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Elvis?!?!?!?!?! In the U$ aRmY? John Lennon put it this way, “Up until Elvis joined the army, I thought it was beautiful music and Elvis was for me and my generation what the Beatles were to the 60s. But after he went into the army, I think they cut “les bollocks” off. They not only shaved his hair off but I think they shaved between his legs, too. He played some good stuff after the army, but it was never quite the same. Led Zeppelin were in attendance for his 1974 Forum shows. The man was on fire. He was also clueless, meeting with Richard Nixon and requesting a Bureau of Narcotics badge and putting down the Beatles as anti-American and for being drug abusers. Drug abuse, the King should know well. Nothing like a dope fiend with a badge and a gun, eh Elvis? Paul McCarney later said he felt betrayed by Elvis and that the joke was the Beatles used illegal drugs and it was legal ones that felled the King.
They say that Elvis in the Army of Occupation in Germany lived mostly off-base and spent his service time getting loaded on amphetamines and fornicating. I was not there, but the Germany of now and the Germany of then are miles apart… see G2mil https://youtu.be/RtKcOzc0b-A (American Military Cities in Germany)
Mind you, amphetamine was ubiquitous and only sometimes illegal – being a misdemeanor, generally, or prescribed. And since most men were veterans who’d been given amphetamine in the war it was fairly ordinary that some continued to use it.
Grace under fire.
Australian of the Year. Grace Tame.
Not sure how many cafeistas are aware of this amazing woman who has just completed her term as Australian of the Year.
She’s spoken eloquently for 12 months about sexual assault and her autism.
She’s caused a meltdown in the circles of decorum and “knowing one’s place”.
And she finished her year with the absolute outrage of not smiling at PM #dickhead.
Then some influential pompous and self righteous male (mostly) columnists came for her. But twitter fought back
How DARE she not smile. How very dare she.
https://twitter.com/DaveMilbo/status/1485783744405712896
Here’s a few tweets
> Dear men, how about you get as angry about a woman a week dying from male violence in Australia as you are today about Grace Tame not smiling at the PM.
> If all the men angry at Grace Tame could be half as mad at the levels of violence against women in this country, we might see some progress
> Conservatives have been trying to silence Grace Tame all year. Now she’s finally given them silence and they can’t shut up about it.
> Grace Tame stood up for Australian women and girls right until the final day of her AOTY role. Scott Morrison disrespected us by saying women who marched for justice were lucky not to be shot. He has not championed our cause. Grace Tame did her job. Grace Tame is us.
> One question? What has Scott Morrison done that warrants the respect of Grace Tame, or anyone else, for that matter?
> What the nation needs is more men telling Grace Tame how to behave.
> Women do not have to smile for the camera beside men we do not like.
Grace Tame is not a public servant, a diplomat, a photo-op model or the property of the government. She’s an advocate who’s watched Morrison fail, belittle and ignore survivors all year. Why would she smile?
> Daily Telegraph columnist who ran an international hate campaign against a bullied Indigenous child with a disability, claims there was ‘no need for Grace Tame to be so rude’
> Grace Tame has been a brave & formidable Australian of the Year. She has inspired us & along w/ fellow survivors started a national reckoning about the treatment of women.Thank you @TamePunk for your significant contribution. We still have a long way to go but change is happening.
> The Minister for the Aged goes to the cricket instead of attending a Covid19 Enquiry and all we’re getting on MSM is that Grace Tame didn’t smile. #ThisIsNotJournalism
> Amazing isn’t it. Young woman doesn’t smile. – omg front page news. Minister for aged care – doesn’t do his job and is incompetent. Crickets. This country has a long way to go.
> I don’t know who needs to hear this, and it will make many people very uncomfortable, but the abuse of women and girls happens on a continuum.
Telling Grace Tame to smile, act pleasant & be grateful is the very same culture that saw her abuser get away with it in the first place.
> As she is undoubtedly vilified following the encounter, remember this.
Grace Tame owes the PM nothing. Not her smile, not her handshake, not her civility. And definitely not her respect.
> Yeah, I’m a boomer, I’d like values to be discussed in the class room… we could start with why our country refuses to reconcile with our First Nations brothers & sisters. Then we could move onto what made Grace Tame angry. Then we could move to why Juukan cave was obliterated…
> @crikey_newsThis week former Australian of the Year @TamePunk threw the PM an exceptional side-eye, producing what was probably Scott Morrison’s most authentic photo op to date. Then, some Very Important Men go upset. Here’s what happened (link)
> For Grace Tame, being Australian of the Year has been 365 days of picking at the wound of the abuse inflicted on her as a child, but while her term is over she is not done.
> It’s 2022, and a privileged, wealthy, well-educated man used the platform of a national paper to tell a survivor of child sexual abuse to smile for a powerful man who has shown zero respect to women. Or stay at home.
> Young women like Grace Tame weren’t socialised to shut up when authority figures speak – and it feels like progress | Katharine Murphy https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/young-women-like-grace-tame-werent-socialised-to-shut-up-when-authority-figures-speak-and-it-feels-like-progress… via @guardian
> Grace Tame’s abuser groomed her to be compliant and obedient, to keep his secrets, and bolster his delusions that he had done nothing wrong. Despite all the power he used against her as a much older man in a position of authority, Grace was able to break free of his control
> The PM’s desire for a photo op. to help his election chances. Instead Grace Tame used the photo op to show what she & many others think of him/his failure to do anything substantial to end gendered violence/harassment
> I love everything about Grace Tame. Her dress style, her humour, her absolute honesty. I love the way she compared PTSD to a cold sore. You never know when it is going to flare up. A smell, sound or movie can trigger it. I cannot watch the movie Mommy Dearest
> Morrison was so “well-meaning” in attempts to end child sexual abuse, he didn’t even ask Grace Tame (the representative & champion of the cause) to be part of the National Strategy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse!
>Only 3 months ago. Absolutely astounding that Grace Tame, the AOTY for her excellent advocacy in this field, was totally ignored by Scott Morrison in developing a National Strategy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
Today
https://twitter.com/wwos/status/1486585847097053184
>From one Australian of the year to the next… Grace Tame seems to having a GREAT time at the tennis.
>Legends supporting legends! Grace Tame in Rod Laver Arena watching Dylan Alcott’s final. You love to see it.
>Grace Tame receives a resounding applause after being shown on screen during the Dylan Alcott final
“Love you Tamey” is Dylan’s response to the cheers.
GOATS. #ausopen
WW she actually did smile briefly, but at the lady in white to his right. And gave him a dirty look afterwards, lol.
From now on there will be fewer and fewer gauleiters of the elite who will engage in these whitewashing photo ops with the angry masses. As in the days of the Latin Generals in their Labyrinth, with a deep and multi-layered cordon sanitaire around them to make their continued life possible, it will become an increasingly risky gesture to host these photo ops.
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Are the Balkans beginning to slip from the Hegemon?
Smoothie and others remarked on plucky Little Croatia being one of the first rats to jump the NATO ship.
I was cheering for them too during the recent Russia world cup.
I have always been interested in Croatia.
Very interesting people, notwithstanding their sad reocurring flirtation with Nazism.
Decades ago when I used to watch it carefully, my favorite tennis player was Goran Ivanisevic. A truly mercurial and unique athlete. 6’4″ tall, he had one of the most accurate, powerful and demoralizing lefty serves. Opponents just quit under the bombardment, it was surreal.
Ironically he is one of Novak Djokovic’s current coaches. Here he is to the left of Nole as they left Oz last week, his mask worn at an appropriate rakish angle.
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1482694175724167172/photo/1
He was somewhat crazy too. He admitted once he fought 6 simultaneous opponents on the tennis court, including the opponent, himself, the umpire, linesmen, and the crowd. I forget the last – the weather or inner demons?
He was arguably the most talented of his era, but had habit of choking when he got to Wimbledon finals or was in kissing distance of the #1. He came from a perfectly named city, Split! In 2001, when he finally won Wimbledon on his fourth effort to the final (unseeded, ranked over 120, and as an aged wildcard with a gimpy shoulder, five amazing handicaps), he did so against an affable Aussie. The Brits loved him and willed him on. He then stripped naked and [200,000?] countrymen waited for his return to Split for a street party.
Imagine what Croatians could achieve if they were serious and their wagon was not hooked to the Vatican?! Along with Serbs, they could wall off the Balkans from Anglo-Germanic-Zionist intrigue, as they achieved during Yugoslavia. However too often they served as spoilers in the Balkans, but are truly talented. Among those surprising talents is speaking the Truth and often talking truth to power, the main reason I respect them. Why are they so fearless compared to others? So what was done by their President recently is a welcome gesture- a smart sign of self-preservation. They smell which way the wind blows, and like History and Destiny, it is blows against NATO.
Very interesting developments and times.
I used to joke that when Goran was serving well, his opponent didn’t have to leave his chair during Goran’s service games.
Ace, ace, double fault, ace, double fault, double fault, ace.
“Game Ivanisevic!”
We used to call him (affectionately) “Pineapple head” because of his hair style on court.
To say he was eccentric is being kind.
He would walk the same court patterns, demand from ball-kids the same ball which earned him the last ace, have the same racquet quickly restrung mid-match to maintain “good luck,” eat the same foods and attend the same restaurants while winning.. He was undoubtedly celibate during winning grand slam streaks, like Borg before him.
Studying him taught me more about human foibles (and what not to do) than American university courses. Nevertheless his transparent goodwill to all and free-spirit attitude, although not conducive to any sustained success, was infectious.
There was a rhythm to his aces. I used to time bathroom breaks during the commercial breaks, which I knew would be longer than the Sampras-Ivanisevic pair of games. In fact Wimbledon switched to a strain of rye grass, to slow down play because of those two. Then they rued it just a few years later when along with improved racquet and string technology, beautiful serve-and-volley tennis became as obsolete as aircraft carriers. Volleyers stranded helplessly at net were picked off at crazy distances by very fast diving missile shots. A preview of hypersonics? The times also ushered in baseline brick walls like Nadal and Djokovic. So since 2008, the British tennis establishment has been in mourning.
Here is a rendition of the Blake poem ‘Auguries of Innocence’ linked to grass. When grass-court tennis is played at a non-frenetic and thoughtful tactical pace, such as with Edberg-Becker or Borg-McEnroe, it was a delight to watch.
“To see the world in a blade of grass
And heaven in a wild flower
To Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
Regards
One could almost feel sorry for Americans who don’t understand that they are the political property of the Bolsheviks that serve only the Zionist white elite of Israel in their lust for blood of all those not of their tribe; that their Fauci and Gates, WEF, WHO et al have led the World into believing that their intended Global Cull, is a natural virus and their cure is actually not genociding all injected; and that Russia is actually invading Ukraine; Its is they the taxpayers of the Imperial hoax that are complicit in the genocides in Israel of the Palestinian, the Yemeni, Syria, etc., and all the narratives of the foaming at the mouth neocon crazies that serve Israel, a priori, the talking heads, experts for hire, and the complicit MSM have turned against the ths American Public for all to see – if they want to see, that is; that which most of them don’t want to see.
The United States of American today does not exist
Sickening are the meaningless words of Brandon, Blinken, Nuland, Psaki, etc.
Stupid are the acts of Washington DC and London – how could anyone be patriotic to these ‘governments’ that serve others intent on the bloody genocide of the global population?
‘Bang’ is the sound of the last nuke you will hear. WWIII will last about 3 hours at most.
Fear not, for the Souls of those of good Man are of Universal Intelligence represented as the heart by irrational complementation and will reappear for duty as the Gods demand – while the others will mutate. This is the route to HUMANITY. It is so written.
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
Tacitus
well articulated. great quote.
k
Your assertion of the “Global Cull” is is only partially correct. For it is not a Zionist plot to serve the interests of Israel. Rather it is an amalgam of supranational actors, world organizations, multinational corporations that share the same goal of maintaining their survival. This goes beyond simply power and profit. It’s a preemptive and proactive measure that needs to be implemented before the window of opportunity will close since global capitalism is undergoing a cataclysmic change and will not be able to sustain itself. It a is systemic catastrophe that they are attempting to avert with the so-called “Great Reset” (aka NWO). Getting back to your point of Israel driving the Covid force majeure, How does that possible make any logical sense when the country has one of the highest, if not the highest, vaccination rates and policies. And no, zionists are not in the position of power at every level in every industry. Thats beyond laughable and exudes both, ignorance and anti-Semitism. So you know, I have extensively covered this topic from day 1 with multiple analysis. Suffice to say, this is a complex, nuanced issue that is multi faceted and needs to address all the aspects.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/01/28/we-have-had-a-narrow-escape-from-tyranny-but-the-war-on-freedom-is-not-over/
@Allen
I will acknowledge one (x1) error in my brief and generalized article:
That is, the first sound that you will hear in the event of Nuclear War (WWIII) will be identical to the last sound that you will hear; which is “bang”.
Your link to Roberts appears consistent to that which I have written – indeed I have read much of Roberts and generally find myself in agreement. IMO therefore I believe Sir that you err.
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Heaven and Earth
I wanted to show you something;
The way heaven and earth converge.
I wanted to tell you something;
The way pigeons drag their tail feathers
in the dirt.
I wanted to ask you something;
The way children ask a loving parent.
I wanted to remind you of something;
But the sun and moon are only allowed
a single kiss in passing!
That’s why I resort to all
this crazy love poetry.
we escaped the storm,
our house his gone
it should matter
but it doesn’t
this meeting again with you
was worth all that
those who give me
everything they own, shall gain
all that I have
I hear Hafiz whispering over your shoulder in this one.
k
an untainted melody
singing deep within;
the most rare of birds!
One cannot help but be influenced by the great poets
that have gone before, especially if one studies their
work regularly, as I do. As the saying goes, truth is one,
but it’s form is constantly changing. I happily embrace the
spirit of a poet from the past but am always on the lookout
for the twist that expresses my own experience as well as
the moment may possibly allow. Lovely to hear from
you, kinterra, best, D.
That one is heaven D.
At first you sang
You couldn’t live without me
All your life was waiting,
Praise and longing.
Then
I lost the thread &
Suddenly
The moon and stars were
Not a gift from you
The song rang so untrue
I changed the station looking
Then I felt your touch again
You had not gone away
My heart had just mislaid you.
I focused on the world
And not on our one love
And when I did again
It came down like a dove.
May it always be this way
Underneath your fulsome gaze
they say some paths are narrow and deep,
yet others are broad and wide;
but those of the heart are winding and steep
and the summit recedes with every stride…
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
— Lord Byron
Wow sudhi, I thought you wrote that…..
While worlds mind in nightmare dreams
Look to she who weaves the seams
Day and night her nimble hands
Silver threads and golden strands
Of peace her silent fiat calls
To you here now of what befalls
If you invoke her awesome pure
If you invoke her all to hear
And under starry mantle clear
You will be warm and fed with cheer
Abiding peace in deserts near
And so love reins and all men hear
But first the shock of truth must ring
From highest turret, of the King
Know now my liege, He is at hand
And blows all evil from the land.
So toil on in silent prayer
Invoke Her name to calm the bear
The eagle has been so far poisoned
The dead will help restore their reason.
The Book of the Heart
Secrets written in the Book of the Heart
do not readily translate into words.
Lion and gazelle meet face to face;
neither makes a move.
A falcon disappears into a forest
and does not return.
When God sets traps for you,
enter them gladly.
The arrow that strikes the eagle
is made from its own tail feathers.
And poisoned with its mind and tongue
5 KILLED At Ukrainian Aerospace Factory
A member of Ukraine’s National Guard has murdered five people – including at least one civilian, and reportedly two women – after opening fire on a room full of people at a rocket factory in Dnepr, the Interior Ministry confirmed Thursday.
Footage from СТРАНА. ua shows the chilling moment the gunman took an assault rifle from the unit’s arsenal and turned it on fellow service members. Up to 22 people were in the room at the time, with five more injured.
Authorities say they have arrested the suspect after an hours-long manhunt.
A little sad, but looooool, Nazis killing their own now.
The self-proclaimed “masters of the universe” have a lot to answer for. Human tragedies in real time, pestilence and death litter their wake. I once met a man who claimed he was nearing the end of a karmic debt which entailed the death of 80,000 innocent people; 80,000 lifetimes were necessary to account for his crimes. Immature and primitive souls who sow destruction should take a leaf out of this fellow’s story…
Your comment reminded me of my own experience. People like Lumumba and Guevara were my heroes. Later on in life i was involved in the classic car scene. I got to know a friendly American. He was honest and candid to the core. He was THE guy who in his youth as a US Special Forces Ranger, helped tack down and kill Lumumba…and went to Blolivia at the request of the government and helped track down and interrogate Guevara… He had ‘done bad things in Vietnam and admitted My Lai happened every day there….his own hero was Mad Mitch, the British guy who put down the Malay insurgency. To this American, all these ‘Freedom Fighters’ were just terrorists and deserved their fate…and he said this as “an older man who should have gained more insight.”
History is ironic. This American died of illness sustained due to exposure to Agent Orange. The US brainwashed, bemedalled and then slowly killed, one of their own…
I mentioned “Jim Creek”…using searchterm> “jim creek radio station” on Youtube we see a number of fascinating videos. Here’s one> https://youtu.be/B3_2TD84LuQ
another> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKnnNs9QzeI
Panicking by the terrified is a top consideration at the moment.
In 1983 I lived near an Imperial outpost in W. Germany, for sure one of the target rich destinations of tactical and other nukes.
A blissfully oblivious kid, my chief preoccupations were Return of the Jedi and Archie comics. In retrospect, I learned we went to the brink in 1983. Some useful reminders, that rhyme with 140 ships just sortied by the Russians.
Able Archer 83 exercises almost triggered the Soviets. We hope it doesn’t lead to a similar miscalculation and near melt-down by the current US Politburo.
A misinterpretation of enemy intentions, over-reliance on computer programs and technology, weak geriatric delusional and indecisive political leadership, over-centralization of power, loss of legitimacy at home, economy in marked decline, losing allies and global influence, need to project power, unsustainable military expenditure, significant external pressure by peer Power(s), tied to a dead-weight ideology… the Soviet boot is now firmly on the American foot.
https://www.businessinsider.in/In-the-mid-1980s-the-Soviet-Union-had-a-computer-program-that-helped-it-decide-when-to-launch-a-nuclear-war/articleshow/49598684.cms
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/aa83/2018-11-05/soviet-side-1983-war-scare
On a similar theme, I am about to watch WarGames (1983), starring the guy in cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, one of my favorites. I have always disliked and avoided Horror, Sci-Fi and Dystopias, yet our predicament is precisely at their juncture!
On The Beach….https://youtu.be/O9tweuR450A
Shute misunderstood the effects of the smoke…but Ava G is a joy to behold. Nice submarine too. Too bad Oz ain’t what it used to be….not since her royalness fubared Oz in a “legal” coup…then there’s 5E… But in the day Oz was great.
See “Missiles of October”…the MACE robotfleingbomb on Okanawa were hot and near to launch in ’62…aimed mostly at Chine. https://portside.org/2015-11-01/okinawa-missiles-october We know of several occasions when “it” our collective death, came down to one fella…in the example a “at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Air Force crews on Okinawa were ordered to launch 32 missiles, each carrying a large nuclear warhead. Only caution and the common sense and decisive action of the line personnel receiving those orders prevented the launches—and averted the nuclear war that most likely would have ensued.”…well, you get the idea….goes on> at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Air Force crews on Okinawa were ordered to launch 32 missiles, each carrying a large nuclear warhead. Only caution and the common sense and decisive action of the line personnel receiving those orders prevented the launches—and averted the nuclear war that most likely would have ensued.”
We all live now because of luck…and a good man. Then there are is also B-59 Submarine…and how many we do not know? Luck does run out…
I do hope zone A can make the necessary changes without “sudden” events…as these carry unpredictable effects.
‘…I learned we went to the brink in 1983.’
In the early eighties I lived in Berlin, and still remember the dream I had of a nuclear aftermath. Unprompted, as I neither knew nor thought about such things then, despite the ‘wall and peace-time’ tanks rolling through the streets. Among other clear and vivid details I saw the streets and steps of great buildings sticky and whitish-grey with a ghastly substance..
I have heard other accounts also of a near miss at that time, I suppose such things live in the air…..
Your memory’s good. Use searchterm “able-archer war” to refresh and discover.
There is a story about the close-call that goes about that a Soviet sapper team with portable nuclear gizmo infiltrated Andrews AFB and got called back at the last moment…Raygun was supposedly getting on the plane – which was the Soviet team’s target. see also> https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/21035-us-air-force-lt-gen-leonard-h-perroots-letter-end-tour-report-addendum-january-1989 True or not true, we all came close to death.
NSA source> https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/able-archer-83-sourcebook
Astromundane’s diary on the archetypal backgroud of the Russian hunt for mankind’s security:
Again and again our good planetary Russian President is moving with the gods:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2022/01/12172021-putin-opening-hunt-for-mankind.html
The present world chaos and uncertainty is unparalleled, the build up of troops and weapons, thermonuclear annihilation threat, leaders of countries political divisive meetings and talks, blasting media propaganda up to ones neck blaring non stop, – to whom – who is listening anymore after two years of covid blazing ? People are phased out, too tired and disillusioned by what has happened and taking place all around them to care.
But supposing the real threat is the raging, tumultuous spiritual battle for humanity, Christ and all Angels against the powers of darkness, for the precious human core, and this will cost the price of rivers of blood ?
Saker check out this: It seems that NATOstan like in Syria pretends to fight the “terrorists” they themselves fund and arm….
https://twitter.com/BettyKesateB/status/1486099907337498624
“Despite the Defense & Cooperation Agreements which, since the end of the 1980s, have linked Mali with France, the EU via UN Resolutions, the Malian army have never benefited from real-time satellite information&mastery of the Air-Ground Axis,which is essential for the anticipation & success of land military operations. It is therefore understandable that #Mali Transitional Gov has demanded the revision of the Defense Agreements of Mali w/FR since Dec.2021
On the other hand, the terrorist enemy seemed to be better informed on the #Malian positions than the #FAMA were on the enemy positions, which explains the nearly 10 years of repeated military defeats of the FAMA against the terrorists of the Sahelian destabilization.
[Fast forward to the present period] since the historic signing in 2020-2021 of the New Generation Cooperation & Defense Agreements between #Mali and #Russia, two substantial advances can be seen on the ground:
1)The Malian army has real-time intelligence on ALL the movements of friendly/enemy troops on its territory, with an image precision down to the millimetre, thanks to Russian military satellites, which are open to it 24 hours a day throughout the entire Sahelian zone.
Result? An unprecedented series of military victories over all terrorist groups on the ground, including the elimination of many Historical Leaders of these mercenaries in the pay of the destabilization of Africa;
2)The Malian army have taken concrete control of its airspace, both through new technologies for detecting aircraft of all calibers in its skies, but also through the acquisition of Ground-Air resources to shoot down aircraft deliberately violating Mali’s territorial sovereignty
As an outcome of this gain, the resulting renunciation of German military aviation to violate Malian airspace on January 20, 2022 is undoubtedly due to the awareness of the ground-air defense means recently acquired by the Malian army.
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Now they are trying to crush Mali with a blockade and sanctions for daring to disobey his French colonial master.
For at least two whole years I’ve always used my Google account in a private window on my browser. I’ve always used private windows to access this site, Moon of Alabama, Southfront, the Duran, etc.. Using my Google account, I’ve been able to make ‘proxy’ accounts for Disqus (English RT,
Global Times,Anti-Empire), Tolstoy Comments (Russian RT) and Cackle (Rusnext). Every time I logged in to a new or otherwise unrecognized device it would send a security alert to my recovery e-mail’s inbox, and once I confirmed that it was me, it’d then shut up for every subsequent login on the same device within a period of time. The last time it worked was the afternoon of 26 January (PST).Then, 12 hours later, I tried to log in to my account in a private window, only to be informed that it couldn’t verify that it’s me. Not even the account recovery wizard could do anything – it didn’t even ask me if I could use my recovery e-mail. Said recovery e-mail inbox did receive a security alert, but that was just about it.
Then I tried experimenting with another account that I own that is already logged in to an existing machine. I opened a private window, logged in, and received a notification. Closed the private window, opened a new one, and got the same message. Tested on both Firefox and Brave.
I’ve been under the same exact IP address the whole time.
Certainly something must have changed at some point during 26 January such that two separate private sessions on the same browser on the same OS on the same device under the same IP address are now treated as two separate devices (when a private window closes, its cookies are deleted. I guess it assumes that said ‘device’ is ‘lost’).
I’ve tried to find this issue on the internet, and perusing Google’s forums, I’ve learned of the idea that Google assumes that the account is logged somewhere else and one should wait for a week to log in again in time for all the devices to be forgotten. Guess I’ll give that a try.
(Sidenote: I haven’t tried selecting “Forgot password” – I dunno if that will automatically disconnect any connected devices, and the password I use has been embedded into my brain so much that adopting a new password would be troublesome.)
Getting locked out of my Google account also locks me out of Disqus, Tolstoy Comments and Cackle for that same time frame. Comment sections in Lenta close and disappear 24 hours after publication (not that I read Lenta comment sections frequently anyway) and Rusnext in four days (96 hours). Not fun at all.
Anyone know of any changes in Google within the last 48 hours? Not to deny that Google’s existing business practices are scummy in of themselves, but this is a new one.
Joey.
I’m not the correct person to give tech advice.
But I read the Australian govt from January 1 has blocked a list of dangerous websites such as zerohedge.
I hadn’t realised how much I was going to miss my daily dose of misinformation.
I too am asking if there is a workaround.
The error message I get is:
We’re sorry, there was an unexpected error loading this page. Please try again later.
I wasn’t asking for a workaround in my original post, but rather an explanation for how this sudden change of functionality came to be. I’m not even certain if it’s censorship-related, but something tells me that I’ve been relying on private windows too much. Then again, if neither of us are well-versed on how Google runs, so be it then.
But in your case, I’m not an expert either, but have you tried using a VPN?
Amazing Nature – The Language of Love
https://twitter.com/AmazingNature00/status/1486783746653233160
While we are resting (not really, but it seems there is a moment between now and the Olympics while Mr Shoigu plays the orchestra of seemingly deploying a military security blanket across the world), one of the most versatile sauces that you can have in your inventory of sauces, is a Mornay Sauce. This is a simple cheese sauce in its basic form, but with the addition of garlic and a bit of a mixture of cheeses and sometimes a little cayenne pepper, it is a secret weapon.
So, the link is to my favorite chef. He is my favorite because he is focused on bringing the basic chef skills to the home kitchen and he cooks food, and not only fancy stuff. So, here he makes a pasta with this Mornay Sauce and some vegetables.
Here is the versatility. Make that exact Mornay Sauce and smother some simple pre-sauteed white fish layered in an oven dish and put under the grill to brown. The veggies that the chef prepares here, can then become your side dish for your fish. You can also make a bunch of veggies and use the sauce for the veggies alone. It goes with everything. First time I ate this, was literally many years ago, with smoked haddock! Heavenly!
So enjoy, only about 13 minutes .. Chef Jean-Pierre making Pasta, Vegetables and Mornay Sauce. It is very simple but it always seems that you know what you are doing in the kitchen. It’s the perfect ‘pretend I can cook!’ sauce. For this one do the Mis en place, up to the parboiling of the penne pasta, as you will run out of time to do everything if all is not ready and at hand before you start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daB0cO3Gvw0
Sounds very good. I enjoy the recipes.
Mrs P does too. And she sends this>
ShiskKabob Marinade
½ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup lemon juice
1 tbsb Dijon mustard
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 clove minced garlic
1 tsp coarse black pepper
1 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 tsp salt
3 breast cut in chunks
2 zucchinis in chunks
2 bell peppers in chunks
red onion in chunks
mushrooms…20 each whole
skewer and roast on charcoals.
Combine all and marinate meat (we use chicken) and vegetables overnight in reefer. Makes chow for 2 gluttons or 4 more civilized people…moderation makes more savory…
BTW, A very fine kitchen book and a rare edition to find> https://www.amazon.com/1975-Joy-Cooking-purpose-Cookbook/dp/B00BPDZ7R2 The 1975 edition is the best, and the other editions not best. I believe our hardbacked copy cost 50 cents. We never pass by a junk-book source without an examination, great bargains happen. Amazon proffered solely as example of edition.
Kindly thank the honorable lady of the house for me.
How did she guess that a solid and well-constructed marinade would be just the thing? I can smell it even just reading it :-) It’s gonna be used the next time I get some fresh shrimp from the local fishermen.
So this one ‘went viral’, printed it, and it is in my basic file. Thank-you!
I really am not skilled with the American ways of food – and surprisingly do not have recipe books from the culture. When we lived there, and it was my turn to make and host Thanksgiving dinner for the family, it caused great stress and three days of pure panic. I was much better with making a Swedish Smorgasbord which the in-laws taught me to make step by step – re-enacting and re-living their memories – a once-a-year thing to celebrate the culture (including that infernal rice puddin’ that had to be stirred just insanely too much, the name of which I could never pronounce). In the US I felt more at home with the Southern foods. Good memories!
You’re very welcome. She’s having coffee just now, and thinks shrimp would be “larapin”…
The edition of “Joy…” represents I think the apex of “American” cooking…which is why I used word “larapin”.
The genre, that “American” cooking….about this…The authors are Kansas ladies, which is more or less to say (as they themselves say) “Kansas Krauts” – essentially the descendants of refugees from the failed German revolution and similar Changes of 18th and 19 centuries in Europe, now well steeped in the Prairie Customs…so metamorphosed. As to “larapin”….Woody Guthrie defined it this way: Ifin ya really like something and you ain’t had it in a long time, and then you get some, that’s larapin. The formal definition runs> “…a Mid Western & Southern term commonly used to describe tasty po’ folk foods, not drink. Northerners don’t have anything that is “larapin”. Usage: Pass me some more of ‘dat larapin gravy n’ biscuits.” Practically, “larapin” means “very good” and locates the speaker as a Midwesterner or Southerner, and not as a Yankee or anybody sympathetic to the ruling class. A sort of shibboleth.
This craft, “American Cooking” is, like everything else, changing. The Kansas Ladies of 1950 to 1975 are giving way to the rapid influx of foreigners, the population having doubled through this mechanism of “influx”, or “invasion”, since 1970 – and that’s changing the cuisine. In 1970 the wheat harvest crews were local native-born blonds and brunets. Now they are not. And of course the language runs to Spanish. Thus tortillas, for example, once unknown to Kansas, are ubiquitous. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, I imagine the Red Indians of the Prairie observed the cuisine changing too. Ilf and Petrov’s “Одноэтажная Америка” describes fairly well the Kansas I knew as a wee child…and yes, the connection I have came from Frankfurt to escape the Prussian draft.
Woody> Ludlow Massacre https://youtu.be/XDd64suDz1A (the finks turned machine guns and kero on the families of the strikers) I remember Granny singing this song…
Mr P,
yours was a better generation, that had time for reflection and nature and could maintain focus on the nature of the enemy. Mine and younger ones are doomed.
This is so heartbreaking..
I hadn’t delved much into union busting and other barbarity in US history beyond the sanitized version, even if I had conscientious instructors from the U of Madison-Wisconsin. There is just too much to study and I haven’t been around long enough. And in the Arts, with my distaste for Horror and Dystopia, I avoided those documentaries, not wanting to add another horrifying genre to the already overwhelming ugliness in the global commons.
Some interesting movies had glimpses, such Hoffa (1992) with Jack Nicholson, which could be true, but tars all with a large brush in association with organized crime. It helped justify and reduce sympathy for the ongoing eradication of the blue-collar factory and mine work, as part of off-shoring, eh? Those were heady days for the Capitalists.
I had hints in history books through the Pinkerton strike-breakers and other muscle hired to smash strikes and “dissenters” but this is horrifying – Gatlings and kerosene for WASP non-natives in USA proper within living memory?!
These are true beasts, without remorse, who see ALL as chattel. It is scenes like this YT video which drive home the point.
All rendered surreal with a pleasant detached folk song!
And most waste time over bugaboos such as race, ethnicity, language and other amplified differences. How many metrosexuals on the two coasts even know of this history, and what accordingly awaits them soon?
The wolf manages the sheep-pen!
But I think the tears, and blood, and sleeping in the cold tents, of those Guthrie sings of, are not wasted.
Some memories were transferred down, even to the insouciants of my generation. Some primeval impulse resulted in 0.5 billion small arms in the homes of Americans, many of them in Kansas and middle-America.. They know there is only one thing Uncle Sam respects.
Regards
It may interest some to consider that in conflict there are always 2 or more elements, “parties”, and that the relationships between these elements may be viewed as similar to some principles of physics. In particular, impedance, and generally “coupling”. see http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/What-is-impedance.php and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(electronics)
Coupling is, we may say, what Russia is attempting to achieve with respect to Zone A. Recall VVP years ago, asking a Zone A audience> “don’t you get it?”
When an efficient coupling operates there’s smooth cooperation, and when there’s poor coupling “power” is rejected and “backs-up”, raising “tension”…more or less. Sometimes this results in sparks… In this sense “power” includes a meeting of minds, or not…and also may include actual violence…as in F x D, or not.
This way of thinking about political and social and economic relationships, in my view, open the mind of examining people to astonishing ideas.
Just tossing this idea out for mental fun. One or two Saker authors reject this way of understanding…and obviously we disagree. Maybe they didn’t think it through…is subtle way of seeing.
Best. Workie now…
I’m pretty sure I got muscarine poisoning from a package of dried porcini mushrooms from Macedonia. I bought the porcinis at a local Italian shop. My wife made pork schnitzel and a mushroom sauce. We both are the same thing but she didn’t take any of the mushroom bits on her schnitzel about 40 minutes later I was puking and crapping and foaming at the mouth with this super sticky saliva. I was sweating profusely and my nose was running non stop. I was having trouble breathing and then I started having visual disturbances. This went on for about 6 hours and then I sweated all night in bed. 2 days later I still feel like crap. So, watch out for those dried porcinis.
Are you sure she still loves you…..lol, just kidding, reminds me of the joke, the wife, on her fourth husband, is asked by the detective why she stabbed her husband to death, she said the first three husband’s died accidently after eating poisoned mushrooms, this one….he wouldn’t eat his.
Cheers M
Minds me of the “I Claudius” scene…when he willingly and knowingly eats the ‘schroom”
These types of things are now a labor to repair problem rather than talking about throwing money to fix it, he cant fix karma.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/28/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse/
’Somliga går med trasiga skor’…säg vad beror det på;
’Some people walk with broken shoes..tell me why is that so;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htzwYo5EjP0
Ukraine scare tactics from my newspaper
Don’t read if you are going to eat soon.
Russia’s risky options beyond full Ukraine attack
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-01-28/explainer-russias-risky-options-beyond-full-ukraine-attack
BY BEN FOX AND VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAN. 28, 2022 9:31 PM PT
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing to launch an invasion of Ukraine, with more than 100,000 troops positioned around the country. Certainly, the U.S. believes that’s the case and President Joe Biden has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that an attack could come in February.
But Russia denies it’s preparing to invade and Putin’s intentions remain a mystery.
Russia, which is seeking a pledge that NATO won’t expand to include Ukraine, has options it could pursue short of a full-blown invasion, and other ways to lash out at the U.S. and its allies. All of them carry varying degrees of risk, to Russia and the world.
A look at some of them:
SOMETHING SHORT OF A FULL-SCALE INVASION
In 2014, Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. That year it also started arming rebels in the eastern region known as the Donbas, starting a low-boiling conflict that has killed more than 14,000 people. Many Russia watchers speculate that the recent buildup of Russian troops and naval forces is the next chapter in a larger effort to chip away at Ukraine, perhaps taking advantage as the U.S. and its allies in Europe are distracted by COVID-19 and other issues. Possible scenarios include providing additional support to the Russia-backed rebels or launching a limited invasion, just enough to destabilize Zelenskyy and usher in a pro-Kremlin leader.
Stopping short of a full-scale invasion would give Russia more time to get more forces in place and test the commitment of the U.S. and its allies to the punishing sanctions promised by Biden, says retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. “He’s going to continue doing what he’s doing right now, continuing to apply maximum pressure on Ukraine and to try to destabilize the government to alarm people,” Hodges said. “There’s a lot of capability in place to do more, should the opportunity present itself.”
That might still end up triggering sanctions that could damage the Russian economy and hurt Putin at home. There’s also the risk that a limited action isn’t enough to achieve the Russian president’s goal of undermining European security by rolling back, or at least halting, NATO expansion, says Dmitry Gorenburg, an analyst with CNA, a research organization in Arlington, Virginia. “I don’t think it gets him what he wants,” he said. “It didn’t get them that before. So why now?”
ECONOMIC WARFARE
Russia is a major player in global energy, the third-largest oil producer after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and the source of about 40% of the natural gas used in Europe. It is also a major exporter of wheat, particularly to developing nations. Any move to cut the flow of energy could be painful to Europe in winter with gas and oil prices already high. Similarly, rising food prices are a problem around the world.
Putin has some economic leverage, but there’s no indication he would use it and it could end up hurting Russia in the long run, says Edward Fishman, a former State Department official who is now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Any move by Russia to cut off gas shipments would push European nations to find alternative sources for the future. “It’s a weapon you can only use once,” he said. “You do that once and you lose that leverage forever.” The Biden administration is already working with Qatar and other suppliers to replace Russian gas if needed.
CYBERATTACKS
There’s no doubt Russia has the capability to conduct significant cyberattacks in Ukraine and around the world, and would almost certainly do so again as part of any operation against its neighbor. The Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement agencies on Jan. 23 that Russia would consider initiating a cyberattack on the U.S., including possible actions against critical infrastructure, if it perceived the response to an invasion of Ukraine “threatened its long-term national security.”
Russia is the suspected culprit in a 2015 hack against the Ukraine power grid. Hackers this month temporarily shut down government websites in Ukraine, underscoring how cybersecurity remains a pivotal concern in the standoff with Russia. “Whatever the size and scale and nature of their ground and air attacks, cyber will be a big part of anything they do,” warns Hodges.
The risk to the world is that hostile activity against Ukraine could spread, as the cyberattack known as notPetya did to devastating effect in 2017. The downside to Russia is the U.S. and other nations have the power to retaliate, as Biden warned Putin in June. “He knows there are consequences,” Biden said.
THE CHINA FACTOR
China isn’t a direct player in the standoff over Ukraine, but it plays a role. Observers have warned that Moscow could respond to Washington’s rejection of its security demands by bolstering military ties with China. Russia and China have held a series of joint war games, including naval drills and patrols by long-range bombers over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
U.S. officials have said they don’t think Russia would launch an invasion as President Xi Jinping presides over the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. “The Chinese are not going to be pleased if their Olympics are disrupted by war,” Gorenburg said. Putin plans to travel to Beijing to attend the opening of the games, as U.S. and European leaders sit it out to protest human rights abuses.
One theory among Russia watchers is that China is intently following the U.S. and European response over Ukraine to gauge what might happen if it were to move against Taiwan. Hodges sees that as a risk. “If we, with our combined diplomatic and economic power plus military power, cannot stop the president of the Russian Federation from doing something that is so obviously illegal and wrong and aggressive then I don’t think President Xi is going to be too impressed with anything that we say about Taiwan or the South China Sea.”
A RUSSIAN BUILDUP IN LATIN AMERICA
Senior Russian officials have warned that Moscow could deploy troops or military assets to Cuba and Venezuela. The threats are vague, though Russia does have close ties to both countries as well as Nicaragua. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan dismissed the idea, and experts in the region and around the world view it as a strategy that probably wouldn’t accomplish much, other than to divert Russian forces needed elsewhere, and thus is unlikely to happen.
A more likely scenario is that Russia steps up its already extensive propaganda and misinformation efforts to sharpen divisions in Latin America and elsewhere, including the United States.
A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION
It’s not a foregone conclusion that the standoff ends in an invasion. While the Biden administration said it would not concede to Russia’s security demands, there still seems to be some room for diplomacy. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that the U.S. response “gives hope for the start of a serious conversation on secondary questions.”
France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia have agreed to sit down for talks in two weeks, an effort aimed at reviving a 2015 agreement to ease the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Some fear this complicates efforts by the U.S. and NATO to show a united front against Russia.
A stand-down may be good for the world but could come at a cost for Putin, Russian journalist Yulia Latynina warned in a New York Times essay on Friday. She said the Russian president may have used his troop buildup as a bluff, hoping to compel the U.S. and Europe to relinquish any intention of closer ties to Ukraine. “Instead of trapping the United States, Mr. Putin has trapped himself,” she wrote. “Caught between armed conflict and a humiliating retreat, he is now seeing his room for maneuver dwindling to nothing.”
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Isachenkov reported from Moscow.
Weep not for Europe
For though she’s old and tired
She remains bold and wired
Can make the world gear up
Oh ye, classical culture!
Of Greece, Rome and the Bourbon
What could you further nurture
On your face there lies a turban
The wind blows, cloth to water
‘Neath the foreign veil – nothingness
With America or with Russia, to East or West?
Pan-Europa Catholica is the idea we cater
Our culture’s old as our emptyness
Thus totally independent, with neither shall we rest.
So I’m not Dimitar and I wrote this poem in 3 minutes, so please factor that in =).
Brilliant 3 minuter, sums up in poetics what is hard to say… such interesting thoughts, and hard to express in words without repeating anyone else’s! Also because great cultures are made up by peoples and individuals. but how, and where are they now ? The spirit does not die, it cannot, it is eternal! .Where does it go but return to its true home, before returning again for a further sojourn on earth. True life is not easy to convey
Thoughts about culture and religion, arts and ideals, they constitute the Zionists hatred their minions are subject to, nazism, bolshevism, destroying the hearts and minds of peoples, individual’s, sanctioning the murder of millions from psychopathic fear and self loathing. Sorry about the mini rant, sometimes I want to call a spade a spade. Did you know, dear Ivy, that whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad?
The God’s sure seem to wish to destroy a lot of people these days… so much burning hatred, cynicism and chaos filling the emptiness.
The great minds, the carvers and builders of monuments of beauty, of thoughts and ideals, of music, of quiet care and modest peace, all will return to work and struggle once more, north, south, east and west upon our wonderful and beleaguered planet. Many are here now.
A great short video on China in the past and today:
https://vimeo.com/501107053
So, those truckers – I see Justin and family have been moved to a ‘safe location’ when his ‘Oh Poor Me, I Have Covid!’ did not impress anyone.
And now, how bizarre – Vladimir Putin is in charge of the truckers. I kid you not.
https://twitter.com/WeAreCanProud/status/1487459774363054080
If you have time there is a vid up on twitter. The Drama Queen is playing Hitler in his final hours. It is funny as f……Someone put a lot of effort into to making it, excellent viewing.
The take aways….someone’s wife left, with the kids. Took up with famous move star. Came home, brought covid with them. Someone’s investments in Acuitas and Arbutus is threatened by ending vaccine mandates.
Someone may have flew on Lolita, friendly with Eppy and Ghizzy………has a taste for…..hey the vid lays it out. This is now out in public, optics do not look good.
Cheers M