By Ted Belman
From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.
Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.
Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.
The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
proposal to impeach corrupt activist judges – redacted
https://youtu.be/YdbrsUvFISQ?si=wFIvtR7xgMzffakE
@ Reader This is the latest from iron felix zelinsky:
Don’t tell us not to harass him. He’s not just harmlessly harping on his pet obsession. He’s a mimofant.
A term Bertrand Russell coined to mean someone with the sensitivity of a mimosa when it comes to their own feelings but the insensitivity of an elephant when it comes to that of others.
@Reader You said you were asking us a yes/no question.
@Sebastien Zorn
I asked 2 questions of Madeline, the first question was whether she read my comment from March 2. 8:44am, and she never answered the first question.
And I noticed that you said that my comment was missing and I asked you whether the 8:44am comment was the one that you couldn’t see.
I wasn’t discussing any theories, I just explained my line of reasoning in this case which was based on looking at the big picture/ using bird’s eye view of things (wide, not cursory)/whatever.
@Reader So what’s your question? Does this theory have predictive value? I don’t know. Has anyone tried to disprove it? Has the West been attacking Russia through proxies? Yes, obviously. Is that what Trump is trying to do? Doesn’t seem like it. Do countries always act in their own best interest? No. I still cringe when I recall President Clinton’s apology tour over the ouster of Mossadegh. It was one of the things that emboldened Bin Laden.
I think Trump means what he says. and it makes sense. But we’ll see. I’ve been wrong before.
I don’t believe in historical inevitability. even if a theory seems to fit the known facts in a given period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
@Sebastien Zorn (from the shoo-out-at -the-white-house)
The one from March 2, 8:44am is still here – you are not seeing it because you are blocked from it, for some reason.
I am reposting it because your answer had nothing to do with my full comment which you could not see.
UPDATE:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=european+peacekeepers+in+Ukraine
@Reader It was under “Shoot out at the White House” I said let’s continue in Chit Chat.
@Sebastien Zorn
Was there another of your comments addressed to me before “@Reader cont. I should say “dogmatic”…”?
It looks like there should have been but now it is missing.
@Reader cont. I should say, “dogmatic”, rather than religious. I think religion has it’s place. I agree with the theory of “Domains of Belief ” of my old Philosophy of Science Professor, who, unbeknownst to me at the time, was also a leading figure in the NY Zorastrian community, Einstein”s protegee, K.D.Irani
There is a video in 4 parts of him discussing it on Youtube. Religion has its place.
Wikipedia
He came to the U.S. on Einstein’s personal recommendation.
Just google: K.D. Irani Domains of Belief for the videos. Erudite, thoughtful, and brilliant on the level of Victor Davis Hansen. Fascinating.
A chair was named for him posthumously at CCNY. I just took one or two summer seminars with him but he influenced my thinking enormously.
I mentioned him in the past, a long time ago,
Fine. I will place this comment in Chit Chat but I feel it was appropriate where it was most relevant:
I still feel that you overwhelm and overcensor this blog.
I didn’t feel this way when Ted Belman was the editor.
@Reader
https://www.israpundit.org/the-shoot-out-at-the-white-house/#comment-63356000285843
I would appreciate it if you would make such comments in Chit Chat, not in the comment space under the articles.
This is an unfair assertion. The blog has an ad hominem rule which is actually very lax. While enforcing it, I am not speaking down on anyone, but reminding those who overstep the policy of what the consequences for doing so entails. It gives me no joy to do so, but it is my intent to continue to do so as I feel it is warranted.
Additionally, I will add my own thoughts as I judge they are relevant, just as I have done so for many years now. If you think I should self censor myself, I will tell you that I oppose such concepts to the limit of being abusive to others, for both myself and for others. So, please speak your mind, and I will speak my own.
But I would be interested to hear any comments others might have on this topic.
Hi Michael
– Gutfeld
Most of the minerals are in Crimea and Donbas and Putin is offering a deal. If Trump could sign with both of them, there could be peace but I’m not sure how that could work.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-putin-trump-2035902
@everyone here
Quit harassing Felix.
Every one of us has his/her favorite topic and convictions/obsessions which are irritating in their own way, and I suspect that most of us are older than 70, so these convictions cannot be changed.
@fquigley
I know but the only reason this bloodbath has been going on for 3 years is because the West poured money and weapons into it after Boris Johnson disrupted their negotiations in Istanbul by promising Ukraine everything they need for as long as it takes.
Now the Anglos are throwing both Zelensky and Ukraine under the bus to try a different tactic to destroy Russia while appropriating the Ukrainian resources.
Felix Quigley, you are WRONG!! IIIIII am Volodomir Zelenskyy! There! You hve found me out! Now you must send money — much money, so I can buy cocaine.
And I am Trotsky too, so I am TWO people! I have two mouths and get very hungry! need much money! Also, I provide service — I give link to Joe Rogan/ Elon Musk interview:
https://youtu.be/sSOxPJD-VNo
Very interesting interview — tells you how Deep State creates shell NGOs to cycle US taxpayer money back to my pockets. Its nothing but a giant Hack & Grift machine.that driving the US, and then the world, into hopeless debt and bankruptcy. You will not understand this, because you are just idiot taxpayer, who gives every time I demand of you, because I am the IRS (also FBI, CIA, etc.) and you are hooked on giving to me. Ha ha!
BTW the interview begins, with Joe & Elon talking to a porn-slanted AI.
from 2005! 20 years ago during the second intifada. That’s what woke me up! That and Palestinian Media Watch. And they are talking as though this has never happened before. I remember the antisemitism was intense back then. And, in fact, every time the Pals went to war, i.e., massacring the innocent. Scary what short memories the public has. Though it’s clearly worse now, more institutionalized.
@Felix
“Vell, you found me out.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9EmXwA-VI
@Edgar Naah, I’m sure it’s Hungarian. Any Greeks here, Sicilians, Koreans? I had a Marxist Iranian neighbor who explained how everything originated in Iran.
Funny FB meme
@Felix Are you kidding? You obsessively inject your reverence for your hero in to practically every conversation. Do you listen to yourself? You’re like a teenager who can’t stop talking about his favorite pop singer.
@Edgar
The quote is
:What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is me-own”. Best Cork and Dublin rendition.
@Felix Well, I seem to be in good company. Is there anyone on this site you don’t despise?
Sebastien Zorn
What next? So now I am Zelensky!!!
I have learnt about you….YOU STOP AT NOTHING.
Sebastien Zorn
You are pathetic.
“And he has been given a platform too by the editors on this site
As have you. “Freedom of speech for me but not for thee, eh?” Reminds me of the unofficial slogan of nearly every leftist I’ve ever met, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.”. ”
The only issue is support of Neonazis. You can distort any truth.
@Sebastien
I rescued the comments and made a few more adjustments. Hopefully this will improve the situation.
I oppose cult of leader. I also defend Trotsky against liars
Sebastien Zorn
You talk mountains essentially lies
Just tell what happened on Ukraine 1919 to 1921.
@Peloni comment keeps disappearing.
And he has been given a platform too by the editors on this site
As have you. “Freedom of speech for me but not for thee, eh?” Reminds me of the unofficial slogan of nearly every leftist I’ve ever met, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.”
Or the punchline about the Hungarian peasant meaning told about about he benefits of socialism during the transition period just after the war: “But, I have two pigs!”
“The left has run out of fascism bullets.”
– John Stewart
Reader
If the Ukrainians and the Russians still have any brains left, they should negotiate with each other and leave the US out of it.
End quote
Russia has always been prepared to negotiate on the basis of aims of the SMO
@Felix
And he has been given a platform too by the editors on this site
@Felix As Trump just told Zelensky when he made demands in a press conference, “You have no cards.”
@Felix Newsflash: Zionism and Trotskyism, which you have never defined your understanding of – (the actual Bolsheviks were anti-Zionist, even if Trotsky admitted he was wrong about that at the end of his life when it was too late for him to do anything about it right before the Holocaust that Herzl and Jabotinsky foresaw long before when Trotsky was just starting out. In Herzl’s case, long before that. ) – have nothing in common. You are trying to hijack the one to resuscitate the other in your image.
And you have just finished calling the editors traitors, to what I’m sure I don’t know, and now you expect them to humor you? Talk about chutzpah. Or perhaps dementia. You’ve been doing this for over 20 years?
You said you don’t respect Jonathan Tobin of JNS because he has no achievements under his belt. What are yours? You’ve never said.
I have no doubt that your response is going to be another round of sloganeering and name-calling – trying to sound like Marx – and ( notice I didn’t say, “but”) indistinguishable from Stalin to any uninitiated outsider to your one-man “cult of personality”.
“A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader.” Wikipedia
I believe it was first coined by Khruschev when he denounced Stalinism after the dictator’s death.
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Oh, and here’s a tip. If you don’t wish to continue aggravating the editors, why don’t you respond in Chit Chat instead of in unrelated posts as it says to do at the top there. Besides insulting them, of course. Just a thought.
I was in the Juilliard Store at Lincoln Center today – the only classical sheet music store left in Manhattan – and on the book shelf was a copy of “The Marx and Engels Reader”. Wow. Back in the late ’70s, when I was an anarcho-Communist, I had a like-minded girlfriend who was a student at Manhattan School of Music (MSM
) who was chagrined that somebody was going around behind her taking down all the political fliers she was putting up on bulletin boards. “The times they are a changin'” Hope they change back.
@peloni
It was a premeditated farce.
The US wants to replace Zelensky with someone who will sign anything while kneeling and without looking to make Ukraine American property, and they already have this someone who really hates Zelensky and wants to jail him for life and who also happens to live in the US.
Once Ukraine becomes an American colony, there will be tens of thousands of foreign soldiers there prepared to “defend’ Ukraine from you-know-who.
Another goal of this farce is to get the Russians to stop the war and sign all sort of agreements by showing them that the US cares much more about resuming good relations with Russia than about Ukraine.
These agreements will be detrimental to Russia but beneficial to the US when the US unilaterally breaks the agreements “with a good cause”.
If the Ukrainians and the Russians still have any brains left, they should negotiate with each other and leave the US out of it.
Zelensky made a bad move trying to manipulate Trump in front of the media at White House
SEB-
I believe you but find it hard to accept that Israel was foretold to beat several Arab nations all in 1 week.
I remember like yesterday that I’d felt that all the US had to do was show the flag in the guise of a battleship unit, with cruisers and destroyers for Nasser to fold, and I still believe that would have happened just like that.
But he chickened at the critical moment.
SEB-
I be,ieve you but fid it hard to accept that Israel was foretold to beat several Arab nations all in 1 week.
I remember like yesterday that I’d felt that all the US had to do was show the flag in the guise of a battleship unit, with cruisers and destroyers for Nasser to fold, and I still believe that would have happened just like that.
But he chickened at the critical moment.
@ Felix
Felix, I think you want the room next door and on more then one level.
“What? I came in here for an argument.”
“Oh, sorry, I think you want 12A next door. This is abuse”
“Sorry”
“Not at all.”
[exits]
“Stupid git,”
That’s from the classic skit:
“Argument Clinic : Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?si=zz5aQ1IrjaI3H27s
@Michael Yes, well, Hebrew is phonetic like English but Mandarin is ideographic and tonal! I’m good at pronunciation but bad at memorization/retention and visual recognition. Fortunately, all the letters look different to me now and I am recognizing them more of the time in quizzes on Duolingo though I get tired and only do it every day for a while , takebreaks and go back. But, I’m slowly making progress, as I did with Hangul.
I’m reluctant to correct typos in long posts with highlights because in the past that has made them disappear so please bear with me.
@Edgar LBJ’s intelligence advisers told him Israel would win the war in a week. Hecouldn’t send a fleet because he was bogged down in Vietnam. He also deflected calls to rake Israel over the coals over the Liberty incident – which more than one antisemitic “friend” has brought out of the blue ; in poker, it’s what they call a tell. It’s all in that article I cited. I sometimes employ large highlights to support my arguments because I know many readers refuse to click on links to read my source articles for themselves. But I try to only include relevant passages.
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/who-was-the-first-genuinely-pro-israel-u-s-president/2017/08/30/
Another interesting item about how LBJ had to angle around the Deep State to support Israel
withe regard to the change in policy regarding mikitary aid:
ibid
@Michael S
The above might sound different from what I think you meant after you read the following poems about English spelling (click on the very first link in the search list and the file with the poems will be downloaded):
Unconfirmed reports of Iran banning the reading and writing of Turkish language in Iran… If anyone has any info on this please post links here.
This relates to the Azerbaijani’s in northern Iran where they comprise some 25% of population.
PELONI-
From your post to SEB is sounds as if some illness has happened to TED. If so it could only be a heart problem.
In that case what happened and how is he now .Also give him my deepest concerns, and again tell me how he is and prognosis.
Hi, Seb. Here’s the “Alef Bet Vet” song, which I found useful:
https://youtu.be/-0LSBeX5uYw
Here’s the kid’s song, which I found fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4dvFDLRPro
It’s an easy song, and fun, in that you can actually find yourself understanding a few words of Hebrew. At first, I thought Hebrew was an obstinate, purposely difficult language, even being WRITTEN backwards! Then I went to China, and Hebrew started looking to me as practically English!
@Peloni Glad to hear it. Please give him my best.