2016/12/19 08:00:01
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Sailor without Boat
I really tried to get rid of my mind
To leave the rhythm
To leave the rhyme
I tried indeed but not succeeded
To drop the medicine
Which my soul needed
You call me crazy,
And tell me easy,
You call me everything you wish
I took my pen
And call it “baby”
Giving the paper a writing kiss.
I wish you were right in my shoes
And try keep going on the road
Without giving the food to muse
It’s like a sailor without his boat.
Ah, they are coming yet again
Forcing me to take my pen !
” Here you are, you alien ioan,
do you think, that you have fun ?
Many others are doing better
In this Earthly play of Theater “
Ioan, thank you for your poeting whimsy ! and to Scott and his vigil on fake news, a contribution:
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2016/12/08/israeli-army-admits-tweeted-hezbollah-map-actually-fake/
Castle Without Moat
I’m a sailor, so I get it.
Ioan poet can’t regret it.
Direction too hard to find
With no art balanced mind.
First boundary is a fence,
Every family’s house defense.
Pen or sword, do not worry,
No need to say “I’m sorry.”
The body is the house of soul
No right arm, it is not whole.
Verse has value, so I toast it!
So let it loose, bravely post it!
Don’t let whiners get your goat.
Every castle needs a moat.
Sad day today Bro, thanks for your poem, we need it. As you see, things are changing so fast, we hardly can cope with. Out of sunshine comes a thunder, making as to wonder in the middle of December. What a crazy world is this, with assassination and killings, making these on mass, on the eve of Christmas.
Both “without” poems were written without news from Ankara. Yours was nice and light. Mine had a bit of darker premonition in terms of balance as defense, in the middle of it, as vigilance and resilience has been both my emotional mood and my mental calculation ever since the most welcome demise of Hitlery.
They are kind of a nice “pair” of pre-Ankara moods. Your shorter style influenced me, from title to end. Now we have to be determined to get stronger in our will and see how poetic thoughts and expressions helps that will, and vice versa.
I understand the outpourings of grief and frustration but I must be jaded: wounds like the Nov 8 election or the mid December liberation of Aleppo did not kill the Beast.Therefore I expect it to continue to strike often and hard by top down intent or random bottom up mayhem until it is simply unable to continue to do so at the top and the mayhem at the bottom just fizzles.
Euphoria over victories and careless disregard for security needs to be avoided for years to come, under the best of circumstances. Good leadership anywhere on earth is too thin not to be vulnerable to decapitation by a single bullet or bomb.
Even imagining a string of victories for multi-polarity and inspiring material and spiritual advancement for billions of human beings, vigilance and cleanup efforts should never let up. There is generations worth of darkness and filth in many, many corners of this otherwise beautiful world that will need to be dealt with before we’re relatively secure from the psychos by virtue of the fact that almost all human beings are able to recognize them and resist them. The trouble is, that at the present moment, most persons don’t even wish to think about the problem. That makes their unconsciousness a major part of the problem, as that clueless nonchalance allows evil to organize itself and grow.
Actually, it (the unawareness) is THE major part of the problem, as it makes the far uglier but far more rare evil even possible in the first place.
Bro
geniusly short coined:
“balance as defense, in the middle of it”
Coined What?
Venus
= Libra + Taurus
with center = Sun
you prove to me the soulwork
the images do in us
and no sorrow
all great unknowns
to the empire
and knowns to Vlad
Thinking for some hundred years
will continue in the blue-green
great elemetary wedding
of water and air
heart and brain
all good this year happened
on the normal “professional” (Vlad)
way and will keep so
even for heros
and Saturn = the state, is yet
in the third of the fat three
till next December
and the poor three then
will rule till 2020
and each day’s ego will keep
to care for itself cause
there is no one else
to do it for it
but new spaces within and without
reflecting each other in the commonn
soulstuff of a perfect one-ness-horizon
between heigth and depth
No, not many are ‘doing better’, inspiration-wise Iaon.
Good to read your ‘compulsion’ ain’t goin’ nowhere…
To the Anonymice Prosaics:
‘Scroll on By’ ( sung to the tune of Dionne Warwick’s ‘Walk on By’ -if y’all can bear not just rhymes, but – lawks-a-mercy! – music! )
:-)
A cafe to see into peoples souls at times.
A balance – a status quo between good and evil, where evil does not get the upper hand, perhaps is the best we can hope for, as new people are born every day, new evil will be born.
As bro says – resilience. Put a moat around your boots.
“A cafe to see into peoples souls at times.”
Nice Anon, what a lovely gift we give each other.
Alright, I’ll start. This analysis from Southfront about the Syrian Army is the best I’ve read. What a strange war this has been. In the end though, an Arab phoenix will rise from the ashes and will be the most tactically-modern, experienced and dangerous military force on the planet.
https://southfront.org/syrian-army-vitally-needs-reforms/
Having lost in Aleppo, the zionazis order their orc freakshow to go on the offensive.
Ukrainian Army Carrying Out Massed Attacks Against Donbass Militia Positions
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201612191048731720-ukrainian-army-ceasefire-breach-lugansk/
“The Ukrainian army has carried out near-simultaneous strikes on over half a dozen positions across eastern Ukraine’s self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, breaking the shaky ceasefire deal, RIA Novosti news agency reports, citing the press service of the LPR’s People’s Militia.
Lugansk militia reports that Kiev-backed forces are carrying out their attacks using emplaced artillery, RPGs, mortars and small arms. They add that militia positions have been fired on in seven different positions in a 24 hour period.
“As of 11:00 am [9 am GMT] the situation remains tense. In the direction of Debaltsevo, the enemy has not stopped its attempts to advance,” the militia report said.
Earlier, Lugansk militia reported repulsing an attempt by the Ukrainian army to break through in the area around the village of Kalinovka. Ukrainian forces were reported to have lost ten killed and twenty wounded, with two militiamen injured and two reported missing.”
A major upping the provocations, simultaneously with this faggotry:
Radicals Storm Into RIA Novosti Office in Kiev
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201612191048733334-radicals-ria-kiev-office/
“Around 20 people stormed into the office of RIA Novosti news agency in Kiev, demanding that the video conference with Ukrainian cities must be stopped, RIA Novosti reported. The event is part of the Congress of the Ukrainian affinity groups of Russia.”
I see
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/19/mulv-d19.html
Trump names hard-line “deficit hawk” to head budget office
By our reporter
19 December 2016
President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be director of the Office of Management Budget, placing a confirmed opponent of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security in the top fiscal policy-making position in the new administration.
The 49-year-old Mulvaney came to Congress in 2010 as part of the right-wing Tea Party faction promoted by the Koch brothers and other Republican billionaires, taking advantage of popular hostility to the enactment of Obama’s health care legislation. One of his first actions was to oppose the bipartisan budget deal in 2011 between congressional Republicans and Obama. He advocated that the Republicans force the US Treasury to default rather than agree to raising the debt ceiling.
From then on he was active in the most right-wing faction of the House Republicans, the so-called House Freedom Caucus, which supported a shutdown of the federal government in 2013 to force repeal of Obamacare, and later carried out a rebellion that forced out House Speaker John Boehner. He moved closer to the House Republican leadership under Boehner’s successor, Paul Ryan, who hailed his selection as White House budget chief.
In a statement Saturday announcing the appointment, Trump declared, “Right now we are nearly $20 trillion in debt, but Mick is a very high-energy leader with deep convictions for how to responsibly manage our nation’s finances and save our country from drowning in red ink.”
Mulvaney’s convictions revolve around slashing entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, the largest single non-military areas of federal spending. In accepting the nomination, he said the Trump administration “will restore budgetary and fiscal sanity back in Washington after eight years of an out-of-control, tax and spend financial agenda, and will work with Congress to create policies that will be friendly to American workers and businesses.”
This is political code for cutting federal social spending drastically, to pay for further tax cuts for the wealthy and big business. Trump has pledged to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to only 15 percent, a windfall for the rich that will come out the health care and retirement money of tens of millions of elderly and disabled working people.
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I see many articles pointing to Trump administration doiing things which destroy the US economy, safety and other regulations, civil liberties, etc. — all the right wing stuff which has damaged the US so much. Maybe Trump will save the world from nuclear holocaust, but destroy the US — and maybe most of human civilization from environmental damage.
It’s frustrating (appallingly so) that we always get only a choice between Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Stupid, and sensible policies don’t come into the electoral noise or process… while all the nuttiness shifts money from poor and ‘middle class’ to rich, of course (and that will sooner or later blow up the economy (at least) for everyone, rich or poor, anyway).. We have a system which drives out everything but junk food, junk news and media, junk ‘truth’, junk culture, junk science, junk politicians, junk politics, junk education, junk economics — just about junk everything — and puts the idiots, lunatics, and the fanatic ideologues in charge. What will it take to put down austerity, war, greed, fanaticism, and the ‘deadly sins’ as normative values?
Why don’t people grow up and become mature adults any more (or didn’t they ever and we didn’t notice)? What the hell is the matter with the human species?
What is wrong with the human species? In two words: political laziness. Self-governance would involve additional work for the common good that few people are willing to provide. In particular if they grew up in an environment of abundance.
On the positive side, a sensible fraction of people, elderly more than young, care for neighbors voluntarily. Often without a cent of reward. More often than not totally ignored by the overly busy ignoramuses around.
Recently, I read the book “The Peter principle”. Its major thesis is that everyone gets promoted in his/her social status and job until reaching the level of incompetence – the first position somebody can no longer cope with. Whereas the Peter principle explains a lot of observables, it ignores the education and learning achievements of people in new positions. Following the principle, Peter would state that certain skills can only be learned that much, part of it is a given, such that learning only shifts the level of incompetence a notch further.
The book basically concludes that our aim at getting promoted all the way up to the top leads to plenty of incompetent people in all positions of hierarchy, which eventually results in the collapse of the affected company or society. Unfortunately, I tend to agree with this conclusion because social and cultural demise becomes more evident year after year.
I have to skip through some thoughts here, but maybe a conclusion is the way we raise children that fails to allow them real responsibility and decision making, within an authoritarian atmosphere.
I saw some video about primitive tribes (and some not primitive), such as the Huaorani Tribe in the Amazon, where children do not have formal education and have about the same rights as adults, learning by watching and living with the people, and naturally integrate into the communities as they grow into adults. Other videos show small children using weapons to hunt, machetes to cut meat as they eat, and participating in other ‘adult’ activities. These tribes tend to be anarchic, i.e., without fixed authoritarian chiefs and hierarchical structures, where everyone participates in decision making. They have their problems, of course, and even wars, but not war lords and vast inequality in wealth. Neither are children generally subjected to violence and punishment to make them conform to arbitrary rules. It’s much the same as many animals care for their young.
It seems to me then, that the problems are the result of culture, cultural conditioning, and political structures, rather than ‘human nature’ (and we can see this structuring and, abuse of or oppression of, or dehumanization and alienation of, children throughout various authoritarian societies, often supported by religious dogma used by chiefs to control people).
I think a good question is why would a mentally healthy person want to be the boss of other people, or seek higher status than others through social structures and power instead of just demonstrating abilities useful to others? Where does these warped egos and insecurities arise, and why don’t people learn to properly deal with the selfish, greedy, and over-competitive aspects of their personalities? It seems that the real ‘law of the jungle’ is more peaceful than what people do while talking about it.
I’ve thought about this a lot in the last year, especially after your video link showing chimps invading territory of much lighter, weaker monkeys and hunting them down in coordinated “gang” or military fashion and eating them after knocking them loose from the highest branches.
Chimpanzees can eat grubs or roots, but meat is more concentrated nutrition, and they “go wild” over it compared to the inferior components of their diet. But they are content to murder by one, two or 10 at a time. They don’t seem to have the concept of multiplication or raising numbers to higher powers, storing wealth and power up to increase it more and more and more. Their greed and bloodlust is momentary as the need and availability arises, and then it ends, balanced by a scarcity of nearby monkeys and too many chimp mouths to feed.
Carnivores, of course are locked in. They must kill or scavenge meat.
Primitive societies seem a lot like the chimps. They can both can be violent to other species and to themselves, but neither have the power or possibility of being truly psychopathically violent with the power of multiplication able to affect billions of other beings negatively.
This is psychopathic power augmented by the leverage of multiplication by large factors of power and energy and numbers of accomplices is what you don’t see in the remote jungles yet, except marginally, with corporate slash and burn rape and pillage invasions of it around the accessible edges. Oil, lumber, etc.
But it is the source of the Empire threat, not just to Russia, China, Africa, Asia and Latin America but to people of good will even in Britain and the USA, because the top controllers have become demented and dangerous beyond toleration, and they turn on and victimize the middle and bottom portions of their own support base itself. Why?
Because: A feudal lord might protect his peasants in the field, while oppressing them with fear and over-work, because he needed them. These NWO psychopaths have already determined that they need far, far less of us than are presently alive.
Also, they are in competition with each other. Their excuse becomes: “Well, if we don’t go for it (global dominance), someone else will, and then, where will we be?”
You see this even down to the level of petty oligarchies looting their banana republics in service and cooperation with others of their ilk much higher in the global “food chain”. They are no better. They are just weaker. But still dominant locally, and consider themselves far, far better than their peons, who they have zero impulse to develop. Slaves of slaves of slaves of fear and control, all the way to the top.
Fear and control. fear and control, fear and control. With the power of multiplication by very large factors behind it. Out of control fear and control.
I so agree with you blue. Add to that the fact that mercury, chromium 6, uranium and lead are being dumped into the air, water, and land across the USA. Mercury and aluminium are being injected into infants and children repeatedly. All of this lowers the IQ. We lived briefly in a small town in AZ, where the elementary teachers were 3rd or 4rth generation townies. The town´s water was high in naturally occurring fluoride. The maths teacher didn´t even understand 2nd grade maths. All learning was done by rote, by the book. We built a community centre for the kids, tried to get something positive going, but there wasn´t much capacity among the locals.
So, there is the culture of punishment, shame, and control, and the dumbing down via toxic foods, consumer goods, and personal products, then also the media.
I so mourn for my country! We left 7 years ago. I pray for them, what else can one do?
Check out this lecture by RFK Jr. He has been documenting the corruption at CDC, and mercury poisoning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uia5_hdKu0&feature=youtu.be
He estimates that by hiding data, the CDC caused 200,000 black male children to develop autism!
Thank you Marcel, you summed up all the lessons of my political career in two words: Political Laziness. All plans for a wider democracy come up against this problem. I judge though that this is a factor of our wealth, we don’t have to cooperate to survive. This is why I cheerlead for the collapse of our economy. Eventually we need to see the end of money to reach the next social stage.
@Earthrise said: “Eventually we need to see the end of money to reach the next social stage.”
We might shortly be looking at the end of cash money according to this well researched article:
War on Cash
‘Now if we begin to see stealth propaganda preparing us to accept severe clampdown on the one remaining free media, the Internet and related social media, we can also see an equally ominous, indeed, totalitarian move to create acceptance for the idea we give up the right to hold paper money, giving private, often corrupt, banks total control over our money, and in turn giving government agencies total control over where we spend for what.’
(Disclaimer, Engdahl was one time connected to Larouche who has a dubious history but I don’t think that earlier connection invalidates either his research or his current well considered journalism)
http://journal-neo.org/2016/12/13/its-beginning-to-smell-a-lot-like-totalitarianism-and-i-dont-mean-russia/
Also, I wanted to add a comment on your subject in the previous café of endemic depression and despair and its relation to the take-up of Christianity.
I personally consider depression and despair, having experienced both, to be two very different manifestations.
Something I found helpful was to consider depression as a form of repressed or unrecognised anger at very real social forces impacting me that I was powerless to counter.
Anger can be an empowering and energising antidote to depression as someone once taught me when I needed it. Bro 93’s Alexander Pope points this out in his poetry– the passions properly approached being the root of the highest virtues–something true Buddhism also teaches, when not obscured by the many charlatans teaching westerners to chant for Lamborghinis. (Janis Joplin did it way better, anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvbK-i0RR5g)
Despair is an utter lack of hope, from the Anglo-French ‘desperer’ which is why we all need a narrative of some kind of return or renaissance, wherever we get it from, to hang onto in the dark times.
Janis again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guKoNCQFAFk
Cheers Helen,
When they say cashless though, they are not talking about getting rid of money, but separating money from real value. Voodoo economics, the black heart of the Anglo-Zionist Empire.
You are right there is a difference between depression and despair, though they seem to be on the same sliding scale. I am an atheist, but I don’t begrudge someone their faith. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.
Merry Christmas Helen, a pleasure working with you.
Samantha Power Lecturing on War Crimes is Like Quasimodo Lecturing on Posture
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201612151048604734-samantha-power-war-crimes/
“What stood out most during the verbal broadside unleashed by Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, at her Iranian, Syrian and Russian counterparts over the fighting in Aleppo, was her ability to do so with a straight face. It was testament to the ability of US exceptionalism to keep its proponents cocooned from reality.”
The fact that she can articulate such lies with a straight face speaks volumes. Actually, to think that her ravings were “testament to the ability of US exceptionalism to keep its proponents cocooned from reality” would indicate that such lies are indeed considered to be valid. Perhaps, testament that those in the Barry Owebama’s administration are as inept as him, or perhaps, proof that ill chosen proponents of Owebama’s agenda continue to attempt to convince others that their lies will be beneficial to mankind. Maybe even, I have some property on a pristine sandy beach on the shore of a tranquil warm lake in northern Minnesota that you should be interested in for the special price of…
Actually, “what stood out most” is, how she has not been given a psychological evaluation to determine if she should be allowed to co-mingle with others. She’s obviously not a part of mankind. It would be cool if Trump calls a press conference to tell her publicly… “You’re fired.”
“Professor of Strategy proposes SK for: “Finland should ally itself with Russia””
” Strategy, Emeritus Professor Alpo Juntunen says Finland should develop a military alliance with Russia. This would remove doubts about the credibility of the Russian Finland’s neutrality. ”
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005012635.html
Juntunen’s view, Finland’s foreign policy has been trapped, from which the “Paasikivi-Kekkonen line experts” warned Finland’s accession to the European Union. Finland suffered heavily after the capture of the Crimean economic sanctions.
Emeritus Professor warns monitoring of the Baltic example. “Estonia is not the way for uss” he writes.
Juntunen says Finland’s position in case of an outbreak of open conflict between Russia and the West would be bad. “Finland would be alone again like in 1939,” he writes.
At that time, the Winter War began and the Finns expect assistance from the West was not experienced. Juntunen says aid should not do so now that the EU is not a military power and NATO would jeopardize its position in the Baltic States. US strategic interests are again elsewhere.
Marshal Mannerheim much before Finnish-Russo Winter War was recommending similar Treaty which later was called “The Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, also known as the YYA Treaty.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Soviet_Treaty_of_1948
Now it looks like warnings of many Finnish foreign policy experts made in early 1990’s have woken up and that same old discussion in Finland likely will begin. For many years i have supported this kind of Treaty plan Professor Juntunen was suggesting.
Professor Juntunen summed up at the end of his article:
“A truly practical solution to our country’s security would have a strong defense and alliance with Russia. Russian Federation would remove the doubts the credibility of Finland’s defense.”
http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/raju-ehdotus-strategian-professorilta-suomen-liittouduttava-venajan/
Greetings from the North Country fair, a world of white. It’s early morning and the horizon is painted pink. Smoke and steam rise vertically. The sunlight in brilliant white glances off the piles of snow.
The war grinds on, and so this site has work to do, from ioan’s poetry to Earthrise’s and vot tak’s analyses; to reference the first three comments at this time in this cafe’s early hours of development.
The frontispiece of commoners like pawns before the colonnades of power tells a sad tale.
I’ve had power and love on my mind. All is fair in love and war. On the train ride here, I met a couple of retired special forces air-borne infantry men. One was going to the VA hospital in Tomah where I once worked as a nurse, seeking treatment for PTSD, a treatment he failed to get elsewhere on the west coast. Here they let him have his service dog who he dearly loved. The other had some connection here.
Maybe they had something to do with the communique I received from the Love Army’s own air-borne special forces unit, who hopped the same train as I did. They briefed me on what is happening with Count Khazar, my nemesis name. I have summarized their intelligence as follows.
————
Episode 3: Double Trouble
Count Khazar notified his secret agents. He had to penetrate Kremlin security. Putin had got out of control.
“I made that punk,” thought the Count, “and he has the balls to disrespect me. He’ll pay like anyone else.”
Putin had been alerted by a paid mole. It cost him a pile of rubles but he couldn’t take any chances.
Vlad said to his right hand man, a Chechen Spetznaz interceptor, “Screw his up and I’m a dead man. Get my best double. Nail this and you won’t be sorry. You can retire early.”
“Don’t think twice. I’ll take care of it. You want to know the details?”
Putin waved his hand. “Not necessary. Inform Captain Voreshenko and the the army Chief of Staff about Operation Red Alert. They will understand.”
The Chechen bowed and left.
Putin’s eyes narrowed into a frown. He had a large team. They were carefully checked but he could not delay the showdown any longer, not with the Count and Countess Zioness backed into a corner. “Besides,” he smiled ruefully, “I want to get away.”
He punched the intercom. “Chief?”, a husky male voice questioned.
“Call Natasha. We’ll be gone to location seven for a couple days. Tell the media I have routine business, and I’d appreciate their cooperation.”
“I’ll get right on it, Boss.”
The President grimaced. Boris was smart, too smart. He or the Chechen, or both would be the one to arrange it. If the hit happened it would be at night in one of the locations. Putin needed to set the trap and change the location at the last moment. Only he knew where he was going. He had to know who he could trust. He thought of money and motivation.
The Count had counted on this. He calculated the chances of success and decided to make the hit. It all depended on Boris and the Chechen, those wily old double dealers. He thought about money and loyalty.
Putin had his pieces in place. The Count would make the next move. The President gazed out a Kremlin window at the darkening skies. It was hit or miss time.
He thought of his father, Stalin and the Czars who were in his position. He thought of the Russian people as his eyes fell on the cathedral steeple.
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I think Dennis wrote this Count Khazar episode before Ankara news and it seems to contain the most premonition of any cafe writings some hours before the assassination.
It is dark, but determined. It is the perfect proper mood for this darkening ending year to gather depth and resolution for the one ahead.
I haven’t had a lot of time to keep up everywhere in the Vineyard, but I did want to compliment the Count “work in progress”. It’s quite different than than the Leary Love riffs but may be as good or better, IMHO.
If your sad, Dennis, come back and be bad, again, so we’ll get such clear examples we’ll get better and be in the best frame of mind to help all those that stand with Vlad and are disgusted with our outgoing cad, Obummer.
Also wanted to thank earthrise comment in last cafe
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-12-15/#comment-305459
which i just caught up to many days later. Haikus are a good start and don’t say you’re finished or you can’t, because you surely can. Lighter stuff is the easiest to get rolling on. Parodies too.
Also imitation of other styles. My lines get too long. So ioan is great to respond to since his lines are generally 1/3 to 1/2 as long. Plus you get to ignore grammar, so it’s freer! And that I appreciate a lot! Freiheit fur dichter! (Don’t take offense, Deadly Ones, you have poetic license!)
Poetic Pain
Long heavy chains
Are such drains
On freedom
Of expression.
Weighed down
Metaphors, round
About the brain
Slow our thoughts
To sleep, we strain
To stay awake!
Cut them in quarter!
Words can move
The sense improve,
If the line is shorter.
Then earthrise will find
Phrases fall like rain
Again and yet again
Like pitter- patter
On the balding roof
of his grey matter.
Ah, rich stores
Of harvest grain,
Fatter now and fatter,
Seeds planted
In the mists and main
Of inner child
Now sturdy sprout,
In adult brain,
Finally full and wild
Come boldly bursting out!
Thanks Brother,
You are right, I shouldn’t have said I can’t write poetry, maybe someday soon I will write my inaugural poem for the DPS. I have more of a technical brain, only in prose does my creative side come out. Thanks for the encouragement, I’ll start searching my soul to see what rattles out.
By the way, Earthrise, I admire and appreciate very much your prose, not just because you write beautifully but it has sense, you have a large palette of knowledge in a large variety of things. I’m glad you are here !
Thank you Ioan for your lovely words,
I love being here, I actually only post on this site these days. I have been elsewhere, but I always come up against the culture of the Host. The Saker’s analytical style is the first reason I come, and the civilised and gifted people he has attracted is the other. I do like to write, but I come here mainly to read all of you, and measure my paradigm against yours. So hard to know what is True these days, and while we may form an echo chamber, it has generally been a worldview that stands up to scrutiny. And spoken by people who also dare to Hope, such a rare thing these days.
My daily stroll through the Vineyard is vitamin D to my soul.
Dear Deadly Poets,
After Bro’s gentle encouragement, I do have an offering. I am a little proud of it, it makes me weep to read. It is personal, but I guess that is what makes it valuable. I’ll drop it early in the next Café.
Thank you all for creating this space.
The CIA’s Absence of Conviction
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/
“In the UK, one single article sums up the total abnegation of all journalistic standards. The truly execrable Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian writes “Few credible sources doubt that Russia was behind the hacking of internal Democratic party emails, whose release by Julian Assange was timed to cause maximum pain to Hillary Clinton and pleasure for Trump.” Does he produce any evidence at all for this assertion? No, none whatsoever. What does a journalist mean by a “credible source”? Well, any journalist worth their salt in considering the credibility of a source will first consider access. Do they credibly have access to the information they claim to have?
Now both Julian Assange and I have stated definitively the leak does not come from Russia. Do we credibly have access? Yes, very obviously. Very, very few people can be said to definitely have access to the source of the leak. The people saying it is not Russia are those who do have access. After access, you consider truthfulness. Do Julian Assange and I have a reputation for truthfulness? Well in 10 years not one of the tens of thousands of documents WikiLeaks has released has had its authenticity successfully challenged. As for me, I have a reputation for inconvenient truth telling.”
Privatbank, Ukraine’s largest, declared insolvent & taken over by Govt. Its central bank stated 97% of its corporate loans went to insiders. What does that sh!t kolomoisky say about this? A kick in his balls.
USUkraine = Corruption Inc.
Most if the loot fetched up in Israel I bet.
Or through Cypriot proxies in Swiss bank accounts.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/12/savchenko-vs-tymoshenko-maidan.html
Is this true ?
” After all, Savchenko is the only real Ukrainian among her competitors. As is known, President Poroshenko, PM Groysman, ex-PM Yatsenyuk, and Tymoshenko are Jews; Avakov is Armenian; and Saakshvili is Georgian.
Indeed, there are almost no real Ukrainians in Ukraine’s top leadership. “
Do not confuse Jews with a race, nation or ethnic group, they are neither.
Jews are people adhering to the Jewish faith.
@ Marcel
Very true, they have been mongrlized to make infiltration into the host people easier. Parasites work the same way when they attach themselves to the body of the victim.
But they remain parasitic and alien to the host society, therefore being a foreign body collectively known as a race, nation or etheny, particularly because oftheir allegiance to a foreign nation with which they identify with and their social organization within the host society.
Therefore a Jew is not only someone who shares the Jewish religion with his co-religionists; they also share an ideological position which sets themselves apart from other peoples, namely the belief of being chosen by Jehova, their god, as superior to all other human beings and with entitlement to use and abuse them for their own benefit and profit.
This is helpful on what happened in palmyra.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/12/why-did-palmyra-fall-military-source.html
Why did Palmyra Fall? Military insider tells all, calls on anti-ISIS coalition to learn ‘bitter lesson’
December 16, 2016 – Fort Russ –
RusVesna – translated by J. Arnoldski –
A military source has told Russian Spring of some of the details of the battle for Palmyra in an exclusive interview.
re: article on fall of palmyra from FortRuss: good one–thanks. Except the political line expressed in the last paragraph about a common foe etc. etc. we must unite against…etc.etc. No, Isis is a creature of the US/Israel or, if you prefer, the anglozionist alliance and will act accordingly.
How can someone write an article questioning in the first paragraphs just how Isis managed to exit Raqqa/Mosul so easily and in such numbers and then make such a formulaic, concluding paragraph?
Discernment, please!
Foreign Spies, Officers Trying to Leave Aleppo Along With Opposition – Envoy
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612191048746610-foreign-spies-aleppo-rebels/
“After a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Bashar Jaafari told reporters:
“Many foreign officers, intelligence and military officers, who are in the eastern part of Aleppo with the terrorist groups, are trying to exit their strongholds in the eastern parts of Aleppo.”
Russian Ambassador to Ankara Badly Wounded in Armed Assault
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612191048750563-ankara-assault-russian-envoy/
“Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov has been badly wounded in an armed assault in Ankara on Monday, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports.
The attack took place at the opening of the “Russia through Turks’ eyes” photo exhibition, Turkish NTV news channel reports.
Karlov was immediately rushed to a hospital after the assault.
Russian Embassy in Ankara has not commented on the situation yet.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW”
Mossad? The neocon zionazis are beyond desperate.
He is reported reported dead. Shot dead by nearest security staff as I understand it or someone that could come very Close to him (Shot by nine shots). Se youtube for video of the assassination
See: “Russian ambassador to Turkey dies after gun attack in Ankara – Foreign Ministry ”
https://www.rt.com/news/370774-russian-ambassador-shot-ankara/
“The Russian ambassador to Turkey has died after being shot by a gunman in Ankara, where he was attending a photo exhibition, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.”
He has now sadly died. Political assasination.
The depths these neocons A/Z ‘s have sunk to. They really want world war 3. How was this assasin able to be filmed; get close etc. – Obama’s threat the other day……
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612191048754603-russian-ambassador-ankara-dies/
Add this to my last comment please
According to som twitter source The assailant is identified as Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş who is a police officer from Ankara.
See: “Russian ambassador to Turkey dies after gun attack in Ankara – Foreign Ministry ”
https://www.rt.com/news/370774-russian-ambassador-shot-ankara/
“The Russian ambassador to Turkey has died after being shot by a gunman in Ankara, where he was attending a photo exhibition, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.”
I’m just watching the events live on RT, and I’m amazed on what is happening right now. There is a video of the attacker in that exhibition room, chanting “allah akbar” , holding the gun while the Russian ambassador is shot on the floor. It is said that the man has been part of the security guard. Weren’t there others with arms to neutralize him ? cause he seemed to have enough time to scream a lot of words before went out of picture. According to international law, an ambassador being the legal representative of a country – Russia – this political assassination means an attack on Russia. The attacker is said to be Turkish police officer. And,…and, instead of getting him alive, they shot him dead ! The Russian Foreign Ministry said ” this is a terrorist attack “. The attack comes just day before the Turkish Foreign Minister planned trip to Moscow. The Turks say that the attack has been premeditated. Before this happened, a large demonstration was held with the participation of more than 20.000 people in southern-Turkey, near Syria border against Russia – organized by who ? Now we have the Christmas gift, what is your say guys ? I am out of myself, even more when the events are coming so fast, as they were planned : Attack on Lugansk , the approval of UNO observers in Aleppo, first meeting between NATO and Russia after a long pause…
Dry the swamp? Lure more IS/NATO/KSA fighters into Palmyra and blow’em up?
By the way, NATO meets Russia only because they want their officers back. I hope the price will be astronomic now (to the point of crushing the alliance economically). If I may advice Russia, get your bounty first before anyone of the NATO skunks is allowed to leave Aleppo.
Good riddance.
Maybe that will be the next step.
The photographic evidence from “some” of the Terrorist Attacks – and other events perpetrated by the mainstream media – strongly suggested to me – over a long period of time – that they were completely and totally faked. I am not a professional photographer, and have no connection whatsoever to the mainstream media. My first camera was a Kodak Box Brownie. My mother took out a loan to buy me the camera I wanted when I was 12 years old – even that was a nightmare – cos they sent me the wrong camera (sorted via a solicitor’s letter).
At the age of 15 – everyone in my class – had to do a presentation – on any topic whatsoever of their choice.
I chose the subject of photography – and I spoke about it for 45 minutes – and with questions and answers. They seemed enthralled and I was really shy.
I am not a professional photographer and I do not use software to fake it. I don’t need to. My wife is Beautiful as She is.
Meanwhile
“Leaked Footage shows CNN producing Fake News during first Gulf War”
Posted on December 10, 2016 by Cathal Haughian
https://beforethecollapse.com/2016/12/10/leaked-footage-shows-cnn-producing-fake-news-during-first-gulf-war/
Tony
Video censored by RT, and removed from you tube.
Here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4de_1482167380
For analysis.
Take Care
Kent
A commenter translated the killer’s words:
Subtitles:
00:05-00:16
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!
*Some Quranic gibberish*
00:20-00:27
Don’t forget the Aleppo!
Don’t forget the Syria!
(x2)
00:28-00:35
As long as our land is not safe,you will not know what safety is.
00:35-00:38
Back off! Back off!
00:39-00:42
Only death can get me out of here.
00:44-00:52
Whoever has a share in this cruelty will pay for it.
– See more at: http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=4de_1482167380#sthash.Ddq2SjKG.dpuf
So sad the terrible look of pain that crossed the ambassador’s face before he fell dead–shot in the back by an MIT plant. ( was he a Gulanist? I doubt very, very much. There are plenty of Islamists and Isis sympathizers in the Turkish equivalent of the CIA and the track into the US deep state is much more direct). By the way, the reported “incident near the US embassy in Istanbul” about the same time was most likely either staged or fake news.
It is clear that Russia needs to insist on its own security for its ambassadors including and especially in the USA, Israel, UK, Germany etc. And new security protocols.
This, in my opinion, is not going to get better. But success is the best revenge—good hunting in Idlib and in Palmyra!
It is known, of course, just where the special forces illegally in Syria are located. oops! your “guys” were just “helping” the “moderate” opposition forces which we just happened to bomb? so sorry.. You gave us the coordinates? Oh, like how we gave you the coordinates of our field hospital in Aleppo? so sorry big mistake we will do an inquiry hands will be slapped like what you did for Deir Ez Zor. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Obama’s promised payback ?
A water pitcher falling to the ground
Holds in abeyance certain facts:
The car won’t start; a tumor grows unchecked;
The roof leaks; a train careening off its tracks….
a commonplace to say things fall apart
The mystery’s that All together holds
Impossible, emergent, yet from the start,
What is this spiral looming lyre world?
From hidden groves strategic chessboards play
out imposed-order’s false utility
Technicians conjure dark and dread new days
Perfect black arts’ violent contingencies.
Cathedrals built dissolve within a breath
All striving distilled into final death.
do you mean “looming gyre world”? just asking? thanks for the poeting
My heartfelt condolences to the widow and family of His Excellency Andrey Karlov assassinated in Ankara last night. They always shoot the good ones. If the Russian people are asked soon to carry an even heavier burden, his spirit will stand by them; every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Goodnight prince of peace, may your work have not have been in vain.
Hmmm. Comments are not getting posted. Did I get booted? Wonder why?
No – no-one has been “booted”. Someone else commented that the site seemed to freeze, and her comment didn’t come through either. With both of you, these are the first of your comments I have seen tonight. Thanks for letting us know, I will pass it on modPS
Of the many things that are exciting about the potential Trump presidency, there are a few concerns. Rolling back the Iran deal is a worry, but now that Iran is an ally of Russia, this will not be easy. I can’t see the other parties in the P5+1 agreement rushing to jump back into that morass anytime soon. This in the end may be disinfo aimed at Israel, to deflect the Zionists circling in the sky above him.
His plan to increase the size of the Army seems to fly in the face of his other plan to roll back the Empire (due to costs). Again he may be appeasing the MIC+Congress, we’ll see soon enough.
The main one seems to me his support of Israel and the Occupation. The selection of the ambassador to Israel does not bode well, with his plan to move the capital to Jerusalem and all. But I am taking another angle on this. The Hasbara effort has probably defended Israel better than all the F-15’s and Merkava tanks of the IOF. If the US begins to overtly support Israel, diplomatic cover will disappear, and the rapidly-changing balance of world powers is not moving in Israel’s favour. With the rise of the hard Right in Israel, the blindfold is off and the emperor is naked. This alliance of corrupt politicians and religious fanatics is the greatest danger that ‘state’ has ever experienced; they are so ideologically-bound, they cannot even lie about the Occupation anymore.
Delay now only sees Palestine disappear a little every day. Only Resistance can defend the Palestinians and secure their homeland. Best for everyone now to tear off the band-aid and finish this once and for all. Easy for me to say safe Down Under, but this sh!t has to come to an end. My Nanna used to say be careful what you wish for, you might actually get it. I say give it to them, have your Samaria and Judea for a brief moment, it will be your swan song.
The true danger to Israel is not from the Arab armies, but the loss of Israel’s moral right to exist. If the Europeans which make up the vast bulk of the Israeli population start to go home voluntarily (they already are), this is no different to pushing them ‘back into the sea’ by force. All this will leave are the dead-enders, like the ones huddling in the last suburb of Aleppo. This is what the Syrian Stalingrad means; the bookend images of Von Paulus emerging from a bunker to be captured, and Hitler shooting himself in his own bunker 2 1/2 years later. No honourable death for Netanyahu though, he’ll retire next to the other quislings in Pennsylvania.
When Princess Diana died – I was gutted. I had never met her – but she regularly used to go to they gym right opposite where I used to work in Fulham. It was not a problem it was like village London,
She used to take her kids to the English National Ballet on The South Bank at the same time as we did..and she just sat in the stalls – no one made a fuss..she was the same as us.
Do you think I would be excited if i was sat next to Jimi Hendrix in the audience?
I wouldn’t interrupt the performance…
Oh Wow someone famous is here in the audience??
We are waiting for This
“ENB – The Nutcracker – Sugarplum Fairy”
https://vimeo.com/56082639
Tony xx
They killed her mate, just like they did to Lennon (MLK, Gandhi, the Christ). They always kill the good ones, our Champions. We need to cultivate the bravery to not accept it next time, to not be cowed. Alternatively, there needs to be so many Christs that they can’t kill us all. To me this is what the Second Coming means; the realisation he is not coming back, and that we have to all rise and be our own Christ.
For doubters that pizzagate could be true, a must read is this archived Reddit post that is a compilation from a few years ago of MAINSTREAM MEDIA reports that indicates the reality of a global pedophile ring with Satanic ritual aspects across the Western world over the past few decades at least. The collusion of high level law enforcement and politicians indicates that they too have been corrupted. This is a network that has built up over decades, if not centuries.
See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1cm0t3/original_research_the_mountain_of_evidence_for_a/?sort=old&limit=500
How long has there been slavery? Moral crusaders like to think that it has been abolished– part of the triumphant narrative of the west– but it has more likely been submerged, both by the market and perhaps something more nefarious, like the reappearance of Tiberius.
BERLIN TRUCK ATTACK
2016.12.19
The Polish driver DID NOT CRASH the truck. He got heisted.
Only one driver was used for this transport performed by the truck Company ARIEL ZURAWSKI
The Semi Trailer truck was loaded with steel beams.
The semi Truck got turned away when the driver arrived to unload the cargo at its destination.
The truck had to wait to be unloaded the following day in Berlin, and was parked on a resting place.
At 15 o’clock Monday 2016.12.19 there was telephone contact with the driver.
After 16 o’clock no telephone contact could be established.
The perpetrators must have attacked the Polish driver to hijack the truck.
According to the GPS records:
At 15:44 someone tried to start the truck.
At 16:52 The truck was started and the engine ran until 17:37 clock.
During this period, the truck was not moved but there were several attempts to move it.
Apparently someone had problems getting it to move.
At 19:34 the truck was finally put into motion and drove to Berlin.
At 20.00 the truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in East Berlin.
The driver, who crashed the Truck into the crowd, got out and ran.
The original Polish driver was found on the passenger seat. He was detained, but later died.
The plate on the tractor does not match the trailer plate.
The Tractor Licence no. is GDA 08J5
The trailer license no. is ZGR US66.
Police believe they have the crash driver but cannot confirm it.
The Police have arrested a Migrant from Pakistan entering Germany in 2016. He pleads innocent.
The Police later confirm that the arrestee is not the perpetrator.
The Polish driver found on the passenger seat was detained, but later died from gun wounds.
In the EU, the Tractor and the Trailer do not need to have identical licence plates.
Each trailer is registered independently to a standard, so that any Tractor can haul it.
The Tractor and Trailer are both registered in Poland.
The Trailer license plate is ZGR US66.
The Polish powiat code ZGR means that the Trailer comes from the city of Gryfino, a former German city ethnically cleansed in 1945 by the Poles.
The Tractor Licence plate is GDA 08J5
The Polish powiat code GDA means that the Tractor comes from the city of Pruszcz Gdański.
If any of the plates were fake Berlin´s Automatic EU-plate scanners, should have sounded alarm.
The perpetrators must have access to search the EU register for a specific “US66” plate number.
The perpetrators must have access to know witch Tractor is connected to this specific trailer, at any specific time.
The perpetrators must have GPS access to locate the Tractor connected to the trailer with the “US66” licence plate.
The perpetuators must pacify the Polish Driver to hijack the Truck.
All 5 conditions have been met as the perpetrators succeed the attack.
The terror driver is still at large and armed.
The Original Polish driver is now Dead.
This indicates that the attack can only be perpetrated by people with access to EUROPOL registers and GPS surveillance equipment.
Following the Hearse (and you)
Dark night
Silver Light
And you
The last journey
Dream hills
Passing trees
And you
Silver evening
Joy ride
Velvet peace
And you
Moving farewell
Moon clouds
Passing scene
And you
Star-like presence
Hold on
To this night
And you
Going home
12/20 2016
Trump elected by the Electoral Colledge
the Titanic event of the blue cabale
what a week
That is a beautiful poem. Inspired. I wept.
Shades of Griboedov, The Master and Margarita, and the whole truth.
My ‘pilotka’ is doffed to you.
Greetings. I hope the seats are comfortable. From the snowy north I had an idea for a piece of literature that would depict the current and future world had various things not gone the way they did. Say the RF did not make it in time to save Syria, and it became much like Libya (RIP), say Putin had been far less brilliant and failed to expel Soros and the NGOs, then lost Crimea and invaded Ukraine, and then the MSM could roundly and forever congratulate themselves for having helped ‘elect’ Clinton. Now the RF having lost Tartus and Sevastopol etc would be fighting color revolutions (chartreuse, mauve, taupe, etc) and hordes of armed insurgents at her borders. I think we tend to think things are bad now, but, well, who knows? it’s impossible to give up and anyhow those that are with us are mighty. A million thanks to the Saker, this great community and the wonderful characters one finds at the Cafe.
Great post Goiv,
Good idea to look at how far we have come, and what we averted. I’ll never forget the feeling of reading that first report (from an Israeli source mind you) that Russia was going into Syria. As I read the words, all the consequences started to fall into place and this sharp thrill ran through my whole body. My god, Israel has lost! The Middle East might be saved. I was so impressed with the use of our own propaganda against us (ISIS), I became a Russophile on the spot. Our friend the Saker was not giving anything away about the deployment, and he always counsels us not to expect more of Russia than her national interest. But I for one could not help but feel gratitude to Russia, in a way I guess Russia let us off the hook. We can hold off our revolution for a little longer; timing is everything.
I am sure I am not the only one to have noticed the large number of Canadians and Australians here in the Vineyard. We are the outliers of the Empire, where some of the original Western ideals still flourish away from the dark centre of Power. Once the Empire falls, we are the monasteries which will hopefully protect the spark and once the smoke clears, come back to re-light the Flame. I don’t discount what we are doing here; I know I need to hear American accents speaking the Truth about themselves. Here in the Vineyard, people have come to see the West look at itself, to see freckled faces with dusty hair speak the Truth everybody else already knows. It is cathartic, not only to ourselves burdened with guilt, but to our victims to see we are not homogenous stormtroopers or fanatics. But normal people making the most of what has been given to us. I know it is frustrating that we are not doing more, but I have asked to also look at what we are not doing. Peace by omission; what if they called a war and no-one turns up?
Try it Washington, see what happens.
What has happened to RT over the past year? The RT website used to have intellectually stimulating articles. Now it features junk like this:
https://www.rt.com/uk/370985-celebrity-sex-robot-special/
All the articles listed under the “Viral” section are just as worthless. There is a lot more trivia on RT than there used to be. Were the Russians told to dumb down their website, as the news articles were angering the Anglo-American elites?
The more I see of the incompetence of the German regime (the Berlin attack being the “icing on the cake”),I’m beginning to think it might be a mistake for that region to form its own state. It could be that uniting Southern Germany with Austria. Parts of Western Germany with the Netherlands. Northern Germany with Denmark. And with the rest forming a smaller state mostly based on the old DDR areas.The immigration crisis. And the failure of a “German” government to even care. Leads me to the possible conclusion that the desire to have a “German nation” no longer exists in those territories.Dividing them into more historical states (the areas mentioned had in the past been connected to those other states) might be better.It appears the “Germany” we see today has no desire to be a German nation state (except maybe the Eastern regions). So it would be fairly easy for them to reconnect to those other nations.What is left could resume its previous life as the DDR.
There is a question which hangs on the air, the timing of the three attacks : Ankara, Berlin and Zürich. The original suspect from Berlin has been released free, because of “insufficient evidence”, now they have a new suspect in sight, a Tunisian man, still at large. Just think about : last year, when the refugees come in Germany in mass, the majority entered without having their fingerprints obtained by the authorities, no papers or if they give it, many with false names. After such huge error in letting them in in mass with no proper identification, the German authorities have a terrible work to do. So, even if they named the new suspect, where is the certitude this time to have the true perpetrator ? No wonder that people are skeptical. On the other hand, this event in Berlin has put the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara out of the picture for the German public…
To reinforce my comment on Germany. We see today two protests at the site of the murders. One,of 150 people,protesting the murders,and calling for the immigration to stop. The other of 800 people,calling for “understanding” and not to react to the murders. That pretty much sums up the job that years of pro-Western propaganda,in every sector of society,has created inside Germany.They are quickly ceasing to be a “German state”. And thus as I said,should probably just be divided among those that “might” not be that far gone yet. The added strength in numbers would help those states. And since an independent German people is ceasing to exist,it shouldn’t be much of a loss. The European states “willing” to save themselves should be the ones to survive.Russia being at the top of that list.The list gets much shorter as we look across Europe.
It takes the cassuality that those protesting against immigration were NeoNazis.
These people did not dare to go out in the streets so often before the wave of immigrants arrived, less in a country like Germany, and now they are all day out there.
So, cui bono from the immigrant crisis and these terrorists attacks? The Nazis, clearly, they are being jusitifed by too many people in the US and Europe, as well as in this blog. Not even in their best dreams they would have dreamed about finding such a window of opportuntiy with increasingly more people mixing in the same pot immigrants, Islamists and takfiri jihadists.
I guess I do not need to refresh any mind here on that most of great terrorist attacks in Europe have been perpetrated always by Nazis, although several times they have tried to blame the left and communists.
So it would seem “incumbent” on others to not let the neo-nazis be the “only” ones protesting over the mass immigration in Germany.They build their support “only” if they are seen to be the “only” ones acknowledging the problem. I’ll make it simpler,if I fell into a well and couldn’t get out. If a friend threw me a rope to help me get out. And a neo-nazi threw me a rope at the same time. I’d pick my friend’s rope to get out. But if the only rope thrown me was the neo-nazi’s rope. I’m not about to not use it to get out.And instead say “no, I’ll die in this well instead of grabbing the neo-nazi’s rope”. We need to not leave this problem to the neo-nazis to gain support from.
Oh, yes. but the problem with taking the neo-nazi´s rope is that, after getting out of the well, very quickly you will be aware that you will not manage to return them to the cavern they were living when you decided to give them air by getting their rope and joint forces with them in gratefulness, and thus, they will use the same rope to hang you when you dare to claim for your rights once erased by them after the burning of the Bundestag….Unless you decide that their program fits you and continue living and making business while half of the population is being wiped out, precisely, for you not being disturbed in your business
You have not more tha to take a look at the Ukraine.
Anyway, I do not understand any of you here. While you admit that the terrorist attacks are false flags made to fit the agenda of the AngloZionist Empire, using the same takfiri tools for that they use to destroy the countries of procedence of the real refugees, then, at the same time, you claim that the nazis are right when they blame the refugees.
Honestly, I have no where to get it.
Simply, blaming the victims is one of the usual ways of proceed of the AngloZionist Empire, that serves the goals of its new project, Internatonal Fascism. This is what the destroying of the Middle East and the following waves of migrants is about, and this comes pushed from the US, by any of your administrations.
Ah, they found the ID card of the new (this time Tunisian) perpetrator in the truck’s cabin… sounds familiar ?
Yes, that little bit of evidence exposed taints the whole investigation with the perfume of a late-night TV joke, doesn’t it. I heard it on TV “news” and laughed once again at the matrix merge I call “newsertainment.” They, whoever they are, seem to no longer be concerned that we do realize what they are doing. Straight by the formula, recipe — mix and bake. I know old farmers in bib overalls who are laughing at that. No need to stay up late for laughs.
On Channel 4 news today the finding of the ID card was rationalised as ‘a now recognised calling card technique of the terrorists.’
So transparent it made me laugh out loud.
Its the only clue they have as to the identity of the perpetrator–if its a ‘now recognised calling card’ why are law enforcement taking it seriously? Do they really think that the terrorists are now identifying their own operatives while they are on the run for their crimes?
Just how daft do they really think we are?
Daft is as daft does…repeatedly.
I am afraid that since the crimes are done in your name, saying ‘The English’ is totally legitimate.
@Franz,
I assume that your reply was directed at me, a Brit, not English, but I don’t see the relevance of your comment to anything I have posted.
Would you mind giving a fuller explanation of it, please? As it stands it just comes across as unnecessarily cryptic.
“What is man?” seems to be the central question of world politics.
I was excerpting, in attempted order Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man not because it definitively answers that question but because Pope was a major formative influence on the powerful intellect of Alexander Hamilton and because I believe Hamilton is a necessary bridge between
1. What was Man, say 20,000 years ago or more.
2. What was Man in Pope’s (early 1700s) time and Hamilton’s time (1770’s through his actual assassination in 1804)
3. What IS man in 2016/2017, and finally,
4. What will man be, or better said, what COULD man be a generation or two from today??
Dumbed down NWO slave or a self evolving being on the verge of taking his earthbound civilization into the galaxy beyond his home star??
I overheard café discussion of his laziness. I complained of it myself. And then wonder, how soon will my time expire, or the time of other voices, other passions that are felt here and around us all no matter where we live, from close up or far away.
Events disturbed the parsing out of the essay, but there are two last parts of Epistle III. One before Christmas and the last afterword. And then before the inauguration, what would Hamilton advise Mr Trump to get right to work on January 21st ? If we get there in one piece!
I reread this section that starts with the subject of man’s imagination, and it resonated enough for me to want to proceed forward with the idea of taking the initiative away from the Empire, and overcome the delays and bogging down by the clearly intended murderous brakes on humanity that the Count and his minions are frantic to derail humanity with:
“Nature its mother, habit is its nurse; (it = man’s imagination, per preceding few lines)
Wit, spirit, faculties, but make it worse;
Reason itself but gives it edge and power;
As Heaven’s blest beam turns vinegar more sour.
We, wretched subjects, though to lawful sway,
In this weak queen some favourite still obey:
Ah! if she lend not arms, as well as rules,
What can she more than tell us we are fools?
Teach us to mourn our nature, not to mend,
A sharp accuser, but a helpless friend!
Or from a judge turn pleader, to persuade
The choice we make, or justify it made;
Proud of an easy conquest all along,
She but removes weak passions for the strong;
So, when small humours gather to a gout,
The doctor fancies he has driven them out.
Yes, Nature’s road must ever be preferred;
Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
’Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
And treat this passion more as friend than foe:
A mightier power the strong direction sends,
And several men impels to several ends:
Like varying winds, by other passions tossed,
This drives them constant to a certain coast.
Let power or knowledge, gold or glory, please,
Or (oft more strong than all) the love of ease;
Through life ’tis followed, even at life’s expense;
The merchant’s toil, the sage’s indolence,
The monk’s humility, the hero’s pride,
All, all alike, find reason on their side.
The eternal art, educing good from ill,
Grafts on this passion our best principle:
’Tis thus the mercury of man is fixed,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mixed;
The dross cements what else were too refined,
And in one interest body acts with mind.
As fruits, ungrateful to the planter’s care,
On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear;
The surest virtues thus from passions shoot,
Wild nature’s vigour working at the root.
What crops of wit and honesty appear
From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear!
See anger, zeal and fortitude supply;
Even avarice, prudence; sloth, philosophy;
Lust, through some certain strainers well refined,
Is gentle love, and charms all womankind;
Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave,
Is emulation in the learned or brave;
Nor virtue, male or female, can we name,
But what will grow on pride, or grow on shame.
Thus Nature gives us (let it check our pride)
The virtue nearest to our vice allied:
Reason the bias turns to good from ill
And Nero reigns a Titus, if he will.
The fiery soul abhorred in Catiline,
In Decius charms, in Curtius is divine:
The same ambition can destroy or save,
And makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
This light and darkness in our chaos joined,
What shall divide? The God within the mind.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce,
In man they join to some mysterious use;
Though each by turns the other’s bound invade,
As, in some well-wrought picture, light and shade,
And oft so mix, the difference is too nice
Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Fools! who from hence into the notion fall,
That vice or virtue there is none at all.
If white and black blend, soften, and unite
A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain;
’Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
But where th’ extreme of vice, was ne’er agreed:
Ask where’s the north? at York, ’tis on the Tweed;
In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there,
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
No creature owns it in the first degree,
But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he;
Even those who dwell beneath its very zone,
Or never feel the rage, or never own;
What happier nations shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,
Few in th’ extreme, but all in the degree,
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise;
And even the best, by fits, what they despise.
’Tis but by parts we follow good or ill;
For, vice or virtue, self directs it still;
Each individual seeks a several goal;
But Heaven’s great view is one, and that the whole.
That counter-works each folly and caprice;
That disappoints th’ effect of every vice;
That, happy frailties to all ranks applied,
Shame to the virgin, to the matron pride,
Fear to the statesman, rashness to the chief,
To kings presumption, and to crowds belief:
That, virtue’s ends from vanity can raise,
Which seeks no interest, no reward but praise;
And build on wants, and on defects of mind,
The joy, the peace, the glory of mankind.”
Wonderful poem, thanks for sharing it !
man Bro,
this seems to be a place in the daily chain, where condensed stuff is crossing ahead.
Your Pope, which I will parse later and my musings on the Gods living in the twelve
houses of our common horoscop this week-half – more or less of less resonating with
everyone on the northern hemisphere:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/12/in-anteroom-of-time-sun-and-mercury.html
Happy New Year, friends, yeomen and countrymen. Today, in the north, is the nadir of our fortunes. The winter solstice in this winter of our discontent. Nature, in her grand recycling, awakens our sleeping souls. From here on in, the days grow longer for nature lovers.
All traditions, religions and politicians are encompassed by nature. Abandon her and forsake all. Return to her and embrace all. Putin the Philosopher said it best. “Nature-like technologies.”
The Vineyard is pretty close in concept to a nature-like technology. It nicely balances a War Room with a Love Cafe, analyses with poetry and music, left brains with right-on refrains and manly essays with feminine forays.
The Songs of Solomon’s Canticle of Canticles was played in a mystic vineyard, the power behind the throne of Love Armies on the march. Ancient warriors forsake their towers to defend once again their lovers’ bowers. The sad-eyed children marvel at an army in battle array. The hearts of their mothers swell with pride.
Lord Leary throws down the gauntlet at the throne of Count Khazar. Lady Montague visits Princess Capulet and Shakes-her-spear holds a mirror for Countess Zioness. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?
Ah, the dawn of the shortest day parades across the snow white fields of Eden. The scales of Lady Justice quiver in the wind. A featherweight waits upon destiny. In a corner of the cafe, the Jack of Hearts lies face down with the sleeping Queen of Spades. Baby Jesus is born in a million mangers. How still we see thee lie.
It is darkest just before the dawn. In nature’s calendar, this is the pivotal point for a world out of joint. In a multi-polar world, every hair is numbered and every fallen sparrow counted.
I must attend to some love business. I love you all. May this nadir day be a soft western zephyr for you and yours.
It is Christmas time and my religious friends are busy copying texts which talk about intention, service to others and cultivating compassion along with the affirmation of a deity which actually cares about humanity.
Bro 93: there is that place of peace and neutrality in which the two polarities of man achieve balance— some folks due to belief, practice and mostly circumstance can inhabit that illusive space for a longer time than others. But it is that space of the Archimedes fulcrum that holds the world . The mystics call it the beating heart of the world.
The veil between worlds/dimensions can thin and anyone who keeps his/their memories intact especially from childhood knows that there are little inexplicable “pop-throughs” often. And if you can grant it to the Christians, sometimes there are big ones.
Anyway: my final rant is about how all these “terrorists”
1. end up conveniently and irrevocably dead and
2. how they conveniently leave behind passports or in the case of the Turkish assassin who supposedly was fired for being a Gulanist ( was probably an MIT plant in a Gulanist cell all along) have all sorts of incriminating literature littering their homes. That makes it hard for their relatives to plead innocence but it cements their “fanaticism”.
3. How we hear nothing about any follow up or resolution of the event: no one knows anything ever. And there lingers a black hole of uncertainty.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/21/who-profits-from-turkeys-sarajevo-moment/
Count Khazar and Lord Leary — Episode 4
December 21st was the day the Count loved best. The shortest and the darkest. He opened the heavy oak door in the thirteenth sub-basement. He entered the Hall of the Dead. Candles flickered. Here he was at home with the dark lords of the past, present and future. Here he relived the ancient rites of blood sacrifice where his youthful powers were renewed with age-old cruelty.
The Zhazarian sat before the stone altar where many a Black Mass at been celebrated down the eons of time. He was the current king, czar and presiding priest of a long line of hunters and killers. Not even Countess Zioness was allowed in these chambers. This was a man’s place and she would only pollute it. He gazed with satisfaction at the symbols of power and icons of empire.
He went over The Plan for Man, and for subduing the planet that had been entrusted to him. Russia was the last outpost of resistance. Putin had foiled his last assassination attempt but it had distracted the Russian leader from the real plot which advanced like a plague.
Love remained buried under piles of propaganda. Animal slaughter increased to levels that put the ancient priests to shame; men were now beasts themselves. Pets were becoming persons and persons pets. Marriage now extended its range to strange perversions; marriage to pets was not far off.
Money was now the new monotheism and religion the new mono-moneyism. Drugs were on the rise with pot-heads doing their medicine dance. Minds were turning to mush and the blind led the kind. Like Rome, Russia would fall from corruption within.
The Count snapped out of his reverie. He sat up and looked around. He frowned as his senses went on high alert. He could just feel it in the air. He was being watched. Security had been breached. He closed his eyes and reached into his psychic data base, and into the innermost recesses of his intuition.
Red lights were flashing and alarms sounding. Images from Babylon and Nibiru, banks of raped and sacrificed children along with tortured virgins flew by until they stopped at Kidron Valley, between the Mount of the Temple and the Mount of Olives, near the field of graves and a bower of vineyard grapes not far away.
The Count sighed, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the Cauldron of Cauldrons, Jezebel Sorceress, I should have known. So you rise like the Phoenix to join my Phalanx, do you? Go ahead, make my day.” He thought of the Jezreel Valley, Mount Megiddo and Armageddon. He had his army ready. But what was this strange feeling of danger?
In a cabin in the Shannon River Valley, County Clare, which he affectionately called Vulva Valley, Lord Leary studied the face of his Lover Lady. She gave him her best Mona Lisa smile.
What’s the matter with Nadiya Savchenko?
Read this:
“In a scandalous interview she gave a few days ago, Savchenko said she doesn’t think Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, leaders of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, the DNR and LNR, are terrorists. She went even further, comparing mercenaries of these regions to Maidan activists, saying that they are fighting against Poroshenko just as Maidan did against Yanukovych. Those statements sound really mad, yet they will have very serious implications for Ukraine.”
Looks like she has received some kind of “medication” during her prison term in Moscow.
In any case she seems to have developed a positive attitude.
http://www.intellinews.com/kruk-report-ukraine-facing-an-uncertain-2017-112571
I hear there is to be an Egyptian-sponsored resolution to the UNSC to stop settlement construction.
What is the chance Obama abstains on the way out?
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yesterday afternoon I posted with a link to my weekly overview. Seems to have got lost. (not the first time).
Or is even something bigger in disarrange, the last comment is of 12.21. 9 am UTC.
Anyway, here is the link once again:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/12/in-anteroom-of-time-sun-and-mercury.html
Mercury turned Dec 19th retrograde 2 degrees from Pluto in Capricorn: Tthere is your bang and when it returns end of Januaryish…expect more “bang”. Meanwhile ‘ol Mars will be moseying along to Aries! ( oh joy) where it will join Uranus (direct 12/26/16) chugging along direct in the last decan of Aries. towards the green fields of Taurus .
Can hardly wait for Venus –late winter and in early spring–to join these guys and do some flirtatious distraction.
German ‘hate speech’ rules adopted by Facebook feature pretty much what you’d expect – bullying etc.
But the real reason is buried in the list of the usual suspects – ‘attacks on public figures.’
As ‘attack’ can pretty much mean anything from criticism of policy to death threats, it’s a useful stick to quell dissent.
But they have actually shot themselves in the foot with this. Not only have they revealed their essential fascist mindset, they will now operate in a bubble of ‘blissful unawareness’.
So when the inevitable anger overflows, they will be completely unprepared for it.
If the German people allow that. They will once again prove my thinking on their lack of need to exist as a state, A people silent to their own enslavement doesn’t need a state.And the land and population there could be better off as part of other states.States that might possibly put up resistance when reinforced by larger numbers.In this new “age of migrations” Europe seems to be living through. The break-up of ineffective tribal groups. And their being absorbed by more vigorous peoples might be the only solution to Europe’s woes.If Germans don’t finally act for their own survival,I would strongly advocate that division to save the rest of Europe from the same disaster.
I said a few days ago I thought Trump “bought” into the zionist narrative,of Judeo-Christian civilization. Its pervasive throughout the West,and especially in the US.Which is home to either almost the same number,or even more Jews than is Israel.With Trump’s home city,being the capital of Jewish settlement in the US. Now,I just don’t think it. I know it to be fact. He is a committed zionist. Today he is tweeting that the US should veto the “unfair to Israel” UNSC resolution submitted by Egypt. Now “what” is this “unfair to Israel” resolution,one might ask? It says that the settlements Israel has created on Palestinian land are illegal.And they should be halted.The irony is that under international law (which the UN is supposed to represent),there is “not even a question” that the settlements “are” illegal.So Trump’s claim otherwise is pure hogwash.But fits totally into the zionist agenda to annex all Palestine,”de jure as well as de facto”. His other statement on that,should ignite the sarcasm of anyone reading it. He says“peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations.” As the UN is the “only” reason that there is an Israeli state to begin with (the UN 1947 vote created Israel),his statement is “rich with irony” Since Trump now shows his colors,as one of if not “the most”, pro-Israeli and anti-Muslim president the US has had thus far. There is an “immense” opening for Russia and China to step through if they are smart enough to see it and act.Trump’s policies are almost certain to alienate ,like no other,the over a billion Muslims of all sects in the World for the next years.While Russia and China,though anti-jihadi,are not anti-Muslim.So the way is open for them ,if they act wisely.To gain the alliance of those billion Muslims.That the US is quickly throwing away.
Trump is a product of ‘ conditioning’ by the socio-cultural matrix dominated by Anglo-Zionist money-politics as other Americans of his class.
And he dutifully does the bidding of his backers.
Specifically, in his case, casino-operator Adelson from whom he recieved 25mil.
So I am not surprised, much less disappointed – I had no other expectations.
Not sure if a ‘snot fair!’ tweet will pass muster as ‘support’ though.
But there are other factors in the equation – significant members of his team and who are not necessarily on board with the Zio-cult, ‘donations’ notwithstanding.
They will influence policy, and as the president elect acquires a badly-needed education on the true history of the world – especially the collaboration between Xionists, Wahaabis, and fascists, there may be surprises ahead.
A key element is the bombing of the USS Liberty, an ‘inconvenient truth’ that has not gone away.
Is this site back up, or partially so? There are comments at the War Room for early Dec, 25, The cafe appears still frozen shut. Happy Christmas Eve in the West, and likewise for Nativity Week in the East. Here in Wisconsin it’s a little shy of fours hours til midnight. I need to get to sleep before Santa and his reindeer land on the roof. Hope to see you all in the morning. Will this post post? To post or not to post; that is the question. Rejoice, the Savior is already here according to Universal Time; we lag behind. Love you all.