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A good article interviewing John Pilger – North Korea solution depends on ‘containment of the US’:
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/403134-north-korea-nuclear-containment-john-pilger/
“No one wants nuclear war, yet that is the trajectory the US and NATO are on with not just North Korea, but potentially China and Russia too, journalist John Pilger fears. In fact, he says the crisis over North Korea is just “a sideshow to the main game……”
I keep dropping the word ‘quarantine’. I think it is the perfect act for this perfect time for the most imperfect and deadly contagion called the USA.
Why do you think it does not catch on a bit more?
at Mod’s suggestion as apology:
I have expected, and said so, that when (gasp!) RT “discovers” the 911 affair we shall be close to the “zuruck” in the Strategy of Ru…
The topic of analysis above dovetails to http://katehon.com/article/who-attacked-usa-911
and http://katehon.com/article/911-conspiracy-cia-mass-media-manipulations and also with Maria Z’s recent “what kind of country we are dealing with” and so on. The voices telegraph the changes…
Looks like the horizon is close…
With the coming elections in Germany, here’s a poem, from an old German song “Ich ging einmal spazieren” – I went for a walk (in English) a little bit transformed :
Spazier
Ich ging einmal spazieren,
um mich zu amüsieren,
da sah ich in die Ferne
der Wahl Lokal.
Ich fragte dann bescheiden
“wie lang man muss hier warten ?”
da sag mir einen :
“Ah bitte nein”
Ich bin in Heimat,
bin lange schon im Heimat,
und habe alles
was man nicht will.
Ich brauche nicht zu fragen,
Ich brauche nicht zu sagen,
und was Sie wollen
gibt Mutti nicht.
Mit Homo Zulu,
in der Rande der Parolen
und auch mit Multi
ist das zu grau.
Da gehen groß und kleinen
zum Wahlen in die Städtchen
ohne Hemd und ohne Hosen
mit einem Feigenblatt”
la, la-la-la-la, la-a-a, la, la-la-la-la, la-a-a
ohne Hemd und ohne Hosen
mit einem Feigenblatt.
Walk
I went for a walk,
to amuse me,
then I saw into the distance
the polling station.
I then asked modestly
“how long do you have to wait here?”
there told me this:
“Ah, please no”
I’m in home,
have long been home,
and have everything
what you do not want.
I do not need to ask,
I do not need to say,
and what you want
Mutti does not.
With Homo Zulu,
in the margin of the slogans
and also with Multi
this is too gray.
There go big and small
to the elections in the towns
without shirt and without pants
with a fig leaf ”
la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-a-a
without shirt and without pants
with a fig leaf.
“Ich brauche nicht zu fragen,
Ich brauche nicht zu sagen,
und was Sie wollen
gibt Mutti nicht.”
Are you sure this is an ‘old’ German song? It seems quite actual to me.
But I like it ;-)
Cheers, Rob
Glad you like it Rob, after hearing the original, sounds better.
An interesting next few months coming up in Spain.Catalonia plans on holding a referendum on independence. A million people marched in Barcelona in support of that a couple of days ago. Getting a “million” people in one crowd marching in the streets strikes me as a pretty strong example that they are serious about that vote. So now the Spanish national government has ordered their national police inside Catalonia to “seize” the ballots for the referendum. And is ordering the courts to investigate 700 mayors that support the referendum. How long will it be until “push comes to shove” in Catalonia.Trying to stop by force a referendum supported by millions of people in Catalonia reminds me of the lunacy of the Kiev regimes action in Donbass.The Spanish government should ask themselves how that worked out for Kiev.
I don’t know the level of support for independence in Catalonia. From what I’ve heard most of the ethnic Catalans support it. But Catalonia has a large population of people with roots outside the region. So I’m not sure which side is larger. But I do know that Catalonia’s history is full of occasions were Catalonia revolted against being part of Spain.And seeing the national government trying to stop their vote could easily enrage Catalans. And spark a full fledged takeover of the region by the local authorizes.And the forming of a Catalan local army. We all know from Donbass,how quickly a people feeling wronged can decide to forcefully secede from the national state.So yes it should be an interesting couple of months coming up.
Russia and China really need to stop using the SWIFT system, it’s baffling that they still do so:
from Zerohedge today
US Threatens To Cut Off China From SWIFT If It Violates North Korea Sanctions
“I think we have absolutely moved the needle on China. If China doesn’t follow these sanctions, we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the U.S. and international dollar system. And that’s quite meaningful.”
I am shocked that the SCO has not begun a movement to quarantine the USA and ISISrael.
What are they waiting for? The world will follow.
Yeah, the pattern seems to be world-wide. The whole world seems to be balkanising.
“The whole world seems to be balkanising.”
That’s exactly what the Hegemon wants. Balkanizing means no strong central power.
All alligned with the Wolfowitz doctrine.
Though I dearly fear, that the Wolfowitz doctrine is almost a boundary condition for WW3.
I hope I’m wrong.
Cheers, Rob
https://adarapress.com/2017/03/18/europe-died-in-pristina-kosovo-jacques-hogard/
extract
“Jacques Hogard: British SAS and Americans were attacking Serbian Churches, Monasteries, Refugees
Posted on February 8, 2015 by Grey Carter
Jacques Hogard was one of the first Western officers who entered the territory of Serbia after the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement in 1999, and there he saw that the information he was given by NATO command does not correspond to the truth.
He realized that there was no humanitarian war, but on the contrary – as an field officer he saw that KLA terrorists were constantly under control of German and British military services, even when attacking Serbian churches, monasteries and refugee columns just after the end of the NATO bombing.”
Behold, a Pale Horse, and its Rider is Washington
PC Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/09/12/behold-pale-horse-rider-death/
[…] How does one go about explaining why two countries, whose sovereignty is in the way of Washington’s world hegemony, help their known enemy bully yet another small country, especially one in their orbit of influence? How can Russia complain of sanctions against Russia based on nothing but Washington’s propaganda when Russia supports sanctions against North Korea based on Washington’s propaganda?
Russia and China have nothing to fear from North Korean nuclear weapons. Indeed, no one does except a country that attacks North Korea. What is the explanation for Russia and China lining up with Washington’s foreign policy against North Korea when Russia and China know that Washington’s foreign policy is hostile to Russia and China? […]
“How does one go about explaining…”
The obvious answer – it’s a game for the global rich & powerful.
Agreed … and this is a very sobering conclusion in that there is no hope for a peaceful future.
For China and Russia, North Korea is a powerful chess piece with great leverage if correctly utilised toward advantageous diplomacy to confront and neutralise the persistent bullying.
Diplomacy does not have to be nice and cosy feel good pussyfooting around spineless BS. Diplomacy needs to be loud at times like Jesse Ventura revving his Harley Davidson.
Diplomacy should mirror the spirit of the theme music of “Mission Impossible” and the “Equaliser” for instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okj7YaPD0Hs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo7YiBy4bec
By presenting an amorphous rather than hard target. N.Korea is just a proxy target for the USA; the real targets are Russia then China. The Hegemon brooks no dissent, so watering down and going along with sanctions and then finding inventive ways around them transforms a hard target into a soft ever-changing one -and one that baffled Neocons can’t handle.
RE: China and Russia seemingly double dealing on N. Korea: It is called playing for time —maybe there will be a regime change in the USA? Or the American people will deep six the deep state?
“Or the American people will deep six the deep state?”
For a population that were asked and answered with:
“What is the supreme law of the land?” Seventy-percent of the 1,000 citizens polled by Newsweek couldn’t answer correctly. (Hint: It’s the Constitution.)
don’t count on it
Now that is a fascinating survey. ABC’s correct answer is false. The constitution’s supremacy clause includes treaties and federal statute in the supreme law of the land. This bit of state propaganda is convenient because the US government habitually shits on binding treaties like the Convention Against Torture, the ICCPR, the Nuclear (and Biological) Weapons Conventions, and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and the Geneva Conventions. The US government also flouts federal statute including the FISA Act, the War Crimes Act, and the Nuremberg Principles. Those are much tighter constraints on government overreach and crime than the obsolete US constitution.
Hi FL,
nice to see you here at long last.
Saying what *really* is the case is the best possible start.
Hope to read you here more often.
There is much more to the actions of China and Russia ‘supporting’ the sanctions than meets the eye….
http://theduran.com/north-korea-crisis-china-calls-us-bluff-again/
http://theduran.com/russian-foreign-ministry-north-korea-wants-dialogue-us-washington-obsticle/
… have patience … it’s a long strategy.
How many times longer than since the decimation of Libya.
Could it be another couple of decades to let then get their robots in place so the useless eaters can finally all be finished off for a bit of extra sport perhaps?
A quick reply for Acacia who said here: /moveable-feast-cafe-2017-09-09/#comment-406443
this, at the end of his reply:
“I haven’t tried to digest the latter yet, but I notice it was last revised in December 2008, around the same time as “Collateral Damage II”. This text, “The September 11 Commission Report”, looks more like a manuscript draft, but doesn’t include an author’s name, save in the lengthy copyright notice, where s/he is identified as “JP Heidner” (not “E.P.”).
Do we know anything about this author?
I believe it was Katherine here that brought Collateral Damage I and II…to our attention.
She did not find it one Israelshamir.net (older articles) or Israelshamir.com
Clearly, Shamir picked it up, analyzed it and deemed it worthy of being made available to his readers.
I am all for digging deeper and deeper into things, but in all modesty, it is often the case that we must use our intuition and instincts and decide what to discard and what to keep on the back burner for future reference and what to bear down on with intensity and single-mindedness.
Given that Shamir is Russian and no slouch, I would assume that he and others possibly very, very high in the political and strategic intelligentsia of Russia are doing the bearing down (or did it thoroughly several years ago) on Collateral Damage I & II in a way you and I could never match.
What we can do is take individual responsibility and sharpen our instincts, capacities to sort through a great deal of information and competently aggregate it in a way that is not contradictory and therefore daft or absurd.
Right now, I think the reports are worthy of being kept on the back burner for the rest of my life, and being imparted to serious people I know until more serious evidence surfaces which discredits the reports, Shamir, etc.
At the moment, my instincts tell me that such surfacing of contradictory evidence solid enough to have me pull those reports off the back burner and dispose of them is highly improbable.
That’s all. I’m a fan of Kurt Godel. Forget about “Completeness” or knowing everything.
He proved it isn’t even possible in Arithmetic!!!
So, as a practical matter, keep going, do the best you can to know more and more deeper principles and patterns, but get over the yearning to know all details. That’s a fool’s errand.
http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/Godel-IAS.pdf
I haven’t read the link, but I did study the Theorem enough to give a class to other laymen.
I read the Feferman paper on Godel. A decent general overview but not sharp on the points I would make.
If you get through even a paragraph or two, I trust you will conclude that “Mathematicians are a different breed.”
To put it charitably…….lol.
Bro,
Interesting that you mention Gödel and the task of aggregating this information, as I was just thinking something similar while skimming through “Collateral Damage I”.
There’s lots of meat in Heidner’s texts — but maybe almost too much? Reading through it, I was thinking that a summary would be useful, with links to the longer analyses. There are many different stories coming together here: Project Hammer; the Vulcan’s destabilization/overthrow of the Soviet Union and theft of its Treasury; Yamashita’s Gold; the deeper, historical connections between intel agencies and intl. banking; the Oligarchs; the Federal Reserve; etc. The scope is breathtaking and kind of overwhelming at times.
We’re not going to get “complete” knowledge — that’s just the nature of the beast — but even for a summary, it’s still necessary to go through a lot of this material and try to grasp the fundamental points.
I believe that war and associated troubles of the world are the result of the rebellion of patriarchy. Since this vineyard sets its sights on stopping the empire’s war on Russia, sooner or later we have to grapple with the evil of patriarchy.
I also sense that Orthodox Christianity holds the key to unlocking the grip of patriarchy in our times, like it did with the Roman empire, and set the stage for the development of our western culture. The evangelist, Saint John, gives us the justification for the development of Christian doctrine in this direction of salvation.
Thus, the confluence of this vineyard, Christianity and the cessation of war are providential events. John developed the doctrine of God as authority into “God is love,” which itself is a progression from Jesus’ teaching.
A critical passage in this onward flow of information is John 17:21, where he proclaims that God, Christ and all of us are one in love. This undercuts the foundation of power-over patriarchy, based on the male pyramid model. “That all of us may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us…”
At last, we are given a view of reality that conforms with the facts of nature. Patriarchy lies through its teeth about nature, so we have to develop our own characters to have the capacity to distinguish truth from lies.
The Love Army shows us how to come up to speed with its ten commandments of love. The bar is set high, but any movement in that direction helps the cause of defeating empire, war and patriarchy is one fell swoop; not to mention the pleasure of our own reclaimed personality.
Patriarchy complains, and is not about to take this lightly, saying that it harbors much good. That is true, thanks to the omnipresence of love, so it will be a gradual transition while separating the wheat from the chaff, and saving the baby and discarding the bathwater war.
There is a benign patriarchy but the system as such is evil, and must be recycled; in, as we say, a soft landing. Our own emotional resistance tells true that truth is hitting close to home. Our mental defense mechanisms go on high alert when our carefully constructed world is threatened.
The Love Army appears in this vineyard to confront both Count Khazar and Roman Caesar, who seek to rule the world, one without the other. Lady Love smiles like the Mona Lisa at this folly, and invites us to the Love Bower of a restored Eden Earth; as the Love Army outside brings both sides to their senses.
You think this is folly from the unsettled brain of a madman, as if the madness of a patriarchal putsch is supreme sanity. If so, you have not entertained the first division of the Love Army’s injunction to “think love.” No matter; whatever will be will be. We’ll see what we shall see.
The dawn is here, and the light has arrived. Time to go to the field to work and water. The small details of physical life dovetail with the large entails of metaphysical love. As below, so above. When I’m low, I think love.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted at 7 am pacific and 2 pm universal
Dennis, you live in another Universe, and that is good, at least for you. Still time for developing even if time is short. That development for the world as a whole, is another thing. Maybe the world needs a harsher lesson once and for all. If you mention the scriptures so many times in the view of love, you should mention the Apocalypse also written by the same John cause that is the path on which the powers are going and going very fast, Patriarchy or not. At the end, everyone shall be surprised.
Jesus didn’t eat seeds, he eat everything given to him with love being even accused by others who opposed his behavior in accepting the invitation to stay at the same table with other eaters. He said, the sin is not what you eat with your mouth but what comes out from that mouth. If a soul is not clean, what matters if the body is ? I know and I knew in the past people who did this but their souls and spirits were not the cleanest ones even if some of them went every Sunday to the church. My father told me a story from the front line in ww2 : one day, the officer wanted one man to search a house somewhere between the front lines in the middle of the night. He gave the order then to a young man just by picking him up without knowing him personally. This young man had three children back home. One older soldier- who knew him personally, took the responsibility on him, going in his place. The house was booby-trapped and blown up, the man died. This is something which for me has something to do with real love.
Amen Brother!
fine religious talking soul, yours ioan,
I frequently mentioned this apocalyptic naked emergence
of the liberal USAtanic beast
Denis’ ignorance of the apocalypse allowes him his paradise-garden
it is the harsh truth we’re seing now
in the world-fight betwen god and evil the bright place was yet
occupied Trump found no other that the dark place in the white house,
while his opponent in Moscow shared the world vicariously whith Baba Bejing
The right way to think the concept of Apocalypse to me appears not
in the way of the pharisee and scribes but in the world of the living God in us
and in Denis
Your observations are always appreciated, Mundo and your astro-diary is better than Leary’s diarrhea, with so much fruits and oiled seeds , with no bread and with no cheese.
RE: Leary feast: for someone who speaks so much of the waters of life, there is no wine to share?
http://thesoulmatrix.com/podcast/affirmations-heart/
I am a big fan of the patriarchy… especially the Orthodox Patriarchs
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-09-09/#comment-406311
Denis where others are scholarly studying political economy are your mere projections.
You don’t grasp the basic difference of tamed capitalism tamed by political state and
liberal (to the rich) family-gang- capitalism.
The former allowes “win-win” the latter only: “the winner takes it all”.
Be it as it may, your poetic talent and religious rigorosity is like roses with thorns
necessary ad to the Denis – comment I quoted on top:
my answer refers to Denis’ 1. sentence which I deem as
his mere projection where knowledge should be
seize the time, till friday
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/09/9_55.html
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/three-things-you-should-know-about-rt-and-sputnik/
if you wish to check out the new EU “info-disinfo” re Russia’s viewpoint etc etc…including “misleading” articles re MH17………have fun.
For example
“French President Emmanuel Macron says no: “Russia Today and Sputnik did not behave as media organisations and journalists, but as agencies of influence and propaganda, lying propaganda – no more, no less,” and Crimea was annexed by Russia etc etc etc, Ukraine is not a neo nazi country……there were not secret western plans to destabilise Russia….etc etc
“A European Parliament lawmaker has commented on the newly launched EU website aimed at tackling the so-called Kremlin “disinformation,” which has already prompted criticism from EU MPs.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — By creating a website intended for tackling the Russian media’s alleged dissemination of fake news, the European Union is wasting its resources and further ratchets up tensions between Moscow and Brussels that may lead to a new Cold War, a member of the European Parliament told Sputnik on Wednesday.
“We already possess an institution in which to combat the spread of lies and disinformation i.e. civil society. A free press, as well think tanks and other NGOs are more than capable of providing fact checking… By creating a government institution for a role that should be handled by civil society they are taking another step on the path to a New Cold War,” Beatrix von Storch said.
The lawmaker added that even though the website is unlikely to have an impact on European society, “the waste of resources on such ventures is real.”
“This latest encroachment by the EU is simply a veiled attempt to create a Ministry of Truth,” von Storch pointed out, referring to the ministry of propaganda depicted in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
On Tuesday, the East Stratcom Task Force, created by the European External Action Service (EEAS), launched the euvsdisinfo.eu website aimed at tackling the “disinformation” spread by Russia, which has already prompted criticism even among EU lawmakers.”
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709131057361663-european-site-kremlin-disinformation/
And how, President Macron, does AFP act?
Is it a pipeline of propaganda as we all see it is?
Or is it a trustworthy wire service the world can rely on for facts and truth?
Agence France-Presse is merde, Mr. President.
What is left of Truth in France?
It has lost its soul. Its culture is ruined. Its integrity is hollowed out.
Shame.
And you? A pimp for Brussels feudalism.
Now this is one hell of a great rant.
If Ever There Were Deplorables . . . .
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/09/if-ever-there-were-deplorables/
Some examples:
“They – those Clintonistas-Kissingeristas-Friedmanistas-Obamaistas-Romneyistas-Adelsonistas-Sorosistas-Trumpistas-Zbigniew Brzezinskistas — are the deplorables. Really, for 60 years on this planet, in this precarious walkabout, I have trudged through the sooty rain of capitalism plaguing the land, as the rich and the generals call to duty the soldiers of pain, yearning to be enforcers, witnesses to the dystopia of their dreams. Money changers, bureaucrats, oh they are Eichmann’s. Israeli Jews, many Little Eichmann’s all encapsulated in post-pre-future chrysalis of genocide. The leeches and the lechers, USA-EU-Canada-Japan-Australia, fat-cats in bankers’ suits, their armor forced arbitration clauses, decapitating mortgages, foreclosures on both physical minds and the civic body. Is it a flash mob shock we have many connotations for the money changers in Houston, as they might like to see themselves, landlords, or the lords of penury? They have been calling in next month’s rent for the laid to waste humanity after Harvey. It doesn’t matter if the child is on chemo or the grandmother is freshly buried, these debt bond holders extract each microgram of fungible fleck from the newborn or vegetative.”
“The Heil is more forcefully thrown to the military, the Heil is raised to the madness of Rambo police stations, and Heils begrudgingly lifted to the insanity of four-hour single occupancy vehicle round trips, daily, to jobs doling out $15 an hour. Heil Heil Capitalism!”
“The Heil Hitler is thrown to Koch Brothers (Home Depot, Georgia Pacific, et al) and Walmart and Baskin Robbins and Chevron and United Grocers and JP Morgan Chase and Facebook and PayPal and Boeing and Marriott and UPS and Amazon and, well, those are the fascists, the deplorable companies who extract slave labor from humanity, who tilt the balance of fairness like giant tapeworms, eating at the Mom and Pops, eating at the bricks and mortars, eating at every Small-town USA, eating at Corn Cultures in Mexico, eating at every tribe and un-American culture on planet earth. The Heil Hitler is to the data servers, cloud servers, Google, the giant NSA-CIA-Mossad-Interpol captains and majors sucking the soul from humanity’s collective ability to think on our own, stand on our own, and do on our own.”
“No scandal, no dirge for the polluters, no indictment for the facilitators of cancers and spiritual abandonment. These people who see the world (the 80 percent of us) as deplorables get kudos, raises, promotions and their own little bankrolled slices of heaven while the deplorables – us — duke it out for the few bits of support from the vestiges of a social contract that was never ratified, nor signed, but just hinted at when the robber barons and thieves of Wall Street-Mining-Finance came rolling in with their wagons of snake oil and withering prestidigitation blared loudly in-on-over their Media.”
“Daily, the veil of this society as a true satellite of Israel interests comes immolated off, yet, here we are, Zionists-White Supremacists in Office, and tilting the right to be, the right to breathe if we dare call out the scam!”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41243635 actually a fairly accurate article about the Rohingya.
The Burmese ,long term Muslim community has always gotten along with the majority Buddhists and see some very nasty writing on the wall.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=96395&sid=6
The army upon discovering that villagers were sheltering the terrorists ( funded by abroad ) many of whom are illegal Bengali immigrants just decided that they would leave no ocean for them to swim in. They did not wait a generation or two to do this. The other Burmese Muslim got “hip” very quickly indeed.
Is this a nasty solution in which innocent individuals suffer? Yes. Does a culture defend itself in order to maintain cohesion? Yes. To what extent should this be done and by what means? By the way, Buddhist monks were the first to fight back against organized attacks against them by Muslims.
Europe should watch and learn.
Does anyone know what happened to Alexander Mercouris from The Duran? Haven’t read him in a while…
He’s back and with a great new analysis!
http://theduran.com/north-korea-crisis-china-calls-us-bluff-again/
I like PCR but his last analysis was very bleak. Here is Mercouris with a different perspective and arguing that China and Russia are winning.
The overweening presumption of many westerners that, underneath it all, all people are venal, corrupt opportunists is indicative of how low western “culture” has sunk.
The few Chinese I have met have immense pride in their country. I get a similar vibe from Russians – Dmitry Orlov would be typical in my estimation.
According to the late Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster, the Chinese suckered the western “Illuminati” into investing heavily in China – pretending to be vassals, then turned the tables. It fits the facts.
According to Anthony Sutton, Russia was industrialized by the US and built as a boogeyman to justify the burgeoning US MIC. But, over time, things change and it appears Russia is genuinely independent now.
Many people seem to want action, right now! Russia and China have had a long time to study US moves and are playing accordingly. Playing it out suits them much better than the US.
I think all this is complex maneuvering and I hope Trump is the star belly dancer in this Dance of a Thousand Veils. But I kind of doubt it.
The main take away for me is that Mnuchin’s and Trump’s posturing is increasingly evident buffoonery and only an idiot would tuck hundred dollar bills into either one’s G String. The global audience is getting sick of their snarls…it’s just more of that hag Hillary.
Relax, hand-wringers!
Confucious say, “Allow Barbarian Bullies to save face with meaningless ‘sanctions’ today…..tomorrow Paper Tiger will go hungry and purr like a kitten when offered a little cream.”
These 2 comments on the Mercouris analysis sandwiching the hand wringer in the middle mirror my thoughts on the matter very well:
John C Carleton • 4 hours ago
Just no fun being a Washington DC thirty shekel call boy any more!
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Melotte 22 • 5 hours ago
Regardless of all this, the bottom line is Russia and China SHOULD NOT have voted for new sanctions. Both of them look weak by implementing US initiated sanctions. Lets not forget that Russia is also a victim of US imposed sanctions.
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Simon Melotte 22 • 5 hours ago
“Belch. Sick of this ‘Russia should’, ‘China should’…do….x y z.
They make their own decisions, and those are not always what you want.
Yet the evidence shows – WHO is winning right now?
Clue – it’s NOT the imploding USA.”
Over 10,000 evacuated across Moscow over various bomb threats – reports
https://www.rt.com/news/403195-moscow-malls-university-evacuation/
“Twenty sites are currently being evacuated, and more than 10,000 people have been escorted out, though the specific number is still being confirmed,” an emergency services source told news agency Tass.
“This appears to be a case of telephone terrorism, but we have to check the credibility of these messages,” said the source, who noted that the calls began at the same time, and continued after the evacuations had begun.
Among the locations affected are three of the capital’s biggest railway stations, more than a dozen shopping centers – including GUM, located next to Red Square – and at least three universities, the leading First Moscow State Medical University, and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations among them.
An epidemic of hoax bomb warnings has plagued Russia over the past week. Security services told the RIA news agency that over 45,000 people were evacuated from public places in 22 Russian cities on Tuesday, adding that many of the calls appeared to have come from Ukraine.
Terrorist false alarms are punishable by up to five years in prison under Russian law, and multiple police investigations have been opened. However, the possibility that the hoaxers are using pre-recorded messages, automated dialing systems and digital means of concealing their true location present difficulties in identifying the culprits.”
Obviously a zionazi psywar campaign. The Ukraine connection indicates it is likely volker had foreknowledge, and mattis, who recently visited the Ukraine, has intimate knowledge of this bomb threat psywar campaign. Maybe the Russians should have a talk with the zionazis volker and mattis.
cultural piece from the BBC—
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-41240113/the-first-men-to-walk-the-great-wall-of-china
Hitler finds out Donald Trump has won the presidential election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YEhNHNydIs
This is how diplomacy needs to be when necessary.
Can someone analyse the possibilities that could emanate from Russia’s planned sale of the S-400 to Erdoghan the lunatic?
https://www.rt.com/news/403192-erdogan-pentagon-russian-sam/
It’s possible that the current Russian leadership is, in essence, the same flavour as the one which implemented the dissolution of the USSR even though the vast majority of the population voted for its continuance Soviet Union referendum, 1991
At that stage they had been bought by the global elite and remain so now. Low level / high level / any level continuous war keeps the required MIC supernormal profits rolling in no matter Russian airforce personnel deaths at Erdogan’s (et al) hand not so long ago. .
The industrialisation of the USSR was at great cost of human misery, suicide and murder. The continuation of the USSR was voted for and logically should have continued, but we are told by Gorbachev the coffers were empty. Why were the coffers empty? Surely the USSR was independent and could print its Soviet currency as required. Also we are told the Russian Federation is much stronger than the USSR was, and how can this be with oligarchs owning everything worthwhile. The Soviet system required a shift to a basic Christian ideology of sharing. Sharing the resources of the country and allowing people their own farmland with less government interference. Big mistakes were made, but we are supposed to learn by mistakes and we can modify. Modification was hijacked and a revolution took place and working class Russians are still poor and struggling. What could have been The Great Soviet Modification from 1990 onward can only be imagined.
The possibility with the SS400 to the Turks is the possibility that “NATO” or somebody else can not do to Turkey what they did to Yugoslavia, Libya, etc. ie SS499-Turkey prevents a “possibility”. Thus Ivan assures his near abroad and creates the possibility to kettle the black sea, with all those nice new us ports all fresh and new…
what times!
a reply to no one as not being asked anything
from Wednesday to Wednesday the new ‘astromundane diary’
silent eye in the weekly hurrican of desires since 10 years (3 years in English)
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/09/9_55.html
So, your blog is ten years old ?
We never new if you not told
Happy Birthday to your Blog
Stars are jumping like a frog
Every week we have the news
From the stars which you use !
For the record, I want to complete my thought on the connection between stopping war and John’s theology, where he quotes Jesus as saying God, Christ and lovers are one. This specifies a community of lovers, and removes the necessity of patriarchal hierarchy, which produces war.
Another quote from Jesus likewise references the community of lovers: “Where two or more are gathered, there I am in the midst of them. Jesus makes three, the number of community. Two is a couple, not a community.
We don’t have to go as far as communal sex in community, but it follows theologically. When persons are making love, they are not making war. If they did this too often and easily, patriarchy would be seriously damaged. Who is going to man the factories or battle formations?
Therefore, patriarchy clamps down on such freedom and pleasure; chiefly by the institution of monogamous marriage and patrilinearity. Eden means pleasure where sexual waters flow. The patrix changed that story line pretty quickly with the tale of Adam and Eve.
The sum is this: patriarchy hates pleasure, especially sexual joy in community. It plays the switch trick by blaming Eve for what it itself has done. That game is still being played by the way.
Oh, and by the way, ioan, I enjoyed your mind teaser about whether Jesus ate seeds. If he ate what was put before him, as you put it, I think, he probably did eat seeds, if he ate fruit, like pomegranates or grapes (before seedless ones were developed). Just a fun quibble, but it’s fun to solve a riddle.
I’ve been listening to Jordan Peterson, a really bright guy and entrancing speaker. He’s the most sophisticated patriarch I’ve yet come across, leaving aside Carl Jung. Patriarchy has its uses, or it wouldn’t be so popular. The problem is that it leads to endless wars, and eventually to a war to end all wars.
We can go that way, of course, due to our freedom, and the mass of people probably will; unless, as in Abraham’s day, ten righteous patriarchs could be found. Abe should have bargained God down to one good man, but stopped at ten. Apparently, ten could not be found because Sodom was destroyed.
Are there ten true lovers today? I don’t know, but there are ten love commandments of the Love Army, and that’s good enough for me, to continue the fight to save our planet.
Time to eat my seed-filled watermelon. They say the seedless ones are not so sweet. I agree. I bought mine at Farmer and the Cook, where it came from the farmer up the road, for 50 cents a pound. Best deal around, and best of all, it’s not eating meat which causes war.
An army marches on its belly, the saying goes. How true, but where is it marching to? Hell, or the highway called Love Bower Boulevard. I know which one I’m taking, and it ain’t no war making. According to what I just read here, by someone connected to Hezbollah, if I recall correctly, the war is Syria is won. Good news; now on to stop the war on Russia.
From a Russia lover in Ojai,
Love, Dennis, posted at 2:22 pacific
Dennis,
Your misunderstanding of patriarchy is quite glorious.
Please consider a more realistic definition of patriarch following, per Makow:
“Patriarchy works because it induces men and women to cooperate under their complementary strengths. ‘Feminism’ does not work, because it encourages immoral behavior in women, which eventually wears down even the durable chivalry of beta men, making both genders worse off.”
Sounds like that makow character would prefer a “stepford wife”. But they may not be all that safe for the insecure little bois as the adverts lead the gullible to believe:
Wait, What? Cybersecurity Expert Says Hackers Could Order Sex Robots to Kill
https://sputniknews.com/science/201709141057375069-cybersecurity-expert-sex-robots-could-kill-human-lovers/
Actually, this could offer some very useful opportunities to “Russian hackers”… ;D
VT
I shouldn’t laugh……
I’ve updated this 9/11 comment with some useful links an a couple more paragraphs so I’ll repost it here where it’s more appropriate than under Saker’s “I survived the storm OK” message.
Does anyone with an internet connection still believe the official conspiracy theory that a guy hiding in a cave in Afghanistan and a few zealot followers somehow bypassed all 17 US security agencies and singlehandedly carried out the attacks?
Bin Laden, a long time CIA asset under George Bush Sr. when he was head of the CIA, may well have had a hand in recruiting the hijackers, but he didn’t arrange for the entire US Air Force to be off in Alaska and Northern Canada that day, or for the only two fighters left anywhere near Washington to be flown to another base 150 miles away that morning where they couldn’t interfere with the attack on the Pentagon, or for a deliberately very confusing hijacking simulation exercise to be carried out across the northeastern US that morning so air traffic controllers didn’t know whether this was an exercise or real life hijackings. As for the aircraft attacks on the twin towers being a “total surprise” as the Bush gang claimed, the Pentagon had war gamed that exact scenario some years earlier, including hitting the World Trade Centre buildings with hijacked aircraft.
The World Trade twin towers were specifically designed to survive a direct hit from an even larger 4 engined passenger plane, and in fact withstood the aircraft crashes as designed. Most of the jet fuel was vaporized as the fuel tanks ruptured in the crash and burned off in the first few minutes, meaning the remaining fires were low temperature office furniture and paper. Even jet fuel, which is only kerosene, burns far below the temperature needed to weaken steel beams which were specifically formulated steel intended to resist such fires. The buildings dd not collapse because of the airplane strikes and subsequent fires. That was only the cover story.The aircraft strikes were need to explain the building collapses.
Which brings us to Tower 7. Tower 7 was neither hit by an aircraft nor immediately adjacent to Towers 1 and 2. Videos show it collapsing in a classic controlled demolition with the massive reinforced concrete elevator shaft dropping first, pulling the rest of the building inwards toward the dropping centre at free fall speed, which means it wasn’t hitting and crushing solid steel and concrete columns below. That can only happen if the lower supporting columns have been weakened and blasted out of the way by explosions, which is exactly what over 100 surviving New York firefighters reported happening.
The Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a large group of qualified experts in building design, explain why Tower 7 could only have collapsed as a result of being wired with explosives. You can watch videos of the controlled demolition of Tower 7 here:
http://www.ae911truth.org/g…
What do all three towers have in common? First, all were owned by one person, who already owned Tower 7 and bought the twin towers only a few months before they were destroyed. One of his first acts was to fire the security company that had long been safeguarding all the towers, get rid of all the bomb sniffing dogs, and replace them with a “security” company owned by one of George Bush’s brothers. The same company, incidentally, that Florida Governor Jeb Bush had placed in charge of “security” in the fraudulent 2000 election that saw hundreds of thousand of registered Democrat supporters turned away from the polls in Florida, among other electoral fraud.
Second, all three towers had a serious problem that made them liabilities rather than assets: asbestos insulation covering the entire steel structures. Changes in environmental laws since their construction meant that whenever a floor was vacated, before it could be rented to anyone else a very expensive asbestos removal and remediation process had to be carried out, which meant there were a lot of empty locked off floors on all there buildings. Perfect for someone wanting to place explosives around the columns, especially since the explosive sniffing dogs had been removed. The cost of demolishing such large buildings and replacing them was prohibitive, unless:
Third, after purchasing the towers the new owner took out insurance policies on all three buildings for double their nominal value specifically including destruction by an act of terrorism. After the towers collapsed he attempted to collect twice, but was partially foiled when a court ruled he could only collect from one of the insurance policies.
Read the Wikipedia entry regarding his insurance claims and the fortuitous co-incidence that he skipped his usual breakfast in the restaurant atop the towers that particular morning, thus avoiding being killed. God apparently looks out for the rich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Asbestos and demolition problems solved courtesy of the US taxpayers, with the site being nicely cleared at public expense ready for the construction of new asbestos free towers.
Tower 7 also happened to house the largest CIA office in the United States after their Washington headquarters, as well as the government bureau investigating corporate crime, which was in the midst of investigating the massive Enron financial fraud scandal at the time. Enron was George Bush’s largest campaign contributor in the 2000 election. As luck would have it, most of the incriminating documents were “unfortunately” destroyed when Tower 7 collapsed.
No steel frame tower has ever collapsed as a result of a fire before or since, and all three buildings were fully sprinklered and as mentioned earlier, the twin towers specifically designed to survive a hit from a 4 engine jetliner larger than the twin engine 767s which actually struck them.
I won’t get into the Pentagon attack except to note that whatever blew a hole in the side of it happened to pick a location that had just been renovated and reinforced against such attacks, a location which was nearly empty at the time, and on the opposite side of the huge building from Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz’s offices. A “lucky co-incidence”?
Another “lucky co-incidence” is that the people who came to power when George Bush was appointed President by the Supreme Court on a 5-4 split vote on party lines after losing the recount in Florida were mostly involved in the “Project for a New American Century” which stipulated that the US should use its position as the sole superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union to invade and seize the world’s oil producing regions, including Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan, gateway to the Central Asian oil and gas fields of Kazakstan and the Caspian Basin.
But they identified a catch: to rally public support for their planned wars to seize the oilfields they first needed, to use their exact words, “a new Pearl Harbour” that could be blamed on the countries they intended to invade. And by yet another “lucky co-incidence” less than a year after Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condeleza Rice, and the rest of the “Project for a New American Century” authors came to power with Bush and Cheney, the “new Pearl Harbour” did indeed occur exactly as they wished for, and it was off to the middle east to pursue their oil wars.
I won’t belabour the point. As a judge once said in a local court case, “When co-incidence is piled on co-incidence piled on co-incidence, at some point it ceases to be a co-incidence. To repeat my lead question, does anyone with an internet connection still believe the official conspiracy theory about all this being arranged by a guy hiding in a cave in Afghanistan?
Hi Terry.
No, no one believes it anymore, whose opinion on anything is worth anything. The Official Story is all shot to hell with nothing holding it up, in places like the US Congress except the pedophile blackmail files by the Deep State controllers keeping those mind-slaves in their assigned zio-pigpens.
It is this Deep Disconnect that keeps the constituents of those slaves also reluctant to venture forth from their little assigned stalls in “private life”.
Who wants to be first, and get caught out in the open and have to escalate the discussion, in order to defend the truth and go on the offensive against the treason, lies, stupidity and just plain cowardice of those around them???
That’s the problem.
But deep down, the foundation of the dam, the Levy of Lies is leaking like a sieve.
But more people are getting more confident as they see more and more higly qualified people and even people they know personally, occasionally, speak out. Shockingly! At first. Then courage builds.
It’s like the reticence of people here to grasp the shift on Russia. Mention some connection you have to Russia in the company of people that trust each other and aren’t ignoramuses, and they respond with interest, and even evident admiration of the country and of Putin.
But still an awful lot of people tippy-toeing around on these sorts of things because of the pervasive fear mongering mind control which has lasted decades. It’s a life time of conditioning, for the average person. They are not in the habit of quickly sloughing it off.
And they are, perhaps looking to Trump to tell the truth!! LOL
The silence and cowardice from head to toe in western countries is severely cracked but still standing. Keep hammering!
Hi Terry,
Thanks very much for your take on this. Bro and I have just been talking about how to understand 9/11. There are several lengthy analyses by E.P. Heidner that Bro kindly shared, links to which you can find below:
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Collateral_Damage_911.pdf
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Collateral_Damage_Part_II_26122008.pdf
http://usa-the-republic.com/items%20of%20interest/September-11-Commission-Report-Revised-December-2008.pdf
There’s a lot of information here, but for me Heidner’s interpretation stands out because s/he really attempts to sketch out a more precise rationale for the attacks, beyond the general “endless war/money for the MIC” reading.
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about these articles, and where you see them fitting into the research that’s been done on 9/11.
Dmitri Khalezov has provided an enormous amount of information which can be searched for on YouTube. The FBI acknowledges much of what Khalezov claims because they know, but the mass media is not informing or is restricted. Understanding Khalezov completely will take at least four hours of watching and listening. The last hour of the following lecture may interest you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnjbCxhXh4
I listened to the first hour of the 911thology interview, and also the last hour.
Khalezov’s assertion that “Freemasons, France, and Israel” together are behind 9/11 seems quite flimsy and isn’t supported. Heidner’s analysis is much deeper and to me more compelling.
Unfortunately, then, I do not find Khalezov’s account to be credible. A lot of what he claims has also been debunked here:
http://www.takeourworldback.com/wtcnukeddisinfo.htm
At least you have made an attempt and responded, the only person in the Cafe to do so, and this is appreciated.
What do you think made those vitreous glass lined cavities of around 100 metres diameter beneath each of the Twin Towers?
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your reply. I don’t know about the cavities around the Twin Towers. I did a google search but nothing comes up. The first hit is some company selling bathroom tiles. Is that what you’re talking about?
As a rule, you need to source these sorts of claims with URLs to credible sources and hard evidence. Khalezov doesn’t do that, which is why his claims never really rise above speculation.
If we want to win this game, we’ll have to play it right.
Nuclear demolition explosives account for the vitreous lined cavities found under the WTC.
Nukes also account for the tritium found in the debris.
Nice article by F William Engdahl:
Gold Oil Dollars Russia and China
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO13Sep2017.php
It ends thusly:
“In April 2016 China made a major move to become the new center for gold exchange and the world center of gold trade, physical gold. China today is the world’s largest gold producer, far ahead of fellow BRICS member South Africa, with Russia number two.
China has now established a vast storage center in the Chinese Qianhai Free Trade Zone next to Shenzhen, the city of some 18 million immediately north of Hong Kong on the Pearl River Delta. Now China is completing construction of a permanent gold vault facility, including a bonded warehouse, trading floor and related offices areas. The 105-year-old Hong Kong-based Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society is in a joint project with ICBC, China’s largest state bank and its largest gold importing bank, to create the Qianhai Storage Center. It begins to become clear why Washington deceptive NGOs such as the National Endowment for Democracy tried, unsuccessfully, to create an anti-Beijing Color Revolution, the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong in late 2014.
Now to add the new oil futures contract traded in China in Yuan with the gold backing will lead to a dramatic shift by key OPEC members, even in the Middle East, to prefer gold-backed Yuan for their oil over inflated US dollars that carry a geopolitical risk as Qatar experienced following the Trump visit to Riyadh some months ago. Notably, Russian state oil giant, Rosneft just announced that Chinese state oil company, CEFC China Energy Company Ltd. Just bought a 14% share of Rosneft from Qatar. It’s all beginning to fit together into a very coherent strategy.
The dollar imperium is in its painful death agony and its patriarchs are in reality denial otherwise known as the Trump presidency. Meanwhile the saner elements of this world are about building constructive, peaceful alternatives. They are even open to admit Washington, under honest rules, to join them. That’s remarkably generous isn’t it?”
END
Always give a dangerous, cornered adversary a route of escape.
That “adversary” includes however, the mostly clueless irresponsible and unwitting populations of the West, at the bottom, and their criminal ruling class at the top. Cut the mind control of the top .001% over the bottom 99.999% and let the victims decide what to do with their victimizers.
September 13, 2017
An Economic Lesson for China and Russia
Paul Craig Roberts
Is there anyone in Trump’s government who is not an imbecile?
After years of endless military threats against Russia—remember CIA deputy director Mike Morell saying on TV (Charlie Rose show) that the US should start killing Russians to give them a message, and Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley threatening “We’ll beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before”—now the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin threatens China. If China doesn’t abide by Washington’s new sanctions on North Korea, Mnuchin said the US “will put additional sanctions on them [China] and prevent them from accessing the US and international dollar system.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/403118-usa-china-sanctions-north-korea/ [1]
Here is the broke US government $20 trillion in public debt, having to print money with which to buy its own bonds, threatening the second largest economy in the world, an economy on purchasing power parity terms that is larger than the US economy.
Take a moment to think about Mnuchin’s threat to China. How many US firms are located in China? It is not only Apple and Nike. Would sanctions on China mean that the US firms could not sell their Chinese made products in the US or anywhere outside China? Do you think the global US corporations would stand for this?
What if China responded by nationalizing all US factories and all Western owned banks in China and Hong Kong?
Mnuchin is like the imbecile Nikki Haley. He doesn’t know who he is threatening.
Consider Mnuchin’s threat to exclude China from the international dollar system. Nothing could do more harm to the US and more good to China. A huge amount of economic transactions would simply exit the dollar system, reducing its scope and importance. Most importantly, it would finally dawn on the Chinese and Russian governments that being a part of the dollar system is a massive liability with no benefits. Russia and China should years ago have created their own system. Being part of Washington’s system simply lets Washington make threats and impose sanctions.
The reason Russia and China are blind to this is that they foolishly sent students to the US to study economics. These students returned completely brainwashed with neoliberal economics, “junk economics” in Michael Hudson’s term. This American economics makes Russian and Chinese economists de facto American stooges. They support policies that serve Washington instead of their own countries.
If China and Russia want to be sovereign countries, they must pray that the imbecile Mnuchin does cut them off from the dollar system that exploits them. Then Russia and China will have to put in place their own system and learn real economics instead of propaganda posing as economics that serves Washington’s interest.
That alternative system is already in place, including the system to sideline the fiat-based dollar with gold-backed currencies. So Mnuchin may just make China’s day by furnishing her with an excuse to side-line the dollar and sell off her US Treasuries.
But I don’t think China will do that yet. A calamitous collapse of the US is in nobody’s interest. Besides China don’t want to be blamed for the US collapse and be branded an enemy of the Americans for generations.
China will just let the US trigger its own collapse, say with the bursting of the US stock market bubble by their (US’) own greedy speculators. But China will not let the US collapse completely like the former USSR.
China will likely launch a massive rescue of the US economy with a massive increase in imports using e-commerce platforms but payment will be in Yuan as the US dollar will by then be exposed as the worthless paper that it is.
To get Yuan, US will allow the selling its technological assets to China. In conjunction with ramping up imports from the US, China may underwrite the necessary massive upgrade of US infrastructure as well as invest massively in the US manufacturing sector to revive it. These should be enough to stabilise the US economy and arrest its downward spiral.
After all, China still regard the US as a very important market for her increasingly higher-value added products even if the US implodes to become an USD 7 trillion economy.
Interesting thoughts Simon, if China will invest massively in the US manufacturing sector, doesn’t that mean a bail-out ? ( I’m very far from a business guru ) of course, all this is if : if there will be a stock market bubble burst, if the US hasn’t already another plan on the table, which could lead to a major world wide stock market crash as in 1929 and there is the North Korea issue which seems to not cool down, even contrary. That is a major card to play for the Empire. The Empire is not yet keen to lose and if he does that, the whole world will be affected. This thought is enough for China and Russia to think twice and maybe accept a “deal” (a new reshuffle of the cards between “partners” ). That’s why – in my view – are China and Russia so “patient” with US.
The US is threatening China with sanctions. So what? Who is really threatening whom? This is a coded message to the whole damn world from Count Khazar himself: I am in charge, and you better do what you’re told, or you will feel the wrath of my terrible, swift sword.
Swift, right? The Count is telling his three musketeers, Xi, Putin and Trump, or three stooges, if you will, that pulling the Swift rug from under any of them would throw the world of business into chaos, and he is willing, for a price, to prevent this catastrophe. But even if it does happen, it will take one hell of banker to put Humpty Dumpty together–and the Count is a banker from hell extraordinaire.
Count Khazar owns all the tea and gold in China. When the new Special Drawing Rights currency basket is ready, guess who gets to draw first. You didn’t guess right if you didn’t count on the Count. Those who don’t play along, go down for the count.
The fantasy of getting rid of Mr. Swift without the Count’s permission, and not on his schedule, rivals obor for naivety. The Count is not interested in elevating humanity but in mooring it more deeply in unhappiness toys, while enmeshing it in a net of rails that all lead, not to Rome, but to the Rock of the Dome–talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place.
The coded message is directed primarily at Roman Caesar, who depends on the status quo of business as usual. This blood feud and fight to the finish goes back at least 2000 years, to when Titus Caesar said what things would be. This time round, a different kind of temple of commerce is liable to be demolished.
The Counters are outnumbered a million to one but the businessmen from Taos aren’t that swift:
“The businessmen of Taos want you to go down
They’ve hired Pat Garret to force a showdown
Billy, don’t it make ya feel so low down
To be shot down by the man who was your friend?
Billy, you’re so far away from home”
It’s an advanced game of chicken, or Russian roulette. Make one false move too swift or too slow, and you’ll end up on the rotisserie chicken recipe. No one plans ahead better than the Counter, who counts chickens before they hatch.
Fortunately, the Count is no match for the Love Army. I count on the ten commandments of love, so that even if the world goes to hell in a hand basket of SDR’s, or goes to hell on an obor road of good intentions, I’m in safe hands with Love Bower protections.
Finally, before I retire this day, allow me to tell Phil that I appreciate his quoted definition of patriarchy. But I must demur, because like love, patriarchy cannot be defined, except by the safely blind, to put it as kindly as possible.
In one month, I board the Amtrak Southwest Chief for Wisconsin, a pleasure trip not unlike tripping the light fantastic in this vineyard with you.
Love, Dennis, Oh so high in Ojai, posted at 9 pm pacifically and 4 am tomorrow universally…
Ridiculous ego trip you are on my soul brother!
Myself, I am eternally grateful for your fellow Irishman’s (that would be the Lep-retard that has pledged his future ignore-ance, which I accept joyfully…ah, clean air, not methane, when I pass over his bridge…) decision in the last Cafe.
One down (under the OBOR railroad bridge), one to go (around the world in 80 hours) !
No, you know I love you like a brother and you DO have more Talent than the Emerald Communist!
Therefore, I put the hyphen not between the “p” and the “r” but after the second “e”
Lepre-tard. What are you late to??
The Shooting Ranges in the Tunnel of Love! (I’m lining up the bottles for a few days.)
For Refuting Exchanges up the Funnel Above.
To be brief, you’re long on Rhyme and short on Reason,
Beyond belief, pure song, shorter Time and Silly Season.
But I’m not worried about you, “It’s all good!”
‘Cause I still love you—like a brother should!
My, that was fun!
But I’m not done.
ATTENTION CRYPTO-FREAKS!
In my flitting about in cyberspace I have come across a lot of bunk and debunk, some people with real spunk, and of course, our loveable ex-monk.
But he’s in bed, to rise at 3:33,
Leaving me oh, so frisky and free
To play with my Cheery Leary Parody!
Done. Time to get serious, not to Sirius.
But Jordan Sather (Destroyinghteillusion.com) looks like he’s in his twenties and he would go there if offered a ride.
And you know me, if a craft of inter-galactic visitors landed in my back yard, my pulse might double, but I doubt I would have a heart attack.
Others who fear ridicule more than anything might not be able to handle it that well, and certainly not as well as young Jordan, who pretty much expects it!
We have our people around here who briefly drop hints. Suzanne’s deceased son who worked at Area 51 or had some drama there that relates to his demise. A Peter from Down Under who watches Antarctica and the skies over Australia very closely but speaks about it very rarely. That’s OK Peter. (You’re not alone.)
Jordan is loose as a goose on almost any topic, and so am I:
I know what I don’t know and that most that pretend to….LIE!
The younger generation is worth keeping tabs on and Man, does this youngster Jordan Sather do some remarkable aggregating (putting things and people and ideas and consciousness together) right here:
https://youtu.be/KXW0hS3aOjA
Cynthia McKinney, Robert David Steele…..his lawsuit against apparent ZIO-Lobby frauds (I trust my instincts) Jason Goodman and “Queen TUT TUT TUT: “You mustn’t criticize Israel” and teaming up with John McAfee for a new cryptocurrency that earns tokens for valued contributors of the sort of thing we do here …well some of us, like Saker L445, Uncle Bob, Vot Tak…..I doubt Cafe Lounge Lizards like Dennis and I could earn a cup of coffee, in a year of trying!
So, “Cynthia does her ‘people thing’ and John McAfee and I will do our cyber thing…………..” (including a crypto……Amarynth.and Saker Nerd Squad….review PLEASE!:
at 15 minutes https://youtu.be/KXW0hS3aOjA?t=881 through about 19 minutes
RDS breaks down the outline of the crypto project He and McAfee have teamed up on.
Now, I watched John MCAfee for the very first time 2 nights ago.
But this is not about me, Dennis. OR YOU!!! lol
Some synchronous aggregation there Jordan! Good job!!
Bro, I am not deeply into what Mcafee is doing, but his instincts in the space have generally been spot on. (That may change though as I believe a lot of ingested stuff that makes you stupid may be playing a part here.)
Generally .. here is something for those that think about cryptos. A brave new world. Open your minds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPO4BLw5OXc
I’m going to study that intensively. I previewed a few minutes and it’s right in my wheelhouse Real (meaning it can’t be picked up and moved) Estate.
Of course if that dirt is on the coast it just might be moved. There are exceptions to everything.
But the equity based idea versus the debt based idea is far-reaching. I’ll let you know if I find any holes in it. After today’s wanderings in the desert, when I have 40 minutes
The Lynette Zang scare story about ACC had one element that caused significant scepticism in me….I nibbled her bait, but didn’t bite:
That the Chinese (and the Rothschilds, the British, Wall St ) will use Bitcoin or some crypto to “digitize all assets”…..put a chip under our skins and tax and confiscate to their hearts’ content.
Off the top of my head I can see how you do that with paper assets (stocks, bonds, etc) but with Real Estate???
There are problems: Escrows which take weeks if not months, Title, termite clearance, code violations, encumbrances and liens of numerous sorts that attach to property precisely because it is immobile. Sure, real estate practice like any practice can be revolutionized, but HOW make it that “instant”??
You’re going to digitize all that in the above paragraph and deal with all of it by a click of a bureaucratic mouse somewhere?? Help me out. I can’t see how you do that unless private ownership is 100% banned, and all title to everything is held by one entity: The NWO
Meanwhile on the China angle (I would like to brainstorm with the cryptographers on all this….I love puzzles!) this was referenced in a letter I get:
https://youtu.be/wjxZ1hYUOlU
China Just Shook the Cryptocurrency Market… Here’s How to Profit
Not that the fake One Eye (Mon-eye) is the real Talent referenced in Mathew, the Parable of the Talents. It isn’t! I am clear on that.
There’s a bigger prize than “Profit”.
“Prophets” (LOL) have taught that for many millenia.
The greater prizes are Freedom and Love, and you can put that in your Exchange….er…. bank! No, “Exchange” is more prophetable!
Anyway, let’s keep an eye on what RDS and John McAfee, and their Politicoin….my suggested name…or maybe Intellicoin.???…..don’t know what they call it yet……and your Brit professor are up to, shall we???
Just another quick reply .. after listening to your posted youtube, I am not a fan of Steele. There is something just ‘off’ for me. That time that he said that the daughter of the current president of the USA is the current manifestation of John F Kennedy if you look at it from a multiple lives perspective .. well, he lost me right there at that one point. This is not that I don’t accept the concept of reincarnation, it is because the Steele concept of who is reincarnated as who is just ludicrous. Besides that, the technology that he is talking about, the stuff that they are supposedly buidling, is already out there. So, to me, in this space, they’re going about it on hype, instead of good technology that will benefit humankind. So, he says he is a technologist on the meta level. I question if he knows what is happening on the meta level. Also working with Sacha (sp?) Stone – that old new ager!. Oy vey! (grins).
Forgive me Bro, I find myself so tired of the crappiness today, so, I am probably sharper with the mouth than the usual pragmatic person.
It almost feels like we have to create ourselves some new conspiracy theories because the old ones are clapped out and not working any longer for us, the truth community.
A quicker one:
Everybody “loses” everybody except their mate.
And if that mate ain’t their “soul mate” there’s always D-I-V-O-R-C-E (of course!):
https://youtu.be/ZQs3jZbxFTQ
D-I-V-O-R-C-E:
Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man
So we spell out the words we don’t want him to understand
Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E
But the words we’re hiding from him now
Tears the heart right out of me.
Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be goin’ away
I love you both and it will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
Watch him smile, he thinks it Christmas
Or his fifth birthday
And he thinks C-U-S-T-O-D-Y spells fun or play
I spell out all the hurtin’ words
And turn my head when I speak
‘Cause I can’t spell away this hurt
That’s drippin’ down my cheek.
I’m sure some of y’all can relate. Oh, well Steele and Cynthia McKinney seem to be getting along
great! For the time being, that is.
Of course if tensions on that RV get unbearable, one or the other can always “pull an Ahnold”:
https://youtu.be/RelC5QL5m94
A quicker way to get that “third eye”???
I’m not a big fan of divorce. I’d rather see people work out their differences, even if it’s painful. Politically, that is. A broad front….A VERY broad front.
Don’t know if it as realy took place during the hurricain irma in Florida… but quiet a big wave surfing !
https://vk.com/video-63758929_456261442
Which reminds me – the strange phenomenon where the Atlantic meets the Pacific :
https://youtu.be/SWRqfWo4hZ8
Obvious metaphor…
… and maybe not.
A comment on the video claims it’s actually a glacial river flowing into the Gulf of Alaska – freshwater full of iron meeting saltwater waves and churning up sediment as it flows.
And the two do mix.
Another claims it’s the Baltic meeting the Nordic Sea.
But the first one makes more sense.
So there’s hope that East will ‘meet’ West yet….:-)
If anyone here in the Cafe is an expert on Central Banking and especially how the Russian Central Bank operates internationally many people would like to understand this better.
I am not asking for YouTube videos on the subject, or any video explanation, but prefer a discussion toward understanding, here in the Cafe.
Breaking the Habit: Venezuela Reportedly Stops Using US Dollars in Oil Trade
https://sputniknews.com/business/201709141057388292-venezuela-oil-us-dollars-tensions/
“Venezuelan authorities have told oil traders that the country would no longer make or accept payments for oil deals in US dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the situation.
Oil traders who export Venezuelan oil or import petroleum products have already begun to convert invoices to euros, the media outlet reported.
According to the WSJ, Venezuela made this decision in a response to the US sanctions introduced last month. The Ministry of Petroleum of Venezuela has not yet commented on the report.
The reported comes a day after a statement made by Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum Eulochio del Pino, who reiterated the country’s president’s vow to start selling oil in currencies other than the US dollar, in particular, the Chinese yuan.”
Considering that the wsj is a “fake news” source, I’d prefer confirmation of this news from the Venezuelan government or a genuine news source, before celebrating.
The eu continues to sell out their own in service to their israeloamerican master’s.
EU Extends Sanctions on Russia by Six Months
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709141057389925-eu-russia-sanctions-extension/
“The European Union has extended sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian individuals and legal entities by another six months on Thursday.
Despite the fact that several EU members have repeatedly voiced disapproval of anti-Russian sanctions policy and called for lifting them, which harm their states’ trade with Russia, Brussels continues to prolong the restrictions on Moscow.”
Anti-Russian sanctions cost Europe $100bn – UN Special Rapporteur
https://www.rt.com/business/403209-sanctions-russia-eu-billon-losses/
“Over the last three years, the European Union has been losing at least $3.2 billion every month due to the anti-Russian penalties, according to a report by a UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy.
“The most credible approximation is of $3.2 billion a month,” says the report on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures, as quoted by Sputnik.
Jazairy stressed that Russia had sustained a direct loss of nearly $15 billion a year or a total of $55 billion so far.
“The resulting overall income loss of $155 billion is shared by source and target countries,” he added.”
Those sanctions probably resulted in no income loss for israel or it’s pindo enforcer colony. The eu, being subservient to israeli interests, has basically screwed Europeans to further empower and enrich their israeli master. And continues to do so in a very obvious and humiliating manner.
“Sending a message” a la Rus
http://theduran.com/russian-submarines-mediterranean-launch-kalibr-cruise-missiles-isis-targets-deir-ez-zor/
Now how about ( with the permission of Assad of course) landing an Iskander 30 meters from the illegal state terrorist base at Tanf? Give them 5 min. warning at 3AM.
It’s a pleasure to visit this cafe at the break of day, as I did today. Well, it wasn’t so nice to be called a lounge lizard, but at least it was a tag I’d never heard of before, and so opened another door on the art of lepretard love.
The complement was sweetened by lumping my sugar cube with Bro’s, in the reversed simile of he and I not being able to earn a cup of coffee. That’s obviously not the case for him; and I at least earned my pension, even if by hook or by crook. Bro is a sort of cafe everyman, and I’m more of a nowhere man.
As Bro said, it’s not about him or me, but that too is an equivocation. Exclude one and ban all. Bro’s own story about saving the cook shows the value of one dysfunctional person. At any rate, this every third day cafe is sure cooking with gas, where Bro is one of the main chefs.
I listened to Bro’s link to Jordan Sather, which rhymes nicely with Saker, and the young and idealistic Saker himself, in the interview of Robert David Steele and Cynthia McKinney. In the course of an hour, my attitude changed from off to on; and for that I’m grateful.
I’ve lived in a motor home bus with Apolonia herself, and did not get thrown under the bus; so I can appreciate the survival skills of a black and white divine couple, tilting with wind mills Don Quixote style, innocents in the land of Nod.
Sather Saker Simon says we need something to bring us together. A good start would be sensitivity to language. Hashtag Unrigged? You’ve got to be kidding. That’s about as confusing as a hippie bus of potheads on Pothole Road. At least the Donald can do inspiring one liners on Twitter, and get elected against all the odds. How do you unrig a hashtag, Joe Sixpack asks in bewilderment.
In an information war, you beat the deep state with plain language, not beating the bushes in buses. Robert and Cynthia are in love obviously but can’t agree on whether they need or don’t need us on the bus. The love bus idea is on a hypertrophied level with obor rails to everywhere.
Don’t get me wrong. The divine couple are right on, 99% but it’s that 1% off that wiggles their left back wheel, which if it disengages will unriggle hashtags and all.
They correctly identify the deep stage masters, as Rothschilds, Jesuits, Vatican Black Popes, Freemasons, Knights of Malta and the Three nation cities but by lumping all together in a heap, they can’t come out of their deep sleep.
There are actually two deep states, and a third state of love, which is no state at all. I’ve stated this all over the place, hidden in plain view. If David wants to slay Goliath, he needs to make a date with Lady Love, and stop calling Cynthia The Lady or worse, Miss Daisy.
Of course, you can make the same case about me and the Love Army, and you do. Good for you; at least you’re thinking. I wish you all well, and I hope the hash taggers and smokers will succeed.
I’m not into a popular or political contests. The ten commandments of love are about individuals in community, not two bit bit coin speculators. The deep statists treat me like real estate, made more and more immobile. Au contraire mon frere, I’m more like Fedor’s link to the awesome Surfer, and so are you.
It’s now 9:33 and in Bro 93’s big wave wake. Am I awake or do I dream? I don’t know; maybe both. I don’t know much about knowledge but in love I can tell a surfer from usurer, which is why I love those love commandments.
As the black madonna, cynthia moon says: “I practice what I preach, and walk my talk.” Right down to the toilet paper, and paper tigers of information row. Keep me posted on their pilgrim’s progress to the world to come while I check out desolation row with the Love Army.
“As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
With Cinderella sweeping up
Bette Davis style
And the fortune-telling lady
Cain and Able
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Good Samaritan
Ophelia, Noah
Einstein and Robin Hood
A jealous monk
And Dr. Filth
The phantom of the opera
Casanova and Nero
On the Titanic ship of fools
As I view these lovers
On Desolation Row?”
Time to eat my two oranges breakfast before I check the avocado trees in my field of dreams.
Love, Dennis 10:11 am Ojai
Interview with Alexander Dugin
September 13, 2017
https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/interview-with-alexander-dugin/
I like this man re: ” I write books-somebody reads them”
The Friendship Treaty Between China and North Korea
With the Trump Administration threatening to move against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a punishment for their ballistic missile and nuclear programs, it is a good time to take a look back to 1961 when the People’s Republic of China and the DPRK signed the “Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Between the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Here is the text of the treaty which was signed in July 1961:
THE Chairman of the People’s Republic of China and the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, determined, in accordance with Marxism-Leninism and the principle of proletarian internationalism and on the basis of mutual respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and mutual assistance and support, to make every effort to further strengthen and develop the fraternal relations of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance between the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to jointly guard the security of the two peoples, and to safeguard and consolidate the peace of Asia and the world, and deeply convinced that the development and strengthening of the relations of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance between the two countries accord not only with the fundamental interests of the two peoples but also with the interests of the peoples all over the world, have decided for this purpose to conclude the present Treaty and appointed as their respective plenipotentiaries:
The rest:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.mx/2017/09/the-friendship-treaty-between-china-and.html
Did this happen before the expulsion of Russian diplomatic personnel and property seizure recently in US?
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.812328
Explains a lot.
Great find, Eimar. Thanks for the link!
Haaretz (via Reuters) steps up anti – Putin propaganda.
(From a report claiming election fraud by United Russia, observed by ‘on scene’ Reuters ‘reporters’) :
Reuters reporters were there when the polls opened at 08:00 until after the official count had been completed. They saw one man, who said he was a United Russia election observer, approaching the ballot box multiple times and each time putting inside voting papers.
“We must ensure 85 percent for United Russia. Otherwise, the Tsar will stop providing us with money,” the man, Sergei Lyutikov, told a reporter, in an apparent reference to Putin.
What?
No ‘Ivan’?
Unbelievably ham-fisted agitprop for an old pro like Reuters.
Sounds like even they’re getting bored…
U.S. of course has deep and long history with voter fraud, back to 1800’s at least. I’m reading a book about Pennsylvania, which really could have been its own country before 1787, and should have been. Like many states, ruled by bosses who choose candidates for everything up from dog-catcher. CA different but essentially same.
Republicans, historically, repress the votes, i.e. take people off rolls. Remember Florida? Democrats, in contrast, vote dead people. They used to use the names of the Framers in Philly. Now, I believe the Project Veritas guy did it as Eminem.
All attested to in a very dry book about PA politics that dealt strictly w/bosses of the past.
OTOH, the reuters story is just cheesy, bad fiction. I just don’t believe these “reporters” and their memories. ;0
You, uh, could maybe share the title with us?
There you go :
https://www.google.ie/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1BN15P
Interesting tidbit of news from Canada today regarding North Korea. Apparently, the US won’t defend Canada (which is also the territory included in USNORTHCOM) from a missile strike.
“We’re being told in Colorado Springs that the extant U.S. policy is not to defend Canada,” said LGen Pierre St-Amand, deputy commander of NORAD.
There’s been no hysteria or urgency at all here about North Korea, leading me to wonder if war is really likely. A representative from Canada’s Foreign Affairs said that the North Koreans “tell us that they don’t see us as a threat.”
Does this all seem odd? What’s the purpose of NATO again? What about NORAD? And if Canada is not concerned about North Korea, is there really an imminent threat of war between US and North Korea? Is there something else entirely happening here? (See Scott’s recent insightful sitrep, “While we watched the fake American civil war”)
I am intrigued by this :
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1066433.shtml
How many countries have a government that pays such close attention to entertainment media?
Most seem perfectly content with Hollywood product.
But the Chinese government is critical of the effects star power have on script quality.
So much so, they are planning an overhaul of the industry.
While they’re at it, they should also look into developing good quality subtitling in English, Spanish and Russian for foreign markets.
Play Hollywood at its own game by offering a real alternative to porn, mindless violence, anti – heroism, gross – out comedies and general all-round degradation.
They’re is a worldwide audience for well-written, acted and directed wuxia.
Time to tap into it.
China has the lead on Hollywood, doing more with less, as does Russia. Both can use minimal CGI and drones to beautiful effect; both have a dramatic flair for beautiful photography and historical heroes; both have produced consistent and sometimes excellent product for decades and have unique cinema that are known worldwide.
NoKo has animation skills used all over the world; SoKo has upcoming film industry w/ standards that match China in some cases. Recent SoKo “War of Arrows” has incredible production skills with a 100th budget of Hollywood.
All the dollars in L.A. can’t match the Silk Road cinema.
On VK and RuNet and Chinese Net, these movies are gaining ground and aesthetically they put Hollywood to total shame! Also among worldwide youtube/vimeo/rutube audience. Interesting article!
This is a subject close to my heart, but typing on a phone restricts my outpourings…
Just as well, we have enough drum – banging in the Vineyard, including myself. :-)
I was thinking more along the lines of a coordinated, organised approach to distribution and content.
China could use some of its surplus cash to develop a consistent approach to quality subtitling.. currently it is ad hoc, and left to individual enthusiasts. That makes for very uneven quality in translation.
Russian cinema seems to be far better at this.
Maybe the Chinese government should think about buying into a platform like youtube, since cinema is largely becoming obsolete.
As a corollary, a few showcase cinemas done up to reflect their past glories in the West, featuring quality drama from the BRICS (and good subtitling!) could be used to project cultural alternatives to Western schlock – there is a thirsty audience in Europe for sure.
Actually, many countries are well aware of the problem of Hollywood and have developed very intelligent policies for production, distribution, and exhibition. France has been the leader (see the history of the CNC), not just because cinema was invented there but because of what happened in WWII.
China is a relative latecomer but they have what is potentially the largest domestic audience in the world so there’s lots of incentive. In any case, they are on the right track.
I am thinking more along the lines of ‘soft power’, using cultural factors (wuxia, historical dramas) as an arm of foreign policy.
Just as Hollywood has been used to promote US hegemony via ‘values’ globally.
English is still the lingua franca of the world, so quality subtitling is a must to reach audiences.
And Hollywood still overwhelmingly controls distribution in the West.
The history of cinema indicates that this is going to be an uphill battle.
In East Asia, for example, Japan tried the ‘soft power’ route (jidai-geki, yakuza-eiga, J-horror, etc.), their Ministry of Foreign Affairs was heavily involved, but eventually they gave up. Their national cinema no longer has a significant market overseas. Only a small audience of fans cares. Today, their idea of soft power is Hello Kitty, a cute culture. All serious observers think that “Cool Japan” is a joke.
Basically, genre-based film production doesn’t really matter any more. It’s a niche market at best. It’s sad but wuxia is just never going to have the global presence that, say, the crap from Marvel has today. It’s too culturally specific. There will be wuxia fans, but again we’re talking about a small audience. The audience has nothing to do with art or complexity or depth. Mainstream audiences don’t care about such values.
As you point out, Hollywood controls distribution, which means they decide what global audiences want to see. Distributors do not simply “give the public what they want”. They create audiences. They create the desire. That is their power. It’s the same as MTV, except at a larger scale.
So, subtitling will not make the difference. It is true that subtitles must be done right. I have heard that film buyers will walk out of a screening if they see more than two subtitles that were botched. It’s just business to them, and their company is not going to pay to fix the subtitles — that is the production company’s responsibility.
However, that is not the most important issue. Finally, you and I may be interested in watching films with subtitles but mainstream audiences mostly can’t be bothered. This is why, for example, so many films from Asia and Europe get remade by Hollywood. The remakes are uniformly worse than the originals, but there’s an audience because as a rule native speakers don’t want to read subtitles unless there is a huge difference in production values. As you point out, that gap has been closed by Chinese cinema, so it comes back to cultural factors and sadly most people just aren’t that curious about other cultures.
I wish none of these were true, but if you study the economics of the film business, this is what you will see.
Very informative post Acacia – thanks.
I will quibble with you a little,if I may.
Japan is not really a good example. It is a much smaller country than China, and much of its culture is Sino – influenced – historically and aesthetically anyway.
China is huge, with much more to draw from culturally and aesthetically. (Cuisine is just one area of difference, with many different regional differences in China compared to Japan’s narrow range due to low – yield arable land and it’s dependency on the seas.)
As for the audience for wuxia being small… that is currently true. . But much of that is down to failure by China’s cultural gauleiters to develop foreign markets,and to exert better quality control over scripts.
As for subtitles…
I think you are focusing more on the US market than, let’s say, European.
Europe is a multi – lingual continent so it’s inhabitants have far less ‘issues’ with subtitles – they are in fact preferred over dub (which is almost uniformly bad). And there is widespread disdain for Hollywood remakes of good original European films. ( The remakes are typically transformed beyond recognition for the US audience anyway.) This is the biggest potential market for wuxia and the like – especially among the large population of college – going youth. Indeed, the universities may very well be a useful springboard to market them initially..
Hollywood is in decline anyway – more films lose money than make a profit.
It’s only the stranglehold on global distribution that gives its products market advantage.
That’s where the Chinese government could make some inroads, starting with Internet platforms like YouTube or Vimeo,and buying up distribution outlets.
Festivals are also a good way of bringing attention to cultural ‘products’, but they have to be willing to go after the potential audience, instead of waiting for it to come to them, not least through advertising and sales to regional networks.
Yes, I think China can and will do some of what you are suggesting. Their share of the global market for films will increase. But, will it increase dramatically? I am very doubtful.
To respond to a few points: I would say Japan is in fact a good example because they have been at this game a very long time. It’s the oldest national cinema in East Asia. You point to the size of the country and the diversity of its cuisine, but the question is whether this diversity is expressed in the cinema. It’s a question of what kinds of films are actually being produced, not what could/maybe/might be produced. We must ask how this diversity really matters at the box office.
I suspect Japanese cinema is more diverse than you imagine, but let’s look at this another way to see the importance of diversity. What if we consider not just China vs. Japan, but China vs. Japan, plus South Korea, plus Hong Kong, plus Taiwan, plus India, i.e., China vs. South and East Asian cinema as a whole. I think we’ll agree that the later is of course far more diverse than just Chinese cinema. But now, if we look at the total market presence of South plus East Asian cinema in theaters worldwide, is it really a dominating presence? I don’t see that, and I will give you some numbers in a moment.
Regarding subtitles, I was talking about North America, yes, and I agree with you that attitudes in Europe are more open, but what are the actual numbers? Let’s consider France, which is definitely closer to what you’re talking about, and probably one of the most “cinéphile” film markets in the EU. According to the “Bilan du CNC 2016”, domestic audience numbers have been growing slowly, receipts have been growing, the number of screenings has been going up, but the market share for all foreign films hasn’t been growing much. In fact, since 2015 it’s getting smaller. This means: there is strong growth for domestic films, and only limited opportunity for foreign films. Since we’re talking about China, look at p. 44 of the “Bilan 2016 du CNC” and you will see there were only 7 new Chinese films in French theaters in 2007, down to 5 in 2016. Market share: 0.7% in 2016. Total market share of all foreign, non-European films: 11.9%. If you have hard numbers for other countries in Europe that are radically different, I would be curious to see them.
As for festivals, I would say success there does not mean success at the box office. I suspect Chinese films would have to sweep awards at Cannes, Berlin and Venice year after year for over a decade to really make a difference.
As for Hollywood being in decline, I don’t see that at all. 2016 was a record year.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2016-box-office-record-year-crosses-11-billion-959300
The Chinese have of course invested in Hollywood, but as entrepreneurs, not via govt policy. Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group bought the US exhibitor chain AMC, and last year bought Legendary Pictures. Wanda Film Holdings is now the highest-revenue generating film company in the world. Legendary produced “The Hangover”, “Batman”, “Interstellar”, etc. Are they suddenly going to change the kinds of films that they make? I don’t see it. (Did you know that Sony owns the James Bond franchise? Are they going to change the most profitable franchise in the history of cinema, make Bond Japanese or something? :) I am doubtful. They do use Bond to sell Sony phones, tho.)
Lastly, I agree with you that the Chinese cinema could also make inroads via Internet platforms — VOD — but they’d better really get moving if they want to compete with Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc. I used to think that VOD was going to really diversify film offerings, more in line with what is actually produced by all national cinemas around the world, but I no longer see this as happening anytime soon. Because: what these companies are doing now is building their own franchises. They don’t just aspire to be distribution companies, but rather to produce and sell their own content. Netflix especially.
I hope China does everything you suggest so that we can see more great Chinese films :) But, I am not convinced that global tastes in cinema are going to change a lot, at least not soon.
And another even more informative post!
Thanks again, Acacia.
The question of profitability in the movie industry (Hollywood) is never easy to answer – not least because of the infamous ‘creative accounting’ it is notorious for.
Really good analysis here which attempts to provide some transparency :
https://stephenfollows.com/how-movies-make-money-hollywood-blockbusters/
I am not a computer geek but this latest anti-Russian attack raised my hackles…
“Washington: US federal government agencies are banned from using software developed by Kaspersky Lab, a Russian firm with alleged links to that country’s intelligence agencies”
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-government-bans-use-of-kaspersky-software-citing-russian-spy-fears-20170913-gyh071.html
Hmmm – the Aust Gov actually uses Kaspersky products ‘because they are so secure’ – so now the discussion is about bowing to US demands to stop using it.
But the flip side to that info is this….
Back in May 2017, WikiLeaks released their Vault7 Series which detailed two CIA hacking tools dubbed ‘AfterMidnight’ and ‘Assassin’ that target the Microsoft Windows platform providing these US spies with total access to anyone’s computer or cell phone they so choose.
Apparently Kaspersky Lab experts examined these CIA hacking tools, this report explains, and discovered a backdoor embedded in all Microsoft software named PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutin that sadistically prevents antivirus software from finding computer virus malware – and that Microsoft refused to issue a security patch for with their stunning stating: “Our engineers reviewed the information and determined this does not pose a security threat and we do not plan to address it with a security update.”
With Microsoft failing to protect their software from this CIA backdoor, Kaspersky Lab created their own fix for it, this past June, which they then placed in their global anti-virus software product called Kaspersky Total Security.
Kaspersky responded to slander from the U.S. government by releasing 12 great tools including antivirus for free, and on top of that, they released their source code to prove there were no back doors that favour Russian intelligence.
If people are wondering how to get to the actual Kaspersky page that is not sabotaged (because all the search engines are diverting people away) here it is..
https://www.kaspersky.com.au/
On top are the pay products (you can try them free for a month), and all the way down at the bottom there are 12 completely free tools that appear to be great, including virus scanners, hard drive recovery and more.
If American ‘intel’ tells us to avoid Kaspersky products, then they must actually be good.
Kremlin comments on US decision on Kaspersky Lab
More:
http://tass.com/politics/965668
Karma is a b***H.
Or ‘the best-laid plans of mice and men’….
Likudnik fascists seem to be finally waking up to the consequences of regime – toppling/expansionism in the Middle East.
Instead of a puppet regime in Damascus, a demoralised Russia, a reviled Hezbollah and isolated Iran, they now have to deal with the consolidation of a Shia ‘crescent’ – the very outcome their Wahaabi drugged – up terrorists were recruited to prevent.
(Seems the :caliphate ‘has been instructed to stir up crap in Afghanistan instead, presumably to keep Iran disconnected and Russia occupied…)
Apparently the Israelis had a meeting with US NSC urging Washington to ‘step up to the plate’.
(They ‘rushed’ to the meeting (which they presumably demanded) suggesting real panic.)
All the usual tropes in this piece of Israeli agitprop – ‘brutal Assad, dangerous nuclear Iran, perfidious Russia’ – but it’s interesting to see zio media resurrect them.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-gathering-storm-on-israels-northern-borders/
About the only true statement here is, yes, they are worried.
Classic projection, which assumes opponents are as barbaric, amoral and psychopathic as themselves.
Israeli containment might, just might stop Kosher Nostra.
To add :
Useful analysis from more than a year ago warning of the ‘double – edge sword’ consequences of Israeli attacks on Syria :
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.811226#article-comments
Hi there!
What are good articles or books about Hezbollah’s defeat of the Israeli invasion in 2006?
Thanks in advance!
Illuminating little snippet of info on Israel – North Korea relations (hint: not good – at all) :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–North_Korea_relations
War Crimes and Open Wounds: Ruchama Marton, the Physician Who Took on Israeli Segregation
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-and-open-wounds-the-physician-who-took-on-israeli-segregation/5608945
The Telegraph: Kremlin condemns bomb hoaxes across Russia als “telephon terrorism”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/14/kremlin-condemns-bomb-hoaxes-across-russia-telephone-terrorism/
The Moscow Times: The bomb scares sweeping Russia, explained
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/the-bomb-scares-sweeping-russia-explained-58949
I’ve been debating about posting this because it may not be relevant, but I’m going to post it anyway. So, under the category, “of questionable relevance” — The Bank of Canada recently raised interest rates in Canada again (up to 1%) because Canada’s economy reported growth at 4 percent, the highest among the G7, and has posted job gains consistently for the past several months. Now, Canada is not a great power, only 30+ million population, and there was some slack (apparently) in the economy… but the Canadian government rejected austerity measures and has been investing heavily in infrastructure (forecasting a total spend of 180 billion on infrastructure over a number of years). Kind of like what US voters wanted…. and now the evidence in Canada seems to indicate that this approach does revive the economy. I just wonder if the Trump administration is trying to draw attention away from the economy. Given the geographic proximity of the two countries, I think many American citizens might think if this approach is working in Canada, it should work in the US, too. So… time for a series of really huge, flashy distractions??
Alexander Tcherevko, Russian trade representative after evacuation from Amsterdam
died in Moscow
https://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20170915317443494-russischer-handelsvertreter-nach-evakuierung-aus-niederlanden-verstorben/
Ministry Economy of Russia to death of Alexander Tcherevko
https://www.facebook.com/MinistryEconomy/photos/a.111657492361942.1073741828.111649132362778/702532469941105/?type=3
Correction: Cherevko instead of Tcherevko
“However, against the background of geopolitical tensions, which intensified after the downing of the Malaysian airline, which killed nearly 200 citizens of the Netherlands, a number of absolutely inappropriate measures have been taken.
For example, a Russian company registers a subsidiary in the Netherlands, and appoints a director who is a Russian citizen – this company is then denied the right to open an account in a Dutch bank. Who is the winner in this situation?
This environment is, of course, very unfriendly, and the political situation is quite complicated.”
Extracted from https://www.summagroup.ru/press/news/media/en/210/view/
In my readings I relate to the spirit of the depth and of the height
to the spirit of the four elements
of the twelve signs
and their respective 9 dynamicly rotating
bodies of the Sun-system + one body around Earth
“as in heaven so on earth”
this Cafe again is overcrowded
by the “spirit of this time”
but in our quiet corner
read what C.G.Jung a hundred (-) years ago
thought about the spirit of the depth in a true
but absolute way like Denis does:
“The spirit of this time has condemned us to haste. You have no more futurity and no more past if you serve the spirit of this time. We need the life of eternity. We bear the future and the past in the depths. The future is old and the past is young. You serve the spirit of this time, and believe that you are able to escape the spirit of the depths. But the depths do not hesitate any longer and will force you into the mysteries of Christ. It belongs to this mystery that man is not redeemed through the hero, but becomes a Christ himself. The antecedent example of the saints symbolically teaches us this.” ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 253.
more about the subject:
http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.de/2017/06/carl-jung-on-spirit-of-depths-red-book.html
For all the few, who manage, to escape the complete involvement into the ‘spirit of this time’
for you with some ‘spare times’ are my weekly connections to the ‘life of eternity’ connecting with the ‘eternal ones’ – elements, signs and actors – outside and within us in Sun’s orbit on all levels:
37th week:
“Cleaning the Talk and Walking the Walk – and the Tree Colors of the Week”
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/09/9_55.html
“…The maximum resonance …read Shakespeare”
Sonnet 107 ( written during Elizabethan Golden Age)
Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured
And the sad augurs mock their own presage,
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time
My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him, I’ll live in this poor rhyme,
While he insults o’er dull and speechless tribes:
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Ministry Economy of Russia to death of Alexander Tcherevko
https://www.facebook.com/MinistryEconomy/photos/a.111657492361942.1073741828.111649132362778/702532469941105/?type=3
A delegation from Alaska visited Ryazan City, Russia from Sept. 4-10 for a conference, “The Echo of Russian America”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ryazan1095/status/908666333843337216
After the conference, a few participants visited Moscow and were received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Discussed cultural exchanges and such.
Six Major US Foreign Policy Failures of the Post-Cold War Era
The Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Document A Clean Break (I would still add to these Samuel
Huntington’s Clash of Civilisation and Mark Tushnet’s blog post at Balkanization, title Treat
Christians like Nazis, http://www.gopusa.com/treat-christians-like-nazis-says-harvard-prof/?omhide=true), set out contemporary US policy against Russia, China and and the Middle East
dating back to the 1990s. These documents, while still influential in Washington, have been
abject failures on many fronts.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/six-major-us-foreign-policy-failures-of-the-post-cold-war-era/5609163
Whether true or the Hegemon wishes it to be true, the WSJ reports that Venezuela no longer accepts $US for their oil. We all know what this rapdly leads to -‘kinetic democratic regime change exceptionalism’,
So, next -Trump goes to war against Venezuela?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-stops-accepting-dollars-for-oil-payments-following-u-s-sanctions-1505343161
V is not a child. V is simply saying “bring it, we are ready now for the demonstration of imperial power”.
and if the empire fails? what then?
all empires fail…
All empires fail -to be taken over by newer empires. Power vacuums and all that; the actors may be unpredictable but the plot is the same.
My thought was that the perception of the masses is probably that the USA is failing and being humiliated by N.Korea’s bombast, whereas N.Korea never is or was a target but a means to an end -Russia and China. So it needs more cover and distraction.
So to shore up Trump’s war street cred, now that the Syrian airbase cruise missile attack is a fading memory, perhaps laying a beating on Venezuela is expedient in NeoconThink? Even better if it precipitates regime change to a more suitable and contrite vassal.
Trump’s base might know that Venezuela is ‘down there somewhere’ but I doubt they could find it on a map and so wouldn’t care. Libs and NeoCons would be as enthusiastic as ever for more righteous war, particularly one in which ‘victory’ was quick, quantifiable and with good ROI.
has zero to do with the man Trump, and everything to do with the clubs, which control him, and their delusional perceptions of benefit and risks…Trump awaits his function as Pharmacos, and meantime functions, as above comment illustrates, as a useful and harmless fake personality to attract the admiration, hope, and hate, of the masses, thus distracting the public eye from the realities of power and the clubs of the power elite.
As RT reports, it appears 17 national anti-doping agencies have called to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics. But WADA has slammed them over that (that’s a switch,WADA siding with Russia.I think maybe hell froze over ) . Isn’t it strange how much the Russophobes love the number 17.First 17 National Intelligence Agencies in the US.Now 17 national anti-doping agencies. What RT didn’t do though was list the countries that the 17 agencies are from. I’d love to see that list.I’m going to bet they are a cross reference of NATO states.With a couple of more like Ukraine and Georgia thrown it.And you can also bet they never could beat Russian athletes in fair completion.So figure banning Russia is their “only” change to get a bigger medal total (so much for the hyped up “glory and purity of sport” what a crock that is and always has been).I’d also like to see that list so I could see if the countries on it, have a history of having cheating athletes. I’m going to guess,that is a big yes on that one.
https://www.rt.com/sport/403478-wada-russia-2018-olympics/
After reading your post, I tried to find out the complete list of those countries but find only US, Great-Britain, Germany,France and Japan, maybe Canada. Maybe somebody here is more successful.
Oh yeah, the game goes on, the rule of the game is the same : spit Russia at every corner available where it hurts. In this case, the pride of the Russian people in any kind of international competition, be it sport or culture.
Here is the list:
http://www.inado.org/about/press-releases.html
(likely suspects, all-if you cannot beat em, ban em: “glory and purity of sport,” hypocrisy rising to a new level!)
And the web site:
http://www.inado.org/home.html
The founding CEO of INado is Joseph De Pencier.
He is a Canadian lawyer, originally appointed by the Canadian government to represent it in the investigation into the Ben Johnson scandal.
His Alma mater is Yale University,where CIA recruits from.
http://www.inado.org/about/governance-staff.html
I suspect he and Richard McClaren (, author of the notorious ‘report’ alleging widespread doping by Russian athletes) are no strangers to each other.
Ironic that these MI5 operators are positioning themselves as ‘anti – doping’ champions, given that the British spec ops (MI5) are behind much of drug – running from Afghanistan…
I doubt many of the reps from the other countries have any real awareness of the political manipulations behind the setting up of this ‘anti – doping institute.
I can’t verify this yet, but I think de Pencier organised the’ whistleblower ‘conference originally…..
Another’ Five Eyes ‘ member country – New Zealand – is supplying the next CEO, following de Pencier’ ‘s retirement.
The Olympic movement is a Nazi game and a closed shop. The Russian untermensch cannot be allowed to win no matter what the cost. It is much easier to start a war with non-participants and certainly not medal-winners in the Olympic games.
Another lone bomber loser and calls for control of the internet? At least Russia did not get blamed for this bombing in London
As for the myth of the lone loser Muslim bomber: These are not people who live on twinkies in their mother’s basements reading Wahabi suicide porn on the internet. It is very rare although the Spanish police did bust recently a cell of young Muslim internet terrorist facilitators who rarely saw the light of day. The More likely cause of acts of terror is the socially integrated group like which did the Barcelona bombing–whether the CIA had a hidden hand in that, who knows?
If a Muslim in Europe does an act of terror, most likely at least 10 other people know generally that he or she is about to do it. These are mostly tribal people who have extended families. so brothers or sisters,(2) uncles( 2) and spiritual buddies( 4) and religious counselors.(2) At least. How many times after an attack does the Muslim community march and rally against the terrorist? They do not because they dare not because they are minnows in an Islamic sea ruled by sharks.
Also, many refugees come from corrupt 3rd world systems where they know the score and have great skills at milking the system. I watched the Ukrainians take over the local community college student government especially gaining compatriots in the financial aid office . An AfroAmerican friend had her financial aid delayed and royally messed up, but of course that was mere happenstance, but If you hear her side of the story when she tried to set things straight, one might begin to think otherwise. She certainly does.
So, the Muslims gain control of say a township where they control financial resources which mysteriously start to get funneled to those who elected them. Then, Christian kids get taken away,say, from a drunk mother, given to someone else and a stipend gets paid to a Muslim foster family. All legal, right? Democratic,right? Standard tribal behavior?
Think and think hard of how this creates social disruption on a different level. Islam is fundamentally authoritarian—one does not question the tradition. There is no Protestant Islam.
There is a devotional Islam–Sufi Islam . And there is a letter of the law, do not question or you are dead, authoritarian, proselytizing Islam which will hopefully be always a small minority in the USA along with all other religions of similar ilk.
People might think differently if they got out of their ivory tower think tanks and lived on the front lines of the class war.
Interesting article on RT:
‘Rape, robberies & murder: Swedish police lack resources to combat migrant crime wave’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/403444-sweden-police-migrants-rapes/
The Swedish police say they don’t have the money to combat the overload of crime coming from the vast migrant influx. But the Swedish regime seems to have “plenty” of money to pay for increased defense budgets and military drills targeting false fears of “Russian invasion”. And seemingly no one in Sweden notices the disconnect in all that.Maybe someone should ask them if they’ve heard the saying about “not seeing the forest because of all the trees”.
Now here is the kind of point I’ve made before. The world isn’t black and white,its mostly gray in part. Sure there are some issues that are clearly either “black or white”. But by no means all of them.
“Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for sending Islam-insulting poem via WhatsApp”
https://www.rt.com/news/403498-pakistan-christian-islam-whatsapp/
Pakistan is a country friendly to China. And one that Russia is trying to be friends with. It also in some matters opposes the US. But while I applaud all of that. Its still a regressive, horribly oppressive society for anyone not Muslim (and for non-Sunni Muslims also) to live it.When a so-called court of justice can sentence someone to death for “blasphemy”.Then that society has some really horrible problems within itself. If Britain or any EU state wants to take in refugee’s,its ones like the victim here they should be taking in.
the necessity for ruthlessness that the situation may call for by an Nth Prince varies in approximate proportion to the level of conflict to which that State and Prince may be subject.
accordingly, and obviously, Pakistan, wedged among great powerful neighbors and being composed of a fractious and heterogeneous people, is ruthless.
That the poor sod got caught up in this process is probably unjust. but it may well have prevented worse injustice by its ruthlessness.
The lesson? Silence may be a golden gift, it depends…these are terrible times…
And we ought to understand that ruthlessness abides in our time, pity.
US Congressman Seeks Deal to Prove Russia Did Not Hack US Election
https://sputniknews.com/us/201709161057441362-usa-rohrabacher-assange-russia-elections/
“Rohrabacher contacted White House Chief of Staff John Kelly this week to try to broker the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Rohrabacher said he was seeking a “deal” that would involve either a pardon or some other form of leniency for Julian Assange.
In exchange, the WikiLeaks founder would hand over a computer drive or other data storage device that Rohrabacher said would prove that Russia was not the source of hacked material aimed at embarrassing the Democrats during the 2016 US election, the report added.
A Trump administration official confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that Rohrabacher had spoken to Kelly about the plan involving Assange.
Kelly reportedly responded that it would be better for the congressman to direct his request to the US intelligence community, the official told the Wall Street Journal.
Roharabacher met in August with Assange, who has sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid arrest and extradition to the United States.”
Note the very lukewarm response from zionazi quisling kelly, like he didn’t think winding up the “Russian hackers” fraud was that great of a thing, and that he told roharabacher to see the bosses in the intelligence community. Apparently, that is where decisions are made in israel’s trump regime. The response from Kelly further proves my suspicion that the whole trump & Russia nonsense is to continue the demonization of Russia, not trump, and that trump & co. are playing their role as part of the zionazi scam.
Philippine City Fires Entire Police Force for Widespread Corruption
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201709161057440835-philippines-police-force-fired-corruption/
“The Philippine city of Caloocan has fired around 1,200 police officers after some of them were accused of killing three teenagers and of robbing a house. Each officer will be retrained and evaluated, and those found to be innocent of wrongdoing will be assigned to other jurisdictions.
With such severe charges levied against the force in such short order, the decision was made to fire the entire police force of Caloocan, a city in the Manila metropolitan area. Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said in a statement that the corrupt and criminal officers will be rooted out, while the innocent officers will be retrained and reassigned. A total of 62 officers have been relieved permanently, with the others to be retrained.
Albayalde said that the releases would be “done in batches” and in the interim, a public safety battalion (the Philippine equivalent to SWAT) will act as the city’s police force. “The reshuffle is a drastic measure but we have to do this to keep them away from their sphere of influence and prevent them from involvement in criminal activities in the future,” Albayalde said. “It is not farfetched that they would follow the bad example of those involved in the killings and other illegal activities.”
The announcement was met with praise by figures such as the Bishop of Caloocan Pablo Virgilio David. “This is the only way the [Philippine National Police] can protect the integrity of the whole police institution: by disciplining their own ranks and following only just and lawful orders from their superiors,” David said.”
Now this is a good way to deal with crooked cops. Should be applied liberally in pindoland, which is crooked cop central.
I have found the easiest way to gauge the reality of US events is to see how they play out on Canadian news. As S113 said, no one in Canada is very alarmed about the NO KO situation; there is no hysteria. And, no one really cares about the racial hassles in the US either, even tho the CBC keeps harping on about it. It’s actually become quite irritating, all these US news stories. But the presence of mostly (irrelevant to Canadians) American news stories just seems to underscore their likely fictitious nature.
state broadcaster canada transmits on 1010 KHz (am radio). This is often clear signal throughout much of North America at night – depends on the space weather, mostly upper atmosphere conditions and solar flux
many Friends might gain from learning radio via local ham radio groups and arrl. Knowing how to push electrons and make them do, and then doing it, is a warm fuzzy, as they say.
Friends from Saker’s would find that these groups are made of nice people, but their collective assumptions tend to be, frankly, delusional – so one must bite his lip from time to time…still, they often set up radio theory and practices…and it’s local community. Good in itself.
Not near LZ99, but pretty anyway…like living a poem in a copfreezone…http://peoplesriverhistory.us/
enjoy…but understand that was then…it’s gone.
LZ
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-panthers-didnt-fight-symbols
The Black Panthers Didn’t Fight Symbols
New York state prison guards assaulted and seriously injured 69 year-old former Black Panther Herman Bell this week, a totally unprovoked beating timed to sabotage his chances for parole after more than 40 years behind bars. In neighboring New Jersey, former Panther Sundiata Acoli was denied parole last December shortly before his 80th birthday. Acoli has been behind bars since 1973, and eligible for parole since 1992. His next parole hearing won’t come up for another 15 years — when Acoli is 95 years old.
Dozens of elderly Black activists remain entombed in a gulag that has expanded seven-fold since the federal government crushed the Black liberation movement and established a national Black Mass Incarceration State. Although slightly less than half the 2.3 million gulag inmates are African Americans, the system’s founding rationale and central mission is race-based: to contain, control, and facilitate the removal of Black people from U.S. society. Although the U.S. is home to five times more whites than Blacks, African Americans outnumber whites in U.S. prisons and jails.
Black mass incarceration has been quite popular, historically — a proven vote-getter among whites in all regions of the country. However, what goes around, comes around. In building the world’s largest prison system to house the mostly non-white prey of the planet’s most intrusive police state, the U.S. has condemned to the dungeons millions of non-targeted whites — unintended, collateral damage of the race wars that birthed the nation and built an empire.
“The system’s founding rationale and central mission is race-based: to contain, control, and facilitate the removal of Black people from U.S. society.
As BAR contributor Danny Haiphong writes in this week’s issue, “Prisons in the U.S. are monuments that enforce terror against oppressed people.” Indeed, these monuments to present-day oppression are far more numerous than the Confederate symbols that are the focus of current conflict. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified 1,503 physical symbols of the Confederacy , including 718 monuments and statues and 109 public schools, 80 counties and 10 military bases named for Confederate icons. Yet, Johnny Reb’s footprint on the landscape is tiny compared to the 5,000 state and federal prisons and jails, plus about 1,000 juvenile and tribal detention facilities that crater the nation – a vast infrastructure of race and class rule.
The so-called “alt-right” has been hard-pressed to gather more than a few hundred Nazis, Klansmen and right-wing militia to make a stand around Confederate landmarks. This rag-tag “fascist threat” is dwarfed by the 431,600 prison guards that staff America’s penal monuments to the dictatorship of rich white men.
It is commendable and necessary to go blow-for-blow in the streets against predatory racist gangs. It is also clear that Donald Trump is giving political aid and comfort to today’s sons and daughters of the old Confederacy who, although not yet able to mass in large numbers, could do so in the future. But that threat pales in comparison to the three-quarters of a million sworn police officers that strut the streets of America, killing Black and brown people with impunity and dragging hundreds of thousands into the gulag every year. According to Police magazine , 84 percent of cops supported Donald Trump for president. The statistic is no surprise, but points up the real threat to Black lives and the rule of law: the state, itself.
The same state that Herman Bell and Sundiata Acoli resisted, two generations ago.
While in general agreement, it may be worthwhile to define precisely what “black” means…if this category is limited to persons with objectively evident racial characteristics indicating some Negro heritage, then the claim that: “Although slightly less than half the 2.3 million gulag inmates are African Americans, the system’s founding rationale and central mission is race-based: to contain, control, and facilitate the removal of Black people from U.S. society. ” becomes problematic. Indeed the primary racist undertaking of the Anglosaxons in North America has been and continues to be entirely liberal in scope. This is to say that “securing the continent” (Kissinger’s phrase) is an absolute fundamental for our intrepid and glorious leadership…. (cough) .
The ASE (anglosaxonelite) are quite willing to attack any racially identifiable group, even if it must be invented. Likewise, they will attack any identifiable group, if they wish to. They began, as everyone knows, with the systematic elimination of the native populations, which persons made poor slaves…and then… and so it goes…
Don’t feel special because you, or your neighbors, might be attacked. It’s egalitarian, it’s about the money, and the power, not about race. Of course we’re supposed to believe what they say, right? So go ahead and feel special, everybody… And yes, they are racists, but that’s not important.
(Hint)
It is with some caution that I would post the full text of BB#133 – but, alas, it is not, so far as I can determine, available elsewhere…
old uncle Victor may be forgiven for his possibly somewhat innocent way of seeing…he’s a sweet old man…
anyway:
the German election is important…a butterfly event…according to my intuition…
from Victor…email him if you wanna be on his mailing list for the bulletin…
NOT A DUEL BUT A DUET
Berlin Bulletin No. 133, September 12 2017
Victor Grossman
Not even the stubbornest non-voters can ignore the coming Election Day in Germany, as always on a Sunday, September 24. For just one month before voting booths open, lantern poles may be decorated with political posters, two, three, even four to a pole, tied on with wire, with a race to get the best spots. Most posters offer copious color and little substance, but with 34 parties, some state or local but most of them national, every stroll offers a wide choice of handsome, smiling candidate photos and bold clichés. Bigger parties which can afford them also set up wordier billboards, usually at crossings where cars waiting for a green light can read their many promises.
There are no political ads on TV, but lots of interviews, talk shows and analyses. For weeks a major ballyhoo effort promoted a “TV duel” between Chancellor Angela Merkel, running for re-election, and top Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate Martin Schulz. As she insisted (and she was in a position to insist – ”Otherwise I won’t take part!”), it would be their only confrontation, would last 90 minutes, with no audience participation but questions by moderators from the four biggest channels. Schulz enjoyed an upwards swoop when he became new party leader in February but his and his party’s star sagged back to almost 15 points behind Merkel’s CDU (with its Bavarian sister CSU). This duel gave him a chance to close the gap and aggressive attacks and counter-attacks were expected.
What happened was less a duel than a duet! I recalled old US comics characters, two Frenchman so polite, with “After you, my dear Alphonse” and “No, you first, my dear Gaston!” that every open door proved an obstacle. Merkel and Schulz were almost equally courteous and friendly. For me (and many others who stuck it out) the only fight that evening was to keep our eyes open!
After all, their parties have cohabited in a coalition government since 2005. As with so many couples there were disagreements, even minor quarrels, but their vows remained unviolated.
About two-thirds of their TV time was spent talking about refugees and immigrants, with both trying to sound very humanitarian while tightening enough screws to keep anti-foreigner voters on board. Then they turned to relations with Turkey, promising to get tough with Erdogan for arresting German citizens, but aware that he can always hit back by re-opening Aegean Sea routes for hundreds of thousands of Syrians and others risking flight to Europe – and if possible Germany. But here too, and on “getting tough with foreign terrorists”, the two spoke as with one voice – and hardly raised theirs.
Brushed aside almost completely were matters like soaring rent costs, stagnating wages, more and more short-term, underpaid, temp jobs, child care costs too high and pensions too low. Also unmentioned were the European Union mess, the huge military expense account, heavy weapons export and a growing danger of conflicts; on-going sanctions against Russia while German troops maneuver close to Russian population centers. The two found few differences. Schulz made no percentage gains so now, as always when election losses loom, the worried Social Democrats have disinterred more militant but tattered raiment; Schulz recalled that he really should oppose further extending pension age or complying with Trump’s demands for disastrous, doubled military spending.
Despite polite CDU-SPD manners the media still do their best to play up a two-party boxing match. But what about the other parties? Most are very small, like the German Communist Party, which decided (after much dispute) not to support LINKE candidates this year but rather to field its own. There are also a tiny Maoist and a Trotskyist party, a pensioners’ party, animal and climate protection parties, a hip-hop, a vegan and a “garden” party, and one featuring only satirical jokes. One small party is run by the wife of Lyndon Larouche, for years a fishy right/left candidate in the USA.
It’s easy to get on the ballot, but to get Bundestag seats a party must win constituencies directly or achieve 5 percent of the total vote – goals now possible for only four other parties.
One, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), whose main goal is to protect the prosperous, would most likely be Merkel’s favorite to help her strong CDU (now at almost 40%) set up a new government. Then she would no longer have to stay – or sound – moderate enough to satisfy Social Democrats fearful of losing more working-class voters and ties with most union leaders (like the US Democratic Party). FDP posters boldly show its leader in casual wear and a 5-day beard praising “Schoolbook satchels not legal briefcases” or warning “The time has come, Germany”. Figure it out!
The Greens, different from any in the USA, are no longer the leftist party they once seemed to be. They still stress ecology, women’s equality and LGBT rights but as their membership grows older and more prosperous, often in the professions or civil service, they grow increasingly conservative and willing to swallow any compromise if they can join the SPD or the CDU at any government level; they fully backed the war against Serbia, ignore workers’ rights, and lead the way in hitting at Russia.
The newest party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is viciously opposed to immigrants, foreigners generally and Muslims in particular but also same-gender marriages, abortion, workers’ rights and demilitarization. It is riddled with politicians leaning perilously close to openly fascist views. Some leaders try to cover up for them, at least until they achieve their goal, getting seats in the Bundestag at last and thus obtaining even more media presence than already granted them. Their posters? Two bathing beauties and the words: “Burkas? We prefer bikinis!” Or a very pregnant woman; “’New Germans’? We make them ourselves!” We can have great expectations!
Then there is DIE LINKE, the Left Party. It now has 64 Bundestag seats (35 held by women) and hopes to surpass or at least repeat that number. It alone has consistently opposed all militarization, all arms shipments to conflict areas, all deployment of troops outside the country. Despite only sparse ties to union leaders above the regional level it is most aggressive in fighting for workers’ rights, a higher minimum wage (12 euros, now 8.84), decent pensions and higher taxes on the wealthy. But in Berlin and two other states where it is in a ruling coalition (it heads the one in Thuringia), and despite some achievements, often unreported, it has also been forced into “responsible government” compromises – to meet budgets or lure capital. Some worried and disappointed voters see it as part of “the Establishment” and stay home on Election Day or even make their cross (no electronic voting in Germany) on the “truly oppositional” AfD line. Some Left leaders still hope for an SPD, Green and LINKE coalition on a national level, but the failure of Schulz to gain in the polls seems to bar such a possibility, which would require earnest LINKE compromises, even in its status as “the only Peace party”. A large LINKE poster quotes Sahra Wagenknecht, 48, co-chair of the LINKE caucus in the Bundestag, the party’s main theoretician has another message: “Opposition to corporations and banks demands a strong backbone – and your support.”
All four “lesser parties” now get unusually similar poll results, daily changing their rank, mostly in the 8-9 range, almost always between 7 and 11 percent. The Greens are usually weakest. It is this race which provides the only real suspense, since all hope to win come in third, after the two main parties. Whatever happens, the CDU, certain to come in first, must choose between FDP, SPD or Greens, (but not yet the AfD and never the LINKE!). Whichever, its Defense Minister is continuing to build up the armed forces while the Interior Minister develops more stringent ways of detecting every step of every citizen, now including possible facial recognition cameras at railway stations. Especially after the sharply misleading accounts of violence at the G-20 summit meeting in Hamburg in July, such measures aim at “terrorists and criminals on both right and left”. Who gets to define these categories, and where all this can lead, may well be affected by any rightward drift on September 24th. How comforting it is to know that in democratic, civilized Germany nasty elements could never ever gain or misuse power! If you don’t believe it just look at the history books!
Hi. Hi from O-High, Ojai, California. It’s 6:09. I just went out to view the dawn, and saw the crisp crescent moon with her attending planet glimmering in the east. My spontaneous response was: “Joy, joy, joy!”
I got up at 3:33. I went to bed last night at 10, and woke for good at 2:30 (not mentioning a couple of short pee breaks). I lay in bed for an hour, mainly thinking of you and love, according to the Love Army’s first division injunction to “think love.”
Why this obsession with time, says I to me? I think it has to do with synchronicity, the sister of serendipity, the time and space twins. I spontaneously think of Jung and mundanomaniac.
When I got up at 333, I did my usual routine of walking the counter clockwise path around my one acre portion of this three acre paradise, after the shock and awe of the starfield overhead with its milky way land of milk and honey. This time I also added the wonder of the micro, quantum stars beneath my feet, and in my body, commonly called quanta.
I called on the lover shrine, and kissed the blarney stone, in shrine parlance the lover’s clitoris and source of pleasure’s reality, sacramentalized in an actual round stone.
I stretched out my arms in imitation of the peace sign circle pointing to the mountain range supine womam in the east. I just do these rituals now automatically, rather than dwelling on their how’s and why’s.
I passed the young avocado trees and the hobbit house my son built to sit in on the circle of tree stumps, standing for lovers who gather there from the eons of space and time. Again, now I just do these things, or is it that they do me?
From there I stood behind the triangle of wood beams on river stones, pointing to the north star, with the blarney stone clitoris and lipped vase for vagina, kissing the stone while thinking to add a cup for the urethra.
Then I passed the rebar configuration of the Star of David intertwining triangles of David and Bathsheba, thinking of Dylan’s Sweet Marie and her lover so entwined; to the Great Shiva projection over the greenhouse, lying down on the plank in the relative warmth of 60 degrees, compared to 57 without.
I then went out to lay on the altar of sacrifice, gazing up at the stars, and feeling relaxed and at home.
Next I came to where I am now, with the rooster crowing over my right shoulder; and with my son sleeping in my motor home to my left. Yesterday, we went to Santa Barbara for a workshop in 3D printing, an awesome experience of the future in real time.
Last night before retiring, I read Saker’s Letter to his Friends, another awesome piece in real time with real events. Never has evil been so exposed, including the banality of bummers like myself. If his friends, the Russian and Jew, remain friends after reading the letter, they are friends indeed. An example extraordinaire of love undergirding knowledge.
This morning I am playing catch-up or catch as catch can. Allow me to do a reprise of Leary’s spark notes, which spark inside of Dennis; very brief to be sure, lest he repeat everything said, all valuable, to be double-sure.
I took special note of the comment by Willem regarding chauvinism, and male chauvinism in patriarchal particular. This dovetails with the frontspiece of the male pyramid in the Louvre, Paris, where I walked with Apolonia many moons ago, when we were man and wife, then my sex and now my ex.
My reading of this three day cafe picture is an apt symbol of patriarchy, ruling us with its foursquare base of:
1. gullibility
2. lack of interest
3. chauvinism
4. fear
Nice call, Willem. I interpret chauvinism as male patriarchy, which rules by 4. for fear. It certainly is true in my case, patriarch that I am, although recovering in my mind at least. I agree that the Truman Show is a better analogy than the matrix, since I can never quite remember the difference between the red and blue pills.
A pop-up in my mind is the Eagles’ song Hotel California, where you can always check in and out, but never leave. Well, I have found a way to leave, with the Love Army, but that’s another story.
Continuing my musical reprise, there’s the repeating chorus of 6,000,000 Jews, linked to by Anonymous. Oi vey, oh woe! Pass the dough.
twilight took the cake and cake walk too with his “Blair’s Orwellian methods have spiraled to every corner of the globe, especially China and Russia–who both claim a desperate need to control the lives of their populations.” [that’s debatable]. What’s not debatable are the war factories on Russia’s borders, preparing the hordes for overwhelming the small Russian population by human numbers, per war economics.
twilight quotes Tony Blair: “So, thank god and the pope and me, the people of the West now understand that the ‘right’ wars are a good thing…” Just wars [an oxymoron] were implanted in my brain by Catholic education. Serial killers can walk the streets or the highways of high finance.
I liked the comment by Zena that linked to The Paradoxical Commandments by Kent Keith, with the motif of “love them anyway,” in varying applications. Put’s me in the mind of the Ten Commandments of Love, playing off of Jesus’ one new commandment of love.
I also liked Devil’s Advocate’s “better of two evils argument (relativism) and necessary evil (absolutism) equivocation; along with whitewashing evil as mistakes. Thus, we avoid facing evil head-on, or dispensing with it altogether.
I’m following my Learyism spark notes. Eric Zuesse is my next spark in the dark. I read his “Christ’s Ventriloquists,” and being an ex-priest, think I know something of the subject; and I got the feeling that Eric did not know what he was talking about. Again here, I get the sneaky suspicion that he is covering for the Jews, in his 1% Jewish article.
I think the Jews are one half of the geo-political coin, the other side being the rich Anglos, headed by the Roman Pope, as a symbol to simplify the babble-on babel tower of towering lies that smother us with information as disinformation. I conceptualize this as Count Khazar and Pope Unorthodox, to personalize the impersonal perplexity of propaganda overload by overlords. Eric go back; Erin go bragh.
Scott Humor humors us with Eric Schultz’s copying of Russian pilots, to his grave conclusion, with Russia handshaking ET’s hand. My ET is the Love Army, the only ET I would trust.
Talking trust, there’s the thrust of bitcoins, detailed by Ramin Mazaheri. The devil’s in the details, like the details of that smily, wily smile–beguiling as socialism. I don’t trust such bits a bit; they always come back to bite their victims to bits. In plain, unsmilely terms, I dislike usury in all its use-you bits, bites or bytes–according to the Love Army’s fifth division.
I continue with a reprise of Cafe 9/13. Dennis is attempting a grand narrative, spearheaded by the Love Army’s first commandment to “think love.” Some prefer to “feel love,” which is fine, but I prefer to start where we’re at, as “homo sapiens,” or rational beings, half-truths to begin with, and hence “benign lies,” which belie the truth, etc.
ioan gets on my case regarding Jesus’ diet. I’m developing Jesus into She’sus, so in my projection, Jesus would be a raw vegan like me, who at a Moveable Feast would thus defeat the beast of war, and save the day with this saker cafe.
However, as I’ve said dozens, if not hundreds of times, I could be wrong, but I’m right to sing my song.
mundanomaniac says: “Denis’ ignorance of the apocalypse allows him his paradise garden.” Yes and no. Reversed jungly, paradise allows apocalypse. Dennis knows what the shadow knows Behind the Green Door, and he also know the green garden of Eden, destroyed by the “green eyed monster of jealousy,” called patriarchy or evilarchy.
Eimear reminds me that “karma is a bitch.” Like those Russian jet pilots, Dennis has an Inner She reminiscent of Dylan’s Jet Pilot:
“Well, she’s got jet pilot eyes from her hips on down
All the bombardiers are trying to force her out of town
She’s five foot nine and she carries a monkey wrench
She weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch
She’s got all the downtown boys, all at her command
But you got to watch her closely ’cause she ain’t no woman
She’s a man”
I’d amend that to: she’s a woman and a man, like She’sus. I’m acting in mundanomaniac Jung’s spirit of the times, according to the Red Book.
ioan would be the first to notice teranam’s switch from Dostoevsky to Shakespeare, but Dennis is the first to publicly note it, with glee, I might add. ioan’s moans embody both but lean toward Dos in quantity. I don’t mind since his gems so sparkle with shakespearean sparklers…and herein end my spark notes.
Whew! I feel like I finally caught up with you gals and guys. But not so. My mind tells me I lag far behind. Oh, well, I shoot from the hip, unlike Bro who lines up those bottle and cans in the tunnel of love, and aims his sharp-shooting eyes at the top can. No can-can dance in this love cafe to make my day, and blow my blues away. Ole, what can I say?
OK, OK, I’ll do what you say, and shut the love up. Anonymous shall be my curtain call with her or his Black Panther meme, of which I have some personal hear-say knowledge. It’s serious business, this war business; and as I look in the mirror I’m not smiling, Ramin style, although my words belie it.
Let the words be the foil for the horrors of terrorized humanity, comedy to comfort the tragedy of empire. I am creating a paradise here where I live, just to show it can be done, at least as a spark of time. The Love Government is designed to fall, like a house of cards, for the fun of it.
The Love Army and the Evil Empire will both fall, and what remains is just us in all our naked truth.
“You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep. When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?”
Well, I hear my son stirring in the motor home nearby. So I’ll say goodbye with love, and post this at 9:09 in memory of Den 39 and Bro 93.
Love, Dennis