2016/12/08 21:30:02
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I know, some will say : – yet again a new poem from this self appointed “poet”. But I have to say, read it and think again, this poem is for all those, who feel it as being wrote for them, about them. The lonely cup of tea on the table is very evoking :
Before You Judge Me
Before you judge me and say
That I’m walking the wrong way,
Just take on my shoes
And go where it goes.
And travel my roads
Feel all my thoughts
Feel all my tears
Live all my fears
Live all my pains
My happiness, my despairs…
Take each step along the path
Which I’ve taken knowing that
And stumble on each stone
On which I stumbled alone,
Standing up and going further
As I done it, even harder.
After fighting and withstanding
Living thoroughly, understanding,
Then you can judge me and say
That I’m walking the wrong way
Ioan, empathy is the highest of our capacities, the jewel in the feminine crown, and what separates us from the Sociopaths. If we give nothing else to our children, it has to be this gift. The gift that keeps on giving.
Very good remark Earthrise, the empathy is essential to build a better world, the lack of it is the very result of the world we live in.
It’s hard to put on someone else’s shoes, let alone travel the same road. Life is like a river: you can’t step on it twice and it flows swiftly away before you make sense of it all.
It is also a lonely journey that man alone must take – the pains, fears and tears are the burden you can’t share with others and they also have their own load to carry. Until a new man builds a society where everything is shared: the pains, fears and tears – and the joys and blessings as well. Exit homo economicus, enter homo socialis.
You are a very intelligent man, you have identified the loneliness of the man in his/her life journey, as the cup on that image above, but you also identified and solved – so to speak – the way out, namely, ” Until a new man builds a society where everything is shared: the pains, fears and tears – and the joys and blessings as well. Exit homo economicus, enter homo socialis.” I do appreciate that, thank you.
I feel it is bad form to rag on other info site here, it is a little like schoolyard gossip. But I have been reading Counterpunch for 16 years, and only after this election have I noticed a gap has formed between us. They still have some of the greatest writers in the alt-media (Mike Whitney, Ari Avnery, Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Lindorff, Pepe Escobar et al.). But not only have they been on balance anti-Trump, but I found out last night they successfully petitioned to have their name taken off the Propornot Honour Roll: http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
“List v0.0.7:
Removed following constructive conversations with outlet operators: aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk, abovetopsecret.com, counterpunch.org, nutritionfacts.org, russia-direct.org”
I have already dropped Veterans Today after they came out for Hillary, and I can no longer suffer the Guardian, even if just to know your enemy. I said this in an earlier Café, I get the feeling that Propornot might be a double-agent. As I have lost some really good info sites recently, I have been working through the PoN list, great resource; thanks idiots. As I said last café, propaganda eventually leads to the opposite result. You can only fool the people most of the time.
” I have been working through the PoN list, great resource; thanks idiots,”
Be careful, though! Embedded in the list are also a few CIA limited hangouts. These clowns never stop. Sibel Edmonds has a nice podcast on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73ajATm_NE&t=5s
I just found this; a nice bit of research looking into who is behind the list;
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46006.htm
Thanks Anon and _smr,
Ukie Nazis is code for the Tribe, so no surprise here. I still think it is strange that the list would consist of hyperlinks. When you burn a book, you don’t then hand out the Cliff notes. And they don’t need to set up honeypots for us, we are not hiding (G-Man, I take a 42 neck in a black bag, cotton if you don’t mind). I trust my nose on these things, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Thought provoking prose, ioan.
A lonely cup in a deserted cafe… but here we are not alone but connected by the same sky.
Summer has kicked in down under and filled with blue – jacaranda trees, agapanthus, petunias, azure sky, brilliant ocean… happy days.
I love the Jacarandas this time of year, they line the streets here in northern Adelaide. It is like driving down a purple processional parade, all that is missing is the crowds and the tickertape. The agapanthus in my front garden bloom later than other peoples, mine are about to open. I have given up on Petunias, I am too lazy to plant every year. As for azure skies, nothing but dark clouds today in the South.
Every year sometime in September we get that first real Spring day. I’ll be driving down the road, and then I see that azure sky for the first time since Autumn. I open the car window, the breeze is not hot or cold. Even after all these years, I get this little rush, a burst of ‘happy days’ as you say. If Hope and Promise have a colour, it is that azure sky, and that cool breeze that cleans the soul.
I was so amazed to read your comments of North Adelaide and the Jacarandas Earthwise – I lived for a while in Mitcham, on a street which was lined both sides with them. I would pull in on my way home, to just look down this tunnel of purple, on the ground with the fallen ones, still thick on the trees, with the sunlight taking a lilac coloured bloom.
The nearest thing to it was a similar avenue covered with Poincianas in Townsville.
But that magical blue of the Jacarandas I’ve never forgotten.
Nor how much I loved North Adelaide – and British Lion!!
Thanks.
How fortunate you are Bella to have travelled and lived in such beautiful places. My roots are so deep, and the gravity of friends and family too great for me to achieve escape velocity. I really hope to get to Europe before my time is over, to finally see the places I have read so much about. Up until now, my soul has had to journey on my behalf. I might live and die within 200 kms of my birthplace, sad in some ways. But when I look at devastation in Syria, and see the women in rags dragging disheveled children, I feel blessed.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”; The Hobbit.
Earthrise and Isabella
Yes the ‘blue colours’ of an Aussie summer are stunning.
Adding to my list of colours/places that amaze and inspire are:
The blue/green -lapis/teal of the glacial rivers and lakes in the Rockies, Canada.
And the current changing – sapphire, indigo, navy, cerulean of the Black Sea.
While the poets are running for cover (minus brave Ioan), the field is open for painters to take over Café discourse – not with brush and palette, but words oozing with vibrant colour and sweet pollen.
Is it another plot by the traitorous Trotsies to impose their cultural Marxism instead of fighting the EmPyre?
And all that because Babushka welcome summer downunder, Earthrise was jealous for being late, and Isabella barged in with her gift for turning a prosaic streetscape into an exquisite painting dripping with iridescent hues, fragrant colours and lyrical petals. God’s Own Country allright!
You make me sound like the Mad Hatter!
(damn you Ioan, if only I had posted before I went to work!)
I have my work Christmas show tomorrow night, so I will be away for a few days. Be kind to Dennis and see you all at the next café.
God bless, and have a good Christmas show !
How you turned my feelings there A. ;- ) I “barged in” you say! I flinched. God, was I so awful, so thoughtless, did I ride roughshod over some else’s conversation I wondered? [Typical response of mine, assuming I’ve done something wrong :-) ]
Then you offer me the loveliest compliment on my few words. I don’t know what to say but … thank you very much for so much kindness.
You know, you are right, I have been fortunate, in so many places I’ve been to and seen.
Thank you for reminding me Earthrise. We can be so lucky, and yet let stupid little flecks of irritation in a day blind us to the memory. It often takes a chance kind comment from a thoughtful “other” to bring memory back into focus.
Yet, I have always slightly envied what you have. It’s not to be lessened – there must be something so magical in having your own “place”. I know there are people – V.V. Putin is one – who are so evocative in their strong sense of “home”; and ‘I belong here, and here I’ll stay”, which I have always envied. Part of my travels has been, I think, an attempt to find it. I know it’s there. It’s just not where I’ve been to so far.
So – you too are lucky to have that ” roots .. so deep, and the gravity of friends and family too great”.
Thanks again.
Home, yes. They say you can never go back, but people don’t realise we carry it with us. It is one of the central themes in Tolkien’s work, which is why I used the Hobbit quote above. This is one of the best qualities about being a Hobbit, the love of hearth and home; the simple pleasures of gardening, feasting and friendship. To save all of this, one little person risked everything to travel to the ends of the earth to certain death. Tolkien reminds us what we are really fighting for.
That’s true, we share the same sky, but not the same fate in particular. Although, we try to share as we could and what we dare. Nice to have you here again !
The Darkened Deplorable Galley
What?! Ioan is the only, remaining Lonely Cup?
Dennis dejected, tired out, silent and all fed up?
The Left Wing Seagulls up and flew far away.
Now the Right Wing Petrels hold their sway!
These seabirds call me a cultural Trotskyist!
Now that’s exceedingly rich! May I be dottiest
On both those twisting listing persisting lists
Of capsizing clipper cargo ships of fools
Replete with rum-soaked Pee Sea rules,
Leaky doctrines and leakier still arguments.
Would say I ever “Get thee, sailor, hence!”?
Never! Though I might surly differ, frown
And scowl, I’d ne’er see any shipmate drown!
Bunk down in the foc’sle, on the starboard
Or port side, whatever partisanship harbored,
Sleep off the deadening ideological grog,
As USS Deplorable emerges from the fog.
Hey, it’s late. I hoped to chat with plainsman or Phil and work on what should or could be done about changing course, but everyone suddenly turned Anonymous and disappeared into one big fog bank.
Then I found out that the two large trees on the west of my house are Australian!
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jacarandas+in+bloom&qpvt=jacarandas+in+bloom&qpvt=jacarandas+in+bloom&qpvt=jacarandas+in+bloom&FORM=IGRE
What the heck!? So, with the dozen Eucalyptus, within a hundred yards, I’m effectively in an Aussie Arboretum. Hmmmm!
Well, Tie Me Wallaby down, Mate!
https://youtu.be/_D-LmRNdQiQ
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
Rolf Harris
There’s an old Australian stockman lying, dying. He gets himself up
onto one elbow and ‘e turns to his mates, who are all gathered around and ‘e
says:
Watch me wallabies feed, mate
Watch me wallabies feed,
They’re a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallabies feed
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
Keep me cockatoo cool
Ah, don’t go acting the fool, Curl
Just keep me cockatoo cool
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
‘n’ take me koala back, Jack
Take me koala back
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac
So take me koala back
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Let me abos go loose, Lew
Let me abos go loose
They’re of no further use, Lew
So let me abos go loose
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
And mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Ah, don’t let ‘im go running amok, Bill
Just mind me platypus duck
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Ah, like, keep playin’ ’til I shoot thru, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I’m dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that’s it hangin’ on the shed!!
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Well, now that I’ve offended the whole wide Universe
And engaged in sufficient metaphor and nonsense verse,
I reckon I got a right to turn in, and get some sack time
On seas that never lack rhythm and never lack rhyme.
But I did get to honor Blue, at least.
An’ set me course for South Southeast.
I grew up with Rolf Harris songs, too bad he turned out to be a rapist and a pedo :( There was/is something terrible pulsating in the heart of the BBC.
@ 93: Keep on poeting…being called a Trotskyist by some here is like being called a “Putin stooge” by others on other sites. Love how you worked that word into the rhyme scheme of your poem. Try it with the “ite” ending and you can work in a rhyme with “bite” which might really get you censored! (teasing hopefully lightly)
Check out what Prof Cohen says about Trotsky in his latest podcast with John Batchelor ( reposted on todays RI site). And he is careful what he says about the man.
Writing poetry even bad poetry is exhausting for some of us not as graced with quick wit and voluminous verbal memory, so I’m glad everyone is taking a break because sometimes the muse will just take hold and shake me by the neck until I spit it out—another deplorable but hopefully adorable yet not quite snore-able verse attempt.
You sound like some sort of tourist salesman. Meaningless rhyme written by a pommy pedophile.
sorry T13, supposed to be a reply to Bro 93
While I’m here, I have a few spuds in my garden Bro…. I guess that gives the place a yank atmosphere… yep, I’ll go and sit amongst my spuds and imagine I’m a cowboy.
For Peter AU:
Nothing risked, nothing gained: “Entertainment” is a mine field. Sammy Davis junior (and a lot of others) were said to be part of the Anton LaVey Church of Satan around Hollyweird. It’s a risk to “like” anyone in that field. They are so sought after and corrupted by the Powers That Shouldn’t Be for the power to influence that they wield,
Who knew about Rolfie’s “preferences”? I didn’t even know what Pommie meant til I searched. So he was a Brit making fun of y’all down under, all the while pursuing his special “preference” boy wonder??
Yes, that would chill my mirth a bit, no matter what Hemisphere I lived in.
The song just popped into my head from more than a half century ago.
Why? I dunno.
More to the point, your trees are all over the place, here in California.Especially Eucalyptus. But I honestly didn’t know the Jacaranda was one of yours, till y’all started raving about them coming into bloom, in this Cafe. I lived amongst a real concentration of them, until my move to the OC last summer.
Now spuds (potatoes) are an Inca (Andean) thing. They ended up in Ireland and Russia, of course, but too hot and dry for them in cowboy land (Texas). Most are up north, Idaho.
Our “stockman” would be the cowboy, you are right on that one!
Cheers! And lay into to them Yankee Cowboys with all the wit and grit you can. Except they were Confederates, actually. In Texas. Wrong side. Slavery. And some still want to secede.
I might join in the fun.
I especially like going after
Landslide Lyn-don
Baines Johnson, that is.
Inspiration, wherever you can find it. This Cafe it was breathin’ those beautiful bounteous blue blossoms of Bernardino! Except they belong more to Brisbane, apparently……
Thanks for exportin the seeds!
And thank the Incas for your spuds.
Rolf Harris a pommy? he’s ‘strine surely, born in Perth. He has another trial coming up in 2017 on further charges.
Thanks for talkin’ shop Teranam. I need any pointers I can get!
It was mostly getting loose nonsense, as Peter rightly observed.
I was a bit pleased with converting Politically Correct (PC) to its phonetic “Pee Sea” however.
It fit the maritime theme. And the general irreverence and silliness being aimed at for the purposes of relaxation.
Now what I really like about Russians, is they are so secure about who they are, that they can enjoy making fun of themselves without worrying about it.
Remember this a from few months ago?:
https://youtu.be/jisQkBlgpPw Russian Way of Playing Accordion
Earthrise enjoined some Anon to be kind to Dennis while he (Earth) is away on a long Christmas celebration (!!!) and I suppose it will last ’til the Wise Men get to their destination on or about 7th January next year. Being summer in Oz they really get carried away with their religious festivals which they combine with some profane diversions of their own, including the National Day to commemorate the day when the dregs of English society (convicts and Redcoats) and Irish rebels started the genocide of the Aboriginal people of Australia and built up a servant country of empires, first the British then the Yankish, an acknowledgement that they haven’t built a nation of their own – Gallipoli notwithstanding – but live on stolen land.
But why the injunction to be nice to Dennis – unless he means Dennis the Menace, that irreverent comic strip bully-boy who really deserves a political incorrect good-old-days spanking for his misdeeds. Or he might mean to be nice now to “our” Dennis because of the festive season and Christmas spirit. Does it mean that, once the season is over, it’s “open season” again and no holds barred?
No fear. Our Dennis has a very special place in our hearts, whether ante- or post-Christmas, regardless of the raids of his army and other less bellicose escapades into our comfort zone. A Jesuit, and especially an ex-Jesuit, is ordained into an extraordinary order of men of rare talents feared by kings and popes, like the Templars of yore. And we care, even when his army is on the move and we – of the less lovely variety – throw a few barbs at his regime-nts.
I value freedom of speech. It’s great for learning. Yet, it requires moderation within a meaningful context. The Saker and moderators are doing an excellent service in this regard.
There are some who dislike scrolling through what does not interest them, or simply dislike certain views or styles, or have shorter attention spans. They may prefer venues like Twitter or Facebook. I happen to like this site for its tolerance and user friendly format. I also like the Orthodox underpinnings although I don’t agree with some of the fundamentalism. This all comes with the freedom of speech package.
What I like about religions is that they all seem to value the sacred and mysterious aspects of life. I dislike it when they become bogged down with too much fear or become hemmed in by the state. To my mind, religions should be true to their name. Religion comes from “re-ligio,” literally to “tie back into.” To return to the Source.
I’ve gone through old and new age religions and other kinds of religions. I prefer living, growing, adapting and vital religions. Too often they become trapped in their own dogmas and fail to develop them. For me, all religions have their Source in Love. When they deviate from that through misunderstanding or political power games, they fail to fulfill their purpose.
We’re heading for Christmas, a central tenet of Christianity which has impacted the secular world. I’m returning to my family for Christmas; most of them are faithful Catholics. They are very tolerant of me and my views which have developed in a radically different way. There is much to learn in the old traditions.
Another bug-a-boo in religions, including secular ones, is sex, which has a tendency to become inflated or deflated. Sex is where it’s at, in my experience, as far as solving our problems goes, especially that of war. I find this quite evident in some of the reactions here in this vineyard.
If we can practice free and open speech, within the stated guidelines, it will bode well for us. I like poetry, philosophy, metaphors, analysis, personal sharings and a wide variety of expressions but I dislike meanness, bigotry, crudity, narrow-mindedness and righteous ignorance.
I actually like being called on my own defects because that’s how I learn. I can learn to stand up for my values while respecting those of others. I like the images of the vineyard, saker, cafe and others that are in the process of development here.
My own views and metaphors are often contentious, counter-cultural and politically incorrect. They arouse resentment, jealousy and even nausea. This is part and parcel of the freedom of speech package. If they cross the guidelines, it’s up to the moderators to bring things into line. So we can be safe and free.
It’s hard for new-comers to enter into what must appear confusing and threatening territory. Fortunately, there are those here who have the welcoming touch. The mission of stopping war begins at home, within the individual and small communities like this. I have much to learn in this regard.
Tough and tender love go together; they thrive in all kinds of weather. We may be heading for a perfect storm but there’s always a place that is safe and warm; even when we must answer for our deeds according to the laws of karma. I call that place love; you may call it something else, or even detest the word love.
I think of the millions who have suffered terribly and still are. I feel responsible in part for that. I like this place because its purpose is to stop the war on Russia, which for me anyway is the canary in the mine for stopping war itself.
I love you all, especially when it’s an act of choosing against my negative feelings. I may be full of blarney and a dreary leary who is weary of leary himself but I must soldier on with the Love Army despite myself. There is too much at stake to become leery now. I don’t like to act cheery when I don’t feel it nor be a deary in a world of suffering and bleary deceit.
But I weary you with my crack and gab. Let my name be a warning to scroll on by. I don’t mind. After all, I am Dennis the Menace and Leary the Leprechaun. Dennis is Sinned backwards, and Leary Yrael backwards. Yrael is a bit like Israel, if not khazarian with a touch of kardashian.
Dear Dennis,
As I see, there are people who never learn, who are stubborn in their views, and you belong to this category in certain ways. I agree that freedom of speech is one of the greatest values of this vineyard but there are some undefined lines which are “heavy” to cross. These lines are very palpable and in the last Cafe have been evoked. Certainly, you are very talented in both prose and poetry, nobody denies that and I don’t think that somebody might be jealous. The case is with – too much – as I already said before but it went forgotten, the chocolate is good, but too much of it makes man sick. I don’t know, maybe stands in your character to not take in consideration others wish, or why you don’t feel the “breeze” of the waves. On my part, I will do sometimes poetry, but just one/cafe. Also too long comments is not my style. It is right to keep a balance.
I wish you a happy birthday Dennis and a happy Christmas !
A quite german way of explaining the german basic tenet #1: if something is allowed (because of Freedom & Democracy) this does not mean that it is allowed – you better take care before saying anything about anything, and the best is not to say anything at all, ever. What is really not allowed, and what really is depends on the opinions, fears and wishes of persons which are much too important (i.e. too big cowards) to ever complain or explain openly and thus become recognizable. That’s why we (i.e. you, Dennis) have to update our (your) knowledge of The Laws That Be by reading their precious thoughts and feelings by empathy, just like a competent lap dog would do. A lap dog lives the life of a lap dog because he/she/it learned early that “too much roaming outside would mean too much fresh air”, which, obviously, makes lap dogs sick.
It is also a question of Do It Yourselfism (“I write my own poems and invent my own theories”), which obviously is too much of this and too much of that and is therefore forbidden, although “in principle” it is allowed. “Be assured that everybody knows what is good for you, so why do you dare to disagree?” is another basic germanism, in use forever, but only now gaining momentum here, too.
By the way, for me your long rants, strange theories and barely comprehensible poems plus factual descriptions of your surroundings are the main reason for coming here again and again.
@Anon
Is ‘germanism’ your term for conformity?
Curious.
Also, do you think that ‘when in Rome, do as the Romans do’ is ‘cowardly’?
Again, curious.
Ps The only person I ever heard use the term ‘Germanism’ was German.
The latest meme is “Fake News”. I am skeptical. Look, I’ve been to my share of garage sales, and what do they do there for garage sales? They blow some of the dust off items that have been in closets for a long time, and put them out there for people to (hopefully) spend a little money on. Well, isn’t this analogous to this “Fake News” phenom?
I’ve been awakened and switched on since 1975, railing against the beast machine, and what we have here is a dust-off of an old, old complaint now being recycled as something late and breaking. But it’s not. The people who did this don’t have the cultural acumen nor the imagination to come up with anything that’s truly new. So they plagiarize. We were sounding the alarm about the faked reports appearing on a popular news magazine format show on television called “60 Minutes”. And I still vividly remember the expression of aghast horror on my mother’s face, may God rest her, when I autonomously rose from the couch, switched off the television in the middle of Dan Rather’s droning and proclaimed the whole shooting match “propaganda.” I never watched it again. I went back to the library instead. And earlier than that, in 1968, the television broadcast news was being accused of faking news out of Viet Nam, faking the numbers, faking the events, and getting things totally out of context. See? Nothing new to see here. Big Brother was hard at work long ago faking stuff, but the difference then was he had most people fooled. Today, not so much, and brothers and sisters, it is certainly encouraging.
How many of you remember the book by Gary Allen, “None Dare Call It Conspiracy”? After it went to publication the school board made the move to actually ban that book from the campus of my high school. Imagine that? Guess what, the rebels among us read it anyway. And for a lot of us, it was pivotal. They called it fake history. But they were wrong. They were wrong then, just as they are wrong now, banning books, banning certain websites, all in effort to cover up their own poop. The counterpoint and unflinching research for truth threatens to expose them- HAS exposed them! What to do? Why you dust off an old invective that was originally coined by their opposition and put it out there for the garage sale, hoping that it was forgotten by the intervening generations.
The fakiness abounds in not just the United States, it has swept the globe. It’s everywhere you look, and how the devil do we miss it? We can’t. I think that their panic is at least half self-induced. Error and chaos are abhorrent in a universe predicated on order and harmony. They cannot win. Not even with this fake charge of “fake news” because they have been suppressing “fake news” for a long time, but truth has won.
Good morning. It’s the dawn of the day here and almost winter-time too, except down south where all those exotic trees blossom. We live on quite the contrarian planet.
I see that my name has been mentioned and not in vain. If there’s anything a narcissist like Trump or a trumpet like Leary needs, it’s attention. But for me it has to be cloaked in obscurity and false humility.
Tomorrow is my 77th birthday. I’m not trolling for attention. There have been years where no one noticed, not even myself for a couple of them. It reminds me that everyday is a birthday when I can be reborn. It puts the burden on me of being always grateful for the life I have. When I lived in Holland, when one had a birthday, all were congratulated too, so congrats to all of you.
Birthdays are usually times to eat cake, ice cream and candy; and get more stuff. The sacred part is lost. The sacredness of birth is forgotten in a culture of getting. I miss the old feasts of Catholicism. There always seemed to be an excuse for fasting or feasting. Protestantism and secularism wiped those babies out with the bathwater.
To compensate, I invented a love liturgical calendar based on the natural seasons, and then seasoned it with Tarot cards and Consciousness Cards to match the 52 weeks of the year and the 52 cards of the standard playing cards deck. And I still keep one eye on the Catholic calendar. I assume that the Orthodox have their own ways and days to keep score.
This week has the theme of the Sacred and Sacral Sphere, a sexy time to be sure. Relax, that’s a tease, to tease out the repressions.
I suppose that if the thought police in charge of length are not asleep, I would be ticketed. I don’t mind talking to myself since all discourse may boil down to that. Perhaps it’s all self-projection. The dogma of monotheism suggests the practice of monologue-ism, which can turn into dogmatism.
My son bought me a new computer which I paid for; it arrived last night and he’s coming over at noon to set it up. This one has gotten into the habit of freezing up in some kind of a death; and I have to revive it by turning off its power and rebooting.
I’m preparing for my trip by train from here in Southern Cal to there in Northern Lake Superior Land. A symbolic journey, vision quest from the matriarchal Chumash Indian ground to the patriarchal Chippewa native land; from the Ojai (Ahwah in Chumash meaning moon) Maiden to the Tomah Chief.
It amazes me that I can use a machine like this to enter worlds without end, including yours to the extent you let me in with your own machine. I was in San Buenaventura yesterday, a city of 106,000 on the Pacific coast, having one of the many Franciscan missions running along the coast of California. I marveled at the complexity of civilization, an astounding miracle in itself, that could be brought low. Contrast that with nature and I gain perspective.
It’s seven now and time to get busy with less important matters than self-discovery and therapy by information processing, vineyard buffet style in a cafe that never closes. I pick up that lonely cup of java or juice and raise a toast to the love of all of us.
Dear Denis
to your 77. birthday I’d like to send you this wonderfull lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLbFlPws4U#t=255.290657
have a rich year and good balance in the richdom of your mind
Mundo
Important discussion by my favorite humble scholar and my nominee for the Russian Academy, Prof. Cohen:
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/neo-mccarthyism-and-new-cold-war/ri18098
As for the waves of the ocean of commentary flowing through the Cafe, it is all part of the buzz happening among the collective mind of humanity. And it is good.
I wanted to thank the guest at the feast who suggested using the Yandex browser, but I couldn’t find the comment from last week; it seems to have been buried in an avalanche of text. I hadn’t realized how thoroughly the commenters here have hashed out everything from “cabbages to kings”, as I usually read the first day only. Very impressive, at least by volume!
In any case. thank you! I’ve been using the browser on my android tablet and notebook pc with no issues. The instant translation feature is very handy for following links in russian and the translation is very fast and quite readable, the adblock feature has made the once painful experience of Zerohedge (I had to be very careful on the tablet to avoid opening multiple ads by accident) a relative joy.
Highly recommend. No more google! No more Microsoft!
I wonder if you could post a short description of how to get to a safe site for downloading the Yandex browser. I am sure I am not the only person ready to make the change. – fk mod
I went back and found the original link from movable feast (thanks, Ralph!)…
https://browser.yandex.com/desktop/main/
For Android, it’s on Google play.
I just noticed they have mail app, also. I might try it
I never got more South in Africa than – well it was a sign to Timbuktu – South of Morocco and in Tunisia..we went so far south – and it was so incredibly hot . that people were still living underground in caves..but with their TV aerials – sticking out of the underground caves. I know they weren’t faking it…
So I had already experienced Morocco – and have since been back (The Moroccans are Lovely)
But The Tunisians – O.K… I was quite happy to have a ride on their Camels (again) as did my Girlfriend (now wife) but I said No, I am not going to pay you any money for the “Lawrence of Arabia” – white scarves…
Yes it was the Desert..and it was very windy – incredibly hot – but I would not pay the money…
I could tell they were annoyed..but they didn’t kill me. They saw my wife (well girlfriend then)
We did travel a bit in the early 80’s.
I’m amazed how we got away with it.
But we are still here and my wife’s broken leg is healing well.
She got hit by a car just over 3 weeks ago – on the way to her dance class.
She will be O.K.
Thanks especially to our National health Service
They have been wonderful and still are.
i do still have the photographs to prove it.
Tony
( to the moderator: if you think this topic too far off the rant category in the Cafe, or distasteful,I will understand)
rant: sexuality and boundaries: incest/pedophilia as a disease of intimacy.
Intimacy is the ability to form relationships with others based on trust and mutual respect and love. Incest is primarily a relationship of power which violates all of the latter and, I might add, by introducing sexuality prematurely upsets the developing brain of the child especially if done before the onset of adolescent hormone surge. To encourage a child to have sex or to trick or foist it upon them or coax them into it is a violation of something very sacred. The concept of age of consent was know way, way back in tribal times and it was around adolescence.
Societies have developed what works and what does not over millenia. It is known that in any community there are various relationships needed for its health and survival–relationship to peer group, to work group, to family, to people of authority, to teachers, to self and to G-d or whatever gives one a sense of connection to what I call “more than”.
It is boundaries and responsibilities which make these relationships work. It is hard for me to make any sense out of a group where people are rolling around engaging in sex freely as the most important human interaction. Indeed, I find this a rather childish preoccupation and have done much scrolling past some contributors that I have grown leery of.
I am reminded that the first book I read that posited this was “Brave New World” where everyone was on Soma andthe protagonist ended up committing suicide. I much preferred “1984” –at least the protagonist fought the good fight before defeat. Remember, It ended with the words–“And he Loved big brother.”
Teranam,
I was thinking about your post as I went to sleep last night. I think the issues of pederasty, slavery, and the subjugation of women and men is a central part of modern western culture. It has been normalised to some extent, as it is used in conditioning the subject. The subversion of normal, healthy, (and I would say, even divine) development I call a `bent ethology´. When a boy is brutalised in certain ways at certain points of his development, he can be turned from a defender of the community, to a killer. Think about marine trainings, or all of those awful boys schools that upper class british boys attended for generations. Remove the mother, the family, at age 7. Then well, lots of brutal behaviour and pederasty; read Roald Dahl´s autobiography on that.
I don´t want to blame capitalism, but I think we can see it as an institution that reflects some of these warped social relations, as human beings are commodified and thus degraded. One brilliant book which makes a very good case for these connections, as well as to abuse of the natural world is Derrick Jensen´s A Language Older Than Words. For the strong of stomach only. Its a poetic exploration of his own experience of child abuse, which may be very helpful for those trying to come to terms with abuse by the one who they turn to for protection.
Sibel Edmonds has done interviews on the tip of the iceberg of vile abuse revealed by the case of Dennis Hastert and other high officials. The reason we do not see more prosecution is that most federal judges are chosen for their blackmailability. Anyone remember when Clinton (the cocaine kingpin president) fired all of the attorneys general and replaced them early in his administration? They appropriated the FBI files on everyone, presumably for persuasion purposes.
I have been witness to the breakdown of society, growing up in the Silicon Valley in the 60´and early 70´s. Seeking understanding of this dynamic has led me to study culture and society. I do think we are in times in which many will be unmasked, and veils ripped aside. Its not a problem for those who try to reside in virtue. Many people in high office or positions of power in the media will be brought down, in the court of public opinion, if not by the law.
Recently, I found two very illuminating videos; one on media manipulation and one on the financial system. They are a bit long, but really integral to my current understanding of both where things went wrong, and how to change course and resurrect a healthy society.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/news-media-corruption-1/duped.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MechH0ebs_c&feature=youtu.be
One connection I never made (in the first lecture) is how the telecommunications act of Bill Clinton´s presidency turned a music scene that was lively, artistic and political to a very destructive force on young people. He makes the point much better than Tipper Gore ever did.
Your points about boundaries are well taken. Freedom and limitations are 2 sides of one coin. Not to harm another, and certainly not the most vulnerable is a baseline for all decent human societies.
Hi. I read down to 11:38 pm. I am feeling this fire in my chest from a couple of the comments about me that are trying to shut down my freedom of speech. You got my Irish up. There are many ways to do that besides just saying: shut up.
If the Saker or a moderator tells me I am overstepping a line that only they can see, that’s one thing but when it comes from my peers, that’s another thing. You probably know who you are; and there’s no sense in making it a personal matter. It’s a matter of principle, the principle of free speech. Here in the US it is protected by the very first amendment.
What do you think the very first thing is that the Empire attacks. Yes, freedom of speech. That does not make it right to yell “fire” in a theater. Can’t I even assume that we have a modicum of common sense here at a site that wants to stop the Empire’s war?
I am angry at the Empire which murders millions. It started out on that path long ago with denying freedom of speech and the freedom to gather together.
Some people either cannot or will not understand what I am saying and resort to indirect tactics. I have no problem with disagreements; they are part of the human condition. But I do have a problem with twisting my arguments into their opposites; this is another Empire tactic.
These kind of maneuvers must come to light if the goals of this site are to be reached. We cannot use the same tactics as the Empire and oppose it at the same time. I’m not going to name names but I am going to call out violations of principle. The lives of millions are at stake and it’s a matter of love for them that I act and speak according to just principles.
Show me where I violate just principles if you can. I am not going to involve myself in anyone’s personal hidden agendas which they may not even know themselves. Over and over I have addressed statements that have been made but my responses are simply ignored, or I have been accused of ignoring the statements that I am in fact addressing.
At some point, I have to stop this merry-go-round and say what I need to say according to the freedom of speech guidelines, as stated here. If it ruffles feathers, so what? It’s the principle that counts, not the feelings. I have expressed my feelings but they are subordinate to a higher law.
If anyone wants to meet me on the level of reason with feelings in a subordinate role, fine I’ll be there. Otherwise, you can say what you want by the same privilege that I do. If this is not clear, then say why it is not clear. But put what I have said in quotes one point at a time and we’ll discuss it. If I have made a mistake, I’ll say so. But I’m not going to answer insinuations and your saying that I said things that I never did. Those are Empire psy-ops operations and I want nothing to do with them. So go ahead and respond if you want but engage what I actually said in the context in which that was done. If you can’t or won’t do that, then let’s agree to disagree and continue to exercise our rights of freedom.
Thanks to all, particularly to those to whom it may concern in this “kerfuffle.” I love you all. If that offends you, it’s not my problem. It’s a universal principle, at least in my world, and I think also at this vineyard.
I seriously could not think of an English journalist who rated in the Top 20 or even top 100..
so I wrote this..
Try and See The World from the point of view of My Sis…
If
She has been called back from her Retirement to Work Again as a Nurse in Casualty…
She has the choice of 4 people immediately before her..who does she treat first??
I know how she would handle it cos she told me cos she had just done it for live in the street – a few years ago – walking from pub A to pub B at about midnight…
by herself – a little slip of a girl – slim about 5 feet tall…
There were two kids who had just had a knife fight…and he was bleeding all over the street…
She said to The Man still standing….”I am a Nurse – and I can Save His Life..if you Don’t Fuck Off Now, I will have You for Murder”
So he did, and she did save his life and the police turned up sometime later..and I saw my Sis run into the pub 45 mins later and run upstairs to the toilets to clean her dress and her clothes she used to save his life.
She is My Sis (OUR Friend)
We are not related – she is just our mate. (She comes from Lancashire too)
I am not making any of this up..
You don’t have to publish it or believe it..
but I am not giving you the names and addresses of my best friends – unless you have already been to one of our parties..
Do I know you..oh you work the BBC -am I supposed to be impressed – Channel 4 maybe?
Oh you are a press Photographer – shit you are a press photographer…
I mean who gives a shiit..most of you journalists were out of a job years ago
So I will give An English Journalist The Award of Cunt Of The Year
Well for getting employed by The Daily Mail after getting Fired By The Daily Telegraph
What do You Reckon Peter Oborne or Dan Hodges?
Who would you want at your party?
(Dan’s Mum)
I fell in love with Glenda Jackson – before Dan Hodges was born – and I think ffs..well at least he tries hard..but what a load of crap he writes (does he actually believe this neocon shiit?? – surely he can’t be that thick – and it wasn’t me that hit him – but my lad is much nicer)
He still lives at home too.
Craig Murray of course doesn’t get a mention cos he claims to be Scottish – but he did Brill too.
Well done (well at least for trying if you were crap)
Peter Oborne resigned and I think he is a lovely man (though I’ve never met him either)
I have read his books.
Tony
The best musician in the world 2016 is even harder to nominate..because I don’t watch TV..and whilst I do listen to the radio…I gain most of my exposure to live bands I still see with my wife…and because he didn’t quite make it (what’s a few days between friends)…
And I did meet him at the back of the Marquee playing the pinball machine..and I waited till he finished his game…and he was just so nice (we had seen him at the Deeside Leisure Centre in Wales in front of almost the entire nation of Wales – well We were there..a few months before)
Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015)
http://imotorhead.com/
Good Man – lets see if Ozzy can come out of Retirement for his 100th
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/files/2016/01/lemmy-kilmister-2000-billboard-650-e1451852702570.jpg
Tony
So cos almost all you journalists in the Mainstream Media are completely and utterly totally useless I have to give World Journalist of the Year 2001-2016 to Jane Standley…
She told the Truth Live Before it Happened…how many of you guys can do that live on TV..
How did she know?? She didn’t. She is obviously completely innocent. This tape wasn’t released till several years later. a guy turned up at one of our parties a few years later..his mate was a singer – and he introduced me to this guy who worked for the BBC.. I asked what’s your job mate..he said well you know the old grey whistle test – well I archive and keep it in order all the BBC’s history.
I forget his name – but someone leaked it…and most of you still couldn’t get it.
That was a very brave thing to do – many years before Julian Assange who still hasn’t mentioned it..
“More than me job’s worth mate”..and Edward Snowden..come on guys…
Not good enough..We want the truth not your personal details (but we’d like to know that too)
Neither of you Qualify for Journalist of The Year..
So Jane Standley gets it (again)
“ENHANCED VERSION: News Reports WTC7 Fell Before It Happens! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI
Tony
I had never heard of Rainer Rupp before but Bernard of The Moon of Alabama has made him famous..
I read Bernard nearly every day
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
and I had never heard of this guy before
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Rupp
“Rupp grew up in West Germany with strong leftist political leanings. In 1968, as a student in Mainz, employment as a spy for the GDR was suggested to him, and he agreed out of conviction. He continued his studies in Brussels, was trained as a spy in East Berlin and was hired by NATO in 1977. He rose quickly in the ranks and provided photographs of some 10,000 pages to his controllers, including the precise location plans for the deployment of cruise missiles and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, as well as the central MC 161 document which summarized the NATO strategy as well as NATO’s analysis of the Warsaw Pact and its intentions. These documents were promptly transferred to the KGB.
He would photograph documents in his office, or take them home and photograph them in his wine cellar. He met contact persons all over Europe and received instructions via number stations, radio programs broadcasting messages encrypted as number sequences. His British wife knew about his activities and tried to persuade him to stop. He later said “At the time I did it, I believed it to be my moral duty.”
They are two Germans arguing not about 200 Euros,,and i just it funny
and i am not taking sides – England – Can we play Germany now
..
They are arguing amongst themselves – a bit like the French..
When’s the Next World Cup?
Tony
Good morning. I went to bed at 7 and woke at midnight. I walked outside. A seven eighth’s moon at 45 degrees west, a moon in the yard square mirror. I walked among the sacred art structures. The lover shrine, the dolmens, standing stones, stonehenge wooden stump council circle, womam’s triangle pointing to the north star; big dipper standing on its handle, orion belt overhead. Past the double triangle rebar art to the altar with its chalice, shiny with dew under the glancing moon to the greenhouse with its imposing love action pose; a warm 60 inside–I laid down and looked up at the moon centered and star studded sky. Then reversed my walk, stopping to give a kiss at the lover shrine; and came in here past the moon in the mirror.
In four hours central standard time I will have been born into this world 77 years ago. So long and yet so short in our time dimension. When I walk into his valley, I think of those mountains here for millions of years and the river carving her path down to the ocean. What are my ego needs compared to this? Nothing and yet everything. I am here to lean on love and learn from her.
I come to know the stars only by standing on this earth. Seven billion souls and counting have chosen to be here now, despite sometimes horrendous conditions. There must be something immensely valuable about an earthly experience. I see by the other articles that the war ebbs and flows, like the moon and the seasons or the changing moods of man. In a negative way, war is our canary in the mine. This vineyard which vows to stop war is at center stage in this action.
Love and only love will carry the day. Some are discomfited by the idea but the Love Army claims its prerogative anyway. Love takes the form of an army in this dispensation. Evil is showing more of its colors; the uncertain trumpets know not what to do. The Love Army’s clarion call is sure and certain. I heed the call to effective action even if no one else does. The souls of the previously fallen rise again to the sound of that signal.
2 am PST, 10 am UTC, Ojai, California, December 10, 2016. Love, love and more love…
Hi again. I noticed that Tony (love bless him and saints preserve him) posted a few in a row. I love it. I skimmed it for now but may go back and read it carefully later. Tony makes my point about freedom of expression and the freedom of reception.
I just came from the Love Government at thelovegovernment.com where I clicked on Sex Cards and went to card 51 which is the card of the week now. The video was made maybe three years ago; I think it is standing the test of time quite well.
This reminded me of the stream of consciousness poem for this week. Allow me to share it because I enjoy doing so. As I said in the video, this is a form of giving sex rather than having it. The theme is the lover’s Sphere with the poles of Sacred and Sexual. You can see the card at the video but here we are limited to audio via black on white typo.
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At the top of the house is the Sacred circle
The Grand Lover and married miracle
Within that circle is all protection
Although it mostly escapes detection
It is the sign of everything and nothing
And in between, every something
Those who grab for the Sacred ring
Have in hand a nothing thing
A Sacred thing can’t be sought or bought
The golden ring can’t be caught or taught
Those who fill themselves until they’re sated
Will discover that their gold’s been gated
They’ve jumped off a bridge into drowning waters
He’s sought his and she’s bought hers
Grasping until sated has the opposite effect
And feeling Sacred is a false affect
The kingdom circle is for the poor in spirit
The grabbers and braggers are unable to hear it
Unless you have the ability to give
You’ll lose solidity and leak like a sieve
The Sacred is empty and filled up with all
The Sacral is pre-empted and fated to fall
To walk with the tall, you make yourself small
If you want it all, keep your eye on the ball
In the middle of consciousness is the Sacred Sphere
To unriddle her essence I act as if I were her
To see the circle, look askance
Draw the cards and take a chance
Join the circle, learn to dance
Wear the ring, be the romance
The Sacred Sphere is a ring of fire
The Sacred Circle is the world’s desire
The goal is not one or the other
But the soul of both as beloved lover
In the final end, it is all pretend
You can depend on what you intend
As for me, I will be free
And enter the circle’s mystery
You and me, and all of us
I love thee, consciousness
The perfect Sphere is a grand illusion
Break the code and end confusion
Open the door and enter her core
The Sacred and Sacral each play a part
In the game of life’s consciousness art
The Sacred Sacral circle is the home of the heart
The end of the beginning and the finish line start
I am always with you
There is nothing else that I do
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It’s now: am 3. A rooster is crowing. He’s crowing for me and pining for thee. He, you and me–we make three.
“It’s now: am 3. A rooster is crowing. He’s crowing for me and pining for thee. He, you and me–we make three.”
What a beautifull load, Dennis on your call-day.
Never seen such verses
Earlier I saw a gray cat in the dim first running, then walking on the shiny
steel of the railway-track into the evening
And I in my feeling suddenly was close to blue and her wunderfull man-cat-prose
And Venus in Aquarius blinked above the clear southern skyline of the Wetterstein Mountains and the Aufacker in the long bright dusk of the winter evening.
Hi. Many thanks. I feel like that cat on the railroad tracks, getting ready for my trip to Wisconsin Dec. 14. I love your poetic language of the stars. Really felt it last night, walking under them. The stars are so important in our earthly journey. Love the north star, big dipper and orion belt. As you can tell, I know little about them but enough to know I love them.
Happy Birthday dear Dennis! thank you for your poems and ideas. Always a joy!
Dennis,
maybe for your long journey to your catholic background and Trump-land
http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.de/2016/12/ea-bennet-he-jung-is-working-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/GJCbE+(Carl+Jung+Depth+Psychology)
Nice poem Denis.
Happy birthday too.
Happy Birthday Dennis,and many more.
No Happy Birthday fro me. Birthdays take you up another notch towards the top of that mountain climbing we call life – and the closer we are the harder it gets. Wish one could turn round and roll back down the mountain side to make amends for past sins, like letting the sociopaths out there taking over the asylum.
Congratulations, Dennis, for your past birthday….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbFOiIKVmRA
Very interesting article by Mark Ames on who’s behind PropOrNot.
There is clearly a Ukie ‘nationalist’ element, with one Alexandra Chalupa emerging as a key element in the DNC ‘Russian propaganda’ meme.
The other is the Foreign Policy Research Institute, founded by an Austrian fascist and a proponent of the most extreme policies of the former Nazi regime, including deliberately inciting a nuclear war.
http://www.alternet.org/media/anonymous-blacklist-promoted-washington-post-has-shocking-roots-ukrainian-fascism-eugenics-and
Cheers…appreciated the link.
When it comes to Fake News the US Government is the Biggest Culprit and the Government has been Taken Over, Infil-traited, By Satanic Globalists
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?
There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination. These stories run the gamut from the ridiculous and the obviously click-baity to the satirical and politically manipulative.
Anyone with an ounce of sense and access to the Internet should be able to ferret out the truth and lies in these stories with some basic research. That these stories flourish is largely owing to the general gullibility, laziness and media illiteracy of the general public, which through its learned compliance rarely questions, challenges or confronts.
,
The Satanic Globalists snear at the stupidity of the brain damaged masses.
By reading Quigley, Council on Foreign Relations White papers, Huxley’s Brave New World, anyone can figure out the Eugenic Poverty plan which has been in place for 170 years, but by use of Fake Mainstream Media the message has been obscured and visible only to the Satanic elite, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP38NghqnBI
Then there’s the more devious kind of news stories circulated by one of the biggest propagators of fake news: the U.S. government.
In the midst of the media’s sudden headline-blaring apoplexy over fake news, you won’t hear much about the government’s role in producing, planting and peddling propaganda-driven fake news—often with the help of the corporate news media—because that’s not how the game works.
Why?
Because the powers-that-be don’t want us skeptical of the government’s message or its corporate accomplices in the mainstream media. They don’t want us to be more discerning when it comes to what information we digest online. They just want us to be leery of independent or alternative news sources while trusting them—and their corporate colleagues—to vet the news for us.
Indeed, the Satanic Oligarch owned New York Times has suggested that Satanic Oligarch owned Facebook and Google appoint themselves the arbiters of truth on the internet in order to screen out what is blatantly false, spam or click-baity.
Not only would this establish a dangerous precedent for all-out censorship by corporate entities known for colluding with the government but it’s also a slick sleight-of-hand maneuver that diverts attention from what we should really be talking about: the fact that the government has grown dangerously out-of-control, all the while the so-called mainstream news media, which is supposed to act as a bulwark against government propaganda, has instead become the mouthpiece of the world’s largest corporation—the U.S. government.
As veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, who along with Bob Woodward blew the lid off the Watergate scandal, reported in his expansive 1977 Rolling Stone piece, “The CIA and the Media”:
“More than 400 American journalists … in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency… There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services… Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters… In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.”
Bernstein is referring to Operation Mockingbird, a CIA campaign started in the 1950s to plant intelligence reports among reporters at more than 25 major newspapers and wire agencies, who would then regurgitate them for a public oblivious to the fact that they were being fed government propaganda.
In some instances, as Bernstein shows, members of the media also served as extensions of the surveillance state, with reporters actually carrying out assignments for the CIA.
Executives with CBS, the New York Times and Time magazine also worked closely with the CIA to vet the news. Bernstein writes: “Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune.”
For example, in August 1964, the nation’s leading newspapers—including the Washington Post and New York Times—echoed Lyndon Johnson’s claim that North Vietnam had launched a second round of attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. No such attacks had taken place, and yet the damage was done. As Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon report for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, “By reporting official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War.”
Fast forward to the early post-9/11 years when, despite a lack of any credible data supporting the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the mainstream media jumped on the bandwagon to sound the war drums against Iraq and it’s Million (Lancet) civilian deaths and 500,000 (Albright – it was worth it) child deaths. As Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian put it, “our government … used its immense bully pulpit to steamroll the watchdogs… Many were gulled by access to administration insiders, or susceptible to the drumbeat of the government’s coordinated rhetoric.”
John Walcott, Washington bureau chief for Knight-Ridder, one of the only news agencies to challenge the government’s rationale for invading Iraq, suggests that the reason for the media’s easy acceptance is that “too many journalists, including some very famous ones, have surrendered their independence in order to become part of the ruling class. Journalism is, as the motto goes, speaking truth to power, not wielding it.”
If it was happening then, you can bet it’s still happening today, only it’s been reclassified, renamed and hidden behind layers of government secrecy, obfuscation and spin.
In its article, “How the American government is trying to control what you think,” the Washington Post points out, “Government agencies historically have made a habit of crossing the blurry line between informing the public and propagandizing.”
Thus, whether you’re talking about the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the government’s invasion of Iraq based upon absolute Fake News fabrications, or the government’s so-called war on terror, privacy and whistleblowers, it’s being driven by propaganda churned out by one corporate machine (the corporate-controlled government) and fed to the American people by way of yet another corporate machine (the corporate-controlled media).
“For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it,” writes investigative journalist Nick Davies. “The sheer ease with which this machinery has been able to do its work reflects a creeping structural weakness which now afflicts the production of our news.”
But wait.
If the mass media—aka the mainstream media or the corporate or establishment media—is merely repeating what is being fed to it, who are the masterminds within the government responsible for this propaganda?
Davies explains:
The Pentagon has now designated “information operations” as its fifth “core competency” alongside land, sea, air and special forces. Since October 2006, every brigade, division and corps in the US military has had its own “psyop” element producing output for local media. This military activity is linked to the State Department’s campaign of “public diplomacy” which includes funding radio stations and news websites.
This use of propaganda disguised as journalism is what journalist John Pilger refers to as “invisible government… the true ruling power of our country.”
As made clear in “Battlefield America: The War on the American People”, we no longer have a Fourth Estate.
Not when the “news” we receive is routinely manufactured, manipulated and made-to-order by Satanic Oligarchic government agents.
Not when six corporations control 90% of the media in America.
And not when, as Davies laments, “news organizations which might otherwise have exposed the truth were themselves part of the abuse, and so they kept silent, indulging in a comic parody of misreporting, hiding the emerging scandal from their readers like a Victorian nanny covering the children’s eyes from an accident in the street.”
So let’s have no more of this handwringing, heart-wrenching, morally offended talk about fake news by media outlets that have become propagandists for the false reality created by the Infil-traitored American government.
After all, as Glenn Greenwald points out, “The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.”
So where does that leave us?
What should—or can—we do?
I’ll close with John Pilger’s words of warning and advice:
Real information, subversive information, remains the most potent power of all — and I believe that we must not fall into the trap of believing that the media speaks for the public. That wasn’t true in Stalinist Czechoslovakia and it isn’t true of the United States. In all the years I’ve been a journalist, I’ve never known public consciousness to have risen as fast as it’s rising today…yet this growing critical public awareness is all the more remarkable when you consider the sheer scale of indoctrination, the mythology of a superior way of life, and the current manufactured state of fear.
[The public] need[s] truth, and journalists ought to be agents of truth, not the courtiers of power. I believe a fifth estate is possible, the product of a people’s movement, that monitors, deconstructs, and counters the corporate media. In every university, in every media college, in every news room, teachers of journalism, journalists themselves need to ask themselves about the part they now play in the bloodshed in the name of a bogus objectivity. Such a movement within the media could herald a perestroika of a kind that we have never known.
This is all possible. Silences can be broken… In the United States wonderfully free rebellious spirits populate the web… The best reporting … appears on the web … and citizen reporters.
The challenge for the rest of us is to lift this subjugated knowledge from out of the underground and take it to ordinary people. We need to make haste. Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and subjected to direct action. That great whistleblower Tom Paine warned that if the majority of the people were denied the truth and the ideas of truth, it was time to storm what he called the Bastille of words. That time is now.
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?
http://www.alternet.org/media/anonymous-blacklist-promoted-washington-post-has-shocking-roots-ukrainian-fascism-eugenics-and
Fake News is terminology created by China where censorship is an artform, where every website is authorised, where anything not authorised by the Satanic generals in charge of anti democratic unelected Communist Commisars is cause for imprisonment in institutions where prisoners are eviscerated and organs sold to rich satanic oligarchs.
When It Comes to Fake News, Oligarchic Satanists have used fake News for 10,000 years to control the Planet.
The renaissance and the American 1776 revolt put a dent in their narrative but mainstream News, owned by six corporations with CIA board members is their mouthpeice and its all, “To pull the world over your eyes”- Matrix
The First Ammendment guarantees free speech but political correctness which says any speech which offends should be banned – but the First Ammendment guarantees the right to offend – and terminology like “hatespeech” – but only speech which directly urges violence – is eating away at that freedom.
Free speech is guaranteed on public platforms like Satanic Oligarch controlled facebook and google but the “do what we want” mentality has eroded that because they are free and independent corporations and can censor anything they do not like.
Any website can be denominated Fake News by anyone, without any proof, and that Fake News List has been banned by the European Union, in honour of the Chinese system.
For the first time internet news has defeated mainstream media when Trump used infowars.com and Alex Jones to propagate his message see, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP38NghqnBI
When Trump lambasted the media for being against him.
When he used twitter to directly talk to his support.
When he got 20,000 people to his events sometimes talking eight times a day.
Hi there
You forgot the link to the majority of the above.
Choose between these two: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/when_it_comes_to_fake_news_the_u.s._government_is_the_biggest_culprit
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-21/when-it-comes-fake-news-us-government-biggest-culprit?page=1
Regards
Kent
Good catch. Anon of the prolific and repetitive ‘cut and paste’ jobs is active again.
Mods, if the Saker wants to avoid further troubles with claims of plagiarism, this anon needs to attribute his articles properly and not just appropriate wholesale and present others hard work as his own comment.
Thank you Helen and Kent for that masterclass in troll-slaying.
I compliment you for your essay, very well presented and researched to make a strong case against main stream journalism.
But you did not stress enough the point that the media is an integral part of the ruling elite’s power tools of domination, that is, it is part of the structure, the system that rules us. In fact, what it is doing by propagating the lies of governments is coherent with its position in the system. It should not be expected by the people that the corporate media would work against its own interests, which are the same and complementary to the exercise of power by the ruling elite.
Gone are the days when an independent voice was allowed as when the corporate sector was partitioned among rival familiesgroups. Nowadays, due to the concentration and intermingling of financial capitalism, where all the main players pool their resources jointly through integration and consolidation, basically there is no competition anymore but a monopolistic system where all power is aggregated in fewer hands. This system is called fascism and a natural corollary and consequence from the economic system based on exploitation where people are treated as producers and consumers for the sake of the private accumulation of wealth. The only alternative is where the economy works for the satisfaction of people’s needs.
A Potsdam Institute study concluded that an increase of 4 C degrees in the mean global average
temperature of planet Earth would drop the carrying capacity of the Earth to 1 billion people
(from the current 7.5 billion people inhabiting the planet).
The mean global average temperature of the Earth rose 1 C degree from 1750 to September
2015 (265 years) and another 1 C degree from September 2015 to December 2016 (15 months).
That’s some real exponential change, Sakers. It’s also a rise of 2 C degrees already, with only
2 C degrees more needed to reach the magic 4 C degrees — and far fewer people on the planet.
Now, will the Globalists use all their high/low tech weaponry in wars between governments, or in
wars between governments and the peoples of this planet?
@ Phil
“Now, will the Globalists use all their high/low tech weaponry in wars between governments, or in wars between governments and the peoples of this planet?”
I think you are a bit selective about the increase in temperature in the last 15 months, a too short period for drawing valid conclusions. It is meaningless – we may have a decrease in the next 15 months, as there were many in the last 265 years.
As an answer to your question – which presupposes the truth of an unproven theory (scientists can be wrong, you know) – I guess in a Globalist unipolar world we might expect an empire similar to the Roman: the core ruled directly by the imperial elite (Western, US-EU) with some legions buttressing its power in some regions of doubtful allegiance (EU) and a vassalage system elsewhere ruled by puppet dictators. Under this imperial regime there will be plenty scope for culling the population in the periphery without impact on the core, either by permissible regional conflicts or induced “natural” catastrophes, including genetic engineering, controlled epidemics or weather manipulation.
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In another thread I tried to cheer up a suffering Serb, After Milosevic died, he came to visit
me in my summer house. This is my testimony. He was only with me for a short while, but the
visit made me happy. I hope my comment will be published. Why the other comment was not
published I do not understand. This is serious and I did not have this experience only for me,
it was given to me for everyone. There is a Lord in Heaven and a spiritual world.
As ‘fake’ fake news is very much in vogue with those russophobes who are smarting over Trump’s triumph, I thought I’d mention what was coming out of the woodwork and as an example here’s the fake reporting site factsquad.com
It was set up by Lauren Weinstein -best known to internet computer nerds for many years- and who is anything but a neutral observer on news as can be seen from the following:
https://lauren.vortex.com/2016/11/08/we-stopped-herr-hitler-now-we-must-stop-something-potentially-far-worse-a-president-trump
https://lauren.vortex.com/
https://www.vortex.com/lauren
Looks like Egypt and Turkey are being reminded that you can’t resign from the Mafia.
The Ultimate “Fake News”
Isn’t it ironic how the mainstream media has the nerve to lecture everyone else about “fake news” when they are the primary source of fake news serving the Satanic Elite, for which the mainstream media serves as a mouthpiece on a consistent basis stretching back 10,000 years?
Fake news stories and fake narratives put out by the mainstream media have resulted in deaths, destruction and people’s lives being ruined and it is not just that.
Every subject whereby the World is controlled is likewise Fake – Economics, Communism, History, Science, the Stock Market, Sovereign Bonds, Gold Price, International currency rates – all are fixed, all are Fake!!!
Fake Economics – Adam Smith was a paid hack by Lord Shelburne, William Petty, who was Prime Minister of England and Head of the Satanic East India Company. His Wealth of Nations, like every Economist since, was designed to maximise Satanic Oligarchic Control and impoverish the masses as was All Fake Economics like Keynes, and Von Mises Austerity designed to povertize feudals.
Fake Communism – Was invented by the British Secret Services Ambassador David Urquhart who employed Marx to write Das Kapital from his office in the British National Library in London so as to persuade people to murder their Emperors and Czars and institute failed state communism also kill cull the populations. Russia 60 millions killed, China 80 millions killed.
Fake History – Stalin said the winners wrote the history books.
Fake Divine Right of Kings.
Fake War is the method whereby populations are killed culled because the Satanists say there are too many people – but this too is a lie.
Fake War is the method whereby infrastructure is destroyed and populations maintained poor by the Satanists because Austerity is THE methodology of control.
Fake Churchill did not want the Second World War to end too soon because this is the way populations are culled, and he wanted to Kill Cull more!!
Fake Generals in the First World War deliberately kill culled the flower of British and German Manhood and they went to their graves like beds.
The mainstream media fake news serving the Satanic Elite from Empires Babylon to Greece to Rome to Venice to Britain to the USA is the World which jas been pulled over our eyes and is the means whereby they control populations, control this planet and suck this Planet dry, generation by generation, millenium by millenium – forever.
The Fake Green Policies and their Fake Global Warming are the desire of Prince Philip and the 1001 Club as they and the Club of Rome utilize this swerve ball to aid global genocide kill cull whilst having the willing acceptance of the victims.
The Fake FBI Division Five controls almost all of the so-called Fake Alternative Media. Who’re the Division Five? They’re the hidden pit of the Black Nobility Pallavicini Knights of Malta controlled FBI who run the military industrial complex you keep hearing about. Where is all this based? Denver, Colorado! Start to focus attention on the Defense Industrial Security Command and you’ll start to connect the dots.
The Fake FBI was riddled with the Fascist Pink Triangle Nazis filtered into the United States via Operation Paperclip and the Dragonovic Ratlines. The FBI have been the downfall of the United States since the assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Human Economic Rights.
The FBI Director James Comey is as crooked as Fake Hillary – Hillary and Bill were importing one trillion dollars cocaine every year into Mena in the 1980’s, just like Fake Bush was doing the same one trillion dollars yearly with heroin from Afghanistan using NATO to transport it – Hillary Rodham Clinton is the daughter of Hugh Rodham who inherited the Chicago Mafia from Al Capone – and that’s why he’s easily blackmailed.
Fake Globalism, rather than making everyone rich is designed to shut down Europe and USA by high taxes and to move production to Satanic Totalitarian Communist China where they execute yearly 10,000 religious minorities by eviscerating them and selling their organs to Oligarchs. It’s not to make the slave population of China Rich in their suicide net factories, but to make Europe and USA Poor!!
Kissinger did the deal with Fake China in the 1970’s to give China all the Rare Earth Minerals essential to modern industry, to give all the deep water ports and fuelling stations, to give the Panama canal, providing China would not expand it’s military. The Oligarchic Elite rushed to marry into Elite Chinese Families so their projeny could be placed in power. Now, China reneged on the deal and sent military to Africa and South America and now China has taken over six major Hollywood studios.
Like Fake Japan in the second World War, Fake China is being pushed to start a war for world conquest, to be defeated and its industry and power consolidated and the World made poor through kill cull War and infrastructure destruction.
The most harmful fake news is routinely published by the mainstream media.
The mainstream media are the main progenitors of fake news.
– The fake news that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq was involved in 9/11, dutifully regurgitated without question by the mainstream media, resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, thousands of dead and injured U.S. troops, and the destabilization of an entire continent.
– The fake news that the rebels in Syria were “moderates” who did not have jihadist sympathies and should be supported led to the destruction of Syria, Libya and the rise of ISIS.
– The fake news that ISIS has just arisen is Fake!! In reality Wahhabism was created by British Agent Abdul Wahhab in 1708. Then Wahhabism was made state Religion of Saudi Arabia by British created Satraps – the Satanic Sabbatean Frankist Crypto Jews House of Saud. Wahhabist Armies were always meant to destabilise Sovereign targets of the elite. Wahhabism was designed to infiltrate, subvert and destroy Islam.
– The fake news narrative that the media was balanced in its coverage of the presidential election was completely obliterated when Wikileaks emails revealed that countless mainstream media reporters were in bed with the Clinton campaign, feeding them debate questions beforehand and conspiring with Hillary’s staff to portray her in a positive light.
– The fake news that George Zimmerman was obsessed with Trayvon Martin’s race before the altercation that led to Martin’s death was accomplished by means of NBC deceptively editing an audio tape. This incident stoked racial tensions across the country and laid the groundwork for the violent, Soros Funded ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement that was to follow.
– The fake news that produced the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, which was proven to be completely fraudulent, led to riots, violent attacks and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as numerous other U.S. cities. Even after the rioting began, the mainstream media continued to legitimize the unrest. Fake news outlets continued to parrot the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative even after it was proven false.
– The fake news that saw innumerable people accused of rape at college campuses across America, claims that were proven wrong, ruined people’s lives and perpetuated the myth (fake news) that one in five women are raped on college campuses.
– The fake news that George W. Bush served dishonorably during his time in the Air National Guard was broadcast by CBS News with the aid of fake documents. In circulating this fake news, CBS tried to influence the 2004 presidential election but only ended up crucifying their own credibility, leading to Dan Rather’s resignation six months later.
– The fake news that NBC anchor Brian Williams faced enemy fire while helicoptering into Iraq in 2003 was exposed when soldiers who were aboard the helicopter blew the whistle on his lies. Despite admittedly putting out fake news, Williams still has a career in broadcast journalism.
– The fake news narrative that Donald Trump somehow represents the next coming of Hitler has provoked a hysterical anti-Trump hate crime wave across America, with people and property being attacked on a routine basis. The same hysterical fake news narrative was also responsible for violence and riots at Trump events throughout the campaign cycle, as well as assassination attempts on Trump’s life.
– The fake news that Donald Trump had no chance whatsoever of winning the presidential election was proudly pushed by countless mainstream media outlets, with the Huffington Post even predicting that Hillary Clinton had a 98% chance of winning the presidency.
When this fake news narrative was completely demolished on November 8, it swept away trust in political polling and the mainstream media to an even greater degree, prompting the backlash that you now see with the corporate press calling everyone else “fake news” when they are the real fake news.
There are many reporters within these organizations who do not peddle fake news and have spoken out against the mainstream media’s effort to brand dissenting opinion as “fake news”.
For example, Matt Taibbi (no fan of Infowars), has called the Washington Post’s fake news blacklist “disgusting” and “shameful”.
Glenn Greenwald, who has worked with several of the organizations on this list in the past, also completely eviscerated the credibility of the “fake news list” being used by the Washington Post.
The entire “fake news” narrative being pushed by the mainstream media has nothing whatsoever to do with concerns over people being misled.
If that were the case, the mainstream media itself would stop habitually lying to the American people and it’s trustworthiness wouldn’t be in the toilet.
The whole “fake news” narrative is clearly part of a dirty tricks campaign to pressure governments, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other tech giants to censor information that is inconvenient to the establishment, for which the mainstream media serves as a mouthpiece.
We are competing with the mainstream media and they’re not happy about dissident voices challenging their monopoly on reality. That’s why they’re forced to resort to underhanded and deceptive means through which to silence their ideological opposition. They are forced to oppose the Freedom of Speech First Amendment because this is next.
The methodology of censorship is extant in China and Zuckerberg scion of Rockefeller has been to China to learn how to do it.
Fake News is terminology created by China where censorship is an artform, where every website is authorised, where anything not authorised by the Satanic generals in charge of anti democratic unelected Communist Commisars is cause for imprisonment in institutions where prisoners are eviscerated and organs sold to rich satanic oligarchs.
When It Comes to Fake News, Oligarchic Satanists have used fake News for 10,000 years to control the Planet.
The renaissance and the American 1776 revolt put a dent in their narrative but mainstream News, owned by six corporations with CIA board members is their mouthpeice and its all, “To pull the world over your eyes”- Matrix
The First Amendment guarantees free speech but political correctness which says any speech which offends should be banned – but the First Amendment guarantees the right to offend – and terminology like “hatespeech” – but only speech which directly urges violence – is eating away at that freedom.
Free speech is guaranteed on public platforms like Satanic Oligarch controlled facebook and google but the “do what we want” mentality has eroded that because they are free and independent corporations and can censor anything they do not like.
Any website can be denominated Fake News by anyone, without any proof, and that Fake News List has been banned by the European Union, in honour of the Chinese system.
By circulating this article we are not calling for these outlets to be censored, we are simply drawing attention to the fact that the very same entities who cry “fake news” are the primary sources for the most damaging, harmful and woefully inaccurate fake news stories in the history of modern journalism.
Will Trump Break The Media? Everyone’s on edge until Trump moves in.
He’s got a plan, he says he’ll take action.
[Clip: “I am asking the American people to dream big once again. What follows is my 100 Day Action Plan to make America great again. It’s a contract between Donald J Trump and the American voter and it begins with bringing honesty, accountability, and change to Washington DC.”]
Start with the media. You said it yourself.
[Clip: “The dishonest mainstream media is also part, and a major part, of this corruption. They’re corrupt. They lie and fabricate stories…”]
It’s because “they are of their father the devil, a liar from the beginning.”
The lies continue with the networks and the names:
CBS – Murray Rothstein, who changed his name to Sumner Redstone.
NBC – Brian Roberts, who owns Comcast, an ‘info-monopoly’ in the making.
ABC – Robert Iger and Alan Braverman.
They dropped their “American Family” and called it “Freeform” that pushes homosexual perversion.
CNN – Aviv Nevo, raised in Israel, whose approach to news has an alien bias.
Nationalize the media, then create a bidding process that obligates bidders to criteria that ensures unbiased news. And hold their feet to the fire.
It’s not far-fetched at all.
[Clip: “As an example of the power structure I’m fighting, ATT is buying Time-Warner, and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.”]
The ‘chosen’ few: Nevo, Newhouse, Sulzberger, Roberts, Rothstein, Marks, Murdoch, Iger, Braverman…a concentration of power.
Crush the cartel by nationalizing it as a public/private entity; launch a bidding process that constrains bidders to criteria that ensures factual news.
Taxpayers thus get a share in the media via public/private ownership that generates corporate dividends
The First Amendment is not infringed, while lying propaganda hits the skids.
Trump comes close to doing just that.
[Clip: “Comcast’s purchase of NBC concentrates far too much power in one massive entity that’s trying to tell the voters what to think and what to do. Deals like this destroy democracy and we’ll look at breaking that deal up and other deals like that.”]
Breaking up is very hard to do.
But breaking up the media is a very wise thing to do.
Nationalize it; tie it to a bidding process.
Do it fast, President Trump.
If you don’t, they’ll use their press to coerce you or cut you down.
very long post … but I must say that i did enjoy reading all of it very much …. mod-hs
Hey!! He omitted the links again. Here is just one of them.
http://theunhivedmind.com/UHM/will-trump-break-the-media/
On this one, he omitted the word Jewish (In capital letters)
“The ‘chosen’ few: Nevo, Newhouse, Sulzberger, Roberts, Rothstein, Marks, Murdoch, Iger, Braverman…a concentration of “JEWISH” power.”
I am moderator, but if this continues (as it has done on other forums), we are sliding down the drain at an increasing pace.
Kent
Correction Should be “I’m no moderator” (at least not here).
Sorry about that.
Kent
Thank you for your service Kent.
Very good service from long poster and assistants.
I tend to be more sympathetic to China and even Communism, (Saker Comrades, Fidelistas) but of course the Satanic World Oligarchy have their puppet strings everywhere and in nearly everything and were there all along, in at least some form in every government. How could they not be, when they are there, in at least some dormant or suppressed form in every human brain and breast ???
Nothing is guaranteed to turn out well there, nothing is irretrievably lost there, in China. It depends on where the consciousness of the Chinese goes, plus that elsewhere in the world. It’s a weakeness that they must censor to the point that Zucky wants to study their methods, but at the same time, there are strengths……which Dan Brown and Pepe Escobar weigh in on occasionally here. Especailly in economic development (OBOR) and space science.
Right now, the Satanic Oligarchs (though I prefer PTSB……Powers that Shouldn’t Be…. or “Elites” of a Garbage Can……) are fully capable of a Nov 22, 1963 style coup d’ etat to recover from recent set backs they have suffered.
Even that would be to no avail, however if the Average Deplorable (even just in the USA!….that IS one sense in which we are fairly still “indispensable”…..in a positive sense, if many more were much more awake here…….) knew 1/4 of what many people in this Vineyard know.
Disagree, unless you think kosher Nostra (Zionist criminals) should be allowed to cloak their crimes in tribal ‘victimhood.’
Do we hear routine claims of ‘anti-Latinism’ when cosa Nostra is correctly identified as organized crime?
Besides, the quote not only comes from one Jewish-born himself, the unhivedmind link is far from group-bashing: the full article identifies, quite correctly, a class issue in the Jewish population. And that is referenced in the serious inequality in Israel itself, where some Jews are, as in every population, more ‘equal’ than others.
Facts are facts. The names are true. The control over media is a fact.
Time everyone, Jews especially, stopped giving these scum a free pass – it’s an insult to the dead.
Eimar:
OK, with that I do agree,
If it is with me you disagree.
Sometimes one is in a hurr-y.
And cannot inspect from A to Z.
In general all Anymouses need particularly closer attention in terms of what poison they may slip in amongst the truth so generously and repetitively offered up with a not so well concealed purpose. It is an invaluable service when others detect the method at work, and reveal it after recognizing it several times. No one, probably even on official mod duty could do it all alone.
Evidently Kent knows where the copying is done and what is omitted from the paste.
Well done, Kent! I will endeavor to proceed with due caution and much less haste!
My disagreement was with Kent’s apparent concern that the Vineyard could be ‘sliding down the drain’ as has happened in other forums.
Nothing could be further from the truth – this site is not Stormfront.
The use of ‘anti-semitism’ to prevent exposure of Zionist crime/fascism is an old trick, just as ‘anti- Americanism’ was used to stifle dissent against war-mongering and neo-colonial resource theft.
The latest wheeze is to use it to stifle dissent against banksterism/ international crime.
It should be challenged – consistently, persistently and relentlessly.
Sincerely hope Kent is not falling for this tactic.
Latest on Palmyra: There are many rumors and false stories about what is happening there
http://theduran.com/isis-makes-new-advance-palmyra/
Thanks to General Zod!
maytham @maytham956 17 min.
Syrian and Russian airstrikes have turned #ISIS offensive into a BBQ party in east #Palmyra #Syria
#SAA_Salute #PalmyraIsSyrian
Chelsea4Life @LegitCFCPundit 16 min.
SAA counter-attack has reportedly reached the Palmyra grain silos. Jabal al Tar and Jabal Hayyal recaptured by SAA.
loomis @loomisroberto 15 min.
Clashes between SAA and IS in Palmyra Silos
Via @NatDefFor
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzWZscYXgAA2D-h.jpg:large
loomis @loomisroberto 13 min.
SAA liberates Antar mountain
Via @watanisy
Now city is secure from any future IS assaults
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzWajJkWQAAdxQS.jpg:large
watanisy @watanisy 22 min.
11th Division confirmed , Jabal al-Tar under SAA control – Huge reinforcements arrived – Road is safe / Palmyra
Take Care
Got one of them.
Yusha Yuseef @MIG29_ 4 min.
Breaking #Aleppo
Al-Mayadeen reporter , SAA capture Al-Zinki man Terrorist Who beheaded the child in the camp Hndarat
Kent
Thanks Kent for the info on Palmyra
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Enjoy.
Take Care
Kent
Strange isn’t it. One would have thought that they would stand out as heroes for all media to see.
Fares Shehabi @ShehabiFares 6 hod.
50k freed hostages from E Aleppo & not one person we talked to heard of the notorious “White Helmets”! They are ghosts!
Kent
Within Syria @WithinSyriaBlog 5 min.
6 Mi-24p , 4 Ka-52 , 4 Mi-28n , 4 Mi-35m already active attacking ISIS around #Palmyra
Alleged Russian spetsnaz hunting for moderates in Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF-ZqC-ucZA
Kent
Islamic World News @A7_Mirza 31 min.
#Aleppo Pocket
#SAA & allies liberated Ghasilah, Ma`adi dst & Bab al Maqam.
Map: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzavNLgXcAAzraG.jpg:large
Thanks to General Zod.
Take Care
Kent
You all might want to see John Pilgers new documentary
“The coming war on China”
Streaming in HD here: https://rtd.rt.com/films/the-coming-war-on-china/#part-1
Regards
Kent
In the meantime.
“God’s Away On Business”. What business is anybody’s guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mhsW5aWJM
Take Care
Kent
Temporary setback.
SyrianMilitaryCap. @SyrianMilitary 3 min.
The decision has been made #Palmyra and the oil/gas fields must not stay with #ISIS . The #SAA will launch an offensive soon.
Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa 5 min.
Stunning development: ISIS fighters back inside #Palmyra – screenshots from Amaq video
ISIS inside Palmyra:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzaZT2BXEAAV2jE.jpg:large
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Kent
Yusha Yuseef @MIG29_ 22 min.
#Aleppo Breaking : big advance in Shiek Saeed by SAA & Desert Hawks ,
About 50 % of Shiek Saeed captrued
map update soon
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Kent
Out of context, I know. But still, Mr. Mcfault IS scratching his head right now (been doing that for month’s ).
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Macfault01.jpg
Lot’s of head-scratching all over ATM. Do I have to elaborate? I don’t think so. Besides, UI’m dead tired. 24+ month’s 12/7 takes it out of you kinda.
Take Care
Kent
SyrianMilitaryCap. @SyrianMilitary 5 min.
@SyrianMilitary it’s done! Al Shykh Saeed is liberated #EastAleppo #SAA
Longer and detailed video with the Spetsnaz in Syria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkRcwxidbE
Kent
Kent,
Don’t worry too much about the pressure on Palmyra, all part of the plan. Insurgent and guerrilla forces are notoriously hard to target with airpower, as their strength is in staying hidden and dispersed. Whenever Jihadis concentrate to attack, they present themselves as great targets for air and artillery assets. It is even worth losing some ground, to further concentrate and expose irregular forces. Line up their little ducks in a row, and then send them to hell where they belong.
Comment is first, followed by name, and no repeat text? Is this a change in format or some mistake?
Beautiful almost full moon drifting through clouds; incredible wonder outside.
Thanks to those wishing me a happy birthday 77; really appreciate it.
This one cup wonder is probably on its last dregs so I better hurry’
Thanks, mundomaniac, for the C. Jung piece by E.A. Bennet. Brought out the humanness.
Thanks, Dido, for that magnificent video, Absent Mare. I’m a sagittarius, possibly a double one; the wild horse is my favorite animal.
Something significant has happened. My son got me a new computer. One thing led to another–to making videos in my case. It’s so easy and with a second computer, even more so. I’m making videos about love. So much fun. If it goes well, I’ll put them up at youtube.
I won’t write so much here, much to the general relief. I’ll reserve the hardcore thinking and emotional intelligence for here. I leave Wednesday for Wisconsin; I’ll take the two computers, my manuscripts and equipment with me on the train. Feels like a new life at 77, a double luck number.
I love you so much. Like a second family. Got to go, and get ready for tomorrow and the making of another video. Who knows where this is going?
Does anyone know what’s going on here?
Many will have already seen this UN segment where a real journalist, the eloquent and factual Eva ‘Mona Lisa’ Bartlett (frequently on Crosstalk) convincingly trashes the usual western MSM duplicity and distorted questioning.
Google news -like CNN and not known for neutral and unbiased information- has this piece from MINA on its Net front page!!! In just a few paragraphs it trashes western journalism regarding Syria, White helmets and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It blasts the multiple rescues of the same child -and all in one page???? And it has the Eva Barlettt video extract from the 50 minute UN session which in itself is quite strange given that much of what comes out of the UN is less than honest on Syria.
Must Watch: Canadian Journalist Obliterates Western Lies on Syria
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/30670/61/
I can only conclude that Putin has hacked Canadian Google -which it richly deserves.
I doubt it will stay here for long -same heading as above:
https://news.google.ca/
Its gone already. Perhaps some underpaid subversive intern snuck it through for a moment.
I wondered too if there is some news ‘BOT’ that scours and selects available news and which picked up the ‘Canadian Journalist’ tag?
If so, I expect the ‘BOT’ is being re-programmed at a suitable re-education facility to weed out such ‘subversive’ authors and speech.
It really was wonderful for those few minutes that it was up though -minutes that I shall treasure for all time.
I am curious as hell to know what ‘it’ was. Could you please tell.
“it” was the headline “Must Watch: Canadian Journalist Obliterates Western Lies on Syria” and its link http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/30670/61/ on the front page of Google news.
https://news.google.ca/
Equivalent to CNN or NYT having RT on its front page.