Planet Tokyo: 16th September

Planet Tokyo 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 SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON) Ariel Sharon and the Horrors of the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre http://www.globalresearch.ca/ariel-sharon-and-the-horrors-of-the-sabra-and-shatilla-massacre/5364681 LINK Post / Comment re Article 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