2018/10/14 20:30:02
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so this is the floating world!
so this is the floating world!
young mother
overcome with happiness –
a mewling baby!
the well-heeled son,
inheritance squandered
waking up alone
an old samurai
one foot in that wide field –
courting ghosts
high summer
black encroaching sky
locust plague
dry spell
poets cooling their heels
late night rain
the one-eyed falconer
freeing his charge
one last time
on the way
to the sacred mountain –
beset by a tiger!
first light
a hungry mouse
waiting for God to appear…
Wonderful images, Dimitar, thanks.
Thanks so much, one minion.
I concur to that, images which have a say.
Report from Loonylandia
I know it’s bad when my dear friend who refuses to read Dostoevsky ( why? she likes Dickens,he of the horribly run-on sentences) declared that she should read Gulag Archipelago. Right. Another one of those books most Americans would only read under duress of flunking a University world literature course.
“So, what’s up?” I asked. It turns out that the ideologues of the California Department of (re) Education have issued a mandate to all preschools that all preschool teachers must ask their charges the following ,” Do you feel you are a boy or a girl?” as part of a yearly assessment. Mandate means that if you do not do it, you lose your job.
Yes, it is bad. She teaches 3 year olds. Then last night we watched ” Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.” I can see my friend “standing on principle” and refusing to do it. Well, I have had experience in organizing a political defense committee. If a Christian baker can refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple I suppose a Christian lady can refuse to ask a three year old what he thinks is his sexual identification.
Crazier and crazier.
Take a look at what is happening in Denmark. Wrong opinions can cost 12 years in prison.
“He also warns that a Danish subject could face punishment for sharing an opinion in the local media that anti-Russia sanctions damage the country or attempting to publicly downplay concerns over the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 pipeline project (Denmark has so far failed to give its approval of the pipeline passing through its territorial waters).”
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201810131068853099-denmark-bill-pro-russia-jail-term/
Lots of critics of different kinds were locked out on Facebook the other day. Sputnik has the list. The globalists want control and don’t care if we know it or not. What happens in Denmark is a pilot project and it is perhaps exported to other countries. Then I have to write Zamisdat.
Doesn’t matter if globalists or nationalists have control as everyone but the plutocratic elite suffer anyway https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-war-with-the-koch-brothers-makes-no-sense/566894/
In fact, President Reagan reputedly told his staff that “the person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20-percent traitor.” And it does appear that Trump and the Kochs are 80-percent allies. As the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page tartly observed last Wednesday, “Pro-growth cuts in tax rates, deregulation and originalist judges have been the most successful parts of the Trump agenda. And they were Koch beliefs when Mr. Trump was still donating to Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
The Koch brothers have long been agitating for a conservative judiciary; now they’re getting the judges they want, at all levels of the judiciary. They’ve invested heavily in lawmakers who would deliver tax cuts; now, with Trump’s signature on the 2017 tax bill, they have a law that tilts to the upper brackets. They’ve spent eight years assailing Obamacare; now they have a president who’s sabotaging the law via executive action. They’re getting deregulation at the stroke of Trump’s pen. As fossil-fuel executives, they’ve funded junk science that questions the severity of climate change; now they have a president who champions fossil fuels and removes climate-change info from government websites. And Trump, breaching his pledge to “drain the swamp,” has hired prominent denizens of the Koch swamp—including Vice President Mike Pence, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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Or the Democrats could simply sit back and enjoy the Trump-Koch feud, however long it lasts. As the commentator and former Bill Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet quipped the other day on social media, “Could we just have a good clean fight with no survivors?”
Which would result in zero difference we came, we saw, he died in control.
Not long now until the American turkey’s celebrate thanksgiving.
You change the subject when you talk about Trump. Some of us in Europe are worried. We have checked the Danish law proposal and it is real, one of us knows the language. It may never become law, but how can anyone put it forward? 12 years in prison?
Here is the Danish law proposal.
https://www.ft.dk/samling/20171/almdel/REU/bilag/423/1938179.pdf
Here is an important Danish article.
https://www.berlingske.dk/kommentatorer/meningskorridoren-skrumper
The main question about the cult of Facebook is not whether you should leave it, but how to get your normie friends to leave it.
Yeah, we are barking on that for some years, not so long ago Facebook had been hacked, personal data of many peoples and pictures being collected. They, themselves did the job easier for the perpetrators.
I don’t know how much of this can be believed but that it is even being written, discussed and disseminated across the internet I think needs to be reviewed and analyzed by the experts from a blog such as this:
Read and be horrified or laugh I guess:
Insiders: Putin Belonged to the Royal Arch Lodge
https://www.henrymakow.com/mi-5_and_mi-6_wreak_havoc_for.html
Richard Tomlinson and the Russians
http://richardtomlinsonandtherussians.blogspot.com/
Mod, I wrote a reply to this post about 6 hours ago. It is still not here. There was nothing in it that I think could have given offence. Could you please find it for me and post it – or at least let me know what has happened to it please?
Many thanks.
(I’m sorry,but I don’t see that post here,MOD.)
Just to document the deaths yesterday to a mother and daughter in LNR.
https://vk.com/video-70187376_456241045
Here are some stills:
http://rusvesna.su/news/1539521923
In Mar’ivka (on the territory of Luhansk people’s Republic) when the APU fire killed mother and daughter.
Two women, mother and daughter had died in the village of marevka on Saturday in shelling by the Kiev forces. About this informed the official representative of the LPR militia Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.
“On 13 October at 17.45 the bombardment of 120mm mortar (released eight minutes) with the direction of the Golden settlement marevka killed two civilian women: 1971 (mine blast injuries, shrapnel wound to the left side of the chest with damage to internal organs, lacerated shrapnel wound in the thigh of the left leg with damage to blood vessels) and born in 2001 (mine-explosive trauma, open cranial trauma with brain injury, shrapnel lacerated wounds of both thighs with damage to blood vessels). A mother and her daughter,” he said.
http://lug-info.com/news/one/mat-i-doch-pogibli-v-marevke-v-rezultate-obstrela-so-storony-vsu-narodnaya-militsiya-39197 zinc
Possibly a woman named Kovtun Larisa Yuryevna,47 years old, and a daughter – Anastasia Kovtun Yu,
17 years old.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4518621.html
This is Donbass. Victims of Ethnic Cleansing and military bombardment from Ukraine. War Crimes.
Lots of news re Khashoggi…but so little in European news about the forgotten sufferings of these peoples and the many many others and the war against them by ukraine and associates…..and the wanton negligence of EU of not bringing a non eu and non nato country to heel…..although Ukraine claims to be seeking membership of the “brotherhood” .
Donbass
People’s Militia LNR
[18+] In the village of Maryevka, a mother and daughter were killed by
breaking a mine of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8vL-BbdEs
Israeli News Live
Steven Ben-Noon
US Special Forces Mercenaries Fight In Donetsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cuTb52hHV4&t=174s
Ukraine Moves in Big Missiles for Planned Invasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHea1Nwg9HU
“Recent international round-table “Minsk II or War: Challenges to Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine”, held in Brussels on October 10th….” can anyone find about its conclusions whether worthwhile or not…to gain an insight into current EU thinking???????
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/10/major-insider-revelation-ukraine-has-been-forced-to-become-europes-trash-compost-authorities-are-to-blame-ruslan-kotsaba/
A very interesting answer here…Ex ukrainian chief diplomat Eu must corect its previoys mistaken and lax interpretation led by US.. recognise Kiev is the key to resolving this civil war which is what it is…..not a Russian invasion.
Oops…need breakfast….
.https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/10/major-statement-russia-has-not-invaded-there-is-no-hybrid-war-former-osce-chair-ukrainian-chief-diplomat/
Lavrov on Donbass
“Speaking of professionalism, I would like to mention another aspect, namely, Donbass. In effect, Ukraine is divided by the frontline. Provocations continue despite the Minsk Agreements and all attempts by members of the Normandy format and the Contact Group to fulfil all the agreements. Thank God, there are no large-scale hostilities like back in 2014 and early 2015, but regular firefights occur, despite regular “school,” “harvest” and “Christmas” ceasefire agreements. We have been asking officials from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine not to issue sterile reports listing attacks on communities, the number of killed and wounded civilians. Instead, we are expecting them to provide specific updates on the developments in various sections of the demarcation line and to focus on attacks against civilian facilities and casualties and fatalities among the civilians. In September 2017, the OSCE issued the first such report listing the location of attacks and the damage incurred. This was a difficult job because the Ukrainian authorities tried hard to forbid the OSCE from publishing this report. According to this report, five times more civilian facilities were damaged in the areas controlled by the self-defence fighters. The responsibility for this rests with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Civilians living in such places also sustained six-seven times more casualties and fatalities. Any military expert would use this data to note that such a correlation between damage and civilian casualties and fatalities means that, by all appearances, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attack civilian facilities in communities, including kindergartens, hospitals and schools. For their part, self-defence fighters retaliate by hitting positions from which they are being attacked. I have mentioned journalism and professionalism. Representatives of the Russian media work non-stop, seven days a week and 24 hours a day in areas controlled by self-defence fighters. They show the extent of damage and the real results of the operations involving the Armed Forces of Ukraine. If our Western partners are saying that Russia and the separatists are to blame for everything, and that the Minsk Agreements would be immediately fulfilled as soon as Russia wants this to happen, and that Ukraine has allegedly fulfilled them almost completely (this is what some of our European colleagues and US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker are saying), then it would probably be no problem to send BBC, CNN and Euronews correspondents to areas controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to show everyone how people live there and the extent of damaged civilian facilities, if any. I have repeatedly spoken with journalists I know about this but failed to get any reply. They are simply looking at me, nodding but doing nothing. If Donetsk and Lugansk are accused of everything, including aggressive behaviour, then it would be appropriate to send journalists there, so that they would work honestly in areas allegedly severely attacked by self-defence fighters. Over all these years, BBC and someone else sent their groups there only once or twice, and that was all about it”
In relation to the case of the missing -and presumed dead – Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, it is much ado about nothing!
I say this to explain that those who are expressing outrage over the incident, and seemingly expects to see the West hold Saudi Arabia to account over the incident, are naive at best, if not just plain stupid.
When has the so-called West ever taken a genuine interest in “human rights” anywhere?
Human rights for them, is just a hollow policy concept selectively raised when dealing with perceived enemy states.
And when cynically raised, it is done solely as an instrument for facilitating intervention and regime change.
Beyond that, it means nothing!
Just look at Israel.
Here is an entity, that in full view of the entire world, has being pursuing a policy of genocide against the Palestinians, and nary a single action has been taken against it by any Western country.
Not even when Israel murders Western citizens, does it have anything to worry about.
Remember Rachel Corrie?
If you dont, dont sweat it. I cant blame you.
The MSM shoved that one into the memory hole a long time ago.
She was an American that Israel had deliberately crushed by bulldozer in 2003, and Washigton essentially told her family to f#*k off.
And bear in mind that, the MSM, when is 95% controlled by Zion, is a huge part of the problem.
Human rights is covered selectively and inconsistently.
Therefore when you hear the hypocrites speak about “human rights” and cry crocodile tear about it, dont get your hopes up.
Instead, be wary and skeptical.
As far as the Jamal Khashoggi case goes, we will soon be told that the Saudi kingdom authorized his rendition back to Riyadh, and Saudi security operatives got over zealous and misinterpreted the instructions given to them.
Some low level persons in the Saudi security apparatus will then be scapegoated, and the Kingdom will kick some money to
Ankara and Washington, and the whole thing swept under the carpet.
Go back to your televisions!
Selah
This time, the USA has a demented Ultra Zionist in charge, and the USA and Canadian Oil & Shale lobby has an interest in cutting relations with Saudi to raise prices and make new projects viable. $150 barrel by Christmas. Side effect of this is that Venezuela stabilises and reduces its debt, Iran benefits from Chinese direct payment of market prices, Russia builds even more Gold reserves and funds military investment, while non EU Norway dominates European market. In other words Amerika loses whatever they do. Obama and Saudi collaberated to artificially reduce prices in order to crash Venezuela and Russia but all it did was hurt USA oil corporations and turn Russia closer to China.
USA is already at war with Turkey since the coup attempt, they turned against former ally Pakistan years ago, now they will turn on Saudi. To be an ally of USA is to sign your own suicide.
It is imposible as above 100 usd the all world economy will collapse and the oil will then rapidly fall below 40 or even 30 usd(due to the recession or depression).
@anonymous and antiwars
4 Saudi Arabia’s?
you may be interested in what HSBC has to say about oil. In my 25 years of studying oil and gas I have never come across a report by a bank on the subject so I figure something is definitely up.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/brace-for-the-financial-crash-of-2018-b2f81f85686b
New scientific research suggests that the world faces an imminent oil crunch, which will trigger another financial crisis.
A report by HSBC shows that contrary to the commonplace narrative in the industry, even amidst the glut of unconventional oil and gas, the vast bulk of the world’s oil production has already peaked and is now in decline; while European government scientists show that the value of energy produced by oil has declined by half within just the first 15 years of the 21st century.
The upshot? Welcome to a new age of permanent economic recession driven by ongoing dependence on dirty, expensive, difficult oil… unless we choose a fundamentally different path.
Last September, a few outlets were reporting the counterintuitive findings of a new HSBC research report on global oil supply. Unfortunately, the true implications of the HSBC report were largely misunderstood.
The HSBC research note — prepared for clients of the global bank — found that contrary to concerns about too much oil supply and insufficient demand, the situation was opposite: global oil supply will in coming years be insufficient to sustain rising demand.
Yet the full, striking import of the report, concerning the world’s permanent entry into a new age of global oil decline, was never really explained. The report didn’t just go against the grain that the most urgent concern is ‘peak demand’: it vindicated what is routinely lambasted by oil majors as a myth: peak oil — the concurrent peak and decline of global oil production.
The HSBC report you need to read, now
INSURGE intelligence obtained a copy of the report in December 2016, and for the first time we are exclusively publishing the entire report in the public interest.
Read and/or download the full HSBC report by clicking below:
HSBC peak oil report
Headquarted in London, UK, HSBC is the world’s sixth largest bank, holding assets of $2.67 trillion. So when they produce a research report for their clients, it would be wise to pay attention, and see what we can learn.
Among the report’s most shocking findings is that “81% of the world’s total liquids production is already in decline.”
Between 2016 and 2020, non-OPEC production will be flat due to declines in conventional oil production, even though OPEC will continue to increase production modestly. This means that by 2017, deliverable spare capacity could be as little as 1% of global oil demand.
This heightens the risk of a major global oil supply shock around 2018 which could “significantly affect oil prices.”
The report flatly asserts that peak demand (the idea that demand will stop growing leaving the world awash in too much supply), while certainly a relevant issue due to climate change agreements and disruptive trends in alternative technologies, is not the most imminent challenge:
Thanks for the notation/url.
The article and the report propose two alternative near-term mechanisms, each of which results in a global reduction in oil demand. In one alternative the recession is severe and reduces oil demand, in the other the demand raises oil prices for which demand cannot be met, thus crashing the global economy. Of course there will naturally be regional variation – Russia and China and even Europe may do rather better than, ahem, some other countries. Probably both mechanisms are equally disagreeable and dangerous. They also seem to nest pretty well – ie maybe both can operate simultaneously.
The natural delusional and irrational reactions of addicts and armies with their back to the sea tends to be to attack rather than to turn.
There is therefor a third scenario – steal oil from people that have some, and deny oil to others who want it. A large sudden reduction in a major global region might be seen by such desperate addicts as a reasonable mechanism. Nazis seem to favor such mechanisms, do they not?
“while non EU Norway dominates European market”
Norway voted twice to stay out of EU, in 1972 and 1994. But, as former Norwegian PM (and later WHO director) Gro Harlem Brundtland put it: “We have other methods”. Norway is totally subordinate to the EU and US. By the way, we are now the location for military provocations by the US, UK etc. directed against Russia (largest exercise in decades). Norway has a short border towards Russia in the far North, and the Norwegian sea is currently the playground for a US carrier. In short, it is made clear that we should not think of being independent.
Thank you for remembering Rachel Corrie!
She was a brave young person to the end, which was truly awful. Have no doubts about the determination of the great evil she was up against.
If there is a life to come after this one, I see her sitting very near to the Creator, because she stood with people who have largely been forgotten by this world –as Master Jesus said, “the least of these my brethren”.
She is a martyr.
Think Austria is a enemy of EU and friend of Russia and Orthodox people? Not at all. Austria expands its neo-Imperialist attitude to the balkans during its term as EU council president, supports sanctions on Russia, supports formation of Islamic Kosovo in violation of UN law, Serbia and Spain walk out of conference in protest-
https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2018&mm=10&dd=12&nav_id=105277
EU is a project of USA to control the european vassals. The sad nations Austria, England, France, so used to being dictators to the rest of the world, now willing servants of USA foreign policy and need to be humbled massivley. They need to experice the pain they inflict in other countries constantly. The shift of the global economy to China and other eastern countries will humble them, and they will fall into poverty and division- karma for their break up of peaceful Yugoslavia, Libia and Syria. The Serbs were alone against entire Islamic world (including Iran, no friend of Orthodox), EU and USA but they still won and UN refuses Kosovo. USA, which should be held in contempt and sanctioned by all freedom loving people on earth, is now weaker than ever, it can only go down not up, yet Europeans apart from Spanish – who like Serbs saved Europe from Islam and support anti Zionism- happily serve this dying beast, like Roman slaves staying with their master as Rome falls. If USA told little austrians and english to go into a death camp, they would run in. Miserable people, to be pitied.
Do not think saudis will suffer any repercussions from trump: (too much money involved)
https://www.statista.com/chart/12205/the-usas-biggest-arms-export-partners/
This guy writes interesting stuff https://www.larsschall.com/
(In German, several very thoughtful articles)
Such as this excerpt (in translation to Engspeak)
“From the twenties to the forties of the twentieth century, Wall Street firm Sullivan & Cromwell became the largest law firm in the world. Their activities offer an unusual, but at the same time indispensable perspective on business fundamentals of the Third Reich.
From Lars Schall
The following article can be downloaded here as a PDF file together with the sources.
The smartest guys in the room 1919 – 1945: Sullivan & Cromwell
On the occasion of the peace treaty negotiations that took place after the First World War in 1919 in Paris and Versailles, a whole guard of young US diplomats appeared for the first time on a large, international stage. Among them was Allen Welsh Dulles, who focused on issues related to the …”
There was a good book published a few years ago called ‘The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Alan Dulles and Their Secret World War’ by Stephen Kinzer.
It covers the start of the current US mania for meddling in other regions and countries. Quite a team they made, those two, a two man global wrecking ball.
Another amazing book about Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government is “The Devil’s Chessboard” by David Talbot. 670 pages with extensive notes. The endless Russophobia in the United States and the west was originally crafted by Allen Dulles who created the OSS with Nazi’s, fostered the “Cold War” with the Soviet Union, founded the CIA, and still ran the CIA after his official retirement. He also carefully steered the Warren Commission Report away from suspicion of CIA involvement in the President Kennedy Assassination. He was always present at the Warren Commission meetings, as if managing them, though not an official member of the Warren Commission.
Truly a manipulative monster who could make you feel as if he was your best friend…..or terrify you by simply being present. Obviously a brilliant psychopath.
And another, which can be downloaded for free George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography — by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/
Tarpley goes into details too ugly to be spoken of…and dated…pederasty, fascism, the plot against FDR, Hitler and Wall Street, JFK…and on…without B41 in 1992 te clock today would tick a different tune.
Example
“On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.’s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland “ Bunny ” Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush…”
What more powerful recommendation for non-fake news than to be banned by facebook. Attached is a list but I am not familiar with any of them-this is provided FWIW:
https://www.sott.net/article/398313-Banned-on-Facebook-and-Twitter-Top-ten-alternative-media-sites-to-bookmark-if-you-can-find-them
The MI6 -sorry BBC is ramping up the Syria propaganda. Is this just smarting in defeat gesture or are they going to take another swing at Syria?
I have not bothered to read this drivel:
How chemical weapons have helped bring Assad close to victory
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45586903
The BBC, like other Western propaganda outfits, has apparently been instructed to tone down its coverage – the little that there was – on the whole Khashoggi Affair.
A likely face-saving “deal”is being worked out behind the scenes , so the BBC has to divert the attention of the goyim elsewhere.
Normally this is done by manufacturing negative headlines perceived enemy states, aka, the usual suspects:
Russia or Putin
Iran
Venezuela
Syria
China etc.etc.
However there is good news, because a lot of folks have begun to see the BBC for what it really is:
The BBC is a vastly overated propaganda outfit, that madquerades as objective journalism.
The BBC squandered what credibility that it had years ago.
More people now turn to outlets like Telesur, RT, and PressTV etc. to get a balanced coverage of globsl issues.
Selah
UK has no future at all- it is ironically Yugoslavia mk2. Scotland wants to join with Eurasia and Irish Nationalists have a majority in Ulster. European peoples will take delight as the English Zionists live in poverty and isolation, an Atlantic Gaza, running out of medicine, electricity, water and food, they have no rescourses of their own and relied on plundering the rest of the world to keep their comfortable obese lives. Promoting gay values and neoliberal economics was their latter day version of battleships and cannon. All the centuries of Imperialism have come home to roost, England will be as poor as Moldova is now. The opressed nations led by China are taking over all aspects. There is justice in the world but it is measured in centuries.
“There is justice in the world, but it is measured in centuries..”
The mills of the Gods grind slowly, but exceedingly fine…
“There is justice in the world but it is measured in centuries.”
Seriously?
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2013/08/notes-from-beijing-about-that-chinese.html
Quote
Consider how President Xi described the Dream in the closing session of this year’s National People’s Congress:
“In face of the mighty trend of the times and earnest expectations of the people for a better life, we cannot have the slightest complacency, or get the slightest slack at work… We must make persistent efforts, press ahead with indomitable will, continue to push forward the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive to achieve the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
The Chinese citizens’ response to the phrase (when not met with pure cynicism) has followed similar lines. I found one humorous Weibo post enlightening:
The precise meaning of the Chinese Dream: 1) The UN relocates to Beijing. 2) Premier Li Keqiang inspects Taipei with the assistance of Provincial Governor Ma Ying-jeou. 3) The Chinese national football team wins the World Cup. 4) Beijing accidentally bombs the Pentagon and expresses regret. 5) Aircraft carrier Liaoning returns to Hawaii to replenish supplies. 6) The stock index surpasses the million-point mark. 7) The yuan becomes the sole international currency. 8) Increasing cases of Americans illegally immigrating to China!”
End Quote
Xi’s bit about socialism was particularly funny, he was presumably foretelling this https://list.juwai.com/news/2015/11/china-now-home-to-the-most-billionaires-in-the-world
This article would seem to provide emphasis to the comment that the “UK has no future at all.” The Brexit flustercluck is coming down to ????? (not sure anyone knows but it ain’t gonna be pretty).
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/brexit-eu-uk-talks-collapse-disorderly-exit-virtually-certain.html
BBC 30 years ago had great credibility.
Now you are correct, its a poorly run propaganda foghorn that if you take their news just believe the exact opposite if whatever gibberish they are uttering and that ‘s the real story….
Beeb has been broadcasting a 4 part series on the “terrible” Assad dynasty last few weeks…..
Jatras has written on the UK/US https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/13/britain-leash-with-united-states-but-which-end.html
I am acquainted with many details Jatras skips – he understates the disproportionality.
excerpt: “…for far too long, largely for reasons of historical inertia and elite corruption, we’ve allowed that government to exercise undue influence on our global policies in a manner not conducive to our own national interests. Now that government, employing every foul deception that earned it the moniker Perfidious Albion, seeks to embroil us in a quarrel with the only country on the planet that can destroy us if things get out of control…”
I agree.
Радио Сталинград
Radio Stalingrad plays traditional songs of the war years from the legendary artists as well as songs about war and post-war Russian accomplishments.
http://stalingrad.radio.net/
(take cover and stay alive)
That’s gooood…had the feeling I’m back in those past days…very interesting, thank you !
Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Adobe Flash updates
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/10/12/hackers-mining-malware-adobe-flash/
(and if true, what can we do about it)
Here is a Computer Talk Session about audio stream recording …
… how to record Radio Stalingrad to your hard disk drive … for instance …
Radio Stalingrad is listed on the “icecast” directory, so have the VLC player installed.
Select the header tab labelled “View” and mouse click to tick the playlist on the dropdown tab.
On the same drop tab, mouse click to tick “Advanced Controls” which provides a round red record button.
In the VLC search box type … stalingrad … and wait for “Radio Stalingrad” to appear, then doubleclick to play the audio stream.
Click the record button.
You can check the Russian directory of icecast here …
http://dir-xiph.osuosl.org/by_genre/Russian
… and what is listed here may be available via VLC, but not always.
To “tune in” click the XSPF tab and your VLC player will attempt to play that stream.
Recordings will most likely be in your music folder.
I have recorded streams of four hours continous, with no playback problems.
Ecuador Inmediato Radio HD (mp4 – aac audio format), as mentioned in a previous Cafe, can be recorded in this same way … type ecuador in VLC search box to find it.
(Listening to our world through music)
Russian Orthodox Church breaks all ties with Constantinopole Patriarchate over Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/441323-russian-orthodox-church-ukraine/
Biggest split in modern Orthodox history: Russian Orthodox Church breaks ties with Constantinople
In the biggest rift in modern Orthodox history, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate, effectively splitting from it after it granted independence to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The Holy Synod, the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, has ruled that any further clerical relations with Constantinople are impossible, Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s External Relations Department, told journalists, de facto announcing the breach of relations between the two churches.
“A decision about the full break of relations with the Constantinople Patriarchate has been taken at a Synod meeting” that is currently been held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, Hilarion said, as cited by TASS.
The move comes days after the Synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate decided to eventually grant the so-called autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, thus making the clerical organization, which earlier enjoyed a broad autonomy within the Moscow Patriarchate, fully independent.
The Moscow Patriarchate also said that it would not abide by any decisions taken by Constantinople and related to the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “All these decisions are unlawful and canonically void,” Hilarion said, adding that “the Russian Orthodox Church does not recognize these decisions and will not follow them.”
At the same time, the Russian Church expressed its hope that “a common sense will prevail” and Constantinople will change its decision. However, it still accused the Ecumenical Patriarch of initiating the “schism.”
Schism in Orthodox Church between Moscow and Constantinople has just become official.This is much more than a break of diplomatic relations,and will last very long.What is really important now is what will happen on the ground in Ukraine,&what form developments there will take.
— Dmitri Trenin (@DmitriTrenin) October 15, 2018
The move taken by Moscow marks arguably the greatest split in the history of the Orthodox Church since the Great Schism of 1054, which separated Catholics and Orthodox Christians, as it involves a break of communion between the biggest existing Orthodox Church – the Moscow Patriarchate – and Constantinople Patriarch, who is widely regarded as a spiritual leader of world’s Orthodox Christians, even though his status is nothing like that of the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church.
Constantinople’s decision seems to be serving the interests of the Ukrainian leadership rather than the Orthodox Christians living there. While most Orthodox clerics in Ukraine still pledge loyalty to the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, and consider themselves to be part of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kiev actively supports a schismatic force, which has been unrecognized by any other Churches until now.
This religious movement led by the former Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, who is now called Patriarch Filaret in Ukraine, has sought to gain the status of an independent Orthodox Church, “equal” to the Moscow Patriarchate, since 1990s. Meanwhile, it did not hesitate to seize Moscow Patriarchate’s churches by force.
According to TASS, 40 churches have been forcefully seized by the Kiev Patriarchate between 2014 and 2016. In the first half of 2018 alone, Ukraine witnessed 10 new attacks on Russian Orthodox Churches. Now, as Constantinople is launched a procedure of granting independence to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, such attacks might further intensify, some experts warn.
Russian Orthodox Church Completely Suspends Communion With
Constantinople Patriarchate
Earlier, the spokesman for Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill said
that the Russian Orthodox Church will issue a tough response to the deci-
sion of the Synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate to grant independence
to the Ukrainian Church.
https://sputniknews.com/society/201810151068908634-russia-church-no-talks-constantinople/
Russia 1 Live
Evening with Vladimir Solovyov
Who Are All These Pseudo-Investigators in Skripal Affair? How Delusional Are Liberals Really?
Video with English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bRk7Ize-I
Everyday life in Russia, or??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
Kent
A Lady has traveled in the woods of Norway
She never was there, though she knows the way
Smiling in the sunshine, follows path to house
Now she has arrived, greeting cat and mouse.
I really think a bit of Red October Optimism and energy should be felt by any one who wants both the rise of Eurasian Integration and the sinking of the Global Depopulation Agenda of the NWO Cabal to accelerate.
And for the moment I stick to leaning towards the hypothesis that the Kashoggi disappearance was a Cabal stunt to launch a New Narrative…a New Playbook….out of desperation…and the greatest IMMEDIATE threat to the NWO Cabal’s survival at this moment, is not the steadily building natural law resistance to the death sentences upon nations that the Cabal is committed to..a medium and long range swelling trend gathering momentum…………but rather recovering from the disaster they suffered in the 2016 US election…and the blows that may come from a vastly strengthened Trump in the 3 weeks remaining before the midterm US elections….through FISA Declassification, A Red Electoral Tsunami and arrest and prosecution of Traitors.
Could it be that this means to his own survival is what Trump is actually more concerned with at the moment than pulling out a Big Stick ala Theodore Roosevelt and clubbing Venezuela to death with it, all the while allowing the neocon dogs like Bolton to bark and salivate…and pull at their chains??
I get that distinct impression.
Episode 522 & 523 of Today’s Sirius Report with London Paul…a summary:
“We start today’s podcast with confirmation as to how Saudi Arabia would proceed if the US was to impose sanctions on them with regards to the Khashoggi affair, the ramifications of which would be hugely damaging to Washington. We then move onto a development in Germany which puts another nail in the coffin lid of Merkel’s political career and what the broad consensus is becoming amongst the German people. We then discuss developments with regards to Brexit and how the next week could make or break a deal being struck before the end of the year. We then discuss how Italy remains on a collision cause with the EU and how Russia is finding an unlikely ally in the EC. We then move onto developments in Switzerland which will go some way to nullifying the cabalists and why Bern is looking at joining the de–dollarisation bandwagon, We conclude discussing Venezuela who have found yet another ally, much to the annoyance of Washington who believe this nation is also violating sanctions with Iran and why Russia is adding military capability in Caracas.”
It’s not just Russia and China that are frustrating the neocon agenda to steal Venezuela’s oil. The podcast ends with Turkey’s support for Maduro/Venezuela and planned visits by Erdogan there in the very near future to strike all kinds of trade deals. Oy veh!!! That hurts…..our disposable as used toilet paper “ally” that wouldn’t flush!
But it STILL does not hurt as much, immediately, at any rate, as FISA DECLASS would. There’s where the greatest PAIN and urgency for relief from pain lie at this moment….IMHO….for the Cabal….both within and without the USA..
thanks Bro. That’s my read too.
wolfhound
Did Soros Hijack The ACLU?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuDwH19tyA
@ ioan … hi, here is Radio Veronika …
http://dir-xiph.osuosl.org/search?search=veronika
(Conservative Traditional Eastern European Radio)
Thanks, I have to learn first on how it goes…
… good news from Italy …
Italy (via Telesur News) … Establishing a basic income for the poor was the leftist party of the coalition Five-Star flagship policy during the presidential campaign.
Italy’s 2019 budget approved by the cabinet on Monday includes a basic income for the poor, lowers the retirement age and offers a partial amnesty to settle tax disputes, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his top ministers told reporters on Monday.
Economy Minister Giovanni Tria denied reports that he planned to resign after the budget has been approved by parliament, and said he was confident he could explain the package to the European Commission, known for its neoliberal views on economic policies.
“The idea that this budget can blow up Europe is totally unfounded,” he said.
Five-Star leader and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said the basic income, his party’s flagship policy which will cost some US$11.58 billion next year, will kick off before the end of March.
To help fund spending measures, the budget makes life harder for Italy’s banks, reducing the proportion of interest payments they can deduct from their taxable income.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Italy-Budget-Lowers-Pension-Age-has-Basic-Income-for-Poor-20181015-0012.html
(would appreciate more details on this report)
“Russia is moving crack special forces, or Spetznaz, troops into the war-torn North African nation of Libya, that Hillary Clinton so famously destroyed, along with some of Moscow’s best weapons systems including the S-300 air defense system and Kalibr anti-ship missiles … ”
https://tsarizm.com/news/2018/10/09/russia-moves-forces-into-europe-in-attempt-to-checkmate-europe/
Satan summons the Heavenly court into session
Satan, Angel of prosecution :” j’accuse, J’accuse no longer you may recuse
this Bergoglio! my name in vain doth misuse”
Michael, Angel of defense: ” What exactly is the charge you bring to the court’s regard?”
Satan, sputtering with rage: “Hypocrisy, incompetence, infidelity and denial! Against this scum I do vehemently file!”
Michael,brow raised inquisitively: “Agreed upon his faults all too human, but how so this infidelity?”
Satan,shrieking, “Free will, free will! He blames me all, but to human input he gives nil?”
Michael, temporizing : ” Perhaps he wishes to focus your intention?”
Satan:
It is but a blind to avoid his detention
for it’s his evil not mine underneath you will find
Temptation I pose – my profession-you know
Next to Angels the human doth pose
free will is in them-my influence to stem
He wishes to shift blame, his evil deed are his shame
Not mine, not mine to retain.
Michael chuckling. So it is your honor you seek to reclaim?
Satan: “yes. before the Heavely court I do proclaim. Not my fault, his fault ..his eternal stain!)
Very enjoyable poem, with the two main protagonists on the stage. Thanks for sharing !
If you have further ‘court transcripts’ please keep us posted.
Some Further Crypto-Space Players to Take Note Of.
Why bother?
Answer:
Some of these characters are a LOT more savvy in Anti-Empire, Anti-Cabal, Anti -Central Banker matters than many here might suppose. It is my contention that, right or wrong as any one of them might be on any detail, unless you want to exclude alliances with anyone that does not match or closely resemble yourself in most aspects…(a fatal prejudice, IMHO)….quite a few personally, and politically, are worth knowing about. As is what the whole bunch of them are up to, as a quickly evolving international community spread around the world……that is quite likely to further accelerate beyond your comprehension pretty fast, unless you decide to take a look into it, fairly soon, and catch up with it a bit.
For me, It’s just one example of the Worldwide Community of Principle and Broad Front Against Stinking Rotten Empire….idea. You’ll need allies to win. A LOT of allies…..that might almost seem too dissimilar to be allies, with each other or with you, at first glance.
OK, amarynth gave a couple of anecdotal examples in the last café, with Eric Voorhees versus Wall St Journal and Cliff High on what sort of manipulative lingo and snake oil salesmanship to be leery of, in the crypto space………which exists, in equal or greater measure than the professed idealism of the “peer to peer”, “open source”, decentralize everything anti-banker ethos.
As my first example, let’s take a close acquaintance of Cliff High, Bix Weir.
Here they are together on a video, and my only point is the following little medley: 1) amarynth thinks Cliff is worth listening to…and he IS …a little out there 2) Cliff High and Bix Weir collaborate on a bunch of things…do a search and you’ll find dozens of instances… 3) And….. Bix Weir will discuss Q…favorably. (Had to get that in….LOL) But it’s not the main point, lol…right now…lol
https://youtu.be/aYeLUaUm2Fo?t=103
Cliff, being the older guy on the left with headphones, Bix Weir with the blue sweat shirt and cap. Take a two second look, know the faces, move on…..
Now, despite looking and sounding a little bit goofy (in my book)…in contrast to the esoteric as hell Cliff High, Bix Weir comes out with some bold, bold, startlingly fresh and original geopolitical pronouncements:
https://youtu.be/aIEyR5Oq8a4
Trump & China – It’s All About ENDING Fiat Money!! (Bix Weir)
In other words, according to Bix, don’t be fooled by the Kabuki Trade War. Xi and Donald are friends that intend to sink fiat currency worldwide and bring in a new gold backed monetary system.
Whoa! HOW do you know that, Bix???
Now Bix may be all wet, but he certainly doesn’t bore you with things you’ve heard a few dozen times already!
He detests EOS and Brock Pierce and loves Litecoin and Verisateum (which I know zero about…for now), and seems to really “get around”…to put it mildly. And very confident about humanity emerging from this mess victorious.
There’s a lot more I could say, about Bix Weir that is relevant to Russia to China, to Europe, to a Multi-Polar World, to the egos and conflicts within the Crypto Space, but I’ll get to some of that later. The point is, he may be a more colorful political character than most persons in crypto-space…..but there are a LOT of interesting persons there….in “Crypto-Space”…. that are amazingly rounded and not just 100% IT/crypto-geek.
More on Bix and others later. I kind of like something about most of them! But that’s all for now.
G’night.
small typo fix – “Verisateum”
= Veritaseum, or VERI created by Reggie Middleton – another character in the field of cryptos.
Veritaseum builds blockchain-based, peer-to-peer capital markets as software on a global scale. We enable the seamless connection of parties and assets without the need for a third or authoritarian interest. Any entity with internet access can participate in these capital markets on a peer-to-peer and one-on-one basis.
And when the banksters hear that, they scream in fear like girls and run the other way because VERI disintermediates stock and all other types of markets and exchanges so that there is no space anywhere for cheating, for putting in a fix – no paper trading here.
To follow on with Bro’s theme of politicians in crypto …
A very colorful political character in the crypto space is Rick Falkvinge, Founder of the first Pirate Party. Author of Swarmwise: the tactical manual to changing the world.
Rick is hosting a twitter thread currently with statements such as these:
“Activists just don’t get it. The shit has *completely* hit the fan, politically speaking. Just wreckage. Technology is eating away at the fabric of society at an unbelievable rate. Future shock is here. And you think *politicians* are going to fix this? Or consumer choice? Ya ”
and
“Your politics are trash. You’re fighting for causes which are *irrelevant*. You could get everything you wanted, and still die of famine in a world bare of food resources as deserts eat the farmland.
You’d do better watching NFL games than left/right politics. It’s just noise.
I urge you to drop all your values that are not directly aligned with avoiding human extinction. I commend to you this course of action: form new political movements which directly and responsibly deal with extinction risk. Think beyond Marx and Hayek: they’re irrelevant. Wake up”
A trend is that the original crypto guys are deeply invested in humanity and humankind. There is a general crypto conference soon in Archapulco, Mexico, called ANarchapulco. and the core speakers are Ron Paul, Andrew Napolitano, David Icke, Cynthia McKinney and so on. Vit Jedlicka as well, the President, Liberland. A Liberty Loving Bunch! There are technical people there but this conference is focused on values more than the tech.
Yes, there is lots of politics in the crypto sphere. Perhaps it is like Bro says .. there is this massive strike going on. I would say there is this massive quiet strike going on.
All of the old concepts of communism, socialism, democratic socialism, capitalism and so on are also being dis-intermediated in the crypto world. That conference for example, there is a bunch of community building going on among the hardcore libertarians and the word Voluntaryism is used more and more. This stands on a non-aggression principle and the idea is First, Do No Harm and Freedom of Contract.
Yeah, Marx is irrelevant. No need to read him. YouTube and social media are where it’s at now. Cryptos will disintermediate the whole world and all of history.
Sorry to break it to you but libertarians, a.k.a., neoliberals, are part of the harm, and are far too intellectually lightweight to even read David Harvey or try to up their game a little bit.
Something may come from cryptos yet, but not from people spouting such retarded nonsense.
Perhaps I was not clear. Each and every ideology is changing if one takes a good look. And that is how it should be. Capitalism of course is stuck on stupid. Ideologies that are alive and develop is now where it is at, and people are refusing to tie themselves to what the flawed history books say they should be tied to. Just look at what Communism looks like with Chinese Characteristics for example. The libertarians are changing although some are still stuck to their ideology. Socialism Latam style does not really look like socialism. The conversation that Bro basically started, is that people are investigating for themselves and this is getting to be a massive strike. I am not fully content with that descriptor and would like to even add …
A strike of the old ways and a search for new ways. I like the conversation in crypto. I don’t like the conversation in Q. Bro likes both I think.
In the crypto community, it gets quite cerebral. Crypto used to be libertarian, but that is changing and the principles are changing with the people.
Clear enough? I think there is a development here in people’s thinking. And each and every one of the ones I mentioned are not intellectual lightweights by any means. The thought is that technology (and combined with climate change) is powering a further ideology change. Of course we have to read Marx. But we don’t have to stick there, or perhaps we do.
Also take a look at Teranam13’s post a little down from here.
“No, it is not just two sides lost in narrative bubbles. “
Falkvinge sounds interesting to this old fogey, with his Pirate Party background— maybe worth watching like Kim Dotcom et al. Thanks, I’ll look him up.
Mujo,
I have to agree that the ‘Voluntaryism, First Do No Harm’ etc struck an off-note with me too. Brings to mind Google’s vaunted mission statement: Don’t be Evil, coined as they sold us all out, along with future generations, to anyone willing to pay.
Words are indeed cheap.
Whew! I’ve got to get out the frick out of here and convert some more bloated RE “bubble equity” to crypto ( Veritaseum has just been added to the list,,,for those that “Can Handle The Truth”….) before it (RE) goes “POP!”……..and stop jabbering away like there’s all the time in the world. There isn’t…. so I will cut this short.
But I promise to follow up, as soon, as I do as ioan urges over at Saker Appeal Page and ease my conscience for the sin of running on and on and contributing some lousy verse and worse humor………..
Additional impressions into the some of the niches and personalities and mixed up mixture of seeming opposite ideological strains (.. in many of the same individuals’ minds).. within the mileau amarynth mentions above. in general and in very specific cases I know about so far. As well as some of the arguments and ego clashes that highlight the points of friction.
Those are always fun!
Saudi dissident and political satirist Ghanem Al-Dosari speaks to us about the disappearance and potential murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the illusion of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman as a reformer. Next, the award-winning author of the book “They Fought Alone”, Charles Glass discusses the history of Western-backed insurgencies, from the British supporting insurgency against the Ottoman Empire…to the US supporting the rebels in Syria. Finally, Pamela Green, director of the film ‘Be Natural’ tells the untold story about Alice Guy-Blache, the world’s fist female film director!
Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance, A History of Western-backed Insurgency & Alice-Guy Blache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOIk_J8721c
Alice Guy-Blaché – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Guy-Blach%C3%A9
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zli0mysaUeU
The Cabbage Fairy (1896) – 1st Female Filmmaker – ALICE GUY BLACHE
– La Fee aux Choux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbQO6pwuNs
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJY4A_wLlaY
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna – of Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Olga_Alexandrovna_of_Russia
Великая Княгиня Ольга Александровна
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 – ru
I sincerely hope (As a Canadian) that this event indicates some kind of motion on the Rand/Ron Paul axis South of the border. Wishful thinking maybe.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1052204271968690176
How “weak” and absolutely useless is Donald J Trump for America or Humanity??
I think we’re about to find out in the rest of 2018.
Have you noticed that about 75% of the videos on you tube that you click on are currently running an “Impeach Trump” advertisement with no content except “convicted felons” Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, bla, bla, bla?
And that a majority of non-Americans here would not at all mind if those Soros ads got rid of the Orangutan??
The problem is that the ads are all smoke and mirrors bullshit only a brain dead zombie could not see through, and then some of them are followed by content like this:
https://youtu.be/brmUzj0LlIM
Joe DiGenova, the former U.S. Attorney for Washington DC on the FBI Failing to Provide Crucial Evidence on Russia Investigation (under 9 minutes)
which can only “steel” (pun intended) anyone with half a pulse to make sure that Soros and the Empire bankers feeding him billions for “resist” ..totally fail Nov 6, 2018.
I have a few arguments with DJT longer term than 3 weeks from today. Like one of the portraits of a past president hanging in his oval office. But I’ll get to that later. First things first,
Because THIS at 1 minute 36 seconds is the BIGGEST thing to grasp here:
“This is why the British are scared. The British MI-6 conducted illegal electronic surveillance on American citizens at the request of the FBI and John Brennan. And that’s how they found out that Papadopolous was not interested in Hillary Clinton’s emails or anything else. Illegal spying by the Brits, and That’s why the Brits are going crazy.”
How big? Well I will assert that Tel Aviv and the ADL are a huge problem, but that’s not the centre of the world. It’s a just vital point of Empire Run Primarily From London Over the LAst Three Centuries using religious nutball mind control and sexual blackmail……Epstein’s Island and Lolita Express and Comet Pizza are just small parts of that operation.
Digenova expresses doubts that enough Senators, Republicans included “have the cojones” to clean up the DC Septic Tank….because LOT of them, possibly a majority of them have been holding their nose and sitting in it for a long time.
WHY? Because the MOSSAD got them with a sex honey trap early on in their careers, they screwed a beautiful young twenties girl one evening and woke up the next morning in a drug fog, in photographed in bed with an 11 or 12 year old girl…….or boy.
Apparently Trump is not quite THAT weak or he would have been long gone almost 2 years ago, or doing exactly what The AZ Empire demands of him ALL the time…instead of just acting on their script part of the time……possibly to buy time and gather more strength.
Putin is probably stronger, as an individual, but it seems like he faced far, far less threat to his life…even from his first days in office than “The Very Weak”?? Donald has, with eunuchs like that in his own party far more worroed about their own personal survival than the survival of the “republic for which” they have NOT stood, since the MOSSAD clipped their cojones off for the Queen’s NWO of permanent human slavery. .
Three weeks from now and we will know something more though I wouldn’t bet for that because there is some time needed for “accommodation” in their seats. I don’t think they’ll take the turkey out to roost too fast (metaphorically), the other turkeys will be eaten, as always, with the exception of one, in the W.H as usual.
Bro,
That’s not news at all. Snowden got it on the front pages 5 years ago. US and UK have a reciprocal agreement to access each others mass data from ‘wire taps’—-precisely to get around the legality of tapping their own nationals.
Sneaky and underhand, yes, but unlikely ever to be declared illegal in a court of law. It is a reciprocal agreement, as in you scratch my back I scratch yours. Remember that old Hitchcock film where two guys agree to off each other wives? (or was it vice versa?)
Same principle, one example definitely illegal, the other of mutual benefit to the various squirrels and likely to be left in that muddy morass that the squirrels love so much since it gives them benefits.
If your assumption about Snowden is correct. I don’t think it is.
Consider the possibility that Snowden is a CIA mole intended to weaken NSA and regain control for the bad guys.
There are a lot of two edged swords around. So even if one is sympathetic to Snowden’s supposed “outing” of Big Brother NSA……….the assertion is that “We know it ALL…from the standpoint of NSA …..NOW assisting in taking down the Cabal….which Snowden…knowingly or unknowingly was deployed to protect…..but he now recedes into the past…in terms of his immediate significance, it seems to me.
Why cling to him as an sort of clarification of anything?
Meanwhile it appears that ASSANGE is not dead and is getting internet access restored,etc,etc. These Spywars and real and fake Whistleblowers are a very murky mileau. I wouldn’t stick to any fixed opinions or likes or dislikes…….because that’s the root of manipulation which causes you to miss the point that English people should now be getting:
Atone for the Sins of Empire. Become a Sovereign Republic NOT modelled on the evil “La Repubblica Serenissima”…..Venice…….the swamp refuge of the Western Roman Empire.
Attend to your own salvation, Bro, I have nothing to atone or apologise for.
Galina Dyuragin aka Alya Rakhmanova
Biography
Galina Dyuragin (born June 27, 1898 in Kasli near Yekaterinburg in the Urals, † February 11, 1991 in Ettenhausen, Kanton Thurgau, Switzerland, pseudonym Alja / Alexandra Rachmanova) was a Russian
writer. Her diary records have been translated into 21 languages. She became one of the most famous
women writers of the interwar period.
Youth in Russia
Galina Dyuragin grew up as the first of three daughters of a middle-class family in Kasli near Perm in the Urals.
Her autobiographical book Secrets about Tartars and Idols, published in 1932, describes her relatively carefree childhood in the bourgeois luxury of a Christian Orthodox family in contact with the archaic Tatars, describing adventurous excursions and experiences and the important prophecy of a hermit: “You will be very happy Miss, but you will also have much misfortune and sorrow. ” Galina Dyuragin has always considered the keeping of her diaries, from which many of her works drew, as an “indispensable vital necessity”.
“Students, Love, Cheka and Death” appeared as the first volume of the trilogy My Russian Diaries 1931 and deals with the events in Russia shortly before and after the October Revolution from the perspective of the Rachmanov / Dyuragin family. What begins as a description of the emotional state of a girl in the Backfischalter, soon develops into a dramatic scenario. The Czar is overthrown, the Bolsheviks are in power, an abbot is publicly staked to prove that there is no God, shootings, house searches, arrests, looting, illness, fear and terror are the order of the day as a result of the Red Terror. “We can not even imagine that you can sleep undressed, speak in a whisper, live a minute without fear of being shot,” confides the student in her diary, which hardly leaves its hiding place to dare to bring out. Their hometown is conquered by the whites, temporarily relaxes, but then approaches the Red Army, the family flees in a train from cattle cars to Irkutsk, where Galina begins studying psychology.
“Marriages in the red storm” immediately follows the first band. Galina Dyuragin fell in love with an Austrian prisoner of war who remained out of love for her in the Soviet-ridden Russia. Five months later they were married in Omsk, where the family had to move, and lived there in a freight car at the freight yard. In 1922, the son Jurka was born in a Soviet “Gebärhaus” under difficult nursing and hygienic conditions. The author’s first years of marriage, with her husband Arnulf von Hoyer, born in Chernivtsi and raised in Salzburg, were overshadowed by hunger, cold and the fear of liquidation by the Cheka, which was nationalized in 1922 as a GPU. The marriage became an “island of happiness”, which had to be wrested from the post-revolutionary economy of shortage daily. On the way back from Omsk they met whole trains full of apathetic starving. When they arrived in their hometown, the former maid had rented all the rooms in her house and was not allowed to give them back on the orders of the Communists. Arnulf von Hoyer (named in the book Otmar) found a position as an English lecturer, Galina gave lectures on the psychology of childhood and children’s literature. In 1925, the three-member family was expelled from the Soviet Union without explanation.
Exile in Austria
The family tried to gain a foothold in Vienna, which was plagued by unemployment and hardship. Galina offered an editorial a narrative of Russian life, but this was rejected. The family decided to run a grocery store and lived in a small room behind the store in the Währing district of Vienna. While Arnulf von Hoyer at the university had to make up for the examinations taken in Russia, which were not recognized in Austria, Galina provided for one and a half years as a milk woman for the maintenance of the family. The academic, who initially spoke only broken German, took every free minute to write down the stories told to her by her clientele. She suffered from homesickness, her parents’ letters were depressing, and occasionally she was shadowed by the Soviet secret service. The murder of the Romanian tenor Traian Grozăvescu was commented on by the customers. [1] The Julirevolte of 1927 disturbed her violently. The murder of Soviet ambassador Pyotr Voykov in Warsaw by 18-year-old Boris Kowerda triggered fears of revenge in Russia.
In 1927, the family moved to the hometown Arnulf von Hoyers, Salzburg, where he took a teaching post. Their living conditions improved when the Salzburg publishing house Anton Pustet published Galina’s diaries, translated into German by her husband, in book form. To protect her remaining in Russia relatives, she took the pseudonym Alja (Alexandra) Rachmanova. The work “Milchfrau in Ottakring” was a success. Her works have been translated into 22 languages. The “Factory of the New Man” (1935) received the first prize of the Académie d’Education et d’Etudes Sociales as the best anti-Bolshevik novel.
The family moved to a villa on Giselakai, Arnulf von Hoyer got a job as a high school teacher. “Rank and name meant little to her. Rather, (…) was the purely human in the foreground”. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich she was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer, her books were banned because they did not fit into the period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. After the attack on Russia, however, they were translated into Russian and used as anti-Bolshevist propaganda on the Eastern Front. When in April 1945 the 23-year-old son Jurka was shot dead by the Russians during the last battles over Vienna and her life was threatened again in the face of the advancing Soviet army, she fled to Switzerland with her husband.
Exile in Switzerland
The book “One of Many” dedicated Dyuragin Jurkas souvenirs. In it she described the events from the move to Salzburg in 1927 until the death of the son. Arnulf von Hoyer wrote in a letter to friends in Salzburg in 1946: “Of course it is very sad for us that we have to start all over again and, frankly, we are already very tired. Being alone without our only child is very difficult for us, and homesickness does not make life any easier for us “.
The Hoyers moved into Ettenhausen in the Kanton Thurgau their last residence. Galina wrote novel biographies of Russian writers, which were translated into German by Arnulf Hoyer. After his death in 1971 Alja Rachmanova was dependent on the care of a neighbor. She died during the foreseeable collapse of the Soviet Union and was buried at the Salzburg municipal cemetery.
Her books reached a total circulation of over two million. They are documents of a turbulent time and bear witness to the mastering of a life that, according to the author, was “full of afflictions and catastrophes”.
(Google translation)
Unfortunately, I found only German Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galina_Djuragin
Almost a life similar to Dr.Zhivago.
Usually I do not post much from Infowars because it is a questionable, partisan source. But after watching RT coverage of what is going on in Loonylandia, I felt that they are missing much of the deeper cultural shifting going on, especially among the young. It is meme warfare:
https://www.infowars.com/new-npc-memes-crash-sjw-programming-strikes-fear-in-libs/
No, it is not just two sides lost in narrative bubbles. This is exactly what the neocon press promotes as it attempts to cooperate with the techie elites in order to get us all to buy into this cultural “civil war” nonsense. In California there are more voters registered as Independent than as either Democrat or Republican and no one is talking politics but there is this seething feeling of “just wait until I get my hands on a ballot”. I predict a large protest vote. Of course the Dems will pull out all stops to make sure non citizens vote ( for them) and in California they register to vote as soon as they register for a driver’s license.
Does RT ever get out of New York City? And ,no ,it isn’t just “bubble” narrative when the Corporate press deliberately edits a speech of the President of Loonylandia to the extent that they falsify what he said to incite mob-like emotions ( racist! he loves racists!) We are talking coup tactics by powerful institutional forces so why pretend otherwise? One Proud Boy on Alex Jones was saying that his group welcomes joint actions with other groups—he plans to join in a friendly way a left sponsored protest against the mayor of Portland. Let’s just wait for the howls of those who want to promote the “civil war”, i.e. no class solidarity, narrative.
OK. I understand RT has to tread carefully as it is registered as a foreign “agent” but why be active in promoting the same big lie ? No wonder 40 million people a week tune into Alex Jones. ( oh, he has some very cringe worthy positions lately especially on events outside Loonylandia.) The only other person in my neighborhood who admits to watching RT, says he likes Max Keiser.
… music video break …
Ёлка – Грею счастье
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6qsrlL9oA
(different)
For those that expressed an interest in getting a little more to grips with economic issues, here is Dmitry Orlov on his open site. (And thank heavens, there are no denseness of a slew of charts in there – only Humpty Dumpty.
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2018/10/humpty-dumptys-fateful-choice.html
Very good lesson, very good teaching, understandable for kids like me.
The natural rate of interest is zero
http://www.moslereconomics.com/wp-content/graphs/2009/07/natural-rate-is-zero.PDF
Longer explanation:
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=4656
20 MASTERPIECES OF GREAT COMPOSERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47tWcmDtG6U
State Tells Christian Filmmakers: Make Same-Sex Marriage Films or Spend 90 Days in Jail …
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/october/christian-filmmakers-appeal-to-8th-circuit-to-make-films-celebrating-marriage-between-one-man-one-woman
… and …
Why economy aspires to dissolve family …
http://www.pravdareport.com/society/anomal/30-04-2018/140888-economy_family-0/
Meet Ten Corporate Giants Helping Israel Massacre Gaza Protesters
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ten-corporate-giants-helping-israel-massacre-gaza-protesters/250617/
“The Israeli military relies on a network of international companies, supplying everything from sniper rifles to tear gas, to carry out its massacres of protesters in Gaza,” Tom Anderson, a researcher for Corporate Occupation, told MintPress News. “These companies are knowingly supporting war crimes, and are complicit in state-orchestrated murder.”
Since the mobilization began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed 205 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported on October 4.
There have been 21,288 injured, including 5,345 from live ammunition, resulting in 11,180 hospitalizations. Thirty-eight of the dead and 4,250 of the wounded were children.
A press release accompanying a September 25 report by the World Bank warned, “The economy in Gaza is collapsing,” adding that “the decade-long blockade is the core issue.”
Corporate Occupation and the American Friends Service Committee, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, and Who Profits maintain comprehensive lists of corporations enabling Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
Here are a few of them:”
A bomb exploded in Kerch Crimea, at a college killing and injuring many students:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=KkTZBrYriLE
Remember the Showdown at the IDLIB Corral (cauldron)???
Israel Shamir has an interesting perspective on it……….. receding from the front burner:
“Could it be that Israelis expected an attack by France, England and the US upon Syria on that night, an attack that did not materialise thanks to the Russian-Turkish agreement on Idlib? There was a British plane and a French frigate in the vicinity, and a whole lot of American ships.
The agreement on Idlib was a very important event, though Il-20 displaced it out of our collective memory. Putin and Erdogan reached a working compromise, thus avoiding almost unavoidable large scale hostilities. The White Helmets had already prepared a film with staged chemical attack upon Syrian children, but the agreement had made the attack improbable in the first place. It is possible that the American coalition assault had been postponed in the last moment, when the Russian plane had been already downed.
However, all is well that ends well. Russian decision to create practically a no-fly zone is a good decision, good for all. It is good for Russians as they learned that their Commander-in-Chief can make strong decisions. It is good for Syria, as they will suffer less of the Israeli bombardments. And it is really good for Israel, as this naughty child, a spoiled brat, a darling of America had to be forbidden to bother neighbouring children. The automatic missile defence system will provide a threat of spanking. The kid had been told that he is not allowed to kill neighbours. With its excessive aggressiveness multiplied by impunity, Israel has been spoiled, as anybody would. With this block, Israel can still become a mensch, and for this chance, thank you, Russia.
Will Tel-Aviv use this chance? The US will try to frustrate the Russian taming of Israel. John Bolton and Mike Pompeo already declared that no one may interfere with Israel’s divine right to freely bomb Syria. Will the Israeli lobby in America be able to neutralise Moscow’s decision and unhinge Israeli soul once again? Will they convince Putin to postpone his decision like they did in April, and a few years ago? I do not think so.”
Full article:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/russia-and-the-taming-of-the-israelis/
Cryptos and Economics
Ok, I wrote up the first of what I envision should be 10 sessions on these issues. This first one should take 30 minutes or so to work through and give a background on where we stand today on the main 3 Bitcoin specific cryptos. There is a 15 minute video and a short further video.
There is extra work but only for those who are crypto crazy or deeply into learning this new asset class.
https://saker.community/topic/bitcoin-derivatives-a-necessary-but-short-history/
You may of course comment here in the Cafe, or over there under the community forum thread. I’ll put comments together there so that we keep the 10 pieces together. I will in a little while put in a button so that you can easily get back here to the Cafe.
Off to work I go!
wow, thanks for all your work and special concern for our illumination on this trickiest of all issues facing 21st century man.
Crumbs, I’m not sure I’m coping, . . . a stiff whisky please waiter, thank you.
Permission has now been granted to making crypto comments at the Saker community of communities cafe by the Saker community cooperative. Now repeat that quickly without faltering. All comments to be centralized at the community cooperative.
Could we have a rational and explanation without being shot ?
One whisky later and on another note, big thanks to JJ.s response to my comment at the last cafe from mine in responding to one by Amaranth. Here it is :
JJ on October 14, 2018 · at 5:23 am EST/EDT
Tooo terrified to want to understand it fully….
How honest and brave is that and said with gentle spirit, thank you !
Ras
Simple explanation, nothing strange. Over at the community site I can post pictures and other material easily and it is for all Sakerites. Some people expressed an interest and I offered to put something together. I guess you need another whisky (grins).
Satan files a Motion: #theyallknew
Look up, now and be apprised
there’s a big buzz in paradise
Satan’s filed a big, bad motion
We all know he’s not one for jokin’
Angels ask without much hesitation
what’s the charge, cause of his litigation?
“Corruption of Innocence–no mitigation”
They in unison horrified gasp:
No, not that, the most grave accusation
those guilty go to Hell’s lowest location
there forever in loathsomeness bask!
Sabra and Shatila: The Secret Papers. Carefully Planned Israeli Atrocities Led by Ariel Sharon
By Jeremy Salt
Global Research, October 15, 2018
Meet Ten Corporate Giants Helping Israel Massacre Gaza Protesters
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ten-corporate-giants-helping-israel-massacre-gaza-protesters/250617/
American Pravda: The ADL in American Society
RON UNZ • OCTOBER 15, 2018 • 7,300 WORDS
The Anti-Defamation League is “the formidable organization of Jewish cowboys who ride herd on their American cattle.” — Revilo P. Oliver
“The ADL was founded just over a century ago with the central goal of preventing a Jewish rapist and killer from being held legally accountable for his crimes, and over the decades, it eventually metastasized into a secret political police force not entirely dissimilar to the widely despised East German Stasi, but with its central goal seeming to be the maintenance of overwhelming Jewish control in a society that is 98% non-Jewish.
“We should ask ourselves whether it is appropriate for an organization with such origins and such recent history to be granted enormous influence over the distribution of information across our Internet.”
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-adl-in-american-society/
Chewing Gum may not create wisdom teeth, and this has nothing to do with Catalina Island and Mr Wrigley’s Spearmint or any other gum, but it does have a great deal to do with the 2018 World Wide Mass Strike.
Rushed right now, but I am underlining the passages from Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike to substantiate my point. LATER. This is another drive by shooting, y’all. Varooom!
“L.A. Driver, Man!”
Now this piece of political art by Thought Gum….a Canadian “Frank McGeek” as he calls himself is a quick tour into turbulent political waters that are sure to make many of you Queasy…..as in “Green Around the Gills” …so make sure the rest room is nearby….or you have a barf bag….or better yet, 2:
https://youtu.be/bQ5WAW3DLWg?t=59
On the other hand, if your an Old Salt, enjoy the ride and grins and discomfiture of your less seasoned shipmates.
Number of People Killed in Kerch College Attack Rises to 20
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201810181068982111-kerch-college-attack-death-toll-rises/
This terror attack appears to be very similar to the many done in the usa. It has that distinct israeloamerican stench about it. Is this a “horse head in the bed” directed against Russia for defying the israel over Syria? The usual zionazi cowardly attack/threat set up to impress prior to the upcoming meet between Putin and netanyahoo?
The Big Blockchain Lie
Oct 15, 2018 Nouriel Roubini
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/blockchain-big-lie-by-nouriel-roubini-2018-10
Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year’s absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. The promise to cure the world’s ills through “decentralization” was just a ruse to separate retail investors from their hard-earned real money.
NEW YORK – With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70% since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust. More generally, cryptocurrencies have entered a not-so-cryptic apocalypse. The value of leading coins such as Ether, EOS, Litecoin, and XRP have all fallen by over 80%, thousands of other digital currencies have plummeted by 90-99%, and the rest have been exposed as outright frauds. No one should be surprised by this: four out of five initial coin offerings (ICOs) were scams to begin with.
Faced with the public spectacle of a market bloodbath, boosters have fled to the last refuge of the crypto scoundrel: a defense of “blockchain,” the distributed-ledger software underpinning all cryptocurrencies. Blockchain has been heralded as a potential panacea for everything from poverty and famine to cancer. In fact, it is the most overhyped – and least useful – technology in human history.
In practice, blockchain is nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet. But it has also become the byword for a libertarian ideology that treats all governments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed. Blockchain fundamentalists’ ideal world is one in which all economic activity and human interactions are subject to anarchist or libertarian decentralization. They would like the entirety of social and political life to end up on public ledgers that are supposedly “permissionless” (accessible to everyone) and “trustless” (not reliant on a credible intermediary such as a bank).
Yet far from ushering in a utopia, blockchain has given rise to a familiar form of economic hell. A few self-serving white men (there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe) pretending to be messiahs for the world’s impoverished, marginalized, and unbanked masses claim to have created billions of dollars of wealth out of nothing. But one need only consider the massive centralization of power among cryptocurrency “miners,” exchanges, developers, and wealth holders to see that blockchain is not about decentralization and democracy; it is about greed.
For example, a small group of companies – mostly located in such bastions of democracy as Russia, Georgia, and China – control between two-thirds and three-quarters of all crypto-mining activity, and all routinely jack up transaction costs to increase their fat profit margins. Apparently, blockchain fanatics would have us put our faith in an anonymous cartel subject to no rule of law, rather than trust central banks and regulated financial intermediaries.
A similar pattern has emerged in cryptocurrency trading. Fully 99% of all transactions occur on centralized exchanges that are hacked on a regular basis. And, unlike with real money, once your crypto wealth is hacked, it is gone forever.
Moreover, the centralization of crypto development – for example, fundamentalists have named Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin a “benevolent dictator for life” – already has given lie to the claim that “code is law,” as if the software underpinning blockchain applications is immutable. The truth is that the developers have absolute power to act as judge and jury. When something goes wrong in one of their buggy “smart” pseudo-contracts and massive hacking occurs, they simply change the code and “fork” a failing coin into another one by arbitrary fiat, revealing the entire “trustless” enterprise to have been untrustworthy from the start.
Lastly, wealth in the crypto universe is even more concentrated than it is in North Korea. Whereas a Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100% of a country’s income/wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41, and Bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88.
As should be clear, the claim of “decentralization” is a myth propagated by the pseudo-billionaires who control this pseudo-industry. Now that the retail investors who were suckered into the crypto market have all lost their shirts, the snake-oil salesmen who remain are sitting on piles of fake wealth that will immediately disappear if they try to liquidate their “assets.”
As for blockchain itself, there is no institution under the sun – bank, corporation, non-governmental organization, or government agency – that would put its balance sheet or register of transactions, trades, and interactions with clients and suppliers on public decentralized peer-to-peer permissionless ledgers. There is no good reason why such proprietary and highly valuable information should be recorded publicly.
Moreover, in cases where distributed-ledger technologies – so-called enterprise DLT – are actually being used, they have nothing to do with blockchain. They are private, centralized, and recorded on just a few controlled ledgers. They require permission for access, which is granted to qualified individuals. And, perhaps most important, they are based on trusted authorities that have established their credibility over time. All of which is to say, these are “blockchains” in name only.
It is telling that all “decentralized” blockchains end up being centralized, permissioned databases when they are actually put into use. As such, blockchain has not even improved upon the standard electronic spreadsheet, which was invented in 1979.
No serious institution would ever allow its transactions to be verified by an anonymous cartel operating from the shadows of the world’s authoritarian kleptocracies. So it is no surprise that whenever “blockchain” has been piloted in a traditional setting, it has either been thrown in the trash bin or turned into a private permissioned database that is nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet or a database with a misleading name.
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Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, was Senior Economist for International Affairs in the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank.
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Crimea attack: Gun attack at Kerch college kills 19
You can always count on the tabloid filth BBC to capitalise on any tragedy involving Russians to stick a knife in further.
Nothing is too low for the MI6/BBC. Here they conflate this event with Donbass:
“Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in a move condemned by many Western powers.
The annexation marked the start of a simmering conflict involving Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine that goes on to this day.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45891201
… a proletariat, comrades and friends, music break …
Fischer-z – The Worker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z1AM7upWgQ