2018/08/16 17:00:03
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“This is the means to defeat the British led coup which has engulfed the United States. This is the means to ensure that the world not only survives the coming collapse of London’s bubble; but steps boldly into a new paradigm.”
Here’s a couple of examples of how “the Donald & friends” is going about it http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/trump-and-co-are-stealing-america-blind-timeline.html
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2017
1/5 Eric Trump jets to Uruguay to check on an unfinished Trump condo tower. The trip costs taxpayers $97,830.
2/5 Eric Trump spends $200,000 in taxpayer money to jet to the Dominican Republic to push for a Trump-branded project. The deal — which would put Trump’s name on 17 high-rises — violates a Dominican height limit for new resorts. It also breaks Trump’s vow not to seek overseas deals during his presidency. The Dominican president personally approves the high-rises. “Here in the palace, the president’s thoughts are that this U.S. president is angry and we better not get in his way,” a former Dominican ambassador explains. “We don’t want to cross him.”
The spoon Lady!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLmM9kcBKs
Kent
Nor sure what I’m seeing. In these parts of rural Missouri, USA, in the buckle of the Bible belt, a severely scrawny, twitchy woman, who has lost her teeth is usually symptomatic of “Methadone” addiction. Prescribed Methodone has it’s purposes in stopping opiod addiction. It does create a sense of high energy well being. But, household, illegal “Meth Labs” are a source of income for the unemployed poor and addiction to un-prescribed Meth are a large problem. There is usually a monthly or sometimes weekly story in the local news paper of a police or sheriff “bust” of a local and illegal meth lab. When I first saw the “spoon lady” I immediately thought “Meth” as did my wife. Meth was used by the Germans in WW2 to give energy and “attitude” to the troops prior to long marches or troop advances.
The home-cooked ‘meth’ involved is not methadone, it’s methamphetamine – speed. Makes people very twitchy indeed, provides a sense of high energy well being (for a while), causes people not to eat, and destroys gums/teeth. Used to be a problem around here (NH, USA) until we moved on to opioid addiction :-(
sgage, Hi! Yes! You are correct! My 80 year old brain didn’t find the right word which happens far too much. Thanks for the correction. It’s terrible stuff and still prevalent in this area.
Fantastic! Thank you so much, more please!
And who cares about her teeth, yes, these are the toothless of these parts, malnourished, hopping trains, covered in tattoos …
A fiddle solo Midnight on the Mountain by Mark O’Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XahhzJU18os
Anybody else like Chechen music? Like this – чечня Chechen music чеченская музыка – instrumental, a bit techno, approx 4.5 mins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb4B-tqHgI&index=1&list=RDFkTKOUOwD8c
Also, youtube deleted this song: Свадьба Бувайсара и Марьям Часть 2, was approx 1.hr 20 mins, I can’t find it anywhere, and I’m a bit reluctant to search Russian sites, some of which may be dodgy, I did try, but only limited. Anybody got any ideas? Many thanks.
Chechen singer
Voice – Sharip Umkhanov – Still loving you… (“Scorpions”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1n7CLhxK44
Scorpions. Still loving you. (Singer: Klaus Meine) – German original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAHWpVG1Lg
Freddy Mercury and Sharip Ukhmanov – SHOW MUST GO ON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVXCyrka7w
an old photograph
of grandma and grandpa
he’d just had his ears pulled
snow caps melting
in the spring colt’s eyes…
fire!
lying awake at night
a cuckoo’s trancelike song
three hours to sunrise
the desolation
of living without you,
a madness gone wild
always arriving
never ( getting ) there
even the shadows
make way
cat on silent feet
what flattery
and praise cannot achieve
guile surely will
give thanks
for every gift, however
great or small
a faerie wedding
painted in running ochre
on a seashell
My crypto roundup for this week:
First, a good article on the current state of dApps:
State of the dApps (hint: way too early)
Statistics on ETH dApps, which are thus far the most advanced:
https://dappradar.com/charts
These radar reports could be a good map of what to expect from emerging platforms such as EOS.
Next, those of you following cryptos will have noted the market turmoil over the past week. Some analysis here:
Notes From the Brink: Reasons Behind the Crypto Bear Market
Next, some selected comments from here and there, trying to understand what’s happening with crypto markets now:
Comment:
“There’s been a massive 42% increase in visitors to bitcoin.org from Istanbul as the Turkish Lira plummets. This is how Bitcoin takes over the world, not through ETF’s and “HODL”, but through replacing fiat currencies as they fall apart!” [link]
Comment:
“Weak hands who FOMO’d in after last Oct have been shaken out. ICO’s are panic selling ETH to preserve capital for their projects, and taking the rest of the alt coin market down with it. They sold over 100K ETH in just the last month. This is why Bitcoin dominance has gone up over 53% for the first time this year. Will probably continue up to 58-60% dominance before alts hit bottom. Last time that happened was in early December, when BTC dominance hit 62%, and we all know what happened to alt coins right after that in Dec-Jan. When alts start moving up again, probably after the VanEck Solid X Bitcoin ETF, based on actual BTC, not futures, gets approved in September, the obscenely over leveraged shorts on Bitmex, et al, will get rekt in a big way and the next FOMO move up in alts will begin.” [link]
Comment:
“The owner of the New York Stock Exchange is launching a company known as Bakkt that will offer a federally regulated market for digital assets like cryptocurrencies. Microsoft is to create a platform that allows the crypto assets to be bought, sold, stored and spent.
The CBOE has an ETF in for approval. It will be approved. They have the name, the reputation, the insurance, the custodianship, and the required price data feeds to make it happen. The SEC will approve it.
Funds are being established to trade and track multiple cryptos… kind of like a DJ-30. Other funds are ready to invest in these funds, opening the door to pension fund investments in these fund of funds.
There has been no let up in hedge fund and venture capital investments in crypto infrastructure. The smart money knows what’s coming.
This will eventually be a 40 trillion dollar market cap. At the current 190 billion market cap, that’s a 210 fold increase.” [link]
Thanks Mujo for the update on currency codes, nodes, implodes and explodes.
It cohere’s pretty closely with what I sense is happening.
amarynth would like the community to prosper,just a bit from the Huge Coming Transfer of Wealth from the blind and clueless to the astute…that she sees coming ………..but most, in fact,..Very Few Of You . will have ANY of it!
Cause Me is Me and ALL of THAT (and most of the rest of the Universe, either……) is “NOT ME”.
By definition and identity.
I get it. But for a few, a wee few happy, happy few, that like to be open to something new and growth of understanding:
Keep your Internet of Money position sizes relatively small enough to hang on, 2,3,4 years even and 100X in 5,6 years, minimum…is the probable reward…because you won’t be a “weak hand” ……….shaken out.
And (no advice…just common sense…) YOU need to be able to ride it out…no matter how low or over and out …to ZERO….it goes…in the meantime. Like anything else in life, ALL risk is impossible to eliminate.
The REAL question is…What are the best risk/reward ratios…in YOUR choice of mates, occupation, next book to read…whatever….relative to whatever else is within your ken……or radar scope.
But each is responsible, with no blaming rights. to choose their destiny in all realms
Dennis tries to rally the Love Army to “Get it on!”…..altogether now! But Everyone Goes His or Her Own Way.
I buy a more powerful computer to trade in my old age because I can do that before noon and nap half the afternoon, which doesn’t work too well in the other “daily bread: earning pursuits I know. And hungry young eagles are still in the nest, squawking loudly to be fed….
My teenager notices that it says “Gaming Computer” on the box and gets all excited about using it.
I explain that it is strictly dedicated to trading, NO other applications will be allowed on it, and the only time he will ever use it is when I teach him trading.
He smirks (now 6 ft + as a junior in high school, wiry fit, hard body, and can no longer be reasoned with …..or intimidated) and says,
“We’ll see about THAT.”, and walks away, feeling his oats and rising confidence in getting EXACTLY what he wants out of life, regardless of what Dad wants or needs…..
What’s a Commander of a Family or Army Dispersing Through Heteronomic Centrifugal Force strong enough to overcome even the magnetic attractions of communal sex, honey….or money……TO DO??
Anonymouse would rather bitch, bitch, bitch about DJT Jr taking care of business for Dad who has survived a fair number of attempts on his life, but what’s that compared to leftist bitching and whining rights?? Nothing!
Those (whining rights) are obviously sacrosanct and of a Far Higher Cardinality (importance, numerically and magnitudinally speaking) than ALL other considerations and results that plausibly will affect 7-8 billions of other persons in a beneficial way if the Cabal is taken down by HIS hated ones: Trump……Xi …PUTIN….or any combination of the three.
“Different strokes” on VERY different calculators “for different folks.”
I get it. I really do.
Stroke away to your heart’s discontent.
But it must disappoint that even DL will not join the Anti-Big Three (Xi, Putin and DJT) Whiner’s Chorus.
In some ways we’re all together. In other ways we are all alone.
Thanks for a very comprehensive report. If the system is going down then the biggest rats start exiting first. I never budged off of Bitcoin ( very humble amount) because it had the “brand” and these big rats love “the brand” just like Tesla got edged out by Edison.
Investing in cryptocurrencies is not for the faint of heart or those who can’t handle a learning curve. I Just hope it will fund my exile abroad if necessary…. Still, there is one heck of a fight ahead of us in Loonytunesville, USA and who would want to miss that historic moment?
Review of the near past
Badri Patarkatsishvili. Wild money
[Badri Patarkatsishvili – full name Arkady Shalvovich Patarkatsishvili – born 31.10.1955 inTbilisi,
Giorgia, died 12.02.2008 in Heatherhead, Surrey, UK; https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8,_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8 ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fWFP6DIhfk&t=704s
Berezovsky – ordered murders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZ6QW8ZqVs
Berezovsky’s former chief of service, Sergey Sokolov about the habits of the oligarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdLfq0Ym_o&t=3s
You can change the videos’ subtitles to English
‘We defeated communist Japan’: Fox News host offers irrefutable proof of America’s greatness
https://www.rt.com/usa/436211-japan-communist-fox-earhardt-great/
“The US victory over “communist Japan” serves as ironclad proof of the America’s greatness, Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt has argued, laying waste to highly un-American utterances made by New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
“You know, we defeated communist Japan, radical Islamists. We ask our men and women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for our country so we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave,” the host said.”
The pindo far right…as dumbed down as it gets.
I do not watch Fox very often –thanks for the heads-up on this one. A “train wreck monologue”, indeed. One thing I can do in the face of “news people” making utterances like this is encourage people to never stop studying, never stop reading, and engage in life-long learning.
Often, we will learn that the things we were taught in our school/college history classes were complete lies — but the lies have been repeated so often that people believe that they are true. Almost sacred. It takes a brave person to admit, “I was wrong”. It is also okay for Americans to ask “How much has this lie cost us over all of these years?”
Consider this: if it is actually true that “we ask our men and women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for our country so we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave” then that would hopefully imply that “our” men and women are fighting the “right” enemy, the real enemy. Punching out the wrong guy won’t make us heroes. We’ve had enough hit men for capitalism.(Read “War is a Racket” by General Butler). I am angry at the enemies within far more than the ones without, I despise the Judases that long ago have sold us out, and are busy- busy planning our demise. They are here far more than they are overseas. I do not ask “our” troops to go overseas and kill people I have no quarrel with.
We are at the point where people are going to have to make a choice between 1. more wars, or 2. receiving their Social Security. Want to save a trillion dollars? –stop the wars! It is scary, this is going to be a really tough choice for a lot of folks! Maybe we could finally become known as the “land of the financially responsible”….. Or, “the land of the brave souls who are minimally deluded” because they started asking Lots and lots of tough questions…..
A good comment Chad.
Unfortunately it seems the American people are so brainwashed that they are beyond saving themselves. It seems the only choice that they will ever make is for something that will make no difference, Democrat or Rebublican.
Here’s what the latest bunch of turkeys received in voting for christmas
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/19/trump-fills-swamp-exploit-college-students
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An even bigger concern is that DeVos and her department are awarding new loan service contracts at all without adopting any new reforms to prevent these companies from gouging loan holders and running up the bill to the federal government.
In reporting about the Performant deal, a journalist for Dow Jones quotes student loan borrower advocates who compare student debt collectors to firms working for the Internal Revenue Service that, in 2017, collected $6.7 million in tax payments but invoiced the government $20 million for their services.
While the Trump administration puts into place personnel and procedure that benefit the college student loan industry, his Justice department is actively engaged in preventing any other branches of law enforcement from holding the companies accountable for cheating borrowers and running up expenses to the public.
As Reuters reports, the Trump administration recently intervened in a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General that accuses a company that handles over a quarter of the nation’s outstanding college student debt for “deceptive practices” and overcharging students.
Massachusetts accuses the loan servicer, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, of causing public workers and teachers in the state to lose benefits and assistance provided by the federal government, including a program that forgives student loans after 10 years of public-service employment.
In defense of the loan company, Trump’s DoJ filed papers telling the judge to dismiss the charges because Massachusetts doesn’t have standing to pursue claims against the company. Should the judge comply, this would establish a terrible precedent for future actions against abusive college loan debt collectors..
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Yes, The Big G is following you: Google admits it tracks users when location history is turned off
https://www.rt.com/usa/436159-google-admits-tracking-location-history/
“The news agency looked into the matter after K. Shankari, a graduate researcher at the University of California Berkeley blogged about how her Android device had prompted her to rate a recent shopping trip to Kohl’s despite her location history function being disabled. AP’s findings were later confirmed by computer-science researchers at Princeton University.
While it is possible to completely disable location tracking, doing so is far more complicated than Google initially let on: users have to delete stored location markers by hand, with each one needing to be selected and deleted individually, unless you want to delete all of your stored activity at the same time.”
CNN Español uses photo of pro-government rally in report about protest against Nicaraguan president
https://www.rt.com/news/436186-cnn-nicaragua-rally-wrong-photograph/
“CNN Español tweeted out a video report on August 15 about Nicaraguans “returning to the streets to express their rejection of [President] Daniel Ortega’s government,” accompanied by a photograph of a large pro-government rally that took place several days prior.
The odd choice of photograph is particularly curious because it’s difficult to imagine how the marchers could be mistaken as anti-government. A red-and-black Sandinista flag is clearly visible in the background, and some demonstrators are even seen wearing red-and-black bandanas over their mouths. The Sandinista National Liberation Front – or FSLN – is the democratic socialist political party headed by Ortega.
“There is a flag of the FSLN in the picture. This is a PRO-government demonstration, absurd propaganda,” US journalist Ben Norton tweeted at the news site in Spanish.”
The pindo right wing zionazi-gay dumbing down machine marches on…
You won’t hear trump calling cnn out on this one, though, nor his head bobbing dittoheads. This govno isn’t fake news to them, it’s standard policy to be promoted and supported.
‘Su-35 Can See F-35 All Right’: Military Expert Says US Jet ‘Too Complex’
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808151067215661-f35-su35-expert-opinion/
“The F-35 is a very complex system and, as such, it has lots of holes, bugs and other things, and it is very difficult to debug it. Like other problems, all this is because it is an excessively high-tech aircraft,” Drozdenko said.
“The Americans tolerate this plane because it’s a very big and expensive business with contracts running into trillions of dollars. While they keep making the F-35as, the Americans are modernizing their 4++ generation F-18s and F-15s trying to bring them up to par with Russia’s Su-35,” he noted.
The expert stressed that a single-hour flight of an F-35 costs about $40,000 compared to about $18,000 for an F-18.
Another big question is whether we really need such expensive planes like F-35s and Su-57s.
Drozdenko believes that instead of going for the fifth generation, Russia should use the Su-57 prototype to develop a six-generation fighter.
“We should keep in mind that the Su-35S can see the F-35 all right and it has excellent flying characteristics too.”
Dmitry Drozdenko doesn’t think that Turkey would opt to buy Su-57s from Russia instead of the F-35s whose delivery has been put on hold by Washington, simply because Ankara has already paid for their delivery.
“Another reason is that Turkey is part of the production chain and its exit would cost Lockheed Martin a lot of money,” the expert said, adding that the current spat between Turkey and the US was unlikely to result in a complete break-off because Turkey is too important ally for the US in the region.
“Why don’t the Americans want to hand these planes over to Turkey? I think one reason is that the F-35s’ arrival would create a unique situation where US planes and Russian missile defense systems find themselves as part of a single armed force. Then it could transpire that the stealth fighter is not as stealthy as is touted. The word could leak out for everyone to realize that the F-35 is really not such a big deal after all. This could lead to a financial scandal.”
He added that quality management with the F-35 depends directly on the manufacturer supplying spare parts, etc.
“But what happens if a country buying these planes falls out of Washington’s favor? If it does, the Americans will simply pull the plug and the plane is no longer a plane. Everyone who buys [F-35] immediately becomes dependent on someone who has his finger on the button,” Dmitry Drozdenko emphasized.”
Here’s some zionazi-gays from the same list showing “the Donald” some appreciation
“2018
2/26 An Israel-focused charity, the Truth About Israel, relocates its gala to Mar-a-Lago in appreciation of the president’s support for Israel.
Reply immediately above in wrong place – meant as a reply to:
“Anonymouse would rather bitch, bitch, bitch about DJT Jr taking care of business for Dad who has survived a fair number of attempts on his life, but what’s that compared to leftist bitching and whining rights?? Nothing!”
Panicking pindos?
‘What Are They Complaining About?’ Experts Dismiss US Fears of Russian Satellite
https://sputniknews.com/military/201808171067284881-Experts-Dismiss-US-Fears-Russian-Satellite/
“On Tuesday, the US State Department raised alarm at the UN conference on disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, about a Russian satellite they knew little about. They concluded that this lack of knowledge was both suspicious and threatening, all but saying it was a Russian weapon.
Astronomers, however, don’t seem to understand what the big deal is.
It’s possible the satellites are connected to the military, although Weeden noted that the unusually early reporting date by the Russian government to the UN, August 1, is inconsistent with military launches. However, McDowell told Space.com that Poblete’s claim the satellite was engaged in “very abnormal behavior” worthy of suspicion simply doesn’t hold water.
“What are they complaining about?” he asked. “There are a lot of facts and not a lot of pattern… So, partly I take the US statement as saying, ‘Russia, how dare you do something confusing?'”
Rather than panicking, it’s more likely the subhuman, buggered/buggering zionazi scum simply saw another chance to run another chickenshit propaganda campaign.
US Redirects $230Mln for Syria Stabilization, to Continue Funding White Helmets
https://sputniknews.com/us/201808171067281154-us-syria-funds-whitehelmets/
“The United States is redirecting some funding from stabilization efforts in Syria, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert stated on Friday.
“We will continue to provide life-saving, needs-based humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Syrians, support for the White Helmets and the UN’s International Impartial and Independent Mechanism to hold the [Syrian President Bashar] Assad regime accountable for serious crimes, as well as equipment and other measures to counter the effects of chemical weapons in northwest Syria,” Nauert said.”
IE: the likud scum occupying israel’s colonial trump regime plan to carry on with their attack on Syria.
Let’s not deal with chump change. Let’s follow the Big Money. And Big Ideas, not Petty Peeves that miss the Forest for a Few Trees…….
Now in the Q-niverse 5 EYES is attacked as full of black hats betraying each others nations and citizenries on behalf of the globalists.
People within those citizenries are catching on to that reality and many more by the day are perking up and watching War Drummer, Praying Medic and reading Neon Revolt. Some “believe”, many are skeptical and many demand “proof”, especially if the Q presenters are C and D level. Can’t fault the C and Ds for enthusiastically trying and “believing”…….but until I dove a bit into the first three specifically mentioned…..I wasn’t so sure I would spend any more time in the Q-niverse…based on the many C and D level you tubers that made me react as Internal Exile says he did. But those three were more convincing that the Pamphleteers.
An Honest Judge Must At Least Hear Both Sides…….before D-ciding.
Who are the Neons and Medics of the Other 4 Eyes?
Britishers, Canadians, Australians, Kiwis???
I don’t know as I’d call Stroppy Me From Down Under B Level yet, as he admits he doesn’t get a lot of Q code (on the fly—-much is only figured out by the top guys …..months later….after putting required pieces together and then going back….as they are often Q instructed to do…) but I will give him a B for trying and for honesty and …………for speaking intelligibly enough through that accent that I can comprehend half of what he says.
Good job!
But I’ll be damned if I know what “Stroppy” means ..(I haven’t had time to go back to see if anyone down under enlightened us..sorry..) .or whether it is important to know to determine whether to strain harder to understand that Eastern Aussie accent.
But “OH CANADA!”…do you have an A!
As in A-mazing Polly.
From a strictly male perspective, as far as Intelligent Intelligence Women Go…..I’d have to switch from the alphabet to Number.
And say “Amazing Polly Is a 10!”
Amazing as She Is, Polly is still human, and “To Err is Human”…but Polly makes her thought processes, so open, so sympathetic, so NICE, and so dangerous to the Cabal…..that well, from this judge’s vantage point…..She’s A “Ten”.
The Geographical Keystone is Russia, capping Eurasia…..the World Island divided and tortured by the Cabal of Black Sun Worshipping Pedophiles. But here’s Amazing Polly is in the Q-niverse following Qlues about THE KEYSTONE to the current strategic situation, in a deeper HISTORICAL RESEARCH WAY…. than I have seen anyone else (Neon, Medic, Bill Smith…the lady is cleaning your clocks….try harder!) do it……. SO FAR.
“Who won World War II?. It was not the Allies, either western or Soviet. It was the globalists, who succeeded in getting THEIR Nazis smuggled into the intelligence services of especially the United States starting with a key series of documented events in 1944 inside Germany which I did NOT know about, just days ago, in my first Keystone video, but which I will show you the source material for, in this video.”
https://youtu.be/6hzANkLXiG4
Q KEYSTONE Dig 2 – Nazis in the US Military Intel Apparatus
Gotta go. Whatcha got, England and New Zealand??? Can any of y’all Dig It….Like Amazing Polly Can???
Stroppy in Aussie slang means – someone who is agitated and is showing it through their attitude; Someone who is frustrated and behaving erratically.
However the character ‘Strop’ is a lovable larrikin (dumbwitted surf life saver) from the iconic Paul Hogan comedy series (before he made Crocodile Dundee).
Classic – Hoges and Strop after a big night out on the booze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_28YAeHA0
Babushka: Thanks for the Aussie vocab and sitcom lesson!
I think my parents were married down there……….1945…… Army Lt and Army nurse stationed in New Guinea……….
Been there once, but I was only 4 or 5 years old then….
The Enigma of Orwellian Donald Trump: How Does He Get Away with It so Easily?
http://rodriguetremblay100.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-enigma-of-orwellian-donald-trump.html?m=1
“In this day and age, with instant information, how does a politician succeed in double-talking, in bragging, in scapegoating and in shamefully distorting the truth, most of the time, without being unmasked as a charlatan and discredited? Why? That is the mysterious and enigmatic question that one may ask about U. S. President Donald Trump, as a politician.
The most obvious answer is the fact that Trump’s one-issue and cult-like followers do not care what he does or says and whether or not he has declared a war on truth and reality, provided he delivers the political and financial benefits they demand of him, based on their ideological or pecuniary interests. These groups of voters live in their own reality and only their personal interests count.
There are four groups of one-issue voters to whom President Donald Trump has delivered the goodies:
• Christian religious right voters, whose main political issue is to fill the U. S. Supreme Court with ultra conservative judges. On that score, Donald Trump has been true to them by naming one such judge and in nominating a second one.
• Super rich Zionists and the Pro-Israel Lobby, whose obsession is the state of Israel. Again, on that score, President Donald Trump has fulfilled his promise to them and he has unilaterally moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in addition to attacking the Palestinians and tearing up the ‘Iran Deal’.
• The one-percent Income earners and some corporate owners, whose main demand to Trump was substantial tax cuts and deregulation. Once again, President Trump has fulfilled this group’s wishes with huge tax cuts, mainly financed with future public debt increases, which are going to be paid for by all taxpayers.
• The NRA and the Pro-Gun Lobby, whose main obsession is to have the right to arm themselves to the teeth, including with military assault weapons, with as few strings attached as possible. Here again President Donald Trump has sided with them and against students who are increasingly in the line of fire in American schools.
With the strong support of these four monolithic lobbies—his electoral base—politician Donald Trump can count on the indefectible support of between 35 percent and 40 percent of the American electorate. It is ironic that some of Trump’s other policies, like reducing health care coverage and the raising of import taxes, will hurt the poor and the middle class, even though some of Trump’s victims can be considered members of the above lobbies.
Moreover, some of Trump’s supporters regularly rely on hypocrisy and on excuses to exonerate their favorite but flawed politician of choice. If any other politician from a different party were to say and do half of what Donald Trump does and says, they would be asking for his impeachment.
b- The second one can be found in Trump’s artful and cunning tactics to unbalance and manipulate the media to increase his visibility to the general public and to turn them into his own tools of propaganda. When Trump attacks the media, he is in fact coaxing them to give him free coverage to spread his insults, his fake accusations, his provocations, his constant threats, his denials or reversals, his convenient changes of subject or his political spins. Indeed, with his outrageous statements, his gratuitous accusations and his attacks ‘ad hominem’, and by constantly bullying and insulting adversaries at home and foreign heads of states abroad, and by issuing threats in repetition, right and left, Trump has forced the media to talk and journalists to write about him constantly, on a daily basis, 24/7.
c- Finally, some far-right media outlets, such as Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting, have taken it upon themselves to systematically present Trump’s lies and misrepresentations as some ‘alternative’ truths and facts.
Indeed, ever since 1987, when the Reagan administration abolished the Fairness Doctrine for licensing public radio and TV waves, and since a Republican dominated Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed for the mass conglomeration of local broadcasting in the United States, extreme conservative news outlets, such as the Fox and Sinclair networks, have sprung up. They are well financed, and they have essentially become powerful political propaganda machines, erasing the line between facts and fiction, and regularly presenting fictitious alternative facts as the truth.
In so doing, they have pushed public debates in the United States away from facts, reason and logic, at least for those listeners and viewers for whom such outlets are the only source of information. It is not surprising that such far-right media have also made Donald Trump the champion of their cause, maliciously branding anything inconvenient as ‘fake’ news, as Trump has done in his own anti-media campaign and his sustained assault on the free press.”
Interesting analysis. I quoted the parts I think are fairly dead on. The area’s I disagree with, the author claims trump is “the mastermind”, while I think he is just playing his role as their sales boy and circus show man. He’s the bs’er they use to sell their product and absorb the flak.
I would add another group, to Trump´s unconditional electoral base, which by itself could englobe almost all of the others beneficiaries, being the core of its high ranking offcials Christian conservatives, upper middle class well- off people, and favourable to NRA as well, and it is no other than Pentagon.
The interests of high ranking people there whose earnings were in the range of the six cyphers, retired in their early 50s, which allowed them to reciclate themselves as military/security contractors. These have collected benefits from every measure put in place by The Donald….included that health care priviledges they enjoy, and use, ( and save spending on ) from the VA which remain untouched….while they claimed all day from their blogs against MediCare….
A few Cafes back ‘one minion’ wrote about ants making bridges … take a look …
“Captured in Costa Rica, the July 30 Viral Hog footage is a remarkable presentation of the legionary ant’s ability when aided by a productive colony. The insects are seen utilizing a sophisticated bridge composed of only their bodies in order to invade and pillage a wasp nest.”
https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/201808181067287396-army-ants-construct-body-bridge/
… and …
Jim Stone makes intelligent self evident observations on the collapsed bridge in Genoa … go to Jim Stone website and scroll.
“Google street view was enough to prove it. As you can see here, it was a minimally built structure that did not get maintenance. The concrete rotted out in the ONE (1) place providing support (that was too small to withstand any damage, let alone neglect), and down it went.”
Google do not like Jim Stone, so I suggest using DuckDuckGo to search.
http://82.221.129.208/.yg4.html
Trump continues to fullfil his campaign promises…to israel.
ISIS given ‘breathing space’ in parts of Syria under US-backed forces’ control
https://www.rt.com/news/436251-isis-breathing-space-syria/
“Islamic State managed to regain access to Syrian oil fields and make profits from selling oil, a new UN report reveals. While the UN did not point fingers, the IS reemergence seems to occur in areas held by the US-backed forces.
“Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant [IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS], having been defeated militarily in Iraq and most of the Syrian Arab Republic during 2017, rallied in early 2018. This was the result of a loss of momentum by forces fighting it in the east of the Syrian Arab Republic,” the recent report from the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Team reads. The document is dated July 27, but was only released to the public this week.
The slow-down gave IS “breathing space to prepare for the next phase of its evolution into a global covert network.” As of June 2018, the terrorist group has been controlling “small pockets of territory in the Syrian Arab Republic on the Iraqi border,” effectively carrying on with its quasi-state ways.
“[IS] was able to extract and sell some oil, and to mount attacks, including across the border into Iraq,” the reports stated, adding that the terrorist group regained “access to some oil fields in northeastern” Syria.
While the report did not specify which forces exactly were having troubles with “momentum,” northeastern Syria is located on the left bank of the Euphrates river, controlled by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia backed by the US-led coalition.
Regaining control of the oil fields allowed IS to yet again make oil profits a significant source of revenue. The report also vaguely stated that IS continues to impose “taxes” on civilians “in areas it controls, as well as in contested areas,” as well as to kidnap local businessmen for ransom.
Apart from strengthening of IS-held “pockets” in northeastern Syria, the report also listed a number of hotspots in Syria, which might be sources of further IS reemergence. Among them, the UN named the Rukban refugee camp, located near the At-Tanf US military base. Other IS-infested places listed in the report include unspecified locations in the Aleppo province and an area controlled by a IS-affiliated group in the Deraa province. The latter, however, has been already eradicated late in July during the Syrian Army offensive in the south-west of the country.
The issue of the Rukban refugee camp has been repeatedly raised by Moscow and Damascus, who repeatedly urged the US to cooperate. Earlier in August, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of operations of the Russian General Staff, described Rukban as place where “people are living in harsh conditions and where terrorists find shelter.”
“Our American partners should provide humanitarian access to Rukban as soon as possible, provide passage for the refugees to their home areas and withdraw the base from at-Tanf,” Rudskoy stated.”
R.E.O Speedwagon – (Golden Country) Check it out! Gary eats frets for breakfast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FS9V2ixTwrs#
“Golden Country”
Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin’ just what comes after
Well your blacks are dyin’ but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin’ but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand
Mortgage people you crawl to your homes
Your security lies in your bed of white foam
You act concerned but then why turn away
When a lady was raped on your doorstep today
Well your blacks are cryin’ but your back is still turned
And your freaks are dyin’ but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand, oh yeah……”
A beautiful Hungarian ballad – “The Bards of Wales”
http://www.visegradliterature.net/works/hu/Arany_J%C3%A1nos/A_walesi_b%C3%A1rdok/en/3501-The_bards_of_Wales
Welsh and Hungary
https://www.transceltic.com/welsh/welsh-and-hungarian-connection-bards-of-wales-walesi-bardok-janos-arany
As we do not have a current southfront post or analysis re Syria…..excellent positional summary here from ex uk Ambassador to Syria here…maybe could be a post?
https://thewallwillfall.org/2018/08/15/the-road-to-idlib-and-beyond-where-next-for-syria-peter-ford/
For Those Who Need a Pill:
The BBC gives you their spin on the MATRIX and the now Iconic meme of Red vs Blue, coming squarely down in favor of the Blue Pill……and against Q.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ac9wj2ZVRM 2 minutes
Believers of opposite realities amuse me.
But when it comes to Enslavement to Empire Ideology……very sorry, BBC but it is quite clear that those that YOU and Your AZ Masters Deplore….have infinitely more potential to grow and KNOW……than the mindless minions that imbibe your Empire swill on a regular basis.
They vary, from the growing hopeful crowds of emotionally tearful “believers” and T-shirt customers to some that know quite a bit about you and your Jimmy Saville and mind control through pedophilic blackmail………… to more informed, knowledgeable Yanks, and Cannucks, Kiwis and Brits and Aussies that have your slave masters’ number.
You’re losing.
Best up your dose of the blues to several more a day. Your own countrymen may finally get around to creating a Republic ….and flushing your Despicable Monarchy Away.
The Keystone is Russia. Quite a few, even among the emotional “believers” in the Red Wave understand and appreciate THAT. The rest may learn the details very soon of who YOU backed and the treason and heinous crimes they have committed …….even YES!!! against children on their own soil…..not just with drones to fuel your “Clash of Civilizations”.horror show.
That’s really what counts for right now. The Keystone. Which color is open to the truth concerning Russia, which you fail the test on, with 100% consistency. DUH!!!
A classical education and culture will take a generation or two. When there are a hundred million or so Americans that can actually think and discern your AZ Empire bullshit for the Sodomic “Special Relationship” Shit it IS, that foulness will be Down the Toilet Forever! Along with your Blue-pilled Traitors and Morons here.
Cheerio!
An 18-year-old Georgian man solved six Rubik’s Cubes in one single breath while underwater.
Vako Marchelashvili was underwater for one minute 44 seconds and 25 split seconds.
After observing Marchelashvili’s attempt, the Georgian Records Federation issued a diploma confirming his result. They are going to send the evidence to Guinness World Record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=88&v=CvhggpWHYx4
Review of the past
New Ukraine. Wild money – Movie
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhNdbcpvxo
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkhVfuRC5mg&t=1065s
You can change the videos’ subtitles to English
For any interested about Egypt came across a book review about how Israel thwarted Democracy there.
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/egyptian-uprising-democracy/
Anyone deluded enough to believe that Israel truly wants democracy to spread in the Middle East must read David D. Kirkpatrick’s outstanding first-hand account of the 2011 uprising in Egypt and its ugly aftermath. Kirkpatrick was the New York Times’s main reporter on the scene in Cairo, and readers who remember his superb dispatches from Tahrir Square back then will also be fascinated by his follow-up reporting, which includes interviews with the major Egyptian protagonists and with other key actors like former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama’s influential assistant, Ben Rhodes.
Kirkpatrick’s page-turning account is called Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. It is about much more than Israel’s support for the brutal 2013 coup that overturned Egypt’s nascent (if flawed) democracy and restored a military regime that is today the most repressive in Egypt’s modern history. But at every stage, his thorough history shows that whenever some American officials, like President Obama, tried to promote democracy by threatening to cut off some of the $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid, Israel and its supporters in Washington lobbied hard against it.
By the way want to know just how crazy and stupid things are getting in the US. Take a gander at this…
https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/1030832190370848768
there are some good advice in this CJ article, it do not belong in the breaking news section so i will post it here.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-beat-a-manipulator-2a19457f01cd
What will ZioNs make of this?
“If Corbyn = Hitler then we can assume that Hitler = Corbyn. This could be a dangerous path for British Jews, especially considering the fact that despite the relentless Zionist campaign against him, Corbyn is still leading in the polls. ”
https://alethonews.com/2018/08/18/jews-logic-and-corbyn/
@ E. Ofel
Thanks for your perceptive post at the last cafe, which brought up basic issues in physics, psychology and politics. You concluded your comment with two of the most important questions in politics and philosophy: “Who is the main player, pulling the strings?” and “Is the universe geo-centric?”
My sources of information regarding such questions are three: the Love Government, Army and Bower; Brendon O’Connell; and Miles Mathis. Rather than wasting my time talking to the walls, if there is anyone other than yourself interested, I refer him or her to the aforesaid sources.
Briefly, my opinion about the first question is “Russians and Russian Jews” who are about to spring Communism 2.0 upon the world, unless prevented from doing so by the U.S. military, the Marines in particular.
Regarding the second question, I think reality is geo-centric, “as far as we are concerned.”
Love, Dennis
On reading Dostoevsky in Sacramento:
re: Demons or The Possessed.
The only man, Fedka -a seemingly minor yet ever present character- to unequivocably confront evil in ” The Demons” has been murdered. Shatov, although he was warned, has heedlessly allowed himself to be lured to slaughter by erstwhile “friends” in one of the most gruesome murder scenes in 19th century literature. (The tone of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cast of Amontillado” comes close ).
And I am sick. Sick at heart at what is being down to my country. Sick at casual cruelty which has become socially acceptable. Sick at what I have done and failed to do in my own personal life. And as all levels of grief settle into a nasty summer lung infection I am forced to confront my own deepest fears. A friend of mine has the great fear of never feeling loved so she repeats rather self defeating patterns which require rescue by friends, coworkers, neighbors, room mates etc in order to feel loved. She is quite skillful at it. So I look at my very clever ways of self protection which really do nothing more than keep me hamstrung with my light under the bushel and clinging to the illusion that my feeble efforts can create a feeling of absolute safety. Illusion. All Illusion. self delusion.
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Thanks for your honesty and courage. God be with you.
Tera, save your heart and the spark of God in it, in your country, so being down
… you are a female human on his planet and your confession from 8.9. was the best aka shortest I red in the vineyard since
“My two cents on Russia:
A Pisces nation like Russia has no problem going inward to find itself and then soaring high to new heights.
( beware : the polarity of the monastery is the gulag and of self-sacrifice—betrayal)
It is a Cancer nation like Looneytune-landia which needs to learn to play fair and share
beware: runaway growth is called cancer–sometimes the cure is poison itself but Refusal to act in the world of action is an act in itself.”
Great 2 cents, buying some time of silence and reflection.
Got to hug you
Thank you both, my friends Mundanomaniac and Dennis L. and all of you who post in the Vineyard. Promise: no more whining!
Hi T
Your thoughts resonate with me. I find the inner weather of my soul is almost always sad and cloudy with a few days of sunshine here and there. I have come to accept that I have a deep and acute sadness, and also believe there is a purpose for this aching introspection, so I am honoring it, and journaling a lot.
So sorry to hear about your lung infection. I wonder what kind of exposure brought that on. Hope the air is not too bad over there. No medical advice here, but my successful ‘go to’ for either viral or bacterial issues is oil of oregano and oil of thyme. Very powerful antibacterial and anti viral oils. If you have these plants near you you can start with chewing a few leaves- very strong medicine.
Don’t be hard on yourself!
k
Dear tera
I enjoy your remarks on the writings of Dostoevsky.
Hope that you find the resilience to bounce back to strong health soon.
Sending you some azure blue winter sky filled with Pacific Ocean positive ions to inhale. We are all connected by the same sky.
I see Fedka as an unaffiliated foot soldier, an asset, raw material in the larger machinations afoot. Come to think of it, it appears that Stavogin himself, also mistakenly claims that he is unaffiliated, that he is not bound by the society. What Dostoevsky is telling us is that the battle is spiritual, not between flesh and blood. The epigraph of the legion and the pigs supports this.
@ Bro 93
“The Keystone is Russia.” Careful. A keystone is an illuminati inverted pyramid, which holds the whole arch together. For the real story on Russia, check out Brendon O’Connell’s latest post, as well his prior ones, if you dare. I fear you have revealed more than you intended. The good news is that the truth will set us free, like that squiggle-wiggle in Q. Brendon didn’t say that; I did. Few know that the Love Army put that squiggle in the O, to convey the secret of success in defeating empire.
I think you said lately that nobody other than me was following the Love Army, but going their own way. That’s fine with me because the Love Army does not accept followers but fellow marchers. Way back, I said the Love Army engages in asymmetric warfare, where every member can assume command, and is required to follow his or her own instincts and methods, rather than obey some top-down authority, even love.
Traditional warfare is based on the illuminati pyramid of top to bottom control and obedience, whereas the tactics of love resemble the feminine triangle, with the broad base of persons at the top, and the tip at the bottom in the center of the earth, like a huge pie shaped slice of the earth herself. So we see, if we can see, that sex is really where it’s at.
Need I say it again?; that I am not a teacher or leader of any kind; the idea is abhorrent to me. I am merely sharing what my method is for stopping empire; and others can take it or leave it at their pleasure. My narcissism and pushy judgmentalism often intrudes, but I try to lovingly put it in its place, not always succeeding, for which I apologize.
Love, Dennis
There’s nothing wrong with keystones supporting arches, including the overarching heavens and man’s and mundo’s attempts to understand them.
Things, words, and numbers can have multiple meanings. To different individuals, different codes, different cultures. Some are good meanings, some are bad. If yours is ominous that is only ONE possible meaning or association out of many, including some very positive ones.
If you want to elucidate the keystone meaning to you and Brendan you will have to be less coy, for without a link, especially, to illustrate what your or BC’s meaning is. I will not hunt it up. Not nearly enough time for that, mate!
If your subjective association is pejorative of Russia’s clear geographical Keystone above Eurasia reality (as I sense it might be….) I am afraid you are in the wrong Café on the wrong website. Observe the globe.
If not, kindly and intelligibly EXPLAIN.
Sultans of Sving like you probably never heard it before.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFiyZB5ucgo
Kent
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. …
“Where words leave off, music begins.” …
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” …
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. …
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” …
“Life throws many curve balls, and if you don’t swing… you’re never going to hit any!” Taylor Hicks
Swing for the fences. Tarzan and Jane–the first sultans of swing.
Thanks. You made my day at this swinging cafe!
Last week Wednesday- and Thursday evening I danced and grooved for hours, without pain in my hips (and even few next day).
It’s the music,shaking my soul, so I have to follow by dancing, I’m the crazy freak starting the groove alone, later a whole bunch of seniors with their ladies
couldn’s stop …
this is my friend Groover with “Katz und Maus” (Cat and mouse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-rwHTSDIA&autoplay=1
https://www.groovers-combo.de/hoerproben/
That was awesome, thanks for posting.
I think you posted once that you are from Norway. How about this from a Countryman of yours. Different and original;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5ZXiJor2E
a effective and very simple eel trap, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n95QvoM2DA
perfect for eel lovers or after the shtf..
i was so impressed i had to share it.
I don’t know. I’m just sitting here, waiting to go down and sit with Barb and Ed in front of the large screen TV, to observe a football or baseball game, or watch Fox News, or if I’m lucky, see a British drama.
I thought of a poem I wrote eons ago that didn’t make the cut for week 35 of the love calendar year, so while I’m waiting for seven by the clock, I’ll post it:
—————–
I gaze into a place
Beyond space and time
Catching glimpses of its reality
Washed clean by doubt
And holding steady still
It buoys me up with mixtures
Of faith and tenuous experience
I practice and wait
Practice and wait
Watching for what I hardly know
A consciousness catching
Half awakened dreams
I ride the words of those
Who say what they’ve seen
Stepping stones past
My clinging comfort
It’s there, it’s there
The voices chant
The curtain dissolves so slowly
No mighty visions here
Only quiet intimations
—————————————
Love, Dennis
Nice. Thanks.
BBC world news constantly speaks of Syria’s civil war.
Syria was ‘set up’ in a similar way to the Ukraine ‘civil war’.
It has become clear to those who do a little research, outside of MSM … who instigated these ‘civil wars’.
Knowing what we now know, and following through, then the following article becomes ‘a comedy of errors’.
“The US State Department said on Friday that $230 million in funding for stabilizing Syria have been redirected elsewhere. The funding had been promised by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in February, but was placed under review and frozen since then.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/436250-trump-cuts-syria-funding/
(ongoing cheap trick nonsense)
Kayhan Kalhor- Waiting for the Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIUEii-r-pY
( … many Australian farmers are waiting for the rain)
Aretha Franklin – Won’t Be Long – Steve Allen Show – 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1p92gQTQCg
@ Paul & Arethra
She’s so beautiful, almost like a little girl; and the voice so clear I can actually make out the lyrics, waiting on her man coming back on that train.
I live a quarter mile from Valley Junction, where freight train tracks cross and junction State Highway 173, where I live. I frequently hear the trains coming through day and night, horn blowing and steel grinding. I just love them freight train blues:
I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train blues taught me how to cry
Hummin’ of the driver was my lullaby
I got the freight train blues
Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go, baby, don’t you know
Well, it looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues
Well, my daddy was a fireman and my old ma here
She was the only daughter of the engineer
My sweetheart loved a brakeman and it ain’t no joke
It’s a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
Bob Dylan Freight Train Blues
Arethra is waiting by those tracks for her man to come back, but don’t you know the bigger story? The Love Army men are comin’ on in on that army troop train to meet the women in the Love Bower, and blow the empire away.
Fort McCoy, a large army base, is twenty miles west of here. I see the men and women soldiers all the time in the local Walmart; they look serious and rarely make eye contact with me. On my walks along the new Love Army Road here on the marsh, like I used to do in Ojai along the Love Army River Road, I see more jets than usual doing flyovers. What’s up? Trouble in store before the mid-term elections?
In the primaries last Tuesday, I voted straight Republican, the lesser of two evils. I didn’t know any of the candidates so voted for a woman with the most attractive name, if she was a choice. It was fun flirting with the three women about my age who were volunteering in the small building of our township. There was a choice of paper ballot or machine. I said I don’t trust the machines from my experience in Democratic California. They said not to worry here because the machine was not connected to the internet. Good argument for the benefits of small communities. Donald wants smaller government and individual freedom, or so he says. Go trumpers, go.
American former marine and current Christian pastor Jimmy L. Taylor goes to Uganda and calls the natives nigger, bitch, etc as he beats the hotel staff and threatens their lives – it’s the ugly american personified on video – he’s now under arrest in Kampala, hopefully he serves jail time there.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uLBZC_1534597103
http://nilepost.co.ug/2018/08/18/american-caught-on-video-assaulting-ugandan-employee-in-kampala-arrested/
Is this fake news? https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/2018/08/19/iran-to-unveil-new-fighter-jet-boost-missile-capability
I thought only the US, Russia, and France had the military infrastructure to produce modern fighters.
mod-to note: This is being carried by Reuters as well so appears there is some substance to it.
From yesterday:
Iran to Unveil New Fighter Jet, Missile Development Stays Top Priority – Report
https://sputniknews.com/military/201808181067305040-iran-defense-ministry-jet-missiles/
“Tehran will unveil a new fighter jet next week, while the development of the nation’s missile capacity will remain Iran’s top military priority, Brigadier General Amir Hatami said, cited by Fars news agency on Saturday.
“We will present a plane on National Defence Industry Day, and people will see it fly, and the equipment designed for it,” Amir Hatami was quoted as saying by Fars news agency, Reuters reported.
The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Friday that Iran would also unveil a domestic version of the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile system, dubbed Bavar 373, by March 20, 2019. Bavar 373 will become operational in the near future, as the project was reportedly progressing as scheduled according to sources.”
Former UN Chief Kofi Annan passed
https://sputniknews.com/world/201808181067300175-kofi-annan-career-in-five-points/
he he, why did this article made me think about the Roman empire??
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/afghanistan-camp-david/537324/
“Erik Prince’s Plan to Privatize the War in Afghanistan”
history do indeed rime😁
Bolton Open to Hiring For-Profit Mercenaries in Washington’s 17-Year Afghan War
https://sputniknews.com/military/201808191067321331-Bolton-Open-to-privatize-17-Year-US-War-in-Afghanistan/
“White House national security adviser John Bolton stated on Sunday that he is interested in a proposal by Erik Prince – founder of private military company Blackwater – to shift the prosecution of the 17-year US war in Afghanistan away from the Pentagon to private mercenaries.
Bolton — an appointee of US President Donald Trump like Blackwater founder Prince’s sister US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos — made his remarks earlier during an ABC.com weekly news program.
The top White House advisor’s comments follow reports that Trump has allowed for the possibility of placing for-profit mercenary companies in charge of shoring up the increasingly unpopular US-supported Afghan government of former American citizen Ashraf Ghani, instead of using armed Pentagon ‘advisors.’
Asked about the likelihood of mercenaries prosecuting America’s many wars abroad, Bolton averred, saying only that, “there are always a lot of discussions,” cited by The Hill.
“I’m always open to new ideas,” the noted warhawk added, however, although he was careful not to second-guess his boss.
“I’m not going to comment on what [Trump’s] thinking is. That’ll ultimately be the president’s decision,” he quickly noted.
Trump is said to be interested in Prince’s offer to privatize the US war in Afghanistan, according to reports.
The Trump White House would, under Prince’s pitch, replace US troops and advisors in Afghanistan with well-armed private military contractors who would purportedly answer to an as-yet-unspecified liaison on Capitol Hill.
Noting the significant ethical and security concerns resulting from the use of for-profit mercenaries acting as heavily-armed representatives for the Trump administration, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council flatly denied the reports, stating to NBC News that “no such proposal from Erik Prince is under consideration,” cited by The Hill.
Nonetheless, Prince has asserted to NBC News that he will soon launch a full-scale media blitz to promote his mercenary agenda in Afghanistan, and that Trump and his cabinet will be in his cross hairs.”
No surprise about trump’s leanings on the matter, he consistently goes with the lowest of the lowlife, the putrid, rotting muck at the bottom of the swamp.
“The Blue Cafe”
“The Blue Cafe”
My world is miles of endless roads
That leaves a trail of broken dreams
Where have you been
I hear you say?
I will meet you at the Blue Cafe
Because, this is where the one who knows
Meets the one who does not care
The cards of fate
The older shows
To the younger one, who dares to take
The chance of no return
Where have you been?
Where are you going to?
I want to know what is new
I want to go with you
What have you seen?
What do you know that is new?
Where are you going to?
Because I want to go with you
So meet me down at the Blue Cafe
The cost is great, the price is high
Take all you know, and say goodbye
Your innocence, inexperience
Mean nothing now
Because, this is where the one who knows
Meets the one that does not care
Where have you been?
I hear you say
I’ll meet you at the Blue Cafe
So meet me at the Blue Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMYpKRHUns
Enjoy
Kent
Irish Policeman Plays Accordion in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWjW7CErDM
(intelligence with generosity)
… “go away Washington” …
Crazy goat annoying the dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXhdQkNDT40
Rainy Day Blues Café
Rainy Day Café has got the Blues
But the Red Wave is Comin’..on.
Colors are among the clearest cues
Shifting keys of the same ole song.
Red and blue, mixed up…… are green,
Paint the town, howsoever you do!
The weirdest fetish I’ve ever seen….
Is Tom’s Hank-erring for One Red Shoe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOD5TGp6d8Y
But that’s kind of dark and dirty as soot,
It has to do with blood and the “on foot”
Root of “ped-estrian” and with some walkin
With control, sick sex,…and…very few talkin.
The Still Blue Cafe
All of this will be made perfectly clear, in a sunnier café some day soon.
That Blue Café, Kent, reminds me of one where I heard a one man show,
Decades ago at alive event on 45th Avenue Northeast, if ya wanta know,
Folk rocker artist at a sleazy dive grungy tavern called “The Blue Moon”.
Still there, according to the Internet: http://www.historylink.org/File/8339
But the Red Tsunami Comin’ might drown that Old Blue Moon,
The Beats, the Regressives, old hippies… gone someday soon.
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My comment above on Aug. 19 at 9:27 pm
was for Kent, Aug. 18 at 6:01 pm
For those of you who are able to read german I recommend having a look at
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/merkel-trifft-putin-in-meseberg-im-gespraech-bleiben-ohne-sich-anzubiedern/22929364.html
VVP, we know, attended the wedding of the Austrian foreign minister, but I did not know that after that VVP made a trip to East Germany to have “a long and serious” talk on 18-8-19 with that thing the whole world hates so much, the East German Stasi snitch Erika aka Murkl. The meeting took place at one of the “castles” near Berlin – and what is worth taking notice of is the condescending and ridiculously moralising tone of the text written by a noble woman or noble fraulein, Claudia VON Salzen. Also remarkable: the photographs which the “Tagesspiegel” choose to publish (VVP as poor sinner being shown his place by a sternly mistress). AND also remarkable: that of 16 comments that were allowed to pass through not even one supported the tenor of this article.
“Der Tagesspiegel”, even if only a local rag in a down spiraling wannabe tourists’ paradise, thinks of itself as being absolutely elite, and they prove it by collecting the nobelest of us into their ranks – those VONs, e.g. the daughters VON Schäuble and VON VON Weizsäcker.
For giving the fans of Germany here – irrelevant? – a chance of understanding it better I would even translate or recount it it, but right now I don’t have the time for it, sorry.
Have Fun!
F. Ofel
Before I turn to the Very Serious Subject of Red Shoes. whose only serious color challenger was Elvis…..
https://youtu.be/Bm5HKlQ6nGM Blue Suede Shoes
Ah, those were more innocent times! The days of our fifties youth! I was six when Presley did this very early (1956) audition. Fresh….not yet used up and jaded. ( I mean Elvis.)
And THAT was the not so innocent beginning of the end of “Stiff-assed Honky Dances” as Eldridge Cleaver so eloquently puts it in “Soul on Ice”……..”The Revolution Started with Elvis.”, he solemnly declares, in the beginning of that book written in his radical Black Panther youth…..long before the Pendulum Swung the Other Way….and he became a Fundamentalist Christian Conservative……
but I digress…..Full Circle Revolutionary, that Brother! Probably a Trumper now….if he ain’t dead yet.
El-vis, El-dridge, Blue Moon, Blue Shoes and One Red One.
Why? That’s the Next One. The Next One Café.
“Whaddya want for your next one, honey?” asked the horny old waitress with aching feet.
This One’s The Free Association Café with the Battle of the Unbalanced Right Banjo Brains.
Enough! Give Leary a rare intentional walk/break.
The other breaks he gets are quite frequent, because I am simply elsewhere, so they don’t count.
This break is intentional because even darker days may be ahead, so I’m for lightening the mood, no strings attached.
Except we have a stringy theme in the music in this here Rainy Day Cafe, so let’s dig deep into Hee Haw Flyover Country and see what Roy can do:
https://youtu.be/lxDQQDF6j0Y Malaguena Roy Clark
More String effects that you can shake a stick at…..in one piece!
But most of his living, away from Hollywood and the Big Recording Studios was acting the clown for Flyover America along with Buck Owens co-star on Hee Haw.
Couldn’t find ole Buck, so only one “Good Ole Boy Shows How To Play A Mean Guitar” :
https://youtu.be/H0TMVQzC0Cg
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineer would see him sittin’ in the shade
Strummin’ with the rhythm that the drivers made
The people passing by, they would stop and say
“Oh my, but that little country boy can play”
Enough!
But gotta “top it off” with the Guitar Hat Trick (3 goals…in hockey or mixed strings medleys) by Glenn Cambell doing “Hi-yo Silver!” Felix Mendelsohn’s William Tell Overture and The Lone Ranger Theme Song”:
https://youtu.be/GUBhE00h9U0
Whew! Good night!
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We Know that there were Countries that wanted the Reunification of Germany and one of them is Perfidious Albion or Britain, which is Reality Greater England at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion .
There are People who think that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher discussed with President Roland Reagan that she Wanted German Reunification, because she Wanted the Reunification of Ireland.
This is because there are Europeans who think that Northern Ireland has been Stolen from Ireland and Annexed by Uneuropean Colonialist Thieves, who are the English Perfidious Elites, and the European Union understands these Concerns, because European Countries Colonized Much of the World, and the European Union wants to go Global, and Crimea was Annexed from the Russia by a Soviet Dictator of Ukrainian Ethnicity, who was Biased and Wrong in giving Crimea to Ukraine, and it has Voted with a 97 % Vote to Rejoin its Original and Legitimate and Proper Country for it to belong to, and that is its Country of Russia.
There could be People who think that Greater England wants to leave the European Union by means of Brexit, because they and the Rest of Europe Know that they are Not Europeans, because they Stole Northern Ireland from Ireland, among other things.
There is the matter of Gibraltar for People of Spain that was Stolen and Annexed by Perfidious Albion, and there are Spanish People who want Gibraltar to be Returned to its Original Country of Spain, and we have heard of the disputed Malvinas which is the Original Spanish name for the Falkland Islands that was Stolen from Argentina and Annexed by Perfidious Albion.
We Know that Northern Ireland Voted to be in the European Union, and it looks there are those who want a Vote on the Brexit Deal, that appears to be Brexit in Name Only Deal that the British Government wants, and the Opposition will affirm.
This is because the British Parliament do Not want to be seen as Keep Voting until they get it ‘right’, as far as the European Union Elites are concerned, and so both Major Political Parties have Invented accepting of Brexit in Name Only, and they will Deceive Many British Voters who want Brexit, by calling Brexit in Name Only as The People’s Vote.
There have been suggestions that there might be another Election in Britain.
There are People in Britain who are wondering Why would there be talk of Britain having an Election.
There are People who think that Britain wants another Election, because the British Government and the British Opposition wants Britain to be a Member of the European Union.
There Could be People who think that it is because of the Unnecessary Election that was held in 2017, where it was Alleged that it was the Brexit means Brexit Election, even though there was an Election in 2015, that gave the British Government a Sufficient Majority in Parliament, where there would Not have to be another Election until 2020, and where Brexit would have been Concluded by 2019, and so the British Government would have had over a year after Leaving or ‘leaving’ the European Union until the next Election.
I think it was my opinion that the Unnecessary Election of 2017 was called so that the British Labour Party could win that Election and give Britain Brexit in Name Only, or Brexit Lite, because the British Conservative Party could Not get away that, if they like to be in Parliament and Receive Parliamentary Salaries and Pensions, and we Know that there was another British Conservative Government because of that Election, and this Government has to Rely on the Votes of the Northern Ireland Politicians for a Majority in Parliament, and that is Why there are suggestions of another Election, because Britain’s Shadow Regime wants the British Labour Party to win this Election, or for the British Conservative Party to have a Majority in its own Right, because Britain Knows that if it wants Brexit in Name Only, or if it wants Global Trade, then Northern Ireland would Need to either be what appears to be an independent Country in Name Only, or for there to be some type of reunification of Ireland, because there are Europeans who think that if Reunification for Germany was Right, then it Should be Right for Ireland, because those Non European Union Countries that Britain wants to Trade with are Not in favour of Colonialization, and the Major British Political Parties do Not want Voters in Northern Ireland to Know these things Until after the Election, because they Want their Votes.
I do Not know how many of those Labour Party Voters and other Voters of the British Mainland and in Northern Ireland who Voted for Brexit may want Northern Ireland to be part of Britain More than they want Brexit, and if there is another Election before Brexit, then this Will affect how British Voters vote at such an Election, and the Major British Political Parties want another Election, but where neither of them Needs the support of another Political Party to Govern with a Majority, and that may be Why there is talk of an Election before Brexit.
We have heard how John Kerry was said to be a Traitor, because he has different Middle Eastern Policies to that of the American Government.
This is because of what is Known as the Logan Act that is Probably Illegal, Unconstitutional, and some would say is Unamerican.
This is because it allows a Tyrannical Government to prevent Peace, because of Maliciously Slandering and Wrongly Prosecuting or threatening to prosecute any American or Americans working for Peace as Traitors to America using the Specious Logan Act.
There are Americans who think that both War Parties that are the Republicans and the Corruptocrats want the Logan Act, that has never been examined by the Supreme Court, and so War Parties want to use this Specious Law as they did with General Michael Flynn, because they are Warmongers, because America was founded upon the Genocide of the Native America Indians, and Sustained since then through further Genocides that are either Physical, Cultural, or Economic as with Economic Sanctions that Nazi Terrorist America and the Nazi European Union have on Innocent Syria, who they seek Maliciously Slander by means of their Swamp creatures.
If there are any Chemical weapons used in Syria, then the First and Most Obvious Suspect is America and its Swamp creatures and in Partnership with ISIS and Al Qaida who are America’s Secret Proxy Allies, who used Napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, and who gave Saddam Hussein Chemical Weapons, and Approved of him using those Chemical Weapons or even ordered him to use those Chemical Weapons.
It Needs to be said that People should Not allow their Political Bias to assume that those they do Not like are always lying or wrong, and one example is the Deputy Attorney General, who claims to be a Republican, but he is a Secret Democrat if anything, but Political affiliation does Not come into considering with some People, because they Know that there are 2 Groups, which are the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated with regards to Vaccines against Genetically Engineered Lethal Viruses at https://interestingengineering.com/us-lifts-ban-on-genetically-engineering-deadly-viruses-in-labs , while I think that the Attorney General who Employed him before Recusing himself is a Republican, and he may have Learned of Vaccines against Genetically Engineered Lethal Versus from the Deputy Attorney General.
We have seen how the Deputy Attorney General wanted to Secretly Tape the President, and Perhaps he has even one legitimate reason for wanting to Impeach President Donald Trump, and very few People if any, are wrong on everything, and even though the Deputy Attorney General acted Corruptly in several ways, because Many American Elected Representatives are Actors and Liars, or Perhaps they Need to be Actors and Liars at times, and Many Americans will give President Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt until the 2018 Election, because they Know that he Cannot rock the boat too much before the Election, but that after the Election he Must Drain the Swamp, and if he does Not dismiss Swamp creatures that include Bolton, Haley, and Pompeo, and others, then for them, he will be President Donald Swamp, or the nickname of Swampy, and so the Deputy Attorney General may have performed a Vital Public Service to have a Public Debate on Keeping America and the World Safe, as was said by President Thomas Jefferson.
It was President Thomas Jefferson who spoke of the possible/probable rise of Tyrants in America, because he Knew that America was founded on Genocide, and he said that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”, and there are Americans who wonder if President Thomas Jeffersonian wrote of some type of Patriotic Bodyguards who are also Physiologists of the Highest Integrity and Police Training in this matter in the Jeffersonian School of thought regarding 24 hour a day Jeffersonian type teams of Bodyguards for All Elected Representatives and for All High Public Officials, so as to eliminate any need for the shedding of the blood of American Patriots, while keeping Americans Safe from Swamp creatures, and Perhaps those Many Retirements from Politics is because they might know of 24 hour a day teams of Jeffersonian Bodyguards for All Elected Federal Representatives and for All High Public Officials to keep Americans and the Entire Planet Safe.
It could be that the American Democrats say that if they win the Election, then they will Revoke the Logan Act, and they will have Jeffersonian Bodyguards to Keep Americans and the Entire World Safe, and Significantly Reduce America’s Military Budget to Provide Free Tertiary Education for Americans.
This is the means to defeat the British led coup which has engulfed the United States. This is the means to ensure that the world not only survives the coming collapse of London’s bubble; but steps boldly into a new paradigm.”
Here’s a couple of examples of how “the Donald & friends” is going about it http://annews.com