And there was no room in the Inn-It had been reduced to Rubble
The Manger is broken too, My God! Where is the Creche of the Anointed One the wise men seek?
Photo Credit: [Munjed Jado/Al Jazeera]
Newsflash: Dateline; Christmas 2023. “All the Christian Churches in Bethlehem will not be celebrating Christmas in the usual way this year. There will be religious services and prayers but there will be no festivities and lights.
Amen to that!
The prevailing atmosphere is one of mourning and solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank who are suffering genocidal violence from the Western-backed Israeli state.
Bethlehem is the historic birthplace of Jesus whom Christians believe is the Son of God. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Christians believe the “savior of the world” was born in poverty and in a humble stable in Bethlehem, a town in what is now the Occupied Palestinian West Bank territory.
Instead of the Roman Empire, we now have the U.S. and its American-armed Israeli garrison”.(1.)
Dear Readers,
I know I am not the only one feeling mortified by what is happening in the Gaza Strip. I’m sorry, but all I could think about as I began this missive is a favorite anthem that President Trump likes to use at the start of his rallies. "God Bless the U.S.A." (also known as "Proud to Be an American"). It’s an American patriotic song written and recorded by American country music artist Lee Greenwood and is considered his signature song. It has become somewhat of a signature song of candidate Trump as well.
And while that soundtrack plays, projected on the screen on a video playing over in my mind are images of Gazans being blown to smithereens, babies being buried in the rubble of destroyed apartment buildings, machine guns tearing bodies to shreds.
Proud indeed.
Oh, but wait a minute! I got things all askew. It’s not American boots on the ground that are trudging through the battle-ravaged streets of Gaza. It’s the proud boys of the IDF. But let’s not fool ourselves. Fully 70% of the modern weaponry that Israel’s army uses is American-made. We know American-made bombs sent to Israel with no strings attached are killing the kids in Gaza.(2.)
I never thought I would be so embarrassed and ashamed to call myself an American. I used to think I would be welcome anywhere I traveled on this great, green globe, adventuring and sojourning in exotic locations. Now I’m not so sure. My U.S. citizenship could agitate some partisans in other parts of the world—probably more so than we Americans would like to admit—as the Global Majority bears witness to the killing of non-combatants in Gaza. Israel may be doing the bombing, but in many eyes, the U.S. gets the blame.
I’m from a generation that grew up convinced that America was unquestionably blessed by God. Now I’m convinced that it is only the patience of the saintly that is allowing our Republic to endure beneath the imposition of the usurper’s maniacal tyranny. I have somewhere down in the ancestral DNA passed along to me, what I like to think I inherited from my Scottish Highlander grandpappy who was a U.S. infantryman in WW-1, or perhaps my blood tie to rebellious patriots who fought against King George III, a certain cockiness that accrues to one who thinks he’s on God’s side.
That kind of U.S.-bred bravado, which some regard as chauvinism, has turned into such a trope these days. America--on a mission to spread freedom and democracy. Yeah, right. How did we let that mission get co-opted by the likes of Lackey Biden and his globalist cohorts?
The answer to that question is easily discoverable if you submit to a deep perusal of non-revisionist history that falls outside the purview of the Anglo-American-Zionist triumvirate and their paid-for myrmidons of historians that exonerate their oligarchical patrons. Fake news has its antecedents in fake history.
There are still a few countries that are enamored of the U.S.A. but I am starting to think it’s only because they remain among the uninformed. America has a few friends left, but it is finding itself increasingly isolated among fewer and fewer nations that are willing to look past its foreign policy predilection to keep its massive military-industrial complex busy and obscenely profitable arming the world and fomenting skirmishes that feed the voracity of the armaments trade.
As is now attributed to one of Reagan’s speechwriters; “America was great when America was good”.
Backing the gruesome way the Israel military assault is decimating innocent women and children who bear no resemblance whatsoever to Hamas militants, the number of nations voting on the recent, Dec. 10 U.N. Resolution calling for an immediate cessation of the bombing campaign in Gaza effectively represented 7/8ths of the world’s population. Approximately 1 billion people live within the borders of the collection of nations that voted against the General Assembly’s resolution calling for a truce in Gaza. That leaves the other 7 billion people inhabiting planet Earth who live in the 153 countries that voted in favor of calling for a ceasefire, (with only 10 against, and 23 abstaining,) outside looking aghast as the catastrophic aerial bombing wipes Palestinian neighborhoods off the map.
For the record, among the 10 countries that have abandoned any duty to save Palestinian women and children, are Britain, Israel, and the good ole U.S.A.
In case you’re wondering, the General Assembly within the United Nations can only vote on so-called non-binding resolutions. It is within the separate body called the Security Council, consisting of 15 member nations, among them; 5 have “permanent” member status (P5) that can issue enforceable resolutions with any teeth to them. The other 10 rotate on an election basis, holding membership for a term of 2 years.
“Under the UN Charter, article 27, all decisions of the Security Council on substantive issues, i.e. non-procedural, require nine affirmative votes including those of the permanent members. Consequently, if one of the permanent members votes against a resolution, it cannot be passed. This is the rule often referred to as the veto”.(3.)
The Global Oligarchical System Is Dying—Let’s Not Go Down with It*
Wait a minute:
The “veto” of a single nation enjoying P5 status within the U.N. can hold hostage by a single vote the referendum of the most ardent supporters of a humanitarian resolution moving forward, even if the balloting should stand 193-to-1. Well, sort of…
Doesn’t sound very democratic to me. It sounds very much like a holdover of the oligarchy’s capture. Ah. But that was when the U.S./U.K. ruled the world. That may well have been something we could all live with when the aristocrats cared a whit for the lower classes. Nobles oblige and all that.
But now that the technocrats, with their Malthusian overlords, have moved in among the top echelon of political elites, the non-franchised commoners pegged as mere useless emitters of carbon have some heavy lifting to do. It’s long overdue to reform the institutions that are more aligned with a green new deal that’s outlined in U.N. (climate) Agenda 30 which ultimately envisions a reduced population for saving the planet.
“We saved the planet, but we had to destroy billions of people to achieve our goals”.
Hmmm. Might as well get a head start on that program to meet the criteria. Let’s see:
· Maybe between 500,000-to-600,000 dead in the Ukraine war (not counting civilian casualties and displaced.)
· At least 18,600 (3.) Palestinians killed, not counting victims buried under rubble. Oh, and add to that the classified number of Israelis killed on and since Oct. 7.)
Not to mention the appalling, actuary numbers of increased morbidities and mortality occuring in the covid crisis years covered.
Now, with the balloons we’ve already installed on cow’s arses that help trap that nasty methane gas, we’re making good progress towards de-carbonizing the planet. Woo hoo. (Can’t wait until everyone sees the good sense in eating bugs BTW.)
But Ve can do much better people! (Spoken with a distinctly Klaus Schwabian accent.)
After a month of digesting what is happening in the 2 wars that are underway across the Atlantic, I dare to venture into a summary assessment of the latest antics that the Fincon** has tormented the world with. Before that, I was utterly focused on determining the true causes behind what the American press was telling (gaslighting) us about the Ukrainian conflict. Now with the outbreak of war in Gaza, the geopolitical underpinnings of what is afoot are so glaringly apparent to me, steeped as I am in the very LaRouchian assessment of how 500 years of empire-building has culminated in:
[T]oday’s British-inspired neoliberal system operates [ing] in a way to control the allocation of resources and investment according to “how we see fit.” Forget about national interests—"We know what’s best for you,” the oligarch will say, “and you’d better like it—poverty and all.” (Ala W.E.F.’s now notorious dictum; “You shall own nothing and be happy”.)
That was the system that failed on Oct. 7.” (4.)
That system was or should have been finally dismantled right after the Second World War. The legacy of the predatory ways honed over the centuries by the remnants of the Anglo-Dutch empire inveigled itself almost imperceptibly within the fabric of post-WW-II America. Had 4-term elected American President Franklin Roosevelt lived beyond his allotment of years, it’s well documented (5.) what he had in mind; using the economic manufacturing prowess of the victorious United States, (he wanted) to turn the engines of industry that helped win the allied wartime victory towards developing the backward, undeveloped regions of the world still under the suzerainty of the British & feudal/colonial European empires/powers.
He was determined to make obsolete the imperialist, neo-colonial vestiges of empire still prevalent in the 1940s and reassert the principles of the American System of (dirigiste-inspired) economy that saw the economic marvel of the United States reignited on the very principles that Abraham Lincoln employed to propel America into 50 years of unprecedented prosperity following the conclusion of the Civil War.
What the nation of America accomplished as a technological dynamo, President Roosevelt was hoping to spread around the world bringing the whole international community out of poverty into economic development and prosperity. And yet that storyline, though substantial and real**, has been mostly suppressed in academia today because it doesn’t conform with the political maneuvering that imperialist forces imposed through the subsequent American presidencies, beginning with the Truman presidency that acceded to power after Roosevelt’s untimely death.
That, of course, was owing to Winston Churchill and the Brits who essentially dictated to Truman how to set American foreign policy in the peacetime immediately following the surrender of the Axis powers which essentially protected British imperial interests moving into the latter half of the twentieth century.
I shall mention here, as the timing of this paper’s release is only (2 or 3) weeks since Henry Kissinger’s death (on Oct. 29) who confessed at Chatham House, (the nexus of Royalist think tank institutional edicts) on May 10, 1982, of his preference for British Imperial attitudes rather than FDR’s vision of the world, including the Roosevelt Four Freedoms, means that he would have had no real disagreement with Churchill’s well-known statement concerning Israel and Palestine: (See reference to Kissinger’s infamous National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) below.)
The shorthand of Churchill’s remarks (to the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937) is that the extirpation of Palestinians from their ancestral homelands (could be) warranted by “the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” (6.)
That’s just the briefest of looks into understanding how it was that the creation of Israel in 1948 was ushered in by British imperial interests**** which commandeered the Truman administration and the role the U.S. fulfilled in implementing policies that protected or preserved Britain’s neocolonial rule over strategically-significant, undeveloped regions of the globe.
In the same vein, that background lends us the rationale that explains the apparent lopsidedness that we witness in the methods of governance locked into the very structure of the institution we call the United Nations.
It goes on to explain the geo-strategic thinking about the oil-rich Persian Gulf and the neighboring area held by countries of the Levant.
Now what should we learn about British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, and their American sisters? Look East young man and turn your gaze to the vast, under-developed fields residing within the borders of modern-day Iran.
We see a gamified geopolitical chessboard! A royal sticky wicket I should say.
Author’s Afterword; This article is being published on the day of the Solstice—when the hours of daylight grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere. The pushback of the vast majority of people against what is occurring in Gaza is due to the increase of light in the blogosphere, alternative news, and foreign networks wherever available. The trend is unstoppable. The truth is becoming universally available to God’s people across the globe.
Now, the pacts and trade agreements forged between and among the BRICS-11 nations afford vast swatches of the globe to access alternative news and economic opportunities to challenge the heretofore unipolar hegemony of the trans-Atlanticist West.
And with a consortium of sovereign independent states rising in technological and economic prowess, inevitably, the malfeasance endemic to the Eurocentric oligarchies and empires of earlier times will finally be abandoned.
The Great Awakening involves the enlarged capacity to identify the shadowy perpetrators who are desperately attempting to salvage a bankrupt, failing empire while trying to put a human face on genocide.
Their narrative is failing as the great majority of humankind recognizes who and what is behind a planned anti-human technocracy that undermines the divinely ordained manifestation of Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards Men.
Notes:
1. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/12/07/jesus-buried-under-rubble-in-bethlehem/
2.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/09/htsr-n09.htm
3. https://www.dagdok.org/un-system/security-council/resolutions-and-vetod/
5.https://larouchepub.com/lar/2020/4707-where_fdr_was_interrupted-lar.html
6. Ibid footnote #4
7.https://larouchepub.com/other/2009/3603brit-imps_created_jabotinsky.html
*Title of a 16 Dec. article by Stewart Battle on laroucheorganization.com (See footnote #4)
**FINancial CONglomerate
*** (At least by multiple historians in the LaRouche circle)
****The Zionist state of Israel was (& is) seen as a strategic asset in protecting the crown’s vital access to the oil-rich Persian Gulf region.
Reference Follow-ups:
The IDF has one of the more advanced militaries on the planet—funded, almost exclusively, by billions of American tax dollars. The US has spent over $130 billion on supplying Israel with weapons since the country’s founding in 1948.
According to Al Jazeera, almost all of the bombs used are from the MK80 class of aerial munitions. MK80s date back to the Vietnam War and come in different sizes from 120kg (265 lb) to 1,000 kgs (2,2024lb). As of the beginning of November, Israel had dropped 25,000 tons of ammunition—about double the power of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima. (source: See footnote #2)
Kissinger historical reference:
[W]ith the completion of the infamous National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), initiated and authored by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Kissinger’s study, “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests,” was completed at the end of 1974, but remained classified until Dec. 31, 1980. The two primary tenets of the study are: 1) The West must have an uninterrupted supply of strategic minerals and vital natural resources which are deposited in large quantities in the countries in the “underdeveloped sector”; and 2) these countries must be forced to practice population reduction to ensure that these resources are not used up by the internal growth of their economies.(7.)