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Clark has a well written account of “Russian aggression” over the last 30 years.
A Thirty Year History of ‘Russian Aggression’
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201708021056106300-russian-aggression-neocon-narrative/
Begins:
“Repeat after me (by orders of the Neo-Con Thought Police): “Russian aggression,” “Russian aggression,” “Russian aggression.” The phrase has become a mantra, to be repeated (with all the correct arm movements and feigned expressions of outrage), by anyone wanting to be regarded as a “credible” foreign policy commentator in the elite western media.
So let’s talk “Russian aggression” shall we? There’s been quite a lot of it, comrades.”
Ends:
“Remember it, and all the other examples of illegal meddling by the US and its allies in the affairs of sovereign nations, the next time you hear a neocon talking about “Russian interference” in the US presidential election.
Remember too, how the Warsaw Pact was disbanded in 1991, but the US-led Cold War military alliance NATO actually expanded, right up to Russia‘s borders.
Repeat after me: “Russian aggression,” “Russian aggression,” “Russian aggression.”
Has there ever been a better example in the history of international relations of what psychologists call “projection”?”
The “Russian aggression” continues:
Mike Pence Accuses Russia of Trying to Assassinate Montenegrin Prime Minister
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201708021056112385-pence-russia-montenegro-prime-minister/
“Russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force, and here in the Western Balkans Russia has worked to destabilize the region, undermine your democracies and divide you from each other and from the rest of Europe. Russia’s intentions were laid bare over the past year when Moscow backed agents, sought to disrupt Montenegro’s elections, attack your parliament and even attempt to assassinate your prime minister to dissuade Montenegrin people from entering our NATO alliance,” Pence said in an address at the Adriatic Charter Summit in Montenegro.”
It’s clear that trump’s mouth was used to get israel’s catholic buttboi pence elected.
Yes,from when I heard he was to be Trump’s VP. I knew there was a problem. He is/was a neo-con Russophobe. So putting “a fox in the hen house” could only end one way.
It seems that the Poles aren’t satisfied with making Russia an enemy:
“Poland considers demanding WWII reparations from Germany” (RT)
A lawmaker says Poland is looking into demanding reparations from Germany for the massive losses inflicted on Poland during World War II. Arakadiusz Mularczyk, a lawmaker with the ruling Law and Justice party, said Wednesday the Polish parliament’s research office is preparing an analysis of whether to make the claim and will have it ready by August 11. Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said a day earlier that Germans should now “try and pay back the terrible debt they owe to the Polish people.” (AP)
Leaving aside the fact that I believe Poland and Germany settled their claims on each other legally years ago. It would seem to me that after acquiring 25% of pre-war German territory after the war (the gift BTW of the allies,especially the USSR. That they have shown total ingratitude for). That they must not realize that if they bring up compensation issues . That Germany could claim compensation for that land. Or at the very least tell Poland to take the amounts owed out of the cost of that land. While it is certainly true the Germans were monsters in Poland during WWII. It is also true they paid a great price at the end of the war for their behavior. And it would be smarter of Poland not to dig up the past.
Millions of Germans could claim for compensations, those who were expelled after ww2, they can prove what they owned in those territories before the war broke out in 1939.
Yes they could (especially under the EU rules on that),so that’s a good reason for the Poles not to “dig up the past”. But we are talking about the Poles remember. Some of them still complain about getting kicked out of Moscow during the “time of troubles” in the 1600’s. The Germans actually could, under the EU rules claim a lot from Poland,the Czech Republic,Slovakia,Slovenia,Croatia,Romania. They would be able to claim less from Hungary,since they were not as tough on expelling their ethnic Germans after the war.And Romania as well,but still more than Hungary.If Serbia ever joins the EU they may have a bad surprise coming on that. Since they expelled thousands of Germans after the war (maybe a couple of hundred thousand in all). And the EU rules would come to “bite them” over that if the Germans wanted them too.
That’s what comes from not having a “real” peace treaty ending the war. Things like claims and reparations would have been legally covered under a treaty. But instead it was left to individual states at various times to make separate agreements with each other.And that question was inadequately covered when countries joined the EU. How those countries didn’t see the “mine field” in that EU agreement is insane. But they at least “pretended” not to,and signed it anyway. So now they may suffer from it.
Interesting what you say with the “minefield” and true. I remember in the early 90’s begun the great lobbying to be part of the greater “European brotherhood” as they told back then. The initiators have argued exactly about those “minefields”, on the unique possibility to avoid that with the creation of the EU, which will be like a great umbrella for all members to be safe from any revival of such past memories. Now, if a crisis will be unavoidable, the things which haven’t been settled in the past, will come back as living ghosts. In the current situation it won’t be easy at all, mainly for those countries who have large numbers of immigrants from outside the EU. They have more or less integrated in their new home-society without having anything to do with that past. By the way, Romania hasn’t expelled the Germans, that assumption comes from a much later time, beginning in the 70’s when an agreement was signed with west-Germany on the family-uniting issue. Later, that process accelerated, leading to a massive immigration of Germans because of cutting their political and cultural rights which were better after the war in the 50’s. After 1980, the the economic situation was the main factor.
Yes,I knew Romania didn’t expel most of her Germans. But like Hungary they did some of them Just not the large numbers like those other countries.Actually for Romania most of those may be more that they fled out of fear at the end of the war. And just weren’t allowed to return. I think it was mostly those in the Banat regions. The Transylvanian ones were kept until being allowed to immigrate later on as you mention.
US citizen in immigrant detention for over 3yrs has no right to sue, court rules
https://www.rt.com/usa/398272-davino-watson-appeals-reversed/
“A US court has ruled that a US citizen who spent more than three years in federal immigration custody can not sue, because his false imprisonment claim was “untimely.” The Jamaican-American was also denied the $82,500 settlement he previously won.
In a 2-1 vote on Monday, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Davino Watson, a US citizen held in a New York detention center for 1,273 days, could not sue for damages.
“There is no doubt that the government botched the investigation into Watson’s assertion of citizenship, and that as a result a US citizen was held for years in immigration detention and was nearly deported,” Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote in the majority opinion. “Nonetheless, we must conclude that Watson is not entitled to damages from the government.”
By reversing the decision from the lower court, the appeals court also blocked Watson from receiving a $82,500 settlement.”
This is known as justice in israel’s colony of “exceptionals”.
A Real Dump’: President Trump Unimpressed With White House
https://sputniknews.com/us/201708021056097037-trump-calls-white-house-dump/
“Since taking office six months and 10 days ago, Trump has played golf at least 19 times – possibly more, as the White House does not disclose when Trump does or doesn’t golf during his visits to Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster. He’s visited those two courses over 40 times – about 20 percent of his days in office were spent at one or the other.
We pay for Obama’s travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies. Then we pay for his golf.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2014
According to Trump Golf Count, the president’s love for the game has cost the taxpayer over $55 million to date, as ferrying him from the White House to the course and back is a hugely elaborate and expensive procedure. By comparison, the United States spent $50 million on water conservation and drought prevention in the American West in 2015.”
Puts things in perspective what these parasites cost us. RT also covered the same story, but unfortunately it was written by schultz and mostly consisted of lame twitter reactions to trump’s “dump” line.
White House ‘a real dump’: Trump’s reason for golf trips ignites internet
https://www.rt.com/usa/398299-trump-white-house-dump/
RT needs to bin this idiot or at least retire him to a cubicle and give him a box of children’s flash cards to sort through. The guy is bringing RT down to zio-gay media standards.
Funny video of Trump criticizing Obama for playing golf while president….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhoGaPUZrz0
Recently there was a lot of hand-wringing in the comments on this site about India going over to the israeloamerican side.
US, Israel Can’t Match Russia When It Comes to India Ties – Rostec CEO
https://sputniknews.com/business/201708021056099567-russia-india-ties/
“Sergei Chemezov, CEO, Rostec State Corporation, highlighted that India-Russia cooperation is on merit and won’t be affected by the two countries’ ties with other nations.
“If India will work with some other countries, cooperation with Russia will cease. No. There are defense products and technology that no one else will give except Russia. And, Russia has always been and will be a strategic partner of India,” PTI quoted Chemezov while interacting with a group of reporters on the sidelines of Russia’s premier air show MAKS 2017.
India enjoys considerable defense ties with Russia and purchases nearly 70% of its defense hardware and equipment from Moscow.
While India’s defense ties with the countries listed above are more or less based on a simple buyer-seller equation, India maintains a strategic partnership with Russia and is involved in co-production, research and development and other technical cooperation. Both countries have now agreed to boost job development as well under the Make in India initiative. For instance, the SU-30MKIs are manufactured in India by Russia.
“With regard to cooperation with India, it is aimed not only at selling products, but we are also transferring technology. It began with the late 90s with the sale of licenses for SU-30MKIs,” Chemezov said.
Experts agree that India-Russia ties are privileged and enjoy immense trust. They add with growing commercial ties, the bilateral relationship is on the cusp of a major transformation.”
moon walker walk by my side
only one more million miles
silver silent moon dust steps
no one will ever know you
down below where earth is
green and knowing nothing
…
We’re off to southern Mars
Touring northern Mercury
Blue desert Saturn whirl
Ring upon ring upon ring
Then coming back to earth
Wishing you were here
Thank you, beautifull and short
and ready to get in
and not to stop with Saturn’s rings
visit the walker Uranus
assigning human things
and yonder then the child in sky
in innocence retained
and yonder just the little one
whose cause is sometimes strained
I hope you are not Lasttruebeliever and turned into Anonymous. Anyway, thanks for the poetry. Not being myself in a good shape, glad to have you here.
Historic Shift in Geopolitical Alignments: India and Pakistan Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/historic-shift-in-geopolitical-alignments-india-and-pakistan-join-shanghai-cooperation-organization-sco/5601568
“On June 9, both India and Pakistan became simultaneously members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian economic, political and mutual security organization largely dominated by China and Russia.
While the SCO with headquarters in Beijing is not officially a “military alliance”, it nonetheless serves as a geopolitical and strategic “counterweight” to US-NATO and its allies. It also plays a significant role in the development of Eurasian trade, e.g. in support of China’s Belt and Road initiative, oil and gas pipeline corridors linking SCO member states, etc.
In the course of the last few years, the SCO has extended its cooperation in military affairs and intelligence. War games were held under the auspices of the SCO.
The members of the SCO include China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Pakistan and India are now full members since June 9, 2017. Iran is an Observer Member slated to shortly become a full member.
The SCO now encompasses an extensive region which now comprises approximately half of the World’s population.”
What follows is a fairly comprehensive article on the relations of the SCO nations. Useful summation of where things are at now and potential directions they could go in.
Trump Signs Russia Sanctions Bill
After several days of delays, which prompted speculation among politicians and the media why the White House is dragging its feet on the issue and was the topic of several questions during Rex Tillerson’s Tuesday media press conference, moments ago the Donald Trump officially signed the Russian Sanctions bill:
I’m not surprised he signed the bill, but surprised that he signed so quickly, why this rush ? what could be behind this hurry ? thoughts, anyone…
Ioan – here’s an excellent analysis by Alexander Mercouris :
http://theduran.com/trump-sidesteps-impeachment-trap-sanctions-law-prepares-challenge-supreme-court/
His thesis is that the bill is intended to provide the basis of impeachment proceedings against Trump should he have vetoed it.
It is going to the Supreme Court before it becomes law.
Truly, US Congress is so corrupt, I cannot see any way out but popular revolt.
We’ll see what happens as the Awan/Seth Rich story develops….
Thanks for the link, Eimear, we’ll see if Mercouris is right, probably soon.
Latest – Comey crony Mueller has impanneled a grand jury to investigate Trump :
https://youtu.be/BFOemNCbppU
While the Kurds in Syria and Iraq are pushing ahead with the independence issue, the question arises whether the US is covertly supporting Kurdish nationalists’ aspirations. In his interview with Sputnik, The Saker, a top level military analyst, explained what is behind the US Syrian strategy and what the prospects for “Greater Kurdistan” are.
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201708021056124153-syria-us-kurds-independence/
Seymour Hersh said in a recent phone interview linked by WikiLeaks:
[The DC police took Seth Rich’s computer, but couldn’t get past his password.] So they call the FBI cyber unit. … The Feds get through [the password-protection on Rich’s computer], and this is what they find. This is according to the FBI report. … What the report says is that some time in late spring or early summer, he [Rich] makes contact with WikiLeaks. That’s in his computer. … They [the FBI] found what he [Rich] had done was he had submitted a series of documents of emails, of juicy emails from the DNC. By the way, all this shit about the DNC, where the hack, it wasn’t hacked … He [Rich] offered a sample, an extensive sample, I’m sure dozens of emails, and said I want money. [Remember, WikiLeaks often pays whistleblowers.] Later, WikiLeaks did get the password. He [Rich] had a dropbox, a protected dropbox, which isn’t hard to do. … They got access to the dropbox. That’s in the FBI report. He also let people know with whom he was dealing … the word was passed, according to the FBI report, “I also shared this box with a couple of friends, so if anything happens to me, it’s not going to solve your problem.” … But WikiLeaks got access, before he was killed. … I have a narrative of how that whole fucking thing began. It’s a Brennan operation. It was a Pindo disinformation [campaign].
Seth Rich Investigator Accusations Debunked By Own Interviews, As Seymour Hersh Leak Kills Russia Story
ZeroPointNow, Zero Hedge, Aug 2 2017
Yesterday, a private investigator in the Seth Rich murder case hired by the family of the slain DNC staffer filed a lawsuit against Fox5 news and Ed Butowsky for misrepresenting statements he made in order to ”shift the blame from Russia and help put to bed speculation that Pres Trump colluded with Russia” because “that is the way the President wanted the article,” the suit alleges. The plaintiff, former DC police detective Rod Wheeler, also asserts that the …
https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/much-needed-support-for-the-freshly-challenged-seth-rich-story/
Now the Wednesday-view into the current week:
“Heart and Ire for the Family-Wealth – Sun and Mars in Excess”
and, in my reading , Trump’s option:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/08/heart-and-ire-for-family-wealth-sun-and.html
For those who understand the joy of children (and the hard work to support them) and what age does to us. Kris and I are not related, but there is another connection between us.
Kris Kristofferson From here to forever (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwL9SZA3HRw
Have you lost children? I have. Two of them visited me spiritually. There is life after death.
Kris Kristofferson – Hall of the Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo1v82dJ6dI
My son is the love star in this video. He is not British, but he speaks the language. The video is a little funny. It is British.
Tangram Theatre presents CRUNCH! – A SHOW ABOUT APPLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnkSGhQ8zo8
About the suffering of women.
Господи, прости нас!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0CqtwAiFZ8
Kris Kristofferson’s song “Hall of the Angels” is so beautiful and so touching, thanks for the link !
After making a comment on the lack of a “real” peace treaty ending WWII,and the problems we face because of that. It reminded me of a few points. The US has always opposed “Peace Treaties” as such. The reason for that is they tend to not be good at diplomacy. And usually aren’t able to win in actual negotiations.Where you have a “give and take” process. And you need to understand “facts”. They prefer a “Victors Peace” where they can impose their will on the other side. And there is nothing more to be said.Europeans have understood peace negotiating for centuries. And have had to get good at it from necessity. From at least the, Peace of Westphalia,the Congress of Vienna ,the Congress of Berlin,and on,until the Versailles,Trianon,and St Germain Treaties,European diplomats have become experts at negotiating peace treaties.The US diplomats failed miserably at the only major treaty they were involved with (Versailles) and they knew it. Which in my opinion was a major reason there was never a general peace treaty to end WWII.
When they came up with the “Unconditional Surrender” doctrine,they precluded the need for a negotiated peace.And because of that the war lasted at least a year longer than it needed to. At the cost of millions of lives.Had they told the Germans that they would negotiate with Germany if they got rid of the nazis. The likelihood of a coup against Hitler was almost 100%. The Germans attempted a “lackluster” one in 1944,even not knowing it would lead to peace. But if the allies had actually told them it would bring peace.That would have caused the majority of generals to join in a coup.But the truth is the allies didn’t want Hitler overthrown and peace at that time. They wouldn’t have been able to invade at Normandy,nor take Berlin. They knew that Germany would fall by at least 1944,without a doubt. The Soviets had “torn the heart” out of the nazi military machine by then. So the German forces in the West wouldn’t be able to stop a US/British invasion.
The fact that millions of lives would be lost in that time frame,was “collateral damage” for them. But they would be able to appear as “conquerors” and impose whatever they wanted on the European Continent.Remember, by then the Soviets had basically obtained everything they wanted. They had freed all Soviet territory,and were on the march into Poland.They hadn’t imposed communism on Eastern Europe yet. But at that time that wasn’t their plan. That wasn’t planned until after the war was ending. At that time their plan was to have friendly neutral states on their borders.Certainly they expected for the local communist parties to be important in those countries. Which they almost certainly would have been. But neutral states was what they wanted the most.It wasn’t until they saw the absolute hatred the Western leaders had for them that they decided a group of “buffer states” was needed to prevent another “Barbarossa” conducted by their previous “allies”.
For the Western allies,the lack of a treaty with Germany was a dream come true. They could do whatever they wanted in their sectors of occupied Germany. With the results we see today. After 72 years US troops “still” occupying Germany. Of course they don’t call it that. They have an “agreement” with their puppet German regime for the troops to be there.But seriously,what kind of an “end to war” is it when the conquerors troops “still” are in place in the defeated country 72 years after the “end of the war”. Only brainwashed people don’t understand what that really is.
And what was true for Germany is also true for Japan. US troops still occupy Japan after all these years. Just as they do in South Korea as well, 64 years after the Korean War was “halted”. The spotlight is turned onto Korea today. So we might need to understand that “lack of peace” too.The US has always opposed a treaty to end WWII with Japan. And also opposed a treaty to end the Korean War. Now “why” would that be ,you might ask? A treaty with Japan would mean the US control there would be questioned. And a treaty to end the Korean War would almost certainly mean the US control over South Korea. And the right to have troops there would be done away with. So to preserve US domination. They refuse to allow peace treaties to officially “end those wars”. Control over Japan,and South Korea (they hope to add North Korea to those others) allows them to pose a huge danger to China. And a smaller though large danger for Russia.And since by now no one (certainly no one in the US) even thinks about “why” there is no peace treaty,they just avoid any discussion of it.
Excellent observations Bob
Thanks for your thoughts on this Bob.
Regarding Japan, the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco (SFPT) is generally considered a peace treaty. As I understand it, its first chapter declares an end to the state of war and recognizes Japanese sovereignty. The other chapters declare the end of the claims of the Japanese Empire to Korea, Taiwan, China, etc. and positions on a variety of other political and economic issues. Officially, then, the war is over. What is not over, is the postwar.
The situation in Korea was/is rather different, for as you point out there has never been an official end to the Korean war, only an armistice.
US troops remain in Japan today (mostly Okinawa), not because the war never ended, but because of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan (a.k.a. ANPO) that came into effect with the SFPT. What remains unspoken in this, as you suggest, is that the Japanese archipelago remains, in effect, an important forward base of the American Empire in East Asia. Although ANPO has been deeply unpopular in Japan since the late 1950s — even today there are ongoing protests against the vast American military complex in Okinawa — the US military remains because the Japanese ruling elite feels it is more important to preserve this alliance. They willingly accept their position as a vassal state in the American Empire.
So, it is not quite correct to say there is no peace treaty, but there are a number of ambiguities that have never been resolved. For example, Japan did not sign a peace treaty with the two Koreas, or with China, or the Soviet Union, and the South Korean regime was actually dis-invited from the SFPT by the US. The SFPT stipulated Japan’s assent to the judgments of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, but the whole trial turned into a mess. E.g., the Showa Emperor was excused from the trial by the Americans, and the newly-sovereign Japanese govt was not given full authority to manage the war criminals. This was part of the “victor’s justice” and it remains an issue today, insofar as the neo-nationalist right in Japan, and figures like Abe Shinzo, don’t want to recognize the judgments of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
In terms of the big picture, though, I agree with what you are saying. The American leadership doesn’t want to relinquish their military presence in Japan or South Korea, because it is an important for both maintaining and expanding the scope of the Empire in East Asia. In the upside-down language of geopolitics, maintaining this frontier is “containment” while expanding it is “rollback”.
At present, Abe Shinzo’s party (the LDP) is losing ground in Japan, but they remain dominant. Many Japanese understand that the biggest problems they face are mostly due to the corruption of the LDP itself, though the media is constantly trying to instill fear about the “threat” of the DPRK. In April, Abe made headlines with the remark that the DPRK could hit Japan with sarin nerve gas missiles. This statement was of course a veiled reference to the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway, by the Aum Shinrikyo death cult. Abe’s govt has also ordered that all children in Japanese public schools must be given cold war style “duck and cover” exercises to prepare for a possible attack by the DPRK.
Personally, I think it is unlikely in the extreme that the DPRK would launch any kind of first strike with missiles either against Japan, the US, or South Korea, as this would be certain suicide for Kim Jong-un’s regime and the whole country. It seems infinitely more likely that the neocons and DS swamp creatures would find a way to force Trump’s hand into a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula. As the Saker has pointed out, the DPRK has enough conventional military power (howitzers pointed at Seoul) to inflict major civilian casualties. I hope it never comes to that, but unfortunately I must agree with you that the vassal status of South Korea and Japan tends to increase the likelihood of “sacrifices being made”.
I don’t really consider that treaty (6 years “after” the war ),and only covering a part of the participants in the war as a Peace Treaty ending the war. At the best it could be said to be a “separate peace treaty” between a few of the combatants. Obviously in that case,like as I mentioned, the US figured their “diplomacy” (do it or else) would only work as long as the participants were limited to their stooges.
Indeed, it has been called “a separate peace” but maybe a better phrase is Eiji Takemae’s “divided peace”. From what I’ve read, though, it wasn’t simply the Americans’ “diplomacy” as members of the Japanese leadership (Yoshida Shigeru) actually lobbied for this in the case of Korea, because they wished to avoid compensating Koreans in the postwar if they were party to the treaty. In any case, Washington’s goal appears to have been “perpetual mutual hostility” (also Takemae’s phrase) between Japan and her neighbors. I guess it comes as no surprise that one of the chief architects of the San Francisco Treaty was none other than John Foster Dulles.
Yes,I agree with you.
This is where I was when a friend of mine killed himself around 1976. A female companion comforted me.
Sammi Smith Help Me Make it Through the Night (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGRBjKVnho
Russian PM: “The U.S. Just Declared Full-Scale Trade War On Russia”
“The signing of new sanctions against Russia into law by the US president leads to several consequences. First, any hope of improving our relations with the new US administration is over. Second, the US just declared a full-fledged trade war on Russia. Third, the Trump administration demonstrated it is utterly powerless, and in the most humiliating manner transferred executive powers to Congress.”
Hobbes said something like:
“They that speak of government and politics do confuse
each other and themselves.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ONyukSLqA
This article by Alexander Mercouris explains trump’s option to challenge the constitutionality of the sanctions bill he signed at the Supreme court:
http://theduran.com/donald-trump-and-the-sanctions-law-supreme-court-challenge-coming/
Alexander says that DT maybe hoping for a deal with Russia that could mean DT returning to congress to justify ? them releasing him from their control a bit, ie could be viewed as a foreign policy “success’—but no way is this gonna happen, Russia has already stated there is no bargaining over sanctions, Minsk , PACE etc.
Just got a feeling Lavrov could consider retiring now, all those years of wasted talks, time for someone else to really sharpen up the game for Russia.Particularly in light of Medbedev’s statement, although VVP had said couple days ago he still wants to keep over international relations going….going to be a knock on effect to Russian Presidential elections 2018?
Can anyone translate this english into english?
http://micetimes.asia/about-mukhina-four-and-standing-poklonski-sheep/
It seems to be a rant about Natalia Poklonskaya and an upcoming film called Matilda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(2017_film)
I surmise the film is about imputed hanky-panky involving Kschessinskaya and Nicolas II, the latter who Poklonskaya reveres. Beyond that it is linguistic torture,
CommonDreams predicts how Trump will orchestrate an attack on Iran, and it sounds horribly plausible:
How to Wreck a Deal
Recognizing that refusing to certify Iran would isolate the United States, Trump’s advisors gave him another plan. Use the spot-inspections mechanism of the nuclear deal, they suggested, to demand access to a whole set of military sites in Iran. Once Iran balks—which it will since the mechanism is only supposed to be used if tangible evidence exists that those sites are being used for illicit nuclear activities—Trump can claim that Iran is in violation, blowing up the nuclear deal while shifting the blame to Tehran.
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker (R-TN) calls this strategy “radical enforcement” of the deal. “If they don’t let us in,” Corker told The Washington Post, “boom.” Then he added: “You want the breakup of this deal to be about Iran. You don’t want it to be about the U.S., because we want our allies with us.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/07/29/mask-trump-seeking-war-iran
all you great foreboders:
Onke Bob (sorry, like your sobriety) and Vot Tak (as well) and so on: didn’t you ever had the idea that God plays over the bank?
Why are you on and on filling the lines with your cleverness, which
is a dump, like all of our’s, lest God tells one, as one is
capable = humble enough, to forget the latest news and to view
the far lines like Vlad and, (to me), Donald Trump, Captain on the
“US-America” guided by the officers of the two Israel “families”?
Vot Tak, Uncle Bob 1, ‘all the others’, are regular patrons of this cafe. Their comments inform, they are appreciated, intelligible at least, and unpresumptuous . . .
What we don’t know is what was said between Trump and Putin, and Trump and Xi in those one on one private conversations.
I think what Trump said was along the lines of “My life is on the line. I’ve got to appear to be your enemy, or I will be killed or impeached. You’ve had much more time than me to protect yourself. I am surrounded by enemies and untrustworthy friends. If I can make it into a second term, I will prove to you that I am your friend. Until then I’ve got to hold my enemies close, and neutralize them gradually. I need time to solidify my support with true Americans with guns in the heartland. I’ve got to appear what I am not. I am a business man in this dirty business of survival. I have to play the fool to survive. Like Henry the Fifth, I will show my true self when the time is right.”
Putin and Xi said they understood but didn’t think Trump could pull it off. Privately, between themselves they said they did not trust Trump, and would prepare for war.
Xi, in the privacy of his own thoughts, feared that is own life was on the line if he did not carry out the orders of his Zionist masters, the Communist Bolsheviks who controlled China. He smiled ruefullly: “No wonder Trump hates us. Good luck, Donald. We’re still called Communists for good reason.”
Putin sat alone in his office, pondering his conversation with Trump. With all his training and experience in intelligence and politics, he could not figure Trump out. He always went back to one fact. Trump had beat Hillary against all odds, and therefore postponed all-out war on Russia. Vlad knew Trump had powerful supporters and just as powerful enemies. Nothing was as it appeared, and Donald was the chief case in point.
Donald had called Vladimir the Commander in Chief with a knowing look in his eye. He knew how the game was played. Winner takes all. Did Trump really have high trump, or was he bluffing? The odds were on the latter but Donald always seemed to survive.
Putin recalled that he had told Trump to continue the sanctions and even make them harder. It strengthened Russia and exposed Russia’s enemies. Vlad smiled ruefully as he heard the cathedral bells ring out the hour. “We are no longer Communists like China but we can play ‘good cop’ with them. Let Donald play ‘bad cop.’ Russia will survive the new Red Shields and Brown Shirts, with or without Trump.”
Putin picked up a recent American magazine. Donald was on the cover, holding up a Get Out of Jail Free card. Vlad smiled. “What a Joker. What a Wild Card. What an Apprentice. What an Appearance.”
As usual, my source is the Love Army, with its associated agencies, the Love Government and Love Bower. I may have garbled up the encrypted love code so use your own judgement. The fact is that war worsens and grows more deadly, as is well documented in these pages. I have my own sources and you have yours.
My “contacts among the lumberjacks” ask me to thank you all for your contributions to stopping the war on Russia. Unlike the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae, we spiritual Spetsnaz along with our physical comrades in arms Russians will win this war, even if we love every battle and lose it too.
The field is universal where every particular individual counts. “Go down to the river, Babe, I will meet you there; wear silver bracelets on your wrists and flowers in your hair.” “I’m raising an army of tough sons of bitches; I’m recruiting my army from the old religious.” (Dylan).
Love, Dennis
I’m going with you
old man
Dennis Cup
Let we see, let we see,
The structure is there to be
For Dennis at seventy seven
He created his own Heaven.
Shall we make to change his mind ?
No thanks, he’s with that just fine.
Love Army and Love Bower
Are foundations of his power,
As Dionysus he loves to think
On the matter, without a blink,
Filling the cup for us… to drink.
Excellent interview with Cynthia McKinney, in which she addresses the RDS ‘controversy’ (about 28mins in) :
https://youtu.be/Bk2KqQJvESA
More importantly, she focuses on the two issues that would unite the electorate – an end to the warmongering, and a full reform and investigation into the nature and operations of the Federal Reserve.
These are óf central importance, and the :alien :stuff should be left in the weeds of esoterica where it belongs.
First things first.
Now “we’re cooking with gas”, Eimear.
I posted the exact same interview yesterday, here, in the first comment on Dmitri Medvedev’s DisgraceBook post (narcissistic, solipsistic “sharing” while enriching a twit like Zuckerberg is, to me a clear disgrace……):
/dmitri-medvedevs-facebook-post-on-trump-and-us-sanctions-full-text/#comment-386089
And I concur with your last three words.
Except I would say, in the sentence before last, in place of the “alien stuff” the “highly speculative investigations into the largely unknown”.
To Dennis, his esoterica is not weeds, but the most beautiful flowers!
Meanwhile, China is “alien” to him and he doesn’t trust it one inch. LOL.
I find that fact highly ironic and therefore as amusing as it is troubling.
Also, behind the practical “to do” lists of every participant of every significant force on this plant are their speculations into The Unknown and their belief system for coping with a deep desire and longing, but mostly incapacity, to grasp, the Absolute. Mostly this expresses itself in esoterica that is social and shared, called “Religion”. In some cases, some individuals develop far-reaching outlooks that are quite unique to only themselves , in some respects.
Much as I question MOST of it (Let’s pick on Talmudic or Fundamentalist “Christian” extremely mind-bogglingly esoteric Zionism right now, for ease of agreement……….) I would say it’s quite reckless to relegate it all “to the weeds”.
Some of those snakes in the weeds are poisonous and their bites can be fatal. Some people make it their specialty to study these dangers and inform the rest of us. I wouldn’t spend all my time endeavoring to learn what all of them have to say, but I wouldn’t shut it all out either.
One ear slightly cocked, and a bit of an effort to improve peripheral vision and sharpen instincts and intuition while taking care of today’s important business—including some thought of responsibility for national and international business of all humankind is my attempted approach.
But meanwhile, I agree: By ALL MEANS, do attend to today’s “first things first” business!!!
And that does absolutely mean “a full reformand investigation into the nature and operations of the Federal Reserve.”
After all, that should have been “first things first” 104 years ago, but has been put off by the vast majority of dead asleep Americans ever since. And that delay in dealing with first things first could probably be reasonably assigned major ranking among the reasons the human race extinguishes itself in an extinction event, if that extent of tragedy unfolds within a few decades.
We are responsible in our unawareness if it does. We are redeemed in our awakening if it does not.
Italy seizes the first NGO ship of human smugglers
Czech readers were somewhat pleased by the news that at least some sanity is returning to Italy. A Sicilian prosecutor has ordered to confiscate Iuventa, an NGO ship that has been shown to “cooperate” with the human flesh traffickers.
Iuventa belongs to Jugend Rettet (Young Saviors), a German NGO originally founded by some high school students in 2015. The prosecutor announced he has serious evidence of repeated encounters between Jugend Rettet and the recognized traffickers close to the Libyan border. Well, you may see it – a video of June 18th and June 26th incidents.
On the main page of their website, which also urges you to make a donation, the Hitler Jugend Ratatata group boasts that they “rescued” 6500 people last year. What does it mean to “rescue” these people?
It means, as the evidence available to the Sicilian prosecutors proves, that the NGO gets their clients from the traffickers off the Libyan beaches. With the help of the traffickers and the NGO’s employees, they are transferred from a wooden boat to a more luxurious ship such as Iuventa and transferred all the way to Italy.
The very terminology “traffickers” is bizarre. The German NGO is obviously the main group of traffickers – it is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the work needed to smuggle the illegal immigrants from Africa to Europe. It’s very likely that the NGO also receives most of the money that is circulating in this smuggling operation for each illegal immigrant. A “trafficker” from the third world may get $100 per migrant before he’s moved to the Jugend Rettet “taxi” where the folks get $1,000 per migrant in donations.
Nevertheless, they unsurprisingly claim that they have “humanitarian” reasons to do what they do. One can say that and such a statement may even sound persuasive to many people. But a severe violation of a law is a severe violation of a law. And yes, I think that the European public has the right to see the ledger of this NGO – maximum information about the finances of this “non-profit” group.
Some media – including Reuters – present this campaign against this criminal group as a revelation. But only brainwashed sheep could think it’s really “news”. From the very beginning, it was very clear that the NGOs are the main smugglers of the human flesh […]
Full article: http://motls.blogspot.ca/2017/08/italy-seizes-first-ngo-ship-of-human.html
youtube and google and twitter are censoring free speech and need to be replaced by counter internet sites and/or sued by the federal government for racketeering and monopoly practices. A Drudge link to job report is being blocked by Twitter per Trump’s son and Infowars.
Tech giants are acting to prepare the ground for the coming physical coup against Trump. This is not the time to float in LA-LA land as much as we project our escapist fantasies onto Dennis here or indulge in a bit of existential despair per below but to act: tune in to what organs of political opposition exist and show up at actions called forth by these.
McMasters is now being exalted as a victim of the so-called alt-right by the corporate media. Please!!!!
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bad+moon+rising+you+tube+song&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSPG
This is indeed happening, but just try to get any of your friends off of Facebook and you’ll see what we’re up against.
How the Neocon central committee operates:
1. they make a decision
2. they send out emissaries to various action-oriented groups i.e. tech meeting like Aspen Institute Conference to reveal the strategy
3. then per Higgins, a Trump staffer who was fired by McMaster ” they communicate by coordinated, synchronized, interactive, narratives.” eg. The New York Times or Wapoo-poo sends up a “bat signal” so that those prviously prepped “know what to do:”.
Remember that the NYT printed the schedule of the baseball games of the Republican legislative caucus. coincidence? free speech? helpful information? What? we know nothing!!!!
I still maintain that there is a definitive cabal running this coup…their weakness is that they have many rather elitist people who are ideologues, but not very disciplined or courageous or tested. That may very well be their downfall when faced with an organized opposition.
The neocons are absolutely freaked out when Trump speaks at a rally of 30,000 people who en masse spontanously chant such things as ” CNN sucks” and “Lock her Up”.
Maybe this is real, maybe rumor-based, maybe manufactured news. These days one must consider all possibilities.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/13154/this-mysterious-military-spy-plane-has-been-flying-circles-over-seattle-for-days
The shadow knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnO9dw3n6A
an esoteric weed
would be a thing indeed
a gardeners dream
all nettles unseen
dandelions of the mind
the kind you cannot find
weeds of exoterica
blossom in america
Dandelion
A weed disdained brings spring’s greens
then bracelets with milky streams
then the joy of children’s dreams
carried on white seeds as zepher’s toy
from their puffed cheeks obtained
thanks , anonymous for the spark of beauty remembered from a more simple time.
Hi. Just stopped in for a short visit to cool down from the 100 degree heat here. I caught up on the conversation and fine crack (craic in Irish), for the heat in my head. Allow (the word is still rumbling in my head from a meeting Wednesday in which a feisty woman dressed me down for such passe insouciant insolence) me to reply to the “fearsome foursome” who go back aways in cafe archival memory.
ioan, thanks for such a perspicacious poem. You’re psyching me out mundomaniac style.
mundomaniac, I never thought it would happen, but my body is telling me, as I recover from one minor injury only to pick up another, that I’m not as young as used to be. Nevertheless, I’m in sync with Dylan: “I was older then; I’m younger than that now.” Maybe I have some Cupid, the eternal boy and wayward son of Venus, in my chart. I mean Cupid shot arrows like a Sag, didn’t he?
Bro, yes, you are quite right. I favor the esoteric side more than the exoteric. Inside rather than outside, although both are needed. And you’re also correct that I don’t trust China, although for the life of me, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the Confucian philosophical tradition of Kantian practical reason rather than religious emphasis–so different than mine–that is the stone in my obor shoe. Despite embracing Western Capitalism; once a godless atheist, always a go-fer materialist. I’d rather be a “heaven on earth” lover, memorialized by the Love Bower, within a Love Vineyard, protected by a Love Army and authorized by a Love Government. For those who missed it, in my view, love is the common denominator for every numerator.
teranam 13, the LA LA land is no minefield but rather a mine detector. I like the reference to LA as Los Angeles, City of Angels. I lived there for a few years, including on Grand Canal, Venice Beach. In fact, I was married on the beach of Venice Beach, from which the wedding party walked to our bungalow on Grand Canal. Oh, those were the days, my friend, I thought they would never end. Thanks for jogging my memory of times past. What a hodge-podge of sweet and sour. This weekend on Venice Boulevard and then Venice Beach is the grand Hare Krishna parade, and then the feast and dancing where they feed 10,000 people free. I remember the elephant rides from when I lived on Venice Beach but they are now long gone. I still go to Krishna meetings, mainly to meet Radha.
All right, my sprouted buckwheat is baking in the sun. Yum, yum. As the sun goes down, my energy goes up. Think I’ll eat some oranges from the orchard here, then water the baby lettuce. I did the bulk of the watering yesterday so I’m “at ease” today. I get the bulk of my work on projects and such done as soon as it gets light. My son is taking his final test today in summer school, and will be moving in this week-end to my empty and waiting motor home for its new occupant. It’s good to move, although a bunch of work and sometimes worry. Cheers to balance my fears and tears.
I feel like the Paul of Romans 7:15-20. I do not understand what I do. What I want to do, I do not. What I don’t want to do, I do. Paul blames it on sin. I credit that loss of control to love. Some call it a higher power; I call it a love bower.
Love, Dennis
As much as I dislike Krauthammer, I do share his concerns, implied here, about the potential for a civil war if Trump is impeached;
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-04/krauthammer-issues-stark-warning-over-mueller-investigation-%E2%80%9Cwe-should-be-treading-v
Donald Trump is the lid on the pressure cooker. So long as agitated Americans (whether one agrees or disagrees with what they are agitated about) have ‘their man’ in the White House, things will be calm. If he is impeached and replaced by the neo-con Mike Pence, America will see riots that will make the Vietnam/Civil Rights era look like a small and insignificant event.
A writer for the Duran also warns of the consequences of impeaching Trump:
“Donald Trump promised to give ordinary Americans their country back, if Trump is removed from office, they will have clear evidence of an open conspiracy to take what they view as the genuine representative of that country away.
If the American left and neo-con right wants to vindicate every so-called right-wing conspiracy theorist, then remove Trump from office, if the American left and neo-con right wants to see what a Constitutionally “well armed militia” looks like, then remove Trump from office, if the American left and neo-con right wants to see what a genuine protest movement looks like, one that will easily spiral into a riot, then remove Trump from office.”
Trumps tower and a queens bower, will he live to curse aloud the city proud ?
The Ballad of Semmerwater
by Sir William Watson
Deep asleep, deep asleep,
Deep asleep it lies,
The still lake of Semmerwater
Under the still skies.
And many a fathom, many a fathom,
Many a fathom below,
In a king’s tower and a queen’s bower
The fishes come and go.
Once there stood by Semmerwater
A mickle town and tall;
King’s tower and queen’s bower,
And the wakeman on the wall.
Came a beggar halt and sore:
” I faint for lack of bread. ”
King’s tower and queen’s bower
Cast him forth unfed.
He knocked at the door of the herdman’s cot,
The herdman’s cot in the dale.
They gave him of their oatcake,
They gave him of their ale.
He has cursed aloud that city proud,
He has cursed it in its pride;
He has cursed it into Semmerwater
Down the brant hillside;
He has cursed it into Semmerwater,
There to bide.
King’s tower and queen’s bower,
And a mickle town and tall;
By glimmer of scale and gleam of fin,
Folk have seen them all.
King’s tower and queen’s bower,
And weed and reed in the gloom;
And a lost city in Semmerwater,
Deep asleep till Doom.
well, “deep asleep till doom”
cause of that we now awoke to apocalypsis
of the establishment
and bearing winess they have overdone their
mindf*king game with us sleepers
and in the king’s depth the knowledge
where his peasants are might be our
saviour: King + peasants
Oh yes, game book 101 and it is time to distract the American people. MacMaster runs the vacation White House:
http://www.newsweek.com/us-north-korea-war-mcmaster-646942
On Putin’s ” Gone Fishing”
What’s not to love in Putin’s manhood?
Vacationing in the Russian deep wood
His buddies hanging loose along in the ‘hood.
The Hunt’s joy flooding his face and voice
The MSM fussing- tsking,tsking its “shoulds”
But in the feminine heart, he’s still the #1 choice~
this dear terra to me is
a very concise peace of
Poetry of Sun’s
feminine universe
responding to his
anima bending his
knees to kids
real man in duty
with feminine
love to the country
Dostoyevsky alert:
re: The Idiot. Wow this Natasya Fillopovna is one seriously p-ssed off female. Actually, she is in less discrete and more blunt 21st century terms, a victim of sexual abuse having been taken advantage of and groomed by a family “friend” after having been left a penniless orphan. The author in one quiet sentence ( rather chilling) makes it clear that the option of having her killed or “disappeared” is not one that Totsky, her “patron” , is willing to do. Therefore, the action of the story revolves around his bribing someone to take her off his hands ( and assuaging his conscious) by taking her in loveless although profitable marriage.
She is strikingly beautiful and a damsel in distress thus a lure to the sexual and fanciful projections of many of the males . But she is lethally enraged. OMG more will be revealed.
Teranam 13, it strikes me, how you deep in the american civilisation
seem to be sucking a deep bitter honey out of the russian civilisation and it’s
genius. Attending you, gives me a hunch of the immense future and potence the American soul will find in fathoming the russian earthly humble mystery = Russian civilisation. The mystery of a spirit of to be within ones land, which in America is in the possession of the natives, brothers and sisters of the respected, say sibirian tribes, in their natural realms, or muslims within their culture or communities of Buddhist of one of them of the MOD of Russia. It’s living poetry in the country.