2019/01/16 19:00:01
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The 7 Social Sins According to Gandhi
https://exploringyourmind.com/the-7-social-sins-according-to-gandhi/
Project ‘Gandhi’ was a Jewish-British Mafia clown show.
http://mileswmathis.com/fakir.pdf
a more standard debunking of Ghandi, although from a decidedly Zio?-British stance can be found in Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals.
Johnson didn’t have the Cojones or perhaps inclination to debunk icon Einstein, but he began Modern Times with the social impact of relativity(italics mine). I feel pretty much the same way about Einstein that I feel about Ghandi, but it took many years: phony.
What are you talking about?
Einstein for sure did not wrote the formula but he deeply understood it.
Can you elaborate a little more?
Cafe Transition: Here’s that Other Mathew:
Mateusz Morawiecki
Der Spiegel Interview
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-polish-prime-minister-mateusz-morawiecki-a-1194264.html
DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Prime Minister, since your party, Law and Justice (PiS), has been in power in Warsaw, Poland has suffered from a bad image. It used to be the model pupil among the new European Union member states, but now it is considered un-democratic, nationalistic and quick-tempered. What happened?
Morawiecki: Those are opinions and not facts. Poland is a democratic nation-state like all the other countries of Europe. And we are pragmatic. We have a problem with a part of the European political elite and with journalists, but not with the normal people. For example, 97 percent of all foreign investors would come to us again. You are right, though, that we need to make a greater effort to explain our policies. We are facing major changes in Poland. Now, we would like to see the majority of our population benefit from our economic growth. Just because foreign observers used to praise Poland does not mean that the policies of the time were also good for the majority of the population.
etc
In an article which I believe highlights the serious issues which the UK faces with its control or lack thereof of security services, Craig Murrey goes into the dangers of Richard Dearlove, a previous head of MI-6.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/richard-dearlove-helped-blair-kill-millions-the-security-services-are-a-danger-to-our-state-and-society/5665306:
“Dearlove regularly features in the media shilling for maximum Cold War. His letter yesterday on the dangers of intelligence and security co-operation with the EU, as undermining NATO and the UK/US/Five Eyes intelligence arrangements, is simply barking mad. There is no evidence of this whatsoever. He makes no attempt to describe the mechanism by which the dire consequences he predicts will follow. Amusingly enough, although those consequences are dire to Dearlove, to me they are extremely desirable. If I thought that May’s withdrawal agreement would undermine NATO and the CIA, I would be out on the streets campaigning for it.
But there is a very serious point. There is something very wrong indeed with the UK security services, which are most certainly not a force for freedom or justice. That MI6 can be headed by as extreme a figure as Dearlove, underlines the threat that the security services pose to any progressive movement in politics.”
My comment to this extract: The dangers highlighted here apply also in spades to the US; when had a nutter such as brennen running the cia or now directly involved in the “deep state coup” against the sitting president, we in the us indeed have serious dangers.
I too ready Craig’s essay, and I agree. But consider that MI6 is merely part of “Five Eyes” and see Bill Binney’s monologue too > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=uYg_0Imrnr4
Evidently the Red Army failed to defeat fascism because the core nazi heart was not, ahemm.. in Berlin.
The “D-Day Invasion” stopped the Red Army from finishing the job? Well…you know what.
And they seem to have left debris in Europe too…such a mess!
But, they say, a cleaning crew comes ’round from time to time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHKjOl9ocR0
and here’s Mr Z! What a guy! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CnHNKpBBM
And here is General Shoigu and his staff-serious guys with professionalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOWp_Blyk5o
If anyone were to ask me for advice, however unlikely, I would advise the volkers, the fdd cretins, the pomp asses, the boltons, the NATO ship drivers, um, it prob is not a good idea for any kind of movement towards Russian borders.
Revolution on the making on the streets of France ? maybe. Revolution in USA, in Europe, or any other places in the world ? it fits our mind. But revolution of the mind who cares, maybe those affected few around, in the near…anyway, I found this paper on the table in the corner in cafe, I asked the waiter what is it, he said he has no idea, maybe somebody left it there accidentally. Oh ! something is written, may I read it ?
Revolution of the Mind
by ioan
How the world is changing fast
Once an innocent, a child
Now an old man full of sins
While the world is going wild
Once a young man full of dreams
Now the world is changing fast
I forgot that I was old
And my mind was full of dust…
For a moment, for a while
Younger feelings came with knock,
As a wonder of my mind,
Beating time, returning clock !
Keep it cool-has told my spirit
Yes I will-replied my box,
But then later changed his mind,
Thinking he’s a younger fox!
Listening to different muses
Keeping ears and eyes wide open,
Opened mouth and told his view
Until all the past went broken!
Revolution of the spirit,
Revolution of my brain ?
Or the play of both together,
Whom to blame for such a game ?
Whom to blame ? But all its you !
It’s your mind and it’s your spirit
Playing puzzle, searching truth,
You can’t cheat and neither quit.
– Waiter ! give me please a Vodka, the usual one…I have to go now to the toilet, may I use it ?
– Of course, its waiting for you with open mouth to feed it…don’t forget to flash it down his gauntlet !
If, my friend, I ever get’s my hand around it (time wise). I would enjoy collecting all of your poems at the Cafe’, way back, sort them, and distribute them to some of my friends who create music, as some of them clearly is very suitable to be expressed in different music categories without spoiling their spiritual and/or humorous/critical etc. context.
You haven’t by any chance saved them all, have you??
Kent
I have a good news for you Kent, yes I saved them, yet I’ll need to put them in order to have it all together in one PDF file.
On the weekend with Mars square Saturn it’s time to watch Eisensteins’Battle on the Ice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrXbk7Sx9s
Anyway, the weekend is stacked with intensities.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-bright-spot-in-dark-drop.html
Military strategy gone wrong *for a number of reasons(.
Examining the Disaster Fall Blau, Kaukasus wwII.
For educational purposes only (sort of).
Enjoy. (worth it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzr6dD8fvVY
Kent
Of course, merely educational purposes and if somebody doesn’t like the syllabus then they may call it propaganda and pretend it ain’t so…
And History, they say, never repeats….so shall we move on and say “Fall Rot”?
I re-post Gospodin Z chat with th’ fellas > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CnHNKpBBM in, as Kent has, in the spirit of education and remembering History.
and a song…we used to sing at school, when we had a Republic > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVnur5DkdI
Didn’t get that one at the time (Zukov). Now I feel a bit more “educated”. Thank you.
And, I am sorry, missed that one (guthrie), which only empathizes that it is just not possible to be everywhere, and “consume”/”evaluate”/”bring into context” everything, which, by the way, IMO is perfectly illustrated in the Novel “The black mist” by the late royal astronomer Fred Hoyle in the fifties I believe.
Kent
Thanks Kent, for the book recommendation, still in print after all this time!
My personal aversion to most sci-fi is being put under siege, now, the way this is going.
Per Marshall Zhukov interview. The Germans over estimated their skills and underestimated the time it would take.
This reminds me of the current mind set of those running the state of affairs in Looneylandia,
Also there are sources which claim that the Soviets had intelligence assets in the offices of the German high command.
@ # 1 yes indeed the Germans did precisely that, it seems to be a nazi problem though, perhaps it’s characteristic of exceptional people…as you say, it does remind one of…Looneylandia (or Fourth Reich?) No where is it written that nazis have to wear German uniforms or march in goose-step.
Yes again…sources, some, are named, as I have read in one history or another. Needless to say the US command OSS also had such contacts, indeed these deeply corrupt…Dulles at Bern just down the street from BIS and drinking with nazis…and Soviets also had contacts in US institutions. So did MI6, which seems to have curated the death of FDR
#beelzebubrocks
Satan’s new spiffy social media handle
Is causing the latest celestial scandal
It is time to jolt humanity fully awake
‘Cause Satan has taken up social media tweeting
Restraining order issued hopefully not too late
Lest out of his hand mankind might be eating
He’ll mess up men’s minds first
Soon like sheep they’ll be bleating
With addictions driving a terrible thirst
For oblivion and their own life cheating
When humans create freely a Hell
on earth
It’s easier to make to the Lowest a fond greeting
Coming next: humanity goes on trial and Micha-el puts his foot down
Social media addicted are more numerous than all religious people from all religions on the globe put together – which means that many religious people are in the same way addicted to this new “religion”, on their own will, being manipulated on their own will, freely, even paying for this “service”. Today, this “service” is still evolving, they’ve gone so far as to make special software applications for small children under the age of 7. Probably their slogan is “the younger, the better”. France is the only country who rang the alarm bells, prohibiting the use of smartphones from schools, children begun the discover that they have classmates to talk and play with them. To commute people’s attention from their fellow brothers is the greatest achievement of Satanic Forces in mankind history ! and to name it Social Media – what a scarce and diabolical thinking, the best way to create disrupted individuals, disrupted societies, disrupted nations, disrupted families and disrupted friendships (if they exist). I don’t see anything different in Russia, China or India, or even Iran in this matter, the network is global, as the main scope is global. We may pay attention to military, political, economic movements, the wrong has been already done via social media, a technical human innovation, maybe worst than any other weapon because of its efficiency, proved by the growing number of addicts. And, don’t forget, this nightmare will only increase, how to stop it when there is so much money and effort invested by so many parties and so many parties are approving it, falling victim to the same illusion ? Thank to the technical innovations, the whole world is getting robotized, insofar the humans are well on this path.
Amen, brother Ioan!
loan away from us, it is Brother ioan. :)
It was a great insight for sure.
Teranam13, with Satan by the tail with the tale of his spiffy SS media,
ioan, with insight on the devils commuting attention away from fellow brothers,
Zico,The Musketeer, for sure, is with the action with scent of a deer o dear so
Swift and fleet of foot is he away from us – ‘Amen, Brother ioan !’
Ras
Remember all the zionaz-gay propaganda about Cuba sonicly attacking u.s. diplomatic staff at the u.s. embassy in Cuba? Well guess what, it is another “yellow rain” sort of psywar scam.
Cue the crickets: Berkeley researcher finds Cuba ‘sonic attack’ sound is actually insects chirpin
https://www.rt.com/usa/448151-cuba-embassy-sonic-attacks-crickets/
First inclination was to link this article in the sidebar but there is so much more detail about bolton’s psychopathic madness about iran that I decided to link here (this man is indeed so obsessed that it is a risk to the world at large to allow him to be anywhere near decisions pertaining to iran) so the question is what the hell is anyone going to do about it…it seems, bupkis, too much money behind him.
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/01/boltons-big-iran-con/154109/?oref=d-skybox
italic textBolton’s deceptions predate Trump. He honed the technique in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, when he engaged in a systematic effort to subvert the intelligence on Iraqi programs and bury any evidence contrary to his claims, including: “We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden WMD and production facilities.” (No, we weren’t and no, he didn’t.)
As Peter Beinart notes, to read Bolton’s columns and speeches over the past two decades “is to enter a cocoon. His writing is filled with assertions—about the purity of America’s intentions, the motivations of its adversaries, the uselessness of diplomacy, and the efficacy of war—for which he offers either feeble evidence or no evidence at all.”
A survey of Bolton’s former colleagues by ProPublica concluded that he skews intelligence, that he “resists input that doesn’t fit his biases and retaliates against people he disagrees with.” In short, we have a national security advisor whose temperament and tendencies nearly exactly mirror those of the president — an exceptionally dangerous situation.
Trump’s mendacity may encourage Bolton’s, but he needs precious little prompting. As the secretary of state continues this week and next on his overlapping anti-Iran tour of the Middle East, we should brace for a stream of false claims every bit as strong as the ones coming from the White House.
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I have thought more since last night as to how these two thugs, bolton and pomp, can run around the mid-east clearly and gleefully changing everything trump has said recently.
What are the consequences and why do they feel they can do this with impunity, clearly serving Israel first and nitenyaaahooo. The answer is clearly kushner and his father are in this 100% opposed to american interests, obsessed with iran, and full loyalty to israel. Not sure where adelson and fdd fit but probably in 100% because it is all about iran, not syria.
I think we all can agree that trump really has no interest in what passes as “foreign policy.” If any interest or statement, it is a drive by shooting and off he goes.
So field is wide open for nitenyaahoo but Turkey has the gonads to step up and say to bolton that he can take this nityen nonsense and stuff it-bravo erdegen. No one else has the balls to do this.
Putin is standing by, it seems watching, and he is and has been the key to this mess but if israel continues to atk syria, he will have to decide what next.
@ >”I think we all can agree that trump really has no interest in what passes as “foreign policy.” If any interest or statement, it is a drive by shooting and off he goes.”
Is there reason to think his faults do not extend to domestic foolishness as well? One might well, based on Trump’s familial and personal background, based on facts, make the reasoned assumption that Trump is entirely unable to understand any of the the Realities. He has no classical education, no geopolitical theory or history, no languages, no proper education at all – nothing about him prepares him for the tasks of the job. Effectively he’s a fool, even a loose cannon.
I knew this and I voted for him.
So did many others.
The “alternative” was a cunning and diabolical war criminal with a greedy and ambitious train of murder to recommend her.
It may have seemed (and seem now) that a vote for Trump was a vote against a known dangerous criminal and her criminal organization. It was this character that lost the election for the, aheemm, “lady”.
It may also be seen as a vote in favor of dynamiting a corrupt and criminal system – placing the “explosive” (Mr T) deep in the heart of said corrupt criminal organization…
Perhaps we are witnesses to the desired demolition… Y’think?
As to Netanyahooo… zionism is a machine built to British specification… Real enough, and witting, but conjured and servile to MI6 CoL and so forth…of course it’s a dynamic coupled organism and power flows from place to place in a variety…sometimes indeed yes, the israeli nazis hold sway, but they are not the center, simply an organ with some willfulness.
Interesting > (America before the British Coup) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnirPO3YJaQ
Thanks for the response!
With trump, it is hard to argue against any characterization above the “drive by” level-I agree with you.
i started watching your linked video and will return to it.
Roosevelt’s dam building programs in the western us in the 1930’s was indeed to my mind a stroke of genius. I had relatives and their friends who worked on the earth fill dam at Ft Peck, Montana-height of the Depression with families unable to put food on the table.
That work for them saved them and their families!
Given the rivalry and animosity currently between India and China and the recent speculation Modi has handed India over to the israeloamericans, I found this news quite remarkable.
India Believes West is Not Altruistic About China’s Huawei – Official
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201812281071072369-india-5g-huawei/
Literally, this:
“A top official in the Ministry of External Affairs told Sputnik on the condition of anonymity that India will not ban Huawei from participating in the 5G trials in the country.
“We have to weigh the situation. The West is not exactly altruistic. At this stage, Huawei is a legal entity. Rest, the concerned department will look into it”, a top official of India’s Ministry of External Affairs told Sputnik.”
See also:
India’s 5G Invitation to Huawei May Signal Turn in Bilateral Economic Ties
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201812201070845648-china-india-5g-huawei-ties/
Would save on an aircraft carrier: Zhirinovsky complained that the Russian Federation had not
stopped contributions to the PACE before
Posted by: Fedor Vesnin
Moscow, January 16. Russia refused to pay contributions to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that it was a long time ago to
break with the organization of Russia.
Zhirinovsky calculated that by listening to the LDPR proposal to refuse contributions in 1996,
Russia would save 4 billion euros on an aircraft carrier.
“This is the cost of the whole aircraft carrier. If he was plowing the waters of the world’s ocean
today, we would be more respected, ”Zhirinovsky said in an interview with Politpazl.
In his opinion, back in the 90s, they began to actively disseminate defamation against the Russian
Federation at the Council of Europe site. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in this regard
recalled the deputy Vladimir Lukin, who was happy to see in PACE and who, according to
Zhirinovsky, “reproached Russia instead of defending the rights of their country”.
Zhirinovsky complained that in the 90s Moscow did not take a more categorical and tough position
in Europe, but forgiven the “partners” butting and slapping.
Recall that earlier the vice-speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Peter Tolstoy, said
that Moscow had decided not to pay a contribution to the Council of Europe budget this year.
The speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, at the same
time noted that the importance of PACE is overvalued, writes Free Press.
In 2014, Russian representatives in PACE were deprived of basic powers, in particular the right to vote, because of the events in Ukraine and the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation. In the future, the sanctions were extended. Russia in 2016 suspended its participation in the activities of PACE.
(Google translation)
https://riafan.ru/1141465-sekonomili-by-na-avianosec-zhirinovskii-posetoval-chto-rf-ne-prekratila-vznosy-v-pase-ranshe?utm_source=push-notification&utm_medium=push-world&utm_campaign=push
Zhirinovsky is a Jewish Mafia asset. Mission: entertaining Goys with noise, absurdities & silliness a la carte.
Could you please explain your claim?
In my opinion Vladimir Zhirinovsky is right and tells the truth.
‘Fighting on behalf of the oppressed’: Malaysia bans Israeli athletes in solidarity with Palestine
https://www.rt.com/sport/448950-malaysia-israel-ban-palestine/
“The cabinet has also decided that Malaysia will not host any more events involving Israel or its representatives. This is to me, a decision to reflect the government’s firm stance over the Israeli issue,” Saifuddin said, AP reported.
“We are looking at the Palestinian issue not simply from the religious point of view… it is a humanitarian, human rights issue. It is about fighting on behalf of the oppressed… It’s about fighting on behalf of the oppressed,” he added.”
No doubt israeli involvement in the murder of 100s of people on the two destroyed Malaysian air liners is a factor, as well, in the decision.
American Traitor John Bolton Sold Out the USA to Israel
This compilation of news clips demonstrates that Trump’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton,
has sold out the American people in his quest to achieve the military goals of Israel and the New
World Order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amYcQI8vMI
Funny how the eye can glimpse a photograph and imagine a familiar person, in the example of Cafe Picture (much appreciated) above, my eye “saw” Katharine Hepburn in a pose suggesting Lady’s saphic symposia or possibly her heart-felt voir dire. On second look, it’s not the lady, but perhaps her sister… And this catch of eye happens every time I open this Cafe page.
What the Mind doth grasp at,
what illusions,
what beliefs surface from behind the eye…
withal a pretty pair of Ladies,
but not the Kat chatting with a pal.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=katharine+hepburn&t=ffab&ia=images&iax=images
They say the same sort of curated illusion is, these days, used to promote the unspeakable desires of the Fourth Reich…tools are where y’find’em.
Returning to the Cafe art which graces us all with kindly scenes, I have never before remarked in Thanks for these ongoing treats, and so say now, “Thanks!”
Nice poem in five lines, you can do it well my friend ! thank you
I just posted a link in the non msm news about “the largest data breach in history”
If you wonder about your account info and password have been breached you can check here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
(just delete this if the link breaks any rules adm!)
Stephen F. Cohen: Trump-Putin dangerously hamstrung by Russia-gate hysteria
Larry talks with scholar Stephen F. Cohen, whose new book “War with Russia?” details a
dangerous new Cold War, made worse by the media and political frenzy over the Mueller probe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgJk-aA3_0
Junior -all bought and paid for:
Twitter up in arms after Trudeau says he’ll ‘continue to condemn BDS’
https://www.rt.com/news/449037-trudeau-bds-antisemitic-town-hall/
Website “Indian Punchline” has addressed the things Mr. Lavrov said in the matter of Japan, this, and much more in the examination of the “post INF” world… Alas the picture ain’t pretty…when diplomacy stops it usually means plan B…
https://indianpunchline.com/debris-of-inf-treaty-will-fall-far-and-wide/
The essay seems to me to be very insightful and correct. I recommend it.
excerpt >
“,,,We are entering uncharted waters in regional and international security. Russia anticipates increased US deployments near its borders. In an interview with government-daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday, “In general, our analysis shows that the American presence near our borders will grow… As for Russia’s western borders, we note the course for the growth of military presence of the US and other NATO members in their vicinity. In 2019, placement of multinational battalion tactical groups in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland will continue. At the same time, Brussels does not hide the fact that that its main goal is to contain our country. The strengthening of the European segment of the US global missile defense system continues. The inauguration of the missile defense complex in Poland in addition to the already functioning one in Romania is expected in 2020.”
Equally, new faultlines are appearing. Moscow anticipates further US missile deployments to Northeast Asia – specifically, Japan. Moscow estimates that it is unrealistic to expect Japan to adopt an independent foreign policy. This geopolitical reality in Northeast Asia is in turn casting shadows on the recent improved climate in Russo-Japanese relations…”
A US Navy submarine commander has been fired after he hired ten prostitutes to party in his hotel room.
Captain Travis Zettel, of the USS Bremerton, paid for the women while his submarine was on a “farewell” tour of the Philippines last March.
Yes:
Government money (staatsknete) well spent
bringeth content.
The US military usually spends the money extorted from the rest of us in a much less happy way. Bravo, Travis Zettel, that you practised the old human rights mantra “make love not war” where this is most needed, in the most disgusting war machine itself. Instead of sourly remarking that an americamn officer skipped the standard procedure of dealing with natives with rape and murder, we should applaud his courage to follow the noble urge to “love thy neighbour” and at the same time the good business manner of paying those who deliver.
bp
Welcome back bp ! When I see you here, old memories came in my mind from the time when Martin SEB was a daily guest in the Cafe and other places. I found a poem, a reply to his comment which went funny enough to wrote this piece (which some of you may remember) :
Martin has the virgin Dasha
With the help of sweet Natasha
Masha, Olya and Natalia
Flew away with Genitalia
Now it comes to Dariya
Shall I quit or marry-ya ?
Letter from Looneylandia, some morbid musing.
It must have been during my reading of Kundera when I realized that the reason he dislikes Dostoyevsky is because he does not understand his sense of humor. Dostoyevsky is funny—the more I read The Demons, the more I appreciate the hilarity of the Kirillov/Pyotr S stand off and subsequent dance. Yes, Kirillov is, I admit, a bit of a theatrical cliche on the part of Dostoyevsky but that is not all he is and paradoxically enough Dostoyevsky manages to humanize him despite his role he plays in the plot as well as in the ideology of the book. Certainly, Kirillov is more human to me than the folks Kundera writes about but, again, that is a matter of taste and preference.
Reading the classics is all about what you bring to them via your own subjectivity/life experience. It is the historian in me that requires me to understand that my favorite author is still a product of his time and class just as I am and therefore to respect what he most likely meant to say in his plot line, dialogue and characterizations. Not speaking Russian has to put both of us, as Kundera would most likely agree, at a distinct disadvantage in our understand of our favorite authors.
His favorite is Tolstoy and he has brought an assessment to Tolstoy which I find farfetched i.e. that Tolstoy was exploring the idea of the “stable essence of ‘I'” Maybe Tolstoy sparks that in Kundera as he reads him , but if Tolstoy did Zen-like musing it was most likely a Christian based quest for serenity. Word has it that he kind of lost it at the end visiting a “holy fool” in a monastery to gain some consolation as well as clarity. ( * holy fool is the highest praise I can make of the mystics I’ve been blessed to meet)
What I want to say is that ever since I devised the country of Looneylandia, I have been overwhelmed by bursts of impulses to laugh hysterically. Kafka beckons and beckons bad!!! When Pelosi in insulting schoolmarm fashion decided to scold Trump by suggesting he submit his State of the Union address to her in writing, I felt myself giggle. And sure enough, the Looneylandia theatre of the absurd turned to comedy the next day and I gaffawed upon hearing how Trump waited until the last minutes ( was she scurrying to Davos?) to pull her state funded plane ticket. Of course if she wants to buy the ticket from her own pocket she is more than welcome to do so!!!
It is my hope that the fascism of Looneylandia will be laughed to death! Certainly boob Bolton and pissante Pompeo won’t let us down. And Trump? well, Trump is the ringmaster of the carnival. But underneath lies the 12 House energy of death, betrayal, obsession which the madness of Looneylandia will deny til the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWc4h77e2o
How could somebody not find the author of Notes from Underground to be funny? :D
He began as a satirist, his first novel being titled ‘The Joke’ which may or may not be a clue as to where his sense of humour went, if anywhere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera#Work
Kent (San Diego …not Norway) has 2-3 interesting minutes regarding Russia and “Bitcoin”:
https://youtu.be/dq6cLlM6K60?t=107 EOS Market Soars if Russia Buys Bitcoin
Rarely political in his short nightly discussions, Kent …an EOS Blockproducer shows no fear of Russia, Russia, Russia morons……except for a quick glance over his right shoulder….in case anyone so brainwashed on the street should hear him…….lol.
He speaks of “lots of evidence” but provides none but theoretical, saying it would be wise of them.
Maybe someone among you have seen some evidence?
The neutral to positive attitude toward Russia is the main evidence I see in this short clip.
The other bald guy, Big T, forecasts a few more weeks or months of wringing the market out:
“The ‘technical’ damage done to the crypto market since bitcoin broke below $6,000 last November is still playing out. That means odds are strong that Bitcoin will retest its $3,200 low.”
Big T also cites expiring “lock-up” periods preventing some “whales” from dumping tokens on the market. But says these lock-up periods are expiring soon….and as they do…project insiders MUST sell their alt coins for Bitcoin….and then sell their Bitcoin to raise cash.
“Remember, these whales don’t WANT to sell….they HAVE to sell to cover what could be potentially massive Securities and Exchange Commission fines (for launching their projects in reckless ways that make them “securities”. Big T means…..).
I know nothing about countries holding some reserves in BTC. New idea to me, and a bit of a strange idea, at that. If any such thing ever happened I would think the effects would dwarf whatever the 3% of world investors that have ever owned even part of a Bitcoin have done…or will do…even if their numbers swelled twenty fold.
Tom Luongo reported about it too. $10 Billion would be 15 to 16 % of Bitcoins.
Russia to Make a $10 Billion Move into Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G_QgCyhbmU
Russia buying bitcoins seems to be false news based on claims of Vladislav Ginko, a lecturer at Moscow’s Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, who also retweeted a very common and very obvious Bitcoin scam and predicted that bitcoin would be worth $2 million by the end of 2019.
https://btcmanager.com/russia-buying-bitcoin-to-ditch-the-u-s-dollar-could-be-fake-news/
Elina Sidorenko, chairperson of an interdepartmental working group of the State Duma for managing risks of cryptocurrency turnover, said that “Even if Russia wants to place its cryptocurrency assets now, it simply cannot do this, due to the fact that we do not have any mechanisms that would allow us to introduce a system, where these assets would be stored, which authorities would be responsible for it, which would be responsible for abuses and stuff. Such a model under the current criminal, financial and civil legislation in general does not fit. All over the world, a cryptocurrency is considered as a high-risk asset and a similar model, naturally, would not suit anyone.”
She also said that Russia is 30 years away from potentially buying cryptocurrency. “Under this statement there is not a bit of common sense, much less ideas that would be considered in government circles. The Russian Federation, like any other country in the world, is simply not ready today to somehow combine its traditional financial system with cryptocurrencies. And to say that in Russia this idea can be implemented in the next at least 30 years is unlikely to be possible”
https://ethereumworldnews.com/russia-not-ready-buy-bitcoin-yet-russian-official-says/
Follow up to /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-01-16/#comment-604320
The attack on Huawei is an effort to keep people in the west slaved to the apple/google spyware and reinforce the monopoly these ghoul exercise in the west. That’s the basics behind this zionazi-gay assault on this outfit and their people. See:
US Bill Criminalizes Trade with China’s ‘World Leader’ in 5G, Huawei
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201901181071581956-us-bill-criminalizes-trade-huawei/
“A new piece of bipartisan-supported legislation would ban the sale of US parts and components to Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE, but it’s essentially an economic attack aimed at preventing other countries from using Huawei tech, an activist tells Sputnik News.
David Ewing, chair of the San Francisco chapter of the US-China Peoples Friendship Association, joined Loud & Clear on Sputnik Radio to discuss the legislation Thursday. The US-China Peoples Friendship Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose goal is “to build active and lasting friendship based on mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of China.”
”The US, of course, has a massive spying program worldwide,” Ewing said, but it’s only allegations of Chinese spying and corporate espionage that get any media attention. “In reality, China is actually ahead of the US in a few areas of technology. For example, Huawei company is a world leader in 5G technology. It has the best platform for 5G. It’s used all over the world already. But allies of the United States, and the US [itself], are trying to prevent countries from using Huawei technology.”
“Australia and New Zealand — and I think Poland — are trying to ban Huawei chips and the Huawei 5G system. But much of the world, especially countries involved in China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative, they’re all going to use technology from Huawei, because it’s a new technology, but [Huawei’s] platform has been proven to be reliable,” said Ewing.”
Incidentally, netanyahoo’s boy toy trump is 100% behind this zpc/nwo attack.
Like netanyahoo, like trump. Good servant boys know their role:
Israeli PM shows off beefed-up border fence in #10YearChallenge post
https://www.rt.com/news/449068-netanyahu-wall-picture-twitter/
“With the #10YearChallenge craze sweeping social media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu jumped aboard, showing off his progress erecting a concrete and barbed wire wall on the border with Egypt.
A lot can change in ten years. The selfies flooding social media in recent days show people growing older, more mature and wiser. Or, in Benjamin Netanyahu’s case, more fervently anti-immigration.”
Except for white Jews, of course…
Cunningham does a memorable number here on the “great white hope”, as well as on his phony establishment detractors.
American ‘Liberal’ Delusions on Trump
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/01/17/american-liberal-delusions-on-trump.html
“The so-called “liberal-left” in the US – which has nothing to do with leftwing or socialist politics as most of the world would define it – is increasingly warning that Trump is taking America into a dark place of authoritarianism.
The reality is that the US has been sliding into authoritarianism, plutocracy and oligarchy, or dare we say fascism, for decades. The political figure of Trump – obnoxious as he is – is merely the culmination of this degenerative process in American politics.”
Another truly laughable and tragic boondoggle on missile defense guaranteed to put tons of money into the pockets of the scamsters-it is almost like a right of passage that admins come along and clutch pearls at the thought of all of those enemy missiles aimed at the good ol usa-two problems with that narrative: aside from being extremely expensive, these programs do not work; the other, not that many enemy missiles out there that would be used IF, IF the us was not interested in a first strike capability. In a couple of words, as Ron Paul says, it is a scam of gigantic proportions:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trumps-mission-impossible-making-his-unrealistic-missile-plan-work-41892
italic text Missile defense is the longest running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. The new Missile Defense Review continues that proud tradition.
It scares us with warnings of “more than 20 nations with missile technology” when there are really only three nations we have to worry about: Russia, China and North Korea. It promises a near-perfect “shield,” but offers very little in specific, workable programs. Worse, the review and the inflated rhetoric around its release worsen the very problem it claims to solve: an uncontrolled new arms race.
I have boxes of Congressional testimony in my office from Pentagon officials who solemnly swore in the 1980s that they had “promising,” “cost-effective,” “new” technologies that would soon give the United States the ability—as President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday—“to terminate any missile launches from hostile powers . . . regardless of the missile type or geographic origins of the attack.”
True believers have long held out that goal for missile defense. It has proven impossible to achieve. Instead they have left behind a legacy of inflated threats, lofty promises, and grandiose plans followed by the deployment of quite limited and flawed defensive systems.
President Ronald Reagan began this tradition with his launch of the famous “Star Wars” program on March 23, 1983. Ten years later, after spending tens of billions of dollars on X-ray lasers, directed energy weapons, particle-beam weapons, space-based kinetic interceptors and “brilliant pebbles,” the Pentagon was forced to conclude that none of these fanciful concepts would work. We ended up with a concept of limited, ground-based interceptors that might be able to intercept one or two primitive long-range warheads.
Not a single word is expensive enough when it comes to…ehm..”our button is the greatest”
The cause of temptation which leads to capture becomes the selfsame device of punishment. The thief by desiring riches is condemned to prison where he is denied of all wealth. The rich in desiring to perpetually increase riches is condemned to live with the perpetual worm of paranoia of theft gnawing at his innards. America in its desire to sustain at any price an empire which was self-empowered through a neoclassical themed revolution is (surely—will be) punished by the usurpation of the doctrines which established the nation.
Temptation
by ioan
I was tempted by a pretty,
sweet, pink candy
Posing on a snow-white vanilla
and brown chocolate cake
Ornamented with dark-red cherries
on a green, shining plate.
A beauty for the eyes
and heaven for the mouth
Salivating, dreaming…
They called in the Jerries !
The gold man, using iron stick,
was tempted by a country,
large and rich, the eyes can’t reach
He killed and raped, people enslaved,
Sending in deep, the beast and the thief
People are calling for help,
Looters are building their wealth…
I’m still waiting for the reason,
Why the gold man skips the prison
I still wait that fearful Bell,
When the gold man falls in Hell !
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Russian Apartment Blast in Magnitogorsk
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-deadly-russian-apartment-blast-reports-64189?utm_source=push&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=110418
The apartment where the explosion happened was rented by the owner.
See my comment at MFC from January 13th
A1861
The moscow times is not a Russian news site, it’s part of the zpc/nwo regime change psywar machine.
‘Don’t trust terrorists’: Gas leak is the main version of NY’s house blast – Russian investigators
https://www.rt.com/russia/449097-magnitogorsk-gas-blast-isis/
“Investigators have been studying all the possible versions of the tragedy from the very beginning. The gas blast remains the main one,” spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said on Thursday, stressing that “experts and forensics did not find any traces of explosives and their components on the rubble collected at the scene.”
On Wednesday, the terrorist group published an article in one of its mouthpieces, stating that its unit had planted “explosives” in the building. Despite the lack of any solid evidence, the claims were repeated by a number of media outlets.
“I’d advise the journalists not to trust the statements by terrorist groups, who, as you know, claim their involvement into any major incidents in different countries,” Petrenko stated.”
vot tak
I trust neither the terrorists or the Moscow Times. I know the Moscow
Times is the newspaper of the fifth columnists and the Russian authority
don’t blame anybody without evidence.
George Galloway on the current state of (non) government in the UK, his usual incisive and witty commentary.
The Maybot staggers on after narrowly scraping through the no confidence vote, but it is truly dead-bot-walking time now:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/448903-theresa-may-brexit-dead/
This lovely little ditty was written in response to the Battle of Orgreave, which was Maggie Thatcher’s response to the miners strike in the 80s, as she set out to break the unions. She managed a bit of defanging but could not entirely kill the beast. A beautiful lament about a still painful episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWJSYAkzL6I
Empires Live On Borrowed Time …………..and Wasted Lives
Last night I attended a talk at the Orange County Real Estate by the premier Market Timer…”California ONLY” expert Bruce Norris.
https://www.thenorrisgroup.com/event/california-real-estate-on-borrowed-time-by-bruce-norris/
Now he’s California AND Florida…….Only…..(lol), for very, very interesting reasons……….
California is now Net Migration (of normal people) Out. Despite Migration of some illegals (dwindling) in and many moneyed legals (Chinese, other Asians and other professionals …from Everywhere…..IN.
Florida is a completely different scenario, in many interesting ways.
He saved my butt in January 2006 with course materials titled The California Crash …when mortgage lenders, realtor associations…home builders and 90% of the public dismissed his forecast as preposterous and him as a whacko.
I look for those kind of people…who can prove their case….with principles that are undeniably true. He had them, and I prepared, ………early.
But California (or Florida…) Real Estate is pretty much unimportant in the Grand Scheme of Things. It is True Principles that are important to learn……especially as the microcosmic personal and local pertain also to the macrocosmic and Universal.
And they are now coming home to roost as Bankrupt Empire, Bankrupt FALSE (and therefore EVIL) Principles come home to roost…..and are “foreclosed”…..liquidated, Come What (Theresa) May Not:
The Elite that Failed https://larouchepac.com/20190118/elite-failed
Some choice paragraphs:
“Significantly, yesterday’s issue of the London-loving “New York Times” carries the same diagnosis, but much more harshly stated, under the title, “The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class: With Brexit, the Chumocrats who Drew Borders from India to Ireland are Getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine,” by Pankaj Mishra. Mishra calls Louis Mountbatten, the royal who plunged India into genocide as its last Viceroy, a “mendacious, intellectually limited hustler.”
“Mountbatten, derided as ‘Master of Disaster’ in British naval circles, was a representative member of a small group of upper- and middle-class British men from which the imperial masters of Asia and Africa were recruited. Abysmally equipped for their immense responsibilities, they were nevertheless allowed by Britain’s brute imperial power to blunder through the world, ‘a world of whose richness and subtlety,’ as E.M. Forster wrote in ‘Notes on the English Character,’ they could ‘have no conception.’
“Forster blamed Britain’s political fiascoes on its privately educated men, callow beneficiaries of the country’s elitist public school system. These eternal schoolboys whose ‘weight is out of all proportion’ to their numbers, are certainly over-represented among Tories. They have today plunged Britain into its worst crisis, exposing its incestuous and self-serving ruling class like never before.”
Empire Deserters,even among the “colonial servants” scribbling for the New York Slimes???
Be ready for mass defections as the Global Mass Strike picks up steam and the Writing on the Wall gets so large and clearly lettered that the Former Minions of Empire…..defect en masse.
“The British elite has utterly failed. The chickens of 1763 have come home to roost at last. But all the same, that elite must now be defeated and removed at last and promptly. If it is not, it will rise from its ruins for a desperate, savage strike.
Who will remove it? Some of the people who are reading these words right now, will have a critical role”.
A false flag situation in Colombia. Opossition leader and child’s mulder Julio Borges said that Venezuela was behind this act of terrorism.
They ‘re trying to do everything they can to initiated a confrontation between Cocainlombia and Venezuela.
https://www.rt.com/news/449052-colombia-car-bomb-bogota/
‘Human rights activists condemn Britain’s ‘shameful’ war games with Israeli Air Force’
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/human-rights-activists-condemn-britain%27s-shameful-war-games-with-israeli-air-force
Fake news: US Army retracts tale of soldier saving a life with pen & hoodie
https://www.rt.com/usa/449159-us-army-hoodie-pen-retract/
“The US Army has been forced to embarrassingly retract a story about a sergeant saving a man’s life using nothing but a hoodie and a pen, after an investigation revealed the tale was completely made up.”
Ironically, it was thanks to the pindo zionazi-gay media (extreme right division), who ran with the story as part of their propaganda, that it got exposed, after emergency workers saw the hyped “news” and came forward with what actually transpired.
Trump to Make Major Announcement on Govt Shutdown, Border Security on Saturday
https://sputniknews.com/us/201901191071620646-trump-make-major-announcement-shutown-saturday/
Proclaim himself king?
Proclaim netanyahoo king and himself the royal consort?
The Best of Classical Music – Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin… Orchestra Piano Mix
Beautiful Pictures Playlist (Light Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpJVI3tDbY
This is good, again from the sidebar linked by Taras 77, a round up from Binoy Kampmark on the absurdity of interpretations currently circulating in the msm, worth reading the whole short piece:
‘Easily, then, we can presume utterances to have the steel of proof. The US voter is sidestepped and dismissed – after all, according to Clinton family associate and former Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, Russia’s conduct in 2016 breached “the firewall of American democracy” and influenced “a high-stakes presidential election.” (The poorly concealed barb here is that Talbott doesn’t like the outcomes that might arise from democratic conduct, presuming a hidden hand if his friends fail to make the electoral grade.)
Ironically enough, the United States is witnessing the tendencies it has encouraged, for decades, in other states: foster local indignation, suspicion and paranoia, and unleash them against the leader of the day. As former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was known to have said, the democratic choice of a people would have to be corrected in certain circumstances, if in the interest of the US. The same rules apply, as do the same interests.’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/spy-theories-and-the-white-house-donald-trump-as-russian-agent/5665791
This is how deformed chickens finally come home to roost, I think.
I think, at last, Paul Craig Roberts got it! Here he talks about the wall and masculinity and whiteness but all that has been said before and it was not interesting to me. The last sentence was – because begads! he *got* it.
“Vladimir Putin has made a good decision to sit patiently unresponsive to provocations while the United States destroys itself.”
Perhaps he will save us now from continual complaints on why Putin does not do this, or act like that, or do something!
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/01/16/if-walls-dont-work-why-did-castles-have-them/
Excellent point, Amarynth!
Napoleon has been given credit for a similar admonition:
“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/06/never-interfere/
Just watched ‘Battle on the Ice,’ as directed by mundanomaniac, a fabulous epic film on Alexander Nevsky and friends routing the Teutonic knights.
Superbly told historical story, thanks, mundanomaniac.
Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson .. the gossip is that they will sit together somewhere in April to debate. Peterson said he downloaded some of Žižek’s books to prepare for the debate. I’ve been listening to a few Žižek interviews and speeches and the debacle of Jordan Peterson and Dr Wolff, where Peterson does not make it possible to debate Wolff.
My money is on Žižek! He is of course not easy to listen to or to watch because of the incessant nervous ticks and sniffing – but my money is on him. I’m not a fan of the Lacanian school of psychology but figuring out these days that my old favorite, the Jungian school is just a tad romantic. We gotto keep growing and question old learnings.
Place your bets here (grins).
I’ve been listening to some Dr Wolff, who is a new name to me, and am quite impressed at how clearly he explains our current and ongoing economic woes (as well as how simply he explains the basic tenets of Marxism as an economic analysis of capitalism).
Here he is in an interview commenting on the immediate situation and its prospects for the near future, as well as the trade war with China and suggestions for a discussion on possible ways out of the impasse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIStIVMwa8
Something very out -of -the- ordinary happened to me the other day. It could have a logical explanation on the one hand but there still remained another explanation on the other so I called upon my Christian friend for input and advice.
She listened to my story and then asked what I had “been up to” lately.
OhThis and that and contributing to the world buzz on the Saker blog etc”
What!!!!! You have been doing —what??? Writing silly poems about Satan???!!!
Yep. Wanna hear one?
Well, besides agreeing with me that as poetry these are the pits. She thinks that Satan is not happy with me and that I should continue writing them.
“But why is Satan unhappy. I just was echoing what Prelate Krill said. “
“
“Oh but you were mocking the Mocker and calling him out when he likes to hide and lie. Besides he has no sense of humor—-that is too human.”
So the spiritual prescription is Psalm 91 upon going to sleep and upon rising first thing.
cheering you on amiga- calling ‘it’ out with humor is a useful and important tool in our arsenal. Love and humility the best armor.
k
More on the utter stupidity and yes absurdity of trump’s latest gambit to enrich the cronies in the MIC: (spinney very respected engineer and analyst)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/eisenhowers-nightmare-nukes-in-space-edition/
President Donald Trump’s plan to escalate efforts in Ballistic Missile Defense (BDM), including the introduction of space-based weapons, should not be viewed in isolation.
It comes on top of the Defense Department’s plan to execute an across-the-board modernization of all our nuclear strike forces. It comes on top of the expansion of NATO under three presidents, despite earlier promises (here and here) to the contrary. It comes on top of the unilateral decision by President George W. Bush to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in June 2002, on top of Trump’s threat to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and on top of Trump’s publication of a more aggressive Nuclear Posture Review. To argue that such a massive effort is directed at deterring Iran or North Korea is ludicrous. Russia and China know who these programs and policies are aimed at.
Viewed through the lens of the precautionary principle, any sensible strategic planner in Russia and China would have no choice but to see these efforts as being a consistent, integrated plan to harden the U.S. nuclear shield while sharpening the U.S. nuclear sword.
Consider that the makeup of the offensive modernization program—i.e., the nuclear sword—includes: 1) increased precision guidance; 2) improved command and control systems; 3) dial-a-yield warheads on nuclear gravity bombs; 4) new families of nuclear warheads for ballistic and cruise missiles; 5) new ICBMs; 6) new air launched cruise missiles; 7) new bombers; 8) new missile-launching submarines; 9) modernized SLBMs; 10) new sea-launched cruise missiles; and 11) new space-based C4ISR systems with the possibility of ASAT capabilities. Taking all of this into account, it is quite obvious that Russian and Chinese war planners will have no choice but to assume the worse about U.S. intentions. Russian and Chinese planners will be forced to assume that Washington is returning to the thoroughly discredited 1970s-era nuclear war-fighting theory of graduated nuclear escalation via the use of a series limited nuclear options, punctuated perhaps by diplomatic signaling. Application of the precautionary principle by Russian and Chinese nuclear war planners would force them to conclude that the U.S. believes it can fight and win a nuclear war regardless of any U.S. protestations about its sword-shield modernization plan being a defensive application of deterrence theory.
As expected, Russian For Min is aghast!
https://www.rt.com/news/449153-russia-warns-usa-missile-defense/
Report is met with almost universal astonishment in the US.
This has to be a bolton, pomp ploy, trump could not come up with such an “idea” on his own.
Tariq Ali, who is an old radical academic from the 60s, on ‘The Mythology Of Modern Israel’ referencing Schlomo Sands historical work and book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBPZzoVfNEA
The latest in a Captain Obvious statement (hilarity ensures):
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin Worries People Are Going to Think the Media Are a ‘Bunch of Leftist Liars’ Over BuzzFeed’s Fake News
I will not post a link to cnn ever but I am having a tad bit of difficulty containing my hilarity!
Here is Dr Richard Wolff again, making good sense on capitalism, the many types of Marxisms, historical depressions and why he opposes Jordan Peterson’s interpretation:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50923.htm
I agree about Wolff > he’s very good. And also Hudson… https://michael-hudson.com/
In an altogether different matter, what one might call the unspoken history of Fidel and the Revolution, in that line it has long been my notion that CIA curated Fidel, while Fidel played ’em for marks…and that CIA saw this as a personal matter of masculine locker-room vengeance, emotionally, if institutions can harbor intent.
I myself remember when the US propaganda film said “viva Fidel!” and praised the Commandante
Most people only remember what came later when the propaganda demonized him… Well, I bet that’s when CIA realized they’d been had…and one can speculate about the ensuing dynamics between ivy-league and Mafia…mutual badger games, blackmails, favors…
I see what seem to me realistic and probable outline that runs this way.
Anyway here’s a pro-revolution/pro Fidel propaganda film > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPG4SpOvm8g
Wolff does jokes in his lectures though, not what I’d expect from an economist but more than welcome to me.
I remember reading that both Fidel and Guevara had contact with CIA or similar US operatives before launching their revolutionary careers, but it was only a passing remark that I didn’t follow up. You would expect an approach, I think, for anyone who looked like having a potential for power in a sphere the US was interested in. SOP I should imagine. Bilderburgers, for example, are spotted and groomed years in advance of them becoming publicly known figures and the path is smoothed for their stratospheric rise. Corporations operate in the same way. If your face fits you can go all the way, if not or, heaven forbid, an offer is rejected then you will suffer repercussions.
I have my concerns about Corbyn in that regard, as he was forced, though reluctant, to become a member of the Privy Council when he became opposition leader which places, or could place, restrictions and unnecessary compromise on him. Much was made of him not singing the national anthem, being a republican as he is, not a monarchist, and he did eventually lipsync a bit when the cameras were on him. His wingman, John McDonnell however, is made of much sterner stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom#Privy_Council_oath_and_initiation_rite
Corbyn is in a classical conundrum…akin to McCabe and Mrs Miller…(an old film)…McCabe has mineral and real estate fortune in remote town, capitalist finks make offer, sell us the town…at our price. McCabe asks what’s the alternative, do you murder people, and the answer? “Only when we can’t make a deal”
It was a political movie, and still is, a cryptomarxist western https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
Martin Luther King was in similar conundrum.
http://edwardcurtin.com/martin-luther-king-day-and-the-unspeakable/
Road accident? Possibly a problem with fog and pilot error Walter Reuther/JFK jr) altimeter troubles, rogue islamicputinagent with knife? http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2013/01/democracy-and-secret-state-deception.html
http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2016/02/brexit-camerons-eu-deal-and-its.html
I don’t think Corbyn’s gunna fold. However, the landscape suggests to me that the deep state of UK might prefer Corbyn to what might come later…
I don’t think he’ll fold either, he is a man of principle who has not wavered for 30+ years as an MP, but he might get folded. What was that memorable phrase about the six ways from Sunday available to the intelligence services?
I vaguely remember the film, but admittedly mostly for Leonard Cohen’s ‘Sisters of Mercy’ song. The plot has long gone to wherever old plots go, for me, not being much of a film buff.
We used to get some good programmes sometimes on the BBC, like this one on Gladio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA
A Swiss historian called Daniel Ganser was instrumental in exposing this and wrote a couple of interesting books on it. Italy and Belgium accepted its existence formally but it is consigned to the memory hole mostly by the other participants.
Link from Cassad with photos of the latest Yellow jacket activities on 19 Jan in France. Just for info but no indication that it is dying down; Cassad somehow gets photos of major events which occur almost world wide without almost no time lapse-amazing:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4716576.html
slogans on walls “Rosa/ Karl 1919 2019 ni oublt ni pardon > neither forgetfulness nor forgiveness”
“The oligarchy kills the republic”…huummm..
Indeed! Is there perhaps yet the Spirit’s ghost arisen?
Little Mac might want to have his airplane ready and keep a chopper (no bad word, let’s say helio) on alert to make his escape…before the slogans become (speaking of choppers) > utiliser la guillotine
It was the anniversary of Rosa and Karl’s execution on 15th January, marked here also by interested parties. Highgate cemetery prepared for an unusual influx of visitors to the other Karl’s grave.
May they live well where they are…