2017/06/25 05:00:01
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This is what happened in June, in 100 words or less…
– Pro-war attitude in Trump cabinet is making even Iran hawks nervous
– Congress voted 97-2 to sanction Russia, prompting official protest from Germany (hardly a pro-Russian country)
– US in al-Tanf attempted to move on west Euphrates, but SAA cut them off
– US shot down SAA plane, Russia announced no-fly zone, Australia heard Russia and stood down
– Israel bombed Syria
The Empire is desperate in the face of what appears to be a major Russia-Iran-SAA victory about to happen. Germany and Australia (America’s closest ally!!) are showing discomfort with American attitudes. What’s more, the recent UK election shows a possibility that the massive wealth in the UK might be splitting away from the Anglo-Zionist alliance in the future.
US and Israel are reaching the limit of what they can do abroad through military intervention and “color revolution” psyops, and their growing record of failures after 2012 is making them look unstable and weak. The Trump-Russia hoax is the next step, stirring up belligerent attitudes within the US and encouraging the development of economic sanctions to turn foreign relations frosty — an ages-old tactic of the US moneyed class. But it is doing this at the expense of wrecking internal political stability. We are all witnessing how an Empire behaves as it collapses.
Putin claimed to Oliver Stone that he was slow to recognize what the US was doing, but IMHO once he figured it out (around 2008?) he absolutely understood what was coming next years before any of America’s vassals, and Russia has ended up extremely well-prepared for the next phase of collapse. Perhaps one of the best-prepared countries in the world.
“Well, well, well boys, it looks like we’ve got a Mexican Standoff!”
https://youtu.be/IHQr0HCIN2w
My theme is the masked ball of world politics and who is playing to deceive, murder and dominate, and who is playing to survive and play another day.
Of course Erdogan could be either, in the end. He may not even know which he is.
I could see Fishy Bin Salman ripping his mask off and revealing Nuttyahoo’s face and a Star of David armband, while Nutty reveals that underneath his face is Adolf Hitler’s.
Trump. Playing for time, or the most fantastic deception ever?? Take your pick. I’m a Sometime Trumper but I really wish the masks would come off and stay off for a more than a few hours. I’m praying that will happen when he meets Putin at G20 very soon………………..
What about Micron and other pretend “socialists”?
Pornoshenko?
Kolomoiski?
A whole bunch of Ukrainians could do their own version of the South of the Border Tension Standoff.
Mueller and Comey come in on the “investigating corruption” deception depicted above.
Why this crazy post??
I don’t know. Someone mentioned Merkel in Mexico and I just thought the above skit was kind of synchronous.
It sure is fun and a challenging situation for anyone’s powers of discernment these days. Messing up could be very costly, however.
TITANIA
[Awaking] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
(BOTTOM singing)
TITANIA
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
BOTTOM
Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and
love keep little company together now-a-days; the
more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
TITANIA
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
and so on and forth. (Midsummer nights Dream, Shakespeare)
Shakespeare had a handle on the fake faces of the phoniest’s. In a splendid parody of mistaken identity, exquisite Tatiana is asleep and is bewitched in her flowery bower, (it must be a love bower…) for she awakes to see Bottom wearing the asses mask, (donkey).
Beauty lies in the beholder’s eyes, but so does delusion and our face saving for falling for faked faces of donkey Donald’s playing with fire.
Shakespeare’s play has a happy ending, what about masked balls closer to home ?
quick-shot: musing the image, I thought: might be at noon with 93° F; full house later at sunset … ha, ha, Mexican standoff, great funnel
no,
Titania is a Goddes of earth and water gently realizing the beauty
in a ‘funnel’ of imagination of a blushing pair of young firm cheeks with a kind of ‘nose’ in between for the bewitcht eyes of the goddess with – 4 diopters.
Wow. I guess your Shakespeare gets the drop on my Key and Peele.
Yes, even love can be a mask and not real, but rat poison wrapped in a sugar coating..
I never liked this song about it, or the singers, or their paymasters and enablers or their dupe consumers:
“When the Truth is found to be Lies
And all the Joy within you dies,
Don’t you want somebody to Love
Don’t you need somebody to Love………………….”
https://youtu.be/myVzaR8cmDA
Witchcraft. Perversion of the Good. Perversion of Real Love.
Resulting in withdrawal into the Infantile Self.
Transparent poison peddled by the Masters of the Universe, or so they think.
Pornoshenko.
Thanks for that one, Bro.
quick-shot: musing the image, I thought: might be at noon with 93° F; full house later at sunset … ha, ha, Mexican standoff, great funnel
Patience, dear Bro, we will be educated by the further miracles in these times
of revelation
Israel and Saudi ‘secret meetings’ for the past two years with Salman, the new successor to the kingdom :
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960403000509
Two of the most brutal and violent regimes in the Middle East no longer pretending enmity…
Check this latest too:
http://theduran.com/saudi-arabia-wont-go-soft-on-putin-anymore-vows-to-destroy-russian-forces-in-syria-in-3-days/
The new Crown Prince has vowed to destroy Russian forces in Syria in 3 days…..foolish, manipulated young man who is doing Israel’s bidding…….
Check out Pepe’s article too:
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201706241054941082-saudi-house-of-cards-inside-story/
The inside story on the removal of the original Crown Prince by this young upstart.
Caution: The comments on The Duran article are alerting Alex it’s from a hoax site and asking for The Duran to remove it.
I don’t know. The commentators – and there are a few saying the same thing – seem to be convincing that the article is based on fake info.
This interesting website suggests that the Saudis are blackmailing/controlling the US with their influence on the US petrodollar.
http://www.newsilkstrategies.com/opinion/making-saudi-arabia-great-again-pt-1
Is anyone else weirded out with the “three-days?” Is it a taunt? Trying to sound crazy? Messianic? Maybe there’s only rhetoric in their toolbox. I think I’d be more concerned if he quoted GHWB and said, “Look and learn.”
They are hapless, Saturn = the constant favours the sacrifices of true humble souls
Chinese: if the sage in his room thinks correctly it radiates for thousand miles
(Richard, I – Ging)
Would write Richard Wilhelm, sorry. Great man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilhelm_(sinologist)
The Russian Russia Russia psychosis that has incapacitated US media and government for the past 6-12 months might finally be waning.
This Zerohedge article makes the diagnosis that the insanity was instigated and perpetuated by John Brennan.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-24/russia-hacking-allegations-driven-serial-liar
Russia Hacking Allegations Driven By a Serial Liar
“Today’s lengthy Washington Post’s story makes it clear that former CIA boss John Brennan is largely responsible for driving the claim that Russia hacked the election.”
Extract:
Indeed, Brennan’s CIA even created hacking techniques to frame other countries for hacking incidents.
Why is the media taking Brennan’s claims at face value?
Especially when some of the other claims of Russian hacking have officially been debunked?
As Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersch said in January in a story questioning the whole Russian hacking story:
[If I had been covering the story,] I would have made [John] Brennan into a buffoon.
A yapping buffoon in the last few days. Instead, everything is reported seriously.
Postscript: The other intelligence official behind many of the Russian hacking claims – James Clapper – is also a confirmed liar.
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Jesus said: Let you yea be yea, and your nay be nay.
But these guys aren’t no where near that.
Israel enters the fray
http://theduran.com/breaking-israel-again-attacks-syrian-arab-army-for-the-second-time-in-less-than-24-hours/
JLS’s url to FP mag – article ends as follows:
“U.S. military officers said they will not hesitate to hit Iranian proxies if American special operations forces are endangered.
“If our folks are on the ground and they’re threatened, we will use air power, whether it’s against regime forces or pro-regime forces,” one officer said. ”
That much is surely true…of any organized military group.
LZ
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html
This article indicates a major shift for Welt and may signify a new orientation of Franco-German policy after Macron’s comments on the Libyan disaster and the need to work with Russia on Syria……….
Macron maybe has realized that change is on the way and therefore he chooses his words in that way. We will see if and how he will back his words with deeds. I’m saying this, because we have learned to be cautious with some leaders when they say something in public. Macron, as a newly appointed leader, try to navigate in the windy waters and buy some time for himself till he is assured of having a trusted and well-running cabinet. I think, only after that is achieved, he will engage in more serious deals. He is young and willing, will he be a surprise man ? and in what sense ? The answers to these questions we will find out soon.
Wow. Between the Merkel protest and this, something big is going on here. I wouldn’t call it a schism, but I’m guessing Western Europe is starting to consider that the ultrahawks in the Trump cabinet might not serve their interests.
Die Welt is the CIA’s premier propaganda outlet in Zion-occupied Germany. When they talk major shifts, it is always for the worse.
Micron & Mirkel have one mission only: To further Zion’s supremacy in the vassal-districts they have been assigned to.
Just noticed this: Die Welt published the chatlog that Hersh relies on, and it is very fake-looking.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905618/We-got-a-fuckin-problem.html
There are few words on migrants crisis, if at all, as if it’s over. Not yet, 2 million people are waiting in Libya and Egypt for being shipped to Europe. This year, 72.000 have successfully arrived. The costs for the “wir shaffen das” project is round 40 billion EUR a year. This is the amount which is being payed for the unemployed in a year in Germany.
But, what the heck ? Douglas Murray’s book has something for the Europeans, in his book “The Strange Death of Europe” writes about the migration crisis and the loosing of European identity : ” at the end of their life, many today living people will find out, that Europe is not more Europe and the Europeans lost their only place in the world they could call it as home”
There are few words on migrants crisis, if at all, as if it’s over. Not yet, 2 million people are waiting in Libya and Egypt for being shipped to Europe. This year, 72.000 have successfully arrived. The costs for the “wir schaffen das” project is round 40 billion EUR a year. This is the amount which is being payed for the unemployed in a year in Germany.
But, what the heck ? Douglas Murray’s book has something for the Europeans, in his book “The Strange Death of Europe” writes about the migration crisis and the loosing of European identity : ” at the end of their life, many today living people will find out, that Europe is not more Europe and the Europeans lost their only place in the world they could call it as home”
This Make My Day Cafe with empty picnic tables? What gives? A signal that the world is no picnic? I’m a little leery of Learyisms, but I’d say the Vineyard Fan Club is at a baseball game to support the Vineyard Sakers against the Violent Suckers. Just observe who the first four batters are.
1. J.L. Seagull links to an article written by Paul McLeary, a man of the old sod and a man after my heart. A sneak look into the White House battle between the Trumper Anglos and Thumper Zio’s. Not much too choose from but I’m grateful to the Donald for not playing dead duck and rolling over for the Clinton pet masters.
JL is lead-off, fast on his or her feet with a record of making it to first by hook or by crook where a walk is as good as a hit.
2. Bro 93 is second, also fast who can sacrifice or hit to advance the runner.
3. Hippolyta is third, the best percentage hitter and run-scorer. She’s an Amazon with power when not deluded by the likes of Bottom’s ass head. In an Oberon male world, she and Titania play second fiddle while Rome burns and patriarchal fiddlers play to Senate Bankers.
4. Bro 93, disguised as Bro 39 on his jersey, hits clean up. A power hitter with the most home runs and extra bases. He is at his best when the bases are loaded, count 3 and 2, bottom of the 9th and three runs behind. Bobby Bro Thompson redux with the shot down the line heard around the world.
If you don’t know what I am referring to, check the first four main posters here at this Save the Day Cafe, not those who reply.
Also, I’m talking about the Thumper Rhythm Violence Game, a high speed race to stop the Empire’s war on Russia with the Empire a giant patriarchal head from the past, present and future. It’s fast all right, but slower than molasses in January compared to the Love Army at multi-dimensional “lovespeed.”
For the tender hearted, see Thumper the Rabbit, who does what his father says, thanks to his politically circumspect mother.
Bro hit a homer with his link to a Mexican Standoff. Reminds me of Masked and Anonymous by Dylan. The Sometime Trumper wonders if Donald is playing for time, or is the Greatest Deception ever. Don’t we all? Merkel in Mexico is not a good sign. Mini ICBM’s and suicide bombers from Mexico to the USA and a newly opened OBOR speed World by drug lords turned into money mercenaries? Revenge for the Wall in Mexico or taking down the immigrant wall in Germany? Santa Ana and the Alamo here we come again.
Hippolyta as Titania will rise again, but not in a matrix matriarchy but in a Love Bower Vineyard, defended by men who do not “hold their manhoods cheap,” and are accursed because they did not stand with the Love Army of the time.
“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days…”
Bro 39 doesn’t like the song but I do:
“When the truth is found to be lies
And all the Joy within you dies
Don’t you need someone to love?”
The problem with monogamy and one on one coupling relationships (per the song) as “someone to love” is that they “forget your first love,” who is the Lover as all of us, a Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox (right doctrine) God as Lover, according to Saint John the Beloved Disciple of Jesus’s “God is Love” meme, updated by the Love Government and Army’s new Ten Commandments of Love.
If these minor sex relationships are not within the over-all context of Universal and Right Order love, they are a cause of war, according to the Love Army’s fourth division. Don’t misunderstand me, please, monogamy can work if situated in love; but that is generally not the case. For most folk, these private church-state sanctioned marriages undermine real communal resistance to empire.
It’s 5:30 pm here, 106 on my north facing wall thermometer and 108 in my motor home where I take my daily ritual bath with love bower rites. I’ve been eating lots of fruit, lettuce, nuts and seeds, and drinking good well water so I’m cleansed from a baptism of love waters.
Love, Dennis
OK, taking the gloves off today.
Can’t either fight or make love with the damned things on! Nor brush my teeth and go to sleep, my more mundane, actual choice of the moment.
Flattery will get you nowhere, Leary, because I’m not looking for any of it, in the first place.
Dennis doesn’t get the easy deceptions for the mentally weak, so he likes Gracie Slick and her obvious witch’s brew of sex (called “love” in a self obsessive infantile sense that cares ZERO for the rest of humanity, including the “love child” products of much of those “summers of love”} drugs and rock and roll.
This is a weak flank and just because you went through the counter-culture and New Age doesn’t mean it’s good or was good just because you “were there” and have fond nostalgia for Jefferson Airplane and all the rest. Truth is, it sucked and was a lot uglier than it was full of beauty.
Otherwise, the elites are big on number magic but Dennis should avoid playing with it in terms of reversing things and falling “1 short” and other favorite mind games of the dark occult.Like turning 93 into 39. Reversal is a satanic favorite activity, so I wouldn’t play around with it, or they’ll think you think like they do….LOL…but I’m not joking.
Fun is not a bad thing but you don’t want to indulge in their sort of “fun” IMHO. You want to understand it and expose it, but not indulge in it.
“You’re not the center of the Universe.”, I once remarked to a business owner who was quite full of himself and had no room in his small self for the sorts of matters that Saker and other contributors make available here.
“I am the center of MY Universe.” was his reply.
Dennis is not that bad, but he is deceived on quite a few things, and a lot of those things have a sort of solipsism at their root, near as I can figure after mullimg a lot of things over for the last 1-2 years.
“Love” is a better mantra than “hate” as far as that goes and a quite effective shield in repelling criticism, (Who can be against real love?) but the will and courage aspects of the Love Bower need equal time with the cockamamie coital communism concept Gracie also was all for with no thought of what sort of society would result from her masters’ grand design of social engineering, ie the Aquarian Conspiracy of Marilyn Ferguson, and what sorts of slaves the “love children” resulting from the Free Sex practice would end up being, unless they and their parents figured a lot of stuff out much faster than previous generations that were assaulted more slowly and never woke up.
Dennis has both endearing and frustrating qualities. I have defended him in the past but I can also defend teranam 13 and others in that a lot of his repetition is no doubt seen as distracting AND disorienting from vital flanks in the current strategic situation which are not likely to be advanced all that far merely by making a lovey dovey mood up.
I compare Dennis on one side to Auslander’s fictional or real or fictional/real with name change Father Mitrofan (a fighting priest spetznaz) in Never the Last One and honestly think he might benefit from reading it.
There’s such a thing as men with just a wee bit too much estrogen. Balance!
What to make of this:
Ukraine ‘almost reached’ arms supplies agreement with US – Poroshenko
https://www.rt.com/news/394057-ukraine-us-arms-poroshenko/
“Kiev has almost reached an agreement with the US about the supplies of “defensive weapons” that could be delivered as early as this year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told Ukrainian media. ”
““I do not like this differentiation between the lethal and non-lethal weapons. There is a clear definition of a defensive weapon, and we need it,” he said at that time”
“In March, the top US commander in Europe also called for sending lethal weapons to the government in Kiev as one of the ways to do more to deter “Russian aggression.” ”
Is Poroshenko being “Trumped” or are the Pentagon/NATO/Neocons doing an end run around Trump? Or is it all Kabuki?
In view of post below re papillon Macron …Poles and Ukraine still confused about immigrations transit or nordstream complications of their own making and usa and eu sanctions increasing extendingsstill not paying back debt, surely Macron will support use of d
“Defensive” weapons in the new Ukraine declared plan to regain territorial wholeness, ie wipe Donbass of the map l
trump shut him down
I’m out of Key and Peele skits. My teenage son made me suffer through many of the rest of them, and although the acting is good and the themes weird, they apparently shot their wad with the Mexican Standoff, and may not exceed that one for years to come.
I saw no political metaphors worthy of mention compared to Mexican Standoff in comment # 2 of this Cafe.
And I have no idea how an uncloned being can bat both #2 and cleanup in the same baseball game so I write the whole concept off as daftness derived from heat stroke and drifting off into a Field of Dreams during a radio broadcast MLB game.
Meanwhile I listened to Robert David Steele’s latest interview where he’s getting pretty fed up with Trump not seeing that Rence Priebus is keeping him from seeing reality, that Mattis is a war monger traitor, that Alex Jones sold out to some guy named Erickson because of some 3 million dollar liability or blackmail etc.etc
The only thing he raved about was Pepe Escobar’s latest article and an economic forecaster named Martin Armstrong (Steele claims Armstrong has been fantastically accurate…….well at least the guy has a funny skit about climate change politics, so could merit more attention:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/global-warming-yes-prime-minister/
who says Sept 2017 is when we go over the cliff. Hang gliding, anyone? I would like a soft landing, I think. A hard one might make too many people too crazy.
Anyway the latest article by Pepe suggests that the Civil War in Syria really is over as announced and the jihadis are being evacuated to stop BRI OBOR New Silk Road in the Hindu Kush, still a Deep State obsession even if it isn’t sexy enough for some of us to defend until it is a done deal:
“It is a categorical imperative for Beijing to expand BRI across the Levant, linking China to the Mediterranean overland just like the Ancient Silk Road did. And yet that clashes frontally with the crucial fact admitted on record by Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn himself: that the Obama administration made a “willful decision” to let Islamic State fester, with the objective of arriving at a “Sunnistan” across “Syraq” as a means to accelerate regime change in Damascus. Translation: let ISIS break up the BRI in the Levant.
There’s no question influential sectors of the US deep state have not abandoned the project. At the same time President Trump has declared unwavering war on ISIS. The fundamental question is whether the “House of Saud policy” — striking against Damascus and its supporters in Iran — will prevail in Washington.
When the Taliban went after Afghan warlords across Pashtun lands in the mid-1990s, the local population supported them because they brought safety to roads and villages. They were widely regarded as angels fallen from heaven to help the Prophet against his enemies in Mecca.
In my travels across “Talibanistan,” some of them documented at Asia Times, I found the Taliban to be stone-cold pious and moralistic, enveloped in a sort of heavily-weighted obscurity, virtually inaccessible.
But the main actors in this renewed Great Game in the Hindu Kush are far from being the Taliban. It’s all about the jihadi diaspora after the collapse of the caliphate in “Syraq.”
ISIS is already shipping out jihadis in retreat in both Iraq and Syria to the Hindu Kush. At the same time, it is actively enrolling scores of Pashtuns with lots of cash and weapons — a workforce including tens of thousands of potential suicide bombers.
Besides Afghans, a new batch of recruits includes Chechens, Uzbeks and Uyghurs, all of them quite capable of blending in with the scenery in a mountainous region inaccessible even to the Pentagon’s MOABs.
It’s no wonder secularized Afghans in Kabul already fear that Afghanistan is the new citadel of a re-morphed caliphate. Against the self-declared Islamic State Khorasan (ISK), it’s up to the SCO — primarily China, Russia, India, Pakistan — to come up with a rescue brigade. Otherwise Eurasian integration will be in mortal danger all across the intersection of Central and South Asia.”
Is how he concludes his article “Fear and Loathing on the Afghan Silk Road:
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Fear-and-loathing-on-the-A-by-Pepe-Escobar-Afghan-War_Caliphate_Corruption_Taliban-170621-542.html
“There’s no question influential sectors of the US deep state have not abandoned the project. At the same time President Trump has declared unwavering war on ISIS. The fundamental question is whether the “House of Saud policy” — striking against Damascus and its supporters in Iran — will prevail in Washington.”
Bro, he is a Sun/Uranus in 10th house liberator of Character. The higher path above the seams is his tricky one.
But this isn’t rational it is sybothional
sorry, ‘symbolical’ was meant
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/06/25/tried-kill-putin-five-times/ At the end of Justin’s article Putin refers to the Americans as ‘partners.’ I think it is important to understand in what sense this is so. I admit that I am still scratching my head. Could it be that there is one technology (of death) of which two groups are its stewards?
He said it many times in the Oliver Stone interviews. I think it’s sarcasm.
it is one circle of problems in a certain central circle
if opposites are not viewed as partners in an anthropological
kind of humble meaning there is no hope
Vlad knows that iseems to be an orthodox sprout
Partner, model, rival, obstacle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind#Girard.27s_mimetic_double_bind I an curious of the meanings, nuances and usage of the Russian term used.
Given the choice between partnership and pathology (escalation), I do believe that Putin is being sincere with his choice of words, and I suspect that the translation is spot on.
Good morning, gentle vineyarders. It’s 5 am in Ojai. The dawn is breaking with Venus leading the Moon along with the Sun towards Ojai. Yesterday it got hot here (106 F) and today may be the same.
I woke up at about 3:30 with a premonition that it would be hot at the cafe today too. I got up at 4:30 to check my emails and do some outdoor work before it gets too hot. At the computer, I came here and sure enough, the cafe is hot.
I love it when you’re on top of your game, Bro 93. I welcome your taking the gloves off, although in baseball the metaphor doesn’t quite fit. This cafe is meant for conversation so that we can come to understanding. I am confident that we can do that.
I agree that it’s not conducive to making love with boxing gloves and baseball mits on. However, if I have to fight, I’d rather have boxing gloves on. Better yet, I’d rather not fight at all but converse at an all day cafe, and all night too–if that’s what it takes to reach consensus, mutual respect and love; for you and me, and all of us.
I regret that I’m keeping you up, if I am. But if I am, I can’t think of a better reason for it than discussing our ideas openly and honestly in this cafe. For that, I thank you most sincerely.
I’m not flattering you, according to a dictionary definition but I admit to sometimes teasing you in order to elicit deeper conversation; which in the present instance seems to have worked.
I heard about Gracie Slick before, but did not know she was with Jefferson Airplane, or who she was until now. In her heyday, I was in the monastery. Thanks for bringing her to my attention. She was born about six weeks before me in ’39 so we are both 77.
I guess you can say I’m “mentally weak,” but I was just not informed about Gracie’s drug or love life, since in the monastery I had no need to be. I still would not know anything about her if I did not just now look her up on wikipedia.
When I heard the song “Someone to Love” yesterday at your link, I was impressed by the lyrics and catchy tune. Gracie looked formidable. I didn’t know til then that she was connected to Jefferson Airplane.
So I must plead ignorance of her “witches brew” of sex and love that caused so much perversity in your view. I suppose others might argue that those “summers of love, love children and rock and roll” were not all bad. I just don’t know, although I do like the idea of the song, that we need someone to love, as I explained in my initial post.
I must demur that this is my “weak flank” because I went through the counter-culture and New Age. I didn’t because I was in the monastery at that time, where I knew nothing of Jefferson Airplane, much less had a “fond nostalgia” for them.
I wan’t there and so don’t know if it was ugly and sucked. Later I do recall beautiful images of flower children sticking flowers in guns, and also as a priest, recall the coffins of soldiers returning from Vietnam. I was doing funerals at the time, including one for my father and later for my mother, but do not recall doing one specifically for a Nam Vet.
Later, as a RN working in the Veterans Administration as a psychiatric nurse, I heard the stories of vets, one of which relayed how he was dragged to safety in a firefight by someone he never knew.
Regarding number magic and reversing 93 to 39, again I plead ignorance. I used the number 39 as a rhetorical device to explain how you could bat twice, as the second and fourth hitter. I did so because I was born in ’39, my son was born in ’93; my social security number begins with 393 and I lived as a child at 309 North 3rd Street, in addition to other 3’s and 9’s connected with my life–and because it contrasts nicely with 93, as a poetic resonance.
I was merely being playful. I had no ideas of “number magic, the dark occult or satanic activity” in mind. I am aware that the elites play around with these numbers and have fun doing so, but I have no connection to these kind of games.
It’s just past 6 now and I want to get outside and get some work done while it is cool. I have enjoyed our conversation and will continue it when I get back here later. In the meantime, allow me to express my gratitude to you and others for making this kind of cafe conversation possible.
Love, Dennis
Macron, the clever little toy-boy, tracked one way on Syria and today has tracked the other way with Ukriane.
Russia invaded and illegally stole Crimea, too.
He “intends” to bring new solutions to the Normandy Quartet meetings.
In other words, he thinks he will replace the Minsk 2 Accords with his ideas.
Afterward, he will drain the Atlantic Ocean to establish a land bridge with North America, and then level the Alps, so airplanes won’t have to use so much fuel to climb above their heights.
He has some really innovative ideas, does this new French leader.
“Russia the aggressor!” per M. Macron.
Hollande was called “the Poodle” by the French.
Macron seeks to be “the Butterfly”, “Papillon”.
As the AKC website puts it, “papillons are little dogs for all seasons and reasons.”
lap-dogs I suppose
The new French Defense Minister had to leave her office after it became known that she was paid €10,000 per month by a U.S. think tank.
http://www.lejdd.fr/politique/lenigme-sylvie-goulard-pourquoi-a-t-elle-quitte-le-gouvernement-3371579
Macron said ” I will not recognize the annexation of Crimea ” – wow ! as if he could do that as a solo performance on the well known EU stage. He may try to bark in his yard, learning very quickly the language we already know.
‘L’ état – c’est moi! ‘
It will be interesting to see how long Macaroon’ ‘s honeymoon lasts…..
Honeymoon
As Papillon, he’s barking on his side,
As Micron, he’s trying hard to bite.
His cabinet is coming in to marry,
Then leaving one by one, in hurry.
The marriage is hard for digestion
How long will last the honeymoon ?
I have no suggestion…
Upon contemplating the ending of Bro. Karamazov with Ivan in catatonia, Mitya in metanoia, and Alyosha ,in the world , doing his humble bit to heal it :
Is in the monastery or loonie bin
where inaction lives avoiding sin
gains perfection of a lofty i-deal
avoids correction of the bad deal?
Love without Compassion
Can you truly love someone if you can’t feel their grief?
If you live for the good times, pleasure and fun
Can you really know them, give service, offer relief?
When push comes to shove and it’s all said and done,
Have you been the Christ or have you been the Thief?
Another step for the “Heartland Alliance” (Russia, China, et al.), leaving the US in the cold — an outsider, isolated if only by geography.
This I got from an article on this French site:
http://www.chroniquesdugrandjeu.com/2017/06/shivatov.html
So I summarize here:
India makes its grand entrance into the SCO Alliance (Shangai Cooperation Alliance – a military, political and economic alliance), signed on June 23.
So now belong to this organization: China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Afghanistan and Iran are two prospective members who want to join — they are waiting for more clarity in their internal affairs, it’s only a matter of time. Bielorussia is about to join. And then Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, and Nepal have joined the SCO family as “partners in dialogue”. Turkey? Maybe.
What a formidable alliance!
The US have asked to be included as “observers”, but the answer was a firm “nyet”.
No wonder Washington is losing their sleep, their hair, and their mind. There’s no way they can insert themselves everywhere in order to make it fail. The writing is on the wall.
Love without Trust lays down the Law
Love without Trust sets boundaries and rules
Only one-sided laws,the strictures–My Way!
If this doesn’t work-you’ll play the fool
Give Me the last word–the ultimate say.
The only way out is to pick up and leave,
It’s My way or the highway,
Madame, if you please!
Take it or leave it, I’m too bone-head to bend
So alone I will live ’til my sad, bitter end.
( way, way too much Dostoyevsky)
Enjoyed your poetry and have to ad another poem :
Talking of Love
Talking of Love way too much
Provokes an inflation as such
We can talk and preach about Love
Then defend our words before God
Screaming and pushing the hard say
Leaves the mind empty in the way
Scrolling the words on that avenue
Leaves the Love empty, without value.
yep.
From Zero Hedge c/o Martin Armstrong
A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels.
“Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:”
How about a link?
Though she is right. The planet is toast if capitalism is allowed to carry on unfettered.
“Though she is right.” ????????
She is right about finance capitalism, which she works for, without a doubt, because its top dogs can never have enough until they have it ALL.
What she and the top money dogs or “gods” are out to do with the climate scam is hamstring the competition within the entire universe of capital “investment” including more positive forms of capitalism such as OBOR which would enable Eurasia (the vast bulk of humanity) especially to escape slavery by the NWO satanist financiers.
It’s transparent.
Discernment, my anonymous friend, discernment.
She’s a slave, pretending to want freedom for herself and you. But she at least gets some crumbs ($$$) from her masters.
What do you get???
The love of your chains of resentment and victimization??
Greetings. How are you doing? I had a good day so far. Got a lot done, some of which was hard work for me in this heat. Now I can relax at this cafe and continue our conversation, particularly with you, Bro 93.
It seems there is much misunderstanding and “much ado about nothing.” We can straighten it out, all in good time.
Bro, you say I “am not bad,” but “deceived on quite a few things,” many of which “have a sort of solipsism at their root.” I may indeed be deceived on some things but I deny that solipsism is one of them.
Solipsism comes from the words for “solus” or only; and “ipse” for self. In other words “only the self.” If you are referring to my “self,” I am certainly not the only one there is. I do not believe that. You, the vineyard, my neighbors, this world and etc are distinct from me, although we also share a commonality.
You are free to think that I think I am the only “self,” but I disavow your interpretation of me, if that is what it is. You may “feel” otherwise but I am talking reason here. So much for solipsism. If you wish to pursue that idea, so can I.
Next you bring up “Love.” You say it is “quite an effective shield against criticism.” That’s true for me. Love also is a shield against many other undesirable phenomena.
You then speak of the “will and courage aspects of the Love Bower.” You then add that those aspects of the Bower “need equal time with the cockamamie coital communism concept Gracie was all for…”
Please stop there. The Bower needs equal time with Gracie’s concept? Where did you get that idea? I never said that. The Bower stands on its own, along with the Love Army as two sides of Love. You continue to expand on that idea. I choose not to go there for now because the idea’s premise is false, in my view, and I need to take a break for supper and my daily ritual bath.
I will pick up our conversation later. Love, Dennis
A poem of Hafiz
It Has Not Rained Light
It has not rained light for many days.
The wells in most eyes look
Drought-stricken.
Thus Friends are not easy to find
In this barren
Place.
Where most everyone has become ill
From guarding
Nothing.
On this primal caravan
Careers and cities can appear real in this
Intense
Desert heat,
But I say to my close ones,
“Don’t get lost in them,
It has not rained light there for days.
Look, most everyone is diseased
From ‘making love’ to
Nothing.”
Video of a man that just destroyed his career in the US MSN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE
Good morning, cafe conversationalists. How are you? I am fine, thank you. I’d like to begin by situating myself in relation to the context of this particular cafe. It’s now almost 4 am here in Ojai. I went to bed last night at about 9 pm. Woke about 2 am and lay in bed until about 3:30 am, thinking of us and our conversation here.
To further situate ourselves in a greater context, the stars are overhead for me at this time and place. As I walked over here to my outdoor office and kitchen from my outdoor bed, I observed the stars overhead. Dawn has still not shown, nor is Venus or the Moon visible.
So we, all of us, live in a vast natural context of stars, which we call the universe, literally “one verse,” giving our life a poetical, musical flavor. As for this cafe, it is generally a three day affair, which makes it user friendly. The cafe reduces the vastness and diversity of life to something we can more easily handle, limited as we are.
That being said, there is quite a diversity of thought and feeling within the manageable and moderated confines of this cafe. The conversation here is a universe in miniature, both challenging and comforting. I began this three day adventure by playfully referencing the first four comments, in retrospect I can see my rhetoric could be easily missed or misunderstood.
Such seems to be the nature of human nature. We sometimes connect and sometimes miss each other in passing. Still, the universe in general and this cafe in particular, does hold us together in a loose knit bond, if that is what we choose to participate in.
I’m focusing on my conversation with Bro because he gave an energetic reply to my opening, with my observations on the first four main comments.
Bro (Do you mind if I drop the 93 for convenience with no disrespect intended?), you said: “I have no idea of how an uncloned being can bat # 2 and clean up in the same game…” There we already have a misunderstanding.
Bro, you apparently do not get my rhetorical point. Fair enough; it is confusing. I was referring to comment number two and your reply four, both by yourself–distinguished by the baseball uniform figures of number 93 and 39. These numbers in hindsight seem more highly charged for you than I anticipated.
This is confirmed by what followed, when you said: “I write the whole concept off as daftness derived from heat stroke…” and etc into a Field of Dreams. It should be evident that conversation is often “too ships passing in the night,” if not a minefield of misunderstanding.
Still, the cafe stands and we converse despite it all. But back to Love, which you brought up yourself. I notice that farther down the line of this cafe, love has been linked to trust by anon and teranam, and treated with some mistrust by ioan. I bear that in mind but for now want to stay with you, Bro.
I am also putting aside the comments about geo-politics that are interspersed in the conversation, not because they are unimportant but because they are more indirectly connected to love, my main interest now.
I just took a brief break. It’s now almost 5 am and the dawn is arriving, preceded by Venus, as the stars are beginning to fade. It’s a cool 57 out, a bit uncomfortable for me, so the arrival of the warm sun is a cherry thought. Quite a contrast between the cool of the night and the over-100 temperatures we’ve been having of late.
But back to love. We left off back there with Gracie’s “cockamamie coital communism concept,” as you poetically call it. Somehow you connect this to the Love Bower and to “her masters’ grand design of social engineering…slaves…love children…[in] Free Sex practice…”
I am condensing your extremely fertile thought field, perhaps unfairly. Yet, I think there will be eventual clarity. In any event, Gracie is not here to say what she thinks of the matter. I can speak best about the Love Bower but must more or less guess about Gracie’s ideas as well as your own.
At this point, I must interject that the Love Bower has little to do with Gracie’s world, or for that matter, little connection to the patriarchal world order we live in, except that it seeks to lend a helping hand to a “world gone wrong.” (Dylan).
You change the focus to “Dennis has both endearing and frustrating qualities.” You regret that his “lovey dovey mood” distracts from the “current strategic situation.” You contrast me with Auslander’s “fighting priest spetznaz,” and think I might benefit from reading the book. I have tried but it only comes as an ebook and I lack those capacitors. I would order it if it came in paperback.
I have been referencing only one of your many posts so be patient with my “cherry picking” until the more full picture can be appreciated. You suggest “Balance!,” and are wary of “men with a wee bit too much estrogen.” I assume you are speaking of me. I call her my “inner anima.”
Now it’s nearing 6 am and the rosy dawn is smiling over yon eastern hill. I’m smiling too. It’s fun conversing with the likes of you. It brings me joy. If you don’t mind me saying so, Bro is a “nom de plume” that fits you well and suits me fine. Reminds me of “Brother Sun and Sister Moon.” If I dared, I’d associate the latter with teranam but I dare not. She’s been reading Dostoevsky and is not likely to take kindly my teasing; nor is ioan when I tease God to come out and play in Love’s world.
As Dylan sang in Duquesne Whistle: “you’re smiling through the fence at me,” and I’m smiling back through this window-mirror world, thanks to this cafe moving feast of delight. The light is back in your eyes and mine, and I can’t wait for that warm sun to heat up my old, cold bones as I water the trees and think fondly of you; and profoundly of a world at war.
But we’re going to change all of that into a restored Vineyard Vanguard of what we most desire. Call it what you will; it’s the same game still. I call it Love. You may call my call nothing at all. I don’t mind. Into love I fall with one and all. This, my friends, is not a distraction but my grand strategy to “stop the war on Russia,” and Russia’s war on herself. All in good time, with reason and rhyme.
The sun is now up in her cups. I will change into work clothes and go to water the fields of love and meet her and you. “Go to the river, babe. I will meet you there. Wear silver bracelets on your wrists and flowers in your hair.”
Love, Dennis, Ojai, 7 am, Sun at 30 degrees, heat rising, love inspiring…
“To further situate ourselves in a greater context, the stars are overhead for me at this time and place. As I walked over here to my outdoor office and kitchen from my outdoor bed, I observed the stars overhead. Dawn has still not shown, nor is Venus or the Moon visible.”
Denis, the rub with “the stars” is not the visibleversion, impressing the soul in the nights of the subtropical belts around the planet which you are belonging to in California. But in the cloudy tropical belts and in moderate belts the sky is not too often clear. Levi Strauss tells for the Amazonas-Tribes the heaven plays a nerly neglectable role.
But the intelligible view also connecting Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, visible in mundo’s weekcharts is containing heaven’s talking, instead of to the eyes, to the mind. But you might be content with the visible small version.
Denis, might it be, that you ‘censored’ my comment
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-06-21/#comment-370389
doesn’t it fit into your mantra or are you still musing
love to ‘hear’ about it
being as it is, we are not in the same skin, neighbor
Cheers
Agree with “Bro”. Looks like inner enema of thedennis , as she loves the limelight way, way too much, needs a bit of down-to-earthing.
Yes, Dostoyesvsky does make me a bit twitchy about inner “stuff” trying to drive my outer narrative! Seeing as mercury and Mars are conjunct ( sitting on one another ) tomorrow…it will take a master of sleight of hand to get us all through this situation coming up on the planet.
Just a historical footnote about the Native Americans of California: the Plains Indians– Paiutes, Sioux, etc. had great disdain for the Maidu etc. of California due to the fact that by noon each day, they had their full fill of food always and so were into lazing around in their “love bowers” of the time. Make love-not war even back then!
It is a rare privilege to live the way you do—your privations are the privations enjoyed in the lap of plenty , but that is not the reality of most people which is why you will always be a prophet unhonored, dear Dennis.
Yes, sitting as I am on a direct nuclear strike zone of the former USSR because it is THE main E-W railroad switch yard of the West Coast, does make me a bit more edgy you might say—-strictly not hormonal!
Also, my early childhood training took place in a very bleak place in the United States—on the Plains of the Sioux in North Dakota where the winters hit 40 below F. brrrrrr. If your neighbor was elderly, all the children of our household were put on snow digging duty to make a path to her place to check on her ( we lived in town, a big luxury as the path was not long) . And eating meat was how many people amassed the calories to make it through the winter especially those who accumulated it by fall hunting trips.
You do not have to be a Marxist to see that social-economic realities create a certain consciousness which is rooted in earth-bound experiences. Nature, my dear boy, can and does kill especially those who lack will, discipline and respect ( humility).
thanks for the Maidu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidu
Nature, my dear boy, can and does kill especially those who lack will, discipline and respect ( humility).
Amen, sister
Humans kill nature, and kill each other.
The wisdom of the american Indians, all wisdom of the ages, speak of the enlightenment of the human spirit, of the light of the self, and the inner capacity and freedom to rise above the privations and hardships of circumstance, and to live and love and shine.
Even nature tells us this in a million different ways every day. The famous environmentalist David Suzuki in the eighties spoke of human nature and the natural world, in the language of science with the heart, from the heart. :
“My life in retrospect has been marked by a series of transformations. It’s interesting to note that in the rest of the biological world, profound change in the lives of many organisms is a natural and necessary part of their development. Often these changes involve dramatic transitions in physical makeup, behaviour and habit. This process is called metamorphosis.” (from his autobiography)
RT has a bit of fun with a drooling pindo female version of the israeli luke harding fruitcake.
Blacked-out Volgas & the KGB: A modern Russian ‘spy story’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/394261-russia-reporting-spies-kremlin/
“Nevertheless, the icing on the cake comes at the tail end of the post-visit blog. You see, MLK wrote to RT to request an interview with the chief editor, Margarita Simonyan. Which incidentally was granted to her colleague, David Greene, around the same time.
And the network’s press office replied as follows: “Thank you for your request to meet. We have been informed, via our red phone straight to the Kremlin, that the officers who have tracked you since you landed sense that your mind is already made-up on this issue, and so meeting to discuss the baseless accusations made against RT would be fruitless. We politely refer you to the man in the blacked-out Volga parked outside your hotel for further explanation.”
MLK being the initials of mary louise kelly.
todays menu
cherie baba
one for mama
one for dada
one for you
taste sweet loves boon
straight from the spoon.
sweet honeymooners
manna divina sugar Cafe’s
uncovered cupboard lovers
lulay lula, lulay lula, sing
loverspoons boonsongs
cherie baba bonbons
Big cyber attack at this moment.worst hit Ukraine then usa(not surprising)……”Russian fingerprints “- not surprisingly being stated….interestingly enough well not radially, other day uk Daily Mail quoting Russian hacking of uk parliament and eg Macron but article taken down, perhaps after so many commentators called them out. It is all going on folks…..crescendo?
This is too funny.
HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier runs on Windows XP, vulnerable to cyberattack
https://www.rt.com/uk/394237-queen-elizabeth-windows-cyberattack/
It reminds me of the FORD acronym -Found On Road Dead. Or Fix Or Repair Daily.
Now we have FOOD BSOD: Found On Ocean Dead with blue screen of death.
I am not sure a cyberattack is strictly necessary though, Windows should fail nicely all by itself.
The swine:
BREAKING Macron, Trump vow ‘joint response in event of chemical attack’ in Syria: France
What wine would you serve with a French ‘haute-cuisine’ Sarin? A Pinot Noir perhaps with that peppery nuance to complement the finely structured Sarin?
http://www.news24.com/World/News/macron-trump-vow-joint-response-if-chemical-attack-in-syria-20170627
Unbelivable and evil – they seem setermined to go ahead with their excuse for bombing Syria- the Hegemon is truly crazy:
US has seen chemical weapons activity at Syrian airbase: Pentagon
27/06/2017
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:55 P.M.) – The U.S. regime has recently seen chemical weapons activity at the Shay’rat Airbase in the Homs Governorate, the Pentagon claimed, as reported by Matt Lee of the Associated Press.
This latest claim by the Pentagon comes just hours after the U.S. State Department issued a warning to the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, about carrying out a chemical weapons attack.
I had to stop reading this swill:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/06/macron-statement-enemy-assad-syria-170626092305242.html
Count the lies.
He is following the previous vile French Foreign Minister Ayrault or whatever his name was…..ain’t VVP and Lavrov gonna get fed up one day???????
Note Russian security council meeting held yesterday……..
sigh. It may come down to the troika of Putin-Lavrov and Tillerson. That is what will slide us under the bar of Justice come home to lay on the human race like a crazed Limbo stick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKj_Vd5_Bk
So while this chemical weapons hysteria is swirling, with Trump and Macron stating their solidarity with each other, I am led to wonder where Germany stands in this right now.
Interestingly enough, FM Gabriel was standing at a podium several hours ago, in a joint press conference with his counterpart from Iran.
Is this US vs. Germany, yet again? And has Trump now convinced France to shift it’s loyalties??
(The only bright spots in all this from my perspective, are that these events may inspire some satirical poetry, or set LZ and others off on a truly inspired prosaic rant, and FOOD BSOD. Nice one, Sanctuary One!)
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the economic factors in Germany have more and more weight in the policy of their country. The Iranians are buying airplanes from Airbus, yet the second time in a year. The Iranians need to modernize their industrial infrastructure with German’s help in various sectors. Germany had been a strong partner in the deals with Iran’s nuclear standoff, when they reached a consensus.
…and now, with the Trump administration, everything is put in jeopardy. Macron’s France will have to have a meeting with Germany’s Merkel and industrialists, probably before September this year in order to clarify where he stands. If Macron goes as a lonely wolf, making deals with Trump, behind the back of Germany and EU consent, that will make trouble. Maybe Macron, understanding that Germany is the economic leader in the EU, he will try to hang on on the political horse, trying to riding it in duo with US to achieve some leverage on various spots – Syria (the Middle East) and Ukraine.
Appreciate your insight, ioan. Today, Gabriel has a joint press conference with Lavrov:
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201706281055047898-lavrov-gabriel-presser-krasnodar/#comments
From a (very large) distance, it seems like Gabriel is willing to use muscle with the Americans, whereas Merkel was (and still is) not. I wonder if she’s going along with his approach now to win votes in the election, and because she can sacrifice Gabriel if it goes badly? As I see it, you can’t agree to anything with the Americans without applying some counter-force first. (A conversation might go something like this – “Fishing quotas?? Can’t the Canadians just buy American fish? Why can’t we just catch all the fish in American waters? I know a guy in Brooklyn. Let me make a few calls.”)
The other question with Trump and Macron: are they both players on Team Rothschild? And if Merkel isn’t, then who is ruling over German high finance now?
France has received its orders from the masters
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 by Bill Mitchell
The 19 Member States of the Eurozone cover some 4,422,773 km2 of territory, much of that is densely populated. The geographic area of Australia covers 7,682,300 km2 and is mostly sparsely populated. The reason density matters is because it impacts on the resources that need to be expended to provide infrastructure across the geographic space. In the past month, the French people have elected a new President and a dramatically different National Assembly. In his election campaign, Emmanuel Macron spoke of being part of a major reform process for the dysfunctional Eurozone. To create some federal fiscal capacity including the idea of debt-mutualisation (issuing Euro-level debt) to match spending on public infrastructure etc, which could help to revitalise the stagnation that besets many regions across the currency union. In 2012, François Hollande was also elected on a reform ticket. The same day he was elected he visited Angela Merkel in Germany. The reform process ended before it started. He went away with no uncertainty about what the Germans would tolerate as masters of the union. Well within a short-time of being elected, Emmanuel Macron has also received his instructions from the Germans, this time in the guise of remarks made by Bundesbank boss Jens Weidmann. The orders are clear. Germany will never tolerate the creation of anything like a functioning federal fiscal capacity. End of story. Macron now knows the limits of his volition. What are the limits of being confined to a straitjacket?
Read the rest of this entry » http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=36316#more-36316
See also:
Taxpayers do not fund anything
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=9281
Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Posted By Jonathan Cook On June 27, 2017 @ 2:01 am In articles 2015,Leading Article | Comments Disabled
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair who exposed Watergate.
For decades, Hersh has drawn on his extensive contacts within the US security establishment to bring us the story behind the official story, to disclose facts that have often proved deeply discomfiting to those in power and exploded the self-serving, fairy-tale narratives the public were expected to passively accept as news. His stature among journalists was such that, in a sea of corporate media misinformation, he enjoyed a small island of freedom at the elite, but influential, outlet of the New Yorker.
Paradoxically, over the past decade, as social media has created a more democratic platform for information dissemination, the corporate media has grown ever more fearful of a truly independent figure like Hersh. The potential reach of his stories could now be enormously magnified by social media. As a result, he has been increasingly marginalised and his work denigrated. By denying him the credibility of a “respectable” mainstream platform, he can be dismissed for the first time in his career as a crank and charlatan. A purveyor of fake news.
Nonetheless, despite struggling to find an outlet for his recent work, he has continued to scrutinise western foreign policy, this time in relation to Syria. The official western narrative has painted a picture of a psychotic Syrian president, Bashar Assad, who is assumed to be so irrational and self-destructive he intermittently uses chemical weapons against his own people. He does so, not only for no obvious purpose but at moments when such attacks are likely to do his regime untold damage. Notably, two sarin gas attacks have supposedly occurred when Assad was making strong diplomatic or military headway, and when the Islamic extremists of Al-Qaeda and ISIS – his chief opponents – were on the back foot and in desperate need of outside intervention.
Read the rest:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/27/hershs-new-syria-revelations-buried-from-view/print/
I Spent some time with my parents. We ate ham salad sandwiches while Fox News played on. Trump issued a red line if “Assad uses chemical weapons again [sic].” For the first time I restrained myself, though I did calmly tell my mom during a commercial break that it was not the truth. In fact, I didn’t even get mad. If anything maybe I’m a little bit sad, like Maria Lebyadkin in Demons who despite her condition knows better than anyone else where things are headed. And then I run across Orlov’s latest: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/06/embarrassing-times.html
With Another false flag chemical attack a possibility in Syria, hers a first hand account of the 2013 attack. It was perpetrated AFTER Obama warned of “Red Lines”, just like Trump is doing now.
From an interview of Father Daniel Maes (78), from the monastery of Postel in Belgium. He is a resident of Syria’s sixth-century Mar Yakub monastery in the city of Qara, 90 kilometers north of the capital Damascus.
Her is an excerpt from an interview by Bahar Azizi.
Originally from Afghanistan, Bahar Azizi lives in Europe, holds an MA in psychology, Bahar has been a contributing writer and editor at SOTT.net since 2012 and occasionally co-hosts the ‘Behind the Headlines’ show on the Sott Radio Network.
Father Daniel told me why he went to Syria in 2010, and how he experienced a culture shock when he first arrived there. He also explained that there never was a civil uprising in Syria, touched on the propaganda surrounding chemical attacks, relayed heartbreaking stories from Syrians themselves and praised the great support they receive from Hezbollah, the Syrian Army, and Russia.
Chemical attack propaganda
The story surrounding the chemical gas attack in August 2013 was a disgrace. Not a single journalist reported on the irregularities, and didn’t ask any critical questions.
In early August 2013, 11 villages were attacked in Lattakia.
People were killed and homes destroyed, and many children were kidnapped. We tried to help find them.
A list was compiled with their name, gender, and a note on whether they were missing, had been kidnapped or were murdered. There was not a word on this from the media.
Obama had announced in 2012, under intense media interest, that the use of chemical weapons was a ‘red line’.
In other words, a reason to invade or attack Syria militarily, which the ‘international community’ was impatiently waiting for.
Syria gave the UN and its agencies dozens of letters with evidence of chemical attacks by rebels, which was confirmed by nuns at a hospital in Aleppo.
Not one letter has been answered and not a single attack has been investigated.
An official commission of inquiry was sent to Damascus and, while they arrived safe and sound, a massive chemical poison attack took place in nearby Ghouta under their noses.
Western heads of state immediately expressed their horror at the atrocity, which they assumed had been ordered by Assad, and before the commission even began investigating it.
In addition, the heads of state gave very different figures, ranging from 200 to 1,000 deaths. Apparently, they were better at agreeing amongst themselves who the culprit was (Assad) than they were regarding the number of victims.
The 35 professional videos, published right after the attack, showing a great number of dying children, went around the world. Left out was key context; that region had long been abandoned by families because of the fighting.
And nowhere was a mother or an elder to be seen!
Parents from Lattakia recognized their kidnapped children. Some were lying in different positions in the pictures.
How is it possible that no parents were present in those photos and footage? How could they even publish all that documentary evidence so soon after the attack?
Why were the bodies of those innocent children neatly put together in one room? And that in a Middle Eastern village which was already emptied – how could there have been children there to begin with?
Instead of asking these questions, accusations were thrown around before any investigation took place, making it clear to me that it was a set-up.
In my efforts against the lies, I try to make it clear that what people say or think is not neutral.
It is important to ask: Are you standing side-by-side with the murderer or do you stand on the side of truth and the innocent victims?
Also, everybody should know by now that the WMDs story of Iraq was nothing but a lie: there were no WMDs.
Now they’re telling us that Assad is killing his people?
Everyone who has even a bit of a brain will understand immediately that all this is a set-up, that these allegations do not hold water.
The Syrian people know who their killers are; the terrorists – and they know who their protectors are, the Syrian army and their allies.
So I can’t help but ask journalists: are you so stupid to think that the people here are too stupid to know who the murderers and saviors are?
To this day, there are posters and pictures up all over Syria praising Assad and Putin – that is the reality.
It’s a long article, and an interesting first hand account
https://www.sott.net/article/354637-Sott-net-Interview-with-Father-Daniel-in-Syria-There-Never-Was-a-Popular-Uprising-in-Syria
These unimaginable highs of lies is screaming to the sky. How deep can they go, one may ask, but we know – following their deeds and words – that they can go deeper and deeper. The fact is, they will not stop until they are completely erased from this planet. There is no rational thinking in all this evil, the only strategy they have, is to make people suffer, the much the better. Can you deal with such behavior in a normal way, by making concessions and adjustments ? no, they must be liquidated because they will never ever repent.
The most recent blatent lie came yesterday from Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN. I’ve always asked myself how she got there anyway. Her speeches are full of lies, and the first impression I get from her is that she is the one serving coffee. Who did she [ -insert your personal favourite erotic fantasy here- ] to get that position?
She tweeted: “Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people”
Using Twitter to pose diplomatic standpoints, is that the New Normal?
And then this word ‘Any’. So, if ISIS executes a Syrian civilian, that is to blame on Assad, Russia and Iran, and the USA will start WW3? Because that is about what she said.
Really, you can’t make this stuff up. I thought we have had the deepest low when John Kerry (also via Twitter) blamed a vulcanic eruption in Indonesia on ‘Global Warming’ (of course mr. Kerry, before the Industrial Revolution there were no vulcanic eruptions).
a shorter shot again with the usual spon of education:
Sun and brothers moving with the Gods.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/06/sun-and-brothers-moving-with-gods.html
OK here is my conjecture : Tillerson threatened to publicly resign unless there was a “climb down”
whew!
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/06/27/pentagon-state-dept-clueless-on-trumps-assad-allegation/
I wish I had more time. My hour glass is at least 2/3 gone and if you’re 77 and going for the century, well, you’re past 3/4 and coming up on 4/5. And I’m close on your heels.
But we don’t matter that much in the temporal sense. What we had for breakfast or what we saw on our morning walk is nice but temporal and what consciousness evolves that spreads further than our “pebble dropping in the pond” is where it’s at.
Which is why its cool that people that never met geographically can meet here and in similar places and practice making ripples.
One of those is Orlov. He’s an atheist Russian apparently, but I Ilke part of the way he thinks. They got everything over there from A to Z . And I’ll retrun to that with a post that jacks the comments up to 200 for 1 cafe, if I don’t run out of gas and take a pass.
You know, play is OK, but good work is even better. The former prepares us for the latter. I had a little train picked up in the 3 month car trip through Europe in the 50’s, where else? Germany of course. But enough about me, what do you think of MY worldwide train set (OBOR)???
Does that ripple through more lives than my own expiring one???
No number play for you today, but here’s some wordplay:
Dmitri is embarrased by the pathetic level of infantilism in the USA and so am I.
But I am going to “turn the offer cheek” and offer our Oracle from Ojai redemption from the silliest most solipsistic remark I ever heard ANYWHERE, EVER……..regarding how Putin (Putin!!! Yeah the dude is clearly unconscious of how all these complicated toys are TOTALLY unnecessary, when all we really have to do is put round peg in round hole….that’s the only one we really need….LOL……..) Xi and dozens of others should shut their game down and get back to basics.
(Obvious sarcasm.)
Today’s Word Game:
Dmitri sounds pessimistic (Not fun!) so I didn’t join and keep reading past his initial paragraphs. But I thought of the Oracle of Ojai and optimistically perked up and thought, “Yes, it is embarrassing, very embarassing, but that means the situation, in consciousness, is incredibly PREGNANT!
And this is one effect of sex, so that’s got to be a cool ripple effect!
Now, in Spanish, the word for “pregnant” is “embarazada”.
What? She’s “embarrassed”??
And Translator says of pregnant: “full of meaning; significant or suggestive. a pregnant pause
synonyms: full of, filled with, charged with, heavy with, fraught with, replete with, rich in……”
As in new life, new possibilities in consciousness. Wow! I guess that simple peg game has more to it than I ever realized!!
Dmitri, get over your gloom! Celebrate! We’re pregnant!
CBC news is telling us that it is wonderful that a US aircraft carrier is in Halifax to “celebrate” Canada’s 150 years of nationhood. Total war/imperial boosterism.
Who was it here once, who wrote about the fish blushing when it swam in the tank at the restaurant, close to where the/she sat ? Every time the fish swam by it blushed, I thought at the time the fish had a shine on the writer, and not that it was embarrassed. Blushing is so uncool, one must always have the weight on the back foot.
Deadly Poets Against Empire, arise!!
The situation is pregnant with possibility. There shall either be a new birth of freedom and human potential spiritual, intellectual and physical enrichment, or…..we could have one bloody mess on our hands, PDQ!
The Imperial Guns Are Out To Stop Trump’s Intended Friendship with Russia
President Trump and President Putin of Russia.
In July of 2016, candidate Donald Trump told a news conference that “there’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russia friendly, as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go and knock out ISIS with other people.” The next day he asked his supporters at a campaign rally: “Wouldn’t it be a great thing if we could get along with Russia?” He was enthusiastically supported. Across the country, especially working people who were suffering from the economic malaise at home, were also disgusted with Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama’s perpetual wars, destroying nations and killing hundreds of thousands in the process, in nations which were no threat to the U.S., and were in fact fiercely confronting terrorist insurgents in their own nations. Their crime: being friends with Russia, and refusing to be subservient to the Empire centered in the City of London and Wall Street.
On July 7, President Trump is tentatively scheduled to meet with Russian President Putin for the first time. There is a potentiality that he will establish a strong, working relationship with the leader of the other nuclear superpower. Just a week earlier, he had told the leading Chinese statesman for foreign policy, Yang Jiechi, that he was ready to bring the U.S. into the New Silk Road, through a strong, working relationship with President Xi Jinping. On Monday this week, he established a strong, working relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This is what terrifies the would-be gods of the dying western empire.
On October 10, 2009, Lyndon LaRouche, speaking to the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, on the Island of Rhodes in Greece, said:
“If Russia, and the United States, and China, and India, agree, as a group of countries, to initiate and force a reorganization of the world financial and credit system, under these conditions, with long term agreements, of the same type that Franklin Roosevelt had uttered before his death, in 1944, under key nations, the intention of Roosevelt all these years later, could have been realized, and we could do that today.”
That time has come. The “Four Powers” are nearly aligned in a manner which could, finally, once and for all, rid the human race of the curse of Empire, the scourge of war, and the misery of poverty.
The imperial lords will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of their Empire from Hell. Calls for Trump’s impeachment or assassination now appear in the media, in a perverted version of Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar in New York’s Central Park, at rock concerts in Britain. Traitors within the U.S., even within Trump’s own circle, create fake news to draw Trump into a war in Syria, which would lead rapidly to war with Russia — thermonuclear war.
But it is increasingly clear that the American population, even many who did not support Trump’s election, are disgusted and fed up with the hysterical Russophobia, the demonization of Trump and Putin, and are expressing this disgust in the recent elections, in social media, and, most importantly, in growing support for the LaRouche movement across the country.
On July 7 in New York City, agricultural experts from China, the United States and others will gather for a conference co-sponsored by LaRouche’s Schiller Institute. The Chinese experts, in several cases, have been at the center of the process which lifted 600 million Chinese out of poverty, and are committed to working with the United States and others to alleviate poverty world wide. This is indeed possible, provided that the U.S. and Europe reverse the collapse of the western economies under the brutish monetarist system, which has destroyed the idea of progress in our nations. Restoring the Hamiltonian policies of our forefathers, as spelled out in LaRouche’s Four Laws, can and must provide the foundation for global cooperation within the new paradigm.
Anything less, at this moment of historical opportunity, is insane and intolerable. Percy Shelly, in his “A Defense of Poetry” of 1821, described historical periods of intense struggle, as this one is, in this way:
“At such (poetically pregnant…..alliteration added by Bro 93…..) periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature. The person in whom this power resides, may often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, that power which is seated on the throne of their own soul.”
Humanity is experiencing a moment of historic phase change, for good or for ill. It is a time for poetic action.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Lead
US Presidency
https://larouchepac.com/20170628/imperial-guns-are-out-stop-trumps-intended-friendship-russia
Once more the repulsive British regime is making statements that show their “death wish” for the UK. In response to the cyber-attack scare the “Dr No” character pretending to be a Defense Secretary Michael Fallon threatens to attack state cyber-attackers with air strikes and troop attacks.And points to Russia (of course) as a state hacker. Since I suspect he knows that threatening Russia with air strikes is a good way to see the UK disappear in a nuclear fire-ball, he must be counting on the NATO forces to “save his bacon”. That is a vain,misguided,hope. And Russia needs to publicly remind the UK of that fact.Letting stooges insult you and threaten your country,is “never” a good policy.
https://www.rt.com/uk/394356-cyber-attack-retaliate-airstrikes/
Nato beginning claim right of article 5 for cyber attacks..