2019/02/13 15:00:01
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@Bro – referring to the conversation on stablecoins and ‘backed coins’ … this is what niggles at me – fungibility.
(There is one sentence very wrong in this piece of writing – ignore that one on international document standard – never will we see that).
https://medium.com/@kate.poisonglen/fungible-vs-non-fungible-tokens-c52b703d0dd3
Hmmm.
I put myself in the shoes of those people who have less interest in this subject than you or I do, and I often sympathize with the struggle they may engage in for a few seconds …..to wrap their brain around it…..and try briefly to relate to it in some way.
And when I see Crypto-kitties for example……my reaction is: “Who NEEDS this nonsense??? Not me!”
And I see those that have no prior attraction to any of the other potentialities of the blockchain…..”moving on” even faster!!!
Especially if the market is down or just stagnant. LOL. Unless there is a deeper seed of interest and intrigue to motivate digging deeper into “what this space really IS” that caused so much excitement among those that discovered that it existed before I did….I wouldn’t know anything!
Like my Café buddy Dennis, I would just decide that “chain” is a negative word and “block” is not much better…….and “Who needs either one, when there are so much more alluring (sexual) images to fill ones mind with?!” LOL
Yet, I read the lady’s article all the way through and got some things out of it.
My laptop is not fungible, I take it, for any use in trading for or buying anything of not nearly 100% equivalent value…….being as I can’t divide it into parts. Whereas if within this laptop I have a Litecoin wallet and you are selling something I would like to buy and also have a Litecoin address…..LTC is fungible and useful so long as a community of millions of others around the world also use it and ascribe utility as a means of exchange to it.
Now the utility of having things be unique and non-fungible. That’s a harder to grasp. As is why it would “niggle” (bother, annoy??) you….. I don’t have the same reaction.
Why care??
I have curiosity as to how that works but not yet any intense interest in it or distaste for it.
What I am really interested in is the mistakes (like you say the Venezuelan made with a poor design of the PETRO…and why it apparently flopped..)..and by contrast what sort of smarter approach or innovation elsewhere led to happier results….in another application
After dinner I will see if you or any other person talked about that…..in the previous café. Been out in the field all day.
I like coin that is currency, i.e., fully fungible (and of course the other hard characteristics of a currency).
What the governments do with creating their version of a stablecoin or a backed coin, is that they create them as a trade mechanism, rather than a straight currency. So, if you use their coin (if you can even use it for everyday commerce?), you’re dealing in their commodity, i.e, oil as in Venezuela and gold as in Iran – it is a mechanism representative of something else. I’ve not seen one of those work yet and I don’t know where the value is … in the cryptocoin, or in the mechanism, or in the commodity?.
So, niggling as in more questions than answers.
[For Bro’s eyes only]
“Like my Café buddy Dennis, I would just decide that “chain” is a negative word and “block” is not much better…….and “Who needs either one, when there are so much more alluring (sexual) images to fill ones mind with?!” LOL”
Go, Bro, Go! That’s a non-fungible fact; I couldn’t have said it better. Thanks for the LOL. I’m laughing so hard I can’t post until I settle down. Joy, oh Joy!
This is a ball buster: Former trump atty Dowd gave an interview yesterday with ABC: bottom line is Mueller was finished with his “investigation” in March 2018 and this circus since then was carried on to provide cover to DOJ and FBI criminal/coup plotters!
Complete aand utter fraudulent investigation!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/12/dowd-nails-it-former-trump-attorney-outlines-insufferable-behavior-of-mueller-and-rosenstein-in-perpetrating-political-russia-hoax/
Of course the investigation was always a circus. Of course there was no specific collusion with Trump – no need. The US and Russian Elite have been as thick as the thieves that they are since well before Gorbachev / Yeltsin.
Often I wonder if the same hidden hand which caused 1917 revolution is steering current world events in much of the world and pushing us into the same catastrophe but of larger scale.
Maybe that’s the reason why the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill proclaimed the church equal with RF head of the state with VVP blessings to prevent another 1917.
Am I wrong?
You are.
Although 1917 seemed like the creation of a chink of light for the ordinary man even it was likely a con job.
Now, at best, there are 3 branches of the same evil entity of which Kirill’s proclamation is example part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqP96obq90&feature=youtu.be&t=1028
He may send his family out of the country but Maduro is not going anywhere–not into a bolt hole nor into a public square unarmed. He will fight to the death along with those loyal to him. As for people’s war and anti drone and anti electronic warfare technology, he can use all the help he can get. His government in exile will be in Mexico but he will have to pay off some forces there and will always have to watch his back. There are many unholy alliances going on as this trial of major drug lord is tied up. Alliances can and will shift. Money buys a lot but no one trusts Looneylandia.
http://theduran.com/as-his-regime-falters-here-is-where-venezuelas-maduro-may-seek-asylum/
“The US staked a claim on half the world, as Senate Armed Services Committee chair Jim Inhofe said Washington might have to intervene in Venezuela if Russia dares set up a military base not just there, but “in our hemisphere.” ”
https://www.rt.com/news/451383-venezuela-military-intervention-russia/
It’s a pity that we can’t safely teleport such dangerous people to an island (or another planet) with a force field around it.
This really is tragic but I doubt that Imhofe can walk and chew gum at the same time; however, it is what it is and rubio, even more stupid and even more owned, cardin, menendez, are all the same. then we have the dual citizens….
The arrogance of these psychopaths is mind numbing!
Faster and faster and faster it runs.
Been following this for years.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Kent
Report from the beast’s belly:
When my next door neighbor moved, she hired two non citizens from Central America from a crowd that hangs out in front of the local big corporate hardware store. It is my opinion that they are being brought here to crush the political power of the US citizen working class ( which is of all colors, by the way, but is portrayed as “white” and therefore unduly privileged). The fellows that I met had a strange type of reverse entitlement and carefully disguised resentment. Plus they were of the lowest, most uneducated class of Guatemalan society. Someone is organizing these guys, filling their heads with class hatred of the worst kind and sending them North basically as a force against our working class.
Trump is right–we are not getting the best or even the better. The workers I employed in LA 20 years ago were
urban, literate, religious and family oriented. They did come to better themselves not out of desperation and not expecting aid and hand outs or else.
Hands off Venezuela! Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador ! Repatriation of immigrants–let the Mexican ruling class deal with their own self induced problems of poverty and violence! They had one revolution in 1917–maybe they need an update?
Kind of like a globalized versions of the dregs that showed in provincial society in Demons. Why should the Mexican(Latin American) ruling class deal with their own problems of poverty and violence, when they are intermarried with our “own” ruling class (e.g. Jeb!) ?
The Old Briar Rose
hanging on for dear life,
the old briar rose
knotted and unkempt,
greeted the sun
as it always had –
with a welcoming and
grateful heart
it caught my eye in this
ruin of what used to be
someone’s labour of love –
potbound for years,
waiting patiently
for a single drop
of spring water
the nursery keeper,
his sea-grey eyes swift
and sharp as a hawk,
noticed my interest –
got a hold, that thing!
keeps splitting me pots,
want’s outta here
been here for ten years,
on its last legs now
whatever you do with it,
it’ll respond –
real survivor that one,
in the true sense
of the word
fifty bucks and it’s yours,
it needs a well-drained
and sunny spot is all –
I’m closing down he
continues, the wife’s dying,
I’ve done me dash, you
can have it for thirty
time stands still
as invisible waves of
love hold the moment aloft
like a raft on an endless sea –
I stumble through
some inadequate offering
of consolation
he waves me off –
it’s in God’s hands now,
he replies, we’re all
headin’ for that big
shindig in the sky, mate –
I hand him the fifty,
he tries to give me change…
high up on the escarpment
the old briar rose,
knotted and unkempt
bowed with bouquets of
sweet smelling flowers –
welcomes the sun with
a grateful heart
as one rose keeper
steps aside, another appears,
a taste of spring water leads
eventually to the water’s source –
the thing you want the most
is the thing you become,
the thing you are
Marvelous, and reminds me of the wild roses of my childhood in spring. A poem of utmost non-fungibility, it would appear, both as poem per se, and because “fun” has to do with roots, i.e. with whatever has true value, a snowflake, a blade of grass, the fundamental things of life, “fun” seems to mean this, and to have fun is essential as well ! Well, as ioan used to say, your poems will get better and better, and not only that, but more and more valuable, according to cryptophenomenological predictions concerning awakening consciousness. Super.
Sorry, that was me on non-fungibility and the poem by Dimitar.
That was a lovely poem and a good comment Raskolnikov. But of course, the currency of the soul and the senses is fungible (at least that is what I would think).
Fungible relates to a commodity, whereas :
“Non-fungible tokens (NFT), on the other hand, cannot be changed between each other. They are unique, just like snowflakes, each one representing a separate set of properties and features. This uniqueness leads to digital scarceness and thus a potential price growth in the future.”
Ras
The joy of writing is matched only by someone else catching the idea/enjoying it. And indeed, its a mystery why something works and something doesn’t, or maybe not quite as well, but it definitely is this fundamental connection to the root or core of life – a profound desire and will to live, to love w/out reservation, that every living thing/being shares, and how well, we the writer/artist, are able to convey that. At the core we are the same, just at a different point of unfoldment, or awareness perhaps. And those differences in how we respond to God’s love, shape us into that which we are/evolve into over time. So thanks so much Raskolnikov, and amarynth, both, that old rose is now ten years in my yard and thriving better than ever.
Great poem! Thanks. Keep busting the pots, Dimiter.
Recommended for everyone.
What is added by the gods to the acts of the demons? The answer is in our heart and in heaven.
Who goes with Venus, and care for roots and balance, who has a man-god-beginning with Mars and Uranus? ‘You are gods’, dont forget it again and again. Who embraces with thankfull heart the crystal of order in our blood?
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/02/christmas-for-venus-mars-in-lap-of.html
Spies getting spied on:
https://apnews.com/a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14
Usual caveats as it is AP.
… a noose, by association is evidence of “one-sided racism” … only blacks allowed to play Hangman from now on …
On Monday, Bailey shared a brain teaser that read “There” with a noose hanging off the “T.” The answer to the teaser was “hang in there.”
The noose was considered racist by some people due to its association with lynching.
Mandy Bailey, a meteorologist in Lawton, Oklahoma, was fired from her job at KSWO News Monday after she shared a brain teaser on air that some viewers deemed offensive.
https://sputniknews.com/society/201902141072400692-us-meteorologist-fired-offensive-brain-teaser/
( Achtung all US white citizens … anyone white found playing Hangman will be deemed a dirty racist pig toward all blacks and will be severely dealt with … all options are on the table )
This is a rather unusual article by PCR re-published today, 2/13/2019, but written and originally published in June 2017.
http://www.unz.com/proberts/zbigniew-brzezinski/
Essentially, it is a defense of brzezinski, who has been labeled a Cold Warrier but roberts says he was not a neo con intent on world wide hegemony. Roberts tries to establish a distinction between a cold warrier who is intent upon working with the soviet union and those of the MIC intent upon resolving the conflict via confrontation or war.
(Brzezinski’s efforts to bring the SU to its knees via an Afghanistan defeat does cause some doubt as to whether his efforts were not aimed at confrontation and defeat of the SU-I believe, whatever it is worth, that he believed that the disintegration of the SU was part and parcel of the strategy with the ultimate result of the empire being the only power with unilateral control of the world).
I’m not sure if a distinction exists here but roberts is intent on defending brzezinski against charges that he was a neo con-I guess at the end of the day, so what. He was violently ant-soviet and intent on blocking every thing the soviets tried-same approach today among the zionists, blocking everything the Putin and the Russians attempt in creating a competitive but peaceful world. All of this FWIW-trying to find lessons here. Roberts bottom line was that idiocy is the rule of the day and we are still living with that idiocy, e.g. graham/menendz sanctions from hell bill in the senate.
Excerpt that leads to more confusion as to whether Putin’s approach is the same and whether it is practical in this era of the rabid anti putin zionist russiagate in the west.
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italic text
It is ironic that Brzezinski’s approach to the Soviet Union is identical to Russia’s approach to the West today. Brzezinski prefered in place of Nixon/Kissenger detente to emphasize international law and human rights. This is Putin’s approach today toward Washington and Washington’s NATO vassals.
In other words, Brzezinski understood how easy it:was for mistakes to launch a nuclear holocaust. He wanted to end the Cold War for the same reason that Ronald Reagan wanted to end the Cold War. To make Brzezinski and Reagan the villains, as the left-wing does, when the real villains are the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes that have convinced Russia that Washington is preparing a nuclear first strike on Russia, is a form of ideological idiocy.
But idiocy in the West is what we live with. The question is: how much longer can we survive our idiocy?
I don’t know what a CT is but I have to express appreciation for parrhesiastes’s link within his comment about the passing of Lyndon LaRouche:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-02-10/#comment-613450
It shows so well the appeal to infantilism that the oligarchy uses against ideas that can checkmate their global hegemony. And exhibits their brattish demands to “control the narrative” at all costs and by any means…..no matter how silly and false.
Homer Simpson cartoons, silly little one liners out of context like a Rachel Madow would spew on CNN about Putin being responsible for the US Midwest being in the Deep Freeze. That kind of manipulation of the easily brainwashed and malleable by MSM sheparding and their own wimpy other directed spinelessness.
On the other hand, TJ (that sent me the email in the morning and called me later yesterday evening) has put in 40 years of organizing on behalf of that old gentleman who morons and Empire minions ignorantly gloat about the death of……not realizing that his ideas and work….most prominently OBOR taken up by Xi…live on….and .will quite possibly have the last laugh. Or rather, won’t even need to engage in the same kind of childish “humor” but will generously bring a more adult culture forth on this planet….quite likely….which they might grow up in…..belatedly.
She doesn’t get a gold watch for her 70th birthday…in 2020…or a bankrupt pension………. but she will get a once-in-40 years month long vacation to the area of the world ….of her choice: Russia.
“What parts?”, I asked her.
One week in Moscow.
One week in St Petersburg.
One week in Novosibirsk.
And one week in Crimea.
With serious local contacts in each region housing and touring and interpreting….although she has been working on learning the Russian language……..which experience not very many The Simpsons watchers or frequenters of http://www.thedailykos.com. political kindergarten could likely comprehend, much less appreciate and enjoy!
I found it!
Rachel Maddow’s Craziest Russia Video EVER!
https://youtu.be/xi5YYZ9eocU
The Narrative is Failing.
And the Counter-Narrative Is Just Getting Warmed Up
(Caution: For Adult Audiences)
thanks for the North American education Bro
… now, on a much needed lighter note …
Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey – History Repeating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8
… and I just found this …
B52s Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjAzI5zALo
I found some interesting videos about Venezuela.
US global partners not cooperating on Venezuela – published: 2019-02-01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBMShgJWPs
Venezuela Gold: Bank of England ‘no longer neutral player’ – Richard Wolff
posted: 2019-01-29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKZLGdPuWo
UN Security Council Debates the Future of Venezuela – published: 2019-01-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJNYczOrZ4
Putin Warns US: Hands Off Venezuela – published: 2019-01-24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNsgpRcgyY8
The Assassination of Hugo Chavez – posted: 2013-03-07
The real story on Hugo Chavez you won’t get on CNN. Palast meets with Chavez, his kidnappers and
would-be assassins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuNVIb2w4M
Beni Balak’s comment:
Hay all, thanks for your interest in these clips I posted a few years ago and are quite relevant today. HOWEVER: I’ve criticised the US and Israel (and many others) for decades and have even taken
significant costs to my career in order to try to speak (and teach) truth to power. I myself was born an
Israeli citizen and grew up criticising it’s unreformed racist policies, only to get out of there and go threw
Europe to the USA where I live today. Having said this, and since I now, as a recent US citizen, have the
duty to change US policies too. I’ve always been a great fan of the US Constitution and the 1st amend-
ment, I am NOT going to remove ANY comments. However, while I totally share the righteous rage many
of us feel about US (and EU) imperialism, neocolonialism, and their many war crimes, let’s not become
like the white supremacist bastards! Solidarity is key if the 99% can escape enslavement by the 1%. So
please remember that it’s NOT the fault of “immigrants” nor “Muslims” nor “Jews” nor “Americans” nor
ANY demographic. For example, I can see deep problems with the history and use of the term “Zionism”
and I believe Israel should have reformed it and removed all the Euro racist colonial crap to become a
true democracy. But BE CAREFUL and don’t slip from criticizing an idea, and start criticizing an ethnic
group. Ok enough of my lecturing, but some of the posts were creeping me out and it IS my clip :)
Calling bulls*** on Hezbollah in Venezuela – published: 2019-02-07
“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTqBPIU_Vc
Understood. However one must call a spade a spade ( no racist analogy intended) and let us not use old beliefs as a blinder or as a crutch not to see what is being attempted in Looneylandia—i.e. social engineering on a nation wide scale as a type of guerrilla action in the class war.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-mexico-el-chapo-jurors/post-verdict-el-chapo-jurors-rely-on-anonymity-to-stay-safe-idUKKCN1Q230J
https://www.thehour.com/news/us/article/Judge-bars-citizenship-question-from-2020-Census-13534861.php
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/13/violent-crime-rises-in-big-cities-chicago-leads-in/
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/is-san-francisco-dangerous-visit-sf-safe-crime-12995294.php
Now in a strike often times other workers who were called scabs were used and allowed themselves to be used to break the strike. Yes, legal immigration into a society in which there are actually real jobs for them is not necessarily a destabilizing force, but times have changed and so maybe, just maybe our doctrinaire understandings must change if we are to be of service to others or at least to be “au courante” Basically, these young men mainly (with a few photogenic, sad sick kids brought along for effect as maneuvering tools) are being used as scabs by the ruling elites.
Those of us who have lived the changes here over 50 years can see the qualitative difference in life and in those whom we encounter. Among the white tribe where I live, we all see that the infotariate/the techno-fascists want us to fight each other and there is an unspoken agreement that we-will-not-go-there. They will not sucker us in.
However a class war does loom. Now if automation dooms the American worker, will it then doom those unskilled illegals, too? Yes, but only after they have been used as scabs and strike breakers for the New American Century. As for the Indian computer tech workers? or the Philipino nurses? They will not be in the cross hairs of class conflict.
https://www.infowars.com/trumps-hint-to-increase-legal-immigration-automation-dooms-american-workers/
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime – Stop Making Sense 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3A5CKkbH1o
(great act by the lead singer)
A Young George Carlin on The Jimmy Dean Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCeOSrSQ88
(warning … no drinking or eating when you watch this)
It is sometimes said that the Red Army defeated fascism and the nazi attempt at Empire. In reality the fascism and nazi cat’s paw were simply reorganized. The EU is a realization of the nazi goal…this seems to me self-evident. However, many refuse to give up delusional views and see that the Reds were unable to finish the job, the nazis escaped to Argentina and Washington and London, and yes Israel too. And they curated a nazi enterprise, the EU.
Thus I am surprised to see that FAZ has noted what seemed and seems to be obvious:
“Suddenly Europe Is an Open Question – ‘A Nazi EU?’”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/02/11/suddenly-europe-open-question-nazi-eu.html
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/staat-und-recht/wie-der-europagedanke-diskreditiert-werden-soll-16000769.html?premium
Monetary cost of “freedom”
Under a new cost-sharing agreement signed by South Korean and American negotiators on Sunday, Seoul will pay approximately $923 million in 2019, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement cited by the Associated Press
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201902121072329412-unpopular-south-korea-pay-us-forces-korea/
This feels like a mob type shake-down to me. Pay me and I will protect you.
Don’t you think? Its like the Godfather?
“We appeal to the good soul of the American society, a victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.
Long live the peoples of America!”
Nicolás Maduro
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Scary evangelical VP Mike Pence is in Warsaw right now, berating and scolding the EU for using an alternative to the SWIFT system to continue to do business with Iran and avoid US sanctions.
He is scolding them for being bad vassals. Bad EU, bad!
The Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Nikolaev oblast, Ukrainian soldiers burned under the guidance of experts from the UK, the correspondent of “Donbass Today” with reference to own sources:
http://donbasstoday.ru/anglijskie-podzhigateli-unichtozhili-hram-mp-i-otpravlyajutsya-v-donbass/
Would not surprise me if this is true.
I was rather taken by this pithy paragraph:
“They are in a George Orwell 1984 time loop where war is a good thing, good for the economy, eliminating competition, and gaining more serfs. None of us are safe from this kind of thinking. It is institutionalized terror wrapped in nice wrapping paper with a bloody ribbon.”
https://journal-neo.org/2019/02/14/warsaw-conference-is-the-us-coalition-prestaging-war-with-iran/
The epitome of lying evil:
https://www.rt.com/usa/451414-ilhan-omar-elliott-abrams-venezuela/
The fact he refused to answer her says it all …….evil personified.
Elliott Abrams on his twitter account:
‘Finally finished the house in New Zealand. Working on it since my trip in Sept 2015. Happy to have a goto place in the ‘safe’ hemisphere. We’re all ready for when the SHTF. Been promised 30 days advance notice.
4:57 am – 11 Feb 2019′
Gues which country he puts 1st? (Not the USA).
Say what??
It is true though, believe it or not.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Elliot.jpg
” Been promised 30 days advance notice.”!!!!
Kent
Newest twat from Elliot (warning graphical content (in yourmind that is)).
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Elliot02.jpg
The United States of Abnormals
Kent
Will he ever get there??.
Confession!!
I’ve just had a dream that I never will forget
And I wish I could erase
I was standing on the street with a whole crowd of people
And no one knew my name
And I was just another face
No one looked at me or touched me
Spoke to or acknowledged me
I had no identity or individuality
No thoughts of my own, no mind or personality
I was just a no one, a total nonentity
I’m just a number waiting to be called
It is time for confessing it all
I’m just another face
Yes, it’s time for confessing it all
Been a cheat, been a crook
Never gave I always took
Crushed people to acquire
Anything that I desired
Been deceitful and a liar
Now I’m facing Hell Fire
I can’t believe that my time has come
For confessing all the evil
And the wrong that I’ve done
The reckoning’s come
And now I’m just a no one
I confess to the timid and the meek
To the cripples and the beggars
And the tramps in the street
I confess my cruelty, my ego and conceit
I’ve opened up my body and looked inside
And I’m everything that I once despised
I confess for the thieves
The affected and deranged
I confess for the muggers and incurably insane
I confess to the ugly for being vain
I confess to those I hurt for causing them pain
I’m just a number
Waiting to be called
And it’s time for confessing it all
And I’m just another face
And it is time for confessing It all
Yes, it’s time for confessing it all
Yes, it’s time for confessing it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVl1VnY_AE
A Scandinavian actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3HORA9knk
Total Brainscan of the Lumberjack
It is of course a fake account.
Nevertheless it is pinpoint true at the core. Brilliantly made.
https://twitter.com/Elliott_Abrams?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Kent
Kent, OK, thanks for checking it (I didn’t, thought I had got it from a reliable source – they probably didn’t check it either).
Abrams-just posted detailed article link on sidebar!
THE playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTrvN7ktEwI&list=OLAK5uy_nOXP46leIDRO4uW4ERZtw4RiajCLHQDj4
Kent
We only need a day notice to close our airports and not let him in.
“First Visit To Australia” – Trevor Noah (Melbourne Comedy Festival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQ7NL-o6E8
(it’s all true and his Oz accent is convincing)
GEORGE CARLIN – AMAZING STAND-UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdYWQ475aEE
Does anyone know what’s happening in Haiti? A couple years ago, many Haitian refugees crossed the border irregularly into Canada where they were greeted by the RCMP. Tents were set up at the border, some cities offered to be sanctuary cities, while the irregular immigrants were processed. From a hybrid war perspective, this could be perceived cynically as a deliberate attempt to destabilize a (Toronto?) / some (Montreal?) Canadian cities by introducing illegal French-speaking, dark-skinned immigrants (who happen to be Haitians in this case). Now in 2019, there are riots in Haiti, while the Toronto Star is reporting big improvements in the processing of irregular immigrants. This may suggest a possible link between the two. What’s intriguing about this is that if this is a ‘hybrid war tactic turned back on its owner’, I can’t see Canada pulling this off without some super-powerful help. Who might it be? The Russian security apparatus? Diplomats from China? Or some group from the USA? The Toronto Star also reports that Canada accepted a number of Eritreans through these irregular border crossings. Keep an eye on Eritrea!
Haitians in Montreal and Eritreans in Toronto are no problem at all.
The unrest in Haiti is actually inspired by centuries of being tormented by the imperial powers, most recently by Canada and the US, and sparked by the threat to Venezuela – the Haitians know what the US is going to try to do to Venezuela, and they don’t like it.
Agreed. The protesters do seem to have ideas on who they can turn to for assistance, according to Sputnik.
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201902171072504271-protesters-haiti-us-flag-russia/
Apologies for the length. We can probably title this one The Dirty Underbelly of the Internet meets Mom and Pop Middle America and their parents, the Boomers.
Does everyone get it yet? Q is kinda over, excepting for the ‘long tail’ of people who, for more or less a year, felt included, part of the game and to say it simply, they felt that they were doing good. Was this Q thing only a few thousand, or perhaps hundred of thousands or millions of people? I don’t know the size, but it was sizable enough to make an impact on the political climate. Some of the long tail are still clinging to Q, who is still trying to post Q-Drops, but the energy is gone. It is still to be seen what will happen to the supposed Q+, which is Donald Trump’s name in the Qniverse.
It is of course more difficult and takes more time to deconstruct something of this nature that is based on misdirecting a whole slice of a population with almost militarily constructed mind games. It is almost easier and certainly more fun to actually play the game. (Refer Scott’s book on Pokémon in Ukraine). I’ll try to give just enough information for those who want to move on and not spend time on this (and I count myself here). There are links at the end here for those who want to ‘dig dig dig’ but it is a mess with various overlaps of various cultish groups.
So, the ones who started Q were game players and the Q phenomenon was built on a game consisting of constructing very difficult-to-solve puzzles (head puzzles or mind games basically). Let’s just for a moment look at the what these folks are. They are not bad per se, but many live in a ‘pipe on the internet’ basically. The internet is their reality. We joke about these, saying they live in their mother’s basement. There is mostly a true disconnect with real life. Their lives take place on the internet. They are the 8Chan and 4Chan and various hacker groups and the groups and the players change their names with monotonous regularity. They refer to themselves as sh!tposters making sh!tposts just to see what happens. They get a psychological charge when people respond to the game and the idea is to pull others in, as many as possible.
The basic idea of the Q psychological game was to put a fairly realistic scenario out there (pro-Trump), see what people are interested in, and drop hints inside of the ‘interest bubble’ to see who nibbles. There was an underlying motivation. This was to see who tells fibs. There are some big names in the youtube, twitter and perhaps new age pretend religion sub-verses that are tumbling, as these folks pretended a deep connection with Q – obviously they lied. These are folks like David Wilcock and there is an overlap with the Blue Avian and Corey Goode ‘cult’. These types of folks are now staring down quite serious legal action against them and I should probably say nothing more given the mileau.
This is a quote from the first article linked:
You can follow links from there if you have an interest. Of course the ‘long tail’ Q followers are frothing at the mouth because they cannot face reality.
“This Corbett Report podcast explains how society is being gamified as a way to lure us into surveilling ourselves and giving over our data to the Corporatocracy and Big Gov. Examples are the Pokemon app a few years back and the Chinese Sesame Credit system. Look how QAnon worked. It consisted of dropping some real info to build credibility and attract a cult following, all the while propagating cryptic clues rather than just spelling out the facts (and proving it with documents) as genuine whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden do. This led to countless hours being wasted on a game and puzzle of no importance when more pressing matters that require activist attention went unnoticed.”
That’s the story folks. Lots of information everywhere but my favorite Lawyer guy that spent time deconstructing, went dark overnight. I wonder what he found?
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/unraveling-q-qanon-hoax/
https://augenguy.blogspot.com/
People should learn that the internet is dangerous territory if one does not have a developed and hopefully sharp sense of discernment. Secrecy is indeed repugnant in a world where we rather need restitution, truth, rehabilitation, reconciliation, disclosure, reintegration and above all, facing reality about our world. Of course, we also have to stop and smell the roses.
Thank you Amarynth for taking the time to explain the “Qniverse” in some detail (quite enough, and not to long).
I followed my “gut feeling” from the very start, and spend just enough time on the issue to confirm for myself that, even though how very clever indeed it was constructed (and it was), still it was (is) a psy-op of sorts. What sort is irrelevant.
The basics of the “real world” is much simpler.
Regards
Kent
Q ships….shallow draft so that submarine or MTB torpedoes pass underneath and they can drop their disguise and fire off a few pop guns in reply……..my great uncle was on one and actually said they got a submarine once …very scary sitting there as a target…but I do not think they themselves changed the course of the war….
One day Germany will, some say, no longer be occupied by Imperial military personnel. Germany, dominant in Europe, may regain sovereignty. If this occurs we may expect Germany to align with OBOR and Russia/China, at least according to Heartland Theory. That’s where the money is going to be, and the materials, and the markets…
This makes Germany an indicator to political reality. She’s wavering, I think…while I await the retreats that are predicted to parallel the loss of dollar-dominance it just seems like a matter of time.
Accordingly it’s always worth reading our Comrade Victor G. see https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/contrary-creatures/ for his latest Berlin Bulletin.
a list of past Bulletins and the email for free subscriptions. https://www.counterpunch.org/author/victor-grossman/
Victor has a new book out, which he’s flogging. He himself has an interesting history too. He cast the die. Perhaps more bravely than courageously. But it’s worked out alright.
His latest missive begins >
“As a preschooler I liked some stories about Dr. Dolittle, who could speak with animals, and especially his pushmi-pullyu, a “gazelle/unicorn cross” with two heads, one at each end, pulling in opposite directions. And that resembles Germany’s current politics.
Take the multi-lane Autobahn network. On much of it there is no speed limit. Those with Porsches, Mercedes or their Italian rivals can, if they wish, tool along at 120 mph or more. The ecology folk now demand a limit, perhaps 70 or 80. Masses of indignant speed demons, even with slower Opels, shout angrily, “They want to curb our freedom!” It’s not hard to guess who’s pulling this unicorn.
Much larger issues are affected in the push-pull situation involving Nord Stream 2, a second Russian gas pipeline extending 760 miles through the Baltic Sea to northeast Germany. It is to brace up the energy supply while renewable energy phases out dirty lignite coal. But ecology hardly matters here; what matters are relations with Russia and the USA.
The US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, sent threatening letters to German companies, threatening: “We emphasize that companies involved in Russian energy exports are taking part in something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions.”
He’s a nice fella and I like him.
Well Merkel.did her usual thing at Munich Security conference.
looking strong but totally pointless…supporting Poro but saying that a molecule of Russian gas is still that whichever pipeline it goes through….duh….still wants Russia to be part of Europe but still will not relinquish the sanctions over MH17 nor the return of Crimea….EU Council wont let Russian members fully participate but gets upset when Russia asks why are they bothering and want their contributions back ….jeez..how her brain manages to keep the two halves together….only maybe Putin knows….Minsk anyone?
This is an astonishing display of arrogance! Pence threatening, Nord2, Iran, absolutely astonishing. I would argue that the Europeans have every right to tell pence to stuff it. I’m sure this is bolton and pompeo talking but I had a very low regard for pence at the start in his zero relevance position but my estimation of him has gotten lower and lower. Might be a strong argument against impeachment of trump.
https://www.rt.com/news/451627-mike-pence-munich-speech/
The US VP’s speech in Munich — which included exhortations to increase military spending and praised US President Donald Trump — was received in stony silence, according to multiple reports.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201902171072495084-Pence-Demands-EU-Recognize-Guaido/
(more North American comedy … keep it coming and the EU quietly laughs louder)
Belligerent Bolton’s biscuits (Nuland baked and approved) are on their way to neighbouring Columbia by military airlift!
If those really are biscuits in the white bags and not C4 or ‘democracy’ grenades then they might be a litlle crumbled at the bottom and unless too they have a medieval catapult to lob them over the border they might eventually exceed their ‘best before’ date.
Perhaps Columbians might like them or they can sell them back to the USA?
Beware of ‘additives’.
https://www.rt.com/news/451597-venezuela-us-aid-military/
The Peacock Clock in St Petersburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPlVRoUl_8
https://youtu.be/dIjjGrJHSIo
Azorka 1861-Sorry but that is the way of the world -craftsmen primarily distract themselves by their craft-the real folk whose knowledge we need do not want anything to do with us-even as their apprentices.if you ain’t no good you ain’t no good.The damage is done.
Venice of the North
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ISUUO0CSo
The Amber Room – Catherine Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YTD7N8LS0
THIS is worth reading, and contemplating IMO. No teasers!!
https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/02/its-time-for-super-putin-dugin-on-surkovs-putin-analysis/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=wp&utm_campaign=push&utm_content=new-article
Kent
… thanks Kent … here Dugin works with realistic logic, whereas Surkov is suggesting his emotional wishes … his dreams, but telling it, will not make it happen, and this cannot be “talked up”.
Russian politicians are good at making very quick dramatic changes and should a paranoid president follow Putin the “west” will be sorry for its mistake of being ruthlessly unfriendly.
What the majority of Russians require is a better standard of living and Russian’s pension down-grade is such a dramatic and negative change. Negative because it stifles circulation of money throughout the economy and has restricted the mobility of older Northern Russians wanting to move to the warmer south to enjoy their remaining years for old age health reasons.
Oligarchs are like sharks and piranhas.
The EU is waking up and now standing openly with Russia … a sign of peaceful intent … a good sign.
Thanks for “It’s a trap! … there’s two of them!” punchline joke (LOL) … I will tell it often.
Jamming radio frequencies with polka!
Fun fact: During WW2 the Finnish used this song to jam Soviet (Russian) radios. For over 24 hours, And it can still jam some radio frequencies today.
This one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kzIpqXjLjk
And then.
A Russian Commander was invading Finland. 1 finnish soldier appears at the top of the hill say that it takes 10 Russians to kill a Finnish soldier. The Russian Commander sends ten Russian soldiers over the hill. The same Finnish solder appears again saying it takes 100 Russians to kill a Finnish soldier. The Commander getting furious sends 100 Soldiers after the Finnish soldier. After gunshots and much death the Finnish Soldier appears again. He yelled at the top of his lungs, It Takes 1000 russians to kill a finnish soldier!!! The Commander furious that his men are being killed sends the 1000 Russians to finally kill this stupid Finnish soldier. After much fighting a single Russian soldier crawls back bloody and dying saying, Don’t send anymore…its a trap…theres two of them…
Kent
And then, balance of sorts.
This VERY young girl is amazing.
Анастасия Тюрина – Валенки
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1iotmc7rdw
Kent
Vladimir Putin’s legendary speech at Munich Security Conference 2007
1/4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlY5aZfOgPA
2/4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewZnZ13X-Q
3/4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf90nezYKwY
4/4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBzNR-x6l8