2017/11/14 20:30:01
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Communal Win Win
Who’s the winner, who’s the loser ?
There ain’t any, there’s win win
Everyone who’s inside, can use her
Sharing in between , like twins
As if somewhere I heard about this
A marvelous win win at rendez-vous
In this cafe, about sharing a kiss
Isn’t it funny, like a déja vu
The point is clear, it’s communal
Depends on how somebody takes it
The love is there but subliminal
Free to chose it, free to fake it
So, what’s the point to make war,
When everything is good for all
Isn’t that a lovely communal share
I know, they’re not yet, but getting there…
and another one, inspired by our friend J from that last cafe :
inspired by J
headless fly ?
you made me cry
of laugh of course
thinking at a horse
who’s watching a cattle
waiting for the battle
here comes a fly
sudden, from sky
seeing horse and cattle
ready for a battle
plunging on that mass
nailing them on ass
bringing them some stress
low under their dress…
horse and cattle run away
no one saw such funny day.
but the fly ?
is headless and shy
no one asks her why.
Gude One!
The horse tail hairs decapitate…or the horses would be eaten alive.And infected by too many bites.
The Brahma cattle of India (and Texas Rodeos) resists the tropical insects the best…..
https://youtu.be/ssEmqZQ62o0
Chainsaw, Record Bucking Bull
Chainsaw is loose but he almost NEVER looses! Only 5 full qualified rides in 8 years on the rodeo tour.
???? A VERY funny thing happened to that Texas accent….don’t ask……I don’t know!(STRANGE….like played backwards…or maybe upside DOWN?)
Winning and Loosening:
The thing is also Loose-Loose-Loose if you practice Tai Chi Men…..
Donald hasn’t had the time yet to practice and is still a bit tight in the arms and shoulders…but new Asian Friends are helping him learn the “Filipino Handshake.”
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2017/11/AP17317098283287-1024×683.jpg
Tran pretends to smile but maybe the TR sound is not of ideal compatibility with the Chi—relaxed breath….(do I we hear TR sound in China??? Or only Vietnam??) ….because his elbows are nowhere near as crossed…as even TRump who grimaces in obvious discomfort, while gamely trying…..meanwhile Rodrigo Duterte shows the world how Loose-Loose-Loose can become Win-Win-Win as he effortless shows the perfect form, with right elbow left of left elbow and vice-versa allowing “Happy Energy” to reach the heart and brain……..face muscles relaxed……Nota bene….
Hi Bro,
I replied to you on the other thread, but let me copy the part about Yin/Yang here:-)
“I was stumbled how to respond to your Yin/Yang comments.
In China, Yin is female, Yang is Male.
The moon is a Yin 阴 (or 月) , the Sun is a Yang 阳 ( 日) (the first caharacter actually sounds exactly same as Yang).. Sun and Moon together it is a 明 means bright.
I think in US, political correct people intentionally made it backwards.”
Nicely done ioan. Sorry I did not notice it earlier. I like it.
I did want to say a blood sucking flea, but I changed my mind. After all, not matter how annoying a fly is, you just want to chase it away. But one more likely to kill a flea.
I will translate some gems from elementary school kids writings from China. It will make you laugh your hat off. I will do it when I have time.
Vulva Culture. Why not? Many “Love Army’s” on this planet right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FX_4Awq1LI
Kent
More “Vulva,” Love Army”. Quite nice actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E015GHSrh60
Kent
RT’s Crosstalk did a programme yesterday about “One hundred years ago Russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence. It is not an understatement the Russian Revolution or Bolshevik coup d’état was the defining moment of the 20th century. How did it change Russia and the world?”
It made the point that it actually started in Feburary 2017. Here is the extended version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6EjtIYyVl8
Dmitry Babich is particularly good/makes interesting points that the “West” is adopting all that was bad about the Soviet Union today…….
“Dmitry Babich is particularly good/makes interesting points that the “West” is adopting all that was bad about the Soviet Union today…….”
I noticed that, and as always I thoroughly enjoys his comments.
Kent
There are collectivists, and there are individualists.
Almost never do the individualists win.
Finally the message repeats
You need government
You need government
from they who have the biggest gun.
“There are collectivists, and there are individualists.
Almost never do the individualists win.”
Wrong IMO.
“It is the desire/will to will that creates the ability to achieve whatever
“Will, purposeful pursuit, ability to make choices and transform thoughts into action, especially those actions that the individual and/or any collective can benefit from and identify with”
Kind regards
Kent
“Love Army” essentials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyv73LKVa-k
Kent
Lyrics
Too big, to small
Size does matter after all
Zu groß, zu klein
Er könnte etwas größer sein
Mercedes Benz, und Autobahn
Alleine in das Ausland fahren
Reise, Reise, Fahrvergnügen
Ich will nur Spaß, mich nicht verlieben
Just a little bit, just a little bitch
You’ve got a pussy
I have a dick
So, what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
So take me now before it’s too late
Life’s too short so I can’t wait
Take me now, oh, don’t you see
I can’t get laid in Germany
To short, to tall
Doesn’t matter, one size fits all
Zu groß, zu klein
Der Schlagbaum sollte oben sein
Schönes Fräulein, Lust auf mehr
Blitzkrieg mit dem Fleischgewehr
Schnaps im Kopf, du holde Braut
Steck Bratwurst in dein Sauerkraut
Just a little bit, be my little bitch
You’ve got a pussy
I have a dick
So, what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
So take me now before it’s too late
Life’s too short so I can’t wait
Take me now, oh, don’t you see
I can’t get laid in Germany
Germany
Germany
You’ve got a pussy
I have a dick
So, what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
You’ve got a pussy
I have a dick
So, what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
You’ve got a pussy
I have a dick
So, what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
So take me now before it’s too late
Life’s too short so I can’t wait
Take me now, oh, don’t you see
I can’t get laid in Germany
Translation not to bad. Essentials for some (recognized or not).’
Kent.
“Let’s do it quick”
A quickie, the modern westerner in a nutshell. Then he starts snoring and she returns to yakking on her cellphone.
Balance.!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxkQ8u7Y__4
Enjoy.
Kent
THE “Original”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
Enjoy
Kent
Hurts, does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkp-U36c_wo
Kent
Silence. Different.
Meet Nouela.
Enjoy.
Kent
Forgot link to Nouela:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oInT79CUk
Kent
Meet Nouela-
Free to use.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/nouela_wolf.jpg
Kent
American (Western culture) in a nutshell- Sick bag anyone??.
BUTT!! The Clown can actually sing!!
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zam3hukPB78
Kent
What a strange and wondrous world! The clown can sing indeed! Go Puddles!
Does anyone here know of the 40 day practice of Kusam ibn Abbas?
Not I. I found a lovely old painting of his tomb though:
http://www.sphinxfineart.com/Padly-Aladar-Budapest-1881-Veresegyhaza-1949-Before-Shah-Zinda-Samarkand-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=6&tabindex=5&objectid=164990
I Like the description of the cerulean blue robes and the sky blue vase and then when one’s eye goes to the blue tiles in the right corner on the mosque dome. thanks. Nice use of color Triads( same with white) for movement within the picture .
Hafez of Shiraz ( commenting on the personal and the political state of Islam)
# 253
” I am held tight by the grip of pain and deep sorrow:
remedy, those dispellers of grief, apply!…remember.
At this time there remains no faith left in anyone;
faith and that which loved ones supply, ..remember.
Because this happened, Hafez’s secret stays untold:
the keepers of secrets who said goodbye…remember.”
Pope Francis is discussed in Europe. He has said some strange things. Is he Peter the Roman, the last pope? His only title is now Bishop of Rome and his first name is Pietro. I wonder what the Saker says about this. I was chocked when I read some of Francis statements. Some freemasons like him and he wants world government.
https://thewildvoice.org/pope-francis-chronology-perspective/
Very interesting reading – thanks for sharing!
However your introducory words, or, your personal take on it, were a bit misleading – as for me, I was not shocked, but pleased by most of it. While I had written Franjo off a s a pure publicity gadget of the sinister depths of catholicism, by reading the bulk of it I got the impression that 1. he probably is sincere, and 2. he seems to have been able to make his team to follow his lead which may 3. result in a real renewal of catholicism, that is, of one of the big and influential world powers. Yes, it could all be phoney (asnd shuld be expected from jesuits), but it does not feel so. To me.
bp
We are what we are and we think as we do. Reason is a precious gift and we must all use it to the best of our ability.
I am not Catholic, but I know the words of Francis have caused reactions. US Bishops wonder what is going on and Francis is discussed in Europe. I do not see a new and united Church, I see a Church that may be divided. Rome has caused trouble for a millennia, so perhaps that is good, but think of the believers and their woes. They are good people, what do they say when their Pope is suspected of satanism? There are several videos about it on youtube and millions see them. Perhaps you know what the Bible says about abomination in a holy place.
I have been to Rome and it was a great experience a long time ago. I sensed the Spirit. I have also lived among Catholics and respect them.
Other Churches in Europe are also in trouble, I must say to be fair. I see how the US Churches have been transformed and I am perplexed. Where is the Christianity I grew up with in another age? Others also wonder and home congregations are formed like in the catacomb Church in Russia during the years of the Sovjet union. I live in the EU, which is USSR 2.0. The US also has some ressemblance to the USSR. The great revivals are taking place in the Third world, not here.
Perhaps this has already been posted. Hillary Clinton may soon be under investigation. Sessions ponders two different investigations. Perhaps Hillary is in serious trouble.
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/11/13/nation/congressional-referrals-sparked-doj-investigations-like-uranium-one-and-clinton-foundation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-considering-second-special-counsel-to-investigate-republican-concerns-letter-shows/2017/11/13/bc92ef3c-c8d2-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?utm_term=.494f6e671ab7
Cyclist fired for giving Trump the finger to get over $80k from GoFundMe campaign
https://www.rt.com/usa/409847-trump-motorcade-woman-fund/
Sometimes things work out ok, even in pindoland, even on the wrong coast… ;-D
Thank You, esteemed Saker, for the sanity and balance (not to mention knowledge of matters below the surface and how to understand them) of your editorial on the October Revolution.
India are ecscatic here. The comments are very special:
Nepal scraps hydro project with Chinese company; Indian co. to get it?
https://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow_comments/61650423.cms
Strange, the whole world is seeking investments from China but Nepal has scrapped the power plant project with the Chinese company due to irregularities, thought there is no mentioning of who will get the contract. There are also reports of the Pakistanis saying that India is sabotaging the China Pakistan Economic Corridor through terrorism.
Anon,
Agree. Chinese reaction to this kind news was astonishment that India would choose a road of confrontation, than work together to enrich the public. The only thing I can think to explain this is that their exceptional culture and political system. Who knows, maybe this is what fate has decided to happen. As long as they(or the overlords) are happy.
Pakistan has also scrapped a dam project in the CPEC region with China because the terms were not favorable to the Pakistanis. They will now have to built the dam on their own now, because no one will fund them as it lies in an area contested by India too.
Anon,
I just read about the Pakistan Dam.
I have been reading Dawn. Dawn seems to like to publish some bit short sighted articles. A few days ago, there was complaint of bad management in Pakistani government because there are now surplus energy in Pakistan, and it is going to be wasted. You and I both know, when more industries move to Pakistan, and with people getting richer, they will need far more energy than today. But democracy is about next election.
So taking the Dam project off the table may be just part of internal politics.
Excess power supply
https://www.dawn.com/news/1367103
PM Abbasi orders retirement of old power plants
https://www.dawn.com/news/1366728
Of cause, it is also very possible that Chinese term was not acceptable. I also think Chinese need to let Pakistan digest what she has already. We can help them more after we see the results.
apparently, The Indians are besides themselves with the news of Pakistan Dam, very entertaining:
In a jolt to OBOR, Pakistan rejects China dam aid
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistan-walks-out-of-chinese-project-for-pok-dam/articleshow/61662966.cms
J, thanks for highlighting the excess power supply problem. I didn’t know about this factor because no media outlet mentions it. Maybe all are like Dawn, in one way or the another.
Anon,
There is a article in Sina about the Nepal dam. Nepal’s former PM went to China two time for this project. It is Nepal’s most important project. Nepal does not have enough electricity.
Of cause India started roamer about the project. Very much like what it is doing in Pakistan.
On Nov.14th, India soldier crossed border into Nepal and took apart a road construction site, they still inside of Nepal. While India is building national defense high way for heavy equipment such as tanks
Like I said before, India need to be balkanized.
J, I have an odd feeling that India is in the process of ‘sikkimising” both Nepal and Bhutan with the sponsorship of the Zio-Yank-Japs. The Yanks backed them in their invasion of Southern Tibet and the 1962 war. Now with the Yanks waning India to be cannon-fodder against China, backing their sikkimising Bhutan and Nepal will be their reward.
If so, India is most likely preparing war against China in the near future. This has the added attraction of diverting attention from their recent economic blunders and winning the Hindu supremacists the next election.
If anyone hasn’t seen this movie. I highly recommend seeing it. Its very sad,but gives a good picture of the folk customs of pre-WWII Western Ukraine. And reveals clearly the horrible actions of the Bandera people during WWII in Western Ukraine. Its important to see them as they were.And to remember they are the ancestors of the current Ukrainian neo-nazis. Those savage killers have been acclaimed as “heroes” by the current Ukrainian regime. After seeing this movie I think it will be clear why the people of Novorossia don’t want them.And what Crimea was lucky to escape from.
Volhynia/Volyn- English Subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EBW3AYGbjU
oh the hysteria continues and spreads fear and gets inserted into every layer and part of society…maybe all Russians in Uk will have to wear a red star badge by law to identify themselves so they can be tracked—oh, has not that happened before somewhere else- or after T May Uk is gonna want to register RT etc as a foreign agent too, lock ’em up in concentration camps? Any Uk person appearing on RT will be called a traitor, not just “useful idiots”?
A new “Krystallnacht”?
“Putin’s lying machine: Revealed, how Russia’s spewing out ruthless propaganda from a Moscow-funded TV station – right next to Westminster
A team of journalists sit at video mixing desks preparing bulletins ‘Kremlin-style’ in London’s Millbank Tower
State-of-the-art equipment allows for slick graphics that mimic the output of international news broadcasters
Russia Today is a direct mouthpiece for the government and its global operations are funded by the Kremlin”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5083185/Putin-s-lying-machine-Russia-s-spewing-propaganda.html#ixzz4yURFUSNp
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… just wondering what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would have to say about the October Revolution.
The mass murders of Royal family and priests etc ? … all done under the banner of Marxism !
Lenin took Marxism on a U-turn … way out of context … way out of its intended ideology.
Lenin should be buried and all truths be laid out for serious study, because the Russian Federation is too lenient (weak) and needs some real Marxist doctrine to oppose the oligarchs … and stop all the ‘pussy footing’ around. Get all those presidential candidate idiots together and send them to a gulag for starters … and tell the western world to STFU !
(My safety-sanity valve just had to blow !)
Marx wrote a very good academic book on economics, on how capitalism impacts the masses exploited to make it work. Others made his ideas into a doctrine and applied some parts to further their own agendas. That doesn’t invalidate his original ideas and observations or justify the gulag.
Just sayin’.
Hope your rant makes you feel a bit better ;)
Marx did not seek to overthrow the oligarchy and confiscate its assets. He set the proletariat against the bourgeois, which had at least some things in common with it.
Think about that. Long and hard.
The net effect, in the long run, was to forestall any possible threat to the powers behind the scenes by those potentially able to bring this to pass (revolt from within).
One hand washes the other.
… I rant to get people talking in the Cafe … and it worked to a small degree.
Cross Talk did not address the issues of my rant.
Lenin was a murderer and let’s discuss his appointed Cheka thugs.
These serious matters are drifting along unanswered.
It was a revolution. The misdeed of old governing caught up on them. It happens in china every a few hundred years also. The communist brought equality for all, education for all, and industrial revolution. Without the revolution to pave equal ground for all, Russia would be mostly like India today where a privileged few Lord over the messes.
Russia did not have a good governing system in its history.
The revolution do not need to be right the first time. Learn from it, be grateful, and move on.
I am not sure why Russians have such a romantic view of the tsars. It brought wars and wars to its citizens, a foreign entity, menacing to every one of its neighbors. All result even today, it has to spend so much money to to fight off neighbors who want their lost land and people back. The Russians did not even dare to have a bridge over the border with China. Today, the first bridge is just been built.
Russia is not very confident people. They should thank communist for bring education to all so they had brain power to build all those war machines.
Russian tsars are menace to the neighborhood, they annex land, cleansing of native.
But that is Russia. Long for past glory of stump on its neighbors, a few beautiful privilege Lords that looks so good on film, Still more fighting than thinking.
You have a point, Sensei J!
Oooops! Sorry…I know that word for “master teacher”…from the Land of the Rising Sun…..who Must be THE Best because they are First in Line for the warmth and light every morning.No Offense!
However they (First Sun Greeters) needed “Divine Wind” (Hurricane/typhoon) twice I think to save them from neighbors in darkness from the Asian Land Mass to the North West….destroying the fleet of Kubla Khan …and hastening Marco Polo’s return to Venice where everyone laughed at him and called him a liar for the things he reported about you guys.
You were unbelievable, the things you did and had.Big Credibility Gap because connection was kind of tenous and slow. that Old Silk Road!
Now you have good fortune to have those tough lean Russian wolves to your north and west with plenty of fighting experience on your side as Opium Pushing White Devils dream One Last Time of Enslaving World Island by choking energy supply routes by water (“Brittania….er US Navy…Rules The Sea”….they still want to believe….).and one Irish victim of such Lordly Love dismissing all your economic progress and Connectivity (BIG LOVE, in my opinion…..LOL) as shallow, lower consciousness “consumerism”.
While going to Walmart for what he needs! Ha!
How to resist Division and Conquest is Communal Issue!
As though the human race should stand pat with most of it (Asia-Pacific Basin west to Subcontinent and Africa) consuming 1/10 (Or Less!!!) of what average person in power base of AZ Empire receives filtered down to its masses needed to fight its wars and kiss their rulers asses.
But realize that Northern Cap of World Island was peaceful forest dwellers, passively collecting Protein Reserve mushrooms and summer honey when Not So Divine Wind of Genghis’ riders swooped in and imposed the yoke of Eastern Domination. I know!: Not Your Fault. This Mongol Wind also blew south and bossed you around for a while…until discovering that you did a lot of things better.
Same thing from West (German Princes, Poles, Napoleon) and South (Turkish types that dream of raiding your West (Easier to Steal than Work Hard Chinese Way!).
Everyone looking for shortcut to glory and quick buck can learn from Patience of the East.
Peace and Love comes with Wisdom and forgetting Old Scores to Settle.
Just my opinion. Dennis believes Zionist Hand is behind Puppet Xi and New Silk Road must be stopped.
I disagree. I think Papal Zionist Dark Occult Forces are behind His Childish Fear.
We All Learning Together! So Beautiful!
We will find out what the Truth Is, Pretty Soon!
Oh the Vietnamese are very, very wary of the Chinese and have good historical reasons not to buy the hype. I have friends who do manufacturing in China and some of their tales of how the government and local corruption works would curl your hair—even in current anglosaxon-zionistlandia such blatant personally aggressive things do not happen–yet.
But this is a blog not concerned with such. And it really is the problem of the Chinese citizenry themselves.
The Vietnamese? Hahahaha! Obviously you do not know its real history. E.g. It was in the process of swallowing up Laos, Cambodia and eastern Thailand when China taught it a lesson in 1979.
It had done the same in history. China restrained its aggression until China turned inwards during the later half of the Ming Dynasty. It then expanded southwards smashing through its borders near where South Vietnam and North Vietnam was formerly divided. It genocided the country of Champa and swallowed up eastern Cambodia and Cambodia’s Mekong Delta region. The whole of the Mekong Delta was formerly part of Cambodia.
Today, it is still being restrained by China – Vietnam’s elder brother. And Cambodia, Laos and Thailand know it. The Americans, by encouraging Vietnamese aggression (like the former USSR), is trying to start a fire in South East Asia and China’s southern borders to stop the rise of East Asia. Vietnam is ear-marked as the cannon-fodder the Zio-Yanks will use for this purpose.
It’s like what the Anglos did with Japan. China pacified a very aggressive Japan for 250 years by expelling the Japs from the Korea with heavy losses by the Japs who lost its entire navy. The Jap armies in Korea were surrounded and faced certain annihilation having been cut off from supplies from Japan due to the destruction of the Jap navy by Korea assisted by China. China allowed the Japs to withdraw peacefully to Japan instead. There were peace in East Asia for more than 250 years.
The Anglos revived Japanese militarism and appetite for aggression to be used as cannon-fodder against Russia. They paid the price when Japan turned against them in WW2.
Will the Vietnamese be willing to be used again as was by the USSR? After all they blamed China for preventing Vietnamese “greatness” by restraining Vietnamese expansionism since Vietnam broke away from China more than a thousand years ago. Only two men now prevent the Vietnamese from making another attempt at becoming the “Prussia of the East”, this time at the service of the Zio-Yanks-Japs – the current Prime Minister and President of Vietnam. The rest of the leadership are for going with the Zio-Yanks-Japs!
I suspect that they will retry their ‘luck’. If so, we are looking at the break-up of Vietnam into South and North again!
hi simon … you will need to repost your last as it was in spam and my finger was faster than my mind … mod-hs
OK. Noted. But it may still be in the bin, in which case it could be recovered if in time.
no .. you will need to repost … spam is a special queue … once the delete key is hit for a comment in the spam queue … it is gone. Difficulty is the amount of spam … i just returned from my 45min dog walk and had 38 new spam comments that needed to be reviewed and deleted.
Simon, a few weeks ago, I spoke to a Vietnamese, and he went quickly into the Guangzhou belongs to Vietnam. I was shocked. One wonder why they need a beating every 100 year also.
There was a discussion about Russian and Japan on sina. Japan is another nation that trying hard to expand. But unfortunately for them, every time it happens, Chinese beat them back. Otherwise, they would have been another Russia.
China has productive land and people. We are lucky that we were civilized early and able to adapt most of time. Or we’d be history.
J, the Vietnamese are a branch of the Yue people (the Southern Yue) who populated the south eastern sea-board of China south of and including Shanghai. They were sinicised during the Warring States period and finally by the Qin and Han. But a branch settled in the Red River Valley (North Vietnam) and mixed with the locals there.
The Red River Valley was then subjected to extensive flooding due to severe silting (hence the colour (red laterite soil) and name of the river. The settled population remained small because the flooding severely limited food and especially rice production.
The Qin engineers (they also similarly brought the Sichuan basin into food production) built dykes, effectively controlled the river and also provide an irrigation system.
The resultant spike in food production allowed the population to expand and became a power center. A Qin general galvanised the population into rebellion after the Han dynasty took over. They have been in rebellion ever since. The rest of the Yue up to and including Kwantung Province was sinicised and incorporated into China.
That’s why the Northern Vietnamese look very like the Cantonese – short and slim. But they are not Chinese although they adopted Chinese culture and paid tribute to the Chinese emperor. They were regarded as part of Chinese civilisation (like the Koreans) but having autonomous rule to which the Chinese emperor agreed.
But when their population and therefore power increased, they looked greedily at the lands south but which belong to other established kingdoms. They used the social organisation (Confucian) and military tactics learnt from China to subdue the South.
They succeeded to an extent when China turned inwards or weakened. But now they are only biding their time and looking for sponsors of their aggression.
Laos, Cambodia and Thailand know this. That’s the main reason they remain so close to China. Only China can assure their survival. The US and Japs will sell them down the river as bait for the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese would be willing to be used as their cannon-fodder against China.
They speak like Guangzhou too. I made the mistake ask the guy.
As much as they have been with china for so long, they seems really not benefit as the rest of east Asia. It is also the only country with such strong heritage suppressed and mistreat Chinese. Today there is a article say them no matter how much they copy from chinese system, they are not doing so hot.
They have strangely big ego that is unique. No one I encountered act like them.
As I pointed out, they mixed and therefore diluted their genetic heritage with the locals. That seems to increase their ferocity without increasing their capability. They lack the Chinese characteristics which can only gained through several generation of integration into true Chinese culture. Once gain, it is very hard to lose the Chinese-ness.
I, for example, was thoroughly Western educated by will of my very capable and sagacious mother from Fosan, Guanzhou. But my thought patterns remain very much Chinese although I am thoroughly a Calvinistic Christian.
I can understand both Western and Chinese culture and now am understanding Russian and Burmese culture. You can say that my Western and Chinese back-ground has made me ultra adaptable.
Hi Bro,
No Offense is take.
There is a lot of truth in what you were saying. After divide, then come time of unite.
Zhou Dynasty was time of divide. Chinese most famous are philosophers are from end of that period: Laozi, Confucius, Mencius and etc. They surmised what was learned, and Chinese civilization was better for it.
Chinese today, still quote many of the idioms/expression daily.
Chinese history book full of stories of empires and dynasties good and bad deeds.
For example, a few days ago, a news item on Sina was talking about India smog. I can tell you 90% of people was criticize the author even they admit that Beijing’s smog was a lot better this year.
What they said was over welimngly this phrase from end of Zhou:
Our ancestors tough us not to “50 steps laugh at 100 step” 五十步笑百步.
here is the explanation of origin: https://chinablog.cc/2009/02/50-steps-laughing-at-100-steps/
Face the historical fact is many culture refuse to do, include Russia, so they repeat same mistakes.
“I disagree. I think Papal Zionist Dark Occult Forces are behind His Childish Fear.”
Fair enough, that’s your opinion but why the continued Ad Hominem.
J, I just have a ‘dust-up’ with Uncle Bob 1 over those very issues of “lost lands”. U B 1 seems like an ultra Russian nationalist. I could be wrong. But I don’t think many Russians can handle the truth about their predatory past even today. Too bad. Putin did not make things better in re-exhibiting the Russian DNA for hoarding lands by annexing Crimea. That’s why the problem in Ukraine won’t be resolved in a hurry. The Ukies seem unlike the Chinese who can let bygones be bygones.
The neocons seem to be attacking Russia with the “Death by a Thousand cuts” strategy i.e. bleeding Russia’s man-power and economy. They won’t attack Russia with a full frontal ‘love-in’ like what the Germans did. So Russia will not be able to use her military to advantage – like the USSR. They will ratchet up tensions in Ukraine and the middle-East and force Russia to put its military on ever more expensive heightened alerts. And so hopefully drain the Russian economy.
Now Saudi Arabia and Iran is gearing up for war. Behind Saudi Arabia is Israel. A new hot war in the middle-East will catch Russia like a sitting duck in Syria. So any misstep by Putin in the middle-East or Syria will bleed Russia. The resulting temporary rise in oil price may help the Russian economy before US shale brings down the price again.
Maybe China should now step in and try to prevent war in the middle-East.
Putin didn’t ‘annex’ Crimea, Crimea re-joined Russia after an overwhelmingly positive referendum. This was the third referendum.
SO,
The Crimea was cleansed natives and then filled with Russian Cossack. Of course they voted to go back to mother Russia.
To give you a different perspective, In the border conflicts last year in Myanmar when Chinese on the land annexed to Myanmar by British barely over 100 years ago, The people there use Chinese app, go to Chinese school, speak Chinese language. While some one was crying about Chinese Crimea, built most Chinese public and the government did not entertain the idea. There was no reason to make a hostile nation out of Myanmar. Chinese did took a plane, and brought the groups to peace negotiation table with government while the government trying to exclude them (that was what I read on line at the time).
Had Chinese army went in, or had a referendum, the whole Myanmar wold have gone to dogs for many hundreds years. The result is a lot of waste of blood an treasure as Russian is doing right now in Ukraine.
Historically, Crimea was a vassal of the Ottomans. Russian empire conquered it and populated it with the Kozaks. Stalin banished the Crimean Tatars to Siberia for allegedly supporting Nazi Germany. Those allegations were proved to be wrong and Russia did make efforts to resettle Crimean Tatars. History is filled with such incidents. Even the Ottomans oppressed the Slavs in the Balkans. As of today, most of the residents are of crimean tatar and slavic mixture.
Here is a piece from global times:
China-Russia bridge will heal old wounds
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067394.shtml
“A colleague who once visited Blagoveshchensk suggested I not take a photo at the city’s Triumphal Arch. Chinese tour guides also remind Chinese tourists not to do so.
“Blagoveshchensk” means “city of the Annunciation” in Russian and the Triumphal Arch was built in honor of the visit of Crown Prince Nikolai Alexandrovich in 1891. Chinese people can never forget the Russians once claimed victory by occupying the vast territory across the Heilongjiang River.
In the appalling Blagoveshchensk incident nine years later, more than 5,000 Chinese people were killed. The Russians violently drove the Chinese out of the city, making the Heilongjiang River the demarcation line between the two nations.
More than a century has passed. China and Russia enjoy a clear border. But in the hearts of most Chinese people, the scar remains. “….
That is the very much sinicized WA state in Eastern part of Myanmar. China will never allow it to join China but will encourage it to integrate with Myanmar. Bit the Yanks may cause trouble.
There was also another piece of land called Kokang which as you say was “annexed” by the British. The people there are ethnic Chinese. The land is 10,000 square Km in size. It is an autonomous region of Myanmar. China also did not take back the land but tried to help it integrate into the Union of Myanmar.
War started in 2009 and is still going on especially now the dry winter season had started. China refused to take sides but tried to get both sides to negotiate.
Why did Russia use the referendum in Crimea? Two very good reasons; One, the western powers were planning to kick Russia out of their leased bases and establish a Nato base to further surround and threaten Russia as explained in Auslander’s short historical novel;
https://www.amazon.com/Incident-Simonka-R-H-Auslander-ebook/dp/B01ERKH3IU
And the second reason is Rosa. Rosa, forcibly taken into slavery from her home in Southern Russian nearby Crimea and Ukraine by invading armies, is representative of millions of Russians taken from their homes and families into slavery by invaders from every direction over the centuries. Rosa is a very real person, a family friend, who lives about a mile from my home. You can watch her tell her amazing true story of tragedy, slavery, hope, faith, and triumph here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h6NIa5W9oM
@MarkinPNW. Hahahaha! That’s the same category of reasons that Czarist Russia took over Outer Manchuria and was also eyeing Manchuria proper which the Japs were also coveting. That was the reason for the Russo-Jap war of 1904-5.
If China followed the same reasoning, she will expel the Czarist Russians all the way back to beyond the Urals in 1685 after demolishing the Russian encroachment in Albasin and wipe out Nerchinsk. As it was, China signed the treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 – the first treaty ever signed that treat a foreign power as an equal when that foreign power, Russia, was defeated. China was and is for peace.
Looks like Russia still covet more land. When will she stop?
Simon, My thoughts as well. Keep giving excuses, until the one breaking camel’s back. We shall see.
@MarkinPNW. Furthermore, if you use the case of “Rosa” as a pretext for annexing Crimea, the Chinese have even more similar reasons for not only driving the Russians out of Outer Manchuria but all the way back beyond the Urals. The Chinese did not do so.
When the Cossacks first swept into Outer Manchuria, they massacred the peaceful and unsuspecting local population. The locals called the Cossacks “luocha” – a type of demons found in Buddhist mythology according to Wikipedia. The massacres and the genocides followed by diseases spread by the Cossacks were far worse than what “Rosa” suffered and by far more people than just “Rosa”.
I have never read that Russia, like the Japs, ever showed remorse for these genocides, including the massacre at Blagoveshchensk. The blood of the victims are likely still crying for justice to Almighty God. Maybe that’s why Russia is facing so much trouble even today.
And MarkinPNW, Putin should change the name of Blagoveshchensk – “City of the Annunciation”. Instead of announcing the good news of a Saviour for all men of good-will, it forebode genocide. To me it’s name and its link to the massacre of the Chinese amounts to real blasphemy against the Almighty.
Wow Simon, you might make me think I’m somebody important from your vigorous reactions to my post.
But seriously, taking into account your responses, perhaps Solzhenitsyn had a point when he said that the line between good and evil is not between countries, or religions, or political parties but is inside each human being. Yes, Russia has suffered, but so have many others. Yes, many have done evil to Russia and Russians, but also Russians have at times done evil to others. Same with Americans, English, French, Germans, etc. You do have a point, about the lack of willingness to confess and acknowledge our own faults which we all, as egotistical humans are always reluctant to do, as well as forgive others as we all want to tell others to do.
Certainly few in my own country want to even think about, yet alone acknowledge or confess, the many crimes committed by my countrymen, and by my government in my name over more than two centuries.
And speaking of why Russian may be facing so much trouble today, I’ve also wondered if one of the main reasons my own country (the one that includes a PNW – Pacific North West, as well as all our other geographical regions) is faced with so many problems is because of our own refusal to confess and acknowledge our own faults and aggressions of the past.
Well, Rosa escaped a lot of the suffering of her fellow countrymen by means of using a marriage of convenience to escape “Operation Keelhaul” (one of the atrocities of the alliance between the America and the Soviet Union), but many of her countrymen did suffer horribly from that war, both in Ukraine and in Belorussia (now called Belarus). Perhaps a lot of the suffering of Russia, such as revolution, war, famine, etc. is a Karmic reaction to things Russians have done in the past.
To me all individuals are important. One can never foresee how important. Besides it is also the issues being aired – such issues are buried like festering boils in the history of Russia.
Let me use Indonesia as an example. They went through a horrible period under Suharto – 30 years. Suharto, with the assistance of the CIA, massacred the communist in Indonesia. Lots of innocent people were killed. Chinese were included as communists and murdered. Corruption was very, very rife. Corruption is still there but under control.
(I have little doubt that the US was madly exacting vengeance on the overseas Chinese for defeat in the Korean War by China). About 2 million (likely much more) were murdered in the killing orgy.
When Suharto was overthrown in 1998, Indonesia went through a process of national repentance led by the Christians who formed about 10-15% of the population. They prayed and asked for forgiveness from the Almighty for all their national sins, including the massacres.
Today, Indonesia is progressing very well. They are a very happy and confident people despite extreme Islamism trying to establish itself.
There is also the story in the Bible of how Israel of King David’s time was suffering famine because of the sins of King Saul in massacring a minority (Gibeonites) that Israel had promised before God not to do so (2 Samuel 21:1-14). It was only after justice was done for the Gibeonites that God answered the prayers in behalf of the land.
Therefore if I can help in a way however small, to help bring Russians, a people professing to be Orthodox Christians, to collective repentance so that God can then bless them, I will try to do so.
Also about the millions of Russians taken into slavery by invaders, like “Rosa” from Southern Russia. Those invaders would be Ottomans. The Muslims were notorious for being slave-traders. However, it was not the people east of the Urals who did that. There was no reason for the Cossacks to massacre them.
Hi Simon,
I read your reply on the different mind-sets/perspectives operating in eastern and western spheres, and thought about how much effort is required to see through the others eyes.
I thought it worthwhile reposting here as it is apt and illustrative of a fundamental obstacle.
I have no desire to get involved or reignite the on-going debate and hope that is OK with you.
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Simon,
I would not bother with UB1.
Russia wanted only Crimea, but not the land of Eastern Ukraine. It knows that it has too much land to look after already. It wants people of Eastern Ukraine, but not the land.
Because it took Crimea, the people of Ukraine wants revenge, even if it means to hit the overwhelming Russian force for certain death. This situation will go on for many many years. Everyone, no matter how poor, how beaten down, loves their home and country. Ukrainians are no exception.
Because of Crimea, Russian lost leverage, while Chinese government could take a plane and bring the warring groups to negotiation table, Russian can not do same in Ukraine. The results are suffering Cossack decedents from Catherine times in Novorussia, and bleeding in Russian treasury. Of cause, they voted to be part of Russia too.
In middle east, I think the Russians must already considered all the possibilities. If they do not go fight in ME, the war will come looking for them in Russia. It was right decision for Russia to go to Syria, but not for China.
China traditionally has no influence to or much connection with ME than trade, but did have a lot more culture connection to Iran. I even doubt if Chinese would act if the fight gets to Iran, but Pakistan may be different story. If war gets to Iran, then we should also say good bye to India.
Russia made choice of peace, so now we have peace and friendship at northern borders. Chinese can forgive a lot for peace and harmony. Let’s hope it continue. Whatever they do is their prerogative. Chinese principle has always be peace and harmony in the immediate neighborhood.
Chinese are no longer going to be let bygone be bygones especially to those who knowingly taking advantage of China tradition of 先礼后兵. http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/definitions/t/%E5%85%88%E7%A6%AE%E5%BE%8C%E5%85%B5-xianlihoubing.
Today, Indian has a few news about similar topic:
China to deal with Doklam-like issues more strongly: Chinese expert
http://www.defencenews.in/article/China-to-deal-with-Doklam-like-issues-more-strongly-Chinese-expert-444533
It seems only India care about this news.
J … do you think Religions and Marxism could have been integrated in the Chinese and Russian Marxist Revolutions ?
Paul,
Religion has no place in Chinese politics. While a few empire was very into religion, at least one of them even quit being an empire, and went to mountains to searching for the magic potion that would bring him to heaven, but religion was never part of politics.
While Mao was thought by outsiders as a hard core communist. But to Chinese, he was following old Chinese tradition. Mao was a great poet, and his Song style poems were outstanding, full of imposing attitude 气魄. In one of them, he pretty much discounted all the famous emperors except one, the first emperor of Han dynasty. He was a very brutal man of cause.
Confucius doctrine is for harmony, and not to go extreme. Chinese government will not abandon it for any reason. Much like the ancient emperors did not abandon Confucianism for Tao, Buddhism, they might no longer desire to govern, but Confucianism adapt and marches on.
As for Russia, I do not know it well enough to comment on.
Sorry Paul. I personally think religion does not play big part in China. Mostly older people who look back their life now want to be close to God.
As for Marxism. I had to learn it when I was little, and to day I can not even tell you one thing about it. At time when Deng and others study in Germany was captivated by the idea, china was in severe distress, these young men from well to do family felt the unfairness for the poor people and started revolution. Their experiment was not successful. But old and tried Confucius worked. To me, Confucius has a lot of element looking out for common people. Of course Confucius has its own problem and need to adapt modern world.
Chinese government adapted a lot from Americana’s social system to industrial standards. Any new rules, as long as Chinese think it will be helpful, Chinese will adapt it quickly. So I think if any Marxism idea can actually help the country, it will be integrated. Being ideological do not help you feed your hungry citizens, or care their disease, or save their lives. Many of the ideas learned from America such as social security, Medicare, and others do.
Sorry this may not be the answer you looking for.
It’s funny that indian copies everything Chinese does, but seems not getting things done.
All religions came out form thoughts at…Death. Death is true as well as Life. But at the end of Life there is Death waiting, for everybody, for every living creature. Death is a very important factor in our Life because we don’t know when she comes and even if we getting very old, she is waiting for us, closing everything, our bodies becoming a trash or ash. A thinking man, wants answers : what will happen after the death, or we lived just in vain ? so much fight, learning, love and work, sadness and happiness, tears and laugh, the memories and experience, all which can be said for a person, just disappear in Nothing ? see, that’s why I couldn’t be a communist per se. I could not accept the Nothing as I can’t today and I never will. It is against all the logic of the Life. (and, in Life there is more than logic, there is love, tenderness, real friendship, brotherhood, there is soul and spirit which cannot die because without them, Life wouldn’t be at all)
We can call it religion, we can call it philosophy, whatever, the essence is the way, for each one, to find his own Light.
Ioan, I agree with you about philosophy and religion. I read a bible story some 30 years ago, and was thinking it full of wonder ideas no unlike what we used to in Chinese stories. However, some years later, when people trying to get me to go to Church, I was very uninterested.
I always think every religion has some good ideas we can learn from. however, when philosophy become religion, then it become extreme and exclusive. So we get wars because my god is better than your god.
Confucianism is not a religion, it advocate harmony and taking a road that benefiting all. It shys away from extremism. It is just a mindset, and anyone can do it.
It’s just been reported that the army has seized power in Zimbabwe. Mugabe, long incumbent ruler is reported to be “safe and sound”.
Its been reported here that this is directed against his wife, Grace? who is currently his nominated successor and seen as something of a Winnie Mandela character, I believe.
The whole thing stinks of a US backed coup d’etat by the head of the military – claiming “corruption” of some close to Mugabe. Its like CIA 60’s all over Africa again – changing leaders they don’t like via the military.
Needs to be nipped in the bud quickly. Zimbabwe a very wealthy country.
I think this military leader may have bitten off more than he can chew as South Africa and African Union won’t accept this – if they do it can happen to all of them……
https://sputniknews.com/africa/201711151059116774-zuma-mugabe-fine-zimbabwe/
I find it difficult to feel sorry for Mugabe!
On another note, here is M. Nasrallah yesterday speaking about why there will be no Israeli or Saudi attack on Lebanon, a very calming video for the Lebanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymmVxfXBmE
I woke at about 3 am, and lay in bed, in the main mostly thinking of you, and rose at 359, later reflecting that the powerful 3 and 9 embraced the 5, emblematic of the human form with its 5 extensions of head, arms and legs, correspondent to a womam’s clitoris of head, nymphae arms and bulblar legs.
Somewhat after 4, I walked outside in the dark, wondering where the moon was, recalling that two days ago, she was easily visible. I thought she might be missing; having retrograded or empty due to her crescent reducing to empty. However, as I walked among the sacred geo-art, I caught sight of her, just emerging over the eastern hills. So beautiful, so pure, in the thin haze of clouds. The big dipper and three sisters constellations were as they were.
I came to this outdoor office, and caught up with the goings-on at this current cafe. It’s now about 6 am, the supine moon at 45 degrees, and Sir Son painting rosy shades on the gossamer clouds. It bodes well for those of us living on the edge of hell.
This Cornucopia Cafe is a gift that never stops giving, even in its reversals of corniness. If I want to take the pulse of the world, I need go no further than this cafe to make my day. It’s a long way to Tipperary, true, but if truth be told, this 3 Day, 3D Cafe is the way in to go out.
For me, our cafe culture is taking on the role of the church I never had. It was quite shocking to read the latest Saker exposes about the Great October Socialist Revolution with “everyone lying,” and its life-changing effects on him, leading to the revelation of the Catacomb True Orthodoxy Church.
I was raised on stories of the martyrs in coliseums and catacombs, but until I read some of the Saker links, I had no idea of hieromartyrs. No wonder I fell into a funk, from which I am now just emerging. The early Christians and contemporary Russians link bloody hands across 2000 years of time, over the intervening bloody rivers of crime.
The state of war cries out for a solution and resolution. If we in this vineyard do not do it, it will not be done. If we do not stop the war on Russia, the war will be won, but by the Empire. That’s a hell of a prediction, if not a prophesy; but I feel it in my bones and sense it in my stones.
I enjoyed Bro’s link to “Chainsaw,” the bucking bull who bucks everyone off, except for a handful so that the game is not abandoned entirely. The Empire is going to do that with us, unless we learn the difference between b–k and f–k. Like the “Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” by Oliver Sacks.
Kent, love bless his heart, resembles the Kent in King Lear, perhaps Shake-her-spear’s greatest play, forecasting our blindness today in Lear (Leary), Gloucester and even Albany (until the very end). Kent shows us the Good, Bad and Beautiful. He associates the Love Army with Vulva Culture and Vulva by Bleeding Sky (quite nice); and “Love Army” essentials with Rammstein Pussy in Germany, Paris, Madison Square Garden, Moscow and worldwide.
Like Shakespeare, Rammstein holds up a mirror to the unnatural world we have created: white male sexual excess, a zionist-fascist express totalitarian train running over the love culture with its war cult. The other side of the currency coin is the Corrs’ Everybody Hurts, Nouela’s Sounds of Silence with its 23M views of people in pain, per Dylan’s Hard Rain/Reign of Empire, and the Clown.
As of this in cafe time, I ended with Anon’s link to Wild Voice on Pope Francis, either saint or sinner, or both. I deal with the Pope in my nobel noble novel, Love and War, in the character of Pope Peter II. He and Count Khazar are the antagonists, with the Love Lodge as the protagonists, who are leading the way of Dodge, and the dodgy empire.
It’s going on 8, ain’t it great how my punning grates on nerves, like a great curve ball or change up? I’m hungry for two oranges to break my fast, before I walk south on Love Army Road along the river.
Love, Dennis, Vulva Valley, Shangri-la Ojai, posted 8 am pacific time…
Correction to my latest post: the third last paragraph phrase should read “out of Dodge,” not “way of Dodge.”
8:08 am
a new full load of meaning
this week’s heavenly
autumn -song
in the light of 1305, 1603 and 1980
for the gods after psalm 82
“Bright Head and the Innocence of Talking – Mars,
Venus, Sun and Jupiter under the Crown of the Soul
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/11/11_15.html
I had my break-fast of two oranges but it’s still too early, cloudy and cool to walk, so I’ll get some more karma off my dogma chest. I refer to Kent’s post of Rammstein’s Pussy and to ioan’s lead-off pre-cognition poem “Communal Win Win.”
Kent forecasts the Rammstein Pussy show with “Love Army” Essentials. ioan doesn’t say it, but I’m picking up “communal sex” in his poem.
I’ve been floating the idea of “communal sex” now for about a year or two. In this cafe, it floats like a lead balloon. Communal sex is the essence of what I’m talking about; but it’s about as counter-cultural and politically incorrect as a square circle is to four-square minds.
Bro bristles at the notion, and reduces it to an absurdity, in defense of monogamy. ioan makes fun of communal sex in his poetry, while bolstering monogamy, meat-eating and pet-keeping. As far as I can tell, most here do not have the capacity to understand in the least that I am talking about the beast of empire.
The irony is that the Love Army Essentials, as proclaimed in its ten commandments of love, is reduced in the minds of those here to a Rammstein Pussy Show. The very things that can stop the war on Russia are herein held up for ridicule. If the Love Army is correct, that makes us hypocrites for claiming to stop war. The only way out of this dilemma is to deny the validity of what the Love Army says.
The “Army” part of the Love Army meets the Rammstein’s on their battlefield. The Ramm’s tell the truth about our society. It’s a half-truth but a truth nevertheless. The orthodox circle the wagons and defend monogamy against the heterodox hoards. Pope Peter II and Count Khazar encircle Russia for the final solution putsch. Then it’s back to the catacombs in a post-Putin age.
I’d resort to reason but it’s useless for those still stuck with Moses and his ten commandments of power. Unless there’s at least a modicum of adherence to the ten commandments of love, there is no capacity for understanding or countermanding the empire. All our fine analysis will end in a final paralysis.
The Catacomb True Orthodox Church found that out the hard way. We either get the information and act on it, or we get the lesson and are acted upon, like it or not. Circling the wagons is not going to help when the wagons are filled with Trojan Horses. The only way I can see to stop the Empire’s Final Solution for Russia and the world is the Love Army’s Ten Commandments of Love.
We have Rammstein Pussy on the one side and Romantic Poetry on the other side of the coin. The Love Government, Army and Bower are the edge of that spinning coin; what are the chances it will stop on its edge? Those are the odds that the Empire can be stopped at this late stage in the game.
Even if the Zio-Sino-Xi obor train is built, what has changed about us in essentials? Nothing. In fact, less than nothing. A new empire will have arrived. The Zionists will have won without firing a shot. We will all have become zionists, thinking we have arrived in a workers’ paradise. When the multi-polar honeymoon is over, we will rue the day, and wish we had heeded Dostoyevsky’s warning.
Count Khazar has been honing this game for millenia, and behind him stands Lucifer and his Mithra cult of Mars. The Roman-Jewry war has not been won or lost. It is entering a penultimate phase. With the assistance of the Jew, Josephus, the Romans created Christianity out of Jesusanity in order to blunt the Zealot Zionists; but it was only a temporary stopgap measure. The chicken-hawks have come home to roost.
Say what you want; do what you will–it’s the same game still. For some, it’s to be thrilled; for others it’s to be killed. We make our choices according to the voices we follow. As for me, I follow the Love Army.
It’s almost 10. I think I’ll take my walk, and walk my talk.
Love, Dennis, 1000 am, Ojai Cafe West
Lush, dreamy and bluesy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT30jj_L1Dc
Lyrics to the link of one minion
Water Of Love, Dire Straits first album, back in the day . . . (1978)
High and dry in the long hot day
Lost and lonely every way
Got the flats all around me sky up above
Yes I need a little water of love
I’ve been too and long lonely and my heart feels pain
Crying out for some soothing rain
I believe I have taken enough
Yes I need a little water of love
Water of love deep in the ground
But there ain’t no water here to be found
Some day baby when the river runs free
It’s gonna carry that water of love to me
There’s a bird up in a tree sitting up high
Just waiting for me to die
If I don’t get some water soon
I’ll be dead and gone in the afternoon
Water of love deep in the ground
But there ain’t no water here to be found
Some day baby when the river runs free
It’s gonna carry that water of love to me
Thanks anon.
Here’s a link with full lyric (+last two stanzas) and song. I think the sublime sound is as important as the words, myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtB6J87q_TM
and another watery bonus for anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIu6dc7ajMU
@Dennis
Hi Dennis, you’re right, that poem was a communal teasing in a wider political environment occurring our eyes. You raised many times the question if China is part of the Count Khazar business en large, well, that is an interesting and controversial issue. My point is : The zionists have no power over China because their main card – the Holocaust – cannot be applied over them at all for historical reasons. This can be applied only on white people allover Europe, N.America, Australia, New-Z. (because of ties by migration from Europe after WW2) with one country exception, Russia (Soviet Union). China is an economic power today, all main players and smaller ones are courting her for this. As we know, USA is under the yoke of Zionists as well as Europe for the above mentioned fact. Another factor they have as power trump card is money of course and there are the dangerous waters. As we know, and everybody knows, China is a one party country and that party is the communist party. Interesting, the Empire is screaming always out of indignation when is a question about the communist system, in case of China, they don’t and there lies my question : why ? to answer to this is not easy without hurting some interests. So, there are three alternative possibilities :
1) they know that Chinese communist party is only by name and that does not bother them as long as they can do business with China.
2) they know very well that this model of one party + free trade business (which means capitalist) is a very good example growing up as a New World Order model:
One party (one power center) and one business model (globally)
3) the Empire has in mind to incorporate China in his dream of Global Power Structure, meanwhile Russia and China have other option (OBOR) in Eurasia. If China refuses to get in that wagon (of the Empire) than war will be the answer(see N.Korea) in other words that means blackmail.
In other words, the Empire seems to forget it’s own mantra which is “parliamentary democracy” when it comes to China. Of course, they floating the question of “human rights” versus China, but that is just a play, in fact how would be they so “critical” when their human rights issues are screaming to the sky ? and how would be so “critical” when they do such juicy money in business with China ?
The only main player with power who stays in their way is Russia under Putin. He is in a very delicate position, not only because Russia is the biggest land-mass country in the world but because Putin does know the dangers with the globalization.
If I know, Putin does thousand times better why is China courted in these times. The wind of big changes is turning faster and great dangers and challenges on the horizon. Keep us God in his mercy.
Diego Torres writes: https://twitter.com/jdiegotorres/status/930748104789372929
Things I didn’t know before I started writing this article:
1.- 41% of Spaniards live in bilingual regions
2.- Spain is the 2nd most decentralized country in the world
3.- Regional inequalities in Spain aren’t as high as in other major EU countries
Spanish regions to Catalonia: Up yours
by Diego Torres 11/15/2017
MADRID — Catalan independence leaders can expect no red carpet from the rest of Spain if they back down from demands for self-determination and decide to settle for increased autonomy …
Link to full article: https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-regional-conundrum-catalan-independence/
Dear Friends…it popped up that not everybody knows much anymore about some cool Steinbeck stuff..that relates to the…ahhhh “business” that seems about to blast – well, nobody owns tomorrow, eh?
Anyway there is Steinbeck story some may know of “The Moon is Down”. John wrote that for the OSS and it mas reprinted all over the nazi occupation – mostly by communists, I believe. url: http://home.earthlink.net/~attwoods/moonintro.html There’s also a movie version on YT, I think.
I put this in case some do not know of it an might like it.
Later, in Europe war he saw a child ripped open by shrapnel right in front of him… He was too old to see that. After the war he was never the same, who is?
In 1960 he made trip across America. It’s not a travel book, but serious, in disguise. He says a point that strikes, and repeats in many forms. Illustration is desert scene with the coyotes he does not shoot. Understand, he owns them in rifle sights from the shade, owns their lives…and does not shoot. He opens a can or two of dog food and leaves it there for them as an apology. Is metaphor for the fact in se circa 1960′ Huh? Steinbeck is saying that the continent is fully occupied, no longer wild, subdued – and thus our responsibility. Of course he was speaking to American audience… About the same time one of the Supreme Court wrote that key environmental features, creatures, trees, streams, rivers, ought to have legal status as dependents, entitled to legal rights represented according to the laws of Trusts … i remembers – it was Douglass, I believe.
Interesting quote from Kissinger I heard…. “….Once the continent was pacified…” Henry was speaking as the most grave and cunning of Historian…and said true. About NA, not kidding…what kinda people agree an do not know…go figure.
In Vietnam business US pres Johnson asked Steinbeck to go there and write … just like OSS times? I do not guess… anyway Steinbeck went and wrote the propaganda all about the brave anti commies and the grateful peasants so happy to have Yankee help against godless filth… is revolting stuff. He was pretty sick by then…with heart failure. Heart failure…how about that. Nothing was the same after the war. Never is.
Feed your head! (with rabbits or other stuff).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4
Kent
RT’s CrossTalk is too short a program, and this allows for control over what is being discussed !
It took the October Revolution program for me to understand this.
I used to be a regular viewer.
is reflecting the objective threats that people fear in periods of sudden change… fear, panic…these are the moons of war. i too observe… in mechanic trade is over center time, when things suddenly change. always has fear or panic. fools panic… fortune favors the fearful, as they are less blinded and less conflicted. there is i think a similar relationship as thus: fear x panic (over) density x friction this is a ratio expressed in physics as a Reynolds number.
the operation with the better Reynolds number is also favored by fortune. but size and will operate.
withal, when rt says truth about 911 coup and makes clear – as it probably will – it will probably, I have read, be target nr 1 in ah, alas, a violent “demonstration”… Others have said so. Terrible and criminal…but seems also congruent with past, no?
they wouldn’t! Right…https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans
Of course they’re being cautions… Is precisely a critical “butterfly” moment/period phase change, just a touch can have profound effect at Peace, become defining material force, time for caution.
Paul, is still worth time to read transcripts = or watch, why?
Because then you can notice what is not said.
The dogs that do not bark have saved many patrols from ambush, Paul.
Always ask where is the barking dog, and where is he not.
Tells true almost 100%.
Only great strategist and tactician are able to trick using dogs… is also metaphor…
Morphine.
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don’t think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that my pain is so strong
All the other patients say they’ve never seen a man with such pain,
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don’t think I can wait that long,
Oh, you see that I’m not that strong
The scream of the ambulance is soundin’ in my ear
Tell me, sister morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can’t crawl across the frosty floor
Can’t you see, sister morphine, just trying to score
Well, it just goes to show, things are not what they seem
Please, sister morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams
Oh, can’t you see I’m fading fast
And that this shot will be the last
Please, cousin cocaine, lay your cool hands on my head
Hey, sister morphine, you’d better make up the lyin’ bed
‘Cause you know and I know, in the morning I’ll be dead,
And you can sit around and watch, the clean white sheets stain red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdtM2YGaJ4k
Kent
Melancholy!
I’m a melancholy man.
That’s what I am,
All the world surrounds me,
And my feet are on the ground.
I’m a very lonely man,
Doing what I can,
All the world astounds me,
And I think I understand.
That we’re going,
To keep growing,
Wait and see.
When all the stars are falling down,
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind.
A beam of light will fill your head,
And you’ll remember what’s been said,
By all the good men this world’s ever known.
Another man is what you’ll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same.
His life caught up in misery,
He doesn’t think like you and me,
‘Cos he can’t see what you and I can see.
When all the stars are falling down,
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind.
A beam of light will fill your head,
And you’ll remember what’s been said,
By all the good men this world’s ever known.
Another man is what you’ll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery,
He doesn’t think like you and me, A melancholy man.
‘Cos he can’t see what you and I can see. A very lonely man.
When all the stars are falling down,
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind.
A beam of light will fill your head,
And you’ll remember what’s been said,
By all the good men this world’s ever known.
Another man is what you’ll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same.
His life caught up in misery,
He doesn’t think like you and me,
‘Cos he can’t see what you and I can see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3IG-oRpis
Kent
Great ! i like them, very deep feelings of true in both of them. Thanks for sharing !
Story of eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoDXzvXxUbc
Kent
The Trabant or Trabi for short … the famous East German made car …
Germany: Iconic GDR Trabi gets ELECTRONIC makeover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQFCIt15hg
… and …
Quality Control Trabant Unique Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaJ1m3Hdt1s
Hotel!
Best version. Interpretation is up to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahhYHy7lDo
Kent
One of the very best bass players living. And, she can actually sing to.
Meet the nice girl Sal Wilkenfeld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VqpX3GVdo
With Herbie Hancock. (9.05 onwards).
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBB10vhVaU
Spell!
Classic but different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2k52n_Bvw
Kent
The Marilyn.
Round off (sort of). What is a Cafe’ without music??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUjhv4iT58
Kent
New Moon in Scorpio 26 degrees
This moon these days, seen through a glass darkly
somewhat crazed…
Sings seductive songs of edgy fears neurotic
sirens of doom make deductive sense psychotic
prophecies future illness born of watery stillness.
I am now being VERY kind.
Meet The Mattis.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Miles_Mattis_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Kent
… mix in some dark green swamp colouring.
What a holy poet has to say about Hariri’s putative return to Lebanon ( Hafez Shirazi #235)
.. ” Be sensible and listen and hear what I say: “Try hard to be happy,”
invisible messenger at dawn, to my ear these words to release….came.
I don’t know what that noble lily heard from the bird of the morning;
although it has ten tongues, into silence everyone of these…came.
Throw off thoughts of separation, so you can pull yourself together,
because when Satan left…Angel Gabriel of Divine prestige …came.
At the gathering of friendship there is no room for those excluded!
Cover cup’s mouth; because robe-wearers it will displease…came.
They are happy words that I spoke to you, so bring out pure wine,
for the pious have left us..and the Wineseller, us to please,…came.
Hafez, going out from the cloister and going in to the Winehouse..
perhaps to his senses, from austerity and hypocrisy’s disease,…came.
Thank You, Ed Herman, Tireless Champion of Peace
https://www.globalresearch.ca/thank-you-ed-herman-tireless-champion-of-peace/5618303
RIP Edward Herman.
Interesting interview with Edward S. Herman (Part 2 immediately follows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZ1Scv6-t0
Pepe Escobar … November 13, 2017 …
“The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) announced on Wednesday it had captured Albu Kamal, the last town held by Daesh in Syria – after Iraqi forces captured its sister town across the border, al-Qaim. In Baghdad, before leaving to Najaf, I was assured by a top PMU commander that al-Qaim would be retaken “in a matter of days”: four, in the end, to be exact.
None of this is getting traction in Western media. The final victory on the ground against Daesh, in Syria, was accomplished by the Syrian army with help from Russian strategy and air power, and in Iraq by the Iraqi army and the PMUs. Syrian and Iraqi forces are symbolically reunited at the border.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/13/tikrit-and-najaf-agony-and-ecstasy-in-iraq/
Whenever I read articles by Evgeny Satanovsky on the middle east, i always find his analyses downplaying the role of Iran and Hezebollah in stabilizing the middle east and opposing the zio-wahhabi aggression and never mentioning Israel’s role in creating havoc. I can’t understand why this guy holds views opposite to other russian analysts and the Russian government.
In one analysis he wrote that the Iranians were only contributing upto 7000 troops which barely did any progress and when the Russians got involved, they reduced the number to 1000, indicating that they were not sincere in fighting the terrorists and everything was done by Russia alone. While there is no denying of the major role that Russia played, but his remarks are an insult to many Iranians who were not from military background but went to syria to join Hezebollah and were martyred while fighting the takfiris.
https://ruexperts.com/russian-army-syria-went-beyond-boundaries-military-art-evgeny-satanovsky/
His articles barely mention Israel and the commentators have to remind his of the destructive role played by Israel like in this article
https://maps.southfront.org/agents-that-create-anarchy/
His analysis articles revolve around one simple idea “Islamists and Islamic terrorism is rising and is the only reason to be blamed for all the world’s problems, Iran is playing a direct confrontational role and is constantly provoking Israel ” like in this article he writes that “Iran is inciting direct confrontation with Israel”
https://southfront.org/current-u-s-policies-in-middle-east-fail-to-establish-security-for-washington/
Perhaps the following makes sense …
“In an interview with Radio Govorit Moskva (Moscow Speaks) …
Yevgeny Satanovsky, a former president of the Russian Jewish Congress …
and current head of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow, … ”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Hang-Ukrainian-Jewish-leaders-says-former-Russian-Jewish-Congress-president-393774
Sergei Udaltsov: ”Lenin is a threat for the oligarchy even 100 years after the revolution”
“The thing is that the current state of affairs, when the elite group (conditionally 100 richest families) stuck like a leech to our natural resources, to strategic industries and unrestrainedly enriches, fully satisfies them.
The main part of the profit goes into their pockets and ordinary people get the crumbs — our population is being in a half-starved condition.
If the oil situation is better, people are given a little more from the ‘master’s table’, and if it is worse, then, accordingly, they get less.”
“Well, the ideological anti-Communists are often joined by fans to advertise themselves on ‘high-profile’ issues.
In my opinion, all this shows that Lenin even after 100 years after the Revolution is a threat to the oligarchy, inconvenient for the capitalists, that his ideas still excite the minds — they have both ardent opponents and most active supporters.
By the way, on this backdrop, our government seems quite restrained when it says that now it [the burial] is not the relevant question.
Putin understands that toughing this topic means to challenge a large part of the society.”
https://realnoevremya.com/society/authorities/1949-sergei-udaltsov-about-the-revolution-centennial
Yevgeny Satanovsky on sentimental Russian-Israel relation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-z0MXxH52s
The Jews try the Russian history to hide and to distort (English subtitlle available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeBMAFyO9ZE
Nikolai Starikov – Khodorkovsky has bloody hands (English subtitle available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAt63EZMors
Simon, this is for you.
Chinese young man married a Russian girl, let’s hope Goole translate works:
http://k.sina.cn/article_6080491557_16a6cf025001001owv.html
The story is about the young man met the girl while working in Russia and fall in love with the girl. They got married and went to China. Everything went well except the girl only interact with him. The man feel bad, and brought her home to Russia. The father in law helped him open up a Chinese centric supermarket and they live happily ever after. The end.
… J … please find us a good movie with English subtitles … a thriller would be good !
You find good ones yourself Pavel. I enjoyed the Russian one “Housekeeper” (male student son of a biznesmien) and Chinese one about Bank robber turned hero in aftermath of devastating earthquake.
I also request of both aficionados of Russian and Chinese higher art forms (more established and enduring than young art form cinema, thus having had more time to leave more lasting imprint on those cultures of Russia, China) such as Opera.
This is to contrast for those excessively obsessed by sex (either negatively, prudishly or in exaggerated overrated sense, ………….worshipping reproductive organs) other perspectives on the matter.
Look, the normal person wants to love and be loved. Same for larger groups, nations, races, etc. Few have nothing loveable about them. Those quickly vanish if singular persons, self-destructing!
Sex has something to do with every person’s arrival into the world. Often this involved love….but sometimes NOT!
Every person is also programmed to be ready to play their part in species obligation to keep it going. Most do this biologically, others are childless but contribute ideas that help, some do both. Most do some work that may be mundane but is a small part of keeping things going, at least doing no or very little harm. A street sweeper. A guard. A waitress. A taxi driver.
However if you visualize sexual practice and love, it is clear that there is overlap (think of two large circles) but nothing like 100% correspondence. There are more elements of both that DO NOT correspond to the other than DO!
For some weeks I have mulled over this question and picked out an example from Western Opera. The idea is not very short, so it should be wide. So I continue it below.
Examples from Russian or Chinese Opera (or others, from smaller societies but Universal in potential enrichment of anyone!) could enrich the Cafe, culturally
Eample that tear hearts…Greek play “Media”…
examines it.
good points B93 makes.
Here’s an extract from 帝女花之香夭 ‘Fragrant Sacrifice’ with subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgNRdbPdtg&list=PLTCghCUc9X-pPcseoDvesSruuBfeShWJF
My favourite Korean director makes mesmerising films with almost no talking. This is his most famous and accessible one, his other more contemporary ones tend to be disturbing and strange but I like them. Subtitles but you don’t really need them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNXZUcErzk
Have you ever heard any Chinese opera, Bro? I used to go to watch ‘wayang’ performances (street opera) and it is very different musically to what you are used to. Very dramatic but definitely an acquired taste for tender western ears.
Sorry Paul and everyone. I am not a movie fan. I can not take dramas. I read book backwards, not forwards. Korea TVs are too additive. So I stay away from movies. I am a lost cause here.
Thanks J, that’s for at least one of my grandsons when they grow up. For me, its at least 30 years too late.
About Religion and Marxism …
Destroying the old for the new has been a big mistake … rather the new must be integrated with what already exists … smooth transitioning so to speak … all in peaceful coexistence.
“The name ‘Bukhara’ is derived from Sanskrit Vihara – a Buddhist monastery. At the dawn of the city formation, Buddhism was a prominent religion in Central Asia. Besides Buddhists, in Bukhara and the surrounding areas there lived and preached the Zoroastrians, Christians, Manichaeans. But Bukhara took the exceptional place in the Islamic civilization.”
https://realnoevremya.com/articles/1964-report-from-post-karimov-uzbekistan
“Destroying the old for the new has been a big mistake” Something Chinese do every a few hundred years.
不 破 不 立.
https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=bu+po+bu+li
WADA Foundation Board Declares RUSADA Non-Compliant With Anti-Doping Code
https://sputniknews.com/world/201711161059143950-wada-rusada-non-compliant/
“Speaking after the Board hearing, Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said the remaining criteria that prevented the agency from being reinstated were political. He said Russia wanted to have a dialogue with WADA, rather than be ruled over by it, and accused the Board of staging a kangaroo court, according to R-Sport.
“We are being forced to acknowledge the existence of an alleged state-controlled scheme of the doping use. This is a lie, a provocation and attempt to break the country’s spirit. There was, is and will be no system,” Degtyarev said.”
This is the sort of smear zionazis and rightwingers are known for.
Nigel Farage calls on EU to investigate George Soros funding, collusion
https://www.rt.com/uk/409818-farage-soros-funding-europe/
“we are looking in the wrong place.” He says Soros’ influence in Brussels is “truly extraordinary,” adding: “I fear we could be looking at the biggest level of international, political collusion in history.”
“When we are talking about offshore money, when we are talking about political subversion, when we are talking about collusion, I wonder if we are looking in the wrong place.
“And I say that because George Soros recently gave Open Society, which of course campaigns for freedom of movement of people and supranational structures like the European Union, $18 billion. And his influence here and in Brussels is truly extraordinary.”
Farage said Open Society boasts it held 42 meetings in 2016 with the European Commission, and has published a book of reliable “friends” in the European Parliament. There are 226 names on the list, he says.
“If we’re going to have a debate, and talk about full, political and financial transparency, well let’s do it. So I shall be writing today to all 226 of you, asking some pretty fair questions: Have you ever received funds directly or indirectly from Open Society? How many of their events have you attended? Could you please give us a list of all the representatives including George Soros?”
He is also calling on the European Parliament to set up a special committee to look into the issue. “I say this at a time when the use of money and the implications it may have had on the Brexit result or the Trump election has reached virtual hysteria.
“Just last week, the Electoral Commission launched an investigation to find out whether the Leave campaign took offshore money or Russian money. This came about as a result of questions asked in the House of Commons by one Ben Bradshaw, someone linked to an organization called ‘Open Society.’”
Nobody wants to identify the soros influence machinery with the zionazi source it derives from, yet they note how toxic it is.
Israel Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Abuse Palestinian Children. This Bill Would Put An End To That.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/14/congress-palestinian-children-israel-us-military-aid/
“Children and teenagers are frequent victims of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. They face physical abuse by Israeli military forces and are shuffled through an unfair court system without access to legal counsel or even their parents.
The United States has long subsidized these abuses, giving billions of dollars in military aid to Israel every year. Now, a group of Democratic members of Congress is saying enough is enough.
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., and nine co-sponsors on Tuesday introduced legislation that would require the U.S. State Department to certify every year that American military aid is not being used to fund the systematic abuse of Palestinian children.
If passed, the bill — titled the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act — would explicitly prohibit U.S. aid from being used by Israel to support the administrative detention or physical abuse of Palestinian children. The bill says that detention of Palestinian children is “inconsistent with the values of the United States.”
Bill Harper, McCollum’s chief of staff, told The Intercept that the legislation is an attempt to establish some sort of transparency over how Israel uses U.S. military aid, particularly as it relates to human rights abuses.
“There is no accountability or transparency on U.S. military assistance to Israel with regards to U.S. funds being used to pay for this,” Harper said.
The other sponsors of the bill are Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin; Raúl Grijalva of Arizona; John Conyers of Michigan; Earl Blumenauer of Oregon; Chellie Pingree of Maine; Peter DeFazio of Oregon; André Carson of Indiana; and Luis Gutiérrez and Danny Davis of Illinois.”
Nigel Farage asks in the European Parliament “How many of you are in George Soros pocket?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwNeJS_TOs
Nigel Farage about Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKw0H6DarWg
Miyoko Shida – Power of concentration and balance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVPA-9hofw
Gekaufte Journalisten?
Erobert ganzen westenwelt
To memorialize the totally insane sea of false and delusional papertiger empire, let us remember that total bs is normal…you could look at anything today and see totalbs (TBS). Is characteristic of revolutional moments in Time. Natural. And fun! Is a frealshow parade, even has people in costumes…look out window in West…and see queers in drag…fatguys with nailpolish in a dress at the hardware store? No! (Yes, I have seen…) Public me first nothing is forbidden. all permitted…slogan of assassins, yes.
Where has stability went to? Is past…door into past Summer is closed. Key to door?
Some remember that GDR did a good job with Marx…under terrible ruins they did a good job…of course it might be expected that Marx would provide a set of ideas that Germans could do something with…they’re Germans…
Fun pictures from Time der GDR
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/postersgdr/vptag.jpg
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/postersgdr/1may1958.jpg
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/postersgdr/fdj1952.jpg
index http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/gdrmain.htm#Posters
Enjoy!
and the former nun…yes, Dennis might not know of Judy. Judy the nun?
Judy Henski…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjkUPzui7A
much of her corpus of work…Judy found G-d in her own pathway…as, if we’re luck, we may also do..eh?
Fun and forgotten music! Music froma pretty good time in much of “The West”, which we understood as a socialdemocracy, which it warn’t, wuz it?
Was cryptonazi intelop…just like Communists said…
Film at 11:00, as they used to tell us about Vietnam…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjkUPzui7A
Judy Henski. New to me. Thank you.
Judy Henske – Empty Bed Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDubbFlmhU
Kent
She was known as “The Queen of the Beatniks” .
Judy was entirely female, the meanings of words are evaporating now, are they not? Prett cute with the Louise Brooks haircut – and later a shag, like Fondu made famous in Vietnam
There are two unrelated bits …will post. about gps and also wm blum’s newest essay… later..
Top o’ the Morning, one and all,
I reviewed the All News articles and comments here up to and including vot tak’s three in a row below. I’d like to condense those most pertinent to me, and draw out some general outline connections.
Paul Joseph Watson has been the headliner a couple of times. This is a change. Like me, he’s pro-Trump and Alex Jones. You are different, in the main.
Anne Teoh writes of Xi’s Win Win BRI. She unknowingly makes the case for Zionist infiltration of China. She links “China’s Cultural Revolution and USA’s Love and Peace Flower Power Revolution,” oblivious of Zion’s funding of both these revolutions, in order to set up massive cultural changes, leading to the Great China Change of today.
She praises the Westerners who appeared in droves to change China during its revolution, one of whom was Israel Epstein. When I google this man, I get mostly Zion scrubbed sites such as Wikipedia and NYT. Check Miles Mathis. I skip the Zion controlled sources and consider others like this Live Journal:
“Mao…was funded by Rothschild created Communism…and the…agents…Israel Epstein, the son of a Jewish Bolshevik…” Teoh praises many such Zionist agents, attesting to the naivete of Bro and most here, regarding Madame Zepp, the German Jew, and so many other dupes of empire, as Anne; of which we may ignorantly partake. Bear in mind that most of the Zio psy-ops are unconscious, which is why I follow the Love Army’s program of not eating meat or keeping pets, practices which clear my mind of subliminal propaganda.
In the recent Saker interview, Saker says that Trump has been castrated. This is a rhetorical polemic that is debatable, which is why this cafe conversation is critical. Time will tell on that score. In the meantime, the majority here play Simon Says in sync with Saker Says. Come on, Cafers, how about critical thinking, if not clitoral thinking?
The South Front article on “Israel and Saudi Arabia setting pre-conditions for war with Hezbollah” is chilling and sobering. A shout-out to twilight for presenting an alternative view; to Anon for the reminder to “follow the money,” with Syria’s printing its own money, as explanatory of the hatred by usurers for financial independence; to JJ for tagging that the UN ignores Syria’s rights.
I disagree with twilight’s dissing of Donald as “Trumpy” with sophomoric juvenile trash talk; and that Trump is “drooling” to destroy Hezbollah, for the same reason; although in general twilight is quite insightful, like the note that Iran is Persian and does not necessarily act like Muslims; and therefore might not come to Hezbollah’s aid.
I liked Dragged down’s link to Pink Floyd’s take on Animal Farm, featuring the Hogs and Dogs. It jives with my ideas of pethood making humans pets of empire themselves, on a deep structural level of reality. Again I must say that most here remain ignorant of that dynamic, and thus aid and abet the Zio wars, despite their good intentions; exemplified by the black-out of real solutions, like those offered by the Love Army.
I need to break for breakfast, and perhaps my “walk for love” Love Army Road routine.
Love, Dennis, Ojai Cafe California, posted at 933 am pacific time, not 1233 pm utc.
You don’t know what you’re doing, Dennis.
Like you saying Leibniz “didn’t know” what he meant by “This is the Best of All Possible Worlds.” but “I do, or at least I thinK I do.”
Talk about flying by the seat of your unchecked Ego. LOL.
Too much oversimplification nominalism.
Details later. Alligator.
After awhile, crocodile. Good to hear from you. I didn’t think you threw in the towel, but I know you’re busy, while I’m retired, so I gather that you read only, what is it now down to, a quarter of what I write? If anyone at all reads what I write, let him or her draw their own conclusions about the issues we care about. It’s important, at least for me, to know if China is real, or in the case of Trump, what is his deal. As for Leibniz, let’s let him rest in peace. As for simplification and nominalism, they’re two way streets. Don’t burn out, Bro; I’d miss your fire. Who else could feed my ego? Love, Dennis
Skip the Vulva, and the Love Army stuff (all of it), and I would be more inclined to consider ALL other contributions/posts/subjects you are inclined to comment on.
Oh. and when you climbed out of bed, sunrise etc.. All the ordinary stuff we all do, and experience each and every day without necessarily feeling the urge to tell the “world” about it. Cut it out, or at least contextualize it in a way with a somewhat more poetic/philosophical angle, instead of a formal diary bla – bla – bla (I woke up – I saw This, that and the other . I had this or that for breakfast etc. etc.)
SKIP IT. Please! Do it somewhere else. You are getting just a tiny bit on my nerve ends. Sorry, my bad obviously, but you are.
Regards
Kent
A fine example of swamp characteristics. Tucker Carlson vs. Robert Zimmerman.
Note the full time smirking distraction attempts. I particularly liked the “no matter how you want to spin the facts” line at around 1:34.
https://youtu.be/kELstnHUWw0
Nigel Farage asks “how many of you are in Soros’ pocket” at the EU.
From 12:25 is worth listening to, especially the part around 14:00 and on to the end where Nigel Farage states that “that virtually none of you have never done a proper job in your lives..”
The expressions of the people seated behind him are worth a second viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwNeJS_TOs
For better understanding, it is necessary to know that the EU Parliament has adopted today in a special session the new legislation (modified and enhanced) about the immigration issue and the compulsory re-partition of immigrants to EU states.
Well, this came as surprise. A summary of Saker’s Nov.10 article “Debunking Two American Myths” has been translated to Spanish by RT:
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/255327-mitos-guerra-rusia
For our star readers, teranam 13 and mundanomaniac :
In My Dreams
Far away, beyond the cloudy sky
Beyond the Sun, in other Galaxy
There is a star, old and shy
No human eyes can reach and see
She reveals herself at night
When I’m sleeping, in my dreams
In her splendor, in her light
Sending her tender, lovely streams
She’s doing this for thousands years
Or maybe more, not just with me
Healing our souls, healing our tears
In our dreams, the star is she.
There is no sorrow, there is no fear
There is tomorrow and there is hope
For thousands years it is so clear
No need for priests, no need for pope
Nothing can stop her in her pursuit
She chooses time on her means
No one can tell her when to quit
When I’m sleeping, in my dreams.
“In dieser stadt. Hildegard Knef.
Do your own researh on this Lady..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJDctu_Uvpw
Enjoy?
Kent
Roadhouse!! Why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzFWm9uXJo
Kent
Another “troubling” article on RT. It concerns rumors that Medvedev might be running for President in 2018. The article itself tries to downplay that possibility. But leaves a lot of room for it to be true. Since he is the most well known pro-Westerner in the government.It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that means if it turns out to be true.Another bad point in the article is that RT “continues” to call the traitor Navalny as a “anti-corruption blogger-turned-opposition politician” when they discus him.Which gives that Western agent the air of “a good guy”.Instead of the traitor he is.I see that constantly on RT.Which “once again” points to the need for reform at that site.
https://www.rt.com/politics/410077-medvedev-promises-reporters-not-to/
Was she?
Who knows. Natalie Portman was definitely there, as where one of the very best villains in numerous movies for decades. Guess who??
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xinn2VJVCU8
Leon: The Professional
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/remembering-leon-the-professional-just-a-perfectly-balanced-movie-a6731866.html
Leon – Der Profi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6JOGrXhPLQ
That was a good film, worth watching again, I think. Thanks for the reminder.
Anybody here who believes the model on this video has ANY clue on the depth of the classic lyrics here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0oosnKV5rk
Anybody here who would like to have some VERY high res. photos of Eric Burden performing this one? (Quite recently I might add). Just ask.
Very nice guy by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0oosnKV5rk
Kent
“Black Lung Heartache”
Patience folks. develops into something very special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpSqPNhOZRU
Enjoy
Kent
Oh yes, that’s good.
I feel sad; it’s not bad, but neither is it glad. The war goes on in me, and out there, with relief here and there. one minion’s link to Water of Love by Dire Straits helps–the idea of it, if nothing else.
Bro says: “Dennis believes the Zionist Hand is behind Puppet Xi and the New Silk Road must be stopped.” Only partially true: the Zionist hand is in the background; but Xi is not a puppet; unless you mean he has adopted the Zio worldview. I’m not for stopping the New Silk Road; others are doing that. I’m attempting to shift the ground under it to love, rather than yet another new world power.
J mentions that Nepal and Pakistan are giving obor a jolt. Why? Would you want to be a debt slave to China? It sounds OK now but wait til those payments come due, with interest. If Khazar depresses the economy, China will pick up countries like peanuts. Talk about a rentier scheme passed as saving grace. The old churches and cultures were right: usury is a sin, a mortal one to boot, as in dead on Boot Hill.
Bro is fixated on my fixation re sex; he opines: “…Opera. This is contrast for those (who? me?) excessively obsessed by sex…worshipping reproductive organs…sexual practice and love…there are overlays…but nothing like 100% correspondence.” Well said, but allow me to comment on the comment, for the pleasure of it. Ideas, btw, are my opera.
War is the obsession of obsessions. Whatever I say has that sad fact in the background. I fight fire with fire, and obsession with obsession. All is fair in love and war; in other words excess beyond limits. Worshipping reproductive organs is excessive but not even close to worshipping their anti-archetypes: bullets, rifles, missiles and the myriad penal-penile weapons of war.
Bro distinguishes between sexual practice [by reproductive organs] and love. Now it is well known that love can be a euphemism for sex in intimate relations; while sex remains a sacramental (sacred mental) link to love. “There is overlap…” True, love is many times more general mentally and spiritually. However, in earthly physicality, sex is the bigger circle. The suppression of that truth is the major cause of war. To put it crudely, when we’re having sex, we can hardly be handling a gun; unless we’re excessively disturbed. For our more balanced and nuanced ancestral lovers, the sexual body was the door to heaven on earth.
ioan weighs in on the China chessboard: “zionists have no power over China because their main card–the Holocaust– cannot be applied…” Well now, the estimates for those murdered in the glorious Mao-Zino revolution run from 30 to 60 million bodies; that surpasses the claimed 6 million Jews which seems literary inflation on the part of zio-literrati; so what is more properly a holocaust? Even so this a low card.
ioan continues: “the power trump card is money…China is a one party country…(one power center and one business model (globally)…the Empire has in mind to incorporate China in his Global Power Structure.” I could not say it better; however, it lacks the punch line, namely, the sucker punch by the Khazars which delivers the money. I loved your “In My Dreams” poem.
Ideas are my joy. That idea just came to me, so I enjoyed saying it. All your ideas are enjoyable, especially when charged with feeling. My notes say ioan, J, Paul, et alii, discuss religion and death, with the reservation that China is not religious. Well, I quibble: religion means tying back in to a source, which seems to me a religious philosophy in China; for example, all the sacred confucius-like sacred texts, and Mao’s little red book.
A general observation that came to mind is that conflicts arise over land claims of ownership. I think we were designed to live in small communities of say, an average of 90. The growth of big institutions is a cancerous growth; which I compensate for by not owning land myself, and imagining that I already live in such a small community of lovers.
I’ll end for now, enjoying the memory of Roadhouse by the Doors and John Lee Hooker; thanks to whomever linked to it. Yes, indeed, this cafe is a roadhouse on the way home to home, sweet home; as in “home is where the heart is,” the heart being all of us.
Time to eat and then sleep, and think of all those promises to keep.
Love, Dennis, Ojai Cafe, 444 pm pacific terrific…744 pm in Greenwich, New York
Lovely, Dennis. Your Zionist talking points boost your anti Zionist credentials.
You seems well versed in Zionist propaganda about China. I wonder what make you feel that you have right to judge others the way you did?
I am sorry to say that you are the epitome of Zionist infused parrot.
Love, J
Somewhere on earth.
Dennis, correctly, identifies the absolute cause of conflict (ownership) and is labelled by J as a Zionist.
Incredible.
Anon, care to identify the incredible sentences that “identifies the absolute cause of conflict (ownership) “?
Glad somebody like sister Judy…she was a real Beat…and tells us much about the History we are not supposed to know.
In nuther matter…a London review of books Book Review of a book on the global positioning system. the review contains technical background that is really quite thorough..and well worth understanding in every sense…the tone of the review is sucky…but it is good information, with sober implications, some of which might explain some mysteries…duh!
to wit:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n22/thomas-jones/x-marks-the-self
and Bill Blum, who’s clearly not having a good time, has addressed the claims of empire rather well at his site… to wit:
https://williamblum.org/aer/read/152
Dennis, the Pirates are pestering the main island…think Mackinder…zionism is a useful ideology to make an assault and beach-head near Suez… You are seeing it inside out, or backward…though these things operate as complex machines with feedback loops, so there is secondary initiative from zionists…but is not a primary cause…which is lust for power/fear of death…makes people animals, a devolution
“…and G-d said to the animals, let us make man…” This was not a “royal we”…” (read it in Hebrew…describes evolution as understood to exist. So what. we seem to be present at the devolution of Man back to animal – ejecting G-d’s contribution, so to say.
As we see there is Katehonic rise against this.
Not very nice.
Two interesting links there. The most interesting to me was the bit about cognitive maps, naturally, given my particular biases but I could follow the tech stuff as well, despite being baffled by some of your engineering references elsewhere.
Blum is always a worthwhile read.
Its good to acknowledge that there are still gaps in the tech iron dome and that exploits will always exist.
… some sights and sounds to get your day moving … inspiring music …
Hubei, China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMP0zbasIuc
… and if you found those soundtracks to be inspirational …
here is a playlist of more … for those who like to wonder and dream in stereo …
The Time Machine: Professor Alexander Hartdegen – track no. 1 – Klaus Badelt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6f9xLbHzso&list=RDZ6f9xLbHzso&t=11
… and this is a real gem …
Two Steps From Hell – Compass (feat. Merethe Soltvedt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qh5yZeOCo
I have been looking at old newsreels…these are of course, propaganda, but they tell us now a clear true thing.
Look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-g-G3lgq8
year 1949 in review…and we see precisely the same behavior as we see today.
Now then, a long term continuity in actions is generally seen as an indication of design, or goal, is it not? Just askin’
actually the period 1939 through the 60’s in newsreels gives a shocking revelation…is all there baby blue
Exceptional find. Thank you.
The wars were at our homes. Today, they moved to some other weak and small nations.
Happy to hear this…I lived inside that TBS capsule…right down to drill and rifles and military bands and the lusty greed of a vast global victory, vast and global except for the terror of the Red Menace. And I bought the fairytale 100%
The process of correcting fairytales is a fascinating story in itself..everybody that is awake might reflect upon how, for him, that happened.
A common theme might possibly suggest a strategy to achieve either focus or chaos in Nth class or group.
Unable to speak honestly even inside their home parents encouraged doubt, critical thought, this leads to Marx…but without dogma is simply a way of inquiry… This sort of awakening takes a long time in average, if conditions are ok, is very fast under duress or occupation… Not free to speak in their own home to their own children…phone tapping began as soon as we got a private telephone…in 1950 was a “party line” (this is a pun) we had to count the rings to see if a call was for our family. This in Hollywood… Truefact. My eyes, my memory. And this was with two working professionals for parents. Income tax? >90%…check it. The Rich were taxed quite heavily, we were not. Later, by degrees, well look… In 1950 was same same…tired old TBS wears thin and shrill, eh?
Anon,
Yes the war for ideologies seems so dated looking back at them.
Look at Korea war, it as fought so casually, and so easy, Almost like the Bush Jr. war one Iraqi. One the eve of the war, an American female solider with big red lips joyfully declared “the War is Sexy!”
Today, America hiding behind Saudi to bomb Yemen.
I realize also American air force was in creditable superior, even today, Chinese still fall behind.
India is having a new enemy, elections are in the sir:
Bangladesh as big a security threat to India as China, Pakistan: MoS Home Hansraj Ahir
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bdesh-poses-security-threat-besides-pak-china-mos-home/1/1091064.html
I am not feeding your ego Dennis.
I am ridiculing it. If that somehow “feeds” your ego perhaps you have a fetish for whips and leather??
The way you “get off” is rather reverse.Complete the rhyme yourself……lol
But I am not as sick of you as Kent is……..YET……SO let’s take the high road together, with the Donald. He said:
“Yesterday, we visited the Forbidden City, which stands as a proud symbol of China’s rich culture and majestic spirit. Your nation is a testament to thousands of years of vibrant, living history, and today it was a tremendous honor to be greeted by the Chinese delegation right here at the Great Hall of the People. This moment in history presents both our nations with an incredible opportunity to advance peace and prosperity alongside other nations all around the world. In the words of a Chinese proverb, ‘we must carry forward the cause, and forge ahead into the future’. I’m confident that we can realize this wonderful vision, a vision that will be so good and in fact so great for both China and the United States. And then he continued, ‘So we come from different places and faraway lands.’ There is much that binds the East and West. Both our countries were built by people of great courage, strong culture, and the desire to trek across the unknown into great danger that they overcame. The people of the United States have a very deep respect for the heritage of your country and the noble traditions of its people. Your ancient values bring past and future together into the present so beautifully. It is my hope that the proud spirits of the American and Chinese people will inspire our efforts to achieve a more just, secure, and peaceful world. A future worthy of the sacrifices of our ancestors and the dreams of our children.”
So what do you donow Dennis? Do you join the one trackpack of never Trumpers declaring him a Sino-Zionist dupe????
Or, do you rather give up the whips and chains and masochistic pains you seem to love so well, break free of reversity (Kent was NOT feeding your ego….Ponimaesh??? Capiche??? the sex with children who are then MURDERED should tell you that while we all are sexed and are programmed to experience the good energy that it can be……..it’s NEVER THE LESS a delicate thing……whose best spirit is more easily desecrated and perverted than almost anything imaginable in the human experience.
And dwelling on it with people all too cognizant of that fact is not an automatic “winner” of their approval. It’s a dud, a disappointment in your judgment and discernment for such cluelessness, if seeking approval, is just daft beyond belief, deserves a strong and angry rebuke, and if that’s what you want…..then your a masochist who loves the whips and chains and shame and pains of disapproval of your Mass-Tur Bation Mass, as you put it.
And then this leads to your sad incompetency on Trump’s Asia trip and the sad sleeve you wear your emotions on. So Zepp is a jew lady??. Oh I see! Her maiden name starts with Z ……just like Zionist does!
Good catch, Pee Wee Herman! ……er Reese!
No she and her husband have worked for 29 years for this breakthrough and are very very happy at the potential you are willfully blind to.
Zepp-LaRouche singled out as an example, the disparaging coverage in the German “newspaper of record” the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung which called the Chinese treatment of President Trump, “pomp” and a “Chinese deception game.”
As she put it today:
“…………. As a matter of fact, I have never seen such an outrage and cynicism than what is being expressed now against Trump. Well, except, naturally against my husband, and naturally similar treatment is being given to President Putin and President Xi. But anybody who has ever been in the Forbidden City, which was the palace of the Chinese Emperor since the 17th Century, you cannot but be impressed by the majestic architecture, the beauty of the construction, the furniture, the whole display of Chinese art. To call that ‘pomp’ just shows you how absolutely ignorant these scribblers really are.”
Zepp-LaRouche said that the promise of good relations between China and the United States being brought about by Presidents Trump and Xi is urgently needed. The United States urgently needs to rebuild its infrastructure and deploy its industries in the common interests of mankind. This can be accomplished if the United States joins the Belt and Road initiative. Last spring, Zepp-LaRouche said that if President Trump joined the Belt and Road initiative and repaired U.S. relations with China and Russia, “He could be one of the greatest U.S. Presidents of all time”. After the Beijing trip, “Trump is actually doing it,” Zepp-LaRouche said.
“So, I’m confident that the chance to have a new renaissance, to have an uplifting of people where the best traditions of all cultures, of all nations and cultures of this planet are revived; and out of that, a new renaissance can be created. I think that that is an absolutely realistic possibility. So, be happy and join us!
Thiis may be IMPOSSIBLE for Dennis to do. I know that. WHY???
Opera lovers, wait til the morning hours of the Eastern Pacific.
My example (Very Dark “Catholicism”…inspired by….who else?…..A BRIT of 2 centuries ago!!.) will be pungent and pithy like smelling salts on the subject just of how far off (hint: very, very, very far off!!!) from Love sex CAN (and all too often does) DEVIATE when Spirit is not quite right.
Duh!!!!
Discernment Time.
Given the evident tells in Trump character Mr Chin or anybody, really, can run him like a toy train. Maybe they do, or not, but they can. His internal fundamental assumption is evidently that he is worthless and powerless. His does not know this in an aware sense. Is classical Mark for any experienced Used Car Salesman that occupies lucky position.
I expect that Trump is going to be held as pharmacos as he is “giving away” the Empire…is his function. Without Empire? What then? Weatherman is unnecessary.
At symposium is expected pants stay on…and Dennis can hear this? Probably not. Is this rude? Thin skin at symposium not useful. Simply to say. It does not bother me, but it is, in my view, a bit rude. tolerable
The weird sex stuff goes back to the switch in Power from Female to Male – as seen in the mythology. Is assault on the “Divine Female” by the New G-d, “G-d – the Father”. This in turn occurs due to the refinement of agriculture, which allowed the amassment of stored grain (fuel for war) and also forced the females to support the army…from control of the Family and Leadership of a tiny nation or tribe this economic shift placed Power in the hands of men, who are jealous of children… and this plays out over Time and Geography to some little entertainments by some creeps and sadists. This switch was a process…you can read it in the Classical Greek Myths, and really almost anywhere, even today with the abortion silliness. Who decides if she will be pregnant? This tells you who is boss.
Serene pictures of the Old Silk Road with music for a peaceful heart …
from “Visit China”.
Gansu Truly Ancient Silk Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbGNjr9QCfI
“Apollo’s Triumph (Paul Dinletir Remix)” by Audiomachine
… listen to epic music while you watch … for a peaceful heart.
Aerial view Yichang city II 航拍湖北宜昌市(2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stx5sQBZbLg
Guizhou was the most impoverished province in China for hundreds of years.
Today 38 million people live in this totally mountainous, almost isolated 0.17 million square kilometers province.
In recent years numerous mega structure bridges have been built across Guizhou.
Bridges in Guizhou (English edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5o2vJ-6G_g
There seems to be a lack of discipline at the Pentacle:
Pentagon “Mistakenly” Retweets Post Calling For Trump To Resign
Defense Secretary James Mattis will get an earful from his boss this morning, after an “authorized user” of the Pentagon Twitter account retweeted – and then swiftly deleted – a tweet calling for President Donald Trump to resign
Italian tv has the Maidan snipers confessing on video. They state that they were hired in Tbilisi by Mamuka Mamulashvili, Saakashvili’s military adviser. They were Georgians and Lithuanians, and were paid $5,000 for the mass murders.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-17/another-false-flag-terror-admission-snipers-ukraine-%E2%80%9Cprotests%E2%80%9D
17-11-17/another-false-flag-terror-admission-snipers-ukraine-%E2%80%9Cprotests%E2%80%9D
I had also read so I believe of polish mercenaries-participants involved too………..
… from Russia with love … a tasteful erotic music video …
Boris Zhivago 2017 – Lady Of My Fantasy (remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtuEtWHz_zs
Turkey withdraws troops from NATO drill in Norway
President Erdogan says move comes after his name, and a picture of Ataturk used in ‘enemy chart’ during drill
http://aa.com.tr/en/todays-headlines/turkey-withdraws-troops-from-nato-drill-in-norway/968077
OK Opera lovers, take your seats! The curtain soon rises.
Our “Commander” says “Sex is Where It’s At!” I agree: It does seem to sell tickets!
But could The Devil Be In the Dionysian or Elysium (“Tochter aus Elysium” Schillerian counterpoint reference…..) Details??
Let us see!
And so, to better see, focus your Opera Glasses, now: /i-can-see-for-miles-in-china-what-do-you-see/………………..the curtain soon rises on the western shore of the Pacific, the Eastern shore of the World Island where the majority of Humanity resides.
Trump was treated to 3 Chinese operas and before we denounce those as Zionist plots, getting Miles Mathis and Dennis Leary on the case, let’s revisit Western Opera…..London, New York, Paris…..and La Scala ……..MILANO ROMANTICO!
Bravo!
Bravo!
Bravissimo!
(I hope you’re getting in the mood………)
Our Opera Story begins in THE EMPIRE:
“Far from the Boulevards of Paris, in the “steamboat gothic” America of the gilded age, one of the supreme idols of the stage was a remarkably handsome English actor, born Herman Blyth but who went by the name Maurice Barrymore. The father of Lionel, Ethel and John, he specialized in melodrama heroes……………….. ……………In1882, Barrymore, ambitious to establish himself as a dramatist as well, had written a play…….. NADJEZDA (means “Hope” in Russian, fellow pindos….Nadia is the “sweet name”…remember Nadia Comenici 64′ Olympics….Roumanian……all 10s… All Around Women’s Gymnast Olympic Gold Medalist?…..got it? Good! Moving on…..) for the celebrated Polish actress Helena Modjeska, in whose travelling theatrical company he was leading man, in whose boudoir he probably spent the odd night.”
(i promised some sex, ticket holders……. This is just the appetizer!)
“Barrymore’s play told the lurid tale of the wife of a politicalactivist in Polandwho is given theopportunityof freeing her incarcerated husband by submitting to the fleshly desires of the wicked Count Zabouroff, chief of the secret police. After enduring the carnal torment, Nadezda is rewarded with her husband’s corpse and a note from the Count explaining that, while he did promise to return her husband to her, he did NOT promise to return him alive.
Horrified at the needless waste of her virtue, Nadeszda takes poison and dies. And that’s only the prologue.”
Are you getting your money’s worth, yet, Opera Fans???
We’ve had Sex and Suicide. Now comes Scandal (Charges of Plagiarism…. a lawsuit) and ALL the other ingredients of Suck Sex in Empire “Art Forms”. Money, Greed, Power, Lies, Delphic Deceit!
Mix well. And see if you can sniff out the Russophobia. (Hint: the evil Count’s name ends with “off….ov in other spelling……….and (HUH!?) NAPOLEON saves the day! For the broader society. Lovely!
Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) sniffs out the key ingredients of commercial art success and steals Barrymore’s plot, titling it LA TOSCA, and prevailing over Barrymore in court, proving that Judge, Jury and Empire Public in General could not get enough of depravity and lust!
Giacommo Puccini, badly needing a 3-peat after his smash hits Manon Lescaut and La Boheme aces out a competitor and lands the Opera Version of La Tosca, sealing the deal with the Devil Plagiarist Sardou for the operatic libretto.
Of course the scene shifts from Barrymore’s Poland Backdrop, to Italy. Airplanes aren’t the only things that can be hijacked. There’s a long tradition vastly predating the Wright Brothers.
HISTORICAL NOTE TO (Puccini’s opera, not Sardou’s play, Debut Jan 14, 1900 in Rome) LA TOSCA:
Beginning in 1798 France, under the Consular (or Republican) Government of Napoleon Bonaparte, was engaged in the so-called War of the Second Coalition against the alliance of Britain, Austria, Naples, Portugal and Turkey. In May 1800 the French Army crossed the Alps to do battle with the Austrian forces in Italy on a plain outside the village of Marengo. Politically, Italy was divided between the Bourbon/Hapsburg legitimists(represented by King Ferdinand IV and his Austrian Queen, Maria-Carolina of the Kingdom of Naples, and in the opera by (the villain chief of police) SCARPIA and FLORIA TOSCA (the target of his Scarpia’s lust in order to capture and kill her lover, escaped and in hiding Cesare Angelloti (could he be the Good Guy?? ANGEL-otti …hmmmm..) and the painter Mario Cavadorossi….who paints a feminine living saint appearing in the pews to pray for deliverance by the Heroic Napolean with such beauty that Scarpia/Zabouroff MUST defile her …..and Tosca burns with jealosy. It’s complicated.
The villain (with faint Barrymorian Russuphobic Zabouroffian overtones now fading in the alpine mists……) expresses his anti-napoleonic world view, where Sex (not Love) is most definitely “Where It’s At”:
Second Act:
Scarpia (to himself):
She will come…out of love for her Mario!
Out of love for her Mario, she will yield to my pleasure!
Such is the deep misery of deep love.
A far keener taste have I for violent conquest
Than soft surrender.
I get little satisfaction
From sighs and dewey eyes by moonlight.
I know nothing of romantic guitars
Or crystal balls or starry eyes
Or the cooing of turtle doves!
I LUST. And what I lust for I pursue,
I take my fill and throw it away.
Then turn to a new attraction.
God created an abundance of beauties and wines.
I want to savor all that I can of God’s Creation!
While Napoleon’s men defeat Scarpia’s master’s forces and advance on Rome, Scarpia pays little heed to such trifling matters and pursues his aim of defiling Italian Piety and Feminine Saintly Beauty.
But Tosca has other ideas:
As Scarpia writes her a promised letter of Safe Conduct with which to escape with her beloved Angelotti (who is to be “executed” by a firing squad of Hapsburg soldiers….rifles loaded with blanks…ALL THIS so Scarpia can have intercourse with Tosca….and to the Devil with the consequences!) tosca fortifies her courage with a stiff glass of wine and soul in turmoil, spies a dagger….with which to give Scarpia the Final Orgasm: Of Death:
https://youtu.be/ve—8JN__I
She flees Scarpia’s castle, finds her predawn grieving Love Angel-otti in chains on a rooftop of the prison awaiting execution, informs him of the Napoleonic victory, and their spirits soaring to heaven, coaches him on playing dead after the blanks are fired at his beating breast, so they can flee with the Letter of Safe Conduct and Live Happily Ever After.
But NOOOO!
The bullets are real, evil triumphs from the grave Scarpia pulls the same double-cross on Tosca’s Hope and Love, as Count Zabouroff pulls on Nadezda…….and Tosca ends the Opera jumping off the roof to her death.
But that’s OK: These messy characters just need to entertain us, then get out of the bloody way, having played their private part for the bright public good ahead for Italy……under Napoleon, see??
By contrast: What was in those Chinese Operas Trump was treated to? I hope we shall SEE!!!
With the help of Pepe or Jeff Brown or Anne Teoh or Helga Zepp, J …..or Pavel’s wife, perhaps…….
Bravissimo!
Thanks, Bro, for this tour de force.
This cafe has turned over a page; now a page two. I wrote a brief note after yours, which appears on page two, which says I will wait until the next cafe to properly respond. In the meantime, lest I turn Tosca into a tour de farce and Opera into Oprah, I will think of what you say, on my walk with the Love Army.
Love, Dennis
you can count me in, as one of those
whose motto is reachable:
respect yourself and be a good neighbor