Why Are Arab Regimes So Impotent in the Face of Zionist Barbarism?

As I write this in late February 2024 CE (mid-Sha‘ban 1445 Hijri) the official number of Palestinians murdered by zionist aggression in the al-Aqsa Storm war has risen to nearly 30,000. The real number is considerably higher, since many victims are still buried beneath layers of rubble. Nearly 70,000 have been injured. Most of those killed and maimed have been women and children.

The martyrs dispatched quickly to paradise are luckier than the survivors, who are forced to endure almost unimaginable horrors. The zionists have blockaded food in a deliberate attempt to slowly starve Gazans to death. Social media videos abound showing crying mothers unable to find so much as a crumb for their famished children. Surviving families, many of whom have lost loved ones, lack housing, heat, and warm clothing in the midst of the cold, rainy winter.

The demonic zionists have deliberately bombed water, sewage, electrical, fuel, and health care infrastructure. They have destroyed the majority of Gaza’s housing, in an effort to mass-murder Gazans and expel the survivors. The destruction of Palestinian homes and life support has forced 1.4 million people to take shelter in Rafah on the Egyptian border. Now the zionists are intensifying their bombing of Rafah in the latest episode of their “final solution to the Palestinian problem.”

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The answer is simple.

The Arab countries which supported the Palestinians – Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen – were destroyed by “regime change” wars.

Russia, the traditional patron of those countries, is now bogged down in a tragic fratricidal war engineered by the CIA.

The powers which formerly deterred Israeli aggression are diminished, and so the Israelis are finally free to do what they’ve always wanted to do.

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Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight — Keren Arbel

“Bhikkhus, just as the river Ganges slants, slopes, and inclines towards the east, similarly, a bhikkhu, who develops and cultivates the four jhanas slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbana.” [SN V.308]

“There is no jhana for the one without liberating wisdom, no liberating wisdom for the one without jhana; the one who has jhana and liberating wisdom he indeed is in the presence of nibbana.” [Dhammapada v.372]

These citations from the early Buddhist texts in Pali (i.e., the suttas), and many others in these inspiring texts, captured my curiosity from the first time I heard about the jhanas from my Dhamma teachers and from books I have read on Buddhist meditation. The references to these four specific psych-somatic states, which the Buddha called “the four jhanas”, and the frequentness in which they appear in the path taught by the Buddha, awakened a deep interest in me, first as a practitioner of vipassana meditation, and later on, as a scholar.

I assume that anyone who heard about the jhanas in most traditional Theravada practice environments heard that these states are not necessary for insight and awakening. However, anyone who read the suttas, quickly realize, that these four states, appear repeatedly in the Buddha’s descriptions of the path to liberation. Reading the suttas over many years I have found many passages in which the Buddha refers to the four jhanas as intrinsic and essential to the development of liberating wisdom and awakening.

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I very much like and approve of Arbel’s conclusion to this fine essay:

Thus, I would conclude that the four jhanas should not be conceived as a meditative technique at all. They are not concentration exercises that one can choose to practice as a basis for vipassana meditation; rather, they are the actualization and embodiment of the deepening of insight and non-clinging. Thus, the fourth jhana – as the culmination of this meditative process – is the optimal experiential event for the utter de-conditioning of unwholesome tendencies and for transforming deep epistemological structures. It anticipates an awakened awareness for an un-awakened practitioner, and therefore, it is the threshold of awakening.

Problem, Reaction, Solution simplified, fake-afied, and chronologically mixed up

Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the ‘Smart Wall’ — Whitney Webb

NOTICE: Icke is referring to the X-embedded video above. That short snippet is from a longer video from seven years ago when Trump was speaking about a system for controlling foreign visa holders and illegals.

All of that being said and understood, consider also that it is irrational to believe anyone can stop the advance of technology, including surveillance technology. It is equally irrational to presume that we the people can stop the application of this technology or that we live in a system designed to ever consider our well-being, let alone the will of a small minority who can see what is happening with surveillance technology. Please read my comments on Webb’s piece here for more on this.

At the risk of exploding people’s heads, I am gonna say this: there are conceivable advantages to more surveillance, particularly in greatly reducing street crime (assuming police are charged with following up and courts apply the law). Yes, of course, there are terrible things to be concerned about but there is no way to stop the tech, just as there is no way to successfully ‘outlaw’ bioweapons or space weapons or violating treaties that pretend they are doing that. We live in a world controlled by elites who are fighting savagely among themselves. The best we can realistically hope for is that the best elites (for us) win. Right now, Trump, Musk, Carlson and others look much better to me that Biden, Zuckerberg, Maddow and their ilk. I am 100% in favor of Webb and Icke and others writing as they do, but let’s not allow their dark visions to keep us from seeing the even deeper reality—elites always rule, some elites are better than others. ABN

Xi Van Fleet describes totalitarianism

UPDATE: Xi provides a crystal clear description of the rise of communism in China and totalitarian parallels in today’s USA & West. Everybody should fully understand what Xi is saying, which is that a savage elite is vying for total control of everything, total power over everyone. Their ideologies are entirely bogus and so is their ‘science’ and all of their rationales. The people in top power positions today are psychopaths who do nothing but lie and kill in their quest for world domination. There is some chance we can slow them down or even replace them with a more beneficent elite. Even if you are well versed in recent Chinese history, Xi’s account is well-worth viewing. She is a master at putting things simply and never dodging the question. ABN

Two mind-control closet elites discuss a third while pretending they are for freedom of speech

Plus the ass-kissing of Musk is them demonstrating the art of ass-kissing whichever ass they need to kiss. That’s how you do it, folks, giggle and kiss that ass while slobbering over how good it tastes. I don’t trust any of these three but Musk is maybe the best of them. Sadly, seems the VF is on the closet team now, too. Sudden rise to fame and prominence rewards bold toadies and mind-control pre-plants. Which is why sites like this one are and will continue to be the only ones trading in real information. ABN

Why Russia fought a long war in Ukraine

Ever since mid-2022 the Russians have consciously pursued a “long war” strategy in Ukraine, seeking to grind down the AFU and exhaust NATO’s ability to fuel the war while building their own capabilities. It has largely succeeded.

But…

Why did the Russians think it would work?

It’s easy to see now, two years into the war, that Western war stocks were shallow and Western military industry was a rusted-out shadow of its former self and would be unable to gear up to supply the Ukrainian military regardless of the amount of money NATO was willing to push in.  Rather than translating into a mountain of steel on the battlefield, Western riches have only made each shell cost a mountain of cash.  But exactly none of this was obvious two years ago, even to NATO – in fact to this day there are bewildered NATO leaders still using the enormous disparity in GDP  as a talking point in their favor.

Despite this the Russians deliberately set out to fight an industrial war against the combined might of the West.  Now one could argue they simply weren’t able to win a short war and got lucky, but that isn’t a serious position.  The Russians had ample means to try for a quick win in 2022 and they chose not to use them, clearly seeing a long war as a surer bet.  Rather, luck in war is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and that is exactly what happened here.

It’s something of an article of faith in the modern West that the Russian intelligence services are feeble, with little ability to penetrate Western governments or operate effectively in the public space – their frequent use as scapegoats for the failures of Western liberals notwithstanding!  Certainly the threat of Chinese infiltration is taken far more seriously in the US, at least in public.

And yet here the Russian government – in 2022 – clearly understood NATO’s military-industrial capabilities far better than NATO itself did, to such a high degree of confidence that someone as risk-averse as Vladimir Putin would stake war strategy and to a very real extent the survival of the Russian state on that analysis.

This strongly suggests that rather than being something to be dismissed, Russian intelligence-gathering and analytical capability is now in fact as good as it ever was during the Cold War.  The legendary KGB seems to be back in business – and perhaps their greatest coup of all has been to convince us otherwise.

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The Vladimir Putin Interview — Tucker Carlson

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UPDATE: Very good interview. Everybody should watch it. Putin clearly explains Russia’s position, something every well-informed person in the world should already know. I’ve said it before and will say it again: The US/NATO/ neocon/ European failure to form a deep, lasting, and mutually beneficial alliance with Russia after 1991 (and before) is the most serious foreign policy mistake in world history. ABN