Day: January 30, 2024

Closing Thought–30Jan24

Pelosi can kiss my ass!

I guess you need more, huh?

I am aware that Pelosi was the first woman speaker of the House and good for her but my disdain for her has nothing to do with gender.

She is now and has always been a big business Democrat that plays the game but is controlled and owned by special interests…..even her husband has made out because of her position.

But recently she pissed me off….she is calling on the FBI to investigate those of us calling for a ceasefire.

Her statement smacks of McCarthyism…..

Nancy Pelosi wants pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war to be investigated by the FBI. During an interview on CNN Sunday, the former House speaker suggested (without evidence, as the New York Times notes) that some of the protesters could be Russian plants. “For them to call for a ceasefire is [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s message,” Pelosi said. “Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see. Same thing with Ukraine. It’s about Putin’s message. I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some, I think, are connected to Russia.”

Asked to clarify her position, she said, “I think some financing should be investigated. And I want to ask the FBI to investigate that.” The national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations decried Pelosi’s comments, saying they illustrate “the negative impact of decades of dehumanization of the Palestinian people by those supporting Israeli apartheid.” In a follow-up statement provided to CNN, a rep for Pelosi said the congresswoman is “informed by three decades on the House Intelligence Committee” and “acutely aware of how foreign adversaries meddle in American politics to sow division and impact our elections.” Meanwhile, during a Sunday appearance on NBC, Pelosi’s colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the protests show that “young people are appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life” in Gaza.

She is suggesting that protesters are somehow criminals and we need to be under surveillance….

Her words…..former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged that:

…For them to call for a cease-fire is Putin’s message, Mr. Putin’s message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see. Same thing with Ukraine. It’s about Putin’s message. I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some, I think, are connected to Russia. … I don’t think they’re plants. I think some financing should be investigated. And I want to ask the FBI to investigate that.”

This is the same witch hunt crap that McCarty pulled in the 60s searching for the elusive Communists in the government.

https://original.antiwar.com/solomon/2024/01/29/smearing-ceasefire-protesters-pelosi-combines-devotion-to-israel-with-cold-war-mania/

Glad to see that she is still on the payroll of AIPAC….maybe there is where the FBI should focus their investigations….

In conclusion….

I will not stop and the FBI probably has my number already for I am in the system from my activities in the 70s (COINTELPRO program) for I live in the same house as I did then….I will be easy to find.

As far as her ‘brilliant idea’….she can kiss my ass!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is North Korea Preparing For War?

Everybody had lots to say about the Ukraine/Russia thing and now they have a new war to thumping their anemic chests over……but while they were rant and raving and insulting anybody that disagrees with them Trump’s old buddy Kim is looking for a fight.

Two of America’s most prominent North Korea experts, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, begin their latest analysis with this sentence: “The situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950.”

They believe Kim Jong Un has decided to “go to war.” Unlike past years, recent belligerent North Korean statements don’t appear to be bluster. If these experts are right, the longstanding US-South Korean strategy of nuclear deterrence is failing.

In their view, Kim has abandoned North Korea’s long-sought effort to normalize relations with the US. He is now willing to challenge the US-Republic of Korea strategy that relies on Kim’s rationality—his understanding that war would mean the total destruction of his regime and his country.

Why now? What accounts for this extraordinary shift in N Korean thinking?

Carlin and Hecker contend that it entails, first, the North Korean belief that “the global tides were running in its favor,” due to the US being bogged down in Ukraine and the Middle East; second, that unification with South Korea is impossible, and that North and South Korea are now belligerent nations; third, that N Korea can rely on Russia for support.

Are these experts right? A surprise attack on S Korea would seem like madness. But Kim Jong Un’s strategic calculation may be that with the US weighted down by military commitments elsewhere, and North Korea now possessing the capability to reach the mainland US with a nuclear weapon, his country can deter a US nuclear response to a North Korean attack.

In doing so, he not only risks the end of his regime but also a regional war that would involve China and Japan. The possible destruction in such a war is unimaginable.

Is North Korea Preparing for War?

Is this a possibility?

Some in the rat race of DC thinks it will happen.

US officials now believe that North Korea will conduct a lethal attack against South Korea, according to the New York Times. Washington assesses that Pyongyang will attempt to limit its attack to avoid a full-scale war. 

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un could take lethal military action against South Korea in the coming months, American officials told the Times. “The officials have assessed that Kim’s recent harder line is part of a pattern of provocations, but that his declarations have been more aggressive than previous statements and should be taken seriously.” The article continues, “While the officials added that they did not see an imminent risk of a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula, Kim could carry out strikes in a way that he thinks would avoid rapid escalation.”

While you were off counting the number of people on the Southern border Kim is silently making his plans for a quick and decisive strike South.

But that is not important right now….we have lots to say about the border….if we snooze, we lose.

I am sure that there will be plenty of whining and ranting once he makes his final decision….at least you guys will know it was coming.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”