And her predecessor at her post was murdered in a car bomb attack five months ago in Iraq.
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/188937-experiodista-bbc-ahorcar-aeropuerto-turquia-investigacion
“La extrabajadora de la BBC era la jefa interina de la sección iraquí del Instituto para la Guerra y la Paz (IWPR por sus siglas en inglés), con sede en Londres. Su muerte llega tan solo cinco meses después de que su predecesor en el puesto, Ammar Al Shahbander, fuera asesinado en un atentado con coche bomba en Bagdad”
Hmmm,a “coincidence” maybe.It could be of course.But I’d think it needs a great deal of investigating to determine that.And it seems most people just accept the authorities explanation.One of her Western reporter friends tweeted “if the Turks are saying a camera “malfunctioned” then its murder”.
I’ve just noticed Thierry Meyssan’s new article, with not time yet to read (work calls), so will have to come to it in the evening.
“The Russian army asserts its superiority in conventional warfare
by Thierry Meyssan”
“Moscow’s military intervention in Syria has not simply overturned the fortunes of war and spread panic throughout the ranks of the jihadist groups. It has also shown the rest of the world the current capacities of the Russian army in situations of real warfare. To everyone’s astonishment, it has proved to possess a system of signal jamming capable of rendering the Atlantic Alliance deaf and blind. Despite a far superior budget, the United States have just lost their military domination……”
The short version: The 26 Kalibr cruise missiles were bad enough, but much more worrying for the Pentagon are Russia’s utterly unbelievable jamming capabilities.
Within the perimeter of 300km around the Latakia airbase NATO is completely blind and can’t see anything the Russians are doing. Same goes, by the way, for the whole Black Sea area and Kaliningrad.
In other words: We won’t see a major war between the USA and Russia for at least 5-10 years. At the current state Team America is simply not up to it.
Good article.There is another on that site by Condoleezza Rice that I also read.It was the clearest example of “Alice in the Wonderland” thinking I think I’ve seen lately,simply horrendous.
re: Condie & Gate’s essay… Simply astonishing. It’s as clear an example of political psychosis as you’re likely to read, turning reality inside-out. It’s a fascinating mix of believing your own lies combined with projection on steroids. Very painful and difficult to read. The criminally insane really are running the asylum.
But Lohman, all the Exceptionalists say and do has long been a mixture of paranoia, psychopathy and projection so pathological as to be quite funny. If they really believe this garbage, they are in deep trouble. Even more amazing is the Western MSM’s complete refusal to see that the Little Emperors are not just naked, but raving mad.
Yes, “It was the clearest example of “Alice in the Wonderland” thinking”
I had been having this feeling about the US for about 5-10 years now – it seems that the “experts” are really utter complete delusional fools, people who actually believe their own b.s. when what they actually know is completely out of date or totally wrong. This is not just in the foreign policy field, it’s in many fields, including economics. I think it’s truly a sign of the Empire going into decline at a steady pace!
To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is a vile congregation of pestilent authors on Voltaire.net
Here’s another by the pompous architect of the Hegemon’s unipolar world via the Ukraine (and Georgia+Syria etc.) proxy war on Russia -‘Grand Chessboard’ Zbig:
Russia must work with, not against, America in Syria
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
I get the feeling that the psychotics in charge in the West are experiencing the same psychological unease that began to grip the Nazi elites in late 1942, as the Red Army ground the Wehrmacht into the mud in Stalingrad. I expect the Western ruling class to face their coming travails with less dignity than the Nazis managed.
It would have been a much better show if Peter Lavelle would have let Gilbert Doctorow finish what he was trying to say. Lavelle repeatedly cut Doctorow off . . . I found this quite disconcerting.
Absolutely agree. It is one thing to cut off a bloviator like that Philippe whatever (the crypto Zionist male harridan from LA) and quite another to keep cutting off an obviously extremely erudite man who has developed a coherent view and is trying to explain it clearly to Peter and his other guests and listeners and PEter keeps interrupting the fellow as he is wrapping up his sentence. WTF?. Particularly on a segment of the show where the point is not to outshout or compete, but where the three guests are having a real, intersting dialogue in which they are working off one another’s ideas an d refining them. And then Peter comes along like a bull in a china shop and SPLAT knock the Brussels guy over.
Shame on you, Peter.
Stop this rudeness. It is costing YOU. Let your guests speak when they are speaking truth. Let them finish theit sentences. Let them choreograph their dialogue to create something that is more than the sum of the parts.
Bottom line: This is very basic courtesy. We need to hear these ideas. Darn it, Peter. Just spare us the little boy shtick, OK? We love your show, but you are definitely not perfect.
Katherine
I’m sure if you asked him Peter Lavelle would want a longer show…but he’s under a real time pressure…and honestly, why is it so easy for you guys to criticize someone who’s doing something so huge in the world ?…while you and I just sit at our computers…Peter Lavelle is one of the very best.
This Cross Talk was so good I watched it twice. I was happy to see them tackle the topic of ideology. This is so necessary in an information war. It has happy and horrendous results such as the link above to the hanging of Jackie Sutton whose death must have been hell. I hope Putin’s ideology of a multi-polar world puts the isms of capitalism, communism, and all the rest to rest.
Ideology simply means the science of ideas, from idea and logos. Logos has a rich tradition best known from John’s gospel; in the beginning was the Logos, inadequately translated into Latin as verbum and English as word. It can also mean logic or a universal principle of order, much needed in our irrational and disordered world.
At Eastertime in our little church when this text is read, it has been the custom to have as many readers, in as many different languages as we could provide, speak up from where they were standing in the congregation. The boldness of John’s beginning echo of Genesis has always felt stunning. As is the boldness of this fresh ‘return’ we are hearing from the Russians – as remarked upon in above comments, enabled by the capacity to shut out those ‘ . . .shrieking voices, Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering . . .'[TS Eliot] – along with those voices’ ability to listen in – I want some of that!
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on CPR Sunday (October 18, 2015) with security analyst Mark Sleboda and journalist/broadcaster Don DeBar. Eric, Mark and Don discuss the war in Syria: shifting propaganda, US intentions, Russia’s moves, and the international significance of Moscow’s mission. They also examine how the US is responding to the changing situation in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Obama’s announcement that US troops will remain in Afghanistan. The conversation also touches on the nature of the deep state, what it actually looks like, and how it functions. All this and much more in this far-reaching conversation.
I listened to the link. Thanks. And I second Katherine’s comment above about Peter Lavelle not letting guests speak. Don DeBar here is a good contrast but he also has twice as much time.
CrossTalk: diplomacy vs. ideology. That is a false dichotomy and makes little sense as a topic of discussion but they bounced it around for awhile. What a relief to have Mr. Slovoda with his practical and passionate contributions. The US system is corrupt from the top down and those intelligent and honest people in the mid ranks of whatever bureaucracy learn to keep their own counsel. it was that same structural bias which lead the French into their 2nd Waterloo in N. Vietnam in 1953. I see the writing on the wall : H-u-b-r-i-s. The Greeks had it down pat…When man became arrogant and had no sense of the sacred, of adherence to time tested social values that work(like ordinary courtesy to a head of state i.e.Putin,) then he put into motion the mechanism of his own demise. Hitting the hospital in Kunduz–they think they can “manage” that by sending in the bulldozers to eliminate evidence and coming up with a “partial hangout” conclusion to a bogus investigation but it won’t work. Not this time. Not any more.
Russia seems to have put a good deal of its military research into defensive capabilities rather than offence or projection of force which is where the US has spent trillions.
Electronics – the likes of the SAM systems S-300/S-400/and no doubt the S-500 – it is the electronics that set them apart. At the same time this tech could be used in the likes of the cruise missiles.
The Saker’s recent article on the risks Russia was taking projecting a small force into the midst of NATO and US bases seems unlike Putin. Everything I read about him is that he does not gamble.
The USS Donald Cook. At first I did not believe the stories of its defence systems being shut down. But in the Crimea documentary Putin was asked about the incident – he laughed and said the boys were a bit naughty?? From memory I believe the ship had turned around when a shore based missile system was switched on and targeted the ship. The ship was then buzzed by two unarmed aircraft as it was leaving the area. If the ships defence system was shut down at the time they were targeted by the shore based radar, this would have been scary indeed.
Now it seems Russia has the capability to shut down NATO communications over a wide area?
The other thing is the tank defence system i have watched a number of videos now of incoming missiles detonating 2-3 meters from the tank. This include “dumb” bombs like RPGs. The official explanation is that missiles that get past the electronic and optical jamming are destroyed by an explosive projectile fired from the tank? None can be seen in slow motion video.
I think what we are seeing now is the cumulation of a huge amount of research, not just over the last 7 years or so but perhaps 30 or even 50 years of research along a line that the US have hardly touched.
An article here https://www.rt.com/news/231527-tesla-tower-drone-video/
RT’s Ruptly was allowed to take exclusive drone footage of the Marx generator, better known as the ‘Tesla Tower,’ constructed back in the 1970s by the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. The aim of the Soviet project was to have a machine to test insulation and the effects of lightning on aircraft. It was also intended to be used in the study of the weaponization of electro-magnetic pulses (EMP), as well as the effects of a nuclear or solar blast on vehicles and electronics.
If what I am thinking is right, by concentrating a lot of research on defence rather than offensive capabilities, Russia has the capability to insert a small offensive force into the midst of NATO and US with near impunity.
Peter did you see Dimitri Orlov’s article from ICH yesterday..about the ‘natural technology’ that Putin mentioned in his USGA speech ? The first part of Dimitri’s article was really good…its a long article and I didn’t make my way through it, but check it out
The Electrical Experimenter, September, 1917, page 293:
U.S. Blows Up Tesla Radio Tower
The late J. P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with the money to build this remarkable steel tower, that he might experiment in wireless even before people knew of Marconi. A complete description, revised by Dr. Tesla himself, of this unique and ultra-powerful radio plant was given in the March, 1916, issue of THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. Everyone interested in the study of high frequency currents should not fail to study that discourse as it contains the theory of how this master electrician proposed to charge this lofty antenna with thousands of kilowatts of high frequency electrical energy, then to radiate it thru the earth and run ships, factories and street cars with “wireless power.”
The five eyes diplomacy of “shirt front” Abbot and “Nazi loving” Harper must be a great relief for Russian diplomacy.
I wonder how the Ukro-Nazi’s in Canada must be feeling now their cheerleader is gone? I hope Trudeau behaves in a more becoming manner and not the US style.
Harper has already resigned…on to better things…he did his bosses’ bidding and has entered nir(d)vana Brian Mulroney another Prime Minister of Canada now sits on about 5 or more ‘boards’ of corporations…yuck….US corporations that is…
I hope Harper gets (s)hit by a bus…but that never seems to happen to the right people.
All we can expect is a little more gravitas and diplomatic back channels to replace the overt petulance and general nastiness of brittle Herr Harper’s de facto ‘theocratic’ Old Testament regime.
With Liberal MPs like Chrystia Freeland of NED fame the Liberals and Cons are, like Repubs and Dems, two sides of the same coin.
Perhaps it is too much to hope for but removal of the Reform Party component is welcome.
I doubt the foreign position regarding Israel’s dictates will change much in practice but the former immediate and unconditional prostration before Netanyahu such that Harper was essentially Israel’s foreign minister in Canada should weaken.
Harper, if not a full blown psychopath, had to suffer from a personality disorder (Narcissistic?) at the very least.
Harper was very bad for Canada and his removal gives some hope, however naiive that might sound. I actually worry if Jason Kenny though might become the Con leader -an absolute slimebag but a very smart one and far more dangerous than Harper in some ways.
Jacqueline Anne Sutton, the ex-BBC worker found hanged at Istambul airport was working for IWPR (Institure for War and Peace Reporting)
https://iwpr.net/global-voices/death-jacky-sutton-iwpr-iraq-chief
And her predecessor at her post was murdered in a car bomb attack five months ago in Iraq.
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/188937-experiodista-bbc-ahorcar-aeropuerto-turquia-investigacion
“La extrabajadora de la BBC era la jefa interina de la sección iraquí del Instituto para la Guerra y la Paz (IWPR por sus siglas en inglés), con sede en Londres. Su muerte llega tan solo cinco meses después de que su predecesor en el puesto, Ammar Al Shahbander, fuera asesinado en un atentado con coche bomba en Bagdad”
Hmmm,a “coincidence” maybe.It could be of course.But I’d think it needs a great deal of investigating to determine that.And it seems most people just accept the authorities explanation.One of her Western reporter friends tweeted “if the Turks are saying a camera “malfunctioned” then its murder”.
I’ve just noticed Thierry Meyssan’s new article, with not time yet to read (work calls), so will have to come to it in the evening.
“The Russian army asserts its superiority in conventional warfare
by Thierry Meyssan”
“Moscow’s military intervention in Syria has not simply overturned the fortunes of war and spread panic throughout the ranks of the jihadist groups. It has also shown the rest of the world the current capacities of the Russian army in situations of real warfare. To everyone’s astonishment, it has proved to possess a system of signal jamming capable of rendering the Atlantic Alliance deaf and blind. Despite a far superior budget, the United States have just lost their military domination……”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189043.html
Essential reading.
The short version: The 26 Kalibr cruise missiles were bad enough, but much more worrying for the Pentagon are Russia’s utterly unbelievable jamming capabilities.
Within the perimeter of 300km around the Latakia airbase NATO is completely blind and can’t see anything the Russians are doing. Same goes, by the way, for the whole Black Sea area and Kaliningrad.
In other words: We won’t see a major war between the USA and Russia for at least 5-10 years. At the current state Team America is simply not up to it.
Good article.There is another on that site by Condoleezza Rice that I also read.It was the clearest example of “Alice in the Wonderland” thinking I think I’ve seen lately,simply horrendous.
re: Condie & Gate’s essay… Simply astonishing. It’s as clear an example of political psychosis as you’re likely to read, turning reality inside-out. It’s a fascinating mix of believing your own lies combined with projection on steroids. Very painful and difficult to read. The criminally insane really are running the asylum.
But Lohman, all the Exceptionalists say and do has long been a mixture of paranoia, psychopathy and projection so pathological as to be quite funny. If they really believe this garbage, they are in deep trouble. Even more amazing is the Western MSM’s complete refusal to see that the Little Emperors are not just naked, but raving mad.
Yes, “It was the clearest example of “Alice in the Wonderland” thinking”
I had been having this feeling about the US for about 5-10 years now – it seems that the “experts” are really utter complete delusional fools, people who actually believe their own b.s. when what they actually know is completely out of date or totally wrong. This is not just in the foreign policy field, it’s in many fields, including economics. I think it’s truly a sign of the Empire going into decline at a steady pace!
To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is a vile congregation of pestilent authors on Voltaire.net
Here’s another by the pompous architect of the Hegemon’s unipolar world via the Ukraine (and Georgia+Syria etc.) proxy war on Russia -‘Grand Chessboard’ Zbig:
Russia must work with, not against, America in Syria
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Cease and desist, Russia”…Ha,ha,ha! As if!
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189039.html
I get the feeling that the psychotics in charge in the West are experiencing the same psychological unease that began to grip the Nazi elites in late 1942, as the Red Army ground the Wehrmacht into the mud in Stalingrad. I expect the Western ruling class to face their coming travails with less dignity than the Nazis managed.
Yes, ‘scorched earth’ policy might take on a whole new meaning.
OK, Zbig. Thanks for inspiring me to yet another Polish joke:
Q: What does it take to have the Pindos admit they support Wahhabi psychopaths?
A: Some high-ranking clown of Pshek descent urges Russia to “work with America” rather than shelling the scum.
It would have been a much better show if Peter Lavelle would have let Gilbert Doctorow finish what he was trying to say. Lavelle repeatedly cut Doctorow off . . . I found this quite disconcerting.
Absolutely agree. It is one thing to cut off a bloviator like that Philippe whatever (the crypto Zionist male harridan from LA) and quite another to keep cutting off an obviously extremely erudite man who has developed a coherent view and is trying to explain it clearly to Peter and his other guests and listeners and PEter keeps interrupting the fellow as he is wrapping up his sentence. WTF?. Particularly on a segment of the show where the point is not to outshout or compete, but where the three guests are having a real, intersting dialogue in which they are working off one another’s ideas an d refining them. And then Peter comes along like a bull in a china shop and SPLAT knock the Brussels guy over.
Shame on you, Peter.
Stop this rudeness. It is costing YOU. Let your guests speak when they are speaking truth. Let them finish theit sentences. Let them choreograph their dialogue to create something that is more than the sum of the parts.
Bottom line: This is very basic courtesy. We need to hear these ideas. Darn it, Peter. Just spare us the little boy shtick, OK? We love your show, but you are definitely not perfect.
Katherine
I’m sure if you asked him Peter Lavelle would want a longer show…but he’s under a real time pressure…and honestly, why is it so easy for you guys to criticize someone who’s doing something so huge in the world ?…while you and I just sit at our computers…Peter Lavelle is one of the very best.
This Cross Talk was so good I watched it twice. I was happy to see them tackle the topic of ideology. This is so necessary in an information war. It has happy and horrendous results such as the link above to the hanging of Jackie Sutton whose death must have been hell. I hope Putin’s ideology of a multi-polar world puts the isms of capitalism, communism, and all the rest to rest.
Ideology simply means the science of ideas, from idea and logos. Logos has a rich tradition best known from John’s gospel; in the beginning was the Logos, inadequately translated into Latin as verbum and English as word. It can also mean logic or a universal principle of order, much needed in our irrational and disordered world.
Thanks for these connections, Dennis.
At Eastertime in our little church when this text is read, it has been the custom to have as many readers, in as many different languages as we could provide, speak up from where they were standing in the congregation. The boldness of John’s beginning echo of Genesis has always felt stunning. As is the boldness of this fresh ‘return’ we are hearing from the Russians – as remarked upon in above comments, enabled by the capacity to shut out those ‘ . . .shrieking voices, Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering . . .'[TS Eliot] – along with those voices’ ability to listen in – I want some of that!
Very good program. Thanks, Saker.
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on CPR Sunday (October 18, 2015) with security analyst Mark Sleboda and journalist/broadcaster Don DeBar. Eric, Mark and Don discuss the war in Syria: shifting propaganda, US intentions, Russia’s moves, and the international significance of Moscow’s mission. They also examine how the US is responding to the changing situation in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Obama’s announcement that US troops will remain in Afghanistan. The conversation also touches on the nature of the deep state, what it actually looks like, and how it functions. All this and much more in this far-reaching conversation.
http://stopimperialism.org/russia-in-syria-us-geopolitical-countermoves-and-the-reality-of-the-deep-state/
I listened to the link. Thanks. And I second Katherine’s comment above about Peter Lavelle not letting guests speak. Don DeBar here is a good contrast but he also has twice as much time.
Eric Draitser, Mark Sleboda are on Don Debar,s show every Sunday.
http://cprnews.podbean.com
Plus a whole lot of of other interviews, news and speeches.
CrossTalk: diplomacy vs. ideology. That is a false dichotomy and makes little sense as a topic of discussion but they bounced it around for awhile. What a relief to have Mr. Slovoda with his practical and passionate contributions. The US system is corrupt from the top down and those intelligent and honest people in the mid ranks of whatever bureaucracy learn to keep their own counsel. it was that same structural bias which lead the French into their 2nd Waterloo in N. Vietnam in 1953. I see the writing on the wall : H-u-b-r-i-s. The Greeks had it down pat…When man became arrogant and had no sense of the sacred, of adherence to time tested social values that work(like ordinary courtesy to a head of state i.e.Putin,) then he put into motion the mechanism of his own demise. Hitting the hospital in Kunduz–they think they can “manage” that by sending in the bulldozers to eliminate evidence and coming up with a “partial hangout” conclusion to a bogus investigation but it won’t work. Not this time. Not any more.
Hubris and Paul Craig Roberts opinion:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/17/the-fall-of-the-unipower/
yes, that’s another great read. Let’s hope his fear about Putin’s assassination does not come to pass.
Russia seems to have put a good deal of its military research into defensive capabilities rather than offence or projection of force which is where the US has spent trillions.
Electronics – the likes of the SAM systems S-300/S-400/and no doubt the S-500 – it is the electronics that set them apart. At the same time this tech could be used in the likes of the cruise missiles.
The Saker’s recent article on the risks Russia was taking projecting a small force into the midst of NATO and US bases seems unlike Putin. Everything I read about him is that he does not gamble.
The USS Donald Cook. At first I did not believe the stories of its defence systems being shut down. But in the Crimea documentary Putin was asked about the incident – he laughed and said the boys were a bit naughty?? From memory I believe the ship had turned around when a shore based missile system was switched on and targeted the ship. The ship was then buzzed by two unarmed aircraft as it was leaving the area. If the ships defence system was shut down at the time they were targeted by the shore based radar, this would have been scary indeed.
Now it seems Russia has the capability to shut down NATO communications over a wide area?
The other thing is the tank defence system i have watched a number of videos now of incoming missiles detonating 2-3 meters from the tank. This include “dumb” bombs like RPGs. The official explanation is that missiles that get past the electronic and optical jamming are destroyed by an explosive projectile fired from the tank? None can be seen in slow motion video.
I think what we are seeing now is the cumulation of a huge amount of research, not just over the last 7 years or so but perhaps 30 or even 50 years of research along a line that the US have hardly touched.
An article here https://www.rt.com/news/231527-tesla-tower-drone-video/
RT’s Ruptly was allowed to take exclusive drone footage of the Marx generator, better known as the ‘Tesla Tower,’ constructed back in the 1970s by the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. The aim of the Soviet project was to have a machine to test insulation and the effects of lightning on aircraft. It was also intended to be used in the study of the weaponization of electro-magnetic pulses (EMP), as well as the effects of a nuclear or solar blast on vehicles and electronics.
If what I am thinking is right, by concentrating a lot of research on defence rather than offensive capabilities, Russia has the capability to insert a small offensive force into the midst of NATO and US with near impunity.
Awesome. Stunning. Encouraging. I wonder if Dr. Judy Woods is aware of this. Thanks.
Peter did you see Dimitri Orlov’s article from ICH yesterday..about the ‘natural technology’ that Putin mentioned in his USGA speech ? The first part of Dimitri’s article was really good…its a long article and I didn’t make my way through it, but check it out
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43176.htm
The Electrical Experimenter, September, 1917, page 293:
U.S. Blows Up Tesla Radio Tower
The late J. P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with the money to build this remarkable steel tower, that he might experiment in wireless even before people knew of Marconi. A complete description, revised by Dr. Tesla himself, of this unique and ultra-powerful radio plant was given in the March, 1916, issue of THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. Everyone interested in the study of high frequency currents should not fail to study that discourse as it contains the theory of how this master electrician proposed to charge this lofty antenna with thousands of kilowatts of high frequency electrical energy, then to radiate it thru the earth and run ships, factories and street cars with “wireless power.”
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1917tes.htm
Here’s a recent article by the Doctorow that is in the show today…
http://russia-insider.com/en/essay/unipolar-world-ending/ri10595
Dear The Saker,
Talking about diplomacy and styles……..
The people have spoken – goodbye Nazi loving Harper
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151020/1028787991/Harper-as-Conservative-Leader.html
The five eyes diplomacy of “shirt front” Abbot and “Nazi loving” Harper must be a great relief for Russian diplomacy.
I wonder how the Ukro-Nazi’s in Canada must be feeling now their cheerleader is gone? I hope Trudeau behaves in a more becoming manner and not the US style.
Rgds,
Veritas
Harper has already resigned…on to better things…he did his bosses’ bidding and has entered nir(d)vana Brian Mulroney another Prime Minister of Canada now sits on about 5 or more ‘boards’ of corporations…yuck….US corporations that is…
I hope Harper gets (s)hit by a bus…but that never seems to happen to the right people.
I see that Trudeau is just as much ‘Zionazi Owned Property’ as Harper. The delights of ‘demo-crazy’!!!
All we can expect is a little more gravitas and diplomatic back channels to replace the overt petulance and general nastiness of brittle Herr Harper’s de facto ‘theocratic’ Old Testament regime.
With Liberal MPs like Chrystia Freeland of NED fame the Liberals and Cons are, like Repubs and Dems, two sides of the same coin.
Perhaps it is too much to hope for but removal of the Reform Party component is welcome.
I doubt the foreign position regarding Israel’s dictates will change much in practice but the former immediate and unconditional prostration before Netanyahu such that Harper was essentially Israel’s foreign minister in Canada should weaken.
Harper, if not a full blown psychopath, had to suffer from a personality disorder (Narcissistic?) at the very least.
Harper was very bad for Canada and his removal gives some hope, however naiive that might sound. I actually worry if Jason Kenny though might become the Con leader -an absolute slimebag but a very smart one and far more dangerous than Harper in some ways.