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BIS Blasts Cryptos in Special Report: “Beyond the Hype”
https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/bis-blasts-cryptos-in-special-report-beyond-the-hype-eE7kGAQSwUKrmeD1OSDSTQ/
Mish does a fair job of laying out all the areas of challenge and pointing out the obvious bias of the BIS…which is like the Centralized Satan Corrupting and Intimidating Nearly 99.9999% of all humanity with their fake authority Above All Nations…..and Their Fake One Eye (Mon-ey) monopoly .of Unconscious Slaves……..but like 90% of all commenters on anything, the incompleteness and oversimplification of the reflection of the issues involved…..of their woefully incomplete knowledge (I include myself, but at least I realize it! LOL) and small ego experience, surfaces , once again with the customary absolutism…..in an unnecessarily rapid “Rush to Judgment”.
A few points, just for quick starters:
1. There is not only the energy intensive “Proof of Work” ….mining in Bitcoin, Etherium, etc …….Mish makes NO mention of “Proof of Stake” approach used by EOS…which he omits entirely from his absolutist discussion.
Talk about “incompleteness”. Anything human, and not of THE Absolute (call it GOD) will necessarily always be incomplete, as Kurt Godel proved …..in terms of even the True Theorems of Arithmetic (there is NO end to them…..no chance of Empire Psychos like Bertrand Russel and Alfred Lord Whitehead to BE GOD and wrap it all up in Formal Mathematical Logic and thusly Dominate And Hoard ALL KNOWLEDGE Forever as A Perpetual Ruling Class…..). Sorry, AI freaks. It’s a fool’s errand. Even if you aspire to be a lowly minion of such a disgusting thing.
2. Energy intensity of cypto currencies (some, by no means all) automatically voiding them??? Oh really? Without even considering the alternative of Proof Of Stake ledger verification and participants voting in some fashion on protocols of their money (instead of having the High Priests of Empire Ram It Down Your Throat and Shackle You)….one must ask:
Excessive Energy Compared to WHAT? What is the energy in countless highrise Bank Towers….their construction, their heating lighting, AC, all the little minions driving to work to park in their undergroaund parking garages,etc,etc,etc….just for starters! Ummmm??? Not going to count that BIS and Central Banks and Members of FED network big of 10 or 12 “too Big to Fail” massive consumption of physical abiotic and biotic (human) energy….in what they do???
Incompetent!”
Enough for right now.
Messy, incomplete, controversial, risky??? Of course! What do you expect from Early Days of Anything New??
Want a Sure Thing??
Stay on the ground. Walk. Never take off into the wild blue yonder.
There’s nothing sure, finished, done without any issues, challenges or problems in anything that has anything to do greater freedom. If you want sure, learn to love your chains and stop complaining.
The Atonement Zone
I must admit that Kent’s milder tone….
Is so much more patient than my own:
https://youtu.be/hVsbf-yOng8 EOS vs the current economic systems
Mish I found to be too much
Mash and silly mush and such.
A rant of too much acidic cant
Can ne’er e’er enchant, I grant!
T’was too brusquely biting bitter!
Kent’s better, far, far….. sweeter,
‘Tis not any phony cloying treacle:
No! He genuinely likes….people!
Working on it.
Investment
by ioan
Invest in art my darling
With your dollars, sterling
Give your soul a gift
Give your soul a lift
Praise the art, the handwork,
Not the bull in New York !
Long live for the art
Buy it if you’re smart
Forged Victory to Humbling Defeat: How Kiev Won and Lost $2.5 Bln From Gazprom
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806181065511895-gazprom-naftogaz-asset-ruling-implications/
“Gazprom lawyers’ key argument was that a considerable portion of the arbitration award was written by someone other than the arbiters themselves, effectively constituting forgery, a serious violation of Swedish law and of the arbitration regulations of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The presence of this creative writing was confirmed by a linguistics expert.
“Obviously, nobody has a right to substitute arbitrators. Direct decision-making by arbitrators is of critical significance for parties to the dispute and interference of a third person in the decision-making process is a gross violation of the arbitration agreement,” Gazprom statement said in its appeal statement.
Taking this information into account, the Svea Court of Appeal suspended the Stockholm court’s ruling. Gazprom immediately went on the counteroffensive, saying it would point to the appeal decision to challenge the arrests of Gazprom property in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
“Since the Stockholm court’s decision has been suspended, Naftogaz can forget about the $2.56 billion. But although this is a large amount of money, the whole case was not conceived for the sake of money. The main objective was and remains the construction of Nord Stream 2, which threatens the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine,” the analyst explained.
Notwithstanding Kiev’s efforts, Europe in general and the Western European companies engaged in the Nord Stream 2 project in particular have maintained a “healthy pragmatism” toward the project. Berlin signed off on the project earlier this year, breaking ground on its Nord Stream 2 terminal in April. Finland and Sweden have also given their approval, with Denmark now the final holdout.”
Keep an eye on the zpc/nwo denmark colony.
Rasmussen used to deliver cash to the Mujahdeen in Afghanistan.
He got his political (and financial) reward and became Denmark’s premier.
But his is a minority government, so it remains to be seen how long he can play the NATO – card.
Russian corporations ditching London for Moscow amid expanding sanctions
https://www.rt.com/business/430075-russia-ditch-london-exchange-moscow/
“After the London Stock Exchange (LSE) suspended share trading of sanctioned energy conglomerate EN+Group, other Russian firms are thinking of scrapping their stock listings in the UK in favor of the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX).
Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia’s major producers and processors of poultry and pork, is considering a move to MOEX after the firm delisted from London last year, reports Bloomberg. TMK, Russia’s largest manufacturer of steel pipes for the energy sector is mulling a similar move, according to the deputy chief executive officer of the company, as quoted by the media.
“It really doesn’t make sense for Russian companies to list abroad in the current environment,” Ekaterina Iliouchenko, a money manager at Frankfurt-based Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH told the agency. The analyst stressed that the new round of sanctions could force foreign exchanges to block transactions with their liquidity to “drop dramatically as foreigners exit.”
The Moscow Exchange has been rapidly revamping over the recent years with its operations significantly improved. At the same time, the Russian central bank policy has become more predictable and transparent with the risks of capital controls disappeared. The bourse currently handles some 60 percent of the trading volume of dual-listed stocks against 44 percent four years ago.”
Brillant news! All Russian companies should immediately delist from western stock exchanges.
What this shows is that Russia was right not to introduce capital controls (sorry Glazyev fans) further confirms that Russia’s economic policy, although far from ideal, is on the right track.
Interesting, it’s not just Russia, even allies of israel’s american colony are following suit.
Russia holds less US debt than Bermuda after dumping half its holdings
https://www.rt.com/business/430086-russia-us-treasury-bermuda/
“Latest US Treasury Department data shows Russia cut its holdings by half in April.
That month, Russia sold $47.4 billion out of the $96.1 billion held in March. The latest statistics released by the US Treasury on Friday showed that, Russia had only $48.7 billion investment in American debt, dropping from 16th to the 22nd place of major foreign holders of US T-bills.
The sell-off should continue, since Russia and the US are barely trade partners, and Washington can always impose sanctions on the Russian holdings of its debt, Vladimir Rojankovski, investment analyst at Global FX said in a comment e-mailed to RT.
“In the era of sanctions investments in US Treasuries sooner or later can fall under sanctions. The volume of foreign trade with the US has only 3.5 percent share in Russia’s foreign trade. Countries usually hold bonds of their trading partners, so it is unreasonable to hold more than 10 percent of Russia’s foreign reserves in US Treasuries,” he said. Russian foreign reserves were $456 billion in May.
Since 2011, Russia has cut its holdings of US Treasuries by more than two-thirds, from over $150 billion to the current less than $50 billion.
Other countries are also slashing their investments in US debt. Turkey, which has been repatriating its gold from the US, has almost halved its US Treasury holdings from almost $62 billion in November to $38.2 billion in April.
Non-EU member Norway has cut its holding by 40 percent since September 2017, from $64.1 billion to $39.3 billion in April.”
Who will be next?
Japan and China:
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-15/china-s-holdings-of-u-s-treasuries-fell-5-8-billion-in-april
Also: Mexico, India, and Taiwan
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N1TH1XW
Also Ireland, the third largest dump – um, ‘holder’ of US t-bonds in the EU (and virtually a US corporate statelet) :
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russia-dumps-half-its-us-treasury-bonds-nearly-50-billion/ri23822
https://historiamaximus.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-russia-de-que-o-ocidente-gostava.html
This link was previously posted but evidently it was boloxed up-anyway, here it is again:
Videos of rise and fall of the oligarchs, Parts I and II are very well done; did not watch much of drunken yeltzen.
Rise and fall has many interviews with the oligarchs and their self-satisfied smirks; also contains a lot of historical footage and of course the 1996 election in which yeltzen was strong armed into victory from a start of approx 3-4% in the polls. Results were posted on time mag cover but of course the us did not meddle.
The Aquarius migrant ship refused permission to land in Italy, has arrived in Spain.
Now students in Alicante have been evicted to make way for the migrants, who, they are told, carry ‘infectious diseases’ :
https://www.actualidadvaldepenas.com/articulo/sociedad/valdepenero-companeros-residencia-estudiantes-alicante-obligados-dejarla-meter-migrantes-aquarius/20180617112342130818.html
What a great idea, housing migrants with contagious diseases in the middle of a tourist town during high season…
Genius has a name. Joni Mitchell, “The Magdalene Laundries”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATaFylbd5hY
One day I’m gonna die here too
And they’ll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb that never blooms
Come any spring…
Richard Thompson, “Woods of Darney”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1G4W4ZZVJ8
I found your picture in a corporal’s pocket,
Cold fingers still pressed into his chest.
Snipers bullet took his eyes and his breath away,
Now he lies in the forest with the rest…
Richard paying Joni the supreme compliment.
“Woodstock” Richard Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmsdP7cGoM
New US military doctrine enters the Twilight – sorry – Grey Zone:
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/06/russia-china-are-outmaneuvering-us-generals-recommend-new-authorities-doctrine/?utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63810365&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_b0qx5tOd2u0u0kT0ZBZhJXLBkp98Mv71AZJAIqDWH-kbNZDm3TVoR7xUvw1FJe9ftb7Ct-Yge5CAjsL2-7e63wV_2gg&_hsmi=63810365
Hi, I’m back from retreat, where we retreated to the past so we could have a future that will last. We went back to babyhood and childhood emotionally: lots of crying, raging and fearful clinging–clearing the way for heartfelt singing. I guess it takes an old curmudgeon contrarian like Bad Bob to rock my baby to sleep:
Some things are too terrible to be true
I won’t come here no more if it bothers you
I’m stark baby-naked but I don’t care
I’m in Wisconsin Woods, hunting bare
I’m here to create the new lover empire
Gonna do whatever circumstances require
You don’t understand my feelings for you
You’d be honest with me if only you knew
Thanks, Bro, for bringing Dennis Rodman into the cafe. Not often I see a real man crying like a woman over realpolitik. Donald and Kim have to cry in their hiding hearts lest they get booted out of this top heavy, heartless world; what if we were all topless and dressed and adorned like Dennis? Oh, the shame of it! But we live in a topsy-turvy world of top and bottom with a rapidly disappearing middle. No wonder we’re in a muddle and puddle of angst and armor, instead of affection and amor, openly displayed.
I have a broken heart–its natural rhythm shorted. I mirror our short-circuited world, in danger of a stroke or heart attack. I guess it’s ontogeny and phylogeny deja vu all over again. I need to go back to the future, past this word-world of woe and dough. The retreat showed me one way to open the doors of perception: leave the tower of power for the flower of a love bower. Sadly, analysis, poetry and rhetoric will not do it, or it would have been done it long ago.
No, it takes a “Rod-Man” like Dennis, where the best offense is a great defense, Vince Lombardi style–or a Love Army in defense of a Love Bower, Vineyard Cafe style; tough and tender love as “terrible as an army dressed in battle array,” according to the tender Song of Songs. I don’t know what you’re doing about it, but I’m doing the Ten Love Commandments of the Love Army. Too tough I suppose for most, but Dennis R. gives me hope of another Ali “rope a dope” to defeat empire.
Count Khazar is the master-mind behind all this faking: block=chains, pedophilia, David Robert Steele confabs, Russia soccer hysteria, “rumble in the Singapore jungle,” scrappy marines, 611-911 audits, white and black hats, meetings in the Forbidden City, Q Anon Trump military, Ronald Bernard revolting revelations, currency crazes and all the other rabid rabbit holes in the forest of the night, where you can’t tell wrong from right or a “tiger, tiger shining bright.” There’s only one thing the Count fears: a Love Army burning right into his bunker with the power of its Ten Commandments and ten divisions.
Of course, it’s all fun and gamey, like the the Roman bread and circuses; but it’s not going to get the job done of defeating empire. Count Khazar smiles like an evil Mona Lisa, as he plays 666 chess moves ahead of anything we can dream up, as amarynth correctly noted at the lovely but lonely Saker.community. Now if there were a diaphanous thread there on “communal sex,” the attraction factor might go off the scales–but then you ain’t me, no doubt in your mind thankfully.
But my baby is crying and my child is raging while my heart is grieving in this Bullish Bulls world of Jordan on offense and Rodman on defense with Pippin doing both. I need such an unholy trinity to give my baby-child heart a lover’s lap upon which to rest my case.
Love, Dennis L
Dennis, you’ll be forever remembered with this : ” Hi, I’m back from retreat ” , now I have something to eat, before I’m going my work to meet (these are my words). On my side, silence is because I have a lot to do but when I can, I come in – if not to comment, then to read.
Anyone else think that poor little innocent israel is going to make big powerful almighty russia the fool in syria? Oh sorry I forgot, it’s not their problem.
Perhaps you would care to explain what you’re talking about?
It’s not the same world in June 2018 that it was in May.2018
Things are going to speed up, I predict.
What we ought to support, press for NOW, is a Putin-Trump Summit with More Joy than experienced last week by both Halves of Soon to Be No Longer Divided Korea.
I realize that Some Fish Will Have None of Such Freedom or Change.
The Ego Is Addicted to the Same Old Form….especially when the Other Ego Is So Clearly Diabolically Wrong as the Zio-Nazis are…..and one’s righteousness has such a made to order situation.
According to The Plan as interpreted by non-fundamentally brainwashed saner faction of Q’s Army, leery of Israel and reinforced in their well dug in anti AZ positions…. Q’s “Fear is real” repeated 4 chan or 8 chan posts are warnings about about the toughest nut job mind control nut to crack……which Will Be Last…and “Iran Is Next” has nothing to do with attacking the place, but rather attacking Deep State John Kerry kinds of intermarried treachery there.
The habit of goldfish swimming around in tight goldfish bowls confines is very hard for them to break, even if the bowl were shattered and there were a veritable infinity of unbounded ocean to swim in.
If Lever Numero Uno for Divide and Conquer of The Human Race were deactivated, and the Entire Middle East (Including Fear Is Real) were de-nuclearized, afew people I know would find such a development extreemly difficult to cope with.
Trump and Putin could Pull That Off (Peace Through Development, With Security Guarantees For All) so screw Q!
Iran Can Wait.
I say Russia is Next…and Any American that would not cheer the End of Russia Gate and the prosecution of Mueller, John Brennan, Clapper et al and the End of The Stupid Warmed Over Leftovers of the Red Scare……Needs Psycho-Therapy and Counselling.
Some people are convinced Singapore Was All A Trick….and Will Have No Openess Whatsoever To giving Up Their Infinite Fount of Righteous Indignation.
Counselling may become a booming profession also for those who will not be able to be Pro-Anything……as they are permanently stuck in the Anti-Gear, Unable to Go Forward
Even after the Donald candidly admitted that his Rocket Trash Talking With Kim Deception Was Embarrassing For Him To Have to Act Out, He remains written off by many here, even though (according to my Spouse, who follows things back home) Lots of Russians Like Him.
She doesn’t, because she doesn’t like hardly anyone in politics, anywhere. Once a Russian Woman of Her Temperament is sorely Disappointed and Betrayed, as she was in the nineties…..nothing will rekindle any optimism…for a very, very long time! This IS A Righteous Wave That One Can Literally Ride All The Way to the Sunset of One’s Life!
But I digressed from Q-watch Border Watch and Pedo Watch in the Desert Duty.
Its messy, its as confusing as religious debates!
But neon revolt is worth checking in on. So is brain what’s his name. And now according to my delegated Q researcher sister, comes Feisty Cat!!
Where is Blue When We Need Him? (blue had a photo posted in the Old Vineyard days of a Siberian Blue next to his name “blue” back when a few commenters had such ahndle enhancements…)
Sister said:
“I’ve found a tape of FeistyCat in action… I’ve listened to her live.. very late at night.. a number of interesting bits in here..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3kaPnNENQ
it’s a long one… 2 hours..”
I replied:
“The live participation Fesity Cat offers in her Q forum is interesting, but I am unlikely to participate…………will depend on your reports…..with any link you can just provide the time elapsed of the particular video so people can focus in there for the high points, anomalies, etc.
Now for the apprehension of the Anti-Zionists (always the gutsiest of the Resistance IMHO….) that Q, in the End is Just a Talmudist Shill, Roping in the Deplorable Morons for A Greater Israel and President Pence, Bill Smith……a Q Stalwart as you know, bravely explores that possibility, that tangible risk:
So, few of his prior You tube sessions on the Taboo Question That Musn’t Be Discussed. As he boldly declares, “likes” nothing better than to discuss Israel and why Real Christians should like nothing that the Israeli government does.
QAnon – Is Jerome Corsi MAGA? or ISRAEL FIRST ???
https://youtu.be/kOL0aF42HsM
QANON – “Muh Talmud” and Other Reponses to the SINGLE STATE SOLUTION
https://youtu.be/xWBM6l7YTYI
What Is Zionism?
https://youtu.be/bR9Cd0veAhw
And others, but let’s get right up to yesterday. This street and cyber smart young guy Bill Smith, like everyone else, has his ego, The Enemy of Truth…………however, IMHO…. he’s not terrible at keeping it in check ….and admitting his mistakes.
He examines WHY Q So Seldom Discusses Israel and leaves listeners with the tension, the conundrum the Anti-Zionist students of Q feel when it is hinted at…repeatedly………that…..” Israel is Last”
The hopeful in the Q comments of numerous bloggers and you tubers express the idea that Israel is Last because That Is Where Cabal Mind Control is the Deepest and Most Entrenched……and other Pillars of the New World Order Must Be Taken First…….for having any prospects of toppling Z…which, after all, is last, should be left for last, and needs to be left for last.
The Nervous Q Nellies express the apprehension that ….There Is A Yuge RISK We Will All Be Z-F*cked In The End ….and if Israel is Left For Last That Means: The Danger That It Is ALL Deception and The Donald IS An A-Z Shill…….despite appearances that the A part of AZ (which I assert is the first and dominant part) with the Steele Dossier, Mueller, Rosenstein, etc,etc. Wants to Take Him Out.
Tension is a good thing. It makes you either think harder….or wimp out…..and go hide under your bed or pop meds.
Anyway, Bill does a pretty fair job of outlining the stakes, the risks, the odds, in his June 14, 2018 Q Anon Summary World Map ……Save The Best For Last right here:
https://youtu.be/fv9unZdNPHY?t=477
“The More That I look At It” he says, at 477 seconds in, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Israel “This is The Problem Right Here, For Me” …this little strip of land right here,(ISRAEL) super highly contested….for various reasons.
Anyway he puts theTension Right Sqaurely On the Table To be Dealt With, Instead of Swept Under the Table as Former Q “Expert” Corsi and the Goy Q Fundies Are Fond of Doing……Hoping That DT Will Smash Iran……..For Israel ….and Their Egoic “Rapture”.
And that is a good thing, in my humble opinion.
Be Ready For Anything Next. A Puti9n-Trump Summit in Europe SOON??
Yep. Let the Werewolves and Zionists Howl at the Moon And Slink Away Into the NIght.
What’s the risk, why not go for it, since at this point, almost anything is possible, after Singapore??.
You keep your powder dry in all cases, so there is nothing to lose by thinking outside the mind control box.
Is there???
More on that tomorrow. Putin Trump Summit next, instead of Q Iran hints, I mean.
Some stuff from London Paul on Germany and the Russian sale of treasuries reinforces my hunch. Will share that over on the Dollar Bond Maskirovka article by Danilov, time permitting.
“Q” is gonna shift ideologies to fit public preference, because the people behind “Q” (for the last few months anyway) have AFAIK been “outed” by their peers for over a month. There may once have been an original insider who posted as “Q”, maybe not. Keep in mind there are literally millions of people following this story, some of them are hackers and members on the chan boards and have seen various people use password/aliases in public chat or elsewhere (I may have little details wrong but you get the gist); also, conversations between this team have leaked to Pastebin where they are openly describing their goals — mainly to keep the meme going “long beyond Q” and “make this into your full-time job”. Donations have been considerable and the spice must flow.
As for Tucson, well that is a topic near and dear to my heart, and I could give you pointers and links if you want but there are search engines and common sense and it wearies me to see so many people chasing wild geese, or should I say javelina… I have to say, the idea of the patriots making a “cordon around Tucson” out in the blistering desert west of the Tucson mountains, while semi-trucks and vans full of heaven knows what barrel past on I-10 24-7 is a new idea to many who live around here.
This Q-and-patriots-beating-the-system stuff is good, not great “Entertainment”. People have a right to create and enjoy these things but I must part company with those spreading the new CYA meme on Zhedge, i.e. “who cares if [Q] is real or not, it’s a great story.” Sorry, it is not and never has been that great of a story. Everyone and anyone can project whatever they want onto terse sentences constructed by people who IMO have a thin grasp of just about everything including prose.
UniRock and Joe from the Carolinas are leads to get you started, they are at least “kids” who can think, not saying I agree with them necessarily but they have done their homework and are easy to find. Then there will be (many of) those who say that critiquing any of this is disinfo tactics. As Mr. Corsi himself said, and I paraphrase only a bit, anyone who questions making money off Q’s anonymous proclamations is naught but a commie.
I trust my gut feeling, which is telling me the same as six plus months ago. Oh the tangled webs they weave. YMMV.
Thanks for your take on this, Internal Exile.
The whole QAnon phenom has become too obscurantist for me. I wouldn’t mind reading one well-written, cogent article that makes a clear case for why we should care, but it would need to provide hard specifics on what has actually happened and links/references to support the various claims being made.
I know a bunch of people have been pushed out of the FBI/DOJ, but whether these are just normal personnel changes or meaningful swamp drainage remains unclear. Okay, so the careers of a couple of anti-Trump partisans like Peter Strzok are probably going down in flames, good, but AFAICT none of the swamp creatures are heading for jail, no heads are on pikes, none of them have been found swinging from lampposts, etc. Maybe it will happen, who knows, but meanwhile, every time I look for the latest from Q-Land, it just seems to be more of the same.
If there is anything to this, somebody needs to write a really good article that lays it all out and makes a clear case. If the people like me (and I cannot imagine I’m alone) who have been hearing about Q for months are still wondering if there’s anything to it/him, then whatever “awakening” QAnon hopes to achieve is probably slipping away.
Some kind of account needs to be given of what has actually happened that Q “predicted” or why, today, after months of this arch posturing and cryptic signaling we should “trust the plan”. It needs to be an article or something written. I have become weary of links to long-winded YouTube videos by “some dude on the Internet” talking suggestively (wink wink nudge nudge) that have been created with the expectation that we all have time to sit through dozens of these 45-minute monologues.
Cheers, Acacia. I will ask Amarynth if she will allow an elaboration of the above and some links on the forum… What bothers me is that most of the believers in this stuff will attack anyone who says “hold on, put the brakes on.” As for the predictions, well ole Hill was supposed to be in the slammer, that was one of Q’s early ones. Also, there is a hilarious site called “Q Proofs” (google it) which states (when I last looked) the most threadbare stuff, it’s funny if you have a twisted sense of humor. But ask yourself: If Q were a real insider, would s/he and his/her allies be posting “proofs” for labyrinth connections? Why would they need to prove anything, if they were really insiders a la Deep Throat… they’d know it was true! Compare what Snowden did to all of the “Q Drops”…
With the Tucson stuff, I remind you all that it’s been around 107 degrees F here, dropping into the high 80s-90’s at night, and the last thing anyone, criminal or no, is gonna do is put any kind of “cargo” in a foot-deep hole behind a cement plant in the middle of the desert in June. There are, I assume, other ways to do things. Also, there is “human trafficking” going on in these parts all the time, but all this stuff about ties around trees is just asinine, there are several reasons to lift things off the ground in the wild; and kid’s toys and so on, well illegal migrants and homeless people often have kids and yes it’s a dark and sleazy/deadly business and a disgrace, , you don’t need “r*pe trees” and other b/s for that. Really, out in the middle of nowhere in June on the border with the Tohono O’odham res? You know what will happen if you spend a few hours out there in a hole like they claim? You will die. Enough said!
Skol again and I would consider writing more if there is indeed an interest. People who live here are pretty much shrugging and carrying on but the story does have legs for many, and is funny late in a warped humor/ what has the empire come to kind of night!
@ Internal Exile
Thanks again. To add one point: I wasn’t insinuating that you in particular should write an article about the Q phenom, but I’d gladly read any elaboration you’d care to share with us, be it a longer comment, article, whatever. You have the kind of level-headed clarity that is IMHO much needed for thinking and talking about this.
Exile,
Great synopsis of the “Q” phenomenon. Clearly, there are many faces of the deep state to contend with. They’re not blind to the fact that many disenfranchised Americans, who’ve been paying attention, are noticing that post election Trump has surrounded himself with the devil’s spawn. Call’em Neocons, I just call them homemade psychopaths.
These common sense, literate Americans, will not turn out for re-election. First time I’ve ever voted for President and probably the last.(I was only in elementary school for Regan) . So yeah, there’s going to be plenty of Q’s infesting our favorite hideouts. Zerohedge’s slip is starting to show. It’s not enough that the comment sections have been infiltrated with Hasbara trolls, the Trump’s sycophants, from the sold out treehouse and britebart, have followed the various “Q’s” over as well. No more ZH refuge. Pun intended. Have you noticed the real news articles are usually posted right before a bevy of msm storylines? Purposely pushing them down the list. These articles never get pinned to the top anymore.
Anyone paying attention to Corsi, knew he’s long had a specific agenda. Add Bannon and Gorka etc. , to this group. They are all in the “Russia is the Enemy” boat. That’s the obvious tell. There have been plenty of subversives that somehow ended on the “Trump team”. They want a strong America, but not at the expense of U.S hegemony. Definitely not from the Ron Paul, PCR, sometimes Buchanan, school of making America great.
I doubt many of the informed deplorables are buying into the deep state’s super secret psy-op. A man can hope :-).
Today the National Pike Steam Gas and Horse Association has grown to over 100 acres and 600 members who dedicate their time and expertise into making the shows happen each and every year.
http://nationalpike.com/
… linked …
1927 Indiana Truck with 12459 unrestored miles. hauling & dumping dirt. 8/13/2011…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8AVFPdnJr8
Music Break … and extracting audio into mp3 format.
“Indiana wants me” … R. Dean Taylor
New Enhanced Version HD Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdDzdbEgGc
… and …
https://www.4kdownload.com
For extracting audio from YouTube videos, producing mp3.
Or take the video itself, and more … at 4k download website.
Learn a language by extracting mp3 and video tutorials at YouTube.
Trade war between the US ad China already started. Whoever ‘blinks’ first will experience its ‘Suez moment’!
… Trump is being trumped … and read this article in support …
America… Its Own Worst Enemy
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201806181065526366-america-its-own-worst-enemy/
We have seen this movie before in the collapse of the USSR. Only in the case of the US, the collapse will take much longer because of the Petrodollar. This enable the US to print money and buy from the world without having to export and earn foreign exchange to do so. But reality will hit home sooner or later.
I myself doubt the dollar, petro or otherwise.
But yes, agree, is seen as before in USSR…but amurikacanskistyle, amateur…ad hoc…
Whether Trumpster and his bringers are idiots or saviors, aware or possessed, they play a part.
What’s that?
Salvage…
Empire’s killing itself.
Who else?
Always cling to wreckage.
Meantime?
Garden
Waiting for rain…
Computer Talk … specifically for non-gamers ! (gamers … go away)
There are some Dell Optiplex GX280 for sale on Ebay and I’ve been reading the specs.
The GX280 was made for Windows XP and most of these machines for sale have just 1 Gigabyte of RAM memory. One seller has upgraded to a solid state drive (SSD) but has not increased RAM upwards of 1 Gigabyte … (?) Well, perhaps because this machine still has XP with service pack 3 installed, for which there is no security today … (?).
I am using a GX280 tower desktop now as I type this short article for the Cafe. Here is what to do with a GX280.
I installed a 3.2 GHz “Cedar Mill” processor because this reduces power consumption by 30 watts. All “Cedar Mill” processors are 64 bit, which is important if you want all of the RAM memory utilised. I maxed out the RAM which totals 4 Gigabytes. The 160 GB HDD hard disk drive is retained as I get them free when people dump their good old computers for what they think is better and modern (oh, it’s got to be modern … )
Yes, Windows 7 works well on the GX280, but I do not like the updates method so a few days back considered installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Long Term Support). My son had an install disk ready, so he ran it for a while uninstalled and everything looked good. After the install the computer is quick with no problems. I have a DVI graphics board installed and this is using 1 Gigabyte of the RAM memory, so the operating system has 3 Gigabytes for itself. Ubuntu 18.04 is only available in 64 bit, so you can now understand the value of having a “Cedar Mill” processor installed. A 64 bit Prescott will do the same, but with a 30 watts increase in power with the additional heat. “Cedar Mill” processors are available on Ebay for around $20.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_4/TYPE-Desktop%20Pentium%204%20Cedar%20Mill.html
Cedar Mill, the last single-core Pentium 4 core, was built on 0.065 micron technology. Micro-architecture of this core didn’t change from previous Prescott core, therefore in all tests they perform the same as Pentium 4 Prescott CPUs. The main and only advantage of Cedar Mill processors over Prescott processors is their lower power consumption. For instance, Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.6 GHz has 30 Watt lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) than Pentium 4 Prescott 3.6 GHz.
(now dust off your old pentium 4, and make it modern and up to date with Free Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
Paul, I would be glad if you were living much closer or I would be much younger to travel. But, anyway, thanks for the useful information in this domain.
Paul, I thought(?) you were not so keen on computers or anything “virtual” for that matter.
… the computer is a very useful tool, but like everything gets misused and taken advantage of. I have been re-building computers from 186 through to 486, with all those software crashes which were common back then. I enjoy constructive work that yields a real result and use the computer to communicate (not facebook, twitter etc) read the news, read PCR and Jim Stone. Using the computer to learn language, for me it’s Farsi and Russian mainly. Television is a big time waster … do I really need a weather report at 7pm … worldwide or local … no. Do I need the sports news … I do not. Do I need the MSM version of news … absolutely not. Television is a time filler, a time waster. So, the computer for me is positive as I use it to obtain real information and learn. My sons learned to build computers from me, they did not learn gaming from me because I am your biggest fool when holding a joystick and getting A to jump over B, for which I have no interest at all and do not understand the joy that results … it’s stupid … time-wasting … a time filler. I also cannot play a pokie machine … I lasted two minutes and got very angry half way through that and was rude to an attendant who wanted me to continue playing … like you know where you can stick your stupid machines. Use everything to your advantage in a good useful way. ioan … you and I agree too much … could get boring. Cheers for now.
BTW, Paul, as a follow-up to some of your comments on gaming in previous cafes:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/who-classifies-gaming-addiction-as-a-mental-health-disorder_06182018
… thanks Acacia. There have been some discussions on the radio. Early morning the ABC link to the BBC and I have been getting this sort of information direct from the UK. For the moment we are watching the situation. Eight hours a day using the computer is addiction in my opinion. I have stated this and the reply is “not”. Hmmm … I’m shaking my head. My younger son, well he is Sebastian in the movie “Sebastian” … doing that kind of work for … not allowed to discuss his work, but you get the idea. Wife and I have been security checked twice. I can imagine the drama … well she is Chinese and he speaks Chinese and Russian … what a laugh. When I was being interviewed for Power Station Operations I was asked about my interest in Chinese language and about the Mao coat I wore. This Mao coat was just a coat with a short collar, but someone had claimed I was ‘extremely militant’. When I left I took a few with me in a very dramatic way … they picked on the wrong guy. That was all “fun” compared to this.
Eight hours a day using the computer is addiction in my opinion. I have stated this and the reply is “not”. Hmmm … I’m shaking my head.
I would feel skeptical too. It seems we easily get into a grey zone here because many people use computers or some kind of screen for their work. But it is very common to distinguish “work” from “leisure” time, and so six hours of screen time at work, plus time spent on a smart phone, plus a few more hours of “leisure” time gaming or watching Netflix or whatever — all of this time is not combined in a way that spells out an addictive behavior. People readily say: “oh, but that’s for my job, so it doesn’t count…”
I could opine further, but I’ll defer to researchers have studied this in more detail, e.g.:
Internet Addiction: A Brief Summary of Research and Practice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/
… (qualifying) … confining himself to his house … no social life among the town-folk … not wanting to work. All friends are online.
Game over: WHO lists video game addiction as mental health disorder
https://www.rt.com/news/430112-gaming-addiction-who-disorder/
Power station operations is done via computers, so I was working eight hours per shift using computers, but for my work, which was not a game, but was about getting maximum fuel efficiency mostly … tedious attention to three monitors. People who are using computers for work are not gamers.
We are here for three months, so hopefully a better understanding may come to light. In the meantime we are keeping the peace, being friendly, observing and thinking on what to do. I am listening and I read all comments and think about. For now it’s a softly softly approach … a learning curve. Cheers : )
I just did a check on Ebay for the price of 4 Gigabytes of Ram memory for the GX280. Total price for 2 x 2GB modules is AU$16.83 with free postage. If a 64 bit Prescott processor is installed, of course it can stay there. The critical issue is to get maximum memory installed. Now, I have to explain that using Ubuntu 18.04 is smoother and slightly quicker than using Windows 7. Also, I want to explain that I have multiple windows open and all is quick and smooth. I can be listening to Brooklyn FM and searching YouTube videos, plus have the RT News and TASS news pages open. I could be, at the same time using 4k download to make an mp3. This GX280 is a back-up, standby machine, ready to go whenever required. My efficient computer is an Intel i3 NUC.
The bottom line to my article is … don’t throw away your old P4s … you will be surprised what maximum memory and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS can do for you.
To see the world in a grain of sand
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
All heaven in a wild flower
And eternity in an hour
Welcome in the cafe, thank you for sharing your poem !
Auguries of innocence (first stanza)
William Blake
William Blake – Auguries of Innocence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi848QqLbdo
Thank you kpax, and to ioan for welcoming me ! I wrote the well known lines of Blake by heart and then forgot his name ! They seem so contemporary, in relation to hunger, poverty and suffering,and the growing awareness and consciousnesses in wishing to alleviate pain. I found a link here at the cafe to the closing words of the recent international Natural Justice seminar at Westminster on child trafficking and pedophilia, that really moved me. They also spoke about this in the context of crypto currency, that I have learned here has the potential for effective involvement in global concerns.
Time for some verse. A murder ballad? Or perhaps sea ‘shanty’.
“Black Harbour”
Strange town, Black Harbour
Where the weary travellers will.
Five years since my ship went down,
Tomorrow you’ll cry your fill.
Strange frown upon my love
Where the smiles yesterday did grace.
Different kind of sound
From the throat I did embrace.
Of the ocean I was born
The ocean I will dive.
From the ocean I was torn,
The ocean through me cries.
My love, why do you flee,
Leaving the wound with me?
I never played myself as false to you,
The wound belongs to thee!
Strange fate then did decree
Before that night was o’er,
My love lay dead,
And I, not much time from shore…
To the ocean I was led
The ocean I will roam.
To the ocean I am wed
The ocean is my home.
Seven lives or seven weeks?
Golden tongue seldom speaks.
The way it felt still repeats,
I should’ve known there’s no repeats,
No repeats…
Strange town, Black Harbour
Where the memories congregate.
Five years since the story’s told
An honest man will relate.
They found her there
By the kelp and gulls so shrill.
And if the wind is lying low
You can hear her singing still…
Of the ocean I was born,
The ocean I will dive.
From the ocean I was torn
The ocean through me cries.
Seven breaths or seven beats?
Golden tongue often speaks.
The way it felt still repeats,
Still repeats, it still repeats…
Copyright. D.S.
Enjoyed this Dimitar, it’s your poesy isn’t it ?
Thanks, Ioan. Its a song in fact, which I’ve been revising a little today. Cheers.
My heart has sadness from this world’s madness. I seek the gladness of love. This week in the love calendar year is about the chakra center of the throat and neck. We are moving through the energy centers of the body, from feet to head and crown. The polarities of the throat are “Cry” and “Lie.” Evil starts with little white lies and progresses to big black lies, in individual persons and cultures. When I lie, I die. “What a tangled web we weave when at first we deceive.” The cure is to cry for truth, a true “cry of the heart” or “cri de coeur.”
The following is a poem from the Love Government book, from the 26th week, called the five of form, the fifth center of the body:
The body is a book, if we would only look
A sacred code, if we would walk that road
I go to the throat and words I learned by rote
The throat evokes a body’s silent cries
And chokes on desperate, quiet lies
The neck is the connection between heart and head
Without that subsection, your deed to life is dead
Dead talking heads lying through their teeth make my throat vomit
Red stalking feds prying underneath, can’t love it so they bomb it
Lies coming out from the throat are worse than a curse
They pollute the earth and grow roots of hurt
The lying throat is the mouth to the underworld
The crying throat is the route to the lover world
I thought I was heading for heaven’s point
I didn’t know about the head-heart joint
All day long I quietly cry and shout
The lies in my throat, got to get them out
The throat is the body’s connecting link
Between how I feel and how I think
I cry out in my fear, grief and pain
To relieve pressure and keep me sane
My bitter feelings bubble up from below
I taste the things I do not want to know
Pilate asked what was truth
I knew the answer in my youth
It’s part of the law of tooth for tooth
But more than that, it’s you forsooth
It’s in the sound of your voice and grounds of my choice
I’ll use the words, the ones that ring true
The sounds of the birds and colors of you
From your tongue to my heart and my head to your feet
One song sung in two-fold part to love where we meet
One channel cleared for the joyous flood
I eat your body and I drink your blood
I say mass and am your mess
One sweet taste of consciousness
Love, Dennis
“One sweet taste of consciousness…” beautiful stuff!
George Galloway: “In World Cup as in life, times they are a-changin’: How tables are turning, tectonic plates shiftin…”
“From the opening ceremony followed by the best opening-game ever, through a flurry of goal and incident-packed games, the show so far is being universally hailed, by fans at least, as the best tournament for a very long time.
This is a considerable set-back for the Russia-haters, and one must be on one’s toes for any potential provocations yet to fructify, though the usual suspects continue to try to make up ground.
But at the radio stations where I work (Mr Rupert Murdoch’s Talksport & Talkradio) the entire building is rocking, relishing every minute of the show so far. And full of respect for Russia’s handling of the spectacle too. Whatever Russia has spent on the World Cup is money well spent, that much is already certain. It will not be so easy now to paint this glorious world cup host as a monotone backward totalitarian Potemkin Village.
But the dawning realization that countries placed by the West “beyond the pale” are as developed, prosperous, capable and maybe happier than our own is not the only “changing of the guard” being witnessed at World Cup 2018.
Italy haven’t even qualified and neither have the Netherlands, two giants now ghosts of the past. The holders Germany were humbled by effervescent, unstoppable Mexico. The titanic majesties of Brazil held by tiny Switzerland hitherto renowned for the cuckoo clock and the chocolate box.
France and Argentina have looked a shadow of their reputations and even Uruguay, a pocket-sized footballing superpower were, well, in Egypt’s pocket until the very last minute.
As a metaphor of how things are changing in the world it has all been unexpectedly satisfying so far. The political hegemon of the United States is not even at these races.
The old powers of the European Union are fading fast. Africa, Iran, the Arab world, Russia and the formerly begrudged in Latin America are on the rise. The “sanctioners” on the retreat, the sanctioned – Iran and Russia atop their groups – going forward. The great and the good now not so great, not so good.
The message for politics is now written on the subway walls as Paul Simon once put it. Or if you prefer Bob Dylan, “the first ones now will later be last, the slow ones now will later be fast. The times they are a-changin’…”
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/430201-world-cup-russia-britain-dogs/
Furthermore, RT have scored a coup in sports TV history — For the first time, anyone can go to their logical, well-thought-out WC webpages, and learn everything you need to follow the teams and standings in a few minutes… making this complicated tournament easy for anyone to follow. And NBC is forced to leave any kind of rational sports-talk to Telemundo, because los americanos latinos are the primary American fans who have any knowledge or passion for the game. Lots of fun in these parts when Mexico beat Germany (with speed and panache and chances to spare, IMO).
I am not so sure that saving 30 watts means much, Paul, so long as it’s there when ya need it. Like everything, it’s a matter of circumstance I guess. (We bought 1.4 kw of solar, and it’s enough, just…)
Like Paul, I too consider the computers and the ties we call “net”, how it happened, where it goes…
And thus an essay by Comrade Brother LD http://www.unz.com/ldinh/postliterate-america/
I expect that absent other forces preempting, natural forces such as CME etc will wipe the net, shatter the increasingly fragile systems…meantime people seem to be getting stupider…http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
As to where it goes,,,like Dylan said…hard rain’s gunna fall…then last shall be first and etc…repeat, rinse, repeat…
“Last shall be first…” aka ‘lame goat syndrome’. Ain’t no rain, hard or otherwise bother no lame goat.
Geologic records make hard rain a fersure, Comrade
Human experience and science makes CME a fersure too.
Global interconnections create “efficient” fragile systems with near zero redundancies.
Jevons’ observations, and general theory stemming from J illustrates improved efficiency increases consumption.
Put them all together…
What can go wrong
Will go wrong.
That’s a Hard Rain, Brother.
All inevitable, all necessary… brer rabbit or lame goat, ‘se isto’.
Looks like EOS is having some significant growing pains. Over the past week or so, there have been a number of articles about issues with the Mainnet going live, bugs, a freeze, and now controversy over how the Constitution should be interpreted:
EOS Block Producers Freeze User Funds to Prevent Theft, Resulting in Twitter Backlash
https://cointelegraph.com/news/eos-block-producers-freeze-user-funds-to-prevent-theft-resulting-in-twitter-backlash
Quite a few people seem concerned about a lack of transparency in the handling of these various issues. Some comments also indicate the Mainnet has been under a DDoS attack, which I suppose could be about black hats trying to crash nodes and then gain access as they auto-restart.
However, none of this has significantly affected the price of EOS, market cap remains #5 in the crypto universe, as many are probably just holding for now.
Also, some Airdrops are coming (IQ, DAC and EON), though I haven’t as yet made sense of them.
Too tight to fly: Saudi entertainment chief sacked after circus show triggers hardliner backlash
https://www.rt.com/news/430268-saudi-entertainment-chief-fired-circus/
(but it’s okay to cut people’s heads off)
If I’ll be the Main Sheriff of this world, would surely shut down all circuses of the world, except the clowns…they are still needed. But to transport animals of all kind all over the different places from big cities to small towns to make a show for money, is outrageous in my view.
… it is outrageous and is a reference to the reality of where humans are at … makes me feel sick. We agree again ioan.
Very important article. The USA just can’t keep away from the soft underbelly. Maybe Kazhakstan will be nominated for NATO membership next? Go figure.
http://theduran.com/how-will-russia-iran-respond-us-challenge-caspian-sea/
Thanks Russia
Thanks Russia for a job well done
for giving a break time just for fun
with a foot ball spectacle
becoming a world receptacle
a space and time
for rejoicing humanity
reveling in group sanity
to take a pause, inhaling
our basic unity regaling
Thanks Russia, good show!
Now may the good times roll.
“This WC can cure depression!” Tweeted someone (shared @RT)… True enough, also, with today’s games, “truth is stranger than fiction…” A strange dreamlike sensation has permeated the first round.
Maybe the distraction of world cup is deliberately useful for the big events happening in southern Syria..imagine if Russia wins and Syria declared free of all foreign occupation…Isis…militants etc ….
thanks for your joy
and I reply
virtue and passion
is coming by
rossia’s humbleness
calls the day
when the friendly gods
prefer to stay
so much for Russia
and this is for the northern hemisphere
Week 25. 2018
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/06/rising-heart-from-width-to-water.html
” union of talking self with emotion
in pure blitheness of heart.”
Thanks Mundo. the kids are in their polarities playing tug-of-war…
” QAnon Proofs” — A site AFAIK recommended (and maybe just maybe created?) by the artists currently known as qanon…
http://qanonproofs.com/
Including but not limited to such gems as:
http://qanonproofs.com/firetruck-74-matches-with-q-post-74/
“On May 10, Q posts for the 74th time on /PatriotsFight/. That same day a firetruck with the number Q74 appears at the scene of the newly released NK prisoners return to US. As suggested by Q, Q74 is an uncommon tag number to appear on a firetruck.”
And
http://qanonproofs.com/air-force-one-flies-over-north-korea/
Featuring an anonymous picture outside an airplane window that could be anywhere
And my absolute fave:
http://qanonproofs.com/trump-tweets-a-picture-with-the-filename-doitq/
“On November 8 2017, Trump tweets a picture of him and some of cabinet members giving the thumbs up. The filename of the picture has the words “DOITQ”, also by connecting a line through the hand placements each person it would closely form the letter Q.” [This photo is a must for everyone to deeply fathom]
If QAnon, real or fake, really recommends this site as a”evidence” to anyone, I think the analysis/discussion of wisdom and “proofs” is over and it’s past time for the content creators to move to something “beyond Q”, PDQ.
Or is Q is the first spontaneous, unintended YouTube-wide New Religious Movement?
These “proofs” are laughable, yes, really grasping at straws, though it looks to me like these have been created by some very poor readers of Q, not by Q him/themselves. Nor have they, AFAICT, been recommended by Q. I have seen other sites (e.g. https://otterwalks.wordpress.com ) which do a far better job at reading/deciphering Q.
My understanding has been that there is Q posting on 8chan, that Q may be one person or several (maybe that doesn’t matter), and then there are a rather large number of followers trying to make sense of Q’s posts. Much of the stuff posted on the Internet is actually the creation of the followers/autists/exegetes, and somehow we have to distinguish the more interesting analyses from the silly “proofs” that readily make the whole phenom look ridiculous.
How much effort we want to put into that is another question…
Ha, ha! Only as much as it makes one laugh, right? I think our efforts here are for the time being quite enough!
I agree with what you said a few posts up… If anyone would like to write a coherent, logical piece that takes 10 minutes or less to read, to explain why we should still give a damn, I would be all ears.
Thanks for the link, will check it out sooner rather than later.
I’ll try to find my source for Q recommending that proofs page… When I have time will also link to some of the hacker kids that unveiled the operation…
Agreed. I’m open to this being everything the Cult of Q says it is, but I feel we’ve given it a good look already.
In case you feel inclined to look again, somebody created a nice search engine for all of Q’s posts, here:
https://qanon.pub/
I tried a search for “qanonproofs” but nothing comes up.
A search for “http” will bring up all the (well formed) URLs. I find 176 results total, most of which are to news articles or people on Twitter. It’s a manageable number and we could read through them, searching for links to followers/interpreters of Q, but again, my inclination is to hang back and let people who are closer to this whole phenom make a stronger case, e.g., by writing the sort of article we’d like to see.
Also here in the cafe, Bro 93 has been following QAnon, though he has posted a number of links to YT videos and my general feeling now about that conduit for information is tl;dw :D
Internal company sabotage at Tesla
http://82.221.129.208/.yq6.html
(Read Elon Musk’s letter to employees at Jim Stone’s website)
Sacramento Bee tells us how to understand the famous russiantrollsite
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article213403299.html
Me? I say so what?
Waitin’ fer th’ rains
A ditty or two in response to:
“President Donald Trump envisions a bright future for the U.S. space program.
Monday, June 18, 2018 12:45PM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Vowing to reclaim U.S. leadership in space, President Donald Trump announced Monday he is directing the Pentagon to create a new “Space Force” as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space”
Art of the ‘No Big Deal’
World Cup made for collective embrace
Now is the time to keep up the pace
Take up supervising surrounding space
with efficiency, tact and skill
as you well know the drill
We’ve all had a brief taste
of a joyful world for all
a safe, peaceful place.
Still, ultimately it’s your call
No need to make haste.
Make Russia Great again
For the West is akin to sin.
But Amidst this ceaseless din
Space Russia will just take a swim
No Big Deal- we’re swimming in space
where Each has his place,
can’t you feel? It’s NO Big Deal!
No big deal-get real
The art’s in the deal
To steal, steal, steal
What’s earth appeal
Space is estate real
Love to terra’s land
Do you understand
The poetry here touches my heart, and not just the poetry of verse, but the poetics of Russian soccer and Donald Trump’s Q warriors. Did you see the one where he traces the letter Q with his hand through the air? And guess what? It’s not just heartland military marines, but good Jews like Jesus who are taking over the reigns of power. The problem is that’s it’s still about power, and not yet up to the level of love, true love, that is.
That’s where this Vineyard comes into play. Love is best situated in a vineyard bower, like the bible’s Song of Songs vineyard. This vineyard knew it way back then. It’s come to a point now: Point’s Peak or Bust–the point being something more than Pike’s Peak or his Colorado neighbor, Garden of the Gods Vineyard. The real point of this world’s North Pole is Russialand, and the Empire means to level those mountains and flatten those hills. The snow covered Pike is a Russian fifth column in the good ol’ US of A.
We’ve got to get up high enough to see what’s going on, or we will do more harm than good. We’re setting up base camp in this vineyard cafe for the long march to the top, which will take more than a day. Right now I’ve got to tend to myself, since I can hardly walk up a flight of stairs without shortness of breath. In exactly one month, I see the doctor about my failing heart. I’ve got to cure my heart naturally by then, or I risk falling into the crevices of heartless medicals, which can only treat symptoms by covering up causes.
And the same goes for Russia. Right now she’s enjoying the euphoria of symptoms-suppression in her success against empire. She doesn’t realize that the empire is using her, and setting her up for abusing her later. Same with Trump and his Q Jews. Don’t get me wrong–I like Trump, Putin and Xi, the big three. They think they are ushering in a new world order but they’re only managing symptoms so that causes are left untouched. They are in the business of keeping the world safe for business, which beats blowing it up, Clinton style.
Count Khazar and Countess Zioness, and their progenitors, have figured out the business game long ago; which has nothing at all to do with religion, unless business is a religion. I can’t pretend that such business is not impacting my heart, leading to some kind of heart attack. The heart of the world is being attacked, and mine along with it. Dimitar’s Black Harbour and Blake’s Auguries augur what’s in store for us if we continue to ignore causes, because causes have consequences.
It’s not just the elites either. The rich-poor game is just another of the empire’s “divide et impera” chess moves. There’s something that all of us are doing that is undermining all our good intentions, and paving the road to hell with gold bricks and diamond studded lane lines. We are violating natural law and that can turn out to be a bitch. The good news is that this vineyard is being given the chance to ditch the witch, and switch from “witchy woman” to The Lover Woman, who is all of us as lovers.
Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her fingertips
Well, I know you want a lover
But let me tell you, brother
Don’t let her go to your head
She’s been sleeping in the devil’s bed
(Eagles redacted)
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but better do both before I die.
Love, Dennis
Hi Dennis,,,
Back from retreat : re- treat…..”Treat” from Latin Tractare or drag about, deal with, handle; where as “retreat” is from Latin retrahere or re + draw. or draw-back. I can see you are dragging about much of the same verbiage with an attempt or two to redraw or reframe it perhaps.
As for the heart… maybe another retreating re-treat later when Jupiter moves into Sag. at the end of the year after the MDs. “treat” you?
It is not enough to clear the head/heart connection via the word manifestation center (throat center i.e. that which makes us uniquely human). There is an energy channel which runs from both palms through the heart and it has to do with manifestation in the action of service which is why you see in religious pictures the arms out wide or up in blessing. There is an upper delta of Venus , too, Dennis.
Maleness and femaleness are social constructs–even as you attempt to reconstruct them to what you feel is a more equitable arrangement–they still remain just that: social constructs.
Verbiage, from verb, is from verbum, meaning word, and word, is word, and only word but transferable as love.
Heart, is cor-cordis, the core of all things, the centre, radiating to the periphery and from the periphery to the center.
a rose is a rose is a rose
and one word of truth
outweighs the world
Bitcoin Frauds Keep Growing
Posted on June 19, 2018 by William Black | 2 Comments
By William K. Black
June 18, 2018 Kansas City, MO
One of the prime myths that white-collar criminologists have to refute repeatedly is that blockchain makes fraud impossible. Blockchain, in some settings, is a costly means of making some frauds much more difficult. Blockchain is useless against the most important frauds. The primitive worship of blockchain as a supposed garlic capable of warding off evil breeds complacency, and complacency produces increased fraud and greatly extends the life of fraud.
The difference between making fraud impossible and (in a few specialized settings) ‘much more difficult’ brings to mind the critical difference explained in The Princess Bride between ‘dead’ and ‘mostly dead.’ Blockchain is useless in stopping, for example, any or the three epidemics of ‘control fraud’ that drove the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. Lenders’ executives extorted appraisers to inflate appraised values of homes, creating a Gresham’s dynamic in which bad ethics tends to drive good ethics out of the markets and professions. The second fraud epidemic in loan origination was ‘liar’s’ loans, which were designed to aid lenders and their agents to inflate the incomes of borrowers. Note that both of these primary fraudulent loan origination schemes involve lenders deliberately seeking to provide false (inflated) data designed to inflate the market value of homes. The third fraud epidemic that drove the U.S. financial crisis was the fraudulent sale of these mortgages to the secondary market through false “reps and warranties” about loan underwriting – principally the fraudulently inflated appraisal values and borrowers’ incomes.
Blockchain technology allows connected computers to reach agreement over shared data. The central limitation is “shared data.” If the shared data are my transfer of one bitcoin to a merchant to purchase a good, then blockchain technology is typically reliable. (The blockchain confirmation process necessary to prevent fraud can take too long to be commercially viable for many transactions, but that is a different issue.)
Read the rest:
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2018/06/bitcoin-frauds-keep-growing.html
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Brian | June 19, 2018 at 1:15 pm | Reply
A pretty good paper that cites one of mine.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3182646 – IS BITCOIN MONEY? AN ECONOMIC-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF MONEY, ITS FUNCTIONS AND ITS PREREQUISITES
Given the underlying technology’s manifold potential use, Hanley (2013, p. 1) summarises the bitcoin phenomenon quite aptly by observing that “bitcoin’s developers combine technical implementation proficiency with ignorance of currency and banking fundamentals.”
Summarising, cryptocurrencies do not look like money, they do not behave like money and, importantly, they are not being used as money – even by their most ardent supporters. Instead, cryptocurrencies resemble an increasingly speculative investment on a greater fool basis. Hence, cryptocurrencies’ future as a promising alternative to incumbent money will, in all likelihood, be short-lived.
@ Sam
Thanks for this. I’m always pleased to read Bill Black.
Reading quickly, it appears he makes a number of claims: (1) blockchain is not immune to three “epidemics” of “control fraud” that drove the 2008 GFC; (2) hackers can use botnets to corrupt blockchain data; (3) blockchain cannot protect exchanges from theft or erroneous sale; (4) there are reasons to believe the value of BTC has been inflated by insiders; (5) “bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies inherently lack any basis for value other than speculation”.
Basically, Black seems to favor fiat: “A government-issued currency has value because the government promises to accept it at par for the payment of debts to the government (e.g., taxes).”
Quickly, regarding his claims, it seems to me that (1) is correct; (2) is not correct and suggests that Black doesn’t fully understand how blocks are validated; (3) is correct, but the type of security breaches he describes are not a problem that blockchain was ever intended to address; (4) would need to be verified, but, if true, would disappear as exchanges themselves become distributed; (5) doesn’t seem correct, insofar as I can today use cryptos to purchase many things, including gold.
The main point for me is that blockchain and cryptos were never really designed to take on the kinds of problems that concern Black. I believe he moved from the study of economics to criminology, and has been focused primarily on fraud for some years now. Although anti-crypto, he concedes that blockchain can make some types of fraud more difficult.
I would certainly agree that more oversight and regulation of the financial system is needed to prevent and prosecute the types of very large-scale fraud that Black describes. He has been one of the few economists calling out systemic corruption for years now. In a way, it seems that the spread and broad enthusiasm for cryptos has been driven in part by the failure of Western govts to do exactly that.
Why North Korea Can Never Trust the U.S.
Posted on June 19, 2018 by Yves Smith
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (i.e. North Korea) cannot trust the United States of America. The US does not keep its promises, honor its treaties and obey international laws. This is not opinion; it is the history of the US, beginning with the many broken promises and treaties with the Native Americans.
The US has broken promises and treaties in every corner of the globe. The US ignores the UN Charter, which is a treaty. It flouts international law, which is based on treaties. The US habitually starts asymmetrical wars, which is aggression and the worst of all war crimes. It destroys nations, leaving millions of people dead, dying, and in misery.
Read the rest:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/why-north-korea-can-never-trust-the-u-s.html
In previous Cafe Paul gave us a movie, saying: “Movie Time … a clever comedy …
Sebastian (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIK3OYnD9MY
A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter.
This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the code-breakers.”
Many thanks, Paul. Wife and I enjoyed it, and the period scenes especially.
In the movie there are two or maybe three somewhat oblique references to The George Blake escape. These give the impression that the escape was seen at the time as a Soviet operation (the Soviets are assumed to have put everything down in “code”), as this is central to yet another questionable implication – that codes and ciphers are identical and interchangeable terms. This second implication seems especially damming, as it is baldly false. This begins to seem just a bit fishy…but all movies have unsaid assumptions…and it was great fun…I remember the London I saw, it looked like that. Very cool. Still, MI5 mustabeen on the shoots, no? I dunno… Seem to be two specific misdirections “encoded” in the movie.
I believe that, in fact, they were still doing de-crypts running punchtape machines – one known as “Colossus” if memory right.
I read Bourke’s “The Springing of George Blake, and watched his interviews from those days. Then I read his critics. Star-crossed guy dragging along a host of hungry ghosts – his Great Deed was sticking it to John Bull, oh well, that’s what somebody said… In same way, as a reflux in Time, George Blake did the same thing…the men are united in that feature, I think.
I remember writing in a previous discussion on Blake that he should write his own story of the escape. It seems that he did just that in 1990–and what a cracking autobiography/story it is, entitled ‘No Other Choice.’
In my own small way, I know that feeling myself.
Last breaths of Spring, Summer is at the ready,
above and below the mirror of consciousness
as universal conductor’s stirring stays staedy.
There’s every week a changing stage
while the background remains
the scene changes page
it’s below and above leading us into time
it’s within and without
like the bell used to chime
From width to depth – this weeks entry into summer:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/06/rising-heart-from-width-to-water.html
teranam 13,
Thanks for the distinction of “treat” and “retreat.” Yes, dragging the same old verbiage is dragging me down. I am trying to get beyond words to the feeling below consciousness, as perhaps Dos was too. On the retreat in the Wisconsin north woods, we learned some ways to go past the words to early babyhood and childhood where I suffered trauma, physically and emotionally.
As a Sag, I’m looking forward to when Jupiter moves in with Sagittarius, if I make it that far. The king of the gods and the yeoman of archers were men of the first order. I have problems with my manhood. Wonder if my mother didn’t somehow emasculate me: hence, my barrel back, caved in chest and resulting heart problems. Can’t blame Mom, though, she was my world back then, and had her own problems aplenty; and she did give me plenty of love, so saints preserve her.
Glad to hear about the other energy channel of heart and hands. That’s what I’m lacking, but what’s this “upper delta of Venus” about? Why am I so fixated on an ideal woman, like Dylan? “You angel, you…”Sorry to turn this into a therapy session, but, what the heck, it’s free. I don’t get how male and female are “social constructs;” I though they were biological constructs. But on second thought, I am socially reconstructing them, back to what they were, IMO. Regardless, I think the male-female paradigm is critical to stopping the war on Russiology.
Forgive me for overstepping a line only you can see.
I came in a little while ago from picking strawberries, June berries, barefoot. I am pitifully out of shape; my back and legs gave out after fifteen minutes. Nora, my eight year old grandniece and her five year old brother joined me. Oh, to be five and eight again, and know what an almost eighty year old knows. But maybe before I came here, I did know, and did it anyway. “Sergio, Sergio, I’ve got to go; find out what only dead men know.”
I feel like my life is hanging in the balance, like Blake’s grain of sand or Dylan’s “every grain of sand.” I don’t mean to be morose or amorous, but sometimes “Baby, I’m in the mood for you,” and other times “I’m sick of love” being just a four letter word, a la Diamonds and Rust. I love romance, but damn, she can’t dance when the empire’s breathing down her neck and stepping on her toes. First things first. We pretty damn well better win this war. Sorry, I can’t go into a rant–so will go eat and put on a sacred chant.
Love, Dennis
Permit me, Dennis, if I may, to share a line of thinking re: the ideal woman, the ideal man and associated ideas. No one can have the final word on love, of course, we’re all throwing our two-cents worth into the ring, looking for clues in order to define the next step we need to take spiritually. The heart can never be tamed, but it can know peace and contentment.
My belief is that within, we carry an ‘ideal woman’ as well as ‘ideal man’. Both qualities are contained within us as polarities which then, through the play of Soul, simulate this idea of perfect balance. When we find someone outwardly we seek to fit or impose this image on the other person and are dissapointed when we learn just how difficult that is. In a spiritual sense, for the male, woman represents his own heart, while for a woman, the male represents her very soul. Ideally, the opposite sex should be treated accordingly.
What we mistake for “true love” is often affinity, or chemistry. There is an affinity between certain bodies because of the chemistry between them which brings them together. This is true of minerals, metals, plants and animals as well as between humans. In the case of humans; Hu ( God or eternal ), Man ( embodiment or temporal ) Being(s), the affinity is often from past lives, where we have established bonds of love, through the law ‘like attracts like’. Karma compells us to our lessons, but love leads to conscious decisions. So a greater love is in truth, a meeting between Souls, not merely between bodies with affinity. A working/lasting relationship between Souls is a matter of choice and shared understanding. Both support each other and are sharing their journey home to God, doing whatever they can out of love for each other and for no other reason.
My own journey led me to the “ideal woman”, perfect in every way. In fact, I’ve detailed the outcome in my tale, “Black Harbour” above. With much poetic licence to boot, of course. Such intensity seldom survives, but the ramifications of the experience move us into hitherto unknown places. Love is that motor, that we crave, need and cannot be without. No more than a physical body can be without oxygen. The continuity of life is a fact, there can be no ‘death’ of Soul, only of physical bodies. Of idea(ls), and so on. To be replaced by new and better ideals. It all brings us a greater capacity to love. While ‘death’ confounds the mind and emotions, Soul understands that love, and love alone, is the golden coin Soul carries with it thoughout its journey back home to God. It will open all doors. Sooner or later. It is love that survives the death of the physical body, just as it is love that takes us home to the ‘Ocean from which we came’. That love springs eternal from within.
For what it’s worth Soul generally alternates between male and female incarnations. This brings it ever closer to that detached viewpoint, which is Soul. Soul, that which we are, is the great “mystery”, that love eventually reveals.
Well, I turned the thirsty earth
And I sought the hidden well
As I felt the quivering memory’s sting
My fiery longings quell..
Oh what I wouldn’t give…
(D.S.)
In Spirit, D.
Many thanks. I could not say it better. Let me sleep on it, or better, dream on it; after I go downstairs and visit with my sister and brother-in-law, and their TV. Sharanam is singing as I type–teranam 13 put me in the mood.
WATCH: Far-Right Israeli Protesters Celebrate Palestinian Baby Burned to Death
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806201065599493-far-right-israeli-protesters-celebrate-palestinian-death/
“In July 2015, 18-month year-old Ali Saad Dawabsha was killed in an arson attack by Jewish right-wing terrorists on his Palestinian family’s home in Duma, a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank. The toddler’s parents, Riham and Saad Dawabsha, also died from their injuries within weeks of the attack. The couple’s other child, Ahmed Dawabsha, who was five years old at the time of the attack, survived, although he suffered severe burns that required months of treatment.
”Where is Ali? Ali’s dead. Ali’s on the grill,” right-wing protesters chanted Tuesday as the child’s uncle and grandfather, Nasr and Hussein Dawabsha, respectively, walked out of the courtroom. The Dawabsha family was at the courthouse for a ruling about the admissibility of confessions provided by two suspects involved in the 2015 attack.
“Where is Ali? He’s burned!” other supporters chanted while laughing. Although there were around 20 police officers at the scene, they did not attempt to stop the chants.
“These racist barbaric chants indicate that [the far-right protesters] natural place is a zoo,” Nasr Dawabsha told The Times of Israel Tuesday outside the courtroom.
If a Palestinian celebrated the murder of an Israeli in the same way as the protesters, “they would receive the harshest of punishments from the authorities,” Nasr noted, adding that the police appeared to be “ensuring the protection” of the protesters.”
The face of israel and its zionazi-gay supporters.
Who’s on the Senate Armed Forces Committee?
They’ve just issued a bill that will require the armed forces to experiment ‘with the Israeli’ Iron Dome ‘defense shield.
https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/senate-wants-army-plan-assess-experiment-israeli-developed-iron-dome
I presume the’ experiment ‘will require acquisition – and God knows how many billions, trillions even.
Especially interesting in the light of the ongoing Pentagon audit… Which is missing billions…
Saker,
You might find it interesting but A. Dugin sort of supports your view on Medvedev.
Check out his article:
http://katehon.com/1318-sixth-column.html
Down the article he says, and I quote:
“The Sixth Column, during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, practically succeeded to achieve their desirable goal. Brzeziński even inspired Medvedev for a second term, promising to reconsider its Russophobia. But Putin’s returned in 2012 completely destroying their plans; and another group of people of the Sixth Columns turned into the Fifth Columns”
Do you understand some Norwegian? Many in the Nordic countries do. If you do not understand, at least see the happiness of this young woman.
Alexandra- “Når den verkbrudne fikk møte Herren Jesus”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGfRZQLhMqI
Yes they are zodiacal persons, the two of singapur
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/06/two-zodiacal-persons.html
Creating lasting moments
Dimitar perfectly described our umfinished karma unfolding its residue of unsatisfied desires, by default searching for love… true Love. Very often it translates into some genuine passionate love affairs based on affinities, customs, birth charts, etc… rather than pure Love.
Passion in five…
Humour
. Rumour
. ‘Amour’
. Clamour
Tumour
In five words, five lifetimes, five secondes… or eons, the flight will move on to another shore of discord… to be repeated again till we know better.
“In five words, five lifetimes, five seconds… or eons, the flight will move on…” In substance it’s still love, pure, passionate, life-affirming. You’ve charted its inevitable course perfectly. Every pleasure, every joy has an anxiety attached to it. The only stability is within. It’s a journey without end. Thanks, kpax, and welcome.
Didn’t come up as made up in original post:
Humour
…. Rumour
……….’Amour’
…. Clamour
Tumour
in V formatiom
I don’t buy all that guys, it smacks of a kind of new aged western styled eastern motivated dream –
action, born of love,
deeds, made of love’s seeds,
motivation, love inspired,
battle for life and soul, for love’s sake :
a Bright new World
No problem, just a discussion. Not selling anything…
Skepticism is healthy. Nothing has any value until its proven through personal experience…
This is your butler…at your service…now where is the dragon?
Listen to 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/smashingpumpkins/1979-1