ORTHODOX RELIGIOSITY ......

Two days ago ,Israel's high court reversed and rescinded an old law of their military draft, normally all 18 years old have to serve their military for almost 3 years for the males and 2 for females, only orthodox Jews were exempt for religious reasons, the court considered it unfair to other and all the young people and idol-worshipers , some resistance to the measure is surely to be expected .

For all religions and religious systems, faith and the love of god and his laws , are not good in themselves, they're only good when they are part of virtue, bad when part of vice. Pretending and the continuous declaration of absolute faith, like other emotions must be disciplined, if it is not to collapse and be dominated by cruelty and savagery .

Gone are the days when Musslems , Jews or others can fool the world by scenes of piety , repeated prayers and physical rituals whether in front of walls or mass prayers on bear streets and open public spaces . convincing themselves and younger adepts that the love of god is strictly reserved for them the lucky and chosen ones, allowing them all sorts of privileges in this life and the next one .

Wearing shorter dresses or longer ones for both men and women, with specific long beards and peyot and side locks , while savagely killing innocent kids at concerts or at a military check point or driving a vehicle into a crowd , are not compatible with godly philosophy no matter what side you're on and do not convince anyone nowadays . Modern Israelis as historic Jews in Europe who for centuries isolated themselves in ghettos, trying to preserve a way of life and philosophy were leading the way for modern Musslem salafis  mostly immigrants to Europe and the Western hemisphere, both groups were and continue to be persecuted , isolated and loathed .

Rebellion against religious governed societies, their logic and policies, is clearly justified, when their laws are seen as usurping the sovereignty of other people, this is what made it possible, more or less, for the privatization of religion in Western and some Eastern developed societies, and the development of political orders in which the rights and duties of the citizens take precedence over religious orders , religious hierarchies and their needs .

We should not be intimidated at all or subdued into feeling guilty, or at fault toward religious fervor, as their resentment will only intensify . The Judeo/Islamic inheritance versus modernity and post modernity . Both committing tragedies in the name of their faith and gods, only to prove themselves against any triumph of dignity over destruction, and compassion over despair, people in our times who loudly claim that their religion supersedes the legal worldly constitution and judiciary laws of their countries of residence should have no place in the mentioned countries .

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THE PLAN .....

The old religion of the ancients, is being used, exploited and adapted to modern purposes, politics and ways of life. To small spheres of local interests which is exerting their theft, their brutality and their hold on the lands.

Unlike the later Christianity or even at certain stages Islam, the Jewish peoples considered the relation between their god and themselves founded on a well drawn and binding covenant, in which the allegiance and obedience to YHWH only comes after he fulfills certain obligations toward the Jews, and only Jews, an exchange of promises if you like , exactly like any modern contract, and this contract is based primarily on a promise of land, land that was captured savagely from different indigent native populations throughout history, by slaughter, annihilation and deportation, brutality and deceit . Be it the Canaanites or the Palestinians .

The Jewish peoples and their leaders always regarded these promised lands not as independent or inhabited lands, but as inherited lands, to be passed on from generation to generation, whenever available and convenient, and this is exactly how they justify the cruelty and barbarism historically or in our own times, god lives among them, he maintains a real presence among them and he is bound by his promises, mainly the gift of land, hence it's theirs in its entirety eternally, it makes no difference if they left it even for periods exceeding 15 centuries, who's to argue the will of god .

To justify all of this very convenient strategy and its governing covenant, in modern times, facing a more defiant world to their schemes, a rigorous reinstatement and reinforcement of religiosity was and continues to be necessary, thus the unconditional and unrestricted backing of ultra orthodox Jewish different madrasas, their Hakhams and rabbis, the explicit encouragement of all colors of religious folklore, dresses and religious hair styles, enforcing Sabbaths to the letter, all combined to fulfill their part of the contract toward Elohim, and proving to the world that it is a godly affair, never to be questioned or doubted .

Unfortunately in our modern times, Israel and its Zionist leadership and population are becoming a beacon , a model to many entities, trying to copy their Western backed tactics, Saudi Arabia and Iran are two clear examples, thus the love/hate relationship, the rivalry in excessive religiosity and its folklore, to pass and realize otherwise unacceptable agendas of hegemonic and expansionist policies and dreams. The alt right in the West is keeping an open eye for sure, hoping for their own agendas.

The plan ;  I believe we will witness in my life time, the creation of three major areas governing the totality of the Middle-East , one Israeli consisting of actual Israel plus all presently occupied territories, a chunk of Lebanon and Syria, most of Jordan and Sinai. The second one is Saudi engulfing all of its Arab neighbors plus a total hold over Egypt, Yemen and Sudan. The third is Iranian extending its crescent over Iraq, Syria and the rest of Lebanon.

Only then real peace could be negotiated and possibly realized. The Western super powers could share their influence and interests by extending their wings over the Israeli and Saudi sides, while Russia and to a lesser extend China could have the Iranian side. Turkey will go back to its normal size including or bordering some of the Kurdish lands and populations. All based on the will of God of course, his religions and ethnic divides .  

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FUTURE OPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES ........

Steve Bannon is officially out of the White House and back to Breitbart news, with fairly a good image and pride. He vows to "crush the opposition"!!  One would have a major question or comment, who is the opposition according to Mr. Bannon ?? would you please define the opposition as you see it . Mr. Trump has already clearly identified who is to blame, a wide array of non compatible elite, including among others liberals judges, the media, all progressive academia, Muslims, Jews, Latinos, the general immigrant population, and of course any source of criticism locally or internationally .

Actually , just by observing the man, Mr. Trump considers himself already a full winner. Indeed he made it all the way to the highest post in the world, and proved himself a relatively brilliant manager tactician during the whole campaign and the first few months of his presidency.

So why continue this hassle of being president with its risks and possible failures, where he can return to his private glorified life and his multi business affairs with an even more glorified image and name. And all the Trumps can claim to belong to the highest presidency club. A long presidency with all its restrictions, investigations, faux pas, and controversies is not a goal , at least not a winning goal nor a profitable one. Not for him not to his immediate family, they all had enough actually of silly officialdom, its responsibilities and protocols .

Few good deals with whoever pays the most, and gets into the partnership seat with president Trump, will generate enough millions and billions to make all the presidency small ship and futile, at least economically, as the fame and name have been reached already.

accordingly I believe, and I'm not surely the only one, that the Trump clan will rather sooner than later resign their responsibilities of running the politics of the country, its peoples' interests and the world. They will do it themselves and not by being forced by any outside force as many believe. Yes they will all resign with the president himself as the leading conductor.

The president believes that he's above it all, above all the politicians and the rich manipulators, he believes a Mr. Pence is just the right level of person to assume a good and a better presidency that serves the elite's interests and leads America to wherever it should head. Mr. Trump will declare himself an absolute winner, and stage a glorified departure with the highest esteem and pomp ever given to a departing president.

 What a nice win-win situation for him, his family, the GOP embarrassed top tier and elite, his naive    voters who genuinely believed he will fix all their problems in life, the other side will be euphoric for the few days and duration of the ceremonies, stupidly believing they forced him out, only to relive a worse nightmare with less show , under a Mr. Pence presidency flanked by Mr McConnell and Ryan and the usual GOP oligarchy, and the show will go on ....

There is of course the other option, some people take it very seriously, whereby the president could stage and undertake, with the help of many sides from his entourage, some type of a take-over, some sort of a coup d'etat if you will, it could be under many forms and scenarios, a combination of some congressional vote, coupled with some legal constitutional loopholes, possibly involving some of the armed forces, where if the army wouldn't go with it , the police forces might .

We could immerse ourselves in some war with somebody or all, some serious and bloody terrorist attack, all these could come up very timely with the previous scenarios . But I personally believe Mr. Trump would opt for the pull-out and resignation option, trying some variations of the later scenarios could prove very dangerous, and not sure to catch American spirit, it could lead to some very serious consequences for many Americans as well as the presidency itself, the president , his family and his entire oligarchy .

Mr. Trump is for sure not of the style or type of  "win or die", he's by far more lily-livered , he's a survivor, a calculative and possibly a little too pragmatic to undergo such a risky scheme, so winning his situation by smartly pulling out, would present itself like a real winner route for him and his family, proving and insuring his unique ways in further glorifying himself, his ego and clan .

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BROKERS OF DECEIT .......

Remember when the senior president Bush said : "Read my lips, no new taxes" and then there were new taxes anyways , it was later called Bush-lips, as it somehow rimes with bullshit . I believe many Americans are coining a newer version nowadays called Trump-shit !! better riming and closer in meaning , and all in a relative short time,  7 months, whether it comes as tweeting or statements or insane press conferences, that stuns everyone including his immediate entourage and staff .

Especially these days after the blunt hate carnage in Charlottesville, Virginia, few days back and the  presidential practically open support of white supremacists, homophobic, ultra right racists. Mr Trump and some blindly supportive voters and fewer each day GOP politicians who insist on smearing , defaming and denigrating every non white supremacist American, every liberal or progressive and every criticizing soul locally or internationally, making them all a fifth column , traitors or endangering  America .

White supremacist terrorists in America are protected more or less from the laws affecting same minded Islamic terrorists. Same in Israel with Israeli brutality. They don't let go of their arrogant rhetoric, only Israel comes near or equal. In most people's books , it's called literally bullshit or crap, donkey dust or as expressed in Australia ; cow confetti .

In the old Bible it says in Ether 3: 15-16 ; All  men were created after the Lord's image, remember how merciful the Lord has been from creation of Adam to present . Now if it all meant to say that : Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, Bashar Assad , Netanyahu and Trump are all created in the image of God,  I wouldn't know exactly how and where to place God !! Unless we have different classes of creation some Godly and some not , go figure which is which .  

The idea of self preservation and supremacy played by many Republicans and white alt right is destroying them more than helping at all levels. Spending all their times nowadays with the administration's help in systematically killing and destroying every rule and law of the previous administration , instead of creating their own or the country's good laws, benefiting all Americans on the long run . It's more demolishing than building , Everyone will end up paying for it in time .

Unfortunately, we have a troubled president and administration that surely have no strategy or a minimum of a vision nor any strategic foreign policy, it's all about his and their look and image, who ever doesn't fit with this picture have to go, I suspect Sec. of State  Tillerson  to be from the next badge . No matter how Mr. Trump ends up he considers himself a winner, unfortunately America is the looser, we're delaying saving the soul of the country and its vital interests . Israel comes as a perfect second, now if Mr. Netanyahu is impeached or goes to prison for abusing state funds and personal presents and gifts , would Mr Trump follow ???  

Many GOP legislators are extremely frustrated at a president who's unpredictability and his single minded focus on a Russian profiteering relationship, with its problems and investigations, fearing an erosion of the general public weaker than stronger trust and confidence in the president and his administration. Turmoil at the White House is dominant, so are the frequent changes firings and resignations, including today's dissolving of the business council after multiple CEOs quit.

All are only adding to the distraction of the administration , allowing our closest allies to continue their hegemony and apartheid policies and creating more instability all over the world, and worrying its own local bases , turning us into a huge mockery world wide .

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POLITICS AS USUAL..... ?!?!?!

In 2002 we declared total war against  Alqaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, it's still raging till today with no sign of any near ending or any clear victory. In 2003 we invaded Iraq, overthrew Saddam and the Baath regime and sent their army home, the war is still going with American troops acting as advisers, the only practical result we've achieved is to hand Iraq to Iran on a golden plate .

In 2012 we bombarded Libya and brilliantly managed to rid the country from the brutal Gadhafi, it's still is a lawless and totally fragmented ungovernable country that harbor more terrorists and refugees than anywhere else. We meddled in Sudan and gave carte-blanche to our dearest ally, Israel, to play the different factions to its interests, the situation in South Sudan is catastrophic and beyond repair. Standing with our other dear ally, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where they rely on American logistical, air superiority, and extensive intelligence is bringing the numbers of killed and injured Yemenis to over 75.000 , more than a million displaced, and the whole population famished and hit by an untouched cholera epidemic .

Of course our great assistance to topple the Syrian regime only strengthened ISIS originally, with our and our allies consent and money. Then fighting them and abandoning all relatively moderate factions only managed to further empower Iran, its allies and their militias and grandly reward Mr. Assad and his oligarchy and regime, and of course Mr. Putin and his ambitions. All after destroying more than half the country , close to 1 million killed or injured, 6 million refugees all over the area and the world, plus some few millions internally displaced, jailed and tortured, we still talk about coalitions, Russian agreements, Israeli plans for steeling the Golan and the south Syrian parts, safe zones, no flying zones , and division of the country , etc... etc...

Historically , we used to fund ravaged places by our interventions, we created words like the "Marshal plan" and other to revamp some of these miserable nations. Unfortunately now we can not fix our health care system , neither reform our tax codes and reach some fair distribution of wealth, we're unable to fund an adequate infrastructure program, neither a descent education for all, while Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis and many more are desperately looking for help, looking mostly for Chinese rebuilding money and technologies, the new benevolent super power after our and our allies devastating destruction power .

The only positive aspect of this administration , could have evolved from a genuine rapprochement with Russia, resulting in a more peaceful world, but both leaders and their oligarchies and families totally condemned and crushed the possibility by strictly looking for selfish profits to their pockets, and ambitions, as in winning an election or meddling in it for a multitude of reasons . The White-House's credibility is eroding fast and getting worse, surely not any better .

While many Americans and American politicians, truly believe that things and people are somewhat better after our great interventions, well !!  they're not . The pleasure of grandiose and extinct imperialism is over. As we and our closest allies , continue proudly to think, behave and operate like "tercer mundistas", Third worlders arrogant nouveaux riches.      

Are these clear signs of political, emotional and moral immaturity, or is it pure and simple decline. unless we call it politics as usual . One has to seriously ponder upon it .

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SHUTTING DOWN THE UNITED NATIONS ....

In the last century , and in the wake of two major world wars, a body of almost two hundred member states, was formed to preserve peace throughout , and insure human rights and justice across the glob. At least in theory and principal , as these basic modern requirements were and still are solidly violated periodically by many super powers and lesser powers internationally and regionally .

With at least 16 specialized agencies operating across the world and a substantial peacekeeping force, the U.N. generally was a successful , productive and helpful international agency through most of its operations and endeavors , a good tool to help engaging states in dialogue , and handling refugees from many countries and continents ravaged by conflicts and cruel wars and invasions, by colonialism and apartheid, extermination and blatant theft .

Many of these cruel and unjust acts, whether 70 years old or very recent left millions in camps for years and years most till today. The U.N. agencies somehow managed to help eradicate famine, and deceases from these camps, and play some helpful role in many unfortunate spots of the under developed world .

Ending conflicts and preserving peace in fragile areas of the world, as well as striving to put limits or ends to nuclear proliferation and possible conflicts were fairly successful in most cases, rendering the absolute support of the U.N. both a moral imperative and an international security requirement and necessity .

Except that some powers and I'm mostly concerned  about the U.S. and its close ally Israel, with their periodical reckless rhetoric and threats of  abstinence from paying their financial dues and meeting their share, making it a real alarming situation to say the least. All for political obedience and coercing the world countries to abide by our views and interests, or even worse by Israeli narrow expansionist and illegal agendas.

During her confirmation hearings, ambassador Nikki Haley insisted that theses slashes were important " To build up our military" We are talking here of a 27% cut to the U.S contribution to the U.N. regular budget , a 37% cut to peacekeeping operations, and a proposed zeroing of funds for UNICEF the children's agency, UN DP the women agency, OCHA the humanitarian affairs agency, UNFPA the population fund, the UNHCR the human rights agency, and the U.N agencies working on climate change, Israel's first move in retaliation of naming Hebron a Palestinian national heritage was to cut a million plus dollars from UNESCO's budget, and threatening for more .

All of course to reinforce building their armed forces and militaries, and punishing the world wide agencies. Even programs like children's vaccination around the world have to wait for further building of our militaries.  Our and Israel's ugly adventures in the world cost us many trillions of dollars literally in the past few years, way, way more than the costs of having U.N. peacekeeping forces in all places of conflicts we're trying to solve on our own. Instead of besieging Gaza or fighting in Iraq,and Afghanistan or Yemen for decades, or terrorizing and applying the worse forms of apartheid over the Palestinian population of the West-Bank, stealing their lands, wealth and waters.

A unilateral retreat from our obligations and responsibilities suggested by the administration's budget, would neither improve the U.N. nor make the world including America and Israel or similar aggressors any safer, more secure or better off. Nor send the world a message that the U.S. leadership is firm and essential in the world, as Ambassador Haley vowed to do in her confirmation hearing. It would only remind us and the world of George Orwell's demagoguery and fake utopias .


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SURELY, AN AMERICAN DILEMMA .......

Nobody in his right mind could accuse or state that any past American president up to and  including president Obama, of being anything but full capitalists in all aspects of the word . Except that modern capitalist societies have nowadays accepted and adopted more social steps and programs all over the world. Mostly upholding and maintaining the various practices and institutions needed in every society .

Practices and institutions for almost every normal citizen to enjoy, things like real freedom , real opportunities, and a healthy distribution of wealth and the general prosperity of any nation . Plus of course the basics of modern life in a modern world, like a full right to a universal health care system for all to enjoy, affordable education possibilities and opportunities for all aspiring youths at all levels, and of course the most essential, a decent retirement for all seniors .

These essential needs are and should supersede any militaristic reasoning or wars , whether wars of aggression or what we term as defense, or bureaucratic luxuries and ideological expenses.

Many Americans, possibly half the general population if not more confuse willingly or not the notions of upholding and improving the various practices and institutions needed for almost everyone to enjoy modern decency and civility in a country like America, they confuse by being brain-washed with old adages that were for decades  ushered into the general psych as well as the minds of the most needy and simpler population, that capitalist social promises and programs are equivalent to communism or socialism, in their 20th century applications and models. Well !!  they're not .

American citizenry should be informed and asked to realize that social programs at all levels are not necessarily against family values or religious conservative beliefs . Americans should realize that they are systematically breaking down all these social promises and all previous hard gained meager social start-ups. by increasingly compromising our previous laws, and capturing our political system for the sake of pure demagoguery.

To use Aaron James words ;"We should really worry about whether our societies are already or might soon become asshole capitalist systems, set on a potentially irreversible path of degradation and decline". Many capitalist countries and societies, in Europe and the far east achieved high degrees of social collectivist culture, and a high cooperative social systems, and fairer distribution of their general wealth, and managed simultaneously to be happier and more satisfied conservatives and even religious peoples .

while here in the U.S. we are slowly and surely shifting our tipping point while standing by the  precipice, irreversible decline seems to be our newest accepted motto. Was it Marx who said "Capitalism is generally unstable, but it inevitably gives way to something better", Are we            systematically and deliberately reversing it and turning things to the worst, just for the hate of Marx or is it strictly the love of the filthy rich??

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