2016/09/30 07:30:01
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Hello my Friends, the Cafe of Two Cups has open and I’m glad to be here again. As we know, the war is on, the war is coming :
Waiting for War
(part 1)
Are you ready for the war ?
Cause is waiting at the door…
Though the angels know that well
Here is what they gonna tell :
What, do you want to live forever
Stay in peace and love, together
Without illness and without aging,
without tears and wars raging ?
You think, you’re smart enough
by teaching others, being tough
You talk about the real love,
but you love something, which
for you is much more above.
What about your biggest Temple,
and you love it without shame
Who is ? Mammon is his name
and you love to play that game.
Give your trust to them, not God
who has sent the Man of Love
Oh, poor people, it is so sad
that you have made
your own God,.. which is Death
You serve the Temple’s masters
which will lead you to disasters
As they did it in the past
Two great wars but not the last
Just forgive them, if you want
They will laugh, but you won’t.
Do you think they’ll ever change ?
What’s their offer in exchange ?
Just another day to buy
Will implore and even cry
Till they change their very color
Till they ‘ll have again the power
Till they kick you in your ass
Till you’ll eat the empty grass.
They are dead and yet are living
They have brains and breathing
Empty white walls with a lack…
cause their inner soul is black,
doing business with the Death !
Talking love, while feeling hate,
Raping people at their gate
And promising them better fate…
But, will they repent ? sorry guys, it is too late…
They will never join the Heaven
They’re not even like a raven
Sweet black bird does know well
that they’re going to the Hell
There will never be tomorrow
There will be the ever sorrow
There is no way out for those
Who’re the True Love biggest foes.
Accompanied with music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FO9fVuQTA
I would describe that music as hauntingly beautiful. This poem is so hauntingly truthful, IMHO!! Sometimes I lack words to respond to these poems. I can’t explain it. Just touches a place inside past the reach of language.
S113
Thanks for your comments and…I am still waiting for your poems, as you told me earlier that you may try it. Just do it my friend.
Your support, encouragement and friendship is very valuable to me, ioan. Thank you! For now, out of respect to the fallen (and this includes my very own self), this ‘accidental witness’ needs to just tell what she knows. I am reminded of this obligation, it’s the one thing I can offer.
Look forward to trying poetry again soon – next café maybe!!
“it’s the one thing I can offer”
blessed is the moment, somebody realizes his or her
borders liberating the richdom within without
Nice poem. I have a story I wanted to share about my country, Canada.
It is a story that began thousands of years ago, before the white man came. In those days, the grass was green and the forest was brimming with life. Men were in touch with nature and could talk with the spirits to find guidance. This way we were protected from hunger and diseases. Life was good.
One day, the white man came. With him, many priests who had brought a silly book with them. They told us of a God that does not care about the trees or the animals but only about the written word in that book. Those of us who resisted and wanted to stay friends with the spirits were called devil worshipers and we were shown no mercy. Sadly there were more of these priests and white men than stars in the sky so we had to learn this new religion or perish.
Later still came the scientists. Now those people argued that since the existence of God cannot be proven, that it means He probably does not exist after all. So they took the children and put them in a small room and taught them mathematics and science. The bible they took away from the classroom. We had to work and pay taxes to the government.
Lately, a new group of individuals have shown up. These are called, Goldman Sachs executives. These are the elites of the white men, they do not talk to us normal people. They speak directly with the government. Now it has been agreed that everything should be made in china.
Since I have no job anymore, I have spent a lot of time praying for a solution and one night I had a strange dream. In the dream I was shown the place where our ancestors dwell. Since then, I look forward every night for that time where I can forget for a moment how I became a white man. I know now, I am never truly alone. Those family members that have left this earth keep an eye on me.
Thiamin
Thanks for your very touching comment, as it is an anticipation of a poem which I wrote a few days ago. I shall post it here in Cafe in the coming days. The title is “Lonely Tree”. And that is true, as you say, our loved ones keep on eye on us. The nature cannot be confused by man.
Ioane, eu sunt tare curios sa stiu daca tu vorbesti romaneste !
Doar nu care cumva crezi ca am uitat, desigur ca da, si o fac cu mare placere. (for English speakers : you don’t believe that I forgot, of course yes, and I’m doing it with great pleasure)
Vlad Gheorghe wrote : “ioan, I’m very curious to know if can speak Romanian”
This is really, really good, ioan!
You take the prize for most prolific poet.
Here I poke fun at your previous partiality to pithy pungency, as pesterer par excellence of the pompous plague of plutocratic pretenders to the preposterously privileged position of impudent plunderers of the people:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-09-26/comment-page-1/#comment-279583
But in a more serious vein, I must proclaim, that the pre-pubescent period is past, maturity brings greater profundity, your bouquet indicates a complexity and subtlety of fermentation, a strong body of walnuts, and oak mixed with linden unter alles, supporting the most delicate hints of jasmine, pears, Alpine berries, and ……Mein Gott in Himmel! I faint with envy realizing I am old and you have not yet even entered your prime!
I short, I nominate you for chief winemaker, versemaker of the Vineyard.
OK. Maybe that was ein bischen over the top. But I liked your poem. And you WILL only get better with age!
Like a fine Bordeaux,
Or perchance, (you know)
A Napa Valley Merlot.
In short, you really rocked.
Mein freund, guten nacht!
Thanks Bro, you’re speaking like a pro. But clearly I’m not the best, being just a simply guest, who came in this Cafe, to drink a coffee or a tea, to share my thoughts with friends, to take a part in heavy rants, to learn a lot from brilliant minds, whom in other places man rarely finds.
Yes, Bro, the Deadly Poets Society is well alive and as I saw in the last Cafe’s, there are newcomers who, hopefully will come back again with new poems as well. I have to laugh, that this “illness” of poetry has come out from my brain (and soul) at this age. But as you said, the old wine is better. This is normal, when I was younger, my mind was full with other things, now, with the time, many things have gone under, at the bottom of the lake. In my soul I’m still young and strong, you know that feeling by the way, very well. (as Dennis, Peter AU, Babushka, mundo -just to name a few – know) To finish with a smiling note :
Shaking hands are for the old left
To have a smile while in the toilet
Amen.
And make sure everything comes out OK,
And all that’s not needed is flushed away!
For although all through it, we may be broke,
And the whole damned mess may go up in smoke,
Tis not the time for constipated depressive fits,
Better stand it now with more sharpened wits.
And kick the mutts and mangy dogs i’ the ass,
Those poor sad dogs of the “master” class.
As I’ll try to do to assist one Bob with another in support of this comment on the principle of correspondence between the microcosmic personal and the macrocosmic world political/diplomatic stage:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-09-30/comment-page-1/#comment-279676
and have the whimples cleare im Wind
beyond hysterics suff’rin stint
and let the feet of empires clay
be crumbling thoughts that led away
Not consumed
by the desire for mammon
yet unable to believe in a god
to see the good in a person
to see the bad
those that have a god for good
a faith to be respected
a force for good
dark ages named for a reason
new dark age upon us
MSM replacing news
returning darkness to the world
a few lights still shine
lights for good
other lights shine
drawing moths to the flame
to live and die for mammon
to live and die for power
when one dies
the crowd says amen
forgotten by family
no friends to remember
will the current battle will be won
by forces for good
perhaps it will be lost
but the battle will continue
until the day
civilisations cease to exist
A very somber poem I would say and I understand your feelings, please continue and thanks for sharing.
I think from reports we see that a lot of trouble is headed towards East Asia as well. I don’t know if the US can manage two huge wars at one time (I doubt it). But they do say they have planned for multiple wars at one time.
China has warned Japan to stay out of the South China Sea. The deep distrust of the two,dating back centuries is being manipulated by the US to start trouble there.There is a real possibly of a naval clash in that region. What that could lead to no one really knows. As well as China has warned the US not to put the THAD systems in South Korea. With a Chinese official saying the “US needs to learn when China says something we mean it”.What that could lead too is also uncertain.But a US-China clash seems closer than anytime since the 1950’s.
Another unstable situation is in the Philippines where I wouldn’t be surprised at a “Color Revolution/Coup” any day now.The US will certainly be behind it. And the new regime will be hostile towards China. Opening a third potential military trouble spot.It very well may be that the US has decided to “roll the dice” all over.Thinking that by destroying Russia and China,is the only way for them to keep World domination.But they may not of heard that “playing with fire” can get you burned.
Someone commented in a previous café that Philippines has a culture that’s easy to turn to a Color Revolution.
In my experience, the organisers (like the true cold-blooded ones) target the nicest, kindest folks who easily feel guilt at hurting another person. Those who would never, never, ever think of intentionally hurting another person in a social situation. People who genuinely care about hospitality and inclusion, in a social setting. People who keenly feel guilt at the slightest touch. People who would never ever imagine that some others in cold, calculating deliberate manner would use a social gathering as a weapon, to discredit a targeted person. And the organisers prey at the community and family level.
In case anyone wants to try defending their country against this tactic.
One other note about the Color Revolution organisers: they don’t discriminate based on age. Watch out for your grandparents and 10 year old children. As an example.
Uncle Bob: Agreed, but I think events are going to become surreal as in “we don’t call it a war so it is not”. In Syria for sure—they will not be able to take on the Russians openly and they have openly told them so ( thus the threats of body bags, airline downing, attacks on cities, assassinations, more “oops” like Deir ez Zor and much more harassment). Plus, they can not do an open, sustained assault on Syria/Russian alliance without a vote by Congress…really…not this time.
We will have to be very discerning in the coming days.
“events are going to become surreal”
think, you can call it “hybrid” with the conotation of artificial
read Edward Barnay: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
e.g.”free market” , oxymoron cause “free market” is rule of the boss
since 1945 very slowly defoliating: human rights = US-interests
since 1945 slowly defoliating: truth is not Hollywood
since 1945 slowly defoliating: US-interests are not planetary interests
since 1945 slowly defoliating: American Jews are pivotal for the better or the worse
I had thought the US may have been running out of options for proxy wars, but it is starting to look like India will be a new weapon in the US arsenal.
Andrew Korybko has a couple of articles at Katehon
http://katehon.com/article/india-just-split-saarc-and-brought-new-cold-war-south-asia
http://katehon.com/article/indias-first-ever-infowar-against-russia-was-failure
Thanks for the links, Peter AU. It’s great to be kept informed about what’s happening outside of the war zones, which (rightfully) hold most of our attention.
I am a big fan of Korybko, his personal earnestness, insight and integrity, as well as his very impressive analyses. He may be right entirely in his conclusions. But with India, based on my own encounters, I wonder if it’s possible to draw any definite conclusions on what they are doing.
First, it is possible that no meaningful information is being transmitted to non-Indians from the government. It is possible that only a narrow segment of the political ruling class understands the game plan, the chessboard from India’s standpoint. Even most Indians may not be receiving really insightful information from the government, I would speculate!
India is fighting for its survival. This was made clear to me. The global plutocracy is attempting to absorb the whole nation. Everything. So it’s very serious there at the present time. End game. No coalition so to speak, it’s proud, patriotic Indians versus the acquisition-hungry Globalists. No holds barred.
I think our geopolitical analyses do tend to be Eurocentric or Western-centric. We can’t help it. There is a method of learning the truth which we are taught — and it is a very sophisticated and effective method!! — but I think it falters when washed up on the shores of the decidedly non-Western, India. The usual process of observation, data collection, drawing of assumptions/conclusions is very difficult to apply to a country which is so… not like ours. :-) It is frustrating, I certainly found that. It should be easier to grasp what’s really happening, I would think. But it’s just not.
So without an insider revealing details to us, I think we should hold all conclusions about India as very tentative, not confirmed. More caution than usual.
S113 My memory is not that good but I believe you’re Canadian. I’m Australian. Canada and Australia as states are fully behind the US war on the world. India as a state are moving from being a friend of Russia to an ally of the US, though perhaps to further their own ends.
In looking at India, I look at it as a player, as a state in the geo-political manoeuvring for position.
The current course of India as a state does not seem to be benign. Hindutva regarded Gandhi as a trojan for the British as he was peaceful. The current Indian leadership is Hinduvta. Dreams of regaining ancient real or imagined empires ect.
Under current leadership, India as a state will side with US against China. If Russia continues good relationships with Pakistan and China, then India as a state will most likely side with the US against Russia.
Peter AU, you are correct, I am Canadian. Personally I’m not convinced that this current Canadian administration is behind the US war on the world. Trudeau has recently strongly tightened ties with China, even using the term “strategic partnership”, and the sentiment was returned by Premier Li. However when I found out about John Manley’s role in the Trilateral Commission, I wondered how much power Canada has as a state. The Globalists may be running North America through Toronto, neatly side-stepping the national government. I don’t know what to think anymore. Manley is someone whom I respect, he seemed like an actual leader capable of national leadership. Seems the Masters of the Universe, to quote Escobar, also noticed his abilities. Are the Masters giving up on the American political elite class? Again, I don’t know what to think.
As far as India goes, I don’t know either, but I did pick up some details from the Indo-Canadian Hindu community. Like the threat to the Himalayas. Does India have nuclear missiles that can reach the Pacific Coast?? You know, in case there is some kind of conflict with Google/the Pentagon. Would the Hindutva bomb the North American coast to protect the Himalayas? A scary thought. Maybe pure fantasy on my part.
You may be correct, though. India vs. China and Pakistan, simple as that. What happened to that surprise visit Modi made to Pakistan? Seemed like such a definite step forward in reconciliation between the two nations.
Thanks. I think it’s only a matter of time that the true face of the double headed snake is revealed.
Andrew Korybko I remember was still trying to figure out the position of India just last year, if I remember his articles correctly. Now he is getting to the truth.
The book “India Shattering the Illusions” will make people understand the background of the nation we call “India”
You seem confident as to the truth of the situation. Maybe that’s a fact. I’m not. And I’m not going to say Korybko is either. He may be, though. He is an exceptional researcher and analyst.
So if a hedge fund is going to buy one of the most revered parts of the Himalayas, for example. India should react how? Who are we, in the west, to tell them what to do to preserve their land and culture?
You are right, India should and will decide for themselves. We only gossip here about possible direction of where India is heading: Hindu fundamentalism. Since we know India is exceptional, we sure not going to judge.
Just one quick additional comment: remember this?
Google X Executive killed in Nepal Earthquake
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/26/technology/google-executive-nepal-earthquake/
I wonder if the Silicon Valley, “life began in 1970”, billionaire crowd are the ones vying for possession of the Himalayas. (‘It’s the Himalayas, stupid’, from India’s perspective, I think). What a cultural clash that is.
A quick reminder of Google’s place in the info (and other) wars:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/09/13/does-google-rule-america/
Hi S113,
I agree with your call for more respect for unknown unknowns.
And I thanked you for your nice words in Cafe 9-26 – sorry for my asynchronous answering rhythm, can‘t do better it seems.
bp
Hi bimboplumpe,
Yes, so many unknowns. I confess that I do believe Hindutva India may act decisively in defence of the Himalayas, and I also believe that Google posesses such a deeply entrenched sense of entitlement to everything and anything that they won’t back down.
How many seconds to midnight does that give us? This afternoon’s project for me in the Pacific Northwest is to start construction on the bomb shelter, I guess.
I hope I’m making this all up (except the part about the Himalayas being under threat of purchase, that’s from a reliable Hindu source).
Maybe prayer is a better alternative. I have no construction skills anyhow!
You speak as though there is only one country in the whole Indiam subcontinent.
As i said read the book
We should all get extremely worried about the state of affairs. Short of launching a massive operation on one theater of operations (SE Asia, Ukraine, Syria, Philippines, …) and take full credit for it (for a change), the US administration will completely lose face and the confidence of its usual backers. Most of these have very poor self control and have elevated revenge -even if suicidal- to a virtue. They are, by all accounts, very primitive and ruthless. Ask any hotel concierge in London or Paris his opinion on the subject…
Not only can this plummeting confidence send the world economy in a tailspin but believing that Russians are good at Chess but poor at Poker is utterly insane. One has to look at the way Russia is playing Tetris with Aleppo’s buildings to understand that once committed, Russians play for winning and collateral damage will not deter them from their objective. If Washington was serious about reducing casualties, there is one and only one way: Cease fire, stop replenishing forces on the ground with arms and money and move to negotiations. The other option is to get this conflict resolved militarily. Facing the same outcome, why are we choosing war and tragedy instead of negotiations? Every step of the way for the last year Russia showed its willingness to help US save face and keeps calling “partners” people speaking of body bags.
And pissing off the Chinese for no good reasons is no better policy. Can somebody explain me how/why it would be dangerous for global trade to have China asserting its perceived rights over these seas? Has any brilliant Washington mind built a case study where China stops being heavily dependent on trade?
The only “regime change” is the world going full steam ahead towards the abyss
Two US Navy combat aircraft approached the shores of Crimea.
Friday, 30 September, 2016 – 14:45
Two combat spy aircraft of the US Navy were spotted at the Crimean coast. “Interfax” informs referring to the message of Western sites that track the movement of military aircraft.
The US Air Force RC-135V strategic aircraft flew over the Black Sea. It is reported that it flew to the island of Crete.
A little later s patrol anti-submarine aircraft of the US Navy P-8A Poseidon was seen in the air.
The aircraft is capable of detecting and destroying submarines and ships. It took off from an air base in Sicily.
It was also reported that a Swedish Air Force spy aircraft Gulfstream 4 flew near Kaliningrad.
http://katehon.com/news/two-us-navy-combat-aircraft-approached-shores-crimea
This story sounds apocryphal.
We know from the Donald Cook Daze that the Russians are Argus Eyed when it comes to foreign, aggressive, military assets just approaching the line where their boundaries begin and international air space ends.
There is nothing in Sputnik, RT, and Tass about it.
It must be a neocon’s wet dream
I had some strange dreams the night of the US Presidential debate, which was the result of alternative sites like this one, as much as the debate itself–which I did not watch in its entirety.
First dream: Hillary and her henchmen strap me to the end of a stick used to poke VVP, He defends himself. End of dream, I wake up.
Second dream is more interesting: The Donald leads a very large group down a great underground structure and he hands out polished rocks with a red button on it — it is not clear, at first, what the button does….
you know that metaphor with the blue and the red pill?
Donald and the great underground structure: It’s a central insight of C.G.JUNG, that the evil is
tolerated by God, ” his other son” vide Hiob. Not to fight it, hopelessly, but to learn, how to “embrace” it
vide Judo.
“Intellectus actus” is a mediaeval term for the believe in God’s acting spirit within the dark world with his invisible tools, within and without
With non-money-ruled
multipolar authorities
keeping the planets surviving
in this time of frantic phantasies
centered around the big fake Third Rome
while God’s spirit powerfull beyond time
while His Sons and Daugters
according to the calender of the Sun Gods
ruling earth traveling the green belt of Sun.
and while God’s invisible spirit
is to be added by man’s job as ally
to provide a keen safe landing
for the evil hysterics in his vicinity
as it’s Harpye-time …
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2015/10/raging-female-hysterics-at-potomac.html
that is an interesting link to the mundodiary, thank you, though I wander around the Halls of Mundo mostly not seeing what I am seeing if you see what I mean
but moon in cancer, 4th house, aries on ascendant with mars,
got me thinking
it’s the same as me when I was born
but one is free
to make the choices
to make the decisions
as to how one responds in
that divinest comedy
called life
let’s hope ‘god’s on our side’
and neither the earth nor we
suffer annihilation at JHC’s hands (Judas Hilary Clinton)
have to add: “underground” or “earth” or “darkness” = the place where the holy spirit “left – behind” in the depth is to be recognized by consciousness – ascending in the “modern” time out of darkness – after centuries of “heaven” ruling the psyche of the mediaveal man.
Sternzeichen für Mundo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhP07EEGpbc
ha-ha, Pisces came (like always) in omission
anyway, this is entertainmet, but astrology is life
“All that can be said is that the question of who shot down MH17 remains unresolved, primarily due to blatant interference in the investigation by the NATO powers.”
That pretty much tells us who really shot it down, doesn’t it? But, lets look at a few of the actual facts that are not in dispute.
First off, context. Five months earlier a US orchestrated and backed coup led by fascist militias had violently overthrown the legally elected government of Ukraine and replaced it with a government of the far right which among other things had passed a law banning the Russian language spoken by most people in eastern and southern Ukraine. A hastily called fake “election” in which the two parties which had won 60 percent of the vote in the overthrown parliament were not allowed on the ballot had “elected” Poroshenko as “President”, and he had promptly launched an assault on the local governments in eastern Ukraine. The local people in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces had formed self-defence militias to protect their mayors and local governments from arrest and/or murder by fascist militias from western Ukraine. The local government in Crimea held a referendum to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia, which passed by over 96 percent. In April around 100 people protesting the coup in Odessa were burned alive and/or shot in a massacre led by fascist militias thugs. In May, protected by hastily formed local militias, the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk held similar referendums to succeed from Ukraine which also passed by over 90 percent.
The United States CIA took over the top two floors of the Ukrainian SBU Intelligence agency and assumed control of the SBU and the developing civil war. Near the end of June CIA Director John Brenner made a secret visit to Ukraine over a weekend.
At the end of June, Poroshenko announced an all-out WW II style assault on Donetsk and Luhansk provinces with tanks, heavy assault rockets, artillery, mobile guns, helicopters, and SU25 ground assault aircraft. By mid July this assault was in full swing and Donetsk and Luhansk were being bombed and shelled daily by the Ukrainian Air Force. The militias defending Donetsk and Luhansk obtained shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles from Russia to shoot down the SU25 bombers attacking their cities and defensive positions. These type of short range missiles have a maximum altitude of around 3000 metres, far below commercial jets at 10,000 metres, but sufficient to shoot down the SU25’s and helicopter gunships attacking them near the ground.
On July 17th, 2014, in the midst of this violent offensive against the cities and provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk the air traffic controllers in Kiev re-directed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 200 kilometres north from its usual route over the Sea of Azov and ordered it to overfly the centre of the war zone in eastern Ukraine. No reasonable explanation for this change of route has been provided by Ukraine. The Kiev Air Traffic Control tapes were seized by the Ukrainian SBU less than an hour after the shootdown and have never been seen since. Where are they? The JIT didn’t ask that question.
The United States CIA had a hate on against Malaysia because they had hosted an International War Crimes Tribunal which had indicted George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and various other top American officials for invading Iraq (War of Aggression) and the many atrocities and crimes committed during the war. Although Malaysian Airlines had one of the best safety records in the business, in 2014 they lost three airliners in mysterious circumstances. CIA Payback?
Over several days prior to July 17th, as shown on Russian and European satellite photos, Ukraine had moved at least half a dozen BUK missile launchers into the area Flight MH17 was now directed to fly over. The militias of Donetsk and Luhansk had no aircraft. What was the reason for moving the BUK launchers into this area? After July 17th they were removed, so apparently it wasn’t any concern about the Russian Air Force coming to the defence of Donetsk and Luhansk. The JIT didn’t ask that question.
There is a precedent of a Ukrainian missile shooting down a civilian airliner and then denying it. On October 4, 2001, a Ukrainian missile battery in Crimea shot down a Siberia Airlines TU-154 en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk over the Black Sea, killing all aboard. Ukraine denied having shot down Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 for weeks, but eventually admitted to it, claiming it was a training accident, and paid $15 million to the victims families. The JIT report didn’t mention that.
Kiev has never provided its radar tapes to the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), claiming none of its radars, either military or civilian air traffic control, were working in eastern Ukraine that day as they were all shut down for maintenance. Given that they had supposedly moved the BUK launchers into the area because they were worried about the Russian Air Force coming to the defence of Donetsk and Luhansk, it is hard to believe that they really had all their radars turned off in a war zone where their own planes were engaged in bombing. But, lets take them at their word. Why, if all their Air Traffic Control radars were turned off, making it impossible for their air traffic controllers to track the planes they were supposed to be guiding, would they re-route Flight MH17 into that area? The JIT didn’t ask that question.
Although the Ukrainian radars, both military and civilian, were supposedly all turned off for maintenance at the same time, the Russian radar was working. The civilian Air Traffic Control was watching MH17 which was just entering it’s range and saw it descend and disappear. This radar would have seen a BUK missile if launched from the east, but not from the west, which was out of its range. It did not see any missile. The more powerful Russian military radar was also monitoring traffic in the war zone as Ukrainian SU25s were actively bombing Donetsk and Luhansk at the time just over the border. It did not see any BUK missile fired from either direction, but did see a Ukrainian SU25 following MH17 about 5 kilometres behind it, which is well within the launch range of the R60 air-to-air missiles and Israeli Python missiles carried by some SU25s. The Russians supplied this radar data to the JIT, but the JIT report didn’t mention it or ask the obvious question: what was a ground attack aircraft doing up at 10,000 metres following a civilian airliner immediately before it broke up and plunged to the ground?
The US had an Aegis class Cruiser in the Black Sea at the time. This type of warship specializes in long-range air defence and radar detection. They also had a spy satellite overhead at the time, and would normally have at least one electronic surveillance spy plane watching a war zone they were involved in. Secretary of State John Kerry immediately claimed they had all the data and watched the entire shootdown. But . . . two years after MH17 was shot down they have not provided any of their radar, electronic evesdropping, or satellite data to the JIT. Why not? The JIT report didn’t ask that question.
Following the shootdown, the Donetsk self-defence militias operating in the area started searching for the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder. Within a couple of days they had recovered both, and turned them over to a team from Malaysian Airlines who came to Donetsk to recover them. Malaysia then turned them over to the Dutch JIT, who in turn handed them over to the British to recover the data. The British stated they were in good shape and had not been tampered with and that all data was recovered. To this day it has not been made public, and the JIT report does not say what was on either recorder. Why not? Why is this secret?
After the shootdown, the Dutch set up a Joint investigation Team with Australia, Belguim, and Ukraine, the chief suspect, but Malaysia was not allowed to participate. Each member, including Ukraine, has the right under a secret agreement to veto the release of any information deemed unfavourable to its interests. It is completely unprecedented for a so-called “investigation” to give the chief suspect the “right” to prevent the release of any information implicating them. That alone completely disqualifies any “findings” of this “investigation”. Members of the Dutch parliament attempted to get the terms of the JIT Agreement released, but it was deemed a “State Secret” by the Dutch government and has never been released.
The Ukrainian army repeatedly shelled the area of the crash for the following month, preventing the JIT investigators from accessing it and destroying evidence. The JIT report makes no mention of this obstruction by Kiev.
The makers of the BUK missile went to great lengths to set up a similar aircraft cockpit on a scaffold and exploded a BUK missile in the exact position and angle the Dutch JIT claimed the missile would have approached from based on the shrapnel pattern. They invited the press and the JIT to observe the test, but the JIT refused to attend or review the results and see if the shrapnel from a BUK matched the damage on the reconstructed sections of MH17’s fuselage. Why did the JIT refuse to send an observer? Are they trying to determine whether it was a BUK, or do they not want to know?
The cockpit area of MH17 appears to have been hit with heavy machine gun fire from a 30mm cannon. The Russian air force set up a test using a SU25 to strafe an old aircraft cockpit to compare the damage and entry/exit holes of the SU25 cannon to those found on MH17. The JIT declined to send an observer. Why? Are they actually trying to determine what happened to MH17, or are they actually trying to cover it up?
The JIT stated that the missile that detonated about two metres from the cockpit of MH17 weighed about 33 kg, but a BUK missile warhead weighs over twice as much: 75 kg. On the other hand, the warhead of an R60 or Israeli Python air-to-air missile carried by an SU25 weighs around 30 kg. Why does the JIT report not comment on this discrepancy?
When a BUK missile is launched it is extremely noisy and leaves a very visible white smoke trail from it’s solid fuel exhaust which is visible for up to 15 miles, yet no one saw or photographed it. On the other hand, numerous witnesses claim to have seen a SU25 following the MH17 down before heading west toward Ukraine. Why does the JIT report make no mention of this?
And so forth. I’ll wrap this up before it get into book length, although there is plenty more to say. It is patently obvious the JIT “report” is little more than a blatant fraud designed to cover up a deliberate crime committed by Ukraine and with the assistance of the CIA. The purpose of the crime was to defame the Self-defence militias of Donetsk and Luhansk by accusing them of being “terrorists” which kicks in all kinds of sanctions and laws in various countries making it illegal for anyone to support them, to get back at Malaysia for hosting the International War Crimes Tribunal that indicted the Bush administration for invading Iraq, and to cover up the Israeli invasion of Gaza and attendant massacre of thousands of people which not co-incidentally started just a few hours after the MH17 shootdown grabbed the headlines. A standard multi-purpose False Flag, the CIA’s speciality.
and
http://russia-insider.com/en/four-mh17-questions-answers-which-prove-dutch-police-ukrainian-secret-service-and-us-government-are
faking evidence
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good articles on the Duran too.
http://theduran.com/joint-investigation-team-mh17-case-still-open/
http://theduran.com/150000-intercepted-phone-calls-provided-ukraines-impartial-secret-services-twitter-tweets-prove-russias-mh17-guilt/
I thought we all knew that evidence was being faked 2 years ago.
UN condemns killing of at least 15 civilians in US drone strike in Afghanistan
https://www.rt.com/news/361171-us-drone-civilians-afghanistan/
“An airstrike designed to target Islamic State militants in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan, has killed at least 15 civilians and injured another 13, including a child. The UN said the strike was carried out by an international drone, which only the US operates.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the killing of the civilians, calling on the Afghan government and international military forces to launch a “prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigation into the incident.” The airstrike took place in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province, on the eastern border with Pakistan, early Wednesday morning.
The UN said the civilians had gathered in a village to celebrate the return of a tribal elder from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and were sleeping in a guesthouse of the elder when the airstrike took place.
“A drone targeted the house and killed most of them,” Mohammed Ali, the Achin district police chief, told Reuters.
Civilian victims of the strike included students and a teacher, according to the UN.”
The only good thing about such condemnations is that it’s better than no condemnation at all.
It’s not going to change the “dont give a shit” attitude of most Americans, and will not change their
current murderous policy of murder by drones.
westerners apparently only cry for western victims. now if a US drone murdered a hut full of British and American backpackers, then there would coverage and outrage. But we all know this already.
Damascus Claims US Forces Hit UN Convoy to Deflect From Attack on Syrian Army
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160930/1045874060/syria-us-un-attack.html
“Syria’s Defense Ministry believes the recent attack on the UN humanitarian convoy near the city of Aleppo was planned by the United States to divert attention from the deadly strike on Syrian forces by the international coalition’s aircraft, its press office told Sputnik Friday.
“It has become clear that the US Central Intelligence Service stands behind the targeting of the UN humanitarian convoy near Aleppo… The basic aim of targeting the aid convoy was to conceal the blatant attack of the US-led coalition on Syrian Arab Army’s positions and to draw the attention of the media and global public opinion from this condemned act, which openly demonstrates the US support for IS terrorist group,” the press office said.
It stressed that the attack had been planned in order to help Daesh take control over new areas following the gains of the Syrian army in Aleppo.
“All this rules out the claims that the Russian aircraft had been responsible for the attack, especially, the statements by one of Nusra Front terrorist group’s leaders confirm that terrorists backed by Washington carried out that immoral act,” the ministry concluded.”
check out too
http://russia-insider.com/en/official-and-implausible-mh-17-scenario/ri16746
Josh Earnest, the man with an oxymoron for a name, has clearly revealed that insanity reigns in Washington. But the surprises will keep coming. Even the dealer can’t believe it, how the player wearing the Joker smile, with such a bad hand, has just doubled down. That’s desperation, and a vain attempt to save face, when the odds are clearly against them.
Just for fun:
Café Society, by Robert Kraft/ Ivory Coast band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8Tx6ICORw
Vladimir Putin’s Outlaw State
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/opinion/vladimir-putins-outlaw-state.html
“It (Dutch MH17 report) uses strict standards of evidence and meticulously documents not only the deployment of the Russian missile system that caused the disaster but also Moscow’s continuing cover-up”
and:
“Yet his (Putin’s) unconscionable behavior — butchering civilians in Syria and Ukraine, annexing Crimea, computer-hacking American government agencies, crushing dissent at home— suggests that the furthest thing from his mind is becoming a constructive partner in the search for peace”
Strict standards of evidence include zero chain of custody, social media as indisputable fact, already discredited manufactured evidence, cherry picking as in inconvenient evidence ignored and a prime suspect on the prosecution team.
Can you say chutzpah?
None of “us” would insult our parrot by putting the nyt in the cage floor. However, the hype around that rag for decades as the “liberal” reporter of truth has been exploited, as was planned all along, to use it as a guiding light for mercan “libs” and “dems”, adopting any mendacity printed there as unquestionable. The above referenced screed is clearly state dept. script dovetailed with the overall propaganda circus to revive the old cold war fear and hatred of all things Russian. If anyone has been entertaining ideas of the mercan public snapping out of it, dream on, bueno suertte. Nor can you talk to even “intelligent” people about the deep state, the financial crisis, the blatant war crimes, election fraud, chemtrails, geoengineering, genetic engineering, toxic herbicides/pesticides, pollution, you name it. This society has deteriorated past redemption.
Just my Friday windup, sorry.
you are plainly right, they have no borders – so the are doomed
Shine, Perishing Republic. Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence;
and home to the mother.
You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly
long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening
center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there
are left the mountains.
And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught – they say –
God, when he walked on earth.
“Can you say chutzpah?”
Zio-gay chutzpah.
THE START AT THE END
Michael Burns
…Pity them.
The air is thick with moist chemicals,
and atmospheric rivers fill their parch beds of stone dust.
Grey ribbons of cloud sink down and crash together, on top of us.
This brave new place of techno-crop.
The light is stilted and in a stutter,
hesitant to shine, at all.
I am reminded of a line, spoken by wisdom,
‘With the passing of youth, life’s rainbow glitter soon wears off; one by one the
shining bubbles burst and the ‘shades of the prison house’ close in.’
The old guard is leaving.
And though they do not understand, they understand.
They are ancient now, and bound for dust.
And they have not bleed, like you.
And they have not sang like you.
And they have not known, loves sweet caress… like you.
They have…bathed themselves in a false quality.
A whole life long.
And known not the pleasure,
of a conflict of conscience, or dark night.
They have not struggl’d with their soul, like you.
They have been corporeal prisoners, you see.
Of flighting things of no importance.
Paper, stick and glue.
They are truly the fallen, and spite the dark against the light;
and know no reason for it…
Branded on their hearts their endless shame.
Having failed the simply lesson
“Primum scire te..”
And in their desperation,
to squeeze loose the last and final drops of their material life;
and then in that terrible anger, turn it all to putrid ash.
So the future can not know it.
Pity them,
for they have no soul.
Pity them for they are not immortal like you…
Once, in my youth I saw an honest cloud.
Michael, I liked that very much, thanks for sharing it.
Great interview with Vanessa Beeley, who just returned from Aleppo, especially a part when she talks about White Helmets.
Why Everything You Hear About Aleppo Is Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8mA0h7dCKI
great video…thanks for the post.
absolutly off topic… it took me a month to match marvin and tamasaburo, and no one seems to notice… kidding… sweet dreams you all (it’s 12pm in paris).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLJD21-gL9g
Translation of the Russian poet, Innokenty Annensky, “Among Worlds” 1909:
“Among the worlds, in the glittering of luminaries
I keep repeating the name of one Star only
No because I feel love for Her
But because I languish with others
And when I am overpowered with doubt
From her alone I seek an answer
Not because she gives light
But because with Her no light is needed”
I dislike translations but whatever the Russian is, this is not bad in English.
With romantic poetry, there’s often a play between the individual and the universal. This poet capitalizes “Her” so he might be referring to a universal lover.
In our culture, when we use the word “lover” we generally refer to an individual. I think of “lover” as a word that includes all of us as lovers. Such a use has been overtaken by terms like God, Goddess and other divinities, as part of the patriarchal language switch. I believe this is unfortunate and causes much harm to the mind and then down the line.
Of late I have been playing with a love bower to complement the All News room and this cafe. I envision lovers from across space and time coming to the bower to generate energy for the Love Army by loving each other.
Today on my walk into town, I felt the Love Army’s second division with me. Their orders are to eat love food, which in my book is fruit. Over the long and winding years I have changed my diet again and again. Now I eat fresh fruit only; I’ve lost weight but I feel great, in comparison to the past.
For the majority of my years I was a meat, dairy and egg eater but no more. It’s extreme I know but evil is extreme too and I counter it by eating a love diet. What could be more evil than slaughtering animals who are like us? Meat, dairy and egg eaters come to the love bower but feel uncomfortable and soon leave.
Regarding my love ideas and practices, I try them out on myself, sometimes for years. I’ve got to look closely because love dredges up the gunk so it can be cleared, and that can be an unpleasant task.
This vineyard has been helpful in that regard. Its reason for being is war; it would not be here if not for war, specifically the war on Russia, a war to end all wars it appears. The gentle vineyard moves in a world of killers. I usually have an edge of fear when coming here, probably because of those hidden links.
The poet above says what I feel in a different way. In the love culture of our origins, the Lover was a universal symbol of all of us as lovers, in whatever degree that may be. What is our universal symbol now: a hodgepodge of God, Goddess, Money, Power, Self and Suffering? If things don’t hold together they break apart. Such is life without a heart.
It’s such a pleasure to go to the love bower and rest my head from the barrage of babble that passes for knowledge and entertainment now. I’m going to go there now and make love in the old fashioned way, hinted at by the Russian poet above in love with love.
This is an important message to people who use mainly text messages to communicate with their friends – and in my case my wife.
Now with friends – you don’t really know . I sent her a message – and didn’t get a reply – and normally text messages work normally…
I thought maybe its just me I said something wrong? (which is entirely possible)
My wife is back home now – and I didn’t delete anything.
We exchanged mobile phones..
i never got that – etc
But when I told her the detail of the message – and she said – I never got that…
Well its all there – I showed her and she showed me as if we were teenage kids both with thrush.
We are both innocent.
Tony
Not often does one hear Lavrov speak this frankly. The Russians know exactly what israel-america is planning next and Lavrov’s frankness here is part of the Russian counter.
US ‘spare Nusra for plan B’ to change regime in Syria – Lavrov
https://www.rt.com/news/361242-interview-lavrov-bbc-syria/
“The US is keeping jihadist group al-Nusra for a “Plan B”, potentially to overthrow Syrian President Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the BBC.
Speaking to the British outlet about increased violence in Syria, including in Aleppo, Lavrov said that Washington has still not delivered on its promise to persuade US-backed rebels to separate from Jabhat al-Nusra jihadists.
The Russian Foreign Minister also said that the reason for this could be Washington’s desire to “change the regime” in the country.
“They still, in spite of many repeated promises and commitments … are not able or not willing to do this and we have more and more reasons to believe that from the very beginning the plan was to spare al-Nusra and to keep it just in case for Plan B or stage two when it would be time to change the regime,” Lavrov said.”
BBC calling! BBC calling!
Step right up and get your daily dose of propaganda from a grandstandng toffee-nosed malodorous twit.
Stephen Sackur and Samantha Power would make a nice vile pair. Perhaps throw in Masha Gessen too for good measure.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37523229?SThisFB
How Sergei Lavrov can stand this filth is beyond me.
I was thinking along the same lines! Mr Lavrov has my total respect, I wish the US had sane statesmen like him.
Can Russia Learn From Brazil’s Fate?
Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson
William Engdahl recently explained how Washington used the corrupt Brazilian elite, which answers to Washington, to remove the duly elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, for representing the Brazilian people rather than the interests of Washington. Unable to see through the propaganda of unproven charges, Brazilians acquiesced in the removal of their protector, thereby providing the world another example of the impotence of democracy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45561.htm
Everyone should read Engdahl’s article. He reports that part of the attack on Rousseff stemmed from Brazil’s economic problems deliberately created by US credit rating agencies as part of Washington’s attack to down grade Brazilian debt, which set off an attack on the Brazilian currency.
Brazil’s financial openness made Brazil an easy target to attack. One might hope that Vladimir Putin would take note of the cost of “economic openness.” Putin is a careful and thoughtful leader of Russia, but he is not an economist. He has confidence in neoliberal Elvira Nabiulina, Washington’s choice to head the Russian central bank. Nabiulina is unfamiliar with Modern Monetary Theory, and her commitment to “economic openness” leaves the Russian economy as exposed as Brazil’s to Washington destabilization. Nabiuina believes that the assault on the ruble is due to impersonal “global market forces,” not to Washington’s financial clout.
Nabiulina, an indoctrinated and propagandized neoliberal, is essentially a servant of Washington, not that she is aware of her role as “useful idiot.” She delights in the applause she receives from the Washington Consensus for leaving the Russian economy open to Washington’s manipulation. Being a neoliberal, she does not understand that Russia’s central bank can create at zero cost the money with which to finance productive projects in Russia. Instead, she thinks that the money entering the economy from the central bank is inflationary, but the money entering the economy from foreign sources is not.
Money is money regardless of whether it is made available by the central bank or by foreign creditors. As long as the money, whatever its source, is used productively, the money is not inflationary.
There is a huge difference between the money created by the central bank and the money created by foreign creditors. Money lent by foreign banks in the form or US dollars or euros must be repaid with interest in the foreign exchange in which the money was lent. Money created by the central bank to finance public infrastructure projects does not have to be repaid at all, much less with interest and in foreign exchange earned by exports.
Funds acquired from borrowing abroad bring many risks. The money can be pulled out, collapsing a freely traded ruble. The interest that must be paid is a drain on Russia’s foreign currency reserves. Foreign borrowing also brings a foreign exchange risk, which rises with economic sanctions. If the ruble drops in value or is driven down with an orchestrated attack, the ruble cost of the foreign loan can rise dramatically.
None of these risks and costs are present when the central bank is the source of money. The appropriate use of the Russian central bank is to create the money with which to finance public projects and to serve as lender of last resort to private Russian companies unable to obtain funding from Russian banks. This use of the central bank insulates the Russian economy from orchestrated destabilization.
It is unfortunate for Russia that Nabiulina and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev believe that Russian debt financed by hostile foreigners is preferable to money created by Russia’s own central bank. Glazyev, alone among Putin’s advisers, understands this. We suspect that the Atlanticist Integrationists have a target on Glazyev’s back as they hope to integrate Russia with the West regardless of the costs to Russia. These Russian “America Worshipers” are Russia’s greatest problem.
For Washington, neoliberal austerity is for “export only” to countries that Washington intends to turn into dependent financial colonies. By accommodating Washington’s goal, Nabiulina is engaging in a charade. The dollars and euros borrowed from abroad are not the money that goes to the Russian borrowers. The borrowed foreign exchange is held by the central bank. Nabiulina then creates the rubles that finance the projects. There is no point whatsoever to borrowing foreign currencies as backing for domestically created rubles. Regardless of whether Russia borrows abroad, the central bank must create rubles with which to finance the projects. So there is no point to the foreign borrowing.
A Russian government that cannot understand this is in deep trouble.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/09/28/can-russia-learn-from-brazils-fate-paul-craig-roberts-and-michael-hudson/
Russia’s elite are already corrupt – whether they answer to Washington (or not) is of little significance.
Thanks. This is one of those priceless gems that I wish the mods would bring to the front page. Russia appears to be playing footsy with the Nabiulina West. If so, Russia has one foot in the grave and is about to do the splits.
I tend to think that Russia and Brazil are different cases, and that PCR sounds the alarm prematurely. To crack down on the Atlanticist fifth column now, might not be possible, practical and would aggravate the situation vis-a-vis the west. But yeah, it kind of looks like they got them by the balls.
And a full diagnosis, with historical context on the whys and wherefores of the Nabiulinas and her clones:
http://michael-hudson.com/2012/01/banking-wasnt-meant-to-be-like-this/
I find on many alternative websites such as this something of an obsession with what the mainstream media says. Why? We know they lie – either outright or by omission. There are now so many good alternative sites that we can read. Why bother getting outraged by what some talentless slob who has a mortgage to pay has presstituted himself or herself to write? They know they lie and they probably relish people getting upset about it – because it means we are reading them! The drivel spewed out from the mainstream media is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. Many people now don’t take the mainstream media seriously. Focus on informing your neighbours, friends or family who still believe what they read in the papers. But really, I don’t give a rat’s arse what the New York Times, The Times, The Australian (LOL, I used to work on it!) and any other rubbishy rag publishes. Many people have turned away from them. Starve them of the oxygen of publicity! Use the comment sections on alternative sites to debate the issues rather than filling peoples’ heads with the shite that comes out of corporate media.
You’re right in that the mainstream should be neglected and instead we should focus on supporting new frontiers of information. However there are lots of people who still out of convenience, modern tradition or some other reason seem to resonate towards MSM. Occam’s razor is a convient tool in this regard (especially for the academic sheeple). These people are our friends, relatives etc. and turning them away from the norm won’t happen overnight.
There is a “Breaking News” on RT saying that “direct US aggression on Syria’s government” would lead to a “tectonic shift ” in the ME. With an interview of the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova to follow. The problem from what I see with this news are two points.
1. Do they know of something that the US is planning. Such as a direct attack on Syria?
And more importantly.
2. From the way that is said.Its just a warning of the consequences of direct US aggression. And not saying that Russia would oppose that aggression. Its as if it says ” hitting them is a bad idea.But that is your concern”. I don’t like the sound of that at all. And I doubt the Syrians or Iranians (nor Chinese) would either.
This is a real mess that could come to war. But the results for Russia would be bad if they stood by and let Syria be attacked. And even worse if they withdrew. Russia has hopes that China will support them if “push comes to shove”. And China has that same feeling about Russia.So for a country that you really need,to see you desert another friend that supports you. Would send alarm bells ringing in Beijing. And China asking itself if they can count on Russia after all. The same question,but even more urgently,would be asked in Iran.So hopefully,that is just a misunderstanding on what Moscow means.And they will stay committed to Syria.Because if not,Russia’s allies would drop to zero,if they deserted a Syrian friend under attack. I certainly hope that is known in Moscow.
Are you any good at chess, UB1?
I’m much better with history,and how people have responded to events throughout history. Games are nice and all. But real humans respond in real human ways to events. And then sometimes they come up with a “catchy” metaphor to explain their just human response .Using games as examples like, chess,poker,rolling dice,etc. The bottom line is,to trust allies,they must be shown trustworthy. If not, you can never expect support when you need it.Its the same on a personal level among people.When a friend betrays you. Almost never do you trust them again.And usually the friendship is over. Nations are but masses of “human beings” thrown together on a particular piece of land. They don’t cease to be “human beings”,with the same thinking as human beings they’ve shown throughout history. The West and the USSR were “allies” in the war.And the shooting had barely stopped before the West plotted to destroy the USSR. Alliances are very fragile creations (thousands of years of human history “over prove” that point). And especially “new” alliances.Each pardner in an alliance ,usually is suspicious of whether when “push comes to shove” they can trust the other one.There are “litmus” tests in an alliance.And one pardner or the other seeing their “new” pardner,desert another pardner when they are in trouble. Pretty much says ” I can’t trust him not to desert me in the future”. Its a death blow to trust between allies.If you don’t understand that. May I suggest you read history,and give up on “gaming” for a while,until you do.
On a happier note. A leaked recording of Kerry at the UN talking with Syrian traitors…er..I mean the opposition. Reveals that he tells them the US always wanted regime change. And that “he” among others in the US regime wanted the US to use force and not negotiate any peace deals. That should make for a very interesting conversation at the next Lavrov-Kerry meeting. Its one thing “to know” your negotiating pardner is playing you for a fool.And its another to be able “to prove it”. Now the proof is there for the World to see.
UB1
From your response I’ll take that as a no, you don’t play chess. In chess, one wins by successfully predicting the moves of your opponent. From their moves on the board, their known play style and from their body language, if face to face. While at the same time making one’s own play unpredictable to the other. The more predictable one’s play is, the easier it is for their opponent to out manuever them and win.
This is how strategy works in the real world, as well. When one tells an opponent “if you do this, then I’ll do that” or make threats if they cross a “red line”, you hand that opponent control. You have given them the gift of knowing what your strategy will be. They are now halfway there to conquering you and they didn’t have to do thing but listen to you. The essence of having a good strategy is knowing your opponent’s strategy and then using it against them.
By giving this info to your opponent, it saves them the effort needed to find this on their own and they can then use this info you supplied them, incorporate it into their own strategy and then out maneuver you.
I remember reading a comment by you where you talked about being involved with boxing, so I’ll put the above into “boxing terms”. How well will a boxer do if they telegraph their punches when boxing a competent opponent?
The Russians don’t telegraph their punches. Because of this, the zionazis remain unsure what Russia’s moves will be and since she doesn’t draw ” red lines”, the zionazis do not know if their actions will bring a response, nor what that response will be.
This creates a lot of uncertainty in zionazi strategy and seriously blunts it.
I suppose the Syrians or Iranians (or Chinese) will trust RF actions, rather than speculations around the messages sent to the US. In any case, there is some ring to your interpretation.
Well, I do, (play chess) but not expertly, and while metaphors on the theme of the ancient game are good, including Anonymous’ at 1:40 am UTC, I agree with Bob on the limitations of such analogies.
Otherwise Kasparov might be of some use to humanity, but apparently he has chosen not to be. Or he hasn’t chosen anything, and was played by others in a game he neither sees nor understands.
The correspondence between personal microcosmic and the macrocosmic that Uncle Bob raises is more what got me thinking.
My little ditty for this discussion:
It is not a game, but it is for all the marbles,
And sad faced Kerry can’t get the Satanic cum
Out of his tired old Skull and Bones throat,
No matter how much hot salty water he gargles.
But maybe Lavrov or some other sympathetic but firm diplomatic friend can hold this sort of mirror to his horse’s ass face, and get him to grasp the plain fact that even a growing number of Americans are disgusted by such a pitiful diplomatic disgrace “representing” us:
Positively 4th Street Bob Dylan
You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinnin’
You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on the side that’s winnin’
You say I let you down, ya know its not like that
If you’re so hurt, why then don’t you show it?
You say you’ve lost your faith, but that’s not where its at
You have no faith to lose, and ya know it.
I know the reason, that you talked behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you’re in with
Do you take me for such a fool, to think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide what he don’t know to begin with?
You see me on the street, you always act surprised
You say “how are you?”, “good luck”, but ya don’t mean it
When you know as well as me, you’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once and scream it?
No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief perhaps I’d rob them
And tho I know you’re dissatisfied with your position and your place
Don’t you understand, its not my problem?
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is to see you
1965
Geo-politics or war, war a continuation of politics – positioning the pieces is the name of the game. Assorted pieces with different abilities and limitations. Chess is perhaps the best analogy for strategic manoeuvring. Geo-politics and its extension – war, the objective is the same – checkmate the opposition. In real life, checkmate means being in a position to cut off the head off the opposition.
It can be done by first taking opposition pieces off the board, or by bypassing them to strike directly at the head.
At the moment we are in the stage of maneuvering for position – move and counter move.
Putin is a master who took the seat of a losing player that only had a couple of pieces left on the board.
Rambo’s don’t last long in this game.
Peter AU
Yes, here you have it in a much peaceful manner : Abba – The Name of the Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6-kL78w6k
Bro 93
That was great ! You made me to have a great smile and laugh “But maybe Lavrov or some other sympathetic but firm diplomatic friend can hold this sort of mirror to his horse’s ass face,” beautiful and vitriolic description of the essence. And the poem by Bob Dylan is just gives it a great feedback.
It is a useless comment to make to the US neocons because that is exactly what they plan to do-chaos. I am sure Russia has its own “Plan B” and securing Aleppo, the Syrian Turkish border and Western and coastal Syria probably figures prominently in all of this. As for the West of Syria, Sigh….I see every Kurdish faction being played by everyone in this mess.
Also, figure some “incident” involving a US plane and consequent drum beating about supporting “our military” and the barrel bomb meme, and Russia ” sending more planes to Syria” which by the way was already in the headlines today. Then the pressure will be on Trump to be patriotic!
Sinister, cynical, psychopaths are in power and the absolute worst one is soul dead Kerry.
And to add, the “bombing of Hospitals by Russia and Syria” . If is to believe the MSM, in eastern Aleppo are many, many hospitals, every week one of them being bombed…
To me it sounds like „Kroisos Halyn diabas, megalän archän katalysai“, the Oracle of Delphi‘s answer to king Kroisos‘ question whether his idea to mug the big empire in the East was good. The answer was: „If you do that you will destroy a major empire“, which Kroisos understood as a go-ahead. However the empire he would and did destroy was his own.
That is what the shityanks are about to do, according to the Russkies, in case they go ahead with their shit ideas. „If that is what they want…“
bp
Glad you picked that up……well as usa said the should be banned expelled from UNSC …..now we have the info and proof usa has broken every UN charter and Helsinki thingy, and denies other countries the rights of those international accords……time for usa and coalition to be expelled from UNSC methinks.
In a sense it is reassuring that there are like minded individuals out there that have an intelligence that works. Unfortunately, through many generations of social engineering whether it be through education, the control of mass media and the arts, consumerism, finance have created a finely crafted layer of humanity that preform exactly as required. The destruction of European countries through the Coudenhove-kalergi Plan moves along splendidly and will spread outward as it is put into practice. The destruction of countries laid out after 9/11 inside job by Westley Clarke’s remark after the visit to the Pentagon has progressed as stated with a few speed bumps in the road, such as in Syria by Russia, Hezbollah, and Iranian military, Chinese advisor’s. Make no bones about it, these are plans that include Lebanon, Iran, and finally Saudis. Some have given it different names, the Shadow Government, the Deep State, the New World Order, etc, etc, etc. We have been warned by two Presidents, JFK and Eisenhower, We have been warned by hundreds of whistle blowers, whom have been prosecuted, and murdered to this very day. If you mention in academia even a hint of the history or question the history of a group that this points to, you will be destroyed and crushed forever. The people that know this are terrified to speak the truth and most have been bought and paid for along time ago anyways.
My dilemma is: Russia knows this since a huge part of their history of millions of Russians where murdered by this group as written by Solschenizyn but the book has never been allowed to be printed in English. Iran knows this along with the other actors. They will fight to the death, as we know from history. Will the psychopaths start WW111. Will we survive this madness.
And yet, the like minded individuals out there are constantly outflanked by the Deep State, NWO,…
Essentially because they are not capable of uniting behind a single cause. The dark side of the force wins as they are by far more disciplined than the others and can, collectively, stand their ground.
Could someone enjoying this cafe propose one simple cause, one “red line” that would federate the like minded individuals? Can these fine people stay the course and avoid dissenting within 3 or 4 posted comments? Here lies the reason of the disproportionate gains and victories of the Deep State, NWO and other sociopaths: They hunt like wolves while we each enjoy a different bird’s view.
Well, we are together here not as as a raiding patrol, an udarnyj batal‘jon, and the basic idea, as I understand it, is to be different, having different opinions, so that everyone participating, who before had only one opinion about a matter, his own (plus MSM crap that many ignore completely), has now a collection of more or less differing opinions on that matter, as held by people s/he basically respects… everybody can go home better informed that s/he was when s/he came here.
However inside your way of blaming all of us or the Cafe I see the idea that surfaced already at the end of Terry‘s comment on September 30, 2016 · at 1:51 pm UTC : if something takes the length of a whole book to be explained well and completely, why shouldn‘t „we“ (…a federation of like-minded individuals concerned about one simple cause…) try to put such a book together – to make one complete situation description out of the, alas, many differing opinions which otherwise are left as they are? This would then be a second division of the book store that someone (Bro?) proposed, the webmaster encouraged to be better explained, and was then not followed up (or I missed it): one floor, the beletage, for exposing to others what we loved to read (and make it easily accessible to everyone – was this the idea?), and another floor, probably the cellar, for concocting new works which the world needs but does not know how to arrive at. In our usual meeting format we bring different opinions and thoughts with us and unload them here, and in the new cellar meeting format we would bring different capabilities together for achieving something in common, and this would necessitate the definition of a project at the start, yes, agreeing upon several common points and sticking to them through the time it takes, and then someone‘s task to push everybody to continue through until the final line is reached, and declaring a common victory over laziness, shyness, undecidedness, etc. etc.
For instance, I checked the „banned book“ that Ray mentioned. In googling „Solzhenicyn 200 years“ I found enough stuff on the first result page to understand that this books exists today in the Russian original and French and German translations, but that an English version is stopped by the usual suspects (or other similar miserables), so that there is not and will not be an official English version. However „60-70%“ were quickly translated already years ago by DIYers like us – and the rest is waiting for someone like our future cellar group to finish it. Just for making it possible for everybody to find out what Aleksandr Isaevic found out and whether he agrees or not. With several people knowing either Russian or French or German it should be possible to finish such a project in weeks or some months, years less than needed for waiting for „someone doing it at last“. I am not keen on this project, but it seems a typical example of a general need answered by no-one because everybody opts for waiting for others to do it.
bp
@ Anonymous pb
What has Solzhenitsyn and his unpublished book in English got to do with anything?
His Gulag was a collection of slanderous lies, of course highly acclaimed for political propaganda by the capitalist West, but with scant literary or scholarly merit.
Like Pasternak, another literary non-entity, they got the Nobel prize for reasons other than literary merit, the same reasons a Ukranian won the Eurorisible contest and mass murders get the Peace prize (Kissinger, Obama). I wonder why Churchill, Truman and Bushes did not get it…
What bp wants to say, is the Solzhenitsyn’s book “200 years together” . This book is much more complex than the Gulag – at least in different way. Try to find out some translations in English, or if you can read in German or French, it is there. By the way – in my opinion – the Gulag, was not so far from reality as you may think, I had the luck to talk with a Russian back in 1984 at his home in Leningrad. His uncle was there. The west has used this book for propaganda purposes, which is a well known behavior since the cold war till today. I have and I am defending the communist achievements as you know, but the bad things have to be left to come on surface, otherwise we shall never learn the lessons of history.
great comment ioan
this is the meaning of spawning the light out of the dark. I agree and relize Vladimir V. as light
child of mother CCCP
@ Anonymous
“They hunt like wolves while we each enjoy a different bird’s view”
That is the perennial problem facing fair-minded, justice-seeking individuals when it comes to break with the tradition and mind-set they were nurtured in, because they are the multitudes, therefore there are many and multiple ways to respond in their ways to produce change. In contrast, the elites in power all have a very specific and common interest: preserving their status at the top of pecking order through power and wealth.
Notice how capital tends to make some adjustments and “reforms” to blunt the sharp end of social discontent. For instance, Dickensian England was generating enough misery to cause an insurrection in spite of having an enormous pressure valve, the Empire, from where it got the plunder to feed some crumbs to the masses and the space to send the undesirables by the millions.
On the political front capital encouraged some token reforms, namely through “civic” groups, charities and societies “for the betterment of lowly” and even supported trade-unionism and political representation for the working class. As a consequence, England was the least revolutionary-minded country in Western Europe.
The Great Carnage I (WWI) brought home to many people the brutality of capitalism happily sending to the meat grinder millions of the working plebe. The fire of insurrection started in Russia while the massacres were still going and soon spread to other countries, particularly Germany, forcing capital to the peace table and introduce the social welfare reform plan to prevent open rebellion elsewhere.
Twenty years later, with the human resources for war restocked, capital returned to the battlefields, both belligerents (England and France on one side, Germany on the other) fighting for imperial supremacy and hoping to destroy the USSR in the process.
Once again capital rose to the occasion via the Marshall Plan and more reforms to the welfare system to prevent a rebellion all over Europe. But the carrot was not enough anymore and the stick was brought down in Greece and Italy to keep the plebe pacified, followed by the NATO protection racket.
Since then an enormous effort was applied everywhere (education, culture, mass media, propaganda, US occupation army) to keep the proles quiet and capital safe, easily done when Europe was being rebuilt after the devastations of war.
But when the rebuilding cycle finished, the realities of capitalist stagnation started to emerge and now, bereft of empire, Europe had nowhere else to plunder. Besides, the new empire was busily taking over the old empire’s possessions anyway.
By the time of the dissolution of the USSR, by obvious coincidence, capital found itself free to be once again unbridled by the pragmatic necessity of having a human face and started showing its true colours for all to see: rule by the 1%.
While the 99% have an enormous scope for mass critique, wrangling, backstabbing and being co-opted by capital.
As a side note, one wonders why the Bolshevicks decided to go on their own instead of being “assisted” by the Menshevcks and other fellow travellers. Yet, in their mist there were hidden many more free riders, the most notorious being Trotsky, a very latecomer to their ranks when the revolution was already in motion.
One has to recognize that the education level, culture and geopolitical knowledge of people in this “cafe” is extremely high, compared to the political elites whose coffee is paid by us. The idea of a book, without taking sides on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is fine but collaborative editing might be a bit difficult. And, today, what can we hope to change or to push forward with a book? Unless we definitively aim at producing the Book of Eli, having decided that apocalypse cannot be prevented.
My humble proposal would be to try to bring a definitive answer to a basic question “Can democracy possibly work?”. A set of logistical constraints have prevented any attempt at implementing true democracy. These logistical constraints (which end up creating biased or parasitic entities like political parties, think tanks and lobbyists) do not exist anymore, courtesy of our technological progresses, mainly a global network (internet) and individual polling devices (mobile phones).
Why not producing a guide to implement democracy in a Proof Of Concept experiment? This experiment should be limited in scope and time, in a model applied to the real world or a virtual one maintained by a separate team that would produce plausible events. The model could be peer reviewed and the results should bring an unequivocal answer to the question of “Can democracy possibly work?”. Just like stress tests for banks are supposed to prove/disprove that the banking sector is now sufficient resilient, our POC should prove/disprove that pure, plain vanilla democracy can actually work.
Joining Anonymous X 3 or 4? ( I can’t keep you straight!) and bimboplumpe bp to some pb to others, I did respond to Mod HS and I am pretty sure that there is traction forward on some sort of “book and Cine club” where not only staff but visitors can announce a work of written or cinematic art to be opened for discussion.
My suggestion was a queue or pipeline selected and listed by Saker or Mods which gives persons highly interested adequate time to view the film or read the printed material before the discussion opens. I suggested 4-6 weeks for longer books to 1-2 weeks for films.
My whole tendency, desire, recommendation is to go deeper, as Alexander Pope’s most famous poetic line urges:
“Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.
The Bolshoi Book and Cinematic Bistro?? Relax. Rome wasn’t built in a day. If our staff was Chinese, I am sure they would smile and assure us, “We wolking on it!’
Meanwhile, on the theme of Wolves and Sheep, today I have changed up the metaphor slightly in this comment :
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-09-30/comment-page-1/#comment-279899
to be more polemical (or “insulting”) as is my tendency, to dive under the skivvies and bite as hard as I can.
On the theme of “What is to be done?”, I would suggest that distractions are death (therefore kill your tv before it kills your mind….) but the capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time is a prerequisite to individual or aggregate rising in capacity or consciousness.
And it will be, always has been, different, individual, for everyone.
The first task is to take advantage of the stubborn resistance of Russia, especially, to take the opportunity of the time that allows us to undercut the idiots like John Kirby and John Kerry and Hillary Clinton in their slavish desire to lick the ass of the Satanic Class, serving the NWO occultocracy in its demonic and self-loathing drive to enslave the entire planet.
The details of how that might be done in each individual case of knowing, witting participants in the fight are too varied and multitudinous to be covered in a comment. An entire book of grand strategy, opposing Zbiggy’s Grand Chessboard, or some other evil piece of NWO work could only cover the broadest outlines. The millions of individuals, the brighter lights in this darkened world, have to figure out for themselves their exact path, and the degree to which they will arm themselves (and with what??? That’s where socialization of the relevant art plays a role…….) the degree to which they want their consciousness to positively affect the near to medium term outcome, or to sit it out and watch, fingers crossed superstitiously behind their impotent backs..
I invite you to see a cheap fraud:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ctqn1YXWYAEEkrC.jpg:large
No need for specialized software to see how letters has been added.
That @moonnor27 should be renamed @moron
Why are the Japanese the most hated people in East Asia? Was it always this way even before WW 2? With the Fukushima disaster and with much of Japanese industry having relocated to China, Japan is weak. What does anyone buy from the Japanese anymore other than cars and maybe video games?
The one nation that would suffer the most from a reunited Korea is Japan. When will the South Koreans realize that they are occupied by the Anglo-American empire and are not sovereign? The Anglo-American elite will never allow the Koreas to unite under Chinese supervision. Understandably, the Chinese do not want an enlarged, hostile state on their border if the Koreas were to unite under British-American supervision. Ask the Russians how much they like former allies that are now hostile NATO members on their borders.
Korean unification will happen should the dollar lose world reserve currency status. Why don’t the Japanese elite cut a deal with the Chinese and become a protectorate. Perhaps the Japanese can escape the Fukushima radiation by moving to the Chinese ghost cities.
The situation of Japan and China is a lot like that of Germany and Russia.Clear thinking people realize what a friendship between those powers could mean for the World. But hubris and subservience to the US stops that in both cases.It appears that a repeat of WWII is more likely than clear thinking to prevail between those states.
For one, Japanese does not want to be protectorate. According to them, they never did, which is just fine. They were always having internal wars, and robbing the coast lines at ancient times because lack of resource. They only had a brief period of time which they were stronger, and what they did with that strong position is well known. Their right wingers does not feel they lost war to China or korea, or anyone other than US. If the government gets too close to China, US will do a regime change. It happened before.
Korea has no thing to fear from China (according to Korean themselves). For about 2000 years, Han people has never invaded them, they were left to mind their own business. We are not much different. I believe S. Koreans does not feel they are occupied by US. They want to unite with NK, and I do not believe China will stop them given some conditions are meet such as US leave the peninsula.
I really do not think Korea will turn against China. But I also do not understand this THAAD stuff, and we did fight a Korea war. So I will not hold my point on this.I just do not understand the reason to bring in a hostile outsider against your old giant neighbor who never mistreated you. Well, there always time for first.
Of cause Japan fear’s a united Korea. If there is any one hate Japan more, that is Korea. If Korean united, Japan will not even be number 2 in east Asia.
However, all Japan need to do is get real with it past, and take step to make sure be peaceful for future, and we, both Korea and China, will forgive them and move on. That likely will not happen until US army left Japan.
@ J
“For one, Japanese does not want to be protectorate.”
That’s a bit rich. What the freaking hell is Japan?
If any nation in its collective memory has reason to hate another nation, Japan is one, and justifiably so, because Truman’s crime (the greatest massacre in the shortest time in history) was widely greeted with acclaim by the people of the criminal nation and even today is widely accepted as being “necessary to save lives”. Sounds like the “humanitarian wars” in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and soon…
Japan, like all capitalist countries with clout (the little ones have to attach themselves to the bigger guns) began to carve an empire in mainland Asia (Manchuria), then started encroaching on to the US’s ambitions on China and that was a no-no, hence the sanctions and blockades which would starve Japan’s capitalism. War was inevitable as Japan walked blindly into the trap. They learned the West’s technology but they forgot to learn the history.
What are the real Weapons of Mass Destruction? Bombs from the skies or lies in the eyes?
“You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you’d realize
There ain’t no way to hide your lyin’ eyes.”
—-Eagles
It starts with little white lies and ends with big black flies buzzing around cold dead eyes.
Here at the vineyard we seek for truth, or at least say we do.
“Freedom is just around the corner for you but with truth so far off what good would it do?”
Truth is a bastard and justice is a bitch. In our culture of lies we can’t tell which is which.
“To live outside the law you must be honest.”
To be honest, I must admit that I am not. All men are liars. I am a man and therefore am a liar. If I am a liar, all men are truthful. I am a man and therefore truthful. And all around the mulberry bush we go. Liars and truthers forever.
There is only one way that I know of to get off this merry-go-round of the vascillating mind. Go directly to love. Don’t accept any intermediary. In our cult culture love and lies are all mixed up by design. Still I say go directly to love and let love sort it out.
As for me and mine, and all the stars that shine, with reason and rhyme I thank you from my soul for helping to make me whole. This vineyard is a precious place from which to save the human race, where lies are turned into why’s of inquiring minds and love-laced finds.
I’m no poet and I know it. Hope I don’t blow it. But if I do it will be you who’ll tell me true about the love I never knew.
Basically it comes down to,”if they don’t take our lives (in war), they will take our souls (through the spying and subverting)”. Those are the two choices the US offers her own people and the World.
The ongoing story so well told by Andre Vitchek….
http://journal-neo.org/2016/10/01/syria-s-heroic-fight-against-western-imperialism/
This is the fortieth week in the love calendar, the six of light: Purple with the polarities of Flower and Tower. The tarot card is the Tower, which is being struck with lightning and throwing a man and woman out and to the ground. A symbol of love striking the power tower of patriarchy. This week the Lover appears as Purple Light. The following is a poem about her:
“Purple is a color like no other
The color of my rich royal Lover
She lives in the suit of light
Right next to crystal white
The clear color on the level above her
She wears a purple veil
In the dance of the great romance
She’s a purple Radha
Glancing in her dancing
I catch her purple flashes
Sparkling through her lashes
On my inner skies with reborn eyes
I see her purple swirling galaxies
And purple mountain majesties
When I cower in an hour gone sour
Purple’s a tower of power
Her tower is no fable
Like the tower of Babel
Her purple tower is no London Tower prison
It’s a prism of clear vision
Purple’s a friend in high places
With down to earth graces
Let the lords have their tower
I’ll take my lady’s flower
They can have their power
I’ll rest in her bower
She whispers: I love you
The passwords to her bliss
And prelude to her kiss
I need no more than this
Her hair is the soft air
Her feet the bottomless deep
She is everywhere and never asleep
Purple is my dearest power
In life’s darkest hour
She’s next to the color black
Been to the cor and back
Keeps me on love’s track
She wears a purple robe
The sign of being rich
She’s rich all right
Rich in purple light
Purple is a guardian at the gate
A pure angel worth an eon’s wait
I’m living in her house
Living like a king
Living in the purple
Living with her ring
Purple flower, bring me out of my ivory tower
To play on mother earth
The one who gave me birth
Purple flower, now’s your hour
Wind your arms around my tower of stones
Lay your flowers on my dust dry bones
Soften my tower of steel
Open my heart and make me real
Purple flower, I climb your vine and drink your wine
Purple tower, I seize your hour and seat of power
Be protectress when I roam
And sweet mistress when at home”
Outstanding, Dennis, glad you posted it. I’ll tuck this one in a mental pocket and carry it around with me.
Today is the start of Navaratri, ten days to celebrate Devi, the Divine Goddess in all her manifestations. (Having recently been reminded of the Hindu view of things)
What a wonderful beginning this poem is.
There is a tremendous amount of genius in the Vineyard right now, across all the threads. Powerful. Makes me feel privileged to be here.
Yep, Dennis is on a roll. Ands so are several others, new comers whose verse is serious, and is raising the bar.
I still try, mostly for fun. Serious verse is much harder to do.
I recently discovered that Alexander Pope was one of the main influences on the man I consider the most human and intelligent of the Founders. So, his Essays on Man is a the top of my poetry reading list. It is much, much longer than his Essays on Criticism (only 745 lines). More like hundreds of pages.
A beginning excerpt:
Epistle 1
Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze, but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;
Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar:
Eye Nature’s walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Bro again:
More to follow. Ageless stuff.
A lot, still, but not enough!
But the new born freshly written lines
That in a Vineyard I can often find,
Both echo and reinforce the old,
And so reflect an ancient art of gold,
Still living, both in tones of present mirth,
And somber depth across this troubled earth.
That find their voice refreshed, and new.
And bring an age of many poets, not a few.
For such an epoch worked the bards of yore,
So one and all are welcome, evermore,
In burying the rotting corpse of Empire,
Or cremating it, in creativity’s growing fire!
attempted to email you about book club … email rejected … mod-hs
Actually I think it made it through. Because I saw something there from you today. Will read soon, Thanks
Great stuff again Dennis, last time with the Blue, now with the Purple, amazing soul you have, thanks for sharing. I agree with S113 on what he said on you and on this Cafe. Further down, Bro 93 has wrote again a very good poem (while he is arguing that he’s still just trying – I am trying too) The best of this Cafe is , that we all are in the same boat, we laugh and cry, we got our nerves put on trial and besides, we have our natural particular life. I think , we are Vineyard Cafe – acoholics.
Great job. Good to see you guys have been able to get the site working again.
Just a quick comment. It was interesting that both obama and b clinton made sure to be at massa peres’ funeral.
I didn’t really know..she never really told me…
In absolutely no way was it her fault…she takes 3 friends with her camping at Boomtown Festival near Winchester…and she’s only 25 – and she is there with her mates camping – and there are 60,000 people – and they see this smoke flume in the distance – in the car park – and both my daughter and me independently worked out the odds….
82 cars destroyed – 60,000 people…
The chances that one of the 82 was my daughter’s….????
So she just carried on with the Festival..and then the Next Day – went back to her car and saw THIS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-37083532
It looked like a Warzone
My daughter’s car was one of the 82
I said – I will pick you up tomorrow – and your brother will come too
She said no its O.K. Dad – these old hippies have offered us all a lift home in their campervan
No one was hurt – but she lost her car – through no fault of her own – and all her stuff inside…
I would just like to say – that I thought The British Insurance Company have acted extremely Professionally…
And my Daughter has now got another car – almost the same – but 3 years older…
And she has lost her no – claims bonus…
So instead of being £200 cheaper..it is now £400 more expensive.. on the renewal..
It was not my daughter’s fault..She has a completely clean driving record,,,
And you are penalising her…
But she and I can negotiate back…
But they were really good.
I was impressed.
My daughter has a way of negotiating these things when she and her mates can’t get home.
She and The Facebook group she is in are going after The Festival Organiser’s Next.
The Kids who lost all their stuff in 82 cars didn’t do anything wrong.
Tony
Similar circumstance, same effect, but on a larger scale, in Portugal same month this year.
Here’s a ink to an article at Katehon pointing to a historical connection between Wahhabism and Zionism.
The two ideologies – Wahhabism in Islam and Zionism in Judaism – may seem like unrelated entities on the surface. But they are not, as I will explore through the course of this article. Alexander Azadgan
http://katehon.com/article/imposition-artificial-states-middle-east-case-saudi-arabia-and-israel
Three articles that dovetail with each other:
Leaked Tapes Expose State Department’s Secret Plan to Oust Assad in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20161001/1045909979/kerry-state-department-oust-assad.html
Leaked Tapes Reveal Secretary of State John Kerry Still Wants War Against Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20161001/1045910436/john-kerry-war-syria-assad.html
It is clear that kerry always wanted war against Syria, so it should be also clear that any negotiation from this war criminal would be disingenuous, at the very least, and in reality a cover for war planning.
Top US General: Hillary’s No Fly Zone Strategy Would ‘Require’ War With Russia
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20161001/1045910777/dunford-hillary-war-syria-russia.html
From the latter article:
“During testimony before the Senate Committee on Armed Services last week General Joseph Dunford rang the alarm over a policy shift that is gaining more traction within the halls of Washington following the collapse of the ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia in Syria saying that it could result in a major international war which he was not prepared to advocate on behalf of.
“What about the option of controlling the airspace so that barrel bombs cannot be dropped? What do you think of that option?” asked Wicker.
“Right now, Senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia. That is a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I’m not going to make,” said the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggesting the policy was too hawkish even for military leaders.
“I personally would be advocating now for a no fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air, to try to provide some way to take stock of what’s happening, to try to stem the flow of refugees,” said Clinton in an interview with NBC’s Boston affiliate at the time.
The former Secretary of State, who has a well-known hawkish position towards regime change and matters related to Russia, has continued to advocate this position which has gained traction in recent weeks among top US diplomats.
More than 50 US diplomats demanded in June, in a notorious dissent memo, that the Obama administration employ military options against Assad, such as the implementation of a no fly zone if not a direct attack against the Syrian regime.”
From this information, it appears the war mongers in the pindo regime are the usual zionazi quisling sorts on the political side, with the military people being the recalcitrant ones. I think this further casts doubt that there was a military rebellion to the diplomat’s Syria ceasefire agreement in the american regime. The attacks that broke the ceasefire were part of the pindo planning all along, the military involved following orders (and likely neocon infections themselves).
Wealth, and the wealth of this cafe, of poetry, of thoughts and sharing, goldmines far greater than the stolen wealth of the unmentionables (1%?), and maybe just maybe, what the world needs now?
Lenin’s famous slogan, “Communism is Soviet Power plus the Electrification of the Whole Country” yeah, right on comrade Lenin, bring on the wealth: life on the streets as told by the well known writer at the time, dah dah
Mikhail Zoschenko, 1925:
Electrification
What, brothers, is today’s most fashionable word?
Today’s most fashionable word of all is, of course, ‘electrification’.
Lighting up Soviet Russia with light, without doubt, is a matter of massive importance. No one can argue with that. But it does, for the time being, have its downside. I’m not saying, comrades, that it costs too much. It costs money – that’s all. No, I’m saying something different.
What I’m saying is this:
I was living, comrades, in a huge building. the whole of this building ran on paraffin. Some of us had lamps, some – cans of oil with a wick. The poorest had to make do with church candles. Life wasn’t easy.
And then they start to install light.
First its the house manager. Lights up his room – and that’s that. A quiet fellow, doesn’t let on what he’s thinking. Though he wanders about a bit strangely and keeps absent-mindedly blowing his nose.
Bu he doesn’t let on what he’s thinking.
Then in comes my dear wife, Yelizaveta Ignatyevna Prokhorova. Says we should illuminate the apartment.
‘Everyone’, she says, ‘is installing light. The director himself has installed light’, she says.
So – of course – we do the same.
Light is installed, the apartment illuminated – heavens above! What foulness and filth!
Till then, you went to work in the morning, you came back in the evening, you drank down your tea and you went to bed. you never saw a thing with just paraffin. But now, with illumination – you see wallpaper flapping off the wall, and somebody’s beaten-up slipper lying about on the floor. You see a bedbug trotting along, trying to get away from the light. An old rag here, a gob of spit there, a flea frisking about…
Heavens above! It’s enough to make you call the night watchman. Such a sigh is sad to see.
In our room, for instance, we had a sofa. I’d always though it wasn’t a bad sofa – even quite a good sofa! In the evenings I used to sit on it. But now with this electricity – heavens above! Some sofa! Bits sticking up, bits hanging down, bits falling out. How can I sit on such a sofa? My soul protests.
No, I think, I don’t live in luxury. Everything’s revolting to look at. And everything I do goes wrong.
Then I see dear Yelizaveta Ignatyevna. She looks sad. She’s muttering away to herself, tidying things up in the kitchen.
‘What,’ I ask, ‘are you so sad about, dear wife?’
She shrugs her shoulders.
‘I had no idea, my dear man,’ she says, ‘what a shabby life I’ve been living’.
I look at our bits and pieces. Not so great, I think. Foulness and filth. Rags of one kind and rags of another kind. All flooded with light and stating you in the eye.
So I start to get a bit down in the mouth, you might say, when I come back home in the evenings.
I come in. I switch on the light. I briefly admire the lamp, then bury my nose in the pillow.
Then I think again. I get my pay. I buy whitewash, I mix it up – and I set to work. I tear off wallpaper, I stamp out bedbugs, I sweep away cobwebs. I sort out the sofa. I paint, I adorn – my soul sings and rejoices.
I did well. But not that well. It was in vain, dear brothers, that I blew all that money. My wife cut the wires.
‘Light,’ she says, ‘makes life seem horribly shabby. Why,’ she says, ‘shine light on our poverty? The bedbugs will die of laughter.’
I beg her. I argue arguments with her. No use.
‘You can move,’ she says, ‘to another apartment. I don’t want,’ she says, ‘to live with light. I’ve no money,’ she says, ‘to renovate and renew.’
But how could I move, comrades, after spending a fortune on whitewash? I gave in.
Light’s all very well, brothers, but it’s not easy to live with.
Many thanks for sharing this short novel, I liked it, a typical scent of that humor from Russia in those years, ” The bedbugs will die of laughter”. And yes, not every “light” is bringing us the Light.
@ Anonymous
I suppose that is an allegory relevant to some current perplexing paradox, perhaps in line with what another Anonymous’ comment to the effect that, while the 1% are a fairly homogenous clique with clear goals and strategies, the 99% are fragmented by factions and indifference.
Or it may explain why, with the generally increased level of education among the masses, we can see better than ever the extent of our submission to and exploitation by the 1% and we find that our impotence and abject acceptance of servility is staring us in the face and pointing to our guilt in allowing, perhaps for the first in history, a reversal to humanity’s march to higher modes of spiritual and moral development, not to mention a more equitable distribution of the riches that life and earth could bestow to all people free of war and want.
Indeed it is humiliating and shameful to see the horrors caused by our subservience and complicity in the wars, military and economic, waged by our overlords and where we act as their agents for a few crumbs and sacrifice our children to live in a world ruled by degenerates.
Understandably, it is better to switch off the lights and hide our doing in darkness.
@ ioan
“Electrification” is from a collection of short stories by Mikhael Zoschenko, sorry, forgot to add this to my comment.
Famous in his time for his humourist, satirist – ironist?- short stories. He makes me laugh a lot anyway, and he made a hell lot of Russians laugh a lot at the time too, until he was made to shut up, as it were, by the descendants of lenin.
No, I don’t think it’s better to switch off the lights.
Here you have allegorical tension, in that Mikhail and Elizabeta already have experienced the illumination of realities that need to be changed. Despite his wife’s desire to return to nescience (not knowing) they cannot do so. They both know.
Elizabeta is typical of the 99% in her moral weakenss. Now she wishes to become worse than a nescient person. She wants to IGNORE what she knows, not act, and sink herself in ignorance, which is NOT not knowing. It is ignoring what she knows, pretending it doesn’t exist, to give herself an excuse to be cowardly and impotent and not act .
This describes the overwhelming majority of the 99%. Very, very few of them are 100% nescient. New borns. Imbeciles. A handful of others. By the time I was four I already knew about evil. Almost everyone does, in their own way.
But rather than digging deeper and connecting dots and acting to prepare themselves to ward it off and not participate in it, for the most part, other than grousing about the favorite parts of it that they like to complain about loudly (but DO something?? Fagettaboutit!!!!!) they studiously and cowardly avoid connecting the dots, and thereby become complicit in it. .
Doesn’t this describe the typical American slob? Of course it does. Enough light has been shed so that unless they have been comatose, they have seen the evil. But they have chosen to be Elizabetas.
The issue is, what will Mikhail do now? Capitulate to his ignorant, cowardly wife or lead her to a more moral path?
What will I do? What will you do? What will we who are discussing this, at least, and not running from it immediately like the cockroaches in our own abodes, do???
My first suggestion is that we take inventory of the condition of the majority of mankind and realize, that even in the best times of the flowering of art, science and increasing freedom, most human beings were more brakes on the progress, the goodness, than they were cylinders firing with purposeful attention to drive that progress forward. Face it! The oligarchy that torments them depends on this backwardness, willful ignorance and cowardice just as rats depend on filth and garbage!
Then ask yourself: Who am I? Can I join the rats and their privileges? Do I want to, even if I could? Or do I want to blend in with the garbage, and forget what I know, what I have seen, but do nothing about it??
There is a third option: Leave the lights on, and bring even more illumination to bear on the situation!
And realize that the corner is turned, leaving a downward slid of civilization, and participating in a tough, upward climb to clearer air and more beautiful views, when there is a contending 1% that gives no quarter to the rats. Then, don’t worry so much about the other 98%. Work on recruiting only another .5 or.75 % to the cause of humanity, first, because that is enough to tip the scales against the evil rats, buying some time for the Great Work (if it were easy it would not be “great”) to elevate the consciousness and identity of the 98-99%.
I am impressed, you touched upon the very heart of the matter, behind the comic and irony from that story. Thanks Bro 93, good to have you here.
“What will I do? What will you do? What will we who are discussing this, at least, and not running from it immediately like the cockroaches in our own abodes, do???”
my answer was and is: tear down the lying wallpapers, throw away the rotten couch, and all but simple comfort and work the rest of your life for a modest quality and turn off the light for love and bathing in the river
and act where the fate puts you in charge
I’ , speechless … shaken … by this truth, nobody but the Russians, in my knwledge, stand this.
And by the love, like child, of the woman to the soul and to the temerity, of the real things appearing, while in man’ s enlighting blindness the fool appeares
A comment I put up over at MoA’s blog.
“From Crimea to Debaltseve to Syria to Yemen, when no ones looking, Putin’s Russia kicks Uncle Sam in the goolies and says – nah, wasn’t me.”
Auslander has told us a bit about Crimea. The final closing of the Debaltseve caldron (polite folk dressed in green camo that moved into an artillery barrage to take out the bad guys positions) during the Minsk negotiations may come out in time. Russia has lost people in Syria, but Russia took out more enemy (not proxies) in just one strike. Yemen has obtained upgraded targeting systems for older missiles or late gen missiles for the strikes we are seeing.
The quiet achiever.
saker-café, lightening-striker, bard-earthlings, readers and riders of the storm –
https://youtu.be/LyRqdzF8swY
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh, as if it was just yesterday, thanks for the links and for your words.
Mostly my own ioan koan poem for Russiana, dedicated to vineyard poets and analysts, with a special mention to the all too modest Bro 93:
“Seen a shooting star last night and I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered if you ever made it through”
Did you ever stop the anti-Russian war
Or did she turn into a best western whore?
I’m sorry that I couldn’t do any more
For you that night upon the shore
I went with you as far as I could
You should have never went into that wood
Down the path you never understood
The one you thought so safe and good
I think of you from time to time
As I walk up and down the line
You had the same eyes as mine
And drank the same red wine
Your love of Russia was not enough
To call his boss’s backroom bluff
You thought him a diamond in the rough
You couldn’t see through his same old stuff
Did you read the writing on the wall?
It didn’t have to be that way at all
Too bad it happened in the fall
When our chances were still so small
Maybe it’s not quite over yet
And you can still take back your bet
Did you really get busy and forget
That night we met without regret?
The old Russia will come back again
But neither you nor I can tell when
We had it once way back then
It will return to what it’s always been
In Petersberg you once wore white
You were like the moon on a starlit night
The Bolshoi trembled with confused delight
When Putin took your hand as was his right
We won the war without a shot
When you and he tied the knot
The wicked west itself forgot
When you turned and said: forget me not
The world went from worst to best
Its heart was quickened at your request
Even Washington came to rest
In the harbor of your breast
In a vineyard you were born
In the dawning of the morn
All past contracts were forsworn
And the Moscow – Frisco line reborn
I started out in a world gone wrong
But ever since you sang your song
And took the Kremlin cafe along
I’m back in love where I belong
“Seen a shooting star last night
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
Did I miss the mark or overstep the line
That only you could see?”
But, she…..no worries….she will prevail…..of that you can be sure….If it is with Putin, in Moscow or Petersburg….or even in the case she would be betrayed, again, by who she loved, sacrified most for or trusted most , she just will smile with half her mouth, a bit bitterly, for a moment, so as to saying to herself, -again fooling yourself about men’s love? And she will pack a light luggage and will go searching a new frontier, looking for the real tovarishch in the world there are, those who demonstrate openly, without shenanigans, in which trench they fight, with their facts, not with empty words, despite these coming packed with celofan or entitled with so huge and preposterous goals, as they do the real men, those who really dress themselves by the feet and really work for to change the world into a better place……
https://youtu.be/ba2ECRc-OaU
Well said, first Queen of Carthage, Companion of Aeneas, or some say a goddess first, a person later.
(Work to be done on my classical references!)
In any case, Leary can smile at eliciting such a quality response, while giving ioan a run for most prolific producer of poetry, while he pauses to rest on his laurels and savor the offerings of newly arriving travelers from anywhere and everywhere..
And I must depart for a few hours, cruel fate! To crunch dead numbers and correspond with drier accountants. But at least the youngest goddess inspires in the background of my mind, fearing not even the falling of the firmament! Fantastique future femme! Donateur de vie, jamais fatale!
Thanks Dennis for the dedication with such a good poem. Man, it’s a pleasure to see how this Cafe is going on, I can feel the pulse of your mind, creating such poems. Here, is almost midnight, so I may go to bed now, although I know the sleep does not come quickly. Maybe some muses come in visit again and I have to take the pen to wrote down some nonsense or something fairly.
Grande? Nonsense!
What started out as fifteen cents
For a standard cup of Java,
Has forever, and ever since
Risen high’a and high’a!
“What’s the sense”, millions say,
“In trying to save a lousy buck?”
,That could have bought a whole café,
Back in the day, I mean, WTF!
So you yanks can stuff your silly cents,
In your Piggly-Wiggly bankrupt banks,
And you Limeys cram your worthless pence
Between your lilly-willy snow white shanks!
I see no sense in saving hard-earned bucks,
In such a system of fraud and swindle!
In point of fact, the whole bloody racket sucks
Our debt explodes and cash and savings dwindle.
I wrote some nonsense I hope to sell,
Before Ioan rises and beats me to it!
With luck it’ll buy me a Starbucks tall,
If I fail for lack of skill or sense, then screw it!
lol bro 9£3%!!!
There’s some women I really love, when their minds fit mine like hand in glove.
I love Dr. Judy Woods. She’s got a mind like steel and integrity that’s real. With three difficult degrees in hard science she knows of what she speaks. She wrote “Where Did the Towers Go?” The best book on 9/11 I’ve read. She looks frail and sweet which belies her street strength.
I’ve long thought that common sense went down with the towers. How could towers that high not fall over sideways if they were hit by planes (impossible for planes but maybe for a meteor)? If demolition was used, why wasn’t there a huge pile of steel girders, miles and miles of wires and pipes, huge machines for pumping, heating and air conditioning, glass, desks, sinks and toilets, wood partitions, flooring, cabinets, furniture, cardboard and paper left, and spilling over onto the streets and surrounding buildings?
Sure, there were explosions, some steel girders, molten iron and thermite found but these are just red herrings to actually lead to the demolition theory while obfuscating what really went down.
Among several other motives, 9/11 was a huge test of new weaponry that gave a concealed message to potential enemies. Dr. Woods presents pictorial and rational evidence for what really happened. Except for the built-in distractions, the buildings were turned into fine dust, dust all over the place. Pictures also show strange fires never seen before far from the site. And on and on.
We don’t want to believe it and so we don’t. We prefer fairy tales to hard science.
It’s been fifteen years now, time for more advancements in weapons. In the case of the towers, the perpetrators had years to put the instruments in place which were stationary. Using them on a mobile battlefield is an entirely different matter. Dr. Woods shows the rudimentary, crude possible foundations of such weapons. The energy is not that easily controlled. So maybe it will take a long time to turn them into practical weapons. In the meantime, nuclear energy will do the job nicely, thank you…unless, these weapons can be turned against nukes themselves.
We hear nothing about this which speaks volumes in itself. Silence can be deafening. Russia surely knows this but keeps a poker face Rasputin-Putin style. Meanwhile the show goes on: the sheeple are periodically prodded with fear to keep them paying taxes to keep the war machine gunning and the money casino running, jumping, pumping and pimping for the rich. Russia thinks it’s a bitch but can’t help scratching the itch, forced into helping to dig the ditch of our evil graves for the western witch.
Unless one side really does take weapons to the next level of the new happy hunting ground, the merry-go-round of war may go on until the planet chokes or croaks. The war on Russia will probably eventually grind to a halt but war is too good a business for those on the mid to high level of the pyramid to ever default willingly.
However, a black swan has entered the pond of lily white swans and their wasp nests. The Love Army is black as night to white-eyed sight, playing a game that empires cannot name and claim. Love weaponry is out of this world, out of sight, not subject to fright nor bound to the rules of fight.
Dr. Judy Woods has exposed evil to the light. It remains for us to advance our standards where angels like her fear to go: “Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forest of the night.”
Nominate Judy’s book for the Bolshoi Book and Cine Bistro.
It was already on my unwritten list, but if it gets put on the Bistro list, I’ll get over my inertia and order it.
911 is such a treasure trove of evil and evil attracts courage the way dragons attract St George.
Besides it bears on new physical principles, Tesla, Tonguska? and other mysteries of the strategic equation. Like directed energy weapons, which got me into politics 36 years ago.
Mobility and firepower, the two key parameters of military technology?
What’s more mobile than the speed of light?
What’s more firepower than vaporizing matter from thousands of kilometers distance, even if its only a few square inches of missile skin?
So I was sold. But Saker says it never can and never will work.
Now I wonder, if it did work, would the world already be enslaved by “gods” frying any brain they disapproved of, right through the roof over their bedroom?
Do they have something Tesla-Like, that confuses much 911 analysis into techno-paralysis?
Tis worth going deeper into such a question, without fear.
Oh boy, I was just saying to Dennis that I’m going to sleep, when I read this “911 is such a treasure trove of evil and evil attracts courage the way dragons attract St George” – the best sentence ever heard about 911. Bravo !!!
Hi. I just returned from my walk and ride into town. I read the latest here as the moveable feast is moving on soon. The comments and links are my cup of tea. “What can I do?” surfaced more than once.
On the walking road, I recalled Bro 93’s left and right brain matters. I dotted that with how this vineyard is growing like two brains. The left in most folks is analytical and logical. The right more intuitive, imaginative, dreamy, multi-focal, holistic and poetic. So here we have poets and know-its that gravitate to the All News room or this cafe. There is a cross-over with analysts frequently here in the cafe but not so much the other way.
If Julian Jaynes is correct, our right brains are atrophied. This is borne out in the world and also is expected within a patriarchal cult. This overly right brained imbalance results in war, lacking a love based restraint. The increasing poetics logically helps the cause of peace.
What can I do? Think love, not war. On my road walk I was among the men and some women of the first division of the Love Army, whose orders are to “think love” as a counterpoint to war. Thoughts are not airy-fairy nothings but have bio-chemical effects on our brains, body, emotions and really reality itself.
Thoughts can be as simple as “Aren’t I something?” to systems of philosophy or science. The balance of brains might be that of a philosopher-poet or a scientist intuitive.
Love can be thought of in positive or negative terms, helpful or destructive. “This kind of love, I’m sick of it.” (Quotes by the poet, Dylan Bob, unless otherwise noted).
The ambiguity of love demands actions to back it up. The Love Army has ten divisions. Nine of them have acts that are unpopular to say the least with our culture. But even if someone totally rejects the ordered acts, he or she can think about them which is the start to implementation. All of the nine actions are logical in the framework of loving versus killing.
I am mostly in synch with the ten divisions’ orders but I’ve been working up to this for years, and I’m far from the ideal. I can hardly talk about actions against evil if I’m not at least for the most part walking my talk. I don’t claim to be right. I try to speak within the parameters of this place while exercising freedom of speech.
Poetry and prose, ecstasy and normality are both needed for balance. The facts support that our cult culture is way out of balance. Orgiastic ecstasy within a communal love and sex setting was the norm until the slaughter-house of evilarchy patriarchy began its new world disorder 75,000 years ago, and is trying now to move in for the final solution against Russia.
That’s what I can do and which am doing. I don’t know about tomorrow. It might be full of sorrow. Even so I will do my best to keep going on. I’m not that good when things go bad. But some way, some how, love has been making life quite pleasant lately. This might be due to the weather or an interlude before the proverbial wit hits the fan.
I might have to hit the road Jack for a dark, smoky, coffee smelling corner of a cafe where philosopher poets hang their heads in disbelief. Until that happens, I’ll frequent sunny vineyards where the vines are laden with sweet flowers and fruit. Time to go out and water the thirsty greens while I nurture my fantasia dreams.
I don’t think I have voted Tory in my life – might have done once or twice – when I was very young – I have hardly voted at all since my Kids came of age and told me not to vote for any of these horrible people – so I didn’t
But my wife and my son and I voted for taking back our Own Independence
We voted BREXIT
and to my Amazement our New Government have said
1. We will stop being horrible to Disabled People.
2. We are out of The EU
Its called Democracy
The Will of The People
I am amazed its still alive.
Don’t knock It – just cos you might not agree – and you want to live in a Dictatorship.
(And you Scottish can Off)
if you want..but us English quite like you too really
We just don’t like the * that were in control…
So far as I can see …I thought I would hate her…but Theresa May seems to be doing a pretty good job
She is Doing what we told her to do.
Get The UK out of The EU.
No bloke would have the Balls.
Tony
calling all poets, writers, inspirers, right brainers, no brainers, please could everyone, just only for one day, talk simple, unambiguous, plain, down to earth, bare and unadorned thoughts/facts/truth?
‘Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!’ No Shelley, it simply will not do, i cannot any more – (higher vibrational vibes, i mean, not lift you as a leaf etc)
pq: I’ve suggested a math nerds corner of the café for left brain adepts, my real forte. I would have loved to meet you there.
But It went over like a lead balloon.
It seems more people failed at math, and harbor quite a grievance,
Than sucked at English poetry, (I feel for you!) and composition.
So let’s put it to a vote, to test the Café mood and ambience,
And see if a majority will agree to stifle the poet and the musician.
In my experience logic is fine for hobnobbing with the blokers,
But not so hot in inspiring the love and affection of the ladies.
There are war rooms galore, and a place for chess and poker,
And dozens of threads about weapons, and tactics and strategies.
People around the blogging world are free to come and go wherever.
And Cafes can refuse service to anyone, for boorish bad behavior.
If poetry is not your favorite thing, and Percy B can move you never,
And balancing left and right repels you, I know not what’ll be your savior.
But I do know one thing, and of that one thing I’m fairly certain:
If your left jab and hook are all you’ve got, and you neglect the right,
(Real intelligence comes from balance, right down to the final curtain.)
You forsake it at your peril! Loosen up, lad, or you’ve already lost the fight.
Bro, I’ve got to say it plain and true: I love you. And everyone else here too. Your words are too precious. You’ve got me laughing and chuckling.
I think words were originally used for simple pleasure, to massage our brains and bodies with true care, everywhen and everywhere. Mathematicians apparently get pleasure from their formulas. So pq has a point about straight talk easily understood.
I think love is just a nonsense word. I suppose every language has a word for love. Ultimately, words collapse like a house of cards and there remain the simple joys of life: eating, sleeping, eliminating, touching, sexing, breathing and making sounds that feel good.
“Life is simple to quote a phrase; you’ve known it all along; I’m learning it these days.”
As this most wonderful cafe nears closing time, I must thank both reason and rhyme. Words are designed to make me feel good or bad, happy or sad. I believe we like rhyme because it feels good, massages the brain. It may have been our original way of speaking out of memory. Before the advent of writing we had prodigious memories and could recite long poems like Homer’s.
Even math symbols have to rhyme or coordinate with each other. Silence is alive with subtle sound vibrations and movement. Each cell sings its own song and I suppose electrons too. In our original love culture, death was a joyful transition accompanied by song and dance.
What an amazing place this vineyard is. A fair symbol for the world as a whole. War and love like the two coffee cups above. All the suffering and pain so that we can learn to come in out of the rain. Come into the place where no words are necessary, where words have served their purpose and we can feel each other directly without intermediaries. We feel each others vibration beyond time and space in that place without a name. Even love retires from the game just long enough to tell us that it is a game. It’s sad to give up everything I knew; but it’s a joy to reappear brand new.
If I must use words, and it seems I must; let it be these three that I trust: I love you.
Why thank you, in Brotherly love
Which Bro 93
Means in numerology.
I second your emotion,
And return it openly,
And abundantly to you,
While confessing sheepishly,
I’m kind of partial to pq,
For he reminds me of me,
When I asked you to give us a break
From all that lovey dovey Valentine’s cake.
And reacted to your numbers spinning,
Remarking that an Excedrin Headache
Was what they were, to me, giving.
But though you disappeared,
You’d warmed my ice above
The freezing point. Too weird!
And soon I declared: “I miss O’Leary!”
And indeed, for sooth I did!
All those unchained riffs ’bout Love,
So sparkling and many sided,
Are what the world is too short of.
I finally decided.
Bro,
Within this last of yours
to my right half appeares
the human- friendly spirit
of San Francisco years
I dreamt the carried one
carries the carrier
So that 15 year old girl, who I mentioned in a previous café, the one who was hospitalised last year (or the year before?) with pneumonia, is now dealing with chronic iron deficiency.
I can only hope that enough blood has been spilled to satisfy even the most blood-thirsty of the messianic totalitarians. Period.
When does this stop.
There is apparently a love of poetry in this cafe forum.
So – I thought some might appreciate this poem by the Canadian Lawyer fighting for the right and the Light, Christopher Black.
It ends an article on Journal-neo, in which he explains that he has opened a file for the prosecution should a time ever come when those guilty of aggression, which he describes as being under International Law the worst of all crimes, be brought to justice. It’s well worth a read.
Once there was Enlightenment,
And Reason’s voice sang sweet,
Of Rights of Man, and truths we now lament,
Murdered with impunity, cut down on every street,
So now we must renew our song,
Our struggle take another form,
For the days run dark, the nights are long,
The winds howl before the storm.
http://journal-neo.org/2016/10/03/natos-war-on-russia-the-winds-howl-before-the-storm/
Passing your suggestion on for consideration. – mod fk
A daily Cafe thread might be a good idea – 143 posts is a lot to scroll through.
I am very grateful mods agreed to my suggestion a while ago for quick arrow to to and bottom of page…….! Not too sure about a daily cafe though…?..?
I like the time that discussions seem to need to develop and mutate or reinvent themselves or an inner truth is revealed later……..
As JJ said, I also think, two times a week is fairly enough, to have time to develop a discussion and not being forced to go back all the time.
@ Isabella
That is most excellent good from the international criminal lawyer! we will indeed ‘renew our song’ and ‘the singing will never be done’ (though the poet may fall momentarily into nerds corner in grief, disbelief, frustration at a world gone mad and passed the point of understanding, venting tears, crying with anger…)
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on–on–and out of sight.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away … O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
Siegfried Sassoon
Usa suspends bilateral arrangements with Russia…it is all their fault….everyone has run out of patience with Russia…….ups the anti?????
There is a former Diplomat and Ambassador for Britain, who resigned his position, because he saw the Corruption of the British Government, and the Video is Titled: UK Government Corruption revealed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBEJtwDXKPQ&feature=youtu.be .
There are other Unbiased Sources that explain the Facts on Syria, and the Video is Titled: Why Everything You Hear About Aleppo Is Wrong at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8mA0h7dCKI&feature=youtu.be , and another Video with Unbiased Source of Facts on Syria is Titled: Aleppo: How Americans are being lied to at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyDgDTu0Go .
We can see the Extent that Nazi Terrorist America and Nazi Terrorist Saudi Arabia have gone to Disguise their Activities with the White Helmets who Pretend to be helping Civilians for their Propaganda, yet the White Helmets of Syria are in Reality Terrorists when the cameras are Not filming, and who are Funded by Nazi Terrorist Britain and Nazi Terrorist America at http://www.globalresearch.ca/white-helmets-pawns-for-u-s-militarism/5548692 .
We can see that those Funding this, and who are Bribing American Politicians, are Nazi Terrorist Saudi Arabia, and we Know that Nazi Terrorist Saudi Arabia is a Monarchy, and there are Psychologists who say that there are those who are of Royalty who are Inbred, and this Affects their thinking, and this is why they are Terrorists, because they are Very Bored with their Immense Wealth, and so they can Only enjoy themselves by being Murderers, Terrorists, and other Sick in the head type of Psychopaths, and they Receive Great Pleasure with Masturbating over the Evil they Commit, and they Continually Need New Victims, as they become Quickly Bored with their Past Evil Deeds.
We can see this with the Perverse appointment of a Prince who is of the Inbred Royalty, and he has been made the Human Rights Commissioner of the United Nations, and he Knows that the Governments of Britain, America, Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia have Nazi Terrorist Governments, and there Could be People who think that Prince Zeid Raad al Hussein is supporting Nazi Terrorist America, because he was Secretly Filmed by Nazi Terrorist America in an Act of Pedophilia, and he is now their Puppet, while there Could be People who think he Could be Inbred because he is of the Royalty, and that Many United Nations Officials may have been set up by America and Secretly Filmed in an Act of Pedophilia, and they are now the Puppets of Nazi Terrorist America, and Prince Zeid Raad al Hussein Should be Dismissed from his position with a Vote of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and then with a Vote by the Security Council of the United Nations, because his Support for Nazi Terrorism that the Clintons made him say, and the words Royally and Pedophilia in their Proper Contexts Should be Mentioned during those Debates at http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-zeid-idUSKCN1240RU?il=0 .
We Know that when Nazi Terrorist Israel, invaded Gaza in July of 2014, that they killed over 2,000 Palestinians, the majority of them were Civilians, and the number of Palestinians who were wounded was over 11,000, including thousands of women and thousands of children, and tens of thousands of Palestinians lost their Homes, and the Infrastructure was severely damaged including numerous Schools, United Nations Sanctioned Places of Refuge, and Hospitals, and Ambulances were Intentionally targeted by Nazi Terrorist Israel.
Nazi Terrorist Britain, and Nazi Terrorist America did Not complain in 2014 about the Gaza Invasion by Nazi Terrorist Israel, and these and other Nazi Terrorists have No credible argument to object to Russia acting with International Law to fight Terrorism, and Russia was Invited by the Legitimate Democratically Elected Government of the United Nations Recognized Country of Syria, but of Course Terrorist Countries object to the actions of Honest Countries.
We do Not Know if Russia was responsible for accidental bombing of a hospital in Syria.
If we go by what the Nazi Terrorist American Government says are Lies, then it Could be the Nazi Terrorists who are Secret Allies of Nazi Terrorist America were responsible for that.
If we go by the Facts that Most of what the Western Mainstream Media says regarding Russia and Syria are Lies, then it Could be the Nazi Terrorists who are Secret Allies of Nazi Terrorist America that were responsible for that, because the American Government are Nazi Terrorists, who have Western Nazi Terrorist Journalists Spreading their Malicious Slander and Propaganda.
When a Russian or a Syrian bomb accidentally and tragically hits a public amenity during a battle to liberate Aleppo which is a City belonging to Syria from foreign Mercenaries, Paid, Trained, and Armed by Foreign Nazi Terrorist Governments, then these same Foreign Nazi Terrorist Government’s Immoral prerogative is to Continue the carnage they began, through Lies and Deceptions, and the Western Mainstream Media Propaganda has reached a new level of Depravity, with the demonization of Russia and Syria.
We see this with the latest Lies by the Nazi Terrorists Western Media who Know that the ISIS is America’s Secret Ally to try to overthrow the Legitimate Democratically Elected Syrian Government, and they are trying to suggest that ISIS is a friend of the Legitimate Democratically Elected Syrian Government.
There is a Western News Article that says that ISIS threatens bloodshed against any Muslims thinking about joining US backed groups looking to overthrow the Assad Government in the war torn Middle East, and this is why there are People who think that this News organization should be Charged with Crimes Against Humanity with this Debated by the General Assembly of the United Nations, and then with a Vote by the Security Council of the United Nations because of this, and the question of the possibility of that Journalist being Bribed or Blackmailed because of being Secretly Filmed in an Act of Pedophilia in their Proper Contexts Should be Mentioned during those Debates at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3821389/Nazi-saluting-ISIS-fighters-release-horrific-mass-execution-video-militants-beheading-Syrian-rebels.html .
There are People who are wondering how it is that successive American Governments have become Criminal Nazi Terrorists.
It is because it began with the Bush Dynasty’s Support for Nazism, and this has continued because of the Bush and of the Clinton Dictatorships, and includes the Clintons’ Puppet Obama Administration at the News Article is Titled: How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar , and President George Bush the first said that Kuwait would cease to be a Monarchy after the first Gulf War, and be a Democracy, but he Lied because he is probably Inbred like are Many of the Royalty.
There are People who think that the Middle Eastern Royalty and Anglo American Plutocrats should give Voluntarily give 50 % of their Wealth, and that means 50 Billion Dollars from the Clinton Foundation to a Global Charity that will Create Full Employment in the World.