{"id":176185,"date":"2021-01-04T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=176185"},"modified":"2021-01-02T04:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:58:23","slug":"chaos-or-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/chaos-or-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos or Happy New Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Trump\u2019s Exit: Be Prepared for Chaos Including a US\/Israel False Flag Iran Attack<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the midst of the global Covid pandemic, one thing which unites the US Congress is an increasing War Budget. Meanwhile, an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-submarine-reportedly-crosses-suez-canal-in-message-to-iran\/\" >Israeli submarine, possibly carrying nuclear weapons, has crossed the Suez canal<\/a> and headed for the Persian Gulf in a show of force to Iran.\u00a0 In a similar move, the US nuclear submarine, USS Georgia which can carry 154 Tomahawk missiles and 66 Special forces crossed the Strait of Hormuz (Iran\u2019s front door). The US submarine was escorted by two cruisers, the USS Port Royal and the USS Philippine Sea.\u00a0 Jan. 3<sup>\u00a0 <\/sup>will mark the 1-year anniversary of the US assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.\u00a0 On Nov. 27, 2020 the assassination of Iran\u2019s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is widely attributed to Israel.\u00a0 Any further conflict with Iran could escalate quickly into a global nuclear war possibly involving Russia and\/or China.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/israel-iran-us-military-bases-map.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/israel-iran-us-military-bases-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/israel-iran-us-military-bases-map.png 729w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/israel-iran-us-military-bases-map-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>An <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/456268\/Arrival-of-Israeli-submarine-in-Persian-Gulf-act-of-aggression\" >Iranian official said<\/a> that <em>\u201cIsrael is looking for excuses to drag the region into a tension that creates chaos in the last days of the Trump presidency,\u201d<\/em> the official told Aljazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the world <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/opinion\/3227-u-s-is-greatest-threat-to-world-peace\" >sees the US and Israel as the greatest<\/a> threats to peace on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if Iranian, Russian, or Chinese warships were in the Gulf of Mexico!<\/p>\n<p>Who is Threatening Who?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02460-9\" >Redirect military spending<\/a> to tackle climate change and the Covid pandemic!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jan. 8, 2021 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet \u2013 week 1006 \u2013 Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Jim-Albertini-taro.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Jim-Albertini-taro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Jim Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, a former Catholic School teacher, and long-time social justice activist since the US war on Vietnam. He has done research on the use of depleted uranium at Pohakuloa Military Training Area and is the author of <\/em>\u201cThe Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai\u2019i in a Nuclear World.\u201d<em> Jim is the founder and director of\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<\/a>, <em>a spiritual community based on peace, justice and sustainable organic farming on Big Island, Hawai\u2019i &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Ola\u2019a (Kurtistown), Hawai&#8217;i 96760. <\/em><em>Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org<\/a><\/em><em> &#8211; website: <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\" >malu-aina.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/malu-aina.org\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Dec 2020 &#8211; In the midst of the Covid pandemic, one thing which unites the US Congress is an increasing War Budget. Meanwhile, an Israeli submarine, possibly carrying nuclear weapons, has crossed the Suez canal and headed for the Persian Gulf in a show of force to Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":176186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[867,1284,1126,1050,742,88,112,249,1765,70,481],"class_list":["post-176185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anglo-america","tag-false-flag","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-pentagon","tag-trump","tag-us-congress","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}