{"id":4540,"date":"2024-04-20T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2024-04-20T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:12:17","slug":"end-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/end-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some things came to a resolution with the iran-Israel exchange this past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s coming out of academia in support of Hamas and Hezbollah is absolutely disgusting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s not unsurprising in the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to Reason&#8217;s <em>Just Asking Questions,<\/em> they interviewed Elice Le Bon, someone with whom I was unfamiliar following her video on <s>Twi<\/s><strong>X<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAnti-imperialist\u201d imperialism, saviorism, and western supremacy explained. As I\u2019ve always this, this is fundamentally a rudiment of the racism of low expectations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z0dRZw0CGv\">pic.twitter.com\/Z0dRZw0CGv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elica Le Bon \u0627\u0644\u06cc\u06a9\u0627\u200c \u0644 \u0628\u0646 (@elicalebon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elicalebon\/status\/1756449361339502689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She made many points that align with what I&#8217;ve suspected about the NeoHippies who have taken over whatever Libertarian movement there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"War with Iran? | Elica Le Bon | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 19\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ma-OpLUqhAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess she&#8217;d had a &#8220;debate&#8221; with Jersey Dave Smith, who is really just reciting the stuff that comes out of Scott Horton&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to high school with someone who was actually born in Tehran as a military brat.  I knew people who were on the ground during the Islamic Revolution in 1979.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my teachers was married to a Persian.  He insisted that he be called &#8220;Persian,&#8221; not Iranian probably because of what the cabal running the country had done worldwide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Aside:  she was a last-minute replacement Spanish teacher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/47479514079\/\">Osterholz <\/a>during the last year&#8230;..very much a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peggy_Hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peggy Hill<\/a> situation, not so much because she was from Texas, though that might be a part of it, but because she was teaching Spanish kind of as a second option.  If memory serves, she was primarily a Home Economics. teacher&#8230;.and certainly showed how to make tacos a lot better than the ones I was accustomed to.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked for the shouldering remains of EDS.  <em> <\/em>I remember seeing names of people listed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peggy_Hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On Wings Of Eagles<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran isn&#8217;t the terrorist mess that it is because of the US, no matter how hard the Libertarian Institute Institiute insist it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This does flow from the radicals of the 60s, and what they&#8217;ve put up on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Le Bon mentions Edward S. Herman in her video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember hearing him say on <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalorphanage.libsyn.com\/carnage-and-blowback-in-american-foreign-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Heaton&#8217;s podcast<\/a> that the US was behind what happened in Rwanda in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the actual fuck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalorphanage.libsyn.com\/carnage-and-blowback-in-american-foreign-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there&#8217;s people who believed that<\/a>. and they&#8217;re the Foreign Policy Experts<sup>TM<\/sup> advising the modern Libertarian movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s disgusting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the Shah was a tyrant is without question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t make what the mullahs have done, and continue to do, okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamas and Hezbollah have been terrorizing Israel for decades.  Certainly there&#8217;s a lot to criticize about the Israeli government.  I would really criticize some of the COVID measures it took.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of their other medical stuff I really take issue with.  Obviously, I do pay a lot of attention to what&#8217;s going on with things like stem cell research as a potential treatment for MS.  I can&#8217;t find it right at this moment, but I seem to remember them cancelling a large-scale study using embryonic stem cells for remyelination, because it gave a bunch of the subjects some pretty bad cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magically, the focus shifted to doing the same thing cultured cells from you, not from a zygote with different DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, far too often in my experience, you&#8217;ll get the normal progression from Chomsky to Herman to Zinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I&#8217;m feeling garrulous that day, i might continue the conversation for a bit.  Usually it&#8217;s not tough to get to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Liberty_incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USS Liberty<\/a>, then fine research from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Irving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Davide Irving<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It was really awful what we did in Dresden, an dit was all to support American Imperialism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically no feedback on all the urgent work with which I was saddled upon my return from the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite a water moccasin that&#8217;s taken up residence in the ditch behind, seems like my mother&#8217;s house is doing well.  She, on the other hand, less so.  I was starting to piece together my July trip down to see her, but I&#8217;m worried that that&#8217;ll have to happen earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not really thrilled with the prospect of flying with a layover in Charlotte or Atlanta, but it might be too much of a pain to get to\/from New Orleans this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things came to a resolution with the iran-Israel exchange this past week. What&#8217;s coming out of academia in support of Hamas and Hezbollah is absolutely disgusting. But it&#8217;s not unsurprising in the least. 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