Explaining American foreign policy

 

full transcript here

QUESTION: So, while you were here, the Iranian president spoke at the United Nations. And he said that President Trump’s speech “goes against the very essence… of the United Nations.” He said that President Trump “must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, [and] increased bullying.” And he said, “We will never bow our [heads] or bend [our knees].” Do you have a response to him today? SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. I think slaughtering 10,000 of your own people in protests is a violation of the UN – I hope it’s a violation of the UN principles. I think sponsoring terrorist organizations in the region to attack your neighbors, attack energy infrastructure, attack civilian sites, is a violation of the UN system. So, I don’t know what standing Iran has to lecture anyone on human rights or the international system when they habitually violate it. They violate the sovereignty of every one of their neighbors by sponsoring terrorist organizations that reside within the borders of those countries. They slaughter their own people. They violate rules that were – and sanctions that were imposed by the international community against their nuclear weapons program. So, I just – honestly, I don’t know how you stand up there and argue on behalf of the international system when you are the world’s leading – the world-leading violator of the international system. That’s what the Iranian system has been, unfortunately – sadly, tragically.

the Democrats are being manipulated by the socialist/Islamicist juggernaut (paid for by whom I wonder) so Iran thinks things will change in November after the election.

And the MSM in the US are happy to publicize the propaganda of these bozos instead of trying to put things into perspective.

Child kidnapping by Russia

 One little known story of the Spanish civil war was that Russia kidnapped Spanish children to raise them as communists.

the Wikipedia article frames it as keeping the children safe in a time of war (as were many thousands who were taken in by France etc) but if you read down the article the real reason is noted:

Communist propaganda portrayed them as the future political elite in a Spanish socialist republic which would emerge from victory in the Civil War. The children and their families believed that their time in Russia would be short, and in their later testimonies they confirm that they were happy with the adventure of travelling to a foreign country.

the evacuations of children during war is controversial because of the separation from family and culture, yet the alternative might be a dead child.

Yet the high casualty rate in the Spanish children in Russia suggests that safety was not the real issue.

So fast forward to the Russia Ukraine war, where again Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children claiming they just wanted to keep them safe.

From StrategyPage:

September 19, 2026: Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has kidnapped nearly 50,000 Ukrainian children and sent them to Russia to halt its population decline...

 

The Russian government developed a formal system to obtain children. The easiest method was to find young, orphaned children, from infants to 7 or 8 years old, and send them to Russia to be adopted. When Russian troops took some populated Ukrainian territory, special filtration teams were sent in to find any children they could kidnap without meeting violent resistance from families or neighbors...

 

What is most unusual about this use of children as hostages to pacify occupied regions is that it is happening in Donbas, which has been under Russian control since 2014 and initially supplied troops for the 2022 invasion. As that invasion went badly and got a lot of the Russian soldiers killed or wounded, the surviving volunteers from Donbas refused to fight any longer....

One underreported story about getting these children back to their families is the work of Melania Trump.

Yum! BBQ chicken feet

 Yanks eat chicken meat, mainly breasts and legs, so what do they do with the rest of it?

Well, for example, Tyson sells the chicken feet to China 

Yes, Tyson does sell chicken feet as a byproduct of processing chickens for meat. Chicken feet are often used in soups, stews, and other dishes in various cultures around the world. It is a common practice for poultry companies like Tyson to package and sell chicken feet as a way to minimize waste and provide customers with a diverse selection of products.

so how do you cook them? This is one way:

our neighbor used to grill cheap chicken feet/ chicken heads/ chicken intestine, sliced pork and hot dogs  outside her home, and sold them mainly to the tricycle drivers who drove to and from the Palenke. However for the last two years, several restaurants have popped up, so she doesn't do it anymore because of competition.

Chicken heads anyone?

he mentions the intestines. Yes they are grilled also.

CS Lewis link

 just a link to an article about CS Lewis and his relationship with various children. 

LINK

more HERE.

links posted so I can read them later on my tablet

Rogan publicizes Blood Cobalt

 

recent report Blood Batteries.

I am aghast of how the left gets hysterical over "Children" in Gaza, i.e. teenage soldiers being killed because Hamas recruits child soldiers, even though using children/young teenagers in the military is a war crime by the way...or point out that Hamas deliberately puts weapons in civilian areas (a war crime) so that they can point to civilian and children casualties when Israel bombs the weapons (and don't forget the secondary explosions) 

 But people being pushed out of their villages by mining or dying in mining accidents or children working in these mines. Silence.

Why? Chinese influence on the left in the USA and MSM

Similarly the environmentalists don't complain about Africa's environment being destroyed by Chinese mining companies.

 Come to think of it the environmentalist left isn't complaining about China destroying the ecology of the West Philippine sea, or about Chinese factory ships overfishing and destroying the fishing areas all over the world, including South America.

Press Bias? Who wudda thot

Trumpieboy is having another fight with the MSM. 

Well duh.

 It's not just Trumpieboy criticizing biased news reporting: the naysayers about covid vaccine side effects is being exposed on the alternative media.

 It's not just about exposing the lies and manipulation behind the Covid shutdowns, that harmed individuals and the economies of entire countries who obeyed the advice from the CDC etc...

So the MSM alas too often in politics or overseas news about the Middle East distorts reporting, where you read stuff from anonymous sources or terrorist organization as the truth: 

but it is not just about the Middle East news distortions. Try being a Catholic.

Father Leo opines:

and here he discusses the covid coverup and the truth.

so the news is depressing, so let's look at history

 one of my leisure activity is looking into technical evolution in ancient times, and also examining the background of the Heian period of Japan that predates the Samurai wars.

No olive oil, very little butter (the Buddhist monks led to butter and yogurt being introduced since it was a religion from India, but with time the vegetarian practices led to dairy products stopped being used.)

So what did they use for lamps?

Rapeseed oil. A mustard like seed.

Wikipedia: has details:

Rapeseed belongs to the genus Brassica. Brassica oilseed varieties are some of the oldest plants cultivated, with documentation of its use tracing back to India 4,000 years ago, and use in China and Japan 2,000 years ago

so used for oil lamps (or a variation of it in Chinese food).

So canola oil? No: Not quite the same thing.

Rapeseed oil is green, has a lousy taste and a chemical that is a little dangerous:  

So voila, the Canadians cross bred it, and made Canola oil

Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada; the name is a portmanteau of "can" from Canada and "ola" referring to "oil"

we docs started recommending Canola oil as a way to a healthy oil, but this year it is one of those seed oils that is in the crosshairs of the health nazis.

Heck, there are dozens of videos on youtube insisting it is jet fuel or a lubricant for machinery so if you use it for your food, as if you are eating the industrial oil, not the food variety. 

Don't ask me. We use Palm oil, which was a no no a decade or more ago and was blamed for heart disease if you ate cinema popcorn which was how they used it in the USA.but now they are re examinig it and say it's okay.

WTF?

Well you gotta die from something. Sorry Bobby K Jr.

Update

Wikipedia says rapeseed oil was used aftèr 1500in the Edo period but  not used in the heian period of japan but other seed oils like perilla oil

I am switching the discussion to my trivia blog soas not to fill up my news blog.

The Great game: Look squirrel propaganda in the US MSM ignores the big picture

She starts with analyzing how Rubio is working with local governments to stop the powerful drug cartels that threaten these governments.

Number of overdose deaths are down in the USA, but then the picture moves to Canada's shennanigans that include drug labs and Chinese using US/Canada trade agreements to get their cheap shoddy goods into the USA and bypassing tariffs.

 as for Canada: how does  Canada join the EU with a single person in the EU saying it's okay? 

 

and then she discusses the Greenland treaty.

Remember the MSM ridiculing Trump saying he was worrying about Greenland and might have to take it over?

Backstory: This is about the air defense of the USA, keeping the sea lanes in the Arctic open, and keeping China from grabbing their ports and rare minerals via Chinese companies (like was done to the Panama canal and in central Africa). No one believes the companies are just companies, but proxies for the Chinese government policies.

so expect the MSM to pretend this is just the ssame as the old treaty, while ignoring that tthis defense treaty includes provisions that are new, and will stop China's economic takeover and let the US defend a weak Denmark/Greenland from Russia.

now one hopes someone in the USA MSM will notice that China is increasing aggression against the Philippines. inside the Philippines economic zone.

The reason China was allowed to dig up the seabed to make artificial islands in the West Philippine sea is because Obama pressured PNoy not to interfere, but to rely on the UN court. So the Philippines won, but China ignored the courts.

And China is pushing against the Philippines to try to get the Philippines to back down and not try to stop them from taking over Taiwan, which would allow them to block shipping from West  Philippine sea to the Pacific ocean via the Luzon strait.

and of course no one in the US MSM seems to be aware of how China and Russia  are part of the great game in Iran...

If the Democrats win thanks to Islamicist and socialist propaganda, then the real winner will be China, who not only will again have access to Iranian oil, but will be emboldened to push more aggression against the Philippines figuring the US is too weak to stop them.

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