tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post4517815338545546707..comments2022-08-31T13:21:11.928+02:00Comments on webdiary_<i>libre</i>: We have it. It is a good document.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-86010207223061099812009-04-28T18:31:00.000+02:002009-04-28T18:31:00.000+02:00We come to another bit of detested US-speak, namel...We come to another bit of detested US-speak, namely "Game-changer."<br /> <br />I can extend to this expression because I'm thinking of the game "Diplomacy."<br /> <br />When that showed up sooo long ago, some in my peer-group seized upon it - so I was pretty-well forced to investigate it. Once was enough. One included component was lying, another secret 'deals' aka alliances. I shouldn't need to elaborate further.<br /> <br />Couldn't stand it - and it led to more that one fracas, more that one (some even terminally) damaged relationships.<br /> <br />Now, post-GWBush but massive damage inflicted (more 100s of 1000s, if not 1.3+mio dead - 'just' in Iraq), don't know how many Israel has slaughtered over the past 60+ years, we - you'n I, plus a few (good) mates, have learned about some things. Like that the US and Israel lie, cheat and murder for spoil. And plenty others join in, coerced or not but (most - even 'hopefully' likely coerced - the alternative being worse, i.e. <I>willing</I> sell-out quislings), but to my point: the game of "Diplomacy" turned out to be far too close to real-life.<br /> <br />Thesis: That it is totally undemocratic, to have a so-called 'secret service' which performs illegal acts.<br /> <br />Thesis: That it is totally undemocratic, to have politicians who look us straight in the eye and lie to us. Worse, worser, worst; when those lies are an attempt to conceal utterly illegal acts, like sending our militaries off to murder for spoil.<br /> <br />-=*=-<br /> <br />All of the above is my run-up to the racism conference.<br /> <br />When people cross lines, and I'm thinking of serious line-crossing, like what I call the 'standard' crimes mentioned above, i.e. lying, cheating, murdering to steal, then there is neither logically nor morally any place to stop.<br /> <br />Here's an example:<br /> <br /> <I>«The days of Fortress America are gone. We are the world's superpower. We can sit on our hands or we can become engaged to improve global human conditions. The bottom line is that we cannot succeed unless we have good intelligence. Trading security for partisan political popularity will ensure that our secrets are not secret and that our intelligence is destined to fail us.»</I> <br />[<A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/no-place-for-queensberry-rules-in-this-brutal-war-20090427-akmb.html?page=-1" REL="nofollow">smh/WP/Porter Goss</A>]<br /> <br />What Goss wants is for the CIA to keep on torturing.<br /> <br />Pardon the French, but I strongly suspect that he's lying (massive understatement). This bit, say: "we can become engaged to improve global human conditions ..."<br /> <br />The US does little to nothing in the way of improving human conditions for the great majority of their own people, let alone globally. In fact, for the vast, overwhelming majority of people almost everywhere, what the US does is cause one eff'n great disaster after another.<br /> <br />How does all of the above apply to the racism conference?<br /> <br />Easy. This is where the "Game-changer" comes in.<br /> <br />Those who boycotted, those who walked out - were all playing "The Great Game (of diplomacy)," they were the US and Israel themselves, or allied to them, or supporting them. Because the US and Israel are pursuing criminal policies, any and all supporters of whatever stripe inherit some of that criminality - and so effectively lose any and all scruples. In each and every case (well, possibly with some (tiny!) exception(s)) they were acting against Iran/Ahmadinejad on some (foolish, erring) so-called '(ideological) principle;' at the direct or indirect instigation of the US &/ Israel, even going so far as to have public broadcasters spit at Iran/Ahmadinejad before Ahmadinejad said a single word. The conference declaration was only ever, for these hypocritical 'political' spoilers, an inconsequential by-product, already pre-crippled on US/Israeli insistence anyway.<br /> <br />Thanks for finding and publishing the link, perhaps that'll help getting it (more widely) read.<br /> IDHolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952349876651823852noreply@blogger.com