2017/01/05 17:30:01
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The naked code
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/01/new-naked-code.html
I’m feeling sad at the moment. I just bid farewell to the old cafe. This story gets me moving again.
Love and War – Episode 13
Chief Visits Petersburg
Chief was riding a train through France, heading for Russia. He had stayed in Romania a day too long. The darkness had drained his soul. In Russia he would regain it. He stared through the glass darkly and saw himself and the passing world in a mirror and through a window.
There was something about Russia. Mysterious and enigmatic, as Churchill observed. He was drawn there like iron filings to a magnet. “I suppose she’s part of my vision quest,” he pondered, thinking “she” was Russia.
In Midwest America he had sought answers for whatever was bothering him. First from the Cheyenne of his mother and the Menominee of his father, and then Sioux, Crow, Comanche, Shawnee, Chippewa and others.
He sought the souls of brave warriors from Little Big Horn to Wounded Knee. At Custer’s Last Stand he felt the agony and ecstasy. “Why, why?” echoed in his brain like a howling wolf. He wanted understanding more than revenge.
In a Dodge City bar he met a grizzly old Russian miner who said little but spoke much. He talked of Napoleon and Hitler, and the brave Russian resistance in the merciless winters of terror. Unlike the Plains warriors, the Russian braves had fought and won. Chief’s own warrior soul was stirred.
Chief had no thought of going to Russia until the former miner mentioned a young woman murdered in the revolution. Her name struck his heart like an arrow: Anastasia, a seventeen year old Grand Duchess of all Russia when she was executed.
He had known many women with many a name who were attracted to his wild silence. The elders had spoken of the power of a birth name. His father had said a chief was born and it stuck as “Born Chief.” Anastasia was a new name with an old power, at least over him.
As he got closer to Russia, the further he receded from America. He dreamt more of animals and less of people. The train became a snake, winding into the unknown. He heard sounds in the night like splashing water, speaking a language that he did not know.
Anastasia woke with a start from a dream of a snake climbing her legs. Her heart was beating wildly. Someone was coming for her–she just knew it. She had that feeling at seventeen when she fell in love. She thought about another Anastasia, a Grand Duchess who had perished at seventeen. Had she fallen in love before her cruel murder?
She knelt before an icon of the Virgin and lit a candle which drew moving shadows on the wall. She prayed and thought. She didn’t think anyone could know about her. She was born of a Russian father and an Indian mother in Montana. They brought her up with the Russian language and history as well as the Indian ways.
When she turned twenty-one she received her mission to enter Russia as Anastasia. This increased her suspicion that her father was a Russian operative although they never spoke of it. She was given cover as an orphan who was taken in by a couple, now conveniently deceased. She was to attract Russian high society and learn what she could.
Her sixth sense told her that this mission was connected to the highest levels and to Putin himself. She was ready and willing. As a native warrior woman she learned how to track and smoke the pipe. As a foreign born Russian she learned to throw the blade and keep a secret.
But who was coming for her? And why? By now she knew the best and brightest of Moscow society. None of them posed a threat. Putin’s courteous young men saw to that. No, this was different. More dangerous than her falling in love at seventeen. She rose from her knees, crossed herself and returned to bed.
Chief’s train stopped in Paris. He had a couple of hours to kill before boarding another train for Moscow. On the overhead schedule board he noticed Line 17 to London via the Chunnel. On the cafe table was a discarded brochure on Ireland tours. Someone had scribbled 17 on the back with a happy face. He slipped it into his pocket.
In Moscow he spent two days seeing sights. He did not like the Kremlin. “Too many skeletons,” he thought, “And some epic black battle going on.” He decided to move on to Petersburg which proved to be more congenial. In a library he saw a poem on a bulletin board in English.
“In Petersburg you once wore white / You were like the moon on a starlit night / You came from Moscow’s Bolshoi light / Where Putin held you in his sight.” He smiled but his heart went wild upon reading the notice next to it: “Anastasia from Moscow Comes to Petersburg for Series of Talks at Theatre Osobnak.”
Is she Romy Schneider and he is Humphrey Bogart ? Just in the last Cafe, Bro 93 was referring to him, now is he here at the Cafe sitting with that wonderful woman. Bro will be glad to see this photo.
And many would be glad to see the future, or to have an idea of the broader picture, on what lies ahead with the Blue and Red :
Blue and Red
The man with his strange hair,
Will he bring us some fresh air ?
Many words and speculation
Till his Inauguration.
Who will come and who will go,
Does it matter in this show.
The stars and stripes on the flag
Shall remain, no change on that.
Things will have a new direction
In the old habits dimension
And the future lies ahead
In secured hands of the Fed.
Who can tell then what will be,
When it’s not for us to see ?
Maybe some future teller…
Some old guy like Uri Geller…
But let’s be more optimistic
And not leave it to the mistique :
( have a smile for a while…)
The rich will share with the poor
All their wealth, all their glamour
Changing their castle with your flat
You will be happy, they will be glad
But, you’ll need to have some pain
To make America great again…
“We want you” says the billboard
Otherwise you’ll be off board !
The partners shall meet anew
Practicing the old and new,
Till the Red and till the Blue.
The deal is done and is shared
With the Lion,
Who’s the King of life and death
And lives in Zion
Unless, things are moving bad
Making Kings and Queens sad,
The cake is sliced on the floor
According to the old new Rule :
” Take my cake
It’s blue and red
Then I’ll take yours
With the same colors ”
Will be changes ? yes, will be
Take the time, wait, and see…
We shall see, said the blind insane,
Hitting the wall, thought it’s hurricane.
davidius
Lauren Bacall and Humphry Bogart
Yes, you’re right, she is Lauren Bacall, I looked back to her pictures and life, thanks !
Nice Ioan,
On balance Trump will disappoint and be another ruling class stooge. But what I take heart from is their marketing and propaganda has had to acknowledge a lot of truths to stay useful. They normally try to ignore uncomfortable truths as long as they can. Even though Obama let everyone down, in electing him they had to acknowledge the American People were against foreign wars. In electing Trump, they have had to acknowledge the MSM no longer holds sway, and the people are turning on the Establishment. They have had to accept people are on to endemic political interference, corruption, wealth transfer and the machinations of the 1%. Trump is not the victory, the victory is what they have had to admit to get him elected. Two steps forward, one step back; at least progress gives us hope.
Everyone would like to know the future, personally – if I may continue somehow the last Cafe sci-fiction line – I would like to have a time-machine and go back in time. In my imagination, that would be an interesting trip. But, I had to wake up and see the realities of today cause the time has passed away (meanwhile).The soul is incarcerated in this body, which left him not without traces in his journeys. Until man has reached his 40’s, does not even realize the meaning of the time, then, everything seems to move faster. The soul is sitting in and watches out in the world around him, being almost the same, just learning all the way till the day when he got the invitation for depart.
There is something about 40. I like the idea that we live a new life every 20 years. Then there is the not-Churchill quote:
“If you’re not a socialist when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.”
To the degree that this is true I think it is being a parent that informs the shift. By 40 most of us are parents, and parenting teaches us to be authoritarian. In the capitalist system, it also locks us into wage slavery to provide for this family. The family is the cornerstone of the status quo.
I’m much less conservative now then when I was 20, and that’s because I’ve learned and smarted up a lot. I think that saying is not true at all, and when someone (a friend) who was conservative told me that it really pissed me off. He was full of beans about a lot of other things too. I am also a much less authoritarian than I used to be — in fact my thinking is mostly left communist or anarchosocialist.
A major problem with many Americans, liberals and conservatives alike) is they don’t know how to mind their own business, but try to tell everybody else what to do, and become ‘attached’ to people, and controlling, instead of being just friends.
As for children, I suggest Kalil Gibran:
https://allpoetry.com/Children-Chapter-IV
Yeah Blue, you are right. I wouldn’t call the 20 year-old me conservative, but innocent, trusting of authority. It took the loss of that innocence to see the world the way it really is.
I can’t say I ever trusted authority (and I dropped out of school at 15 — about 10 years later than I should have).
What I discovered over the years is that it doesn’t help to try to be authoritarian because the smart people will figure out for themselves what they need to and the morons will never figure it out and it’s no good to try to tell them what to do because they will always find a way to screw it up anyway. Besides, I have enough to do to figure out my own stuff.
Cooperation with others is one thing, trying to tell them and push them around is something else entirely, and hanging around with someone who tries to push stuff on you is just aggravating and wastes time.
My conservatism now is about me being careful and mindful about what I do, not about anyone else. Any innocence I had dropped off along the way. I voted for Nixon first term, but by the time he ran again I was much less naive — even with extremely limited sources of information. It did take me some years to really break out of the ‘matrix’. Lot of gaslighting going on and I had taken a lot of damage.
You need to know what you know, see what you see, and feel what you feel — not the stuff one is conditioned to know, see, and feel — and toss believing in anything because it’s an invalid philosophical (love of truth), cognitive, and psychological methodology and state of being. Learn some things about Zen.
I do not know these terms – conservative, liberal, left, right.. They mean nothing. Seeing things that way is a delusion that benefits them. Them.
There is human morality-based ethics, order, justice, law, peace.
And there are criminals who try to steal that away.
They are criminals. Period.
Often they tell us what’s what. When Cuba was proffered, in 1959, as an example of a democratic country, the little boy was told “We don’t know yet”, with a smile. Little boy saw fear – “oh!” He realized they lie…and force people to believe total bs…
Moral people can’t willingly obey criminals. Not possible. But they do sometime surrender and abandon morals.
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Today James appears on The Vin Armani Show to discuss open source intelligence, the neo-neocon push for Cold War 2.0, and how a false dialectic is pushing us toward regional government.
Audio and show notes: https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1241-james-corbett-on-the-vin-armani-show/
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=9lqP96obq90
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Principles and strategy of coming war | Alexander Dugin
January 5, 2017
http://4pt.su/en/content/principles-and-strategy-coming-war
or
https://4threvolutionarywar.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/principles-and-strategy-of-coming-war-alexander-dugin/
Predictions of trouble from the BBC and Putin is not even mentioned? Unthinkable!
Most disconcerting -your Macbook will start corroding in about 100,000 years from now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future
Stopping war requires starting love in individuals and communities. We start where we are. Here’s the latest installment of Love and War, one illustration of the process of winning.
Love and War — Episode 14
Lady and Lord
Lady walked down the river road and turned onto a path that led to a ridge overlooking the Shannon and Holy Island jutting up out of Lough Derg. The island had been a sacred pilgrimage site for centuries. A round tower and the ruins of several churches shared the island with holy wells and artifacts dating back 7000 years.
Miracles and visions were reported happening there. Lady didn’t put stock in them. She valued her own body, mind and the process of living. Fatima, Lourdes, Knock, Guadalupe, and Medjugorje didn’t attract her but what lay behind them did.
“There has to be someone behind this awesome universe,” she reasoned, gazing out at the distant past in the present. “I call her Love, and sure, appearances of the Virgin are part of that subconscious, collective unconscious phenomenon but a minor one.
She talked about love so much that her friends called her Lady Love. Her parents had been aristocratic Anglo-Irish with a mansion in this very county. They were killed in the Irish rebellion long ago. They had the foresight to put away money for her in England. She really was a Lady by birth and English law.
Lady was in her 70’s but looked younger due to her exercise routine and vegan diet. She was able to afford decent schools and had worked at interesting jobs. She had been married twice and had two children as well as several passionate affairs. A woman of the world.
But there was another side to her that few knew. She was a seeker, trying on religions and life-styles in search of a good fit. She had been to India and other exotic destinations. She loved philosophy and art. Yet none of it was very satisfying or challenging until she fell in with Lord Leary’s radical ideas and sexual experiment.
For months she resisted, believing it was a scam and there had to be a fundamental error in what he was saying. Emotionally she didn’t like it at all nor him personally. He was too aloof with a know-it-all attitude as if he were better than her. At times she resented and even hated him. But she could not find the fatal flaw. That irritated her even more.
His system seemed water-tight from top to bottom. She sensed there was a hole somewhere that would sink his ship. Of course she could just deny his premise and resort to faith but then she abandoned herself. It was a love-hate relationship. That didn’t seem to bother him.
He loved her high intelligence and lithe and subtle body. The sex was ecstatic but it took her awhile to get used to “communal sex” as he called it. She didn’t take anything on faith, much less a radical experiment. She was “all in” but still checking it out.
This was no free-for-all swinging party. She had tried that too. Leary had laid out the context with his voluminous writings, videos and audio talks. The theory and discipline seemed solid. The vociferous emotional resistance only made his point. His weakness was in the arena of practice. For that he needed a community.
He needed her. He said it himself but neither of them believed it, or only half-believed it. He was in love with a community as an abstraction. He did not really love her except in that context. And for that reason she could not truly love him. Perhaps that day would come but for him it would have to be within a community.
Maybe he was right. But what if he was wrong? In any event she had to make up her own mind and live her own life. Perhaps they had to let go and let it happen, whatever it was. A relationship to one other person no longer interested her anyway.
Lady stood up and stretched. She wondered if the High King of Ireland stood on this very spot as he surveyed the incoming Viking ships of war. What would she do if she were him?
Himself touched her shoulder and echoing her thoughts said, “You would have made a brave warrior.”
Surprised, she turned. Her wide eyes moistened and she leaned on his chest. Recovering, she whispered, “Yes, I think I would have.”
Dear Trumpists. It’s all just business & $$. And that’s the root of all evil. And one day, you will get it – in the brain, or in the face. Peace
https://www.rt.com/usa/372810-pentagon-nuclear-submarine-billions/
Let’s take some 1984 ketchup:
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
G. Orwell – 1984
Back from a walk in the white world under North-Russian sky, – 10°C,
all floating cristallized. The second stage of water: Scorpio
you have the structure, not the well and not the ocean.
I watched the arteries of the dark planetary brain wired by the naked branches
of the Oak Trees of the alley
This white polar world, when I crossed the rail-tracks, Pjotr came into my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTY16ZkXRo&index=6&list=RDMPDDGVLJStA
Beautiful, mundanomaniac. Thanks for letting us see the world through your eyes for a few minutes! In those times when a person is immersed in hacking, sputtering, and swirling chaos — whether lived in the moment or re-lived through memory — your guidance on “the arteries of the dark planetary brain” is a revitalizing elixir.
Like that, Mundo.
Also enjoyed his message to NATO:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RDMPDDGVLJStA¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=uHsjrcOoHkM&mode=NORMAL
And he makes an even better Conchita Wurst than the original …:-)
6th January, 2017, Epiphany, from the Greek, phaino, meaning to show, to make manifest. Meanwhile, the Moon becomes brighter, and Venus draws closer to the earth and is becoming brighter too.
Epiphany Poem
The red king
Came to a great water. He said,
Here the journey ends.
No keel or skipper on this shore.
The yellow king
Halted under a hill. He said,
Turn the camels round.
Beyond, ice summits only.
The black king
Knocked on a city gate. He said,
All roads stop here.
These are gravestones, no inn.
The three kings
Met under a dry star.
There, at midnight,
The star began its singing.
The three kings
Suffered salt, snow, skulls.
They suffered the silence
Before the first word.
—“Epiphany Poem,” George Mackay Brown
the wise king worships all four colors
as a king he does not move
I want to post another episode of War and Love so my nephew can run off in hard copy all fifteen episodes for me to read on the train back to California from Wisconsin.
Love and War – Episode 15
Uncle Abe and Countess Zioness
Countess Zioness was in Tel Aviv for Hanukkah, staying at Uncle Abe’s house on the outskirts of the city. The Count was a workaholic so he wouldn’t miss her. She switched off the TV’s coverage of some hearing or other in Washington.
“What a farce,” she cried out in anger. “They’re all liars, every one. The Count has trained those monkeys well. Paid them off or threatened them. What’s the difference?”
“The difference, my dear niece, is that you are not fooled by that fool. You have him fooled.” Uncle Abe gave her a warm hug and a triple cheek kiss.
“Well, let’s hope he doesn’t catch on or I’ll meet Moses before you do,” she answered affectionately.
With sadness he replied, “That would break my heart worse than it’s already broken by those bloody khazars.”
“Uncle, God is on our side. Our cause is just. I’m here to celebrate our Feast of Freedom. It’s worth the risk. If I’m a martyr like the Maccabees, so be it.”
“You take after your mother and the zealots of old. Very brave. But how is the Count these days?”
“He and his army of spies and tricksters have their hands full. Trump has thrown a wrench into the works. If he and Putin unite with the Vatican it will be bloody war.”
“Has it come to that? If we survive, we’ll be in good shape. Let them knock each other off and we’ll get back to what once was.”
“That’s a big if.”
“God is good, my child. Peace to his name.”
Aunt Sarah burst through the door. “Come, come. The menorah is already lit. The children are all excited from dreidel. Cook has the doughnuts made. By Judith, you two are the slow ones, always talking business like Holofernes.”
The Countess cried, “Aunt, you’re too quick. Lead the way.”
Uncle Abe was lost in thought. “This feast of the temple was a conundrum. Can’t live with it and can’t live without it. At least the Romans left us a wall to wail at.”
“Shalom, Uncle. A shekel for your thoughts,” teased his niece.
“Mount Zion, your namesake, sweetheart. May peace be upon it.”
“Don’t let the Count hear you. He’s using Zion to stir up Armageddon.”
“So he can sit on the throne of the world.”
“If there’s a world,” she replied.
“God is good. Praised be his name.”
“God helps those who help themselves.”
Niece and Uncle went arm in arm to his private study for a chat after the ritual meal. They lifted their glasses in a toast. “To the People of the Vine,” they chanted together and set the glasses down beside a sturdy amphora.
Uncle Abe’s face grew serious. “There’s something afoot in Ireland.”
“The lost tribe of Judah, Uncle?”
“No, much further back than that. They’ve unlocked the Garden of Eden gates.”
“It was foretold.”
“Yes, but it’s another thing to make it happen.”
“We’ll do it or die trying.”
“Does the Count know about it?” questioned her uncle.
“I don’t think so. He’s busy winning and losing battles.”
“It might cost him the war.”
“Let’s hope so.”
“Eve was a woman,” interjected Uncle.
“I thought as much.”
“I mean a real woman.”
“Like my aunt Deborah? May she rest forever in Abraham’s bosom.”
“I miss her. We’ll not see her equal.”
“Not unless Eve returns from exile.”
“Pray God. Will I see you at Passover?”
“If I haven’t passed away. Pray, Uncle, pray.”
Lady Love sees things that aren’t there.
Her calls within find calls without,
Mining what it’s all about.
Spinning dreams.
Movies…and books….on love….and war…..as if they not were, sometimes, parts of a whole…..
This afternoon, they were projecting on TV what seemd to be an interesting film on science fiction/dystopia, “Cloud Atlas”…., I have never heard about the film, and lost it when it was on the cinemas, but, despite looking good, I decided to go walking because since these are most probably the coldest days of this winter, one must go out before the sunset, otherwise it feels terribly frozing, at least if the intention is to walk for a while, about two hours out.
Thus, when I came back, I started looking for the film on the net, and, while I did not find the whole film, I found this channel of this very particular literary critic, Nikky Udall, who, besides of talking about the film, is talking about Russian female authors in science-fiction in another video ( unfortunately, only in Spanish ):
Reseña: El atlas de las nubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C008zcJJTXk
Autoras de ciencia ficción rusa #leoautorasoct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFnk7utE2Ns
I wondered whether comrade Vladislav Yurievich Surkov could have read these books…..
Read ‘Cloud Atlas’ a few years ago.
Brilliant book.
Heard the film was a mess, so gave it a miss. Hate to see a classic screwed over by Hollywood.
Read the book instead. You won’t regret it.
But, Nikky Udall is saying that the film is absolutely advisable, in fact she commends reading the book first and, after that, viewing the film, where she finds it amazingly well reflecting the book.
I did not know before this special literary critic, but, the way she explains why she likes things makes you fell like to view/read about what she is telling about.
Perhaps you should give it a try to the film….The problem is finding it on the net….still searching….
It was made by the Wachowski Bros, they of the Matrix trilogy.
The Matrix was a pop cult ‘hit’, but not in my view great cinema ( it used a lot of borrowed tropes, including quite a bit from an old Canadian ‘men in black’ series).
Four friends, all who’d read the book on my recommendation, and who loved it, strongly disliked the movie treatment which was far from faithful and pretty incoherent in places.
I wasn’t surprised – my expectations of Hollywood are pretty much zero. Especially the awful celebrity casting that often ruins a possibly good story before it’s even off the starting blocks – no movie gets financed without a ‘name’. And the US cultural material is typically puerile…
Hardly ever watch the stuff, preferring international cinema – especially Asian.
Loved your earlier recommendation ( if it was the same ‘Anon’) ‘Mongol.’
Watched two years ago, really great.
Russian directors – the good ones – have a ‘feel’ for the epic and the minutae of life, though I was a little discomfited by the casting of a Japanese actor in the lead role. Fortunately, he was great – even perfect in the role.
Must watch it again.
Well, I have not so much prejudices against Hollywood, since they have made sometimes good movies too.
Anyway, since people here is asking for Russian literature in English, Nikky Udall is also recommending an editorial where she have found some of the books she was looking for on science-fiction, but which also edites classics, both in Spanish and English, in case someone is interested:
http://edicionesnevsky.com/
P.S: Glad you liked “Mongol”.
Mongols? Scenes of which are in this video?
Мельница – Двери Тамерлана
http://m.my.mail.ru/mail/lakost3007/video/1562/1573.html
Excellent film.
Yes, vot tak, I linked a Spanish version with far better quality image in the last cafe…
Perhaps you can find an English version with enough quality in the net.
Here’s an English version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoBfbhoEmo
Just watched the beautiful Orthodox service live from Moscow. Having been in that church a few years ago, the service gave me thrills and chills.
Peace and blessings from down under. Schools holidays in full swing – grandchildren are leaving sand trails through the house and eating like locusts and using all my broadband allowance. Lots of lazy days in the surf and sun or in my case, the shade.
Wishing everyone a healthy and harmonious 2017.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and to all Orthodox Christians all over the world !
Yup was super service…..thank you, very best wishes to all here from me too.
Chorus to honor Alexandrov Ensemble at the Teardrop Memorial in Bayonne on Saturday, January 7
The Schiller Institute NYC Chorus will perform a memorial service this Saturday, January 7 at 10 a.m. at the Teardrop Memorial to commemorate the 92 lives lost in a Christmas Day plane crash carrying the entire Alexandrov Ensemble, a world-renowned choir traveling to a performance in Syria. On what is Christmas Day in Russia, the chorus will sing the Star Spangled Banner and the Russian National Anthem. They will be joined by the NYPD Ceremonial Unit Color Guard, as well as FDNY representatives. Terry Strada, the Chairwoman of 9-11 Families United for Justice Against Terror, and others will make brief remarks.
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/27342037/article-Chorus-to-honor-Alexandrov-Ensemble-at-the-Teardrop-Memorial-in-Bayonne-on-Saturday–January-7
Marko Marjanović funny and revealing satire of media coverage of Russians in aleppo
Putin’s Brutal Sappers Are Vandalizing Aleppo With ‘Clear of Mines’ Graffiti !
Pictures of Russian sappers clearing Aleppo of mines horrify the Daily Mail
Marko Marjanović jan 6, 2017
Something horrible is happening in Aleppo. Check out this introduction to a Daily Mail photo essay:
” These harrowing pictures, released by the Russian Ministry of Defence, show the utter devastation left behind by troops in Aleppo.
The haunting images show tanks driving through streets littered with rubble and lined with crumbling buildings, and Russian soldiers making their mark by daubing graffiti on walls in besieged the [sic] Syrian city.
Some pictures show desperate Syrian women and barefoot children receiving handouts of food from Russian troops, while others show dogs picking through the wreckage of buildings.
Dozens of images show rows of weaponry lined up on the ground, or huge explosions shaking the earth of the dusty city.
Together the images offer paint [sic] a stark picture of what is left of the ancient metropolis – one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. ”
Harrowing pictures, utter devastation, haunting images, Russian tanks driving through streets littered with rubble, Russian soldiers making their mark on the ruble with mysterios cyrilic graffiti. Desperate Syrian women and barefoot children, among dogs picking through the wreckage of buildings. Rows of weaponry mysteriously lined on the ground and huge explosions shaking the earth!
Oh my, this is horrible! What disaster has befallen this long-suffering city now?!
etc……
Yup the original was a disgusting shameful article, I have no idea why Russia has not complained to the press complaints commission, or complained to the paper, or complained via diplomatic channels(as Russian ambassadors have been called in by hosting countries on more spurious issues), and Russia withdraws any accreditations and visas to this paper and reporters.What was good was the commentators reports mostly denigrating the article.Note uk government is working on its final report on uk-russian relations………probably based on similar interpretations.
Here is the link to the Marjanovic article…
http://russia-insider.com/en/despicable-russian-sappers-are-vandalizing-aleppo-clear-mines-graffiti/ri18395
I can’t help but notice that one of the ‘despicable’ (deplorable?) graffito on the walls of Aleppo which is presented as Russian ‘triumphant vandalism’ actually says: “Cleared of mines”.
Very good link to Russia Insider. Highly recommended to everyone.
The original DailyMail article is the following
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4084990/Look-handiwork-months-aerial-bombardment-Russian-army-publishes-harrowing-photos-utter-devastation-caused-Aleppo.html
We have a Waxing Moon: Mundo emailed me and asked me what vitiolic anti NWO Australian teacher of Astrology I referenced as “knowing astrology” as opposed to “believing” in it.
I found him. I neither know nor believe, yet. However the inquiry is getting more intelligent for me (never inquired much ever before on the subject because the debate always struck me as unintelligible….) so I decided to share with others.
First in order to dialogue with mundo I had to watch Part 1, and ,that was good enough to keep going through part 2…. a total of more than 3 hours on “the science of correspondence between ‘as above (stars), so below’ (points of energy within the person)”.
Here I link an hour and 20+ minutes into Part 2 for an intriguing appetizer:
https://youtu.be/L3G9hxWunk8?t=4803
“If you know your Vedic medicine, you know you have to have your 7 tastes to be healthy.”:
Sweet, Sour, Astringent, Bitter (3 more) and reels off many of the spices in Indian cooking.
Then he lays out the vices and virtues of each planet and ends with the moon: “The moon is sloth in vice, charity in virtue. In fact, Charity comes from ‘church’ and church = circe which is the moon.”
And then: “Do you remember that Isis saves Osiris, because they cut him up into 14 pieces?”
Now we’re getting strategically relevant, Cafe patrons, so wake up and smell the coffee:
“Remember the moon month of 28 days. When she is new and waxes, she turns into Isis, and 14 days later, she becomes Nephthys as she wanes.”
“The 14 pieces that Isis is cut up into are the 14 last parts of the waning lunar month. The 14 waxing nights are when Isis puts Osiris back together, and saves him from Nephthys.”
Now, January 7, 2017 the moon is waxing, a little over half full, about 6 nights left until full moon.
Now (Dennis), in the first 14 “houses of the moon” comes ovulation and either fertilization or or non-fertilization. If non-fertilization, menstruation begins in the 15th night, or the first house of Nephthys through the 14th house (or 28th, in all). As above, with the moon, so below with womankind.
Now this comes back to 911 boys and girls, and the destruction of 93, the sacred feminine, the immolation of the Goddess, and True Care.
And the end of the psychological/occulted wrecking job is the “green language” character assassination of the Goddess snuck in by naming Daesh “ISIS” (don’t eye roll symbology neophytes, and left-brain imbalanced warriors of no subtlety, for the theme of Compassion was featured months after you barely endured the Goddess in the Cafe last spring, and these are all the same thing,and the pivotal thing discussed in this “featured comment” by Aivazovsky, as dividing the darkness of the Empire, spiritually, from the Multi-polar resistance to the Empire of Darkness: :
/the-empire-and-the-battle-for-the-human-soul/
And a very Good Night to all, especially those in the Orthodox East!
Good morning, or good afternoon, evening or night, as your spot on the turning globe would fit. Happy and blessed Christmas to all of us who are Orthodox or orthodox. This evening I leave by train from this state of Wisconsin to the state of California, a symbolic journey from one state of mind to another.
During the course of my life I have made several such journeys. Presently I am riding the Vineyard Express with stories of Love and War which express my mind at this station of its development. The theme is Love and War, a sort of play on Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
As a member of this community I resolve to stop the war on Russia. As I see it now, war is the result of perverted sex which manifests as repression or excessism, a false action turned in or out in extremis. Safety and fulfillment lies in the middle ground between the extremes. Sex is where it’s at and if we don’t face that fact, we can expect to be effaced.
I am grateful for this vineyard and all of you. Orthodox Russia has become our whetstone by which we are given the opportunity to sharpen our wits so that we can remove the cancer that threatens the human species on this planet at this time.
I see on RT, videos of the Christmas services in Russia which I hope to attend by virtual means. I notice that it was -25 F in Moscow and -40 F and C in Siberia. It’s below 0 here. In years past the temperature has fallen to -40 F in these parts if I recall correctly. The coldest temp ever was -128 F at a Soviet station in Antarctica. Yesterday it felt bitter cold outside. Nothing like cold to appreciate warmth. May love warm us all.
Safety and fulfillment lies in the middle ground between the extremes. Sex is where it’s at and if we don’t face that fact, we can expect to be effaced.
Good paraphrase for a fitting mariage. My Experience.
No wonder the Anglo-Zionists are gunning for Russia – they know too much about WWII and have the archival data to prove it:
This figure was reported in The New York Times on March 3, 1991 and was based entirely on the wartime German concentration camp records that had been captured by the Soviets and just recently released. According to this figure, of those dead, 38,031 were Jews. These records state that the total of all persons who died in the ENTIRE German prison camp system from 1935 to 1945 were 403,713. To repeat: a total of 403,713 persons of all races and religions was officially recorded to have died (of all causes. typhus, old age, measles, etc.-and execution) in the entire prison camp system over a 10 year period. Of those 403,713 a total of 73,137 died at Auschwitz. Of those 73,137 who died at Auschwitz, 38,031 were Jews.
Do you have a link to this information – it is certainly mind-blowing, especially if the original Soviet papers were available anyway. Many thanks, modPS
Really in print in the NYT? This is among the top taboo lies of the age. I would love to unravel the web of who created and disseminated this story- when did it to appear etc.
k
Hi mod.
This is from a secondary source – not the original NYT article.
But it does give the date of publication.
As far as I know, NYT has a paywall, so it may not be possible to find it.
Will try to confirm it for you.
‘Mind-blowing’ is right.
Here’s the source I used:
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/jewish-estimate-sees-number-of-holocaust-dead-drop-to-2-8-million/
Thankyou Eimar – much appreciated. modPS
No prob.
You might also find this discussion on Amazon – for and against – useful in making up your own mind:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2R0NS4CDXZB3F/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?ie=UTF8&asin=B00JS26USC&cdForum=Fx2UK08DU6Y99TH&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx3DIDBHIM472NE&store=digital-text#wasThisHelpful
Eimar, for something like this, the original documents would be required.
I have read that all soviet documents are being put on the net..
Peter – absolutely.
Unfortunately, I am only at ‘beginner’ stage Russian, so am forced to try and make my way through the fog of the Anglo web, ( and it’s controlled by Google).
If anyone can link to the original documents it would be great.
But I am not sure they still available – Russia is under attack, and the Kremlin doesn’t need a new vector of hostility/controversy, which is how it will be spun.
Unless a movement similar to the 9/11 truth project emerges – ideally spearheaded by anti-Zionist Jews – it will be subject to a massive disinfo campaign.
Am going to try other engines anyway – nothing ventured, nothing gained :-)
See that link https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/jewish-estimate-sees-number-of-holocaust-dead-drop-to-2-8-million/
Perhaps figure of 4 mil helps?
“Cited by a Soviet document of May 6, 1945 and officially acknowledged by the Nuremberg War Crimes trial. This figure was also reported in The New York Times on April 18, 1945, although 50 years later on January 26, 1995 (see below), The New York Times and The Washington Post slashed the figure to 1,500,000 citing new findings by the Auschwitz Museum officials. In fact, the figure of 4,000,000 was later repudiated by the Auschwitz museum officials in 1990 (see below) but the figure of 1,500,000 victims was not formally announced by Polish President Lech Walesa until five years after the Auschwitz historians had first announced their discovery. ”
Citations to other newspaper articles are there, which should make searching easier.
But note the cited source — Barnes Review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Review
This isn’t history any more — it’s passed into legend and mythology, which means it can’t be verified, and accurate figures were likely never ascertained. Try to get accurate figures for mass deaths in even the current wars, and all the lies we hear now from politicians, news, and other sources.
I’ve also seen articles like this https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?t=6017
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“So I went to nafcash.com and I ran into this quote at the bottom:
“Jewish prophecies in the Torah require that 6 million Jews must ‘vanish’ before the state of Israel can be formed. ‘You shall return minus 6 million.’ That’s why Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, declared that the ‘sacred 6 million’ is an attempt to transform the holocaust story into state religion… Those six million, according to prophecy, had to disappear in ‘burning ovens,’ which the judicial version of the holocaust now authenticates… ‘Without the Holocaust, there would be no Jewish State.’”
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You can probably find about any figure you want, from somewhere. And spend years doing research. What can we read about even Russian hacking, with all the political agendas?
But what’s the point? And, after all, just about everyone from that time is dead by now anyway, many dying from some sort imperialist, financial, or political horror or after effects, and none of them in a position to be rewarded or punished now.
It isn’t the numbers, but the process, the foolishness, and erroneous beliefs and ideologies, and if we can stop this sort of deadly nonsense.
Here are my thoughts to add to the Isis/Osirus discussion.
The myth was originally a teaching from the primordial wisdom of humanity which was protected as initiation knowledge in the Ancient mystery temples of Egypt. In the myth Isis and Osirus presided as king and Queen over a Golden Age in a prehistoric age of humanity. They spread a culture of productive commerce and prosperity across a large region of the earth. Osirus’ jealous brother Seth Typhoon tricked Osirus into entering a golden coffin. Typhoon threw the coffin into the river Nile. When the body was found down stream it was torn into 14 pieces and distributed through various temples of Egypt. Isis lovingly gathered the 14 pieces of Osirus dismembered body. The spirit of Osirus then hovered over her so she could give birth to a son- Horus. In Egypt Horus was the name for an initiate or spiritual adept.
In the Golden age of consciousness the male/spiritual and the feminine/soul elements were in harmony with the wisdom filled cosmos. A cycle of time arose (sometimes called kali yuga) where humanity descended from this condition of divine harmony and into a denser material state of consciousness. This was a painful separation of the soul from the solar cosmos and a plunging into the realms of less refined forces and chaotic elements of matter- the Typhoon element. The spirit could not abide these dense conditions and was dismembered and disseminated throughout the world.
The soul (feminine aspect) now lives in the denser nature of earth in a denser bodily garment. The central nervous system and brain became organs for perceiving in this earthly realm. The brain is a lunar organ that reflects the impressions of our senses and nervous system so we can inwardly form ideas and concepts based on our outer perceptions. In Vedic astrology there are 28 lunar mansions which have a correspondence with the 28 vertebrae of the human spinal column. In the story the soul (Isis), is trying to reconstruct Osirus, or the forsaken spiritual consciousness, and give birth to a new consciousness uniting the soul and spirit here in this denser earthly plane.
The human nervous system and brain are stimulated by the lunar phases through the activity of the spinal fluid rising like sap from new moon to full moon. The lunar rhythms work as much on our consciousness as it does on ovulation and the growth of the embryo and the germination of seeds and plant growth.
Isis- the divine human soul- is the primal chalice or gathering force that continues to unite the creative forces of spirit- Osirus with creation. This chalice is depicted as the bull horns of Isis’ headdress. Through integrating the spiritual element into the earthly life the soul gives birth to a new state of consciousness – the son Horus.
It is wonderful to look at this story in relationship to the Christmas story and see the evolution of it into a new form.
k
Very interesting and captivating thoughts about the spirit of Osiris. Thanks a lot for sharing your views. After a short walk tonight, I saw the Orion and let my thoughts to travel to Egypt and associate the stars with the pyramids.
Kinterra, I second that motion. And emotion, from ioan.
Nice details!
Reading from From Light Into Darkness about ancient Egypt right now. Kinterra’s contribution resonates. “Light” is said to have been the level of consciousness “before the Flood” 9500 BC.
Changing the subject to the present, the alternating light and darkness is getting like a late 60s light show:
/the-real-significance-of-the-odni-report-on-russias-election-election-interfering/#comment-310769
My comment about a new load of Tanks sent near Russia’s borders to “reassure our NATO allies in Europe.”
Dr Strangelove was 1964. I watched it for the first time 52 years later, yesterday.
Synchro-psychosis?
Quote from Business Insider article on Larry Page, inventor and currently CEO of Google:
Page has, over the years, come up with a broad definition for what Google search should be.
In 2012, he told a reporter that “the perfect search engine would understand whatever your need is. It would understand everything in the world deeply [and] give you back kind of exactly what you need.”
During a keynote at a Google conference in 2013, Page said that in the long term – “you know, 50 years from now or something” – he hopes Google’s software will be able to “understand what you’re knowledgeable about, what you’re not, and how to organize the world so that the world can solve important problems.”
So, in Page’s vision, if you walk into your house and feel cold, your Google-powered wristwatch will be performing a search to understand that feeling. The search result will be for your Google-powered thermostat to turn up the heat.
Likewise, if you run out of milk and your Google-powered fridge notifies your Google-powered self-driving car to go collect some more from the Google-powered robots at the local grocery warehouse (no doubt paying with your Google wallet), it will all be a function of search.
The key to understanding the diversity of Google’s moonshots is understanding that Page’s vision of “perfect search” only works if all the products you interact with are compatible with one another.
For example, Google’s most advanced search product today, Google Now, is able to do things like alert Android users that they need to leave now if they are going to beat traffic and make a flight on time. But it can only do that because it has access to the Android users’ inboxes, Google Maps, Google Flight Search, Google Calendar, and, of course, the users’ smartphones.
So while it may seem random for Google to get into businesses as diverse as cars, thermostats, robotics, and TV production, there is an overriding objective behind it all: Page is envisioning a world where everything we touch is connected with and understood by an artificially intelligent computer that can discern patterns from our activity and learn to anticipate our needs before we even know we have them. Someday, Page has said several times, this AI will be hooked directly to our brains – perhaps through an implant.
Some of these ideas would scare people if Page were better at talking about them. He is, after all, directing billions of dollars every year toward making them a reality as quickly as possible. He’s said several times that Google should be employing 1 million engineers. With all of Google’s money, that’s actually possible.
The good news for the world is that Page’s goal of developing a pervasively connected AI that understands and provides for our every need is not about taking advantage of us.
He is, at heart, a passionate utopian – one who believes that technology has overwhelmingly made life better for humans and will only continue to do so.
In a question-and-answer session at a Google conference in 2013, Page told attendees that in the future, people would look back on how humans lived their lives today the same way we look back on our ancestors who spent all their time hunting and farming, as “crazy.”
This leads me to suspect Page is likely autistic and completely incapable of understanding individual differences, much less motivations.
Someone should send him the memo: ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’
Meanwhile, Google search is configured for more mundane matters – like controlling the political narrative via page-rankings.
So much for individual ’empowerment.’
He thinks google should be a mommy or nanny?
That’s what I hate about google: it doesn’t have a clue what I am looking for, and is incapable of understanding my thinking or actions — and neither does Page, in his arrogance.
What would Google make of this? Complete lies -fake news? Treasonous heresy? Pragmatic solutions to global issues? Satire mixed with truth? Geopolitical/Foreign Affairs starter package for the Trumpster?
How nuanced or neutral could Google ever be -or want to be?
Enjoy, if you have not seen it already.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2017/01/how-to-make-america-great-again-with.html#more
I disagree.
Google has a purpose – a political one.
It ‘guides’ you to ‘results’ that almost perfectly mimic MSM, so deliberately sabotaging your ‘dissent’.
I discovered this while researching gay ‘marriage’ – I was led to an almost uniform consensus, and was forced to use negative terms in the search before I found anything resembling an argument. And then, a very limited selection.
Google Truth says it all – your worldview is to be decided by it. It is the latest tool to manufacture consensus, not to facilitate the individual sense of inquiry.
If Page was serious about ‘perfect search’ he would be vocally opposing censorship of text, not aiding and abetting it.
‘Monmy and Daddy’?
More like Big Brother.
You’re right — it’s an instrument of indoctrination. Sadly, the other search engines have some reliance on google and respond with limited results too. Often the only way I can get results I need are by skimming some of the article hit and dancing around among the links found there, and maybe not even then. Research is much harder, in some fundamental ways, on the internet than only a few years ago, and not straightforward.
(Did you see the research on google’s ‘suggestions’ (which I never use) favored Clinton?
(Did you see the research on google’s ‘suggestions’ (which I never use) favored Clinton?
Yes.
And the rankings were all MSM.
Google makes its main profits from advertising so it is always going to toe the corporate line.
The technocrats want to form an elite ( especially the Microsoft ones) which will be a future technocratic priesthood which will save us from ourselves without our uninformed input, of course. Their memes derive from the scientific methodology which informs their world view.
They love the 1% whom they serve as some of them long to belong to it. And are convinced of their moral ( as well as intellectual) superiority.
The ones I have met follow the party ( Democratic) line and are rank globalists in disguise. They forget that the rain ( even the radioactive rain) falls on the just and unjust alike and those also serve who only stand and wait.
But what do I know? I prefer bad poetry to elitist bad science –that last phrase is an oxymoron in their schema. Well, off to the cafe to pen a poetic diatribe.
“This leads me to suspect Page is likely autistic and completely incapable of understanding individual differences, much less motivations.
Someone should send him the memo: ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’
Meanwhile, Google search is configured for more mundane matters – like controlling the political narrative via page-rankings.
So much for individual ’empowerment.’”
The autism connection is interesting. I’ve wondered if there was a degree of autism/aspergers in many of the parasites that run things for the zpc/nwo, along with those psychopathic oligarchs, themselves. Perhaps also a factor in shaping the mental processes of the fascist and supremacist in general. Their self obsessions and lack of empathy mirrors in a macro way what I’ve seen in autistic/aspergers on an individual level.
This page is no good intended soul. He is about as duplitious as it gets. He frames these things as google being a service to the individual, but in reality, the intent is the reverse. Google being automatic baby sitter, prison guard and counseler all in one, making sure the individual is a herd animal with a hive mind. In other words, no longer an individual at all.
Incidentally, this control aspect is also behind the hysterical zionazi attempt to shut down all independence in media (almost a done deal now, with the corruption of most broadcast and print media to now carry right wing views and call it left, particularly focusing on promoting a Zionist angle), and limit access to the web to zionazi/nazi approved material.
This crusade against Russian media is really an attempt to shut down all independent voices. Much the same as the zionazi/fascist/nazi/capitalist crusade against the left has always been. The capitalist oligarchs are defending their “royal status”, much the same as they always have, against the people whom they are exploiting.
Vot Tak – you might be interested in this:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/amp/?client=safari
I couldn’t read it — just a few lines and then I got a pop-up — something about an ad blocker. I just won’t go to Wired any more.
OK — found out the ad blocker I had turned off turned itself on again, so I turned it off again. Then I got a pop-up about subscribing or something and I still couldn’t read it. Wired really does not want you to read their stuff — so I won’t.
After watching the CIA do their public Chaotically Invented Allegations, I just had to unleash my bilious feelings or risk liver failure….So of you all I beg forbearance.
Blah, Blah Blather
” Russians cheated, they lied, they fixed the game! ”
(so cry me a river, and sing a sad song)
You sling onto Victory this disputable stain:
” Ruskies love you so that’s proof you are wrong!”
Victimizer plays victim writhing most piteous
Forgetting, in truth , we no longer are idiots
We see your sick game, you’ve played it before
We’ll not be fooled, now that we know the score
stock manikins, stage news, and serve yellow cake
Play the race card so that we turn on each other
But we know all your tricks and won’t take the bait
To swallow the lies and help Liberty to smother?
No, everything about you is foul and fake
we call on our neighbors, sisters and brothers
we’ll fight for the future-our Freedom’s at stake.
we’d imprison you all, if we had our druthers
Super
Excellent!
Now we only need a good tune a la ‘Swamp Thing’…:-)
teranam13
This is super, excellent, great ! it is one of your best poems, thanks for sharing it with us !
U.S. official in Mexico shot in chest, in stable condition
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-idUSKBN14R0K8
A pity the Russian ambassador was shot not long after Obama’s threats.
wot goes round comes round I guess.
The trough feeders strike back:
Air Force Secretary: No Substitute for F-35
https://sputniknews.com/military/201701081049364745-we-need-f35s-james-days/
What the cow means is that there is a lot of tax dollars going to powerful oligarchs for this obsolete pos.
The reliance upon both the f-22 and f-35 are obvious signs of severe internal rot in the u.s. military. Both are very substandard aircraft, despite the PR, but the programs generate mountains of dough.
The f-22 production was sensibly terminated when it became obvious Su-27 redesigns were already flying circles around it. The f-35 was then marketed as an aircraft that could do anything. The reality is it is a Harrier “Mk 2”, and of very limited operational use.
The americans put everything into these 2 designs since the early 90s. With the USSR neutered, the pindos put their aviation efforts into fighting poorly equipped colonials, rather than fighting off an equal military rival.
James is likely right that an upgraded f-18 will not be an adequate replacement for the failed f-22 – f-35 combo, since it is obsolete itself. The problem is the u.s. decided on the f-22/f-35 programmes back in the 90s, come rain or shine, and didn’t adequately put the effort into alternate/new designs. It will take years to create new designs and get them in production, meanwhile, the u.s. has all these wars for israel to fight and the world to redominate for the zpc/nwo oligarchy.
Bleak times ahead for american air crews if israel gets their way…
‘Dumbest Fighter Program Ever Conceived’: Why Trump Should Cancel F-35
https://sputniknews.com/military/201701081049374598-f35-fighter-trump/
“The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program “showcases all that is wrong about our military’s vendor-dominated, crony-capitalist procurement system,” he said. “Unless dealt with decisively, its massive cost and its lack of capability will have a dramatically negative impact on our military’s effectiveness for decades to come.”
“Because of numerous performance deficiencies and limited weapons capacity, the so-called operationally capable F-35 will need support to locate and avoid threats, acquire targets, and engage enemy aircraft,” the expert explained, citing a memo released by the Office of Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E). “In short, the F-35 – a flying tinderbox – will need to be nursemaided by other aircraft that are actually combat capable.”
It’s an amusement…the arena remains as before, primed and unstable.
MacKinder and Jevons drinking with Marx and Stalin, looking down through the table, laughing, while Truman tends the bar in servile and obsequious silence – and look there! It’s Fidel with a cigar and a Cuba Libre. Dean Acheson sits by himself looking glum. They won’t let him see the game on TV… Truman furtively pours the dregs of every drink into a funnel behind the bar…slowly filling the jug he’ll chug down later, by himself, before he goes back to Bess…sort of a parole deal, he stays at the No Exit digs that Sartre runs, when he’s not working… On TV Comrade P is giving an impromptu news conference that’s been going almost 5 hours now… Stalin’s starting to drool… President P has switched to perfect German now… There’s no teleprompter… Acheson starts to cry… He’s run out of rubles again… with a slow-bent shuffle Obama pushes a broad broom, but steps aside when Che and a grinning blond rise and head upstairs. Trotsky’s about finished with the lights on the Christmas tree and, vodka in hand, plugs it in. There’s a big fat red star on top. The jukebox starts loudly playing the International and there are chairs pushed roughly back – Stalin’s falls over with a clatter, and he’s swaying, but everybody’s standing up. Well not Truman – he’s on his knees picking up the shards of a glass he broke. And not Obama – he’s left to get a mop from the closet. When he opens the door we get a glimpse of Bill Clinton buggering G.W. – and Obama goes inside, glances back, door closes. Che winks and deliberately bumps into Acheson’s passed out form.
It’s not over…
BREAKING! Terrorist attack in Jerusalem using a truck which rolled over the pedestrians…the German and France ISIS´ style…..What does this mean/imply?
https://mundo.sputniknews.com/orientemedio/201701081066079057-jerusalen-camion-ataque/
Could this have to do with Netanyahu´s problems inside Israel?
Are we starting to witness the same fight between two factions in the Israeli sfere of power in line of what is happening in the US?
On the other hand, or not so, ISIS has declared in a communiquee that amongst its goals there is the “liberation” of North African Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla….
Could this have anything to do with the menace coming from Israel on retaliation against all those nations who supported the UN resolution against settlements?
Hmmmm……..
Suddenly, a video of the exact moment of the attack appears…
https://mundo.sputniknews.com/orientemedio/201701081066081255-video-momento-exacto-ataque-jerusalen/
Netanyahu points at an ISIS supporter as the perpetrator of the attack…..Hmmm……
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.763673
music makes a rose
red before you
untouchable and pure
between the earth and sky
music makes a rose
from tones celestial
immortal grace
her perfume lingers
between the earth and sky
music makes a rose
petals as red drops
fall upon the snow
peace and blessedness
between the earth and sky
(anon, 12:55, 2017)
Here is my musical offering for your poem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrlZCoaLXE
New Year´s purpose…..make some cleaning in the environment…in search of the obscured wild self….to gain consciousness against darkness and oppression….Perhaps it would be needed for you to go out there in the wild forest on your own to discover…. yourself….It´s time for you…. to stop being the rock which supports other´s weakness at the price of going fading slowly when into the flower of youth….You have no age for that……Time to stop being the light from which others, languishing, nurture themselves :
“Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair”
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/textonly117-baba-yaga-and-vasilisa-the-fair.html
For comrade Tatiana…..You are beautiful…..
Where is that open smile from childhood?
This is me<i
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6oKE47soQ
El sueño de Morfeo – Esta soy yo (music video clip) (Uploaded on Jan 13, 2010)
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Int’l Skeleton Federation Withdraws Suspension of 4 Russian Athletes
https://sputniknews.com/sport/201701081049374805-sketeton-suspencion-russia-athletes/
“The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) on Sunday withdrew the temporary suspension of four Russian skeleton athletes after a hearing.
According to the IBSF, on Monday, the athletes requested hearing concerning the suspension. After the hearing took place on Tuesday, the IBSF has come to a conclusion that the so-called McLaren report did not provide sufficient grounds for further investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) or IBSF and that the suspension was not reasonable.”
In other words, they recognized that the McLaren report was a smear job.
The subjects in the photograph may always have Paris. Do we not all want Paris figuratively as a symbol of our hoped-for past instead of a Casablanca present and foggy airport runway future of unknowns?
So, at midnight uk time on Russia Xmas day, just as TV film man who fell to earth David Bowie reveals he is an alien, my town’s electricity cuts out.Total black, wowed.
O k, I have camping lights if I have batteries which I hunt around to find.I like to listen to music but my grandma’s battery radio doesn’t want to play.Not much juice on mobile phone, unless I recharge it from car so don’t want to listen to music with that as have none downloaded anyways…..not much fuel in car tank do not want to use that up unnecessarily as must collect mrs from work the next day.
Suppose the supermarket’s fuel pumps are cut off for some days, my parents in the big storm had no electricity for 10 days, but I have gas for cooking, analogue phone for emergencies doesn’t need electricity unlike the digital phone ,plus couple old hurricane lamps plus parafin in the garage would last a week.I f it has not evaporated over the years it has been there.
So thinking long term…..how long do batteries from shops hold their charge, do I need to buy rechargeable batteries but how to recharge them during a power cut, maybe go and buy a motor home with generator to live in for a few days, as my house certainly does not have a power system where I can connect a generator.But I would need to keep the battery charged up.H ow to do that in a power cut…………
Of course this is an overreaction to alledged hacking of Vermont power supply(noting twas Ukraine malware which could strike anyone using propornot websites, Turkey complaining usa has hacked into its power supply systems so usa could also be developing cyber hacking software designed to attack anyone watching RT or checking out Sputnik on the www) and an overreaction to McCain and Biden and co saying they have already responded to alledgedly hacking so they have been waiting since being alerted in 2015 by uk spies apparently to try out their own cyber attacks with a “reasonable” excuse possibly but maybe they are badly targeting Assanges internet connections as he has said he is going to do a total grande exposee very soon.I refuse to be as paranoid as Lithuania and usa. Electricity came on at 3.15 am, nan’s radio just needed the battery connection terminals cleaning.M y portable CD player does work after all also, plus old cassette player.
But I might still like the idea of a motorhome a la Denis.You never know? How vulnerable are we each in today’s modern cyber hacking world???
Just a Sunday evening story.N o Count or Lady Or Arthur. I leave that to someone else.
It’s such a rough life that drone pilot’s have:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38506932
“Here’s what the base commander Col Case Cunningham told me: “When they walk through the gate, they’re in a war. Although physically they are at home, mentally they’re at war. So in effect we’re asking them to redeploy every single day, to go back home and be parents and be loved ones – and then come back to war again”.”
“These drone pilots can sit in Nevada and watch a potential target 8,000 miles (12,000km) away for months on end, building up what they call “patterns of life” – building what’s been called a “remote intimacy” with their prey – all in the knowledge that, one day, they may kill them.”
I wonder if they sufffer from reverse Stockholm Syndrome? Coming soon to an airport near you with a gun – the latest ‘veteran’ with mental issues.
Hopperty Skipperty – my beautiful wife (she got run over by a car about 7 weeks ago) – She is doing fine – but still on a zimmerframe and crutches – otherwise A1…
well the the thing is – She really wants to go to Cyprus for a Rock Festival later this year -and I said fine – but unfortunately this complete American Neocon Lunatic Victoria Nuland is there at the moment trying to stoke up a Civil War on January 12th…
To my amazement – she knew all about it – but says it will all be O.K. after Trump gets in on the 20th
She knows more about what’s going on in the world than me.
She has managed to get upstairs now, and so far hasn’t complained about my snoring.
Well we’ve done 35 years together – Cyprus Rocks should be Easy later this year.
She will be dancing long before then. Our next Rock festival is in March.
Tony