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Recently, I have come across the work of Prof. Grover C. Furr. He has done a lot of original research going into Soviet era archives. And the results of his research are pretty surprising.
Specifically, he says that “Trotsky Lied, Khrushchev Lied and Gorbachev Lied”, specifically about what occurred during the Soviet and especially the Stalin period.
He deconstructs Khrushchev’s Secret Speech which excoriated Stalin, the result of which was to split the Communist Movement both inside and outside the Soviet Union, convinced Gorbachev the same, which resulted in the catastrophic results to the USSR and especially to Russia.
What I find both interesting and disturbing is the fact that the West has spewed lies about its targeted victims since the minute Europeans set foot on Turtle Island, dehumanizing and vilifying so as to justify their depradations. For this reason, I have to ask whether the narrative that Stalin was a bad as Hitler, and that the Communists and especially Stalin were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of lives, notably the Ukraine Holodomor and the Gulags.
He also criticizes Professor Steve Cohen, who makes some similar charges, and which Furr proves through archival research to have been false charges.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_cohen_rt11012015.html
Given the genetic hatred and vilification of everything Russian, Furr’s scholarship, in concert with Russian researchers, calls into question for me at least, the demonization of the USSR in general. One of the corollaries to this, is that the anti Russian sentiments I hear even among Russians, is that Furr’s research has been almost completely sidelined because he challenges the so called evils of the USSR with research not released until after its fall.
It is painful for me to hear the current spurious allegations against Russia ‘invading Ukraine, hacking elections, aiding the monster Assad, etc.’
It pains me even more to hear Russians whom I have met both in Russia and outside of Russia, take as truth what may well be the pervasive, endemic and pernicious Western propaganda.
Thanks for the link. I share your views about lies regarding Stalin.
Stephen Cohen sometime last year in his interviews, at a time of the highest campaign against Russian athletes, *repeatedly* suggested to Russians to make a symbolic gesture of good will which wouldn’t cost them anything, would make them look nice, everybody would like it and nobody would be able to criticize it. His idea what would that be was to cancel limitations for USA citizens for adoption of Russian children. Who doesn’t like children and that wouldn’t cost Russians anything.
It was creepy to hear that. First, what that had to do with campaign against Russian athletes and how would Russian children made the situation better. And second, adoptions were stopped because children were repeatedly abused and transferred from one foster family to another (often homosexual) and Russians were always told to stay away because it was non of their business. Also, Americans didn’t want to give guarantees that a child would stay with the parents that took it or that Russians would at least be informed, if a child would be transferred.
At the time I was willing to give Cohen a benefit of a doubt, now I think he knows but at a minimum he doesn’t care. He has to know the truth behind adoptions which is much uglier than mentioned above. Even if he is ignorant about abuses of Russian children and dismissive attitude of American authorities, how would ‘gifting’ children help diminish persecutions of Russians.
I find the idea of using already vulnerable children as some kind of political ‘bargaining chip’ totally repugnant.
Kudos to the RF for refusing to engage.
Says rather a lot about Cohen ”s value – system that he gave their fates no more thought than any other’ exports ‘.
I’ve never paid much attention to him, after initially listening to one of his broadcasts.
Looks like I was subconsciously identifying a mindset fundamentally inimical to the civilizational direction Putin is steering Russia.
He reflects the typical cultural mindset of elite America which has always washed its hands of inter – generational responsibility.
That has now degenerated into the eugenicis LGBT/ transgender cult and the commodification of human life.
The famine of the year 1932 -1933 in the USSR – much later called Holdomor ( because its such a nice word) – by Nicolay Starinkov
The famine was organisiert by “Walstreet” and “City of england” years before it happend. They forced Stalin to give the grain out of the USSR by not accepting another payment.
Stalin organisiezed the industrialisation of his country and he needed the import of western machinery and technologie.
But the West didn’t accept commodities, ruble as payment.
The West didn’t even accept gold as payment, the only thing they approve was UDSSR – Grain, they organisiest the famine deliberately.
I now the above sound odd, its unbelieveble for a normal human, because its devils work.
http://orientalreview.org/2012/12/17/episodes-10-who-organised-famine-in-the-ussr-in-1932-1933/
As I see it, the word Holdomor is a new creation. I don’t know how and when the word occurd. As of now i thing “its fake news”. In my childhood the word was unknown to me.
“I now the above sound odd”… If the spelling, sentence construction and grammar of all of the above are being referred to, then all of the above certainly ‘sound’ odd. However, interesting too, and surprising, how the simplest of errors confuse, or throw one off course.
In whose interest is it to bend truth, create half truths, write fake news and spread the conspiratorial theory of conspirator theory? Great opening gambit, tips hat .
The Ukrainian nationalists came up with the word. It only means the famine in Ukraine. They ignore the famine being in other parts of the USSR as well. And they wanted their own “special” famine word.
Their own special word? Why, they must have learned from the experts!
The link you sent takes one to some pretty dark places. I had heard of Starikov, but his history of the rise of the Nazis, of Trotsky, the Federal Reserve Bank and so on are real eye openers. However, they all point in the same direction:
Russia has stuff. The West, which ravaged the Americas and colonized the world for 5 centuries, wants Russia’s stuff. They’ll do anything to get it.
Hitler’s rise from a nobody to a world destroyer, mentored by a German American, and no doubt agent of those interests who groomed Hitler to destroy Russia, when their plot to use first Lenin and then Trotsky didn’t work says a lot about what we are facing today.
It also reflects on what kind of a person Gorbachev is, and how he and Yeltsin almost succeeded in doing that Lenein and Trotsky failed to do. It shows how long a time frame these people operate in.
Israeli gas exploration licences not finding many takers, while Lebanon is motoring ahead:
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-few-takers-for-israels-new-gas-exploration-tenders-1001188157
Can we expect an attack on Lebanon soon?
Whether because of that, are not,we can expect an attack on Lebanon. If the US is successful in Syria,that is the start of more aggression,not its end. The US and Israel want to destroy Iran as a power in the Middle-East.And gain control of her resources. And her location as the route to Central Asia and the “soft underbelly of Russia”. To preclude Russian influence in the region as well.
If the US gains Syria,they expel Russia from the entire region. Its as simple as that. Its a similar idea to Crimea in the Black Sea.Gaining Ukraine “with Crimea” would have pushed the Russian fleet to a small area of the Black Sea. Allowing NATO dominance there.Controlling Syria pushes Russia from the Mediterranean Sea. She would have no bases anywhere in the region. And except for the limited ability to sail there once and a while. Her naval influence would be dead. And the Sea become a “NATO Lake”.
From Syria the US would move on to Lebanon. Stirring up terrorism there,blaming Hezbollah of course. Which “would call for a humanitarian response”.And see either a direct US invasion. Or a “Lebanese” version of “moderate rebels” taking power. The US’s Pentagon under Mathis (BTW the same Mad Dog Mathis. Who was a leader in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003) is already preparing a plan for US troops to be in control of Syria,Iraq,and Afghanistan for generations.
Once control of those countries is accomplished.It will be Iran’s turn. Using the Gulf States,Saudi Arabia and Iraq as the bases for attacking Iran. Who by then,denied Syrian and Lebanese allies, will stand alone. Russia would, without bases in the Mediterranean. And with Turkey holding the key to the Black Sea bottleneck. Be forced,assuming she chose to help Iran.To enter through Central Asia or the Caspian Sea.The US has worked for years on military plans to invade Iran. But the political will in the US hasn’t been there to “pull the trigger” . With now a neo-con Congress.President either under control,or replaced by then with Pence.And the Military hawks running the DOD and Pentagon. The “will” to do it will be there. A “casus Belli” will be easy to arrange.Probably a Tonkin Gulf style false flag. With Iran supposedly attacking US ships in the Persian Gulf.
Syria is the wrench in the wheel of the US’s plan. Syria gives Russia and Iran influence in the region. It acts as a cover for Lebanon. And allows more freedom for Iraq to have allies against the US (and Turkey) plan to control them. Lack of control of Syria has stopped the US from moving on with their plans. Which tells me that any idea Russia has to end the war there. Unless its with total victory,are doomed from the start. The US is willing “talk” ,of course (better called “stall” in US thinking). But only as long as they further their plans along while “talking”. There is no peaceful solution Russia can offer. Unless it gives the US and Israel 100% of what they want. Can it be acceptable to them.The US might “pretend” acceptance for a bit. But they will never “willingly” accept anything that doesn’t let their long term plan succeed.
Here is a less than adequate article on RT about part of the US plans:
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/388328-permanent-war-us-syria-iraq-afghanistan/
And here is a map from years back that even more clearly shows what the US neo-cons want in the Middle-East. Why it hasn’t caused outrage among those countries I can’t understand:
http://www.oilempire.us/new-map.html
Like the saying about a dog returning to its vomit. The empire always returns to its prior methods of committing crimes:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/57-years-ago-u-s-britain-approved-use-islamic-extremists-topple-syrian-government.html
Thanks Uncle Bob for that excellent overview.
Will repost it with your permission.
No problem,certainly if you’d like.
The World in Mid-May 2017, at a Crossroads
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it!”
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/25/fork-road/
“Hmmmm. Let’s see.”, said the blind American. “Straight ahead, on the AZ Highway to Hell (the way we’ve been going for a century) I sense an increasing density of media lies, false flags, fear, wars, PTSD, unpayable debt of all kinds, deaths through opiate overdoses, mind control, sexual identity confusion, irrationality, despair, and quite possibly national disintegration and Civil War II.”
Here’s the short video of a saner path, with a much brighter destination for Mankind:
https://youtu.be/hNKTbMx8PFk
The beauty and the historical ironies abound.
Part 1 of followup to the problems Uncle Bob 1 posed in the last Cafe:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-05-10/#comment-356889
The One Belt One Road conference in Beijing opens today. And I submit that America will either join very soon what it started in the 1860s or it will loop back to the 1860s and descend into social chaos and civil war, if not global war.
https://youtu.be/kmdTq9x-naE
What this video leaves out is Lincoln’s global vision: The defeat of sea-power based Empire world-wide, not just here, by “girding the globe with ribbons of steel”.
Such an impulse began in earnest in the last quarter of the 19th Century, especially in Russia at the instigation of among others, Dmitri Mendeleyev and Sergei Witte.
http://transsiberianrailway.org
But the British Empire Struck Back.
To be continued.
OBOR: It’s all just talk and grandiose plans, right? (AZ MSM)
April: 60 PERCENT construction work of GWADAR FREE ZONE completed.
The free zone is spread over 923 hectares of land and will be developed in four phases.
The Zone has specially been designed to take advantage of Balochistan’s rich fishery and mineral resources by developing relevant industries for overseas market and light industry for domestic consumption.
……Chinese and Pakistani engineers are working round the clock to open the free zone for operation as early as possible….
……the free zone is a key step towards developing Gwadar Port into an important regional hub that will benefit not only south Asia, but also Central Asian and Middle East countries…..
https://gwadarnews.com/2017/04/06/60-percent-construction-work-of-gwadar-free-zone-completed/
OBOR: Bilateral China-Russia trade to hit $80b in 2017
…. “Russia’s exports to China increased by 33% in January-April while the deliveries of Chinese goods to Russia expanded by 22%.
The deliveries of foodstuffs from Russia to China are growing at the quickest pace. Due to the fall of world prices, China has also started to build up the imports of energy products from Russia.
As for the Chinese exports, they have grown considerably due to online* trade.
More:
http://tass.com/economy/945798
*online trade
Jack Ma, Mr Alibaba:
2015: The world’s biggest e-commerce firmAlibaba is interested in a suggestion from President Putin to create a platform that would help Russian companies export abroad.
……in 2015 .. Alibaba made a record $14.3 billion in sales on Singles’ Day, a Chinese holiday intended to celebrate single life. This is more than double the e-commerce sales in the US from Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Mondaycombined.
2016: Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit 10 Billion Yuan Worth of Goods in Seven Minutes
2017(Jan): Sberbank and Alibaba are planning to set up an e-commerce joint venture in 2017.
2017-2020: Russia introduces its own MIR credit card.
….”Russia’s Mir payment cards to give Visa and MasterCard a run for their money…”
The need to develop Mir payment cards was prompted by US sanctions imposed on Russia in the spring of 2014. Due to the sanctions, the world’s two largest payment systems Visa and MasterCard blocked transactions with the cards of Russia’s Rossiya Bank, its subsidiary Sobinbank, and also SMP Bank without any notice on March 21, 2014.
Some other banks, in particular, Investcapitalbank, were also confronted with the problems related to payment card servicing.
In December 2014, Visa and MasterCard stopped servicing bank cards in Crimea and Sevastopol (their operation on the Black Sea peninsula restarted in April 2015).
So to recap: US sanctions created financial transaction barriers for Russian banks, impacting both RF citizens and tourists.
The US also threatened to kick RF out if the “SWIFT” settlement/ International Bank of Settlements.
RF response: Build a RF credit card and an alternative to SWIFT.
Meanwhile: Online trading between US+China doubles, trebles, quadruples in just five years……. (Looking for a link to confirm, but I think these trades are in local currencies…..), meaning US does not get to extract a rent from this commerce.
2015:Settlements in local currencies between Russia and China now account for 7 percent of the bilateral trade, but the potential for growth is tremendous, experts tell RT. ……Yuan-ruble trade in Russia has grown 800 percent in a year.
More:
http://tass.com/economy/944174
Sources: RT, TASS, Sputnik.
And I remember I read recently that China is running a small deficit on trade with Russia right now.
Kind of a quick shot:
The greatest speech since New York 2015
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/05/a-new-way-of-taking-putin-at-beijing.html
Excellent, Mundanomaniac…Thanks. Mercury is in Taurus on Monday so more hard hitting, sweet talking is to come. 12th House? Is it chickens coming home to roost time or will that come later with the total solar eclipse in August across the United States.
Already there is much discussion about this phenomenon and hotels are booked along the line of greatest obscuration.
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Here is a long article that in “detail” examines why the neo-cons don’t fear pushing for war with Russia.Why they think they can win a nuclear war against Russia. And not have the World be destroyed by that nuclear war. I think if this type of analysis is paramount in military circles in the US it explains everything about their thinking:
https://www.quora.com/Who-would-win-in-a-war-between-Russia-and-the-US
For those who like Russian culture. Women from the Chinese army sing. They are nice.
in memoriam Alexandrov Ensemble Katyusha Катюшa !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdK4TdluWyE
North Korean missile:
Russia military says it tracked it from launch and until it disappeared into Sea of Japan 500kms from Russian territory.
But the US says the missile landed just 60miles from Vladivostok.
“Everyone” reporting the US version.
Like the Russians wouldn’t know EXACTLY where this missile landed ?
http://tass.com/defense/945793
“The Russian missile early warning systems detected at about 23:30 Moscow time on May 13 the launch of a ballistic missile from the territory of North Korea.
The missile early warning systems tracked the ballistic target during 23 minutes of its flight until it fell in the central part of the Sea of Japan (about 500 km away from the territory of Russia),” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The North Korean missile’s flight trajectory was directed away from the border of Russia and at a considerable distance, the Defense Ministry said.
“This missile launch posed no danger for the Russian Federation.
The Russian missile early warning systems and alert air defense forces are on combat duty in a planned regime,” the Defense Ministry said.
The US version completely contradicts this:
…….South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff reports that the missile was launched at around 5.30 a.m.
The launch took place in the Kusong region located northwest of the capital, Pyongyang, where the North previously test-launched an intermediate-range missile it is believed to be developing.
The missile landed in waters 60 miles south of Russia’s Vladivostok region, home of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
The White House issued a statement Saturday night saying President Donald Trump has been briefed on the latest missile test.
‘With the missile impacting so close to Russian soil – in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan – the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased
http://theduran.com/kim-jong-un-fires-missile-that-lands-60-miles-from-russias-vladivostok/
Hi. I was immediately struck by the lead photo above of the young man as Givi, and later by the older, white haired man reading as Timothy Leary, and then on to Dennis Leary as Dennis the Menace.
Second, I’d like to thank Saker and this vineyard for contributing to my remedial education at 77 years, with a special shout out to this Cafe, in my terms, the “Love Bower” Heart of the Vineyard.
Getting to naming names, I nominate Bro 93 as Renaissance Man of the Cafe. His poem at the last cafe, Amour Marcher, touched my heart, as did the reference to a baby sister’s ashes. How poignant can you get? Poetry rivals Prose in this Cafe of Dreams. Carpe Diem, Bro (and all of us brothers and sisters) a la Brother Sun and Sister Moon, who were at 45 and 15 degrees in East and West when I last missed the missing moon at this am’s 8:30.
Jumping to this new cafe, though, Bro, I wonder about OBOR (One Belt One Road) as I did before. The Chinese promotion video is awesome and touched me romantically. And yet, and yet…what about the seamy, steamy side? Why is Trump so down on China? Is he onto something rotten in the state of…? Like anti-suicide nets for workers jumping out of factory windows, to get out of working for Ivanka’s clothes line? “I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.”
I like Yogi Berra’s “when you come to a fork in the road, take it (or fake it). I call to witness Lincoln and the Railroad Barons from their graves to the witness stand. Did they and their modern OBOR’s railroad (Oh Boy Oh Railroad) something through and over us? Propaganda is so, so persuasive, like only a devil in sheep’s clothing can do. “Sometime Satan comes as a Man of Peace.”
I feel uneasy about the OBOR as I do about Lincoln and the Railroads. I like railroads. My grandfather came over from Ireland at age 10 and began working on the railroad slave tracks. Later he became a conductor on the Great Northern, which I take back to Wisconsin, to my first home on the northern route, ironically called the Empire Builder. Grandpa lost his savings in the Great Depression, thanks to the banks. The Great Northern is still there; I say it with my own eyes.
My mother took us kids from Stevens Point in central Wisconsin to Superior, Wisconsin up on Lake Superior where Grandpa was from my Dad’s home near Stevens Point (Custer, not the last stand man) on the Wisconsin River up to the North Country of Duluth, Minnesota (across the bridge and state line from Superior), Bob Dylan’s land at the headwaters of the Mississippi and Highway 61, parallel to Highway 51 which ran north-south through Stevens Point, with Highway 10 going west to Santa Monica, California where I later lived. Talk about “synchronplaceity.”
Feeling uneasy, I re-listened to Stefan Molyneux’s video on Lincoln. Oh heavens, what a story! Lincoln had a brutal, beating father who abandoned Abe and his sister for six months alone in the wilderness with no food while he sought a new wife. Abe’s grandpa was killed by Indians as Abe’s father watched. Talk about terrorized, abusive childhoods. This would play out in Abe’s later life.
Seems to me that Abe was traumatized and projected his hurt out in politics. Abe was severely depressed and contemplated suicide often, and when he was younger had to be watched lest he do the deed. Today we would say he had a mental illness. His own marriage to Mary Todd was very bad; karma passed on?
Women of that time like William Seward’s wife, Frances, were under terrible stress and often developed neurotic symptoms which Freud and nephew Bernays took advantage of in another venue. Oh, the plight of educated women!
You want to know the real backstory of railroading which I enjoyed as a child and still do now? Skip the following if you don’t, and put your hopes in OBOR. Oh boy! Oh railroad joy.
It so happens that Lincoln owned a farm in Iowa near a hub of the railroad. Smell money yet? Lincoln was backed by the Northern Protectionists who needed the South’s ports and tariff taxes for plunder. (I’m oversimplifying). Lincoln went along and said before the fate of 600, 000 to 800,000 people lost their lives in the Civil Uncivil War: “I will invade (the South).”
In the meantime, many, many countries ended slavery without war, like England in 1830, by paying slave owners for their loss. Lincoln could have done the same but the Northerners needed slavery for their profits. Had they not interfered, slavery would have died out in the South of its own inertia. Lincoln and the North could have simply let the fleeing slaves live in the North but through Lincoln’s Fugitive Slave Act sent them back South for guess what? Money for each returned slave.
In his campaign of 1860, Lincoln said: “I’m going to invade” and he did. He did not get a Senate vote according to the constitution. Because the Northern industrialists needed protection for their rackets, and war was the big money maker-racket. Ending slavery was just a ruse for them; they practiced slavery, like imposing a draft for cannon fodder and workers on the railroad mammon fodder. Laying rail and laying down for war was going on at the same time. Talk about greed.
As early as 1832, Lincoln said: “I am in favor of a national bank.” Up to then there were local, relatively safe banks. He sided with big government and high tariffs for his friends and government subsidized railroads, all made possible by central banks. He went off the gold standard and started printing money out of nothing.
[What about the Lincoln greenbacks? I don’t know the back story there.]
Lincoln jailed 30,000 for speaking against the war with no trial. He closed newspapers and imprisoned editors for questioning his policies. He was for fascism and state power. He tortured war resisters, had water boarding and even threatened to imprison the Chief Justice for an anti-war ruling. Do you think this behavior may have been get-back for his tortured childhood, in an era without Jung and Fraud?
The Emancipation Declaration only applied to the areas in the South which the North did not hold. The Union army enslaved black conscripts for war. In the North, free land was not given to freed slaves but to power bases, railroads and mining companies, and white folk.
Lincoln’s treatment of the Indians was not nice. There was a mass execution of 300 Indians, the largest in American history.
Lincoln the Dictator set up the South with Fort Sumter for casus belli. Sound familiar? He greased the skids for the Empire wars of the 20th century. The racist Lincoln wanted to send the blacks back to Africa to their masters, making money for the ships of the time in the transport business.
Enough already. Not quite like the romantic Lincoln the movies talk about. Is it true? I don’t know. I was not there. I just wanted to say why I am now skeptical of a romantic OBOR. Cui bono? Do we need more and bigger government? Grandpa lost his savings in railroaded banks. Affected me personally when he died when I was six and when his wife died two years earlier, leaving me with a grieved mother, who was herself anorexic as a teen, and killed herself later with smoking and alcohol after passing much onto me, her eldest child after her first was stillborn, my sister, Mary. A sister’s ashes or little white casket, anyone? Depression anyone? War glory everyone?
I value this site because it resists the god and fog of war. Is there a way to have an OBOR and not eat it too? Is there a way to make a multi-polar world work for humanity? I think there is and I call it the Love Government, with its two arms of the Love Bower and Love Army. But that’s just me. You have your own way, I’m sure, or why would you be here?
Putin may be the Renaissance Man but now Trump is the Man in the Middle Mirror. I try to sic the Love Army on his case. I think it’s working despite all the odds makers and nay sayers. Like Jesus, Trump is a Sign of Contradiction. By that definition he can’t be too pure or too perverse. He has to go where angels (or God) fear to tread. It’s called fallen humanity. It’s called Incarnation.
I, too, have to start from where I’m at as a “fallen man.” But this is getting long. More later. I have much more to say on this subject. My mind can secure only what my seat can endure; and my seat is getting sore; need to get up and moving: water the potted plants, planted here by my ex, Apolonia and myself to help the cause of Putin’s “nature-like technologies” and Trump’s “MAGA” Make All Great Again.
Maybe Uncle Bob can fact check this and the Rothschild assassination of an asset who knew too much, and check on William Seward’s (formerly Lincoln’s Sec of State and political intimate and story-feller), who stole Alaska from the Russians in 1867 for 7 million Manhattan beads in the pre-Trump bead game
I get the feeling of deja vu “all over again” according to Prophet Yogi Bear. Please bear with me as a bare my soul in this cafe with its writing of poems on the wall, its music of the ages and its sad glass ceiling.
Love, Dennis
@ Dennis. I have friends who deal with factories in China and who have no illusions or starry eyed expectations of the Chinese ruling group. However, this is not the site in which the discussion of this would be facilitated.
A world order run by the likes of those who rule China now will not be ultimately a whit better than the maniacs running Death Star America so keep looking at it all with a steely and gimlet eye as well as an open heart to the possibilities of the future to be different.
Thanks Eimear for the music.
Since you asked Dennis.There are a few historical errors. One example being the Fugitive Slave Act was several years before Lincoln. But the “primes” is correct in your comment. The US could have ended slavery without war. But the US has always shown a tendency to use violence as a “first choice” instead of the second or third choices. Which other countries neglect to understand at their own peril. Little North Korea seems to be the country that understands that the best.They know they exist only because of their unity and weapons. Countries not “grasping” that. Have either been destroyed already,Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya,etc. Are in the process of being destroyed,Syria,Yemen,Somalia,Venezuela. Or lastly are “on the block” for destruction in the future (near future probably),Russia,China,Iran,etc. How any country doesn’t understand that is breathtakingly foolish. But sadly,there seems to be a lot that don’t understand it (until its “too late” for them). I remember reading in ancient history how the various kings,tribal chiefs,etc,were fooled by Rome as they built their empire.And me thinking “how stupid of them”. That time after time they would trust the Romans. And think they could deal with them.It never worked. And those rulers always ended badly. With the Romans annexing their lands.But there was always another fool that tried it.We are reliving that time today.The only difference is the “empire” today doesn’t annex the lands.They just break a nation apart,install a stooge regime in the various parts, and then loot the countries resources.That is the main difference between the US and the Roman Empires. That and the Romans brought “civilization” and the US takes it away from their victims.
Amidst all the conflict and turmoil of the human world, the flight of birds continues along ancient migratory paths…
Beautifully accompanied by Native American Music.
https://youtu.be/-Z9PhUI5oUE
Very, very important. Oh, this woman’s voice is heard even as one of the men scoffs that the OSCE does not understand Russian. They hear but they know not.
http://theduran.com/must-watch-russian-grandmother-confronts-osce-killings-donetsk/
Our job as elders is to speak for the young and speak for the community in our own spheres just as this woman does. And to act…yes, she did shield her grandchild, I have no doubt of that.
Saw that.
A world run by such people would be as close to paradise as we could get.
Brave and truthful woman.
“Czech President says Putin ‘forbids’ Lavrov from smoking, jokes about ‘liquidating’ journalists”
https://www.rt.com/news/388366-zeman-putin-smoking-jokes/
Our president reminds me of our “national hero” Svejk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwWexJ72MbI
Is being “crazy” in current crazy world a sign of being in fact “normal”? Very old question…
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
Read ‘The Good Soldier`twice in my teens, and twice as an adult.
He made perfect sense, with his deep insight into the absurdity of the world he lived in.
I more than suspect Joseph Heller’ ‘s Yossarian (‘Catch Twenty – Two’) was a rip-off.
Interesting idea about that Catch connection.
The official literary “experts” have two basic versions of Svejk: real idiot vs. smart parody. By my common sense I tend to lean towards the second interpretation :)
Funny is, that even Germans made their own movie in 1960:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Schweik_(1960_film)
Funny, because the basic (and of course flawed) characteristic of Germans is that they “blindly follow the authority”. And here Svejk is messing with the authority by following the rules to the extreme. And it applies also on his semiotics, which deconstructs the absurdity of his world and contemporary system. And maybe it is communicating with some Jungian alter egos of my German fellows. Life is full of mysteries, right? :)
And now let’s face our own absurdities.
Cheers.
PS: and in Poland the Szwejk character is pretty popular as well. Here is his statute somewhere in PL:
http://photo.nocowanie.pl/photo.php?gal_v2=2&f=1989888&mu=http://www.nocowanie.pl/pomnik_dobrego_wojaka_szwejka,153092,map,1.html&la=1&p=1&lid=153092&noRes=1
Former TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan recently surrendered to Pakistani forces. He had claimed responsibility on behalf of TTP for many devastating terror attacks in Pakistan. His confessional statement below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zammOx2SjI
The US for months now has talked in hysterics over the “fake” news Russiagate story. And there is no end of that in sight. I doubt it will end. I doubt there will “ever” be any proof and evidence offered for it. Simply because there is none. But in reality it goes much deeper than that. I think Russia is guilty by the US “standards” of “interfering” in the US 2016 elections. The people in the US accusing Russia of that aren’t just “making it up”. But to understand that,we need to understand their “meaning” of the phrase “interfering in the US election”.
The accusations against RT,Sputnik,and the Russian government are because they “don’t agree” with the US view of things.So when RT or Sputnik reports on Wikileaks or other exposures of dishonest actions in the US election campaign. That is considered “meddling and inferring” in the election.If they followed the Western MSM and ignored those problems, that would be accepted. But holding another view,and reporting on dishonesty,is not acceptable to the US. Its “Russian meddling”. There is no way for Russia to not be guilty of “meddling”, as long as they aren’t vassals of the US.
Its the same with the accusations against the Russian Ambassador. He was doing what Ambassadors are “supposed” to do as an Ambassador. Meeting with political figures,and discussing Russia’s interests.But once again.Since the US considers Russia “has no interests”. Then anyone doing an Ambassador’s job,must be “meddling” in the US election.Its purely a matter of semantics.And unless we understand the meaning behind words in the US. We can’t understand the “Russiagate” lunacy at all.
Even Tillerson today is saying certainly Russia affected the USA elections……………Rt running that ticker news
Graham: We can’t go forward as a nation ‘until we punish Russia’
© Greg Nash
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said the Russians need to be punished for their meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
“I do not believe we can go forward as a nation until we punish Russia,” he said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
Graham said he does not need additional proof to confirm that Moscow attempted to hack the election.
“I’m 1,000 percent certain that the Russians interfered in our election,” he said.
“They did try to undercut Clinton. I don’t think they changed the outcome,” he said of the presidential vote that put President Trump in office. “Russia didn’t change the outcome of the election but they sure as hell tried and I want to punish the Russians and I hope the president will see their interference as a threat to our democracy.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/333325-graham-we-cant-go-forward-as-a-nation-until-we-punish-russia
As I said above its the “semantics” trick. He said the Russians “interfered” in the election. Without giving any concrete actions they took to “interfere” in the election. By using “catch all” words. They don’t have to present “actual” things done. The reason being that they mean “Russia exposed” the corruption in the election by reporting that corruption. If they actually said that. The US population wouldn’t consider that as “interference” in the election. And they don’t dare to let that happen. So we will continuously be bombarded with innuendo,and no facts. Russia of course “could” stop that at any time. By openly exposing the “play on words”. And demanding they present proof,or issue an apology. But sadly,they won’t,and this farce will go on and on.
Miles Mathis, apparently, never sleeps. I guess it is because he finds debunking the ragtag tales that are sold to us as ‘history’ so incredibly easy, and seeing that no one else seems to be up to the job, that he decided to double his efforts and work three shifts.
Here some nuggets from Miles’ latest, a paper on Martin Luther King.
MLK.
“ it is admitted his paternal line is Irish. That means the name King is Irish. Well, that links him to the Kings in my recent papers on C. S. Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Kings in those families were also from Ireland—and they were nobles! And spooks.”
“ MLK is the ultimate oreo cookie: black on the outside and Jewish on the inside. Just study his photos. He has a strange look for a black man, doesn’t he? His eyes especially, which slope up on the corners. He may have been more African than Coretta, but that isn’t saying much.
“ … the greatest damage MLK did was with his fake death [..] Basically, it was faked as a warning to uppity blacks: this is what will happen to you if you push for real change. Some dopey white guy will shoot you when you aren’t paying attention. Like most of the other events we have unwound, it was staged to create fear. The KKK was invented for the same purpose. Intelligence discovered long ago that a fake event beat a real event every time. In this way, they could create all the fear without any risk to themselves. You can’t be prosecuted for a fake crime, can you? You can’t be prosecuted for a fake murder, a fake beating, or a fake lynching. But the fakes create the same fear and chaos as the real thing. It is all part of Operation Chaos. ”
Stanley Levison.
“ …Stanley Levison, MLK’s advisor, close friend, and ghostwriter. That information is not from Stormfront, that is from Wikipedia and Stanford. Levison was a Jewish attorney from New York. He had gone to Columbia and the New School, both red flags. We have seen the New School in many of these hoaxes. It was founded and funded by Hiram Halle, Jewish, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Jewish. It is one of the premier propaganda and spook academies in the world, poorly disguised. Levison was a leader of the American Jewish Congress and had also been a leader of the Communist Party. He has no genealogy posted, but I hope you noticed the name Stanley. We have seen that these families like to recycle surnames as first names, so this many link him to the Stanleys above, of the English peerage. That would explain why he was assigned to MLK: they were related through the Daniels.
Notice how the ghostwriter admission tends to support my theory above. Levison looks very much like a spook, and he was probably the head of the CIA cubicle that churned out all of MLK’s writings. It is amazing how little is known of this man, and I suggest his name was actually Levinson, not Levison. We have seen them do this over and over, changing one letter to throw off researchers. The Levinsons are a famous and connected Jewish family, related to the Levesons/Levensons in the peerage. They are related to the Cohens who descend from Levi Barent Cohen—who we have seen before. [..] They hail back to Karl Marx and forward to actor Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat). “
James Earl Ray.
“ We will start with the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray. Very few people know or have pointed out what is most important here: Ray’s mother was a Maher. Guess what that means? Ray was Jewish. “
“ Ray’s Wiki page reads like bad fiction. For instance, he is supposed to have escaped from the maximum-security Missouri State Pen in 1967 by hiding in a bread truck leaving the prison bakery. Right. “
Rosa Parks.
“ …the whole Civil Rights movement looks managed. The governors could probably see they had to do something, but rather than let things proceed naturally and risk fast and meaningful change, they took control of events and managed them for minimal inconvenience to themselves. As usual, they needed to give the appearance of progress, while stifling most real progress. It is very easy to see this with the Rosa Parks event, which they pretty much admit was staged. Even Southpark did a show on it, all but admitting the event was staged. Parks had worked at Maxwell Air Force Base, and after that she lived with Clifford and Virginia Durr. Clifford just happened to be the attorney who later represented Parks. That’s convenient: Rosa was living with a prominent attorney when this happened. Just a funny coincidence, right? “
Billy Graham.
“ At Wikipedia, we are told MLK and the other founders of the SCLC were inspired by Billy Graham. Right. Why would these guys be inspired by Billy Graham? Please ask yourself if that makes any sense. Billy Graham, who started his “Crusades” in 1947, year one of the CIA. Just a coincidence, right? Graham’s maternal grandmother was a Robinson. He was also a Robinson on his father’s side, though further back. This indicates his parents were cousins. The Robinsons on this father’s side go back to Massachusetts, linking him to the Salem Witch hoax. He was also related to Morrows on his mother’s side. See above, where Clifford Durr—Rosa Parks’ attorney—was a Robinson.
Get ready for this. Hold on tight. On his father’s side, Graham’s aunt was Ida Parks Graham. You now see why Billy Graham is mentioned on MLK’s page, I guess? MLK was also a Parks. So Billy Graham may have been related to MLK and Rosa Parks. “
“ Billy Graham’s entire career confirms my recent findings that evangelical Christianity was started by or infiltrated by Jewish interests, with the express intent of sullying it and making it look foolish. “
“ Billy Graham’s entire career confirms my recent findings that evangelical Christianity was started by or infiltrated by Jewish interests, with the express intent of sullying it and making it look foolish. “
Interesting idea, but I tend to believe it was done in 19th/20th century only. In its origins, I believe, it was genuine (Moravian brothers etc.).
From Wiki:
“Evangelicalism resulted “from the confluence of Pietism, Presbyterianism, and the vestiges of Puritanism. Evangelicalism picked up the peculiar characteristics from each strain – warmhearted spirituality from the Pietists (for instance), doctrinal precisionism from the Presbyterians, and individualistic introspection from the Puritans”.[35] Historian Mark Noll adds to this list High Church Anglicanism, which contributed to Evangelicalism a legacy of “rigorous spirituality and innovative organization”.[36]
But definitely with the charismatic wacks and other extremes the flock has been hijacked by the wolfs in sheep’s clothing (making a lot of “pasta” on their way)…
2 Thessalonians 2:3
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
You can fall away only from the Truth. Not the other way around.
Thierry Meyssan has written an excellent article on the Cromwellian origins of Zionism in Christianity.
Another theory claims MLK was assassinated because he teamed up with Bobby Kennedy in an effort to transcend race, so as to address the fundamental issue that drives all revolution – poverty arising from inequality.
Kennedy was also assassinated.
I think Miles Mathis is mostly a disinfo troll, whose ideas – or rather one idea, stretched to breaking point to accommodate every contortion – is designed to discredit real critical examination of Zionism and its pernicious global effects.
Interesting thought: “whose ideas-or rather one idea”……………
As though “Jew” were the nail that seals every argument and proves everything that happens in the Juniverse.
This method, this epistemology is called “Nominalism”
The Name Game: https://youtu.be/5MJLi5_dyn0
The name game. Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley, Bo-ber-ley,
Bo-na-na fanna.
Fo-fer-ley. fee fi mo-mer-ley, Shirley!
Lincoln! Lincoln, Lincoln. bo-bin-coln,
Bo-na-na fanna, fo-fin-coln.
Fee fi mo-min-coln, Lincoln!
Come on ev’rybody, I say now let’s play a game.
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name.
The first letter of the name,
I treat it like it wasn’t there,
But a “B” or an “F” or an “M” will appear;
And then I say “Bo” add a “B” then I say the name.
Then “Bo-na-na fanna” and “fo”
And then I say the name again with an “”f” very plain,
Then “fee fi” and a “mo”
And then I say the name again with an “M” this time.
And there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme.
Arnold! Arnold, Arnold bo-bar-nold,
Bo-na-na, fanna fo-far-nold,
Fee fi m-mar-mold. Arnold!
But if the first two letters are ever the same,
Crop them both, then say the name.
Like Bob, Bob, drop the “B’s”, Bo-ob.
Or Fred, Fred, drop the “F’s”, Fo-red,
Or Mary, Mary, drop the “M’s”, Mo-ary.
That’s the only rule that is contrary.
And then I say “Bo” add a “B” then I say the name.
Then “Bo-na-na fanna” and “fo”
And then I say the name again with an “”f” very plain,
Then “fee fi” and a “mo”
And then I say the name again with an “M” this time.
And there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme.
Say Tony, Tony, bo-bo-ney,
Bo-na-na fanna, fo-fo-ney,
Fee fi mo-mo-ney, Tony!
Let’s do Billy!
Billy, Billy, bo-gil-ly, bo-na-na
Fanna, fo-fil-ly,
Fee fi mo-mil-ly, Billy!
Let’s do Marsha!
Marsha, Marsha, bo-bar-sha,
Bo-na-na fanna, fo-far-sha,
Fee fi mo-ar-sha, Marsha!
Little trick with Nick!
Nick, Nick, bo-bick, bo-na-na
Fanna fo fick, fee fi mo-mick. Nick!
The name game.
Bro 93, Oh, Brother, that’s me!
Good-bye, Balon-ey, screw this!
I’m outta here, shift the focus to Eimear,
But before we go that far
What happened to Eimar?
Eimar: I’m R, first initial of my name.
But ever so gradually, it’s not the same,
Eimar! Evolves into Eimear!
What’s going on here?
Hey Mathis! Bo-ba-na bana
Bo-bathis, Mathis, d’ju hear?
Eimar turned into Eimear!
What Jew think’s goin’ on here?
I’m R, but I’m “all ears”
Eimars become Eimears:
Miles! Bana-nana Bo-miles
Susanna-sana fofiles, Miles!
Susanna-sana, we smiles,
Miles! Davis! Ma-this??
WTF is This???
Damn you Bro – you’ve ‘outed’ me!
:-)
The recent addition of ‘a’ is because I am too lazy to bother correcting the entry.
No doubt Mr. Mathis will ‘divine’ something ‘Jewish’ in that, should he consider me worthy of attention.
Despite being a Celt uncountable generations back….
Hey! If anyone can do it, Miles can.
Bring it on!
Not to indulge in childish sarcasm but.. oh what the hell, why not.
It strikes me as a very odd coincidence that “Miles Mathis” claims to have the same given name as Miles Monroe (note the initials as well). Miles Monroe is, of course, the primary character in the movie “Sleeper” written largely by Woody Allen who is, of course, a Jew.
One can only conclude that “Miles Mathis” or whatever his real name is in fact, actually a sleeper agent for the Jews.
I’m open to the notion that perhaps MLK was a synthetic prophet — don’t ask what I mean by that.
As in- originally an actor who evolved into something authentic?
Interesting article on how Zionism is threatened by assimilation :
http://azvsas.blogspot.ie/2013/10/israels-supreme-court-confirms-that.html?m=1
I maintain that you either share the love, knowledge, technology, economic development, freedom of transit for goods, or those denied these things will resent and never love YOU. And very rightfully so.
I welcome Doubting Dennis and Teranam 13 suspicions regarding breaking up the Sea Power dominated imperial world they’ve grown very used to, and invite them to be less comfortable with the past colonial chains where the globe is shackled by naval choke points, from Gibraltar (British base) Suez (If the Banker’s CIA of Dulles Brothers in the intelligence community and Anglophiles in the State Department etc thought they could get away with killing Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the Suez Canal would still be in the hands of the Brits and French…….), Cape Horn (Malvinas son Argentinas, but the Queen parks some sheep herders there and calls it “The Falklands”……), The Cape of Good Hope (for imperial world domination and looting of colonies….)…. Cape Town, South Africa, the Straits of Malacca (Singapore) etc, etc.
Let’s look at this, in time, from a few more perspectives than one’s personal experience and prejudices:
1. How about Russia’s perspective on this???? Nearly bottled up in the west by icy Baltic and Arctic ports. The recent and ongoing intent of the Empire was to deny her Crimea and access to the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea. What about integrating the Russian Far East, economically more rapidly and securing bulk and passenger transportation and population centers before the Empire can destroy it all with terrorism and war???
2 What about the 60 plus other countries Xi mentions? Mostly choked by a centuries old system of domination and enslavement called (British) “Free” Trade. Based on the Sea Power imperial model, boys and girls. Have you asked them???
That’s for starters.
This is global chess, not local yokel tiddly winks. Widen your horizons at least as much as your Empire enemy’s horizons.
I’ll have more to say on Alex Jones whose anti-globalism is very useful. He is a good start for very uneducated Americans who are just beginning to wake up and smell the coffee. But I have to cringe when he repeats his dumb-ass yahoo BS about “the Communist Chinese” and “the rising stock market, thanks to Donald Trump”.
The first is just knee-jerk ignorance and fear, and failure to recognize a potential great ally whose depth of resistance to the Empire and success in resisting it is about a million times more impressive than Alex’s supplements juggernaut. Leibniz recognized the potential. Lincoln did as well. I have to say they were a bit more farsighted than Alex Jones, Dennis!
Let’s sharpen our eyesight and not think like little pawns on a chessboard whose limits and rules are defined by those we are pretending to oppose. Let’s really oppose them effectively.
For now, I think Pepe’s old choo-choo article might provide some perspective and fun you might “choo” on:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-171214.html
There’s a lot more besides mountains and rivers terrosits to overcome to free humanity from the Empire. The biggest obstacles are probably blindness, backwardness and prejudice. And fondness for the familiarity of old mental, economic, spiritual and even physical chains.
Pepe’s got the right spirit:
THE ROVING EYE
Go west, young Han
By Pepe Escobar
“November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers of export goods weighing more than 1,000 tons left a massive warehouse complex heading for Madrid. It arrived on December 9.
Welcome to the new trans-Eurasia choo-choo train. At over 13,000 kilometers, it will regularly traverse the longest freight train route in the world, 40% farther than the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. Its cargo will cross China from East to West, then Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France, and finally Spain. ”
That’s how his article starts.
Don’t like his or Abe’s or Xi’s choo-choo? Prefer to plug along on a donkey like Sancho Panza?? You can! But please consider the bigger picture. There are 7 billion other human beings less free and prosperous than yourselves to consider. Xi’s video considers all of them.
Again, the link: https://youtu.be/hNKTbMx8PFk
You might begin by picking one or two of them, besides yourselves.
I’ll give an example I will pick, after my morning shower and breakfast.
Good morning, wild and wooly world. Ah, the joys of diversity and divestity. Here’s to Trump who claims to be a nationalist and a globalist, much to the chagrin of Alex the Jones.
I’m in a jolly mood. To bed by 8; awake at 4; up at 5 and here with you at 6. I’m a creature of habits. Made fire in firebox. Boiled water. And read about all of you at this Cafe of Dreams.
I’m still in the old cafe back in the day; at least with one last foot. Still savoring Bro’s “Amour Marcher” poetics. “Slavery defines the Empire / Yet, in Love there is no fear / It lifts All higher and higher / To Heaven’s highest sphere!” Hear, here!
And teranam the 13th: “Trouble in River City.” Drugs for a drugged world. Too bad for the youth. Pothead medicine for an anxious time. “Trouble; nothing but trouble” according to the Gospel of Dylan. The time of the Troubles in Irish love lore.
White Whale exegeted terra-names’ “grandma with the wayward son” saga; and drew back fire. Says he: What about the pill, sex freedom, pot, rock and roll, “drugs no biggie” back in the flower child day, hardly Clint’s “make my day” play. Such a ho-hum attitude does not sit well with baby-boomers stuck in Death Star mobile parks.
I love the lucky number 13 and the terra terrain; don’t get me wrong. Despite living in an ever increasing inorganic world, I have not yet despaired of organic metaphor, despite my absolutist proclivities. Nice catch with my leg going over barriers. Grover schools me to go around, under and through; although I (ugh) would never skin a cat.
Eimear’s link to bluegrass clog dancing reminded me of square dancing and Irish jigs in small room fun of my youth. These hoedowns in turn link me to the Love Culture’s Bowers of the really old ways where the caller stirred the steps of the young, while the elders male fiddled and picked in an open bower of communal community. Now those were the days, my friend.
White Whale Moby Duck brought me back to earth with the malware hacking of hospitals, picking on the sick–sick, sick, sick.
Somehow that train of thought segued into Alex the Jones who talked of the same hospital hacking. Alex got remarried in January and Trump called himn his Hawaii honeymoon to offer congrats, and offered to come on info wars. Alex declined the kind gesture, fearing the consequences from demoncrats.
Alex the Great gave his usual Alamo Americana counter-attack. Attack makes us strong to attack back. Stars and stripes or slaves and stripes across the back. I can’t help asking myself if Alex is for real. Am I for real? There seems to be an aura of unreality about me.
A while back my terrascope of thirteen moons said: “Our Mr. Leary knows his goal but seems stuck on his circular path–no insult intended, truly. Or maybe he has ‘gone there’ and just can’t come down to find a way to share it with the rest of us in a way that validates himself…stay in comfort zone.” Exactly. She read my cards–all thirteen of them.
In the same vein, Ferosity Ferris said yesterday: “Could you just post the silly sex stuff on your own site, and keep the poems, daily round-ups, etc. here? They’re damned good, old chap.” That’s exactly what I’m trying to do but I hire potheaders and petvetters who are well skilled and intentioned but rather mellowed and meowed out, barking up the wrong tree, so it’s taking time to get the website up to speed.
The good news is that it’s happening. In the meantime, you’re stuck with me and my silly sex stories. Well, “I’ll be a fool for you” until I won’t.
I use this cafe (hopefully, not abusefully) for self-education with you as my teachers. mundanomaniac is one such. When I see his name, I see stars in my head, and when I see stars overhead, I often think of the real stars above my sacred geo art. He says the most outrageous things about me like yesterday: “no one else than you are meant to be man’s brother in universe of mind everyday with pathetic singularity by each one.” It rings true although my mind loses track and my emotions hold back.
Watched Robert David Steele yesterday. He has trouble with Trump the Great Trumpgate. Two colliding egos? Alex the Great makes three. Alex can’t get his head around Trump’s wild mind and kind heart. How can a “trumpism” like “I am a nationalist and globalist” be true? Well, Alex the Great, maybe it’s the Cave Man Bone Broth that dulls your senses. You know, slaughterhouses and such. Check out the Love Army’s second division manual on diet, my friend. I love Alexisms; I can’t pretend not to.
Oh, and talk about free readings for my 77th year of adult ed, yesterday I listened to Stefan Molyneux’s talk on “assertion” with a man of my color; fear in hiding behind respectability. I’ve yet to hold a job I really believed in–the jury is still out regarding my Love Army meme; not quite up to 100%–99% is a bitch while going all the way with love is a breeze, or so they say.
Am I a real man? Or an also-ran? By history, I’m a god man. By herstory, I’m a wanna-be love man. If you can decipher that, you’re a better wo-man than I am. teranam is correct: I am stuck in a circle which I need to take like a man. I’m too much a fan of comfort land, and no Stan the Man. Well, what’s a vineyard for, if not to grow a pair of grapes of wrath?
Robert the Bruce, Steele me like David the small against Goliath the tall. If only I could spin the blade like words.
Uncle Bob the First asks if there will be a US revolution. It seems so with Trump already unless he turns out to be chump. Robert David Steele is divided on the question by thirds: 1. Rothschild has already “bought” Trump for forty billion; 2. the zio’s have him cornered and 3. Trump is playing 4 dimensional chess while we are playing checkers.
My sources in the Love Army say # 3, even if he becomes a martyr. He has already caused a revolution [Wow, the sun just came over the hill at 7:14 and is shining in my eyes through the clear plastic of my outdoor office / kitchen. See what I mean by a Love Army intervention just as I mentioned it?]
I’m going to have to take a break and get my shades; the glare is too much. I need to cook grain and reheat veggies anyway. No fruit yet; that will be for lunch. Fruit is for lovers; grain for workers and meat for killers. Right now I’m in worker mode. Want to make a forth video for my pot / pet minded engineer who I love like the tortoise in the story. He’s on pause for Mother’s Day still and his Everyday Wive’s Day makes him hit the pause button as often as the brake pedal. What my excuse?
Love you all with cafe jelly and vineyard joy.
The guy looks like he’s waiting for his date with Georgia.
Don’t Wait for Me, Cafe Argentina!
Train conspiracy theorists, y’all
Toy train lovers, fast train haters,
My caboose, movin’ at a crawl
Patagonia-bound, commentators
On Belt and Road, fishy or fine,
Tierra del Fuego–end of the line.
But not forgotten or left out.
Lovin’ the South, do not pout!
In other words, my promised example will be delayed, till evening or the Martes light. Gotta run to work, rabota, mi trabajo……but to encourage Dennis to “Get on board”…..a little music to get some love interest on his mind. No, not midnight Train to Georgia. But a woman, Georgia.
Georgia On My Mind: Ray Charles
https://youtu.be/UqEM0Vtl6BY
Despite the photo montage, he’s not singin’ about a state. Or maybe both??
Or the country?:
https://youtu.be/_P-VQctJoRw
Beautiful! But the Empire is there, trying to enslave them, and use them, and stuck the worst of their Empire pimps in Odessa.
But there’s another sister Georgia, they’ve pimped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands
What business do they have, doing that, in the South Atlantic?
Free our Georgias from Empire!
Let the Date with Destiny roll, all night long!
Few things sexier than an all night train, y’all.
“Few things sexier than an all night train, y’all”
You’ve never shared your all nighter with a distressed, crapping goat, a basket of chickens, one large angry honking goose and eight red – gummed, betel – leave chewing humans….
And that was *with* baksheesh!
Solution: Get off the floor. Have a hammock. Swing with the rhythm.
Then enjoy the richness of the sounds and smells. But maybe close your eyes…..
Looks like a playin’ day
Workin’ days are through
But still not yet for you–
An all day and night cafe
I just finished a video
On the holy Love-in Bower
Your Georgia home scenario
A Georgia red O’Keefe flower
Your sexy all night train
Rollin’ through the rain
My Slow Train comin’
Past a Fast Train runnin’
Sexy rockin’ and rollin’
Moving through the tunnel
Of love’s sweetest funnel
With no sour mind controllin’
A woman is she, Bro?
Now how would you know
If you meet her on the street
Like a sweet Georgia peach?
If you go too fast
It won’t last
No midnight blast
From high times past
So let the train go slow
Pick flowers on the way
Smell the fragrant roses
Forget those busy poses
Back in the day
I fell in love with Ray
With Mahalia too
And Arethra, it’s true
When it’s time to retire
Get off the high wave wire
Away fast food chain
From Alpha to Beta brain
Catch that Double E
Ridin’ wild and free
When she’s chasin’ after me
Don’t it feel like the sea?
Catch that midnight special
Care not for the devil
Join the freedom wingers
And the flying singers
When you get to where
You are surely everywhere
Give a passing thought to me
In your joyful springboard glee
Love, Dennis the Menace
man Denis, the sexy game is in essence such a short one
in minutes it takes and as median intervall within an entire life
there is life before sex and beyond sex
but I love your prose
and respect your mantra
and thanks for the ‘teacher’, I do my job
Hey.
Muy interesante….
“Xi used an extraordinary idiom for the first time at a meeting with Putin when he said yesterday that China and Russia “have played the role of ‘ballast stone’ in safeguarding regional and global peace and stability.”
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2017/05/15/russia-belt-and-road-and-the-big-picture/
Small point from article Glassboard posted, which concludes:
“Read a Chinese commentary on the ‘knock-on effects’ of US’ volte-face on BRI — Belt and Road can complement America First.”
How?
Well, in various senses already mentioned, but what leapt into my mind, humorously and ironically, just now, was the geographical sense:
How first? By luck of geography and one of the best “deals” in history: Seward’s “Folly”
For the Bering Straits Tunnel, envisioned by Sergei Witte as well as American visionaries over a century ago is where the Western Hemisphere America(s) “First” connects to OBOR, completing Abraham Lincoln’s dream of sinking the Sea Power based British Empire (and all like it) forever. At least on this planet.
But that’s not to “down” play the other Americas further south.
My example, if I can get it out before work, is on that route, which will loop down the west coast of South America and cross the Andes in a couple of east /west connections between the main west and east coast lines, (the southernmost involving Chile and Argentina), and then turn north and east up the east coasts of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil before turning west northwest across the Guyanas, Venezuela and Colombia to reconnect to the USA and Canada and the rest of the world through Panama, the Central American countries, and Mejico Lindo y Finalmente Libre!
Of course, if America wakes up and smells the coffee, dumps British Geopolitics, pedophilia, drug money laundering, globalism, unipolarity, Empire, and the pretense (in order to stop this human alternative) of “fighting terrorism”, it can connect to OBOR cooperatively both economically and politically TOMORROW, in May 2017 several years before the physical connection under the Bering Strait.
“ballast stones”, I Ging … ‘the well’,
I like to live in a time where the immense old wisdom
of Eurasia is beginning to re-appear in the new
wisdom of the new great leaders working with the gods
I like the Donald risking everything to keep sinking
empire in life-boats towards the shores
of the new kind of dealing humanity
his best fellows are still to come
I don’t understand the desire to paint the situation in Syria as getting better. I consider that propaganda “fake news”. Things not only are not better (in a meaningful way) but are heading worse. While the propaganda rolls on. Here are a few “facts” that show that thinking as wrong.
1. Turkey is digging themselves deeper into the sovereign territory of Syria:
https://www.rt.com/news/388437-turkey-albab-base-syria/
2. The US,with Russia standing by silent. Is forging ahead with partitioning sovereign Syria. Certainly both the US and Russia continuously “parrot” that Syria must remain a united state. But the “actions” of both (or actually I’d say the actions of the US, and the non-action of Russia) prove they don’t mean those words.
http://theduran.com/carving-kurdistan-us-new-end-game-syria/
3. Anyone saying the US has given up on regime change in Syria is ,A. Daydreaming,B. Foolish,C.Trying to create dis-information (for whatever purpose) , or D. All or part of ,A,B,C. By now we should all know that the US doesn’t “ever” give up on an evil plan. Those of us that don’t ,fall somewhere under A,B,C,D.
RT Newsline post: US accuses Syria of mass executions and burning the bodies
“The Trump administration on Monday accused the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital. The State Department said it believed that about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus. Many of the bodies, it said, are then being burned in the crematorium. “We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison,” said Stuart Jones, the top U.S. diplomatic for the Middle East. The department released commercial satellite photographs showing what it said is a building in the prison complex that has been modified to support the crematorium. The photographs taken over the course of several years, beginning in 2013, do not definitely prove the building is a crematorium, but they show construction consistent with such use. One photograph taken in January 2015 shows one area of the building’s roof cleared of snow due to melt.In presenting the photographs, Jones said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government “has sunk to a new level of depravity” with the support of Russia and Iran and called on both countries to use its influence with Syria to establish a credible ceasefire and begin political talks. (AP)”
According to SP, SAA is advancing 20, 000 strong on Deir-El-Zor, a strategic location for the Neoconservatives plans :
https://syrianperspective.com/2017/05/terrorists-admit-to-fabricated-scenes-of-cw-use-huge-syrian-army-force-heading-into-dayr-el-zor-to-wipe-out-isis-al-qaaboon-liberated-rodents-leaving-al-barza-in-droves.html
Then there’s the lawsuit from the Obamaite Protect Democracy against Trump for his unilateral decision to bomb Syria.
So two reasons for the resurgence of the ‘evil Assad’ meme.
Quel surprise.
If chemical weapons didnt exist, the Swamp would have to invent them.
Oh, wait….
And there’s also this.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN18B2MX
Wonder who the ‘close ally’ is?
With whom the US has a ‘longstanding understanding’?
Which is now’ troubled ‘by the Trumpet’ ‘s sharing of ‘classified information’?
….. And finally, the ‘ally’ comes out of the closet:
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/05/16/times-outs-israel-islamic-state-intel-source/
A couple of items have piqued my interest. From the previous cafe there was a link by Kent to stanislavs.org/Nemo’sRealms with a long article entitled “Wild 90’s in Russia.” I don’t know who the author is. Perhaps Lada Ray? And secondly, the One Belt One Road initiative which will have major repercussions on how we do business and therefore live.
The first item segued into a deep history of Russian origins and the OBOR train will take us into our future. In my mind these quests are philosophical and ethical; they give insights into where we came from, who we are and where we’re going.
Regarding Russian origins, the article discussed the Scythians as Russians. I remember the Scythians from ancient history, very vaguely. They were accomplished warriors with a large landmass across Russia and beyond. They had quite the advanced culture, with an artifact statuette of a pregnant woman 42,000 years old.
It seems of vital importance to Russian historians and archeologists. It seems to imply that Homo Sapiens took root in Russia. It might be complementary to our origins in Africa. An enigma mystery? The poet, Osip Maldenstam calls it “history herself.” Note the masculine feminine dynamic.
I remember reading Irene Caesar, the Russian philosopher and performance artist, who thought that the first Russians came through the North Pole energy field, or something along those lines. How can that be? It seems too weird to be true? Or is it?
In patriarchal religious terms, God created us. In modern scientific cosmology, we evolved from the Big Bang, or more recently from a Big Bounce. To me those are fundamentalist childlike answers that take the easy way out; the lazy brain syndrome, which is not to say that they can’t be true.
To me, we were “seeded” according to nature’s way of doing things, only on a vast universe scale. Let’s say “the stars seeded us,” as personal stars and astronomical/astrological star systems. God preserves the personal aspect and systems the impersonal.
Language gives us clues. There seems to be a common Slavic language. Scythians are concealed under the name Slavs. There’s the Russian “Khaganat” and “Khazars.” Scythians moved into Crimea in the 300’s. They had bows that shot arrows 520 meters. They were horsemen and ploughmen who worshipped Geistia/Geia, of hearth and agriculture. They were metallurgists with advanced weaponry.
They had unseen bonds which united the Scythian world. Greek history of Ross/Russ point to Scythian origins. A European look, worshipped the forces of nature, had a principle Goddess of life. There were sacrifices of humans and horses. The male Y chromosome indicates that Aryans, Scythians and Slavs are the same.
This is “thunderous news.” The Aryans, Scythians and Saratians may be the “oldest people of Earth.” There is a caution that the Y chromosome theory may be wrong. The African origin Mitochondrial Eve theory seems to be strong.
Are there two origins of Homo Sapiens? Why not, or even more. It might explain a lot about us. So far the Love Government story of herstory has been focused on an African origin. It may be time to consider the “out of Russia” and “out of Africa” theories together. They may be closely related or more widely distinct. For this I need a broad interpretation of “science” in its literal meaning of “knowledge” and “conscience,” which uses the five senses, augmented by the sixth sense of intuition/integration regarding the first five and a seventh sense of lovsciousness, underlying the consciousness and unconsciousness.
Time to take a break and eat supper. Peace to all and to all a good night. OBOR leaves the station at midnight; should arrive here in the morning.
Love, Leary the Dennis
Thanks to the readers supplying great news feed links.
The big story downplayed by MSM is the hacking that has infected so much global cyberspace.
Now Brad S. CEO of Microsoft is playing the holier than thou card, ‘alarmed’ by the link between organised crime and nation – states.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-15/putin-jabs-nsa-letting-ransomware-genies-out-bottle
That global US corporations like Google ”s Alphabet operate hand-in-glove with intelligence agencies, and that much of cybersecurity is privatised is not mentioned – the missing link so to speak.
As Putin has commented, The NSA has let the genie out of the bottle, and this is blowback.
Hopefully, this is an opportunity for Russian companies to offer real security to global customers.
The arrest of two Kapersky Lab employees on espionage charges (including one suspected of CIA commections) shows a commitment to security in Russia.
I hope Putin capitalises on this.
It is also an opportunity for the Trump administration to clean up the way the Intel agencies are operating, not least their outsourcing to private companies.
“What will the world be like in a BILLION years? Experts predict raceless humans speaking a new language will live on an Earth where oceans have evaporated
In one billion years, temperatures will rise and Earth’s oceans will evaporate
However, it is predicted that humans will have colonized other planets as well
Software fail, a glacial period and asteroid impacts are also predicted to happen”
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bit like some of those Arthur C Clarke stories………?
link to thesis re his stories and heterotopias………..
http://www.mmcgrath.co.uk/?p=1406
eg extract
““Crisis heterotopias” are created by the earliest forms of society. They are sacred spaces created to house individuals in moments of “crisis” – adolescents, menstruating women, pregnant women, the elderly – but in modern society they are gradually replaced by “heterotopias of deviation” (prisons, psychiatric hospitals, rest homes for the elderly) where we place people whose behaviour does not conform to the societal norm.
Heterotopias capable of “juxtaposing in a single real space several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible.” [xxii] Cinemas and theatres bring together unrelated spaces in a single room but the oldest form of this heterotopia is the garden. “The traditional garden of the Persians was a sacred space that was supposed to bring together inside its rectangle four parts representing the four parts of the world, with… The garden is the smallest parcel of the world and then it is the totality of the world.”[xxiii]
There are heterotopias of “indefinitely accumulating time” such as museums and libraries, which express the “will to enclose in one space all times, all epochs, all forms, all tastes, the idea of constituting a place of all times that is itself outside of time, and inaccessible to its ravages…”[xxiv]
Finally, there are heterotopias that create “another real space, as perfect, as meticulous, as well arranged as ours is messy, ill constructed, and jumbled.” These heterotopias of order are illustrated by the attempts to create communities in the religiously-inspired colonies of the New World.”
MSM has dropped the Comey ‘shock – horror’ shtick in favour of a new angle – Trump releasing ‘classified information’ to the evil Russian.
Even Wired is on the bandwagon, proving that Anglo American media is a totalitarian propaganda machine:
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/chilling-effect-trumps-loose-talk-russia/
The big fear of course is the extent to which information – sharing both reveals the level of collusion between UK and Israel with the takfiris and a potential pivot to Russia and China :a deal maker like Trump must find it hard to resist the lure of OBOR.
The “ironic” problem is that over the preceding decades people worried over government controlling the “MSM” and how horrible that could be for people getting true information . But what they failed to understand is that when corporate media is teamed with various regimes. Then the danger is double. And when “deep state” controlled media is at war with the regime in power. Then you have an even worse scenario.Over the last decades in the West ,we’ve seen the corporate media team up with their regimes in power. To try to control “thought” in their countries. An ability that even the old totalitarian states of the 20th century couldn’t match.But today in the US the “deep state” media is actually at war with the regime in power. Something that the controllers that set the system in place never considered.This should be seen as a warning to countries about what can happen. But more irony,it will frighten countries that were considering loosing control of their media. And stop them from doing that (if they are smart,it will).
Interesting article on the US liberal mindset – essentially a narcissistic sense of self – styled aristocratic disdain for the masses:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/15/the-magic-liberal/
The fact that mansions are now being built with servants quarters for the first time in a hundred years is very telling.
Good morning, world. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. I went to bed at 8:30, woke at 1:30 thinking, got up at 3 and came over here, made a fire and put on a pot of hot water. Let the day games begin. The OBOR train arrived on time at 3:44, i.e., right now. I’m going on board that fast train to nowhere for a test ride, free of charge.
I’m flying on the high rails at 333 mph, heading for Alaska and then over the top through Russia; should arrive Moscow in 33 hours. The ride is comfortable enough but the scenery flies by in rapid motion; takes getting used to. The service is excellent. Having oatmeal and tea for breakfast. The Chinese and Russian staff are most attentive.
I’m looking out the window as Frisco whisks by, getting a reflection of my own face–a window and mirror world to be sure. We should get to the Bering Strait in four hours. The stop in the Bay Area was short and to the point. I’m asking “what is the point of this high speed race?” It seems like a “rat race” on steroids, if every place you get to is now basically the same.
I suppose there will be MacDonald’s in Moscow and Donald Trump towers there too. Now we have Trump golf courses and casinos all over the globe, or soon will have. Business is booming while the planet is burning.
At 77 and counting, I’ve seen a lot of changes from valleys to mountain ranges. A couple of old time phrases come to mind despite my attempt to get into the swing of the fast lane. “Tortoise and the Hare.” “What does it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own soul?”
Then there’s the “reinventing the wheel” meme related by the Love Government. We’ve been given the gift of a womam’s circle, which we rejected in the “fall of man” from paradise reinvention of his kind of wheeling and dealing, like this high speed race to “Anywhere Globalism.”
Jesus was taken up to the Temple pinnacle and shown the kingdoms of the world, past, present and future. He could be king of it all, said the regent of the time. Jesus turned down the offer and took the slow donkey train to the Garden of Gethsemane, outside the walls. He wept over Jerusalem when he foresaw where it was heading with an exponentially increasing speed. I wonder why.
On this trip I’m working on the Count Khazar stories which first appeared at Saker.is in the cafe of 10/7/16 at 6:10 pm, now in a video venue where I read the novel chapter by chapter with an explanatory overview. It’s part of seven new aspects of the Love Government website which finally is getting up to the slow speed of a turtle, at a snail mail pace.
Count Khazar is playing the bad guy in the story. It might be unfair and historically imprecise but someone has to play devil’s advocate. In the story of “Love and War” the Love Army and Love Bower are given a voice. Several main characters represent the geo-political players on the present world stage, with hints as to their universal handlers.
What fascinates me is the discovery of where we came from, why are we here and where are we going. These are philosophical and theological questions that have to be slowly “rediscovered.” To do that I think we have to use a vineyard mentality of slow growth vines. A “cafe” within a vineyard is well suited to the purpose. We can relax and let our hair down, as we sip tea and savor the conversation.
We have quite a meeting of minds here, a good mix which the moderators prevent from turning into a witches’ brew. I’m from the old school so it’s helpful to learn from the new school. This vineyard for me has become my new “information clearing house” and “info wars” source of what’s happening in the real and ideal worlds.
From here I can branch out in many directions, as I am doing now on this high speed rail trip. I see by the clock that I’ve been traveling now for an hour. This fall I plan on taking the slow train back to my birth place in Wisconsin. It’s a symbolic as well as a “real” trip, linking the Chumash Indian maiden, Ojai, to the Menominee Indian, Chief Tomah in Tomah, Wisconsin.
The Southwest Chief Amtrak stops at Dodge City, the wild west frontier town where the cattle met the railroad. Symbolically, I have to behave or I won’t get out of Dodge alive. Well, I’m an old curmudgeon so I depend on you to show me where the ley lines lie. Don’t want to “step over a line that only you can see.” Guess that’s why I need community.
The link that Bro posted to the new high speed OBOR China to everywhere ley line map was quite awesome. Looks like the new, new world order has arrived. Not sure I like it, but I’ll try to integrate it into the old tried and true systems of governance. The Love Government is my alternative government to the ones we have now. It’s not a matter of one or the other but of both together.
I see that it’s now 5 am PDT and 11 am UTC. This week according to the love calendar time is the 21st week of the year, with the theme of “Justice.” Let me send you a poem for that week by high speed internet, which will fortunately slow down enough for you to read at your leisure when it arrives at your computer. Then I must mosey along to Roy Rogers “Get Along Little Dogies” from 1940 when I was but a month to a year old (born December 10, 1939).
—————-
True and Cruel Justice
A Pandora’s box spilling
Forth both good and ill
Old clothes sorted and put out
Old angers aired and hung out
Knots and gnarls worked out
Hardened hurts gently turned
To hearts willing to heal
The past hangs in balance
On a wheel of future dream
A multi-titrated machine
Purchased on a layaway plan
Redeemed with the last payment
Justice is blind, karma cruel
In eye for eye lawful land
Past shadows present stand
In the harsh winter snow
And blowing summer sand
The pan burns, my wife turns
On me, fanning flames of old
Ah ha, another strand to unravel
An ancient photo to review
Love, Dennis the Denizen
copy to Ojai, CA at 5:32 PDT
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against ISIS?
Not Russia???
Nó wonder zio media is going ape…..
According to Russia insider article today…the outrage is because T revealed that CIA has knowledge of /with ISIS planning to attack Russian targets eg aeroplanes…and so T warned Lavrov that this could happen…thus revealing this intelligence “presence” within or associated with ISIS…..and that CIA were “covering up” these ISIS intentions against Russia……
I am so surprised – not.
I suspected as much.
And the fact that the ‘ally’ that supplied the info is deeply implicated in it.
artcle in post above is
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/washington-post-reveals-isis-was-partner-supplying-trump-intelligence-briefing-russian
John Helmer Dances with bears
but note
“Putin says he has transcript that PROVES Trump did not pass Russia any secrets and hits out at ‘stupid’ US politicians he says are trying to undermine the President
Putin said Russia was ready to hand a transcript of Trump’s meeting with Russia’s foreign minister over to U.S. lawmakers if that would help
He said Moscow initially found debates about Russia meddling in U.S. politics as ‘funny’ but said Moscow is now ‘concerned’
Putin dismissed the U.S. politicians who came up with the ‘nonsense’ as either being ‘stupid’ or ‘dangerous and unscrupulous’
Putin implied that someone is hampering Trump’s efforts at being President
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This is also the lead story at Breitbart.
Les Deplorables, who make up much of the commentariat, overwhelmingly state that they trust Putin more than the US corporate media.
Seems they’re not so easily herded despite the sterling efforts of the MSM.
A lot believe the latest ‘Russian plot’ hysteria is being orchestrated to keep the Seth Rich issue off the front page.
Thanks JJ.
So Fiona Hill is likely one of the leakers – Director of National Intelligence, member of the CFR, currently on leave from The Brookings Institute
…
Figures.
That the accusation would originate at the Wapo, Bezoz ‘CIA organ.
The folks who also brought us PropOrNot.
An article by Hill on the’ psychology ‘ of Putin, written in the breathless style typical of Murdoch tabloids (wonder if they trained her to’ sex up’ the typically academic style of Brookings and other stink tanks?)
https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-makes-putin-tick-and-what-the-west-should-do/
Have to admit to being downright astonished at this piece of utter hokum.
This is the quality of mind that gets hired as Director of National Intelligence?
On reflection, it makes sense.
You don’t want real brains potentially upsetting the applecart.
Still, couldn’t they at least find someone with a better vocabulary?
Actually, I have two specific examples of beneficiary countries of the Americas, in terms of OBOR:
Chile, which I have never been to, and Ecuador, where I achieved my fluency in Spanish in grades 4-7.
CHILE:
From:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017
Volume 4, Number 92
EIR Daily Alert Service
P.O. Box 17390, Washington, DC 20041-0390
May 9 (EIRNS)—In an interview with Xinhua published today, the Chilean Ambassador to China Jorge Heine remarked that the May 14-15 Belt and Road Forum in Beijing “couldn’t happen at a better time.”
There is great uncertainty in the world economy, he said, “and in this sense, I believe that convening an important number of heads of state from many countries to examine what’s happening—beyond the specific projects of the Belt and Road—offers us a much broader scope.”
The Chilean ambassador pointed out that while Ibero-American nations’ participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) isn’t extensive right now, conditions exist for this to change quickly. Heine emphasized that South America’s participation in the BRI can be expanded: “Everything that has to do with facilitating cargo transportation, trade and logistics with this part of the world is key; anything that can carry this out in expedited fashion … more efficiently and less costly is of great importance.” Chile’s government has already signed a contract with a Chinese company for a pre-feasibility study to build a third underwater fiber optic cable between Chile and China which will greatly enhance “digital connectivity…. This is a concrete expression of how to extend the Belt and Road via the Pacific Ocean to the Americas,” he said.
ECUADOR
While the Bering Straits is the unique point where “The Twain Shall Ever Meet” (sorry, Rudy, but you were wrong!), Ecuador is none of the few most notable places where North Meets South. In about 1962 or 1963 I stood at this spot in the Andes, South of Otavalo (Northern Hemisphere) but a little north of the capital, Quito:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Equator+Monument+Ecuador&qpvt=Equator+Monument+Ecuador&qpvt=Equator+Monument+Ecuador&qpvt=Equator+Monument+Ecuador&FORM=IGRE
Ecuador’s ‘Knowledge City,’ Yachay, a Key Component of Belt and Road Initiative
May 9 (EIRNS)—“China Contributes to the Development of Ecuador’s First Knowledge City,” was the headline on a Xinhua article today pointing to China’s role in helping to build Ecuador’s “Knowledge City”—known by its Quechua name “Yachay”—which is a center of scientific, technological, industrial and educational development. It aims, Xinhua notes, “to transform Ecuador into an exporter of knowledge.” It is also a component of China’s BRI.
Yachay consists of four phases, only the first phase of which is completed. The Chinese company that has played the greatest role in developing Yachay, a 4,439-hectare campus (17 sq.mi.) located in the northwestern part of Ecuador’s Imbabura province, is China Gezhouba Group Company, Ltd. (CGGC).
CGGC executive Wu Jianjun told Xinhua that “building the Yachay Knowledge City is profoundly linked to the increase in the rate of local employment, industrial modernization, and the increased entry of more citizens; this, at the same time, corresponds to the Belt and Road Initiative presented by our government.” Technical manager Andrés Troya says Yachay’s goal is to train the “best human talent” available to produce the knowledge needed to develop a diversified economy.
Raffarin To Head French Delegation to BRI, ‘A Peaceful Project for World Development’
Spirit, Mind, Matter in that order. Not upside down, as in the Satanic New World (Dis) Order
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
I knew (he died of cancer) the black author who coined that phrase, in advertising, before he joined the “Good Fight”, as Plato put it. More on him, later.
Germany UTC 18:15 1. Channel: Black mass, 2. Channel UTC 17:00 the same.
But no one has to keep on attending lest being a Mungo.
Yep. OBOR_ now BRI (Belt and Road initiative) is a huge, global “game changer” .
It’ll be harshly challenged, hijacked and co-opted by those with competing vested interests.
But the BRI has momentum….. It’s about tipping points. Avalanches start slowly…. then suddenly, there is a major movement, and whole mountains can crash… So it will be with BRI…. Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow…. And then suddenly… The world will look very different….. The “world island” will be in place, and trade, once again following the ancient, ancient paths will be restored.
Let’s see, when is a siege not a siege?
When you have to get an OK from those who control, the air and the land before you move.
https://www.rt.com/uk/388508-sas-base-syrian-army/
Under the heading of insane thinking. Ukraine has banned VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. The most popular social media sites in Ukraine. Far more popular even than Facebook there. Those 2 sites alone are used by almost half of all Ukrainians daily. Over 20 million Ukrainians use them every day.When you factor out underage people. The figure for adult usage would increase to probably 65% or so. They have also banned Yandex the most popular search site in Ukraine. And numerous other companies. All because they are “Russian”. As could be expected the Ukrainian population in general is “less” than happy over that:
‘North Korea in Europe’: Ukrainians baffled, angry & sarcastic after ban on Russian social networks
https://www.rt.com/news/388553-ukraine-social-media-ban/
Porko probably used the same ‘consultants’ as Erdogan for this latest genius move….
and NATO says it is happy with that cos they want to ensure the spread of democracy, and says these were security risks–yup, for those peoples realising their country is bankrupt and the Ukraine dream is fast failing….!
check this out too
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201705171053686468-sweden-free-speech/
“The state-funded Swedish Institute has landed in hot water for its controversial practice of registering nonconformist opinions and maintaining a blacklist of dissenters, which includes party leaders, MPs, journalists and foreign ambassadors. This is largely at odds with Sweden’s profile as the defender of free speech.”
Katechon
As playing through a game of chess
That seems at best to end in draw
The holding-back preserves, provokes
all while enmity grows…
Actors behind drama,
Drama beneath the show,
this contraption may well survive us;
it is not unkillable.
SethRich
For anyone who wants a good resource to either catch-up, or a revision on why the Seth Rich murder is much, much, much more than a “robber gone wrong”, there’s a great commentary at this link.
The commentators offer a wealth of other (important and damning) links.
This is seriously valuable citizen-civic compiling of sources.
Why does USA have 17 “intelligence” agencies, when not one seems able to compile a body of evidence as comprehensive as that pieced together collaboratively by civic-minded citizens?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/16/report-44000-emails-and-attachments-sent-to-wikileaks-by-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/
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Also @bro93
I am interested in your view on the numerology of the Seth Rich ~ Wikileaks
Revelation.
I saw a commentator at another blog allude that the “numbers” were a clue ~ vis, Deep State.
So it is reported 44,053 emails were leaked. With 17761 attachments
I see the 1776 – a “patriotic” number, but is there a “meaning” in the 44,053 number?
If that means something – 44,053 is a prime number. It is the 5063th prime number (I think).
17761 is also a prime number. It is the 3039th prime number (I think).
https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/10000.txt
sorry, I’m not competent in earthly conundrums
got enough to deal with the heavenly ones
Getting ready for an early Thursday flight. Just wanted WW to know I read his question —-and the primes input by anon…..and will ponder it.
It seems most cafe regulars here enjoy well written, forensically researched material presented with a twist of irony.
So I highly recommend Daniel Hopsicker Madcowprod.com site.
Here’s a teaser:
Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel
Posted on March 31, 2017 by Daniel Hopsicker
New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009, has been in business since 2004 in Guyana with a politically powerful crime family involved in international drug trafficking whose most famous member is a drug pilot who had also been the chief pilot of the owner of the flight school in Venice Florida that taught Mohamed Atta to fly.
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WASHINGTON, May 16. /TASS/. Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska on Monday filed a legal action for libel against Associated Press.
“On March 22, 2017, AP, by and through its writers Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, published an article (hereinafter the “Article”) that falsely accused Mr. Deripaska of involvement in criminal acts and other improprieties,” the document says.
“This is an action for defamation by direct statements and by implication,” it says.
“The Article is structured to imply falsely that Mr. Deripaska’s commercial dealings from the period between 2005 and 2009 were somehow related to alleged criminal conduct and improprieties related to the campaign of then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
“The AP had (and has) no basis for reporting that any contract between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort provided for the undermining of democratic movements,” it said.
More:
http://tass.com/politics/946006
Transcript of Real News Network interview with Russia relations expert, Robert English:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/fbi-leak-comey-memo.html#comment-2817020
Though a bit ‘cagey’, English gives a good overview of the history of Russian – US relations, and speculates on why peace with Russia has various vested interests’ knickers in a twist.
Good morning to wherever you are on the rising and falling curve, which most but not all call a round world. At 5 am my time a half moon is riding high as the first grey dawn is covering the eastern sky. I love how Brother Sun chases Sister Moon with the stars watching over them in this glorious pageant of nature which sadly so many of us are trying to mess with for some kind of power make-over.
In regards to OBOR or Belt Road Initiative, I’m for slow, reasonable and sustainable growth. My lifestyle conforms to this philosophy. I live in a little house of plastic sheeting, chop wood and carry water, etc. It’s 50 degrees so I made a fire in a woodstove and put on a pot of well water. Quite a different way to live now at 77 compared with what I used to endure.
The interesting question is: how did it happen? Well, in part I programmed for it and desired it. That modus operandi applies to the social level as well as the personal.
Which brings me to politics. First, I support Donald Trump, not because he’s perfect but because he’s better than the alternative. I see that his enemies are now trying to remove him by claiming he’s insane. Talk about projection! They’re the ones that are insane by any reasonable standard. I am a bit disappointed by what comes close to Trump bashing with some of the articles and comments here. At the very least, it shows ingratitude for what he was already accomplished with enemies all around him who want him dead. The man has balls and brains to survive this kind of hatred.
As for political philosophy, I believe in small government, ideally a Love Government which is founded on herstory; and small communities that are within a context of such smallness globally. This is the only way to resist the forces of totalitarian and corrupt big state run institutions. That depends on individuals who are integrated in their knowledge and mutual love.
This vineyard has the potential of that kind of smallness and simplicity, only up on a global and virtual scale. Plus the advantage of being anti-war; and with a religious base that has the developmental dynamic of Christianity built in.
That being said, human nature does not brook real change in character easily. The Love Government with its Love Army and Love Bower can attest to that. Solutions that deal with real causes are reacted against when they hit to close to home and hurt our feelings and habits in the course of healing. The good intentions of good people without virtuous and educated minds can as the proverb says: pave a road to hell.
The proper order as I see it is: “mind over emotion.” Emotion is vitally important and in my case often is the more powerful force in the short term, but over the long haul I need an open and inquiring mind to steer a safe course through the stormy waters of life.
Small communities are the key. Christianity once almost had them when they were small and “shared everything in common.” But they soon took the bigness lure and bit on the bait and switch hook, and mutated into big business institutions.
Trump said he was nationalist and globalist. There is a truth in that. The template for that was laid down in herstory which history rebelled against in its quest for big powers, introducing an anti-love philosophy, hunting and meat eating, pet domesticating, monogamous sex, monoagriculture, monotheism, monomoney and a monoworld generally.
Oneness is a nice idea but without the other numbers it morphs into totalitarian big state governments which institutionalize the master-slave system. To oppose this Empire of managed chaos, I must stand as a man against it; at the very least for my own salvation. If there is no small community available, I must be a community in myself until the time comes when the “small is beautiful” idea returns as it must–this time within a global philosophy and theology that supports it.
OBOR reversed is ROBO which has an ominous feeling of robot with a silent t. It can turn out to be a good thing if, and that’s a capital IF, we have a philosophy that values small ness as well as all ness. Both are needed but in harmony and balance. The trumpism of national and global is true.
The early Christians are a fine example as a start but of course they did not share everything when it came to sex, situated in a patriarchal cult of a culture as they were. They were trapped in a philosophy of mono this and mono that, including monotheism and monogamy.
The Christian theology of the Trinity at least softened the stricture of Monoism. God is a community after all, in addition to his onederful singularity. Can’t take that from Him. Genesis says “Let us [note the plural] make man in our image.” What He of his-story thought of woman is left unsaid.
The Love Army uses the “shock and awe” term of “communal sex” to break the hard shell of Monoeverything totalitarianism but it’s a tough nut to crack. The Love Bower tries to brake the mad rush of Monomoney to an oborland of fantasy wastelands where everything is one big commercial market of ken and barbie dolls, counterfeit paper thin in thought and deed but again it’s hard to put the skids on that fast train to nowhere worthwhile going to.
Well enough ranting and rolling down the tracks to dizzyworld on steroids. I need to eat and do some work while I smell the flowers and savor the taste of good food and conversation in this cafe of diverse opinion, held together by well moderated guidelines of truth and tolerance.
Thanks so much for providing an oasis of comfort in this fast-paced and drug-laced world which is heading…well, I’m not quite sure where. Need a mind to tell the emotions where to turn the wheel. I guess that’s why I like a vineyard philosophy of “small and all.”
Love, Dennis, from Ojai (oh-high) as the sun line slow train comes over the eastern hill at 6:46 to rise high in the sky and warm us all with its love.
This morning I wanted to find out if Democrat asshat Al Green was as good as his tough talk about rising to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump. The latest I knew about this process, you had to have a list of charges called “articles of Impeachment.” Not only that, but, they had to be factual.
Years ago, during the approval process of a certain candidate for the Supreme Court, the smear-mongers came out of the woodwork with charges of sexual harassment against him. His opponents reasoned before the American people who seemed to accept their view, that the seriousness of the charges outweighed their veracity. And here we see the same smear-monger tactics being used again against an elected President they don’t like. Will America lay down and let this go by without even a whimper of outrage?
The search results, all the way to page five of them were not worth the bandwidth to open for reading. It is the same dreck from the same liberal retards who make a career of saying stupid things. How long does America want to put up with stupidity, or, will they let these clowns speak for them without challenge and let the deep state rip the guts out of their country?
Thanks, MsLiberty. You have said it better than I could. The latest hateful insanity from the lefties might even bypass articles of impeachment, by claiming Trump is insane; and this is done by vote, not evidence. What garbage! But this is what abandonment of reason and evidence and law does to people and nations. See Alex Jones and Roger Stone talking on the street with traffic going by. I saw it yesterday at InfoWars. Like you, they nailed it. If I’ve mis-read you, let me know. I really can’t understand why we’re not all rallying behind Trump, based on reason and practical strategy. Have we been brainwashed by the Empire?
Keep us posted. I for one, would like to hear more from MsLiberty, who resonates with my idea of the Statue of Liberty in the Harbor and the Statue of Freedom atop the dome of the Capital. Oh, when will we catch up with these wonderful icons of freedom?
We don’t have too much to care for their game, the three great gamers are caring.
They know, we deem and follow the days on and on.
The time has more in it’s lap than the offical and hidden game.
It has for everyone in the lap the personal discourse with God in which way ever, mainly in the second half of life.
To me this discourse implies the viewing and contemplating of his “sons and daughters”, the archetypes of the Sun-family a on the earth – horizon of each place , and to imagine their paradox loving kind dealing with the diversities within and without their borders, whose best probe we miraculous living being called men are, created by the contradictions in nature mysteriously perfect.
So it was done this afternoon and here is the message:
“A Biggy for Venus and the Community of Man”
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/05/5_14.html
People with too much money Pt 1:
“Notes from an Emergency” [Maciej Cegłowski, Idle Words]. This is really a must-read; it’s an angle on the tech world (and Haygood’s FIve Horsemen) that we rarely see. Here’s a sample, and save us from squillionaires with bright ideas:
Given this scary state of the world, with ecological collapse just over the horizon, and a population sharpening its pitchforks, an important question is how this globalized, unaccountable tech industry sees its goals. What does it want? What will all the profits be invested in?
What is the plan?
The honest answer is: rocket ships and immortality.
I wish I was kidding.
The best minds in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with a science fiction future they consider it their manifest destiny to build. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing each other to Mars. Musk gets most of the press, but Bezos now sells $1B in Amazon stock a year to fund Blue Origin. Investors have put over $8 billion into space companies over the past five years, as part of a push to export our problems here on Earth into the rest of the Solar System.
As happy as I am to see Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fired into space, this does not seem to be worth the collapse of representative government.
Our cohort of tech founders is feeling the chill breath of mortality as they drift into middle age. And so part of what is driving this push into space is a more general preoccupation with ‘existential risk’.
Musk is persuaded that we’re living in a simulation, and he or a fellow true believer has hired programmers to try to hack it.
Peter Thiel, our most unfortunate German import, has built a survival retreat for himself in New Zealand.
Sam Altman hoards gold in Big Sur.
OpenAI, a religious cult thinly disguised as a research institution, has received $1B in funding to forestall the robot rebellion.
The biggest existential risk, of course, is death, so a lot of money is going to make sure that our big idea men don’t expire before the world has been received the full measure of their genius.
Google Ventures founded the very secretive life extension startup Calico, with $1.5B dollars in funding. Google loses $4B a year on its various “moon shots”, which include life extension. They employ Ray Kurzweil, who believes we’re still on track for immortality by 2045. Larry Ellison has put $370M to anti-aging research, as anybody would want to live in a world with an immortal Larry Ellison. Our plutocrats are eager to make death an opt-out experience.
Now, I’m no fan of death. I don’t like the time commitment, or the permanence. A number of people I love are dead and it has strained our relationship.
But at the same time, I’m not convinced that a civilization that is struggling to cure male-pattern baldness is ready to take on the Grim Reaper. If we’re going to worry about existential risk, I would rather we start by addressing the two existential risks that are indisputably real—nuclear war and global climate change—and working our way up from there.
But real problems are messy.