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The nuclear Near East!
by Thierry Meyssan
http://www.voltairenet.org/article190635.html
While the West was applying pressure on Iran to abandon its civilian nuclear programme, the Saudis were buying the atomic bomb from Israel or Pakistan. From now on, to everyone’s surprise, the Near East has become a nuclear zone, dominated by Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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From 2003 to 2005, the negotiations relative to the nuclear litigation were presided for Iran by Sheikh Hassan Rohani, a religious leader close to Presidents Rafsandjani and Khatami.
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However, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – a partisan for the relaunching of the Khomeinist Revolution – came to power, he rejected the agreement negotiated by Sheikh Rohani and dismissed him. He restarted the teaching of nuclear physics, and launched a research programme which was aimed, in particular, at finding a way of producing electricity from atomic fusion and not nuclear fission, which is currently used by the United States, Russia, France, China and Japan.
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Accusing President Ahmadinejad of «preparing the Apocalypse to hasten the return of the Mahdi» (sic), Israël launched an international Press campaign intended to isolate Iran. In reality, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not share the Jewish vision of an evil world which has to be destroyed and then rebuilt, but that of a progressive maturation of collective awareness until Parousia, the return of the Mahdi and the prophets. At the same time, Mossad busied itself with the assassination, one by one, of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists. From their side, the Western powers and the UN Security Council adopted ever more restrictive sanctions until they had completely isolated Iran at the economic and financial level.
In 2013, the Guide of the Revolution, ayatollah Ali Khameinei, agreed to a round of secret discussions with Washington, in Oman. Persuaded that he had to loosen the constraints which were suffocating his country, he considered a provisional ten-year agreement. After a preliminary agreement, Ahmadinejad’s candidacy for the Presidential election was not authorised, and Sheikh Hassan Rohani was elected. He restarted the negotiations that he had abandoned in 2005, and accepted the Western conditions, including the ban on enriching uranium at 20%, which put an end to the research on nuclear fusion.
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The declarations of Saudi analyst Dahham Al-’Anzi, on the 15th February 2016 on Russia Today – which were immediately translated and broadcast by the Israeli service Memri – raised a considerable echo in the Arab world. However, no international political leader, not even Saudi, made any comment. And Russia Today has erased them from its Internet site.
The declarations of Dahham Al-’Anzi – an intellectual close to Prince Mohamed ben Salman – lead us to think that he was not speaking of a strategic atomic weapon (A-bomb or H-bomb), but a tactical bomb (N-bomb).
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Since Saudi Arabia signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (TNP), it did not have the right acquire the weapon, whether it be a tactical or a strategic bomb. But it would be enough for King Salman to declare that he bought the bomb in his own name to avoid being concerned by the Treaty. We know that the state of Saudi Arabia is the King’s private property, and that his budget only represents a part of the royal coffers. This would mean that we have entered a phase of the privatisation of nuclear weapons – a scenario which until now had been unthinkable. This evolution must be taken most seriously.
Finally, everything leads us to believe that the Saudis acted within the framework of US policy, but that they overstepped themselves by violating the NPT. By doing so, they have laid the foundation for a nuclearised Near East in which Iran could no longer play the role that Sheikh Rohani had hoped to recover, that of «regional police force» for the benefit of his Anglo-Saxon friends.
There’s a lot to chew on here:
1) Saudi likely has (tactical) nuclear weapons.
2) Rouhani’s ambition was to help Iran reprise its role as regional enforcer for the USA.
3) Ali Khameinei refused to authorize Ahmedinajad’s candidacy, leading to Rouhani’s election, confirming, according to Meyssan, that it was not just Rouhani/Rafsanjani who were playing a double game, but also the whole of Iranian leadership.
If true, all very bad news. If it were anyone other than Meyssan delivering these messages, I’d be a lot more skeptical.
Meyssan may be right in general, but the so-called tactical nuke strike in Sana’a, Yemen, on 11 May 2015 was none. I studied this detonation and could not find any evidence of nuclear fission/fusion. I am not sure what type of weapon was used. My best guesses are either one or two bunker busters or a double-stage thermobaric bomb, most likely of US/Israeli origin.
As I don’t have time to translate my findings now, I will link to my blog article in German covering that story:
http://blogs.epfl.ch/marcel.leutenegger/2015-06-28
I wonder if there might not be lenr explosives that have anomalous properties,something that isn’t a full fledged nuke, but isn’t exactly what one could call a conventional weapon. And since I’m on a kick of irresponsible speculation, what’s stopping some organizations that isn’t a state, but is able to create money to buy one of them things.
Making a bomb out of a low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR, “cold fusion”) first would repeat the history of nuclear fission. However, I am not convinced that such a bomb would have advantages in destructive efficiency versus mass if compared to thermobaric bombs.
Thermobaric bombs are often made of fine-grained metal powder such as aluminum. This powder is dispersed and then ignited (*). It will burn at several thousand degrees Celsius by consuming the oxygen in the air, thereby yielding a blast energy several times greater than a conventional explosive bomb of the same mass. For instance, the Russian “father of all bombs” weighs 7.1 tons but explodes with an energy that would require 44 tons of TNT.
The Sana’a blast showed a sustained fireball of atypical duration. As I do not know how much of its energy came from burning rocket fuel (solid propellant) and from the bomb(s), I can only speculate regarding the blast yield of the bomb(s). Anyway, the blast shook the city and destroyed windows several kilometers away.
*) If it was a dual-stage bunker buster, I would expect to observe a detonation driving the bomb through the bunkers protective layers, then another detonation for dispersing the fuel inside the bunker, and finally an ear-breaking blast from the fuel explosion.
No it was nuclear, camera pixellations proved it, plus shape, duration
lula outsted, now hounded by corruption charges.
yingluck ousted, hounded by corruption charges,
Mahinda Rajapakse ousted, washington probes his alleged corruption, unchr wants him for alleged *war crimes* during the civil war.
najib fighting for his political life ,
chavez allegedly died of cancer during his prime.
king birendra’s entire family
massacred in the palace, right after his beijing trip.
these are just the tips of an iceberg….
ian fleming’s fundamental law of probability says,
once an accident, twice could be coincidence, thrice……enemy actions !!!
palace massacre a cia/raw joint op ?
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/commentary/2010-04-02/palace-massacre:-us-india-involved-claims-former-envoy-to-india
NSA full spectrum surveillance… digging up the dirt.. all to keep the seat of empire safe and wealthy.
As we know US auto companies are squeaky clean, fine upright people, but those foreign auto companies… trying to pollute US air, dodgy airbags to kill fine upright US citizens… terrible.
peter au
u hear what the man says ?
Johnnie Carson, U.S. assistant secretary for African Affairs,
*China is a “very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals.*
hehehehehe
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*Back in December 2011, Chávez, already under treatment for cancer, wondered out loud: “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented the technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?” The Venezuelan president was speaking one day after Argentina’s leftist president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. This was after three other prominent leftist Latin America leaders had been diagnosed with cancer: Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff; Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo; and the former Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva* [1]
ian fleming’s fundemental law of probability says…
*once is accident, ……….*
[1]
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34280.htm
It’s called Monsanto, isn’t it?
sanctury one
gaddafi’s grisly execution at the hand of cia’s jihadists mercs in libya was broadcasted live wordwide.
moral of the story, hugging xi/putin could be bad for your health !
the myanmese leaders apparently got the msg loud n clear, ditched their beijing buddies and submited to the washington consensus !
There won’t be any need for the U.S. and the NATO alliance to carpet bomb Myanmar to bring it into the Western fold. According to this Canadian analyst, the Libyan experience must have proven persuasive enough for the Rangoon leaders to dutifully step into line on their own
http://www.voltairenet.org/article174240.html
the UsualSuspects trying to snuff out lula’s
bid for 2018 election ?
*It’s no coincidence that three major BRICS nations are simultaneously under attack — on myriad levels: Russia, China and Brazil. The concerted strategy by the Masters of the Universe who dictate the rules in the Wall Street/Beltway axis is to undermine by all means the BRICS’s collective effort to produce a viable alternative to the global economic/financial system, which for the moment is subjected to casino capitalism. It’s unlikely Lula, by himself, will be able to stop them. *
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44377.htm
Ziad has a humorous offering up today in the form of a mock royal proclamation issued from across the pond at her subjects.
Don’t know about his depth of reading true history, but the joke is on him–according to the 2008 docu movie, on January 22 1783 (more than 1 year after ‘Yorktown’, but well before the late 1783 Treaty of Paris & the last Brit troops leaving New York by sea) the banksters ensnared & locked up their colony for all time. The denizens of the ‘free republic’ have been owned the whole time.
http://syrianperspective.com/2016/03/dayr-el-zor-saudi-cannibals-annihilated-at-al-shoolaa-44-rodents-killed-32-wounded-in-rout.html
A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictio…
Other news, the fiction of the ongoing fairy tale about NK & the Un-Dictator being spouted off by one John Bolton about Kim stealing text messages of world leaders & celebrities (gasp!), & another claim about NK now having miniaturized nukes for missiles.
At times the US empire/AZ/the powers that be, or whatever name you want give it seems like an iceberg. Just a few little points showing above the water.
What I will call the resistance is fighting a couple of these little tips of the iceberg in Syria and Ukraine/Donbass. Without Russia, Syria and Donbass could only plug away at the tiny points of the iceberg until its full bulk simply rolled over the top of them.
Russia is fighting the main bulk of the iceberg with diplomatic tools, plus some military that can be escalated if required, all the way up to MAD.
This would mean that Donbass and Syria would have to fit in with Russian strategy for tackling the full bulk of the iceberg. There is no room for independent actions by any of the smaller actors.
The men I respect the most are not the Father, The Son The Holy Ghost, but men that are fiercely independent, that try to do something good for others around them, and will fight for those others and for what they believe is right.
When thinking about a few things that took place in Luhansk region some time ago, I get the urge to move back to the bush where there is no newspaper, television, radio, nor internet.
A place where the sun rose every morning and set every night, and where on the odd day it was overcast and raining, I could safely assume that because it became light the sun had risen, and because it had become dark the sun had set.
This didn’t get any traction on the very informative Syria ‘Who’s Who’ article so I wondered if there might be words of wisdom to be found from anyone here?
The complexity of the stakeholders, for want of a better word, involved in Syria is likely unprecedented.
Given this complexity and with over 100 ‘rebel’ groups just how much peace stability is realistically possible?
How amorphous are these rebel groups and do they have continually shifting allegiances as in Afghanistan -is there any predictability or are they proxy agencies/mercenaries that can be bought and sold?
How much historical hatred is there now to bubble up down the road -especially if that hatred is nurtured and funded by the USA/Israel/Saudi /Qatar/Turkey?
Will any predicted increase in the oil price translate to extra funding for stirring it up or will things remain on a slow boil?
How has the Assad government managed financially to keep what’s left of Syria running these 5 years, plus fund a defensive war, given the enemies it has all around it?
-and speaking of shifting allegiances, it would be good to hear the Saker’s view on this somewhat predictable Hegemon&Vassals backed ‘chameleon’ act:
http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/07/syria-phantom-rebels-return-from-the-dead/
Many questions and I am not expecting any answers -but ever hopeful.
Well, even if ISIS now dresses up as FSA, it won’t partake in the ceasefire negotiations as the deadline for adhering to the cessation of hostilities is well past. In addition, even if FSA were admitted to negotiate, amnesty for its members requires laying down all arms. And exercising political rights requires the Syrian nationality, not juast a fake Syrian passport.
In my opinion, foreigners among the FSA and other rebels should be convicted to help rebuild the destroyed cities without salary and for as long as it takes. Locking the up in prison is a costly option and kicking them out of the country exacerbates the chaos in other countries.
> as the deadline for adhering to the cessation of hostilities is well past.
From what I have seen, this seems to be open ended rather than a deadline as more groups are constantly being added.
mischief afoot in Lebanon: ? name of the game from Fort Rus
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/is-israeli-hezbollah-war-imminent.html
What is it with Russia and the delivery of the long overdue S-300s for Iran?
And what is it with Tehran running off at the first minute sanctions are relaxed by its enemies to spend billions buying passenger planes from Air Bus?
Russia and Iran need to wise up and realize that they are both targeted by the “Zionist West” for anything ranging from Regime Change to Complete Destruction.
An independent Russia or Iran will never be accomodated by the “Zionist West”. Never!
They have 3 options:
1. SUBMIT
2. BE DESTROYED or
3. WORK TOGETHER
I would love to think that Option 3 is the path taken.
Therefore, I am expecting to see a tangible increase in Strategic Cooperation by Iran and Russia.
At the SCO Russia must ensure that Iran move up from Observer Status to full membership this calender year and both must coordinate more in the Economic and Military spheres to mutually support each other.
I have not forgotten about China, because it too has a bullseye on its back, and is a default member of the Resistance Block- whether it wants to or not.
I just wanted to focus on the Russia/Iran bilateral dynamics.
Does anyone have any info about the whereabouts or if he even is alive? Namely the notorious commander of the 93’rd Brigade Oleg Mikats that was captured near the Donetsk airport in January 2015? I have tried to find some information about what happened to him several times, but it seems that like he has disappeared without a trace?
Mookie: Awww, you’re not concerned for the safety of that Wrong Sector trash, are you? From the 93rd Brigade? The same Brigade?: ‘The most intensive shellings were carried out from the positions of the 93rd separate motorised brigade under command of the war criminal Klochkov. This war criminal once again gave an order to use artillery from the positions in the localities of Avdeyevka, Peski and Opytnoye onto the territory of the localities of Zhabichevo, Spartak, the Volvo Centre, the area of the airport of Donetsk city.’ – Basurin, DONi News.
I recommend this film if you want to practice listening to Russian language, and watch a very interesting documentary. It is about the Tungushka explosion.
Nikola Tesla -The Lord of the world_Full video with english subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxtsdFcKYw&list=PLjbjoscRx7bo3zOilfqNlZl8SK_uII0tn
In the run-up to the Orthodox passion and resurrection we might gain some insight and traction from John 3.
Nicodemus, a powerful Jewish cleric, came to Jesus at night to check out just where he was coming from. The signs were not looking good for the Jewish nation.
Jesus replied, “you’re a leader and you don’t know what’s going on?” Because time was getting late, Jesus used a metaphor from nature. He said man must be born again.
What? Nicodemus thought Jesus was mad. “How can a man reenter his mother’s womb?
Jesus was way ahead of his time and quantum mechanics. He had to tone down his rhetoric for dull politicos like Nicodemus, or he would have said that a child’s parents had to make love again if they expected to be saved from the wrath and terrible swift sword of justice, and thereby the child would be born again.
Only this time the love and sex would be of “the spirit and water.” The spirit portrayed as the hovering wings of a dove are the wings of a womam’s vulva and the waters are her ejaculating fluids.
The dull minds of nicodemians today cannot process what Jesus was saying because their actions destroy the kind of mind Jesus had. In psychological terms, Jesus was connected to his inner anima. Therefore he knew herstory as well as history and loverology as well as theology. He knew very well this would get him killed if he said only a hundreth of what he knew but he said it anyway.
His words stand today. He said the world would pass away but his words would not.
The blunt truth for dull minds is that man and women have to re-discover the love and sex of the ancient lovers, and be children of that union or we will die in our ignorance and hubris.
Here in the vineyard, like the one Jesus sweat blood in, we love Russia, or say we do. To a mind like Jesus’, that means we’re making love and having sex with Russia. What? our nicodemian minds protest; that’s not possible. Jesus looks for a long minute into the windows of our soul, and then goes on silently to meet his date with destiny.
What can we do with fools when the fools are us? History repeats itself in endless cycles until we can break free of the rat race. Jesus said he would send the womam of spirit and water and he did and still does. She’s called Mother Russia who by logic and precedence is Lover Russia. But if we can’t tell Mother Russia from Mordor Russia we’re stuck in the nicodemus hard place.
As far as I can tell, this sacker vineyard has sacked the empire militarily, putting it in a cauldron from which it can only escape by he Samson option of death for all.
However with money, Mordor has Mother confused and uncertain. We know what happens when the troops hear an uncertain trumpet. The men are missing in action and so their women fall to the enemy.
In size, the sperm is about to the egg as a vineyard is to Russia. Our love for Russia has made a difference that only a womam lover like Jesus can see.
Love is not the only thing. It’s the one and only thing, the only certainty in the roiling seas of quantum uncertainty and imperial probability.
We have stopped the Empire’s military machine but not its money machine. Jesus tried to act out that tragedy by kicking the usurers out the Temple but they came back 1500 years later under Calvin the Clever and Khazar the Counter.
Let’s keep talking in this here cafe but at some point we’re going to have start walking towards our date with destiny.
Hi Dennis,
What are you talking about ? excuse me sir,I really appreciate your every post because has something specific in her character – and this one is no exception – but regarding the meeting between Jesus and Nicodemus I have a totally different view : namely,Nicodemus said : ” what can I do more than I am doing,I do respect the Law and live in that Law,how can I get into the Heaven ?”
Jesus said : ” you have to be born again…”
Nicodemus : “how can I get back into my mother womb ?..”
Jesus : ” what is from flash is flash and what is from spirit is spirit…”
Now,the Flash is our body,the Spirit is our soul.But Jesus said “you have to be born again”,and what does that mean ? Logically it means that our body (actual body) will die because is corrupt.Our spirit will live in another dimension and being liberated from his corrupt body will see the wrong doings from his passed life in her clarity.And now comes the interesting point : because God created us as free people – free to choose between good and bad – we are allowed to make things better,to not repeat the bad things or in other words,to pay for every bad deeds we made with others or with ourselves and serve the good,the love for others.There is also a boomerang effect as simple as this : “if you kill with the sword,by sword you will die”.So,the soul will come back to Earth in flash again and again like a school boy (or girl) who has not learned his or her lesson and has to repeat the whole year for that,he cannot graduate.
That has nothing to do with sexuality – which perpetuates flash and not spirit (Soul)
We will never achieve The Holly Heaven with our corrupt body,not even Hillary Clinton.Will her body not die like the last rat in Delhis periphery ? all her deeds are in vain and she like many many others shall have to repent and to repeat,coming back into a less bright social situation.
The big dilemma is that the time-frame for repent and repeat is closing down.In the Bible is reffered to as the end of the world or the end times.What will be the next move after the Time expired ? The Judgement
I wish you a friendly wakeup
I appreciate your comment. We would really have to sit down for days on end to tell our special stories. This cafe is not that user friendly.
You say “flash” several times in contrast to spirit. Not sure what you mean. If you mean “flesh,” it’s an interesting Freudian sex slip.
yes you’re right,I meant “flesh” of course and not “flash”…there are some ladies around the Cafe who may practice some flashing under the table…
Hey Bro, they said you hang out here. I was at the Club Cafe but it was closed for repairs but the Mexicano voices behind the walls were open and rolling.
I though this cafe was a sports bar from the sacker linebacker name but I see that the sacker is not in it for the checks but the chicks. Sorry, I wasn’t properly introduced.
It’s a pleasure to meet you too. The picture looks like an Irish pub with Grandpa Sweeney on one side and Uncle Timothy Leary Sr. on the other side. But I see it’s more of a salon for the creme de la creme. Mind if I take a seat between the two ladies?
I asked George the trolley driver why the flag was flying half mast over the post office at Signal and Ojai. He said Nancy Reagan had died. A black man chimed in and said she was 94 like she was his grandma. Have we fallen so low that we can’t “just say no” according to Nancy’s Law? Apparently not.
I spoke at city council last night. Told them that the government structure they had was inefficient, wasteful of time and money, shifts responsibility to a third party in the city manager type, doubled work, causes endless problems and just doesn’t work for a small town. This fall we’re electing a mayor for the first time. From the rapt looks and nodding heads I knew just what they were thinking: Yah and I’m going to be mayor. I knew they were listening when the rotating mayor said we’d have to change the charter and the attorney said we’d have to put it to a referendum. I ran twice for council and came in last and second last. I think my running days are over but I can still walk and talk.
After the meeting I stopped at the house of the three John’s. The talk was ribald to say the least with no ladies present. I followed suit by relaying my first and only gay experience in the hot spring pools at Esalen on the Big Sur Pacific coast right about midnight. I thought why not; it’s just an experience. But when he attempted a stern boarding the party was over and I was disgusted. Besides his main mast was more fit for a dinghy.
I passed a redneck truck bumper sticker which read: “I [heart sign] head.” I felt disgusted but upon reflecting on the original love culture thought it would be natural there.
Sorry, am I boring you? Mother said you were the love child and I was her security insurance. I don’t mind about that or your being twenty years younger.
Ok, stronger and better looking too. I’m glad she had a fling later in life with a Chechen. Your brown eyes and bronze skin turns heads while my pale white and blue eyes only garner respect but little passion. But tell me, why do you gods of the flesh like blond Russian beauties with brains so much?
You should have been at the club today. Never saw so much beauty in one small space. When that black beauty lifted herself out of the pool I thought she was naked but upon closer inspection she sported a flesh colored mini-kini. Sorry, ladies, you’re from a different time and space.
The black haired bronze skinned trainer in the gym had a new trainee, a black beauty barbie with fire in her eyes and velvet in her voice. He’s an Adonis but he was so disconcerted he was gobbling down cheetos in a health spa no less. He was showing her exercises that looked more like sexercises. The way she laughed and teased while glancing at herself in the mirror indicated that they were not brother and sister although they looked it. His former trainee walked past with a sad look in her eye; she’s a black haired beauty too that men would die for but how can she compete with Venus herself?
You talk about a moveable feast for the eyes. I’m glad I’m 76 and past the crest on the downhill side. My body is on idle while my mind is full throttle ahead. Being 56 like you are, I’d give you elderly advice but why waste my breath?
The talk in the locker room was political. Hillary was hated and whitey said Obama got in on his color. The white haired man at the mirror with the white waist towel said Paul Ryan might get in at a brokered convention. My ego loved that since I’m from Wisconsin too.
On the TV I saw Miss Universe on the Wendy Williams show. Not quite sure who was the universe and who was Wendy. I had to stop and look but I wouldn’t get involved with either one of them for all the china dolls in Kansas. On the upstairs TV the caption read that California backed Trust Ted Ted Cruz. Made me ashamed to be living in California. Ted is the last one I’d trust; at least with Hillary I’d know what I’m getting.
Hey, thanks for listening. I feel like I’m talking to myself. I added my confirmation name, Mark, and my matrilineal name Sweeney to bolster my faltering ego. Mark wrote the shortest and first gospel probably and Sweeney was a grandma who didn’t take no backtalk. I think you got the gift of gab from her.
Sounds like Bob and my x are done making out talker style outside. When she comes in it’ll be a whole new game. I’ve got to shift gears when that orange haired mother nature appears and I disappear in her flaming glory.
Catch you next time. The vibes in here are electric like a high wire fire.
Well, Dennis James, long time no see. I see you’re playing quantum games again. I saw Dennis Mark going out as I was coming in.
So this is where you hang out on Planet Earth. A moveable feast cafe style. Not bad. Fits your post-modern culture to be moving in more ways than one. Multiple personalities, parallel universes, action at a distance nonlocally, telepathy and teleportation.
But Earth is the place to love. Lovers from all over the universe are waiting in line to get in. It’s not easy here with all your wars and general stupidity but it’s worth the price to learn love.
Just wanted to say hi. Got to run and teleport to a different time and place. Cheers.
Mr Saker, moved to correct thread.Mod on duty.. There is things happening in this world that we don’t know about. You can be the nr 1 geopolitical analyst in the world (which you are), however… it is based on information at your hand. There is a lot of information going around. I want you to consider the possibility that we are not in a war, that we are part of history. This part of history is very significant due to the re balancing power. We can not ignore this very important, geopolitic shift. Take a moment and think about this.
Wouldn’t being in a war also be a part of history. Actually all our lives we make history. Only most times its not recorded history.
I take it this is the same French teacher that put up an article here a few days ago..
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160310/1036044523/french-teacher-praises-putin.html
I’m encamped in heaven on a hillside without a laptop in heaven, and the observer of sun rises, sets and stars and before the new moon of march of this year i will again be attuned to the observatory of the no mans land of the web, sending my greetings from the moon’s rabbit – ahem, oops – I seem to have landed at the Moveable Feast Café, (better watch my moonspeak…)
I’ve heard tell that the food’s utterly enervating, the company completely scrumptious and I will sit up straight and smile and look the right way that I see earth dwellers do who are kind and don’t make war.
In other news, homelessness can happen to anyone, but we all know that now and Manchester art gallery is free and it’s warm inside because where art is there warmth is.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/10/homelessness-streets-manchester-outreach-rough-sleepers-housing
Report from the hinterland. Was cruising through a small town in Northern California yesterday and I saw a huge sign on a modest storefront across from the county courthouse. it read: ” Racism is used to harm and divide the 99%” Upon further scrutiny I saw a local resistance FM radio station–KMEC.
Then the clouds closed in and the rain came down sweeping in from the coastal area of Ft. Bragg so I journeyed on without exploring further. On down to the much more prosperous Napa Valley area where I stopped to eat at The Sonoma Grill. I walked in looking like Mountain Mary with my cargo pants and hiking boots but those used to eccentric Silicon Valley types were unfazed. So I sat among the very contented, very successful, very wealthy women who looked very slick with the face jobs and hormone creams and thought about a comfortable life with no struggle. Is that possible? Probably not but there are degrees of struggle.
And shouldn’t our love for one another make it important that it not be so overwhelmingly hard for some people ? that we do our best to make it less so.? Possibilities.
As for Trump. oh, they will bring him around just like what happened with Obama, but it throws off their timeline for total world domination a bit. Grandpa Barney-Blarney is a Judas Goat. period. That is his function within the system at this time. Trump is a wild card, a joker and can be used however the demands of the game require. As a card it gets held in the hand usually towards the end or when it is strategic to play it. Does Trump have any idea the level of nastiness he has evoked? And who the real players are? And how they intend to use him when they reach for Plan B?
Have you ever been to Fort Ross? The old Russian wooden fort near, I believe, Ft. Bragg? I’ve been to Bragg but F. Ross is really something else. They’ve reconstructed most of it, but you can imagine a very different story of North American/Russian relations had history been just a little bit different. I relate to the weirdness encountering that imperial species, the surgeried & hormoned-out super-rich, however, under any kind of expanded consciouness you’d care to use (including mere Eureka! moments), the mask comes down and they look pretty sad and miserable and it’s easy to feel sympathetic sorrow for these people, almost all of them women (the aging rich men don’t bother to try to “look good”, whatever that means to them).. I know that the whole area has changed greatly since I last hung out there in the first Sil. Valley boom. There were still huge stretches of freaky half hippy half agrarian half wine growing communities up in the Russian River (there’s that word again, Russian!) Valley, Sebastapol (ditto! Where have I heard that name before? One of the great archivists of psychedelic lit lived there, W. Ryder’s dad, also “of the jungle”, an interesting small business of the time)… Real Neil Young territory (literally and figuratively), with this interesting and unexplored Russian history. Yes there is a Sebastapol and a Russian Fort to the north of SF. Unknown America!
Perhaps this is the place to suggest the idea that the election circus is merely a set up for a rogue act such as:
Trump gains momentum and it looks like he might take the throne. Would not the neoliberal left freak out, and support a very radical act of opposition? Obama has already said “Trump will not be President.” Would all the 2008 frenzy of ‘yes we can’ rear up again… This might be the Trump card.
Have to also consider that the day before super Tuesday the NYT ran a huge spread about Hitlary’s role in Libya. I question the timing of this, believing that no publicity that big happens without a motive? Could she be appointed candidate, then formally accused of the crime and election then disqualified.
I am a long time reader, and first time poster. A little intimidated by all the brilliance I read here. I am curious how the readership is considering the possibility of no election at all.
K
here is a very funny video from Canada about the American elections: ( humor)
https://www.rt.com/news/332679-canada-us-presidential-race/
I am sorry, this is not related to the thread moved to correct thread.Mod on duty., but not many read old threads. Here we get new information about the Paris attacks.
“During an interview with the FOX Business Network’s Kennedy, Jessie Hughes, the lead singer of the band Eagles of Death Metal opened up about a terrorist attack on his band and concertgoers that took place at a Paris concert, and he alleges that security guards at the venue may have been involved.”
“Eagles of Death Metal Frontman: Security Might Have Been in on Paris Attacks ”
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/03/09/eagles-death-metal-frontman-security-might-have-been-in-on-paris-attacks.html
Geoanalyst Andrew Korybko has an interesting theory about North Korea. This is a volatile situation. The leader Kim Jong Un is like a cornered rattlesnake. The US, of course, is determined to teach the rattlesnake not to bite by closing in on it and threatening to destroy it. Great strategy! Par for the course. Kim Jong Un learned his lessons from Saddam Hussein, who died kissing up to the US.
http://quemadoinstitute.org/2016/03/11/north-korea-psychoanalysis-of-the-threat/
Well, what can I say…
never even imagined (ok I imagined it) that i could actually ask her out..but kind of did..she said ok..but where do we go???
I just fell in love with her..the moment I saw her….
We are going to be Grannie and Grandad exceedingly soon
our 3 cats will look at it – and all their whiskers will droop
its nearly as big as us…
you cats sus it out – its a human baby…
and in our experience the cats are not only tolerant, but never even complain and certainly would not scratch..when baby human pulls their tails.
They used to play in our local park when they were kids
“All Cats Are Grey – The Cure”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycxc8Xitweo
latest news from my lad via text – still no news yet.
Tony
There are several girls I fell in love with before I went to school…
My first was Susan Speakman,,she was 2 and I was 3…when I was 5 – her family took her away to Australia,,,
And then Stephanie – she was a bit older than me when I was 5 – she was my best mate’s older sister..his name was Bernard Whitney
We used to go from Oldham to Blackpool on the Steam Train During Oldham Wakes in June..
and then when I was nearly 5 I met Hannah Hrubiac and I didn’t know how to do my shoe laces up..she showed me – well actually I think it was Margaret..I was the youngest in the class,,,and the bigger boys used to fight me – and knock me down…and they could see what they had done…but they gave me the time and space…to get back on my feet and fight back .. in the schoolyard
None of the Teachers saw this…but The Bullies didn’t take me on any more…they knew I was useless – but I fought back..
Corpus Christi – Oldham, Lancashire England 1958
Tony