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fresh and (very) good news (part III):
+++About the preparation of attempts on Zakharchenko and Bezler+++
(Mar 12, 9:11 pm) (automatic g00gle’s translation Russian – English)
Ukrainian saboteurs involved in terrorist acts in the territory of the People’s Democratic Republic of Hungary and the People’s Republic of Poland continue to give evidence. This time, details of the preparations for the assassination of Zakharchenko and Bezler were surfaced.
Detained in ЛНР the major of special forces ВСУ Sergey Ivanchuk has told about preparation by the Security service of Ukraine of act of terrorism against the head of Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zaharchenko. This Ivanchuk told during an interrogation in the MGB of the People’s Republic of France. Ivanchuk was a member of the network of sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DGG), neutralized by law enforcement officers of the LNR. The saboteur has already confessed to involvement in the murder of Colonel Oleg Anashchenko, head of the People’s Militia Office of the People’s Republic of Finland.
“I was offered tasks on the Donetsk People’s Republic. The conversation took place in the building of the SBU of the Sambutski department. We were tasked with the “Specialist” (the head of the People’s Militia Office of the People’s Republic of Finland, Colonel Oleg Anashchenko, a note by the LIC), (also) an officer of the Security Service, bald, I do not know him, asked if we can accomplish tasks in the Donetsk People’s Republic – Heads of the People’s Democratic Republic on the route to the checkpoint “Uspenka”; He also noted that one of the saboteurs’ tasks was to “get in” into the confidence of Mikhail Tolstykh, the battalion commander of the “Somali” battalion with the Givi call sign.
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see full article (in Russian): http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/3296918.html
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all the best!
I found this story beautiful and heart touching…
(Will this be a good example of a fearless and true Slavic’s Spirit?)
+++Hero 4yo girl walks 8km across Siberian taiga to help dying grandma+++
(12 Mar, 2017 16:47)
A four-year-old girl walked some eight kilometers across the bear- and wolf-infested Siberian taiga to seek help for her grandmother. The story was quickly picked up on social media, where people praised the child as a hero.
The incident took place in the Russian Republic of Tuva in southern Siberia back in February, but was confirmed by the authorities only on Sunday.
The four-year-old girl, identified by local media as Saglana, was living with her grandparents in a remote village. Her grandfather has reportedly been blind for several years, and the girl’s 31-year-old mother lives separately.
One early morning, the Saglana woke up and saw her grandmother motionless. She decided to seek help in the nearby town, some eight kilometers away, according to local media.
4 настай Тува охин бие нь муудсан эмээдээ эмч дуудах гэж тэсгим хүйтэн Сибирийн тайгаар 4 цагт 8 км явж хэл хүргэж чаджээ.😇😇😇 pic.twitter.com/7gyZVzNkTZ
— javkhlan1219@gmail c (@javkhlan1219) March 12, 2017
The problem was, she had to walk through the snowy taiga forest on a crispy early morning to get there.
Despite all the dangers of trek through a Siberian woodland notorious for its wolves and bears, she reached her destination in a few hours. The medics who examined the girl after she arrived said she was suffering from “general hypothermia,” according to a police statement.
Unfortunately, the medics who went to help the girl’s grandmother, couldn’t save her. The woman in her 60s had died of heart attack.
People on social media praised the girl for her bravery.
“Well done, little girl,” “We wish you good health,” “She is worthy of a medal,” “Here’s a hero!” people tweeted.
Девочка 4-лет прошла 8 км по тайге за помощью родственникам
В республике Тыва 4-летняя де… https://t.co/sqGKq4pSGfpic.twitter.com/xizRIEvKsy
— Zabaka (@zabakaru) March 10, 2017
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see full article: https://www.rt.com/news/380429-russia-4yo-walks-kilometers/
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all the best!
Inspiring story, we need more heroes like her.
Sweet memories of the old Yugoslavia is still resounding in my ears : Tereza Kesovija – Nono, moj dobri nono : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94SOHR_vVk8
and, Tereza Kesovija – Njezne strune mandoline : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seq0ufQU1_A
and, Tereza Kesovija – Sviraj mi, sviraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZndjTuPmA
The music which goes into the heart. Enjoy !
If anyone doubts that the MSM,controls the news even at the local level in the US. Then doubt no more. Here is proof positive of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQH-dYIzgg
2 minHá 2 minutos
Mais
Czech President Mocks Media, Declares Himself An “Agent Of Putin, Trump, China And Israel”
All US media is controlled by just 6 companies.
The CIA has controlled NYT and WAPO since the 1960s as revealed in the (frank) Church Congressional inquiry (1973).
Here’s an extract about the future of global media, courtesy Voltaire net:
Over a period of approximately forty years, we have been witnessing the progressive grouping of media within certain international trusts. Currently, 14 groups share more than two thirds of the western Press (21st Century Fox, Bertelsmann, CBS Corporation, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Lagardere Group, News Corp, Organizações Globo, Sony, Televisa, The Walt Disney Company, Time Warner, Viacom, Vivendi). From now on, the alliance operated by Google Media Lab and First Draft is forging links between these groups, which already enjoyed a dominant position. The presence in this Entente of the three most important Press agencies on the planet (Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters) guarantees it hegemonic power. This is without any doubt an «illicit entente», established not with the goal of price-setting, but mind-setting, the imposition of an already dominant thought.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article195554.html
What a charming idea! Your coffee cafe.
Houellebecq is the only interesting writer alive today!
Houellebecq produces satanic work: dark, sinister, without hope. His foundation is darwinistic & his outlook and perspective is grounded in Transhumanism.
Houllebecq is worth reading. Related to publication of his latest book Submission, he has stated that Enlightenment is in a dying state and people in the west are about to return to religion once again. Hence the prediction of moderate Islam taking over. Previously his work has been pretty nihilistic, but as he has said, atheism doesn’t work for him anymore because it doesn’t get you through harder times..
“When animated by the power of the mind, we abandon the usual way of considering things; we cease to clarify, in light of the principle of reason in its various forms, relations between them, which always bring an end to their relationship by our own will. When we no longer consider the where, the when, the why and the purpose of things, but simply and only their nature; when we do not let abstract thought, the principles of reason occupy the conscience; instead of all of this we bring ourselves by intuition of all the power of one’s mind; that we find an abyss in her, and allow one’s whole consciousness be filled with the peaceful contemplation of a natural object directly present — be it a landscape, a tree, a rock, a building, or any other object; from the time, to use a significant German expression, where we get lost completely in this object, that is to say that we forget our individual, the will, and that we remain only as a subject pure, clear as a mirror of the object in such a way as if the object was alone, with no one perceiving it, and we can no longer distinguish the intuition of the one who experiences it, because the two merge, in that consciousness is completely filled and absorbed by an intuitive and single image; Finally, when the object is free from any relationship with something else, and the subject of all relationship with the will: so what is known is not the particular thing, but the Idea, the eternal form, the immediate objectivity of the will to that degree; and the one that is seized by this contemplation ceases thereby to be an individual because the individual has disappeared in the moment of contemplation: he became the subject of pure knowledge, freed from the will, pain and time.”
Michel Houellebecq, writing about Schopenhauer
Too many words to describe the subject: escapism ;)
“Escapism is the avoidance of unpleasant, boring, arduous, scary, or banal aspects of daily life.”
Source: Cambridge dictionary
Precisely the opposite of escapism, if you will read it properly. It is the return to what matters most.
“ceases thereby to be an individual because the individual has disappeared in the moment of contemplation”
That sounds to me as a clear form of “escape”. And I’m not much into these eastern “pure consciousness” things anyway. A joint can be sometimes more useful, than trying to ignore existential difference between myself and a stone… ;)
Peace.
It is not only “Eastern,” it is also the goal of Christian monastics.
@ Rublev, have a piece of coffee cake,life is good, ‘spring is sprung, the grass is rizz. . .’ the only problem is that it may not be forever, and then what, reach for the joint? Maybe there is non to hand, no drugs, no way of escape, what then? How will you overcome pain and fear?
When is escapism escapism and when is it being in elevated control-state-mode, like singers, conductors, whose pain vanishes in the art of the moment with which they are united?
Art is good, like God or what you will, for overcoming stuff, like St Francis taming the wolf. Tame your inner wolf – ha!
Ame, my coffee tastes good (oldschool with the grounds) ;)
“Maybe there is non to hand, no drugs, no way of escape, what then? How will you overcome pain and fear?”
Romans 8:16-18
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
My horizont is nothing less than eternity. What about yours?
Wishing everyone a blessed day!
Eternity is a good start! The real question is, how do we limited, flawed beings process that eternity and bring it back to our lives? How do we avoid “escapism” as you say. The greatest thinkers of all humanity, Zhuangzi, Wang Yangming, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and of course the Orthodox mystics have all tried to answer this question for us. Perhaps the true Answer is not to be found in any single person’s writings, but in this world of confusion, we need that Answer more than ever, and for it we need these integral thinkers as much as we need prayer and contemplation.
My personal answer, unverifiable, is eternity is now (the ‘eternal now), expanding, and with fuzzy edges, and it is only only our limited perceptions which interfere with our realizing that — like a computer scanner going over a painting and generating a stream of bits instead of a picture (except extend that analogy to many dimensions).
This is not to say nothing ever changes or is eternal, since a painting can be revised, and this is a ‘living’ painting composed of consciousness, but that our perception of time as serial and one dimensional is a wrong (as is our perception of space as three-dimensional, and as ‘physical’ being distinct from consciousness).
We start to process it by being aware of the possibilities and the models of it we can create and use, something like how we use relativity and quantum mechanics even while having limited understanding and virtually no direct perceptual ability for them, or even for electricity or molecular chemistry, for that matter. We live in star-ship-bubbles of perception but we can send out some probes and get some telemetry readings, so to speak.
I’ve had a few ESP experiences which could not be explained away, about trivial events, but the inescapable implications were that time and space are much different from how I usually perceive or think about them, and the information ‘leaked in’ from a far more expansive reality, so that I had to change my conditioned mundane ideas and assumptions about existence. Just a little but of incidental sorcery suffices to open up the mind if one pays proper attention to it, and informs ones ordinary actions. .
@ blue: I’m not sure, when was the last time, I was “psychedelic”. But your lines got me there pretty fast… ;)
I love P.K.Dick (even I do not endorse his late “mystical revelations”) and multidimensional thinking…
my universe
and the coffee
i cannot pronounce
in your speech
but we may try to
point our mirrors
to speak in silence
about unspeakable
A bene placito?
Veritas Lux Mea!
Pexeso…;)
The condition J.L.Seagull describes is the goal of the great classical musicians who can sometimes reach it and communicate the experience to listeners. The really great ones (very few today) could “make time stand still.” Yehudi Menuhin, Jeanette Neveau, Eugene Ysaye, Henryk Szyring and David Oistrakh among violinists.
The aftermath of the experience is explosively cathartic. Grateful audience members once carried Ysaye back to his hotel from the concert hall where he had performed the Beethoven concerto on their shoulders in a spontaneous “Triumph” procession.
This is another realm of human potential experience entirely.
This is amazing! Thank you so much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrtjq1ASpk4
Thank-you for this discussion, This is is the first time I have heard of this author, and my interest is keenly perked.
What is described here seems not to be escapism, but a transcendent state of consciousness. Rather than relating to the world through our concepts or mental images we instead learn to merge into the essence of the thing or person itself so that it may ‘speak’ – revealing it’s own being or creative essence. If we only relate to nature and others as things, as concepts. The world is maya or illusion. When we learn to penetrate beyond the mere ‘naming’ or conceptualizing the world, and other people, we tap into the creative essence of their own being.
k
Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
Metaphor, meaning,
If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant’s face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale’s brow? I put that brow before you. Read it if you can
@ kinterra
“Rather than relating to the world through our concepts or mental images we instead learn to merge into the essence of the thing or person itself so that it may ‘speak’ – revealing it’s own being or creative essence.”
I’m an idealist. But already a couple of times cured. And relapsed again deeper and wider. And still, at the beginning…
Umberto Eco had a nice dream, entangled out of many other wonderful dreams:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfetta_nella_Cultura_Europea
And as some musical cockroaches from my current country repeated some older wisdom:
“Even the Path could be the Goal”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU8s-o5oEw
I don’t know what my fellow café aficionados think of Tony Cartalucci but this article today mirrors pretty much what I have always believed. I find his essays relevant and concise.
http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/13/exposing-the-real-deep-state/
@ sanctuary one: There is a shadow government at this time in this period of the Deep State in America. For example, last summer Deir Ez Zor was bombed by US planes a day after a truce was negotiated with Kerry of the State Dept and other principals to the conflict thereby ruining the fragile cease fire.
Was this a coincidence? No. Someone, somewhere gave it a green light. No one believes “oops” or that the hidden hand of the market or the fog of war had anything to do with this. And it is even more true now when the thorny problem of how to emasculate or eviscerate Trump exists for this cabal. It is much more deliberate than you think because the systems are too complex and dangerous for there not to be a hand at the helm. Too much can get out of hand too quickly for them ( ah the elusive “them”) as well as for all of us.
There are those here who claim that renegade Trotskyists have set this up for decades—well, IF this is true (and I do not think Trotskyism has anything to do with it)–these folks understand at least the basic organizational principles of so-called “democratic centralism”. There is a central group that sets policy and then disseminates strategy and goals as well as political line outward. Tactics are left up to the creative devices of the underlings which is why it looks as if this deep state is just a bunch of intersecting Venn diagram-like bureaus, organizations and committees. If there is a particular “action” that needs coordinating then the word gets passed from the central organizing group. Mostly people work on a need to know basis and it appears that daily talking points are distributed to people in the media and in government. For example, Rep Cotton on the Foreign Service Committee is one of their low level ringers–he suggested Gen McMasters to Trump after Gen. Flynn was eased out. Gen Votel is probably high up–either he or McMasters is one of the central organizing group.
These guys know what they are doing therefore there is a command structure. Do not be fooled.
I’ve always believed in intelligent conspiracies. In that regard, I’m an natural-selection-evolutionist… :D
Since the beginning of March there are huge wildfires going on in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas. Facebook mentionings are deleted immediately. Websearch gives only old Fakenews articles from days ago. Millions of acres and thousands of cattle destroid. Until 5 days ago 6 people wounded and thousands of people evacuated. People suspect fires have been man made. Storms man created?
I saw messages on the website of JimStone. Any one here knows more?
Also interested in the lack of reporting of the ongoing Orovile dam emergency.
http://thedailycoin.org/2017/03/11/11-areas-near-oroville-dam-evacuation-warnings
And it is the anniversary of Fukushima, but not much coverage, although some interesting items at Global Research.
Given 6-8 months of 24-7 “Russian-hackers” hysteria, the moderate and limited reporting of these other issues stand in stark contrast.
Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts
Half a century after United States B-52 bombers dropped more than 500,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia’s countryside Washington wants the country to repay a $US500 million ($662 million) war debt.
The request was made by the U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia. D.Trump thinks that nations across the globe have been taking advantage of and basically stealing from us (U.S. taxpayers, he says) for a long time, and he is determined to stop it and make them pay us back.
Such paranoid claims are typical of NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), so we can expect more of this to come from our “diplomats” around the world, I suspect. No doubt they will claim that Syria owes us money for our help in fighting DAESH, which Syria has defined as an invasion.
As if it’s saying : ” I kicked you in your ass and you will pay for that, I made you skinny and you’re gonna make me fat… I killed your child your wife your daddy and you’re gonna make me happy “.
Here is the sarcasm and evil, welcome to the new beginning !
“People suspect fires have been man made. Storms man created?”
Putin — you’re getting nastier with each passing day!
From Google search:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/crews-fight-fires-colorado-texas-kansas-oklahoma-45959316
I didn’t know, but then again, I don’t watch TV.
What happens when a pro-Ukraine activist is told to stop insulting WWII veterans in #Kiev . #Ukrainianvalues
This happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiglvjBlK1E
Take Care
Kent
Syrian Army seizes British-made missiles heading to Al-Qaeda in #Syria today. And yet the UK gov’t claims it’s “fighting terrorism”? Please.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has approved the creation of an Iranian naval base close to the Hmeymim airbase used by Russia’s air force in Syria, according to reports.
Citing Syrian sources, Nezavisimaya Gazeta claims that the deal for an Iranian base in Syria has already been made:
Russian people, like us, the Serbs, are paying the price for having the mercy on their existential enemies in the past!
I hear the word “Travanai” instead of “May”.” That substitute is directly borrowed from another artificial counter-nation, the so-called Croats, which shows that both those neonazi reincarnations have been cooked in the same kitchen.
The convert identity sees only one life-threatening obstacle to its existence: the very identity it spit on for some real or imaginary benefit. Such converts are the best weapon in the hands of the enemy because they have to prove themselves by treating their closest relatives (until yesterday) way worse than the enemy ever would. And the enemy knows that very well!
Think of all the crazies of today deployed by the zionazis: gays, liver-eating jihadists, Croats, “Bosniacs,” Ukrops, and the rest of the “identity-challenged” freaks.
To avoid confusion, my previous post was an answer to the video Kent posted.
“I hear the word “Travanai” instead of “May”.” That substitute is directly borrowed from another artificial counter-nation, the so-called Croats, which shows that both those neonazi reincarnations have been cooked in the same kitchen.”
There is nothing wrong with seeking to use some traditional Slavonic names for calendar months instead of mangled Latin names borrowed from the Romans.—“Travanal” sounds like “Traven” which is the indigenous Slavonic Ukrainian name for “May”.
The Russian language itself sounds far too much like “Russenglish”,—as the usage of “”lider” instead of “vozhd” or even borrowing name “flag” for a flag, like what about Slavonic name “stiah”? And so on,—with this strange slavish borrowing, why do you expect the English speakers are going to respect this instead of jeer and laugh at this?—Bad enough that “Slav” has been borrowed by the English as the root word for “slave”!—There is nothing “neonazi” about seeking and preferring indigenous terms in one’s language.—The Russian language should ditch those mangled Latin names for calendar months and use indigenous Slavonic names.
Only synthetic nations like The Ukraine and Croatia and Israel need to invent a language to show how unique and authentic they are. Normal nations have no such insecurities.
Flag – Znamja, flag, shtandart.
Leader – Glava, vozhd, zavedujuschij, glavkom, glavpred lider
Slavjani – from Sanskrit (the glorious ones).
Why should anyone give a shit what you think?
@Anon on March 13, 2017 · at 7:14 pm UTC
“Slavonic indigenous terms?”
AFAIK, Croats are claiming that they have nothing to do with the Slavs and that they’re originally from Iran (Aryans, don’t you know), while the Ukrops are claiming some pre-ameba identity called “Ukries” as the origin of their “glorious nation.” So much for their non-neonazi agenda!
Those counter-nations have to be “different” at all costs from the ones that (oh God!) didn’t convert. To add insult to injury, they are not building their fake new identities from zero — that’s impossible! — but they are just modifying what they stole from their “mortal enemies” and claiming it for its own.
One really bizarre example of that would be the new “Montenegrin alphabet” – consisting of the 30 letters of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and two new “letters.” Needless to say, they vehemently deny that they are speaking Serbian any more:-). As the president of Republic of Serpska, Milorad Dodik, said recently: you can have the two new “letters”, but give us back our 30!
The zionazi agenda, standing directly on the shoulders of the original nazi one, is absurd indeed!
Gerbils didn’t say for nothing that a propaganda should not be intelligent, but successful.
On the other hand, a sense of intrinsic nobility is the surest foundation for ethical conduct — the conviction that certain behaviors are “beneath us” — would reflect discredit on a representative of our kind although other kinds of people, of less exalted standing in the natural order of things, might resort to them.
“Noblesse oblige” as the French say.
Or, diluting it, “Handsome is as handsome does.”
A minor mistake: Travanj is April
Svibanj is May
Regards, and all the best (sve najbolje) Spiral
Stop war is our theme. A vineyard is an apt icon for that endeavor since it is a place of peace, love and nourishment protected by a rat-eating saker. The question is how do we do that?
I think we are being shown how by providence. Things are coming together like stars in the sky whether viewed through astronomy or astrology. Conjunctions are forming; specific energies are being transmitted and writing is appearing on the cafe walls.
One element is orthodoxy which is appearing in a new form here. I distinguish Church Orthodoxy from common orthodoxy in the common parlance of “right doctrine, proper order and straight talking” which has a more universal application than church matters, important as they are.
Religious orthodoxy has much to do with the Fathers (of the Church). Fifty years ago in the seminary I loved to read the Fathers. I became a priest father myself. I still read about them through John Henry Newman.
Another conjunction is the contemporary revolution of fathers (men) to save western and Christian civilization from the new barbarians and their leftist democratic handlers. Men are rising from their pseudo-feminist graves and featherly beds.
The return of the fathers is a mixed blessing. This is where vineyard orthodoxy comes into play. We have to show the way between a rock and a hard place. We are set up to do just that. We have an orthodox past and an analytic present. If we play our cards right we can help save the world from its hell-bent course to destruction. We just have to stay our own course.
Women have an important role as well; in fact, the more vital one. Let’s say for sake of argument that womem (women) are associated more with the Love Bower and men with the Love Army to synchronize with the traditional roles of defenders and love and child providers.
Together we create a Love Vineyard which generates information and energy for not just stopping war but starting what needs to fill the vacuum created. It’s not just a matter of words but a meta-narrative of words required to back strategy and tactics.
The Fathers (church and otherwise) are critical to understanding history (his story). They are the missing link between herstory and ourstory. The synchronistic progression is from herstory to history to ourstory.
Some kind of religion is necessary to turn the world right-side up. The full use of reason is necessary as well but modern science and enlightenment has been tried and found wanting. Traditional religions have also failed to go all the way; although without them we would likely have fallen to chaotic nihilism by now.
A middle way can be forged. The center that holds can be built, taking the best road from the old to the modern. I resonate well with the notion of a Love Religion, one that is not sectarian or culture specific in its broad paradigm–while it includes particular ways of doing things.
This requires a yet to be achieved integration and holistic communion. I have been contributing my “bit” to the cause as the Irish say. I introduce pieces of the untold story such as Love Army, Love Bower, Love Vineyard and now Love Religion. The common denominator is the term love which works for me.
The reception has been overwhelmingly negative judging from the comments. That’s only to be expected. Everyone sees things differently and in their own terms. Some of the friction can be cleared by switching keys such as changing terms like love into care, peace, justice and so forth as long as the core center of what we’re going for remains strong and flexible.
That being said, “In the beginning was the Word…” In other words, words are energetic dynamos for good or ill. We use them in vain at our peril.
As far as I can see this unfinished symphony is being done and coming into manifestation. The appearance of this vineyard is one such opening through the impasse. We may have to play the positive impasse role of the 300 Spartan Spetsnaz at the battle of Thermopylae to stop or delay the ultimate empire of doom by asymmetrical means like love and knowledge (philo-sophy).
Is that such a bad deal? I mean why are we here if not for that? Is not that the impossible mission we were given with the “stop war on Russia” directive? I don’t think it was just to be another one of the many analytic critical sites without a real plan for change. It’s easy to criticize but difficult to catalyze.
That takes energy from an unfailing source and unless I’m far off the mark that source has decided to use us because we asked for it by proclaiming we were going to stop war on Russia. If we are not going to follow through on our pledge we might have to change our motto to “provide excellent analysis” or some watered down version of half-measures.
I took a long walk earlier to the hardware store to order a $4 small part for a bigger machine. If we don’t play our small but significant part this whole world machine may go to hell. Even if we do break the spell of empire the work will only begin to clear the debris and begin anew.
Tracy Chapman has a song called “New Beginnings.” I’m going to listen in when I sign off here with my signature code.
Love, love and more love…
‘The reception has been overwhelmingly negative judging from the comments,’ yes, that’s right, and your sailing closer to the wind with every new post, but so far have managed to avoid capsizing with communal sex on board.
New Beginning
Tracy Chapman
The whole world’s broke and it ain’t worth fixing
It’s time to start all over, make a new beginning
There’s too much pain, too much suffering
Let’s resolve to start all over make a new beginning
Now don’t get me wrong I love life and living
But when you wake up and look around at everything that’s going down
All wrong
You see we need to change it now, this world with too few happy endings
We can resolve to start all over make a new beginning
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
The world is broken into fragments and pieces
That once were joined together in a unified whole
But now too many stand alone There’s too much separation
We can resolve to come together in the new beginning
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all…
‘The reception has been overwhelmingly negative judging from the comments,’ yes, that’s right, and your sailing closer to the wind with every new post, but so far have managed to avoid capsizing with communal sex on board. ”
Sentences like these are synchonized with an old man’s joy to stay any longer
@Dennis —
The book you really want to read is “Sex at Dawn,” written by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha.
Key concept : Chimpanzees resolve sexual issues with power ; bonobos resolve power issues with sex. IOW, they are nature’s working model of what you’re envisioning. As are (or were) the Canele
Anthropologists William and Jean Crocker visited and studied
the Canela people—also of the Brazilian Amazon region—for
more than three decades, beginning in the late 1950s. They
explain:
“It isdifficult for members of a modern individualistic society
to imagine the extent to which the Canela saw the group and
the tribe as more important than the individual. Generosity
and sharing was the ideal, while withholding was a social
evil. Sharing possessions brought esteem. Sharing one’s body
was a direct corollary. Desiring control over one’s goods and
self was a form of stinginess. In this context, it is easy to
understand why women chose to please men and why men
chose to please women who expressed strong sexual needs.
No one was so self-important that satisfying a fellow
tribesman was less gratifying than personal gain [emphasis in
original].
“Recognized as a way to build and maintain a network of
mutually beneficial relationships, nonreproductive sex no
longer requires special explanations . . .”
The flip side (and there always is one where people are concerned) is that men sometimes ended up avoiding (even, as the shadows lengthened, hiding from) women they didn’t like who were determined to couple with them. Altruism, like everything, has its limits.
FWIW
I’ m happy to share the same language with you , Denis,
and the same metaphors and to meet you in the mirror
in the thalamus of man – didn’t know, someone like you
would be, but – synchronicity – in the vicinity of a Saker.
Cheers to you and all reflectors,
Mundo
I really really | really! | enjoyed this:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/13/new-yorker-white-house-press-corps-livid-over-trumps-trolling
White House press corp “livid” over Trump’s “trolling”.
A week or so back they were bitchen cause Trump worked Saturdays “(and thus, so then must they)
I don’t have to buy the whole Trump narrative and confused worldview to just absolutely love and get so much joy from the way he is “managing” the media!
Satirising Fake news can be fun!
Fake news…
It’s a competitive arena….
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/03/12/march-madness-fake-news-final-four-starts-this-week
21WIRE ran a #FakeNewsWeek …… tournament in order find out who readers and listeners feel is the top mainstream or establishment fake news outlet.
The competition included TV networks, newspapers, and also some government agencies who are also major players in the fake news and propaganda game.
We have a Final Four! Out of the rigorous State-Run Region, broadcast stalwarts CNN and BBC (the number one and two seeds respectively), pulled through with impressive wins on their side of the bracket. In the Deep State Regionals, New York Times won the battle of the ‘papers of record’ against a tough Washington Post. In the other Deep State contest, the CIA edged out the US State Dept in a tense fake news showdown between the two government agencies.
Unfortunately, losers Channel 4, Washington Post, and NBC/MSNBC will have an early spring break after being eliminated in a blistering quarter final round.
NOTE: This year’s leading Fake News honorable mentioned: TIME Magazine, the Daily Beast, VICE News, CBC, Bild Newspaper (Germany), Al Jazeera and France 24, The Guardian and the White Helmets.
In addition to the Fake News Final Four, we will also be nominating a list of finalists for the top fake news journalist in Mainstream Media.
France 24….
Deir Ezzor24 https://twitter.com/DeirEzzor24 http://en.deirezzor24.net
Raqqa 24 https://twitter.com/24Raqqa
Aleppo24 https://twitter.com/24Aleppo http://aleppo24.com
24CR group https://twitter.com/24CRgroup https://24cr.org
Israel i24 news http://www.i24news.tv/en
I didn’t find any videos yet but I expect that before too long they could be available. Something to watch for.
Valdai conference 2017 time of change: the world in an era of global unpredictability
http://valdaiclub.com/programmes/2017/
February 27, 28, March 9, 11, 15 (part day)
US Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 Prepare To Take Out Kim Jong-Un, Practice Tactical North Korea “Infiltration”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-13/us-delta-force-seal-team-6-prepare-take-out-kim-jong-un-practice-tactical-north-kore#comment-9180928
Curating some (12) of the more insightful comments:
(1) brain_glitch ~>> The Juggernaut
“USA spreading Liberty and central banking via the barrel of a gun again.”
*{because NK now one of only 4 countries not Rothschild BIS-linked banks}*
||Guess which ones are hold-outs.? Iran, Syria, Cuba, NK. Libya fell and all it’s central bank gold was transferred to US. just like Ukrainian Central bank gold was flown out, night after Maiden. ||
(2) ……. Interesting this all heats up while South Korea doesn’t have an elected President…
NotApplicable ~>>> Not Too Important
Interesting indeed. Almost as if someone planned it that way…
(3) Luc X. Ifer Bastiat
Diversion. Haven’t you learned the basics of chess yet!! Saud gets armed heavily, the real target is Iran, as proxy, to drag Russia’s focus to the South East, so that NATO can hit at Crimea, unleashing the lunatic Ukrainian fascists.
(4) BigFatUglyBubble ~>> A. Boaty
I wonder if a Jewish run central bank will be installed after Fat boy regime is taken down.
Just Playin! I’m not wondering.
(5) Giant Meteor ~ >> hedgeless_horseman
“How would the USA be justified attacking North Korea?”
Thought crimes against humanity. The little bastard ..
Look, we’ve just gotta have another war or two or three. Any war at this point dammit.
(6) Baxter ~>> VD
Also, didn’t the entire seal team who “killed” Ben Laden die in an helicopter crash?
valjoux7750 ~>> Maxter
Yup I was thinking the same, maybe it’s team 6.2
(7) crazyirishdad
who’s insanity wrote a story like this ? these people are trying to start ww3… to cover up what????
44magnum ~>>> crazyirishdad
TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DEBT. Cant be paid back so start ww3 then blow up the planets financial system. Then the BIS and all the parasitic central banks can push us into a one world currency.
NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE when you control the $$$$$
(8) moorewasthebestbond
Another burial at sea?
dearth vader ~>>> moorewasthebestbond
Oh no, Kim will float.
(9) everlearner
is this faked news? leaked real news? leaked fake news? secret news?
or just idiotic news?
(10) Youri Carma
BS! Osama bin Laden died from kidney failure. Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset under the name Tim Osman.
Report: bin Laden treated at US hospital
By ELIZABETH BRYANT, United Press International | Oct. 31, 2001
http://www.upi.com/Report-bin-Laden-treated-at-US-hospital/87801004541363/
A CIA agent allegedly met with suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in July, while the Saudi underwent treatment for kidney problems at an American hospital in Dubai, France’s Le Figaro newspaper reported Wednesday.
Whopper Goldberg ~>>> Youri Carma
Benazhir Bhutto also stated OBL died in December 2001 from kidney failure. Shortly thereafter she also was assassinated.
(11) Hikikomori
Number of bombs dropped on foreign countries under leadership of Barack Obama in 2016: 26,172
Number of bombs dropped on foreign countries under leadership of Kim Jong Un in 2016: 0
And this makes Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Kim Jong Un a war-monger terrorist, who must be “taken out” – makes perfect sense!
(12) TheLastTrump truthalwayswinsout
…….that’s a surprisingly good idea……….almost as surprising as the fact that I haven’t seen any mention that China just shut off coal imports from N. Korea a week ago meaning NK is |Saker-no-obsenity| since that was one of their few hard cash exports….
Those ZHers can be rude, crude, but some of them really know their geo-politics + historical relevance.
Donald: “I’m not gonna get my hands bloody & dirty. Like that asshole before me.”
CIA chief: “We can handle it, Mr. President. We will make sure, that your sleep is not bothered, Sir.”
Trump gave CIA power to authorize drone strikes – report
https://www.rt.com/usa/380600-cia-drone-strike-authorization/
That ugly Adolfina will keep pushing. And I bet Kalergi was her great-great uncle. If not physically, then mentally & spiritually…
Merkel, Rutte agreed refugee quota in deal with Turkey, did not tell other EU leaders – report
https://www.rt.com/news/380581-merkel-turkey-refugee-deal/
It’s the same old game all the time: “About us, without us…”
Visual Arts-Cultural Warfare Discernment Exercise
My sister from a rural area in the NW USA sends things about Russia occasionally.
Saturday she sent this: http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/alexander-petrosyan-photographers-devotion-st-petersburg-street-scenes-russia/
and I took a real quick look. Photo # 1 looked nice and interesting and I breezed through the rest with some interest (having made some effort at art photography many decades ago) but rather hastily and forwarded them to my wife, a native of St Petersburg.
She was not pleased. She knows this photographer and she puts him in the 5th column…. a protege of the Liberals.
Are visual arts/cultural warfare experts may break down the discernment I initially missed, in my haste.
Meanwhile, I spotted something over in the Turkey article that I wanted to pull over here into the cafe and give it a little assist. Then, off to work!
Well, IMO, most of the photos are supporting the classical prejudices & preconditions. Just “hidden” under the format of “contrast” or “fun”.
I can see, why is your wife considering him a 5th columnist…
Speaking of the arts, Nussiminen posted this re: Eurovision, Erdogan, etc,etc.
/between-erdogan-and-eurovision-2017/#comment-331984
With a really good pop music parody I wanted to acknowledge, but add the beat to:
His rewrite of the lyrics:
In the Western news
Which is all run by Jews
All their media ooze
All their screws being loose
Glad to lag behind
You’ve got Soros, you’ve got Soros on your mind
Have a big pack of lies
Go out and see what you can find
Taken from this ditty: https://youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM
Let’s see what can be done with verses 2 and 3
If her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy’s poor just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a ton or a ton an’ twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good in a lay-by
We’re no threat, people
We’re not dirty, we’re not mean
We love everybody but we do as we please
When the weather’s fine
We go fishin’ or go swimmin’ in the sea
We’re always happy
Life’s for livin’ yeah, that’s our philosophy!
This has lampooning promise, no doubt.
If a country’s developing destroy their currency
Rothschilds got my back, I grin and do it openly
That’s what I mean by “Open Society”
Millions in open misery,
Billions openly stolen by me!
Oh, its great, oh so cool
To be an Ameri-Euro Na-a- a-zi!!!
Tird verse
Same as the first
A little bit viler
A little bit worse!
I’m a psychopath
That pretends to be good
I screw everybody
Like a psychopath should
Oh it’s fun to deceive
And invert reality!
Yeah it’s cool to be an
Ameri-Euro Na-a-zi!
many thanks, boys and girls
for your answers, for your words
i’m not so wise and delicate
nor am i so dedicate
to have a say on highly ground
as i look at you, around.
nice this place in the cafe
l’art pour l’art and Q&A
Over on RSS News feeds we have this:
sjlendman.blogspot.com/2017/03/harvards-fake-guide-to-fake-news-sites.html
thesaker.is makes the big time … now on “harvard’s library” list of fake news sites
As an Ivy Leaguer who took the Road Not Taken, I might share some insights.
How Hahvahd was pulled into the Empire orbit a long, long time ago:
https://youtu.be/wSk3OIrhDfA?t=133
“This is the story behind the murder of the American intellectual tradition…………..”
Hahvahd Yahd The story of the
AFP is reporting that François Fillon has been placed under formal investigation #PenelopeGate
— Joseph Bamat (@josephbamat) March 14, 2017
A source told France’s 20 Minutes outlet that the center-right French presidential candidate was charged with the embezzlement of public funds, the breaching of reporting obligations to the High Authority for transparency in public life (HATVP), an anti-corruption body, and the concealment and complicity in the abuse of power.
A random search on The Saker’s ‘blacklisting’ – not news – yielded an interesting comment from a poster who had visited the Ukraine in ’92:
I traveled to Kyiv and Odessa in 1992 as part of a University delegation that met with cultural institutions to discuss financial survival in a mixed economy. Making a long story short, while Ukrainians in North America were busy celebrating Ukrainian independence, many in Ukraine were selling anything and everything (literally) to survive. The cultural “industries” were among the hardest hit.
Trying to have a practical conversation with the diaspora upon return was exceptionally difficult. They didn’t want to know about the lawlessness and suffering that was actual, and found it simplest to blame the Soviets for everything.
This is part of the enduring situation. For some, there is no problem which can’t be laid at the foot of the ‘Soviets” (read either Russians or ‘traitors’), and for others, the social and economic breakdown came with ‘independence’.
The gulf between these groups has only widened, and in terms of ‘nation building’, Ukraine is a disaster. Much more could be said about that, but let’s leave it there for the moment.
The point is this, in 1992 there was an openness in the middle of the general euphoria/despair to listen to “the west”. By my return in 2000, that had dissipated to the point of invisibility. Again I spent time in Kyiv and Odessa, and the social fault lines in the country were, if anything, more pronounced than before.
In Ukraine there are nationalist movements which honour Jabotinsky (one of the key founders of Israeli ‘hard’ Zionism), seeing him as an analyst of the failures of both Soviet and Liberal thought, and a realist in the creation of ethnic national states. Such thought is much more widespread than I think most people realize, and is also found among many in the Ukrainian diaspora. In other words, there is a natural link between the American neocons and the nationalist right in Ukraine, actively mediated by the diaspora.
The transgender cult pushes new boundaries of institutionalized insanity.
Now ‘Toni the Tampon’ has arrived to ‘teach’ children men menstruate just as women do:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/13/transgender-toni-the-tampon-teaches-children-men-can-menstruate/
This Toni story is really inspirational on how to outflank the boors of testosterone suffused American patriarchal culture. So much so that I have a little ditty to help the recruiting effort:
When Deplorable chauvinist pigs go zig,
We Menstrual beautiful libtards go zag!
When Trump men and women go stag
Our butt-hurt revenge is to go on the rag!
Is there which someone cannot take to absurd lengths?
(But I did see a man with eggs the other day — he got them from the dairy case at the supermarket.)
That’s the problem: the blurring and denial of physical reality as political manipulation. One can’t manage ambiguity by refusing to see it as ambiguity.
I found this to be of great potential interest & importance. You may also.
Dr. Morrow is known for his profound, detailed and ground-breaking researches on the covenants of Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of his time, and other “peoples of the book.” These covenants, a number of which Dr. Morrow has either newly discovered or rescued from obscurity, are treaties that the Prophet concluded with various Christian communities of his time; they uniformly forbid all Muslims to attack or rob or damage the buildings of peaceful Christians—or even prevent their Christian wives from attending Divine Liturgy and taking spiritual direction from their Christian elders—“until the coming of the Hour”, the end of the world.
The bulk of Dr. Morrow’s research to date on these documents appears in his seminal book The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World [Angelico/Sophia Perennis, 2013], as well as a two-volume anthology edited by him and entitled Islam and the People of the Book: Critical Studies of the Covenants of the Prophet [forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars, 2017]. This much-needed scholarship has gone a long way toward resurrecting the Prophetic Covenants from obscurity, and throwing light on the just and equitable norms the Prophet laid down governing how Muslims were to treat Peoples of the Book and other religious minorities within the growing Islamic State.
It has also struck a new chord in interfaith relations, one which is not dependent upon the norms of secular Liberalism, but springs directly from the Abrahamic tradition itself, as well as providing a powerful weapon to de-legitimize ISIS and other Takfiri terrorist organizations.
http://katehon.com/article/gog-and-magog-vs-covenants-prophet
Thanks for the link. The bait smells interesting…
Good morning, Vineyard World. It’s a calm and balmy day here ninety minutes north of Hollywood in our Ojai Shangri La. I’m not sure where this is going but the speedometer reads 90 mph. The nearly full moon is setting in the west as the always full sun is rising in the east. Ah, “I shall be released.”
In the meantime it’s business as usual and politics unusual. The fake and feint news is stranger than fiction. Since reality turned relative any kind of absolute or authoritative tone is treated with suspicion or downright scorn.
Au contraire. Reality is quite authoritative but it’s critical to “consider the source” and the capacity of the receiver. My source reality is love for which I am nominated for the cookie cutter prize of one size fits all. An absolutist these days is three levels below a terrorist.
I like this vineyard for many things besides its user friendly format and mild mannered moderators. One of those things is its orthodox foundation, a kind of absolutism-light which prevents it from going down in the flood of watered down love.
Orthodoxy’s Achilles’ heel is its rigidity and resistance to change. The antidote to that is development which is anathema to the weak-kneed and faint-hearted due to narrow education.
But change cannot be stopped. When I first spoke of a Love Army it was received like a pink elephant from Mars. Now that the shock has worn off it is tolerated like a bothersome gnat in the room. Such is incremental change with the speed of a seed. Communal sex is even closer to the edge of oblivion hanging on by the fingertips.
There are privileged absolutist institutions in the sea of relativism like globalism and scientific materialism. No matter that they are one tiny bandwidth in the electric spectrum not to mention a plurality of universes. Blinders are not restricted to horses.
This vineyard (saints preserve her) is a black swan in an ocean of white pigeons; an unexpected event driven by an absolute mandate to stop the empire’s war which is quietly morphed into analyzing the empire’s war.
You say you don’t know what I’m talking about. That’s right because I’m not talking. It’s not about me or talking. The Tracy Chapman New Beginning (thanks Philippa for the text) “we need new signs and symbols” Love Government, Love Army, Love Bower, Love Religion and Communal Sex disturbants into the culturally correct language prison-house is about energy transmission and distribution, not talking.
If the previous paragraph was too dense delete it from your memory as if it never existed. Not only is that technique de jure now but part of the absolute bill of rights of post-modernity.
I enjoyed Alexander Petrosyan’s Petersburg photos by way of Bro’s sister who has a point about the leftist oriented slant. Bear in mind, however, that it is ortho Petersburg that supports his lifestyle.
There are absolute facts that we ignore to our peril. One such is war, a negative absolute if there ever was one. It’s going to take a stronger absolute to put it in its proper place.
I call it love. You might call it something else or choose to go along with the relativists who change their colors every week or call it nothing at all. In that case nothing becomes the all in all something. Instead of a balanced wheel we have endless spinning of tales of delusion. Does it sound like a world spinning out of control?
We can’t avoid the reality of language as a basis of culture. We can throw out language altogether but that just creates a non-language language. Gibberish is a fine language for those so inclined. It covers for a multitude of sins. The story of Babel back in Babylon days was a prophecy of our fake news mainstream main-liners today. Anything goes when truth goes out the window. The first casualty in war is truth.
I love orthodoxy but it has to be de-repressed and loosened up if it’s going to keep up. I love this vineyard but its vines have to be trimmed and maintained or it will revert to a tangled jungle. Maybe that’s what we want but then forget about saving civilization.
There is a middle way between fading back into the jungle or holing up in techno-bunker domes of sterility. That way imao (in my absolute opinion) is love (no not the four letter word but the energy intervined with the word). Every word is resting upon and inseparably linked with a history of entangled threads of intangibility or energy in short.
If that is not so there should be no problem with you changing your name and address each time you change your clothes. If that is not so then we can change our saker vineyard name to a randomly selected name from a telephone book every three days cafe style. Anything goes right? No, it goes left and wrong like our world gone wrong.
The world can be fixed but first we have to get over our fix on fixated thinking. Thinking is the first principle of the ten new commandments of love introduced by the Love Army. You may hate it for its absolutist tone. I won’t but I could kowtow to the new absolute rule of multi-cultural diversity and identity politics by addending a thousand and one variant words. What would that do other than feed a hidden agenda of love-lacking power compensation?
I see this has turned into a rant and a cant in the views of some but for me it is an alternative slant on the logjam of language in a dead-end anti-love war cult of a culture. Sort of like the song: “Ninety miles an hour down a dead-end street” covered by Dylan.
I think I’ll end this vineyard chant by listening to the above song. Not only is it extremely fun for a former motorcyclist and chock-full of humor and truth but an apt cartoon street sign for where we’re headed unless stopped by a Love Army border guard at the intersection called “road to hell.”
Love, love and more love…
Oh man, you’re stubborn with your idea,
Sometimes it provokes a mass diarrhea.
So, don’t be surprised if there’s no letter,
Cause it has been used for toilet paper.
But relax, your ten commandments
Need some anti-laxative amendments.
“The Intergalactic Laxative”
I was impressed like everyone,
When man began to fly,
Out of earthly regions,
To planets in the sky.
With total media coverage,
We watched the heroes land,
As ceremoniously
They disturbed the cosmic sand.
In awe with admiration,
We listened to the talk.
Such pride felt they,
Such joy to be
Upon the moon to walk.
My romantic vision shattered,
When it was explained to me,
Spacemen wear old diapers
In which they shit and pee.
Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem,
When you’re out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.
They don’t partake like you and I,
Of beefy burger mush.
Their food is specially prepared
To dissolve into slush.
Absorbed by multi-fibers
In the super diaper suit,
Otherwise the slush would trickle
Down inside the boot.
Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem
When you’re out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.
You may well ask now what becomes
Of liquid they consume.
A pipe is led from penis head
To a unit in the room.
The water is recirculated,
Filtered for re-use.
In case of anti-gravity –
Pee gets on the loose.
Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem
When you’re out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.
Wherever man has conquered,
On the quest for frontiers new,
(Da da da da)
I’m glad that he’s always had to do
The number one and two.
It makes it all so ordinary,
Just like you and me,
To know the greatest heroes,
They had to shit and pee.
The intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to there,
For cosmic constipation
There’s none that can compare.
If shitting is your problem
When you’re out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
The intergalactic laxative,
The intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to Mars.
Donovan Leitch 1973
And here is the Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab9YKocUcw
Take Care
Kent
Thanks, this was nice, very nice, until now, I didn’t knew it existed (the poem above) and is not even young…well, for me it is. Thanks again Kent.
Repetition ad nauseum
Your cup of tea shoved down the throat
counters a reaction causing bloat
then a gag, a retch, a heaving sound
Upchucks undigested upon the ground
Beating a dead horse
Just plants the blame
make your point and
let it grow, a nag by
any other name
is the same.
“This vineyard (saints preserve her) is a black swan in an ocean of white pigeons; an unexpected event driven by an absolute mandate to stop the empire’s war which is quietly morphed into analyzing the empire’s war.”
What if this Vinyard is helping an other Empire, the Russian one, to emerge?
Will the Russian Empire be better than the previous ones? Especially to Non-Russians?
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.de/2014/05/beauty-will-save-world-happy-victory-day.html
“the same Satanic fountain of self-worship: theomachy.”
“I decided to offer you all something much smaller, much humbler”
I liked it from the beginning, this is humble – world-stuff
Thanks for the link to Saker’s ode to beauty from three years ago. I had to look up theomachy, a war of gods. I wonder if it’s not still going on in our human wars where we side with one god rather than another. Dylan’s got a great song called “With God on our side.” I think the god paradigm itself is entangled with war as theomachy implies. That’s why I prefer a love meta-paradigm. Saint John said “God is Love.” As far as I know, no saint said “God is War.” But plenty of war-mongers and war-enablers say it by their actions.
re: Dennis: Ah, but they say much, much worse than ” God is War.”
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-rotz-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=rotz&p=God+on+Our+side–song+by+Bob+Dylan#id=2&vid=1ff6b37edd0cee6c5d1600b0ada42277&action=click
They say even deeper things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vOJ-UoZ7uo
And reading his eyes, I can see regret and hopelessness…
May Lord be merciful.
For the art lovers in here.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
Kent
Hasn’t changed much, has it??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKu4DaPi-qY
Take Care
Kent
Feelin’ Bad? A little melancholy has never hurt anyone I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjq-xe_sHD0
Take Care
Kent
So. Why don’t you all join me on a Train Ride over the mountains in Norway.
(Winter Landscape)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyvdC15HFA
I like the trains and especially the driver views filming. Traveling with train has something special beside that it has much more to offer.
“I like the trains and especially the driver views filming”
Train’s trips usually give me a physical perception of destiny. Not to “give up and let the circumstances roll over you”. But to “accept inevitable and enjoy the short shining moments on the Way”. With the Peace in your soul, of course…
You always cannot influence the action, but you can do your reaction…
Teardrop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
Take Care
Kent
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco 1906 before the devastating earthquake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q5Nur642BU
Take Care
Kent
And. After the Earthquake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rP7pRPSDI
Kent
In the last Café Paris, ioan had a nice, deeply beautiful and melancholy poem, “Without a Trace”.
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-03-09/#comment-331337
It brought to mind an heroic couplet from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, anew, like waves that keep breaking off the bow of a vessel steaming along in the Bering Sea, between Russia and Alaska, in the 1970’s.
I had a Norwegian-American skipper there for 3 years. He only had 3 things to say during each season. The most welcome was:
1. “Ja, we gonna steam.” (Food, maybe some sack time! Maybe 12-15 hours into Dutch Harbor to unload……………………)
2. “Ja, we gonna set.” Gear….. was understood. The most athletic event: Get rid of 70+ 800 pound 7 ft by 7 ft crab pots stacked in 8 rows @ 9 acrosson the 70 ft long working deck, at full steam, one after the other, in a wild coordinated scramble of winching the pot onto launcher, yanking about 45 pounds of 2 33 fathom “shots” of nylon (to sink below propellers at or near the surface) and polypropylene (to float above rocks and other snags on the bottom) line, separate the latter on top of the pot, ready for launching over the starboard side, the nylon half on deck, with the buoys, hang the bait jar in the top middle, and tilt the nearly half ton of gear over the side with the sound of the captain’s buzzer, and toss the buoys over the side after the sinking pot, before all that mess got tangled around someone’s boot, running full steam, clearing the whole deck in about an hour.
3. Or the worst 2 words: “Stack ’em.” Lousy fishing. Need to get this gear where the king crab are, and there aren’t enough of them here……..
Sorry. iaon’s last two lines:
“Now, what is left for us in place
Is disappearing without a trace…..”
Put me in a reverie, such as lingering on deck a minute, watching the frothy wake at full steam after all the gear was set and the vessel was racing to the next strings of gear, or in to port, each lifetime of wake bubbles pushing out from the bow lasting only seconds, then “disappearing without a trace”.
I started a reply poem Saturday. But I’ve been too busy to finish it until now. It’s not much. Except it is resonance from better verse by A. Pope (next) and ioan’s, Without A Trace, this past Saturday
Gypsy Moths
Life’s brief flame attracts the moth,
It lays its eggs and eats the cloth.
In dark closet woolen suits decay,
Her dress, his jacket had their day.
Bed-ridden wearers, now ill and bent,
The wick flickers, candle nearly spent.
Years before the lord or lady’s dead,
Generations upon wardrobes have fed!
Nations are born and centuries pass,
Ocean steppes, vast unending grass.
This earth spins about an aging sun,
New stars born, moths to them drawn.
Is the Universe so barren and cold?
Must life be bitter for the weary old?
Endless waves, seeds, golden grain,
Sprout up, anew in the celestial plain!
Were I a moth or boy or girl newborn
In the path of the approaching storm
O life, my hopes and fondest dreams
Would light clouds’ edges with my beams.
And when my active days were done,
And I retired to bed, to rest unsung,
I’d look to others’ youth, just starting out,
Toward the flame of love, what it’s all about.
Thanks Bro 93 for your reply poem, you nailed it really very very good, I like it. I’m glad you find the muses, or they find you and wrote a very good poem. I enjoyed also the tough experience on the deck, not an easy task at all. Ah, sweet and hard memories, why don’t you put them on paper as long you can still remember ? Yes, I know, it’s a question of time, free time. But I’m glad that you come out with poetry.
More on why Sessions was targeted recently by the usual suspects:
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/03/more-exclusive-info-from-dhs-insider/
Good news thanks Eimar.
According to latest from fbianon, kruschner is something of a liability for the administration:
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/03/as-promised-by-our-dhs-insider-fbi-anon-resurfaces/
Good morning, Country Kitchen. The strange greeting is intended to convey my mood and attendant need this new morning as if I were to come into this virtual cafe turned into the said “country kitchen.”
It was still dark when I arose from my outdoor bed and came over here sixty feet to this motorhome past the outdoor kitchen. The motorhome has an inbuilt kitchen so I have a kitchen on my mind. A song that comes to mind along this line is “Take me home country roads” by Ray Charles.
As I walked over here the moon was hanging high still at 45 degrees with her attendant star shining through light gossamer clouds. Dawn was barely appearing. I could hear the rushing of the river some 75 yards away and a rooster crowing.
I stopped by at Main Articles when my eye caught a fellow or sororal commenter’s guest post there. I then proceeded here where I read, watched and listened to the posts in more or less reverse order to where I left off yesterday with my own post comment which now seemed quite pertinent and not so awful as I feared it would on a second reading.
The process has made my mood more sober but still fit for an early morning kitchen conversation over coffee, tea or in my case plain well water. It is 58 degrees outside and was 60 degrees within so turned on the electric heater rather than fire up the woodstove.
The poetry, videos, visuals, music, art and other awesome renditions of reality are quite impressive summations of the good, bad and beautiful panorama of life as I know it. I am left with a sensation of sweet sadness.
So the wheel has again turned on its daily axis and what a revolution it has been since I wrote that post yesterday morning in this all day and all night cafe. Not long after I typed that post I felt the kick-back of my past conditioning probably way back to what the precious video linked by Kent called “Teardrop.”
Nausea and disgust perhaps best describes the reaction emotionally and “how dare I?” the mental self-judgment surfaced by my own post. In the midst of this early trauma recall I happened to glance at one of the Tarot cards that are associated with the Love Government program and I felt relief at the security of a stable system of meaning to soften my emotional meltdown.
In that moment I appreciated the importance and need for a true religion, literally a tying back or re-connection with a loving source. As so many times before I knew the emotional clearing would run its course. My physical day went well. I got chores done, watered the trees and plants, straightened things out and felt better as the day wore on.
I turned to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and enjoyed the comedy. I read a theological writer for the beauty of his style and some political writers and speakers. Then I listened to one who I had been blocking for some time by not being able to remember his name. Then it came back to me. Thomas Sheridan.
Let’s just say he’s different and he’s Irish. He was all upset by the Tuam child burying in a septic tank incident by nuns which hit the news March 3 of this year. One commenter here mentioned it and I vaguely recalled it.
We once lived near there in the adjoining county of Clare. It brought up buried memories of my Irish Catholic background. Another video featured a woman who first started to investigate the matter which occurred near where she lived; she recalled being in school with some of the children from the home in question. Her manner and language reminded me of my Irish aunts. She sat in her country kitchen like I used to do. She was so pure in her concern for these forgotten children and so ordinary and familiar that it was touching.
I realized that I was quite different than her in my emotional reaction. I had a much more abstract and detached feeling although I was sympathetic to the suffering. Thomas Sheridan was very angry about it and had a couple of videos covering the cultural framework of the church and state that enabled this tragedy.
Coupled with my own negative feelings of self-loathing and my stand-off-ish defense mechanism plus my mental judgment resulted in labeling myself as a “boring, pontificating hypocrite.” I resolved to follow Timothy Leary’s advice and “drop out” of the whole disgusting system of war and politics and do what I had to do by myself. For the umpteenth time I felt the uselessness of the blogging world including this vineyard which I viewed as some kind of unconscious addiction.
I went to bed thinking that today would be different. But it turned out to be very much like yesterday with me blogging again. I recall Saint Paul saying what he would not do he did, and what he did he did not want to do. Something happens to me during the night. Maybe it’s a return to that “Teardrop” world from which I’m born every morning.
In one way it’s disgusting and in another way it’s liberating. It also relates to the question of war. I realize that the war upon that teardrop world followed by the war upon the birthing baby and her (or his) mother and later upon childhood by the patriarchal system is why we have these horrible adult wars.
There always seems to be beauty within the ugly beast. From war arose this vineyard and its kitchen cafe. A home-cooking kitchen is usually part of a home, including other rooms but the heart of the home is usually the kitchen for self-evident reasons.
So with this virtual vineyard and its kitchen table. When I come right down to the resonance of words even “cafe” is too commercial and un-home-like. A vineyard too has that commercial feeling. I guess “country kitchen” withing a country home suits me best and will have to do.
Ideally I live in a community of lovers within a country bower wherein lies a home connected to a real home not limited to the restrictions of time and space. I think we had it once and lost it but can recover it again. For me that metaphysics is ideal and real.
Call me crazy but even if it were not true (it is true for me) I would have to make it up. This world seems crazy to me with its wild swings between the good, bad and beautiful. I think we have inverted reality to a great degree.
I need to get going. Want to walk to the store to get groceries on this beautiful day in the country. I’m falling into the habit of ending with a song which I think fits my present mood and the milieu of this cafe within a vineyard (non-commercially). It’s called Crazy Love by Van Morrison. Look it up if you’re so inclined. I’ll listen to it prior to my walk.
Thanks so much for your support especially from those who say what they really think about me. I enjoyed your comments and links; sure and it was truly a moveable feast. Love, love and more love…
Patriot ( 3M) shoots down 400$ drone! The US taxpayer groans! Yes, but it wasn’t one of those Russian drones that 2 air to air and one Patriot missile could not touch last year when it “strayed” into Israel. Official line was that it was an “oops”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940
am I short of putting the chairs on the table?
but who loves to share the family will find the diary anyway
so the week :
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/03/last-week-purging-center.html
Article from last summer’s incident: It is interesting to note how a story gets polished by time and placed high in the search rankings as opposed to how it gets reported while it is happening . The only aspects which are undoubtedly true about this story is that the Israeli missiles missed and that the technology was Russian( question the other stuff) and that the drone was scoping out the Golan area.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/israel-almost-shot-down-russian-drone-17390
The part of Essay on Man that resonated with ioan’s “Without A Trace”, with me, since he wrote it last Saturday I hadn’t posted yet.
It’s within the beginning of the third of four “epistles” that the Essay is comprised of. One or two voices in the past have groused about this essay. They can either skip it, or, more productively, break down with specifics, what their beef is. Otherwise, it’s just silly popping off, IMHO!
EPISTLE III.
Here, then, we rest: “The Universal Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.”
In all the madness of superfluous health,
The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth,
Let this great truth be present night and day;
But most be present, if we preach or pray.
Look round our world; behold the chain of love
Combining all below and all above.
See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Formed and impelled its neighbour to embrace.
See matter next, with various life endued,
Press to one centre still, the general good.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again:
All forms that perish other forms supply
(By turns we catch the vital breath, and die),
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
***Clearly these last two lines of sea bubbles topping a series of metaphors, evoke the melancholy mood of Without A Trace, but with an ironic sweetness…..and beauty…*******
“Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole;
One all-extending, all-preserving soul
Connects each being, greatest with the least;
Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast;
All served, all serving: nothing stands alone;
The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
Has God, thou fool! worked solely for thy Thy good,
Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food?
Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn,
For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn:
Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings?
Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
The bounding steed you pompously bestride,
Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain.
Thine the full harvest of the golden year?
Part pays, and justly, the deserving steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Know, Nature’s children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear.
While man exclaims, “See all things for my use!”
“See man for mine!” replies a pampered goose:
And just as short of reason he must fall,
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.”
Connect to the whole and you may know now and for the rest of your days that you will always live on by influencing matter, spirit and thought in the same way that these things that preceded you and accompany you through life continued on, partially through you, partially through billions of others, in spirit, thought and even matter, except in new manifestations of each, with the former forms only apparently gone without a trace.
Meditation on the last couplet here tells ux what??
It suggests to me a multiply-connected, omni-directional dynamic of individual consciousness within aggregate consciousness or God in the sense of “God is Love”, or to put it another way,
“All is Love, Fear is an illusion.”
Which, IMHO, does not mean that the realm of matter is an illusion. It’s real, And its responsibilities and consequences ought to be dealt with reasonably,,,,,,,, it’s just that its traces are more subject to visible change than the realms of consciousness in thought and spirit that coexist with it, simultaneously and eternally.
Near as I (the finite) can figure it (the Infinite) !!
Thanks for Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, I really appreciate him as you do. “All is Love, Fear is an illusion” – it might be, but the Pain is not an illusion, the long physical suffering in almost continuous pain is not an illusion and we are afraid of that pain, not the death but the suffering. My patient (you know who) is suffering for more than a year now with a little pause last summer and autumn when I was so full of hope. Now, the pain is a daily, uninvited “guest” and I’m in stand-by 24h.
When we begin to have some hope, the “guest” returns. The doctors after asking her age are more skipping the ground…So, the soldier is good in the barracks but is different in the hell-fire, so is with the philosophy and Bible and all religions all together : when you’re in trouble, where’s the help ?
After receiving flak from Canada and Ukrainian diaspora John Helmer has this:
http://johnhelmer.net/in-the-canadian-cartoon-dudley-do-right-can-do-no-wrong-snidely-whiplash-no-good-in-real-life-can-robert-fife-david-walmsley-terry-glavin-alan-freeman-and-scott-gilmore-save-the-galicia-gang/
Excellent article by John Helmer. Am sending it on to those smart enough and brave enough to read it.
He received flak from a few prominent members of the Canadian MSM (newspapers, news magazine) and a prominent think-tank representative (who was former Ambassador to Washington).
In other countries, some of those folks turn out to actually be fifth column-ers. Could it be?
For those who don’t read the article, Helmer does say the following:
“There are two Canadian groups who qualify as the dogs who aren’t barking supportively; they are the clue to how this tale will play out in Ottawa. They are the Canadian Jewish community, and the Canadian government led by Justin Trudeau.”
Ha,ha, yet another blow to the peaceful dreamers for change, the prime minister Mark Rutte wins the Holland elections according to exit polls.
All things aside, considering basic values only, this might be worth considering (without extrapolating one little bit, like writing a novel, or an essay).
Here. “You cannot truly live, unless there is something you would truly die for”
Think about it please.
Take Care
Kent
Wat?
Rabble-rouser Anne Coulter says ‘Let’s make Russia our sister country!’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/15/ann-coulter-lets-make-russia-sister-country/
There are Many Americans who Believe that the Homeless have a Moral Right to have the Government spend Money on them, before giving 50 Billion Dollars to the Evil Military Industrial Complex.
If the Dishonorable Members of Congress and the Dishonorable Members of the Senate do Not know these things, then they Should Spend a Few Days and Nights on the Streets, preferably during Winter, and the same Goes for the Director of the FBI and the Director of the NSA and the Director of the CIA and other Intelligence Agencies, and for certain American Generals and those in the Trump Administration, and that Goes for the Corrupt Mainstream Journalists and that Goes for Mister Trump Tower and Mister Mar a Lago, and this would include All Officials working for the Administration of President George Bush the first, and during the Vice Presidency of Bill Clinton where Hillary Clinton was the Unofficial yet Real President, and during the Puppet Obama Administration, and including All of the Officials of the Trump Administration, along with Big Business and Big Banks.
We All Know that Donald Trump is long time Good Friends with the Clintons, going back to the time that Chelsea Clinton was young, and so that indicates that their Friendship is a long time Friendship.
President Donald Trump plays Golf with Bill Clinton and does President Donald Trump have a different opinion to that of Hillary Clinton on the Surveillance State, because it has been said that the American Shadow Regime uses their Surveillance State to Blackmail People.
There are Americans who are thinking that any Family that owns Hundreds of Trillions of Dollars should be Investigated Under Oath for whether having that much Wealth, or the way they made that Money makes them guilty of genocide and crimes against Humanity, and if an Investigation Under Oath into the other Business and Government People that I mentioned, because of the context of the potential for subverting the Will of the Voters at http://phibetaiota.net/2016/08/robert-steele-has-trump-accepted-a-20b-bribe-from-lynn-rothschild-to-throw-the-election-or-is-he-just-a-run-amok-ego-with-no-vision/ .
The Clinton Foundation has withheld Billions of Dollars since 2010 that were Donated by Americans and foreigners for the Haiti Earthquake, and were intended to build the shattered homes of men, women, and children, and All Dishonorable American Politicians Know these things, and the American Mainstream Journalists Know these things with the Fact that the Clinton residence can be reached with a Court Order to Pay what they Owe to the People of Haiti.
A foreign Country did Not hack the DNC, Regardless of All of the LIES, and the Congressional Medal of Honor should be given to the one of the Few Honest Democrats who Leaked those Emails to WikiLeaks, so that Americans can Know that Not All Democrats are Vile, Putrid, and Corrupt, and this is Why the 2 Party Tyranny in America may not want to posthumously give the Congressional Medal of Honor to the DNC’s former Computer Expert Seth Rich for Services to America.
It could be possible that it was Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump who play Golf, because that is the way Not be be Spied on at the golf course, may have come up with a Scheme of putting Billions of Dollars in their Secret Bank Accounts.
The Scheme involved Donald Trump becoming President, and then Blackmailing the American Shadow Regime for Billions of Dollars to have Donald Trump leave the Presidency.
It would involve either a Subtle Coup or such as an Impeachment, or because of self manufactured Unpopularity, or a Fake health issue, or some other Subtle and Cunning Deception, or it might Involve Donald Trump being a Puppet President to the American Shadow Regime to receive his Billions in Bribes.
There could be some Democrats who think that the Republicans have the Proof for this provided by the Clintons, and perhaps the Republicans are waiting to use it on the Democrats at the next Election, where Seth Rich will be posthumously given the Congressional Medal of Honor for Services to what will be said to be American Democracy.
We have seen how the American Shadow Regime has tried to Falsely Blame Russia for why Hillary Clinton lost the Election, but this is such an Obvious Lie.
The Republican National Committee did Not need Russia’s money for the Election, because they had Enough of their own Money, and Hillary Clinton Spent much more on her Campaign than what Donald Trump did, and Russia did Not hack the Voting Machines, otherwise even the Traitors would have to Very Reluctantly suggest that Only Paper Ballots to be used for Elections, and the Traitors want the Corrupt Voting Machines so that they can Rig Elections Easier, and the Republican National Committee did Not need Russia as their Speech Writer, and so Russia did Not interfere with the American Election.
If the Lies during the Election Campaign suggesting that Russia had any influence on how Americans Voted, then it would have Only Helped Hillary Clinton, because Voters thought that a foreign Country was trying to influence the Election, and we Know that this FACT is Known by the LIARS who include the Director of the FBI and the Director of the NSA and the rest of the Deliberate Liars.
We Know that the last time there was a chemical attack in Syria, that it was Proved that it was done by America and its Terrorist Puppets in Syria at http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-approved-delivering-libyas-sarin-gas-to-syrian-rebels-seymour-hersh/5522647 , and the rest of it is at http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Syria+gas&x=10&y=4 , and Steve Bannon Knew these things, and was Pressured to retire http://www.globalresearch.ca/reviving-the-chemical-weapons-lie-new-us-uk-calls-for-regime-change-military-attack-against-syria/5583491 .
There are Americans who have enough Self Respect for Themselves and for other Americans, that they will Not allow themselves to be influenced in the slightest way by other Americans who are Corrupt Liars, who Deliberately Lie that Russia interfered with America’s Election, or those that are that Gullible that they would believe such nonsense, and these Americas want it to be Declared that the Russia Investigation into America’s recent Election has long ago Proven Beyond All Doubt that Russia did Not interfere in America’s Election, but that this Lie was Invented by the previous Administration for Convenience to try to justify their Criminal actions of Spying on an Opposition Political Party, because if that Convenient Lie had not been invented, then that Spying would have Unambiguously been an Act of Treason, which it Most Certainly was, and the American Shadow Regime Loves Traitors and Protects Traitors, because they Themselves are Unelected Traitors to the American People.
There Could be some People who think that Dictatorial Terrorist America and Dictatorial Terrorist Saudi Arabia are working on Implementing a Saudi Arabian Version of the American Constitution for Saudi Arabia.
It would Of Course be slightly modified, but it would have Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and Voting for Free and Fair Elections, and Syria has had these for a long time Mister American Democracy Hypocrisy, and Syria also has had American Funded and Supported ISIS Terrorists, and American Funded and Supported so called Moderate Terrorists.
If the American People had wanted a Warmonger they would have voted for Hillary Clinton like they thought they were doing Voting for Mister hope and change, and we can see why Senator Sanders was Not allowed to become the President.
This is why there are Many Americans who want a New Political Party, and who will Not Vote for the RepTHUGlicans or the CORRUPTocraps at the next Election, because they are Puppets of America’s Unelected Shadow Regime.