2017/10/14 13:00:02
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Ok… at https://ria.ru/world/20171013/1506766295.html (in Russian) newspaper reports about two US submarines visited Korea more or less right now.
Image is of a very large submarine “Michigan” with two water-tight magazine enclosures attached. These obviously make the boat noisy and slow. These magazines are to support divers as away teams to do their stuff. Stuff like go ashore in North Korea…and probably get themselves killed. Koreans are Tough Fellas…
I have heard rumor that USN lost a ashore team a few months back…
Submarine Michigan is a guided missile submarine…with many missiles…150 or so
Takes one to 3 days to remove magazines or install them, it is said. I suppose you could jettison at sea…but it could be difficult…dunno. Anybody know? Anyway it’s a big operational burden for the boat and the skipper…really makes the boat a single purpose machine. And it’s noisy… And ’round those there parts the tides and salinity and currents and bottom makes boat handling a real job. Michigan is nearly 600 feet long… a ship, and massive. The necessity to be quiet combines with those magazines to make the boat slow and hard to control….dadada… Michigan is on a job… Guess where?
Smaller submarine “Tuson” is not pictured… That boat, it seems, simply came in to get groceries and split. Tuson is fast attack submarine and really pretty quiet.
Is very unusual to have two subs in Korea.
Taking in the entire vast scene it sure looks like T man has been maneuvered into his position as pharmacos and is being chivvied into attacking both Korea and Iran…which is surely as stupid and unproductive an act of self destruction as anything I can remember.
Empires all share the fragile quality… Fragile? Empires are strong! Empire is always one defeat away from the abyss.
Now for the surprise! I doubt that any Saker readers are going to be surprised though. T Man? Yuge ‘sprize
Pity!
LZ
I wonder how many people would feel safer going East …
Go West – Pet Shop Boys – World´s Armys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgH_NBMACA
Here is a better, modern day video for “Go West” with some interesting comments …
Go west – Pet Shop Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4WXaciFlSM
Russian national anthem. Best classic and rock version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2uuUY-6B4&t=1s
I prefer this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2RGg0VY4SY
By some strange coincidence, Greg Palast, the fine investigative reporter, (whose research keeps suggesting that it was americans, not russians who rigged the election through votesuppression, gerrymandering, electronicvoteflipping etc) , went to school with Steve Paddock, the lasvegas shooter. Here is Palasts interesting take on Paddock
https://www.opednews.com/articles/I-went-to-School-with-the-by-Greg-Palast-Brain_Murder_School_Shooter-171013-162.html
Very good link with pathos and true grit reality to the topic of a man gone ballistic.
Palast provides the probable “why”.
Palast brings to mind the UniBomber psychosis.
We may be on roughly the same page. And I don’t think that page would be anything written by Palast.
Millions seriously doubt that Steve Paddock shot anyone. And suspect (plenty of evidence) that there should be an “s” on the end of “shooter”.
Paddock, Palast, Puddin’ n Pie.
Paddock = Patsy
Palast = Poison Pen
or Pathetic Wannabe Professional Point and Shooter appealing to the least common denominator of Self-Defined Losers, wallowing in rage and impotence. Yuck!
if ‘psychosis’, Palast seems to be suggesting that it is has social, not just individual roots, the ongoing disintegration of american democratic institutions, ladders of opportunity, social supports etc, as evidenced by the opiod crisis, the election of trump etc…
perhaps an incident like the following indicates the contempt wealthy americans now have for the lives and struggles of ordinary people ?
“Homeless man asked woman to move Porsche so he could sleep. Then she shot him, police say.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/13/homeless-man-asked-woman-to-move-porsche-so-he-could-sleep-then-she-shot-him-police-say/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_with_top_mostshared_2_na&utm_term=.ec2798a8a8ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p090r2wBWl8
You should be aware Pallast is the nephew of former Mossad chief.
I take his investigations with a large dose of salt, even when they are pretty in depth.
They are never in depth enough.
Seems there really was more than one shooter :..
https://www.globalresearch.ca/las-vegas-massacre-survivor-dies-abruptly-after-posting-her-detailed-eyewitness-account-of-multiple-shooters-on-facebook/5613437
Relevant information :
http://mileswmathis.com/lasveg.pdf
FWIW
Dostoyevski alert: Feeling the need for a Dostoyevski fix but rather than taking on the arduous task of re reading Brothers K now that I have let it “sit” and steep since the last reading, I stopped at the 1/2 Price Book store . ( Bezos and Amazon begone!)
Ok. No Diary of a Writer in sight but there were 5 Crime and Punishment and 3 The Idiot and then 1 Demons. The latteris now in my possession and perhaps I will be Possessed by it? Anyway, it is a Vintage Classics Pevear translation formerly titled The Possessed. Pevear in his introduction poses the question of who are the demons or, better yet, what are they and how do they function?
On the very first page we are introduced to a psychological type that I recognize in America today (but much less refined, after all, 19th Century was a time of manners and poise): Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky who is described thusly:
” He was , for example, greatly enamored of his position as a ‘persecuted’ man and , so to speak, an ‘exile’. there is a sort of classical luster to these two little words that seduced him once and for all, and, later raising him gradually in his own estimation over the course of so many years, brought him finally to some sort of pedestal, rather lofty and gratifying to his vanity.”
and later after a quote from Gulliver’s Travels to illustrate a point on page 2:
” What will habit not do to a man? Habit brought Stepan Trofimovich to much the same thing, but a in a still more innocent and inoffensive form, if one my put it so, for he was a most excellent man.”
Omg :Could this be the making of a PJW ( political justice warrior) 19th Century style complete with faux victimization complex / self righteous god-complex? Oh, I am so hooked!!!
we had it’s resurgence in the early seventieth the, Baader -Meinhof-Group, et alia
“self-righteous god complex” yes, the “Uranus” – inspiration in demonic souls …
that was one of the main-streams of the 68er ‘revolution’ we are still suffering
from it, all this “cool is” not to abide … “in the (global) hood” …
So the soul-catchers are training the heros of the cool $$ earned as trainers, in the cool game off cool $$$…a.s.o.
I’m not sure if this has already been presented on this site, so I will put this link here in case it hasn’t; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuf9d3sci-w
It sure explains to me the way the world works, and perhaps the way that Mr. Putin is reasoning to combat the forces aligned against the Russian people, and the rest of us for that matter.
This is a good link and good information is always appreciated.
My interest is with getting some straight talking about Central Banking.
Redwood fire:
Mostly contained, redwood grove saved. The wind switched it back onto itself. Phew!
However:
In an effort to seemingly prevent looting, public emergency response has been on a need to know basis. I can’t figure out who is evacuated via the web, it’s actually more like word of mouth, and a “reverse 911” notification process where if my cel is physically in the range, I get an alert.
The winds brought trees down on wires, which burned up the few cel towers in the remote region. And thus no warning.
People woke up with the roof on fire. All to protect property from maybe being looted?
If 10% of the people own all the property, why should the 90% care?
Maybe we should just look at shorter term land title acquisitions.
From horses mouth:
India and the US quietly operationalise new Military Logistics Sharing Pact
http://www.defencenews.in/article/India-and-the-US-quietly-operationalise-new-Military-Logistics-Sharing-Pact-414066
“Elements already in use ::
Elements of the LEMOA were used at the Yudh Abhyas exercise in the US this September. Sources said a test project under LEMOA was carried out during the Malabar naval exercise in July this year, when an Indian tanker hooked up with a US destroyer in the Bay of Bengal.
Indian warships that are currently on a long overseas tour through the South China Sea may also benefit from the pact, which gives the Indian military the option to pick up fuel and other supplies from US bases around the world. Indian naval ships Satpura and Kadmatt, which are on eastern deployment, have reached Sasebo, Japan, and will sail all the way up to Russia.
Given the large number of US bases across the world, the Indian Navy will be a big gainer.”
Copied from the last entry at the last cafe:
Dennis Leary on October 14, 2017 · at 1:02 pm UTC
Greetings, vineyarders and cafers all. I am now in Chicago at my nephew’s house in Wheaton. There was a thunderstorm last night and now a gentle but plentiful rain. teranam speaks of the fires in Northern California. The red zone fire warnings even come down to Ojai, but no further. The Love Army stands guard for me while I’m gone.
The train trip of 2200+ miles from LA to the Windy City was a grand learning experience, but not without serious attacks upon me by the Empire, so severe that, I’m ashamed to say, I had to cut and run, and cower and hide, to get away from my inner firestorm battle.
I first came here to the cafe, before checking the new articles or my own email. I’ve only gotten a short way into the nearly 100 comments; I’ll get to the rest and the articles later.
I slept good last night. Thought of you but no dreams that I can recall. Michael made buckwheat cereal, at my suggestion. He had a package that had, I think, Russian letters. Russians are big on buckwheat. Later, I fried the porridge into pancakes, but with no flour, they were less tasty. Tomorrow, at the marsh in Wisconsin, we’ll have buttermilk buckwheat pancakes like great Grandma used to make, saints preserve her soul.
On the train, I went off my raw diet, but adhered to vegan standards of no milk, cheese, butter, eggs and meat. I’m not a purist, however, and so tomorrow will give in to buttermilk, as I did here with Michael, and my nephew’s bit of butter this am.
When I left the Ventura station for Union Station LA, there was a glitch that worked to my advantage, thanks to the Love Army. I “accidentally” purchased a business seat. An attendant pointed this out and I switched from coach car to business car.
On the ride to LA, I got a package of goodies and a wider chair. I didn’t touch the fake food, but enjoyed the comfy chair. At LAX, I got the red carpet treatment: free red cap ride to the Metropolitan Lounge, where there was more comfort, in TV, snacks, magazines and an attendant, trained to please those with a little more money than commoners, which I was up until then. I was happy, since I had a three hour layover.
I walked out to the front of Union Station, where there was a flow of middle class and homeless, and a trio of idealist missionaries to the real street types, as well as to the comfortables. I felt uneasy but familiar too, since I was once homeless, living in the woods and using shelters myself. But I always had my motor home parked on some street or other, which I took to the parks during the day. Anyway, I was business class for a day. A cut above commoners, but far below the likes of Trump.
From that fine experience, I chose business class for my return ticket, for $12. I don’t have a phone but now I can go the Metropolitan Lounge if I need one. Oh, the comforts of the comfortably wealthy. It ain’t healthy but it beats the street.
I am well taken care of these days by the Love Government, Army, Bower, Vineyard and Cafe. I was chiding the Love Army commander this morning in bed, awaking at 4:44. I was still smarting from my train wounds when I went off track. Says I to he: “What in the hell are you doing to stop the empire’s war on Russia?”
There was an uncomfortable pause, but my answer came soon enough. The army commander gave me a new character for my novel, Love and War. I was reading my hard copy on the train, preparing for another round of inspiration, I hoped, at the marsh, where I wrote the first nineteen chapters last Christmas. Thirteen of the nineteen, are published here, somewhere back in the archives.
The new character, given to me by the current love army commander, is Commander in Chief of the Love Army, one General Dionysus James. How nice, since Dennis derives from Dionysus and James is my middle name, from my father, James. No projection there, mind you. So General James will now appear along with the other characters.
Michael left for work, leaving the house and computer to me. Later, his ex Chinese wife will join us at a Chinese restaurant, prior to our four hour car trek to Wisconsin. Should I ask her about Chinese politics? Probably not, since she’s such a sweet person. Once again, I’ll go off my raw diet but I need to anyway as the cold winter winds blow on my thin frame of bones and cartilage. But cafe chinese waitress, no meat, if you please.
To recap, for my personal future reference, the first comments, I’ll add my two cents worth of sense, or nonsense, if you insist.
Syria and soccer leads off. Soccer in Russia next year will be geo-political soccer, worthy of a world cup. I hope Russia does not run from battle, even if it has to start its own multi-polar olympics.
teranam, now I am more relaxed, thanks to your reassurance. The brothers Catamanovs and Kittenmanovs sound cute, but watch out if they change from cat friends to catty familiars of the worst sort. I live near pet lovers here at our community, and see firsthand what pethood does to them.
People think they need pets in this pet cult of a culture we inhabit, and perhaps they do, due to love deprivation. However, no matter how you slice a sausage, it’s still sausage. And who is to say that the forest fires we suffer are not more karmic heat for the sausages.
A friend and co-resident here, last week asked me to feed his dog, while the resident was gone. It’s not something I ever do, even for Apolonia, but I did it for a friend. I opened a can of dog food, and put it in a bowl that had dog dry cereal in it. The smell was disgusting, and the ideology behind it even more so. Animal slaughter to feed human animal neuroses.
J.L.Seagull speaks of a Ham movie, fathers and Columbus; and their patriarchal sins. In my estimation, a hungry and unholy trinity of public enemy # 1.
Anonymous counters with a list of imaginary gods. What an extensive list. Only one of a hundred mentioned gods and goddesses of love, which had its own top 100, not one of which was Christian, except God with a capital G. None came even close to mentioning Saint John’s “God is Love” theology, my favorite loverology meme.
I could spend a year, mulling over these lists. Thanks for the link. I want to develop a love theology, here at this cafe, focusing on men, fathers and God the Father. With this trinity, depends our survival as a species. Men created this hell of a mess, and they have to lead us out of the new Egypt to the promised land.
I did click on the Roman goddess, Venus. I feature Venus in my work, through the Tarot deck Venus, the Empress. Venus is born in foam on a sea conch, nicely sexual and conch-ious, conscious, unconscious and lovscious. Jung is stirring in his grave, and mundanomaniac has a grave expression at my freedom of expression.
Next to Sagittarius, Venus and Mars are my favorites. Apolonia, my ex, and flaming Leo, is Apollo to my Dionysus, by direct and indirect proportions. Add to this, that Lady Gaga sings a song called Venus, and you can get my drift.
J.L.Seagull asks anon: “who is the one imagining?” This leads to very interesting questions, right up my alley, from vot tak, JJ and others on the probability of God, according to math, which is basically zero, or to tenth to the minus 36th degree.
This leads to replies from mundanomaniac and others. I love this line of questioning, as an antidote to our anti-war efforts. Personally, I need to wade carefully into these murky and mystic waters of theology, philosophy, psychology and otherology, like the two slit experiment that seems to require human observation for epistemology.
I do believe in God, but am leery of the God of War and Patriarchy; while hopeful that the God of Love will join the Love Army in its restoration of the love culture here on planet Earth, in my lifetime, which I hope extends to 100, and 101 for good measue.
In sum, I’m glad to be back in the vineyard bower, where I belong, once I get past the rosy thorns and prickly pears, not to mention Russian bears. Please bear with me, those happy few, now perhaps down to one or two, who read between the lines of what I write.
On the train trip, we did pass through Dodge City, but it was at night, so I missed seeing Chief Tomah board and greet the Ojai Indian maiden on board. But I’ll see them in my dreams and daydreams at the marsh near Tomah, Wisconsin.
It’s approaching high noon here in the heartland, but I can’t see the fun sun, due to the sad rain, but I know she’s there in the high air. Oh, that we had more of the gentle Irish rain in California. In the mountains, we went through some long tunnels of love. And at night, there was a beautiful golden half moon accompanying us over the flat deserts; which reminded me of some of you, like submarines in the desert.
I’m looking forward to reading the articles and the rest of the comments, to further my remedial education. But for now, I want to check in at yahoo for brief fake news and any emails I might have. Then it’s on to Wisconsin in the rain. You can join me if you wish, and I’ll introduce you to my family.
Love, Dennis, Chicago
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I read between the lines of what you write, so there, you have one
And you are causing me to think, which is — at least — a start
Hi. I just re-posted my comment here, from the last cafe. Just want to add that teranam inspires me to read Dostoyevski, when I have a bit of herbal spirits in me, and I’m feeling strong… My nephew just gave me a shot of liquor with 99 herbs–only 30% but powerful. We’re taking it to Wisconsin; I’ll need it for the Dos. Got to get in the car for Tomah.
Love, Dennis
If you start with the premise that there will be global war, then the various and sundry items of American news begin to make sense. The ritual expulsion of Harvey Weinstein from Hollywood can be seen as America regaining its righteousness so as to propitiously fight its next good war. The populism of Trump, also is necessary to get the average work-a-day American on board with the next great adventure. Perhaps I am imagining things. In any case, there will be wars and rumors of war…
Wars and rumors of wars . . .one couldn’t make this stuff up, the boundaries of the political plausibility are off limits, where or what is the”reality” of any current American sundry items of news ?!
Further enhancement features could only help in creating the next great Hollywood blockbuster for the masses, like Martian landings, dragons and fairy tale exotica, some humor, President Trump starring lookalike super hero whoever – and…maybe global war could be averted for a few months, and more people will get the chance to wake up and come alive.
The keyword for what follows … Insight …
Some well kept secrets are revealed here … the Gorbachevs, Central Banking … etc
Watch and take notes with video time references for research.
Lecturer: General Konstantin Petrov …
Concept of Public Security – part 1 (General Petrov K.P.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtl7Zt_SU68
Concept of Public Security – part 2 (Russian General Petrov K.P.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jk_WM90NME
Central Bankers suppressing Russian economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT085isnyB0
… and …
Nikolai Starikov on global debt slavery (part 1 of 2 in Moldova)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE7-yf7vJ6A
… and …
Nikolay Starikov: How to Escape the Tyranny of the Western Financial System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyi91AEhqiU
If these women (leaders) are hopeful for peace they would be speaking clearly and enthusiastically about ending all military drills in South Korea.
So, we see what they are … clearly !
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/julie-bishop-and-marise-payne-visit-tense-korean-border-at-demilitarised-zone/news-story/9d7f32692d1f1bc8e3f703c187dfd02c
… and …
N. Korea threatens Australia with ‘disaster’ for engagement in US ‘war preparations’
https://www.rt.com/news/406715-pyongyang-threatens-australia-disaster/
Unbelievable Engineering
Falkirk, Central Scotland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBH9SE-Kw8
Dutch bridge opens – Slauerhoffhhbrug 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftIpbQ4LiMY
Tilting Milleneum Bridge in Action – Newcastle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk16C5Zgv4w
Second big arch of Kerch bridge also being installed……
These bridges are certainly innovative. I wonder if any engineers or interested laymen engineering fans can tell us:
1. The functionality advantages over more standard bridges which separate in the middle with large counterweights, the two halves tilting up toward the sky to allow tall ships to pass through.
Like the Freemont Bridge in Seattle.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fremont+Bridge+Seattle&qpvt=Fremont+Bridge+Seattle&FORM=IGRE
Why else do I mention it?? Nearly 20 years ago I was showing my bride (from Leningrad) around the Left Coast and we crossed over the Fremont Bridge going north, and saw this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle
She was somewhat bored by Fisherman’s Terminal. A little more interested in climbing on board a large Russian fishing vessel in Ballard.
But when we crossed the bridge into Fremont, she really came alive: “LENIN!!” , she exclaimed, pointing to his statue, and got quite intrigued with the “artists enclave” in the Fremont neighborhood. LOL.
2. The cost advantages, if any. Or maintenance or durability advantages.
I see some aesthetic/psychological advantages. Bridges can be quite inspiring and even symbolic.Ditto lighthouses!
And statues.
Were the northern California forest fires cause by natural forces or engineered? There are a lot of indications pointing to the latter. Here is Joseph P. Farrell’s take.
https://gizadeathstar.com/2017/10/strange-things-california-fires/
Thanks for the link! This observation about burnt houses and surviving foliage reminded me of this story featured in Canadian media:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/missing-dog-bounds-to-greet-owners-after-surviving-california-wildfire-1.3632734
It’s a feel good story about a dog surviving the fire that destroyed the house. In the video, the owner marvels that the vineyard somehow survived the fire, which burnt out the house.
Another link on that page shows a tree in Sonoma County burning from the inside out, while nothing burns around it. A person fleeing the fire filmed it.
And on the subject of strange things in the Canadian media this week: Global News lead story about the Las Vegas shooting featured a photo taken after the shooting which shows the Mandalay Bay with no broken windows. (Saw this same photo on Jim Stone’s site earlier.)
https://globalnews.ca/news/3800591/mandalay-bay-hotel-timeline-las-vegas-shooting-conflict-police/
And the Canadian Armed Forces Photo of the Week is this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CanadianForces/status/918973420104282112
Perhaps coincidental – but I thought it was cheeky.
And here we have some strangely burned out cars…
https://terraherz.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/weitere-merkwuerdige-bilder-vom-waldbrand/#more-113696
On my “blockchain currency up for grabs” rugby stadium theme:
https://secure.caseyresearch.com/chain?cid=MKT336710&eid=MKT341071&step=start&plcid=PLC026909#
Doug Casey predicts “FedCoin” and the demise of cash and the US Dollar, which he calls the “I owe you nothing” currency and its replacement with a central bank run “government” (the Fed is NOT the government, Doug…..) digital currency giving the NWO 100% transparency on every transaction ordinary, trapped, “chipped” American “human” cattle engage in.
If cryptos give you a headache and you don’t “believe” in them, you’d best limber up your mind with videos like this (just resist the eventual sales pitch if your education budget overlaps your food budget) and understand the struggle in consciousness and currency underway, worldwide. No need to “believe” anything.
A lot of people “believe” in real estate.
Hey, at least it’s “real”..i.e., .it can’t be moved, stolen and the land portion can’t even burn down! Trouble is, it’s real TAXABLE also, because you can’t escape property taxes.
And one can go from grumbling about those taxes, to literally abandoning property as is now ocurring, they say , in Greece….and possibly next in Illinois….or California:
Current black humor in Greece, according to the Guardian:
“The joke now doing the rounds is: if you want to punish your child, you threaten to pass on property to them,” he said. “Greeks traditionally have always regarded property as a secure investment. But now it has become a huge millstone, given that the tax burden has increased sevenfold in the past two years alone.”
excerpted from this article : Home Ownership in Greece ‘a Sick Joke’ as Property Market Collapses:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/home-ownership-greece-property-market
And (to add to the negatives countering the many traditional positives…RE-wise….) if your market is not yet Greece…..or Illinois verging on Greece, lawyers typically won’t take a plaintiff’s case on contingency UNLESS the targetted defendant has real estate.
Why? Because if the real estate (typically a house) is in your name instead of a completely legal “title holding trust” which makes you (the target, in this example) the anonymous beneficiary of that trust, RENTING from the trust you are an immovable, pinned down target that the litigating attorney can attack with huge certainty of collecting 1/3 of any judgment he can win for his client.
Another point in favor of being a renter! Or “renter”.
Anyway, If you’re not excited about “Bitcoin” (or think maybe it’s a just step toward Fedcoin…) maybe you’ll be appalled enough about “FedCoin” to start thinking about this struggle, this “up for grabs” rugby blockchain ball loose and bouncing in midfield being chased by team NWO///The Slavemasters (sponsored by Blue Pill Pharmaceuticals) and opposed by Team Spartacus (sponsored by Red Pill Human Resources) even if you hate the idea of BOTH of these possible opposites/possible twins.
Figure it out! “Diversify” your mind also.
Because apparently this DIGITAL/CRYPTO stuff just may be at least a part, an emerging flank of the Multipolarity vs Unipolarity current global struggle for freedom from the Empire of Evil behind 911, Hollywood, Wall Street, The “City” (London), ZION Mind Control, Inc. et cetera, et cetera.
Hi Bro,
Thanks for this link. As you may have seen, Russia appears to be a step ahead in this game:
BREAKING: Russia Issuing ‘CryptoRuble’
Executive summary: (1) the CryptoRuble cannot be mined, but will be issued, controlled, and maintained “only by the authorities”; (2) CryptoRubles are exchangeable with fiat rubles, unless the holder “cannot explain” the origin of the CryptoRubles, in which case a 13% tax is applied; (3) the CryptoRuble is not a legalization of any other crypto, including Bitcoin, and in fact, Putin recent called for a ban on all cryptos within Russia.
Note that the “authorities” mentioned in the article above are not specified, but I assume that means the Central Bank of Russia (and not the govt of the Russian Federation proper), as they have recently pushed for the CryptoRuble.
I’m not sure what to make of this yet, but it sounds like pretty big news and tbh not good big news. Am hoping that Amarynth will weigh in on this.
Hi Bro and Acacia,
I’m still following the trail in search of the truth on crypto. Acacia’s executive summary above describes exactly what I think is (probably soon) in store for the US, or perhaps some kind of unipolar/global organization i.e. a ban on all cryptos except the sanctioned one and a huge tax to convert bitcoin etc to ‘Fed Coin’. So why should I buy bitcoin???? Sorry if you have to belabor points discussed before- I am a slow learner.
k
Hi Kinterra,
I share your general concerns w.r.t. the US and cryptos, but I’m not yet worried about the more extreme scenario you describe.
What we’ve learned from recent events in China is that even if govts try to impose bans people will just work around them. The value of BTC took a hit when China recently changed its policy on exchanges, but within a few weeks it was back up and heading higher. In the crypto community, the verdict was basically that “China doesn’t matter” (e.g. see: Bitcoin Prices Can’t Be Stopped.
Let that sink in for a second: a new form of currency for which “China doesn’t matter”.
Here, it’s also worth mentioning that the Japanese govt, by contrast, has been very pro-Bitcoin, and isn’t imposing any such controls. One important difference, I think, is that Japan doesn’t have a huge problem with capital flight. In any case, all the countries like Japan that are now supportive of the BTC ecosystem would have to do a 180° turn on policy, and that would hardly warm anybody to their own “FedCoin” alternative.
Next, there are a number of important details concerning the CryptoRuble that need to be clarified. For example, if the CBR is going to run their own blockchain and not allow mining, etc., then presumably they will have a complete record of all transactions. How, then, could there be CryptoRubles whose origin “cannot be explained”? Presumably this is about deterring hackers and money laundering, but it seems like either the CryptoRuble blockchain is controlled by the CBR and they can validate all transactions, or else it’s not actually controlled by them and there is some kind of second level of validation/authentication to “explain” the origin of any given CryptoRuble. Which is it? And, how well is their blockchain going to work if transactions have to be validated against some external “proof of origin”? Seems like that kind of defeats the whole point.
Next, just because Russia launches a CryptoRuble doesn’t mean it will actually gain popularity and become a viable system. If nobody can mine it, who’s going to build and maintain the infrastructure? If all transactions will be controlled (i.e., surveilled) by the govt, how many people will really trust it? If people don’t trust it, who’s going to bother to retrofit their web sites to accept it, or buy a gizmo for their point of sale hardware to also accept CryptoRubles?
Overall, my feeling is that it’s maybe too early to really say about this, but I am hoping somebody more knowledgeable like Amarynth will enlighten us on this.
Thank-you Acacia- you are currently my crypto ‘go to’. And I love Acacia trees. Do you live in CA where those gorgeous creatures herald spring with paradisical fragrances?
k
Now, wouldn’ we all just love to have this one as a wall paper??.
Or better still, in high quality print?.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Trumpet_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
Take Care
Kent
Ah, come on! All of us have our occasional “bad hair” days.
Take Hair
Bro 93
This made the rounds a few months ago.
Twist on the “face swap” app which had all the staying power of the spinner–anyone remember those?
Bad hair day poster dudes-in-chief swap hair:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/11/18/432C38AA00000578-4782690-image-a-79_1502472244955.jpg
But now he will be mistaken for Mike Myers:
http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/files/2015/11/MikeMyers.jpg
Hmmmm. I’m afraid Kim wins Best Looking Dude with Hairpiece Contest hands down. Happy Hair! That was so floppy/sloppy on its original owner. But Kim makes it look REALLY good!
Myers takes Silver Medal.
The Donald, the Bronze…..
Only his hair dresser knows for sure..what exactly went wrong……but Fire Him, Anyway! No second chances on Hairdresser Apprentice Show!!
The winner to the second runner-up: “Toupe!” (TWO-PAY) …..I gotchu gramps!
Consolation Prize for last place: Kung Fu lessons. I am told “Kung Fu” means “Take weapon away.” in Chinese characters. This mo’ betta approach, old gandpa grasshooper…try it….then go for Nobel Hair Piece Prize!
THIS is NOT Iwo Jima!!
If anything, the “soldiers” originally holding the flags are gone, and might (if they are lucky) have the privilege to study the intricate patterns/weaving of grass roots from below.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/BurningFlags.jpg
Take Care (hair)
Kent
So. What do you think about a version of the emperor without clothes (The Trumpet), similar to the Killary, here: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Hillary_Clinton_Young_Naked_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
With some sort of background for further illustrating the mess we are in:
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Hillary_Garden_of_Evil_Medium.jpg
Or any of the other characters (randomly picked, enough to choose from, right?).
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Donald_Tusk_01_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Dick_Cheney_Faces_of_Evil01.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/DonaldRumsfeld01.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/George_Soros01_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Ihor_Kolomoisky_Nov_2014_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Jens_Stoltenberg02_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Karl_Rove_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Lindsey_Graham_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Mario_Draghi_03_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Mccain02_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Merkel_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Netanyahu02_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Obama_Ears_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Oleh_Tyahnybok_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Paul_Singer_Vulture.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Philip_Breedlove_01_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Pope-Benedict_01_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/poroshenko01_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Robert_Kagan_02_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Sarah_Palin_01_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Susan_Rice_01_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Theresa_May_Police_Speech_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/TONY_BLAIR_Disgrace_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/van-rompuyCo.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Victoria_Nuland_N1_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Yatsenyuk05_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Zbigniew%20Kazimierz%20Brzezinski_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Welcome to my night-Mares, These are just a few.
Kent
Kent, all need to be headed with “Wanted Dead or Alive”, then posted in government offices and on supermarket bulletin boards etc. I wonder if these are photo-shopped or a combination of your own original art. Well done. Maybe invoke more ‘reptilian’ and reptilian coloring …
One of “The Things”: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Nancy_Pelosi01_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
Another “Thing”: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Michele_Flournoy_Faces_Of_Evil.jpg
Yet another: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/michelle-obama01_resize.jpg
Kent
The “Silverstone” 9/11 entity:
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Larry_Silverstein_02_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Larry_Silverstein_01_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
Kent
Nikolai Starikov: Thoughts on Central Bank, Money and the Sovereignty of Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8MpXKMxyI
Sorry folks, Shooting Range Episode # 3 “Sex in the Nitty Witty” is delayed until a certain Storm Over Planet Earth and The US Presidency recedes just a wee bit.
There is the Nov 3 Trump visit to China that kind of takes priority. History is a bitch, huh?
Ergo, this post is designed, in and by my extremely limited, modest means to further lubricate significant levers that can improve the performance of the US Presidency. Especially THERE, in CHINA, so he can come back here and do something surprisingly good HERE too.
Now I know many think that is impossible, but here is where our dear Leary Model Timex is, IMHO actually, in one sense more correct than even the valiant Vot Tak!! Wow!
We all have error, by virtue of being…..human beings. I think that VT does yeoman anti-Z duty and is a far more effective War Room participant than DL in critiqueing DT.
However even a broken Denis Leary Model Timex is right twice a day! And I am not saying it IS broken…..even if it does too regularly get stuck on 3:33 am. That IS worrisome…..but the DL Timex IS still ticking, there IS still hope for his activism on ONE thing:
Saving the Trump Presidency. He likes Trump! Hasn’t given up on him!
Can we say that about VT or HALF the Vineyard?
Can I even say that about myself?? Not really, I confess!
Yet, I override my tastes for the Greater Good of Humanity and do not side with the coup plotters against the Donald.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE???
Well when you have far better cards than the coup plotting neocons, the British and those Harvey Weinstein regulars like Hillary Clinton and …………(add several dozen other top Demo-rats to the list of traitorous Russia Bashing Trump Trashing Scum) you play the winning hand out!
What is the winning hand?
Well, it is an amazingly powerful, well written documentation/report/dossier that can quite conceivably land Robert Mueller rather than Donald Trump in prison!!!!
Wow! DOES such a thing exist??? Yes it does, I’ve read it. Yesterday.
ROBERT MUELLER is an Ammoral Legal Assasin: He WILL Do His Job…IF You let Him!
In magazine format….flip the pages….
http://read.larouchepac.com/?pid=MTY16915#
I hope I can convince the VT brigade that Mueller in jail instead of Zio-gay Goy Boy would be tolerable at least for ….say a year . I know I can get Dennis to say it would be OK.
But can I get Dennis to “read them (the cards…the Mueller Dossier) and NOT weep”??
Can I get him or other Trumpers in Retreat (Ann, Ms Liberty, even Red Buttons Blue (where are you, blue??) to rally to the Mueller Disgrace and Defeat???
I assure you, it is very, very much “in the cards”. Can you read them ACES and PLAY them???
Or will Dennis bail out weeping, after a page or two of reading what help the Donald really, really needs right now, get stuck on connecto conspiracy nonsense about ZIOs Run China and go back to pounding that Love Staph……er…. Staff with all those female and male sex parts on it???
THAT is the question!
Here is the full dossier compiled by a bunch of people, many of whom I know personally, who were slated for the” WACO” treatment in a town in Virginia, on Oct 6, 1986, a day that the head of their organization was intended to be assassinated.
That killing was averted by virtue of a telegram to a barely awake President Ronald Reagan, but it WAS averted.
Then the illegal, fraudulent judicial frame-up and conviction of Lyndon Larouche denied once by an honest Federal judge (Keating, in Boston) was rammed through in a Deep State “Railroading” commanded by…NONE OTHER than…ROBERT MUELLER!!!! in Virginia’s “Rocket Docket.”
Do you imagine that such people as Barabara Boyd, her (black( husband Zeke and many others, having survived all that the Deep State threw at them in the late 1980’s and henceforth might, just might have a few pointers for The Donald that may prevent Mueller from “doing his Deep State Job” (indicting Trump) this time around???
Judge for yourself. READ IT. And don’t weep. Fight!
Not by spilling anyone’s blood. By thinking and getting others to do the same, on a level of effectivenesss that CAN defeat the AZ Empire of Evil at least in this crucial presidential “round”….if not the whole “Shootin’ Match”.
If too tired to read right now, I suggest you start with the video featuring the author of the MUELLER DOSSIER, Barbara Boyd whose husband was on a security detail that was supposed to die in a shootout with heavily armed Feds Oct 6, 1986 in Leesburg, Virginia. But did not…..because Irish Eyes Are Smiling” Reagan did read the telegram and did order a stop to operations that day in Leesburg Virginia to murder Lyndon LaRouche who he had shared a debaters table with (see side by side R. Reagan and L. LaRouche photo) at the New Hampshire Republican Pirimary in 1980.
I was there for @ 2 weeks. My first ever political activism. Cold! Slush. Door to Door. “Live Free or Die” State…New Hampshire Primary, 1980
We sunk George HW Bush by campaiging against BOTH Trilateral President Jimmy Carter AND Trilateral Commission member GHW BUSH. One democrat, the other “Republican”. One dupe from Georgia, the other a stone cold Deep State killer.
When Reagan picked up on that theme just a wee, wee bit, BUSH collapsed. And lost New Hampshire AND the nomination he thought was “HIS” as much as Hillary thought the 2016 election was hers.
You think that might earn you some DEEP STATE attention????
Here’s Barbara Boyd on video. Dennis is OK (Dennis Speed, who introduces Barbara) but let’s skip a few minutes of him:
https://youtu.be/UD7D3Xublyg?t=251
As Barbara Boyd says, her husband’s photo was on the dashboards of vehicles carrying heavily armed Federal agents, as one of the security detail they hoped to provoke a very uneven fire fight with, leading to the physical elimination of LaRouche demanded by the British. Needless to say, they FAILED to provoke Zeke Boyd, Barbara’s husband into a suicidal shoot out. Nor anyone else on security.
Nikolai Viktorovich Starikov is a Russian writer, opinion journalist, social activist and a co-chairman of the Great Fatherland (Political) Party.
https://static-eu.insales.ru/files/1/5345/1529057/original/Piter_Starikov_engl.pdf
Here are two of Starikov’s book in English in pdf format …
“Rouble Nationalization – The Way to Russia’s Freedom” …
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf
… and …
“Who set Hitler against Stalin” …
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/who_set_Hitler_against_Stalin.pdf
Thank you so much for that second link! I will stand in line to read anything Starikov writes. His Rouble book is stunning and hilarious (“From Her Majesty the Queen: A Greeting”… what a chapter!), and he is perhaps the first to title a piece “The Role of Snipers in World History”. I would argue certain minor points with him about US politics, but for the greater scheme of things, he’s got it down pat. Looking forward to the book…
Trolls, how to recognize them.
Trolls, I’m afraid they are still here, IMO of course.
The game appears to be to infuriate with crapola (technical term) to elicit angry responses to initiate time-wasting imbroglios.
The heady, experienced readers of this blog appear to be cognizant of said trolls by not replying to them.
All very encouraging!
Smart Money will soon figure out that the A/Z alliance is a poor investment.
The future is with Eurasia, so the pin will be pulled on Clark Kent et al.
Money talks, Bullshit walks.
Trolls, how to recognize them.
There was some information given on this topic some time ago in the Cafe and I now would like to read it.
If anyone knows where to find this information, or has it, please post it.
When someone does not speak clearly, it is self evident of a personal problem or a deviant.
here is a link /comments-section-reform-request-for-comments/comment-page-2/#comment-410204
Hurricane Ophelia has arrived…
So far, no deaths.
Winds at 16mph off Cork coast.
Kinterra – hope you are OK.
Am going to repost your comment, as it is a really good first – hand account.
Again, everyone in that region, thinking of you and hoping you are all safe.
The flames are have now subsided. The smoke still seeths- like curling dragon’s breath it eerily wafts across the fields, hovers in the valleys, weaves through the tree tops. The community is stunned and weary with disbelief. The land is gasping for breath.
Our area was spared and we did not have loss of life and property. Many of our friends did. It will be a long, difficult recovery.
I can’t help but reflect on how unprepared the community was. We live in an area where fire is part of our climate. We annually have no rain for 6-7 months of the year. We had a record drought for 5 years. When I look around here I see huge gasoline tanks near wooden buildings, trees that need thinning and trimming- a situation awaiting a disaster. Its pure negligence really. It feels like no one has their priorities straight in terms of how to live with the elements in any kind of sensible way.
I choose to wear a mask when I go outdoors knowing an urban fire releases all kinds of metals and toxins. You can kind of feel it all hanging in the air, and I wonder if it is accumulating in the soil, the grass the cows eat etc. But nothing like this is reported on. I worry for all the children.
How did 16 fires start all in the same area within a few hours?
Hoping the hurricane subsides and the communities in its path are not hurt.
k
That should have read 161kmph.
What kind of hurricane is 16mph? :-)
Frankly Kinterra, your situation sounds a heck of a lot worse.
Give me storms and hurricanes over fires and droughts any day.
The coast – Atlantic, then Irish Sea – took quite a hammering, but it wasn’t too bad where I am – I’ve seen much worse.
Once, the road actually fell into the sea due to a storm when I was living on the coast….
I even ventured out along with a few others, but we turned back after a tree cracked and fell over. – the wind speed picked up very suddenly and we found ourselves pasted against a wall.
But it subsided almost as quickly as it arrived.
Still, we decided not to risk being out any longer, so headed back home.
Only three deaths, two due to foolhardiness (I mean, who goes to the waterfront in the middle of a storm? Or climbs up a tree with a chainsaw?!! And I thought we were idiots…).
Glad you’re safe.
Tweeting Diplomacy – an American/Israeli Infatuation nowadays !
The Israeli Defense Force spokesperson tweeted … (note: tweeted) …
“Earlier today, an anti-aircraft missile was launched from Syria towards Israeli Defense Force aircraft during a routine IDF flight over Lebanon. No hits confirmed.”
No hits confirmed … well find out idiot before you tweet !
Later …
Israeli warplanes dropped four bombs on a Syrian anti-aircraft battery east of Damascus and made it non-operational.
https://www.rt.com/news/406818-israeli-warplanes-hit-syria-battery/
I am now at the cranberry marsh of my in-law relatives, near Tomah, Wisconsin, a veritable paradise. I am experiencing another vineyard (in this case, cranberry vines), complete with a cafe kitchen. My communities in love are resembling Russian matryoshka dolls, nested within each other.
This vineyard cafe community is an important missing link in the series of nests that compose a Love Government. My ultimate community is represented by the Love Bower, protected by the Love Army.
From that perspective, I enter the fray of the day. Thanks, Vasiles, for making my day; at least there is one person reading between my lines. And thanks, Bro, for remaking my day.
I listened to your link, Bro, to Barbara, up until the questions. I like her, and her trust in Trump; with some reservations, particularly her silence on Zionism in general, and within China in particular. Perhaps it’s a blind spot rather than a calculation.
I am not against China. In this Wisconsin paradise, I am enjoying products made in China. But my pleasure and security comes from my ultimate community of lovers, mediated by the aforesaid Bower. The Love Army is using this cafe, Trump and all, to reinstall what we say we want.
Our cultish blind spot is really a deaf spot. We refuse to listen, let’s say, to Jesus’s law of love, or the Love Army’s ten new commandments of love, in our mad rush to China’s new vision of materialism on steroids. We are blind and deaf to Zionism’s chameleon “made in China” castle move.
Almost as bad is the blindness regarding the other side of the coin, the one minted by the new Romans, with the image of Caesar. We fail to see that the Empire has no clothes, and quickly move to dress him according to our tastes.
I cut to the chase with the ideal of “communal sex,” but that idea is chased off the table, as if it were some kind of hex. Sacramental, sacred sex is where it’s at, if we are ever to know love, or solve the problem of war. For the foreseeable future it remains metaphysical, awaiting the new love physical musical.
The light of a new say is dawning here in paradise. I must rise to meet the occasion. I can get up after every fall, and embrace it all. I write between the lines and outside the lies. Whether I, or anyone else, actually reads accurately any more is uncertain. We still live behind an iron curtain.
I’ve been up since 4. It’s now going on 7. I’ve had a cherimoya and an orange, picked in Ojai; and now will savor peaches, picked here by Ed, my brother in-law, and canned by Barbara, my sister. My other sister, Mary, visits this afternoon, with Marty, her husband.
I’ll be thinking of you all, in your paradises, as I enjoy mine today. Don’t be jealous, but be zealous in our common cause of uncovering who we are: lovers, one and all, great and small.
Love, Dennis, Tomah, Wisconsin, posted at 7:11 am, central heartland time and space…
“I cut to the chase with the ideal of “communal sex,” but that idea is chased off the table, as if it were some kind of hex. Sacramental, sacred sex is where it’s at, if we are ever to know love, or solve the problem of war. For the foreseeable future it remains metaphysical, awaiting the new love physical musical.”
again and again someone is talking about an ideal of relation
without ever having asked “the other side”
this is what I call the lonely yellow mantra
but why shouldn’t our neighbor do his lonely mantra
without hurting us
with chance we will remember beyond ratio
this brave soul
More Insight into Russian politics … ‘Russian’ – Jewish mafia/oligarchs.
Russian general on Vladimir Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGXgF8dCQI
They say that WL/ J Assange transmitted this : “4767 5774 6a7a 4d6c 6330 666b 314a 3453 0000 0907 84b4 f787 7616 86f7 a737 5707 5736 ”
Evidently that is a “firing code”… It does not seem to be OTP (appears to be not random) Beyond that…well, maybe it’s a bluff… yeah, right.
Now for the shoe-drop…
I am amused to remember how DeSadski said that the Premier loves Surprises (in Strangelove)…
LZ
Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of France from 2014 through 2016. Born in Barcelona. Speaks Catalan. His father is Catalan. Here is a videoclip of what he said in a recent interview about Catalonian independence. Translation below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgW1MEWRjc
Question: Proclaiming independence would be madness?
Yes, it would be madness. I’ve just spoken of an entity… one of the big problems in the world with globalization is that many retreat within personal or local or regional identities. Spain is very different from France. It consists of big regions that are powerful and possess strong identities. Catalonia has a level of autonomy unimaginable in France. Everybody speaks Catalan. Catalan is the language in which teaching is done in schools, while Spanish is taught at the same level as French or English. The television there is Catalan television. Everybody speaks Catalan, there is a Catalan culture, a Catalan literature. There is a true autonomy that is respected by Spain. And the strength of Spain is to have great regions like Catalonia or the Basque Country. And the strengt of Catalonia and the Basque Country is to belong within one of the old nation-states in Europe. There aren’t many of those. There is England, there is France, and there is Spain. And to dissolve Spain as a nation-state – and I am not speaking as the son of a Catalan — because I think I can feel deeply French while also being proud of my origins and this diversity. But that would mean to undo Europe. And if we open that Pandora’s box, tomorrow it may be the Basque Country, and then the French Basque Country, and then Northern Italy… and then there is war. Because we’ve lived in peace for the last 70 years, but we forget what’s essential… let me speak, I am speaking as a European, I think that Europe and European politicians, should speak about what is going on in Spain. Not in order to act as mediators, but in order to say: This is not possible. The respect of the Constitution – the Spanish Constitution of 78 is one of the most democratic. Of course the images from last Sunday were obviously awful and they turn against the central government, but we must say that Spain is a democratic country, a friendly country to us, our neighbor. Spain must have its Constitution respected. There cannot be independence for Catalonia. One must say to the independentists: if you want to separate, you won’t remain in the European Union.
The Frankfurt School and its Undermining Effects
English subtitle available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1v928PDYpk
Destruction of the Western Civilisation by the Cultural Marxism
English subtitle available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2XbJyT3kDs
Fritz Teufel or why have you not shot?
(He was a co-founder of the 68s movement. His surname-Teufel-means
in English Devil – “omen est nomen”)
English subtitle available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP5l8bQGawg&t=141s
The Venezuela regional election went well for Maduro’s party. It won 18 of 23 estates but lost 3 very estrategic ones cause they have a frontier with Colombia and we all know the plans the pentagon has.
Colombia is a very hostile country against Maduro and a lot of paramilitary forces from Colombia are operating in those states. Very likely a secesionist movement is in the works, an Uribe puppet won in Tachira.
The opposition is screaming fraud right now but I bet USA has a plan B and later they will pressure them to accept the results.
One more time, countries can see that Russia (nor China) will never be their defense against the US. Today while a North Korean delegation is in Russia,Putin signs off on the US pushed for sanctions against the North. Proving once again that when it comes to a dispute with the US as opposed to friendship for an old ally.The US will win out every time.Iran should ,along with North Korea (and any other US enemy),pay close attention to that. And realize that in facing the US (or Israel for that matter). Its the height of stupidly for them to count on support from the “big two”,they won’t get it. If it doesn’t “directly” affect their interests,(Ukraine,Syria,the South China Sea) they have no intention of helping other victims of the US.Certainly if it could mean having to fight the US.
Those nations facing US aggression,are on their own in this world.Unless they make the smart move and ally themselves together to face the US.North Korea instead of sending delegations to Russia (or China),needs to send them to Iran.And the same is true for Iran.Military delegations should be visiting North Korea to see what type of military coordination they could arrange together.Sharing of military technology,and a “if the US attacks you.We both fight them”,arrangement needs to be made.The US hates and plots war against both of them.And Israel also hates North Korea for their support of the Palestinian cause.So they need to face the US together.
The US regime is criminal and stupid.But “knowing” that if they attack one,they must fight two at the same time.Might cause them to wake up a bit.Especially as they can’t be sure that in a case like that. Russia and China “might” just see that as a chance to end the empire for good.Taking on Iran or North Korea,one at a time.The US using its full might,probably could defeat them (though it would be a bloody mess).Having to fight them together might not work for the US.Even a win could be a Pyrrhic victory for them.Leaving an opening for Russia and China,something that the US doesn’t want to let happen.
So lets hope that Iran and North Korea themselves wake up to the dangers they face (before its too late). And stop counting on the fantasy of a Russian or Chinese “hero” riding to their rescue,he isn’t coming.The best they can get is “verbal” support from them.And instead “roll up their sleeves” and work out a joint defense plan,to fight the US aggression.
https://www.rt.com/news/406854-putin-signs-decree-imposing-restrictions-north-korea/
Here is a direct quote from the comments section … (by “Mordacitor”)
“It’s maybe 8 hours easy steaming between Vladivostok and Rason. Entirely within territorial waters, if necessary. What caught my eye is the “1500 tons of cargo”. That’s a lot if it’s machine tools or stationary equipment. Russia has a 99-year lease on a dedicated pier in Rajin Port. Plus, Russia laid that railway across the border into Rason with a spur going right to the pier. This gives Russia what it’s long wanted and needed: an ice-free port on the Pacific. Fresh produce directly into Vladivostok in the dead of winter. How cool is that?”
Not everything is, as it appears to be !
https://www.rt.com/news/388760-ferry-service-north-korea-russia/
This ferry service just had financial difficulties which have been quickly resolved by Russia.
Pro Memoriam – Arsen Pavlov “Motorola”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/europe/ukraine-rebel-arsen-pavlov-motorola-killed.html
Motorola – Heroes don’t die
English subtitle available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUsYC3k4w8
Judgement in Berlin
Amtsgericht Tiergarten (District Court Zoological Garden): Six months imprisonment
for the 88yrs Ursula Haverbeck because of free speech.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-holocaust-leugnerin-ursula-haverbeck-verurteilt-a-1173190.html
88yo ‘Nazi Grandma’ gets 6 months in jail for denying Holocaust… again
https://www.rt.com/news/406932-holocaust-denial-sentence-granny-court/
1917 Live … rising bread prices, Moscow hospital workers on strike and Mata Hari …
https://twitter.com/hashtag/1917LIVE?src=hash
… and …
https://www.rt.com/news/406880-mata-hari-last-days-1917/
What’s up Venezuela. Royal Canadian Navy is in the hood — tweet sent today from CAF Operations says that HMCS Nanaimo has begun patrolling in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Caribbe, a counter-trafficking operation. Last update on Caribbe was in late April. Hmm. Maybe just watching the drug trade.
Kim would appreciate the Art of Kent (a Cafe regular) …
Flyers found in South Korea depicting Trump as a ‘mad dog’ and ‘old lunatic’
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/10/16/538860/north-korea-south-korea-trump-mad-dog-lunatic-missile
Pyongyang doesn’t mince words either.
On the subject of Japan (specifically WWII sex slavery of Korean women)
“It is not fortuitous that the world regards Japan as a politically immature dwarf. ”
https://kcnawatch.co/newstream/1508259677-275366649/settlement-of-past-will-promise-bright-future-of-japan-minju-joson/
Build me up buttercup [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrfcR16VzI
The US and South Korean navies have kicked off a five-day round of military drills, the type of exercise that North Korea has previously responded with ballistic missile tests.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201710161058290876-us-south-korean-war-games-begin/
Fitness Time again – sexy – French … see how the goldfish “swims”
Alizee – J’en Ai Marre (Chanson N°1) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6fuPQ-294
Just thinking today about the recent freight train from China to London;
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38654176
and I was struck by the irony of the fact that the British Empire bankrupted and exhausted itself with 2 major world wars just to keep such a thing from ever happening, and here it is happening right into London, the capital of that very (former) British Empire.
Indeed…15 days is far faster than the sea route…and there are no “pirates”…
The war is over in the metaeconomic leading indicator sense…
Of course the empire attempts to stop time…and to challenge the gods…with the usual result…
and so it goes…
save article: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38654176 as it is a signal marker of the History we’re witnessing.
LZ
Made in Italy Monthy: Soros wagers on Italian real estate
http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/2091
Italian Investigators Reveal George Soros Funding Human Trafficking and ISIS
http://www.nnettle.com/features/853-italian-investigators-reveal-george-soros-funding-human-trafficking-and-isis
Soros-Sponsored Immigration Network Exposed in Italy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-16/soros-sponsored-immigration-network-exposed-italy
The Planned Invasion of Europe 2015 Has Begun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z81Wcg6OAY
ummm–was not Sakaashvilli supposed to be “confronting” Poro in some way today????
ah info here
“October 17, 2017, Kiev, Ukraine
Is President Poroshenko terrified by the attempt to sway his power or is it just a performance? At any rate, ousted president Yanukovich wouldn’t even think of deployment of heavy artillery in downtown Kiev to oppose the Maidan coup.
Servicemen of the 209th tank brigade are seen in the center of Ukrainian capital.
In view of the scheduled for Tuesday mass protest manifestations howitzers were observed in Mariinsky park in Kiev, according to Apostrophe website.
“The servicemen of the 209th tank brigade, whom we met beside the howitzer in the park, explained that the cannon was brought allegedly for the salute in honor of the visit of president of Malta”, the source claims.
Today an action of the followers of Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and governor of the Odessa Region, and other opposition politicians and political forces. Among them Svoboda party, the National Corps, Samopomich (Self Help) party, Civil Position movement and others.
The organizers put forward three demands: lifting of MPs immunity, making amendments to election laws by opening the lists of candidates, and establishment of the anti-corruption court.”
http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3896910-vozle-verkhovnoi-rady-poiavylys-pushky
MEGA – Make Earth Great Again with
The Love Government, Army, Bower, Vineyard and Cafe
By way of the Ten Commandments of Love:
1. think and think love
2. eat and drink love
3. free animal love
4. sex communal love
5. interest free love.
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6. no drugged love
7. no aborted love
8. no contraceptive love
9. no prostituted love
10. no pornographed love
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I am currently living in a Wisconsin paradise of beautiful, fall colored woods, marsh land, lakes, river and 300 acres of cranberry beds. I reside in a large white house, home to an extended family of relatives and friends. I am experiencing in real time and space, a trace of how we were meant to live in the original love bower.
It proves to me that what this vineyard cafe stands for is not only possible but inevitable. It’s far from perfect but it is perfect in its imperfection. It rained yesterday but this next week promises to be clear, warm and sunny. Harvest will restart on Thursday, delayed so I could enjoy it.
It’s been one moveable feast after another here, quite literally. My diet has been the subject of teasing and fun. I am the only non-meat eater and egg and milk stealer. I respect their diets and they mine, all in good fun.
I wear a clitoris silver pendant around my neck in plain view. They love it but I only tell them it is a love sign; except for my nephews, Michael and Stephen, who lean in my direction.
Uncle Fred is 87, whose short-term memory is delightfully failing. Michael is helping him find an assisted living situation near here, rather than near Chicago. Michael also helps me with my travel plans.
Today, Stephan and I will go to Lacrosse for food, and to a meditation group. I am eating way too much salt and cooked food, but it’s a temporary off the wagon affair. I give a little on eggs and milk, but not on the meat of animals with eyes and red blood like us. Ed kids me that by my rule, I shouldn’t eat potatoes since they have eyes.
The young children are delightful. Nora sat at the piano with Uncle Fred, as he taught her how to play. The souls of our near and distant ancestors are palpably present. My sister has a form of parkinsonism but she is taking it well, and continues cooking and washing clothes at a slower pace.
My brother, the priest, will soon visit, and I will visit my sister who lives on the Wisconsin River, not far from where I was born and raised in Stevens Point, at another point in the river; and where highways 10 and 66 meet.
My blood family and our vineyard family segue here at the cafe and in this white house kitchen; and play up and down the line with all our other families across time and space.
mundanomaniac puts it thusly: “…someone is talking about an ideal of relation without ever having asked ‘the other side,’ this is what I call the lonely yellow mantra…” Well put.
Bro asked: “What is the winning hand?” I agree that it is Barbara Boyd’s and her husband, Zeke’s, dossier on Mueller. The Love Army agrees and will support the effort. Someone has to stay back and play “angel at the gate” to the Love Bower; and I guess it’s up to me.
There are dark clouds on the horizon, as that slow train comes pullin’ on down around the bend. Pavel Paul links to the Russian general who pulls no punches about the Kremlin Zionists.
Uncle Bob agrees: “countries can see that Russia (and China) will never be their defense against the US…stop counting on the fantasy of a Russian or Chinese ‘hero’ riding to their rescue, he isn’t coming.”
Apropos, and vis a vis, China is now the enigma wrapped in mystery. Bro is a true believer and I am a “don’t rue the day” skeptic. Time will tell, who has won and who has fell, and who’s been left behind, when you go your way and I go mine. Dylan.
All right, I can’t go on all night. It’s nearly four and I’ve had a mere two hours’ sleep. I’ll leave, dreaming of Pavel Paul’s link to Alizer’s sexual dance of awesome beauty and grace, even if it is fixated at the tease stage, fearing to go all the way with love, as the Love Bower does.
At 77, I can rarely go all the way physically, but spiritually, mentally and metaphysically is another story; one that remains to be told here in the cafe, in the novel novel, “Love and War.”
Love, Dennis, Tomah, Wisconsin, where Chief Tomah and the Chumash Ojai Indian Maiden have taken up residence in the White House, before returning to Dodge City, Kansas, en route back to Ojai, California; posted at 414 am, heartland time, to total nine, with reason and numerical rhyme…
Globalisation – Egoism vs. Altruism
Thomas P. M. Barnett
http://thomaspmbarnett.com/the-pentagons-new-map/
Ma Yun known professionally as Jack Ma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7SK_XiFpg&t=42s
Dmitry Kiselyov – One does not want that you think
The video contains uncut comments and scenes
English subtitle available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyGiE5Y2a8
More action than in a James Bond movie … with bitter and sweet love …
Wallace and Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3blNdHN8Zk
It looks like it’s a win for Trump over the Clinton cabal in the aerospace industry (with an assist to Canada)
Airbus and Bombardier entered into a limited partnership for Bombardier’s C-Series jets. Airbus now owns 50.01 percent of the C-Series. Airbus has a production facility in Mobile, Alabama which can produce the jets for the US market. This avoids the 300 percent tariff (which resulted from the Boeing complaint.) C-Series headquarters will remain in Quebec, as well as continued production at their facilities.
Based on the comments by Unifor’s Jerry Dias, I conclude that Clinton as SOS was behind this Boeing strategy to squeeze Bombardier. Instead, it’s a MAGA win, and a win (of sorts) for Canada’s industry.
http://www.bnn.ca/video/unifor-dias-cseries-deal-based-on-survival-for-bombardier~1233758
Killary stumbles again!!
‘I was running downstairs in heels with a cup of coffee and fell backwards!’: Hillary Clinton appears on British TV show to promote her book hobbling on crutches and wearing a protective boot after BREAKING her toe
Falling backwards running down”?? Really.
She does seem to have a problem with stairs though (future stairs one might hope).
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/ClintonHang1940.jpg
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4984972/Clinton-apologetic-missing-BBC-interview.html
Kent
Reading on the Weinstein scandal reminds me….
It’s A Long Way Down.
https://youtu.be/t9i6rF64tdU
EXCLUSIVE: Fantastic Russian Primetime 2 HR Putin Documentary ‘President’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEK6llcucA
Meet the Siberian “Shaman” Lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp1fPt8Eg
And, some Night Wishes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B90VnG6FR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUET3XIEws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbeQVzXvtok
Kent
Eivør – “Trøllabundin” (“Trollbound”).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiFmZLICgM
Enjoy.
Kent
Eivør – Verð Mín (My World). With written Lyrics. Won’t help many of you though.
It is extremely relaxing and beautiful, so don’t worry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_FIwLoIHBY
Enjoy
Kent
Repeat from a previous Cafe’ I know. Worth it though I can assure you.
“My Mother”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3wa2LtJQM
Kent
Lyrics in English.
My mother she is like a queen
she is like the finest melody
My mother she is like a flower
she is like a living tree
My mother is my dear home
My mother is my safest place
My mother is the brightest beam
she enlights the dark path for me
My mother is the strongest hand
she leads me back home safely
My mother, I stand by you
I keep you in my heart
Kent
“Spanish Mary”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pztUZye5a-0
Kent
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
She stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour
Of the roses
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild
When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man
And with a careful hand
he wiped at the tears that ran down my face
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me that I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I’ve seen
I said, ‘Do you know
Where the wild roses grow
so sweet and scarlet and free?’
On the second day he came with a single red rose
He said: ‘Give me your loss and your sorrow’
I nodded my head,
As I lay on the bed
‘If I show you the roses will you follow?’
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me that I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard
Was a muttered word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
She laid on the bank, the wind light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye
Said, ‘All beauty must die’
And I lent down and planted a rose
‘tween her teeth
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
My name was Elisa Day
For my name was Elisa Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
Kent