2019/06/04 23:00:01
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I posted a piece on propaganda in the previous cafe and there were some comments :
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-06-01/#comment-653922
It just so happens that Caitlin Johnsone wrote about the exact same thing .. so, I’m not the only one noticing the extreme level of propaganda around at the moment. Caitlin writes : Thirty-Two Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation – its good!
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/thirty-two-tips-for-navigating-a-society-that-is-full-of-propaganda-and-manipulation-f3798079fea6
Hi amarynth
That link goes to an area that requires sign in.
This link goes direct to Caitlin’s site. I my opinion she is the Aussie ‘saker’.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
Hi Babushka, that sign-in is just a ‘warning’ . they’re just trying to collect names.
Click on the X and it disappears.
Caitlin also has lots about Assange.
Her latest piece is a parody inspired by the State dinner parade in which a frail stooped Queen Bessie was escorted by the towering bumble footed Trump .
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/04/donald-trump-is-the-most-honest-us-president-of-all-time/
I just read that the Russian S300 and S400 have historically demonstrated a low probability of downing the F-16 in the fee tactical engagements that have taken place over the years. A marginal or poor track record.
Is this true?
Sort of true?
Where did you read it, “Ed’?
Lets say they make it seem as if its not true, until its tried for real, then its true.
But surely there are reliable published studies?
Ehh, this is debatable.
So far, an answer to the first question is outstanding. Where did you read it Ed? It is absolutely necessary to know that, for context.
“S300 and S400 have historically demonstrated a low probability of downing the F-16”
Does the source provide “historical” evidence or is it talking heads talking? Old Volchovs and Dvinas had tremendous effectiveness in Vietnam and I understand they are still in service in some countries. Sxxx are far more advanced than S7
For the past few days thousands of demonstrators have been waving signs in London as Trump visits.
I took interest in reading these signs and saw that many were mass produced with the same message which was all based around negative opinion.
I did not read anything referring to “I love WikiLeaks” or anything related to Julian Assange so I am thinking “rent a crowd” tactics have been employed here … sad and silent days indeed and what lies ahead now !
Assange Is Reportedly Gravely Ill, And Hardly Anyone’s Talking About It …
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/29/assange-is-reportedly-gravely-ill-and-hardly-anyones-talking-about-it/
Nothing rent-a-crowd about it, Paul. People here are generally very anti-Trump and negative towards him and his whole entourage of replicant-looking family and have been planning these protests since the last visit a year ago. The baby trump blimp was flying and a special model of the Donald tweeting on the toilet ordered from China for the occasion.
Similar protests are expected in Ireland later today. The Donald has of course lied in tweets that there were crowds cheering for him (about 100 supporters out of 17,000 protestors) but the govt has kept him well away from the populace, in case he gets ‘milk-shaked’ (the latest fad in political commentary here) so how would he know unless he dreamed it up?
There are protests and vigils for Assange but these are not reported, at all, by the MSM.
Odd, eh. The polite French only protest on Saturday, I’m sure the spectre of being spotted protesting on a work day would put paid to that rather fast. But, in the UK protesting on a Tuesday, are they all unemployed? Is there an unemployed ‘protesters App’. Maybe the French could learn from that, maybe.
It is quite a big event in the protesting calendar, known about and planned in advance for a year. Plenty of time to book the day off if working. Of course the majority of working people don’t care enough either way about the Donald to do anything except shout at the TV or ridicule his obvious inanity on twitter and other social medias–and why should they? They didn’t elect him and he’s not one of ours–we have plenty of home-grown idiots ourselves, rabid to rule over us, to put up with.
A good protest on a sunny day is a fine day out for those so inclined, and quite a thrill into the bargain, as I recall from my youth.
We are not all “Julian”.
Assange is, very likely, just another Kleptoctatic asset. His only real claim to fame is a preference for GOP and telling us what we already know – that big brother is everywhere and watching.
Why would London not have a rent-a-crowd ? Trump’s secretly liked by many, I know, I’ve spoken to them, intelligent young people too, it’s a feel good uniting-factor thing. Cheers, anon
London nearly certainly does have the rent a crowd (they are available everywhere) – haven’t investigated yet whether that is them today.
Rent-a-crowd or not, Assange is likely the asset described. As such, I hope you are not just another simple “Julian”.
Yea gods and little fishes .. anons speaking to anons. We’re overrun with anons. If anons were bricks we could build houses. I even saw an ‘anonius’ somewhere this morning. There are so many anons this morning all over the site – we got a drive-by anon event happening. Shaking my head .. rofling! Its an invasion! What does one say? … get a life, or get a name.
It was paul who began it. Not the first time, either.
(hint, hint)
… it is time to control them … and make sure their name is checked against the email address.
There is deflection occurring too often.
Deflectors should make their own original post.
What, so your original posts, your assertions, are not open to question or counter-assertion then, Paul? From down there in Oz your view of some event happening way across on the other side of the world is the definitive view and beyond challenge?
It cannot be a particularly robust view if you cannot entertain any differing perspective at all.
… it is clear there was no forward support for Assange … this is why we have photography and supposed journalism … I thought that would be obvious.
And … Why can’t you get a proper name !
It was a march about Trump’s state visit, not Assange. Do you think that 17,000 people have to take note of your concerns, despite the march being about something else entirely?
No-one is preventing you from organising or marching for Assange, yourself, and many of the organisations involved in the march two days ago also organise and march for Assange, just not when they are marching against Trump’s state visit, since effective demonstrations are always organised around a single unifying principle or demand.
And I have a name, thanks.
There are suppressive agendas for certain people, secret “proscription lists” as under Sulla. Anonymity is a way to try to avoid being chased around. It may not work always, but it often does. It seems, ever more people feel a need to try it. More anons point to more awareness of or/and more experience with such silent (i.e. ANONymous) retribution from above.
ANON
Interesting. You made the anonymity to sound like a suitable tool for those who want to have a more open view (or critical) on certain things, which are being discussed here if they don’t want to be chased when have a name or a signature. It may sound logic, so I ventured myself in thinking on this : why is somebody afraid to be chased for sharing his/her opinion ? I’m not trying to tell you a lullaby, many times came this in my mind and I confess, yes, I did gave it a try…but why ? probably because I wanted to be a nice guy who is saying always nice things, not willing to be seen as someone who is changing his mind. But, at hell with being a nice guy in that way ! someone who is thinking today, must change his mind if he/she wants to learn. The world is in continuous change, we discover always new things, old paradigms being outdated, new information comes to light, etc. Even the past history is being re-formed or re-formatted in many ways, and we are finding out new facts which are not fitting with the notions learn by us until now.Sometimes these realities seem to be so extreme that we feel ourselves overwhelmed, not knowing surely how to put together the new-old puzzle. Luckily, the nature offers an obvious example on what means extreme, cause the nature itself “works” in extremes. If we cannot bare the political extremes, how do we learn ? Saying all this, my fellow posters, I encourage you to have a sign, a name, and bare the criticism, meanwhile trying to explain your point in a way which does not harm someone else’s dignity.
If somebody does post with Anonymus just because he or she want to divert a discussion or just to have some fun, that is a shameful behavior and must not be answered at all.
The pics of the guy I seen did not look gravely ill. What’s the end game? Assange is being set up to dissappear, as in poof, gone. Falling under witness protection. If he walks as a free man, he will be hounded to death or whacked by those he exposed. No? Imagine him doing the late night talk show rounds, ain’t gonna happen. If he’s spilling the beans, then bean counters will be collecting, again, that puts him in immediate danger. And if they bring him stateside, and try him, what optics that would bring, making Russia gate look like the peep show it was. Quick, look, was that a hand behind the curtain?
He apparently has multiple untreated dental abscesses from his unhealthy lifestyle in confinement, for a start, not a good prognosis for anyone (sepsis and heart problems from blood poisoning a possibility) and unlikely to be addressed in HMP Belmarsh.
Sweden is trying to do the Pontius Pilate act and has declined to reinstate the arrest warrant, which Britain was counting on to keep its own hands relatively clean with some plausible deniability, so he is being Skripalled, airbrushed out of what passes for existence.
The 17 charges levelled against him recently will make the decision at his extradition hearing to the US more complicated as they weren’t on the original extradition request and the 170 year prison tariff they carry (against the original much shorter sentence he faced) will need to be reconsidered in the light of such a cruel and unusual punishment.
May is a dead duck and the Tories in such complete disarray that the turmoil could work in his favour, as all those desperate to be elected will be wary of pissing off the populace too much right now.
Who knows? I’m hoping and praying for a miracle anyway.
@Sean – ” Quick, look, was that a hand behind the curtain?” – you came up with an interesting idea which can be considered if one may look closer, as you gave the examples. That simply means : defense by custody. Once you brought up this subject, we have to consider or rather take a count on who are those who want to do that ? my first thought – as someone also said in an earlier Cafe – was that Russia would have been the best or safer place for Julian Assange, so, if we going further in counting, we arrive at the question : how is that possible in these circumstances for him to be delivered to Russia ? the answer looks simple, no way to do that. So, Assange is being held in custody as a witness. In fact he is an “asset” for those who are against Putin’s Russia. I don’t think he will be physically liquidated, that would be foolish, when they have an “asset” which if put in liberty, would be damaging for them. In my view, it remains to be seen if Russia will react and how, regarding the case of Julian Assange. (As a sideline – we have no idea what is going on behind the veils, mainly because of what Assange has done, accessing a lot of secretly kept information and letting them out in the air. Who knows about the files which were not published yet or at all ? who decided which information has to be leaked and which not ? this might be used as evidence for his loyalty or sympathy to one side or the other in the grand chess play. So, if you take a much deeper account of what is being at stake, his situation is not easy at all.
Russia made it clear, well before he took up Ecuador’s offer of asylum, that he was not welcome in Russia. Mr P does not approve of Assange as a publisher of anything and everything as that makes him, Assange, a completely loose cannon, something no politician intent on exercising power would willingly entertain. Snowden was given refuge as it was politically beneficial to Mr P at the time, but it was made clear to him, Snowden, that his days as a mover and shaker in information whistle-blowing were over if he wanted to remain safely in Russia.
Assange is unlikely to accept such terms, being a different kettle of fish altogether, and even if he did accept such terms is unlikely to be able to keep to them, being temperamentally a free agent or privateer, a polite way of describing a modern pirate.
Russia was never an option for Assange. He can only survive if the world changes considerably. That might happen, given all the international, environmental and economic crises we are facing currently, which cannot continue indefinitely, so won’t continue indefinitely.
Tomorrow is always another day.
In the hope of communicating with a friendly “anon”, I would really be interested to have evidence Assange was not welcome in Russian.
Maria Zakharova stated a week ago that Assange should have got to them, so I would like to get to the truth, if possible.
Thanks in advance.
When he first holed up in the Ecuardoran embassy in 2012 he didn’t have asylum and was actively seeking it from many countries. it was a massive world-wide story and massively covered in the MSM at the time. He got no offers except from Ecuador eventually. I was originally a staunch supporter of Welsh-born Manning during his/her trial for disclosing the Collateral Murder video and have followed all developments closely since. There was crickets, silence (a very vocal silence) from Russia as well as from every other western country when Assange (and the wikileaks team) was looking for asylum. Only Ecuador and I believe one other SA country gave the matter any consideration at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/14/julian-assange-asylum-ecuador-wikileaks
ad homiem statement removed … mod
Absolutly, he is not in an easy position, but he is not stupid. He knew what he was doing, what he was about to do. Why did he have no back up plan planned? Why put himself in such a position? This didn’t happen overnight. It just has a very fishy ‘dead parrot’ smell, pythonesque. From the little I read on him, his major crime was expoing NSA spying; everyone before Assange never ever espected that their government spies on them? And even knowing now, does anyone that counts, care? Also, he supposedly exposed US military killing innocent civilians; long way from Mai Lai, US soldiers kill civillians for sport, we know that. We have known that US soldiers kill innocent people every where they fight, we needed Assange to expose the exposed? And knowing now, US soldiers ala Trump exempted from rape charges at the IOC, again, does anyone that counts, care. Sad sick world.
@Paul – I have here something for you : /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-06-01/#comment-653988
Paul, I don’t doubt there is ‘rent-a-crowd’ on both sides. But there is also grassroots protesting by both sides.
Thing is (and this is not meant as Trump criticism, it is just what I see), Trump is there to push Brexit and reconnect ties to the old British establishment. (I would like to say the white or the WASP establishment but this of course is politically very incorrect). This is probably his only real chance left to ‘make a deal’ with anyone, so, in my view, he is creating his ‘deal-making partner’. Britain is in such a political mess, that this is easy to do – it is an easy message and an easy divide and conquer.
Even RT and Sputnik is participating in the Trump admiration society and the standard of journalism is actually very poor. We see all the banquets and clothes and frou frou and ra ra, but there are no real issues being discussed, which means anything, has already been agreed and this trip is just to play into Trump’s 2020 campaign. He has to be able to say he can get along with somebody, and it looks like the WASP society is about what he has left as most everyone else are now either ignoring him, laughing at him, or something like this. The ‘Deal of the Century’ for the Middle-East is dead on arrival, Netanyahu has deep political problems. The new NAFTA is just the same as the old, and there does not seem to be any progress with China and I don’t expect any progress soon.
Whether the protests are ‘rent-a-crowd’ on either or all sides, is not very relevant, as this is clearly a massive theater production with the outcome already decided.
There was a discussion on the last cafe about the book Propaganda (1928) by Edward Bernay.
It is available free here:
https://archive.org/details/revhosatx73
Could be interesting but, nevertheless, mostly useless.
The propaganda has served it’s purpose by age 15 latest and most people die with the same formative opinions they held then (e.g. freedom-fighter/terrorist).
Formative influences are not opinions. Formative influences cannot change but opinions can and do, sometimes with mind-boggling frequency. You clearly have not given much thought to differences between the two, if any, or perhaps you are not used to thinking at all?
Those whose opinions don’t change with changing circumstances, i.e. those whose opinions remain those that were handed to them on a plate in childhood do not understand or are interested in what thinking for themselves is about and have determined not to learn anything from life at all.
Not someone I would bother with as they are not really alive in any dynamic sense, at all.
I thought I already knew the history of the USS liberty destroyed by the Zionist entity. But it’s even more disgusting than i thought.
It’s worth looking at this :
https://www.trunews.com/stream/six-day-war-massacre-uss-liberty-veterans-reveal-truth-about-israeli-attack-part-1
https://www.trunews.com/stream/six-day-war-massacre-uss-liberty-veterans-reveal-truth-about-israeli-attack-part-2
Over at Miles Mathis, a guest writer has hit the jackpot. Looking at the genealogies of Iran’s leadership of the the last millennia up to the present day, the picture that emerges is shocking, though not totally unexpected: all of Persia’s/Iran’s ruler were and are Cryptos. Bingo.
http://mileswmathis.com/iran.pdf
To understand the Fake Left abandonment of Assange in favor of the Deep State understand one thing:
The Family of Western Man is Dysfunctional. And you’re living in a nuthouse…or at least next door to one….your neighbors are abused abusers and are out of their minds from all the abuse.
Little Jimmy Dore at least gets it right, far more often than he gets it wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D_5Snzj6-U
Why Assange Prosecution Is Complete Bulls**t
“WE (the US Branch of the Western Family) are a Nation of Adult Children of Alcoholics, ladies and gentlemen, because that’s how they act…….Adult Children of Alcoholics don’t get mad at the person abusing them….they get mad at the guy that points out that there’s a guy abusing them. That’s how that works. We are a nation full of those mother-f**kers. We are not mad at Hillary Clinton for rigging the primary, we are mad at Julian Assange for telling us that she rigged the primary.
Isn’t that weird?? That’s because you’re an Adult Child of an Alcoholic……”
Or if you aren’t a very large plurality of those around you……….. ARE……. that dysfunctional….or worse!
But “Have a nice day!”, as they say.
You see:
The pendulum, finally, some day, swings the other way. Optimism, my friend.
The upswing…….is up to us.
After burying the too many too commonly unhappy dead to truth, morality and courage and remembering the few, the happy few whose souls live on in our discernment of the difference between lasting life and love…..and the self-extinguishing……spiritual.lack thereof.
Keep it rolling, Jimmy!
Chuck Todd is one of those Adult Children of Alcoholics…………..
https://youtu.be/cVJYWTY6NG0
ChuckTodd Self Owns On Assange Prosecution
Amazing feat of mental gymnastics! Such a contortionist that he manages to screw himself……….as a supposed journalist. Except he’s not.
He ain’t the only Adult Child of Alcoholic Parents, however. He’s got lots of company. His viewers, for starters.
… music break …
The Blues Brothers – John Lee Hooker e Aretha Franklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZT0WXzbMU
Something Q-rius going on? With Assange?
There MAY be, imho.
I didn’t say Q was ultimately good…or bad.
I said it might be either, and it’s not as simple as the Quick Deciders Based on Belief or Disbelief……….would like it to be.
I don’t know, and when I don’t know and you don’t know either, or can’t construct your thesis with methodology that stands up to all counter-evidence …………..I don’t have to decide yet, just because someone else got fatigued or impatient………..and decided...most probably wrong. Or woefully incomplete. and demands that everybody else should do the same.
Screw the herd mentality!
I can continue gathering data. So I ordered a few copies of Neon Revolt’s The Q Revolution book. Delivery in August.
I have next to NO confidence in many Q you tubers. I have considerable confidence in Neon, despite a known error or two he has made. Everyone’s data is incomplete. SO: It’s a matter of whose data is consistently LESS incomplete…whose method employs more of principles of sound construction ……….or almost none….whatsoever!.
It’s all relative. In my humble opinion.
However, on the relatively daftest end of the scale is the (non)-truthful principle of Sex as the Measure of All Things…………including Love….as it is patently absurd and ridiculous and fails construction code more or less immediately and self-evidently and falls down before its utterance is even finished. Otherwise, your best choice of Construction Manager would need to be the gigolo or prostitute ….or victim of sex trafficking. More is LESS….so to speak.
Ergo, putting a squiggly spermatozoa on a capital O and “calling it a Q day” is ridiculous, non-constructive of any sort of cognition or construction of anything that does not immediately collapse upon its silly self. The same self-serving foolishness and predictable error is pervasive where that one came from. But appreciated very greatly as a most useful example of the sort of error of judgment and method …..to avoid!
I’m thankful for the demonstration, brother!
Dennis then applies the same irresponsibility and foolishness to other matters such as the Cryptosphere which are reduced to the same absurd criteria: Does Item A (OBOR) or B ……
(That would be Bitcoin………..but which one? There are many! ONE real. The rest fake. Many harmful and fleeting..unable to stand the test of time…………..perhaps ONE solid and of potentially great benefit…but HOW exactly?…or an Evil Empire PLOT ….worse than what we’ve already got??? Distinctions are of no interest…puns ALWAYS intended…to the employer of such methodology “that always yearns to return to its real and only favorite subject: Its Self.)
…..keep the focus on that needful Ego’s continual craving for constant erotic stroking (“Me Good! THIS subject good! ME at the center of THIS one! The way it should be! The way it MUST be!”) ……
……or detract from that deeply needed attention.
(Bad! This subject, very, VERY bad! I can’t discuss competently! I can’t even BEGIN to try!. I can’t distinguish from the good OR the bad….SO….ALL BAD! Distracts from ME! Can’t be good! Must include ME in the center! ……………….No matter how many billions of lives either A….OBOR or something of value …great utility…maybe…….in cryptography………..like keeping enemy decoders from decoding your communications….DUH!!! ………….improves the lives of others …………..screw them! ALL along the NEw Silk Road—-pun intended……..)
and so L-445’s article is dismissed by the Silly Ego with the flip of the hand and contradictory stuff is just made up to satisfy the mood-making appetite of that Ego …at THAT moment. One upmanship from over in the Cafe where it’s safer to be so silly.
It’s clinical and transparent.
What isn’t yet transparent is what code is being played with or used in communication with the 17th letter of the Alphabet (Q) in the case of Assange…………… being charged on 17 counts…..as Dore recounts quoting the WAPO article…………..OR…..a supposed Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr Craig S Wright having 17 Graduate Degrees…..PHDs, Masters ……………..and how these two numeric Q-codes are related.
Maybe they aren’t.
But some methodologies just retard the investigation and dull the senses.
If Craig Wright and Julian Assange are contemporaries of the same age…..were in the same place at the same time (a high school in Australia) and both took an early interest in coding and cryptography doesn’t some sixth or seventh sense tell you…someone is dropping clues………..with the use of “17”…???
WHO?
Good or evil forces?
Or just “coincidence”???
I kind of doubt it. Until proven otherwise by sound method, neither by simply emoting nor by making inconsistent shit up to feed that ever-hungry, ever silly Ego…..i don’t have to either decide YES or dismiss any of these possible coincidences with a NO.
But just be alert.
Bro, would you mind sending me an email please to make contact. I have a bunch of information for you. My email is at the bottom of this page at the community cooperative. (I know I have your email, but my inbox is truly stuffed!)
OK
… continuing the music break in a smooth jazz style …
Katie Melua – I Put A Spell On You (Live At Fairfield Halls Croydon)(2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_gr4rVEwE
… my first post in this Cafe has gone completely misunderstood so I urge folks to carefully read what I am saying … what the focus of my comment is concerned with and what is missing in that crowd.
I hope someone will understand and comment appropriately.
… for ioan … the movie posted last Cafe has a great lesson to teach and I want to express my feelings that you will fully recover and restore … you are a resilience person with a strong spirit for endurance.
Well, here’s my opinion: the crowd was much more focused on the arrival of Trump than other things, the Assange case not being discussed on the general MSM media outlets, there’s no surprise that people don’t care to much about his person, whatever he represents in terms of freedom of expression. Trump, is being discussed vary largely on the same media outlets (even RT and Sputnik), so it is “normal” that those people who took part of that demo, have behaved this way, taking the posters in their hands, which were probably given to them by so called “volunteers”. This is a tactic which is used pretty well in various occasions, demos. In overall, that means : the majority of people are already in amnesia. That means that their critical thinking (spirit) has failed to do the job, bringing the individual of self deprivation of their own freedom of expression and judgment.
Actually, the march was the work of many smaller organisations, mostly left-leaning, but not always. These would range from the Stop the Wars coalition to various trades unionists and other interested parties, anti-racists and anti-Atlanticists amongst them. Anyone opposing Trump, the Empire and all the bullying war-mongering he stands for. The participants would be the volunteers and they either make their own signs or use ready-made ones. The protest was organised by interested parties, not everything is a colour revolution and it is foolish to look at everything through that one lens, that is paranoia.
I for one wouldn’t attempt to tell a participant, a volunteer on the march, that they were unable to make their own choices to participate and were being manipulated by some shadowy hand behind the curtain. I generally assume that adults are capable of and responsible for making their own decisions, whether I agree with those decisions or not. After all, who made me god of all that is good and so superior as to be capable of judging others decisions and actions?
May the gods preserve us from all thinking alike the self-same thoughts, what a scary and boring world that would be. Definitely not one I would want to live in for long.
You might want to reconsider, the laws of nature do not discriminate and can be very unforgiving If everyone followed them closely, then world would be of like minded thinkers and at peace with its self.
Its only once all the opposing views are fighting for the majority control, and on the wrong side of nature, that the troublesome wars spring up and never end.
‘then world would be of like minded thinkers and at peace with its self.’
That won’t ever happen, except in some pipedream, and expecting it to ever happen is unrealistic in the extreme.
Its a form of authoritarianism to even think it possible: “why oh why doesn’t everyone else see things the way I do and agree with my superior views? Then the world will be at peace with itself,” says the bully.
Its been tried before and never works out well, for anyone, because you cannot successfully suppress other peoples different opinions and ideas for any appreciable length of time. And every single person has different ideas and opinions. Good luck with that pipedream, you against (how many now?) 6 billion others.
There should have been a period there but yes, you are elementary in your views of the world and where it must attempt to go. Advancement of human evolution rather than the destruction of the human race.
And even if only 50,000 people were left to attempt this as yet elusive ideal, it would all be worth it in the very long run b/c the laws of nature would have the final say, rather than endless bickering by silly humans.
I don’t have any views at all about the world and where it must attempt to go. I think the world a paradise, beautiful beyond compare and out of my control, thank the gods.
The world will go where it goes, with or without my (or your) views on the matter. Nature always has had the final say and always will, despite our puny scheming, posturing and imaginings.
It might go its own way w/o my views, but it cant go its own way w/o my actions, riddle me that.
ioan … thanks for that … “right on target” … correct !
Wow Paul, you should have told us if you were proposing a riddle with a pre-formatted answer. It looks now that you wanted one answer only, yours. Something about this feels wrong and off.
Here is a small protest by Venezuelans protesting both Trump visit and focusing on ‘free Julian Assange. No doubt there were more, but isolated. (sorry, cannot embed that video at the top of the page).
https://www.newsflare.com/video/297652/politics-business/venezuelian-people-demand-to-free-assange-at-anti-trump-protest-2019-in-london-uk
We should bear in mind that all media is blacksmearing Assange. All of them, and many of the alternatives as well. We should bear in mind that the focus of this Trump visit was pre.formatted and Assange was very deliberately painted out of the picture. Let me write something about Assange specifically in a different post.
… my initial post was delivered as a statement stating what I observed and very specific to Trump’s visit in London and the protests in London specific to Trump’s visit.
ioan … whose first language is not English understands exactly what I posted because he read carefully and within the parameters of the statement.
I apologise to everyone for posting this, it’s not worth the agony.
Peace.
Its worth the agony. Its worth it. Its worth speaking out!. Thank you for doing that.
Please note that the critical comments here are not about you speaking out, but about what looked like wanting a pre-formed answer. Perhaps Paul, with greatest respect, consider that the online communication cannot really transfer nuance very well.
Btw, English is not my first language – it is in fact my 3rd. Ioan has just a very wonderful way to convey values with this words.
Let’s try some translations then.
English.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tusind-stykker-thousands-pieces.html
A Thousand Pieces
It’s said that the sky’s always blue over the clouds
It can be hard to understand when you can’t see it
And it’s said that after the storm’s raging, the sun will turn up
But it rarely helps the ones who got wet
‘Cause when your friends disappear and when life had gotten tired
You’ll see everything in a very different light
You practice and slowly get better at seeing
and distinguishing truth from lies
It’s said that everything is good for something
We’ve gotten our faith to use it
So many things are said, but so little is known when you’re in fear
Your soul feels the illusion burst
‘Cause when your friends disappear and when life had gotten tired
You’ll see everything in a very different light
You practice and slowly get better at seeing
and distinguishing truth from lies
Everything can break
A heart can break into a thousand pieces
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
Everything can break
A heart can break into a thousand pieces
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
‘Cause when your friends disappear and when life had gotten tired
You’ll see everything in a very different light
You practice and slowly get better at seeing
and distinguishing truth from lies
Everything can break
A heart can break into a thousand pieces
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
Everything can break
A heart can break into a thousand pieces
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
If you used to call me your friend
Then I’m probably still here
Russian:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tusind-stykker-%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2.html
Тысячи кусочков
Говорят, что над облаками небо всегда голубое
Это может быть трудно понять, когда не видим этого
И говорят, что после кнута шторма, солнце восходит
Но это редко помогает тем, кто промок
Ведь когда друзья исчезают и жизнь устала
Смотрим на всё другими глазами
Практикуем и медленно лучше получается видеть
и отличать ложь от правды
Говорят, что от того, что происходит, всегда есть польза
У нас есть вера, чтобы использовать её
Так много говорят, но так мало знают, когда чувствуют страх
Душа чувствует взрыв иллюзии
Ведь когда друзья исчезают и жизнь устала
Смотрим на всё другими глазами
Практикуем и медленно лучше получается видеть
и отличать ложь от правды
Всё может пойти не так
Сердце может разбиться на тысячи кусочков
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
Всё может пойти не так
Сердце может разбиться на тысячи кусочков
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
Ведь когда друзья исчезают и жизнь устала
Смотрим на всё другими глазами
Практикуем и медленно лучше получается видеть
и отличать ложь от правды
Всё может пойти не так
Сердце может разбиться на тысячи кусочков
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
Всё может пойти не так
Сердце может разбиться на тысячи кусочков
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
Когда-то ты называл меня подругой
Поэтому я всё-ещё здесь
French:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tusind-stykker-en-mille-morceaux.html
En mille morceaux
On dit que en par-dessus les nuages le ciel est toujours clair
C’est peux être dificile quand on ne puex pas le voir
Et on dit que le soleil arrives àpres la rage de la tempête
Mais ce rarement aide ceux qui se sont mouillés
Parce que quand tes amis a quand ta vie s’est fatigué
On va voir tout avec des yeux très differents
On pratique et lentement s’améliore à voir
Et distinguer entre des vérités et des mensonges
On dit que tout ce qui arrive est toujours bon pour quelque chose
Nous avons notre foi pour l’utiliser
On dit tellement, mais sait si peu quand la peur commence
Ton âme sens l’illusion se briser
Parce que quand tes amis a quand ta vie s’est fatigué
On va voir tout avec des yeux très differents
On pratique et lentement s’améliore à voir
Et distinguer entre des vérités et des mensonges
Tout peut se briser
Un cœur peut se briser en mille morceaux
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Tout peut se briser
Un cœur peut se briser en mille morceaux
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Parce que quand tes amis a quand ta vie s’est fatigué
On va voir tout avec des yeux très differents
On pratique et lentement s’améliore à voir
Et distinguer entre des vérités et des mensonges
Tout peut se briser
Un cœur peut se briser en mille morceaux
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Tout peut se briser
Un cœur peut se briser en mille morceaux
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Si tu as m’appelé ta amie
Je probablement vais être ici encore
Italien:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tusind-stykker-mille-pezzi.html
In mille pezzi
Si dice che sopra le nuvole il cielo è sempre azzurro
Ma è difficile da comprendere se non lo puoi vedere.
Si dice che dopo un furioso temporale, poi torna il sole
Ma questo aiuta poco chi si è bagnato.
Poiché quando gli amici scompaiono e la vita ti stanca
Vedi tutto con occhi molto diversi.
Si impara e pian piano farà bene vedere
e riconoscere il vero dal falso.
Si dice che ciò che accade è sempre utile per qualche cosa
Abbiamo avuto modo di sperimentare questo pensiero
Si dicono tante cose ma ci si ricorda di così poco quando hai paura
L’animo sente l’illusione bruciare
Poiché quando gli amici scompaiono e la vita ti stanca
Vedi tutto con occhi molto diversi.
Si impara e pian piano farà bene vedere
e riconoscere il vero dal falso.
Tutto si può rompere
Un cuore può rompersi in mille pezzi
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Tutto si può rompere
Un cuore può rompersi in mille pezzi
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Poiché quando gli amici scompaiono e la vita ti stanca
Vedi tutto con occhi molto diversi.
Si impara e pian piano farà bene vedere
e riconoscere il vero dal falso.
Tutto si può rompere
Un cuore può rompersi in mille pezzi
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Tutto si può rompere
Un cuore può rompersi in mille pezzi
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Ma se mi hai chiamato “amico” una volta,
Allora io sarò ancora qui.
Thanks to HinKyto (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/translator/kenax) – Karlus (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/translator/karlus) and Sandra (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/translator/sandra-mart%C3%ADn) for translations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_UI2Ia57w4
Kent
I also thank you Kent, for posting it. So much simple truths are in the lyrics. That lady, the singer Anne Linnet was born in 1953, she’s also part of the generation Boom (just saying).
… thanks Kent … I’ll be copying the Russian into a workbook with English and noting the website.
it’s an open week no deep resonances of the elements
Venus is completing her reign and
Mars is dancing under the Moon
while Mercury is shuffling that moisty way
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-rare-kind-of-week-and-dancing-mars.html
re: mundo’s spiritual astrology: conciliation not in the cards?
Do we have Pluto and Saturn waiver and reset ?
The Protestants really did not “reform” the Church in Rome but rather made a worse version in my non-humble opinion. Calvinism has the same vibe and dour look as someone like Pence . Perhaps Christianity in the West is due a total overhaul but with the baby not thrown out with the bathwater.
Christianity’s hope for a Second Coming is the unconscious cry for that which ails the Christian Church, a Living Master, someone on Christ’s level. Unfortunately, the fact that the church, in all it’s myriad versions/variations, has become an earthly organisation on a gargantuan scale means that such a being would immediatley be viewed with suspicion and no doubt, murdered.
First they came for Julian Assange… now all journalists world wide are under attack… even MSM…
The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days.
Yesterday the AFP raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst, seeking information related to her investigative report last year which exposed the fact that the Australian government has been discussing the possibility of giving itself unprecedented powers to spy on its own citizens. Today they raided the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corp, seizing information related to a 2017 investigative report on possible war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan.
In a third, also ostensibly unrelated incident, another Australian reporter disclosed yesterday that the Department of Home Affairs has initiated an investigation of his reporting on a story about asylum seeker boats which could lead to an AFP criminal case, saying he’s being pressured to disclose his source.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/05/more-police-raids-as-war-on-journalism-escalates-worldwide/
… expanded …
The ABC in Australia is funded by the Australian taxpayer … so declared “a public institution”.
‘Afghan Files’ Raid on ABC Stifles Critical News Media’s Social Role
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201906061075673669-australia-police-raid-free-press/
( serious restrictions to our free press are emerging and intensifying )
Trump’s visit to London was the perfect opportunity for people to make a stand for Assange.
Read the signage and note the designs …
How is it this uniquely timed opportunity was missed !
Trump protests held in London during U.S. president’s state visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y2L-EqWjBo
There is no argument to be had here …
Assange is disappearing and our world is changing dramatically negatively.
I apologise if this post offends anyone’s ANON sensibilities.
RE: “I urge folks to carefully read what I am saying”.
No, this time you did not offend my sensibilities.
What was done to offend them was done in another context where I did not use the signature “ANON”. My congrats that you are visibly informed just about everything.
ANON
No one knows who you are for a start …
but better I don’t get started because like a woman who hides behind a burka you have every advantage by not being exposed.
The video speaks volumes with its images and audio.
The audio should be “I love wikileaks” over and over … loud and directed toward the palace.
Not one placard is about JA.
… and folks tell me this is not rent-a-crowd tactics or there is a JA vigil two miles away …
so nice, polite and sweet excuses … but I am addressing the “protest” and I don’t need that diluted and subverted.
We know Trump is not liked so the protest was a repeat performance of what we already know and what a wasted opportunity by a group of mindless and clueless actors it all was all in view of a most serious situation.
If you cannot understand at this stage, I can be of no further assistance.
The Assange story is long and rich. If you want to know about this, I would suggest a search (not on Google oh heavens). Search for All Interviews with Julian Assange. It is work, but you will find real answers in those interviews. And then you can follow the Julian Assange case not from any alternative media, but only those that have themselves followed it, and reported blow by blow throughout the years. Here are some of those.
https://consortiumnews.com/ (you can do a search for all Assange articles)
John Pilger : https://twitter.com/johnpilger?lang=en (He has been there and reporting since day one)
Hanna Jonasson : her full twitter feed is Assange and she is on the legal team. https://twitter.com/assangelegal?lang=en
Go read Wikileaks itself : https://twitter.com/wikileaks?lang=en
Scroll down here where I made a list of reliable resources : https://saker.community/2019/04/12/julian-assange/
Caitlin Johnstone : referred to by Babuska in Oz right in the beginning of this cafe, has links for Caitlin. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
So, it is not that people can complain of not getting the right information. It is that they are in love with their own opinion based on what they think, but probably have not spent one minute in listening or reading from those who have been solid and reliable and reporting on Assange over the years.
Jimmy Dore is a relative newcomer and gives good commentary. If he gives information, he makes sure it is correct.
Assange and Russia : if you do your homework, you will know that the Assange team decided against approaching Russia for refuge or asylum of some kind as they felt it will make the situation even worse and politicize it even more. This was right before Ecuador gave him asylum.
Those that think that Assange is dead, have it dead wrong. He may be really ill, even deathly ill from a myriad of causes, but he is not dead yet.
Those that say “I am not in the Assange camp” – that is all good and fair and your choice and your right. But, I have to ask, which camp are you in then? My opinion and this is only an opinion is that you are in the wrong camp.
Those that say Assange is a limited hangout, or a tool of the deep state, or any one of the myriad bits of nonsense floating about, I would say that mostly they came to the story of Assange very late in the game and don’t know what they are talking about but really want to see their opinion somewhere on the internet.
To close, here is Lee Camp:
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/460935-julian-assange-changed-world/
The title and lyrics in the following song require modifying for our dramatically changing times.
*Go East … Life is Peaceful there … ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5M
This came to mind after reading …
/russia-china-sitrep-double-helix-strategic-coordinationrussia/
( a very profound positive read, smoothly articulated )
… more correctly …
/special-china-sitrep-analysis-by-larchmonter445/
Cafe Stuff – we’re building the incoherent ‘tower of babble’
To all the anony-mice, anony-mooses and anony-mushes out there.
How does it work? I can pick any name, tom, dick or harry or dingleberry. I can change my name any time I make a new comment. It works the same as if I’ve picked anonymous. All that changes, is that folks in this cafe can follow your reasoning – because with all these a-mooses and a-mice around, we do not know who is talking to who and you are bound to get snarky comments (one of those ‘who’s’ should be a whom).
So, for the sake of the readers, choose a name – anyone will do, and we can then follow what you say. Choosing anonymous for a name does not protect your identity any more than choosing Big Pink Icecream Cone or The Lorax or Humpty Dumpty.
But it makes a big difference as to how the other readers look at you, and follow your commentary. I would guess and I don’t know, that much troll activity happens under the name of anonymous, so, at the outset, you’re looked at as a possible troll and it is suspected that you are talking to yourself (and I know some of you are not trolls).
I would suggest if you hang around here, choose a name different from anonymous – even if you change it each time you make a comment.
… a popular classic break …
Alphaville – Forever Young Live Discoteka 80 Moscow 2010 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YPZ_kMsf0g
… more than ten thousand views in two days !
Just in on Julian Assange … please note, this is just in news so we need to wait to see if it is being accurately reported.
It is said that the father of Julian Assange had a visit scheduled with Assange in the jail, but that he could not have this visit and it was cancelled, because doctors were rushed to the jail to deal with an Assange medical emergency.
We need to wait for one of the reliable resources to confirm (or not to confirm) this.
Smuggled pics of Assange released ???
A little more in on Assange from RT and the Gateway pundit … Note RT’s words … they are not saying this all is true but saying the Gateway pundit ‘claims’ on the issue of the pictures released. If you click on the RT link, you’ll see more images on Gateway pundit.
Also, in terms of the health issue, they quote the Australian source Courier Mail
RT seems to be very careful here : https://www.rt.com/uk/461215-assange-pictures-belmarsh-prison/
It would be good if we all are careful as well and just report until we get confirmed information.
OK, RT feeling obviously much more relaxed about reporting now.
Exclusive: First VIDEO of Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison
https://www.rt.com/news/461329-assange-video-belmarsh-prison/
Seems to me that the other prisoners are supportive, but that is only what I see.
Arctic Cafe ( re header photo)
“Welcome stranger, come in from the cold
Pull up a chair for the tea we’ll prepare.”
say the men polite yet fearlessly bold.
“Gather round, warm your fingers and toes.
Here’s the Arctic Cafe
where we do it our way!”
In studying the photograph, specifically the expressions on the men’s faces, I’m reminded of a story that hails from
Prilep, Macedonia. At one time, especially in the first half of the 20th century, the opportunity to have one’s photograph taken was not an everyday occurence, and so people were generally not too frivolous and if we look at photos from that period most of those having their’s taken were rather formal in their presentation before the camera, such as these men in this early cafe shot.
My story concerns an artist, now around 80 years of age, whom I met at an Artist’s Colony I was part of back in the period 2001/02. The story was related of the artist’s father who was a self-taught artist, among a number of professions held down by the man, but a man so good looking that he even had an offer to travel to Hollywood, which he had to decline because he did not know the language, so the story goes. The individual, nicknamed Mina, (surname Minoski ) was attending a session at a photographic studio in Prilep, in – I’m guessing but it would have been the early 50’s or before. Mina was an individual above all else and a luminary in that particular town and region in Macedonia ( part of Yugoslavia then ) in the day, and during the photographic session was repeatedly asked to stop smiling, that people were simply not photographed laughing etc. After repeatedly being implored to ‘sober up’ the photographer in the end gave up and photographed the debonair Mina in all of his rugged and relaxed glory with the most natural smile you could imagine.
After the session the photographs were so appealing that the photographer used them as part of his advertisments for his business, and people would come to have their photographs taken with the catch-cry; “napravime ko Mina…” “make me like Mina…” I found it an interesting story how one individual who did not want to be confined by a tradition in the making at that point, went with his natural inclinations and wanted to be photographed “as he was” and not as some mannekin in a studio. Someone always has courage and breaks the ice, opening the way for others.
Who drew, and designed the rubber duck for the bath tub in the 1950’s, that fanciful, floating toy for children that won’t sink, but pops up when submerged, and heedlessly continues to bob around in the foam ?
I see Mulga spouting alarmist nonsense about the climate over on the Iran thread.
It is hard to understand how someone claiming to be from Oz could be unaware of the honest science available in that country.
c.f. http://joannenova.com.au/2019/06/china-and-india-will-watch-the-west-destroy-itself/
Joannanova!!?? It is to laugh! And what sort of ‘farmer’ has not noticed the rapid climate destabilisation, seen in droughts, floods, deluges, pest and disease infestation etc?
The Legend is back!
Mother showed her latest newborn:
GAZ-67B
more at:
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5c9ea6b4e0c47900b25284d1/gaz-67-vozvrascenie-legendy-5cdb373a5289bf00b30aea0a
Take it to the tatami? Putin offers to meet female US journalist on judo mat
https://www.rt.com/sport/461217-putin-us-journalist-judo-tatami/
“Mathieson, who is executive editor for international government at Bloomberg News, was among those putting questions to the Russian leader.
“I’m not sure I would dare to go against you in a boxing ring,” Mathieson said.
“First of all, I would not agree to fight against you in a boxing ring,” the Russian president said.
“Not because you are a lady, but simply because everybody should stick to their own business. I have never done boxing. You are always welcome to the tatami, I’m ready to work with you there. But I assure you I will have a competitive advantage there,” Putin quipped.”
… a loud, high energy music break …
Scorpions – Wind Of Change Legendado – Hellfest 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7WXp-Clic
… a silky smooth Italian music break …
Andrea Bocelli, Ariana Grande – E Più Ti Penso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SYtmvEI9U
… and here’s a song for rubber ducks …
Rubber Ball (2018 Stereo Remix / Remaster) – Bobby Vee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHyd01Dmia0
So youtube had this massive purge of alternative voices and everyone that is someone is now purged.
Here are the alternatives:
https://www.bitchute.com/
https://d.tube/
There are more, but these are a start.
Also I see that there is more algorithm activity and one cannot find information with most all search engines, that is not mainstream junk. The solution here is to have a deep list of bookmarks and search the sites themselves. Terribly time consuming. I’m researching now and the hours are just being eaten up, because the usual search engines are just suppressing alternative info.
Besides searching sites that you have bookmarked individually, the paid for content sites can also yield information. Two of these are :
https://medium.com/
https://steemit.com/
Don’t worry about the nag screen on medium .. just click on the x and it is gone.
Twitter is also an alternative but perhaps not for long. I think it was The Greanville post that had a good instruction on how to set up a simple information gathering twitter stream. But now that I need it, I can’t find it and of course I should have bookmarked it. Of course that wonderful parody twitter Bellingdawg (a parody on Bellingcat) is also now gone from Twitter.
So deep suppression of alternative information is now happening across the board and with nefarious intent. This of course should make us totally question any information that comes to us easily – as the good stuff does not come easily any longer. I’m so frustrated with this piece of research that I’m doing now, because the internet just gives me junk and I have to go and deep search which takes too much time. What I’ve seen using any of the normal search engines, is that no matter what your search query or search string is, pages and pages of all mainstream media links appear.
One June 6th, we should also remember the 4,000 French civilians who died on that day in 1944 while being “liberated” by the US and UK forces.
The New World Order
Life-affirming Morality
Irresistible Granny Smith
Don’t think it gulp it it’s
Green Apple word puree
Tutti fruity free garbage
Slipping down a treat
A bridge in the gullet
Buy one get one free
So get integral ethics now
So reassuringly New World Order
So very Life-Affirmingly Moral
Ras
Five minutes of video of Assange. He looks lean but his affect looks reasonably okay.
He seems to be in possess of his wits, and therefore, he is not subject of some brutality.
However, we only have this video and not the facts or his words directly, unfiltered as it should be.
But this is Britain and the US who control him. I never underestimate their evil.
https://sputniknews.com/society/201906071075727387-first-video-of-julian-assange-allegedly-taken-in-uk-prison-leaked-online/
You thought it was all about keeping the the Southern US border safe? yes …
Well, it is actually all a shake-down .. Like an old fashioned cowboy movie shake-down. The Donald is just shaking down Mexico. Your Money or Your Life kinda shakedown.
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
If we are able to make the deal with Mexico, & there is a good chance that we will, they will begin purchasing Farm & Agricultural products at very high levels, starting immediately. If we are unable to make the deal, Mexico will begin paying Tariffs at the 5% level on Monday!
10:16 AM – 7 Jun 2019
He will eventually fall on “hard times”. Never knowing what hit him. Living in the past (his past that is).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yS-MUIOpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9IyFLDtjk
Kent
Unfortunately I lost all of my Jethro Tull photos due to a crashed encryption hard drive failure some years back (Damn forever Western Digital).
Kent
It’s a sad day. I may have lost my main Vineyard Sparring Partner.
If this song has never been posted in The Vineyard before, now’s the time, because……
I heard it on the grapevine.
“No longer will you be mine.”
Ooooo! Honey, honey!
This relationship was Platonic, but most of the lyrics still fit.
Hit it, Marvin!
1Mbf7XSmsxC9ka3j7aK7HiLBosg54qoJqM
Yeah, (sigh) I heard on the grapevine before I could even summon the energy to post Part 3…….which stuck in my mind many days ago……… as just a wee bit more representative of Actual Love than his stubborn, fearmongering Sinophobic sparring….that (sob) gave me such outstanding training…to “use my mind like a boxer uses his fists”.
Well that’s what I get for picking a sparring partner running around the ring like a little bantam weight rooster with its head cut off, wearing me out trying to catch up with him and put his crow’n head back on……….
Finally caught my breath and able to summon the love to comment again.
If the headless one doesn’t read this, maybe at least one of his Cafe sympathizers or acolytes will!
“I love you all!”, as Craig Mason says (more convincingly….lol) at the end of every one of his beaming, smiling videos. I’ve got to work on him too, however, with regard to China. However, he is very reasonable, so I have “reasonable” hope that that exercise won’t end in my complete exhaustion.LOL.
I’ll probably use this on CM, instead, because of what I heard ………on the grapevine:
Part 3: What TO Do
https://youtu.be/siCFNf2LSmg?t=54
Zepp-LaRouche in China: East/West Cooperation Is The Only Way Forward
“Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche discusses her recent trip to China where she participated in the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, May 15-16 in Beijing, keynoted by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Zepp-LaRouche and host Bill Jones discuss what’s actually at stake in the so-called US-China trade war, and how it’s possible to be resolved in a win-win manner for both nations. She warns that there is no benefit for the West to try to contain a nation like China, who has made so many contributions to human civilization. The only path forward that will be mutually beneficial for both countries, and their populations, is one of cooperation and overcoming the “Clash of Civilization” strategy of the western neo-cons.
partial transcript:
“This was a truly remarkable conference and I think what became very clear is that what started also with the Belt and Road Initiative and the Belt and Road FOrum # 1 and # 2 , the first of which I attended two years ago.
that Xi Jiping is creating a completely New Paradigm of international relationsand this time the Forum was on Asian Civilizations…and it was mostly attended by Asian heads of state and heads of other leading institutions, but laso with some Europeans, like for example, the President of Greece…but the main focuswas Asia, Asian Civilizations and came across is that the Asians right now are very proud.
There were many presentations focussing on the fact that many of the greatest civilizations were in Asia…in China…in India and other places in Asia, and that people are very proud of the beauty of their culture, their optimism, their future orientation and in the two days Conference on Asian Civilizations there was not ONE speaker who struck any negative or dark note. Everybody was absolutely practicing the principle of relating to the best traditions of The Other, and of pointing to the fact that there is no conflict that cannot be solved through dialogue, instead of confrontation.
I think that this is an extremely promising road for the future of international relations and I’m pretty sure , although it was not mentioned explicitly, that more such conferences will follow, involving other continents, like Europe, like Africa, and hopefully the Americas, so I think this was really a very, very exciting event!
And there were also cultural eventsThe Dialogue of Asian CicilizationsCarnival, which was , you know, truly impressive, with artistic presentations from all these Asian countries and probably performing on the stage were 20,000 people, and the choreography was so well tunedand it was so well done that anybody could really see that in Asia, there is optimism, Asians think that this Asian Century is on the rise…and it is not just China rising, it’s really the entire Asian continent…and coming from Europe, I must say that I cannot emphasize too much the absolute difference between the positive attitude there, the optimism for the future, which you have in Asia…and then, if you look at the Dilemma of the European Union, for example, or the mood of the population in the United States, which is very, very far from having this kind of optimistic attitude for the future, and so I think the West would be better learninga couple of things, because Asia IS doing some things right—and I think they are carrying out values and (inaudible) which we used to have….and we are now really looking at the consequences of going away from our better traditions.”…….
Respect, Admiration and Appreciation of The Other The Keys to Successful, Mutually Fulfilling Personal, as well as International Relations, pardner.
A Dialogue of Civilizations …or a Clash….A failure to Communicate With or Comprehend….The Other.
China has made the offer to the United States …..and so have many of China’s partners….including the president of Panama…….in our own hemisphere!
Cheers mate!
Anyone who have endured hard physical work in extreme conditions As we both have). Deserves respect. Most people these days do not share a background like this.
As you do know, your (sometimes) VERY long escapades into realms unknown does itch my scrolling finger a bit.
I do, however read quite a bit of your ramblings, and often they are both thought-provoking and to some extent inspiring, but, to much work to divulge, follow, and respond to.
Far to time consuming, contemplating the constant flow, (as with the Dennis actually).
But, keep it going please.
Regards
Kent
… well said Kent.
Bro is generous by nature and puts a lot of effort into his posts.
Is it that Dennis has passed away or resigned from the Cafe ?
I just watched a panel on MSNBC, of US psychos discussing China, among other things. The racist contempt for the Chinese was not just undisguised, but ferocious. One lunatic declared that China had to be ‘bent’ to US will. Not ‘broken’ he generously added, as if talking of Panama or Grenada or some other victim of US country-bending. And one ‘female’ a creature called ‘Farckarse’ can you believe, was just as bad. I believe she was destined for a high role in that glorious Clinton Administration that did not see the light of day. The poor dear had awfully widespread eyes, as if the victim of some congenital syndrome, like Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. I do hope that I am not slandering her mother-the poor dear has enough to regret, producing one such as her daughter.
Method in the brilliant wordology madness of Dennis. You can’t put a good man down.
Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
Hamlet: Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards….
Polonius: [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
–Hamlet, Act II, S
I forgot that Farckarse claimed that the Europeans were ‘waking up’ to the infernal Chinese, who were ‘bribing’ them by building infrastructure, roads and railways, that could be used in the future for invasion and military incursions. These vermin are Evil and insane beyond belief.
The power of Chaga is “adaptive”, meaning that, it does not cure or help in fighting any disease in particular (cancer). It adapts to WHATEVER condition your body and spirit is in. THAT is the essence.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Chaga0015_resize.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Chaga0012_resize.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Chaga0009_resize.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Chaga0007_resize.JPG
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Chaga0001_resize.JPG
WE harvest, uses it, and we give it away. No money involved, ever!
Kent
Paul Stamets (back in the day when TED talks were actually interesting)
6 ways mushrooms can save the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
And more Stamets:
“Paul is like a prophet to the fungal spirits. He stands as the translator between the generally ignorant human population and the omnipotent gods of the fungi kingdom. He spoke with both awe and pride when he told me, “It is rare to find something powerful enough to heal you, feed you, kill you, or send you on a spiritual journey. Science and culture have been slow to catch up with the potential of these mushrooms, and there is still so much that we don’t know.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d75e4y/this-man-believes-mushrooms-can-solve-virtually-all-of-humanitys-problems
A russian psychiatrist in St Petersburg proudly informed me that mushrooms in Russian forests are Russia’s “strategic protein reserve”.
Jared Diamond (“Collapse!” and “Guns, Germs, and Steel” author and New Guinea anthropological specialist) used his fear of poisonous mushrooms in an incident in the forest of New Guinea with his hosts to argue that their intelligence may exceed those of Western Man.
HIs hosts ridiculed his fear, called him a fool and explained that they knew all of the uses and non-uses of every single mushroom species, since early childhood.
However they had one word, for every single “non-natural” thing that arrived in New Guinea either by sea or by air:
“CARGO”.
Takes a few years to grow substantial facial hair, right??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug7oyobYONk
Some of my pictures of this band from 2012 (With a lot of facial hair).
http://fotovision.no/ZZTOP2012/index.html
Kent
“God’s Gonna Cut You Down”
Not that one! Different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjlcIN2yJVk
Kent
Distance, more than 300 meters from atop of a building. Next one up was Buddy Guy. His security spotted me, and the police ordered me to leave the building, or he would not perform.
http://fotovision.no/BethHart/index.html
I left, joined the other accredited photographers in the pit and took these pictures, to his, and my satisfaction.
Enjoy
http://fotovision.no/BuddyGuy/index.html
Kent
Somewhere. On one of my (to many) hard drives I’ve got a lot of concert photos of this girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FpLjfN2qc
Not to speak of this one. (Texas IS burning), it’s just that Texans don’t see/feel it, before all is ashes. Pity!
Are we in wonderland?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4Lr_oVGQY
Will post the photos when I find them eventually (If I remember that is).
In the meantime, you might enjoy these:
http://fotovision.no/Missisippi/index.html
Or Jack Bruce and Robin Trower, who knows?
http://fotovision.no/RobintrowerJackbruce/index.html
Kent
Kent
Recognize this famous news anchor??
http://fotovision.no/Cream2005/imagepages/image39.html
Bad Luck? Shredded to pieces by Anissa Naouai on RT. a few years back.
CNN Edited Out of Christiane Amanpour’s Interview with RT Host
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cCS6J6Jv3w
Bad Luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGVtbgYx2I
Kent
You know the sayin “give the children some alcohol before ANY sport takes them”
Then again, might be to much, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zsRRt1FWE
Maybe that’s why I can’t, couldn’t have religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEZIaySmsg
Who knows?
Kent
US joins Greece among worst debt-ridden nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4rQvdvmPs
The US deficit grew to $691 billion over the first half of 2019.
Meanwhile US corporate debt is $9 trillion.
“Boom Bust” co-hosts Christy Ai and Daniel Brito join Rick Sanchez to weigh in.
Armenia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_58AnhnbIgI
Kent
THE Loreena.
For those of you who don’t know who she is. Start with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW2tYM2LZik
And then this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5Mb7TzPlo
Then. your’e on your own to delve further/explore if you wish.
Kent
Tale of two sisters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRKWyMcHRg
Third sister is Brídín Ní Bhraonáin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0MD7LHEmo
Kent
Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now
https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/brussels-all-news/55052/radiation-concerns-halt-brussels-5g-for-now/
“I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not,” Environment minister Céline Fremault (CDH) told Bruzz. “The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit. We cannot leave anything to doubt,” she added.
The Brussels region has particularly strict radiation standards for telecom applications. The standard of 6 volts per metre has already led to problems in the past with providing fast mobile internet via 4G in the capital.
Terminator 2 starring Sylvester Stallone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvCmQFScMA
(this technology is fun but open to misuse)
MALISHA – Lambada – Kaoma (Official Cover 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLziEb0Q28
一剪梅 … A spray of plum blossoms …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjitR7RZEQU
(sung in the National Chinese language – Mandarin)