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2024 / April / 16
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International News
Most international news is focused on
the Ukrainian-Israeli-Iranian conflict. We just give the
stage here to ultra-liberalist Javier Milei of
Argentina, to have this news truly globe-spanning. The
world needs more Mileis. Here his tweet just before the
elections:
"Javier Milei illustrates which
Ministries will be REMOVED for good when he assumes as
PRESIDENT" (Milei in English)
Ukraine/Israel/Iran
(geopolitics)
The main event this week was the
bombing of Israel by Iran. On the 1st of April
Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus,
and this is a red line that nobody should ever
cross. In fact, it has never happened in history.
The diplomatic outposts are the most sacred points
in diplomatic relations all over the world. Even
with your most hostile enemy you keep a post, or
throw them out if you do not like them. But you
never ever attack the diplomatic post. It is the
highest sin in international relations, carpet
bombing a minor misdemeanor in comparison.
Iran therefore had full moral right to retaliate. And that is what they did. Referring to the rules-based game of international relations, they mentioned Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, and attacked Israel in a meticulously executed strike. So well thought that the targets were all hit, while nobody got killed. These targets were mainly the military bases from which Israel had launched it attack on Iran.
It is remarkable that none of mainstream media picked up on this right of Iran of self defense, there where they were all over the place when Russia started its military operation and immediately (mis)labeled it "full scale invasion" (it was neither full scale, nor an invasion). Somehow they distorted the narrative that Israel is the victim. After having called Iran a rogue state for so many years,
they started believing that all 80 million Iranian people are indeed terrorists and attacking terrorists is fully allowed. So they did, thinking they were the heroes in the situation by abandoning the rules-based-game, while having stated for years how important it is for everybody to stick to the Rules. Yet, rules are for others, not for them. So it seems.
In a concerted effort, Iran launched hundreds of drones, rockets and ballistic missiles. The latter are the fastest (get an initial propulsion, leave the atmosphere and travel at high velocity, at reentry they are supersonic). Launched in such a pattern that they all arrived at the same time at the targets. The defense of Israel, even with the help of the entire West, was overwhelmed. The slow-drones were easily picked off, but the fast ones traveled unhindered and reached the targets.
Immediately the response was "it was just a scratch", reminding us of the Black Knight of Monty Python's Holy Grail. Even claiming that 100% of the missiles were destroyed. Fake news. As Simplicius The Thinker well described
"Iran Breaches
Anglo-Zionist Defenses in Historic Attack: A
Breakdown (Simplicius at Substack)
Of which this image showing what was hit (all the rest was diversion):
Simplicius also shows how the air defense is fully useless against the missiles. I cannot link it here, but look for the video below the text "watch as Iranian ballistics crash through the AD net totally unopposed at high speed, slamming into the ground"
Here the footage supplied by the Iranian government:
None of the miracle weapons seems to do anything. Even Iran has overtaken the US in terms of technological advance.
The biggest damage was done in financial terms. The fully-incapable defense of Israel and the west spent 1 billion euros on a failed defense. We must conclude that the defense system of the West is a paper tiger. The Second and Third World has not been sitting still in the last years. Where the west sees the military industry as a profit-raking racket, other countries see it as a way to defend a their country.
Russia finally stood up to bullying and intimidation and stopped the advance of the NATO dead in its tracks at the Ukrainian border. Iran has stopped Israeli aggression in the middle east dead in its track. We are no longer living in a uni-polar world, with the world in fear gyrating around the Israeli-US pole. The world no longer agrees to the US_hegemony. To give a random example, here is a random Indian (?) channel discussing geopolitics:
Joe Biden rapidly blaming everything on Trump. Absurd. To give a resume of the geo-political successes of Biden after three years in power. He
- screwed up Afghanistan
- screwed up in Ukraine
- screwed up in Palestine
and now
- screwed up in the entire Middle East
Yet, still, everything's cool. Alex Christoforou summed it up very nicely:
Yet, we do feel a little strange. What about Ukraine?!!! Our pet actor and CIA-puppet in Kiev is pouting that attention is drawn away from his war racket.He has a point. As Lord Bebo said
Let's face it. The entire west was helping to defend Israel against incoming missiles. Not a single NATO plane is helping the regime in Kiev that is pummeled by incoming missiles on a daily basis.
Iran therefore had full moral right to retaliate. And that is what they did. Referring to the rules-based game of international relations, they mentioned Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, and attacked Israel in a meticulously executed strike. So well thought that the targets were all hit, while nobody got killed. These targets were mainly the military bases from which Israel had launched it attack on Iran.
It is remarkable that none of mainstream media picked up on this right of Iran of self defense, there where they were all over the place when Russia started its military operation and immediately (mis)labeled it "full scale invasion" (it was neither full scale, nor an invasion). Somehow they distorted the narrative that Israel is the victim. After having called Iran a rogue state for so many years,
they started believing that all 80 million Iranian people are indeed terrorists and attacking terrorists is fully allowed. So they did, thinking they were the heroes in the situation by abandoning the rules-based-game, while having stated for years how important it is for everybody to stick to the Rules. Yet, rules are for others, not for them. So it seems.
In a concerted effort, Iran launched hundreds of drones, rockets and ballistic missiles. The latter are the fastest (get an initial propulsion, leave the atmosphere and travel at high velocity, at reentry they are supersonic). Launched in such a pattern that they all arrived at the same time at the targets. The defense of Israel, even with the help of the entire West, was overwhelmed. The slow-drones were easily picked off, but the fast ones traveled unhindered and reached the targets.
"Iran Strikes Back At Israel |
Hundreds Of Missiles And Drones" (Military
Summary)
Immediately the response was "it was just a scratch", reminding us of the Black Knight of Monty Python's Holy Grail. Even claiming that 100% of the missiles were destroyed. Fake news. As Simplicius The Thinker well described
"Iran Breaches
Anglo-Zionist Defenses in Historic Attack: A
Breakdown (Simplicius at Substack)Of which this image showing what was hit (all the rest was diversion):
Simplicius also shows how the air defense is fully useless against the missiles. I cannot link it here, but look for the video below the text "watch as Iranian ballistics crash through the AD net totally unopposed at high speed, slamming into the ground"
Here the footage supplied by the Iranian government:
" Iran releases footage of recent
missile and drone attack on Israel" (Kanal13)
None of the miracle weapons seems to do anything. Even Iran has overtaken the US in terms of technological advance.
The biggest damage was done in financial terms. The fully-incapable defense of Israel and the west spent 1 billion euros on a failed defense. We must conclude that the defense system of the West is a paper tiger. The Second and Third World has not been sitting still in the last years. Where the west sees the military industry as a profit-raking racket, other countries see it as a way to defend a their country.
Russia finally stood up to bullying and intimidation and stopped the advance of the NATO dead in its tracks at the Ukrainian border. Iran has stopped Israeli aggression in the middle east dead in its track. We are no longer living in a uni-polar world, with the world in fear gyrating around the Israeli-US pole. The world no longer agrees to the US_hegemony. To give a random example, here is a random Indian (?) channel discussing geopolitics:
"Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous
and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad"
(BreakThrough News)
Joe Biden rapidly blaming everything on Trump. Absurd. To give a resume of the geo-political successes of Biden after three years in power. He
- screwed up Afghanistan
- screwed up in Ukraine
- screwed up in Palestine
and now
- screwed up in the entire Middle East
Yet, still, everything's cool. Alex Christoforou summed it up very nicely:
Yet, we do feel a little strange. What about Ukraine?!!! Our pet actor and CIA-puppet in Kiev is pouting that attention is drawn away from his war racket.He has a point. As Lord Bebo said
Or the man himself:
Let's face it. The entire west was helping to defend Israel against incoming missiles. Not a single NATO plane is helping the regime in Kiev that is pummeled by incoming missiles on a daily basis.
CoFlu19
The CoFlu19 pandemic seems to be
well forgotten. But some still rememebr and
press for ways to prevent from ever again
being oppressed by a pharmaceutical fascist
cabal. An example is Louisiana, who now puts
it in law that no other laws can be made other
than those by the politicians of Louisiana:
That is the way forward! Forbid jurisdiction of foreign agencies.
That is the way forward! Forbid jurisdiction of foreign agencies.
Science & Technology
The editor of EN proudly presents his
own work. One of the problems of transient spectroscopy
(transient is measuring a parameter over time) is that
if transients are not nice exponentials, your analysis
is complicated to the point that you can easily make
mistakes. The paper explains the source for
non-exponential transients and gives a suggestion how to
measure them:
And some more wisdom form the editor:
"Non-exponential transients and the
evaluation of stress in (disordered) organic thin film
transistors". P Stallinga, Synthetic Metals 306,
117603 (2024). doi: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117603
And some more wisdom form the editor:
Sport & Arts
It is still possible. In this world of
commercialized 'sports' for an outsider to win. Where we
have seen some years ago how Leicester managed to snatch
the Premier League in England, now we have Bayer
Leverkusen champion of the highly competitive German
Bundesliga. What makes it even more remarkable is that
they did so without losing a single match. All season.
In all competitions they participated (so far). They are
still in the Pokal (German cup), as well as the Europa
League. Well done!
"Bayer Leverkusen win Bundesliga for first time in 119-year history after beating Werder Bremen 5-0" (CBS)
(Political) cartoon:
(Jesse Klaver, shown right, of GroenLinks [GreenLeft] that grew out of the Communist Party [Marus Bakker, shown left] is now complaining about "Russian influence". Is it possible to be more hypocrite?)
(Jesse Klaver, shown right, of GroenLinks [GreenLeft] that grew out of the Communist Party [Marus Bakker, shown left] is now complaining about "Russian influence". Is it possible to be more hypocrite?)