2017/06/18 06:00:01
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Miles keeps dishing them out like there is no tomorrow. In his latest short paper he takes a look at the genealogy of Paul McCartney, or Paul Macartney as we soon find out. With this tiny change in the name we find ourselves – once again – in the tightly interwoven world of The Families, crypto-Jewish almost all of them.
No wonder then that the Macartneys are also related to the Stanleys, that is, John Lennon’s family line. Quote:
“Of course through the Hamiltons we can also link the Macartneys to the Stanleys of Liverpool. In 1798, Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, married Lady Elizabeth Hamilton. Her father was the Duke of Hamilton. This is an even stronger link to Liverpool, since the Stanleys were far more than Earls of Liverpool: they were more like Kings of Liverpool.
In 1904, Brig. Gen. Ferdinand Stanley, son of the 16th Earl, married Alexandra Fellows, granddaughter of Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. This linked two of the most powerful old families in England before the 1st World War.
Stanley’s niece Victoria Stanley married a Rothschild at about the same time (1915). He was Neil Primrose, but his maternal grandfather was Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. Primrose’s grandmother was a Barent-Cohen.
What this indicates to me is that the Stanleys may still be the same hidden power they always were. We saw in my paper on Henry VII that Thomas Stanley, King of Mann, was more powerful than the Kings of England of the time. That is admitted in the mainstream histories. But he preferred to stay in the shadows. I suggest to you the Stanleys are still in the shadows, pulling many strings. One of the smaller strings was the Beatles project, which featured one of their own: John Lennon, son of a Stanley.
One of the larger projects was Hitler and the Nazis, which I now believe the Stanleys also masterminded. This is why the Stanleys have never allowed themselves to be promoted above Earl.
You would think they would be Dukes by now, wouldn’t you? So why have they remained Earls for many centuries, while marrying and controlling many Dukes and Kings and Prime Ministers? I just told you why. They want your eyes off them.”
Wow! Trust me, you want to read this a few more times to be able to absorb the full impact of what Miles Mathis just said in these few paragraphs. This is incredible, game-changing stuff.
http://mileswmathis.com/macca.pdf
PS.
This, like all others, of Miles Mathis’ recent papers should lead to frantic fact-checking and deep research in the History departments of all Universities. Why do I get the feeling it will be utterly ignored instead?
Hint:
Zion has nothing but contempt for Reality. The only thing that interests its agents are their own fabrications, fictions, frauds. It is called the (fake) matrix and it has superseded the natural world to a shocking degree already.
A mind free from ballast, borrowed knowledge, learned nonsense can penetrate through century-thick layers of fakery effortless, in an instant.
This is why Zion a) will never rest and b) can never win. Talk about Sisyphus…
Bleak and dreary
Our cafe now – is it to be teary?
Some choose to abuse; accuse, and then recuse
Choose recluse
We see the scene above. Wet street, dampening feet.
Where can we find harbor, where is there to retreat?
A refuge, our cafe, a broad church for non-aligned and Deep State maligned.
We enter, searching; seeking to find
Comrades beyond those that are narrative-blind; we are souls who ache to unbind.
Here are our kind, we can unwind.
Together we deconstruct the paradigm lies
Oh, how time flies.
The false and deceptive we perceive
But Truth? Of such purity, can we conceive?
A dark, dull day
About on the boulevard.
On guard, on guard.
But to the cafe, where there resides more than one Bard.
The street, windswept and even eerie.
The cafe, a refuge enchanting,
Safe, companionable, always hospitable
Today, no need to wary; today, maybe sans the Leary
Beautiful thoughtful piece
summers slumbering dead poetic society
numbering white wales most solicitous elegy
if you can’t beat them then join them poetically
in a cafe’s words of truth even when wintry
anon
Who Knew Love?
J.L., I do agree:
That whales do poetry!
Hmmm! So do birds……
Or so I’ve heard.
Cafe Leary-less?
I must confess.
I think maybe not!
Love’s all we’ve got,
And in the end,
It’s our only friend.
A saintly silent spirit,
Yet, inside we hear it!
It is never really gone,
Truest love lives on and on.
Pitter patter on the roof
Alone in thought, aloof,
The Timex softly ticks.
Love Watch takes his licks.
And rests for days
On end. ln a maze
Meandering meaning
Meditation dreaming
Love’s mild mantra,
World’s wild tantra
Binding two alone in one
Lasting loving just begun,
Beauty spins and spins,
Love attracts, new life begins!
Mainstream media all in a clump
The shame and the horror, decapitate the Trump!
Mainstream media, penned in like sheep,
Fleece us all, shorn to the bone
Penning their columns with blood-infused ink
The lies and the fabrications, lord how low will they sink?
Mainstream media, Murdoch’s minions
All targeted and packaged; all controlled opinions
See and an N and an N – lies and deceit
Noise incessant, raised voices rasp and compete
Groupthink and hive mind; plastic puppets blather on with no end.
While all around are the toadies and quislings; they pretend and contend
That the narrative fits, and world view is fine.
We all must play along to get along, pay the price and adopt stance supine
Mainstream media _ what do you think?
With flat screen TVs that alter your blink ….
Mind numbing, thought dumbing, behavior chubbing in-sync
You know it’s called programming,
There’s a good reason for that.
We’ll inform you it’s Russians – and it’s all kompromat
Mainstream media, small gods on the screen
Your hideous monstrosities, profane and obscene
Even the most casual exposure makes one unclean
Mainstream media, on location for every travail
Mainstream media, how long now until the fail?
Blogs are the future where wit and wisdom and intelligence prevails
A new Eco-system of Sakers, white tigers and white whales!
Putin to Oliver Stone in early 2016:
“We are going to be ready to work with whoever gets elected by the people of the United States. … I believe nothing is going to change no matter who gets elected.”
— How about Bernie Sanders?
“All I can say is as follows. I have some experience of communicating [with the US] — the force of the United States bureaucracy is very great. And there are many facts that are not visible to the candidates until they become president. And the moment one gets to real work, he or she feels the burden.”
Putin not only foresaw what would happen in the Trump cabinet, he also understands America better than any American commentator.
Interventionist Bernie would have won… and he would have changed nothing.
I agree that Bernie sanders would not change anything
Back in April of this year, on NBC’s Meet The Press, Sanders purposely mimicked The Godfather when asked what he would do to force the Russians “to the table” in Syria:
“I think you may want to make them an offer they can’t refuse. And that means tightening the screws on them, dealing with sanctions, telling them that we need their help, they have got to come to the table and not maintain this horrific dictator.”
He sounds just like Hillary. Just as ignorant.
Hillary WAS supposed to win
Everything – the whole primaries and campaign – were pure kabuki.
Trump was selected by the GOP to drive die-hard Republicans to HRC _ #nevertrump
This is not conjecture or my (humble) opinion.
It is fact. Detailed fully in the Podesta emails released by Wikileaks.
Podesta’s emails refer to Trump as a “Pied Piper” candidate.
Being a New York real estate shark, once HRC collapsed in public, he saw his chance and stole the presidency. Hence the HRC/DNC and Deep State rage.
Part of “Russia Russia Russia” hysteria is to “look over there, shiny”
Take attention away from WHAT was leaked onto “who hacked”
It can now be stated with a very high level of confidence Seth Rich was one of the leakers.
He was a DNC insider/ staffer, with access to database, and a motive (a “panda for Bernie”).
He was murdered. Immediately prior Podesta stated the DNC needed to “make an example” of someone once the HRC campaign was aware of the leaks.
Bernie knew he was never annointed. He played his part and was duly rewarded.
It’s four days now since the Grenfell Tower Holocaust. Updates to the death toll trickle in slowly … 6, 12, 17, 30, now at 58.
Strangely, the number of residents seems to be unknown. A floor plan broadcast on BBC showed two “one-bed appartments” and four “two-bed appartments” per residential storey, of which they are twenty, so 200 people. But there were families of four and five living in that tower, too. So I’d think 500 is closer to the truth than 200.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/14/where-is-grenfell-tower-and-how-many-people-live-there-6707624/
» An exact figure is unknown but it is a 24-storey tower block and there are thought to be around 24 people per floor. This would leave the total at around 600 (576) although authorities have no idea how many people were in their homes during the fire. «
I’ve been thinking that authorities have a pretty good idea of how many people were in their homes during the fire but are unwilling to come out with the full extent of the catastrophe. As the lady says in the video, they’re not reporting the truth.
Youtube: D.J ISLA breaks it down for REAL. What are the NEWS really hiding at Grenfell Tower…
So if it is true that only 76 people have been accounted for, it means that the number of victims is somewhere in the 400 to 500 ballpark. A holocaust with a ready-made memorial, which is not going to collapse on its own for a hundred years.
PressTV: London’s Grenfell Tower blaze killed 500 residents: Local resident
Fake terror attacks on the one hand, and real horror on the other.
The fire broke out at 1 am in the morning of the 14th of June, in term time. Most residents would have been at home, asleep.
And the CEO of the company involved in the renovations claims he doesn’t know what material was used for the cladding. It seems a no-brainer that a CEO would ask WTF is going on when a massive copamny project goes up in flames.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/6/14/goldman-sucks
It seems somewhat out of character for the MSM to focus on the victimes, who happen to be poor, other than to blame them. It is almos as if they are distracting from the cause of the inferno.
There is definitely an informational warfare angle to the whole thing (esp. if one chooses to look.) To those who experience fire first hand it is a terrible thing. In Demons fire is both a revolutionary tactic (the burning of Shipgulin factory workers homes) and a metaphor for social and spiritual chaos, “the fire is in the minds of men.”
In this case, it is likely that sometimes bad things just happen– though you can be assured that after the razing of the building, a new structure will be built that does not house poor people . The official death numbers trickle in slowly; slowly enough that by the time that all is known, the collective consciousness of the event will have expired and the status quo will not be disturbed,and life will go on. It is telling that the only outlet reporting on the patent absurdity of the official numbers is Press TV, the Iranians, who know that they are already in the Empire’s crosshairs and therefore have nothing to lose.
The rain-proof fire-fueling cladding was probably mounted in accordance with existing British regulation. The problem is that polystyrole and polyurethane cladding, which burns just great, is allowed at all.
The thermal cladding madness is also raging in Germany, pushed by politics for the sake of “climate protection”. Regulations seem to be a bit stricter here, though. For buildings higher than 22 m, no inflammable cladding whatsoever is allowed. There is one and only one reason fuel cladding is preferred to mineral wool: it is a lot cheaper. And so we have plenty of potential death traps in Germany, too, although not of the catastrophic dimensions of the Grenfell Tower.
The many drawbacks of polystyrole / polyurethane claddings are highlighted in a documentary from 2011. At 28:00 it focuses on fire hazard all through the end. Expert assessment: If people knew how dangerous this is, they’d descend on the streets in protest. German only, no subs.
Wahnsinn Wärmedämmung (Thermal Cladding Madness) – 28.11.2011
Lieber Genosse, vielen Dank! Wissen ist die Grundlage jeder vernünftigen Wahl.
Dear friends,
Allow me to talk to you individually as if we were gathered around a cafe table on a rainy day, such as depicted in the photo above. It’s cozy in here and we are physically present to each other. We are in the process of understanding each other and clearing up previous misunderstandings, all with a view to “stop the war on Russia.”
* Saker, thanks for your reply. I missed it for two days. It seems you replied about six hours after my comment was sent to you by a moderator. I was scrolling through the comments at the last cafe yesterday for the third time, and only then caught your reply.
I agree that moderation is better than no moderation, and that the moderation here is very good although not perfect. You said that if the moderation is not good enough for me, I am free to leave, but that you would regret that, pointing out that I am a long-time participant here, and am appreciated. I appreciate your kind remark.
You correctly pointed out that if I try the “do what I want or else” approach, it is a “spoiled brat” tactic which you won’t accept, not because of me only, but because another 10,000 will use it right behind me, and the comments section will go to hell.
I agree that I have to have the maturity to accept that moderators will sometimes do a job that I do not consider good enough but this is the price we pay for a comment section in the first place. You say the ball is in my court, and hope that I will do the right thing. You give me kind regards, and in an appended reply say that I have 1043 approved comments, more than your own just past 900, and that four stopped is hardly a case of censorship. You end with “hugs,” which I send back to you.
* Webmaster, I find this site very user friendly but think it has a flaw, which I just alluded to when talking to the Saker. I missed his reply for two days which led to a misunderstanding on my part due to later replies such as the Saker’s, which require continual back scrolling to become aware of their existence. I would have completely misunderstood the Saker had I not caught his reply two days later.
I think there has to be a way to remedy this flaw by flagging replies in the current comments as they occur. I think I’ve seen this at other sites where all replies are either indented once or otherwise distinguished from current comments. We tried consecutive indentations but that results in eventual pencil-thin formatting.
Here’s my idea. When a reply to a previous comment is posted, flag it by giving the poster’s name, date and time, like a new comment at that chronological time but not the comment itself. This requires a double entry. Then I know that someone has replied to my previous comment, and I can back-scroll to it. For me, this would avoid the tragic misunderstandings that might arise, and the tedious task of frequent back-scrolling to keep current.
* Moderators who have sent my four comments to the Saker for review, I would appreciate it if you would tell me when you do this, and why you feel it necessary. It would help me to avoid misunderstandings based on lack of information.
If I understand the Saker, he is saying that you can make the call. If that is the case, I don’t understand why you would send my comment to him in the first place. He seems to be delegating the choice of my appropriateness to you. One of you said that the Saker does not read them, and mod-hs most recently that he does, which was proved in the event.
Lacking information from you at the point of occurrence, I am forced to speculate on why my comment is sent to the Saker. The speculation on my part has been that my comment crossed some line you saw regarding sexuality or religious authority.
Sexuality and religion are my passionate concerns which I view as the only truly effective means to stopping war. If I am prevented from expressing them here, then what is the point of my participating? Sure, I can write poetry and engage in friendly relations, but this is not the core of my thinking and feeling.
You are doing a fantastic job, and facilitating my joy. Don’t misunderstand me. I view this as a flaw in an otherwise excellent system which has led to my misunderstanding–with my recent decision to stop commenting here. I appreciate the responsibility you have, and that you are volunteering freely to support our common cause.
I too value freedom within the guidelines of moderation. I just don’t know what it is that I am saying that violates those guidelines. Four of 1043 is not censorship, if viewed quantitatively. However, qualitatively, those four lie at the heart of who I am and what I want to say. The fact that they are not acceptable concerns me.
I could restrict myself to talking about politics, and avoid sexuality and religion. I could link to my website, which is now going more and more deeply into areas that are counter-cultural in regard to sex and religion in an effort to stop war but I don’t like playing those games of watered-down love.
I’m going to take a break now but will come back to continue this conversation with individuals. I’ve been up since 2:22 am and it’s now over two hours later. I’ll review what I’ve written thus far. I don’t save what I write and the longer I go on with a comment, the more risk there is of accidentally deleting it. I want to talk about important points several of you have brought up before deciding what I need to do regarding my participation here.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, California, 6/18/17, 4:50 am PT, 11:50 am UTC
Have you ever been a guest at someone else’s house? If so, do you appreciate the hospitality, or do you spend your time delivering sermons on group sex, patriarchy versus matriarchy, and not only do this, but expect to be given free reign?
You really need to take moderation on the internet with a grain of salt. Nothing, absolutley nothing in a comments section anywhere should be taken too personally. You have no idea how much crap the mods have to sift through. If anything, they have been overly gracious in giving you a place to often (not always) proclaim speeches that most people in the room aren’t that interested in. Please leave the Saker and the mods out of this. If Saker pulls the plug for whatever reason (which he could do at any time…) this site is gone and there’s no more space for any of our little digital “avatars” to pontificate about. I’ve had posts that didn’t show up more than a few times for whatever reason. I didn’t get upset, I went on with my day.
When you get off the LoveArmydotCom topics, you are a vivid and engaging writer. And plenty of people love you here. That’s love, real love, right? I.e., your whole point, and probably mine as well? It’s precious. Moderation is nothing to get upset about.
Sincerely wishing you a lovely day in beautiful Ojai!
dear Dennis – this is a wonderful comment from you Dennis – you are a fantastic writer – even though I’m not ‘in the loop’ in the comments as much as I used to be, your comment completely informed me of the situation you are speaking about – thanks for that – really enjoyable and interesting comment –
About the moderation – I think the moderators change from time to time – some being more aggressive than others – Chief moderator HS is a long time ‘webmaster’ for Saker – who has to moderator the moderators as well as being webmaster – so is not terribly interested in the personal aspect of every commenter – the moderators are told what to do – and as long as they don’t go outside their basic instructions they are treated with respect – because its a nuisance for chief HS if there’s not enough moderators –
Over the years we’ve all witnessed many commenters depart from the site – and many many more that perhaps we didn’t even notice –
But Dennis, although I don’t really like your sex and religion fetish – I do love your comment today and actually I think I probably speak on behalf of many commenters … or ‘readers’ as you call them – we would be horrified, if something happened that offended you to such a degree that you felt you must depart – you are a friend to us all, Dennis, even though ultimately the internet and blogs are not actually the best place for love to be known and recognized and able to work its white magic –
I love you Dennis and in another life, hopefully we will all meet as people – not just commenters doomed to not know each other in any format except on Saker’s – at the mercy of the moderators – aggressive et al.
Ann
Thank you, Ann, for your kind, honest and loving regards. Your kindness speaks to your own character. Your honesty about my “sex and religion fetish” recommends your forthrightness. Your loving depth of feeling is engraved in my memory. I wish you well and send you love.
You don’t like “the sex and religion fetish”.
That’s all I was trying to say. You don’t go into someone’s home and play those cards.
It really impresses me that you’d call me out on politically incorrect speech. Thanks a lot. I don’t (unlike Dennis) need to post here. Have fun. Actually, you’re right. I may give the mods too much credit. However, go to ZeroHedge and look at the comments there. That’s what unmoderated comments look like. Sorry I offended your aesthetics.
Ok everyone – please can we close this conversation down now. Thx Mod.
@Internal Exile USA
I really, really want to hope, that you won’t take your hat and papers(as ioan once said in a poem) and leave this cafe ! I just began to warm up with your thoughts (and I’m not alone…)
If article claim of 180 turn in shipping channel is valid, then seems as though the pilot on the bridge or perhaps officer on watch saw his chance to ram a tin can and (perhaps) avenge Hiroshima…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/traumatic-collision-that-killed-sailors-almost-sank-destroyer-navy-says/2017/06/18/74e99d20-53ed-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html?utm_term=.67567a3c0cbb
A public secret that US sailor all know is that the bombings are not forgotten, and many Japanese hate America quite deeply, even though they are a practical and polite people they have long memories…
The carrier ship was both to starboard of the destroyer and a much larger vessel. By all rules of navigation, it was the responsibility of the Fitzgerald to give way and stay well clear. But then again, we are talking of the Exceptionalist World’s Policemen. That mentality gives rise to a certain attitude.
“the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal … performed a sudden 180-degree turn in the busy shipping lane south of Yokosuka and doubled back along its path shortly before the crash.”
That is bullshit. A large vessel like the carrier can take 15-20 minutes to come to a full stop from sailing speed. It would probably take a similar amount of time to turn 180 degrees.
As I said, “If true…”
I estimate container-ship in affair at 30 to 40 k ton, as others say above, such tonnage and design makes claim obviously false. Photos online indicate port to port collision at an angle.
Properly designed ships can be very maneuverable and fast, they can also be, if properly designed, profitable and frugal – and have limited maneuverability – as we see in the two types.
I.e. Fitz could maneuver easily and CS could not. Also draft. Tin can is shallow draft. Also CS may have been under some substantial windage, which Fitz may not have been aware of – and a “close-shave_ by Fitz to “show’emwhozboss” may have gone FUBAR
Yes, Fitz (is named after Honey Fitz or Kennedy family fame???) looks like responsible ship.
Tin cans are famously cowboys, if I may drag out the term from Soviet period in regards to yankee delinquent behavior…
But CS helm may have a twinge to the left in memory of the dead, just as Fitz helm may have also had…old conflicts well slathered with Victory and gloating over an older and more sophisticated opponent…
An opponent occupied 70 years…salt in wound…
People are people and grudges fester in the absence of Justice.
Victory and Justice do not coincide…
LZ here, and recalling Bogie as Queeg and the famous cable-cut scene… So, Comrades and Friends, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gvAJneXklg and skip ahead (or not) to minute 2:10……… I admit it’s not as stupid as ramming a container-ship, I mean, after all, Queeg had disloyal 90 day wonder civilians for officers…only technically qualified and unsuited to discipline necessary in wartime.
Anyway the scene is a classic in FUBAR creation… Fist pi s everybody off and then make demands, and keep it up…
Does this sound familiar?
Have Fun!
Big ships create a lot of suction affecting other ships…can pull them in…
especially in shallow water…and in channels… and when making windage (moving sideways under the influence of wind – can be dramatic.
Responsible management to ship involves keeping station well away from other objects…
This is Overarching rule to to avoid collisions.
Same when driving car…keep safe separation…
It’s fairly on the tin can…where the essential fault lies.
The shape of the future.
I’m Pole living in Poland. IMHO anyone better leave the Central Europe fast.
The Polish Gov. is buing light weapons trying to re-create the Hamas structure.
Considering the Russia has absoultelly NO INTEREST in attacking Poland by military means the Polish small-time weapons shopping spree seems insignificant.
But considering the enthusiastic endorsment of idea of “suprise” attack on the Kaliningrad…
My guess is the forces in the USA will try to sell Polish attack as a trigger to:
1/ the fullscale dollar collapse cover-up aka the WWIII
or
2/ the trade “uppity Poland” to Moscow for a support of an anti-China coalition.
Both scenarious suggest the USA are led by morons (we had 20+ yeras of evidence that it’s true).
Both scenarious almost guarantte the Russian use of nukes to “deescalate” NATO.
No matter – leave Poland now. Save yourself.
Looks like the Banderites flooding Poland will be used for false flag operations by NATO in the future :
https://en.news-front.info/2017/06/17/ukrainian-migrants-the-time-bomb-that-could-tear-poland-apart/
Some interesting reports from Donbass. The Ukrops have been heavily shelling civilian infrastructure continuously for months (years actually). The Novorossian military has been very patient. However, it seems the 28th Brigade bit off more than it could chew.
This article shows the damage. A total wipeout as the title says.
The following video shows a massive Ukrop convoy of burnt-out equipment being taken away from the front line. I see possible Grads, Uragan/Smersh, BTRs, Strela amongst the equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eXG8866WAE
I think it is safe to assume, from the lack of Ukrop/OSCE complaints, that the Novorossian heavy armour is well away from the front line. So that leaves mortar fire, probably corrected by local spotters, direct assault by special forces using RPGs/ATGMs etc or a mixture of the two.
A good job – well done.
Russian news is reporting that Saudi warships have fired on Iranian fishing boats with at least one Iranian fatality:
http://rusvesna.su/news/1497739285
Hi. I’m back. It’s now 5 am here, and it’s just incredibly beautiful outside. The dawn is just showing; a prominent crescent moon is overhead with Venus following. A few stars are fading. A rooster is crowing.
Allow me to reply to comments from the previous cafe, beginning with:
Bro 93, I’m all for balance. My not replying to teranam 13 was due to a misunderstanding with moderators resulting in a decision to not reply to anyone or comment at all. I will now reply to her and others like yourself in the process of understanding what I will do vis a vis my participation here.
I feel like my namesake, Dionysus, who switched places with Damocles to let him learn what it feels like to live under a sword of censoring fear. If the sword falls upon my dearest ideas, what’s the point of enduring that fear? Better to cut off the tail of the pet with one clean slice than multiple ones causing a slow death. My fate here hangs in the balance.
Regarding Cynthia Eller, who you associate with teranam as a soul sister, you come close to the heart of the matter which concerns me. Cynthia goes back 5000 years but that is not nearly far enough. She and Gloria Steinem and all feminists I am aware of do not get to the vital truth, and therefore end up in confusion and impotence.
Wonder Woman they are not but are left wondering and wandering off the track with their ideas of women bearing fruit like trees, gynocracy, matriarchy, goddess-centered priestesses, noise theory of matriarchal prehistory, Minoan-Knossos thealogy of female rule with the sweet taste of power and revenge; and like-minded vacuousness and irrelevance.
This maelstrom of truth claims and epistemology I have addressed here but few seem to comprehend what I see so clearly due to my following the orders of The Love Government and its Love Army regarding thought itself, diet, pets, monogamy, usury, drugs and four other principles–which are the only way to effectively stop war and fulfill the mission of this vineyard.
You strike me as being a man of this world and yet you have a penchant for pie in the sky schemes like OBOR which even proven men of metal, if not molten steel, like Putin cannot see through. I’m speaking to you man to man, unless one of us or both of us are not what we aspire to be. You claim the title of Bro and 9+3, a high standard indeed which needs confirmation in deed.
The litmus test is what stops war and what is mere talk of stopping war. “Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the pass and fell incensed points of mighty opposites.” I want to stop war and you and Putin want to play around with OBOR trains. “Time will tell who has won and who has fell, and who’s been left behind when you go your way and I go mine.”
Bro, I love you like a brother but that love can only be tested in a free and open exchange between sisters and brothers in arms. “Arma virumque cano” is half of that equation. It remains to be seen whether this vineyard can take the heat of battle. The signs are not encouraging but “the war was won after losing every battle.”
I think I’ve generated enough heat for now. If the mod on duty misunderstands my love for you as an attack on you, this post will not appear and the Damn Damocles Sword, hanging by a horse hair, will fall upon my head.
The sun has risen. I need to take a break and get some work done outside transplanting trees from pots before it gets too hot.
Love, Dennis
Dennis Leary,
I read pretty much all on here but do not comment very frequently. Just on one point, the one of feminism and I will answer true to the Cafe zeitgeist as conversation and as sharing.
I am a feminist, but an old style one from the times where we investigated the issues of ourselves as women and came to thinking what we are as part of the human family – basically when we took our power back. I am not a gargoyle and neither do I wear a (p)ink hat. So, from that perspective the women are deluded. They are deluded in that they have no spiritual base in which they can find a home for their souls. But, they are also in a sense not dangerous. This kind of delusion does not last long and burns itself out. Us older bunch with seasoned experience and deep roots into the spiritual meaning of women and earth, sit back and watch them because we really do know that they will not find a goddess spirit even if (s)he comes along and kicks them in the face before they do not do much more inner work. Forgive them, because they know not what they do, and they are experimenting and they are children and they need to be allowed to experiment individually and collectively.
As to the literature, the issue of matriarchal societies, there are two issues. Women will get nothing published if they do not go for something highly controversial. So, that explains that. We should know that we’ve had matriarchal as well as patriarchal societies in the past.
If you want a different perspective completely look at Michael Tsarion’s work The Female Illuminati. There he talks about the very dangerous aspects of the feminine archetype. http://www.femaleilluminati.com/
Usually I pay no never mind when the men start talking about the women, but this is the cafe.
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Careful Dennis.
You’re cracking me up. The ironies are so voluminous I may get nothing at all done today. Try making calls and writing emails when you are doubled up on the floor with side-splitting laughter!
I love you too, man, ’cause I suffer pain, and laughter is the best medicine. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you are the best!
Self-Love may be the prerequisite for Greater Love. But you remind me of me when I was 5.
I was in the back seat of a red 1955 Ford station wagon, it was dusk and dad was driving us to Dhahran from our home in Dammam, then a tiny compound of only 40 or so houses of foreigners servicing the supplies importing port.
Now it’s prominent on maps, but then Dammam was tiny compared to Dhahran, the ARAMCO headquarters,and the oil export terminal at Ras Tanura (both full of American oil people….including families..the Baby Boom reached “the farther shore”……..) and the all-Arab town of Al Khobar with its textile stores and local wares that filled the gaps in Mom’s many months apart orders from the Sears and Roebucks Catalog.
But I digress. On purpose, to make you struggle to relate to other things besides Wisconsin, the Packers, and other thoughts and ideas that are not you!
So, my parents in the front of the car were discussing Love, and ventured the well-known thought that most of us are rather partial to ourselves.
My sisters were silent, but I immediately piped up with, “I just LOVE me!
You get a lot of attention, Dennis, a lot of love and you respond so much like I did, in the back seat of that ’55 Ford to the point that it is sometimes as comical, when something reminds you of you!
Reminds me of the joke a teenage friend of my middle sister once told, when she was flirting in our living room with an unattached boy friend of both them:
“Well, enough about me…….what do YOU think of me?”
Xi and Putin and I and scores others that run nations (or don’t, like me…) who understand what OBOR is in terms of defeating the Empire of Fear and Loathing are silly boys playing with toy train fantasies. Thank you! I will relish that one for the rest of my life!
What a gift! I love it! Thank you. Please don’t leave.
Thanks, you have me laughing. I’m not sure why but it feels good. I recall a few years ago talking to the local Deep Throat inside baseball man about local politics. I had run for city council once and was running again, if my memory serves me well. I said I thought I was missing something. He replied that “maybe it is all about Dennis.”
I think you are saying a similar thing. It seems you are gently saying: “grow up.” I wonder if you do not miss that five year old in the back seat. Grow up to fit in with this kind of world? I will remember probably for the rest of my life as well the image of you and Putin playing with toy trains in order to run the empire off the tracks.
The Empire of Fear and Loathing is serious business. Maybe it takes a five year old child to see that the empire has no clothes. Jesus said to become a little child. It could be that I am a super adult posing as a five year old. How would I know? How would you know? The only way I know to know is to go on in, sink or swim.
My smile is crooked but my heart is straight. It’s the likes of you who entice me to stay although the mods will surely want to clip my wings if I sail into the winds of sex and the waters of religion where the deep currents run. I’m going there regardless. I thought that some in this community wanted to go along for the ride but now I’m not so sure.
I planted two fruit trees this am and want to plant another one this pm. Wouldn’t you know it but don’t those trees remind me of me? Well, enough about me….what do you think of me?…tell me more. I need an adult role model like yourself.
I laugh today because I may cry tomorrow.
Love, Dennis
when push comes to shove:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/important-development-us-backed-forces-push-south-raqqa-cutoff-syrian-army-deir-ezzor/
Mega sh-t just hit the fan in SE Syria:
https://www.rt.com/news/392940-iran-fires-missiles-syria/
A US-led coalition airstrike in Syria has destroyed a government warplane, the Syrian army has announced in a statement on Facebook. The pilot is missing, it added. from RT newsflash and from
Syrian Airforce Facebook account.
Pilot was captured alive, according to most recent reports.
US and Russia consult every day on where their fighters will be. This was a deliberate and dangerous provocation.
Deliberate provocation.
Yes. Yes it was.
What happens next?
no more mr nice guy is what happens now…
Love bower monomania–there is no way to shame-ya!
State power you do eschew, leaves you what to do?
Batter down the opposition
by ad nauseum repetition
play victim-I’ve been censored!
taking my ball, going to leave
so go and do it -fall on your sword
The drama, spare us, please oh please.
sweet irony,as a balsam for many who see the reality
https://southfront.org/us-setting-up-military-facility-in-tabqah-town-in-syrian-province-of-raqqah/
forward operating base for ground troops? SAA needs to nip that one in the bud.
Cafe culture.
I love cafés IRL, this is true
I have a favorite, or two
At the Black Duck
I know I’m in luck
When I arrive and “my” booth by the door, with the view and the wall
Is vacant and ready, and into which I sprawl.
At the Black Duck, the barista is Dean.
He’s super fast, witty and charming, but he can be a bit mean.
The business is his, he masters this domain.
If you’re polite and reciprocative, he’s eager you remain.
Smokers are banned, of course _ it’s the law.
Dogs are OK, on leash in the courtyard – you can shake a paw.
But the menu is fixed, no variations, no “special orders” at all.
“I do what I do, and I do it my way; pointless to squall.”
“Like it or lump it. I welcome your business, but I know my niche
I offer quality, no compromising, can you capiche?
If this doesn’t suit you, sorry, too bad
There’s other cafés in town, of your patronage they may be glad.
On entering some days, I see an old fart.
Sometimes he’s boring, sometimes he’s smart.
I nod acknowledgement; sometimes I engage,
He’s a lonely old bugger, sometimes charmless, (yet mostly harmless)
He’d like us to think he’s some kind of sage.
And
He’s fond of telling us, he’s doing well for his age.
Dear old John, we say, god love him, he’s a dear.
Don’t hover too close, though, he can really bend your ear.
A long life of diversion, merry and gay.
His friends and cohorts have long, long gone away.
He’s dropping name after name, but lost on us youngsters; recognition is vague.
Such exploits! tis a wonder some did not hang in The Hague.
Oh, it’s an exaggeration, provocation, of course!
He tells such tall stories, without any remorse.
At 80 plus years, life lived with adventure, he’s still without fears…
He’s bankrupt, health failing; but in memories lie wealth,
His stories ingratiate, as if by stealth.
At the Black Duck he’s a regular, welcomed; tricky, yet tamed.
Dean, the barista, knows the johns of this world, and cannot be shamed.
@WWThere’s no stopping the genie once it’s out of the bottle – only kidding!! great poem !! I only seem to manage short ones, how does one write a long poem?
The commentators words above from earlier, “cause of the inferno”, and the rebuilt tower block that “won’t be for poor people” caught my attention…
So many people
Went to sleep
Without knowing
The cause of the inferno
Poor people
Cremation of lives
Hundreds together
in a towering inferno
Poor people
Cause of the inferno
A searing sleep
Terror death by fire
Light’s skies night
Radiating far and free
Spirit joined in eternity
Bursts of life revolution
Cause of the inferno
Poor people
You are great,White Wahle,thank You for your poems and your thoughts in the political landscape. Keep up with the deadly poets society ! kinterra must come back !
Iranian and Chinese Navies exercising in the Straits of Hormuz – interesting!
Even more interesting, this tweet –
People’s Daily,ChinaVerified account @PDChina 15h15 hours ago
More
China’s naval fleet on Sunday set sail from S China’s Hainan for a joint maritime drill with Russia in the waters of the Baltic Sea in July
Rasafa is a key point on a highway to Dier ez Zor
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-intense-clashes-break-syrian-army-us-backed-forces-west-raqqa/
http://www.most.life/novosti/novosti/stroiteli-zavershili-sborku-zheleznodorozhnoj-arki-krymskogo-mo/
Putin wants to build bridges,in reality and symbolicallyin the world here is pic of Kerch progress wowee , but shamefully everyone else in west wants only to sanction Russia……
Bridge or tunnel ?
An almost century-old Plan to link Sakhalin with mainland Russia has been revived and is now under consideration, Putin said during his Direct Line marathon.
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201706151054662806-putin-russia-sakhalin-bridge/
The bridge itself would cost less than the Kerch bridge, but the cost estimates do not include necessary upgrades of road approaches and associated infrastructure.
A tunnel is also an option being evaluated.
and Bro93 note this:
bridge to Sakhalin would be very useful in terms of reviving territorial integrity of the country, establishing goods’ movement from Asia to Europe through Russia and therefore, increasing the importance of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Should I aon pass by…or any others of Celtic heritage…
https://youtu.be/jWObTfiovD8
Thanks for jogging my memories. I lived in the land of fairies and poets for a year. Ancestors on my mother’s side are from Donegal in the North; dad’s line is from Cork in the South. One of my heroes is Brian Boru. I lived near his fort on the Shannon. He drove out the Vikings in 1000. The bloody English await their fate when Michael Collins returns.
TASS: Russia cuts deconfliction channel with Washington after US downs Syrian jet
Russia will regard any flights within the area of its air force group’s operation in Syria as legitimate targets
“The shooting down of a Syrian Air Force jet in Syria’s airspace is a cynical violation of Syria’s sovereignty.
The US’ repeated combat operations under the guise of ‘combating terrorism’ against the legitimate armed forces of a UN member-state are a flagrant violation of international law, in addition to being actual military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic,” the ministry said.
Russia will regard any flights within the area of its air force group’s operation in Syria as legitimate targets, the ministry stressed.
“Any aircraft, including planes and drones of the international coalition, detected in the operation areas west of the Euphrates River by the Russian air forces will be followed by Russian ground-based air defense and air defense aircraft as air targets,” the report said.
The ministry explained the reasons for suspending the memorandum. According to the ministry, at the moment the Syrian warplane was hit by the US fighter, Russia’s Aerospace Forces were carrying out missions in Syria’s airspace;
“However, the coalition command did not use the existing communication line between the air commands of Al Udeid Air Base (Qatar) and Khmeimim Air Base to prevent incidents in Syria’s airspace.”
“We consider the actions of the US command as a deliberate default on their obligations under the memorandum on on preventing incidents and providing for safe flights during operations in Syria signed on October 20, 2015,” the Defense Ministry stressed.
More:
http://tass.com/defense/952119
I think previously the Russians only “suspended” the deconfliction comms line.
Now it’s been terminated. Tillerson won’t be able to sweet-talk and get it turned back on.
Hi, I like to join the round table discussion by conversing with you, starting at the top, as if time is two spaces at once:
_smr, MM’s last paragraph sums up our existential threat as well as I’ve seen. I’d add war to the list. Make love to unmake war.
In the cafe, I eat when I’m hungry and drink when I’m dry, with nary a thought for the reason why. My last name is Leary; I always try to be cheery.
White Whale, I wrote a juvenile short poem in reply to your sharp one, ending with sans Leary. I’m not yet sans or sane.. I’m still contemplating my choices. White Whale or White Tiger? It’s a whale of a choice but oh, “Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forest of the night.”
Bro 93,
Love you, Bro. When you talk of love, folks listen to a prize won. When I talk of love, folks turn fast and run. You sensed that I can’t run and hide yet, until the right way I get. That Timex takes me back to when you and ioan, with an assist from me, turned the staid cafe into a poetry Peacod. Oh, those were the days, my friend. Did they ever end? Carpe, diem, Cafe deacon.
White Whale,
White whales, white tigers and white sakers. What do they have in common? I’d say when they lock on target, the war will be won.
What’s the difference between Bernie and Vladimir? Bernie fiddles while Rome burns. Vladimir calls the tune and the world turns.
J.L. Seagull,
Sorry, I skipped your name on my last blast.
White Whale,
Trump the Pied Piper. That’s precious. If he does nothing else, defeating Hillary was his greatest achievement and priceless gift to humanity.
Lumi et alii,
This apartment inferno is a preview of a world torn apart by war. The vineyard burns with gentle waters of love. When we begin to direct the fire hoses on the causes of war, Dante’s Inferno will turn into a Paradiso.
Big time, when we spiritual sheeple learn to realize something like the recent synchronicities of big fires, London, Portugal with the Sun passing the fiery late Twins/Sagittarius – grades I wrote about in my diaries. Fiery accidents are always hints to our neglects.
“Week 24 : Sun and Heart Passing the Fiery Essence followed by Brain and Mercury”
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-06-18/
Cheers Denis, I’m ready to go on putting up with your mantras, you seem to need for you balance, and will appreciate more of you fruitfull spirit
Congratulations Dennis for your fine monologues,well done baby,good toy again
Internal Exile USA,
Your caution is well taken. However, in someone’s home, if I come in uninvited, the residents cannot scroll on by, as we can here.
Dear Ann,
I replied to you earlier. In response again, allow me to take the liberty of returning your love in kind: I love you too.
n interesting article about how the USA stole the election in Russia and installed Boris Yeltsin for a second term – the US interferes in other nations’ elections.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html
The link for the Yeltsin election story.
Enough for now. I’ve enjoyed the conversation, thanks to a bit of time warping. Got to run. Water thirsty potted plants, take a bath in a rubbermaid tub with the hot, hot water from a sun-drenched hose. I seldom take showers anymore. Tubs are so much more ancient and traditional, and ecological to boot. I look forward to more vegan vineyard vibes. I solved the problem of tedious back-scrolling with this new method of talking to you one on one in a community of lovers. Hope it’s OK with the marvelous mods. I don’t want to make their job any more difficult. Cheers.
According to the moron who wrote this grammatically-deficient drivel Russia is scared of Canada.
Canada’s mission to scare off Russia
“Their mission is to scare off the Russians. Probably it will work. Everybody’s pretty sure it will work. If it didn’t work, things would get very nasty here.”
“NATO didn’t have Georgia’s back when Vladimir Putin invaded that country in 2008, nor did it really have Ukraine’s when Russia annexed Crimea and made trouble in other regions of Eastern Ukraine in 2014. They weren’t NATO member states. ”
http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/canadas-mission-to-scare-off-russia/?google_editors_picks=true
I wish I had more time and energy to relate to people here, but I am often running on fumes, truth be told.
I did however catch up with every Cafe comment, click on bridge links (Kerch and Sakhalin) and digest the Syrian jet news and other breaking stuff.
The one person I do want to answer personally is “today I have no name”
just because I liked the tone of your comment
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-06-18/#comment-368309
and hope to catch up with the link of Tsarion, tomorrow (almost midnight now) who I have heard of and watched a few minutes of on youtube, months ago.
The coolest thing I saw early today was the Saker article on Sunni Chechnya won over by Russia’s rather tough love followed by real reconciliation, forgiveness and soft love. And development! This is a power inconceivable to the sick self-loathing Occult Priests of Empire who are 100% into squatting on what IS, with zero interest in creating what could or should be.
Coolest thing off this site…………. and one of his better behaved interviews (yeah Alex…..this Cassie lady is class….shapes Jones up , very gently…..IMHO……) was one a topic that may fit right in: The Red Pill the documentary by “former” feminist Cassie Jaye :
https://youtu.be/J-jU1kQVjeQ?t=358
Actually , like Today I Have No Name…..she strikes me as a genuine person genuine feminist instead of a fake person/fake feminist, all jacked up by social engineers for facilitating slavery.
Like some real men vs “macho” clowns.
Bro,as you are a film lover,here is something to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Gr4WKEkS0
a german film made in 1981 “Das Boot” with english subtitles.
A day after the tragic death of the young man returned by North Korea to the US. The South Koreans say that they and the US’s planes are going to do drills over the Korean Peninsula. Its obvious that is a provocation. The fact that they say “over the Korean Peninsula” instead of over South Korea,is a provocation in itself. They are “spoiling for a fight”. And they must have forgotten they aren’t dealing with Russia like in Syria. If one (or all) of those planes touches North Korean airspace the odds are almost a 100 to 1 the North Koreans will blow them out of the sky in a heartbeat.And think nothing more about it. The North Koreans don’t play the pardner game with US aggression.
Look see tell the truth and, if appropriate, take authentic action?
Well, first look. Ok? Soooo….Some remarks dealing with the form of the military organisation of the 4th Reich…http://www.voltairenet.org/article196852.html
In French but probably soon to also appear in other languages, including English
nazism in europe…
“Force est de constater les choses : à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’OSS puis la CIA récupérèrent des officiers nazis pour former les réseaux stay-behind de l’Otan. En 2013, l’Alliance atlantique manœuvra des groupes néo-nazis pour mettre en scène une révolution à Kiev. Aujourd’hui, l’Otan soutient publiquement les nouvelles institutions ukrainiennes qui comprennent des personnalités nazies, dont le président du parlement. Alors que l’Alliance atlantique devait empêcher toute résurgence du nazisme, elle l’organise.”
article translation NATO = nazi
in English (dear Mod – you must judge the matter or whether or not this thranslation ought to be posted in part or in whole. Here’s the entire article in a good english translation…)
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196852.html
Nazism in Europe is NATO
By Manlio Dinucci
It must be noted that at the end of the Second World War, the OSS and the CIA recovered Nazi officers to form NATO’s stay-behind networks. In 2013, the Atlantic Alliance maneuvered neo-Nazi groups to stage a revolution in Kiev. Today, NATO publicly supports the new Ukrainian institutions which include Nazi figures, including the president of parliament. While the Atlantic Alliance was to prevent any resurgence of Nazism, it organized it.
Ukraine, in fact already in NATO, now wants to enter it officially. The Kiev parliament, on June 8, 2017, voted in majority (276 votes against 25) a legislative amendment which makes this objective a priority. His admission to NATO would not be a formal act. Russia is accused by NATO of illegally annexing the Crimea and conducting military actions against Ukraine.
Accordingly, if Ukraine entered NATO officially, the other 29 members of the Alliance, on the basis of Article 5, should “assist the party under attack by taking action deemed necessary, use of force Including the army “. In other words, they should go to war against Russia.
The merit of having introduced in Ukrainian legislation the objective of entering NATO is the president of parliament Andriy Parubiy. Co-founder of the Ukrainian National Socialist Party in 1991, modeled on the National Socialist Party of Adolf Hitler; Leader of the neo-Nazi paramilitary formations, used in 2014 in the putsch of Place Maïdan, under command of the US and NATO, and in the massacre of Odessa; Head of the Defense and National Security Council, which together with the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazi units attacked Ukrainian civilians of Russian nationality in the eastern part of the country and carried out, with the armed clashes, fierce assaults by Party activists Communist, devastating its sieges and burning the books in the purest Nazi style, while this same Party is going to be officially outlawed. This is Andriy Parubiy who, in the habit of chairman of the Ukrainian parliament (a position conferred on him by his democratic merits in April 2016), was received on 5 June in Montecitorio by the President of the Italian Chamber, Laura Boldrini. “Italy,” said President Boldrini- has always condemned illegal action to the detriment of part of Ukrainian territory. In so doing, it approved NATO’s version of Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimea, ignoring the fact that the choice of the Crimean Russians to detach themselves from Ukraine and return to Russia was Taken to prevent being attacked, like the Russians of the Donbas, by the neo-Nazi battalions and the other forces of Kiev.
The cordial meeting concluded with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding which “further strengthens parliamentary cooperation between the two assemblies, whether at the political or administrative level”.
Thus the cooperation between the Italian Republic, born of the Resistance against Nazi-fascism, and a regime which created in Ukraine a situation similar to that which led to the advent of fascism in the Twenties and Nazism in the years Thirty. The Azov battalion, whose Nazi mark is represented by its emblem modeled on that of SS Das Reich [ 1 ], was incorporated into the National Guard, transformed into a regular military unit and promoted to Special Operations Regiment status.
It was therefore equipped with armored vehicles and artillery pieces. With other neo-Nazi formations, transformed into regular units, he is trained by US instructors from the 173rd Airborne Division, transferred from Vicenza to Ukraine, assisted by other NATO instructors.
The Ukraine of Kiev thus became the “pool” of Nazism reborn in the heart of Europe. In Kiev confluence neo-Nazis from all over Europe, including Italy. After being trained and tried in military actions against the Russians of Ukraine in the Donbass, they are returned to their countries. Now NATO must rejuvenate the ranks of the Gladio [ 2 ].
Manlio Dinucci
[ 1 ] This division has committed many of the SS’s most serious crimes, including the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.
[ 2 ] The Gladio is NATO’s stay-behind network in Italy. By extension, this term refers to all the Atlantic Alliance’s stay-behind networks.
Translation
Marie-Ange Patrizio
Source
Il Manifesto (Italy)
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196852.html
Good morning. It just now turned 5 am here. I’m going to take another walk outside to catch the early arrival of dawn. Be back soon…OK, I’m back. Lover Nature is oh, so awesome. Venus and a crescent Moon hang over the faint dawn as the stars fade away.
I woke about 2 am and shortly thereafter took a walk out under the starry sky. Thought of mundanomaniac. It was very calm and the stars seemed unusually bright. Saw the big and little dippers, North star and Milky Way and felt the presence of love among the art pieces here.
Earlier last evening I went to a meeting that never met, due to my thinking it was Tuesday when it was Monday. My “old-timers disease” is on the increase. I’ll probably go to the Krishna meeting tonight to ecstasy-experience Radha, Krishna’s “internal potency.”
So instead I went to Ojai’s five star resort and inn, a hang-out at the edge of a small town of 8000. I drove my son’s blue Miata convertible to park among all the rich cars. Usually I would walk a half hour to catch the trolley into Ojai but would have to bypass the rich inn. I have sore leg so I can’t walk that far now. Cars are so convenient.
I went to Jimmy’s bar and had two large glasses of water, and watched baseball on the TV, and thought of Bro and baseball, with those 9’s and 3 strikes. I like to play rich man’s son but I feel that that life is actually cheap in comparison to what we have here in the vineyard. I would soon find it quite boring to spend too much time in this kind of Trump hotel.
Our common humanity shows up even in the master-servant milieu of these rich places, which ironically shows up best in the poor employees who are everywhere, fawning upon the rich. It was a pleasant, warm evening. The golf course was manicured in green. Wealth was everywhere but I am much richer for living simply and knowing you.
Last evening I was enjoying the cafe conversation with individuals and ended before Today I have no name’s comment regarding feminism, which I found most edifying and culture defying. I’ll proof and post, and proceed to self-edification through learning from conversing with you.
Today I have no name,
I am an old style feminist too. I once had a crush on Simone de Beauvoir, and read many of the feminist philosophers. Bro 93 here led me to Alex Jones’s interview with Cassie Jaye who talks of how feminism has been hijacked for political ends.
Thanks so much for the link to Michael Tsarion’s Female Illuminati. I am a former Catholic priest and monk, and am also Irish–so I found his expose of the powers that be to be most illuminate. From way back, I remember that Prince William was Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s boss, and that seems to hold true today.
If true, it confirms the general thesis of my Count Khazar novel, with the Jesuit Vatican as a major player at the casino table. Fortunately, I have cafe table and Love Army to outplay the elitist enlightened ones.
It also confirms my thesis of patriarchy as the cause of evil. What is new to me is the hidden matriarchy which is a thesis of Michael Tsar(?)ion. The evidence for it seems conclusive although I continue to claim that there never was a true matriarchy in the sense of “rule by women.” That kind of matriarchy is a blow-back reaction to patriarchy.
In effect, I’m saying that Michael Tsar—, like all feminists I know of, does not go back far enough, past his-story into her-story. What Michael writes about is a corruption of our original love culture caused by patriarchy. I call our original appearance here on this planet a Love Bower, among other denominations, itself a creation of Lovers from the greater Star Bower and beyond.
I also call our original condition a Love Vineyard which brings us full circle to this cafe, and to you and me.
Thanks to you, and the mod who noted as a postscript to you how to access the articles at Female Illuminati; otherwise I would have missed them.
The articles and associated links are very valuable sources, and I will go over the whole site to glean more information. Again, I am impressed with this cafe, and people like yourself who add so much to my knowledge and love base.
Female Illuminati goes where angels fear to tread if you follow the deeper links–into naked sexuality and religion. Unfortunately, it seems some mods and commenters here are uncomfortable with this kind of openness and truth regarding sex and religion, and send a small percentage of my posts into oblivion with the “sent to Saker” cover.
I am struggling with that dilemma now. What I really want to talk about in order to stop war is being stopped by a site that purports to stop war. Ironies abound, as Bro observes. A compromise may be in the offing. My website is currently being updated with the addition of “Sex Tarot,” which features openness about sex and the causes of war.
If people here are not mature enough to handle such openness in regard to sex and religion, I can honor their sensitivities by avoiding such truth-telling here, and direct others who may be able to “take the heat” to my website when it is updated. In the meantime, I must “hold my tongue” and play politically correct games.
I don’t like to do that but what else can I do and still stay here? Even now I fear this comment might be deleted, depending on the mod on duty. If so, I have wasted my time and energy; and will feel defeated myself.
As in all things, I put it into the hands of love and in the hearts of lovers, like yourself. There I rest secure. Despite my narcissism, I try to make this about love, not about Dennis.
The sun is just now shining through my plastic house. I’m feeling chilly so I want to go out and warm up in that sun, and do some work: I have two more fruit trees to plant.
Thanks again for that link to Female Illuminati. Although peripheral and derivative to my main concern, it is a vital link that leads back to the truth of source, which is necessary to complete the mission we have here to stop war. I’d like to continue my replies to others like yourself who have taken the time to comment here when I return to this keyboard later in the day. I learn from all.
Love Dennis
I am picking up more hints of other intelligence in the galaxy from people that sure seem solid.
David Robert Steele drops a hint or two in two recent interviews. But very offhanded. No stress on the subject, but definitely not afraid to discuss it, think about it, mention that it is on his radar.
He says he and Cynthia McKinmey will pick up the leadership ball and run in 2020 if Trump won’t lead, in this interview, and says their prospects are increasing nicely:
https://youtu.be/bqDOsEH4BeM
with Jason Liosatos, which sounds Greek, but his accent is English. Lots of discussion of British politics, an up and coming name or two I had never heard of before.
Also quite strong on Pedo-gate. Says Pence and Priebus are minimally protectors, enablers of it, though as yet Steele has no proof of direct personal participation.
Another place “visitors” is obliquely mentioned is the Steele Interview by this youngster with a whiteboard Jordan Sather:
https://youtu.be/JeGwCPRojJo
Jordan Sather has an earlier recent podcast exclusively on how to view and track the attempts to shape the awareness of the subject by those who want to draw more attention to it, and those that want to make persons feel afraid of ridicule and shy away from it all together:
https://youtu.be/s6H86oQEC2I Extraterrestrial Disclosure…..
“What I want to do here is coat our perspective lens…because if you don’t do that, you can get really confused.”
Me? I’m like “I don’t know. Not enough data yet. But bring it on!”
You know, Prometeus was here openly revealing his perspective of resentment against Nephilim and Annunaki right when I started reading Earth Chronicles 7 part book series by Zecharia Sitchin.
“We were fine until they showed up and messed us up.” was his basic read, far as I could tell.
I couldn’t engage him though. I guess my, “What upsets you (about the Sitchin thesis or wherever Prometeo got it from) amuses me.” didn’t go over that well with his resentment sensibilities.
I passed the first 2-3 Sitchin books off to a partner who did not laugh, but was capable of mulling over the matter. I related Prometeo’s resentful remarks here a few months ago and he dryly remarked, “Yeah sure. We were just fine scratching our butts in South Africa among the baboons.”
alt cultural icons discuss our times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiuAYrW0gM8
Bro 93,
Do you ever sleep more than two hours a day? How do you pour out so much info, while raising a family and working? Are you another Miles Mathis? I read your latest at 2:21 pm, and listened to the links (am still in mid-stream with Robert Steele and Jordan Sather).
I read all the Sitchen books years ago. You say “bring it on.” In this Cafe Ole Die Carpiens, Jordan may be correct: too much information too soon freaks out and shuts folks down. I try to “bring on” sex and religion as gently as I can as Anti-dote # 1 to War Forever but I get censored at least by one moderator, as far as I can tell.
There’s a rush on now by persons like Jordan and Alex, because the “pandemic” moment may be coming soon, as the rats find their ratings dropping faster than their rear-guard droppings. Jordan suggests “soft disclosures as seeds.” I tried that here four times, and found it does not work here so far. 4 out of 1043 comments is not that much, until I recall that these were the very ones at the heart of stopping war.
In metaphorical terms, I soft-seed with the Love Government, Love Army and Love Bower Sign Language. Jordan and Russia, it seems, are doing a similar thing with ET’s. In fact, an alternative version of the origin of our species is that ET’s came through the North Pole aura and seeded the first Russ. The Russian philosopher Irene Caesar seems to agree similarly.
As Jordan intimates, we’re in a civil war of information, and may be in a second Civil War here in the US of A. We will rue the day if that happens. The Love Army is analogous to ET’s, and at least to me, is more present and potent; and I sense is staying the hand of horrors never heard before.
Last night and early this am I finished checking out for now the link to Female Illuminati, posted by the Woman with No Name, and thanked her for it. Our analysis is bearing fruit but catalysis is still lacking about knowing what to do. Even Robert the Steele says the problem cannot be solved if a nation has a central bank–are you listening, Russia?
Money is only one of ten divisions of the Love Army. If we still cling to usury for our salvation, which even Russia does big time, how can we win this war? We won’t in the best of circumstances. WE the Sheeple undermine ourselves, and that is true of the 1% as well as the 99%. If we can’t even do the Ten Commandments of Moses or the One and Two Commandment of Jesus, how in heaven’s hell on earth can we do the Love Government’s Army’s Ten New Commandments of Love? Or soft-pedaled as “commendments”?
I am doing them but is it enough? I am censored and viewed as overly preachy, arrogant and dangerous. I don’t mind for myself–as you say: “bring it on.” The more opposition, the better–it’s better than being shunned and banned. Dennis the Menace is truly dangerous, as in ioan’s words, or in different words by brothers and sisters here. I love you all, especially those who are critical and are supportive–I need to hear from both sides.
You yourself say that although my intuition and reason are often correct but it is when I am not self-absorbed. I am like your five year old in that red car in the desert, always self-absorbed apparently. You apparently have grown up but I have not. I agree, Bro. I often wonder what I’ll be when I grow up, and grow a pair. That’s why I hang out here with you, teranam, ioan, mundo, and so many others, too many to acknowledge the debt I owe them.
I need a community of lovers, both here in the communication cafe and in the communal bower as well as the command army; in other words, in earth as it is in heaven. One without the other will not do, or get the job of stopping war done, thank you. Many want me to say IMHO in every paragraph. What good would that do?
I can’t do what you do, and probably would not, even if I could. That goes for every soul here. I can only do what I can do–and I assume the same holds for everyone else. None of that matters if there is not freedom to speak within reasonable guiding lines.
Under these circumstances, I can stay and grit my teeth, leave or find a middle ground of appeasement which never works for anyone in the long run. Some want me to stay, apparently also the Saker who certainly did not appear angry in his kind reply to me. Others want me gone for good. What’s a body to do? The old existential and epistemology question.
I sense this is going nowhere fast, unlike that slow rising Century Plant in the sands of Joshua Tree–or in Female Illuminati Matriarchy Land, where such Phoenix symbols all are Feminine Towers of Venus Power.
Thanks so much for being who you are as a stand-in for every vineyarder here. You’re the Man; you can take the heat of the desert night. Even if worse comes to worst, and I go to where the willow don’t bend, and am going, going gone, I can still read the writings on the wall here and the wisdom of the ages at these cafe tables.
I love you all more than words can tell; and to play the IMHO card: for many things, not the least of which is tolerating the likes of me. Believe me, I tell myself the worst things you can think of me. But laying aside my narcissism and other major vices, only love can tell this from that, and say that sex is where it’s at, spiritual and sacra-mental sex, if not physical.
Love, Dennis
In search of the past, VVP and I lost our parents. Mama.
Виктор Клименко: «Мама»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SanBeFRvBmQ
Well in a fundamental way you seem to still have them!
Very nice. Thank you.
Summer Solstice and the sun sure beats down on its wide arching journey through the sky.
Rather than wait for a “future life”, to walk and talk with those you love, or profess to love – what is love? why not do so now, the world is round, the heart and mind so boundless, the isles of Ayrshire call, exiles there will be none. From Pharais, Fiona Macleod :
“Clamour of gulls, noise of waves, lisp and chime and flute call of the shallows among the rock-holes and upon the whispering tongues of the sea-weed–what joy, and stir, and breath of life !
Hand in hand, in the hot noon, Lora and Alistair went idly along the sheep-path leading from the clachan to the promontory of Ardgheal. The smell of the brine from the sea and wrack-strewn shore, the sun-wrought fragrance of the grass, and thyme of bracken and gale, of birch and hawthorn, and trailing briar of the whole, beautiful, living, warm body of the earth so lay upon the tired senses with a healing as of balm, that even the tears in Lora’s eyes ceaced to gather, leaving there only a softness as of twilight dew in violets.
it was to be their last walk in the sunshine of that day–their last participation in the sunshine of life.
Winter solstice
Cold, crisp nights
Occasional morning frost
Bright. Mild, warming days.
Short, so quickly the shadows form in the afternoon.
Jumpers, sweaters, coats and scarves.
“Ooooh, isn’t it chilly”, a greeting shared among early morning commuters.
@ Mac Ropod, Oh great – wait – i’ll get my coat !!!
Let The Sun Shine In (Galt Mac Dermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni)
We starve, look at one another, short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Somewhere, inside something there is a rush of
Greatness, who knows what stands in front of
Our lives, I fashion my future on films in space
Silence tells me secretly
Everything
Everything
Manchester, England, England
Manchester, England, England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I’m a genius, genius
I believe in God
And I believe that God believes in Claude
That’s me, that’s me, that’s me
We starve, look at one another, short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
…
By by professional expert on Fitzgerand collision – seems accurate to me…and I know the colregs myself..
http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault/
The USS Fitzgerald Is At Fault. This Is Why….
(Mod, people really ought to be exposed to the article…and so I post it below, but you may wish to delete the text…)
The USS Fitzgerald Is At Fault. This Is Why.
June 19, 2017 by John Konrad
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A Navy Captain observes the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) from the bridge of his ship. (U.S. Navy photo by Kyle Carlstrom)
By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Every ship, regardless of nationality or purpose, is required to carry one terse book . This book is titled the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions but is better know by its acronym “COLREGs”. The chapters are short and to the point and ship officers are required to make marks of 90% on COLREGs tests taken to keep up their licenses. In order to pass this stringent requirement sailors have developed mnemonic aids to help them remember the contents. When the crew loses control of steering, the COLREGs demands that the ship display two red lights in a vertical line. The mnemonic for this rule is “Red over Red, the Captain’s dead”. Sailboats are required to display a red and green light and its said “Red over Green, sailing machine”. There are many more like this but one important rule for avoiding collisions with Navy warships is missing: “If it’s grey stay away.”
While the media, with a very little hard data, attempts to understand the erratic maneuvers of the containership ACX Crystal on the night of her collision with the Destroyer USS Fitzgerald… professional mariners are certain that a long investigation will find the US Navy ship at fault.
Is this conclusion the result of professional arrogance? Or maybe because of resentment and jealousy over the fact that Navy captains are praised and decorated by the public and media while merchant ship captains live mostly unnoticed. Or is it because they are correct?
As a ship captain along with years working with the U.S. Navy both aboard ships and ashore – here are the reasons why I believe they are correct. The USS Fitzerald was at fault.
Communication Failure
Despite recent advancements in electronic collision avoidance tools like automatic identification systems (AIS), the three most important tools for avoiding a collision are a Captain’s eyes, tongue and ears.
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Eyes, looking out the windows of his ship, are important because they can process information – like erratic course changes – faster and more accurately than electronic RADAR and charting systems.
A tongue because the quickest and most effective way to predict how a ship is going to maneuver in the minutes before a collision is to call the Captain of the other ship on the VHF radio and ask.
Ears are important because language barriers and cultural differences are prominent at sea and you must listen intently to the other ship’s reply if you want any chance of understanding her intentions.
The USS Fitzgerald’s Captain used only one, or possibly none, of these tools when communicating with the ACX Crystal.
In the moments leading up to a collision a merchant ship captain has to do everything but steer the ship himself. With the help of one officer he has to watch the RADAR and AIS, plot the relative courses of nearby vessels, communicate with the Engine Room, talk with other ships on the VHF radio and issue orders. But on a navy ship each of these jobs is performed by a small team of sailors who report changes to, and obey orders from, the officer of the deck (OOD). The OOD relays the important information to the Captain.
This system of many team members – each working on equipment they have been very well-trained to operate and reporting through a command structure that filters all but the most important information to the captain – is highly effective in war when a warship is exchanging salvos of high speed torpedoes and missiles with numerous hostile targets (anyone doubting this should read Jeff Edward’s excellent book “Torpedo”). But this structure is ineffective when dealing with a single slow moving merchant ship.
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An eye on the target and direct communication – Captain to Captain – is the most effective means of avoiding collision but this never happens on Navy ships. When a merchant ship attempts to call a U.S. Navy warship he first has to establish contact. Calling another merchant ship is relatively easy, you find the name of the ship on your AIS and hail it on the VHF. But the US Navy often turns off its AIS transmitter to prevent enemy’s from tracking warships via internet sites like MarineTraffic.com which pick up the AIS signal via commercial satellites and publish the positions online.
The alternative way to contact a Navy ship is by calling out its hull number (painted in huge white numbers on the bow) but, for various reasons, the Navy doesn’t always respond to this number.
Provided you do establish contact with the oncoming destroyer you run into another major obstacle. The person who responds to your call is not the Captain but a junior enlisted radioman who relays the message to the Communications Watch Officer who then relays the message to the Officer Of The Deck who relays it to the Captain. The Captain’s response then has to go back down the chain where time and information is lost, mistakes are made and the delays occur. Hard data is, more often than not, conveyed accurately, but more nuanced information – like the sound or anger, hesitation or exhaustion in the captain’s voice – is lost.
The communication problems don’t stop there. Navy ships require that information from complex systems move quickly between officers and they carry this out with a large vocabulary of acronyms, abbreviations and units of measurement that are highly effective for communication between American naval officers but are gibberish to foreign ship captains.
For example… a foreign ship captain will order his helmsman to turn port or starboard but an American captain orders left and right turns. Merchant Captains prefer true bearings based off the compass but Navy Captains prefer relative bearings based off the centerline of his own ship. And most frustrating of all, merchant mariners use Nautical Miles to denote distance but the Navy measures everything in yards.
Small differences? Maybe but a series of small discrepancies can lead to big problems.
Was VHF contact established between the two vessels before the collision? Why was the USS Fitzgerald Captain in his stateroom and not on the bridge looking out the window? Was he tuned into the VHF radio monitoring the conversation? Was the containership captain fluent in English and, if not, did the navy radioman listen with patience and speak with simple clarity? Did they communicate externally with international accepted standards or use U.S. Navy centric jargon?
This is important because basic communication problems have been found to be a primary cause in nearly every multi-vessel incident gCaptain has reported on in the last ten years.
The Lack Of Specialists
In the not so distant past, merchant ship captains holding a “Master Unlimited” license, the highest license issued by the Coast Guard, were legally sanctioned to command any ship of any size upon oceans. The only limitation placed on that license was large sailing ships (Tall Ships). While that is still technically true today, a containership company would not hire a tanker captain and a cruise ship company would not give a large cruise ship to a containership captain. They want people having experience aboard similar types of ships.
It takes a bachelor’s degree from a Maritime Academy plus approximately 10 years and the completion of weeks worth of intense testing to earn a Master Unlimited license. There are ways around some of these requirements (like having a college degree) depending on the flag state, but all maritime nations have strict rules governing how many days of those 10 years were spent at sea. A civilian ship captain will spend at least a few hours on the bridge of the ship every day of work. That translates to a lot of experience avoiding collision.
The U.S. Navy also has specialized strict standards for enlisted sailors. If you want to operate a RADAR, for example, you must pass general examinations, be selected, attend the Navy’s challenging “A” school and commit to a five year service obligation. Then enlisted sailors have to prove their ability aboard ship under the watchful eye of non-commissioned officers.
Each individual piece of critical equipment aboard a navy ship has a highly trained and competent person(s) assigned to it. The total number of people working, on both the bridge and the Combat Information Center (CIC) to navigate the ship exceeds a dozen.
The merchant ship captain, who has to operate all equipment himself, often has to use his experience and expertise to fill in gaps of information. But the Naval officer has the opposite problem. He is often working with too much information as it comes in from all the enlisted people who work for him… and he has to use his knowledge and experience to filter out unnecessary data. The question is, how much experience does he have?
The captain of a merchant ship does not work in an office, he never gets sent to the engine room to stand a watch, and with just two dozen people aboard his ship at any one time he is free of most of the administrative and disciplinary duties that come with commanding a Navy destroyer with five times the number of sailors.
But unlike the merchant captain and the enlisted specialists working on navy ships, the U.S. Navy Captain and his bridge officer (OOD) are generalists. A large percentage of their careers are spent working shoreside jobs and their shipboard time was spent rotating through positions: the engine room, the combat information room, in administrative positions and elsewhere.
In short, the merchant ship captain and bridge officers have significantly higher number of hours spent on the bridge then their naval counterparts.
Why Was The Navy Captain In His Cabin
One myth that persists among the general public is that Captain Joseph Hazelwood, master of the Exxon Valdez, was drunk at the wheel of his ship when she grounded on Bligh Reef. The truth is far different.
Captain Hazelwood rightfully shouldered the blame for that incident because a Captain is responsible for the actions of his crew but his level of intoxication, if any (blood alcohol tests were inconclusive) was found not to be a primary cause of the incident. How could it be? He was not on the bridge of the ship when it grounded. He was in his cabin! The ship was grounded not by Hazelwood but by a junior officer he trusted to navigate the ship safely.
Ship Captains never take the wheel and drive the ship, helmsmen and autopilots do that job. Ship captains spend most of their time in the office doing paperwork or managing people all around the ship. The actual navigation of the vessel is done on the bridge by a junior officer called the Officer In Charge Of The Navigational Watch (OICNW). The US Navy operates the same way but that officer is the Officer Of The Deck (OOD).
It is this officer’s duty to navigate the ship safely according to the voyage plan laid out by the captain. This officer is in charge of communicating with and avoiding other ships. He is the one responsible for avoiding collisions and he holds this responsibility with important caveat; it is his duty to call the captain whenever there is possible risk of collision or danger of any kind.
And it is the Captain’s duty to go to the bridge whenever he is called for help.
But the captain of the USS Fitzgerald, like Captain Hazelwood, was not on the bridge. He remained in his cabin where he was injured during the collision. Did the OOD fail to call him up to the bridge for help managing the situation? Did he ignore the OOD’s call for help? Or, like the Exxon Valdez, did the bridge team not realize they were in trouble until it was too late?
Either way, a major error was made by someone aboard the USS Fitzgerald.
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USS Fitzgerald
Let’s take a quick look at just some of the resources the USS Fitzgerald’s captain had at his disposal prior to the collision.
The USS Fitzgerald is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer with a top speed well in excess of 30 knots. Speed is helpful in preventing collision because it allows you to put more distance between you and a dangerous ship in the same amount of time. (Yes, speed can also be dangerous.)
She is powered by four gas turbine engines with over 100,000 horsepower available to turn her propellers. Gas turbines are expensive and burn lots of fuel but the Navy uses them because they can provide an immense amount of torque in a very short period of time. Torque translates to acceleration and acceleration is important if you need to get out of the way of something fast.
The Arleigh Burke class destroyer has highly advanced AN/SPY-1 three dimensional RADAR, variable pulse width surface RADAR, AIS transceivers and a hull mounted sonar array tied into an Electronic Warfare Suite capable of tracking objects of small size moving at a high speed in real time.
The USS Fitzgerald is highly maneuverable with a very tight turning radius. While the exact figures are not public information this video of an Arleigh Burke Destroyer turning 180 degrees is very impressive.
Containership ACX Crystal
The Containership ACX Crystal however… has a theoretical top speed of 25 knots but is rarely pushed that fast.
She has a single 8-cylinder diesel engine capable of pushing one propeller with 29,200 horses for 3/10ths the amount of power of the destroyer. The acceleration of a ship like this is measured in miles, not minutes like the destroyer. Diesel engines like hers are the size of a modest house and are locked into a certain speed at night. The bridge officer can cut speed immediately but at the risk of damaging equipment. Changing speed safely requires that the engineers wake up, change into work clothes and walk down to the engine room to check the equipment before moving the throttle.
She has two RADAR sets of modern design that is likely able to overlay digital charts. Said RADAR system requires a minimum of 3 minutes of pinging to properly calculate another ship’s change in course and/or speed.
She also has an AIS receiver that plots the position, course, speed, rate of turn and other useful information on the RADAR display in (close to) real time. In turn, her AIS system transmits her information to other ships including warships. She must, by law, transmit this information at all times. Her AIS unit does not, however, receive any data from Navy ships who cloak their positions.
She weighs four times as much as the destroyer. She can also stop and turn on a dime… but only if that dime is owned by giants and has a diameter measured in nautical miles.
She has 8 officers, a captain and around a dozen unlicensed sailors… versus the destroyer’s 33 officers, 38 chief petty officers and 210 enlisted sailors.
But I thought the Containership Was At Fault?
The media has been publishing reports on “crazy ivan turns” and erratic behavior all based on incomplete and one sided AIS data which can not yet be correlated with the exact time of collision. It is too early, and information too scant, to publish a list of her faults.
That said, she is at fault! Remember the COLREGS? What I failed to mention in the beginning of this article is that, while terse, the book is littered with terms like “safe speed”, “all available means” and “Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate”. These words are nebulous and have remained so for centuries for a reason… so that no captain can ever shirk his responsibility for avoiding a collision. The COLREGS are terse, specific and targeted when it comes to assigning blame but soft and imprecise when it comes to removing responsibility and blame. Thus, every modern admiralty court trial of ships colliding has found fault with both ships, even if one is securely anchored!
Under COLREGS, whenever two ships touch each other, both ships are to blame.
For this reason I am 99.9% confident the USS Fitzgerald will be found at fault… and so will the ACX Crystal.
Russian, NATO Jets In Near Standoff After F-16 Buzzes Russian Defense Minister’s Airplane
Reuters reports that a NATO F-16 fighter jet tried to improperly approach a plane carrying Russian defense minister Shoigu, prompting a near intervention from a Russian Su-27.
After Shocking Saudi Shakeup “Not A Question Of If But When New Escalation With Iran Starts”
Iran-hating hawk and invader of Yemen Mohamed bin Salman is effectively the head of Saudi Arabia now.
In India, merely cheering for the wrong football team can lead to life imprisonment:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/india-arrests-15-celebrating-pakistan-cricket-win-170620224045310.html
Good morning, gentle vineyarders and strong sakers,
I am up at dawn. A crescent moon and a bright Venus greeted my wondering eyes in the east. I could only say: “I love you. I love you so much” to them and everyone and everything else, including yourselves.
I have been conversing with some of you at this “rainy day” cafe and would like to continue doing so. Let those who I am more familiar with stand for you all.
terranam 13,
In your poem of yesterday, you say I am a monomanic about my love bower. You want to shame me but cannot find a way to do so. You say I batter down the opposition by ad nauseum repetition. You say I play victim because I’ve been censored. You say I’m going to leave and take my ball with me. You tell me to go and do it, and further to commit suicide by falling on my sword. You ask to be spared such drama for the sake of all of us, and end your poem with “please, oh please.”
I feel sad that you can say such things, even if in poetic jest and irony. Most others who comment here seem to feel like you when it comes to my talking of love, although some are supportive of me for my style of writing or poetry or other reasons. When I touch upon the sexual part of love or the Love Army’s Ten Commandments of Love, I seem to lose all support.
That kind of reaction is to be expected. I am prepared for it, although it makes me sad. But that is not the reason for thinking it may be best for me to leave. It’s being censored for speaking of love in the way that I do that concerns me, no matter how infrequently it occurs. It’s a matter of principle for me–if it happens even once, it is once too often.
I have yet to hear from anyone what it is exactly that I am saying that is not acceptable.
Perhaps it’s “communal sex.” Maybe it’s my views on monogamy or on God. No one says precisely what it is and then says why it is unacceptable. It all seems to come from sort of emotional reaction to my tone, personality or style–anything but addressing my ideas in themselves with reason and logic.
Read my first paragraph here. Read your own poem. There’s plenty of feeling but where is the reason when I bring up controversial ideas like “communal sex,” “monogamy” or any one of the ten commandments of love according to the Love Army?
If it’s the English word “love” itself, or “lover”, or “lovers” that does not sit well with you, then change it to some other word, or no word at all. I don’t mind. I like the word “love” but you may not? Do I write a sarcastic, caustic poem about it? Not to my knowledge.
It’s not about the words for me ultimately. Words are important because they carry energy but they are still only signs and signposts, pointing to the seven senses of seeing, hearing, feeling/touching, tasting, smelling, intuiting and loving. The physical senses then turn into emotional, imaginative, dream-like, mental, choice-ful and orderly senses of justice and the other great virtues.
That is more or less how I think, which is conceptualized into the English word “Love” as a “catch-all” and “stand-in” for the all-in-all Lover who is all of us as lovers. In the end, words fail as reality comes stepping in. Words have done their work and then can retire.
I love the word “love.” If you do not love me or my favorite word, I honor your feeling and choice. I hear what you say, teranam, but I only feel your love, even through your most ascerbic words. You cannot say anything about me that I have not already said about myself.
A couple of months ago you said: “Our Mr. Leary knows his goal but seems stuck on his circular path–no insult intended, truly. Or maybe he has ‘gone there’ and just can’t come down to find a way to share it with us in a way that validates himself.”
Those are loving words, although I can interpret them otherwise. When I hurt my leg going over a barrier, you cautioned me about going over obstacles when I might go around them. Those are loving words. You have shared many personal things about yourself and matters that you like and dislike. Those are loving words although they can be interpreted otherwise.
If I anger everyone here so much that they wish me dead, shall I remain silent, if in my heart love tells me to speak anyway? If the whole world is against me, shall I therefore turn against myself by shutting down my speech?
Today is the last day of the 26th week in the love calendar year. The theme is the throat of the humam body, the fifth energy or chakra center, with the polarities of “cry” and “lie.” Shall my throat “cry” out my truth or shall I “lie” in my throat by silence concerning Love and War? Those are existential choices that bear upon my very existence.
Here is a poem about those choices of the “Throat.” Even if it stirs up hatred from everyone, shall I therefore keep silent and suppress the chance of stopping war and saving one child from pain? What would I gain? Safety? Comfort? Perhaps, but at what price? My soul? The cry of my heart or the lie of my mind? Let the poem speak for love:
——————
The body is a book, if we would only look
The body’s a sacred code, if we would walk that road
I go to the throat and the words I learned by rote
The throat evokes a body’s cries
And chokes on godly lies
A weapon baring fearsome teeth
So a stomach is able to eat
The neck is the connection of heart and head
Without that subsection your deed to life is dead
Dead talking heads lying through their teeth
Make my throat vomit
Red stalking feds prying underneath
Can’t love it so they bomb it
What comes out of the mouth is worse than a curse
It pollutes the earth and grows roots of hurt
The lying throat is the mouth to the underworld
The crying throat is the route to the other world
I thought I was heading for heaven’s point
I didn’t know I had to go through the heart-head joint
Well, come what will, dogs that kill or women that thrill
It’s the same game still
I have a stomach to fill before I climb that hill
All day long I quietly cry and shout
The lies in my throat–got to get them out
The throat is the body’s connecting link
Between how I feel and how I think
I cry out in my grief and pain
It relieves the pressure and keeps me sane
My bitter feelings bubble up from below
I taste the things I do not want to know
Pilate asked what was truth
I knew the answer in my youth
It’s part of the law of tooth for tooth
But more than that, it’s you forsooth
It’s in the sounds of your voice
And the grounds of my choice
I’ll use the words, the ones that ring true
The sounds of the birds and the colors of you
From your tongue to my heart
And my gut to your feet
One song sung in twofold part
To the one love where we meet
One channel cleared for the joyous flood
I eat your body and drink your blood
The metaphor’s true
You eat me and I drink you
I say mass and am your mess
One sweet taste of consciousness
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There, I’ve said it, dear sister. You may hate it and a mod may censor it to deletion. It’s now out of my hands and in the ranks of the Love Army and in the heart of the Love Bower. Make of it what you will.
The poem has been reformatted from a stream of consciousness to a more readable line by line versifying which doesn’t quite fit. Here’s another poem that says the same thing, which I dedicate to you, despite your possible spite. You and I are just stand-ins for others anyway, the silent ones who draw us in regardless of what we think or feel.
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Connector for the head and heart
Symbol of connection’s art
You uphold a turning face
Down below you keep your place
While you get them to cooperate
You also have to separate
A passageway of great control
In body politics you play your role
When messengers are sent to the head
You monitor what will be said
Swallow it down or let it speak
Protest the strong, protect the weak
Your form’s been made narrow, long
Your function’s to be straight and strong
You bear the weight of right and wrong
Your fear is that you will be broken
For the words you have spoken
Fear no more you’ll be cut off
Or your expression laughed off
Lift the head, speak the heart
In love’s game play your part
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OK, OK, so I’ve failed. I arouse your ire. I deserve your fire. If this is censored, I’ll be sad but is that so bad when one man is had, or one child is deprived of her chance to be glad?
The sun is coming over the hill at 6:30 am. I want to go out and work on the food forest of fruit trees. I fear I have offended you in some way. I’ve overstepped a line that only you can see. “In the end, my dear sweet friend, when there is no more, you cut to the core. You to me were true. I’ll remember you” when I work in the field today under the sun. She is shining in my eyes, blinding me to all but love.
Love, Dennis
It reminds me of Grimm’s fairy tales, and the evil sisters with toads springing from their mouths whenever they spoke, and the good one, who was covered in gold. One fairy tale tells of someone who had their head chopped off and then put back on again, but the wrong way round !
Fairy tales are censored now . . .
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