2016/06/28 09:00:02
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The Cafe is open, a young lady is there, maybe she has red hair and waits for Flash Gordon from London. He arrives soon and tells us his adventure :
Flash Gordon in the Cafe
One day, sitting in the old Cafe, sipping careful my hot tee
Reading in my newspaper, through my glasses, I saw her…
Sitting lonely in the corner, at the table of the owner.
With high heels and mini skirts, with breasts, which mind flirts.
Lovely green hat on her head, Oh, I swear, her hair was red.
Her pullover, all in green and her legs, of a Queen.
She was sitting in my front, as a dream, just I want…
I don’t know, I had the feeling that her gesture has a meaning.
Looking through binoculars, not believing to my eyes,
Saw her legs under the desk, moving slowly, pitoresque…
Sexy move and crossing legs, me on watch, sitting on eggs.
What ? she’s flashing now for me ? who’s this woman, who is she ?
But my eyes are stuck in there, under desk and on her hair…
Where I am ? Paris or London ? had the feeling I’m Flash Gordon.
This is going to be hot, with my eyes fixing that spot…
At the flashing of that flesh, my mind’s plane is gonna crash.
But that woman, clever mind, knew much better what she find.
Suddenly, like a cat in her house, who is playing with the mouse,
In her green and in her red, she approached me and said :
– Are you looking for a friend ? cause I know your real intend…
– Really ? what a big surprise, I just wonder, what’s your price…
We have talked, have a drink and I payed without a blink.
Looking through my glasses, all was green, her assets,
Her pullover, skirts and hat, and the wonder beyond that
Was the purple of her head, what a color, what a red !
When she disappeared in toilet I was searching for my wallet…
Green and red, intriguing mixture, now, I understand the picture
I thought, she will strip for me, for sympathy and for free…
Being very sweet like honey, red head took away my money.
As for me, as Flash Gordon, left no reason for a pardon.
ioan, your poem is such an early smash,
I’m just so irritated, I just wanna talk trash.
For the AZ classical, I shot my wad,
Arousing a censor (Or is “Anonymous” Mod?)
Guest or mod, I can’t one up you,
And for that I really feel sad.
Yes, the world is stacked against me,
To rise at two is nuts, pure lunacy.
Now I’m shot for all of Tuesday,
And “No more Brexit!” is decreed!
What the heck! I’m done with poetry,
Classical lines bested by mere lechery!
Well, I think you’re just some Texan,
With your leering appeal to tits and ass,
(Oh, I admit I was also so taken in
By such lines of such deplorably low class…)
What’s a bro to do, retire, cede the battle?
Hell no! You’re all hat, and no cattle!
Your primacy may surely swell your head,
Make you feel so arrogant and so proud.
To be chosen first is of course to take the gold,
Second is mere silver, encouraging me to fold.
But in some Cafe Futuro, a comeback I will make,
‘Cause you’re just so much sizzle, and so little steak.
In fact, I join Anonymous, and I additionally decree
That no Cafe winner may resort to smut or dirt.
(It’s just too low, too crass, to snatch victory
From beneath a maiden’s or even a prostitute’s skirt.
So go and count your gold, yes, add it to your stash,
But in terms of lines of class, your’re All Flash & No Cash.
(The End, by Trash Talking Loser)
References:
Modern aphorisms to describe attractive veneer of little or no substance:
Mid-west: “All sizzle, no steak.”
Tex-ass: “All hat, no cattle.”
Hollywood, Wall St: “All flash, no cash.”
Now that I’ve done my best,
To get everything off my chest
I must to bed, to seek my rest.
And so make a last request:
Carry me home upon your shoulder,
I can’t even walk now on my own,
Be kind enough to lift me, carry me home.
I’m defeated but not heavy,carry me home:
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Then I felt like a fellow carrier. Now I must be carried, home. But I’m not heavy. I lost two pounds, Now only 238, carry me home! LOL.That’s what you get for coming in first!
https://youtu.be/oT57tjz9py8 He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother!
Don’t be upset Bro, the reality with posting is that on Tuesday’s the Cafe is opening at mid-day in Europe and on every Saturday is opening at mid-day in USA. Because the planet is still round, when in one place is late night (midnight) on the other side is mid day. This poem – as it is – was written by me for several days if not weeks, as I told you earlier. I didn’t find it intriguing or vulgar for the matter, it has humor, it has a story which sounds real for a normal men, why not ? it’s a normal attitude for a men to look at a beautiful woman. My repertoire is large as large my imagination is, so I am happy to share it with all of you here as long as we are friends in love. The situation can change any time for all of us and later we will remember these times. Therefore, I’m not running for a contest of beauty, just want to entertain. The political comments are something else, implying another approach. So, my dear Bro, let the verses flow and let the comments flow as they are. Now, with some music for the better understanding of that verse and a consolation for you with my all respect and gratitude for your open mind :
Engelbert Humperding – Red Rose for My Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrlZCoaLXE
Well, I never was upset ioan!
Here are some clues, to better “read” the semi-deceptive Bro:
I’ve noted that many people are sensitive, easy to upset.
And I have reflected, that I don’t know if they could insult me in a way I might take seriously, even if they tried their hardest…………..
Am I too subtle with my attempted humor? All, 100% of the negative reaction expressed was feigned, used as compositional fuel.to get into the trash talking mode/mood, which is pretty much a daily affair with me and the 10 year old. I guess I fail as a comic! Except with 10 year olds that are on to all of my tricks……..and enjoy them.
Hopefully you won’t feel a tinge of anything remotely uneasy about me in the next 4-5 days, as now the concentrated part starts; 7 am Wednesday the professional moving guys show up and for 3-4-5 days will be living in two different houses 30 miles apart until the transition ends @ July 3.
So I will miss most of this cafe and the next!
“Ay, cuanto dolor me cuesta, quererte como te quiero!” (Si, pero el dolor es muy dulce!)
Bro
The reality is that I will miss you, pity that can’t help you in the moving, hopefully you can cope with it fast and easy and then, once everything has his place, you can feel relaxed. Wait you back !
Gosh, lads.
And there was me admiring the exqusitely etched glass of the MF cafe, utterly oblivious to the lady behind it..lol!
(Love her kick-ass bob, though – Swinging Sixties meets Flapper Twenties. Maybe that’s what set Ioan off?:-)
eimar
exactly, two generations meet in Cafe – the old romantic and naive, the young with two legs on earth.
“All hat, no cattle”. That’s hilarious, I hadn’t heard that one before. Rest well, Bro, and thanks to you and ioan for the light-hearted and fun entrance into this café.
Yeah, S113, that one went straight into hard drive memory within seconds of first hearing it.
I’m always on the lookout for pungency and pith. Now to collect a few from others in Eastern Europe, Australia, Russia, etc. Got any?
Same here – I’ve used it more than once myself.
Also fond of the English ‘ two sandwiches short of a packed lunch’ which denotes the limits of someone’s sanity…:)
Maybe the Overlords of Chaos could be enlightened via a few well-filled Subways ?
Thanks for the song to go to sleep with. And the canyon footage was awesome. I try to imagine how many millions of years it took to carve that masterpiece, and the love behind it, for us to view now. Take care, true care of yourself.
Likewise, Dennis. With both of us making ourselves scarce for part of this summer, it gives space for a few others to carry the Scribblers’ torch more toward the front. I’m looking forward to slipping about a half mile behind the Vineyard Train http://winetrain.com/ reading some surprises, even if I’m unable to write much of anything for a week.
Enjoy your trip! It’s always good to get around a bit, shake the cobwebs loose, look out of the back of the caboose and step onto a new platform, where you haven’t been in years.
Ah, my sweet, you are back so soon! I would order a ristretto, just to sit here and admire you, but I must be on my way, and hopefully, finally, fall asleep.fall asleep early, early Tuesday morning.
I only got two hours sleep Monday night. For some insane reason, Martin and Elsi and Dennis and Dylan and a Dionysian rhythm kept wracking my exhausted, tortured brain. I know that some want to pour fuel on the fire and burn the brusselocracy down, but as a promoter of the Goddess of True Care, I must think of everyone’s trials and tribulations, and try to give comfort, everywhere:
Brussels Blues Again (A European Politician’s Lament)
It’s just past midnight ,
But now I cannot sleep.
And I wonder what the matter is,
Why promises I cannot keep.
Nussiminen said, “Take out the Euro-trash.”
But where to put it I cannot tell,
No one will take my Euros now,
My world has suddenly gone to hell.
Oh, Angela, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of NATO
With the Brussels blues again?
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeE1iIpVWG2D4jVi1AfEH920hw_VcGn14F1uE4XBr0nJqJ1dOzSg
Could it be that I’m just dreaming,
That I am really not awake?
That Brexit vote is so haunting,
My nightmares I cannot shake,
Of the goatman at Gotthard Tunnel
And his prancing writhing ass,
How to keep the bubble blowing,
For the satanic banker class…
Oh, David, can the pigs be at an end
To be stuck inside of NATO
With the Brussels blues again!
https://www.google.com/search?q=european+union+logo+high+resolution&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1060&tbm=isch&imgil=6PAXnOGZ2HLHhM%253A%253BPpHvsOvTeo1BfM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Feuropa.eu%25252Fabout-eu%25252Fbasic-information%25252Fsymbols%25252Fflag%25252Findex_en.htm&source=iu&pf=m&fir=6PAXnOGZ2HLHhM%253A%252CPpHvsOvTeo1BfM%252C_&usg=__7Y9_VfZgKl60HrqyLYyEUFwWNzs%3D
Even our famous circle star flag
Is running through my mind,
Its irritating my hemorrhoids
And itching my behind.
Who wants the stellar ring of unity
That makes mothers’ children cry
When I see that goddamned logo,
I just think of assholes in the sky.
Oh, Francois, what would DeGaulle
And Joan of Arc say now?
To be stuck inside of NATO
With the Brussels blues again!
Bro June 28, 2016
Seriously, I woke at 12:04 am, stuck with Memphis Blues Again
https://youtu.be/5WS-TTNaLyg
playing over and over and over again, in some kind of Euro-juke box in my brain.
Now, at 2 am, the moon is exactly equally light and dark, indicating ambiguity and transition. Her northern half is lit, she veils her face with fleeting wisps of grayish lace, and then those lower earthly mists fall away as she smiles and climbs higher in the eastern sky. Nature’s daughter, the sun’s better half, she whispers to Europa to slip off Jupiter’s bullish back, end Zeus’ roguish dreams of raping her without end:
https://youtu.be/N8AKEHiLDAU
Rembrandt’s Abduction of Europa
Bro
Yeah, I know your feelings right, sometimes have the same effect my self. But in your case has a good effect, giving you the muses good ideas put in on-the-spot verses like this one. I really like it, after so much brexit you give the conclusion, in historical context…great ! bravo !
I really liked that poem, and the painting Europa. Thanks.
Nice cafe pic today :).
Good news coming out of Brazil
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160628/1042056308/brazil-senate-rouseff-budjet.html
Something has shifted – “Brazilian Senate issued a report saying that there are no evidences of Dilma Rousseff involving in the country’s budget manipulations, a Latin-American broadcaster reported……”
Good luck impeaching her now!
@ Everyone
Please no more Brexit. Discussion is finished.
Out of curioisity, who are you? Staff, regular contributors, I would think identify themselves as such.
Anonymous that can’t be distinguished from dozens of others, but presumes to issue directives?
Weird.
I wish mods would either say it is from them (which I highly, highly doubt) or not even let something so presumptuous in, or, if they did let it in, disclaim it with blue comments on its inappropriateness.
But maybe its just me, irritated at not being able to participate much more at all for 4-5 days til settled in.
Waitress,
The café has now opened, and there are vacant chairs. A cup of cappuccino please. Need a strong one for some serious deliberations.
Being absent for a month, I got delayed in going through two ‘electrifying’ articles “A Russian warning” and “How Russia is preparing for WWIII” that appeared in this website couple of weeks back, and are high in popularity rating. It appeared to me that the ‘Bear’ has woken up from slumber, now that the ‘Fox’ has started to munch its tail !
Suffice it to say that, the human civilization, in its known existence of past six millennium, has never come to such an extreme level of hostility: on the one hand, the AngloZionist (AZ) plutocracy finds a way to achieve final ‘victory’ i.e. absolute global control, if they can decimate Russian-Chinese-Iranian people and leadership, while on the other hand, the Eurasian people and leadership started preparation to hand over the final ‘defeat’ to the AZ cabal, so that political-economic independence can be maintained and the eternal ideals of truth-justice-equality can be established.
Background:
We know the long-term objectives of the AZ cabal during its centuries-old existence:
1) Control ‘political process and power’ in every society/country on the earth
2) Control ‘economic process and wealth’ in every landmass/country/ocean on the earth
3) Control ‘socio-cultural process and population’ in every region/country on the earth
To achieve all the three objectives, the AZ clique, essentially needs to subjugate all the civilizations across the world. Apart from brute force of invasion, the following tools, and methods are among the durable and effective initiatives undertaken/established by AZ cabal during the past century to achieve their objectives of hegemonic world order (through ‘one world government’):
1) UNO, and its hundreds of sister organizations
2) Global banking and financial Institutions like BIS, WB, IMF, ADB
3) Trade pacts like GATT, WTO, and similar other pacts driven by USA-West Europe-Japan
4) Arms control treaties/regimes like CTBT, NPT, NSG, MTCR
5) Fiat Dollar as the foreign currency exchange basis across the globe
6) ‘English’ promoted as the primary language replacing vernacular languages across world
7) System of ‘Electoral politics’ promoted as ‘Democracy’ across globe
8) System of ‘Monopoly Capitalist’ economy in the garb of ‘Market Economy’ across globe
9) World-Wide-Web/Internet as ‘information’ and as ‘cultural’ platform across globe
10) Mainstream media broadcasting/publishing nonstop propaganda across globe
11) Genetically modified crops and foods
12) Genetically engineered humanoids
Since 1985 the AZ elite-aristocrats went berserk to think that finally the golden moment has arrived – centuries old dream about ‘end of history’ with the establishment of AZ liberal capitalist world order is nearing realization, with significant strategic maneuvers that can be phased as below:
(a) Preparatory phase from 1985 to 2000: the AZ clique coordinated in 1985 (Mikhail Gorbachev seizing power in ruling party of USSR), 1991 (Dissolution of USSR, and Yugoslavia), 1999 (NATO attack Greater Serbia without UNO authorization to support Kosovo region to secede), and 2000 (USSR’s mighty nuclear submarine Kursk destroyed through sabotage); 1981 onwards drive towards industrial capitalism in China, and 1992 onwards (drive towards industrial capitalism in India through globalized finance owned by the AZ bankers and industrialists
(b) Passive war phase from 2001 to 2016: AZ cabal coordinated in 2001 (false flag attack on WTC in New York using Arab Salafist terrorists that paved way to USA, UK first attack in 2001 the forces of Afghanistan government to remove Taliban government from power, and then attack in 2003 the forces of Iraq government to remove Baath Party government and kill President Saddam Hussein), 2008 (Georgian attack against South Ossetia which was repulsed by Russian military), 2011 (ISIL and other Salafists started attacking Syrian government forces in all regions but couldn’t seize power, however NATO attack on Libya to support Salafists resulted in defeat of the Libyan government forces and killing of President Muammar Gaddafi), 2014 (Ukraine’s President Yanukovich was removed through ‘Euromaidan’ militancy plus constitutional coup and large scale repression of Russian people, but USA failed to establish naval base in Crimea).
What are the ongoing strategic actions undertaken by AZ clique? When are they planning to plunge into ‘Active war phase’ against Russia and China? In order to defeat the AZ cabal in the eastern hemisphere, the strategic actions and preparedness of the ruling governments of USA-Rest of 5 EYES-Israel-Key NATO Countries during last ten years need to be assessed without bias. I am sharing my observations in this transparent and rational discussion forum, thanks to the tireless efforts of The Saker and his team …
Assessment of ‘AZ camp’ ongoing strategic plan:
To achieve the long-term objectives, AZ camp has been using manipulation and coercion with equal ease during past centuries.
Current overarching geo-political and political strategic actions common across all the countries of the eastern hemisphere are:
a. Manipulating the policy of government and bureaucracy as well as coopting the key political parties across all countries of the eastern hemisphere so that they can deploy pro-USA pro-Rest of 5 Eyes pro-Israel as well as anti-China anti-Russia policy actions. Simultaneously, oligarch-aristocrat families and elite individuals with servility towards AZ ideology (i.e. capitalist enterprises, private ownership, European ‘liberal imperialism’) are promoted in the political leadership-bureaucracy-business enterprises who can advance the interests of AZ clique
b. Developing conventional, nuclear, biological, chemical, and other special weapons and building a military force based on land, marine, air, and space that will be able to dominate every other country in every region, and if necessary, the military force can take punitive actions against any country including carrying out ‘first strike’ against other nuclear powers like Russia and China without any possibility of retaliatory strike
c. Pushing the military machinery manufactured by AZ cabal (in USA-Rest of 5 Eyes-Israel-France) into as many countries of the eastern hemisphere as possible and for all three departments (army, navy, air force) through coopting the ruling party, military, and bureaucracy; undertaking regular military exercises with military of industrialized and/or populous countries (except Russia-China-Iran) to enhance the level of interoperability with USA/NATO military personnel and machinery – as ‘groundwork’ for future regional military alliance
d. Deploying mainstream media, academic institutions, NGOs, pressure groups for carrying out grass-root level activism and propaganda across all countries of the eastern hemisphere addressing two sections of people: educated and elite sections of society are imbibed ideas on ‘Liberal Democracy’, ‘Human Rights’, and ‘Capitalist Market Economy’, application of which can increase private ownership of industry, while vulnerable sections of Sunni Islamic societies are brainwashed with ideas of ‘Wahabi Salafist’ militant ideas that can permanently keep the home country and its neighbourhood disturbed
e. Engaging global mainstream media and academic institutions to continuously vilify Chinese investments in infrastructure, mining, and manufacturing sectors in other countries that would help the country to register economic growth along with Chinese economic growth
f. Engaging global mainstream media and academic institutions to continuously denigrate effectiveness of Russian military machinery sold to other countries, and to resist and vilify Russian diplomatic involvement in multilateral institutions for dispute resolution among countries in other regions of the world
Geo-political and political strategies and resultant ongoing action plans in different regions of the eastern hemisphere can be summarized as below:
1) In East Asia, South-East Asia, Pacific Ocean zone, the key strategic action point is ‘Containment of China’ and ‘Create Asia-Pacific NATO’ through the following programmes:
a. Fomenting secessionist and anti-merger movements in Hong Kong, Xinjiang (Turkestan), Xizang (Tibet) regions of Chinese mainland. AZ cabal utilizes fault-lines of multi-ethnic and multi-religion society in China to create strong secessionist movements to torn apart the country into multiple vassal states attached to AZ Hegemon
b. Installing AZ camp followers as the ruling elites of Taiwan island who will not make peace with mainland, and can declare formal independence from Chinese mainland
c. Provoking trouble in South China Sea, East China Sea through coopting the ruling party leadership and bureaucracy of littoral states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan and nudging them towards confrontational behaviour with China
d. Keeping the land boundary dispute between India and China alive through coopting the Indian ruling party leadership and bureaucracy and nudging them towards illogical and confrontational behaviour
e. Keeping the ‘Korean problem’ alive by coopting successive South Korean governments towards taking an aggressive stance towards North Korean government so that peace agreement (as logical settlement of Korean War armistice) never happens
f. Keeping the ‘Kuril Islands problem’ alive by coopting successive Japanese governments towards taking an illogical aggressive stance towards Soviet/Russian government so that peace agreement (as logical end of WW II) never happens
g. Spreading propaganda in global media identifying Chinese ruling party’s internal debates as ‘factional fight’ to create factionalism within the ruling party, and vilifying Chinese manufacturing prowess as ‘sweatshop’ to create a negative image of China
2) In South Asia, Indian Ocean zone, the key strategic action points are ‘Pull India into AZ Orbit’ and ‘Keep Afghanistan a Troubled State’ through the following programmes:
a. Fomenting Salafist terrorism in India through Pakistan border, and then cozying up to the ruling party leadership and bureaucracy with ‘offer’ that joining the USA and NATO’s anti-terrorist campaign would resolve the terrorist problems in India
b. Coopting Pakistani leadership and military to mobilize various shades of Salafist Islamic groups into Afghanistan to keep it a ‘troubled zone’, that reinforces the ‘necessity’ of maintaining USA and NATO military bases in Afghanistan permanently
c. Finalizing two-way cooperation between USA and India so that USA can utilize Indian defense logistics facilities (India with limited zone of conflict, has very less requirement of reciprocal measure) and security intelligence network in case of large scale war
d. Manipulating Indian diplomacy in the neighbourhood to foment trouble in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives as and when the leadership in those countries chose to steer through independent path as their people chosen
e. Keeping the India-China border dispute alive, by coopting successive Indian governments towards non-settlement of border agreement with China
3) In West Asia, North-East Africa, North Africa zone, the key strategic action points are ‘Turn the Region into Sphere of Israel’, ‘Establish Salafist power-base’, and ‘Reorganize State boundaries’ through the following programmes:
a. Creating multiple groups of Salafist terrorists by drawing unemployed/underemployed youth from Sunni Islam communities in the entire east-west corridor from Morocco North Atlantic shore to Afghanistan, and indoctrinating them with Wahabi Salafist ideas. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881). These are groups created with funding by Saudi, GCC, Israel using remnants of Saddam’s Iraqi Army officers and Egyptian/Algerian/Libyan Army deserters, trained by Pentagon/Mossad/M16, armaments and logistics provided by Turkey-Saudi-GCC countries as well as USA-Israel-NATO countries. For expansion of terrorist operation the funding is being arranged through illegal business of extraction and sale of Petroleum from North/Central Iraq, North/East Syria, Libya, Nigeria oil fields
b. Portraying the army of Arab Salafist terrorists as army of ‘pan-Islamic World’ through recruitment of non-Arab mercenary forces from West Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia to create a ‘legitimacy’ among huge Asian and African Muslim population who would imagine that one ‘Caliphate’ can provide them a life with ‘dignity’ in a society free from all vices. Turkey is busy recruiting volunteer terrorists from south and south-east Asian countries where poverty and illiteracy is widespread
c. Destabilizing ‘State apparatus’ by coopting the popular revolts against the autocratic rulers in Egypt, and Tunisia, and by mobilizing Salafist terrorists to bring down rulers in Libya, and Syria who were looked upon by their people as ‘legitimate’; simultaneously ‘State boundaries’ are being obliterated with different Salafist groups turning large swathes of land into their fiefdom across countries like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Somalia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Chad – simultaneous occurrence of destruction of state apparatus as well as state boundaries in a region will throw up reorganization of states
d. Pushing Pentagon/CIA/M16 to background and creating a dependency on Israel for all governments in West Asia and North-East Africa who seek logistics-training-intelligence required, strangely, for both – helping the Salafist army (in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq) as well as resisting the Salafist army (in Egypt, Somalia, Mali), thereby shaping up a two-tier architecture in the region with Israel as coordinator state providing logistics and intelligence supports to tier-2 satellite states
e. Manipulating the Kurdish liberation forces (separately in Turkey, Iraq, Syria) to act such that, the Iraqi and Syrian Kurds (leaders of which are hand-in-glove with AZ cabal) break away from their countries and create new state, while Turkey based Kurds (tradition of Marxist ideology based struggle against Turkish state repression) are expelled from their land of south-east Turkey to the new ‘Kurdistan’ state
f. Keeping Iran as a ‘pariah’ state in global affairs through imposing strict sanctions that will cripple economy and defense, and weaken the society beyond recovery; coopting the government and bureaucracy in all countries neighbouring Iran to create such a geopolitical situation so that, Iranian military forces are under tremendous working stress continuously for decades
4) In Central Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa zone, the key strategic action points are ‘Containment of China’, and ‘Keep sub-Saharan Africa a Troubled Region’ through the following programmes:
a. Creating chaos and destabilizing ‘State apparatus’ by arming various tribes in the central and western regions of Africa who will indulge in internecine warfare through decades, thus Ruanda, Burundi, DR of Congo, Republic of Congo, Sudan, Nigeria etc. will remain hotbeds of tribal clashes
b. Creating chaos by arming various Salafist terrorist groups in sub-Saharan countries and in parallel creating fissures between Muslim and Christian population, thus making way for deployment of military forces from USA and NATO with usual rhetoric of ‘maintaining democratic and lawful government’
c. Influencing the political leaders in Africa’s south region where anti-imperialist struggle against European powers brought independence (Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia) towards cooperation with different institutions of AZ cabal and indulge in corruption, which ultimately bring them under the wings of AZ Hegemon (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2016/06/04/%5EMozambique%20Corruption.pdf )
d. Building ‘client state’ in all regions of Africa where the entire spectrum of political leadership follows the AZ ideology, like Malawi (historic AZ anchor in southern Africa), Liberia (historic AZ anchor in western Africa), South Sudan (recently created after dismembering Sudan); possibility of dismembering DR of Congo is high where Katanga can be created as a new state under leadership beholden to AZ clique
5) In West Europe, South Europe, North Europe zone, the key strategic action point is ‘Containment of Russia’ and ‘Chipping Away Sovereignty of European Nation-States’, ‘Turn the Region into Multiracial Colony like USA’ through the following programmes:
a. Infiltrating the leadership of political parties which profess ‘socialist’ ideologies (hence, ‘anti-imperialist’) so that even if in any country the AZ loyalist elitist party loses election to any of the so-called socialist party, the pro-AZ capitalist and imperialist policies of government will continue in economy and defense
b. Bringing almost all countries under ‘EU’ and ‘NATO’ banner either as a direct member or as associate, and installing AZ camp followers as the ruling elites of all political parties in all countries in the region; diminishing the state sovereignty through shifting all governance and policy matters to EU headquarters – it ensures almost total acceptance of any policy of the AZ cabal in Europe
c. Staging false flag terrorist attacks in key countries like France, Germany in case the leadership in those countries are seen deviating from the policies of AZ clique, implementing policy that can bring peace in Europe and independence from USA
d. Coopting Turkey and Saudi political and bureaucratic leadership to mobilize and settle millions of Arab Sunni Muslim people into different countries of Europe – one of the purpose is to create a multi-racial society in Europe (something similar to USA where Negro and Hispanic peoples form a large part of population apart from the people of European descent), second purpose is to deploy large number of Salafist militants in Europe which will form part of future army that may be used to destabilize and invade the south-eastern borders of Russia
e. Spreading false propaganda in European media and academic institutions identifying fascist Germany’s territorial expansion and genocides as equivalent to communist Soviet Union’s defensive maneuvers and administrative overbearingness, and vilifying present Russian defense preparedness as military ‘muscle-flexing’
6) In Central and East Europe (Baltic Sea to Black Sea) and ex-USSR zone the key strategic action point is ‘Ruining the Slavic Civilization’, ‘Creating East European NATO’, and ‘Contain Russia’ through the following programmes:
a. Fomenting secessionist movements in Caucasus and Siberian region of Russian land, so that Russian state and socio-political structure is demolished beyond repair. AZ cabal utilizes fault-lines of multi-ethnic and multi-religion society in Russia to create strong secessionist movements to dismember Russia into multiple vassal states of AZ cabal
b. Instigating separatism in the countries of Balkan region either through Sunni Salafist terrorists or through Slavic ethnic fascists or through Christian religious extremist factions to break the entire region into small state-lets which can will become AZ vassals
c. Manipulating the leadership and bureaucracy in all European countries that were part of USSR previously, towards taking government policy decisions/actions which will anchor them towards west Europe and USA and simultaneously harm Russian interests; coordinating ‘colour revolutions’ through planned mass demonstration and planned chaos, in case governments don’t follow AZ diktats, and then bringing in AZ lackeys who will draw Russian government into military confrontation (Ukraine, Georgia)
d. Expanding EU and NATO to the borders of current Russia through creation of new military installations in east Europe, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and nudging AZ loyalist governments of ex-Soviet bloc countries like Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria and ex-USSR state Azerbaijan towards confrontational behaviour with Russia; counter move by Russian government is portrayed in mainstream media as ‘Russian aggression’
e. Reopening the ‘Kaliningrad issue’ through occasional media reporting, even if WW II settlement was clear about Konigsberg handed over to USSR – the final action plan of AZ cabal is to deny Russia access to Baltic sea; similarly denying the validity of ‘Crimean referendum’ for reunification with Russia through continuous false propaganda in media, even if it was an integral part of Russian empire – the final action plan of AZ cabal is to deny Russia access to the Sevastopol naval base in Black sea
f. Coordinating ‘colour revolutions’ through mass demonstration and armed insurrection against central Asian governments that were part of USSR previously, and who have staunchly anti-AZ (like Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan) sentiments. At the same time, reinforcing corrupt autocratic governments in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (both with sizeable Sunni Islamic population) to develop them as lynchpin for AZ clique
Predominant economic strategies and resultant ongoing actions across the eastern hemisphere can be summarized as below:
1) Owning and controlling the natural resources like petroleum, natural gas, minerals-metals, exotic materials like Gold, Cobalt, Uranium etc. in all countries of the eastern hemisphere through influencing the country’s oligarchy, political leadership, and bureaucracy – the AZ cabal always targets for owning the resources
2) Funding and controlling the research-development of technical know-how in every sphere of human life: from refining of ore and power generation up to designing of consumer goods, industrial goods and military machinery – the technological advancement ensures the AZ cabal to retain edge in economy over any competing society
3) Bringing more and more spheres of human society and human life under capitalistic mode of economy – starting with agriculture (in 17th century) and industry (in 18th century), capitalist mode of economy already engulfed services sectors (part of government activities till 1980s) like education, healthcare, and communication. There is every possibility that in near future, even activities of ‘governance’ by the government will be run by the private capitalists of AZ cabal
4) Manipulating the leadership in all countries towards taking decisions/actions pertaining to economic activities like mining-infrastructure-manufacturing where (mostly) Chinese and Russian investments and technologies are involved, that can that can jeopardize the Chinese and Russian interests; in central Asian region the AZ clique works overtime to create such environment that can bring Russian and Chinese investment policies at loggerheads
Assessment of ‘AZ camp’ preparedness:
There can be no doubt that AZ plutocracy-aristocracy believes in ceaseless preparation for world domination. Since 1990s the strategic actions have been carried out with amazing consistency and in most cases with desired results. The key aspects of preparedness can be listed below:
1) USA Defense forces through its regional commands across the world, as well as the forces of UK, Australia, Israel, and France have very high degree of military preparedness aimed at fighting multiple wars simultaneously at multiple theatres. They have developed and deployed a ubiquitous comprehensive C4ISTAR procedure that will support ‘first strike’ to decapitate the adversary. Advanced military technology and machinery deployed around the world that can provide AZ cabal superiority to bully other countries are:
a. Very strong naval force with 11 Carrier Strike Groups (CSG), and huge number of sea and coast battle ships, submarines, under water drones
b. Unique Missile Defense System (MDS) that can defend a region by striking down incoming projectile progressing through initial firing or midcourse or terminal stage
c. Vast stockpile of Nuclear bombs and missiles that can be delivered from land, air, sea using supersonic aircraft, hypersonic glide vehicles, submarine, land silo, mobile launcher targeting object on land, air, sea, space
d. Sophisticated space based weapons like kinetic kill vehicle, directed energy weapon, hypersonic missiles delivered from space using artificial satellites in orbit, robotic orbital vehicle (X 37B, reusable space plane which is highly maneuverable in orbit) targeting objects on land, air sea, space; unique monitoring of the high earth orbit (HEO) and coordination with other satellites using four satellites of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP)
e. Special armaments researched by DARPA like robotic combat force, microsatellites as drones, microbiological weapons, undersea mobile unmanned sensors, weather control techniques (HAARP project)
2) AZ clique and its camp followers are amazingly connected across broadest possible spectrum in both sides of Atlantic: in North America, South America, Europe continents political leaders of all major parties (irrespective of professed ideology), bureaucrats, military officials, industrialists, business managers, financers, legal and media professionals, academicians, NGO managers maintain their cobweb through rotating key members from one role to another. Thus a retired Director of intelligence department of USA can occupy the role of Chairman of financial investment firm as well as the role of a university Professor! AZ cabal attaches high importance to bring in select elites of Indian, Chinese, Korean diaspora into key positions in USA and UK
The AZ cabal have few known secret associations like Bilderberg group, Trilateral commission, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations etc. where representatives of the top (may be, hundred) plutocrat families coordinate economic-military-social affairs of the world in order to achieve hegemonic world order. (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-10/does-bilderberg-really-run-world-one-chart-help-you-decide)
3) Military encirclement of Russia and China around their geographical regions by USA (along with forces from Rest of 5Eyes, NATO, Japan) has been progressing at a feverish pace. With components of missile defense system installed at Poland, Romania, Japan, and planned for South Korea, carrier strike groups present in all the oceans, hundreds of military bases in Europe-Asia-Pacific Ocean-Indian Ocean, military logistics facility sharing agreements with dozens of countries, the AZ cabal is keeping no stone unturned.
During 18th to 20th century AZ elites got their foot soldiers from among the peoples of Europe through propagation of ideologies like ‘nationalism’, ‘fascism’, ‘ethno-religious supremacism’ – hence, every time European army marched to Russian border, military forces were drawn from different European countries. Considering Europeans as ‘spent force’, now in the 21st century, AZ elites are busy mobilizing their foot soldiers from Sunni population (mainly Arabs, and Chechen, Uzbek, Uyghur) through ‘Wahabi Salafi’ ideology to march to Russian border. (http://katehon.com/1227-cia-and-turks-created-caliphate-to-launch-attacks-on-russia-and-china.html)
4) The governments in UK, France, Turkey, Israel which are the strongest outposts of AZ cabal have been trying to infiltrate into globally well-known multilateral institutions where China, Russia, Kazakhstan and other ex-USSR countries play the central role (like SCO, EEU, AIIB etc.). If the endeavour succeeds, there can be sound opportunities for these countries to play the role of a ‘Trojan Horse’ to weaken and defeat the ‘Eurasian Resistance’
5) The AZ cabal’s final preparedness is creation of AZ-run economic-military supranational blocks that will actively impair all-round security of the ‘Eurasian Resistance’ countries: physical security, energy security, food and water security. To squeeze key Eurasian countries like Russia, China, Iran, ex-USSR countries, south Asian countries from economic relationship with other regions, exclusive trade blocks like TPP, TTIP, and TISA are being created, where AZ corporate interests will trounce ‘state’ sovereignty. This will ensure ‘captive market’ for goods and services produced by AZ plutocracy, keep US fiat Dollar as global exchange currency, and ‘contain’ the ambitions of German-French-Italian oligarchy. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-would-abolish-europes-sovereignty-the-eu-would-become-a-us-colony/5417382)
Recent Setbacks of ‘AZ camp’:
In spite of meticulous preparation, AZ camp is having serious setbacks:
1) Free and fair public referendum in Crimea on the question of unification of with Russia, and Crimean administration becoming part of Russia legally without Russian military directly getting involved to use ‘force’
2) Appearance of Donbas as separate political entities in East Europe which have been successfully resisting the Ukraine’s fascist government’s illegal war against its own Russian population, without direct interference from Russian government
3) Syrian government resisted the savage onslaught by the AZ cabal (through Salafists mobilized by Turkey, Saudi, Jordon, Israel) on the Syrian population with help from governments of Iran and Russia, and Hezbollah movement of Lebanon
4) Kurdish factor in Iraq-Syria-Turkey becoming more of a ‘jigsaw puzzle’ by every passing day, with the Turkey-based Kurds really threatening to cut a slice of south-east Turkey that has been Kurdish land even before Seljuk and Ottomans Turks settled in Anatolia
5) Japanese government’s ambivalence towards more militarism or peace with Russia and China (now that Japanese aristocrats-oligarchs got cold-shouldered by AZ cabal through denial of around $50 billion submarine deal of Australia)
6) German government expressing disgust over NATO’s recent warmongering about Russia (due to unrestricted migration from west Asia and north Africa as well as loss in trade with Russia due to EU sanctions, popularity of ruling party is at historic low)
7) Bulgarian government’s unwillingness about being part of NATO Black Sea fleet stems from the fact that with so much of social disturbances, Bulgarian government is not willing to take decisions that will be overtly anti-Russian
8) In UK (lynchpin of AZ cabal in Europe) the common people in a recent referendum decided to exit EU due to unrestricted migration from east Europe/west Asia, lack of employment in middle class society, unprecedented social inequality as a result of neoliberal capitalism
9) In spite of two decades of setbacks in the social, economic, and political sphere of life, Russian government developed some war machinery like extremely agile hypersonic missiles and highly effective electronic warfare systems that, as means of ‘asymmetric warfare’, can effectively counter USA/NATO military prowess
10) Chinese government utilized the two decades of bonhomie (1990 to 2010) with USA-based oligarchs and captains of industry to build massive technological capability and capacity in mainland China which is now spinning its own sphere across Asia and Africa independent of the AZ cabal’s world-wide sphere
As an act of desperation to reverse the recent setbacks and to regain the momentum towards ‘one world government’, the AZ clique can launch a significant false-flag operation in near future which will get transformed quickly into a military and economic campaign across Europe-Asia-Pacific as the ‘Active war phase’ to challenge the ‘Eurasian Resistance’ block. For the sake of humanity, the ‘Eurasian Resistance’ block especially Russia-Kazakhstan-China-Iran must remain vigilant for any eventuality anytime soon.
Straight-Bat
Awesome post, Straight-Bat!
Stefan,
Thank you for a positive feedback.
I would have been the happiest person on earth had all my observations were incorrect and imaginary – but, the reality about AZ clique is really very nasty and very troubling.
Surely, the leaders and government agencies in Eurasian countries have more information on the real situation – I felt it my moral responsibility to share some of my observations and analysis with blogger friends. The better we prepare, the faster the ‘Eurasian Resistance’ team wins.
@ Straight-Back
Congratulations! Great work. I haven’t seen yet published such a comprehensive presentation of the Azion Empire’s grand project for world domination. Your absence was very productive. By the way, are you running a think tank?
Cheers
Kim
Kim,
Thank you for the glowing compliments.
My main inspiration, and at times, source of information, was my father who taught me that life’s mission should be to seek truth-justice-equality in personal and social life.
Trying hard for years to stitch a small team to run a ‘study circle’ (called as ‘think tank’ in west) – funding is the main problem since nobody is ready to work as ‘volunteer’ (without any compensation) as a social service … in retired life I have hardly any fund for that. However, I’m optimistic, and still trying.
@ Straight-Bat
I did detect your mettle early when we crossed our ways, that ‘je ne sais quoi’ that tells more than words and images.
Kim
The place to watch at the moment is the South China Sea. US have two carriers stationed off the Philippines in anticipation of the Philippine vs China predetermined judgment due out on 7th July.
US have been making noises about enforcing the judgement.
Peter AU,
I agree with you – you may note that I have not included any ‘problem’ related to the South China Sea or Hong Kong or Taiwan in my list of ‘AZ Setbacks’, because I feel, China started playing their diplomatic and military cards around its own region of influence pretty late, which in turn has propped up USA’s standing in east and southeast Asia.
Chinese government must work assiduously (taking help of President Putin) to hand over such ‘setbacks’ to USA government quickly before USA and Japan instigate direct confrontation between China and some other littoral state.
China seem to have been using soft power (money) and diplomacy whereas because of lack of financial power Russia have had to rely on military deterrence as a backstop and use diplomacy and information/media. I think because of the great cultural and language difference between China and the west, they are lagging behind in this aspect. It was only with the downing of MH17 that China realized how important information warfare was, and I think it was at this time they realised they would have to prepare for the same sort of attacks that were directed at Russia.
http://www1.nst.com.my/news/2015/09/chinas-xi-urges-army-create-strategy-information-warfare
China US bilateral trade data https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
Looking at the bilateral trade, although it is going China’s way by 20 – 30 billion per month, a lot of people in the US – retailers ect would be depending on and making money out of this, so they will have no wish to see US China ties broken.
It seems the US has been trying to create a situation where they can convince other countries to sanction China, but without hurting their own trade with China similar to what has happened with the sanctions on Russia. Under the sanctions on Russia, US Russia trade has increased.
As this has not happened, it seems possible that the US may take direct action soon, or possibly, the aircraft carriers are in position just to try and give confidence to a country in the region to create an incident with China.
Peter AU,
While you have pointed out the current facts about China and how it differs with west, the ‘Chinese behaviour’ about ‘power projection’ is a subject that is worth studying.
I felt after a bit of study and research that, this is a country which always looks ‘inward’ even when you consider their empire building – is it not very interesting that before Mongol (Yuan) dynasty the Chinese emperors were happy collecting tributaries from most of the vassal kings surrounding the (currently) China southern mainland ? Contrary to all other empires where the emperor tried to impose direct rule (through administrative hierarchy) to the furthest corner of his/her influence, the Chinese emperors didn’t show that intention. Chinese Admiral Zheng He (Ming empire) sailed to south Asia, and Africa with 100s of ships – not for naval power projection, but for trade-commerce.
Is it that the Chinese wisdom prevented them from ‘imperial overreach’ ? Is it that the same trait is still in their mindset ? I don’t have an answer, but I am one with you that, Chinese need to engage in modern warfare (information, diplomatic, cultural, economic, and, military) comprehensively in the 21st century. Otherwise, AZ clique will surely create more difficult situation for them.
@ Straight Bat
Although I have not studied Chinese history a great deal, I came to the same conclusions myself.
Also read about the Chinese ships, built for trade not war, larger and long before England were building large war ships.
Regards
Peter
How dependent is that ‘enforcement’ on Okinawa?
Because the latest rape/murder of a young Okinawan woman by a US military contractor has utterly inflamed the ongoing resentment to US occupation.
Coupled with Obama’s refusal to apologis for the atomic bombs , I belive tjre is a growing hostility to the US in Japan. This time, among the young.
China media should be broadcasting about it.
I think it will take a popular uprising rather than just protests to have any hope of getting the US out of Japan. US seems to control the elite there and japan is essential as the northern anchor of the US pivot/up coming war on China.
Australia is the southern anchor. Very few Australians seem aware of how deeply the US intelligence and military is embedded in Australia. About 40 US military installations in Australia but I was unaware of the scale of some of these until a few weeks ago and only through talking to someone who knew the contractor that erected security fencing around some of the remote US installations. A number of these installations are in isolated sections of northern Australia and from what I am told, with double row razor wire topped fencing stretching hundreds of kilometers around the perimeter.
Peter AU,
Thank you for key information. Australia, NZ and Canada are being treated by USA (ruled by AZ cabal) more as military outposts where anglo colonies also exist instead of countries where USA has military facilities.
What happened to the socio-cultural processes in the 5-Eyes countries ? With 1% filthy rich and 9% high income group thriving at the expense of 90% majority population (who survive somehow) when will the common people start revolting ? At least in UK, the people started revolting with ‘yes’ vote for Brexit.
They couldn’t care less I’m afraid in the Pentagon. Every time something like that happens they act horrified and slap a ban on US military drinking off base. And then as soon as the “flak” dies down they remove the ban (like they did today) until the “next” rape,murder,or hit and run happens.Then its put back for a week or so.
I know Uncle Bob..
I was just wondering why China doesn’t exploit the occupation and criminality through media amplification.
Yes its a cynical and callous way to look at it, but the hegemon is a monster.
They should be weaponizing every crime against them.
eimar,
After WW II, legal trials against war criminals of Germany and Italy were at least arranged (even if many were let off the hook), but in case of Japan, their emperor who headed the country was never put to trial. In lieu of that humiliation, the emperor agreed to hand over Japanese territory to USA military forces & tied their economy tightly with USA and Rest of 5Eyes…
That legacy lives on …
Straight-Bat
The Japanese culture is very specific as we know, some time ago I’ve read that if the Japanese people had chosen to go on the way of communism, because of their attitude, there could have been very successful.
ioan,
Very true.
I had some experience working with Japanese. They are very hierarchical in their family & social life, they are punctual and disciplined, and are very thorough and meticulous in anything they do.
Its interesting point you raised, if such a cohesive society like Japanese chose to go for communism, they might have been a role model for others …
But, I will take you through a bit of history of 1930 to 1945 – Japanese government expanded their (political-economic) empire in entire south-east Asia and one-third of China was occupied by extremely brutal and savage military forces of Japan. The emperor or his senior team never got any punishment for the inhuman tortures and murders during that period.
I see you’re awake ;-). Very good post! Some links of similar interests.Hope you can find something of interest. ( http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/jim/ ) + ( http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/28/why-turn-into-a-german-bashing-bully-on-command/ ) + ( http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/24/pushback-global-crime-syndicates-v-keshe-groups/ )
Las Vegas,
Thank you. I have gone through the links you sent. I used to visit VT site earlier – while VT provides some write-ups which are plain truth (officially never recognised), VT also mixes ‘conspiracy theories’ that are hard to justify. In case of WW II, VT published some articles which rightly shows the dirty hand of Zionists, but at the same time it was not recognized that Nazi government and its economy were entirely a planning of AngloZionist elites-bankers-industrialists based in USA and UK, similarly it was not recognized in VT that Nazi government was nurtured by AngloZionist to bring down the Soviet government.
Sad to say, but Internet freedom has slipped away.Now we have “limited hangouts” instead.Here is a good forum thread dealing with VT. (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91528-Pushback-Global-crime-syndicate-vs-Keshe-groups&p=1077769&highlight=Keshe# ) Think of it as Cliff Notes ;-) Also,they totally ignore Japan’s 3-11. (https://311truth.wordpress.com/ )Too many sticky questions revolving around Stuxnet and the tsunami nukes that were put offshore.Such as source? VT does provide more pieces of the puzzle just read with discernment.Concerning the Fourth Reich ( http://jackheart2014.blogspot.com/2014/02/p-margin-bottom-0.html ).
Straight-Bat
A comprehensive and clear report. Thank You.
Babushka in Oz,
Yes, I tried to write a comprehensive note as far as possible. Thank you for acknowledging that.
Regards,
I noticed the buzz that your skillfully researched and crafted comment generated, SB.
I’ll remember Cafe 6/28/16 and come back and savor it with an hour or more that I lack at this time.
Ah, the tasting tour, the vintages rare and masterful! https://www.beauwinetours.com/sonoma-wine-tours/russian-river-valley/ So many fine wines, so little time!
Bro,
You are most welcome to savor the comment I posted …
You can call me to join when you come to the café … for a discussion over a cup of coffee.
I am thinking that the US (and the world) is facing catastrophe. The difference between Clinton and Trump will be the position of the fault lines.
“It was a time of great paranoia, when the instinct of self-preservation made itself known and expressed itself badly.”
Hi chimmy, you wouldn’t say that about Trump if you have actually listened to him:
Donald Trump’s Full Anti-Hillary Clinton Speech in NYC (6-22-16)
It might be that we are so used to dismiss the boy who kept crying wolf and actually failed to recognize that important moment in time…
I actually do like Trump, but he is up against the Lindsey Grahams, McCain’s in this world. Trump strikes me as a sort of Pontius Pilate– Hillary as something else.
The link doesn’t go through???
Hmm, the link was checked to be correct in the preview when I was posting the reply. Anyways, you can find most of Trump’s campaign speeches on youtube: Right Side Broadcasting channel.
Mr Trump is becoming something unique: a union of capitalist ideals with a practical concern with the plight of the ordinary American workers and people. A Hugo Chavez in a business suit?? Trump is not only fighting against the parasites and their radical-liberal supporters in the US society, he is also being targeted by those countries’ governments in cahoots with the Anglo-American empire.
Extremely interesting and important time for the American people.
As brexit and its immediate consequences will no doubt be a major topic for next coupla years could it or say eu empirical designs eg visegrad group poland nowwishes to inclgude Romania and Ukraine plus german france uber eu state leaked proposals which poland objects too vos its want to be leader of nnorth europe actually warrant its own moveable feast cafe tab here???????
Could just be once a weekly fresh tab for example and would it help us still to focus on mainly the Russian “situation”?
JJ
Here is something for you, remembering the last cafe in which you call in the question of pens or pencils :
Regarding the Pens (for JJ)
Using pens instead of pencils
On the papers high like hills
Cause the pencil in a ballot
Could be altered by a harlot.
Even if the rain was falling
Brexit day is there, is calling
Brits advised to use their pens,
Independent, in their sense
Course, that’s just symbolical
But it could be critical…
For suspicious Brits that means
Instead of pencils, using pens.
That is brill. Thank you.Cheers.
Thanks for sharing, everyone. It really helps.
I, too, was struck by the beauty of that womam with fire in her lips. I recognize the seduction value, which some of the poems caught, but I’m more inclined to the reduction value of sacred love and sex, which is the essential value that will save us, if we even want to be saved.
After my morning routines, this morn in particular, since tomorrow I leave for a two week visit to the Midwest, where I was born and raised, to Wisconsin where my three siblings and descendants still are. I am the kid, who not exactly a black sheep, is strange to them, but loved still. I then went to Club Orlov, to get advice on what to do tonight, to speak or not to speak to the city council, and behind that, whether to run or run away from elections this fall, was not disappointed with the pertinence and brilliance of his perception and wit. To whit, I must simply fall in love, and do what I know not. Jesus said not to prepare my words, for the spirit will speak. But oh, I cried, hanging my head and crying, I am too weak. Then I came here, and the rest, as they say, is herstory.
History, especially the current version, as I write, is strange; the Memphis Blues again–but herstory is straight. That picture of the womam on fire reminds me of where it’s at, and I need to stick to that. The love army is nothing at all without her here; it fights for her (I went to Saint Her-man’s church and said my religious vows; I sucked the milk of a thousand cows). I just don’t know what I’m going to do; I was all right until I fell in love with you. Btw, I did see the Dylan concert here in Santa Barbara a couple weeks ago. Glad I did. The old men and women rock, as in Brexit.
I’ve got to attend to necessaries. Watering my world with love. I need you all. I’m afraid to fall, and I’m afraid not to. I want to please; I want wars to cease. I want love, not the tease. I’ve got to get out of my own way but I don’t know how. I just saw a little white butterfly; maybe she can show me before I make my bow.
Straight-bat’s long analysis made me feel I was inside King Khazar’s bunker in the plenipotentiary war room. However, I felt confident and secure with the Love Army and The Love Government at my back, and with the new Sex Tarot getting on track. When these forces attack, the empire won’t know what hit them. Then the whole business comes full circle, and the big question is: can we win the peace?
@Dennis
I wish you a good time at your sister’s and a safe return home.
I will also be away in July, not counting on being able to get online, so I will see you all in August again. Wish everybody a happy summertime.
@ Straight Bat: I’m very impressed by your lengthy post.
The beautiful girl at the window in this Cafe reminds me how much I still crave for a cigarrette mainly in a nice cafe and in good company…sigh…
Vercia, wish you a good vacation time with your husband and children.
I will be also away ( and I hope to be able to avoid internet connection ) from mid July to August.
If you do not find me around here in August, email The Saker and ask for my email address, I hope that he will do this last favour to me.
Good travel and safe return to Dennis also.
@ elsi You will be missed. Hope you are going someplace pleasant and safe.
You’ll be sorely missed Elsi!
Have a good trip and please return renewed and refreshed.
Hugs:-)
Hey guys, Dennis, Vercia, elsi, have a good time and take care of you, I will miss you all. Good that Babushka and Strait.Bat are back again. What a good place is this Cafe !!! God bless you all !!!
elsi and Vercia… safe travel.
Also a big thank you to everyone who sent me ‘speedy recovery’ messages. My sliced and diced body is fast mending. And best of all … no chemotherapy needed.
This virtual community Cafe is awesome in sharing knowledge and spreading hope and joy.
@ Babushka, I am glad to hear you are recovering so fast and chemo is a double razor knife…good you could skip it. thank you for the good wishes.
@elsi, I am horribly busy with the school-year-end-celebrations..and luggage and leave all in place … I will get in touch upon return, we still need to follow up on the russian courses
I will miss you all
Vercia V,
Thanks for your compliments…
I will miss conversations with you, particularly on LatAm.
Wish you a great vacation with your family.
@ straight bat: Well you hit a home run with that compendium . Thanks.
With Brexit, the Empire’s mask is slipping. In the State Dept. briefings you begin to see a clenched jaw inability to communicate anything. It is a fearful rigidity which will lead them over the cliff.
To send O’bomb-out over to threaten the Brits with having to go to the end of the queue was the epitome of bad timing and arrogance. Mr. “yes we can” became Mr. “no, you can’t”.
It was totally the wrong thing to say to an Island people who make their own rules and regulations–last time they were invaded was in 1066. It was the Wrong imagery, wrong mode of delivery, and wrong delivery person. He should add that to his list of “mistakes I have made” after Libya, and allowing the deep state free rein to mess with the Ukraine.
It was so dumb, I actually wonder if it was deliberate.
He’s only an actor.
But cui bono ? And how?
teranam13,
Thanks for your kind words.
You nailed it so wonderfully with few words ” With Brexit, the Empire’s mask is slipping ” – absolutely true. And we are waiting to see how the AZ elites finally deal with it. But one thing is sure – the oppressed and suppressed 90% common Europeans are now saying enough is enough !
Don’t get surprised if you find the Hegemon imposing imperial order on Europe in the form of a political-economic-military entity like ‘united states of europe’ !
The ‘Progress’ of the End of Tsarism
By Jørn K. Baltzersen
November 7, 2005
Once in our lives we wanted to make the people happy and this is something for which we will never forgive ourselves.
~ an old Russian leftist to Nadejda Mandelstam, Leftism Revisited
This year we mark the centenary of the revolution that gave birth to the Russian Duma Monarchy. Today is the 88th anniversary of the dreadful event that goes by the name of the Russian Revolution, in which the Kerenski provisional government was overthrown.
A book from 2003 is on this occasion very relevant indeed. The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy is a book by Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson and published by the Foundation for Economic Liberty. An excerpt is available online.
The book starts out in the preface with what one could call a sort of Hoppean challenge of the Whig theory of history:
The purpose of The Third Rome is to alter the political universe of those who read it. In other words, it was to challenge the assumptions that underlie the liberal/conservative consensus in western countries. Such assumptions include the superstitious belief in progress, the linear (i.e. evolutionary) development of history and, importantly, the continued dominance of the idea that western democracies are morally superior to not merely the rest of the globe, but also superior to all systems of rule that have ever existed.
Further down in the preface Dr. Johnson goes on:
For the exoteria of western politics, one is routinely treated to myths about the linear development of European history from the “darkness” of the middle ages to the “light” of the Enlightenment, science and its progeny, postmodernism. The “tyranny” of medieval and early modern kings is contrasted to the benevolence of modern republics. The evils of feudalism are contrasted to the capital/state alliance. This makes up every introduction to political science in universities, and it is at the very nature of “civic discourse” as it is contrived in the west. The only difficulty is that it is nonsense.
At no time in global history have ruling classes amassed such centralized power: surveillance techniques, media power, armies, advanced weapons, computers and a disciplined bureaucracy that can track each and every citizen with pinpoint accuracy throughout his life form the vulnerable underbelly of the tripe concerning “democracy” and “republicanism” in the west. Tyranny previous to modernity was largely impossible: the technological apparatus needed to create “totalitarianism” simply did not exist. Only modernity can create tyranny.
Johnson is right on the money when he tells us:
[T]he day to day functioning of royal government, is not contrasted with the actual functioning of republican systems, but rather with idealistic theory of republicanism.
The book is not only a defense of the Russian monarchy. It is also a defense of the Orthodox branch of Christianity. Johnson is an Orthodox Christian. In his book he puts himself in conflict with the Catholic Church. The third Rome is Moscow, the second Byzantium, and, of course, the first is Rome. An important part of the book is the theme that the Orthodox Church, Russian culture, and the Russian monarchy are tightly linked.
I cannot say I agree with everything Dr. Johnson says. Nor have I double-checked all the facts. Most LRC readers will probably react negatively to Johnson’s anti-globalization and anti-capitalist rhetoric.
We know so very well how many Western intellectuals have wanted to see the Russian Revolution and the more than 7 decades of Communist rule through rose-colored glasses. We should probably read Johnson’s book with critical eyes, but the history we have been taught by said Western intellectuals should probably viewed at least as critically — if not more. Johnson is probably not very far from the truth when he claims:
[T]he English language historical literature on Russia merely rehashes 90-year-old Bolshevik propaganda and calls it history.
We are taught that what gave the West its success is small political units, as opposed to China and Russia. However, what works for the West does not necessarily work for Russia. As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn told us in his Leftism Revisited:
[T]he brilliant, scintillating, amiable intelligentsiya were the guiltiest of all. For generations they had undermined the fabric of Holy Mother Russia, either by siding with the Social Revolutionaries, the Narodnaya Volya, the Social Democrats, or by being “open-minded,” by deriding the national heritage, by spreading polite doubt, by stupidly imitating Western patterns, ideas, and institutions that would never do for Russia.
One can disagree with Raphael Johnson’s anti-Western rhetoric, but he undoubtedly has a point in that Russian culture is quite different from Western culture. Besides, given all the anti-Russian rhetoric that has been in circulation, anti-Western rhetoric the other way is perhaps the least one could expect.
Johnson echoes Bertrand de Jouvenel when he tells us that absolutism in the Russian monarchy was absolutism in the political sphere only. Today the political sphere includes everything, and the modern man hardly understands how limited royal “absolutism” actually was. Johnson tells us that the monarchy was invisible to roughly 90 % of the Russian population until the revolution. Johnson describes a decentralized system:
The peasant commune controlled the social life of the peasant, and was completely independent of the tsar.
Dr. Johnson attacks the modern regime in which the workers stand alone in an environment where the employers have no responsibility for the workers’ well-being. Johnson’s attack on the “Robber Barons” would probably find many disagreements among many of the readers of LRC. However, Johnson does have a point when making us aware of the responsibility masters of old had for the well-being of those who worked for them. In a sense he echoes Bertrand de Jouvenel’s reflections on the same issue in his On Power. One can easily — to some extent at least — agree that one of the major problems of our times is freedom from responsibility.
Johnson describes a high level of social legislation, especially legislation protecting workers from poor working conditions. Now, it is at least questionable that such legislation is desirable. However, the legislation at the time was probably nothing compared to what we have nowadays. There is little doubt that if such legislation were in place in pre-1917 Russia, the claims that old Russia was a “reactionary” system exploiting the lower classes do not have very much basis.
Johnson also seems sympathetic to the idea that the modern centralized state, which more or less has crushed the institutions that would protect the individual from power, does not give any real individualism:
An “individual,” isolated from his commune or region, would, as in all “democracies,” be a meaningless legal fiction, easily exploited. This is the esoteria of “individualism” in political theory; it is easier for the oligarchy to dominate isolated individuals than to deal with larger and more powerful communal and municipal structures.
On Nicholas I Johnson tells us:
In liberal democracies, those who have the most ambition to rule are those who run for office. Nicholas showed the opposite that, even when the crown was handed to him, he rejected it in favor of the (formal) heir apparent. Only under pressure did he accept the crown. In democratic thinking, only the ambitious and obnoxious are capable of doing what is necessary to get elected. American politicians are whores. They are forced to alter their views depending on the group with which the politician is meeting with or speaking. He is constantly asking for money with far less grace than a common prostitute.
On taxes The Third Rome tells us the Russians were the least taxed in all of Europe at the time:
St. Nicholas II was brought to the throne in 1894. He found a Russia far from being “backward,” but, in a few years — by the start of World War I — was the envy of the world. She had the lowest taxes in all Europe. Direct taxation per capita amounted to 3.1 rubles per year, versus 13 for Germany, 10 for Austria, 12 in France and 27 in progressive, democratic and capitalist Britain. Indirect taxation was also the lowest in Europe, amounting to 6 rubles per capita for Russia, but 10 for Germany, 11 for Austria, 16 for France and 14 for Britain.
This level of taxation should absolutely give cause to consider the old Russian order in a favorable light. Moreover, the old Russian regime’s attitude towards central banking is quite interesting indeed:
Russia was just beginning her economic expansion into world markets. There can be no question that the refusal of the Romanovs to set up a central bank under the rule of the global financial elite marked them for extinction. Imperial Russia was the only major European power who refused to set up a Central Bank, though the Bolsheviks, as always, willingly obliged.
It seems here that Johnson has nothing against world trade and making money. So what is the anti-capitalist rhetoric for? Is it merely an attack on the alliance between state and capital? Or is it an attack on a lack of worker protection? Both concepts are attacked by Johnson. I am not in this essay defending Johnson’s pro-welfare perspective. By no means. The pro-welfare perspective is very little relevant to the book’s key point, namely that the emperor was far more a friend of liberty than the brutal barbarism that was soon to come.
When reading Leftism Revisited, we are told:
[Serfdom] did exist until 1861, but it was no more and no less characteristic of Russia than slavery was of the United States. It was, moreover, incomparably milder than slavery and did not exist at all in the majority of the empire. Some serfs were rich — with fortunes amounting to from 30 to 60 million dollars (present purchasing power) — and they paid only a microscopic head tax.
The Third Rome tells us of serfdom that:
It is, regardless, far from clear that the liberation of the serfs was an unmitigated gain for the peasantry. Nevertheless, in 1861, what took the American republic years and hundreds of thousands of American lives to accomplish (in the case of slavery), the Russian Tsar accomplished in one fell swoop, the elimination of serfdom and the liberation of the peasant.
One of the things I recall having been taught in school about Russia is something like that 10 % of the Russian population owned 90 % of the land. Raphael Johnson counters such teachings in Western schools when saying, e.g.:
By 1917, the peasantry controlled the overwhelming majority of farmland — more than three times what was controlled by the nobility.
Another thing we are generally taught is that Russia was a police state and the most absolute state in all of Europe. Such teachings are again countered by Johnson:
De Goulevitch claims there were 3,500 members of the St. Petersburg police force. However, Kochan and Keep (1997) claim that there were 5,000 full time policemen in the entire empire of 180 million souls, which would make Russia one very poor example of a police state. In fact, the total number of government workers, including the zemstvo employees, policemen and employees at all levels never exceeded 330,000. By contrast, much smaller France, in 1906, had budgeted for 500,000 employees.
Moreover, Johnson tells us that the royal government did not dare step into the domain of the peasant communes, and that:
The peasant rebellions of the Russian countryside were on the scale of large civil wars.
Moreover, in one of his many well-placed rants against democracy, Dr. Johnson tells us:
“Free elections” are the easiest way for an oligarchy to enslave a population without them knowing it.
Johnson covers many topics such as the question whether Ivan the Terrible is a correct translation from Russian and whether he was a butcher. Johnson believes Ivan the Awesome is a more correct translation. Johnson claims to be clearing up some misunderstandings, and he should be credited for this. However, his antipathy — when describing the fight over power between the Tsar and the aristocracy — against the aristocracy, which serves as a check on power, I do not have much sympathy for.
The fact that Russia had to fight the Mongols has probably had more influence on the development of the geographically largest nation on this planet than we generally think of. Johnson also gives us a bit of his thoughts on this.
Johnson claims that Peter I was an un-Russian emperor, in the sense that he was bringing about “enlightened absolutism.” This is according to Johnson a European concept and not a Russian one. Johnson has consequently little sympathy for Peter the Great. According to what we are taught in Western schools Russia is the example of absolutism in Europe. Again, Raphael Johnson offers here a perspective which is well worth looking into. Among the checks on the Emperor’s power were — according to Johnson — the Orthodox Church and the peasant commune.
Johnson gives us a pretty good overview of Russian history until 1917. He has left post-1917 out because he believes this is not particularly Russian. He does quite well in explaining a system prior to democratic absolutism and the totalitarianism and atrocities of the 20th century. This was by no means a perfect system, but it seemed to work quite well for Russia, and it was unfortunately brutally brought to an end.
It is commonly believed that the first revolution in 1917 was progress, whilst the October revolution was the great tragedy. This is similar to the conception that the end of Habsburg and Hohenzollern rule was progress, whilst the rise of the Hitlerite monster was the great tragedy. Of course, it is true that the rises of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were great tragedies. However, to think that the end of Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern rule was progress is a grave error. As for Russia, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn sums it all up in one brilliant sentence in Leftism Revisited:
In Russia, the fall of the monarchy in March 1917 destroyed the center and object of all loyalty.
As — amongst others — Bertrand de Jouvenel has noted, revolutions never bring about better leaders in the end. This is also true for Russia, and one of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s 1188 notes in Leftism Revisited tells us no different when describing Alexander Kerenski:
I met the man twice in the United States. He was “nice” but, listening to his views, I could only pity him. George Katkov was absolutely right when he said that the Russian “liberals” who destroyed the old regime had no idea of the crime perpetrated, nor the least capacity to steer the ship of state on an even keel.
Although I am generally satisfied with Dr. Johnson’s communicating the end of Tsarism as decline, and with his attempt to refute survived propaganda about Tsarism, I feel that the myth about the two independent steps of revolution in 1917 is not sufficiently countered. The Kerenski error should have been countered more thoroughly.
Johnson has an extensive bibliography to be used for further studies. However, there seems to be something missing in this bibliography. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn wrote in Leftism Revisited:
The misconceptions, moreover, about the Russian class structure that prevail in the Western world are so manifold and so deeply rooted that they seem ineradicable. The three brilliant volumes by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu on late nineteenth-century Russia, L’Empire des tsars et les Russes, give a glimpse of a totally mixed society based neither on birth nor on money. Needless to say, the same impression is conveyed by the great Russian novelists of that period. Actually, before Red October Russia was Europe’s “Eastern America,” a country where social mobility was greater than elsewhere, where titles had none of the nimbus they had in the West, where fortunes could be made overnight by intelligent and thrifty people regardless of their social background. Skilled European workers and specialists in many fields emigrated to Russia rather than to the United States. And, even before 1905, knowing how to speak and to write gave total liberty.
Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu’s work is available in English as Empire of the Tsars and the Russians. Considering this tribute in Leftism Revisited and considering that anyone seriously involved with disputing the transition from monarchy to democracy being progress should be familiar with Leftism Revisited, I find it peculiar that one cannot find any reference to Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu in Johnson’s book. Specifically, anyone involved in disputing the development from monarchy as progress paradigm when it comes to Russia should be familiar with the 10 pages — and the associated notes — in Leftism Revisited on Russia, i.e., the chapter by the name of From Socialism to Communism. Again, why Leroy-Beaulieu is not referred to is puzzling. Moreover, the above quote from Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu gives a perspective which is not clearly communicated — or perhaps even lacking — in Johnson’s book.
The Third Rome is highly recommended. Many LRC readers will find the rhetoric disagreeable. The book should — despite its shortcomings and disagreeable rhetoric — be read by anyone seriously interested in the transition from monarchy to democracy. It is high time we start viewing the Russian Revolution as Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn did:
Imagine a very popular, intelligent, conscientious, good-looking and responsible young man, obviously destined for a highly successful life. One day, having had a few drinks too many, he runs his car into a tree and ends up a paraplegic. Accidents happen not only in the lives of persons, but also in the lives of nations.
There is no meaning behind the course of history.
Ignore an anti-modernist book on the geographically largest nation on this planet if you so wish, but that would probably be for the good of your own ignorance.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/11/jrn-k-baltzersen/was-overthrowing-the-tsar-progress/
Fred
Many thanks for your extensive excerpt – a historical review – which is very valuable, providing details not seen in other places regarding the discussed period.
The secret serviceman book supposedly outing psychopath killiary, aka wicked witch of the west, looks to be a gatekeeper deed by the excerpts I’ve read. It makes it look like her biggest crime is yelling at people, throwing something at her equally evil husband, and being rude to the secret service. None of that is going to stop anyone from voting for her and that’s probably the intent. Makes the reader think they’ve satisfied their search into her integrity. In fact, she has none and is a criminal, terrorist, murderer and probably worse.
What surprises me is that the truth websites post it as exposing her but it doe none of that and I haven’t seen a single comment to the contrary. Very odd!
Terrorist attack in Istanbul Attaturk International Airport!
Terrorists have opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles against the entry control and then have popped up carrying grenades.
At least 10 dead and 40 wounded.
They definitely do not want us traveling over there.
ISIS apparently, the pKK don’t attack int’l targets.
And just after Erdogan makes a public apology to Russia..
Was this a warning?
It’s sad when an author gets most of the picture but still falls for a US/NATO meme “The illegal seizure of the Crimea”
Perhaps the author feels that a democratic process, and a 90% plus referendum that includes at least half of Tatar descendants voting to rejoin Russia, is “illegal”?
Or is this clever psyops to win acceptance with ‘alternate’ viewers but still reinforce the Crimea meme?
From Murray Dobbin at Counterpunch:
Do We Really Want a War With Russia?
http://russia-insider.com/en/do-we-really-want-war-russia/ri15264
@ Sanctuary One
Yes, very perceptive of you. In the capitalist mind-set the repetition of myths and lies is part of the background of their discourse to plant and reinforce the message they want to project. You see that often when they use a qualifier or an expletive to anything related to the USSR, communism or anything that doesn’t fit or challenges their narrative. Acts like a subliminal message planted in the subconscious.
Kim
What a lameass excuse!
I’m waiting till one of these crooks gets offed by some truly novel original, never seened before excuse, like ‘struck by lightning—-while taking a shower in the tub’ or such.
Now, another official has found himself on the wrong end of the Clintons. That John Ashe was a former President of the United Nations General Assembly highlights the fact that no one is safe once in their sights.
And as you might have guessed, there are major inconsistencies with Ashe’s death. It was not only conveniently timed because Ashe died just a few days before being set to testify against Clinton in a corruption case, but official reports indicated he died of a heart attack.
The problem, however, is that police on the scene reported Ashe died when his throat was crushed during a work-out accident.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-u-n-official-accidentally-crushed-his-own-throat-right-before-he-was-set-to-testify-against-hillary-clinton_06282016
In the previous cafe, I included some material from the recent joint declaration of Russia and China, and the joint statement of France and Germany.
Today, Mogherini released the EU’s Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy. In my assessment, it follows directly from these previous two joint statements, especially the France/Germany one. (Exactly how much power does Merkel wield in European politics right now, anyway???)
I would call it the “Europe Knows Who Its Enemies Are” document. Whereas the previous two joint declarations speak in quite specific terms, this one is broad and general, more like an annual report by a board of directors.
Highlights:
To get a sense of Europe’s priorities right now, see the following statement found on the europa.eu website, in an introduction from Mogherini to the development and release of this Global Strategy (“Shared Vision, Common Action: A stronger Europe”):
“The strategy will help us to be more effective in tackling challenges such as energy security, migration, climate change, terrorism and hybrid warfare.”
On NATO:
(from the Foreward) “We will keep deepening the transatlantic bond and our partnership with NATO, while we will also connect to new players and explore new formats.”
“When it comes to collective defence, NATO remains the primary framework for most Member States. At the same time, EU-NATO relations shall not prejudice the security and defence policy of those Members which are not in NATO. … In this context, the EU needs to be strengthened as a security community: European security and defence efforts should enable the EU to act autonomously while also contributing to and undertaking actions in cooperation with NATO.”
On Russia:
“Managing the relationship with Russia represents a key strategic challenge. A consistent and united approach must remain the cornerstone of EU policy towards Russia. Substantial changes in relations between the EU and Russia are premised upon full respect for international law and the principles underpinning the European security order, including the Helsinki Final Act and the Paris Charter. We do not recognise Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and do not accept the destabilisation of eastern Ukraine. We will strengthen the EU, enhance the resilience of our eastern neighbours, and uphold their right to determine freely their approach towards the EU. At the same time, the EU and Russia are interdependent. We will therefore engage Russia to discuss disagreements and cooperate if and when our interests overlap.”
On the US:
“A strong transatlantic partnership through NATO and with the United States and Canada helps us strengthen resilience, address conflicts, and contribute to effective global governance. NATO, for its members, has been the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security for 70 years. It remains the strongest and most effective military alliance in the world. The EU will deepen its partnership with NATO through coordinated defence capability development, parallel and sychronised exercises, and mutually reinforcing actions to build the capabilities of our partners, counter hybrid and cyber threats, and promote maritime security.”
“With the US, the EU will strive for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. On the broader security agenda, the US will continue to be our core partner. The EU will deepen cooperation with the US and Canada on crisis management, counter-terrorism, cyber, migration, energy and climate action.”
On Israel:
“On the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the EU will work closely with the Quartet, the Arab League and all key stakeholders to preserve the prospect of a viable two-state solution based on 1967 lines with equivalent land swaps, and to recreate the conditions for meaningful negotiations. The EU will also promote full compliance with European and international law in deepening cooperation with Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”
On China:
“The EU will engage China based on respect for rule of law, both domestically and internationally. We will pursue a coherent approach to China’s connectivity drives westward by maximising the potential of the EU-China Connectivity Platform, and the ASEM and EU-ASEAN frameworks. The EU will deepen trade and investment with China, seeking a level playing field, appropriate intellectual property rights protection, greater cooperation on high-end technology, and dialogue on economic reform, human rights and climate action.”
In the joint declaration of Russia and China, it states, “They are also guided by the principles enshrined in the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.” These five principles from Chinese foreign policy are: mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.
The EU’s Global Strategy includes these principles:
– Unity (“Only the combined weight of a true union has the potential to deliver security, prosperity and democracy to its citizens and make a positive difference in the world”)
– Engagement (“the EU will participate fully in the global marketplace and co-shape the rules that govern it”.)
– Responsibility (“We will therefore act promptly to prevent violent conflict, be able and ready to respond responsibly yet decisively to crises, facilitate locally owned agreements, and commit long-term.”)
– Partnership (“We will work with core partners, like-minded countries and regional groupings”)
The EU’s Global Strategy outlines five priorities: The security of our union (“working closely with partners, beginning with NATO”), State and Societal Resilience to our East and South (Central Asia to Central Africa, mentioning Western Balkans and Turkey specifically), An Integrated Approach to Conflicts, Cooperative Regional Orders, Global Governance for the 21st Century (“global order based on international law,” “strong UN as the bedrock of the multilateral rules-based order”).
Random statements I thought were interesting:
“On maritime multilateralism, the EU will work with the UN and its specialised agencies, NATO, our strategic partners, and ASEAN.”
“A commitment to global governance must translate in the determination to reform the UN, including the Security Council, and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs).”
“New generation trade agreements which include services, the digital economy, energy and raw materials can reduce legal fragmentation and barriers, and regulate access to natural resources. The EU will ensure that its trade agreements are pursued in a manner that supports returning the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to the centre of global negotiations.”
@ S113
Are you sure you’ve got the sources right? It looks like it is a another edition of the US State Department strategy for a New World Order.
The dismemberment of Nato must start with the eradication of its EU tool.
Kim
Kim, I think the “save the villate by destroying all its institutions of governance” approach proved to be less than desirable in Iraq and Libya. Looks like Europe is trying to take a different approach to save itself.
” We do not recognise Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and do not accept the destabilisation of eastern Ukraine. ”
As long as statements like this are tolerated there can be no friendly relations period. That needs to be clearly understood both in the EU and in Russia. The removal of BS like that should be Russia’s “litmus test” to whether the EU wants good relations.Every time a statement like this shows up Russia should inform the EU that they failed the test.And that Russia awaits to see if there are other failed tests in the future (they should slap another sanction on the EU for everyone too.Flying rights over Siberia.Import of vehicles.Payment of loans to EU companies and banks.Are some of the vast assortment to course from).
@ Uncle Bob
I’m with you entirely. As I said in my comment above to Sanctuary One’s post, there is clear malice whenever they repeat the usual pejoratives and it shows their bad faith.
Kim
Its like one of those prepared scripts given to hostages by their captors.
Resistance to the Borg won’t come from the Eu institutional inmates – it will have to come through popular revolt.
Many thanks for that….not sure how Moghetini will fool persuade others, much much much concern over Nato and TTIP in europe.
While it is difficult to pin down any precise detail among all the sleazy bureaucrat-ese, there are a few things that I think we should keep an eye on:
– pivot to China. Very distinct. Globalist US can’t be pleased with the few placating gestures they received in this strategy, in comparison to the references to China. The strategy even lumped the US and Canada together and noone ever does that, like ever. (I wonder what Trudeau and Merkel cooked up at the G7.) I’m sorry, but the invisible hand of Xi and China is all over this strategy. Chinese diplomacy is very subtle, I’m told.
– Europe remains a core partner for the genuine US of A. Americans, you have not been abandoned by those across the Atlantic, I think. Just a pivot away from the Globalist US (rogue, shadow govt)
– Germany wants back on the international stage, and I speculate may be angling for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Major bargaining chip in play. In return, Europe expresses intent to support China and Russia with reforms at UN, WTO, etc.
– statement on Israel. Whew, that is not going to be self-received by that govt at all!! This stance is also a significant pivot away from the US (towards China and the Silk Road?)
Quick reminder of China’s recent encounters with Soros – he was warned in a front page opinion piece in Xinhua earlier this year about messing with the renminbi. Something about “reckless speculation and vicious shorting”.
It’s really too bad that the Chinese don’t gloat, because, man… :-)
You may be on to something – NATO-on-steroids is now endangering Germany itself, with the prospect of a Gladio#2:red Brigades re-enactment via ‘ISIS’ looking more and more likely.
RT has just reported the text of the New Eyropean Global Security strategy of the EU – and it is very interesting to say the least:
Re your China -Canada thesis – read this about eight months ago and it stuck in the back of my mind:.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article187607.html
Don’t know what happened to my-last-but-onecomment , but here is the relevant link:
https://www.rt.com/news/348927-eu-security-strategy-army/
I want to remind people of our mortality. We are here for a short time and then in eternity like all our ancestors.
I lost about 20 kilos after I got my cancer diagnosis and I have refused treatment.
A jesuit once said that we have to learn one thing. How to die. I am learning. When I look back at my life I have to constantly beg for forgiveness. If the Lord answers my prayers, it is because He is everything and I am nothing.
Today I think of my daughters great grandfather, a Russian who never came back from the war. In his village there were no men left and the women had to work hard. The children had no masculine examples. The women baptized them in the forest at night.
@ Anonymous
Very moving and courageous of you to take such decision. It will help me – and I hope others – to bear that moment with dignity when it arrives.
Thank you for sharing this moment. My thoughts are with you and fear not facing death.
Kim
Peace be upon you, brother/sister. Jung called the physical world-“the box system” after having near-death experiences in his late years which gave him an incredible glimpse into the eternal existence.
Some food for thought and little pearls of wisdom in Osho’s speech about life and goals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up1iXKU1E6s
~There is possibility that you are already forgiven, just that you didn’t know it and are still seeking that which you already have it.
Oops, wrong link. Here is the correct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIA2YMpE8w
Osho: Life has No Goals, No Purpose
May I remind of my eulogy to a friend, who to me surely is around, with all terminated temporal brothers and sisters, in which I try to explain, why I think it is so?
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/04/4.html
And this week, like a person existing only one time ever, what is in it for us? I’m just done with chiseling the poetry of it.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/06/6_27.html
Peace on you Ali, as the Lord said and it does not matter what religion you have. Thank you for the link.
Yes, we may be forgiven for inherited evil and after trying to repent. Black Moses was a highway robber in Egypt and repented. He took on all the difficult menial tasks in the monastery and his red sins became snowwhite.
In my situation I feel the Lord coming closer. I am closer to him now than when I had my strength. I have given up all my property to the children and cast off a burden. I come to the Lord as I came to Earth. Small and naked. I have had visions of a guardian angel and two of my dead children. The angel shows herself as a child in white clothing, as a sign she is a member of the innermost Heaven.
Anonymous
You are a brave man not just by facing the inevitable but by sharing with us the reality of the life. Just a reminder, you’re not alone and you’re never be alone ! We are learning too and have much to learn, we are falling but stand up, we are stumbling on stones but going further cause we have to, we will never die, only the body, as a used coat. God bless you my friend !
Congratulations to Kazakhstan for being elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (2017-18) for the first time in its history!
That could be very intresting re ukraines membership also.
Not sure what is going on with seasoned analyst Webster Tarpley, but his view of Brexit should temper euphoria until rigorously debunked…. Meanwhile I find it tough to digest. Many things take days to digest, some are spit out in 2 seconds, others chewed for days, weeks or even decades….
Intelligence work requires the ability to hold a thought in suspense for a long time and test it.
Now must pack this computer…..take in from this source and test assumptions….:
TWSP/UFAA Morning Briefing for Wednesday, June 29, 2016
BRITISH RULING CLASS RAMMED THROUGH BREXIT TO SET THE STAGE FOR NEW IMPERIAL ADVENTURES; EXTREMIST FINANCIERS PLAY CHINA CARD;
CITY OF LONDON LAUGHS AS REACTIONARIES LAUD BREXIT AS INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM GLOBALISM; CAN THERE REALLY BE AN HONEST VOTE COUNT IN THE WORLD’S MOST ENTRENCHED OLIGARCHY? TRUMP PROMISES GOVERNMENT BY “KILLERS” – AND AMERICANS WON’T BE SPARED;
BEWARE THE TREACHERY OF THE CHINESE-BRITISH BLOC
During the 20th century, the British Empire/Commonwealth of Nations comprised between one fourth and one fifth of the land mass and population of the world. It was the largest empire in world history. Today, the British Commonwealth of Nations has 53 members, united in allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II. This immense power has now been joined with the People’s Republic of China in a geopolitical combination bent on political and financial aggrandizement. Trump supporters are calling this a victory of freedom over globalism when in reality it is the biggest mass brainwashing job of all time by the City of London for geopolitical reasons. The British establishment has long sought to break out of the European Union and join with China for a policy of brinksmanship and geopolitical adventurism likely to reintroduce war into war into Europe since 1945.
In a world where vote fraud is more and more scrutinized, few are asking whether the United Kingdom, the most oligarchical country on the planet, could ever have an honest election. In a country where no law that is passed by parliament gets final approval without the Queen’s consent, we should ask why the will of the people is suddenly so respected. Or, is there something bigger behind this so called popular rebellion?
Perhaps a British financier clique planned this escape well before any referendum was ever called to give their new imperial plans populist cover. How did sinister hedge fund operators like George Soros know months in advance to invest heavily in gold and take other flights to safety? At the Tax Wall Street Party we assert that it is time to start asking big questions and not just go with our guts because Sir Rupert Murdoch – who championed the Brexit in his tabloids – can make the public feel virtually anything by deploying his pro-imperial propaganda. Why did Trump drive the Brexit propagandist around in his golf cart days after the vote? Is the State Department even aware that the dangerous incompetent and adventurer President Xi of China made a triumphant state visit to London last October, where he sealed a total strategic alliance with the United Kingdom which is the actual basis for Brexit?
While Nigel Farage and Donald Trump claim to bear the standard of a rising tide of “nationalism,” their policies and lack thereof could in fact hasten the Chinese domination of the global economy, the collapse of America, and the path to global war.
It is clear when looking at Trump stroll around his properties in the United Kingdom like the prized Turnberry and Aberdeen that he is under the spell of the British aristocracy. Is Trump in the final analysis more attached to the British/ global ruling class than to anything in the United States? As he reaches the autumn of his years his goal is to leave a less nouveau riche brand for his kids. Less gold leaf and more Burke’s Peerage.
The current economic realities in America – high unemployment, low productive output, declining birthrates, cultural decadence, intractable deflation of food, oil and other values – have not only driven the electorate in unprecedented numbers to alleged “anti-establishment” presidential candidate Trump – they have split oligarchic opinion in two.
This is clear to any master propagandist like Rupert Murdoch, who not only owns the tabloids where he peddled the leave vote but owns the Times which championed the opposite stay vote. Any adman knows that the establishment and elite are out this season and cultural populism is in. Murdoch knows that if his Times said leave then it wouldn’t give the appearance of being a class issue. Clever propaganda can sell virtually anything, even make an elite agenda appear to be a vote from the working class. As long as the New York Times doesn’t support Trump, he can make all his products overseas and in places as enslaved as Bangladesh and still be a populist hero. The man who built Trump Tower with concrete because it was cheaper than Pennsylvania Steel can be today’s champion of the Pennsylvania Steelworkers – as long as Roger Stone says he is the real deal and he doesn’t eat arugula or Belgian endive. Some people will slit their own throat based on their hatred for the elite in service of something far worse.
Trump represents a dangerous response to the decline of the American economy. This response was designed not by Trump himself, who is being revealed in the course of the presidential primaries as an infantile tyrant – unfocused, vindictive, grandiose, devoid of genuine good will, and prone to fits of psychopathic violence – essentially the personality profile of Adolf Hitler and other catastrophic figures. Trump’s intended role – to preside over America’s chaotic collapse – has been assisted by the international bankers and tabloid journalists who now seek to profit off the destruction of our once great nation.
In focusing on how Britain is playing the China card, we need to look back on Nixon’s rapprochement with China in 1972. Here is a comment from one of the protagonists:
“Well, I like Donald Trump. I know him personally […] He describes a problem. The Chinese have made enormous progress economically. Part of our difficulties are that we are not doing at home what we need to do in order to be competitive. And China is going to be a major force in the world. And we have to decide whether we’re going to deal with it by confrontation or by an intended cooperation. If they challenge our fundamental interests, we’re going to confront them.” – Henry Kissinger in 2011
Trump’s favorite daughter Ivanka is more at home with her brand in China than the United States. This is a much bigger issue than production costs, Ivanka finds the society of Chinese princelings genuinely congenial. All of the Trump family’s instincts are globalist.
Here is Ivanka Trump discussing her deep relationship with China
https://twitter.com/thetrumpfiles/status/724994361805561857
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4wR3xCad8
The coterie around Trump, both now and in his early years, has its roots in the shadow government apparatus of the Nixon and Ford presidencies, and in the corporate raider financier milieu responsible for America’s deindustrialization.
Campaign surrogate Roger Stone (who literally has a smiling, tattooed portrait of Nixon’s face on his back) was a member of the dirty CIA-penetrated CREEP operation that led to the Watergate scandal. Roy Cohn, the infamous blackmail artist and a mentor of both Trump and Stone, was an “informal” legal advisor to Nixon and Ford. Newly-announced campaign manager Paul Manafort employed his own dirty tricks in the 1976 Ford campaign and provided ongoing legal counsel as head of an informal “torturers’ lobby” for Nixon-supported dictators in Africa, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Manafort’s guiding influence helps explain Trump’s frequent outbursts about employing ultra-violence against the families of ISIS militants.
In addition to the Vietnam war, one of Nixon’s most lasting legacies was the opening of the door to Communist China. This can be explained as part and parcel of a longstanding British “triangular” strategy dating back to the Opium Wars: to use China geopolitically against Russia, to make its rivals dependent on the role of international finance and free trade, and to subvert and manage China’s aspirations for economic development. As we will see, the players have switched positions, but the strategy remains the same.
Both now and then, there have been two Chinas: the pro-Wall Street and London faction of Mao Zedong and current president Xi Jinping, and the economic populist “youth league” faction represented by the ideals of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Tianamen Square protesters, the massacre of whom was praised by Trump:
“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak… as being spit on by the rest of the world.”
Mao Zedong was educated at “Yali,” the Chinese outpost of Yale’s Skull & Bones fraternity dating back to the early 20th century. His role as a de facto British agent was to keep China de-populated, de-developed, and essentially harmless to oligarchic aspirations to monopolize the resources of Southeast Asia, a strategy culminating in the wars in Indochina and the current era of global free trade.
With China under the spell of the Mao faction, Kissinger’s “opening” would succeed in transferring American industry, technical knowledge and money over the intervening decades to China. While China’s rise is impressive and in many ways commendable, it has been managed and made possible only through the triangular trade of Anglo-American finance, cheap Chinese labor, and the sell-off of American technology by corporate raiders like Trump’s “China negotiator” Carl Icahn to Chinese state-owned corporations. Trump blames this process entirely on Bill and Hillary Clinton and neglects the central role of the very people he will task to manage the American economy.
These state-owned corporations manufacture goods for export using technology bought, stolen through espionage, and reverse-engineered from equipment and goods developed by now-shuttered American corporations. To take one of many examples, Chinese state-owned Shanghai Electric is now the owner of America’s formerly world-leading companies in power generation equipment, machine tools, elevators, and printing and packaging technology. This transfer of intellectual property, capital equipment and labor was no accident. China’s rise reflects the preference of international finance oligarchs to counter the formerly industrial US by making China the new workshop to the world.
The reversals of fortune have been astounding and rapid. In terms of productive capabilities and output, China in 2016 looks like America in 1950. China boasts the world’s largest steel industry, the world’s largest construction industry, the world’s most ambitious infrastructure projects, and a “soft imperialism” program helping to develop and penetrate Africa, Asia and South America. While America still has profitable finance and other service industry sectors, its formerly industrial cities like Detroit look like China under Mao Zedong, whose policies of deindustrialization and cottage industry led to mass famine and genocide.
Today China, drowning in American consumer dollars, is being seized upon by City of London banks who have opened major operations in Beijing and Shanghai, and who have convinced the Xi faction (complete with a carriage ride with Queen Elizabeth) to sell China’s sovereign debt on international markets, opening the yuan and therefore China’s economic policy to speculative attack and control by international financiers.
The historical precedents for a Trump presidency offer dark visions of America’s future. Like the ghosts before him, Trump’s judgement is clouded both by powerful revenge fantasies against false enemies, and by misguided loyalties that could ultimately lead our nation to ruin.
Haven’t read the whole piece yet, but once I started reading the characterisations of Xi, one conclusion lept into my mind: Sour Grapes.
See the Duran article by Brit, Alexander Mercouris for more:
http://theduran.com/following-brexit-britains-foreign-policy-elite-breakdown/
“Following Brexit, Britain’s Foreign Policy Elite is having a Breakdown.”
Well, watching PM question time today after his statement re E U counicil meeting yesterday( it was raining could not do anything else while on hol yuk). Coupla mp’s were determined to mention russias aggresion in ukraine and pm seemed to confirm following the usa line and 2% nato funding plus uk presence on the baltics borders against russia.
Sorry about the poor weather! Hope the skies clear quickly. Seems like a big gap between releasing this Global Strategy and actually following it. Merkel lately spoke in favour of Germany increasing its defence spending to 2% because “we can’t depend on the US” or some such reasoning.
Bro,
As i understand, you quoted from The TWSP/UFAA Morning Briefing for Wednesday, June 29, 2016 which included the following sentence:
” Both now and then, there have been two Chinas: the pro-Wall Street and London faction of Mao Zedong and current president Xi Jinping, and the economic populist “youth league” faction represented by the ideals of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Tianamen Square protesters, ”
This one sentence is enough to stop reading the piece anymore … Anybody who has basic understanding of Chinese politics since 1910 will know what Mao stood for, & that Sun Yat-sen’s ideas were opposite to Chiang Kai-shek’s ideas.
Straight-Bat, it’s great to have your unique, highly educated, in-depth perspective in the blog again! Perfect timing in light of recent events.
S113,
I am really overwhelmed with the affection and adulation with which all of you have addressed me. With my limited involvement (compared to bloggers like ioan, dennis, martin, elsi, bro) I noticed your posts to be brief and serious. I miss mulga’s posts for some time.
Frankly speaking, after knowing couple of other blog sites, I found this blog site to be unique to get associated in two ways:
firstly, all regular participants across continents, are almost like extended family members regularly exchanging very serious views as well as personal matters quite easily,
secondly, The Saker himself and Scott both have very probing and knowledge orientation irrespective of personal convictions, which coupled with their sense of morality and justice make this blog site a perfect place for discussions and brain-storming.
Sorry, but I cannot imagine the Russian Security Council being so foolish as to enter into an unprecendented military and economic synergy with a proxy for Anglo imperial ambition.
Xi is being presented here as little more than an agent for the City of London. How credible is that?
Re industrial espionage: what does Tarpley think the NSA is really doing?
@ Straight-Bat
Your coming back has been providential to instil some spine (I even called you, inadvertently, in a previous reply “Straight-Back” !) and a lot of knowledge in this Café, and great detective work too.
Kim
Kim,
I am having a good laugh over your terminology of “Straight-Back” :))
Five decades back when my father gifted me English translation of “How The Steel Was Tempered” written by Soviet (Ukrainian) write Nikolai Ostrovsky, father told me to memorize Ostrovsky’s words and develop a conscience to follow those words throughout my life … I still remember those words, if not exactly, as – Man’s dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for the wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so that, while dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in the world – the fight for Liberation of Mankind
With all of you as fellow bloggers, i hope, I can keep my back straight always till the last day so that I can conform to the wishes of my parents and finally answer satisfactorily to The Almighty.
@ Straight-Bat
Thank you for the quotation. In a similar vein. I like Seneca’s:
“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof of having lived than his age.”.
Kim
Kim,
Seneca’s quote is one of the all-time great …. thanks for that.
What a great pleasure reading you both ! Thanks !
I read that in a hurry but with knowledge that in the past Webster Tarpley has done much useful anti-Empire work.Of late, a number of his assessments have me really scratching my head as to what exactly is generating conclusions of his that I am getting increasingly sceptical of.
But I’ll tell you what I am even MORE sceptical of: People who must must build an “Amen choir” around themselves to feel secure and feel threatened when even a cautionary voice is raised that is not saying “amen” to everything they wish to believe, without any further tests of their hypotheses or inclinations to believe. This is immaturity.
Of course I am NOT saying you are not a clear thinking mature analyst, as your work indicates that you are. And with almost no time to check in, if there is one comment on Tarpley that I had time to scan and digest, yoours was worth commenting on.
Another way to phrase my question would have been:
Is Webster T bringing up anything of substance or concern, or is it the case that after 40+ years in the good fight, he’s cracking up or getting Alzheimers?
Yet some others (E and K) knowing I am probably exhausted, choose to ignore the Brussels Blues Again piece and take ridiculous potshots they know I probably don’t have time or energy to answer. That’s OK!!
In a week or so I will be able to, and may attempt to move the thing forward and upward despite the attempt to cast aspersions on matters that have eluded them, so far. That is, unless something bigger than Brexit changes everyone’s plans.
Thank you for your reply.
Bro,
” I am even MORE skeptical of: People who must build an “Amen choir” around themselves to feel secure and feel threatened when even a cautionary voice is raised that is not saying “amen” to everything they wish to believe ” >
In this statement, I agree with you completely. In fact, I make it a point to read every note/write-up even if I might carry bias against/for some writer – that is because of my inquisitiveness.
In this case, I commented very sharply (on Tarpley’s piece) because it’s clear like daylight that it’s a cooked up writing … Any basic understanding of pre-revolutionary China will tell you that Mao was so much against any outside interference that he declined large-scale help from USSR because of ideological considerations even at their worst time – it’s so absurd when someone tell about him being an Anglo lackey …
Intellectuals and educated peoples (in media and academia) are the biggest culprits to bring the world to such an immoral and unjust state by worshipping money (provided by the Talmud lover AZ cabal). Even Noam Chomsky (after his anti-imperialist activism in past) now supports Killary Clinton !
Oh wait! For not being that anonymous who the other day claimed also that Mao was a western agent at the service of the Rotschilds ( coincidental with that other of the Bolshevik Revolution being also a Rotschild financed project ) your arguments look so much like those of him.
But, was not Sun Yat Sen educated in Hawai ( an usual nursery of CIA agents ) and made also several travels to the USA ( to receive orders )?
How he could manage to go there being a boy of humble origins?
An old friend strategist of mine,( banned time ago or bored himself of being banned ) advised me, in my first times in this blog, of asking always three questions about broadcasts made on a media ( like this one ), namely, why this, why now, why in this form….
After your stories on Goddesses, True Love, and True Care and the poetry contest, I am not so surprised that you find time amonsgt the daunting task of packing to move, and take advantage of that the most dedicated Marxists here are or wiped out or in the way to be, to spread these fallacious arguments.
For your long nights of insomnia, and confessed ( in a previous post ) intelligence work, I left you an article of a very well informed person ( also a traveler ) on what really happens in China, for your despair, to know that, despite the week of scandalous premonitions we have passed here about Brexit:
“Meanwhile, in the Far East…..”
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/mientras-tanto-en-el-lejano-oriente.html
“While the undead, zombie that is the European Union tries to find any signs of life to devour in order to maintain the fiction that, in turn, is still alive and that is good for something; while in the Spanish State (Spain, for other latitudes) seeks the reason why progressives have lost a million votes (enough looking up and to the left to find it), in the Far East …
You will remember that I told you a month ago that at two universities in China, Henan and Nanjing, teachers and students had begun to develop a campaign with the slogan “More Marx, less West” which aims to pressure the Chinese government to be increased “immediately”, ie, for next year, the number of marxist subjects in the education system.
Well, this June has laready added a third university to the campaign: Liaocheng. The campaign“More Marx, less West” is proving very effective and is being followed almost fervently for an increasing number of students and teachers. Already more than one million students and teachers have joined the campaign ( Chinese university people are about 25 million ).
The three universities, Henan, Nanjing and Liaocheng, are developing study programs -still without the approval of the Ministry of Education, who will have no choice but to budge- in which recovers and refines the method of Marxist teaching of many of the disciplines taught. Another university, Changchun, is currently examining if it adheres to the campaign and launches it for next year.
The story began two years ago when the professorship of Henan realized the “loss of values and social confusion” in which were the students in a society that is losing gradually its own culture over Western values to the heat of capitalist practices that have been implemented for nearly 30 years in China. The cause, they say, was the westernization of education. They then launched a program called “Young Marxists”, in which through lectures, group of discussion and academic work, -with special emphasis on the discussion through social internet networks- wanted to attract students not only to Marxism but to the culture of the country that has been lost in recent years. After three months, they were 600 students who had signed up for the program.
At present, each department of Henan University has its own Marxist society and the program is a complete success since currently are about 20,000 students participating in it, and the number is growing.
The model of Henan University was copied by the Nanjing and now by the Liaocheng. The three universities collect the call made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 to “upgrade the ideological education” so that the Chinese government has little capacity to respond to oppose this campaign and these initiatives and the Ministry of Education will have to take the curriculum.
The major driver of this is Wingya Xu, a renowned economist from the University of Henan. Xu says it is impossible to turn every Chinese student in a young Marxist, but his initiative was “like a small spark that can ignite a big fire.” The “Young Marxists” program was that spark and is now motivating many other students.
Henan, Nanjing and Liaocheng have gone a step further and, within their curricula, have initiated a project on visiting historical sites linked to the revolutionary process, both the Long March and the struggle against the reactionaries of Chiang Kai-shek and against the Japanese occupiers in World War II. In them, the students dress in time and recreate the events.
At the same time, they have established a common library of Marxism which already has 17,000 books, thousand digital texts and a hundred magazines.
All this is not going unnoticed by the Chinese government. The projects promoted by these universities will have to be accepted, and driven, the next course. They have already appeared the first comments in government circles about the need to go “dewesternizing” education and introducing what the government calls “courses of thought and politics”, but does not want them so Marxist as look like those of the colleges of Henan , Nanjing and Liaocheng. The Chinese government aims to join the wave to try to control it.
So as the situation is more interesting, I again put the artistic event that best reflects what is happening in China today: a symbolic song on a TV game show. Because, of course, is something that has to do with the movement of the universities.”
Do not loose the video at the end of the article linked in Spanish, attention to the attitude of the public!
Against fundamentalism of any kind, against obscurantism, against the neoliberal scam, against the exaltation of nationalism, against speculation /scam of real estate that has ruined thousands of families and robbed the product of their work for others to live of rents, against organized scam of the international banking cartel, against exploitation to which subject us oligarchic multinationals, against wars to maintain the military-industrial complex, against ignorance and widespread alienation.
Comrade! Awake!
Join your peers, French, English, Irish German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and rest of European peoples, Arab, Israeli, African, South and Central American, Asian, and decent people in the Five Eyes, and claim your right to live in peace and the free man you were born, with access to housing, education, culture, sports, health, leisure and travel and right to intimacy.
This is impossible without ideology!
Behind a speech against ideology, there is always an ideologue, well payed by a think tank or an intelligence service, or a reactionary ( neo ) liberal ( disguissed of whatever, trying to isolate you from your peers, to make you a wimp like those falling in free fall in the embarrassing spectacle of the inauguration of the Ghottard tunnel.
@ Elsi
Thank you for your persuasive comment and update on the “return to basics” at Chinese universities. Education is the most influential factor in our formative years, particularly from adolescence when the child discovers an independent self and parental authority recedes.
I remember when my perception of external reality was being shaped at 10 years of age by texts such as “Both the Rich and Poor Need Each Other” and the many fables supporting a capitalist doctrine. Or reading “Readers’ Digest” moral stories such as sanctifying the last Tsar of Russia and his family and publishing the great deed of a New York Jew who, unselfishly offered to replace a Christian on a Christmas Day roster as a bus driver!
If ever there was any democracy in this world, it would have started with Civic Education from age 10 stressing the 3 principles of Equality, Fraternity and Liberty as the foundation stones of human being.
Kim
Elsi, erudite and wise, intrepid and keen, you are an inspiration.
Thnak you, plainsman, and you, you are an artist on wood, a precious work that you do.
I felt sorry for what happened to your house and for not having writing to you,just I had a bad experience with that and felt reserves of doing it. Excuse me.
You must be a special person when you have so many friends willing to help you. You are very lucky, that’s true wealth.
I wish you good luck and all the best.
A big hug!
For you and all here who reached to see me:
Faith Hill-” Wild One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WifpCsOQ3JM
elsi,
” Against fundamentalism of any kind, against obscurantism, against the neoliberal scam, against the exaltation of nationalism, against speculation /scam of real estate …, against organized scam of the international banking cartel, against exploitation to which subject us oligarchic multinationals, against wars to maintain the military-industrial complex, against ignorance and widespread alienation.
Comrade! Awake! ” >
You have nailed the gigantic scam (called ‘capitalism’) that is going on for last three centuries – very concisely and effectively. Highly appreciate your statement.
Finally, this post from Bro contains the same old bunch of trash that MSM dishes out with colourful packaging as a regular media activity, and some bloggers in Alternate Media (like this blog site) spread such nonsense raw without any packaging.
I’m sure, no rational and truth-loving person will spare time for those propaganda !
elsi
“This is impossible without ideology!” – very true, I’m barking over this for a time, relating it to Russia.
@ Bro Anon
I only skimmed through the post and got a taste of its tenor.
The layers of perfidious deception are being shed and your true colours glare for anyone to see. Do as a favour and proceed with more revelations.
Kim
Kim
I would not be so hasty and jump in such a critique regarding the article passage written by Webster Tarpley and put it here by Bro. Earlier, I do used to read articles from him and from several others. That’s true, however, that I taken out from the articles what I found interesting, you can find some truth in many intriguing artcles if you don’t take the as amen. Just recently I’ve read an article on a German website (by the way, visited by our friend Martin too) where are similar views regarding the Brexit. The whole world of politics is and gets very complicated by day. The Empire is very extended in her character and includes many players from all fraction and factions from the world political establishment. We may never know ever the reality, just trying to find out something to our better understanding. As we may say, it’s war going on out there, an invisible one, behind the scenes which is 90% and a visible one which is 10%. So, our task is not easy, to jump in fast conclusions is not the best solution.
Ioan, this post made me stop and think for a while. I needed to hear this reminder. Also really appreciated your pondering about London vs Frankfurt in the financial sector. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, in and out of verses!
Well said Ioan.
I share Elsi’s ideals too. But. while ideology can inspie people to concretize their ideals, they can likewise be corrupted through human fallibilty.
The Soviet Union, for all the idealism of the communist collective, ultimately threw up an administrative class that dispensed ‘goodies’ as its members saw fit – and therein lay the seeds of its ultimate collapse. All the mobster oligarchs that looted Russia in the nineties were communists to begin with. But the opportunity for self-enrichment was too tempting. It a was a two-tier system still, compounded by ranking based on percieved loyalty, not talent or goodness.
I think both Putin and Xi are on the same page whrn it comes to recognising the need for balance between the human capacity for sacrifice and selfishness – a third way that allows individual expression without leading to the social harms of rampant capitalism. But that requires a change in conscioiusness , and the siren call of the perpetually party animal West is always in the background.
Nor is it exclusively a Western song – the East has its sirens too.
Until all nations put children first, its to the victor the spoils – in both senses of the word.
Nevertheless, Elsi’s news of an awakening in the PRC is heartening.
Just whrn you think the kids are lost, they go go and surprise you..
Absolutely! Will do! Please see reply to SB, above. Will have time for more direct dialogue in depth, if you choose, in a week or so. Thanks for your patience.
For anyone interested in the situation in the Asia Pacific, Veritas Vincit has again put a very good comment at southfront with a lot of background information.
https://southfront.org/indonesia-increases-defense-budget-amid-tensions-in-south-china-sea/#comment-2756778339
Condolences to all the families of victims of the attack in Istanbul. Shame on the Erdogans who have nurutured the beast of Daesh.
But, there are other victims whom never appear in the media and so never have our compassion. Just this Monday, an attack in the Lebanese village of Al Qaa ( North Bekaa valley ) left 10 deads and 15 injuried….
“Terrorist attacks and victims in the Lebanese village of Al Qaa”
http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/adetails.php?eid=131811&frid=23&cid=23&fromval=1&seccatid=31
“Terrorism has managed to strike Lebanon again, this time in the far northeast of the country.
Several suicide attacks carried out by suicide bombers have killed at least ten people in a village predominantly Christian on eastern Lebanon, Al Qaa, an area close to Syria.
On Monday night, the village was hit by four suicide bombings, he said a military source told AFP. Thirteen people were injured, according to hospital sources quoted by the National Information Agency. They were taken to hospitals in the region.
Two kamizakes were exploded near an armored vehicle and a military unit of information and forth in front of a church, according to a military source. Two explosions took place near the town hall.
The direction of the Army advised the people of Al Qaa, in a statement, not meet in public places and to respect the security measures.
Fighting has erupted outside the town between the Lebanese army and armed groups. Army artillery bombed the positions of the latter in the province.
Early Monday morning another four suicide bombings claimed the lives of another five people.
Reactions
For the Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, this operation shows “the baleful plans directed against Lebanon and the risks that threaten the country.”
The army chief, General Jean Kahwayi, meanwhile, paid tribute to Al Qaa and other border towns which “represent the first line of defense against terrorism.”
The UN special coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, “condemned” the attacks and called on the international community to “improve the capabilities of the Lebanese army so that it does meet the security challenges, including terrorist threats.”
<b<Terrorist presence
Lebanon currently collects 1.1 million Syrian refugees throughout its territory, especially in Aarsal, northeast of the country.
Reports of Lebanese and international security confirms that among the refugees include a number of terrorist militants willing to carry out attacks against civilians and the Lebanese Army.
It was thanks to the attacks carried out jointly by the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah that most of the Lebanese-Syrian border in the east of the country is assured.
The infiltration of terrorists has become almost impossible and attempts to commit several car bombings have been aborted.
But when the Army and Hezbollah came to the border village of Arsal to continue cleaning the rest of the border, an entire political and media campaign of the political field “March 14″ was launched brandishing the threat of Sunni-Shiite discord.
This prevented the continuation of the operations of cleaning the northeastern border of Lebanon, facilitating the continuation of terrorist attacks such as those that took place on Monday in Al Qaa.”
“Hezbollah condemns terrorist attacks in Al Qaa”
http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/adetails.php?eid=131899&frid=23&cid=23&fromval=1&seccatid=31
“Hezbollah denounced on Monday the terrorist crime which was carried out by suicide bombers in the town of al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa, in Lebanon, offering condolences to families of martyrs and wishing a speedy recovery of the wounded.
In a statement, Hezbollah said that this crime, which claimed the lives of innocent civilians, is a new product of the obscurantist ideology of terrorism that is plaguing the region and poses a serious danger to the population.
This ideology also threatens Lebanon and its people in all areas and religious groups, without distinction, the statement said, adding that the results of this crime must be charged to the secret and open support provided by some countries and entities in the region and the world to these terrorists criminals.
These countries provide to the terrorist groups, arms, equipment and media, moral and political support.
Hezbollah stressed that this takfiri ideology must be fought, detected and reported in order to thwart its plans and block its expansion.
This contradicts what has been done by some Lebanese politicians and their environment, whose deceptive posturing seek to hide the evil ideas of terrorists and justify their atrocities, Hezbollah said.
A series of suicide bombings took place in the mainly Christian town of al-Qaa on Monday, causing 10 dead and 15 wounded.”
That is the way, all united against Daesh/Al Qaeda, international terrorism and its funders/supporters:
“Goodbye to the victims of attacks in Lebanon”
“Christians and Muslims attend the funeral of victims of suicide bombings in the Lebanese village of Christian majority of al-Qaa, June 29, 2016.”
http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/fotos/280268/libano-victimas-atentados-pueblo-cristino
Thank you for the useful information. Can we have hope now that more and more people are waking up seeing the reality of those criminals ? that’s a good sign
The UAF invaded DPR territory today in the area of Debaltsevo, penetrating 4km through NAF defenses. There were casualties. The NAF managed to repel the invasion. Givi’s Somalia battalion came to the rescue. This is well-documented at Novorossiya News:
https://quemadoinstitute.org/novorossiya-report/
Yup ,day before did Poro give “permision” by saying cannot be minsk as Donbass ” illegal armed groups ” cannot be disarmed, presence and withdrawal -haha- of russian military, no ceasefire (due to actions by ukr forces ooops).Someone in eu was proposing punishments for non compliance of minsk , plus Rus envoy to osce notes efforts are being made to solve the crisis….ie contact groups are making efforts /new stepsto separate the two sides, ukr fears the rise of novorossiya should minsk conclude but Donbass authorities see no chance of elections this year….did Donbas petition to UN re ukr attacks get heard at all?
Speaker of rada says special status of Donbass is totally unnacceptable, osde does not want its observers armed, though Rus has put forward ideas re “electoral police” in Donbass,
Dninews.com also has latest sitrep today,u kr is making fake claims re transfer of boder controls to another sub group……I presume minsk 3 ideas by ukr and Hug of osce are finally buried……..rail freight across borders may be settlement/confirmation……political subgroup continues discusions in minsk….Lavrov emphasises again! must be direct dialogue
between ukr and Donbass but Rus parliament notes Ukr does not want to talk to Russia……Kiev has ejected a Rus officer at jcce for upsetting minsk in some way, Rus saysallegations are atempts to still blame Rus for crisis.
US is cranking up the propaganda on south China Sea.
China risks ‘outlaw’ status if it rejects South China Sea ruling: lawyer
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-philippines-court-lawyer-idUSKCN0ZF2YS
@mundanomaniac–well, Gottfried is blessed to have a friend who sends him such messages with such a love that conquers death.
“Mars… through yet attained terrain fire at will for the sacrificer until then in Sagittarius again the start of reconciliation.”
My poor muses struggle to match those here who are much more skilled…but.
Mars out of incubation: free at last, free at last
the Arian folk of England, stirred to take a stand
This, a source of exultation, now the die is cast
The Arian Russian folk lag not behind too far
they stand face to face hiding their distaste
to save our human race, the bully they must bar
The Arian folk of Germany take up in the rear
into the peaceful stream of of humanity
by the spirit of Goethe they must steer
teranam13,
You have no idea how much I love and appreciate your tandem with mundanomaniac, including your verses ( I know the struggle with rhytms and rhymes but the idea is very good)
@ ioan
what a pin-point – compliment ioan showing 3 people (mybe +) happy
in this crazy cafe in which I would like now a 1/4 White Süd-Tiroler and that the preachers with the very long sermons would take a bit down the voices
here my short response
http://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2016/07/a-pin-point-compliment.html
cheers to all
I can only praise what your muses raise
mine are still disbased
like water are they chased
with truly inner ear
to listen words so dear
whith what will shallow meaning bite
when humble ears hear deep and wide
Latest Operation Gaslight USA:
CNN on 6/28/16 Reports: Clinton and Trump poll neck and neck
CNN on 6/30/16 Reports: Poll: Clinton extends lead over Trump.
Now, how stupid do they think we are? In their gated communities they both despise and fear the Jacquerie. For every group of people which does not believe the MSM, there is one friend, usually younger, who knows and reports the groundswell of skepticism and alternative reportage.
It seems that the polls are having the same path in the Imperium of the Empire
Wowee check out latest on tass….moscow denies rus police officer attacked usa diplomat, ss washington post claims spreading hysterics, it was cia agent wanting to rush into usa embassy not revealing identity, assaulted policeman who wanted to check his identity…..now what had he been upto……getting serious folks
Here it is.
http://tass.ru/en/politics/885869
Mod.
Much appreciated thank you….haven’t mastered copy paste on the android tablet…….also speling……..ooops spelling…..
Can someone explain the recent development in Turkey,where Erdogan has sent an apologie to Russia/Putin and few days earlier unfrozen ties with Israel.What is goin on?And why now?
It has occurred to me that a large number of freemasons or cults (e.g. United Ancient Order of Druids) are capable of a form of telepathy for which they probably have trainers. I have noticed that thoughts I have had are picked up and repeated by colleagues or that colleagues answer my thoughts. I suspect that Freemasons and other associates have the power of telepathy but choose to keep it secret from the General Public.
I have also experienced ‘quiet’ periods in my years of being gangstalked and I beleive that Trainers have brought Apprentices round to train them in telepathy.
Is this one of Freemasonry’s best kept secrets?
Not only was the alleged mastermind behind the Ankara attacks a Chechen wanted as an extremist in Russia, both the EHCR and Amnesty International’ prevented his extradition for terrorism:
Yes, this is a warning to Erdo.
No wonder he wants to re-ingratiate humself with Putin.
FNA – US arms found in Fallujah, supposedly originally destined for ‘moderate rebels’.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950411000488
Are we going to lose the Saker?
Russian businessman and Putin associatr Yakunin has established a new inter-civilizational dialogue institute in Germany.
The DOC is currently head-hunting from other think-tanks . I guess that means world-class bloggers too:-)
http://www.dw.com/en/putin-associate-opens-russia-friendly-think-tank-in-berlin/a-19372110
“The Forgotten Truth About Lenin”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/07/the-forgotten-truth-about-lenin.html