2017/08/09 10:30:01
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The Empire Strikes Back: with destructive and dishonest neocolonialism
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/399004-colonialism-venezuela-empire-us-britain/
“Today’s more shadowy Empire of Globalized Monopoly Finance-Capital does no such thing. Entire countries, such as Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq, are destroyed for not toeing the line, while those which continue to defy the neocon/neoliberal elites, such as Venezuela, are under a state of permanent siege.
To add insult to injury this new wave of colonization, carried out to benefit the richest people in the richest countries in the world, is done in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘advancing human rights’ and has the enthusiastic support of many self-styled ‘progressives.’ The hypocrisy of today’s imperialists who lambaste Venezuela’s Maduro for being a ‘dictator’ but who hail the unelected hereditary rulers of Saudi Arabia as they sell them deadly weaponry is truly breathtaking.”
Decent article on the colonialism to neo-colonialism transformation by the oligarchy, mainly through their american enforcer colony.
Thank you. The Venezuelan situation is well worth following for the light it throws on previous situations like Ukraine and the tactics used.
Abby Martin has done some excellent brave work filming the actual events on the ground, the organized violent opposition provocateurs, the economic hoarding sabotage of the oligarchs etc.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Abby-Martin-in-Venezuela-Semi-Armed-Protesters-Are-Using-Violent-Tactics-20170703-0031.html
/abby-martin-world-ignores-opposition-violence-at-venezuela-protests/
Like vanessa beeley and eva bartlett in syria, and nicole johnston and stephanie dekker during the israeli slaughter in gaza, realtime on-the-ground fact filming is enormously helpful contrast to the mythic opinionating of the msm.
Here are the actual socioeconomic achievements of Chavez in venezuela.
http://cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/venezuelan-economic-and-social-performance-under-hugo-chavez-in-graphs
The following commentary makes an excellent partner piece to the Clark commentary I posted on neo-colonialism.
Grotesque Logic for Venezuela, The Cuban Revolution and the Second Road of Ana Belén Montes
http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-its-hard-to-understand-whats-happening-in-venezuela/5603345
“It should be familiar logic. Einstein said that “mere thinking” doesn’t produce great science. He knew something Marx knew, namely, that facts always depend upon a particular perspective. It means that situations sometimes need to be changed, fundamentally, to see the facts, or some of them.
It is why José Martí declared, in his famous ‘Our America”, that a bigger hurdle for Latin America, than the power of the North, was a false view of being educated. It doesn’t happen just by possessing information. Some information doesn’t figure, without work. This point matters.”
This commentary compliments the Clark and Babbitt pieces.
Global Deception: “The War on Terror” is a Campaign for Permanent War and Terror
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-deception-the-war-on-terroris-a-campaign-for-permanent-war-and-terror/5603173
“The “War On Terror”, an outgrowth of the crimes of September 11, 2001[1], was never a war on terror. It has always been a campaign for permanent war and terror. War is terror.
The terrorists in Syria, including al Qaeda[2], are proxies for the West’s dirty war on Syria. They are aided and abetted by illegal sanctions and every tactic used by the West to destroy the country and its institutions. Any action that the West takes against the Syrian Arab Army or the Syrian government aids the terrorists, since the SAA and the Syrian government are the dominant forces fighting the terrorists.
The veil of confusion drops every time the official narratives change. The terrorists who reportedly flew into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon were, reportedly, al Qaeda[3]. Al Qaeda is the supposed enemy. But the West supports al Qaeda and all the terrorists in Syria, so whereas al Qaeda is one of humanity’s enemies, al Qaeda is the ally of those who control the levers of power. The enemy consists of the neo-con “power elites” who are orchestrating the terror, the globalized war, and the globalized poverty beneath their public lies and deceptions. The enemy consists of publicly-financed warfare states, like the U.S, and increasingly its allies, which endanger and impoverish humanity for the perceived benefit of the elites and corporate profits.”
cheers for posting all these VT
Excellent report with maps and analysis–South Front just keeps getting better and better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhcierEEjm4
http://theduran.com/ukraine-hollows-out/
interesting analytical article re the real state-?- of The Ukraine?
Good morning, Cafe Comrades and Vineyard Visionaries,
Bro is burning through without burning out but has time for a bed incliner. Mundo is waxing poetic about stars and family. ioan goes from prose to poesy seamlessly. terranam cruises the ranges of observation fearlessly. Anonymous touches sweetly with advanced womamhood; and adds the spice of humor with the “manslator”–where were they when I needed them?
The Saker’s back is on my mind. How can he operate as he does with such pain? He must be a saint, like the ascetics of desert fame. I could not do it. I need an oasis in the desert, not a submarine in the sand.
I need poetry like a fish needs water, or those awesome cargo ocean-liners in Anonymous’s link. This week in the love calendar is about soulmates, featuring the tarot card “The Lovers.” I wrote the following 21 line poem about my wife years past. We were married going on thirty years ago on Venice Beach, California where we walked to and fro from the bungalow we lived at on Grand Canal.
She taught me many things, including that monogamy does not need to be monotony. Oh, the ups and downs of love, peace and war. The sublime beauty of love. We get on better now divorced, although not with the same passion of healing and hurt. Our son is moving in with me, after being out on his own for a few years, and after living with his mom for a few; and now going back to school for a new career, saving money for school by living with his dad. He’ll be in my motorhome while I live outside, but we’ll share the same 10,000 square foot space. Should prove interesting in a karmic recycling way.
At 77, I’m now in a more universal love way than the particular expressions of marriage and parenting but the same need for love and friends remains. This cafe is part of my love day now, for better or worse. A marriage of a different degree, more universal and controversial. Anyway, for the following poem, visualize the beach with a wedding party of some fifty people, married by a minister friend, with home-made ceremonies of rings, gifts, white dresses and beige suits and ties, old friends and religious congregants, bread and wine and songs and poetry by friends. Afterwards, we had drinks and a meal at our house, where we cut the carrot cake and later the rug, feeding each other and tossing the garter overhead. So much sweetness for the small bitters to follow. But all in all, like vineyards short and tall, it’s “I can make it, Ma, it’s life and life only.”
———————
I knew you were the one
When I saw you standing in the sun
The sky in your eyes blew
Kisses to your sleeping beauty
Awakening the spring flowers
Opening gifts from the Mistress
In that wedding by the sea
The waves washed your dress white
The wind winnowed the sand
Gulls sang to the ring on your hand
The wine and the bread
Knelt to the veil round your head
Angels passing by
Hushed their cry
The smile in your eye
Brought boats about
The bend in your back
To the vale of your dreams
Sail on sweet soul
The shore you’ve dreamed
Is more than it seemed
——————
I rededicate the poem to Apolonia, lover, mother and now earth mother matron, out on her own in the Carrizo Plain, north of here between San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield, in a trailer on two and a half acres, in the semi-wild where she belongs. To show how the ties of blood bind even in finances, I now give half my income to her and my son, as long as he goes to school, in equal parts; and when my son is out of school my ex will receive half my income, by voluntary reciprocal gift sans lawyers and courts.
Likewise, to put my money where my mouth is, and to have Saker’s back for having mine, I give three hundred dollars average per annum in cash via snail mail to him–not to brag but to flag the importance of giving, towards the goal of Saker’s pain-free life of independence from having to do a second job at all. How much better to be a Saker full-time with no money worries or constraints, than to be constrained by commitments to family and of all things, to pets, with the ever-present clear and present danger of becoming a pet of empire by association, all of which takes a toll on one’s back from fighting to prevent being “backed” into a corner. The way out is the way through which involves every me and you.
The Saker called fire down upon himself when he adopted the banner of “stop the Empire’s war on Russia.” The Empire can and will answer such audacity. Sometimes it’s a direct attack; sometimes it’s indirectly from the back.
I’m a coward when it comes to pain. That’s why I take the easy way of the Love Army and Bower; they protect me with their superior resources. Jesus took the hard road down; I take the easy way up. He said: “I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how restless I am until it be blazing.” I prefer the way of water, and womam’s water at that. “He who hungers and thirsts, let him come to me and drink, for out of my belly [and vulva] flow rivers of living water.” I believe Jesus spoke from his Inner Anima, from the Lover Womam we all are. Even his enemies had to admit: “Never has man spoken as this man.” True, he was speaking as a Womam and as a Womam’s Man. “Oh, what a lucky man was he.” (Emerson, Lake and Palmer).
Love, Dennis
I love this kind of (hopefully)non boring lover ‘theology’. This was no mantra
this was a confession. I like confessions. And it was rich and dense. Mucho interesting done by a holy coward or so.
And in a way religous which is near to me. It’s like Hannah Arends children belief
and thrust and the ‘someone’ who is speaking in me is close to the someone who is thinking in me. And it spoke in me of the parallel of God to Adam like wife’ father to her man.
Listening to Adam giving names to plants and animals the creator saw that Adam needed help and finally extracted the missing woman out of man’ dark within. What does this story of the genesis tells us?
Your Jesus’ ‘Inner Anima’ : great metaphor, Jung would notice a wet-water expression, cause anima and animus are allways the inner opposite of man and womum, guided by the minority of genes of the opposite sex of each man and woman.
I love if a writer knows what he alludes to … and look for further probes.
For You would be really interesting the correspondence between Jung and Father White. And I would appreciate the resonances, their reading by you would
submit. Far far stuff prepared with extraordinary precision.
To add the poiesis of the week to the attempts to rationalize the irrational:
Venus’ Drama and the Rare Sinus of Next Week
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/08/8.html
Cafe on the Louvre, with the Pyramid in the yard. Symbols of power so deeply loved by players. Sometimes I fail to understand them, I’m almost like a blind, willing something to find :
Almost like a blind
Following the players and their action,
I ask myself if I understand as well
What’s their message and direction,
Up to the Heaven, or down to the Hell.
Whatever smart I’d be,
Can’t reach up to their mind,
However good I see,
I’m almost like a blind.
Being frustrated by too much obedience
From those who can make a change,
Seeing the signs of fear and impotence,
I wonder on the players dance on stage.
Whatever smart I’d be,
Can’t reach up to their mind,
However good I see,
I’m almost like a blind.
Running like amok, the time is moving fast
Leaving behind the dust of human worry,
Hanging in the air, between the now and past,
Seeking for the glory, or telling “I am sorry”.
Whatever smart I’d be,
Can’t reach up to their mind,
However good I see,
I’m almost like a blind.
Somebody is always listening behind the wall
Maybe they catch a word and have a clue,
On who’s behind the scene, on who’s gonna fall
Then giving a speech but not telling the true.
Whatever smart I’d be,
Can’t reach up to their mind,
However good I see,
I’m almost like a blind.
Maybe the time for playing around, soon is over
No more smiling faces full of irony and bitter hate
And everybody shall run in a hurry to find a cover
Arrogance and power grabbing will find their fate.
Whatever smart I’d be,
Can’t reach up to their mind,
However good I see,
I’m almost like a blind.
Very, very good ioan. And like Dennis says, you switch so well between prose and poetry. I have a major prose poem and a minor one (prose) on tumblr which I would send you the link too or post it if you were interested. Each one has a preface explaining what I am trying to do in the poem.
Thanks lasttruebeliver for your kind words. Of course I’d love to see your work, this Cafe has just opened so come on ! good to see you here.
The major one is at blog/clearloverphilosopher/Jimi, Blue, and God and is “a tale of spiritual exile.” The minor one is at blog/thelyingimposter/Incantatory V(k)erses from a Raging Heart and is “an experiment in prophetic voice meets empire.”
The last is 14 song lyrics, some of which I posted here, at blog/unholymariner/last true believer. The theme here is mainly “mocking empire.”
They are all parked on tumblr.com. You shouldn’t have to join up to see them. I hope you read them.
Well my friend, you have to tell me the way to get to that link cause I tried, tried, entered tumbir, searched on blogs, nothing just a lot of other things.
I’m sorry for the difficulty! If you hit “search tumblr” on the left upper corner and just type “Jimi, blue, and god” on the Tumblr sign in page you should get it. Same with Incantatory v(k)erses from a raging heart and last true believer. Hope it works!
Thanks, it seems it works now. Let me some time to have a deeper look, OK ?
I turn to this community for answers and want to ask everybody here the following:
Why are Russia and China still issuing debt based currency?
I expect everybody here is educated about the monetary system, private central banks and interest on debt.
Why on earth do both Russia and China still chastise themselves by issuing currency through debt?
I can not find a good reason for this.
Interesting question.
I cannot claim to be “educated about the monetary system, private central banks and interest on debt” but I understand a few things.
We know that both Russia and China have been accumulating very large amounts of gold, and there has been discussion of a forthcoming gold-backed ruble or yuan. Many critics of fiat currencies, the petrodollar, etc., believe this is the way to go. So a logical question is: why hasn’t this happened yet?
Overall, my suspicion is that there are some finer points concerning the Chinese and Russian economies, and the relationship between PMs and fiat, that are well understood by the architects of finance but not discussed in public. In other words, there are good reasons why it hasn’t happened, but policy makers are keeping mum, keeping their powder dry, etc.
From here, my understanding is very crude, I have only general hypotheses, and so I hope somebody else will jump into this thread and educate me.
A first observation is that China, at least, is attempting a very dramatic transformation of their national economy, from an export-driven “factory of the world”, to one that is driven by infrastructure spending and policies aimed at building strong domestic demand. Thus, all the talk of OBOR investment in infrastructure abroad, and building those “ghost cities” in China, etc. The simplest way to effect this transformation has been by accumulating a large amount of debt. If, by contrast, China had switched to a gold-backed yuan five or ten years ago, could she have bankrolled these initiatives? I tend to think the answer is “no”.
A second observation concerns how the transition is in fact already happening. Last year, for example, the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) launched a renminbi-denominated contract to set a benchmark price for gold bullion. This move suggests that steps are already being taken to connect the yuan, at least, to gold.
However, I have a few questions about this.
At the time the SGE launched this new method to set a benchmark price for bullion, I wondered: “how will they compete with the London gold market, which has been in places for centuries? how will the price be decided?”. For example, if the price of gold on the London exchange is being artificially depressed through massive paper shorts, manipulation, etc. (as gold bugs argue), and if the SGE bullion price is not subject to all the same manipulation, then I would expect it to go higher, to where gold “should” be. In that situation, then, there would be a “low” price on the London exchange, and a “high” price on the Shanghai exchange.
But at that point, if you wanted to buy some physical gold, which price would you go with? The artificially low London price, which would buy you more gold, or the “correct” (but high) Shanghai price, which would buy you less gold? And, how will this nascent Shanghai gold market gain acceptance by selling the same thing for a higher price? My hypothesis was that the strategy would be to set up the SGE such that the price would not be very different from the “London” price, at least for some number of years, until the Shanghai market becomes established and volume is good. At that time (or if the manipulation of the London market is exposed in a LIBOR-type scandal), the SGE price could be “allowed” to go up to where it “should” be. There are lots of murky details here, though, that i don’t understand.
A third observation is that Russia and China are still dependent on the petrodollar economy, and until they sufficiently “de-dollarize”, they remain vulnerable to economic sanctions/punishment. The issuance of a gold-backed currency would be more than just a shot across the bow of the Western CB black ships. If it really posed an existential threat to the Western CBs, there could be very significant negative consequences, far beyond the current row over sanctions and grumblings over trade policy. Here, I’m thinking it could possibly set off a hot war. Of course, the public rationale wouldn’t be “they are trying to undermine our financial system”. There might be a false flag attack, or some other fake reason given, but the outcome would be the same: war.
Thoughts about this?
Reading LIBOR, did you know that not only did the banks manipulate the interbank cash lending rate, but invented it as such market ceased to exist decades ago?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-is-libor-crucial-financial-benchmark-a-lie-w497305
If the whole world can base a substantial fraction of its total lending on a fairy tale, it could swap this made-up LIBOR rate for any other made-up number. In principle, we should not wonder as credit literally means trust. Therefore, credit-based finance is a psychological phenomenon that can decouple itself from the economy it supposedly depends on. I seems to me that the finance sector did just that during the past two decades.
Now, would it be worth fighting wars for fictions?
CB and their feudal overlords will nod sure as hell, but the solution to this mess would be to dismantle credit-based money instead. I guess we are getting either of two results (maybe both): a world devastated by banker wars, or the burial of money and feudalism.
This song is censored in Europe.
Singing Putin: ‘Blueberry Hill’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekeq4szDmJo
who are the people who run Google and Twitter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZ0DgK0_C8
Find new grounds? or do we need new platforms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POFkqs-JwCc
Every day I see new spokespersons for sanity.
I like the passionate, articulate Crowder style (that teranam 13 introduces here) better than Alex Jones’ histrionics, but Jones no doubt welcomes the competition. He even had a guest on Infowars who hawked his own supplements and Alex said “Give ’em a try….I welcome competitors.” or something to that efffect………………..LOL.
One thing I did appreciate on Paul Joseph Watson’s anti Google video I viewed just before briefly stopping in here at the Cafe Louvre was the following “word play” :achieved by scrambling the letters in GOOGLE and exchanging the E for an A:
https://youtu.be/Jxk2uh5v2Eg?t=578 Watson on the same story…….
The result: GOOLAG
Now there is nothing left to do but pour a half glass of Merlot and slowly sip and chortle and reflect, as the 94.2% waning full moon rises, and does the same in the next half hour or so:
https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/usa/los-angeles
Been a long day, My week long ordeal is over. But the laughter from that psychological truth by some synchronous word player was energy restorative after the grogginess of a 4 hour crash nap this afternoon, with a nice interlude for a longer, deeper pit stop hopefully bracketing the end of this 9th day of August 2017..
Google actually seems to be censoring left progressive sites ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/09/google-censors-block-access-to-counterpunch-and-other-progressive-sites/
“AUGUST 9, 2017
Google Censors Block Access to CounterPunch and Other Progressive Sites
by ERIC SOMMER ”
https://blackagendareport.com/google-censors-the-real-left
“It’s Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.
Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor 03 Aug 2017
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all accounts the ONLY black owned, run and oriented left web site so targeted. Not Blavity. Not theRoot, which are not left and in the case of theRoot not black owned either. Nobody else black but us. How did that happen and what does it mean? How can you dodge the block. ”
” Last week the World Socialist Web Site released the results of an investigation into Google keyword search results pointing to 13 of the left wing sites identified by PropOrNot. Their data in the table below showed that Google searches pointing to their sites declined in aggregate volume by 45%.
* wsws.org fell by 67 percent
* alternet.org fell by 63 percent
* globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent
* consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent
* socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent
* mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent
* commondreams.org fell by 37 percent
* internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent
* democracynow.org fell by 36 percent
* wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent
* truth-out.org fell by 25 percent
* counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent
* theintercept.com fell by 19 percent “
Yes, ….and no trace of any of the alt-right media…..
Interesting……
Can anyone suggest good non-censoring websearch engines other than google ?
Try:
https://duckduckgo.com
Also, on the subject of Google, this article by Julian Assange is very interesting, and sheds a lot of light on the power structure and mission of the company:
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Thank you, the assange article is a useful corrective to a naive acceptance of google… sections like this,
” Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has. Schmidt’s tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of US power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation. But Google has always been comfortable with this proximity. Long before company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired Schmidt in 2001, their initial research upon which Google was based had been partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).48 And even as Schmidt’s Google developed an image as the overly friendly giant of global tech, it was building a close relationship with the intelligence community.
In 2003 the US National Security Agency (NSA) had already started systematically violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) under its director General Michael Hayden.
These were the days of the “Total Information Awareness” program.50 Before PRISM was ever dreamed of, under orders from the Bush White House the NSA was already aiming to “collect it all, sniff it all, know it all, process it all, exploit it all.”51 During the same period, Google—whose publicly declared corporate mission is to collect and “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”52—was accepting NSA money to the tune of $2 million to provide the agency with search tools for its rapidly accreting hoard of stolen knowledge.53
In 2004, after taking over Keyhole, a mapping tech startup cofunded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the CIA, Google developed the technology into Google Maps, an enterprise version of which it has since shopped to the Pentagon and associated federal and state agencies on multimillion-dollar contracts.54 In 2008, Google helped launch an NGA spy satellite, the GeoEye-1, into space. Google shares the photographs from the satellite with the US military and intelligence communities.55 In 2010, NGA awarded Google a $27 million contract for “geospatial visualization services.”56
In 2010, after the Chinese government was accused of hacking Google, the company entered into a “formal information-sharing” relationship with the NSA, which was said to allow NSA analysts to “evaluate vulnerabilities” in Google’s hardware and software.57 Although the exact contours of the deal have never been disclosed, the NSA brought in other government agencies to help, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Around the same time, Google was becoming involved in a program known as the “Enduring Security Framework”58 (ESF), which entailed the sharing of information between Silicon Valley tech companies and Pentagon-affiliated agencies “at network speed.”59 Emails obtained in 2014 under Freedom of Information requests show Schmidt and his fellow Googler Sergey Brin corresponding on first-name terms with NSA chief General Keith Alexander about ESF.60 Reportage on the emails focused on the familiarity in the correspondence: “General Keith . . . so great to see you . . . !” Schmidt wrote. But most reports overlooked a crucial detail. “Your insights as a key member of the Defense Industrial Base,” Alexander wrote to Brin, “are valuable to ensure ESF’s efforts have measurable impact.”
The Department of Homeland Security defines the Defense Industrial Base as “the worldwide industrial complex that enables research and development, as well as design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapons systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet U.S. military requirements [emphasis added].”61
The Defense Industrial Base provides “products and services that are essential to mobilize, deploy, and sustain military operations.” Does it include regular commercial services purchased by the US military? No. The definition specifically excludes the purchase of regular commercial services. Whatever makes Google a “key member of the Defense Industrial Base,” it is not recruitment campaigns pushed out through Google AdWords or soldiers checking their Gmail.
In 2012, Google arrived on the list of top-spending Washington, DC, lobbyists—a list typically stalked exclusively by the US Chamber of Commerce, military contractors, and the petrocarbon leviathans.62 Google entered the rankings above military aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, with a total of $18.2 million spent in 2012 to Lockheed’s $15.3 million. Boeing, the military contractor that absorbed McDonnell Douglas in 1997, also came below Google, at $15.6 million spent, as did Northrop Grumman at $17.5 million……….
One way of looking at it is that it’s just business. For an American internet services monopoly to ensure global market dominance it cannot simply keep doing what it is doing, and let politics take care of itself. American strategic and economic hegemony becomes a vital pillar of its market dominance. What’s a megacorp to do? If it wants to straddle the world, it must become part of the original “don’t be evil” empire.
But part of the resilient image of Google as “more than just a company” comes from the perception that it does not act like a big, bad corporation. Its penchant for luring people into its services trap with gigabytes of “free storage” produces the perception that Google is giving it away for free, acting directly contrary to the corporate profit motive. Google is perceived as an essentially philanthropic enterprise—a magical engine presided over by otherworldly visionaries—for creating a utopian future…………………………
Whether it is being just a company or “more than just a company,” Google’s geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world’s largest superpower. As Google’s search and internet service monopoly grows, and as it enlarges its industrial surveillance cone to cover the majority of the world’s population, rapidly dominating the mobile phone market and racing to extend internet access in the global south, Google is steadily becoming the internet for many people.70 Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history.
If the future of the internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world………………………
A “don’t be evil” empire is still an empire. “
There ARE less “convenient” and less “familiar” alternatives.
Worth the inconvenience to ” stop being in bed with those who definitely are in bed with the Enemy of Humanity”.
Just as there are alternatives for Starf…ks, which is losing many red State-sympathetic former patrons, because of its anti_Deplorables Pro Deep State orientation:
http://www.nasdaq.com/es/symbol/sbux/stock-chart
I’m sorry (not really……still yucking it up…….).
The Merlot got to my brain and I checked in to some other dimension of verbal dementia…..
This is for blue……wherever you are:.
His alter ego was the star instigator of almost-full-moon word play and “play ball!” madness tonight:
“MEOWlina! ……Are you KITTEN me???? Stray feline on the field CATapults Cards over
https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2017/08/10/1709035283/1502336558648/asset_1800K.mp4
“He just wants someone to love him.”
Other than the Cardinal employee that snatched him out of center field……..who the fiesty feline repeatedly bites……
After which, on the next pitch, inspired by that lunacy, and utilizing it as a portal into another dimension of dementia (which afflicted the Kansas City Royals pitcher) Cardinal Catcher Yadier “Meowlina” (Molina) drills a Grand Slam home run tonight in St Louis, to put the Cards up 8-5..
Here kitty, kitty, kitty…….
My eyelids droop as I prepare to step into my skiff and push off from the shore of The River Lethe…..to float off into the realm of the god of Sleep, Hypnos.
http://mythology.net/greek/greek-concepts/lethe/
Ahhhh! As, I drift away from shore, I smile under the waning mostly full moon, and I am thrillled with delight that the Kitten (Audrey Hepburn) DID find Real Love!
https://youtu.be/6UoIO4qxJig
Moon River
Moon river, wider than a mile
I’m crossing you in style someday
You dream maker
You heartbreaker
Where ever you’re going I’m going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
There’s such a lot of world to see
We’re after the same rainbow’s end
Waiting round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon river and me……
What a coincidence, just yesterday I watched the film “Roman Holiday” with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck made in 1953. Another times, another world and even in black and white, much much more colored back then in terms of artistic presentation and human valor.
Corporate shill Liberal Trudeau is allowing this to happen while smiling for the cameras:
“It’s a world first … The first genetically modified animal is on the market, and consumers in Quebec and Canada will become the first guinea-pigs unknowingly. In the absence of mandatory labeling we still cannot make an informed choice,” Thibault Rehn, a coordinator at GMO Vigilance, said, according to CNBC.
Lucy Sharratt of Canadian Biotechnology Action Network said, “The company did not disclose where the GM salmon fillets were sold or for what purpose, and we’re shocked to discover that they’ve entered the market at this time,” the Guardian reported.
I have made thousands of depictions through the years. I know that I did a few of Audrey Hepburn some years back, can’t find them without extensive work. Made a new one for you just now.
Here: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Audrey_Hepburn.jpg
Enjoy.
Take Care
Kent
Thanks Kent, wonderful depiction of a wonderful woman. She was one of the woman ideal for an entire generation, together with Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, and a few others.
oh what a lovely fake with special truth
it’s about the early stage of mystery
called love
hiding, that love is t h e great experience
of mature people lasting for many lifes
the beautifull young actors are not t h a t people
but two old ones maybe
but our dreams know more
but also have to confess, a genious did that song
it’s my lifelong dream and my latelife reality
in armlength of everyone
And Venus floating with your boat an armlength
along another week on the Moon River pushed by
the winds over the wheels of the ocean still today …
receiving all stories of all lands by his waters – a gigantic
mind earthwide medium of mirrority
connected with the other planets all
and Moon and Sun pre-eminently
in you and me
Kevin S. who made his name with a paper showing that almost everybody on the team of ‘Saturday Night Live’ – producers, directors, camera, lights, comedians, guests, musicians, catering and so on – was Jewish, has a new essay delving into the world of the American Christianity industrial complex, that of course is run by… Christians? Good joke! No, obviously, mostly by agents of Zion. An easy read, worth having a look at.
Kevin S. – Faith Dealers |2017-08
http://mileswmathis.com/faithdeal.pdf
Unfortunately, millions are deceived, because they do not have the love for the truth (The Word). After the dark ages of persecution, the Enemy has moved towards infiltration & destruction from within.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society#/media/File:Fabian_Society_coat_of_arms.svg
Hi Rublev, thanks for coming, I miss your thoughts.
Hi ioan & thanks for your words. I have nowadays limited access to the internet. That gives me more time to read The Book, on the other hand… :)
2014: Google might be helping EuroMaidan regime to hit oppositioners.
http://www.rapsinews.com/news/20140904/272047732.html
2017: Facebook employs Ukrainians to leak oppositioners data to EuroMaidan hitmen.
http://www.stalkerzone.org/facebook-leaks-personal-data-ukrainian-assasination-website-mirotvorets/
US to fly Osprey in drills despite Japan’s request to ground them – News – Stripes
No one cares.
We are abandoned people, not considered to be human beings, like even Saker is ignoring our presence.
I feel your pain, Peace loving Japanese…….
But one thing I learned about pain, early on:
It is not something other people can be expected to want to listen to a great deal.
What can they do about it, after all???
It is mostly for the individual suffering it to bear him or herself.
How do I know??
2 spinal fusions: C6-C7 and L5-S1
Most people here, including Saker, are probably much more open to listening to the pain of others than 99.9% of humanity. But they are kind of loaded up with the pain coming out of the Donbass, Syria, etc.
Is yours worse? More urgent?? More strategically relevant to more billions of persons??
Do you feel their pain?
What have you been doing about it??
Meanwhile Saker seeks pain relief in Jacksonville.
May Peace remain in the Land of the Rising Sun!
Hi there.
I can assure you that quite a few of us cares. You are not abandoned, and the Saker is not ignoring your presence, far from it.
Take Care
Kent
Here’s a little reminder that Japan – despite its being occupied and owned by a foreign power- produces great art :
https://youtu.be/8XOV2L-eM38
Go watch Princess Monokoke and be proud of some of your countrymen….
“Human beings have one faculty which, though it is of the greatest utility for collective purposes, is most perni- cious for individuation, and that is the faculty of imitation.
Collective psychology cannot dispense with imitation, for without it all mass organizations, the State and the social order, are impossible.”
C.G. Jung
Read more …
http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.de/2017/08/arl-jung-this-is-not-to-sayonce-again-i.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/GJCbE+(Carl+Jung+Depth+Psychology)
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
…………….Buddha
Back to more serious political work.
The VIPS report unveiled by Ray McGovern that I posted here a couple of weeks ago is getting much wider coverage:
From: https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
.”………..There has been a long effort to counter the official narrative we now call “Russiagate.” This effort has so far focused on the key events noted above, leaving numerous others still to be addressed. Until recently, researchers undertaking this work faced critical shortcomings, and these are to be explained. But they have achieved significant new momentum in the past several weeks, and what they have done now yields very consequential fruit. Forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, system designers, program architects, and computer scientists of long experience and strongly credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the official version of key events last year. Their work is intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak. But its certain results so far are two, simply stated, and freighted with implications:
There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.
Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source—claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative.”
Free The Donald! Rip the Gate off “Russia-Gate”!!!
Nikki Haley, Susan Rice and Hitlery Clinton ALL agree: “Sanctions (against Russia) are a Girl’s Best Friend!”
The (p)Sychopathic Sisters are in unanimous consensus on another DeBeers commercial jingle, as well:
Sanctions Are Forever!
https://youtu.be/8pU6WQXkiOU
Since the Stone Cold Killer Sisters can’t get diamonds from any sane, loving man, they’ll settle for the new substitute: Sanctions against Russia.
If you can’t get any real love, make sure no one else does, either………
Professor Stephen Cohen breaks it down for us, in a more general way, focussing on the hysteria among some most influential Americans and the genuine puzzlement among Russians in the countryside, smaller villages, etc. :
https://www.thenation.com/article/unverified-russiagate-allegations-promoted-by-an-irresponsible-congress-and-media-have-become-a-grave-threat-to-american-national-security/
Includes 20 minute audio interview.
Cohen also goes with the forensic evidence of DNC hack fakery, I am told, but gotta run….you may listen or read before I can get to it!
Avatars.
Is used extensively throughout the net, on many forums, and with various objectives, often in order to attract attention, and trigger various automatic preconceived perceptions in order to attract viewers to your posts.
I have made Avatars for some posters on various forums that I have been acquainted with for a period of time, reading their posts, and evaluating the content (subjectively) before starting the process.
On this forum, Avatars is not allowed. Herb has explained to me why. I don’t buy it, but accept the rule- (trace, anonymity, algorithms etc.).
IMO, nobody can post anything on this (or any other forum Alt. or not) without being tracked, compartmentalized, recognized in detail.
So, why try to hide, being anonymous , what’s the real excuse??
This is my Avatar on several forums, as some of you might have noticed. I am proud of it, it’s nice, and it is based on a simple rough brush painting as the “House sign of Michelangelo”
Here: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/AvatarMichelangelo.jpg
Why do I bother right now?. Because of this vilified person, commenting on The Duran today.
Here: with my reply: http://theduran.com/breaking-uss-john-mccain-violates-chinese-sovereignty/
Avatar Sun Tzu??? ARRRRGHHH!!!
Take Care
Kent
Where Have All the Posters Gone
Where have all the Posters gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the posters gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the posters gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time ago
Where have all theposters gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time ago
Where…
Am I the only one, am I the only one
Noticing?
No off course not. And???
Take Care
Kent
Venus -“Gone Fishing” or where are all the posters?
Boasts,posturing proud warnings, threats and fiery declamations..
Clutter the hazy summer air
Venus, unruffled, going down into Pluto’s Lair .”
dives deep into Neptune’s affirmation
of better times for all to share.
I had two extraordinary dreams last week:
1. on a railway platform, suddenly the crowds left of in a move of despite and desperation
are suicide-jumping on the tracks nealy myself with them but I could stop at very last
and from the right the train stormed into and squashed the people … shock, awakening
2. one, two nights later: a child, about fife, six years old without anyone
hand in hand withme, we spent a certain time, walking here and there, finally
we went into a police station for help. The officers refused to take notice.
I was embarrassed and awoke …
… later the dream continued with suddenly the mother
was there, was found, a very natural mid-old blond peasant-like woman with braids –
slightly similar to my mother when I was in that age. Was I relieved, everything was allright.
So death and desperation one night and two nights later child finds mother.
Venus in Cancer with resonances of sacrifice and reconciliation.
“I get no kick from Champagne” (I do, but that’s the subject of a different discussion)..
Any way, sing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg2O5SlZ25g
Take care
Kent
And then.” Erase my rent”, cause I shoot with this hand. Apparently without much effect.
Take it, don’t leave! Any Waco kids around?? Didn’t think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr9xVmCL0bA
Take Care’
Kent
Did you see the joke? Did you keep your windows clean??
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unLKgu1-v_8
Take Care
Kent
“America” Russian version (repeat I know).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsb3TN6hahk
Play loud.
Kent
Raise my rent. I (you) can afford it indefinably , or??
They (it) raise it on a continuous calculated base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6ouaT1WcE
Kent
Are YOU hanging on. Going down easy? Think about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMhDPMXWrv4
Kent
Or. Choose the easy way out. The monkey pussy way.
“Shave it clean baby”
You would have lost then off-course. But what the heck. Start from scratch is not that bad? Again?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3RUe_xBZEM
Don’t spill your coffee! Different monkeys anywhere.
Kent
In Norwegian, a language everybody should learn :-) If I miss you.
HEIDI HAUGE – Hvis Jeg Savner Deg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_IGRU-VME&feature=related
Some of us are not young and I remind you of this Norwegian video. Some of us have children and it is not easy for them when we go. Englishspeakers understand the general message and Garmanspeakers understand more. This video is understood from Iceland to Finland. If angels exist.
Om englar finns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9Rr14AWK4
Frenchspeakers understand this video. It is powerful. Lara gives all she has.
Lara Fabian- Je suis Malade (digital clarity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON0iKXVUPw&feature=related
This is for those who understand Russian. From a wellknown Sovjet movie.
Что так сердце растревожено – Верные друзья (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=1rN_vJs3EfA
“If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so,” it said.
Elijah Magnier was interviewed by some people called “Around the Empire” for 1 hr and 42 minutes. It is a tour de force. Probably the best thing I’ve heard on the conflicts across Iraq and Syria. Highly recommended.
http://aroundtheempire.com/2017/08/09/ep-29-report-baghdad-iraq-syria-feat-elijah-magnier/
Canthama
Excellent article by Elijah Magnier, he has unique inner insights from Iraq, Lebanon and Hizballah in general, but here he gives a 30,000 ft view of the ME moving forward, his conclusions are rock solid and unbiased.
https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/what-has-the-us-got-out-of-the-war-in-syria-a-new-middle-east-as-seen-by-the-resistance-crescent-and-not-the-us/
This article plus the audio-interview above are must read/listen to understand the future ME and maybe, why not, the implications for the future world all around us. Things have changed for good, the empire of chaos and its minions lost big time.
make Saker spaces
places for new faces
for the queens of aces
and the kings of hearts
have games for all parts
dress up -the stage is set
we’ve arrived we’ve met !
play and do not disdain
waters from the fountain
sparkles as words again
and forget about the clutter of information
and realize your being one and only in time and space
experience to find home into the arms and let go
and be free for other moves
where the places are for some
Nice!
Kent
one word comment = nice !
Canada had 2 meetings with North Korean officials this week
Foreign affairs minister says Canada trying to convince Pyongyang to get off a ‘destructive path’
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/north-korea-canada-1.4244177
“Freeland made it clear Canada is standing firmly beside the United States and the threats were totally unacceptable.”
WWIII may be closer than we think if US vassal and russophobe Freeland is in there stirring it up.
“Canada is standing firmly beside the United States”
Um, that goes without saying. America’s poodle always does what the US tells it to do.
Trump: “We Have A Military Option For Venezuela”
“I’m not going to rule out a military option,” Trump told reporters at his New Jersey golf club discussing recent events in Venezuela. “We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option, if necessary,”
Word cafe, and a poem from PB Shelley
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdain’d
For thee to disdain it.
One hope is too like despair 5
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
I can give not what men call love;
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the Heavens reject not:
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?
Turkey is an interesting member of NATO, perhaps soon to be an ex-member of NATO…
Turkey is blocking all NATO military exercises that include forces from Europe, simply because some European nations don’t want Turkey in the EU. Turkey has that veto power.
Turkey has also re-written its laws so that it does not need NATO permission to use its military.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara does not approve of anti-Russian sanctions from the EU and the US, as they also damage the Turkish economy.
No links ? Do we have spam on board?
Eloquence often comes from the indirect, the peripheral and not from the dissection and placing of the subject on a microscope slide for optic magnification, lifeless, or about to become so.
I dub you Moth for the Morrow or perhaps……… Caro Mio Ben:
https://youtu.be/iQ_xRL3uxTA
As I flit, searching for Rhyme and Reason.
More Nice of either or both,
Is nice, for the Gypsy Moth.
nice to have your signs of being
as each of us learns anything
learns how different we are
what a miracle is real love
and how easy handed
on Moon’s way
hell, Bro, we in the seventieth
with our special scale
symbols got the power
to transform our adjustment
in our depths
but as sparks of Godness they
long to become consciously
appercepted by the i-person
I think, Denis knows what I mean
Cheers brothers and sisters
included (with a grin) mother iaon
and sister terra
“More Nice of either or both,
Is nice, for the Gypsy Moth”
without in our well protected
wool – after all – being
I hope so
An American vet gives an account of his time fighting with the YPG – and it ain’t pretty:
http://bombsdollars.com/index/index.php/2017/05/09/warped-marxist-feminist-ideology-kurdish-ypg/
As I sit here so patiently, waiting for the next cafe, to wade into deeper waters, I want to share a comforting revelation I just had, resting in my inverted bed, with the head elevated five inches. I was thinking that nothing has changed over a week, and was considering going flat earth again. Then it hit me. It’s not so much physical as Jungian structural metaphysical-physical.
It’s the “Lean on Me” syndrome by Bill Withers, whether brother, isisister, mother or lover. Or “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge, attested to by 40 M views; amplified by infinity when a Man Loves a Womam Lover in the universal, Jungian architecture of body and soul framework.
Anyway, my comforting experience of inversion took me back to the baby state where I “leaned” on mother, my first lover; and later with lovers of second degree. The elevation and inversion of consciousness hit me like a ton of feathers in a feather bed, and explained what Bro 93 is talking about in the contra-version of Fear, the enemy of Love. John the Beloved of Jesus signed off on that with “Love casts out fear. (1 John a 4:18).
The later Egyptian rituals of raising the bed head to soul travel, and the paleo cave drawings of elevated platforms for men among the animals has its basis in earthy love and sex. No wonder we have war. We have forgotten who we are and what we are for. My comforting experience of elevation reminded me once again of what I have forgotten.
So as I sit here so patiently, waiting for the patriarchal Louvre pyramid to fade from the world’s vice grip and for the inverted womam pyramid of love to appear once again, I am reminded of how much I am loved, although I do my best to deny it, in so many forgotten ways, which you here with your analysis and catalysis of poetry and art, remind me of through my blinders.
Mundo mentioned twelve persons in God. What? Where did that come from? I like it. Also Venus ruling Sag in contentional density, with the sinus curve holding maximum density. Oh, and the idea of Eva’s father stepping in to aid his daughter, the wild bumble-bee of the air and roots-earth-dark…receiving the sacrifice…reconciliation of the sexes, and God’s blessing the reception of her lap–while the Moon has special dreams these nights.
Your dreams were dark and light, like ioan’s “almost like a blind” Venetian shades. Jung and Father White sounds like my two sides, with Soror Mystica and teranam Dostoevsky in Paradise as the distributed middle. I read John Henry Newman for the pleasure of words and theology, and someday, love willing, I, the former priest in black, will develop Christianity back to its Honeymoon where Father White and Father Jung become the synthesis after thesis and antithesis.
But, oh, SapereAude disturbed my sweet dreams with her/his question: “Why are Russia and China still using [and usurying] debt based currency?”
Thanks for not being who you’re not. God to run and see if the new cafe has pulled into the station.
Love, Cennis (a [sic] mistake, honestly). Strike and repeat: Love, Dennis-Sinned (by mutual reversal)