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Unless Trump is going to invoke National Emergency Acts between tomorrow and 20th JAN – this has to be the last throw of the dice …
(behind a paywall)
Executive Summary (for those time-deprived):
“Tomorrow, a group of Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral votes won by President-elect Joe Biden … while President Donald Trump is pressuring V-P Mike Pence to help them (with power he does not have). Noah Feldman writes in Bloomberg Opinion that the 134-year-old law that allows this to happen needs an overhaul. While Biden’s inauguration is almost a foregone conclusion since Democrats control the House, Feldman says that “if the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, they would be in the position to carry out a constitutional coup d’état.” [my emphasis]
Full text: Biden’s Arizona Win Set to Be First Subjected to Congressional Debate
“Republican Senator Ted Cruz will object on Wednesday to the counting of Arizona’s electors, according to a person familiar with his plans, setting the state up to be the first that’s subject to debate in the joint session of Congress to validate Joe Biden’s election as president.
Members from both chambers are needed to raise objections to any single state’s vote, and some House GOP representatives had already planned to take issue with Biden’s Arizona victory. The process begins at 1 p.m. in Washington Wednesday.
Each objection to a state’s vote will halt the counting process, triggering a debate and then a vote by lawmakers. While the effort to block Biden from taking office on Jan. 20 is doomed to fail, it will fracture the Republican caucus and fuel President Donald Trump’s efforts to convince supporters he was robbed of re-election.
The Democratic-controlled House is sure to override any objection to Arizona and other states, and enough Republican senators have come out against the effort to ensure that the Senate will also vote down the attempts.
Cruz is leading a group of 11 GOP senators raising objections, and will argue that the process of counting the Electoral College votes should be stopped to allow time for an emergency commission to be set up and complete a 10-day investigation examining allegations of voter fraud.
States will be called alphabetically. In addition to Cruz and his group, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley said he will object to Pennsylvania’s electors and Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler has signaled she will object to her own state’s electors.
The objections mean that the House and Senate will debate for up to two hours on each state in question, and then vote on them before continuing the count.
A group of House Republicans led by Alabama Representative Mo Brooks will be objecting to six states in total, including Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin. It is not yet clear if any senator will join in the three additional objections and trigger further debate, besides those for Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Trump is also putting pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors that he baselessly (sic) claims were fraudulently chosen. A lawsuit along these same lines filed by Representative Louie Gohmert in Texas was rejected by a federal court. This places Pence in the uncomfortable position of having to defy his own sponsor for higher office or back an effort that many in his party see as dangerous.
“The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Trump falsely (sic) tweeted Tuesday.
The law only gives the vice president the power to preserve order as the presiding officer and announce the winners, Rebecca Green, an election law professor at William & Mary Law School, said.
“None of these duties include the power to decide controversies that might arise over counting electoral votes or to otherwise decide the outcome of the election,” Green said on a call Tuesday held by the National Task Force on Election Crises. “That’s just not how the law works.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-05/cruz-to-object-to-arizona-electors-extending-debate-in-congress
My personal opinion is its more smoke and mirrors. But I wholeheartedly agree with Austin Fitts that TPTB are using this election to create the conditions (words to effect) for a civil war – to hollow out the liabilities of the US Federal Government by getting the states to secede (a conclusion I’d already drawn)
But let’s see!
Reagrds
The bigger problem still stems from inconsistencies with tracking votes. In a speech by a GA voting regulator he states in their case about double votes they had a couple issues, one being some person with the same name and birthday was found to have voted twice, but once tracked down it was really two people w/the same name and birthday, so no problem right?
Wrong, for quite some time, to register to vote, one had to provide a S.S. # to prove that a dead person did not vote as a check w/in the system, now it seems just a birthday is enough of a check rather than did the two people have the same S.S. #, they wouldn’t have had to track down a two person check.
So for quite a while people were trusting a total stranger working for the gvt, with their private information.
People who in private don’t have any commitment to the provider of such information and then there is great amazement at where all the breaches in security come from, and the last place people look for inconsistencies with stolen information is the private side of gvt.
So we know there is a problem, but it is also a known that not much can be done about it in this format, For some reason I cant believe no one has picked up on this discrepancy and reported on it.
“for some reason I can’t believe no one has picked up on this discrepancy and reported it.”
You answered the problem in your first sentence of this paragraph. “So we know there is a problem, but it is also a known that not much can be done about it in this format,”
Our present problems didn’t come about over night. These are decades; maybe centuries in the making.
You are right about format. Administrative law is one such format. If you knew the history of this law in the making you would realize it has no moral foundation. It is the law of mammon.
WE are living in the last days of this present civilization.
I’m an administrative law judge, so I do know some of the history(s), and realize the foundations they sit on are rather fragile compared to the natural law I reside over.
I should add that this process may take ’til 2025 (my gut feeling) to see US dissolution
All the more reason to keep an eye on Mundano’s astro-log –
March 2023 is the next big shift when [‘Father Time’ – Saturn (ie contraction)]
(recently posted by him) Saturn will enter Pisces – meaning, after suspension til 2023, then resolution til February 2026
Regards
Mundano’s astro-log
Link…??
Anon,
Mundanomaniac posts here in the Cafe regularly
Here was his most recent post
Overthrow of the Traditional and Scale – Removal of the Stage for the Coming Play
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-now-on-overthrow-of-traditional.html
Headsup: You’d find a knowledge of Carl Jung’s archetypes would be useful
Regards
I wonder why?
“On Dec. 30. 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece by my niece, Dr. Kerry Meltzer. Although the piece contained factual errors and defamatory accusations, the Times declined to publish my letter to the editor correcting those false claims.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-york-times-kerry-meltzer-covid-vaccines/
Regards
(via The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch) I honestly didnt think it would happen this fast …
Woman In Portugal Dies After Receiving Pfizer Vaccine
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/01/04/woman-in-portugal-dies-after-receiving-pfizer-vaccine/
Regards
Last one:
Doctors slash Covid-19 Mortality Rate from 5.8% to 3/10ths of one percent With Telemedicine, Home Treatment
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/05/doctors-slash-covid-19-mortality-ratefrom-5-8-to-3-10ths-of-one-percent-with-telemedicine-home-treatment/
Regards
PS Col From NZ (sorry i didnt get around to answering your last reply), you’ll be happy to know that ivermectin is included in the regimen at the bottom of the article!
Hi T
No problemo…great to see Ivermectin and supporting protocols getting a wee bit of traction…bravo PCR!!
…loved the Matthau clip too!!
…and re ‘The Night The Lights May Well Go Out In Georgia’ debacle…
Yes and ahem, cough,cough…wash my mouth out with a hard-bristled scrubbing brush and a large bucket of hot soapy water, but in this instance, I almost miss the input of Nostradamus 93 as the ultimate Trumpster. Not the comments mind you… just the resultant mirth from the outrageous spin. Just imagine the duesey he could concoct on this latest complete and utter tRrump cock-up.
Just a prediction, but my call is tRump can add to his list of accomplishments not only the loss of the key to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave but both houses to boot! How incredible is it that this could occur when running against the most demonstrably dysfunctional party and POTUS opponent in the entire history of US politics?
Chalk this one up!
Col
Yep.. tRump and Pence both went down to Georgia alright…and man did they make a difference!
One commentator described tRrump’s recent performances as “a hat-trick of ineptitude”.
My agricultural description is much less polite so I won’t repeat it here…I’m already in very deep do-do’s with the Mods.
Col,
“My agricultural description is much less polite so I won’t repeat it here” – Hahaha!
I dont miss Bro’s comments. It used to take me ages to wade through his discombobulated stream of consciousness and try to make out what it was he was actually saying
I gave up towards the end
Regards
Hi T
…”try to make out what it was he was actually saying”
OK…but this is just my interpretation of these endless riddles…
#1 You and I along with 99% of commentators [with one notable exception] couldn’t possibly grasp how the profoundly brilliant tRumps complex strategy is
#2 He [N93] vibrates at such an extraordinarily high level [ha ha] that he is really the only one who could possibly grasp tRump’s true genius.
#3 tRump walks on water and we all need to get the hell out of the way and let him get on with his divinely appointed destiny of saving the whole world
YCHMTSU
Col
… a quick Mandarin Chinese lesson … 那个
first read the following …
THAT’s racist: California professor suspended, students offered emotional ‘support’ to remedy ‘harmful impact’ of CHINESE word …
https://www.rt.com/usa/499831-chinese-word-professor-racism/
“The word in Mandarin is “nega,” and Patton’s lecture prompted someone to complain that it sounded too much like an English derogatory term for people of African descent.”
… correcting …
The two words in Mandarin are 那个 … nà ge … NOT ne ga.
Nà has the abrupt down-tone marker and corresponds to how “no” can be said in English as “Na”.
Here is the lesson …
https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=%E9%82%A3%E4%B8%AA
The professor used the alternative pronunciation nei ge where nei is like saying “nay” (no) in Dutch and Old English and English dialect … “nay ge”.
Was the professor giving a Mandarin lesson or was he baiting coloured students … we are not informed, but
his students will remember that one … 那个 for sure.
Checkout … 那个人 and 到那个时候
时候 means time, so 到那个时候 can mean “until this moment” … “until this time”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3116572/donald-trump-signs-order-banning-transactions-8
Trump’s signing an executive order banning transactions with 8 digital payment apps.
He’s trying to decouple hard by blocking even individual payments (for goods ordered on Alibaba!) and cash transfers (as you know AliPay and WeChat Pay is ubiquitous in China). This is on a much deeper level than just banning TikTok (which many can do without), and as bad as the ban on Wechat, since it’s probably nipping the coming Digital Yuan in the bud directly by prohibiting one of the ways to use it. We’ll see if Biden would repeal this (and chances are rather slim with the posture of his handlers).
(Note again how the same vague excuse on a double standard, i.e. seizure of personal information, is used again)
Try to ban transactions with Bitcoin ! (it would be very difficult to do). Decentralized currencies is where commerce needs to go if one wants real independence… https://decrypt.co/37366/can-a-country-actually-ban-bitcoin –
How is it that no U.S. Attorney in any of the voter disputed States has not filed a criminal case against the respective Secretaries of State for voter certification fraud?
Some would argue that voter fraud is a “State” issue and the Feds cannot get involved. I disagree since the act of suffrage is a constitutional issue and along with that is the right to have a registered voter’s choice on a ballot properly counted and recorded. Non-registered voters including dead people and children younger than the minimum age allowed who voted have committed voter fraud. This is most certainly a federal issue since high-profile candidates were for the Office of the President of the United States.
All the discourse and evidence uncovered concerning voter fraud will not see the light of day unless the U.S. Attorneys in all the disputed States file criminal charges in federal court against those Secretaries of State that certified the presidential election knowing that fraud involving the ballots and the Dominion machines had been committed.
Perhaps Trump’s new U.S. Attorney in Georgia, Bobby L. Christine, will do his constitutional duty and proceed ahead with the charges of criminal fraud.
We know the Supreme Court rejected hearing the case of Texas v. Defendant States due to lack of standing in how those States conducted their elections was not a criminal case.
However the federal courts will have to hear a prosecutorial case if the U.S. Attorney in Georgia (and other States) file criminal charges. The question becomes when will the case be heard and can the U.S. Attorney craft a legal strategy to stop the inauguration on January 20.
To all who are celebrating the birth of Jesus at this time I wish a joyous and peaceful Christmas.
Best wishes
Anomalous
+ Христос се Роди! Ваистину се Роди! +
+ Christ is Born! It is true, he has been born! +
Merry Christmas to my Orthodox Brothers & Sisters and blessings to The Saker, his family and the Saker Community.
Stay Safe during these chaotic times and keep up the good work spreading the message!
I wish to express the same ! To Saker, and all those who join together around the world in peace and reverence for the birth of the child Christ, may this time be truly blessed.
Mir Bozhiji, Hristos se rodi!
May God bring you peace, the Christ has been born!
Happy Christmas to all Orthodox brothers
DARK WINTER the dark forces {Evil} have named there War on the forces of Light { Good } and they Dark Forces are already celebrating there Victory over humanity.
A Message of Hope and Light….. I Witnessed a Mighty King with a Glorious Crown with 3 crosses and only fit for a God to be upon his head. Indeed our Father who Arc in heaven had Rewarded his only son Christ most kindly, for I watched the Messiah from a far drop out the sky, as the Divine Lord did not want to startle me. Approaching slowly carried by his gracious white feathered angel like wings, I could tell he was Courageous and his POWER I felt had no words as he bowed my head effortlessly without me feeling anything when he arrose above me.
Not blessed once but again at my home right outside my top flat window, by same means but no one else witnessed this blessing except myself!
Warning dark forces of evil you have not won this war assuredly! The Godless will suffer for a time until they are on there knees begging and shouting aloud the Lords Name for forgiveness and help, an awakening and turning back toThis Almighty Divine King…. Jesus Christ and then you will all witness what I seen or you will feel his Power what I felt when he destroys and sends the Dark Forces To Burning Fire for eternity and peace and Love will Prevail in his name Ahmen.
Merry Christ – Mass everyone at the Sakers blog. 🎅🙏🌞
Russia and China are clearly on the reset agenda!
https://xn--80aesfpebagmfblc0a.xn--p1ai/news/20210105-1421.html
The Ministry of Health responded to allegations of insufficient verification of Sputnik V
MOSCOW, January 5 – RIA Novosti. The decision to register the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was made taking into account its high efficiency, said Viktor Fisenko, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation.
The regulator also received data on the safety of the adenovirus platform, which specialists from the Center named after Academician N.F. Gamaleya used to create the drug.
According to the Deputy Minister, this step was “absolutely justified”, as it made it possible to ensure the protection of Russians from COVID-19 in a short time.
“The foreign regulators of the USA, EU, Great Britain have followed a similar path: the use of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca preparations for widespread vaccination is going in parallel with ongoing clinical trials,” Fisenko explained.
He noted that at present the safety and efficacy of Sputnik V is additionally monitored using data from the federal register of vaccinated people.
Earlier, the chairman of the Greek National Vaccination Committee, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Maria Theodoridou, said that Russia and China have shown courage and took the risk of a large-scale vaccination using an incomplete coronavirus vaccine.
The director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, responded by saying that the drug was “more than” tested, and Western vaccine developers were following the Russian path. According to Gunzburg, more than a million Russians have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus. At the same time, no new adverse reactions to the drug were detected.
The Sputnik V vaccine is the world’s first drug for the prevention of COVID-19; the Ministry of Health registered it in mid-August. The vaccine was created at the Gamaleya Center on the basis of a well-studied platform of the human adenovirus vector. In the summer, she successfully completed two stages of research on volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60, who eventually developed an immune response and antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. Post-registration tests are now being completed.
In the near future, Russians will have the opportunity to be vaccinated against coronavirus with another domestic drug – EpiVacKorona from the Novosibirsk Scientific Center Vector. Other Russian vaccines are also being developed.
Source: https://ria.ru/20210105/vaktsina-1592046067.html
… John Trudell – Thanksgiving Speech 1980 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGy7O2x_XYs
This film was made in the USSR in 1948. What I found so remarkable about it was its advocacy for the American people. It was asking the US to ‘go Commie’, just act according to its best presidents, FDR and Abraham Lincoln.
But shows the dynamic of pressure that journalist are under, from then until now, to further the Russophobic narrative.
“The Russian Question”
https://russianfilmhub.com/movies/the-russian-question-1948/
Julian Assange – Bail does not seem to be a slam dunk.
The US justice attorneys put on a big fight for keeping Assange in Belmarsh Prison.
I’m following Kevin Gosztola here: https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1346773720552132608
Assange’s attorneys are now fighting and offering that he will live in London with his family with an ankle bracelet. Now I ask you? Would this be freedom?
Last comments from the audience there is that Twitter is not displaying notification alerts for Kevin’s tweet stream.
There is a bad lawfare fight on. The bad fairy godmother judge Baraitser is now repeating all the history from 2010.
BAIL DENIED! Yes, I am shouting! Shouting to the rooftops!
Two streams here as far as my thinking goes:
1. There was a US/UK decision to keep Assange in prison come hell or high water – in the US, in the UK – does not matter. Any max security prison would do.
2. It is a Trump move wanting to last minute pardon or withdraw the US case, to his own benefit and to regain/retain his base.
Here is a quick live stream from Gosztola summing up the issues. Its good.
https://www.youtube.com/shadowproofcom/live
Hi Amarynth,
John Pilger’s tweet refers to an unnamed source that claims that Biden will not pursue appeal in UK high court and Assange will win this whole law suit.
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1346788117303451649
Another missed opportunity for Trump…. He could have gone down in history as the president who pardoned Joan Assange. Instead he pardoned Jared Kushner’s crooked dad…
Amarynth,
why am I not surprised ? After reading Craig Murray’s confident prediction that he would be released, I went to bed feeling hopeful – but I woke up with a presentiment of doom – I just knew he wouldn’t be released. This is a sort of exquisitely cruel torture – lead him to believe he’s getting out – then lock him up again. It’s another method to break him. What kind of a human being is this Baraitser creature ?
( As an aside, In the UK we’re living under strict lockdown – told we are allowed out only once a day for exercise – i.e. a prison regime. We were similarly psychologically toyed with ( although obviously orders of magnitude less painful than Assange’s version ), being told we could have a normal Xmas – then no – here’s a more severe lockdown instead. )
The spin is that Julian is mentally unfit / disturbed – and the UK is so worried about his human rights that extradition had to be denied – even though the US case was right and proper in every aspect. He has to return to the loving care of Belmarsh – obviously great for his mental health.
Having established how much they care for human rights – the UK can continue to join in humanitarian interventions / bombing / murderous enterprises – in the name of human rights. Oh – and real journalism is now rendered illegal.
Thanks for the link anyway Amarynth :-)
In the last Cafe I mentioned Trump as enigma, and Craig Wright as a great man of our time – stony silence !
Well, we are all encouraged to come on in and have a great time, and so far those words are still there…
Why do I think that and have the courage to pronounce these words ? Because I think so, and be dammed if I do, as for all his bad sides, I’m not here to argue, but Trump has a big, open heart, and the population who voted for him may just have not all been totally screwed and mindless, actually, on the contrary ! This is my own experience.
As for Craig Wright, no one has yet refuted the article by him that I posted here twice already, nor commented, so I will wait before writing any more. Header image: the lady’s waiting.
Is that you Bro93?
Ive been wondering when you’d surface. Just dragged your sorry derrière back from Trump’s GA rally I expect?
I did ask you what was the relevance of the article that you posted to what I posted, which was an excerpt of the CAF i/view for Planet Lockdown – posted by several Cafe’istas
You mentioned something about not confusing the messenger with the message and then discernment
I can tell you categorically now, anything with the header “BitcoinSV – the original bitcoin” I am not going to read!!!
Regards
Assange bail refused.
I wonder how many people knew Adnan Khashoggi was mentioned in Epstein’s little black book …
“To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, Southern District of New York, SDNY, prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein’s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the “personal protection” of “an affluent member of the Jewish faith” traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.
According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he “worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to “help them hide their stolen money.” A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein’s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump.” —Matt Stieb
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html
See now why there were no US repercussions against the Saudis for the murder?
(via Caitlin Johnson)
“In an excellent Palladium essay published last month titled “China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology”, Richard Hanania argues that the example China sets as a nation rising to superpower status by relatively peaceful and lawful means is deeply threatening to the orthodoxy promoted by Western imperialists. If the world in general and Americans in particular were to become more conscious of how a civilization can succeed and thrive without waging endless wars in the name of “freedom” and “democracy”, they might begin calling for such an order themselves.
“While most Americans will never experience a ride on a Chinese bullet train and remain oblivious in differences in areas like infrastructure quality, major accomplishments in highly visible frontiers like space travel or cancer treatment could drive home the extent to which the US has fallen behind,” Hanania concludes. “Under such conditions, the best case scenario for most Americans would be a nightmare for many national security and bureaucratic elites: for the US to give up on policing the world and instead turn inward and focus on finding out where exactly our institutions have gone wrong.”
December 14, 2020 China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology
https://palladiummag.com/2020/12/14/chinas-real-threat-is-to-americas-ruling-ideology/
T
“When Americans were still Americans” – PCR
The Battle of Athens – An American Story
A made for television movie based on the conflict (13:31)
https://youtu.be/U5ut6yPrObw
Makes ya think!
I recall reading that returning US Negro soldiers also formed similar militia in response to corrupt and unacceptable actions by the KKK – in the Carolinas, I think.
When the Klan raced through the Negro neighborhood shooting into houses they got big big surprise. After that…there was a degree of equilibrium, for a time. As I recall the Negro fellas formed a rifle club under NRA auspices, a chartered club and so forth.
That sort of political balance is pretty much illegal now.
In my youth anybody who wanted a gun simply walked into a hardware store and bought one. M1 Garand rifles ran about 100 dollars, a .45 was less. Many high schools had rifle teams.
In 1968 they made it illegal to have guns on school grounds, even though it had not been a problem. They also started bringing cops into the schools, and curating informers among the student body.
The excuse was the murder of RFK, as I recall. (see A Lie Too Big to Fail (Lisa Pease) for in inquiry into that murder – Of course the two matters are tied together only insofar as the beneficiaries whose interests were served by disarming the people.
Make ya think, as you said, don’t it?
Like Uncle Karl said, ” “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
Cancer is a disease that has taken so many lives, of people of all ages, leaving heart broken families and friends behind. How many countless millions have suffered ! It is also a disease of our time, reflecting our time, and in that sense, exists as a tumorous growth of potential death and disease alive in our society.
Is there anywhere now that is exempt, including even here ?
If you have the courage, the heart and the sincerity to understand this, then you will also respect the individual, and not make clever or facetious remarks when they wish to sincerely share their ideas, and if these are made, and silence echoes over the cafe, and no one speaks up, then so be it.
My comment was above, concerning President Trump and Craig Wright, and my thoughts concerning them are sincere. Anyone is free to comment further.
If I write as anonymous, people will hopefully know intuitively who I am, but if not, it’s not important and is my choice. My thoughts on cancer were prompted by the loss of my son’s girlfriend recently, and which I put a brave face on for the family, and because I know death is a transition, tragic, but not the end, a new beginning.
Thank you.
Well, it’s not easy to comment when one met the disease in person, it certainly changes your life and your view about life.
yours, ioan
Precisely, thank you.
Ioan,
I had intended to post a very encouraging video about a woman who recovered from cancer – I can’t find it – so I have hesitated to write for fear of posting something glib and useless – which would just be an insult to you.
I wondered if you may be interested in the following videos and articles :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPsfJ4A-B_w – on preventing and reversing cancer.
https://prn.fm/gary-null-cancer-articles/
I find Gary Null’s shows quite compelling. You can look him up at PRN.fm. He claims that conventional medicine is the number one cause of death in his book ‘ Death by Medicine ‘. Here he talks to a conventional doctor who cured her own cancer with natural methods :
http://www.detoxifynow.com/cancer_docter_cure.html
I hope the above is of some interest to you – wishing you strength and health – and sending healing thoughts :-)
Sand
Sandra, appreciate your goodwill, thank you.
Ya gotta laugh – there’s a frickin’ manual on it!
RFK Jr has written frequent warnings about the ease of election hacking and the dangers of voter purges and voter ID laws
He wrote the introduction and a chapter in a 2012 book on election hacking by investigative journalist Greg Palast called Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps Penguin Random House
ROTFLMAO (an acronym Mods)
Commenting upon any aspect of America would be the equivalent of Alice’s analysis of behaviour she encountered in Wonderland.
@ William Bennett;
Excellent analogy – I couldn’t agree more.
It’s why I don’t – comment on any aspect of America, nor indeed, bother to read one. I’ve already drawn my conclusions, understood it’s psychology, it’s systems, it’s almost unalterable trajectory, and historical end.
The rest is mere detail from the madhouse – and who could be bothered.
Russia starts the New Year with another resounding win over the Empire and the so-called “Globalists” – although I’m beginning to doubt this concept / group / activity exists outisde the wild and rather sickly feverish imaginations of a handful of octagenarians with an odd form of dementia.
However, there are science fiction imaginings – and then there’s reality.
Today we learn this from 5th January 2021:
Russia reaches agreement with Saudi Arabia on oil, Gazprom increases exports to China
January 5 was quite an important day for the Russian energy industry. Perhaps this is the so-called “day of the month”.
First, Russia and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement on the parameters of increasing oil production.
Secondly, Gazprom announced its success in the Chinese direction.
But about all under the order.
So, the two-day OPEC+ negotiations have come to an end. The two countries agreed that starting from February 1, oil production will not increase. This means that in February Russia will continue to produce 9.3-9.4 million barrels of oil per day.
Previously, the agreement implied an increase in production by 500 thousand b / d in February. Of these, 125 million b/d were allocated for Russia.
125 million b / d is about 1.3% of the total production. Of course, all this volume would be exported, which would ensure the inflow of additional windfall revenues to Russia.
But the effect of rising Brent prices will be more significant. So, just today, oil rose by 4.35%, surpassing the mark of $ 53 per barrel. Russia is completely satisfied with this.
The second agreement in the framework of OPEC+ is an increase in production by the same figure (500 thousand b / d), but not from February, but from March 2021. I hope that by this time oil will be able to gain a foothold at the level of plus or minus$ 55, which will determine an even greater inflow of super-profits.
Now to another piece of news. At the end of last year, Gazprom significantly increased gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline. On some days, they exceeded the originally planned volume by 80%.
Indeed, by the end of 2020, Gazprom delivered only 4.1 billion rubles of Power of Siberia gas to China. cubic meters of gas, which is 0.9 billion cubic meters below the planned volume. however, in the first days of January, Gazprom was able to increase deliveries to the planned figures, which are 2 times higher than the volumes pumped in the fourth quarter.
This means that the problems with gas production at the Chayandinskoye field have been resolved.
Moreover, Gazprom is expected to provide a feasibility study for the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline as early as in the first quarter of 2021. If everything goes well, then the construction of a new gas pipeline with a capacity of 50 billion cubic meters will take place. cubic meters will start this year. Let me remind you that the capacity of the first Power of Siberia is 36 billion rubles. cubic meters.
There’s a rather odd person who keeps popping his Anony-mouse head up here, claiming Russia and China are led by evil monsters who are in bed with the failing, collapsing and dying Anglo Empire and its Bankers!!
Quite how two such massive contradictions are supposed to co-exist s/he never says. Which makes the accusations all more the laughable, I’d suggest.
Hmmm. Now, here’s an interesting one:
https://el-murid.livejournal.com/4641092.html
2021 is the last year of the “gas era”. As usual, it ends not because gas has run out (on the contrary, its supply becomes excessive), but because new technologies, new markets and a new energy carrier are coming.
A promising energy is hydrogen. By 2050, the demand for it should reach about 470 million tons. Today’s market for natural gas (in order of magnitude) is approximately one billion tons (in total, natural, liquefied, and associated gases). In fact, by the middle of the century, we expect a radical change in the global energy balance.
Starting from January 1, 2022, Europe will introduce a tax on energy carriers that emit carbon dioxide (the so-called decarbonization program). This tax also applies to those energy carriers that are produced with the release of the same carbon dioxide during production processes. (By the way, this applies directly to hydrogen energy, since one of the two main methods of producing hydrogen is the dehydrogenation of natural gas, during which carbon dioxide is released).
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The most optimistic estimates at the official level indicate the possibility of producing 2 million tons of hydrogen by 2035: «…Russia will be able to export up to 2 million tons of hydrogen per year by 2035, according to the materials for the ” Extended meeting of the energy Committee on the topic: “Hydrogen power engineering: current situation and development prospects in Russia and the world”. By 2024, it is planned to export 200 thousand tons of hydrogen per year…»
I’ve picked out the most significant points. I dont agree with the writer — that Russia is severely hampered in developing this new energy due to Empire + vassal sanctions, and that her complaints that sanctions are “unfair trade competition” either. {He doesn’t mention that sanctions as applied by the Oligarchs of Empire are also illegal}.
Russia has gone forward on leaps and bounds on the back of sanctions – “bring them on” might be the cry.
It’s been comparable to the AngloOligarchs and Russia playing leap-frog. The Empire says “see, I stand in front of you bent to run, and that blocks your path”. And Russia says “just a sec…” and leaps over, ahead and away!!
But it is interesting and I think very very encouraging that Hydrogen as a future energy source is being discussed and methods of tackling the associated problems are being addressed.
When we come to the end of the fossils, coal, oil, and gas, we look at totally displacing a major source of wars in order to grab the dominance of ownership of the vast wealth they have produced; at ending massive pollution majorly from the plastics and other down stream processing industries of oil; and hopefully of “greening” the planet.
It’s another beam of light from the future to give us hope, I think.
Hydrogen fuel is an energy transmissions idea, similar to a electrical power grid transmission where power is produced at a powerhouse and then a transmission system sends it to the customer. Hydrogen is either made with electric power or more commonly by burning fossil fuels. Hydrogen can be piped like natural gas, possibly using some of the same infrastructure, and distributed out to fuel stations, where a customer then drives their hydrogen powered vehicles for refueling, just like petrol or diesel and such. Obviously there is no logical cost savings in hydrogen, since it’s a low powered fuel compared to the natural gas it’s made from, and there are conversion losses. It takes far more natural gas to power a hydrogen fuel network than a similar natural gas network would require, there is no reduction in carbon footprint but rather a sizable increase. This increase in energy demand is only half the equation since nobody actually has a hydrogen infrastructure with the hydrogen powered vehicles, therefore an existing system must be replaced with a new one — building anything takes power, and therefore burns fuel.
The advantages to hydrogen are also what is so confusing about it, it’s not unlike mains electricity or natural gas, but is intended to be used as electrical fuel in a gas form. Hydrogen is a hybrid fuel, unlike the fuels we are familiar with now. As far as pollution, the end result is the same with more cars and roads, more industry and mining, more landfills and slag heaps, more false promises with similar results.
Thank you Kpuck. Hydrogen is like ethanol. It was sold as a way to lower carbon footprint. But it actually increased the carbon footprint when the fossil fuel used to grow, and harvest the corn was figured in. Ethanol also lowers gas mileage per gal.
The investigations into the best ways to obtain Hydrogen are in their infancy, and are ongoing.
Your quote is from very old past technology ideas.
I offer you a different take:
“This paper examines various potential methods of hydrogen production using renewable and non-renewable
sources and comparatively assesses them for environmental impact, cost, energy efficiency and exergy efficiency.
The social cost of carbon concept is also included to present the relations between environmental impacts and
economic factors. Some of the potential primary energy sources considered in this study are: electrical, thermal,
biochemical, photonic, electro-thermal, photo-electric, and photo-biochemical. The results show that when used as the
primary energy source, photonic energy based hydrogen production (e.g., photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical
method, and artificial photosynthesis) is more environmentally benign than the other selected methods in terms of
emissions. Thermochemical water splitting and hybrid thermochemical cycles (e.g. Cu-Cl, S-I, and Mg-Cl) also
provide environmentally attractive results. Photoelectrochemical method and PV electrolysis are found to be least
attractive when production costs and efficiencies are considered. Therefore, increasing both energy and exergy
efficiencies and decreasing the costs of hydrogen production from solar based hydrogen production have a potential
to bring them forefront as potential options. The energy and exergy efficiency comparisons indicate the advantages of
fossil fuel reforming and biomass gasification over other methods. Overall rankings show that hybrid thermochemical
cycles are primarily promising candidates to produce hydrogen in an environmentally benign and cost-effective way.
A second paper has moved from any use of standard fossil fuels:
“Hydrogen gas is a promising alternative energy source to overcome our reliance on carbon-based fuels, and has the benefit of producing only water when it is reacted with oxygen. However, hydrogen is highly reactive and flammable, so it requires careful handling and storage. Typical hydrogen storage materials are limited by factors like water sensitivity, risk of explosion, difficulty of control of hydrogen-generation. Hydrogen gas can be produced efficiently from organosilanes, some of which are suitably air-stable, non-toxic, and cheap. Catalysts that can efficiently produce hydrogen from organosilanes are therefore desired with the ultimate goal of realizing safe, inexpensive hydrogen production in high yield. Ideally, the catalyst should also operate at room temperature under aerobic conditions without the need for additional energy input.
A research team led by Kiyotomi Kaneda and Takato Mitsudome at Osaka University have now developed a catalyst that realizes efficient environmentally friendly hydrogen production from organosilanes. The catalyst is composed of gold nanoparticles with a diameter of around 2 nm supported on hydroxyapatite. The catalyst was synthesized from chloroauric acid using glutathione as a capping agent to prevent nanoparticle aggregation, resulting the formation of small size of gold nanoparticles. Glutathione-capped gold nanoparticles were then adsorbed on hydroxyapatite and glutathione was removed by subsequent calcination.
The team then added the nanoparticle catalyst to solutions of different organosilanes to measure its ability to induce hydrogen production. The nanoparticle catalyst displayed the highest turnover frequency and number attained to date for hydrogen production catalysts from organosilanes. For example, the nanoparticle catalyst converted 99% of dimethylphenylsilane to the corresponding silanol in just 9 min at room temperature, releasing an equimolar amount of hydrogen gas at the same time. Importantly, the catalyst was recyclable without loss of activity. On/off switching of hydrogen production was achieved using the nanoparticle catalyst because it could be easily separated from its organosilane substrate by filtration. The activity of the catalyst increased as the nanoparticle size decreased.
A prototype portable hydrogen fuel cell containing the nanoparticle catalyst and an organosilane substrate was fabricated. The fuel cell generated power in air at room temperature and could be switched on and off as desired. Images of the catalyst after use in the fuel cell resembled those of the unused catalyst, indicating that the hydroxyapatite-supported nanoparticle catalyst readily resisted aggregation.
Generation of hydrogen from inexpensive organosilane substrates under ambient conditions without additional energy input represents an exciting advance towards the goal of using hydrogen as a green energy source.
Does anyone consider how leak prone H2 is? Good thing it doesn’t BLEVE as dangerously as heavier gasses.
What Gore, Gates, & Schwab are too Arrogant to Admit
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/what-the-gore-gates-schwab-are-too-arrogant-to-admit/
Why do we let “them” to control our narrative? We fall for it again and again. No hope for humanity without Divine intervention. That’s an axiom…
This is well worth listening to and heeding for those interested in what will be the flavor of the next decade: ( (astrology)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wViYexxHHs&feature=youtu.be
Believe it or not, but it’s Zodiacal Fact: the NEW STAGE is Being Created by Heaven in the Sky.
The Stage of Origin, free for everybody, ready to mirror heaven by heart.
The first week of 2021 and the chances of Anthropos and Sophia in Us:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-new-stage-of-real-man.html
Celebrating Orthodox Christmas in Moscow, glorious singing and divine liturgy.
https://youtu.be/bjeNZ7SR7OQ
and
https://youtu.be/UnpUIPfF4S8
Can I ask the Astronomy followers who frequent the Cafe a simple question?
I’m not trying to be difficult or challenging, but it’s something anyone with a scientific method exposure is always going to think.
It’s this: how many, if any, forcasts from Astrology, at the end of 2019 and early 2020, forcast all, or indeed any part, of the events that swept the world during 2020?
They were massive – they had to have sent out huge frequency changes. Yet I’ve heard of almost no method of divinaiton which predicted them in any way. Tarot is for personal readings and doesn’t really count.
There is one Astrologer I’ve heard of, and read some of her predictions, called Jessica Brown, I think, who did.
But no others. So I am just curious.
Chinese astrology apparently predicted it:
My Chinese friend (who is really into astrology) warned me in January 2020, before the start of Chinese New Year, that the Year of the Rat will be a difficult one for everyone.
It happens every 12 years. Events are usually global. The last one was in 2008 when the stock market crashed, banks failed, and the “Great Recession” started…
Astrology is an art form which lives in the world of metaphor which means it can be as telling as ” a picture is worth a thousand works” or as foggy as “you can’t see the forest for the trees”.
Just because someone is not “big” on the internet does not mean that they are not very definitively effective in their own community or sphere of influence. So stick with this J. Brown and be safe or look at your own moment of birth chart, and open your eyes to wonder. Know also that there are stories about astrologers…like Elizabeth I who as a impetuous, teenage girl was kept imprisoned and feared for her own fate being linked to her mother, Anne Boleyn. Her medical doctor ( mostly astrology was an arcane science practiced by priests, doctors and other educated folks of the time) showed her when in time her “fate” might change for the better and urged her to patience. The rest coupled with a privy council of leading Protestants who took charge of the mercantile and banking future of England with her as their ruling symbol ( The Virgin Queen) is history.
Free will.? of course. but informed free will leads to better decisions sometimes.
Following Brexit, Britain softens the sanctions against Crimea. Whether this is a genuine step towards improving relations or an attempt to isolate China… Either way, it’s interesting since one would expect the EU to act first.
Google translate: After Brexit, the British government softened the sanctions regime against Crimea, according to a general license published on the website of the kingdom’s cabinet.
Now British ships are allowed to pay for the port services of the State Unitary Enterprise “Crimean Sea Ports”, namely the Kerch fishing port, Yalta and Yevpatoria trade ports. Also, the ban on payment for the services of the branch of the enterprise – “State Hydrography” and the port terminals of the “Crimean seaports” is lifted. The license came into effect on January 1.
Источник: https://rusvesna.su/news/1609956356
“…..since one would expect the EU to act first.”
Not so sure about that Ken. When the British Gov entered the EU, it ditched the Commonwealth nations. Australia and NZ at least suffered a heavy blow, and a bitterness against that Gov has persisted.
By leaving the EU the British are going to need new and big markets. I’d supect a slightly more rational approach to International Trade might be on the cards now. As Napoleon is supposed to have said “the English are a nation of Shopkeepers”.
Trade comes first.
Thank you, P.
I was being a bit sarcastic because I have been banging on about Brexit ushering important changes. The level of Russophobia in the UK is frightening but the British are relatively rational – they will look for deals where they can. This is not a bad thing and is a return to a more balanced foreign policy – as you say.
As Mr Lavrov notes, Germany is the main instigator of anti-Russian policie within the EU.
Is today’s Germany doing this on its own accord, or is it being made to by the US/NATO?
Paul Craig Roberts finally getting out of a long slumber regarding the “pandemic”
Covid Is an Orchestration for Serving an Agenda—The Destruction of Freedom
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/05/covid-is-an-orchestration-for-serving-an-agenda-the-destruction-of-freedom/
Craig Murray’s latest report on Assange case :
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/01/both-tortuous-and-torturous/
From it :
” …The logic of holding Julian now is simply not there, given the current legal position is that he is not being extradited. Furthermore this continuing raising and lowering of his spirits, and never-ending incarceration with no fixed limit, is destroying his fragile health. Baraitser has played cat and mouse this week. Julian is living his life in conditions both torturous and tortuous…..
…….Today’s judgement makes plain that whatever is happening with Monday’s judgement, it is not genuinely motivated by concern for Julian’s health. Yanis Varoufakis yesterday stated that the ultimate aim is still to kill Julian through the penal system. Nothing that happened today would contradict him…”
I watched the live feed of the crowd awaiting the verdict.
It is one big con that they pretend to care about people’s health.
Met police hassled and physically removed (dragged) a 92 year old man from outside the Westminister Magistrates Courts. He was there to support Julian … but because the police were so concerned about upholding CV lockdown, they had to remove this man and many others were removed in handcuffs because of health concerns.
Yet inside the Court the witch who 2 days earlier said that Julian could not be extradited because of his health, had no concerns about refusing bail and sending him back to the super max hell of Belmarsh were CV is raging.
Oh yes, under the cover of CV the powers are very concerned about people’s health. Under the heading of fear they can do anything to us.
A discussion on the verdict with Roger Waters, John Pilger and Alexander Mercouris :
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/06/watch-cn-live-freedom-denied-with-roger-waters-and-john-pilger/
Mercouris is quite hopeful that the appeal process will be expedited / over by early summer and that Assange would win in a higher court ( as Craig Murray has always maintained ). I suppose it’s better to win an appeal than to have Assange released on medical grounds with the charges left standing. The US would still have the opportunity to persuade another country to extradite him – with some BS deal promising to treat him kindly – Assange could never feel safe wherever he went..
Thanks for that link sandinED. Looking forward to seeing it.
I’ve been wondering too, lately, how much of how Britain is being viewed across the world for this might have affected the – I wont call it verdict – decision to declare Assange wont be extradited. Not, at least, unless the High Court overturn it.
This should have received more air space than it got – I doubt the mass of people in Britain saw it. But its here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg7aUnK3fnM
President Aliyev of Kazakhstan {and oh, how I value these small nations speaking truth to power, to coin a hackneyed phrase} – calling out a BBC journalist trying to say that there is no press freedom in his country.
need to press the “cc” button for subtitles, but oh so worth it.
Yes thanks Pamela, I saw that one – brilliant. These ‘ journalists ‘ can’t deal with facts – they’re very easily caught out by anyone with the guts to point out, which are after all, quite obvious facts. It’s good to see these people squirm.
Is it time for a constitutional convention?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates/
It appears that a band of mad as hell and wont take it anymore rebels has penetrated the capitol and are being rounded up as we speak, so there is nothing of significance to see here, you can move about your day.
Interesting, thanks for that Serbian Girl.
I once came across an Astrologer who combined East and West – thus are you an Aquarius Pig for example. I found her to be startlingly accurate about character; her predictions for my coming year were — well, maybe sort of there.
But most I have found predicted for the entire of 2020 with not one iota of what was to come. Perhaps, like so many forms reliant on intuition, it’s not the tool used, but the talent of the user. Those who just “read what they see” I suspect dont have much to say. Those who go into a “zone” and almost read in a semi trance, using the facts of cards or heavens as a door to open contact – they are possibly much better.
Wow, the demoncRat coup is a success it seems.
The gateway pundit and conservative treehouse will soon be censored along with a ton of twitter accounts.
From TGP.
“Twitter blocked distribution of the video claiming it was a risk for provoking violence, not allowing comments, likes, bookmarks or retweets. Only quote tweets are currently being allowed. Even so, the video has over six million views in less than twenty minutes of being posted at 4:17 p.m. EST.
Twitter added a warning stating, “This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, retweeted or liked due to a risk of violence.””
““I understand there’s a 16-year-old young woman who was shot. Now maybe she was doing terrible things and deserved to be shot,” Schlapp said”
“The Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller has said that he discussed deployment of National Guard to the Capitol protest with Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer — but not President Donald Trump.
It is being reported that Pence was the one who ultimately activated the National Guard, not President Trump.”
3 different articles all showing how the color revolution in the 🍌 republic of usa is winning and the rayzizz huwhite supremacist tRump and his voters/”enablers” will be hunted down and punished.
Soon kamela leg spreader harris will reign over the pogrom of the deplorable non-woke “terrorists”.
No Rule of Law=Failed State/tyranny🤷♂️
What is absolutely astonishing about all this theater, is that the elites are doing the same things…over, and over, and over…And it seems to keep on delivering without any glitches.
It is like Bollywood movies; the same cast, the same script, the same location, etc., and a certain audience just can’t get enough of it and doesn’t mind the monotony
Kinzaza, they control all the communication mediums, the education mediums, the sports mediums, advertizing, entertainment, and even medical pill pushing mediums, lock stock and barrel. What they don’t control, for now, is this space and others like it. But as you point out there is no shortage of stupid lemmings yearning for a cliff.
Cheers, M
Hi All,
I’ve set up a GoFundMe account, where friends of ioan may make donations. Please dig deep and hopefully we can make a difference.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/donations-for-ioan?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
Wonderful and thank you so much Dimitar for doing the thinking and finger work around this account.
We have approximately a 3 month period to cover to get ioan over the hump and get him the help that he needs. So guys, gather around the watercooler and dig up what you can, and use this account. I will be paying in my bit in a bit, and 2 other bits that was given me for this purpose. Any income from The Saker’s booksales will be dedicated to the Ioan account. So this is already a group effort for us.
Let’s extend this to a big group effort.
If you cannot use the GoFundMe Account, please get in touch with me, there may be another method or two but this one seemed the right one and will fit most circumstances. We are an international bunch.
Again, thanks Dimitar and other folks that helped already, for the Cafe’ista Ioan Account.
You’re welcome, amarynth. We want to make a difference in someone’s life, someone dear to us, and the only way we can do so is a group effort, so please help, all who can in whatever capacity, it will be appreciated beyond words. Blessings, and love, D.
the true artist
never takes the path of
least resistance
Gulls flying in grey fog
Movement in the dense stillness
Send love while you can
Well, I finally broke my attention to only writing a Haiku in the correct, consonant format of seventeen syllables, as I liked this one too much, and added another… never forget, what is forbidden, grows in interest unseen . . .
What you’ve written has a mysterious quality and lends itself to a little bit of ‘speculation’, which I like,
thank you C’est moi. I wouldn’t worry too much about the syllable count.
Sometimes the extra syllable is necessary…
what is the price of wisdom?
the price of life is death
and the prize of death is life
Amarynth and Dimitar The Ioan- GoFundMe Account is in AUD. I have only € uros. Have you not really thought gurrency exchangecosts and exchangerates.
To make a donation I must buy AUDs. To get the exchangecosts of the bank or the credit card company under 10% I must send minimum 1000€s. Then GoFundMe takes about 8%. In Aussi 2.2%. Finally you must buy HUFs ??%. I think the total fee is too much.
I have not forgotten my promise to Ioan spring 2020. I had 20 a year old PIII pc. Banks and e-mail provider made updates and I was out bc PIII do not have SSE2 feature and newer browsers requires that.
Please, let me know the best way to donate and pay books ( minimum fees).. Europay inside € -area no cost. Have you €-account?
What about this multicurrency service?
https://transferwise.com/gb/pricing/borderless-convert?source=EUR&target=HUF&payInMethod=BALANCE&sourceAmount=1000
https://transferwise.com/gb/multi-currency-account/
https://transferwise.com/gb/multi-currency-account/pricing
This is somewhat out of my depth re: currencies… the account was so difficult to set up, just little things that didnt work and had to be re-done ad infinatum. They asked for a 15% of my initial deposit of $100… I changed that to %01 ( I think you can alter the amount they receive, ie; they offer “suggestions” of 15%, but you have the option “Other”, so you can lower how much GoFundMe actually gets )…
Amarynth, can you help Anonym with his enquiry above? I know you have mentioned a few other options.
Re: currency transfers, I’m sorry. In setting up the site, there was nothing re: this issue. Might I suggest contacting Ioan himself, he may be willing to pass on his account to you directly. I have it, and have been making deposits in Euroes, paying the exchange rate from AUD etc. up till now. It’s unweildy, I know, but that’s the world we live in. I keep the goal in mind first and foremost, it gives me the staying power.
I have a full few days ahead, but will be looking at the whole issue once again Monday, Aussie time, so please be patient Anonym, for now.
Dimitar do not be sorry. My komment was a notice not criticism. My purpose was not to make you or anybody sad. Your account works fine for the people (in Australia) who have and use AUDs.
Here in austerityeurope one must have learned to cut the unnecessary costs
I think we ought to build a system to avoid more than one exchancecost per the same amount.
I suppose; if I pay (from €-area to Ioan-account) with the debitcard the bank debits the exchancecosts and with the creditcard the cardcompany.
They want to take tips.
They take fees: https://www.gofundme.com/pricing#AU (2,2%)
https://www.gofundme.com/pricing#FI (7,6%)
https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043215172-Why-am-I-receiving-less-than-I-expected-in-my-withdrawals-
https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/203604424-GoFundMe-Fees
Anonym, you can use the Patreon account – https://www.patreon.com/TheSaker
Just make a clear note on there for me that this is a contribution to ioan.
And then go back into the account that you set up, and make it 0, so that they do not inadvertently take it as a monthly account.
Amarynth
Do you think that your answer was serious?
Those alternatives have been on the wall of the sakerblog years and there are reasons why I have not used them. The reasons have not disapeared.
Not one of them have been useable.
Patreon looks to be the most terrible of them all.
Patreon is typical american wellprofiting “sh*rk”busines. It downvalues € against $ with 16.4%+ 3.4%(Flexible processing fees Standard rate 3.4% + €0.35) +2.5% (a 2.5% currency conversion fee) = 22.3%
So they debit 223 € if I send 1000 € via them.
Patreon exchangerate 100€ = 105.8 $ /Creator Currency is USD
How tiers are converted into other currencies
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044469871
Official Stocholm 8.1.2021 100€ = 122.2 $
https://www.svd.se/bors/valuta.php
Then VAT-issue. They debit 24% salestax and send that to my government.
+240€ less to Ioan or to community
Sales Tax on Patreon for Patrons
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043055071-Sales-Tax-on-Patreon-for-Patrons
One notable exception is the EU, where we are currently required to apply tax (VAT) all payments regardless of whether the patron is receiving any benefits. We are working with EU tax authorities to secure reductions and exemptions for support-based payments in the future.
Do you think that this is good to the donators to the sakercommunity and to Ioan??
I forgot to say .. anyone who wants to donate in one of the major cryptocurrencies, contact me at the email on the bottom of the page, and I am able to receive it, sell it, and pay it into ioan’s GoFundMe account.
Just left some widgets, not sure if it went through, I’ll check back later, wasn’t able to leave message…..likely opperator error :) age thing on my part.
All the best ioan……..with you in thought and prayer.
Cheers, M
M,
same here – I pressed donate – then there was no acknowledgement that it had gone through. ( I didn’t want to do it again in case it came out twice.) I’ll check a bit later – if nothing showing I’ll try again.
Hi sean and sandinED,
Thanks so much for helping out. My admin and I set up the site yesterday, @ GoFundMe. We experienced difficulties in the process, meaning all our effort went into setting up the site and so I’m not up on the finer details of matters such as what’s involved with the various currencies. All of this is a process, and a learning curve on my behalf. I’d recommend making donations in AU dollars as that’s the currency that GoFundMe automatically set the account up in, obviously because I’m in Australia. Thank you to all who’ve made donations. I will make every effort to make sure no one loses money, btw. what is a widget and more importantly, it must translate into regular dollars, right? In Spirit, D.
PS… I’m not expecting anyone to lose money, just trying to guarantee that all donations find their home.
Also, I have a request… would those of you who have various social media platforms such as Facebook be willing to include the link and help with promotion of our current cause? Ok, trying to cover all issues here, so…
Had a second go at the donation, it worked this time. Widget: small unspecified mechanical device, having no real name. Used colloquially in Ireland it means ‘funny money’ (counterfeit), well isn’t it all. Really appreciate what you are doing for ioan, truly in the Spirit.
Cheers
Hi Dimitar,
I tried again and it looked like it was going through ( lights moving on donate button ) but still no acknowledgement that it went through so I don’t think it did. To complicate things my bank has withdrawn my access to online banking ( apparently I wasn’t using it enough ) so I can’t check.
Never fear, I’ll check my account balance / try again – I’m sure I’ll get it done in the end :-)
Sorry to hear about the problems you’re having, sandinED. There was no anticipation of these problems in the set-up process, ( nothing was offered as to how to avoid these potential issues such as people posting from overseas accounts, different currencies etc. ). I wish I could offer a quick solution. I’ll be meeting with my ‘admin’ again early this week , and I’ll give him a run-down on the problems. I’ve received the notification from GoFundMe re: the withdrawals, so we’ll be setting that up, so we can begin to get the funds to Ioan. Is amarynth’s alternative offer any good; ie; through ‘Patreon’ here at the Saker?
Dimitar,
thanks – don’t worry – I’ll get it done one way or another. I think the first time it may just have been my computer freezing – it’s having trouble installing updates – so that happens. The second time was different – I thought it had worked – but there would be a message confirming wouldn’t there ?
So I’m just going to check my account before I try again. I’ll try gofundme one more time – and if that doesn’t work I’ll look into Patreon.
Thanks Dimitar – sorry to be a pest.
Sand
… Twitter messes with Trump …
“Scorched Earth It Is” ft. Rich Baris 1/6/21
https://youtu.be/OPw81KKU2AA?t=879
(timed video)
Taking a short break from the US’s problems. I heard about an awesome new Russian war movie.It’s supposed to be coming out in the West soon.But I saw a Russian language copy of it on YouTube.I wish it had subs,but for those that speak Russian,the reviews in English I read on it were very good.Its the true story of a military cadet school of several thousand students sent to help defend Moscow from the Nazi invasion. I found a tailor in English here.But the movie is in Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bclW9pqiUI&ab_channel=Russianmovietrailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpdoFZaCQH0&fbclid=IwAR1pK-uudIZ53sntjmaltu-2oy9dYL4Jv_NZD2HPXeUnbf5wWTX1alKRFrQ&ab_channel=AnBo%3A%5C
Thanks, Uncle Bob; trailer looked interesting but could not open full movie video-copyright issues so it was pulled.
In the spirit trying to find a distraction,
I did find “Tankers,” relatively realistic 1.5 hrs about Russian captain/hero tanker which was based upon true account, dressed up a tad. Might be of interest, in Russian, but had subs. Lots of action, “davai davai, ogon, ogon” ,complete with love story with Captain’s wife as engineer/mechanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml02iaS7soM
“Inspired by real events, Tankers tells the story of one KV-1 tank crew’s heroic WWII victory. Having a losing fight, the crew of Semyon Konovalov destroyed 16 enemy tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 vehicles with enemy personnel near Nizhnemityakin farm in Tarasovskoye district of Rostov region. This is the story of not the poster heroes, but broken, cheerful, and very diverse guys who just wanted to live. At the decisive moment they managed to do the only right thing and performed the deed worthy of the legend.”
… Real Time 360 video of the Aurora Borealis over Otto Lake, Alaska …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0ro71W2Fc
(make full screen and with mouse click hold, move the video as you wish)
Location : Home >> TV Series >> Lost in Space >> Impact …
[S1E1] Impact …
https://soap2day.cc/episode_aTozNTQ4MDs.html
On Facebook today Dmitry Orlov writes:
” Worried you might be a crow. Or a raven. Or perhaps a Bluejay?. We here at Corvid Testing are here to answer any and all questions you might have about suddenly becoming a bird – human. Corvid Testing. We’re here for you”.
Below is a photo from somehwere in America, of a lightbox direction with arrow reading CORVID TESTING !!!
At least some humour is still making the rounds. :-)
OK, wait for it .. humor comes in strange packages. This, from the technical side of the house.
“Due to travel restrictions this year the United States had to organize the coup at home.”
Lol. Love it. I think it’s going up on my FB page.
Love it Amarynth…black comedy aye…at least we still have this to cling to!
And so the idiot in chief turns out not to be content with a hat-trick [losing the presidency and both houses] to the most woeful opposition in the history of US politics…indeed he has to go much further than that.
He then promises the mob that he has called to march on Capital Hill that he will join them but immediately back-tracks and slinks back down Pennsylvania Ave in his armor-plated vehicle to the safety of the White House where he can cower in complete safety and watch the mob he incited risk their lives as they storm Capital Hill. Has there ever been a more naked exhibition of cowardice by a leader in humanities history?
He then throws his most loyal [read dumb-arse] supporter [Pence] under the bus by insisting he interferes with the progression of a ceremonial formality that he cannot alter anyway. This of course would be tantamount to the MC at the Oscars attempting to change the winners when his sole task is to simply announce the name on the piece of paper he is handed.
Believing that Pence could alter what was already decided is just another example of the astonishingly infantile alternative reality that tRump resides in.
In cricket, a bowler taking three wickets in a row is known as a hat-trick and it is NORMALLY your opposition doing the damage, not your own team members! Four wickets in a row is a double hat-trick so I assume 5 wickets down might be a treble hattrick.
I would suggest that tRump is definitely on a treble hat-trick and every single wicket lost is because of his seemingly infinite incompetence as a player….at the risk of mixing metaphors the soccer equivalent would be own-goals…5 OF THEM!!! …gee I’m actually beginning to lose count…so let’s see…how many wickets/own-goals is it now…
#1 The keys to the White House when he was challenged by arguably the weakest opponent in the history of US politics.
#2 The majority in Congress
#3 The majority in the Senate after he and his idiotic VP went down to Georgia to ‘HELP’!!!!
#4 Throwing his most loyal supporter [Pence] under the bus and moronically expecting him to overturn a fait accompli when his role is simply a ceremonial announcement.
#5 Orchestrating the events yesterday and subsequently proving to the whole world that he is a dangerous cowardly half-wit and simply cannot be entrusted with any office let alone that of POTUS.
So let’s see now… 3 wickets is a hat-trick, 4 is a double hat-trick, 5 I will call a treble hat-trick. In trepidation, I await #6 and ponder if he can even outdo himself…again!
I notice too, that cabinet has begun resigning their posts…akin to rats leaving a sinking ship…perhaps a procession of rats would constitute #6…after that, I have no predictions as there is absolutely no end to the possibilities when this lunatic is involved.
YCHMTSU
Col
If the US legal system wasn’t almost as dysfunctional as the executive and legislative branches of Government, tRump would be immediately arrested and incarcerated without bail on 4 charges of manslaughter due to the coup he cowardly orchestrated yesterday.
This would remove him as a continued global threat to humanity and set an example to budding psychopaths that you simply can no longer behave like this.
Trump’s an actor, everything is scripted, the selection, the take down, the coming break up. Sorry, but anyone thinking what has/is taking place in the US this past four years, heck the last 30 yrs; a geriatric president, a disfunctional off spring president, a playboy president, a gay boy president, and then Trump, all organic? Just happened by chance?
Now if you happened to take in Slow Joe’s victory lap and speech today, you, like me, heaved a sigh of relief. He has everything under control, all the ‘right’ people in place and things will be back to normal by the 22nd.
Thank God the good people of the USA have seen the error of their ways and elected a great president. Brings hope the next four years will be peaceful and tranquil…….
Cheers, M
I’ve read about the recent court ruling regarding Julian Assange. And then I found this:
Regarding the capitalized part, I’d be tempted to raise questions about the quantity of English/British Empire/UK atrocities relative to German ones (e.g. which of the two powers did more than the other overall within the same time frame?) to be sure he’s not lying. How inappropriate would it be to ask? What’s the likelihood that I’ll get accused of whataboutism?
The English are genetically Franco-German. Recent Britain wide DNA studies found that all of those in Britain with the exception of the Celts of Mid and North Cymru, are on average 45% North France and 35% Saxon Germanic.
So – the similarity if spite and violence would seem to be linked.
My original idea was thinking in terms of the political/national level, at least to the degree that Anglo-Saxon/English society deviated from continental German society. Sorry if I wasn’t clear before.
It’s OK. I tend to think in terms of the Ruling Predator Class – no which nation or Genetic type we’re looking at is without.
We have to again, avoid “siloisation”, putting people in a silo labelled English; German; French; Russian etc etc. There ARE silo’s of course, as we know, but not of identical types within each silo, as if the people were grains of wheat.
There are those who vibrate at a very low frequency, and are little more than very bright animals, and through the spectrum are the entire rainbow of frequencies, of better and better of intellect, but more of soul, of spiritual values, empathy, decency. And this rainbow of frequencies is present in EVERY silo.
When we are talking at the national – international political level, I suspect the frequency in all of the Collective West nations is much the same, – and right now throughout the Collective West it is very low frequency, non-empaths with a vicious, spiteful streak, the malign Stupid, who seem to be ruling. They are also setting the tone for the culture in which all are embedded. {We see this difference now in Russia, where not only are very high frequency people the national top leaders, but more and more it is being reported that this is “seeping down” to the entire culture. There are increasing reports that people are finding others to be more kind, thoughtful, generous, etc}.
I dont know, I confess, anything much about that frequency of Ruling Predator Class in the German silo — but I surely do know that for pure vicious, meaningless spite, the Predator Class among the English takes some beating. In fact, I think they are on par with the Occupying Zionist Force in Palestine. What they are doing to Julian Assange is a case in point.
There have been others down thru history.
Which, I might add, I believe has given rise to the so-called “Left” movement. You can’t go on treating people more unfortunate than yourself, as the English Ruling Class did, and not expect them to rise up against you, for their very lives.
If I tell any Anglo’s I know that the very young dont go to prison for carrying a few tokes of marijuana, and the elderly are not imprisoned at all here in Ecuador, they stare at me in stunned disbelief. Their minds just cant seem to grasp the notion of understanding context and having mercy where it is either deserved or needed.
However, when the Saxons invaded the Island of Cymru, calling it Angle-land after themselves you could see the difference with their “justice”.
In both England and Cymru the worst crime, in that time of physical striving for life, back in even the 1100 -1200’s, was theft.
In Saxon [i.e. Germanic], England, if you were convicted of theft, you were hung. Period. Reason not examined.
However, over the border, in “Wales” the reasons were examined. In Cymru, you were not executed if you were stealing food, and could show that you had not eaten for 3 days; if you believed that what you were accused of taking was rightfully yours; if you could show you had taken something in error and there was good reason to believe you could not have realised it. There were other ameliorating circumstances. There might be smaller punishments, or even excused all punishment.
The difference of the Germanic Saxon is clear to see. But whether it still holds, or they have learned better – I truly do not know.
Come to think of it, last time I checked England uses Common Law, while Ecuador and Germany use Civil Law (not sure what the system in Wales in the time period you’re describing was). Do you reckon this makes the difference?
Here we go – bans on Ivermectin :
https://www.globalresearch.ca/first-country-bans-ivermectin-lifesaver-covid-us-next/5733764
https://www.globalresearch.ca/south-african-drugs-regulator-bans-miracle-covid-19-treatment-unsafe/5733766
Amid constant repetition of “. vaccines are the only way out of this..”. The brainwashing has worked – almost everyone I talk to is desperate to take a vaccine
Isn’t a crime that people are being denied safe prevention and treatment ?
They will not ban this in South Africa. This is a rural country. They need Invermectin for animals as a start. The court cases already started, i.e., if the health of whatever minister woman goes through with the ban, they will hold her personally responsible for every single case where ivermectin is not available.
A town in South Africa is one of the towns that I monitor .. one in the southern hemisphere, one in the northern hemisphere.
That is what makes this site unique. We have the local knowledge or the contacts.
Thanks – that’s good to know.
I am in the Northwest Province of South Africa at the moment. The local vet says he is inundated with requests for Ivermectin. He is sourcing wherever he can. The concern is the liquid version is being used and there is some concern about dosages. However there are a few local doctors who are asking people who want to use it to consult with them or any doctor first. Despite government threats Ivermectin is being used.
Local news also reported that a man was arrested arriving from Dubai with almost 3000 Ivermectin tablets. This is the only arrest as far as I know.
“Agafya’s new home – a simple one-storey hut as she requested – had to be assembled in the city of Abakan first, with logs numbered, and then dismantled to shorten the building time.
The recluse’s area is in the remote, hardly-accessible part of the Sayan mountains, so it was easier to bring the house part by part rather than to deliver building material.
At least 18 air-boat shipments will have to be made to deliver the new house.
The construction will be complete early in 2021.”
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/russias-loneliest-woman-hermit-agafya-lykova-to-get-new-home-in-the-wild/
there is a satirical cartoonist that seldom miss and is Way funnier then the french muslim baiter cartoonists.
“they” say there is a stonetoss comic for every situation, i agree with “them” for once.
https://twitter.com/V8POW/status/1347002947448795137
(http://stonetoss.com/comic/safety-on/)
(just delete if i break any rules adm, stonetoss is one of the few fun political cartoon guys left imho)
re: a link posted by teraman13 re: forecast for 2021
Listen to what Kaufmann says at @18:00:
“As matter of fact I wrote down, I do think that a second American Revolution is about to spark in 2021 and it’s going to spread like wildfire around the planet because it’s not just going to be us. All right, this is what I mean
by ‘the spark heard around the World’
2021 – “The Spark Heard Around the World”. Astrology forecast and predictions for 2021 & the 2020’s (2:11:13) https://youtu.be/3wViYexxHHs
This also confirms what I’ve suspected would eventually happen to the USA ever since the fall of the USSR in 1991 – which is pretty much that the USA would get its karma*. Without going into the detail, I’ve given reasons before how I happen to know that history is on the side of Putin & the Russian Federation (which I didn’t understand until late 2019 when an American, ironically enough, reminded me of the private revelations of our Lady of Fatima – badly misunderstood by both by RC’s and Orthodox Christians alike)
… and it also confirms the posts that Mundano regularly shares with us here in the Cafe
For those interested in listening to Kaufmann’s predictions, it’s important to remember a couple of things:
1 that Aquarius is the sign of fellowship (in the true sense of that word) like brotherly love
2 that the stars & the planets do not cause things here on Earth to happen – but correspond with happenings
3 that the old ways (of thinking and behaving) have to ‘die out’ for the new to come in. In other words (even tho this process may take til 2025 – early 2026) before we can actually see these changes – there is great cause for optimism over the next decade
4 lastly, as I’ve said before, it’s important that we don’t allow our vibration (or spirits) to drop in despair – the power of positive thinking (the title of a 1952 Norman Vincent Peale self-help book) can actually facilitate in ushering in this new era
* I’d explained before how the Anglo-Zionist empire schemed to bankrupt & bring down Central Industrialism, not Communism in the USSR – what Putin has called ‘the greatest geopolitical calamity’ (words to the effect) in the last century
1 after infiltrating the Vatican in 1958, assassinating Pope John Paul, to install the Polish John Paul II to work as a lightning rod to end Soviet rule in Warsaw Pact nations
2 to fund & arm the Mujaheddin 6 months before the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to drag the USSR into a 10 year – quagmire (referred to as the Soviets’ Vietnam)
3 to flood the market with gold after the Soviets had stockpiled it
4 by the use of propaganda of the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Starwars) to get the Soviets to spend billions of rubles on wasted research
Hope this helps moving forward
I should’ve added that Kaufmann’s forecast dovetails with CAF’s analysis that the PTB are “using this Election to create the conditions for a civil war” (words to effect)
The best hope for the Americans now is for the states to secede & break-up into 4 / 5 different countries (New England, the historical North, the historical South, the Midwest & the West Coast) – “each still working in synergy with each other” – prophesied by a Native American Indian (whose name I forget) back in the 80’s
For example, if California were to go it alone – by state GDP, it would be the 5th biggest economic unit in the world (bigger than France, Italy & Russia), Texas and New York state would be the equal 10th biggest.
Hope this helps out moving forward
Hi T
If something like this does happen then a fundamental prerequisite would be to constitute completely new banking and central banking models which would by design permanently exclude any possibility of these new sovereign entities degenerating into dysfunctional kleptocracies such as the current US model. This would include a complete rethink of the way money and debt are created.
I would suggest that any entity contemplating these new blueprints should begin by reading ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ followed by absolutely everything Ellen Brown has ever written on the subject of banking. After that Ellen should be commissioned to guide them in creating their new models.
If they don’t make this subject the starting point of the entire movement then there is no point in even attempting any form of succession.
All the very best from down under
Col
“This would include a complete rethink of the way money and debt are created. You’re right ion the money Col (pun intended) – it would be an essential starting point
And (not or) they’d have to closely monitor the role of Perfidious Albion’s City of London – always ready to pervert everything that is good, wholesome and holy
Kind regards
T
…“using this Election to create the conditions for a civil war”
….much food for thought T!
And there were so many signs too that the storming of Capital hill was almost a bipartisan project. My call is… yes indeed this idiotic plot was formulated by the moronic TIC but maybe when the Demos found out they actually proceeded to oil the wheels to let it play out in full, realizing full well that tRump was actually cluelessly digging his own political grave.
Or is the bipartisan observation completely irrelevant anyway since the different affiliates are an illusion simply because TPTB/Deep State are puppet masters and by definition not politically partisan?
What I struggle with is, apart from the anticipation of some opportunistic looting, why would on earth would TPTB want to break up the Union anyway…their massive looting remains in full swing in the status quo.
Besides just as the 3Ns have demonstrated that it is child’s play to control one huge block [the EU] rather than 20 plus individual unruly sovereign entities. Surely the very same thinking would dissuade them from hastening the breaking up the US?
T, I am really just thinking out loud here but I am struggling…can you help me out here?
Also, I am trying desperately not to be reduced to a sad state of unbridled ‘stream of consciousness’ babbling…perish the thought…LOL.
Col
Great question, Col
TPTB are very, very clever – devilishly clever – and are well practiced. They’ve been doing this kind of thing for centuries! When they want to make social change – they don’t do it themselves – they persuade/influence the people to do it for them (saves them money, haha!)
If they want to bring in the Strong Cities Network https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/strong-cities/member-cities/
– a global police force trained by the Israeli Defense (Occupation) Force – they arrange & fund street protests demanding “Defund The Police” after the George Floyd death in Minneapolis
If they want to control the future – they get mobs of people to tear down statues of historical figures (called ‘Cancel Culture’ protests). Why? Because “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” – Orwell
So, because the PTB have hollowed out the assets of the US Federal Government (USG) whose deficit (not total debt) will be $3 – 6 trillion (thats a ‘3’ to a ‘6’ with 12 zeroes after it) after Trump’s presidency – the only way for the USG to also abscond from tits liabilities – US bonds, veterans pensions, life pensions, healthcare premiums, etc, etc – is to get the people of the individual states / groups of states to implode the USG itself (which will be done by petitions of secession) – and voila! – the statutory entity no longer exists that can pay out on their legal liabilities to the people
So what the ignorant, unintelligent Americans dont realize is that they’re condemning themselves and their children to poverty! They’re signing their own financial death warrants!!!! (This will take another 4 -5 years to fully usher in – it wont happen overnite)
She explains the above in this i/view. But be warned Greg Hunter isn’t a very good i/viewer as he clearly doesnt know what questions to ask her. She on the other hand is brilliant
18 December, Reset Means Digital Control System (47:09) https://youtu.be/bmKLUJ0_tUM
KInd regards
PS The Chinese are aware of this too btw, which is why they’re reducing their holdings in US T-bonds (Treasury Bonds)
Great interview T…even it is conducted by this clown. Thankfully he actually keeps out of the way most of the time.
CAF to a large degree shares my view…[paraphrased]…
“There are approximately 3100 counties in the US and the problem has to be solved from the bottom up. The Federal credit mechanism operates outside of the law. You cannot have all of the Federal money being spent outside of the law with behaviour outside of the law and think you are going to get anywhere whatsoever by changing the President.”
I will add to this…you simply cannot have a functioning democracy in these conditions either. This is a kleptocracy pure and simple. Expecting to have fair elections at any level is farcical. Indeed it is equally as ludicrous as expecting either a Biden or Trump ‘win’ to alter the course of the Titanic.
I am convinced that there would have been massive skulduggery on both sides in this election…it is simply a case of… on the day the ‘best’ and most effective cheat won. This is absolutely the only result [an incredibly inept puppet being elected] you could possibly expect in a system built from the ground up on a neo-feudal kleptocracy…it is utterly farcical to expect anything else.
For me, the only certainty in all of this is that until the FED is dismembered the US will degenerate into social and financial chaos. As a huge bloated unwieldy Union which has repeatedly proven itself to be completely dysfunctional at an executive, legislative, and judicial level, reform cannot happen without the dissolution of the Union itself. The corollary is that elections are little more than kabuki theatre staged to further confuse, divide, and to enable them to continue to thieve from Mainstreet.
The ground-up county by county progression that CAF suggests will be so long and slow that I can see them being overtaken by social and financial anarchy which will demand a much faster solution. This surely will be based on succession to independent sovereign states and will inevitably be an extremely traumatic and dangerous process. However, the succession of states scenario would also have to start at the individual level.
What I think we saw over the last few days is simply more theatre that merely gives the appearance of having its two-party factions. In reality, it was really nothing of the sort. It was just another Deep State initiative in which they oil the wheels to break the Union under their own terms and time frame.
They then can go about setting the stage to dissolve all Federal debt obligations and entrap Mainstreet with some completely new and equally distasteful monetary system on a much more local individual basis. As an added bonus they went a long way towards neutering Trump as a political force which will further enable them to achieve their goals in a more orderly fashion.
Clearly, Trump was cluelessly in their camp anyway as evidenced by his cabinet appointments and so much of his policy which clearly served the plutocracy. The problem for TPTB was not whether or not Trump worked for them…it was simply that he himself had no clue whatsoever and became more and more of an unpredictable embarrassment for the Establishment in plying their trade.
We could all spend the next 4, 8, 12, or 107 years arguing the toss about party politics and remain as slaves to the plutocracy permanently or we could use this opportunity to begin the real debate…that is, what are the political and financial models that will replace the existing one with which is clearly rotten from its foundation up. Also, what is the logical starting point with which to begin implementing them?
In my view, this was a seminal interview with CAF as she broke new ground in not only identifying the root cause of the decay in the global financial landscape but also suggested some helpful starting points for reform. These must begin for us all at the individual level for any hope of success.
I absolutely salute Catherine. This is a dangerous road to travel when you speak the most profound and distasteful home-truths as directly as this brave lady does.
Cheers
Col
Glad you enjoyed it Col
Im deeply indebted to amarynth for introducing me to Catherine
Agree with all your points
re: Trump, its always difficult to discern the difference between incompetence and something more sinister. I’d like to think he was just a useful idiot, but the fact that one of his sponsor’s the American zionist Rupert Murdoch gave him energy him in FOX’s animated TV series ‘The Simpson’s’ several times over the years – makes me deeply suspicious
This is just one example of what Im referring to:
Lisa Simpson: “As you know we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump …” (1:07)
https://youtu.be/ZtparSnQhFc
Just too many to be sheer coincidence:
15 Times The Simpsons Predicted The Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10vg90ZIy8
(this compilation doesn’t incl. the coronavirus episode either, btw)
Regards
The US has entered active collapse stage. A few notes here: /nativity-of-our-lord-and-open-thread/#comment-894106
There was discussion previously on the two major principles of western medicine .. ‘terrain’ theory and what was called ‘germ’ theory at the time.
These days we understand that terrain is a strong immune system and this happens when you keep your physicality healthy and a lot of luck. But we also understand that there are ‘germs’ (to use the old language) that are not friendly and use the human and animal physicality as a host for their own opportunity to thrive.
I got curious about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Traditional Indian Medicine (Ayurveda), as both these disciplines are way older than the western historical discussions and I wanted to see where they stand in terms of ‘terrain’ and ‘germ’ theories. Needless to say, this does not exist per se in those very old health disciplines.
But what exists is a new flowering of both of these two health protocols.
China is teaching their children about TCM. (OK, I don’t like the way they are doing it, but nevertheless I’m going to watch this series for kids if I can find it in English) https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212130.shtml
Still on TCM : “In a recently published study, Chinese and German researchers have suggested that Shufeng Jiedu capsules, a patented herbal drug composed of eight medicinal plants, might be “a promising herbal therapy for moderate COVID-19,” as the Xinhua News Agency reported in November.”
Finally on TCM, the herbs and roots are grown in specific soil – and mostly harvested by hand and then further dried and hand crafted. About 10 years ago there was an initiative in the US to start growing roots and herbs for TCM. If you go this way, get the real stuff.
India has published Traditional Indian Medicine Guidelines To Build COVID Immunity.
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/traditional-indian-medicine-guidelines-to-build-covid-immunity-published/
Expect a tremendous rise in learning the use of herbs, spices, medicinal essential oils and basically everything in God’s Pharmacy worldwide, as a result of the US entering active collapse stage.
One more note that is important. I see those that dabble in alternative health modalities truly not understanding these these modalities are strongly based on process and on a complete protocol. Eating this thing or trying that thing does not make anyone knowledgable on an alternative health modality. There is protocol here and full protocol needs to be followed, otherwise you’re just nibbling on apricot pips.
A full protocol will first depend on a health history. This will include emotional trauma. A full protocol in the naturopath/osteopath tradition (the one that I know), may use elements from herbology, spices, perhaps some homeopathy using true metaphysical principles, dietary guidelines and sometimes ‘must do’ dietary things like exclusion diets, cleanses, and so on. I always joke and say we even use poisons sometimes, like Belladonna, or perhaps what others call drugs. It is not a ‘eat this’ or ‘drink that’ pick ‘n choose menu.
These days we use a lot of frequency healing and I’ve spoken before about my Spooky2 frequency generator. Spooky as in Spooky Action at a Distance. This may include plasma and even scalar methods. For me this was very hard to learn, but nowadays I use it like a pro – its been some years of study.
I wanted to say this, so that people start learning respect for the complementary medicinal and health protocols and understand that they probably don’t understand any one protocol. If folks are willing to learn, I would suggest choose a complementary protocol that you like, perhaps naturopathy, or Ayurveda, or frequency and learn any one modality really well. These methods truly depend on something like stepping into an old fashioned apprenticeship – and for this learning, you would need a good ‘master’ in the chosen modality.
Let me give a simple example. Someone complains of indigestion – a simple thing – drink two or three glasses of good water and that will probably deal with it. This is like eating only apricot pips for cancer. There are many reasons for indigestion and the cause must be dealt with. So, a good alternative practitioner will delve into the when where and how – find cause and deal with cause. Sometimes one overlays the other. Sometimes it is only a question of wrong food. Sometimes it may mean emotional searching, exclusion diets, adding probiotics, fasting, cleansing routines, sometimes herxheimer’s reactions (which I avoid mostly with slower processes) and more.
I would encourage people to find their modality and learn it well or find a good practitioner that can assist in hard times coming. And learn to make your own medicines. Here is one – for general health, artery health and bloodpressure. (My mom is now up there in age, and nobody yet could talk her into anything chemical for bloodpressure – Age is considered a disease these days).
Here is the recipe – all powdered of course ..
2 parts good hopefully organically grown Cayenne pepper (heart, bloodpressure, veins and artery medicine)
1 part cinnamon (get real cinnamon – Ceylon cinnamon – and not Cassia – this is an anti-inflammatory as main function)
1 part Tumeric (Curcuma Longa) – Curcumin is simply the part of Tumeric that makes it yellow. Main function as an antioxidant)
(This specific combination is also a mood regulator).
Mix those together – shake it up in a closed container and take a tablespoon every morning. My mom is used to it and sprinkles over her breakfast. I’m fussy and take the time to encapsulate this and take two 500mg capsules when I feel it necessary for a week or so. My husband takes this daily as a blood pressure regulator. It will take a few days to kick in.
One last thing. Pamela posted a link for C60 recently, which is a specific carbon. This is wonderful stuff for the full aging palette, but there is only one reliable supplier out of the US. This is it: https://c60purplepower.com/
It is also expensive – do not buy the cheap stuff as we’ve had any old carbon soaked out in oil and pretending to be real C60 all over this landscape. This is fully worth exploring as a basic medicine – what was called in old times, a general tonic. It is believed that this carbon 60 reduces telomere shrinking, a normal aging thing. Go read up on it. (And if you cannot afford it, go take an icebath every few days – will do similar things for those telomeres :-)
Prep for collapse folks.
Could I add a couple more things amarynth? One is that some alternative therapists claim that the bio-availability of turmeric is greatly enhanced by heating for 6 to 8install at just below boiling and adding ground black pepper which greatly aids uptake. Whether this is disputed by others is don’t know. The other supplement which really is a “miracle herb” is Ashwaganda. This truly has been examined by modern cell science for it mode of action so as well as having been used in Ayervedic for a thousand years or so it comes with modern confirmation. It’s a great leveller of systems out of balance which I suspect most are to some extent but especially those of us of middle age. It’s not too expensive but one “beware” is that some places try to sell you gingsen claiming they are the same. They most emphatically are not.
:-)
install – idiotic autocorrect on cell phone as I sent that from my real as opposed to virtual cafe :-)
should, of course, read “minutes”.
Thankyou for this info ladies. Good to know – and share!
You’re totally right about the heating Pamela
In India, mothers give their children tumeric in warmed milk before bedtime to ward off colds/flu/infections
Regards
… and black pepper was known as ‘black gold’ at the time of Marco Polo and the old Silk Road (trade route)
Ive used the oil myself with remarkable results
Regards
Collapse of great hope
Incomprehensible grief
Not here but out there!
(seventeen syllables)
man must first take on
and solve the problem of
the little self, before
he can take on the greater
challenge of God
( 28 syllables )
Thank you for your 28 syllables !
the little self problem
is universal problem
17 syllables was a path
to reunite with a lost god
that’s all
first take the beam out of your own eye
then exclaim at another’s over there
geez – that beams a weighty matter !!!!!!!
the games people play,
some better than others;
some best themselves
This just on FaceBook from Dmitry Orlov.
Whether it will stand – no way of knowing yet – but vital many watch while it’s still available.
Download if you can.
Maria Zack Italy did it – Arturo Delia Admits to steal the USA elections!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvGjWs-M04
Dominion are going to sue Sydney Powell for 1.3 billion……so could be evidence brought to public domain……..
Btter quality version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JuVWkQQq8g
Kent
Thanks. I’m having some issues right now, since I ditched Microsoft and switched to Linux, with a few of their programs, and occasionally a YT wont run. Same with FB, which matters not since I’ll be ditching it come Feb 8th.
I still managed to download this one though – I want my own copy.
Too little, too late.
Let’s face it – treason has to be the worst crime committed against any nation.
The fact that the Clinton Foundation could accept $30,000,000 from KSA & Qatar who were also “clandestinely supporting & funding ISIL in Syria & Iraq” (Wikileaks) – a declared terrorist organization – and still be walking the streets – is testimony that all of this ‘shock and awe’ is to:
1 stir the emotions of Americanos
2 entrain them in learned helplessness, i.e. they cant do anything about it
3 instill in Americanos to accept unaccountable government
4 destroy their trust in elected representatives (she was Senator for NY) and government more generally
5 destroy any hope in their hearts for a better America, and hence make them even more complaint & easier to control
Lastly, its hard to believe that the Dems & Reps havent known of the publication of this book w/ its intro by RFK Jr for the last 8 – thats EIGHT (and yes, I am shouting, Mods) – years – and not done anything about it!
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps Paperback – Illustrated, September 18, 2012
[quote] “NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts–an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year — one that could save the election. Last week Billionaires & Ballot Bandits debuted on the NYT Bestseller list at #10 in paperback nonfiction.
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties — billionaires with nicknames like “The Ice Man,” “The Vulture” and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast’s no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. Although it has not been reported, Obama has shown some backbone in standing up to the financial excesses of the men behind Romney. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote.
The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast’s giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.”
Regards
Regards
PS available from amazon
Should read: and hence make them even more *compliant & easier to control
Safe here: https://odysee.com/$/search?q=Maria%20Zack%20italy%20did%20it
For now.
Hardly news for military intelligence. Seizing of CIA servers in Frankfurt late last year makes a bit more sense now doesn’t it?
Reflect on, please. What hit The Pentagon on 9.11? Where did it hit? And why?
Press release: https://nationsinaction.org/2021/01/press-release-voter-fraud/
General Affidavit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQMxmbW8ujZmfTUl2D1jXWS996ZgmoHo/view
Kent
OK, astrologer’s comments are not tolerated outside the cafe, I’m OK with that. In a coming
time it will be the opposite.
But the PCR-piece really cries for a comment from the higher insight of astrology. Why?
Because, if I’m right, the PTB with their Talmudist’s and Masonic backgrounds traditionally
don’t waiver of concerning the astrological terminations.
Or do you think, the Trap of the Jan. 6. 2021 was pure an accident?
Watch the constellation of Jan. 6. The inference is yours:
https://mundanomaniac.blogspot.com/2021/01/my-addition-to-breathtaking-course-of.html
You’re totally right Mundano, it was no accident!
The signing of the US Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the zionist entity were done at the time of day & on dates that astrologically were believed to bring the greatest success of both geopolitical entities. This is not just symbolism.
Numerologically:
– the US’s DOB 4/7/1776: 4 + 7 + 1 + 7 + 7+ 6 = 32 (3 + 2 = 5) a 5 Ruling Number
– zionist entity’s DOB 14/5/1948: 1 + 4 + 5 + 1 + 9 + 4 + 8 = 32 (3 + 2 = 5) a 5 Ruling Number
having the same numerical ‘frequency’ (all of LIfe is energy, i.e. it vibrates) the 2 nations will resonate (as we have witnessed)
The other thing to remember is until the establishment of the zionist entity (1948), the USA was the only nation in history to be “established as an empire” (Chomsky, the US’s leading intellectual)
PS Remember that numbers & planets do not cause things to happen – they correspond with events/issues/behaviors
Regards
020.07.01
Brotherhood
by ioan
The wind is talking about love
The love of those
who have it in their souls,
And you my friends, you
just showed it right above,
How blessed you are,
my brotherhood is yours !
the bird a nest
the spider a web
man, friendship
Blake
A COVID question.
Does any body know if the Russian Sputnik V vaccine uses mRNA (messenger RNA) like the Pfizer COVID vaccine does?
It doesn’t contain any mRNA. It is a vector sequence, using parts of the adenovirus, which has been known of for a long time. It was used as the base for the very successful Ebola vaccine
The vector contains sequences for the protein spike in the coat of the SARS-Covid virus. This is to induce the immune system to produce antibodies against anything with that protein spike in it’s coat, and attack it.
It has no RNA or DNA sequences in it.
Pamela,
the mRNA concoctions don’t seem to meet the definition of a vaccine do they ? Are they not better described as a treatment – and a novel, speculative, untested treatment at that ?
The thought-terminating mantra, ” vaccines are the only way out ” is ubiquitous ( and effective ), while the Vit C, Vit D, zinc, Ivermectin protocols for prevention and treatment remain unknown. Every time I broach the subject I’m met with blank stares and an expressed eagerness to be vaccinated – it’s disappointing.
Exactly sandinED. It’s all the more worrying. Why do this? What are they trying to achieve – especially given the associated massive panic, the lies about lockdown, masks, mutant forms {this latter now running in Australia it seems from a phone call I just received}?. Economies ruined, lives ruined, childrens precious years damaged. And now this highly suspicious non-treatment.
And as for “caring for people” – to ban of known successful treatments of whatever it is, like ivermectin; even worse, to refuse to lift sanctions on Venezuela and releasing their own money so they can buy vaccines – the blatant hypocrisy is sickening.
But as you say, the vast refusal to see is worse. I’ve seen this here, with every single expat lining up, demanding a vaccine and an American one at that!! Great suspicion of anything out of Russia and China, believing they “dont know how to do things as well as we do”. Jeeez. I face-palm and get depressed at being surrounded by minds so far away they are unreachable. It’s a lonely feeling in the end.
But I rant. Sorry. Just a bit “got at” by it all just now. As Dmitry Orlov said, after showing the figures which prove that the Dems stole the election “it just goes to show, because Americans can’t count, you can tell them anything”.
A writer on RT said “we made the mistake of using rationality, logic, reason; The Gov used emotion like “dont kill Grandma” and this wins every time”.
I’d say, keep people poorly education, dumbed down so they have no clue about logic, reason and rationality, and you can manipulate them with emotion and knee jerk reaction — every, every, every time.
Sigh. Time for bed.
Stay well.
“Why do this? What are they trying to achieve”
It’s that lizard demon’s dream coming true:
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
That’s the core idea behind the whole green hoax (and everything else btw) where people are considered useless parasites of the planet. Pure satanism & inversion of God’s view:
Psalm 30:5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Blessings
I learned, Vit D3 has to be added by Vit K2, otherwise D3 only induced Calcium
would be deposited, where it doesn’t do good, veins e.g.
https://www.nutriadvanced.co.uk/news/thinking-of-supplementing-with-vitamin-d-think-vitamin-k2-too/
Thank-you for your explanation, Pamela. Be well.
Before this Cafe rolls over, a little update on the ioan fund. You are wonderful!
Take a look here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/donations-for-ioan?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
Add to that another
200.00 +
100,00 +
125.00
Those that are struggling to add their widgets, don’t feel alone – there are a few of us (myself included) that feel we have finger problems, or bank problems, or credit card or debit card problems.
Dimitar let me know that it is difficult at the moment to send out a thank-you and an acknowledgment. So, I guess that the link above is where you see if your widget is in!
Don’t forget, I can do some ‘pretend magic’ if you are really struggling – so, just ask me.
(Btw, this is why I and my sphere use cryptos. F@ck the banks that make a difficult to simply support a friend in a different place in the world.)
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended due to “risk of violence”
Recall that NSDAP Germany used to burn books – these days its done digitally!
(also just posted in the Open Thread)
Regards
doing it till it sings;
in attuning to himself, man
attunes to the universe
originally it was,
doing it till it sings
in attuning himself, man
attunes to the universe
It can be read differently,
so the second, original version is better, ie;
closer to what I meant to say.