2022/04/03 06:30:01
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Who else likes fried eggs and bacon for breakfast? And coffee. And orange juice. And more bacon. Anybody?
And toast! But the bacon has to be nitrate free organically cured, the eggs from free range chickens, the orange juice fresh and the coffee plentiful.
I made bacon once but had two problems. No smoker, so I smoked it outside hanging from a tripod and it was thankless – and then I could not cut it thin enough. It was nice enough, tasty, but those two things must be fixed before another attempt.
Glad to see that Imran Khan is safe and sound and the vote of no confidence was cancelled. But, some of his party went to join the other parties, so, he called early elections, saying to the Pakistanis in a video address:
“You will decide the future of this nation, not the corrupt or the foreigners.”
“Buying people through money” has been the reason for the current crisis, Khan said, advising those allegedly trying to depose him to “put that money in something better.”
Islamabad had summoned the American envoy to the country earlier this week after media reports claiming that Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu told the Pakistani ambassador to the US that “relations with Pakistan cannot improve” as long as Khan was in power, but the country would be “forgiven for its mistakes” if the PM were ousted through a no-confidence vote.
So far a failed regime change. I have a sense that this kind of coercion and threat and bribery may be happening in Mexico as well. Actually in a bunch of countries, but it is not working any longer. Zone B is getting stronger by the day.
Agreed. They just a bunch of traitors to Islam and love American dollars. This all happened because Imran accused the West of bullying states to renounce Russia and of course of his buying of wheat and oil. Little do these traitors know that its prophecied in our book the Quran that the Byzantine Empire ( Greek Orthodox Church) will be victorious again. They were in the first epoch 600 to 700AD and now they under the spotlight again. Ill add this too, in the Quran it states that a christian people will be closest to us Muslims in love and affection in a era to come. It cannot be the Christian/ Judae Alliance because they say a man can marry another man, no its the Christians from the East who has just last week embraced Iran and has become a friend of Syria. In todays life if a man stands up for truth , the West crucifies him. Pakistanis must wake up and start living with the truth before they bow to men who don’t care one nickel for them.
Interesting what you say about the Greek Orthodox Church. I am half Greek & started life in the Greek Orthodox Church. My father was raised Russian Orthodox, but turned atheist. For my Greek mother, the church was just a social connection, she didn’t really practice or believe. So we didn’t even have a Bible in the house, & eventually my mother was shunned out of the local church for her bad behavior.
Despite that, I grew up believing in God and Jesus Christ, but without a spiritual home or upbringing.
That started to change 4 years ago, when Jesus came looking for me, first in the form of a radio that kept changing its station to a Christian worship station while I was doing chores! Every day I would “fix” the station, and every day it would “fix” itself back to the worship station. Eventually I gave up, lol. Now it is all I listen too. And I have 2 Bibles, the KJV and the Passion. I am working my way through the New Testament for the 2nd time, this time comparing the translations.
I was very happy to discover links to a Russian Orthodox site here at the Saker, just the other day. Another way to learn and understand the scripture…
Yes, the flame of the Bunsen burner is being turned up. This is also a day of elections, a big day for V Orban and Hungary’s future. It promises to be an overall transformative week ahead. Many issues should crystallize, especially what remains of Germany’s relationship with Russia.
Humorous Memes:
“Hey Putn’ – we’re sending you a bill!”
https://t.me/realCRP/3729
Biden assesses Russian warzone damage, lol!
https://t.me/realCRP/4066
Walking the plank, AZE style
https://t.me/realCRP/4068
Decisions, Decisions..
https://t.me/realCRP/4070
Lost in Translation
https://t.me/realCRP/4072
Khan specifically mentioned 3 predecessors all killed, ali Khan, Bhutto, and Haq, di the right thing going public with the letter. Imagine, the opposition claimed a 1923 British Official Secrets Act stunt from before independence – it shows exactly where the order came from!
The Empire is deadly dangerous.
Not even mentioning the 2 Ghandi’s in India.
Don’t forget Bhutto’s daughter too and how many coups!
This will go down in the History books.
Epic trolling by Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Zhao Lijian:
https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1510236853668302848?s=20&t=xAtZkapeDTg15SjejE8YwQ
https://www.rt.com/news/553204-china-mocks-us-calls-take-side-ukraine-conflict/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPVwagNaUAAEPhN?format=jpg&name=small
The US had the Monroe Doctrine, the Carter Oil Doctrine, the O’Bomber Drone Doctrine, are we now into the Pakistan Doctrine? They shoulda first tried Steven Tyler’s more gentle “Walk This Way” approach
From Intel Slava: https://t.me/intelslava/24269
“All the world’s media are replicating staged footage of the Ukrainian psyop unit from Bucha, where allegedly the Russian military massacred civilians. However, these crooked information fighters failed the task – in one video there are two tough mistakes at once. First, we see one of the corpses raising his hand, and then in the rearview mirror, we watch another corpse get up, immediately after playing the part.”
This story has no legs at all. Russian units completely withdrew from Bucha on March 30. On March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, confirmed in his video message that there was no Russian military in the city, but he did not even mention any local residents shot in the streets with their hands tied.
Yes, astute observation. I believe the town was abandoned in peace, and that the nazi forces entered 3 days later, maybe 4.
It is evident that the arrayed corpses are “fresh”, not in the well known and visible process of days, more like hours.
The Biden is desperate, he’s up to here with the dark side of Ukie, and all the poisons that lurk in the mud, are hatching out.
Hunter’s safe though, as far as jail…too many other kids of his cohort are also up to their uh, well deep in there. Still, there are those accidents, careless guys have accidents, like forgetting laptops… The old mob would probably send a message. These clowns, who can say.
O’bummber has, I bet, about had it with That Good Man, Joe.
Is that Jean-Paul Belmondo in the cafe? The others look familiar….
yes Bebel + Françoise Fabian …
… and Jean-Claude Brialy next to Belmondo, I believe. Judging by their youthful looks and the vintage Citroen in the background this shot must have been made sometime between the mid 50s and the very early 60s at the latest… better (though certainly not perfect) times, compared to what we’ve been living through over the past 4 neo-liberal decades. They were living in a post-war period and we (in Europe at least) are living in a pre-war period with the conflagration very close now.
Old Age
You may beseech and importune,
The trail of calamity and misfortune.
As winter’s wreath dims autumn’s crown,
Old age steps up to take you down.
Never full frontal, that relentless assault,
Were it that I time’s march could halt!
Were it that I, with days to spare,
Could lie in the sun without a care!
But now those drums are drawing near,
The tide of thunder will soon be here;
No rhyme or reason to drown in regret,
No time to remember, no time to forget.
Some fall to the ground, some rot on the vine,
Some still smile out from roadside shrines.
You start out a runner and end up a limper,
Go out with a bang or go out with a whimper.
Kings and princes and simpletons, too,
All bow down to time like me and like you.
You may well laugh, you may well cry,
You may well eat out your heart and die.
Early in the morning you say your prayer,
You run toward noon and the sun’s bright glare.
Some time around evening some thief robs you blind,
Stealing your joy and leaving grief behind…
You may beseech, you may bewail,
The arrows and slings of calamity’s trail;
As winter’s wreath steals autumn’s crown
Old age sneaks up and takes you down.
Nobody but death can
end the pain of being
A candle must keep burning
till the break of dawn
looking for the blessings;
taking the difficulties
we experience
as opportunities to learn
more about ourselves
Absolutely
And taking the difficulties not just to learn about ourselves but to improve ourselves….
cultivating grace;
soul is tempered by hardship
and self sacrifice
surrender the past;
weep for what you’ve lost but give
praise for what you have
opening the heart;
God’s sweet love awaits those
willing to work for it
Russians have a new interpretation of the Five Stages of Grief by Kübler-Ross:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Paying in Rubles
Funny!!!
Gift for Anamalous:
And Sauron came to the haven.
The Lords of Men fell under the shadow.
Tar-Kalion made war upon the High Powers.
Then the Lords of the West rent the Earth
with leave of Ilúvatar.
And the seas flowed into the great chasm
and the Land of Mariners was overwhelmed.
Of old a straight way lay westward,
now all ways are crooked.
The Lords of Men are eastward.
The shadow of death lies heavy on us.
Very far away now is the Downfallen.
https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/seonitherhrorene.html
Very interesting poem, with diverse interpretations and with historical layers, before and after, into our own times.
I have always been interested in certain History, and JRR Tolkien, not considered a Historian, but a trite storyteller. Before becoming a quaint English Professor at Oxford, he was the “the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,” at the same institution. I recall an anecdote that this linguist Tolkien was given access to special archives, just like Carroll Quigley. I think they were in the Finnish tongue. And he wrote much of his prose in Old English.
I am convinced Tolkien chose to frame his findings in discrete parable. The game has rules. He sketched his Historia in his quaint and silly fashion, full of nonsensical rhyme (remember Tom Bombadil?) and fantastical questing. Fit only for children and the occultists, of course. Missed by even the discerning, as with the clownish caperings and excellent adventures of Donald Trump.
My favorite work of his was the Silmarillion, which appears to be a serious history, but of what? The satanic legions which preceded mankind on Earth (Varda)? Morgoth and his chief Balrogs and demonic henchmen were chained in the Pit for a while, just as Abaddon and his legions in the Abyss.. perhaps Tolkien had illuminated Muses who wished real history to be recorded and disseminated among secret societies. The story and descent into madness of Tolkien’s elves is so vivid. The recounting of the names, lineages, periods of rule and breadth of their domains of the various dynasties was so unnaturally detailed, I was struck even as a kid this was not mere fable. It was exhausting, like going through the dozens of Chinese and European dynasties over the many millennia. I hated having to memorize some of them, and this “fiction” was of the same cloth, leaving the same distaste.
Woven through much of the tales of Tolkien is the lamentation of the Fall of Númenor. And the rending of the Seas around Númenor during its destruction, rhyme with our Flood, when apparently the stronghold of another corrupted island Power, Atlantis, may have been lost.. History rhymes and circles back to other Island strongholds currently under Judgment?
Tolkien and those unfortunate to witness the world wars had clarity and perspective and understanding of the nature of the protagonists, beneath all the veils. And where the yellow brick road ends.
Ultimately most Western story-telling, whether on silver screen, novella or other Arts appear to be a device largely influenced by the Beast of Babylon. They appear based on either biblical stories or tales of countless fallen nations of old. And some appear to be non-human civilizations in parallel dimensions, alien to our experience, and why wouldn’t these muses of the arts, these braggarts, want their histories recorded in human fable, via portals such as Tolkien?
Thanks for the gift A.H.H.
Tolkien was a linguistic genius. Words have power. He studied ancient texts in their original language and so sensitized his mind to become such a portal whether knowingly or unknowingly.
“History rhymes and circles back to other Island strongholds currently under Judgment?”
Yes, I think there will be plenty upheavals to come. Some might say End Times, other might say New Beginnings. Either way interesting times…..
The human drama includes every Soul, no matter in what nook or
cranny of God’s universes It may find itself. What many consider
happiness in the human state of consciousness is little more than
buying an endless ease of mind. Having become Its own effect,
Soul is forced to awaken from Its slumber and once again take
up the spiritual ploughshare. The storms of life inevitably come
around, shaking us out of our comfort zones, and so we ask;
‘O Lord, why hast thou forsaken me?’
Greats like Tolkien and sincere artists of all stripes track this
process and personify the journey that awaits Soul, being
that It must awaken and source Its latent creativity in order to
survive. It must become the hero, and cannot rely on anyone
else. This is necessary b/c none can reach their full spiritual
potential in a slack state of mind, all must be at ‘peak form’ if
they’re to be of use to God, ie; to become useful servants or
co-workers in the Divine Cause.
That usefulness however, is not some highfalutin’ impossible
attainment, it is no more or less than reaching one’s full potential
according to our own natural gifts and abilities.
Thank you A.H.H. This was a gift for all of us :)
Funny, a gentleman recently compared people’s addiction to their “smart” phones to Gollum and The Precious. Quite apt I thought.
You are right, smartphones do overwhelm most people and are hypnotic, swaying to its influences. It has destroyed socialization in every culture which has adopted it, atomizing it. For others, it acts like Galadriel’s “mirror” or a Palantir.. you can bend it to your will if strong enough, for a time, at cost in energy and time. But even then, it can reveal that which displeases or corrupts, so best used with caution!
Stanley Kubrick in “2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)” drew an excellent allegory; screened devices are black monoliths. They impart terrible knowledge. A stream of susurration constantly suggests – to lust, hatreds, killing your brother, greed and covetousness, calculation, tribal regimentation and war, aberrancy, even space war between nuclear superpowers.. iow, it is a portal. Intelligence and interaction flows in both directions. Which side becomes dominant depends on the correlation of forces. Most do not even understand there can be struggles of will at play, as with the Palantir when it “synced” or focused on another being with a malevolent power.
Check out this POV which considers smartphones black scrying mirrors and portals of access. He argues the electromagnetic WiFi “superhighway” has replaced traditional ley lines. Hence the imperative of Resets and Agenda 2030s, etc.. to place a smartphone in every human’s hand. Morpheus did warn us that in the Matrix all mankind becomes reduced to a Duracell battery. It takes a lot to power the A.I. hive mind.
https://youtu.be/BxST-ewOPaw?t=215
Yes, I’ve delved into the communication “black hole”. Best to know your enemies imo. Had a few situations arise where I’ve experienced “hits” via the computer – there are mental and physical defenses people can employ that are effective. The “hits” have ceased since canceling all wifi connections and devices and hardwiring everything. Visiting cities still presents problems but there are “shielding” techniques that reduce that impact as well.
Thanks for the link – I’ll listen.
Very interesting comments on the Silmarillion, A.H.H. I did make a go of reading it when I was twenty or so. I gave up because of this reason. It was overwhelming detail. It didn’t occur to me that it was an actual catalogue .
Tolkien’s annals and appendices and in smaller works are even more shocking and detailed.. His son kept adding to them and/or revealing unfinished works. It is of a volume you would expect in the British Library or in the archives of the Vatican or in the Library of Congress, where reams of knowledge has been gathered, precisely as you say, as a catalogue or repository for future reference.
I read them as a kid too. Most do not have the patience to stick with it. But I loved history from youth and had fascination with maps and how time changed them, like the tide on a sandy beach, so I read his larger works. Perhaps I will reread Tolkien with a better lens now.
https://t.me/intelslava/24288
german drivers rally to support Russia.
Just here to remind folks that there is a sizable portion of the American left that supports Russia and not one of them would ever vote for Trump, so stop making him out to be some kind of savior when he’s a chump. I’d liken him to Saakashvili or Kolomoysky. Tell me you’d vote for that?
I have never liked Chump but he beats the alternative.
There are some on the US left that somewhat support Russia. But almost all of them are not part of the official US Democrat Party left,which is by far the majority of those claiming to be on the left. All of those “leftists” are very anti-Russian. There are far more people on the populist right in the US that support Russia,or are neutral. They have had so many years of leftist bullying directed at them,that they recognize the lies the media is telling about Russia.
Neither group is strongly pro-Russian. But if I was to guess on numbers,I’d say 10-15% of leftists,support or are neutral on Russia. And 25-35% of the populist right,at least,support or are neutral on Russia.Trump,for his own purposes see’s that. He saw how saying he wanted good relations with Russia helped him in 2016.And he see’s that when he says today at rallies that the Dems policies against Russia are harming the US the crowds cheer him.He has his own political reasons of course,but he is smart enough to see much of his base is against war.
There’s a “left” in the US?
Trump/Gabbard in 2024 = death to neocons (Trump supporters would then get an actual leader- Trump can do what he does best- be grand marshall).
Note that the majority of US voters are “Independent.” If Trump voters want him back in in 2024 then they need to be able to pick up a good chunk here, and Gabbard as a VP pick could deliver such votes. This is how the division in the US (perpetrated by the elites and neocons) could be healed (how much would be the question). Watch her recent speech at CPAC (February 27th) and you’ll find that she’s got the ability to glue things…
Are we still voting?
Short rant.
At bloody last .. asking the right questions. I hope you can see this Crosstalk.
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/553062-ukraine-military-operation-future/
Stepping back a bit .. right through the Covid period, I did not lose friends. Some stomped off for sure, but I had a simple rule .. I’ll speak to anyone, and will not criticize your decisions for yourself, but give me the same courtesy. So, we bumbled on through without fragging one another.
Now however, there are clear war drunk shortsighted (usually US) war tourists that have never been under fire, setting themselves up as war experts, and they are mightily entertained. We are basically three independent sites now that are still fighting the good fight and fighting hard. These wannabe’s have no overall sense and will go and complain at one site, about the other in that way, if they think that far, try to create unhappiness between fraternal sites. Those speak loudly and with great indignation about the Ukrainian criminals, but forget about their own. And if one speaks about an end to this war, they assume you are a wussie.
This war must end and Russian planners do know that it is set up as a proxy forever war. This is handled in the crosstalk video and the future cannot really be glimpsed currently. Russia is not telegraphing her intentions and one can only take a look at what they say, and what they do.
Let me state one time that I am no wussie, and my bloodlust stretches right to the ones that created this. I will not mention the names and organizations, but we all know. If I can have my wish, the fancy military equipments can fly into the houses of those that are responsible.
These types must sober up, as their thinking is disturbed.
OK, rant over.
My biggest surprise here is the depth of the nazi influence. Never did I know it is still so strong. But .. storytime.
I once knew a nazi. I mean, an overt one, that had paraphernalia in his office and in his home, that took time off to celebrate Hitler’s birthday, and so on. He was a customer, and actually a kind man normally – on business and systems stuff we were of one mind and he was a good businessman. Soon we had sorted out that his nazi leanings are his own, and I am not interested. He had some friends around of the same ilk In my eyes, they were just businessmen with leanings that I would not take part in.
I thought this was just a temporary abhorrence you know. Never took it seriously even if all the computers and the whole network were decorated with dick pics and the sexual values and mores were way off our own. But, you get these things and I just laughed and said .. haha .. Now I’ve seen ’em all and I’m not impressed by these puny ones .. But of course, I never stayed behind for a beer with the boss and staff, or any of those things. I would bring some biscuits with tea or coffee or bake a cake rather, for the customer relationship part and not take part in social gatherings.
So the story goes that he eventually sold his sizable business and moved. We kept in contact – an email now and again – and then, suddenly he was killed. The story goes that he took a girlfriend from a local person and that the ex killed him, in a fit of jealousy. I accepted that story, but now, with what I’ve learned since then, I wonder who he really was? This nazi that I once knew.
He could have been the guy who built the roads and sidewalks that todays people walk on.
Récent Polish déclaration to almost ask US to.supply Poland with nuclear armement is getting serious..
Can’t comment on your New Telegram Channel on “Moveable café”
I don’t understand why the Poles are asking for that (to host US nuclear armament). They actually want to be targeted by Russia..??
And also puzzling is Finland’s government talking about joining NATO. This would be big trouble also.
I assume they want to bait Russia into attacking one of them NATO nations.
Patient Russia won’t but in due time.
Due time not to come before sufficient amount of hypersonics in service.
All 38 Mln Poles are asking for it? Or a gang of .. uh .. sustained or even pushed forward by those they have now to ask for namely that?
Serbian Girl, I have tried to find out what you wanted to point to; if you had indicated your source, this would have been unnecessary. I tried via DDG etc:
1. You seem to continue the amazement of our dear old friend Harfang67: Récent Polish déclaration to almost ask US to supply Poland with nuclear armement is getting serious
– what *declaration*, DDG knows nothing about such a thing;
– if it was, it would be/have been a *declaration* of somebody or something Polish, not about the number of participants or the material the declaration was made of: airwaves produced by a human (or in any way Polish) throat in a beerhouse? ditto by an employee of PL Radio into the ether? a Polish drunkard yelling in his backyard? or even something touchable like a slip of paper? an international declaration of the Sejm? a declaration by the UN, pushed through by the Polish representative at the UN? or a deal of a Polish not-really-human with an american weapon smuggler including some million valid or faked dollars to bring 200 american nukes on saturday evening to the old mill by the river?
– then, given it was however pushed into Harfang67’s consciousness: did this *declaration* ask the US – or did it only *almost* do it, that is, did *not* do it – the one seems to be the contrary of the other;
– then is this thingie already *on* (or not) – or is it (what) only “getting serious”. What or who is getting serious? Poles? The US? The nukes? The armement? Or your (or our, or the eorld’s) concern about it?
2. “I don’t understand why *the* Poles are asking for that (to host US nuclear armament)” – with that you said, whether you wanted it or not, that *all* Poles did it, not just any lower number as scrutinized above. And you also completed Harfang67’s message as if the two of you are connected: aha, it’s about *hosting* US A-bombs, not about buying and owning their own, Polish A-bombs – a little difference which you may have taken from “the original info” – which we know nothing of. When I DDGed Poland & A-bombs, the newest info was from the days f the Rapacki plan.
3. I expressed my amazement in my comment to your comment, but unfortunately ignored that seemingly 1/4th of the Polish nation had already left their homeland, so that their complete number is only (or was in 2019) ca 30 mln. This is the number of Poles whose (all of them) mental makeup you mistrust. So I looked into other cases of “the” Poles expressing their wishes. The last general elections on 2019-10-13 may be a good example.
4. There is a caveat: a graphic on wiki showed that in the time between the last two general elections the opinions of “the” Poles changed considerably, without doubt triggered by events during that time. That would mean, that, differently from more lethargic nations, the opinions of *the* Poles may have changed considerably already in two or three or even more questions since then (2019). In other words: what *the* Poles thought or decided in 2019 may not only have changed by now because everything else has changed since then, but also because *the* Poles tend to react to developments, rather than to sit them out. Of course we cannot know what they thought about Polish nuclear armament in 2019, because it was not a party or a zweckbündnis/intent_gang on a project, e.g. acquiring nukes, that one could vote for.
5. Still we can look at the biggest numbers: If there are ca 30 mln Poles, but only 18 mln voted, even an unanimous (and 100% legally binding) vote of all elected for getting nukes would only represent the opinion of 18 of 30 mln Poles, and one should better reformulate the question as “I don’t understand why 18 out of 30 mln Poles are asking for that”.
6. But, in most cases parliamentary decisions are voted by a majority over a minority (here thought as truly representing the thoughts of the population/fractions of it), and if the biggest block voted in 2019 for PiS, joined perhaps by the KP (meaning, of course, not what some might think, but “Koalicija Polska”), then together they would represent 9.630.458 Poles – and not “the” 30 mln Poles you were thinking of. Something in me makes me think that not exactly all of them – “the” Poles, that via their government, finally appear to be “The” Poles – thought and think of nothing else but to aquire nukes. But even if they did, they would not be “the” Poles.
7. The declaration as such seems a myth anyway.
8. Excuse me, I respect you, but tuning in with that theatralic Aw, these Poles… was not your greatest moment. At the Saker’s it is chic to treat the Poles like shit, but at least Serbs should reflect that they are treated the same insolent, non-true and evil way by the rest of the world – and how it feels and what it says about those who do it. Whenever I saw Poles meeting Russkies, e.g. at musical events in Poland or in Berlin (but also in Polish “thick” papers), they were a great public or competent readers, these do respect those… nothing to add from the outside.
Pro-Russian car rally in Berlin blocks traffic | Ukraine War 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHI9VlFdLs
Another reason that anything except victory and denazification won’t be acceptable to the Russian public. Kill the Russian T-shirts on sale. With the image of an ISIS like figure holding a knife and a human head. I remember in 2013 when I started to hear about the maidan in Kiev.And saw how it was allowed to grow stronger.I thought then,if the government does not stop this,it will be overthrown. I can say that today as well. Do not disappoint the enraged public in Russia. There must be full victory in Ukraine. The price being paid for the SMO will permit nothing else:
https://t.me/OpenUkraine/12229
I like to be optimistic but after the retreat from Kiev, it looks like the best Russia can get is the Donbass and the South.
I don’t know how you get Denazification with the regime in place, and I just don’t see after Donbas moving again to Kiev? Taking back the areas already given up? Doesn’t seem realistic.
Ritter explained that the Russians never intended to take Kiev.The UAF outnumbered the RF forces 3 to 1. So it was a strategic maneuver. Ritter describes it as a feint (ruse) to lure the Ukrainians to focus their attention there while the real battle happened in the Donbass. It worked. The battle for the Donbass is mostly over so the RF retreated back to regroup as needed elsewhere. This was Russia’s plan all along.
But the plan has a few minor defects. Ukros turning the retreat as their victory and Russian Srebrenica.
Same playbook like with the Serbs.
Seems like Russians respectivly Putin has not learned from Milosevic desaster.
I recommend the russians should Only study again the serbian theatre in croatia , bosnia and kosovo.
Everywhere u ll find a Bucha and fake Srebrenica.
Troops will be used for the actual battle (all has been a prelude to it). Donbass is where the book closes on this. Ukraine has nothing left of meaning as far a military ability goes following the collapse of its 50-60k troops kettled to the east. It’ll be one last question to Zelensky and his handlers: YOU have the say over whether they live or die.
My theory is that it was Vladimir Putin who tried to get the Russian sector in Kosovo at the end of the NATO-YU War, as Yeltsin was mentally incapacitated (according to Bill Clinton). Poland (of course) and Ukraine (allegedly), refused the Russian overflights with reinforcements to Kosovo.
Almost everything of value is in the south and east. Ukraine’s “victory” will be to become a small, landlocked country dependent on the US. & EU.
Those people lead an unsustainable way of life, w/o support, they will take care of themselves.
some early morning rocket, to go with breakfast….in Odessa
https://twitter.com/richardgaisford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1510483152715796486%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rumormillnews.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fforum.cgi%3Fread%3D196605
Came across this today.
https://rumble.com/vzfczb-war-castles-quantum-grammar-explained-robert-horton.html
Explains a lot about the empire of Lies. Like to get some comments on this. And actually this really happened.
More regime changes or better defined, political invasions, by the US.
The regime change op against Pakistani PM Imran Khan – DEFEATED today in the Pakistani parliament – was concocted by the National Security Council in Washington.
Once again – as with Kazakhstan – the Empire of Rackets messed with the wrong Eurasian power.
Pepe Escobar
@RealPepeEscobar
Russia as Biden explained is a regime change only this attempt will get you killed.
Add Sri Lanka and Mexico to long growing list of US regime changes. Many are in different stages.
1…Sri Lanka so, it indeed is South Asia’s first color revolution!
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https://p.dw.com/p/49OKW
2…Obrador calls US bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups ‘shameful’
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 9:39 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 11:01 AM ]
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech on the third anniversary of his presidential election victory at National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on Washington to stop the “shameful” bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups, and refrain from intervening in the country’s internal affairs.
At a news conference on Monday, Obrador lashed out at the Joe Biden administration for not explaining why it finances political groups in Mexico that are opposed to his Fourth Transformation.
“We are asking the US government to no longer finance groups that act openly, opponents of governments, in my case, in our case, of a legally and legitimately constituted government, because it is an interventionist act, a violation of our sovereignty,” the Mexican president stressed.
“It is a ‘shame’ for any government in the world to get involved in the internal life of another country … plus, handing over money,” he said, adding that the US behavior is a breach of Mexico’s sovereignty.
Obrador (AMLO) won a landslide victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election on the promise that he would lead a ‘Fourth Transformation’ (4-T) of the North American country, aimed at ending endemic corruption, criminal violence and deep-rooted socioeconomic inequality.
Obrador had warned the US in May last year against providing funds to political groups in Mexico.
Since last year, he has repeatedly insisted that groups such as ‘United Mexicans Against Corruption’ (MCCI), founded by entrepreneur Claudio X. González, with funds from the United States, have created impediments in his works, such as the Felipe Angeles International Airport and the Mayan Train.
As per media investigations, between 2019 and 2020, the group received financing of around 25 million pesos (1.2 million USD) from the US government, a report in Mexico Daily Post said.
Mexico says Western firms involved in smuggling fuel into country
Mexico says Western firms involved in smuggling fuel into country
Mexico
The rebuke comes in the wake of a dispute between the two neighbors over Obrador’s proposition to strengthen state control of the power market.
Biden administration has warned that the plan could limit investment in renewable energy.
In another row, US Senator Ted Cruz criticized Obrador’s leadership of the country. However, Mexican president was quick to hit back, saying that the critiques by Cruz “fill him with pride”.
“If he praised me, if he spoke well of me, maybe I would think that we are not doing things right,” Obrador said at a press conference last week.
US-Mexico relations have been at odds over a series of issues such as immigrants’ crisis, trade disputes and interventionist policies of the US.
Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/02/22/
I have a question: I remember VVP alluding several times to the crucial importance of Artificial intelligence.
This recurrent concern of him leads me to the question: does Russia has any lead in Quantum AI at the current time? That could explain its barely explainable strategy …
Hi Greg Galloway,
I do not know if Russia has a competing machine to DWave (interesting stories about what’s being done with it).
The Russians (Soviets at the time) did seem to have a jump on the psychotronic technology sector if Woodpecker was valid. https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/russianwoodpecker2008.shtml
I was actually discussing this topic yesterday with a few individuals. The impetus for the discussion was based on my wondering why, at least to my knowledge, no psychotropic or other DEWs have been used in Ukraine. I was/am thinking that while I’m not a fan of these weapons for numerous reasons, it would seem that their use would seem to be a far cheaper and less bloody option that the conventional methods being used.
Links below for more info on these technologies:
https://www.rt.com/news/psychotronic-arms-soviet-weapon-379/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/psychotronic-and-electromagnetic-weapons-remote-control-of-the-human-nervous-system/5319111
This Bucha FF looks like part of a wholesale package. 2 or 3 for 1. Let’s follow the hypnotic escalatory ladder by the “desperate and losing Russians.”
Per Herr Wolfowitz, deep-sixing the EU remains the overriding mission. Old Europe fighting the euthanasia needs the final nudge on the plunger. Sensitize them with a series of staged atrocities before releasing the big one. Then all fuel is blocked..
How are Bruce Willis, bald folks, lockless Hollywood starlets & radiation sickness linked? Visual voodoo & the wrecked buildings of Ukrainian cities.. What’s in the vast tunnels of Odessa and why invite the Bear to Wormwood (Chernobyl)?
Brother Casey ducks and weaves mighty threads
https://youtu.be/ji0t1KjyOM4
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from a commentator on possible additional Odessa tunnel work by DARPA: /sitrep-operation-z-4/#comment-1060511
Just a little ditty
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/einsturzende-neubauten-la-guillotine-de.html
Just wanted to post this good interview of Scott Horton.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/04/01/scott-horton-oan-interview-on-history-behind-russia-ukraine-war/
On another topic, I wonder what the Russian lessons/conclusions are of Russia’s inability to exert its will on Ukraine via soft power. I noticed Lavrov was questioned about this at a meeting he had with students, I believe, a week or so ago.
Same question as regards Poland, Romania, etc.
Yes, I know almost all variables worked against Russian soft power, most importantly Russia’s weakness from 1991 till recently, but still, I think there are lessons to be learned.
The question on some people’s minds (including my own) is how does the Ukraine conflict fit into the Reset?
Some have wondered if this conflict is part of the Reset play and Russia is performing its part; another theory is that Russia and allies have a somewhat different vision for the Reset than the Western model.
These theories were recently discussed at some length on a panel.
The two views – one pro separate Reset models
https://tomluongo.me/2022/04/02/media-russia-the-great-reset-resistance-or-complicity/
and one pro same Reset model
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/yes-russia-is-complicit-in-the-great?s=w
Personally, I’m leaning toward the “separate Reset model” for a number of reasons. I’ll elaborate on one that is related to a comment left which mentioned the new churches (many) that Russia has been constructing.
This captured my attention as there is interesting geometry associated with ancient cathedrals – here’s a video discussion on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmkG0NT4Hdw (includes cathedrals and pyramids – https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2015/10/russian-scientists-study-pyramids-and/
So, I wanted to see the architecture of these new churches in Russia – here is an example https://russiatrek.org/blog/photos/the-original-newly-built-church-of-classical-russian-style/ (not linked but the new Military Cathedral is quite stunning).
It appears that they are all styled with domes. This is important as it has been noted that these domes, if certain geometric mathematics are employed actually act as frequency receivers that may improve the well being of people who spend time inside them (this effect has also been attributed to pyramids with certain dimensions).
Now, how does this tie into the Reset? Well, part of the Reset has to do with establishing a One World Religion – it just so happens that “Chrislam” HQ has been built in Abu Dhabi and is set to open in October this year https://believersportal.com/one-world-religion-headquarters-to-open-2022/
Notice that the buildings do not have any domes or steeples (I personally feel they lack beauty period).
There are also some “vetted” prophecies associated with this One World Religion – another data point to consider.
What this all leads me to think is that perhaps (and this may be wishful thinking on my part) that the “Total Control” technology rollout in Russia may be mostly a 5th Column project that is countered by the denazification of Ukraine and the building of so many new churches.
Intriguing.
They look like standard Orthodox church structures. We have one on our road, it sits unused now, the congregation passed on or moved to greener pastures. It’s Ukrainian, same domes, same style.
The Abu Dhabi churches sound generic, for fear of offending. May as well meet in a basement.
Cheers M
“Roscosmos has suspended joint projects with Western countries for moral and ethical reasons. There will be no cooperation with the countries that are sending weapons and instructors to Ukraine, also providing political support to the Nazi junta in Kiev. No cooperation at all,” Rogozin pointed out.
https://tass.com/science/1431833
One of the articles Per/Norway shared:
https://vz.ru/opinions/2022/4/2/1150753.html
“Why America creates the Fourth Reich in Europe” talks about US interference in European politics in noticeably greater detail than this article in the same site:
https://vz.ru/opinions/2022/4/1/1150933.html
That is to say, any mention of the USA or America in “How Russia can talk to fanatical Europe” is limited.
I might get in trouble for saying this, but it could be that either Mr. Trukhachyov doesn’t know about European leaders being puppets, European media being controlled by the CIA, etc., or he does know and is keeping it quiet. Is it not kosher to talk about it perhaps?
To play devil’s advocate, and maybe I’m comparing apples to oranges, but sometimes I wonder how much of Mexico’s journalistic sector is aware of the master-slave relation between the USA/UK and Europe and what each side’s (Mexico’s and Russia’s) excuses are for the presence/absence of that awareness. Someone here might know better and provide a clue or two – anyone?
With the slipshod state of Western media, I’d hate to lose faith in the Russian media as well. I still do have faith in Putin to do the right thing – many have said here that any deterioration of Europe-Russian relations is not in his interest (maybe he himself said it too wrt Russian interests, wouldn’t surprise me if he did).
Zone B rising.
I’ll do the cheapskate way and just quote from RT …
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And then of course we know about Imran Kahn in Pakistan .. also stopped the regime change op there.
Amazing things happening. The UK stopped the Russian request for a UN security council meeting today – obviously, they don’t want the real information about the Bucha Massacre to reach anywhere.
From Polanski, the First Secretary or something of the Permanent Russian mission to the UN.
This is very bad news that UK is head of the UNSC presidency this month! The major Ukie FF is signaled for this month. They will be able to engage in a lot of shenanigans and help cover for it.
And next two months are as bad: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/presidency
Zio-USUK’s games are not surprising. However the verbal responses are sharpening and broadcast ongoing structural countermoves which will be seismic. The crazies are being given rope with which to hang themselves:
“It’s hard to imagine and apprehend, but the UK presidency of the UN Security Council which has just started tries to deny our right to request a separate meeting of the Council .. the main task of our British colleagues is to dissolve through baseless procedural pretexts our request in another meeting on Ukraine .. 𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗨𝗞 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗦𝗖 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲. .. We hope that clear duty to respect SC traditions will prevail on dishonest tactical calculations.”
AHH, why do you again use unreadible typography,
(in the 12th and 13th line)
and why will THE MODz again brush this over
as they always do –
why is General Legibility not one a standard condition of posting here?
bp
Ok, it always works for me on multiple platforms.. Are there any others who CANNOT see it? No one else has complained except you some time ago.
I asked for clarification then, which was ignored..
I am not very tech savvy. If you can show me a better way to format bold/italics fonts, copy & paste etc., I will use it.
[Hi MODz: I am “answering to myself” for having more space per line for answering this seemingly complicated question. Thanks for finally giving an opportunity to find out what’s the matter. end2modz]
Thanks, A.H.H….; I mentioned this several times already: I have a completely normal Lenovo “Yoga Tablet2” (Android 4.4, with only a mechanism for standing for itself as extra) that shows everything normally – except only sometimes some parts of only your texts: In the “unnormal” parts all letters are represented by an upright rectangle with an X inside – as if this was the effect of something special you added, eg a “hidden command” like “italic ON” until inserting “italic OFF” again. In this last example it was (and still is) the text after “— meeting on Ukraine ..” and before “.. we hope that clear –” (obviously w/o quotation marks and –).
When I see this again and I COPY the offending text part and PASTE it into another, random “easy text editor” (they are all terrible), your illegible text is normally legible, and no “special signs” for switching to italic etc. are visible. So, if this was an important issue, I’d have a workaround. It is not, but I would like to simply read your texts, and I think everybody should feel as offended as I… It seemed to me that you reacted and tried things like inserting a blank between a leading quotation mark end the following text, but the effect still happened at times.
If you can or do produce special effects without wanting it and doing something for pushing them into existence… then I am ready to accept this as G*d’s will.
Cheers, bp
bp, the problem is on your side and not on the side of A.H.H.
As a first wild guess, take a look at how your language is set and how your keyboard language is set.
A.H.H. uses absolutely legimate html tags for italics or bold or so on. Nothing is strange. His writing appears normal everywhere else.
Yesterday came across a shock of an article with a headline that said the 9/11 bombers Mocked Their Victims in Advance!!!
Apparently, the demolition of the 9/11 buildings was done with such brazen in ones face openness that these murderers literally feared nothing? Read this and be literally stunned, they even stopped to take pictures with the victims?
https://www.realhistorychan.com/the-bombers-of-911.html
A cloudy day @ Anoxia.
Recalling (use as searchterm) “league of nations expulsion of USSR” and the excuse for that action, which seems to have been in violation of League Charter. Said excuse was the sending of Soviet Army into Finland (in defense…Moscow was in cannon range of belligerent Finland, they say…in other words the Soviets were doing preventative defense. Perhaps one might consider G2mil “myth of appeasement”, and see the Soviet expulsion as part of the same agenda, the agenda to create, bank-roll, and curate the German/European nazi machine aimed at the liquidation of the Slavic peoples and the looting of the Soviet space, especially Russia. There was intimate zionist involvement in these actions in coordination with west and Berlin banks, etc
This may bear similarities to the History we see to-day. Especially the nazi massacre Bucha, which is by “west” cast as a Russian crime (even though it’s is self evident, Res Ipsa Loquitur, a nazi crime – RT even pointed out the video where local nazi officer give the verbal “ok” to shoot).
I do not have a clear understanding of the by-laws of the League, do not have the documents at hand, and I haven’t read these in detail, only long ago read these. But I am quite sure that the Soviets were illegally expelled in a put-up job, as they say.
I am also sure that “west” would like very much to rid itself of, at the least, the Russian veto at the UNSC…and I sense that the rhymes of History suggest that we shall soon see an attempt to achieve that westgoal, probably based on false-hoods, the appeal to emotion rather than law and reason, and the abandonment of UN Charter. Probably west would prefer Russia to simply quit, and take China with them. West may try to do both, calling down “Chinese belligerence, coordination with Russia, and Taiwan” (which use to have the veto….huuummm)
You will say, “that would be illegal, they can’t expel Russia, can’t take the veto away”.
And some will point out that west does as it pleases, makes up rules as it goes.
Withal, to-day we shall watch the rodeo @ UN. As usual, the lies describe the goal, the Policy.
And the Police Action in Ukraine is obviously preventative self-defense under art 51 UN Charter, so seems quite like the Finnish affair.
Geewhiz…it begins “US to seek Russia’s suspension from UN Human Rights Council” Use as searchterm.
In cocaine dreams west wants Ukraine to take the place of Russia at UNSC, and Taiwan to take place of China.
Yes, their intent to exclude Russia and China is clear, amid the accelerating frenzied activities. Meyssan wrote of this,
“”The most important thing for the Straussians is to exclude Russia from the United Nations. This is not possible if one respects the UN Charter, but Washington will not bother with it there any more than elsewhere. It has already contacted every member state of the UN with a few exceptions. The Anglo-Saxon propaganda has already succeeded in making them believe that a member of the Security Council has embarked on a war of conquest against one of its neighbors. If Washington succeeds in convening a special UN General Assembly and changing the statutes, it will succeed.”
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216293.html
I disagree with Meyssan on the ending though. I am not sure they will succeed this time. Or they will be left with the tiny rump western camp, aka “The International Community.”
The correlation of forces are very different from the last interwar years. Precedents have been learned from, preparations made, and the last 20 years will be turned against the Lawless. Uncle Lavrov’s ongoing happy travels, and India, ASEAN and Africa’s resolve, as well as Amarynth’s list of election successes bode well indeed! Is that staccato sound we hear Mr. Atlantic Integrationista Medvedev’s bitchslapping of the Liberal Cult World Order?!
I too read that essay, and I too reason that though the History Rhymes, this time west is in rapid decline and east far better able to sustain…and at UN this is known to many…
The implication may be the oft spoken of “chemical” affair as a lagniappe to the nazi murders being touted as the work of Russia. They always double.
Goodness. Plot thickens unbearably. Now we know why helicopters were being sacrificed wantonly at Mariupol.. not for some Frenchies…
Meyssan reminded us to whom Macron is beholden.. to the American Kravis of KKR. And connecting dots, the panicked calls to VVP for Mariupol. And why all diplomacy is being ended in occupied Europe.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204303.html
Cue a major distraction 3,2,1
And it clearly is a new news cycle. Everyone msm carries it, more or less as your searchterms.
Bastards, but, I’ve been waiting for this for two years now – since the stealing of Russian and Chinese diplomatic property and the tit for tat expulsions of diplomats.
The sanctions of course is a major looting. These guys are hungry – they got no more money left.
I saw they stole some great art from Hermatige, just to-day!
Minded of opening of WW2 in Europe “Gleiwitz attack” > review> ” A pro-Polish German farmer was murdered by the Nazis and his corpse was dressed in a Polish military uniform and was passed off by the Nazi propagandists as “proof” of the Polish attack. Prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp received the same treatment as the farmer.” They were murdered by nazis. It’s similar. It’s been a public secret since at least 1945 that the west intended to re-group and try again… The records abound for anyone to read, plans to nuke USSR, Churchill’s plans to enlist the nazi armies against USSR. “the bomb is for Russia” etc etc.
There is nothing new about nazi doing mass murder and terrorizing aa population…then trying to cast blame onto the innocent. In fact it;s a defining characteristic.
And the art, all the art, like the propaganda, tells us everything…see especially the last few minutes of White Tiger.
https://youtu.be/soRIjIJAUfA (Hitler in Hell tells us all about it…and this is a Russian film, so we learn the Russian viewpoint of History…(they’re right) Interesting title “White”, doesn’t this suggest Anglosaxon? The pirate people of the European peninsula? (This quality seems to arise from their regrettable place in geography, residing in poor country with boats, iron, and coal…by the Northern Sea….and this fate seems to have shaped their customs and economic structure into a natural bias to piratical ways…”imperialism”, and these in turn made their ardent racism necessary as a salve to conscience…most of these people are quite decent, but their economic and cultural assumptions undermine their good. It’s a pity. Races of course exist, and this evidences preferences of nature, as otherwise there would not be races…but not “racism” in the political sense, which is rare…and “normalizes” plunder.
And recalling our Chinese brothers, their long film Crossing the Yalu…(let us not forget that this is WW3, and China is a vital foundational feature, looming soon into the affair.
https://youtu.be/WjihZPxNTGU?list=PLJPEbKQEnOROz4903Nva2lHhPh9N9dEir
It’s a long film, but the important dialog is in the several HQ, and with Mao…so one can cut it down to a few hours by skipping most of the battle scenes (these are also important, as the appeal to emotion- and tell us thereby what Xi and his party expect – a big fight and serious sacrifice, and more) Film is not just a story, it’s what CCP calculus expects to repeat.
Meantime…working on a grape arbor. Something useful.
Elon Musk bought a large percentage of Twitter shares as he sees a failure “to adhere to free speech principles,” which “fundamentally undermines democracy.”
Elon Musk has also challenged Vladimir Putin to ‘single combat’ for Ukraine. I take this to mean Elon plans on butting Putin to death with his fake looking cheek implants.
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk has disclosed that he owns 73.5 million shares of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), good for a 9.2% passive stake in the company. While he may be busy with his other two day jobs, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives believes this is “just the start.”
In a note to clients, Ives pointed out that Musk has long been critical of Twitter for what he believes is a failure “to adhere to free speech principles,” which “fundamentally undermines democracy.”
Musk has previously toyed with the idea of building a new platform, going so far as to ask his followers to weigh in with their thoughts on Twitter (TWTR) and how it operates.
Ives explained that the 9.2% passive stake is likely to be the start of more conversations with the company’s board and management and could lead to an active stake and perhaps a “more aggressive ownership role of Twitter.”
Need a break? I do!!
This is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKAAZK_RFbM&ab_channel=BrokenPeach
Enjoy.
They are Spanish. and do have a very extensive You tube catalogue.
Here is just one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ4i1Kw4H0M&ab_channel=BrokenPeach
And then, another kind of psycho therapy might be (for some), the entire Hercule Poirot catalogue, all episodes (712) in HD and with good sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAgWL1Aglk&list=PLvKcRPhAGzCq7ofWZoEadhAd7bRX1naS-&ab_channel=BritTV
Thanks Kent, especially for Poirot ;) we all need a break and as someone commented on one of the countless threads on here the news is so ghastly no one wants to comment here anymore – understand that how you like – we keep on trucking’ all the same…
Dark story..Escobar tweeted about activities in the deep level 8 basement of steel plant …supposidly “the pit”, human “medical” stuff.
And it’s said that a US Major General, a fine fellow no doubt…has been captured at steel plant or nearby.
It can be imagined that 8 level underground (if that’s a real story) – 8 level down a “special munition” might be both the next provocation and serve the double purpose of vaporizing the evidence.
As General Ripper said, “It looks pretty hairy.”
Meantime, re-reading Simonov’s “Days and Nights”
G’night. P
https://t.me/realCRP/4179
on reflection, I would have burned a dozen helis too, to avert what has happened.
Can you imagine the implications if they hang this nazi commander? Or even to parade him in front of cameras? This is worse than Dien Bien Phu, paradigm changing in itself. The entire global village is rapt. It may be a free-for-all soon, like the Iranian missiles which rained in Iraq.
Russia is grinding into the fat, black rich soil of the Donbas what remains of US military face. The US has demonstrated itself to have armed, funded, trained, incorporated into NATO standards, psychologically bolstered and now physically leading through all echelon layers of its hierarchy the war against Russia. This is a US-owned war in toto.
This is the sort of humiliation that should prompt a withdrawal to CONUS and the hanging of all neocons and their hanger-ons within the US – if they had a shred of residual sanity.
I would like to state for the record that I think that the so called “West” including my home country of Germany is a corrupted disgusting piece of filth, and I want to dissociate myself from “my” government and its despicable actions.
The whole Europe is infested with paid and promoted CIA/MI6 stooges on the national level and stay behind sleeping armies of gladio/islamic radicals with a majority of sheeple sleepwalking toward the cliff.
Detailed planned and carried out during decades to weaken and rob the continent. No one will discover it before its too late. Safe your self and your human dignity. This is the best contribution you can do to us and civilisation.
i saw
light shone through a seagulls tail feathers
when descending on its wide sweeping arc
above a dark oceans white foaming waves
Haven’t seen you post in a while…..beautiful picture.
Cheers M
That bird I was writing about actually landed on a lake yesterday, but in a poem one can do anything, so, the turbulent sea is like our time, and the seagull can be interpreted also , as Christ like which is what St John saw at the baptism in the river Jordan. Anyhow, I was very surprised at how the fanned feathers let the light shine through.
i would be interested to know what life’s like now in Canada following the great convoys, did they all go home and carry on, have there been after echoes and changes following it etc. It was totally inspiring for a brief while.
Wow … Russian diplomats are being expelled by the 10’s. Not a few here for a few there, but something like 40 from Germany, 15 from Denmark and more from here or there.
Cannot remember if it is breathed in info from some grandfather, but I always learned that expelling and recalling diplomats and ambassadors is serious stuff.
More sanctions are flying, although I had some delicious gossip from eastern climes this morning. This is the gossip.
Heavens ..
EU declares 19 employees of Russian Permanent Mission to European Union ‘persona non grata’
Google removes Russian Defense Ministry website from search results
Romania expels 10 Russian diplomats
Slovenia expels 33 Russian diplomats
Estonia to expel 14 Russian diplomats – closing consulate in Narva and Embassy in Tartu
Latvia to expel 13 Russian diplomats, close two Russian consulates
European Union will ban Russian ships from entering EU ports
Spain to expel ‘around’ 25 Russian diplomats
Sweden expels 3 Russian diplomats
Italy expels 30 Russian diplomats
EU’s new Moscow sanctions target coal, fertilizer, machinery – but NOT oil & gas imports
Russia should turn off the tap now. Really.
FWIW HNO3 vapors are generally orange. HCL generally green. https://www.rt.com/russia/553347-ukraine-attack-chemical-plant-casualties/
Either way = bad news.
Mr P,
It is far far worse than it initially appears.
Rubezhnoye, the city of this FF, is a significant provocation, even before tallying the cost in lives.
Look at its location, in the eastern most oblast of the former Ukraine, only 60 miles from the Russian border. Almost entirely Russians. This province is surrounded on three sides by Russia proper. It juts out, like Florida into the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.twuko.com/politblogme/tweet/1511297965100576768
It is like cutting up and castrating Russian POWs or Bucha. All occurred after the conventional war were already lost. There is no possibility of any FF affecting the Ukrainian disposition. It is an action of pure hate and spite.
There will be consequences.
“2S4 240 mm mortar https://t.me/intelslava/24431 The good freedom loving NATO officers hiding in Avov steel works are getting liquidated. Yesterday, it is said, That Good Man Major General Roger Cloutier was captured … looks like the “Reds” are going to dig the defenders of freedom out of the steel plant.
What they’ll find is, many expect, simply not to be exposed, according to the Fine Gentlemen whose graft and crime must not be seen.
A Zugswang…this means anything can happen, big time violence.
I might say this means no more mr nice guy. On both NATO and RF side. War with NATO.
amarynth dear, I was taught that the expulsion of diplomats, at least on such a scale as we see, means “the time for peaceful negotiation has ended and the time for negotiation by other means has begun” . I’m pretty sure v Clausewitz says this about war, the entire purpose is to create the ground for a political situation agreeable to the parties. Obviously implies that at least one and probably all parties will undergo Change, essentially revolutionary change. Our Chinese brothers posed, perhaps 9 months ago, the rhetorical question> “Which Country can better stand chaos?” (they addressee being the US)
Brother A.H.H. and I agree….it is indeed bigger than it looks. It’s veryverybad.
@ the intelslava url I gave, check out the Chechen dude with the belt fed…he’s in the club!
There are huge opportunities staring Russia (and China) in the face. But will they seize those opportunities or not. If Russia helps establish Novorussia as an independent allied state. That would free to Russia strike back at their enemies with the cover of deniably.
Who shipped those weapons to Western enemies,not Russia,it was Novorussia. Who recognized rebels as the legitimate governments fighting the West,not Russia,that was Novorussia. Who is helping Iran,Syria,North Korea, Yemen,Hezbollah,Venezuela,Cuba, Nicaragua,etc with training and to acquire state of the art military defense equipment.Again,that wasn’t Russia,that was Novorussia.Who let anti-Western political organizations have a base to organize at. Oh thats right,it wasn’t Russia,it was Novorussia.
Just like with Crimea the West will not for a very long time recognize Novorussian independence. So they will be sanctioned heavily. They have no reason not to strike out and punish the West for those actions. Recognize the golden opportunity staring you in the face and act on it.
Riddle: What is between zero and one?
Answer: None
Interview by the BBC-Ukraine with Ukrainian bishop, Metropolitan Luke.
Scroll down past the intro article to enjoy a lengthy interview (mind the auto translate muddle)
´´ . . . as a Christian, I am a citizen of Heaven’´
https://translate.yandex.com/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fukrainian%2Ffeatures-60866295%3Fxtor%3DAL-73-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bukr%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bukrainian%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&lang=uk-en