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The more I hear everyday about the way the West is moving forward towards dictatorship the more convinced I’m becoming that only revolution will stop it. Just today in Germany a political party leader was arrested for quoting that poem against Erdagon. Free speech has disappeared in the EU. How the people accept that without violent revolt I can’t understand.Its time for mass crowds to be assembled in the streets. And revolutionary groups be formed to respond with force to police violence. I don’t see any other choice if Europeans value their rights. The time for full scale “European Spring” civil disobedience, coupled with revolution to bring down those regimes is rapidly coming.The Summer of 2016 needs to ring out in Europe with the chords of 1789,before you pass beyond saving.Once that happens only a WW3 might be able to overturn it. My concern is that they have already passed that point. And there is nothing left of Europe worth saving,nor people willing to save themselves. Once again we can reflect back to Putin’s remark in the Q & A,”if someone is determined to drown,you can’t save them”.
Not going to happen. The control by the Parasites over all former European nations is 100% waterproof. All fake opposition parties left and right – die Linke, Syriza, Front National, PEGIDA, AntiFa, AfD – are limited hangouts carefully puppeteered by George Soros, the Verfassungsschutz, the CIA, MI6, etc.
And don’t forget – all Revolutions are Color Revolutions – always engineered and executed by the usual suspects, the Zionists, the Oligarchs, the Hollywood script writers, the money printers and their Intelligence cartels.
From Babylon to Bataclan, the common folks had never any say in the grand scheme of things, only the illusion thereof – the clownish meme of freedom and democracy of recent history being the most prominent and most successful example so far.
I reject the idea that all revolutions in the past have been staged. That is a modern concept that we sometimes want to say was true of the past as well. But I don’t believe it was.
Neither I
Gonna have to agree with zweistein. During the French revolution, didn’t the mob parade the streets with the bust of the finance minister Necker who was somehow “unjustly” dismissed? ( I wish I remembered things better– anyhow maybe it’s just my worldview — and then there are the accounts of the mobs in the Gospels)
I do also agree with zweistein regarding the recent history,the huge jump in technology and mostly in the communication sphere,we live in a globalized world when those modern assets are spread everywhere.The TV,the cell-phones,the Internet,the newspapers,are spreading the most of the misinformation and have a large manipulative power.Those in the earlier times,had not have such a thing,so the manipulation even if it was done in some cases,the range of influenced people was not such as today,therefore,the uprisings have been much successful.Anyway,there are many conclusions to be taken into account out of this.
Things to be sure happen much quickly nowadays, but I am not so certain how much of a qualitative difference there is between a printing press –an important story prop in Demons btw– and the internet. Of course if you get enough of a quantitative difference, it is tantamount to qualitative one.
Far more ominous is what Ivan Ilych called the “war on subsistance” or when looked at from another angle, the division of labor arising (then vanishing) amid monetary bubbles.
“I reject the idea that all revolutions in the past have been staged [..]”
^ Hear! Hear! Uncle B.
Same way I reject the idea that all recent terrorist attacks are false-flags.
Seriously? Gimme a break!
:/
-TL2Q
UB,
I think the nature of warfare and revolutions changed with the emergence of the Rothchild Bank of England. The ability to focus enormous amounts of money to create or alter a situation made an order of magnitude difference.
There was an article on Club Orlov that explained in some detail (sorry I dont have a link).
We have arrived at Orwell’s 1984. This is it. Somehow humanity will evolve out of it – I don’t know how or when it will manifest.
My theory: that energy is being built up for another age of revolution like the late 1800’s to early 1900’s that will be worldwide.
Well I congratulate ioan for being the only one to provide some art/music/poetry so far here (It is playing in the background as I type this.
But I will post these lyrics and invite a disgusted Peter J Antonsen to come back here occasionally:
JOHN LENNON LYRICS
“Revolution”
You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright
Alright Alright
You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright
Alright Alright
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know know it’s gonna be alright
Alright Alright.
REVOLUTION: early version https://youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw
Me?? I’m not disgusted and I don’t like Lennon much. Don’t like artists knighted by the Queen and assisted by the Tavistok Institute. Suspect Lennon’s assignment was to put millions (PAJ…listen…..I’m talking to you…..) into a drug induced state of right brain New Age impotence and imbalance.
HOWEVER, there are seeds of truth almost everywhere you look.
“We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well you know
You better FREE YOUR MIND instead” EXCEPT not Lennon or Ono’s way IMHO HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Preparing a paper for y’all on what I mean in greater detail. Hard to keep up with these cafe’s and life and still pull that off. But I can’t fricking BELIEVE no one beat me to posting this partially useful, but WORLD famous music art that i post here, before I did.
Thanks for the opportunity, y’all!!! Bro Anon
Waiting for that…but now relax,take a beer or anything else,as I said,you’re my guest.The Hegemon and it’s people have to wait for the next round of shelling.We’ll get prepared for that,with or without meters on our house corners.The life goes on hand in hand with love and war.Scream is to be heard,some from joy,some from horror…but for now,the ball is in the cafe,the time is still,I can breath
Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ Bout A Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8d4QKIVZVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnN76L1sU
This is a Ron Paul theme song and it is great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlBqGbWkQI
If that lead singer patriotic babe would lose the tattoos on her underarms I’d give it 4 stars for trying rather than 2.5 out of 5. 1.5 deduction for the underarm tattoos, on an otherwise attractive sample of womanhood…???…. WHAT was she thinking?? Answer:Obviously, she wasn’t thinking.
Sorry, T-13 I’ve had a tattoo phobia ever since I read Herman Melville’s description of Queequeg, the harpooner, creeping into Ishmael’s room at an Inn on Nantucket, after midnight. Those tattoos set the tone for the spiritual horrors to come in the rest of Moby Dick.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Queequeg+the+harpooner+tattoos&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1099&tbm=isch&imgil=8d3f0pJzcMvNtM%253A%253BpfpZE798VJcWAM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.pinterest.com%25252Fhuckaby49%25252Fmoby-dick%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=8d3f0pJzcMvNtM%253A%252CpfpZE798VJcWAM%252C_&usg=__s1MCUEE8Kf8GPw9anrDFinLDbQE%3D&dpr=1&ved=0ahUKEwiIr_WQq6bMAhUITSYKHZSmAUsQyjcIMQ&ei=ET4cV8jiOYiamQGUzYbYBA#imgrc=8d3f0pJzcMvNtM%3A
But it does remind me of one of my favorite sports quotes of all time:
“The Denver Nuggets are leading the NBA in tattoos and points allowed, per game.”
No concern whatsoever for the 2 “Ds”: Neither Defense………….Nor….Dermatology!
What has this ridiculous comment got to do with Cafe Politics?? Everything!!!
The associative powers of the mind.
Example: https://youtu.be/oaBnIzY3R00
Kerouac, Ed Sanders of the Fugs, and Yablonsky, some college professor, are Interviewed by
William F Buckley, brother of Skull and Bones member James L. Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1971–1977) and brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.[3]:168, 174[102][103]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members on the topic of “Hippies”.
That interview in 1968 ought to amuse and horrify any sane person. We’ve been in deep deep doo- doo for a long, long time. Ed Sanders of the Fugs is actually the most cogent of the whole group. William F Buckley always reminded me of a snake. Kerouac already looks destroyed, distracted and bored at 46 years of age. Ginsberg says Kerouac was drunk, frank and “real”.
How’s that for a new art form, as of 2016, the “Virtual Cafe Collage”?
Be lenient, now…….and give me a break on the 1-5 rating system…………. It’s late and I’m trying to push Day 1 of this Cafe to 75 comments, an all-time record so far. With this here disjointed one of mine we’re at 72, with no drugs or alcohol that I know of! Cpakoine noche!
Could April 24th be International Leniency Day?
Having celebrated the 400th birthday of Shakespeare yesterday, we surely all deserve a little Leniency by now, there is no one quite like him after all…
Did you know Hamlet has been translated into 75 languages, and for the moon-struck Lenient Leary brigade, the word “love” appears 2,191 times in the bards 37 plays and poems?
My husband is an unashamed prof of Shakespeare and drags me off to some great plays. What fascinates me is when women play the lead role, as in Hamlet,for example. Strange, to turn things around, but fascinating and thought provoking at the same time.
Lady Foggy Moor, here you are:
Break it down for us: https://youtu.be/TRoIxwGsBR0 Or fetch thy sire and have him reveal the gold that glitters beneath these lovers’ playful love prattle. Helena, Demetrius etc,etc Midsummer Night’s Dream. No time to count the times of love’s utterance. Sorry, I must GO!
(I suppose my soul bro put this on youtube, for it ends with BRO. Hohoho!)
Whoa! As a hippie from the silicon valley, I have a few things to say in response to the above posts. First, it was only in the last decade of esoteric studies that I realised that John and Yoko were my first tantric teachers. Revolution is a great song, pointing to the fact that real revolutions are of consciousness, they must be rooted in a transformation of how we see and experience the world. In spite of the darkness we may see in the political sphere, and the great cultural upheavals and migrations underway, I am hopeful. There are so many spiritual technologies of transformation available to us, as well as ecological farming methods, and information that we can use going forward to create lives worth living and communities that honour ancient cultural values. And, hey that stupid video with Buckley just illustrates my point. None of those people are cultivated, educated, or even nearly sane. What a weird world on display! We have come so far, though you would´t know it if you got your information from mainstream media. Check out Geoff Lawton, doing great work all over the world. Start meditating. Start acting as if we are all part of a divine organism. Listen deeply to your inner wisdom. I just found a copy of Huxley´s Doors of Perception and read it for the first time today, and watched brain scans of people on LSD. Interesting how the brain functions differently on LSD, wholisticly instead of specialising. Some of the theoretical stuff which inspires me the most is from the Electric Universe site. Really great cosmological hypotheses, astrophysics, philosophy. The subtle electrical forces in structured water and how it works in our cells, and how our genes communicate. Honestly, I think we are on the edge of a great shift in how we see the world. The gut biome discoveries will revolutionise medicine. Politics will be the last to follow. Peace and Love is the way to go. Had a great retreat in the desert with international group of buddhists, and am recharged. Christ is risen!
@ Anonymous
Is refreshing and and a morale booster to find that there are out there people like you who are seeking parallel and alternative ways to overcome the problems of the world created by the politicos and the dark forces behind them, the culture of greed and violence.
Cheers
Kim
Whoa indeed, Sand (silicon) Hipster (got to reach out to the younger ones, kick your hippiedom forward in time a half century! (Oh, BTW I dispense handles here ever since Timothy O’Leary’s cousin Dennis christened Anonymous me, by inquiring “Brother or Sister Anonymous?” so “use it or lose it”. (I decided to use it.) Thanks, Dennis.
But none of his uncle’s stuff will I use. I’m stoned enough without applying dynamite to circuitry simply too delicate for the brute force path to the pineal gland. When it comes to that kind of violence in chemical form “You can count me out!”, to quote your tantric teacher!
But here’s a flyer about my upcoming reading/stream of consciousness recital at the Cafe Le Saker weekend after next on the theme of the lunar (but not lunatic) Goddess. Bring the aging hipster community, and some real hipsters under 35, too. I’d like a few people in the audience to be awake, throughout the reading, and rely on the conscious mind, as well as the subconscious one. All are welcome. Oooops! gotta run before I wear mine out!
Be there or be square! Here, a stack of extra flyers for the office……..
Dreistein is correct.
Look what kind of news germans have to read every day:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berliner-kurier.de%2Fberlin%2Fpolizei-und-justiz%2F30-autos-in-berlin-demoliert-richterin-laesst-vandalen-frei-23933016%23plx1044064753&edit-text=
So, as long as you are _not_ a white german it is absolutely ok if you rape schoolgirls or take iron rods and destroy car after car! No problem – you are a free man.
You only come into prison if you defend your own thoughts or if you refuse to pay illegal GEZ TV-Propaganda fees (which you must pay even if you never had a TV in your life).
Then there are so called “right wing Nazis” who create such maps simply reflecting reality based on official police reports involving migrants (re-sizable, clickable, verifiable):
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z12D0zt-V4iI.kXGfjpzjOS1Q
Yet the only ones who at least attempt to protest this injustice (even though in the wrong way, controlled by false leaders, at the wrong time and against the wrong people) are all labeled as antisemites, Nazis or conspiracy theorists by MSM and the stupid majority stays silent, a large minority (?) even still agrees with the top-down propagated narrative.
And even I have no energy anymore to spend 10 hours per day fighting against windmills.
What can you then expect from avergage Europeans?
We are a club of 10 to 30 regular commentators here plus a few 1000 active regular readers.
How can we act? Or rather: Who wants to go forward for getting arrested, put into Psychiatry or shot first?
Reminder: Yes, not all revolutions were fake. And even of those that that were initially planned to be staged not everything always worked as planned. Best example: Lenin and Stalin.
Such claims that Bolschewiks are jews and what not: Yes, maybe. But not every jew is a Zionist and vice versa.
Such anti-humanist propaganda is being spread by your own enemies (CIA, MI6, Mossad).
This way they prevent humanity to find some enlightenment.
@ Zweistein
You might be right there in the sense that originally genuine revolutions are on many occasions hijacked by the opportunistic freeloaders to suit their own designs. After 10 years of continuous upheaval, the French Revolution fizzled out once their leaders killed each other until there was no-one else left so to speak and Napoleon just walked in, took the mantle, the sceptre and the crown. History must be littered with similar examples. The “Carnation Revolution” (1974) in Portugal started as a coup d’etat by the Army, developed into a revolutionary movement but was eventually betrayed from within by the Socialist Party in cohorts with the CIA.
But don’t tell me that the Cuban Revolution was a faked one. Or the Iranian.
Kim
Often I think about what my son and daughters future will be.
Life as we have known it since WWII? Nope.
Peasant subservience to the US empire?
Civil war?
Nuclear War?
A future where say Russia/China wins after heavy losses – the average Russian/Chinese who has lost family and friends to US and allies of the US – very pissed off. No Geneva conventions under those conditions.
More and more I am coming to think we will have either Nuclear war, or implosion of the US empire.
The US empire decided on its path at the last UNGA meeting.
Xi has spoken of Thucydides. Putin has spoken about about great power changes and how this is normally accompanied by much violence/wars. Both are trying to avoid the violence.
Both are preparing for what is coming in their own ways. US will either destroy itself financially and as an empire, or go nuclear.
I am hoping for implosion of the US rather than nuclear. That will be time for the populations of the vassal states and in the US to act. Any insurrection from the vassal states before that stage will be destroyed.
It is only when the US empire starts to implode that people can act with any chance of success. that is the time for revolution.
Now it’s a matter of waiting. People in the scorched earth zones…
To win, play the game, look at the big game, don’t react to the day to day crap in MSM or alternative media – death destruction we see in the news. (easier said than done)
I’ve disagreed with you a few times UB because I feel you are reacting to – in the big power sense – small things. On what is happening overall….
Possibly,but the problem with that is real revolutions don’t hardly ever start all at once (those that do are usually faked). They take place in stages.Usually,they start when people see (or believe) things can improve (they see a model). And then believe they are held back from that model by the current regime.And things are getting worse daily. Oppression alone won’t start a massive successful revolution. People need to see that making a revolution will bring them a better life. That isn’t of course always true (there is no absolute),but it usually is.But whether it starts today,tomorrow,or years from now. The time to prepare ,and plan,is now.Many revolutions fail because a spark starts them,and no one is prepared for it.The people react with no plan to each moments events.And its easier to crush revolts where the people aren’t prepared for them.
The revolution has started. A few here, a few there. The time will come.
Planning… that’s what all the latest terrorism laws and full spectrum surveillance is for.
The revolution has started on the internet. People here and there. Any planning at that stage and they will be destroyed. Darknet? encryption?
It will grow.
@ Peter AU
Hello Cobbler.
The Cafe looks closed; yet I belatedly gatecrashed because of your comments on the uncertain future of your children. I feel the same worries, with the added aggravation of regretting having children when I did not wish, at the time, to have any because I was aware of the moral dilemma of being responsible for their existence in a potentially nasty world. I should had been true to myself; now my failure is my guilt and my pain.
The past is irreversible and the only thing I can do now is to assuage my remorse by doing something to make the world a better place. But the enormity of the task smothers your will to do anything and you are left to rage at your own impotence. You Peter believe that there will be a propitious time for revolution when the Empire is in the throes of a crisis of degeneracy. It is a comforting belief, similar to the Marxian view of the inexorable train of history towards the perfect state of human happiness in communism, without a state and without rulers. The trouble with that view is that neither capitalism nor the Empire will self-implode or transition to a Hegelian higher order without a push. Lenin did not wait for Russia to turn into a capitalist state as a precondition for the next stage of human development; the decaying Russian Empire needed a push and skipped capitalism. On the other hand, ironically, Marx may have been right all along: Russia attempted to short-cut through history and it did not work – and that’s why it has gone back in time to follow the Marxian proper historical progression!
I only meant to write about the necessary conditions for a successful revolution. However, history tell us that there are no prescriptions for such thing. The only notable ones that stand out (the French and the Russian) were fortuitous events that generated their own, sui generis, dynamics leading to the collapse of the old order, to the astounding surprise of the revolutionaries themselves!
The successful revolutions have the common elements of popular discontent, revolutionary organisation and, vitally, support of substantial regular armed forces. In the days of yore it was possible to raise a people’s army capable of confronting the state’s military because people had ready access to weapons of almost the same quality as the regular army, that is, the technological differential was almost negligible considering that revolutionary military operations did not, typically, follow the orthodox tactics of regular wars.
While the Parisians of 1789 were able of storming the Bastille and end the Ancient Regime, the Parisians of 1871 could not, in spite of their heroism, resist the onslaught of the regular army and the blood of 20,000 insurgents soaked the streets of Paris. That uprising was the last significant popular armed rebellion, bearing in mind that the Russian Revolution benefited from massive support from regular troops.
Consequently, popular insurrection against the established order in modern sates is nearly impossible, unless the armed forces intervene on the side of the revolution. Even in the home of the Empire, where the people are given the constitutional right of bearing arms, supposedly to fight against the tyranny of the state, the chances of a popular uprising are limited to flights of fantasy given the fact that the ‘law and order’ agencies have been in fact militarized and, in last resort, the Pentagon would find a constitutional loophole to intervene.
Empires, even decaying ones, do not collapse on their own, the proverbial push being given by the Teutonic tribes (Roman), the Ottomans (Byzantium), World War I, (German, Austrian, Russian), WW II (British, Japanese). In fact, the only one to disintegrate from within was the USSR (which was not a real ’empire’ anyway) because: (a) was engineered by the elite in power; (b) the military did not intervene to defend the constitutional order.
My conclusion is that the Empire will rule solo for many years to come unless somebody, bold and resolute, ascends to the presidency of Russia and stops calling the enemies of Russia ‘partners’ and ‘colleagues’.
Kim
Very pragmatic Kim.
An excellent post – while melancholic I understand and share your thoughts.
Kim,I would like to add to that,that corruption also had a big slice from that cake (in the case of the USSR and the former Eastern Block ) The old principle of Mammon was very successfully applied because of the corrupt cadres of the high and middle level of the communist parties in those countries.That was a huge betrayal and unforgivable till today.The question is how this could have been possible,what was the cause of this letargy and disbelief in the system – which was not perfect,but still underway of progress.
@ ioan
In a nutshell: The rot started with Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin at the XX Congress (the “Secret Report”). The main purpose was to purge the Old Guard from the leadership (Molotov, Beria, etc). This was followed by taking over the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, therefore bypassing Soviet diplomacy. That opened the floodgates and exposure to the lavish lifestyle of the capitalist world. Stalin’s dasha was a humble shed by Western standards. Many people at the higher echelons of Soviet leadership lived in one-bedroom flats next door to a factory worker.
Under Khrushchev many Soviet organisations became independent “co-operatives” – in fact managed by an apparatchik and these “co-operatives” became the vehicle for the plundering of the profitable economic entities of the Soviet Union. The apparatchiks became the infamous billionaire oligarchs.
Kim
Kim,
This is very interesting. I had no idea that a true oligarchic class existed in the USSR before the neoliberal period of Yeltsin. Did these apparatchiks secure actual ownership of the economic assets they were managing?
# Jonathan
No, not legal ownership, because those economic entities (factories, banks, etc) were co-operatives. But they managed them, therefore the source of nascent corruption, and when Gorby (another darling of the West) started the “glasnost and perestroika” movement they positioned themselves into de facto ownership. The next stage was the actual plunder during Yeltsin’s Harvard-engineered “economic shock” privatisation, assisted of course by Wall Street and the City (Jew money, to Jewish apparatchiks, now oligarchs). This is only a brief summary.
Thanks for the reply. I had thought that was what you meant. My point was that there are important differences between a wealthy managerial class and an owner class. The wealth of the manager is dependent on his position, he can’t liquidate the assets he controls or pass them on to his children.
The designers of the Soviet economic and financial systems were clearly highly knowledgeable in these areas. The system as designed was resistant to the neoliberal attacks that occurred in the 90s. There are important lessons to be learned from the Soviet banking system, for example.
Actually, Gorbachev was immediately popular with the Western public but looked on with considerable suspicion by foreign policy planners in the US. It was perceived he sought an end to the Cold War. But that he was not committed to dismantling the Soviet economic and financial structures. The strategy of the US was always to enable the plunder of Soviet resources. Reagan’s Star Wars program was designed to destabilize and bankrupt the USSR to force exactly what happened under Yeltsin.
Gorbachev’s errors were first in not seeing that this was the goal. His second error was an assumption that compromise was possible and concessions he made would be reciprocated by the US. I was initially much more optimistic myself. I began to become concerned when I heard that the Warsaw Pact was to be dissolved but NATO was not.
Anyway, I feel there are many important lessons for the present with Putin. Both for economic and financial strategies to resist subjugation was well as political and geostrategic planning.
@ Kim:
“..yet I belatedly gatecrashed because of your comments on the uncertain future of your children. I feel the same worries, with the added aggravation of regretting having children when I did not wish, at the time, to have any because I was aware of the moral dilemma of being responsible for their existence in a potentially nasty world. I should had been true to myself; now my failure is my guilt and my pain [..]”
May I interrupt? Bless your candor, Kim :)
As a childfree person, I’ve made my decision not to breed based on, oh! So many reasons… *sigh*
But the top one has to be the state of the world and where is likely to be heading to…
At the end of the day, even by willingly choosing not to have children, I find myself worrying about my nieces and nephews, but it goes beyond that too: my friends’ children or even acquaintances’ children… then it moves from that to the wider community; anybody’s children for that matter!
You sound like an empathetic person. So, in the end, is not really your guilt and your pain alone to bear. Plenty of empathetic people are worrying about the same things you are. Hell! I’m one of them.
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“Empires, even decaying ones, do not collapse on their own, the proverbial push being given by the Teutonic tribes (Roman), the Ottomans (Byzantium), World War I, (German, Austrian, Russian), WW II (British, Japanese) [..]”
I concur. The Roman Empire lasted for 500 years. The Yank empire – so long – is lasting for, if we count form its inception: 1776… that’s only about a quarter of century in power as an Empire.
For all we know we still have, like, 250 years to go ahead of us…
Nice! Ain’t it?
-TL2Q
Sorry to spoil the pity party (Geeez, I can be a jerk……but some risks are worth taking…) but I am 66 and have a 9 year old and a 14 year old son and a spine fused at both ends, with the aid of titanium rods, and have a constant headache from the neck fusion that feels like a karate chop by Bruce Lee, by 8 or 9 pm every day and night.
The first son was conceived after the lumbar fusion, but before the cervical fusion. Before that operation, while my bulging disc at C-6 C-7 was pressing against my spinal cord, making it impossible for me to do much more than lay down and do puzzles, I had dark thoughts about throwing the infant off the balcony, when he finally came. And he did arrive, 90 days to the day, after 911. The jovial fellow of course changed my heart in the delivery room, sociable and grinning within hours of coming into this world.
I guess I am an insane optimist and should go have my brain examined instead of getting any more spine MRIs.
@ Bro
Some people believe, and worry, that there must be something – the ‘je ne sais quoi’ – greater than the petty little things of life – the ‘petits riens (I now, i’m a snobbish s.o.b. when it comes to French) – in other words ‘the big question’ (capitals!) which rises us humans above the other forms of life on earth. I think we should strive for a leap above technology, stop being consumers and become givers instead, achieve a moral state of consciousness as a guide to our actions,
We should at least attempt to go beyond Foucault’ epistemic limit (On sait ce qu’on fait; souvent on sait porquoi ce qu’on fait; mais on ne sait pas ce qu’on fait fait) You translate it, it’s easy, but no google!
Kim
Kim, I thank you for your reply. I downloaded Bing translator since you warned against Google’s.
It came up with: “We know what we did; WHY do we do often known; but we do not know what is done)”
Not sure I fully “get it” on its own or in context with the rest of your comment.
Anyway if you have concern about the darkness I expressed, relax. I once contemplated suicide, but frankly I quickly realized it was absurd, for my desire to find out just how much more things were capable of “sucking” far outweighed the relatively infinitely weaker death -wish fantasies I might have entertained.
As to my horror at possibly becoming permanently disabled right after the arrival of a new dependent such a dark fleeting thought was in reality never anywhere near anything resembling active realization. Not even remotely close. For having been to the edge of such things 2-3 times some of us get to know who we are in greater depth, and the reality became crystal clear: only in self defense under murderous attack would it be remotely possible for me to kill.
I just wanted to answer the others who commented on the decision to either create a new life or two, or not to do so, and add my two cents hoping it would broaden or deepen the dialogue or trialogue a bit more..
@ Bro
The translation not quite right. ‘People know what they do; often they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what they do does.”
It relates to our incapacity to know the consequences of our actions, namely the unintended harm we may cause, sometimes to ourselves in the shape of blowback; e.g. Churchill’s uncompromising stance against Germany lead to the end of the British Empire, a result he did not want, he being a rabid imperialist. The irony is that he has been voted the “greatest Englishman of all time”.
You are very brave, apart from being an eternal optimistic (pardon the pun) and I’m sure you have not disregarded the matter of responsibility. I wish you a very long life to see the ripe fruits of your labours.
Kim
Kim, would you please type “Kim” in at the top so people know which of formerly “Anonymous” they are dealing with?
I appreciate your comments and perspective, from probably the opposite side of the globe from me, and don’t want to ever unload any of my bile on you, in a bad mood, not realizing who is commenting………….
Gotta keep it short. Preparing something longer for the next Cafe. It’s on the Goddess that O’Leary and I worship. No, that’s not Holy Mother Russia. But she probably qualifies as a niece or maybe even a daughter of the Goddess, and certainly partakes of the Goddess’s spirit.
“don’t want to ever unload any of my bile on you, in a bad mood, not realizing who is commenting………….”
You’re becoming incoherent.
@ Bro
Don’t worry about splashing your bile on me!
About the Goddess you secretly share with Dennis, the revelation of whom is quite imminent, poses a challenging riddle. Mother Russia’s niece? Music… poetry… love… beauty… eternal… all that in one? Can’t fathom, pass, give up.
“ascends to the presidency of Russia and stops calling the enemies of Russia ‘partners’ and ‘colleagues’.”
The art of war… I had heard about it but only read it for the first time the other day. The link somebody left the other day https://www.sonshi.com/original-the-art-of-war-translation-not-giles.html
Each empire needs to be judged on it’s merits. Some lasted a long time. Others like the Third Reich did not last long at all.
The current empire is now beginning to openly strongarm its “allies”. It’s head of state uses words like “we are the exceptional nation” “we set the rules”. Many things like this are coming into the open in recent years. A total about face from the freedom and democracy that it used against former USSR. But that freedom and democracy is something that has be drummed into generations of it’s allies.
US needs to maintain the US dollar as world reserve currency to maintain its military and spying apparatus.
TPP and TTIP? China is fast becoming the worlds leading economic power. Now the worlds largest importer of oil. US control of oil sales has until now, been what underpins the US petrodollar.
More and more, the gloves will come off as the US tries to maintain the position of the petrodollar.
US needs to stop China’s economic growth. The biggest trade partner of the US is China. China is the biggest buyer in the world of US exports, and vice versa US is biggest buyer of Chinese exports. For a while I thought China was addicted to the US dollar and compromised as it is the US dollar that needs to be destroyed.
Bi-lateral trade balance is 20-30 billion a month China’s way. The US is bleeding 20-30 billion USD a month to China. A number of people in US making good money from trade with China, so remembering US democracy is the best money can buy, US will have a hard time stopping the bleeding.
They will have to disrupt trade between their “allies” and China. This won’t go down well with the “allies”.
At the moment the empire has it’s petrodollar balls in a vice, and at the moment there seems no way, apart from all out war, of preventing the vice being tightened further.
I felt the Obama’s speech at the UNGA meeting was a Rubicon the US crossed. That was a point at which the US should have made a decision to be part of a multi polar world and give up it’s ambition of full spectrum dominance of the world.
Weapons
The US relies on air superiority. It has put all or most of its eggs in the F-35 basket. A plane designed to combine a large number of roles, physical it does nothing well. It is not particularly stealthy. It is not fast. It is not agile. It is incredibly expensive.
It’s projected operational lifespan is untill 2070.
As an electronic weapons platform it will require 24 million lines of code to function at full capacity. Every line of code must be in full harmony with every other line of code.
The F-22 has around 1.4 million lines of code. When they first crossed the international dateline, a number of systems shut down including navigation. They had to visually follow the tanker to get back to base.
If it does ever get to full functioning capacity it will then need to be upgraded as both China and Russia are both continuously moving ahead in their defensive weapons systems.
The US has been a country of constant expansion. It seems to know nothing else. Going off history and assumption based on the facts that I can find, I think that the US won’t gain control over Russia or China, either through subversion nor militarily. The US now has nowhere to go but down.
In the meantime, life will get a lot harder for most.
Addendum to post at 1.30pm above.
My Eurocentric worldview blinded me to one of the most far-reaching revolutions of our times: the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979. Although the Shah was plonked and propped on the throne by the usual suspects (US/UK) and was protected by a formidable pretorian guard and brutal secret police, he was toppled in an unpredictable fast-moving insurrection fueled by a wave of hatred towards the monarch whose family fortune of upwards of $20 billion was squirreled away in US banks. The Islamic clergy were at the forefront of the revolution and well supported by communist guerrillas and socialists groups. What tipped the success of the revolution though was the move by some military units, particularly the Air Force, to join the rebellion.
Apart from naked corruption in high places, what led the people of Iran to stand up was the forced “Westernization” of the country, which they had rejected on previous occasions, the symbol and agent of which was the Shah, the darling of the West.
Religion though was the prime mover, the medium and provided the grassroots organization for the Islamic Revolution..
Kim
@ Peter AU
“… It is only when the US empire starts to implode that people can act with any chance of success. that is the time for revolution. …”
That is exactly what happened in the XVIII century Balkans under Turkish Ottoman occupation. Something that had been unthinkable prior to the terminal decline of the Ottoman Empire of the time. Still, it took then some hundred years for that particular empire to finally collapse. Mercifully, such a process for the A-Z empire should be far shorter, or let us hope that it will.
(Correction: I meant XIX century, not the XVIII.)
”if someone is determined to drown,you can’t save them”
Why don’t the USeans try to save themselves:
“Whatever America is, it isn’t a democracy — a one-person-one-vote majority-rule republic. In fact, the only scientific study that has ever been done of the U.S. political system, finds that it’s no “democracy” at all, but instead an “oligarchy,”a nation ruled by its aristocracy, its billionaires. It represents them, not the citizenry. That might not be the theory, but empirically it is the fact. An oligarchy is the commonest type of dictatorship, and it certainly is never a ‘benevolent dictatorship,’ even if that phrase is not an oxymoron in itself.
To sum up: the U.S. is ruled by and for the corrupters. Or, at least, this study showed that it has been like that since at least 1980.”
http://www.sott.net/article/316487-The-American-oligarchical-dictatorship
re: “To sum up: the U.S. is ruled by and for the corrupters. Or, at least, this study showed that it has been like that since at least 1980.”
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More like since at least 1880, except maybe from 1933-1945.
“More like since at least 1880, except maybe from 1933-1945.”
Agreed – and China / Russia are now in exactly the same boat…“Houston, we have a (big) problem”
“… since at least 1880 …”
Since 1776, to be exact. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
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“And there is nothing left of Europe worth saving,nor people willing to save themselves. Once again we can reflect back to Putin’s remark in the Q & A,”if someone is determined to drown,you can’t save them”.
There will never be a “European Spring” for the simple reason that regardless whether a person lives on the continent of Europe, or happens to be a resident of a EU member state or pays his groceries with Euros, none of these people have any sense whatsoever of having a ‘european’ identity.
The cultural identity of a ‘european’ is derived from and restricted to the culture and history of one’s respective individual nation.
An alleged shared ‘european identity’ is a mainstream media induced fiction, a corporate pipe-dream.
Hence, the EU ‘project’ is doomed to fail.
In the meantime, the complacent exceptional citizens of the US continue to celebrate ‘democwacy’ as their next Great Leader is being pulled out of the corporate hat..
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Yes, human 2.0 I realize that that is the view of things from Mongolia and most of the rest of the planet, including very large tracts of North America, but there are exceptions.
Here’s dude I just got to know today:
https://youtu.be/2Msr01w7iYw Part One
https://youtu.be/NJCC-_m9p7I Part Two
https://youtu.be/2MX9hwITqik last 6 minutes
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Nice speech by Larken Rose on the 4th of July in front of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed. I enjoyed that.
Some quotes:
“The American people are wimps.”
“Why do we believe we have a moral obligation to obey whatever they call law? Here is a radical thought, you have a moral obligation to recognize and honor the rights of every individual on the planet, no matter what the law says.”
Related:
A video he created about tyranny.
– “It can’t happen here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ebudnWlh4
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Thanks, I’ll catch up with that one too, today human 2.0
Instead of advocating the flushing every single resident of North America down the cr**per, some of the more virulent spewers of violently vitriolic anti-yankee invective, should make their acquaintance with more such multi-polar minded allies.
Well the “multi-polar minded” (who support the Chinese & Russian Oligarchs because – well, they just do) are just about as feeble as the vitriolic North American bashers who are on a level with the supporters of civil war so long as they get a “distinct separate sense of cultural identity”.
Geez – and that’s before we get to the bad guys.
Anonymous where is your solution? Wallowing in dog consciousness? canus = dog in Latin = root of cynicism.
That’s all I see so far. An attempt to discourage those who see some difference in Putin’s consciousness compared to his “western partners”. And you don’t? I’m sorry, but my assessment is that most here are more conscious than you are. But I,we will try to help: while all you concentrate on is the fake One Eye (Mon-ey) of the matter, we will try to illustrate that it (the present day material/spiritual space /time continuum) is more complex and interesting than that one dimensional false analysis you are stuck on. We’ll get o the pyramid and all-seeing eye on the back of that emblem of your religion in your back pocket, soon enough!
Meanwhile, here, Free Your Mind From Canine Consciousness (yeah as a handle it IS a bit long but try occulting it —I would—- to simply FYMFCC…..) : this should help inspire you your reluctant quest for freedom from your masters: /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-04-23/comment-page-1/#comment-232342
Woof! Woof!
“Woof! Woof!”
An itchy nerve or side-effects?
“An attempt to discourage those who see some difference in Putin’s consciousness compared to his “western partners”. And you don’t?”
I used to think (hope) there was a difference in Putin’s Russia – it’s what drew me to this blog. However, there is no difference. Putin is part of the problem – not the solution:
/the-china-russia-alliance-is-in-full-bloom-if-you-know-where-to-look/comment-page-1/#comment-226225
I’m open minded but after having briefly looked at some of your mystical number posts i’m afraid you must continue to try to persuade others.
Thanks anyway.
I’ve been here a long time and I don’t know who the “we” you refer to is? removed. No personal attacks on other commenters.Mod on Duty
PS: there have been a few interesting alternatives posted in this thread – it’s probably one of the best yet if you don’t consider Putin a saviour.
Not a savior. But Putin’s blocking the psychos long enough for you to do something more useful than I have heard or seen from you so far……..and hanging around for a long time and griping while disparaging The Most Effective Stubborn Blocker of the Hegemon does not qualify as “useful work” IMHO.
I won’t worry about your silly comments about your waning attention span, BTW, since Anonymous without positive energy is just a Black Hole in my book anyway, and I don’t answer more than twice any such A- Black-Hole who can’t pick a handle, preferring to blend in with the Void devoid of Love or Will.
Specific identity deserves follow up and respect, some indication of a will to go forward. A shadow that never emerges into the light and with other shadows blends, and offers no specificity, identity or courage, sorry, but that fleeting nothing of a ghost merits no further personal attention, and to presume the opposite is the vainest sort of illusion. Look inward and save yourself. That’s how it works. Putin and Russia are challenged to save themselves, and that gives you and I a chance to do the same. I wouldn’t waste it if I were you. But if you are determined to drown in canine cynicsm, blaming what lies outside of yourself and refusing to work on your “inner game” no one can stop from sinking lower and lower.
Don’t complain about this reply as “anonymous”. Everybody else just ignored you and I understand why. The fact is I care about you more than you care about yourself. But without a handle it is two tries to get through, then “over and out”. Ti ponimaesh??
“Everybody else just ignored you”
It’s obvious you don’t.
Did you have an unknown vote to authorise yourself to speak for everyone else?
Your HO doesn’t bother me (based on the actual numbers, I simply think you’re grasping and, unfortunately, have found another short straw).
Your vile bile doesn’t really bother me either…if you skip all “Anonymous” postings you can keep that for your digestion and aid the side effects instead.
I’ll keep half an eye on the spooky numbers.
I used the words “European Spring” because like “Arab Spring” it should entail multiple countries and not just one. Of course each revolt would be exclusive to each separate nation. But since this is an EU need as a whole,”European Spring ” would be better than saying “French Spring,German Spring,etc”. As to your comment on the US,you are right. An “American Spring” is long needed here.Possibly its the diversity in the US that holds that back. Disunity among the groups is of epic proportions.
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As a ‘european’ I am really a lover of cultural diversity. Even within my own tiny country of approximately 17 million people, between cities, regions and provinces with their own histories, dialects and traditions, there exists a distinct separate sense of cultural identity which in theory could even spark a civil war. Yet there is also a common national identity. A sense of a ‘european’ identity, however, is non existent.
Cultural diversity on the continent of Europe is a great pain in the rear of the globalists. To diminish and gradually erase that diversity is one of the reasons behind the creation of a corporate driven EU.
Cultural diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
As long as the current global financial system is in place no spring revolution will set us free.
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The only country in Europe that matches your statement of approximately 17 million people is the Netherlands (the rest are much less or much over.),so I suppose you are from there? But except for new immigrants from overseas the entire population is “Germanic”, as are all the dialects spoken Germanic language dialects. I don’t see how much “real” diversity you can be talking about there. Unless you mean religious,with the North being Protestant and the South Roman Catholic. But its been that way since the 1500’s and Dutch nationalism has mostly overcome that by now.
I also don’t see the small nations as a threat to the globalists. Just the opposite. Or they wouldn’t keep trying to split them up (Yugoslavia,Serbia,the USSR,are just a few examples in the last years). The more divided the great nations become the easier to control them it is. Certainly its more work,but easier work. Its the large nations they fear. Those can give them problems if they turn against them. Now of course the larger countries they totally control are somewhat safe from that. They don’t fear them as much.But any that they do worry about,are set to be dismembered whenever the chance comes up.The Netherlands is safe though (for now) they totally control it.
“which in theory could even spark a civil war”
No doubt that it’s worth having then.
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Uncle Bob, indeed. I happen to be a Netherlanderthaler from the Dutch low lands.
Ignoring the many diverse dialects, we have two separate languages in the Netherlands, one being Dutch the other being Frisian, a language today spoken only by the Frisians in the North, yet it is the ancient root of the modern Dutch language. The Germanic language group all by itself being rather diverse of course.
“I don’t see how much “real” diversity you can be talking about there”
I suppose it depends on ones definition of culture. There is external culture that is being imposed on people by mass media, social engineering and corporate influence. There is also the subtle type of culture and sense of identity in the hearts and minds of individuals passed on from one generation to another.
Once you control the distribution of resources you control people in a physical sense, however, controlling the hearts and minds of people works to a limited extent only.
“I also don’t see the small nations as a threat to the globalists. Just the opposite. Or they wouldn’t keep trying to split them up”
I didn’t say small nations are a threat to globalists. What I said is that cultural diversity is a pain in their rear.
According to you, it is the large nations the globalists fear?
Why then would they bother trying to unify Europe?
The American people happen to be the most loyal servants of the globalists.
Why?
Because they are totally controlled by globalists.
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Yes,its a part of the easy work I mentioned. They aren’t looking for “real unity” in an EU. They were looking to have a federation where each state internally can run their own affairs (to some extent). So easier for them to divide them and have the elite rule. While on the “EU ” side,they have non-elected bureaucrats running the show. Basically,as long as the elite class can control their “provinces” (countries). And the US can control the military and foreign dealings of those states through their stooges. They can “have their cake and eat it too”.Give the pretense of a Union. While really have dozens of competing stooges to see which can gain the most favor from the US. So far the UK and Germany are ahead in that race,with the Netherlands coming close behind.That is if you leave out the total stooges in Eastern Europe. No country can beat them in slavish devotion to the empire.
@ Uncle Bob 1
Spot on! Recently I read some excerpts from declassified US documents relating to the policies to be followed after the conclusion of WWII in Europe. Call it a coincidence or prescience but the author, George Kennan, later ambassador to Moscow, and influent member of the State Department in setting down the core US policies for controlling Europe, proposed the creation of, you wait, a “European Union”, in order to simplify such control over the old continent. Churchill was in favour – he even made a rousing speech for European integration, but he lost the election and went out to rewrite history. The British Labour Party was against the idea, so the US effort for setting up a union pivoted to France, occupied West Germany and Benelux. Kennan’s report was written, from memory, in 1944!
PS – Sorry, no links, from memory.
Kim
@ Human 2.0
“I supposed it depends on one’s definition of culture.”
That is the crux of the argument. Language, for instance is not a defining characteristic of culture; it is quite common in some societies to have a unitary culture yet the components groups being unable to understand each other. In a place familiar to many Dutch, the island of Timor (in the old Dutch East Indies about the size of Holland) a study undertaken by an anthropologist in the 1960s found there was a clear pattern of cultural traits common to all the fifty-odd tribes each of which had a distinct language, their interactions being by means of a lingua franca.
Western Europe was no different at least until the Reformation, Latin being the lingua franca among the educated. I recall another anthropological study done along the littoral communities from Norway to Portugal in the 1950s where it was reported that, in spite of the distances, nationalities and languages, they all exhibited similar cultural practices, fishing being the main contributor to that cultural uniformity.
So, a superficial view may show to the visitor that there is a big cultural difference from, say a Dutch to an Swiss region, yet and expert will discover that the similarities will be greater than the differences and that, in fact, those regions share a common culture, apart from Dutch clogs and Swiss yodeling. Of course in urban centres the differences are almost non-existent.
Kim
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Kim, yes. Science so far is unable to determine and define exactly what is culture. When we look at culture from the viewpoint I suggested, as being partially subtle and rooted within the hearts and minds of individuals where it is being passed on from one generation to the next, we arrive somewhat in an unknown territory because a thorough understanding of both the heart and mind is required. Our understanding of culture from this perspective is depending on our understanding of the human psyche. Within the boundaries of contemporary accepted scientific methods it is convenient to focus primarily on external types of culture and behavior. The low hanging fruit can be easily observed and classified and within a given restricted set of rules certain conclusions are deemed scientific. A large unknown territory remains, which we have so far been unable to map because it resides beyond the scope of our scientific instruments. It would be a fallacy to suggest that no unknown territory of substance and significance exists because our instruments are unable to conclusively document it. On a personal level every individual has the capability to roam and explore the unknown territory freely.
We primarily view history from the perspective of ignorant hunter-gatherer ancestors while ignoring the elephant in the room. We have yet to account for the genius of our ancestors. The reformation period is the biggest social engineering scam in history. The manipulation of language and the rewriting of history (Scaliger et al) has severely plunged us in amnesia. Knowledge about history continues to be manipulated and suppressed by the modern institutions of archeology. It is rather telling that our modern time-line of the dawn of culture happens to coincide more or less with the biblical account of the creation of the world.
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Song to the Siren.
Tim Buckley’s song performed by Elizabeth Fraser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ
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Sirens & Synchronicity.
“On a personal level every individual has the capability to roam and explore the unknown territory freely.”
The quote below popped out at me yesterday, after I wrote this post, it is the header of the preface of a book I opened.
We ask as Fools who know not Our Own Spirit:
Where are the hidden traces left by the Gods?
— Rig Veda —
book i, stanza 164,
lines 5 a & b
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That’s why the AZnists diversified your country, my country and all western societies even more, intentionally: Sexual orientation, Music taste, soccer, football, favorite car brand, favorite smartphone, favorite this and favorite that.
Hard to imagine, but only 50 years ago we had nothing of that kind on the planet.
And in my country GDR it was until only 26 years ago, that we all were more or less equal (and hence united!).
Now there are so many distinguished “subcultures” in western countries, there is no feeling of unity or “togetherness” anymore.
Accident? I do not think so.
One more reason why the puppet masters need the migration wave in Europe: To finally abandon nation states once and for all times. Then the citizens no longer can protect themselves anymore. Have no rights, no homeland, no identity.
It can be compared to how France got centralized of the centuries and renamed many traditional regions and re-draw inner borders to get rid of regional identities (we had the discussion about the flaws of the Soviet governance model in Yugoslavia).
p.s. Mr. Bob: Is there any specific reason why you never ever respond to any single of my direct messages to you? Not a problem, but I’m just curious what’s the reason in your view. Because I’m a Stalinist or because I dislike the USA? Hmm.
Martin,
What you are complaining about is Critical Theory (Marcuse, Frankfurt School) although you’re getting it mixed up a bit with mere marketing. Critical Theory has been referred to as Cultural Marxism and included with the ideology of the so-called “New Left”. However, in my opinion Critical Theory has nothing to do with Marx or Socialism. Marxism requires solidarity of the working classes in opposition to Capitalism. Critical Theory attacks the integrity of the working classes and is actually a pro-Capitalist ideology.
Yes, I have been over the past few years puzzled by the fact that most people in the West still espousing “Western Values” of freedom, democracy, equal justice, etc etc when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that there is hardly any of it left in Europe or the US. The funniest part is many of them still cling to the notion that they can and should “help” other “lesser countries” or peoples in regions with “no democracy and freedom” and that sort of nonsense.
But it does not seem to change, so either people are not angry enough, or they are too busy making ends meet, or simply still drinking the cool-aid provided by the Western MSM.
Either one of 2 things will eventually happen as Uncle Bob alluded earlier, either people rise up and take over, or a nuclear war will do the clean up!
Anyway, here’s a good 4 sentence from Bob Dylan’s “Union Sundown”
Democracy don’t rule the world
You’d better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that’s better left unsaid
http://bobdylan.com/songs/union-sundown/
Here is your mini-revolution, at least against TTIP:
“It’s A Trojan Horse” – Thousands Of Germans Protest TTIP Trade Deal One Day Before Obama Visit
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-23/its-trojan-horse-thousands-germans-protest-ttip-deal-day-obama-visit
But relax, there will never be a referendum here and if there was any, its results would get ignored as in Greece or the Netherlands or with the EU-constitution or ESM or EUR.
Watch this interesting video from German parliament regarding EU’s ditatorial design, has subtitles:
Henry Nitzsche tells the truth and shocks the Bundestag (part 1)
LT-News.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4SV7_UeP8Y
I won’t need to point to Nigel Farage every time.
And? Now? Where is the darn revolution?
Only at places where it shouldn’t be (Brazil, Macedonia)
In Macedonia they demonstrate against wiretapping – oh, yep. Come here and join the EU and Nato, then everybody will be spied out, rather than only 20 thousands (if true in the first place).
Insanity.
Germany being strong-armed into committing troops to the Russian border by the US:
http://russia-insider.com/en/usa-demanding-germans-station-more-troops-counter-russian-agression/ri14041
No sign of revolt.
> No sign of revolt.
No sign is untrue.
There are smaller and larger “Mahnwachen” and “Montagsdemonstrationen” taking place as well as PEGIDA and alternative blogs and media.
The problem: They are alllllllllllllll “Putin paid rightwing Nazi Reicsbuerger”.
That’s how the mainstream silences all resistance.
BTW, today were presidential elections in Austria and surprise surprise, the EU and NATO critics won the election:
Austria presidential election: Far-right Freedom Party ‘comes top in vote’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austria-presidential-election-far-right-freedom-party-comes-top-in-vote-a6998751.html
Last time their top candidate “committed suicide while totally drunk driving his VW Phaeton after having visited a Gay club”.
This is the best good news of the day ! I still remember Jörg Heider and many Austrians too.
Caveat: The voting system in Austria functions in a way that they have a part2 run-off election to decide who will actually win presidency.
In the article it reads: “””””One of those two is expected to face Mr Hofer in a run-off on 22 May. The results of that election are expected to be much closer, with moderate voters rallying around the remaining candidate.”””””
I didn’t know that myself at first because I was happy about the news.
Now the old game again – and at the end maybe a GreenParty zomby somehow becomes Austria’s president because he magically leads by 0.00001% of the votes.
If Norbert Hofer indeed manages to stay alive and well until May22nd plus wins, then watch how quickly all western media will find “right-wing populist NeoNazis” in all of Austria.
Which they for some reason could never ever find in all of Ukraine (except for the “Russian part” of course, where “Putin’s Red Nazis” are preventing the poor suppressed citizens from being free).
(who didn’t notice it, it was Sarcasm as cynically broadcasted by Western pieces of dirt all over the world all the time)
Good luck to your mother btw.
The double voting system is the ultimate trick to control the populations, in every country that has it. It might have come about as a good idea when first envisioned. But was recognized early on by the elite as the perfect method to keep power in their hands at almost every election.Any country that is able to free themselves (almost always through revolution) will need to ban that in their election laws from the start.In nations with multiple political parties. The “Second Round” voting is the best way the sold-out media in a country can “work its magic”.And the elite can convince enough sheeple to gang-up to deny a win to their opponents.The entire reason of having multiple parties is thus denied by that device.
Correct, you say it!
And there are other such tricks, for example the 5% hurdle in Germany.
And you are aware of the distorted US election system.
Probably many more examples in different countries.
Yes,you’re right,it’s the same ritual like in the case of Marie LePen.
Thanks for your mitgefühl,Martin
@ Martin ( who we all know where he comes from)
That’s all very good news from Austria – and also the unfortunate accident with the Nato candidate! And this comes from a very-far-left me!
But the president of Austria is only a figure-head though.
Kim
@Kim,
yes: right is left, good is bad, bad is good.
As the AZ Empire has taken over all former “social democrats”, “greens” and meanwhile even the so called “Left”ists, everything from everywhere pretends to be against Fascism and claims to be “left”.
The truth is different: The EU is literally the 4th Reich, envisioned by the same imperialistic private corporations that brought Hitler to power before. Google for Hallstein. Including check his biography from before 1945.
He is one of the fathers of modern day EU.
A project which was already pushed for when Hitler was still alive:
Have a look at these Nazi placards:
Europas Sieg – Dein Wohlstand
(Europe’s victory – your prosperity)
http://www.hist-chron.com/eu/3R/propaganda-2wk-d/plakat040-3R-europas-sieg-dein-wohlstand-1941ca.jpg
Das neue Europa ist unschlagbar
(The new Europe is unbeatable)
http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/223/281/422_001.jpg?v=1
So, all those who pretend to be “left” are – knowingly or unknowingly – working for the 4th Reich.
The only ones with a different view are the intellectual right-wingers.
Which at the same time are the last ones to defend a (real) Europe of nation states, as envisioned among others by De Gaulle (before the CIA put him out of power in 1968).
That’s the reason why I can only identify with (some, not all) allegedly “right-wingers” nowadays, although that term has been washed out that much during the last 2 decades, it is truly an insult against thinking human beings.
Inside the so called BRD (aka US-occupied “Germany”) I’m a big fan of Juergen Elsaesser, one of such so called “right wing antisemitic conspiracy theorists” (in fact a good communist, one much different from the false zombified mainstreamers).
Now, only few of his videos are in English or with subs, but here is an example:
Jurgen Elsaesser interview with RT on EU refugee crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8hZRmxkaD4
@ Martin
Thanks, you are a prodigious source of useful info. Who needs google, having you around?
Indeed, as I mentioned somewhere, the “European Project” was actually manufactured by the US State Department even before the end of WWII!
Kim
PS – I used ‘very-far-left’ as someone not professing to any ‘ism’. My dream is of a stateless society.
Hi Kim,
thanks for the flowers )
As for your dream: Stateless society.
Question: Who do you think will protect your rights and your security and personal safety then?
What are you going to do to protect and defend yourself and your childs against evil robbers, criminals and mass-murdering hordes?
I agree with you that it is bad to live in evil states that were taken over long ago by exactly those murdering hordes.
But I grew up in a better half of the world. And it was good. It is the truth.
The solution would be a Stalinist country like the Soviet Union or East-Germany. Instead of less limits, rules and borders in reality we need them more than ever. Nirvana is un-organized and un-structured. That’s the universe’s default scenario (on the Macro-level).
But living species are alive only due to structures, bio-chemical reactions, cell-borders and complex sets of even more complex very strict rules. If you destroy the cell borders in a living being, the organism DIES.
Again, back to Catalonia, Martin. Town hall government, constant participation. Community, camaraderie, justice.
@plainsman
I’m closely following the situation in Catalonia.
The problem so far is they only want to depart from Spain, but not from EU/NATO.
Neither way any of those mentioned parties would let Catalonia go anyway. It can end badly.
BTW, south-western France speaks a language similar to Catalan. And there is an interesting “Spanish” Enclave like an island in French territory in the mountains. If the situation might get destabalized (God beware) it could some day get ugly Balkan style. I don’t even want to think about that.
At this time it is still un-imaginable. On the other hand it was also un-thunkable in 1991’s Yugoslavia what would happen next year. Let’s hope the Best for Catalonia!
What about the Basks btw then?
@ Martin
Plainsman was referring to revolutionary Catalonia (1930s), the bastion of the Republic. Its “government” was basically anarchic, direct participation, similar to the Paris communes of 1889-99 and 1872 (without the guillotine).
Obviously one can’t jump into a stateless society, there will be intermediate stages lasting generations, eventually reaching the point where the individual’s actions are subordinated to an internalized code of behaviour incapable of wrongdoing. After all that is the aim of communism. And I don’t think it is an utopian pipe-dream. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union: people, generally speaking, started showing a more caring attitude to each other and the welfare of their communities, prepared to make sacrifices for the common good, ready to work extremely hard to improve the economic development and defence of the homeland. The enormous industrial progress that took place between 1930-40 (unequal in history) was only possible because of the people’s commitment to an ideology of sharing. In the end it was the leadership that betrayed people’s aspirations and sold the country down the river.
Kim
Here’s someone’s reflection http://jim.com/cat/blood.htm
“What really happened in Catalonia
Catalonia was not anarchist.
That government swiftly ceased to be democratic.
As usual, Catalonia demonstrated once again the contradiction between liberty and socialism, with the usual rivers of blood that accompany such demonstrations: To the extent that they were libertarian, they were not socialist, and to the extent that they were socialist, they were not libertarian.
There was inequality in Catalonia, both the inequality of the free market, which derives from unequal luck, talent, and foresight, and, far more seriously, the inequality of socialism, which comes from someone using a gun to subject you to his will.”
@Kim,
I must respond here above because there is no [reply] link under your post, that old technical problem again.
Thanks for the correction. I wasn’t aware of this part of history, but just now opened 10 tabs full of information, amazing.
How you describe Soviet communism: Every word is true.
Including the last ones: we were betrayed by their own leadership.
It must have started at about or before 1982.
Like in China after 1976. A planned sellout after Mao’s death due to the most primitive greedy personal reasons.
This is at the same time the only explanation why Gorbachev wasn’t arrested or “accidented” at the latest in 1988, when it was clear to the birds on every tree that he destroys the Soviet Union.
Revolution in the Western World will take place only when the people will have their pockets empty.
As long as they can pay the bills,can buy cars,travel,enjoy the liberties of buying what they need,the huge majority don’t really care who is in charge of their future.That will need an economic collapse to happen first.After that first shock the events will follow suit and many shall wake up.When you will see that,you can hope for change.
Hi ioan,
I don’t know what country you are in, but that day has already come in the US. The US industrial manufacturing base has been devastated by outsourcing, downsizing and disinvestment beginning in the early 80s and accelerating since 2000. The prosperity of the broad-based US working classes is largely a thing of the past. The population has borrowed to maintain lifestyle to an extent but this is no solution. This situation is largely downplayed in the media.
I often like to imagine the reaction of a time traveler from 1950 to the economy of today. I’m sure he would conclude that the US had been in a major war – and lost. This would actually not be far from the truth.
@ ioan
I was hoping for a more enlightened revolution, based on a moral stance and commitment to a fairer world rather than motivated by self-interest, also known as greed.
There are ways to undermine the prevailing egocentric mindset but that requires time and a lot of resources, namely Soros’ money, and above all a higher state of consciousness, and courage, and many other things…
Kim
Hi Kim, ioan is correct.
Go out and watch how lazy and un-interested our western mainstream masses are.
But it will be worse: Even after the long expected collapse only a minority will draw the right conclusions. Look to countries that are so unimaginable impoverished like Ukraine, Moldova, Balkans, Greece. Spain.
There won’t be a hoped for “good” revolution. Especially not without heros like Lenin or Stalin, without any alternative ideological *concept*.
The only thing it can end in is: Blood, war, devastation, end of civilization.
More suggar for your coffee?
p.s. This was still the good outlook.
“heros like Lenin or Stalin”
Many here agree with that while many think the exact opposite.
You’ve recently realised that the unknown saviour does not exist and while you (and most here) comprehend there is a problem we can’t even agree on the nature of an enlightened revolution (Communism – many shudder, Anarchism – many shudder (or don’t even want to know what that means), Capitalism – nearly everybody shudders when the idea of banning inheritance benefit is promulgated).
So while you complain that I never offer an alternative unfortunately it is highly likely that, as AriusArmenian earlier commented, we are already in the Animal Farm and that some more blood, war and devastation is on the cards.
End of civilization? I don’t know. Perhaps the “Hunger Games” is a model going forward – but I remember you don’t watch TV and complained of my mention of that before.
Good outlook?
I know what you mean :-(
(personally – I like Kim’s ideas)
@ Anon.
I’m curious about that “Hunger Game”. What’s about? Please
I have been thinking of a strategy of passive resistance (similar to Ghandi’s) where citizens engage in civil disobedience, refuse to participate in consumerism and even in economic activities for as long as sustainable. I know it’s hard in modern urban societies but some useful strategies are born from practice. I remember a leader of the students movement in May 1968 France (which Martin says was a CIA operation) being asked by a tv crew on the streets of Paris what was the objective of the rebellion. His answer was: “On vera”, which is susceptible of several nuanced meanings but the one I choose is: “We’ll find out (but first we have to change things)”. To the English reporter, that answer seemed quite crazy because there was no grand plan; unless there was one, as Martin suggested, but it was the CIA’s and the students did not know about it! Events!
Kim
Very interesting again Kim.
re “Hunger Games” e.g. http://www.northeastern.edu/nuwriting/the-hunger-games-as-dystopian-fiction/
“…[]…Aligning with Foucault’s theories about Bentham’s panopticon and the results of similar practices, “the residents of the districts have fallen so completely under the control of the state that they are no longer able to resist its power. Instead, they self-monitor to ensure that they present themselves in a way that is consistent with what they assume the state expects of them”. The residents of the districts are socialised to censor their thoughts and Katniss learns from an early age not to bring up controversial topics; the only place she and Gale can speak freely is out in the woods. Katniss is acutely aware that she is under scrutiny both by the Capitol and the districts and is careful to moderate her actions and appearance to aid her chances of survival. After the reaping and before her departure from home, she refuses to cry or otherwise show weakness because “the more she can portray herself as a serious contender, the more likely it is that sponsors will support her and provide the kinds of resources that she will need in order to survive the Games…from the moment she volunteers in place of Prim, she is nearly constantly subjected to the watchful eye of the gaze”
That’s why I like your ideas.
I also like Kim’s ideas. But a stateless society is an illusion.
I responded to Kim a few lines higher, but so far it’s not yet through moderation.
I have a simple solution: Hunger theory? I must check what that is.
But I never buy any expensive clothes and have only one item per category – as long as it lasts.
Looks nice, is clean and why do I need 20 pairs of jeans?
No TV since 1998 and my unsmart phone is from 2001.
I avoid those silly mainstream masses outside as much as I can and I don’t pay illegal GEZ (TV propaganda fee) nor illegal anythings.
My standard response to the illegal fake “german” (non)-authorities: I live in teh Soviet sector and the SHAEF occupation laws are still valid. Soviet East Berlin as a sector of Berlin can neither be part of East- nor of West- nor of “re-unified” larger West-Germany, and that’s why I need to verify your legitimate authority before I can pay anything. PROVE me wrong. And that’s the end of the story, because they _cannot_.
So maybe I’m in a lucky situation here, because I as a stateless “german” can choose to which country I want to belong.
@ Martin FSEB
You are an exceptionally courageous man to live your beliefs, true to oneself. The life of a non-conformist is a constant battle of attrition that wears out the most resolute spirit. I assume you are familiar with existentialism, a good source of inspiration and strength to face the challenges of life. I admire that strength of character as the greatest human value one can aspire to.
Cheers.
Kim
@Kim: Thank you for your much needed words.
p.s. If you are from Austria, did your know that Vienna was also a 4-sectors city (aund Austria a 4 zones country)? But unlike in “germany” in Austria this is not the current situation anymore.
Here some info on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria
*a hug* and strength back to you!
“But a stateless society is an illusion.”
You might wish to locate James C. Scott’s “The Art of Not Being Governed” PDF on the internet. The author has multiple interviews and presentations on YouTube as well.
Some excerpts follow:
87: The taking of captives was the public purpose of statecraft.
88: The terms for slaves and hill peoples were often interchangeable.
112: The lowland elite having thus vastly elevated itself via the ritual helium from south India, left its earthbound commoners and hinterland far below.
119: …it is striking how much the actual meaning of “being civilized” boils down to becoming a subject of the padi state.
125: A civializational narrative … could hardly be expected to chronicle, let alone explain, large-scale defection.
162: State-resistant space was therefore not a place on a map but a position vis-à-vis power.
192: Lowland officials, both colonial and contemporary, have seen shifting [swidden] cultivation not simply as primitive but as in efficient in the strict sense of neoclassical economics.
193: Despite the enormous amounts of labor involved in their construction and maintenance, elaborate irrigated rice terraces have been created in the hills against any plausible neoclassical logic. Here again, the logic was political, not economic. … If it makes sense to think of rugged terrain as representing a friction of distance then it may make just as much sense to think of shifting [swidden] cultivation as representing, strategically, the friction of appropriation.
194: … with padi farming, the farmer must surrender “rents” in the form of labor and grain.
196: To the degree that such crops are part of a swiddener’s portfolio, to that degree will they prove fiscally sterile to states and raiders and be deemed not worth the trouble or, in other words, a nonstate space.
197: … comparative economic advantage of swiddening vis-à-vis irrigated rice.
219: Such hill socities rarely challenge the state itself, but neither do they allow the state an easy point of entry or leverage.
244: until, say, the nineteenth century, when, for the first time, a life outside the state came to seem hopelessly utopian.
263: A small army of specialists was busy drawing ethnic boundaries, codifying customs, assigning territories and appointing chiefs to create manageable units of imperial rule, often over stateless peoples. Some grid of classification had to be imposed on a bewildering cultural variety so as to yield named units of tribute, taxes, and administration.
264: we can roughly distinguish between centripetal and centrifugal conflict. When factions battle over a chieftainship, implictedly agreeing what the prize is and so reaffirming the importance of the unit itself, their conflict is centralizing.
265: The point is that, once created, an institutional identity acquires its own history. The longer and deeper this history, the more it will resemble the mythmaking and forgetting of nationalism.
268: The hegemony of blood ties and rules of genealogical descent, as the only legitimate foundation for social cohesion, though at variance with the facts, was so powerful as to dominate self-representations.
270: We can … discern two axes … One axis is that of equality-vs- hierarchy and the second is statelessness-versus-“stateness,” or state subjecthood.
275: If fluidity of identity – being able to “turn on a dime” – involves shifts from heirarchical forms, then the Kayah seem fully equipped, ritually, for either eventuality.
281: perhaps the largest mosaic of relatively stateless people in the world.
335: British and French colonial administrators, justifying the novel burdens they were imposing on their subjects, often explained that taxes were the inevitable price one pain for living in a “civilized society.” By this discursive legerdemain they neatly managed three tricks: they described their subjects as “pre-civilized,”they substituted imperial ideals for colonial reality and above all they confounded “civilization” with what was, in fact, statemaking.
336: What is most striking here, of course, is how closely the ideal of a civilized lanscape and demography coincides with a landscape and demography most suitable for state-making and how closely a landscape unsuitable for state appropriation, as well as the people who inhabit it, is understood as uncivilized and barbaric. The effective coordinates, from this perspective, for figuring out who is civilized and who is not, turn out to be not much more than an agro-ecological code for state appropriation.
337: There’s nothing particularly wrong with the valley understanding of the agro-ecology, social organization, and mobility of peoples who elude them. They’ve sorted these people, as it were, into the right bins. In addition to radically misunderstanding the historical sequences, however, they have got their labels wrong. If they merely substituted “state-subject” for “civilized” and “not-a-state-subject” for “uncivilized, they’d have it just about right.
More of a lurker
@ More of a lurker
Thank you for your interesting exposition, a quite mind-boggling theoretical framework for liberation. I’m going to study it in detail.
Some prehistoric (Celtic mostly) societies in Europe, relying mainly on a hunter-gathering and herding economy, were not subject to a formal ruling structure, except in times of war, when they would elect a chief (usually the best warrior) for the duration of the danger. The affairs of the community as a whole were handled by an ad-hoc assembly called for a specific purpose. Farming, however, involving ownership of land, distribution of water for irrigation, etc. requires a more complex set of rules enforced by a permanent body.
@ anon
Happy reading.
Incidentally, would you perhaps be referring to the history of ancient Iceland?
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) wrote about: “On Icelandic Anarchy (1917)”: http://praxeology.net/TV-IA.htm
Veblen’s contributions to economics is still deeply appreciated by many modern-day ‘ iconoclasts such as Michael Hudson: http://michael-hudson.com/2012/07/veblens-institutionalist-elaboration-of-rent-theory/
More of a lurker
Martin, I generally admire you also and happen to agree with you about Communism.
However, Kim has already pointed out its primary weakness above:
“That opened the floodgates and exposure to the lavish lifestyle of the capitalist world.”
Therefore, since temptation and ego will always exist then the existence of multiple states (who are not Communist) create the likelihood (or inevitability) for the failure of a Communist state.
I am not anti-state, I am anti-states and all the attendant discord and conflict that nationalism (and religion) brings with it.
Of course, many on this blog will disagree vehemently (as I do with them) with what I (or we) say and most, for example, will consider the fruits of their labour as a required benefit to their offspring (thereby a seed of oligarchy is sewn) and so the cycle will nearly certainly continue – as time goes by from 1984 we get closer to it.
There is no good reason why tens of thousands of kids should die each day in this world of plenty. States are not a solution but a state, perhaps, is.
IMO and as far as I know there exist no “Europeans”, only people who are living in Europe but each of them in their own country, of course a european country.
To be clear for the discussion:
EU is an unelected thus undemocratic management team for the member states of The European Union also called a dictatorship for the European Union.
The European Union is the set of the european nations as being member of The European Union. The members of the European Parliament are being elected by the people of their original country and who are then representing the people are called Member of the European Parliament or MEP.
MEPs are powerless contrary to a normal elected representative for parliament and are holding their discussions and giving their opinions in the European Parliament.
Beside all this there is also a separate kind of Union within the European Union which is called The Eurozone. Meaning every nation wanted to be a member of The Eurozone is obliged to use explicitly the Euro currency as the only currency in their country.
Finally, if you want to become a member of the European Union nowadays, you must be prepared to handover your country to this EU-team which from then on will take care of your country within the collective. This is the assimilation process.
100% true, I said one hundred percent
Things are so complex and intertwined now it has gone beyound Mans control. The potential for massive unraveling hangs above us like a great Doom. I have no doubt it will unravel. Revolution is too tame a word for the change thats coming
What is the situation in DNR and LNR ? Any chance that Ukies will attempt an ‘Operation Storm’ ?
I don’t think they will. kiev has probably been told by the USG that they will get trashed, yet they constantly try to provoke the Donbass defenders to respond.
I think Putin has told them to wait till after the US election – when biden will be on the way out – and hoping that the US will get somebody like Trump. I think clinton will not get in.
Sometimes when I’ve had too many beers I start putting some of my thoughts down here.
I guess this is not a dry cafe. (nothing worse than a dry camp)
Seems to be a place of people that think originally.
People I understand and respect, no matter background nor if I agree with them or not.
Apart from the occasional troll the good mods let through.
War.
My grandfather went to war. I thought because he was alive and un-maimed when I was young, he had only been to war for the last few weeks. I remember from when I was young and my father picked up some of his estate there was a piece of copper and some diaries. The diaries were and apparently still are indecipherable.
Last year our country had a big commercial event for the commemoration of Gallipoli. A place where lots of Australians were sacrificed for the empire of the day and commemorated as some sort of victory. My sister wanted to know what the piece of copper was for (going with the flow on anzac day).
Turns out all military documents relating to my grandfather had been digitalised and were online.
Seems he was rejected at the start because he did not meet military physical requirements. Two years into the 1914/1918 war a battalion was started for those that did not meet previous physical requirements (height, weight ect).
First day on the job in France, marching to the front lines, the battalion was hit with an artillery barrage of gas shells. Half survived.
Most of the day to day stuff of life in the trenches of France was in the battalion records.
They operated one on, one off, taking turns at the front with another battalion at the front lines. At one stage it was decided both battalions would raid the German lines on the same night. That meant the scouts had to go out in the daylight to find gaps in the wire. The scouts were mostly killed or pinned down by machinegun fire at the wire in broad daylight. Just before dark the artillery barrage came through to cut the wire. Of the scouts, there were two survivors of the machine gun s and artillery barrage.
My grandfather survived that and two years of the trenches in France, with according to the military records, only one day in casualty.
I never understood why my father never went away to WWII until then.
My father was 90 when my sister told him what his father had done to receive the piece of copper and about his fathers history in WWI.
My father inlaw signed up underage for the last year or so of WWII. He was in airfield defence when the US was island hopping through the pacific. Never talked about why he got a recommendation and we have never found out.
For some reason he talked to me a bit. Not about fighting Japanese, but about Aussies shooting down yank aircraft when they where protecting yank airfields.? That was his good memories of WWII. Something he liked to talk about. He had come to hate the yanks.
I was a year or two too young to be called up for Vietnam. We had conscription by lottery for those of the right age.
An uncle that was called up, never spoke of his time there. Only a total hatred of yanks from that time on.
Another uncle that was career military in Vietnam days had no problem. Just blew away the gooks for empire.
I guess the above is just my rant… or part thereof.
Wow,after a big rant with heavy weaponry in the other parts of the vineyard,I’m glad to be here to lick my wounds and have an espresso-coffee with brandy and cream within.Looking around,I noticed that we are in a time-machine Cafe,maybe back in the ’30 or ’40’s.But wait…no,the cars on the street are of today … what an illusion indeed.Hey Kim,you will like that…the paradox is on the picture.I can see them but they can’t see me,I’m in anonymity behind the computer in parallel world and there at the same time,savoring my coffee.Maybe we’ll live forever even if Demis Roussoss ( not our friend Dennis – he’s not here yet,but his table is reserved )has other idea.Anyway,this is a beautiful song from the ’70’s.If somebody is a romantic soul,this music will touch his heart :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JjD8lUAI5o
Bro Anon and Peter AU,Elsi and others,all of you are welcome,this time I pay the bill,get the salary from the World Bank just yesterday.The old Mammon is paying not playing…lately getting me go bankrupt…sadly he is too conservative,will he accept my old shoes ?
Have a good Day
@ ioan
Hello fellow traveller,
We have been regaled with a variety of cafe scenes redolent of the belle epoque’s charm, joie de vivre and other French cliches. I’m in a Frenchified mood today, listening to Edith Piaf, Gilbert Becaud, Maurice Chevalier et al engrossed in my own “Cafe Paris”, a CD I bought when traipsing along la Seine a few years ago. Otherwise, I’m alone on the shore and across the water is Antarctica. The paradox eludes me though. Instead, I have been playing a game with myself: guessing the places where the photos were taken. There are many clues and the globetrotters among us shouldn’t find it too difficult.
Years ago I went to an art deco cafe at Oporto and was taken aback by the feeling of being time-transported to the 1920s, such was the power evoked by the atmosphere and setting. Looking at ‘our’ cafe scenes, I expect at any time to see Sartre and Camus having an existentialist tete-a-tete with elan while waiting for Simone the Beauvoir to grace their arguments with a feminist perspective and the elegance of a femme fatale. That is a paradox, if ever there was one, for ‘our’ Dennis to ponder about. And no confusion with the “Singing Tent”.
Cheers
Yep, Traveller Agone (there’s a handle for you….use it or lose it…….O’Leary gave me mine……).
I hope you didn’t miss the Bogart-Bacall Cafe a few weeks ago, where I posted this comment with a
link to Lauren Bacall singing “How Little We Know” /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-03-26/comment-page-1/#comment-222658
Can’t you find some music links from the above 20’3 30’s ambiance for us fellow time travellers here??? to drive home the point you are making with a bit of art/poetry and not merely your evocative prose??
@ Bro
What’s wrong with my prose? Too prosaic? If you want more embellishments, I’ll try to please.
The truth is: I’m a technological Luddite and don’t know how to handle anything more than the keyboard of my 13-year old computer. It amazes me how youall can produce so many and instructive (and beautiful music) links out of your minds!
Kim
Kim, you DO need help! I thought I was technologically challenged!
#1 You need no “Handle”, as you are Kim. Just type that under “Name” at the top.
As to the French/and Parisian ambiance your prose is fine but this is easy. and adds SUCH French spice to Cafe Le Saker:
https://youtu.be/xxEKiMTrHRc Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir converse with each other in Paris
https://youtu.be/bLubZeCa-Og?list=RDEBTIuFuS0LE Edith Piaf “Les Mots d’amour”
https://youtu.be/iEMggo5o0FM Piaf La Boheme
https://youtu.be/4Hqc-NWlNJQ Piaf NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN – legendado
Man! What a voice full of character and emotion! And her expressions of face and body language! Wow!
https://youtu.be/atPL7et5CjA Maurice Chevalier The Little Café (How appropriate!!) full length movie for those with time to burn and a yen to turn the clock back 86 years and be in Paris in 1930
Merci beaucoup! Au revoir!
@ Bro
Tu es formidable! Et tres gentil aussi. Merci bien.
I’m going to have a French feast, chez moi.
Kim
Truly magnifique,you did a great job Bro,after Edith Piaf,only one person could sing at similar level but at different magnitude – Mireille Mathieu.
@ Bro
BTW thanks for the handle, I might grab it, although I like to travel light.
Kim
Again, back to Catalonia, Martin. Town hall government, constant participation. Community, camaraderie, justice.
That ice queen Bacall clip is also unforgettable in that rather dissolute piano player is the great Hoagy Carmichael, writer of Stardust, Heart and Soul, on and on……..
Wow, ioan, I love Demis Roussos, I usually put his music at home while doing the housekeeping ( even stop a bit from time to time to dance with the duster! ).
His songs lift the soul and bring me memories of holidays in the Mediterranean sea….so evocative….
This song makes me hair stand on end.
“A world of men-children” Demiss Roussos-“UN MUNDO DE HOMBRES NIÑOS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DF1eijKXTk
Many thanks Elsi,this is beautiful indeed,I have saved the link because on that page are many Demiss Roussos songs to listen and what it makes different is that they are in espanol.I don’t speak the language but I love it.I am too a HOMBRE NIÑO and as long as many of us feel that way,it’s OK.
For your mom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mItouMNQ9ZE
When the time comes, be generous and do what you can to avoid suffering another day, or even an hour, and just let her go……
Olez Buzhina/Oles Buzina
We missed commemorating his murder on April 16. One week ago today.
I really liked him after watching a long interview.
He said: “I am Ukrainian. That is a type of Russian.”
And they murdered him.
Don’t you all remember?
:(
Thanks, comrade, for reminding him. I have not fogotten him, only did not remember the exact date of his death.
We must persist in remembering all those who died for defending and expressing the truth in Nazi Ukraine, so that when the Ukraine is liberated they receive the deserved tribute and recognition and future generations can know about these tragic events in the history of Russia and the Ukraine and the brave people who never lost their own essence and dignity..
Yes, people remember see below
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/04/the-truth-about-ukraine-byshoks-lecture.html
And another date which you can remind us all of is May 23 when the assassinations of Mozgovoi occurred: One, the physical, sadly was successful; The other, the attempted character assassination, was Not. His dedication and example shine on like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun..
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEjUQ15lyzk
I wonder how the “white book’ of crime records against Donbass is progressing…….
The Ukrainian army is continuously shelling towns and villages in the Donbass.
It has become old news, so everyone just ignores it. Nobody covers it. Even Graham Phillips was told to get out of there. Those people are now completely on their own.
Finnish activist/journalist Janus Putkonen has been reporting from the trenches. Here is his recent video:
https://dnipress.com/en/posts/osce-mission-exposed-hiding-the-truth-about-war-in-donbass-doni-news-documentary/
OSCE seems to be the main force hiding the Ukraining atrocities.
The OSCE is made up of 57 members, the worst of which is of course the satanic USG, therefore it gets its orders from them and obeys them.
There are many reports by the Donbass residents getting angry with the OSCE for not protecting them. They are quite right too.
I try to check out dni news every day….it is appalling they seem to be on a back burrner -literally-deaths and injuries every week,houses and communities being destroyed,, Kiev has been given final warning of a kind by french foreign minister to stick to Minsk……Zacharchenko had a virtual q and a with Kharkiv,ukr has tested their newest tactical missile, Odessa “famine” spreads and people really realise things are getting desparate, tractor factory is closing down, another car bomb situation in Kherson, will the 3b lawsuit continue, what has happened to jaresko yats combo, US navy? Is eying up Mariupol and the sea of Azov……looking forward to a ukr sitrep or summary report looking in depth at what is going on….,
Thanks so much for that JJ!!
I am finding Google translating difficult – I keep getting messages to prove I am not a bot, due to the ‘unusually high traffic detected’ from my location.
Of course I refuse to ‘prove’ anything, the creepy little Google algos that they are!
If I thought a ‘go **** yourself’ (pardon mon francais) would reach a human, I would ‘answer.’
But I doubt it.
So thanks for letting us know what’s going on (though I did know about Zahk ‘s Kharkov hot-line..)
quite a bit about ukraine, Donbass on anna-news today……….25th April, ie running out of antivirus for rabies, tetanis, botulism , Poro has bee externally “diagnosed” with autism, Donbass is increasing number of employed people,coal mines in Donbass produce my coal,ministry of Defence Ukraine 40 5 fail lie detector tests-oh Scott where are thou?-man in ukraine hangs cat by wire to torture it -practising to join Adar???-people in kherson complain about muslim and other terrorist/troublemakers so Ukr sends in Azov–Rus AGREES!!!!!!!!! to DELAY hearing for 3b debt AGAIN!!!!! IN GOOD FAITH!!!!!! with new government —–mods please allow me these caps!—-an antimaidan person held by SBU in jail has dies—-After the statement Poroshenko that the elections in the Donbass are possible only after the introduction of the OSCE police mission and return to Kiev control of the border, there was another new requirement. Now for the elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions Ukrainian side demands the recovery in these areas of broadcasting Ukrainian TV channels.
etc etc
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Lets not forget also the “possibility”, (possible in the same way the tooth fairy is possible) that a pro-Russian security analyst. Known for attacking the junta on TV, “committed suicide” by jumping from a 9 story building in Kiev a couple of days ago.
@ JJ
Thank you for your great work. Go Novorossyia!
Well, since off-topic posts are welcome or at least tolerated, I’d like to share that I have been rather upset since Wednesday when I came home to find that a smart meter had been installed. I remember back in the day during the Cold War, how the US government bellyached over the microwaves that the evil Soviets blasted at the American embassy in Moscow. Now thanks to the smart grid mandates in the 2009 bail-out, pulsed microwaves are now to be blasted at every American home. Who are the evil bastards now I ask?
As far as books I have enjoyed reading Samuel Milham’s Dirty Electricity but as I have said I am p/o’ed. To make matters worse the meter is opposite a location that is where I spend a lot of time and the position of the walls makes it not easy to shield. I have got readings of spikes in the 3.8 V/m range.
I suppose that compared to the suffering through out the world, I am being a big baby. Perhaps it is right that I suffer, which at this point is mainly an insult, and get a taste of what is being dished out by the city on the hill.
Well, take it as a fighter. Hack your smart meter and turn its reporting off. That is what they are good for. :-)
I suspect that hacking them in masses is the only way to get rid of them once for all. After all, it is all about money as usual.
As Obama touts the TPP ( Toilet PaPer) treaty, Merkel is busy suppressing democracy in Germany. Notice all the cops to arrest one anarchist/cultural activist type in front of the Turkish embassy.
https://www.rt.com/news/340691-pirate-party-leader-arrest-erdogan/
“The lesser-known Lenin. A visual miscellany on the anniversary of his birth”. by Blog del Viejo Topo.
“On April 22, 1870 (according to the Gregorian calendar, on April 10 according to the Julian calendar in force in Russia), Lenin was born, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; without doubt one of the most important historical figures of all time, alma mater of the most important revolution in history. He was born on the Volga banks, in the city of Simbirsk that since 1924 after the death of Lenin, was renamed Ulyanovsk in his honor.
This year we wanted to remember the date of the birth of Lenin with a selection of photographs. If you are versed in the subject, possibly already you know all photos. But we have been encouraged to make this miscellany thinking of the great majority unfamiliar with the figure of Lenin. As a main selection criterion we have used lesser known or disseminated to the general public images.
Among the many photo galleries that can be found on the Internet, we recommend a couple of them. On the one hand, in the gallery on Flickr account Mr.YuriGagarin have an interesting album of nearly 200 photographs, entitled “Lenin” (click on the hyperlink); technical quality is generally good and references seem reliable. On the other hand, we note a collection of essential images in the magnificent portal http://www.marxists.org: 300 photographs, a couple of videos and a display of paintings, all material cataloged for years; copies of the photos are not the best desirable quality but documentary references are rigorous and decent reliability appreciated (in any case, you can use your references and then search in Google copies of higher quality): click here to access marxistas.org collection of photographic collections from other circulating on the Internet, perhaps the best documented are those in Russian; among the many there, we used: pravdoiskatel77 on livejournal.com, kolybanov (also in livejournal.com) and leninism.su gallery. Also there are the collections of major photo agencies that usually provide reliable references.
To read or download in Spanish the works of Lenin, we refer you to the above website: https://www.marxists.org/espanol/lenin/index.htm“
http://blogdelviejotopo.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/el-lenin-menos-conocido-una-miscelanea.html
Alcohol, Stimulants & Drugs in Armed Forces
The Royal Navy used to issue a ration of beer to ship’s crew but the beer didn’t keep well and in the early 19thC, with some lobbying from the sugar planters in the Caribbean, the switch was made to rum. The ration was abolished in 1970 by the Royal Navy, in 1862 in the US Navy and in 1972 in the Canadian Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration
Rum was issued to frontline troops in the WW1 British Army, in the French Army it was wine. In the Imperial German Army it was beer/wine/schnapps – depending on the regiment’s origins.
The Red Army in WW2 had a vodka ration. http://www.ww2f.com/topic/4336-red-army-and-vodka/
Yemeni insurgents, whichever side they fought on, and to this day, chew on qat, a wadge of leaves from the qat plant squashed into the cheeks so that the users look like they’ve got a hell of a gum boil. The leaf provides a narcotic effect which must suit some.
More recently, ISIS and various other flavours of rebels in Syria have made use of Captagon, a kind of super-duper amphetamine – a Saudi prince is still in custody in Lebanon for smuggling huge quantities in a private airplane. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/27/middleeast/lebanon-saudi-prince-drugs/index.html
I can only dimly imagine the kind of stress placed on soldiers/rebels/what-have-you in combat. There is a story about General Chuikov. He had to go to the east bank of the Volga for a conference during Stalingrad. After, blind drunk on vodka, he had to be fished out of the river. Now, that man was really under stress – his HQ was dug into the western bank of the Volga, yards from the river, so he had nowhere to go if the Wehrmacht came calling.
I read somewhere, long ago, that Alexander the Great on his endless campaigns of conquest would have days-long ‘benders’ with his generals and staff and on one occasion killed one of his generals in a drunken argument. In that case, wine was the drug of choice. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/was-alexander-a-great-alcoholic-1537664.html
I have a few queries: Q1 Does any regular army still provide an alcohol ration in wartime? Q2 Does anyone know if special forces are allowed amphetamine use in exceptional circumstances?
Q3. The stresses and challenges of battle have not changed markedly over 100 years so how does the modern fighter cope?
One of my favourite movies is Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch in which a couple of the Yankee desperados, arm-in-arm with some fruity Mexican whores, use their revolvers to blast holes in the side of a huge wooden wine vat to drink the wine, they end up inside the vats with the women. I’ve watched that film many times over the years but then yesterday realised that, just maybe, art really was copying life: have a look at this excerpt from a book I’m reading at the moment:
As First Deputy Commissar for Defence in 1940, Budenny had visited the lately annexed province of Bessarabia, where a party was given in his honour at the distilleries in Kishinev. Toward the close of festivities a canvas screen was ripped off the largest vat, which had been filled with red wine to a depth of one and a half metres.
Inside were a number of naked girls deporting themselves in the warm red liquid. Without further ado Budenny and his aides threw off their clothes and joined the nymphs in the pool. The bacchanalia gathered momentum until another guest, disgruntled at being unable to climb into the vat, fired a long burst at it with a tommy gun; three of the occupants were injured, and the wine ran out of the holes and onto the floor of the distillery.The orgy then moved to more comfortable quarters at the back of the building.
Alan Clark book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbarossa-Russian-Conflict-MILITARY-PAPERBACKS/dp/0304358649
The movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Bunch
Interesting details to learn about and thanks for the links
Any thoughts on why western propaganda has not demonized China leaders as it has Putin and Russia?
simply…because of Russian Christianity….
@ Vollin
“… why western propaganda has not demonized China leaders as it has Putin and Russia? …”
Because:
(1) Despite the nascent military rivalry and related rhetoric, the U.S. has a special economic & financial relation with China. The Americans are outsourcing just about everything to China: practically every single item which you buy in the U.S. today has the ubiquitous “Made in China” stamp! And China owns a huge amount of U.S. government bonds, which practically means that China is the major creditor of the U.S. financial system.
(2) With Russia, on the other hand, the U.S. has none of the above mentioned dependencies. And Russia is the only country in the world that can annihilate the U.S., its military is getting ever stronger, and the political influence it projects worldwide is rapidly growing.
Now we are about to enter the Holy Week, a time of introspection, of quiet, of prayer – tomorrow is Palm Sunday – so here is my contribution:
Гречанинов: Страстная седмица – Gretchaninov : The Seven Days of Passion 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lclUjR5Sxh0
Гречанинов: Страстная седмица – Gretchaninov : The Seven Days of Passion 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhaJJLu-fY
Thanks Vierotchka for sharing this,have to confess I was fascinated not just with the beautiful music but with the beautiful paintings and icons:I wish you a blessed Palm Sunday
Blessed Palm Sunday Vierotchka and thanks for beautiful choir and scenery of old Russia.
“What’s the matter with me
I don’t have much to say
Daylight sneaking through the window
And I’m still in this all-night cafe”
“I can help it
If you might think I’m odd
If I say I’m not loving you for what you are
But for what you are not”
“Someone else is speaking with my mouth
But I’m listening only to my heart”
I swear this vineyard is something strange and rare. Born from an anagram for one thing. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I just started to cry and I don’t know why. I must be losing my mind and control for sure.
Putin is an accident, an anomaly of nature. Makes me think the bible was right. I didn’t think it could be done; he won the war after losing every battle. Is it divine revelation or a simple twist of fate?
The romance gets to me. Opens my heart before I can regain control and water it down. I’d be terrible in Putin’s job. Either Ivan the Terrible or Peter Sellers gardener Being There.
Thanks for the link to Demis Roussoss. The mystery of you. We will be together and go on and on when forever has gone. I feel it’s true but can’t be proved and therefore is useless in this God almighty world of power over weakness.
Playing off this talking veinyard (vaneyard?). Vineyard, silly. Anyway, something is going on here and I don’t know what it is, do I, Mr. Jones? It feels like joie de vivre to quote a phrase with a twist of sour lemon irony.
You mentioned Sartre and Simone. I fell in love with her a few years ago. She was the second sex then and I was the first; now it’s reversed.
I hope there are no smart meters or smart assets in this here vineyard. Oh, the stories I could tell about them and my ex-wife.
A friend turned me on to Jean Luc Marion and his recent book on a philosophy of love. That’s what I need to make sense of this dangerous romanticism. Military analysis, where are you when I need you. This woman of mine is driving me to tears; she’s so crazy I won’t touch another one for years.
I don’t know what I’m talking about, I really don’t. Someone else is talking with my mouth.
I once read quotes by Lenin. I never heard such hatred in words before and open threats of killing and murder. Deflates my romantic balloon pretty quick.
Brilliant strategic move by the Saker to create this cafe. Works like the valve on a pressure cooker. Could only have been made by a musician and poet. The analyst is a front. Like Heidegger the philosopher a front for a German romantic mystic. The Justin Martyr type of logos logician.
Enough of this cafe talk before it turns into an Irish pub crack feast, moveable in the extreme. Bring in people who know what they’re talking about and make sense. Make me feel safe and secure.
Cheers, prost, salut, bottoms up to the nectar of love!
“I once read quotes by Lenin. I never heard such hatred in words before and open threats of killing and murder. Deflates my romantic balloon pretty quick.”
I know what you mean:
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
@ Anonymous (at 7:59 pm)
Touché.
That’s Matthew 25:41 — what does it have to do with Lenin?
@ blue
“what does it have to do with Lenin?”
!…
Just think a little of the contents of these quotes. Or at least give it a try…
To me it’s comparing apples and soccer balls. Two completely different contexts. But I don’t see which Lenin quotes are referenced, anyway.
But neither here nor there, mostly, but something readers might like to see
Presidential candidate….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szL25L5-gjw
Kasich Thinks He Schools Jewish Scholars on Bible Basics (Sam Seder report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_rIWh5akCA
John Kasich passover blood Boro Park Matzah
Clinton’s troll army
http://correctrecord.org/the-points/attack-right-wing-attacks-secretary-clintons-smart-effective-strategy-in-dealing-with-russia/
“the-points/attack-right-wing-attacks-secretary-clintons-smart-effective-strategy-in-dealing-with-russia/”
(See http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/correct-the-record/
https://www.morningstar.com/news/market-watch/TDJNMW_20160422357/prohillary-clinton-group-spending-1-million-to-push-back-against-online-commenters.html
Pro-Hillary Clinton group spending $1 million to ‘push back’ against online commenters
)
@ blue
Although I think I understand (and appreciate) what the writers were inferring with the comparison between Lenin and the Bible verses, I too see this as comparing apples to soccer balls.
Thank you for posting these links!
S113,
it wasn’t actually meant to single Lenin out (I mistakenly copied that section) – it seemed an opportunity to reflect on the ludicrous expression of those who love the “loving God” even though the deity planned the lake of fire for most of us even before that deity (if it exists) had created a single one of us.
Not only are the wages of sin death but the interest is eternal punishment. I make no comment about Lenin here only to note that it would be impossible for him to have been so despotic.
OK, Anonymous, Matthew 25:41, and Huh?… I appreciate your concerns about this religion with its lake of fire, wages of sin, eternal punishment and despotic “God”.
I’m going to defer to Sister Joan Chittister’s reflection on Easter, given that we are approaching Easter Sunday in the Orthodox Church. She wrestled with these very concerns for many years. These are the conclusions she arrived at:
“What is Easter all about? Easter designates the transformation of the Jesus who rises from the dead in Jerusalem to the Jesus who rises, if we allow it, in us. The Resurrection of Jesus is about coming to grips with the transformed and transforming presence of Christ then, now, and always. Once that happens, life is never again the same. Life begins anew.
To say, ‘I believe in Jesus Christ… who rose from the dead,’ then, is to say I believe that the Resurrection goes on and on and on forever. Every time Jesus rises in our own hearts in new ways, the Resurrection happens again. Every time we see Jesus where we did not recognize him before – in the faces of the poor, in the love of the unloved, in the revelatory moments of life, Jesus rises anew. But that is not all. The real proof of the Resurrection lies not in the transformation of Jesus alone but in the transformation awaiting us who accept it.
To say, ‘I believe in Jesus Christ… who rose from the dead’ is to say something about myself at the same time. It says that I myself am ready to be transformed. Once the Christ-life rises in me, I rise to new life as well. ‘Christ is risen; we are risen,’ we sing at Easter. But it has a great deal more to do with life than death. If I know that Jesus has been transformed, then I am transformed myself and, as a result, everything around me. Transformation is never a private affair. But it is always a decisive one.
Until we find ourselves with new hearts, more penetrating insights, fewer compulsions, less need for the transient, greater awareness of the spiritual pulse of life, Resurrection has not really happened for us. Resurrection is about transfiguration.”
– from In Search of Belief by Joan Chittister
“She wrestled with these very concerns for many years”
Appreciate that S113 (i’m just simple “Anonymous”) but if she did then her comments don’t make any sense – her comments don’t reflect on the root cause of the issue one jot:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-03-26/comment-page-1/#comment-222801
Respectfully, no one of us can decide for others what the “root cause” is after reading the exact same texts. She read the same things you did – and arrived at a different conclusion. This conviction that only one result can come from reading these passages in the Bible is unfair. I’m not saying you are wrong and she is right – but clearly how the individual responds to the texts should be considered.
“I’m not saying you are wrong and she is right – but clearly how the individual responds to the texts should be considered.”
Having done that, all that really matters is – who do you consider is correct?
I’m saying three things:
1) Dogma does not aid the search for truth
2) Your view is too narrow
3) Your methods are too totalitarian
I’ll allow others to discern correctness out if this.
“2) Your view is too narrow”
Perhaps yours is too broad (and you just haven’t realised that yet) – but I can’t see where you have actually described what & why it is.
Dogma? around here i’m mostly in a group of…one. What group do you refer to?
Don’t worry too much about the group anyway, lets discuss what we think about each other some more? (If they want to chip in i’m sure they will).
Hi,Dennis,I read your post two times and a third time is also in my timeline,I can imagine your face and mimics,crying and laughing at the same time.You are great,man.Without your presence and some other folks here,the cafe would not be so refreshing,mostly after the heavy cannoning out there on the front line.You are chewing the words as viatrix earlier mentioned here ” chew on qat, a wadge of leaves from the qat plant squashed into the cheeks so that the users look like they’ve got a hell of a gum boil. The leaf provides a narcotic effect which must suit some.” well,man gets some new information about things I never heard before…always learning something new…it’s not bad,that’s why I like this vineyard.Did you take a look at the ladies in the cafe ? I think I saw madame Récamier,just laying on a sofa in the famous room behind,waiting for newcomers with fat pockets.She,allegedly wants to expose the old green George Washington in her old and well known fashion…what comes after,..just imagine…the love goes on and on
@ ioan
Watch out ioan, you are being corrupted with lascivious visions! Dennis, The Menace, at work.
Watch out too Saker, competition looming at Dennis The Menace Cafe, Melbourne, OZ.
Anonymous
Well,if you think so,means you know me but you don’t.If I love jokes does that means corruption ? should I cry every day ? If I want to decompress myself for a day in this way,by posting some jokes like it is the case in a real cafe between friends,is that a corruption for you ? by the way,believe me friend,I knew that someone will dislike this.If you wish,I live in a paradox world and within this world is there my own world which my Imperium and nobody can get inside out of my will.
@ ioan
I should have added a smiling face to my post,or a Lol, sarcasm, joke, whatever. It was a gentle dig at Dennis too.
Take it easy my friend.
Kim
What I appreciate about most about Dennis is his toughness beneath that thick but oh so soft veneer of vulnerability and stream of consciousness rhyme. And, Like TIMEX, he “Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking:
https://youtu.be/_NHq3Yze6s0 https://youtu.be/7_fKppH8B0g
and passes the Love Goddess Defender test of Time. Which calls for a an impromptu poetry reading near closing time:
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. JOHN KEATS
(Unabashed promo for my upcoming Cafe Paean……. Defending The Goddess ….ready for next Cafe, probably…..hopefully…..maybe……) I’ve been passing by a number of tables handing out my flyers……..
Yeah,I understand and I take it easy now,but man,I was sitting calmly with my friends in that Cafe,when suddenly the door went off and somebody came in screaming ” ALARM !!!!” …instantly,put my helmet on …
Lol Denis!!
Whatever you’re smoking, reads pretty good.
Thanks for the laugh..
Now we are about to enter the Holy Week, a time of introspection, of quiet, of contemplation, of prayer – tomorrow is Palm Sunday – so here is my contribution:
Grechaninov – Passion Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83p-Avn91Dg&list=PL542C082A7FA896B8
It is a playlist in numerical order.
Advice from a Saudi family therapist to husbands with disobedient wives – beat her with a toothpick or a handkerchief – but first, try turning your back on her in bed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUOd2Co1M0U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Eimar: There were no forests like that anywhere near where I was born, in Dhahran. Or anywhere else I ever went in Saudi Arabia. Ras Tanura, Dammam, Al Khobar.
The Saudi therapist dude must be taping shows in Lebanon.
Remember, for toilet time, for thousands of years the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula used the material readily available (sand) applied with the left hand, the right hand reserved for eating (no forks or spoons either.) because NO trees = no pulp = no toilet paper. Until they could import it.
When dad arrived for work with Aramco in 1946 wealthier arabs used bathroom sinks for toilets and had to be taught the various roles of western bathroom amenities.
Tough environment for the female of the species. Probably THE toughest.
I prefer chopsticks over forks.
T 1 Well to each his own. I have a ravenous appetite and down’t have time to trap one pea between two sticks. I would waste away. But if I ever need to go on a diet I’ll try the sticks. Thanks for the idea. T-1
Omar Borkan Al Gala expelled from Saudi arabia for being too handsome…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89Lgnsr4sM
Women challenge driving ban in Saudi Arabia……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ4YYSMJ4dI
Saudi Princess Pushes For Women’s Rights….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTYiuq2k4Q
Princess of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdelaziz´ Daughters, ask for help online…..after 10 years of captivity…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niW0O1SSeZU
SAUDI Rulers Opress Women while they Party, Drink Alcohol, and Throw money at naked women…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EsEhQ_Zylo
The ‘putibarco’ of Saudi prince in Ibiza….
http://blogs.publico.es/strambotic?s=principe+saudi
Elsi, I have to say that Omar IS prettier than Mohammad Ali (still Cassius Clay here, where he KO’d Sonny Liston in 7 and declared himself “The greatest, and I don’t even have a mark on my face! I’m so PRETTY!” https://youtu.be/BY6_3Y7OOo8
Women drivers are generally bad at getting there quickly, in my experience, except for Danika Patrick https://youtu.be/S2VOfqo8f8Q but better at getting there without a ticket or an accident.
The Princess is prettier than the Champ and Omar to boot!
The last three of your links?
Here’s what I said about my country of birth (in A US hospital, but I can’t be president….) on the Cross Talk 28 pages show a few days ago:
“PATSIES for Empire! I’m not just talking about the 28 pages and the 15 out of 19 so called “hijackers” er patsies I’m talking about the whole damned country and everyone in it of Saudi nationality.
Zane is absolutely right about the limitations of the Saudis. And the involvement of Israel that Christopher Bollyn has proven so well. But 911 is bigger than BOTH put together.
And the Saudis are running terrorism (in general!!!!) with about the same independence as Adolf Hitler (remember boys and girls whose birthday it is today) ran the Third Reich.
Like him the Saudis are apt to end up as one big Windsor/CIA ass wipe. ”
Full comment here, /crosstalk-those-28-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-231087 but others were less rude and vitriolic, more civil and diplomatic, on KSA.
I’m still burned up about how Saudi lawn mowing crew ran their mowers right over my round little plastic 10 inch deep “swimming pool” (it was deflated but on the lawn, the idiots wouldn’t even drag it out of the way) and then stood there laughing as I weeped aloud pointing at the ribbons of plastic that had been my pool. Frickin Satanists!!
Putin Alert!
I just read a brilliant piece on Czar Putin on, of all places, the New York Post by Ralph Peters. Just went up a few hours ago on Yahoo. I laughed at the truth of it coming from the enemy. Of course the story is slanted but just turn it 190 degrees and enjoy. Putin is loved and admired by everyone it seems, even here on the empire’s Desolation Row.
peters is not to be trusted at all, he is on the side of the enemy, the neocons.
I think today 25th April is the day a court hears a impeachment hearing brought against Putin by a resident somewhere in eastern Russia…….I remember posting from anna-news coupla weeks ago-nothing in news today I can see
MOSCOW, April 25. / TASS /. A senior Russian lawmaker considers a new BBC documentary on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 capable of helping to shed light on the tragedy.
READ ALSO
Russian ministry calls distorting Bellingcat’s probe into Boeing downed above Ukraine
“There will be a BBC film that can bring closer the truth on the downed Boeing. The false masks start coming off,” Alexey Pushkov, who chairs the lower house’s foreign affairs committee, wrote in his Twitter microblog.
The documentary “Conspiracy Files: Who Shot Down MH17?” will be broadcast on BBC Two on May 3 at 9 pm local time (11 pm Moscow time). New evidence in the film suggests that the plane may have been downed by a Ukrainian fighter jet rather than a ground-to-air missile.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger airliner on flight MH17 from the Dutch city of Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board. Most passengers – 193 people – were Dutch nationals.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/872166
note theories presented will include refs to the air to air missile, bombs being placed in plane by CIA and Dutch intelligence, plus assessment by Bellingcat, but check out whether the evidence of a working BUK but only stationed and operated in east ukraine by AFU will be mentioned-at least MH17 will be in public arena again, especially since NL people voted against Ukr referendum EU association, but NL parliament have decided to ignore that…crazee world
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For an example of endless stupidity, you only need to read this news
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160424/1038510818/germans-want-obama-again.html
What hope is there for europe?
Firstly such “polls” are opinion _creation_ rather than measuring “tools”, I doubt these numbers are true.
See http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-23/its-trojan-horse-thousands-germans-protest-ttip-deal-day-obama-visit
Secondly – even if it was true by the mere numbers of statistics – what can we expect from the majority nowadays???
The majority looks like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/michaelcnn/ff592fd5103d9e892cf75e9e2588a3f6.jpg
I agree with you 100% that there is no hope.
And by doing so I unintentionally follow NWO’s script! Because they want that we surrender.
WE MUST NOT. We need to stand and fight back.
Yo Bro!!
Hope you are well this morning – am here.
I read about your back problem – really tough.
So sorry for your pain. makes your good-humored posts all the more appreciated.:)
re our ‘therapist’ above:
Funny you should mention the setting. I have not been in the part of the world (apart from a brief stop in Dubai) but was also struck by the trees in the background. You are quite likely right.
I found it more amusing than anything – he means well. Though obviously the principle of disciplining of disobedient wives is frankly archaic.
I guess eventually Saudi women will have a quiet little revolution..and the urban, educated ones will lead it. Let’s hope they don’t get co-opted by the Western Sorosians when it happens, and they don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater…
These days, babies must learn to protect themselves right from infancy, if the likes of Soros and Co. are their minders or protectors!!
Oh. and here’s an interesting story about support for Saudi arms deals, just to follow up on events related to KSA:
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/340764-west-trudeau-saudi-arabia-weapons/
Eimar, I appreciate your response.
I’m just acting cranky to ward off a lot of gratuitous attacks when I finally unveil my Goddess paragraphs, at Cafe Le Saker, probably 6 days after Orthodox Easter Sunday.
Some newcomers are already urging me to drop it, and dismissing me as incomprehensible, but I ignore them, realizing that they don’t know their left hand from their right one (which could be fatal in the Arabian Peninsula……) and as far as the intuitive, poetic, associative thinking right hemisphere of their brains, that apparently atrophied in grade school.
FYI my schooling was in the town of Dammam, whose houses in 1957, when we left Saudi, were still laid out in a rectangular grid four houses wide by about 7 houses long. The Schoolhouse was 2 room and there was one other child in my grade, Rami, the son of a Palestinian doctor.
In about 1982 I met travelling a young Saudi tourist couple on a Washington State Ferry in Puget Sound, on the way to Orcas Island. I mentioned Dammam and they said there were skyscrapers there, then.
My youngest sister was named Jamela (pronounced Jameeela = “beautiful” in Arabic. She died of cancer about 8 years ago.
One clear night in Dammam about 8 pm in 1956 she and I noticed that the full moon was resting on the horizon, and me (6) and she (4 ) decided that if we hiked for about an hour we might be able to touch it. A search party was sent for us.
What has this got to do with anything? Everything! :
The moon is an ancient symbol of the Goddess, and of the three “desert sky” religions, Islam is representative of the Moon, in the form of a crescent, which is representative, by whiteness and form, winging its way across the night sky with The Dove, also symbolic in Christianity of the Holy Spirit, and Mary, mother of Jesus, herself.
You (pl, not you Eimar, you’re good..you’re alright…..) doubt me??
Gaze upon this beautiful painting of the Virgin Mary by Bartolome Esteban Murillo:
http://www.framedart.com/product-images/AWAAQAHQ-R827375-AEAEAGOFDM.jpg
And you tell me, what that is at here feet, if not her very own dove-like symbol that I tried to touch at the age of 6???
So left brain imbalanced critics and cynics ready to pounce, THINK!! I’m not some stupid dilletante and daft New Age idiot. I know whereof I speak! And although I am a new initiate in certain Mystery traditions, at the age of 6 I physically sought out the Goddess and inspired my little sister to do the same! In the Holy land of Islam! Does your spiritual thirst for the Goddess or any comprehension thereof, come remotely close to that??? (LOL…I know I’m going over the top, but I’m having fun and her Son is about to rise, in less than a week!
Ergo, my defense of her is rather vigorous.
As to my right brain, my increasingly wild associations (like this post) are proving, day by day, that it is getting powerfully activated so as to devastate and confound any blocked engineer suffering from left brain arrogance and imbalance.
So “En Garde!!” defilers and dis-respecters of the Goddess! I am ready for you!
Not you, Eimar. You have shown appropriate thoughtfulness. May the Dove fly silently near you tonight bringing the sweetest dreams ever to your soul. Shalom Aleichem!
@ Bro
Wow! I’m astounded by your eclectic talents. Embarking on a mystical trip? Fried young brains in the desert?
I’m going to listen to Claire de Lune (or the Moonlight Sonata?) for inspiration in my quest to find the Goddess.
Kim
Kim, you are on the right path with Beethoven. You can’t miss with that quality of input.
Debussy I am less familiar with, but I will “Say This About That.” (But first whack, whack, back in your hole, Richard M Nixon mole in my soul…..”: https://youtu.be/vG-vmVrHOGE that this u tube version will be listened to several times times by this “fool” ( a well known symbol in Kabbala and Tarot, the initiate who resumes his long interrupted Age 6 quest for Truth by channelling that night in 1956, and realizing that it is time now to leave aside childish things (like trying to walk toward the Goddess and, once at the horizon (zone were Horus, the male child and son/sun arises anew each day) to touch her, or at least talk to her……) and look inward (right brain feminine aspect) instead of outward (left brain male aspect), for progress in “knowing” her.
For example, the opening frames of Claire de Lune video linked above are a great thing, a beautiful expression of the Principle of Correspondence (as Without, so Within, as Above, so Below ….the Universe is One Big Mirror) and the white swan, while never aspiring to the celestial heights of the Dove Symbol, CAN more powerfully convey the principle of Correspondence than the dove, which would simply drown if she alighted on the liquid “mirror” like only the swan can . (There’s that left brain analysis kicking in……you don’t want to be so moonstruck that you forget that the objective is BALANCE, reciprocity back and forth between the right side of your cranium and the left side, to avoid “drowning” in one side of your brain or the other….just pick up the tempo so that that vibration back and forth (left, right, left, right, left, right, left ,right) is many times per second, instead of years apart!!!!
Why do you think Max Planck and Albert Einstein both played the violin, daily? Balance!
And remember to type “Kim” in at the top box. We want to make the moonlit path easier for others to follow, not harder.
Once more the EU “leaders” have disgraced themselves publicly. Praising Turkey for its handling of the refugee situation (helped caused by Turkey) and ignoring the countless human rights violations there. They have truly shown themselves unworthy to hold power in the EU. And its disgusting that their own peoples don’t head in mass to the Brussels EU headquarters and drag them screaming from the building. If I was a European I don’t think I could contain my fury at filth like that daring to claim to be my leaders.I believe a “neck-tie party” needs to be given for everyone of them,and sooner not later.
Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-24/turkeys-erdogan-goes-full-dictator-arrests-dutch-journalist-critical-tweet
Turkish consulate urges Dutch Turks to report Erdogan insults
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/04/turkish-consulate-urges-dutch-turks-to-report-erdogan-insults/
Must I mention the dead BBC women last year? One of the 2 allegedly “committed suicide at Istanbul Intl airport toilet because she missed her plane” (before that she noticed that Turkey is buying oil from ISIS).
And meanwhile Merkel is creating selfies with Uncle Erdogan …
This makes 3 Europeans who have been legally harassed or detained by a sterling NATO member, Turkey, for not just using their right of free speech but for truth telling or practicing their art form.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36124329
For those who have not forgotten Donbass:
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/04/full-report-sharp-increase-in-donbass.html
and
https://dninews.com/article/donetsk-defense-situation-report-25042016
Poro wants to arm the OSCE……….
“”Recently on March 30th, something truly unique in Ukrainian history took place. While American financed bombs fell on Donetsk, a group of Ukrainian and their American “partners” met in Washington to plan your future. While some here would laugh, spit and cock their AK-47, the participants in Washington made it clear that regardless of world opinion or reality, on they tread into a denial of reality.
WASHINGTON – More than two years have passed since Russia launched a campaign of aggression against Ukraine – and the casualties, physical destruction and economic damage continue to mount according to the hundreds of people attended a forum on Capitol Hill focusing on the devastating impact of Moscow’s war against Ukraine and U.S. efforts to assist Ukrainians with the humanitarian, economic and security crises brought on by Vladimir Putin’s hybrid military invasion.In reading this you immediately know somebody needs some new glasses, because with a world view like this your seriously walking off a cliff blind as the OSCE in Donbass.
The event was conducted by another US NGO called the US-Ukraine Foundation or USUF. From the start of the conference, it became clear it was more like a group of mental patients in a therapy session than anybody interested in resolving Kiev’s real problems. In her opening remarks Nadia McConnell, president of USUF, said: “We are back here today to acknowledge the growing human and economic cost of Ukraine’s continuing battle for freedom. We gather to better understand the current situation and needs of those most affected by the war… This cost is not only in the growing numbers of deaths and ruined lives but also in terms of destroyed livelihoods. Factories, businesses and mines have been destroyed, while key enterprises producing unique technologies have actually been dismantled and relocated to Russia.”
Nadia has been hitting the bottle a little heavy, because even if you support her neo Nazi agenda, any 6th grade school student can read a map and see Donbass is a small section of Ukraine. But a whole lot of Western Ukraine’s industry has been sold off to it’s Western partners or hauled out of Ukraine not to Russia but umpteen other nations active in looting the Ukraine. Yes, I’m sure there are ruined lives in Kiev, but the only lives destroyed or deaths taking place are here in Donbass-not Kiev or Washington. Facts she conveniently turns upside down. It would be easy to simply take her or any Western narrative on Ukraine and simply invert it to ascertain the truth.
Then it went from goofy to just plain insane as McConnell reminded the audience about other acts Russia was supposedly guilty of, “The broader context continues to be the failure of diplomatic initiatives from Budapest to Minsk and Putin’s outrageous violation of human rights, most clearly personified by the detentions of Nadiya Savchenko and at least 31 other political prisoners and, of course the ongoing, deepening persecution of Crimean Tatars. Over 200 [Ukrainian] soldiers and civilians have been killed since Minsk II, and hundreds injured.”
If you follow the conflict you know Savchenko is in jail for a murder conviction and that even the United Nations claims thousands have been killed in this conflict, not a few hundred as McConnel claims,with credible sources coming in at 50,000 plus dead on both sides. As for the Tatars, they were too busy to attend, being a little busy preparing for a CIA financed suicide bombing campaign their malignant dwarf leader Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev dreamed up as a way to counter “Russian aggression”. But if you were somehow thinking we were over the hump of madness at the therapy session, they then brought out former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker.
In what had to be one of the best displays of public insanity ever, Ambassador Volker stated “That the European security architecture of the post-World War II era – which was built on the premise of respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all European states and refraining from the threat or use of force – is now under threat due to Russia’s invasions of neighboring countries and the occupation and annexation of their territory.” Whoa daddy, now we are going nuclear. Because I can’t for the life of me figure out the neighboring “countries” Russia has invaded or occupied according to Ambassador Volker. Of course it might have something to do with the fact Ambassador Volker works for the McCain institute and as we all know, there is no saner man alive than John McCain.
Another speaker was Doctor Suprun, not to be confused with the former SBU, now UN spy arrested recently in Donetsk. Dr. Suprun stressed that the effectiveness of medical assistance for Ukraine must continuously be assessed. “We don’t need shiny white ambulances at the front lines,” she said. “What we need are armored vehicles to evacuate the soldiers when they’re injured, or the civilians when they’re injured, when they’re under fire.” I know there is nothing that says humanitarian help like armored vehicles. Do you really wonder why the DNR would eject NGOs from it’s territory with views like this being expressed openly?
And lest you think this was some small meeting of non influential people lets see how Sandra Roelofs, former first lady of Georgia and spouse of Mikheil Saakashvili (the current governor of Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast) discussed her engagement in efforts to strengthen the health system in Ukraine. She noted at the conference there is “huge solidarity with and support for the Ukrainian people from the Georgian people.” Yes, the support in Georgia is so strong for her husband they have an active arrest warrant for him in Georgia.
The next item on the agenda were the Minsk agreements Poroshenko signed openly and under no duress. David Kramer, who is a former president of Freedom House NGO, noted some key problems Ukraine now has with Minsk II: “The U.S. is not involved in the process, Russia is the aggressor yet serves as an intermediary, and Moscow has not fulfilled a single condition of the agreement.”In response to Russia’s push for Ukraine to adopt constitutional changes creating a special status for the Donbas, Mr. Kramer said: “It’s none of Russia’s business whether Ukraine is a centralized, decentralized, federalized or confederated country – that is for Ukraine and its leaders, its Parliament and its people to decide… So I would favor ripping up [the Minsk agreements], starting over, inserting the United States into a leadership role that it should take, and pushing back against the aggressor, the guilty party here, which is Russia not Ukraine.” This one is particularly disturbing as it suggests that all those flights to Moscow by Nuland, Kerry and Clinton on behalf of the US State Department somehow have nothing, ZERO, nada squat to do with the Ukraine according to Kramer.
And in doing our due diligence here at DONi, we made sure Kramer was not simply some drunk put in a suit and turned loose on the audience, but he was the US United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2008-2009.Of course some might want to cut Kramer a break, as in 2013 he suffered a mental break down at the North American Invitational Model United Nations, when Kramer’s opening keynote speech incited a walkout of 300 Chinese visitors, so you can see the true caliber of American support for Ukraine’s future in the West. It is also worth noting that this is the group Victoria Nuland addressed when she stated that the US invested 5 billion dollars to violently overthrow the government of Ukraine back on December 13, 2013.
When one truly listens to the Western “help” the Kiev junta has for Ukraine one quickly concludes that a great writer of fiction could not dream up a group as out of touch, psychotic or misinformed as those claiming to offer support to a Ukraine slowly sliding below the waves into the trash bin of history. One truly needs a denial of reality to give any credibility to what emanates from NGOs like these.”
https://dninews.com/article/intelligence-briefing-ukrainian-denial-reality
thanks JJ for a report not unlike being slugged in the solar plexus by Ali. It is all so unbelievable, contemplating the public lapping this crap up off the scurrilous mainstream slop board. They really do want to confront Russia, don’t they? And kill us all….
plainsman
watch out for Macedonia
“The US looks ready to further internationalize the Macedonian Crisis that it cooked up, seeing that its domestic agents are failing in their desperate attempt to overthrow the government. Aside from the very real possibility of violent provocations, whether by the “protesters” or cross-border Albanian terrorist groups operating in occupied Kosovo, the next step will be to retract recognition of the democratically elected and legitimate authorities immediately after or right before the 5 June election and replace it with Western support for the “opposition”, not necessarily as represented by Color Revolution stooge Zoran Zaev, but by “Special Prosecutor” and institutional coup initiator Katica Janeva as a “temporary technocratic” placeholder.
The purpose in doing this isn’t just to spark a civil conflict inside the country and sanction all of the VMRO leaders and the rest of the Macedonia’s civilian population (under two separate sets of sanctions, personal and national, respectively), but to have Janeva request “international (NATO) peacekeepers” in quelling the Hybrid War violence that she and her American allies might have fomented by that time.’
extract article by Andrew Korybko http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/04/the-us-plan-to-internationalize.html
Yeah I read that earlier; they are getting so many projects going I have high hopes their management is overwhelmed, look at all the fails recently. Just came from a garage discussion with a nice merlot and two good souls wondering when the shoe will drop. May it be soon. We spoke of the upper echelon military purge obummer did to get rid of the saner career officers, for one thing. In hope that sanity may still prevail. So many considerations.
@ JJ
That’s hilarious! What a parody! And your witty comments made my reading very entertaining. Great stuff JJ.
Kim
but maybe getting more serious here…
“The US is intensifying the pressure on Cyprus to accept a secret NATO plan to keep Turkish forces on the island.
Victoria Nuland, the State Department official in charge of regime change in Russia and Ukraine, met for talks last week with the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, and with Turkish Cypriot figures. The State Department and US Embassy in Nicosia have kept silent on what was said. A well-informed Cypriot source reports Nuland “was in Cyprus to pre-empt any likelihood of future deepening in relations with Russia. Anastasiades may not want to, but he may have no other option.” A second Cypriot political source said: “[Nuland] will try to blackmail him. I’m not sure how he will react.”
Andros Kyprianou, head of AKEL, the Cyprus Communist Party running strongly against Anastasiades’s party in next month’s parliamentary election, issued an unusual warning against the Nuland plan. “For us”, Kyprianou (right) said, there is only one acceptable outcome to negotiations between the Greek and Turkish communities for the reunification of the island. This is a “solution that ends the occupation and colonization, restoring the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and unity of the Republic, based on UN resolutions, the High Level Agreements, International and European Law. The solution is to demilitarize Cyprus and excludes any guarantee and intervention rights in the internal affairs of the country by foreign forces.”
http://russia-insider.com/en/nuland-tells-cyprus-cut-russian-ties/ri14076
The takafiri truthers: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Here_Are_Some_Huge_Lessons_Truth_Seekers_Can_Learn_About_The_%E2%80%9C28_Pages%E2%80%9D_Obvious_Psyop/50681/0/38/38/Y/M.html
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Erdogan: the do-not-insultan of the EUttoman empire.
This whole episode says very little, if nothing at all, about ‘Freeze Peach’ in European countries. It does however says a lot about the total moral bankruptcy of EU politicians and of course it shows the true face of Erdogan the tyrant. One can only wonder why his PR advisors aren’t stepping in. I figure they must be utterly terrified of their heads being instantly bitten of by their master.
Below is a brilliant cartoon by Dutch cartoonist Ruben L. Oppenheimer.
It shows Erdogan in his underwear having intercourse with the Twitter bird, it includes the caption:
– “Erdogan is NOT a goatf@#ker”.
https://twitter.com/RLOppenheimer/status/719480949025685504
It is a response to Jan Böhmermann’s critisized satire on German TV.
Another cartoon he made shows Angela Merkel with a disgruntled look holding up a sign which reads “je suis” and below it we see an image of a goat.
https://twitter.com/RLOppenheimer/status/720948603213213696
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Below is the segment of the German show with Jan Böhmermann, a satirical response to the controversy that was caused by the song about Erdogan. It has English subtitles. He reads a poem in which, among other things, he calls Erdogan a goatf@#ker. The poem starts at about 2:44. The subtleties of the German language get somewhat lost in this translation.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4552je_english-subtitled-neo-magazine-royale-erdogan-schmahkritik-with-jan-bohmermann-boehmermann-31-03-20_school
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Merkel / Obummer Seems like Merkel is happy with whatever shows up. Another pic I have seen in the last few days Merkel looking up at Obama with big doe eyes but can’t find it at the moment. I guess she is counting on Obama cos Erdogan is busy with the twitter bird.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/72e8ec83b9c44d993fe14079d543108303bdb990/0_38_1280_768/master/1280.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=2d78934612da81a3c16566e536c6361b
https://im2-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=06430df81fbc32eea9895286354ef4f3&n=33&h=215&w=323
Chernobyl 30 years
Here is a good video about the accident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEXGdht3y8
accident???
Citing the Russian fighter jet maneuvers that warded off US ships and aircraft near Russia’s border in the Baltic Sea earlier this month, lawmakers from the US House Armed Services Committee said that there will be plenty of money devoted to “to deter Russia” in the finalized 2017 defense budget, The Hill reports.
Lawmakers, the political newspaper writes, are fired up about supporting President Barack Obama’s military budget proposal, particularly the section devoted to quadrupling US military expenditures in Europe. The spending would allow the Pentagon to station more troops and weapons in Central and Eastern Europe.
“We do have money to station troops in various parts of Eastern Europe, and that’s the main thing, to have a presence in the region and to show support for our allies,” Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, the ranking member of the committee, told The Hill.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20160425/1038575514/us-anti-russian-arms-spending.html#ixzz46qojtKzR
30 years of Chernobyl disaster
As we have learnt to distrust our media, shouldn’t we be skeptical about the causes/events of the Chernobyl disaster too?
I have no way of verifying or refuting the usual version of events (Soviet mismanagement, design flaws, operator error). Yet, sometimes I wonder. I came across an article which begins with the following phrases:
“In the fall of 1986 the USSR military personnel in the ranks of colonels and candidates, doctors of technical sciences came to the unequivocal conclusion that Chernobyl disaster was a terrorist act, a sabotage. About this was openly reported in military technical Universities of the USSR and it was no secret for the military.” (1)
It would be interesting to have the opinion of someone more knowledgeable on whether this is total fiction or if this is indeed something that was “openly reported” among insiders in the USSR.
(1) http://russ-history.blogspot.de/2015/04/the-chernobyl-disaster-was-terrorist.html
In about 2008 and before I spent weeks to find answers to this question. Yes, I saw enough plausible evidence to say that the entire tragedy was done on purpose.
I have not saved anything and it would require me (or anybody) to start digging again. Hint: Your focus should start with the person who was responsible for managing the disaster, although he was not scientifically qualified.
Western Sabaotage is common practice: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676960916.html
But in Chernobyl as far as I have heard it was much more than just a small malfunction.
There are many odd contradictions. It can only have been possible with traitors and foreign serving agents. Proof: Listen long enough to official sources about the incident. Like with 9/11 you will find out after a short time that it stinks to the sky.
Unfortunately I cannot find the videos I found 8 years ago.
Beware: A ton of intentional disinfo is being spread about Pripyat/Chernobyl.
You need weeks to get started.
I would also much appreciate it if somebody could post a shortcut.
@ Bro & Dennis
I’m on tenterhooks waiting with abated anticipation the appearance of the mysterious Goddess. You have been splashing clues and hints all over the blog but, and I’m making a public confession, I’m a bit slow on the uptake, and I’m salivating from all orifices like Pavlov’s dog.with impatience!
Kim
:)) Gain control over those orifices Kim. My daughter who is a nurse has to deal with that sort of stuff.
Yes, Peter. We can’t be Pavlovian putty in the hands of the control putzes, just to please the plutocrats, and persist in playing the part of their pathetic patsies. Ni kagda!!!
Last night I responded to Kim, but now I lack the time to reconstruct a masterpiece (down, Ego dog, down!) that was built around this video: Who Let the Dogs Out? Who? Who? Who? Whooof! Wooof!: https://youtu.be/Ev2vn1BRgvU
It was lost in the ozone of cyberspace or a mod deleted it.
I counselled Kim to restrain his canine consciousness but be alert in case the dog freer in the video let him out and his chance to find a bitch (dog consciousness equivalent of the Goddess) was realized sooner than he expected. If freedom is not nie, try baying at the moon for salvation, but Peter is right, can the salivation!
Have fun! Reconstruct the Masterpiece! I don’t have TIME! (the real currency, not the fake MON EYE = money) Keine Zeit!!! Nyet Vreminye!!!!
What to make of this article by Gordon Duff??
US: Entering the Panic Mode
http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/26/us-entering-the-panic-mode/
What to make of this article by Gordon Duff??
Gordon Duff? Flush it. Opposition MSM is the best way to describe the author. Great imagination, great fiction writer, but for news go elsewhere.
Quite; Duff’s stuff has always been far-fetched and never corroborated but this one takes the cake.
@ SanctuaryOne
“What to make of this article by Gordon Duff?”
That is indeed an intriguing question. I followed leads and links and ended up with a book by Anatoly Golitsyn “The Perestroika Deception”. I only had to read a few paragraphs of the foreword to find out he was a KGB traitor, defected to the US in 1961, and spilled all the beans to CIA, MI6 and the French DGSE(?). I’m sure he was a high security risk to the Soviet Union and I’m surprised he was not ‘neutralised’ in due course. He collaborated with Edward Harle Story, a British spy and Thatcher’s advisor, who was murdered eventually, and another notorious globalist, Robert Conquest.
Now it’s time for my question: Was Golitsyn allowed to defect as a plant for misinformation? The fact that nothing untoward befell him suggests that.
Does anybody know?
Regarding your question SanctuaryOne, I find that article on NEO very suspicious. Sowing confusion? Saker should know but he’s incommunicado now. Ssshhhh.
Kim
Kim
Very interesting discussion from Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/26/an-ode-to-the-death-of-europe-and-a-concerned-love-letter-to-zizek/
@ teranam13
It’s a complex issue that will not be solved in philosophical discourse. Is it practical or even possible that the French revolutionaries should have considered the emancipation of the colonies when they were storming the Bastille? They did ban slavery in France but what effect would have if the revolutionary government had ordered the colonial administrators to free the slaves? Besides the revolutionary rule only lasted 10 years.
The same situation came up with the nascent Soviet Union: the conflict between the internationalists (Trotsky) and the step-by-step pragmatics (Lenin), eventually resolved when the Trotskyist group was exposed as a 5th column and Stalin’s “Communism in one Country” became the official policy.
The “Enlightenment” was universal (the author should read Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire, etc) but even in Europe its ideals have not even today been implemented, or anywhere in the world for that matter.
Kim