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Just read a disturbing article on ZeroHedge:
“War Preparation: Romania Orders $1 Billion Of U.S. HIMARS Missile Launchers”
(http://bit.ly/2HwUikj)
My concern’s that within the order, nuke capable missile systems are being somewhat covertly deployed so close to Russia. One that caught my eye was the, “Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) M30A1 Alternative Warhead.”
The deep-state’s anti-Russia campaign’s been relentless and I wouldn’t put anything past them.
Don’t sweat it man. The Romanians are just tithing the US MIC protection racket.
Meanwhile, Syria is getting a much better deal.
Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-15/russia-taking-over-syrias-oil-and-gas
Fortunately for all us little people these things get worked out, between toppo Ashkenazim.
Alexander Bortnikov and Sergey Naryshkin Secretly Received in the United States
http://www.voltairenet.org/article199603.html
FYI, Sergei Naryshkin (SVR) Alexander Bortnikov (FSB) and Igor Korobov (GRU), all under sanction or ‘officially’ banned from entering the United States by executive order, recently visited the United States for meetings with their counterparts.
Which is to say, when placed in proper context, it’s business as usual, in the world of ‘business.’ The real problem is, ya know — economic. The Russians will rebuild Syria and China will build the infrastructure of the NWO, as soon as everyone’s done with fixing the problems of Arab, Kurd and Eurotrash unemployment.
And LOL, no one would ever give the Romanians nuke ordanances for their HIMARS, no matter how much they pay nor if they send every attractive young lady from Bucharest to Constanta to work in an EU brothel.
Everytime you see something seemingly inexplicable or otherwise scarrry, ask yourself, does it feed the rich and kill the poor?
No need to go deeper. This is always your reason, and why Sunstein Sayanim promote fear before you can get through the door, and maybe sit down.
So, can I drink in this jusrisdiction before 11am ?
Double scotch please.
In terms of buying armament (and in many other terms) Romania is not an independent country, those who sold her are now in power, lowering their heads to their Masters from the Hill. Good business for US manufacturers, expensive for Romanians but, as Wolf said, some ladies are looking for “decent “jobs in Constanta…and elsewhere. Many are just watching football, as always, others are dreaming about their past which is still being painted with shit by the same lords who are making such deals. Awaking there ? …hey, are here some Romanians, or are you so scared by democracy ?
I once met a lady from Constanta looking for a decent life in another country a bit more west, in a beautiful city with a funny name and a new, big NATO garrison. Although I declined her invitation to invite her to a fanciful drink (which would not harm her since its special composition, she said, was was water plus sugar), we talked enough for finding out that our initials (first/last name) and our birthdays (day/month) were the same, only in both cases inverted, as if we were somehow matched by fate. I like to make conclusions and decisions that will last, which makes them slow and often too slow. Too late I found out that it had been mistake not to order that drink, and I still did not make it to Constanta, fearing that while I would be strolling through the old city center (they must have one), hoping to meet her “by chance” with a little help by fate, she would be scanning those EU hotels or the other way round. One positive thing did happen, though: while until then I had thought about Romania about the same things as those gentlemen here who in their bad minutes puke out their prejudices about ***land, eager to wipe this pointless construction (a romanic country in a slavic environment???) off the map the moment I would be in a position to do so – fate simply changed all this around at the occasion of this drink which did not take place. I found out how charming Romania must be, if such ladies… etc. etc. Or Vlad Tepes, this model of a good guy, protecting his folks from nasty intruders, unjustly smeared and ridiculed as “Dracula”… I had a relapse when one day I was so tired that, waiting in a big shopping mall in a Romanian town, I had even fallen asleep until my companion picked me up again. It took me 20 minutes or so to realise that I was without my bag and my belongings in it. Obviously it had been stolen by those Romanians while I had drifted away, or after I had left. It took my companion much diplomacy to convince me that even in “such a country” it was worth trying the help desk of the shopping mall. And there they had my bag with everything inside, and the beautiful lady working there (instead of at a Constanta hotel) explained that they had feared that the owner might give up before trying. So… yes, Romanian ladies seem to be excellent ambassadors of their country.
I wonder if all the old hippies with their new understanding might be re energised one day.
The world needs more hippies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWTDcP9Y5E
Well, it needs more something, IMHO. Hippies are a wee bit over though–co-opted long ago to become property speculators and fat cats everywhere.
If I Had a Hammer was written in 1949, and Peter Paul and Mary’s version somewhat pre-hippy in style, certainly our culture could do with some major reenergising.
If I had a hammer I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening all over this land
I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out warning
I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
If I had a bell I’d ring it in the morning
I’d ring it in the evening all over this land
I’d ring our danger, I’d ring out warning
I’d ring out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
If I had a song I’d sing it in the morning
I’d sing it in the evening all over this land
I’d sing out danger, I’d sing out warning
I’d sing out love between my sisters and my brothers
All over this land
When I’ve got a hammer, and I’ve got a bell
And I’ve got a song to sing all over this land
It’s a hammer of justice, it’s a bell of freedom
It’s a song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
Thanks for sharing this poem, symnk, much appreciated !
We’re here Little Black Duck. That’s a good start
Hippies?? Nah, Peter , Paul and Mary falls outside of this by a mile or so.
Looky here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn1IxvBspko&list=PLSKEYDEhBARgrkrq90WA6BzwRxN8iLtwJ&index=52
Kent
Some side effects of the “Hippie Culture”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8dXeuoSLhQ&index=87&list=PLSKEYDEhBARgrkrq90WA6BzwRxN8iLtwJ
Kent
https://www.rt.com/news/419325-syria-russian-nationals-killed/
“Several dozen citizens of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States were injured in Syria during “a recent military clash,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. No military personnel were among the casualties.
The ministry reiterated that the Russian citizens involved in the recent clashes in Syria were not part of the Russian military force deployed there.”
So there was at least some truth to the reports of scores of russians killed from a couple days earlier…
Perhaps some of you will enjoy this review.
Solzhenitsyn’s Damning History of the Jews in Russia – a Review
https://russia-insider.com/en/solzhenitsyns-damning-history-jews-russia-review/ri22354
Thanks, Carmel, thought provoking for me. Had a sudden urge to listen to Joan Armatrading, such a powerful voice she has.
‘Only someone with no common sense would use meldonium’ – Russian curler Krushelnitsky
https://www.rt.com/sport/419338-krushelnitsky-curling-meldonium-pyeongchang-russian/
“First of all, I want to apologize to my Olympic teammates and our delegation and all the supporters, that could not seal myself and Nastya [Bryzgalova] off from these issues, which we have met today,” the statement read.
“I can openly confirm that never, at any time that I have been involved in sport, have I ever used any prohibited substances or any other dishonest means of competition.
“I am categorically opposed to doping and have always strived to follow the conformities of all anti-doping rules with maximum attention. In light of that, my positive test for meldonium was a huge shock for me and for Nastya.
“It is a huge blow to my reputation and to my career. Not to mention the fact that only someone with a complete absence of common sense could use doping in any form, especially meldonium, in the lead-up to the Olympic Games, where testing is of the highest level.”
Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov expressed his bewilderment at the situation, insisting that in curling there is no advantage to be gained by taking meldonium.
“It’s obvious that in this particular case, the athlete could not have intentionally used a prohibited substance, it just does not make any sense. Curling, in theory, in not the kind of sport in which dishonest athletes dope,” Kolobkov said, TASS reported.
His views have been echoed by many observers who are perplexed as to why any participant in a sport that requires a steady hand and eagle eye would need to ingest a drug that aids physical fitness.
The Russian delegation said the concentration of meldonium found in the athlete’s sample suggested he would not have derived a benefit if he had taken the drug deliberately.”
‘Doping is absolutely useless in curling’ – European champion Anna Sidorova
https://www.rt.com/sport/419308-anna-sidorova-curling-doping/
“In an exclusive interview with RT, world silver medalist Sidorova said that apart from being physically fit, a successful curler should be psychologically strong and able to handle pressure.
“I don’t think that doping can be useful in curling. Psychological and physical aspects are both important in our sport,” Sidorova said.
“Doping will not give you any advantage in that regard. I’m sure psychology is even more important. If you take sedatives to calm excessive jitteriness, you will not be able to sweep. If you take something to enhance sweeping, you will fail to hold yourself together and remain calm.”
However, some have claimed that Krushelnitsky’s food or drink may have been spiked.
Sidorova said that an Olympic athlete should be vigilant in preventing potential provocation from rivals, including spiking with banned drugs.
“A professional athlete included in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) registered testing pool should be very cautious with any food and drinks. We all know, if you open a sealed bottle and drink from it you should keep your eyes on it. If you have turned away for a second – don’t drink from that bottle any more. Every curler does everything possible to stay clean and not take prohibited drugs,” Sidorova said.
“We are adult people, not kids who need additional explanations. Everyone who came to the Olympics knows quite well how to deal with questions regarding doping. As a rule, before going [to major tournaments] we attend special seminars dedicated to these issues,” the curler added.”
I think it was a frame up. Either someone spiked him, or someone in wada messed with the samples somehow. The question is what western security service, or combination of security services, is responsible. Anastasia Bryzgalova garnered a lot of positive publicity at the games, she or her partner/husband would be high priority targets of this sort of zionazi/nazi op. It’s their sort of specialty.
When Krushelnitsky said “that could not seal myself and Nastya [Bryzgalova] off from these issues, which we have met today”, I think he meant he failed to prevent a frame up of himself through spiking. No doubt the Russian athletes we’re warned that spiking would probably be attempted and we’re thoroughly advised on how to prevent becoming a victim of these zionazi/nazi dirty tricks, of which they are well known to practice religiously.
Who is the Jewish Mafia _smr is constantly referring to without ever giving even the slightest explanation? Joe Atwill & Tim Kell spill the beans in this episode of their weekly podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtGVlQX_hxk&t=1s
Thank you for the link _smr, this is a great channel!
Waiter ! give me please a glass of water to clean up my mouth :
Love and Hate
by ioan
If my mouth speaks shit, it’s because is full with it,
… They give us to eat
World is getting hot and cool, world of words and blasphemy,
Reckless creatures and their fools, lead the world in “harmony”
… Yeah, I spit it in irony.
Though I’m barking, not in vain, you are here and do the same
Why should we, feel ashamed, when their dirt falls, like rain ?
… Yes, this is their shame !
Reckless creatures and their fools, love to hate and hate to love
They don’t know they are just tools, in the hands of those, above,
…wearing fancy glove
Speaking love and bursting hate, exclusive people ? That’s a joke
Promising the Golden Gate, giving you a poisoned coke
…maybe you will awake
Full of love, of course, you may get something much worse…
But it will come, for sure, who can tell what’s the cure
…of this evil, pure ?
Love and hate, as daily meal, in their hate, they love to kill
They used to love us so much, happily serving us their trash,
With forked tongues and full of joy, for us, their dear toy
… Oh, my dear boy,
What a shit, what a ploy !
I have been reading Miles Mathis steadily now for some time. He begins to grow on me, and I begin to trust him. Doubts, however remain. Either he is the best of truth-tellers or he is the best of con-men. He exposes the fakery of our culture, particularly Jews in high places.
But I have to ask: if he is exposing Jews, and they are so powerful, why is he not taken out? Do powerful Jews actually enjoy being exposed? Does that make them feel even more invincible? Are they actually paying him to expose them? If that’s the case, why the great efforts to hide, and scrub their true identifies?
He calls them on that too. He asserts that all the top two stories, mainstream and alternative media, are both fake. Thus, it follows that wanting to be exposed and hiding are actually fake, and hiding a third explanation. But what is it? I think the answer lies in the realm of gaming.
Say you’re extremely bright, rich and powerful, with all pleasures available, what is left for you to enjoy? Could it be the greatest game ever played? The game of king of the mountain, the world or even the universe? There is a popular version of that in the story of Lucifer.
I myself am playing the greatest game I can conceive of, which I call the game of love. But perhaps love is not a game at all, and I am wrong in thinking of it as such. But then why does life have two game-like sides? Is Miles correct that two sides are both fake? If so, what is the hidden third explanation?
Is it that love is beyond the duality of sides? This would contradict the obvious fact of duality in nature. Or is this merely the illusion of the mind? Many sages teach that the mind and the world are indeed illusions. Christians have version of this in splitting off a Supernatural God from the Natural World.
If I thus reject the world of nature, I give up the game, and Evil wins by default, and gains mastery over humanity and the natural world. I either play the game of sides, or I don’t. Right now, I’m experiencing back pain, which is one side of the pleasure-pain game. It appears I am caught in the game, like it or not.
Writing like this is an attempt to escape pain. Appeal to love is another attempt to escape pain and to find the relief of pleasure, if only in the lack of pain. If and when this pain is healed, I will credit it to the natural healing powers of love. Others might say it’s just destiny or luck. Miles Mathis seems to derive his pleasure from keen intelligence, applied to the natural world.
I don’t trust that philosophy, and therefore I don’t totally trust him. I put my trust in love, pure and simple, while not even knowing what love is. In that sense, I trust Christian theology which places faith above reason, and theology as queen of the sciences with philosophy as her handmaiden. I have to have faith in reason to reason. If I’m really intensely engrossed in faith or reason, I forget the pain for brief seconds; so perhaps the faith-reason divide is another fake dualism.
When I get all tangled up in word games like this, I just “fall in love,” or “fall into love”; at least on the word level, while believing in the love world that lies beyond the words. I fear the approaching night because that’s when the back spasms are inevitable getting in and out of bed,or turning over. So is my faith so weak that I fall so easily into fear rather than love? Yes, but I’m still developing as a work in progress, with faith in the scriptural maxim: “Love casts our fear.”
I suppose I’m a long way from Miles Mathis where I started. Goes to show the mind has many twists and turns. In my mind, I turn to love, whether I’m right or wrong. Sometimes I doubt love, and sometimes I’m convinced she’s all I’ve got. I feel I have to play the game of love or I’ll succumb to the game of evil, and abandon the world to a fate worse than death. I’ve never heard Miles say anything about a game of love, but perhaps he’s smart enough to keep it to himself; and I’m not so smart in exposing myself as a fool for love.
Miles says (that’s beginning to sound like Simon says) that all the top leaders are paid actors, including Trump, Putin and Xi. That sounds farfetched on the level of common acceptance, but I have to agree if put into the broader context of deep state evil, according to the Love Army’s ten commandments, which I support.
Commandment 1 is to think love, on a deep theological and philosophical basis, not sentimental, romantic love only. 2 is to not eat the meat of animals with the exception of lower life forms that do not have eyes or red blood like us. 3 is to not keep pets, since thereby we become pets of empire. 4 is to practice sex in small communites for all, and avoid coupling arrangements. 5 is to avoid usury and investments for interest. 6 is to avoid drugs if possible, even pot and mushrooms. 7 is against abortion. 8 is against artificial contraception. 9 is to avoid prostitution and 10 is to avoid pornography.
How many of our leaders actively campaign against these? None, although there are laws on the books to control the last five (with some kickbacks to the state or underground criminals), but activism against violations of the ten as a whole? Nada. Nonsense, impractical, unrealistic and impossible you say. Yes, in this world of corrupted power, but not in the world of uncorrupted love, where everything is possible.
I’m a realist and an idealist. I accept the so-called real world, and try to develop it in the direction of the ideal world, which religion calls heaven. I love this world, even with its evil and suffering like my present back pain, although I may curse and rail against the pain. I caution against quick and easy solutions, and say that nobody has to do anything different. I am merely expressing my opinion, which is what MM says also.
I have Miles on my mind these days. I have miles to go, and promises to keep, through forests deep, before I can sleep the final sleep. I have much work to do, so much that I need to live another 23 years to age 101, when I can start Life 101 anew, and bid my last adieu to you.
Love, Dennis
Bro and Bitcoin
I was rereading cafe 2/13 and enjoying again the gems therein. Bro had a “bit” to say which perks my interest. Although I disagree with Bro a “bit”, I trust him to give us his honest opinion, which saves me time. His heart is in the right place, wanting to lift humanity. Whether it lifts or degrades is debatable. The jury of justice is still out.
For the life of me, I can’t see how this bit of money madness is any different than other pyramid schemes: buy low and sell high, never-mind the losers. It’s survival of the fittest, and dog eat dog. It’s also the scam of usury: make money with money, and avoid any productive work; leave that for the less clever slaves.
It’s the seductive lure of false security, based on a lack of security; which is not surprising since the deep state works day and night to keep us insecure. In such a state, we’ll buy from any quack who comes along. If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck, and a decoy at that. Occam’s razor would tell us that anything that complicated and incomprehensible is the wool pulled over our eyes, after we’ve been sheared of common sense.
The very reputable and respected Russian Kaspersky Lab claims US deep state started this bit of questionable finance. Natalya Kaspersky further claims that the man claimed as its originator is actually a committee of US cryptographers. Like father like son; what a progeny of true believers short on cash has it spawned. Time will tell if it’s a brood of vipers, with yet another “sting” operation.
I also find it odd that when Bro asks several at LPAC about potentially an earth shaking movement, no one there knows anything about it. You mean bright investigators have no opinion whatsoever? Not likely. It’s more likely that they are being told not to say anything. Now why would that be?
My take is that Helga in particular has been hired by the ZioSino junta to promote railroads and bridges, not money matters, because she might find something fishy going on under those bridges, like I do. No one, not even German grandmothers, can mess with the mob’s money. Hence, the enforced silence.
Bro, saints preserve him, is a treasure trove of information, and jumps on any bandwagon that seems headed for good, and investigates every moving part. I await his ongoing investigation. He may be right, and I may wish I had been at the station when he left. He points out that I have a good life, thanks to my government pension, without which I would have been found dead on the street long before now.
Let’s face it: we are all wards of the State now, to some degree. Real estate agents need licenses, for a price. Welfare for the rich, through laws that protect them, is the biggest “on the dole” expense of all. Government should be for the safety and welfare of the people, but “with liberty and justice for all.” My safety and welfare depends on love, rather than the Poet’s vision of: “I saw bits of men marching, trying to take heaven by force; past the unknown rider, past the pale white horse…”
I’m a fool, living on the edge. I’ll yet get to Miracles in my meandering trek through theology. I am experiencing miracles continually. I can’t prove it or disprove it, but the closer I get to that edge between death and life, I appreciate love’s coy courtship. She’s not so obvious as to make the game dull. I’m learning to mind my manners, and develop my character to be more worthy of her.
As for Bit, it rhymes too closely with Brit. The empire loves to tease us to death, like a cat with a mouse. It loves word games to distract us from what’s really going on, and yes, words do have emotional “hooks” on them to hoodwink us. Think of it. What does “block chain” carry in its lingual underbelly? A prison cell block and a prisoner’s chain? Chew on that tid-bit, while we await Bro’s further reports on what may lift us out of poverty of body or put the final nail in our prison coffin.
To end this bit of repartee, allow me to quote from the Love Government’s current liturgical week, with the icon of Baby, where it all starts for us:
“My cousin Claude wonders what’s wrong with him; he can’t understand the curses that throng to him. I would tell him about the curse if he could withstand it, but I’d tell him what’s useless if he can’t countermand it. There’s only one way to lift the curse: go back and learn to nurse; throw away all the big boy toys, and rest on the breast with babyhood joys…Open the door to your mother’s cor. Cure our blindness by her human kindness. Give us rest at her breast.”
Regarding Jew-Brits and Jew-Bits, Dylan puts it best:
“Ever since the British burned the White House down
There’s been a bleeding wound in the heart of town”
I don’t despair because the Love Army is well aware of what’s going down, and is gearing up to help us win this war. Again, Dylan refers to the Love Army Commander’s words:
“I’m raising an army of tough sons of bitches
I’m recruiting my army from the old religious
I’ve been to Saint Her-man’s and said my religious vows
I’ve stood on the driving edge of a thousand bows”
We are all love commanders in our own spheres of influence. In the new theology of love, it’s a classless system with no power-over psychopaths ruling by force. By volunteering to come to this testing ground of terror, we are no less than the advanced lovers who created all by loving. They envy us for our courage, and await our return where we will experience great joy.
Love, Dennis
Dennis, you are truly priceless.
I think it was “the answer lies in the realm of gaming” that started me off. I do like a shock tactic, though these days I have to ration the belly laughs as my stamina runs out real quick and even quicker when I laugh.
I lost it completely though when I read “If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck, and a decoy at that.” I could just see that AI robot decoy duck (weaponised, of course), coming for me out of the clear blue sky! (Just a wee bit paranoid, not too much.)
I would really like to sit face to face with you (in an Irish pub? What a hoot that would be!) and discuss MM’s observations which definitely are some kind of game, one I wouldn’t touch with a bargepole, let alone my rapidly diminishing brain cells. Of course he is correct that Mr Putin, Mr Xi and Trump are paid actors–they are supposedly civil servants and paid by us plebs to do an acting job of being the boss. I don’t somehow think though that the basic reality is what MM was intent on planting in his reader heads.
I hope you find a solution to your back problems. I have found the principles of the Alexander Technique helpful (his original book available in the libraries, you can DIY to see if it works for you and there must be youtube vids of the basics).
Thanks for cheering me up, and try to stay away from the games, they truly are endless, if sometimes entertaining. :)
Almost forgot—-I was listening to this today and ‘Dennis’ flitted briefly across my mind. Cohen spent 7-8 years as a Buddhist monk, I believe. His pre-occupations as reflected in his song-writing didn’t seem altered too radically by that sojourn— funny that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q48vRCHtfU
Good Gritty comment, my man.
Nothing wrong with questions.
Final Answers are harder to come by!
But you’re way off base with Helga. She is childless. And if I am not mistaken, was Catholic in her youth, before she found the non-Catholic Friedrich Schiller and the Quaker/Liebnizian Lyndon LaRouche.
Dive back into that first base bag before you get picked off! We’re going to have to manufacture some runs with “small ball” since “their” pitching staff has got wicked, filthy stuff.
(S)Miles!
Brotherly Love
Wonderful riffs on love my good man.some of it pure poetry. I’m not one for the communal love/sex idea. In my experience the relationships end up lacking in love. I believe monogamy is better. Just my own experience.
Lonely Fools, are we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZzaTo-MYI
Kent
I think so, without exception. That’s why some fun and companionship is so valuable and seductive.
Or there’s that old tale about potatoes boiling together quicker in a pot than singly.
Nice tune BTW. Truly universal, the blues.
An oldie but goodie that cheers me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdWj9-ir37g
Mod, I made a post yesterday where I again mentioned the “bear”. I am glad that you did not post it. Events since then is likely to prove that I was wrong on some facts – like the Kurds are sore with Putin. Thanks.
Neue Zürrcher Zeitung on February 19, 2018
Refugee’s help is valid in Hungary now as a hostile act. With the “Stop Soros” law pakage wants the
Government of Hungary the work of organisations of human rights prevent.
https://www.nzz.ch/international/fluechtlingshilfe-gilt-als-feindlicher-akt-ld.1357348?mktcid=nled&mktcval=107&kid=_2018-2-20
Kent Ekeroth (SD) defends Hungary in Swedish parliament debate
(English subtitles available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSyERl5gPQ
The US intelligence services have identified Philipine leader Duterte as caring more about his own nation than the US:
http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/02/21/us-calls-duterte-threat-democracy-puts-philippines-first/
Correction – law package
Internal Exile USA,
Thanks for the book tip… I will be reading it shortly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHXH0hYkuU
is europe finally waking up?
Watch large anti-NATO demonstration in Sweden: “Russian Aggression is a big, big lie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHQ2ogIP34
Some italian minister is publicly blaming Metkel for the damage to europe she has done…various other eu politicians in last two years but none have the guts to change the sanctions meme…
OM– would love to discuss Chrissie’s book. It’s really a history book of the USA and UK 60’s-80’s masquerading as rock bio. Unlike most bios, it’s not Chrissie “with ghostwriter fill in the blank”, i.e. she actually wrote it and is a really visionary writer of great insight and depth and candor. She loves the old USA and the old UK, though very critical of both. The UK was the first place to appreciate her. This happens (Hendrix) or used to happen. Thank you for always appreciated Kinks.
p/s Davies was knighted recently, which made me scratch my head, but I disagree w/Bro that _all_ people given this dubious “honor” are all pawns, including Lennon… I think the Royals like to keep their fingers in as many pies as possible, sometimes for reasons unknown. Anyway, I saw Davies tear the house down here a few years ago and songwriting-wise, he’s still got it, big time.
IEUSA,
I no longer bother arguing with people who clearly do not know what a constitutional monarch is supposed to be and who really makes the choices for Betty to action. Yes I am sure they keep her sweet as they must respect the crown who nominally heads the entire project. Betty is also very well-loved, though not too much by me. I respect her for stoically doing what she has been paid to do all these years, what a terminally tedious acting job that must be.
I have a few things on my list to get through first but look forward to discussing raw women in general and Chrissie in particular with you shortly.
BTW, Betty must also be aware of what happened to her predecessor Charlie when he got a bit uppity. No hiding place there either.
Recipe for Disaster–compliments of the Coven of the Ham Sandwich
Thirteen evil ones stirring the pot
Really TNN ( Trump Trashing Network) is that all you’ve got?
Be afraid! be afraid! No, No, No,
CIA, so careless, you’ve been made.
It is you who are the evil tongue
compulsive haters, once begun
add hyberbole’s stench most foul
hysteria’s outraged scowl
hatred’s subliminal screech
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
of H-llfire’s anguished vowel
Drown the airwaves, sirens sound
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
add the war drums thrumming beat
stir well , add more heat
stir again and then
Repeat.
and then repeat.
and the times are ticking and the signs are mooving
and the devil is lost in illusions
and the background of all isn’t even touched
waiting for our conscious call
this week’s synchronicities within and without us
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/02/19.html
(to add) ” Remember that for spells to be bound: sprinkle with lies very coarsely ground”
Very expressive exposure of reality, tera 13 ! the muses are very close to you today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=70&v=cdZliSDhgXY
Ode to Corporate Media Doo-Doo ( sung to Camptown Races)
CNN they sing this song.. doo dah, doo dah
all night long and all dah doo dah day
Propernot is a proper bot—doo dah, doo dah
Ruskies tried but got caught —-oh dah doo dah day
‘Gwan'( going to) to lie all blame
Gwan to lie all Lame
Tried the web to play my game doo dah, doo dah
Twitter and Google put me to shame …oh dah doo dah nay
Gwan to lie all lame
Gwan to lay all blame
Somebody’s thought is a proper thought –doo da doo dah
others get a big fat not , oh the doo dah nay
Gwan to lie the same
Gwan to lay the blame
Somebody bet that the truth will come out
Somebody just fixed the game.
Gwan run at the mouth
Gwan swear and shout
Propernot is a proper bot doo dah do dah
any other source is not your lot oh dah doo-doo day
Gwan lie all night gwan lie all day
you can get hot
but Propernot
is bought
so you will not have your say.
do the doo-doo day. Da!
Bibi looks like he is in deep Likud doo doo.
His counterpart in the WH (Jared Kushner, not DJT), may be in the same doo doo if Mueller can make a case about his “truthfulness” or his real estate “loans”.
What then becomes of Trump’s Mideast policy?
He may have to abandon the protect Israel at all costs policy.
Just a thought . . .
Whats going on in Poland? The nationalist government are saying Jews collabarated with Nazi’s during the Holocaust and say Israel has obscured and ignored the Slavic deaths in the war. They are winding up the Ashkenazi who they have been worshipping ever since the end of Communism, and are against Muslim immigration and asylum seekers. They are against Banderists in Ukraine who burn the polish flag. Since they hold all these views, they should ally with Russia and China, if they had any sense, because EU and its masters will not tolerate this much longer.
. Poles are a strange type. Deeply conflicted in several ways in their minds I think, being in love with the Vatican and its political Opus Dei Catholic scheming, riddled with Anti Orthodox sentiment, and then this whole Jagellonian nostalgia to take over Lithuania and Ukraine, also a neopagan mystic thing with those red and white gowns and women in the flowers, but most of all currently loving the shiny Anglo neoliberal capitalist life and working hard to serve the Anglo master. Each polish has a geopolitical war in their head,
Really – each nation has its own personality. Sort of collective sum average.
In this respect Poles are real brownnoses and can smell the money so they are first to rattle cry wolf point a finger…. like this they well made themself on EU and NATO. Also not much good in surfing all the hysteria they feeding.
Have you seen the well-produced anti-Poland video calling for the US to cut relations with Poland over this?
Igor Moiseyev Folk Dance Ensemble: A scene in Stavropol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0oPrwHitOE
Stavropol (ru Ставрополь) is a Russian town in North Caucasus – Map of Russia
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1-Ma679Ueqt-UqoSIJ8hFWKC83dg&hl=en_US&ll=47.68537654006521%2C47.549256995434575&z=5
The spoiled brat got taken to school, again.
Russian Envoy to UN Schools US Ambassador Haley in Diplomatic Etiquette
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802221061882391-russia-schools-us-un-haley/
“I would like to remind permanent representative Haley – there is no “regime” in Russia, but a legally elected president and appointed government. I would like to ask the US delegation to observe at least basic diplomatic decorum in the future. By the way, there is also a legitimate government in Syria, whether you like it or not,” Nebenzya said at a United Nations Security Council session.”
Wish Nebenzya would also school RT and Sputnik about their use of regime sometimes to describe the Syrian government.
The most excellent speech by Syrian Representative at UNSC recently clearly and most pointedly outlining usa coalition interference and influences in Syria seems to have been very under reported too…although RT did carry it live…shame..it was the truth…..the council went into recession afterwards so no idea what the response or acknowledgement was ……
South Africa to Cut Ties with Israel ‘Over Abuse of Palestinians’
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/South-Africa-to-Cut-Ties-with-Israel-Over-Abuse-of-Palestinians-20180221-0021.html
“South Africa intends to cut diplomatic ties with the state of Israel due to “the absence of genuine initiatives by Israel to secure lasting peace and a viable two-state solution that includes full freedom and democracy for the Palestinian people,” minister Naledi Pandor announced on Tuesday.
Pandor said that during a ten-hour joint debate on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address: “The majority party has agreed, that government must cut diplomatic ties with Israel.”
Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was recently nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize, is inspired by South African non-violent resistance against apartheid and is supported by members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
Most recently, the African nation decided to downgrade its embassy in Tel Aviv to a liaison office after the United States declared its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced it was moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem in December.”
It might sound very noble and very anti-zionist, but really it is the pot calling the kettle black. Perhaps that ‘ruling’ ANC party should take a look into its own practices and the ethnocide happening in their own country.
http://tass.com/politics/991202
Russia trying to make arrangements for any Russians in the ukraine to vote in Russian parliamentary election
Got a bad bad feeling about this…..
I get quite irritated sometimes with machine learning bots, given that I cannot be bothered, at this stage, with too much paranoia and go for the easier option of just shrugging it off—- but youtube has lead me to some surprises, (it must be the funnelling and sieving built into the system for other purposes entirely) —-including long forgotten faves such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCS_MwkWzes
Another good one from the Lem, from the ‘We are Motorhead’ album, “One More F…… Time.”
Absolutely not for the tender-eared or easily shocked–but then we’re all adults here, right? as Saker once commented regarding an otherwise inexplicable disappearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIWfCDpSWc
This really isn’t the gospel according to Lemmy, but it is helpful in the more general scheme of things—- and a banging tune if nothing else, even for the tender-eared:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIWfCDpSWc
A new phenomenon in cryptocurrencie – we were waiting for this – not Venezuela specifically but cryptos ‘backed’ by metals. Cryptos are usually backed by proof of work, or proof of stake. This is a new development where .govs really start using cryptos. We’re changing money .. as many moons ago, the Chinese traded with cowrie shells, the money business has evolved as all business has evolved, good or bad. We went from cowrie shells, to depositing our grain in the local oligarch’s grain storage and we were paid with gold, silver or even bronze coins. We went from there into paper representing money. Now we have credit cards and money is digital. That gave rise to a level of deep darkness, with this paper being exchanged in various ways and in many transactions, just worthless. The Governments issued money. So, cryptos came our way and with a blockchain, which is a distributed ledger, the dark trading cannot happen because if it is an open source and fully available technology, well, everyone can see everything.
Now, this year the .govs are really interested and it is the year or regulation. Russia is doing their legislation and their rules, yet, we see interesting ICO’s (initial coin offerings where the ordinary person like you and me can support new business that we choose), from Russia. Its crowd funding on steroids where we don’t have to be an ‘accredited investor’ to invest in anything. Those norms are falling by the wayside, yet Russia has set low limits to keep the excitement and fomo (fear of missing out) down a little. https://news.bitcoin.com/russia-global-ico-ratings-standard-30-countries/
The US, bless their cotton pickin’ socks, are more interested in how much tax revenue they can get the ordinary person to voluntarily disclose while the financial arm of the .gov’s start to regulate and yes, take their piece.
Any reliable and good business can now make their own coin or token, market and get their own investors, and the ones that we see from last year are building and succeeding in building their network effect. These new blockchain businesses are tearing through current business regulation, through methods and people are trading again. We are traders, are we not? The expectation is something like 40 to 60 new ICO’s per month in 2018.
China is sitting a bit on the sidelines somewhat being oh so inscrutable, yet, they have blockchains up the yahoo. Take a look at EOS, OMG and NEO in this space.
So, we are moving as a world in terms of what we use for money. Yes, the old time ideologues (like me) are still there but we also have the new raiders that want in, simply for the profit potential.
Aah, I forgot that Venezuela link.
https://www.rt.com/business/419528-venezuela-second-cryptocurrency-maduro/
Fast Eddy here. I had an all night match and am just waking up, before noon.
I’m going to catch up ….rapidly….on all of this. But once again, I’m gonna play it fast and loose. And try to tie some threads together, between some snack breaks and trips to the john.
I still regard the encryption of 7s and other Kabbalistic Krap by Satanyahoo (can I edit your encryption, amarynth?? It’s “Up the yaZoo not yaHoo) and the evil sorcerers of London, New York, D.C. and Tel Aviv on 911,2001 in New York as more dangerous than any bad cryptocurrency.
And I am sure there are dozens of scams that should be sidestepped, exposed, decoded for their frauds….and learned from. All in good fun!
Compared to bringing the fat old Evil Ones in London, Hollywood, and other places that rape children, then kill them and drink their arenaline-rich blood in a disgusting effort to prolong their enslaved and enslaving lives..( ….so devasted they are by the stark realization that the “Eternal Life” Jesus spoke of ….could never in a billion lifetimes …be approached by their small, wretched, fear-imprisoned selves) to justice and freeing the world from the increasingly ominous threat of Nuclear War……..that decoding, that de-encryption……… should be Child’s Play….but a nice warmup for clearing the table of chaos and pain from the Greatest Game Ever Sold……to eternal suckers: Empire!
That’s more serious.
But so is Dennis, today, so I am feeling like we can’t lose.
Nine Ball, end pocket.
Three ball, side pocket.
Yes, there will be new raiders, and they WILL make a bundle. Many already have.
But unless they balance ALL their accounts, they will “gain the world” but “lose their souls.”
Because ego IS The Enemy of Truth and Really Good Work.
NEO is in China and its wallet is the NEO City of Zion wallet.
We know zzzz’s rub Dennis’ back the wrong way, but it’s still yaZoo not yaHoo. The Truth Shall Set You Free From Fear and Loathing. And back pain. Keep massaging. Try elbows for the really tough devils. No pain no gain (Eternal Relief).
I think the Chinese are much better at coding and decoding than the Khazarian Zionists will ever be, and with NEO we may have a red-pill solution for fearful westerners zonked out on their blue pill meds. For sure asians have a more subtle sense of humor than “Honey, I Screwed the Kids!” Woody Allen.
How do I know this about them? Simple!: Their Characters! The inscrutable ones behind their eyes…… are just reflections of their indecipherable ones….. brushed on to paper…..BOTH….are nothing but code!
Our letters are just code for sounds of consonants and vowels and you have to work hard to make poetry of them!
But Chinese has got number, sound, stories, metaphor, form and God knows what else….in one code-filled character….virtually a poem in itself!
Swish, swish, swish!
This isn’t the White Paper on NEO, but it’s a start, something I could scan before lunch:
https://coinsutra.com/neo-cryptocurrency/
I will read the White Paper, during lunch and before I get back.
We’re here to learn, like mundo says. Not Roll the Dice on Hot Tips.
OR…play pool:
This Music Man (Harold) says the Godly Man Plays “Billiards”….NOT Pool!
Harold:
Well, either you’re closing your eyes
To a situation you do now wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community.
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City.
Why sure I’m a billiard player,
Certainly mighty proud I say
I’m always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend
With a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool head and a keen eye.
Never take and try to give
An iron-clad leave to yourself
From a three-rail billiard shot?
But just as I say,
It takes judgement, brains, and maturity to score
In a balkline game,
I say that any bum__ kin take
And shove a ball in a pocket.
And they call that sloth.
The first big step on the road
To the depths of deg-ra-Day–tion.
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle.
An’ the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin’ for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list’nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Hearin’ him tell about horse-race gamblin’.
Not a wholesome trottin’ race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey’boy
Sittin’ on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff’rence
Between a gentlemen and a Bum,
With a capital “B,”
And that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool!
And all week long your River City
Youth’ll be frittern away,
I say your young men’ll be frittern!
Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin’ Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin’ any water
‘Til your parents are caught with the Cistern empty
On a Saturday night and that’s trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a’ trouble.
I’m thinkin’ of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin’ in the pool
Hall window after school, look, folks!
Right here in River City.
Trouble with a capital “T”
And that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool!
Now, I know all you folks are the right kinda parents.
I’m gonna be perfectly frank.
Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes
On while they’re loafin’ around that Hall?
They’re tryin’ out Bevo, tryin’ out cubebs,
Tryin’ out Tailor Mades like Cigarette Feends!
And braggin’ all about
How they’re gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin’ for the dance at the Arm’ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That’ll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instink!
Mass-staria!
The idle brain is the Devil’s Playground!”
https://youtu.be/cX9TnOruw68
Robert Preston in “The Music Man”
Trouble, Right Here in River City!
(That starts with T which rhymes with “P”….which stands for Pool!)
It’s all code. Even your DNA.
Its the slippery slope, Bro, just the slippery slope.
Busy, so mistakes are being made. I’ll let the Fat Lady have the last word as I have things to do today and am short of sleep. In the meantime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIwWWEUOFrc
Kent,
Thought you might like this blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarL58fQAFc
As an avid Glasgow Celtic supporter i do hope that when my team line up against Zenit tonight in St Petersburg that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin graces the occasion with his presence in the stadium.
May the best team win.
Peace
Do let us know who won, Espina, and whether Mr P turned up.
One Minion
My team Celtic were swept aside 3-0 and i believe Mr P had more pressing matters to attend to.
Tomorrow is another day. Chin up.
Always philosophical cheers
I need a break from the usual news. I find that in theology, in the development of a new Religion Of Love. I’m going continue to append a series of comments on the subject, which I have on my word processor, and I can later use them to review my thinking on theology; and others can share if they wish. The base of this vineyard seems to be Orthodox theology, so I don’t think I’m off topic. At the very least, a love theology is an alternative story to the one lying to us day and night; at its best, love theology brings comfort and joy.
Armchair Cafe Theology Part 4
The core of my thought, values and desires is Community. The heart of Reality is a Community of Lovers. At the outset of my remarks, pro forma, I state that this is my opinion, I could be wrong and always subject to change.
My perceptions of the highest truth have developed over seventy-eight years, just in this lifetime. It’s been a rough and tumble adventure of trying to understand what is going on. In the last few years I’ve used this vineyard as research center and testing lab. That and my cornucopia of positive and negative life experience of seventy-eight years makes me reasonably confident that I’m on the right track.
This community of lovers that I’m envisioning and feeling is part and parcel of nature; with no split between natural and supernatural as in patriarchy. I start with theology because it’s said to the queen of sciences, with philosophy as her handmaiden. On the chessboard of life, the queen is the most powerful piece of the game, and protects the king who has little power.
This community of lovers lives in our space and time home, but is not limited to it. 100,000 years ago the universal community of love incarnated in Eden. The Incarnation is a major dogma in theology. The lovers of Eden are the template for the human species. They lived in multiple communities of roughly 50 to 150, where each person knew every other person, and many others in the larger network of communities.
In the context of this anti-war and anti-imperial site, small communities in community are the only force capable of ultimately resisting empire, which has been in the process of dividing and conquering them for 75,000 years by means of patriarchy. Russia is resisting for the time being but if the whole world culture goes south, it may drag the north with it in the longer term. The Patrix (patriarchy) gradually broke down the resistance by dividing the commons into couples, and later into monogamy.
Now the empire is dividing couples into singles by alienating men and women. The imperialists, who sit high on the pyramid of power and money, keep the marriage network strong among themselves. Currently, the Jew-Brit Families rule the roost. With the Trump Revolution, resistance is organizing but is still weak, although strong and smart enough to keep Trump in power so far.
In terms of theology, small communities, in potentia, are the only power that can challenge empire in the long game, and are signified by the doctrine of the Trinity. It takes three to make a community. The patriarchal version is that of father, son and grandson, but a more natural interpretation would be mother, father and child. As theology develops more in synch with nature, we will eventually return to a natural Trinity.
For the past three years, I have explored the nature and character of these small communities. It’s in the archives, so no need to repeat it here. What set fire to the topic was my use of the term “communal sex,” a necessary consequence to small groups living intimately with each other in a well-governed and safe manner. Nevertheless, many here took the term as inflammatory, sort of like shouting “fire” in a theater. That is an understandable reaction is our repressed and excessed culture.
“Communal Sex” is the touchstone and litmus test of a genuine Community of Lovers. We have a long way to go in feeling comfortable with the notion. The good news is that we do not have to do anything different than we’re doing. An idea is being presented as a seed; we need only to consider it as a possibility, probability or impossibility.
As always, in the background, is the negative driver of war, which we have pledged to resist, in the particular form of “the empire’s war on Russia.” On the positive side, the driver of this effort is love, and at the core of that are these potential communities of love, from which we have fallen away. This vineyard cafe is in the vanguard of this effort, which will slowly become more effective in its mission.
The original small communities have not been obliterated; they have gone underground, and surface in the great variety of communities we have today, including this one. Patriarchy has destroyed their original preeminence but they persist in perverted and twisted forms. In time they will return to save us from imploding into a prison planet, or exploding in a blast back to the past.
Patriarchal theology calls the love communities the “Communion of Saints.” We see icons of these saints here at the vineyard. However, the love communities were not composed of saints; they had a variety of characters like we do, with the exception that they were all governed by love; thinking of love, eating love food, honoring the free animals around them, practicing “communal love and sex,” with no money, drugs, abortion, contraception, prostitution or ponography, as is the rule now with us.
Of course, we can’t just go back to Eden with our restricted physics, but we can bring it forward to our present lives in our minds, and sweeten some of life’s sourness. Per the Poet, “I saw armies of men marching, trying to take heaven by force; past the unknown rider, past the pale white horse; just tell me what you want and you’ll get it of course.” Love delivers what she promises–”Knock and it shall be opened to you.”
The Eden I’m talking about is not worshiping God on a cloud, but a community of lovers like us, albeit governed by love rather than power and money; all fully human like us, although humans in love with the whole community. As the Poet put it: “I got the porkchop, she got the pie; she ain’t no angel and neither am I.” I sure ain’t no saint or angel; I’m human along with all my brothers and sisters, and have in me a piece of everyone who ever lived.
I’m an Ain’t Saint rather than a Quaint Saint. “I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm no more.” I much prefer a Vineyard Eden to a Barnyard Farm. I vineyard has the word vine in it; as in “divine,” meaning from the vine. As Love said through She’sus, “I am the Vine, you are the branches.” Now that’s the kind of theology a Communion of Lovers loves to talk about.
Love, Dennis
Armchair Cafe Theology Part 5
My back is giving me continual pain at a tolerable level; it worsens towards evening when it gets tired, and spasms if I’m not careful; it is worst getting in or out of bed, or trying to turn over; the spasms are intense but do not last long. I extrapolate this experience to the world at large.
What does traditional theology say about pain? Pain comes from evil or sin when we disobeyed God. Love theology says we rejected love in favor of power, particularly the power to kill, starting with the killing of animals for food. I haven’t eaten animals for some time now, but am having this pain, so there must be something else involved.
There is, much more, but I want to stay with animal killing. I did eat animals for most of my life. My theory is that the pain from the sin of eating animals has been stored in my back, and is now, when I am not eating animals, trying to release it. A nice theory but is it true? Time will tell. Things may get worse before they get better.
This may be true for the world as well. It has stored sin and is trying to release it. There are consequences for causes, called justice. We don’t just get to skate free, although many seem to do just that. Well, one life is short and eternity is long. Justice is in no hurry; she has plenty of storage space. Things are not what they seem. “Behind every beautiful face there is some kind of pain.” Dylan.
Traditional theology encapsulates the problem of evil in doctrines of hell, some versions make it eternal hell. The whole is eternal but every part within it constantly renews itself. An eternal hell comes from the mind of a sadist. As a wit put it, “there may be an eternal hell but that does not mean anyone is in it. Dante described hell but his Paradiso belies the former. A love theology concedes there is a hell on earth, and afterwards a purgatory “to wash my sins away.”
The point is to keep moving within holistic nature. Life is a dance of love, although when cursing with pain, it seems not. Because of the pain, I am standing as I type, rather than sit in a fixed position, to take frequent little walks and stretches. In my long life, I think I’ve been stuck a hundred times more than I’ve flowed, but the blockages can be broken my hands-on work.
The old theologies need to be developed, but some doctrines like an eternal hell need to be recycled. Pain, sin and evil can be reframed as opportunities for healing. Even if worse comes to worst, there’s always hope at the bottom of Pandora’s Gift Box. She means “all gifts,” so don’t be misled by the lie that her box is full of evils. Pain makes me long more intensely for my transition to our family home of lovers, although I think I have plenty of work to do before I leave.
Jesus was tightly hemmed in. A woman with a bleeding problem said to herself: “if I but touch the hem of his robe, I will be healed.” Jesus stopped and called out: “Who touched me, for I felt power release?” The woman confessed that she had been healed. Jesus said to the incredulous disciples; “Well, what did you expect? If you have enough faith, you can move mountains of pain, sin and evil.”
Pain drains the hell out of me. Sometimes I hate it. Wrong approach. I’m learning to love it as a friend. Love is my friend, and sometimes I feel the love go out and the pain with it. But oh, oh, oh, too often I’m like Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row, a hell with pleasing poetry and melody. Dylan wrote that in his early years when his handlers wanted desolation and despair implanted in the population. Later he broke away but he was infected and never lost that desolate feeling. To compensate, he worshiped ideal women, and wrote some of the best love songs ever.
I do too. So does theology with its doctrines of the Beautiful Virgin and Mother. Other traditions have their own versions. Nothing wrong with the ideal, so long as it does not contradict the real. We were meant for pleasure, not pain. We made up a different kind of bed, so we get to lay in it. I love it when pain releases. “I shall be released…” “Oh, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away.”
My back is telling me it’s time to stop preaching, and start practicing. OK, back, you’ve got my back. I’ll get off the rack and back on track.
Love, Dennis
Dennis,
My take, for what its worth.
Focus on the body and pain becomes a signal that demands attention. No-one knows your own as well as you do. Some small twinges can be ignored but persistent pain requires attention.
You can DIY various things but if that gets no relief you have to up the ante and see someone who knows what they are looking at in a clinical manner, and properly know what they are doing in a scientifically proven manner and can try other things.
I know pain intimately, once slept on the floor for three years with back pain. But when I sprang three ribs from the spine doing something stupid–as you do–I needed an osteopath to put them back, a couple of sessions and instant relief from the agony.
Armchair Cafe Theology Part 6
Some may think I’m harming Christianity by developing it; perhaps a moribund theology but not a vigorous one. I’m referring to all religions by the term theology. I speak of Christianity because I was raised in it but my remarks fit all God religions, in their many variations. Quasi-religions like Buddhism, native Americans and the plethora of New Age practices are not, strictly speaking, theological which means Order of God.
Religions are being systematically attacked by forces of chaos, sometimes in the name of religion. A Greater Israel for the world comes to mind. Some Jews are religious, some use religion as a front and some could not care less about religion or God. People of my generation appreciate the role religion plays as a bulwark against the flood of chaos; but I fear for the younger generation, most of whom know little history, and what they do know is fake.
Russia under Putin is still secure but after he goes, it is less certain that the spread of immorality will not disable Russia’s resistance. The swamp of the west is getting ever more fetid. I am infected by it and it makes me sick. Sure, there are exceptions, but even the brightest and pleasurable enjoyments this relatively unsullied part of the world offers, has never satisfied my longing for deep love, within a safe and sane community.
Theology, and the religion behind it, has been my saving grace, and comfort in a wasteland desert. The sweetest feelings occurred in my monastic days, when the discipline and sacrifice gave way to a community of brothers in joyful celebration. This happened most poignantly after the penance of Advent before Christmas and Lent before Easter, in the sacred liturgies and the following breaking of the fast with delicious food and drink.
But it could not last; the restrictions and suppression of that kind of life became too heavy for me; so I left at age 31. I got my education as a nurse, and got caught up with the so-called real world. It had its seductive and addictive rewards but the price was high. I sowed many wild oats, and am lucky I got out alive. I returned to a semi-monastic life in the world, and joined a new age religion with a charismatic guru for twenty years.
I gave my all in energy and money but that religion proved to be corrupt, and I had to leave that too. I gleaned what good I could, as I did with the old age religion; and developed a religion better suited to my needs, which I allude to here. It has helped me over the years, but the trials of change have been fearsome, and still are. The joy and fulfillment has been slow and incremental, as I was forced to prove myself with every trial.
Since I joined the Vineyard, the process and pace of change has increased dramatically. The vineyard itself is an oasis in the desert, but dealing with empire is like dealing with the devil–no easy picnic affair, to be sure. Trying to stop the war on Russia is akin to martyrs in the Coliseum braving lions with a kitchen knife, which the empire does not take kindly to, and attacks my body, mind and soul.
Not to be over dramatic, but the best of Shakespearian drama falls short of personal involvement in the play between love and evil. I could, I suppose, go back to my hermit days, and I do on the outside, but inside it’s quite another matter. There is simply no place to hide out these days, at least for me. If it weren’t for love, I could not survive this battle; I get fleeting glimpses of this and am more and more dependent on love for survival. Right now I’m trying to recover from two serious mistakes I made with my body; it’s nip and tuck but right now I think I’ll make it, and then it will be on to the next test, with death getting closer on the horizon.
I’m trying to say that theology is a great help in this regard, as it is for millions more. There are theologies and theologies, all not of equal value for me. Like bodies, we all have our particular version, even of its negation, as is the case with atheism. Physical nature seems to satisfy many but not for me. I need, not the supernatural in the sense of a schism in a seamless weave, but an unbounded nature, free as love herself.
Love, Dennis
I have been reading Cardinal John Henry Newman’s “Development of Christian Doctrine”; written while still an Anglican, shortly before he converted to Roman Catholicism. I first started reading him in the seminary when I was in my early twenties. I liked him, not so much for the doctrines, but for his writing style, which was graceful to my ear; and for his intimate knowledge of the Bible and the Fathers of the Church. He knew Latin and Greek well, and was knowledgeable about the whole of Roman and Greek literature.
With my renewed interest in theology, I have been reading him again, since he summarizes a vast amount of theological information. I liked the Fathers for their classic style of writing and their enthusiasm for the new religion of Christianity, which gave so much promise of a renewed humanity. But the empire of then, as the one now, had already inserted their propaganda into the promising new developments, and co-opted much of them.
The Roman Empire converted to the new religion since it had growing popular support and world-wide potential; as well as providing a bulwark against Judaism, its mortal enemy, which is nowadays trying to destroy Christianity altogether. At the crucial Council of Nicea in the early 300‘s, the Emperor Constantine presided. In the 1050‘s, the Empire split in two between East and West, for reasons beyond my understanding.
This morning I read Newman’s justification of Papal Supremacy, citing many beautiful quotes from the prophets, Christ, apostles and many saints and fathers of the church. This is pertinent to our vineyard, since its founder is a devout Orthodox, who is understandably angry about Rome’s persecution of Russian Orthodoxy. I agree that such persecution is wrong and intolerable.
So even here, on our doorstep, we have a religious war going on. It’s a small part of the empire’s war on Russia, which we oppose. It’s beyond my ability to know the causes of the dispute, or to take sides, since I know little of the Catholic side and nothing of the Orthodox argument; other than the obvious difference between a central authority of a Pope, and a distributed authority among bishops, with their being given some additional influence of an organizational head, such as a Metropolitan.
I can, however, send love to both sides, and counsel unity, especially in the threat to destroy both sides by the rising power of Jews, whether Zionists or passive enablers of the idea of forcing a Greater Israel on the world, stemming from their belief that they are God’s chosen people, to rule all.
My overall desire for theology is situate it in its original and natural setting. As Jesus and John, and so many others teach, it’s all about love. We can soften the inflammatory words like Supremacy and Infallibility–with love. What’s the difference between a Pope and a Patriarch? Both have a natural supremacy and infallibility, as we all do. Humans have a natural supremacy over animals. A pope and a patriarch are both fathers, and are useful if they do not abuse their power.
Language means so much because it carries emotional energy, besides meaning. We need more emotional intelligence in our words, since they construct culture. I love the word love; it feels good to me and opens many a door. Bro has always like care. You have your own favorite words. that make you feel good; sometimes in the form of song and poetry. “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but it’s words that heal when their love I feel.” Maybe that’s why I enjoy writing–so many words to enjoy and cherish; better that than perish. They are sweet and bitter, like cherish and perish, which give me a bittersweet feeling. Nothing wrong with sweet and sour; they flavor a dish with variety, the spice of life.
Theology can be sweet or sour, depending on our love. “I’m not gonna study war no more;” “I’m gonna study the art of love; I think it will fit me like a glove.” A Vineyard is a fine sounding word, used much in scripture and the fathers–let me swing on that vine with freedom and joy.
Love, Dennis
The above comments should be titled: Armchair Cafe Theology Part 7.
Dennis,
I really don’t do theology, I’ll read it but I see theology as a guide at best, not an instruction book to be followed rigidly and to the letter. How can it be otherwise if is to remain of use to everyone, or those at least who want to make use of it?
Pain, of all kinds, I could write a book or two about, however. (fear not, no intent to do that here)
In my experience, with proper care and attention, pain slowly but noticeably, melts away until it can be shrugged off and forgotten. Yes, there’s some bearable suffering at times but the emphasis is on ‘bearable’, a personal judgement that can only be made by a competent and conscious person. Your God writes somewhere that he does not give more than the individual can stand–that is true as the body is merciful also and too much pain produces unconsciousness of one sort or another. I am not suggesting, in any way, that you try this at home, even as an experiment, just relying on my own personal experience.
When I first saw your long screed I said to myself, “Oh Dennis, what are you doing?” But having read it can say that you express things very clearly indeed. I think that you know your own mind very well and just need some feedback from somewhere.
Look after that old carcass, its the only one you’ve got.
in my
“Don’t mess with Texas ” subtitled ‘Tuff Russ’
https://www.rt.com/news/419601-russia-cop-car-hijacker/
That was worth a watch or two, thanks.
Okay I read the white paper for Our Hero NEO.
Not too technical:
http://coin.oldpandaspace.com/feed-items/neo-cryptocurrency-white-paper/
Ooops. Those Chinese Characters again.
Here it is in plain English and large type: https://steemit.com/cryptocurency/@martinst/hotes-cryptocurrency-neo-white-paper
And here is an excerpt, so you will not be intimidated:
“DevPack – Compiler and IDE plugin:
DevPack includes the high-level language compiler and the IDE plug-in. Because NeoVM’s architecture is very similar to JVM and .NET Runtime, the compilers in DevPack can compile Java byte code and .NET MSIL into NeoVM’s instruction set. Java / Kotlin, C# developers do not need to learn new languages and will be able to immediately start developing smart contracts in VS, Eclipse and other familiar IDE environments. This greatly reduces the learning curve for developing smart contracts, allowing us to easily build a vibrant community around NeoContract.
NeoContract can create a smart contract call tree through static analysis before running a smart contract. Through the deterministic call tree, the NEO node can dynamically fragment the smart contract to achieve theoretically unlimited expansion, which overcomes the “jamming effect” caused by the static fragmentation of other block chain systems.
Cross-chain interoperability agreement: NeoX
NeoX is a protocol that implements cross-chain interoperability. NeoX is………”
Please note the part that says, “This greatly reduces the learning curve for developing smart contracts, allowing us to easily build a vibrant community around NeoContract.”
Doesn’t that just make you feel warm and fuzzy? You don’t need to learn a long list of new code languages (Chinese would probably help, though…..the real White Paper is the first link…….) only a few simple ones and you’re “in like Flynn”.
Well, for at least 30 days, wasn’t it a month he was “In”??
In what??? A “vibrant community”! Feel the Love.
Now Notice the “steemit” and don’t get steamed up about the fact that there’s a “Steem White Paper” I have already “deemed” worthy of linking. Later. It relates to Dan the Man Larimer …..start to know the characters!
Not the Chinese written ones. The flesh and blood ones. Friends or Foes??
You decide!
Why Steemit? Because that is where you can get paid for your brilliant strategic analysis, poetry, astrological insights, computer graphics and other “intellectual property” output.
I’m not joking, might as well put it there too! Be judged by your peers. “Peer to Peer”, “Open Source” “decentralized”….”public ledger”….these are parts of the new (English) lexicon we are going to need to warm up with in the parking lot, before we get into the Crypto Fast Lane.
Well Dennis, …..also….to “save lives” and pour more sand in some Hour Glasses Running Low, like my partner’s electron cancer zapper can do. Venture Capital is being transformed. And although he usually snaps at me and tells me to keep my emails shorter……However: he didn’t say that to my “fast and loose” (playing with new concepts) email about getting over the WallStreet /London private equity hurdle in a new, creative way.
Not to fill your pockets with SALT or SAND …..but maybe a little into your Hour Glass (and mine) so we can continue “the Good Fight” into your late nineties and my late eighties.
His reply was cryptic..(pun intended)…..but encouraging. Coming up next, with my followup….which reinforces what Amrynth said above about OMG (Oh My God) and EOS (Ether On Steroids) now that NEO has been analyzed.
Pardon me. They don’t mean that. I just can’t resist code games and crypto-puzzles.
Yeah, and Russian Sand is gonna be part of the Landbridge. They have the best sand for large scale construction to put the Centralized NWO Empire built on Sea Power out of Business and Create a Decentralized Love Community Everywhere, based on Peer to Peer Multi-Polar Caring Consensus rather than Pier to Pier bullying and Gun Boat Diplomacy.
Was that Russian Sand thing an ICO?
I forget.
Cyrillic I can handle learning……..unlike Mandarin or even Taiwanese characters. Some other lifetime!
Bro, with your mind and energy, you can easily learn Chinese characters, they’re simpler to understand than Bitcoin is…
What you need is a the right method/book. Here it is, from the guy who teaches the spooks:
https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Written-Chinese-Complete-Proficiency/dp/0804840164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519352691&sr=8-1&keywords=basic+written+chinese
Alright….. Crypto Corner 101 and I don’t mean Code Enforcement.
The debate is (blockchain….first applied as Bitcoin…..but applicable in multiple ways other than The Internet of Money): “Tool of Freedom …….or Digital Chains??”….and the mistake I see people making is the usual “Little Me” reaction:
“I can’t relate! This is not Me. I am good. So, if I can’t understand it or relate to it in five minutes of bouncing of the surface of it, I will classify it as Bad! End of Story. Mind Made Up!!”
I have never said that I think that it is the thing of the utmost strategic priority and importance Right Now. What I have said is that Blockchain Technology seems to be as transformative and disruptive of the status quo as the Internet itself and maybe more so….is “up for grabs”…and therefore it would be most unwise to completely ignore it….or any other possibly critical flank in the Struggle for Human Freedom.
Amarynth speaks of businesses and I am sure a few of you have them, and you “trade” but may not have blockchain on your radar yet:
“Any reliable and good business can now make their own coin or token, market and get their own investors, and the ones that we see from last year are building and succeeding in building their network effect. These new blockchain businesses are tearing through current business regulation, through methods and people are trading again. We are traders, are we not? The expectation is something like 40 to 60 new ICO’s per month in 2018.”, she says, in this same Cafe.
Don’t relate it to yourself, yet?? Neither did my partner, until I sent him An Idea Entirely New To Him.
That was here, in this comment:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2018-02-16/#comment-488802 but please skip to parts 5,6 and further.
A business application that is saving lives but is hampered, undercapitalized….could save a thousand times more lives.
And bless him ……(He’s a fount of endless slow pitches, right down the heart of the plate!) Dennis says “I can’t for the Life of ME……….” (see anything of any potential good in block chain or crypto)…
Wow! I couldn’t ask for a fatter pitch than that!
Clue: Rather than you (Dennis) getting cancer and then finally “getting it” (the potential of the block chain invention)…..try to get your mind off yourself for a change, and consider “for the lives of several millions or tens of millions of other human beings around the world”…… whose cancer right now as we speak might be cleaned up in 15 minutes while still open on the operating table for tumor removal,….instead of going into remission sortly after being sewn back up……with dreadful chemo and radiation therapy to follow….because the surgeon could not see microscopic sized cancer cells remaining.
Ummmm??? What about them? Millions of them???
Oh, and you have One Minion (how I wish to insert “Former” between the One and the Minion…..) joining Dennis in Digi-tardation (of course, using the 1s and Zero of the Internet to do so..lol..) proposing to share a pint or two in some pub to lament a host of technologies neither of them gets…or wants to get. LOL.
Oh, he (my business partner in another venture) had cryptos on his radar as an investment/speculation Mega-Trend to find out more about…… weary of the CEO of a medical technology firm grind….looking for a way out of an undercapitalized venture that had inspired him to attempt a corporate turn-around a few short years ago…but the gap between the vision and the undercapitalized reality has been wearing him down of late.
He openly speaks of throwing in the towel and becoming one of those “traders” amarynth talks about.
For his own account. Tired of wearing himself down for others that can’t (or won’t) “get it”.
But he had not considered the possibility even theoretically, that blockchain might reinvigorate his purpose, cement his legacy in the medical technology field and dramatically increase the number of persons whose lives would be extended by many years, even after his own passing decades from now (probably).
And if he had not imagined it, well……. we can probably excuse the two in the Virtual Pub, also!
Forgive and forget.
We are trying to put something on people’s radar that has many, many dimensions to it.
And one of the problems is that some of the New Raiders (amarynth refers to in this Cafe), the Vikings, the Visigoths, (the Mongol Hordes???) coming out of hi-tech training are “killing it” financially, we aren’t and how could any good….. possibly….??? come of that????
So, you have envy masked as a big “turn off” because of what???
I’ll tell you what, just to piss you off and perhaps get blood flowing to your brain and get you thinking: Because of childish superficiality and ignorance, that’s what!
Try to know what is being discussed, at least, before bouncing off the surface, knees jerking, brain twitching, making a snap judgment on a topic you haven’t even tried to forget your own ego for long enough to remotely grasp what is being attempted to be communicated.
Why?? Because it just might become and increasing vital flank in the effort to dump the insane paradigm of Geopolitics, War, Looting and Mind Control…….that is “up for grabs”.
Code, perhaps, that empowers Freedom and Multi-polarity and defeats the Dark Sorcery Code of 911…..and Empire.
“Perhaps”, I say, because I don’t know how this will turn out.
But I do know it should be looked into competently before a dumb snap judgment is made…..with totally inadequate information.
And that (knowing your enemy’s code…and your own) stands a better chance of Humanity Winning….than turning away those who have the enemy play book and code (on 911, for example) with “I don’t believe in that shit! Get outta here!”
That’s not what Bill Belicheck would do, now, is it???
He’d grab that play book and stuff it in his jacket!
But that’s what most Americans do! “Get Outta Here! I can’t remotely relate to what you’re trying to tell me!”
Which explains why they aren’t very smart “Patriots”.
Now, after Half Time…..a couple of “Players” …….in the block chain “space” ( you are in it too, some of you just don’t realize it yet…..despite some more patient writings than mine…..) and YOU decide:
Are they
A) The Enemy…The Empire
or
B) Potentially Very Valuable Allies ????
Are you with me or against me? Sounds like an ultimatum to me, never did like those, its the end of a dialogue for me. Nothing in between like some time spent in convivial company?
” Tired of wearing himself down for others that can’t (or won’t) “get it”.”
Tried telling him to stop wearing himself down? Millions of ideas floating around whose time just hasn’t yet come. Doesn’t necessarily make them worthless as ideas. Sometimes there’s just no interest.
Remember this one? Same tune, different vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S94ohyErSw
OMG (not the crypto-currency…) I just love some leftists.
Not any American ones. You have to go back to Freemason Henry Wallace, who was betrayed by an ailing FDR in favor of Missouri Grand Master Harry S Truman (chew on that one, absolutists) to find a real leftist, who got anywhere near power.
And I’m not talking about my formerly “card carrying” wife (briefly…in her 20s CP …….USSR…..fully disclosed and explained….and cleared….) Excuse me! I DO love her, but what I meant to say is I am not talking about her!
Time Out!
Half- time Music” Back in the USSR: https://youtu.be/O4Rdzo30i1M
Of course they (“Fab” 4) subverted the Beach Boys’ California Girls, the Red White and Blue ….and the Entire Western Left ….to boot. As all too willing tools and Fools On A Hill.
(Anyone knighted by the Queen of England is subverting Civilization itself…..you can pretty much bank on that!!!)
No , I mean the left flank of the Vineyard, RM and PK….and the Left Bank of The Seine….whoever is “left” over there.
The latter (PK) was warning us of crypto-slavery..just a fortnight ago ……..but now….. touts Crypto-Petro-Libertad!
Holy Bolivar’s Two-Edged Sword!
Who knows which way it will cut next?
Not me.
Anyway my partner’s response to my Wild Extrapolation of Putting His (and Allied Anti-Cancer Tech…Small Medical Technology Firms) on the Blockchain ICO Train was basically:
“Wow. Verbosity, as usual, but finally with Value!”
Now, true leftists comprehend the necessity of a “Broad Front.”
Libertarians….I’m……. not so sure about. It seems that, to them, more than two human beings (and they’d have to be married, to escape the label…..) constitutes “Statism”.
But here’s the OMG White Paper 2 Pages! Shortest One I’ve Ever Seen, OMG!
https://cryptorum.com/threads/omg-whitepaper-omisego-decentralized-exchange-and-payments-platform.927/
Let’s examine a couple of these Centrifugal Force Decentralizers.
My email of yestreday said Subject: Meet Brock Pierce
Partner:
Better than caffeine:
https://youtu.be/8XkiyU-xk9M
This guy was referenced as a friend, leader, visionary at the (Beverly Hills Crypto-Mastermind) by all the guys there, that they rubbed shoulders with somewhat, professionally, ideologically, etc.
Dan Larimer is favorably referred to by him, as well.
One at a time, though.
I’ll send you the best of Larimer that I have the time to review before Sunday. Nothing I haven’t seen myself.
Since time is the rarest currency.
Get stoked, but with feet on the ground! LOL.
Don’t blast off yet!
Later that evening I had a chance to review an interview of Dan The Man Larimer (much more subdued, methodical, sees years in advance….anticipates problems….gets solutions ready quicker than anyone I know…so far…..I’m still a “nooby”….) interviewed by self styled Anarcho-Capitalist (broad front , guys, broad front!) Jeff Berwick and wrote this email:
Subject: Pierce is expresso, for blast off…… Larimer is fine wine, to mellow out
Feb 21 (1 day ago)
to Partner:
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/6cDTeIycI6c
Brock’s talk, is entitled “Bulding Enterprises on the Blockchain”. Could that be relevant ot Amranyth’s comment???
Dan’s is called “The Future Of EOS and Decentralized Applications”.
There’s an ideological element to this “space” many of you should “get” if you listen carefully.
Then decide.
G’night.
Alex van der Zwaan, a dutch lawyer who once helped prepare a report for the Ukrainian government,pleaded
guilty on Tuesday (February 20, 2018) to lying to federal agents as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
http://www.newsweek.com/who-alex-van-der-zwaan-robert-mueller-guilty-plea-812814
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_van_der_Zwaan
Alex van der Zwaan’s father-in-law is Germana Khan a chosen oligarch in Russia. He born on October 24, 2018in Kiev. His daughter Eva is the wife of Alex van der Zwaan.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD,_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
The Syrian foreign minister makes a good point:
Fares Shehabi
@ShehabiFares
Again, how come there are no #WhiteHelmets in #Afrin?! Isn’t this civilian area under heavy bombardment also?! Or WH’s can only survive under al-Qaeda jihadi rule?! Well, so far this is case!
god comment, mirroring commenter’s wakefulness
without this is no hope
and today , deal with it –
Sun is mirroring Uranus
and his invisible pair of wings called spirit
just now the hours we meet in
no meaning? or?
pour soul – without knowledge of meaning
of the powers ruling around a star and his layers of matter and soul
in the unfathomable sensible psyche of man on Earth
between God and demon
So much from Sun to Uranus at the vision of as happy as suffering
dangerous Earth
mirrored in this piece of Poesy: With God or ‘the Chosen ones’
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de
to German-speaking, = – feeling Vineyarders:
Heimkommen – Ein Fische-Bild
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2018/02/heimkommen-ein-fische-bild.html
I have to add:
“With God or the Chosen Ones”
in the ‘diaries’
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/02/with-god-or-chosen-ones.html
Correction:
German Khan
He born on October 24, 2018 in Kiev
Add to – In Russian language becoms in the words of foreign origin from the letter H/h
often G/g. For example: human=guman (гуман), Lehar=Legar (Легар), Hitler=Gitler
(Гитлер), pronunciation Guitler; Herman=German (Герман), pronunciation Guerman.