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In previous cafe S wrote: SusieQ on January 08, 2018 · at 2:59 pm UTC
Could you say more about psychological set and / or recommend places to read further? Many thanks
Anon shall do so… Actually the term was until recently unknown to me, though the idea was not. It turns up in a history of the JFK murder. In the course of to-day I shall post something about the details.
Ok…here: https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/eugene-dinkin-the-saga-of-an-unsung-hero
a fragment…really though the whole paper is vital to seeing what is up for the gifted and celestial mr T…what his future looks to be… rather terrible perhaps.
“…Regular Army Private First Class Dinkin was serving in Metz, France in the 599th Ordinance Group. He held a secret security clearance for his job in the crypto-section of his unit. Prior to enlisting he had attended the University of Chicago. He and his family had lived in Chicago. His studies at the university included psychology. His duties at Metz would have included deciphering cable traffic from the European Commands, NATO and so forth.
In September, 1963, Dinkin noticed material in the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, and other print publications, that was negative toward the president and his policies and implied that he was a weak president in dealing with the Russians. The examples that he found became more negative, the suggestion being that if he were removed as president it would be a good thing. By mid-October Dinkin had found enough information—some of it subliminal—that he was convinced that a plot was in the works. One driven by some high ranking members of the military, some right-wing economic groups, and with support by some national media outlets…”
Colonel Fletcher Prouty made videos and wrote books detailing the plot and execution of JFK assassination.
US Naval Intelligence played a large role. CIA was central. But the military was important because they had to block off any potential adverse reaction by men in the ranks and civilians who saw through the lies and deceptions.
Prouty was never refuted, as far as I know.
In the film JFK, by Oliver Stone, Prouty’s identity was played by Donald Sutherland, as “X”.
The lesson of the psyc set is relevant now… Oprah for Pres is a P.S. intelop…as were the things Denkin saw. they are “tells” when they are perceived…telegraphing the designs of the deep state.
So, understanding the nature of PS makes the observer able to have quite accurate perceptions about the sinister plans, and of course, make some of your own.
These are lessons from History – but what is vital is that there games run today, this morning…look at front page of WP , top left is all supposed to make people expect T man to be removed…just like the stories Denkin saw in 1963
at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise-en-sc%C3%A8ne there is a discussion…about theatre, however the theme of “Mise-en-scène” is vital. When you perceive a Mise-en-scène you know the story being presented is, well, a story. A lie.
The equivalent in psychology is “psychological set”
Mise-en-scène = PS
Look for the Mise-en-scène and you will know their plans for you, and for the world.
Naturally the creators are as easy to bs as anybody, at least, so they tend to follow their own sets and wind up in the land of magical thinking/ Magical thinking = delusional thinking. This tend to deliver disaster. Try running in pitch dark forest… Disaster is sure.
a good source for study about the creation of PS / Mise-en-scène is to be found at https://www.psywar.org/
Particularly the material on Aspidistra and Sefton Delmar
anon give example of misc en scene from Hamlet…whereby the Prince discovers the Truth by observing the King as the king doth observe the set of his crime..
“The Mousetrap Scene”. Everyone in court comes to see the play, and Hamlet and Horatio have a careful eye on Claudius. Hamlet and Ophelia come together again, and he says a few VERY dirty things to her, which again could or could not be part of his madness. He makes several references to women’s brief love, which might be directed at his mother, Ophelia, or both. Both the queen and king become a little uncomfortable with the play, but Hamlet assures them that anyone with a free soul will enjoy it. He and Ophelia have words again, and he seems to hint that she loves someone else…but then again, he could just be crazy Hamlet again. The poisoning is carried out onstage- and the King rises and rushes out of the room! Polonius demands that the play stop, and Hamlet and Horatio have a triumphant moment. Then come Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Hamlet leads them in a few word games before telling them that they cannot play upon him like a pipe. Polonius enters, and tells Hamlet that the Queen wishes to see him. Hamlet agrees to go, and then gives his adrenaline-charged “”Tis now the very witching time of night” monologue.
Which explains why Denkins was disappeared and liquidated…
By the front page of the Washing Post one can know the conscience of the king, so to say.
From the presentation here https://intelnews.org/2018/01/08/01-2247/ it is fairly simple to discover that it is a misc en scene . There is the tell-tale signal feature…
What’s that?
A lack of continuity.
In Theater it is essential to maintain a suspension of disbelief…and so there is a concept called “continuity”. A crude example of failure in continuity (and the deconstruction of fantasy belief) occurs when in scene one the glass is empty, then in the next scene, it is full. Everything after that is seen as Fake…fake.
In film there can be an entire continuity department, and there is always somebody assigned to vet each scene according to the script sequence (this is almost never the shooting sequence)…it is vital to the fantasy and a really important job.
In the url example there are several such features…and the scene is thus revealed for what it is, a story, not a truth.
In the example of setting the scene for Oprah…well, she denies it.
It?
Look it up… This is a major flaw in the continuity of Oprah’s story https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oprah+whore&t=ffab&ia=videos But the most interesting thing is when you look at this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oprah+babylon&t=ffnt&ia=web
I applaud the fine lady. She’ll have my vote… But there are vast fissures (these are what Clapper calls continuity problems) in her story, and though She may Rule, one does tend to doubt just how blessed she’ll be, eh?
About intelnews?…great “tells” several times a week, usually…like they once said Canada was giving the ukinazis satellite coordinates…a classical deflection…very pretty. I recommend intelnews heartily. And it is good to practice discovering failures in continuity. But it does ruin the real theater, except Shakespeare holds up well.
Thank you Anon for all your posts on psychological set. I was not aware of the similarities to mise-en-scène.
I studied drama so have some background in the creation of scene and setting. Interestingly, many of the developments in theatre are passed down as a craft and not much is written – aside from the plays themselves.
Bertold Brecht, a German playwrite, was very conscious of making his audiences aware of the fact that they were in fact watching a play and used several mechanisms to “break the spell” of audience immersion into the plot. Here are some notes on him:
http://www.thedramateacher.com/epic-theatre-conventions/
I don’t know Hamlet very we’ll but I can see from your outline that Alfred Hitchcock used the same technique (perhaps in a more obvious way) to prepare the audience for violence and horror. I don’t really watch horror movies much but I’m sure they must still be using similar techniques.
I can see how easily these techniques are adapted to propaganda and psyops. However, it seems to me that many people have now become aware of the attempt at programming them and so some of the effectiveness may be lost. Perhaps this the reason for the increasing hysterical exaggeration of memes in the media?
I agree. The theater game is failing.
Once we begin looking for continuity in the scene, and “scene” expands, then what’s fake and what’s real becomes obvious. Old Bill “all the world’s a stage…” It makes things easy if you back away from the scene to see the frame as a frame.
When they resort to turning up the volume, which I imagine is what you mean (“Perhaps this the reason for the increasing hysterical exaggeration of memes in the media?”) things become so shrill that the suspension of disbelief actually turns the fake drama into genuine farce.
In general the hysteria and exaggeration actually contribute to the discontinuity in proportional way. And then we see Reality… as is expressed in the story of the emperor with no clothes.
That their Lordships resort to farce, farce, perhaps without realizing the consequences, says they are panicked amateurs, uneducated in any classical sense – and this strongly suggests that they have run out of options in this area of controlling their populations. This in turn suggests that, as A. Solzhenitzen has said, (Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”) violence must be the next tactic.
And what do we see to-day? Ever more violence. Understand, this is “domestic” actions to control populations. This presents domestically under the rubric of “police” and in proportion to the need to conceal the foreign violence, and crimes against people in general – often grand scales of theft.
There are continuity problems in the work of RT as well…such as the absurd repetitions, endless, of the ridiculous story of 911. Another recent example was the farcical “interview” job they did on Dugin.
I look forward to hearing Peter L, for example, interview Steven Jones about the fairytale, and to the turning of 911 from a fake tragedy into a genuine farce, and that to a unspeakable crime.. Thus achieving what is in Rhetoric known as “dynamiting the cornerstones” of an opponent. Naturally such a thing would trigger violence, so RT and Peter (or somebody) are going to do that when it seems like the right time to do it, and not before. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”. I expect that when the US is primed for revolution they’ll drop the pretense about 911.
There is a model to study, several in fact…the political murders of the 1960’s in the US, King and both Kennedy brothers, and many others, all rather ad hoc and amateur, and smeared with lies, now become farce, and further concealed by further murders. The actual fact is pretty obvious, they ran (and probably still do) domestic murder squads of professional killers…ask the Black Panthers… And look at the “suicides” of key persons… The border means little or nothing.
A fine study is MacBeth…and I put up a url to a good audio from BBC, this is somewhere in previous recent anon posts here. Also below.
In Mac the lie of the king’s murder ends in war and an entire sequence of murders… Mac orders near the denouement “Hang those that talk of fear” . Thus he is attacking his own people when the duty is to protect them….rather familiar when we think about the events that follow the first Kennedy’s murder, eh? And how many fodder units died on 911? This violence tended to cover the political lie associated with Bush 43 being “elected” after the Supreme Court order vote counting to stop.
I too did some theater. And my wife did so professionally, mostly in film and costume, with opera too.
“Macbeth”, with Paul Scofield – 1966 – BBC Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ
Good police investigations also look for the misc en scene…as an indicator…when it’s a set and you see the frame or discontinuity, you begin to know the crime, and the crime tells you who did the crime, usually fairly quickly. Careful criminals therefore set up one or more people as patsy, though an animal is often used as patsy in arson. Most police investigation are not very professional though…alas.
Therefore this may interest:
The End of the Cold War and Shakespeare’s Macbeth
by Vladimir Golstein, October 9, 2017
“It is naïve to think that Macbeth is only about some “vaulting” and murderous ambition. Macbeth does not acquire the throne with the intention of controlling his subjects. In fact, in his quest to secure his rule, he strives to control the very idea of time and change. It is thus hardly surprising that when he is killed, Macduff declares: “behold, where stands/The usurper’s cursed head: THE TIME IS FREE.” ”
Here’s Golstein’s essay: https://off-guardian.org/2017/10/09/the-end-of-the-cold-war-and-shakespeares-macbeth/
Nice to meet a theater person, thanks for the reply, Suzie Q
Now back to watching the grand farce all twined with blood and murder…
And awaiting the next act. I wish they’d simply stop…it’s obvious where this goes.
Day Two, Week Two 2018
By Week Two of 2018 there is plenty of bitter geopolitical angst to catch up with, before that game of “I Need to Screw You Before You Screw Me (As in Kill, Enslave, Dominate…..not “Bed”) is consigned to the sad annals of the Screwed Up Adolescent History of the Human Species, later this year. (My New Year’s Resolution, Wish…..) Meanwhile, I’d like to dive in, and join you in @018 Cafe Numero Uno. It’s so much fun!
https://youtu.be/cUWyODR1_sA
Why is everyone leaving?
As usual, I’m Late to the Party…… And the Cafe Closed…before I could post this….so copy paste….and Try to Catch Up!
Well, so be it! So….. I will just go Back in Time to Day One, and Reminisce on Some Russian/US Sweetness before imbibing my Week Two / Day Two Bitters at the Geopolitical Bar Of Fear and Loathing:
On New Year’s Day 2018 I was in Philadelphia, obediently serving as Chauffer and Walking Tour Guide for the Reise-Fuhrer……..my wife…….
Now get over the nominalism,! Just because one Tour Leader Led the World To Hell 1933-1945 doesn’t mean that a Perfectly Good German Word should be permanently stigmatized!
You see, this spouse of mine, this Russian Tour Guide in the City of Brotherly Love was employing the classical musical composition science of “Ludwig Van” (reference to British Intelligence operative Anthony Burgess….and his character “Alex” in A Clock Work Orange….a typical British Empire Not So Lovely Piece of Mind Control Work ….)….which is Motiv-Fuhring…..a key principle of really good classical music….
In other words, from a seemingly simple motif or theme of say, only a 4 notes phrase….as in the opening of his Fifth Symphony ( TA-TA-TA-TA) a coherent work of art of dozens of minutes is scientifically composed in rich thematic elaboration without a single arbitrary, disconnected, frivolous, purely sensual eroticism (ie lacking in the Deeper Agape for Humanity LVB employed to Make People Better…..the “Alex” thing by Burgess was vile, hateful slander…BTW..) so common in most music of shall we say, less excellence than Beethoven’s.
(Sorry Elsi: Even the most skilled rappers, from Pittsburg to the Pyrenees don’t come up to his toenails.. .IMHO. Nor does Bobby Darin….in those Slightly More Puerile and Innocent Early Days of Rock and Roll, BTW…..before the Satanism crept in….through the Tavistock Institute. And the CIA. says Miles Mathis. )
Anyway, she composed a magnificent US History Tour for her 2 Cossacks and I +Visiting Babushka….in the Manner of LVB’s motiv-fuhring principle, ERGO:…… “Reise-Fuhrer” is a morally, scientifically and culturally correct designation of her tour guider role in orchestrating the entire family for 2 weeks, at these main stops:
1) DC for just before and after Christmas, 2) Mount Vernon (GW’s estate overlooking the Potomac) 3) Masonic Temple honoring GW, In Alexandria….and 4) Charlottesville for Monticello (TJ’s Slave Plantation….slight friendly dig at Durruti….he can take it…”To the Anarchist Collective!”…….with a crypto-angle….more on that later……….), 5) Gettysburg…..a Really Screwed Up Battle ……by a Political Appointee-General- Friend of AL…..but a Great (& Mercifully Short…..) Political Speech by AL, and finally Philadelphia, Jan 1-5.
But I have digressed. Mea Culpa.
Here was the Moment of Russian American Sweetness in the City of Brotherly Love:
We were in the Liberty Bell Exhibition across the street from Independence Hall. Russian Reise-Fuhrer was speaking softly to Babushka, translating for her the text graphics of various exhibits. It wasn’t the called “Liberty Bell” until anti-slavery women (mainly) agitating against the hypocrisy of freedom loving enslaver patriarchs of society…..first for the black race….and then for the fairer sex, called it The Liberty Bell!
This is suppoed to “resonate” with the vibrations from the Bell of Peace and Love, y’all. Wake up!
Anyway,I noticed that an attractive woman with a Russian Style fur hat , mid 30’s had spent several minutes in close proximity to the wife and mother-in law at more than one display. Without thinking about it, I made some remark to the woman about some exhibit all four of us we looking at, but in separately conversing groups of two. The woman answered quietly, facing me momentarily. She was clearly American, but for the first time her forehead was facing me and in the center of the fur hat was a large medallion of a two headed or a double black eagle, I’m not sure which.
“Your hat looks Russian.”, I remarked, lightly.
“It is not, “ she said softly, “But the pin is Russian.”
With my right hand above my wife’s head, index finger pointing down, I said, lightheartedly. “This one is Russian, too.”
“Yes.”, she said, smiling. Mother and daughter were absorbed in their own conversation in Russian and didn’t notice us.
To me, some singularities like this little example are far more significant in consciousness than the more pervasively ignorant nonsense manufactured by psychopaths for unconscious mind control, which only pathetic, unconscious children and the willfully dead asleep are affected by.
OMG webmaster, mods, if you could return the “preview” feature somehow that would be SO nice.
I never intend to be so bold.
For the sake of quieter archives, could you please end the bold after the 9th word……”eroticism”
Done. Are you using control-b to start and stop bolding of text? -MOD.
Does the US Military “Own the Weather”? “Weaponizing the Weather” as an Instrument
of Modern Warfare?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/does-the-us-military-own-the-weather-weaponizing-the-weather-as-an-instrument-of-modern-warfare/5608728
Former FBI Chief Ted Gunderson Says Chemstrail Death Dumps Must Be Stoped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6KVYJ73AU
Former CIA Agent Kevin Shipp Risks All To Expose The Shadow Government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHbrOg092GA&t=236s
I introduce you the president of United States, Mr. Jim Mattis:
Mattis on War, Tyranny, Revolution and Body Counts(IMHO, Shows mind of US army, and why they are wining all over the world)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/01/08/mattis-war-tyranny-revolution-and-body-counts.html
Mattis: US Has No ‘Beef’ With Iranian People, Just Regime
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/01/08/mattis-us-has-no-beef-iranian-people-just-regime.html
So here comes more information:
On Pakistan, Jim Mattis and Trump employ a clever good cop, bad cop strategy
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/on-pakistan-jim-mattis-and-trump-employ-a-clever-good-cop-bad-cop-strategy/article/2645390
Conflation is important to the misc en scene…as in the example nazi propaganda, which is the topic given, is then conflated with the DDR…
the lesson received is that there is an equivalence between DDR and nazi Germany..
This is of course, a lie…but very subtle and cunning. While the invention of propaganda was American…and is never mentioned.
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/index.htm
take a look.
Huh. My sister took a class from the author. Interesting tidbit about that school: they did not require professors to publish articles in reviewed journals. Instead, profs were required to do an hour’s reading per day, outside their field. Maybe archives like this are the result?
That’s a reasonable idea. It would tend to improve the school by conservation of effort. Good idea. And the publish or die bit often tends to lower quality.
Thanks for the reply.
Robert Parry – Seeking War to the End of the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/19/seeking-war-to-the-end-of-the-world/
“US has to buy Russian natural gas as consumer prices soar”
https://www.rt.com/business/415345-united-states-buying-russian-lng/
“US sanctions against the Russian energy sector do not directly ban supplies of LNG to America from Moscow. However, Washington has repeatedly stressed it wants to oust Russia as Europe’s key gas supplier and has imposed sanctions that hinder the financing of Gazprom’s projects with Brussels.”
I don’t believe anymore in this fake antagonism between the United Satan of America and Russian Matrioshka. If the sanctions would be real, the pain would be also real. It’s the same as Nazi-Wallstreet business. Theater for the masses, biz as usual for the insiders.
I’m out of this Psy-Mind-Game tovarishes…
Game
by ioan
Not everything is what it looks to be,
just wait and watch and you will see
A colored talk, it may be strange,
doesn’t mean that things have changed
The chess is going on, the play is real,
players are on, serving the same evil.
Whom can you trust, when there is smog,
everywhere you look, only smoke and fog.
“The risks are too high” they used to say,
covering their greed, asking for our prey.
Even if you scream, you’re voiceless,
they don’t hear you, but know your stress,
and they’re happy with their chess…
You’re alone, the multitude have got a game !
Scream my friend, they’ve done it yet again !
Thank you for your poetic reaction, ioan :) I was just spitting on the way side, and (un)intentionally hit the “Enter the Abyss” key…
Have a nice day & bless you!
United Satan of America and Russian Matrioshka – one shudders at what kind of a baby that combo might produce – but its quite poetic too in its own way, as is hitting the Enter the Abyss key.
Some have other brands of specialty keys, you only need one tap, like zio-gay-nazi-anglo-american-quislings, and there they are.
where’s your poem with the blue moon ? i wait for that
Yikes, Dennis…you are surrounded. May the hillsides hold.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-debris-flow-potential-20180104-htmlstory.html
Tass has an article about Serbs and the hundreds of years of war against them by the West.
http://tass.com/society/984296
Emir Kusturica is in my opinion, correct. The reason may be less racial, than a question of who shall rule, but he’s quite correct about the Serbs…and there are those historians who suspect Brit intelop behind the murder of the archduke…and the excuse for war…as the Serbian matter had much to do with Russia entering W1
That Tass report on this is interesting in itself.
Thanks! It was unexpected to see this in TASS
Thanks for this link, Larchmonter. I am glad to read that Kusturica is still as outspoken as ever. Our pro-western compatriots are misguided. Just like Russia, Serbia must disengage from the West. Peace and prosperity looking towards the East!
Yeah, Emir is one of the few Serbs whose voice can be heard beyond the outer rim of MSM. God bless him!
https://www.rt.com/news/415374-drones-syria-terrorists-russian-defense/
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-spy-aircraft-flew-russian-bases-syria-drone-attack-mod/
re: al Bab illegal base: how about this for a respons: An Iskander set down 10meters shy of the front gate at 3 AM some day? Followed by profuse exclamations of : Oh, josh, it just must have “gotten away” from us during a night test launch
I am minded of the story about the lone ranger and his faithful Indian companion Tonto…
Tonto!
Yes Kimosabe!
Were surrounded by Indians!
What do you mean “we” Kimosabe?
The base is a kettle…anytime.
Actually it’s normal to hang meat on a hook to invite attack…that’s what the Marines know all about.
The problem with this cruel strategy is that sometimes the tiger wins, eh?
Plainly the illegal base and bases, must be supplied…. This implies a classical kettle. If they can not supply they’ll surrender like the nazis did (when they were lucky) to the Soviet Red Army. And do the native mercs not actually threaten the health of the brave invaders?
So, supply run by land and by air. Not by sea. It is a sea power isolated in the deserts and dispersed in them too, among hostile natives.
Sea power general says to himself silently sweating in fear: “Anytime”
Land power general says to himself: “wait”
This is now a zuswang situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
In sea power does much it will starve as a result of land power domination of air and land.
The best outcome is achieved by retreat or surrender without violence.
Alternative outcomes exist. A major force of Imperial army surrendered under hostilities (fire) would I think constitute a significant inflection in the course of our history. Hard to say where that might go…but safe to say it would not be helpful to Empire.
List more alternatives if you like.
Dame Agatha has given us much to study…as in “Le petit monde d’Agatha. Mise en scène ” In French of course, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb3MItsNXcI You’ll see where it’s false and where it’s fooling you into belief…fine acting.
Now, this is from film criticism in regard to the subject:
“Poirot’s statement, uttered at the beginning of the film, that actors are more interesting than the productions they end up starring in. While I would hesitate to agree entirely with this view it’s still the case that, by placing a sumptuous recreation of a 1930s movie in sharp juxtaposition with a dramatisation of the offscreen tensions surrounding its production, this film serves to remind one that the version of the past left to us today (in books, films, audio recording and even journals and letters) were as performative and as artificial in their time as they are now as a record of that time. In short, the minutiae of the everyday lives of the people who appear on the screen or who have left a written record are lost to us forever – all that is left is a record itself. This is really driven home at the end of the episode, when a marvellously framed shot of Poirot and Hastings walking dramatically off the film set is self-consciously disrupted when they both go off in different directions, leaving Poirot to scurry across the screen to join his friend. By disrupting the mis en scene in this way, this directorial decision reminds us that our ability to visualise actions in reality is flawed – beyond the film set, actions are unpredictable, unplanned, lacking direction and therefore impossible to visualise. On the set and in front of the camera they are meticulously planned, staged and directed, but all the more false for that. The …”
You get some idea of course… I found that at https://stylesofdying.wordpress.com/tag/mis-en-scene/
But to loop this round to the original matter, when you note the discontinuity the fantasy disappears, and in in the realm of fantasy there are always discontinuities. Some people really love their illusions though… Men believe what they will…that was Caesar. He wuz right. But you can will to see reality. It’s not very nice..
Looks like the US is going to provoke China in the South China Sea under the fiction of “Freedom of Navigation” operations: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2127457/us-accuses-beijing-provocative-militarisation-south
China claims 80% of the SCS as her historical blue-water territory – a claim backed by historical use when other claimants were not yet nations or were vassals of China. Also China’s claims were confirmed by the WW2 Potsdam Declaration. It is US’ perfidy in not keeping their words and commitments, even written and legal commitments, that is instrumental in its war-mongering and in causing so much trouble in the world today.
Since navigation in the South China Sea is free and clear despite the island-building, the cause the US is trying to establish is bogus on the face of it.
Most of the traffic through the SCS is Chinese. Maybe 80-85% of all ships are coming and going to China, and are flagged as Chinese. So, who has the need for freedom of navigation more than China?
The US Navy thinks this is 1930. They will face a fishing fleet of 90,000 Chinese boats, and a merchant fleet of 15,000 ships if they start throwing around their naval weight.
The reality is the US wants to establish an armed choke point in the SCS to contain China and squeeze the strategic commodities it requires to survive and prosper.
This is the Hegemonic phallic dream of the US Navy and “think tanks”.
Won’t happen.
The numbers of floating platforms is overwhelming in favor of China. All they need is to arm their civilian vessels with missiles and rockets. They already have linkage of communications with the PLAN (navy).
All the navies in the world would be sunk if the Chinese had to sink them in the SCS.
The whole hegemony of the US is being broken down by the numbers they would face should they confront with force the new reality of the South China Sea.
The US is playing Chess by itself. The Chinese already won the GO game. Strategically, it’s over.
Yeah. The US is a lost cause in the SCS. But there is still the Indian Ocean and the QUAD – US, Australia, India and Japan. And Australia and India seems willing to be the US “spokes” for the US “hub”. Japan is likely in the QUAD game in name only since her navy cannot get past the SCS choke point and other entrances to the Indian Ocean involves long detour. Japan’s own supply lines through the SCS are also at risk if push comes to shove.
Israel Published BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) Blacklist
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.833502
“God Lelp Us if This Gets Out”: The Full Transcript of Yair Netanyahu’s Wild Tel Aviv Night
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.833875
Correction – “God Help Us if This Gets Out”
It’s not a very pleasant thing to consider, but “junior” is is serious trouble, isn’t he?
If his fate is a brief life it might be seen as a statement about the character of his daddy…
I would bet on the shortside. Perhaps a decent interval…but these guys don’t forget mistakes, eh? I expect the kid to “decide” to go into the army, and into combat…after that…well there the story about King David and whatisname with the pretty wife. But a motorcycle would work alright…then there’s dope… Oh the possible fates are very dark..
How do such men live with themselves?
Poor schmuck. He oughtaa run like hell.
Alas…if junior had listened to a lecture by Parenti he might have understood the nature of the organisation within which he lived and partied.. Poor sod.
The lecture? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48488.htm
Understand, Dr P is speaking of what we politely speak of as “western” when he speaks of the State….
I weathered well the two day rain. Couple of leaks I need to tar. The newly refreshed air sparkles and tingles the lungs. Oh, Nature, how beautiful you are. “The rain is over and gone; arise, my Beloved, and come.” Song of songs.
teranam 13, thanks for your concern and the mud maps. I am a couple of miles from the edge of Ojai proper. I live in the northernmost wedge where the river bottom narrows and starts its journey into the red zone canyons of the maps. The high mud slide areas surround me on three sides but are at a safe distance.
I hear the river roar again. With all this rain, Vulva Valley will spring to life, and the ashen hills rise phoenix-like to their former glory. Bob, the limo driver, says Love Army Road was strewn with huge and small boulders along the cliff wall cut to higher ground. I was a hermit for those two or three rainy days; no internet or electric power but I do have bottled water.
I’m back at the club now, playing catch-up with the world. Later I’ll return to my hermit’s nest, tucked into the arms of a large pepper tree, where its leaves lean on my windows on three sides, leaving the south larger windows to catch the sun. I’ve moved from ash land to art land which did not burn.
The fire gave me a great gift by removing much of my useless stuff, and uncovering my spiritual pride. My upper back has taken the blow, and gradually loosens its death grip on my soul. The environmental people from state and county were here to tag the toxins for removal. They didn’t mention my soul.
I’m sending love to Donald and Kim, so like brothers out on a limb. Ever since the Love Army entered the Vineyard, the game is not the same. We’re playing on a higher and deeper level, where angels fear to tread, and Dostoevsky visits the dead; where ioan paints the night bright, and Bro introduces his wife as the power behind his reich. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s deja vu all over again at the Second Chance Cafe, here on the club cafe porch, and there with you wherever passes the torch.
Love, Dennis, Ojai Athletic Club Cafe
“where ioan paints the night bright” – indeed, my night couldn’t be brighter as it is, my friend.
It’s a freak-time for the east-coasters and the west is compensated with lot’s of water and mud.
Into this complementary givens in time astro man is shining a little light, next week’s beginning with
also Moon in Capricorn ‘to clear up’ will be the ‘great maximum’.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/01/freak-time-in-winter.html
Maybe this is a tinfoil idea…but the recent german tv show suggests to me an inflection point is approaching in die deutschheimate… “die anshalt show”… art, they say, is precursor to fates… and the german natio seems to be about to adopt a far less suzerain role..at the least.
Just saying… It’s a good hunch..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig-YWN4kQDM
Die Anstalt vom 7. November 2017 | ZDF | Volle Länge
And it’s funny as can be!
As farce follows drama in art and in political reality, this one show is just perfect farce. I’d bet the “krauts” are going to go east…well what else makes sense? Goodbye Ramstein…
Anyway, cool show and it had me rolling.
Stephen Cohen on new documents detailing the promise to Gorbachev not to expand NATO, and the non-coverage of the new evidence by the NYT, WashingtonPost etc…..
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-us-betrayed-russia-but-it-is-not-news-thats-fit-to-print/
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
‘ At the time, it was known that President George H.W. Bush had especially persuaded Gorbachev through Secretary of State James Baker’s “not one inch” and other equally emphatic guarantees. Ever since Bush’s successor, President Bill Clinton, began the still ongoing process of NATO expansion, its promoters and apologists have repeatedly insisted there was no such promise, that it had all been “myth” or “misunderstanding,” and moreover that NATO’s vast expansion had been necessary and has been a great success, actual myths that Cohen also discusses.
Now, however, the invaluable National Security Archive at George Washington University has established the historical truth by publishing, on December 12 of last year, not only a detailed account of what Gorbachev was promised in 1990–91 but the relevant documents themselves. The truth, and the promises broken, are much more expansive than previously known: All of the Western powers involved—the US, the UK, France, Germany itself—made the same promise to Gorbachev on multiple occasions and in various emphatic ways. If we ask when the West, particularly Washington, lost Moscow as a potential strategic partner after the end of the Soviet Union, this is where an explanation begins.
And yet, nearly a month after the publication of the National Security Archive documents, neither the Times nor The Washington Post, which profess to be the nation’s most important, reliable, and indispensable political newspapers, has published one word about this revelation. (Certainly the two papers are pervasively important to other media, not only due to their daily national syndicates but because today’s broadcast media, especially CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS, take most of their own Russia-related “reporting” cues from the Times and the Post.) ‘
‘ Cohen recommends that they turn to two websites that almost daily aggregate reporting, analysis, and opinion not to be found in the Times, Post ‘ etc
‘ One is Johnson’s Russia List. The other is the website of the American Committee for East-West Accord, of which Cohen is a board member. ‘
http://russialist.org
https://eastwestaccord.com
Looks like China’s fifth generation stealth multi-role war-plane the J20 is being put through it paces in a live-firing exercise in coordination with other new Chinese war-planes:
http://www.atimes.com/article/j-20-stealth-fighter-first-live-fire-drill-since-deployment/
China may now be behind the West in terms of originality, but her innovative ability, coupled with very efficient manufacturing capability, can now stand in for this gap, until her capacity for originality catches up.
hmmm-getting ready for any potential Syrian action one wonders……….in a “peacekeeping role” maybe as Turkey seems to be a bit wobbly in its dealings with so called “moderate” rebels in Idlib firing off at Russia UAV planes armed from within that region………
“Another Oil Exporter Unpegs From The U.S. Dollar
In an effort to shore up dwindling reserves, Angola has decided to unpeg its currency, the kwanza, from the U.S. dollar – a peg which has been in place since April 2016.
Angola’s foreign exchange reserves have halved since 2014, as the West African nation has attempted to defend the kwanza versus the U.S. dollar. Unpegging the currency has caused a swift 10 percent weakening in the currency, with further devaluation likely ahead unless oil prices continue to rally from here.
Angola joins other nations such as Nigeria and Russia, who have intervened in their currencies to halt dwindling foreign exchange reserves and bolster economic growth. ”
https://oilprice.com/Finance/the-Economy/Another-Oil-Exporter-Unpegs-From-The-US-Dollar.html
Enjoy your crypto-666 enslavement (these plastic avatars cannot make that hand gesture by any cosmic chance)…
“Virtual Currency Girls: World gets its first cryptocurrency pop group”
https://www.rt.com/business/415604-worlds-cryptocurrency-pop-group/
And here you can get your crypto-validation of your crypto-fantasies about your crypto-freedom from your new crypto-masters. Happy Kumbaya!
“Goldman of crypto: Billionaire bitcoin buff to launch first cryptocurrency ‘merchant bank’”
https://www.rt.com/business/415601-launch-cryptocurrency-merchant-bank/
Whether it is something like the Internet used primarily for peddling pornography or for allowing folks like me and you, Rublev, almost anywhere on the planet to engage in a rather more noble intercourse of ideas, ANYthing (from the Internet, to Communism, to Capitalism, to technology, to Religion, to “Art”, to sex…to MONEY….including crypto-currencies) can be perverted.….And almost always is, by someone, somewhere.
So????
These examples you give are useful reminders of that fact.
There is another statement that I think is almost certainly fact, made recently here in the Cafe by Saker’s assistant, amarynth: “Cryptocurrencies are here to stay.”
And you may contribute to keep this discussion going by using your choice of 3 of them, besides the Fiat USD.
Hmmmm.
In the days ahead let’s examine not only the shameful, maniacal, ego-centric dynamics at play with the both the USD and cryptocurrencies but the “other side of the (Bit) coin”……as well.
In other words, are there better “crypto-expressions” of consciousness that are worth noting, OR NOT????
Do they have any bearing on the purpose of Stopping The Empire’s War on Russia…..or not?
More profoundly, could they have any bearing on dissolving the centralized power of the principle of Empire itself, in ANY form (not just the AZ form)….or not??
I am not sure of all the specifics, which I have contended from the beginning of my first serious attempt to size up this invention/phenomenon…… are “up for grabs” (like the internet!) between real freedom and real tyranny, but I will be looking at them a little more in the current Cafe, and maybe later this month or February a longer, (edited!) article, if I can put something deemed worthy of reading together, in that time frame.
Cheers!
@Bro 93
1) “In other words, are there better “crypto-expressions” of consciousness that are worth noting, OR NOT????”
IMO bad is never good only because it is better than “really bad”.
2)” Do they have any bearing on the purpose of Stopping The Empire’s War on Russia…..or not?”
It seems VVP does not think so. Below are his words from the article here on Saker “President Putin meets heads of Russian print media and news agencies”:
“The Central Bank has repeatedly expressed its view of the matter as has the Government. The Central Bank is being conservative about cryptocurrencies. But in my opinion, this conservatism is so far justified. It is a fact that there is nothing behind a cryptocurrency; it cannot be used as a savings instrument, it does not represent any material value plus it is not secured in any way. A cryptocurrency may be used for payment to a certain extent and in certain cases. It is fast and efficient. You can pay for something with it but you cannot use it as a savings instrument. It is not backed by anything.
Therefore, the Central Bank is treating the matter with a great deal of caution. Fluctuations are tremendous. Cryptocurrency values are jumping up and down, constantly fluctuating. Today you wake up rich or invest everything you had – and tomorrow you lose it.
Just as in the case of the hoodwinked housing equity holders, we cannot permit this to happen to cryptocurrency. If we do not regulate this issue sufficiently well, the state will be held accountable for the problems people may encounter. At present, it is the individual responsibility of every person. But if the state issues regulations on what is admissible or inadmissible, and if we do this badly, we will have to deal with the problems that arise.”
3)”More profoundly, could they have any bearing on dissolving the centralized power of the principle of Empire itself, in ANY form (not just the AZ form)….or not??”
I don’t think so. But I’m just an uncurable sceptic :)
Cheers.
MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. The future of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR) should be decided by them and Kiev, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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“As for the republics, this issue should be discussed by their representatives and Kiev,” he said.
The Kremlin spokesman stressed that “it is the republics and Kiev that are the parties to the conflict.” “I would like to reiterate that Russia is not a party to this conflict,” Peskov said.
He also pointed out that “Russia is interested in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements.”
More:
http://tass.com/politics/984821
hhmm
coded message for go for independance? Cos really Kiev has already decided so far to not implement Minsk……continuing to promote virtually war and sabotage against Donbass…recieving usa weapons, NATO trainers and supplies.etc etc…..”another’ final wakeup call for EU promote or insist Merkel-Macron etc actually do something, prior to Russian Presidential election?
When the nazi attacks, the nazis lose… js zugswang,,, What remains but the outcome? Comrade President sees this truth.
nazi have lost.
their surrender awaits the ground.
http://tass.com/politics/984827
Amazingly? Putin says the Ukraine can come collect its derelict ships planes etc from Crimea and take them to Odessa….cos after seccession the procedures to hand back this stuff was halted after the Ukraine attacked Donbass…..he says it is a gesture of goodwill to say he still wants Minsk enacted… another coded message……? A Genuine offer
of ..supreme irony????? Who knows?
The open letter published in Le Monde by C Deneuve http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/01/09/nous-defendons-une-liberte-d-importuner-indispensable-a-la-liberte-sexuelle_5239134_3232.html#meter_toaster
It is easy to find the “outraged criticism” of the most reasonable and valid letter, but not so easy to read the letter…
What does this failure in continuity say about the erasure of maleness in this fake media?
Examine the misc en scene. The continuity problem shows the agenda.
Got your own copy yet, fellas? I mean, since we’re dealing with TBS (aka Fakenews)
“…TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-6, The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations expands on the ideas presented in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1, The U.S. Army Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World (AOC). This document describes how the Army will operate in and through cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum and will fully integrate cyberspace, electronic warfare (EW), and electromagnetic spectrum operations as part of joint combined arms operations to meet future operational environment challenges. Cyberspace and EW operations provide commanders the ability to conduct simultaneous, linked maneuver in and through multiple domains, and to engage adversaries and populations where they live and operate. Cyberspace and EW operations provide commanders a full range of physical and virtual, as well as kinetic and non-kinetic, capabilities tailored into combinations that enhance the combat power of maneuver elements conducting joint combined operations….”
https://cryptome.org/dodi/2018/tp525-8-6.pdf
When is The Saker going to start looking into Putin’s schemes alongside his Russian oligrachs, talk more about Russian illegal interference with its robust killing machine industry in the civil war in Syria and thereby violating international law. Also, what about Russia’s horrific environmental track record in lieu of global warming and the in the repression of homosexuals in Russia alongside the praise of the Russian orthodox Christians?
Its not as one-sided as he purports it to be…What about Putin’s collaboration with the communists in China via the Silk Road?
Lets hear it…
Sure – just turn on CNN or, say, the BBC and you will hear it there. All day long.
Cheers!
The Saker
Hey T J !
When I was in your club: we used to share the dope… Why I recall being offered meth in the officer’s club latrine…true fact amigo…
When ya get back from mars take another look It;s down there somewheres…
Delusions! What times!
YOU shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near veterans. Sorry!
But please, read more, study more, contemplate, rest, sleep, and wake up, little by little no matter how hard it might seem to be. The eye of the needle isn’t actually as narrow as depicted. There is no turning back though once you’ve passed through it.
Regards
Kent
Collection of the best melodies – enjoy the delightful music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgSun8TBtFw
A most astute and thorough examination http://katehon.com/article/modern-operational-art of operational art.
It is a keeper worth careful reading tested against objective events over time…stuff you know.
It’s super.
http://katehon.com/article/modern-operational-art
and the object under review is to be found at https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/culture-strategic-thought-behind-russias-modern-approaches-warfare
“The Culture of Strategic Thought Behind Russia’s Modern Approaches to Warfare”
“…, President Yeltsin was signaling his intent to change dramatically the national security strategy, military doctrine, and military system the Soviet Union had developed since the 1940s.
A senior Russian three-star general had listened to the discussions on concepts such as defensive defense and preventive defense—recognizing that change to the Soviet military system was on the immediate horizon, one that would probably match the change to the Soviet political system witnessed over the previous weeks. At the end of the conference, he approached me with a puzzled look on his face, as though he had been questioning the basic assumptions of his thinking, assumptions that had driven a lifetime of professional military decisions.
He asked, “Do people in the West understand that Russia has a unique geostrategic position, unlike any other nation in the world?…”
it’s important
It’s only about 5 seconds.
“How Russian Men are Born”
Enjoy!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnnRSrjmpc
As of now it’s well known that the men who used drones to attack Ru forces in Syria are all dead. But this opinion piece is worth consideration indian punchline…
“In sum, there was a spiteful American attack on Russian “assets” on the Christmas Day of the Russian Orthodox Church. The statement in Moscow was made after evaluation of the 3 drones …”
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2018/01/09/us-israel-step-up-hybrid-war-in-syria/
Why important?
They always double.