2017/09/30 15:00:01
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Ya Rayah
Rachid Taha – Ya Rayah…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPhCmmfKiE
Anyone noticed how smart Trump was to target unpatriotic football players? All those patriotic americans are so angry at those self-entitled black football players. Meanwhile, at the farm, the congress is busy increasing the military budget by a whopping 80 billion dollars.
Its like magic. 80 billion dollars disappear without people noticing. Its like a bank robbery except it is legal. So good.
Thanks for the good idea, here’s the result :
Up Yours
Orange hair, orange hair
On the path of other Blair
Using stick, using stick
Making people very sick
Holding power, holding power
Till the end, till comes the hour
Keep the word, keep the word
Use that double edged sword
“We shall vanish, we shall vanish”
You will scream – a golden wish
“We shall die, we shall die”
There will be no one to cry
Nobody remembers you
Those who lied, skipping the truth
You shall vanish in the darkness
With your servants, with your mess.
Take your kingdom, take your kingdom
Let the world enjoy the freedom
When you’re gone, when you’re gone
Nobody shall use a gun
Neither shall enslave his brother
Nor shall have the lust for power
No more hungry, thirsty souls
No more fancy, earthly lords
You will fall from your horse
We will say : “up yours !”
‘Those who lied, skipping the truth
You shall vanish in the darkness
With your servants, with your mess.
Take your kingdom, take your kingdom
Let the world enjoy the freedom’
great entry for today
(a humble addendum…? perchance, ioan?)
up yours, up yours!
we all know the score
gimme more, gimme more
in your mind you’re the hero
but reality says you’re just a zero.
I always like your poetry! Thank you.
Did you blame orange hair and Tony Blair?
Someone else is hiding in his lair
That one is a prince in the British Isles
He murdered a princess after she walked the aisle
He is still at it, working from behind the deep state
Will we wake up before it is too late?
Or is it time for financial oblivion?
Oligarchs are planning in Wall Street and London
I pray that God will protect His sheep
Dreaming of His angels while I sleep
Your contributions guys and gals, are always priceless and I’m very grateful for that !
Hi. Hey, a new cafe, a new day, and, oh, what a sweet picture in our three day cafe: a beautiful lass and a fine gentleman in love with her from behind the glass.
I just reviewed the past cafe, and just must say that mundanomaniac’s latest comment is very sweet, and sensible, regarding our diaries. It was teranam 13’s framing our conversations as diaries, not mine, but now that I think of it, it is an excellent term and method of communing with ideas.
It also gets past the war news, which is more impersonal in expression, although it does involve real persons. The cafe diaries give me balance to the oppressive weariness of war. Music, poetry and literature are another feature of the cafe life which water the wastelands of war.
On an impulse yesterday, I looked up Saturn, because I was feeling heaviness, depression, sadness, lethargy and uselessness. I’m a Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, so I have big ideas, and shoot my arrows of ideas and motions all over the place. But I think that I’m ruled from below by Saturn, sad to say.
I try to ignore that part of me as ugly and undesirable but that has been a big mistake, which I must correct. So now I express my love for the Saturn in me; and it is helping to lift the fog of despair. Saturn is my basic self, and without that base, my whole higher Sagittarius constructions collapse.
I’m no astrologer, so I may be off base but the stars are helpful soul mates. Who knows, I may have born under some kind of Saturnalia influence. Anyway, the more I love my Saturn Self, the better I will be overall; time will tell the truth of that.
I had a dream last night that was pretty horrible, about being caught in a crazy place, with these weird images and characters. What a relief it was when that faded out, and I came back to this world. There is such a thin veil between here and there. Love is my savior, and if I lose her, I lose all; and might end up in that terrible crazy house.
I express my crazy and foolish ideas here, to relieve the pressure, I guess. So you all do me a service, for which I express my thanks.
I reread my thoughts regarding numbers in the three previous cafes, and see that I may be sliding into superstition. Got to walk a fine line. I don’t put a number behind my name, or pseudonym, like many here but if I did, it might be 77, my present age. It has some remarkable vibrations.
Bro thinks I am mocking him, or playing loose and fast with the serious, demonic use that numbers portend. That is not my intention at all. I use numbers to counteract the empire’s contagion of numbers. I fill numbers, and their co-signatories, letters, with as much love as I can. Sometimes this comes out as frivolous and inane, so I need be careful, lest I inadvertently aid empire, and risk ending up behind that veil in the crazy-house of my dream last night.
Thanks, Bro, for the yellow, flashing caution light. And thanks to all herein connected to this vineyard, for a safe haven in the storm. I’ll have more to say on Bro’s further cautionary tales, but I want to take a walk now, before it gets too hot. I’ve had my breakfast of seeds, so that should satisfy my dietary needs, until I get back for a brunch of oranges.
Love, Dennis, posted at 9:33 pacific time, unsuperstitiously
will later come back, now Tomatoes with Mozzarella
with Irma in the kitchen
meanwhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQS1E7ZaqA
“I’m no astrologer, so I may be off base but the stars are helpful soul mates. Who knows, I may have born under some kind of Saturnalia influence. Anyway, the more I love my Saturn Self, the better I will be overall; time will tell the truth of that.”
Sure you are born, like everybody, under a Saturn’influence’. And rightly you call it ‘Saturn Self” refering to the Saturn-part-personality in you like in everyone. Jung said, it is an autonomous entity in our psyche and he said it is not ‘psychic’ , as like it would be an outcome of psyche, so he called it ‘psychoid’ meaning akin to
psyche …
And the rhythmic kind of our being, states in the 7- nonth -yearl- life-impression- Moon -rhythm, that you Dennis are presently underway in your circle (…) like in your second 7 years under ‘spell’ of Saturn kind of social pole position, the whole is turning around
while Saturn has to do nothing but be the pole, required by any ‘arrow’ aka Jupiter = Equator, spinning the long road around the entire comprehensive course understanding each one at it’s place …
So in your case kind of Son-Jupiter grooving around this Saturn in you and out of you. Saturn is gifted with the measures of the whole.
You may be a wise man at your place and a fool in the world, I can’t share your chinese-khasarian onsession, never found any trace like this all my life
Need Bro with and without number, to balance you, we are gifted with
Looking to the Stars
I’m looking to the stars, through the window
Before I put down my head on my pillow…
I close my eyes, my thoughts are going far,
Searching for a while, what could tell a star.
Outside, a gently wind whispers something
The leaves are dancing in a slowly swing
Autumn is coming, the swallows have gone
Their nests are empty, no cheering, no fun
I’m looking to the stars, through my thoughts
Traveling to them, beyond the Alps on vaults
Listening their call and try to understand
Why the life begins and why should never end
From Sun and Moon, Venus, Mars and Pluto
Who else can tell, other than our Mundo ?
per aspera ad astra…
The will to be human, sentient and kind
seemingly having no rhyme or reason
our heart/soul with star dust does intertwine
promising all answers at the right season.
NEWS Sep30
en.alalam.ir/news/3061391/U-S–does-not-recognize-Kurdish-independence-vote-in-Iraq–Tillerson
en.alalam.ir/news/3061516/U-N–agrees-international-experts-to-probe-Yemen-war-crimes
en.alalam.ir/news/3061601/Macron-s-invitation-to-visit-France-not-related-to-Kurdish-referendum—Iraqi-PM
en.alalam.ir/news/3061531/Amnesty-criticises-Australian-government-over-Iraq-civilian-deaths
en.alalam.ir/
*BTW, isn’t anything named Rex supposed to be on a short leash?*
Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psfGxfc4lg
Here’s a companion piece…..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/29/armies-addicts-and-spooks-the-cia-in-vietnam-and-laos/
I got back an hour ago from my walk. Out the wide open gate (no gated community this) at 11 to 10 and back to said gate at 11 to 11. I love all those 1’s and one 0. Add them for 1; multiplay them for 0. This computer world runs on 1 and 0.
The Christian Trinity has 3 for 1, or 1 for 3, the Great Mystery. This is a prelude to Bro 93’s Math Manifesto yesterday, which I promised to address at the new cafe today.
Francis returned last evening and is studying in the motor home 15 feet to the north. He is into traditional math; I’m in deep with Traditional Orthodox fact. I asked Francis about Miles Mathis’ thesis that Pi = 4, which he soundly deflated with its antithesis.
My math is from the Bible and the Fathers. Before logic looped us in, analogy was in vogue, and later sacramentalism. Now numbers rob and plunder, under empire thunder. By Jove, don’t those thunderbolts of lightning in our common electric chair feel jolting with volting? Just joking.
I think the gist of Bro’s Manifesto is that numbers are no joking matter. I put into evidence a few of Bro’s choice epithets:
conceited idea
pet idea
Leary weary
daily drivel
number mumbo jumbo
making people number (as in numb)
numb is pretty dumb
wowee zowee attraction
attract Luciferians
ego charge
not funny daily, sonny
dark occultist mental disease
how sick is that
defective of spirit and spreading it
celebrating immolation of Love and Care
condescendingly preposterous
theology…good grief
such nonsense
annoying preaching
repetitive cant
no universal claim to validity
very sketchily presented
endlessly repeated
unrigorous propositions
mere assertion
no proof of construction or debunking
daft
dumb rhymes
worn out, tired and tiresome
That’s the indictment. I plead guilty on all counts. I await the sentence of the Vineyard Viceroys. They will likely add contempt of court, because these and many more indictments have been issued over the years, with nary a trace of reformation.
I could add a longer list of more serious infractions, but let this suffice for now. Once again, I must thank Bro for his “Brotherly Love.” I have been schooled. But fool that I am, not fooled.
I can understand Bro’s point of view. If only it were true. The empire has more tricks up its sleeve than Paddy can shake a stick at. The empire is synonymous with patriarchy; however, I must distinguish between malignant and benign tumors; and orders of evil.
Wars are evil in themselves, but some are unprovoked and self-defensive, as appears to be the case with Russia. I keep up with the war news, because it’s an evil I must fight within and without. As a side benefit, it is more interesting than sports, or whether players bend the knee to it.
I get satisfaction from knowing I am helping to stop war by my life choices of not thinking war-like thoughts, eating meat, keeping pets, marrying mono-culturally, taking interest, doing drugs, aborting life, contracepting sex, prostituting or pornographying persons.
This morning I walked Love Army Road, parallel to the Ventura River, along Vulva Valley. I live where the broad river bottom meets the mountain canyons, forming an awesome V, which impresses me each time I come down the high road rim to the low road final approach to home.
I am blessed with a place still not conquered by empire, but it is far, far from where I am going. You all, like Bro, assist me on my journey. Sometimes it’s a “via negativa,” no less valuable than its contrary.
Love, Dennis, Vulva Valley, Ojai, posted 333 and 1033 on the Great West East Slow Sun Train Timeline
Apparently netanyahoo’s boi toy trump does disaster relief with the same enthusiasm he “impoves” relations with Russia and fights daesh in Syria.
Puerto Rico Mayor Criticizes Trump for Mediocre Disaster Response
https://sputniknews.com/us/201709301057839392-puerto-rico-mayor-criticizes-trump-hurricane-response/
“US President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized for his response to an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico in the wake of Category 4 Hurricane Maria, which knocked out electricity to over one million people.
On Wednesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reported that 42 percent of the population is without drinkable water and over 10,000 people are living in 161 shelters.
The mayor of Puerto Rico’s largest city, San Juan, criticized Trump on Saturday, after begging for additional federal assistance, and contrasted the administration’s response with that of Goya, an American foods producer, which donated 200,000 pounds of food.
“We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy,” Carmen Yulín Cruz said Friday at a news conference.
“This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals and 12 pallets of infant food — which I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek,” she said, reported by NBC news.
“So I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct.”
“General Buchanan, a three-star general, has said that he doesn’t have enough troops and he doesn’t have enough equipment,” the mayor commented, adding, “So who am I? I’m just a little mayor from the capital of San Juan. This is a three-star general saying he doesn’t have the appropriate amount of tools.”
“I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles,” she said.
“If we don’t get the food and the water into people’s hands, we are going to see something close to a genocide,” she added.
“I am asking the president of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives,” Cruz said.
On Thursday, Trump announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump would visit Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
Cruz told MSNBC that she would be “very glad” to meet with Trump.
“But again, this is about saving lives,” she said. “One can visit as a photo-op or one can visit to make sure things get done in the right way.”
One should remember that PR is “merely” an american colony whose population is made up of those “brown” coloured folk the netanyahoo/trump squatters consider “deplorables” (unless cia employed fascists and death squaders).
When Mohammed Assaf first appeared on the Arab Idol talent show the judges were not impressed for at least five minutes, which is not presented here.
Assaf, a Palestinian, became a winner over many performances.
He has become a ‘resistance’.
Arab Idol – الأداء – محمد عساف – زينة لبست خلخالا
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S099Q0S2B8
Arab Idol – محمد عساف – أغنية الفوز
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh6Vhrr5nS8
#محمد_عساف – دمي فلسطيني | Mohammed Assaf – Dammi Falastini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJEva3Hwqk
Faudel & Mohammed Assaf – Rani (Duet) – | فضيل ومحمد عساف – كليب راني
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-Po07-iC8
I am unsure whether Putin has been blamed directly or indirectly (diabolical divisive discord tactics to sow democratic chaos amongst aircraft maintenance engineers?) for this:
https://www.rt.com/news/405156-air-france-engine-emergency-landing/
I love the dry understatement -you’d almost think they were British and out of the last century:
“AirFrance responded to the incident in a statement saying that the flight had landed safely after a technical issue was identified”,
“Part of the engine cowling was missing” ,
“One of our engines is slightly blown apart.”
It’s a bit more than that. The main fan (that which provides most of the power -the equivalent of the propellor in a turboprop) has seperated and is either deep in the briny or somewhere on the coast of Greenland. See diagram below.
This is highly unusual. Unless a bird strike -which is impossible in this case- most engine problems are not up front but deeper in the compressors or in the hot section aft.
I bet Rolls Royce are happy it wasn’t one of their engines. GE/Pratt&Whitney:
https://static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/1/1/5/9/4/a555951-210-Engine%20Alliance%20GP7200.jpg
I recall a fubar on a 100 mw GT – fellas left a mag-base and indication inside the intake plenum, just behind the variable pitch intake vanes….ran for several hours before things got going…I believe it was a Siemens machine
(skidmounted set to ’em in an oilpatch running heatrecovery boilers (HRSGs) and making power to run the oilfield pumps, etc. Stuff happens. Somebody didn’t do their job and count the tools in and out.)
The oil patch is another game from airplanes…which are of much lighter construction and far more critical – it’s an airplane motor after all…a “reliable hot-rod” of an engine. Fine, so long as everybody does their job right. Bad when they do not.
It is, in my (marginal) view, probably easy to do a subtle sabotage on any GT in such a way as to bring about idiopathic failures in operation. This is to say that the workers can throw shoes…
They could then, and the can now. And some will do. There are many upset people. This increases and compounds “shoe throwing”… Obviously.
Seems pretty tacky though. Women and kids and innocent schmucks…bad way to throw…
Still, maybe it was just a rare failure… The boffins will know. We’ll see how believable the story is… Like http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/twa.php#axzz4uFtoM4HY
Pax
LZ
Speculation here: Rather than a fan blade stress fracture that would likely leave the fan largely intact it looks to me that the shaft has fractured -and again, unless a metal stress fracture, it might point to the roller bearings that support this just behind the main fan in the diagram. If they overheated and weakened the shaft metal which looks hollow, I can see the whole thing breaking off and with forward thrust the whole fan ripping out forwards taking everything with it.
Perhaps recovery of the fan will not be necessary to determine the root cause?
If you page down below to the embedded picture there are some interesting details even from this. Outside the centre tube there is a mangled area that is almost flat on the far side and outside that further ripping away evidence.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/600170-af66-cdg-lax-diverts-uncontained-engine-failure-over-atlantic-2.html?highlight=air+france+engine
Some comments from PPrune:
“If this is a shaft failure, this could be pretty bad news for GP7000 operators. GE did have issues early on with hydrogen embrittlement of shafts on their 787 engine; it was so bad that brand new engines were falling to pieces on their first run (the problem got sorted pretty quickly though).”
“The issue with the GEnx fan shaft was related to use of the wrong anti-seize compound during assembly of the fan shaft – this caused stress corrosion which then failed the shaft. ”
I am sure boffins are hard at it with analysis.
Lotta torsional stresses there with the torsional oscillation and damping monster – and the H embrittlement and antisieze stuff sounds, ah, familiar… and reasonable as failure pathway.
Mistakes happen. Shoes too happen. And the structure of things means that the help is sometimes not entirely on top of the work, nor the supervisors on top either.
I remember a major utility that paid maintenance managers a bonus for not spending their budget…with the result that the steam generator was ruined in about 8 years…at a PWR 1000 mw plant… Terminal case of the phukindumbazz. You hadtabe there…
A long, long time ago I worked for a US company that had a Canadian subsidiary doing aerial surveys. The subsidiary had its own culture and clients derived from being around a long time and was situated in the same building where I worked. Head office in the US finally took notice of them and sent up a bunch of ‘efficiency’ suits with accounting credentials, MBA’s etc. -but absolutely no experience in that line of business.
We all moved offices according to what project we were on, so one month you might get a large office and the next a small one. Nobody complained much. I can remember one of these HO plastic suits whining about ‘all that G’dam space’. Each person was supposed to get exactly 32.5 sq ft or something and that was how you ran a busness.
To cut a long story short, in short order they saved them all kinds of money -so much so in fact that they went out of business. I can remember one of the clients telling me he was was outraged as they had a whole bunch of work for them and no cost-effective alternative.
Your comment on shoes also reminds me of the slave labour WWII sabotage of adding acid or something corrosive to boot polish destined for German soldiers on the Russian front. In winter, the more polish went on the greater the resultant cracking….
Caro Emerald – Perfect Day (Live Lou Reed cover) @ Giel 3FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oorgbP5Hmtg
Remember Vitas ? When you lost your hearing !
Here is Dimash Kudaibergen (Дінмұхаммед Қанатұлы Құдайберген) from the Republic of Kazakhstan.
صدای باور نکردنی از یک انسان. باور نکردنی!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG4OFsPhSCE&list=RDL6G_vxXzvDo&index=3
With the apology that it seems to me that there’s a great deal we don’t know, LZ proffers two “innarrestin’ ” stories this Sunday. The first deals with some legalistic entanglements befuddlin’ the Celestial And Intrepid, indeed gifted, leader of the (gag) freiwelt Geewhiz, poor devil…
The second deals with, similar problems in prior history of the reality – serves to illustrate where the first story gets moral foundation – and serves to illustrate the dualities inside murka – there came with the land and the conquest, and remain unresolved – like Catalonia and Spain…a nascent civil war.
anyway
http://theava.com/archives/73928
http://theava.com/archives/73926
They are small stories in the History, but like the lone brick, all the universe is revealed by implication and deduction…
Pax
LZ
The name of the man giving this 5-minute lampoon presentation in the YouTube clip below is Albert Boadella, a 74 year old Catalan playwright. When young, in the 1960s and early 70s, he was somewhat involved in Catalan politics against the central Franco government. Today, he is considered a traitor by the Catalan separatists because of his tendency to criticize and often ridicule their rather preposterous pretensions.
The subject of his short lampoon speech here is the notion of “differential facts” (“hechos diferenciales” in Spanish, or “fets diferencials” in Catalan). This is a common phrase used mostly by Catalan politicians and pundits over the course the last few decades, to refer to the theoretical set of characteristics that make Catalonia and its people different and distinct from all others in Spain, in order to justify their constant demand for special dispensations and privilege within the Spanish state. Having already attained the highest degree of autonomy that seems possible within a State, they now have reached the point where the only logical next step would be complete independence. Other regions of Spain have also had recourse to this notion of “differential facts”, but to a much lesser extent than Catalonia.
Boadella, oddly dressed and wearing very dark sunglasses on stage during a night show, makes a fairly entertaining summary of this notion of differential facts. An English translation of what he says follows after the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1c5PGnEEWs&pbjreload=10
0:09: You believe that I am different. You notice that I am different, don’t you?
0:19: Of course you do, naturally. I am different from most of you, who are not Catalonians. I am in possession of differential facts, as noted in the Constitution.
0:35 I’m not sure about you. Maybe you also have your own [differential facts], I don’t know.
0:40 But, in any case, allow me to inform you, with the utmost respect, that mine are superior. Otherwise, what would be the point of having differential facts, if their only function were to make us inferior or equal to our neighbors?
1:01 Now of course, if you asked me to tell you exactly what these differences consist of, I wouldn’t be able to give you a precise description. Yet for all of us, Catalonians, it is very clear that we have distinct traits, that we belong to a distinct ethnicity.
1:20 But please don’t drive us to distraction about the details. It’s not an easy matter. We’ve been investigating this question since the end of the 19th century, trying to scrutinize the nature of those differences, and for the moment, we haven’t reached definite conclusions yet.
1:40 Certainly there is the language. That’s true. But despite all the efforts we’ve made to differentiate it from Spanish, it continues to resemble it too much. It sounds almost like a dialect of Castilian.
1:58 In any case, it would have been much better for us to have Chinese. That would have been unquestionably different, no doubt.
2:08 Look, the differential facts are rather a mystery. They are like the WMD weapons in Iraq. Everyone knew they existed, except themselves.
2:25 The Germans in this regard did an excellent job in the 1930s. They declared themselves Arian race.
2:33 But we, we have been invaded throughout history… by the Garcias –tons of Garcias, Gomez, Gutierrez, Rodriguez, Bermudez… and they contaminated the blood that we had inherited directly from Wilfred the Hairy [a 7th century Catalan count].
3:02 In any case… the certainty about the reality of these differential facts does not come exactly from us. This certainty resides rather in the willingness shown by some of the rest of Spaniards to accept the existence of these differential facts.
3:24 And I think this is the gist of the matter. This is a detail without which we, Catalonians, would be just like the rest of Spaniards: simple citizens of vulgar Carpetian descent.
3:38 That’s why, before going back to my seat, I would like to express my gratitude to some very important Spanish citizens such as… [he gives a representative list of relevant Spanish politicians who over the years have submissively bought into the “differential facts” mantra to grant concessions in exchange from other political favors]
3:59 … as well as so many, many other Spanish politicians, journalists and artists, who have been able to detect with precision all these details and differential signs.
4:19 And not only that, but they have shown themselves willing to defend the notion even to the point of changing the Constitution, if need be. Thanks to them, we finally have acquired full assurance about our difference, and thus we can set off along the glorious path toward the magnificent assertion made by our philosopher, Francesc Pujols… who said:
“A time will arrive when the mere fact of being Catalonian will allow us to travel and stroll around the world, all expenses paid.”
[puts out his palm as if for a tip and says:] “You may now start paying, please.”
——
It seems to me this is a clever strategy that should be copied by any of the countless ethnic groups in Europe, if they feel like claiming statehood, especially if they happen to live in the richest region in their state. All they have to do is keep insisting on their differential specialness, put a big star over their traditional flag, if they have one, cut them in the form of robes or nightgowns for people to wear on the streets, make a big circus show for external consumption, and there you have it: An oppressed people in the clutches of tyranny, cavorting for liberation.
Spain just made a tragic error. Which may end by costing them a united Spain.To quote Talleyrand from a different occasion “it is worse than a crime,its a blunder”. They have just showed the Catalan people than they must fight for their independence. And the Catalans as history clearly shows are more than willing to do that if needed.It wouldn’t surprise me at all if by tomorrow or soon after the entire region erupts in righteous fury:
https://www.rt.com/news/405210-violence-catalonia-voters-police/
If there is any hope of staving off a revolution after today actions. The King of Spain needs to dismiss the PM and government in a public decree. Apologize for what they’ve done. And call on the Catalan regional leaders to negotiate with him. Otherwise,a new Donbass is more than a 50/50 certainty.And the Catalans won’t be working alone.I imagine the Basques will rise to support them.The idiots in Madrid just gave a “new lease on life to ETA”. And if anyone thought ETA was bad. The Catalans joining with them will make ETA seem like school kids.
The Franco Period did not end in resolution of the crimes of anyone, and left the Fascist establishment is critical positions withing the economy and the State… Those thugs are Franco all over. Nobody ever paid for the mass murders or the concentration labor death camps…. There are latent stresses, to say the least!
The Spanish Civil War, then, may be seen as (ongoing but) dormant-restless under Franco, and subsequently kept their by cunning forces buttressed by Empire. Buttressed by Empire that now is chaotic and ineffective, probably in revolutionary collapse…
Seen thus the next logical event would be a Franco crackdown of violence and the re-emergence of the re-awakened Civil War. That’s today’s news – on the net.
Uncle Bob’s got a good idea…alas… Delusional Princes….do not reign for long. Remembering Bob Dylan’s songs, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows…
They’re gunna roll. The war has spread back to Spain, where, they say, “the Fascists practiced for WW2, and where they won.”
This time they’re gunna lose. But things have to run their pathways…and time is.
Oh how happy Papa Hemingway would be! But Orwell… Well, poor devils… Orwell was the better thinker, and better writer, and the superior man. His ghost will be found in the Donbass and obviously in Catalonia…
LZ
I have been watching the referendum unfold on and off since early morning and it is apalling how these peaceful voters have been treated (even if it was non-binding and illegal). If the Spanish Fascist Government thinks this is the way to behave – they have just put fuel on the fire and people will be even more determined. The PM has shown himself up.
They should have just let the vote go ahead and under the constitution and through legal recourse shown why it wasn’t legal or acceptable. Then sat down and tried to find a way forward peacefully.
Instead they send in the thugs – some were throwing people down staircases! and one officer even jumped in the air and slammed down on a protester on the floor; pulling women by their hair; rubber bullets being fired; peaceful protesters with their hands in the air sitting being hit with batons. It was over the top violence by the police. Many of these thugs should face charges for their conduct today.
https://www.rt.com/news/405253-spanish-catalonia-police-standoff/
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201710011057850907-catalonia-referendum-clashes-injuries/
Disgraceful. Note this is Spain’s Guardia Civil who are the thugs. (RT syas Catalan police stood up to these thugs).
And they still couldn’t stop it……and people still voted – despite it all……
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201710011057852348-barcelona-catalonia-independence-referendum-results/
Your arguments, guys are good, at least in the sense of what beats the eye and truly so, is unjust and disgraceful the way of handling. Those images although, are making me to remember painful things from my former homeland, which luckily have been settled since…but the little flame is still there, waiting for some oil. I don’t want even to imagine a nasty scenario for obvious reasons. Saying this, I watch the happenings in Spain’s Catalonia not without baseless worry.
Correction :instead of “is unjust and disgraceful the way of handling.” ,
is : it is unjust and disgraceful the way of handling of the situation by the police. By some strange mistake, the last words were left out – sorry for that.
there is something else, you seems to accept that spaniards will stay at home. Spaniards will also fight for the unity of the nation, it is that or Spain Dies.
The same day they declare the independence, article 155 comes into effect (if they are intelligent they calm down, suffer the penalties and in 5 or 10 years lets play again, maybe with better success) if they don’t . We will see probably Police and GC being shot at by the local Police, riots and so on. At this point the army intervenes, and all this nonsense ends in hours.
And we haven’t heard a word yet from the Army and the King, which is commander in chief of Armed Forces, so something it is being cooked.
But sure no civil war because it would be a Catalonian civil war first.
Trump’s Cruel Indifference to Puerto Rico
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-cruel-indifference-to-puerto-rico/5611441
“He then spent his weekend manufacturing a controversy over NFL players who were protesting racism by refusing to stand during the national anthem. He first raised the issue at a campaign speech for a fellow Republican in Alabama on Sept. 22, and went on to engage in a massive tweet storm through Monday, in what some speculated was an attempt to rally his base in the face of flagging poll numbers.
Finally, five days after his initial tweet about the island, Trump published a series of three more tweets that were incredibly callous.
“Much of the island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks, which, sadly, must be dealt with,” the tweets said.
For the president to bring up Puerto Rico’s economic crisis and its debt to corporate America during a time of tremendous suffering is shocking, even for Trump. The fact that he accompanied this statement with very little action to actually help Puerto Ricans intensified the cruelty of his words.
On Tuesday—seven days after the hurricane hit the island—Trump rolled out a public relations effort, supported by heads of government agencies, to convince reporters that his administration is taking action. He then raised the issue at a press conference, where he mostly bragged, saying,
“Everybody has said it’s amazing, the job we’ve done in Puerto Rico.”
He concluded by announcing that he would visit the island a whole week later.
Puerto Rico today is ground zero for American disaster capitalism. The electrical grid, which, Trump lamented, “was in terrible shape,” was neglected because the Republican Gov. Rosselló “for the last two years has been paying the debt as opposed to fixing the electrical grid,” Clemente says. The island’s crumbling infrastructure was apparently less important than its debt repayments. Then, the hurricane hit and Puerto Rico went dark. The governor estimates it could take months to restore power.
What Puerto Rico needs immediately is action from the executive branch. If Trump cared even slightly about Puerto Ricans, not only would he expedite the aid package, he would have immediately suspended the Jones Act, a shipping restriction that prevents nations from docking at Puerto Rico’s ports and directly delivering aid. The Trump administration’s initial refusal to grant a waiver for the rule invited harsh criticism from his fellow Republican, Arizona’s Sen. John McCain, who called it “unacceptable” in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
But Trump cited economic interests as being more important than actual human beings—he initially justified keeping the restriction in place by saying,
“We have a lot of shippers and a lot of people … who work in the shipping industry that don’t want the Jones Act lifted.”
Only under massive public pressure did he decide to lift the restrictions on Thursday.”
There is a lot more as trump once again proves he is part of the swamp he claimed he wanted to drain. In actuality, he and his regime represent the absolute worst of that swamp.
See also this article, which puts it into perspective with background history and more detail of the situation currently on the ground.
Puerto Rico is Dying
https://www.globalresearch.ca/puerto-rico-is-dying/5611510
Well for a more nuanced view of the situation in Puerto Rico from the perspective of someone whose family members still live there. It has been joked that PR is the only colony which exploits the mother country…. yes. much, much more $$$$ goes into PR than is ever extracted. The main resource is the people. They are US citizens and travel freely, serve in the military, vote for President whenever they live off Island, have access to food stamps, and federal aid programs whether they live in or outside PR. Many retire on Social Security returning to PR to live.
A hurricane just hit PR head on and devastated it. This is not Trump’s fault. Talk to Mother Nature. PR has not been hit by such a hurricane for almost 100 years; whereas, the Cubans who live on one of the main routes for hurricanes have the disaster drill down pat having to trot it out year after year. They also have building codes at least in municipal areas that reflect their orientation to their particular physical reality.
That the electrical grid in PR was always vulnerable was due to local corruption, malfeasance and incompetence. The PR elite is as venal as they get and cooperated with Wall Street in the recent looting of the Island. The mayor of San Juan is an idiot who could not organize her way out of a paper bag much less inspire anyone else to figure out how to do so for her. Trump is correct—she is a hack who thinks she will benefit by diverting attention from herself by attacking him.
Reality: many, many Puerto Ricans have already migrated to the mainland and many, many more will do so as soon as they can get off the island and as soon as they figure out that a big, huge bailout is not in the offing. Trump is more interesting in upping the military budget. They will go to Florida most likely where there is a large PR population already established and Florida will go for the Democratic Party in the next elections. And this fact, not anti imperialism, is what all the political posturing and theater of the absurd is all about.
Puerto Rico is an island 100 by 30 miles and carries 3 million people. It is not self sufficient–not even remotely like Cuba.
Quite a few good nails in your post. Thank you.
Kent
” have access to food stamps” Food Stamps???
Whenever I see this expression “Food Stamps”, my hair curls. Think about it. Pronounce it loud,taste the expression, bring it into context (any context), and feel free to be sick (sick bag, vomit bag, whatever). What is this ??
Kent
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“The mayor of San Juan is an idiot who could not organize her way out of a paper bag much less inspire anyone else to figure out how to do so for her. Trump is correct—she is a hack who thinks she will benefit by diverting attention from herself by attacking him.”
Where is your source for that smear of the mayor? Your comment reads like trump hasbara. Seen enough websayanim use the same tactics to smear anti zionists to realise what I am seeing here.
I should have posted the “Puerto Rico is Dying” as a separate comment and provided extensive coverage of what it contained, given the level of discourse here now. Here are some excerpts of what that article is about.
“President Trump’s message to Puerto Rico was clear: pay up and drop dead. The island is expected to pay its imaginary debt for the dubious “privilege” of being an imperial colony in the way it’s always done so: in blood. Wall Street’s interests have priority over securing the very survival of nearly four million people.
The president initially denied full federal assistance to the island and refused to suspend the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, or Jones Act, that has for nearly a century strangled commerce to and from Puerto Rico. Because of this stubbornness an obviously colonial World War One-vintage piece of legal protectionism continues to choke the island as its inhabitants are left to fend for themselves. Colonialism is a self-perpetuating state of exception that thrives on crises precisely because the beneficiaries are always the colonizers and their local flunkies who maintain and benefit from the illusion of “self-governance.”
While Homeland Security steadfastly holds on to its refusal to wave the Jones Act, Herr Trump was later forced by public pressure to amend his remarks on aid, and the USNS Comfort hospital ship is now scheduled to arrive on the island in three to five days (as will our bloviating commander-in-chief himself at some point) any help received from the American imperial mainland now carries with it a stigma, a sense of being a discarded, second-hand lifeline. This is extremely revealing. It’s been over a week since Hurricane María cut a path of destruction in Puerto Rico nearly beyond the scope of living memory, a week that passed before Trump made any remarks at all. It was a week filled by hysterics over kneeling, Russia and North Korea, a week of forgetting that Puerto Rico even existed.
American colonialism is not just confined to its territories or its Native American population. A successful empire can choose to either exalt itself to its population, thereby becoming an object of national pride, or hide itself by dulling that population’s senses and intelligence, negating that it has an empire in the first place. The United States pursued the second path. Successfully, I might add. Puerto Rico’s imperial masters also relied on their own profoundly ignorant population on the mainland that, fueled by the systemic racism on which the United States is built on, and a blinding allegiance to patriotism, considered Puerto Ricans to be just another group of Hispanic vermin. To this day nearly half of Americans do not even know that Puerto Ricans are “fellow citizens”, at least in name. And make no mistake. The white supremacist regime that attacks NFL players and Black Lives Matter activists for having the nerve to protest is the same regime that established the fiscal control board, the biggest killer in Hurricane María’s wake. These things are directly related, and the fiscal control board’s austerity measures ensured that it has blood on its hands.
María found the perfect target: an island whose infrastructure was crippled by decades of colonial neglect, the product of an idled and corrupt political class that blindly follows orders from Wall Street and Washington. These quisling parasites, like the island’s cravenly telegenic current governor Ricardo Rosselló, coasted to power on the artificiality of petty political partisanship fostered by the main political parties on the people for decades in order to divide and lord over a population lulled by consumerism, Christian conservatism, and Cold War-era paranoia.
Now that same political apparatus has fallen apart. Long lines await supplies and fuel that are not being delivered. Two deaths were reported at an ICU when its generator failed, drained bone-dry as its diesel fuel never arrived. Governor Rosselló has been busy with a nonstop photo op tour since the hurricane passed. His Facebook page and Twitter account are filled with photos of his smiling face. But it is all smoke and mirrors. More and more mayors are voicing their rage at the lack of supplies. Whole shipments of supplies and fuel await distribution.
The situation has laid bare the reality that there was never a plan put into place. It has also revealed that FEMA has utterly failed in its role. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, acting in every way much more responsibly than our delusional governor, has denounced that FEMA has done the impossible to tie up any aid effort with red tape, asking for interminable memos and paralyzing aid distribution. It is quite telling that at one point in an interview journalist David Begnaud, who’s done a commendable job covering Puerto Rico, briefly mistakenly calls Mayor Yulín “governor”.
This official paralysis and complete disregard for reality often leaves first responders and National Guardsmen mobilized to help with distribution literally empty-handed. And this crass stupidity is not limited to help on the national level. Cuba has offered help in the form of doctors and a brigade of electrical workers to help shore up and rebuild the island’s ravaged infrastructure. Cuba! Yet cruelly, but predictably, the American government denied them entry on political grounds.
FEMA’s (in)actions border on being criminally negligent, even going as far as kicking roughly 400 refugees out of the San Juan Convention Center in order to conveniently take it over as their center of operations alongside the Puerto Rican central government. Federal and local agencies have become shining examples of feckless inaction, fetid bureaucracy, and unfettered bullshit. In typical Trumpist fashion, FEMA’s response has been to accuse the media of biased reporting, but the true bias is self-evident.”
Well done take down of Freeman and the zionazi freakshow he is fronting for.
Morgan Freeman: War Whore
https://www.blackagendareport.com/morgan-freeman-war-whore
“At this point, we discover that the man who plays God on film is, in real life, just an old time, shuffling Uncle Tom, the kind of shameless bootlicker that we hoped had gone extinct. Morgan Freeman says of the United States, “for 241 years our democracy has been a shining example to the world.” Freeman’s slave ancestors must be cursing his name from the grave.
The least dangerous member of the board of the Committee to Investigate Russia is Rob Reiner, the actor and director who used to play the “meathead” on TV’s “All in the Family.” His political family is Zionism. Reiner wants to “eliminate” Hamas, the Palestinian political organization, and charges that Donald Trump’s rich Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has “turned his back on his religion.” But Reiner is just the media connection, like Morgan Freeman, himself
The ideology of the Committee to Investigate Russia comes straight from the CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations, which has vetted every U.S. war since World War Two, and the Pentagon. Former CIA director James Clapper, who lied to the entire world when he told Congress that the government was not spying on the telephones and personal computers of everyone on the planet, sits on the board. He got away with perjury, and now he’s writing Morgan Freeman’s lying script. Max Boot is a rightwing historian with the Council on Foreign Relations who wants to “beef up” the U.S. military. Evelyn Farkas is also on the Council, and is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Norman Ornstein is a scholar at the Republican-dominated American Enterprise Institute. And Charles Sykes is a rightwing commentator.
This is the political company that Morgan Freeman keeps: Zionists, militarists, spies, and rightwing hate-mongers – the real dangers to world peace. When Freeman says that the U.S. is already “at war,” he is effectively demanding an attack on Russia. Under Nuremberg rules, Morgan and others like him are guilty of crimes against peace – which are capital crimes. Freeman is trying to whip up a war frenzy that can only end in nuclear annihilation. That makes Freeman a danger to the human race. A war whore — not God-like at all.”
Hi Vot tak … your last comment went to spam and my finger was too quick … please repost … herb
Excelente Tanto Asi (vot tak, Just So, etc)
I dissed MF (funny how the initials are synchronous, huh??) some days ago but his better brothers of a darker color than I are so much more effective at disciplining their errant one and making the issue clear.
My possibly inflammatory comment was not allowed. Quality Control!
This one is way, way better.
Sometimes my friend, your riddles are just to complicated for me.
Why, is the question.
Nanny-club syndrome, anybody?
Kent
“This one is way, way better.”
No, this one is: https://southfront.org/russia-deployed-s-400-air-defense-system-near-syrias-masyaf/
Read my “comments”, fend of “Trolls” the “hard way” on various forums (this is the mild version)., instead of relegating it to unknown moderators anywhere (sorry Herb).
So, this is a Nanny club IMO, and out of sincere respect for my friend The Saker, and his determination to impose very strict rules for posting etc.. etc… Read them. I do try my very best not to offend these rules in any Major way. (bending sometimes, just a fraction).
However, even though The Saker’s analysis and overall perception of military/Geo-Political issues is very refreshing, down to earth, logical, and medium to long term perspectives excellent (a bit emotional on the short term). The moderation rules are prohibiting/slowing down the development of “warrior”, “fighting skills” amongst contributors/commentators to a degree of sub-subservience (talking to the choir rules) that is outright contrary to learn (from experience, other contributors) basic internet warrior fighting skills to fend of by our-selves, any attempt to disrupt intelligent analysis/discussions. The South Front example above might not be the perfect example (it’s fresh though).
On this Forum/Blog, I do believe that the threshold for commenting is quite high, meaning that, one-liner stupid comment’s to any subject usually hardly ever slip through the net, or even get posted and if it does might be annoying to some, skip it, ignore it. (or kill the messenger if you can spare the time). (The examples from the Saker recently is kindergarten stuff IMO).
What is more challenging is the more sophisticated (time consuming) “Trolls” (hate that word/expression, original Trolls are quite different all though equally stupid and originates from the country where I live).
They, however (if they are let through “The Moderation Gates”), are a real challenge, for moderators and us (mainly us I would suggest).
So let us free, and kill the bastards, honing our skills for future fights anywhere on the internet and beyond.
Honing your skills behind fences, where someone else decide your opponents is/will be fruitless and bring you nowhere.
The above is just my preliminary 2 cent’s for what is worth.
Take Care
Kent
In the light of what’s happening in Puerto Rico, Catalonia and elsewhere, it may seem gauche to speak of brothers in California, quibbling over numbers, like siblings over nothings. Nevertheless, numbers matter in Puerto Rico, Catalonia and everywhere.
I rose at 444, to take advantage of number structural veracity. If we fail to do deal with numbers rightly, numbers will deal with us unsightly.
Number
The number game played in my head
As soon as my body hit the bed
One two buckle your shoe
Three four shut the door
More is less, less is more
Every hair on your head
Is numbered so she said
Even love counted seven
When she made earth and heaven
Astronomical, mathematical
Mystical, practical, astrological
Numbers everywhere I look
Inside every crook and nook
They dance even in my sleep
Start me off counting sheep
Count to ten when I’m mad
Count my blessings when I’m sad
No wonder love is number one
She made numbers just for fun
Two four six eight
Numbers numbers aren’t they great
Take note how numbers dictate the stories of Puerto Rico, Catalonia and California, and everything else. So Bro is not far off when he alerts us to evilist use of numbers. Dennis is not either when he finds numbers in high places like the Trinitarian God.
Numbers bore us with their rarified abstractness, until grounded in our bank account; then they count like life and death. Count Khazar aims to rule the world, using money numbers as his army.
mundanomaniac remarks on Dennis’ obsession with the Zio-Sino connection, as does Leary too. How come we never hear about it? Count Khazar meddles with every country’s numbers, except one: China. Remarkable.
Jews and Jesuits were some of the first westerners allowed into the Forbidden City behind the Great China Wall. Commendable. Red Shield Jews fomented all red revolutions, except one: China. Exceptional.
Google Rothschild, Mao, China, Revolution. Weep and wonder at this new savior of the world, with its obor dreams of salvation for all. When will we learn not to burn? When we can count numbers: 50 million bloodied bodies in Russia? 100 million in China? A thousand million worldwide? Numbers do add up, for good or evil.
Jews had one God. Pagans had many gods. Christians had a Trinity of one and three: individual and community, 1 and 3; 111 and 333, for good measure.
The numerals that come up in my life most are 3 and 9. I was born in 39. Francis was born in 93. My social number begins with 393. I was raised at 309 North 3rd Street. Bro 93 appears as a vineyard cafe brother. 3 + 9 = 12 for zodiac mundanomanic. 13 appears as Sister teranam 13’s womam moon sign. ioan writes poetry like the 3 Graces and 9 Muses. Every one of us is part of the God 3inity and 9 choirs of angels, and Dante’s 9 circles of heaven, purgatory and hell.
All of this and more is found behind the 39 vineyard cafe door. Jesus said: “Knock, and it will be opened.” He was 33 when he died and rose. 3 womem stayed with him to the end, all named Mary–sister, mother and lover. He played with numbers, choosing 12 apostles, 3 pillars in Peter, James and John.
And so on and on. In my life, 3 was given to me by nature, while 7 was gifted to me by fortune. I’m now 77, the luckiest number of all, because I found you, one and all. It’s now fall; and I’m in the fall of my life, a prelude to a vineyard spring of water, rhyme and time.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, 10/1/17 at 7:17 am pacific time, wishing that your life be likewise pacific and terrific
The Danube – From the Black Forest to the Black Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBX1N9LKpB0
The Danube – ……….Englishe version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ntkY-PxnXsAzorka
The decisions by the Spanish government to use the police in this manner is proof of their monumental stupidity, which in itself should be the most important reason for Catalonians wanting to leave.
But please take a look at the brutality of the local Catalan police (Mossos) during the general strike in 2012 and other occasions. It is quite remarkable.
Well, some of those clips are now being passed around in twitter as part of today’s national police charges during the referendum. Because they are especially illustrative of nastiness. Of course there was no international outrage when they actually took place. Why not?
The simple answer is: Because that kind of police behaviour is pretty standard in many places including European countries.
Here are some samples of local Catalan police actions during that general strike, being passed around as current stuff and attributed to national police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFulH9I3buQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLUvH1vSqFA
Just search youtube for “Barcelona 14-N Mossos” Or “violencia policial mossos” to see more samples of the patriotic local police in action.
Nothing new in this, by the way, except that it is happening during a unilateral referendum, rather than happening during a demonstration, and the police is not local but national.
And even that is pretty tame compared with police behaviour in the good old US of A, that shining beacon of freedom and democracy, where you can actually be casually and impunely executed any time anywhere by police on the street, especially if you are black. But that is so common it is no longer news.
And Myanmar is not at all what western mainstream media has told
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-responsible-for-ethnic-cleansing-in-myanmar/5611486
“Myanmar has been targeted with a growing foreign-backed Islamist insurgency in north Rakhine State, where Bengali Muslims are the ethno-religious majority. ”
And less than year ago Reuters had this article:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya/myanmars-rohingya-insurgency-has-links-to-saudi-pakistan-report-idUSKBN1450Y7
““Though not confirmed, there are indications he went to Pakistan and possibly elsewhere, and that he received practical training in modern guerrilla warfare,” the group said. It noted that Ata Ullah was one of 20 Rohingya from Saudi Arabia leading the group’s operations in Rakhine State.
Separately, a committee of 20 senior Rohingya emigres oversees the group, which has headquarters in Mecca, the ICG said. “
Thanks for the heads up, Herb.
Movies of the Semi-Great Depression
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/09/movies-of-the-semi-great-depression/
“95 million Americans are out of the workforce, millions are losing their wholly inadequate Obamacare, half can’t afford a $400 emergency and the Satanic minions in Washington DC just approved $729 million more to move the rubble around in Afghanistan. Trump ups the obscene military budget by $56 billion but the righteous US Congress rebels — and increases it to $80 billion. The American monster is hungry, angry, restless for its war fix — what people will it destroy next: Iranians, North Koreans, Venezuelans? There’s no relief anywhere from the madness of America.
It’s a semi-Great Depression and I’m sometimes asked to “resist” by joining Russophobic “progressives” in rallies against “hate” instead of tying protests to demands like: Medicare for all, gut the Pentagram, abolish the CIA, get out of southwest Asia and break up monopolies like Google and Amazon. Call me when the plan is to hang neocons on meat hooks and bankers on lamp posts while singing “The Night They Drove Old Bridgehampton Down.” Otherwise, I’m doing what my mother and grandparents did for five cents each to briefly escape the real Great Depression — go to the movies. Wanna go with me?”
Film review article. Some not very well known. Here is one of them:
“The Skyjacker’s Tale: Did somebody mention white cops beating black people into giving false confessions? If there was a massacre of white people at a Rockefeller-owned golf course in colonial St. Croix, Virgin Islands in 1972, well, it would be obvious that a local Black Panther organizer must have done it — it just takes a few more beatings to make it true. And even when the cops and prosecutors admit to the torture, well, no problem: the judge lets the case go forward anyway and the all white jury convicts and the defendants go to prison for decades — some are still there — except one, who escapes custody, hijacks an airplane in 1984 to Cuba, serves time for that crime in Cuba and now lives freely there, though still on the FBI’s most wanted list. The skyjacker, Ishmael Muslim Ali, worries in this documentary that Cuba and the US may be getting too chummy and he may get sent back to the belly of the beast. But that’s doubtful with Trump fronting the empire. Bless the empty hole in his chest, Trump’s just not cool like Obama. Trump’s just a flaming siren warning the world, every day, to arm up, be on guard and never trust or cooperate with America.”
Shooting Range Episode # 2
Let’s start with a little Empire poetry that should warm the heart of Dennis Leary:
“OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”
http://www.bartleby.com/246/1129.html Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
Have you ever heard of “Divide and Conquer” sonny boy???
I understand what mundomaniac says about my last Cafe Entry, but he shouldn’t worry about Dennis’ departing on a Slow Train (From Wisconsin) to Vagina……….. Valley and never coming back.
Naw, I just can’t see our OjaiTrumper in one of those pink hats even despite his daily invoking of the Valley he emerged from and wishes to stay in .
Believe you me, mundo and friends (the whole world) The Rhyming Three Timing Timex “can take a licking and keep on ticking”……..well at least until
“Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”
Then the poor Lep-retard will have a frickin’ British Pome heart attack……and I do NOT want that, particularly as I earnestly desire for Trump to Make America Good Again (even Tony Opmoc….Honorary Lepretard……..can’t see the British origins of all our Empire disease cause he’s sitting right in the middle of it……..) by joining with Russia and China and rebuilding a poor miserable world…..PLUS saving Leary’s pension from going “POOF!!”.
I care about that more than he does!
I do not want his demise or departure (not even Elsi’s……ay Querida Mia! Cuanto me cuesta quererte como te quiero!…….but apparently that sad train did finally leave the station after numerous announcements of departure..Ay, ay ay ay! Canta y no llores..) be assured of that!
He has talents and I love them, but most of all I love the fact that he has guts enough (or blindness enough…….) to come forward with occasional sensibly intuitive remarks that are in sharp contrast to the palpable absurdities (I rather prefer my particulars….to any Universals…..I mean theologically that is the biggest joke statement ever…….or even conceivable by ANY other Cosmic Comedian……Man is that uniquely idiotic!) he repeats almost constantly in his stubborn racism against all things Chinese.
As though almost every guest commenter from Pepe Escobar……(Dennis, meet another fellow Lepretard….this one from Down Under …..here…….
/unravelling-the-riddle-of-the-kurds-iraqi-pipedream/#comment-414961
to Jeff Brown to Israel Shamir to Vladimir Putin just can’t seem to come up to speed with the stellar wisdom of the Oracle of Ojai on the pure trap and illusion that HE KNOWS (Show me, Lepretard!!) OBOR, BRI, New Silk Road etc to be!
Please start, Sonny Boy, by showing me and others, including those that have less severe “New Age Bullshit” issues than you do, why it is that almost everything the Empire is doing Is pointedly, provably deployed to STOP “the New Silk Road” ???
Ummmm?? I’m waiting. Is my statement TRUE or UNTRUE???
This one: “almost everything the Empire is doing Is pointedly, provably deployed to STOP “the New Silk Road”
Don’t duck the issue with a bunch of rhyming nonsense, try to concentrate and answer the question that begins: “why it is that almost everything the Empire is doing”
And then, look at your favorite subject in the mirror, and ask yourself “Why am I helping the Empire by being so daft? HOW did that happen?”
I have a fairly good idea exactly how that happened.
Oh yes! Africans and South Americans (who appreciate China’s Win/Win Development is the Name of Peace perspective better than the economic rape conducted by AZE) that tasted the love and freedom must be wrong and our Oracle from Ojai ought to be heeded as to how they err!!.
You see, HIS strategic analysis is better than all those dupes, from Pepe to Putin!
Yeah right!!!
Give me a break! How stupid do you think people are?? Well, sociability does make some people soft on the stupidity and narcissism of others, I will grant you that! I have been friendly with you occasionally, but more love, more friendship is in this post, which may not strip the blinders from your eyes, but may help some others of slightly less far gone tendencies of self delusion than yours to not shoot themselves in the foot with their Gawd-Awful Horrible Aim and strategic judgment.
Now I have things to do, and can’t be here every day for hours on end like our Anti China propagandistand AZ Empire Dupe. I’m not supposed to be the only shooter at the Cafe Shooting Range. It’s Open House and Open Season!
I agree with mundo that Dennis is absolutely welcome and a wonderful addition that strains the patience of some left brain adepts to the point that they skip 100% of what he writes (I used to read 100% ….then 80%….now its a bit less than 50%…time is short……and, in my defense, I have done yeoman Dennis Duty….I would say.) because he does have talents that are missing in many over analytical (observe the first 4 letters of that adjective….lol) types and driving them nuts is not entirely a bad thing. LOL….
But mainly, look at all the bottles and cans he brings to the Cafe Shooting Range!!! No one else comes close!! I do believe we WOULD have to close it down in a week or two if O’Leary were not here! And that would be a sad day.
But you know, the targets are too numerous that he brings, and despite my AK-47, I can’t shoot them as fast as they appear. This is Open Season, y’all.
Pavel (Paul from Down Under) is No Empire Slave or Lepretard. Maybe that’s because of his Chinese wife. Who’d have thunk it?? A wider perspective sharpens the vision?
Maybe there IS a way to overcome East/West Division!
When I leave my AK in the corner, Paul, you are welcome to use it on Dennis Bottles of Glass! Shooters for Freedom, don’t take a Pass!
If Dennis is here with his Empire Ideas Bent, the Range is Open, Shoot Away to Your Heart’s Content!!!
Maybe his strategic/spiritual aim will improve by osmosis, and he’ll snap out of his daffy New Age hypnosis.
By the way, Dennis, in the macrocosm, East and West already met some centuries ago in one country. It’s called “Russia”. And in one household: mine. And in another, down under: Pavel’s.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Sorry, some chores to do, I must now leave for hours the Wonderful Shooting Range and Cafe!
Have a nice day!
I’m down to 10 or less, but then again I haven’t got an AK 47, only a .44 Magnum.
To depict The Dennis would be a multiple faceted task that I’m not up to.
Regards
Kent
“But you know, the targets are too numerous that he brings, and despite my AK-47, I can’t shoot them as fast as they appear.”
Maybe we should hire these two characters (nominal fee).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7QSkI6My1g
Kent
Prisoner of Mother England!!!
Hahahah, this Irish Communist wished for a good laugh – thanks.
Lep-retard tends to put you in the same ad-homo Capitalist clique as Bro.
I’m now tempted to put your, generally interesting, comments on ignore also.
Have a nice day!
Apologies to VT (apart from the “o”) – I had misassigned Bro’s comment (re: Lep-retard) to yourself (oops) & mistakenly imagined you had also gone to the dark side.
This poem below is by Walter de la Mare. He was English and if he was still alive today, he would be 145 years of age. He was born on 25th April, under the sign of Taurus – the bull ! I wanted to find some juicy gossip about his life, but sadly, it appears to have been high in poetic yield, and low on gossip . . .
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier’s boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are–
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Very old are the brooks;
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.
Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve’s nightingales;
We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.
not known to me till now,it’s a beauty, thanks for posting it
Brits clamoring for attention & glory in defeating ISIS.
To use a hackneyed old west metaphor, the jackals really are circling the wagons.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has laughed off the claims of the UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon that the country made a “major contribution” to the campaign against Isis which accidentally appeared amid the considerable progress made by Syrian government forces with Russian aerial support.
en.alalam.ir/news/3062136/Russia-doubts-UK-s-major-role-in-defeating-Isis-in-Syria–Iraq
en.alalam.ir/news/3062196/Hezbollah-says-Israel-pushing-region-to-war
Lebanon’s Hezbollah accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s [regim] on Sunday of pushing the region to war in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and said nowhere in Israel would be safe if such a conflict were to erupt.
Israel does not know where such a conflict would be fought, or who would take part, he added.
In June, Nasrallah said a future Israeli war against Syria or Lebanon could draw thousands of fighters from countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan.
Israel vs Hezbollah 2017-18 would be about like South Korea vs North Korea.
The self-inflicted disaster of such a war makes it untenable as a military option.
Israel is blowing so much smoke up US and others ass, that one of the smoke pipes is going right up their up anus. They believe they can prevail in a war that will, opposite of its intention, utterly decimate the State of Israel as it now exists.
It cannot suppress the 100,000 rockets Hezbollah has waiting to fire into Israel.
Similar to the 100,000 artillery pieces North Korea has to fire into Seoul.
So, Bibi may want to risk all and got down in flames. Trump, his bosom buddy, talks the same talk about Pyongyang.
But cooler heads will prevail. Unless Trump joins in the Tel Aviv lunacy. Then, with US arms joined to IDF, prevailing is a possibility. But Israel will not gain much and will lose much, very much.
At that point, there will be a wide Middle East war. No one can predict the outcome. But it would be catastrophic in dimension. From Lebanon to Iran to Saudi Arabia to Yemen to all the Gulf States, to Egypt. No US base or naval vessel would not be a target. The intent would be to kill off Assad, drive out the Russians and get rid of Erdogan, while trying to decimate the Iranian regime. Those are obsessions of the warlovers in DC and Tel Aviv. Seeing the coming reality of a Russia-Iran-Syrian-Turkey compact for peace and development, who knows how crazed Bibi and weak Trump will act?
discord at the top, mayhaps?
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/10/01/537131/US-Trump-Tillerson-wasting-his-time
US President Donald Trump has suggested that direct communications with North Korea will not resolve the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang, saying that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is “wasting his time” by trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Tillerson was in China to meet President Xi Jinping in order to make preparations for Trump’s state visit to Beijing in November.
To paraphrase Goering’s famous quote: “When I hear the word ‘Rex’, I reach for my dog leash.”
very very strange….uk sends to Syria minimum 40 SAS soldiers plus Toyota armed trucks to work with high tech usa military to search for Osama bin Laden’s son….reason being he is there plotting to attack the west………so claimed…..false flag, genuine, or evacuation or what else??????
This is more about the subject I wasn’t trained in at university, I was doing maths and physics, got a job and they sent me on all these courses whilst I was working for them to eduacate me about the most basic Psychology Techniques. Behaviour Analysis and Behaviour Modification. I didn’t want to lead people, I just wanted to get the new computer stuff to work . My Education was The Best in The World – in England…
This is what happened today when I got out of bed just before midday..
This year, we are not going to Catalonia, but if we were, I would support the Catalonians wanting to vote – regardless of the democratic outcome. It seems to me that The Spanish Government has succeeded in making themselves look complete idiots with their actions likely resulting in the complete opposite of what they are trying to achieve.
Meanwhile in England, right outside our home. I was naked except for my dressing gown…there was a bit of drama, and it went on for over 30 mins. 2 cars almost bumper to bumper. One trying to go up the road, the other trying to go down. Neither would give way, nor get out of their cars to negotiate. I just found it rather funny. At the time, I wasn’t planning to go anywhere, At the time none of our cars were parked outside our house on the road. However, this annoyed rather a lot of people.
If I had wanted to go somewhere, I would have resolved the situation fairly quickly, but I didn’t, so I got my wife to just look, and observe how some people are completely insane.
A woman got out of her car – and screamed at them – Move your cars you Fxxxxxx Idiots…but that had no effect.
And then this little bloke got out of his car – obviously extremely angry and said Move your cars you Fxxxxxx Idiots…Still no effect. So he went back to his car and he got (it was very long and made of metal – looked more like a jemmy than a wheel brace…)
And we both thought – oh shit we do not want blood on the street (our avenue) – nor two completely smashed up cars
They took the hint, backed down, reversed, and let people pass.
I thought well, its not really worthwhile calling the police. They have got better things to do.
If negotaition didn’t work, I would start with a bucket of cat’s piss. I wouldn’t just simply trash both of their cars, well not immediately, and I certainly wouldn’t personally attack them. They both had probably just been released from the local mental hospital.
If I had been more awake, and dressed, I might have done a video of it.
No damage was done, and no one got hurt. However, the bloke who resolved the situation, almost certainly broke the law.
Tony
Evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZw7iX-yeww
Kent
Who would have thunk??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXkd2NyCCE
Kent
Demis Roussos – Eleni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPh5X9uw6c
http://www.neon-nettle.com/news/2844-north-korea-china-s-plot-to-assassinate-kim-jong-un-exposed-in-leak
North Korea’s major ally in the growing World War 3 tensions, China, has been secretly plotting to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un, according to reports. The Chinese Government has been working on a plan to “remove” the North Korean despot to avoid a nuclear war, it has now been revealed.
© Neon Nettle
Just remember all his is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or else msm press, where all lies are true lies & where a new chapter of imaginary unicorn, easter bunny & Mencken-ish hobgoblin sightings is added to the fairy tale day by day, till it’s the size of a volume of an encyclopedia.
Remember the late Binnie?
Remember the forerunner to this one, some dude named Baghdadi?
now we see oz jumping on the bandwagon:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/north-korea-missile-crisis-could-australia-be-targeted-by-kim-jongun/news-story/f6c6f823a7ef8fcd275797939e39db3e
Dimash sigs
Adagio (composer: Albinoni)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zWBZQAq-c
and
Opera 2 (composer: Vitas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anKmU1J0l9g
Sorry my friend. This (these) just doesn’t cut it. I mean, you can’t frikkin do that!!
Here, listen and cry for the shear beauty of emotions touching your mind, endlessly.
“Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ, “Albinoni’s Adagio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5BFIHXs_I
Take Care
Kent
On a side note.
he composition is often referred to as “Albinoni’s Adagio” or “Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, arranged by Giazotto”, but the attribution is incorrect. The ascription to Albinoni rests upon Giazotto’s purported discovery of a manuscript fragment (consisting of a few opening measures of the melody line and basso continuo portion) from a slow second movement of an otherwise unknown Albinoni trio sonata.
According to Giazotto, he obtained the document shortly after the end of World War II from the Saxon State Library in Dresden which had preserved most of its collection, though its buildings were destroyed in the bombing raids of February and March 1945 by the British and American Air Forces. Giazotto concluded that the manuscript fragment was a portion of a church sonata (sonata da chiesa, one of two standard forms of the trio sonata) in G minor composed by Albinoni, possibly as part of his Op. 4 set, around 1708.
In his account, Giazotto then constructed the balance of the complete single-movement work based on this fragmentary theme. He copyrighted it and published it in 1958 under a title which, translated into English, reads “Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a Figured Bass by Tomaso Albinoni”.[1] Giazotto never produced the manuscript fragment, and no official record has been found of its presence in the collection of the Saxon State Library.[2]
Musicologist Muska Mangano, Giazotto’s last assistant, claimed to have discovered a modern but independent manuscript transcription of the figured bass portion and six fragmentary bars of the first violin, “bearing in the top right-hand corner a stamp stating unequivocally the Dresden provenance of the original from which it was taken”.[3] The scholarly consensus is that the Adagio is Giazotto’s composition, whatever source may have inspired him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor
Do I care? No!! The composition speaks for itself, whoever wrote it.
Take Care
Kent
Opera 2 … Alone in my house …
the door slams behind my back and the autumn wind rattles windows,
… the wind cries for me continuously.
There were thunderstorms during the night, and a mist this morning,
The sun got cold long ago.
All my pains are gathering together.
It’s my destiny, and I can’t do anything about it.
(I scream out aloud … going mad)
金曲欣赏】中国好歌曲第二季《轮回》杭盖乐队丨CCTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvW8JEuIo58
Me, and the Devil.
27 club Johnson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCHI23FTP8
Kent
Is obvious nobody can prevent what has happened, ie the re-emergence of the Spanish Civil War, and so it is that LZ proffer’s the film at youtube…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsZJbg8N0s
Which film is an ideal way to celebrate and toast the horrors past and future.
film name is “land and freedom” by KEN LOACH
“film name is “land and freedom” by KEN LOACH”
Which was based in a large amount upon “Homage to Catalonia”.
If you have time the lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V8aV5l5f9k is wild…good old jimmy moglia…
LZ
Nine below zero!!
No further comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBW9hYLsSHE
Kent
Dear Bro,
Thank you for your engaging conversation. You call me “sonny boy.” I don’t think you mean sonny, as in Sonny Liston or Sonny, the son of Don Corleone. Do you mind if I call you “daddy’s boy.”?
And it’s Vulva Valley, not Vagina Valley. Ojai Trumper is a fine phrase, but I would never wear a pink hat, although I do enjoy the “pink moments” we have in Ojai as the sun glances off the northern mountains.
The three timing timex is also an inventive phrase. You sure have the gift of gab, and a way with words. Do you have a bit of the leprechaun in you?
Thanks for Kipling’s poem. I like the idea of you and I as “two strong men who stand face to face” before “God’s great Judgment Seat.”
You say you prefer your “particulars….to any Universals….I mean theologically….” You’re losing me with such oblique language but there’s no mistaking what you mean by “his stubborn racism against all things Chinese.” That, my friend, is a false accusation and slander. Just because I disagree with something does not make it racist. It’s not even up to the standards of an “ad hominem,” although it might qualify as an “ad juvenem.”
This Oracle of Ojai does not resort to ad hominems or racist slander.
Now to the heart of the matter, which you conveniently place in bold lettering: “why is it that almost everything the Empire is doing is pointedly, provably deployed to stop (in capitals) ‘the New Silk Road’ ” ???
It seems you are assuming what needs to be proved. I googled “US stops New Silk Road,” but can find nothing fitting that idea. After searching ten pages, there still was nothing.
I hear nothing about bombed bridges, torn up rails, attacks on workers, cyber attacks on construction or any unlawful attempts to stop obor. The US wants to build its own silk road, which seems like legitimate competition. Isn’t that the way business works? The US is asserting its power over sea lanes but I haven’t heard of it bombing silk roads.
American investors are probably keen on profits from silk roads, whoever builds them. Business is business. Politics is quite another matter, and empire politics still another.
There’s plenty of information from the Larouche and Schiller Institutes on silk roads, but I don’t trust the cultishness of such organizations.
In brief, I see no hard evidence for your unwarranted assertion. Sure, the empire would like to stop all silk roads, except their own. They are doing this anyway, because the deep empire already owns China and its Silk Road.
Did you google “China, Mao, Rothschild, Revolution” as I suggested. There’s plenty of evidence that the Zionists control China, and have done so for a long time. That’s why I refer to a “Zio-Sino” entity. You don’t hear about it because it’s not meant to be heard.
The Zionists have adopted yet another disguise; this time as peaceful saviors, come to uplift all humanity from its misery. Haven’t we heard that before? Who funded the Mao revolution, and the more recent Cultural Revolution? Who funded the Bolshevik revolution, and most every other major revolution?
This new railroad revolution appears to be different, but didn’t the other revolutions seem that way in their promises of salvation which turned out to be slavation, as in “slave”? Untold millions were murdered with these new “silky” dreams of salvation.
As I’ve said a few times, I’m not against fast railroads if they are based on love; real love as specified in the Love Army’s ten commandments of love. But this new silk road of Helda’s is not based on love. It violates every commandment, especially the one against usury.
It will only accelerate the degradation of the earth and exploitation of people; precisely because it is not based on love, despite the silky propaganda to the contrary. Do we really think the Zionist leopard is changing its spots?
You like particulars over universals, so in your particular love for the China tree, you might not see the Universal tree, and mistake the tree for the forest.
I believe we were designed to live in small communities, close to and respectful of nature. Putin termed it “nature-like technology.” We can have the best of both, but only if we change ourselves. Silk roads do nothing to change human nature back to what it was meant to be.
So who is helping empire and who is not? As you suggested, I have looked into the mirror, which tells me I am not helping empire, but helping to stop the war on Russia, and therefore the war on all.
If the whole world stands against me, let it be–I see what I see. Jesus put it this way: “What does it profit you if you gain the whole world, but lose your soul?”
I need to stop at this point to eat and prepare for sleep, but I will continue our conversation later on this topic. Once again, thanks for your passionate enthusiasm and engagement with real issues. It shows true care, which is rare.
Love, Dennis
The Ode Yinon plan for the Middle East is Zionist and has been thwarted by Russia. I have read Mao Tse Deng was a member of the French Club (Free Masons/IMF) but is this true!? Putin states all debts, both Soviet and Russian Federation owing to the French Club have been paid.
What was on course for a one world Zionist government is being broken, and the last two years of Russian and Iran assisting Syria has been of strategic importance.
The New Silk Road is being built for a New Eastern Empire Commonwealth.
Things are moving quickly and we can look forward to a progressive diverse world where trade and commerce reign paramount and the misery of warfare will be likened to that of dragging old heavy rusting anchors.
Terrorism which the West launched as a physiological fear operation to establish the Zionist New World Order is failing rapidly in the Middle East. The Zionist Kalergi Plan for Europe appears to be having some success, but ask this question, and I don’t want to be rude, really I don’t, but what is Europe today, and especially with the EU’s attitude toward the Russian Federation, Europe has shot itself in all its feet.
The Revolution began two years ago, initiated by Russia, and this Revolution is on the roll, rolling along just nicely.
Let us all stand now for the National anthem of the Russian Federation. Let us not forget all who have sacrificed their lives for this Revolution.
MEGA EPIC RUSSIAN Hymn – Worlds BEST National Anthem (Glorious Olympics Opening) Mighty Гимн России
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b270ka2eB_4
The revolution did not start two years ago:
Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return, poll shows
“In April 2005, President Vladimir Putin called the USSR’s collapse “the major geopolitical disaster of the [last] century” in a public address to the Russian parliament. This quote was circulated by the international mass media that claimed that it revealed the Kremlin’s alleged plans to return to socialism. However, the Russian leader has repeatedly rejected these allegations, explaining that he meant the negative effect of radical and quick changes on the lives of everyday people.
In 2015, Putin was interviewed for a documentary and directly stated that Russia had no plans to bring back the USSR, but complained that no one wanted to believe in this. He went on to accuse European governments of confusing modern Russia with its Communist-run predecessor and of sacrificing the interests of common people in post-Soviet republics like Ukraine for the sake of preventing an imaginary threat.”
Don’t expect one any time soon:
List of Russian people by net worth
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the New World Order quickened its agenda.
When it became clear to the Russians that the destruction of Syria was part of the New World Order agenda, and Russia was in a position to take countermeasures, Russia did so, and this was and is the ongoing revolution of two years. If the New World Order is seen as a revolution itself, then what is now countering that can be called a Counter Revolution. If you do not see this, okay. I am not calling politics here, just a uni-polar world has been thwarted and a multi-polar world is now emerging, like the crashing of gears, extremely physical. I do not buy academic nonsense because I can think for myself. If you have something to state, state it clearly yourself … no need to hound me.
No need to worry Paul.
To me it beyond miraculous that having subjugated the USSR they would then take their boot off the neck of Russia. To that extent Syria (& Ukraine) are just extra arenas for the 2 largest arms producers to make more sales.
After all, the best way to profit is to supply both sides:
Russia and Saudi Arabia Agree $3.5 Bln Arms Deal
on condition that Moscow provide Riyadh with transfer of technology and start manufacturing in the kingdom
The marketing effect of Russia’s Syria campaign has been estimated at billions of dollars in prospective contracts
You have some valid very focused points to make a compelling argument, but take a look with wide scope, world wide vision now.
The revolution and counter revolution are theatres of war, so of course there are going to be arms sales, but look at this theatre closely. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are becoming like minded with Russia. Power is drifting Eastward. I admit we may all be duped finally, but I believe the East is very keen to have a state of peace and planned prosperity by manufacturing and trading what people need to make life better. If we are going to be duped and Zionism dominates the world, how are we ever going to be free again and this will be a worry for everybody. Most of the gold in our world is now in the East, meaning economic power is in the East, combined with immense natural resources. The question is, how is the East going to wield their power. There are many theories about the elite, more than enough to confuse, so let us observe real life unfolding dynamics, with a positive outlook.
“If we are going to be duped and Zionism dominates the world, how are we ever going to be free again and this will be a worry for everybody.”
Not by thinking the law of the Capitalist Jungle and the psychopathic 3% will have a care for anything other than themselves:
Dr. Robert D Hare, a criminal psychologist, believes that 3% of top-level management in the corporate environment are likely clinical psychopaths, compared to 1% in the general population.
“Psychopathic? The word can send shudders down your spine, yet alone inspire you to become a visionary and effective leader.
But it’s true…
There are psychopaths out there who function normally in society, and they’re likely to be high-powered individuals.
Dr. Robert D Hare, a criminal psychologist, believes that 3% of top-level management in the corporate environment are likely clinical psychopaths, compared to 1% in the general population.
Top 5 Psychopathic Traits of Effective Leaders
Great leaders have qualities that attract, inspire and move people, and they just so happen to be the same ones that psychopaths have. These are the top 5 psychopathic traits of effective leaders.
1. Reward and Goal Driven
Effective Leaders – Reward & Goal Driven
Psychopaths are incredibly reward driven, and will be 100% focused on their mission to attain that reward.
Dr. Kevin Dutton in his book ‘The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success‘ describes a research study where the performance of psychopaths and non-psychopaths was compared on a learning task.
It showed that psychopaths learn far more quickly compared to us normal folk when given a financial incentive.
However, when the experiment was changed such that the incentive was replaced with a small electric shock, their learning rate equaled the normal test subjects. The findings reflect a difference in mindset, and that can be easily adopted.
When you think about a task or a goal, do you think about the pain and hassle?
Dutton states that psychopaths will “focus on the prospect of gain rather than that of loss”, and therein lies a difference between psychopaths and us. Effective leaders will set a vision, a goal, and not worry about the obstacles.”
Guess who are the obstacles
You mean normal people are in the way (the obstacles) of the psychopaths.
Fifty years ago the psychopath had not been identified and certainly not understood.
The human race is on a steep learning curve especially since the internet and The Saker’s Cafe has educational opportunities.
Psychopaths are indeed a problem, but their symptoms will be wide ranging from mild to severe, and this will cause arguments within their ranks.
All life is dynamic, forever changing with chaos theory here and there, Murphy’s Law, and more.
Present a positive outlook for yourself and others, which is what my first posting in this thread is all about, and then you came along !
“You mean normal people are in the way (the obstacles) of the psychopaths.”
No – in the context the “obstacle” phraseology is more akin to an “object”:
as a mere convenience for them – to parasitically feed off us to increase their own reward, including setting groups of us against one another by various mechanisms.
All of the neocons fit the bill, all of the Chinese & Russian etc billionaires fit the bill & their enabling framework is Capitalism (supported, practically, throughout the World by the buinsess-political class).
Realisation is the first step – hope can only come later.
Maybe there is no hope. To possibly forestall future wasteful conversation, let me ask you a question – could you envision yourself with a $billion dollars in the bank while your neighbours went to a foodbank?
Well Dennis, I never put you on ignore, however do generally skip most of your comments but never because I find them (or you) puposively offensive.
With some decent reasoning I enjoyed your present post but there are (in my opinion) still gaping holes, e.g.
“Business is business. Politics is quite another matter”
Some other questions re: Catalonia
http://theduran.com/the-catalan-referendum-is-a-classic-bait-and-switch-operation-by-barcelona/
Not everyone is voting—many people are abstaining from voting so this 90% figure wanting independence means what in terms of the desires of the whole population of Catalonia?
Now, does Catalonia have an army? No. So how are they going to seize state power?
Is this a form of ethno nationalism in a Euro disguise?
Is it just me or are other people also confused about the arguments conflating Franco with the current Central Government in Madrid? Being heavy handed in 2017 is not the same as bringing in the Fascist killing fields of 1938.
So how is the central government oppressing the Catalans? And what is the program of the Catalan opposition movement? What are their demands? What is the kind of society they want to have as opposed to what they have now that the Central Government is somehow blocking?
t13
“Not everyone is voting—many people are abstaining from voting so this 90% figure wanting independence means what in terms of the desires of the whole population of Catalonia?”
90% of voters said ‘Yes’ to independence from Spain – Catalan government
https://www.rt.com/news/405303-catalonia-independence-referendum-results/
“Out of the 2,262,424 ballots that were not seized, 2,020,144 were YES votes, 176,566 were NO votes, 45,586 in blank and 20,129 null votes”
— Catalan Government (@catalangov) October 1, 2017
Of Catalonia’s 5.34 million voters, this represents a turnout of around 42.3 percent, excluding those whose ballots were confiscated and people who were prevented from voting by police.
The massive police crackdown “prevented” an estimated 770,000 people from voting, Catalan government board member Turull said during the vote result announcement.”
That leaves roughly 2 1/4 million who didn’t vote or whose ballots were stolen, assuming the 770k were only those physically blocked from voting and not also those whose ballots were stolen.
Garrie has a somewhat different take on the Catalan independence than that of the Korybko article you linked.
Spanish PM says “there was no referendum in Catalonia” – Madrid has passed a point of no return
http://theduran.com/spanish-pm-says-no-referendum-catalonia-madrid-reached-point-no-return/
See also this article for a third pov:
Catalan Independence: 5 Things to Think About
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/10/catalan-independence-5-things-to-think.html?m=1
Thanks Vot Tak- this answered my question about the armed forces and the intentions of the folks behind the independence movement .It looks as if the real split in Catalonia is between the people who showed up to vote and those who could vote but voted “no” by staying home.
The real split is probably more like a 45 to 50 split in the whole voting population of Catalonia which, of course, includes many non Catalans who in the current atmosphere are probably laying low.
wow……so nato “encouraging”separation for its own objectives…..payback for Spain permitting Russian naval fleet to be refuel’d on its way through to Syrian operation in some way?Hmmm.
Russian Navy (Moscow Never Sleeps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZti4M16uvk
and Moscow visuals …
Я люблю тебя Москва (Moscow Never Sleeps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AH_MfdpGVo
Moscow Niights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KairmsARpyo
It’s All Good!
We’re getting down to brass tacks.
I give way and let Morgan’s brothers
Righteous thinkers, brilliant blacks
Slap his sorry Empire butt. My druthers,
Whenever I have them, always yield
To the better versed, the better half
Of humankind or experts in their field.
The tension upsets you? Ha! I laugh
And do not mind the rebuke of Kent.
In the visual realm we can connect,
Our writings just puzzle the other!
Patience! Ask a question and reflect
Mystery is not the goal. See, brother
And take aim with camera and mind
And I will do the same with sounds
And words whose order I can’t divine!
Meanwhile, Dennis and I may joust
Over his connecto-history blunders
And nonsense my brother espoused,
From sex to trains and even numbers,
But what’s really nothing short of odd
Is his stance that’s anti-dog, a habit
Of reversal that makes a mutt of God!
Who, by his account should be Mother,
And not Pater. Me? I am much amused
By the thought that The Absolute or other
Cosmic mind is of patriarchy accused!
Meanwhile back at the ranch and my home on the range, let’s leave no Stone unturned and check in with Roger and his testimony before Congress on Russia-gate and the treason of the liars and fools (worse than Morgan Freeman…because they know better but don’t care) that may yet kill us all:
https://stonecoldtruth.com/roger-stone-official-statement-to-congress-on-russian-hacking/#.Wc_g5e5aUrl.email
A nice excerpt:
“I am most interested in correcting a number of falsehoods, misstatements, and misimpressions regarding allegations of collusion between Donald Trump, Trump associates, The Trump Campaign and the Russian state. I view this as a political proceeding because a number of members of this Committee have made irresponsible, indisputably, and provably false statements in order to create the impression of collusion with the Russian state without any evidence that would hold up in a US court of law or the court of public opinion.”
Another:
“The mantra-like repetition of the claim by our vaunted 17 intelligence agencies that the “Russians” colluded with the Trump campaign to affect the 2016 election, does not make it so. These are, after all, the same entities who insisted the North Koreans would not be able to launch a viable rocket for 3-5 years, that insisted Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD, that there was no torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and that the government had no bulk data collection program, until Edward Snowden revealed otherwise. Our intelligence agencies have been politicized. I realize they are deeply unhappy over President Trump’s refusal to expand the proxy war in Syria and their failure to obtain the no-fly zone promised to them by Hillary Clinton, which would be an open invitation for World War III. That the intelligence agencies have continued to leak, to the detriment of President Trump, in violation of the law, is proof positive of their politicization. Members of this Committee have made three basic assertions against me which must be rebutted here today.”
and it ends on this note:
“Based on what we know now, it is clear that there was a foreign nation which was colluding with a presidential campaign in an attempt to influence the outcome of the election. Therefore, I strongly urge this Committee to investigate the numerous, publicly documented contacts between Ukraine and the Clinton campaign, particularly in light of recent public reports that Ukraine is now providing sophisticated missile technology to North Korea.
Please do not continue to perpetuate falsehoods here today.”
Stone says the Congress refused to allow the hearing where he appeared to be open and public and refused to make the transcript publically available. Therefore, he himself went public with it on INFOWARS in this 23 minute taped statement:
https://youtu.be/clWvLVWu9t8
Perhaps Dennis and I can agree that Trump just may not shoot himself and the Planet Earth in the foot with a few tens of thousands of nuclear missiles, if less than perfect beings like Roger Stone keep improving their aim and Dennis improves his vision of who is in a cult and whose word he is going to take for repeating such stupidly uninformed gossip coming from the Cultish Cathedral of St John the Divine in NYC one of whose top US Cardinal declared in the 1980’s “We will set ‘the Jews’ (ADL) upon Mr LaRouche.”
So, Dennis, no offense, but when it comes to anti-zionism you are a bit mixed up. It’s all good. It’s inexperience, and that can be cured with more experience, like revisiting the talk the Old Man gave down in Alabama at the invitation of Civil Rights heroine Amelia Buynton Robinson. Our skilled poet of Love Phillipa connected to that speech, posted here not long ago…..in regard to the Talent every human being is born with, and in particular that which MLK developed to a much higher degree than most. You didn’t watch it? Watch it and then try repeating the Zionist ADL created “cult” bullshit.
I am not about shooting you, but about improving your aim, and making sure more of your toes are spared.
EXCLUSIVE: How Did Outnumbered Russian Military Police Unit Repel Al-Nusra Ambush in Idlib, Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtcAMHWbIc
Now before the healthy 95 year old is no longer available for you to get a little better acquainted with, while he’s still breathing and working effectively, let me bring his experience right up to date in a crucial matter that might even focus Dennis Leary, and cause him to pause in repeating Empire propaganda about the man:
I put this in the context of Robert Mueller’s assignment on behalf of the AZE to decapitate the US Presidency.
Now, just who do you think, Dennis, might be uniquely qualified to defend that institution, by way of taking everything that Empire could shell out, and still be fighting today, while old enough to be your father???
Here’s a clue from a link to the “Mueller Report”, which I will provide below. You see our 95 year old statesman survived an assassination attempt by Mueller’s masters in the AZ oligarchy and Mueller’s legal frameup, and that just might be relevant and useful to know, for people who havem’t quite yet abandoned another target of Mueller, President Trump:
“In recent weeks, organizers for the LaRouche movement have been repeatedly told by citizens they meet: “It looks like President Trump is getting the ‘LaRouche treatment.’” The two men could not be more different in station, or cultural and intellectual achievement. LaRouche is a world-historical genius in the mold of Gottfried Leibniz. But, both men touched what has amounted to the third rail of American politics after Franklin Roosevelt’s death. They threatened the post-War Anglo-American British imperial system. LaRouche did so directly, continuously, and explicitly by name. Trump has done so implicitly, by rejecting perpetual war, seeking better relations with Russia, calling for imposition of Glass-Steagall banking separation, endorsing what he refers to as the American System of political economy, and promising massive infrastructure development and a modern manufacturing platform for productive jobs.
In both cases, as we shall see, the British explicitly demanded scalps, based on a perceived threat to them, ,most specifically located in the desire for a collaborative relationship with Russia and an end to the “unipolar” framework of relationships between nations. In both cases, a controlled media unleashed an incessant barrage of ugly, salacious, and defamatory coverage, day-in day-out, to create the popular conditions for a criminal prosecution. While there were and are many other players in these Kabuki dances—compromised and terrorized politicians and judges, and an intelligence community which functions as the gendarme of our Orwellian police state—the blunt instrument chosen for the hit was Robert Mueller. Along the way, between the two assignments, Robert Mueller played a hugely significant role in covering up the Saudi/British role in the murders of almost 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, and the wholesale destruction of the United States Constitution which followed in its wake—a role which, if thoroughly examined, constitutes obstruction of justice, among other crimes.
This dossier will walk you through Mueller’s career based on what is readily and publicly available. It is a trail of prosecutorial misconduct, including what former Senator Bob Graham calls “aggressive deception” of the U.S. Congress and the public concerning the events of September 11, 2001, and includes a major role in the creation of the post-9/11 surveillance state which has eviscerated and destroyed the Fourth Amendment and the rest of our Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Those who work inside our modern Leviathan can surely point to other malfeasance, and we invite you pile on—please, expose it. You owe no less to your oath to the Constitution of the United States.
The LaRouche Case—An Attempted Murder and then a Legal One
On August 27, 1982, a Top Secret letter was sent from the British government to the FBI. That letter itself remains classified to this day, but it is clear from the FBI’s response to it, from its unclassified attachments, and from subsequent actions, what the British were demanding. On September 24, 1982, under the subject-heading “Re: Lyndon LaRouche and the Executive Intelligence Review,” FBI counterintelligence chief James Nolan responded to the British demands as follows:
“We would like to reiterate our conclusion that, while many of the harassment activities of the NCLC and the themes promoted by NCLC publications, such as EIR, are often propitious to Soviet disinformation and propaganda interests, there is no direct evidence that the Soviets are directing or funding LaRouche or his organization. It is entirely plausible, however, that the Soviets have developed or may be developing sources within the NCLC who are in a position to interject Soviet-inspired views into NCLC activities and publications. It is likely that the Soviets will attempt to capitalize on or exploit NCLC sentiments that are parallel to or promote Soviet foreign policy objectives. At the same time, the Soviets will probably have to balance the advantages of exploiting the NCLC with the dangers of being associated with a bizarre and often unpredictable organization. For your information, under the domestic security guidelines set forth by the Attorney General, the FBI does not have an active investigation of Lyndon LaRouche or the NCLC.”
As we shall see, this is the same British smear, in the same British speculative language, used to paint Donald Trump with the “Russian dupe” brush. That allegation, of activity on behalf of a foreign power, the Russians, unleashed a full spectrum of intelligence agency weapons from Constitutional constraints under the Reagan Administration’s Executive Order 12333 and subsequent renditions governing classified counterintelligence activities, particularly the subsequent versions of E.O. 12333 put into place after September 11, 2001.”
https://larouchepac.com/20170927/robert-mueller-amoral-legal-assassin-he-will-do-his-job-if-you-let-him
These are deep waters, Dennis but they are worth swimming. The worst thing is to not even try, and let Mueller do his job for the Empire.
I know quite a bit about it, because I was there for a lot of it. Not nearly as much as the author of the report or any number of others that could do a better job of it here than I can. I am here, however. But I will yield to better qualified people that know more detail than I do should they post their comments.
However, if they don’t appear on this you might be stuck with me. They are spread rather thin! But one the younger fellows, of your acquaintance just returned from a major conference in China, at the invitation of the Chinese government. Let me review his report first, though, before running it by you.
China’s old Silk Road revival: hi-speed trains, massive skyscrapers and free-trade zones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DosxS4Iofek
Beautiful Russian Folk Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJR3OALmlSw
Two Beautiful Russian Waltzes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klDsAkE9g5Q
Russian Dance – Берёзка
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFdLnwZJzgg
“Soldier’s dance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fTVnhg7S0
Kosovan politicians can fight just like Ukrainian MP’s
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940010/Kosovo-politicians-fight-live-national-TV.html
Gold Reserve exposes Giant Gold Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdg1kvv__X8
Houthis Shoot Down US MQ-9 Reaper Drone in Yemen (VIDEO, PHOTO)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201710021057865068-yemen-houthi-militants-us-drone/
“A video of Houthi militants downing a US surveillance drone in Yemen has emerged in the internet.
The footage, published by Yemen’s Al-Masirah television network, shows an anti-aircraft missile launched by Houthi forces destroying the MQ-9 Reaper, an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
At the end of the video, a crowd of people is seen standing next to the burning wreckage of the drone.
China’s Xinhua News Agency quoted a statement by the Houthi group which controls the Yemeni capital Sanaa as saying that “the drone, a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, was shot down by a guided missile fired from our Rocketry Force.”
“The drone was most likely doing a regular spy mission over the capital,” the statement said.”
Independence of Catalonia is backed by
– Israel
– Nato
– Soros
= NWO
http://www.voltairenet.org/article198106.html
https://www.globalresearch.ca/catalonia-independence-five-things-to-think-about/5611607
Google’s New Search Engine Bias is No Accident
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/10/googles-new-search-engine-bias-is-no-accident/
“Alternet has gone public with concerns about the way Google and Facebook have limited traffic to its website and, more generally, undermined access to progressive and independent media.
Its traffic from web searches has dropped precipitously – by 40 per cent – since Google introduced new algorithms in the summer. Other big progressive sites have reported similar, or worse, falls. More anecdotally, and less significantly, I have noticed on both my own website and Facebook page a sharp drop in views and shares in recent weeks.
“Bad advice”, “wrong-headed”, “clumsy”, “failure to understand”. Alternet itself is the one that has misunderstood what is going on. There is nothing accidental or clumsy about what Google and Facebook are doing. In fact, what has happened was entirely predictable as soon as western political and media elites started raising their voices against “fake news”.
That was something I and others warned about at the time. Here is what I wrote on this blog late last year:
But the claim of “fake news” does usefully offer western security agencies, establishment politicians and the corporate media a powerful weapon to silence their critics. After all, these critics have no platform other than independent websites and social media. Shut down the sites and you shut up your opponents.
Google and Facebook have been coming under relentless and well-documented pressure from traditional media corporations and the political establishment to curb access to independent news and analysis sites, especially those offering highly critical perspectives on the policies and behaviour of western corporations and state bureaucracies. These moves are intimately tied to ongoing efforts to spread the dishonest claim that progressive sites are working in the service of Russia’s Vladimir Putin in his alleged attempts to subvert western democracies.
Shadowy groups like PropOrNot have been springing up to make such wildly unsubstantiated claims, which have then been taken up as authoritative by traditional corporate media like the Washington Post. It is noticeable that the list of sites suffering sudden downturns in traffic closely correlates with the progressive websites defamed as Putin propaganda outfits by PropOrNot.
Fake news can be found across much of the media spectrum: in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, Guardian, as well in Donald Trump’s tweets. It has existed for as long as powerful interests have dominated the media and its news agenda – which is since the invention of print. Fake news cannot be defeated by giving greater powers to huge media conglomerations to decide what people should hear. It is defeated by true media pluralism – something we have barely experienced even now, in this brief heady period of relative online freedom.
Alternet is treating Google and Facebook, and the powerful corporate interests behind them, as though they can be tamed and made to see sense, and persuaded that they should support progressive media. That is not going to happen.
Like the media barons of old, who alone could afford the economies of scale necessary to distribute newspapers through delivery trucks and corner shops, Google and Facebook are the monopolistic distribution platforms for new and social media. They have enormous power to decide what you will see and read, and they will use that power in their interests – not yours.
They will continue to refine and tighten their restrictions so that access to dissident media becomes harder and harder. It will happen so subtly and incrementally that there is a real danger few will notice how they have been gradually herded back into the arms of the media corporations.”
Cheb Khaled – Aicha (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8O1F61uXE
The velocity of the Fake One Eye (Mon-eye ie the Euro, the Dollar the Pound Sterling) may be slowing to a crawl, but the velocity of trains and trains of thought is certainly not!
But there is no time (for me this morning) to delve into the particular role of John Train in all of this. That’s in the links provided last night.
What Is more germane at the moment is the Catholic cult and their influence in the world at this moment in numerous instances, but I only have time to look at a few.
I already mentioned the Cathedral of St John the Divine in NYC and their working relationship with Zionism and the ADL.
I don’t buy that everything about the Roman .(…er Frankish, apparently….) Church is negative in history. I don’t yet subscribe to the idea that the Florentine Rennaissance was a disaster for mankind. Nicholas Cusanus and his method of “Learned Ignorance” resonates, as does his attempted organizing of peaceful coexistence among the 3 Abrahamic religions at the Council of Florence.
It would be quite difficult, well-nigh impossible for me to accept the idea that DaVinci and Raphael di Sanzio were up to no good.
Yet I do not trust the present Pope and Church further than I could throw them, and there are an extremely limited number of but concrete examples I would provide today of their former or present influence that rings alarm bells, for me, as well as some Catholics, like Leo Zagami, in much, much more of an insider perspective:
1. Ours Truly, the Love Army Commander.
2. Steve Bannon
3. Webster Tarpley, a long time (former) associate of Lyndon LaRouche who had a weekly spot on Radio Vatican for many years.
What is interesting is the current or former influence of the Vatican in all three cases, and the common feature of all three of these persons in opposition to China, but more specifically to the New Silk Road….which would not be “controlled” by China, contrary to Leary’s Sino-phobia.
For today’s purposes I will leave Tarpley aside. There is a lot I do not know, but there is also a lot I do know about that case.
Steve Bannon was never on my radar until L445 described him as a “Pale Rider” hunting down the MSM, with the intent to “destroy them”. That interested me. I listened to a couple 30-40 minutes of old videos of his grass roots organizing in “fly over country”….so far so good but subsequently things surfaced that caused concern and a lot more caution.
Here ya go, right up to date, to the minute:
Bannon Mobilizes Economic Warfare on China, While LaRouche Mobilizes the West To Save Itself by Joining the “New Silk Road Spirit”
https://larouchepac.com/20171002/bannon-mobilizes-economic-warfare-china-while-larouche-mobilizes-west-save-itself-joining
a bit of a bitcoin ditty
by special dispensation
of every single nation
if you have but little wit
your left hand hold’s one bit
of bitcoin the other’s in the right
and it’s all the same day or night
for its conveyed away via satellite
to your dearest sweetheart
from whom you’ll never part
witty ditty
i like your bitcoin ditty
genuine and classic witty
would add my humbly part
hoping not falling apart :
take the bitcoin in your hands
if you can, show your friends
close your palm, open quick
then try again in a week
maybe you can buy a chick
now you see it on the floor
then you see it no more
disappearing with the beam
bye, bye, my sweet dream…
I find it highly disturbing the number of media assets pre-positioned in Las Vegas for the shooting at the country music festival last night, in particular Alex Stone of ABC News reporting with great glee multiple shooters on the 11 pm ABC radio news who just happened to be in Las Vegas and staying down the street Mandalay Bay? And how is it that he just happens to be at every major incident over the last few years reporting as events unfold? This stinks to high heaven! And yet no one questions these media whores as to how they come to be there at just the right time? Oh sure!
There was a terrorist attack in Edmonton, Canada the previous day. Except instead of showing how weak, unprepared and vulnerable we are against terrorist attacks, it seemed to end up proving that properly trained police officers can successfully respond to terrorist attacks. Which would make me feel safer as a citizen, as opposed to more threatened, anyway.
Here’s more info on the Edmonton attack:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3779454/edmonton-terror-attacks-mike-chernyk/?utm_source=Homegnca-bc&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014
Looking at the two events together points with greater certainty at cui buono? I think.
Notable components of Edmonton attack:
– the perpetrator is a refugee from Somalia who was investigated by RCMP in 2015 for radical rhetoric, then released for lack of evidence. His info was disseminated to intelligence and law enforcement agencies after this 2015 investigation.
– the attack happened during a CFL football game, which was Canadian Armed Forces appreciation night. Chief of Defense staff General Vance did the coin toss at the start of the game, I read? Can’t find the link now.
Found it. From the Canadian Press:
” It was military appreciation night. Canada’s chief of defense staff, Gen. Jonathan Vance conducted the pregame coin flip and two CF-18 fighter jets did a fly-past before kickoff. More than 800 Boy Scouts were expected at the game and many planned to camp out on the field afterward.”
Listen to audio of the vegas business at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-otJ1LJGzcc (at about 2 minutes 15 + seconds) and you tell me that’s not a belt fed weapon. my bet is M240… the bursts are far too long for any clip I ever saw…
They blather now about all the guns the cat had. I don’t buy the story – it doesn’t fit the observations.
There was one gun. NATO issue, and description at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun
Say it ain’t so.
LZ
“They” are promoting the “modified automatic rifle/sub-machine gun narrative” on MSM in order to pre-silence critics who actually knows guns.
Clip would have had to be at least 50 cm. for the continuous firing in the various video-clip’s on-line.
Never seen one of these. Have you? Belt feed, yes. Many options. Good catch btw.
Take Care
Kent
This vegas shooting leaves a lot of questions.
The more when I hit upon these eyewitnesses stories: http://yournewswire.com/hotel-guest-las-vegas-shooter/
Still not sure what to think about it. The proposed killer doesn’t seem to fit such a profile as to ‘well, let’s shoot a lot of people today’.
Cheers, Rob
Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport pointed out this YouTube video. It is from inside the Bellagio Hotel, reporting on shooting there. Shots fired through the front door. Hotel on lockdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_gS9ythDQ
This handout photograph released by ‘This Is Navalny Feldman’ shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sitting on a desk in his office in Moscow on July 7, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
(Numerologists will recognise the significance of the date, 7,7,2017)
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/29/536906/Russia-Moscow-Opposition-Navalny
Navalny Feldman and Alexei Navalny or is it Alexei Navalny Feldman.
Feldman, where have we heard that name before … (BBC, London)
Marty Feldman – the railway carriage …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcntOrHTeBA
Keywords are “Actor” … “Confuser” … “Annoyer”
The name Feldman has disappeared here … Why ?
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/10/02/537263/Russia-opposition-leader-Alexei-Navalny-jail-sentence
The Marty Feldman family name is traced back to Kiev.
Martin Alan “Marty” Feldman was a British comedy writer, comedian, and actor, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. Feldman was born on 8 July 1934 in the East End of London, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine, Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer.[
From Shakespeare’s Macbeth, 1605:
“Yet doe I feare thy Nature, It is too full o’ th’ Milke of humane kindnesse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgI3gU_KolM
Take Care
Kent
Laughing At Russia In PACE: No, You Cannot Vote. (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNdhBnXxERo
The Collapse of The Soviet Union – A Documentary Film (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYD6ouVHXbo
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/10/in-donbass-russia-hides-more-forces.html
the “fantasy” of the ukraine assessment of presence of Russian military in the Donbas-on the other hand, I really hope all that stuff is there.
JJ, I am laughing so much my guts ache, thanks for this …
so here is my reply …
Гимн России
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b270ka2eB_4
wow, thank you….my mrs is from Krym….hope they get their Scythian gold back from Netherlands Ukraine….just like Russia might get their 3b loan repayment back…and Poro’s bodily ashes might be driven over the Kerch bridge one day and cast to the Sea of Azov…….
@Pavel (if I’m correct?)
I’ve never seen this before, and I’m not familiar with the Russian anthem being not Russian.
But I like to add that this performance is simply awesome.
Ten Beautiful metro stations (Subways) of Moscow, Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7j__ldj-U
Bro, I didn’t mean to disparage Lyndon Larouche. I only said that his organization strikes me as a little cultish. I’m sure he is doing much good.
I am skeptical of Helga Zepp because of her China connections, and the German influence, although I can’t recall now why. Please don’t accuse me of being racist; it’s merely my intuition and feeling.
I appreciate your linking Lyndon to Trump. Despite all his deficits, I like Trump, and include him in my “field effect” of love whenever I can. As for Mueller, evil as he is, I also give him the love treatment, according to the dictum of Jesus: “love your enemies.”
I like your anti-empire passion, but I think sometimes your passion is your karma, running over your dogma. I’m not anti-dog; I’m anti pet-dog. In a way, though, you’re right: there would be no dogs if we did not domesticate wolves. Your poem of “reversal that makes a mutt of God” is uncommonly astute; I doubt anyone else catches the reversal of God and Dog, in the order of the letters; and the reversal of mater and pater. Why not God the Mother? It would soften his hard hearted patriarchy persona.
I watched your link to Roger Stone, and enjoyed every moment of it. Now there’s a man who withstands empire with reason and grace. Trump does have a friend in him.
You reminded me that I reminded you of the Zionist China connection. You never replied to that point. I also answered your question that you put in bold print and repeated three times, with great energy and passion. But again, you never said “boo” about it.
Please review my comment here at this cafe on Oct. 1 at 9:46 pm for more particulars. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and passion, but sometimes you out-trump Trump in pushing language over the edge into outlandishness. It makes you all the more lovable and entertaining; and contrasts nicely with my style which is more restraining.
I get nervous when these cafes reach the end of their days; my comment might get swamped in time’s wake–as in a boat’s wake and an Irish wake. If it makes us come awake, for the sake of love, that ain’t no fake but love water’s sweet lake. I’m a terrible poet and I know it; next to you and ioan, and all the stars of wisdom here in this vineyard of visionary missionaries.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted 6:33 am, on Oct. 3, to tease Bro with 3’s for community…
“It would soften his hard hearted patriarchy persona.”
to me you surely miss Bro’s, about the Aquarius’ model male (spiritually)
Bro’s anima embraced by him his russian woman mystery.
As I said, referring to Jews and Chinese you are to me a unconscious
(therefore obsessed) seer… and Bro preferes the conscious seeing,
why I only can dig you with him, in my cordially distance to both of you.
These reflections to me are carrying ones like in Germany those
in the times of Goethe and the Romanticans about poesy, God, wold and life.
Denis me to you:
“As I said, referring to Jews and Chinese you are to me an unconscious
(therefore obsessed) seer…”
and unconsciousness means that you are
a puppet of an archetype and meme which conveys not ‘clean’ perceptions
but in the more of cases projections, well-intended projections in my apperception
I’d spent 10 years studying Mao Tse Tung some 40 years ago, a teacher of pure heart,
limited human being as you and me and much more …, founder of a miracle of national
sovereignety in chinese spirit, (never crossed the path of any notewothy ‘khasar’, your political chamber, Denis, to me is a mess, while your heart’s chamber to me is clean like a child to me appearing clean
like a Vineyard median consoler – but that might be my projection
anyway, this individual spiritual Vine, this Yard produces facing the world, is a thingy of itself which I love
and all Vineyardians, trolls included, may be embraced in this remarcable week of Venus f***ng Mars from behind … while behind the ancestors are sending the ‘gods’ of God (Psalm 82)
No hope without God touching your heart
For German reading Vineyarder: https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2017/10/2.html
Us– Anglos (+ me from my English teacher Herr Schwarz, so long for tomorrow …)
“As I said, referring to Jews and Chinese you are to me a unconscious
(therefore obsessed) seer… and Bro preferes the conscious seeing,
why I only can dig you with him, in my cordially distance to both of you.”
Nailed it right there you did. Couldn’t have done it better (or even close) in a week or more, and it still would have been a very long post.
Take Care
Kent
The hand of evil stirs the pot all over the world—an account of a Rohingye massacre of Hindu villagers:
https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/hindu-refugees-recount-yebawkya-attacks
This is the short history of the rohingye in Mayanmar…. the British armed certain of them to fight the Japanese in the 1940’s; however, they used the arms to massacre ( up to 20,000) Buddhist villagers and seize their lands under cover of the chaos of WWII fighting in that area. This account is per what Burmese are taught and remember–sorry, no sources for this account.
‘The hand of evil stirs the pot all over the world’
… wherever is a crack, they colonize around national, regional,
fan-ual … borders right until into the kitchen of us families and bedrooms
and our Uranian Zeitgeist = ‘open all Borders’ for minorities
is commanding till Summer 2019
alas, this is normal infatuation of us mankind, but
with our leaders each one of ourselfs can be moved above all that profiteering by chaos of minorities, managed by lawyers and PR- devils of all kinds of ‘identity’ miscreations, being it Kurds-, Catalatian- or, God forbid, Bavarian crazies.
Therefore the most important question, apart of one’s own heart, seems to me: whom to follow. To a lot
of us the answer is: Saker, VVP, and those who showed us the way to be above being pawns in a game, but being in duty as scout, officer, specialist, and be it so, sacrificer, wherever the gods place one; a lot of needed sacifice is the daily duty at one’s prong, I deem.
And Mark Zuckerberg has listened to his masters.
The Facebook account of the vlogger/commentator ‘Syriangirl’ has been removed after criticism on the Kurdish referendum: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/facebook-blocks-syriangirls-account-after-criticism-kurds/ri21087
I can recommend her YT channel. The link is in the article.
(I heard some rumours about Mark Zuckerberg maybe running for president in the future. What’s the next step, Miley Cyrus?)
Compare this Syriangirl with the strange twitter account of Bana Alabed from Aleppo, so cherished then in the MSM: https://twitter.com/alabedbana?lang=en
Hmm.
1. What are the odds, that in Aleppo looking like Dresden after WW2, daily electricity and WiFi are available for her?
2. What are the odds, that a 7 year old Syrian girl can write flawless English?
3. Isn’t it odd, that her twitter account is registred in the UK?
I smell psyop.
Dear mundanomaniac,
I didn’t make myself clear: “it would soften his hard hearted patriarch persona” refers to God, not Bro. The patriarchal God, not the God of Love.
Love, Dennis
OK, Bro,
I just grasped your metaphore of the shooting range
just when I sensed myself as sometimes sensible but
bold a shooter feeling something isn’t good a n d real
that hurts from Kairo to Barcelona
the Uranus is a divine flash, but a flash
life is a crawl through the days
with sometimes hopeful stirring
so Uranus’s sons are gods and devils
man is the miracle worthwhile
Demis Roussos – Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbxhmYy87Q
Italians talk with their hands along with many others.
Monty Python could have a lot of fun with this, based on what follows.
Take note of what words are linked to the gestures in this song.
So, to make a comedy sketch give a talk using the words with the gestures.
For instance say and act, “It’s me, and I’m coming home now”.
Kate Bush Wuthering Heights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs