2020/09/06 05:00:01
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Following amarynth’s and Bro 93’s comments in the last cafe:
“Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum, one of the men behind COVID-19. They want a reset a complete change to society. This needs to be understood because people keep thinking this is going to go away (what’s happening now) and it’s not they still have more to come”
Head of World Economic Forum declares the Pandemic will NEVER end!
https://twitter.com/Acadiansheperd/status/1298484055944712193
Regards
Tyson, let me be the voice from the wilderness. Who cares what the head of the WEF says? Why, because their is a shift of balance of powers in the land that is unprecedented in our age. From what I can see (and Catherine Austin Fitts as well), they are now making it up as they go along as they have already failed in their policies. There is no ‘plan’ and Catherine sees it from the financial perspective. Whatever of old plans they try to implement – well, it fails as the whole world’s people are refusing to sit in travail.
“The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world.”
Lee Kwan Yew
The western powers are desperately seeking more easy money flows. Their printing and debts by living above their means and making war, are now debasing their currencies to a visible extent, the last say 20 years of a policy of austerity has maxed out the resources of the citizens but they are still trying to wring the last pennies from the citizens. They have to retrench from their evil ways. I cannot stress enough how big the difference is with balance of power moving east, and, it is, whether one likes it or not.
So, yes, on the face of it, he is right – a ‘reset’ (and there is much behind that word itself and I don’t like using it for its connotations) of society is badly necessary. The US is eating itself from the inside out, and it has been said that the coming elections is what amounts to a turkey voting for its death for either Thanksgiving or Christmas.
This economic, financial and societal system is no longer fit for purpose – and it has to change. Again, I think if we think it through, it is the biggest opportunity for mankind that has been offered to us. What will we do with it?
For me, a practical soul .. more growing of unpolluted food using unpolluted seeds and growing this out and leaving unpolluted lands and waters, more sharing with others as to how to grow in our climate zone, and I’m reskilling in a fast growing sector of tech to keep the skills modern and usable – keeping up to date with health as my thing is food and health together, and supporting others around me where I can and where it is asked for. I still believe the best defense against powers run amuck, is simply to keep on living a good life and let that be our internal balance against most everything out of balance. We together, the peoples of the world must stand against more war and strengthen ourselves into a personal state of radical sovereignty. The solutions lie in our hands .. they say nature abhors a vacuum and those that tried to lead us / control us, are now becoming a vacuous vacuum standing on podiums and babbling. We must move in before someone worse moves in. But truly, I see a world economic crash on our horizon. Those are dangerous times, because the only way that we know to rectify that, is war and in that way, kickstart some economic engine.
I posted that as more proof that the plandemic is a hoax / psyop – whatever term is most appropriate – (which doesnt mean SARS-CoV2 doesnt exist) it means its been blown out of all proportion – and as Kissinger told us all those years ago “never let a good crisis go to waste” its being used for a ***Reset*** – in so many different ways
Regards
Yes, I kicked it out broader. In my view, the hoax / psyops part of the pandemic(put in the word that you like) can be analyzed till the cows come home, but it still will fall within ‘not letting a good crisis go to waste’. So, we are running the gamut from ‘there is no virus’, ‘virii does not exist’, right through to ‘you gotto bow to the powers otherwise virus is gonna kill you and if it don’t, I’ll kill you’ – as we see from the Karens.
I believe this confusion is deliberate and I do not see it in some other countries but in mostly all western style countries.
We can make a big spreadsheet of all of this here. But, it still falls into taking a crisis and molding it for the rich to take profit. That was the first thing, and now, with the state of the US, it is of course the disaster capitalism where property and even cities are smashed up, and then being bought up pennies on the dollar, to be redeveloped for those with resources soon. There is enough material here for a investigative journalist to make a whole career and there will still be things not inside of the light.
It is all a hoax. But what is real? There is always part of hoax that is real. We don’t know to this day where the biological warfare started. Who dun’ it? But we are not sure yet who dun’ 9/11 – we cannot put our fingers on the guilty party.
What is not a hoax, is you and I and us and our response. Let’s not hoax that!
(As I say, shouting from the wilderness!).
I have mentioned this on previous cafes, but it bears repeating, that Peter Dale Scott — a guru, (gatekeeper perhaps, though we are all, in some sense, like it or not) — wrote in his book on 9/11 about what he called deep state signatures that can be applied to the analysis of events. The prime example of such a signature is the peregrinations of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Soviet Union, and his subsequent alleged visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. One of the upshots of all this is that any well planned event is by design well nigh impossible for even the well informed layman to tease apart. The Wuhan lab here is the same general pattern.
I should also mention that not long after that book came out, the term ‘deep state’ suddenly gained wider usage, appearing in of all places, The Rush Limbaugh Show . It is now part of mainstream right wingish discourse. Angelo Codevilla’s book may have something to do with this https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780825305580/page/n1/mode/2up
FWIW, I am personally comfortable with the notion that viruses are not the infectious agents we are lead to believe. I do not however insist on that point. It is possible that there are biological viruses that are modeled after computer viruses– such an entity would require elaborate steps across species, etc and would likely not exhibit exponential growth, being an unstable chimera, but rather show exponential decay (i.e. half life)
https://www.unz.com/gatzmon/corona-crisis-a-viral-episode-or-a-half-time-nightmare/
@Chimmy
Very much true regarding the ‘signature’ thing !
I just want to add a bit regarding the ‘Pandemic’, it’s not a hoax but a scam.
I think one relevant tool to dismantle it can be to strictly adhere to the disease terminology, taking off the stare onto something unseen. A disease is a real thing, someone becomes sick, period
With this at hand the focus changes, and very different questions are to be asked and answered.
– What are the symptoms of the disease ? A: respiratory inflmation, very unspecific and in line with the seasonal flu.
– How many died from the disease with given symptoms A: just like a slightly heavier every year flu-epidemic at average.
– How is the suspected agent, SarsCoV2 – a strain of Corona viruses – repsonsible in comparison to the others ?
A: Uknown, long time established early warning procedures in place recorded SarsCoV2 (starting early March to be tested for) as being an insignificant part of the yearly virus mix for flu-type disease (Influenza A,B, Corona-Viruses etc.) in Germany and Switzerland. What is known, is that of now (as expected in summer) SarsCoV2 is not showing up anymore in these early warning systems (Sentinel in Germany, and Sentinella in Switzerland).
Regarding the PCR-Test’s use as a medical diagnostic:
Prof. Capelle, one of the pioneers of the PCR-Test, emphasizes the extreme sensitivity of the test, one single protein-molecule per sample is enough, and very high dependence on very high quality Primer agent for stable selectivity. The test is to be used for scientific purposes only and of no use for medical diagnostics, because it identifies some specific junks of RNA which can originate from anywhere outside a laboratory controlled test setup, thus papayas and what else can test positive, because all kind of cellular debris can bond.
The PCR-Test can therefore only give a hint, if one searches for a specific virus in the open world, one looks in fact most likely at traces of something and NOT the virus itself ! Furthermore like the intelligent Chinese know, as soon the percentage of test positives nears the selectivity, one can decrease the number of tests, because the number of false positives just rises otherwise.
Exactly that however is not done in the West, instead the testing is expanded manifold, why ? One can only guess, but it’s certainly not much to do with medical/epidemiological reasons.
There are now groups of lawyers who are starting to prepare a fraud related class action against the RKI located in Germany who’s test was amongst the first to be distribuited all over the world. This could become verry, verrry expensive !!
Its even more simple than that HDan.
As a general rue of thumb we can always tell a false flag (or scam as you more accurately termed it) by:
1. theres a change to Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) – if it was truly an epidemic would the US, UK, Australia, Brazil & India have waited til mid-March to do anything about it?
2. no heads have rolled
3. the level of propaganda (ie the same lie endlessly repeated) and even the *way that lie is repeated. For instance on MSM news bulletins the data thats given primacy in reports is the no. of new cases – *not the ratio of recoveries to the no. of new cases – and *not the no. of deaths
as % of a country’s total population. IOW, the MSM is quite deliberately headlining the *largest no. for emotional effect
4. Lastly, the final way of knowing is that a vax is being presented to the general public as ‘TINA’ – which is what UK PM Margaret Thatcher used to use – to dismantle the UK economy – There Is No Alternative
For those who can recall, ll if the above factors were also present after the 9-11 false flag.
Regards
That last para should read:
For those who can recall, *all if the above factors were also present after the 9-11 false flag.
@TysonB
Very true indeed, which only adds more to the gravitas of the case. There are or soon will be a large number of governments becoming very afraid of being chased out of office by lawyers who confront them with gargantuan charges, and amongst them not being last, the economic damage related ones. They all hope for a miracle which will not materialize or at least not to the extent necessary.
I watched the Schiller-Institue sessions, it seems a civil war scenario is in the making in the US, several retired US-Generals call in public for a coup against Trump if he is still holds office January 2021. They can do that with impunity as it seems, which is a very, very disturbing fact.
What would be needed imho, were a string of huge demonstrations of those who oppose such a development throughout the Trump states – plattforms for networking and starting points for organizing effective resistance against such a scenario.
“I believe this confusion is deliberate and I do not see it in some other countries …”
Agreed. Kissinger called it “creative ambiguity”
Also recall what fmr CIA Director William Casey: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”
Other than that I’m not sure I understand what youre commenting on.
Are you saying that because : “We don’t know to this day where the biological warfare started. Who dun’ it? But we are not sure yet who dun’ 9/11 …” OR because there are differences of opinion, we shouldnt talk about it at all.
I’m sorry I’m just not getting what your reservations are.
I really thought that after your last comment in the last Cafe, that my post was a moot point, whereas I intended it as more grist to the mill, so to speak as it was yet another example (amongst many, Event 201 springs to mind) of the Elites agenda ***hiding in plain sight***
Maybe the problem is, with written text – as 93% of human communication is non-verbal – so many of our communications lose body language, tone, intonation – all those non-verbal cues.
Regards
Not important .. just support for the statement that the confusion is deliberate. We understand that, so, the rest of the support given is not important for your point. Something else is.
Take a look at Putin here, and let me know if you think he considers this a scam?
https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009061080382331-vladimir-putin-weighs-in-on-how-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-life/
So, what I put forward is simple. Every country is not the same, they did not deal with the Covid-19 outbreak the same and they are not considering it the same. So, to present this as a ‘worldwide’ scam is just not accurate.
We know for example that China considered this biological warfare – even an attack. And they handled it as such.
We know for example that Russia visited China very early on, to get real information and based much of the Russian actions on what China was doing already – given the large border.
We know for example that the US did not consider this important, and most of the western countries did not support their citizens after calling lockdowns. Russia and China and others did – very clear financial and business and social support. China even publicized every old person that they could rescue, saying they handled their oldies as if they were their own parents. The social values were diametrically opposite in most of the western countries.
That is my point – people calling scam worldwide and people calling ‘reset’ worldwide. It is not so if one looks at the history of this and include China’s actions. Most of the west do not include China’s actions. We need to look at this country by country, before we call it scam and study carefully how Russia and China and the axis of resistance is letting specifically the US who is close to economic crash, down easy, so that they do not cause an economic crash (or war) inadvertently. There is a very intricate ballet going on here. So, scam must be reserved for scam countries.
We also in the background have the process of multi-polar world happening. There is no longer any one globalist power – multi-polarity has broken this. This is visible in two ways, but let me not overburden that now.
For myself, in late January, I already told friends and family that they should prepare, as this thing will not stay in China, as it is to the benefit of certain countries to let it not stay in China. We don’t know who created this thing-ee (and I am of the opinion that it was created but I may be wrong). My opinion that it was created comes from a meeting between experts from Russia in China .. where Russia requested live virus and China declined, saying that if they should give live virus, they will be accused (under certain UN laws) of sharing biological weapons. So, it is clear that China considered this a biological weapon.
So, let us be accurate here. That is all.
Chimmy, just short responses. Yes, the issue of ‘is there a virus’ is in the work of Antoine Béchamp and terrain theory vs germ theory. Usually I am in Antoine Béchamp’s camp with terrain theory, but if this thing-ee was lab created, I simply do not know what is valid. If we can break natural processes in a lab, does terrain theory still stand?
And secondly, the writings of Peter Dale Scott and others are valid I would think. Yet, it presents a picture that everyone is helpless against some juggernaut. (For those not familiar with this work, just search on the name, there are many many articles). Bear in mind that again his work here revolves around the United States mainly. So, for me, one cannot expand that to the whole world. His one article says that there has been no US President that survived an attempt to deal with what has become known as ‘the deep state’. They get taken out. So, I look at this as ‘hidden government’ that finds a home for itself within the US. The CIA and others are clearly groups unto themselves, and none of that is open to anyone. The secrecy is jaw-dropping, and we have Pompeo and Pence at the right and left hand of Trump, and they are part of the secret governments in our world.
Sorry for the length, but this is not simple stuff.
He doesn’t need to consider whether it is a scam since he knows that it is.
He’s right in it up to his eyeballs along with all the other political representation of the Global elite as you can view in the MSM image here https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/28/world-leaders-wearing-face-masks-in-pictures-coronavirus
Cough cough BoJo or vaccniated daughter (I mean, who in their right mind would really do that) – no difference.
NONE.
Thanks amarynth for you detailed response.
Now I get it.
Regards
Amaranth,
I shall further ponder the ‘thingee’, but already will say this: we can agree, first and foremost, that there is a social construction of reality going on, I am talking of the messaging buoyed by the prestige of officialdom. There is likely an actual malady whose import is amplified (exaggerated?) by the messaging and from which we can infer a cause. Is this cause ‘viral'(mainstream view–trust) or is it perhaps environmental (alternative — distrust), a toxin, say metal nanoparticle. The messaging and the malady appear in tandem.
Bill Gates, Anthony Faucci, Donald Trump, Putin, The Economist are not God that I should open-heartedly accept their pronouncements. The strategy of distrust is not without its own set of problems — but can be safely applied to humans on the political level.
For your, (Amaranth’s) second point, The US is global, especially when equated with the military industrial complex and offshore multinational corporations. In an infamous document’s title Towards a New American Century, ‘American’ modifies ‘century’ think metastasis. as in the drug trade, we need to look at actors and networks.
apologies for not being the clearest thinker.
I think I get your thinking Chimmy .. (well, dear God, I hope so, and please forgive me if I don’t :-).
I’ll respond on the ‘global’ situation, probably not today. Actors, networks and also results. Let me put some thoughts in order and write something about that – the results of a great part of the world’s pushback against the hegemony.
In the meantime in Siberia.
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/giant-new-50-metre-deep-crater-opens-up-in-arctic-tundra/
Kent
Its both terrifying and somehow beautiful.
deep earth funnel
headlong abyss’
terror of the soul
for what will be
has fearful grip
on blind minds.
wake up see
Kent’s images far too frightening
for nice cafe visitors enlightening
surely had to be placed second
so’s not to get teeth chattering?
The Australian artist Michael Leunig, with cartoons for decades in the Sydney Herald and The Age. Political or otherwise, sometimes controversial, with many recurring themes, keeping going, a miracle..
https://www.leunig.com.au/images/recent-cartoons/covid-vaccine.jpg
the ocean, deep,
the sky, deeper,
your eyes, deepest
I look into your eyes to find your soul
As you look into mine
Ocean pouring into Ocean
Receiving Ocean.
when oceans meet;
the lover and beloved
becoming one!
Yes. !!
Leunig never fails, does he? An exquisite human being who knows suffering
and Joy
This morning I had a little touch of such a Leunig experience, in a corporate supermarket of all places.
An elderly woman, older and much sadder than I, at 1.5 m in front of me, was stumbling and bumbling with her payment. A bright-eyed, really cheery sweet check-out ‘chick’ saw my five articles waiting on the conveyor belt, and maintaining her sweet composure with the older lady, scanned my groceries, so that my transaction was completed as soon as the first lady stepped away.
I told the young lady how impressed I was with her agility and lovely manners towards both customers at the same time.
Such small acts of kindness make all the difference in a person’s day.
Thank You for keeping Leunig’s art of life active our Café
Yes, the indisputably Australian, but wonderfully universal Leunig… gave me a laugh as well, in fact I was going to comment, but didn’t make it and ended up with an unrelated haiku instead. Much Love, Babuška.
Mea Culpa
How easy it is
To talk the talk,
To take the floor
and rule the roost.
How so much harder
To walk the walk,
When foolish pride
Is introduced.
How easy it is
To forgive another,
To look for the right
In every wrong.
How hard it is
To forgive yourself,
When you know
You’ve been headstrong.
When Trouble Comes
When trouble comes
Between good friends,
It’s often a settling
Of old accounts.
If they choose
To make amends,
Old agreements
No longer count.
If they choose
To relive regrets,
It’s likely they’re heading
Toward divorce.
But if they decide
To forgive and forget,
New agreements
Come into force.
Gorgeous Lockdown performance by the brilliant Chris Thile + Punch Brothers;
“This Is The Song ( Good Luck )”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhNdXr5wey0
This is the song, where I listen.
This is the song where I sit still.
I called the dogs off all the things I’m missing,
And to everyone but you, before I set sail.
I said, good luck, good luck, good luck
These are tough times.
But we’ll get by,
Good luck…
Further to my 6 points (from a past Cafe) how the US is being pushed to Stage 3 Crisis – now Sanders is weighing in!
Its after the election non-result will the excrement really hit the oscillator!
Sanders: Trump will refuse to leave office if he loses reelection
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/05/633408/US-Sanders-Trump
Regards
Diana Johnstone introduces us to a new character, Nicolas Bergguen: https://www.unz.com/article/the-2020-election-bourgeois-democracy-meets-global-governance/
He owns 3000 apartments in Portland, OR: https://www.forbes.com/profile/nicolas-berggruen/ among other investments, fwiw might be prudent to look into
And he is an awesome enough person that though I had never heard of him before today, a Vicky Ward did a whole spread in Town and Country about him: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a5994/nicolas-berggreun-interview/
Vicky Ward, now where have I seen that name before? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 https://twitter.com/99freemind/status/1157398147989221383?lang=en
I was getting tired of Soros, anyways.
Good find chimmy
re: Berggruen
There’s your answer …
“Berggruen grew up in Paris, but he has German roots. His father, Heinz, was a Jewish art connoisseur in Berlin …”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904836104576556982258399652
REgards
In Ramin’s thread, it seems to me that tommy a…… is actually saying…..in response to Ramin’s implicit question:
“How do you guys (especially you Americans of “color”) get “there” Pleasantville, Paxopolis, “Social Societyville” (Ramin might dub it) from where you presently find yourselves????
…what the local cynic tells the out of town visitor asking for directions to the close by, happier town or neighborhood:
“Sorry, stranger, you CAN’T get there from here.”
If you see a Way Out of the Maze or Matrix……there’s no despair
And I see a Way Out, even if it is not an easy way.
So do the folks at the Schiller institute, who have been at this (many of them) for the past half century.
Sept 5-6 Schiller Conference: War Drive Towards Armageddon — Or a New Paradigm Among Sovereign Nations United by the Common Aims of Mankind?
Day 1 PANEL I (Yesterday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT)
Overcoming Geopolitics: Why a P-5 Summit Is Urgently Needed Now (what Putin called for early this year and the Institute has been repeating DAILY….ever since.
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2020/08/13/conference-war-drive-towards-armageddon-or-a-new-paradigm-among-sovereign-nations-united-by-the-common-aims-of-mankind/
For those that do not have 4 hours for such a task, I break it down into smaller bitesize portions:
1 Schiller, besides being dubbed “The Poet of Freedom” was a professor of Universal History at the University of Jena…..and moderator Dennis Speed asks…..Why we study the past…to find our way into the future…….with less tragic consequences…and presents video of. LaRouche doing exactly that in Labor Day Conference 20 years earlier, which might give you some idea WHY such speakers from around the world…………but particularly The Russian World …….accept the invitations to present their ideas:
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=238 about 11 minutes total
2. Helga’s Keynote Address
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=991
about 40 minutes……The most in depth, sweeping and non specific presentation of Panel 1 including the function of real art, poetry and culture in the necessary solution to the crisis.
3. Andrey Kortunov (Russia), Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=3348 about 16 minutes and this one is important……… because the first Question in the Q and A is from Helga to Andrey you’ll like it!
4. Dr. Edward Lozansky (U.S.), President, American University in Moscow; Professor, Moscow State and National Research Nuclear Universities
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=4291 about 16 minutes
I really enjoyed this one! Lozansky was born a Soviet Citizen…..emigrated to America in 1977……and due to Covid is unable to return from a cruise on the Volga River…….patiently waiting…..and speaking of statues of famous Americans……he assures us toward the end of his remarks that there are several on the campus in Moscow……….that are safe!
5. Martin Sieff (U.S.), Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, UPI; Senior Fellow, American University in Moscow
One Hundred Seconds Til Midnite
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=5304 Just 3.5 minutes PLUS 100 seconds…….HARD HITTING!
6. James Jatras (U.S.), Former advisor, US Senate Republican Leadership
Another American, but if you want American arrogance and stupidity and blindness ruthlessly pummeled both these Americans born here…..are far less diplomatic than the speakers born in the USSR.
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=5585 7-8 minutes.
7. Last but not least the first Question in Q of A;
https://youtu.be/np673ypliKM?t=6168 Andrey answers Helga. 6-7 minutes and in 3 minutes more, Jatras adds his very much more sobering and US-Establishment-Critical remarks…using words such as “insane”….with a quite a bit less hope than the Russian American professor, Dr. Edward Lozansky
Sometimes you need a red hot poker to get people to move……then think, hopefully. The native born Americans wield that poker the most,
Perhaps because of their greater alarm over how clueless their political class is of Russia’s capacities to defend its sovereignty. The Russians…and the Russian American seem considerably calmer. LOL
RE: Serbia moving its embassy to Jerusalem. Who wants to bet that Trump confused Belgrade with Bulgaria or worse, Serbia with Romania? Relax Vucic, there is one person in that room more clueless than you.
this is funny, though
https://www.rt.com/news/499984-serbia-embassy-move-facepalm/
The pinnacle of the humiliation of Serbia by the USA. Nobody is quite clear whether the treaty was an international one, and who are the parties. Vucic first lied Serbia signed a treaty with the USA, until Grenell stated USA didn’t sign anything, but Serbia and Kosovo signed a binding treaty with USA as a mediator.
The whole protocol of the meeting was a comedy, but a comedy designed to humiliate Vucic and Serbia (though Vucic seemed quite delighted), with him sitting in a chair opposite of Trump, then him and Kosovo PM seated at improvised desks attached to either side of Trump’s Oval Office desk. Even the pretense of treating sovereign country(s) like equals has dropped.
Serbia has also implicitly agreed not to use Chinese vendors to install 5G networks, to ‘diversify’ its gas supply, which I assume we all know what means, and to agree to become completely subservient to USA in the economic sphere.
Here’s the treaty in English http://www.nspm.rs/dokumenti/tekst-sporazuma-o-ekonomskoj-normalizaciji-odnosa-srbije-i-kosova.html
PS Serbia has also joined the EU declaration of not recognizing election results in Belarus, thereby directly betraying a country which had traditionally good relations with (Lukashenko visited Belgrade and spoke in the parliament barely a year ago).
PPS After Maria Zakharova eviscerated him on her profile https://www.facebook.com/maria.zakharova.167/posts/10224148174881794 Vucic has insulted both her and ‘those who appointed her’. His rhetoric now clearly has an anti-Russian tone.
Do you know if {a} the people of Serbia are aware of this so-called “treaty”, and {b} how they feel about it?. Do they approve of become another US vassal, and being anti-Russian???
As far as I’m aware, the majority of the Serbian population gets information from media which Vucic controls. He has control over all TV channels with national coverage, and control over printed media, especially tabloids, which he uses for disseminating propaganda 24/7. The only media he doesn’t control are Western owned TV channels and a couple of pro-Western printed media. Vucic and the pro-Western media establishment agree on the key issues Serbia is facing: Kosovo, EU, Russia. However, Vucic is playing both the pro-Western, pro-NATO (a small but very influential group that dominates the cultural scene, in particular, the NGO sector, they even penetrated the institutions) and more national oriented people against each other and keeps them believing he works for them. I believe there are sincerely patriotic people who support the regime, mostly because they lack knowledge of what Vucic is doing and who put him in power. Sadly, a great majority stopped caring for anything else other than survival and materialistic values, indeed, the culture of materialism and selfishness has corrupted Serbian society, especially after three decades of the collapse of society, all morals and values have been eroded.
Without a doubt, the majority of Serbs are against being the US puppet and even more against adopting anti-Russian policies, but alas, the regime propaganda has had its effect, most of them get to hear Putin and Vucic are ‘brothers’ and that we got weapons from Russia. Many are also afraid of a confrontation with the West, having experienced years of sanctions and poverty which culminated in the bombing of 1999 and subsequent ruinous privatization.
To try and sum it up, my opinion is that the total media control, systematic regime propaganda, and general apathy all contributed to the present situation. Moreover, Serbia lacks any organized national oriented opposition party which would exert pressure on the regime if it betrayed national interests. Ironically, that was once the Radical Party, of which Vucic was a member, but it was successfully broken up and Vucic was won over by the joint effort of the US embassy, Western intelligence, and then ruling Tadic regime who created the now ruling SNS.
As an example, Montenegro had been one of the most pro-Russian countries in the world, much more so than Serbia itself, historically. In a matter of just a few years, Djukanovic has dragged it into NATO, and almost destroyed its Serbian identity by repression and years of social engineering. I don’t want to sound pessimistic, but if it worked in Montenegro, once the cradle of Serbian statehood, it could just as well work in Serbia itself.
Thank you for that – awful news though it is. The growth of materialism, corruption and selfishness has the American footprint all over it. One has only to look at every single one of the nations America has destroyed to find this happening. It’s a cancer, slowly eating it’s way through the world, and I see little to stop it unless it is itself destroyed; like a cancer, again.
I’m sorry for you, and your people, that the Eater of Nations managed to lay it’s grey slime all over you. Perhaps one day, things will turn.
After all, nothing last forever; only love.
Incidentally, your name is the second Serbian name I have come across similar to Welsh names. The other was identical in fact, his surname was Tudor; and yours – Mairon, is similar to Mairwen { Mair is = Mary, and wen = fair}.
Do you have a meaning for your name?
Actually, the name is just a nick I chose randomly. The real name is Marko, much more common here in Serbia, although Latin in origin.
Disturbing article by Whitney Webb on group planning for the chaos of the so-called nov election; lists characters with obvious links to obumer/biden as well as anti-trump groups. Decidedly anti-trump in orientation and openly planning for challenge to election results and planning for the installation of biden.
Some surprise at key participation of Larry wilkerson, former chief of staff to powell; of course, powell publicly anti-trump. Wilkerson has been in the past somewhat of a voice of reason.
I’ve said it many times that what ever one’s view of trump, with his thugs in state dept, his lies, exaggerations, his cronyism, his grifter jared kushner of arabia, his utter souless and heartless sanctions, his goveling on knees to israel, this group is very disturbing because it promises complete and utter chaos and violence. And then we are left with obumer II admin with harpies rice, powell, control by soros, with biden who needs to be sent back to the basement with a large supply of coloring books.
And of course, the oligarchs figure prominently with big foot money to capitalize on the chaos.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/09/investigative-reports/bipartisan-washington-insiders-reveal-their-plan-for-chaos-if-trump-wins-the-election/
Not to preach to the choir cafe, but the Vee-shaped economic rebound (V) is certainly a scam. I’ve heard there will be an Ell-shaped rebound (L), where the economy just simply tanks, and stays this way. I’ve also heard, and this is more convincing, that the rebound will be a resounding Eff-shape (F), the central economy bottoms out while the cream of the crop float on top, the smaller arm is supposedly the servants who get to lick the crumbs.
Solzhenitsyn made an expose of the thieves cult in the Russian camps, their chief symbol was of course the slingshot, or the Vee, or the peacenik sign as we Westerners tend to know it. For a lark the thieves aim the spread Vee-shaped fingers at the eyes of the Freyers, the suckers, and attempt to blind them. Although I can’t sympathize with the thieves completely, here is an effort to do so:
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4955222
I can’t quite believe the calculated contempt shown to Vucic. Even satraps are usually shown a modicum of respect. Trump sits behind the big desk and Vucic has to sit in a little chair and face him – like a supplicant. Then he’s given a little desk – like the kiddies table at parties. Worst of all, he doesn’t seem to have been told what he’s signing !
This reminds me of the old BBC comedy Reggie Perrin. Reggie used to go in to see his boss who sat behind a big desk and always bullied him. It’s very funny and it fits perfectly here.
https://youtu.be/6wjuXMwGnxc
Is he getting anything in return for his abasement ? Will there be any reaction in Serbia ? Mairon thinks probably not.
“Again, I think if we think it through, it is the biggest opportunity for mankind that has been offered to us. What will we do with it?”
amarynth, you speak my mind, I ad: ‘ … since 500 years’. All my musings to the super- rare Jupiter/Pluto/Saturn meeting in Capricorn = state level, since last December arrive at what you
are saying.
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/search?q=capricorn+2020
devil’s demons always work with the darkness in man, but nature of facts is stronger I believe,
otherwise, the devil would long since have consumed the world.
For anyone interested in a really, really big context of our current situation, which includes some insights into the biblical prophecies of the Apocalypse and an alternative narrative to the past and future of human evolution, this will be of interest.
k
“The Good Race and the Evil Race” A reading of a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner from a cycle of lectures on the “The Apocalypse of St. John”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6t_DE3jrM4&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2CVOlbXYyFZS_Kq60jcVQXe7kdDS9T2JhLydH7Nlvqcr3NmzPChUFPVTY
Thanks kinterra for your post. I’ve never been drawn to Steiner – but this is superb!
Rereading Revelations has been on mind to understand current events because I’m sure most people would agree – that we’re building up to a climax of some description
Speaking of prophesy I loved: “At a certain stage of initiation, the initiate sees in the spiritual world what descends later and becomes a physical event.”
But the quote below at the end (the whole narration is worth listening to) – and by the way, Atlantis did exist and the US is considered (allow me just to use that word) to be the new Atlantis, see Edgar Cayce, known as America’s sleeping prophet on this.
Talking about Tolstoy to make a general point:
[quote] “All that [Tolstoy] brings forward in foolish judgement show that great personalities have the faults of their virtues and that great cleverness has the folly of its wisdom.
This is only mentioned as a symptom of the future age, when the spirituality of the East will unite with the intellectuality of the West. From this union will proceed the age of Philadelphia [brotherly love]. All those will participate in this marriage will take into themselves the impulse of Christ Jesus – and they will form the great brotherhood which will survive the great war [the war of all against all] which will experience enmity and persecution but will provide the foundation for the good race.
After this great war has brought out the animal nature in those who have remained in the old forms, the good race will arise. And this race will carry over into the future what is to be the spiritually elevated culture of that future epoch.
We shall also have the experience that in our epoch between the great Atlantean flood and the great war of all against all – in the age represented by the community of Philadelphia, a colony is formed. The members of which will not migrate but will be everywhere. So that everywhere there will be some who will be working in the sense of the community of Philadelphia. In the sense of the binding together of mankind. In the sense of the Christian principle.” [end quote]
This gives us all hope – and remember that hope springs eternal!
Thankyou again
Regards
I also enjoyed kinterra’s link but enjoyed you reply too, Tyson B !! My heart feels better when I see such people coming in the cafe.
I’m glad a few here resonated with the Steiner lecture. As I survey the current state of affairs and the extent that evil has become so prevalent, I find little that gives me hope for the future. When I realise how much prophesy and former knowledge there is that a time like ours would arise, my faith is rekindled. It seems that our evolving (or devolving) humanity must confront evil straight on in this very time we live. have read a bit more from Steiner about the purpose of evil and the permission the Creator has given for evil to work for a certain season. As I wade through the current events and am forced to reckon with the unthinkable (purposeful destruction of nature through weather modification, pedophilia etc), I do find myself growing in soul magnitude in my alignment with a higher force of good. I feel things changing and shifting in me in subtle ways that are hard to describe. Perhaps intimations of the Holy Spirit..
I will post something further from Steiner in this regard as text as I don’t have another audio.
Love and Blessings dear friends.
k
“and the permission the Creator has given for evil to work for a certain season”
So, without the Creator evil could never have existed.
Is it the permission given, by the Creator, for evil to work for a season or the withdrawal, after this season, for evil to work that gives you hope?
or something else?
What gives me hope is the realization that there is another dimension to what we are living through. And yes according to legend and prophecy, there is a limited time for this condition to exist. I will post some further indications by RS to give more clarity,
k
“I will post some further indications by RS to give more clarity”
I hope that indication includes some hint of why the character of a Creator which permits evil to work for a certain season can ever be perceived by any right minded of the created as being perfect.
For anyone feeling the grief of our broken world, a beautiful meditation
https://youtu.be/j71kOClB4DA
In the garden of my heart
the flowers of peace
bloom beautifully
from the invisible
to the visible and back again,
their lingering scent…
Fields of Freesias
Fields of Memories
Countless thousands of dispossessed lives
Have trod these Fields
Where the dust of my bones
Will find their final resting place
Bless You dear Dimitar
The header is a very strange, dream-like image… does anyone else see a rooster inside the coffee-joint?
well, the rooster has gone
and flown the coop,
he’s been seen down
by the ol’ pit-stop.
three men outside,
a glum-looking troop,
enjoying a break from
the old “skip-hop”…
So… now for something completely different. A 28-minute short film. Highly recommended. Enjoy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMqT8QbvaM&feature=emb_rel_end
Good movie. Many layers of story. Thanks for the recommendation.
Good one….
The Julian Assange case has started. About 40 media, including Wikileaks itself has been uninvited to attend remotely as the trial started. This is a wide list of journalists and I know of Wikileaks and of a Norwegian media and of Activism Munich and Amnesty International and it looks like Consortium news as well. So clearly, media is being throttled as these people had received prior approval to attend remotely only to have it withdrawn today.
Assange has been re-arrested on a new bunch of charges and the old ones were withdrawn. Apparently as far as I can make out, this happened this morning and Assange has not even seen the new charges.
Kevin Gosztola is reporting and will give an end of day written and video report. Here is his twitter – take a look through the threads: https://twitter.com/kgosztola
The Courage Foundation seems to be in and reporting as well: https://twitter.com/couragefound
The #assange on Twitter also seems to have continuous information: https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assange?src=hashtag_click
Craig Murray will be reporting from the trial, he had a place as one of Assange’s friends and family, but turned up early in the morning to secure one of only 9 places allowed in the public gallery.
( Murray himself is suffering persecution for doing journalism. He is fighting a contempt of court case which may see him jailed. All of his defence witnesses and applications for documents to use in his defence are being denied. He is then forced to attend repeated procedural hearings and has now used up most of his fighting fund before the court case has even started. )
I eagerly await his reports from the Assange case. His previous reports on Assange’s court appearances were a masterclass in journalism. These reports and accounts of his own travails can be found on his site :
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
I hope some of us are able to contribute something for his defence.
To quote Craig Murray :
“It is constantly asked by Julian’s supporters why the media do not see the assault on a publisher and journalist as a threat to themselves. The answer is that the state and corporate media are confident in their firm alliance with the powers that be. They have no intention of challenging the status quo; their protection from those kicking Assange lies in joining in with the kicking…
That is how it is, the bread and butter reality of writers and journalists in the mainstream, and the tributaries thereof, of which we are familiar enough by now…
That is good … really good, but Assange’s lawyers have just asked for more time to prepare for the new case, as Assange has had no opportunity to study the new case, there are still papers referred to that are missing and not included. Let’s see. They say they did not want to do this as Assange will bear the brunt and stay in jail, but they are forced to, because Assange was re-arrested under a new case only this morning.
I’m following Kevin Gosztola tweet stream. There is another thing happening, but alas I have no no more time. Perhaps later.
Like what is happening with Flynn, the powers that want us not-to-be are issuing death by judicial proceedings i.e. long, expensive, drawn out judicial action over years if need be. The right to a speedy trial was “disappeared” long ago right along with the trial by a jury of your peers.
Kevin Gosztola’s video report after the first day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=oNiMql8gicU&feature=emb_logo
Good morning, at least I hope it is. I am writing from St. Petersburg FL. (9/7/2020 7:00am
I do not post very often… but since I have been reading the Unz review I have seen there are many different points of view, and some very good analysis of current events.
So, having had a shot or 2 I would like to give you my opinion of current events.
1. We are screwed.
There is no way to git around that point. Unless you have a large amount of money.
So, what do I mean by being screwed?
Your financial situation is only going to get worse. Your Rent (which takes up HALF of my monthly income!) is going to go up.
Your grocery bill is going to go up… Which I assume you have already seen.
How about your security, by that I mean physical safety. That depends you where you live. I have not seen any of that rioting BS in St. Pete. other than the expanding homeless population. I have not seen to much soceiatal breakdown.
But the worry is there. I am lucky to have a job. And if i did lose my job I have a family that could help out…. How many other people are that lucky?…
So if you have an entire population on the ropes and it is purposely being pushed to fragmentation rather then working together for the common good. What do you think is going to be the outcome? And who does that outcome benefit?
This whole Covid19 BS depresses me. I mean polls show 65% of the people want masks to be mandatory??!!
You do understand what that means.. If i can be arrested for not wearing a mask or Standing To Close to Someone, I can be imprisioned for anything.
You can do some research… Type in Countires by population and then type in covid19 deaths.. Put the population chart on the right the C19 deaths on the left.. If you have any basic understanding of math.. you can see.
OK good to talk about this on one of the most respectful websites I know of… If you disagree then please post some counter arguments.. Thanks!
The US has entered a LONG EMERGENCY – with various domestic disasters to ensue. Even if CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION ID finally and officially went away, hotheads decide to stay home, Republicans and Democrats turn civil and debate something called the common good, there is still the DEBT and a damaged economy. I mean the Boeing planes, car sales, real estate and “funny money” on Wall street. I don’t know if I would use the term screwed but then again, your terminology.
MM66 and Arshan, IMHO….. it is Global not merely “US”.
“It” being the current crisis of civilization.
We all might be screwed, ultimately………… either by ourselves……in a self or anthropomorphic “screwing”…..OR by an Even Bigger “BANG” …..namely something outside of ourselves….like for example, a giant asteroid or comet sufficiently large….. to put an end to virtually ALL life on earth.
And I’ll come back to that one later. Because they are related.
Everything is related. But those two seeming opposite sources of Ultimate Screw Up…..are powerfully “mated”.
Yesterday I referenced Panel 1 of the Conference ….CONFERENCE: War Drive Towards ARMAGEDDON — OR A New Paradigm Among Sovereign Nations United By The Common Aims Of Mankind?
/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-09-06/#comment-849396
I am not going to break down the Second Panel in as much detail………but use it in my answer to the Evitability or Inevitability of the Big Screwing Sooner……OR Later???
And of course most people are not that concerned if the Earth Life Crushing Comet …or Asteroid or even Human Caused Cluster F………….comes some centuries after they personally end their mortal experience here.
But look how there ARE some people that DO concern themselves with such things…….and DARE to hope and to work towards not only your personal survival and well being……but towards Species Survival….and even “Immortality”.
Because they too, are related:
The second panel two days ago was entitled…… “The Role of Science in Creating Mankind’s Future”
Now there are some that will even accuse science ….and Humanity of Destroying…NOT Saving not only “Mankind’s Future” but the future of conscious life on planet earth. IMHO their pessimism is more cause of the malady or unfortunate reaction to it….than it is ANY sort of solution by any stretch of the imagination.
Here’s the Link to the whole 3 hour panel: https://youtu.be/Ypi6aVv0Wjk
But unlike with the first panel, I will just cue up 2-3 parts of this one to make my point in answer to what MM66 and Arshan raise, although what every single speaker says is well worth paying close attention to.
ONE in particular….a Frenchman Dr. Bernard Bigot (France), Director-General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), former director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)………….brought up some things that struck me profoundly. Here is where his presentation starts:
https://youtu.be/Ypi6aVv0Wjk?t=1360
AND there IS a Russian Space Scientist…..Dr. Sergey Pulinets (Russia), Principal Research Scientist, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences whose presentation starts right here:
https://youtu.be/Ypi6aVv0Wjk?t=3586
Now ITER…..despite the abundant moral and other character flaws of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev….is one thing they set in motion….
.A Cooperative International Research Effort into human mastery of CONTROLLED Fusion (as opposed to “The Biggest Bomb”…or BANG…..highly uncontrolled after a mere nano-second of “controlled” detonation)
….. that has maintained rational, peaceful scientific collaboration among its 7 major nations (the USA, RUSSIA, France, UK, China, India….one more…Germany???) and opportunity for every other nation to participate in other (non-funding, non building of the components….and their assembly…which has finally begun….only months ago, if I understand correctly ….) aspects of ITER…..even while dangerous and psychotic “Color” Revolutions, Regime Change, Wars, Russia! Russia! Russia! Empire Insanity and other psychosis was understandably claiming the vast majority of our worried attention.
For brevity’s sake, ONE physical predicate aspect of ITER that impressed (there are many more!)???
A twenty or thirty meter tall central solenoid in the reactor that has the designed and engineered magnetic power to “lift an aircraft carrier” out of the water!
Without such magnetic power “confining” the extreme temperatures of the “miniature sun” (plasma) within the reactor …..and preventing that heat touching the outer portions……even the briefest highest burst of the plasma would melt the whole shebang.
WHY BOTHER?? Patience! I’m getting to the end …..soon.
Just one more video start time will I reference here, before that….the extraordinary “brain-storming” that ensued in the Q and A section of this panel:
https://youtu.be/Ypi6aVv0Wjk?t=5851
And here reference a common theme….of the current crisis…globally which is…The “LOST” Generation (yet again! This is not the first time….lol…more like the umpteenth!) of Youth……who are already part of the Clueless Population…with such “absurd ideas about science” (as the South African and last presenter……Dr. Kelvin Kemm (South Africa), CEO, Stratek Business Strategy Consultants, former board chairman, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation…..puts it several times………..by the time they are teenagers!
And again, the Apparently Happiest of these Scientists….the French Director of ITER puts the general consensus conclusion of the need for dialogue with the youth in the most inspiring way, for me, at least:
From ANYWHERE in the world that can communicate with him in either French or English, Bernard says that he reserves 15 minutes of one on one dialogue with a youngster, by ZOOM or Skype or Discord ….every single week!
But, to conclude, Why Bother???
Here’s why:
Xi has proposed that any country, anywhere can join in OBOR, BRI and benefit it’s population in Win-Win-Win fashion. Much of Eurasia is on board…..and much of The Empire is NOT!
Personally I think that can change very soon…if there is a second Trump term free of Deep State Coups and Plots to return to Endless Wars and the rest of the Pedophile Psychopath Program.
But even if you violently disagree and are committed to the idea that such cooperation from any American president is axiomatically, eternally impossible…..and you will do your damndest to fulifill that “prophecy” and oppose even the thought of the possibility of Great Power Cooperation until your dying breath
(Why??? WHY????…..and ask yourself why, and WHO that pessimism serves!)………..
..and forget the US for the moment…..and let’s go back to that Hypothetically Inevitable (eventually) Huge Asteroid Hitting the Earth.
There was something else proposed for international cooperation ………..by a different Great Power ….namely RUSSIA………a decade or maybe two decades ago….and the author of that proposal IS Dmitri Rogozin.
And it is called Strategic Defense of The Earth…………or SDE…..in contrast to the SDI.
Besides the optics, the sensory apparatus for early, extremely remote detection of that statistically inevitable asteroid FAR too large to be a meteorite that burns up in the atmosphere…or merely explodes such as that of Tonguska fame over a century ago ….or more recently Chelyabinsk……(if you are Russian, you are probably less inclined to want to ignore TWO “Signs from Heaven”……lol)….. what is the OTHER requirement to defend all life on earth from such a Space Rock Too Large To Survive Impact With???
The panelists all agree that it is mastery of controlled thermonuclear fusion. For long range space travel/interception and operability after interception.Because uncontrolled fusion…..blowing the thing up…disintegrating it close to the earth only makes it an extremely dicey (no time! last-minute-itis is NOT a good idea!) shotgun blast instead of an elephant gun shell…..or something out of the 16 inch guns of the USS Missouri…metaphorically.
Assured success in deflecting the Killer Rock comes from:
1. The Earliest Possible Detection of it and Calculation of its Trajectory.
AND….if too close to risk,
2.The earliest possible interception NOT by H-bomb….but by Fusion Propulsion Rocket/Robot…that plants its nose on the Doom’s Day Rock…and gently pushes it out of such a dangerous trajectory…..very much farther
away for the earth.
Do you oppose the development of that sort of human capacity as officially proposed by Russia/Rogozin and ignored by Obomber and his Psycho Sponsors especially in LONDON….whose Tavistock Institute expressed virulent…indeed,…… subsequently violent…….. objection to JFK’s Apollo Moon Mission for the dreaded Optimism Among the American Youth…and indeed all humanity????.
And do you recall the POISON, that they delivered just about immediately after their junior partners in Imperial Crime here blew the back of Jack’s head off…with their Not So Occult “British Invasion”???
There are second chances.
Just not an infinite number of them.
Cheers!
Mark wrote:
“…your security, by that I mean physical safety. That depends you where you live. I have not seen any of that rioting…”
Since we have entered covid times, I see not just homeless, but obviously mental patients, and meth/crackheads all over my city, and there is increased crime and a minimal police presence.
Things are already quite insecure, and presumably will only get worse, even in places without rioting.
double down with the Russia, Russia, Russia theme:
https://www.rt.com/russia/500016-nato-imitate-missile-stikes-russia/
https://www.infowars.com/video-kamala-says-russians-may-interfere-to-re-elect-trump-pelosi-says-trump-is-putins-accomplice/
Yes, they are that stupid and more.
o.k. we’ve grooved into these times
and we won’t find back
blue eyed leisure
and our fathers long
since cleared the deck
and the kids are not right
quite in pleasure
but the seasons like billions of years now get by
and the modes and the seasons do witter
and the blind man again prone to blind
rage again will find his calm beyond litter
like billion years away
This is not a poem. I still say that everything is as I said before, this year in February. There are powers you may never thought to exist, or at least not as part of your reality, maybe part of some stories having the scope of scaring people weak in mind because of their religious beliefs or whatever they think good enough to share, together with their lamentations and so-called negative thoughts, just for the sake of saying something which fits to the daily reality on the socio-political stage.
Just look what happened since february this year, the world has entered in a new fase, a change has already been occured. The more you open your eyes, the more you can discover, nothing is stopping, everything is changing as if there is a constant urge. Big change happened also in my life, I got maybe an incurable illness, probably as a big thank to my previous term with my mother (sic). Somebody took in His/Her mind that some people have to be beaten to death. Prayers ? what prayers ?… after each, I fell deeper. Whom to ask, there’s no one who would take the task…
It seems, I put my finger on someone’s wound…back in February, many people have read it and that cannot be forgiven… Who said that? surely not Jesus, who did the opposite and preached the opposite, that of Forgiveness !
Even Jesus has fallen, being betrayed ! and that treason still persists until today ! They, those merciless entities never had in their mind to give up, therefore the War is continuing.
What you relentlessly observe and keep attention on in your daily life, are the politicians who, as pawns in the circus, are acting as if they are on their own will there, in the arena. They have been and continue to be tools of execution installed in different structures of the always actual power. The are the tools of those mysterious entities who in fact, are reigning, your life, my life.
The suffering is not the same, as we, as individuals we’re not the same. But only they, those entities have a clear view on each of us, knowing very well, who is who…which soul-spirit lives in that given body.
Usual people are superficial, they forget essential things very fast but remember the unimportant ones, surfing through life enjoying the dream. The wake up will not be easy.
ioan, are you talking about this piece?
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Yes amarynth, one day I would like to expand that (if my health permits), because it is fascinating even though it looks scary.
It would be good to see you expanding on that ioan, and if you feel better I would participate. But I am so worried that we will take focus away from your health process, that I am hesitant to get into serious discussion. But then again, you are probably gasping for discussion – so, I just feel torn and don’t know what the right thing is to do. Anyway, I am really glad to see you here, with a little energy to say a few things, really really glad.
And, if you have time to think, put this one in your pipe for a bit of smoking :-)
As long as there is work to be done, there will be mysteries to fear.
Peace, Love and Rock ‘n Roll!
Humanity was at a spiritual crossroads at the cusp of the early 1990’s… if you recall this was when the Berlin Wall came down, among other events. The human race at that time had a choice of whether to take a spiritual step,
collectively. The decision facing us, was; are we ready and willing to take responsibility for our actions? The decision turned out to be ‘no’. This means many cycles of experience until the opportunity presents itself again.
On an individual basis, it takes many thousands of lifetimes before the individual is ready to accept self-responsibility for his actions, as opposed to blaming others when the shit hits the fan. With the race as a whole, probably much longer.
The entities you mention are mostly from the lower Astral Plane, and actively entered human affairs ‘en masse’ around the time when the Van Allen Belt ( protective aura around Earth ) was punctured through nuclear tests. Since July 1945 some 2,056 nuclear explosions have occurred and we are more vulnerable than ever. The individual’s responsibilty is to find a steady way to bring the spiritual forces into this world, and to that end there are few better ways than repetition or singing/chanting of spiritually charged words such as HU, ( pronounced as hue ). Humanity’s great problem is that it teeters between the desire for God, and material ease/comforts, ie; a heaven on earth in whatever way, shape or form, be it power, money, drugs, etc.
All is not lost, however, and we needn’t despair. There are orders of beings looking over human welfare, mostly unknown, charged with special tasks and duties, so we’re not alone. Perhaps the most difficult thing for us to understand that to be effective we need to move beyond the belief of good and evil as mutually exclusive forces. By this, I mean, there’s a state of consciousness beyond appearances where the individual needs to be neutral in order for the Divine Power to reach through him/her. It doesn’t mean not having opinions, but it does mean not being the effect of them, ie; that the tail isnt wagging the dog, that we become master of our little ship.
Interesting your thoughts about the state of neutrality in our consciousness, that also can be expanded. The difficulty in explaining such things, are in the nature of our expression cause our writing is linear and the stuff itself is multidimensional therefore the muses have to be very close and concentrated, to help finding the most appropriate words without loosing the essence. You’re very intelligent and talented, glad to have you here !
“our writing is linear and the stuff itself is multidimensional therefore the muses have to be very close and concentrated, to help finding the most appropriate words without loosing the essence.”
Because of this multidimensionality i appreciate our fathers zodiac above anything.
Thank you for your goodwill and friendship, dear friend.
“maybe part of some stories having the scope of scaring people weak in mind because of their religious beliefs or whatever they think good enough to share, together with their lamentations and so-called negative thoughts ‘
people interpret words and their meanings far too often via their deeply rooted prejudices, sometimes we all need to make a jump over these, sometimes not, but every moment of life is a test for truth. a super-charged truth testing : we are surrounded by lies.
it’s fine to talk about spiritual things à la google-speak language, that is, digitally accepted and specific ways of using cultural-creative terms for immediate, appealing effects, but to do so from the depths of the heart and mind is very different. that difference is important to get, to fathom.
ultimately the way forward may have to be paved by respect for another, as deep respect is love transcending all, and allows for the benefit of doubt.
Dear ioan
Here is a beautiful human being in profound discussion with children – teaching a universal lesson
https://youtu.be/WTF9xgqLIvI
This monk has known suffering at many levels, through the decades in his own country Vietnam; in his nineties, he continues to live and breathe peace there, after suffering a stroke.
He is the founder of Plum Village in the south of France
Today there are numerous Plum Villages in the world, “cultivating the garden of peace and healing”
God bless you amarynth for the work you do for peace and healing in The Vineyard.
We are One
Thank you Babuška for your generosity, both in words and feelings and also thank you for the link !
Thanks and blessings to you Babuška.
I know of a similar outreach and there are more. It is probably those spots of sanity, those spots of learning love that will pull us toward a greater human consciousness. I think we are close, but revolution itself has its drawbacks. One never knows if what you revolt for, does not end in a worse situation. We gotto think, and pray and live.
“One never knows if what you revolt for, does not end in a worse situation. We gotto think, and pray and live.”
amarynth, but true revolution confers just that right on the human spirit, to sense divine justice, how joyous is that, and to continue to live, think, and pray, and together arrive at the goal we seek !
amarynth and anon
Precisely the function of Faith… of the hope that is unseen … act with pure heart anyway
That sensing of divine justice .. it sounds heavenly eh. But you know, I’m not sure if I can do that – above my paygrade :-) How would I know for sure, 100% that what I sense is divinely inspired? Is the Christian view not that Justice belongs to the Lord? OK, we can flow with what is right in our lives, but I don’t know if I can ‘know’! Faith yes – belief against belief – and then, a whole bunch of grace.
That’s fine, and very good to be honest, why should you be able to do or feel that, you are an adult and know your own mind !
Just appreciate the fact that other’s (millions) have different experiences, and leave them free to make their own determining decisions, their own discriminatory thought’s and actions based upon these.
Any willful curtailment of these has a malign influence on the individual.
“(Sputnik V) vaccine uses a unique two-vector human adenovirus technology which no-one else in the world currently has for COVID-19. Vectors are engineered viruses, unable to reproduce”
“We believe it is important to make people aware of the risks involved in approval of novel, untested solutions such as mRNA or monkey adenovirus vector-based platforms. We appreciate the planned “pledge of safety” by pharmaceutical companies to be announced shortly but hope that it pledges not only to ensure short term results but also pledges commitment to ensure that there are no increased long term risks of cancer and infertility due to their vaccines”
“increased long term risks of cancer and infertility due to their vaccines”
At the risk of confirmation bias, I am wondering if that last line is a thinly veiled jab at the Gates’ population reduction vaccines?
https://www.rt.com/russia/500087-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-questions/
Dear Pamela
This being a public forum, you need not apologise for tardiness in replying. In our respective stages of life, there are numerous calls on our time, energy resources etc and the quality of your contributions here at the Vineyard are more than enough, in consolation and solidarity during these tough times.
All your words and experiences resonate deeply within me; I could write and write and write, as Forrest Gump ran and ran and ran, until…
I glean from your words here that there is no looking back for you. That small place on the NSW/Victoria border …I can well imagine.
I’ve recently bought a plaque for the commemoration wall at Bonegilla. I nearly drowned in the Hume Weir as a new immigrant 7 year old. When in recent discussion with staff there, I was told that many people did drown there.
It was not just for me, then, hell on earth.
Discussing with a friend my early experiences in Australia, she said it reminded her of the book, The Sound of One Hand Clapping.
Off I went (some years ago now) in search of this book: haunting it is, and soooo true for sooooo many.
So here I still am: family bonds, especially the grandchildren.
Sunday was an especially precious day, being Father’s Day in Australia. I was totally thrilled and surprised to be invited on a one-day expedition to O’Reillys on the Lamington Plateau. My granddaughter and her Daddy are planning a hiking/camping expedition during school holidays and were doing a recce (my son being raised an Army beat) Sunday.
So the child and I planned and prepared a picnic. It was one of those heavenly days we three will always cherish as we also did a 6 km hike -she carrying her full backpack – amongst magnificent and ancient rainforest trees, rocks and wildlife, shrouded in cool, moist mists.
For one day, we forgot about ‘the world down there’. The O’Reilly family story itself is full of heroism, courage and perseverance.
I read a few Cafés ago that you have just done a house move. These are always stressful, more-so when alone, even if you do have less stuff than families/couples. I hope you have settled in comfortably and have good-quality people around you.
Thank You for your sustained contributions here- always interesting and educational.
Until next time dear friend, stay well
That Schiller Armageddon (and How NOT to “go there” ) Conference ended yesterday….but lacking the stamina to keep up in real time……9+ hours per day…….I am still catching up.
One last one from the Russian World:
Dr. Natalia Vitrenko (Ukraine), Doctor of Economics, Chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, II and III convocations of the Supreme Rada (1995-2002)
https://youtu.be/XaztvOo-as4?t=1721 In only 13 minutes or so………….
……..much detailed description of EU and US Neocon meddling in Byelorus……comparison with Ukraine….and added accurate observation of the same attempted “color revolution” tactics within the US itself…….right now.
Natalia’s presentation is the second within Panel III The Belt and Road Initiative Becomes the World Land-Bridge: FDR’s Unfinished Business
The curious American attitude toward government is perplexing Ramin over in his new article “Bipartisan effort to oust the outsider Trump makes 2nd US stimulus unlikely” and I have a feeling the presentation just before Natalia’s by Dennis Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American Editor (for nearly 40 years…if my memory serves…..) may resolve both his pessimism…..and that of the inbred stubborness of “Muricans” ….’bout the “Gobnent” and not self-governing all that well……as appropriately relevant as anything else at this moment could.
The KEY being FDR .…(arousing the most passionate pro and anit “gobnent” reactions imaginable within Americans of my parent’s “Greatest”.?? Generation……in a way that most probably has nearly everyone…American or not…………..either ideologically agitated or mildly baffled……confused:
“How could Franklin Roosevelt….POSSIBLY……have anything whatsoever to do with The Belt and Road Initiative??”
I have a rough idea (having peeked at the ending ….in order to cue up the beginning of Vitrenko’s presentation)…but now it is time to digest all of the presentation before hers……to see how relevant (probably a lot!) Dennis Small’s remarks are to what Ramin wrestles with in his article…..new today.
Who ever wins, “it’s going to blow”. However, Whitney Webbs’s analysis is inline with my conclusion. Trump is now an obstacle to the globalists 2030 agenda- “The Great Reset/4th Industrial Revolution/New Word Order”. A vote for him is not a vote for him personally as much as it it a vote against the implementation of their plan. This is perhaps the most important election ever and perhaps the only one that ever truly matters within this context. Right now the riots/looting/burning is politically motivated and driven by liberal media and democratic politicians. They are carried out by white leftist millennials and disenfranchised blacks throughout urban centers all over the country. If Trump wins, they will inflame the “black lives matters/Antifa” to “raise the bar” with more violence and mayhem only this time spanning towards predominantly white suburban neighborhoods. They will decrease government handouts such unemployment benefits and other subsides as a means to accomplish their goal. In other words, the “spark that ignites the flame” will transition from political to economic in nature. The white faction is irrelevant because, as Fred Reed eloquently described, are Snowflakes that will melt away when confronted with force. Blacks, on the other hand, are the least educable, least productive, most criminal, most violent, most dependent, and least assimilable of the population. That faction is going to be their “foot soldiers” against the so-called “Trump Deplorables”. Getting back the article, it basically confirms my hypothesis about the state of affairs, especially in the US. One the key concepts that Whitney Webb emphases is the conflict, mainly under the radar, between the “nationalists” camp vs the “China collaborators” with respect to A.I.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/09/investigative-reports/bipartisan-washington-insiders-reveal-their-plan-for-chaos-if-trump-wins-the-election/
Another important point I want to mention is that many of the former neoconservatives have “jumped ship” so to speak now that their identities have been revealed by Webb”s meticulous investigative journalism. In his 3 part series, the Saker also came to the same conclusion. These former empire builders realized that the glory days of the Empire are over so they decided that “if they can’t beat them, then join them”.
To avoid all confusion, this comment is intended to add to your comment above Allen
As I’ve said before the US is being pushed to ‘Crisis’ (by their own comprador Anglo-Zionist Elites) following the outline of the 4 stages of:
– demoralization
– destabilization of essentials: economy, foreign relations, defense systems
– crisis: with the violent change of power, structure and economy, and
– normalization – the “new normal” as its being called
This article (he also quotes Whitney Webbs’s analysis) from Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of Economy Dr. Paul Craig Roberts lays out whats planned, unless as he says: “Trump wins by such a large vote that it cannot be discredited”
Democrats Have Planned a Coup If Trump Wins Reelection Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/08/democrats-have-planned-a-coup-if-trump-wins-reelection/
Two points I stress:
– this does not mean I’m rooting for Trump, nor
– that there’ll be any change to economic policies that are creating the malaise in US via the electoral system (IOW, when it comes to the *economy, it doesn’t matter)
Yup Tyson B.
PCR complements her writing as both are “on the same page”. Couldn’t agree more.
A key aspect of the PCR article cited above is the apparent incompetence and dysfunction of the trump whitehouse. Indeed, trump’s cabinet does not support him and most of the gopers have long deserted him.
Pompass is busy scrambling around sanctioning the world and planning for his future political campaigns. No one knows what pence is up to but it should be obvious.
In the face of this dysfunction, it prob should come as no surprise that the dimo’s coup plans (altho as incompetent as the dnc clearly is) may achieve success. But then. again, as I noted in posted link on non-msm column, as examplified by the collapse of the roman empire, as the collapse of this current empire accelerates, it may not matter which incompetent is nominally in charge.
I particularly was struck by PCR’s last para’s:
“Many white Americans lack the confidence to defend themselves. These dumbshit white Americans are the ones the Democrats are counting on to sit sucking their thumbs while Democrats pull off a color revolution and overthrow an elected president.
The Democrats are organized, and the White House isn’t. Trump is isolated. He has an establishment government that will not go to bat for him. The Department of Justice has yet to bring indictments of the treasonous individuals in the CIA, FBI, and Democrat Party that orchestrated Russiagate. I said in 2016 that Trump did not know Washington, and therefore had no idea who to appoint to his government to help him with his assault on the Establishment. Trump has done many things for Israel, but Jews are Democrats and it will be the Jewish owned media that discredits Trump’s reelection.
Trump’s supporters are not organized. Trump’s own appointee to the Department of Homeland Security is about to declare Trump supporters a “lethal threat to the United States”– https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/05/trumps-dhs-to-label-white-supremacists-as-the-most-persistent-and-lethal-threat-to-the-us-report/ .
Unless Trump wins by such a large vote that it cannot be discredited, the Democrats’ coup against Trump and American democracy will succeed.”
“Trump wins by such a large vote that it cannot be discredited”
Adelson and the other hyper-Zio’s would be delighted.
Pure theatre.
DEM and GOP are two sides of exactly the same coin.
All leaders have their masks on (Patriotic or otherwise) – the US is, for most, toast and that’s before they are given the jab.
Anonymous, at this point I’ll give Trump the benefit of the doubt cause like you said “ the US is toast” hence we have nothing left to lose. Mike Whitney seems to share my view.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/is-blm-the-mask-behind-which-the-oligarchs-operate/
Those three men, cockerel on the bar
What more can one say ?
watch out telling evil that you love it
dogs of war will leap on your shoulders
or maybe we’ll gain eternal rest and joy
The cockerel announces the rising sun
Before settling center stage on the bar
Very good observation my friend, thank you for pointing it out.
Sooooo….some very strange going ons
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8708615/Kidnapped-Belarus-opposition-leader-transported-Ukraine.html
The 3 Belarus oppositionist council leaders mysteriously disappear or are persuaded to disappear or are kidnapped in a van labelled ” communications”…Minsk authorities say they have no idea what happened….then apparently are taken into custody by them whilst trying to escape to Ukraine.
Ukraine has a very strange story indeed that sounds more like they are trying to make excuses or cover up some crazy involvement to avoid KGB getting more suspicious or dealung with Ukraine peoples or secret agent type of peoples. Perhaps KGB were tracking the movements of the 3….but very strangeto choose Ukraine rather than Baltics maybe those borders were more secure.
Mean while German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is going even more berserk saying Belarus must comply with Germany’s regime change / constituitional changes insistencies for the EU power grab….and demands for safety of the opposition. Sounds as if his plans have been upset just a bit?
Weird huh?
https://www.rt.com/russia/500122-belarus-opposition-border-crossing/
https://tass.com/world/1198335
The 3 do come across as rather naive….
https://tass.com/world/1198407
The 2 men accompanying the lead lady are now apparently safe in Ukraine…the opposition leader T in Lthuania actually thought they had been kidnapped in the beginning by Belarus forces….even their lawyers had not been able to find them although it looks like the 3 had been part of and complicit to the event to escape from authorities. Who was the driver to Ukraine …sounds part of the same crew for the alledged and false setup of 53 ex Donbass to be accused of a regime change.
Russia says it does not believe these / she are political prisoners . Something else going on behind the scenes …surely the 3 are now discredited even more? Protrst had still been going on…so the EU 53 million funding for something seems to be still operative.
Last sentance….protest
Ps reports of protests in Bulgaria??????
As a history buff I’m always on the lookout for rarely seen photos of the past.I just ran across a treasure trove of Waffen SS photos.They seem to be mostly made by SS soldiers themselves.There is one group made by a Werner Zeymer that might be of interest here. A big lot of the photos seem to have been made in Crimea.I guess he served in the occupation there.There has always been a dispute about the Crimean Tatars relationship with the Germans during the war.Remember they were expelled by Stalin from Crimea because of collaboration with the Germans.And most of them were only allowed to return many years afterward.They and their supporters in the West deny that they collaborated and say they were unjustly expelled.Well if these photos are a guide.It looks to me that at least a portion of them were willing collaborators with the Germans.Zeymer’s photos that I’m sure are from Crimea start at #77,though they all could be from Crimea and I just don’t know it.He isn’t the best photographer,or maybe its just his film isn’t as good as some of the others. But its easy to see the photos anyways.
http://www.kriegsberichter-archive.com/picture.php?/2414/category/21
Dear Bob, as one of your former counterpart on such historical issues regarding ww2, I have to say that I looked those pictures with great interest. I must search in my archives for more such particular picture collections and if I found them I will post the link here in the cafe. By the way, I don’t think those soldiers were from Waffen SS, the Russians were so called HIWI’s. but those young boys were not the best fighters, I suppose. The pictures were taken sometime in the summer of 1942, during the offensive against Stalingrad and Caucasus.
Thanks Ioan.Yes,there are a lot of Hwii shown in the pictures from the USSR.You can usually tell them because they look mostly from the ethnic minorities.But there are a lot of pictures of the regular German (or other West European) Waffen SS.And some parts of the album collections are from other parts of Europe as well.
Some Cafes ago I posted a calming video of a group of professional test pilots exploring the remote and rarely visited Island of Socotra, off the coast of Yemen …
Forgotten Island | EN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNjoXlVocGg
… and today I read this report …
“The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key party to the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen, has reportedly set up telecommunications towers on the strategic Island of Socotra and plans to build a military facility there.”
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/08/633580/UAE-Socotra-island-Yemen-Israel
( rather brash isn’t it … and where are the International Law spokespeople ? )
Kafkaesque goings on in London, Craig Murray’s report on first day of Assange’s trial.
A must read and share.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-the-assange-hearing-day-6/
Very good writing by Craig Murray for yesterday – thanks so much sandinED.
Here is the wrap up video from Kevin Gosztola for today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F92-XdFT2gQ
And here is his point by point tweet stream for this day:
https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1303361500904472576
Zeitgeist/Americana: sigh.
https://www.infowars.com/video-homeowner-catches-leftist-urinating-on-trump-sign-blasts-miscreant-with-paintball-gun/
Nobody has said that Lukashenko is dense: By Yura!, he’s got it!!! Technocrats want power and they will create technofascism calling it of course something much different. If you want to see them trying to birth it under cover of blah, blah Russiagate, lockdowns, wonky vaccines and a chipped populace, check out what is happening quietly in the background during the distracting strum und drang of the US election.
https://www.rt.com/russia/500187-lukashenko-us-behind-protests-belarus/
Maybe he is referring to Charter97 operating from Poland, who is supported by the George Soros Foundations, Gov of Lithuania, Gov of Netherlands, US State Dept funded Amnesty International and various other organisations.
https://charter97.org/
An initial attack seem to be launched by IMF and World Bank which is the Rothschild Banking Syndicate, ie. run secretly by the same group that control the above.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/77943/belarusian-president-claims-imf–world-bank-offered-him-a-bribe-to-impose-covid.html
When, during early stage of lockdown/panic buying, my son built garden beds and started planting vegetables.
Since then he has harvested many wonderful crops, including beetroots.
Just one bunch of beetroots yielded a fabulous hummus
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beetroot-recipes/beetroot-lemon-houmous/
not to forget the endless vegetable dishes containing all the beet greens
juice with crisp apples, ginger and lemon juice,
and chocolate cake for a special birthday.
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/beetroot-and-rose-truffle-chocolate-cake
Today I’m making the truffles only, for a friend’s birthday.
I did buy the edible rose leaves :-)
Thats wonderful Babuška, and so up my alley! I checked out your recipes and they look complicated but are actually very easy. Anyone that wants to try, see the measures – they call them Australian measures and a cup measures to 250 mg, whereas where I am, the new cup measures are now 230 mg. (Note food prices on the average, the food is shrinking and the prices are rising even in our rural area).
Beetroot is one of those veggies that is just madly versatile. I still love just simple roasted beetroot and do you know you can freeze it after roasting. So, roast a whole pan full and then freeze what is not used – double wammy there – food for today and for the future. And the beet greens, if they are fresh and young, wash, chop and cook like spinach – perhaps with a little apple cider vinegar and perhaps cook it in a little vegetable stock. Mmmm, you’ll get me going forever.
Beets were the veg that actually taught me that veggies taste different depending how they are cut – The Japanese clearly know that, and their cutting skills are just admirable. I have a mandolin that waffle cuts and waffle cut raw beets, when they are a little older and perhaps bigger, not only looks wonderful but tastes very different, crispy and interesting as a salad garnish, or drizzled with just a tiny bit of olive oil and sea salt sprinkled.
Let me pay back this wonderful walk in beetroot land with a:
Simple and quick breakfast pancake – no sugar, no flour, lots of protein.
2 large eggs
2 medium bananas, very ripe, skins blackening already so that the sugars are fully developed (yeah, you gotto peel them!)
2 tablespoons peanut butter (We buy peanuts and mill or own, so there is nothing bad in there, but try and use smooth peanut butter without sugar – these are too sweet with sugar.
1 teaspoon baking powder
Preheated frying pan or with a little oil or butter or ghee – on low to medium, not too hot (not too rich an oil like olive oil – sunflower is good, or that nonstick stuff that I don’t use)
You can blend the 4 ingredients until smooth, but I like to just mix it all up with a big fork, and not smash it like puree .. just smash up the banana until you can still see small flecks of banana – it has to be a well-incorporated batter, but not battered to death :-).
About 3 tablespoons of batter per pancake into the pan is just about right and fry until you see air bubbles on the top – then flip and just about a few minutes only will cook the second side.
Add some toppings if you prefer .. a little butter or yogurt is nice, and eat up.
Update from Australian perspective
From Phillip Adams Brisbane petition
SEP 8, 2020 —
Former Australian Foreign Minister and Former NSW Premier Prof. Bob Carr provides great perspective of matters as at the start of day 2. Thankyou to Rod chambers, Rob Osborne & John Jiggens for the report Click the link to listen:
http://de9znd9hicg5y.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/08071019/Julian-Assange-20200908_01.mp3
Hi amarynth
I’m wondering if we can have a dedicated continuous thread (in addition to the Cafe) on VoS for developments leading up to the US election less than 60 days from now.
Allen has posted Whitney Webb’s insights. Taras has posted more insights and Ive posted 6 public announcements of what the Dems, NY TIMES /WSJ and WaPo have planned to get the vote out (the US has voluntary voting), and get Biden elected.
If as its looking, that after the election, the result is not accepted by the losing party & theres protracted court procedures/riots/protests and the US goes into a state of inertia eventuating in some of the bigger states petitioning to secede & the Feds are brought to prevent those moves – resulting in a civil war – it would make a great best seller!
Just like the days of August 1991 and the fall of central industrialism in the Soviet Union- we are living through history!
Anyhoo kick it around with the mods.
Just a suggestion
I’ll ask the boss what he thinks. But a thread like that has to be refreshed to a new clean one every now and again. They get too long and unwieldy and then one cannot find anything anyways. But let me ask.
OK. Thanks for that
Regards
Can I just ask … are there more people wanting a separate thread on the election? Do you think it will be valuable (and can we contain ourselves with information sharing and avoid electioneering?)
More grist to the mill ..
Let’s Give Trump Some Credit – On Labor Day He Threw Down the Gauntlet to the Corrupt Military Brass – Paul Craig Roberts
“Trump said that the Pentagon brass don’t love him, “because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else, stay happy.”
President John F Kennedy was assassinated by the military/security complex for making the same point (see: JFK and the Unspeakable by James W Douglass, Simon & Schuster, 2008)
To conclude, blatant treason is in plain view. Not even insouciant Americans can help but see it. Yet, there is not a word about it. The coming coup seems to have a clear road for success. Something will remain here afterwards, but it will not be the United States of America.”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/08/lets-give-trump-some-credit-on-labor-day-he-threw-down-the-gauntlet-to-the-corrupt-military-brass/
I stress I am *not a Trump fan by any means (but this short article is useful for background)
… and at the risk of looking like an obsessive (LOL!)
Now that there’s been numerous public statements that the losing party will not accept the US election results (in less than 60 days) which, if so, means the US is headed for a protracted period of politico-economic instability and the effect this will have on the $US
It was Nicholas Gruen’s chart via Alan Kohler on Twitter that’s kicked this off …
(ICYMI) https://twitter.com/AlanKohler/status/1302897639202070529
August 24, 2020 How Nations Collapse: Disunity
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug20/disunity8-20.html
September 7, 2020 In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who’s Emperorhttp://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/09/in-footsteps-of-rome-maybe-it-no-longer.html
I think the parallels between the 1789 French Revolution to the US in 2020 are obvious, if not exact:
July 14, 2020 Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly20/Bastille-Day7-20.html
Why all of this is important is “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.” – Orwell (if you’ve read 1984 & Animal Farm). My sneaking suspicions are that after the JFK assassination (aka coup d’etat) the US has been a military dictatorship but retained the fig-leaf of ‘democracy’
My thanks to Per/Norway for the Charles Hugh Smith links!
The world virus war continues 7 months on unabated, with virulent strikes raining down on targeted population areas at different times, UK hospitals are empty, the dreaded disease escalates. Meanwhile here the request goes out for a separate thread on he USA vote, as a similar cry was voiced by amarynth to isolate the virus medical focus, now it is for political coverage.
Life as we have known it will not return, ever, and things will continue get more difficult, while what raises human spirits, unites people, and gives courage and sustaining strength will be sidelined as being of lesser importance, and not recognized as the real leverage point for world politics, economy and cultural life.
Not only lending moral strength, but equally importantly, informing the unfolding of current political events – they are global in impact and significance and it’s spurious nonsense to speak of them otherwise – these events informing readers of different perspectives, views and sources helping to form one whole, very complex picture.
Just kindly be accurate with your statements. This one is just wrong. I made no cry to isolate any medical focus of the virus. I don’t know why you make such erroneous statements.
Alan Kohler explains modern monetary theory on Australian ABC TV News July 2020 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mzmJexSbm4
( could this be true ? … I don’t know … read the comments )
All true Paul!
Governments are not like households – households cant create their own money
Governments that are monetary sovereign ie issue their own currency, cannot go broke.
The argument against Modern Money Theory has always been that it creates inflation. But as explained by Kohler, if there’s excess capacity to meet increased demand = no inflation!
As an aside, also given current interest rates a government can borrow more money by selling bonds at 0.5% (a very low rate) – which is another way of increasing government spending in times of an economic downturn which leads to ꜛ investment in plant & equipment > ꜛ production to meet the demand > ꜛ employment
This is called the Virtuous Cycle of Prosperity (as opposed to the Vicious Cycle of Poverty)
If youre interested in this, Prof. Bill Mitchell of Newcastle U has a YT channel.
Heres Mitchell i/viewed by Kohler https://youtu.be/9ldmpmVfSoM
Regards
a query for Tyson and anyone to answer …
The last Soviet leader, Gorbachev, asked how much money was available in Soviet government coffers and he was told there was almost nothing.
So why didn’t Gorbachev authorise the printing of Soviet bank notes to overcome their monetary problems and keep the Soviet Union viable ?
Tyson, I will study at the links you have provided … thanks.
/2
Also Paul the two detractors under the vid arrive at MMT from an ideological perspective – they think its Leftist politics. Best to ignore their comments
Unfortunately they dont understand fundamentals
Regards
The Navalny “poisoning” appeared all a bit too affected …
*Really good explanation. The last line ought to make you chuckle!
https://www.stalkerzone.org/why-was-navalny-handed-over-to-germany-an-explanation/
Regards
Stalin’s speech at the parade November 7, 1941 (1941) documentary …
November 7, 1941 at 8 a.m. on the Red Square in Moscow began a military parade on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution. A parade was held during the Battle of Moscow, when the front line was a few dozen kilometers from the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDMaimE5Es
(good communication skills)
In conversation with a German citizen last week I was informed Stalin offered or paid a large amount of money to Hitler in a bid to prevent the Soviet Union becoming involved in WW2.
Does anyone know of this ? … with details etc.
Paul, Hitler got what he wanted in oil, wheat , rubber and all kind of other important materiel, the last thing he needed was soviet ruble…this in case your man didn’t mention gold, which may be a different story, if true at all.
ioan, I will attempt to get more information as he has a job here … just need to find him. Whatever the truth, we all know something of the tragic price paid. It is good to hear you cheerful and interested. I am a bit down (depressed) with the endless virus propaganda and the trial of Assange.
The latest from Craig Murray on the Assange ‘ trial ‘ :
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-7/
IMHO this is the gold standard of reporting on this subject. ( Craig’s reports from the court are posted each day on craigmurray.org.uk . ) Today Clive Stafford Smith’s witness statement clearly shows why there was an attempt yesterday to limit witness participation to cross-examination only.
Again, a must read and share.
From Today’s version of “Putin Today”, Yandex translator:
” Analysts of Raiffeisenbank have found an important trend, but, apparently, due to inertia, they do not draw quite correct conclusions from it.
According to their analytical review, the reserve of foreign currency liquidity of the Russian banking system by the end of July decreased by $ 5 billion and became almost negative. This is when dollar-denominated liabilities exceed the amount of assets represented in them.
Speaking in Russian, Russian banks are quietly withdrawing from the dollar. Inside the Russian Federation, this is almost unnoticeable; the Russian economy has long and firmly operated with its own ruble. And the reduction in the stock of dollars in foreign accounts is reflected only in accounting statements, which are usually inaccessible to the General public.
Therefore, such analytical reports are of particular value. Analysts of Raiffeisenbank, in particular, say that customers in the first quarter of 2020 in nine systemically important Russian banks took currency by 3.8 billion rubles. And another 602 million – out of seven of them for the following June.
Based on these data, the authors of the document conclude that the ruble’s exchange rate will continue to weaken against the dollar. There are certain grounds for this. In January 2020, it was 61.7 rubles per dollar, in March – 73.3 rubles, in August-73.79 rubles, and at the beginning of September it reached 74.33 rubles.
However, it should be noted that the main jump in the exchange rate fell during the narrow period of February – April, when the Russian and global economy faced a crisis caused by the breakdown of logistics ties due to the quarantine due to the coronavirus epidemic. While June-July did not affect the quotation much, despite the significant reduction in the currency reserves of the banking system.
Which leads to a completely different conclusion. The banking system does not lose currency. On the contrary, it gets rid of it almost consciously. Especially abroad.
It is difficult to say whether the banksters know something that is still unknown to the General public, or whether the process of disintegration of the once single common market into isolated autocratic clusters is already beginning to manifest itself. The main thing is that the Russian banking system is gradually “leaving the dollar”.
What is particularly important is that the process does not cause an increase in the crisis of the national economy. Rather the opposite. The volume of spending on social services in the country is increasing. Gold and foreign exchange reserves are still expanding. The foreign trade balance of payments remains consistently positive. The structure of exports is increasingly drifting towards goods “not from the group of energy carriers”.
Further developments will certainly need to be closely monitored, but overall their overall dynamics are clearly positive.”
https://russtrat.ru
Isolate may have been the wrong word, the idea floated was apparently to open a separate cafe thread for discussions and links on specific medical areas related to covid 19 /? Please correct further if necessary.
tuppence
The Saker wanted to create a whole new section, because of the importance of Covid-19, with its own competent mods that could separate the wheat from the chaff. It turned out that we could not do it at speed. We had bunches of ‘highly qualified’ medicos and virologists and everybody and their garden service telling us how qualified they are and what to do – I had never seen so many ‘highly qualified virologists’ that could not spell well. The blog and its staff was under pressure because of the sheer quantity. And then the Saker split up the issues to reduce the pressure and slow the flow. The bunches of ‘highly qualified medicos and their garden services’ disappeared and the work load reduced materially, when there was no more free lunch, so to speak.
This fathead really does not get it as to how absurd this story is and how absurd and stupid he is by banging away at it continuously without let up!
https://sputniknews.com/us/202009091080414573-pompeo-substantial-chance-alleged-navalny-poisoning-ordered-by-senior-russian-officials/
Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has become a mindless obsession with these clowns.
Orlov has a scathing take down of this absurdity (much behind pay wall but intro provides a flavor):
Perhaps you’ve already heard the story; if not, here is the synopsis.
The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had the leading Russian opposition candidate and Putin’s nemesis Alexei Navalny poisoned with an internationally banned battlefield chemical weapon Novichok.
If reading the above has not insulted your intelligence, then, before you can feel properly insulted, there is quite a steep learning curve for you to climb, but I will do my best to help you surmount it. And if you do feel insulted, then the question is, Just how insulted are you? Because the amount of disdain, condescension, arrogance, indifference and sheer sneering contempt shown toward you by those who are pushing this fake narrative is so extreme that only one psychologically healthy response to it is possible; which is, to laugh at it—at all of it in its entirety, and then at all the individual pieces of it, each of which is funny on its own as a paragon of misguided, delusional stupidity.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
@Taras 77:
I have the feeling that this Navalny-manouvering had been planned to coincide with the Belarus Blitz to bloc Russia, unfortunately for them (as can be read from the intercepted American conversations (Nick & Mike)), things got delayed, Minsk governmental district should have been conquered in the first week. Speed obviously was crucial. Now the cockroaches, traitors try to leave country, the show is basically over.
What is left, is to pressure Mörkel to abandon NS2 (which is more important for the rest of europe than it is for Germany), and hook Europe to US gaz or more precise to buy from the US only (whom will buy from Russia most likely because they themselves have not the capacities necessary), these can be ‘unknown’ intermediaries etc.
Cleverly played, well in fact just some beating of prisoners/slaves in the cellars of the empire, not much finesse is needed really. The amount of disgusting garbage production by politicians world wide (and especially europe) is at an all time high and will further intensify to domestic US levels in the future.
Just an administrative note : Tyson B requested a special thread on the US election, dedicated to all things election. I passed that request along to the Saker, but he is not keen on making more work (This is one that would fall on my plate). So, we won’t be doing that but really, there will be sufficient reporting threads to air the various views.
Please also remember, everyone is free to write a submission for The Saker blog. OK, there is a process of editorial review, but I’ve been known to help out new writers a little bit. If you have a burning issue, and can write it so that our general population understands it, send it to me and I’ll either send it back with comments as to how to change or improve, and then put it through the editorial process and eventually get the Saker approval – as he approves everything that is published. You are also free to write under a nom de plume or pen name.
Best I can do on this one. :-)