2017/09/20 04:30:01
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glad you posted this, good article, needs to under The Donald too?
An interesting article on Russian energy networking strategy. Contains a lot of surprising info, this is Engdahl at what he does best.
Russia’s Interesting New Oil Geopolitics
https://journal-neo.org/2017/09/19/russia-s-interesting-new-oil-geopolitics/
“A new geometry
Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Qatar. They are weaving deeper peaceful economic
ties, walking away in the case of Qatar and Turkey from their ill-conceived US-inspired war against Syria’s Bashar al Assad, developing long-term energy cooperation and defense ties. At the heart is Russia’s emerging new oil geopolitics.
The response to this all from the sinking Titanic that used to be known as the United States of America, of its military lobby and their Wall Street bankers who actually run Washington policy via their web of think-tanks, is infantile: war, destabilizations, color revolutions, sanctions as a form of economic war, demonization, lies. That’s all rather stupid and ultimately boring.”
What!!!
I posted a music video here, earlier today.
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=UrgpZ0fUixs
Obviously it was removed by someone-. Clearly a mistake for some reason I assume.
If not a mistake/misunderstanding of context, whatever, that sort of censorship is not acceptable by any of my standards.
This is the Cafe’ right??
Take Care
Kent
Smoking Kills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssD6lpTDydk
An even better rauchy, irreverent video by Denis Leary ( no relationship to our love bower baby!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYoJE7jNgYU
Hi Kent, good catch, keep the spirit of the cafe.
Thank-you ioan. (Bow)
Seems I am becoming a bit sensitive to too much computer use. It’s not that I don’t love it- but I have to accept that I feel electrified when I spend too much time on electronic devices. It’s scary. So I am spending more time in the alive world. (Wish you and all the cafe friends were here).
I do check in with the vineyard regularly, but don’t write much. I am so grateful to all the internet truth warriors!
Love,
k
“The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth.
No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.”
~ Joseph Campbell
Well, kinterra, I can understand you, sometimes I’ll do that but staying much of time inside, I’m coming here often. The quotation stands the test of time we live in, however, I expect you to come from time to time with your charming wit and good poetry.
Thanks kinterra, that campbello song is not only out of mine but also of Pauli’s and Jung’s heart
I couldn’t resist the allure of a new cafe, with no comments yet, and a mere 431 views. What? That many folks beat leary to the starting line? That can’t be. Must be some mistake, like love forbid, a new gold class with insider information.
I got up at 333, but therein hangs a tale. But at the moment, I’m sitting here in my underwear. I’ve got to go back up the slope twenty feet to my outdoor bed, and dress for the occasion, lest I catch cold. It’s a cool 58, with the wind up to 5 to 10. The stars are out in all their racy, naked glory; no moon in sight yet, but when I last say her, she was thinly crescently dressed, and so now may be invisible. I’ll be back; no going back to the sack…
…I’m back intact, on the track of love. In three weeks I’ll be riding Amtrak the train back to Wisconsin. I’m dressed in my Wisconsin gear: tee shirt, sweat shirt, thick Irish sweater, inner jacket and full-on outer winter jacket. At my age, with my new diet of fruit, fruit seeds and lettuce leaves, I’m thin as an obor rail, meant for a tropical climate, like Eden in Africa. Got to keep my core warm wherever, with a God of Love heart-side.
I made a deal with the love army commanders, while lying awake in my comfy bed. If I got up at 333, as they ordered, and went down to my polyurethane sheeted house from my cozy outdoor tarped bedroom, with the heating blanket set on 2, and saw that there was a new cafe, I’d stay up and do what I was told, even in the cold. Sure enough, there was a new cafe that reminds me of Holland with its dolmen round square courtyards, and when I lived there with Apolonia, across the channel from the previous cafe with the phallic pyramid in Paris.
So I put on my love army helmet and shield, the clitoris pendant and ring, and here I am again, in the ring of fire, rolling down the road.
“This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode”
Sure fits the news of late. The enemy is at the gate. Dennis and Donald are the love gatekeepers, pressure values to let off the steam, lest this wheeling world explode. Donald’s UN speech got mixed reviews: Saker and his wife laughed while Sergei Lavrov had good things to say.
All I can say is that Donald is playing his part well–to keep us out of hell, by making the devil think what is, isn’t. Confusing? It’s mixed up confusion, to mirror the times:
“I got mixed up confusion
Man, it’s killin’ me
An’ I’m lookin’ for a woman
Whose head’s mixed up like mine”
Even Brother Bro is mixed up. First, he sets up a shooting match in a love tunnel, and then switches to an outdoor shooting range.
“People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, and out of range
I used to care but things have changed”
I’m sure true care is still there but has it changed? And teranam 13 encourages Bro on to greater heights of oborisms. Well, I do too. His wit and wisdom are busting out all over. Good thing mundanomaniac and ioan keep checking on him, and his wife doesn’t exercise pecking on him.
Me? I’m looking for a gem in the rough, a needle in the haystack, and a love that is tough. In all the relative nonsense, I find my absolute in the Love Army and its commandments. It’s not your cup of tea, I know, but I’ve got to go with water, as you know.
To be honest, in all humble modesty, if the world would do what I do, war would stop instantly. But the war withdrawal shock would kill us faster than nuclear bombs. You talk about hitting bottom without a parachute. Ok, I’m being cute, but the thought remains acute.
I woke up at 2, and was thinking mostly of you, and how this cafe vineyard is an apt symbol for the ultimate reality of meaning: a community of lovers that stretches across the borderlands of time and space, in all its imperfect perfections. If we could focus our energies, war would cease, and we’d be out of business.
Maybe that’s why we resist the obvious–like cats we cannot be herded. The neighbor’s cat prowls at night, like me. His name is Tiger, and he was climbing up and onto my overhead tarp when I rose and switched on the light at 333. He’s enlightened enough not to come into my bedroom, after I frightened him a couple times. “Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the vineyard of the night.”
He caused a cat fight, all right, but between Joanne, who says he was her cat, and was stolen by Raw, who feeds him raw food, including pot; she does not approve. They’re both my immediate neighbors, and I love them both–I’d better, since they live within arm’s reach. She has a young baby in arms, and a father up in arms; actually in a sling while she grills ten feet away; she also teaches rope climbing-dancing, under the big oak tree limb, with baby in pen below. Oh woe, the trials of Pauline, outside the gates of Eden, where communal sex is long ago forgotten.
Something is rotten in Denmark’s Dennis Den. But with ritual bathings, love army rights, love bower rites, Shiva stones, Dolmen vulvas and sacred sex shrines, my world is just fine, well protected even when I’m burning off karma, stirred up by this very vineyard.
Last night, I was a mile down the road in Francis’ blue Miata convertible, when the brakes went soft, nearly gone. So that’s what the brake lights on the dashboard were possibly warning about. We brushed them off as some kind of glitch; such brush offs could land me in a ditch. I was headed to a Hare Krishna meeting but had to turn around and cautiously drive back home. I thanked the Love Army for keeping me safe; and today will take the car where it belongs: in the shop.
That’s a fine metaphor for looking under the floor, rather than sweeping thoughts under the floor rug. You know, like looking into those jungian depths or dostoyevsky deeps; without getting stuck there. My fail-safe method is the love army and associates, without whom I’d be the grand inquisitor, rather than She’sus Jesus as sister and brother, assisters both.
Of course, this doesn’t make any sense in pure war analytics, where schemes compete with dreams:
“Dreams where the umbrella is folded
Into the path you are hurled
And the cards are no good that you’re holding
Unless they’re from another world”
Believe it or not there is another world out there, and in here. Don’t believe me. Believe tera’s Dostoyevsky, who manages the keep the “toy” in Dostoevsky. Believe mundo’s star charts with Jungian undertones. Believe Bro and his 93 legions of legends and lepretards. Believe the catholic in the Orthodox inner sanctum of this very vineyard. Believe yourselves, all 100 regular commenters and 1000+ regular viewers, and untold irregular sight-seers.
I’m all for good, sound analytics, at which we’re the best of the best, but that’s only one card of fifty-two in the full deck of deckhands on this ship of fools, who go where angels fear to tread, for dread of the unknown. Or to switch the metaphor from a love tunnel to an open range, Bro obor style:
“Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field
A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring
Said: ‘Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing’ ”
Whoops, I almost got run over by folks running for the exit door, to get back to what was before: the safe ground of analysis, where paralysis is a virtue, when it comes to actually stopping war. Do I hear a drum roll for the ten love commandments?
“Thunder on the mountain, rolling like a drum
Gonna sleep over there, that’s where the music coming from”
I’m on a Dylan roll; he combines the best of Dosto(y)evsky, Shakespeare and Donald. No wait, not even Shakes-her-spear could make up a character like Donald, unless it were Dennis. D and D are Tweedle dee dee and Tweedle dee dum, to keep the world free and the blues on the run. Some say narcissistic, if not solipsistic, within a universalistic.
I guess that’s why every vineyard needs a cafe, to play while sakers are away in the All News room. I’m not saying the Saker does not overlook the cafe, but he overlooks it in a more lenient way. He’s trying to reign in those caught in the hard rain over in the war room. It seems to me that he gives us cafers more rein, and lets us self-regulate.
When I first read the Saker’s housecleaning manifesto, I thought I would be swept out with the dust and the rust, but then I reminded myself that I mostly hide out in a cafe corner, which tactic the Saker is more likely to overlook. Not so with the sharp eyed falcons here, many of whom have sharp talons, and would like me to fly the cafe coop and vineyard vines.
I thank love that the Saker and Moderators are of a more tolerant, kindly mind, who put up with the likes of me. If you think living with a Dennis or a Donald is easy, you know nothing of Hermit the Frog’s philosophy. It ain’t easy being green, lean and mean.
Speaking of green, I had a green revelation this week, which is dedicated to the color green. The poles this week are Clean and Mean. I realized that when I’m not clean, I’m mean. Hence, my ritual bathings and love art wanderings, and toggling back and forth from Ojai Indian Maiden to Miles Mathis’s Harriet Westbrook Shelly’s portrait in triptych, on my front page.
Oh, me oh my, how I love this country pie; this vineyard in the sky and cafe bye and bye. I love you so much I just have to stay in touch, no matter that you think I’m nuts. I think I’m nuts too, so once again there’s me and you. You segue into other communities, like my family of friends here in Paradise West, my blood family is Wisconsin, my Ojai family and my family of lovers in the stars and beyond.
It’s probably a good turn that you’re virtual, with mostly pseudo names; otherwise the physical reality might burn me out to a crispy critter. You’re like the proverbial mind in the middle, between the pretty, pretty spiritual and nitty, gritty physical. Either way, you’re grist for the mill, to separate my chaff from the few grains of wheat, now transmogified into sprouted and dried buckwheat kernals, to borrow from Calvin and Hobbes or was it Dennis the Menace?
But now that I’m raw in diet and naked in intent, I’m not sure where I stand, perhaps in no man’s land, which leaves me free in womam’s hand. You’re a tight connection to my heart, per the Dennis, Donald and Dylan 3D trio. Are you “love sick” of Dylan yet? If not, here’s the natal dose:
“My hands are sweating
And we haven’t even started yet
You’re the one I’ve been looking for
You’re the one that’s got the key
But I can’t figure out if I’m too good for you
Or you’re too good for me
Has anybody seen my love?”
“Sometimes the silence can be like thunder
Sometimes I feel like I’m being plowed under
Could you ever be true? I think of you
And I wonder
Just don’t know what to do
I’d give anything to be with you”
Well, it’s nigh 633, 3 hours from 333. [Just turned 733 with this proofing, Bro don’t you know, loves by numbers]. It’s light now, so I can go out to the fields to work. Want to put a new tarp on the hobbit house under the sycamore tree Francis built. I shouldn’t call it work, but play, to fit with this play day cafe and the paradise lay of the land here on the skirts of Ojai.
It’s now 636, or 6:36. If our straitjacket world allowed, maybe I could string this out to 6:66, which would be 7:06 standard time, or even 777, an infinity number. Ok, ok, my sweetheart cafe, don’t string me up quite yet; my bell still rings. I’ll end this chant with the only note I sings.
Love, Dennis, Ojai time is 7:50 as I type, how time flies when you’re having fun, or making love; posted at 8 am, pacifically and 3 pm universally–in case you missed it, here’s the last word getting in again:
Love
Here is some Americana for your RR trip . Blessings and Bon Voyage. ( resist the French Fries!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2woV2_25SU
Old Bobbie said some true stuff, Amigo!
My favorite is this one:
“You live outside the law you must be honest”
It encapsulates, if not the entire human political canon, then much of it. And it repudiates by implication “law” that is not of the true human canon…such as the idiotic infernal decrees corrupt Princes are wont to call “law”…
Ever know any bookies? I have. They’re honest, this is their only capital…and their activities? Often “illegal”… This is where the thin edge of the wedge fits into the fissure ‘tween Law and law…
My favorite…
On the Meniscus
LZ99
Wow. That old cafe sucked. I finally had to leave. I couldn’t breathe.
But before I left I threw up some verse.
(Some late nights go from bad to worse.)
Ah, at last outdoors! The air is fresh……
I apologize to Dieter who blazed like a meteor across my dawning Wednesday sky
Gruss Gott! From Scheiße Morgan to Guten Morgen!
Pardone mir, Freund for the personal bits.
Last night stunk of bile and slavish vomits!
What this? Cafe Freiheit Frisch aus der Türen!
(Cafe Freedom, Fresh Out of Doors)
My gosh! More fresh comments in the opening hours that September 16 all day!
And Two Learys for the Price of One!
Ein Cafe Au Lait, Mon Maitre D!
Are we in France…. or Germany?
The rectangularity of the facades tell me: in the Netherlands.
As a German I felt free in the Netherlands. These windows without
curtains. As a young German guy you were marveling coming from
a civilisation with thick curtains.
Bro and Denis, without curtains, au contraire, the and their gang are
ruthlessly starting to tell stories of their metaphorical wellness in
apocalyptic times – this is literatur without needing any placet.
Denis is right, Vineyard and cafe are cells of good neighbourhood
hence patterns of what is possible everywhere in mankind
Therefore ‘Herb’s’ vision of ‘gold’ is right – the ‘gold’ in Russia is
to be of V.V.’s team, or are one of them in his spirit in the Federation.
I feel, Saker’s shed of his overburden is the thing the “Cleaning of the Talk”
is about. And glad to have it: Sakers provocation is for a planetary
human good – speech, which has surrendered to the breathless ‘spirit of this time’ calling
‘everything goes’ in liberal land in the centers of the beast, speech will become again a
holy subject in the Vineyards of Earth between man and heaven – as it’s easier to live
the life of love in the way way of educating speech and religion of love of god’s bright
and fear God’s dark sides
and to watch the weathers of the 11 gods, Earthself included
Kenny Everett Plays Sid Snot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprIDTyeGpQ
Nice little song performed by Nathan Carter.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=HXwak2ZNU5E
Take Care
Kent
Meet Jenny O’Connor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q82Gt7sqHU8
For those of you who have seen “The last of the Mohicans”, You will recognize the tune from this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQc7C4Ug96M
Take Care
Kent
Couldn’t help it, so I made this.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Jenny_O'Connor.jpg
Enjoy
Kent
For balance, let’s switch to some astonishingly beautiful Russian stuff.
Let’s start with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAGLXom3uI
Under a green willow
A wounded cossack lay
Oh, under a green one
A wounded cossack lay
A raven flew to him
On the bush he cawed
Oh, a black raven flew over him
Sensing a tasty morsel.
Don’t caw black raven
Over my head
Oh, you black raven.
I am still alive!
Fly please, black raven,
Home to my father and mother
And give my bloody cloth
To my young wife.
Tell her, black raven
That I’ve married another,
That I found a bride
In a wide field beyond the river!
The wedding was peaceful,
Under a willow bush,
Oh, peaceful, quiet,
Under a willow bush.
My sharp sabre was the matchmaker,
My bayonet was the best man.
Oh, my sharp sabre,
My bayonet was the best man.
The bullet married us quickly,
Mother earth married us.
Oh, the bullet quickly,
Mother earth married us!
Then we move on to some very nice dance Choreography you definitely will not see in the US.
Meet the Russian Ladies on small wheels (not). Amazing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLPKW7pNao
Take Care
Kent
Thank you Kent, a deep feeling of earth is with these
Artists and Russian Ladies in me. As I’m a proved
‘early one’ a vast pro-Russian wave might be
in the undiscovered making, later or earlier, I’ sure
Thanks for the beauty balance out. so essential.
Hello folks, now I have some problems : I have an old xp in my computer, which went well until now with chrome then suddenly crashed, the I uninstall it. Installed firefox, after two days crashed. It doesn’t let me to uninstall just remove it.Now only the old explorer is working but very very slow and above all, it doesn’t let me to my e-mails on yahoo (which says : your op.system is old, refresh to newer windows)Tried to download opera (which still accepts xp)but the machine doesn’t let me to load the programe. Now it doesn’t let me to load chrome either or any other browser. I have the feeling that THEY are forcing me to buy another computer or install a new windows system.
Have you tried to start XP in Safe Mode?
Here: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Safe-Mode-in-Windows-XP
Kent
Thanks Kent, I will try, on that page are many good tips.
I believe you are correct. I had a fast machine with XP with which I was very happy. The same thing happened to me. First Chrome went then FF was dead slow, couldn’t download anything. I reinstalled everything to no avail, so I did a total format and reinstall of XP only to get a message saying this version of XP was unsupported and therefore could not be installed.
Rodney Rude McDonalds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U705EAx70Cw
PJ Proby is still performing … here are three of his best.
Somewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsyGval_4gk
Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSYFPGDA9A
Some Enchanted Evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFU6l25vbZo
This Chart Reveals the Centralization of Bitcoin Wealth
Bitcoin has been making a lot of news lately. The cryptocurrency shot up in value by over 200% in 2017, making many people fear that the market is in a bubble. Last week, China decided to close its bitcoin exchanges, which caused investors around the world to panic about the currency’s long-term viability. But how many people own bitcoin, and how is the currency distributed around the world? Check out our new visualization.
https://howmuch.net/articles/bitcoin-wealth-distribution
Yanis Varoufakis explains Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme in his lecture given at the University of California, Berkeley, on 11/7/2014.
To fully comprehend the information given, this video lecture must be watched completely from start to finish, because the historical events of money are explained in chronological order from start to finish.
“A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return with little risk to investors. The Ponzi scheme generates returns for older investors by acquiring new investors. This is similar to a pyramid scheme in that both are based on using new investors’ funds to pay the earlier backers.” (www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-dXc0bKUM
That’s pretty much standard for the free market.
Really Estate being the most obvious example.
I don’t trust Varoufakis.
You do not trust Varoufakis is a very wide and general statement to make, while I do not agree with Varoufakis on some important big issues, but he tells truths that need to be addressed.
In my opinion he is negative in regard to China as if he does not see or consider the Silk Road project at all and I wonder what is wrong with him.
Russia, by the way is also party to the same Silk Road Project. If World War Three can be avoided the Silk Road Project has the potential to create a Golden Age in the East, which can only benefit Western Europe. This year (2017) a trainload of railway transported goods left England for China.
Also, Varoufakis insists the European Economic Union must be maintained while I would demand it be dissolved and each European country have its own sovereignty and its own currency restored with every country inside Europe, each having their very own Independent Central Bank.
This is how a Multi-Polar World is created and how we would all be protected from a One World Government (NWO: New World Order) Domination/Totalitarian Dictatorship.
Surely Varoufakis knows this, so why is he not telling the full story, … I do not know.
Elimear, as with everything take what is good and discard what is bad and I hope you can watch the following Varoufakis lecture I have just posted.
The DiEM25 manifesto is available here …
https://diem25.org/manifesto-long/
Elimear, as with everything take what is good and discard what is bad and I hope you can watch the following Varoufakis lecture I have just posted.
True, Pavel/Paul.
I will listen to your link later.
Thanks.
For those, like me, who admit to not really understanding modern economics (nor wishing to in my case) here is an educational piece from the endearing Mice Times.
Disclaimer: I hold most economists in contempt as they are invariably 100% wrong in their predictions.
“all Russian companies will become uncompetitive in a global world and global market, including even those companies that swing for the export of oil or melted on the export of steel, using low ruble and cheap labor of the Russian slaves (sounds like grounds for R2P and democracy bombs?) in the structure of their costs”
It’s all because of WACC “weighted average cost of capital” which for Russian companies is “prohibitively high and uncompetitive in a global world and global market” although I, despite my ignorance of weighty economic matters, note some non-sequiturs e.g. only the USA’s WACC is mentioned as an example of the global economy and exchange rates are totally ignored.
It ends with “If only not to destroy Putinism and not to put Russia back on the normal capitalist rails. Right now.”
There you have it then, proof of “Why Russia’s economy would crash”
http://micetimes.asia/why-russias-economy-would-crash/
The “Mice Times” is an appropriate name for this website and its overly dire and seemingly wishful consequences concern for Russian demise, when the word “sanctions” is not mentioned and not discussed.
Basically, internally Russian has a problem with its Oligarchs/Mafia and Putin is working on this problem as best he can, slowly but surely.
Here is an article about the New Silk Road … for trade and prosperity in the East (once again).
http://www.atimes.com/article/new-silk-road-will-go-syria/
I wrote,
“Basically, internally Russian has a problem with its Oligarchs/Mafia and Putin is working on this problem as best he can, slowly but surely.”
The following article expands and explain this …
https://ismaelhossein-zadeh.com/putin-blinks/
I found this information via …
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/09/20/can-putin-stand-washington/
Russian should seize and nationalise all industries on its lands for its own good use.
Power to the people was messed up for many in Soviet times.
It is a fundamental right of sovereignty and needs to be acted on.
Yanis Varoufakis – Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKaPeWoS7PQ
Some of us had high hopes for this mans knowledge and fighting spirit at the time he was appointed.
Obviously the mountainside was to steep.
I made this depiction in Feb. 2015.
http://fotovision.no/GLP1/Varoufakis_Live_Free_or_Die_Hard.jpg
Take Care
Kent
What is the great appeal of war? I mean something besides the greed of making money, or satisfying base needs for power and control. I think it has something to do with a restricted sense of reality.
At least war is real, in contrast to the general meaninglessness, and vapid insipidity of our culture, with its maudlin pretensions. Although I claim to be against war, I actually enjoy it. I am happy when Syria is winning, like when my favorite sports team is number one.
So there is a war going on inside of me over war. This is crazy and attests to the unreality of my own life. I am caught in the middle between two different worlds: the ideal world of love and the real world of war. But that itself is paradoxical, ironic and contradictory.
teranam 13 said something that made me think. How can Trump dare to threaten whole nations with destruction? I felt it because I like Donald, despite what he says. Why is that? Is it because I am much like him beneath my desperate facades?
Unknowingly, Donald holds up a mirror to me, showing me my unreality. He is made into a pet of empire. How am I any different essentially and existentially? Oh, I can point out the obvious differences but it’s not so easy to experience the areas of sameness.
Perhaps unfairly, and to my own embarrassment, I work through my hypocrisies and contorted lies in this public domain, as an unconscious cry for help. And the community does provide me valuable feedback, from its understanding of what is true and real; saving that I have to decide for myself.
There’s a line in Shakespeare that is pertinent to what I’m attempting to get at. Orlando is in love with Rosaline. She is in love with him too, but is playing all kinds of games, including posing as a man. As the play nears its conclusion of happy marriages for all, Orlando says: “I can no longer live by thinking.”
As I understand it, thinking represents the world of thoughts, symbols, signs and unconscious patterns that surface in the former. At some point these no longer satisfy because they are not real, in a full and integrated sense.
Lacking an authentic experience of reality, I revert to a substitute gratification, and war is a very handy one, among many. I become fixated to a lower level reality, which in the whole, existential experience is ultimately self-defeating and destroying.
This vineyard is set up to stop the war on Russia. Its method is primarily to analyze the war. The Saker has a career in that field. Analyses are one approach but there are others. It seems to me that this cafe was created to satisfy those alternative avenues to the same goal.
The question remains: is the war on Russia being stopped. Undoubtedly, the answer is “yes,” in the military sense, thanks in large part to real war analysis. But the enemy is not so easily defeated. The empire has multiple strategies for conquest.
I derive satisfaction from the belief that I am helping to stop war by my choices and actions. I assume you do too. But that is not the crux of the matter. Reality itself determines the issue: is war actually being stopped, or has it adopted yet another disguise?
It’s now light enough out to engage in a different kind of work: more physical and less mental. I got up at 4:44 this morning, just for the fun of it; something about three fours that is so structurally satisfying. I went to bed last evening at 8 and slept until 2:30–not bad. I lay in bed for two hours, thinking and loving. I guess I can get by with less sleep; maybe it comes with age.
Time to live and love in this extended vineyard called life. This cafe of real persons behind the screens and shades is intriguing, to say the least. It’s not completely real yet, but it’s getting there, at least for me.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted at 7:00 am pacific, 2 pm universic
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Take Care
Kent
Zapad: What can we learn from Russia’s latest military exercise?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41309290
“What we can learn” from analysis of this BBC script are the thinly veiled techniques used in propaganda.
From the word go the ‘we’ makes you one with the author -‘you are one of us’. The sub-headline imparts a sense of fear – ‘concen’ that is undefined. Undefined fear is the best kind as it has no boundaries.
‘rare insight’ gives it the Iron Curtain secrecy cloak needed to augment fear. There is a demand, no less, for ‘careful and sober assessment for outsiders’ -those on the other side of that curtain.
“Russia claims this exercise falls below a treaty threshold of 13,000 soldiers” -obviously casting doubt on this to up the fear another notch which is then confrmed as fact “Western analysts place the numbers involved much higher”.
“The Russian military is transitioning from the old Cold-War-style Red Army into a more modern and flexible force” a put-down augmented by ” just like the more sophisticated of Nato armies.
Note the subtle ‘of’ which most people will not read.
Here’s the next put-down from RUSI ” an attempt to create “a lean, fully manned, combat-ready force, fully – or to the best possible extent ” . This clearly cast doubt on it succeeding.
Next put-down: “Despite Russia’s victory in the brief Georgia war of 2008, the conflict showed up many shortcomings”. Not a ‘real war’ since it was so short -hardly worth mentioning other than another implication of ‘Russian aggression’ (repeat and repeat ‘Russian aggression’)
Real battle by any country always shows up deficiencies and areas for improvement; note also the declaration that Russia has invaded Ukraine -“lessons learned from more recent operations in Syria and eastern Ukraine”.
Dr Sutyagin (appeal to Education fallacy) mentions back-sliding and ‘large army divisions which, he says, are “hard to man, thus being to a large extent ’empty shells'”.
More put-downs and doubt “But how far has Russia’s military transition really gone? And, crucially, will the Russian government continue to have sufficient funds to maintain its military modernisation plans?” Clearly this is in doubt -but no proof shown.
“Rearmament with modern weaponry, necessary to close – or at the minimum, narrow – the technological gap between the Russian and the best Western military forces” another out down further dashed by “completion of the rearmament programme depends on both availability of finances and access to Western technologies, which is becoming harder”.
“In theory these are defensive exercises” -more FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and the next paragraph reinforces that with the implied ‘offensive’ Iskander-M.
“Nato countries are keen to deter any Russian move west “, “Nato’s borders” as if it is now a sovereign country itself rather than an extension of US hegemony.
I could go but it becomes tedious and unnecessary, however, the ending note of Russia’s grey area of
“.. having as it does, a far less clearly defined sense of the boundary line between war and peace” versus the good western guys white hat stance is projection at its best.
Apparently God’s still away on business somewhere.
I’d sell your heart to the junk man baby
For a buck, for a buck
If you’re looking for someone
To pull you out of that ditch
You’re out of luck, you’re out of luck
The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
There’s leak, there’s a leak,
In the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who ore the ones that we kept in charge
Killers, thieves, and lawyers
God’s Away, God’s away
God’s away on Business. Business. God’s Away,
God’s Away God’s Away on Business. Business.
Digging up the dead with
A shovel and a pick
It’s a job, it’s a job
Bloody moon rising with
A plague and a flood
Join the mob, join the mob
It’s all over. It’s all over, It’s all over
There’s a leak, there’s a leak,
In the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves, and lawyers
God’s away. God’s away, God’s away
On Business. Business.
God’s away, God’s away. God’s away
On Business.
Goddamn there’s always such
A big temptation
To be good, To be good
There’s always free cheddar in
A mousetrap, baby
It’s a deal, it’s a deal
God’s away, God’s away, God’s away
On Business. Business.
I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby,
Let her ring, let her ring
God’s Away, God’s Away
God’s Away on Business.
Business…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mhsW5aWJM
This fellow.
http://fotovision.no/GLP1/WaitsGlowindark.png
Hi, Kent, thanks for the tips, I tried everything possible, is still functioning but I can’t watch youtube and therefore I can’t manage my youtube channel. The machine doesn’t allow me to run any other browser, the result is that some web-pages are blank. But I can send e-mails and I can come here.
For record : using the XP because I have a programme which runns only with XP and that is my work.
Otherwise I would drop this OS. Maybe someone has an ideea which browser can be applied to my old XP SP3. (and why the machine doesn’t allow me to run for example Opera, Mozilla, Chrome -older versions)
Anyway, I’ll have to use myself to this reduced capability for a while.
Long live the Cafe !
Hi there
Read info at link. Follow instructions for download/install.
Google Chrome Windows version
The old versions of Chrome before V58 are packed as 7zip self-extracting executable. Just run the executable and extract the files under any folder on your hard drive. Then launch Google chrome with chrome.exe under the extraction folder. After V59, the archived chrome old version files are official Chrome offline installers. Just uninstall any current version of Chrome first and then run the downloaded installer. It’s a one-click installer without any interactive UI.
Support of XP and Vista
Please notice that Chrome dropped support of XP and Vista since Chrome 50. If you are using XP and Vista, please download Chrome 49 or earlier, or download Slimjet Web Browser, which is based on Chromium and continues to support XP and Vista.
https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php
Take Care
Kent
Thanks again Kent for your goodwill but it doesn’t work : installed the browser but it crashes at first glace while booting. Every browser does the same. My suspicion is that I have a genuine, registered XP OS and the guys don’t let me run anything which is not theirs.
I don’t get it. Something else must be the cause.
I do run XP, Vista, windows 7 and windows 10 on various computers and laptop’s, all professional versions, which might do a difference, I don’t know.
Since you already have tried out quite a few “solutions”, why not try this
Here: different solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4UKinxg5fw
Since you have stated that you cannot watch YouTube videos. Solution no. 5 is:
Reset Chrome browser: go to C/Program files – google – Chrome – application – folder, 55.0.2883.87 (numbers might be different on your computer).
Delete the file chrome.dll (copy/save to another folder before deleting, just in case).
This will reset your chrome browser.
Kent
I believe we all agree that the fairly single-minded group of Geo-Political advisers surrounding Trump never will be beneficiary for the inhabitants of this planet.
Unknown to most, is the two individuals (hardly ever seen in public) that has the utmost influence on Mr. Trump’s foreign policy.
Here they are.
Large file (14mb): http://fotovision.no/GLP1/Got%20a%20problemRedMill.jpg
Small version: http://fotovision.no/GLP1/Got_a_problemRedMill_resize.jpg
It all makes sense now, doesn’t it??
Take Care
Kent
No, We (US) Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles!! (or ANY ballistic missile).
Now didn’t we all know that (or at least suspected it).
Here:
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/09/no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles/141070/
Kent
America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/americas-jews-are-driving-americas-wars/ri20965
Poor Valerie Plame just got chewed out by the entire Americans media world for linking to this post!!
Trump’s “Mein Kampf” Tirade at the United Nation
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-mein-kampf-tirade-at-the-united-nations/5610036
A UN Force for Ukraine: Beware the Trojan Horse
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-un-force-for-ukraine-beware-the-trojan-horse/5610058Azorka1861
Correction of the link for A UN Force for Ukraine: Beware the Trojan Horse
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-un-force-for-ukraine-beware-the-trojan-horse/5610058
Ambassador Sabbagh: Some UN Member States Support Israel in Developing its Nuclear
Capabilities
http://sana.sy/en/?p=114257
Yma Sumac (Nightingale of Peru) – El Condor Pasa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPOldBxxVs
You must read this book
http://holocausthandbooks.com/dl/978-1-59148-141-6-TellTruthShameDevil-2nd-LowRes.pdf
Nigel Farage relentlessly defends democracy in the Dictatorial European Parliament.
Nigel Farage – Confronts Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso & Martin Schulz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJHETdxwv8Y
Yanis Varoufakis and Nigel Farage could have formed a new political party for Greece and taken on the IMF and the European Parliament. Too many wasted opportunities.
Still waiting for Brexit to be initiated.
Why are we waiting …
‘You are not laughing now, are you?’ Nigel Farage at European Parliament (FULL SPEECH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJzRa7HWVqs
Dmitri Kiselyov (Дмитрий Киселёв) – America’s PC Plaque a “National Catastrophe”
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/americas-pc-plague-national-catastrophe-russias-1-anchor-kiselyov/ri20929
Russia Beats US In The Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQgHXr7gViw
UUTAi Olena – Siberian shaman lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp1fPt8Eg
Here are some visuals …
Юлияна – Уhуктуу (HD)
Yuliyana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkaVBszsgkY
events rapidly coming to a head in the oil fields near Deir ez Zor
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/race-syrias-largest-oil-field-reaches-critical-stages-map/
Forget about The New York Times — stop watching the BBC. For REAL meaningless gibberish (which I’m not sure is even able to pass the bar for propaganda), see this joint news release from Canada’s PM Trudeau and Poroshenko, released today:
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/09/22/joint-statement-prime-minister-trudeau-and-president-poroshenko
Since there is a tangible trade agreement, and a military operation with specific goals (not simply ‘reassurance’ like in Latvia) it should now be possible to request an audit of all these investments the Canadian taxpayer is so generously funding into Ukraine’s gloriousness. Who wants to take that on? Canadian Taxpayers Federation?
Just for comparison —
According to the Embassy of Canada to South Sudan, “Canada’s commercial footprint in South Sudan is modest, due in large part to ongoing concerns about political stability.” Humanitarian assistance has been much more generous. Which is kind of appropriate given the state of that country.
According to the High Commission of Canada in Kenya, “Canada has minimal trade relations with Somalia due to the continuing conflict and the high costs of doing business.” This is despite the fact that “Canada hosts one of the largest Somali diaspora communities in the world, and it is the most prominent diaspora group from Africa in Canada.” Again, Canada’s contribution seems to be focused on development and humanitarian assistance.
But, Glory to the Billionaires of Ukraine!!
Whoever wrote that probably had a bucket at hand and needed a shower afterwards.
Junior follows the script -but where was Canada’s fascist-descended arch-russophobe FM in all this?
Hi SanctuaryOne,
She was by Junior’s side in an expanded meeting with the delegation from Ukraine. Your description of the speech writing strikes me as very accurate!! Thanks to Andrei in the Reader Selected News links section, I’ve been reading more of Helmer’s research. Found this interesting (from 2014):
“Officials in Ottawa won’t say what happened to the C$400 million in Canadian loans, given to Kiev at an interest rate of 1.43%, in September and March. Audit and accountability requirements in Canadian law for the money have been suspended in Ukraine’s case.”
Intrigued by Agenda 202 mentioned I found these:
From 2012, it looks like the US didn’t follow this piece of advice from Brookings.
“The U.S. government must tread lightly on Ukrainian-Russian issues so long as Moscow respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and conforms to international law.”
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ukraine_2020_recommendations.pdf
And from 2016:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/2137744-economic-development-ministry-represents-ukraines-digital-agenda-till-2020.html
“Militants launched 51 attacks on positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in ATO area in Donbas over the past day”
“The OSCE SMM recorded 659 explosions compared with 226 in the previous reporting period in Donetsk region.”
I can only imagine the OSCE reporting on Stalingrad or even the inhabitants of London during the Battle of Britain. Why are these people bombing themselves?
Trudeau on the Ukraine:
“We are guided in our efforts and in our outlook by our shared commitment to the values of inclusivity and respect for diversity.”
Yeah, Ukrainian nazis are really committed to inclusivity and respect for diversity!
Exactly! The corrupt pieces are many when it comes to Canada’s Ukraine strategy. We’re fortunate enough not to have to answer to a supra-bureaucracy like the EU countries, so there’s no excuse to expose some truths. Even if the truth-telling is somewhat weasely – er, carefully presented – to try to keep all parties somewhat satisfied.
In the meantime watch this: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-70.75,28.81,3000
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Pretty damn serious development here atm.
Hype for Irma is over, right? So we can all relax?
Kent
Trump May Be A Narcissist, But The Clintons Are Sociopaths
Read and cry, get angry or whatever.
This is where we are at.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/20/trump-may-be-a-narcissist-but-the-clintons-are-sociopaths/
Piece of puzzle, I know, but a very essential piece at that.
Kent
And.
The sky is still crying, (countless decades now) We are the baby’s, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Gt46aX9Z4
Wisdom!! In HIP-HOP??
Yes!, and in Jazz – Blues – Traditional, cultural music, – Classics, all the same, at the core!
Listen to this beautiful Lady, human artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZi1nfEcUy8
Kent
Come to daddy!! Yeah!
See where it’s going? Any celebrity art-Lovers comes to mind??
If I have to, I might consider to remind you of two brothers (one is an art collector in the “Pizzeria”)
I would rather not, as it will rip out parts of my heart doing depictions of these individuals., So, you are on your own on this one, for now anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlLnkBFyno
Kent
Oh, And back in the days, as the saying goes (1972), The Kinks made this album.
Preservation act 2.
Listen carefully (if you can spare your valuable time that is).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBE36JXc58w
And for more titles/lyrics. try this one: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Kinks
Kent
Teaser, look at the track titles, and use your imagination.
0:00 – Announcement
0:41 – Introduction to Solution
3:23 – When a Solution Comes
7:03 – Money Talks
10:48 – Announcement
11:43 – Shepherds of the Nation
16:00 – Scum of the Earth
18:44 – Second-Hand Car Spiv
22:35 – He’s Evil
27:11 – Mirror of Love
30:39 – Announcement
31:12 – Nobody Gives
37:45 – Oh Where Oh Where is Love
41:25 – Flash’s Dream (The Final Elbow)
45:40 – Flash’s Confession
49:47 – Nothing Lasts Forever
53:30 – Announcement
53:51 – Artificial Man
59:20 – Scrapheap City
1:02:36 – Announcement
1:03:42 – Salvation Road
1:07:00 – Mirror of Love
1:10:28 – Slum Kids (Take 1)
Preservation acts.
Kent
Lyrics.
https://genius.com/albums/The-kinks/Preservation-act-2
Kent
Don’t panic. The Love Army, or Jesus’ legions of angels, or whatever higher metaphor you prefer, is involved in this war of words and worlds. Idlib was a trap which could have gone terribly wrong, but didn’t. Trump’s goal all along has been to reach a second term, and now he has the deep state on his side, arranging his second term. Talk about holding your enemy close, and the art of the deal.
The Love Army uses us, in both our strength and weakness. “But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” KJV, 2 Corinthians 12:9.
“I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand”
What one of us does can tip the balance. I follow the ten commandments of love, according to the Love Army, for the sake of the Love Bower. Who you follow, or what you do, is up to you.
Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” Edward Lorenz called it the “butterfly effect.” Jesus likened it to every hair is numbered, and every fallen sparrow noted. Expect a miracle.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted 9:39, in honor of Bro 93; he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother…
Here is proof that just because a brain is small, this should not be related to intelligence or level of consciousness.
Very sad to see animals in cages.
Watch the humans when the chicken does not perform immediately.
America’s Got Talent 2017 Jokgu the Keyboard Playing Chicken Full Audition S12E01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjvkj3ej08
George Carlin – Political Correctness is fasciism pretending to be Manners…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkhUivqzWv0
Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206: Versiculus: Deus in adiutorium (Canto gregoriano) -…
Performed in 1610, composed by Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, this religious music comes prior to Bach and the Baroque style.
The Bach Collegium of Japan with conductor Masaaki Suzuki has produced a very vibrant and excellent recording through BIS records (2001)
This music is best played very loud through high quality speakers with good bass and treble response to get the full effects of the transitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxGF_avQwUw
Go here for more 1610 Vespers and much more …
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw24q8xVg5s9pMOSH3QXaNQ/videos
I got up at 5:55 today because I wanted to feel alive, with reason and poetry, rhyme and politics. It was a cool 48 degrees, so I made a fire in the woodstove, in this makeshift house of slats and plastic. Now it’s as comfy as can be.
This world was made to be comfy, too, for us, but it sure ain’t so for too, too many. Causes being causes, and consequences consequences, war is now bearing down upon us all. We can run but there is nowhere to hide.
The thing of it is, that we en masse have feathered our own nest. No need to blame, complain or explain. We are all responsible, each and every one. What can be done? When will the war be won? I can only speak for myself, and speak that out in a community of peers.
The Love Army gave me a shortened version of its ten commandments of love, a kind of shorthand for the mind, suited to this short and sweet world. Here’s what I got, prioritized in ten dictums of dichotomy, for a short attention span world of sound bites and digital bytes.
Corresponding to the two human hands and hemispheres, as well as the two tablets of Moses, five are positive and five negative. 5 is indeed the number that makes us come alive and thrive. The human body has five extensions: head, hands and feet; as well as the most loving organ of all: the clitoris.
1. Think love, not war
2. Eat love, not meat
3. Keep love, not pets
4. Marry love, not man
5. Make love, not money
——
6. Avoid drugs, not love
7. Abort sin, not love
8. Control sex, not love
9. Prostitute nothing, not love
10. Porn nobody, not love
When matters condense like this, they hardly make sense because they’re too dense. A full context is needed to explicate their meaning and message. That’s why this vineyard is growing by leaps and bounds, and going on a billion bits of energy, commonly called words.
When it comes to love, the Love Government is the textual background for me. You build your own self-government, as you must, with the result that we have multi-polar governments that in the best of circumstances, harmonize and rhapsodize. To hold it all together, according to the “center that holds” idea, I need love.
You may not need a central point of reference at all; or if you do, call it something else. That’s fine and dandy: love loves free and diverse expression within its own absolute. This cannot be strictly proven, but there is plenty of authority for it in the human experience: one God, one central sun, and one word in our present consciousness that is universally recognized and felt, positively or negatively–the international English word love.
If you prefer signs to words, there’s the valentine heart symbol, everywhere known, whether loved or hated. Love is the core of Orthodoxy, if we take Jesus seriously at all. Jesus’ beloved, John, put down in three words the quintessential 5th element of existence, in the precise precis: “God is Love.”
For many, the term “God” has become problematic, because it harbors patriarchal baggage. The easiest solution is drop the word God, and go straight to Love. But old habits cling to us tenaciously. Jesus developed Moses, and predicted a vineyard would develop his. “I am the vine; you are the branches.”
Sign-wise, the grapes are the synthesis for this thesis and antithesis. Grapes make wine. Wine sacramentalized is blood. How do I know? I heard it on the grapevine, within the Love Bower. Such no-sense makes no sense in the war room, but perfect sense in a love cafe a table away, at which sit the likes of ioan, mundanomaniac, Bro and teranam 13, to cite some elders that I have known over the years. Many are long gone, but new bloods arrive here daily.
Vineyards are grapeyards, not graveyards. “Arise, my Beloved, and come–our vineyard is full of grapes.” (Song of Songs). Grapes of joy and laughter; not grapes of wrath and disaster. Some say Trump is a disaster; others say he is the new Zoroaster, or Zorro for short.
He surely shorts out the circuits and burns down our cherished notions of how things should be. He puts things in reverse, worse than a gypsy curse. He does more to bring down the hated empire than all the talking heads in empire beds. Dennis to Donald: “they say you’re usin’ voodoo; I saw your feet walking by themselves.” Donald to Dennis: “they say you’re using woowoo; I saw your feet walking on Love Army Road.”
True, I walk to and fro Vulva Valley on that road from Ojai to Ohigh. I am part of the Love Army, unseen by empire or by those who conspire for good causes. In the Love Bower, causes are no longer considered because they have been treated. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there.
In the mean time of war, I walk my talk by practicing the ten commandments of love. It’s the least I can do, and be true to myself. Well, time to break my nightly fast with an orange or two, while I think of you and love. Lest this chant fade into rant and fall into cant, I end with the only word I care to know: love.