2022/02/13 13:30:01
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man is a mirror
but only reflects as much
truth as soul can hold
How much can the soul hold?
As much as it can let go
Understanding is a perception of the spiritual senses,
and is continually expanding, so you are right, Fionnbarra,
in order to ‘remain in eternity’, we need to continually
‘uproot whatever moorings we put down’. Letting go of what
we understood truth to be yesterday is necessary to
understand what truth is today. Truth is one but our
understanding of it is continually expanding/changing.
If the reality of what is observed
and the observer is the same
One wonders then
what this observation is about?
I will put the poetic form aside in order to untangle what
I’m getting at here. There is a difference between the
spiritual or infinite nature of Soul, and the limited, or finite
nature of the outer consciousness of man, or mind.
The observation therefore, is about the expansion of conscious-
ness, and how it can only take place after one is put into new
conditions of learning. The creative process of Soul, or what It
manifests in life, becomes the individual reflection of what we
realise the divine power to be relative to one’s self.
In other words limitations only exist insofar as we impose them
upon ourselves. The law of consciousness is continually
striving to overcome ignorance, and experience serves to
gradually unfold Soul toward wisdom or rather the infinite
untapped potential within.
can one speak truth
unless truth is first uttered
in one’s soul?
in the invisible
medicine tent
fine portrait
of some of us
a speaker of tongues
yet a ‘speaker of none’,
behind the many
the face of but one
इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः।
मनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्यो बुद्धेः परतस्तु सः॥ ३-४२
Transliteration:
indriyāṇi parāṇyāhurindriyebhyaḥ paraṃ manaḥ।
manasastu parā buddhiryo buddheḥ paratastu saḥ॥ 3-42
Translation:
The senses are superior to the gross body,
and superior to the senses is the mind.
Beyond the mind is the intellect,
and even beyond the intellect is the soul.
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3, verse 42
Haiku Sequence;
Reverie
scurrying clouds
throw your face into shadow –
disappearing moon
how befitting,
a plover’s cry distracting me
from my reverie
in last night’s dream, there
you were in my house; the house
we built together
exactly in the shape
of an arrowhead, passing
dispersal of geese
who knows where the time
goes? here in my heart nothing
has changed
A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
– Kobayashi Issa
my cry of agony,
wordless as a beast’s,
goes out into the night
This is what happened in France yesterday.
Also the skies were liberally teargassed.
https://twitter.com/_h16/status/1492835683291082753
https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1492772848657653763
Amarynth,
you aint seen nuthing yet! I was just writing something about French police brutality to Sean in an update from Ottawa.
The scenes you posted are like a petit dejeuner in France. Yellow Vests lost eyes, etc.. When I used to play hoops long ago, we had a simple rule – ‘no blood, no foul.’ Maybe French cops have a similar order? No bone fragments sticking out, anything goes? And did you see the open enjoyment in their “duties?” In most countries cops see it as dirty job but some of these French really swung with gusto and élan, and barely remembered they were facing a petit woman! scary. But remember they are also dealing with the descendants of Asterix, lol, who can also give back, and they will give back eventually.
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Sean,
From family in Ottawa:
– protests only affect DT area, not most of Ottawa..
– Mounties appear to be on way, that’s the building expectation.
– spreading Quebec protests were quashed. Montreal is only 2 hours away. French sharing know-how? Among most experienced and ruthless riot police in west are the French, used to barricades, yellow vests and far worse in the last three centuries.
– cost of living is shooting WAY up. just last few days – 70 cent jump in milk price. Unprecedented in last 30 years.. would only increase 10-20 cents at a time. Canada is rich in dairy. Price gouging or has inflation hit Canada too?
– weather is a balmy 3° C! This is beach-weather for some Canadians lol. Did they turn off Mr. MacGregor’s HAARP?
the quick ending of pandemic restrictions throughout Zone A worries me. British just lifted all testing requirements for vaccinated travelers too.
Are we to believe one-track dingle berries from the Abyss have suddenly acquired human compassion for their subjects?
This appears a coordinated process.. Is likely tied to war moves. Or maybe they want travelers & visitors to seed something worldwide? Spring Break is imminent.
For sure, they have no good will towards any living and non-living in the cosmos.
Yup those French cops drip with psychopathy.
I am thinking a lot about the lifting of all restrictions.In the UK – why etc, this comes after months of growing confusion, Bojo being all over the show and a hopeless embarrassment to all. Truss seems Agrade psychopathic material, it’s all over her smile and whole demeanor before she even opens her mouth.
Two years ago began the sudden, brutal onslaught of deliberate fear rollout, the restrictions and etc.Shock causes memory blips, dazed conditions. Don’t forget, life as the world had known it, changed overnight. I watched this very carefully over time, the development, the various types of adjustments to unforeseen circumstances, culture melt down, job loss, economy wrecking and so on.
Now, it’s all imminent war/invasion, the pandemic being on the back burner, but hot on the heels…Did the Brits recover after all? They do bounce back.. maybe that was the threat to the Abyss dingle berries!!!
Watching moderna ceo dump his stock. And his other compadres .1.4 b between them. Interesting they must know theres literally nooses tightening . At the same time as a earnings report warning regarding adverse trial data. You know the data they tried to hide for 75 years. Trust the science they say. From the first documents we have seen not one woman gave birth in that trial to a live baby. Kinda puts the technocrats for lack of a more fitting nastier word into anyones crosshairs.
Its starting to affect the kids minds, the likes of which once you’ve crossed the point of no return, their is no point in returning to control your own demise.
You will have been caught in the lie of never ending progressive democracy.
Well A.H.H., when the big War for Ukrainian Democray kicks off we’ll see how many Petit Kievians join the fodder ranks……chances are they’ll hide behind trucker blouses.
Cheers M
‘hiding behind a big girls blouse’ Irish slang for a wimp.
I can’t link from this device but there is a scathing rebuttal from Conrad Black in today’s National Post. Say what you will about Conrad, not a fav of mine, but he doesn’t mince words.
The Ambassador Bridge has been cleared. Protesters peacefully left the bridge…..and moved down the street and blocked all feeder routes……
Every time the Turd opens his mouth, he unites Canadians like no one ever has. This protest in Canada is not about freedom or democray anymore……it’s about the Turd. Flush him.
On a happier note, restrictions be damned, we have a planned trip to Canada’s Dead Sea, well god bless Saskatchewan’s Premier, all vaxx pass requirements gone tomorrow and masks off Mar 1st. Fully open, which is a problem for Turdoo, if the provs drop the restrictions, how will the Feds enforce it.
Cheers M
I have heard of this Dead Sea: little Manitou Lake between Regina and Saskatoon. 5 times the salinity of
The real Dead Sea. I’m intrigued, and may make a pilgrimage in the summer.
We travel 8 hrs by car to get there, went with the kids over 25 years ago, went back every year since. Now that I’m old and broken, the aches of age, we try and go twice a year. The salt water there really does heal.
Cheers M
The Naked Emperor is just a thief.
So, by my reckoning, it is the third bunch of money that either is stolen or cannot move to the Canadian Truckers. I think so. This is theft.
And here is the theft from Afghanistan. Their money has been taken to pay out to the 9/11 survivors or some kind of pretext. Here is a break your heart piece from Pepe.
https://vk.com/pepeasia?w=wall578617852_12681%2Fall
Once this current brouhaha calms down, we still have Palestine and at least Yemen to go and clean up from thieves that make go children hungry.
And I found a 6th columnist – and guess who he worked for. Yeah, RT. Will write a bit about that.
The Taliban were ‘gifted’ with $83 billion of brand new, state of the art military vehicles and equipment.
They could sell off this stuff and feed their people. Sell it to governments far away.
Instead, we saw some of it migrating to Kazakhstan last month. ISIS-K has some of it.
The US commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and then leave. They are not going to change their behavior concerning Afghanistan.
Thinking the US will return money to Afghanistan is delusional. The US is a global criminal organization.
The Taliban are wasting time and lives if they think waiting for the US to be fair is their policy.
Russia and China are waiting on the Taliban to work with them against drugs and against terrorism.
So far, the future does not look good.
Qatar and Turkey are operating the Kabul airport. Those two are the foremost Muslim Brotherhood (AQ, ISIS, ISIS-K) financiers. Not a smart move by the Taliban.
They are sitting on Trillions of dollars worth of minerals. They can cut deals with China, Russia, India, Japan, Germany, etc. for exploiting their natural resources which would give them a cash flow to run the nation quite comfortably.
We were told the Taliban were bright, intelligent and forward-looking.
I have yet to see it.
“The US is a global criminal organization” Couldn’t agree more.
The late Harold Pinter summed it up well:
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”
Interesting report written by a guy who lives on Kent Street in Ottawa. The truckers are basically parked below his bedroom window;
‘A night with the untouchables’
https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/
Police in Milk River AB came to make arrests…and this happened;
https://twitter.com/melcasebee/status/1492241106364477445
siljan, thanks for links, the truckers as brothers in arms, and ‘a night with the untouchables’ meetings. So very fine. Excerpt from the reformed physicist:
Here I was in conversation with an Indigenous man who was fiercely proud to be part of the convoy. He showed me his medicine wheel and he pointed to its colours, red, black, white, and yellow. He said there is a message of healing in there for all the human races, that we can come together because we are all human. He said, “If you ever find yourself on Manitoulin Island, come to my reserve, I would love to show you my community.”
We have to remember amidst #the battleship of exposing evil info – that the world is full of good people, or we will sink also.
Putin is humane with the workers, evidencing this clearly when he met with Viktor Orbán in Moscow recently. I don’t think it’s just for show.. Someone said on another thread he supports the truckers, I’ve no idea, no link, but considering his current position, could imagine this might be the case…….
Milk River….brings a tear to the eye. Pretty emotional stuff….heard a young women the other day ‘ this is my hill, I will fight and die on it’ I don’t think she was over 25, just one of the millions of Canadians The Turd called mysogenistic racists. I don’t think Mr Diversity quite understands what he has done.
siljan, thanks for the link. Poll taken on Feb 9/10 has only 16 per cent voting Lib.
If perchance you see the light
Before the full onset of night
The broken mirror in your eyes
The Lord of all His
Eagle flies
If perchance you took the bait
Believed the screens
Told truth to this dark plight
And now haves aids
Or vaids or ade
And now are crippled
By what “saves”.
Know this
You will be healed by faith
But you must mean it
On your face
In full humility
And supplements
Shall aid thee.
And war?
Give it to God and David
One smooth stone
Can stop invaders
the fate of Goliath;
written in his own
misbegotten intent
Jeffry Kaye digs deep, make big claim. Provides evidence. Biowarfare
https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/secret-report-us-military-approved-offensive-use-of-biological-warfare-on-enemy-agriculture-in-26b658ae04c9
Uses original documents. These are presented. Evidently agents were used and tested on enemy agriculture and persons. Later on more of same using Japanese boffins, but it began in ’41 or ’42.
“US Military Approved Offensive Use of Biological Warfare on Enemy Agriculture in World War 2”
If we accept Kaye’s proposition, which seems to be valid, then naturally the question may reasonably be asked> When did it stop?
Japanese rice crops failed before they surrendered…they were starving. The surrender, therefore, was not only due to the Red Army in Manchuria defeating the Japanese Army there, but also because of US biowarfare on Japan.
(the A Bombs were effects tests and attempt to intimidate USSR)
Big claim. Take with grain of salt.
Regards. P
From “A Lute of Jade”, Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China.
Meng Hao-Jan; A.D. 689 – 740 – One of the literary men of the day whose later life was devoted entirely to literature. He was an inseparable friend of the famous Buddhist poet and doctor, Wang Wei. He spent the first forty years of his life in acquiring knowledge, but having failed to obtain his doctor’s degree, returned to the quiet hills of his native province and dedicated his remaining years to composition. Most of his poems are full of subtle sadness and fragrant regret, reminding one of pot-pourii in some deep blue porcelain bowl.
The Lost One
The red gleam o’er the mountains
Goes wavering from sight,
And the quiet moon enhances
The loveliness of night.
I open wide my casement
To breathe the rain-cooled air.
And mingle with the moonlight
The dark waves of my hair.
The night wind tells me secrets
Of lotus lilies blue;
And hour by hour the willows
Shake down the chiming dew.
I fain would take my zither
By some stray fancy led;
But there are none to hear me
And who can charm the dead?
So, all my day-dreams follow
The bird that leaves the nest;
And in the night I gather
The lost one to my breast.
Hero (2002) directed by the maestro Zhang Yimou. Director also of the 2008 & 2022 Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrI9Aw0J3k&list=PLF3831010615C80A5&index=2
In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Kar-Wai Wong, with a discerning eye, hypnotic mood and languid pacing. The Japanese composer is Shigeru Umebayashi.
https://youtu.be/gw9fKuymA0I
Thanks for the links A.H.H, I know “Hero” it’s masterful and poetic, and have sampled
the soundtrack, it sounds delightful so far, cheers.
France will always defend their dual currency.
The French Franc rules 5 African countries.
Dupicicity.
If I were in Mr Putin’s top adviser’s shoes:
I would advise a meeting in Minsk with the Ukrainian president on the so called military escalation.
I would advise a date beyond the end of the Olympics. I am sure Mr. Putin would enjoy watching the last competition in these Olympics and could ‘promise’ not to invade till then (this proposal and invitation could be launched during the talks and press conference with Mr. Scholz; I am sure the press would appreciate a good wit).
I would advise to suggest Ukraine should sell a large part of the weaponry received from the western countries as Ukraine stringently needs money. Why not make an offer for Russia to buy those weapons, if possible of course.
If both countries want peace, then talks excluding for the moment the Minsk implementation would be the way. Postpone the difficult matters and start talking about the obvious easy to solve problems.
Just in, Canadian Beavers in retreat, moving out of Ukraine. Mr Putin did say get your NATO troops out of Ukraine.
May be a good sign.
Cheers M
Two cute, too cute dogs being good doggos on twitter
https://twitter.com/Laughs_4_All/status/1492656967004917769
A remark about propaganda. There exist three basic sorts. white, grey, and black. Propaganda can be true… It can be obscurantist, it can be false.
Cops, real cops who are actually professionals and experts, deal with propaganda, that’s to say misleading statements, fake “evidence”, lies, and so forth, all the time. In fact it’s very useful. It’s a basic part of their craft.
Put bluntly, propaganda can be analyzed scientifically – and made thereby to reveal at least the true direction of an investigation, and, finally, both the actual facts and the liars or manipulators, and their agenda.
Oftentimes the “colors” of a propaganda source and his works are a mix. Some truth, some lies, and some misdirection. Over time, like the famous Maigret, the careful reader or examiner, arrives at a close approximation of objective fact.
In the example of our friend Mr Hal Turner, his hysterical and often hyperbolic statements are very useful. Similarly the person Jen Pskai reveals both truth and agenda every time she blathers along.
A mirror image of propaganda, frank and honest statements, is anathema to propagandists – thus who and what is suppressed or trivialized or distracted from, by propagandists – is in juxtaposition, a wonderful instrument.
Analysis is independent of the character – and ad homenim feelings cloud the accuracy and facility of discovering truth from propaganda.We may despise a man and let this cloud our logic.
Some useful books on the subject include Bernays’ “Propaganda” and Sefton Delmer’s “Atrocity Propaganda” as well as “Black Boomerang”. Others abound. Victor Klemperers’ “I Will Bear Witness V1 and V2 provide, in part, his analysis of the nazi propaganda as it was created.
To-day the propaganda against Valieva provides a fine subject for analysis. My opinion is that this propaganda is so badly conceived that it makes those who accuse the girl look like fools. Of course it also exposes agenda and identity of the liars.
Best! P
Can anyone here point me to updates about the current goings-on in the Donbass, in English? I’m a Libertarian, so I’ve long ago decided that my own government is as untrustworthy as any other, but the only news that I can find for the area is likewise sponsored by some government or another.
i remember a old texan doing charity work in the donass lots of u tube vids and an english journalist working with the donbass and got woundd with shrapnel some years ago and there is another journalist, maybe amercan cant remember their names
damit but google texan donass might bring up some results, hope this helps.
Hi oldnik00,
People are made up in so many different ways, and the capacity to feel moved and connected with others in a shared vision is not for everyone, or not experienced by all in the same way,or sometimes even not felt at all.
This is life, people are continually at different stages and ways of being, so, it’s no problem.
But the fact stays anyway, the uplifting, inspiring unity engendered by this awareness; how it changes lives.
As well as charity workers, there were also volunteer soldiers from different countries in the Donbass. They gave interviews, reports and videos were made, it was a different era altogether, and unrepeatable I imagine anywhere now. But the point is the way people caught fire from around the world as an expression of unity.
Same with the workers convoys and their hundred, upon hundred thousand practical supporters. Totally different scenario, but still one catching an holding world attention.
There are simply no final tragedies and negative outcomes that can dispel or negate these tremendous expressions of human interest and endeavour. Terrible challenges will no doubt happen in some way, and be well analysed, but beware the negative propaganda: stay cool on track comrades.
Creighton, this one is a fair overall view.
https://dan-news.info/en/
And I regularly check Dean O’Brien’s twitter feed. He gets retweeted by the First Secretary of the Russian Permanent Mission of the UN, so, that indicates that he is a trusted source.
https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1
Aah, I forgot Patrick Lancaster. Both his twitter and look for him on youtube.
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
Thank you very much, Amarynth.
Now that I live under this new martial law
I fear to speak or bank or even draw
A new sign, something really new like…
God is within and beside you
Call on your angels
They will not despise you
Walk in truth and be free
Peace on earth
Humility.
Cheesy but hey, it’s all I got, night. ^_^
Leaked data is showing the majority of Trucker donations came from Canadians. They’ll move the trucks but as the weather warms the protests will become a human tide. Watched a great vid of a Global News reporter who got fired. She said that they were given talking points about how to report ‘the views’ about covid and bury anything slightly contrary. The dead babies piling up post vaxx and how they are treating doctors who are trying to bring it into the public eye, broke her. Genocide, plain and simple.
Cheers M
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Yes Sean, genocide. Pray and get the word out.
OK, the truckers. This type of action was what I was fearing all along. You’re now in a type of civil war and I don’t know if people actually recognize it. So by now, everyone knows of the emergency actions in Canada.
A friend from the crypto world just tweeted this. He is an over-the-top type person.
So, check out the little video clip here: https://twitter.com/cyprianous/status/1493414970976980992
This is doubleplus psychopathy.
I talked about the stealing of the money. This is a war is equivalent to burning down the farms, the foodstocks and putting women and children in concentration camps. They are taking away the ability to buy and sell. People have been crying about a Central Bank Digital Currency that is going to ‘control us all’. And all I could say, is that the ability exists already, through the banks and debit and credit cards.
So now, everyone that ever gave some money to the truckers is an enemy of the state, with no legal recourse. Yeah, I am sure it will be taken to court, but that is what the state wants. They want to waste your time.
And then, right on cue, the donor lists are hacked. True or not, propaganda or not but the fear of the ordinary people ….
All I really want is for you all to realize that this is war. The only option that I see now, is to mass walkout and shut Canada down?. A mass closing of bank accounts will not work, as they won’t give you your money probably.
OK, those of us that have been in strikes and mass walkouts .. what is a fair response provided people have the goolies to still respond?
I do not advocate any action but remark about History, which, they say, rhymes.
It appears that the evolving tactical situation is quite similar to a lockout, but on a different scale and by a different actor. In History the general response has been to secretly enlist those that are scabbing as agents of the class that’s locked out… QED I’ll leave it there so far as what those agents might decide to do or not do…but everybody who knows his job also knows how to make his work ineffectual, if he chooses to do that. I seem to recall there’s an old OSS manual that relates to the nazi occupation of Europe in the 1940’s.
I suppose the old IWW would be a source of interesting Historical events associated with lockout and blacklists and yellow dog tactics. IWW still exists.
And there’s suppressed History too. See> https://www.ueunion.org/labors-untold-story
Long time ago at the Dew Drop Inn somebody said they overheard a story about…well, it had something to do with a guy who might have claimed he’d… I’ll stop there.
Ed Abby wrote a comic fantasy novel too. So did Steinbeck…”Moon is Down”. Comrade Karl M addressed such matters too.
Just reminiscing about longtimeago… A fella, a friend of mine, was doing routine maintenance at a “factory” and changing lights on a paint booth used to paint tanks. The lights were accessed via the top of this metal box structure, nobody ordinarily went aloft – for years nobody had walked on the top. There was a white powder inches deep blanketing the metal roof, which was inside the building. “Geewhiz”, he wondered. “What’s this stuff?”
Well, it turned out that it might be asbestos. He took a sample on a putty knife and put this in a baggie. Went to the “safety” guy…one thing followed another.
It was asbestos, many pounds of it, even though a contractor had previously certified the building clear of the vile material.
The building was immediately evacuated. For several weeks nobody could enter except the specially suited “experts”. No work was done by the “factory”…nothing got repaired, no tanks got serviced or painted.
Everybody, more or less, has a procedure manual and works according to rules and laws. Generally, as a practical matter, these are seen as “flexible” – but in fact they are not. Sometimes people work to rule.
There are rules and laws so numerous as to boggle the mind. Often-times the first step when there’s doubt is to demand written orders, and keep, well put away, a signed copy as evidence… No supervisor of any intelligence or imagination will sign an illegal or rule-breaking order. One thing leads to another.
Meantime…in a totally unrelated matter…
see> https://rumble.com/vuxyh9-convoy-organizers-press-conference-in-response-to-emergencies-act-invoked.html
Note the evocative tableau of this Declaration: a hunched-forward and grim Frau Freeland with the girly-man firmly muzzled behind her!
Re: “They are taking away the ability to buy and sell”
I am actually optimistic. They are over-reaching, and helping stimulate a parallel economy, much needed anyhow. The fools immediately went to the nuclear option. It is like “sanctions from Hell” promised to Russians. How did that go? The Russian Ambassador in Sweden spoke for all mankind..
Bartering, cash, etc.. is sorely needed to circumvent the digital gulag already largely in place.
Ottawa appears the “City upon the Hill upon which the West will live or die.” As it goes, so goes what remains of Liberty, already on life-support.
And they do not only over-reach with the financing entrapment and activating the sanctions, the very idea of calling a soft Martial Law over peaceful middle-aged protesters.. these tyrants are fragile and lack reserve. Wait until they see the hungry angry looted and future-less youth! In the medium term, they will be swept away like flotsam.
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One of the major historical milestones in WW1 was the mobilizations of two European powers, Germany and Russia, cleverly finagled by the shuttle diplomacy and posturing of the British, which led to the final slide into the maelstrom. Today may go in history as a reverse, with Russians cleverly pulling back forces in Belarus, denying AZE its cover for tomorrow’s FF..
Just an irrelevant thought apropos of nothing at all>
Tom Paine wrote> “I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, “Well! Give me peace in my day.” Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a confrontation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;” and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to his duty.”
Somebody in the Donbass might have quoted Paine. Or maybe it was somebody In Canada, I forget.
Mr P, wonder if showing up to a protest against Mr Turdo in backface would pass for apropos?
Cheers M
Ukraine Down
Ukraine banking system, Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces networks disrupted. Is this the false flag provocation?
?? Confirmed: Real-time network data show a loss of connectivity to #Ukraine’s State Savings Bank, impacting ATM and banking services; disruptions also reported on Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces networks; incident comes amid heightened tensions with Russia ??
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1493631119669047299?cxt=HHwWhsC9ld_luLopAAAA
Ukraine site
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ukraine
Canada froze their bank accounts for funding terrorism, works that way in other fascist countries.
Cheers M
I am trying to get verification from a friendly site. It is being picked up by the West in concert and when they say amid Russian tensions they pretty much are blaming Russia.
This is very different from Canada here the military was cyberattacked.
not friendly…
https://thehill.com/policy/international/594330-ukraine-defense-ministry-banks-hit-by-cyberattack-amid-tensions-with
amarynth, and anyone else for that matter, do check out Canada’s Anita Krishna, a Global News reporter who has come forward. A quick google will find her. Gives an insiders view of how the narrative has been controled since the arrival of Cousin It. She’s doing a presser in Ottawa today, Dr Bridle is there, Tam the Sham and her shisters failed to show……and the band played on.
There is a guy out there,(he does not look like the guy in the photo), who, as an inflationary check on the creation of the Federal Reserve and the job it does over time, is going to judge anyone who has a million dollars, weather it has been earned or simply aquired.
How he intends to do this is still a mystery, when he intends to do it is not as crucial as now is as good a time as any going forward. And what becomes of the ones who have a million unearned dollars, this too is a mystery but i’m willing to guess its not a pleasant outcome.
There are quite a few people who dont have to worry about this problem, anyone not having a million dollars can rest assured you are not going to be affected by his outcome.
But if you do have a million dollars, I would count something other than sheep to sleep tonight, maybe bags of concrete, this is something he says he can use.
Ha ha somebody heisted 3500 long rifles and magazines and ammo in Canada yesterday. They knocked over a transport truck. These are probably the weapons Justin promised to Ukraine. Probably being shipped from Colt or Armalite or whomever makes the M4 I think it is called. So now the Hell’s or somebody has them, or maybe they never existed in the first place, and now Trudeau doesn’t have to ship them. Who knows? But there was a heist according to the CBC.
Turns out Savage has a factory outside of Peterborough. The truck was in the factory parking lot loaded up with 2000 small caliber guns with “the clips attached”, according to some cop who should know correct terminology. .223 is small caliber. The thieves just drove off with the truck. Apparently Savage just got into making Assault rifles lately.
Yes amarynth, your fears have materialized. It doesn’t look good at this point. From what I understand the truckers in Ottawa are staying despite threats of having their registration and insurance suspended and their bank accounts frozen. How do they proceed from here? It has been a peaceful protest all along. But these threats could push some tired trucker over the edge. It only takes a spark…it could get ugly. Then there are the agent provocateurs. Yes this is war.
The Truckers went from heroes to terrorists and nazis as soon as they set out on their convoy to Ottawa. Canadians are now under an ‘Emergencies Act’, which is just another name for The War Measures Act. All the while Trudeau is supporting, training and funding real nazis in the Ukraine;
https://marktaliano.net/whose-swastikas-justin-trudeau-supports-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-by-prof-chossudovsky/
The President of El Salvador has something to say:
“The real war is not in Ukraine, but it’s in Canada, Australia, France, Brussels
England, Germany, Italy…
They just want you to look the other way”
https://twitter.com/GuyFrees/status/1492906012671561732?ref_src=tws
It appears that the Trucker Convoy was infiltrated by some suspicious characters…These people are not even truckers.
I have no illusions that a Conservative Government, who no doubt will win in a landslide in the next federal election, will be much different and neither does this trucker;
https://files.catbox.moe/3eapq6.MP4
The firearms seized in Coutts Alberta most likely planted imho;
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-rcmp-arrest-13-people-at-coutts-border-blockade-seize-weapons-1.5780676
Ex-RCMP Officer Daniel Pulford on possible firearms being planted in Ottawa;
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/bTPUgELMyuWo/?feature=oembed#?secret=n6lbihXIn2
Freedom convoy press conference post emergencies act; (sorry for poor sound in some parts)
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/oYC1by9W8K51/?feature=oembed#?secret=WdUkLlDVra
Ottawa Police Chief resigns;
https://globalnews.ca/news/8621091/ottawa-police-peter-sloly-resigns/
Canadians are more divided than ever. At least we can now clearly see who some of the real enemies of freedom and democracy are. Voting is meaningless, it changes nothing.
Memoria
Let we forget
Every past battle
Fought against principalities
And the valiant sacrificing of lives
Of all who overcame the fear of losing
Their personal self for the self of the greater
Who won and fought with others to stand for truth
Whisper prayers of thanks laying them into wreaths of hope.
I don’t know what happened to the “s”……… but ‘lest we forget’, of course!
I’ve been leading them to the river,
And I’ve been leading them to the morgue.
And if you get any closer, you be part of the horde.
The devils day may be due,
and i’ve sniffed him a time or two.
But eternal springs arrive early,
so to the garden I must go surely.
There is a war to fight, but i’m only one,
because the days of love and leaves, are done.
I live in hope
That the giant carp of Chernobyl
Are a sign of things to come
But I’ve always been an optimist.
This man> Matthew Ehret, In (The October Crisis of 1970: A Carefully-Prepared Plot (part 1 of 2) recently wrote>
“It is also worth noting that the driving force behind the border blockades and the Ottawa protests which are spreading across the world are not the same process. Facts on the ground in Windsor and Manitoba demonstrate that unlike the freedom convoy, the border blockades are not organic and carrying many signatures of stage managed operations put on with a complicit media and fools to justify such an unjustifiable crackdown.”
The man himself is, at this time, perhaps more interesting than his essays and claims.
That’s to say I invite comments in reply about both the man and his works, but just now, primarily about the man.
The essay pair he proffers may be seen as placing the Canadian would-be tyrant in some sort of historical context. This relates to that good man Klaus S and his curated coterie, of which they say the most esteemed tyrant is a member.
Yup ..
Personally, I am not so enamored with the LaRouchePac philosophies. It’s too hard to read where philosophy has been finagled inside of the content especially with a good writer.
Fact or propaganda? If I know it is propaganda, easy peasy, then it is another case altogether and you already explained that somewhere. (My best propaganda is cartoons – https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252423.shtml).
It seems as if there has been a break with former philosophical besties, but I don’t know. If it is so, I do know why.
Its too hard and there is too much work to figure this out for no reason. I avoid it because of data overload. But that is just me.
There is however another problem as to those that we ally with. Sometimes they don’t exist. Take a good look at the footer .. and do a search or check this: https://thesternfacts.com/american-university-in-moscow-linked-to-russian-state-but-fake-like-trumpu-14d157fa234f
I think the world’s best illustration at the moment of a tyrant or even a Nazi may have a rich tribal history. Which tribe, that I don’t know.
Gonna throw this out fwiw, a leading Canadian Lawyer posits that Trudeau had no choice but to enact the EPA. Rumblings from a Capital Hill basement are suggesting RCMP investigating where someone gets their money and where it gets decycled, ala Clinton Trust Fund, with the passing of the EPA, all investigations into any sitting PM are halted. Just some Canadian legalise floating around the bowl.
Cheers M
They say that VP Johnson was about to be indicted for corruption when, by an amazing coincidence, his superior was removed…thus that good man J was faced with no alternative but to cooperate with the job, not that he objected, mind you.
Sean, are the searchwords or url’s relative to your FWIW above?
auto correct, sorry, should be fwiw, for what its worth.
Cheers
So, I am just going to give it to you because today I am tired.
So, these guys are unashamedly socialist. They like their socialist organizations (like unions and those that are supposed to work for the workers – workers of the world unite style!). Mr P will probably understand the language because it is singular.
You know, there have been trucker revolts before – in Chile and in Brazil. Both of these were faux right wing revolts, i.e., set up to present one reality, but actually to effect another reality – completely astroturfed. (Sorry Sean, you’re gonna hate me but I don’t think you really will hate me).
https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/14/canada-brazil-trucker-protests-right-wing/
So, the idea here is to protect your hearts – I understand there are thousands of very good people there. I’ll talk about the astroturfing some other time.
And then, here is this Canadian. I follow him regularly as he has lived in China for a long time and he works there. He is talking about the signs ‘We are Canada, we are not Communist China”). This will track with the socialist guys, but on another level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSKKwdOHIc&t=1s
This cartoon is who everyone else thinks is astroturfing.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252238.shtml
Also, one of your own, Amazing Polly who I really do not follow whatsoever, but people send me stuff. On Bitchute, a piece that she did on those that appointed themselves organizers.
Oh, Dear! No one will find any hate in me. Like Mercouris, I am sympathetic to the old left, I’d like to see in domestic matters not a communist State, not al all, but a sympathy with the working class and a pacific communal sentiment generally amongst he people. Here I think of the Quaker Communion and villages, like the Amish and like community itself, and a general respect that honors labor itself as a virtue. This is not a political position, simply a “druther”. People, I think, ought to be nice to one another, with sincere respect for life and humanity and tolerance.
I saw Poly.
Best! I hope you get some rest… You do a lot of work, and I appreciate it, and your forbearance for the errors and missteps. Thanks! P
Canada has always been an ideologically socialist country, similar to Sweden or Norway. So no disdain here for socialists, unions and the like. Canadians love their Co Ops.
The CDN trucker convoy has nothing to do with vaccines, that was the spark. Its on fire now.
Dr Malone tweet; ‘conflict of interest’ I said from the start, anyone who forces others to take experimental drugs, and that person has personal financial interests in those companies that supply said drugs, that is illegal. Call the Mounties. Someone did, word is they are investigating
Canadians learned from Global News Director Anita Krishna, the Cdn government paid off the media; $600mil.
They were told to control the narrative, push the vaxx agenda. Zero public news talk of any drug that might help with covid, zero. Some say they exist.
From her we also learn, Brian Peckford, last living signatory to Canadas Charter of Rights and Freedoms has a lawsuit going against the Federal Government over vaccine mandates. Over a year, never, ever made the news. Buried.
Pfizer CEOs dumping stocks in the billions, they have been forced to release all their vaccine data…the pregnant mom stuff is sad. They f’n knew.
blood clinicians dealing with a surge in HIV in double vaxx+boosted people……the injuries are known, doctors being forced by government to hide the new born baby deaths in vaxxed moms. This is reality. This has nothing to do with whose paying whom, and which side they are from and what hidden agenda they push.
and poor sis, even the other lab techs are freaked with the shear amount of tests they are doing on completely rare ‘quick cancers’, you should read the obits up here. Oh, and its personal, I know some of these ‘suddenly dead’ people. Oncologists, that see rare cancers a few times in their careers are seeing them several times a month. None of this is normal and it will not be hidden for much longer.
A lawyer up here, in the know tweeted that there are Clinton Foundation type shenanigans going on with Mr Diversity and it is being looked in to.
Now for the zinger. To block the funny money investigation, Mr Diversity is trying to ram through an EPA, if enacted, the investigation is quashed. Big votes tomorrow….the Senate vote, final say, is the important one.
More snow to mow…..Cheers, M
Incredible words from Ibrahim Karagül, of Turkey’s Yeni Safak newspaper, who is the clearest and most reliable spokesperson for the actual viewpoints of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One can only hope these are not just words.
excerpt…
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/02/16/signs-that-today-is-historys-turning-point/
“The crisis in Ukraine will only be exacerbated. The West will settle into the Black Sea. Breaking out a Turkey-Russia war is the West’s primary goal. Erdogan and Putin must put a stop to this!” and said:
For exactly three decades now, war has been raging on in Turkey’s south. Invasions, civil wars, and ethnic and sectarian conflicts are rife from the Red Sea to Afghanistan. Millions perished, as cities turned into ruins and countries collapsed.
All of these wars were broken out by the U.S. and Europe. All of these massacres were committed to further U.S. and European interests. Countries collapsed because of American and European greed.
The biggest price we paid in the 21st century
Nobody should even deign to suggest that these countries had problems of their own to deal with. This was the biggest lie they fooled us with. These were never the reasons behind the wars in question. But we believed in the majority of the excuses they concocted.
We submitted mentally to the U.S. and Europe’s dirty plans, bloody attacks, and enormities. We convinced ourselves with their justifications.
This was the heaviest price we paid in the 21st century. These wars, invasions, internal conflicts, and terrorist organizations were launched for the U.S. and the West’s plans. …
They committed genocides, destroyed nations, sacrificed countries for the welfare of New York and Paris, for London’s comfort. They fought Islam, against millions of Muslims. The West is continuing to wage wars across the world for its own interests and security.
They are now plotting a new war in our north, in the Black Sea. This time the victim is Ukraine. They are promoting Russian expansionism. They are promoting European security. A massive front is being built from the north to the south, from Poland to Ukraine, from Romania to Bulgaria and Greece.
All of these countries are being driven to the front, against Russia, to ensure Europe’s security. They do not take this risk themselves; they are using front countries and weaponizing nations.
Provoking Russia
The West, the driving force behind all this, never stands against Russia directly. It is instead trying to provoke Russia to attack these countries. Its plan is to occupy Russia with endless wars and collapse it at the cost of the destruction of the countries on its borders. This is a game, and every one of these countries is a victim sacrificed for the West. …
This is the West’s unwavering tactic. They attempted this in every country. They have been doing the same against Turkey for the last half-century. This is a complete scam.
There can not be a war on the Black Sea!
A Black Sea war specific to Ukraine is unacceptable from Turkey’s perspective. We cannot agree to this, whether it be for the U.S. and Europe, or Russia. This will destabilize Turkey’s north for decades, and turn it into pandemonium.
Yes, Turkey is a NATO country. Yes, Turkey is a U.S. and European ally. Yes, it is a very important state for the Atlantic alliance.
But do not forget that those very same allies are the source of the terror threat in northern Iraq, northern Syria, the East Mediterranean, the Aegean, and the internal attacks such as the 2016 coup [referring to this].
The source of all threats presently identified by Turkey is the U.S. and Europe. Every event should be specifically identified. The U.S. and Europe are behind them all. But must we play the fool as Turkey?
The Western plan to settle in the Black Sea
The Russia-Ukraine crisis must be prevented. Both Russia and Ukraine need to remain tranquil. They should not fall for the West’s “Grand Game.” All they want to do is provoke Russia, encourage Ukraine, and settle in the Black Sea.
This is the final plan. The U.S. and Europe’s Ukraine plan is to settle in the Black Sea!
Turkey is a close ally and friend of Kyiv. The two have extraordinary partnerships in military technology, as well as numerous other fields. Crimea is a national issue for Turkey, and is a sensitive matter. Our partnership with Ukraine must be preserved and strengthened.
They’re setting a game for war between Turkey, Russia
Turkey and Russia are allies. This alliance is in the interest of both Turkey and Russia. Both countries need this. This friendship thrived despite all of the West’s provocations aimed at breaking out war between the two countries. …
Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey must stand adamantly against the U.S. and Europe’s takeover of the Black Sea, and block all paths that lead to this end.
If we fail to do this, the second leg of the crisis will be to pit Turkey and Russia against each other. This is the West’s end-goal. After Ukraine, they will strive to drive Turkey against Russia.
Turkey is aware of the threat. President Erdogan is striving to prevent this.
If the U.S. and Europe settle in the Black Sea, a war between Turkey and Russia will be inevitable. If this transpires, both Russia and Turkey will be unable to prevent conflict.
The West now identifies Turkey as a threat like it does Russia. They are planning to exhaust the two countries with a single plot, using one against the other, to eliminate both.
Turkey is aware of this. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Kyiv signified great support for Ukraine. He may have also warned Ukraine regarding certain matters.
His statement upon returning from this visit, “Unfortunately the West had no contribution to solve this issue. They are virtually creating obstacles,” reveals the naked truth. …
This is the world’s only chance. We have to save the Black Sea. We have to prevent a U.S. and European takeover. If this initiative provides even the slightest success, Turkey will become a diplomatic giant.
States putting their trust in the West are doomed to lose
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China, the support he received, Moscow and Beijing presenting a joint front against the West, are all indicators that the global scale of the crisis transcends Ukraine.
This is a war between the East and the West, and it should not be taken lightly.
After U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, after people crashed to the ground from aircraft wings, this reality is now global:
No country or nation can remain standing by putting its faith in the U.S. and Europe. The more countries move away from the U.S., the stronger they become.
The West is not the world’s center
A new future is being built outside the U.S. and the West. The West is no longer the world’s center, and it will never be again. The West is simply a bloc among other blocs on the new global power map. The regression period is about to begin as the stagnation period comes to a close.
All nations need to make their plans accordingly.
That is clearly a semi-official Turkish announcement that Turkey is now allied with “the East” against “the West.” America’s NATO military alliance against Russia is clearly now in severe jeopardy, on the very precipice of collapsing — the end of that (by now) 70-year Turkish membership in NATO is already in the cards. And the centrality of Turkey to the present conflict between U.S. and Russia over Ukraine is undeniable.
From….
Signs that Today Is History’s Turning-Point
Published 36 mins ago on February 16, 2022By Eric Zuesse
The Black Sea and the big zone A plan…divide Heartland and fubar euroasian coordination, so it seems to me. A. McCoy would, I think agree. MacKinder too. And I think I agree with Loadstar, I think, very closely.
Remark> The “solution” lies in London and Washington, not in combat with guns and rockets…though naturally nobody is going to give those up, nor should they… In the elites of zone a the lack of virtue seems to be a terminal characteristic… Like the one horse shay, one day they turn to dust.
https://grg.org/OneHossShay.htm
Partial>
” Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay
I ‘ll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits,
Have you ever heard of that, I say?
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five,
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive;
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down,
And Braddock’s army was done so brown,
Left without a scalp to its crown.
It was on the terrible earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss-shay.
Now in building of chaises, I tell you what,
There is always somewhere a weakest spot,
In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill,
In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, ”
and so it goes on…to dust.
The poem is one we had to memorize and also translate into Latin, back when the US bothered with her children’s education, and the future.
That was a massive mistake, to talk this openly.
“the second leg of the crisis will be to pit Turkey and Russia against each other”
Indeed! The Turks have centuries of experience with Anglo-Saxons involving them in wars and intrigue with the Russians, and the catastrophic consequences..
“That is clearly a semi-official Turkish announcement that Turkey is now allied with “the East” against “the West.” I disagree. Turks do not want to be incinerated if a conflagration ensues at this moment when NATO/ US are weakest. Pepe’s 90% of their elite firmly allied with NATO is the truth. The Turks are dissembling and sometimes are not afraid to speak realpolitik like Orban or the Croatians.
And what Erdogan’s press-man says largely makes sense. If the arab/extremist proxies failed, NATO is incapable and collapsing, China a current ally, it remains to the Turkic nations to be thrown into the bonfire as the last gamble..
However, there is an unstated targeted eschatological purpose, without which current events of the Ukraine hysteria do not make much sense. Crimea is at heart of the AZE’s fixation. Coalitions will continue to be relentlessly built and cannon-fodder found, just like the 1850s. I will expound soon; I need to gather my thoughts.
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What will AZE crazies do now?
“Remember, remember the 16th of Febrember”.. They forecast the scene with weeks of building anticipation and wooing, set the romantic scenery by buying expensive flowers, scented candles and wine, chugged down excessive amounts of aphrodisiac and breathed dragon-fire regarding their prowess, but in the critical night, they didn’t even show up!
In Texas they say, “all hat and no cattle.”*
I am not so sanguine, preferring Yogi Berra: “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Too many times, they stole victory from the jaws of defeat.
Things we can watch for during this period of retreat (months to 1.5 years max): rearming & bolstering of Turkey. Stabilization of its economy by West/GCC. Dropping of new S400 purchase / new US arms deals. Retreat from 40+ bases in Iraq in order to focus on Black Sea region. Accelerated development of the new Bosporus canal to circumvent the Montreux convention (would that fly though?) Strengthening of AKP coalition in their fractious parliament. New lines of credit from AZE.
* If you describe someone as all hat and no cattle, you mean that they seem impressive or exciting but in reality they do not do much.
This expression comes from the West of America, where cowboys (= people who look after cattle) wear [very] large hats.
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All hat, no cattle
The Texan sat very high, in his leather saddle,
Surveying his large ranch, which sorely lacked any cattle.
But Tex did not piss and moan, or have angry spells,
He just sat and watched the oil pump, outta his many wells.
P.Munson
Did Turkey pick up a few cows courtesy of the Syrian Kurdish situation as presented by Russian intelligence?
We should see a troop build up in and around Syria as seen in the following three texts.
1…Russia can defend Crimea from Crimea and the Khmeimim and Tartus bases in Syria. This may be one big reason why Syria is reigniting, the West needs to get Russia out of Syria before moving on the Black Sea. Syria/Crimea same war.
https://rueconomics.ru/560086-satanovskii-rossiya-otklyuchit-sistemy-nato-esli-alyans-ne-uzhmetsya-do-granic-1997-goda?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=lentainform&utm_campaign=rueconomics.ru&utm_term=1283473&utm_content=9929506
Putin surely discussed the empowerment of the SDF with Erdoğan and that could be the straw that broke the camel’s back thus Turkey really did switch and their explicit reasons are not a ploy, fingers crossed. Sorry about length.
The SDF has increasingly been involved with resisting the growing Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
Texts 2 and 3
2…Will the US re-ignite a ‘Syrian revolution’ to punish Russia in Ukraine?
The US and its allies have already set the scene for Revolution 2.0 in Syria. The question is whether their plan is to extract concessions from Russia over Ukraine, or to go full out and risk a West Asia-wide conflagration.
By Abdel Bari Atwan
February 11 2022
https://media.thecradle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Unknown-4.jpeg
The US and its allies are set to re-ignite the Syrian battlefield to deter Russia in Ukraine.
With new political, military, and economic tensions escalating between the United States and its NATO allies on the one hand, and China, Russia, North Korea and Iran on the other – including the Taiwan front in East Asia, and Ukraine in central Europe – we are now witnessing accelerated plans to activate new crises in West Asia, from Syria to Iraq to the war on Yemen.
Let us leave the situation in Iraq and Yemen aside, temporarily, and focus on Syria. The country has experienced an atmosphere of relative calm, or rather a ‘stalemate,’ in the past few years, after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) regained more than 70 percent of its territory.
This period of calm has also seen the decline of the so-called Syrian opposition, both politically and militarily, in the city of Idlib and its vicinity, as well as in other areas in northeastern Syria, currently under the umbrella of US forces.
There are, however, several international and regional indications that the dormant Syrian ‘opposition’ is on its way to being reactivated again.
***
It is likely this reactivation may appear in a more ferocious form than the militancy that was unleashed at the beginning of the Syrian crisis in March 2011. Numerous indications of this have already emerged:
First, Russian foreign intelligence on Tuesday unveiled US plans to support armed groups in Syria, and ‘Islamic’ extremists in particular, to intensify their attacks against Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces in Tawaz, while igniting and encouraging ‘peaceful’ protests deep within Syria.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that US government agencies are “planning to task extremist ‘sleeper cells’ in Damascus…and Latakia province [by] staging pinpoint attacks against Syrian law enforcers, and Russian and Iranian military personnel.”
Russia’s Deputy Envoy at the UN Gennady Kuzmin told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that “The problem of terrorist threats in northeastern Syria is pressing. The US troops that are illegally deployed there cannot bring order. Or they don’t want to.”
In what appears as a reference to the mass ISIS jailbreak in Hasakah from a US-controlled area in late-January, Kuzmin added that “the atmosphere of a power void and impunity around the US forces’ deployment areas serves as a nourishing ground for terrorists of all stripes.”
The second indicator points to the statement issued by the Russian Intelligence Service, which says that the US administration is seeking to maintain its military presence in northeastern Syria, prevent the stability of Syria, rehabilitate the leadership of the Syrian opposition, and unite its ranks, Kurdish or Arab.
The US plan will be carried out through the exploitation of the current decline in economic conditions, basic services, and a significant weakening in the price of local currency, due to the suffocating US blockade.
According to the statement, the US will launch a “vast media campaign” on Arabic-speaking social media to incite Syrians to again take to the streets and squares, in the capital Damascus, and the cities of Aleppo, Homs and Latakia to push the regime to use the ‘violent’ iron fist in the face of ‘peaceful’ protests.
In other words, a re-play of the Deraa scenario in early 2011.
The third indicator was the two-day conference that took place last Saturday in Qatar’s capital city, Doha, which re-united various Syrian opposition figures on the subjects of reform and the future of Syria.
The conference – a culmination of a series of workshops held in a selection of European capitals – was launched by the renegade former Syrian prime minister, Riad Hijab, and included the representatives of Qatari, Arab, and international research centers, as well as more than 60 Syrian opposition figures.
Qatari authorities provided full support for this seminar, which Al Jazeera and its sister channels covered with remarkable intensity.
The fourth indicator relates to Algeria’s multiple efforts to hold an Arab summit in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will participate, and Syria’s seat in the Arab League will be restored. These efforts have failed, in part because Qatar has been the most fierce opponent to the rehabilitation of Syria at the Arab League.
And finally, fifth, is the out-of-the-blue assassination of the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, at the hands of US special forces in Turkish controlled areas in Syria.
Al-Quraishi was attacked in his home, in the north of Idlib, in an attack that has no documented audio or image evidence, similar to the previous assassinations of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and, before him, Osama bin Laden – but entirely unlike the execution of Saddam Hussein and the killing of his two sons.
This ‘assassination’ may, of course, just be a cover for the new US plan to restart covert communications with and support for radical Islamist militants, while publicly suggesting that the US continues to target them as ‘terrorist organizations.’
***
Quraishi’s sudden killing in Syria during the dangerous stand-off between NATO and Russia raised some questions in Washington as well. Former US Air Force Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack controller, Ethan Brown, pondered aloud in The Hill about “its “timing and the curious proximity to the crisis in Ukraine.”
Brown asks whether “the execution of a [US] military operation outside of a declared was zone in the Middle East…is somehow a credible deterrent to Russian actions elsewhere.” Then straight-out declares: “Make no mistake, the two unique situations are intertwined.”
On Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla, tapped to be the next commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), told the Senate Armed Services Committee that if Russian invades Ukraine, it could create broader instability in West Asia, including Syria.
This week, the Israelis struck Syria heavily again, just two weeks after the Russians and Syrians launched their first joint jet patrols over the Syrian-Israel border. This time, Moscow reacted strongly, calling Tel Aviv’s actions “a crude violation of Syria’s sovereignty” that “may trigger a sharp escalation of tensions.”
The escalation in Syria, likely connected to Washington’s Ukraine strategy, has already started. The question is whether the protagonists will merely stage some events as a threat – or go all out.
***
The Syrian opposition launched its first ‘movement’ 11 years ago in Doha, and it seems that the attempt to revive it will also take place in the same place.
The official statement of the meeting outlined its “aims to try to find mechanisms of action to promote the performance of the opposition and discuss how to get the political transition out of the current global warming.”
“The Biden administration wants 2022 to be the year of qualifying Syrian opposition forces to be ready to replace the regime in any change that may occur,” Syrian opposition media outlet Orient Net stated in a report broadcast two months ago.
The report also revealed that US Deputy Secretary of State Eitan Goldrich had met with Syrian opposition leaders in Istanbul, Qamishli, and Gaziantep late last year to prepare for the new US scenario in Syria.
Will this new US plan work in Syria? Has the suffocating US blockade on Syria, imposed for this purpose 11 years ago, reap its harvest? Will this attempt fare any better than the first? Will funding come from Gulf financiers themselves? And how will the axis of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Syria respond?
We leave the answer for the coming weeks and months.
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.
https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/6835
3..Still in its short life, the Kurdish-led region has faced persistent security and economic threats from almost all sides, including from the Syrian government and Iraqi Kurdish neighbors to the east. But it is Turkey that looms the largest.
Turkey, which has battled Kurdish militants at home for decades, invaded areas held by the Syrian Kurdish-led forces to push them back from the border. Turkey considers the S.D.F. a security threat because of its links to a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has been fighting an insurgency against the Turkish state for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/middleeast/syria-kurds.html
These weeks appearing to me like the psychological ‘Stalingrad’ of the ‘moral’West which not yet can comprehend it.
Something astrology has in common with surfing the waves of fate. It are the waves of what is sent to us, at the coast of the given time, being to be accompanied by human riding according to intuition and thinking with trained astrological-conscious-navigation. And here also are and will be masters, journeymen and actors in times
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2022/02/these-weeks-appearing-to-me-like.html
Recently, I saw A. Martyanov refer to Scott Ritter. Thus, I thought people might be interested in this interview I found today.
“Personal Interview: Scott Ritter”, by John Rachel
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/16/personal-interview-scott-ritter/
I don’t know if this will have been taken down by the time you click,
But it’s hilarious.
This guy hacks.
And loves his job.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1494024066503946241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw