something many in the world see as much more life sustaining than Hillery's "bomb, bomb and then bomb some more" foreign policy.
But hey, lets sit back and watch the debates, confident that either a corrupt egocentric asshole of a capitalist or a corrupt egocentric power hungry airhead will change the course of destruction this greedy and humanity hating slalom permits, yeah that will work.
I don't mean that to mock Black Lives Matter (BLM)'s motto or the specific injustices that they need to address. I mean that as a logical absolute. That would include any injustice I think any individual in BLM - or the US military - or an individual filing a lawsuit - does to myself or any other individual, past or present, that they do to each, that I do to them, and so on & so forth.
Sorry - I had NO particular reason to bring up BLM OTHER than that someone else might see the connection to my "AllInjusticesMatter" statement with the BLM slogan.
That means injustices against my enemies, too. And now it's all just a math calculation to compute HOW MUCH sympathy or forgiveness to show them given the injustices /arrogance they have shown towards some other individual.
The upside of doing pure math research: it is nonconfrontational, takes place usually in safe comfortable environments. Nobody (well, practically nobody) in the world, in any culture, objects to it.
The downside of doing pure math research, that I have seen people hate about it, people as close as close friends & family members, is that it is highly hypothetical. That it does not a priori make distinctions between hypothetical vs practical. People hate annoyingly hypothetical ethical/moral questions. And rightly so. Nevertheless, the world will never get any better, any fair, until it addresses those question.
So, I, as an antinatalist animal rights vegan, get enraged CONSTANTLY at the Fallacy of Relative Privation (FRP) used against the antinatalist animal rights cause. "There always exists bigger problem X elsewhere in the world, therefore, why should I give a damn about cows being murdered for Trump steaks?"
Or the annoying hypothetical: "If you were an Eskimo or you lived in 1800s like in that movie "The Revenant", you would eat meat."
In particular, those who ALREADY HAVE laws against them - e.g. a prisoner held hostage inside a prison - e.g. being unjustly called "racist" and "sexist" & "homophobic" in ultra politically correct universities have MORE RIGHT to complain, to protest, to be angry, than those who rant against HYPOTHETICAL laws yet-to-be.
e.g. FUCKING AGW-deniers call any law-yet-to-be, such as a law banning fossil fuels, a law banning digging up more coal, a law banning breeding whole animals for meat - all laws we DESPERATELY need - "socialist", with the deliberate implication that that is a "negative" thing. Yet they have NOTHING to complain about compared to unjust unfair laws THAT ALREADY EXIST forcing draconian PHYSICAL VIOLENT punishments (physically forced to go to court, or prison) on a poor person for falsifying some foodstamps or welfare application. Meanwhile, bankers & stock traders & hedge fund traders at Goldman Sachs & JP Morgan & Wells Fargo NEVER see prison yet they commit fraud to steal BILLIONS of dollars.
FYI: it is LOGICALLY MATHEMATICALLY impossible for ANYONE NOT to be (a little, some number >0) racist, or sexist, or bigoted against gays, or bigoted against capitalists, or bigoted
So, yes: I am racist, I am sexist, I am heterosexist & homosexist. I am racist against blacks, against whites, sexist against men, against women, bigoted against gays & straights. What is important: HOW MUCH and AGAINST WHOM, and HOW MUCH THEY are, because they ALL are.
It is just a consequence of the FINITENESS of my/any individual's knowledge & ability to know, understand others' personal histories, struggles.
I call it the HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE applied to justice. FYI: "social justice" is a FUCKING REDUNDANT phrase. ALL justice is "social". WHAT OTHER FUCKING kind of justice COULD there be?
EVERY individual (in case some stupid SJWs think I am referring ONLY to myself) will have some epsilon > 0 amount of "bigotry" - i.e. some kind of wrong unjust thought - in them towards others.
Warning: that is as FAR as any statement I will make about what OTHER think or feel, what their reasons are, as statements about what others' motivations are are ENTIRELY UNFALSIFIABLE.
I have come to this conclusion: the only way that I can live in this world is if it made me it's ruler and I forced - by any physical & mental means - every individual on the planet to learn critical thinking & mathematical modeling & demanding evidence from ALL sides of a conflict/debate & apply those skills to everything: ESPECIALLY POLITICS.
And if that means forcibly STOPPING many jobs on this planet, and stopping new humans being forced into this world against their will without their permission, until everything is all figured out first, then so be it.
Even *I* am not an expert on critical thinking or how best to set up a physical experiment in science. Even *I* have to force myself to retrain myself to practice & practice critical thinking.
My math is the only thing (ok - AND this UMD website) that gives me hope. But I need people who are close to me to take it seriously. Unfortunately, 2 weeks ago, I had an ENORMOUS fight with each of two persons close to me: my brother & a best friend. And this fight with them has made me sickeningly depressed, because this fight removes the last vestiges or trace of logic & critical reasoning & fairness I thought or hoped might exist in them. So, I fully sympathize, Jason.
I worked out a logical formalism to organize a person's feelings & thoughts. Even though my brother is not angry at me any more (& he NEVER had any right to be), I am still furious at him & will never trust him again.