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connect the dots:
https://www.rt.com/news/401818-russia-bombs-isis-video/
and
sudden abrupt illegal invasion of Washington DC Russian Trade Mission
https://www.rt.com/news/401842-trade-mission-dc-closed/ ( yes, let the whole world watch)
They are impotent and lost their minds – their only reaction attack diplomats and diplomatic properties – but hey they have had no problem killing some even their own…….
China has announced all oil to be bought by gold backed Yuan and Putin has already talked about the BRICS being ready to drop the US Dollar
http://tass.com/economy/963097
Note BRICS meetings 3rd-5th Spetember. Another join the dots.
On a positive note – the Soros petition has gained the required 100,000 for him and his affiliates to now be investigated as domestic terrorists:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/declare-george-soros-terrorist-and-seize-all-his-related-organizations-assets-under-rico-and-ndaa-law
Will they ‘find’ a Russian passport with Trump’s picture and name in it?
Ha,ha, that’s a very good question, I like it !
Big chuckles here. : D
Get it b4 it’s gone!
ends sunday midnight sept. 3
mostly monsatanto, but of course being bought by bayer they’ll still be around, & there’s still all the others (dow, syngenta,…)
this came out of nowhere, & turns out was same ones behind it as put out the series late 2015 ‘Truth about Cancer’ which i wasn’t even aware of ,
ALL 9 documentary episodes/interviews free to watch, some are up on utube but likely not for long, i note not episodes 5 & 9 there as of today saturday.
All are well over 1 hour each, most near 2+ hours.
They also are offering various bought sets of vids & mp3’s for permanent record links on page also.
just look below the video window here episode 1 you’ll see the others.
GMOs Revealed Episode 1
http://www.gmosrevealed.com/episode-1-rw/
Thank you for that info/links. Will download them all.
However.
The attention span of most people, including most of the “searchers” for “alternate truth, and even most readers on this blog is to short for this and similar “extended” info on ANY subject IMO.
Take Care
Kent
Many gigabytes (many). Downloading 2 and 3 now. The rest tomorrow. Might upload them all for future access if anybody is interested.
Take Care
Kent
Our Nordic friend is here, thank You !
Surprised no one brought this here before me. Maybe it was in the Cafe that just closed?
Nope, don’t see it there.
This takes the cake. Get ready.
“Moscow has condemned a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Estonia that called the Soviet air attack on Nazi-held Tallinn in 1944 an act of “foreign occupation,” the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.”
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20120316172205983/
My lovely wife emailed it to me after talking about it, completely outraged. People whose relatives endured the 900 day seige of Leningrad/St Petersburg tend to get a bit intense about these things.
It’s “verboten” to bomb the military positions on the borders of the USSR/Russia of an invading force, they seem to say……. The Wehrmacht. Or NATO…..or??? Same thing??? Apparently!
It looks like the sanity is completely vanishing from those heads. I think they are in a complete disarray.
I guess those generals in Trump cabinet like to play hard ball with Russia. It must lost very bad in Syria, and want to stop Russia before it start in Afghanistan. Or maybe just trump trying to stop bleeding in front of deep state…
It’s now official, the israel’s pindo colony colony now considers a state of war exists between themselves and Russia. What the zio-faggots are doing here is something after war is declared and the party’s respective diplomatic missions are called back home.
Searches begin at shut Russian diplomatic properties in US (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/401842-trade-mission-dc-closed/
“The FBI has started searches at the Russian diplomatic compounds in the US, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova said on Facebook, promising that diplomats would be posting photo and video evidence of what she called a “travesty of justice.”
The head of the Russian trade mission in the US, Aleksandr Stadnik, told journalists that he considers the searches at the compounds as a takeover in violation of international law. He confirmed that the US authorities lifted diplomatic immunity from the trade mission compound in Washington, DC.”
@one minion
Wounded angels comes out stronger on the other side, Always!! (might take some time and struggle)
You know that, You’ve been there. Keep it.
For you: High res. http://fotovision.no/GLP1/X_0002_WoundedAngelMiller.jpg
People ARE strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJY8jJkDoMY
And, thank you for the “mood” thing
@Bro 93
“I Like the edge, the rapid fire kinetic energy of Kent’s Target Practice at the Vineyard Shooting Range”
IF, you don’t practice. How will you ever learn to “shoot”?
No pun intended: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Tempelridder.jpg
Take Care
Kent
Thank you Kent, I am indeed honoured.
Take care of Yourself.
Russian diplomatic property in US ‘inviolable’, Assange tells US
https://www.rt.com/news/401847-russia-us-diplomatic-property-assange/
“If Russia’s missions are standard diplomatic properties then they are inviolable under the VDR [Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961] signed by the US,” Assange, who remains holed up in the Ecuador embassy in London, tweeted Saturday.
“The govt signed the treaty. It can demonstrate that its signature is worth nothing but that will affect all past and future agreements,” surmised Assange.
Moscow similarly flagged up the Vienna Convention, the foundation document of post-war diplomatic relations, when it said the US had plans to search the Washington trade mission building and the San Francisco consulate, “including the staff flats.”
Note that netanyahoo’s boy toy trump is now also going after Assange.
22:53 zulu on 2 Sept link http://www.gmosrevealed.com/episode-1-rw/ , while providing what seems mostly true (I heard on serious error in chemistry in about 20 minutes of listening to the doctor).
Nevertheless, overall, the site is essentially a commercial device. Not bad, simply bear in mind they want what people want, including bucks…
And it looked to me like a waste of time to watch these very long videos which seem to say what most people more or less already know if they think about things.
…………….
In another line of inquery, Russ Baker posts on a matter on interest – deep interest to some. I should like to hear a discussion here about what Russ says…
Russ:
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/08/29/everything-felix-sater/
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/08/30/spotlight-michael-cohen-trumps-mysterious-lawyer-ukraine-ties/
Russ seems to have got onto a line and raveled it pretty well. He may be correct, more or less.
My take:
The “POT”-us they overwhelmingly preferred (yes Russ Baker included in the “they”) Hitlery Clinton or more specifically the Deep State Globalists that picked her, calling the KETTLE (Russia, Putin) “black” .
WHY: In order to bail out themselves, the psycho paths who have bankrupted the US and world financial system. Accordingly they are angling for WAR in escalating stages, in order to “solve their problem at our expense” as Putin expressed it, and you are one of their agents or dupes.
How stupid do you think people are??
Wrap a bunch of poisonous nonsense that avoids mentioning any Empire role in anything discussed in some nice long boring anti GMO sugar you think people will credulously swallow.
Fat chance!
Your first link corresponds to what I roughly know about Trump, (having worked a very long time in the casino business) with a lot of extra detail. I think the general gist is probably correct ie. neck-deep in dodgy dealings.
“At about the same time, Trump found himself in a bind with his commercial lenders, who kept his public mystique alive while in essence secretly stripping him of control of his casinos and putting him on an “allowance,” as they tried to salvage what they could from the wreckage of his disastrous business decisions. They retained the Trump name on his most iconic properties, based on the cold calculation that his “brand” might still help draw customers.”
But I am wondering why this is coming out now when it has been an open secret for so long. The raids on the consulates and Bro 93’s revelation all within a few days cannot be coincidental. The pressure is certainly being ramped up on many fronts.
If this is a distraction move then its covering something massive.
i agree. lz
What are Russia going to do in response to the US violation of the diplomatic consulate?
It’s like the leadership has gone to sleep
What would they have done if Hillary was elected with her open hatred?
What were the plans
They need to wake up
The Americans are humiliating them and they do nothing just words
It’s sickening
“What are Russia going to do in response to the US violation of the diplomatic consulate?
It’s like the leadership has gone to sleep”
Hey, relax, study this: http://fotovision.no/PublicationsNew/ArtofWar/
And. You might understand the playground/universal aspects of “war”. Timeless, and NOT necessarily bloody.
Take Care
Kent
It is after midnight. So what else+? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81Vx-0uM0k
Who/What would be the breeze? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlppIdtLw5A
Who lies?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurxnFdNcUk
Got it (the blues, same shit). ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D836o2rIGqA
Best cover ever of any J.J. Cale composition.
(Prior knowledge to Captain Beefheart would help.) (Venus beans anybody??).
Take Care
Kent
JJ Cale is classic, iconic like Cash.
One of my favourites.
Thanks Kent.
I liked the captain’s Troutmask Replica. But it got a bit too weird for me after that.
@Kent: A rather more recent JJ Cale cover.
(my day or rather night job)
Swigs/”Crazy Mama”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMobZjqMQc
My world (sort of), more Eivørs world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_FIwLoIHBY
Study the Faeroe Islands to get aquainted with the soul of the people.
Take Care
Kent
Looks like this. Could you live there??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3wa2LtJQM
Kent
Looks and sounds beautiful.
I could visit but not live–not enough trees for me.
Have you ever noticed that the soaring roof arches of medieval cathedrals are based on tree canopies in the woods?
And. If you haven’t had enough of Eivør Pálsdóttir. Just one more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsl-KHGe4Kk
Kent
“Could you live there??”
I already did. For a few years.
Oh, I thought it was the Aleutians!
Looks the same:
https://youtu.be/r7kyc9hW9jo
Are those American Eagles or Russian Eagles???
Or both??
The church is Russian.
But most of the fishermen, back in the days (1974-1978) of my mid-twenties flew in from your neck of the woods, Kent: Norway….Stavanger, more specifically. They were already well acclimated!
They are very similar to the Scottish Highlands, islands and some coastal areas of Ireland. All of that area was once continuous land bridges able to be walked across by the (very distant) ancestors, it is thought. Had you fished the area you would be aware of the ‘Dogger Bank’, which is a remnant and makes for treacherous seas.
US to Replace Destroyers Damaged in Accidents at Sea
https://sputniknews.com/military/201709031057036166-us-to-replace-damaged-ships/
“The August 21 collision involving the USS McCain saw 10 sailors killed after the US ship struck an oil tanker near Singapore.
The USS Fitzgerald struck a container cargo ship on June 17 near Shizuoka, Japan, about 64 miles south of Tokyo, killing seven sailors.
In both instances the US ships required significant assistance following the accidents, while the ships that they struck were able to continue to their next port under their own power.”
Like how that last paragraph was worded. In fact the crew of merchant vessel that collided with the Fitzgerald didn’t even realize a collision had taken place initially. That being an indication of the relative damage the vessels suffered. In the west, modern warships are essentially what used to called destroyers/escorts and auxiliaries. Lightly built, poor damage control and survivability, essentially expendables designed for offense that crumple up like an empty beer can when hit.
Absolutely massive discrepancy in size, also.
In the mid 70’s I was living on a medium sized ship that one morning off Nova Scotia had the battered remains of a small yacht adorning its bow. Nobody had noticed and my ship had just ploughed over it.
There have been rumours flying about that one of the Russian electronic weapons were used to disable these particular Navy vessels though.
Also a lot of superstition in the marine world……sailors do not like sailing in “judas”ships…..rumours and malignancy just circulate ….haunted ships …..unlucky ships etc etc……..
Hardly surprising if you have been to sea for a time and witnessed the overwhelming power of the beast. For seamen it is particularly ambiguous, since they depend on it for their livelihood and also cannot avoid recognising that immense and often fatal (to seamen) power.
For some reason I cannot sympathize with USN like ships that go fast.
Ship buoyancy and mass – the physics of the business – define how to do that.
Very powerful engines/very light weight. Just like airplanes…
And like airplanes, they crumple, but they’re fast.
In my “seagoing days” I loaded and unloaded ships, overhauled ship diesels and turbines and ancillary machines, and spent a lot of time in littoral seas and waters. Me? I like slow. It costs less and it’s more fun. English navy traditions, they tell me, include sodomy, the lash, and grog. In my ship the grog is permitted, but not the sodomy. I am, ahem, “not English”, I am happy to know.
In example of ships and boats, going fast is the way to get fubared.
As, it seems, the USN desires. They got two new ships, well, they’re going to get a couple of fast beer cans, and think of the cash!
Meantime “Uncle Kim” just won the Korean war this morning, though the treaty remains to be signed, and the retreats to take place, and not all are entirely delighted. If Comrade T-Man decide to “do something” he’ll only stick in the big muddy even deeper. And, this time, Uncle Kim can take Pusan if he wants to. Or it may go badly in even worse ways. Their gadget can fry USN integrated circuits for 1000 miles, evidently…Well, did their lordships imagine Kim would not build these? I do not know…but both USSR and US built and tested EMP gadgets…did no one expect Kim to notice?
What Times!
Pax,
LZ
LZ,
You are right about the English Royal Naval traditions, although the rum ration and the cat (of nine tails) are both obsolete now :0
I’m going to post this traditional story with a warning, not for those with tender ears.
‘Pogue’ comes from an Irish phrase meaning roughly ‘Kiss my Ass’ so listeners can understand the flavour in advance:
Of the three traditions only Mountbatten’s remains?
Pity! How the English have fallen!
Yes indeed, from a great height, and don’t we know it. :0
Denmark Hesitating About Nord Stream 2 Construction Over US Pressure
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201709031057035994-denmark-nord-stream-usa-pressure/
“The plot against Nord Stream 2: now Denmark is involved in it. Its government has ‘become alarmed’ only after the US sanctions. The source of pressure is obvious,” Pushkov wrote on Twitter.”
The same denmark who were exposed in the 1980s as having turned over their security services to mossad. Yeah, the source is obvious.
Government is clearly paralyzed. Congressmen meet for coffee and their daily ration of received wisdom and talking points. The White House plays musical chairs with the Deep State, and money rules the weather.
Miles Mathis essays us out of this swamp with the laws of nature.
http://milesmathis.com/20c.pdf
I don’t understand this Russian Embassy thing. Why breach Russia’s embassy? To plant evidence? Maybe, but it looks obvious and no one will ever believe the FBI’s findings. Though, American citizens might. To anger Russia and goad them into some kind of provocation? That won’t happen. A pretext for American aggression against Russia? There are lots of better ways to justify attacking Russia than a flimsy and unbelievable FBI finding. Just to be jerks and annoy the Russians? Maybe but breaching the inviolability of an embassy will have lots of blow-back and other side effects that are not worth it. I think it has something to do with Assange and Netanyu. But really, I don’t get; it makes no sense to me.
maybe trying to prove Russia is in for regime change in usa-Mme Zakharova has said they were searching for explosives(sounds similar to anarchists whoever WW1)…..maybe proving a connection with alledged regime change in Montenegro.and their Nato conspiracies…..
….still people are trying to associate Putin with Donald business affairs in Russia to bring him- them down also, as in thewhowhatwhy article link posted this cafe for example stating DT did not believe VVP would invade ukraine article saying “we know now” usa intelligence had evidence of dussia’s inention to sow doubt and confusion in usa election campaign……quotes VVP’s association with russian organised crime and other such nonsense IMO…that DT has been majorly financed by various means and subject to well known set up techniques by russian intelligece to be beholden to VVP…….any association with anyone alive from the former soviet union proves the point…. that DT is impeachable and the witchhunt continues….building up to Russian presidential elections to discredit these in any way possible as revenge for any reason imagineable.
I’m trying to understand this violation of the Russian Embassy. On a different thread, farmerbraun on September 02, 2017 · at 11:58 pm UTC wrote:
“I imagine that this is a message for Julian.” I was thinking that this embassy thing had something to do with Assange. In the last few days, I think I read somewhere that he is getting ready to publicly state exactly where he got the DNC leaks from. This would exonerate Trump from the Russian collusion thing. Except, Trump supposedly agreed to this embassy breach. But who knows what they told him or maybe they just threatened him. On the other hand, could it be a clever ruse between Trump and Putin to discover evidence that would indeed exonerate Trump? I’m probably over thinking things.
‘a clever ruse between Trump and Putin’
It could be, but I doubt somehow that Mr Putin, who is trained to observe in a particular way, would get too close to Trump except to use him for his own purposes. Mr Putin has said a few times that he doesn’t do ‘friends’, as in buddies, he is a pragmatist and they often have an extremely ruthless streak.
all princes must necessarily be ruthless. those that are not…well…
but they may be, within the frame of ruthlessness, either good or bad for their peoples.
personality and character in a prince are vital as is literacy. Now then, let us examine the set of princes present to-day…
name them. assess them according to the things they bring.
which is best?
I expect they will now raid the Ecuadorian embassy next. the term for the present state of international affair is “undeclared global war”. Evidently Comrade Vlad is seeing matter precisely this way.
So, it seem, is the NK Bonzen… It’s pretty clear what their gadget strategy is vis a vis the empire.
They, credibly in my view, have designed and built a pretty well designed boosted nuk. The latency between building your first “primary” and the fist “boosted” has been, for them, 10 years. It’s not so hard to do…read Richard Rhodes’ books on the gadget and the super…not hard at all. But what for? It doesn’t take 10 years…well, it seems they’ve gone straight to serial production of variable boost gadgets. (The trouble building these things, other than the dubius morality and wisdom, is getting the “good poot” – and that takes a big undertaking. The actual building ain’t so tough.
https://www.rt.com/news/401861-pyongyang-tested-hydrogen-bomb/
Read up on Starfish series of US tests and the EMP these created. The US depends on electronic to prevail. NK can now fry every integrated circuit with about 1000 miles of the gadget, wherever that may be.
Without those ic’s the NK army would roll all the way to Pusan and past it.
T Man (or his stand-in) would have the choice of launching infernal machine at the accomplished fact – murdering (probably) millions, or not. There would be no gain from doing that, but whoever is calling the shot would probably launch out of domestic pressure to “do something!”. Dumb.
Kim won. It’s over. Sign the Peace Treaty…
After that there is no excuse to “protect” anything in the area, and the bases in Japan …. Well, you see where it goes…US “loses” the west pacific…and then Hawaii goes “rogue” and throws off empire too. One may doubt that the US leadership class (sarcasm) would not attempt to forestall such change.
Like I said, It is now an undeclared war. Global. And Mr Kim has a strong “argument”….
So does Comrade Chin and Comrade Ivan….
And the election in Germany…hangs…on… That’s an important election…. Really important.
Pax
LZ
That is the point though I think, that it is the human mind that builds the structures, the uniquely human structures. always, whether mental structures or physical and they betray the usual flaws in the inherent human conception of itself.
I am not getting involved in even mentioning the author for the same reason I would avoid Trump as a casino boss. Magnification of and unthinking focus on the flaws rarely improves them any.
explains the Trumpeter’s weird absence & silence over this long weekend:
like the blues bros., he’s on a mission from gawd.
http://www.freakingnews.com/Soup-Kitchen-Pictures-146589.asp
Looks more like gathering for the feast. ;)
I really like the way this dual Russian/Israeli citizen thinks!
And shoots, Kent.
Check out these rapid fire rounds from:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/the-pink-revolution-and-how-to-beat-it/
“One can argue for racism (it is anyway better than greed, a mortal sin; it is a natural defence of a tribal territory), but it is a hard way, and quite futile. Before Trump the Racist, there was Trump the Russian Spy, and he was preceded by Trump the Pussy Grabber. New reasons for impeachment will be found, surely.
It is easier to turn the racism weapon against the adversary, for the Jewish adversary of Trump is as racist as any KKK member is likely to be, or worse. Last week it became known, that in Israel, Jewish settlers established a road sign saying: “The area where you are located is under Jewish control. The entry of Arabs is absolutely forbidden and constitutes a mortal danger to you!” You couldn’t find such signs in the Deep South even in Jim Crow days! Was there any response from “antiracist” American Jews? (This is a rhetoric question).
One issue of a Jewish newspaper daily would supply you with sufficient amount of Jewish racism exemplified. Here is a Rabbi calling to exterminate goyim (like vermin they are), here are Jews stealing Palestinian land, here are Jewish judges who approve of a obvious thievery as it delivers Christian houses into Jewish hands.
Is it something Trump doesn’t know? If he knows why doesn’t he use it for his defence? This is not a rhetoric question. The answer to it is that he decided to ally with the Zionist Jews against Liberal Jews. This is the method tried by the Far Right in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden. Perhaps it was useful for a while (to get access to the mainstream media) but like every immoral device this one has a limited shelf life. Zionists are a hedging fund of the Jewish People, betting against the governing paradigm. They can’t endear you with the owners of mass media, their status at the World Government is dubious to the extreme. Zionist Jews can – for a while – defend you from an accusation in anti-Semitism, but they will stab you in the back whenever expedient.
It’s not that the Zionist Jews are good for nothing. Zionists are good for one thing. They are excellent for revealing the hidden Jewish racism. Palestinian activists – and there are Jews among them, too – can explain that to the Americans. Alison Weir’s book and site are called If Americans Knew, and it is built for such a purpose. Norman Finkelstein can add to that, and so can quite a few Jews and non-Jews with experience of pro-Palestinian activism.
It is possible to beat the Jews and their entourage in the Blame-the-Racist game by attacking Israeli racism. Actually, this is the only method that works, as the other methods do not. Bannon proclaimed his Zionism, and he ended with Goy, Bye. Richard Spencer said he loves Israel, and became a pariah. Now President Trump went down the same path leading to defeat and oblivion. American nationalists who support Zionism lose their moral superiority and get nothing in exchange.”
He was a soldier. Israeli paratrooper. But he’s as anti-zionist as it gets.
“Shooter Shamir” I call him, affectionately.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/09/03/533838/north-korea-hydrogen-bomb-icbm-kim
“I must insist the final color will be bright gloss red, to make it more provocative and convincing.”
:) :)
‘Phony war’ this period was called prior to the start of WWII and a similar period I believe before WWI.
Fake News.
http://217.218.67.233/photo/20170903/0e7c81bb-32db-41f0-82f3-27fc319517a1.jpg
Does anybody above the age of 12 take this Rothschild-Reuters photo for real?
Do you really think the ‘aluminum pot’ shown is a key part of a hydrogen bomb and not a silly stage prop? Do you really believe that the Kim Jong Un in the picture is giving advice to ‘nuclear physicists’ that they eagerly jot down in their notebooks or are we witnessing a theatrical farce?
: )
seismographic evidence irrefutable, M6.3 and tell-tale signature of boosted gadgets irrefutable.
boosted design is really pretty simple. Yes, the Al is probably a mockup, so what?
They set off their first underground test when, 11 or 12 years ago. Pretty much all what ya need in the primary and a smidgen of lithium 6…as any physics professor will tell ya…to make it a boosted dial-a-bang. Li6 is a gas under the design condition, you just leak a bit into the poot, more or less, just prior to the desired result.
Kim’s claim is solid. Realistic, and there is no evidence that it is not, while there is a great deal of objective data that confirm his claims. And he has a good reason to do this, ’cause if he don’t, he’s toast. So he did what looked to himself like a good idea. Duh!
Kim Jong Un went to a Swiss ‘pansophic’ (?) free-masonic boarding school and is most likely a ZionIntel asset.
In other words: should Kim ever be launching ‘da bomb’, it will be Zion’s aggression and China and Russia will act accordingly.
The rest is noise.
And T Man went to military school. Yes youth does frame the adult, but does anyone imagine that Kim would not join Saddam and Qaddafi and, well, JFK if he did not have gadgets?
Not everything is a zionist plot.
In the evening when I simply post articles with extracts, they are posted fairly quickly. But when I write a lengthy commentary, these are sometimes not posted, or posted with parts missing (with no explanation) or posted half a day to a day later. Around a week ago a comment I posted was posted, but then removed about a day later. This is the sort of control freak nonsense one finds on zionist or right wing sites.
This reminds me of how trump says earlier this week how he wants better relations with Russia, and does the diplo closure/search bs. Coincidentally, my latest comment to disappear just happened to be about that.
I think the “rule” should be a Mod should have to post in public notice that a comment is “edited” or “removed” and why (what Saker rule is violated being the only reason for such Moderation.
I can’t imagine what you, Vot Tak, had written that would be censored. We’ve ready your comments for years and know your subject matter, vocabulary and style. You confront that subject matter but I’ve no recollection of you going overboard in any commentary or sourcing of your material.
Certainly, there are some who post who clearly aggravate, but you don’t even annoy. In fact, I find some of your postings as acerbic and witty.
Free Vot Tak!
One of the reasons I dislike the default Anonymous and Saker’s predilection to allow “Anonymous” as a commenter name is that it forces reading some of the various idiotic comments, usually under that moniker.
When a unique name appears, it simplifies choosing to read or not read. There are some names that I look forward to read, others I skip.
Vot Tak I read. It might be very funny, often useful, many times containing a very good POV.
What the hell is the point of Comments if they merely are dittos of our own postings?
Any Moderation by Saker’s Rules is standard.
All Moderation should be on the record, in Blue, noting what Rule was violated.
Moderating is a very tough job. But sticking to the Rules makes it far easier.
And I look at the Rules as a two-lane highway. Commenters have Rules to observe, and Moderators have Rules to stick to.
The only person who can do whatever is Saker. Who from time to time shakes the Vineyard. His privilege of ownership.
Vot tak comments for some unknown reason at times go to spam …I have tried telling the spam filter that vot tak is valid but it does not always behave…. if a mod is not careful they get removed … and its not so hard when you have 140 spam messages awaiting review and your tired or reading about shoes,porn and meds … also agree that mods should tell about editing but I am at time guilty of deleting a one liner that I know will just lead to flame war (eg how many times did your mother drop you on your head ) the remaining comment being quite passable herb
Thanks for your reply and your hard volunteer work for the Vineyard.
also thank you, no chain of decent kind without you
Yes! Thanks for the good work!
I, for one, am entirely comfortable with the present arangement of moderation and with the good constructive character of this gathering.
Would not have anything changed.
Thanks, again…
LZ
L445
Thanks for the words of support, you are one of the people here who I have a great deal of respect for and always look forward to reading your take on what is going down.
Herb
Thanks for looking into this.
What’s going on in Cambodia?
Opposition leader arrested for treason, govt crackdown on ‘foreign’ influence (including US NED) :
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/
Cambodia is targeted by US because they are in China’s camp.
The US bombed them into a Moon landscape, abandoned them to Pol Pot and the Rhymer Rouge and now wants to control them.
What’s new?
Here’s an article on it:
‘Bloodthirsty Policies’: US Consecutively Loses Southeast Asian Allies
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201708271056836390-us-loses-asian-allies/
Another near place, just barely making news is Myanmar fr. Burma.
Hypocrite clown Erdogoon quick to point a knarled finger at them there, sep 2.
almost certain lt’s to distract from domestic woes & unrest.
hey, erdo, how’s that ethnic cleansing of kurds going in cizre & that general kurdish turkey locales coming along?
and why haven’t u resettled those vacant cities on Cyprus, 40+ years on?
not even so much as an FDR-style ’40 acres & a mule’ program have you offered.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands across the border into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence.
(tasnim) — “There is a genocide there,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul during the Islamic Eid al-Adha feast, which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
en.alalam.ir/news/3041526/Erdogan-accuses-Myanmar-of-%E2%80%98Genocide%E2%80%99-against-Rohingya
The Nordic countries are culturally close. Sissel, a Norwegian, sings a Swedish psalm on the Faroe islands, today a part of Denmark. Spread your wide wings, a reminder of how Scandinavian languages have influenced English, not the other way around.
Sissel Kyrkjebo, 1991, Bred Dina Vida Vingar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIySixoqwnU
Lovely, didn’t understand a word but enjoyed it anyway.
Regarding the influence, I think it flows both ways, in the way of these things and none of us being immune. Lots of Scandinavian words and place-names still in the UK, particularly in the north and coastal areas, relics of the Viking raiding parties and evidence of settlement, for a time at least.
Bred dina vida vingar (Spread wide your narrow wings) Psalm 190
Thy holy wings, dear Savior, spread gently over me;
And thru the long night watches, I’ll rest secure in Thee.
Whatever may betide me, be Thou my hiding place,
And let me live and labor, each Day, Lord, by Thy grace.
Thy pardon, Savior, grant me, and cleanse me in Thy blood!
Give me a willing spirit, a heart both clean and good.
O take into Thy keeping, Thy children, great and small,
And while we sweetly slumber, enfold us, one and all!
***
Bred dina vida vingar, o, Jesus över mig
Och låt mig stilla vila i ve och väl hos dig!
Bliv du mitt allt i alla, min visdom och mitt råd,
Och låt mig alla dagar få leva blott av nåd!
Forlåt mig alla synder och två mig i ditt blod!
Giv mig ett heligt sinne, en vilja ny och god!
Tag i din vård och hägnad oss alla, stora, små,
Och låt i frid oss åter till nattens vila gå!
English is very influential in Scandinavia. We adopt many words.
The English language changed a lot at the time of the Vikings. Two non-english linguists found the construction of sentences is basically Norwegian. British linguists agreed and wondered why they had not seen it before.
Let me chime in here. Sebastian wrote this for Sissel I believe. Unplugged live. Video a bit out, sound is ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAsa8KIQjI
For the ones in the dark.
THIS Sebastian. “Rose” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCM_BxYfJA
I did post a translation of this extremely cryptic poem somewhere (might have been here) a year or two back.
For the record Sissel Kyrkjebø is Norwegian, Sebastian is Danish (so am I by the way).
Take Care
Kent
About the embassy affair, RT guest says: (it is ) “a collapse of international diplomatic system” @ 11;27 https://www.rt.com/shows/news/401868-rtnews-september-03-12msk/
Well, “collapse” may be accurate, but such a frame implies that it simply collapse, like the 911 fairytales. “Dynamited” would be more accurate, no?
Now the, if the diplomatic system is gone, what, then, remains? Trade cannot operate without diplomacy, and trade must continue in crippled situation. This crippled condition has a name…
Care to say it?
LZ
Is this related to escalating DPRK tensions?
http://www.seoulnews.net/news/254577579/white-house-could-move-to-withdraw-from-south-korea-trade-agreement-soon
BREAKING: Elite Syrian forces just 18 km away from Deir Ezzor city – source, almasdar news
The seige of many years is almost over.
Here is a film series of Soviet World War 2 history produced by StarMedia in Russia.
Soviet Storm: World War II — In The East. Episode 1. Operation Barbarossa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXKlYnSWjA&list=PLhuA9d7RIOdaJ8jAIBVwV3ToGxzo3AK0h
Volumes of information, fast moving and well presented.
Paul, or Pavel as I call him, makes good recommendations!
I watched the whole Soviet Storm series 7-8 months ago. Good stuff!
On a lighter note, so is the comedy he recommended. My highly cultured wife dismissed it scornfully after 5 seconds of its beginning, but I hung in there and finished it this morning.
The noise of my laughter irritated her, and woke her up, but she has agreed to receive the link to The Housekeeper by email and review it. Even people in the same room we email. Or text.
I will incorporate The Housekkeeper into my main comment today.
But first I must bake up and make up that staple of the Deep South, brought to me by my dearly departed mother, born in East Texas, about a century ago…….CORNBREAD! With butter and honey.
In that regard, and to salute the Heroic Cajun Navy, with some music about her neck of the woods, and not very far away from theirs:
http://www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,creedence_clearwater_revival,cotton_fields.html
Cotton Fields Back Home
When I was just a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle,
In them old cotton fields back home;
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton,
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle,
In them old cotton fields back home;
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton,
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle,
In them old cotton fields back home;
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
In them old cotton fields back home.
Songwriters: HUDDIE LEDBETTER
Basic on lyrical development, and long on repetition, Huddie, but also long on Love.
Any Kazakstan equivalent, Pavel???
Texarkana,as the name implies, is on the border of Texas and Arkansas, NE corner of Texas. Wooded, and good for cotton and rattlesnakes.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cotton+fields+Fotos&qpvt=cotton+fields+Fotos
So is West Texas good for cotton, where she was raised, after her mother from East Texas died when my mom was 2.
Kazakstan Cotton:
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.g80BSW0VCfLWsaFoIFTR8wEsDk&w=150&h=105&c=8&rs=1&qlt=90&dpr=1.5&pid=3.1&rm=2
with you, dear Bro, to me it’ s impossible, to get you at a certain place, more
like constantly spinning around, you or/and me? around one pole?
But your style is something I formerly didn’t know, never could’nt follow you on
your ways in the dark, but always feeling near to you and your prey, and to someone’s traumatized
but high civilized neighbour in your Californian corner of the world …
That’s kind of mythology between America’s southwest and Central-Europe’s
inland place, small but present in the ‘Hohenstaufen’-power-chain around the Alps
with Frederick II. late and great “Cesar of birth” followed by “Ceasars by silvermines” in the high and late mediaeval.
Bro, we’ve got roughly the same DNS, and our plants and animals and men in one
divine order, and you are to me a strange, empire-kind but sensible family man. Ideal to
be friend with bridging, the distance between neighbours, like your Ojaj neighbour
or that to your european friends …
If I’m inside or outside of spiritual cage, anyway my doors are open except by
bedroom
This might be understabable for two or five or hundred present or incountable futurous persons,
in the narrowest and widest wings of time
To be given a resonance like this to a person like you Bro is a fruit on the vineyard!
Of so much western soil, focussed by the Saker – a American-Russian- world, I missed before 2014
being deeply intermingled with the Bear of the eastern border to Germania and with the southern pole
of the US- New- Multipolar -Re-Invention of man with a woman from the east baltic
spiritual center around east and west and with a woman also from the middle Baltics.
These are things I repeatedly find standing between us and you, slightly north of Ojaj?
Glad to know you at last
an’ this place
and it’s friends
Mundo
Wow! Der Dichter der Alpen, Fließt durch Murnau!!
You are too kind and your soul waxing so radiant like a brilliant peak that the Foehn winds lay bare to the sun, you sing happy to have your rocky shoulders free of heavy woolen grey cloud cloaks!
Your astro-verse is as cryptic, curt as the Universe is immense!
But on fields of cotton and Alpine hills of dark green velvet it flows so generously,watering every blade of grass and buttercup from Texarkana to Tashkent to Traunstein!
Sehr schön….ocen красивые, мой друг….
I am smiling with you into the strategic storm!
As are others, I am sure!
Bro93, to be honest I was about to dismiss “The Housekeeper” but hung in probably because I listen and study Russian language through the audio and subtitles. The plotting is cleverly done and is hilarious. My Chinese wife does not respond to Mr. Bean while many years ago myself and our three children were close to dying with laughter and I had to shut Bean down once because I was choking with laughter and would have died. What is funny also is watching someone unmoved who is telling everybody “it is not funny at all”, which only brings more pain through more laughter.
Do you ever find yourself during your life – I suppose many of you did – fighting not just with people like you and me but with God, searching for the truth and asking for answers which never come – at least in the way we (I) may think ? The following poem is such a “fight” :
How Many Times
Oh, how many times I prayed to you my Lord
To keep me strong, to keep me wise and good
Please, don’t let me fall, in curses of this world,
By weakness and anger, betraying my own God.
How many times I asked You to forgive my sins,
I asked You many times to help me in my needs
Sometimes I won the battle, sometimes evil wins
This is Your way to teach the lessons…it seems.
My soul confesses daily, You can see it through
Not just my deeds, but everything I’m thinking,
You know what is a lie, you know what is the truth,
If goodwill has emerged, or my love is sinking.
Oh, how many times I prayed to You my Lord
To keep me strong, to keep me wise and good
To be Your soldier in the fight, to keep Your word,
Remembering Your fate, on the Cross of wood.
But then I see, how weak and powerless I am
Trying to be honest, knowing guilt and shame
Darkening my spirit between the rocks and caves
Taking on the kings and taking on their slaves.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, for my faults,
Not enough for you, who live beyond the vaults ?
Is eye for and eye and teeth for a teeth the law,
Cause your sword doesn’t cut the head who bow ?
The world has crucified His body, His soul is free
The world is doing yet the same, with you and me,
He is the real Leader and His power is with us
And the time is coming, for Beasts to get a toss..
How many times shall we repeat, again and again
The same mistakes as if we’re blind and deaf
Not willing to see the sun, beyond the clouds of rain
And then, we’re see ourselves, hanging on a cliff.
what a rhythmic prayer, what a perfect
kind of god’s poetic grape in the soul’s
vine’s yard of the year a ladder over
earth’s miseries in certain times
Good one, ioan!
All I can say is don’t beat yourself up, too much, in fighting “The Good Fight” because Life will do plenty enough of that for you….. LOL
From what I have heard of Floyd Mayweather’s politics, I don’t like them. Maybe I’m wrong. Second hand information is often twisted 180 degrees opposite to the truth.
But I do like the Doctor Of Common Sense.
He uses his mind like a boxer uses his fists:
I imagine Hillary lost the votes of most of his 221,000 subscribers plus many more viewers of his that watched THIS a year ago:
https://youtu.be/gQHXERi7ckc
“If you pull the lever for Hillary, you might as well pull it for the Grand Wizard of the KKK. She don’t care ’bout chu! She don’t care about nobody but herself! All she does is show up at black events for votes and MOCK YOU!”
Mayweather might have a God Complex. I hope he had nothing to do with Harvey.
He said about an opponent: “I’m gonna take (him) into Deep Waters ….and then drown him.”
Deep waters? Here is Some Americana: In tribute to Hurricane Irma coming in with both barrels blazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTbKmVt81o
the words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eRTAK8qBE
If Harvey didn’t drown ya and Irma doesn’t kill you, they might uplift you, higher and higher. If you can float, that is.
This sister be floatin’ on air, with that electric storm charge, everywhere, so light on her feet, in the pitter patter beat, after the cleansing waters wash, wash, wash, and then rinse and repeat:
“Oh, Didn’t It Rain??”
You bet your Sweet Ark IT DID, Sister Rosetta!
https://youtu.be/SR2gR6SZC2M
Hi ioan-
Me too!
It seems our struggle is perennial and slow moving. Little by little we gain some ground though we move forward and slip back again, Little by little we gain some ground like the dancing planets in their forward and retrograde dances around the sun. Something like- order to chaos- order to chaos in a great wheel of forward motion of evolution. It is the nature of things for humanity and the earth.
Yes it is slow moving this awakening, this eating of our shadow in small bites. But all great things happen in duration of which time is only the little brother.
The Saints and sages all had the same problem you know.
k
“all great things happen in duration of which time is only the little brother.”
be praised for this lifting of incrusted slave-mind of meaning
“How many times shall we repeat, again and again
The same mistakes as if we’re blind and deaf”
That one is easy, and, also EXTREMELY difficult.
The easy part is the basic understanding that we as individual souls will be confronted with the same set of challenges over, and over again, until we solve them (each one, one at a time).
Once we have solved one, that particular one (many parts) never reappears, gone forever. There will be more and other ones off course.
The difficult part is to recognize the disguises, as for every time we don’t solve and react to the setting correctly, the basic “set” “problem” will reoccur indefinitely in variants that can be at first hard to recognize, and even then you don,t do the “right” adjustments, solving, whatever.
There will be more, always, no matter how many you “solve” . The learning curve never ends.
For each time though, you have recognized the setting in disguise, even though you don’t solve it completely, you get stronger, and each time you actually accomplish the “task”, the relief is very rewarding.
Take Care
Kent
Yes Kent, that’s true, the repetition is the mother of learning, however, it’s like an invisible hand who shows a mirror on our face to let us know our own weaknesses. I do recognize that hand which is led by the best good will but in the same time, as a very severe teacher who’s not “shy” to use or let the “though” methods if necessary – in his view – to make the “child” get to learn the lesson. Sometimes, as a “child” I have to bark like a wolf to the moon. We barking cause we need to, cause we feel better, but the challenges for each of us is still there to be solved.
The music of Rhiannon is new for me, just discovered thanks to you – it’s deep and powerful !
Korea handled by madmen
Mars tangoes with Mercury on an eclipse pivot
while Uranus performs a distracting break dance
the world in horror frozen does indeed rivet
Final Exit gears up so slowly as if in trance
Rainbow guaranteed no flood next time
but Fire is an option for leaders so blind
I am grateful for your words my dear friends, comrades in this vineyard and in this journey named Life. It’s a great honor to have you all on this avenue, with common struggles, with common feelings, with individual differences…on this avenue of learning and teaching each other with our best knowledge and best intentions. God bless you all !
Amen my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4PAZX9Bs
Kent
The other Rhiannon – Listen, enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuqnUs9gP8
Kent
Hi Saker Community, Although I’ve been a reader for a long time this is my first post. So firstly a thousand thanks to Saker and his colleagues for being a light in the darkness.
https://www.rt.com/news/401869-moscow-muslims-myanmar-solidarity/
Usually, I’m a big fan of Ramzan Kadyrov so it is a shame to see him being sucked into this US propaganda. Myanmar has a long border with China and substantial petrochemical reserves so you know what happens next…
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/weapons-of-mass-migration-forced-displacement-coercion-and-foreign-policy-kelly-m-greenhill
The Indian government has built a 3400km barrier fence along its border with Bangladesh but Myanmar has no such luxury so since the 1970s Northern Rakhine State has gone from 10% Bengali speakers to 98%. Several well equipped terrorist groups funded by Saudi Arabia have sprung up in recent years and declared this region to be an independent Islamic nation. The main role of the Burmese military is the suppression of secessionist armies so they have responded with predictable brutality.
Even the word ‘Rohingya’ is a postwar invention, derived from the Bengali name for Rakhine State. The original 10% Muslim minority in Rakhine State are descended from British Indian settlers from before WW2, and of course there has been a substantial Burmese Muslim minority (Pathi) happily settled in Myanmar since the 9th century, so it is not a religious conflict. The entire ‘Rohingya crisis’ is fabricated propaganda.
My guess is that the purpose is twofold; to bring Myanmar to heel and to find a way to extend the global ‘war on terror’ into Buddhist Asia. Since Islam and Buddhism have no historical conflict one has to be created by inciting nationalism (Ashin Wirathu is actually not much different from Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders).
The true Buddhist view of Islam is briefly discussed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in this interview with Fox News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSGWVgGfdP8
On his twitter feed Canthama announced:
“SIEGE is broken, Der ez Zor is finally linked up with the homeland”!!!
Hajduk, welcome!
But, be suspicious of claims that an ethnic group was “invented”. Israel uses that excuse.
Not to bad. Translation by rikkebandit. Lacks some depth due to some inexperince in spiritual matters I believe.
Rose
The sounds from the bell brush past me
A strange journey ends here
You were so tired when you left
There was no song of joy
Your past enemies are standing on their toes
Waiting to tear you apart one last time
Rose is watching
We’re making your bed
Your winter sleep
But Rose doesn’t say a word
She is so busy ’cause she’s free
Black priest has saved your soul
He banishes evil with holy scripts
You made a deal with the devil himself
But should I crawl for my beliefs
Should I kill all sexual urges
Kill others to grow?
Rose is watching
We’re making your bed
Your winter sleep
But Rose doesn’t say a word
She is so busy ’cause she’s free
Our evening sun sets
Another spring has run away
Remains somewhere
No pain continues forever
You went through more than enough
On your way to love
Rose is watching
We’re making your bed
Your winter sleep
But Rose doesn’t say a word
She is so busy ’cause she’s free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCM_BxYfJA
To frikkin tired to try to do a better translation, might fail.
Kent
No problem, the essence is still there in the lines.
Back in the days, when I at least was very very young.
Fleetwood Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RhZDGLEXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ
Kent
I saw Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea party before anybody heard of them when there was no cover charge. I got out of High School in 1967, the year they opened, and went there often until I was drafted in 1969. I believe I saw them again and it cost two bucks. When better known bands came in the cover charges were at most a couple or a few bucks. What memories.
John Mayall, (who is still going strong, BTW) knew how to pick his players.
I will save for later both Rory Gallagher, who I unfortunately never met, and Jack Bruce, which I did meet and took some fairly nice photos of as an accredited photographer two years before he passed away. Will post later.
The Primadonna (turned out to be) Eric Clapton I rarely post (Exception reunion concert 2005 Royal Albert Hall)
Exception 2, Sheryll Crowe, because I do love the way she sings this one “I’ll wait in this place, where the sun never shines, wait in this place, where the shadows run from themselves”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkXjLA9Y48w
Jack Bruce wrote that one.
Jack Bruce, as a guest on one of Rory’s famous “Rock-Palast’s” concerts in Germany, with close to zero rehearsal, they jammed Jack Bruce’s (Cream)” Politician”, like none, before or after had done, or could have done. Pure magic.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXk–eL5-kQ
Kent
Kent, thanks for the Bruce and Gallagher link – it just made my evening!
questions in ALL sorts of relations to anything.
Repeat, I know, from when? Where?
Anyway, “Majesty”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGx1Eo1nSY
Kent
I can read Russian but do not understand the meaning of this song.
Can a native speaking Russian explain the context and meaning please?
Разбился мир на тысячи осколков, В глазах осталась пустота… Моя душа, как будто вся в иголках. Куда же делась красота? Я разрываюсь от тоски, Я разлетаюсь на куски… Как лист осенний на ветру Играю в странную игру… Как лист осенний на ветру Себя из памяти сотру… Вокруг меня плывут потоком, И ударяют, словно током Обрывки непонятных мыслей О ком-то очень одиноком… Я разрываюсь от тоски, Я разлетаюсь на куски… Как лист осенний на ветру Играю в странную игру… Как лист осенний на ветру Себя из памяти сотру!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkLZcUDQbI
No native here, but found the lyrics. Beautiful song, maybe not require explanation . . .
The world has broken up into a thousand pieces
Only emptiness was left in the eye
my soul feels as if it were pricked by needles
Where did the beauty disappear
I am torn by melancholy
I am shattered to pieces
Like an autumn leaf in the wind
I am playing a strange game
I’ll erase myself from the memory
scraps of incomprehensible thoughts
About someone who is very lonely
Are flowing around me in a stream
Striking me as if by electric discharge
(Repeat)
The world has broken up into a thousand pieces
Only emptiness was left in the eye
my soul feels as if it were pricked by needles
Where did the beauty disappear
I am torn by melacholy
I am shattered to pieces
Like an autumn leaf in the wind
For instance, would this song be describing the Bolshevik Revolution which consolidated power in the Autumn of 1917? Is there a covert message here? Why is memory wanting to be erased? What is the strange game?
My God, this guy’s voice is a pearl and the song is really really beautiful. Thanks Philippa for translation but as you say, it needs no explanation – the song speaks for itself.
Housekeeping is so easy to put off. I look forward to it as much as I do dropping an anvil on my foot.
I mean, I really enjoyed the Russian movie Paul recommended,
https://youtu.be/88b1hJVZonM THE HOUSEKEEPER
This very well done comedy is very relevant to the current world situation, if you use your imagination, not just to resolving battles between rival industrialists in Russia and seemingly impossibly disfunctional family dynamics, where money is screwing everything up more than solving anything. (Wall St, London, neocons, central bankers….those who will soon be jumping out of windows as their “reality” tanks….)
It applies beautifully and upliftingly to the Larger Family of Man, in a much more optimistic way (wouldn’t you say, teranam 13??) than The Brothers Karamazov, Father and Sons or other great (typically darkly pessimistic….er, I mean deeply spiritual….) Russian literary art
Yet, because of the HOUSEKEEPER title, there was a day long built in resistance there to cleaning up my act, or even someone else’s. If I feel that old teenage housekeeping obligation coming, By habit, I have usually tended to try my best to shirk it, until I can no longer stand the mess.
As a teenager I cultivated total incompetence as a ploy to be insultingly(and gratefully, on my part) dismissed from vacuuming and sweeping duties by my two older sisters and mother.
When no such ploys worked I would attack the task angrily, trying to dispatch it in record time.
This, I feel may be the source of many wars.
For example, rather than get to my analysis of the Russian film I enjoyed so much this morning, I spent all day dreaming about shooting things, just because of my Pavlovian reaction to the title!
Also, the more manly appeal of Kent’s Nordic Target Range had me in it’s grip. Not that I wanted to shoot Dennis Leary or force him to man a heavy machine gun for 5 hours straight (Isn’t that what Kent wished he could recruit Dennis into???). Oh, no. I’m not that homocidal or maniacal! I don’t live in a place where the sun is a rarely sighted heavenly body, six months out of the year. Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed (in a dark way) plumbing the depths of despair for years on end. Just not decades on end.
But what’s annoying is not only non-straight shooters with all kinds of inverted daft logic, but also dodgy targets. Today I coined a new term for them both: “Lepretards”.
Now one of those is my Cafe Soul Brother DL but the other is Anonymous. Actually, ANY Anonymous is an Honorary Lepretard.
“Tard” you know the etymology of. Why “Lepre”???
Ireland, obviously! They are both from Ireland!
Now many, many fine Irish lads and lassies are not Lepretards, not late to the party at all. OM for example.
I’m not Irish but my first name is. But that doesn’t make me a Lepretard. Also, you can be an Honorary Lepretard by exhibiting the mental habits of a Lepretard, and living not too far away from Ireland or Ojai. For example, being across the Irish Channel and declaring here that Teresa May is “A really Good Girl”. No she isn’t, Because she has the same accent as you?? That’s just plain Lepretardish!
Anyway, the Day Long Fantasy was more along the lines of lining up their daftest arguments like so many glass bottles on top of a rock wall, and taking aim, slowly deliberately, with no wasted lead, and shattering them, one by one. Not with an AK-47. Just a little ole .22 calbre rifle.
Because Pb, on the atomic chart of the elements IS becoming more precious as law and order become more dubious!
I figured I might get Kent and a few other gun owners and NRA members together for the aim-sharpening mind-sharpening sport of it all.
Lead is “Plomo” en espanol and that’s where we get “plumber” from. Then they discovered lead pipes were poisonous.But we still use it for a plumb line to make sure posts, columns, framing, etc are 100% vertical. And then there’s “plumb crazy”. Hmmm. Makes sense!
Then, the idea of Kent and Israel Shamir and Putin and other straight shooters came to mind. Capable, but not eager to show off.
Who do we have in the Wild Wild West?
The Lone Ranger! And a bunch of other show-offs……
https://youtu.be/p9lf76xOA5k
Try attaining any shooting accuracy while riding horseback at full speed! Wait a minute: “HiHo Silver, away!” And silver bullets?? Something screwy going on here! I smell Hollywood occultists at work. No wonder we’re disposed to shoot up the Korean Peninsula as a shortcut to wasting any time thinking through what diplomacy coud do! That’s how far back our brainwashing goes, if you’re of retirement age.
It’s like cutting the Gordian Knot for dimwitted Americans:
https://pics.me.me/i-have-the-one-thing-that-can-stop-a-vampire-18033435.png
Furthermore, I soon discovered that The Lone Ranger is just a Deep State/Hollywood cover for genocide and larceny, if you get my drift, Kemosabe:
The above opening and closing Lone Ranger theme was STOLEN from Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell Overture!
https://youtu.be/YIbYCOiETx0
And, obviously, there is no more paradigmatic “straight shooter” than WILLIAM TELL, the Swiss Archer that redeems the honor and freedom of his people by splitting an apple placed on top of his son’s head, with a First Arrow, prior to dispatching the Imperial Villain with a Second Arrow, later in the play by Friedrich Schiller:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/18/them-apples/
So, this is the foundation for my Modest Proposal for A Cafe Shooting Range.
Greater Mental As Well as Firearms Aim is a goal of world strategic importance, IMHO.
I’ll be lining up the first bottles, on the rock wall outer perimeter of the Vineyard shortly. Kent gave me the idea. Thank or blame him, not me.
Not that it matters, but a US Army vet from WW2 who joined as officer in 1935 or so told me that the USC (cavalry) required him to qualify with a 1911 .45 automatic, firing two clips at a full gallop in a “figure 8”. You had to change clip mid way…so full gallop with both hands on the pistol…and don’t drop the bits…
He said this was pretty hard to do. They counted the hits…and they had to hit…or it was adios….
He went to Berlin. “His war” in the West was, I gathered, rather a adventure, and rather fun. Of course he’s long gone. But I appreciate the things he said.
I have some doubts about a firing range, Friend. But time will reveal…
I propose that it doesn’t matter at all.
Pax
Psychological Detective. Russian Movie. English Subtitles
The content of this movie is most devious, with a murder along the way, then onward toward an amazing premeditated result.
Worth watching for any young lady, lacking morals and totally fearless, who insists on becoming a ‘high flyer’ in life.
Alien Souls. Psychological Detective. Russian Movie. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfMlsp_wYA
http://www.bolivianembassy.co.uk/images/Libros/libro_del_mar1_1.pdf
160 pages that is in English and Spanish (I assume)
El Libro Del Mar
The Book of the Sea
It’s journalism and history and good stuff!
Thanks to Bolivian Embassy!
Later…
LZ
Hi there!
Could anyone shed any light on the recent violence in Myanmar?
Thanks!
Sorry, folks! I don’t know why when I tried to search for “Myanmar” in the cafe I failed to find the word. I just saw that some posts were about the Rohingya crisis. I’ll start with them. I appreciate more info of course.
Oh, by the way, Dennis and Love Leary Fan Club have nothing to fear but trepidation itself!
He and they may even enjoy this (Cafe Shooting Range Proposal) even more than the Goddess Exploration Cafe Days of Yore!
(Eye roll, eye roll. Or, if instead….your spirits lift and soar at the mere idea or memory…its somewhere in the Feast archives..@ 2 years ago..and was more polarizing than a 6 months series of Trump Tweets. AND: Almost none of it worked out according to anyone’s plan, least of all my own!
That one took an incredible turn right out of the gate, into Mongolia, if you recall
In fact, I intend to venture into deep waters Our Dearie Leary is extremely comfortable in!
He may lovingly drown me there, like Mayweather “schooling” Macgregor in the “sweet science”.
Those waters would be religion, a topic I am most handicapped in, having been born in the Arabian Peninsula where all religions but one (and even their symbols…like the Cross and the Star of David) are strictly banned. No shortage of fear, there!
And since it is widely admitted by many diverse Cafe Visitors and Regulars that Dennis has rare talents (even if they drive us half nuts at times……) the further peak preview I can reveal at this time is that the Deep religious Waters theme of choice is……..drum roll…..The Parable of the Talents!.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A14-30&version=ESV
Everyone has some talents!
Not just Dennis. Who is well endowed in some very unique talents that both baffle and inspire the entire spectrum of human emotions, from Love to…….ummmm “Anti-Love”??? Exasperation??? Boredom??? Rage??? Admiration??? Tenderness??? Disgust??? Revulsion???…veering off into the Clover of the Lover and the Fool….I’ve experienced all of these, as have many others, and One Minion might be right….. there in Ojai is another Blarney Stone, unlikely to change any time soon, no matter how much it is kissed…..or kicked….or shot at!
I don’t want to talk about mine. Unlike him. Embarrasses me. Takes the hard edge off my style.
I much prefer discussing other people’s talents. NO, not OPM (talents…..in biblical times were currency, coins…..crypto or otherwise….). Clearly the name of that ancient coinage is ALSO metaphor for other spiritual and intellectual “currency”.
Saker has talents, for example.
VT, L445, Uncle Bob on Sabbatical, etc,etc.
Elsi!
Evo Morales!
Bolivia named after Simon Bolivar is developing its talents!!
Chile I guess, decided to take away their shallow and deep waters and starve them for oxygen (drown them) at very high altitude. They think outside of the box, those Chileans! Sure boxed in Bolivia…… I want to read that book!
Putin’s talents, especially, are widely admired here. He’s certainly at the top of my list! Also the neocons and vampires of Empire (who have their own “reversed talents” and fear his interFEARence with their evil enslavement of Humanity….LOL.
Mundomaniac has unique Bavarian, Jungian, talent(s) for grasping the correspondence between the Heavens Above and Earth Below.
Kent has visual-artistic talents…and also ritual-ballistic ones.
Ioan…Most Prolific of The Deadly Poets Against Empire has precious poetic talent.
Amyrinth……who else has Crypto Talent?
The Peri had talent to recognize the preciousness of the tear shed by the aging Crusader Knight, soul stained by sin, but with enough Human Currency remaining to shed one last tear, looking back at his life of mostly wasted talents, seeing himself in a flashback of 50+ years, in the kneeling, innocent, praying boy in Balbek.
All of you, (us) have some sort of talent.
Increasing our individual and collective talents, rather than burying them, through fear, is apt to be of incalculable worth in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. IMHO.
And if I have some glass bottles (I am sure I do!) that should be lined up on the wall and blasted to smithereens, so be it!
May the shooting of glass be a joyful (if momentarily “pangful” Labor Of Love, this Labor Day.
And every day!
“And where it goes, nobody knows!”
I sure do love this cafe “on the rising curve, where the ways of nature will test every nerve, where you won’t get anything you don’t deserve, where we were born in time.” Dylan.
Peace to all on this Labor Day in the US of A. Some labor to get; I work to forget.
My son, Francis, has moved into my motor home, while I live in the outback thirty feet away. Yesterday we loaded up his Tundra Truck with Apolonia’s plants and baby trees, which I’ve been caring for, since she moved up north to the California Valley Carizzo Plain National Monument. Our Labor Day fun is to return them to their mother.
Before I go from this valley below, I want to do some “housekeeping.”
LZ99, I don’t know of any Bob Heinlein house here. From searching I see he did live in the Ojai Valley 70 years ago. If I get the opportunity, I’ll ask some of the local historians here.
In enjoyed the tete a tete repartee between Jar Gone and Kinterra’s poem on demand. This cafe is indeed a “information karmic clearing house.” Before coming here, I hung out at Information Clearing House, which the vineyard has now become for me + the karma clearing.
JJ, I read some of Edmond Bordeaux Szekeley, and sensed another clearing house in the desert among the submarines.
Anon, thanks for the clarification regarding Sgt. Schultz and Col. Klink. Not a laughing matter, but I did anyway.
Thanks to Brother Bro for the link to the Lone Ranger. I was raised on him. Fits my persona, and is well suited for this cafe’s mission to save the world. I can hear those mission bells ringing, and angels singing.
Love, Dennis, Ojai and the Carizzo Plain, 7 am pacific time
Many thanks, amigo..
Old Bob H may be considered a sort of crypto-fascist from some points, and a patriot on the high order in others, and a solid engineering type in materials and maths, and his widow published a volume of his letters…in which he discusses the construction that he supervised…and I got the idea that the house is: A) poured fero-cement (bulletproof) and (B) probably has features that would surprise. It might be interesting to see what he built… I suppose a fella could just knock on the door…if he knew precisely where it was.
But, alas, I am not going to go that far to knock on a stranger’s door…
But Thanks.
Above there was a bit about der dichter…and it brings to mind the propaganda movie “Das Leben der Anderen”, wherein a character reminds a corrupt nominally communist bonzen of the quotation many attribute to the then discredited Stalin, to wit: “The poet is the engineer of the human soul”.
This is in some dispute, and some attribute it to Trotsky.
I wonder if that’s true, not the attribution, it does seem to matter, but the statement itself…
I think about the claim every day. Does writing matter? I wonder…
But, again, thanks old man.
Pax
LZ
“The poet is the engineer of the human soul”
and in the 20th century the poets were interchanged with mainly jewish soul-engineers …
Now back to the poets, the only legitime ‘engineers’ of soul: this is what Novalis the great romantic genius said:
„Poesie ist die große Kunst der Konstruktion der transzendentalen Gesundheit. Der Poet ist der transzendentale Arzt. Die Poesie schaltet und waltet mit Schmerz und Kitzel – mit Lust und Unlust – Irrtum und Wahrheit – Gesundheit und Krankheit –Sie mischt alles zu ihrem großen Zwecke – der Erhebung des Menschen über sich selbst.“
Novalis
“Poesy is the great art of construction of the transcendental health. The Poet is the transcendental physician. Poetry toggles and prevails with pain and trill – with passion and aversion – error and truth – health and desease – mixing all for her great aim – the errection of man above himself”
Well, maybe, I myself fancy poets and writers from the canon of western literature circa 1940, few of which were, Jewish. 1940’s were in the 20th century…
And the conflation of Jewish with Zionism makes no sense to me…as there is, according to the Canon of Talmudic Law and contemporary Ethics, according to the Sages of Talmudic Commentary, a complete rejection of Zionism. Indeed it is anti-Jewish.
This is to say that the nominally Jewish State, according to UN Law, is in fact a nazi operation. A destabilizing instrument planted in willful and malign design to juxtapose the Arabs and divide to rule…as we see, but the operation got hold of some horses…it’s all corrupt, but the driving force primary is 4 th Reich, eg Royals and super oligarchs, as it’s white Racism, they are Aryannazis…the royal reptiles too. And it is not logically related to The Law except in violation. The principals in this operation, I admit, are probably not cognoscente of this, they probably can’t see it.. Well, the gods blind us, eh?
This, that zionism is a forbidden by law concept, has long been the solid conservative view within the Tribe. It has been a minority opinion. Not everyone obeys God…or common sense, and there’s money to be made, seductions, rocks in the path of the blind… But if people knew more they’d see that the people are being used as are all the other peoples….used and duped…
I got interested and studied…
And I am not, fyi, Jewish…
What I suspect is that the Nazi fouthreich and the royals are using the Jews and Zionism as a straw man…not that there are not “jewish” nazis….many…
for “Erhebung” I would have translated not errection (sic) but instead I would have written “elevation”, but in all other respects that’s a very good translation.
There seems to be a muddle between the Stalin/Trotsky version and the vastly better quotation, Friend, that you have mooted.
Of course S&T were in those days somewhat occupied with urgent matters…and, perhaps, may be forgiven for their brevity
Very Nice!
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/novalis/#LifWor Novalis was under, we may imagine, less urgent pressures.
Pax
LZ99
Here’s something you might like to listen to on your travels, Dennis, from a old film, the tune is called ‘the Gael’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSBYJcG8pg
And the same chaps on their day-job, one of the few good things to come out of Basra recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zFReeDI6WY
The old battle flag shown at the beginning is from Waterloo, when they were known as the Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment.
Many years ago I got interested in the Korean War…or course that war created the ongoing bases for the occupation of Japan and the looming pretense of Uncle Sugar in the westpacific…and the war never ended…so I read the armistic agreement.
Nobody has, it seems to me, obeyed the agreement in several important areas…
First, I believe the agreement prohibits modernization of weapons or introduction of new modern weapons…you read it and you tell me….
Think about that…
MiG 15’s, Sabre Jets (F86) and B-29’s, M1 rifles…
NK seems to have obeyed better than some others…
Anyway, read it fer yerself…
http://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KP%2BKR_530727_AgreementConcerningMilitaryArmistice.pdf
Federal Taxpayers Do Not Fund the Federal Government; The Federal Government Funds Federal Taxpayers
Posted on September 4, 2017 by Ellis Winningham
http://elliswinningham.net/index.php/2017/09/04/federal-taxpayers-not-fund-federal-government-federal-government-funds-federal-taxpayers/
Well that title is blunt, isn’t it? I like blunt. That’s why I chose it. As I always say, blunt cuts through bullshit. It’s my bet that it is sure to cause irritation for those persons who play immature games of semantics with the word ’fund’. Good.
Look, we all know what people mean when they say, ‘Federal taxes don’t fund federal spending’; they mean, ‘The federal government does not require an income, and so, it does not spend the proceeds from federal tax collections’. Some people simply wish to confuse others by playing a game of semantics over the word ‘fund’.
A couple of days ago, I made it clear that this long running game of semantics over the word ‘fund’ won’t debunk the operational realities of federal spending and taxation as outlined by MMT. Last night, I discussed the issue again in some detail. Once more, I’ll explain it because it seems that some people who are genuinely interested in understanding are having trouble digesting it. We have those who’ve been deliberately playing this petulant, idiotic game of semantics to thank for that. Well done. You’ve confused others and sown doubt in the hopes of thwarting the work of those who describe concepts in simple terms so that the general public could understand them.
Put simply, people who play this game have their own agenda to push. Some of these persons are completely unqualified with only an interest in economics, and they simply want to promote themselves, their blog, their livestream, their own contrived view of the macroeconomy, or perhaps a new, fantastic money-making ‘system’ that they wish to sell.
Anyway.
Back to the point at hand. I’ll explain the main purpose federal taxation once again and hopefully clear up the confusion that these persons have deliberately caused to advance their own interests.
The federal government was instituted by the people of the nation to sit in authority over the nation. Now, when we think of the federal government, we tend to think of the politicians we elect. Forget them. I am not discussing politicians. Politicians come and go – unfortunately, most don’t go fast enough – but the federal government remains.
When we speak of the federal government, we are speaking of the public institution itself, and like any other institution or entity, the federal government requires goods and services to operate as government. Again, national governments sit in authority over the entire nation, and therefore, they must endure. Since we know that the federal government requires paper, pens, computers, chairs, carpet, bullets, aircraft, tanks, buildings, etc., to operate as government, then the question becomes,
“What is the most efficient and certain way that the federal government can acquire all of the goods and services that it needs to act as government now, and in the future, without fear of one day being unable to do so, and without the possibility of an entity that is subject to its authority, or a foreign one, obstructing its ability provision itself, thus usurping its authority?”
There are two ways: The uncivilised approach and the civilised approach.
The uncivilised approach is to take what the federal government needs to operate as government by force. In other words, to waltz into the private sector and force people at gunpoint to hand over their property, and also, to round up citizens, hauling them off against their will to perform work in service to the federal government.
The civilised answer, put simply, is to operate a monetary economy, creating a market of buyers and sellers, and then issue its own currency to buy what it needs. The federal government operates on the civilised approach.
Now then, in the uncivilised method, the mechanism used to guarantee that the federal government can obtain the goods and services necessary to function as government is obvious – brutal force. But, with the civilised method, we are left in a bit of a quandry. As Minsky said, anyone can create a monetary instrument. The trick is getting it accepted. So, how then can the federal government ensure that every citizen and business will accept the federal government’s currency as payment for the goods and services that it needs to function as government?
It will need some kind of mechanism to compel the nation into accepting its own currency because begging won’t do. After all, the federal government is the supreme authority and issuing its own currency to buy what it needs means that 1.) it can operate a nation in a civilised manner, and 2.) it can never run out of its own currency, guaranteeing that it can always obtain what it needs to function as government without any possibility of some entity that is subject to its authority, or even another nation, holding it hostage. The federal government is ready, willing, and able to spend dollars into existence to do this and it has an infinite spending capacity, so, what to do? Some measure of force will be required, obviously. But that force must be conditional to be in keeping with a more civilised approach: “If you don’t do this, then I will be forced to become a tad bit uncivilised.” As the supreme authority, it certainly has the power to confiscate property and to imprison citizens. Man, this is a tough question. What to do? Wait! I’ve got it!
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…”
Eureka! The federal government will impose a tax burden and let everyone know that if they do not pay the tax, then it will be forced to become rather uncivilised by seizing their property, or imprisoning them. And nobody wants that, right? Right. So, when the people ask the federal government:
“Say man, what will you accept as payment for this tax? Because I don’t wish to lose my property or wind up in the penitentiary.”, the federal government tells them:
“Simple. All you people have to do is to sell me your goods and services to get my dollars. And since I am the currency issuer, I get to decide the price that I will pay in dollars for those things that I need, I will spend US dollars into existence to pay for them, and you will have the dollars you need to pay the tax that I am imposing. Whatever is left over after you pay the tax, you can use for whatever you wish. You can then buy and sell with my dollars. Don’t worry: everyone else will accept dollars as payment because they need the dollars to pay my tax. Look, don’t freak out, ok? All that I really want to do here is to create a market of buyers and sellers of goods and services which operates on my currency called the US dollar. Imposing a federal tax is the civilised way to achieve this.”
So, some people begin selling their goods to the federal government to obtain the dollars necessary to lift the tax burden. The government then decides how much it is willing to pay for those goods in its own currency, and then spends the dollars into existence to buy them. Some people sell their labour to the federal government, the federal government decides the wage it is willing to pay these workers in its own currency, and then spends the dollars into existence to pay the wages of these workers. Now people have possession of dollars and they use some of them to pay the tax. They either save or spend the what they have left over. Businesses hire workers, and so, they pay wages in dollars and then private sector workers can also pay the tax in case the federal government places a tax burden on them too. Before you know it, an entire market and nation is operating based upon the federal government’s US dollar. The US dollar becomes the most widely-accepted monetary instrument in the United States and the federal government has a guaranteed method to supply itself with the goods and services that it needs to operate as government, now and in the future, without fear of ever financially being unable to do so. In other words:
The federal government can buy anything that is for sale priced in US dollars without fear of going broke. And all of this is possible because the federal government imposes a burden called ‘federal taxation’ on the nation which carries a severe, certain punishment if you fail to comply, and so, a wide-spread desire to avoid the punishment drives the demand for the federal government’s own currency: The US dollar. Hence, as MMT says, the US dollar is a tax credit.
Another way of looking at it which might help some of you to understand, is to view the US dollar as you would a movie ticket. A cinema produces movie tickets, and factually, it can produce an infinite number of tickets if it chooses to regardless of the number of seats available. Now, from your perspective the cinema produces tickets so that you can watch a film. And it does. But it also produces tickets so that it can accept them back. That might sound bizarre, but as bizarre as it sounds, it is still true.
The cinema issues a ticket and promises you that it will accept the ticket back if you have one, thus allowing you to watch the film. If you have no ticket, you don’t get to watch the show. When you hand the ticket to the cinema, the cinema destroys the ticket. Don’t deny it, you’ve seen them do it. They just throw your ticket away. The ticket isn’t the point; the movie is. Federal taxation and the US dollar function the same way. The federal government first issues US dollars, spending them into existence to buy stuff, and then promises all persons who become a target of federal taxation that it will accept the dollars back, allowing them to avoid the confiscation of their property or imprisonment. The federal government then destroys the dollars collected, because the point isn’t the dollars themselves. The point from your view is to avoid punishment, and from the federal government’s view, the point is to cause you to use dollars. Those who do not have any dollars when the federal tax man cometh are sort of screwed.
Anyone who has experienced the unrelenting pressure of the IRS coming down on them and what the IRS can eventually do to them, should be able to understand this simple premise. The only way to get the IRS off of your back is to obtain the dollars necessary to pay the tax. The IRS simply will not give up. US dollars are the only way to make the IRS leave you alone. This is the reason why everyone in the US demands US dollars and it is why you use them to buy everything that you need and want. Even if you personally have no federal tax to pay, somebody else does and they need the dollars you have because they really do not wish to deal with the IRS. Therefore, they will accept the dollars you have for food, clothes, cars, TV, toothpaste and anything else that you can think of.
So, to sum up, federal taxation is the clever mechanism that allows the government to cause everyone to accept the federal government’s own currency so that it can spend that currency into existence to buy stuff that it needs. The order of operations is very simple:
1.) The federal government places a burden on people by declaring that these people must pay federal tax. In other words, the federal government targets some people and businesses for harassment simply because it has the constitutional authority to do so. At this point, no federal taxes are yet paid. There exists only a demand from the federal government for compliance.
2.) These people and businesses who are targeted for harassment by the federal government have no way to avoid the harassment other than to give the federal government what it demands (US dollars) to make the harassment stop.
3.) Federal spending now begins and it does so prior to the federal government receiving tax payments from citizens. The federal government spends dollars into existence to buy goods and services that it needs to function as government. The people and businesses who are targeted for harassment can now give some of those dollars back to the federal government because the federal government promises to accept them back in exchange for letting these people and businesses off the hook.
4.) The people and businesses return some US dollars to the federal government to settle the federal tax burden, and, as promised, the federal government lets them off the hook. The federal government destroys the dollars collected. The dollars left over in the economy are then saved or spent on goods and services.
5.) The process repeats itself each and every fiscal year.
The main purpose, then, of federal taxation is all about creating and maintaining a demand for US dollars, and as long as the federal government can enforce tax collections, people in the US will demand US dollars.
What you hopefully understand now is that federal spending comes before federal tax collections. True, the federal government’s act of declaring that some people and businesses owe tax might come first, but federal spending must come before the federal government can collect because people need the dollars to pay the tax. Declaring a federal tax is not the same thing as collecting from those who owe it. Owing federal tax and paying federal tax are two separate things. First you must owe federal taxes, then afterwards, you must pay what you owe. The owing of federal tax is the burden; paying the federal tax is the lifting of the burden. So, please be aware that when it comes to federal taxes, people who play these childish games of semantics concerning the word ‘fund’ deliberately do so for their own interests, not yours and certainly not for the interests of the nation. They want you to believe that MMT is wrong, or that they are the ‘real MMTers’ and that MMT has been corrupted by fake ‘MMTers’, that there are real operational constraints to federal spending, and that federal taxes do fund federal spending. Total nonsense, the lot of it, because as we can clearly understand now:
Federal taxpayers do not fund the federal government; the federal government funds federal taxpayers.
This entry was posted in Federal Spending, MMT, US Economy.
@ Beto I understand that the MMT people are basing various arguments on the concept of sovereign issuance of currency. What I don’t understand is the apparent assumption that the US government is already a sovereign issurer either through the congress or Treasury. If this assumed then the arguments that the MMT people make would seem to make sense.
My understanding was that the money supply is regulated by the privately-held independent Federal Reserve System, which is not a government institution. Similarly, money creation largely takes place in private commercial banks. So it seems to me that the US government does not provide these functions. Can you explain the MMT position on this point?
Thanks for that, Beto, clear, simple and helpful.
Got to get in the mood for the Bolivia Book.
The proper songs will come later. This one is close enough (neighboring Peru) for starters:
El Condor Pasa Placido Domingo
https://youtu.be/YSY3zPluWCk
my rough translation:
The Condor of the Andes arose
With the light of a clarion dawn.
It slowly deployed its wings
And drifted down to the blue river
To have a drink of melted snow.
Then his wings covered the earth
Of greenery, Love and Peace
Below Him the boughs bloomed
And the sun sprouted in fields of wheat,
The golden fields of wheat.
The Condor of the Andes descended
On the arrival of a clarion dawn.
The Sky sobbed on seeing his flight
Transformed its grey tears
When He left, when He flew away.
Below Him the Earth was covered
In the green of Love and Peace
Below Him the boughs bloomed
And the sun sprouted in fields of wheat,
The golden fields of wheat.
That;s pretty! Thanks.
LZ
Oh yeah, it is just a drill and I have a big bridge for sale cheap.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-army-hold-drill-simulating-war-hezbollah-202545766.html
warning: No jeremiad, no screed but venting nonetheless
re: Maria V. Zakharovna. When she first took over her press secretary job I doubted she could be tough enough when she teared up at the thought of war during a heart to heart interview. But she really has shown her mettle especially during this assault on the trade delegation in Washington DC and consulate in San Francisco when she had to address the Russian response to the world.
Basically what the parallel, deep state engineered was tantamount to an act of war and, furthermore, the manner in which they carried it out was to add insult to injury. The ” Russia did it ” narrative is moribund in the USA—no one with a functioning brain cell believes one bit of it. The consulate expulsion and search was malicious , mean and rather much the action of a frustrated losers. There is no honor on this ship of fools.
re: socrates:
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/socrates106112.html?src=t_honor
She was tough and yet for one moment, just one moment, an almost haunted look crossed her face as if the full implications of what the US intended was deeply understood.
Jeez.
I see that look on many faces as the mask relaxes for a moment…”what the US intends… Is it will full intent, or structural, or (probably) some mix…I wonder…
But the look. The look flashes, a reflection from the future back to the preset…
In the game of life Every hand is a winning hand but :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=76&v=kn481KcjvMo
In my younger years, I was a great fan of Kenny Rogers and this particular song was on the first ones on my list. Back then, I never thought on the meaning which today it has. Thanks for bringing me back to those memories. The world is approaching to it’s own fate.
A Lesson for the US: Cuba’s Response to Hurricanes
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-lesson-for-the-us-cubas-response-to-hurricanes/5607334
“As one-time hurricane, now tropical storm, Harvey continues to wreak havoc in Houston and other areas of Texas and Louisiana, and on the eve of the 12-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, teleSUR spoke with Gail Reed. She is executive editor of the Medicc Review, a peer-review journal about health and medicine in Latin American, Caribbean, and other developing countries, and a journalist who has spent more than three decades in Cuba. We wanted her insight into Cuba’s local preparation and prevention plans, compared to U.S. disaster relief efforts, and how these distinct measures save lives as well as property during severe storms.
Our conversation began with Reed expressing solidarity with the people of Texas and Louisiana, as well as first responders, stressing that their predicament faced with the catastrophic flooding occasioned by tropical storm Harvey is “unforgivable.”
The journalist also pointed out that Cuba no longer talks about evacuation, but rather focuses on “protection,” which includes reinforcing “a local school” capable of accommodating local communities and pets.
She said that, unlike the people of Texas and Louisiana affected by tropical storm Harvey, all of whom must apply for federal aid, Cubans, despite the country’s vastly inferior economic resources, do not feel as though they will be abandoned “no matter what,” nor subjected to market-driven price gouging of vital supplies as witnessed in Texas today.”
Essentially a fundamentally different approach from the right wing american corruption, where if one isn’t a white mansion owner, a person is mostly on their own. A difference the real left makes, unlike the zionazi corrupted pseudo left quislings one sees in capitalist countries under zionazi/nazi control. The pindo sick joke being the poster boi of this depravity.
It’s inspiring to know that there are still a few True Sentries of The Left…… left….. in a few places, manning the ramparts of justice, even while the Peasant Left has become shock troops for the Lucerferian billionaires and trillionaires, en mesmerized masse!
That’s enough to even discourage Joe Hill and Paul Robeson, Joseph’s son Jesus, and St Paul!
https://www.vagalume.com.br/paul-robeson/joe-hill.html
Never say “Die”.
You are the best, and I say that NOT in jest!
What happened to the rest?
Well they were always fake, and poorer in talent.
Beneath their outermost layer of epidermis, all they cared about was themselves. And pretending otherwise, hoping they would get a few crumbs by posturing as resentful downtrodden victims of the same oligarchy that now holds them in its thrall, like so many piglets destined to be future bacon and pork chops for their globalist farmers.
Trump is a kind of joke, but he does have talentsthat created openings for others to use their talents. But they are mostly lacking in that department, depending on luck (others) to deliver them to safety…… or not.
Instead of developing their own talents, ample or meager (more likely) they either stew in resentment, like the Lepre-tard I treat rather roughly, (but agapically…..I insist….lol), here
or, more curiously, like the far, far more loveable little fellow Lepre-tard from the Emerald Isle (O’Leary) that has exhibited far, far more talents (than the little Anti-Putin stinker posting the same old fartacious chart about income disparity in Russia for the 25th time or so, as his sole talent on display….so far being that specific sort of frustrated impotent flatulence that is annoying in small doses, but downright deadly in more serious quantities……) you have someone that surely is not a rightist, nor “conservative”, yet neverthess is depending on Trump (“trusting” that he will magically outsmart all his controllers single-handedly….because in some strange sort of way he is like Dennis…and we know Dennis is GOOD, right? Full of Love….Right???) evenwhile stupidly rejecting (as Dennis would, if he were inan executive position where he could!) the helping win-win-win hand offered by Xi….or Vlad or any of us, for that matter, other than just identifying with him like our Dallas Cowboys…er Green Bay Packers…..) and sitting back and watching, as in “Grab your popcorn!” and donning your MAGA hat.
And on what basis?
mostly on the basis of “the Luck of the Irish” or some other sort of cockamamie New Age mystical bond with The Donald expressed by Dennis a cafe or two ago.
Right! We’ll put our money on that horse! You betcha!
I’m a glass half full kind of guy.
Confounding them, bankrupting them, killing them in stupid wars, in short driving their consciousness deep into the Manhattan mud below One World Trade Center, and having them bow to that Phallus, is all too easy. Been there, done that! Not me, but plenty of oligarchs over the ages have.
How ’bout developing whatever talent there is, in oneself and whatever Lepretards, Libtards, Ukietards, Zio-tards, takfiri-tards, antifa-tards, etc???
Now there’s a REAL challenge!
Yeah, some Houston shopowners that couldn’t get re-supplied (and suffered losses themselves) raised their prices. Glass half empty.
Others behaved better than any time in their lives, previously. Glass 90% full!!
A little true vignette about unknown talent, like that:
At age 23, instinctively avoiding further association with any of my Ivy League fellow alums I found myself on an old 120 ft wooden vessel in northern Puget Sound, north of Anacortes. This was before I got serious and headed to “Dutch”. All I had in 1973 was youth, size, athletic conditioning and a diploma that I did not talk about among the salt of the earth. I had no fisherman skills. Other than the simple mooring hitch, no knots in my repertoire!
Anyway, at a certain time of year along a mile or two of protected coastline near Blaine, Washington, just south of British Columbia, a billion or two herring spawn. Purse seiners capture a good chunk of them for their roe, which is sold to the Japanese. Cannery workers squeeze the iced herring bellies, pop the roe sack out, and flush the rest of the fish into the trash. Or so I heard. Seems like they could at least freeze it and box it into 50 pound frozen bait for the Alaskan crabbers. Maybe they do now. I haven’t been in either place for 40 years now. so I don’t know the fate of all that protein.
A couple of days earlier, I had unhitched the mooring lines at 2 or 3 am as the “captain” (you’ll see why I use quotes, shortly) fired up the old Washington Deisel….which promptly died.
We had been tied up to the dock just north of the Edgewater Inn, which the Beatles stayed at on their first visit to Seattle, in the sixties. Soon enough, the north wind blew our disabled vessel south, and we bumped into the dock on which the Edgewater Inn is built. Meanwhile, the “captain” had run below, to help the “engineer” restart the old Washington (made locally, in Washington).
It was very high tide. Finally, scarpping the pilings they fired up the diesel and the “captain” was back in the pilot house, with the old Washington in reverse. The wind kept us pressed against the dock as we pulled backwards, and there was nothing to push off against until we back out slowly agains the 3-4 story Edgewater itself. Only THEN could I push against the window frames of the Hotel rooms. Mosat of the curtains were drawn and I saw several rooms of sleeping guests, my eyes right up close to their windows. A few years earlier, and I might have seen McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, or Ringo, I recall thinking………Anyway:Not an auspicious start to our voyage north in Puget Sound, to the herring spawning grounds.
I digress (for Beatles fans) but the afternoon before, we had swelled with pride when a drfiter came to the dock where we were moored, jumped on board, and announced, “I’m a cook!”
We had a cook! We were the sorriest piss pot in the entire Inland body of salt water, but we had a cook!
Pretty soon I took an intense disliking for this “cook” as he became the Nasty Dictator of the Galley (nautical for “kitchen”…non-native English speakers….) worse than the Hell’s Kitchen star of the show, within 20 minutes of entrenching himself.
The others were highly amused by our mutual enmity and found it splendid entertainment. At first.
Anyway in the first day or two we packed a few tons of herring on ice in the huge hold, and the “cook” and I mostly glared at each other while the others enjoyed the show…..until the obviously drug damaged individual’s novelty and entertainment value also wore thin with them.
Then the Fish and Game decided to let a day or two go by where hundreds of millions of herring were allowed to be unmolested in their Communal Sex, before allowing about 100 purse seiners to swoop in and net big schools of them, deisel skiffs pulling the nets stacked high onto the sterns of the seiners quickly off, into net circles bouyed by floats a the top and weighted down a 100 ft or so deep by lead sinkers at the bottom of the net areas encircled, about 1/3 of a football field each.
Then steel cables through the bottom rings were winched tight, with tons of spawn-ready herring full of roe and sperm inside the “pursed” net. If the captain knew what he was doing, that is, with half a dozen other boats jockeying for position and “setting” net in competition for the same schools of herring and many more doing the same, a little further off.
We had to wait it out anchored up a long, long swim offshore. Just watching for activity to resume, as we had no electronics, radio, radar, etc.
The wind had shifted and came out of the south our stern pointed into Canadian waters, a short distance away. Sunny and Windy. Summertime, but Puget Sound waters are deep and never get warmers than the mid 50’s Fahrenheit, I was told. About 11.66 Celsius.
My stateroom window faced aft, and I laid down my book, and chanced to look out of that window, when, lo and behold, what did I see but “cook” with all his clothes on, including a life jacket, drifting away from our stern, towards Canada!
“He’s in trouble!”, I thought to myself, as I ran down to the aft deck to see if there was any life bouy I could tie to a long line, and toss out to him, in case he didn’t want to die of hyperthermia. There was none, so I knew we had to pull anchor and come up alongside him.
The others were not happy about this disturbance to their rest, but we fired up the old Washington (with compressed air, not electricity!) pulled anchor, turned around and pointed toward the shrinking speck of “cook” head and shoulders, by now about 1/3 of a mile away.
He already had flotation, so as we approached, I manned a line from a small block and tackle “boom” swung over the side. From 30-40 feet I could see “cook” was turning whitish blue and shivering, but alive. “Captain” had the old vessel down to very slow walking speed, enough for steerage without blowing right past “cook”. I tossed him the line, 3/4″ polypropelene, so it floated, to within a foot of “cook’s” face. But he wouldn’t or couldn’t grab it, and so “cook” floated on by our stern. No one else was in our vicinity. Just our own Ship of Fools and Cook Headed for Canada…..and The Great Beyond in another 10 minutes or so.
“Turn it around!” I yelled to the dumbfounded “captain”, “This time I’ll drop the line right on top of him!”
It took a while to turn the beast and get north of “cook” and get out speed down to a bare minimum. “Cook” was still shivering away, eyes open. “Captain”, after making sure “cook” was on the port side of the bow, and past it, left the Washington idling and ran down on to the stern with the rest of us. “Cook” bumped along side the hull and when he was even with us, I dropped a bunch of slack line right on his head and life jacket.
“Cook”, was about ten feet below us all. We were hanging over the port side wooden rail of the stern me shouting at him to grab the line, the others just watching in amazement. “Cook” just blinked and shivered, and started to drift past the stern, the line still on top of him.
“Captain” had had enough captaining challenges for one day. “Ah, hell!”, he said with a tires wave of his hand, “Let him go.”
“Are you NUTS!”, I yelled. “You’re responsible for everyone on board!”
“Captain” looked at me sheepishly.
“I’ll tie the line around his chest.” I yelled. “Then winch him out! And get a bunch of towels and blankets ready. ”
I jumped in feet first, bare feet, jeans and t-shirt, and didn’t feel a thing. It may as well have been tropical waters.
With a few strokes I was right in front of “cook”, He was still alive, eyes open, staring blankly.
I sure tied a mess of line around “cook’s” thorax. I decided to make up for lack of quality (the only knot I knew was a clove hitch, and there was no mooring cleat on “cook”….) with quantity.
The others hauled him out, with the boom over the side and the block and tackle. Then me.
Then one of them helped me carry him inside to his quarters, strip him, dry him and put blankets on him, teeth chattering away.
“Captain” decided we didn’t need a cook after all, and headed back to the dock where we had picked him up, several hours south.
Until he was warmed up and no longer shivering, I stuck with him with my arm around him.
The others joked about my new “friend” once I came to the galley for something to eat. I was not in a joking mood, and said nothing, but went back to be with “cook”.
He was now, hours later, warm, but too worried to thank me. Not exactly thrilled to be alive, he asked me, like a child, “What do I do now?”
He had found his solution to being unloved, but it was not to be.
We left him at the same dock where he had gotten on board, and continued past the Hiram Chittenden locks, into fresh water Lake Union and our normal moorage spot.
I packed my sack and got off too, and did not come back.
I don’t know about you, but I find this digression relevant to the Parable of the Talents.
To be continued. The Talents theme….not “The Captain and the Cook”.
Great stuff, enjoyed it, you understood well the Parable of the Talents in plain life. People can talk and talk a lot but The Real Life is that which generates the best solutions and the proper conditions for a man to get him on that understanding. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Good storyteller, this Bro, American soul stories;
yes, the talent(s), the world and God are waiting for ours.
I was 40 when I finally found mine, now maitaining it
for 35 years, time is essence, but it’s
Never too late, even a day …
A brief reflection on British counter-insurgency campaigns since the end of the Second World War is 4 September posted at http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-brief-reflection-on-british-counter.html
Fella is a QC and much more…
The stories such as this: ( http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/US-diplomats-union-Cuba-attacks-caused-mild-12167527.php ) , which I think is probably total bs because I do not understand how a “sonic device” could cause such physical results.
However there is a remote possibility, in theory, that a microwave laser (maser) at, if memory serves, about 2.8 GHz might introduce to the cranial cavity enough absorbed RF energy to heat the meat of the neural networks inside the skull. This cavity is a resonant space at a microwave frequency – depend on the particular skull…that determines the precise frequency to couple and heat the space a degree or 10……the precautions relevant to masers and microwave energy as listed in the literature of technical matters
The point being that it is possible, maybe, that there are a few swollen brains out there…
A big dose of RF at a resonate frequency aimed at the skull will cause “idiopathic” (non kinetic and the doc does not know his physics) cranial edema or encephalitis. It can be lethal, and it does happen to technical people once in a while.
So, “sonic” is bs. But “electronic” eg maser being used as part of a sort of TEMPEST operation may be possible. The scattered beam might be somewhat modulated by the electronics the US uses, and thus carry secrets out of the buildings…
I think, but also harbor serious doubts, that such may be the reality – I think it could be done.
If so, this is not a “attack” against the people, but a form of surveillance.
Any EE’s out there wanna step up?
PAX
LZ99
@LZ This analysis seems very plausible. Microwaves indeed, not a “sonic” attack.
Also, your mention of surveillance jogs my memory of a technique for listening to conversations inside a building using high-power microwaves. No microphone or in situ bugging device required. It’s even been patented:
Technique and device for through-the-wall audio surveillance
Perhaps somebody has been using microwaves to surveil those U.S. diplomats at their homes. The apparatus could be fairly small, mobile, and thus difficult to detect.
and with a pretty narrow beam width, depending. Cuba has good technical people in Radio and I am quite sure they have the capacity and also the motivation.
I have seen and known radar techs that had nerve damage to their facial nerves – such that their faces had nearly no expression and they had eye damage, and they were permanently disabled.
In the 1950 television used MASER’s and the techs aligned these in the wave guide by hand in a way that resulted in the RF going straight through and into the tech’s eye. With the natural result of cataracts…
see:
Cuba Radio Club……http://dxersunlimited.blogspot.com/ Arnie Coro is “CO2KK”
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2010/02/homebrew-hero-arnie-coro-co2kk.html
for examples that imply a high level of ability and vigor.
Thanks for the patent url, Friend! I did not bother to check, because it really fairly clear anyway. They cannot be using a powerful oscillator in the resonant frequency, as if they did the people in the focus would dies pretty quickly from idiopathic encephalitis. With high power in a non-resonant but similar frequency there would be less coupling to heat the grey matter, but it would still get heated some. If that’s the case, then the target was the machine, not the people. They are what some call “collateral damage”…
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Good morning, morning minions, I got up at 3:33. The full moon was at 45 degrees to the southwest, the air was still at a cool 65 as I walked the circle of sacred art. The moon shone directly into the sacred shrine, and illuminated the peaceful sign. I walked past the circle of lovers and lay down on the sacrificial altar.
Awesome postings from vineyard lovers: Maria from the Russian foreign service, facing the empire face to face without blinking, with a little help from teranam 13; the saker, falcon, condor to the tune of Placido, assisted by Bro; and ioan assisting everyone; etc., etc.
The Love Army is on the march, and the vineyard is on the move. We’ve learned when to hold and when to fold, when to be told and when to be bold. The difficult we do soon, and the impossible somewhat later under the aegis of the moon.
I had an awesome Labor Day yesterday. I spent the day with my son and a large part of the day with my soul mate of love and hate. It was a “conjunctio hierogamos sexualis” in Jungian lingo, and Venus with Sagittarius in mundanomaniac astrolionis, if I may be so bold.
Francis and I, in his Tundra Toyota Truck, went from 750 feet above sea level Ojai to 5160 in less than an hour, on the Rocky Mountain Grand Canyon Pacific Ocean highway trail. We could have gone to 8000 feet by a side road, and gotten a view only sakers and condors enjoy. From ocean to the highland mountains of emotion in an hour is made easy by millions of years of canyon carving from the watershed mountains to Ojai’s Vulva Valley, where I live.
On the other side of that great divide is the Carrizo Plain National Monument, a huge African savannah like high plateau that reminded me of my origins. Francis and I delivered a truck load of plants and small trees to Apolonia, the earth mother and lover herself.
We’ve been married for eighteen years officially and naturally going on thirty years. Francis is our twenty-four year old son, deep sea diver and now engineering student. Apolonia has more life in her little finger, and Francis more light in his left cerebrum than I have in my whole body soul.
With an IQ of 112, I’ve had to act my way into the higher levels of families and vineyards. I actually played Romeo at Apolonia’s window balcony and now play the fool at Saker’s court. Yesterday, I played visitor to yet another Garden of Paradise in the desert, which Apolonia is creating on two and half acres in the wilderness plains of California.
She bought it for $17,000. The pot growers have moved in and offered her $80,000. Apple-onia is no Eve to my Adam and did not bite on that apple. The pot heads are now moving north to Napa Valley where the winos make more mullah on beads than grapes.
Saker created a garden vineyard in virtual Florida; Apolonia is making a physical garden eden in Carrizo California, and the Ojai Indian Maiden is using me for a Vineyard West. I’m just along for the ride, but it looks like the world is in danger of giving up the American Dream where “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.”
This vineyard, with all of you lovers, is a canary in the grape vine, singing her song about a world gone wrong, and the new world that is “slouching toward Bethlehem to be born.” There’s still tons of karma to burn, but it doesn’t take a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.
The empire is crumbling while Russia matryoshka dolls are breaking out of boxes within boxes, faster than China can put out obor Barbie and Ken dolls. A vacuum in the spirit is being formed that makes black holes look like white. Like it or not, the Saker is in the eye of perfect storm clouds gathering for a shoot out at the OK Corral of apocalyptic dreams.
“I feel a change comin’ on
Well I’m looking the world over
Looking far off into the east
And I see my baby comin’
She’s walking with the village priest
Well, life is for love
And they say love is blind
If you wanna live easy
Baby, pack your clothes with mine”
The Christian orthodox family is based on three persons in one God. Nature’s orthodox family is mother, father and child. Dennis played that part on Labor Day with Apolonia and Francis. Within this cafe circumference, there are many fathers, mothers and adult children. Good and bad come in threes. I rise at 3:33. Some use 3’s in their nom de plames.
Jesus rose on the 3rd day. Cafes usually arise on the third day. The moon dies, is buried and rises on the third day. A community of three, four and more seems to be the basis of reality. In Genesis, God says “let us make man in our image.” Stripping away patriarchal accretions, there are these three: faith, hope and charity, in one love.
At 6 am, Francis is driving off in his truck to Santa Barbara. The light is dawning. The duality of day and night is mediated by that ever present third element, the twilight zone. What’s my point? I don’t know–that’s my point. Knowledge is a power point but love is the point of points.
War hovers in the background of this peaceful vineyard as its raison d’etre. Raw reversed is War. Raw truth is naked, the only real antidote to war. We can’t know truth; we can only love it. Says who? I don’t know. Maybe you do. I just don’t know what to do. I think I’ll go back to bed and think of you.
“Something is going on and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” I live on the borderland of inanity and insanity. If you value your life, don’t listen to me. I listen to you, so you’re just listening to yourself. If that makes sense, explain it to me. The only thing that makes any sense to me is love, and I don’t know what that is. It’s depressing to be so stupid, and all.
It just turned 6:33. It could have been 6:66, if the clocks allowed. If I had any talent, I’d be named Dennis Dostoevsky. I play Solari to Mozart. It’s overcast and my dark side is showing. I don’t mind–somewhere the light is glowing.
I forgot what I came here to say. Or rather, I’m afraid to say it–it’s too raw, too anti-war; besides, it can’t be put into words, but even that’s a lie. Bro is right about fears. Sis is true about tears. I play Sgt. Schultz in self-defense: “I know nothing; I see nothing–in other words, I’m afraid of everything.”
These foggy dew mornings remind me of Wisconsin; they make me melancholy and put me in the mood for a long lost home. In that respect, the vineyard acts as a half-way house from addiction to benediction. The banality of war serves as the gateway to a sweetness of body and soul that wells up from within, when I sense the nearness of home.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. But with you there’s always a tomorrow. Just for the fun of it, I’m going to end and post this at 7:06 am [pacific time], which would be 6:66 in another time reckoning. All I feel is love, and its absence; that’s the raw war of it. Until we meet again in this cafeland,
Love, Dennis, Ojai, 7:06 and 2:06 utc
Kent : Ice Ages does not come/happen slowly. They do happen very-very fast, always . ???
Flashfreezing Ice Age may require “rupture” of the atmosphere by incoming meteorite to let space-cold in . This is absolutely possible to happen , anywhere around the planet earth .
“Slower” cooling and the massiv growing of polar icecaps may happen by obscuring the atmosphere by volcanic plumes og smoke and ashes from big upheavals , to block out the sunlight .
This is very likely to happen in relatively short time.
This is the day, where I read the most mature statement of all my life
and this is how “the stars” were constellated when it commenced:
“Blue Moon for mankind – a Historicel Press Conference”
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/09/a-historical-press-conference.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhVKmkx3YY
Comrade Vladimir lay’d ’em out…sept 5, 2017
“According to Emmanuel Macron, the days of popular sovereignty are over…”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article197736.html
Golly! Is anybody going to be surprised?
They bought the ringer…and he looks empty.
The ringer must seem real. M Mac does not look real…
I wonder what the bookies would give for a bet that he’s gone in 6 months…
This set of internal monsanto emails might be a real game changer.
https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/
I’d a put in the news feed but it’s not breaking news, just the basis of breaking news when the vile stuff goes off the market, or the judge dies of heart failure…