2016/05/10 16:00:01
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Okay, Cafe open and I would like to introduce you to a Russian friend Valery!
Is he the guy that posted this?
/counter-propaganda-russian-style/comment-page-1/#comment-235371
Not sure, but I think so. It was in response to Isabella and to my post above the one justed pasted here, which attracted Valery’s ? attention and comment “You are on to something really big!
Well my sister in Oregon will really be happy about that because it was this video from her that attracted the Russian’s response, at the end of this cryptic email from her a few days ago:
““Russian ‘back to the land’… per the brief discussion of a couple of weeks ago…. similarities and yet some profound differences..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XtRYmu2otA&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy these Russians,as this video let’s you right into their community! And Valery (or Anonymous Russian) says “This is big!” And, Dennis, Ioan, Peter Au and others, I think it provides a great sequel, along with a real Russian, who did exactly this, who has come into the Vineyard of the Saker. Welcome him!
Thanks BroAnon for the link – as usual – there are a lot of videos regarding this subject,so just have to put some order in my daily doings then watch ( and dream).Yeah,dream,because after watching this one some time ago when posted for first time,I felt myself back in my childhood on grand ma’s garden,free of any kind of pesticide,with worms in the apple – but having a real apple taste – and without washing it or even our hands,yet we were more than healthy.The summer was summer,the winter was winter – with snow and -20 – 30°C and the people were not obese.I can continue,the women were women and the men were men,when a girl and a boy get in loved and the romance was helped by the nature,the smell of green,the smell of flowers,the smell of baked bread,the evening rings of bells when the cows were coming back home through the valley,each of them knowing the way to her stall.Then watching the millions of stars and the moon,thinking to my love.That was freedom,no one thinking at war,the war was left behind.The men and women were making love and have many kids,they were to build their families,their homes.My grandpa took me to the church every Sunday,of course I was watching better the icons and the clothes of the priest rather than listening on what he said.As a child I was much closer to the angels than they could imagine,I was innocent and the near of God was to me something normal.The priest’s speech was for the adults.Why ? Only later understood that why.That child in me is still there,deep in my soul and I try to take care of him as being his father or the defender of him.I don’t want to get rid of him,why should I do that ? to lost the innocence in my soul forever ? I am he and he is me,and both we are one…But now let others to comment..OK kid,you’re right.
@ Ioan
You write very well and a lot, and I enjoy reading your stuff. However you can improve readability quite a lot, and make it a bit easier on my fading eyes, if you were kind enough to press the space bar after EVERY punctuation mark. Be a good boy and I’ll dedicate to you an encomium (brownie points if you know what that means)!
ME
Thanks , and I’m glad you enjoy it , I will try
The end justifies the means – the excuse of Capitalism and the source of the problem.
Your recent comment /china-and-russia-prepare-for-a-hot-war-with-eurangloland/comment-page-1/#comment-236398:
“How many Chinese may have taken the hard road of a few short years of such work provided by your friends at Apple to climb out of poverty? About half a billion so far.”
In summary, it is ok for rich people to treat poor people like scum to enrich themselves further. Of course the rich people (and their rich corporations) amass such wealth that they find themselves in control of their ponzi scheme Government. They can now direct all policy – including foreign policy and pick hot/cold wars at their thinktank leisure (with associated MIC profits).
Meanwhile the masses are pulled from their paddy fields and blasted with disinformation to make them think they need stuff that they never had need of before – they must now have a few crumbs (trickledown) from the Apple pie to buy the very items that they never previously needed and that their oligarch masters use as the items to ensure their continued enslavement – they have been addicted & no longer realise they would have been happier in their paddy fields.
Keep counting.
@ Anonymous
Good stuff, succinct and straight to the point! I commonly find a wall of incredulity when I try to explain that the appropriation of the surplus value by the capitalist is daylight robbery. The contemporary spin on projects for capital accumulation, be it shopping malls or factories, is the stress on the number of new jobs being created as an act of charity instead of exploitation.
ME.
please note ad hominem argument not acceptable please read previous comment on this topic. Your comment has been sent to the saker for review … mod-hs
Trump U-Turns… Russia Beware
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160510/1039369585/trump-u-turn-foreign-policy.html
I found it obvious all along that Trump (and all candidates MSM talk about) are maniacs whose primary purpose is to please everyone that brings them into the oval office. Trumps appearance at the AIPAC meeting proofed this attitude. To me, it does not matter what a candidate states in front of AIPAC, it only matters that he/she did not drop this invitation into the dustbin.
No surprise, elsi. Trump’s recent speech on foreign policy displayed a level of understanding little beyond that of the average US citizen. I suppose in a country that could take Sarah Palin seriously anything is possible. Trump met with Sheldon Adelson in December and Adelson has given Trump his support. Adelson would not do this if Trump was not open to attacking Iran. He has also been endorsed by “Rothschild spokesman” Dick Cheney. Still, people keep hoping.
Hi Jonathan, how are you?
I am not dropping much around here lately because of lack of time.
Look, Jonathan, about that you were saying about your desire of learning Ladino, It would be more easy, and pragmatic, to learn Spanish and then you will be able to understand Ladino quite well, since it sounds very much like ancient Spanish language. No problem for me understanding the lyrics in those songs provided by you in that cafe.
Related to The Donald, and after Sanders losing in New York, do you think there is still any opportunity for us?
The coming year will be horrific with The Donald planting his **s in the White House. Where to go? Where to hide?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgE-Fdb3AZs
Elsi, I’m well, I was glad to see your post. I hope your lack of time is because you are doing better things.
Regarding Trump, please don’t despair or lose hope. Even if he wins there are limits to the capabilities of the US government, whether to do good or evil. For that reason, things may not be the worst. I am hopeful that we will survive whoever wins. I’m sure the Russians will be watching and listening carefully to Trump and keep on their guard.
Regarding Bernie, his candidacy has been an amazing phenomenon. My hope is that his message will change the course of politics over the long term. He is what the Democratic party used to be, and could be again. He’s more of a New Deal Democrat and very much reminds me of Ted Kennedy. I don’t know if you are familiar with him but he was one of the last of the New Deal Democrats.
By the way, in the election I am writing in Bernie’s name on the ballot. I’ve never voted against the Democratic Presidential candidate but I won’t vote for Hillary.
In the New York election, I was amazed that Bernie won every single precinct in the state except for the large cities. So, assuming the vote was not fraudulent, this could only have been the power of the Democratic Party organization turning out the vote for Hillary. Very hard to fight that but Bernie is still resisting. He recently won in Indiana. I hope he keeps spreading his message.
Your suggestion for me to learn Spanish is good. I’ll consider this. However, I also had the motivation to help preserve the Ladino language. If I learn Spanish it will be difficult to motivate myself further. On the other hand, it’s very difficult to find anyone who teaches Ladino.
Take care.
Trump says the US has ‘gotta shoot’ at Russian planes performing barrel rolls if democracy fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ucY4pkAIjs
So much for the dreaded “we came, we saw, we killed”
And look at all the wasted breath in the meantime including “The ray of light” from Rayb (where is he now?).
It doesn’t matter who wins
It doesn’t matter w/ho wins</b
Those who make policy & share Russia's wealth are in the same class as Trump & Clinton.
update: “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, a politician (Wall Street/MIC) will always get in”
Elsi, very interesting turns, but we probably have to remember that he needs to win the election first. I still remember Chavez in Campaign saying he was not a socialist, althought everything else he said aoppinted in this direction. Had he admitted before being in power, he would have never won.
elsi
I’m not going to comment on your posted link,but reading your comment regarding the parade in Novosibirsk,I was moved by your deep feelings.You are a brave woman and you are beautiful.
For who is criticizing you for being a communist,I tell you that if there were many as you are in the communist countries,that system would exist today.
I hope your mother will be fine and God bless you
“For who is criticizing you for being a communist”
I don’t criticise her for being communist – but just being nostalgic about the old days of the USSR and those in present day Russia who still yearn for those days is not enough.
Nostalgia is fine but realisation of present day Russia as a rabid Capitalist hellhole is also required to be a credible communist.
One step at a time. The priority is stopping the Empire. Russia has the seeds to rise again and a new Lenin will turn up.
ME
While patience can be a virtue in the meantime we must call a spade a spade – the current Russian regime is, by some measures, worse than the Empire.
On this basis support of “Russia” as it currently stands is worse than futile.
The priority is not stopping the Empire – it is to ensure that there is one “good” Empire with no rival.
A Capitalist Empire cannot be good.
There you go again, with the same old dog poop against multi-polarity.
There is no danger of Russia becoming a capitalist world empire. And you keep defending those who would lock down one based on marshalling the obedience of mind-controlled slaves as incapable of thinking as you are.
I wish someone else would go a few rounds with this clown so I can focus some of my limited time on something new and more productive than offering some suggestions of how to deal with canines on the loose, obvious trolls, etc.
He doesn’t seem to get the hint.
Bro Anon,
” I wish someone else would go a few rounds with this clown ” >>
Sorry, I can’t tolerate such trolls whom you identified as ‘clown’. So I just refrain from entertaining trolls. In fact, you have pointed out about this troll long back.
You just did, SB..(not entertainment….some flanking assistance…………. LOL….. Thanks for the support! It doesn’t take much. A bit of Care, a bit of light, and darkness is gone, cannot hide. comes out and gets blinded from multiple sides. Or reflections. Or just one laser beam between the eyebrows. ZAP.
“ZAP”
You need to down the dosage to control the hallucinations.
Dear ioan, you are also beautiful, and I absolutely loved your post about your inner child.
I have also mine still alive and, despite the so much this ( apart from other characteristics of mine ) also bothers certain people, I will always take care of this inner child of mine, if not only because it is the only child whose care I am in charge, and I really love her. She is very loved also by those who really love me.
God bless you and your mother.
Mike Oldfield – “The Inner Child”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy0YLqDqnOE
“Song for the inner Child” ~ Shaina Noll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cBhdvXfJA
Many thanks elsi I just saved them and put on my repertoire to listen
Nice artwork on Shaina Noll’s version.
The Goddess of Love and True Care
Is …..well, well, …..Nearly everywhere!
But representing the inner child’s “third eye” right in the middle of her forehead? That was a new symbolic touch, for me at least.
@Dennis, Bro Anon, ioan, T13
I’d like to start with one of Dennis last sentences of last cafe.
“I’d like to close out my part of this cafe with this thought about thought itself. In subsequent cafes I hope to put flesh and bone on the skeleton of thought as part of the 100,000 lovers’ army of love in battle array.”
I find this thought really adorable, as for what I’ve been able to figure out in the las 52 years, learning to love is what we’re trapped here for, therefore discussing about how to, seems quite reasonable. As humanity we have for sure learned something, although our goal seems far, matriarchy, patriarchy and for that matter also gaytriarchy have not been useless, then all is about learning. We also know what one of our enemy’s most powerful weapons has been, divide. I think that as long as we keep thinking separately men and woman, we will keep running in circles. one brain needs two parts: left and right, yin needs yan, man needs woman, and vice versa. Period. If we let this be put apart, we are lost again and the empire wins the next round. I could not agree with the ideas of Bro’s video, the facts are accurate but the causes of these are not traceable as presented. This whole social phenomena has not just happened spontaneously and we know that. We know this is not the first empire and we also know we have only seen the last 200 years of this one, but in reality is has been in operation since way before they murdered Jesus, the Christ. I sometimes envision our war of the sexes as if we have been divided in two groups, one equipped with forks, and another one with spoons. The forked ones get soup served every day, while the spooned ones receive meat. It’s then easy to understand why each group believes the other one has more advantages, when in reality both have different tasks to fulfill. Both would have so much more success if they unite and combine.It’s a naive thought, I’m aware but the longer I’m in this planet, the more I’m convinced it is this simple.
I personally do not believe there is an alternative to the “traditional” family, mother, father and child, and so on. This is in our biology, our chemistry our destiny and if we are honest, when we have it right, we want it no other way than to stick together to the ones we love most.
Vercia V
“I personally do not believe there is an alternative to the “traditional” family, mother, father and child, and so on. This is in our biology, our chemistry our destiny and if we are honest, when we have it right, we want it no other way than to stick together to the ones we love most.”
Beautiful thought and so real.It’s very sad that many don’t realize it.The family is the main structure of the society and that was from the beginning so.What the Empire does – and every empire did it from the beginning – is to smash,to rip apart this very main structure.The evil never gives up,he is trying again and again,in different times and different forms to struck the structure by dividing even the family members,then communities,countries,then the whole world,picking up every ideology in every color,any religion and sects,every lust of peoples for whatever they lusting for,exploiting their egos in such a scale that they go to kill each other in the name of freedom and democracy,in the name of a religion,in the name of God.When is peace,to kill is sanctioned but when is war,to kill is a duty,it is even rewarded.My father has killed other people in the ww2,he was even rewarded but he was never proud of that reward,instead he was ashamed,
he killed because he wanted not to be killed.A soldier thinks at first at his family who is left behind,he wants to survive to see his family again.But now,the Empire knows that,that’s why the armies of today are based on professionals (professional killers by the way) because the usual conscripts are civilians put in uniforms who have families behind.The Russians in ww2 achieved victory because the main structure – the family – their family was put in danger.Stalin knew that very well and in some cases he put some oil on the fire – those who know history and are not blinded by some ideology,know this – but the essence remains the family,the main structure of the society.
Good point. Conscript soldiers formed popular armies and popular armies are not reliable for the modern state.
The first thing the military do to a recruit is to dehumanise him, cut him off from the family or any allegiance which might conflict with the duty to obey commands instinctively.
ME
The Anonymous at 9:32 was me : Ioan
indeed we are being separated by the power of love…to have or not to have, at the doors of his second coming :-)
Thank you Anonymous @ 9.32 pm
I speak out of life-experience. I’ve been already in marxism, feminismus, etc and life has managed to teach me our parents and grandparents did know better :-)
“This is in our biology, our chemistry our destiny”
What about the family with a child (or children) adopted at a young age – is the love of a lesser quality?
At least Jesus Christ had the benefit of planning his own murder (if in fact he was the deity).
“… is the love of lesser quality?”
Yes, it is. Nothing surpasses the love for one’s own child. There are degrees of “loving” – a hierarchical scale – and one’s child sits at the apex.
If you are going to say that one’s child may not be one’s at all (many fathers are in fact deceived into that belief, as you certainly know) yet their bonding to the child remains unaltered as long as the belief is maintained.
There is a neurobiological blueprint element in the process of bonding..
ME
“as long as the belief is maintained”
Are you suggesting that belief is based in our Biology / Chemistry / Physics / Genes?
“There is a neurobiological blueprint element in the process of bonding”
If the baby is switched at birth (with no knowledge by the parent) are you suggesting the bonding has proven to be less?
Geez, how could a controlled study be formulated for that?
This seems beyond my belief but i’m willing to be persuaded – links please?
Ewan, try linking the right hemisphere of your brain to the left one.
Here’s a nice demonstration of how that might be done in the classroom:
https://youtu.be/zivL4GgPxKg
I think watching the whole movie might be very good for you!
Watch it and then we can compare notes. To your Goddess Within!
Here’s the deal.
If you comment re:
“Are you suggesting that belief is based in our Biology / Chemistry / Physics / Genes?”
I’ll watch it.
PS: you may think i’m “Ewan” but I am not.
I’m interested in your comment about the Singing Cedars Valery.
I was recently recommended to read them by a psychic following a reading [which was a pretty good one].
I looked them up on Amazon, and got mixed reviews and personally a mixed feeling about them.
I haven’t bought them as they seemed to be saying things I have been aware of for years – but perhaps I was wrong?
Is there more to them than the encouragement of a “back to nature” lifestyle?
I just had a discussion with a lady poster on RI [“Farmer Molly”] following an article about the release of blocks of land of this size in the Far East of Russia recently. Free, but has to be used for some productive purpose. Available to Russian Citizens only. This American lady was being very scathing of the idea, on the grounds that “you can’t even keep one cow on a hectare”.
I tried to point out the many other uses of a small plot, and especially if you get a like minded group, as these people have done, living together. It was interesting, that I had no way of budging her past “you can’t live it on it, it wouldn’t support a single cow”.
Linear Western thinking at its best.
I’d like to know more about how they fully support themselves though, I mean, toilet rolls dont’ grow on bushes !! :-)
But the principle of leaving consumerism is far behind is what is behind the success of these movements, and that plus leaving the entire oil based consumerism that especially is driving the West to perdition, is the most important mental change we badly need to rediscover.
As this bright man said:
“A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools; it happens when society adopts new behaviours”.
Clay Shirky. NYU Professor Telecommunications.
http://www.countrysmallholding.com/land/just_one_acre_does_it_work_1_3802287
http://sustainablesmallholding.org/about/pictures-design-and-plans/
http://www.smallholder.co.uk/growyourown/
and similar should all be useful, plus check out Findhorn
eg
https://www.findhorn.org/2016/05/live-lightly/
and
https://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/ecovillage/sustainable-living/
and associated sites-places eg
http://www.cat.org.uk/index.html
Well, I agree with the cow lady that here must be realism.
I don’t know, but it seemed to me that for many in the video of Russians back to the Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XtRYmu2otA&feature=youtu.be it was a summer visit, or a visit for a weekend, whereas the beginning shot of the man and his son, they were the full-timers, that really knew what they were doing.
I think the point was that whether for years or two weeks in summer-time, the re-connection to Rodina directly through the earth, without asphalt or concrete in the way, has some incredibly healthy power for those directly involved, and for those of us only watching them on video and then sideways, above ground level, in that community, and by technology, to anyone nearly anywhere on the planet.
A friend was interested in developing ten acres we bought, because “My daughter loves animals.”
My very first thought was, “Just wait til she finds out how much hard, hard work they are!
Sure enough, just about then, she was becoming a teenager, and a different sort of animal (teenage boys) suddenly became more interesting to her than the furry, hooved or woolly ones.
An assistant wanted to grow vegetables on part of an acre property, with advice from his Sicilian grandmother who was too old to ever come to the acre in person. What a fiasco! Besides furrows that ran downhill, draining all water off the dirt quickly, and other absurdities my calculation was that the “crop” was about 100 times more expensive than going to the grocery store, and one helluva lot more work, which caused arguments, bruised ego of the youngster ,etc.
The serious Russians in the video Valery provided knew what they were doing, the summer dacha ones got a lot out of it, and even the weekend visitors learned to behave themselves, stop littering, and get into it a bit. Pretty cool, IMHO. A balance between realism and romanticism. Like anything else, a balance!
Very good description of the city-people suddenly fallen in love in farm-land.They think everything is so romantic, the vegetables crops just grow up from themselves or with little work. Some years ago I had also a house with a big garden and it just happened that a young married couple bought a house in the same street down the road.They came from a big city,full of romantic dreams. Well,it was spring and they began to make their garden,planted some trees and seeded a lot of vegetables.
After three or four months the romance was over,the work was too much and lacked the knowledge of how to deal with it.Even the tools caused problems,they became some bubbles on their palms…
In the tropics 5 people could live from a quarter acre provided there is water. For temperate climates you can see John Jeavans Bio Intensive mini gardening. There are other examples too.. What were people using before toilet paper came in use. Don’t be too limited by western upbringing
This is a funny site – supposedly for Russia, yet no one thinks it worthwhile to mention that the cold weather has gone,no more frost, the glory of spring is upon us, woods full of warm pungent scent of new birch leaves, brilliant buds unfolding. cherry and apple blossom, birds singing, bright green corn pushing through damp earth.
Just bombs .
Thanks from me at least for your comment Seb.
this site is “for” Russia, but few of us are actually resident in Russia.
It’s for those outside who support Russia and want to know more of her in every respect.
So – for your lovely description of a northern spring, which I haven’t seen in too many years, thankyou very much.
Seb, like Valery none outside of Russia could put it so well as you. Tell more friends about this vineyard so we can enjoy your input, and they can see that it is not just them against the Empire.
Unmitigated poetry! Please write more.
ME
I’ll second that emotion, Seb.
Aslo, if you could bring some Russian music to the cafe that would be ochen harasho! With subtitles for us anti-Empire westerners………
Now, in a quick survey I haven’t seen any music or poetry besides that by the Rural Russians in the very first post, toward the end of that long video, so let me try this:
Boris Gudonov by Mussorgsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=41B6WMx8zKQ
You can select English subtitles. I hope that’s Good Enough!
Here’s yet more evidence this ‘gimmegrant’ invasion of Europe is being orchestrated mostly by the USians… Your Soros, your Rockefeller Foundations, your cookie monsters “f*ck the EU” Nulands (etc)…
All done with an eye on the ultimate prize: Russia.
[* Note: Hungary is at the EU forefront of a push-back against their country being overrun by migrants. This is why outspoken Hungarian PM Orbán is somewhat of a hero amongst euro-skeptics at the moment, and not just in Hungry, but euro-wide]
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US Ambassador to Hungary: Overthrow Assad, Let in Refugees, and Fight Russia…or Else!
“[..] But make no mistake: Inside Ambassador Bell‘s velvet glove is an iron fist, poised to strike should Washington’s annoyingly independent-minded Fidesz-led government step out of line on the big issues. And by “big” issues it should be understood that the US means the issues it considers in the interests of its own foreign policy, not those in Hungary’s interest.
Message to Hungary: do as we say or you will be sorry.”
“[..] She lectured the Hungarians about Syria, explaining to them that ISIS and Assad are both equally evil and both equally to blame for the disaster that is Syria.”
“[..] she does not mention that it was US backing for “regime change” in Syria — beginning at least in 2006, as we learn from a critical Wikileaks-released US Embassy Damascus memo — that created that very chaos she blames for the rise of ISIS.
In fact it is propaganda to call what is happening in Syria a “civil war,” as the forces battling the Syrian government are all sponsored by foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the US. It is a proxy war against the Syrian government, not a civil war.”
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“[..] Hungary must support the EU agreement with Turkey which would see tens of thousands of migrants settled in EU member countries, including Hungary itself. The problem is that the Hungarian parliament explicitly rejected Brussels’ forced migrant settlement plans for Hungary and plans to hold a nationwide referendum on the subject. Bell is saying here that Hungary’s elected representatives and even the Hungarian voter must be ignored and Brussels’ dictate obeyed.”
“[..] When it comes to Russia,” + “she [Bell] told Hungarian parliamentarians: As many Hungarians have reminded me, you need no introduction to the nature of Russian aggression. Your response has always been to show resolve. Our best weapons, in fact, are resolve and solidarity.”
I highly recommend to read the whole article here: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/may/06/us-ambassador-to-hungary-overthrow-assad-let-in-refugees-and-fight-russiaor-else/
-TL2Q
TooLegit2Quit,
You provided an excellent example of the ongoing AZ ‘plan’ … The enlarged EU, and all non-Russian European countries ‘have to’ act as springboard (for AZ cabal) against Russian land-people-culture. If any government (like Hungary) starts thinking about what is good and what is bad for their own people, then they will be taken to task (by AZ cabal).
If anyone (with a bit of current and historical knowledge) say that, he/she does not know about the plans (of AZ cabal) to dismember Russia and China, and then disarm the resultant entities, and then use them as ‘source’ of energy-natural resources (as well as ‘market’ for products/goods), he/she is lying.
anybody noticed this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579714/Sadiq-Khan-attends-Holocaust-memorial-act-Mayor-London-day-Labour-mayor-repeated-controversial-claims-Hitler-Zionist.html
just confirmation of same
Livingstone and Corbyn are among very few politicians in Europe who call a spade a spade !
It is established fact that Hitler was created and installed and pampered by the AZ cabal particularly the Jew banking elites ! So Livingstone’s statement is correct – and that statement is not really an anti-semetic one.
@ Straight-Bat:
“Livingstone and Corbyn are among very few politicians in Europe who call a spade a spade !”
Livingstone is great (just as RT’s very own Galloway is) in the fight against Zionism. Massive trouble with both of them is that they’re biased towards Muslims to the expense of everyone else, and that makes them cogs in the globalist machine, even if they know about it or not :/
Now, Corbyn – and as much as I actually like the guy – I feel he’s weak and has been co-opted by his own party comrades to toe the official party line (or else?). Nearly non of his of his so-called socialists principles remain, just a nebulous stand against austerity, and that’s pretty much it (plus he’s pro-EU, and I can’t possibly stand for that!).
There’s only one UK politician who calls “a spade a spade” and that’s Nigel Farage. David Davis is another one, but he’s several paces behind Farage for that matter Oh! And Farage has been under a relentless attack from the establishment, since like, well… forever!
But here’s the latest example:
Include Nigel Farage on the BBC referendum debate on the 21st June 2016
“Nigel Farage is the most synonymous individual in the world on the issue of a British Exit Referendum. He is the leader of UKIP, the party most identified with gaining this referendum for the UK and the issue of the UK’s membership of the EU.
The debate would lack credibility if he were not present. To exclude him would weaken the Leave case. He is an excellent debater, with a consistent view on leaving the EU and an expert on this subject [..]”
https://www.change.org/p/tony-hall-include-nigel-farage-on-the-bbc-s-referendum-debate-on-the-21st-june-2016
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By the way… he was already kind of excluded from the Brexit debate the moment the highly biased “Electoral Commission Committee” chose the ‘gay’ Vote Leave campaign (to officially lead Brexit) over the GO [Grassroots Out] which Farage was a leading member of.
EXCLUSIVE: Over Half Of Electoral Commission Committee Members Have EU Conflicts Of Interest
“Three of the 10 members of the Electoral Commission committee that decided on the designation for the official “Leave” campaign had to excuse themselves from the meeting due to European Union (EU) links, with a further three also declaring interests but still allowed to sit in, raising fears over the Commission’s neutrality [..]”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/14/exclusive-half-electoral-commission-committee-members-eu-conflicts-interest/
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, we have other Eurocrats vowing to meddle in other countries affairs. This is Germany’s Merkel promising to interfere in France’s politics…
Le Pen Says France Won’t ‘Submit’ As Merkel Vows To ‘Ensure’ Right Wing Are Crushed
“Marine Le Pen, France’s right wing populist leader, has slammed her country’s “submission to Germany” after Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, vowed to “ensure” Ms. Le Pen’s party is kept out of power [..]”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/04/le-pen-says-france-wont-submit-as-merkel-vows-to-ensure-right-wing-are-crushed/
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Seriously! Why Putin considers this vile woman as a friend is absolutely beyond me. (To his credit; we haven’t seem them posing together since Minsk 2.0, so there’s still hope, I guess…)
-TL2Q
“There’s only one UK politician who calls “a spade a spade” and that’s Nigel Farage.”
So what – he still doesn’t give a stuff about worker’s rights
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/eu-brexit-uk-referendum-leave-employment-rights-disaster-explained-a6921126.html
I’m no EU fan but have previously been at the blunt intersection of UK Insolvency Law trumping Employment Law (European Colleagues working for the same Global company were treated admirably in compare).
At the minute the EU Labour Directives put a break on what the Tories (and the likes of Farage) would get up to.
Farage is a Nationalist scumbag – period.
“put a
breakbrake”oops & apologies :-)
@ Anon:
“So what – he [Farage] still doesn’t give a stuff about worker’s rights http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/eu-brexit-uk-referendum-leave-employment-rights-disaster-explained-a6921126.html
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^ Oh! That old canard again… that the EU are prime guardians of worker rights, because…(?)
As a member of the ‘working class’ myself, I have yet to hear the end to that sentence beyond some cloudily EU worker’s rights regulations… mostly to do with maternity/paternity leave or some other equally irrelevant thing for those of us non-breeders and non benefit claimers…
All as if individual countries are totally incapable of writing their own workers protection legislation without the help of the almighty EU and their unelected Eurocrats ready to tell them what to do… *eye-roll*.
Even if the link you provided us with is half right about their claims, so what?!
France is passing anti-workers laws as we speak by ‘decree,’ as if France being part of the EU – by the freaking way– makes any goddamn bit of a difference when it comes down to worker’s rights!
You, Europhiles, need to shut the freak up. And I mean like… yesterday.
“At the minute the EU Labour Directives put a break on what the Tories (and the likes of Farage) would get up to [..]”
If you believe that, I have a nice, hardly ever used bridge I can sell to you :/
“Farage is a Nationalist scumbag – period”
And where are you from [and more importantly, where are you currently residing on] I wonder Mr/Ms Anonymous.., hmm?
And before you ask, I’m not even European myself and I still back Farage all the way.
You call him nationalist? Some people [not the likes of you of course] would call him a patriot instead.
Po-tay-to – po-tah-to.
-TL2Q
“All as if individual countries are totally incapable of writing their own workers protection legislation without the help of the almighty EU”
The UK are totally capable of doing that and include all sorts of get out clauses so that the employer can get out of its obligations e.g “special circumstances” http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2397677/analysis-government-must-address-insolvency-and-employment-law-conflicts
The UK arm of Global Businesses can then (even with $Billions in the bank) file for Bankruptcy and tap people of 35 years service on the shoulder to leave their desk immediately and apply to the Insolvency Service for Statutory redundancy only, the aim being to save cost and make the subsequent business disposal sale more lucrative.
If the directors in France had tried this move they would have gone to jail.
The UK (and it’s laws) are written for Business and the oligarchs – I currently have a case with the EU Commission (Labour Directorate) with complaint that the UK is in breach of several EU Labour Directives. If they fine the UK (after a NO to BREXIT) several hundred £million t will give me a sound basis to appoint a UK legal team to sue the UK Government in a Frankovich based claim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francovich_v_Italy).
The EU is very bad – just not as bad as the UK.
@ Anonymous [May 13, 2016 – at 10:53 am UTC]
To be fair, thanks for the links, I’ll study them when I’ll have the time.
But also to be fair… you sound like you have vested interests on the UK staying in the EU, otherwise you have no case (?) am I understanding that correctly?
“The EU is very bad – just not as bad as the UK.”
If you support the idea of multi-polar world, like most of us in here (this includes Putin, btw) do, then I’m sure you’d understand the EU needs to die.
Non of what I said means that UK’s own labor laws (or any other country for that matter) don’t need reforming in favor of granting more rights to the workers.
-TL2Q
“If you support the idea of multi-polar world, like most of us in here”
A multi-polar world on this basis /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-05-10/comment-page-1/#comment-236661 is either not a multi polar world or one that is no better than a single animal farm – the nature of the multi-polar world that (seemingly) most here wish for is worse than futile.
Re the UK – my personal claim would be extremely modest but (if successful) it would set a precedent which would expose the UK to future liability and therefore likely result in the UK being forced to change its law in favour of the worker. To the extent that the intent of many EU directives are more socially just than the UK’s implementation (rather unimplementation) of them into national legislation I would rather the UK Parliament remains subservient to EU law and the ECJ.
The EU is an unaccountable quango & mostly stinks – however if the UK populace vote like Turkey’s for Christmas (and even weaker employment laws) for BREXIT it will be for the more evil institution – the UK Parliament, run by business for the Oligarchs.
Apologies to be shying away from the lowest common denominator but the entire planet is now a dictatorship of the oligarchy – the difference between IN/OUT is quite small but I hope my reason for remaining IN is clearer.
“…[]…of us non-breeders and non benefit claimers” – I don’t appreciate your inference. I injured my back 10 years ago and suffered for 2 years. Without “Disability Living Allowance” I would have lost the family home. Not all have equal opportunity – life expectancy in Glasgow’s Carlton area is 54
Here’s a recent case http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2016/april/dla-past-presence-test-rules-held-unlawfully-discriminate-against-disabled-refugee
“Brief summary of the new decision. CDLA/528/2015 Application of past present test to refugees and their families amounts to unlawful indirect discrimination (contrary to the provisions of Article 28 of EU Directive 2004/83/EC and Article 14 of the ECHR)
Oh, by the freaking way Farage is a Nationalist scumbag.
Fyi – I happen to have been born & live in the UK but am the opposite of a europhile and contend that Nationalism is an infantile disease (as are most groupthink groupings).
TL2Q,
I understand your point on Livingstone and Corbyn. By trying to position themselves as ‘progressive’ and ‘leftist’ and their overtly pro-(Muslim) immigration and pro-EU policy, they will not be able to pull UK in a right direction. Unfortunately, Nigel Farage seems to me, exactly on the opposite pole. Coming out from EU is the way for survival for any ‘sane’ country in Europe, but to become ‘extreme nationalist’ while thinking about any non-anglo group/community is fraught with danger.
In my opinion, Le Pen can be a ruler whose time has come in west Europe today – but again, while her anti-immigration stance is mostly correct, I doubt if she will ever ditch EU (if she manages to get the power), also I have some reservation about her being ‘extreme nationalist’.
About Merkel, the less we say, the better it is – she is part of AZ cabal. Her policies, ideologies, decisions are all nonsense – those make sense when you understand what the AZ cabal wants to do out of the entire exercise of recent ‘Arab immigration’ (I would call that as ‘Salafist mobilisation’).
Finally, you will concur that Europe don’t have a leader who thinks and acts correctly in the short-term and in the long-term.
@ Straight-Bat: (thanx for your post, btw)
“Coming out from EU is the way for survival for any ‘sane’ country in Europe, but to become ‘extreme nationalist’ while thinking about any non-anglo group/community is fraught with danger.”
True, but in Farage’s case, I sincerely doubt he’s an ‘extreme nationalist’ [as you out it], his closest aide (sorry, don’t know his name, but you always see him with Farage in pictures) looks clearly Asian, possibly Muslim or maybe of Indian descent, his wife is German and his very last name suggests a French ancestry. Hence: I don’t feel he’s anglo-centered. In fact, now that you’re making me think about it, in my many years of observing (as an outsider) I have yet to see or hear about a British politician that’s anglo-centered, just the opposite, multiculturalism is all the rage, you know? ;-)
I laugh when I hear that word, because how can it be “multiculturalism” when we all know that’s a code word for one, and only one type of ethnic community?
As I said in another post; even the black non-Muslim community is starting to get pissed at that term being thrown around.
“In my opinion, Le Pen can be a ruler whose time has come in west Europe today – but again, while her anti-immigration stance is mostly correct, I doubt if she will ever ditch EU (if she manages to get the power), also I have some reservation about her being ‘extreme nationalist’.”
…this is the same situation as with ‘the Donald’… will she keep her word [she as in: Le Pen] or wouldn’t she? Will “the Donald” keep his promises or he won’t?
Million dollar question….. (I know)
But you’re right though, did she ever come out and call for France to get out of the EU? Unless I was asleep at the time, I don’t remember that, no :/
“About Merkel, the less we say, the better it is – she is part of AZ cabal. Her policies, ideologies, decisions are all nonsense – those make sense when you understand what the AZ cabal wants to do out of the entire exercise of recent ‘Arab immigration’ (I would call that as ‘Salafist mobilisation’).”
^ 200% agreed.
“Finally, you will concur that Europe don’t have a leader who thinks and acts correctly in the short-term and in the long-term.”
Well… except for maybe Orbán, no, generally they don’t. They just get their marching papers from the USians; Tsipras, Merkel, Cameron, Hollande… you name them! All USian poodles.
-TL2Q
@ TL2Q
Thank you for your post. Its amazing the extent to which the USians flaunt the domineering arrogance over their vassals, whose response is abject submission. The Hungarians have shown some spine though; hope they don’t bend.
ME
So today the French “Socialist” regime (certainly a contradiction if there ever was one to call them Socialist) bypassed the Parliament and imposed the anti-French labor laws that millions have protested. They imposed those laws,by decree. Let those words sink in deeply,to any French people here,”they imposed those laws by decree”. Maybe Hollande considers himself the heir of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He might be,and the French need to make sure he and “government by decree” shares their fate.The National Assembly building needs to be considered the “new Bastille” .
@ Uncle Bob
“French socialist regime” is indeed an oxymoron, almost as oxymoronic as the Nationalsozialismus of the III Reich. The Rule by Decree is permitted by dint of the state of emergency declared after the very convenient “terrorist” attacks in Paris.
There is a very long line of “coincidences” between “terrorist attacks” and government attacks on civil liberties and rights so, what’s new?
“New Bastille” – History has been written with a lot of French blood – even helping the revolting (pardon the pun) colonialists to set up the US – and the streets of Paris saw a lot of it, the last big flow in 1872 (about 20,000 communards were killed by the army). But it looks like the Galic elan for rebellion has been reduced to a state of insouciance and ennui, and there is no-one else in Europe to take the lead. Anyway, insurrections don’t work anymore unless they are set up by the cia and ngos. IMO civil disobedience, including long general strikes, is the only road ahead.
ME
ME
Thanks,I had forgotten about the old “tried and true” tactic of the “general strike”, I totally endorse it. But the one proviso is that,it must be enforced,as it was in the past. The companies can’t be given the option of defying the general strike and hiring “scab” labor to undermine it. It won’t work unless totally enforced.
In my opinion (do I even have to say that? isn’t it assumed?) the nuclear family has some strengths but it has more weaknesses.
The rich and powerful families run the empire. They use weaker families to further the empire’s goals, like providing workers and security enforcers, not to mention taxes. The more the empire can break down society into small units the weaker the family is and the more powerful the great families. If the nuclear family was able to challenge the empire it would have already done that and we would not be in the mess we are in.
Long ago the nuclear family was used to destroy families of up to about 150 where everyone held things in common and knew each other intimately. These small clans or tribes were matrilineal and interacted with other clans. They were strong and independent and opposed the big developments of the time like towns and then cities.
These small, independent and free communities posed a threat to the new world order and were therefore eliminated. Even information about them was buried as the nuclear families were romanticized and supported by the state and the rich families in the background.
The empire of patriarchy lies about all this. What else do we expect? We have been brainwashed and terrorized so that we cannot even conceive of the truth of our origins and real character. It’s very scary to question our ingrained habits and traditions.
I’ve been very much a part of the system. Worked and raised a family. But now at 76 see the error of my ways. There’s little I can do on the physical level except for myself but my mind is free to explore alternatives and share them here.
We fear the breakdown of the family and rightly so. There is no viable alternative that can work better given the education and vitality of the general populace.
But true ideas have their own vitalism and they can grow if nurtured. There’s a huge inertia to be overcome but it can be done with genuine and strong love. I like the metaphor of an army of 100,000 strong lovers from across all time and space going to where they’re invited. Not only is it a fun idea but it is also fundamentally a true one.
Who can say what is a dream and what is reality? I like this quote from the Poet entitled: Senor–Tales of Yankee Power. Personally I think strong lovers of the human family are the real thing.
“Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field
A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring said
Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing
@Dennis
‘the nuclear family has some strengths but it has more weakness’ and ‘These small, independent and free communities posed a threat to the new world order and were therefore eliminated’. The family is this threat. Here is where we are, and that is the reason why the system, or empire has just always tried to eliminate the family, to infiltrate it and take away the competencies, freedoms and load it with responsiblities impossible to comply with. I already live in the NWO, unlike other countries in Earth I do not have to wait for it to take place and I can tell the weaknesses you pointed to are not ihnerent to the family but to the way or possibility to thrive in the created environment, The Order, in whatever stage of development it may be. I think when we look at the past it is easy to come to conclusions we try to extend to the globalized society we exist in. In the past, for many centuries different cultures with almost no communication among themselves could independantly exist and they where at very different evolutionary levels. Matriarchy brings in itself many questions and I do not think it can be possible now. I’ll give am example: I would not like to live in a matriarchy where Hillary has the more chances to become the boss and have a say on me and my kids. Idealizing patriarchy is as bad as idealizing matriarchy. To focus on a family cell as a real basis of society is extremely empowering instead. Only, we would have to make society able to live up to this. I have hope, as for so many thouand of years the empire has not yet been able to completely annihilate family, although they do not seem tired of trying.
Love is the strongest force of the universe, this is no cheap poetry, is an universal truth, but love is dynamic, it needs both ends, the lover and the beloved who also needs to love back, or it won’t be love at the end. An army of 10’000 loveres who wander and abstractly love what comes across is for me rather difficult to imagine, as for an army of of 10’000 men and women loving each other and their children and fighting for not having love taken away from them, is to me a completely different and powerful thought.
A society that believes to need abortion, and so many other monstruosities we see around is just not ready, because we are still divided, men here with forks, women there with spoons. No way!
Dear Vercia V,
” I can tell the weaknesses you pointed to are not inherent to the family but to the way or possibility to thrive in the created environment, The Order, in whatever stage of development it may be ” >>
I can’t agree with your statement any more. While patriarchy-driven ‘tribal family’ (large) modified into ‘family’ in industrial society through many centuries of transformation, the creation of ‘nuclear family’ is clearly an act of the post-1910 industrial capitalism (Ford’s mass manufacturing) which wanted to create a ‘modern’ society where every single person will be a ‘consumer’ for consumption of goods/services – thus ‘nuclear family’ would consist of 1 or 2 or 3 peoples.
” Love is the strongest force of the universe, this is no cheap poetry, is an universal truth, but love is dynamic, it needs both ends, the lover and the beloved who also needs to love back, or it won’t be love at the end. ” >>
Again, I don’t know if you wrote this as a statement or as your realization ! Whatever may be the case, it is so true ! Whether the entire ‘society’, the ‘families’, the ‘peoples’ around, everywhere I find ‘relations’ devoid of ‘love’ … Relations for sake of social relations, for sake of sex, for sake of material gain-loss, for sake of monetary transactions – no where an iota of love (a true love involves caring and sharing by both the sides) can be found ! During the past century what a suffocating environment created by the materialistic monstrous dark forces !
Here is a video of the execution of a captured SAA soldier by “moderate terrorists” on R&U’s youtube page with translations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoxO5DBFev4
Graphic and not safe for children. Executioner unloaded nearly a full magazine on the prisoner… Rest in peace brother.
Note that at the start of the video, you can see a photo of the crowd of people gathering behind and near the vehicle: the young, the middle aged and the older folks. That is a photo of what Ghassan Kadi was talking about in his previous articles about Islam and Daesh. Look with your eyes and see the kind of support such terrorists have on a local and religious level. The warmongers just needed to give a little push and to supply them with toys of war to get these results.
The Joker during his battle for Gotham’s soul with Batman in The Dark Knight mentioned: Madness, as we know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push! Hahaha…
Another latest depressing video regarding the use of ATGMs on R&U’s youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7CCTxghmeE
I am now wondering about the daily casualty rate of the SAA and its allies due to ATGMs alone. With more of these, the moderate terrorists will easily blunt and defeat any large SAA attempts to recover lost territories.
While sipping my coffee in the Cafe,I found a paper on the desk :
Someone screaming on the Road :
German Father wants a Mother !
What a nonsense,was my thought
Might be Russia,or the Other ?
Martin is the fight itself
Things go off at nine past elf
Dennis is not easy-going
He makes our mind just blowing
Bro Anon is Dove and Goddess
He’s a fighting spirit,no less
Peter Au has a question
Peace and Love or intervention ?
This is awesome, ioan. (I laugh in public as i read it here sitting at another cafe.)
Bravo, ioan, bravissimo! Your muse has been set free. I recently watched the Dead Poets Society. Everyone has the muse, the poet within, if you will recall how the English teacher played by Robyn Williams blindfolded one student with one hand and peppered him with mind-freeing jabs of words until free verse began to spew out of the student, before his left brain could stop the torrent of spontaneity and creativity.
https://youtu.be/zivL4GgPxKg
Free your mind. That’s kind of a prerequisite for Love, and comprehension of the Goddess Principle that is so under attack.
Here’s for Dennis, from someone who sent me these lyrics a day or two ago:
The Chimes of Freedom
Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
In the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Bob Dylan
Now, Dennis, that sounds like a young couple in a storm (I’ll bet you the male’s last name began with Z……) and my guess is that they found a sheltered place for some pretty fantastic sex. But I really don’t think that the sex act is primary. I think freeing your mind so that it can give and receive Love and Freedom with others sort of comes first. IMHO
The sung sung by one of those lovers and freedom seekers, at least back in 1965, he was:
https://youtu.be/KZp4DAUtLpo
Thanks Bro Anon, sometimes things just happen.Late night I couldn’t sleep and was thinking at the Vineyard, read a lot of comments (some comets were also there), then my imagination started to blow-up her engine in my yellow submarine. My dog probably thought I’m getting crazy when I started to laugh in the pillow, anyway it’s better than to cry. Sometimes it is quite dangerous out there in the yards, unexpected snipers come in and make a lots of trouble, people get angry but that is the essence of fight on thoughts.Of course, I get upset too, in this search for the Holy Grail.
ioan,
is your search for a holy grail from the big guy who tells you what that should be or what you think that should look like?
“Sniper” is an awful connotation.
I generally consider you a good person – but that is mostly based in the law of tort.
What on earth are you talking about???
Anonymous
Well, what can I tell you ? what you call connotation is a description on a humor – level ,as well as the
search for the Holy Grail, why complicate things when they are so simple .To explain it, it”s like chewing the meal in my mouth before giving it to you for eat.Try to chew yourself.
I didn’t expect bro to understand but I thought your intelligence may have allowed it.
It’s not the US Empire versus “Russia & China” – it’s them versus us
“What’s killing white middle-aged American women? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36255143
Yeah, right. You’re on a website whose masthead proclaims “Stop the Empire’s War on Russia” and despite reams and reams and reams of evidence you push this diversionary nonsense, you ridiculous conscious or unconscious troll.
Here’s one for you: https://realagenda.wordpress.com/tag/operation-amadeus/
from an email from our old friend, Peter J Antonsen
No difference between the the AZ Empire and China and Russia???
Try just two little, related issues, drugs and terror.
You are truly daft and absurd beyond belief. But such a useful, clinical example of the mind-controlled slave of AZ Empire dominators. Out with it. More examples to dissect and dispose of for common edification, if not your own, whose chance for that may well have passed.
“And for every hung up person in the whole wide Universe” see? I actually care, but you sir, are more than a full time rescue job operation. I might suggest you get together with our dear friend Dennis, as he has quite enough in his overflowing right brain to spare a wee bit of that which you so sorely lack. And if he would help a few poor souls like you just a wee bit, I think his sometimes oppressed heart might feel welcome relief from dwelling so much inward so much of the time.
Unless your brain is the rock his heart breaks on.Hmmmmm! There is that risk.. Maybe someone tougher ought to give you a try first. Sorry, gotta go!
But try this link /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-05-10/comment-page-1/#comment-236453 with the movie clip and the Dylan song, while I’m away. I came up with those not just to congratulate iaon, but with helping you , as well.
Just to blurt out something totally random that I can’t prove – and for which, I presently have no data to support: I think Germany is orchestrating a move for imperial power. If we can’t see it, it’s because we aren’t looking hard enough or in the correct places.
After reading those thoughtful analyses about Germany desperately needing Russia, like a wanton lover, and spreading her legs for the US empire, as a complete vassal… these were carefully done analyses, and reached understandable (albeit, somewhat profane :-) conclusions. And yet, after mulling this over for a couple days, I just don’t buy it. Because powerful Germans don’t think like this. (I’ve decided based on only my own experiences, which I explained in that “China and Russia prepare for Hot War” thread). The Germans must have a plan to cast off the US Empire (laugh or scoff if you will) and re-establish their dominance. That’s just the German way, isn’t it? For many, many, many generations, German culture has functioned like a powerful machine to create a unipolar world, pointed directly at Germany. This has nothing to do with WWII and the horrific Nazi regime – not to discard that in any way, but maybe it’s clouding our vision of Germany in 2016. Is Germany ready for a multipolar world? And if so, I bet she enters it with the most accumulated amount of power possible. She is no loyal poodle to the regime, despite recent actions and decisions, in my opinion.
Is there a piece of reality in your thoughts. I know, there are many who disagree the idea of Russia and Germany to be much more close to each-other – not each to Other. It is pretty sure that V.Putin and his really close allies in the government are working on this. The difficulties and obstacles are immense, giving the actual political establishment on both sides (in Russia the 5th column,in Germany the US presence and EU) It’s not a question of destiny,rather reality and common sense.Even China will agree with such an “Axis”, not to talk about Iran. The ball is on the side of Germany, she has to free herself from the “ballast” hanging on her neck.
Yes good points you make, all of them. I wonder if the goal would be to establish Germany as the dominant power in continental Europe. And to make that clear to all the multipolar powers, US, Russia, China, Iran, whoever, that they will defend this region. To be politically incorrect again, I would expect German powers to be unwilling to approach Russia prior to securing their dominance. Because to crawl to Russia to save them, like they are Estonia or something, is not acceptable. And I would expect that German powers would see Germany as the most suitable to defending continental Europe. (not a collaborative approach but anyway.)
How this could be done, I have no idea. Germany seems so firmly under the grip of the US. Maybe they are.
I think it is Germany(well at least Merkel) and Turkey trying to jointly establish an east west -coalition……….at the behest of the USA………………….squeezing anyone else in between…….or to be used to control or act as slave master to those countries resisting…………..
What do you understand under “German powers” ? and the next :”Because to crawl to Russia to save them, like they are Estonia or something, is not acceptable.” please explain what you mean with that. It seems I’m getting Blöd (stupid)
I’m not sure who the exact people are who would push forward something like this. So I call these unknown (and possibly non-existent) German power brokers, just “German powers”.
It’s not you, my speech is very confusing!!
All this is totally speculation – I thought if there were some powerful Germans at work behind the scenes, working to free Germany and continental Europe from enslavement to the Anglozionist empire, these people would be unlikely to approach Russia for help because that would diminish Germany’s standing as an equal power. They would not work to free Germany from one empire, to just let her become a part of another empire – that was my guess. And I would guess they would not want this to become a Russia-led from behind situation. I would expect they would want to control this as a Germany-led from the front – resulting in a return to a sovereign, strong Germany. Who would protect continental Europe (made up of sovereign nations) from predators.
Is it possible?? I convinced myself it had to be true because I just can’t imagine Germany surrendering totally to the Anglozionist empire, of any other empire for that matter!!
I think if we ignore him long enough he will realize and leave. It’s waste of energy better invested in our magical vineyard
sorry, I think I posted this previous comment in the wrong place. Please ignore…
S113,
check out this video I watched this morning. Have you ever heard of agenda 21. I´v run across it here and there in the alt/conspiracy blogs. Some credible people have some interesting things to say. I´m just totally creeped out on this. Can´t help trying to wrap my mind around the insanity.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/out-there-1/agenda-21-primer.html
its 2 videos actually. It does break the analysis out of the framework of the interests of sovereign countries…
Thanks, Robin Gaura, look forward to watching this. Like you, I’ve come across it but know very little about it.
I was heading here when I got waylaid by the lovers of Brian Boru above. Leads me to believe that the Saker is a romantic like me under the cover of an analyst.
I’m not sure about the gender but Vercia V is a name resonant with depths that only love can fathom. Here in virtualland reality is guesswork but there’s something in a name that revels in the game.
If I read the weather right, Vercia believes strongly in the family, as well as most here. I believe in the family too but not strongly. This is a gordian knot hard to unravel without an infinity of patient teasing. We don’t have that kind of time but I do have a Timex so I’ll be patient as I tease the time.
The Family. What does that evoke? Mafia? Mothers in the kitchen? Fathers in the workship garage? Kids on the play? Babies in arms? Everything and nothing in particular? Cows on a hectare?
It appears that I am talking gibberish irish. I see no evidence that anyone is grasping what I’m saying about family. That’s OK. In lovers’ talk it’s not the words but the wonder.
The patriarchy (there never was a matriarchy except as futile resistance to post-patriarchy) blinds us. I say the family was originally a communal family of up to 150 members, where there were no marriages of twosomes, and love and sex were held in common; and this causes gridlock blackout. So what am I supposed to do? Fight the empire with a slingshot like David? Bang my head against an iron curtain of ideology?
The empire has buried our brains. I’ve got to get off my romantic horseship and face the hard, cold facts. Fortunately there are names like Vercia V which burst through the seams of empirical dreams. Please don’t misunderstand: I’m interested in semantics, not romantics; in vineyards, not graveyards.
I need to break for breakfast. Also, if I lose work like I did earlier, I go into a tantrum fit over not getting what I want, and end up screaming at my love that I hate her. Not good for the digestion. Slows down my progression. Need to remember that it was her all along.
“The Family. What does that evoke? Mafia? Mothers in the kitchen? Fathers in the workship garage? Kids on the play? Babies in arms? Everything and nothing in particular? Cows on a hectare?
It appears that I am talking gibberish irish. I see no evidence that anyone is grasping what I’m saying about family. That’s OK. In lovers’ talk it’s not the words but the wonder.”
I understand what you are trying to say Dennis. You are telling things through a liberal glass of a freedom fighter, maybe you were a kid always eager to make a revolution in the kitchen and in the workship-garage with kids on the play and babies in the arms of mother while the cows were revolting because of the tiny place and not having the bulls around. Clearly, that evokes Mafia.
The wonder would be to let the bulls come in, all 150 members would be happy ,watching and learning the way of communal sex. Tell me if I misunderstood.
Good to have you Dennis
Dear Dennis
You’re actually very good at weather reading, but then Saker’s invocation of the Celtic magic has probably also helped to lead to the exposure of my name. I’ll try to help your Timex to save some energy. Indeed Vercia V. intends to have this origin, my last obsession, the Celtic world. Vercia is a female and V stands for Vercingetorix. I thought is seems like a good name for vineyard walks and fighting against the empire of evil, indeed in the best David vs Goliath style. I really like your family picture, although to me looks like a family on vacation, then family daily business is hardcore stuff living in the NWO.
Now you come from breakfast and I go to sleep. Wish you and all a pleasant day.
Before I forget, did you also notice evil is the opposite of live ?? subject for Bro Anon
Good point Vercia! I’ve just recently begun my study of regular (not reverse spelling, beginning at the end) but I’ll take that up and add it to my multi-tasking.
Dennis is “sinned” and neither of yours works at all, for starters.
But Dennis needn’t worry, it’s just word play, it’s not a straight jacket he was born with, and he is atoning or sure trying to anyway. I never bought the idea I had sinned just by being born. The very idea always struck me as mind control, which I rejected right out of the gate, and never looked back.
By the way, for the unimaginative who still don’t get the plain fact that the Goddess is the right hemisphere of their brain, male, female , gay or whatever, let me clarify something:
These esoteric studies are not some lark or superstitious pursuit. The Enemy of humanity uses this stuff. If you think it is absurd to decode somewhat secret language that they use then you (generic you for the naive and hopelessly psychologically and spiritually blocked) you are ceding an important advantage to them and idiotically tossing a huge vulnerability of theirs and flanking opportunity of ours away.
Which is mighty dumb, in my book. Who else gets this?
I’m going to watch those Movies by Elsie, and check back in around bed time.
An Italian movie about Russia and Tartars with a comical photographer who speaks in French recommended by a Basque (Elsi) and dubbed into Spanish, about moving the future Czar Boris, 10 or 11 years old around in disguise to evade capture by the Tartar General and his gypsy woman consort.
Boris Gudonov ruled from 1587 to 1605 but photography came in 250 years later. Does it matter?
And who saves the young Czar Boris? The gypsy, who shoots the Tartar general lover of hers and left brain dominator (Tartar NWO??) woman beater and control through fear freak right through his third eye, from the rear, as he moves to slit Boris’ throat!
True Care in Action Saves Russia? The Goddess to the Rescue? Musica! Musica!
All I can think of is La Zingarella. Verdi is Italian. The movie is Italian. Da, da, kanieshna! Glory to the Goddess! https://youtu.be/8pc0fu18re0
And now, back to Russia, Moscow 2015 Dmitri H, another famous female of gypsy temperament and Spain, bulls and Toreador, from Bizet’s Carmen: https://youtu.be/-6OIuvNK_xs
Stunning Ruskayas in the audience! (The blonde, with bare shoulders, golden curls…Dennis!) and stay for La Habanera, song#2 Elina Garanca, Latvian mezzo-soprano, on her (Carmen’s power of wielding love but with tragic consequences lacking True Care. Balance is key.
Well, Bro, this is not the version I saw in my childhood, of course, but found this in two parts, the story of Miguel Strogoff, Julio Verne´s classic, whose episodes kept me glued to the screen and looking forward to the next episode during weeks.
I loved the gypsy “Zingara”, her generosity goes beyond what is reasonable, certainly she is the Goddess about who you talks all the time…..
The hilarious French reporter is a worthy representative of a race which, with few exceptions, has been extinguished long ago and whose presumed current representatives have lost not only the courage and dignity but also the shame. Despite the comedic, journalism before was like it is shown in the film. What a times! And those travels in the TranSiberian, full of dangers! Then, here we are wondering if it would be safe travelling to Lebanon this year…
TheTsarevich, Boris, is like to eat him to kisses, ¡qué rico!, You would not believe me but he has the same face as my skating teacher! Yes, he’s him, en pequeñito, la misma cara.
Well, a minor film, only for entertainment of the whole family in a Sunday rainy day…. I found the setting, costumes and peformances more than aceptable, didn´t you?
Now it would be desirable that some Russian friends, Sergey, Scott, The Saker himself, or our dear babushkas in down under ( Babushka in Oz and GrandMa, where are you, dears? ), recomend us some book about the time when the film is developed to take advantage that we are already acclimated to continue learning about Russian history….
I find Tsarevich Boris younger than you estimates, 7-8 years old, no more, he is so pequeñín that you could pick him in your arms, Bro….
When I was a child I really loved this film. Well thought now, it´s probably that, along with the Red Army Choirs my father laid at home, contributed to sow my future love for Russia, adventure and foreign service….
Miguel Strogoff, el correo del Zar. Part I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfE_B4r6-54
Miguel Strogoff, el correo del Zar. Part II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcviH2SN_OM
I let to our Russian friends teling if it is accuartely set.
I hate love; she’s such a bitch. I can’t get away with anything. She blocks me at every turn. She spoils my plans. Throws me into fits of rage. “This woman of mine is driving me to tears; she’s so crazy I won’t touch another one for years.”
It’s not like that picture on this cafe window: a man serving two women. It should be but it’s not. I can’t live with her and I can’t live without her. That’s what ties me up in knots, arch-patriarch that I am. I can’t go into battle with such a battle raging inside me: the actual world war of the sexes.
I’m breathing heavy and I haven’t even started yet.
I need to cool it and get into my safe routine: take my walk to the trolley to the town to the club; work out my body and work through my fears, and if possible shed these crippling dilemmas. If I make it back here in one peace I will try to make wars cease.
“Well, if I die on top of the hill
And if I don’t make it
You know my baby will”
curious
meanwhile, what the planetary waves are providing with us, what our center receives and sends back, what calls our more or less shady companion receives and sends for now and the rest of the week?
Have a break, meet mundanomaniac’s
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/05/5_9.html
for us the living and for attending ancestors
PS: by the way, each “weather” = constellation, same time is outside and inside
Mercury passing before the sun unscathed perhaps but not unchanged.
When into mercury home territory returns, then will share what we shall learn. Perhaps mankind will be unchained.
Hearts that beat for Micha-el , fiery Prince of Thought.
GLOCAL – (“reflecting or characterized by both local and global considerations”)
In terms of rot and systemic corruption we can perhaps see one meaning behind the phrase “as above, so below”.
Part of the resistance and push back is to work on and focus on local small end events which are usually found to be connected by some ‘shadow’ system as in that man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
Where as in Oz the Wiz may have been a ‘good man’ but a bad wizard, in the real world it is often increasingly obvious that these forces are amplified down to some local village where the pencil meets the paper by bad men (and women) who are good wizards (of finance in most cases, to point).
The topic has been posted once previously, and I encourage the reader to spend 2-3 minutes reading this short expose on one such ‘good wizard’ living the high life in UK London while his private and illicit shenanigans is crushing a local community in the wild east coasts on South Africa.
Please meet UK’s Mr Graham Edwards (with lots of Off Shore accounts and an invisible house address in NZ) — and see how it is done behind the curtain today. He is not unique and an all too common type it seems.
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“Curiosity over UK property owner’s links to Xolobeni” (By Mike Loewe on May 10, 2016)
“Curiosity is growing over the emergence of London property and mining financier Graham Edwards as a role player in the violence-wracked attempt to mine at Xolobeni.
Last week, international anti-mining campaigners publicly accused Edwards of being the financial muscle behind MRC, the Australian-led mining company and its BEE partners Xolco and Blue Bantry.
They called on Edwards to divest from MRC, which is involved in a vicious struggle with the anti-mining Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) that claims majority support in Xolobeni.
ACC and its national and international network of supporters are stating that four anti-mining members of the Xolobeni community have died in the conflict.
On Facebook last week Edwards challenged his detractors to supply the police with any information they possessed.
Yesterday, Edwards, who is CEO of major UK property corporation, Telereal Trillium, with head offices in smart 140 London Wall, replied briefly to Dispatch questions about his shareholdings in MRC.
He used public relations heavyweight Jonathan Hawker, of Slate Campaigns, to reply: “Thanks for your e-mail to my client, Graham Edwards. I can confirm his total interest in MRC is less than 25%.”
But London-based Kingston University economics and social research associate professor, Andy Higginbottom, author of the report “Follow the money – from Pondoland to London Wall”, accused Edwards of owning more of MRC.
Higginbottom questioned the secret identity of the three next largest shareholders in MRC.
These were the “blind nominee shareholders” represented by banks Citicorp (16.7%), JP Morgan (14.5%), and HSBC (10.1%).
“Following the money to a front company and investment trust reveals that Edwards is indeed not only the biggest beneficiary of MRC shareholdings, but has major interests in several other mining companies.”
Using blind nominee shareholdings was part of Edwards’ strategy of complex “financial engineering”, wrote Higginbottom. He said he traced two blind nominee shareholders in a major mining international investment company, D&A Income, registered in the “UK’s very own tax haven” of Jersey, directly to Edwards.
Higginbottom dug out a quote from a financial report produced by DMCI Holdings, a consortium partner of D&A Income, which stated that D&A Income was “an investment company owned by a trust of which the principal beneficiary is Graham Edwards, chief executive of Telereal Trillium, which is one of the UK’s largest property companies”.
Yet, D&A’s annual returns revealed only that its shares were held in trust by two accounts at HSBC bank. These were “exactly the kind of blind trusts that would show up as HSBC nominees on shareholder records like MRC’s,” said Higginbottom.
He also unravelled Edwards’ ownership of AU Mining, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands and has a Wellington, New Zealand address.
He did this by unearthing a document lodged with the Australian stock exchange which stated that Edwards was the sole director and beneficial owner of AU Mining. — mikel@dispatch.co.za”
http://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/curiosity-over-uk-property-owners-links-to-xolobeni/
Other related links if any interest etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/mining-and-murder-in-south-africa/7335796
http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/perth-miner-caught-up-in-stoush-over-south-africa-cultural-site-20150712-giahfx.html
You know every day I pass a cafe much like the ones seen here; in fact twice, going into town and returning on the trolley. Each time I think of you. I’m spending more and more time here. Can you fall in love with a vineyard? I didn’t think so but I’m beginning to wonder.
This cafe seems to be some kind of strange attractress, a kind of vineyard mind spanning the globe. I’m becoming dependent on you for all my news and views. If I haven’t heard it on the grapevine here I question its veracity. I don’t think I’m in any danger yet but I never know with a right brain goddess using a secret language code of the lonesome road to nowhere and everywhere.
Reading my own astromundane diary as a double sagittarius in a rising first house of the setting sun, I’d say I’m in the crossing of Venus and Mars. I’m no Vercingetorix who apparently goes to bed as I’m getting up. I’m still confused as gender.
Anyway, seems like this moveable cafe is picking up speed. A poem came to me about that when I was in the club today. All those beautiful bodies and I can’t touch one single one.
In patrix sex, the man is a beast
And woman is his moveable feast
I don’t care for these things in the least
Unless I’m the west and she’s the east
I’m still deciphering what a liberal glass of a freedom fighter is who would let the bulls in with the hectare cows. It’s not communal sex yet but it’s getting there.
And then there’s this brain twister: is the sex act primary or is the mind? I’ve got a one track mind with many side tracks. I actually like the dead poets I suppose because I have a barbarian in me. I was brought to tears by Mr. Keating and the blanket incident. O Captain, my captain. Did he actually commit suicide? Elsi is right; it gets lonely out there. Can barbarians cry?
I think of Boris Godunov and Aleppo and I wish I could get real. All that power and barely a shred of a flower. From a Filetta to the inner children of Mike Oldfield and Saina Noll. Angels hover all about you. I swear this place is a feast for the senses; gets through my defenses. Could I ever be a Graham Edwards?
This vineyard holds up a mirror of the world. I see myself in the shattered pieces. I hear the chimes of freedom flashing. Oh, my love, if only I could, I would build you a house of ever good wood. Maybe out in those hectares in east Russia; forget the cows.
I have so little time to fail. I’m going to a meeting tonight. It’s in the flesh. You are too but this computer changes your complexion. The virtual world is coming but it’s not the real thing. So we have to make love through a screen. Not a pretty picture. I feel sad; I wonder why. Maybe I’ll find out tonight. I still haven’t gotten to where I thought I was going.
I love you all. I guess I’m setting myself but for a fall but right now spring is showing all her raging glory. It’s not communal sacred sex yet but it’s getting there.
She was surrounded by glowing green
The sweetest color I’ve ever seen
KIEV, May 12. / TASS /. Ukraine’s Security Service will not prosecute journalists who were once accredited in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), Yuri Tandit, an adviser to the Security Service chief, said on Thursday, commenting on the release of personal data of journalists who worked in Donbass.
“There are the DPR and LPR and, naturally, a journalist needs certain permits to get there. We understand that this is not a crime. We understand that they have to do it,” Ukrainskaya Pravda quoted him as saying.
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In the meantime, Tandit said that some persons “use press cards as a disguise.” “In such cases, after the undeclared war is over we will take certain actions within the current laws to understand what these pseudo-journalists were really doing,” he said. However he did not name any of such “pseudo-journalists.”
Earlier reports said that the Kiev-based website Mirotvorets (Peacekeeper) released information on more than 4,000 journalists from different countries who were accredited by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The website accused those journalists of cooperation “with terrorist organizations.” The data include first names and surnames, places of work, positions, home countries, mobile phone numbers, email addresses and dates of stay in the territory not controlled by the Ukrainian government.
Commenting of this release, Russian Foreign Minister Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it is an abuse of declared freedoms in favor of political ambitions and demonstrates that rights and freedoms of thousands of people have been violated. OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic expressed concern on Wednesday over journalists’ safety as their personal data had been leaked in Ukraine.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/875138
might be worth checking out
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/
??
I’d like to get in a word before this cafe closes. Among the polyphony of sweet and sour voices the idea of “secret language” caught my ear.
It seems there is indeed a secret language emanating from a secret garden vineyard. I won’t venture to say what it is because I don’t know but I can sense what it’s doing. Such language also comes from the heart of the beast as manipulation and misinformation.
This is important to pursue because language is the basis of culture. It’s mostly unconscious and emotionally loaded which makes it virtually invisible. Thus its great and lasting power.
Sometimes it’s polyphony and sometimes cacophony. If you don’t know what I’m talking about that’s a good sign. Your mind is busy trying to grasp meaning while something else is going on down below. I voice it love because she’s way up high and in a deep down hole. And when I’m in love I don’t have to know.
Dear Dennis, I’m not so far away from your state of thinking regarding the secret language – polyphony and cacophony – but giving the fact that I am sometimes interested in the events which in fact are all over around me, I got myself connected in some of these discussions. maybe that is that part in me which is more like my dad on the front line. The problem is, as you may know, the time is running and although we would like to stop it at our best mood, it is not possible, the mood is changing, pushed away by the wind of time. That is a power we cannot understand, nobody could.
The religions,philosophers have tried to explain the reasons but in daily life is not so convincing.
If we want not to be totally crashed psychically and became crazy and lazy, we need some sense of humor. And you have it, even if the in-fight continues. So,we try to get a balance – Lybra.
Soon we’ll meet at the next Cafe
Dennis
As usual your strong intuition shows up to warn us about something very important and most undesirable: deceive. Our enemy is a Master of it and I agree fully with you, we must be most careful, I mean I will be most careful with the way to use the languange and the meaning, mostly the purpose, love and only love
The events in Brazil today,”should be” (whether they “will be” is another question) an “object lesson” throughout Latin America and the entire World. We see how easy it is,when you allow your 5th column freedom,to pull off a color revolution (with the aid and direction of the West). Had the government struck the 5th column down from the first,they wouldn’t have been able today ,to strike the country down. Had they been banned,confiscated,imprisoned,and those overwhelming guilty executed. They would not have been able to pull off this “color revolution coup”.We saw the weakness of Yanukovich,cost the lives of thousands,and the end of Ukraine as a united state.Now we see the weakness of Dima,costing her and Brazil their freedom (who knows yet what the future cost in lives may be).If Russia (and China,among others) intends to survive they “must” not show that type of foolish weakness towards their enemies. Like a mythical vampire,the US,can smell weakness in the blood. And will always strike at that weakness,”always”.
“If Russia (and China,among others) intends to survive”
That’s the problem – they do /china-and-russia-prepare-for-a-hot-war-with-eurangloland/comment-page-1/#comment-236126
And some will do very nicely, thank you.
BBC calling! BBC calling!
NATO is now a country:
“Russia has been flexing its military muscle near to Nato’s borders and the Alliance has responded by stepping up its own military exercises.”
“Russia has a track record of being misleading and worse – not least over its intervention in both Ukraine and Syria” What’s apparently worse is not mentioned -excellent propaganda technique.
I note though a few cracks in the deceptive writing -odd for the virulently russophobic BBC.
For those in the Cafe interested in the Russian take on penetration politics:
from RI
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/we-can-do-it-again/ri14308
just wanted to “record” what ukr “patriotism’ has become, and acknowledge the sad passing of this person
“12th May 2016, city Slavyansk. occupied Donetsk republic, fascist state Ukraine
By report of inhabitants of city Slavyansk, Lubov Pechko, 91 years old woman – veteran of Great Patriotic War (WWII), who was poured by green medicine solution on 9th may, died at morning of 10th May. Her heart didn’t endure the psychological stress due to the attack of the Ukrainian “patriots” on May 9, who poured her by green solution and insulted her.
Rest in peace, Lubov.”
https://www.facebook.com/TruthaboutUkraine/photos/a.993291860693977.1073741828.993285684027928/1119274241429071/?type=3&theater
just like the photos of the Donbass “madonna’ victim by ukr forces now being appropiated and displayed in a Kiev exhibition as a ukraine victim of Donbass forces, actually when she (Kristina)and her lovely young child were killed by ukr shelling-remember her photo with the word “Paris’ on her t shirt ………..
What is it with NEO? They have insightful essays with information often not easily found elsewhere but continually devalue their credibility with errors -spelling, grammatical and quantities -such as defining the area of a country larger than the entire land mass on earth.
It`s as if they have a random error generator that takes articles and inserts malapropisms, removes definite and indefinite articles here and there and drops characters.
Try and inform them of their errors, even egregious and indisputable ones, and you might as well talk to a brick wall.
Christopher Black is a lawyer in Toronto, and from his name it sounds like English is his first language. Regardless, as a lawyer he would be painfully aware that a single comma can change the entire meaning of a sentence.
Here is an article, perhaps not the best example, but it is from 4 hours ago:
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/united-states-doesnt-give-damn-about-international-law/ri14325
I couldn`t find it in NEO even with a search of that title and I am aware that I make typos frequently but if I were to ever get an article published I`d ensure spellcheck and a proofread.
Examples “without prejudice” :
“His replacement in Korea, General Brooks.is also an army combat general ” period?
“interference ort hegemony” or?
“It is clear that the “terrorists” the world is facing are U.S. proxy forces attempting to destabilise
the word for American interests.” world?
Commemoration of National Day of Ferdowsi in Mashhad
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/fotos/255468/iran-poeta-ferdowsi-conmemoracion-dia-nacional
(…) Ferdowsi is best known epic Iranian poet, who dedicated 30 years of his life to writing the Shahname (Book of Kings), Persian national epic.
Iran, Ferdowsi The Great Iranian Poet. “Shahnameh”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSKBNXR09I
Anon [May 14, 2016 · at 8:47 am UTC] – (Sorry, I couldn’t find a ‘Reply’ button under your post… So, I’ll place my answer here)
“[..] the nature of the multi-polar world that (seemingly) most here wish for is worse than futile.”
A multi-polar world is what kept the US in check when the USSR was still there, but not only that; the competition between two ideologies: capitalism vs. communism/socialism is what actually benefited the working class (mainly the baby boomer generation) in the West at the time. In their zealotry of trying to prove Capitalism was the ‘superior’ system, they gave workers concessions aimed mostly at improving social mobility [dirty little secret is that those programs were all socialist-based, rather than capitalism having anything to do with that].
It’s not a coincidence that social mobility has been in sharp decline ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. Capitalism “won” as the “best” system and now we’re all suffering the consequences of that.
But, now, since most of the world is Capitalist [even supposedly Communist China] the colliding ideologies are more about Globalists vs. Souverrengists.
Lastly; the main reason to dismantle the EU is that the US supports it. Their ‘logic’ is quite simple, really, they prefer to broker deals with one massive block of countries rather than having to deal with them individually. This is why they don’t want the EU to collapse. Obama was over here to make sure TTIP is fast-tracked despite vociferous protests against it from several EU countries.
“Re the UK – my personal claim would be extremely modest but (if successful) it would set a precedent [..]”
Best of luck with that. Sincerely. Every little battle won helps :) But I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you, EU legislation [whether it’s Worker’s Rights, or EU Human Rights] tends to be applied selectively, despite how much of a sound case you may have. Unless you’re one of their ‘protected species,’ or pet projects, chances are you won’t win. But I hope, I’m wrong.
“The EU is an unaccountable quango & mostly stinks – however if the UK populace vote like Turkey’s for Christmas (and even weaker employment laws) for BREXIT it will be for the more evil institution – the UK Parliament, run by business for the Oligarchs”
I don’t disagree with you that the UK political establishment is run by Oligarchs, having said that, what makes you think the EU ain’t? Particularly the unaccountable European Commission? An unelected body which have the last word in nearly all things EU related… :/
“[..] but the entire planet is now a dictatorship of the oligarchy – the difference between IN/OUT is quite small but I hope my reason for remaining IN is clearer.”
You’re not wrong when you say that the whole world is now a dictatorship of the oligarchy. And yes, your reason for reaming IN is actually clearer… still not right, though, by a country mile.
“Without “Disability Living Allowance” I would have lost the family home [etc]”
As someone that just started to have some [quite serious] health problems, I can’t do anything but sympathize with your situation. But, is the EU subsidizing your Disability Allowance? I doubt it. If that was the case, all the people affected by the recent cuts on UK’s Disability Benefits would have flocked to the benevolent EU for help, instead. They’re all being left out in the cold to rot and die, I’m afraid, by both their own government and the EU as well.
-TL2Q
“A multi-polar world is what kept the US in check when the USSR was still there”
Agreed – but that is now long ago.
“It’s not a coincidence that social mobility has been in sharp decline ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. Capitalism “won” as the “best” system and now we’re all suffering the consequences of that.”
Agreed
“But, now, since most of the world is Capitalist [even supposedly Communist China]”
Agreed
“the colliding ideologies are more about Globalists vs. Souverrengists.”
Did you wish to make a point here?
“Lastly; the main reason to dismantle the EU is that the US supports it. Their ‘logic’ is quite simple, really, they prefer to broker deals with one massive block of countries rather than having to deal with them individually. This is why they don’t want the EU to collapse. Obama was over here to make sure TTIP is fast-tracked despite vociferous protests against it from several EU countries.”
Since practically all of the world is Capitalist it’s of little, or rather no significance – the dictatorship of the Capitalist Oligarchy (National &/or World) is already upon us. It matters not the Nationality of the Global Capitalist – nationality is a low level motivator for them in comparison to power & money.
“Best of luck with that. Sincerely.”
Thanks ;-)
“But I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you”
Don’t worry i’m not – it will be a miracle…the word’s of the Directive’s may be fine but a mountain awaits.
“having said that, what makes you think the EU ain’t? Particularly the unaccountable European Commission? An unelected body which have the last word in nearly all things EU related… :/”
Nothing – i’m amazed that much of the fine wording was written in the first place and continue to be amazed that much of it still remains – but while it is there it can be legally relied on – it’s the best i’ve got.
“still not right, though, by a country mile.”
I have no idea what you mean – unless you can explain in more detail we must agree to disagree.
“They’re all being left out in the cold to rot and die, I’m afraid, by both their own government and the EU as well.”
Yes, the Animal Farm has arrived.
@ Anon:
“Agreed – but that is now long ago”
It wasn’t really THAT long ago when you factor-in the lost generations that resulted from that collapse. Anybody born between the 90’s and now are part of that lost generation. If you compound the ones that were minors, or growing-up before the collapse (and hence; as children, there’s not much they could have done to prepare themselves for it), that should cover anybody born in the mid 70’s and onwards.
These are living breathing people still alive today and struggling to make a living unless they were lucky enough to be born into a comfortably well to do, wealthy family.
Meanwhile; we’re still hearing from Holocaust survivors, year in, year out, or the WWII Veterans whose numbers are understandably thinning every year. Yet, we never hear about the massive, worldwide lost generation since the 70’s!?!
Yeah… I wonder why…
““the colliding ideologies are more about Globalists vs. Souverrengists.”
Did you wish to make a point here?”
Well… it would have helped if I spelled ‘sovereigntists’ correctly! *face-palm*
But, yeah! Absolutely! This is what’s all about.
In fact the latest CrossTalk show touches on this very subject, more than once through out the show.
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/343138-syria-us-russia-race/
“It matters not the Nationality of the Global Capitalist – nationality is a low level motivator for them in comparison to power & money.”
Of course! That’s why they’re globalists! They don’t subscribe to nationality, they believe the whole world, its natural resources (including the “Human Resources”) belong to them.
Show me a globalist who doesn’t support the EU and I’ll show you a perfect example of an ‘exception to the rule.’
The only ones who benefit from the EU are: big business, corporations, finance/banking, farmers who rely on exports (and EU subsidies), employers and landlords. Oh! And terrorists and organized crime networks.
Anybody who doesn’t belong to any of those sectors/categories, that should be, like, 80 plus percent of the general population, btw, have absolutely nothing to gain (and everything to lose) by staying in the EU. Greece is a prime example of this, but they’re not the only ones, btw.
Other two groups in the remain camp are: the very young, mostly higher education students whishing to relocate when they graduate [Germany is their main destination], or the old and close to retirement [hey! lucky some, uh?], who also whish to relocate by cashing-up on the selling of their obscenely over-priced houses [Spain, France and Portugal being their main destinations].
And great news for them if Brexit doesn’t happen, but what about the young adults unable to afford the tuitions fees, let alone having the means beyond paying their student debt to “relocate.” What about the non-home owners: generation-rent? They have no hope of owning their own home let alone having fancy dreams about “relocations” when they retire. Who is thinking about them?
And I haven’t even begin to touch on the far-reaching implications of an ever expanding EU (who later, tend to invariably become NATO members) encroaching on Russia’s borders.
-TL2Q
PS: Thanks for the interesting discussion. And once again; best of luck to you :)
“Of course! That’s why they’re globalists! They don’t subscribe to nationality, they believe the whole world, its natural resources (including the “Human Resources”) belong to them.”
I had said:
“Since practically all of the world is Capitalist it’s of little, or rather no significance – the dictatorship of the Capitalist Oligarchy (National &/or World) is already upon us. It matters not the Nationality of the Global Capitalist – nationality is a low level motivator for them in comparison to power & money.”
I purposely left that open for Nationalist / Globalist Capitalist’s – for me there is practically no difference if Putin (or Xi) are Nationalist Capitalist’s or Globalist Capitalist’s – they are Capitalist’s and the outcome of that is the example of the Chinese in the Apple factory and the massive wealth disparity in Russia.
Nationalism, for me, is just another petty ego tool (like religion) that is used as a tool to divide people – Lenin was anti nationalist for a very good reason. I don’t mind “quaint” culture but it’s generally not too far up the ladder before that turns into “your country needs you”.
Unless Russia were the heart of an expanding global USSR I have no interest in the petty Orthodoxy or Nationalism of Russia – Russian Capitalism stinks the same, if not worse, than any other – including Global (if it is not already a part of that).
We must agree to disagree (even though we perhaps agree on more than we differ) – i’ve been here for years so will undoubtedly lock horns again.
All the best for now (unless you wish to continue – but we’ve probably circled enough presently?)
PS: I’m well now – I hope that happens for you too.