The Terrorist Attack in Nice, France

Correct. You are right on here. I have been keeping up with this all and have been to Russia and studied the language as well. It's a fascinating culture but there is many more reasons why the West fears it. Putin claims, for example, that they have video footage from a successful spy operation that proves the 9-11 was a government controlled event and they are threatening to release this as well as other info they have obtained from their satellites etc. As well, the former USSR was paramount in its scientific discoveries regarding healing technolgies that could render much of the medical and pharmaceutical industry as we know it completely null and void. It is quite the interesting unfolding saga. Also the Brexit thing seems to be a power play by the monarchy to tie the UK to the Chinese Yuan so that London can jump onto the next big thing which is the rise of the Chinese Empire which will soon be the next great super power dwarfing us all. Better start learning Mandarin everyone!

I agree. That's why i'm not really talking about this specifically. I would call any form of harm to others a terrorist attack but you're right indeed to point out that this may have absolutely no political ties and simply a crazed mentall ill individual who just had a little too much petrol poured onto his burner. Very sad. I would like to emphasize that as we discuss these arcane political things that we should keep all of those innocent victims and the friends and families of those who lost their lives for know reasons deep in our hearts and not forget the main focus of our discussion. For me, it's just not difficult to pinpoint even the mental health of petty criminals to the decisions being made at the highest of world order levels. It is connected even if it seems random

Blaming it on American Imperialism is cute, perhaps even valid but the root causes are way more complicated that just flippant commentary and conspiracy theories. History books are meant to be read, or else repeated catastrophes will occur.   

What a Grand Delusion, Neo. I am hoping the next blue pill you take is a Thorazine to help control your seizures. Although your ability to connect dots and detect patterns would make John Nash blush, and is certainly entertaining (in a gawking at a car crash sort of way), the sort of conspiracy you are suggesting has so many moving parts and so many confidences and so many harmonious and equitable working relationships between dramatically disparate groups over such a long period of time that it defies human nature utterly.

Occam's Razor, however, would suggest a more elegant and simple solution: religious fundamentalism that incorporates both governmental and judicial law, and an all-encompassing cultural matrix that has never left the Middle Ages. In a historical context, the popes of the early medieval period, culminating in the reign of Innocent III, almost achieved the sort of all-encompassing cultural, religious and political matrix that fundamentalist Muslims are still attempting a thousand years past the period when something like that would actually work.

Rather than who, it's a what.  It's the oil.  I feel there is a correlation between shale gas coming on the market and leading to the collapse of crude oil - which was really intended to bleed Russia to death - and the Saudi retaliation.  They have really ramped up the violence because they sense they are going to run out of money.  They cannot afford to play the waiting game anymore.  Hence the difference between the modus operandi of the sly, sneaky Al Qaeda and the grandiose Caliphate of the IS.  It's a war cry to mobilise Muslims on their side and the invoking of Jihad is intended to coerce them into complying.  So coming to Jihad..

I do not know if the Rothschilds were around or involved in the Third Battle of Panipat.  Anyway, the Afghan emperor Ahmed Shah Abdali invoked Jihad to get Sujad-ud-Daula, a Maratha ally, on his side.  That, among other things, tipped the scales in his favour in a battle he won.  So Jihad is practically as old as Muslim civilization.  Now, mind I have serious reservations or should I say criticisms regarding the way the Western powers have handled the Gulf in the post war years.  I dare not speak about the creation of Israel in particular which is endlessly justified whereas the mere uprooting of a mosque in India invited severe condemnation from international human rights agencies.  I am not justifying the latter, just pointing out the hypocrisy in this.  But for all that, we cannot say the Muslim tiger's stripes were only painted over on their hide by an international conspiracy.  There is a fundamentalist strain in their religion.  To be fair, there is in most if not all religions but it is particularly militant today in Islam compared to other religions.  A good friend of mine, a Muslim and a peaceful one at that, said an eye for an eye may make the world blind but it would also make it equal .  I had to completely part ways on that one.  

As I see it, most Western civilians seem to wish for peace even as their govts seem to be hell bent on following the exact opposite course and creating weird-ass justifications for it so that they may continue to occupy the moral high ground.  In contrast, there is more 'unity' and 'alignment' between the people and the rulers in the Islamic world.  Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing I can't tell.  We can only watch from the sidelines (and get mercilessly dragged into the conflict from time to time) as the centuries old clash of civilisations continues to this day, albeit in different hues.