#isy george

[beadyturns]

[pinoypesilat]

[onlylonelylatino]

Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln and Isis by George Pérez

[chernobog13]

Crisis at the Hall of Justice by John Watson.

[jangillman]

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[tomorrowusa]

20 years ago, President George W. Bush launched one of the most idiotic wars in US history.

On the surface, Bush invaded Iraq because he claimed its leader Saddam Hussein was about to launch “weapons of mass destruction” against the West. No such weapons were ever found by occupying US forces.

After 9/11, Bush blamed Saddam for the terror attacks of September 2001. There was never evidence of that and that’s what the official 9/11 Commission said in its final report.

Bush was just another evidence-free Republican who got the US involved in a pointless war which did the US no good. One negative concrete result of the Iraq War was that ISIS was founded during the Bush administration’s misadventure in Iraq.

On the whole, the Iraq War harmed US national security more than helped it.

Two decades after the U.S. invaded Iraq, 61% of Americans do not believe the U.S. made the right decision by invading Iraq, according to a new Axios/Ipsos poll.

Why it matters: The chaos and destruction that followed the invasion have made a generation of Americans and their leaders more skeptical of the use of military force overseas, in particular in the Middle East. The invasion toppled a brutal dictator but sparked 20 years of instability in Iraq, and damaged America's standing in the world.

[ ... ]

State of play: Just 31% of Americans think the Iraq War made America safer, while 36% think the U.S. was right to invade, according to the Axios/Ipsos poll published this week.

• There is a clear partisan divide, however, with 58% of Republicans believing the U.S. was right to invade compared to 26% of Democrats.

• Younger Americans, in particular, do not think the U.S. was right to invade Iraq, though majorities in every age group hold that view.

There is lingering suspicion that this war was about oil. Bush, a former Texas governor, was certainly friendly with fossil fuel producers. Grabbing Iraqi oil was the closest thing Bush had to a coherent energy policy.

Bush conducted the Iraq War while already fighting a war in Afghanistan. And Bush kept the Afghan War going long after most of the leaders of al-Qaeda had been captured or killed and the Taliban had been driven from power.

Running two wars on a credit card while giving two rounds of tax breaks to the filthy rich contributed to the financial collapse of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession.

By contrast, President Joe Biden has, on the cheap, helped to wipe out about half of the Russian Army without the loss of any US service personnel. In non-authoritarian countries US prestige has soared over the past year – rather than sunk under the two awful GOP administrations of the 21st century.

Wingnuts like to say, “libs can’t meme”. Well, a far more important factor this century has been that Republicans can’t war. Vladimir Putin is clearly taking after his GOP pals in this regard.

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[oldshowbiz]

1970.

Showbiz in Vancouver.

[emptyanddark]

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/us-invasion-of-iraq-twentieth-anniversary-history-casualties-politics-protes

March 20 marks the unprovoked, catastrophic US invasion of Iraq - the 21st century 1st Illegal War.

[biggestfoolonthemarket]

“average trans person does not pass” factoid is actually just statistical error. average trans person does pass. Trans Georg, who lives in a cave & poorly transitions over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[ivovynckier]

George W. Bush has announced that Saddam did it.

[beadyturns]

[loneranger0369]

Found this after a lot of Searching....

It shows how American Intervention, Manipulation and many other Activities led to the Origin of ISIS. It is not just a simple thing. It was a Series of Things done by Americans.... Multiple Presidents involved..

(The video is about 57 minutes long, but it has lots & lots of Information)

BUT, (most) Americans will never accept their Mistakes....

American civilians are also to be blamed, as they do nothing, while their Government does all kinds of shit using the money paid by the Civilians (Tax-Dollars)...

Russian Prisoner of War expresses the Difference in the treatment received from Russian Army and that of the treatment given by the Ukrainian Army. He explains the living Conditions. The Wages paid. Life in Ukraine (I think, before he moved to Russia. I couldn't understand). He also says that the Reality of Things in Ukraine does not at all match with the Things shown on Television in Russia. He blames everything on Putin and Putin's Russia.

The USA did lots and lots of Crap... But maybe the World needs the help of USA, to get out of these messes.....?

Then again, recently there were Drone attacks in Moscow. Putin, as his habit, blames Ukraine for it.

All recent events strongly point towards another World War.... The President of USA surely is stating that in his Interviews....

Maybe... maybe we need to prepare ourselves for that....

[chillinaris]

AMERIKA SERIKAT: ORGANISASI TERORIS TERBESAR DI DUNIA!

''Israel sesungguhnya adalah negara teroris, Mossad adalah tukang jagalnya.'' [Prof Dr Israel Shahak, penulis Jewish History/Jewish Religion]

''Pemerintah dan militer Amerika Serikat sesungguhnya telah melakukan aksi terorisme internasional dan pembunuhan brutal hampir sepanjang abad ke-20.'' [Edward S Herman, penulis buku The Real Terror Network]

' AMERIKA SERIKAT ADALAH ORGANISASI TERORIS TERBESAR DI DUNIA. Sejak 1890, Amerika Serikat telah melakukan lebih dari 400 operasi intervensi militer dan 6.000 operasi intelijen pada sedikitnya 100 negara dan membunuh jutaan warga tak berdosa.'' [S Brian Wilson, penulis Who are the Real Terrorists]

''Terorisme Israel dan Amerika di belakang Tragedi 11 September. Jika Amerika Serikat serius mau membasmi terorisme, basmilah lobby Yahudi di Amerika Serikat.'' [David Duke, mantan senator dan Presiden European-American Unity and Right Organization [EURO].

''Kejahatan terbesar sejak Perang Dunia II adalah kebijakan politik luar negeri Amerika Serikat.'' [Ramsey Clark, mantan Jaksa Agung AS masa Presiden Lyndon Johnson]

Sederhananya, perang jahanam yang membunuh sekian banyak orang dan mengubah wajah dunia 20 tahun lalu didasari KEBOHONGAN.

MASIH BILANG MUSLIM TERORIS..??!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsjNomiMEEC/?igshid=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

[zvaigzdelasas]

Do you have an analysis on Sinwar being the new politburo chief? Very unexpected choice.

Have a couple thoughts:

Dissolving more of the barrier between Hamas as a political organization & as an insurgent organization

Spitting in Israel's face who was hoping that a decapitation strike would leave hamas with a leader lacking broader political legitimacy in the organization or create divisions/deepen divisions between civilian governance & militant organization

Lessens the leverage Qatar has over Hamas as they were providing Haniyeh with refuge

Since Sinwar is (presumably) in Gaza, his presence will likely be used to justify decreasingly discriminate attacks even moreso than it was before

Likely much more uncompromising (not to imply Haniyeh was) in negotiations

Israel and the US will have to directly negotiate with someone they despise

Dropsite News describes sinwar as such:

Despite the sinister portrayals, Sinwar’s writings and media interviews indicate he is a complex thinker with clearly defined political objectives who believes in armed struggle as a means to an end. He gives the impression of a well-educated political militant, not a cult leader on a mass suicide crusade. “It's not this black image of Sinwar as a man with two horns living in the tunnels,” said Hamad, the Hamas official who worked directly with Sinwar for three years. “But in the time of war, he's very strong. This man is very strong. If he wants to fight, he fights seriously.”

In 1988, just months after Hamas was founded, Sinwar was arrested by Israeli forces and sentenced to four life sentences on charges he had personally murdered alleged Palestinian collaborators. During his 22 years in an Israeli prison, he became fluent in Hebrew and studied the history of the Israeli state, its political culture, and its intelligence and military apparatus. He translated by hand the memoirs of several former heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. “When I entered [prison], it was 1988, the Cold War was still going on. And here [in Palestine], the Intifada. To spread the latest news, we printed fliers. I came out, and I found the internet,” Sinwar told an Italian journalist in 2018. “But to be honest, I never came out—I have only changed prisons. And despite it all, the old one was much better than this one. I had water, electricity. I had so many books. Gaza is much tougher.”[...]

Sinwar, unlike leaders of Al Qaeda or ISIS, has regularly invoked international law and UN resolutions, exhibiting a nuanced understanding of the history of negotiations with Israel mediated by the U.S. and other nations. “Let's be clear: having an armed resistance is our right, under international law. But we don't only have rockets. We have been using a variety of means of resistance,” he said in the 2018 interview. “We make the headlines only with blood. And not only here. No blood, no news. But the problem is not our resistance, it is their occupation. With no occupation, we wouldn't have rockets. We wouldn't have stones, Molotov cocktails, nothing. We would all have a normal life."

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sinwar endorsed the large-scale nonviolent protests along the walls and fences of Gaza known as the Great March of Return. “We believe that if we have a way to potentially resolve the conflict without destruction, we’re O.K. with that,” Sinwar said at a rare news conference in 2018. “We would prefer to earn our rights by soft and peaceful means. But we understand that if we are not given those rights, we are entitled to earn them by resistance.”[...]

After the end of Israel’s 11-day bombing campaign against Gaza, Sinwar spoke to VICE News and sought to frame the Palestinian struggle in a U.S. context, using recent cases of lethal police violence against African Americans. “The same type of racism that killed George Floyd is being used by [Israel] against the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and in the West Bank. And by the burning of our children. And against the Gaza Strip through siege, murder, and starvation.”

And additionally (echoing the words of Hagari)

Support among Palestinians for Hamas and its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, according to the recent poll, “remains very high” and has increased during the past three months. At the same time, while two-thirds of Palestinians polled in the occupied territories believe that Hamas will “win the war,” only 48 percent of those in Gaza agreed.

Hamas has insisted the war cannot destroy its movement and will remain part of the tapestry of Palestinian factions governing its besieged and occupied territories. “What matters is that you finally realize that Hamas is here. That it exists. That there is no future without Hamas, there is no possible deal whatsoever, because we are part and parcel of this society, even if we lose the next elections,” Sinwar warned in 2018. “But we are a piece of Palestine. More than that, we are a piece of the history of the entire Arab world, which includes Islamists as well as seculars, nationalists, leftists.”

Daniel Hagari has also echoed this last bit [TimesOfIsrael is Israeli Private Media]

“Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,” he continued.

Rumors are that Netanyahu is trying to figure out necromancy in order to bring Haniyeh back

Also check out this interview conducted by Vice

[angelswing236]

"Let's try this."

Fictober 24 challenge

Fandom: Downton Abbey

Fanfiction

‘Nanny Archer, you said there’s a problem with Master George,’ Thomas said, trying to keep his worry under control. The maid the nanny had sent to find him hadn’t been able to fill in any of the blanks.

‘Oh, Mr Barrow, thank goodness. I didn’t want to send for Lady Mary or Mr Branson. Not without trying everything first. You were the only person I could think of who might be able to help,’ the nanny said, clearly more exasperated than worried.

‘Help with what?’ Thomas scanned the room anxiously seeing no sign of the boy. ‘Where is Master George?’

‘He’s under his bed.’

Thomas did a double take, not quite sure he’d heard her right. ‘Under his bed?’

‘The little scamp won’t come out,’ Nanny Archer said, irritably. ‘I’ve tried everything I can think of, but he simply refuses to budge. He hasn’t even come out for his lunch.’

‘Do you know why he’s under there?’ Thomas asked, pursing his lips.

‘I've no idea.’

‘Right. Let’s try this,’ Thomas said, swiping the apple sitting on the table with Master George’s untouched lunch.

Wandering over to the child’s bed, he slid down the wall to sit on the floor. He pulled his penknife from his pocket and began to peel the apple.

‘Hello, Master George. It’s Barrow,’ he said, concentrating on peeling the skin in one long, curly strip.

There was silence for a moment and then a small voice replied, ‘Hello, Barrow.’

‘How are things? Nanny says you’ve been under that bed for a while. Are you quite comfy there?’

‘No. It’s made me sneeze a bit.’

‘Dusty, is it? I’ll have to tell Mrs Hughes to tell the maids to give it a good, old clean. A man can’t have a dusty den, can he?’

There was silence again, so Thomas finished peeling the apple, coiling the long strip onto the floor beside him.

‘You’ve missed lunch. You must be hungry. Would you like to share my apple?’

‘Yes, please.’

Thomas sliced off a piece of apple and held it out towards the bed. A little hand snaked out from underneath it and took the slice, disappearing back into the dark.

Slicing another piece, Thomas popped it into his mouth. ‘Oh, that’s a nice apple, isn’t it? Nice and juicy. I like them like that, don’t you?’

‘Yes.’

‘Would you like another slice?’

‘Yes, please.’

Thomas held out a second slice, pleased to see the little hand flash out and take it again.

‘Now, I’m all for a man having his own private space where he can think about things, Master George, but if you don’t mind me asking, what made you retreat to your den?’

For a moment, the boy said nothing, and Thomas began to wonder if he’d overplayed his hand. Resisting the urge to fill the silence, he cut another piece of apple and held it out.

George took the slice and then said in a quiet voice, ‘Donk said Isis has gone to heaven, so I won’t ever see her again.’

Thomas pressed his lips together. Now they were getting to the heart of it. ‘Yes, that’s right. She has gone to heaven.’

‘Why? Why couldn’t she stay here?’

‘She was very poorly, Master George. I expect she didn’t want to leave you, but sometimes it can’t be helped.’

Silence reigned again and Thomas held out another slice of apple. George took it and munched it before speaking again.

‘Mummy says Daddy is in heaven.’

Thomas paused for a moment in slicing the apple, his heart going out to the boy. ‘Yes, he is.’

‘And Sybbie’s mummy is in heaven, too.’

Sorrow twisted in Thomas’ gut for a moment. ‘Yes, Lady Sybil is there, too.’

‘So, they’re all there together?’

‘Yes. I expect your daddy and your Auntie Sybil are taking Isis for a good, long walk, just the kind she likes.’

‘But if they’re all there together, can’t we go and visit them?’ the child asked, plaintively. ‘Like we go and visit Granny Isobel?’

Thomas thought for a moment, slowly cutting another slice of apple and handing it over.

‘You can’t visit them, Master George. Heaven is a lovely place, but you can only go there once and then when you get there, you can’t come back.’

‘Why not? Aren’t there any cars in heaven?’

‘No, there aren’t.’

‘That’s why I’ve never met my daddy? Because I wouldn’t be able to come back home?’

‘Yes,’ Thomas said, gently.

‘I don’t think I’d like not being able to come home.’

‘No.’

‘Is anybody else going to go to heaven, Barrow?’

‘We’ll all go at some point, Master George, but not for a long while, I hope,’ Thomas replied, hoping that would be enough for the boy.

‘Hmm.’

All was quiet as George considered that.

‘May I have another slice of apple, please, Barrow?’

‘Of course, you can. Although, between us, Mrs Patmore has an apple cake downstairs that’s even tastier. That’s if you’re ready to come out of your den.’

‘Apple cake?’

‘It looks delicious.’

George scrambled out from underneath the bed, blinking in the light. ‘Do you think she’ll let me have a slice?’

‘I think if I have a word with her, she will.’

The child grinned as Thomas stood up.

‘Master George and I are going to the kitchen on important business, Nanny,’ Thomas announced, the boy’s hand tucked in his.

[rebelyells]

Well illustrated! CAIR which is an Islamic group was influential in removing our Southern History in Virginia.