Jerusalem's hard-fought liberation, now in process, is a recapitulation of the Christian Crusades of the 11th—13th cc, this time, not by the knight on a white horse of legend, but through the long march of guerilla warfare by the much maligned Shia. This follows on the liberation of Iran from its Judeo-Christian yoke in 1979 and Iraq 25 years later, ironically by the US, forming the second Shia majority state. But it is the Shia minority of Lebanon that holds the keys to Jerusalem. Their 40% of the Lebanese population punches well above their weight in a fractious country split among Christians, and Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Man is certainly not born, but made man. (Erasmus)

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. (Mark Twain)

Fixation exists across all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to behavior, and therefore constitutes a fundamental variable in all life. Fixations are an obsessive preoccupation with a single idea, impulse, or aim which interferes with normal behavior. In Freud, the id attaches to an object, leading to fetishism.

It is fundamental to human society; before capitalism as religious rituals, in our secular age, culminating in commodity fetishism, a fixation essential to capitalism, an economy defined by consumption. Where advertising is a form of behavioral conditioning, everybody will be perfectly pacified as long as their needs and wants are conflated in their own minds. No strife, no angst.

The most fundamental fixation of all is the male-female mutual sexual fixation,

The good guys lost the Cold War

1917, 1947, 1991: Three strikes – Imperialism is out!

So why, really, really, did the Soviet Union collapse?

Review Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Broken Dreams

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. No!

Well then, don your bicycle helmet. No! Drivers actually pay less attention to you if they see a helmet, figuring they're not likely to kill a smarty-pants, and are less careful around you (2x as likely to pass close). A toque or baseball cap in case of rain is more practical.

Netanyahu goes to court but hostages still dying.

http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131979

Macron schmoozes with Trump at Notre Dame but shafts France's own Trumpian.

http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131867