,Re: In case no one else saw this

[Mark Kohut]

I waited if Charlie's plist advance man, Morris, would send this but not yet.

Hundreds and hundreds of retweets and likes around the social media
world. Rivals the right-wing popular ones.

So,: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39727/paris-attacks-middle-eastern-oligarchies/

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that hard for me not to think of the slogan.
>  Sources for al--Qaeda and Isil's murderous ideology are rife and known.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 15, 2015, at 5:31 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> It's hard not to think of the post-colonialist slogan - variously sited as
> chanted, scrawled on walls - We are here because you were there.
>
> Seems like it could be an epigraph for some Pynchon book to come.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Thomas Eckhardt
>>Sent: Nov 15, 2015 5:17 PM
>>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon -l
>>Subject: ,Re: In case no one else saw this
>>
>>Am 15.11.2015 um 18:38 schrieb kelber at mindspring.com:
>>> I did see that. No mention of the Devil, porn stars or right-wing
>>> politics. But for all we know, it was the venue, not the band that was the
>>> target.
>>
>>Yes. The Bataclan had been threatened and attacked for its pro-Israel
>>events.
>>
>>"They hate us for our freedoms" is, once again, misleading at best. This
>>was not or only partly about the hedonistic West, I suggest. It was
>>mainly about France's substantial contribution to the Syria clusterfuck,
>>not to mention winning hearts and minds in Libya. I am not talking about
>>justification here, of course, merely about motive.
>>
>>The terrorists were aiming for maximum media coverage. If those with
>>tickets for the French-German friendly had managed to enter the Stade de
>>France, the body count would have been even higher and the bloodbath
>>would have been on prime time television in France and Germany.
>>
>>The attack was also surprisingly sophisticated not only in planning and
>>execution but also with regard to the political situation: It seems that
>>the passport of a Syrian refugee found on the scene has turned out to be
>>a fake. Nevertheless, it has already provided additional fodder for
>>right-wingers all over Europe opposing the admittance of refugees from
>>Syria. A small but significant false flag.
>>
>>Shit. Shit. Shit. What a week.
>>
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