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But of course, it's Iran's fault. Nobody's stating just what the disarray in the Israeli armed forces is, what has caused it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/07/biden-admin-briefs-intel-committees-00120485 Of course, in the end, it isn't the failure of slavery as a system that our oppressed and tortured enslaved run away and don't support us Israel's (or the US's) security intelligence failure, it was outside agitators. It's impossible not to reflect resonance vibrations of all sorts of historical situations, events and conditions here -- even when there isn't a one-on-one correspondence. The more history one knows, the more resonances there are in the present

Presumably then, with the US effectively shut-down, thanx to the idiot fascists feuding over which of Them can be House Speaker For A Day, not only is aid to Ukraine frozen, aid for Israel can't be allocated.

Corruption. Bibi's and biz and political and religious cronies's corruption has infected every part of Israel, as our Israeli friends have been telling us and demonstrating about for a very long time This attack was actually a great gift to him and his pals.

Why are you deliberately being obtuse and stupid?

Abigail Nussbaum reports from the ground: "By this evening I expect the worst of the incursion to be repelled, but it must be said: this was a monumental intelligence, military, and government failure. ...." https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/10/war-3

Welcome to the celebrated Philip K. Dick, an original within one of the most lemming-like genres ever!

Yet -- they are far fewer than climate catastrophe refugees. Old Britain couldn't keep the Romans from coming in and taking over, any more than it could the Saxons, any more than the Saxons could prevent the invasion and take over of by the norse/Normans.

Whew! Will this Amanda Marcotte article get the incels, racists, misogynists and fascists screaming. Hope they split just like Rumplestiltskin. The unsung hero behind Donald Trump’s crushing fraud case: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Progressive firebrand's first big win: Exposing Trump's fraud so Letitia James could bring down his company https://www.salon.com/2023/10/03/unsung-hero-behind-donald-crushing-fraud-case/

And, um, why not? Plenty of people were prognosticating exactly what was happening was going to bring about what it brought about. Why do you think such a perceptive and sensitive poet had less understanding than all those, which included many within the circles he inhabited? This just seems ... incredibly short-sighted of you.

George Santos's 'fortune' is a lie just as everything he says and has done his entire life is a lie. Color us yet again unsurprised by what we already knew, being who he always has been, always is, and the the fascists voted for him. Also, the sorts of shyte The Racketeer-in-chief has been doing all his life, too, for which he, too, has been indicted, and is being tried. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/weve-finally-solved-the-mystery-of-george-santos-mysterious-fortune

How the Humble Paperback Helped Win World War II A new exhibition tells the story of the Armed Services Editions, pocket-size paperback weapons in the fight for democracy. Terrific fotos, as this is a NYT Magazine piece -- therefore also long. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/arts/paperback-world-war-ii-grolier-club-nyc.html? .... The program, one of the more heroic chapters in American publishing history, is the subject of “The Best-Read Army in the World,” an exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan. The show, on view through Dec. 30, is curated by Molly Guptill Manning, a law professor who accumulated more than 900 of the volumes while researching her 2014 book “When Books Went to War.” .... I'll probably go see this next week.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.74.0.pdf https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/trump-election-case-immunity-motion-00120225 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-nuclear-engineer-and-wife-sentenced-espionage-related-offenses

Lupin, part 3, up on Netflix, finally!

Saw this lots of places, almost immediately --Acting Speaker McHenry did not have authority to evict Pelosi: top Democrat

You might check on authors and scholars who are women regarding this, which I mentioned in the Literature forum. This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it is in the direction. I've not yet read the book, but I've listened to her being interviewed and read interviews with her -- Cat Bohannon's newly published Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/eve-cat-bohannon-review https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780385350549 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cat-bohannon/eve-Bohannon/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/cat-bohannon-eve.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/how-women-drove-evolution-cat-bohannon-on-her-radical-new-history-of-humanity https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/75494215

There are so many books concerning these matters! So very many. So very easy to find too -- like about a second's worth of searching. And that's without going to university library catalogs even! Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History (2012), A. James Gregor https://www.sup.org/books/title/? There are even bibliographies that provide "The best books to understand the historical development of the Christian Right as a political power". https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-christian-right-as-a-political-power

Good gods! Is that ever true, alas.

If we should be so lucky as to live long enough, and if anything of everything to which we here in the USA have gotten used to over the years since 1860 continues, AOC is going to make one hell of a brilliant Speaker.

Reading how the early christians behaved in the 6th century as they expected the Return of the Savior, but that depended on everyone being baptized -- it was pure insanity, which I am, along with other periods of this, reminded constantly by the current crop of massive, global insanity. Those who wouldn't be baptized had to be murdered in the most horrible of ways, among other beliefs. And they did it. There are many ways of shutting the government, and they've just accomplished it, again.

None of Them are ever GONE gone unless a stake is driven through Their heart, head cut off, and body burned. Nor can They cooperate, and They all hate each other -- almost as much as collectively They hate us. Backstabbing is how They operate. BUT! never fail to always keep in mind, They do not hate each other as much as They hate us.

No.

It all goes together, to show her ugly and him a cuk. Even so, neither of these exceedingly successful people will ever date any of Those losers, no matter what They call two of the most successful people currently living. Of course nobody else will date Them either, because They smell and are boring, as well as stupid..

We all must tell our truths. She came out and did it -- only the wealthy and powerful have human rights -- are human.

Security Council authorizes ‘historic’ support mission in Haiti https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1141802 https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/03/exp-haiti-un-forces-gang-violence-pozzebon-lkl-10034aseg2-cnni-world.cnn

Finally! the second part of Nicola Griffith's 7th century Britain work, following the wonderful Hild, is published: Menewood. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/books/review/nicola-griffith-menewood.html