Moveable Feast Cafe 2018/08/06 … Open Thread

Sometimes it may be a good idea to hear from the past, from a real communist, and a genuine expert – particularly one who, being near the abyss, has no reason to lie… right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnd2Pu9NNPw (Hobsbawm rocks!)

Now here is the funniest thing. On Sputnik they have a article on the Swedish Armed Forces taking part in a Gay Pride parade … and, the Supreme Commander sings an old Elvis Presley song … Suspicious Minds.
I but melted down in laughter because if one knows the lyrics …

Why can’t you see, What you’re doing to me, When you don’t believe a word I’m saying ….
and
Why don’t you know, We’re caught in a trap, I can’t walk out, Because I love you too much baby

https://twitter.com/essingeper/status/1025733287078240257/video/1

how to delete your fakebook account for ever not just deactivate it.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/06/how-to-permanently-delete-your-facebook-account-2018-update/

guess what i am going to do the next 5-30 minutes;)

Anonymous on August 06, 2018 · at 5:15 pm EST/EDT

teranam13 on August 06, 2018 · at 7:46 pm EST/EDT

Well, let’s look at this from a perspective different from what rush limbaugh and the rest of israel’s divisive psywar propagandists, shall we.

‘A Warzone’: Oregon Police Reviewing Cop Violence Toward Anti-Fascist Protesters

https://sputniknews.com/us/201808071067004080-portland-police-review-violence-antifa/

“On Saturday, a protest held by the far right Patriot Prayer group and the Proud Boys, an organization characterized as a hate group that was started by VICE news co-founder Gavin McInnes, drew a crowd of between 400 and 500 sympathetic demonstrators, co-chair of the Portland branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Olivia Katbi Smith, told Sputnik News Monday. “Over a thousand” counter-demonstrators, local organisers told Sputnik.

While clashes between the left and right-wing demonstrators were widely anticipated, no major confrontations between the sides actually broke out. Instead, the majority of the violence was handed down by law enforcement and directed towards anti-fascist activists, or antifa, as depicted in videos posted to social media.”

(One doesn’t get much more Russophobic than the mossad/cia/mi6 vice “news” -vt)

“The Portland police were responsible for the majority of the violence, Katbi Smith said. “We had been chanting, peacefully protesting all day long, but the Portland police had a huge presence. They were in riot gear, lined up on both sides, sort of keeping us separated from the Patriot Prayer supporters who were across the street,” she said. “On both sides, the police had their backs to them and they were facing us. That made it clear, right away, who they were there to protect.”

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2018

Nearly all on-duty police officers in Portland were deployed to the protest and non-emergency calls were halted in order to keep resources directed toward the demonstrations, local news outlet KPTV reported.

“The Patriot Prayer people moved at one point away from the waterfront and went into downtown, so our whole crowd followed them, and when we caught up with them, we had regrouped, we were standing there chanting again. The folks with black bloc were upfront and they had their banners,” Katbi Smith told Sputnik News, referring to protesters who dress entirely in black and with masks on to avoid being identified by right wingers or police and face reprisal.2.

— 🏴 cats hate fascists ⚧ (@Anarkitt) August 5, 2018

​”We were literally just standing there, chanting, and the police suddenly launched crowd control weapons, including flash grenades which injured several people and totally dispersed us,” she said. “We ran away and we were separated while they protected Patriot Prayer.”

PPB Chief Danielle Outlaw confirmed the use of “flash bangs,” as well as pepper balls, or small grenades that dispense pepper spray, an irritant, and other so-called “less-than-lethal” rounds.​

​While it has been widely reported that police used flash bang grenades, photographs appear to show sting-ball grenades, not flash bangs — which are more frequently used by police during demonstrations. Sting-balls emit a burst of white light similar to a flash bang, but also shoot out rubber bullets into the radius surrounding its burst. Police also appear to have used 40mm impact rounds.

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2018

In video from the protests, police can be heard on loudspeakers accusing protesters of throwing rocks. Reporter Eder Campuzano was bloodied by what he said was a soaring water bottle.

One protester was hit in the head with one of the rounds, reported to be a flash bang. It penetrated the helmet he was wearing and would have killed him had he not been wearing one, according to a source in contract with the man and his girlfriend who spoke with Raw Story. Another woman was taken to the hospital after she was struck by a “flash bang” according to local media. She was “burned badly,” Katbi Smith said.

— PDX Mike Bivins (@itsmikebivins) August 4, 2018

Such munitions “are lethal,” she added, disputing the oft-repeated “less-than-lethal” police jargon used to refer to crowd control devices.

Assistant Chief of the Portland Police Bureau’s Operations Branch Ryan Lee told reporters on Friday that officers were trained to fire the devices at 15 degrees over the crowd.

“Some of our members saw the grenades being launched at a very low level,” Katbi Smith added. Another DSA member, who didn’t want to be identified fearing he’d be targeted by Patriot Prayer, wrote to Sputnik News that a police officer “was shooting AT protesters.”

— Naysayer 🌹 (@Carrion_Crawl) August 4, 2018

Police “brutalized” counter-protesters, Katbi Smith said. “It was terrifying. Just the sounds of flash grenades — and that many, going off in a row — it sounds like a warzone. It’s terrifying.”

The ACLU called on PPB, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Outlaw to immediately end the use of weapons, munitions, and explosives against protesters.”

The local DSA chapter and the Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a joint statement that PPB “targeted Portland residents peacefully counter-protesting against racist far-right groups, including white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazi gangs.” They also called for an investigation.

Following condemnation of disparate repression conducted by PPB, Outlaw said in a written statement, “I take all force applications by members seriously and I have directed the Professional Standards Division to begin the intake process regarding these allegations to determine if force was used and if so, was within our policy and training guidelines.”

— PDX Mike Bivins (@itsmikebivins) August 6, 2018

Portland is accustomed to violent protests, but in recent months people who have been hospitalized have been injured by Patriot Prayer and affiliates, not by police.

In the face of that dual threat, Katbi Smith says it’s important to protest anyway. “I think the people who say that the fascists will go away if we ignore them, they’re wrong. They will grow and they will continue to recruit.” Patriot Prayer is a “traveling fascist caravan, this is what they do, they travel around the country spreading their hateful message.”

“The only thing that can stop a crowd of fascists is a bigger crowd of anti-fascists, telling them that they are not welcome in our city.”

Good to see Sputnik on point here, countering the zionazi-gay propaganda machine.

Armchair Cafe Theology (ACT) Part 42

In the theological calendar, this is week 33 with the theme of Soul, the polarities of Soul Mate and Soul Hate and the Tarot card, The Lovers. The story and stream of consciousness poem have been posted. In this part, the commentary follows:
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On my travels and travails through life, I change from cell to plant to animal to humam to soul. I have soul if I have love, whether individual, paired or communal soul.

The Lovers card shows Everywomam and Everyman flanking a mountain before the Trees of Knowledge and Life. The womam’s consort snake whispers in her ear that she is the one who knows. She knows she knows because she is a love greater than knowledge. She is a sunny angel who blesses her sexes.

The one Lover is also two lovers. She embodies as womam and as man. Womam is primary and man is secondary. Womam has inwardly what man has outwardly. When she extends herself, she takes on the appearance of outer man.

Womam uses sex for love and man uses love for sex. Never the twain shall meet except in love consciousness. Soulmates hunger for each other when they forget they are the Lover. When they know the oneness, they can enjoy the twoness.

When lovers are the Lover, they mate with freedom and ecstasy. When they forget who they are, their mate may be an object of hate and unrequited love.

The Lover as soulmate restores the balance between the sexes. They’re not equal but close. A womam is on top if she chooses and with whom she chooses. When it comes to conceiving and birthing, a womam controls her own body but law of love applies also to all her rights and responsibilities.

I am a soul in love with the Lover. She gives me love and mate satisfaction. A soulmate relationship is not that hard to find. In fact, it is impossible to avoid. We are all soulmates, flying into earth’s bright humamsphere, trailing clouds of glory.

In this game of love, the queen checkmates her soulmate by mutual consent. In our soulmate dance, we fly higher and higher like queen and drones until we meet in Love’s heart where the holy and sacred marriage game is consummated.

The soul’s mate is the Lover. The Lover and the soul are primarily womam. I say “Soul Mate” to taste the honeysweet nectar of a Lover’s soulmate kiss of bliss.

I mate with soul and receive VI love notes from the Lover’s reserve and my love power grows to 55 wands, 53 swords, 39 coins, 49 cups and 98 love notes.
—————-
Love, Dennis

Anybody remember this?:

Take your TV tube and eat it
‘N all that phony stuff on sports
‘N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin’ out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
…

‘Cause the fire in the street
Ain’t like the fire in the heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don’t you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now’s the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain’t no Great Society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn’t free

Insightful commentary on the zionazi psywar using identity politics to divide and neutralize the left. Very highly recommended article.

How identity politics makes the Left lose its collective identity

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/434924-left-policy-identity-divided/

“The identity politics phenomenon sweeping across the Western world is a divide and conquer strategy that prevents the emergence of a genuine resistance to the elites.

A core principle of socialism is the idea of an overarching supra-national solidarity that unites the international working class and overrides any factor that might divide it, such as nation, race, or gender. Workers of all nations are partners, having equal worth and responsibility in a struggle against those who profit from their brain and muscle.

Capitalism, especially in its most evolved, exploitative and heartless form – imperialism – has wronged certain groups of people more than others. Colonial empires tended to reserve their greatest brutality for subjugated peoples whilst the working class of these imperialist nations fared better in comparison, being closer to the crumbs that fell from the table of empire. The international class struggle aims to liberate all people everywhere from the drudgery of capitalism regardless of their past or present degree of oppression. The phrase ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’ encapsulates this mindset and conflicts with the idea of prioritising the interests of one faction of the working class over the entire collective.

Since the latter part of the 20th century, a liberally-inspired tendency has taken root amongst the Left (in the West at least) that encourages departure from a single identity based on class in favour of multiple identities based upon one’s gender, sexuality, race or any other dividing factor. Each subgroup, increasingly alienated from all others, focuses on the shared identity and unique experiences of its members and prioritises its own empowerment. Anyone outside this subgroup is demoted to the rank of ally, at best.

At the time of writing there are apparently over 70 different gender options in the West, not to mention numerous sexualities – the traditional LGBT acronym has thus far grown to LGBTQQIP2SAA. Adding race to the mix results in an even greater number of possible permutations or identities. Each subgroup has its own ideology. Precious time is spent fighting against those deemed less oppressed and telling them to ‘check their privilege’ as the ever-changing pecking order of the ‘Oppression Olympics’ plays out. The rules to this sport are as fluid as the identities taking part. One of the latest dilemmas affecting the identity politics movement is the issue of whether men transitioning to women deserve recognition and acceptance or ‘whether trans women aren’t women and are apparently “raping” lesbians’.

The ideology of identity politics asserts that the straight white male is at the apex of the privilege pyramid, responsible for the oppression of all other groups. His original sin condemns him to everlasting shame. While it is true that straight white men (as a group) have faced less obstacles than females, non-straight men or ethnic minorities, the majority of straight white men, past and present, also struggle to survive from paycheck to paycheck and are not personally involved in the oppression of any other group. While most of the world’s wealthiest individuals are Caucasian males, millions of white men exist who are both poor and powerless. The idea of ‘whiteness’ is itself an ambiguous concept involving racial profiling. For example, the Irish, Slavs and Ashkenazi Jews may look white yet have suffered more than their fair share of famines, occupations and genocides throughout the centuries. The idea of tying an individual’s privilege to their appearance is itself a form of racism dreamed up by woolly minded, liberal (some might say privileged) ‘intellectuals’ who would be superfluous in any socialist society.

Is the middle-class ethnic minority lesbian living in Western Europe more oppressed than the whitish looking Syrian residing under ISIS occupation? Is the British white working class male really more privileged than a middle class woman from the same society? Stereotyping based on race, gender or any other factor only leads to alienation and animosity. How can there be unity amongst the Left if we are only loyal to ourselves and those most like us? Some ‘white’ men who feel the Left has nothing to offer them have decided to play the identity politics game in their search of salvation and have drifted towards supporting Trump (a billionaire with whom they have nothing in common) or far-right movements, resulting in further alienation, animosity and powerlessness which in turn only strengthens the position of the top 1%. People around the world are more divided by class than any other factor.

It is much easier to ‘struggle’ against an equally or slightly less oppressed group than to take the time and effort to unite with them against the common enemy – capitalism. Fighting oppression through identity politics is at best a lazy, perverse and fetishistic form of the class struggle led by mostly liberal, middle class and tertiary-educated activists who understand little of left-wing political theory. At worst it is yet another tool used by the top 1% to divide the other 99% into 99 or 999 different competing groups who are too preoccupied with fighting their own little corner to challenge the status quo. It is ironic that one of the major donors to the faux-left identity politics movement is the privileged white cisgender male billionaire George Soros, whose NGOs helped orchestrate the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine that gave way to the emergence of far right and neo-nazi movements: the kind of people who believe in racial superiority and do not look kindly on diversity.

There is a carefully crafted misconception that identity politics derives from Marxist thought and the meaningless phrase ‘cultural Marxism’, which has more to do with liberal culture than Marxism, is used to sell this line of thinking. Not only does identity politics have nothing in common with Marxism, socialism or any other strand of traditional left-wing thought, it is anathema to the very concept.

‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ has been replaced with something like ‘An injury to me is all that matters’. No socialist country, whether in practice or in name only, promoted identity politics. Neither the African and Asian nations that liberated themselves from colonialist oppression nor the USSR and Eastern Bloc states nor the left-wing movements that sprung up across Latin America in the early 21st century had any time to play identity politics.

The idea that identity politics is part of traditional left-wing thought is promoted by the right who seek to demonise left wing-movements, liberals who seek to infiltrate, backstab and destroy said left-wing movements, and misguided young radicals who know nothing about political theory and have neither the patience nor discipline to learn. The last group seek a cheap thrill that makes them feel as if they have shaken the foundations of the establishment when in reality they strengthen it.

Identity politics is typically a modern middle-class led phenomenon that helps those in charge keep the masses divided and distracted. In the West you are free to choose any gender or sexuality, transition between these at whim, or perhaps create your own, but you are not allowed to question the foundations of capitalism or liberalism. Identity politics is the new opiate of the masses and prevents organised resistance against the system. Segments of the Western Left even believe such aforementioned ‘freedoms’ are a bellwether of progress and an indicator of its cultural superiority, one that warrants export abroad be it softly via NGOs or more bluntly through colour revolutions and regime change.”

must read

The emerging answer
is not an information
from outside but a movement
inside

without it in you and me
no new world is possible

only keeping oneself
stoned by daily infonoise

with the quite night-sky
you can grow heavenly seeds
for:

distance- Uranus
community – Venus
sovereignty – Sun
wit – Mercury
sympathy – Jupiter
measure – Saturn
ire – Mars

weekly coached by the gods: the astromaniac minds
this week:

http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-week-of-reconciliation.html

This short article does a very good job describing these war crimes.

Expert Debunks Hiroshima, Nagasaki Myths on 73rd Anniversary of Atomic Bombings

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808091067060230-expert-debunks-hiroshima-nagasaki-myths/

@ Anonymous

You ask: “When, in living memory, has any member of the US military accomplished a single good deed in the hope of benefiting the bulk of humanity rather than the Plutocracy?” Good question. It’s generally all too true that the military benefits the Plutocracy, but you generalize too much, which is what I mean by being true and false.

The military is basically a jobs program, and a way to channel all that male testosterone, and sadly now also female maleness. There’s a large army base near here, and I see military men and women all the time in Walmart, where I shop for food; the small grocery stores having disappeared quite a while ago. The military, and the VA hospital in Tomah where I once worked, is an important economic benefit for the local community. Also, I recall news stories of the military helping out in disasters.

In an ideal world, we would not need a military at all but we’re not there yet. Then, as I’ve mentioned, if true, the military is engaged in a soft coup to save the US from being imploded by Israel for the benefit of Russia and Israel. If the US is saved, it will save my retirement payments, and save me from a possible slow death on the streets; as Bro has kindly warned about. We live in a multi-shaded world, not a pure black and white one.

I said: “But then I’m dithering because that needs endless qualifying.“ You then said: “There was no inference that you were dithering over that – are you? do you imagine in 10 years when nobody has a job that the “true” Republican Conservative small government “right” will care for the individual rights of the starving by implementing a robot tax?”

I said I was not dithering regarding Trump because I have always stood by him; however, everything I say needs endless qualifying, so in that sense it is dithering. Language is always paradoxical, so in the end we go by consensus and probability; until such time as we live in a perfect world, but that would get boring, so eventually we get back to the imperfect world of paradox and uncertainty that we have now.

Regarding your question of a future Republican Conservative small government caring for individual rights, we don’t know because it’s still in the future, but I’d wager that we have a better chance for justice under Trump than Hillary Clinton. If we do have a robot tax, it will indicate that the robots are still under the control of humans, so that will be to the good.

As always, I appreciate your mind sharpening skills, not to mention your courage in questioning the unquestionable. Say hi to the wife and kids (if you have them).

@ Anonymous

I was just scrolling backwards, and came to your recent post, which I would have missed if I didn’t frequently backtrack. That’s a problem with this format, which is why I am now using the “@ Name” format. Bro will think I’m being narcissistic in hogging so much space, and maybe I am, but these times are critical, and the least I can do is preach to the choir, solipsistic or not.

Ok, ok, I am dithering regarding Trump’s ability or inability to micro-manage every damn thing. If he was truly a tyrant, as the Left believes, he might tax the robots and yank the US out of foreign countries, but then he would be signing his “retirement” warrant. Until more evidence comes in, I disagree with Brendon’s view of DT. I think Donald is playing both sides against the middle, in his patented Art of the Deal. Who in hell can tell what’s really going on? Not me. I can only connect dots like a kindergarten kid. “Sergio, Sergio, I gotta go; find out what only dead men know.” Dylan. Maybe I’ll know when I die; maybe not.

Yes, I am not sure of his motives; if that is dithering, let it be so. You are probably acutely correct that my bad side likes Trump; and worse than that, I have a Count Khazar in me, which would enjoy blowing up the whole rotten world–but then again I have a good side that stays the hand of my bad side.

Regarding robots, my dearly beloved son, Francis John, is now studying at Berkeley physics to be a robotic engineer. Robots are a part of our life now; the danger is that they are in the hands of patriarchal evilists which could spell our eventual doom. “First he’s in the background, then he’s in the front; his eyes are lookin’ like they’re are a rabbit hunt.” Bob Dylan. But we can keep robots, and robo men, as servants, not masters of war, a la Dylan.

Brendon is onto this clear and present danger, and gives us maybe ten years to turn the world right-side up. I don’t see anyone else blowing the trumpet or sounding the charge with any commensurate accuracy as to real facts–and Trump, if he does see it, cannot say it yet,yet,yet… Get it, or nyet it? It’s going to take humane people to save humanity. I can’t prove whether DT is a robot or a humanist; that will be proven in the event. I am standing by the Donald because I think he’s being used by the Military to spearhead their soft coup; in opposition to the Neo-cons using him to implode the US, and hence myself, since I live in the US heartland.

I can’t prove that the Love Army is using the US armed forces either, but I think it is. The Love Army is my representation of the higher forces engaged in this epic battle of our times. St. Paul called them “powers of the air.” Others see it in terms of God versus Satan, in an Armageddon battle occurring in and around Israel. Who could have guessed it? Why are we surprised, if we are; it’s been gearing up for 75,000 years since patriarchy began its putsch to overthrow loverarchy.