2018/01/19 23:00:02
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Radio Clash: Pakistan Closes US Government-Funded Station
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801201060902834-pakistan-closes-us-funded-radio-station/
“Pakistan announced on Friday that they would be closing Radio Mashaal, a Washington-funded radio station, as it broadcasts messages “against the interests of Pakistan” and acts as a “hostile intelligence agency.” Huh. Sounds kind of familiar.”
It does, doesn’t it.
“The Pakistani Interior Ministry announced that they would shutter Radio Mashaal’s Islamabad office on the recommendations of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the powerful intelligence agency that fills the same role as the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) do in the United States.
ISI reported that Radio Mashaal portrays Pakistan as “a hub of terrorism” and “a failed state” that cannot protect its own people, particularly religious minorities and refugees from the endless war waged by the US in Afghanistan.
Radio Mashaal broadcasts on the radio and online in the Pashto language, a minority language spoken by over 30 million Pashtuns who live in Pakistan. Pashto is the national language of Afghanistan, with many speakers also found in the western and northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The station is part of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasting network, which is funded by the US government. They air broadcasts throughout Eurasia, espousing a viewpoint aligned with that of Washington — which causes friction with nations that are opposed to US actions in some capacity, as are Afghanistan, Iran or Pakistan.”
The Pakistan ISI used to be considered an extension of the cia. I guess there has been something of a divorce as of late.
Another colonial of the israeloamericans is rebelling (well, somewhat).
Japan Releases Footage Showing US Marine Choppers Flew Over Elementary School
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801201060901971-japan-releases-video-footage-of-us-military-flyover-near-school/
“On Friday, the Japanese Defense Ministry, fed up with the US Marine Corps’ denial that its personnel flew helicopters over an elementary school on Okinawa, published video footage of the incident to prove their case.
The video, which was recorded by security cameras on Thursday, shows two AH-1 attack helicopters and one UH-1 multipurpose helicopter flying in airspace above an elementary school that US officials had previously stated they would avoid.
The decision to steer clear of the area came about after a 10-year-old child suffered minor injuries when a chopper’s window fell into the playground area belonging to the Futenma No. 2 Elementary School in Ginowan.
Officials initially filed a complaint with the US military base in Futenma, but after they denied the allegations, claiming that personnel interviews and radar data did not prove the incident took place, the ministry decided to publish the security footage.
“As you can see from the video footage we have, the helicopters’ underbellies are clearly visible as they flew,” Itsunori Onodera, Japan’s defense minister, said at a press briefing on the matter. “Children, teachers and parents will certainly be worried.”
No doubt netanyahoo’s bum boi mattis is livid at such backtalk from israeloamerica’s japanese colony, the pindos saved japan from the USSR, after all (by nuking them).
I just finished dinner and felt the need to clear my palate with something strong and bitter, even vitriolic and biting, in its range of complexity and nuanced forcefulness.
I remembered the Moveable Feast Cafe and decided to see what it had to offer this evening.
This comment, in the main, was the sort of thing I was looking for, but I didn’t fully appreciate my fortunate choice until the lingering burn from,
“No doubt netanyahoo’s bum boi mattis is livid at such backtalk from israeloamerica’s japanese colony, the pindos saved japan from the USSR, after all (by nuking them).”
lit a satisfying glow of warmth all throughout.
Truly Vintage VT. (TVVT)
Maybe they are learning in the Land of the Rising Sun?
The western imposed economic blockade in the thirties that enabled the dogs of war to take over the home islands and ravage Manchuria might have been handled more wisely………. It’s time now for Japan to redeem itself with East Asia and to cut western puppet strings that see Japan as expendable, again, in the end.
They “learned” a long time ago.
Okinawians have been organising and protesting against the massive American military bases on their island for as long as I can remember. However, like in most of the west’s fake-democracies, the people are powerless against a national government that prefers to make deals with the US military.
There are anti-nuke and anti-milatarism movements in Japan that are probably stronger than anywhere else in the world. Of course, the pro-nuke, pro-war corporate media won’t tell anyone much about them. But they are there. Currently PM Abe wants to militarize the country, and eliminate its McArthur-era proscriptions that say Japan can only act to defend itself. You hear this on the corporate media. But what you don’t hear is why he’s having trouble accomplishing this, because the anti-militarization movements are blacked out. So, in the propaganda bubble, you only hear what Abe wants to do, and maybe at best some very vague statements that say it won’t be easy for him to accomplish the task set to him by the bankers, industrialists, and the American war machine.
You make a good point.
I would only add that there are also North Americans, even between the Canadian and Mexican borders, who are aware that the Powers That Shouldn’t Be are destructive and dangerous.
But a good “college TRY” (and fail) is inadequate.
My guess would be that the Okinawans ARE trying harder than my fellow Americans of good will (meaning the will to confront evil, not merely to act nice and civil in their personal lives……) but in the aggregate will the efforts in either Okinawa or the USA be enough to avert the tragedy of war and their own destructionor just be a weak gesture??
When it comes to “Winning the Peace”, Vince Lombardi DID have the right attitude (albeit in a profession mostly meaningless in its import, except for certain allegorical lessons sports can provide…) :
“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing.”
Time to sharpen up our game, peace lovers everywhere!
You see, the stakes keep getting higher and higher until we either learn or eliminate ourselves from the Universe, as simply being morally unfit to survive.
Natural Law is in effect. Its lessons will not be violated without severe consequences if it is not studied, understood, and heeded adequately
Prepare Early for Finals. Last minute cramming could be hazardous for health and safety.
I thought, the rockets are not flying
we’ll see, to speak with Denis
On matadors waving red flags at bulls—usually they do better on their own turf ( inside stadiums with lots of support staff)
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01/19: Turkish media: “Around thousand YPG militants were moved into Syria’s Tel Abyad border town after US army conducts reconnaissance mission in the area”
https://syriancivilwarmap.com/
Zuckerberg: Facebook to Prioritize Trusted Community-Ranked News Sources
https://sputniknews.com/us/201801201060905934-facebook-ranking-community-regulations-zuckerberg/
“The billionaire said this recent update would not change the amount of news that users see on Facebook, rather it would “shift the balance of news you see towards sources that are determined to be trusted by the community,” which will rank them by giving their feedback.”
IE: zionazi, and only zionazi originated propaganda=”trusted media”.
“Trusted” meaning any source that says nice things about Facebook and helps boost Facebooks stock price.
Under American law, it can’t mean anything else. The people who run any corporation are bound by law to act in the interests of the stockholders. If they do anything else, they can be sued by the stockholders. Thus, when a corporate acts to limit free speech, it is only for the purpose of acting in the interests of the stockholders.
There are thousands of lawyers who would gladly take Facebook to court and thus try to dip into those very deep pockets to grab some cash if it was anything else.
Which is why democracy and capitalism don’t mix.
Hmmm, now for something a little different…
First, the Zionists came for the Palestinian Arabs
But I was not an Arab so I said nothing.
Then they came for the Lebanese
But I was not of Lebanon so I said nothing.
Then they came for the people in the World Trade Center
Thanks be to God I did not work there so I said nothing.
Then they came for the children of Gaza
I was not a child of Gaza so I said nothing.
Then they came for the Shiites
I was not Shia so what could I say?
Then they came for the Russians
I knew no Russians so I said nothing.
Finally, the Zionists came for the peace-loving Jews
But there was no one left to speak for me.
Here are two rich white men’s(with Jewish name) account that Chinese tech culture compare to democratic white American’s silicon valley. I consider their words are more important than history and facts.
Another top Silicon Valley investor slams politically correct tech culture, praises Chinese work ethic
Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital writes that Silicon Valley has become “unhinged” with discussions about the “inequity of life.”
He contrasted Silicon Valley tech culture with the work ethic in Chinese tech companies, where employees work for 14 hours six or seven days a week.
Sam Altman, another top SIlicon Valley investor, said in December that Silicon Valley culture is too closed to controversial ideas and said he felt more comfortable with these discussions in China.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/sequoia-vc-mike-moritz-praises-china-tech-work-ethic-joins-sam-altman.html
Here is Sam Altman’s blog:
http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove
Oh J,
the words of those two rich white men have a naked agenda of greed and profit behind them, I’d rather hear the words of the workers toiling those 10-14 hours a day to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. The modern US infrastructure was built on the unremitting hard labour of various immigrants, among them Irish navvies and Chinese ‘coolies’ who built the roads, railways, high-rises etc.
Words are cheap, as your post below about Modi’s promises and other blatant bribery to get votes demonstrates–at least we can, if we are so minded, learn from a careful study of and reflection on history, as the poor Indians who fall for the silken-tongued promises will inevitably discover, just as we have.
This one’s for the workers, to address the balance a little, with visuals (my preference, tells more of the story):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfGTDyjVSE
and the same thing with the just the lyric, the words—- which are indispensable but can always be twisted and used against us, forked tongues and all that— as we learned, or should have done, as young, impressionable kids watching cowboy movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTafZRecy2k
OM, Very nice song, and lyric thank you.
I remember my father told me a story that his father told him when he was very young. long long time ago, there was a ferry across JiaLing river out side city of ChongQing, laborers used to carry the passengers to the shore as the water was too shallow for the boat at the end of the ride. Then one day, a pier was built, and all those people no longer able to make a living.
There is a little different sentiment about war in China because we were always at receiving end of invasion. Every time when it happens, the country and people suffer immensely. Chinese has revolutionary spirit. will not hesitate over throwing the government. IMHO, The western countries has democracy, a system design to shift blames to voting public instead of ruling elite, and also kick the can down the road.
A fabulous, teeming city, Chongqing, when I visited 12 years ago. I wanted to see the landscape before the dam was finished and flooded everything—what an eye-opening trip that was.
I am reminded also of a famous and unforgettable LaoTzu story about a farmer and his son that really impressed me when I first heard it, repeated here:
http://www.pediatricservices.com/prof/prof-47.htm
Very Beautiful city. Very hot in the summer, and very Hot food too. I am still thinking about the evenings walk into sunset with sun setting down the hills other side of valley.
By the way, thanks for the link. There are many stories and expressions to say not to over react, this is one of them.
When life threw you a lemon, you make a lemonade. Something I have learned as well.
‘Work ethic’?
I’m reminded of a documentary which detailed the lives of young rural Chinese girls producing jeans for Western companies.
Despite their long and hard hours, they couldn’t afford to buy snacks on their wages.
They lived in spartan dormitories, and had next to no free time – what little they had, they couldn’t afford to spend on entertainment.
Meanwhile, the ‘communist’ manager /owner of this sweat – shop whined about the difficulties of ‘practicing’ his calligraphy due to the ‘demands’ of his ‘job. His office was set up for his calligraphy hobby….
So I’m not surprised to hear a Silicon Valley billionaire extolling the virtues of this’ work ethic. ‘
It seems we all may have not fully understand how a democracy is made:
Early bird MLAs, aspirants beat poll code, splurge on voters for head start
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/early-bird-mlas-aspirants-beat-poll-code-splurge-on-voters-for-head-start/articleshow/62532805.cms
“Ugadi has arrived early in Karnataka. Along with promises of development and good governance, voters are already being showered with freebies that range from the unusual, like pots and pans, to deal-clinchers like gold rings, nose studs and smartphones. The gifts are pouring in from sitting legislators and even hopeful candidates.”
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“Candidates are also wooing some key party workers with motorcycles and expensive gadgets. Sources said that while some BJP politicians bought motorcycles in December to be distributed among select party workers, Congress politicians have been gifting smartphones. “The increase in motorcycle bookings is apparently because of elections,” confirmed a senior manager of a motorcycle showroom at Mehkri Circle.”
B(r)ought to you (from) the world biggest democracy. I have to admit, they are even more skilled than I could imagine.
Modi goes to Davos. There is something incredible in the comments section of even TOI, the BJP den, the comments are mostly negative.
Will feel proud to tell success story of 125 crore Indians in Davos: PM Modi
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/will-feel-proud-to-tell-success-story-of-125-crore-indians-in-davos-pm-modi/articleshow/62573557.cms
I found this rather interesting
Mystery as Russian gas tanker makes U-TURN as it nears US waters
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/907061/Russia-tanker-Engie-SA-Gaselys-vessel-Boston-Yamal-LNG-putin-news
By theory, capitalism is supposed to be efficient because markets will act to best allocate resources.
Except, in the modern US version of gansta-capitalism, this is not allowed.
If NG is expensive and in short supply in an area like the US northeast, then markets are supposed to act to correct that, as new suppliers see the higher prices and move to fill a need. But the gansta-capitalist rulers of America forbid that. Can’t have additional supply that might interfere with the profits of the ganstas who control the system.
Which means one can take all the propaganda that one regularly sees about how wonderful and superior capitalism realy is and throw it in the dumpster where it belongs. As the great philosopher George Carlin famously stated, “Its a big club, and you ain’t in it”
Sputnik had an article about it on Friday:
Tanker Delivering Russian LNG to Boston Makes U-Turn in Atlantic – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/business/201801191060887795-russia-tanker-gas-boston/
The famous French politician Thierry Mariani filed a lawsuit against the Ukrainian activist Maksim Mikhalenko. The reason for this was Mikhalenko’s post on Facebook, which he wrote after Mariani’s trip to Crimea. This was reported by “Strana”, referring to its own sources in Thierry Mariani’s environment.
http://www.stalkerzone.org/french-politician-filed-lawsuit-ukrainian-activist-threatening-drive-cleaver-back/
People over Profits
or
Profits over People
That is the overriding political question of this age. All of the world’s problems come back to resolving that one question. Do we fight wars and kill people for profits? Do we change the climate of this planet and thus degrade the lives of ordinary people to maximize profits? Are our societies ruled to improve the lives of people or to maximise proftis.
If people unite to say that people must come first, then we will at least be in a position to solve the other pressing problems that had the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than its ever been. If we continue to say that profit always comes first, then we are simply doomed.
Busted! List of 2018 Elections Russia Will Definitely Meddle In
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201801201060917469-elections-russia-will-meddle/
There is no mention of meddling in any up coming pindo elections. Surely there must be some state or local runs worth Russian attention?
What seems to be unravelling is that there is tacit approval from Russia and Syria on Turkey dismembering the Zio US occupation of north/north eastern Syria. The US proxies, SDF which are essentially Kurdish led YPG/PYD forces have been enticed by Zio US for each others self interests. They certainly took a huge risk with the mother of all betrayers, especially considering their location in the region and have placed themselves in the middle of a regional quagmire. One only needs to look at a map of pre and post ISIS to see the hegemon objectives all along. Destroying a functioning state, dividing it along ethnic, sectarian regions and ultimately forging an artificial construct known as Kurdistan. This manufactured entity serves Zio US military bases and key natural resources. It maintains a base for further antagonism towards the regime, as well as an existential threat to Turkey and Iran’s sovereignty. Neither of the neighbouring states will allow this state of affairs. Serg Lavrov has recently stated that the Americans are trying to set up alternative governments (Kurdish statelet) and this is in violation of their declared objective of fighting ISIS and not redrawing territorial boundaries. There will no doubt be concerns about this operation but looking strategically and long term the allies in their war against Zio US belligerency have little choice to work together even if behind the scenes. Noises will be made but the strategy seems highly plausible.
As this situation unravels or develops…one wonders what or how Turkey selects a target as it has just announced 113 targets so far have been hit….maybe some civilians included….maybe Turkey is unable to distinguish between YPG and PKK just like nato usa would not distinguish between moderate rebels and terrorists..
Note
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801201060923884-syria-turkey-syria-operation-afrin/
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801201060923848-syria-turkey-minning-airport-kurds-us-weapons/
Russian MoD removing russian forces away from Afrin area…
http://tass.com/politics/986095
Lavrov Tillerson agree to stay in touch….
I think you are right. This idea of tacit approval is interesting…. I read that the YPG branch in Afrin has said in a statement, “…that it held both Ankara and Moscow accountable for the “massacres that will be committed in Afrin”. I notice too that Turkey has also spoken of Syria’s territorial integrity, presumably by continually emphasising territorial integrity any idea of a potential Kurdistan is scuppered. The “new” US foreign policy, proudly heralded a few days ago by Matis is already a head-on car crash quickly turning into a carambolage. I notice that the MSM is very quiet on what all this means for the NATO strategy of bras dessus, bras dessous!
Watching France 24 this evening, both Turkey & Russia blamed! Erdogan quoted that everything is in agreement with the Russians. Much made on the Russians pulling out of Afrin, beforehand etc.
Meanwhile German RTL showing images of the Kurds firing a Milan anti-tank weapon given to them in 2015 by the Germans, destroying a Turkish tank (Leopold 2) Sold to them by the Germans. Ah the deafening sounds of tills going Kerching, and German armaments manufacturers sipping Sekt.
Clark “gets it”.
Donald Trump’s First Year and the Illusion of Choice
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/416431-trump-obama-nation-building/
“The United States owes $19tn,” he said. “We have to straighten out our own house. We cannot go around to every country that we’re not exactly happy with and say we’re going to recreate [them].
“It hasn’t worked” he continued. “Iraq was going to be a democracy. It’s not gonna work, OK? It’s not gonna work and none of these things will work.”
Paleocons, libertarians and foreign policy isolationists took great heart from Trump espousing such sentiments. As did regular American citizens, sick and tired of endless war. Neocons were less happy. An ‘America First’ President – who would prioritize on domestic problems ahead of foreign ‘interventions’ – was the last thing they wanted. So the attacks on Trump began.
But Trump’s rhetoric was, from the start, contradictory. While condemning the invasion of Iraq, he also said that he supported US military interventions in other circumstances. Anyone believing that Trump would be the President to “bring the boys back home” wasn’t playing close enough attention.
Moreover, his critique of the policies pursued by previous administrations was based on a false premise – namely that the US had attacked or intervened in other countries’ internal affairs in order to ‘bring democracy’ and ‘nation-build’.
The US might have been keen on ‘nation-building’ in the aftermath of World War Two, when its main concern was aiding strategically important countries which could fall prey to the communists, but it wasn’t doing it in the neocon era.
Here the aim of ‘interventions’ was not ‘nation-building’ but nation-destroying. The much-criticized ‘failure to plan’ post-invasion was actually the key part of the plan. The strategy (borrowing a phrase used by my fellow OpEdger Dan Glazebrook in his recent book) was ‘Divide and Ruin,’ not ‘Divide and Conquer’. If the US and its allies had wanted to nation-build in Iraq, why did they dismantle the entire state apparatus, including the Iraqi Army? And having seen how that turned out, why did they do almost exactly the same in Libya eight years later? The whole thing only makes sense if you understand that the resultant post-regime change chaos – which you didn’t have to be Nostradamus to predict – was exactly what the warmongers wanted.
On Syria, the continuity between Obama’s policies and Trump’s has been detailed in this RT report. [ https://www.rt.com/usa/416238-syria-tillerson-policy-obama/ ]”
It’s easy to see the alignment of neocon ideology and Tillerson quotes, what’s harder to correlate is what tillerson says and what the military actually does.
For instance: ditching Al Tanf, letting Aleppo and Raqqa fall, agreeing to stop SK military drills during olympics… also letting mueller open the investigation into what now has become uranium 1, letting Israel become the clear enemy of its neighbors, the epic fall of CNN…I mean, without the lingo jargon it’s almost like agent orange give everyone just enough rope to hang themselves. If after an epic DNC collapse, in his second term he lets the bankers fall on their own sword, ill carve his face in Rushmore myself.
….. And I’ll make a last pilgrimage across the pond to hold your chisels while you carve. :)
Hahahaha,
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/22/pers-j22.html
“The class issues in the US federal shutdown”
That was a good article, thanks.
While the US waves the red flag at the bull, Russia walks the tight rope between the windy high rises
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-russian-troops-withdraw-afrin-ahead-turkish-invasion/
Cold war over pacific and Europe:
Russia, China Replace Terrorism as Military’s Top Priority: Mattis
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/01/19/russia-china-replace-terrorism-militarys-top-priority-mattis.html
In case you/we (still) don’t know: Global (nuclear) war coming!!!
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/20/ndst-j20.html
“what is being prepared is a level of mass killing far beyond the bloodbaths carried out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.”
Also read the comments at the end of the article and … prepare for probable eventualities!
No Kidding. When trump hired all those generals into cabinet, many of us did not expect anything other wise. However, so far, they prove to be all thunder, no lighting. US are losing the grip to the world and I believe the are trying their hardest to hang on, much live India in south Asia where its general exclaims that “India can’t allow its neighbours to drift away to China: Gen Bipin Rawat :
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-cant-allow-its-neighbours-to-drift-away-to-china-gen-bipin-rawat/articleshow/62476233.cms
Here is the link to CBS 60 minutes about situation in Afganistan:
Reflections from Afghanistan
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reflections-from-afghanistan/
“60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan has reported from Afghanistan over the last 16 years. But this time, she says, was different
A two-mile stretch of road drew 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan to Afghanistan for a report on the broadcast this week.
The road runs from the airport to the U.S. embassy and nearby NATO headquarters in Kabul, the country’s capital and largest city. But U.S. military and diplomats cannot drive along this route for fear of an attack. Instead, they must be transported by helicopter, a trip that takes fewer than five minutes.”
There is was a siege in one of international hotels where at least 320 people dead according to fox.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/21/kabul-international-hotel-siege-leaves-more-than-40-dead-afghanistan-official-says.html
and American are planning on threw more good money after bad:
Up to 1,000 more U.S. troops could be headed to Afghanistan this spring
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/up-to-1000-more-us-troops-could-be-headed-to-afghanistan-this-spring/2018/01/21/153930b6-fd1b-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?utm_term=.bb7ee6338967
For an occupier who can not dare step out of confinement of barrack in the capital city, and it plan on wining the war?
On the eastern front, Trump’s warship is sail inside of 12 mile zone of Chinese HuangYan island.
China vows ‘necessary measures’ after US warship nears Huangyan island
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1085880.shtml
This island are in a different island group than the islands in previous sail-bys.
Comments on Weibo besides angry that US did this at the time of Chinese New Year(similar to the Christmas season in west. Last year, Trump refused to say new years greetings to east Asians who celebrate Chinese new year), but also speculating China will respond with build up this island as well.
Correction: “where at least 40 dead according to fox”. Sorry I did not catch the error before I post.
I am also fully aware those foreigners dead in the hotel could include Chinese as there was a meeting with Chinese embassy staff during the day.
I noticed a phrase or two…USA does not like power of veto over them at UN ( remember usa making “proposals” to change the UN).like a spoilt hysterical brat..which holds them back from their intentions…expect more stuff to happen there perhaps…usa creating more situations by propaganda…fake news, fabrications etc to justify independant action apart from UN, anything to try and assert anyone not in their paycheck is not worthy of being a UN member with or without power of veto, and or UN is outdated pointless etc etc alrhough VVP and friends continue to say UN is the only place to to do the kind of thing it does.
This redefined policy is surely a strategy to dominate UN and run it according to their own rules of….lawlessness.
Trump Administration Tells Puerto Rico It’s Too Rich for Aid Money
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/18/puerto-rico-trump-administration-tells-its-too-rich-for-aid-money/
“Means testing has now come to disaster aid — and it only applies to Puerto Rico.
When Congress passed a $36.5 billion disaster relief bill to bolster rebuilding efforts in several wildfire and hurricane-damaged areas in October, it shortchanged Puerto Rico, giving it a $4.9 billion loan instead of the grant that other areas received. Now, it appears the debt- and hurricane-ravaged island won’t even get that money.
There’s no question that the Puerto Rican government has lacked fiscal transparency. But the very fact that Puerto Rico must receive assistance as loans rather than grants, unlike any other entity receiving disaster assistance, is bad enough. That the island is being treated like a welfare recipient found to have too much money in its bank account takes it to another level. Among U.S. territories suffering from catastrophe, only Puerto Rico is being means-tested.”
“They are just colonials of colonials, screw them” is how the israelis look at it.
Read this biography
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik
Listen to this interview With Pieczenik
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ld2-QrU20
Apparently there was a civil war in the deep state. Apparently it’s over and anglos are in and the zionists are out and the empire is over.
Great Surprise’: General Says Turning Point in Yemen Conflict is Close at Hand
https://sputniknews.com/military/201801201060914676-yemen-general-interview/
“The armed forces of the Houthi-controlled government in the Yemeni capital Sana’a have boosted their air defenses to a point where they no longer need to fear airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition forces, army spokesman Sharaf Luqman said, in an interview with Sputnik.
Brigadier-General Luqman said that the army now has all it needs to repel “enemy aggression” at sea, on the ground and in the air.
“The Yemeni army has taken over many enemy strongholds, which has changed the situation on the battlefield,” the general said.
“These are depots with arms for the Air Force, night-vision cameras, ballistic missiles and launchers. This answers questions about where we are getting weapons amid the current blockade; who who is helping us; and whether Iran is supplying us with ballistic missiles and military advisors,” he added.
He said that in the next few days, the Sana’a army would “greatly surprise” coalition forces.
“This will be commensurate with the attack on the Saudi’s Al-Dabaa military base [in the southern Najran province killing all Saudi military personnel stationed there], and the Panavia Tornado and F-16 planes we shot down,” General Luqman warned.
He said that a peaceful settlement was the only way to end the long-running crisis in Yemen.
“We need a two-pronged negotiating process: on the international track, we need to negotiate with the Arab coalition, and we also need to talk to all forces and movements inside this country,” the Brigadier-General concluded.”
WOW: Ankara indirectly cooperates with Bashar al-Assad! Turkey to hand over Afrin to Syrian army once YPG Kurds defeated.
So Russia avoided any military clash with the US proxies – US NATO ally Turkey is doing it instead!
I am surprised that no analysis or even an op-ed regarding operation ”Ólive Branch” wasn’t published by Saker. Any thoughts on that? Anyone?
MoA has quite a good comment on “Operation Olive Branch” (were the Turks taught Doubleplusgoodduckspeak?)
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/01/syria-turks-attack-afrin-us-strategy-fails-kurds-again-chose-the-losing-side-.html#more
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“am surprised that no analysis or even an op-ed regarding operation ”Ólive Branch” wasn’t published by Saker.”
Gee, maybe it’s a little too early to do a decent analysis, given the lack of solid data to base an analysis on, still.
Стивен
“MoA has quite a good comment”
Ah, the ubiquitous moa advert…
Actually, what the zionazi moa disinformants initially wrote on 18 Jan. is a good example of what happens when one writes analysis before they know the necessary facts:
“For a few days now Turkey has threatened to invade Afrin (Efrin), a Kurdish held canton in the north-west of Syria.
The threat is not serious:”
:-D
In the piece Стивен advertised, the moa zionists are not much better, making unsubstantiated claims such as:
“The new deal will give Syria control over most of Idleb in exchange for Turkish control over Afrin (if the Turks can indeed take the area).” & “The Syrian government clearly dislikes the deal the Russians made in its name.”
I’ve seen nothing reported in legit sources about the so-called deals moa refers to. This, like the 18Jan. piece are a mix of some known facts backing what is mostly fantasy and speculation and then marketed as expert analysis. As with the first piece, turkey and erdogan are spun as all around “bad guys”, which is probably the main thing readers are supposed to internalize.
Nothing is new here but it is such a wonderful presentation by Prof Steven Cohen:
https://www.thenation.com/article/rethinking-putin-a-talk-by-professor-stephen-f-cohen/
Some music from a composer I have been listening to lately: http://microfestrecords.com/ruminations-notes/
enjoy
A very interesting link, Anonymous, definitely worth bookmarking, thanks.
I found another link for anyone who, for whatever reason, might find the text too daunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLi1XVBpgQQ
A historical recount of Chinese and Pakistan relation on Dawn. A very positive one IMHO.
Window to the West
https://www.dawn.com/news/1384310
“WHEN in 1960 Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he reportedly advised him: “Look after Pakistan; it is China’s window to the West”.”
…
“The Pakistan-China relationship has survived the twists and turns of global politics and domestic changes in both countries because it is based on a strong and lasting alignment of their national interests.
Over the last five decades, Pakistan has boldly defended China’s unity and territorial integrity; worked assiduously to secure China’s legitimate seat in the United Nations; resisted attempts to censure China on human rights and to denigrate its socioeconomic achievements.
For its part, China has and continues to manifest its support for Pakistan in multiple ways.
— In 1965, China moved its troops to its disputed border with India, preventing India from redeploying additional forces to the battlefield against Pakistan;
— In 1971, as India invaded East Pakistan, China defended Pakistan’s territorial integrity and was prepared to respond to Pakistan’s call to intervene militarily but was prevented from doing so by an explicit Soviet nuclear threat;
— In 1972, at Pakistan’s request, China vetoed the admission of Bangladesh into the United Nations until Dhaka and Delhi agreed to release the 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war;
— China built Pakistan’s heavy industrial complex at Taxila and other manufacturing capabilities virtually on a grant basis;
…
— China remains the only country willing to sell civilian nuclear reactors to Pakistan and has blocked India’s single entry into the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group;
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— As China’s economic fortunes improved, it quietly and repeatedly extended financial support (loans, bank deposits, grants) to enable Pakistan to meet economic emergencies and bolster its failing finances;
— China decided to finance the CPEC projects in Pakistan as the first leg of its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. No other country’s companies were prepared to invest or work in Pakistan;
— Finally, as India pursues a global media and diplomatic campaign to ‘isolate’ Pakistan and threatens ‘surgical strikes’ and a ‘limited war’, and as the US exerts pressure on Pakistan to support its failed strategy in Afghanistan and succumb to Indian diktat, it is China, with its veto in the Security Council and influence in major capitals, that stands in the way of negative international decisions and actions against Pakistan.
…”
Indian point of view:
The China-Pakistan brotherhood
https://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-commentary/the-china-pakistan-brotherhood/
military equipment for dummies :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_mO3j5PY
Why bother with something as alien to 99% of us as “digital currency” or The Internet of Money or blockchain technology?
For one, some people who are on the right side of the struggle for a Multi-Polar World, seem to hold that Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general, offer a fruitful flank for lessening the power and influence of central bankers. Judging from the comments section here from September 1, 2017 and on to the present, few feel confident enough in that assessment to voice any support for it, and many dismiss the idea as absurd, right out of the gate.
Frankly, most of these reactions and comments seem superficial and poorly thought through to me, as expressed, even if I fully realize that I MIGHT be forced to admit, in the near future, that the “decentralization of money” is a pipedream and greater centralization and enslavement than ever before has won the war.
I tended to think a breakthrough on the monetary freedom flank might NOT be a pipe dream and might even play some kind of significant role in Stopping the Empire’s War on Russia (and Humanity) so, rather than make a snap, uninformed judgment, right after Sept 1, 2017, I decided to dig into the subject more. “How significant or insignificant is this crypto-flank?”, I asked myself.
How would I know? All I knew is that some very smart people that seem to be on the right side of this fight agree with a member of the Vineyard staff (amarynth) who….if I remember her article accurately….thinks this is a flank worth knowing about and acting on: AND, last September 1st she wrote an article here about that, here:
/crypto-currencies-the-internet-of-money/
which I have to re-read before I send her a rough draft of my thoughts on this issue, as she requested.
You also have Ramin Mazaheri weighing in lightly (but significantly) on the subject here:
/bitcoin-hits-10000-as-grandpa-buys-in-leftists-say-whats-bitcoin/
and running into heavy headwinds of haughty and hostile rejection.
But many of the reasons given were patently absurd or defeatist IMHO…..or of the generally ubiquitous ” I can’t relate ANY of MY experience to this phenomenon, so, without looking into it any further, I choose to parrot a rigidly skeptical rejection of it I heard somewhere, and smugly call it a day, a year, a lifeftime, because if it isn’t part of ME…..then what the hell good could it be, anyway??? I mean, really!!!”
These extremely coomon but erroneous criteria might feel like good reasons but one shouldn’t think with one’s feelings. Feelings are for weighing the effects of actions just completed with an open heart, so one can either correct error…..OR see that “It is good.”, and might be improved, but needn’t be stopped.
Early on I listened to Lynette Zang’s warnings and that occult symbology on the cover of the London Economist a few decades ago. A Rothschild chipping and enslavement conspiracy.
Or maybe just Rothschild mind control and future damage control over people like Lynette, using fear of the occult?? That cover has to be in the rough draft. But for now, just do a search of her and Bitcoin if you want to study the symbols, (hint: Phoenix rising from the ashes of collapsed financial system, and ruling Mankind with even more insidious invincibility) get the shivers, and have a little freak out.
So you have to weigh Zang against the Cliff Highs and others with much more knowledge of programming (and some fairly solid anti-Empire credentials that say she simply has no understanding of the decentralization powers of blockchain technology……..
Why look in to it, at all?? And Who Cares Anyway??
I’ll give an advance clue for people that haven’t yet started to even form an opinion: In his two books The Internet of Money Part 1 and Part 2……which are largely transcripts of presentations you can fiund on you tube on the “Bitcoin” phenomenon (which word has come to symbolize much more than the cryto-currency BTC, in people’s minds that begin to grapple with all this…..) Andreas Antonopolous comes right out and asserts that “Bitcoin” (in the far braoder sense than BTC) represents a surprise invention/development so disruptive to traditional central banking that the world of banking we have known all our lives may be GONE in 10 years…..
OR could be coopted, if people collectively decide to fall asleep and submissively offer up both wrists to be shackled and lead to something far, far more enslaving than aything yet none to human financial arrangements.
Many of us know James Corbett. Here he goes with the sort of non-absolutist analysis I think is a preety good preparation for going deeper into investigating this flank. “And there’s MORE!”: this recent installment of the Corbett Report offers some Andreas Antonopoulos clips as well:
https://youtu.be/FkhUn7nh33Q The Bitcoin Psyop
Well done, James! A most timely cure for absolutists which would have spared Ramin a lot of grief if his readers had watched The Bitcoin Psyop first!
And I do stand by what I (a five month old cryptard beginner, trying to learn how to walk) said earlier. So far, I know of no one more competent and conversant and courageous on this subject than Antonopolous. Pay close attention: He’s not a joke.
So I read his two The Internet of Money books, but put down “Mastering Bitcoin” before completing Page 1 of the Preface, when I read, “”This book is mostly intended for coders.”
My eyes immediately glazed over and I put Mastering Bitcoin aside for my teenage son. He’s taking coding in high school, I reasoned. He’s got to understand, I explained, and help out a Digitard Dad: I never even used email until a few years after it started to be used…..and I was in my forties!
“Really?”, his look of disbelief seemed to ask.
So I delegated Total Mastery to a younger generation and did some more pseudo mastery crypto-reading and web surfing. Got some more good links for y’all, coming up. Soon. I promise.
But then, with curiosity, I picked up the eye glazing book, yesterday, and read the next sentence or two:
“If you can use a programming language (Not me!!…..Any volunteers???) this book will teach you how cryptographic currencies work, how to use them, and how to develop software that works with them. The first few chapters are also suitable as an in-depth introduction to bitcoin for non-coders—those trying to understand the inner workings of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.”
Whew! I’ve got some reading to do!
Am I stalling for time?? Yes, a little bit, I confess. But a lot of the weight of the Black Cloud of the Unknown Causing Continued Cryptardation was lifted from above my head in the last 48 hours and I am emerging from that muddled mental muck that that trigger phrase “mostly intended for coders” threw me into a few weeks ago.
Freedom! Freiheit! Cvoboda!
All fine Bro. I have an article ready for us, but heavens, each time I am ready to post it, things change, life interferes and I start editing this ready article again (grins). Perhaps it remains forever unpublished but we hope not. You can always find me directly if you check on any Saker page, scroll right to the bottom, and the community email comes directly to me.
Generally, what we are standing on the cusp of, is the change in the form of money. We’ve done it many times you know .. from cowrie shells to grain deposits in the granaries of whoever the the ruler is of that piece of earth, from silver coins to pieces of paper .. from pieces of paper to credit cards. We’re doing it again, changing the form of our money but this time there are differences. The Corbett video is excellent and I am fortunate to count Clif as a friend.
Bro, your previous mail was forwarded to me, so I have it.
James Corbett just released an interesting overview with several clips embedded. The information presented greatly contributes to the crypto conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkhUn7nh33Q
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I must wonder about the educational system put in place in pro-Western Poland.There are increasing numbers of Polish youth joining neo-nazi groups.Many even praising Adolph Hitler.Yes,the same Adolph Hitler who plotted the total elimination of the Polish people.The greatest mass murderer of Poles in history.The same one who killed 6 million Polish citizens, stopping only when the USSR defeated him.Including 3 million ethnic Poles.The same Adolph Hitler who left Warsaw a smoking ruin after ordering his troops to raze it to the ground.And who left most of the rest of Poland devastated.And yet there are Polish youth celebrating his birthday.They must really mean in when they say they embraced “Western values”:
https://www.rt.com/news/416585-nazi-polish-hitler-birthday/
@ UB1
Must I or anyone else wonder what kind of educational system UB1 went through when every time he mentions Poland he – who is capable of brilliant articles in case he thinks before he inks – spits out anti-polish hate propaganda like Jozef Goebbels or his boss, Angela‘s father, did, and much plumper than the postwar Warmacht, the Bundeswar does nowadays when it does everything to calumny and propagandistically damage the old enemy, Poland? I don‘t wonder at at all at this, I detect repetitive structures…
OK. One of the wonders of the postwar=prewar nazi propaganda invented by the Bundeswehr (war prop unit 414) was the formula of „Polish extermination camps“ for Auschwitz et. al. „They were located in Poland, so they were Polish, right?“ This was one move among many others to flip the images of criminal and victim between Germany and Poland: „Poland had concentration camps and Germany fought for freedom“. Right now, on 2018-1-19, this particular game was stopped in the end, when the 2nd (gov.) Germ TV Channel, the ZDF, was sentenced by a Germ court to stop using the phrase of “Polish death camps” and to apologize to Poland for having done it until now. Did you know, UB1, that Poles can read and write (in spite of your goebbelsian understanding of their education system) and even have a radio station („Radio Poland“) that broadcasts in English and other popular languages, and which also has a web site where you can read why it is wrong to accuse the Poles of what they have been victims of, as you do:
http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/345077,German-broadcaster-must-apologise-for-‘Polish-death-camp’-reference-report
Well, although you do your best to spread your ignorance about Polish matters, e.g. in uttering incongruous rhetorical questions, others in your language slot were smarter than you, informed themselves and managed to answer your question before you wrote it down. I invite you to enlarge your knowledge about what you confessed not to know by reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_of_National_Education
The Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (KEN) founded on 1773-10-14 has influenced the „educational system put in place in pro-Western Poland“ in the best possible ways until today, and it was one of the factors why young Poles in germnazi occupied Poland, instead of licking the backsides of germ herrenmenschens, and limiting their education to „being able to write their names and count up to but not beyond 500“ as they were expected and ordered to, went to underground schools to continue their education as an obvious patriotic duty: being suppressed was not accepted as an excuse for being lazy and becoming stupid (which makes you, UB1, think and proclaim that exactly this happened – it did not). You speak contemptuously about that „system put in place in pro-Western Poland“, as if it was invented just yesterday, as if it is incapable, and as if it was introduced just by Poland and just for pleasing their Western friends (or rather „friends“). Surprise: in the European Union the education systems were much aligned to a common model long ago already, and this is the case in 28 countries, not just Poland, and led to levelled results where most pupils in most countries have similar results (statistics of which surely may be found on the internet, if you are *very* interested in that kind of proof). This system is a „Western“ System in all these countries, and – believe it or not – also in those countries which are no members of the EU — as a result you find smart young people of all countries in all countries, and among others many Poles in England who are respected and paid for their knowledge and their abilities. You rhetorical mentioning of *that* „the educational system put in place in pro-Western Poland“ is a classical rohrkrepierer.
Your next move is visibly meant to be a necessary Hilfserziehung or Nachhilfeunterricht to the address of Poland and the Poles re „yes,the same Adolph Hitler who plotted the total elimination of the Polish peopleHitler. According to you no one in Poland knows about it, so you have to tell these idiots. I am sure everyone of them knows that the person in question was christened „Adolf“, not „Adolph“, but you ignore it. What else do you ignore? You continue to tell them that AdolPH „killed 6 million Polish citizens, stopping only when the USSR defeated him.Including 3 million ethnic Poles.“ WHAT? 6 mln Poles including 3mln ethnic Poles? Again I wonder what educational system you went through. 6mln is the official germ and israeli number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust – was it the „Polish Holocaust”, then? If it was, according to you, why were 3mln out of these 6mln Jews (?) „ethnic Poles”? Or did you just quote (and wrongly, confusing two different data?) and just „forgot“ the quotation marks? Yes, you did. You quoted the General Procurator of Poland, Z. Ziobro, who, however, did not confuse his facts, and said, according to http://www.rt.com: „After the attack of Nazi Germany, millions of people were murdered in occupied Poland, including three million Poles. So if someone honors Adolf Hitler, who is one of the greatest criminals in history, he deserves merciless treatment.“ If you quote the words that seemingly condemn THE Poles or THE Polish youths, why do you stop Ziobro‘s „IF“ and „someONE“? He does not condemn before knowing the facts, as you do, therefore IF, and he does not condemn his whole nation just in case (IF) „some 1“ should really honor AdolF Hitler…, as RT correctly quotes him while you gloss over this immediate and clear response of Poland‘s responsible person for such cases.
Unfortunately, RT is already indulging in demagogy in this case, but what you made out of their article, https://www.rt.com/news/416585-nazi-polish-hitler-birthday/, is much worse. RT‘s article begins with a letdown compared with your „There are increasing numbers of Polish youth joining neo-nazi groups.Many even praising AdolPH Hitler…“ Nothing of such b.s. at RT, who start with „Happy B-Day Fuhrer? Polish channel captures neo-Nazis’ antics in undercover doc, triggering probe“ Ah, there was a film on TV (american TVN24) about (a not mentioned number of) Neonazis, who seem to be hidden usually (so that they had to be approached undercover, otherwise they are neither visible nor countable nor subject to statistical progressions like „increasing numbers of ..“), and thus escaped Mr. Ziobro and Polish law enforcement until now (but no longer). The occasion when the film was done was „a birthday party for AdolF Hitler“ which took place in May 2017 (strange since Führers Geburtstag is April 20th, May was his final defeat as führer, preceeded by his successful escape aka Fahnenflucht to Argentina as person). Real Hitler fans would never commemorate His Holy Birthday on the wrong date, so the whole thing stinks of a hoax, invented for the american propaganda medium TVN24. RT‘s data are patchy and partly wrong. A better account of the event is found at
http://www.rp.pl/…/180129965-Superwizjer-TVN-Duma-i-Nowoczesnosc-Za- Polske-i-Hitlera.html
There you find that TVN‘s film stars did not use a „swastika cake“, but a wooden swastika that was lit to show a glowing swastika for the film, while the cake was „in the colours of the IIIrd Reich“ – i.e. brown? Imageine, a brown cake… You further find that the ceremony was held in the woods of 44-300 Wodzislaw Slaski (in Silesia), and seemingly at the request of the film crew, i.e. not as a birthday party, but as a film scene or a „happening“ (gazeta.pl). UB1’s „increasing numbers of Polish youth joining neo-nazi groups“ happened to be the group DiN (Duma i Nowoczesnosc – Pride and Modernism), whose website din.org.pl does not betray whether they number more than the four (4) actors on one of the TVN24 pictures on RT. But the website mentions one external friend of the movement, a certain Magda from Rybnik, and that DiN collected 367.58zl (ca 80 Euro) for supporting her health treatment. The latest addition to this page is that DiN thanks TVN24 for the free PR present of their film, and Mr. Ziobro promptly fined TVN24 with 415.000zl (100.000 Euro), probably for having shown „fascist, communist or other totalitarian propaganda“, which, UB1, is completely verboten in Poland – can you imagine that in a nation which according to you is right now making a big jump into full nazification?
Pictures do speak for themselves, don‘t they, but not always as intended. DIN for the germ friends and sponsors of DiN means „Deutsche Industrie Norm“ (17 DIN = 50 ASA), one of the holiest of holies in Germany. Why then is the Polish logo for DiN just as angular, awkward, uninspired as the germ logo for their norms organisation DIN? For demonstrating that this tactical unit for producing a pretext for UB1 to jerk off antipolish propaganda is indeed a germ creation, a germ precision tool for a very specific goal?
Pictures do lie when they are maliciously employed, as for instance by RT in that article. The headline about a film about neo-Nazis shows a picture that looks so terrifying, as if UB1 took it and placed it here, because it has nothing to do with the event described. It is „a“ picture of „a” rally at Polish Independence Day 2017 (November 11th). At the end the article says „Far-right nationalism is on the rise in Poland“, which is not the same as „There are increasing numbers of Polish youth joining neo-nazi groups“. „Far-right nationalism“ is a political movement and not a large number of young persons. A radical political „movement“ more often than not consists only in the claim that such a movement exists and „must be heard“. Their sponsors more often than not are external, foreign agencies with an interest to influence the course of another country. That a „movement“ is „on the rise“ does not prove that anybody or especially youths have joined it in any, large or even „increasing“ numbers. In the articles about DiN a party sponsoring it is mentioned, Ruch Narodowy (RN), and it has 5 of 460 members of the Polish Parlament, 1%. They cannot be nazi, because nazism is verboten in Poland. Thus RT‘s claim „Last November, tens of thousands of neo-Nazis, from both home and abroad, descended onto Polish streets during national independence day celebrations. Many demonstrators carried placards and signs with racist and anti-semitic slogans“ sounds like a lie. Patriotic, national, nationalistic, „far right“ is all not nazi unless it says it is nazi, and then it would be prosecuted – where ,then, do RT‘s „tens of thousands of neo-Nazis“ come from, and where do they hide or live on other days when the biggest neo-nazi scandal so far in Poland was that an american propaganda medium was able to hire four actors to play nazism in the woods of Wodzislaw Slaski, a town of 48.573 inhabitants of which 48.569 seem to be no nazis.
The decisive information is present but obfuscated in RT‘s demagogic fabrication: „…tens of thousands of neo-Nazis, from both home AND ABROAD…“ – aw, yes, foreign elements were present among RT‘s „neo-Nazis“ on 2017-11-11… but WHO in the world could be a nazi today outside Poland? Oh, at a music festival connected with DiN, Dziennik.pl reports, the TVN24 reporters heard Poles and GERMANs shout nazis slogans and the „Deutsche Gruß“.
So, in the end a credible picture emerges: Germany does invent antipolish propaganda lies since it reemerged from WW II. One of them is the talk about „Polish death camps“ – and another one is that of „Polish nazis“ everywhere in Poland. Where „everywhere“ means: in Silesia, where there existed/s a „German minority“, and for its support a multitude of germ interventional structures. Exactly there you find people playing neo-nazism either as a party „RN“ or as a „youth org“ (DiN), especially in Silesia – a landscape good for nazi concerts, rituals etc etc. Organize it – then blame these exercises on their all-time victims, the Poles.
What a COINCIDENCE then, that TVN24 did not film AND show„Poles celebrating Hitler‘s birthday“around 2017-4-20, when such an incident should have happened if in any way genuine, nor in May 2017, when this happening was staged by TVN24, nor in November 2017 when allegedly „tens of thousands“ of Polish nazis stormed the city centres on Independence Day, but in January 2018, when the German steered old German Nazi project, the European Union, just musters its forces to begin throwing Poland out of the EU „because they don‘t respect the EU norms because they have have become nazi by now“… whith the TVN24 film being one of the proofs for that claim.
In other words, what TVN produced with its filming in May 2017 and its showing in January 2018 is once again an old acquaintance: a FALSE FLAG attack.
At http://www.rp.pl/Kraj/180129965-Superwizjer-TVN-Duma-i-Nowoczesnosc-Za-Polske-i-Hitlera.html Jacek Zalewski asked the eternal FF questions: „Someone pays for all that – who? He who gets the biggest benefit out of it. In other words those who speak about „fascism in Poland“. Because „fascism“ is always the Poles, and never Them.“
Thank you, UB1, for the impulse for this examination who slanders who for who.
There is so much BS in your “overlong” rant I don’t know where to start. First I said nothing about German concentration camps in Poland.So that “entire” section of your rant was meaningless.
Second,the 18th Century educational system wasn’t followed very well.Since until the communists put in truly universal schooling after WWII,illiteracy and semi-illiteracy was common among much of the lower classes in Poland.
Third here is the report on Polish losses in WWII: ” The official Polish government report on war damages prepared in 1947 put Poland’s war dead at 6,028,000; 3.0 million ethnic Poles and 3.0 million Jews not including losses of Polish citizens from the Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic groups. This figure was disputed when the communist system collapsed by the Polish historian Czesław Łuczak who put total losses at 6.0 million; 3.0 million Jews, 2.0 million ethnic Poles, and 1.0 million Polish citizens from the other ethnic groups not included in the 1947 report on war damages”.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_Poland
You can take your pick of the two estimates,they are both horrible.
Fourth,as to your claim that neo-nazi group has little support.Here is from the RT article :”One of its leading figures, Jacek Lanuszny, is an assistant to MP Robert Winnicki, the president of far-right party Ruch Narodowy (National Movement), an organisation that seeks to be the respectable face of Polish nationalism.
Lanuszny is also a regional president of Ruch Narodowy and in November 2017 organised a demonstration in which portraits of a number of Polish politicians – who decried the appearance of racist and fascist slogans appearing in a country occupied by the Nazis during the World War 2 – were symbolically hung from gallows”.To be an assistant to a MP usually means they agree.And I suspect to be elected an MP you need more than a couple of votes.Before the coup in Ukraine the neo-nazis were pretty careful to hide that they were neo-nazis too.They claimed to only be nationalists.So those Polish groups not saying “look I’m a nazi” proves nothing. The rest of your foolish rant was too unimportant to bother with.
Dear UB1,
first let me assure you that I don‘t regard you as a hopeless case, much on the contrary. This is why I tried my best to show you the „narrow and winding path“ of truthseeking through precise research, and to encourage you to leave the broad and comfortable way of inventing or repeating non-truths, non-facts etc. For instance you have made a fantastic progress in avoiding wrong full stops, so that they occur only rarely by now – bravo!
(mod-to note: paragraph deleted – this forum is not about perfect grammar – please confine comments to topic(s) rather than a critique of proper punctuation)
„Second,the 18th Century educational system wasn’t followed very well.Since until the communists put in truly universal schooling after WWII…“ – I agree totally: the Polish partitions which you and your likes cherish so much did indeed stop the full and lasting application of the KEN‘s concept of „truly universal schooling“. It is the deficits of the German dynasty in Russia, the German dynasty of Austria and the German dynasty in Prussia that is to be blamed for any lack in the education of young Poles before 1918-11-11 (Independence Day) plus the time necessary to heal the wounds inflicted by the partition powers. So sorry that in the ca 20 years until another Germany dynasty (active until today) did everything they could for destroying Poland completely, for wiping it from the map of Europe again they did not achieve everything. Apart from any special mischief the partition powers may have applied (in the vein of Himmler‘s Polish education law of not allowing more education than writing your name and counting up to 500 but not beyond), and apart from any unheard of incompetence of the Polish governments between 1918 and 1939 to raise the education level of their country above anybody else‘s it seems fair to assume that „illiteracy and semi-illiteracy was common among much of the lower classes“ in many other countries as well in 1918 as in 1945, and even today, so that you have still not made clear what was/is so terrible about the Polish education system – which led, for instance, to 1% „quasi-nazis“ of RN in the current Sejm in comparison with ca 15% quasi-nazis of the AfD in the current Bundestag. Hey, I did not say the AfD are nazis, but they are generally regarded as such, their success is therefore treated as „shameful“ etc etc.
In other words, I d not think the partition powers treated the young Poles worse than their own people (Angela‘s father did that, but not them), but illiteracy was, well, widespread in the lower classes. The KEN‘s concept was a good education for everyone including females , and they were stopped by the outside. Frederick the Great was known to avoid paying invalids pensions to his mutilated war veterans by sending them as teachers into primary schools instead, to be fed by the communities, and not for special pedagogical capabilities. By the way those monarchs had no hatred against Poles, they just played their power games, and a free, democratic and well educated nation was too much for them to tolerate – the existing and not the lacking Polish qualities were the reason for stopping this development – exactly like today. Frederick had high Polish officers in his army, and he trusted his Polish subjects so much, that in a dire moment of his career, he is reported having said: „And even if they take back Silesia (which he had stolen before from Austria, not Poland), my faithful Poles will it steal back for me.“ All observers are un animous that literacy is dwindling in America right now – perhaps this is a worthier subject to worry about than the shortcomings of the Polish education system between 1918 and 1939. But in spite of everything (perhaps) missing, the educational and self-educational zeal in nazi occupied Poland is proverbial – and another reason why real nazis never stop trying finding fault with Poland wherever it seems possible.
Third: Why do you try to convince me that the Polish own losses were 3 mln, either this or that way, when I never doubted it, but only expressed my sadness at your obfuscating this fact which GP Ziobro had expressed perfectly correctly and understandably in the quotation used by RT?
Fourth: yes, the RN has ca 1% in the Sejm, i.e. enjoys „little support“ in Poland, and the names you name seemed not important enough for being repeated again and again. Yes, Lanuszny is the regional führer in Slask (Silesia), the whole party seems to consist of some people in Wodzislaw Slaski, and it received 14% less than the AfD in Germany. Yes, no-nazis say they are no nazis, near-nazis say they are no nazis, and real nazis who want to get further up have to say and do say they are no nazis. It is not a Polish problem. Even child molestors pretend they are no child molestors until the get caught *and* proven guilty.
Wishing you personal luck and progress in becoming an even better analyzer of international affairs,
Joe Pollack
I, at least, appreciated the “foolish rant” and think it worth bothering with, as a careful reading–without any arbitrary taking of sides– does illustrate very clearly how particular stories are shaped to produce a particular conclusion and emotional reaction in the targeted readers/audience.
Quite apart from the contentious content, a critical eye should also take into account the considerable thought that has gone into the method of presentation and the reasons (possible agendas behind) why any particular version is presented.
So thank you, Mr Pollack, for a very good illustration of what we are up against today and one that can be applied to all sorts of stories that we are so diligently force-fed.
Thank you very much, one minion, for your appreciation.
Yes, writing after putting thought into the problem and not the other way round seems best, and UB1 has shown in the past that he is able to do exactly that. Let‘s give him time for repentence and another, better try.
By the way, the controversial internet author Jim Stone (at http://82.221.129.208/.zj9.html) has repeated and underpinned with a brand new testimonial of an Intel insider his claim that all computer processors (CPUs) produced by Intel in the line c3/5/7 and all Celerons have a secret further CPU inside (Management Engine, ME), which enables the PTB to spy upon all such computers at all times, whether the thing is ON or „OFF“, and whether officially connected to the Internet or „detached“. Jim Stone wrote about it years ago and in the mean time. And this is just one facet of creeping nazification.
While I was writing the text above, my laptop (intel) at a point refused to open more sites, and my tablet (running CIA-Google‘s Android OS) also refused to continue to work normally. Some hours later, confronted with UB1’s accusation that I thought RN pushed 5 delegates into parliament with just 2 votes, I tried to find out how many votes they *did* receive, did not find it at Wiki‘s, and wanted to proceed from Wiki to RN‘s own site, ruchnarodowy.net – but it was not possible, because „it was not possible to ensure the(!) secure transaction“ – the general internet censorship formula of Angela Hitler‘s renazification regime, provided by the Interior Ministry of another nazi war criminal‘s son, de Maizière. Finding out true truths about Poland is absolutely verboten in the renazification sinkhole of Germany, and we cannot do anything about it – except blaming it on, uh, the Poles.
Avoiding being blocked using the internet by nazis as „Merkel“ and de Maiziere by not informing oneself at all – UB1’s way – may be the only way left open in the end.
Yes, I have similar machine problems for similar reasons here in the UK but having had pre-internet experience with interference know that there are many more than only one way ‘to kill a cat’.
Onwards, or back to the libraries if there are any left (austerity).
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/32123/origin-of-the-phrase-theres-more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-cat
“NATO must be dissolved and replaced by a collective security system including Russia,” Wagenknecht told Germany’s “Funke” media group.”
Source:
http://www.dw.com/en/german-opposition-leader-calls-for-security-union-with-russia-dissolution-of-nato/a-37154925
Question: I know this article is a year old, but the western elites have been promoting an enlarged NATO for years. How would renaming NATO and then absorbing Russia change anything? Do they really think the Yeltsin years will return to Russia after Putin is gone? How has Russia prepared for a future without Putin?
The title is somewhat deceptive.
Netanyahu: Europe Must Preserve Nuclear Deal With Iran
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801221060948166-netanyahu-europe-nuclear-deal-iran/
“I have a message for the countries of Europe: I suggest that they take President Trump’s words seriously. If they want to preserve the nuclear agreement with Iran, they must propose amendments to the agreement that will prevent Iran from going nuclear, which threatens them and the entire world,” Netanyahu said at an ambassadors conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.”
What massa boy botherer is actually telling the quislings in Europe is:
“Do the changes that trump wants or I will destroy the agreement by having my pindo pets pull out of the agreement.”
All that noise about trump being “mentally unfit”, well:
Trump: Babies Should Not Be Born In The Ninth Month Of Pregnancy, This ‘Has To Change’ (VIDEO)
http://deepstatenation.com/trump-babies-should-not-be-born-in-the-ninth-month-of-pregnancy-this-has-to-change-video/
“Remember when Dr. Ronny Jackson announced that Donald Trump doesn’t have cognitive issues because he passed a 10-minute test? Well, we beg to differ after hearing the former reality show star’s speech in the Rose Garden that was streamed live to the March for Life crowd on the National Mall. Trump was pro-choice before running for office, by the way.
After bashing Roe vs. Wade, Trump came out in full opposition to women giving birth in the ninth month of pregnancy.
“Right now in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong,” Trump said. “It has to change.”
Thanks for your input, President Crazy Pants. Now, if he’s talking about an abortion procedure during the ninth month, there’s no such thing, so either way, he’s insane and so are the people behind him nodding their heads in agreement.
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Hell, I would say the whole regime is psychopaths.
Just when you thought you have heard everything from him…
His switch of sides on pro-choice is most disgusting…
get used to ist, he ist a sovereign ‘Twins’
his character is ‘ painted’ by Mercury,
“good with the good, bad with the bad”
Sun + Uranus = full of surprise
What to make of this?:
Cyber espionage – New report divulges Lebanese Intelligence worldwide cyber offensive ‘Dark Caracal’
https://limacharlienews.com/mena/dark-caracal-lebanese-intelligence-cyber-warfare/
Here’s a nice hit-piece which scores a bulls-eye on ‘The Art of the Cheat’:
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201801171060828347-trump-art-cheat/
South Koreans Burn Kim Jong-un Photo, Protest Visit of N Korean Delegation
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801221060959287-south-korea-protests-dprk/
“The demonstrators burned North Korean flags and photos of Kim Jong-un near the train station in Seoul, where a delegation from North Korea was scheduled to arrive.
The police intervened, extinguishing the flames. The protest was organized by the Korean Patriotic Party in connection with the arrival of cultural figures, from Pyongyang to Seoul.”
Gee, I wonder who was behind this little welcoming party.
Disgusting footage of the clueless and shallow over-privileged CBC anchorwoman sneering at RT’s coverage of the Middle East, and reassuring us that the US is certainly NOT assisting ISIS. What would she know? How would she know anything? She knows what it takes to hold on to a luxurious and pampered lifesstyle on the taxpayer’s dollar.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a6_1516608891
fog of war ?
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/map-hezbollah-denies-turkish-forces-made-advance-syrias-afrin-denounces-offensive-aggression/
With thanks to Wordsworth.
Information Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That scrolls on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of Bros teranam’s
Of Vot Tacking tugboats
of UB1’s twos and threes
Disappearing in the breeze,
White and wordless was the page
Beside the sea, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continual cryptic currencies
Twinkled in the milky way,
Mundo stars in never-ending line
Dennis could not but be happy
In such a jocund company:
And high above the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Fluttering in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
And the cause of all this mystery
Was a fish who ate the words
Of the G’s, J’s and TSP’s
Leaving world wide web’s
wordless screens white.
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
Their words flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the information crowd.
Nice…….Pick a name, a handle for your cup of kinship and of kindness….. and then some poetic duetic things might happen….or a third voice might join in or it might even go quartetic……
I just dropped in for a small ristretto….but before it is served I’m out the door…it seems I’ve forgotten my walletto!
BTW A link to the Wordsworth original so playfully played would be candy for my eyes’ glimmer, as your silent poetry is music to my ears…..not the outer…I mean the inner.
“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
Their words flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude ”
and sometime they flash upon my hair
when the screen in front is greying
and never without them I’d dare
to unknown persons saying
what I would never be aware
without them
what I mean
by following invisible
but glowing in between
the poetry of me in me
in planet’ry disguise
exchanging light with
fellow-mes in our own
enterprise
Why not?
Have a laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVJHKuwyAiM
Kent
Brilliant! Should be on the front page.
Once,symnk spoke about Importance, well, this seems to be important : “Growing inequality resulted in 82 per cent of new global wealth going to the richest 1 per cent last year, while the poorest half of the world saw their prosperity flatline, a report by Oxfam has shown.” source (one of them) : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/oxfam-report-worlds-richest-poorest-inequality-gap-wealth-2017-davos-wef-a8167676.html
The US is adding cruise missiles to its arctic icebreaker ships.
US Icebreakers Apparently Need Cruise Missiles Now
https://sputniknews.com/world/201801181060866886-us-icebreakers-cruise-missiles-now/
Russian gas can enter Turkey and get to Greece, but it could never leave Greece and flow through the former Yugoslavia to reach the rest of Europe. The Empire can keep the natural gas pipelines from being built by disrupting the Balkans:
https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/wwiii-balkan-stage-turkey-eu-war
Have a bunch more laughs, warmed by echoes Putin’s Pindo-Hypnotic Politico Piano Playing:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/you-are-now-entering-the-american-sector/
The Humanist (as opposed to Zionist) Jews excel in their sense of humor. Even Jews converted to orthodox Christianity.
I am really taken with Shamir’s style of short punchy sentences, where the punch line comes with nearly every period. And each builds atop the former.
Hemingway stripped language of nearly all idea content, intellect….. and left elemental action, as a kind of literary testosterone.
Shamir does the opposite. Brick by Brick the Absurd Edifice of Empire he constructs…..and then leaves it teetering….its foundations undermined by the wacky irony of its fallacy of construction…….you feel the thing swaying and want to keep a safe distance lest you lose your sanity….or your life.
The humor helps you step away, one careful, non-panicked step at a time.
Shamir had me smiling the whole article, so dense is it with irony, humor, and good sense. And even hope.
great link, Bro, I love this excellence too in my german soul
and great links of Israel, and forever:
the single one is all what matters
but a heap of singles might stink
and the heap of heaps might be
scentless like lies
have my link brother
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/01/mars-from-forge-to-shot-in-these-seven.html