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The Question
by ioan
A christian bear with skulls and bones,
Has put his crown in world affairs
Acquiring kingdom after kingdom
Until the lords at a rounded table,
have gathered for a share…
The Rock and Shield have shaken hands,
Promoting gold as God,
While servants made such turbulence
That no one knew who did the job
Foolishness and lack of faith,
Arrogance and selfish tweak,
Have eased the way for burial
For those yet strong
But not for long,
together with the weak
“Just one push and everything is over”,
Declared the king with fire in his eyes
Then calmly he continued,
“Ladies and gentlemen, go and feed the mice
But don’t forget the cats”
Oh, how hard is to discover,
The pain behind the lover,
The treason and a friend,
When fighting for the power
When shadow has its rules
With bones and laughing skulls,
Enlightening the mind
of those very few
Of that kind.
Where are you Hamlet,
Where is your reason,
In such a world
where everything looks treason,
From the highest mountain
to the lowest sea
Then bring about the question,
To be or not to be?
Wonderful poem, Ioan. It speaks to me so I esteem it as one of your best.
Especially: Foolishness and lack of faith
arrogance and selfish tweak
have eased the way for burial
for those yet strong but not for long
together with the weak
Please, never doubt for too long, your importance in the buzz for a human future which goes on here in this messy Cafe, sticky stains on the floor, half eaten croissants and dried coffee spills strewn on the tables, tacked up compositions blowing overhead in the breeze of rickety floor fans with harried moderators trying like faithful sheepdogs to keep the flock secure.
The clown in the White House and his sidekick Pompeo, aka Bozo the Clown at the State Department, are plumbing the depths of humiliation as they stagger from one defeat to another, in their sanctions filled, self-defeating policy on Iran.
They tore up the JCPOA in 2018 with much fanfare and grandstanding, and proceeded to disavow and violate all their obligations under the agreement, but now to the bewilderment of almost everyone, they want to convince the UNSC – and by extension the world – that the US is still a party to the agreement.
I guess they really are convinced that they are entitled to “their own facts”, according to White House advisor, Kellyanne Conway.
Selah
Thank you ioan, for The Question, a spell binding poem, as the New York Times critics might say, yours with double cultural and historical metaphor reference in relation to the individual self today? Perhaps my mind will configure interpretations, maybe not, who knows, perhaps the whole will remain shrouded deep in mystery, or someone has the answer !
The format of your poem, ioan, is rich with generative potential:
Cards of Peace…… or War?
True wealth, they say is Time, not gold….
For the rate of progress within metal
Is still, null and so, neutered at its core.
And if I had hours considerably more
Of that unmolten metric commodity in store….
Sand in glass, I’d take your Cue from Will
And generate from Denmark’s sad Prince
The Reason, The Answer, and aye, mate,
The Dealer poems, of Destiny, Luck and Fate.
Such Titled Ones would issue forth and fill
The world with metaphor, metre and rhyme
Questions ever exceeding answers for All Time!
The first time of reading through your stanzas,
I changed my mind about the ten of the highest
Suit, which I had thought to turn face side up.
To tip or tap one finger, just one fifth, of my hand
Seems prudent at this stage full of eager players,
Huffers, bluffers, gamblers and midnight ramblers
All wagering on what was, what is, and what is not,
What could be gained or lost, remembered or forgot
By young men turned grey and old, jacks of all trades
By staid matrons, coy mistresses and frisky maids
In all this world which Will said is all “just a stage”…
I play Pushkin, select instead…the Queen of Spades.
http://www.online-literature.com/alexander-pushkin/2800/
Now, in order to know slightly more than one iota of what I am talking about, I will meditate, calm my fevered mind and read the short story through, before endeavoring to explain the Symbolic Significance of the Card In Question.
Which will require some study and reflection!
Because, in some way I can’t quite put my finger on, my instincts tell me it just may have synchronistic relevance in this orbit and place….as the world turns and spins, marking Time…..and as we all …..of infinitely divided perceptions and passions and opinions, go hurtling on……… together ….and separately……..through the Ether.of waves, particles and radiation… they call “space”.
“Two fixed Ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”
Thus, Pushkin sets up for the ending. ( Greed vs. redemption) He got paid in spades. His choice. First things first.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=paid%20him%20in%20spades
I guess at least one reader of my comment read the Pushkin short story…..short and gripping……..there’s a lot of rich psychological/emotional/spiritual irony…………in there!
Including I never noticed that the Queens of Hearts, Diamonds and Club all face the player head on…..and in most non-russian decks the Queen of spades…..as well…peers at the players with both eyes.
But apparently the Russian deck has only the Queen of Spades in profile with only one eye showing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_spades#/media/File:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8.jpg
A sign from the dead countess at her funeral service that Herman attended and thought he noticed supernaturally wink at him….. but didn’t Quite grasp the sign….to change the Magical Winning SeQuence from Ace to Queen………….. wink/wink…and so missed the Sure Thing….and so Lost His Fortune and His Mind …both following the Hard Luck of FIRST……. Losing His Soul with the maniacal idea of never embracing and managing risk either in “hearts” or other cards but instead dealing with the Devil for “locking in ‘safely’….”…. the illusory “Sure Thing”.
Disappointed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvbQ4wJak_c
Cheers!
Remember she did give him some instructions…but he did not follow them all so she did play “fair”. She said to him : I will forgive you my death/murder basically if you… but all he could think about was the money and not the karmic consequences of his misdeed. ( Even if he did not mean to frighten her to death by the threat of the gun, in effect he did kill her.)
The lucky maid was off the hook of having to marry him which she probably would have done out of guilt and self abnegation.
At the risk of” pearls before, you know”. On an esoteric level there is always a price to pay for upsetting the natural order of the universe. If you are “fixing the deck” and someone else was supposed to win in a certain way that day, well, one has to repair on the upper levels that interference. An oath to never gamble again, say or A marriage to a distraught, foolish girl you used in your scheme. etc.
There is the story a Sikh master told me about a disciple who after doing practices given by his Guru and feeling his “Siddha “oats one day decided keep himself dry as a storm approached and so chased a rain away from his area. His Guru appeared, very upset, and told him that he had to go to the river and haul water iand give it to all the plants in the area which were supposed to have gotten a drink from the rainstorm he diverted–if not, the Guru could not be responsible for the pay-back from the universe. He did it…
yep, the flap of a butterfly’s wing. multiplied on those other levels Pushkin refers to….Careful when you dabble.
“Now, in order to know slightly more than one iota of what I am talking about, I will meditate, calm my fevered mind and read the short story through, before endeavoring to explain the Symbolic Significance of the Card In Question.
Which will require some study and reflection!”
A very good, and sound idea altogether.
Thank you for the endorsement of the idea, O Un-named One!
With kids it’s called “Time Out”….lol
……………with adults “meditation”………..or Prayer….or in Second Childhoods….again….”Time Out!”.
Try it, anyone……..
You’ll like it!
Monumental.
Essence of finest elixir.
Declared and hidden from view.
Nature of poetry is rarely seen.
Thank you Ioan.
Yeah, I gotta say Ioan, I dont go much on poetry – but that one is a standout!
Very thought provoking – something in it for all of us, as we are all a Hamlet!
Kudos!
About navalny in a German hospital, Oleg Tsarev has something to say about that, draws parallels with yushchenko’s poisoning:
https://rusvesna.su/news/1598109383
In Russian, but you can use Yandex browser to (auto) translate it.
Don’t those traitors realise that the cia etc will only keep them alive as long as they are useful?
No.
The thinking goes, “I’ll just give the Devil a ride….and collect some fare that I badly need NOW.”
The problem discovered later is: “If you give the Devil a ride……..he’ll end up doing the driving”, kill you…throw you off a cliff…and steal your car.
Everybody in the Saker. This is a warning about pro-China troll. Pro-China troll is pretty same to the Anglo-Zionism troll but the they are very dangerous than the Anglo-Zionism one because:
1.On the topic Vietnam-China especially the First Cold War, they knew don’t know the Vietnam-China history. This is reason why many non-sense ‘Little Imperialism Vietnam wanted to invade SEA in 1979 and hero China stop Evil Vietnam’, ‘Vietnam gave Paracel and Spratly Islands to China in 1959’, ‘Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978’ or anything non-sense like that can get away so easily due to the lack of Vietnamese viewpoints.
Example below:
/china-newsbrief-sitrep-4/#comment-844225
/china-newsbrief-sitrep-4/#comment-845289
2.The Saker has very few number of Vietnamese commenters so there is no counter-argument against the thesis ‘China is hero’ (I arrogantly suspect that I am the only Vietnamese commenter here).
3.the pro-China troll just post a non-sense due to lack of knowledge on Vietnam-China especially right now.
4.I think that there are some or many Vietnamese commenters here but because Vietnamese usually think insult=criticize so this is reason why many some or many Vietnamese comments were not posted due to their lack of understanding how to be good commenter.
5.How to deal with Pro-China troll right now? I personally don’t know how to deal with them but there are the ways to identify them:
a.Pro-China troll keeps repeating the non-sense about ‘Vietnam gave Paracel and Spratly Island to China’.
b.Pro-China troll keeps repeating the liar about ‘Vietnam wanted to invaded the whole SEA in 1979 by the Soviet order’ and ‘Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978’.
c.Pro-China troll usually copy and paste the number of so-called proof to prove that Paracel and Spartly Island is belong to China historically without checking the current event and realistic of the international laws from the links below (at least this is what I suspect and find out right now), and they are very non-sense:
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/topics_665678/3754_666060/t19232.shtml (Debunked on Vietnam part)
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2014-06/18/content_17595777.htm (Literally liar)
The Book “The South China Sea Arbitration: A Chinese Perspective” (One side to China only)
6.This is the discussion:
https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/vietnamstudiesgroup/discussion-networking/vsg-discussion-list-archives/vsg-discussion-2008/paracels
Note: Whenever you guys encounter the pro-China commenter, remember ‘Never Trust China First, Skeptical and Doubt China instead’.
No Vietnamese will ever forget the betrayal of China after the Vietnam war in which Vietnam took the hit ( over 3 million of its people slaughtered) intended for China.
Never. Look it up. I am tired of posting this here.
I was drafted and sent into combat by the USA to Vietnam in 1966. I knew little to nothing about that country or why we were attacking them. Hindsight is not 20/20 but if I had my present knowledge I wouldn’t have participated. I was aware that Vietnam and China were not friends. Vietnam relied on Russia for support more than anyone. After the Americans left, China and Vietnam had some military confrontations at their border. Vietnam expelled most of the Chinese like the Cholon district at (Saigon) Ho Chi Minh City. I have known a Chinese man who lives about 5 homes from me for about 25 years. He had to leave Haiphong with a 2 year old daughter, leaving behind his Vietnamese wife and another baby girl. The enmity between those peoples goes back many years. You have to admire the grit of the Vietnamese to endure foreign invaders of all stripes to finally gain their independence.
I remember reading of an interview of Ho Ch Minh by a Western journalist who asked him why he did not rely on aid from China? Ho answered; “I’d rather smell American shit for 50 years than Chinese for a thousand.”
Steve Pahs/Wolfhound
Steve Pahs/Wolfhound on August 23, 2020 · at 7:18 pm EST/EDT
This is the correct one about ‘sniff shit’:
https://isreview.org/issues/29/vietnam.shtml
“I’d rather sniff French shit for five years than eat Chinese for a thousand.”
I also heard many people tell me Le Duan anti-China policy is pretty brutal but this is the only solution to destroy the Chinese Economic 5th Army in Saigon. I personally believe that Le Duan had done what he can to protect Vietnam, our country.
Thanks UBSVN,
I stand corrected. I think the sentiment is the same. We burned our shit. I can still smell it.
Human life is simple and good. The “elites” make it complicated and bad.
Steve Pahs/Wolfhound
This rise of Anti-China nationalism in Vietnam is really dangerous.
The last real info that I read, is that the Vietnamese person who supports this, are mainly the ‘democracy’ bloc. So, we all know how that little bit of division can be exploited.
In fact, we see in in front of or eyes right now in Belarus, where Lavrov says a few interesting things, one being that :
“[Tikhanovskaya], apparently was not allowed to calm (things) down, and she began to make political statements, quite harsh ones, demanding to continue strikes, walkouts, protests,” he said.
And it is quite peculiar that she is increasingly making her statements not in Russian, not in Belarusian, but in English.”
And he says that it cannot be ruled out that Tikhanovskaya has been “pressured” into such behavior.
This is a little better RT. https://www.rt.com/russia/498784-lavrov-belarus-bloodshed-opposition/
Back to Vietnam, here are some links from scholars who study this matter of Vietnamese Anti-China sentiment. The reasons given are sometimes so ripe for color revolution for example, after the war the new leaders had to build together some kind of cohesion, some kind of identity for the Vietnamese people, and that cohesion was found in rabid nationalism, where we usually see somebody vilified and used as a foil, or a contrast to the society that needs to be rebuilt. They have to define themselves as ‘other’ than something.
I learnt that less than 20% of Vietnamese are anti-china (OK, this can be disputed). But for anyone interested, here are some studies.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/vs.2014.9.4.33?seq=1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41056928?seq=1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14672715.1980.10405230
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=infolit_usra
Teranam mentioned a Catherine Austin Fits video earlier in this cafe. I will post this in a bit, as well as a summary as it is good. Idea here is that we have to be very careful who we associate with, and also incredibly careful not to fund those that mean us harm. So, this is what the Vietnam situation makes me think of. A funding of those that mean harm.
I am almost ready to make a conclusion that Vietnam is being deliberately bifurcated and a ready ‘democracy crowd’ is being prepared, so that color revolution can take place. The whole picture just rings one bell after the other.
To amarynth on August 23, 2020 · at 8:54 pm EST/EDT
No worry, ma’am.
From what I know right now, there will be no Color Revolution in Vietnam. There are still many Vietnamese like me point the finger on the ‘pro-US anti-China’ Vietnamese and government still try their best to smack them out. In fact, there are also many Color Revolution in Vietnam since the 1990s like Montagnard Dega Association, FULRO, etc. but all of them is failed.
Yes, I know many of the criticize on China information are, ironically, from those ‘Democracy’ but I never let the ‘Democracy’ blind me. There is not seriously criticize on China on anything anti Anglo-Zionism, at least from what I know right now. The argument ‘this is Anglo-Zionism’ is not argument can prove that China is good guys.
Vietnam is very different to Belarus and Ukraine in both history, religion, and culture so there is no guarantee to be worry that Color Revolution will happen in Vietnam.
I pretty sure that the majority of Vietnamese who ‘anti-China’ is more like ‘anti-China Government’ due to their imperialism action in the SCS. The reason why the survey get only ‘20% of Vietnamese anti-China’ because I think Vietnamese think they ask ‘Do you hate Chinese (people)?” and many Vietnamese will answer ‘No’ in common sense. The question will get more result may be about 50 percent to 80 percent with the question “Do you hate Chinese Government/Ruler?”, I think so.
Vietnamese government is truly corruption, that the fact not propaganda, I know. The problem here many Vietnamese who drink the US and Western Kool-aid from ‘anti-commie Vietnamese’ like BBC VN, RFA VN, Viet Tan, etc. are manipulated to believe that those corrupted Vietnamese official received only money from China meanwhile they also receive money from US and Western too.
I agree that Anti-China mindset in Vietnam right now is out of control now but I think this is happened only to those ‘anti-China Pro-US’ Vietnamese, I’m not despite the fact that how anti-China Government I am and there are still many people like me.
Still, the Vietnamese first rule when dealing with China is “Never Trust China” and the thing is still correct right now.
By the way, something more about China here:
https://twitter.com/EstulinDaniel/status/1295945337622781957
Amarynth, (btw, is your name the name of a precious gem, like opal for instance? – anyhoo nice name)
Yes fully acknowledge what youve said about Vietnam. If Vietnam is picked off by the A-Z US ’empire’ it will have dire consequences not just for the US containment of China but also ASEAN as a Chinese partner for trade – and of course China’s historical claim to the SCS
Here’s a short extremely useful article for background:
‘Demystifying Australia’s South China Sea stance’
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/08/12/demystifying-australias-south-china-sea-stance/
And given what we’ve all been thru with baited breath in Belarus since the election, RF President Putin and Russia need to be prepared for more of the same in Russia’s “soft underbelly” in the upcoming ‘Stans’ elections:
– 2020 Kyrgyz Parliamentary Election 4 October
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Kyrgyz_parliamentary_election
– 2020 Tajikistan Presidential Election 11 October
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Tajik_presidential_election
– 2021 Kazakh Legislative Election 21 January
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kazakh_legislative_election
Old saying: “To be forewarned is to be forearmed”
Regards to all
I am sorry that 2,000,000 – 3,000,000 Vietnamese died in the Viet War, but the current contest is between China-Russia-Iran – civilizational states and the Anglo-Zionist US (as its now been reeled back in by the Brits from 1913 (the Federal Reserve Act) to 2008 (Global Financial Crisis)
The reason I defend China is threefold:
1 Since the 1970s China has lifted approx. 800 million people out of poverty – a remarkable human achievement in a relatively short (40 yrs) period of time. (Compare India – similar size in area, similar populations, achieved independence almost in same year)
2 China & Russia form the ‘Double Helix’. After the fall of the USSR, witnessing the color revolutions across Europe (with the help of a Polish Pope) & regime change operations across N. Africa, the Mideast & S. America (with the help of an Argentine Pope) – if you were the leader of a civilizational state, like China or Russia or Iran, what would you do? China & Russia (and now Iran) *know that unless they stand together they’ll be picked off one-by-one. Worse still for all of us, if Russia &/or China fall under the control of Anglo-Zionist billionaires – we’re all doomed to wage/debt-slavery for the rest of our lives. So at this point in time in History – its Putin and Xi who are the defenders of all of Humanity
3 In the grand scheme of how the world works, with no disrespect, Vietnam is a footnote in history. Dwelling on archaic antagonisms of 1000+ yrs ago traps a country’s people in the past and paralyzes them from moving forward. It behooves the country to throw its lot in with its S-E Asian neighbors and cooperate with China-Russia-Iran via trade & investment to their mutual benefit
We are all witnessing an incredibly exciting new way of living cooperatively thru trade, lifting millions of people around The World out of poverty – against the centuries of Western European colonization & exploitation
But we’re not quite there yet. Altho we’re witnessing the US Hegemon thrashing about in its death throes – its still yet to fall
Thoughts *do have energy, in fact we cant do anything, (except involuntary actions like breathing) without first having the thought. Its important at this time for all of us *not to allow ourselves to get distracted by the tried and tested ‘divide and conquer’ rule used by the ruling class – and to maintain our *own positive energy – and send it out to other like-minded peoples – about the future of Humanity living on Planet Earth in the early 21st century
Building on the past, here’s looking to the future!
Regards to all
Tyson B on August 23, 2020 · at 9:28 pm EST/EDT
My comment above here is not about China is good or bad, it is about the pro-China troll who know that many Saker moderators does not have so much knowledge on Vietnam-China during the First Cold War until now so Saker moderators have unknowingly posted the false information from pro-China troll like the example above.
I also know the thing above and agree with you but the thing you say above does not excused their behavior in the First Cold War like funding Polpot and Mujahideen during 1980s, invading Vietnam in 1979 and their current imperialism action in the SCS.
I hope Russia and China can get along together but I guarantee Russia should keep their eye on China 24/24 hours with the attitude ‘work with China but do not trust China’. If Russia can dump China whenever they can, they should do it soon as possible before China back-stab Russia like what China had done in the First Cold War.
Russia and China fight the Anglo-Zionism for humanity is the fairy tale. They working together for their own interest and I don’t mind about this but China is the most ruthless and danger one in ‘working for their own interest’. If China want to work with Vietnam and other SEA countries in SCS, be honest about their true agenda, humble themselves to set a discussion table on how to share the SCS instead they keep ‘muh our acient sea’.
I will keep repeat ‘Never Trust China’.
Black Sheep, this is absolutely nonsense and by your own reasoning, we can call you an anti-China troll.
The moderators have not ‘unknowingly’ posted anything.
What you are getting is fair response and debate against your continual anti-china bleatings (and I say that as in ‘sheep’ – they bleat). In other words, you’re getting a debate, and your words don’t stand automatically. That is good. I don’t like it to disrespect the Saker moderators and you have just done that.
That is so nice Tyson B. Yes, if we cannot look forward, we are toast. Let me repeat just for nice!
“Thoughts *do have energy, in fact we cant do anything, (except involuntary actions like breathing) without first having the thought. Its important at this time for all of us *not to allow ourselves to get distracted by the tried and tested ‘divide and conquer’ rule used by the ruling class – and to maintain our *own positive energy – and send it out to other like-minded peoples – about the future of Humanity living on Planet Earth in the early 21st century
Building on the past, here’s looking to the future!”
Sorry, and with due respect, I don’t perceive you as in any position whatsoever, to proclaim over and over again the gospel of not being distracted by the tactics of the divide and conquer regime…
Watch how these words are next on the agenda as new slogan of the MSM propagandists. The elite masters of evil will twist all as leverage to their own advantage, including the future of Humanity living on Planet Earth in the 21st century, one can read this message using similar words to promote New Age health/ business sites any day.
The 1st great victory of the Vietnamese against the French during the evacuation of Cao Bang in October 1950 was achieved by 3 North Vietnamese regular divisions armed and trained in China. Thus one year after their arrival in power the CCP supported Giap in a very significant way. I don’t know what went wrong afterwards to stop this fruitful collaboration. Has anybody an idea.
To a passer-by on August 24, 2020 · at 2:25 am EST/EDT
I will say that China help North Vietnam to keep North Vietnam alive only for their own agenda, according to my own translation of the Vietnamese book ‘The Truth About China-Vietnam Relationship During the 30 Years’, invading the whole SEA with slow and surprised speed. According to Edgar Snow, The Long Revolution, Published by Hutchinson, London, 1973, Page 216, Link below:
https://archive.org/details/longrevolution00snow
Combine the viewpoint on China of Vietnamese who live in the war time, this is good enough to suspect China true agenda.
Fascinating interview with Robert Kennedy. He covers the killings of his father and uncle, vaccine induced autism and the response to covid 19 causing more deaths than it saves. You’d think any one of these topics would be a huge news story.
https://youtu.be/Z9Z7m2J0nWg
( Apologies if this has already been posted and I missed it. )
This kind of poems are a mystery in themselves, though built on the pillars of reality. Anonymous has come very close with his intuition, however, it is better and more entertaining to let the reader searching behind the veils of words, playing with a silent music, shrouded in mystery, like a vision in the morning fog.
Ioan,
while contemplating your poem I found myself quite emotional without knowing why. A not yet conscious form of understanding ?
I had the same feeling years ago when our friend Dennis introduced his first poems, followed by Bro, teranam13, kinterra, mundo. The poetical infection has spread like wild fire in the newly opened cafe, giving birth to a new kind of mixed blog which attracted people of the same vein. I will never forget those beginnings, growing up under the heavily pressure of a potential big war with Russia, alternating between war-rooms and cafe, the latter being a place where we could lick our wounds.
Odds and Ends: Catherine Austin Fitts’ take away on L’Affaire Millie Weaver is this: We are at war and we must have no one, including family, around us who is not in absolute integrity.
Millie allowed slanderous people to befriend her ( he father should be able to reacquaint her with the biblical interdiction about “Lashan Hara”), questionable people to help her and her mother to betray her. Family is the hardest–I think Christ did mention that although I suspect that the usual English translation is inadequate to his meaning.
There is Kaitlen Bennett’s take on it all which is the Infowars position posted 8/20/2020 on banned.video.
Millie may never come back from this but she has two children who need her. G-dspeed, Millie.
RE:The Post Office assault on my Over-55 Mobile Home park’s delivery service. Well, Rimma, the owner told them, no way they could put up some monolithic unitary lock box and started calling all around town. She has watched this town transform over a 40 year period and has connections everywhere. Then she informed the social club and neighborhood watch so there were over 50 people ready with masks who gathered outside the club house to meet with the so-called representative from the post office. ( I was wary and advised everyone to check this person’s credentials, take a photo of her as well as her vehicle).. Two hours before the meeting, the person cancelled. If this was not a bogus feint then it was a reconnoiter–they will be back in the springtime.
I was tasked with calling the HCD ( Housing and Community Development) ombudsman for mobile home park affairs to information gather. I struck pay dirt and was given pointers about strategy, tactics, pitfalls and loads of key telephone numbers of key people at the county level. Yes, you fight government with government.
So after a rather chaotic beginning…we finally are having an emergency board meeting so that everyone is on the same page. Jeez, we were going off in all directions with tactics based on no strategy. Plus the neighborhood watch head was turning green around the gills at the thought of being on the front page of the Sacramento Bee or speaking with the postal workers union or going up the “chain of command” at the post office or calling on the various levels of county bureaucracy.
I told her that if we could develop some talking points or a script that I could use to speak with officials effectively it would be better ; otherwise, my communication can be a bit eccentric. Like my leaving a message at the city DA phone stating the situation…i.e. a vulnerable population, special needs ….etc. and that we would like to have the post office just “go away” . sigh. That was before I spoke with the ombudsman and was able to start putting together a possible strategy, complete with telling points ( stress elder health and safety needs) and coming up with logical demands. Board meeting on Monday.
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Teranam, I did take a look at the Kaitlen Bennett depiction. What thickening plot eh. Crazier as we go along.
I watched the Greg Hunter interview with CAF where she talks about integrity as you described. I couldn’t find any reference to Millie Weaver in that interview. I would be interested to hear her take. Where did she discuss the Millie situation ?
The report on developments taking place between countries suffering Washington sanctions, (latest Saker articles) relates how these immediately cooperate to create and form new economic alliances, with the punitive measures serving to strengthen bonds between counties .
This struck me as parallel with the increasing restrictions and loss of human, free flow channels between peoples globally, due to censorship and freedom of speech, and a corresponding strengthening of bonds between them born from necessity..
Very sad, all people need to communicate, but those who inhibit others rights will end up alone, oh the endless carousel of life !
Ode to Joy
The cafe is charged with super fine poetry today, so I will add a bit of music.
Grab your coffee, sit back and watch this inspiring performance by students from my grand daughters school.
The Virtual Choir and Orchestra project was initiated by the Music Department.
Featuring more than 340 performers, the talented musicians learnt and performed at home and joined forces to create an extraordinary video in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuyx2SGI1_E&feature=youtu.be
@Bubushka in Oz
And an Ode to Joy it was, done virtualy, talent for sure……………great to see, and they sung in German, I think. In school, I was part of a PACE (Protestant and Catholic Encounter) group that would go to various school spreading the love, every concert we’d finish with The Ode………..fifty years later, still no love there…………………and we had to sing it in English, lest some might think they’d been invaded…………lol. Still, kudos all those kids, great job…………slivers of hope, shining through brightly.
Cheers, M
Yes lots of talent in our youngsters and they need all the slivers of hope and joy we can give them.
Thanks M
Time to counter some RT snark: honestly, you must get your memes straight.
https://www.rt.com/russia/498791-belarus-lukashenko-assault-rifle/
No, Lukashenko is not a bespectacled Allende figure being bombed to death by a CIA corrupted air force, rather he is making common cause with Madero who likewise is not going to be savaged by a street mob or dragged ignominiously from a rat hole or run for his life while polite green men in rescue helicopters search at night for him on back country roads. I assume you understand to whom I am referring with the above examples.
The more I see the pissant types attacking him , the more I admire his swagger. He says: “Mess with my borders, will, you? My men have shoot to kill orders.” And ” Don’t even think about the snipers on the roof ploy!!!–I’ll take you out myself!!!”
What a relief to see someone “real”. I think we need a meme of him shooting the gun–on a rifle range, of course—we don’t want those color rev limp wrists to panic into deploring “gun violence” or some such hypocritical nonsense on their part.
He might want to think of calling in all the oligarchs and telling them, ” Get your workers in line or there will be no more contracts from Russia for your products. And if you don’t do so, I will confiscate your enterprises, jail you as enemies of the state and set up worker councils to run the factories—they would probably do a better job anyway.”
One can only dream…
I’ve had my gripes with the Duran duo, but must give credit where credit is due.
A recent video of their summary of the Democratic Convention is a pleasure to listen to – trying to report without laughing and failing, highlighting the utter Monty Python-esqe insanity, it brings a few bursts of laughter at a time when they seem to be a bit thin on the ground.
So – enjoy a laugh, at least up to time point, 24.56 when I stopped listening – it debouches off into another Trump laudatory.
Time for bed, clearly :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39F-XpHeHXc
Catherine Austin Fitts and Greg Hunter. I truly do not enjoy Greg Hunter but I ignore him and listen to CAF.
So, we have her definition of a word that is being bandied about, and seldom do we know what it means or what the person means that uses this word.
– The CAF Definition of ‘reset’ = currencies going digital, i.e., central bank manoeuvres.
My comment here, is that not all countries have central banks and thus this is not a world wide issue. CAF believes this is world wide with her depiction of Mr.Global. I believe this has changed over the past number of years and Mr. Global now has a different face.
– More control and tyranny coming and real assets will be what people go for.
– She considers this period as WW3.
– In terms of income and any wellbeing – the pain has been delayed or spread out. She talks about 11 to 15 million evictions, even more foreclosures, more shutdown coming. (This is the US – other countries in the west do not have a similar trajectory. Be quite clear what she speaks of here and find what is happening in your own country).
She says financial deflation is being engineered and this is massive disaster capitalism. The examples for this point are interesting but again one now has to think .. west or east. It is not all the same any longer.
– You want to be doing things that generate an income – continue some economic activity that provides you with sustenance and have a resilient capacity for food and health. Local food systems as food is not going to be trustworthy.
– Do it yourself .. It used to make sense to get dressed go to work and for example get someone else to do some plumbing for you … now it makes sense to do as much for yourself as you can. Build skills … network with others.
– Make sure that everyone that you deal with have high integrity … get everyone out of your life who does not have integrity. It is basically a war period according to CAF – do not have dirty players in your life
– Focus on things that are real and things that can endure in this environment .. don’t finance your enemies.
– And here is something that I was happy to hear her say – two things
The coming time is going to be exceptionally different to what was. We’re not going back to what we know but this time has many opportunities. Its up to us to lead us into the way of a superior human – a resilient and good person.
She says we can understand it, and can take action to navigate and find the opportunities. It is very possible that the good guys win. It is on the rest of us to navigate our way into a superior human population and technology gives us the opportunity to do so.
I resonate with this. The size of the world changes both in terms of changing poles of balance of power, and the Covid thing will drive tremendous change. Change always has inside of it the makings, the possibilities of good, and the makings the possibilities of bad. But we have to be careful in terms of who we allow to ‘rule us’. These change processes also lead to massive usurpation of power.
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My own comments:
– My summary here is only a summary of things that made sense to me. You may find more things valuable or not.
– I am not as anti digital currency as CAF. I think it is a normal development and one cannot talk of technology giving a helping hand without knowing that technology will influence currency.
– CAF has become truly anti-China on an economic basis. I am not so enamored with China for myself. They have their ways, but more and more I see in the serious media and serious reporting that a war with China is not outside of the realm of thinking nowadays.
The video is not so long, just over 30 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfYJHglBLo
“CAF has become truly anti-China on an economic basis”
Its imperative that none of us allow cracks to appear between the Russia-China ‘Double Helix’. If we do we are aiding and abetting the A-Z ’empire’ picking them off one-by-one
So we need to beware of US-inspired propagandists no matter, how well meaning they think they are
re China:
The problem for us in the West is that we keep thinking that China will be like the West – short-term, exploitation of the ‘invisible hand’ smash and grab capitalism (see: John Perkins ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ as a primer)
If anyone was to watch these 3 short vids we get an instant understanding of how China differs from the West:
1 Understanding the rise of China Martin Jacques (up to 21:30 the rest is ads) https://youtu.be/imhUmLtlZpw
2 Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems (20:37)
https://youtu.be/s0YjL9rZyR0
His takeaway: ‘The Chinese will never allow a billionaire class to insert themselves above political authority as they have in the US’ (words to the effect)
3 Are China and the US doomed to conflict? | Former PM of Australia & Mandarin speaker, Kevin Rudd (20:06) https://youtu.be/8XQ1onjXJK0
Regards
Absolutely agree.
There has to be a counterbalance to Western hegemony. Russia cannot stand alone. Nixon was clever in his strategy with China, so they didn’t get close to the USSR. Frankly, I think the world really needs Russia and China to stand firm together against the psychopaths running the West – or catastrophe looms.
Last week CAF was previewing an interview with Saker that was to take place on Solari on 20 August. All I could find was a short 3 minute pre-interview.
Is the longer interview available anywhere?
Hi, Black Sheep, appreciate your comments.
The critical support of the Soviet Union during the Vietnam war reminded me how most Indians will never forget the steadfast support of the Soviets in December 1971, in the Bay of Bengal.
Hi Black Sheep,
I also really appreciated your comments about China – Vietnam relations. I will keep your comments on record as it is very difficult to find nuance.
You have anti China on main stream.
Some pro China nonsense on alt.
We forget that countries like Vietnam and India relied on USSR.
I suspect Xi represents a China first faction. That is good for China. But every country should stand for their own national interest. It is not workers of the world unite, it is people and local community and jobs and living standards and real education.
I trust Russia as a civilisation not to dominate beyond their borders outside of their sphere, ie former USSR/Russian Empire. China will seek local hegemony, as it sees neighbours as sphere of influence. US will seek global hegemony. How should a smaller country react?
Regards,
Student
Hi Student,
“I trust Russia as a civilization not to dominate … China will seek local hegemony, … US will seek global hegemony. How should a smaller country react?”
Simple.
The *whole point of being a free and independent sovereign country is to make your own rules and enforce them within your own borders. If for example a US corporation wants to operate in your country it does so by *your country’s legislation and regulations. If a Chinese State Owned Enterprise (SOE) wants to operate in your country it does so by *your country’s legislation and regulations. And so on
It is absolutely deadly for a nation to allow:
– dual citizens to be elected to your parliament
– puppet governments/leaders to be installed
– NGOs funded by foreign governments to operate on your soil
– foreign media corporations eg BBC to broadcast/publish in your TV & radio outlets
– foreign banks to own any of your TV & radio outlets
Thats just for starters!
Regards
Agreed with much of what you 3 say….EXCEPT unwilling to accept, as a given, the following profile of me or my nation of citizenship or residency:
” US will seek global hegemony.”
For “US” is not simply a person…an individual…………..an undifferentiated “uncle” of simple DNA determined behavior set in stone from 250 years past, through the present and unalterably the same for ever more.
More precisely put would be “US…… HAS STUPIDLY SOUGHT global hegemony since the death of FDR and JFK and the takeover by the CIA, Wall Street and the Bloodline families in league with those of Great Britain and other areas of the world….not realizing that all populations of all nations, including the USA so deceived were to be used like toilet paper by its owners, and ultimately disposed of after serving the purposes of those families…..to smash and destroy national sovereignty anywhere on the globe that it might struggle to emerge.”
Instead the oversimplification leads to a gross blunder of falling into a self-fulfilling Divide and Conquer (especially of the Great Powers……that’s fundamental principle # !) Plan by The Empire ……for their Continued Rule…………..and a blindness to the fact that despite the majority of its people HAVING BEEN in a materialist trance for many decades..the US is lousy and stupid at being an Empire..CAN cut out that aberrant behavior..and DOES have a not that distant memory of at least once being an anti-Empire sovereign republic….and desiring the same for peoples elsewhere in the world without being forced into our mold.
Furthermore, at present…popular ferment consisting of growing anti-Empire, anti-neocon, anti-warmongering IS gaining more and more momentum here……and should be encouraged…..not diminished or dismissed as “impossible”.
It’s all very complex, but more and more people are figuring it out in terms of Russia…..and now the challenge is shifting to figuring out China…and it is not as simple as Black Sheep or Steve Bannon or Mike Pompeo would like to paint it…(nor is China or even Russia, much less the USA entirely angelic!) .and DO paint it:
https://larouchepac.com/20200821/steve-bannon-indicted-good-news-republic
an excerpt:
“Just to cite the most relevant facts here. Steve Bannon claimed that it was he, not Donald Trump, who created Trump’s 2016 electoral victory. When Trump fired the ego obsessed former Goldman Sachs partner, Bannon, working with New York gossip novelist Michael Wolff, penned two novellas painting the President as an unhinged criminal. He told Congressional committees that Donald Trump, Jr. was guilty of the crime of treason and his trial testimony against former Trump associate Roger Stone is credited as a significant cause of Stone’s conviction.
A deeper dive into Bannon’s background locates him as one of the prime British intelligence chess pieces foisted early on Trump’s campaign to discredit Trump and steer his supporters down a variety of self-defeating and toxic rabbit holes. He was a key creator of the so-called Alt Right, a British intelligence inspired movement which takes genuine aspirations to preserve the nation state and channels them into deviant social movements, including overt racism. He used his business dealings in the gamer culture of Hong Kong, while a British controlled entity, to transform the toxic gamer culture flourishing there into a political movement.
Lately, Bannon, ever in pursuit of fame and fortune, has taken up with Chinese billionaire fugitive Guo Wengui in an inflammatory and bellicose campaign against China, reflecting the nonsense coming from Britain’s Henry Jackson Society and the circles of Sir Richard Dearlove. Dearlove and his proteges Christopher Steele and Sir Andrew Wood, among other British intelligence sponsors, are the actual authors of the coup against the President. A lawsuit brought by a Conservative Republican private intelligence firm, Strategic Vision, against Guo, argues that he is a double agent trying to out Chinese dissidents in the United States. History, as previously stated, is complicated.”
Never so simple.
Here we go. Just reported on RT, German doctors have found a toxin that attacks the nervous system in Navalny, who remains in a coma. What a surprise !
I heard it on my car radio. Navalny was portrayed as ‘Putincritic’ and an ‘opposition leader’ (yeah right, he got some 2% of the votes in the last election, that’s even less than the communist party… )
I hope that I heard and understood it correctly, that the substance found belongs to the family of cholinesterates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinesterase
When you want to ‘poison’ somebody, would you choose this?
It was also stated, that Russian medic personnel had been put ‘under pressure’. Gee, and the German doctors not?
I do hope (and I trust on this) that the hospital in Omsk still have some blood samples stashed away, marked as his by his DNA.
Merkel has to dance this time. We had a slight warning by an exploded gas line somewhere…
Cheers, Rob
Just to add something:
Wasn’t this bloke with strange racist opinions, flying in a private jet, ‘poisoned’ by a cup of tea?
Hey, which people had access to his tea, on a private jet?
It reminds me of an heated ‘argument’ between Churchill and a female Parliament member:
She: “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!”
Churchill: “…and if you were my wife I would certainly drink it!”
Cheers, Rob
Rob,
I hadn’t yet heard the bit about the Russian doctors being put under pressure, but I expected it. We’ll be treated to crook Browder telling us that Putin, who he has said ” particularly likes to poison people ” has threatened the doctors families or something of that sort. They may also try to say the Russian doctors are inferior to their German / Western counterparts. I half expected them to say it was a new more dastardly / harder to detect Novichok – which, obviously, could only have been produced by the Russians.
They are nothing if not predictable. But the media and stooge politicians will run with it so it will become ‘ true ‘.
Coincidentally he was supposed to be attending yet another libel action against him….it was then been postponed….he seems to shoot his mouth off at regular intervals….maybe this is an escape of sorts for to claim asylum from prosecution..and Germany only too willing to support him especially….for such a “deathly” poisen as one person has described it….he is still alive….
So yes blood tests in Omsk are either right or wrong…..need to be checked again…..sighs? OPCW anyone?
Rob,
“Hey, which people had access to his tea, on a private jet?”
His tea was ‘poisoned’ in the airport terminal. He was filmed drinking the tea. How many people are filmed drinking tea? Whoever did it must have known there’d be consequences – thats the 1st giveaway! (In flight, his “groaning” was also filmed while he himself was off camera – couldve been anyone)
The 2nd giveaway is that the NGO Cinema For Peace provided the flight for Navalny. What a joke!
Looking at the films they give awards to eg White Helmets, they appear to be a dedicated anti-Russian, anti-Putin, anti Syrian, anti-Assad propaganda outfit of the A-Z empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_for_Peace
The 3rd giveaway of course is the timing. Its not just a smear of Putin, it also pressures the German government at a time of completion of NordStream2.
It may also serve as a distraction for Western populations from the ‘black-eye’ that the US has copped from no “snapback” of sanctions on Iran & continual resistance attacks on US bases/forces in Iraq & being powerless to stop them.
Regards
Even that tea has a journey log. It was actually collected and given to him by his leading aide, according to reports. Thus [a] the person preparing the tea had no idea which one would go to Navalny and [b] that should put his aide in the cross hairs.
Magically, somehow, according to the twisted distorted excuses for minds proudly flourished by the EU and UK, it’s Putin, miles away in a meeting in Moscow.
Still as we know, he IS “Superman” – leaps tall buildings in a single bound etc etc!!!
interesting personal rant ( nice rant really) from silver dollar site:
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/how-the-deep-state-globalists-duped-americans-with-covid-19-to-collapse-the-us-economy-and-mortally-wound-the-empire-explained-as-simply-as-possible/
Anonymous,
I now understand the low acceptance rate in this particular forum for this narrative. Let me fist start out by stating that there are two standpoints. The first is that there is an agenda at play here, specifically to control the global population. The second, is that events are unfolding on there own without any external interference or minimal/trivial at best. My conclusion is that the reason is because the Saker blog is heavily entrenched into traditional geopolitics, nation-state vs nation state and/or “the Empire” vs the resistance axis of Russia/China/Iran. Now this is where divergence lies. Because the latter has a proven history and track record, most of us here are heavily invested in it and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to even call it “comfort zone” so to speak. To declare that the global elite in their countries )that are known to be enemies) are working together against their citizens (while the politicians in their respected governments are complicit) contradicts the well-established model. It’s ironic that this is the same concept as attempting to break the worldview of those listening to MSM with the Empire narrative.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/08/gary-d-barnett/the-economic-insanity-of-this-coronavirus-pandemic-plot-and-the-coming-global-reset/
Allen, that article is very clear indeed.
Yes, unfortunately there are too many turkey’s here (and everywhere else) still voting for xmas.
It is an extremely bleak outlook.
Indeed
And here’s another good article as confirmation.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wef-knows-best-great-global-reset/5719627
Allen, 10 years ago I would have agreed with you – even eight years ago. But we are now so far on the road to multipolarity in our world that things have changed. There is no Putin and Xi and Trump ‘working together in secret’. But there is the strong move toward a real sovereign structure in our world. And we are down the road already with it. Let me give you 3 pieces to read … I am not a full on supporter of The Sirius Report, it is just that sometimes he says what needs to be said in understandable terms. At least for me.
In these pieces there is a 2-parter that talks about Seismic Moments in the ‘Event Driven Reset’. OK, he is not above using that ‘reset’ word, that we have to look at carefully as to its definition where it is used – because it changes, depending on the use of it .. it is now a click bait word really.
But take a look at these 3 pieces. Perhaps you like ’em, perhaps not, but I think we are further down the road than what you perhaps take in at present.
This is not just me saying this. The ones that study deeply, say this – not only geopolitical analysts, but also economists and from other educational backgrounds.
Anyways, see if this is of help.
100 Deep State Failures Cast Doubt On Aura Of Invincibility
https://www.thesiriusreport.com/analysis-opinion/deep-state-failures/
Seismic Moments In The Event Driven Reset – Part One
https://www.thesiriusreport.com/analysis-opinion/reset-seismic-development/
Seismic Moments In The Event Driven Reset – Part Two
https://www.thesiriusreport.com/analysis-opinion/putin-speech-missile-technology/
I can add a bunch of ‘seismic moments’. The one where Putin made his speech (2015) at the UN General Assembly and literally put a stick in front of the cabals – a few days later, Russia moved into Syria.
The open warfare on Venezuela – and the failure thereof.
The long term where Iran just simply said NO. And nobody could do anything about it – no hegemonic one world power could make them shift their NO.
So, I believe we are in somewhat of a new dispensation – or what is called a multi polar world and the ones that had power, now may be losing it. Also, do keep in mind that with a trajectory of multi polarity, countries are now different. They get their funding for projects from different funders for example. OK, I can say a lot, but enough now.
Totally agree with you on that Amarynth – we are witnessing the birth of a new way of living cooperatively – trading for long-term *mutual benefit among countries, hopefully making wars for land conquest are a thing of the past
“I can add a bunch of ‘seismic moments’.”
Here’s one:
After the US State Department-sponsored fascist regime change operation, when Putin said [quote] “I could take Kiev in two weeks, if I wanted to” – it made all W. European leaders sit up and take notice as most, if not all, are old enough (or have living parents) to remember the devastation of WWII.
Going forward, Putin has an ace up his sleeve knowing that the absolute *last thing that Europeans want is another continental war. There are outliers of course, like irresponsible small countries Poland and Romania – but enough pressure can be brought to bear on them by Germany. (France is useless under the ex-Rothschild errand boy Macron, France having become pretty much MOSSAD’s playground ever since the French Parliament voted to recognize Palestine in December 2014 – hence all the terror ‘attacks’ ie false flags)
Also thanks for those links – all 3 excellent summaries!
Regards
Another important one:
Vladimir Putin’s speech: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/vladimir-putin-real-lessons-75th-anniversary-world-war-ii-162982
Very subtly, the West was trying to rewrite history and make out that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the cause for the *start of WWII, whereas in fact it was the 1938 Munich Agreement, aka Munich Betrayal that was the ‘green light’ for the *start of the war (notice I say ‘start)
(We all know there were many *causes and behind the scenes agreements/ assurances given and how Poland was manipulated)
The point Putin made and had to make was *not allowing the West to get away with a disgusting blame-shifting exercise!!!
Regards
Well it didn’t take long did it. Who besides me thought that letting Navalny go to Germany was a horrible idea. Now after 2 labs in Russia found no poisoning in his system.Suddenly German doctors do find poisoning. Who wouldn’t have guessed that.And now the cheeky Merkel thinks she can order the Russian government to investigate and find the guilty parties.That shouldn’t be too hard.Find out the CIA handler for Navalny,and you have your suspect right there.But this case isn’t so much to me about Navalny,as it is about Russia’s reaction to it.And RT’s reporting of it.Either 2 Russian labs lied,or were incompetent with finding no poison,or there was no poison.The government in Russia should know which that is.And if the lab lied about it,it would be because the authorities told them too.In which case how stupid must you be to allow Navalny’s transfer to Germany.And in any case what so ever,poisoned,not poisoned,transferring him to NATO Germany invites Germany,the EU,NATO,and the US,to make hay for weeks accusing Russia and Putin of trying to murder their critic. Its a dream set-up for the CIA.They were probably jumping for joy in Langley ,when Russia said they would allow the transfer.And RT,as usual is giving the story the same coverage you would find in any Western msn.
I saw this coming. All the same media characters (experts) who emerged for the Skripal posioning, are re-emerging for this one, just reading in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/alexei-navalny-tests-point-to-possible-nerve-agent-attack-experts-say
“Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical and biological weapons expert” and get this:
“He said measuring levels of cholinesterase was done routinely at the UK government’s Porton Down facility, which identified the novichok used against Skripal. It was analogous to checking radiation levels for workers in the nuclear industry, he said.”
Norman Dombey, an emeritus professor of physics who gave evidence in 2015 to the public inquiry into Litvinenko’s murder, said….
You are right Uncle Bob, they are jumping for joy. Perhaps somebody thought though that it could be a lot worse if he dies in Siberia? That the reaction allowing him to go to germany they calculated would be the lesser of two evils? Who knows. However, it’s a propaganda clusterfuck.
“letting” Navalny go, Bob?? I thought Russia was a free country. ON wht basis coudl they stop it? His relatives wanted it, Germany offered, the Doctors said “OK” – on what basis could “Russia”, [ I mean, who, exactly,] stop it. ??
So far it’s just some German pollie claiming he’s been “poisoned” – the substance supposedly identified could easily be part of a treatment for a suspected foreign agent.
Russia sent samples to two labs. And Merkel is a fading no-body. Putin has distanced himself from the entire thing, correctly I would say.
Once again, people who keep seeing the Empire as a massive force to fought against are making a big thing out of very little I would say. Nobody in Russia knows or cares. Let the West wet it’s pants, if that’s what turns it on.
Who cares??
From reading RT,Navalny is under investigation for insulting a 92 year old Great Patriotic War veteran.Which caused him emotional injury.Which lead to health issues. I doubt people under criminal investigation are permitted to leave the country and not be able to face justice.Which is probably way the Kremlin said he was permitted to leave.Considering the new provocation afoot in Germany against Russia,I think letting him go to Germany was a mistake.
Hi Uncle Bob,
A good article this morning- “Claims of Navalny’s poisoning premature, forensic expert says, this conclusion is hasty since it is not proven, the expert said……”
https://tass.com/society/1193391
I’ve been pondering on this and think maybe the Russians were happy for him to leave (despite his libel case) as they have all the evidence to discredit the Germans and Navalny…….maybe there is method in the madness? Just a thought.
The interesting thing will be if Navalny attempts to re-enter Russia.
Will he apply for (mental) asylum in the EU?
Will he be stopped at the border and made to sign a confession?
Will he be stripped of Russian citizenship?
On what terms will he be allowed to re-enter?
It seems to me that Putin may have rid himself of a pain in a certain part of the anatomy – lower down than the neck! LOL
Regards
Could somebody pls provide any information about what’s going on in Khabarovsk and who is this Sergey Furgal?
Furgal is the governor of Khabarovsk, and is presently jailed. The Khabarovians seem to like him a lot, but others less. He who knows Russian or how to translate RU articles eg at kp.ru may be able to learn more.
Dear Pamela
In the last Café you wrote:
“ I’m left interested in some of it, but with a question mark over the head of Brian of London Real. Something about him leaves me ……..I dont know. Disturbed? Uneasy feeling? Nothing objective, I’m the first to agree. Just a “feeling” I freely admit.”
I too, felt these feelings. Until I read the comments under some of his videos. Explained everything.
I am these days on a bit of a treadmill, forever running to catch up.
Thank You and Amarynth for your lengthy and thorough replies to my enquiry re technology and transhumanism. I’ll come back to that subject with more questions later.
Go well dear friend
I’m with both of you on Brian of London Real. Thing is, he went for training with a massively wealthy business man in order to learn how to make big bucks and do big business. This for him is business. So, his heart is in his business. Best way I can describe it. I cannot blame him, one has to make money as well, but for me at least it is clear that he will as easily change his mind, depending if the business asks for it.
First entry on google:
“About London Real
Brian Rose left a successful career as a banker in Wall Street and the *City of London to start London Real”
Anything to do with the City is deadly – theyve been at empire building, aka global hegemony, world domination, since Cromwell let the ‘you-know-whos’ back in 1657, set up the central bank Bank of England in 1694 & Bank of Scotland 1695 – England & Scotland was already in Personal Union under James I & VI – and united politically under Anne in 1707 via the Act of Union
Even the name “Real” is use of agitprop – how can one disagree/disapprove of someone that “real”? Thats our giveaway.
I wouldnt touch Brian with a 10′ pole!
Regards
Thanks for the heads up on Brian Rose background amarynth and Tyson. I didn’t know anything about that, but it figures. My intuition – which is usually pretty good – knew.
But also, that little “slip in” of anti China in 2 of his documentaries. It’s a standard ploy. You tell lots of things that are true, you make like you’re on the side of the rebels, those questioning Empire – so that you are accepted in toto – and then just slip in the drop of poison. Like Sibel Edmonds.
I know that treadmill feeling Babuska – It’s like the Red Queen – or was it the White one? – running like mad just to stay in the same place :-)
Stay well too, you, dear amiga.
I know with its saturation media coverage that SARS-CoV2 is front and center in people’s minds right now.
But this is an incredible rundown on the decaying USA which touches every aspect of American life
Some data eg intentional homicides/100,000 people is open to question as the author himself acknowledges (statistics can be made to prove any point one wishes to make) but overall its an eye-opening summary.
August 22, 2020 American Exceptionalism
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/american-exceptionalism/
My purpose in posting is that the USA is no shape to wage a hot war right now (but can still make life uncomfortable for targeted populations via economic warfare eg sanctions)
Regards
sigh…RT again…
https://www.rt.com/russia/498893-german-clinical-investigation-suggests-moscow/
If someone has a poison like curare in their system then an anti cholinesterase drug is what is given. So take a statement and to jump to conclusions is, well, sloppy but makes for a big headline.
just saying.
OK, those that have not lived in the Southern US (hillbilly country, or south of the mason dixon line :-), will probably not get all of this, but Fred Reed is truly funny. This gal called Rachel Tension he talks about. And the looting …
“It’s hard to figure. We saw all these people busting up store windows because they want Social Justice, which I guess they keep in stores in Minneapolis. If they did that here they could find social justice real fast. It’s what a rope is for. But they was whooping and hollering like it was the Reverend McBilly Osfeiser’s Last Best Jesus Revival and Donut Social that comes every year to get Granny’s Social Security. Anyway, the people busting store windows say that ruining stores will help black folks who live there. Well, maybe, but I figure noddy but a damn fool is going to bring back a store to get looted again. So where’s the black folks going to buy stuff? Everybody that’s got money or the brains that god give a retard possum is going to go somewhere else to live. And then these dim lights want to get rid of the po-lice, so thieving rascals can look easier in stores for that social justice. It looks to me like they can’t tell the difference between social justice and a TV set.”
I reckon about one feller with a twelve gauge could cure the whole mess in five minutes or ten rounds, whichever ran out first, but can’t nobody understand flatlanders.”
https://www.unz.com/freed/big-orlys-diary-and-the-crumpler-report/
“https://www.rt.com/russia/498960-tikhanovskaya-meet-pompeo-democracy/”
Which tells us pretty much all we could wish to know about this young woman and from where and how the original, no doubt genuine, demonstrations, were extended into what they are now.
I think you mean this one: https://www.rt.com/russia/498960-tikhanovskaya-meet-pompeo-democracy/
(you have to leave a space at the back, otherwise it is not recognized as a hyperlink ;-))
This one is also funny: https://www.rt.com/russia/498991-tikhanovskaya-belarus-opposition-majority/
So, we have Gaylord Guaido 2.0…
Cheers, Rob
Thanks for the correction Rob. My bad. They’re both pretty blantant, aren’t they??
Somehow I think she’s dished herself. The people of Russia – all parts – aren’t as dense as the Western mix of West Ukraine. I doubt anyone would vote for her now.
Don’t know if anyone has seen this about Navalny having
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55496.htm
Diabetes. Sorry
INteresting to me sandinED, as it was one of the things which crossed my mind. I eliminated it as I thought that, if Navalny was diabetic, it would be a well known thing, especially to his aides, and would have been first thought of. However, if he has claimed to have diabetes – or diabetes like episodes – in the past, and for some reason kept it from people, it would help to explain things.
Two things stand out for me here. One is that he was complaining of stomach pains. This is a frequent occurrence for those with Adrenaline Insufficiency when they become severely dehydrated, but also diabetics verging on passing out. Two, he was reported to have been drinking heavily in the week preceding the collapse, If true again, it fits as the body system to process and detoxify alcohol uses a lot of sugar, thus lowering the levels and leading to hypoglycaemia.
If he is a poorly controlled diabetic, then he has been dicing with a severe outcome for some time. Flying adds to the stress which brings on such attacks.
It may all have nothing to do with any outside agency at all. After all, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!!!
Pamela,
I thought you’d be interested. Do you think it will make any difference to the ‘ Putin poisoned him ! ‘ crowd. They won’t want to let facts get in the way of a good story. His diabetes will probably not be reported.
No. If Germany should come out with an “diabetic coma due to poor control”, they’ll just stop reporting anything at all.
Trying to leave a dirty footprint — it will be a case of “shrug’. Oh well, we dipped out on this one”.
It’s all just war tactics with them.
Pamela,
also in the update of that article, they link to a corroborating report of Navalny himself stating last year that he suffered from diabetes. If we had any honest media this would have been immediately posited as the most likely / or at least a likely cause of his collapse. I – who have no medical training – had even thought of diabetes as a possible explanation .
Craig Murray’s persecution continues. To recap, he is charged with contempt of court for his ( fair ) reporting on the Alex Salmond trial, ( and no doubt his previous fair reporting on Assange ruffled many feathers. ) He is being denied access to relevant documents and his defence strategy is being stymied.
( Incidentally, in the meantime the BBC saw fit to broadcast a scurrilous hit piece on Salmond where they implied – actually all but said explicitly – that Salmond was guilty and should not have been acquitted. )
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
Who’d be an honest journalist ?
RT: Finally they have some decent reporting on what is happening in Belarus from a people to people angle. I’m glad to see that the type of demonization/polarization of people that is tearing the USA apart is being hopefully stopped in Belarus. (or at least not encouraged by shoddy or biased reporting.) Plus the young reporter is not looking 13 y/o any more—he looks kinda buff in that tee shirt!!! And he is more sure of himself.
And RT actually had featured medical personal talking about other non nefarious reasons to have trace amounts of anti cholinesterase floating around one’s body . Yes, Why depend on Wikipedia or German intelligence when you can ask an expert?
Ok so I’ll issue a provisional pass for today but I’ll be watching you!
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I always thought foot-binding was a Chinese custom. I never heard of it being practiced in Japan before. Either it was also practiced in Japan as well as China, or it was a typo on amarynth’s part.
Yes of course and thanks … just a temporary slip of mind. Of course Chinese.
The battle lines could not be more clear: that cancer on dnc and body politic in general, hillary clinton, has publicly stated that biden under no circumstance should concede if the vote count goes against him.
Some internet weirdness — though most likely I am overthinking this. On Wikipedia, the page for ‘David Rockefeller, Jr.’ doesn’t exist. A page citing a 2014 entry, however, does exist: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Rockefeller-David.htm
How I got there was because of this article: https://benjaminfulford.net/2020/08/24/covid-19-fear-porn-mongers-are-being-systematically-hunted-down-and-killed/
Pompeo’s speech at the Republican party convention. Black painted white. Why listen? Its short thank heavens, and this is the man that wants to lead and convince the population of “New Weapons of Mass Destruction”. These new weapons are called Russia, China, almost like a mantra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlw_Y6TvSw4
… The Qinghai-Tibet Railway …
This is the story of the battle to build a railway across one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
To lay down over a thousand kilometres of track in a remote wilderness.
To drive 7 tunnels and to raise 675 bridges, all at an altitude where even a simple breath is nearly impossible to come by.
140,000 workers and 2000 medics struggled for 5 years to conquer this hostile environment to complete the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the highest, most extreme railway in the world …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTSpdD6MswA
Apropos of the trend among some to think of Russia as helpless before the Eater of Nations, of the advancing Behemoth Empire, I thought some might find this interesting.
https://www.putin-today.ru/archives/106454
Use Yandex Translate – it comes across the well. If you know what are fractals, you’ll see the writer has a novel and very neat “take” on Russia, not only her Foreign Policy, but her situation in the world today.
He points to triangles – Russia, China, India – the “Big one”, able to balance the Empire. Then there’s what we might call “The Middle East” triangle – Russia, Iran, Turkey.
I would add on to his triangles, Russia, Iran, Syria. And slowly forming with Europe, Russia, Germany And France.
And notice which one country is the lynch pin for all these triangles?
I like it. I like it very much.
In Astana … “The Khan Shatyr” (“Royal Marquee”) … with “Western Shops” …
World’s Biggest Tent | Megastructures | Free Documentary …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZzA8zMqbs
… more information with drawings …
https://epsscentral.info/khan-shatyr-structure-70/
Well, shucks! I was having so much fun savaging RT but no more—this is actually journalism the way it used to be done:
https://www.rt.com/usa/499111-kenosha-shooter-boogaloo-identity/
If that scared looking armed 17 year old is who did the shooting, well, it appears he went into a situation untrained with questionable back up against people who were also armed but who also felt entitled to loot and steal with impunity. Careful about the so-called “boogaloo”–it might be a hoax…The Atlantic magazine “discovered” it in order to blow it up in order to cover it and make it crazy and scary.
Now the core of Proud Boys ( at least used to be–everything is moving so quickly these days) is made of ex combat Vets. Different story so they get difference treatment ( very little coverage, harsh sentences, sent to jail quickly even for defense street fighting). Mark my words, this “boogaloo” baloney will be sensationalized.