Moveable Feast Cafe 2017/04/13 … Open Thread

To the Saker- I agree that Tillerson will probably share John Kerry’s utter derangement: being civil and diplomatic in the face of true old world diplomats and as soon as he is no longer in the presence of Lavrov, he will spit venom about the evil Russians and satanic Assad.
So when will US policy be back in the control of “the adults in the room”?
But now that Trump has been NeoCon-ized I fear that the Chickenhawks will unleash a kind of “crumbling attack” of multiple wars of aggression happening nearly simultaneously- Ukraine, Syria/Jordan/Iraq, Korea maybe even Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba to boot.
Interesting times these are…

July 7-8, G 20, Hamburg, Germany

This will be the first meeting of Trump and Putin.

What will be the state of the world by then?

North Korea?

Syria?

ISIS?

And won’t the terrorists want to hit Germany or Brussels or Paris about that time?

And what will the photo look like? Merkel, the host, there will be a new French leader, Trump, President Xi and Putin.

Trump with the vassals licking at him.

Xi and Putin most likely together, though Putin may be positioned away from this cluster. They would want to show they have China and Russia is isolated.

However, if things don’t go well in these 100 days or so until then, they probably won’t have gone well for Trump. And then he will need to have more than a picture of himself standing in the middle, leader of the whole melange. He will need some solid result of some kind.

He would want to get a missiles and nuclear forces treaty talks going, and if they want that to be something Trump can claim as his doing, he will need to prepare such a decision with the Russians long before Hamburg.

So, thinking ahead, we may have some common sense to try to mitigate the onset of the Cold War 2 we see forming.

But no one, China nor Russia will sit and bargain with the Hegemon. That is an unequal partner for any topic.

The rise of the Hegemon, resuscitated by the Syrian episode of cruise missile firings, complicates any bi-lateral talks. All the prior treaties over nuclear and WMDs came when the globe was evenly bi-polar, USA vs USSR. Now, a Hegemon roams the globe demanding to be obeyed.

Russia and China will have none of it.

“Steve Bannon on the Crisis of Capitalism and the Divine Right of Billionaires”

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18819:Steve-Bannon-on-the-Crisis-of-Capitalism-and-the-Divine-Right-of-Billionaires

Thierry Meyssan has finally woken up from his sweet dreams about there being a Good Guy in the White House. Well, not quite, actually. He still thinks Trump has been pushed and realigned under pressure from the Brits. Anyway, must have been a very rude awakening.

Well, I, for one, think it’s been a charade all along. Engdahl has been right from the beginning.

Meyssan had faith in Obama, and also in Trump. He still has faith in nukes, but will be disappointed once more.

12 avril 2017 : le monde bascule à nouveau dans la guerre (no English version yet, but German and Spanish)

“Federkleid”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvsyamoEDg

Kent

All The World Is Green??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iwJKjw2iI

Kent

Ironies abound. On or shortly after the election Trump went of Infowars thanking Alex Jones for his work against fake news and “the globalists”.

Today Infowars posts this article on the Syria blunder. Been busy travelling, but I could swear I saw it in the Vineyard first??

Info wars says,

Editor’s note: This article was authored under a pseudonym by a high level source.

The article I thought I saw HERE. Or didn’t I?

“Donald Trump’s decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie. In the coming days the American people will learn that the Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib. Here is what happened:

1. The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.

2. The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believes was a weapons/explosives depot for Islamic rebels.

3. The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine and they followed the wind and killed civilians.

4. There was a strong wind blowing that day and the cloud was driven to a nearby village and caused casualties.

5. We know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called “first responders” handled the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin they would have died. Sarin on the skin will kill you. How do I know? I went through “Live Agent” training at Fort McClellan in Alabama.
There are members of the U.S. military who were aware this strike would occur and it was recorded. There is a film record. At least the Defense Intelligence Agency knows that this was not a chemical weapon attack. In fact, Syrian military chemical weapons were destroyed with the help of Russia.

This is Gulf of Tonkin 2. How ironic. Donald Trump correctly castigated George W. Bush for launching an unprovoked, unjustified attack on Iraq in 2003. Now we have President Donald Trump doing the same damn thing. Worse in fact. Because the intelligence community had information showing that there was no chemical weapon launched by the Syrian Air Force.
Here’s the good news. The Russians and Syrians were informed, or at least were aware, that the attack was coming. They were able to remove a large number of their assets. The base the United States hit was something of a backwater. Donald Trump gets to pretend that he is a tough guy. He is not. He is a fool.

This attack was violation of international law. Donald Trump authorized an unjustified attack on a sovereign country. What is even more disturbing is that people like Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and NSA Director General McMaster went along with this charade. Front line troops know the truth. These facts will eventually come out. Donald Trump will most likely not finish his term as President. He will be impeached, I believe, once Congress is presented with irrefutable proof that he ignored and rejected intelligence that did not support the myth that Syria attacked with chemical weapons.

It should also alarm American taxpayers that we launched $100 million dollars of missiles to blow up sand and camel shit. The Russians were aware that a strike was coming. I’m hoping that they and the Syrians withdrew their forces and aircraft from the base. Whatever hope I had that Donald Trump would be a new kind of President, that hope is extinguished. He is a child and a moron. He committed an act of war without justification. But the fault is not his alone. Those who sit atop the NSC, the DOD, the CIA, the Department of State should have resigned in protest. They did not. They are complicit in a war crime.”

Jones may have to face his aversion to the Z word soon. He rants about Kushner but pulls his punches, attacking Kushner as a “liberal Democrat”, rather than a zionist/globalist.

S-400 for Turkey.
The deal looks like going ahead.
WTF! Russia? Are are you really going to sell them the S-400???????
More:
http://tass.com/defense/941350
Russia, Turkey in talks on S-400 air defense system deal — source
Turkey about to make final decision on S-400 contract with Russia — minister
Military & Defense April 14, 0:27 UTC+3

The final decision will be made by the {Turkish} president and the prime minister

MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. The Turkish leadership is at the final stage of making the decision on the choice of air defense systems for its military, with Russia’s advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile system being one of the options, the country’s defense minister has said.

“Turkey urgently needs an air defense system. As far as the S-400 is concerned, we are at the stage of making the final decision. The final decision will be made by the president and the prime minister,” ·Fikri Isik was quoted as saying by the Anadolu news agency Thursday.

****** The minister said that if Turkey purchases the Russian-made missile systems, they would not be integrated into the NATO system. *****
Oh, well, all’s OK then… Move along, nothing to see here!

I read a couple of articles on RT today that gives me pause to again disclaim on the idiocy rampant through parts of Eastern Europe. In particular I’m going to discus the Baltic States and Poland. The most Russophobic areas (there are others but those “take the prize”). Most people know little of the history of those areas.And it seems they themselves know little of it.Estonia and Latvia,for hundreds of years were ruled as a conquered territory by a German order of Knights (the compadres of the Teutonic Knights). The people we know as Estonians and Latvians were peasant serfs.The land was divided into great estates by German noble families (known as the “Baltic Barons”).The state language was German,and the local Estonian and Latvian languages were considered peasant dialects with no standing.They were then acquired by the Kingdom of Sweden (with an area of Latvia going to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).The social order remained the same.With the Baltic Barons still in charge of the country. The Russian Empire acquired part of them after defeating Sweden,other parts by inheritance,other parts by sale.And the final area during the partitions of Poland.At no time, from the Middle Ages until WWI, did they form independent states under the native populations rule.

The only reason that the Estonian and Latvian languages survived and became national languages was because Russia allowed that.They relaxed the laws having German as the only legal language.Freed the serfs earlier than serfs were freed in other parts of the Empire. And permitted the local languages to be used.With WWI, and during the Russian Revolution, those areas were first occupied by German armies. And then with the German retreat the local peoples declared independence.During the days of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty the Soviets made a huge mistake.The mistake was not in re-occupying those areas.If they hadn’t the Germans certainly would have,as they did after Barbarossa.And their nearness to the heart of the USSR was a danger at that time.But the mistake instead was in making them part of the USSR.It would have been better if they had installed pro-Russian governments and left them independent.But at that time there were large numbers of Latvian and Estonian communists inside the USSR. And the USSR believed that since they had been part of the Russian Empire,and with many communists they would be returned easily.But the interwar years had given those two states a desire to be independent.And it was those two states,along with the third, Lithuania that led the breakup of the USSR.

The times of the Soviet takeover,and then the war years were very hard in those two states.The Soviets deported thousands of people that they considered would oppose them.Some were killed,but others returned after the war years.During the German WWII occupation many men joined with the nazis,and others were with the Red Army.The society was deeply split. After the war, for years there was a US backed guerrilla movement in those areas.During the independent years there had been little industry there. And what there was was mostly destroyed in the war.The Soviets after the war build a large number of factories and other industrial projects in those states.But with the war losses of population many people from the Slav regions of the USSR immigrated to those areas to staff the new plants. Though the USSR developed those regions above what they did inside the other republics. And they had the highest living standards in the USSR because of that. They were never to be loyal to the USSR.

Its ironic that those states who complained about personal freedoms,after their new independence forgot all that and started to treat their Slav citizens worse than they themselves had been treated in the last years of the USSR. Pro-nazi groups have begun to flourish.and they have lost far more people through immigration than they lost in the Soviet takeover and war years.Instead of being happy to use the industrial and educational benefits they gained during the Soviet period.They destroyed the industries,and squandered there location as a gateway for the trade of huge Russia.If they weren’t so Russophopic I would feel sad for them.

Lithuania is a slightly different case.I have even less sympathy for them.They were always a small population. But they gained large areas of land from Rus states during the “Tatar Yoke” period of the breakup of Russia.In the late Middle Ages they merged with Poland to form a joint state.That decision almost destroyed them as an ethnic people.Many Poles immigrated to their border areas.Some native Lithuanians assimilated to become Poles. Including almost the entirety of their ruling elite.By the time of the the partitions of Poland ,when they fell in the Russian sphere,they were reduced to only the serf peasants still speaking Lithuanian.And Southern Lithuania ,and largest cities in Lithuania being Polonized. Had they passed another 100 ruled by Poland it would be unlikely that the Lithuanian ethnicity could have been saved.But just as with the other Baltic languages it was under the Russian Empire that they were reborn. And because of that today,an ethnic Lithuania exists.

Just as with the other two Baltic States Lithuania fell to Germany in WWI. And when the Germans retreated local Lithuanians declared independence.But it wasn’t the Lithuania we see today.South Eastern Lithuania including the capital Vilnius was seized by Poland. And it was only given to Lithuania by the Soviets when they took over in 1940.And then again after WWII when Lithuania was freed from the nazis.The same scenario I described above for the other Baltic States,the Soviet takeover,the war years,and the aftermath during the Soviet period is true for Lithuania as well.There were a couple of exceptions though, unique to Lithuania.There was less immigration from other areas of the USSR. And Lithuania gained around a quarter more territory from their being a Soviet republic. Had they “not” been part of the USSR.Its almost certain that those territories today would be part of Belarus, or even still part of Poland.They owe their current state borders to Soviet “largess”.Since those territories at that time were far from being inhabited by “Lithuanians”.So their Russophobia and pro-nazi and US affiliations are particularly repulsive.

Coming to discus Poland makes me sad.There is much in Polish history and culture I admire.But their Russophobia is at least as great if not greater than in the Baltic States.And has existed far longer. When Rus and Poland both formed they seemed to be fairly peaceful towards each other. In fact DNA studies show that as far as Moscow they shared an early ethnic kinship. Above that from both being Slavic.But once Rus adopted Orthodox Christianity,and Poland adopted Latin Christianity, relations soured. They began to war with each other.And during the Mongol Invasion of Russia the Poles took advantage of that period to seize large Rus Orthodox territory in today’s Ukraine.As I can recall, until the 18th Century there was never an occasion when Russia seized any Polish Catholic territory.When Poland joined in a joint state with Lithuania they gained much more ancient Rus territory.And over the years assimilated many people into Poles. Including much of the elite classes of that land.Instead of protecting their Western lands from German rule they instead chose to try and take over Rus lands.So that by the late 17th Century many areas of today’s Western Poland had been entirely or mostly Germanized. And they were locked in almost constant war with a reborn Russia.The Rus territories in “Eastern Poland” (Ukraine and Belarus today) rebelled against Poland in those years and joined Russia.So that by the 18th Century,while still holding vast Rus territories Poland had declined from a great power to almost a satellite of Imperial Russia.When they tried to ally with German Prussia to betray Russia. The Prussians instead allied with Russia and the Austrian Empire to partition Poland. With the Prussians gaining at first mixed German and Polish ethnic lands,Austria gaining Polish and Rus ethnic lands. And Russia gaining only Rus ethnic lands.There were in all three partitions of Poland. And of those three, almost all the lands Russia acquired were ethnic Rus. Napoleon after defeating Prussia and Austria recreated a Polish state from some of their Polish lands.But with the fall of Napoleon his Polish creation was formed into a Kingdom of Poland ruled by the Russian Tsar as King of Poland.The Poles in those years enjoyed much more freedom than was found in Russia itself. And the Polish noble class was privileged in the Rus lands that Russia had reacquired.That ended when the Poles revolted against the Tsar in 1830. And many Poles in the ethnic Rus lands sided with the rebellion.Polish rights in the Rus lands was abolished. And the “Kingdom” put under stricter rule.After an 1863 revolt against Russia all the remaining rights of the Poles were withdraw.The Kingdom abolished and those lands integrated into Russia.Even with those troubles the ex-Kingdom lands advanced economically. And many factories were developed and Poles traded throughout the vast Russian Empire.When WWI broke out many Poles sided with the Austrians and Germans against Russia. Many battles were found in those territories.With the Russian Revolution and the defeat of Germany and the Austrians. The Poles declared independence.

With independence instead of being satisfied with gaining Polish ethnic lands ,the Poles over reached themselves and sought to recreate their ancient Kingdom’s borders.They seized vast regions of today’s Belarus and Ukraine.Lands they held uneasily until WWII. At which time the USSR acquired those lands and united them to Belarus and Ukraine (with a part also going to Lithuania).At the final end of WWII Poland was officially stripped of those non-Polish Rus lands. And instead given lands taken from Germany that hadn’t been part of a Poland since the Middle Ages. And that were almost totally German by that time. Only some areas such as Upper Silesia,Eastern Pomerania,and Southern East Prussia ,could Poland have any ethnic claim to. Had the Soviets been smarter at the time they would have only given those lands to Poland. But instead they wanted to ease the Poles feelings of loss over the reclaimed Rus lands. So they gave them the maximum territories that could be given them in the West.

Did that gift ease Polish hatred of Russia (to Poles the Soviets were just “Russians”. Forgetting that Russians weren’t the main ethnic group ruling the USSR for much of its existence).The answer is no.They gladly took the German lands. While forever hating the Soviets for stripping them of the Rus lands.They blamed them for all Poland’s problems.Even if the USSR gave Poland more say in their own rule than almost any satellite state.Even if almost that entire period local Polish communists completely ruled Poland. Even if 600,000 Soviet soldiers died freeing them from the nazis,who had killed almost 6,000,000 Polish citizens during the war.It was still all “Russia’s fault”.Even though “people’s Poland” was far more developed and the citizens far more educated than pre-WWII Poland.Nothing would ease the Russophobia. With the collapse of the USSR,and Russia and Poland both no longer communist. One would think the hatred would end. But no,Poland (at least the governing classes) refuses to ditch there Russophobia.At a time where they could have build great trade relations, building their economy with Russian trade and resources. Instead they would prefer to shoot themselves in the foot and hate Russia.Probably only the Bandera Ukrainians show a more pathological hatred towards Russia.Their boot licking of NATO even reaches levels surpassing communist Poland’s vassalage to the USSR.But no level of disgrace is too much if its against Russia.

North Korea should not (never) give up its Nuclear weapons. It must not bow to US pressure now. And very importantly it shouldn’t fire any missile at all while the US strike group are still around. They will attempt to intercept the missile(s) in order to know how good their defense against a Korean attack would be. Kim should keep talking tough and avoid been provoked into a war for now. Just my opinion.

Far to kind here. Will be back with a vengeance later.

Enjoy?.

http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Donald_Trump_Faces_of_Evil02.jpg

Kent

this morning I dreamt being deep down in a large construction-site with a master explaining me everything,. At last we were at an exit and on a small base was a head-great glas-dome with a red light in it. The master was saying/praying a sentence, something with God/Order/Music and I was deeply addressed in this moment the master received a stroke and fell to the left … and I hasted to the telefone to doo the 112 but i didn’t know any address …. and realized: i’ve forgotten the essential sentence.

when I awoke the Mars was at 25° Taurus on my Mars

the archetypes are stirring in us. God has become man in effort to help man with his Order giving him the golden rule behind all appearances.

Astrology is medicine but one has to wish to become healthy and remember,
the medicine is not the food.

And this week is different to all of us and this Easter while cows and sheep keep chewing

And the chronicle keeps telling the invisible and the visible

and here we are now on the day after to cheer the baby

http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/04/center-and-periphery-are-marrying-on.html