Trump and the Age Old Western Rules of War

By David Musa Pidcock

The Rules of War

“Do you agree to abide by the Rules of War?” asked the Red Knight.
“Certainly,” answered the White Knight.

“Excellent,” retorted the Red Knight. “Now, having agreed upon that, we can begin the fight.”

“What nonsense you speak,” said Alice, “there are no rules in war. War is horrid and very unfair: that the strong overcome the weak, is the only, very unjust, rule.”
“Well, I noted that you wisely used the term overcome,” said the Red Knight, “and did not speak of a winner; this is quite correct, as the over-comer can often suffer as much devastation and poverty as the defeated.”

The ‘Winners’ from World War 1.

“Yes, the true winner is seldom one of the combatants,” enjoined the White Knight.
“You speak in riddles,” said Alice. “Whatever can you mean?”
“Why” said both of the knights together, “the winner of every war is the provider of the WAR LOANS of course ! ! ! !”

“It is they that win every time,” continued the White Knight. “It matters not which side claims victory – those that lend the money, especially to both sides, can never lose. First the devastation and then the reconstruction must be paid for.”

“It is only when you come to realize this,” said the Red Knight, “that you can grasp the real and hidden motive for all the seemingly unending, pointless and wasteful wars.”
“Great poverty is visited on all sides engaging in warfare,” said the White knight, “as every treasure must be yielded up to pay for the fighting. But this treasure does not disappear, as most assume; it just simply changes hands.”

“Indeed”, he continued “if you want to discover the true cause for any war, ‘follow the money;’ it’s the best way to solve crime – ask any policeman.”

“And now on to War Rule 1,” said the Red Knight, “this states that the first blow must always be self-inflicted.”
“I can’t see any sense at all in that,” said Alice.
“Oh! But one must always follow this rule and then claim to be innocent party, blaming your opponent for a cowardly, surprise, unprovoked attack…This will guarantee fear, self-righteous resentment, and a thirst for revenge from your followers,” explained The White Knight.

FROM ALICE & THE MONEY TREE BY J.M. WESTON BRIGGS

ISBN 978-1-9998485-0-7

Russia says Syria chemical attack was false flag by Britain and the White Helmets By Tim Hume Apr 13, 2018

White House insists the US has ‘very high confidence that Syria was responsible’

“When I use a word,” Trumpty Dumpty said, to Alice, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less”.

“But I/we don’t know what you mean by ‘great,’ ” Alice said. Because grate and great sound exactly the same but have entirely different meanings?

Trumpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you! I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ”

Alice objected. “But ‘Make America Great Again’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument either’,” Because both you, your arguments, gesticulations Twitters and Tweets seem designed to ‘Make you and America Grate on everyone’s nerves?’ 

“When I use a word,” Trumpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

 “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

 “The question is,” said Trumpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Trumpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”

• The above passages were used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson (1942), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords.[24] It also became a popular citation in United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database as of 19 April 2008, including two Supreme Court cases (TVA v. Hill and Zschernig v. Miller).[25]
• It has been suggested by A. J. Larner that Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty had *prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise. (*Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face).

THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP

27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Organizer of Yale’s “Duty to Warn” Conference

Thomas Dunne Books

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.

This is not normal.

Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and civic “duty to warn” America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.

Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump’s impulsivity in terms of “unbridled and extreme present hedonism.” Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix.  Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the “malignant normality” that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.

His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.

It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.

 

Is Washington Sufficiently Intelligent to Be Trusted with an Independent Foreign Policy?

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy

“Unlike some countries, the U.S. is not an ethnic group. It is a collection of diverse peoples united under the Constitution. When the Constitution was destroyed, the U.S. ceased to exist. What exists today are power centres that are unaccountable.

The U.S. is a failed state because there is no accountability to the people by corporations or by government at any level; whether state, local, or federal”.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration, Global Research, June 2nd, 2010

Is Washington Sufficiently Intelligent to Be Trusted with an Independent Foreign Policy?

Article first published by The Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy, March 1st 2018.

As I figured would be the case, Putin’s message to the West that Russia cannot be intimidated and that the nations must work together to deal with world problems was far over the heads of the dumbshit “exceptional” Americans. CNN rushed out an idiot named Samantha Vinograd who served as a staffer on Obama’s National Security Council to declare that Putin’s speech was only aimed at one person in the world—President Trump.

Putin, the idiot Samantha Vinograd says, is “poking at Trump’s insecurities” with the threat that “my missiles are bigger than yours.”

The stupid Samantha Vinograd repeats the lie that Russiagate was Putin’s plot “to destabilize the United States.” So, how is the US a superpower when Russia controls US elections? Doesn’t this mean that Americans are of no relevance whatsoever in the world?

I mean, really. With intelligence levels this low on Obama’s National Security Council, no wonder the neoonservatives were able to run over the Obama regime and resurrect the Cold War, thus returning the world to a high chance of nuclear Armageddon.

The idiot Samantha Vinograd says the solution is more sanctions on Russia. She is the epitomy of Einstein’s rule that “insanity is to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

All the illegal sanctions did was to produce Russian military superiority over the utter fools in Washington.

I really do not think that there is enough intelligence in Washington for the world to allow Washington to have an independent foreign policy.

The world won’t be safe until the government of the United States is committed to an insane asylum.

 

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Emergency Summit on Al-Quds Jerusalem

By Kashif Ahmed

So its been just over a week since U.S. President, Donald Trump, ‘declared’ that Jerusalem is the capital of the illegitimate state of Israel…it still isn’t. Never was. And nor will it ever be.

That said; one has to admire how President Trump has managed to unite the civilised world against the evil ideology of Jewish extremism, outfox his Jewish critics at home and destroy the Judeo-Wahhabi plan for an Israeli-Saudi alliance, in one fell swoop. Say what you will about The Donald, but he’s proven himself to be a pro-active, if entirely unstable, catalyst for change. After all, can anyone actually remember the last relevant OIC conference?…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Emergency Meeting on Al-Quds Jerusalem, Istanbul: The OIC have essentially reaffirmed the PLO’s 1974 stance, which is a good start.

We at Forward March have our own view about the Palestinian cause, and hope that all pro-Palestinian countries will eventually share our perspective:

Forward March’s Five Point Plan

PALESTINE IS PALESTINE

In the 30th year of the Jewish occupation, Golda Meir (may her name be obliterated), claimed that the Palestinian people didn’t exist. Pro-Israeli Jews enthusiastically endorsed her lie and, for a period of time, attempted to spread Meir’s hate speech in the media.

Nobody bought it.

Nowadays, Hasbarats are actively discouraged from quoting Meir; becasue it opens them up to instant, and richly deserved, ridicule. So you see it doesn’t matter what Zionist Jewry or its Shabbos Goys have to say, because the facts are non-negotiable: Al-Quds Jerusalem is for the Muslims and Christians, as is all of Palestine.

THE NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY

All things considered: The OIC went well, and most of the credit has to go to PM Erdogan.

But time is of the essence when it comes to defending Palestine: For the enemy has already encircled Al-Quds and are simultaneously conducting attacks on Gaza City.

Jewish squatters are implementing their settlement programme via  Tochnit Ha-Hachra’ah (‘The Decision Plan’). The IDF have already demolished 100s of Palestinian homes in Kafr Aqab, Beit Hanina, Qabatiya, Walaja and are moving towards Abu Nuwar as we speak.

Jewry’s primary objective in Al-Quds, is to steal land and construct the massive squatter-settlement they call E1.

The doomsday settlement: Israel eyes a piece of land with alarming implications

The Economist, Jan 14th 2016

The area in question, known as E1, sits between Jerusalem and the sprawling settlement of Maale Adumim, 7km (4 miles) to the east. Every Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has dreamed of building a town on these hills.

It would create a salient jutting almost halfway across the West Bank’s narrow waist, slashing the route between Ramallah and Bethlehem, and further encircling Palestinian districts in East Jerusalem. One local activist calls it the “doomsday settlement”, a deadly blow to the idea of a territorially contiguous future Palestinian state.

So the next step is to ensure that every one of the 57 nations who attended the OIC, agree to:

1. Sever diplomatic relations with the illegitimate state of Israel,

2. Impose travel bans on Israelis and pro-Israeli Americans,

3. Work with our allies to formulate / implement a counter-terrorism strategy against Jewish extremism, its enablers, aiders & abettors.

Now I can’t say I’m confident that Rajab Tayyip Erdogan will do any of these things, especially since his government have let us down in the past on more than one occasion. But given that PM Erdogan has the full support of Muslims around the world, as well as from Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP): We can only hope that he will take the initiative here, and galvanise the momentum he’s built up with this summit. I have it on good authority that Ankara is set to make an announcement about this issue (i.e. cutting ties with Israel) within the week, lets wait and see if it materialises.