the empire just upped the game in iraq and the whirlwind may be its product. it seems every day the empire must prove how stupid it is and with their latest acts in iraq, they've put themselves clearly on that road;

The US had been using its position in Iraq and Syria to allow Israel kill Iraqi servicemen since July

As the Trump administration would have it history began yesterday. On December 27 A rocket salvo struck a US base near Kirkuk killing a US contractor and wounding four US soldiers, as well as, according to the Americans, two Iraqi soldiers.

So two days later the US — deducing that the attack must have come from the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary that right now hates the Americans’ guts the most — bombed five Kataib facilities on the Iraq-Syrian border, ie nowhere near Kirkuk, killing 25 and wounding 55 Kataib paramilitaries that almost certainly had nothing to do with the Kirkuk base attack themselves.

So according to the Americans albeit their airstrikes, against an outfit that is formally part of Iraq’s official security forces, may have technically violated Iraqi sovereignty that is a technicality since the paramilitary is a proxy for Iran, and in any case these Iranian proxies started it by killing an American first in attacks on guests of the Iraqi government.

Americans also suppose that since they have been granted basing rights in Iraq and the right to act militarily (against ISIS) on Iraq’s territory that comes with the right to defend themselves.

Americans also emphasize the attack allegedly by Kataib also wounded two Iraqi soldiers.

So the American telling is something like ‘Iranian proxies are attacking us who are guests of the Iraqi government and hurting Iraqi servicemen in the process, so we bombed them to defend ourselves and teach them a lesson.’......https://www.checkpointasia.net/americas-new-war-lets-not-pretend-that-iraqi-paramilitaries-drew-first-blood/

in this essay pcr highlights just a bit of the foolishness we face here in the empire;

There is a hunger for truth and a rising cost of expressing it.  The New Year will give an indication whether truth is making a comeback or is continuing to lose ground to controlled explanations.  

Democracy cannot function without an honest and indepencent media, and no such media exists anywhere in the Western World. Instead, the Western media functions as an enforcer of the explanations that serve the interest of the ruling elites.  Everyone who challenges the lies— whether they are American, Canadian, Australian, British, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Jewish, gentile, black, white, Hispanic, Muslim, or Asian—that rule us is branded a “conspiracy theorist,” a “white supremacist,”  an “uncle Tom,” an “anti-semite,” a “holocaust denier,” a “self-hating Jew,” and a variety of other derogatory labels.

Given the weakness of character of so many present day Western people, the establishment’s name-calling is effective in scaring people away from truth-tellers.  This makes it difficult for truth to spread.

Without truth there is no freedom, no liberty, no accountability of government to the people in the Western democracies.  Indeed, there are no real democracies.  The Western “democracies” are just Potemkin villages.

Restoring what has been lost is the most difficult of all tasks.  The Greeks failed at it.  The Romans failed at it.  It seems too that we are failing at it.  Consider the controlled media’s multi-year campaign against Donald Trump. When Russiagate was exposed as a hoax, the presstitutes did not apologize for misleading the peoples of the world for years.  Instead, the presstitutes launched into impeach-gate.  Allegedly Trump threatened the Ukranian president with withholding of US funds unless the Ukrainian investigation, which was closed down by Vice President Biden, was reopened.  No evidence of this accusation against Trump has been found, and the President of Ukraine denies it.  .......https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/01/02/the-year-before-us/

there are landmark acts of stupidity that the empire stumbles upon every once in a while that bring blowback we don't imagine at the time, and this may be one of those;

"People will disagree about the wisdom of this action or its eventual consequences.".  World Jewry is so thrilled about this they can't even bring themselves to note that there is no possible wisdom to this except for the Likudniks.  Killing Soleimani has long been one of the Israeli obsessions, and thus, in the wisdom of the hive, has become the obsession of World Jewry.

We're reached the point where the Israelis are using Bibi's situation to get whatever they want.  Bibi flails around trying to keep out of jail, he phones his pal Sheldon in a panic, Sheldon waives the Epstein blackmail material in front of Trump, Trump does something stupid to relieve the pressure, and suddenly we're on the brink of WWIII.  By putting pressure on Bibi, always looking for 'wins' to show the Israeli public he's the only man to lead the killing and stealing of land that is the essence of Israel and its Khazar leaders, the Israeli generals end up with 100% control of Trump.

"Top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani Killed in U.S. Airstrike in Iraq".  I though we'd reached Peak ZOG, but the targeted assassination of General Soleimani is a new low for the Americans.  Americans - probably quite a few - are going to die because of this, and breaking the taboo on killing high-level leaders means that even Americans leaders are potential targets.....https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/four-rockets-hit-military-base-near-baghdad-airport-report-says-1.8350357

two hour and twenty minute video: the report from iron mountain. have only just got into the beginning and will have to schedule time to see it and probably download it to the hd. i suspect you'll want to;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW3spkkX0ro&feature=youtu.be

got about a third of this pasted here, and it spells it all out in the face between the true believers and those of us who know the tv and schools lie;

Crazy, stupid conspiracy theorists believe a mature worldview requires skepticism toward power.

Smart upstanding citizens believe the government is your friend, and the media are its helpers.

Crazy, stupid conspiracy theorists believe that powerful people sometimes make immoral plans in secret.

Smart upstanding citizens believe the TV always tells the truth and the CIA exists for no reason.

Crazy, stupid conspiracy theorists believe that extreme government secrecy makes it necessary to discuss possible theories about what might be going on behind that veil of opacity.

Smart upstanding citizens believe that just because a world-dominating government with the most powerful military in the history of civilization has no transparency and zero accountability to the public, that doesn’t mean you’ve got to get all paranoid about it.

Crazy, stupid conspiracy theorists believe it’s okay to ask questions about important events that happen in the world, even if their government tells them they shouldn’t.

Smart upstanding citizens believe everything they need to know about reality comes out of Mike Pompeo’s angelic mouth.

Crazy, stupid conspiracy theorists believe the very rich sometimes engage in nefarious behavior to expand their wealth and power.

Smart upstanding citizens believe billionaires always conduct themselves with the same values that got them their billions in the first place: honesty, morality, and generosity........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/02/what-upstanding-citizens-believe-vs-what-crazy-conspiracy-theorists-believe/

here's your basic civics course in two images;

confessions of an economic hitman;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWuAct1BxHU