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Comrade Bill has published his prognostication for 2018
It boils down to TANSTAAFL
http://russia-insider.com/en/forecast-2018-what-could-go-wrong/ri22071
I agree. But there are numerous matters that may eclipse everything…sooner than he expects (or hopes).
What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking
Jackson Lears
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackson-lears/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-russian-hacking
Behind Korea, Iran & Russia Tensions: The Lurking Financial War
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/31/behind-korea-iran-and-russia-tensions-lurking-financial-war.html
Interesting article compiling a timeline about the persecution of Assange.
Weiner Laptop Doc: Assange Warrant Issued 2 Weeks After Swedish Election Leaks Warning
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-31/weiner-laptop-doc-assange-warrant-issued-2-weeks-after-swedish-election-leaks
“Moreover, in April of this year, CNN and the Washington Post simultaneously reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ DOJ has prepared criminal charges against Assange over 2010 leaks of diplomatic cables and military documents.
While the DOJ seems intent on locking Assange up, the WikiLeaks founder has also received tremendous support from certain members of congress.
As we reported last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher travelled to London in August with journalist Charles Johnson for a meeting with Assange, where Rohrabacher said the WikiLeaks founder offered “firsthand” information proving that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia, and which would refute the Russian hacking theory.
Rohrabacher brought that message back to Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, to propose a deal. In exchange for a presidential pardon, Assange would share evidence that would refute the Russian hacking theory by proving they weren’t the source of the emails, according to the WSJ.
However – when Trump was asked in late September about the Assange proposal, he responded that he’d “never heard” of it, causing Rohrabacher to unleash on John Kelly, who he blamed for blocking the proposal from reaching the President.”
Obviously trump is lying. Here he had a chance to blow the fake “Russian collusion” propaganda clear out of the water and he deliberately refused to act on it. It is clear that trump, and his regime want that fake collusion narrative to continue.
Why? Because that propaganda is part of the demonise Russia psywar strategy of which trump is fully on board. And always was on board.
India still voicing her refusal to get into bed with China’s Belt and road initiative:http://www.thestatesman.com/india/india-opposes-bri-ahead-of-boundary-talks-with-china-1502549249.html
The Chinese always knew that if the (Asian) lady keep saying she is not interested, she is really interested. If the lady is really not interested, she will just keep a sullen silence.
So expect to see China bedding his Indian wife/mistress in BRI soon!
India will say yes when she realizes she is sidelined in the new market.
Generally, that theory may be correct. Modi, however, is a different lady. He likes his tea from Abe’s pot. Also, the Indian military is obsessed against Pakistan and China.
Economic bedplay may not happen while Modi is the lady of the house.
US is diddling the man-child with sweet nothings. Pride is the spoiler.
Just about everything India join in, it clog up the momentum. While Chinese culture and government highly value harmony, India’s culture enforces division. It show up in India dealing with other countries, organizations, and projects.
Indian elite born with entitlement, and privileged to lord over messes. Enabling lower caste messes does not help them enforce that life style. The ruling party also need China and Pakistan to stir up their vote banks to stay in power.
I personally think it is far better for India to stay out than in…
The caste system plays an important role in the Indian politics. Although Indians like to believe that caste based discrimination has disappeared, the reality is otherwise. Not only is the caste system active in Hindus in whose religious scripture, Manusmriti, the caste based hierarchy and discrimination can be found, but it has also found it’s way into Indian Muslims, Christians and Sikhs although their religions severely condemn and abhors this practice. Watch this documentary, which explains it all, about caste system in India. Watch it specially at the 4:00 mark. It explains the origins of this sickness. This documentary has subtitles for non-Indians to understand.
https:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UnVZT0-0k&list=PL42E6CDA90AC45951
Thank you. It is something very revolting to see. It really explain a lot of Hindu nationalists on line behaviors and how its government treats other countries.
Caste tension were running high in the neighboring cities to the financial capital of India, Bombay, until they finally erupted into riots. The main players in this clashes are the dalits (untouchables) parties and the higher caste mainly Brahmin led right wing parties. The issue was over the dalits celebrating the victory of British led outnumbered dalit troops which defeated the far superior in number higher caste Brahmin rulers. The right wing higher caste nationalist parties were opposed to this celebrations and attacked the dailts resulting in riots. The situation remains tense.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/city/mumbai/Caste-clashes-Tension-grips-Mumbai-Maha-CM-appeals-for-peace/videoshow/62337872.cms
Here is same event on the Independent, same thing. They are trying to justify the caste system, even in UK.
The Mumbai Dalit strike is just the beginning of unrest in India
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/mumbai-dalit-strike-lowest-caste-india-hindu-nationalist-violence-treatment-british-untouchable-a8140201.html
J, I don’t know. Due to my own experience and religious beliefs, I am usually positive about people and countries since I know that God is in charge. India is definitely in transition and cannot revert to a strict caste system. The present reaction is more like one step backward after India having taken two steps forward.
I remember as a mid-teenager, I was very impressed with Mao. My parents were worried that I might join the local revolution. My world changed when the Cultural Revolution broke out and pictures of numerous bodies of victims of the killings floating out to Hong Kong via the Pearl River were splashed onto the newspapers. My disappointment with human nature led me to an enquiry which finally led me to Jesus Christ.
China during the cultural revolution was indeed taking more than a few steps backward after taking many steps forward. I expect India to do the same.
Simon, the Culture revolution was an aberration, not rule. The killings (mostly happened between groups (youth) of competing (communist) ideologies in early part of the 10 official years) were put out long before the culture officially ended.
Caste is a 3000 years norm that refuse to die. The people of privileged caste making excuse to justify its existence, even today, and even in UK. You can see people justify it in the you tube video and online comments too. The privileged caste has birth right to beat and rape the lower caste without consequences. The lower caste was made to believe their treatment was result of unspeakable sin they committed in previous life so they will not rebel, or demand for social advancement, or better treatment.
This is 21st century. Making excuse to justify certain people’s mistreatment is disgusting. IMHO, people of other culture need to stay away from Hindu culture as far away as possible. It is very bad influence to youth and society in general.
J, I feel that it remains to be seen whether he Cultural Revolution is an aberration or a manifestation of the periodic tendency towards authoritarianism that seems to have been programmed into the DNA of China’s elites over 5,000 years. From Yuan Shi Kai, Chiang Kai Shek to Mao, Deng and now Xi, there have always been periodic authoritarian reactions toward liberalisation. Yuan wanted to become emperor and put aside Sun’s republic. Chiang rapidly reverted to dictatorship as did Mao, although Mao did it in the name of the Chinese people. Deng had his Tienanmen Square massacre in 1989 against liberal challenges to his authority. Xi has now found it necessary to move towards authoritarianism, although ever so carefully and in the context of economic growth and near full employment. In fact Xi seems to have shrewdly incorporated the supporters of the authoritarian Bo Xi Lai and sated their desire for authoritarian or strong-man rule through his present policies. But each time since Mao, China has emerged as an even more liberal society, and a little bit more like US society. Each time China took at least one step backwards only to take several steps, if not a leap forward.
Can Xi continue to contain and perhaps even to grow an ever more liberal society, a society that desires more and more social and political freedom as it grows ever more richer, under an exo-skeleton of authoritarianism? Or would an even more liberal society and perhaps a freer political system emerge? We shall see.
But I don’t see the cultural revolution as an aberration. China is in an increasingly rapid transition. To what is yet to be seen although I can see some trends. But I am confident that India is the same, i.e. in transition out of the strait jacket of its caste system.
I am not surprised that the British ‘failed’ to abolish the caste system when they were ruling India. Why should they? After all it fitted into their divide and rule policies! The present Indian ruling elites are doing the same as the British – divide and rule in order to exploit. Hence they close one eye to or even encourage an upsurge of the caste system – which effectively is a divide, rule and exploit system in the first place! But I don’t they will succeed. India may not set aside the caste system entirely but it will be discredited and India is likely to emerge as a more liberal and progressive society.
And I think China will unwittingly contribute to this emergence!
Culture Revolution was anti establishment. It is aberration because it is started by government.
Chinese government and society has always put harmony above all. And there were full of virtues, stories that using talent regardless of birth. In fact, the emperors often give their surnames to outsiders, even surrounded enemies.
While acient Chinese government practice were backwards, but birth of new china after Qin had put those practice to a full stop.
Most importantly to your argument, so called democracy / verses authoritarianism that you make it seems trying put you emotion into it (which most Chinese do not agree).
Let’s point to statistics, China with four times population has less prisoners than US.
Let’s also points to fact that Chinese president has past record of good governance and us president has been in general smooth talkers.
It is also facts that democratic government started wars, not authoritarian Chinese government.
It is also fact Chinese government, follow Chinese Confucius tradition of working for the betterment of citizen she govern, the non authoritarian western government turn out mostly working for speaking fees after retirement, and wall street fat cat.
Chinese has election at local level and people are well aware of vote buying, and divisiveness of so called democracy.
Not to worry, Confuciuism has been governing china for over 2000 years, Chinese know how it works. Chinese are not easily to be fooled by a label, or Chinese do not care about label.
Western country of course after centuries of stealing, enslaving, now are pretty much live on what’s left from past and let’s see where they end up.
As for India, British has gone for 70 years, …. Situation there is not a few wishes, chest thumping, label touting can help…
To JJ
Thank-you for the links. Where is this community? I feel very resonate with the prayers and spirit which moves them.
Warm Blessings for the New Year.
k
Jolly good..thank you.pleasure to assist on spiritual quests and journeys…Vissarion is Krasnoyarsk southern russia…there have been various interviews documentaries in ” attempts to nail him” to the limited interviewers perspectives and interests(hope you understand what I am getting at…metaphor intended)…these are on the internet…there is an rt documentary….but it is possible to see through these to see what resonates with oneself…or even one could put it as “reasonates” maybe ..whether searching for a community of sorts…similar heart felt beliefs…a retreat from modern life what ever means those words individually or collectively…an idealism that each person does seek perhaps that one can link in with spiritually at a distance too…….I have commented on the historic Essenes before too there is a modern Essenes group too baded on works by Szekely…peoples in touch with who and what they are with where they are….
Thank you for your wishes… you too with blessings for every seekers journey.
Oh yes the Essene spirit definitely comes through those prayers. I have read nearly everything by Szekely and visited his original center in N Mexico (which is now just a fancy spa, but has a great library). I didn’t know there was an organized community.
I find a further evolution of the Essene spirit in the works of Estonian esoterist Valentine Tomberg and Russian Mystic Daniel Andreev. VT wrote a book anonymously called “Meditations of the Tarot” which contains seminal teachings for the development of consciousness in our age as a metamorphosis of the anceint teachings including the Essenes. Daniel Andreev’s work is “Rose of the World”. Both of these great teachers are devoted to the mysteries of the Divine Feminine- Sophia or Wisdom, which we also find in Russian and Eastern Orthodoxy.
Glad to meet you on this path.
k
Gosh thanks for the suggestions!
http://www.newessenesnetwork.org.uk
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Iran’s foes of fomenting the unrest, which began as protests about economic hardship and corruption but have grown into political rallies, some of which have criticized him by name.
“In recent days, enemies of Iran used different tools including cash, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatus to create troubles for the Islamic Republic,” he said, in his first reaction to the unrest.
The United States rejected the suggestion that the protests were the work of foreign powers.
“We all know that’s complete nonsense,” said Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“The demonstrations are completely spontaneous. They are virtually in every city in Iran. This is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictators.”
Source: Reuters
Did the U.S. deny that that they were behind the protests nobody even accused them of backing? Khomeini did not specify who was that foreign power, but the U.S. leadership have foolishly taken the bait. That’s practically an admission of guilt.
Remember those spy vs spy cartoons? Are they still around even? Anyway, there is new version. It’s called shlomo vs shlomo. :-D
Vice Suspends Two Senior Executives After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface
https://sputniknews.com/society/201801031060484982-vice-suspends-two-senior-executives-sexual-harassment-allegations/
“On Tuesday, it was announced that Andrew Creighton and Mike Germano, Vice Media’s president and chief digital officer, respectively, were suspended after a report from the New York Times shed light on sexual harassment allegations involving the two senior executives.”
The nyt vs vice, two zionazi-gay psywar machines duking it out. What’s not to like? :-D
I don’t know how I suddenly remembered this, but this will be of interest to the Sakerites (or Sakerians?) although it’s 2 years old. Many of you might have already read it a long ago, but I remember finding it in some obscure corner.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lucknow-Shias-mediate-between-Saudi-Arabia-and-Israel/articleshow/47919620.cms
So article was about high level people from Israel and Saudi Arabia meeting in India hosted by Indian shias.
Dennis
By all means stick with your Miles Mathis studies. Lots to learn from Miles in fields of science, art, sociopathy, and even entertainment.
No doubt, traffic on the MM web site picked up significantly once his titillating, novelty research offerings kicked in.
Happy New Year
There’s talk of real, meaningful, swamp-draining in the air:
https://goldtadise.com/?p=420030
Then again, maybe its just more Fake News.
What is Israel’s Project in Argentina?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-is-israels-project-in-argentina/5623002
At the end of W2 the nucleus of the third reich survived, many in remote “German” parts of Argentina. There is what I believe to be credible evidence that Hitler and Borman and the fellas made it out with “insurance policies”… of course the nazis were rehabilitated into parts of the 4th reich…and these include some Zionist types…they are indistinguishable from the nazis
Well they might lose ground again…and have made plans to equip themselves in…guess where? Argentina with their pals I suppose…and then there’s the atomwar that looks so probable… For that we have old Nevil Shute’s novel the salient part being the winds… here’s from sparknotes..
“At the time On the Beach was written, during the Cold War, many people believed a potential conflict would only involve major Northern nations such as the United States and the Soviet Union. More remote nations, such as Australia, lived with the illusion that radiation from a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere would not drift into the Southern Hemisphere. Shute wants to correct this misassumption, so he has Dwight explain that the winds will carry the radiation to Australia—it is impossible to avoid the wind. Dwight and Moira agree that it is unfair to suffer from the conflicts of people thousands of miles away; however, fair or not, they must accept that all people on the planet share one fate. ”
So if they blow up the world they plan to hide in luxury in Patagonia…
Magical thinking is they say what goes with the prospect of hanging. Or the sight of pitchforks.
I know that many people here are Linux users and far more skilled in computers than I will ever be, So I offer a Russian company offering an FSB certified OS. http://www.astra-linux.com/ If it’s of value is up to you, but it appears that Russia is (perhaps slowly) removing the Microsoft hold on Government computers. From what I gather it is like other *nixs CPU agnostic.
I would hope that Russia develops an alternative to the Intel CPUs which have Intel Management Engine as a backdoor. China is already doing that with it’s Longsoon/Godson line of processors.
Here’s a list of Russian CPUs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_microprocessors
The Baikal is used in the Tavolga Terminal https://www.nixp.ru/news/13691.html and Elberus in this https://qz.com/419923/this-22-pound-made-in-russia-laptop-is-actually-pretty-useful/
None of the Russian companies seem interested in the consumer market (at the moment), being content to supply the Government, Military and large Russian Corporation markets. I suspect hacking unfamiliar architecture will be a pain for Western spy agencies.
Gilad Atzmon – Kosherising the 9/11 Truth Movement
Shoving Israel under the carpet
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/01/02/kosherising-the-9-11-truth-movement/
Elias Davidsson
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/12/26/gilad-atzmon-rebuts-elias-davidssons-hasbara-rant
Ludwig Watzal
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/12/17/ludwig-watzal-disinformation-agent
Atzmon’s Exile album is excellent, the man can really play the horn.
My New Year’s resolution is to be nicer to the only two Lepretards I know fairly well and to put more pressure on myself and my passes (ideas) since a responsible quarterback does not blame receivers for dropping or not catching up to his spirals.
The Principle of Polarity impels this softer influence in me because someone changed the “e” for an “o” in a comment here and this strikes me as an injustice, which I am very sensitive to.
“Re” in “retarded” and tons of ther words means “again”…..as in late again, therefore behind, and so forth. This use has merit but “ro” as in LepROsy? That’s going way too far, IMHO.
I might use RO with Freud, (because there are indications of mental sickness there….) but I haven’t had time to think through the etymology and word smithing there yet. Never got very far with Sigmund, because it always struck me that he was just “making shit up”, exagerrating the influence of sex because nearly everyone is kind of interested in “it”.
So, IMHO he just exploited a convenient lever and the social engineers did the same with him.
But I do need something to pick on. so word misuse and perversion of meaning gets my attention today, in the realm of cryptotardation. No, not the retards that make Bitcoin a Golden Calf….but the ones that come up with silly one liner”debunkings” like “It’s a Ponzi Scheme” and Cryptocurrencies have “No intrinsic value!”
Guess what? NO currencies fundamentally have INtrinsic value! Otherwise you would consume them instead of excahnging them for things OF intrinsic value.
They have EXtrinsic value. As means of Exchange. More on this later, but gotta go. Driver for tours today.
Re cryptos, following comment from a commenter on below article sums my opinion. IMO it deserves to be quoted in full:
“I’ve been hoping someone would write an expose on this subject. If the deep state were not behind cryptocurrencies, they would be outlawed. Instead they are going to be traded in the futures markets. Nearly half of bitcoin is controlled by a mere 1000 people. This makes it ripe for manipulation like a thinly traded stock, yet I doubt there are any regulations outside of futures exchanges concerning bitcoin manipulation.
I totally agree cryptocurrencies are the approach being taken to acclimate, and disarm people to digital currencies. Whatever features of bitcoin you praise, those features (supposed anonymity, lack of central exchange, etc) will likely be excluded from the coming digital currency.
Having been previously exposed to digital currencies, a desperate world reeling from banking collapse will embrace a new reset digital currency if it restores their lost wealth, unfreezes credit, gets commerce and food trucks moving again, saves industry (jobs), and provides guaranteed income since many will have lost their jobs. It will be a huge miracle after the intense fear, dread, and panic of banking and currency collapse.
Digital currency enables govt to confiscate or freeze all wealth of anyone at will. Impose negative interest rates that cannot be escaped by bank runs. Makes bank runs impossible. There will be no limit on central bank chicanery. Since all currency remains always in the bank, there will be no limit on fractional reserve banking.
All digital currency will likely be deposited in one central bank clearing house. All other banks and bank branches will not be in the business of holding deposits. They will be in the business of providing the interface with the central bank, and with authorizing credit and lending. So when you buy goods and render payment with your digital currency that resides in your account at the central bank, it transfers to the sellers account at the central bank and the currency never leaves the central bank for even a split second. Banking collapses are now impossible baring some kind of technological collapse or the wiping out of ledgers, but even then, the central bank will be back up and running as soon as the physical technology backbone is restored. And with block-chain tech, wiped out ledgers could be rebuilt after a hack or temporary bank take-down. Just imagine the identifying information that will be included in the new block-chain that currently does not exist in cryptocurrency block-chain. Identity can be attached to each transaction, ostensibly to provide security for your account, so that even if it is hacked, the damage can be traced and reversed.
The whole world is virtually internet connected either by wire, cell tower, or satellite. Every transaction can be immediately authorized or declined, especially with a redundancy of connections. A combination of block-chain and central bank ledger can be disseminated to local bank branches and even individuals cell phones to prevent an interruption in commerce should communication with the central bank be compromised. Then the block chain and ledger can be matched and resolved with the central bank when the connection is resumed.
I very very strongly suspect this will be the mark of the beast system of buying and selling. It is still uncertain what the “mark” will be. It could be a micro chip or a microchip accompanied by a tattoo showing where to scan for the microchip. Whatever it is, it will have to be something that can be rolled out quickly on a massive scale.
How close are we. Watch for clues in any development of technology or infrastructure that can enable a rapid massive scale deployment of the new system. It will have to be ready to go in a matter of days to prevent a complete societal breakdown when the current banking system collapses. The new system may already be complete and ready for roll-out. There is no way to be sure, but watch for any clues.”
Submitted by “Counter Analysis”
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=90895
Believe it or not, but the reality as to origin of crypto “bitcoin” is in fact known to me. Honestly. Bitcoin was, and is, a practical joke. That’s it. A joke. The cat is a bit roguish, and a bit of an anarchist. I couldn’t care less about what people believe, I know.
Naturally Finance colonizes everything, cryptos too.
Expostfacto reasoning is false, comrade.
Truth is simple monkeywrenching anarchism.
Will Russia Continue to Challenge the New World Order?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/01/03/will-russia-continue-to-challenge-the-new-world-order/
Dmitry Orlov – Warning Russian Americans
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=694
Evidently our Chinese comrades are not going to suck up to the empire…http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1083196.shtml I get the idea that this is a ceremony that presages combat, for real… No, they are not starting to crack, quite the opposite.
The world order is not order…so States have to be protean and adapt. That process is life itself. Only death ends this effort.
Living States will therefore continue to adapt, or if you want “challenge” matters.
Some of you went to school back when they taught physics of vacuum tubes… which are fun to fiddle with… Anyway those who remember the working theory will remember “thermal runaway”…which is when the tube elements, particularly the cathode, get hot enough that the tube is essentially shorted… This is not a serviceable condition…suicidal is closer to the facts…
So this article caught my eye… When The Unthinkable Becomes Quotidian: Thermic runaway and Strangelovian palaver
https://off-guardian.org/2018/01/01/when-the-unthinkable-becomes-quotidian-thermic-runaway-and-strangelovian-palaver/
It’s actually a rather mild article, in tone…
A
Rockstroh is a Dissident Voice regular.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/12/when-the-unthinkable-becomes-quotidian-thermic-runaway-and-strangelovian-palaver/
Believe I wrote a comment somewhere here about a week or so ago about this excellent piece, but damned if I remember where now.
The Spelling of Sakerian
Oh waiter waiter – wait !
Some have a terrible fate –
For in this tables terrine
There lies a fair Sakerine !
Of noble birth from tribes
Of moveable cafe scribes
Now make you ready warriors of truth
Sakerites all -draw your pens forsooth !
Vengeance for the fair Sakerine
Who lies in the silver terrine
That no more need await
Such a terrible literary fate
Saker, looks like you have a new Brother in Arms:
https://jamesperloff.com/2017/11/20/i-have-joined-the-eastern-orthodox-faith/
What is your opinion about Perloff’s books and blog?
a happy Beaurepair to everyone in this cafe.
And with the co-acting of the gods – that’s the
hypothesis, provided enough virtue has been
collected, no balance is impossible.
So again 2018 mundo keeps doing the mighty family:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/01/1.html
and here is a short one for tomorrow, Thursday,
special date for Americans
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/01/tomorrow-america-swings-into-expression.html
Many do not know this story, but most adults know this true thing…
one part says
“Do you remember in school, in the Apology? Do you remember Socrates says, ‘Someone will say, “And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life that is likely to bring you to an untimely end?” To him I may fairly answer, “There you are mistaken; a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.”‘”
http://home.earthlink.net/~attwoods/moonintro.html
flies conquering the flypaper…
My opinion is that the US likes chaos.They always hope to benefit from chaos in the World.I imagine the US ruling elite is debating among themselves over which war to start.Which one they think will benefit them more.And at what time to strike.There are several to choose from.The most likely victims are probably Syria,Iran,North Korea,and Ukraine.My guess is that North Korea is “off the hook” until after the Olympics.South Korea and most of the World would be very unhappy over that. So my money would be on Syria or Ukraine. Their regime change strike on Iran seems to have failed. With the Russian Presidential election in March,that is a “tempting target” for the US to get the Ukrainians to attack Donbass during that period.And any time is a possibility for attacking Syria.
The have clearly failed in Syria though they will keep on trying to destabilize Assad through their proxies like FSA, SDF, Kurds et al. The only thing that they gained is a foothold in the Kurdish majority oil rich territories but what use is it when it is increasingly becoming clear that the surrounding territories are falling back into Syrian and Iraqi federal control. An isolated military base surrounded by hostile forces isn’t what the Empire desires.
The legitimate economic protests hijacked by the Anglo-Zionists have also failed to destabilize Iran with even bigger counter pro-government protests being organized. They wont succeed in Iran too. Apart from that, I don’t think that Russia will allow Iranian regime to fall and be substituted by a ‘democratic’ western puppet government which will surely be overtly or covertly hostile to Russian interests since they will be supported by the Empire. Takfiri terrorists ready to be launched from Iran into the Russian Caucasus is not something that the Russian will want either. Besides China also has energy dependency on Iran so a regime change isn’t something that the Chinese will support. Hezbollah will probably pour it’s fighters in Iran if such a situation ever occurs.
Attack on North Korea by the Anglo-Zionists will also not succeed due to opposition, apart from China and Russia, by the US allies in the region themselves. South Korea and Japan know that the first thing that DPRK will do is to strike them and not the US mainland because of their proximity. Any attack by the Empire will be a suicide for Japan and South Korea. Plus it will be bad for the world economy too. Baby Kim and Schoolboy Trump will keep on fighting as to who has the biggest nuking buttons on their desk.
I am not much aware about the developments in Ukraine but from what I’ve read, Russia has outmaneuvered the empire in every move in Ukraine.
I agree with you that the Russian presidential elections will be a tempting time for the Empire to resume their clown show.
“.I imagine the US ruling elite is debating among themselves over which war to start.”
Why you imagine elites from everywhere don’t think the same, can they not all purchase Raytheon shares?
An Open Letter to the Editors of The Times and The Herald: From Russia With Love
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201801031060498434-spuntik-open-letter-to-times-herald-editors/
“Congratulations to The Times and the Herald on their groundbreaking investigation which has successfully exposed Sputnik and our journalists for infiltrating Scotland Yard.
Their pioneering report into how we’ve “successfully gained a foothold in Scotland Yard by hiring a veteran crime reporter with access to senior officers” has blown the lid off of our top secret spy school which we have been running from our London and Edinburgh offices.
A Kremlin-controlled news service has gained a foothold in Scotland Yard by hiring a veteran crime reporter with access to senior officers https://t.co/L5IqEQb1zo
— The Times of London (@thetimes) December 26, 2017
We confess to training and developing one of our reporters, a member of the National Union of Journalists and the Crime Reporters Association, with over 20 years of experience of working across the British media, on how to be a spy.
https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/106049/83/1060498394.jpg
We do, however, deny rumours that we have hired Harry Potter as part of our Hogwarts division. That is widely speculative, although we are keen to look at ways in which we can use magic to spread our ‘Kremlin propaganda.’
We would be interested in learning how we can better ourselves as a propaganda agency and we would be keen to learn from the masters of this craft at The Times and Herald. Perhaps Dominic Kennedy, the Investigations Editor at The Times, would like to visit our offices and give us a master class on how he has perfected the art of spreading disinformation?
Once Dominic has recovered from his severe bout of cold war syndrome, we would implore him to come and see us. He can even bring the crayon set he uses to write his articles with.
We are concerned that this serious illness and affliction is affecting the work of journalists at The Times and Herald. We are enormously flattered that you are obsessed with us. However, we appeal to you, for the sake of your subscribers and readers, to take off the red bandana and stop watching, Rambo III, James Bond, Rocky VI and Hunt for Red October and report real news.
We wish your reporters a full and speedy recovery and hope you enjoy the rest of the festive season. But please, remember never to say Sputnik three times while looking into the mirror. Or the Russians will come and get you.
By Sputnik Editorial Team”
Blistering critique of trump’s grovelling to netanyahoo.
https://petras.lahaine.org/b2-img/PetrasJerusalemDecision.pdf
Some excerpts.
“Both President Trump and his bombastic UN Ambassador Nikki Haley threatened
that all decisions and agreements regarding alliances, loans, aid and diplomatic relations were at stake.
Moreover, the Trump regime clearly defined the style and substance of US imperial dictates: All UN member nations (large and small) must grovel in the most abject manner to his orders. Ambassador Haley demanded that each nation on earth accept Trump’s and the racist-Zionist Netanyahu’s declaration that the ancient city of Jerusalem is the eternal,
undivided and ethnically managed capital of the Jews.
Clearly Trump’s boast of US power and Haley’s assumption that her terrifying
threats would ensure that Washington had a majority vote in the ‘gifting’ of Jerusalem to Zio-fascism. They believed that US dominance and global hegemony was absolute and unassailable. The vote proved something else, something very new was happening.
The US suffered an overwhelming and humiliating defeat, one that kept Ambassador Haley dexterous fingers busy ‘taking notes’: 128 nations demanded that the Trump regime withdraw its declaration that Jerusalem was Israel’s undivided capital for Jews. Only 9 micro-nations (some mere postage stamps and a few death-squad banana-stans) voted with the Trump-Haley decision, 35 mendicant-states put their heads down and abstained while 21 timorous ambassadors chose to hide their shamelessness in the toilet stalls rather than show up for this important vote.
First and foremost it is important to discuss the steps leading up to the US suffering such a crushing debacle. In other words, who was responsible for leading the Trump Administration by the nose down the blind alley of submission to the dictates of Zio-fascism.
The leader and driving force behind the UN disaster was Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu whose quest to seize Jerusalem and convert it into the ‘eternal’ capital of the Jews was his top priority.
Netanyahu took charge with the election of Donald Trump as President. Operation
Jerusalem was his first order to Puppet Donald. A number of Israel-First multi-billionaires, who financed Trump’s electoral campaign, demanded an immediate pay-off from their puppet: The Administration’s unconditional support for Netanyahu’s agenda. Despite protests from the rest of the world, especially the US closest European allies, Trump plunged the nation right into the Zionist soup: a Jewish Jerusalem; the
systematic eviction of all Arabs, Christian, Muslim and secular, and the eventual annexation of all of Palestine; as well
as an increasing military confrontation with Iran.
Netanyahu’s operational weapons in manipulating US policy involved Jared
Kushner, the billionaire Israel-First donors, the AIPAC and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. Tel Aviv succeeded in securing Trump’s commitment to the Israeli agenda, despite opposition from the entire UN National Security Council and the overwhelming majority of the General Assembly. In the style of a typical authoritarian, US President Trump grovels at the feet of his ‘superior’, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while tearing at the throats of his ‘inferiors’, the 193 member nations of the UN General Assembly.
Netanyahu’s vitriolic bar room threats against the entire membership of the UN prior to the vote ensured the repudiation of all Security Council representatives with the exception of his South Carolina puppet, Ambassador Nikki Haley. Trump and Haley backed the blustering Netanyahu by issuing gangland threats to all UN representatives who dare to
oppose Washington’s dictates.
In this way, Prime Minister Netanyahu secured the greatest diplomatic and political success of his career – the total submission of the US to his agenda, at the risk of a major humiliation in the UN. This, in effect, formalized Israeli hegemony over Washington, for the world to see.
An openly humiliated UN Ambassador Haley was left with the task of thanking the abstainers and ‘no-shows’ for their courage and preparing a few bags of goodies (matzos, Mogan David wine and discounts to the brothels of Tel Aviv) for the torturers of Honduras and half-drowned ‘leaders’ of Palau in gratitude for such loyalty.”
Guys, do you know if it is true or fake?
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3514249
7 airplanes destroyed in Khmeimim base on December 31st.
According to RT 7 planes destroyed is fake. But sadly two Russian soldiers died. RIP.
https://www.rt.com/news/414966-khmeimim-base-shelling-killed/
“Everyone Is Affected”: Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-03/everyone-affected-why-implications-intel-bug-are-staggering
It took a while to figure this one out. What’s the next one?
Connected or coincidence?
“Intel’s CEO Just Sold a Lot of Stock”
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-stock.aspx
“Instead, given that Krzanich seems to have sold all the shares he could save for those he is required by Intel’s corporate bylaws to hold, the impression that I get is that Krzanich doesn’t have a ton of faith in the potential for Intel stock to appreciate, perhaps driven by a lukewarm (or potentially even negative) view of the company’s near- to medium-term business prospects.”
If you want security do not live with electronic gizmos.
Paper and ink. Wet film. Concrete, steel. Silence. Firewood, kerosene.
Go fishing, garden, walk. Wear polarized dark glasses, grow full beard. If travel is must, ride motorcycle – as automatic plate readers are easy to blind on bikes,
About the intel gadgets…what did you expect? C’mon!
Tip of iceberg…
Agree 100%. Let’s have a real live again. But the web is dangerously addictive for the knowledge-hungry… :)
‘ While US Backs Carnage, Norway Cites Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen and Halts Weapons Sales
While U.S. fuels war, Norway takes action to end its complicity in Saudi-led airstrikes ‘
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
byCommon Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/03/while-us-backs-carnage-norway-cites-humanitarian-crisis-yemen-and-halts-weapons
a 16 year old girl, shows more character than the whole of zionism…
‘ Holding A Mirror Up To A Shameful Occupation ‘
‘ Ahed Tamimi, the fierce 16-year-old Palestinian girl arrested last month for daring to confront an Israeli soldier who’d allegedly shot her cousin in the head, has been indicted on 12 vengeful charges, from assault to incitement…….
“I don’t want to be perceived as a victim, and I won’t give their actions the power to define who I am and what I’ll be,” she said. “We don’t want you to support us because of some photogenic tears, but because we chose the struggle and our struggle is just. ‘
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/01/03/holding-mirror-shameful-occupation
A Little Review of New Year 2018 Messages
The first is from the President of Russia
“Tell Words of Love and Care To Each Other”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6uU9K-9C8
This seems like a Universally valid coaching directive, especially on a day that a “Nor-easter” hits the Atlantic coast of the USA. Lots of snow and winds up to 70 mph in some places……
We might consider calling conservative running plays all day on firm theological grounds instead of going full Jerry Springer with Bannon and Trump and the MSM flinging offensive passes all over the place.
There are more Novum Godum 2018 messages to review, but on this hotel lobby computer, it’s one window at a time, so I can’t paste all the links in the same comment.
We get Putin’s words of Love and Encouragement from the above link in subtitles for half the 9 minutes.
The rest is sound and sights of the Kremlin, St Basil’s Cathedral and other nightitme brightly lit buildings and scenes in Moscow. I have to imagine the sounds of bells that rang in 2018 because there are no speakers in this set up. (I have to use the Hotel’s desk top in its Cafe, because my tired old laptop died.)
I only hear the sounds in the last half of the video near and just past midnight in Moscow in my head and warming heart. But you might also hear them in your ears.
Next up with New Year 2018 words of Love and Care is the President of China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIDN1cDhz7c
Here, I noted with interest the open attitude toward Hong Kong, Macao, and especially Taiwan. As well as overseas Chinese in all parts of the world and the human family as a whole.
This attitude of cooperation is the antithesis of British Empire/AZ Empire Geopolitics which is based on fierce competition. Or, since English is the language created for word play, puns and multiple meanings how about I call it FEARce competition???:
The Fear That Unless You Do It First To Them, They may Do It to YOU!
There is no WE.
There is no Love.
Only FEAR.
The Opposite of Love…..as it is the foundation of Hate: Fear of the Other!
This is inspiring, but lacks the bells I hear in Russia, with Putin’s New Year 2018 Message.
That’s OK.
I hear the Bell of Peace and Love in Taipei and hope that in 2018 it dissolves the Fear Still in Taiwan…..and Taiwanese overseas.
This bell is taken around the world by practitioners of Tai Chi Men and rung by representatives of nations.
My excellent instructor (perfectly balanced body, breath and mind….doing dozens of effortless squats to within less than half a foot of the floor, while smiling…..”Happy Energy!”……LOL…try THAT while looking “happy”…….) has travelled to many places including Russia, very recently with the master (“Shi Fu”) , the UN Conference in NYC (where she showed my a picture of her with Erdogan’s wife….on her cell phone) and Vienna, also late in 2017.
The Outreach consists of promoting Peace and Love and inviting representatives of countries to simply attend a ceremonial ringing of the Bell of Peace and Love.
Sounds corny, but works amazingly well on a Vibrational Level of Consciousness.
I’m on a bell roll (role?) having recently spent an hour or two at the Liberty Bell Exhibit at the City of Brotherly Love = Bro 93.
Now just before the Holidays I met after class with this instructor and gave her a copy of the World Land Bridge Special report……same one I sent to Saker in Florida and Mundo in Murnau.
ioan missed out. He never gave me his address when I wanted to send him that book about the Eastern European author of The Guide to Hotels, Inns, Restaurants and Cafes of Eastern Europe. Written by some Ex-British intelligence operative to psywar all whose lives have been spent mostly in socialism or communism.
Still A residue of FEAR, among the Taiwanese.
I expressed the idea that Korea and China could again be united in a few decades OR LESS…..but there was significant hesitation to “go there” intellectually or emotionally….as though the present divided situations along the southern periphery of the World Island were a Permanent, Eternally Imposed Empire Reality.
But watch Xi’s New Year’s Message.
Is the fear of him….or is the fear of the Mind Control imposed by the Geopolitics of Fear among Taiwanese AND westerners….especially in the United States???
There is hope. They like Russia.
Autonomous killer smart drones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITMYiTBhDcA
It’s coming…
Last of the New Year’s Messages, especially for AlphaBet Males like Our Dear Dennis (who fears X) is Z, as in Zepp, The Silk Road Lady, proclaiming a New Year’s Wish for The End of Geopolitcs in 2018:
https://larouchepac.com/20171231/new-year-greeting-helga-zepp-larouche
remember, Dennis, “Love Goes All The Way”.
Including to the end of the alphabet.
ZZZZ…but don’t go to sleep….yet
And hurry on your study of geopolitics. There’s a Multi-polar effort to put that sad, fearful, hateful chapter of human history to a well deserved Permanent Rest…in 2018.
Nor’easter is blowing snow horizontally at a steady 30-50 mph. Temperature in the teens…Fahrenheit Minus 7 or 8 Centigrade
I can’t do more than one link per comment on this hotel desk top.
Please someone, post California Dreamin’ for Dennis and I:
I stopped into a Church
I saw along the Way
I got down on my knees
And i BEGAN TO PRAY.
Oh, California Dreamin’
On such a winter’s day…..
The weather terrorists are dreaming another California .
You tube channel Pacific Redwood is documenting how the timing of the aerosol spraying always coincides with incoming moisture and frontal systems. You can subscribe to his channel and see for yourself. He makes no claims that are not visible to the human eye on the maps.
S CA should have been doused with rain as tropical storms and pineapple express flows form over the Pacific. But with every storm formation we simultaneously observe the specially equipped jets spraying the aerosol desiccants to cap the atmosphere and stop the precipitation process.
We have the same thing in N CA. This is visible to anyone on the Doppler maps.
Yes, on my knees to pray as I watch our skies under attack.
k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVsnhhSmKc
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0906/In-capitalist-Russia-a-socialist-garden-flourishes
maybe of interest to you?
I am pretty sure, but probably off in some degree with the following:
Nothing so much about spraying beyond it is obvious that it goes on. But, in addition, it is my belief, based on technical papers I have read, that soluble metallic salts, soluble, in petroleum, are now added to jet fuel in much of the world’s aviation fuel supply. Metal in fuel? Is public “secret”, read the details in petro literature…if you can read chemistry papers profitably. I can, so can you, if you trouble to.
Of course, nothing new in the chemistry, they added lead to gasoline for a long time, and still do in some examples. Makes cheap gas have high octane, also tends to eat bearings due to the bromic acids that form from the ethylene dibromide they have to add to keep the lead from fouling the valves and plugs. Some cancers also result, as do reduced intelligence and increased aggression in people, from the PbOx
Why metal in Jetfuel?
There’s a mystery…it may simply be money and cover-up. Cover-up? Yes, when they shot down Fl 800 over the Atlantic (a 747!) they had to cover it up, and claim a fuel explosion in the famous center fuel tank. This explosions was/is frankly impossible. But there had to be a “plausible” story…static electricity. adding metal to the jetfuel was the “solution”. Right.
Yes, kero can make sparks while it’s pumped under the right conditions, so can gasoline. But saturated kero or gaso in air at STP cannot explode even with a deliberate spark plug firing… The gas tank in cars is an example, and nobody expects cars to blow up (unless a missile hit the car!). And the fuel tank gauges all get hot in the tank system and often do make small sparks. (take one apart and look) (Alcohol (methanol, for example) saturated vapor at STP can explode, but not Jetfuel or gaso). Lookup the IUPAC handbook…
So, in order to make the Jetfuel conduct electricity so static charge cannot form, and to prevent explosions that did not and cannot occur, they added the conductive salts…(I use the term “salts” rather loosely here.)
This was necessary to correct the defect that did not exist, and to make the cover story at least seemingly plausible. Otherwise two conditions would occur:
1) zero demand for a useless additive
2) necessity of admission that USN shot down a US airliner…in full view of the East Coast commuter traffic helicopters, piloted by men who saw a rocket launch hit the aircraft…during a naval maneuver that included missile firings or practice firing.
When the metal-salted fuel combustion results in metallic oxides forming. These “spray” out in the exhaust stream and form condensation nucleoli – hence the vast increase in contrails.
The metal? I believe it’s mostly Al, probably some other alkali metals too…
Is there a marginal technical advantage too? Probably…but mostly to Finance, not to safety, I think.
Does this spraying have a material effect on climate? Obviously, compare the conditions over the US when they grounded almost all aircraft after 911 (all but the goodbuddies saud.zionazi traitor intelop fellas) Hint: the skies cleared nation-wide, beautiful! 3 days…
Do the fine fellas also spray (presumably more potent materials) for weather modification? Also obviously they do. Thus at least two material operations are running.
That serves to obscure both. Provides for limited hangout too. Like UFO stories…
That said, I have lived in Southern and Northern California for many many years. The fire are normal fires in view of the drought. Whether or not the drought is normal is in dispute. I believe the drought(s) are worse due to the spraying, both kinds. The upper regolith is generally high in alkali metals, these are light, low density, rock. They float on top of the denser material, in general.
I seem to real that Al ore constitutes some 70%…something like that.
And both kinds may also be designed to soak up money against the story, true or not, of climate change. The “contrails” spraying nucleoli make the atmosphere more reflective and bring some reduction in insolation at the lower level of the atmosphere.
Plausible? For Americans, yes. They are ignorant beyond the wildest imagination. Honestly…recently I went to the pharmacist to fill a medical prescription. We chatted about the drug in question, and I asked about its IUPAC name. This is a universal term in organic chemistry and it is (was) not credible that a pharmacist would not be familiar with the question. She was not. In fact she had never heard of the IUPAC. Gently I inquired…”Did you take a chemistry class?” She had not. Ok, let’s see…High school? check / college? check / graduate school? check. Chemistry? No. Not even a single class – and this is a 40 year old resident pharmacist… Let us be clear…in US pharmisits do not take chemistry classes. Get it? Now line up for your “flushots”. Right.
The ordinary “folks” are dumb enough to believe any fool story. Even magic fuel tanks…
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/
https://iupac.org/
http://www.aftonchemical.com/SBU/Fuels/RDFA/Sub/Conductivity-Improving-Additives#
http://www.globaljetclub.com/JET-ACCESSORIES/FUEL-SYSTEM-ACCESSORIES/Y-JC-ASFA
decide for yourselves, read the science, not the fairytales.
Psst: There are of course zero “specially equipped jets spraying aerosol desiccants” observable in this youtube video, and the presenter’s assertions in this monologue re. energy beams, microwave laser satellites and whatnot are entirely evidence-free.
“Please someone, post California Dreamin’ for Dennis and I”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E
Enjoy
Kent
Thanks, Kent!
My memory is slipping. I forgot the most relevant 2 lines after
“I got down on my knees
And I began to pray”
Next comes:
“I’d be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.”
California Dreamin’…… on such a winter’s day. What a bunch of weenies!
LOL. Laughing In a Winter Wonderland
Not just the wonky weather is problematical. Get ready for some shake, rattle and roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7xr_EjbzE
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/20/earths-rotation-is-mysteriously-slowing-down-experts-predict-uptick-in-2018-earthquakes/#70175a7d6f24
https://earthquaketrack.com/v/sf/recent
And, say what???!!! Mt. St Helens , again? The fires of H-ll are stoking her up: magma magnanimously
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/mount-st-helens-recharging-magma-stores-setting-off-earthquake-swarms/
Passing this along for information. I’ve done no due diligence or study on the issue. All study and due diligence is yours.
Russia’s BitRuble Cryptocurrency
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4135037-russias-bitruble-cryptocurrency-profit
The points of view from various international and cultural perspectives are invaluable to gain focus….on what to focus on most. And what is “noise” to tune out. And that’s critical : Most chatter about anything is gossip, noise, misdirection, stupid. The good stuff or possibly good stuff immediately stands out, I think.
As a confessed cryptard (How tardy was I?? 9 years…..only in mid 2017 did I wake up and smell the Digital Coffee…..) I am still assembling the missing parts of the picture.
Due to the nor-easter I watched televison for the first time in about 10 years, most this afternoon. Talk about retardation!
But RT TV had this on:
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/414964-episode-max-keiser-1171/
which is on the early, early origins of the “community” first responsible for what has become Bitcoin.
They are called “cypher-punks” which I assume is some playing with CYBER and the idea of Ones and Zeros in computing.
Guest Richard Heart gives a sense of the battles going on between idealists, realists, opportunists…..etc.etc. specifically objecting to Roger Ver ….apparently the main mover behind the Bitcoin Cash split-off…..which Heart heartily…… disapproves of….as you will see WHY.
Besides followup on what amarynth points out I will comment less and study more if the less cryptarded than I will emerge from their crypto-crypts and shed some light for us late comers.
Well, I got a little ill watching that Max Keiser. Not the first part, but the 2nd part. And yes, if it was important really, I could debunk every sentence. But no, it is not important. The market will indeed decide. A little about the new language, new linguistics in this new field. Heart is described as a ‘maximalist’. The ‘older’ crypto currency community has grown past that. Maximalists will be disintermediated despite their cries for help and attempts for a government or a legal structure to save them. Generally they forget about the whole environment. Technology is only part of that. Some people push it forward on the marketing side, others on different ways of using that technology and others make new technology hiving away from the old.
We have a good example in Linux. How many Linux distros do we have now? This is how open source technology grows, via forking and developing into different directions.
We are into a massive disintermediation of old ways of doing commerce. Cryptos are here to stay and despite the confusion at the current moment which will continue for years to come, the expectation is that the time of mainly innovators are now moving into the age of the early adopter of this technology.
https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F4%2F45%2FDiffusionOfInnovation.png&sp=b9db07e8cd119b2be742387163935a99
I’ll make a prediction that in 10 years or so or perhaps earlier, we will all be using some form of crypto currency. We’re pushing toward a more honest world. I’ve heard say that as a species we may have made a collective decision to evolve with technology, instead of with war. Evolve we will! Blockchains have this ‘undocumented feature’, in that they keep people honest. People like Heart forget that, at their own peril.
Amarynth,
We haven’t made a collective decision at all. Human nature doesn’t function like that—it never has and it is highly unlikely that it ever will.
I find blockchain and cryptos interesting and believe that the tech will have a function in future but being an oldie, (once an early adopter) am now utterly wary of any new idea that claims to be a ‘saviour’ of mankind or promises to function to ‘keep mankind honest’. It ain’t gonna happen. What will happen is that a small group will gain control of the tech and then try, by hook or by crook, to impose its use on the rest of us–all without thought of consequence or drawbacks–‘for our own good’.
Except it is never ‘for our own good’ or ‘for the greater good’ it is always a con of sorts to benefit the ‘special’ knowledgeable small group at the expense of the larger.
‘Evolve’ is not a synonym for ‘impose something on others that they cannot refuse if they wish to survive’—that is rightfully called ‘domination’ and that is what is exciting the innovators of crypto currencies, being in at the lucrative beginning of the next big thing, not the greater good of mankind.
Crypto currencies are duking it out in the new, lawless, wild west, for the same, murky reasons of greed and profit that the pioneers drove the natives off their land in that wild west.
Please don’t dress it up as some kind of evolution of human nature towards honesty when the evidence of human nature’s propensity for corruption and death at the prospect of profit on the horizon is so glaringly apparent all around us, right now, wherever you care to look.
Read some of the history of human nature and its murky past–it ain’t gonna happen, no matter how many idealists desperately want it to. Reality bites, and it usually bites idealists particularly hard.
Narsallah confirms that Assad is not ready to forgive Hamas for their betrayal of Syria
http://www.fort-russ.com/2018/01/nasrallah-confirms-that-assad-will-not.html
How Israel helped create Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/?utm_term=.735bd49f8a2b
ISIS declares war on Palestine’s Hamas, but not Israel
https://www.therussophile.org/isis-releases-video-declaring-war-on-palestines-hamas-but-not-israel.html/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/04/islamic-state-throws-down-gauntlet-to-rival-hamas-with-video-execution/?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.676707a71c27
Wow, these will not end well… Israel is threwing in all the tools to take away Palestine. I want to see what weibo comments says about this one.
Dostoevsky alert:
Interesting thought from the translator of Notes from the Underground, Richard Pevear ( with Larissa Volokhonsky):
He says, ” the translation of zloy as “spiteful” instead of “wicked” is not inevitable, nor is it a matter of nuance. It speaks for that habit of substituting the psychological for the moral, of interpreting a spiritual condition as a kind of behavior, which has so bedeviled our century, not least in its efforts to understand Dostoevsky.”
And so the first sentence, “I am a sick man…I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.”
OK I think I understand why some my friends do not want to read Dostoevsky—they do not want to believe that evil cannot be medicated out of existence.
Just finished a re-read before Christmas last year (2017).
Best thing about it. Having my teenage daughter sitting in the chair opposite thoroughly engrossed in a copy of White Nights that I bought her while we were Christmas shopping earlier in 2017. Christmas shopping in bookstores with my daughter is always dangerous. We come out loaded with books, but few if any gifts for others. She finished White Nights and picked up Gemina from the Illuminae series which she’s been captivated with.
One thing I want more time for. Reading…so many books, so little time.
Now Russian court declared Jehova’s Witnessess bible “extremist” and are trying to take a propertie that they’ve been using for 17 years. With eager help and joy from orthodox church. Actually, the JWs bible IS extremist because it hasn’t been approved by a OC father!! Talk about nonsense here.
Also, I think I remember Jesus saying that we should not call anyone father except The Holy Father. Its in the bible somewhere but, who cares right?
Regards,
Uncle_Joseph
Documenting the breakdown of the social order in the USA.
Many of the so called “working poor” live on the streets or in very poor housing conditions especially those paid most poorly in the food service industry. The rot behind the facade:
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/health-officials-concerned-uptick-restaurant-workers-infected-hepatitis/
I skimmed the news, taking note of Bro Bellwether’s take. I watched Xi and Putin’s New Year messages, in brief. Too glossy and fake for my tastes. The scripts written for Trump, Xi, Putin, the Pope, and anyone else of consequence, grow tiresome.
I’ve been busy, moving from the burned out part of the property to where it did not burn, tucked into the side of a large pepper tree. I’m illegal in my motor home so have to camouflage it. My son helped me. I’m off the grid and feel so much freer. No electricity suits me fine in my personal space. I rise and go down with the sun. “I don’t care if the sun don’t shine; I do my loving in the evening time.”
The brave new world being constructed by the ZioXio’s is one big bore for me. How fake and phony can we be? Miles is right: it’s all fake. I’d rather be poor like Jesus than rich like the new workers’ paradise zombies. Talk about programmed smiley faces trapped in their comfort zones.
I’m poor but not destitute. So rich I give away half my income. I receive proof upon proof daily how love takes care of me, all for free. The new multi-polar world of God’s Chosen People is death dressed with fakery as far as I’m concerned. I like Trump because he’s trapped but not trumped.
Sorry to be a party-pooper, and to rain on your parade, but the new Communist world in red ink and blood of slaughtered animals would collapse without those two red phones on Xi’s desk. Mao was right: power comes out of the barrel of a gun, only now the guns are wreathed with flowers and bombs for the soul promise ivory towers.
If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I’m a realist and in that realism is my joy. Time to take a shower here at the club, and then get back to the land where I belong.
Love, Dennis
The scripts written for Trump, Xi, Putin, the Pope, and anyone else of consequence, grow tiresome.
this is too arrogant to read completly
sorry Denis
try another day