2017/12/12 16:30:01
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A very Good Writer
Ran a revolution on a shoestring
Ibn Sina aka Avicenna
Al-Khwarizmi (father of algebra),
Al-Ghazali, Al-Bukhari,
Al-Termidhi
Abu Dawud
Ibn Majah
Footsteps on the crunching ice
Silence of unseen snow leopards
red-baiting quisling Quillfish’s
racing masses from counter cultures
fleeing the armies progressively offensive
words cultures languages power Christ
How long dear saviour oh how long . . .
All the negativity about the coming collapse of the dollar, economy, stock market thereby causing the gold and silver price to skyrocket is the antithesis in the Hegelian equation. The thesis being the economy is growing, low unemployment, and stock market rising to record levels. Is there a Synthesis? Been waiting for it for a good ten years! Or is it just normal deep state strategy to keep all of us divided, controlled and preoccupied from seeing all of their evil deeds around the world?
I was thinking on that many times, first in 2007 I thought that there is the beginning of the big crash of that huge ponzi-scheme, but hey, no. Now, in 2017, ten years later, we see what you described, Dow Jones is growing, the business is going, as usual. All the “predictions” made by famous money “guru’s” have turned out to be a big lie or disinformation for the sheep. Recently, they say “the time has not yet come”, now they can’t predict when and how and what will lead to that outcome. Anyway, the speculations are working in full capacity, if there will be a blow-up in the market, we will see it. We forget one thing : They, the Masters, are indeed Masters of their own created God – money. If they decide the time is here for a crash, they’ll will do that, unless…unless, something out of their power will force the thing out of bottle.
Don’t be anxious or doubt your sanity or decide they are infinitely skillful wizards who can uphold AN ILLUSION of prosperity forever.
Ten years?
Try 46, for many. Since the August, 1971 Nixon refusal to redeem foreign earned dollars in gold..
For myself, and awareness of the not so humorous funny money games, the awareness is about 38 years old.
You begin to realize that the timetable of history has no concern for your own biological aging clock. And oligarchies with perspectives lasting centuries or millenia count on wearing out the attention and will and purpose of oppostition to oligarchism of their for the most part individully divided and dispersed victims by seemingly imperceptible gradualism…….in many, many areas of relevance to Effective Resistance their more overarching and determined agenda.
We are only here a short time, and to play any even marginally effective conscious role in history, it is necessary for us embrace that fact and NOT WASTE TIME inventing our own reality disconnected from that of 7 billion other persons…..and instead spend our limited years in some joyful comprehension of the fact that it is nevertheless possible for the individual person of good will to be a factor in affecting the course of human history………………..such as comprehending and lending support and arguments to the idea of Eurasian Economic Integration as a necessary step to uplifting all humanity to a higher cultural and economic platform of potentiality.
Despite the incomprehension of almost ALL family, freinds…….and neighbors.
“it is necessary for us embrace that fact and NOT WASTE TIME inventing our own reality disconnected from that of 7 billion other persons…..”
The only thing you are good at is insulting some of them on the way to your imaginarily benevolent silk road.
“AN ILLUSION of prosperity forever.”
There is no illusion – they have actually achieved that (for themselves) from the beginning of history:
http://time.com/money/3977798/the-10-richest-people-of-all-time-2/
multipolar, bipolar, unipolar – no difference.
Please go count some more of your gold or cash or shares or bitcoins or…
Hey most folks have their manias here and cherished good guys. The elites run the world and make deals with each other including those in China who are the least benevolent of all. Talk to the Vietnamese or whatever ethnic group which lives in N. Vietnam who periodically throughout their history have to beat them back .
Yes, when the Israelis do ethnic cleansing by flooding the West Bank with settlers equals bad
When the Han Chinese do the same to Tibet–oh well, Tibet was a feudal state and they are being “saved”.
Not quite that simple.
Warning: When you agree with Richard Gere you are on thin political ice. Caution is advised.
Richard Gere? Wha??? oh yeah, guilt by association.
It’s the same ol same ol ploy but with different folks like how I voted for Trump so now I am a racist?
So let’s do the dialogue.
You Don’t buy the idealized version of the Chinese elite’s political line? oh, got to be an enemy of the world working class? Like these guys are their friends? Please talk to how they treat their workers in their African enterprises much less how they force sterilization on their own lower class. My ex business partner was witness to that and to two days of lost work at his factory as the agents of the state took all his women workers off for “check ups”.
Point out that the Chinese are strip mining Tibet for minerals in the worst kind of way? Oh, probably a paid agent ( what is it these days? oh, )Troll of the Illuminati. Or at least if I like you, you are an idealistic ninny.
I just calls em likes I sees em. Putin is the only good guy I see out in the world political scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1prhCWO_518
Anonymouse doesn’t get it and probably never will.
His “winning formula” ironic as that may sound, it is a common choice!!!
How about on the macro-scale??
Same thing…won’t get behind any solutions because the goal is not propeperity for ANYONE…least of all himself….. as this would destroy his self selected identity you see….
So for the other 7 billion on the planet what could be better than that???.
Join him in Misery!
Pure Nirvana for Perpetual Victimhood!! And it’s automatic, built in, guaranteed!
No matter that Vineyard owner and most guests writing articles expicitly mention BRI, OBOR, New Silk Road as the crux of the physical economic development model alternative to the AZ EMPIRE looting and other forms of moral perversion.
But He Knows Better You See……..and Some Irish DO LOVE Their British Chains.
Complaining is Bliss Itself.
Others do not,and I would never call Lepretards, chidingly, agapically to shame them out of this masturbatory self abuse and self-degradation.
JFK for example. Oh, I forgot…..his father was very far from a saint and made hundreds of millions….billions in today’s terms. So, no loss that the Empire blew the back of his president son’s head off, right Anonymouse????
And Putin is a worthless, selfish SOB because there are moneyed people in Russia who prefer a strong nation to getting screwed medium to longer term by foreigners once Russia is broken. And that’s what Anonymouse is for, kind Cafe Visitors. Just not very effectively or inspiringly, I trust. Except for with others with the same bitter resentfulness and perpetual Loser Mentality as their adopted “Winning Formula”.
Kiss those Empire chains and back under your bridge.
JFK? actually the mob funded his election with the deal that he would lay off them and he did not so enemy #1 and he confronted the Israeli nuclear program and was going to call them on it so enemy #2 , he saw the quagmire in SE Asia and wanted to strike a deal with the Vietnamese both north and south: enemy #3 ( CIA), he called off the invasion of Cuba enemy #4 the military who hated him for making rapprochment with the Russians. Probably I missed a few.
Try not to be so reactive.
It just feeds negative emotions of bitter people here who are ready to hurl themselves headlong into a pit.
No time this week for clarifications, on all the hot buttons (Gere?….I thought that would be rather cold by now….LOL…) that you are ready and willing to react to…………………but let’s just say that someone axiomatically blind to the positive role of China in the present effort to contain the the AZ Empire suffers a bit too mucb prejudice to think clearly.
Putin gets it.
As do many contributors here unfrightened by any “Yellow Peril” phobias……
You could too, T 13.
The guy seeing Romanovs (????) everywhere, wherever anyone has 2 nickles to rub together?? Way, way too far gone, IMHO. This sort of hatred, envy and bitterness just burns itself out, eventually, in most cases.
Not sustainable very long.
Cheers for the Holidays!.
“Join him in Misery!”
What happened to the Romanov’s can happen again – it could happen to you. Therein lies a possible solution.
“No matter that Vineyard owner and most guests writing articles expicitly mention BRI, OBOR, New Silk Road as the crux of the physical economic development model alternative to the AZ EMPIRE looting and other forms of moral perversion.”
The owner holds many minority views – e.g. at most 1 in 25 is orthodox.
At least the owner is a largely personable fellow.
Are you a hater of the ziogays or just, er, all of them.
PS:
JFK – you magically imagine Putin is surrounded by a different set of psychos.
Coming to think of it, white wizards’n’all, you probably do.
Doing the same thing over and expecting different results, you are a regular tit.
Sorry….you are entirely incoherent and homocidal in mentality……oh well, if you can unload your bile where it will hurt no one but yourself maybe that is as harmless as that sort of thing can play itself out and fade away…..in a few decades at most…….
“Sorry….”
if I were you, worried could be more apt. You are epitome of the problem.- the global “moneyed” class.
In the meantime, surround yourself with trinkets – sooner, or later, they will be ripped from your grasp.
At that point I’d pay good, er, money to see the look on your face.
All “they” want is inflation.
Jared Goes To Iraq! A Picture Story
http://taskandpurpose.com/jared-kushner-iraq-storybook-pictures/
I am no fan of Kushner’s.
But another story on the Task and Purpose website caught my attention:
http://taskandpurpose.com/russian-general-idd-ordering-actions-downing-malaysian-passenger-jet/
Before pulling very many more entertaining, smirking stories off that website one might pause to reflect on whether the Purpose of it is………. just maybe………. unrelenting geopolitical division and conquest….and a primary Task toward fulfilling that Purpose …just might be black ops journalism against Russia…..while being totally fine with withholding air-traffic control and air-surveillance radar records, etc….for…..just maybe…..just possibly…………….. forever.
Source of the Task and Purpose is an article of Mark Krutov. He is an employee
of the Russian Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe (Insider)
The original Russian text: https://www.svoboda.org/a/28903442.html
In German google translation:
https://translate.google.ch/translate?hl=de&sl=ru&u=https://www.svoboda.org/a/28903442.html&prev=search
Bellingcat founded by Eliot Higgins in 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins
https://thetruthspeaker.co/2016/02/28/eliot-higgins-of-bellingcat-who-is-he-everything-you-need-to-know/
General Tkachev, Nikolai Fedorovich (Генерал Ткачев, Николай Федорович)
He born January 1, 1949 in the village Bolshaya Znamenka, region Zaporozhe, SSSR (today Ukraine)
The newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” interview with General Tkachev: The General says he was not in
Krasnodon in summer 2014
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
Off any Geo-Political topic.
I used to be quite comfortable working outside in minus 5-7 centigrade without gloves.
These days are over apparently. After half an hour the tips of some of my fingers starts hurting.
Well I can still load sixteen tons, or 30 tons for that matter (I just did), 28.400 kg’s to be exact of rough semi-precious stone (Lapis Lazuli) which has been in my possession for some 15+ years.
It is now on it’s way across The Atlantic, and will eventually be unloaded in Valparaiso Chile which is the country it originates from.
Long Story how it ended up here, what we used it for etc. etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli
These days there is a lot of media coverage on The Olympic Wintergames. (we all know the details I presume).
I have on occasion been tempted to write an inside story on corruption and cronyism on the Olympic Winter games at Lillehammer, Norway 1994, but as this is also a very long story, and best suited to be in a speech/lecture for a limited audience I’ll refrain.
However, all the obscure/surreal events I experienced had to do with conditions leading up to the actual manufacture of the official Medals for this event.
I personally made these medals (the essential stone part), from idea to competion.
Stone is Sparagmite, the bed rock on which the entire area of Lillehammer is resting.
They looked like this:
http://telemarksporten.no/Telemarksport/Steinsenter/Medaljer0126CropWEBWhite.png
http://telemarksporten.no/Telemarksport/Steinsenter/Medaljer0107crop.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/Telemarksport/Steinsenter/Medaljer0101Shadow.png
http://telemarksporten.no/Telemarksport/Steinsenter/Medaljer0094Crop.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/Telemarksport/Steinsenter/Medaljer0093Crop.JPG
Kent
Well I for one would love to hear that story. Had some experiences with the olympics in Calgary. Bet your’s are way better.
Congratulations Kent, beautiful work from your part.
Kent, your post is very interesting …
motivated me to research and found the following Chilean site with good information.
Lazulita.cl: A site dedicated to Lapis Lazuli, Chile’s national stone.
https://www.lazulita.cl/
Yes, fascinating.
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ULTRAMARINE BLUE OR ULTRAMARINE AZURE
There is some evidence that a blue was extracted from Lapis Lazuli found in Persia in early times; used in Europe long before any of the recipes for extracting it were written, and that the name ultramarine refers to the color and not the actual stone. It was therefore an adjective which was applied to other important commodities as well. It served to distinguish the genuine lapis lazuli ultramarine from other tube pigments, in particular the blue copper mineral pigment, azurite. As a pigment name, it has been traced to Italy at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Archeological evidence and accounts by Pliny and Theophrastus show that lapis lazuli was used as a semi-precious stone and decorative building stone from early Egyptian times. There is no evidence that it was used as a pigment by them or the Greeks and Romans, all of whom had a very satisfactory blue in the synthetic copper silicate pigment Egyptian blue, of which the secret of manufacture has been lost.
The earliest occurrence was in the sixth and seventh century wall paintings in cave temples at Bamiyan in Afghanistan. It has been identified to Persian miniatures of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; on Chinese paintings of the tenth to eleventh centuries, and Indian mural paintings of the eleventh, twelfth and seventeenth centuries. When it was used in Italy, its most extensive use was in illuminated manuscripts and panel paintings, complementing the use of vermilion and gold, and was as expensive as gold to work in. Many contracts for paintings specified the use of ultramarine, and the patron would have to agree to buy it, just as he would for the addition of gold leaf. The highest quality and most intensely blue-colored ultramarine was often reserved for the robes of Christ and the Virgin. The size of the picture and the status of both artists and commission seem also likely to have influenced the use. Azurite was often used as the underpainting tone as it was more economical, though other traditional blue tones would have been used as well. (It is important to note, that the use of such expensive paints would add as much status to the piece as the piece itself, and that as the bourgeoisie middle class became more and more important in time, it was a bit like the modern nouveau riche purchasing the objects of status from Chanel and BMW; these things became important as markers in themselves).
Chemically, the mineral lapis lazuli from which the pigment is made, is an extremely hard and complex rock mixture: a mineralized limestone containing grains of the blue cubic mineral called lazurite, which is the essential constituent of the pigment. Also present however are two isomorphous minerals, one containing sulphate and the other, chloride, both of which sometimes occur in a blue form, as well as other colors. There are other silicates which may also be present, creating variables in the quality and appearance of the stone. The best are of a uniform deep blue, but can be paler as there is a great deal of white calcite and iron pyrites in it that sparkle like gold; there is also the possible intermingling with white crystalline materials. As it is such a hard stone, it is difficult to separate the pigment from the other constituents. The aforementioned mining quarries of Badakshan (now in Afghanistan) were described by Marco Polo in conjunction with a journey he made in 1271, where he specifically states that the mineral was used for the extraction of blue pigment. These quarries supposedly provided almost all the lapis lazuli to Europe. IN the mid 1800s they were somewhat out of use, but as of the 1960s, mining had been resumed. It was most likely imported into Europe via Venice, the principal port for trade with the east, thus it was referred to in texts as coming from “across the seas”.
There were however other blues that were imported this way that are now obsolete and we have very little information on, such as Yemen alum or Armenian Bole. Nicholas Hilliard, the sixteenth century miniaturist remarked that the darkest and highest ultramarine blue was the ultramarine of Venice and that its prohibitive price compelled painters to use other blues such as smalt and blue bice (artificial azurite). Lapis lazuli is a somewhat rare material, and the only other sizable deposits are near lake Baikal in Siberia and in the Chilean Andes, neither of which was mined until the nineteenth century. There are smaller deposits in Argentina, Burma, Canada and the USA. There are nineteenth century accounts which speak of deposits in Italy, but of insufficient quantity or quality to have been useful in providing a supply of pigment. The blue cannot be separated from the impurities by washing with water, as noted in Byzantine texts, as doing so would create a gray powder. By the twelfth century they began to invent more complicated measures of extraction, but there is no evidence as to what these early recipes were. The Arabian alchemist Geber in the thirteenth century mixed the powdered lapis with powdered resin and then washed it with water. There was also a practice in fourteenth century Italy which may have been a product of Moorish ingenuity, which consists of mixing the powdered lapis with a paste of wax, oil and resin, and kneading the mixture under water or lye until the blue came out in the water, largely free of the uncolored parts of the mineral.
http://www.koldesign.com/paint/u.html
Thanks for posting this, good stuff to learn about interesting details I never new before.
More on Lapis Lazuli.
This is 28 Tons of Chilean Lapis Lazuli, manually weighed and packed in big-bags the other week, to be shipped back to Chile.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LoadingIMG_4861_resize.JPG
Believe it or not we actually manged to load all of this inside a 40 foot container. Took us (two people) a little more than 4 hours.
The photos below is how it was stored on two different locations here, for more than 15 years.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_01.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_02.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_03.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_04.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_06.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_07.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_10.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorage001_13.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LapisStorageBoxes_resize.JPG
Kent
Something changed since June. I bought my first bitcoins then, entered a bank card once and numbers appeared.
Now I need a photo of me with a valid ID, bank statements and proof of residency.
Is this true everywhere? In countries outside the US, anyone know current requirements to buy on coin base?
Thanks in advance.
‘US govt equates American people to enemy when it hides troops’ whereabouts’ – Ron Paul
https://www.rt.com/usa/412908-hidden-us-troops-ron-paul/
“The Pentagon listing the location of some 44,000 military personnel as “unknown,” while citing secrecy reasons to protect them from the “enemy,” effectively means that the US public falls into that category, former US Congressman Ron Paul told RT.
Lack of accountability on the whereabouts of the US troops was not very surprising, Paul believes, as it had become a “routine thing” over the past years. The situation, however, has alarmingly worsened during the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
“The President had stated he wants to keep everything under his vest, because he doesn’t want people know, and he believes its proper policy,” Paul said. “The Constitution says he’s not allowed to send troops around the world without the people and the Congress knowing about it.”
Apart from the Constitution, there’s the War Powers Resolution, adopted after the Vietnam War clearly states that the US government “must report where the troops are,” Paul added. Despite that, the locations of some 44,000 of troops were simply reported as “unknown.”
“I have a suggestion for them, if they are interested in cleaning that mess, because it’s wrong. And that is that – bring the troops home. Than we can count them here at home. But it’s when they are in a 150 countries or more it gets very difficult,” Paul said. “Especially if they say this is secret, we can’t let the people know, we can’t let the enemy know where our troops are. So they put the American people in the category of the enemy, because we are not allowed to know.”
Paul said that a lack of interest from people on the issue of overseas deployments is part of the problem, giving the government free rein to damage US interests long-term by pursuing an aggressive foreign policy.
“The problem is for us to change the attitude to where the troops are, we have to change our foreign policy. That is one of our goals at the Institute – to try to say that our foreign policy is wrong, we are interventionist, we tell other people how to run their countries, we get involved in elections that we shouldn’t be involved in, we’re the policeman of the world. It doesn’t serve our interests.”
Americans should have a final say whether they want to see their troops intervene in yet another country, he argued.
“People are supposed to know what is going on. People are supposed to speak out, people are supposed to tell their members of Congress when we should get involved in hostilities.”
44,000 troops is the equivalent of 4 regular divisions. That represents a hell of a lot of covert ops.
Outside the rain has his own play, I have my own damned “good” day, I see the road but where it leads to, does anyone have a clue ?
Road to Nowhere
Drunken by space,
drunken by speed
Running through plains,
running through hills
Followed by cities,
followed by weeds
Miles after miles,
swallowed by wheels
Holding me captive
on her string
Like in a bubble,
taken by wind
A bottle of vodka
next in the seat
With Matryoshka
waiting for cheat
The road, like serpent,
Giant and Grey,
Joyful, indifferent
follows it’s way
Where does it lead ?
No one knows,
Just talk in the weed
and nothing but wows
The King of the Road
is living abroad
Though, he’s everywhere,
leading us…nowhere.
Resistance is futile, folks. Listen to the confession of a real haloumi-nati.
: )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd10yoBXbts
“The US wants to return to the Crimean issue, but the priority lies in resolving the situation in Donbass, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
“We will return to the issue of Crimea. I know that President Putin has made it clear that that’s not on the table for discussion. It will be at some point. But today, we want to stop the violence in east Ukraine. Let’s see whether we can resolve this,” Tillerson said, speaking in Washington.
The US Secretary of State stressed that at the moment the US is “engaged in attempting to break the logjam for the Minsk agreements to be implemented.”
DONi News Agency
so what is he gonna do to pressurise Putin to re-open the Crimean situation? Arm The Ukraine???? Use the extra sulphurous usa coal being supplied at extra cost to smoke out Russia? Use Westinghouse wrong nuclear fuel rods to bust the old nuclear power stations to infect/blame Russia? Bet ya bottom dollar the radicals in ukraine are already thinking of such things…..?
We need to return to the Alaska issue. Tillerson and Trump May say it is not on the table, but we all know many natives still have ties to the motherland. Give us back Alaska, and we will consider Crimea.
Butte Bill (apparently another Putin fan boy)
Why stop there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ross,_California
Dana, in “Two Years Before the Mast” says that the Russians were encamped further south too…at Long Beach… and maybe San Diego…
The Arc of History is without mercy. Maybe it happens…that “trade concessions” come to the west coast of NA. Trade follows economics, which follows the way thing are. And things change…fast, sometimes.
Rex has to keep up the pretenses…the “tapestry”…
But Rex is not irrational, only sociopathic. Not delusional either… When Rex exits we look for trouble to follow.
Interview of Soraya Tebbani by Morris worth watching to understand the Yemeni crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Tp_vlBpN4
This could be fun if it happens:
Saudi prince Alwaleed, held on corruption charges, refuses to pay to get released, insisting on an open trial to face the charges against him.
http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=793880 – in Arabic
Turkish businessman announces bounty on former CIA and State Dept. officials;
https://www.rt.com/news/412992-turkey-bounty-us-officials-arrest/
Hopefully, somebody will collect that bounty. Seeing zionazi spooks on trial in turkey would be a healthy reminder for their associates about their own mortality. ;-D
The Pope and the Devil
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/13/dont-argue-devil-much-intelligent-us-says-pope-francis/
No, it is just that Satan lies. In ” The Demons” Dostoevsky shows this very clearly in how he presents the two main demons—they lie consistently and casually and to each other and with more purpose to others. If you let them establish the parameters of reality i.e. Russian Dossiers etc. then and only then are you in their power.
They are not more intelligent….they are more lying and duplicitous. They are not super beings.
Shunning them is how you deal with them only because they are masters of false narrative and delight in the cover of plausible deniability ( see Bro Karamazov ‘s Smerdyakov)not because they are more “intelligent”.
Any Painters in here?? “Amateur” or professionals, I don’t care. Oil on canvas is the order.
Why do I ask?
Anyone who can, and will supply either photo of work, or some explanation of how you intend to use it/experiment with it WILL get a “small” (meaning, if you know how to use this extremely concentrated extract, a lot of paintings). bottle of NATURAL Ultramarine pigment of Lapis Lazuli like used in this painting :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli#/media/File:Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring.jpg
for free.
5 bottles only this time.
However, as I do not really want to list your e-mail and postal adress on any of my devices, I would have to depend on the discretion of The Saker (haven’t asked him yet) to resend from Florida to each of you. I pay the costs of that naturally.
Would very much like to see any result sometime in the future off course.
Take Care
Kent –
A close friend of my wife paints original oil on canvas full time. Kelly Paige Standard in San Diego. Very experimental, easy to find.
What part of Florida? Our pix are google+ the Studios of Key West.
Hi
Thank you for reply.
However, I do need some sort of actual request from the artist. I’m sure you understand this.
I have studied the artwork of Kelly.
http://www.kpstandard.com/about.asp
https://www.facebook.com/Kelly-Paige-Standard-Oil-Paintings-429166250122/
https://theartistodyssey.com/oil-painter-kelly-paige-standard/
just to mentioned a few links. Impressive work on a wide variety of mostly very emotional aspects. Wow!.
This is not “Top-Shelf Walmart stuff”, as I’m sure you you know.
So, Kelly, get on board, respond to the original post in person, and I am quite sure you will/can utilize this offer to the benefits of a lot of people. Give it a shot will you? (I do like/admire your close up animal faces etc)
To early maybe, butt what the frikk. There will be a somewhat bigger surprise with each bottle (Physically).
get going!!
Take care.
Kent
Love the ultramarine, one of the essential colors for painting. Mixing it with Yellow-chrome you got beautiful greens. I just finished painting and drawing two years ago, did it for long time for no avail. I used oil, tempera, pastels, charcoal, ink, pencils, on canvas, on paper etc.Maybe next time would be better, if permits my good-life weather.
Kelly replied down thread.
(Its getting a bit muddy)
Any chance you saw her email addie in your tour? She’s pretty good with that.
:)
“Kelly replied down thread.”
Saw that one. She will get the ultramarine shortly.
Update on Lapis Lazuli in the next Cafe’
Kent
I have painted, will paint again after retirement from work in 4 years ……landscapes etc used to sell through galleries….much appreciate your offer..but no need to post anything etc..just wishing you well with the project.
You made me curious JJ, I’d like to see your paintings if possible, maybe you can send me your email address via Herb ?
okdky-sent a mail to Herb to forward-2 pics from a long long time ago…………….
re: the Pope and his statement about Satan
His theology is wrong so either he missed it in Jesuit school or he is lying or he is failing his own test. The 3rd temptation of Christ is to acknowledge( bow down) that Satan is more powerful….the big Lie. No, AI is not more “intelligent”—it can handle more information faster and manipulate mechanical reality which underlies modern civilization’s day to day functioning.
The 3rd temptation also has the Big Lie that Satan has something to offer: it is G-d which controls heaven and earth and everything on it in Time. What Satan offers Christ-Man is the illusionary Power of the Ego/Self
For those who think that the ghoul from the grave of 2008 can stumble on forever:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-13/fed-arranging-deck-chairs-titanic-iceberg-comes-2018
For those who wonder what is going on with the reviling of the people of Alabama on the loss ( by a mere 10,000 votes which were electronically generated and then erased so are unverifiable) of the Senate seat to the Democrats ( the last time that happened was in 1986?):
My generation grew up having to read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in secondary school. There was a certain camaraderie and solidarity between the outcast Blacks and Whites shown in it, but in the next generation raised on To Catch a Mockingbird the relations between the races are shown to be quite different. The poor whites are the criminals, abusers and, of course, the White lawyer is the savior of the situation. Hence the self righteous abuse by self proclaimed leftie millionaire Michael Moore which is poured indiscriminately upon the white voters of Mississippi ( many of whom did not show up to vote for the Republican candidate who is a real jerk unlike in the 2016 Presidential elections).
Hey, Hilary was a bad candidate for the New World Order Democrats and this Moore guy was a terrible candidate for the supposed “resistance” wing of the Republicans. Get a clue, folks.
Literature matters…it gives the meme which keeps on living and giving throughout an age cohort. And since one has to pass a test on it, you have to focus a bit and think about it so it goes deep.
Another diary is ready. This week is the last with Saturn in the conciliatory Sagittarius …
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/12/high-under-balloon-towards-brightest-of.html
at last in January 2016
Mars since Sunday again is in Scorpio
taking Uranus now along into the realm
of form, sacrifice and waiver
for the sake of the ancestors and the yet unborn
yes, to wit:
https://www.rt.com/news/412981-russian-delegation-north-korea/
https://www.rt.com/usa/413027-tillerson-north-korea-talks/
If you remember some time ago, an Canadian Indian went to travel in China and write here saying Chinese treated him badly, and racist.
Here is a thread created by an Indian on Quora asking Indians their experience in China. The Indians have nothing but good things to say about their experience in China:
https://www.quora.com/As-an-Indian-what-is-your-experience-with-China-and-its-people
Ya’an-Xichang Expressway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBgCHX_Ua6g
OMG. I’d love to paint with lapis lazuli!!! 😍
Ancient towns with surrounding modern cities … breathtaking views …
with relaxing music.
Chongqing From Above 2016《鸟瞰新重庆2016》
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dsRWTPwldc
crazeeee’s
“University College London was forced to apologize after a “dreaming of a white campus” tweet was deemed racist by “snowflake students.” The tweet had been intended to let students know the campus was still open as some parts of Britain remained covered by 13 inches of snow.
The tweet said: “Dreaming of a white campus? Our campuses will be open and operating fully today, Monday 11 December, so please make your way in as planned. (We can’t guarantee snow but we’ll try!) #snowday #londonsnow.”
One twitter user replied: “You know who else dreamt of a white campus? Hitler, that’s who. Disgusting.” Kumail Jaffer, a PPE student at Warwick University urged UCL to “retract and apologize.” He added that if anyone does not understand why the comment is offensive, they should “look into the history of the oppression of the PoC [People of Color],” according to the Telegraph.
UCL quickly apologized for the tweet, saying it “chose our words very poorly … We’re sorry and we’ll choose out words more carefully in the future.” The university explained it had been referring to the song ‘White Christmas,’ and posted a link to a YouTube video of the 1942 song, which was written by Irving Berlin………The university’s response, however, caused even more uproar online, with hundreds of replies blasting their apology. Many felt it was unnecessary, claiming the university was “crumbling” under pressure from “snowflake” students.
Jennie Powell wrote on Twitter: “You really are absurd … how can anyone be offended by the fact that snow is white? Nobody can change that, get a grip.” Stefan Roy added: “Seriously why are you pandering to such nonsense? They’re clearly trying to find offense when there’s none there … And you apologizing just makes it worse.””
https://www.rt.com/uk/413049-snowflake-students-white-tweet/
That’s Absurdistan. Probably soon the famous song “White Christmas” will be banned…maybe they will wipe out the white color as well…white windows, white doors, white toilets, white houses…that’s funny, think about that : the White House and Capitolium will be painted in blue or green, or yellow, or red…that’s sickness !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5VoFafW_c
full youtube Q and A with VVP.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/12/poroshenko-thanks-west-for-help-with-de.html?m=1
Ukraine will pass legislation about getting back occupied territories with the help of the west…..no mention of Minsk… note VVP believes Donbass is well able to defend itself. Recent escalation against Donbass too.
ultramarine corps
the bliss of the ultramarines
that was never meant for war
and never to kill and maim –
they are the ones maimed
by terrible training routines –
wrap yourself very well
its freezing to the bone
bubble wrap your mind
playing safe in the battles
fought against principalities
batten down the brain
buckle up and take a stand
against changes crying to be born.
it’s gone dead cold out there
from systematic enforcement
of thinking’s dread deadlock
fixated sclerotic mind-chains
bliss of the ultramarine blues
should never have been seen
apologies my friend
if i misunderstand,
how playful is your mind
you’re not deaf, nor blind
sometimes witty
sometimes hasty,
enjoy the little game
as i do the same
no need to apologize, I write things here in passing, whatever catches my attention or eye, sometimes like an exercise, as a crossword puzzle, or sometimes like a graffiti word artist on a vineyard wall. Talking of art, i do hope Santa brings me a very small bottle of ultramarine paint, I have no idea how exchanges of email work or don’t work, as the case may be. Only Santa knows secret wishes…
Oh yeah, sez who? And who made You. S. A. the sheriff of the Euphrates?
https://www.airforcetimes.com/flashpoints/2017/12/14/us-f-22s-intercept-russian-fighter-jets-fire-warning-flares/
Making a case for war against Iran ( big bad, blackened missiles this time). It sure beats a little vial of talcum powder.
https://www.rt.com/usa/413243-haley-iran-missile-evidence/
And the theater of the absurd plays on.
Canadian House of Commons PDF report:
“CANADA’S SUPPORT TO UKRAINE IN CRISIS AND ARMED CONFLICT”
http://www.ourcommons.ca/content/Committee/421/NDDN/Reports/RP9313861/421_NDDN_Rpt08_PDF/421_NDDN_Rpt08-e.pdf
WE ARE SORRY
We couldn’t find the page you were looking for. Sometimes a page gets moved or deleted.
They moved it -try this and then click on PDF on right hand side:
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/NDDN/report-8
“CANADA ’S SUPPORT TO UKRAINE IN CRISIS AND ARMED CONFLICT
INTRODUCTION
Ukraine has been engaged in an armed conflict against the Russian Federation for almost
four years. What began as a Russian invasion and illegal occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean
Peninsula in March 2014 has since become a brutal and complicated conflict of attrition
between the armed forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist groups – armed,
supplied, led and reinforced by Russia – in the Donbas region (Donetsk and Luhansk
oblasts) of eastern Ukraine. The conflict has been characterized by sporadic escalations
of violence, with ceasefires reached and then repeatedly broken. To date, more than
10,000 people have been killed and almost three times as many have been injured in
what Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, professor of political science at the Royal Military College of
Canada, has called Russia’s “ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.”
The above link doesn’t actually work. However the Ukrainian Canadian Congress like the report.
“Among the 17 recommendations of the Committee, in particular the UCC welcomes the following recommendations:
Recommendation 1 That the Government of Canada continue to provide strong military training to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and that it look for opportunities to expand the type of training and support provided by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) through Operation UNIFIER.
Recommendation 2 That the Government of Canada strengthen Canada’s contribution to military, police, justice, and anti-corruption training beyond the expiration of current funding agreements.
Recommendation 5 That the Government of Canada advocate for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ukraine that respects its territorial integrity.
Recommendation 7 That the Government of Canada provide lethal weapons to Ukraine to protect its sovereignty from Russian aggression, provided that Ukraine demonstrate it is actively working to eliminate corruption at all levels of government.
Recommendation 8 That the Government of Canada add Ukraine to the Automatic Firearms Country Control List.
Recommendation 17 That the Government of Canada expand Canada’s sanctions, including implementing the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), against those responsible for contributing to the armed conflict in Ukraine and work with its allies, including NATO, to maintain and enhance their sanction regimes against Russian operatives.”
The UCC doesn’t mention the other 11 Recommendations. So it looks like they’re happy to take our money and assistance and (buy?) our weapons.
latest **** from Merkel
“BRUSSELS, December 15. /TASS/. After studying the results of work made within the framework of the Normandy format, the European Union countries came to a conclusion that insufficient progress in Ukrainian reconciliation does not allow lifting sanctions against Russia, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.
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Russia not against US joining Normandy Four talks on Ukraine
“We were united in our opinions on the issue,” she said, commenting on the results of the first day of the EU summit.
“We have looked into the results of the Normandy Format, the Minsk process. We managed to avoid escalation, but failed to make sufficient progress to lift the sanctions, that’s why they need to be extended.”
At the same time, Merkel added that the summit’s participants agree that the sides and the international community should do their best to achieve progress in implementing the Minsk agreements.”
More:
http://tass.com/world/981205
The West’s war on Russia goes forward. As I and others posted on long ago,now it appears they are opening the assault on the World Cup. Since their attack on Russia through the IOC worked so well for them.They have moved forward:
https://www.rt.com/sport/413237-fifa-receive-russian-football-worldcup-information/
The populist, freedom loving, stand up for the regular joe trump regime has now put pindo internet access under control of the very swamp trump claimed to be draining.
US Regulators’ Vote to End Net Neutrality Draws Opposition From Congress
https://sputniknews.com/us/201712151060015831-net-neutrality-congress-opposition/
“Meanwhile, the Indigenous Environmental Network said in a statementhe FCC decision may hurt Native Americans’ ability to organize and protest.
“This decision could potentially harm our ability to organize as we depend on various websites to mobilize and to share our stories from the front lines,” the statement said on Thursday.
The Indigenous Environmental Network said if fees become mandatory for use of certain websites, then grassroots organizations will struggle to operate.
The advocacy group noted that Native Nations such as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe utilized social media as means to broadcast its battle against the Dakota Access pipeline.
The gathering of Native American nations was possible largely because of equal access to the internet, the Indigenous Environmental Network said.”
Absolutely no doubt it will be arranged so internet access will be placed under the control of trump’s israeli massas.
Maybe we had all think about investing in satellire internet abilities asap….there was the other week posts re different o.s. systems….thank you……need satellite info now?
http://theduran.com/net-neutrality-debate-everything-us-corporate-culture-little-war-free-speech/
Net neutrality explained here…either big government or big corporation has control……
‘Netanyahu is calling shots as US beats drums of war vs Iran’ – CIA veteran
https://www.rt.com/usa/413273-iran-haley-orders-israel/
“Describing Haley as “frightfully ambitious,” McGovern argued that if US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had given her some guidance on the issue, he has not been very effective, as the US ambassador to UN seems to be “following the kind of talking points that are originating not only in Washington, or in New York, but in Tel Aviv.”
“This is the time to beat the drums against Iran and the best thing they could find are some missile parts,” McGovern said, adding that while the missile might indeed have originated in Iran, it was used by Haley “to deflect a conversation from the fact that a million people in Yemen now have cholera, 70 percent of the Yemenis now depend on outside food to survive.”
“Nikki Haley and Washington seems to be in an unreal world, largely because they have just lost big time. Syria – they lost. They lost to the Russians and the Syrians, and the Iranians, and Hezbollah. Now, what’s the proper reaction to that – the proper reaction would be too come back and reassess where we are,” McGovern suggested, but instead what he calls an “unholy alliance” of the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel “are out to put all kinds of pressure to Iran.”
Meanwhile, Iran itself dismissed allegations against it as “baseless and unfounded.”
IE: the usual zionazi war propagandising using treasonous elements, like the trump regime. There essentially is no daylight between haley and trump, or netanyahoo.
This is the first time I’ve seen McGovern connect the zionazi link in pindoland war criminal disfunction in any serious manner. That alone is something to think about of who owns trump’s balls.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis at Gloucester Cathedral, where in 1910, it was played and conducted for the first time by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY
Enjoyed that one. Thank you.
Kent
Here’s an interesting article to get the mind thinking.
What is Israël’s project in Argentina?
by Thierry Meyssan
The Argentinian authorities are wondering about the massive purchase of land in Patagonia by a British billionaire, and the « holidays » that tens of thousands of Israëli soldiers are enjoying on his property.
Current programme Sophie and co on rt interviews Geert Wilders re rise of the right in europe….seemed to have decent views on keeping dialogue with usa and Russia open in balance…..radical ideas for EU reform…..growing disenchantment with eu politicians as they are seen to be out of touch with peoples etc etc.
Uk military chief warns today that Russian navy could cut undersea cables…..maybe nato is considering declaring these cable runs as forbidden zones to threaten russian navy going anywhere near them in order to create a cause celebre in an effort to create more uk pathetic news headlines how much under threat uk etc is in the name of hysterical russophobia…….
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201712151060038873-nato-anti-russia-submarine-cable-scare/
Andrew Korybko’s more enlifhtened analysis globally..
https://www.rt.com/uk/413332-russia-underwater-warfare-cables/
This one is hilarious.
Small exerpt.
“But fear not, brave defenders of Western Democracy, there is a way out of this Kremlin trap. Now that we know how Putin works, it will be a simple matter to see his fingerprints in future (and past) attacks on our democracies. It looks like this: the evidence of Russian attacks is designed to look like evidence that they didn’t attack. It’s not just that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but that evidence of absence is direct evidence that Putin did it! Any evidence that suggests it wasn’t the Russians is clear evidence that it was! ”
https://www.sott.net/article/371387-The-97-Russian-Cents-That-Changed-History-Stop-Putin-Before-He-Strikes-Again