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by Robert C. Koehler via sal - Common Wonders Thursday, Sep 7 2017, 11:04pm
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'Begging for War' -- Nikki Haley, America's Ambassador to the UN

“There are no good options,” a LIE Brian Williams attempted to sell to the American public and WORLD recently on MSNBC, which untrue statement was designed to launch an orchestrated and directed discussion about the CREATED North Korean 'crisis.' The obvious sell was that WAR is the only solution -- nothing could be further from the TRUTH. The entire scenario has been well planned and staged by the shadow government in order to install nuclear capable missiles directly on China's land borders -- the shadow [real] government views independent China and Russia as enemies. The US has succeeded to date with its nuclear creep strategy, which gives it a huge advantage in a pre-emptive nuclear strike against China and Russia.

Of course Washington has already installed offensive nuclear capable weapons on Russia's land borders with the direct assistance of Putin, who is CLEARLY in the pockets of the global and American elite, trace his finances and where they're held, in WESTERN tax havens for the most part! In fact, Putin must be viewed as Washington's secret weapon, as it is inconceivable that any real Soviet or Russian leader would have allowed such a monumental compromise of its national security, and therein lies the PROOF of Putin's duplicity. And so Putin (who should be shot by the Russian military for treachery) is a known quantity not just by astute political analysts in the West but also by China, Putin is about as trustworthy as a snake and we should all note that the best 'enemy' is one you create yourself, a tired traditional political trick of ruling elites throughout history. It allows for complete management of the situation, be aware and beware Mr Xi!

The USA has recently dropped all pretense that it is a law-abiding nation, forget the transparent exposed charades of the Iraq and Libyan invasions and the murders/executions of leaders that did not comply with Washington's dictates. Syria is all the proof any international court requires to indict America, which nation's direct military intervention and occupation presence in Syria is grossly ILLEGAL, a forced situation as the CIA's proxy armies and bought fighters had failed to accomplish regime change and take-over; however, as experts and specialists are all aware today, the Hague Courts are merely politicized actors in the nefarious deadly drama unfolding before our EYES as it is CLEAR that NUMEROUS international LAWS and CONVENTIONS have been FLAGRANTLY broken/breached by AMERICA without the least concern for consequences, I wonder why?

But of course we should not forget that 'GOD is on our side,' which imbecile puppet president Ronald Reagan actually had the demented gall to articulate to the world, notwithstanding Bob Dylan's popular, sane protest song. Now PLEASE note that man has created over 10,000 'Gods' since recorded history, so which one of these mythic fabricated 'Gods' was Reagan referring to? Get a grip MORONS, everything you 'know' about any God has been created and written by MEN, which texts continue to enslave billions of uninformed, IGNORANT asses world-wide.

And so it becomes plain how easily populations are led by myth and media and by nefarious, avaricious and manic forces hell bent on realizing their psychopathic dream of a uni-polar one world government; you would note, morons -- if the shoe fits -- that this pursuit is as vigorous and blind as lemmings pursuing their own destruction, lemmings and elite rulers are in fact blinded and impelled by their own flaws. I could write reams of explanation supported by rational and coherent real evidence, but we/I are aware that fundamental beliefs defy reason, evidence and plain FACT, so I would leave you with the recent work of Mr Koehler, as I tire of shouting in the ears of the deaf and appealing to the blind.

We’ve been cradling our own suicide for seven decades. The baby’s eyes open . . .

And Williams was right, though not in a way that he understood. When war — forceful domination, victory through threat, carnage and, if necessary, annihilation — is the ultimate limit of one’s consciousness, there are no good options. Even the peace negotiated in the context of war is bound to be temporary and grudging and therefore a bad option — sort of like the “peace” achieved at the end of the Korean War, after which both sides still, as Reuters reports, “have thousands of rockets and artillery pieces aimed at each other across the world’s most heavily armed border.”

Only beyond the context of war are there any options at all. Only beyond the context of war does humanity have any hope of avoiding suicide. And contrary to the consensus viewpoint of mainstream politicians and reporters, this is not completely unexplored territory.

Because Donald Trump is president, reaching for this trans-war consciousness is as crucial as it has ever been.

Maybe the best place to begin is by noting that there are some 22,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. This fact is almost never part of the news about North Korea, which has, as of this week, when it detonated an alleged hydrogen bomb, conducted six nuclear tests. The fact that Kim Jong-un’s tiny, unpredictable country is a member of the nuclear club is disconcerting, but the fact that there’s a “nuclear club” at all — and that its members are spending as much as a trillion dollars a decade to modernize their nuclear weapons — is even more disconcerting. And the fact that the modernization process is happening so quietly, without controversy or public debate (or even awareness) exacerbates the horror exponentially.

North Korea is not “begging for war,” as U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley exclaimed, but it has learned from the West. None of the planet’s nuclear-armed nations have abided by the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which explicitly calls for complete nuclear disarmament. How easy this has been to ignore.

As Simon Tisdall wrote recently in The Guardian: “. . . the past and present leaders of the U.S., Russia, China, France and the UK, whose governments signed but have not fulfilled the terms of the 1970 nuclear non-proliferation treaty, have to some degree brought the North Korea crisis on themselves. Kim Jong-un’s recklessness and bad faith is a product of their own.”

Preparing for war produces, at best, obedience, which usually comes with hidden resentments. Because North Korea has displayed defiance rather than obedience, the mainstream media have portrayed the country and its leader as, essentially, evil cartoon characters: a crazy country that doesn’t know its place and is therefore begging for war.

To reach beyond war, to reach toward the future and create the possibility that it will arrive — to create sensible options — first of all requires dealing with one’s enemy with respect and understanding. In the case of North Korea, this means revisiting the Korean War, in which some 3 million North Koreans died and, as Anna Fifield pointed out recently in the Washington Post, “the U.S. Air Force leveled the North, to the extent that American generals complained there was nothing left to bomb.”

“Ever since,” she writes, “North Korea has existed in a state of insecurity, with the totalitarian regime telling the population that the United States is out to destroy them — again.

“It is in this context that, following the collapse of its nuclear-armed benefactor, the Soviet Union, the Kim regime has sought weapons of its own.”

She points out that this is not irrational behavior — certainly not for a small, isolated country in the crosshairs of the United States. On a planet with no good options, North Korea’s capacity to produce a little mutually assured destruction may be its best bet to curtail invasion. Indeed, no nuclear-armed nation has ever been invaded.

With that understanding in place, John Delury, a professor at the Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, has some further advice to offer:

“Now is the time,” he wrote in the Washington Post in April, “to jump-start a diplomatic initiative that reopens channels, lowers tensions and caps North Korea’s capabilities where they are. Then, working closely with the new government in Seoul and others, the United States should support a long-term strategy that integrates North Korea into regional stability and prosperity. . . .

“By simply inflicting economic pain, threatening military strikes and keeping tensions high, the United States is playing into the worst tendencies of the North Korean system. Kim’s nuclear intentions will harden and North Korea’s capabilities will only grow. It’s time to reverse course.”

The time is now: to stop pretending that war will keep us safe, to stop cradling humanity’s capacity to commit suicide.

And the United States is not Donald Trump. Our collective consciousness is bigger than that of a bully. That means we have the capacity to understand that the threat posed by North Korea is a reminder that nuclear disarmament for the whole planet is long overdue. There are no good nuclear weapons.

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