2017/04/06 04:30:01
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Quote from interview with Philippe de Villiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGegJpXVpU
With Alexander Solzhenitsyn, we’re in Tambov, we’re walking. Suddenly he stops and says: “We, we will recover, [Eastern Europe and Russia] but you [the West], you’ll slip into a deep abyss, because you have the disease of emptiness. You will experience an eclipse of intelligence. You are at the last stage, the final stage of spiritual exhaustion. And one day, fireflies will come out of that great catacomb, carried by dissidents.” — The dissidents? I answered.
Well, I’m telling you, today dissidents are in the East, they will move to the West.“ ….Two things: the dissidents, they will emerge, out of the water, because they have two unique qualities: the first is courage, and the second is lucidity. The courage: they’ll dare to cross the hygienic perimeter: forbidden words.
Perhaps an updated, enhanced description by Andre V. :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46807.htm
Steady nerves, Ann, blue and ioan.
I’d rather not work at all when it gets this exciting! Yet I must, and maybe it’s just as well. Sometimes its better to just skim and get an intuitive sense than to work too hard at trying to find anything constructive in an apparently deconstructing world.
I’ve been waiting about 30 years for it to fly apart, so that sorely tested patience part of me is saying, Get it on, mf’ers, get it ON!!
Until reason says: “No, you can wait another 30 years, if it means far fewer fellow human beings get hurt.”
Trump blows up, swallows the neocon bait hook ,line and stinker, so I take a quick reading on his buddy Alex Jones, who, for a day at least, runs a website that sounds much saner than the president, and straight up calls the Syria gas affair a false flag.
And this INFOWARS slug on Bannon made sense:
REPORT: BANNON’S REMOVAL A WHIPPED-UP CONTROVERSY BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA
To attack Trump, corporate media over-exaggerates friction within White House
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com – APRIL 5, 2017 982 Comments
Report: Bannon’s Removal a Whipped-Up Controversy by Mainstream Media
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s removal from the National Security Council might not be as big of a deal as reported by the mainstream media, which takes shots at Bannon whenever possible.
A White House official said Bannon was on the NSC to monitor Trump’s first National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, and never attended an official meeting.
Now that Flynn is gone, there’s apparently no longer a reason for Bannon to stay on the NSC, and remember his appointment to the council as chief strategist was unprecedented for an administration.
Bloomberg, which broke the story, even admitted this, albeit at the bottom of its article.
“He’s no longer needed with [new National Security Adviser H.R.] McMaster in charge of the council, the official said,” Bloomberg reported.
Bannon himself stated that Obama’s former National Security Advisor Susan Rice had “operationalized” the council and he was placed on the NSC to undo that.
“I was put on to ensure that it was de-operationalized,” Bannon said. “General McMaster has returned the NSC to its proper function.”
In other words, Trump placed someone he trusted on the NSC to ensure rogue elements of the federal government, many of whom are still loyal to former President Obama, would not undermine him as he settled into the White House.
The NSC was created in 1947 to coordinate the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and other agencies towards common national security goals.
It would be well within the mainstream media’s modus operandi to over-exaggerate Bannon’s removal to fuel a false narrative of friction within the Trump administration in an attempt to “delegitimize” the president.”
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I only have time to check one or two more “signs of the times” before turning in and getting rested for another work day. Which I am only half regretting, but with the sense that it’s probably better for my over-all emotional balance and sanity!
And of course, work always provides a chance to get my “salt of the earth” reading. That’s always more straightforward….without all the heavy “spin” to decipher.
thanks Bro 93 – good sane comment – I also read in the Duran (Adam Garrie) that because the Chinese President is coming to Florida – Steve Bannon was put on the sidelines…he’s a dick about China for sure –
and although Trump says that many red lines have been crossed – that’s still not a commitment to war in Syria –
I wish there weren’t so many troops there…the poor soldiers having to fight on the wrong side – –
Also, the son-in-law of Trump – Jared Kushner – has been ‘leaking to MSM’ whatever that means ?
I know someone of intelligent repute that called Roger Stone ‘a trickster’
I’m not saying that Roger Stone is trying to trick us at this point, but really ? He does look like he’s done his share of trickster work in the past….so I wonder if Jared Kushner is ‘leaking’ stuff about Bannon or whatever, to protect his father-in-law –
So many twists and turns in the sewer eh ?
I would be more calm and relaxed if Nikki Haley would be removed by Trump but it seems that she has other “values”, very much appreciated by we know who…
Well – there’s a coincidence!
I just posted on this very issue a moment ago in the last cafe.
I read the NPR report, along with others and concluded it was indeed being hyped by the MSM.
I also noted the NPR made the only reference to Bannon saying he was no longer needed, as the NSC had been ‘ de- operationalized’, and McMaster was in charge.
The Federal Register lists the new structure of the NSC, which now places the DHS under its purview.
Unfortunately, the UN envoy Haley is one of several new additions as principles.
On the positive side, it puts her under McMaster, s control – assuming he isn’t another warmonger.
Well see.
Without comment… because I’m speechless.
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/849635794994286592
Link doesn’t work – says ‘ data corrupted’.
What is the content?
this is from the translate button on the linked to site …. mod-hs
Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo 21h21 hours ago
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Wow. This anti-Assad “reporter” tweeted about the sarin attack in #Syria 24 hours before it happened. Still think nothing fishy is going on? pic.twitter.com/xrGWemylFW
308 replies 5,128 retweets 4,638 likes
Thanks mod.
More: the so- called ‘ chemical attack’ was on a depot containing chemical explosives held by the takfiris:
https://www.rt.com/news/383650-syria-conference-brussels-blame-chemical/
They are looking for an excuse to partition Syria and smear Russia to implement the Israeli-conrolled takeover of gas supply to the EU: a memorandum was signed a few days ago.
This is also behind the Nuland machinations in Cyprus.
Expect more of same.
PS. The announcement was accompanied by a derogatory reference to Nordstream in the Jerusalem Post.
Interesting to see which way Erdogan will swing… He can’t keep playing both sides forever…
We shall see how will Erdogan behave after the referendum on his new powers. The time is nearing when he will be forced to show his real face. But, if we take a look at history books, we could find out some clues. If the history will repeat itself, I don’t know. Being a NATO country (very important one) the hard arguments from both sides will decide her fate, which side has to offer a better deal for Turkey, which side is seen to be stronger ? The west has always had a trump card : the money.
“Israel ‘100% Certain’ Assad Ordered Syrian Chemical Attack, Defense Minister Says”
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.781899
With screaming headlines like that above, we dont have to struggle to figure out who is insisting that the US go to war with Syria:
It is that group that has immeasurable love for its neighbours, and cannot abide atrocities against innocent people going unpunished.
If you read and dont get the sarcasm, I cant help you!
This is much more than sticking up for Bashar al Assad, so I just hope that Russia hangs tough and stick by Syria, and China hangs even tougher and back Russia 100%.
The Israelis are the ones insisting on the destruction of Syria, just as they are working assiduously for Russia’s destruction and the destruction of Iran, so no one should harbor any illusions about how this will play out if Russia blinks.
I say Russia, because Russia holds the key to pushing back against the aggressive global designs of Israel.
A promise is a promise and here it is for Dennis (and anyone else) :
Between Earth and Heaven
If someone could understand the pain and grief of others
Not just with the brain but wholeheartedly and open soul,
If someone could feel the very power that we are brothers
Not just with thoughts and words but with deeds as a whole,
If somebody can feel the beauty and grace of a gentle flower
And feel the warmth when doing good in the needed hour,
That somebody, has reached a certain point in the spirit
Sounding the bells for evils, who desperately try to broke it.
This is the essence of the war, we try to understand,
During the past and even now, giving a helping hand.
Postponing the decision, leads us into no-one’s land,
Kept between the Earth and Heaven,
Kept between the darkness and the light …
Oh, warriors of Christ, take your swords and go to fight,
In His name of painful love, take your cross and plight !
Take your shields and go defend the thirsty and hungry
Who’re stumbling in the darkness in every single country.
The fight will make you even stronger
Cause noble is the cause when you fight it
Not alone, but together, shoulder to shoulder,
In our thoughts and our deeds, every day a bit.
with total credit to Ioan in humble contribution
let’s together here now assemble our kit
compassion and wisdom the ready tools
forgetting not to laugh, sharing our wit
in heart, mind and soul, as holy fools
How about this one:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/06/on-that-gas-attack-we-dont-need-conspiracies-to-oppose-us-war-in-syria/
This “glorious progressive” is named Joshua Frank. And CounterPunch is not any kind of Truthdig and far from Washington Post. He is claiming:
“British chemical weapons expert, Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon poked holes in Russia’s official account, calling it “fanciful,” noting that blowing up sarin, the alleged gas used in the attack, actually eliminates it. Dan Kaszeta over at Bellingcat, ”
Oh my God! You noticed? Bellingcat. I just wonder whose is there in CounterPunch checking which articles they really publish there. With this policy they are soon publishing all kind of crap from NY Times and Washington Post.
Not the first ‘ suspicious’ article I’ve read there.
I like Eric Draiser, but the site itself is subverted.
Stopped reading it sometime last year, along with The Intercept.
Yes, I had also noticed other “progressive/alternative” “permissible dissent” US news/aggregator sites suddenly running questionable content, which they should have noticed was US/Zionist agit-prop. Counterpunch in particular seems vulnerable to such missteps.
And don’t think for one second there are not similar political operatives at work here in the Saker comments. They must be extremely subtle in a fully moderated framework, but do what they can to manufacture “doubt” attempting to lead readers to think there is some “truth” in the US/Zionist version of events. Or they simply fill the threads with complex-sounding, but zero-fact-content noise.
Counterpunch, it appears, has taken the blue pill with “ain’t it awful” postings and much hand wringing without much “what is to be done” reporting. It is like a faint echo of lame stream media reporting with a “leftie” undertone .
It is as if the whole country is in a type of Slurpy-induced brain freeze with hyper sugar overload. It just “does not compute”. Alex Jones with his rank exaggerations, ranting and raving and hair pulling histrionics at least actually cuts through the opium den haze of denial and hype. There are nasty things moving beneath the swamp, curling up and ready to strike. And Alex Jones is organizing and encouraging others to do so– Let us hope for the common good.
Ann Coulter -April 27–Berkeley: be there or be square! My bet is that she will be cancelled by the Democratic Governor, the Democratic City Mayor and the Democratic University Chancellor.
If there was sarin, It could have simply been loaded into shells waiting to be fired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin#Degradation_and_shelf_life
“Sarin without the residual acid removed degrades after a period of several weeks to several months.”
Frank’s idea that it would have to have been created by the explosion from binar components looks nonsensical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Frank
“Frank’s investigative work has been supported by The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund.”
The Nation… not a source I trust, but a liberal, sometimes neoliberal, outlet from I’ve seen.
Bellingcat has had some nasty stuff in the past as well.
The idea that virtually knowing Assad did not use a chemical attack is hardly a baseless conspiracy theory.
He has said some things in the past that left me with thinking he is definitely a ‘lesser light’ who I don’t put much stock in.
BTW — from wikipedia “Frank graduated from Billings West High School in 1997 and holds a graduate degree in environmental conservation from New York University.[6]”
1997? He’s a kid — not even 40 yet? And a degree in environmental conservation? ALl that time worrying just about frogs? What could he know or understand?
(Yeah — I know — I’m showing my old fart status, but really — 1997 seems almost like yesterday to me. My current car was 6 years old by then.)
Popularisation throught trivialising full speed ahead : #LeninTracker: Follow Bolshevik leader’s trip to revolutionary Russia with real-time radar & tweets.
https://www.rt.com/news/383685-lenin-tracker-switzerland-russia/
EU legislature overwhelmingly approves Ukraine visa waiver
The European Union legislature has overwhelmingly backed plans to allow Ukrainian citizens into the bloc for short stays without visas.
The Russian city of Rostov-on-Don was hit by an explosion, sources in the regional law enforcement services, according to Sputnik.
A man picked up a suspicious object on the road and it detonated, the Sputnik report continued.
His finger were blown off and he also received an abdominal wound.
you may not agree with these folks but they have a serious scholarly approach:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/03/lect-a03.html
Quo Vadis, Germany ? The German Parliament approves a new law in diminishing the freedom of free speech : http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-update-1-german-cabinet-agrees-to-fine-social-media-over-hate-speech-2017-4
Bacchus would not “pan” this report:
https://www.rt.com/in-motion/383703-condom-wine-havana-alcohol/
sorry, but inside ouf our Windows a chance is waiting
in the inner immensities, called psyche, cast in a
once -in-universe- character
refugy in the four-quartered world together
with an evil ( “gods other son”) that wants
to coexist and no longer being ignored –
the appalling banality of hypocrisy
Saker asked for certain commentary on his podcast to be placed in the Cafe so here is one of my favorites from Hafiz . It is said that if you spend an hour reading the poetry of Hafiz even in translation it will put you into a special state -at least a more heartfelt place– and, in my experience, it does indeed.
Becoming Human
“Once a man came to me and spoke for hours about
‘His great visions of G-d’ he felt he was having
He asked me for confirmation, saying,
‘Are these wondrous dreams true?’
I replied, ‘How many goats do you have?’
He looked surprised and said,
‘I am speaking of sublime visions
and
you
ask
me
about
goats!’
And I spoke again saying,
‘Yes, brother–how many do you have?’
‘Well, Hafiz, I have sixty-two.’
‘And how many wives?’
Again he looked surprised,
and then said, ‘Four.’
‘How many rose bushes in your garden,
How many children,
Are your parents still alive,
Do you feed the birds in winter?’
And to all he answered.
Then I said,
‘You asked me if I thought your visions were true,
I would say that they were if they make you become
More human,
More kind to every creature and plant
That
you
know.”
So simple and yet so great and true thoughts from Hafiz, which I share also.Thanks for this T13.
We here always, saw this dagger coming, so it does not surprise us 1 bit:
Turkey Will Support US Military Op in Syria if Launched – Erdogan
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201704061052373443-turkey-us-military-op-syria-support/
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been treacherous and unreliable from day one.
He’d just better hope the US dont use the opportunity to complete the coup that they instigated against him back in the summer of lsst year..
Et tu Recep?
Turkey will support the USA military? Why then, is Russia selling Turkey S-400 missile systems?
Lunacy would be my first guess. But then the USSR sold Hitler the very raw materials he used to launch Barbarossa with. So old habits must die hard.
I do not think they ‘sold’ the war materiel. But rather, German agents Ulyanov and Bronstein, after signing the separate Brest-Litovsk peace with Germany, which they had promised the German Foreign Ministry and the Rothschild bank in return for facilitating and funding history’s first ‘Color Revolution’ – the Red one – simply gave the materiel away. In fact, the last train of goods flowed on the night before Operation BarbaRossa began. BarbaRossa is ‘Red’ Beard by the way – color coded to the ‘revolution’ they had successfully accomplished.
I think you were talking of WWI. While I was talking about WWII. In the Russian movie “Brest Fortress” (a great movie) there was even a small mention of that. Where the Soviet raw material train crosses into Germany shortly before the German Barbarossa attack on the USSR.
WW1 and WW2 are on a continuum I think.
‘The Treaty of Brest Litovsk.’ The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918 officially ended Russia’s involvement in World War I.
The point is that the supply of war and other materiel to Germany was not trade but war reparations based on a treaty, agreed on behalf of the USSR, by two German agents, Bronstein (Trotksy) and Ulyanov (Lenin).
The war reparations agreed to by the Soviets (and canceled with the fall of Imperial Germany) were long gone by WWII. The Soviets had made trade treaties with Germany to supply raw materials in 1939-40. Since until June 1941 the USSR was a neutral state.It was those goods that were used to fuel the German aggression against the USSR. Hence why Russians talk about that even today as a huge mistake.
Pennywise and pound foolish is a nearly universal human folly.
Right now I can’t think of even one nation that has always avoided it.
In the case cited, Germans sought to leverage Russian resources that they had obtained (pennies, from their point of view…..) to take it (Russia, and then the world) ALL.
Turning the usual pennywise/pound foolish conundrum into the the disastrous Pfennig dumm/Reichsmark verruckt Kluster Ficken.
And losing their sovereignty to boot.
Not to be outdone, Americans are now sleepwalking into ein grosser Zombie Kluster Ficken.
Maybe they have a secret software that Russia can trigger to blow them up when they want …..if they do not approve of the circumstances when Turkey wishes to use them……
Why don’t the Chinese care about quality? Do the Chinese elites realize how the lack of quality hurts the perception of China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAoTBVTTO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9eXi3RL8q4
Just because I’ve been sharing so much during the past year, I thought I’d pass on this quick update.
So lately, the missing puzzle piece to my situation appeared: a lawyer. For problems that for me have been totally impossible to resolve for many years, this lawyer started to implement solutions within days. (And the lawyer is helping me as a volunteer – thank you!) The solutions are working, and I never would have thought of them on my own. I can’t believe it, all that self-pity turned out to be unnecessary. :-)
I’m wondering what the Chinese President is thinking about now.He is in the US for a meeting with Trump. And Trump is also meeting with his military planners to discus attacking Syria. While the US SOC also today makes public threats against Syria. The dishonor to his visit is total. While I doubt he will. I would cancel the meeting with Trump “right now” and return to China.Its obvious its not possible to carry on diplomacy with the US. If the US doesn’t even have the respect to put off their warmongering while China’s President is in the US.Then it shows clearly that mutual respect is out of the question with the US.And its the height of stupidity to think otherwise.
Its not really ‘ Chinese’ to make much diplomatic ‘ noise’.
I would say the visit is along the lines of ‘ temperature-taking’, assessing how much is real and how much is bluster in the US.
Any sense of ‘ insult’ will be quietly noted.
Response will be delayed but response – likely assymmetric – will eventually come…
Agreed.
Perhaps Xi is being held hostage. As the US is rapidly devolving (going back through time) I would not be surprised if they soon invite a delegation of, say, Russians to Washington and allow pet Ukrainians to kill and eat them.
I get a sickening feeling of fear and despair from the barrage of war news which is what the empire uses to destroy true love. War is violence against life that comes in many forms.
I feel it in a general way when reading war news. I felt it personally from a late comment about me in the last cafe: “Dennis, I have not tried your Love theory. Last time someone tried to do me harm I struck them in the throat. It worked pretty well.”
I felt that “ad hominem” as an actual physical and emotional blow. I am glad it was not monitored out because it makes personal the largely impersonal war news. Behind that virtuality screen are real people who scream with pain: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Such a comment brings war home to me–while I am protected by distance.
Instead of running away from the pain and fear, I can confront it with the very love that the commenter has not tried and would kill or harm if he or she could. The only way I can deal effectively with such death or harm threats is the strength of love.
I use the news of constant fighting, from small conflicts to massive wars to strengthen my love. I may need such strength in the greater tests to come. To respond in kind with lies and hate would be self-defeating and would play into the empire’s hand.
I am grateful for the love I receive in poems like ioan’s and teranam’s short one in response to his above. I am also appreciative of Saker’s analysis of conflict from an Orthodox stance. If I may generalize, it is helpful to take a stand somewhere rather than be washed away as flotsam in the sea of lies and terror.
In matters of controversy and conflict, Saker appeals to the freedom of each individual to choose his or her course. I choose the standard of love for many reasons which I need not go into here. Choices have consequences. Death and serious harm threats are one such, even when cloaked in smokescreens the spokesperson may not realize.
As for me, love brings me these tests to prove my love. In the final analysis, those dying in the throes of war are also going through a similar proving action on a deeper level. Jesus demonstrated that and so many others also. These matters are usually beyond our ken but we can glimpse the dynamic if we want to.
Last evening I attended a discussion group where the topic was: “Does creativity come from conflict?” In the case herein discussed I would say yes, even when conflict is negative by definition. I can choose to creatively deal with it, such as broadening the discussion of conflict and creativity in this cafe.
To take love to the limits with both reason and revelation is dangerous in a degenerate milieu such as the world’s state now. We can try to shield ourselves by hiding from the truth but where can we run when when there is nowhere to hide?
Contrary to the charges against me, I have never sought to harm anyone and never will lest I betray myself and love. I will defend myself from such false accusations with both faith and logic. If anyone feels I am harming them, at least have the decency to say why–so if there is any truth in the lie I can address it.
To conclude, let me quote a poem from many years ago that was occasioned by a similar incident to the one I just alluded to. It was brought to my attention because the poem is part of the new week in the love calendar. The theme is feeling or emotion within the context of the spaces in consciousness. The polarities that spin around feeling are deep feeling and cheap feeling.
And please, at least consider giving me the benefit of the doubt about whether I am pushing the idea of love on you or am just expressing my standard of philosophy and morality which is my chosen stance. I admit there is some blurring in the two concepts; if we say anything at all it can be interpreted as pushing an idea by someone who is sensitized to any kind of pushing in an empire putsch-violence world.
The sudden explosions charge past
My guard, striking the gut
Caving the chest, choking the neck
Bespoiling the mind and retreating
As if nothing had happened
Later offering a peace treaty
With warm breath and kisses
What soldier can stave the tyrant’s storm
While growing tulips under the windows
What child stop the forces
Of untamed, unreined horses
Quiet descends on the scarred battlefield
Sweet charmer, sour harmer
A loose cannon unrestrained
Beautiful ballerina trained
Hitch your wagon to a star
How I wonder what you are
All alone inside your room
Heart hurt like to die
Come out and play and bloom
Like a flower in the sky
Love, Dennis
Hi Dennis, two hours ago I wrote a comment to your comment, but has disappeared in the air. It was about conflicts and creativity…. I won’t repeat it again, is gone lost in memory.
To anyone in a ‘first world nation’:
What change in personal spending power are you willing to accept to end deep state foreign interventions?
10% ? 50%? 90%??
I think I would be willing to live on under 10k per year if that really meant the troops were dismissed and alciada skattered into the wind.
Be careful what you wish for. Here is the real underlying policy of the USA since the 1960’s as stated by no less a deity of US politics than Henry Kissinger:
“The chief task of the USA is now the depopulation of the third world.”
Of course the concept of a ‘third world’ is elastic. Many parts of the USA now fit the description.
Hillary Clinton: “…take out his airfields…”
What a shocker. Neocon crazy person Hillary Clinton supports bombing Syria’s air defence. A not so nice reminder of how much more fucked up the world would be with her as POTUS.
Apropos, I found the source of the Syrian recipe the Pentagoons are cooking up:
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
ALL Double, double toil and trouble
I hate to tell you, and as much as I agree with you, it seems Trump may well be 2 sides of a Clinton coin, having just blasted Syria with cruise missiles.
@ Alex Kramer
Give a title, ” Double Trouble ” to your excellent poem. Thanks for sharing it with us in this kind of War-room-Cafe today.
Excellent indeed! But it is drama for the Cafe , courtesy of Alex and Willy. Shakespeare, that is:
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw283.html
potw = Poem of the Week
Stir the Pot and Poet’s Pen
Stir the potw.org Willy Nilly
In your old age, (never silly)!
Poem of the week from Alex,
Verse sprouts like swampy salix!
Soon enough he’ll write his own,
And give assistance to ioan!
I like very Alex’s witchy drama,
And so commend I Willy’s mama,
Especially for rhyme and cadence
Instilled in Bill, by her patience,
Love, and unwitchy motherly care!
Say, “Where, oh, where is there anywhere
That can match her son, Shakespeare?”
Both I thank for cauldron Clintonic fun.
What work??!!……Gotta go now, gotta run!
Good one Bro 93, your poetic response is like in the old days of the Cafe, thanks !
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Trump Has Surrendered. Will Putin Be The Next To Surrender?
Posted By pcr3 On April 6, 2017 @ 6:21 pm In Articles & Columns | Comments Disabled
Trump Has Surrendered
Will Putin Be The Next To Surrender?
Paul Craig Roberts
The Washington Establishment has reasserted control. First Flynn and now Bannon. All that are left in the Trump administration are the Zionists and the crazed generals who want war with Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
There is no one in the White House to stop them.
Kiss good-bye normalized relations with Russia.
The Syrian conflict is set to be reopened. That is the point of the chemical attack blamed by Washington on Syria despite the absence of any evidence. It is completely obvious that the chemical attack is a Washington orchestrated event. According to reports US Secretary of State Tillerson has warned Russia that steps are underway to remove Syrian president Assad. Trump agrees.
The removal of Assad allows Washington to impose another Washington puppet on Muslim peoples, to remove another Arab government with an independent policy from Washington, to remove another government that is opposed to Israel’s theft of Palestine, and for Exxon’s Tillerson and the neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a US controlled gas pipeline from Qater to Europe via Syria.
By ignoring all of these US advantages, the Russian government dithered in completing the liberation of Syria from Washington-backed ISIS. The Russians dithered, because they had totally unrealistic hopes of achieving a partnership with Washington via a joint effort against terrorism.
This was a ridiculous idea as terrorism is Washington’s weapon. If Washington can move Russia out of the way with threats or more Russian misplaced hopes of “cooperation” with Washington, terrorism will next be directed against Iran on a large scale. When Iran falls, terrorism will start to work on the Russian Federation and on the Chinese province that borders Kazakhstan. Washington has already given Russia a taste of US-supported terrorism in Chechnya. More is to come.
If the Russian government had not dithered in cleaning out ISIS from Syria when Russia unexpectedly took the lead from the West, Syria would not face partition or renewed US determination to overthrow Assad for the reasons given above. But the Russians, mesmerized by dreams of cooperating with Washington, have put both Syria and themselves in a difficult position.
The Russians grabbed the initiative and surprised the world by accepting the Syrian government’s invitation and entering the conflict. Washington was helpless. The Russian intervention immediately turned the tide against ISIS. Then suddenly Putin accounced a Russian pullout, claiming like Bush on the aircraft carrier, “Mission Accomplished.”
But mission wasn’t accomplished, and Russia reentered, still with the initiative but set back somewhat from the irrational withdrawal. If memory serves, this in and out business happened a couple of times. Then when Russia has the war agains ISIS won, they hold back on the finish in the vain belief that now Washington will finally cooperate with Russia in eliminating the last ISIS stronghold. Instead, the US sent in military forces to block the Russian/Syrian advances. The Russian Foreign Minister complained, but Russia did not use its superior power on the scene to move aside the token US forces and bring the conflict to an end.
Now Washington gives “warnings” to Russia not to get in Washington’s way. Will the Russian government ever learn that coopertion with Washington has only one meaning: sign up as a vassal?
Russia’s only alternative now is to tell Washington to go to hell, that Russia will not permit Washington to remove Assad. But the Russian Fifth Column, which is allied with the West, will insist that Russia can finally gain Washington’s cooperation if only Russia will sacrifice Assad. Of course, Russia’s acquiescence will destroy the image of Russian power, and it will be used to deprive Russia of foreign exchange from natural gas sales to Europe.
Putin has said that Russia cannot trust Washington. This is a correct deduction from the facts, so why does Russia keep putting itself in a quandry by seeking cooperation with Washington?
“Cooperation with Washington” has only one meaning. It means surrender to Washington.
Putin has only part-way cleaned up Russia. The country remains full of American agents. Will Putin fall to the Washington Establishment just as Trump has?
It is extraordinary how little of the Russian media understand the peril that Russia is in.
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I kinda think I agree with this……….
this comment is a different subject than the post. -mod
UPDATED my apologies, I did not see this was MFC,
A truck has killed people in Stockholm Sweden. First news very confusing.
It is a suspected terror deed. At least three dead in Stockholm. Parts of the metro are closed down. Loudspeakers warn people. The truck has been found, but no word about the perpetrator.
Nobody can leave or enter the government building. Same with parliament. Civil servants go to protected crisis centers to lead. Some victims in great pain. Many fallen, but only three reported dead yet. Big shopping centers are closed down. Cars are not allowed on this street. The speed of the truck was very high. All trains stopped. The truck was stolen just before the attack. There has also been shooting, some say. The city center is practically empty. Somebody has been arrested. More policemen, sirens and helicopters. Some victims lost their legs. Hospitals are functioning as in a war. I tried to locate my daughter, but she did not answer the phone. She is safe now.
The prime minister is on his way back to Stockholm. Central station in kaos. Heavily armed policemen. The whole metro closed and the trains. People were running and screaming. People are directed to safe places. Tourists were sent to a company. Some are directed to hotels outside Stockholm. Three dead and at least eight wounded. Something is happening at the central station. Sweden will never be the same again.
Special bomb unit in place. What is going on? The prime minister confirms an arrest. The mobile nets are overloaded. There is a rumour a politician has been attacked. Stockholms inner city will be avoided for several days, I think. Think of the economic costs. People are not allowed to enter some hotels. The police must be looking for somebody. A threat has been received and it was perhaps about the central station. Theaters are closing. Several arrests have been made, but it is unclear if related. Hospitals are guarded. I have never seen something like this.
Confusion and panic, but also a well coordinated protection effort. The big socialdemocratic party meeting will probably not take place. More suspected shooting outside, but close to Stockholm. Some people tried to enter the truck to get at the perpetrator.
Don’t worry, it will all come right now that Ukrainians have visa-free travel to the EU.
The EU can sleep well now that the self-proclaimed ‘heart of Europe’ – the Ukrainians – are coming.
36 Tomahawk missiles go missing in Syria. So where can they be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXm6m0m4zuU
The mystery of the ages continues…Did some mysterious Russian AWACS clip their wings ( shave their tails in this metaphor) or did they just “cut short” their journey due to their own general defective construction? some military experts call them charitably “a piece of cr-p”
And they say Trump is a clever businessman? from an article in FtRuss:
military source from the Syrian Arab Republic has disclosed the details of the consequences of the US’ missile strike on Syria’s Sharat airfield:
“The Shayrat airfield has for six months already been used by the Syrian Army as a ‘dump’ where the Syrian Arab Republic’s armed forces’ old and already decommissioned military equipment waits before being sent to scrap or dismantling for old parts.
As a result of the US missile strike, six MIG-23’s were destroyed which were being repaired and one An-26 transport plane being recycled which, according to the technical staff of the base, already had its wings and power setup dismantled by the time of the attack.
In addition to equipment of Soviet production, as a result of the strike several light-duty transport aircraft of foreign production were destroyed,” the Syrian military source concluded.
According to the airfield’s servicemen, two tankers, several trucks, cars, and tractors were also destroyed.
According to experts, the total damage of the missile strike was no more than 3-5 million US dollars. At the same time, by using not so tricky math, it is clear that for recycling such old Syrian equipment the US Army lost around 90 million US dollars.
The Swedish king was in Brazil and is coming home. The police press conference did not give much. They showed a picture of someone they want to talk with. The number of dead and wounded was not given and that worries me. Are they trying not to create panic?
Not many questions were allowed. Nobody arrested for now. Police on alert in all of Sweden. Some market places in suburbs are closed. People are walking on foot in the center. They can’t get home. Not even buses are working and the taxi company is overloaded. Problems with mobile phones. People open their homes to help strangers, who can’t get home.
There are several rumours, repeat rumours. According to one, three perpetrators were in the truck and they were armed. According to another, the driver has a beard. The man is said to speak french and arabic.
So the ship Admiral Grigorovich has Kalibr missiles and has exited the Bosporus en route to the shores of Syria.
OK I can see it now–what is called a p-ssing contest: It Unleashes 23 Kalibrs with 100% bulls eyes on al Caida, Idlib. So take that home and smoke it! And they fired no blanks!
It helps to have a sense of humor and be raised by 3 older brothers.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/07/russian-warship-steams-toward-us-destroyers-that-launched-syria-strikes.html
Russian Jokes Displace Late Night US Clowns in Comedy Corner of Spring Has Sprung Cafe
This was a needed realignment of world consciousness once the clowns lost their last tiny molecule of honesty. A joke without truth is like an airplane without wings.
This one comes from a Moscow friend of my wife:
Five Jews That Changed the World
First was Moses. He pointed heavenwards and indicated that the key to everything is the Lord God Above.
Next came Jesus. He pointed to his heart and showed us that Love is the answer.
Third Jew was Paul. He pointed to his head and said “Reason teaches us how it all works by wonderful, divine design.”
Fourth Jew was Sigmund Freud. He pointed to his crotch and insisted, “Sex explains everything about everything.”
Finally, Albert Einstein came along, gave a shrug, and said, “I think it’s all relative!”
Latest figures from Stockholm. At least five dead and 15 wounded. Several are seriously wounded and some are children. The chief of police is a politruk and tones down the attack.
The metro is working again, but not the trains. ISIS has not taken responsibility. Somebody has confessed, but I wonder.
Our biggest social site has internet problems. The military seems to be engaged.
What shall we do? Expell the muslims. That is better than gunning them down, though that is also an option. I do not think the shia muslims are a problem. The problem is some muslims cheer today and we are angry.
All religions have their fanatics. Its a mistake to think that the fanatics are representative of the religion.
For instance, there have been four attacks near me, including one very close, that could be called ‘terrorist’. All four were committed by fanatic, radicalized Christians. And the Oklahoma City Federal Bldg attack was also committed by members of a right-wing, Christian militia.
But I’ve also known plenty of people who’s Christian faith inspires them to do good works and help people.
Neither is really an example of ‘typical’ Christian behavior, which I’d describe as simply going to church on Sunday and then going out and being rather different that what Jesus talked about … until they go to Church again the following Sunday.
I’ve never been near a Muslim terror attack. But I’ve met plenty of Muslim who are kind and peaceful and seem inspired by their religion to do good. I assume that Muslims and all religions have their fanatics who are not an example of a typical member of their religion.
OK, a very nice minute 14 seconds of CNN reporter Kate Bolduan’s reality very visibly shaken in interviewing US Congressman from Kentucky Thomas Massie on the matter of facts versus fiction on the Syria “gas attack” matter.
Her facial contortions are priceless:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/thomas-massie-syria-attack-not-assad/
Maria Zakharova absolutely hammers another CBS media slimebag with facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419lQljnS-0&feature=youtu.be
This one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIB186gutnw&feature=youtu.be
Can’t vouch for this source, but it claims Bannon is being shifted due to ‘ tensions’ with Kuschner, and his objection to the attack on Syria:
https://www.axios.com/scrambling-to-save-bannon-2349859381.html
Wide awake in the middle of the night with a million answerable questions for so many seemingly unsolvable problems. Been spending a lot of time contemplating the motivation of Daesh fighters. Hypothetically as young revolutionaries would they not chafe at the idea that they are the foot soldiers of the US empire. When they cheer the destruction of Syria by US bombing have they not made their allegiances clear! Never mind leaving their holes to attack en mass at just the right moment. Well we certainly seem very concerned that these “rebels”are getting what they need.
Flimsy theory perhaps but is it possible that Isis guys running around Mosul are directing incoming US bombs to land on targets that have lots of virgins inside. After all if they get 72 virgins on matrydom they must be concerned that the supply gets replenished. The recent story that a single Isis sniper brought death to a whole lot of regular folks who were still there when the bombs came while the sniper was long gone, on to the next neighbourhood. That story gave me that sick feeling of truth you get after a lifetime of witnessing relatively minor injustices, you know the grinning bully laughing at the miserable nice folks kind of stuff. So in English he would call it in as, target ID ed, I’m clear, bombs away!
Obviously not a serious student of this topic but what about this. You get your sorry butt into the ranks of Daesh because you have psychopathic violent tendencies (too much war game video, weird music and energy drinks+vaccine side effects?) and the idea of being with a large empowering group of brothers seems idyllic. You doubt the 72 virgin thing but the idea of getting paid for murder and mayhem while dressing in black with cool weapons and nice pickups appeals to you. But then you get addicted to captagon, witness/ participate in a few too many atrocities and some where deep down your soul revolts. I can not live with this memory of what I have done. Probably most of these thoughts would be working subconsciously. Next thing you know, Boom (they seem to have a huge supply of suicide bombers) and your worries cease. Instantly becoming a hero to your less sensitive buddies.
I hope some Daesh guys read this, my message to them would be simple. You are indeed working for the Devil, blow yourself up in the depot with the other Daesh guys still kissing you goodbye, do some good in your life for once. For surely when someone blows themselves to smithereens one of their core beliefs is that they deserve to be dead!
@ frankly
I too awaken in the middle of the night and contemplate such questions. In night consciousness things appear differently, and often I grasp things more clearly.
Becoming servants of the devil as you have named in relation to isis, is similar for the world leaders who have henious crimes to answer for. In the depths of every soul there is concience, Which informs us about good and evil. This is a far more primal knowingness than our mental thought processes want to admit. In the deepest depths of our being lies a threshold of consciousness that we cross every night in sleep, and at death. Here we meet the titanic forces of creation as Being, what is traditionally called God, (and science tries to rename as some kind of amoral play of energy and force.)
This meeting at the threshold is where the soul is accountable and it realizes itself as either someone respectable or despicable in the eye of God. There is infinate mercy for all error for any soul who humbly acknowledges their most grievous error and seeks to “change their ways”.
But a counter force well stands at the threshold as well, traditionally called the devil. Rather than face oneself in the mirror of God, which calls forth humility and penitence,the soul can choose to “dig in deeper”, and flee into various states of denial which open the soul to possession by demonic creatures. This cycle is evident in addiction of all kinds, where concience is ignored and a pattern of behavior takes over and runs amok, becoming harder and harder to liberate oneself from.
This was depicted at in the scene of the three crosses at the crucifixion. Two thieves were on either side of Christ Jesus. The “good thief” felt shame for his crimes and begged forgiveness. He was promised a reunion with the Divine. The other maintained an arrogant self righteousness and mocked the God incarnate.
It is my hope and prayer for conscience to awaken in some of our world leaders that this vicious trajectory of evil against the earth and humanity will be be halted.
k
Late at night
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
As miasm swirls around and about
of this I know without a doubt
Only higher power will call a stop
Meanwhile let us do our small part
speaking and sharing our small Truth
standing firm thus giving others Heart
Bear witness, say verily and foresooth.
Sweet Hope
We were full of hope but that has gone,
With threats and deeds at barrel of gun
Pointed at the peace
Screaming all the place
Pointed at the truth
Screaming that is coup
Well surrounded by big thick lies
The truth is punished and cries.
I don’t pray for wicked leaders
But I pray for crying mothers.
Oh sweet Hope, let not give up
Cause the wicked are on top
Not for so long,
Cause the gong
Will give the signal
And that will be final.
Truth telling witness…yea, verily and foresooth. Bolivian UN ambassador has his macho on….you go, guy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSiOIM1wEQ4
I am feeling more relaxed due to a temporary pause in the fake terror game of empire. The spate of humor in the last few comments also helps. Indeed, a “joke without truth is like an airplane without wings.”
Jokes and stories from Russia combine truth and humor. I like the one about the five Jews. Allow me to add two Jews more:
The sixth Jews is Trump (yes, he is part Jewish) who corrects Einstein’s relativism. Trump points to his tower and says: “I’m absolutely great again.” (more below on that).
The seventh Jew is God Himself who points to Mrs. God and says: “She’s not a relative. She’s an absolute for me.”
As for Trump at this stage of his “Trumpin’ the Lumpen” show, he’s looking stronger than ever. The Syrian gas episode looks to be a pre-arranged, staged event of fake news that is meant to benefit Trump and his handlers in which Putin and Xi are supporting actors.
The new script is rolling out with Russia saying this could lead to war and Trump responding that he can do it again. More faking to keep us quaking so the empire can keep raking in taxes and taking us as fools.
Trump and the Trumpers behind him are throwing up more smokescreens than Comanches on hilltops. They’re playing the media like a house of mirrors. Every time Donald looks like Custer’s last stand and weak as a wet noodle, he comes out smelling like a rose on a stack of thorns, making himself great again.
He could never do this alone of course. So the big question is “who are his backers?” If you can answer that question, you know the riddle of the seven Jews. And you also know who stands behind their thrones. You’re not far off if you think Mrs. God.
Sure you think I’m crazy but I think in a new paradigm that is as old as the hills. I use metaphors like a Love Government, Love Army and Love Bower because in a world of fakes I’ve got to fake out the fakers by fighting fire with fire.
There are more games being played than you can shake a stick at. The empire uses distraction, misdirection, false flags, staged events and a constant barrage of lies, murders and terror to confuse, misuse and eventually destroy all that stands in its way to absolute power.
Such absolute power can only be brought to heel by a greater absolute. For lack of a better name, I call it love. Call it what you will, it’s the same game still.
Thanks for the truth wrapped in humor and hubris, comedy and tragedy, analysis and catalysis as well as romance and intelligence. I’ve got to stop talking and start walking these old bones down to the river in this vulva valley of love unveiled.
Love, Dennis
Cafe Continuum Conundrum Oceanum Espiritum
Donald has his demons, their deceptive revels make me sick,
Ahab had his ghastly white Leviathan, a vengeful Moby Dick.
Adolph was a slave to his, (and mine cause a really nasty streak).
Universe of Beauty, made of Love, how can Spirit be so bleak?
Some blame Kapital’s accumulation,compounded interest to lend.
Some blame God’s abandonement, answer’s blowin in the wind,
Some see evil in other nations, races or religions apart from theirs,
Spooked by Chinese dragons, or frightened so by Russian bears.
Yet, Dennis, despite nasty rumors and slanders to the contrary,
Bravely faces his, never ashamed, irate,sour or even crotchety!
Yea, verily, O’Leary would never, ever hurt a feeling, flea or fly,
And, if one is smashed, asks in Love perplexity,”Why, Love,why?”
When tired of town, like Ishmael, and apt to knock top hats off
And I at faith, puppy love and even child-like innocence do scoff;
And walk the docks, a Pequod to embark, to flee dark humanity,
Here’s Terenam, Dennis and Oceanus Ioan, a salty sea of poetry!
Bro, Hey thanks!
Very good one Bro, you have good muses around you. Thanks !
Here’s an account of the latest antics of another yellow-wigged clown.
(From a pretty site, BTW, who will send out e-mail list of latest articles)
https://nsnbc.me/2017/04/08/boris-johnson-flip-flops-cancels-moscow-visit-over-assad-links-forgets-british-officials-planned-war-since-2009/
Boris Johnson Flip-Flops, Cancels Moscow Visit over Assad Links, Forgets British Officials Planned War Since 2009
nsnbc : British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson flop-flopped and pulled out of a scheduled visit to Moscow in the wake of still uninvestigated allegations about a chemical weapons attack by “the Syrian regime”.
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During an appearance on the French TV channel LPC in June 2013, Dumas made a short remark, saying that top British officials were preparing the subversion of Syria with the help of “rebels” two years before the first protests in 2011, and that he was asked, whether he wanted to participate.
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Here we go again, one more time again
The wheelin’ wheel of war when will it end
It turns all to ill both foe and friend
I turn to write on how to make it mend
I must say that Bro’s latest poem just above is one of love that I have never heard so aptly and timely put. It is not only because it personally touches me but because of its universal beauty and truth.
I have been known to shoot from the hip and go out on a limb. So far I have not shot myself in the leg nor been smashed by a falling branch. However, I always risk that chance by joining in the whirling devilish dance of love and war. So here I go one more time again.
If I may, I’d like to borrow from the annals of science a particular discovery called the double slit experiment and Schrodinger’s cat connundrum. Human observation is a crucial factor in objective scientific events like love and war.
Contrary to the unipolar, one pillar base of war, the alternative Love Government has seven pillars for its foundation. “Wisdom hath builded her a house; she hath hewn out her seven pillars; she has given it to us but it is still hers.” (Proverbs 9:1) with the love edition addendum.
The first three pillars are number, time and space. Time and space are relative to each other and have been recognized since Einstein. However, we have not seen how human observation, counting, measuring and numbering by simple or complex math is the first and most important factor of the seven pillars.
The Love Army has ten (1 and 0) divisions. The first order of love is to “think love,” as a simple thought and as an extensive philosophy of love and all in between. Intelligence is supposed to be our human character as expressed by homo sapiens or man of wisdom.
I can only tell you what I do; it’s none of my business what you choose to do. I think love and apply it to the problem of war. I send love to all theaters of war. I mantra love into a song. I observe love in the double slits of snake eyed wars. I see a schrodinger cat alive and well. I measure all by the standard of love.
Does it work? How would I know? Epistemologists have written enough pages on this to go from here to the moon. I think it works from my own experience but I can’t prove it by ordinary methods.
For example, here we are again on the cusp of war. Trump’s base is split 50-50 on the Syria situation. Sound like the divide and conquer ploy? The Saker and countless others are sucked into the fray despite it being Orthodox Easter week. Or was it planned to happen at just this time according to the Russian calendar co-opted by empire’s timeline?
Jesus rides into Jerusalem again on an ass. War rides to Zion now on Syrian gas. The number game is being played and the whole wide world is being stirred with fear that the end is near. World War Three is being dangled before our frightened eyes like a carrot before a donkey and like lemmings we are led toward a cliff of no return.
Although I’m caught up in the hypnosis like most others, I had a brief moment yesterday of freedom from this mesmerization trick by empire. I went another way, the way of love, and felt free. I took the high road. I observed the slit of love. I chose to see a live cat. “The truth set me free” for a few fleeting moments. “If you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains of war.” (Matthew 17:20, love edition).
That’s what the Love Army is talking about. “Think love” rather than war. The Love Army is a metaphor for the principle which can also be expressed as Archangels, Good Gods and Heavenly Spirits. Love can also be translated as care, peace, strength, joy, justice, truth or any positive virtue. Call it what you will; it’s the same game still.
On ground level War 101 I choose to see it a certain way, and this is going out on a limb. Nothing is ever absolutely good or evil except the Absolute itself and who can know that? Within the empire there are good elements. Within patriarchy there are benign patriarchs. Within the devil himself there is a hurt angel.
Trump, Putin, Xi and all the rest are being used by evil agents and relatively good operatives. Count Khazar is being countered by Lady Love. Thanks to a commenter’s link this very morning to Mike Cernovich’s take on the Janus-faced Trump trumpers next to him, I can see more clearly the two slits and the two cats.
My choices and measured numbers makes a difference in the outcome. I “think love.” The Love Army (or Archangel Michael if you will) is bringing love and war to a head at the OK Corral. We get to make the difference by our observation and measuring of the outcome.
I see love winning no matter how the deal goes down. I do my bit to determine the outcome. The first bit or byte of information is to think love per the Love Army’s orders. There are nine other divisions or orders but let them stand at ease for now.
In this way I keep myself free from the double-dealing witches’ cauldron which Bro has brought to mind of late. I don’t want to get sucked into that cauldron. Jesus went there on a donkey two thousand years ago but he had a get out of jail free card called the Resurrection. He said I did too but he also said “oh you of little faith.”
I see the good element within the empire as setting this whole Trump thing up on a stage for our entertainment and education. Behind that good force is the Love Army and behind it is the Love Bower and behind it is the Love Government and behind those are you and I. The world hangs in the balance waiting for us to determine the outcome by how we number and measure it.
It’s about time (and space) for me to measure my steps on a walk up the road and then down the path into the valley river bower. First I will have a pre-breakfast of oranges and later cereal and veggies, do some work outside and then return to see how the tides of love and war are flowing.
Thanks to all for keeping me on my toes. This vineyard with its cafe connection is stopping war with its buffet of never-ending love and true care for little ones everywhere. So are Saker and
Jesus as they enter the arena of Jerusalem for an Armageddon show of epic proportions, replayed now in our time.
This week in the love calendar is measured 16, the two of space after the suits of time and number, with the theme of feeling in the polarities of deep and cheap. For me, love is the deepest feeling of all which the words of Jesus indicate beyond reasonable doubt.
“As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and with tears said ‘how often would I have gathered you under my wings like a mother hen but you would not.'” (Luke 13:34). Has Jerusalem changed at all?
“Suffer the little children and their mothers to come unto me for such is the bower of love.” (Matthew 19:14) in the revised love edition. Yes, Jesus, in my observation, is in the first ranks of the Love Army.
Love, Dennis