2019/05/01 04:00:01
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Russia ,China,India,and other energy exporting and importing countries don’t seem to see the “elephant in the room”. If the US is able to cripple Iran and Venezuela by US oil sanctions. If countries allow the US to dictate their oil importing,then the US wins,no if’s or maybe’s about it. And what does that mean.It means that “someday”,it can be Russia’s turn.If successful,the US may just simply order their stooges to not buy Russian oil and gas.And sanction countries that continue to import energy from Russia.With a successful track record against Iran and Venezuela behind them. They are almost certain to repeat that operation.Some will say,surely the importing countries wouldn’t bow down with that.But we see how easy it has been, so far, to get the world to obey them with Iran and Venezuela.The worlds nations need to wake up,and do it fast,before it is too late for them.For now the energy exporting countries have the upper hand ,if they are smart enough to use it.They could (should) announce that any country obeying the US sanctions will be banned from buying energy from them.The US stooges can’t provide enough oil to make up for those losses.And the US sanctions would be broken.By quietly going along with the US sanctions ,nations are giving the US the control over the worlds energy supplies,they want in the first place.
Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail and is awaiting an extradition hearing.
https://www.rt.com/uk/458038-julian-assange-court-sentencing/
That is a draconian sentence for skipping bail. Normally that offence merits a few weeks jail-time, if any, as most would get community service or a probation order. Disgusting outcome.
The extradition hearing will determine whether he serves the sentence first or whether they hand him over promptly to the tender mercies of the US.
Extradition hearing scheduled for this Thursday at 10AM – in Westminster Magistrate Court . they’re moving fast … Sentence for skipping bail described as vindictive and shocking and twice as much as the sentencing guidelines.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks
Assange is a multi-award winning journalist,
with more than 15 international recognitions for his work.
The most outstanding awards are …
2008 New Media Award from The Economist
2010 Time Person of the Year … Reader’s Choice
2009 Amnesty International UK Media Award
This year Julian Assange Wins 2019 EU Journalism Award …
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Julian-Assange-Wins-2019-EU-Journalism-Award-20190416-0035.htm
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Julian-Assange-Wins-2019-EU-Journalism-Award-20190416-0035.html
The full sentencing comments are here… if you can bear to read such biased tripe.
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of-hhj-deborah-taylor-r-v-assange/
The UK ‘judiciary’ is simply a part of and reflective of the ‘values’ of the hereditary UK ruling elites-vicious, biased, arrogant, thuggish, genocidal psychopaths.
Years ago I remember Coca-Cola was making the transition from glass bottles to plastic and there was much protesting … but corporations just do as they please. Now it turns out that plastic does contaminate what it comes into contact with, so slowly but surely we are ingesting plastic. Coca-Cola is one substance that should never contact plastic … I mean Coke can etch copper for instance.
Exposing Australia’s recycling lie | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrlEsPoyJk
( the documentary may induce distress in rationally thinking people )
Paul, it may etch metal, but where I work and at home, the hardness of the ground water from the wells actually eats all metals. Ever seen a ships screw, it’s made of brass alloies to withstand salt erosion. The water here, destroys copper, iron and brass, if you seen what I see you’d be freaked. Totally destroys equipment, pumps, bearing, seals………..not something you would think drinkable. But, the nuns in the monestary, have been here over six decades, all drink the well water, and most live well into their eighties and quite a few are over ninety, go figure.
“Hard” groundwater is invariably alkaline due to it’s immersion in limestone, which underlies and composes most aquifers. You can get a free water test from your county agricultural agent.
What Paul is referring to is the leaching of bisphenyl -A, primarily, one of the plasticizers used in plastics to keep them pliable, i/ e. not brittle. Think armor-all. Yes, not only toxic to organs and nervous systems, also a gender bender. turning more boys into, well, confused people. As this is one of the goals of the zionazis it is no surprise that their FDA et al will not acknowledge this issue, much less regulate the (%(^)^%^ plastic industry.
Will the test change the hardness of our well water? The comment wasn’t on water or coke , it was on what the human body can process even if it looks ‘yucky’. As for Bpa, it’s in every freakin everything…..like quit coke in plastic and your safe????
We have very ‘hard’ water in London and SE England due to the composition of the land and suffer massive limescale deposits on everything. It is a problem you either live with or install a gadget to remedy somewhere on the pipes behind of the taps. It doesn’t seem to have any health effects and I have heard it touted as a benefit, being a constant source of trace calcium elements.
You need to get a proper analysis of your specific water supply, as noted above, (usually) free from your local water board before you can decide whether or not it is worth looking at gadgets.
Part II on post war/post imperial middle east after the Syrian war by – interview with Sharmine Narwani
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/28/sharmine-narwani-on-the-end-of-the-syrian-war-and-the-post-imperial-middle-east/
Part I here;
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/21/reporter-sharmine-narwani-on-the-secret-history-of-americas-defeat-in-syria/
Excellent interview which touches on and verifies many of the contentious points of the war in Syria by someone who was on the ground from 2011 onwards.
After watching Nancy and Chuck ‘cuck’ talking about a trillion dollar infrastructure bill, their lips were moving but I didn’t hear any words about collusion or Russia, so weird, it was like being on another planet. Then I read this, it’s long, a bit of a read, but interesting info none the less. https://www.neonrevolt.com/2019/04/24/greg-craig-the-black-ledger-and-the-real-russian-collusion-story-qanon-greatawakening-neonrevolt/
From the distinguished ej magnier:
Elijah J. Magnier
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Iran has expressed to its neighbours the intention to sell oil at a price much lower than the market price”, rendering any tight siege impossible.
Sadly I read somewhere on facebook just now….an Iranian tanker full of oil worth 1billion cannot be refined as chinese companies eg insurance fear the USA sanctions….
https://southfront.org/1-billion-in-iranian-crude-is-stranded-at-a-chinese-port/
The US really is not in a position to call other groups terrorists. Iran reciprocates and deigns all US troops in middle east as such, too.
:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-rouhani/iran-designates-as-terrorists-all-u-s-troops-in-middle-east-idUSKCN1S61GB
Music break, brain break, for anyone who enjoys a good tune. Andrew Bird NPR Tiny Desk Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAzPtwUJJU
Well, at least Gav the paintball enthusiast Minister of Defence, UK, and erstwhile fireplace salesman has got his walking papers today.
There will be more than a few lowly squaddies cheering that one, now that they no longer have to entertain his crack-brained, cost-cutting wheezes while trying to keep straight faces.
“Russia should shut up and go away”—–that’ll do it, Gav, you total div.
Sean, Neon Revolt strives hard after the truth, and particularly in the realm of cultural warfare, cyber warfare, meme warfare etc I have found him to be “a stud” and an original thinker whose every article is worth a read.
Gutsy, courageous, smart. AND nobody’s “cult” follower.
This does not mean that he makes no mistakes.
He’s made a few that I know of, largely because of haste and the number of booby traps that are out there giving hazard to anyone committed to covering a lot of ground quickly.
Meanwhile, on the water issue and wells and well water, I have pondered the same sorts of questions.
I am all for purity and quite leery of poisonous trace metals such a lead in water. It caught up with the Romans, who used it in plumbing because of its softness and the ease of forming it, I have heard….by late middle age or early old age high lead content riddled their Roman synapses. So, no longer used in plumbing (except in some really old places..).but the damage was done:
https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.jlab.org%2Fitselemental%2Fele082.html
And still being done, according to the above link…… in Rome. You’d think they’d have torn it all out and replaced it with copper, pvc or abs or this new flexible plastic piping…(red…half inch stuff…including for hot water….easy to run through attics). Not yet!
See the Symbol Pb for lead? Lead in Spanish is Plomo and a plumber is “un plomero”….ie, “one who works lead” for the conduit of water to or away from the place it is needed.
I’m not too keen on aluminum compounds in deodorant sticks and so forth. Or cookware. The rumor is that that stuff get in your brain and causes Alzheimers.
In a purely natural setting the minerology of the area alone could make hard water as dangerous to life as it is to the equipment you talk about getting wrecked. The difference accounting for the greater longevity of the nuns than that equipment??
In my humble opinion it probably has to do with the fact that the nuns have filters (especially kidneys…but other organs of filtering function) and the wrecked equipment have none.
Life, and livings things are pretty well designed for all sorts of extreme situations!
Latin for lead = plumbum.
Hence Pb for the chemical symbol, and ‘plumbing’.
… Pressing Roman wine by foot stomping in lead vats turned that wine into poison … and elite Roman wine drinkers especially became deranged … mentally insane.
Add to this the mosquito plagues in coastal Roman areas and the Romans had multiple serious health problems affecting body and brain function.
Factor in the “money lenders” who had Julius Caesar butchered and there appears the cracks in empire.
I have considered that a well run empire acting with human dignity and goodwill should be able to continue indefinitely, and what brings empires undone is internal and eternal meddling and the brazen stupidity of making enemies … and history is repeating … what a dramatic pity it all is.
Reported here today (channel 4) was that 25 soldiers who were backing the Venezuelan opposition/coup attempt have approached the Brazilian Embassy for asylum/protection. Are the deserters deserting once again?
Guys, something interesting and intriguing : a Romanian politician (member of the new parliament after the fall of socialism/communism in 1990) bought a house in a city center in 1992 from an older lady who wanted to move abroad. This is not unusual. The unusual is that he payed with newly printed banknotes with the printed value of 10.000 Lei…but those banknotes were officially released only two years later, in 1994 !
How is that possible, do you have any idea ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_leu look for banknotes – third leu
leu means lion.
As you will read further down on that page, the official denomination which has been introduced in 2000, placed the value of that banknote of 10.000 to be equal to 1new Leu. Well, in this case, the politician knew in advance about such “evolution” from within, so he has done a very good business. The old lady, taking her money abroad, in her mind she did a good sale, had to see the reality when no bank would change her money (cause the banks, all knew in advance about these measures made by the new “democratic” Romanian government (only the Romanian citizens were left out of knowledge) and waited.
This is but one example I know of, what happened after the fall of socialism/communism with millions of people out there. And what you think ? the same guys are in charge today – with little refresh in cadres.
If the Romanian politicians are anything like the Macedonian, God help the Romanian people. In the case of the Macedonians, predominantly a two party system, they have managed to sell off everything inherited from Yugoslavia and then some, ie; the name/identity, history, culture, church/spiritual identity and so on, even though they had no mandate to do so, no permission from the people, everything they did was against International Law etc. against the Macedonian Constitution, their plunder approved and overseen by the Americans is all that’s ever necessary for these despicable examples of the worst in humankind. And yes, the same old faces again and again and again.
Macedonia now no longer even exists – a world first! It’s been a saga of unending greed, deception, lies, etc. with the Macedonian politicians, although in public presenting as sworn enemies, ie; of Left and Right provenence, being behind the scenes, all good buddies who know that unless one is drinking of the swill provided by the Americans, there is no future in politics. As such, they’ve happily enriched themselves on the back of the people with no responsibilty for the theft, the betrayal, the doublespeak and so on. All up, figures Ive recently come across put the theft at about 50 billion Euroes. Not bad, for a country of about 2 million pop. if you can get the work. Macedonian Independence, 91, Macedonia RIP, 2019.
Just imagine, what kind of rule of law existed in Romania at the beginning of the 90’s, when a democratically elected member of the parliament could obtain newly printed money which haven’t been officially released just only two years later. How many politicians did that ? they got rich almost over night, abusing their power and nobody got punished because the same politicians represented the law. And, in their impertinence, they dared to call themselves “revolutionaries”, condemning the former socialist policies and authoritarian regime, forgetting the fact that they were part of it in the second and third echelons but changed side at the given momentum, thus committing treason against their own country. Furthermore, the rhythm and depth of inflation was dictated by World Bank and IMF, giving the newly elected government detailed information. For the corrupted officials all these came at hand, using these financial “measures” to enrich themselves in detriment of the large majority of citizens. Knowing in advance the value of denomination and the timing, they were able to make a huge wealth, buying at a “normal prize” which, after one-two years was sold for 100 times higher. That means 1000% profit in one-two years ! and…everything was legal. At one stage, people went to buy a bread with a bag of money, the inflation was staggering, nobody knew what is the real value of something in the chaos of millions of banknotes without value. After the cream was gathered nicely, the inflation went down and new money were printed, eliminating four zero’s , restoring the value of money at the level of 1956. And all this, by having destroyed the industrial capacity of the country. How is that possible ? In 1989 March, the socialist Romania has payed back the last cent to the world bank and imf. In December of the same year came the “revolution” and the head of the country was executed after a formal trial seen worldwide on Tv. Today, Romania has an external dept of 84 bill.euros. The population has decreased to 18. million from 23 millions in 1989. An estimated of 5 million Romanians are working and living abroad (if you add them it makes again 23 millions but in reality that means stagnation or rather loss of population because meanwhile have passed 30 years)
It appears that human beings are ultimately weak, predictable and very selective when “manna falls from heaven”. Any number of adjectives may be added to the list, authoritive, arrogant, inhuman, cynical, selfish, insensitive etc. and they all lord their “good fortune” over their fellow man. The time will come when they cry to heaven, saying “lord why hast thou forsaken me?” But God has nothing to do with human affairs, all of this is under the Lord of Karma. God sees but does nothing. IT knows that the time will come when the Souls in question will bend under the weight of the decisions they’ve made…
Humanity’s lessons are infinite, to find one’s point, all depends on the openness for the voice of the child in one’s heart, remaining to be the germ of all which wants to be born in one’s life. Without that even the notion of the zodiac is for nothing, but with it one might be on the blessed side in the ongoing apocalypse.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/05/hearts-fiery-mutation-and-blind-mars.html
The Lunch
by ioan
The lunch has landed like a punch, on my face
Only the soup, by accident, by mom’s grace…
However, not unusual these days
Thanks god, such pretty things are on the rise
When someone enters in the age of gold
Angels are laughing, cheering more than twice
Seeing my mom who’s yet again at five years old
And so it goes, with new surprise,
Some are comic, some are rather not,
You can imagine, the way I angels praise,
And many other blessings, gathered in my gut.
Some gypsy kids were laughing on the street
After my mum screamed like lion in the cage,
An instant outburst when she has a peak
In her malady given by god in this fated place..
afterward
I wander the night sky
looking for you
That is very good, Dimitar. Very evocative…
Thank you so much, sgage.
Ioan’s poem, which appears to be directed at his mum, reminded me of these lines, which I wrote in memory of my mum, who passed away one year ago today.
Dimitar, my mum passed away 3 years ago (seems like yesterday). On a dark hillside near our home, she taught me the stars in the night sky when I was child, back in the 60’s. I’ve never forgotten… indeed I’ve been a life long student of the night sky. So your lines were very apt for me, and touching, and I thank you for them.
My very sincere condolences to you on the loss of your mother. I’m in my 60’s, my mother was 94 when she went to sleep, and still… not enough time.
“… a life long student of the night sky”; what a wonderful vocation.
I have seen, met, spoken with my mum since her translation. That was indeed a gift and eased my heart to be sure. But it’ll never be the way it was, with her physical absence. We’re in a precarious position in this world, wanting to look back, wanting to move forward, while the secret is being in the here and now. My mother was aware of events out here, which she referred to, which is very interesting in and of itself. Regards, again, and a pleasure to make your acquaintance, sgage.
Ioan. Yes. Mental illness of a loved one . Not much sympathy given by most others. Only quiet heroism of the caretakers who hang in for the long, tortuous haul.
Knowing Having experienced it myself.
Those with wounded places that bleed.
Remind us not to respond with cruelty
But to bear compassionate witness patiently
Not like wolf packs rejecting weak ones
Blatantly
nor calls to shutter Christianity
For thus festers destruction’s seed
To download right now before it is too late, to be assessed later for accuracy or fakedness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=269&v=3XB72y1Lm90
The Shield of Silver Light
my dominions range
both far and wide,
I am the Lord
of all you see!
what war laid waste
has been restored,
and peace now reigns
over hills and lea
the deceiver
and the questioner,
the diviner
and his sons,
one manacled –
the other dead,
the rest are
on the run
there’s an eagle
at my window,
and a shield
of silver light,
in a clearing
of the forest
beyond the
realm of night…
my dominions range
both far and wide
I am the Lord
of all I see,
what war laid waste
has been restored
and peace now reigns
over hills and lea
The shield of silver light is one of a number of spiritual techniques that one may use in order to ward off psychic attack. One employs the imagination to place the shield between him/herself and the offender.
St Paul…put on the armour of light….he knew what that meant…..also visualise self in a crystal bubble too…….
Another good one, “Resist not evil”, Ie; do not respond in like manner, rather remain level-headed and rise above the emotional impact…
Too much hurry, forgot my name again for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=269&v=3XB72y1Lm90
OMG! Young master williamson got the sack!
UK’s May sacks defence minister Williamson over Huawei leak
https://www.rt.com/uk/458077-theresa-may-has-sacked-gavin-williamson/
Got to be that Russian influence again…
And Piers Morgan is on fire on Twitter about it: https://www.rt.com/uk/458154-piers-morgan-jail-gavin-williamson/
On the day that Assange awaits extradition to the USA, Piers Morgan asks if Williamson will go to jail too, for leaking classified information ;-)
The sheer hypocricy of the British is glowing. Not that the general public will care, of course. Too busy with gossip about the name of the next royal baby.
Cheers, Rob
Q: How’s the weather up there?
A: It’s changing.
What, ME worry?
To worry ….or not to worry….THAT is the question!
Here’s a very strong motivation to worry:
https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/77/1663615-illustration.jpg
Here are many more reasons…….. to not worry too much…maybe…….just yet….. about a futile effort at keeping a stasis ……that has never, ever existed…… anywhere, in the first place:
https://youtu.be/pwvVephTIHU
The Saudi-led coalition, which has been waging a deadly war on Yemen, has abducted more than 150 fishermen in the waters off the embattled port city of Hudaydah.
The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV channel reported that the kidnapping of the fishermen on 15 boats by the “aggression forces” took place southwest of the Turfa Island on Wednesday.
According to the latest report by Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights, the Saudis have deprived over 50,000 Yemeni fishermen of their right to fish, killed dozens of them, targeted 93 fishing facilities and destroyed 4,586 boats.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/02/594882/Yemen-fishermen-Hudaydah
( I do wonder what this war is all about … surely rich Saudi’s have better things to do … but if anyone can understand this war … please respond and explain it for me ??? )
I think this war is simply about oil.
The Saudi’s are slowly running out of oil (2/3 of their oil comes out of the giant Ghadar oil field, which is getting emptier). I think also the nearly war with Qatar must be seen in this view, because Qatar shares a giant gas field with Iran (I remember the cold Qatari reply to the UAE, remembering them on what fuel their power plants run, and valves can be closed).
Yemen is poor and has quite some untapped oil reserves. But this is a quagmire. Saudis don’t fight, they let their mercenaries do that work. But while they can’t win, they do what the USA also tried in the Korean war: starve the people. Even storage facilities of medicines have been bombed, and that with a massive outbreak of cholera. In fact it’s a form of genocide. Rumours are that the bombing is done by the British AF.
Wondering about the silence in the MSM about this? I think the large news agencies are simply bought off.
And while all this costs a lot of money, the debts of the Saudi’s are rising. It wouldn’t surprise me that this country, with it’s flourishing freedom, democracy, and human rights, will collapse over some ten years. It will be interesting what then will happen with the petrodollar.
There is a lot at stake.
Cheers, Rob
… thanks Rob … your answers make sense.
It is obvious oil has priority over human lives.
( oops … saw my typo too late … plural of Saudi is Saudis )
‘Rumours are that the bombing is done by the British AF.’
It has been officially admitted that some RAF technicians and ex-RAF mercs are operating the bomb aiming devices from the ground and that the same types are employed in service and maintenance of the aircraft, that type of work being either beneath or beyond the Saudis.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that RAF and ex-RAF pilots are doing some of the flying and bombing also (mission creep) as the hackneyed ‘NATO advisors and trainers’ seem to always get involved in the actual combat in other theatres too.
According to some reports, the Saudis are slowly exhausting their oil. There is a very large oil deposit (?), completely untapped under Yemen. The Yemenis aren’t too interested in exploiting their oil, for similar reasons to those advanced by the Afghans–they like their current way of life and don’t want their mountains razed and land despoiled extracting the black stuff (and doubtless other rare earths essential these days for your phone, laptop etc, so in great demand).
Religion plays a part, as Yemenis have not embraced the consumer culture and ‘greed is good’ mantra that the Empire is determined to enforce on all, on pain of death.
I am sure that there are other contributory factors but the main one is that vast untapped oil deposit that the Saudis covet and that would allow them to continue as they are (an absolute monarchy with themselves at the top) and not revert back into the loose collection of desert tribes that they were before UK and US took over their oil back in the 1930’s.
Paul, if you are interested in a primer on these geopolitical beginnings, Adam Curtis made some good docs years ago, starting with ‘The Century of the Self’, available free online or at his blog. There is little detail but if you want to know how we got here from there, a vast territory to cover, his work is a good start. He is a Brit, then working for the BBC back when they did sometimes broadcast a few bits of decent stuff in the interests of presenting a balanced view, so it is not too Brit-centric, and certainly no apology for Empire.
I think he covers the 30’s oil stuff in ‘The Power of Nightmares’, but its a while since I watched all his stuff. Regardless, any of them are worthwhile as they cover the same subjects we gnaw at here.
The whole issue around oil these days makes me think of the climate debate – so very skewed in so many places that an ordinary person cannot make sense of it.
We often say Yemen is about oil, Venezuela is about oil, Syria is about oil, but somehow the picture makes no sense to me these days. We had all the scary stories about peak oil, then, the few people that spoke out that oil is abiotic were just ridiculed. Now, there are all the stories about shale oil (besides the fact that is completely destructive), which presents that shale oil is really being subsidised and cannot be extracted at current prices. Then, we hear that the Saudi’s are running out of oil.
But on the other hand, we’re being assured that there is lots of oil, the US for example is not hurting for oil as they have sufficient and so on.
The oil story intrigues me.
But we can even argue that places like Yemen or Gaza or even Syria is only in existence to continue weapons testing in the real word of war and not just in a testing ground, or that those wars are only being continued as part of a continual enrichment of weapons companies.
… amarynth, yes … what you say also fits nicely into the jigsaw puzzle of answers in trying to explain.
… changing subject …
I have been watching RT live news and am appalled by Polly Boko’s reporting, who should be emphatic in making a clear statement that Assange did not hack computers in connection with wiki-leaks material.
Also, how many times are we going to be shown Assange dragged out horizontally via the RUPTLY video clip … must be getting royalties every time it’s played.
RT have mercy on us … and with every Assange report we do not require a history lesson.
What Assange needs is assertive and statement type reporting … giving him strong solid support.
RT needs to wake up and get real and stop peddling gutter trash remarks about what others think … it’s a form of sabotage in my book.
(RT is Russia Today news)
Paul, every single person, without exception, has bias and most have an agenda to push. RT is no exception to that rule. Being part funded by the Russian state it cannot be otherwise. Rather than railing against its ‘sabotage’ to what you think is the correct view—(you won’t ever find a single outlet that conforms exactly to what you want to hear) it is actually easier in the long run to develop a critical eye towards all second-hand information in the interests of developing your own views. That doesn’t mean that you will ever be 100% in the right, just as RT will never be 100% in the right—but you will be better equipped to navigate between the half-truths to the view that is 100% your own.
There is something about being secure in one’s own view that makes one impervious to being swayed by propaganda and the many who wish to impose their views on others (proselytisers). It is a well known psychological trope that proselytisers are actually insecure about the views they promote and need to convert others to their views, by any means possible, in order to prop themselves up and repress their own doubts.
The old safety in numbers fallacy—‘70% of doctors smoke Camels’, so its got to be a good thing, maybe even divinely ordained, right?
Its an oil bubble, useful and very profitable to maintain for those in control of it. Western society is entirely oil dependent and therefore vulnerable to any threats to supply so a lot of time, money and effort goes into keeping the bubble afloat. Humans have a far more fundamental need for water however, which we cannot live without while we can exist without oil.
Just wait until the resource wars over water get inflated into a bubble. That will be carnage.
amarynth said:
‘so very skewed in so many places that an ordinary person cannot make sense of it.’
The tech term for that is ‘induced confusion’ and it is a deliberate ploy, much used by cults, conmen and professional manipulators of all kinds. It is meant to make the ordinary person give up and accept the view of whoever is shouting the loudest, or whoever shouted last, often just as the easiest way to shut out the shouting.
Confused people will follow anyone who provides a simple explanation for their confusion, however irrational that explanation is.
Hello Amarynth,
I can imagine that for lots of people the oil story is confusing.
Keep in mind, that the goal of the USA is to ‘control’ the oil flows. Where it comes from, and who is allowed to get it. It may even extend to more commodities, but that is an item on itself.
Maybe then it will unfold, that the USA does not want to ‘win’ wars. They want to create failed states and secure the goodies. They are not interested in more.
A good reading on this that I can wholeheartedly recommend, is the book ‘A century of war’ by F. William Engdahl. He decribes the smooth takeover of the ‘gunboat policy’ by the UK towards the USA, and the essence to control the oil flows.
If you hit this book search terms in a search machine, you will find a downloadable pdf. For possible legal reasons I will not post it here directly.
It’s not a pageturner, but you’ll be surprised about some things you’ll read. The world is an evil place.
Good luck and cheers, Rob
So, Assange says in the hearing this morning on extradition to the US .. not in person but over video link from Belmarsh prison:
“I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many many awards and protected many people”
Judge: “I’ll take that as a decline”
Here is the press by Sputnik, but that quote comes from The Guardian .. so, I don’t know. I think it is time to wait a little and see the correct outcome …
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905021074639608-assange-uk-court-us-extradition/
I’ve not seen anything formal by his legal team or on wikileaks formal twitter.
I hope we hear from Ollie Richardson from The Stalker Zone, who was part of a bunch of yellow vests who left straight after the 1st of May yellow vest protests to support Assange outside the court.
Here is the live comments from Assange’s spokesman lawyer and other commentators outside the court.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11625&v=_Pj696AOswM
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“Here is the press by Sputnik, but that quote comes from The Guardian .. so, I don’t know.”
Assange: I Do Not Wish to Surrender Myself for Extradition for Doing Journalism
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905021074639608-assange-uk-court-us-extradition/
I won’t surrender to extradition ‘for doing journalism’ – Assange
https://www.rt.com/news/458200-assange-us-extradition-journalism/
Hi. Here’s a stream of consciousness poem about the mind. Sometimes I think I’ve lost my mind; and when I hear your reports about the mind of the world, I think we may have lost our collective minds. I find the poetry and truthful prose here a saving grace that engages a different part of my brain. The mind seems to be a two edged sword that can heal and hurt. I hope we will soon find our true minds.
“The Mind is a structure, a shelter in itself; a place to put ideas like pots on a shelf; you can hang your thoughts there like coats on a tree; the Mind’s a rack for your hat, a hook for your key. A Mind is your home, built stone by stone; the one thing in life you can say you own; there’s no deed to your wife and your body is on loan. Your Mind is a little house, a room in consciousness. Without the Mind as your home base, you’ll buy from any quack who comes along; without a house built on rock, you will sell your soul for a song. It’s body, Mind, spirit, so the philosophers say; cut out the middle and you’ll pay for what you slay: your body will decay and your spirit will not play. A Mind is another step along the line of space; miss that step and you’ll fall down upon your face. Even worse than a no Mind is the curse of a Blind Mind. Those who don’t know it and have to prove it set a snare in their lair. You can tell if a Mind’s in hell: it’s Blind as a bat and unkind as well. A Kind Mind would not knock down towers in pursuit of powers; nor call nine one one on nine eleven and make a hell out of heaven; then blame the wrong one for what they themselves have done. Blind Minds play war games in white houses and play Mind games with see through blouses. My Kind of Mind is not easy to build; takes a structure of justice, not just the gild. Whatever your art, start with your heart: Love is the floor and everything more. Love is Kind, the Earth Lover said; she wasn’t Blind from books that she read. Love made a home in the streets of Rome but she wasn’t Blind to the roaming Mind; imperial power has its brief hour but Love lives forever in a house on the heather, holding us together in all kinds of weather. Loving Lover, lovely mother, would you Mind to be Kind; my Mind’s made up, my house is too. My Mind is Kind and my spouse is true. I won’t Mind, if I find: my house is you.”
Dennis: playful and relaxed…good to see you back. As for metaphor: An early computer program tasked with translation was stumped by this metaphor: ” Out of sight, out of mind” It translated it “blind and crazy” and so it seems people have become in this computer oriented world. The word play is enjoyable here outside of an tense/ intense world. . thank you for your contribution. Gambol on!
Thanks, teranam 13. Your computer snafu example was delightful. I have mood swings from playful to woeful which can be awe-full or awful. While I’m feeling up, here’s a couple more to tease the mind; the first a koan and the second a poem:
Tests have shown that a split second after you move your arm, you have a thought to move it.
I don’t pay no never mind
To the reasons I can’t find
They cannot put me in a bind
If their questions don’t unwind
Oh mind of me, can you see
Where you stand sequentially
You have great ability
But please use it fittingly
The biggest built computer
Is only a minor commuter
Only one of the players
On a team of many layers
If you’re too big for britches
A needle will sew you stitches
And keep your butt in place
With tempered steel lace
Input your clever operation
According to your station
Through teamly mediation
Mind your manners, mend your fences
Put in line your mental senses
Here you go Dennis, some bumf for your koan.
Its a well known phenomenon to anyone who has done any long-term practice of any skill. When I first worked in casinos, I had to pay attention when doing mental calculations for about the first three years. After that I got better and faster results by ‘not’ paying attention, getting out of my own way. Its also the reason that soldiers and musicians drill or practice so repetitively, so that the response precedes the thought—useful in fast-moving situations. Your brain is a muscle (not literally, of course), designed to be used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory
please assume that i assume that that is not anti-Denny clickbait
I like it very much.
Here’s another computer translation tale:
The computer scientists wanted to test machine translation by translating a message from English to Russian, then back to English.
The message they chose was ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’. The machine whirred, the message went from English to Russian and back to English…
“The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten”.
Welcome back Dennis Boy ! your long poem in prose format is impressive and delightful to read. I’m glad to see the old guard coming together again (teranam, thank you also for your poem). You know guys, its like when somebody takes your hand when crossing the street – you know what I mean.
A good piece from MoA on Venezuela developments, ‘Guaido Got Snookered’:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
The Venezuela situation reminds me of what happened when the USSR “failed” and industries and resources were “privatized”. The US push is to “privatize” the oil industry in Venezuela. In the USSR/Russia situation, citizens were given “vouchers” that gave them a “claim” regarding ownership of state industries/property. The people were snookered out of their “vouchers” for pennies on the ruble and oligarchs were created overnight worth billions. Something similar happened after the US Civil War when Southern blacks were given “40 acres and a mule”. Northern “Carpetbaggers” coerced/convinced many blacks to sell their “vouchers” for pennies on the dollar for said land. I’ve read (just sayin’) that the “Chosen People” seem to heavily populate these “Carpetbaggers” in history. I’ve also read (just sayin’) that there is a population of “Chosen People” of about 30k in Venezuela.
I’m kinda of the opinion that people born on a particular piece of earth should profit first and most from the resources under their feet. This is not an “ism” but fairness. The “coup” in Venezuela has and will fail because a critical mass of world citizens now have access to info detailing the “one trick pony” actions of the bad guys.
I think it will fail too, but that won’t stop them trying again, in Venezuela or anywhere else. That’s the problem with the ‘one trick ponies’, all they know how to do is to ‘double down’ every time, not actually re-think the whole scenario.
They are as trapped in their destinies as they hope to trap the rest of us in their scams. In that sense the web is a godsend, so long as people don’t completely abandon thinking and action in the real, not virtual, world.
The rape of the Soviet economy was overseen by a cabal of US ‘economists’ led by Jeffrey Sachs, most of whom were Jews. The oligarchs who led the rapine were almost all Jews. That fact was, of course, first denied amidst much hissing and spitting of denunciations of ‘antisemitism’, then, when admitted, was portrayed as evidence of ‘Jewish entrepreneurship’ caused by years of ‘Soviet ‘antisemitism’, that had forced the poor dears into becoming ruthless. predatory, parasites. And the fact that claiming that criticisms of blood-sucking thieves and parasites who caused huge human suffering was ‘antisemitism’ implies that such behaviour is somehow innately Jewish, was, naturally, overlooked by the presstitute vermin. But then again logic, honesty and basic commonsense are not their fortes.
Header Photo 5/1/19
Night Time Party People
It is getting started–the nightly cafe frolic
in a site so urban yet with stream bucolic
their minds and hearts waxing symbolic
thus beating the worlds heart’s systolic
Things are heating up on the world stage; hard to keep up. Two articles just went up on the main page: the head of the Russian GRU on Venezuela and the US, and a Saker arranged transcript of al-Baghdadi, who was declared dead by Russia and the US but apparently is still alive.
Saker’s point about the difference between fanatics and the majority of common people is important. The extremists in Islam, Israel and the US; and down the line are the problem but not entirely — a dark, shadowy Overlord is controlling them, imo.
The Overlords are hard to spot but their tracks are all over the place. They are the ones who control the money, and leverage their power through the BIS, IMF, and Central Banks. The financiers pay the armies and agents of Empire. In the global age, everyone feels their boots to some degree.
Steve Pieczenik said that now political truth is enforced mainly through fiction. Hence, we have fake news, fake shootings and bombing, fake deaths, fake 9/11’s, fake elections, fake nuclear bombs (there are none) and fake everything — with just enough real stuff to make the fake stuff go down. The latest to stir the cauldron of chaos and fear are the fakes in Christchurch, Sri Lanka and San Diego, and the fakes behind the real Notre Dame Burning. If you think these events are real, you better check your dosages.
The good news is that when you see how much is faked, your fear goes down a mile. Don’t worry, the world is not going to explode; the Families only want you to think that so you’ll keep paying your taxes and be good little slaves.
It’s all orchestrated from the top of the pyramid by the trillionaire mob families for more money, power, control, fear, chaos, confusion and relief from their devils within. There may be one man who is The Man in charge in a long bloodline spanning centuries. I personify this idea through the antagonist novel character Count Khazar, according to the Pieczenik fiction theory.
The Man at the pyramid top is terrified of the hoards below; so with his endless money he hires boards upon boards and agents upon agents to do his dirty work. He operates out of bunkers in Transylvania, not far from Dracula’s Castle.
The Shadow knows…. all and controls all with the latest technology and human talent. His spies are everywhere. He is particularly on the lookout for black swans and white crows; unexpected events that he did not approve.
His biggest project now is the bri, formerly known as obor. The Shadow’s marketing experts said bri sells better than oh-bore, hence the change of words. The Count is building a world wide web of land, air and sea connections; a black widow web and Venus trap, marketed as a world tech savior. If China was in charge of obor, it might do some good; but China is not at the controls — Israel is! Do your own research.
One of his bloodline predecessor’s show The Plan 500 years ago with the Bunting Cloverleaf Map. It shows a three leaf clover of Europe, Asia and Africa, with Israel at the center of what was the old silk way and is now the new silky bri way.
At the lower left margin of the map there is a small piece of the Americas, mostly off the map; in other words the East and West. It gives us a big picture view of what is happening now.
Here is where Donald Trump enters the picture. He is one of the Shadow’s agents who has made a deal with the Count to build Greater Israel in the East. In exchange, Trump gets to be Commander of the Americas in the West. You can see this playing out in South and Central America and Canada now.
Trump has taken quite a beating in the gentle vineyard over the past month. He deserves it of course. He made a deal with the devil, I hear. He will help Anglo-Zionists annex the Golan Heights, to be followed later by Gaza and the West Bank; he has already moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. Eventually the Oded Yinon Plan for Greater Israel will be completed, thanks to the good start given by Potus the Powerful.
“Here’s the deal: you have to help me (says Trump) Make America Great Again. You get your Promised Land all the way from mid-Nile Egypt up to Turkey, and from the Med Sea to the Red Sea and Euphrates according to the 1500’s Bunting Cloverleaf Map with Israel at the center of the New Silk Land, Air and Water Roads, with cyber control of all currencies and armies — but I, Donald Trump, get control of the Americas, as predicated by the Bunting Map from 500 years ago, and confirmed by the Balfour Declaration; which depicts Israel at the center of the three leaf clover of Europe, Asia and Africa; while a tiny bit of the Americas is shown at the lower left corner with most of it off the map. And I, Trump the Great, get to get out by faking my death, and retiring to my mansion hideouts –before the collapse.
This is the Art of the New Deal, a deal that no party can refuse, the new Cold War of the Bipolar reality behind the Multipolarity hoax. That too is a lie because a Unipolar world lurks in the shadows which may eventually trigger the final battle of Apocalypse Now between Zionist East and American West. The Messiah King of the World will then emerge in all his gory glory. More likely, the planet will become one huge prison; with more profit for the governors.
Trump was here three or four days ago just down the road in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I know it’s true because I saw his hour long speech on Fox News. I never saw the like. The place was packed to the rafters with red hats; plus fifty thousand outside who couldn’t get in. The place rocked. Might have been Donald’s greatest speech.
I was swept along in the Red Sea by the Greatest Actor of our time; no Apprentice now. What humor, wit, repartee, irony, passion and sarcasm. I was later horrified by liberal Nephew Steven pointing out that I was a closet fascist, after I remarked how Steven would have hated the speech. Ouch. I am red, black and blue but given the choice will take the red conserving pill rather than the blue self-serving one.
I can’t deny I like The Donald and Dear Melanie in comparison to Aunt Hillary and Uncle Bill. It must be an emotional thing for me since it doesn’t make sense and contradicts my principles. But horrors, the likes of Hillary, Bernie, Sleepy-Creepy Joe, Pocahontas, Pelosi, Mueller, Maxine Waters and the twenty some Demo candidates make my skin crawl.
Some say the Trumper Red Hats are like the Nazi Brown Shirts. Maybe, but there’s a difference. Hitler and Mein Kampf were underwritten by the Shadow’s committee who had not yet read The Art of the Deal. The only time Trump showed real anger on video was when someone said he kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches in a drawer by his bed. How would that honey trap know anyway? Give the fella a break: he’s only playing ‘bad cop’ to everyone’s ‘good cop.’
Donald is an individual who wrote the book on dealing, with fourteen years as Apprentice actor and a lifetime of dealing with the New York Jewish mafia, being part Jew himself. In public he’s as clean as a whistle; his private affairs have all been whitewashed; and Mueller with his Russia probe knew it since he was in on the scam from the beginning. All these stooges are paid actors.
Of course, coarse Donald ain’t no saint; he’s an ain’t saint as opposed to a quaint saint. There have been plenty of quaint saints but have they stopped the Empire? Maybe it’s time to give an ain’t saint like Donald a chance. I mean Jesus was no quaint saint, the way he cussed the hypocrites and overturned their money tables and tablets. I am not saying Donald is another Jesus but both dealt with ‘real politik.’
Maybe Donald will turn on a dime and turn out to be a black swan or white crow. The Count puts special operators and doubles on these unstable assets so it’s unlikely that Donald could get away with it. Nevertheless, there’s a force the Overlord senses he can’t control which keeps him awake at night. For lack of better words, I call this opposition the Love Army and Bower.
No doubt one of the Count’s monitors will want to pass my post on up the chain of command but when they see what a fool I am, they will trash it; if the mods here don’t do it first. In the mean time I’m on the edge of my cafe seat to see how long the Trump-Count deal lasts. I suspect there’s only one man at a time who can be The Man.
Hello Dennis … I would like to see you team up with your next door neighbour and together rock the world …
Brother Nathanael
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhOtKbAIDVI
Brendon O’Connell must be up and running again.
Two things from memory:
The most vile sexual explicit innuendo toward woman truth tellers. I’m pretty tough skinned really (one gets that way on the internet) but if I say vile, I mean vile. Most everybody in the truth telling community has been slandered by this man.
And then, something that I remember – Russia cannot design a toilet, so they steal all their technology.
O’Connell’s religion is that both Russia and China steal all America’s wonderful technological advances and they steal it via Israel. And Belt and Road is evil beyond anything we’ve ever seen.
That is all. And to prove that, he pulls together a bunch of material, often business press releases, and ‘proves’ his rantings.
Simple message he has …
Russia – truly bad
China – very very bad
Belt and Road – evil bad
Israel – gets put in where he has nothing to say – easy to criticize Israel because they are probably guilty of whatever they get accused of.
United States – very very very good and being taken to the cleaners by Russia, China and of course, Israel and this is very very bad.
Now, give me money because I am suffering and I have no money and I’m the best of the best, the only one with the truth.
Wow Dennis? And then you slip in something “No doubt one of the Count’s monitors will want to pass my post on up the chain of command but when they see what a fool I am, they will trash it; if the mods here don’t do it first.”
Care to say some more on that accusation?
Israel in charge of China!!?? Priceless!!!
Wouldn’t you love a job where you could just collect £153 or £305 a day without having to do anything?
You’d think given the cushy number they’re on the Lords wouldn’t want to do anything to draw too much attention to themselves. But those feather-bedded, taxpayer-subsidised parasites now have the nerve to call for the benefits of other pensioners, to be scrapped, under the guise of promoting ‘intergenerational fairness’!
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201904251074463539-house-of-lords-pensioner-benefits/
( Grrrr )
Alex Jones et al ….take heed of this one
https://theduran.com/venezuela-is-a-dark-mirror-into-populisms-soul/
Nasrallah has made another speech, in which he describes the balance of terror between Israel and Lebanon, and the consequences of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which he says will end with the internationally-televised defeat of Israel.
Here’s a summary of Nasrallah’s latest speech:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/every-israeli-force-that-enters-lebanon-will-be-destroyed-nasrallah/
Max Blumenthal has a new book out. The Management of Savagery : The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs.
Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil.
These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post–Cold War age. Trump’s dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.
A discussion – Blumenthal and Lee Camp – starting with Max’s visit to Venezuela.
https://www.rt.com/usa/458285-blumenthal-trump-alqaeda-franchise/
The ebook is a little costly but I think I’m going to shake the pennies from the piggy bank for this one.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/588695/the-management-of-savagery-by-max-blumenthal/9781788732284
Here’s an interesting coincidence, or perhaps correlation, indicating that there is an integrated plan at work, possibly. Alain Soral has been sentenced to a year in prison in France for publishing a cartoon on his website on the same day that Assange was physically removed from the Ecuadoran Embassy.
The video speech (English subtitles) he gives here is profoundly illuminating of the general direction France (and the rest of the west) is following, moving from a rule of law to a tyranny:
http://www.unz.com/article/prison-for-a-cartoon-in-the-france-of-voltaire/
The end of the vid depicts Notre Dame burning, watched by citizens on the street. According to Meyssan at Voltaire, Micron rushed through laws to prevent investigation of the fire and to block any possibilities of preservation orders on Île de la Cité which has been earmarked for two years already to become a themed tourist site, not the administrative centre it currently is.
It is prime real estate, no wonder there were immediate pledges of billions for the rebuilding as a secular paying attraction from various long-pocket investors, as soon as the cathedral burned and before the flames were out and the damage properly assessed.
Dwindling In Unbelief
How many has God killed? Complete list and estimated total (Including Apocryphal killings)
I kill … I wound … I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and mine sword shall devour flesh.
— Deuteronomy 32:39-42
The table shows two numbers: the number given by the Bible, if any, and an estimate,
when no biblical number is available.
Total number killed by God in the Bible
– Using biblical numbers only: 2,821,364
– With estimates: 25 million
https://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2010/04/drunk-with-blood-gods-killings-in-bible.html
… music break with Cheb Khaled …
صاحبة السعادة | اداء مبهر للشاب خالد في غناء “ Aisha – عائشة “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03dUC9afpec
… continuing with Cheb Khaled …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpg0lvxRMvI
Dear friends, we are gathering here primarily not for fun(we may do that also from time to time just to keep our sanity) but in fact we are fighters. What are we fighting ? and whom are we fighting against ? here is a list of the same passage from Bible, from different perspectives :
(Sideline : the forces of darkness have their representatives here on earth, many of whom we know by name)
Ephesians 6:12
King James Bible
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
New International Version
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
New Living Translation
For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
English Standard Version
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Berean Literal Bible
because to us the wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Christian Standard Bible
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.
Contemporary English Version
We are not fighting against humans. We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world.
Good News Translation
For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.
International Standard Version
For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because your fight has not been with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and The Rulers and The Powers of this dark world and with wicked spirits which are under Heaven.
Darby Bible Translation
because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.
Weymouth New Testament
For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world–the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.
I have received this picture now from Budapest, I share it immediately
An excellent image about the broke Notre Dame – moveilable
https://gigarama.ru/notredame/
More Quigley based information about the evolution of the deep state: It appears now due to DNA evidence that the person thought to be John Wilkes Booth ( killer of A. Lincoln) and who was conveniently burned to death in a barn was not him. And so the patterns continue.
https://theduran.com/the-origins-of-the-deep-state-in-north-america/
There is a fabulous joke and giveaway in that interesting piece,
“All three characters were also highly influenced by John Ruskin, the leader of the “artistic” branch of British Intelligence led by the “Pre-Raphaelite Society”, giving away that the writer has absolutely no clue about the artistic temperament or artistic process.
Ruskin, being a writer, was an influencer of, not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters,–never a Society. He was most famous for marrying the girl of his dreams but being repulsed on his wedding night when she turned out to be a normal human woman and not the cool, smooth image of perfection he expected from his immersion in the fashionable images of Greek goddesses and statuary. He was so divorced from reality that he remained unmarried and terrified of real women for the rest of his life. The Brotherhood, (at most 7 painters) meanwhile, had quite a debauched time with a succession of their very beautiful ‘artists models’ (loose women)and produced some glorious paintings on the side. They also invented and practiced a new technique in painting and pioneered a new and naturally based realism in the subject matter, which was revelatory at the time given the previous very strict and formal rules for painting (overseen and patronised by the church authorities) they were kicking against.
Only a fervid adherent of the LaRouche agenda could link that artistic movement and call it a ‘branch of British Intelligence’.
He is right of course about the machinations the British Empire went through to maintain its stranglehold on its Empire, but that is the province of how power works, how all empires are forced to behave (brutally) in order to maintain power, not how intelligence works.
One Minion (of what??…other than “NOT the “LaRouche Agenda” whatever your idea of that is…..LOL……other than “making us British subjects a bit too uncomfortable about our rulers and our toleration of them”….perhaps??? ) I’ve been out of the loop, really too busy to follow all of the conversations here, but I immediately find in your short one on Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, very fertile ground for discussion and learning!
Could you link to the comment where that subject began, here? I’d love to participate!
Not because I am any expert on art history but because I am convinced that “politics is downstream of culture” …and art …including painting……is part of culture…………either of the ascending, improving sort or its degenerating opposite…and most definitely a concern of intelligence services….for that very reason: to strengthen allies and weaken adversaries in a system based on adversarial “survival of the fittest” Darwinian….Empire based hell.
Jimmie Moglia’s latest article touches on these very topics in a particularly provocative way, BTW. I just finished reading it. Dovetails nicely into our group discussion!
On the Larouche Agenda…..you are correct…despite Lyndon’s recent death on Lincoln’s Birthday, 2019, it does live on! Most vividly in OBOR…the Death Knell of British Geopolitics….the Venetian spell that England has been under for three centuries…….
Could you give a very brief synopsis of what that “agenda” is, from your perspective, why and how it lives on, and also why it should either continue to live on….. or better, in your view…..not?
Aristotelians separate different topics (including art!) and disciplines into an endless train of disconnected “categories” which are ruled by definitions and rules, postulated and unproven axioms the better to exert mind control and suppress creativity and intelligence of the subjects of oligarchical rule..
Platonists do the opposite.
Raphael di Sanzio was most definitely not an Aristotelian.
The British educational system most definitely IS.
And yes, it has been imposed on “the colonies” as well. So I know what discomfort feels like! LOL.
Cheers!
May an illusionary magician do a tap dance on the head of a pin as he attempts to answer your question(s) and we await for both to arrive on a timely manner.
Forgive me, but I am crying with laugher! Good comment!
Its there on the page Bro, I commented on a linked article that is on the page. As to ‘one minion’ of what, it is one minion amongst the billions of others currently trying to scrape a living on this earth.
The British Empire is over, finished, colonies gone and its military power toothless—- to everyone except the LaRouchies it seems and a few deluded throwbacks like Boris Johnson and the unlamented Gavin Williamson who live and breathe on the fumes of past glories.
I got that from you, mainly, forever trying to absolve the US of its many crimes by claiming it is still under Britain’s thumb. It is laughable, but I’ve done some background reading and it is apparent that your Lyndon definitely had a bug in his britches regarding the now defunct British Empire (which has its own string of horrors and atrocities to be responsible for without trying to shift the blame elsewhere) since his followers work that one into every piece they publish. Its like ‘spot the ball’ in identifying a Larouchie, and becomes quite tedious eventually.
As to the rest of your questions, you will have to make them clearer as I cannot see any reason to suppose that 7 moderately successful (in their time, now mostly forgotten) painters were employed as the ‘artistic’ arm of British Intelligence with the express purpose of subverting the masses into deviancy. Look at the work, its on the net and covers mostly bible stories, heroic figures and moral comment. Perhaps Larouche knew something that I have missed. If that is the case, a link from you proving the personnel make-up of the ‘artistic arm of British Intelligence’ would be welcome.
@ Павел (Paul) on May 02, 2019 · at 6:57 pm EST/EDT
Hello Dennis … I would like to see you team up with your next door neighbour and together rock the world …
Brother Nathanael
Thanks, Paul. I am another Brother Nathanael with some differences. I was in the monastery for a dozen yeas, the last four also as a parish priest. I am a born preacher and proselytizer. I almost got banned here for those immature traits. Now I try to be a populist rather than proselytize. One of the many benefits to a community like this is to receive feedback on one’s faults.
Brother Nathanael is on the street doing his thing with tongue in cheek. I’ve been on the street in my own way. I ran for city council in Ojai back in 2006 and 2010. I was involved in a march on city hall for some cause or other. I spoke at city council for many years, Bro Nathanael style but gradually learned to be more political and humorous.
I was considering running again so I consulted with the local ‘deep throat’ insurance agent who sold to the local bosses, and knew where the native american bodies were buried in the days of Mayor Big Jim. He said that after two losses, and his own, I wasn’t cut out for the job because “It’s all about Dennis.”
I get that same reaction from Bro 93 who rightly points out my narcissism, egoism and solipsism. Again, the benefit of living in a small community, real or virtual.
one minion comes at the problem of proselytizing from another angle. Such preaching is covering up inner insecurity. That’s true in my case; I don’t know about Brother Nathanael.
In Ojai I lived on the street illegally (Street Legal according to Brother Bob Dylan) in my motor home or in the woods illegally or legally in shelters in the winter. “To be honest you have to live outside the law.” The homeless teased me as Mayor Leary. I was involved in a march on city hall to help the poor but nothing came of it.
Earlier in Milwaukee, as a priest and monk, I marched with Father Groppi for civil rights MLK style and against the Vietnam war. I’m too cowardly to be a street activist and I don’t think it really works, so I keep to the safe domains of writing. As a parish priest I saw the coffins return and later as an RN in the LA VA I heard the stories of the vets.
To show the dictum of ‘once a monk, always a monk’ here’s an excerpt from my diary about Orthodox Easter:
“I am glad the Saker is feeling better. I can feel the general sigh of relief. This past Sunday was Easter for Saker. After Catholic Mass this Sunday, I lit a candle for him under icons of the Black Madonna and Child Jesus painted on wood; flanked by Our Lady of Guadalupe and Baby and another Mother of God with characters that might have been Greek or Russian. Just to the right of the kneeler was a large statue of a modern devotional Jesus. My mind has developed from what I used to believe but I sure could feel that radiant ancient energy in whatever form it takes. I guess it’s that underlying, never lying or dying charge that draws me still to these old religious rites, like my good old days in the monastery and later the priesthood.”
Thanks, Paul. I am still getting to the Ezekiel part in your book. I ran across this in my love government diary about Ezekiel:
“Waking from a dream, I found myself in another dimension with lingering dreamy memories. A spinning eye in the sky looked through me. Symbols swam within it, psychic creatures ringed it and four writers formed four corners. I felt like Ezekiel on acid in his fiery chariot. Fiction was dancing with dreams.”
… Dennis, keep reading attentively because the prize is the proof of construction method.
I will state the truth again about one word “solutions” such as “ramp” or “ramps” … such a word tells us nothing … explains nothing, but is a convenient ploy in a world where people have little time to study and seriously question, especially with non-information amid television rhetoric.
We are told in a Guardian report, one of the ramps exists … some people believe this.
If something physical exists it can usually be photographed, but the article lacked a photograph.
Here is a link to some research friends who appreciate my work …
https://www.gigalresearch.com/uk/partenaires-gigal.php
… and the only book that explains Giza Pyramid construction can be purchased via Saker’s Communities … providing quality information and a democratic platform.
https://saker.community/product/raising-stone-1-paul-hais-racks-and-pinions-theory/
Do yourself a favour and get the real story, then talk to people, contact a real journalist, but if you lend this book it may not return … so I’m told … and it goes missing from public libraries, such as at the Homestead Library, Florida USA.
( The Saker deducts 50% of the book price … your automatic donation of support )
… photo gallery …
More than 100 antique aircraft deteriorate on a former Soviet air base in eastern Ukraine.
Some of these planes may be restored and some may be able to fly again due to their robust construction.
https://www.rferl.org/a/airfield-in-southern-ukraine-where-dozens-of-soviet-aircraft-wait-to-fly-again/29903188.html
Since 80% of browsers do not support Flash (by default none of them does anymore), and as Adobe cut it out as of next year, I’m now in the process of converting all of my online publications to HTML5.
Works on all platforms and OS.
Here is the new “Art of War”: http://fotovision.no/PublicationsNew/ArtofWar/
For those who have already book marked the flash version, no worry, adress is the same.
Kent
@ Kent … The Art of War has a font which is too packed together and hard to read.
Can the font be changed ?
Open it at its right size … a simple times new roman and easy to read.
Very beautiful Kent — Thanks.
Any chance we can make a downloadable ebook from that?
OK., Often I do not include the download option ( as .pdf) for several reasons. Could do, but what would be the point?, as it would not have the search engine included (ctrl+f might work, haven’t tested yet).
It’s free, it work’s, what more could you ask?.
Into looking glasses are you?? Some graphics were lost in transition, but what the heck. Looks okay?
http://fotovision.no/PublicationsNew/Alice/
Take care
Kent
click fullscreen, Double click on any page and the page will be VERY big. I am NOT going to change the fonts. to much work. Looking for quotes? use the search engine on right top. Spread it, it’s free for all.
Kent
FONT’S
Rather funny, sorry. I’ve got appr. 22.000 thousand of them in my Font manager. Quite a challenge on occasions, and more often than not.
As all graphical designers, I tend to stick with just a few for articles, billboards, magazines, and, for the “Faces of Evil” depictions some special ones, as you might have noticed. (hundreds).
Regards
Kent
P.S.
I am a very practical guy, and I do appreciate very much the book that you sent me (pyramids). Haven’t commented on it yet, as it is indeed a very complex subject,. Sorry, but eventually?
Kent
Guaidó in photo op as “sensual” model. I kid you not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Isx60WhUA
Kent
My adblocker … “Uorigin” … disappeared midday and Mozilla know about it, although I am not sure what is going on. The message they know has disappeared now … (your) internet connection is blamed.
Unable to re-install any adblockers.
YouTube adds will stop me watching YT … I cannot take any BS these days.
Installed Vivaldi with DuckDuckGo and went to RT News … What a MESS … Russian media is crazy,
but if it is filtered it’s just okay.
Using a P4 HT 3.2 GHz with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS … 32 bit (i386)
Using Mozilla Firefox browser with Startpage and DuckDuckGo search engines.
I am thinking Mozilla servers have been hacked ?
Mozilla changed something overnight … three of my Firefox ‘add ons’ were disabled by Mozilla (last night) with an attached message from Mozilla explaining a policy change .
For an ad blocker take a look at pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/ .. blocks ad’s on all devices attached to you home network … mod-hs
@ Hank the moderator … much appreciated … thankyou …
installed pinhole and uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill has returned with its red shield in the title bar with number of blocks displayed.
Peace has been restored to YouTube viewing.
This proves Mozilla Firefox is being dictated to and is not independent.
@ amarynth
Regarding Brendon O’Connell, I think he is the bravest truth-teller I know of. He has been jailed, exiled, bones broken, family members killed and persecuted for speaking truth to power. His street talk and coarse metaphorical rhetoric is the only language Empire understands. Let us just agree to disagree about the man.
You ask: “Care to say some more on that accusation?” I cannot because I made no accusation.
Thanks for your reply. Have a good day.
Here it Dennis – a little couched: “No doubt one of the Count’s monitors will want to pass my post on up the chain of command but when they see what a fool I am, they will trash it; if the mods here don’t do it first.”
Which chain of command? Are you inferring that here on The Saker Blog we are part of a ‘count’s chain of command’?
What are you saying here? Humor me.
It is Saturday and the yellow vests are out. I wake up every Saturday these days with a small hope that they will succeed for themselves, and also for us. But it seems brutal out on those streets.
So, Trump called Putin and the media is again in a frenzy. Where-ever one tries to read, someone wants to make something out of this conversation that perhaps did not exist.
Here is the Kremlin’s report.
Telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the United States of America Donald Trump, at the initiative of the American side.
May 3, 2019
19:30
The current state and prospects of bilateral relations were discussed with a focus on economic cooperation. The two presidents spoke in favour of developing mutually beneficial trade and investment relations. They affirmed their shared commitment to step up dialogue in various areas, including on issues of strategic stability.
Vladimir Putin informed Donald Trump of the key results of his April 25 meeting in Vladivostok with Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK Kim Jong-un, stressing that Pyongyang’s good-faith fulfilment of its commitments should be accompanied by reciprocal steps to ease the sanctions pressure on North Korea. Both parties noted the importance of consistent progress towards denuclearisation and achieving long-term normalisation on the Korean Peninsula.
The situation in Ukraine was touched on in the context of the recent presidential election. Vladimir Putin emphasised that the new leadership in Kiev should take real steps to implement the Minsk Agreements, which are critical to resolving the internal Ukrainian conflict.
While exchanging views on the situation around Venezuela, the President of Russia underscored that only the Venezuelans themselves have the right to determine the future of their country, whereas outside interference in the country’s internal affairs and attempts to change the government in Caracas by force undermine prospects for a political settlement of the crisis.
It was agreed to maintain contacts at various levels.
The two heads of state expressed satisfaction with the business-like and constructive nature of the conversation.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60469
So, they are not reporting the discussions on Trump approaching the issue of a nuclear agreement between US, Russia and China which the rest of the media reports. ‘Strategic Stability’ seems to be the words that are used here.
Just very interesting, this businesslike and clear report from the Kremlin, vs all the craziness everywhere else, including on Trump’s twitter.
On criticism, (L criticus, to judge), and the evil within, some negative aspects, (positives to follow..)
“We thought of that inquisitive spirit of criticism, who had made his entry even into our inner chamber.
We thought of him, with his eyes of ice and long bent fingers, he, who sits within in the darkest corner of the soul, and tears our being to pieces, as an old woman shred up bits of silk and wool.
Bit by bit, the long, hard, bent fingers had torn away, until our whole self lay there like a heap of rags, and our best feelings,our deepest thoughts, all that we had done and said, had been searched, explored, taken to pieces, gazed at by the icy eyes ; and the toothless mouth thad sneered and whispered—‘Behold, it is rags, only rags!”
By the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof
@ Paul
I am finally getting to read about Ezekiel in your book. I’ve scrolled back looking for the link but cannot find it. Could you send the link again or say on what date you sent the last one? Thanks.
This twitter account shows multiple videos of the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington – the US secret service is allowing a mob to attempt to break into the embassy, and allowing the mob to harass the defenders of the embassy, to cut off their food supply, etc.
Imagine if other countries allowed their mobs to attack the various US embassies around the world – the US is setting a very dangerous precedent here.
https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1124462256803205121
@ Dennis … go to my website …
http://www.haitheory.com and the slide studies are there.
Just read and absorb one by one (slide by slide) and any problems just yell out in this Cafe because there are folk here who have the book and bringing up any issues can be some of our Cafe talk.
Dennis, also read my article here …
The Documented Ancient Construction Method of The Great Pyramid
See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/science/142069-great_pyramid/
Okay, now my adblocker is working again, thanks to Herb (not Hank), here is something dramatic, athletic and joyful … VITAS “Криком журавлиным”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hd34c6569Q
Noodling – Perhaps Trump has a new opportunity. In a sense he was ‘protected’ against doing the right things with the extreme polarization in the US – and it was widely accepted that he could not move. With the Mueller report, that ‘protection’ is now lifted and perhaps he is now more free to do the right thing.
With Plumpeo and the Moustache man and all the war mongers in the current administration, he will probably have to stop the push to war – any war – besides trying to turn the economic Titanic in the US.
I think we’re up for interesting times and may well have to change or adapt our views, or perhaps not?
There is one startling change in what he says … previously he was only in favor of unilateral deals in his policy. But now, seemingly he wants a ‘nuclear deal’ with Russia and with China – clearly a multilateral initiative.
amarynth’s bringing up Brendon O’Connell has got me thinking about Empire and speaking truth to power. I was just scrolling back through the cafes, looking for a link of Paul’s. I was impressed with all the talking we do and energy we expend on Empire. I wonder how much good the talking does in actually stopping Empire.
I like Brendon because he walks his talk and has the wounds to prove it. I suppose I see in him what I lack. I’m a fearful coward basically which is probably why I talk so much about non-essentials to distract from that deficit. I am afraid to talk about what I do to stop Empire because it’s too counter-cultural and upsetting.
At the last cafe, I admired Cynthia Cruser for her take on diet and animal agriculture. One of the things I do to combat Empire is not to eat slaughtered animals or animal products. I believe that sets up a slippery slope to killing ourselves and others through the mechanics of cause and consequence. Defenders of the meat industry say we have canines but that’s not true; we have eye teeth which were needed to break the tougher skins of the fruit and veggies back then, which were way more nutritious. Carnivores have true canines which are needed to tear fur and tough hides. The meat business would also like us to believe that our brains needed meat to develop and that our guts are suited to meat. Not so. Our intestines are longer than those of carnivores for digesting fruit and vegetables. We don’t need multiple or strong enzyme resisting stomachs.
This is an example of how we have to get our basic physical facts straight before we can talk straight about stopping Empire. Our words are impotent if not backed by actual physical actions that are true to our nature. The Empire knows this which is why it pushes the meat industry down our throats. Humans kill billions of animals who suffer terribly which directly links to the horrible wars and suffering of humans. True facts will not be mocked. Thanks, Cynthia, for bringing this to my attention.
I also admire Rhisiart Gwilyn for bringing up the matter of endless growth on a limited planet. Once again, there are causal connections between actions; in this case human cancer and runaway technology. I consider the building of a world web under the control of one superpower a social cancer which will smother us in debt and swallow traditional cultures under false pretenses. I think the obor/bri dream is a nightmare scheme for Israel’s total domination of humanity.
I think this is in line with Brendon O’Connell’s main thesis about Israel’s world power grab playing out before our eyes. I’m grateful to amarynth for bringing my attention to Brendon so forcefully and to Paul for grounding pyramids on solid physics, another example of the need for getting our boots on the ground in stopping Empire.
@ amarynth
You have me laughing. Humor me indeed. That’s what we need more of for sure. Not sure if it’s your apparent softening on Trump or something I ate that makes me feel joyful. Thanks for getting me out of my doldrums.
Ok, let me try to clarify without muddying the waters even more. Here’s what you wrote. Thank the gods for copy and paste to not waste time. “Odds and ends, odds and ends, lost time is not found again.”
[Here it Dennis – a little couched: “No doubt one of the Count’s monitors will want to pass my post on up the chain of command but when they see what a fool I am, they will trash it; if the mods here don’t do it first.”
Which chain of command? Are you inferring that here on The Saker Blog we are part of a ‘count’s chain of command’?
What are you saying here? Humor me.]
I am referring to the Count’s monitors, not to the mods’ moderating. I meant the Count’s chain of command. I am definitely not inferring that we are part of the Count’s chain of command. I said that the Count’s spies would know from my writings that I am a fool, and being no threat, would simply trash my comment, rather than send it up their chain of command to Count Khazar. That’s part of my protection stratagem against Empire.
Unfortunately, I tried to slip in a little humor by saying that our mods will recall what I fool I am and also might trash my comment on that basis. As humor frequently does, it just caused confusion between the Count’s agents and our moderators. Sorry for causing the confusion; not surprising since I’m so confused myself. I have been known to shoot from the hip, sometimes I hit but mostly I miss. Luckily, the bullet ricochet missed a sharpshooter like yourself. If I’ve caused more confusion, let me know if you want. I’ll try fission rather fusion.
Thanks to the mods for suffering fools like me. “What fools these mortals be.” Bottom the Weaver, a humor provoking fool if there ever was one. No Empire Deceiver, he.