2019/06/08 10:30:01
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Last Cafe I posted “a spray of plum blossoms” … Chinese song.
Meet Jamyang Dolma, an ethnic Tibetan singing “a spray of plum blossoms” …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCa3W75dRtY
… read her story … (from Wikipedia) …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamyang_Dolma
Jamyang Dolma was born in Dêgê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, on February 24, 1984, to a Tibetan peasant family.[1] She dropped out of middle school due to poverty. She was discovered in a bar when she worked there as a waitress. Then she entered the Song and Dance Ensemble of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.[2] She entered Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 2003, majoring in singing at the Department of Vocality, where she graduated in 2005.
10 minutes of video from Putin speaking to journalists about war, nuclear weapons, the war drums of the western media, etc, all the while displaying with his usual intelligence and humor. He begins speaking at 1:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUR4V_RNR4&feature=youtu.be
Much appreciated to have a sensible positive post in “reply” …
it is cultured and polite conversation.
Putin had noticed and mentioned the depictions of warfare, in Greek style, fashioned within the architrave … surrounding and looking down upon everyone in the room.
Intelligent observation blended seamlessly and dramatically into his delivery.
Here is a thing, and a proposal to Cafe Dwellers.
When we made the site
https://saker.community/
the idea was that we could take the longer discussions, and put them over there. I see Paul has a theme going here, and it is a good theme but a longer term theme (well, there are a few themes). So, if for example Paul started his theme(s) over in the forums section of saker.community, he could work it and add information and content to it, and it all stays together and does not roll over like the Cafe does.
Another example, last Cafe I got itchy because of the Julian Assange information. If I had taken the time and kept all the information together in a forum, it would be easy for anyone to follow it through.
So, for the last number of months, I have not worked on that interaction, between Cafe and saker.community. There were reasons for this, but they have now fallen away.
https://saker.community/forum/ is about Things of Life. While we all are probably geo-political and geo-economic freaks, life happens, sometimes beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking. Saker.community is designed for chronicling life.
I wanted to add some information to Kent’s chaga mushrooms this morning, but the previous cafe has rolled over, and this, the whole mycelium topic is a longer topic, and this can help all of us, healthwise. I created a quick forum example here on Kent’s Chaga.
https://saker.community/topic/kents-chaga/
So, the proposal is to *when appropriate* use the forum section on saker.community for a longer term chronicle on issues of life. We can then use the Cafe *when appropriate* as an erstwhile twitter, to announce what we are doing over on the forum side. There are no ‘hard’ walls here whatsoever – just an enhanced space for longer term conversations.
The forum is designed as a respite from the bitter information that we sometimes ingest here. And it is meant to be that place of rest, where we can talk cherry blossoms and plum blossoms and hats. People can reply directly to a post right underneath the post, you can edit your post, pictures appear directly, and the ability for longer term discussion is just good.
You have to register and log-in each time. This is because I don’t want too great a spam or too great of a moderation burden. If you go directly to the forum page, https://saker.community/forum/ you can register right there, and will receive an email with your password.
So, the Cafe always stays ‘as is’ with its design of rolling commentary, and the forum section of https://saker.community/forum/ give us the opportunity for longer term investigation on issues of life.
Let’s try it this weekend. There will be a little learning curve to use it, so, not to worry if we make a mess for a while. Obviously the forum categories were just chosen by me at the time, and we can make more categories and change the user design to what people are comfortable with.
amarynth, re your proposal, and good work for the Saker community, with all due respect, I feel that your ideas have the kind of fragmentation, separation, classification streaming that tends to govern our disjointed and split world. Perhaps others will appreciate the whole concept, it’s also a time/logistics thing with me. Just my two cents,
Ras
Appreciate the comment Ras, and yes, I fully agree – the potential for fragmentation is absolutely an issue and I’m not unaware of that. But let me give you two examples, topical.
1, Let me quote another case in point (in this instance for me, the longer term drawing together of themes). Bro happened to make a comment on the Chaga but it so happened that it appeared in the older cafe.
Here is his comment, which, in the service of a more coherent and longer term discussion, I copied over to the forum.
https://saker.community/topic/kents-chaga/#post-2460
2. I personally became very frustrated with what you rightly call the classification streaming just yesterday. I was looking for a coherent document, or something, on Putin’s speech and Xi JinPing’s speech and commentary from yesterday at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary Session. As we know, there are just soundbites, different reporting here and there, nothing coherent and incredibly noisy – I think they call it sports type reporting but I may be wrong with this name. I did also not have the time to put this all together for a reference for future. So, it is fragmented, separated and classified from start go, and one cannot find anything complete and contextual.
There were a few things said in that meeting, that are literally word changing. I was going to draw it all together this morning … but if I put it in the Cafe, it is gone in a few days … So, I was going to draw it together and put it in the forum context so that we could look at the whole, instead of the insane little by little reporting.
So, I would debate that yes, the potential for further fragmentation is there, but also the potential for full spectrum information. Very different from The Cafe – a better signal to noise ratio, and you are again right. It consumes time.
I have one more example. Y’all remember the ‘special feature’ thread that we put together when the so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ was going to be delivered for Venezuela. That thread was quoted far and wide as the most up to date, and most authoritative and up to the minute news on that failed aid delivery – and it was well visited and Sakerites reported from far and wide. I learned a lot there about the strength of the commentators in this Sakerite community.
Now we cannot do that every day for sure, pull such a ‘special feature’ together, for a myriad of reasons which I am not going to go into – It will be used again in the future when appropriate I am sure. But, working together, we can ‘special feature’ anything we want and not disturb the firm focus of this main Saker site. We’re soon going to make a formal request for recipes, methods and all kinds of healthy and slow cooking, community wide – cause we’re planning a international communal cook book and food stories. This will fit better in a forum format.
OK; work to do, tired of talking and I rest my case but look forward to more commentary (grins).
Thanks amarynth for bringing it to our attention.
Honestly I wasn’t aware of this option since I look through keyhole called smartphone to post occasionally, hoping to spark up discussion.
Remember the S300’s delivered to Syria ages ago that were never handed over to SAA control?
I think the idea was they could use them to stop those pesky Zionists from bombing them.
Anyone know if the Russians took them back for an upgrade to S400 in order to sell to Saudi?
Last I remember, they weren’t being used because the Syrians still needed more training to use them. Don’t know if they are still in training – seems it takes forever to learn how to use the system.
This system was designed to be used by Soviet conscripts. It’s not that hard.
It is something else not training itself.
Some more uptempo, high energy music, listen for about 2.5 minutes from 11.41:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Bl0wOyB_o
Such a shame that there is so much strife in the Balkans …eg Kosovo Serbia now Moldova …when there is so much amazing incredible folk dancing from that region….maybe youngsters are not believing in the value of such community dancing any more and only doung “there” thing which to me only seems to be a collection of “moves” rather than an intergration of themselves into the rich cultural history of communityfolk dance……dance together and understand and respect each others cultures might help to keep rhe peace a bit more…..dance! Check out on youtube such beautiful folk dancing eg Bulgarian Greek Albanian Hungarian Serbian Rumanian etc etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw6qoTP-XAs
Macedonian Tanec in Israel ’14
JJ: It’s from Baku, Azerbaijan, by the Caspian Sea.
You know, I am getting along quite splendidly with my fellow Little Englanders these days (especially the Cockney Crew on Bitcoin SV Channel, Sir Toshi, Captain Bitcoin and Bitcoin Tramp and their rather rude and randy …and Stroppy cousins down under…CSW et al.), so I thought I would celebrate our Melanin-Challenged Race with a little introspective English Ditty ……………….so that those Asian, African, and South American peoples below the Tropic of Cancer might better understand and sympathize with us:
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
Noël Coward
Album I’ll See You Again
In tropical climes there are certain times of day
When all the citizens retire
To take their clothes off and perspire
It’s one of those rules the greatest fools obey
Because the sun is far too sultry and one must avoid its ultry-violet ray
The natives grieve when the white men leave their huts
Because they’re obviously, definitely nuts!
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
The Japanese don’t care to
The Chinese wouldn’t dare to
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve ’til one
But Englishmen detest a siesta!
In the Philippines
They have lovely screens
To protect you from the glare
In the Malay States
There are hats like plates
Which the Britishers won’t wear
At twelve noon the natives swoon and no further work is done
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!
It’s such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see
That though the English are effete
They’re quite impervious to heat
When the White Man rides every native hides in glee
Because the simple creatures hope he
Will impale his sola topee on a tree!
It seems such a shame
When the English claim the Earth
That they give rise to such hilarity and mirth.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
He-he-he-he-he-he-he
Hm-hm-hm-hm-hm
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
The toughest Burmese bandit
Can never understand it
In Rangoon the heat of noon
Is just what the natives shun
They put their Scotch or rye down
And lie down.
In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased
In Bangkok
At twelve o’clock
They foam at the mouth and run
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!
Actually Noel has other delightfully tropical/topical verses added to the above ones in this 1955 video performance:
https://youtu.be/z2YvYiWtovM
This version has better audio:
https://youtu.be/BifLPGi4X6A
French Yellow vests ….live streaming…right now….7:25 Pacific Time USA…..late afternoon there??
https://youtu.be/wyL0NJVf0Hw
Ruptly is live from Saint Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, on Saturday, June 8 as Yellow Vests protesters hit the French capital’s streets for the 30th consecutive week.
Tens of thousands have marched in the streets of France every Saturday since November 2018, for a variety of grievances ranging from taxes on fuel to income inequality.
re: Bro. thanks for the heads up concerning week 30 of the Yellow Vests doing the real Permanent Revolution.
Cafe header photo 6/8/19
What’s An Old Man to do?
He has been a householder
He has been the great mate
Lately He up and quit the debate
leaving No causes to shoulder
So he stands, wishing
that he had gone fishing
Good one and funny, thanks !
Dr. Professor Ryan from Winnipeg Manitoba sent me this response to a letter that I wrote to CBC criticizing their cowardly coverage of D-day. Western history minimizes Russian defeat in 1812 of Napoleon and his European army. This present celebration of D-Day and its total exclusion of the real victors, the Soviet Army, over Western European Fascism is another shameful example of the whitewash of WWII history.
Professor Ryan writes “I had recently written about my late brother Mike who served in the Canadian army from July of 1941 to mid-1946. What I’ve just finished writing is a family history for members of my family. In response to your letter, about D-Day, to the CBC this is part of my family history that I want to share with you.
On June 6, 1944 the Allied forces landed in Normandy and this opened the second front. My brother Mike had wondered why they hadn’t done this long before-instead of “just twiddling their thumbs in the UK” as he said. In fact, why they waited this long before launching an attack on the Nazi forces is still being debated. However, what are we to make of this statement by then U. S. Senator Harry Truman in 1941 when the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union? “If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”
After Japan’s Pearl Harbour attack on December 7, the US entered the war against Nazi Germany on December 11, 1941. The US then started sending troops to the UK shortly afterwards. And shortly after this the USSR began urging the US, UK and Canada to organize their forces and launch an attack on Nazi Germany as soon as possible in order to weaken the Nazi assault on the USSR. For the next 2 1/2 years, Stalin and Molotov pleaded with Roosevelt and Churchill for the West to launch an attack on Germany. These pleas are recorded in a two-volume text of the official correspondence between the leaders of the USA and the USSR.
I have read this correspondence and these books are in my personal library. Strangely, it appears that Truman’s reactionary and perverse views were followed on this crucial matter, and the record shows that all kinds of excuses were put forth in the correspondence to explain the reasons for the delay of the second front. As a result of the Truman philosophy, the American casualties in Europe were 417,000 compared to the Soviet loss of about 27,000,000-which is more than twice Canada’s population of 12 million at that time. This is surely cause for some sober thoughts on this matter.
To add further perspective on the devastation that occurred in the USSR during World War II, President John F. Kennedy in an address at the American University on June 10, 1963 stated: “And no nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union suffered in the course of the Second World War. At least 20 million lost their lives. Countless millions of homes and farms were burned or sacked. A third of the nation’s territory, including nearly two thirds of its industrial base, was turned into a wasteland–a loss equivalent to the devastation of this country east of Chicago.”
Further to this, it should be noted that after Hitler took over in 1933 many US corporations expanded their subsidiary operations or made major investments in new factories in Germany. They continued to do business with Nazi Germany, including the manufacture of war materiel. This included Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, IBM, ITT, Westinghouse, General Electric, Goodrich, US oil companies and many others, including Coca-Cola. After the US entered the war in 1941, all these enterprises continued under US control, but indirectly, often from Switzerland. In 1935 GM built a new plant near Berlin to produce the aptly named “Blitz” truck, which would be used by the German army for its “blitzkrieg” attacks on Poland, France and other European countries and later the Soviet Union. Nazi armaments chief Albert Speer stated in 1977 that since Germany had no oil, Hitler “would never have considered invading Poland” without synthetic fuel technology to produce tetraethyl provided by General Motors.
Other Germans later admitted that without tetraethyl the entire Blitzkrieg concept of warfare would have been unthinkable. Ford agreed to a complicated barter deal to provide the Nazis increased access to large quantities of strategic raw materials, notably rubber. By the end of the 1930s these American-owned enterprises phased out civilian production to focus exclusively on the development of military hardware for the German army and air force. They also benefited from slave labour provided by the Nazis. As stated by Senator Bradford Snell in 1974 in a major report that discussed the collaboration of US corporations with Nazi Germany: “Had the Nazis won, General Motors and Ford would have appeared impeccably Nazi; had Hitler lost, these companies were able to re-emerge impeccably American.”
It appears that when the battle of Stalingrad ended on February 2, 1943 it became evident that the Soviet forces would win the war, whether the US and its allies entered the war or not. And so to prevent the Soviet armies from routing the Nazi forces right up to the English Channel, the West, belatedly, finally sent its armed forces to enter the battle in France. As for US military aid to the USSR, this amounted to only about 4 or 5 percent of total Soviet military production.
Ironically, many Americans till this day think it was the American forces that defeated Nazi Germany. Some years ago, I had an American lady, with a university degree, attempt to argue this matter with me. She had been under the impression that American forces had not only fought and defeated all the Nazi armies but that they then fought and defeated the Soviet Union’s military forces as well!”
And, from 1943, when Nazi defeat was plain, the USA contacted various Nazi leaders in order to take control of their high tech after the war, and of their intelligence networks such as the Gehlen Organisation, that became the West German BND. And very many Nazis and East European fascists were aided by the West and the Vatican in escaping to safety in the West, from prime monsters like Bormann and Barbie (employed by the CIA in Latin America)down to thousands of Baltic, Croat, and Ukrainian fascists. They, from safety in the USA, Canada and Australia etc, kept true to their fascist inclinations, influencing the march Right of their host societies, then, thanks to Gorbachev and Yeltsin, returned triumphant to create fascist states in the Baltics, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia etc. World War Two, in fact, never ended.
Totally agree with you., they also created “NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism” They were behind the breakup of Yugoslavia and before that used to discredit the left by acts of terrorism which they organized and participated in and then blamed it on the left.to discredit the. . The Aldo Moro case comes to mind.
Very powerful statement from Lavrov should be referenced somewhere
https://russia-insider.com/en/russias-lavrov-blasts-d-day-memorials-part-false-history-wwii/ri27207
Vuki
I can add some comments which reinforce your own:
I worked in GM Suisse in their Market Research Department 1972 during a summer break when i was preparing a university dissertation on the “Concentration Trend in the German Car industry.” I asked their archive department for some background about Opel and Vauxhall history. I found an internal document which described the fact that as Opel was US owned, Hitler made an agreement whereby the profits from the Opel operations would be held in an escrow account and paid to the US after the end of the War. GMs UK operations of Vauxhall and Bedford continued to produce profits for GM throughout WW2.
That means it did not matter if GMs Opel Blitz used for Germans war effort, were destroyed, the US still gained from WW2 – and it did not matter if GMs Bedford trucks used for Britains war efforts were destroyed, the US economy still gained from WW2. GMs US execs expressed great pride in this factor…
Then my first full time job was with ITT – in the mistaken belief that a Multinational would give me opportunities to work internationally – I was “placed” in a UK operation of Standard Telephones and Cables. Being a hyperactive sort of guy, i was keen to learn all about the business….well, ITTs UK operations Standard Telephones and Cables, not only produced the first transatlantic telecom cables but were also pioneers in Radar. Then i went through STCs archives>
I discovered a document describing how if even STC Radar picked off and helped destroy Germanys Focke-Wulf bombers, ITT would gain revenues from the further production of their German ITT Focke Wulf division…and if ITT Focke Wulf bombers came over Britain and destroyed ITT / STC Radar systems. ITT would gain from the wider installation and repair of STC radar systems…
( i digress slightly here but in one of the strange coincidences that life sometimes brings – i discovered that my home was once that of one of these radar pioneers. I am still researching if it was one of the secret Y Stations….)
In more recent history there is another blatant example>
US gave South Korea the task to supply military uniforms to the Shah of Persia – ie CENTO working closely with SEATO – then when in 1988, the US backed Saddam Hussein… the US pointed him towards South Korea to supply Iraq with uniforms…
So in 1988, ROK gained vast revenues from supplying uniforms to both sides…benefiting US investors in the ROK textile business….
Vuki re your comment “My brother Mike had wondered why they hadn’t done this long before-instead of “just twiddling their thumbs in the UK” as he said. In fact, why they waited this long before launching an attack on the Nazi forces is still being debated.”
A significant part of the delay in planning for D-Day was due to several events which made planners cautious >
> the botched Devon practice landing (when US forces killed their own – kept secret for 50 years until a local resident exposed what he had witnessed as a boy during the event))
> the failed Dieppe Raid (where Canadian troops were used as cannon fodder with inadequate Force-Mass)
> Another was due to Churchills initially unauthorised adventure in taking one-fifth of the capacity which was building up for D-Day, in his own plan to make a landing at Anzio (This campaign was from 22 January 1944 to 5th June 1944).
Eisenhower was furious with Churchill but had then to bail him out when the beachhead almost collapsed (due to an ineffectual US General appointed for this task), as Kesselring brought up more forces to push the Allies back into the sea….200,000 Germans were outside the Anzio perimeter and 200,000 allied troops within the beachhead. Whilst the Allies eventually prevailed and made a breakout which allowed them to push towards Rome, it created unnecessary losses of equipment and manpower for the Allied forces.
Arguably this helped to distract (some) Axis troops from the Russian Front but it was not the Mass that Stalin wanted to see applied to a Second Front..
but it also substantially reduced the strength of the forces available for D-Day…and thus created further delays in the Force Buildup for D-Day…
> even after D-Day it transpired that Montgomery was still “protecting” 1 million British troops from being used in the follow-on operations during June 1944. I found this in a book titled simply “June 1944” – probably due to the reduced amount of equipment available after Churchills Anzio mess…
I thought i had a good understanding of history but i have to admit that i first heard of Operation Bagration and the reasoning behind it, on this site – and only recently…so my thanks to the Saker Community for enlightening me. it helps me to understand what Stalin faced and the various influences on his character.
(…and i used to laugh about an english neighbour who in her 70 years of existence had never heard of Spaghetti until i told her i had just eaten a delicious plateful…)…so my philosophy has changed > “the more you know…the more you realise just how much you still dont know…”
Thanks for this. I am familiar with much of this. Churchill’s first choice for the Second Front was the Balkans but there were agreements in place on spheres of influence re the Balkans and the rest of Europe. The agreement did not come to fruition fully due to our side refusing to abide by the agreement in the parts that they took so Stalin also reneged to share the parts that the Soviets took.
Andrei Fursov about Kolomoisky – the owner of Zelensky
Published on April 22, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Gh1ll1Nak – you can change the subtitles to English
Comments
warezprofile: The record is old. The most interesting thing is that at the beginning Andrei Ilyich says that
he is not an expert on Ukraine, but since everyone is asking, we’ll take a short walk. After which, the
analysis is deeper and more informative than all the journalist and shit-bloggers on television and the
Internet combined.
Миру-Мир! / Peace to the World: Listening to Andrei Ilyich is always interesting, informative, but life
becomes even worse!
Виктория Иванова / Victoria Ivanova: Fursov has many years of life, there are few such literate people.
Viktuar Melnik: “Chabad – der Weg zur Hölle! Jüdischer Faschismus!” -E.D.Hodos!
Тина Тэту / Tina Tetu: I listened, could not tear myself away, my homeland, Ukraine, has been in danger
for a long time.
Евгений Чернов / Evgeny Chernov: This video should see ALL Ukrainians, citizens of Ukraine.
Viktuar Melnik’s comment in English:
“Chabad – the way to hell! Jewish fascism!” – E.D.Hodos!
Why Chabad puts Zelensky (Zelman) and Poroshenko (Valtsman) displaces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1poXfx_R8w – you can change the subtitles to English
Note: The first moderator is Eduard Hodos, the second one is Vyacheslav Osievsky.
In my opinion, both are Jewish deceivers.
Eduard Davidovich Hodos – Biography and Books. Baptizing to Orthodoxy
https://tostpost.com/publishing-and-writing-articles/5359-hodos-edward-davidovich-biography-and-books.html
Vyacheslav Osievsky – Zakharchenko is alive. Murder staged. Chabad taxis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pThE2tR60A – Video Russian speaking, without subtitles
… lovely people … (cough)
Anti-Trump protesters leave London streets looking like WASTELAND (PHOTOS)
https://www.rt.com/uk/461153-anti-trump-protesters-london-rubbish/
It figures…the coup continues in Looneylandia as well as in its colonies
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/04/facebook-public-policy-manager-ukraine-kateryna-kruk/
Julian Assange. For those who believe in the careful construction of mutually agreed upon social reality versus those who want to live in a fiction based world, I offer a source quoted by PaulCraig Roberts. There has never been a smidgen of evidence or indication that Assange is other than who and what he presents himself as—nor has he played favorites with those whom he targets with truth telling.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/16/ten-tips-for-arguing-against-assange-smears/
As for use of discernment in the calculation of reality…. I am more interested in what is happening at a social level because that is where change and shifts come from–even the rulers worry about the “unwashed masses” in the war between the despicables ( neocons) and the deplorables ( the underclass increasingly becoming “the disposables”).
For example, there was a presentation by RT about a war criminal in which the usual coverage was done–the heated defense of his crimes by a US House of Representative vet, and coverage of Trump’s pardon given in a similar case. But the most important fact brushed over was that this soldier was turned in to the military hierarchy by his fellow soldiers. This, is the news I listen for: The sea change, the slow creak of the opening door, the shift in what ordinary people say and how they are saying it and what they are doing.
Another example is a SF Chronicle article in which it is reported that the FBI did a massive bust of the Aryan Brotherhood in prisons in California. As if the Mexican Mafia, the Black Gangs are not equally as criminally active as all have been for years, and years and years. Not necessarily a good thing this massive bust.
Is this the summer when the planned race war that was not sparked in 2016 will be put into action? Killings are up in Chicago and OD’s in Minneapolis. Food Stamps limited and prison populations stirred, massive influx at the Southern border area. And the Presidential election bids are beginning already. Attempts to limit the narrative is being enforced in social media even more aggressively lately.
It is important to watch the social indicators because foreign policy will, I think, be very connected to the techno-fascist neocon alliance’s bid to secure domestic power completely and irrevocably in the next 18 months. They certainly think they already have it here in the State of California. And they carelessly thought they had it in the bag during the last Presidential election.
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‘the slow creak of the opening door,’. . . love it, and have thoughts for minor global societal shifts, time permitting…
According to Kobyakov, Chinese and US delegations were the largest at the SPIEF-2019.
“The largest delegation this year was the Chinese with 1,072 participants, the second was the US delegation with 520 people,” he said.
More: http://tass.com/economy/1062876
We are left wondering if the US delegation was allowed to do business and what business, or just observe.
Hillary Clinton’s Brother Tony Rodham Dies
https://sputniknews.com/us/201906081075744957-hillary-clintons-brother-dies/
Queen – Another One Bites The Dust (Official Lyric Video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJ_IyFwieY
Speaking of queens:
No bother to them: Russian sailors spotted SUNBATHING during near collision with US destroyer
https://www.rt.com/news/461406-russian-sailors-us-destroyer/
“They are chilling on the deck while US crew screaming pic.twitter.com/3Xi8PSJJg0
— Leo 🦁🌏 (@leo_shane) 7 июня 2019 г.”
That usn navigation incompetence continues unabated.
Moon of Alabama has a nice summary of this incident. His photo seems to show that the Russian ship was on the US ships starboard (right) side. Under the rules, according to him,
” Handbook of Nautical Rules lists as the International Maritime Organization Rule 15:
When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel. ”
This requires the US ship to take action to keep out of the way. Instead, the photo shows that it was the Russian ship that had to take action to avoid collision.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/06/us-navy-cruiser-ignored-rules-at-sea-caused-near-collision-with-russian-destroyer-.html#more
Look at the wake of the Russian ship it was straight for quite a way before bearing to go left relying on this rule perhaps to pass in front of the other but then being forced to turn right ..as I suspect the USA ship deliberately sped up to block it off as a provocation.
helpful analysis , guys. thanks.
The RT article provided a summary of what happened and who was at fault:
“The Russian vessel managed to take a sharp turn to the right, passing within some 150 feet (less than 50 meters) from the US destroyer.
According to international maritime rules, a vessel approached from the starboard side must give way – and apparently it was the US vessel that was obliged to do so. The US Navy, however, claimed that it was recovering a helicopter – that snapped the picture from above – during the incident and had to travel in a straight line.”
The americans here were clearly in the wrong, but are relying upon the extremely dumbed down state of the general american public. Any person with even basic boating experience would know the usn/zionazi-gay media is lying outright simply by looking at the photos the usn provided to bollster their propaganda. All professional maritimers and government officials will see the pindos are spouting pure bs.
This is the current state of america now, where all info peddled to the american public is psywar manipulation, what outsiders think, including governments is simply a minor affair, as the spinmasters will make sure the zombiefied american public will never be aware of the real state of affairs.
That the zionazified american regime and support apparatus blatantly lies like this is bad enough, but the american people let them get away with it. Even cheer it on. This is even a worse condemnation of what the usa, and its people, have been reduced to, because this sort of gross stupidity applies to everything now. They don’t know and they don’t want to know.
… a thanksgiving for surviving a famine …
Golden Peasant Dance of Miao People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Y3KEwXP9o
The splitting of water by electrolysis … documented in India AD 150 (year)
“If hydrogen is contained in an air tight cloth, it can be used in aerodynamics, i.e. it will fly in air.”
Ancient Vedic technologists produced six kinds of electricity:
Tadit—the one produced by friction from leather or silk,
Saudamini—that produced by friction from gems or glass,
Vidyut—produced from clouds or steam,
Shatakoti alias Shatakumbhi—that produced from a battery of hundreds of cells,
Hradini—that obtained from storage cells,
Ashani—the one emanating from a magnetic rod.
https://www.themysteriousindia.net/electricity-in-ancient-india/
(wonder how long this was in use before documented)
Super UK prog last night on efforts to preserve the earliest pyramid from crumbling stones and a collapsing roof….work involved picking out old mortar and injecting fresh lime mortar…building scaffolding tower packing out stone gaps with dense foam and with big airbags on the tower to support falling roof while the drilled deep holes to insert stainless steel rods which had an expandable pipe around them….rods inserted then again mortar pumped in to expand etc. Fascinating.
Hi JJ … I’m thinking you mean the Pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser, built up in five very large tiers. There was a steep learning curve from this to the “Red Pyramid” (Sneferu) and then the move to the Giza Plateau for the necessary bedrock foundation. I’ve seen a lot of scaffolding there (Zoser) and wondered what was going on. The income from tourism allows Egypt to renovate these structures and assist the Egyptian economy, so it’s a win win situation, apart from the militants who bomb tourist buses. The latest bombing caused the Egyptian police to hunt down and kill fifty militants … very dramatic. The bombing hit a bus at the Khufu museum at Giza. The aim of the militants is to destroy the Egyptian economy by discouraging visitors.
JJ, if you find information you can post here, please do … cheers.
Re Egypt pyramid documentary https://youtu.be/nesritDV3QY
This one….in case you have not seen it…enjoy. cheers Paul hope this reply goes to the right post as on my phone the dialogue box when I click reply appears immediately under cafe intro….
it’s your question, I love so much
Interesting…. its possible… however it may be well to be wary of the source…. themysteriousindia article has no verified scientific papers etc backing it up….. the site itself doesnt identify itself, no individuals are mentioned or their qualifications are mentioned. The about-us section says this,
” The Mysterious India was established with the vision of delivering accurate coverage of all subjects of interest to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and the wider Dharmic community. ”
This is the sort of thing that might indicate its part of the vast number of web and social media output of the ‘ Hindutva ‘ political movement in india. ‘ Hindutva ‘ is a political ideology and movement, not a directly religious doctrine. The core organization of the movement is called the RSS, which then spawns secondary and tertialy organisations is myriad spheres of society – the present ruling party in india, the bjp, is their spawn in the directly political sphere. They seem to like to conceal their hand, usually avoiding direct formal affiliations to their spawn, but key organizational positions in the spawn organizations are often held by RSS cadres. ( cf. C Jaffrelot The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian politics )
The motivating ‘ scientific ‘ impulse of this movement can sometimes be heard voiced in the US Hindutva diaspora, where upper-caste hindutva individuals say things like – ‘ this [ i.e glorious ancient indian ] culture/civilization knew everything before everyone else ‘ . You can also find Hindutva individuals intervening in scientific blogs in aggressive, often ill-informed ways e.g. take a look at the genetic archaeology blogs where scientific discusssion is trying to weigh what the new genetic analysis means to the study of ancient population movements…
the Hindutva interest in this sort of field is motivated by the fact that the Hindutva movement has for some decades been trying to overthrow the old ideas of ancient indian population history. The best guess of oldfashioned archaeology was that the IndusValley civilization were the first indians (who got there from africa by a process of slow migration along the coastlines) and that a second major influx who were the aryans, happened later, maybe 3500 years ago. Hindutva ‘scientists’ have wanted to argue instead the the aryans were originally in india and then migrated out of there (europe etc?), the ‘ out-of-india ‘ theory..
What the new genetic analysis (specifically Y-chromosome and ancient DNA techniques) has made possible, is to put hard data and analysis behind these contentions. It seems as if the new hard data roughly confirms the old story and makes the Hindutva aryan out-of-india contentions dubious. see
David Reich Who we are and how we got here
Tony Joseph The early indians
Therefore there is some need to careful about Hindutva ‘scientific’ claims since they seem not simply a search for facts, but seem also a search to validate emotions. e.g the present indian ceo claimed that, because the god Ganesha has an elephants head on a mans body, that proved the existence of superior plastic surgery in ancient india.
https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/from-ganesha-s-surgery-to-internet-in-mahabharat-times-here-are-most-epic-quotes-by-ministers-344534.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-science-existed-ancient-times
Note also the attempt by the Hindutva diaspora to remove the mention of caste from California school textbooks discussing indian history
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiX7fvxluHiAhUKRo8KHcxjBJgQFjAIegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F05%2F06%2Fus%2Fdebate-erupts-over-californias-india-history-curriculum.html&usg=AOvVaw2Znu_fny9jaJ9Wv8-mgbEY
… movie time … feudal Chinese musical …
“The fox offers to repair the wire fence of the chicken coup”.
Plenty of descriptions like the above … very amusing and vibrant.
Allow the movie to run for a while, get into the story and adjust to cultural environment.
Liu Sanjie(刘三姐):A highly acclaimed film musical with English subtitles (aka Third Sister Liu).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDpMnen3v0
If you read the following poem, don’t think on me, I’m not leaving, if I’ll do that I’m gonna tell you rightly. When wrote this poem I was thinking on the friends and comrades who left this stage, some of them were Germans, therefore the poem in its original is in German if you don’t mind. I’m just a sideline German as you know, a mixture from Eastern Europe, one from Transylvania :
Wörter
von ioan
Einzupacken und gehen, wird es viel besser,
dann zu bleiben und kämpfen, mit dem Messer
Die Worte sind solche Messer, sie verletzen
jener, die können sie nicht einfach fressen.
Dadurch, kommen wir in eine unerwünschte Lage,
wenn gibt es keine Antwort, für einige fragen.
Den Stuhl bleibt da, neben den Tisch, leer
für den Prediger, denn er predigt ja nicht mehr.
Jawohl, Kameraden! Machen Sie weiter selbst,
Ich suche meine Schuhe, irgendwo im Herbst
und trage meine Beine, dann finde meinen zweck,
Ich sage euch Adieu, denn heute bin schon weg!
Words
by ioan
Grab it and go, it gets a lot better,
then stay and fight with the knife
The words are such knives, they hurt
those who can not simply eat them.
As a result, we come in an undesirable position,
where there is no answer, for some questions.
The chair stays there, next to the table, empty
for the preacher, because he preaches not anymore.
Yes, comrades! Go on yourself,
I’m looking for my shoes, somewhere in the fall
and wear my legs, then find my purpose,
I say goodbye to you, because today I’m already gone!
Dennis the menace was fond of his tennis,
but missing his curds and weigh.
He ran off like mouse, yet missing his house,
and now he is the lay neighborhood louse.
One day he went missing, but no one is hissing
except his brothers last say.
They all want him back to give him some flack,
But Jack said that there was no way.
So now they’re alone waiting at home,
wondering how to get by,
but Mack says just sit back, twiddle your thumbs and sigh.
For Dennis is gone, it’s time mourn, and say goodbye.
Firstly, let me thank you for this poem Alabama, I’m glad you did it. Second, I hope Dennis hasn’t say goodbye, what will gonna do now ? if he’s not ill, he may prepare his seeds and vegetables for breakfast in the kitchen, downstairs. Then moves his fingers on the laptop, clicking on thesaker. Otherwise, as a long time counterpart and friend, he would have wrote to my mail address posted not so long ago. He is indeed a stubborn horse who lost his paradise in his beloved Vulva Valley…those memories which he shared back then with us, is now a common ground, so it became communal memory, unforgettable…
Time is rolling, rolling over, we can’t find against a cover.
Deal with that, my older pal, just before you get its call.
To me he seem to be keeping his diary and biding the few moments left here, his strength kept him here and he rarely missed a day even when scorned harshly, to be away so long only suggests that 1/2 his predictions about himself could have come to pass.
We live in a dangerous world and only getting worse, one wrong turn and poof, you’re left w/bloody Sunday and few places left to turn. I guess I will be surprised if he both doesn’t return, or does and has to gingerly explain his absence, high wire tight rope walking was not his forte.
now I’m old
soon to be new,
my brow wet
with feverdew
an ocean rises
a storm does too,
and the spiral gate
beckons anew
across the bridge
o’er the ravine
they found me there;
one redeemed
and as I turned
the winds they leapt,
blizzards howled
all darkness wept…
image: http:www.valenis.net/gallery4.php#image-12
http://www.valenis.net/gallery4.php#image-12
what’s the guff about the stuff of the unstuffy Leary – twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble-
here tis stuffy – open the window – more air, more air, we faint for lack of breath, “dost thou asphyxiate good Sir Toby ?” aye the place’s too tight the coffin lid won’t close and click to, waiter, waiter water, water –tis the love bower censor – gasp… ship that’s sinking – aaahh dies . . .
Ras
Would like to know myself.
Otherwise, I’m ‘riffing’ off of ioan’s lines, as is my wont, happened to have an image that fitted, blah blah…
A fabulous image, the face seems to be appearing like mosaic made out of light-ceramic…
I often think about the poems here, and ponder their meaning, sometimes for a long time ; )
Ras
Thanks for taking the time to check it out and comment, Ras. Its an intriguing image to be sure, and strangely, I have no recollection of making it. Found it in a pile of rejects, and thought ‘what was I thinking’… ( I do make ‘hundreds’ of these, so… ) Its become a fave since a friend gave me the title, just the sheer unworldliness of the expression. Can be read as “Rumi in Trance…” ( the trance of poetry or art-making ) but also, as in this context, the exhausted mien of one very near translation ( physical death ).
I’d be happy to exchange emails if you were up for it. We could continue some of our discussions further. The mods have accomodated in the past so it shouldn’t be a problem ( them putting us into contact ). Whatever you decide is fine, just puttin’ it out there…Blessings in any case.
P.S dear Dimitar, my ‘comment’ was about ‘knifey’ things people do not address or dares talk about, therefore written like that, skew-whiff, topsy-turvy, so be it, I am tired of innocuous comments being deleted. I rest my case!
Peace
All good. There’s speculation re: our Irish friend’s well-being, I know little and am hoping all’s well. In Spirit…
PS : The above poem is also for those English speakers or any other nationality who left this stage. Let remember them this way and say “Thank You for being here” !
a wheatfield with crows
jagged ultramarine sky
bleeding red earth
St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2019
Putin warns the west, his words again fall on deaf ears!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LHaScqvdzU
A very good clip of such great importance – should have its own posting.
The utter frustration of complete silence again from the MSM. Let’s keep waffling on about silly things but ignore how serious the nuclear/global hot war threat is to all of mankind. President Putin nails it. We all need to be educating our young to focus on this serious issue.
… “see” the sound of hissing (snake) at 6:18 (video time)
To give an escape artist his due, I will admit that ’twas not I that drove Dennis from the Vineyard ring.
I never even got him in a corner, and certainly never scored a knockout against him!
“Float like a Love Bower Butterfly…….Sting Like An Anti-OBOR Bee!”
IN fact, it was I that was unsteady on my feet, at the end of Round 15,000 ……and on my rattled keyboard when I Hear It On The Grapevine, as a result posting THIS gobbledygook:
1Mbf7XSmsxC9ka3j7aK7HiLBosg54qoJqM
which only amarynth could decode or identify, instead of Marvin Gaye, with lyrics.
in this post in the last Cafe: /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-06-04/#comment-654972
“Future proves past…..Q”
You see, I finally despaired of bribing ioan into my Vineyard Hive Mind Crypto Project because of Dennis’ constant anti Crypto, Anti-OBOR harrasing jabs…..and sought out an even more Virgin Mind than ioan’s (but less of the middle-aged Crypto-Spinster) and selected my 13 year old son as recipient of ONE Bitcoin Satoshi Vision……..for his early June………. 13th birthday.
I told him to download CENTBEE or HandCash wallet for smart phone if he wanted his birthday present.
AND….. 1Mbf7XSmsxC9ka3j7aK7HiLBosg54qoJqM is his Receive Address!
That’s how rattled I was!
Send Little Guy more. He’s been asking for more….and I keep telling him it’s 360+ more days until he gets ANY more!
Before I lose Kent’s itchy scroll finger (Cheers, Mate!) here’s the code that leads back in time to the Vineyard Grapevine:
https://youtu.be/m8w6Q3Kojp4
Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine w/Lyrics
That more like it???
That was a good decision Bro, your son is young, the best investment possible, I am a bit tired and still have a lot to do, although just entered now in the adult room after so many years being a kid. Life offers all kind of surprises, unexpected situations may occur, postponements and delays are also in the cards.
You got it wrong if you believe that Dennis had any influence on me regarding the Crypto-World, you should know, I’m used to judge things on myself, did a lot of research when I had time to do it because as yourself, I wanted to know more. However, that issue is very time consuming and I have to dissect now everything according to my priorities. I didn’t even managed to write a mail in response to your condolences but I will do that.
Done. Digested your reply here and saw the email.
No worries, ioan. Also working various personal things out, but I try to come in quickly most days to at least see what’s going on……in this community and others that make up the world.
Cheers!
The whole weekend has been actually a kind of fortnight’s extension of Memorial Day, with D-Day in between.
I knew on Friday that I would attend a Memorial Service all of Saturday morning.
This already made me sober enough about this Flickering Flame…they call “Life”…..and then on top of that….I heard it on the grapevine….that I lost my sparring partner……and (not entirely in jest, mind you) any last hope of getting any idea of any importance to my concern for humanity…..to penetrate his skull.
So there was double sadness throughout the hours long memorial service on Saturday…………but it was such a theme of TRIUMPH over death that despite moist eyes and wet-then wiped dry-then wet again cheeks for those memorable hours….and having no one near so challenging to spar with next week….the whole weekend has been more deeply joyful for me than sad, and I kept coming back to the way Shelley put the bittersweet mixture of emotions into his elegy in verse on the death of Keats, in his poem “Adonais”:
XXXIX
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken’d from the dream of life;
‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
XL
He has outsoar’d the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world’s slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain;
Nor, when the spirit’s self has ceas’d to burn,
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
XLI
He lives, he wakes—’tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!
Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air,
Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown
O’er the abandon’d Earth, now leave it bare
Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair! ”
from:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45112/adonais-an-elegy-on-the-death-of-john-keats
Doubly ironic meaning in the selection of the number of the verse (XXXIX) that is my favorite initiator of the triumphant idea in those three stanzas above.39-41..….with which the poem concludes 14 stanzas later:
LIV
That Light whose smile kindles the Universe,
That Beauty in which all things work and move,
That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me,
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
LV
The breath whose might I have invok’d in song
Descends on me; my spirit’s bark is driven,
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest given;
The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
More on that service, and What Triumph …(my erstwhile, incredibly mobile and elusive sparring partner)….OBOR actually means…….as “only World War III” (and sorry, not you) “can stop it.”…after the Memorial Day Fortnight concludes 12 am Tuesday morning.
Container vessel OBLITERATES newly restored 19th-century wooden ship in Germany (PHOTOS)
https://www.rt.com/news/461453-container-ship-sank-schooner/
“Cargo vessels have apparently become a real menace of the high seas over the past few years, repeatedly getting involved in collisions with other vessels. The merchants have plagued the US Navy, which has seen a number of its vessels badly damaged after managing to collide with civilian ships, and even scored a solid “kill” on a Norwegian frigate ‘Helge Ingstad’, which was sunk by an oil tanker in November.”
The idiot sailing ship was tacking back and forth in the river….a tack failed…judging by the ripple on the water rhete did not look like wind at all…the other ship would of course also blank out the wind…..narrow channel for it too….probably the sailing vessel did not have an engine running as back up….crew getting familiar again after a long break for the rebuild……idiots.Loss of a decent old ship.
“a spray of plum blossoms” … continues
for those who seek to understand, the following video is for you.
费玉清-一剪梅/A Spray of Plum Blossoms-PinYin Lyrics/Eng Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GItSyrKvTtA
http://www.earthecho.com/share/share.html
Some lovely stuff here…..thoughts…pics…poems etc
Pompeo the US secretary of state secretly promises US Jewish leaders to prevent Corbyn from becoming UK prime minister. Hard too not to suspect that the US is *already* helping to ensure Corbyn doesn’t become PM
The important thing about Junior’s Birthday BSV is not the one (1.00000000) followed by eight zeros BSV he has and what the Fiat (a dirty word in the Cryptoverse of Anarcho-Capitalists and Anarcho-Socialists……….both exist there…..and the boundaries between are blurred…and sometimes disappear!) price is on any given day, but the fact that he can earn more………if he learns more and teaches it to me.
The “Younger” You Are……..the Easier It Is…………. to Learn New Things!
And he had his CENTBEE wallet downloaded, his 12 word “SEED” and 4 digit numerical password written down and sealed for safekeeping (if the phone gets lost, stolen or destroyed, the account is regenerated from those tow codes…) in about 5% of the time it took me to get started, a few months prior…..by the time it took me to lay out the basic parameters of his new “video game”…..where “Satoshi” is the Japanese translation of a Pokemon protagonist…..”ASH”, which he instantly recognized, dismissively, saying….”Pokemon is so dumb…it’s played mainly by old people like you….”
My main concern is not with games, however, but with the Great Monetary Reset and Whether Bitcoin (The Real One, Please Stand up!) or competing blockchain imitators are to play a helpful or harmful role ……..in the process of “a softer, kinder” landing or a harder more violent crash whose misery and chaos would wash over billions like a tsunami, with up to and including fatal consequences…..and not price of BSV or any other potential Measuring Stick of Value.
Lurking in the background of this topic is London Paul’s assessment that the first iterations of non-national cryptocurrencies are Ponzi-like toy electronic money….and no serious threat to The Cabal, The Empire….. but the second generation (……..already announced by Russia…but quietly!) will be (raw materials and Gold…and other things….) “asset backed” (by Petroleum…now in process, says London Paul) NATIONAL and regional bloc forms of immutable public ledger cryptographic money, fully traceable and fraud-proof instruments of multi-polar escape from Empire Petro-Dollar Control and Constriction of Trade…..”threatening our ‘values’ of ‘freedom’….”
In between there is a lot more noise than signal. And most of the noise out there is about price, pride….and prejudice. Such as Dennis’ former puerile pouting……that retarded this serious investigation by a few months! At least!
He could have at least looked over some of the occulted shit (hidden owls, one of their favorite symbols…owls have enough “illumination” to see what is going on…and prey on ….you field mice don’t…and can’t “see” in the dark….) within the dollar bills in his wallet that he seems so comfortably and prejudicially unaware of and preferentially accustomed to. LOL.
OKAY, I will now mostly move the topic over to the community forum (as suggested, very usefully!) , where I will go as deeply into Theory as I am capable of doing, in long, rambling, incomprehensible rants that make you long for Dennis’ return, when no headway on the topic, no interest in how it compared to the Petro-dollar or Petro-Yuan alternatives………. was deemed permissible by The Love Commander.
But before I go, let me recall a few things and emphasize a few other things (never mentioned before!)….that got slowed down to a crawl..or stopped in their tracks by my former Moveable Feast Café sparring partner:
1) One of the first things I read on the subject of “The Internet of Money” was a featured article by amarynth by exactly that title, here:
https://saker.community/2018/03/27/crypto-currencies-the-internet-of-money/
In that article she emphasizes a “coming great transfer of wealth” and seems to genuinely want to share with the Vineyard Community some concepts and ideas on how one might be a bit more of a transferee….and a bit less of a transferor……. of what relatively little one might have……to those that have a lot more than they will EVER need! Or even be able to spend.
2) Not being ideologically committed to the luxury of an Identity of a Victim Complainer, I set out to learn a bit more on the subject of the Internet of Money and posted a few of my findings here. At which point amarynth suggested that I research enough to write my own article for the Vineyard, which I never did, lacking the time for such an ambitious project and being subject to Dennis’ incessant growls and determination to even keep my fellow Deadly Poet Society friend…scared away….and wanting peace and harmony…as always! So, I was much delayed by ….oh, forget it….I’ll finally drop the “L” word…. I have to do, before I try to teach anything…and that takes time. However I have done enough, by now, even with such determined, incessant interference …..that I think I DO have enough material to write such an article, that quite probably….COULD help more than just one friend take a few modest steps toward being more transferee than transferor…. in the Coming Great Global Monetary Reset!
3) The irony, now is that, as a result of my Crypto-Odyssey …I may find myself at odds (hmmm!) with my early Vineyard teacher on the subject. Let a real, but friendly ….crypto-debate FINALLY ensue!
4) Remember, now: I have asked for proofs by construction of the nice English Community-minded lady, and to my astonishment…learned that… I won’t get any. But I will be informed what she is passionate about! Well, I have a few proofs by construction and since I can’t afford to have my dependants lives depend on any person’s passions…not even my own…and I don’t want her crypto-portfolio or person to be “REKT” any more than I would wish my own well-being or that of my family to be REKT,………… as a first order of business I am going to urge anyone at all interested in the strategic or personal wealth aspects of this topic to listen very, very carefully ….to the following interview taken in Toronto…perhaps just ONE week ago:
https://youtu.be/MSikhu1X49M
and carefully consider the implications.
As a risk taker, I fully realize the risks of posting this link. However I am nearly certain that THE most to be learned, the most pain (including considerably for myself in acting before the “forks” of BTC to BTC/BCH and BCH to BCHABC and BSV) to be experienced, yet the most GAIN to be netted on this subject (of more strategic importance than you may imagine at this time, I suspect!) is by posting none other than that exact link at this exact time.
And if you are Australian and new or old or indifferent to this subject…. or even think you ought to be opposed to “Bitcoin”……… you might want to listen too……for you may learn that “Bitcoin was born in a cow shed in rural Australia.”
And other surprising things. LOL
Oh Brother Bro! I’m trying so hard to *not* let you lose, but you’re insisting on that! (grins). Let the Grand Debate Commence. (I’m sure in about 3 years, we will still be debating …)
Here we are: https://saker.community/topic/the-grand-debate/
And you can take a look at what else I posted there in our crypto forum:
https://saker.community/forum/cryptocurrencies/
Bro 93, you were so fast in you posting that you didn’t observed my reply here :
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-06-08/#comment-655534
amarynth:
I have to “log in” there to reply and I don’t have time…right now…. to learn yet another log in.
Yes, I know, “hoops are necessary”
Feel free to transfer anything i post right here…over there…for now…til I have the time to learn the hoops. On that crypto-debate string………even stupid, wrong things I have said!
I said some wrong things in past months on the subject and I realize that…and that’s how these things go the furthest and the fastest toward anything worth getting to. Some trial and error, and not an excess of caution…bogging things down to a crawl.
Meanwhile aren’t we are really talking apples and oranges about the “one and the many” diversification debate?
There can be a “best technology”…and it can still lose to something inferior. I fully realize that.
However, I think that what most people are concerned with is what on earth good or bad role this subject of debate might play in the bigger picture of sovereign money and economic development vs The Empire System…as that is more important to serious people…than “getting ahead”….in a petty personal sense.
Yet,everyone needs to “keep the lights on”, stay solvent and pay a little attention to taking care of themselves.
But the bigger picture is what I try to start from, and where The Internet of Money fits in (good OR bad!!) is what , could never be known or discovered by a method so childish as Dennis’ pouting….wild, unhinged to reality mind associations.
Before we leave Toronto ….let’s review this brief aspect focusing on the Internet part of the Internet of Money from the point of view of the content creators (iaon, Dimitar, Terenam 13, Kent, etc) here and everywhere:
https://youtu.be/EJwCslKtqzE
Ryan X. Charles on DRM with BSV
DRM= Digital Rights Movement …
…and realize, like it or not.. we are on the internet…..so.forget ANY money for a few seconds but rather focus on your rights (versus say, Mark Zuckerberg’s rights to your very soul…lol) and the rights of others …..and digest that 13 minute clip on the vision of the “new” internet ….and whether you might want it ..or want to stop it.
Especially “content creators”…writers….poets (ioan, Dimitar and others), graphic artists (Kent)….musicians (Internal Exile) might just consider what Mr Charles is saying could be here…pretty SOON!
Meanwhile, back to the money, but in a strategic context, not a narrowly personal one:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sober comments to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum were important: The brief global growth (through several serious crises) after the end of the Cold War ended decisively with the “global crisis of 2008-09”, and since then supposed “GDP growth” has decoupled from growth in physical goods trade, which has hardly grown. “The policy of quantitative easing … did not solve the problems, but only pushed them into the future.” By turning back to that policy now, the central banks are confirming that Putin is right.”
earlier text from the same overview of the situation:
“The big central banks continue to beat their way back to the quantitative easing schemes they all used to drag the London and Wall Street banks through the last crash — signalling the approach of another. The Federal Reserve, which after 10 years finally raised its discount rates in 2018, has resumed lowering them; its chair, Jerome Powell, said, don’t regard the bailout measures used in the last crash as “unconventional” — they’re going to be used again. After the European Central Bank supposedly left its discount rate unchanged for a year on June 6, its head, Mario Draghi, spent the days since putting out rumors and leaks that, in reality, its board was discussing interest rate cuts and increased buying up of corporate and sovereign bonds from private banks. The Canadian Central Bank “reluctantly” returned to cutting rates. And so on for the rest.
Are we to believe the central banks, that they are just “supporting continuation of the expansion”? Stagnant and low-wage as that “expansion” has been since the crash of 2007-08, it has ended in Europe and is slowing in the United States. The central bankers know, and admit, that trillions in the debt of over-indebted corporations and super-indebted “zombie companies” will now default in these conditions, triggering a crash starting in some section of the financial markets — “the usual carnage,” as Bank of America head Brian Moynihan dryly put it in a warning to the Economic Club of New York June 5. He should know: BoA is the biggest leveraged lender since the crash of all the megabanks, and has been selling off its “junk debt” to non-banks like private equity and hedge funds, which now “worry” Moynihan.
Another financial crash will take down real economies in Europe and the United States which have not really recovered yet, leaving them completely devastated……”
from: https://larouchepac.com/20190611/it-will-take-new-credit-and-money-system
Challenging times for small fish to survive, in those troubled waters………..
Where does or could the Internet of Value fit in to the Bigger Challenge ………of entire nations??
I think the answer is worth considering. That’s all.
… for classical music lovers …
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at Taoyuan Airport Taiwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfhozXuz0E
(information on the music program is among the comments)
Taiwan is NOT a ‘nation’.
… Now Hear This ! …
The degenerated vermin who manufactured napalm used in Vietnam were lured into a movie theatre to watch a documentary film they believed to be in their interest.
When all were gathered and seated the doors of the theatre were locked and horrific footage of napalm was projected onto the big screen.
Doors were soon being banged, shaken and kicked with demands to be let out.
Thankfully Phan Thi Kim Phuc survived and now speaks English.
https://www.rt.com/news/461526-napalm-girl-rt-interview/
( and after napalm … depleted uranium … what’s next ? )
Bio-warfare. And killer robots.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-10/america-today-debris-field-broken-ideals-lost-trust
Pretty much captures where we are (not sure American values were ever rigorous, however, talk to native Americans, talk to Mexico, talk to Spain):
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The scene today is a debris field of broken ideals and lost trust in any organized endeavor that advertises itself as having national purpose. The Baby Boomers in their own twilight’s last gleaming seem to be equally composed of the most hardened cynics and the most credulous fantasists. In any case, we are doing a controlled demolition on what used to be pretty rigorous American values while leaving the planet a ruin.
All mainstream media reports that the US made the necessary formal request to the UK to extradite Julian Assange. The source is reported to be a ‘US official’.
Solar Car Unlimited Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gzmshLiL2U
( next solar run from Darwin to Adelaide is October 13, 2019 )
https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/
Your tax dollars at work enabling self-fulfilling prophecy Zionist Armaggedonists and their neocon evangelical ‘ender’ vassals :
https://southfront.org/david-schenker-another-zionist-in-charge-of-u-s-foreign-policy/
The whole lot are barking mad.
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/welcome-david-schenker/
This guy is very bad news, extreme zionist; look for Lebenon to fall under more pressure from the zionist trump admin and Israel.
The US regime, and US politics in general, are totally controlled by Zionazis. The facts are plain, and various Zionazi groups and blogs etc quite openly boast of their power. Yet when any goy dares mention the unmentionable, the entire apparatus of the ‘antisemitism’ industry is mobilised, complete with 100% fakestream media support, and the villain is publicly lynched, to discourage the others. Truly it is way beyond bizarre.