2019/05/15 02:00:01
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Trump intent on erasing Palestine
http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2019-05-13/trump-intent-on-erasing-palestine
“U.S. President Donald Trump has come up with what he calls the “Deal of the Century,” the sole purpose of which is to finally remove Palestine from the world stage and put an end to the existence of the state.
With great fanfare, the tycoon-come-president, using several of his advisors, intends to deceive the world with a formula to fully favor Israel and deny territory and freedom for the Arab population.”
The dump is proving to be quite a “role model” for israeli quislingship. No doubt future generations of young zionazi-gay quislings will look up to dump and worship him.
Some years ago a group of ultra-Orthodox Rabbis in Talmudistan, associated, if my memory serves me true, with the Chabad tendency, virulently attacked other Rabbis and their congregations, for being unprepared and unwilling for the future necessity of transporting the Palestinians (both West Bank and ‘Israeli Arabs’) to their deaths, or to expulsion. That, of course, is the extreme opinion of one group of Jews, but it is not completely outside the ‘mainstream’ anymore. One really has to fear for the Palestinians in the future, and we can be sure that anyone who dares to denounce that process, if it ever comes to it, will be viciously denounced as ‘antisemites’, and that Western politicians will either enthusiastically praise Israel for ‘fighting terrorism’ or impotently wring their hands in theatrical pretense that they are ‘concerned’.
The Deal of the Century: Trump Team and Netanyahu Conspire to Sell out the Palestinians
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-deal-of-the-century/
“The new plan, which is already being touted as the “Deal of the Century,” has been the product of a group of Orthodox Jews working for senior advisor and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, together with representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt and the U.S. (sic) Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
There are no Arabs or Muslims (or Christians) on the team” (well, naturally, goys aren’t that reliable – vt)
“All of the Kushner team supports Israel’s settlements,
Whether there are any actual American interests involved in the plan is unknown, but, given the make-up of Trump team, it is likely that there was an assumption that what is good for Israel is also good for the United States.”
The Kosher Kushnerites are all Orthodox, ie Pharisaical, Talmudic, Jews, ergo creatures who deny that the Palestinians, or any other goyim, are on the same supreme level of Creation that they occupy. The Palestinians, in other words, are simply dumb beasts in their minds.
But do they over look their ring around the collar dilemma? Or do they concentrate soley on their Grade A ness, and simply remain on their supreme level and control the population from there, inquiring minds want to know.
If you control politics, the fakestream media, the Ivy League colleges, the financial Moloch and the Departments of ‘Justice’ and the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, well then I rather think you have the most important bases covered. And if you then, being insatiable, criminalise all criticism of Israel or any Jew anywhere, as ‘antisemitism’ (thereby ending the First Amendment and Freedom of Opinion in an amazing coup)I believe you can see the mechanism of total control in clear view. Nothing mysterious about it all-under capitalism money power is the one and only and exceptional supreme power.
The strength of your voice, is directly dependent upon the size of your wallet.
Vot Tak, I think that the real document has not been published or issued. We’re still talking about a document that some Israeli outfit claims was leaked. The last thing that I saw, was that the ‘deal of the century’ will be released in June sometime. Not that I expect that it won’t be a bloodbath – but I think we’re working with a leaked document without assurance that it is the real thing.
The U.S. State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. Government employees from Iraq, both at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. Consulate in Erbil.
I have such an idea where the reliable ‘threat’ intel came from ;-)
Let’s expect a lot more of this the coming time.
And then the real headline busters will come, let me give some ideas:
“Iranians are throwing babies out of their incubators!” (Embassador daughters can be so reliable)
“Iranians have WMD!” (Oh, how is the American bioweapon facility in Georgia doing on this sunny day?)
“Iranians just used chemical weapons on their population!” (Skripal, anyone?)
“Iranians are starving their own people!” (You USA citizens, just wait until the China tariffs will hit you)
“Iranians just executed innocent people!” (The Saudis would, of course, never do such a vile thing)
Just insert a new one. Oh, and don’t forget to add ‘reasons to believe’, ‘highly likely’, ‘undisclosed but reliable sources’ and any other needed hot air to make it convenient.
Enjoy the ride, though it might be bumpy.
Cheers, Rob
Meanwhile, British spokesman says no increased threat, thereby infuriating centcom threat hypers and state dept. British spokeman will prob see new duty assignment in say bangledesh:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-15/top-british-commander-rare-public-dispute-us-over-iran-intelligence?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
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The Giraldi article from Unz I linked above covers all that and then some. Giraldi did his homework. He has an interesting theory that netanyahoo’s people, adelson & trump, were in on the leak for a duplicitous purpose.
Those interested in what that purpose is, read the article.
Satanyahoo, Adelson and Trump involved in ‘duplicitous purpose’? That looks awfully tautologous, or redundant, or ‘stating the bleeding obvious’ to me.
I’m looking with amusement onto the continuing chaos in the UK with their ‘Brexit’. Especially with EU parliament elections ahead.
For a time I thought that this was all a ‘wicked game’, orchestrated by vile puppet players behind the screen.
But now just take a look at Theresa May. This infertile (that’s almost an obligation in the EU) entity has such strange, lifeless eyes, just like Mark Zuckerdroid.
More and more I get the idea that we have here a typical example of what they call in HRM ‘the Peter principle’. That is the phenomenon, that an employee gets promoted up to and including his first level of incompetence.
Right now, we might rebrand this theory also to ‘the Pompeo principle’.
And maybe it isn’t even a first level of incompetence. I was also thinking of the novel ‘Being there’ by Jerzy Kosinski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There_(novel)
I have seen the movie, this character Chance was played brilliantly by the late Peter Sellers. Just a gardener, rats *ss dumb, only looks tv, and everybody thinks he’s a genius.
I got the idea that maybe we have quite some of such types in places of power nowadays. With sometimes some charisma, but clueless.
When I wasn’t worried already, for sure I’m now.
Cheers, Rob
You should be worried, the private side of the federal reserve is/was chauncy, just as you described only worse, probably the center of the satanical universe from all the data that has be accumulated.
And elections?, what a joke, brexit proved it, just like political media voting surveys, if they can be so wrong about hillary, so close to the election, have not they lost all credibility to all except the talking heads media.
Tip of the day: Recognize a joke when you see one, otherwise, one becomes the greater fool.
May have been childless involuntarily, but she is certainly one that we might be glad did not pass on her genes. I rather suspect that she is one of those tormented by elf-loathing, that drag themselves to the top of the political dung-heap in order to better torment others-she is a Tory after all. Another type of human monster, the Boris Johnsonian megalomaniac, is far more dangerous, if less insidious.
Yesterday in the last Café Alabama said:
“You know there is a rather nasty gvt(s) war on real woman dont ya? You might want to simply watch from the sidelines rather than get to personally involved. The mentally deranged cum in all shapes and sizes.
Lovers know all there is to know.”
I don’t know what passivity and reticence will accomplish, Alabama. Can you be more explicit with your reasons for such a recommendation?
What I DO know is that there is an Elite determination to crush Care (they have annual rituals about doing so, and not just at the “All Men’s” Bohemian Grove…….and their “immolation of Care” favorite “elite” indoctrination, in favor of being a bunch of real pricks (so to speak….LOL) toward humanity in general is a Grove Mainstay.
And Care is associated a bit more heavily with the Feminine Aspect of humanity than the Masculine…..although each aspect ideally will share some attributes of the major strengths of the other…..
And then there is 911 whose ritualistic aspects I have broken down before your comments arrival here.
If you didn’t see that, I will gladly repeat it for you..
It actually involves the erasure of the Feminine entirely from the masonic dual original WTC towers of Masculine AND Feminine and the “erection” of a phallic structure with the address of “1 World” Trade Center.
But that’s nothing new in Empire Erection…..and deflating and fading away across millenia.
And plenty of Women such as CZ Knight eagerly participate, you see???
Yeah! What is it with those women eh? Emasculating men and unfeminizing themselves to a dronelike androgyn? One can only use very bad language (grins).
Do not over think this, 911 could have its origins with a guy cutting down a couple sequoia trees for all we know.
And I believe in a woman God, so anything that does not contribute to her success(s), is more a part of the problem than the solution.
Get political with it and now you are a contributor to destruction of the human race, not a place one wants to be associated with if on the right side of nature, if on the wrong, it all ends in war.
@Alabama
Just for the sake of good order.
You believe 2+2=7 or 2+2=5 but you KNOW 2+2=4. Saying there can be only 1 truth and only many lies.
Thus following the scriptures God is neither man or woman but the universal spirit who created both and everything.
… Movie Time … “The Spanish Gardener” …
Dirk Bogarde … colour … 1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VByQCb79sL4
( stick around for Jose playing a national ball game using a spoon bat and you are into the movie until the end )
“What an excellent movie. Great plot. good volume, and great color. The scenery and setting was so beautiful.”
Good film, tough relationship between father and son, the former being jealous on the gardener who became good friends with his son, a little drama with tense feelings with the unforgettable Dirk Bogarde.
Thank you for sharing !
ioan … as a general rule, films made by The Rank Organisation are usually of a good standard.
I enjoyed the film, but have to wonder how the lad and his dad found their way individually to the Old Mill on a treacherous rainy and windy night.
The theme of the film is based on human psychology, as you rightly point out.
“Defeminisation” is a mental or spiritual question, the way we use our minds, and image is secondary, a back-up force for different forms of femininity. Power dressing is all about a woman projecting confidence, aggressively tinged speech and thinking approaches to life.
Why ? To more easily achieve the status and recognition men acquire naturally. This has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with feminine intelligence or confidence.
The whole thrust of our societal male/female melt-down is deliberate : to obscure and inhibit the role of women to the point of obliteration.
If one is lucky and well educated, loved and brought up with care, then one has choices. If not, the picture is rather different. 150 years ago women in the UK suffered the workhouse for having an illegitimate child, now the infant is routinely taken from institutionalized teenagers at birth. The mothers suffer terribly, and what happens to the babies I wonder… These are young women caught in the vicious circle of child abuse, domestic violence from early childhood. It is unimaginably cruel.
A adopting femininity in order to substantiate ambition is an old hat, so to say.
What is the answer, I don’t know, but being aware and awake, observing what is happening, and thinking about it, is the very least we can do.
As for the power of true femininity, the Goddess, she’s the one you don’t see, but intuit as best as possible. The beautiful woman. What you don’t see, what is hidden and contains mystery, can be shown and revealed, but will shortly vanish from the face of the earth.
I don’t disagree Angelina. But these days we’re not doing ourselves any favors. To grasp power by selling out what we are innately is also not working for us. We may be getting the jobs (and sometimes the salaries), but we’re killing ourselves to do so. And then, there are no decent role models .. I can name them but we all know them – women of the kind that I do not want to be.
Its pretty screwed up. Paglia is about doing the best work out there and this does not mean she is the be-all and end-all. But at least she is reaching for rationality and getting punishment for it.
https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/free_women_free_men
You know there are as many different types of woman as their are bra sizes, they all have different needs and methods to accomplish their individual tasks, this is not a one glove fit all situation. Ergo, the terrible war(s) on woman.
I think this subject could be a heavily commented subject in itself. That’s up to the captain(s) on this blog. Still, I want to support Angelina because I hope to understand what she means.
We could discuss our *sses up on what ‘real masculine’ and ‘real feminine’ mean. I don’t want to dive to deep into that, I think the world has evolved in a quite positive way, but we are also exaggerating here and there.
Just for the moment of a few days in this Cafe, , let me give some examples.
It may not be a surprise that I am from W-Europe, and an industrial engineer. That’s one of the most ‘woman-unfriendly’ environments that you can imagine. But still.
Many years ago, a new mechanic was introduced at my work. Yeah, diversity! The manager ordered to erase all the posters with boobies and open fleash wounds, expectable in such an environment.
She came, a very sympathic woman I must say. She got her ritual overhanding of her gears, looked at it, took out a hammer, and said disgusting ‘What a piece of crap. Do I really have to work with this?’ Well, all ice was broken, and I have seen her working on the most complicated equipment. She really was a professional. Everybody accepted her.
Second example, not too long ago. I have worked with an operator. You know, we don’t look pretty in working clothes because that has other functions. And, it is physically challenging too. Quite some do that in this region. Never have I got the impression that she is not ‘feminine’, on the contrary, she is very charming. In the weekends she works for the fire brigade of a big city here. As feminine and charming as she is, she won’t hesitate for a moment to grab her gear and run into a burning building in order to rescue people, -and don’t underestimate this, out of some personal experience I have the utmost admiration for fire brigade people- she just does that.
Compare that to some late articles of an American woman being a firefighter, with some hesitations of her environment that ‘it’s not suited for women’. Well, just shut up.
You don’t have to be a Madeleine Albright to do an admirable job. Please don’t. One is already too much ;-)
Cheers, Rob
I’m late to join this thread, and a rare commenter…. apologies!….and my comment will most likely go unread, but, but, but….I’m an architect-engineer, a female, and have spent decades on work sites and running an office undertaking large, complex jobs. What I know from MY personal experience is that as far as work is concerned, as long as you are truly competent, sincere and dedicated to the job at hand it makes no difference if you are a man or woman. That is, inside the greater team. The same applies in my office: I get rid of the dross architects & keep the best AND reward them – whether man or woman – because our field of work is a team work and the success of a project depends on the quality of all the contributers i.e. architects, engineers, building specialists, site workers etc.
I note that working men on site have never had a problem with me (we are workers together!), but some clients do…they prefer to have a male head up the job. In that case, I attend meetings with my senior male associate and let him appear in charge. American feminists might scream at this but it doesn’t bother me. My interest is the project itself and I see the clients preference as cultural or personal. It’s his or her problem and I must accommodate it.
And this is really my point. It really IS a matter of culture, even in Europe itself which is no monolith. The clients who want males in charge tend to be those from the supposedly “liberated” “feminist” north – UK, Germany, NL etc. And again, even in UK, Germany, NL etc, it is only this top layer of the job that is concerned about this, not the working team.
The clients who are unperturbed tend 90% to be from the Mediterranean, where there is a long history of women being in charge in the absence of men due to being sea-based cultures and the men away on voyages for years on end. AND farming. And trading. In fact the cultures of the old Hellenic world naturally accept that women work and there have been no barriers to this. There was no “liberation” work-wise needed in the south – women have run business empires, ship fleets, farms, shops. the Byzantine empire itself over millennia. The point here is that work (competence) is viewed as one thing, a necessity and noble in itself [orare est priere] – and masculinity / femininity is quite another. The “non-working” women were in harems, a fate no free woman desired, and no man would want for the women of his family since the harem were essentially trafficked slaves.
I had the delightful experience in Libya to be involved peripherally on a project with Gaddafi, who favoured women for everything from his personal security guards to his engineers. That was interesting. And his employees were extremely feminine. Femininity is NOT about work or defined by work. At least in this part of the world.
I note too that the Mediterranean is least “liberated” in terms of LGBT on the one hand, which is basically laughed at, AND in relation to American feminism which is seen as a fraud, whose true purpose was economic, forcing mothers out of household child raising into low class wage slavery, limiting the amount of children and forcing grandparents to step in. NOT very liberating in our view.
Last but not least, there is no ONE way for male and females psyches as made clear by mythology. There are many archetypes of woman – Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite, the Furies, the Amazons – and many archetypes of men – Hephaistos, Ares, Hector, Odysseus, Chronos. And each archetype carries within it evil and good.
I believe sexual reproduction, ie the division of species into male and female, is about 1,200 million years old, is it not? And our ancestors then were primitive eukaryotes. Women playing at men in a patriarchal society, in order to ‘succeed’ seems a waste of time to me. Of course people are entitled to do what they wish, so long as it does not harm others, but the dominance of men and women imitating men seems to me the root of much that is not beneficial in our rapidly self-destroying ‘societies’.
Well, you have a point.
I just wanted to say out of experience, that you don’t necessarily have to imitate men to mix in a typical manly environment. Please be yourself ;-)
And to support my admiration for fire brigade people, who risk their life in order to rescue others, let me add this link with the beautiful heroes salute that a Texas fire brigade gave to a retired famous rescue dog, on her final walk (she could barely walk anymore) to be put to her deserved sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0k5yt2H5l4
Cheers, Rob
The just passed cafe of 5/11/19 switched photos from the man with the big fist and an elderly lady on a bench to a coffee cup and coins. Why the change? Too ugly? I have a different idea that has nothing to do with the reason for the change. It fits with my overall thesis that most of the world is fake, what some of the old folks called ‘maya.’ I’ll give some possible examples; for example, photo shopped pictures. To avoid speculative misunderstanding, again I say that my point has nothing to do with how they were selected or by whom.
The original photo of 5/11 immediately struck me as faked. The man with the big fist was way too large in comparison with the woman. Looks like the two were pasted together. I suppose whoever did that was trying to make a point or a buck. I suspect the Empire paid for this. It is a campaign to portray the white male as dangerous and deranged, especially in regard to women. Getting a huge fist in your face is fear provoking; even if it is an iron fist in a velvet glove.
Separated sexes are less satisfied and more lonely; so they do more shopping, need more pharmaceuticals, drugs, entertainment and gadgets. This fills the coffers of the already rich. By separating sexes the Empire doubles the number of people who pay taxes. The CIA funded the feminist movement for this reason. Splitting the sexes also destroys civilization built on a moral and normal relationship of man and woman.
The replacement picture of 5/11 looks genuine enough but what kind of coins are these? Coins with holes are quite common, other than in countries that are more whole and holy, like the USA (that’s a joke, folks). Are the money powers saying that money has holes in it, and that we have holes in our heads for trusting it? The bosses love their inside jokes.
These can’t be bit coins since bit coins as a rule are not physical but are based on faith. Nothing wrong with faith if you’re in a small community where you know the folks behind the coins, but who is behind the airy-fairy money? The Shadow knows but he ain’t telling.
Bit coins are not worth two bits for suckers who get in late for the pyramid scheme. Those who get in early, usually the creators and always the rich bosses behind them, are the big fish who feed on the suckers below. All those who indulge in this kind of two bit, no cents nonsense are in it for the money and sometimes for the honey that this phony money buys. Someone said there’s a sucker born every minute; another said no, ten are born each minute.
Greed and insecurity suck; and usury is the biggest sucker of all. Religions and governments used to condemn the ‘use you-ry’ scam until the worshipers got suckered in themselves. Now making money with money is more popular than making out. Nothing wrong with money or crypto itself if it is a neutral medium of exchange, backed by the common good but those days are gone for good since the big fish ate most of the little fish. Now we swim in a money swamp, lick it or not.
Coins with holes cost less to produce but that’s not the reason for them since hard currency is made of the cheapest metal possible. Paper and plastic cost even less and digital moolah nothing. It used to be backed by something but now it is backed by nothing but faith in the fakers. The God of Money is pleased with himself; got himself on the dollar bill. In God we trust = in Money we trust. What a bust. You can’t really ‘live’ with money and you can’t live without it — unless you’re not living for this world.
The Empire worshipers think they are going to take their money with them. Maybe they are. It’s proven by the bible that the streets of heaven are paved with gold; who had to build the streets is never told, the ones who are bought and sold.
The money managers in their heavenly boardroom towers are clever with words. I mean, come on, ‘crypto’? Did they mean ‘cryptic’? Or was it a burial crypt? Crypto currency a grave interest? If I thought fiat hedges or fractional reserve lending is complicated, the crypto universe is a thousand times worse. It fits the Empire’s Operation Chaos and Confusion project. Talk about ‘nominalism’ according to the Bro Bible.
That’s not even mentioning the proliferation of cyber money brands, with suckers chasing after each one to get in early. Even if you do make a million on each shape shifting, what in hell good is it? Oh, it is hell, is it? A fool and his money are soon parted; death doth come soon. I could quote a long-ago tweet “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?” but I won’t. No money in it. Oh, I just did.
A global crypto web doesn’t have to be a ‘ripto’ ripped-off world. It could be healthy medium of exchange if human nature changed its base. That ain’t gonna happen according to the Empire Bible; over my dead body, say they. A good start would be to change the language, like from ‘crypto fear’ to ‘crystal clear’; cyrstos instead of cryptos. Subtle nominalism — you know, Bro know.
Anyway, I don’t know; I only feel what I feel. I’ll let the ‘brother bro’ and the ‘amarynth almanac’ sort that out with their new found alchemy.
Is this a rant or a chant? Or a cant that can’t? Whatever it is, you know which side of the fence I’m leaning towards. I like non-cancerous money. That’s why I don’t take interest on it and give two thirds away. If I didn’t have dental or medical bills (I haven’t had them for awhile, knock on wood) and didn’t have to have a car, I could live on two hundred bucks a month. I’m taking care of ‘brother body’ to keep expenses down. When I drop brother body, ‘sister soul’ will be free as a bird. Or so I hope.
Hot off the press. I just checked in at the Vineyard Press and then the Cafe Mess Hall of 5/11 where a ‘Holy Grail’ crypto comment appeared. Talk about synchronicity:
Anonymous on May 14, 2019
vaudeville nausea
in my minds
swaying dance
from there to here
futility steps beside
hopelessness in facing
destruction, ruination
of a beautiful planet
as with upset stomach
onto the sack I crash.
but each and every day
sunlight opens my eyes
and word and image
created and written
become engraved
simultaneously into
the free streaming
ethers everlasting
crypto-verse grail.
Anonymous on May 14, 2019
the idea of the poem stems from life’s fairground wheel, roller coaster nausea inducing capacity, and the crypto sphere holy grail mentioned by amarynth. –Ras
I don’t know if the comments are from the same or different anonymii, and I’m not sure of the point, but it is interesting. Crypto does seem to many the “holy grail’ that will save us and keep us forever young; that along with obor, China and a multipolar world. I can only imagine the empire bosses smiling at this glassy-eyed foolishness. ‘One Belt One Roadkill’ according to the Bro Bible, chapter 9, verse 3.
The theme of this post is ‘fake pictures’ so I best get back on track. Ah, the ‘joy of sex’ can’t compare with the ‘joy of writing’ –> truth that is. Don’t look at me. Like Sergeant Klink, ‘I know nothing.’ That’s why I write. I might stumble upon something.
Another picture that seems fake to me is the one that appeared at the main page recently. It showed a sea of soldiers with Maduro in their midst (May 9). Its point is to show Maduro backed by a strong army able to defeat outside intruders. Nothing wrong with the intent of course but I don’t think this kind of staging impresses an opposing army. Rather, it encourages it.
Whoever was behind this photo either did a poor job or was an empire agent sending an opposite message that the Venezuela army is weak. I leave aside the question of whether the photo has paste-ins; I don’t know but Maduro doesn’t quite look right nor do the brass in the red caps who are not facing the camera; what are they looking for? Spies? Is this a hint that the show is for show?
There are a couple of ‘soldiers’ up front who look to be about fourteen years old. Is this a child’s army? What’s with the floppy hats? A real army would have helmets, real weapons, look battle hardened and stand in formation like Spetsnaz. These men look like students and workers given the day off to pose for the shoot.
What’s with Maduro’s blue jacket? Shouldn’t a man of the people blend in with the people? Is his wife a blue stocking? Has he taken the blue pill? What soldier dresses in blue like a blue bird? These may be clues that this picture was doctored by empire agents to give an opposite subconscious message than its surface impression. Wouldn’t put it past the CIA, would you?
I briefly looked at the Empire’s wikipedia for Maduro’s bio. Supposedly he was a bus driver and then a labor organizer before a politician. This is the standard story for imperial narratives. The poor can be rich leaders. Really? It’s always baloney. They come from wealth and are vetted early on to provide ‘controlled opposition;’ in other words they are trolls. There’s plenty of evidence that’s the case with Castro, Chavez and all the rest. We can see through actors like Trump because we’ve doubted and looked; but when we ‘have our minds made up,’ we can be fooled.
The Empire requires opposition or it spoils the fun of the sadist game. An enemy is needed for the ‘divide and conquer’ ruse. The ‘leaders of the people’ are groomed to oppose the Empire on meaningless matters while hiding the important substance. You can never quite tell the true from fake which is part of the psyop of confusion. With enough experience and study it becomes easier to dissipate the fog and see the forest and the trees; even the leaves shimmering in the breeze.
I’m not saying I’m right. I am usually wrong. I’m just saying what I see and feel now. Tomorrow it could change, and it might be one of you who changes my mind. The goal is to be true to myself and for that I have to spot the fakes, beginning with me.
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Another cafe picture that looks staged is the one with Hitler and his officers. The picture is grainy to hide the paste-ins and the map looks like a rug. The Nazis made all those machines and don’t have a decent camera? The light doesn’t look right. Hitler and those near him have serious looks while the officers in the back are smiling or smirking. Whoever did this was sending mixed signals. Was the main message that this whole war was faked from the top? Yes, there were millions who died in this last real World War. The internet changed real wars into information wars for the most part, while millions still die but more slowly.
I have a ‘turtle story’ different than Dimitar’s. It’s from Miles. The student asks the gura what the world rests on. “A turtle,” she says. The student asks what the turtle rests on…and on and on. Finally, after a thousand turtles, the gura says: “The turtle rests on a man who looks like a turtle.”
In the end, it comes down to us. Each person distinguishes true from false as best she can. Each community does the same. That’s the truth seeking game. It gets sticky but it doesn’t help to go for the quicky too quickly ’cause it can get tricky. It can be a long and lonely road to truth or a short and sweet hop, skip and jump. Looking at pictures and seeing what’s behind them is one of many truther exercises. Sometimes I have to play ‘the devil went down to Georgia’ like Jesus went down to hell before I hear that truth bell knell rather than clunk.
Fakery isn’t limited to what is said or done; it can be in what is left unsaid and undone. I hope I’m not nit-picking on Pepe but he’s got a sense of humor. I mimic his colorful writing. He put up a recent article on the “Eagle, Bear and Dragon” with sparkling images and words. However, he left the main creatures out. He did not give Israel its well deserved due. He did give truth its due by saying: “We’re all actors in the New Silk Road play.” To be or not to be; that is the question. Freedom Road or Roadkill? That is the lesson from the Bro Bible 9:3.
Israel is the Leviathan that dwarfs the eagle, bear and dragon because it’s not only the fourth big wheel on the obor road but the steering wheel of the whole operation. The Land of God (not Nod) is also a Behemoth that dwarfs America, Russia and China by reason of its ‘motive, means and opportunity.’ God’s Chosen are the driving engine to world domination, using China, Russia, Iran and America as their four pistons; ironically replacing God’s dominion with themselves as dominators.
Israel is the Leviathan by sea and Behemoth by land in a pincer war for total control. What about the air you say? Jews control that too with airy cyber control of all machines that count money. Netanyahu boasted: “Cyber is the domain of power.” It’s the way he said it that gives the shivers, like the way he stared down the UN and scared it into stony silence for forty-five seconds, and the standing ovations he received from the US joint congress while brushing aside the American president. Now that’s power. That’s the elephant in the world’s main UN room that nobody wants to see.
It’s bitter medicine to swallow but another fake meme is yellow jackets. This is more ‘controlled opposition.’ Sure, people don’t like it when their accustomed lifestyle is reduced but the protesters are far from the impoverished, homeless and starving. The bosses infiltrate these movements to control them. If they go too far like pushing BDS, they will be dissolved, or if they were to occupy Israeli land like Palestinians.
Yellow jackets are the sort of meme the managers use to manage minds surreptitiously. Ever had yellow jackets at your picnic? Ever heard the empire buzz around your head? In English yellow means cowardly. No matter the hot sun is not. The yellow color works on your subconscious. If you think these words are not purposefully chosen, you don’t know Empire. Nothing is left to accident in its hundred year plans. Ask Bro about nominalism.
Assange and wikileaks is another case of controlled opposition. When Julian was taken from the embassy, there must have been a dozen yellow jackets in the camera’s background. Looked staged to me. Why do we get shown only one picture over and over by only Ruptly? The solo picture looks photo shopped with Julian and the book pasted in. The message is that whistle blowers will get stung by yellow jacket imperious hornets in these sting operations.
For all we know, Julian could have been in on it from the beginning. He might be sitting in some country estate now under house arrest and after he is sentenced, go to a comfortable haven after a fake assassination. Yes, Mr. Gullible, it could be. The Empire has been around for thousands of years and is that smart. By its own rules, Empire is required to tell us what it is doing, to reduce its karma and to blame it on us for being stupid. ‘We were told,’ it pleads to the Lords of Karma.
The Fat Cats love to play with mice like us. They laugh on the way to the bank. In their boardrooms, bedrooms, barrooms and boudoirs they laugh at their insider jokes. That’s how they get their jollies. I smile at them like the Mona Lisa. They think they know the truth just like I do, just like we all do. Truth is a blaster and truth is a bastard. What I know is a grain of sand compared to the size of the earth.
So what’s the use? What does it matter? Is it all futile? Why not accept the pictures and stories given to us? Would it not be easier? Who do I think I am anyway? Was the poet kidding or truthing?
There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
As I get near my post due date, the information clearing info keeps coming in from sakerites and sackerettes alike. Pepe just put a new one up on Iran being squeezed between imperial psychos and European cowards. Does he ever sleep? Pepe throws fuel on the fire of war fear. I throw water on the fire. The Man of the trillionaire families has spies and hitmen everywhere. He intends to keep a lid on the fire because now world war is dangerous to himself and bad for business.
First, this is fake war theater to keep the fear roiling and the profits rolling in. Second, there are no nuclear weapons. Yes, there are nuclear reactors but nuclear weapons still defy engineers. All the saber rattling is just that. Take a deep breath and relax. There’s a lot of in-house fighting but The Man is still in charge, evil as he is.
The fact that no leader can tell what s/he knows about nuclear weapons or 9/11 and remain a leader proves that all leaders of anything of value are under the blue matrix thumb. Some are allowed relative freedom for awhile just to show how diverse and tolerant Empire can be. But we know that Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe toe the line or pay the fine.
There’s actually two Pepe’s like the name indicates: Pe-pe. I’ve given my take on the standard Pepe. The following quote from the Donald, courtesy of Pepe shows the wise Pepe. It also ties in somehow with the wisdom of Trump and Qanon, and the Military behind them. I quote Pepe on the Donald:
[But then, there’ll be twists and turns in the Art of the (Demented) Deal. So what if, and it’s a major “if”, Donald Trump is being held hostage by his pet psychopaths?
Let The Dealer speak:
“We hope we don’t have to do anything with regard to the use of military force…We can make a deal, a fair deal. … We just don’t want them to have nuclear weapons. Not too much to ask. And we would help put them back into great shape. They’re in bad shape right now. I look forward to the day where we can actually help Iran. We’re not looking to hurt Iran. I want them to be strong and great and have a great economy… We have no secrets. And they can be very, very strong, financially. They have great potential.”]
Isn’t it exciting to sit on the edge of your seat in this theater of war? We sakerettes and sakerites may just tip the scales of Justice and get her to peek out from her blindfold to see what’s up in the Love Bower Cafe. At least that’s what the Love Army Chief is whispering in my ear.
On the other hand, and there always is another hand in the money honey pot, what to do with the Palestinians? Leaks are already dribbling out of the Death Ship that they are being given a new deal they can’t refuse; in other words, take what they have now or else. Don’t believe it. They will be relocated to the Sinai in a deal they really can’t refuse. It’s the Deal of the Century. After all, God himself appeared in the Sinai and gave us the ten commandments. Palestinians will get the eleventh commandment: do not disobey the previous ten.
The Love Army Commander is whispering in my other ear about the ten commandments of love, but Lady Love tells me straight on that it’s too early for the Deal of the Millennium; it would be too much for us to hear, much less to bear. The Russian Bear, American Eagle, China Dragon, Israeli Leviathan and Khazar Behemoth agree. I don’t but who am I? Mighty Mouse in a Vineyard House?
How can you tell a fake picture from a real one? You have to ‘Find Oscar the Truther’ in the big picture among all the fakes. Empire is one of the fakes but who is the other?
Baghdad won’t let Washington use its territory in war against Iran – Iraq’s envoy
Iraq does not want a “devastating” new war in the Middle East and will not allow the US to use its territory for military action against neighboring Iran, Baghdad’s ambassador to Moscow has said.
“Iraq is a sovereign nation. We will not let [the US] to use our territory,” Haidar Mansour Hadi, the Iraqi envoy to Russia, told journalists at a press conference in Moscow when asked about Iraq’s stance on the rising tensions in the region, fueled by the feud between Washington and Tehran.
from rt
This won’t break iran’s resolve, instead, I suspect that it will harden Iranian opinion:
Newsweek: The @realDonaldTrump regime is planning to hit Iran with 500 missiles/day to drag them to the negotiating table.
That may explain trumps latest tweet that he is sure Iran will want to talk soon…..and
Major General Hossein Salami, who was appointed head of the force in April, claimed on Wednesday that Iran was “on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy”, as cited by Fars News agency.
“This moment in history, because the enemy has stepped into the field of confrontation with us with all the possible capacity, is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution.”
That, of course, is aggression, the Supreme Crime under International Law, but you will still hear the political invertebrates in Austfailia, of both major parties, babbling, in their servile fashion, of their dedication to ‘The Rules-Based International Order’. And NOT ONE presstitute scum-bag will dare to point out the monstrous and vile hypocrisy of it all.
@Dennis
Indeed, we live in a fake world, unsecured and without love, the mistrust is only growing, thus the relationship between people has become superficial. We have substitutes for almost everything, thank to technology, which sent each of us on our little world where we feel relatively safe. We lost the sense of the real world, real friendships, real contacts among our human fellows, being pushed aside in a corner. Who did that ? the so called civilization of this modern world, mostly in the last 30 years but mainly after world war one. That great cataclysm has changed the world (mainly Europe) in ways unseen before, leaving behind bleeding wounds which paved the way for another war, with the scope to heal the first wounds, adding new ones to those old, screwing the people on large scale…and it continued by fueling hatred and fear by partitioning the old continent in two worlds and partitioning the world in two main isms.
After a period of relatively safety and prosperity (and also peace), the two opposing worlds have agreed to make a deal above the heads of their people, creating a hybrid world in which the traditional (or at least habitual) view of certain political parties have lost their meaning, emerging a new hybrid left and right – the confusion and delusion went hand in hand. But who won ? The Money. Realizing this, people had the feeling as if the carpet was taken off under their feet, no more safe place, no more guidance, no more foreseeable future for planing their own life. The money itself is neutral, the usage of it causes the problems, on the one hand being used as a weapon to crash any opponent of the system of established power houses, on the other hand, the preferential use of money aiding the ruling class, the latter accumulating an unfair amount of wealth related to the majority of people. This balance of wealth is so drastic and unrealistic, I even not try to enter in commenting it because you already know it, everybody does. Furthermore, there are two categories of people who contribute to the perpetuation of this system : those who are more social oriented or egalitarian and those who are more individualistic. This system have both, that’s why is hybrid. The first category of people have less incentive as individuals, therefore they cannot achieve a collective critical mass. The second category have more incentive as individuals and they can obtain a critical mass with their partners in business, they serve the money and use it in power sharing among them. If we say “the money is the work of Devil” then the first category must learn to deal with him “until they cross the bridge”.Another option is a world revolution, a world war or the end of the world.
Good comment ioan – most everything really is a rich man’s .
But, I believe, you continue to have faith (for good) in the wrong source.
Ultimately, God created man. God provided his creation with the character that it has. God knew that man would sin and that his creation would cause untold misery unto itself and, allegedly, affront the deity so much that the deity had already planned a lake of fire for a fair portion of humanity to languish in for eternity even before breath was first provided to Adam. The plan of God included the fall from grace – that did not happen by accident (nothing can in the face of an allegedly omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being). A plan foreknown to include the deity Jesus suffering “get out of jail” card by wiping the slate clean was a horrendous concept and not one of beauty. A plan which includes affront to yourself and the suffering of your creation is based in psychosis not purity.
Is that at the base of your Orthodox religion?
If so, you can probably imagine why I imagine men with such “belief” are beyond strange to love/admire/worship such a despotic entity?
Perhaps your belief in re-incarnation ameliorates the horrendous conceptulisation I have of the God you seem to admire?
Of course, the possibility for what we observe in reality is that the deity is not all of what we are led to believe but, if the deity is not all of omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent then, it seems, many have faith in a liar.
The Orthodox religion is the one indeed in which I was baptised. That doesn’t mean that I cannot think, life itself is the proof of the pudding. So, I’m doing that, thinking on many aspects of life, always learning on my own skin and those lessons seems to be the most essential. The concept of God, The Father, is a given by religion itself, leaving the believer to discover this very concept during his/her life in a personal way. That path of discovery – if one is constrained by situation or by willingness to know more – is not an easy one.
You are confronted by religious people as being a rebel against God or taken in irony by non-believers, saying . “I told you that there’s no God”. As in my experience those groups are large and opposing each other – looking as if there is only black and white – there are also many on both groups who tend to have a balanced approach. I think I belong to this category with more nuances and colors rather than black and white. Yes, I am a non-conformist, sometimes the enemy is right. We, human beings are proven many times on how weak we are and many times also biased.
Cooler times, also Venus(ians) have left Mars’ territory. Thursday
Mars(ians) enters Cancer, ready to disturb the interior. Venus(ians)
receiving higher insights on Saturday.
More on that in the diary:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-solizitater-catching-up-with.html
The fleeing US vassals who for once refuse to go along with action against Iran suggests that they believe that the Pindostanis are going to attack Iran.
As of Wednesday morning the countries of Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands suspended military support operations in Iraq, citing rising US-Iran tensions.
This poem was originally written in 12/18, during an exchange here with Ioan. Here is the final edit/version.
“The foxes have their dens, and the birds have their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head…”
I Have No One
the lamb has its meadow
its meadow of yore,
the farmer to open
and close the barn door,
mother nearby
over baby to pore –
but I have no one
not one to implore
the fish has the sea
the sea to explore,
wandering forever
never reaching the shore,
to float on the surface
or sleep on its floor –
but I have no sea
nor fins to explore
the rooster has its throat
its throat bright red,
to herald the day
and wake the farmstead,
a comb and a wattle
and hens in the shed –
but I have nothing
nothing in stead
the swans have their wings
their wings to fly,
old wintering grounds
abandoned to sky,
a song to sing
when their time is nigh –
but I have no wings
nor can I fly
the horse cools its heels
down in the creekbed,
big bushy tail
swatting flies on the head,
some shady grove
that old homestead –
but I have nowhere
to lay my head
Image: http://www.valenis.net/gallery1.php#image-11
That’s very good Dimitar, you have to be careful with improvements, like doing it on a painting, sometimes the first brush strokes are the “real ones” – being done under a specific spiritual mood of that moment, which is not the same with the mood when you you decided to improve or add. In essence, the change can indeed add or reduce the quality or message of a piece of art (or poetry in this case) anyway, the first moment of creation aided by the muses cannot be repeated, every day is another day. Who knows how many such days I’ve lost because of postponement or delay. The first shot, the first stroke, the first line is always the best, the best of that moment, a moment which cannot be repeated, that’s the moment of “now”.
Thank you for sharing, as always !
If you do stone lithogaphy…can make many copies…also it teaches you to make a mark and leave it not over work it…..excellent.
I’m with you, every word, Ioan. This piece came out complete right from its inception, in terms of my intent but fell into the category of what I think of as the “first draught’. I re-posted as the initial version was posted a little hurriedly during an exchange at the time, and constitutes a ‘not quite complete version’ – that occurred a day or two after writing, but I do consider it better, so here it is. Poetry is more forgiving than painting, since we can revert to an earlier version any time if we feel we’ve ‘over-written’.
Be assured Dimitar… a gem among seekers
Your head, to rest firmly on your shoulders
For eternity… to lay gracefully in your heart
Ever to marry your flowing pen with your art
Deep gratitude, thank you
Thanks for this wonderful comment, kpax, its very encouraging to me as an artist. To paraphrase Michelangelo, ‘few know what goes into a work of art’, but when someone gets it, that all disappears. There is a desire to communicate from the deepest sense of what we are – to compare notes and affirm that which we are, and to support each other for we’re all on that journey.
MOSCOW, May 15, 2019 /TASS/.
The Iraqi government has made a decision to purchase the S-400 missile systems from Russia, Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Haidar Mansour Hadi said at a press conference following the eighth meeting of the Russian-Iraqi intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation held in Baghdad on April 23-25.
http://tass.com/defense/1058382
( we are left to speculate if the decision has been made under duress in a hurry … or just as a safeguard )
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(Video): Yemen’s Iran-allied Anasrullah: Our drone attack on Saudi oil “strategic turning point” – Eng Subs
May 16, 2019 admin
Description:
A spokesman of Yemen’s Iran-allied Ansarullah (Houthi) movement said that the ‘qualitative drone operation’ against vital Saudi oil facilities represents a ‘strategic turning point’ in the Saudi-led war in the impoverished country.
This translated video also contains other analytical excerpts from Al-Mayadeen Tv dealing with details and possible ramifications of the major drone operation deep within Saudi territory that was announced by Yemen’s (Ansarullah-led) Armed Forces days ago.
The sensitive drone operation came soon after news of “suspicious operations” that targeted four oil transport vessels near the UAE’s territorial waters in the Sea of Oman, east of the port of Fujairah.
More broadly, the drone operation on Saudi Arabia comes as the drums of war grow louder between the United States and Iran, as Washington continues to heighten its economic, military, and political pressure on Tehran.
Source: Al-Mayadeen Tv
Date: 14 May, 2019
Excellent article in which finian cunninham takes the empire war mongers apart on their lies, lies, lies:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/459425-iran-war-bolton-us/
Yemeni Ansarullah Song – Uprising of Light [English Captions]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbmEJmUHQrw
… Movie Time … “Last Passenger”
HD 720p – Great Suspense – Thriller Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CY2hYCUN9s
Good article on the absolute stupidity of the us threats against Iran and the absurdity of the discussion of various plans for an attack-maybe this is the saving grace comng from this admin’s (bolton) discussion of responding to “threats” from Iran-there are just no viable alternatives which maybe, just maybe, adults recognize:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/the-lunacy-of-waging-a-war-on-iran-which-china-and-russia-would-win.html#more
On the Chinese coming social credit system, here is a telling tale of it actually wanting to go global:
The British police are now setting up facial recognition systems in public areas. A man who tried to cover his face was fined £90 for ‘disorderly behaviour’ and was forced to have his picture taken. The British police are a complete disgrace.
https://twitter.com/MarkACollett/status/1128943086070050816
Read and weep about the coming legislation of morality by way of controlling your bread and conscience through the widespread implementation of high tech surveillance!!!!
What’s next? O yeah we will need to implant your microchip in either your righthand or forehead?
Our military already willingly did that to themselves, one so they could keep track of themselves, and secondly as an example of the future to come to its citizens.
A few more well placed terrorist attacks around the globe and what you told will be a reality. Everyone (or almost) who heard about the biblical end times should know that the worst will happen next, free yourselves from illusions of a better world. The total control must be completed, it is a matter of time and then the end shall come – in one way or another…then, we’ll be liberated from the burdens of this world, forever.
Wish you more ? no more, thanks, for me. Those who wish to continue, maybe they’ll have the opportunity to do it, again and again as long as they need it, always as new starters.
A great interview with a truth telling Israeli (I know a shocker),about the strength of Hezbollah as compared with Israel’s.
Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Calls Israeli Military Weak: He is Correct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km95aIptZVU
Sorry, Dennis, this is all you get for your Stream of Conscious Unconsciousness.
It is not about your feelings which you must vent in fear and frustration because you cannot relate this or that to your ego, or your experience.
You have to do better than that, as it…alone is not likely to do that much for the other 8 billion people on the planet.
An example is your absurd characterization of the intellectual architect of the World Landbridge as “zionist” with absolutely nothing but a completely uninformed hunch…..and hostility to Chinese Civilization…a sort of “safe” wild ass guess because you know that there are not too many admirers of Anglo-Zionism here…and some nice comraderie in a cafe or community……..is always more comfortable and less work…..than actually doing some research.
You are not a completely unsympathetic character by a long shot but your emotional impressions are riddled with error and incompetence.
So rather than run on and on about your unhinged “feelings”…I suggest you might apply yourself to one of them (for the president) that has at least some small chance of bearing positive fruit in this messed up country of ours, and put the Russia Hacked the 2016 US Election narrative even further into disarray, disrepute and healthy disgust, just in case The Donald might do something useful for humanity if that narrative is finally obliterated and no longer hobbling his presidency:
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Just substitute one word for influence (interference), and the talking heads media are off to the races with the latest “fake news” narrative, it can be bent, twisted, or spun to occupy hours of amusement, plus they get a happy talk paycheck at the end of the week. I mean who wouldn’t like that?
Well, Alabama it helps if the population grows up just a little and is not so childishly immoral and fantasy-ridden as to let them get away with it.
But the habits are deeply ingrained and most of the people apparently like to be fooled not “most of the time”….but ALL of the time…..if only their ridiculous little egos get a little bit of stroking along the way.
So you could say that the “presstitutes” are just giving the Johns (as in John Q Publics) what they want.
Those that have had enough of the degradation are where hope lies…..if they are ALSO willing to make the others caught up in the moronic degradation……….uncomfortable to the point that increasing numbers of them wake up enough to get disgusted enough with themselves….and to cut it out….and investigate how they were ensnared long before they were even aware that it was happening to them.
Well as i’ve said before, the investigations are all known’s, the layers of corruptions are massively uncomprehensible to the general public, and the brainwashing’s are complete. There is nothing population can do so there is nothing they will do, this is already baked into the cake.
It would take a new set of circumstances to stimulate a movement and the gvt pro’s like to gamble, the public rookie’s prefer to watch.
… Weekend Movie … “When Time Strikes”
Serial killers and people who aspire to serially invade sovereign countries are psychopaths.
This is a serious movie, although there are a couple of song and dance routines which are an integral cultural feature of most Indian movies … do not be deterred by these short interludes and relax while you can.
Samay: When Time Strikes | Full Movie | Sushmita Sen | Jackie Shroff | Hindi Suspense Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkneBYGQkI
( “Zendegi” = “Life” … same word and meaning in Persian … زندگی )
Zendegi … زندگی … Life
Our Cafe poets will appreciate the following …
Ali Azimi – Zendegi (Official) علی عظیمی – زندگی
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW8Q3MRk8HU
FUNNY TEDTalk about PERSIAN NEW YEAR ~ (w/ comedian Kvon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehRVbB8jQ4
… Voice of Reason … ?
Putin has warned that Russia is not a “fire brigade” which “rescues everything,” and further urged Tehran to stick to the nuclear deal.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1724811/putin-urges-tehran-stick-nuclear-deal
While we may appreciate Iranian gusto and spirit, I have come to consider Putin’s logic is the “chess player” approach … what do Cafe folk think ?… but carefully read the full article first … please.
Yes, this is strange but guess that the Russians (Pres Putin) de-escalates as a matter of course. The Iranians though have just stepped back to a position that is allowed in the JCPOA, so, they have not breached the agreement. But my goodness, how can one stick to an agreement if nobody sticks to it with you? There are 2 substances that Iran was supposed to only partially enrich – the one is heavy water and then send this to Europe to be further enriched. And now Europe does not buy it, or cannot buy it, because of sanctions. The poodles made a so-called financial mechanism to continue to deal with Iran and this mechanism has gone poof! What the hell is Iran to do?
Regarding Putin saying they’re not a “fire brigade” which “rescues everything,” my thought was tongue in cheek .. oh please, please, do us all a massive favor and go and create a fire brigade of your superb diplomats and make it useful … Everybody is traveling to Russia anyway to solve their problems.
… the circuit breaker for this “game of chicken” could be that the European politicians grow up … if such an idea is at all feasible.
Is there a US law forbidding them grow-up ?
Perspiration and Exasperation become key words here.
Nord Sream 2 is going ahead, over half way now, with pipe being laid at a the rate of 3km per day … Europeans are playing a strange game …
The Euro-trash ruling elites are slaves of both the USA and Israel, so their behaviour is that of a well-trained dog. Hopefully the coming EU elections will but a rocket up ’em.
I alternate with hope and despondency over the ignorance, cowardice and mendacity of the world, including my own; while not denying the beauty and truth intermixed. My consolation is that there is an ultimate justice. Many years ago I wrote a couple poems about Justice which I’ll copy and paste here.
This week in the love calendar has the theme of Justice which is True and apparently Cruel. The first poem is more general in a stream of consciousness style. The second is more personal from my relationship with my ex, who was wont to get distracted and burn food; I was there to take some of the heat.
At the top of the line, I stop to pay my fine; on my journey to truth, there’s a seventh toll booth: it’s the law of eye for eye and tooth for tooth where the dancer pays the piper and Lincoln plays Booth. Lady Justice takes her seat where card players meet; she sits at a table where you get to show your hand; bluff if you’re able but you have to take the stand. Justice is the space where you get to show your face; you have to rest your case from the king to the ace. This seventh level room is no backyard saloon; the seventh cause of Justice is not a blackguard goon. Your stony gazes and baloney raises will all be called; your cards will show you you’ve mauled and to whom you’ve crawled. The lords of karma will have their pay and Lady Justice will have her say. The law of love will be applied to the nth degree. Love and Justice is the court of final appeal; you can’t steal at the last round deal. I don’t know what happened when love got tossed but some people were paying a terrible cost. Even Justice with her scales covered her eyes in the mournful wails. I argue my case on the law of the land; I’m not afraid to show the cards in my hand; Justice doesn’t cave in to some Cruel businessman and the people he knows in the Klu Klux Klan. The law of Love rules this house; distinguishes a man from a mealy mouse; separates men from boys and jokes from joys. I may have to go to Armageddon but I know what I’ll bet on: I bet on Justice and her sister Joy, and call the boy who makes law a toy. Justice, my Love, if you must be Cruel, kill me with Love; I’ll be your fool; I’ll cast your dice and pay your price for Love’s sweet sacrifice. We made up a fairy tale Jesus and a game of Justice to please us. Jesus is more than a myth; he’s Just us. Justice is more than a glyph; she’s Just us. All of us are Just us consciousness.
A Pandora’s box spilling
Forth both good and ill
Old clothes sorted and put out
Old angers aired and hung out
Knots and gnarls worked out
Hardened hurts tough as steel
Soften hearts willing to heal
The past hangs in balance
On the wheel of future dream
A multi-titrated machine
Purchased on a lay-away plan
Redeemed with the last payment
Justice is blind, karma cruel
In eye for eye lawful land
Past shadows present stand
In the harsh winter snow
And blowing summer sand
The pan burns, my wife turns
On me, fanning flames of old
Ah ha, another strand to unravel
An ancient photo to review
Hi Dennis, you will be amused by most of the comments at this link.
My comment is fourth down … some people really want answers … or plead so.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Ezekiel-Chapter-1/
( I am talking with Brother Nathanael … more later )
Is someone in Russian playing with fire ?
Nearly 70 wildfires extinguished in Russia over past day
http://tass.com/society/1058526
Add to this over the past few years major fires at supermarkets, missile factory, furniture warehouse, airplane crashes, train explosions, rocket launch explosions, apartment gas explosions …
Sabotage is BOUND to be part of the Real Evil Empire’s attacks on Russia and China. The use of African Swine Fever, which was introduced by the CIA into Cuba back in the 70s or 80s, seems to have been on the agenda in Russia and China lately. NO Evil is too hideous for the Empire not to use it.
Football Star Ronaldo Donates $1.5mn to Gazans on Opening of Ramadan
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905171075088656-cristiano-ronaldo-soccer-celebrity-juventus-striker-pro-palestinian-gaza-blockade-donation-fasting-ramadan/
“Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has donated $1.5 million to feed the fasting people in the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestine, against the backdrop of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Juventus star striker has never hid the fact that he is pro-Palestine, expressing his support for Palestinians several times in the past.
In 2012 the 28-year-old star gave away his Golden Boot Award to the Real Madrid foundation, which subsequently auctioned it off to raise money for building schools in Palestine.
In 2013, he refused to swipe t-shirts with an Israeli player in a display of support for Palestinian rights.
A 5-year-old boy Ahmad Daubasha — sole survivor of a Palestinian family attacked by Israeli settlers, was received by Ronaldo in 2016 at the Real Madrid training center, where he photographed himself with the boy, giving him a specially-dedicated t-shirt.
Pro-Palestinian celebrities range from longtime activists to musicians to younger stars, calling for boycotts of artistic and scientific gatherings, divestment from Israeli businesses, etc.
The Portuguese star is known as one of the most involved in humanitarian work around the world.”
Not being into sports, I had wondered why there were so many zionazi-gay media reports attacking this man. Now I know.
Well vot tak, I didn’t know this of CR7. I must say that is sympathic of him.
Being European and somewhat more in sport, I disagree somewhat that this is the reason why he is somewhat controversial. Ronaldo is considered by many soccer fans as ‘arrogant’, and that is outside the media.
He is very ambitious to the verge of irritating. I compare it sometimes with a former soccer player (that you may never have heard of), of which a commentator once said ‘outside the field he has many, many friends, but on the field no one’.
To get an idea how irritating Ronaldo can be: https://www.rt.com/sport/459235-cristiano-ronaldo-florenzi-taunt/
There is one thing that surprised me: “In 2013, he refused to swipe t-shirts with an Israeli player in a display of support for Palestinian rights.”
Imho this is utterly childish. It’s a sport field, not a battlefield.
On the Rio olympics something comparable happened: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-judo-egypt-israel/egyptian-judoka-sent-home-over-handshake-refusal-with-israeli-idUSKCN10Q1WC
Being a judoka myself, a sport that oozes tradition, discipline, and respect, I can tell that when you do that you don’t belong on a tatami (judo mat).
Christiano Ronaldo is a very complete and outstanding soccer player, but unfortunately Lionel Messi has something else: the touch of genius, that every now and then you are aghast and wonder ‘wtf did I just see?’
Cheers, Rob
“I must say…”
Who is requiring you? ;-D
“There is one thing that surprised me: “In 2013, he refused to swipe t-shirts with an Israeli player in a display of support for Palestinian rights.”
Imho this is utterly childish. It’s a sport field, not a battlefield.”
I didn’t quote the whole article, this is the part on that incident in full:
“In 2013, he refused to swipe t-shirts with an Israeli player in a display of support for Palestinian rights.
Although he did shake hands, he excused himself by explaining that he could not wear a shirt with that country’s flag, press reported.
The incident occurred at the end of the match between Portugal and Israel for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.”
Would you, rob, be willing to wear a nazi flag, or one of the flags sported by the various al qaida groups? How about wearing one of those ukronazi bandera banners or a pindo confederate flag decorated shirt?
“Being a judoka myself, a sport that oozes tradition, discipline, and respect, I can tell that when you do that you don’t belong on a tatami (judo mat).”
Yeah I bet you would…
Ronaldo just went up in my admiration. Shake hands with your opponent, but refuse the flag of the terror state seems to me to be the perfect formula.
I was just in one of my magical monastic moments doing my religious ritual when I thought to put on some Russian Orthodox sacred music. I searched under that title and received this awesome gift. I wish I could import that music into the Catholic Mass. When I’m at Mass I imagine going back through time: past medieval, past the Fathers, to early Christianity and Christ himself; then on into paganism and the kings, past the metal and stone ages to Eve’s Eden Paradise. The sacred chants are that evocative. Before Mass I sometimes go to the three icons of Mary and Child Jesus which look Russian, light a candle, kneel and pray to God that Russia can stand up to the empire onslaught heading its way, and throw in a prayer too for this vineyard for the same reason. Here’s the link which occasioned my reverie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTnxFgmQLKc
Several good articles on RT today.
1. Hero kid lowered head-first into water-filled pipe to rescue trapped little girl in dramatic VIDEO
https://www.rt.com/russia/459626-boy-rescues-girl-pipe/
One of the many qualities to admire in Russians is their ability to problem solve. Unless there is just nothing that can be done.Russians will work together and solve problems. We in the West I’m afraid have lost the ability to do that.
2.US is heading toward a looming maritime showdown… but not with Iran (spoiler alert,its China)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/459608-south-china-sea-military-iran/
The US and its stooges are pushing for war with China. That means they want war with China,as well as Iran,Venezuela,North Korea,Syria…..and of course Russia. Now if only those countries would form an alliance that says “you attack one and you go to war with all”.They could stop the US,but will they,its doubtful. Surely some of those countries must realize that the US can’t fight them all together.But if the pick them off one by one they can.
3.‘A total lie’: US never bothered to secure its Pacific nuclear waste ‘coffin’ from leaks
https://www.rt.com/news/459560-runit-dome-radioactive-leaks/
The US lied (shocker there right) about safely cleaning up the Pacific Islands where they tested their nuclear weapons. And allowed thousands of the native peoples of the region,and the ocean waters to be contaminated with deadly levels of radiation.
4.Cristiano Ronaldo donates $1.5 million to help feed starving people on the Gaza Strip (REPORTS)
https://www.rt.com/sport/459610-cristiano-ronaldo-donates-to-palestine/
Thank God there are a few famous people at least, willing to publicly support the Palestinian people.What a truly great action he has taken.
5.Imperiled Dutch PM’s party: Vote us, or our Kremlin-loving rivals will give country to Putin
https://www.rt.com/news/459585-dutch-ad-kremlin-crush/
One of the more loathsome US stooges in the EU. One of the main US’s helpers in the Maidan Coup in Ukraine. Is now going full Russophobe against their political enemies at home.
6. Syrian air defenses bringing down projectiles coming from Israeli-controlled territory – reports
https://www.rt.com/news/459630-syrian-air-defenses-damascus/
Criminal apartheid state of Israel is up to their same trick again,firing missiles at Syria. I’m wondering if they are hoping for Syria to fire back so they can whine to the US about the “bad Syrians picking on them”.
No Captains going down with the ship here, but if this is any indication of US military weakness, the military has a long ways to go before embarrassing themselves in a real battle.
https://ktla.com/2019/05/16/f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-into-building-near-march-air-reserve-base-pilot-ejects/
For our many Australian readers. Have any of you heard about this event. An interesting video about a mass riot between Australian and US troops during WWII.
The Battle of Brisbane: When Allies Fought Each-Other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_GuNizRNk
@ Paul
I addressed you earlier today about your comment on Ezekiel and the Pyramids; don’t know what happened to it.
Ezekiel’s language is really strange which nobody had a clue about, other than reverting to mysticism, until you came along. What you say about their construction, using plain physical mechanics, makes sense. The mystery of the weird lingo dissipates and give me a solid, earth secure feeling.
Ezekiel was an elite priest, later taken to heaven in his chariot but really up the pyramid; and therefore spoke one elite language and another scary one to frighten the masses so they kept in step and working their arses off for the system.
Same thing now, I’m afraid.
… if Ezekiel’s words in chapter one are his, then he has engaged in deception.
The religious deceptions began around 600 BC and the monetary system deceptions followed and now we see the deceptions to make wars for bankers … when the bible clearly states do not commit murder or kill.
And how did this Hebrew book (bible) get so well circulated ?
Dennis, your words prove to me you are wide awake.
The next time you hear a fool say anything good about the zionist apartheid state of Israel remember this report friends posted on FB.
“5-year-old Aisha Lulu from Gaza suffered from an aggressive brain stem tumor. Gaza’s hospitals lack adequate equipment needed to treat cancer patients due to the Israeli blockade, so she was forced to seek treatment in the West Bank. As Israel controls Palestine’s borders, travel permits were sought for her family. Israel, however, refused to grant permission for any of Aisha’s family members to accompany her.
Little Aisha was sent alone, accompanied by a woman, a complete stranger to her, that had volunteered to accompany her, said that she was crying, unable to speak, and alone.
Aisha died today due to complications after surgery
By: Dr. Musheer Amer “
The sadistic cruelty is central to the Zionazi cult of universal hatred. And, as numerous Israeli Jews have noted, the sadism and hatred expressed in the brutal barbarity of the oppression of the Palestinians also infects Israeli Jewish society in a poisonous feed-back loop. Moreover, as Zionazi control of the West deepens and broadens, Zionazi hatred of the Palestinians and Moslems and Arabs is becoming compulsory in the slave states as well. Refusal to comply, as with Corbyn, leads to ferocious hate campaigns denouncing one as an ‘antisemite’.
‘How do they sleep?’ Roger Waters calls out US, UK & France over ‘faked’ Douma chemical attack
https://www.rt.com/news/459638-roger-waters-douma-opcw/
“Citing newly leaked OPCW documents casting doubt on the April 2018 ‘chemical attack’ that triggered a bombing of Syria, rock star Roger Waters is calling out everyone who believed in the ‘murderous fairytale’ of the White Helmets.
“The White Helmets probably murdered 34 women and children to dress the scene that sorry day in Douma,” Waters posted on his Facebook page on Thursday, next to a video of his April 2018 concert in Barcelona in which he challenged the group as “a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for the jihadists and terrorists.”
Waters added he hopes that those in the media and the governments in Paris, London and Washington that bought into the White Helmets’ “callous and murderous fairytale are suitably haunted by the indelible images of those lost innocent Syrian lives.”
Pink Floyd co-founder Waters has long been critical of the US-led efforts to effect regime change in Damascus through support for “moderate” rebels, including Al-Qaeda affiliates and the “White Helmets” operating alongside them.”
Bahrain and Exxon are evacuating their personnel from Iraq and Iran.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201905181075116261-bhrain-iran-iraq/