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‘Challenging’ Russia in the Arctic: Political posturing or a war in the making?
https://www.rt.com/news/452228-us-uk-arctic-freedom/
“With the UK in political turmoil it often appears that Williamson is even positioning himself as a future candidate to replace Theresa May as PM.”
Ha, Ha, Ha! Best laugh I have had all day. Hard to believe, but then he is that sufficiently deluded -and stupid.
‘Private Pike’ Williamson as PM -that should guarantee the sun will never rise again on the British empire.
True, true, Conjecture!
But England will be Happy
!n mist and sunshine!
To be a sovereign nation once more, after 3 centuries of Venetian Party Evil Empire Domi-nation:
“We few, we happy few!”:
https://youtu.be/680NlRI3v2I
An excerpt from William F Shakespeare’s Henry V:
“That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.”
Alright, alright, England was then (1400s) a Monarchy…………. but not an Empire.
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Today it could be a Republic …………if the English are ready to give their German rulers…..Ye Olde Pink Slip.
But that St Crispin’s Day Spirit is alive……………in Venezuela!
And It’s The Spirit That Counts…….NOT the Geography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Crispin%27s_Day_Speech
Bravo, Bro! Rally the troops. God speed with word and deed.
And here’s to you, Mr. Williamson:
Satan loves you more than you will know
Whoa-whoa-whoa
Hell bless you please, Mr. Williamson
Ugly as the Devil just like May
Hey-hey-hey
Hey-hey-hey
We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files
We’d like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you: Greed, corruption, squalor far and wide
Stroll around these grounds where you should feel at home
Whoa! That takes me back 50 years when I was having an affair with a married Mrs. Robinson, while a Catholic priest. I’m so ashamed of myself but grateful that I made it through alive. I learned not to judge others too harshly.
“Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It’s a little secret just the Robinson’s affair
Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids”
Imagine a love affair with Gavin Williamson — now that’s something that won’t elicit too much jealousy, LOL.
Why be ashamed? She was an adult, with Free Will. Unlike our blessed George Pell, Rupert Murdoch’s favourite kiddie-fiddler.
In case anyone hasn’t figured it out already, Elliott Abrams and John Bolton are both incompetent. That’s been obvious for a long time, which is why for instance that even a Republican controlled Senate would never confirm either to a high post. Rumour is that Trump wanted Bolton for Sec of State instead of the Duke of Exxon, but the Senator was never going to confirm him.
Today was a dud of a wet firecracker. So, you’ve got billions of dollars in backing, you’ve got supposedly the world’s experts at regime change, and this is what they come up with?
First we had Live Aid.
Then we had Farm Aid.
Now we’ve got Richard Branson’s Fake Aid.
Of course, the pictures of the truck the 1 percenters and their right wing nuts set on fire will be on all the propaganda channels. But it won’t matter. Americans don’t want another war. Americans haven’t wanted another war since Cheney got bogged down in Iraq. As long as it just stays a Fake Aid concert and videos on the Two Minute Hates, Americans will just ignore it. But Trump can’t ask for anything more, and Trump can’t afford to have Americans coming home in body bags. So, Trump and the Abrams/Bolton clowns don’t have much more they can do. They can do the classic Republican act of throwing lots of taxpayers money at a problem they created, but that’s about it.
Remember all the BS spread by the neocons when they started the Iraq War? It was going to be a cakewalk. It was going to pay for itself. It won’t be any problem. 2019 America still is paying to have troops dying in Iraq. So, what does this latest episode of Donald and John’s Big Adventure end up looking like?
If the Venezuelan front ever becomes anything more than a farce of a few rich people pretending to be revolutionaries, then America gets bogged down in a long war against generations of people who only say “Yankee Go Home!”. But wait, that’s not all. Colombia has had a rare stretch of negotiated peace with its leftist rebels. That was already breaking down, and this new even more right wing guy took power and more and more of the leftists who’d agreed to compete politically are instead murdered. The peace deal seems fragile and at this point doomed. Thus, this little brushfire spreading across the border into Colombia and becoming a two front war appears a high possibility. We might see a different type of aid flowing the other direction across that border.
Then there is Brazil. Bolsonaro can’t be too secure in power. He’s already being challenged on his massive corruption. And he’s keeping the most popular politician in the country locked up in jail in his attempt to scam the election and now hold on to power. Looks like a powder keg that’s just waiting for a Bolsonaro Death Squad to kill people in the wrong city and then have the whole city erupt. Revolutions begin that way, as other cities also rebel. A big crowd goes to that prison and does its version of Bastille Day, and now the most popular politician is free and the figure head of a movement, and Bolsonaro will have too many problems at home to worry about what’s happening in Venezuela.
The track record of the neocons, and their pathetic ability to plan and predict, would point to this latest little adventure blowing up into a three country counter insurgency struggle. America could find itself at war across Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. At the same time, Trump wants a trade war with China. It would seem that China could raise America’s costs by funneling money to the insurgents across these nations. It costs a whole lot more money to use America’s bloated military, and Trump’s Brazilian and Colombian allies are all corrupt and will be very expensive to keep in the field. America with Trump’s tax cuts is already running a trillion and a half dollar a year deficit. Politically Trump can’t possibly raise taxes to get more money. All he can do is to crank up the printing presses and print more dollars. But then the Fed raises rates on all that debt to contain inflation. China can raise America’s costs in this foolish war that America has begun, then just sit back and wait for it all to collapse.
Excellent comment!
The point about the neo cons, the zionists, is that they have never been held accountable for their endless disasters, over and over. Why is that, one might logically ask. What are the defenses?
To my mind, it is always about Israel and the prostituted press-anti-semitism is always raised, national security is always raised, providing support for “democracy” is always used, exceptionalism is used but somewhat less lately.
Take a step back, and recognize what the sole purpose of the tax payer funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is-it is to subvert other govts world wide. president Karl Gershmann has been there since inception in early 1980’s with ray gun and casey. Its agent on the ground, USAID, its funded NGO’s,are usually actively fomenting as they are in Venezuela, Nicaragua. Worthies such as abrams, bolton, albright nuland have been involved at various levels.
The following articles may, just may, provide some basis for a little optimism but I do not know what it is going to take to turn this around.
The real issue is that these zionists are like termites, mutually supporting others from the tribe, and are firmly embeded in govt institutions and are heavily supported by the zionist oligarchs. Politicians are bought and bribed, coopted (read romney), and on and on.
Article from side bar:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-myopia-of-interventionists/
Longer article by bacevich:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/america-indispensable-nation-no-more/
Albright has been around forever and was resposible, as is commonly known, for the NATO/clinton bloodbath and carnage of former Yugoslavia. What is she doing now? fomenting as a head of institution in Nicaragua and prob Venezuela.
Hang in there Venezuela and stuff this back in the face of the thugs: pompeo, bolton, abrams.
Great comment alligator!
“A farce of a few rich people pretending to be revolutionaries”..
Haha…the thought of a bunch of billionaires such as Richard Branson and Sebastian Pinera running a revolution is hilarious. But is worth remembering that the revolutionary mind-set does not usually come from the working class or the petty bourgeoisie, but from the upper middle class. It is this socio-economic class which is the true danger to the oligarchy. Both Che Guevara and and Fidel Castro Castro came from well-to-do families and and were university educated.
This is why educational reform and infiltrating, subverting and brainwashing the students on the university campuses has been such a priority for those who would rule over us…unfortunately it seems like this brainwashing has been successful…
This is a haunting and thoughtful essay by Palestinian American, ex university professor and now school bus driver, Steve Salaita.
It was linked on Naked Capitalism, which is where I came across it, but it seems the author has started a blog and may write more.
Here are some excerpts:
“During this period, I finally understood the ugly possibilities of mendacity and alienation in spaces devoted to higher learning. A search committee had selected me for a directorship. Meanwhile, US Senators and AUB’s reactionary donor class pressured the university’s president to cancel the appointment. AUB has long been a site of soft power for the State Department. Platitudes about faculty governance and student leadership notwithstanding, universities inhibit democracy in ways that would please any thin-skinned despot.
….
“The situation provided an occasion to confront the nagging trauma of infamy. Lots of people washed out of the news cycle can tell you that the upshot of recognition is disposability. Consumers want heroes, but heroism is contingent on the hero’s willingness or ability to emblematize an audience’s psychic and libidinal needs. In other words, adoration stipulates obedience, which produces a tenuous codependency. Conditions of support supersede the subject’s control (and sometimes the subject’s knowledge). The great paradox of public life is that leadership requires conformity.
….
“I no longer see myself as an academic (and was always wary of pompous descriptors like “expert” or “public intellectual”). Forfeiting that title is more philosophical than practical. I no longer profess and therefore no longer assume the burden of professorial expectations. No more civility or nuance or dispassion or objectivity or whatever term they’re using these days to impel obedience. It’s as close to freedom as a prole can get in this self-deluded country, where the government legislates on behalf of the private sector and the private sector obliterates dissent on behalf of the government.”
Full essay here: https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living/#more-49
A reply @ SusieQ on February 24, 2019 · at 2:46 am EST/EDT
“This is a haunting and thoughtful essay by Palestinian American, ex university professor and now school bus driver, Steve Salaita. ”
The perceptive Mr Salaita noticed a long established fundamental about “universities” Leiden being one of the first, and oldest, to wit >
Universities may be centers of learning, but they also serve to regularize and stabilize political forces and especially dissent, and for elites this is perhaps their primary function. Essentially the situation is that there are, naturally, scholars. Such men and women, if unregulated, would create Changes without the supervision and constraint of an academy under Sovereign Control, if there were no academy. At Leiden I have been told, verbally, that this, and also a genetic goal, was the primary and also secondary purpose of the University. People “on tenure-track” and those who have passed this hurdle and obtained tenure have been filtered to “eliminate radical ideas”. Until recently they were closed to persons, men, who had not taken Holy Orders..another “filter”.
Here’s he cleaned-up version of history of Leiden U >
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/about-us/profile/history
I spoke of “genetic goal”…At Leiden the tradition was that one day each year, any town-girl seen in public was available to be lawfully raped by any student. They were free to hid inside, I believe…so if they wanted a child with a rich boy, they went out. The students were of the first families, wealthy families, and generally bright boys, and the King wanted to improve the genetic pool of the peasantry…especially there at Leiden, which was a forsaken uncivilized area of lawless (sort of) swampy ground outside the city (little town) where very marginal people sort of camped – think homeless village. His Royal Heinie wanted to bring this unregulated and marginal group, seen as defectives, into the realm of strict control, as well as improve the breed. Brutal and non PC, but it did work.
I was told this face to face at Leiden in 1970.
It is also why I am not a retired professor. In fact I too have been a bus driver. It is why I never took a degree.
The Academy is a Trap – this is its primary function. I thought everybody knew that…
Cuba has had to develop its agricultural self sufficiency to the max during its long years of US sanctions. Luckily Russian agriculture was already close to a self sufficiency break out when the crunch came several years ago. Some supportive structural changes, investment loans and a few good harvest years have helped too.
Does anyone on this site have information as to how the Venezuelans are going to develop the food and agricultural sector of their economy? That seems to me to be a bottom line even before the effective arming of a people’s militia.
Thank you, P. I never heard nor thought that those things are so simple. My academic zeal was stopped by my Herr Professor for Indogermanistics who was shocked that I had organized an informal circle where, in 1969, I told others what I had just heard about “modern linguistics”, i.e. discoveries made in 1912-1952. Since I was not yet a Herr Professor myself I was not allowed to inform anybody about anything, and as such an illegal informant I was thrown out from where I had been. This Herr Professor of the US-sponsored “Free University” of Free West Berlin, 500m from the US and CIA HQ, had been a member of the core of the core of Nazism, the Org Ahnenerbe within the SS, and was thus entitled never to be thrown out of anything in “completely new and democratic” Germland. The only persons as firmly entrenched as firmly antrenched as former nazis, earmarked for quick promotion b/c being 150% politically correct, were those of those times’ generation of western european “maoists”.
Before this academic freedom of a Free University in a Free American Sector of a Free Occupied City I had been a pupil of what was understood to be an “elite school”. It took me 50+ years to understand that, no, we pupils were not “elite” for being there, but were sent by our parents for becoming “elite” i.e. well paid german Beamte. As such you always have to do what you are told and behave “ordentlich”. It seems everybody but me understood easily what that meant, and quickly joined this country’s elite.
bp
Waiter, rakija ve molam… and a table for Dennis and myself ( and whoever else feels like dropping by)… Thank you friend for your poetic response last Cafe – a number of images you shared, struck me deeply and before long, the idea that would become the piece below had a hold of me…
A toast – na zdravje – to friends both present and absent!
The Flowers When I’m Gone
when the cows were in
and the sheep accounted for,
I’d fold your clothes and
place them in your drawer,
an hour after sunset
done with toil and drear –
waiting for your footsteps
until you finally appear
in those twilit hours
while listening to you sleep,
I’d sift through countless dreams
and bitter would I weep,
was it only yestertday
our youthful limbs on fire –
learning the ways of love,
trembling with desire?
when the northern wind
and the frost come creeping in,
you’ll make your bed,
the bed you’ll be sleeping in
your song I will hear
in the wind at dawn
singing through the flowers
the flowers when you’re gone
our children now they’ve grown
with babies two apiece,
more than a year has passed,
my favourite one is Lise,
I swear I see you in her smile
and eyes both wise and kind –
but she will grow far, far away
while I am here confined
now this house is empty
drained of life once sweet,
I struggle for some meaning
instead I lose my feet;
last week I took a fall
that damn near spelled defeat –
the rain and that roof
you never did complete
alone in this garden
all sense begins to unravel;
what dreams do you dream,
which roads do you travel?
do you remember, love
the promise you made –
or am I forgotten
just a memory that fades?
when the northern wind
and the frost come creeping in,
I’ll make my bed, the bed
I’ll be sleeping in
my song you will hear
in the wind at dawn
singing through the flowers
the flowers when I’m gone
Thanks so much. A balm for my troubled soul. I sit alone in my warm room, with a winter snow storm roiling outside. I think of the spring flowers and fall memories. My emotions go from summer to winter, and back again, in the space of a day. Oh, Love, where are you tonight?
Dimitar, beautiful poem I feel it in old age. Like a folk song; has it been set to music?
Thank you so much, Dr NJ, I’m glad you enjoyed it. No, not set to music, a whole other journey, but definitely could be. As my music teacher says, depends how far you want to take it. And you’re right, the ‘refrain’ especially, stanzas 3 and 7, echoes/suggests ideas – the transience of life and happiness – sung about in many folk traditions, Best, D.
Make that Dr. NG,…
… music break …
Sona Jobarteh – GAMBIA
(Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmmlOQnTXM
Thanks for the gift. Paradise lost and found; and lost again. How I long for your return.
From on “stickey thread-Saker and Dr. NG Maroudas, one which I recally, slightly, but which I had forgotten >
He quotes President Putin as saying this gem> “How does a POTU$A play chess? Like a pigeon: pecks around knocking over the pieces, struts around sh.tting all over the board then declares victory then flies off — to repeat the performance somewhere else.”
As astonishingly rich and descriptive turn of phrase…after the war I hope Mr Putin writes his autobiography – he’s a good writer.
Potus is just a chess piece himself, controlled by the grand chessboard masters; they hire the good guys like Putin and the bad cops like Potus–Vlad knows that and so does Donald. IMO.
Excuse me for seeing that’s delusional, Dennis.
Enjoy the delusion.
No need for excuses; and yes, delusions are delightful–right up there with illusions and allusions; all derived from “lus,” “lux,” “light;” deliciously delightful.
Inspired by my fishing buddy:
Dubiously Dynamic Duo
Dennis is Delusional? No doubt..
Donald is ….very Illusional!
Delusion yes! No light in winter,
Nor cabin comforting heat.
Alone, it cannot sustain you,
But Illusion’s hard to beat!
And Time will only tell
Who’s silly, who’s really bad,
Who’s fooled who the most
And who’s been totally had.
Janus had two faces,
Dennis’ Timex, only one.
But watch him closely:
He keeps on tickin’
Even after his……..
‘Leventy-seventh lickin’.
And regular drubbings in the Cafe
And even if one somber day
His ticker stops ,,,and he ain’t kickin’.
He’ll still be right….twice, every day!
If Time and Nuclear fission
Are illusions of our very senses
I’m blaming Miles and Flat Earthers
For the Fake News of Big Boy
And the fake mission of Enola Gay,
And the latest wild and crazy thing
I heard Dennis O’Leary say….
If Bolton and Abrams kill Maduro
And Trumper gives them medals,
There’s no more iIllusion MAG-ic Show,
No more republic rabbit…
In the MAGA Q+ Empire Hat.
But I’ll take the Daily Double’s
Longest Impossible Doubtful Odds
That the Showman pulls out a doe
Or buck at the end of All of That.
No guts, no glory.
End of story.
.
Bro, I don’t know what to do about you–laugh or cry? I’m laughing right now but tomorrow…? “Dennis and Donald.” I like the sound of that. Dennis the Menace and Donald the Duck. My timex always told me I was right twice a day. My son, Francis, said my watch was minimalist. Twice right is minimal but at 12 noon and 12 midnight it’s maximal. Go figure. 1+2=3. 3+3+3=9. Hence, 93 Bro.
At the last cafe I was making a general point about our increasingly manipulated “fake news” world, a psy-ops tactic to distract us from what is really going on. I referred to two examples: Venezuela and the hoax of nuclear weapons.
Some countered by citing examples of real suffering. Yes, real mental angst and physical pain are omnipresent. Why? Could it be a consequence of a false world? I think the conclusion follows logically. If that be so, the solution is to pursue truth, no matter the cost.
If you are going to insist that nuclear weapons are a hoax, no one is going to take you seriously. Then again, that is no doubt what They want. Dennis my friend, I think you have been partaking of a bit too much Miles Mathis.
Nuclear weapons are no hoax, they have existed for decades.
What is a hoax is the myth that competing groups of ultra capitalists would destroy their scam by destroying any facility for it to continue to operate.
The only time they were used, to cause tens of thousands of deaths, was as a signal to a competing ideology (USSR) not to push it’s luck. They are now a simple bogeyman to allow the ultra capitalists spread fear in their populations in order to continue super normal MIC profits.
While, in reality, the plebes do have much to worry about, nuclear annihilation is of no concern.
I don’t understand how some can declare nuclear weapons a hoax. It’s like denying law of gravity while standing on the roof edge of skyscraper curling toes.
I wouldn’t even ask for evidence to prove such view because lot of evidence out there is too real to deny.
Yes there are many witneses accounts of miraculous and unexplained curbing down of unintended or intended nuclear attacks but don’t count on that occurring with regularity.
Just saying
“Just saying”
Are you saying that you do imagine the ultra capitalist would MADly consider putting their scam out of business?
You ought to know of a principle in engineering economics, the so-called “Jevons Paradox”
This, originally discovered in the 19th century as the industrial revolution began to use steam engines, states that the demand for a resource increases exponentially as the efficiency of it’s use increases. The principle applies universally, unless there’s magic, which there ain’t.
The obvious implication is that the Capitalist class is in objective reality, destroying the system that supports it.
So in reply to “Anonymous on February 24, 2019 · at 2:44 pm EST/EDT
“Just saying”
Are you saying that you do imagine the ultra capitalist would MADly consider putting their scam out of business?”
It doesn’t matter what they “consider” – it matters that they act in a way that leads to their own destruction. What they desire is entirely immaterial belief and irrational ideology. Ethics is based on perceived circumstance and character, not plans and wishes. Those are merely intermediate in the process.
Beyond Jevons there are also many additional mechanisms that work toward the same end.
“it matters that they act in a way that leads to their own destruction.”
Not at all, Bezos will soon be mining on the moon. The useless eaters can be left behind with the destruction and the gods fulfill their destiny.
The process is exponential consumption increase in near earth space, within flight cycle of rockets. This is a limited space, ergo…
The “nutzlossenvolk”, ie the formerly valuable working class? Yes, entirely disposable, and that can perhaps delay the self-destruction, but would require global empire with zero material resistance, ie no Russia, no Chine as sovereign States…triggering, according to VVP et al, suicide and zero survivors, thus ending capitalism. Nuclear-powered rockets are entirely possible from an engineering and economic point of view …see Project Orion and consider that the machinery now is vastly better.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=project+orion
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
and https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/orion/
However VVP and the associated Chinese have made it plain that they will not cooperate, so the space is, for practical purposes almost certainly terrestrial. And moon mining might be seen as terrestrial, as the E/M couple-pair are really an orbiting pair of planets. The moon orbits within the Earth atmosphere, just, not that anybody would notice, it ain’t much.
Good point about the gods…one is inclined to remember the stories about challenging the gods… And also observe that these “gods” cannot avoid in-fighting with one-another. Crooke opined last Friday that the ruling class of empire inside the US was in “civil war”… But I agree, that they might do fairly well for a fairly short time, perhaps 100 years. Can they control the sun? Stop a CME ? Stuff happens, particularly when one challenges the gods.
At the apex everything looks rosy, then… Sailors know this..the ship rides ever so smoothly just before she capsizes. For the would-be “gods” – the writing’s on the wall, the real Gods have made them mad…and then what happens?
Perhaps we’ll live long enough to discover, to see, but capitalism, like animals, is a phase in planetary history with a beginning and an end. And the rates, nutzlossen not withstanding, are exponential and subject to Jevons.
Of course, maybe there are LGM’s and warpdrive s and time portals and so forth, maybe there’s magic… I will stick to what’s known and reasonably predicted – nuclear suicide or we get it together and share is the near-term crises as the sea-peoples give way to Heartland they’re chitting themselves at the Imperial level, Obama’s “pitchforks” an all that…
“zero material resistance, ie no Russia, no Chine as sovereign States”
Without them there is no reason for the MIC. They are an integral part of the same racket.
“In the not-too-distant future — I’m talking decades, maybe 100 years,” he said, “it’ll start to be easier to do a lot of the things that we currently do on Earth in space, because we’ll have so much energy. We will have to leave this planet. We’re going to leave it
The man may not have much else but he does have form.
“the real Gods have made them mad”
I will stick to what’s known and reasonably predicted – no nuclear suicide and an increasingly right wing / conservative world (e.g. DEM = GOP), even as we starve, reflects that “we” will never get it together. The plebes continue to vote in greater numbers for xmas (as you did yourself last time around). The pitchforks will stay exactly where they are and the Imperial folk, from all corners of the earth, will just continue to spread more chit.
It is an established fact that the launch of atomic rockets and machines has been avoided by the brave actions of a few individuals several times. Perhaps also many times that are secret.
It is also an established fact in mathematics that if a thing can happen, then given enough time, it does.
It is also established that humans are not rational, thus, over time, they make errors in logical actions, ie act illogically.
The assumption that a possible thing is not going to happen because, even though it can happen, it shan’t be to the advantage of an elite, or logical, is not factually aligned with historic observation.
Experts say that roughly 100 nuclear explosions in a fairly brief period in the northern hemisphere would result in near global starvation, most people in the northern hemisphere would be dead in a short time. There are many more than 100 gadgets.
I too used to imagine that, even though the explosives were profoundly genuine (I have seen one go off myself as a child) I believed that the rocket guidance was rather poor and I placed some hope in that.
Then I read the Titan guidance manual…and the boffins spoke to nuclear winter…Since then guidance is down to maybe 3 meters… It works. So do the explosives. (Titan guidance was not bad for its time.)
Until these infernal gadgets are taken apart it’s simply a matter of time.
Jevon’s Paradox was turned into a ‘Law’ by the Economist rag a few years ago, apparently in an effort to heap derision upon renewable energy and the Limits to Growth science. It is simply an artifact of laissez-faire or neo-liberal capitalism, and is in no way immutable. Scientific and technological advances, and non-neoplastic economic systems resolve it easily.
Arguably, the Jevons “paradox” is an inevitable consequence of the Capitalist market system. Greater efficiency of production implies greater profit potential. This in turn attracts investment Capital to that market sector. Actual production increases. It is then up to the marketers and businessmen to find or create market demand for all this additional stuff being produced. If successful, actual realized profit grows. Thus feeding into the cycle of exponential growth.
Oil is a good example for this. Standard Oil was originally a producer of kerosene for household illumination. This was a better and cheaper source for that task than say, hunting and killing whales. At that time gasoline was an undesirable byproduct which was actually discarded. When electric illumination came in, the Standard was required to find or create new markets. This was found in the automobile. The rest is history.
“Just saying” my name is S75ponny for a reason, dear anonymous.
“Are you saying that you do imagine the ultra capitalist would MADly consider putting their scam out of business?”
Good point. No I don’t at all! Anonymous!
It’s a tight rope but what do I know? Huh.
MIC is more profitable than farming for sure but what about incidental coffee spill over the [caps on] red button [caps off]? What about a unexpected wind drift while standing on skyscraper rooftop? 9.81 gravity acceleration huh?! Do you consider that in your thought formula.
My dear anonymous, consider this,
“Finally I finished my house in New Zealand,…happy to have place in safe hemisphere….”
Elliot Abrams (quote not not verified)
There is much more to to consider for a prudent one.
Just saying
That’s the point – there is no red button precisely because the MIC is more profitable than farming.
Ask Vasili Arkhipov about non existing red button. He wasn’t farmer either.
Besides MIC profit there is a lot more at stake of Faustian nature in this game.
In the days of the USSR there was a lot more at stake. Now there is only profit and they will not upset the applecart.
@ S75ponny
S75 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-75_Dvina ? (a SAM rocket)
ponny = https://www.names.org/n/ponny/about ? (a name meaning?)
I am simply curious, amigo
Sorry parrhesiastes,
Not often I check responses to my comments.
To satisfy your curiosity, yes S75 is SAM the venerable Volchov or Dvina, the systems were manned by strong arm “ponies” as expressed in soldier’s jargon.
They also did grunt work such as perimeter protection. Rough service it was.
Of course they are real as a poke in the nose or a bullet. But in semantic terms I am not entirely sure they’re weapons. People say they are, but a weapon seems like a tool to focus violence, almost by definition. Giant explosive events lack focus, and are liable to result in a cascade of similar events on a large scale, further diluting focus. They’re more like suicide machines for the entire race.
But biological warfare is a near certainty, in my opinion.
No one takes me seriously anyway. And yes, I am addicted to Miles Mathis. But come to think of it, I’m also addicted to this cafe. I’m worried about Bro; has he gone away with ioan?
Greeting Sackerites.
I find this article on Veterans Today interesting.
Caught: US Army Transferring 50 Tons of ISIL’s (Iraq’s)Gold to US
link
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/02/24/caught-us-army-transferring-50-tons-of-isils-iraqsgold-to-us/
It’s sunday. time for a musical break.
I’d like to drop one of the last songs of the great Leonard Cohen, ‘You want it darker’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6fvzGIBfQ
(great bas line, imho).
Now, I don’t want to begrudge Bob Dylan for his Noble Price – for what’s it’s worth, a hard-line war criminal like Obama got the Noble pizza price also- but, could it be more fair to grant this to Leonard Cohen, who was more a poet than a singer?
Cheers, Rob
Thanks. Beautiful things happen in the dark as well as in the light.
Miles Mathis makes an argument that Cohen wrote some of Dylan’s songs. In a certain light, they look similar with their old and weather beaten faces.
I love the songs of Cohen-Zimmerman, even if they are agents of Empire; oh, say unconsciously spreading darkness along with light.
“Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
She came up to me so graciously and took my crown of thorns
Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm”
I did come into this cafe, and sure enough, she was standing there.
“could it be more fair to grant this to Leonard Cohen, who was more a poet than a singer?”
Especially since he allegedly did write some of Dylans most famous/known songs. (Ask Joni Mitchel).
Kent
An informative and deeply interesting essay, in German, and the struggles of Afghan ladies.
“Thema Afghanistan – Der Kampf der Frauen in Scheberghan”
Written by an also interesting lady originally born to the DDR, Vera Lensfeld.
See> https://vera-lengsfeld.de/2019/02/24/thema-afghanistan-der-kampf-der-frauen-in-sheberghan/
this portion tells us that, for many the benefits of the Soviet times are missed…
„Das war die beste Zeit“, sagte er und seufzte. „Alle gingen in die Schule, Männer und Frauen studierten gemeinsam auf der Universität und anschließend konnten wir uns in der Sowjetunion weiterbilden. Wir hatten Kinos und Restaurants, konnten tanzen gehen … Wer religiös sein wollte, konnte es, wer nicht, wurde dazu nicht gezwungen.“
The USA was a better place too, when the Soviets prevailed…maybe there’s causation, geewhiz, yatink?
They are missed, and not only in Afnamistan.
I’ve heard that during the cold war with the Soviets, the West had to compete for public opinion’s sake. The Soviet system was helping the people, so to counteract that, the US came up with a New Deal. After imploding Soviet Russia, the West reverted to the Art of the Deal. Now the Soviet system is resurrecting as Communism 2.0, rebranded as Communitarianism, a mix of socialism and capitalism. With Jerusalem at the center of the obor roads, Zionists are sucking the US dry and sending its industry and tech to their protegees, Russia and China. The circle does curve around: collapse me and I’ll eventually collapse you. Of course, the masters make money both ways: building up and tearing down.
@ “I’ve heard that during the cold war with the Soviets, the West had to compete for public opinion’s sake. The Soviet system was helping the people, so to counteract that, the US came up with a New Deal. After imploding Soviet Russia, the West reverted to the Art of the Deal. Now the Soviet system is resurrecting as Communism 2.0, rebranded as Communitarianism, a mix of socialism and capitalism.”
I agree. FDR himself said he saved capitalism in the US. When USSR proto-oligarchs sold-out, everything in US went to kr.p Szilard predicted, based on structure and ideologies that they were a couplet, if one failed, then the other would do so fairly promptly.
see https://www.truthdig.com/articles/will-the-pentagon-be-the-next-u-s-institution-to-crash/
excerpt> “The nuclear physicist Leo Szilard once remarked that the fall of the Soviet system would eventually lead to the fall of the American system. He said that in a two-element structure, the interrelationship and interdependence are such that the one cannot survive without the other.”
I do not quite agree about zionish matters and Israel, but see that as a manifestation of British MI6 creation that has, like the Golum, run amuck…the entire OPLAN was to exercise controlling influence inside the US. Of course, now, depending on the subsidies from the US, the zionish OPLAN has a will of it’s own.
OSS and CIA were curated by MI6…this is a public secret. Why was transjordan split off? Who did that? What Empire developed the divide to rule lines in the Versailles Treaty et sec…?
@Parrhesiastes: “Why was Trans-Jordan split off” and who was in charge?
That rang a bell: “I have set 3 kings upon their thrones”. — Winston Churchill
“Though Whitehall denied it at the time [and Oxford historians are still in denial] oil was already a major factor in the carve-up of the vast Ottoman province known in Whitehall as Mesopotamia at the Versailles-related treaties of the 1914-1918 Oil War and onwards.
The post-imperial state of Turkey was denied oil-rich Mosul province, which went to Iraq, under modified terms the secret Sykes-Piquot treaty of 1916 which overruled TE Lawrence of Arabia’s promises of self-determination to Arabs against the Ottoman Empire. Churchill was colonial secretary during much of this time, …. as are the two Arab kingdoms he spawned.
Ousted from their historic guardianship of the holy places of Mecca and Medina by Ibn Saud, the Hashemite sharifs ended up ruling [Iraq and] Jordan: they still rule Jordan, though their Baghdad branch came to an end in the 1958 Iraqi Socialist Ba’ath Party revolution.”
Slogan chalked on a board at Whitehall ca.1900: “Mesopotamia — oil. Serbia — gateway to Mesopotamia”.
Not only Mesopotamia, also India and of course the US..
There are indications that the British curated the Lincoln assassination in order to prevent the repatriation of the Negro population to Africa, as Lincoln was engaged in chartering ships for this purpose, thus placing a potent internal conflict inside the US. A conflict that’s been exploited ever since “reconstruction” by many, especially Atlanticists.
This is supposed to go below Dennis’ comment /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-02-24/#comment-618491
But there is either some quirk in the Cafe comment program or my computer………….and the comment box jumps up to the top of the Cafe page!
Never seen it do that before………….
Anyhow, the first part of Dennis’ comment is very general and generally vague statements generally have some truth to them….they cover so much ground.
I find humor in it………..and humor inspires rhyme:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-02-24/#comment-618618
But the devil is in the details and when he (D. Learious) gets specific…about “the Center of OBOR is Jerusalem”………he just goes off the Wailing Wall.
Jerusalem is a detour, not a central node.
Look at the globe:
From South Asia to Europe the Central Connecting Node……is to the north of Israel …through Iran and Turkey and into Bulgaria/Roumania/Serbia/Hungary.
From North Asia/Russia, probably down through the “Stans” and then to the south and east of Israel into Iran/Iraq/Jordan/Egypt to connect Africa.
Don’t make things up just to sound prophetic.
It’s not cute, it’s not deep…..it’s just pathetic!
Bro, I’m talking about geo-politics, not geo-landmass. The plan for Israel at the center of all roads goes back to the 1500’s with the Bunting Cloverleaf Map showing Israel at the center, and much farther back than that.
“…either some quirk in the Cafe comment program or my computer…”, been happening to me,too.
“Zionists are sucking the US dry”
Another too broad brush – some have never had it so good https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us. Hard to tell if they are all Zionists but it seems likely none are concerned with most Americans or with any Palestinians.
Clarification: Israel is sucking the high tech out of the US, as they did with heavy industry to China. If Israel succeeds, it will be lights out for the US, unless a couple of other unstable asset events occur.
Now that’s very interesting.
I hit upon this site of Vera Lengsfeld just today, even put an article in the News RSS feed. Translated, I understand and speak German but that’s not for the most of us here.
Quite an interesting site indeed, somewhat disappointed after her DDR time the paradise didn’t rise – she started to write.
Don’t forget that Gorbashev in the nineties already stated that he didn’t understand why, after the crash of the Soviet Empire, saw that in the EU they wanted to reinstate that again.
He was damn right.
Cheers, Rob
Hey Columbia … that’s not a concert ! …
This is a CONCERT … in friendly CUBA ! …
Gente de Zona – Bailando (Live) | Mass Concert in Havana, Cuba, 2018 – 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lKBNsAWebY
(intro of around 3 minutes … patience)
… continued …
Gente de Zona – Te Duele (En Vivo) | Concierto Masivo en La Habana, Cuba, 2018 | 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eznBVm7L0L0
… details …
Gente de Zona – Concierto masivo en La Habana, Cuba 2018 | Making Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alg0_Ck_ZwY
Cuban concerts rock, between the rock and a hard place of the US and Columbia, or is it the US of Columbia?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-24/bannon-2019-be-most-vitriolic-year-american-politics-civil-war
Since it is presumably frowned upon at this establishment to post links without comment, I will say that I see no basis for the construct– for lack of a better word– of ‘America’ to continue indefinitely. Or, once a civilization goes the way of Edward Bernays, there is no going back
And a good comment that you added as well.
… for most of us, true to life …
PALO! “Camina Con Los Codos” • Musica Cubana Salsa Jazz Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6f2C7YkRI
Why is the call for allowing all Catholic clergy to marry continually overlooked ?
Pope Francis I, in an address to bishops attending an unprecedented Vatican summit intended to end the widespread practice by Catholic officials, clergy and priests of pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse against the faithful, stated that “the church will spare no effort” in drawing attention to and ending the crimes, according to multiple reports.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201902251072703886-Pope-Promises-New-Church-Transparency/
(the elephant in the room)
Good question. I have this opinion>
They used to marry, marry ladies, and then they naturally tended to fiduciary malfeasance by transferring Church assets to their own children. So I understand as the historic reason for prohibiting clergy to marry – it conserves Church wealth and power. That may have been a good reason, once.
But if to-day the Clergy, which is now estimated to consist primarily of homosexual men, were to marry, they would marry…whom? Naturally to nice young men, perhaps one-another in many cases. Choir boys?
Similarly, sham marriage to saphic ladies while seemingly satisfying the problem of sodomy would not prevent the buggery. Such sham marriages are something I myself have seen in a long life, not of course in the Church, but among a few people I have had as acquaintances and neighbors…people want children sometimes, even though they may prefer sodomy and homosexual satisfaction. They have M/F intercourse for child-bearing, but continue with sodomy of a homosexual nature.
I have observed that there seems to be a genetic component to this, as the off-spring follow the pattern – the girls are saphic, the boys inclined to sodomy. It may also have a perinatal and/or epigenetic component.
The make interesting neighbors, and good ones, generally. But only if they’re discrete.
I assume there also exist other reasons, but sodomite marriage would not accord with doctrine, pretty basic doctrine, of Catholicism.
… bottom line is … replace oppression with freedom.
Putin orders immediate action to help 100 orcas and belugas held in cramped ‘whale prison’ (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/russia/452183-putin-whale-prison-investigation-end/
Pamela Anderson Releases Letter to Putin in Bid to Rescue Beluga Whales
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201902251072707354-pamela-anderson-whales/
Here are the words …
Maria Callas 1965 “Oh Mio Babbino Caro”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pxWVjlbNo
With all the focus on Venezuela, this piece was somehow forgotten. The troop withdrawal from Syria is not complete and 400 forces will stay (still without an invitation and still not wanted there) and creates another quagmire.
https://ejmagnier.com/2019/02/22/us-forces-will-stay-in-syria-negotiations-with-the-kurds-will-be-complicated-as-syria-prepares-for-an-idlib-offensive/
“El Sistema – Music to change life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-tozmdCsc
How Music Saved Venezuela’s Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43tqQhOTCgQ
I had an interesting chat very recently with an old pal who is an expert real-estate appraiser. Everybody knows the US economy is unstable. And that the “value” in dollars of US real-estate is an indicator of economic process.
He tells me that the line has crossed and that he is sure that the real-estate “bubble”, upon which the economy rides, is collapsing now.
So? 2008 was nothing against what’s beginning to happen, much worse than before. Perhaps an order of magnitude worse.
I’m kinda convinced that all the destabilization and economic wars and so on that we are seeing now, is attempts to massively asset grab to prop up US economy.
Me too.
Empire has its back to the sea and is ideologically blinded as well as structurally unable to retreat, therefore they’ll “double-down” with violence, as they see and in reality have, no other option.
Very hot spots all over> Ukraine, Kashmir, Venezuela, Iran etc and also inside the US itself – if the trucks stop for 3 days…
“if the trucks stop for 3 days…”
Now. That’s IT (if). Kinda wish it would happen, soon. All it takes really.
Kent
Long paper on the reality, not far from true, and true enough…with a great picture…
https://orientalreview.org/2019/02/22/the-disintegration-of-global-capitalism-could-unleash-world-war-iii/
excerpt>
“…Disintegrating capitalism, he explains, will resort increasingly to “direct coercive powers supplemented by new information technologies” to suppress internal tensions, as well as a greater propensity for international hostilities: “The new authoritarian empires need confrontation with each other to justify their own internal, inflexible command structure.”
Great power conflict
Hanappi explores three potential scenarios for how a new global conflict could unfold. In his first scenario, he explores the prospect of a war between the three most prominent military powers: the US, Russia and China….”
and>
“…There are growing signs of heightened great power tensions which could erupt entirely by accident or unanticipated provocation into a global conflict that nobody wants…” (nobody?)
and>
“…Early last year, a statistical study of the frequency of major wars in human history found that the so-called 70 years of ‘long peace’ is simply not an unusual phenomenon indicating an unprecedented period of peace. The study concluded that there was no reason to believe that the 70 year period so far would not give way to another major war….”
Is that an iceberg ahead?
The ruling Western parasite oligarchs no longer require the services of their populaces, thanks to robotisation, automation, computerisation and artificial intelligence. Not even for military aggression, where killer robots will soon do the dirty work. So the masses of increasingly impoverished, debt-laden, intellectually lobotomised, morally demented and metabolically deranged serfs represent only a threat. In the USA they were conned by Obama and now Trump, but the danger exists that they just might wake up, see through the fake Messiahs like Sanders, AOC, Gabbard etc, and do something about the Evil neo-liberal capitalist system that is destroying their lives and Life on Earth in general. So I fully expect the parasites to cull the ‘useless eaters’, and soon, almost certainly through biological warfare. In fact I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Well, I have expected this time since I was a child…the fasism, the war… and me too, I almost wish it. Almost.
see> https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/91397/1/MPRA_paper_91397.pdf
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Report from Looneylandia 2/25/19
Woke up to this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-russia/after-putins-warning-russian-tv-lists-nuclear-targets-in-u-s-idUSKCN1QE1DM
And since I live 10 miles away from one of the targets mentioned ( it has a nuke proof command and control bunker which has NOT been put out of commission, plus is also 10 miles away from California’s State Capitol and lies next to the main railroad yard collection point for shipments to Chicago through the breadbasket of America) I was in the mood to note this:
from Ms. pseudo-socialist saying the issue is the social system but if we get rid of people then we don’t have to change the social system as much…maybe …So why is she doing politics ? duh. We are on the planet to do what, now? The meaning of life is?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43880/ocasio-cortez-people-maybe-shouldnt-reproduce-due-ryan-saavedra
And then I topped it off with noting that the psy-op, Force Feed Venezuela, had changed to Operation Sodomize Maduro…
The mask is off! no more Mr. Nice Guy!!! I suppose this makes it very clear to the Venezuelan people the fruits of Democracy which await them at the hands of Abrams and Co. Just in case they had any illusions.
https://www.rt.com/news/452329-rubio-gaddafi-venezuela-tweet/
As I sat composing this buzz to the Saker, I started to cry losing all my reserves of protective sarcasm ( the flower of gentle irony withered long ago) and the muse of poetic inspiration was struck dumb.
But What popped into my head was the phrase “And Jesus wept” Luke 19:41-48 This is a very interesting passage… He knows what is going to happen to the people but does the Work anyway and in a fierce way.
Hmmm, Must be the reading of Psalm 91 which has tuned me into the Christian Wisdom tradition.
Love your colorful writing. But not to worry about nukes; they don’t exist–it’s all theater to scare and rob us. Sad to see Putin goes along with the farce (hurts to say) but he’s probably been given an offer he can’t refuse. It’s incredible, apparently unbelievable but true. Control from the top mob is everywhere except in the human heart where freedom reigns, or should.
Not Hollywood, not pretend heroics…
Most militaries have at least potentially a few…but Ivan is impressive…and the nuts of Empire?
How much does Empire pay its soldiers to die?
see> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=168&v=am7YsICNb1Q
(about three minutes of video, maybe Pompeo and Bolton would like to meet these guys? Right…)
War brings out the best and worst in men. I get choked up when listening to Putin talking of brave soldiers. But I also have the same reaction when Trump does the same, despite my mental disagreement with DT and war itself. It’s all too tempting to use these brave men to bolster war as glory. Equal in heroism are soldiers who question the atrocities of war, like Pat Tillman; although it looks like the real story has already been co-opted by the Empire of War, to make him a hero for their side. Sad.
When to the shock of many the Donald became president, it was funny when he started tweeting in the morning. Immediately the internet went into Defcon 1. Mostly with ‘what an idiot’.
Now, in every parliament you’ll find some idiots as well. Take Congresswoman Maxine Waters, when she starts I get the impression that I am looking at the intro of a Monty Python sketch.
The new daily fuss-generator goes by the name Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. She posted today a film on her Facebook-page where she advocated for ‘not having children’ because we’re all gonna die soon anyway due to climate change. See for yourself: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/alexandria-goes-too-far-tells-americans-not-to-have-children/
Well, ask the Japanese how they’re doing in this scenario.
However, there is something about her. She flatters with her Bronx-roots to gain some JLo flavour. But in reality she grew up in a filthy rich county in NY, under the name Sandy Ocasio.
I have the feeling that this is all an act. That certain people have plans with her, and that her strings are pulled by some shady Agenda-21 crooks.
Or am I too suspicious now?
Cheers, Rob
I have the same feeling about her, and her handlers. Plus, she looks like she’s on drugs, uppers probably. I think she’s being used as a paid actor to make the left look like loonie-tunes; so their man Donald will win, and keep the Zionist gig going. Trump is Jewish himself, and nearly everyone around him is too. Some Jews are American patriots but some are not, and will be the first to abandon a sinking ship, with dual passports ready at hand.
Oh, where oh where do they find them?
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Alexandra_Ocasio_Cortez.jpg
Kent
Nice photo; cuts to the chase (bank). I see her frequently at Fox News. She’s a foxie all right but crafty like a fox casing a chicken coop.
@ Paul and parrhesiastes regarding catholic celibacy:
“Why is the call for allowing all Catholic clergy to marry continually overlooked?”
I was a Catholic priest and monk once; left the Church at age 31 because of too restrictive dogmas and celibacy. The official reason for celibacy is that it supposedly frees up energy to pursue a higher state. I think this is bogus and is cover for wealth extraction.
Here in this very Catholic home with my sister and bro-in-law, I’ve been following Pope Francis and his dealings with the sex crisis. Many lay people think he’s not doing nearly enough, but they don’t question celibacy itself.
I think the undeclared reason may be that their own marriages are not exactly blissful, joyous or ecstatic; and although highly repressed, secretly wonder if an unmarried and uncelibate life would have been better–if they could still have children. The high rates of divorce and unhappy couples indicate something is missing, not to mention domestic or child abuse. Of course, there are relatively happy marriages, but many of them are about security.
I was married for eighteen years and now divorced for eleven. We had one son, Francis; I was already 49 when we married; she was 12 years younger. If I had to do it over, I would still like to have a time limited relationship and son with her, but without the church and state sanctioned marriage. As with many a failed marriage, there were good times and bad ones. We still get along, but intimacy is out of the question. I don’t know if its love or not, but I voluntarily split my retirement income three ways, with two thirds going to her and my son (while at university).
I don’t think the clergy are primarily homosexual, far from it in my experience. I do see examples of priests who seem to have a great capacity for work, but then so do many of the married. How fulfilled their bed life is, I can’t say.
… bottom line is … replace oppression with freedom.
Pence is in Bogota with the so-called Lima group and has warned for a third time ( 2x before were by Bolton)
the Venezuelan Generals that they will be held accountable and will lose everything if they adhere to Maduro as their commander. ( The video may come through in English).
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/306642-pence-grupo-lima-amenaza-estabilidad
Pence is dense
Pushes a fence
As paid to do
The day he’ll rue
Just my two cents
“Germany is almost naked before a possible economic crisis. This will be a new experience.”
(Most serious “accidents” happen when several disparate factor coincide…that’s what’s happening)
Frau Vera…
Nackt in die Krise
von Vera Lengsfeld
Die Konjunktur schwächelt, jetzt müsste gegengesteuert werden.
Doch Politik und Notenbank haben ihr Pulver längst verschossen.
They have shot away all their power, er “powder”… hehehe…
What did Comrade Dugin say, “no sovereignty without rebellion”? (I think that was also in German)
Now tie that into the global FUBAR of violence and especially what my old pal, an appraiser, said to me about the US real-estate crash having just begun…
https://vera-lengsfeld.de/2019/02/25/nackt-in-die-krise/
(She’s mistaken, Germany was naked after Versailles – and still is)
………
Dennis, I have no recent first-hand knowledge of homosexual priests, and those who are (many, I think), do not necessarily misbehave. I understand that seminaries are “campy” – “faggy”, and my “gaydar” goes off a lot when I chance to meet Catholic Priests – which is pretty rare.
You may know this joke> (I heard it from a Catholic alter-boy from Chicago, who’s grown now and almost my own age)
Friday near “compline” the Good Father stands on the Church steps and greets the passing Rabbi…and they chat briefly, but a parishioner comes to confess. The Rabbi needs to get to the Schul, but he goes inside with the Priest, his friend. Who then disappears into the booth.
An alter-boy runs in “Father! Come quick, terrible crash, last rites!”
The Priest turns the job of hearing confession over to the Rabbi…”it’s easy!” Reluctantly the Rabbi swaps places and hears a terrible story of sodomy and rape, and sticks his head out to whisper to the boy…
“What does the Father give for sodomy?”
“Milk and cookies!”
I myself was an Anglican acolyte, so long ago the very rocks were still smoking. The priests never touched me. I didn’t know what sodomy was or what “homosexual” meant.
Oh, that’s so funny. I was an altar boy, of course. I was in a seminary for junior and senior high school years, and later learned that one of my professors had admitted to sexual abuse of students. I was rather shocked; he never came on to me. Later in college seminary, two fellow students at different times peaked under the shower door at me. I reported them and they soon were expelled, but quietly so others wondered why they left. It does happen, perhaps more than I am aware of. Celibacy breeds such behavior for those lacking discipline. When I see all those red robed cardinals and bishops with the Pope, and think of all the priests under them, I wonder what is really going on. It’s such a waste, and so ridiculous when seen in a rational light–adult children in their Freudian slips and robes. When I go to church with my sister and law brother, I have to reframe everything according to the original love culture.
The only news today in Oz is the guilty conviction of Cardinal George Pell on historic sexual abuse charges. He was convicted in December last year but the media was placed under a complete gag order.
Pell was to stand charged in a 2nd trial yesterday and if the earlier conviction was made public he would not get a fair hearing. But now the gag is lifted. And all media hell broke out.
Pell was 3rd in command at Vatican — in charge of sorting out ‘mistakes’ in their finances.
Pell, a true clerico-fascist acolyte of Rupert Murdoch and the patron saint and protector of priestly paedophiles, Wojtyla, was convicted on very dodgy evidence. Meanwhile all the other charges against him, that seemed far more cogent to me, were dropped. Now he appeals to a higher court, stacked, as they all are, with members of the ruling elite, who highly value the ‘religious’ services of arch-reactionaries like Pell. I see him being acquitted on appeal, and the whole thing but a sham to help him escape gaol.
“All the world’s a stage…” The Bard.
“Odds and ends, odds and ends; lost time will not come again.” The Poet.
“Carpe Diem–Seize the Day” Bro 93.
As I predicted, the Venezuela Event was staged theater to inject us with more Fear and Chaos. Two sides fighting each other, with paid actor agents and provocateurs of Empire. More distraction and misdirection by the bosses.
Meanwhile, on the Vietnam stage, the show must go on with Donald and Kim. Suggestible youth there are doing the Kim and Donald–haircuts to resemble Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; probably at the suggestion of the imperial script writers.
How horribly ironic Nam has become, which is the point of staging it there. 50 years ago the caskets were delivered to the parish where I was a priest for funerals. Later I was a psychiatric nurse at the LA VA for PTSD Nam vets. Now Nam is our friend, means having met their end; according to the Empire’s program of build to destroy and destroy to build; pump and dump to make money going up and down. How soon we forget the murdered and maimed.
All eyes must be trained on the Money Movie, while the governors pick our pockets and snatch our purses. Kim advertises the New Silk Road on a train through China, while Xi smiles all the while, and Netanyahu gloats with glee. Star that he is, Donald will arrive late by plane, just to show who’s boss, and lay that red carpet down for his runway walk to receive his Nobel Noble Noblesse oblige Peace Prize, before the curtain falls on the American Empire, to make room for the Greater Israel one.
The theme of the meeting is to force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. The joke is that there are no nukes anywhere; it’s all a hoax to stir the fear cauldron and feed the money machine. More theater; Shakespeare would be proud of this play, front for the empire of his time that he was for the Jewish writers behind the man from Stratford. If nukes are so easy to make, don’t you think some terrorist group or rogue state would have used one by now? Bless our lucky stars for imaginary nuclear weapons; reduces the fear. Explosives are scary enough. CGI (computer generated imagery), along with paid agent witnesses, can make us believe almost anything, like faked moon landings and planes hitting towers. Welcome to the new fake world.
i personally saw three british hydrogen bombs explode in the air at christmas island, pacific ocean during my service, royal navy. distance from explosion 25 miles, heat flash enormous. air blast, 40 miles an hour wind. radiation exposure, unknown but i fathered three healthy children after. they don’t exist? can i have some of that stuff you are on?
With all due respect, there have been over 2000 nuclear explosions and tests all over the world, and that’s only 20th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=310-GYiitpM.
I find it hard to believe that all witnesses were hallucinating.
The fake moon landing is a story that I´ve read and heard many times. I think it is largely based on the movie ´Capricorn One´: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One .
However, there´s a glitch. Since the first moon landing, a reflector was placed on the moon, thereafter more, totaling 4: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100413-apollo15-LRRR.html
It is used by thousands of astronomers from all over the world, since 1969, to measure distance and movements between earth and the moon with eerie exactness, using lasers. Such a reflector plate consists of many reflecting inverse prisms. Compare it with throwing a ball in the corner where two walls and the ceiling converse, it will come back at you.
When we exclude massive hallucinating, then who has placed these plates there?
Well, maybe Ze Germans did it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky . (I can recommended a stiff drink before watching that movie. That´s not even B-movie level.)
I do agree with you though, that many things we see are staged and crap.
Cheers, Rob
An important article on the US/Saudi attempts to to destabilize Iran using Pakistan and the Taliban. A few inserts from the article:
“And then, unexpectedly, up pops ‘goldilocks’ in the shape of a visiting MbS, promising a $20 billion investment plan as “first phase” of a profound programme to resuscitate the Pakistani economy. And that is on top of a $3 billion cash bailout, and another $3 billion deferred payment facility for supply of Saudi oil. Fairy godmothers don’t come much better than that. And this benevolence comes in the wake of the $6.2 billion, promised last month, by UAE, to address Pakistan’s balance of payments difficulties.”
“The US wants something badly – It wants Pakistan urgently to deliver a Taliban ‘peace agreement’ in Afghanistan with the US which allows for US troops to be permanently based there (something that the Taliban not only has consistently refused, but rather, has always put the withdrawal of foreign forces as its top priority).”
” What the Saudis and Emiratis are expecting as follow-up in the near future is a certain “rebooting” of the traditional Afghan-Islamist ideology of the Taliban and its quintessentially nationalistic “Afghan-centric” outlook with a significant dosage of Wahhabi indoctrination … [so as to] make it possible [to] integrate the Taliban into the global jihadi network and co-habitate it with extremist organisations such as the variants of Islamic State or al-Qaeda … so that geopolitical projects can be undertaken in regions such as Central Asia and the Caucasus or Iran from the Afghan soil, under a comprador Taliban leadership”.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/02/25/bolton-long-game-against-iran-pakistan-becomes-saudi-arabia-new-client-state.html
As much as we worry about Venezuela,it’s important not to forget the criminal zionist regime in occupied Palestine (Israel).They are as bad as can be:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190225-racism-radicalism-and-incitement-fuel-israels-election-campaign/?fbclid=IwAR3mDiXp9rIS_NlHfZ2Ac9s3Vncgba8bYbPSgpJ4yGXK-fFcBFAnTicKLt4#.XHP8QWlERxA.facebook
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190220-israel-pharmaceutical-firms-test-medicines-on-palestinian-prisoners/
You said it. Palestinians generally and Gaza in particular are the Zionist Achilles Heel, which will one day prove fatal.
A “blast from past” to perhaps break the horrid themes of W3 that’s in the now moment…so let us return to 1948 and the campaign of Henry Wallace, for whom I recall my parents voting…Wallace was removed from the 1944 election via an INTELOP run from Texas, and since FDR was about to be murdered by MI6 (white Russian agents), the pliable Truman was on the ticket. Against Dewey – a sort of Nixononian cryptofascist… sound familiar? Wallace ran on third party ticket. He was an agronomist, a scientist, and a socialist. Good guy, and smart.
Essay and history time>
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/henry-wallace-1948-progressive-party-campaign-communist
excerpt> “… Paul Robeson also made an appearance. As was customary with him, he spoke and said a few words before and between his songs. All I can recall some seventy years later is one sentence he said to the large crowd, a majority of whom were certainly not Communist Party members: “But don’t we all dream, someday, of a socialist America?”
Suddenly, there was a gasp of total silence. We Communists had always carefully avoided just such a topic so as to get along with the non-Communists in a common campaign. But the silence was brief: the whole auditorium broke into loud, enthusiastic applause….”
Cool, eh? It, the switcheroo with doing away with FDR et sec, was a slow motion coup run out of Texas, and London, and Wall Street that prevented a socialist America, and set the path to now…
I am posting this link for two reasons:
-it gives some useful commentary on the insanity and evil of the events of the past week;
-importantly, it provides the links to videos of browder’s false/contradictory testimony in 2015 related to his disposition in the United States in which he contradicts all his public tales about the Russian fraud case against him, and the fate of his accountant Sergei Magnitsky
(videos are a tad rough at times with him fleeing camera’s, summons servers’ etc)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/02/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2019-11.htm
(these links have been posted in the past here but just a reminder as to how evil and absurd this clown really is)
This is just my pet theory: The much touted North Korean Threat is a hoax such that Trump can be “making peace” whilst he makes war, because the American public while generally quiescent is sick of all this war crap. Supposing however, that an age old conflict gets resolved the people will be more likely to come aboard should a new crisis (e.g. Caribbean Basin) pop up.
THROWBACK: Shlomo Sand – “There are Israeli, not Jewish people”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I3DChLsPEE
“Jews living in Tel Aviv, New York or Moscow do not share the same secular practices and language
and thus cannot be called one people, says Professor Shlomo Sand.”
Giethoorn Netherlands
Summer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu74trq9BDE
Winter – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjvFThXkIk
… opinions …
What can be “gathered” by the following article ?
https://sputniknews.com/us/201902241072695820-russian-zicron-missile-targets/
(consider the time-frame)
Russian Security Council …
US amasses special ops in Puerto Rico, army in Colombia to oust Maduro
https://www.rt.com/news/452431-venezuela-us-oust-maduro/
US Preparing for Military Incursion in Venezuela – Moscow
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201902261072750655-us-venezuela-military-incursion/
TASS news agency … no information.
When they have no other option than violence they have only one option, this is close to zero – which is defeat. They are ideologically unable to conceive of any alternative – essentially their “backs are to the sea” as sun tsu would say. Their attacking is therefore a certainty. However horrible for Venezuela it’s a “quagmire”, the “Big Muddy” it’s the grave-yard of empire in the Americas…the Us can’t win a jungle insurgency – and the ultimate implication is that the US invasion of Venezuela triggers the destruction of the attacker in the domestic arena (so to say). This doesn’t quite meet the definition of “civil war”, more like “war of regions and classes” but nasty all the same. All empire seem stable at their zenith, just like ships about to capsize.
More from Dore……………this time he REALLY swore…………However….not like his joking tone about “F-ing Russia”……..before.
https://youtu.be/WMxuU6_3seg
Really angry at Bernie.
Bernie Repeats CIA Talking Points On Venezuela
Yep, Bernie. If a nightclub comedian can see it…………..so can millions of others.
Shows tweets from Bernie…..and counter tweets from Roger Waters.
… we can’t forget Bernie, as we can’t forget Ernie …
but I doubt Bernie has ever had any Ernie potential in ‘im
Benny Hill – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI
Awwww, Pavel. It wouldn’t “show in your country”. And I was on a cinema roll …………and just getting warmed up.
Shoot! Film that is.
Celluloid stories.
But that’s ok……things are getting more “decentralized”. Atlanta is now becoming A Second Hollywood (HW) as the First One Burns Out…..in more ways than one.
Most real wars are not First Round Knockouts. They are Wars of Attrition. I’m watching this war movie, but without popcorn. Too greasy. Too messy. Too compulsive.
Our Amarynthian Q Movie Critic pronounced the flick a dud, almost no tickets sold…..the flame out……the coals covered with ash and not even glowing…..I think the metaphor was.
“Cry for Me, Venezuela” was certainly stealing the Deplorable Show……but as every Yankee Fan of Yogi knows…..”It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over”.
And in a Mass Strike where all is so confused that some Yellow Vests praise Orange and chant, “We want Trump!” it’s useless to try guessing what surprise the next Strike Scene will bring.
Neon Revolt had one article genuine enough that amarynth paused….and took in the seriousness of Hollywood Anon…..a black former well paid movie actor souring on Hollywood…who wanted revenge,,,,,,,,,,and shared dark insider information on 8 chan with those disaffected persons who live there and plot…….something ….Good ..or Bad…depending on your political point of view.
Every movement has dumb schmucks and boors that turn people off……just come across as dumb……but …as an observer………. I would say that Neon…NR….a former Denizen of Hollyweird now dedicated to shredding Tinseltown…….is neither dumb nor boring….and since not much of any other person around here has the interest or stamina to weather the peer disapproval and report on what they observe (not wish for…but actually observe, let me update y’all om one of those sudden shifts in direction of the wind that can cause a fire to flare up again. LOL
Neon, a screenwriter scriptwriter (Storyteller….as in Current His-Story)announced a few months ago he would STOP writing Q related or ANY articles…..and instead concentrate for a few months on finishing his book on Q…for people that missed Year One….and wanted to do some concentrated Catching Up research.
I observe that most people think NR is simply dedicated to a fool’s errand hoax.
I observe that if it is a hoax (could be!) it is neither simple nor stupid in quite ALL of its manifestations ….and worth monitoring…..just in case it is as dangerous to The Good (here that would be that Stubborn Resistance To the Evils of the Western Empire Tradition……known as “Russian Civilization”) as it is threatening to clearly Evil Aspects of Western Imperialism…..as in one faction of it….at war with other factions of it. Even if you 100% dismiss the idea that Q+ (that IS Trump guys…I have done a little homework on the subject…enough to vouch for that fact…) could by ANY stretch of the Illusionists Imagination possibly be up to any good…as a ………..Self-evident Axiom……a Wrecking Ball is a Wrecking Ball…….and until certain rotten structures (DNC, Hollywood…..Wall St??? (that seems like a real stretch right now…but there’s DJT vs The FED previews running) are razed to the ground……..wouldn’t it be alright if the Wrecking Ball Completed The Demolition….before unhooking it from the crane??
And some of Neons best articles are a case in point. SO…..Sunday morning…to my surprise my cell alerted me to….WHAT??? A new Neon Article:
Continued…..inadvertent premature “Post A Comment” happened.
Here’s the Neon Revolt article I read early Sunday morning and have not had time to report on since:
@IATSE – Enough is Enough! Time to #ShutDownHollywood! Support the #IATSEWalkout! #NEONREVOLT
Sacrebleu!!!, Yellow Vests, and Global Mass Strike…..Indeed!
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2019/02/24/iatse-enough-is-enough-time-to-shutdownhollywood-support-the-iatsewalkout/
One Major Neonism IS true…..I DO know THAT much: “Politics is Downstream From Culture”. Not one Q drop in the whole article (Neon existed before Q….readers…He’s No Slouch or One Trick Pony of A Writer….
So I dove right into that article………and was digesting it during Bach Piano Recital Competition Sunday Afternoon……and today at work.
And then, tonight (And I care NOT whether you are only curious or just blindly hate the idea of any story with a ONE LETTER TITLE………) it is obligatory that I report to you now…..that at least some persons in this world of The Unobservant have just put out a quite convincing hypothesis as to exactly WHO…..Q……..IS!.
That would be Michael Anton,,,,,as Neon relates the analysis of one “Hi IQ-Anon” right here:
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2019/02/24/is-this-the-true-face-of-qanon-q-greatawakening-neonrevolt/
You tell me if the reasoning is stupid….or High IQ……LOL.
Enough for now. Here Comes The P.A.I.N. which mean “bread” in French. As in crumbs of intelligence drops.
It’s not a bad movie….At ALL!
About destroying the current Depraved Movie Industry Center of Evil…..HW…and the Political Gang of Satanists That Owns and Deploys It…………To Destroy Good.
I stand by my small analysis in some previous cafe that the ‘movement’ is losing steam. It is clear if you check the numbers in the various groups, those that make videos and those that comment. You can do that Bro, go check the numbers.
It is clear that this phenomenon is a Trump Admiration Society, those that think Trump was appointed by God himself, and set there to avoid any critical analysis of Trump, his actions and the actions of his appointed administration. They rather send people into different directions. Let’s go and attack Hollywood because they are bad. But let us not, absolutely not, comment on some of the most important issues of the day.
1. I have not seen Venezuela mentioned in any of the now sparsely attended Q discussion groups. Apparently they don’t find it of interest that the toxic quartet of Trump, Pence, Pompeo and Bolton with the addition of Eliot Abrahms are attempting to steal whole countries now. This morning RT reports the following, no details yet: “US relocating special units to Puerto Rico and army to Columbia to oust Maduro – Russia ”
We seem to be on the verge of a Boots on the Ground Regime Change … what shall we call it – War, or Police Action, or directly what it is – A Mob Action using taxpayer resources to rob, plunder and steal while attempting to create a new destabilized ‘middle-east’ in Latin American.
2. I have also not seen the non-withdrawal of US troops from Syria discussed. Patrick Lang has the numbers:
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/02/httpsthehillcompolicydefense431289-trump-backs-off-total-syria-withdrawal.html
“A senior administration official told reporters on Friday that the 400 troops to be left in Syria would be split between a group of about 200 to set up and maintain a safe zone currently being negotiated for northeast Syria, and 200 at the U.S. military base at al-Tanf.
The 200 troops based at al-Tanf, near the Syrian border with Iraq and Jordan, will stay “for the foreseeable future,” while the U.S. troops in the safe zone will be part of an expected 800 to 1,500 troops committed by European allies.”
But what, those things are not important to the small remaining Qniverse but heck, this factions wants to go and destroy Hollywood instead.
And your favorite NeonRevolt has just started his own Q group, as he clearly says there is so much junk and nonsense in the groups, that he is now breaking off into a little group of his own. The movement is shattering Bro and it is only the long tail remaining in smaller groups fast toxifying.
I’m hearing such good descriptive terms .. Economic Terrorism regarding Venezuela and Rapture Politics – see Marco Rubio.
A perceptive view about not Bernie, but how they fix, she is…in…
Kamala Harris is the totally clueless stooge president to be…”(and it may work, I think)
A interesting place Black Agenda Report >https://blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-kamala-harris-fix
At same place, excellent radio much about Venezuela > https://blackagendareport.com/articlelist/radio-podcasts
and much more relevant to this moment and so on.
Jake Morphonios did a very good analysis of the last few days in Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6EGefs9_mo
A worthwhile read …
The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
by John Pilger
https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/John-Pilger-The-War-on-Venezuela-Is-Built-on-Lies-20190223-0023.html
Pilger’s straight. It’s a good job.
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About 5G and the effect on humans – the medical physics, not so much the econo-political aspect…
https://peaceinspace.blogs.com/files/5g-emf-hazards–dr-martin-l.-pall–eu-emf2018-6-11us3.pdf
Martin L. Pall, PhD …. Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences
90 pages of probably dead-on solid scientific value…keep copy” Youbetcha!
(effect is bad, really bad over time)
……………………
further out there and in the heart of western Europe…two essays in German, the urls describe them
https://vera-lengsfeld.de/2019/02/26/benjamin-kaiser-kulturmarxismus/
https://www.kaschachtschneider.de/zum-menschenwuerdesatz-des-grundgesetzes/
The theme of the latter essay is that Basic Law of Germany is being turned against itself…the two papers buttress one-another, and google translate will help German-challenged folks .
Here’s an interesting take from former diplomat Patrick Armstrong on one cause of diverging views on geopolitical events, depending on which country the viewer is from.
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2019/02/25/predator-fish-and-prey-fish/
He also has an interesting piece on “Why you need to retire to see reality” (pertains to those in politics or public service).
Rainbow River In Colombia Is The Most Beautiful In The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF7rtii_qJM
The Most Beautiful Rainbow Mountains In China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sij8Ak2exFg
He IS back unfortunately. Will he last??
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/ElliotAbrams01.jpg
Kent
The Principle of Tragedy
The Lead today:
“In the past 72 hours, President Donald Trump has spoken out optimistically in every direction about the prospects for a cooperative and productive U.S.-China relationship, peace and development on the Korean Peninsula, and has kept watching for a chance to pull relations with Russia out of the abyss. Over the next month of summits and a potential U.S.-China trade/economic agreement, he has every hope of achieving the peace and cooperation among great powers his four predecessors could not, or did not want to achieve. The potential is there, even for the four powers (including India) to start doing something about the current international slide into recession — a new credit system for great projects to build on China’s Belt and Road.
But at the same time, there is in the White House the specter of an isolated John F. Kennedy being pulled by Cabinet members, military/CIA leaders, and Congressional warmongers into the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Just a year later the same hawks demanded a full-scale U.S. military invasion of Cuba to “take out” Russian missiles emplaced there. With greater wisdom, courage, and luck, JFK barely found a way to avoid being dragged to World War III.
Now President Trump faces House Democrats outrageously holding a hearing to attack, and incredibly, accuse him of treason and corruption on the day of his summit in Hanoi with Kim Jong-Un of North Korea. He faces his Cabinet, Congressional and military leaders — not to mention the lying likes of DNI Dan Coats — blatantly opposing his policy toward China, his belief in the prospect of peace in Korea, his orders to bring troops home from Syria and Afghanistan. And he has his Secretary of State, Vice President, National Security Advisor, and Congressional Republicans out to create uprisings against South American governments and back them with U.S. “force” — a new “Bay of Pigs” disaster in several nations at once!
And President Putin of Russia, because of the growing effects of the “ABM systems” policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is publicly discussing the possibility of a new Cuban Missiles Crisis, and 5-minutes-to-target missiles Russia is bringing out “to which there is no analog in other countries.”
The American people, while furiously “taking sides,” are effectively taking no action. There must be a mass movement for peace and for national and international economic development, if the nation is to survive…..”
https://larouchepac.com/20190226/trump-builds-peace-and-great-power-cooperation-pulled-toward-war-same-time
But (naturally, or unnaturally…in terms of survival instinct or lack thereof………… many here would not wish for THAT nation to survive….and it is still to be determined whether it even has the aggregate moral fitness to do so..
One thing is for sure: It’s punishment by non-survivial would be far more engrossing entertainment absolutely chock full of Delightfully Fulfilling Schadenfreude!
The Audience………and its moral….or immoral participation in the drama ….is perhaps THE most important component……….. of Classical Drama.
email received from ioan:
I’m alive!
…………………………….private…………….paragraph………….
conclusion, .shareable: “. I will come back in the Cafe soon as I can, until then, keep the front line !”
France and Italy (well Paris and Rome perhaps) are battling it out in Libya. So says Andrew Korbyko in this interview:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/france-and-italy-are-involved-in-a-proxy-war-in-libya/5669737
He refers to “Italian interests.” I’m curious about who he means because Salvini doesn’t seem interested? (I think the Saker has made it clear who is predominant among the “French interests.”) But I don’t live in Europe. Maybe my perception is off. How many warships are there in the Mediterranean Sea these days, anyway? Is there still space to yacht and fish?
The Business Outlook and Personal Financial Prospects of the Individual (and entire regions of the world) are as Exciting and Dangerous…………as the World Strategic Situation.
But nothing beats the latter for white-knuckled existential drama!
I don’t even want to do any such boring, routine, banal activity…as…do any “work” in such a Global Mass Strike. My (figuratively) Imaginary Yellow Vest is ON!
Still, (sigh) one must keep the lights on and head above water……or drown in debt and despair…unable to contribute to ANY Front. So I reluctantly put the vest aside a few days a week
I blessed Anonymouse’s Communist Soul..recently…….but he would have none of any such Olive Branch….and gave instead generously of his Vitriol, Curses and Hexes….wishing me Bankruptcy, Penury, and Dependents Driven to Dumpster Diving …to Survive.
THAT is Pure Motivation to do slightly better than his version of Irish Catholic Communist Agape and I ..now……..Turn the Other Cheek and offer him and you some wealth of insight and ideas…..so that we don’t find ourselves competing for the same dumpsters……later in 2019:
https://www.bitstocks.com/blog/cryptocurrency-market-news-the-bulls-and-bears-of-2018-and-2019?utm_source=Bitstocks+Marketing&utm_campaign=5e2f00c831-BYTES_2019_02_26_BULLS_AND_BEARS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f4511086b8-5e2f00c831-106804503
At risk of Casting Capitalist Pearls Before Communists ….and getting stoned to death with them being hurled back at me in a deadly rain and hail of homicidal (un-socially conscious!) rage, and lacking the time for offering any personal investment advice………..please allow me to share my instincts briefly before arrogantly rejecting them and denouncing my foolishness, greed, and inhumanity toward my Fellow (anonymouse already did that…) Man:
an excerpt from the above link that connected a few synapses of cognition and calculation
“Proven: Unlimited Scaling Potential
Scaling issues are being solved as we’re seeing great solutions being put on trial across the board. When it comes to proven solutions, the BitcoinSV (BSV) blockchain holds the current record for a block size of 103MB, is now targeting the 512 MB mark (3,000 transactions per second), while following a roadmap of development that will eventually allow unlimited block size.”
The Emotion “Sentiment” in Big T’s crypto rating B.I. T. S system (what an appropriate acronym!!)
B= Business Value Ratio
I= Insiders…the Team…and the major backers
T= Technicals….RSI (Relative Strength Index)…ie whether the price charts indicate over bought or oversold (clue: oversold is better…reversion to the mean and all of that, ya know)
And finally
S for Social Media…or Sentiment….but Social Media (which I don’t use….I delegate that to Big T…and let him tell me is at least in Early (Immature) Days of the Cryptosphere the most dominant factor of the 4 Capital letters in the B.I.T.S. value rating system.
S is currently mostly against Dr Craig Wright and BSV….right now it’s under $70 while BTC is $3800+ and BCH is @ $140..however….if you have the Long View…are contrarian and not a sheep…please roughly calculate the risk/reward ratio if the Doctor Down Under is proven….Over time…to be anywhere close to more than half right…about the world discovering in time….that BSV….IS a lot closer to REAL Bitcoin than the front running BTC (Bitcoin Core…the Current leading Crypto Reserve Currency….or Roger Ver’s BCH.
And what that might mean long term….even if you could only scarpe together a half dozen BSV today.
I’m not saying Dr Wright is over 50% right. I’m saying that question…….just might maybe be worth figuring out, at least roughly,
Meanwhile, in the above article you have developments in
Japan….”It is truly encouraging to see 14 per cent of the young male workforce has invested in cryptocurrencies…..”
Germany: “In Germany cryptocurrencies are not yet considered legal tender, but they have been recognised as private money by the German finance minister since 2013. Ever since cryptocurrencies have been subject to capital gains tax except for assets that have been held for more than one year which become tax-exempt (please do your own due diligence as I am not a tax expert.) ” Hold for more than one year mein freund! Alle ist Klar???
Switzerland: “As home to the famous Crypto Valley, Switzerland has drawn crypto projects from far and wide. Xapo announced it would relocate key business operations from Hong Kong citing Switzerland’s long tradition of protecting both personal and financial privacy and opaque regulations. This opacity – a balance between transparency and privacy, is what cryptocurrency is all about. ”
and
Malta:”Famously called the Blockchain Island, several cryptocurrency exchanges (including OKEx and Binance) have set up their operations Malta due to its development of a crypto friendly space. The country’s Prime Minister claimed that the state became the first world jurisdiction to provide legal certainty to the crypto space as they currently hold the status of digital Medium of Exchange, Unit of Account, and a Store of Value.”
Their Conclusion:
“It sure will be very interesting to see how these events play out in 2019. When we look at the way cryptocurrencies performed over 2018 into 2019, we’re not likely to see capital flooding into the market straight away. Nonetheless, if the current trend of infrastructure development and improvement of merchants solutions continue, it’s likely we’ll see a gradual recovery of crypto sentiment and prices trends”
My Conclusion:
Forget the short term roller coaster and bear two powerful principles in mind:
1. Nothing beats Catching the Right Powerful Long Term Trend….Early. And it is still …very early with most persons on the planet unable to utter a true sentence about The Internet of Value. All they have is either a negative or a positive emotional impression.
2. Don’t put All Eggs in One Basket…that’s stupid risk! A variety of stocks on the NASDAQ..for example is NOT “diversified”. They are probably most all quite correlated to each other. The most important element of diversification is Near Total Non-Correlation. Name me something, please,…… more non-correlated to stocks, bonds, precious metals and real estate than crypto-currencies.
There is where more diversification can be expected to flow.
Then imagine what will likely (NOT guaranteed…the only guarantees are Death and Taxes…..LOL) happen to total crypto market cap….when investors globally wake up to this ….non-correlated…powerful diversification property…. learn a little something about it…..and put just 5% into crypto assets.
That’s Trillions, guys. not the current $130 billion
https://coinmarketcap.com/
The Pence:
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Mike_Pence_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Kent
“The Screamer”
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Guaido01_Faces_of_Evil_resize.jpg
Kent
The Scream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5uaB5MDe_8
I rather like this line from Sergei Lavrov:
“These discussions are particularly relevant today when the world has entered the post-bipolar stage in its development”
The word ‘bipolar’ is used in several ways but the medical disorder meaning immediately comes to mind and seems appropriate for both certain leaders and countries. I wonder if that was slyly intended?
Not much reading between the lines necessary though on his comments at the Russian-Vietnamese conference of the Valdai International Discussion Club
https://www.rusemb.org.uk/fnapr/6754
Dennis … your complimentary copy of “Raising Stone 1” is on its way.
Feedback tells that my theory is one hundred percent appreciated
… but …
I would like readers to converge Ezekiel and Herodotus and wrap up all evidence
and acknowledge the requirements for proof … do exist.
The requirement of proof is … minimum of two authors documenting and converging matters of a particular event.
“Raising Stone 1” should be read and passed on to others and is available now …
https://saker.community/product/raising-stone-1-paul-hais-racks-and-pinions-theory/
Having read and understood bring sensible queries into the Cafe for discussion.
Colombian artist Alejandro Mumoz poked fun at Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido
by declaring himself interim president.
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201902271072782914-guaido-venezuela-parody/
@ https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/992548648335630336 Cynthia McKinney, a smart lady, opines that she thinks that option “Sampson Option is activated” what that is as a general set of actions turns on Israeli cryptonazis and their nuclear explosives, presumably blackmail to create a general or “allied” attack on Iran.
see: https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option for entire text of Seymour Hs’ book…
and https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney
And especially this> https://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Purple-Revolution-US-Hybrid-Warfare-Home-to-Roost.pdf She explains her reasoning with deliberate care.
Bless her, a good lady.
“What must be said”
https://www.voltairenet.org/article173462.html
Disgraced Trump: Michael Cohen’s Opening Statement to Congress
February 27, 2019
VT has no love for Michael Cohen but he is only a small cog in the Deep State machine that has, again,
placed a president into office. Reagan was their first, Bush 43 the second and Trump their third.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/02/27/disgraced-trump-michael-cohens-opening-statement-to-congress/
A Brief History of Michael Cohen’s Criminal Ties
From the Russian mob to money launderers, Trump’s personal attorney has long been a subject of
interest to federal investigators
April 10, 2018
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s long-time lawyer and personal “pit bull”…..
Cohen joined the Trump Organization in 2006, and eventually became Trump’s personal lawyer ….
Michael Cohen’s bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of “Tom”, a reference to Tom Hagen,
the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of
a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around
organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafiya. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/a-brief-history-of-michael-cohens-criminal-ties-628875/
P.S.; The so called Russian Mafia was in the reality a Jewish or Kosher Mafia
for ioan in absentia
well i just meant ya
on behalf of the whole
damm whole lot of us–
venizueva gonna be
poppin’ in ‘ere again
larkin’ around sorta
with a not dead yet
dead poets society
and political asides
god speedy return !
Ras