It seems I've got a magic body clock that snaps back to normal by itself. For the first time in ages it's come good. It's semi-normal. Keep telling myself I must get outside and do 'things', but I don't have a desire to. I like it here looking at things, a heap more than the outdoors ... or everyday reality. LOL
Instead of doing something practical, like I was thinking I ought to maybe do for a change, I jumped straight online and looked at some news material of interest to me. But I can only handle small doses of what's going on in Europe and the media propaganda that's waged against the European public.
Snuck in a couple of cigarettes indoors with my (now) cold coffee, with window open and fan running, in hope that I can cover my 'evil doing' tracks. LOL
Trawled Google images for a while, entertaining myself as the wax pot has been plugged in for heating. Too lazy to bother plucking my untidy eyebrows that were sort of half done yesterday ... so I'm resorting to waxing. Hoping I don't clumsily wax off my eyelashes this time around, like I did last time.
At the rate I'm going, about the only practical thing I'll get done is eyebrow waxing.
Checked out what day it was.
On this day:
BLACK WEDNESDAY
1992 – Black Wednesday
British pound forced out of European Exchange Rate Mechanism
by currency speculators
forced to devalue against German mark.
months in advance of Black Wednesday
George Soros, currency market speculator / Quantum Fund
built up a huge short position in pounds sterling
aim: immense profit if the pound fell below the lower band of the ERM.
George Soros made over £1 billion in profit by short selling sterling.
£3.3 billion - loss to British taxpayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON)
1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon refugee camp
Killed: 762 to 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites
by militia associated with: Kataeb Party
Kataeb Party (Lebanese Phalanges Party)
Christian Democratic political party in Lebanon
ideology: primacy of preserving the Lebanese nation, but with a 'Phoenician' identity
versus Arab, Muslim
anticommunist and anti-Palestinian
considers Lebanese sometimes a Phoenician and sometimes a Syriac people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party
Kataeb Party / Phalanges
allies to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)
ordered by the IDF to clear out Sabra and Shatila from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters
part of the IDF manoeuvring into West Beirut
IDF received reports of some of the Phalanges atrocities in Sabra and Shatila but failed to stop them
massacre presented as retaliation for assassination
of newly elected Lebanese president Bachir Gemayel, leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party
wrongly assumed Palestinian militants had carried out the assassination
direct perpetrators of the killings reportedly
the "Young Men" / gang recruited by Elie Hobeika, a prominent figure in the Phalanges
Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces intelligence chief
+ liaison officer with Mossad
recruits: men who expelled from the Lebanese Forces for insubordination or criminal activities
killings believed to have been on Hobeika orders
Hobeika family murdered by Palestinian militia & Lebanese allies: Damour massacre 1976
Damour massacre, response to:
1976 Karantina massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims
by Christian militants
Hobeika later elected to parliament
1986 coup against Hobeika
Hobeika killed in car-bomb detonated near home, 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON)
- Up to 2,000 Palestinians killed on Sept. 16-17, 1982
- Israeli military allowed a Christian militia to attack the camp
- then-Defence Minister Ariel Sharon was forced to resign
- after special Israeli investigative panel declared him to be "personally responsible" for the massacre
NOAM CHOMSKY: Lebanese Christian terrorist force, allied with Israel. The soldiers watched as they illuminated it. They helped them enter. They watched for several days while they murdered, not 45 people, but somewhere—Israel claims 800, other analyses go up to several thousand. That’s the Sabra-Shatila massacre. The idea that Sharon had indirect—the tsar, incidentally, was bitterly condemned internationally for direct responsibility. That’s, in fact, one of the events that set off the huge flow of refugees from Eastern Europe, including my father, among others. But—so this was a kind of a replica, except far more brutal and vicious. And Sharon escaped more than a mild censure. It’s true that he was removed as defense minister, but it wasn’t long before he came back. And that’s one of a number of extremely shocking incidents in his career.
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/13/noam_chomsky_sabra_shatila_massacre_that
SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON)
Kahan commission was established by the Israeli government to investigate and found out that Israeli military personnel were involved and were aware that a massacre was in progress without taking steps to put a stop to it. And so it regarded Israel to be indirectly responsible for the massacre and held Ariel Sharon responsible for disregarding the act of massive bloodshed and not taking preventive measures. However, this did not cause any lasting damage to his image as Sharon was elected the Prime Minister of Israel in 2001.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_sabra_shatila.php
Whatever I've read about Soros, Black Wednesday and short selling, I've already forgotten. All I know is he made a heap of money speculating on currency, but I can't remember the ins and outs of it.
The Sabra and Shatilla Massacre I've read a little about before, but I've only got a sketchy idea of what happened. Might read that Global Research article carefully. I find their articles very good. The Democracy Now article also looks interesting, but not sure I'm up for all that reading just now. Brain is in slow-function mode.
In other news on this day:
Aussie TV first transmitted from Sydney TV station in 1956.
F.B.I. / B.O.I.
WALL STREET BOMBING 1920
1920 – The Wall Street bombing:
Killed more than:
1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times
then the deadliest act of terrorism on US soil
bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building
New York City killing 38 (injuring 400)
45 kg dynamite + 230 kg cast iron sash weights, timer-set detonation
trading at New York Stock Exchange suspended
to prevent panic selling
Justice Dept. forerunner of FBI, the BOI (Bureau of Investigation) - investigates
investigations focus on:
Bolsheviks, anarchists, communists, or militant socialists
The Washington Post refers to bombing as an "act of war"
stimulated renewed efforts by police and federal investigators
to surveil activities and movements of foreign radicals
led to an expanded role for the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation
including the General Intelligence Division of the BOI headed by J. Edgar Hoover
looks as though there is only speculation as to who committed the Wall Street bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
Wonder if the 1920 Wall Street bombing was an American capitalist agent insider job, aimed at expanding the surveillance and political police control of ruling American capitalists?
I'm never going to take all of this in. After I read the Global Research article, I think I'll need a break and some playing with images, for relief. LOL
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