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I was doing a bit of research about the situation in Albania today. I was curious about what the plans of Nato where for that country. Because we know that Nato has plans for everyone all of the time so why not study Albania? So, I did a research that looks at the project for a greater Albania. Why not? Well, I found this nice article on that. Nato does not even bother to be creative. Project for greater Israel, project for greater Albania… If it aint broke, why fix it?
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201703021051197755-macedonia-government-albania/
I thought that was interesting. What about drugs and organized crime though? So I googled, Albanian mafia. What are they like? Are they friendly? I found out that even the italian mafia is afraid of those Albanians. Interesting, it looks like it pays to have friends in Nato.
http://swordandscale.com/even-the-mob-avoids-the-albanians/
Seems to me like organ trafficking, prostitution, drugs… well they all seem to play a role in Nato’s human interventions. If I understand correctly, the taxes pay for the wars and the organized crime recycle the money back in the pocket of the deep state. Makes sense.
Another example of this was this Webb guy who made a video discussing ambassador Churkin who was pushing for an investigation in organ trafficking in Serbia. Sadly, he was murdered before any investigation took place. Same story of organ trafficking in Haiti with the Clinton foundation. Seems like a person cannot turn over a rock without finding some clues to the massive corruption happening at this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00hZBJabgLk
In global research, a 2011 article that summarize the whole story.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/kosovo-and-albania-dirty-work-in-the-balkans-nato-s-kla-frankenstein/23003
I am sure I am missing a lot of key facts. I am not an expert in the balkan situation and this is why I brought this discussion to the café.
@TH
in short, Albanians have always been what the Ottoman Turks used to call, Bashibozluk, basically low-life thugs that were used to terrorize the civilian population wherever the Turkish army used to put down an uprising. Their modus operandi in the modern times is working in family clans so that those clans could not be penetrated by any police structures.
Nowadays, they serve the zionazi masters who were smart enough to take into consideration said “qualifications” to break into several “uncooperative” shops in the Balkans, especially us, the Serbs, who have been seen as “little Russians” since the times of Benjamin D’israeli, and therefore, dangerous to the “interests of the gallant Europeans,” and, thus, all means to fight the “danger” are still allowed – including “Greater Albania.”
@ Sokenekos
I appreciate your explanation of the term Bashibosook, I heard it a lot growing up and watching Tintin, never quite knew what it meant. To go back to your explanation about why Serbia is under attack, my comment was aimed at showing how the whole planet is under attack.
What I mean is that the globalists do not care about Albania or Russia. They want profit. So, when I read: I will fight to defend Russia! I wonder how long it will take everyone to realize that it does not work like that. The bad guys are all around Putin, you cant fight them with guns. You would have to kill Putin to get to the globalists.
The trick is not to pick sides. Americans are victims as well after all. Look at them drinking pepsi and eating at Mc Donalds. It is killing them. Corporate america is up 24 hours a day trying to find new ways to kill its customers and send the jobs elsewhere. Everyone knows it. It is not Russia’s fault but people need to take the red pill. Corporate empire rule is all about divide and conquer. No more, I say.
I have a question about Dugin, in the West a lot is made of this guy and Vladimir Putins policies. I’ve not yet read Fundamentals of Geopolitics- the book that Russia’s leadership are supposed to hold close to their hearts but suspect it’s not as we are led to believe. My question is this… is are the thoughts and ideas of Alexander Dugin really very influential among Russias leadership or the “Collective Putin”, or is it just an assertion based on Dugin looking a bit like Rasputin and being some kind of fascist (I am told) and thus suitably scary.
Any thoughts about this appreciated.
Dugin is not a fascist, and anyone who says he is, is either simply ignorant or is insulting the intelligence of their audience. If you are wondering about Dugin being a fascist, then you might need weeks of months of intellectual travel before you will be ready to see the real landscape.
Dugin is not even a little bit close to fascism.
Dugin, is an anti-liberal (see below), and he’s also pro-Russia, favors Christian Orthodoxy, and geopolitics (Mackinder, rimland, heartland) has a central role for him. His thinking is definitely complex. He describes his ideas as “Fourth Political Theory”, and right there is what frames both my doubts and hopes about him. His count of “liberal democracy, Marxism and fascism” as the three previous political theories, is obviously inadequate and to package his ideas as the 4th theory is, to be generous, awkward. But Dugin seems to have a less-important problem, which is summarizing and popularizing his ideas. If you listen to a few of his English-language interviews, you may see what I’m talking about. Dugin puts enough things together in ways that are not superficial or obviously incorrect. He’s considering relevant issues and not creating word salads. In short, he’s interesting and sometimes worth reading but I often find other intellectuals more useful. Having said that about the man, I find his site, katehon.com is very informative and I check it out every day.
I’ve been paying attention to Dugin for about two years now. Back when fort-russ.com started carrying a link to Katehon.com, I was very unimpressed, but either Katehon improved greatly over a couple of months or else my appreciation got better. I never figured out which changed, but I think it was Katehon, not me.
Katehon.com has some of the most relevant and moderately deep essays, and in English. So Dugin certainly attracts high-quality writers, although 2 or 3 don’t match the level of the others.
Dugin is an anti-liberal and that’s his most concise description. But you need to know that liberal has two completely different meanings. Americans were misinformed that liberal is the opposite of conservative, a trick thought up by Democrat Party hacks around 1930, to twist peoples’ understandings. But the earlier version is the only one that means anything. Europeans have used the word “liberal” since the French Revolution. The meaning evolved in small ways, but it always meant pro-capitalism, pro-modernism, pro-big business, anti-religion, anti-nationalism, and favoring equity over equality. Equity is a slick and phony substitute for equality so that grievous inequality is not rooted out by angry mobs armed with pitchforks. Equity is the fraud that all men have the same rights to participate in capitalist markets and grab what’s available. Over the last 200 years, as the enemies of Capital were demolished and the underbrush was stripped out, it became clear that Liberal means nothing more than pro-Bank and anti-human. Capitalism and Liberalism have failed as a value system, as a financial system, as a way to organize personal lives, and as a way to organize the world. As a result, the whole world is now quickly searching for alternatives and hoping to find them before the systems come crashing down.
So if one crosses off the accumulation of money as the greatest good, what are we left with ? Well, a great, great many possibilities. There is a great abundance of anti-liberal ideas of how to organize the world, and what values are worth living for. Many – even most of the anti-liberal ideas – are not compatible with each other. Three states are living anti-liberal examples. The theocratic state of Iran offers one anti-liberal system and the theocratic state of Israel is another, very different anti-liberalism. Cuban communism is yet a third anti-liberal system. It is correct to say that fascism and nationalism are anti-liberal, but one should not conflate fascism and nationalism. Anti-liberalism is a huge subject.
Dugin is claimed by some on the alt-Right. His English-language books are published by Arktos Media Ltd. in Sweden (arktos.com). Relevant synonyms are traditionalists, conservatives (but here too as with liberal, it’s not as one end of the phony liberal-conservative polarity), etc.
I hope this helps. I don’t know of any concise introduction to anti-liberalism. If anyone does know of a good introduction, please let us know.
Very interesting. With a very sensible ‘nose’ years ago
someday I aquired the idea, a bird to be able to fly needs
a left and a right wing. With this basic image I found
myself immune in the growing anti-right propaganda of
the liberal since 2008
their trick: right = fascist.
This made Europe completely ready for
70 years of American washing of West European brains.
Now I’m hoping for the “good yews” against the bad Yews
in this revelation
guiding us within the polarities
in a way
humble enough for our
and the other species
Thank you for this considered reply. I will look more into katehon.com. I agree that there’s more to life than the Liberty of Capital, I think the term “Liberalism” would be better understood if one always adds “of Capital”, I myself support concepts that are not based on the Liberty of Capital but rather the Liberty of the Human balanced with our responsibility to each other… I suppose this approach might once have been considered Social Democracy by some. From what I’ve seen of Dugins ideas so far I don’t think I agree with his world views, but I am not satisfied to be manipulated by attempts to demonize, misrepresent or misconstrue. I don’t think Dugin is a fascist but the alt-right seem to like him and that’s cause for concern.
Worrying about the alt-Right ? Some things on the alt-Right stink there, but the left stinks too.
I’ve only found a few alt-Right “things” that are absolutely unacceptable but honestly, I haven’t spent much time on alt-Right sites so I don’t know much there. I do know, from having spent most of my life on the left, that the Left has some really shameful things.
Let me deal with the alt-Right and then with the Left.
alt-Right: Some white nationalists are racist and totally ignorant of history.. Richard Spencer, who runs a major alt-Right site (google it, I don’t know the URL offhand) and whose writings sometimes appear at katehon.com, said of slavery that “White people have nothing to be ashamed of.” Spencer lives in Virginia where history is sill close at hand. It would be idiotic and unfair to apply contemporary standards and thus totally condemn what people commonly did 200 years ago. But when the modern-era beneficiaries of slavery refuse to consider even relatively minor forms of compensation and rehabilitation, and actually work to perpetuate some of the inequalities, that’s where any moral person has to draw the line. So Spencer can take a long walk on the short pier over at Lava Lake.
The second concern about the alt-Right is a that they might lack generosity and humanity. But I lack hard data. The US Libertarians I’ve met, tend to be quite selfish and narcissistic, but they don’t know about the alt-Right, let alone whether they belong to it.
Now consider the stink on the Left. With a few exceptions, all the left stinks. Socialist Workers Party, US Democrat Party, The “Socialist” Parties in Europe, all the “Left” parties in France …all of them support wars. Most of the left is a secret arm sister of capitalism, supporting all the wars of the Empire, because it sold out the working people over a half century ago, and because now it is deep into identity politics which further divides people, the better to control them.
Pro-war left ? Yes! On May 1, 2013, the “Socialist” “Workers” Party published a manifesto signed by 210 supposed leftists, demanding the West make war on Syria. This was at a moment when the attack on Syria was going badly for the West and they had to call in their clowns for what little support these fake lefties could provide. But take the larger view, and throw in all the two-bit “anti-war” “activists” who aren’t very anti-war and whose activism is non-existent. Include the Democrat Party which supported all the wars Obama continued and all the fresh ones he started, because … brown skin, you know. Shit for brains is an understatement.
We could also discuss the stink of the “Left” never doing anything about the economic crisis. The Syriza Party of Greece is only the most obvious complete failure. All the other leftist parties have a longer history and learned to hide and dissemble about their betrayals of working people.
There are a few decent far-left parties, people with integrity offering ideas that are 20-30% of what the world needs, but if I mention these few parties, you might think I’m just shilling for them. So I won’t. Find what you like, from whatever part of the spectrum you like. All I say is be careful because most groups have shadowy agendas (e.g. the Green Party and Agenda 21) and shadowy backstage links to paying globalists.
For now, the Left is so far behind that there isn’t even an alt-Left. Probably we will never be such have an alt-Left because events are moving at an accelerating rate, while the left has simply stopped moving at all.
The real fight is bottom vs . top. All the ideas of Left and Right are like medicines in a pharmacy. Each bottle, each nostrum, serves some specific purpose(s) and always has some side effects. Incorrect diagnosis, incorrect prescription, bad dosages and side effects kill people, but no one is suggesting we get rid of all the various medicines. For example, In “economics”, the Austrian School offers a halfway-correct medicine: No matter the phase of the economic cycle, these birds never want government debt. They are fanatics. When there are few or no opportunities for profitable investment (profitable in that the society thereby increases its ability to repay the debt), the Austrian School is correct actually. But in the 1945-1970 era, the Austrian school was laughed out of existence by the undeniable huge postwar boom that was fueled by debt. So we have to broaden our horizons and not allow narrow-minded idiots impose narrow ideologies.
Personally, I prefer free markets and personal choice, but as Marx explained in 1848, free markets get destroyed over time because capital get concentrated and markets become monopolies. So every enduring free market needs strong government to restrain would-be monopolists, but usually the more-powerful groups manage to corrupt the governments anyway. The idea of a strong government protecting a free market just drives tow-wattage rightists mad. Funny story here. I got booted off a Ron Paul email list because several times I asked – very politely – for one just one, example of a free market that survived for a few centuries without a strong government. No one ever ventured to suggest one. I knew I was walking on egg shells, and I was careful to not offend. It didn’t matter. The email list’s controllers huddled in a secret session and voted to boot me off. They never told me, never gave me a chance to defend myself and the idea of free speech on a forum that supposedly promotes freedom. A friend informed me of the secret vote. I complained to the national Ron Paul organization and they told me they don’t control the local email lists, but I was free – and welcome – to start my own Ron Paul list. The irony is worth a good laugh, but the bottom line is that America has a very weak and nearly brain-dead right wing.
For most of the left-right issues, it’s a question of how we want to live. As citizens, we may benefit from top-down control, even from locally imposed control, but is it worth losing our freedom from control ? Obviously it all depends. All these small decisions add up to what makes a culture, a civilization, and a nation. There is no single right answer, and people at various scales of society must be permitted to make their own decisions, to experiment, to see what works, and for them to run their own lives. There is an echelon of scale, and in this echelon, Nationalism is extraordinarily important because it’s the only scale that is big-enough to successfully stop gangsters, bankers and fiat money printing presses, and is big enough to run a successful money-printing operation.
Nations can cooperate within or outside the UN system, to fight globalism, but the nations must be individually strong and independent, or else the globalists just take over. That’s a vital point where all the nationalists around the world are on the same page.
I hope this adds to the conversation.
Day 48 from coup-coup-landia:
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/trump-picks-hawkish-critic-of-russia-as-nato-ambassador-veering-from-one-extreme-to-the-other/
Note last line–being pro American does not mean ipso facto being anti Russia…. It means being anti international corporate agenda.
Hi T one three
I really like your coup de coup landia posts (cukoo de cukoo landia)- thank-you!
I wrote you and ion and other love poets a poem late in the last cafe. I hope you saw it.
And BTW a few cafes back I responded to another post of yours about the good old usa. I mentioned I was going to S America to check it out. Well, I went, I saw, I liked! In case anyone is interested, there are some tranquil places off the beaten track.
k
Thanks kinterra for your splendid poetry, as well many thanks for T13 and mundo for their poetry and Dennis. Girls, let me sent you thousand kisses with the occasion of Women’s Day, today, one day later. I’ve been very busy these days and my thoughts were elsewhere. Now I try to recover the discussions.
Hey female mysteries,
funny me step by step realizing, a good bulk of Cafe- carers
in my dear neighborhood are women, and the one I plainly sense as a woman
is a man and I myself with a full load of female traits ( ASC Cancer, Moon in Cancer, Sun Pisces, Neptune Virgo) like these funny approaches to the the tricks of projection and reality.
With these femal dominants someone like me certainly likes to be warm and comprising, but since meting a sweet salty/sour Virgo, the male feeles as male feeling can be.
But the heavens give me a home for all of us
Okay I’m coming out to claim my fair share of those kisses ioan- (fooled you bro 93)
And you mundo- could you guess I am a 3x Taurus sun, ASC, mars in conjunction- (sidereal).
I visited the equator last week- now that is a jazzy place.
k
Thousand Kisses
Thousand kisses for you Ladies,
Even if you’re older babies
Thousand flowers for your Souls
Even if you’re newly born
And yet again, some music which reflects my feelings, these days : Indila – Derniere Dance :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zv-2nlUMlw
and with English lyrics : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjD-OBtg3U
@ kinterra..thanks..
mercy descends dispells the dark
And fills the chalice of the heart
To overflowing so that we can share
making other’s burdens easier to bear
and a big hug of gratitude for your being and seeing.
US Marines and Rangers are in Syria to take Raqqa. The SAA is also going to Raqqa. Things could get interesting…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-raqqa-idUSKBN16G1CB
Why the hell is Trump sending more illegal troops to Syria? What is going on?
Here is one answer to the question of ” What Is To Be Done?”
from Wikileaks:
Has WikiLeaks already ‘mined’ all the best stories?
No. WikiLeaks has intentionally not written up hundreds of impactful stories to encourage others to find them and so create expertise in the area for subsequent parts in the series. They’re there. Look. Those who demonstrate journalistic excellence may be considered for early access to future parts.
Won’t other journalists find all the best stories before me?
Unlikely. There are very considerably more stories than there are journalists or academics who are in a position to write them.
Except for comments in Moveable Feast there is no coverage/articles on Wikileaks Vault 7 release.
WHY???
I have been visiting thing site for a while now and post fairly regularly. Enjoy this place but, I have to say, credibility is dropping here since Trump has come into office.
Too many here were too quick to write off Trump in his first few weeks of office and jumping all over any setbacks. The WIkileaks Vault 7 release is a game changer. To put it in Trump’s word, it is HUGE. This can and should be used to reign in the out of control CIA.
And what does Saker have still up?
/the-neocons-and-the-deep-state-have-neutered-the-trump-presidency-its-over-folks/
BS Saker, this is wrong. You’re calling the game in the first 2 minutes of the first quarter. Why? You strike me as a more intelligent analyst than that so, why are you pushing that narrative?
Defeatists are subversion agents (whether intentional or not).
It seems the whole intelligence community just wants this story to fade away because their livilihoods depend on the game whichever side they are on. This garbage needs to be shut down. If this leak does not prove once and for all that the CIA is a reckless group of corrupt traitors spreading turmoil throughout the world without regard for unintended consequences then nothing will.
Wake the hell up people and get outraged and push leaders to action. Notice who the quiet ones are. They are potentially our enemies and, at the very least, they are not good allies.
Saker, you’ve had all week and you haven’t put an article up on Vault 7. That is a fact. If you don’t think this is important to cover here, then I question your judgment on that. I think you know how important this is and you are not covering it for some reason and that is what I find more disconcerting.
This article gets it:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/conflict-within-deep-state-just-broke-open-warfare
One of the most important stories in our lives right now. Our fates will be decided by who wins this.
@ Active patriot: Absolutely, Wikileaks/Snowden are exposing the most important fact ever, but it is far too possible to get the wrong end of the right stick.
There is no snap judgement on Trump, he has spent a lifetime showing any who cared to look how he immaturely thrashes about with little consideration for the negative consequences… because he has always had enough money/power to minimize the negative consequences for himself and maximize them for others.
The likelihood of wealth-bubble-raised Trump and his host of “bomb first, diplomacy only if necessary” generals and revolving door Goldmanite/Wall Street lobby-crats taking down the Rothschild Globalist Project is like poking a lion with twig. If the lion notices and cares about what they’re doing, it will kill and eat them. If the Deep State is still actually following Rothschild orders, it is merely to sow confusion and distraction. And that is definitely going on.
Trump is merely a time-out placeholder while the Rothschilds et. al. figure out how to regain control. Putin, Xi and Iran are not following the game script where Rothschild toady banksters/5th-columnists infiltrate, sabotage and control the economic/political/media systems to the 0.001%’s interests. Worked in “crises” in 1914 and again in 1939, and even in 2001. Worked systemically all over Europe, South/Central America, Middle East, Africa and most of Asia.
The actual “game changer” now is that the Rothschilds et. al. realized they had created an uncontrollable monster in the Rep/Dem Clinton/Bush duopoly dynasties, which threatened to unleash global nuclear war. The Rothschilds are not stupid, and probably value their own lives, if not their lifestyle.
Nuclear war is a “reset” that does no human any good.
So instead of seeing Trump as the world saviour (which he surely is not), look beyond the obvious and see the generational Rothschild game and their new competition in the Soros/Koch/Gates gamers.
There is hope that the 7billion of us can defeat the 0.001% and their 1% minions. But only if we recognize the political/economic/militarist kabuki we are presented with is a snare and an illusion. Trump is the key Weapon Of Mass Distraction figure on the world stage today. Notice Putin and Xi are not getting enmeshed in, or even making much comment on, Trump’s erratic rule-by-Executive Order and staged US-troop media-provocations.
The Rothschilds et. al are extremely vulnerable now, their long list of past “Deep State” machinations revealed, and their desperation at putting Trump in the Oval Office says so (Soros backed and still backs Clinton). The trick for all concerned is to follow on Putin and Xi’s lead to defuse the international debt bomb and nuclear threat, and convincing the Trumpites that more war (direct or proxy, military or economic) is not a good thing. The Rothschilds want to destroy both “sides”, but without causing a global nuclear holocaust. Disaster Capitalism writ large. Soros is too psychopathic to realize he’s playing with nuclear fire.
Besides, no need for Saker to carry Vault 7 releases, they are available on Wikileaks. Plus there are many good journalism sites covering Wikileaks, the facts revealed are pretty much self-explanatory, not much analysis required. But not many of those sites allow comment, so there is little room for the doubt/confusion merchants to ply their trade. And the Deep State noise-makers are here at Saker, for sure.
nice try,
With a lack of widespread public outrage and no political leadership speaking out against this bombshell disclosure of CIA abuse of power the odds of this disclosure reigning in CIA abuse of power is dwindling just like they want it to.
Trump, he’s a billionaire. How far out there does he want to put himself to save a country whose own citizens don’t seem to be that concerned with saving themselves? America has become a nation of apathetic, I would even say pathetic, sheep.
An older article, but one which has additional interesting info on what is really going on with intel – especially interesting on Clapper:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/geopolitics.co/2017/01/16/three-factions-of-the-cia-that-control-the-world/amp/
Eimar,
Thank you for sharing that article.
The suggestions in the article for breaking CIA’s control of America I don’t see happening until the world really ramps up its outrage over the Vault 7 exposure.
Continuing to be disappointed by lack of real coverage of Vault 7 issue here. If anyone is truly interested in changing how the Empire operates around the world, this would be the place to start.
I really hope, your optimism is in good place and I also hope that I will be infected by that, at least the hope dies at last.
The computer geeks under the Yalie Deep Government types are the ones leaking and distributing the Sorcerer’s Apprentice technology being unleashed on the planet… Does the “Hive” swarm? Not yet says Assange, but possibly soon.
coo-coo Land:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/09/age-folly-paul-craig-roberts/
Latest US champion ( and reputed Trump pick) for selling lethal aid to Ukraine is – quel surprise! – a Bush-era adviser, LGBT activist, and avowed Russophobe:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/us/politics/richard-grenell-resigns-from-mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-team.html
Seems he was too toxic for even Romney.
But not for Trump?
For those interested in the Deep State in the USA, & Vault 7, you may find the following interview interesting, where Alex Jones interviews Steve Pieczenik (I consider him a good Jew – from what I’ve heard of him so far). Another good Jew is Dr Sabrosky, but he’s not so vocal, at least not lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75easINqF8
Opposition to Trumpcare
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2017/03/opposition-to-trumpcare.html?m=1
“Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) called the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) “a major step backward in health policy, compounding the problems of uninsurance and underinsurance while handing over hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans,” saying the measure:
“channel(s) billions of taxpayer dollars through wasteful private insurers;”
cuts vitally needed subsidies for low-income households;
ends ACA’s “cost-sharing subsidies for copayments and deductibles, increasing the cost of care for those with chronic medical conditions;”
replaces ACA’s penalty on the uninsured with “cost-sharing subsidies for copayments and deductibles, increasing the cost of care for those with chronic medical conditions;”
beginning in 2020, slashes Medicaid’s expansion and caps spending, “squeez(ing) state Medicaid budgets and pushing millions of enrollees out of the program;”
promotes Health Savings Accounts, mostly benefiting high-income households;
cuts taxes on insurers, drug companies and medical device makers;
cuts them for America’s privileged class.
Trumpcare is more regressive than Obamacare. Single-payer “Medicare for All reform could effectively control costs while creating a right to high-quality health care for everyone in America,” PNHP explained.”
Doctors group: House GOP health plan is a re-branded and far meaner version of the ACA
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2017/march/doctors-group-house-gop-health-plan-is-a-re-branded-and-far-meaner-version-of-the-ac
“The ‘American Health Care Act’ perpetuates the basic structure of the Affordable Care Act, including the subsidization of the private health insurance industry, while cutting benefits to the poor and middle class, and giving hundreds of billions in tax breaks to the rich”
I have been experiencing confusion and discomfort over the basic premise of this vineyard as stated in our masthead:”Stop the Empire’s war on Russia.” This may be of no interest to anyone else so it’s a simple matter for them of skipping over what follows if that’s the case.
I want to stop the war on Russia of course. I do what I can to that end. But I find myself changing that objective to stopping war itself. For me there is apparently a problem with limiting the cessation of war to Russia. That is what I want to investigate since it may explain the resistance from within myself and from this community.
Is it fair for me to change what has been accepted as our given purpose and to arbitrarily express a modified idea here frequently and with force, particularly when it challenges the ideas and practices of others and causes them to push back?
Broadening the scope of stopping the war on Russia to stopping war as such allows for the introduction of a different set of ideas and values which accesses an alternative structural paradigm. The operative method of stopping war on Russia is reliance on information which is said to be 85% of the effort. The assumption is that if enough people understand the truth about Russia it will stop or at least reduce the military and financial threats to Russian sovereignty.
That sounds plausible but if the Empire’s war on the rest of the world is successful would that not reduce Russia to an encircled war state anyway? Limiting the stopping of war to Russia may prove to be ineffective. If so this broadens the project to the world.
I question whether knowledge and information is as effective as claimed. Just because a person knows better does not mean he or she will do better. There are forces at work that prove themselves more powerful than knowledge even if based on accurate information. History is clear on this point.
Where we place the borders of the anti-war strategy is important when it comes to causes of war. If we limit the discussion to Russia we focus on a particular national character, resources, size, situation, history and the like which may not apply elsewhere with the result that it goes unexamined in places other than Russia.
Like a disease war is contagious and spreads if not resisted by an opposing agent. Since war is so prevalent it appears that we do not know what causes it or we do not care to act upon what we know, or both together. We seem to be caught in a circle which prevents what we want.
When it appears we have no exit we can challenge that assumption as false. We can always do something else. I think that accounts for what I started this conversation with when I made note of changing stopping war on Russia to stopping war period. When all else fails do something different.
It may be objected that stopping war on Russia through information primarily and sharing emotions through relationships, music, visual art and other positive qualities of civilization is in fact working. The current empire is in decline and we may soon enter into a detente of a multi-polar balance of power.
Whether such a view is delusion or reality can only be proven in the eventual outcome which we do not know now. The conditions that allowed war to arise in the first instance will still be in place, primarily in the corruption of humans. Thus we come to the same impasse as before with the same prescription of doing something different. But what?
Well, anything really as long as it’s not some kind of covert war. Could be as small as a wispy thought or large as an impossible dream. Life is change after all. One change leads to another in a delightful dance if we can get into the swing of things.
The exciting and rewarding feeling is that I am actually stopping war whether in the restricted sense of Russia or the extended application to the whole world; or I am “strengthening the things that remain” by not relapsing. That’s why this vineyard motto of stopping war is such a potential threat to the empire.
Imagine millions of people feeling that they personally are stopping war by what they do. It goes without saying that each person serves the cause best when he or she diagnoses the cause of war and applies the cure in their own terms. I can learn and borrow from others but it won’t be genuine unless I feel it myself.
To further strengthen my idea I can share it in a public forum like this. Whether it receives acceptance, rejection or indifference is not the determining factor in whether it is true or effective. That would be to fall into the trap of reverse solipsism: giving up my sovereign freedom to the group. In medio stat virtus is the rule in the interaction between an individual and a collective.
In this way negative war can be turned into virtue which means power. A turbine spins on its axis producing energy. Why would not this work in the human pysche. I see no reason why it would not. Everything I know whirls and spins at some level. I can spin the war question to my liking.
We have a human dynamo at our service. It’s a science (knowledge) which uptight and over-controlled techno-science has yet to catch up with. We’ll know we have it down when the truth of it strikes home and we say: “Eureka, it works.”
I’m not sure what I’m doing with this writing. It might be somewhere between a rant and a cant. I choose to call it a chant. See what I mean by spinning perception to my liking while honoring an objective framework?
In my world of love and war, all spins around love with my relationship to war being the litmus test of how genuine my love is. Love to all in this war weary world. Energy follow information. The thought of love produces the energy of that thought.
Love, love and more love.
Maybe it is more of a jaunt and a haunt but it is all good, Dennis.
@ Dennis Leary
Good to see the other – real, pragmatic, down-to-earth – Dennis at work and, hopefully, leading the Café pack to the front against the parasitic globalist germ infecting the human race. Yes, the war is not only against Russia but against the whole humanity and its aspirations for a decent, fair and just world for all.
Russia just happens to be the biggest snag on the globalist march towards full spectrum dominance and is occupying its traditional place in the order of things as the immovable object barring the way to tyranny. The Swedes were the first to try continental ambitions, then Napoleon at the head of a pan-European army also came to grief, followed by the fascist onslaught egged on by imperial capitalism to demolish at birth a social system based on the basic human values of justice, equality, solidarity, co-operation and dignity.
They all failed in the field of battle against Russia; but, by guile and treachery, they brought Russia down to its knees and looted much of its wealth and lands. The cabal in charge of imperial capitalism was in no mood to share with the Russian nouveau-riche the spoils of global depredations (after all Russia had been conquered by the Harvard economists and brought to the capitalist fold to be ransacked as a colony not as a partner in theft and crime) and a meek resistance to further humiliation ensued out of spite and scorn.
Russia is only a chapter in the grand project for global theft unhindered by laws, morality and respect for peoples and countries. But it is a vital chapter and its denouement will dictate the epilogue to the story of human development to a higher stage of civilization or to its destruction to satisfy misanthropic greed.
Our choice is stark, brutal and pitiless: either defeat the forces of evil capitalism now or condemn the next generation(s) to a dreary and nasty end. Because the logic of capitalism is endless exploitation of resources (people and nature) for the benefit of the masters of the universe and those resources are finite.
Agreed
Nice dialogue!
Dennis, it’s a war of consciousness? Will it be driven down through fear or elevated through the TRIUNE nature of love: 1. Care 2 Courage 3 Will………………..all three make it potent. Which does have a certain practical relevance to your favorite 11 letter theme.
Excellent summary by Anonymous at 8:56 am.
And Active Patriot is right. I have written on vault 7 but someone wanted to change the subject because Alex Jones doesn’t do everything right. Tell me something I don’t already know!
That (Vault 7) is the immediate flank for putting fear into the hearts of the fear mongers, and allowing LOVE, higher consciousness to rise a little more every day. For their own good, if you love them (the secondary psychopaths….the primary ones?? nothing but the invention of an implantable “driver” to activate their right brains will work with them….meanwhile stop them from destroying love in others) the consciousness war must be fought. For love itself. And it does not have to come down to bullets and killing. Although, in some instances, the primary psychopaths do force that condition.
Very busy with work for the next few days,
But there’s always a little time for Cafes
Being busy with decent work
Is much better than with fork
Running on the streets
At your age of over six
I mean centuries, of course
Riding on the back of horse
With the Bible in one hand
And the fork, to understand.
War is a male pastime. Males have run the planet since the Late Bronze Age. Without an equal female voice in world affairs it will never change. The challenge of the future will be to equalize the decision making process prior to humanities collapse.
Yes, violence is male based mostly but there was a native American tribe in which the women had to OK every war that the men proposed. After all women pay the price of resources destroyed whether there is a “win” or not and men (their children, brothers, husbands, fathers lost). There had to be compelling reasons.
I think it was the Algonquins from the North Eastern region of the colonial states.
Also, women are the “spoils” or “prizes” of a male war. Women are to be raped and then relocated to the homes/territory of the victorious side.
So you are saying the world needs more Golda Meirs, more Maggie Thatchers, more Chandrika Kumaratungas, more Yulia Timoshenkos, and more Dalia Grybauskaitės ? Really ? Are you kidding us ?
Am I aiming too high ? Let’s take it down to foreign ministers, where women are said to be better because … better people skills. Do you really want more Federica Mogherinis and Catherine Ashtons, or more Tzipi Livnis ??? Hilary Clinton proved females can be psychopaths, too, with her infamous televised comment about Ghadaffi: “We came, we saw, he died ! Hahahahaha !!!!” Or, another infamous US Secretary of State, the ultra-ultra-compassionate Madeline Albright who said on TV that the deaths of a half million Iraqi women and children “was worth it.” Here’s Albright’s ticket to hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4
We haven’t had a lot of women running things, but of the few we’ve had, past and present, enough were so very seriously rotten that it destroys the theory that possession of a vagina is any indicator of better leaders. Your pro-woman prejudice is as counterfactual as any pro-male prejudice. In the real world, where a woman seeking high office is unusual, the few who do rise to the top can be worse, more psychopathic and more detached from simple humanity than the average power-hungry male. In a different and better world that wouldn’t be true, but that’s not the world we have.
Instead, let me offer a better idea, less divisive of the human race, more bottom-up. Let’s just pick our leaders more-or-less at random off the street, without considering their crotches. The world would probably be better off. Of course, the notion of picking leaders at random, describes yet one more world we also do not live in.
Very pertinent view, I tend to agree with hat. Men or women, when somebody is bad, is in the same way bad.
I have fallen in love with what is probably the most interesting leap into serial television programs made in Germany: Deutschland 83.
The show is set in the 1980s during the Cold War and follows young Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) from the German Democratic Republic who becomes a spy for the East German intelligence agency ‘Stasi’ in the city of Bonn, where he takes over the identity of West German Bundeswehr soldier Moritz Stamm at a military base to steal NATO secrets.
The show manages to shape a believable setting using original props from the 80s as well as original TV sound bites, also an authentic soundtrack that features iconic songs from the 1980s from international artists.
Since there is no official soundtrack released. But here is a preview of theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIlUj9J3quM
So much of what happened back then is being replicated now.
I suspect Putin is going to make an appearance in a future episode. Expect the usual caricature of the boorish ill-cladded KGB agent blundering from cockups to crack-ups!
Gen Votel ( deep State General head of Centcom) and the Israelis claim that there is and was no cooperation with the Russians re: Manbij just “communication”.
Dream on about a joint effort around the battle for Raqqa…
https://www.rt.com/usa/380050-russia-isis-generals-senate/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation
The usual caution for new readers of the Saker to take this site with a huuugh grain of salt:
http://www.debka.com/article/25953/US-armored-column-at-Manbij-to-block-Russians
Looks like the real fascists are the Turks and not the Germans–didn’t someone from the Grey Wolves execute the captured Russian pilot on the ground after the CIA agent Turkish pilot shot him down?
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/not-very-diplomatic-turkish-foreign.html
PETA Accused of Turning Shelter into Slaughterhouse
https://sputniknews.com/us/201703101051427498-peta-accused-of-slaughtering-animals/
“Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is being accused of hypocrisy as an industry non-profit group has accused the organization of turning one of their locations into a “slaughterhouse.”
In the past, PETA has been criticized for a high euthanasia rate, which reportedly stands at 80 percent.
Animal shelter reform advocate Nathan Winograd accused PETA of profiteering from euthanasia, writing in a January 2015 Facebook post, “How much money did PETA take in last year from unsuspecting donors who helped pay for this mass carnage? $51,933,001: $50,449,023 in contributions, $627,336 in merchandise sales, and $856,642 in interest and dividends. They finished the year with $4,551,786 more in the bank than they started, after expenses. They did not see fit to use some of that to comprehensively promote animals for adoption or to provide veterinary care for the animals who needed it.”
CCF’s research director Will Coggin told Fox News that he wants to expose what he claims is PETA’s duplicitous and fraudulent public image as animal rights activists. Coggin said, “PETA’s disregard for the lives of animals is disgraceful,” and that, “It would be better if PETA never even touched the animals, that way [the animals] might actually have a chance at life,” he said. “PETA holds itself out as a savior, but it is really just a Grim Reaper.”
CCF claims that PETA killed 1,411 cats and dogs last year, and that overall the organization kills nearly 72 percent of the animals in their care.
In 2015 Virginia State Sen. William M. Stanley Jr., called PETA “a way station of death, and it’s a shame.”
Some further background info:
Virginia Law Could Force PETA to Close Kill Shelter
https://sputniknews.com/us/201502251018743094/
“Last fall, a Virginia family claimed that two representatives from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals showed up at his house, kidnapped his daughter’s Chihuahua, and then killed the dog without explanation.
“Both individuals were working on behalf of the PETA Community Assistance Program when the theft occurred,” Accomack County Sheriff Todd Godwin told WAVY TV.
This isn’t the only PETA horror story. Perhaps even more shocking is its policy of euthanizing the vast majority of animals that it shelters. In 2014, the organization killed 88% of the 2,626 animals that it took into its Norfolk headquarters shelter.
“I think it’s important the public know that [the PETA facility] is not a private animal shelter that finds forever homes for these animals, but rather puts them down,” Senator Stanley said.
As for himself, Stanley owns three rescue dogs and one cat.”
PETA stole a local homeless man’s dog from him as they considered it abuse for the animal to be without a home. The man and dog were very close, and not only did PETA steal his dog and break his heart, they also left him an insulting and condescending note. They’re dreadful self-righteous fanatics.
A story about the human tragedy: a homeless dog is rescued and given shelter by an affluent animal-rights (supposedly) group. The dog’s companion, a homeless man, has no such “luck” and is left to sleep rough. The old saying (a dog’s life) turned on its head!
I have no opinion here but here is the other side to the argument. Where’s the truth in all this?
” “Who Is Spreading the Misinformation About PETA?
http://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com/
PETAKillsAnimals.com is run by the disingenuously named Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group that’s funded by KFC, Outback Steakhouse, Philip Morris, cattle ranchers, and other enterprises that cruelly kill millions of animals every year, not to end suffering but to turn a profit. The CCF’s clients fear the impact that PETA has made in educating consumers about cruelty to animals in the meat, circus, and experimentation industries and in changing people’s buying habits. That’s why the CCF devotes a tremendous amount of time and money to attempting to mislead caring people and divide the animal-protection movement by deliberately mischaracterizing PETA’s work. Why would people in the animal welfare community choose to disseminate the CCF’s deliberate misinformation—and even build on it? Perhaps because they are not really in the animal welfare community.”
SO
Put “peta euthanizing” into a search engine. It is not just that one group pointing out peta’s animal abuse, but many groups, and they have been exposing this for years now.
I’m a gentle man, but when someone is insulting my dog, I’m the opposite.
We don’t hear much about PETA in our parts and it’s unlikely they would get a good reception.
BTW, for years I have supported and volunteer at a shelter that is most definitely ‘no-kill’.
Empty tables, an empty cafe? Bring on the bands and the dancing and music!
Woman’s Day, one day in 2017, one in the everlasting life of Mother Russia, and one 24 hours of the light and darkness of eternal girlhood.
https://youtu.be/8qQnpNfNAZk
Bravo!
Next act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY
Thank you kinterra, made it’s way!
My wife asked me to convey a sense of the international opinion about the vault7. I’ve found almost nothing so far.
Locally in California, people are seemingly wholly unsurprised. Its like everyone has known for 10 years. Like there was no new information released. Just maybe suspicions confirmed. I’ve only got this sense from dialogue–I’ve found almost no conversations on line.
I’ve had some fun with democrats on her Facebook page, but not that much fun. The responses are weak, preposterous, or my comments end the thread. Its like their world is crashing apart, maybe that they’re finally losing their umbrage for statism.
Could vault7 really be the means to end the ballyhooed Civil War 2.0? In good conscience, no one can defend the machine anymore. No one can really support the rally to oust Trump because what it replaced is now clearly visible as equally bad and maybe worse.
What’s the word in your neighborhood?
I don’t know about the neighborhood but I’ve assumed for well over the last 15 years that anything evil the CIA et al could do, they were doing or were trying to do, and nothing on the computer can be considered secure if it’s ever connected to the internet. I long ago read that Windows was programmed with 5 back doors for the spooks to use. My basic distrust of the government goes back way before that, many decades, and I’ve met a lot of people (from all over the political spectrum) who had the same attitude, and thought it obvious, and it keeps getting worse, and more difficult for people to ignore or excuse.
Russian news etc is propaganda-like a virus…..people who listen need “to be cured’ says USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuDIHsw4b5A
to control free speech…..
Hi JJ, I just wonder on what kind of “cures” is he referring to ? while some real “cure” is available for the speaker. We have to get used (oh, we haven’t ?) to these kind of impertinence which are abundant nowadays.
The only cure I know for such ‘speakers’ is nine grams of lead.
Doubly so for the Khazar fake-jew who served in the OSCE.
If in the reproductive or replicative sense Russian news is like a virus then that is a good thing surely.
News that is far closer to the truth than western regime MSM propaganda and spreads like a virus -just bring it on.
hi people,
fresh and (very) good news:
+++Ukrainian Terrorist Network: Lugansk unveils details in Anashchenko & Givi murders+++
(March 10, 2017 – Fort Russ News – By J. Arnoldski)
Today, March 10th, two significant announcement have come out of Lugansk pertaining to Ukrainian terrorist operations in general and the assassinations of commanders Anashchenko and Givi in particular.
Igor Kornet, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Lugansk People’s Republic, officially stated that the persons (no number is given) involved in the assassination of People’s Militia commander Oleg Anashchenko on February 4th have been arrested on the territory of the LPR. Kornet also confirmed that the suspects were servicemen of the Ukrainian army.
“All of them are servicemen of the special forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who were deployed to Lugansk as part of saboteur-terrorist groups to commit terrorist acts on the orders of the Security Service of Ukraine. They are now being interrogated,” Kornet announced.
The minister added that two weapons and ammunition caches, plus an explosive device, were uncovered by police during the investigation. Kornet stressed the significance of this discovery: “This stock and the type of weapons and equipment therein prove that the terrorist act committed by those now arrested is far from the only act of intimidation planned by Ukrainian special forces on the territory of the free republics.”
Kornet’s statement on the Anashchenko case was immediately followed by a press statement of the LPR’s Minister of State Security, Leonid Pasechnik. According to Pasechnik, the ministry has discovered a special department within the Security Service of Ukraine, headed by Colonel Anatoly Sandursky, codenamed “Hutor”, which directly engages in organizing sabotage and terrorist activities in the people’s republics and the Russian Federation.
According to Pasechnik, Givi’s assassins were servicemen of the 8th special forces regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the command of Colonel Oleg Nechaev and the 8th regiment’s intelligence chief, Major Pavel Balov, codenamed “Kedr,” who is stationed in the city of Khmelnitsky in Ukraine. This specific unit is part of the larger terrorist operations division under investigation by Lugansk’s security forces.
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see full article: http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/ukrainian-terrorist-network-lugansk.html
RIP Givi, Motorola, Batman and ALL world’s people, russians, slaves and allies, who fell in the line of duty, against NWO (led by PARASITE CASTE) and for a multipolar world.
hi again people,
fresh and (very) good news (part II):
+++Lugansk Investigation: Ukrainian captive names Motorola’s killer+++
(March 11, 2017 – Fort Russ News – RIA Novosti – translated by J. Arnoldski)
“Heroes don’t die. Arsen Pavlov – Motorola”
One of the saboteurs arrested in the Lugansk People’s Republic has named the killer of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Sparta battalion commander, Arsen Pavlov, widely known by his codename “Motorola.”
This comes on the heels of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of State Security’s report on the arrest of servicemen from Ukraine’s 8th special forces regiment on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of People’s Militia commander Oleg Anashchenko and other terrorist attacks.
Ivan Deev, one of those arrested, confessed in a video clip presented to RIA Novosti by the LPR’s security ministry: “I can also confirm that when I was in Khmelnitsky in the 8th regiment of Ukraine’s special forces, I heard Major Balov, the chief of intelligence, boast that Motorola’s murder was his handiwork.”
According to Deev, Balov once said that he had previously undergone special training for rigging elevator explosives, i.e., the method by which Motorola was assassinated in October 2016.
link: http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/lugansk-investigation-ukrainian-captive.html
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all the best!
It would take 10,000 deaths of these shape-shifting swine to make up for one Motorola. Luckily Fascist Canada has sent more troops, and perhaps mercenaries, to the front lines of Novorossija. Nice of Canada to deliver the ‘goods’ or, in this case, the ‘bads’.
Which makes me wonder, just what kind of assholes enter the Canadian military and why?
Probably they are descendants of Bandera and want to “liberate” Ukraine without knowing that they will be used as soil fertilizers as their forefathers…
Mad Dogs, Smokescreens and Gaslighting: just a day in the life of Cuckoo-landia Day #49
Cuckoo Americanus:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2222352/mediaviewer/rm1149238784
and Gen Votel, of the “lean and hungry look” ( yon Cassius ! latter day) ups the ante in Iraq, then Syria and now Afghanistan. How many does he want? oh, just a “few thousand” and how many does he already have? oh just a “few thousand”. Balony, this man knows down to the last scrap of logistical back up how many men he has and needs to “get the job done”
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/03/09/centcom-commander-expects-more-us-troops-will-be-sent-to-afghanistan/
Would this world render even Kafka speechless?
A world where a toaster can be programmed to maim
a T.V. to stalk
an automobile to kidnap
an oven to kill
while some electronic box called Alexa holds one’s simalcrum? ( and probably is deeded the contents of your bank account upon your demise)
Maybe he would retire to hide in the garden in potato bug fashion.
You made me smile with your sarcasm T13, thanks, and thanks for your wonderful poem in the last cafe, will not be forgotten, none of them will be forgotten, none, even those written by anonymous. May God praise your talents !
I suspect this vineyard is reading my mind and anticipating my every move. It can’t be NSA so it must be the Love Army, a non-sequitur if there ever was one.
The Joan Baez “Diamonds and Rust” song hit home where it hurts and helps. My eighteen year marriage had its diamonds but turned to rust. I made a similar choice as Dylan. I tried to have a long term romantic relationship and at the same time pursue my work to the limit. I have often wondered if I didn’t (in his words) throw it all away. If I had focused more on making the relationship work perhaps my life would have turned out different.
Then that link to the lady dancing, feeling trapped by walls of luxury. “Behind every beautiful face there is some kind of pain.” Call it “hard rain.”
I’m sitting in my sixty square foot outdoor kitchen and office. Some loud-mouthed machine is disturbing the peace. It’s always something isn’t it?
I have long been intrigued by the idea: “The political is the personal and the other way around.” A sequitur if there ever was one.
A few years ago I was running for council in this 8000+ backwater of LA. I went to a gathering of gardeners and gatherers. In the circle meeting I said we should be more into local politics, like getting me elected. A wise woman said back that the political was the personal. I didn’t understand or like what she was talking about. I think now she was referring to gardening.
She was right. I’m all steamed up by political wars but lately my own personal war is getting uncomfortably in my face nasty. My past boot camp training for children is blowing back pretty hard and sometime blowing me down.
“No. No. No. You can’t do that. Do what I say and what your elders and betters say. You’re getting the belt when your dad gets home. Stand up straight. Look me in the eye. Don’t talk back. Do this, do that. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. I don’t know just what– but you’re guilty of something. Go to bed without supper. I wish I never had kids. Don’t lie. Oh, but I love you more than the other kids. You’re my favorite. Go to confession. That’s a mortal sin. You can go to hell forever if you look at dirty pictures. I’m washing your mouth out with soap because you said a dirty word. Don’t disobey your parents…” Yakety-yak.
If I even think about going against my basic training it surfaces in all its gory glory. I have resisted and resisted and resisted thanks to my mind which tells me the training was brainwashing. But that doesn’t abolish its force. It’s always there in the shadows. Sometimes I hate myself for my fears, ignorance, mistakes, cowardice and general unworthiness and then hate myself for the hate.
This is what I’m talking about as a personal war. It gets projected out as political war. And the reverse. Political war gets introjected to join forces with the personal war.
Do I exaggerate? Am I overly dramatic? Do I have nefarious motives? Am I a hypocrite? I don’t truly know. It’s embarrassing to talk like this. There’s a price to pay for resisting the empire within or the empire without.
Philosophy is my get out of jail card. The root energy is Phil and Sophia, man and a woman. In other words Love. For me it’s mainly a mental thing but if I think love enough eventually it breaks down the emotional barriers. The jury is still out but I think it is working.
Jesus She’sus is my main man with his womam anima. For years I was devoted to the Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus. It seems tawdry now but then it was a desperate attempt to find love and it did sow seeds of what I am today. He said: “Only say the word and your soul will be healed.” He didn’t say then what the word was but in other places he did and the word was love. Over and over again.
Traditionally a vineyard is emblematic of love. So is a dove which in our war torn world has morphed into a saker, a stronger bird who can keep the rat population under control. I think the metaphor speaks for itself without going into the rodental details.
Finally, the point is coming into view. Stopping war starts with my own personal war. If I can’t win this one what chance do I have with the bigger one? But if I do win the close one (this one looks so close it’s going into extra innings overtime with the ball going through the hoop as the buzzer sounds, or the Bobby Thompson shot down the line heard around the world–I love to mix metaphors) even though I have to hold my enemy close it opens multiple doors.
As many of the posts say–this is a watershed moment in history. The scale is poised so delicately that a featherweight can make the difference. Perhaps it depends on you. Maybe on me whether we’re heavyweights or featherweights.
The motto here says it all. The short version is two words: “Stop…War…” Jesus sweat blood in the vineyard of Gethsemane while his closest friends slept away the time. They all betrayed him. But at the end at least John and the three Mary’s stayed to the bitter turn crossroad.
When he rose Jesus appeared first to Mary who some say was his lover. She approached a man who she thought was the gardener saying “Sir, can you tell me where they have laid him?” He turned around and said “Mary.” The world has not been the same since that love relationship set fire to it and which died down when Constantine made Christianity into a state religion.
This vineyard is reenacting that love story. On a long ago night under the bright stars and pale moon Mary asked Jesus why he had come. He replied: “I have come to cast fire upon the earth and how restless I am until it be blazing.”
I didn’t think of it before but there’s a fire in the cafe kitchen. “This wheel’s on fire rolling down the road; best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode.” A vineyard phoenix fire bird is rising like Christ from the ashes of the church-state fire-pit.
Love, love and more love.
No, it’s not embarrassing at all, you have chosen your freedom to speak out, to make self-confessions and you are courageous to do that. I can understand your mind, your life experience has put up enough pressure on your inner engines and now you reached a phase in your life, when all has to come to surface. Nothing wrong with that, you have to tell it and you find it here. There are many just like you who would like to share something from their life :
Without a Trace
Disappearing without a trace
In the middle of a bitter race
Melting like the snow in spring
Being beaten, leaving the ring
Kicked out like dog in rain
Barking loudly but in vain…
Looking at the shadows growing
Comes the night, the soul is longing
Where’s the thunder, where’s the hope
Where’s the love and where’s her scope ?
But, it’s silence in the sky,
Not a word, tell me…why ?
Or they are so far away,
Unreachable with our pray ?
Maybe we have too many sins
But we’re not gods, just human beings.
Now, what is left for us in place
Is, disappearing without a trace…
Thanks. I love the poem especially these two lines: “But it’s silence in the sky / Not a word, tell me…why?”
“The Joan Baez “Diamonds and Rust” song hit home where it hurts and helps”
We are so different – but you have it: “hits home”
I like these words and the essence hunched
still blooming since the sixties
and with Henry since the fourties
Christiana Riot/Battle (1857) — a little authentic American spirit.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/
For those of you who think the presidency of D. Trump will mark some type of radical departure from Empire and exceptionalism, take note of his threats against Iran, his unqualified support for the Zionist entity, increase in troops to Iraq, boots on the ground in Syria, and his statement that America should have just taken Iraq’s oil. Then we can include the ramping up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and threats against China
Don’t be fooled!
There is story about iPhone spying technology. I don’t have one, but if I had, I would take it with me in the toilet, after previously eating a good portion of baked beans…what a superb music for the listeners may be. Maybe they would try to find out the message of the “encrypted” sounds…
As we know, a lot of iPhones are produced in China, are they so stupid not to have any idea about that technology ? The same goes with the smart TV sets. Maybe the Chinese are gathering the same information as the other agencies. I wonder how many people thy need to filter all the images and talks in real time, or not so real time. Huge armies on the cyber-battlefield, where the war is going on. What is the price, the costs ? unknown. So, what if it comes an EMP blast ?
Good morning. I hope you are all doing well, at least as well as your circumstances allow.
I feel like Virgil singing about war and the man. His song starts way back. Lucifer made war on God and Michael the Archangel kicked him out of heaven from which he landed on earth. This is the made in heaven version of hell.
I prefer the more earthly and ready to hand version of herstory. Jealous men rebelled against the womam centered love culture (see Putin’s praise of women for international women’s day) and garnered their power by hunting, killing and eating animals; thereafter turning on women and the men who tried to defend the women. And thereafter turning the world upside down value-wise.
I think the facts in our face today support the latter version. What confuses the issue is that womem have become women and now outdo the patriarchs themselves in many cases, Putin’s praise of women notwithstanding.
The Love Army is composed of many brave men who defended women only to be overrun by brutish men who bulked up on blood soaked meat. In this gross realm where minds have been turned to mush physical force rules. But only for a time until the wheel turns. And then comes the weeping and wailing of war-mongers and war-enablers gone mad.
Ah, that is the question. How am I enabling war despite my fine words and impeccable intentions? My defense is ignorance and denial. Claiming ignorance is preferable since denial entails some kind of reason for denial besides rationalization. And oh the shock when I’m told that ignorance is no excuse at all.
By now except in the most ignorant of circles we sense that there is much going on beneath our conscious awareness. It’s scary down there and so we tend to stay on the safer surface. That tactic does nothing to deal with problems but rather covers it over and makes things worse.
Unless we throw out the notion of causality altogether (which we do routinely) war is caused by something and that something is not platitudes such as lack of goodness or godness. No, war is caused by actions that the vast majority of us are doing as a matter of course which is often interpreted as civic virtue.
Something is going on in the darkness which we fear to bring to light. How else explain the persistence of war from Lucifer to the man-made madness of wars today? Yes, it appears we do throw out causality even if our brains grasp the logic.
I’m discovering that it’s rewarding to join forces with the warriors for love from yesteryear. They’re more real than the latest version of reality TV or virtual reality devices for having and eating your cake too.
Sure it takes discipline and a commitment to something other than another rat-race day in Babylon but it’s worth the effort. I can stop war. I can feel proud to be part of a community that has the where-with-all to boldly state its intention of stopping war. Discussion and analysis is a first important step. Treatment depends on an accurate diagnosis, sometimes a differential diagnosis where we discard misleading symptoms.
When true causes are discovered the work begins. We undertake to treat the cause in our case, not someone else’s. “Know thyself” was the dictum of the ages. Now it has devolved into “Know anything but thyself.”
Yesterday I was listening to Stefen Moyneux who is about as good as it gets when it comes to a real man today. He was talking about the terrible damage that day-care does to children. It’s dose dependent in the sense that the more exposure the worse it is.
His general work is to save western civilization which at best seems problematic but probably necessary as a stop-gap measure to prevent universal sharia-law of the shadow leftist globalists. [Sidebar: Scott’s report about Orthodoxy adding Saint Patrick to its liturgical calendar March 30 segues with the Irish monks saving western civilization by copying parchments].
Back to Stefan–war starts with attacks on babies and children in our unnatural and ignorant practices of cultural acceptability not just the horrors of pedogate perversions. There’s a connection between what happens to individual children now and what happened to our species in its childhood.
“Amor virumque cano.” I sing of love and the man. As Johnny Cash sang, “When the man comes in…” things will change. I think that’s why I love the Love Army; it has so many real men from back in the day when when men were men. In our day the first sign of a real man is that he desires to stop war. And to think that is our motto! “Oh, what a lucky man was he” until the tragic war ending.
What a challenge! To stop war. Doesn’t it warm the cockles of your heart even if you’re a woman with an animus within. What could be a better way to live and die? Imagine waking up dead someday and a Love Army rep says “Well done, comrade. You contributed to the victory. Welcome to the Love Bower. God is here too and wants to congratulate you.”
Oh, brothers and sisters in arms. We have weapons of mass construction for a new world held in the arms of love. We are blessed and supported by an Orthodoxy of Love which is not afraid to develop. Witness the inclusion of Saint Patrick in its most sacred calendar. Imagine. Patrick was orthodox. What a mind changer.
You see even the Orthodox higher-ups are reading the Saker or at least Scott. It will take awhile but the good news will soon reach the heterodox. Patriarchy and matriarchy will transform into loverarchy, the ultimate and consummate orthodoxy, the “right-doctrine” of the ages which was “in the beginning, is now and forever shall be.” Do I hear an “ah-womam” or at least an “ah-men?”
Love, love and more love. Joy upon joy.
“In our day the first sign of a real man is that he desires to stop war”
Thank you Denis, you give it to me, hence I’m a man since I was here 1942
and it came into my conscious mind with my great Teacher Hermann Schwarz
when I was 15 and you Denis, you are the literal person, whom I meet in the most intimate
envirement of wisdom near to Henry Miller in his days at Big Shure.
Day 50 in cukoo-landia. Someone must be having fun with this or has waaay too much time on their hands but, really, has humor sunk this low? Perhaps PETA should be alerted so they can physically attack the CUNT so-called religious freedom? Perhaps they can rally SNATCH ( Students Not Attached To Crazy Histrionics) to spirit the lamb away from these monsters.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/student-satanists-announce-lamb-sacrifice-and-bible-burning-at-clemson-u/
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clemson-university-3425
I think they have lost their mind and became blind. Here what Catherine the great said : “If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
This man says it best: what is going on in coup-coup landia is
the process of “summoning the demon” and he elaborates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOr0Xs4UTE
It is going to take a bit more than Love to deal with the results in the USA. Wisdom, a sense of strategy and tactics based on a rallying of compassion. This includes enough defensive measures to put the demons back into the bottle. Call upon Micha-el, fiery Prince of Thought.
Note: great movie on how men and women needs each other: The Snowalker
what a wonderful moment
i’ll do the chart of it
if I only knew from
where the arrow hit
really I like your words
to me the moment I read them
was a moment of peak
resonance to my Venus
in Aquarius aka resonance
to the playing of the
zodiacal Gods
@ teranam 13
Thanks for the link to Stefan Molyneux. I have been listening to him regularly for a couple years. This is truly a cry from the heart and as he says his most important message.
A philosopher follows the maxim: “Bene distinguere, bene discere.” To distinguish well is to learn well. As Stefan shows–reason and passion are distinct powers. Their relationship is determined by circumstance. In the realm of power politics passion is much stronger than reason as is demonstrated with practically all history and current news reports.
In the Middle Ages the Scholastics debated whether knowledge or love is prior. It is critical to get this right because they are not equal. Contrary to Stefan I think love is stronger than knowledge. Of course they both are needed in a reciprocal exchange.
The word philosophy starts with “phil,” meaning the love of friendship followed by “sophia” for wisdom or knowledge.That’s the first clue.
Religion is much stronger than philosophy in the human experience. Again a philosopher distinguishes between the varieties of religion. Stefan said we need to go back through history and even beyond this planet. I agree but he skips over the most important developmental stage; namely, our founding instructions and template.
No wonder since this “philosophy of love” has been washed from our memory by patriarchy. Molyneux dismisses patriarchy repeatedly as a delusion in the minds of feminists. He does not even consider the evidence for historical patriarchy. This in my interpretation is itself delusion driven by emotion.
Religion has been thrown out by modern philosophy. That’s heaving out the baby with the bathwater. Religion in general and Christianity in particular needs to be developed. Life develops or it dies. The force behind life is love which dances in place giving the illusion of life and death.
Religion has this much to recommend it: it is not bound to materiality. I don’t think Stefan believes in an afterlife which may or may not affect his thinking. I do not see how the fact of physical death would not.
I learn much from him but I do not allow myself to be backed into a corner by philosophy. There’s only one man I know of who tentatively proposed a philosophy of love. I was enthusiastic at first but at the very end he pulled a Deus ex machina by resorting to theology. That really turned me off.
To impertinetly play off Saint Paul: there are these three–theology, philosophy and loveology but the greatest of these is love (agape in Greek).
Thanks again for the link. It may appear to be in poor taste to disagree with a man of his stature but in a cafe of freedom I must be honest and true to myself.
I love philosophy. The verb is the mighty action and philosophy is the object. Clue number two.
Sometimes it’s necessary to fight fire with fire, to fight evil passions with the fire of love. If you don’t like the word call it what you will as long as it’s true.
Love, love and more love.
Since so many here keen on “conspiracy theories”, but also on Alex Jones, new age philosophies, I wonder what do you make out of all this I found over there in the net while researching a bit about Wikileaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_163384&feature=iv&src_vid=YHCrZe_yElE&v=dcXHP6rkAgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCrZe_yElE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/should-journalists-be-more-cautious-of-wikileaks-cia-dump/518832/
http://www.alternativenewsnetwork.net/wikileaks-front-cia-mossad/
https://spidercatweb.blog/2016/10/24/ham-byrne-great-white-brotherhood-aka-the-family/
I am especially interested in vot tak´s opinion, since seems to be a really independent commited truth-seeker….
‘Bomb the Sh*t Out Of Them!’ – Trump Drones Yemen More in One Week Than Obama in a Year
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2017/march/09/bomb-the-shstart-out-of-them-trump-drones-yemen-more-in-one-week-than-obama-in-a-year/
“Undeterred by the disastrous commando raid on Yemen in the first days of his Administration, where plenty of civilians were killed but the target got away, President Donald Trump has escalated US military involvement in the tragic Yemen conflict to an unprecedented level. In fact as Foreign Policy reports, the US President has bombed Yemen more in the past week than President Obama (no peacenik) has bombed in a year.
But although the US escalation in Yemen is sold back home as another aggressive front in the war against al-Qaeda, in fact US operations in Yemen are actually helping al-Qaeda as well as its chief sponsor, Saudi Arabia.
The problem is that because his advisors are increasingly drawn from the neocon camp, the advice he is given is filtered through the “noble lie” that the neocons view as the central tenet of their faith. Thus even though the main enemies of al-Qaeda in Yemen are the Houthis, because Trump has been sold the neocon lie that the Houthis are Iranian proxies Trump is droning Yemen back to the stone age to the advantage of al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, who are on the same side.
While it is arguable that the President has authority under the authorization for the use of military force against those attacked us on 9/11 to attack al-Qaeda in Yemen, very few would argue that such authorization extends to actually helping al-Qaeda in Yemen.”
When the canary in the mine dies and the glow-worms are no more you know death is in the air. The news is mostly dark and bleak, even despairing. Yet the sun shines, the moon is full and the stars bright; spring is awakening and fruit trees are in bloom. Why the doom and gloom?
Yesterday I listened to two political commentators who are passionate about saving the system: Alex Jones and Stefan Molyneux. They add strong emotion to the more timid talking head blues despondents. Alex resorts to religious talking points like God and Satan. Stefan uses philosophical and psychological categories. They are both fearful and angry.
One could argue that all the talk is self-fulfilling prophecy. It instills fear in the general population. The elites could kill people like Alex Jones but they don’t because he helps them by a kind of reverse psychology. If they’re so bad the new empire that is being introduced must be good. We feel relieved when we get back to business as usual with a new corporate logo.
This cafe has about seen its day. I don’t want to invest too much time and energy into it. I like the feeling of a brand new cafe on a brand new day. That can be applied to our general situation. We can renew ourselves with new ideas. It’s a matter of timing and the conjunction of information and energy.
In astrological terms we can move into a new house. A house of the rising sun–no, not the one in New Orleans but the one of our dreams. I think this vineyard started with a dream. Ironically the dream was born from the nightmare of war. We can go from graveyard to vineyard faster than a saker can fly.
I also recall that this place got its name from an anagram which is a rearrangement of letters. We don’t have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. We can keep the best of politics and religion, those precious babies, and just change the water like letters.
It’s as clear as day to me. This vineyard baby is providential. We’ve been given a priceless gift. It’s our job to develop the gift, not put it away in a cafe safe. The gospels tell a tale of the talents. Jesus praises the man who developed his and dismisses the man who buried his.
If each one of us developed her or his talents in the cause of stopping war it would happen as sure as I’m here and you’re there. Nothing holds us back but our own negative conditioning. It’s done with a flick of the wrist in turning our cards from face down to face up. Face up to them there facts, ma’am or man.
OK, I get that you don’t like the word love. Like religion it’s tiresome, boring and repetitive. So unlike the pursuit of pleasure and comfort. It’s taken me 77 years of changes to see the fallacy of complacency and the truthicity of consistency. My experience thus far down the road of life after many hard knocks to the head reaches this conclusion: I need a Love Religion.
You may not. That’s fine. You’re not me and I’m not you; at least while we’re in these bodies on this earth. Maybe in the rarified air of speculation on futures it’s different. I don’t know because I’m not there yet.
Time to get on with my life. Time jumped forward today by a whole hour. Somehow I think so did vineyard power. Barring some unforeseen event calling for an emergency cafe conference call I’ll see you in the next second spring cafe.
Love, love and more love…
“a rearrangement of letters” … I deeply feel like in a biblical everyday scene
God is here in the trifle Denis you are a part of the unforseen heaven for me
unbelievable in the disciplines you are bringing about.
Hail you brother in Love
Thanks, Brother. Hail to all brothers and sisters in love.