2019/02/03 04:30:01
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… remembering some epic recent history …
Venezuela Election: Socialists Win Zulia Governorship, Nearly Sweep State Capitals
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Election-Socialists-Win-Zulia-Governorship-Nearly-Sweep-State-Capitals-20171210-0006.html
… and this shows how Venezuelans voted (and will be voting again very soon) …
“The Venezuelan electoral system is a process where the hand of man does not act at any time, but only to cast his vote and verify that the machine has responded to his will,” Nicanor Moscoso, president of the Council of Electoral Experts of Latin America, told HispanTV.
Moscoso described the Venezuelan electoral mechanism as a “sure process” that will “undoubtedly deliver to Venezuelans the real results of their democratic will.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Electoral-Machines-Installed-for-Local-Elections-20171208-0012.html
(with photographs and video to explain)
… two additional relevant news articles … (all good and positive so far) …
Venezuela’s Maduro Marks 20 Years of Bolivarian Revolution, Calls for Parliamentary Elections
The president of Venezuela gave a speech before a crowd in the center of Caracas from the main platform of Bolivar Avenue as Venezuela marked the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bolivarian Revolution and the swearing-in of late President Hugo Chavez.
“How long are they going to hurt the country?” Enough of all the damage they’ve done to our country!” said the Bolivarian leader and invited the opposition to reflect and invited them to abandon the path of interventionism.
“Stop calling the war, stop calling for military intervention, stop supporting a coup that has failed, failed and was not realized, here the revolution is ruling, and we will continue to govern,” he added.
The president also called for parliamentary elections in order to restore the legislative power, currently in contempt since 2016.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelas-Maduro-Marks-20-Years-of-Bolivarian-Revolution-Calls-for-Parliamentary-Elections-20190202-0012.html
… and this blatant sweeping intrigue has been decidedly intervened upon …
Caricom to Almagro: ‘You Don’t Speak For The Entire OAS’
The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has rejected Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro’s unilateral decision to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Caricom-to-Almagro-You-Dont-Speak-For-The-Entire-OAS-20190202-0014.html
Anyone seen this,
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973.?
It must be true — scientists tell us so.
America Tribes, Did not have big Agra! They were mostly hunter gatherers. The tribes in the Oregon Willamette valley did burn, but not for cultivation. Most tribes had a light foot print by are standards. I thought this was a really amateur study, not even sure why they bothered.
Mister Charlie Told Me So
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/01/mister-charlie-told-me-so/
“If all that sounds completely insane and impossible to follow, that’s because it is. We have reached a stage in the War on Populism where the global capitalist ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media are no longer even trying to appear to make sense, or address people on any kind of rational level. Reading the so-called “serious” press and watching corporate television news is like having a bunch of paranoid psychotics tripping monkey balls on DMT jabbering strangely familiar-sounding contradictory nonsense at you … which, apart from its entertainment value, happens to be a standard technique cults use to scramble the minds of new members.
It’s a standard technique because it works.”
An excellent piece on the psywar tactics used by the zionazi-gay media machine. One of those “nails it” articles.
Both funny and chilling. Thanks for this, VT.
As usual, some controversy about who penned these famous verses, someone’s husband, someones wife ?
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle, gentle autumn rain
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
When you awake in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight
I am the soft, soft starlight, starlight at night
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I’m awake,
not in the grave
I’m not alone
in my new home
Brothers, sisters
are with me,
All alive
in love to be.
give me your hand
I’ll give you my hand
an upright beam
for a body bent over
a gentle wind
o’er a restless sea
to guide you home
to those fields of clover
pick up those reins
taken from you midstream
no more that dark world
all filled with strife
your loved ones await
and memories once hollow,
ring with laughter again
and swell with new life
Ras, what is the source of these lines?
I always thought it was an anonymous poem written for a fallen soldier in Vietnam, then did a search before placing it here, and found all kinds of things, like this from Wiki: “There have been many claimants to the poem’s authorship, including attributions to traditional and Native American origins”, and then more …
Ras
Prospero:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 148–158
(shared by Ras)
Hello Café ! The man on the picture…what is he thinking about ? maybe on the Happy Days…Waiter ! please give us some drink, that notorious one which Kent talked about and let that old song to play …
Happy days
by ioan
Happy days are here again,
Just in case you haven’t missed the train,
As the world is nearing midnight past,
Happy days are here again !
Don’t worry my fellow friend,
Those sweet days shall have and end…
Lazy days ain’t coming back,
Smoking guns are coming back on track,
Clouds are gathering with heavy rain,
Happy days are here again !
Don’t worry my fellow friend,
Those sweet days shall have and end…
Day by day and month by month
Shining lies are coming from their mouth,
Honeymoon with lovely cake on chain,
Happy days are here again !
Don’t worry my fellow friend,
Those sweet days shall have and end…
Take the bottle as your chum
Drink and smoke for that’s your only fun,
Cause the world will never be the same,
Happy days are here again !
Happy days are here again,
Lazy days will never coming back,
Let us sing as we the freedom lack
Happy days are here again !
If you want to sing it, here is the music with its original lyrics :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V3H-FXf78
Have a good fun !
The man in the picture is actor/comedian and TV giant Jackie Gleason. He was a powerhouse talent in TV comedy and drama and also motion pictures. He also was a musician, orchestra leader and huge success in the recording industry. One of America’s entertainment giants. His talents were wide and deep.
He had the capacity to dive deep into the sadness of American social life in many ways, yet, to lift, dramatically, or with humor from the melancholy.
Yes, Jackie Gleason was a great entertainer. I invite viewers of film art to watch the movie titled, “Gigot” where he starred along side the wonderful French actress, Katherine Kath (see: https://www.amazon.com/Gigot-Jackie-Gleason/dp/B00AB2NWY8 ).
Ah, yes, Gleason, a personna known for calmness and rationality. Actually, the only thing I remember him in was the 1950s television show. Which was typical pindo tv garbage. Repetitive, polemical, uncreative and boring.
Let’s not forget his other roles, in Skidoo (what more can I say) and as antagonist on the Long John Nebel radio show to the flying saucer contactee community in the 50’s. (He once offered a $50,000 to $5,000 bet that a contact would _not_ occur, and the promoter Gray Barker “wisely refused the offer”, according to my pal J. Moseley who edited “Saucer News” for 50 odd years).
Mr Bain, my old art teacher, had a wind-up gramophone and one 78rpm record that he played and would make us paint or sculpt or whatever, in time to. He was generally regarded as a bit crazy but I liked the way he looked at things and could get along with him fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uS5cPfbIjw
Pretty, pretty good song, I love it….yes, yes, I love to go back in time…rediscovering values long forgotten.
Here is an old German song, with English subtitles :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6ZZ28QtX4 die gedanken sind frei-thoughts are free
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1092035552671682561
IMF predicts Russia will replace Germany as Europe’s biggest economy from 2020-2030 (measured by PPP). Amazingly, in 1999, the German economy was 58% larger. A profound shift is taking place in Europe & sanctions policy may come back to bite EU members
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1085080458021560320
IMF projections for world’s biggest economies in 2030. Russia will replace Germany as Europe’s economic powerhouse. But the future is Asian, as EU power fades. China will have double the strength of the US. And looks like curtains for G7
It does not matter if they are Orthodox or Zionists, both are for Israel
American Jews: more Orthodox, more Zionists
“Do you know how Donald Trump is different from the American Jewish liberal?” Trump’s grandchildren
are Jewish. ” This anecdote is very popular in the USA today.
9 months ago
With the arrival of the new president in the White House, there was a change of the American Jewish elite.
If, under Obama, the left-liberal and anti-Zionist lobby of J-street enjoyed great influence there, now they
are not seen and not heard. They tried to object to the transfer of the embassy, but this raised such
a wave of protest in the Jewish community and beyond its borders that they had to quickly retreat.
New times
“To transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem, it was necessary to choose a more suitable time. We cannot support President Trump’s initiative until the road map for resuming the peace process with the Palestin-
ians emerges, ”reformist rabbi Rick Jacobs said a few months ago. But anyone who speaks from such positions today can only lose influence, both in America and in Israel.
Today, President Trump is surrounded by Orthodox Jews who hold pro-Israel and very right-wing positions. These are followers of the Chabad movement, close to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kouchner. “Agudat Israel” here, unlike its Israeli associates, occupies very Zionist positions. And, of course, this is the Ortodox Union (OU) – the organization of the new Orthodox, which made a huge contribution to the transfer
of the embassy to Jerusalem, and to the fact that America recognized it as the capital of Israel.
Ultra-orthodoxes today make up only about 10 percent of the US Jewish community. But in the future they
may become the majority in it. This will help high birth rates in their families – in combination with the high
level of assimilation of secular American Jews.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Ambassador David Friedman (who at one time called “anti-Semites”
both Obama and the entire State Department), Middle Eastern envoy of President Jason Greenblatt (Har-Etzion graduate), US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnouchin (whose name is Netanyahu At the opening ceremony of the embassy in Jerusalem, he called it as it should sound in the original – Menuhin) – all this
is a new American elite. These people enter the Oval Office seven days a week. They support Israel and settlement activity, their worldview is based on the traditions and moral principles of Judaism, they are
well-oriented among American Jewish organizations, they know who is who and who represents who.
Orthodox Zionists
– American orthodox – Zionists. They are focused on Israel. Except Satmarian Hasidim, everything is for
Israel, – the doctor of sciences, rabbi, Mikhail Finkel told “Details”.
He was born in Moscow, from the age of 16 he lived in the USA, and today he is a Jerusalemite. In Amer-
ica, he studied in the three chabad yeshivas. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree
in Political Science and Philosophy. Doctoral thesis defended at the University of Pittsburgh. Israeli and Russian media often ask him: “Are you sure that you are an ultra-Orthodox?” – “I’m sure,” says Rav Finkel. Simply, the worldview of American and Israeli ultra-orthodoxy is significantly different.
– In the synagogues, near the Ark of the Covenant, must be the Israeli and American flags. Every day they
pray for the welfare of the State of Israel and the IDF. American Orthodox collect big donations for Israel,
for the IDF. And not only big organizations. For example, my cousin works for a firm that sews socks. The
owner of the company is a Jew from Syria. And every month he sends a container of socks for the IDF sol-diers to Israel. Absolutely free. He considers it his duty. And there are many such examples, says Rabbi
Finkel.
– We come to a very important topic. In Israel, many ultra-Orthodox refuse to serve in the army …
– My grandfather came to America in 1976. And he got to the performance of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
who spoke about veterans of the Doomsday War. The Rebbe said that these are our holy warriors,
whom we must fully support. The pride of our people. He was very supportive of the IDF not only morally,
but also materially.
As for those communities that are against military service … As a rule, these are the most miserable and
poor ultra-Orthodox. They still have trauma since the time of the cantonists: they say “evil goyim” will
come – and they consider all secular Israelis as such – and will be taken from the family of a kosher
Jewish boy. He will fall into the army, where women will corrupt him and destroy him. This is a real
phobia, which is already two hundred years old.
– Is this just a phobia or are they afraid of releasing their youth to the outside world full of temptations?
– What is the value of their faith, if at the sight of a naked female breast it disappears, and the kosher
Jewish child immediately turns into a sinner? This is how much you should not trust a person! Of course, everything is different in America. When I was at university, there were many temptations. Nobody needs
to tell what student dormitories in America are. Grass, alcohol, sex. But I did not get involved. I rented a
room in a kosher house, in an old woman. I studied, kept traditions, did not dirty myself and my faith with
this mud.
– Speaking of women. The victory of Neta Barzilai at the Eurovision Song Contest provoked a very nega-
tive reaction from the Israeli ultra-Orthodox. Women’s singing, assimilation to goyim, and besides now, as
they say in social networks, all this den in the coming year will come to Jerusalem … What would you say?
– Neta – well done. She brought Israel glory and pride. After the victory, she said “Next year in Jerusalem,”
this is a phrase from our sources. This girl consecrated the name of the Creator and glorified the State of Israel.
And about female singing there are different interpretations. Moses’s sister Miriam sang when the Red Sea parted. The Prophet of the Court sang at men. What other examples are needed?
There was an interpretation that female singing could arouse a man to the point that he would lose control
of himself and rape this woman. But today the realities have changed. Especially in the case of a singer
who sings for millions. Hearing her singing, even theoretically no one can pounce on her. Simply, there are
poor people, fanatics who do not understand that they have long been stalled. Losing touch with the real
world weakens their faith.
Learning is light
– Another difference between the Israeli ultra-Orthodox and American is the attitude to the study of
secular disciplines and work. American Jews can not afford not to learn and not to work?
– Of course. And no rabbi will call for it. Indeed, in America, the state is separated from religion. They
do not receive money from the state, but they themselves must finance both synagogues, yeshivas,
and Jewish schools — all their activities.
Children from American ultra-orthodox families go to colleges and universities, get an education, make a
career in business, medicine, law, and high-tech. In America, there are colleges, and even universities for
ultra-Orthodox. These are the colleges “Turo”, “Baruch”, “Lauder School”, “Yeshive University”, where
secular specialties are taught.
Moreover, higher education costs a lot of money. About a thousand dollars a month – just study. And if you
have seven children? After all, we are talking about ultra-orthodox families. And, nevertheless, people in
all of themselves refuse, the main thing is to give children an education. It has always been with the
Jewish people. Jews study at all universities in America, especially since every university has a syna
gogue, and kosher food – along with vegetarian food. In all my years of study, I have never had any prob-
lems keeping traditions. If the exam fell on a Saturday, I approached the teacher, and he immediately
assigned me another day. Here they are very respectful to Jewish traditions.
– But those who prefer prayers are careers, otherwise they are interpreted by the same source.
– This dispute was resolved in the Talmud. In the treatise Brahot it is said about Rashbi: Rabbi Shimon
Bar-Yohai declared: “The study of the Torah is my work.” But there were supporters of another rabbi,
Rabbi Ishmael, who taught that it is necessary to acquire a specialty and earn a living. Supporters of
Rabbi Ishmael succeeded greatly, and the Shulkhan Arukh supported his position. This dispute has long
been resolved. For some reason, today there are supporters of a long-overthrown idea, which doom themselves and their followers to a beggarly existence. It contradicts the Talmud, contradicts Judaism.
– However, the new generation of American ultra-Orthodox, to which you can be safely attributed, differs
from the former American Jews?
– Tradition continues, but with a time adjustment. And this, in my opinion, is a bonus. The American ultra-orthodox rabbis of the new generation go to the theater and to football, attend exhibitions and cinemas,
without fear of seeing there something “non-kosher”. They lead a diverse and full life, go to bars and restaurants, preach love of neighbor and tolerance. They smile at other people, they are alien to radi-
calism, which comes from illiteracy. It should be so. Politically they are all for Israel. Israel is the future of
the Jewish people. And in the presidential election, they vote for the candidate who is more pro-Israeli.
Zvi Silber, “Details”.
Photo: John Taggart, REUTERS
(Google translation)
https://detaly.co.il/amerikanskie-evrei-bolshe-ortodoksov-bolshe-sionistov/
Rabbi Mikhail Finkel: Trotsky was a devil and behaved like a devil (Part-1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUtITDLDxD4
Rabbi Mikhail Finkel: Trotsky made revolution in Russia (Part-2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAAvOQp0Tg
Moderator: Aleksandr Gur-Arye
You can change the subtitles to English
Trotsky lived in New York and worked there, making, at most, 600 bucks per year. As W1 ended he embarked for Europe…and was stopped at sea. Antony Sutton tells us that Trotsky had in his possession when the Canadians detained him 10,000 bucks in cash. Canada got orders from UK to put T back on the ship and let him go, with the money.
Assuming this is so, then who gave T 10,000 bucks? Why?
If T was the devil, who gives money to the devil?
Nobody gives the devil money, it’s the devil that hands out cash…
Lots of depressing “revelation of the method” stuff in there, between the lines. What they don’t say, what they assume. Of course they go to football games, who owns the sports teams? What they never come out and say is actually Who Owns What, which is crucial question giving game away. Once you start asking that question, it’s hard to stop what the legal system calls the process of “discovery”. Thanks for article.
Submarines beneath the blindingly hot sands of the deserts of the earth, fragments of the meteor that streaks towards the Dinosaurs of the Earth in the cool blackness of space, …….! am optimistic!:
/we-are-the-meteor-they-are-the-dinosaurs/#comment-609957
What better fate and purpose than to go out in a Blaze of Divine Glory….Serving the Further Evolution of the No-osphere…and Entire Universe……….by taking out some Oligarchical Dinosaurs, in our last , fiery moments of…..material existence!
I look forward to any and all “How To” manuals….lol.
But I really , really do have to move the family to higher ground before the Mother of All Financial Tsunamis hits. Please understand!
I didn’t want to tick off IE or any other fellow meteorites in the last cafe with that very possibly infuriating, patronizing, “sincero” reply. I wish I had the time to do follow up to feedback on anything I ever posted…..but alas, the next month or two or three may not allow it…..
A solution I offer IE and any one else, old Cafe Regular or not:
If I don’t reply to your reply to a comment of mine or answer a question…..copy and paste the link to your question (like I copied my linked reply to Anonymous….above…in the New Comment of the Select Comment section of this website….) at the start of the next Cafe…if I missed your post. I’ll probably see it, (the newer reference to the older missed one….) and IF I see it, most certainly not neglect to respond to you!
Today is still the Start of a New Cafe, BTW
So I’ll be back, later today….
Cheers!
Good idea, Bro, and no offense taken, promise.
I never knew until recently that Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan were Irish, Ha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n615zQ6Q3AM&t=7s
I love this skit it is just funny. No direspect to Russia now. Yelsin did sell Russia out, so we can make fun of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof6vQhz5PA
This is what it is all about, bolton describing the grand theft oil:
The Orinoco Belt: “oil-in-place” is estimated to be up to 1.4 trillion barrels, of which 70% might be extracted using the most advanced technologies.
“Let’s place 1 trillion barrels of oil in context.
Global oil consumption is currently 35 billion barrels a year. Thus, the Orinoco Belt alone could satisfy 100% of global demand for almost 30 years!
As for the Orinoco field’s dollar value. World oil prices are currently hovering near $60 … do the math.”
And these oil reserves belong to the People of Venezuela.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/valuing-venezuelas-orinoco-oil-belt/5667266
An English translation of The Aachen Treaty: Germany and France become all but a single state…and the text interests me…as especially >
“…Britain is expressly included in the EU’s multifarious defence acronym schemes (henceforth to be called “Defence Union” by at least the German Government, it seems) as a “third country” in EU defence arrangements. Hence, much or all of the treaty below may be found to apply to Britain, including the reference in Article 4 to “expanding common defence programmes to partners” and the reference in Article 6 to joint military “stabilisation operations in third countries”…”
Sounds monstrous to my ear…
Might be smart to read this agreement…and think about how slyly it forms “consent” and what the implied unstated assumptions are…
This was a discussion raised earlier, where it appears that Britain can leave the EU but still be beholden for defence provisions, with command held by the EU, costs and cannon-fodder supplied by Britain. Since there is less and less competence or clarity in any of the Brexit mess (a border with Republic of Ireland will mean the Good Friday agreement to cease hostilities is trashed, leading to a possible resurgence of the ‘Troubles’) trying to make sense of it is a fools game and most people just want it to be over. Dealing with the fallout is looking more attractive now than trying to unravel the mess, particularly when you have no say in the outcome, at all, anyway.
A general election first would help but the Maybot has her programming and she is sticking to it, to the bitter end.
Aachen and Charlemagne. This year marks the 1220 years anniversary since the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Wow, I didn’t know that!
And the 565 years anniversary since the end of the REAL Roman Empire, based in Constantinople, whose thriving existence and power in the year 800 meant that Charlemagne’s so-called “coronation” as “Emperor” of the “Holy” “Roman” “Empire” in the Western lands was a deceitful act by the power-brokers of Rome.
Wow – you mean, Karl I. was an early Guaido?
HAUSER – Adagio (Albinoni)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn1gcjuhlhg
Stjepan Hauser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Hauser
The Apparition
mildew’d walnuts soaked in molasses
fungi spored in far-off morasses,
breath of earth and dank, dark places –
sulphurous shade of baleful graces
mocking grin baring teeth clenched tight
complexion abraded with welts bedight,
an apparition riding on a blistered wind –
searching for stragglers and those without sin…
none can escape my net of fear
my canyons deep and mountains sheer,
from arctic poles to temperate leas –
my kingdom behold, abundant with seas!
green limbs bow down laden with fruit
the wolf has colic and the eagle is mute,
that body you wear both young and spry –
my gift to you and in endless supply
whether male or female it matters not
my only concern is to strengthen the knot,
to cleave them at their weakest point
and blind them to the soul’s appoint
since time began and thereon through
creation is finished and problems are few,
I govern through laws immutable and true –
while the webs you weave are up to you
now look into my eyes if you dare
into the depths of your own despair,
and tell me if it’s you or if it’s I
that darkens every corner of your sky?
snivelling fool, you deign to believe
that I should care if you stay or leave,
as the ever-revolving wheel does turn –
those that escape quickly return…
as the tempest raged the sapling leaned
the pressure passing the point of extreme,
in a strange grey world the dreamer awoke –
that apparition dissolving like drifting smoke…
to bedight – to decorate
“net of fear” – net of karma
image: http://www.valenis.net/gallery4.php#image-3
Very good, Dimitar ! thank you for sharing.
Thank you, brother.
Life and the scorn of the grim reaper at it’s end, but better a pickled walnut than an embalmed corpse, as the Hollywood style entombment of Jackie Gleason … Do they wake up free from that terrible grin ?
The Dream of St Francis charcoal drawing, marvelous.
Ras
The portrait is of a face of the Lord of the Negative Worlds, btw. though this conception certainly has elements of the Grim Reaper. Detail here;
http://www.valenis.net/gallery4.php#image-1
What lies at the bottom of our deepest fears? All agents of the Negative Force use the threat of annihilation to control other souls. But the soul cannot be annihilated, only wounded, trapped, waylaid…
Since I addressed the subject of the negative force, I wish to add a simple solution, or a way to counter the
‘winter of our discontent’. Its as simple as loving something more than ourselves, and nurturing it on a daily basis, be it another person, or even a thing; an animal, a vocation, a plant. Love flows through us, and we need to be open conduits, whereas the N.F. will try to introvert us, to keep our attention on some wound, some slight that ‘never heals’. It does not heal, precisely because we pick at it like a scab, drawing blood time and again. We are in this sense, our own worst enemies, which is the point ‘the apparition’ is making…
I just watched a YouTube clip of an interview with Canada’s defence minister Sajjan and he raised a point regarding Venezuela that I hadn’t heard discussed before. Remember those offensive sanctions the Trump administration put on steel and aluminum using this “national security” clause? Sajjan was in Washington to meet with his counterpart and Sajjan brought this up. I would presume if the allies of Washington don’t support Washington’s position on the INF treaty, Venezuela, etc. that they’ll be sanctioned.
He was asked by the interviewer if Canada’s military would support the US in an intervention in Venezuela, and he said any discussions of military intervention were premature, that there were many lengthy diplomatic and peaceful options to pursue first.
“and he said any discussions of military intervention were premature, that there were many lengthy diplomatic and peaceful options to pursue first.”
IE: of course we are in full war crime/quisling mode, that’s what the current regime in canada (small c) was selected for. Following massa’s orders.
Probably. Canada has been very involved in America’s adventures (most recently in Honduras, I think?) For what it’s worth though, the Canadian political class sometimes uses this strategy in response to the Washington consensus. Like that time in the 90’s when it was agreed that Canada will change its currency to the US dollar. Meetings, conferences, studies… I think they’re still fine-tuning the precise, exact implementation of this.
I may be reading too much into this tweet, but I think it’s a warning about a false flag:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CanadianForces/status/1092090473999671296
Re: the pensive masthead 2/3/19
Lordy,lordy…party’s over
The night is late
His world’s undoing
In his thoughts
He sits stewing
Alone. Unsung
In sorry state
Come over, red rover!
Upon the day’s arrival
Café calls its devotees
To the World heart’s revival
And all from despair reprieved
Keep on teranam, as long as you are here we may not fade away !
The poetry here is awesome scary poignant. And Your Happy Days was pure fun!
” What we have here, folks, is a failure to communicate!”
Deplorable Americans Mis-Hear the “Soviet”..er Russian (??) National Anthem:
https://youtu.be/TqR1V3DN8hM
I don’t know. All I know is people mostly hear what they want to hear ….and tune out the rest. Myself included. But I showed up to have a listen, at least, like I said I would…..LOL.
Communication means paying attention. Oh hear, oh hear what says King Lear ! I mean Leary, our Leary the Dennis who was confronted with the same question, I wonder why ?
Thank you Bro. The subtitles were almost as good as in many old Russian flicks I’ve seen. (The Mrs. was mrs.tified.)
When truth is communicated, no matter what the method, a seeds life begins, even in the ground of dark they stay there, waiting for new, better growing condition, not wasted,
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!
(Shelley)
Oh you so made my day today. laughed so hard. Clever of you though. I’ll have to check out the actual words.
I wonder what the American anthem might hear as to the Russian ear?
… about thinking …
Most people are content with simplistic answers about almost anything.
RT (Russia Today) has the theme ‘Question More’, which is easily said, but what does it mean.
Someone may ask how a light bulb works and the answer might be that light bulbs work by electricity to which some will nod approvingly and be satisfied.
The same goes with politics, such as … “Venezuela Needs Democracy” and many people will be satisfied and agree, especially if they read it in The New York Times.
On Giza Pyramid construction, many people are satisfied with various ramp theories because archaeologists say so, and people read such garbage in countless printed articles and the fact that not one ramp theory can be adequately explained, or has any documented evidence, conflicts in their brains, so is dismissed and put out of mind so that peaceful contentment can be quickly restored. The fluoridation of municipal water supplies provides this neuro-toxin for many and is mandated at such a high level that many governments are not allowed to supply clean water without adding the toxic fluoride-freebies and purposely making that water dirty. Goyim cannot even prevent this, they drink this filth daily, mostly unaware of the long term consequences to health.
For many people it is just too difficult to think and gather facts, and this allows politicians to manipulate and take us into very dangerous territory as we now witness on a daily basis.
What has extensive schooling done for the masses ?
You forgot to mention that lead from our motor vehicles/airplanes etc. is in every blade of grass, in every morsel of food we eat, in our water etc. etc. Are there any signs that we’re going to get rid of fossil fuels soon? Its an irony that with the so-called advances of modern life, we are each slowly being poisoned to death by the emissions, by-products, waste etc. of the very things that supposedly are improving our lives.
Did you know that lead was a know neurotoxin in the late XIX century, well before it was added to fuel?
And than before being added to fuel, there where extended warnings of the problems it would cause, and alternatives presented?
And than nonetheless, lead was used in gasoline for over 100 years all over the world, and even now it’s still used as additive in 3rd world countries ?
One could even think it was done on purpose…
Of course there will be those that say “do not attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity”, I’ll reply it was probably an evil man that invented that saying to camouflage it’s deeds…
a blanket of PbOx covers the globe. see> https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/
but is not lead alone. see> https://www.thenation.com/article/worse-than-lead/
The article on lead, given here, is quite something. I recommend it especially.
So long as money trumps every other human concern, we will continue down the path of no return as a species.
Jeep “Big Game Blitz” | OneRepublic | “More Than Just Words”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msllMWcmC08&feature=youtu.be
… just an innocent advertisement to sell Jeep ?
Did you read near the start “Your Country Needs YOU !”
Do you see and hear the rallying cry and the flag and the military content …
so now what do you think of this timely produced propaganda !
If this advertisement is about Jeep where is technical Jeep information ?
Do you see the one word ploy I spoke of earlier, in this case … “Jeep”.
This propaganda is thick with emotion and nationalism and uses “association” to connect otherwise non-connectable elements.
It looks to me like a call for US unity amid preparations for war with Venezuela.
One of the first rules of salesmanship is that no-one buys technical information, they buy the dream of freedom on the open road, comfort, ease, convenience, status etc. etc. (I studied this a bit when I first tried recruiting for the union but never felt comfortable applying ‘sell the sizzle, not the steak.’)
Straight talking and respecting the response, whatever it is, works better if you are not selling a piece of glorified junk but giving people a genuine choice of engagement or not.
one minion … you make valid points, but there are exceptions …
staying on topic with Jeep …
1973 AMC Jeep J2000 Dealer Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9QrGLtd8A
… “It is very slick and tailored to have the broadest appeal so that it can be re-purposed for any eventuality, not just war with Venezuela.”
Correct !
Technically the emotional patriotic nationalist ad can be termed “Wise Propaganda”.
Here’s one more information commercial with a smooth soundtrack for comparison.
1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_yxR5Ni4yU
Yes, very slick. And that one works, “Secure” and everything you might need in one package. I wonder if those who bought the dream sold there ever bothered getting out of their extended life support systems to actually look at the great outdoors, let alone engage with it?
Of course the target audience for this one is not the people who actually benefit in their work from a four wheel drive motor that can take on rugged terrain but the urban-dweller who appreciates the shiny things in life and can afford to pay over the odds for them.
In UK, now car ads just show the new model in some exotic location driving towards adventure, with a pounding sound track that is familiar although half-forgotten to the target audience, those with cash to spare looking for a place to spend it before they get too old and decrepit. Mt demographic in fact, though I’m not in the market for anything. I like public transport–I get time to read, think, dream and look and you get to meet some interesting people.
one minion … you like to read, dream and meet interesting people, so a complimentary copy of my book “Raising Stone 1” is yours if you will email me your name and address.
My msn email address is on my website which can be found via …
https://saker.community/product/raising-stone-1-paul-hais-racks-and-pinions-theory/
(50% of the purchase price goes to The Saker)
The book is of very high quality as it was designed by me for professional robust use with teachers and professors in mind.
People who have this book, and have no further use of, please consider donating to a library for the benefit of others.
Thanks for the offer Paul but postage costs will be prohibitive to you, I think. I will buy a copy from the community site.
I have heard that salesmen say that one sells “features”, not utility or value, but essentially illusion, emotion.
Toga, Bath, sexedup Jeep…samesame game >All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude.
Tacitus> 21. The following winter passed without disturbance, and was employed in salutary measures. For, to accustom to rest and repose through the charms of luxury a population scattered and barbarous and therefore inclined to war, Agricola gave private encouragement and public aid to the building of temples, courts of justice and dwelling-houses, praising the energetic, and reproving the indolent. Thus an honourable rivalry took the place of compulsion. He likewise provided a liberal education for the sons of the chiefs, and showed such a preference for the natural powers of the Britons over the industry of the Gauls that they who lately disdained the tongue of Rome now coveted its eloquence. Hence, too, a liking sprang up for our style of dress, and the “toga” became fashionable. Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude. <
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm
When man things along that this text was written 2000 years ago…nothing has changed in this regard, where is the spiritual evolution ? humanity has subdued itself to the same old, same old manifestations, the same old temptations, same old illusions, same old self defeat. Revolutions after revolutions, wars after wars have changed nothing, nothing of the essence of human spiritual decadence when you look at the great numbers.
There has been and it is a change, always in small numbers, on a handful of peoples at individual level, that’s it. Every progressive movement has failed because of this reality of numbers, and the numbers are always the decisive factor in any society, as some kind of ironic rule of existence. The capitalist system is so durable because it has inherited the feudal ruling system and fits better with the numbers. The large numbers (of people) are not enduring a socialist system based on equality on a longer term because there will be always those who’ll lunge after greed. Without some sort of dictatorship, those large numbers will never engage Wholeheartedly in building such a society. At least, history showed us this very clearly.
‘…and the numbers are always the decisive factor in any society, as some kind of ironic rule of existence. The capitalist system is so durable…’
Only if you, personally, allow them to be the decisive factor. They are currently the decisive factor in this society and how it is currently set up to function. That doesn’t mean that it is always the decisive factor. There are a lot of outliers and switching focus to some of those will show how much influence for change some of the outliers have on the whole (for both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ outcomes). No guarantees in this life, and not much control either. Personally, I find that encouraging but then I have never been too fond of certainties.
I don’t think that it is that specific as to be preparation for war against Venezuela. To me it just looks like reinforcement of everything Americans are encouraged to admire and feel good about their nation, the militarism, the consumption, ‘patriotism’ in a very narrow sense, the game, and there is some little vignette for everyone in there so inclusiveness, something for everyone as money doesn’t discriminate.
It is very slick and tailored to have the broadest appeal so that it can be re-purposed for any eventuality, not just war with Venezuela.
God, that was bad. Look, the goatee guy has a Neumann microphone. They really have attempted to commodify everything, but in doing so they have pissed a lot of us off, those of us who know brainwashing and can see it, hear it, feel it in our bones.
It reminded me of the Q video: A mix of “found footage”, hearstring pulling, you know, emotional blackmail.
Apparently, this “Superbowl” was one of the least-watched and most boring in history. And I’m not even touching on the suppressed story/fact that people aren’t showing up to major league sports in general any more — the “Empty Seats Pics” phenom on twitter and elsewhere. They will spin their cash cows, but how much of this is real and how much is Memorex Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
If many are so pissed off why did the US electorate continue to practically all vote, in descending vote count, for either empire stooge Clinton / Trump.
To extend my post re quadrivium on previous cafe which was mostly
“I most highly recommed Malcolm Stewart book Patterns of eternity I have attended a series of lectures he has done as artist and lecturer about this…and John Michell How the world is made the story of creation as viewed by geomancy( beautiful paintings)…universal philosophical principles ”
The liberal classical arts are not now seemingly in art education such a loss…..a society relying on calculators…spreadsheets…accountants…that we must endlessly perform to….rather than attempting to under stand complex maths I am happier with ration as to me that introduces the understanding of proportion…balance.
Last chapter of the wonderful book above…Atlantis…an idealised system based on number of ten-which is two human pentagram symbolically- will automaticaly fail in time….
do not we get bamboozled by series of 0’s in figure work …it is easier for computers and algorythms to take over hence AI maybe and its “threats”…easier to defraud honest peoples…a cap-it- all system…in that it is too idealistic and yet has flaws that cannot be reconciled with integrity( accountants use a reconciling system to say all is well but is it)….money is god. Societal systems and systemics based on number of 5 are a limited system self enclosed…self absorbing self idolising too mortal ( hence the current human of the self the individual and rights….someone today suing his parents because he was not consulted by them as to whether he wished to born is an interesting example of todays individual absurdities lost of their connection to a spiritual world and human race)…
yes 5’s is representative of ourselves cast out from heaven…of we can be happy with just that okayish but most of us seem to be searching…(hence the usefulness of 6th sense when we connect to our greater selves that maybe scientists can explain one day and other experiences and abilities)they do not really allow true optimal fully potential relationships with other numbers….unless they are allowed to by interaction with them . Eg 5 and 6 establish relationships ie the human of 5 pentagram extending themselves to others reaching out….when 5 reaches out together in harmony in action that is when it really starts to connect to the greater multilevel and multi dimensional cosmic sense of number of geometry.
Societal systems built on sacred number of 12 are sustainable…it allows for many more number interactions and extensions….yes there may be some difficulties ( we are here to learn and number canon takes care of this ) but this basis allows and takes into account-sorry pun- the “flaw” or mistakes of humanity and being a human being so that it is repairing…more sustaining…in touch with something much bigger…is compassionate and connected truly to cosmic principles of the highst number. Hence 12 disciples including Iscariot but with Jesus all is well and Gods love? 12 more fully allows access to the greater study of number relationships connections interchangeability and the sacredness of of its cosmic study such as the canon of number and
geometria….where number leads to spiritual understandings..sacredness….the transposition of numbers increases consciousness …awareness…….
…. I struggle with maths very much but when I see the beautiful patterns illustrating geomancy in the book above I can start to understand the differences between mans use of number in his systems….where we are being told to believe in the “value “of 0 zero….why is it not written as – so then we would actually realise it is ” nothing”…if you see what I mean.
and the most beautiful sense of number in the cosmos: the pentagon – symbolic of us humans-has some of the most beautiful geometric patterns in geometry but a society centralised state built on it or subverted to the state that is only interested in manupilating this for its own irreconcileable limitations will fail the divisionism being enforced falsely as individualism on us or them turning into psychopathic phobias from road rage to INF treaties. confrontations between countries politics peoples business ….the metric based dollar as the reason and being of all economy rather than the society it should serve….
….so may understandings from the past that are being ignored to our great danger. Check out John Michell network. .?
Oh boy…the convenience of a mobile phone but tapping out script when you cannot look at the titchy screen at the same time…cannot rely on autocorrect it puts the sometimes wrong preprogrammed AI words in…gotta scroll up and down etc finger wants to go to the wrong letter with a will of its own sent to trick us…might be odd spelling mistake but gotta write while I have my limited muse and I need breakfast…now if we could do handwriting on the screen …..back to letters folks? Just my thoughts.
http://www.unz.com/article/a-liberal-elite-still-luring-us-towards-the-abyss/
Seems aposite…..
Yes indeed. A very good resume of what ails us and the predicament we find ourselves in. We do need some radically new and different thinking to address it, let alone try to mitigate some of it.
Venezuela
I’ve seen this filtering out everywhere: Guaidó – trained in Belgrade by a Serbian radical group – CIA sponsored.
Also, the ‘defector soldiers’ that begged Donald Trump for weapons on CNN – well, seemingly they have the wrong uniform badges .. just theater.
https://southfront.org/cnn-shows-interview-with-venezuelan-army-defectors-appealing-to-us-for-weapons-there-is-problem-with-their-uniform/
This whole coup is a theater production.
The latest from Vesti News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoQ8pWLJJw
Not sure that CANVAS thing is not kicked out..
especially with its history and recent visit by Pres Putin…
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Sighs….meant to write :
not sure why has not canvas been kicked put
Amarynth:
This article contains references to the “training” of Guiado-it goes back a while. As i noted previously, NED insidious and subversive hand is involved big time:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuela-coup-leader/254387/
While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government’s elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela’s socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.
Well, it was not just “a” Serbian group, but “the” most infamous thing that was acting during the Djindjic putsch against Milosevic and then again and again in countries to be “softly’ conquered by the agents of Scherff/Bush, i.e. the OTPOR gang. Few remarked that “Otpor”, Serbian for “resistance” and germ “Widerstand” continued the actions of a group that spit out its hate against Willy Brandt under the sign “W” for “Widerstand”. So, there is a straight line from Nazi hatred against Brandt, Milosevic, (several others, e.g. Georgia, Ukraina) and now Maduro of Venezuela. One might wonder whether the “W” that accompanied the Warsaw uprising (for “wolnosc” – freedom) wasn’t also launched from the same source: “bloody Faith, the foulest birth of Time”, as one of the fans of the author of “Frunkenstine” put it.
Women! Know your limits :
https://youtu.be/LS37SNYjg8w
bbc comedy skit … mod
A woman’s voice will always rock the boat, one way or another …
Player Queen:
Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
If once I be a widow, ever I be a wife!
Player King:
‘Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here a while,
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep.
Player Queen:
Sleep rock thy brain,
And never come mischance between us twain!
Hamlet:
Madam, how like you this play?
Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
HOWTO NEWS
Ukrainians hand over Donbass
2019-01-29
Citizens of Square want to end the war in the country at any cost! More than half of the inhabitants of
Ukraine are striving for peace, even if the country loses the territory of the rebellious Donbass. Such
terrible figures for Kiev were given today by the director of the sociological company Seetarget Alexei
Borovsky.
“More than half of the population of Ukraine, almost 60% (or rather, 59.2%) want peace at any cost,
even by abandoning the occupied territories”, ”Interfax quotes a specialist from the presentation of the
social research“ Ukraine in the focus of sociology ”during the presidential race.
It is noted that 24.1% of the respondents from the proposed answers chose the option of continuing
military action by any means, including force, until Kiev establishes control over the entire territory.
At the same time, according to the survey, 73.1% of respondents in the east of the country support
the end of the war.
“This topic actually divides Ukraine into two political camps or two large public groups,” stated Borovsky,
the long-known axiom.
According to him, against the backdrop of an armed confrontation in Nezalezhnaya, there is a predom-
inantly negative attitude towards the implementation of the initiatives of legislators on the free sale of
weapons. Thus, 77.6% of citizens oppose such plans even under the condition of more severe respon-
sibility for crimes involving the use of weapons and the illegal trafficking of such. Only 18.1% of
Ukrainians consider this acceptable.
This study was conducted by Seetarget from December 17 to 23, 2018. 2010 respondents were over 1
18 years old. Sampling error is not more than 2.3%.
Earlier it became known of a certain new plan for the settlement of the conflict in the Donbass, which
should replace the Minsk agreements. As the OSCE special representative at the talks in Minsk,
Martin Saidik, told the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung on January 24, the organization of a joint UN
and OSCE mission and the creation by the European Union of an agency for the restoration of the region
are expected. According to him, “to implement the central element (the Minsk agreements) – the holding
of local elections – external assistance is required”.
(Google translation)
https://howto-news.info/ukraintsy-sdayut-donbass/?utm_source=push&utm_medium=970
Ukraine starting to say should be no Russian observers attending under OSCE rules for Presidential election……well if so…Russia can refuse to recognise the winner…..play the game western style….
Pretty funny,
Only comedians tell the truth anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IJqkm5gkU
except on climate change
https://www.sott.net/article/404389-The-Zeller-Nikolov-climate-discovery-Carbon-dioxide-has-no-measurable-effect-on-planetary-temperature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=mtHreJbr2WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0sY2tjmr_Y
sigh. The best hope for the future of the human race is, where???
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-Francisco-where-street-addicts-outnumber-13571702.php
ouch! Stay Strong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w
For those interested in that Lima group meeting in Ottawa, see Foreign Policy Canada @CanadaFP Twitter feed. There’s a live feed from the meeting.
A bunch of brain dead brain washing., But this group has no teeth excepting creating fake news. The OAS (organization of American states) has already voted this coup thing down. And, the no-sayers are just getting stronger and the world condemnation is just getting bigger. But it is early days.
Follow on to : President Putin working meeting with Lavrov and Shoigu regarding INF Treaty.
Already in her Jan. 31 weekly webcast, delivered one day before the U.S. formally announced its withdrawal form the INF Treaty, Zepp-LaRouche was asked: “From your discussions with people, your experience, are there people in Russia and China who understand the possibility, or are aware of the possibility for this Four Power arrangement [among the U.S., Russia, China and India], and using that as the basis for a New Bretton Woods?” To which she responded:
“Well, I think this is a big question. Because you know, in general, I think the Chinese would–depending on how these trade negotiations today go with President Trump…. If that goes well, then I would say the Chinese in general tend to be more optimistic about changing the course of history.
“The Russians, in my experience, are very pessimistic. They look at the possible cancellation of the INF Treaty, they look at all the other very aggressive tones against Russia, and they think there is a very small chance, if any chance at all, that the United States will change for many years to come.
“Now, I don’t think that that is the final answer…. I think anybody in their right mind, who is not willing to risk the existence of the human species, should really promote dialogue and cooperation, rather than keeping this chicken game going, which could really blow up the whole human species.
“I think the Russians need to see some signs that Americans and Europeans are willing to depart from this insane confrontation course, to develop the hope that it can be changed. And that cannot come from Russia; it can only come from inside the West.”
I don’t think anyone here will disagree with that last statement.
However, the conclusion to this morning’s LPAC Strategic Briefing Lead, will, at this stage of the game, most probably be nearly impossible to imagine, let alone act upon….yet….. for the great majority here
“Trump can help set things on the proper track by achieving a full economic cooperation package with China; by pursuing his successful negotiations with North Korea; and by pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and ending the era of Bush-Obama wars of aggression–just as Trump promised he would do throughout the presidential campaign. And we can help Trump do all of that by defeating the British-orchestrated coup d’état against his government.”, this morning’s Lead asserts
Russia has already done what it can do and will no doubt continue to do: Be stubbornly tough and invincible Russia!
Regardless of whether anyone in the West cheers them on ……or not!
Now, they DO deserve a lot of love and recognition for blocking the way of the Luciferian Elites Of the Empire in their wet dream of the Permanent Enslavement of Humanity. But it’s the turn of decent persons in the west to do the rest…..from their side …”of the field”, so to speak.
Because Russia doesn’t (really)need the cheerleaders.
What they DO need is true patriots in western nations to “up their game”.
The Question is: Will the Patriots of the Nation-states of the West comprehend The Winning Play for ALL in the Current World Strategic Super-Bowl…and get on the field and execute it properly… from the western side of the line of scrimmage…or….fumble the opportunity away as profiled to do by the masters of Conflict Manipulation…or have Time Expire…due to a “Delay of Getting in The Real Game” penalty ???.
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Bro, you’re turning into a pretzel with your jinking and jiving to get off the point of today. Trump´is running a coup down in Venezuela. He is stealing a country and its wealth. Let’s hear you Bro :-)
The ‘winning play’ today is real clear calling the thing by its name, and a pretzel is a pretzel. Its not the deep state, it is the shadow government, and it is Trump.
Blaming Trumpie is rather like blaming Mickey Cohen for the mafia…
The “best use” for Trumpie by the cabal is as pharmacos…they’ll lard upon this idiotic clown all their own crimes as well as his.
Thus we’ll “consent”…
Meantime their Hegelian dialectic will continue to create chaos and misery as they feed themselves upon the rotten loot.
It will work, too, and is working…however in the longer term it cannot support the cabal.
see> https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/04/pepe-escobar-maga-misses-the-eurasia-train/
True, but MC was certainly a “head honcho” of the syndicate (I don’t use the word “mafia” unless it’s from Palermo), and thus a figurehead. If someone were making 100 hours of videos saying that M. Cohen was secretly draining the syndicate, people might comment that Cohen was a member of same.
MC was rather nearer apex of power than Trump, though. Pharmakos is a good word. (Thanks for link!)
A serious boy scout, he had at the beginning no clue, but actually his after-school job in Hollywood was delivering spirits (and envelopes) for a liquor store/bookmaker “licensed” by Stumpy Zevon. He was very innocent and didn’t see this for what it was…there were three of those boys. One began to twig to the bookmaking, and quit after a few months.
Stumpy ran the bookmaking for MC, they say. You could walk to Zevon’s paint store front, just a few blocks. Melrose, he thought…
He misses the fellas and the small crime of those days…now we have casinos! Vast murders ever since Uncle took over the crime business…
Just a bit I overheard at some bar, sometime, somewheres…;)
What interesting info! I’ve seen “Once upon a Time in America” and it seems a lot of them started like that.
Where on Melrose, exactly? I lived around there for a while in the 90’s. You continue to intrigue, Mr. P!
Well, I can’t ask the guy…but I can guess…that it was Beverly…about here https://tinyurl.com/y74byery
5 minutes to Stumpy’s…on foot.
Another world all gone… They used to take the Red Car to Santa Monica and take .22 rifles to shoot rabbits from the car. The conductor would stop to lets the boys pick up the game, so they could roast rabbit on the beach. I myself heard that from a pal’s dad when I was a scout…
I remember the affair at the Friar’s Club…that snared a lawyer whose name began “C”, who told Sirhan, his client, to plead guilty…I remember that, too.
“The US will remain in Syria (i.e. Iraq) to “protect” Israel from Iran”
Another tragic rollover. The tragedy of trump on this one, apart from all of the other roll overs, is that he has the cajones the size of bird shot.
amarynth, did I say the point was Trump?
I did not. I don’t think he is the point, He seems to be the red cape though, that all kinds of furious bulls love to charge at!
Most of their waking hours.
I am more concerned with figuring out what makes that cape move than with charging at it.
It doesn’t seem to be Soros! LOL.
And how it is that some even worse forces in the world than him……..seem to be so threatened….by those hidden forces that wave him about.
How does THAT work, amarynth?
It sure is confusing, But rather than joining the herd in charging the red cape, I rather take some comfort in the fact that the coup seems to be failing, some people seem to be searching ever deeper for answers, etc.
Here’s a blast from the past…about 4 years ago when I first freed up enough time to poke around the internet I kind of liked Storm Clouds Gathering.
Apparently Aaron (you’ll recognize the voice….but first time I ever saw his face….) got 500,000 subscribers back then and then “dropped off the grid” so to speak for almost 5 years. Now that he’s set up in the Amazon Jungle or some like place,…..??……. I guess it’s time to show his face, as he perceives Trump disturbing his peaceful territory????
https://youtu.be/R_2sf6qnuNU
Have at it guys! He includes one of the most damning clips of Trump I have ever seen. Charge away!
While I have my doubts about Maduro, I agree with Storm Clouds that Maduro is the business of Venezuelans to attend to, not our business.
And while that clip of DJT is one of the most unfortunate ever recorded, 100% devoid of morality….the question still remains: Why are even worse people (and I don’t mean Maduro for Christ Sakes, I mean Brennan, Clintons, Brennan, Macron, May, Merkel….) .so threatened by whatever force has…..so far….. kept the concerted coup against HIM…from succeeding.???
For the moment, until I know, I would rather see THEM gored….than him. That’s all.
Don’t want to be caught dead doing ANYTHING to aid and abet them!
So I hesitate to charge the red cape.
I DO understand the temptation. But find it easily resistable.
I have all respect for Aaron and SCG.
he fought tirelessly against sirias fake war, and predicted a couple months in advance that isis would cross the border to rearm in mossul.
He got a really serious medical condition (antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria, some suspected foul play)
That clearly was an effective mean to get him off track, as he had to focus on surviving.
Its work switched more to selsuficiency in the jungle… kind of a good option when in the civilized world many seek to hinder him.
interesting how everyone is tiptoeing around the “Russia thing” that the ruling elites have going on here in Looneylandia even in the most boring military magazine ever written in English called Miliary Heritage.
the jan 2019 issue shows a man in a tank who could vaguely resemble Putin and the lead article is called “World War ll , Bloody Struggle for Moscow “ but then waaaaay at the bottom is (very coyly) listed “Medieval Battle at Lake Peipas”
“Grrr, ok guys what is up here? “ I think snatching up the magazine and opening it. There, the article boldly entitled “Nevsky’s Glorious Victory” has a full page picture of Nevsky in battle gear.
nice hook, guys ! So I bought it and that article was tops.
Voltaire puplished in French this and more:
“The French possessing class suddenly becomes aware of the economic use that the United States makes of its judicial system. Since 1993, the Trade Secretariat has created a Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee and an Advocacy Center , directly linked to intelligence agencies. More recently, the Justice Secretariat has interpreted the laws of his country to extend his power abroad and to exercise it with the other administrations in the interest of his large corporations. De facto , the lawsuits against European companies have nothing to do with crimes committed. They are actually designed either to push them into bankruptcy or to allow their repurchase by US companies.”
Since they are suddenly aware, if this is so, then one may expect a change in their behavior, eh?
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205016.html
In the form of a book review, and somewhat pessimistically, a mild call to arms….
We got bigger problem comin round the bend: The governments will control the news and “free speech”,not by legislating it themselves, but by tricking the social media platforms to do it for them. ie. what is hate speech ;what is false news?
Federal News Agency
“Zaruba* will be strong”: Tymoshenko promised to put any candidate for the presidency of Ukraine
on the shoulder
2019-02-04
Kiev, February 4. The leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, said that the political strug-
gle during the election race will be very serious, but she is ready to “lay on the shoulder” of any of her opponents and is not afraid of the second round.
“Zaruba, sorry for the non-diplomatic word, will be strong. We can put on the blades of any candidate.
We are satisfied with the second round in any, I emphasize, in any format, ”she noted during a meeting
with representatives of the business community.
Recall that the presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for March 31, 2019. Of the 50 people
who applied for participation in the elections, 28 were officially registered. Among the candidates were
the current head of state Petro Poroshenko, ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko and showman Vladimir
Zelensky. Tymoshenko is currently a candidate with the highest electoral rating.
However, the experts do not exclude that Poroshenko during the presidential race will connect the administrative resource controlled by the media and security agencies to tilt the balance in their favor.
On Monday, the leader of “Batkivschiny” has already accused the Ukrainian president of usury, the pur-
chase of votes and fraud with documents. According to her, Poroshenko increased on paper the num-
ber of voters by 1 million people, to strengthen their positions at the expense of “dead souls”.
Author: Anton Sokolov
(Google translation)
https://riafan.ru/1147841-zaruba-budet-silnoi-timoshenko-poobeshala-polozhit-na-lopatki-lyubogo-kandidata-v-prezidenty-ukrainy?utm_source=push-notification&utm_medium=push-world&utm_campaign=push
* Zaruba means fight in slang language
Speaking of idiots! (among other things)
Quite interesting in a number of ways (You sort it out).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dHdGHP8hCg
Kent
Ahhh to put the final question in this article a bit differently, in which navy would you as a lowly ensign prefer to serve?
Trump on Libya: “We should attack it for 50% of oil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4huS-3-Gs74
(and read the comments)
Gaddafi’s son: Libya like McDonald’s for NATO – fast war as fast food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpMugPQC4ZY
… a letter from a Libyan …
I am Libyan and I can confirm Gaddafi was not a dictator, he was a father for us Libyans a fellow humanist a man of wisdom a man of God , a guardian angel for the oppressed, exploited and poor around the world. He believes in peoples right to freedom and self determination. He is the true defenition of a WORLD leader. He speaks the truth, he is brave and smart. He worked his whole life for the betterment of humanity and the Libyan people. At the end of the day he slept on the floor most days in his tent. He didnt have much. Do not let his fancy clothing and women body guards fool you. This did not symbolize riches but symbolized the support for Africa and for womens rights and equality. Gaddafi worked against the NWO and the Rothschilds and every other satanic movement family and group through through soft power with the backing and support of all of us the Libyan people. We never had no regime or dictatorship. We had the worlds most democratic system called a Jamahiriya translated as “State of the Masses”. Resources and Power were in our hands. We had the best life and most true freedom and democracy, free healthcare education best standards of living complete peace harmony and freedom and prosperity. To keep a long story short NATO/US and the NWO powers funded armed and organized terrorists from all over the world to attack us then these terrorists attacked all the jails freeing every single criminal to destroy us. Then NATO invaded and bombed our people and infrastructure until terrorists and criminals took over. During this time 90% of Libyans were in support of Gaddafi and not the terrorist rebels. The media lied to the world and continue to lie, even RT is oblivious to the fact that 90% of us still support Gaddafi until this day and not any of the 3 puppet western saudi turkish qatari backed governments. We have 144 tons of gold and silver to start a african golden dinar, and destroy paper evil. He also started a world Islamic call society spreading true Islam to counter Saudi Wahhabism terrorism that the west allies with in Libya and now in Syria. Gaddafi respected all Abrahamic religion and always called for and worked for unity. If you would like to get the best understanding about our democracy please read his “Green Book” its very short and wont take long. We the Libyan people controlled our central bank and before ISIS ALQAEDA US AND NATO took over it used to say on our central bank building “power wealth and resources are in the hands of the people” when the west and terrorists took over they removed this carved into our central bank. but we will all be victorious soon and this cycle of US “regime change” and NATO terrorism will be reversed in Libya and Syria…God bless
I will never forget that day. Coverage of his execution, Hillary Clinton’s hyena laughter … It was triumph of the west! They celebrated as it was something to be proud of.
Whatever evil comes to “civilized” Europe, they surely deserved it, in spades.
Facebook is discriminating yet again … multiple times.
I have almost no use for social media with the LOL, like and dislike approach.
Facebook has been useful for me to communicate with so-called “Egyptologists”.
Shortly after using FB to communicate my Pravda article, Jim McQueen of FB emailed me with an ultimatum that if I did not email him copies of my ID then my FB account would remain suspended.
My Pravda article …
http://www.pravdareport.com/science/mysteries/29-11-2018/142069-great_pyramid-0/
Well, my FB “haitheory” account is going to remain suspended … I do not need FB.
I explained to FB’s Jim McQueen who I am and directed him to my website and offered him a copy of my book, but the suspension was reiterated … so it’s goodbye FB.
FB is politically wrong … extremely wrong … maliciously interfering …
The Article Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Share: Venezuela Is Not Alone
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2019/02/03/the-article-facebook-doesnt-want-you-to-share-venezuela-is-not-alone/?utm_source=GuillotineSalesAndRepair_facebook&fbclid=IwAR2pQLgF2K-UxNz5QM83upieh11PDsYi9e6cYXERMxZEhCN4qnc7I254pcg
“The Green Book”
by Muammar al-Qaddafi
http://openanthropology.org/libya/gaddafi-green-book.pdf
… extracted … under the subtitle “Housing” …
Housing is an essential need for both the individual and thefamily and should not be owned by others. Living in another’shouse, whether paying rent or not, compromises freedom. At-tempts made by various countries to solve the housing problemdid not provide a definite solution because such attempts didnot target the ultimate solution – the necessity that people owntheir dwellings – but rather offered the reduction, increase, orstandardization of rent, whether it went to privately or publicly-owned enterprise. In a socialist society, no one, including soci-ety itself, has the right to control people’s needs. No one has theright to acquire a house additional to his or her own dwellingand that of his or her heirs for the purpose of renting it be-cause this additional house is, in fact, a need of someone else.Acquiring it for such a purpose is the beginning of controllingthe needs of others, and “in need freedom is latent”.
(remembering the essentials … peace, bread and land – Lenin, and … Shelter, food and clothing – Marx)
Further complexity for the bafflement of simple emotions:
https://youtu.be/vWpwvo4JEMk
Russian TV Interview with Scott Bennett on Trump, the wall, and Government Shutdown
Fold in Iran….for an even more complex strategic tapestry:
https://youtu.be/6z8L4fDLIzo
Part 1: Scott response to FBI Abduction of Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashimi
please email me at saker-webmaster@yandex.com …herb
Thanks for those 2 Bro. I enjoyed the one about Marzieh Hashimi. But the other one on the wall became too party political for me. I guess I don’t have a dog in this fight. Yet, he explained the emotional situation quite well.
Among other stuff…Just a reminder…the Bay of Pigs assault cemented the Cuban Revolution…and Venezuela? Their revolution is stranded…war may re-float their revolution, as it did for Cuba…
There is an opportunity here and it does not in every iteration favor Imperial Lusts, rather the other way…
The oil crunch the embargoing of V crude is going create will destabilize matters inside the USA and the client satrapies, and it hands the control of prices to Russia, which will shortly be in a position to dictate said prices, and thereby, further destabilize the Imperium…
Madero’s best bet seems to be to mousetrap Imperium into an attack…particularly a half-baked attack like BoP was.
Support the troops and thank them for their service!
https://www.rt.com/uk/450695-uk-army-civilian-deaths-coverup/
Maduro faces a counter-revolutionary coup…so did the Commandante, sooo?
Yes indeed, all the support necessary to achieve the good…along such lines one might profit from even the watered down wiki entry of BoP…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Aftermath
a fragment> In August 1961, during an economic conference of the Organization of American States in Punta del Este, Uruguay, Che Guevara sent a note to Kennedy via Richard N. Goodwin, a secretary of the White House. It read: “Thanks for Playa Girón. Before the invasion, the revolution was weak. Now it’s stronger than ever”.[176]
Additionally, Guevara answered a set of questions from Leo Huberman of Monthly Review following the invasion. In one reply, Guevara was asked to explain the growing number of Cuban counter-revolutionaries and defectors from the regime, to which he replied that the repelled invasion was the climax of counter revolution, and that afterwards such actions “fell drastically to zero.” In regard to the defections of some prominent figures within the Cuban government, Guevara remarked that this was because “the socialist revolution left the opportunists, the ambitious, and the fearful far behind and now advances toward a new regime free of this class of vermin.”[177]
… about total acceptance …
In 1983, the UK band “Space” performs a concert in Moscow and the concert goers become ecstatic. Look at these Soviet people … totally accepting … totally joyous …
Did a Soviet band ever create such a display of emotion in an English speaking country (singing in Russian language or dialect) ?
Nine years on the Soviet Union collapsed and to explain that collapse we should consider the atmosphere of that time and include this “one sided sharing”.
Whatever your thoughts, it is interesting to watch what has passed … and think about …
Why it all passed as it did ?
“SPACE 1983 полный Концерт в Москве”
(complete/full concert in Moscow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1dqK-FxIs
I remember quite a lot of cultural exchange in those times, for instance I, several times, saw Soviet state dance troupes at Covent Garden (famous as a ballet venue) performing very muscular traditional dances that were spectacular and similarly ecstatically received. And I know that there were regular and very popular ballet performances by Soviet companies there too, although that didn’t appeal to me enough to fork out for a ticket.
I agree though that we probably got the better end of the exchange.
When I left Bulgaria in 1978 it was with empty suitcases as everything that I had originally brought with me was prized by Bulgarians who had an absolute hunger for anything frivolously western, not because it was any good or better than they had but because frivolous stuff was so scarce and generally unobtainable for them at that time.
Russia must create land-based hypersonic missiles with 500km+ range by 2020 – MoD
https://www.rt.com/news/450679-russia-missiles-range-inf/
“Russia has been trying to start meaningful talks on disarmament for years now, Putin recently said, but all such attempts have been rebuffed. Moscow will no longer try to initiate dialogue, and is instead waiting for Washington to “mature sufficiently to hold a level, meaningful conversation,” the Russian president said.”
With that new pop group called twitter trump and the neocons running things, there is zero chance of that basic maturity level necessary will happen in pindoland.
Below the surface, unseen, unheard, sometimes unsuspected even, there’s a pulse of life here on this site. A pulse beyond daily cares and concerns, with its own recurring rhythms and momentum, promise of the future, and great awakening, a tsunamic consciousness, together with world catastrophe.
from The Bhagavad Gita
Nay but as one layeth
His worn out robes away
And taking new ones sayeth,
“These will I wear today;”
So putteth by the spirit
Lightly its garb of flesh
And passes to inherit
A residence afresh.
Just absolutely fascinating:
Interview with Ex-CIA Collaborator: “The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/10533
Here is the petition to stop the dangerous 5G network- https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/sign-individual/
Headline from RT today-‘A global catastrophe’: Radiation activist warns that 5G networks are ‘massive health experiment’
I have to admit i very much agree with Mr Firstenberg about the dangers of electromagnetic radiation and i hope everyone else that worries sign the petition!
To admin- delete if i break any rules:)
A Miss Susan has much to say about realities in NZ…
I expect it will interest most people ’round these parts…
I ought to have seen the article, but missed it.
two:
https://twitter.com/Suzi3D
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/18/exclusive-they-spy-with-their-little-eye/