Internet Wasta

'Wasta' is an Arabic word - well, in fact it is a modern idiomatic expression in the Middle East from an Arabic root word 'Wasitah.' ...And it means 'the middle part that makes the connections.' It could be employed as meaning 'entrepreneur,' but I'm afraid in the ME vernacular it more has the meaning of 'unseen connections,' and it therefore implies corruption.

At the same time though, when the sun is beating down hot overhead, 'corruption' as it would be seen in the holier-than-thou West (lol), might be the difference between having enough water to live, or not enough so that you will most certainly die.

There is this tendency in the Western media to impute evil intentions whenever they are even vaguely possible, in order to secure the media its audience - the members of which are all highly motivated to see and to read anything of a lurid nature.

At no time at all is the mass of the public interested in the actual truth.

And so it's fascinating for us here to observe the ducks slowly disappearing off the pond quietly, and certainly the media is not telling whether this is simply due to the hand of a human wader pulling the legs of the birds, or if there is some other, bigger creature down in there underneath the surface somewhere - I suppose when you see one of the human 'duck-pullers' go down you are entitled to suspect that there might be creatures other than the usual ones around.

The two Koch brothers who dominate that family and who have been the biggest backers of the Republicans over recent decades have just this week announced they are leaving the stage as far as political influencing is concerned, and even that one of them is retiring from the boards of their main corporate entities.

Today's Koch family's father was an inventor of one of the most important thermal cracking processes for petroleum manufacture, and he originally sold the process to the Soviets but Fred C. Koch ended up despising the Soviets because of their brutality towards their citizens and he was personally moved by the fact that all of his own Russian engineers were murdered by Stalin for all kinds of false charges.

It was extraordinarily easy for the Londonistani MI6 strategists to manipulate David and Charles Koch into running with this insane 'Russia is bad/Russia did everything bad' nonsense.

But the Kochs are now gone.

Cui bono... And that was not a question.