NedIsakoff [he/him]

They [Iran] violated [the ceasefire], but Israel violated it too. Israel - as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when- when I say “okay, now you have 12 hours”, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel’s going out this morning, because the one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot - perhaps by mistake - that didn’t land, I’m not happy about that.

You know what, we have- we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Do you understand that?

Seeing the media uncritically report the Iranian Sleeper Cell story and people taking it at face value reminds me of something I read in Dirty Truths by Parenti about the “Libyan Hit Squads”.

"On ABC-TV evening news Frank Reynolds stated that it was “known” that Libyan agents were “in this country for the purpose of assassinating the highest officials in the U.S. government.” CBS anchor Dan Rather announced on December 4, “A squad of terrorists infiltrated the United States on a mission to kill the president and his top aides.”

“Needless to say, the nonexistent hit team(s) never materialized. It remained for TV Guide (6/12/1986) to admit, in a cover story entitled: “Why American TV Is so Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda,” that the “assassination plot” consisted of nothing but wild conjectures. TV Guide then disinformed its millions of readers by asserting that the whole incident was probable evidence of a KGB campaign to use alarmist rumors “to destabilize public opinion in the West.” Or perhaps the story was planted by Qaddafi himself, who “is no madman” but “a shrewd Bedouin” “who is sitting back and laughing over this.””

When I had a paid chess account I just used the International flag. Had some funny interactions with people thinking I was a Russian or Chinese trying to hide my identity.

filters out china

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