Israeli embassy bombings – terror attacks or false flag operations?

By now everyone has heard of the near simultaneous bombings of Israeli diplomatic vehicles in Delhi, India and Tbilsi, Georgia on what, ironically enough, happens to be “Valentine’s Day”. Of course, Israel as always wishes to paint itself as the victim and Iran as the perpetrator. Before anyone rushes to arm their tomahawk missiles let us list a couple of observations that cast doubt on Israel’s version of events:

1. India and Russia – of which Georgia is a de facto protectorate – are both Iran’s allies in this situation. Russia because it refuses to authorise Security Council resolutions which would allow the U.S. and Israel to bomb Iran back into the stone age, and India because it refuses to stop buying Iranian crude despite overwhelming pressure to the contrary. It would be odd indeed for Iran or its proxies to commit such acts on the territories of two of its most reliable allies at this critical juncture.
2. The modus operandi behind these attacks – motorcycle borne assailants employing a magnetic device in the Delhi attack – is identical to that employed in the recent assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Israel had no qualms in indirectly claiming responsibility for that murder. Repeating the same methodology so soon after that attack would indicate that Mossad is getting sloppy, panicky or both. Iran’s refusal to budge under threats and its refusal to respond to provocations such as American ships sailing through the straits of Hormuz might be causing some tension in the camps of those who are impatient for a U.S.-Israeli war against Iran to begin.
3. There is also the convenient aspect that as is put in the Al-Jazeera article linked to above: Israel had put its foreign missions on high alert ahead of the fourth anniversary this past Sunday of the assassination in Syria of the military mastermind of Hezbollah, Imad Moughniyeh – an attack widely assumed to be the work of Israeli agents. In spook-speak that would be referred to as preparing the groundwork by Israel for an attack on its own assets so as to be able to pin the blame on Iran/Hezbollah. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part.

Indian intelligence agencies are far more capable than casual observers such as myself and can probably divine the true nature of these attacks. All I can say is that it would be the most foolish move in the history of geopolitics for Iran to commit such an act less than a kilometer from the residence of the Prime Minister of what is one of its strongest and last remaining allies – the Republic of India. If Iran is indeed responsible for these attacks then they deserve whatever hell is wrought upon them by American weaponry. If not, then Iran’s enemies have committed their greatest blunder yet amongst all their blundering attempts to set the stage for a war with Iran.

Know the truth and the truth shall set your free!

Dropping bombs in the name of “peace”

In Pakistan, Drones Kill Our Innocent Allies – NYTimes.com.

Summary of events:

1. Journalist meets with group of tribals wishing to publicize the terror of CIA drone strikes.
2. Some days later member’s of said tribal-group’s are killed in CIA drone strike.

Either this journalist is lying or something really fucked up is going on in D.C.

What does Mr. Peace Prize have to say about this?

Can’t touch this

On what pretext do these people wish to start a war? That Iran is developing nuclear weapons. So? What is wrong with that? Any sovereign nation has the right to provide for its defense needs in any way it sees fit. “Sovereigneity” is a non-negotiable asset. Either you have it or you don’t. Either you respect other nations’ sovereignty or you don’t.

Yesterday it was ” you can’t have field artillery”. Then “you can’t have missile systems.” Today it is “you can’t have nuclear weapons”. In a world and a neighborhood populated by hostile states who already possess nuclear weapons what is Iran expected to use as a deterrent against invasion – tomatoes?

To paraphrase a quote:

“First they bombed Iran, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t an Iranian.”

“Then they bombed Pakistan, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Pakistani.”

“Then they bombed me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Let there be no doubt. Those who raise such threats against other nations themselves pose a greater threat to peace and prosperity.  A wise man once put it well:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EWW1Q73eY8M?rel=0

Of course, wisdom becomes a negotiable asset around election time.

For India, M. F. Husain died many years ago

It is ironic that Congress party members such as Ms. Ambika Soni are now saying about the late artist that:

He was always an Indian.

Coming from a member of the ruling party, that failed to lift a finger to provide Husain proper security guarantees when his life was being threatened by religious fundamentalists, this statement is revolting. This is the same party that when threatened by a half-naked fakir resorts to calling his devotees “Hindu extremists” and does not hesitate to send in armed paramilitaries in the dead of night to disperse a peaceful assembly of tens of thousands of sleeping men, women and children with lathi-charges and tear-gas.

Macaulay’s children

Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British Lord or something of that nature, in the mid 19th century had this to say on the question of the British educational effort in occupied India:

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. [emph. mine]

The resulting program, which involved the establishment of English-based education in India has succeeded beyond Macaulay’s wildest dreams. Today almost the entire ruling establishment of the Indian republic can rightly be referred to as “Macaulay’s Children”. There views and actions are completely in accord with those of a select sub-species which considers itself exalted over all the other cultures and peoples it rules over. Macaulay is long dead and gone, but his philosophy continues to effectively enslave the 1 billion Indians for whom English is as alien a language as Klingon would be to the United Kingdom.

This is not be taken as an anti-British screed. The British are also long gone. They played their best hand sometime in the early 20th century and have since been content with their diminishing role in world affairs. In other words they have returned to the real world and have embraced sanity.

Their intellectual descendants, on the other hands, continue to populate the highest ranks of India’s political, bureaucratic and cultural establishment. The greatest concentration of these are to be found in the Indian National Congress (INC). A correct history of modern Indian should mark August 15, 1947 not as the date Indians gained independence from the British empire, but as the date when the burden of colonial rule was handed over from the British crown to the leaders of the INC and their allies.

The clearest manifestation of the Macaulay syndrome is to be found in English newspapers and on English news channels as they report on the political movement currently sending tremors of fear and disbelief through the ruling Indian elite. The complete documentation of the lies, misinformation and propaganda being advocated by the English news media against the present anti-corruption movement spearheaded by Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare will take an army of researchers and historians. Here, we need mention only a few illustrative examples.

Ramdev’s agitation against black money forcefully broken up in midnight raid

In the morning hours of June 4 and June 5, 2011, a large contingent of the Delhi Police accompanied by an unspecified number of paramilitary personnel from the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), broke up a peaceful assembly of more than 50,000 people on the Ram Lila grounds in New Delhi. The gathering was part of the “satyagraha” against corruption and money laundering launched by Swami Ramdev, a “Sanyasi” and Yoga guru, who is based at the Patanjali Yogpeeth Ashram in Haridwar in the Uttranchal state of India.

In April 2011 a “fast-unto-death” by social activist Anna Hazare, as part of a campaign to organize support for the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill or Citizen’s Ombudsman Legislation, had attracted widespread media attention and provided an indicator of the broad discontent brewing in India around issues of corruption.

Anti-Corruption Campaign

Mr. Ramdev, whose early morning Yoga sessions routinely attract tens of thousands of attendees in towns and villages across India, announced his decision to undertake a hunger strike in New Delhi from June 4 in order to pressure the government to take concrete steps on the question of black money.

Thomas Friedman is a Pompous Fool

I don’t usually read Thomas Friedman’s editorials in the NYTimes. As the title says I don’t have a great deal of faith in his intellect. Its not that he is not smart. I’m sure he’s summa cum laude from Harvard or some such place where they give degrees in Latin and he obviously knows a great deal. The problem I have is with his understanding, or rather the lack of it, of world history and human behavior. On any given day I’m happy to let his editorials slip by into the pages of innocent readers, hoping that the sensible folk also see through the nonsense within. But this time its different. Because Thomas Friedman is advocating conflict and I hate war-mongering.

I’m referring to this piece in Times dated Dec. 14, 2010. He begins with these words:

… When Britain went into decline as the globe’s stabilizing power, America was right there, ready to pick up the role. Even with all our imperfections and mistakes, the world has been a better place for it. If America goes weak, though, and cannot project power the way it has, your kids won’t just grow up in a different America. They will grow up in a different world. You will not like who picks up the pieces. Just glance at a few recent headlines.