2017/09/23 16:00:01
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Facebook should be investigated for its role in the illegal Kiev coup of 2014
http://theduran.com/facebook-investigated-role-illegal-kiev-coup-2014/
“In a just world, Facebook would be run and regulated like a telecom organisation, a mere technical conduit which connects individuals, no different than the phone companies of the 1950s.
While Facebook’s ideologically driven fanatical founder seeks to insult the people of Russia and threaten the dignity of the Russian Federation, the real story is not about Russia, but about Facebook itself.
During the Winter of 2014, multiple Facebook ‘groups’ were set up by the bandits and criminals who came to the Maidan in Kiev in order to foment violence against police offices, civilians, politicians and property.
Additionally, many so-called NGOs, including those funded by George Soros paid Facebook to promote various propaganda videos in favour of overthrowing the legitimate President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
If Facebook was just a telecom company, none of this would matter. When criminals use a telephone to coordinate a bank robbery, no one faults AT & T, or whomever the phone company might be. But if Facebook seeks to ‘investigate’ whether or not Russians placed advertisements relating to the US election on Facebook, something which in and of itself is a peaceful exercise of free speech, then it becomes necessary to investigate Facebook’s use by individuals, NGOs and governments in the fomenting of an illegal coup in Ukraine.
If Facebook thinks it can play God, simply because of its high level of market proliferation, it should think again. No one is above the law. Facebook must be taken to task for helping to bring a regime of genocidal fascists to power, a regime whose killings have not paused since 2014 and continue to this day.”
Facebook, and zuckerberg, are zionazi. They exist to facilitate zionazi/israeli control of communications and as a tool in their psywar against all of us. As such, the outfit, the owner and decision making staff have been engaging in capital crimes against humanity. Their role in the Ukraine being typical of what their role in society is about.
The in-your-Facebook syndrome comes with a helmet on your head attached, on the installment plan.
The internet, unsurprisingly designed to run a nuclear WW3 lest humans prove too squeamish, is not wasting time but destroying humans by other means while we wait for the Big Bang.
From Schwarz suggesting that in his perfect Goolag universe every question has only one answer to Suckerberg actually convincing people that putting on a helmet to enter his talmudo-satanist universe of demons is the best way to drop a thousand bucks, or that sex with succubi and incubi robots is cool, all the Medieval warnings about demons taking over the human imagination are coming true. But we do not realize just how real they are.
Talking of robots and sex, I’m glad that I’m no more young to be exposed to such a degradation of human sexual behavior as being promoted nowadays in the “most visited sites” on the net. Why communal sex when you can have robots – who can do a “better job” by prolonging the satisfaction to nausea ? what can do the men ? The romance is history. Singing under balcony, like the old Romeo ? and above, Julia is smiling, while her robot is “tweeting”.
Well I risked a comment in the Koenig thread that bordered on the ridiculous. But the situation in the world is ridiculous, so I hit “Post a Comment” without hesitation.
It seemed to fit the Monstrous Theme of the Koenig article.
This might also:
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Goya…Los Caprichos
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/211.1978/
Sort of the Kent of his time. (And that’s a compliment!) Not afraid to “go there”….into the dark recesses of the human psyche:
Saturn Devouring his Children:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-spain/v/goya-saturn-devouring-one-of-his-sons
Pretty Teacher! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jBf5OJ1P4
Not all women are the embodiment of Love, despite having the body parts one of us likes to detail.
You get the drift. Ruthless polemicist, in the visual realm!
I’d say his aim was pretty good!
Now, with Acknowledgements to Kent for the inspiration, OPENING DAY of the Moveable Feast Shooting Range.
Bring your shooting eye, your lead, and your NRA membership cards!
And your “piece” of choice. To keep the peace, of course.
I’ll be setting up some bottles and tin cans. You’er welcome to place a few that represent my errors of aim, as well! Turn about is fair play, after all!
But I hope the purpose of improving aim ( precision of consciousness) is embraced by a handful of shooters who can show us how it’s done, better.
My motivation in going after Dennis’ bottles and cans IS LOVE.
As reflected in this imperfect comment over oat Peter Koenig’s article about Monster in the House:
/the-un-and-the-monster-in-the-room/#comment-411866
But realize that despite my ribbing of Dennis and his fellow “lepretard” …..I will have it known that I am growing rather fond of the little fellas. Even the one that declared war on me a year or two ago.
He actually warmed the cockles of my heart, with the last comment of his that I read!.
Will explain later. Things to do, places to go.
But later today the bottle, the vessel, the chalice that I will place on top of the wall for target practice will NOT be SEX!!
I realize that a lot of you are itching for the Shootout in the NOT OK Corral….but it ain’t happening today, from me at least.
Nope. It’s going to do with another form of Leary Foreplay: Number Games.
I’ve been totally misconstrued by the “loveable little fella” on that score, so that’s bottle # 1.
Coming up later today.
Kinda made me think of an Irish Pub ‘ in the cafe’.
https://youtu.be/ruNdU6bGE5E
That busty beauty is known to Dubliners as :The Tart With The Cart’.
Yeah , and to hell in a hand cart with them.
In Dublin’s fair city
Where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through the streets broad and narrow
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
She was a fishmonger
And sure, t’was no wonder
For so were her mother and father before
And they wheeled their barrow
Through the streets broad and narrow
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
She died of a fever
And sure, so one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
Now her ghost wheels her barrow
Through the streets broad and narrow
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Excellent ! I like it, are you the GB guy ? once I posted an appreciation for his poem but forget to sign my name on the post.
I’m not really a GB kind of guy, was he from Great Britain ? This poem is the lyrics of the famous Irish ballad, Molly Malone, who died when still young and whom Dubliners have apparently called ‘The tart with the cart’ …
I don’t know if he is from Great Britain, his poster name is GB and he wrote a very good poem two cafe’s ago.
Ioan,
Another statue of a body submerged in a ‘fountain’ constructed like a half – built brickhouse is known as ‘the floozy in the jacuzzi.’
Dublin City Council is well – known for its execrable public monuments. (The ‘Spire’ is much more aptly known as the ‘Spike’, said to really represent a junkie’s syringe).
The only one they got right was of a middle aged woman with a handbag with could be moved (‘interactive art’).
Until someone moved it permanently :-)
The Dangerous Decline of US Hegemony
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dangerous-decline-of-u-s-hegemony/5610216
How the US Became a Warmonger Police State
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-us-became-a-warmonger-police-state/5610229
I’d say its getting close to “push comes to shove” in Catalonia. Most of the world’s media ignores what is happening there. But I have a feeling the situation is about to blow-up. To set the “stage”,it seems most “ethnic” Catalans want independence,or at least extreme self-government. While most of the large non-ethnic Catalan population there want to continue as it is as part of Spain.The Spanish government is making a full revolution there almost a certainty by their heavy handed actions.And I foresee a Donbass situation as a strong possibility. Sooner or later (probably sooner rather than later),the Catalans are going to revolt and seize all power in the region. Madrid’s ordering the local police to only obey them,could well be ” the straw that breaks the camel’s back”. If as is highly likely some of the police will defy them. And if the local Catalan authorities order the formation of a local militia that will be the end of peace in the region.I’m frankly surprised that the Catalans have waited so long. The moment the Spanish authorities took control of the police the Catalans should have called for the formation of a militia.
https://www.rt.com/news/404328-madrid-sieze-control-catalan-police/
No one likes Madrid except la Mancha…the Andalucians who do all the low work in Catalonia will have to join the Catalans in voting for independence,or it won’t come to pass.
The wounds of the civil war in Spain have not healed, many things remain unaddressed, not spoken of. There is also a tradition of general strikes there. Anything can happen in Cataluna.
Ahhhh! Papa Hemingway would be so proud!
I knew a man who fought there.
LZ
I was asleep (working very hard). For two weeks we had no news and no shoes….
We were flying back from the middle of the Indian Ocean at Easter 1999
My wife and our Two young kids.
We were passed All The English Newspapers
The News was that My Country England Was Bombing The Fck Out of Yugoslavia
And I Switched On
Why The Hell are We Bombing My First Girfriend’s Family…
Such Beauty.
Since then, they have done America (9/11), Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, The Yemen, and They Tried to completely Destroy Syria…
With The excuse We are Americans – That is what we do (check our history).
But The Syrians Fought Back and They are Going To Get All Their Territory Back
(including The Golan Heights)
As Will The Palestinians
(God, I feel so sorry and guilty for you Palestinian guys. I know what happenned. The mistake was made by Civil Servants in Westminster rather than the Politicians)
Sorry us British effed up…
But you wil get your lands Back
The Indigenous American Indians have it very much harder…cos we don’t want those religious American lunatics back here in England.
In fact we Prefer Muslims to Americans. The Muslims will help rebuild our country England, whilst all The USA wants is now not only to Destroy all The Middle East – but Europe, including The UK too.
We have noticed these changes.
Yanks Go Home. We, Us British Don’t like You.
Please, Just Go Away.
Fx@xK OFF
Tony
Tony, because you mentioned Easter, for you and for all my friends here :
Promise of Easter
Powerless and beaten you’ll be, Man
This is the rule of nature, that of Adam
By eating that Fruit with Eve in Garden
You find yourselves captive by Warden
As for them, the same for the multitude
Many Adams and Eve live in servitude
Searching for a path, for years after years
How to get out free, without pain and tears.
Sweet dreams to follow, digging the grave
Deeper and deeper, becoming one’s slave
It could be shining, still, a place for a dead,
And we’re still happy, if got our daily bread.
Freedom ! is the slogan, to do on my will
Making a lot of noise, then paying the bill,
Taking my tail between legs, then whisper,
“Oh Lord, I hope in your promise of Easter”
Hi Kent, got back my chrome ! hope it will last. Tried what you said but not worked, then entered the registry editor and erased what remained in key form (it’s a risky part) Youtube is working.
Oh boy, did this make me laugh….
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DM7M4y8jEn_s%3AXkVU62fT_4k2Lt52JzR35DBb6_o&cuid=3677594
Eimear, you have immense tolerance because I cannot watch or listen to anything Trump anymore.
You are right not to trust Varoufakis. Varoufakis states he is an outsider, but I am not convinced.
??
Are you referring to the link, Paul?
Because it had nothing to do with the Trump – at least, not directly.
Thanks Eimar,,,good one Sovietica!
US to Shoot Down North Korea’s Missile if It Flies Over Guam – State Dept
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201709221057624714-us-north-korea-guam/
“If a missile targeted Guam or flew over it, we would have shot it down,” US Assistant Secretary of State Susan Thornton said at a briefing for foreign journalists.”
US Cannot Shoot Down DPRK Missiles: Global Defense Experts
https://sputniknews.com/us/201709241057643215-usa-missile-defense-fail/
“In stating that the US will destroy a Pyongyang ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead in mid-air, the Pentagon is not only misleading the public and its own government, it is outright lying, according to military experts with deep knowledge of missile-defense technology.”
I mentioned this in a previous topic. If the ballistic missile is not targeting Guam, IE: flying over, it will be too high for the existing abm missiles to reach. These systems can only hit a BM on the last portion of its flight, when its altitude is then low.
Even then, hitting the incoming BM assumes the american systems are capable. Not tried in recent operational situations*, the american systems have only been tried out using tests designed to “help” the abm missiles hit a target. And even then, with the “fix” in, they didn’t do so well.
*Patriot missiles systems operating during the gulf war mostly failed to intercept the incoming scuds. Their success was some in the region of one in five successful intercepts.
White Genocide – Quotes
Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQrL49JKCXo
Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwcyZeB4Dcg
Zsolt Bayer: The White Genocide Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPMa3Qgx6k
Hungarian Traitor’s Email to Hillary Clinton Revealed
Àgnes Heller war a Student of George Lukàcs (Frankfurt School)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh28wkuekHo
Correction: À. Heller was a Student of…. Sorry (was means in German war)
Latest RT poll.
“RT asks
Thank you for voting!
Trump or Kim: Which of them is more likely to start a nuclear war?
13% – Kim – he’s crazy and desperate
28% – Trump – he’s unstable and has Twitter
16% – It takes two to tango
43% – Relax, it’s all just grandstanding”
video that explains the situation perfectly :D
Chicken Vs Giant Turkey Meet
Shooting Range Episode # 1
Sorry for the delayed Opening Day. Got busy. “Life gets in the way….”
Hmmm. There are a number of bottles and tin cans that could serve as targets. which to start with?
I already targetted myself with the skivvies and shorts around my ankles. So I get a pass, I think. That was plenty ridiculous enough for a 3-5 year pass, wouldn’t you say? (Hint, hint, hope, hope.)
Every person is potentially valuable and IMHO Dennis Leary (two n’s…not speaking of the you- tuber…) has more natural talent than the average person. This of course could increase even more if certain foibles with regard to ego were made more conscious so their crystalline glass structure could be lovingly shattered by an accurate lead slug. Or a dozen rounds if you need to stand this close, with an AK-47:
https://youtu.be/x9kQjDrcpyA
Now Love Potion # 9 by Leary Breweries is not what Today’s Bottle is supposed to symbolize! (Later Episode at the Straight Shooter Cafe # ??…..)
No, no, no! Statements like “Fear is an illusion, All is Love” do not strike me as absurd, at all. That’s safe ground. Who can argue with “More Love, Less Fear, Anger and War”?? Not me!
HOWEVER, as usual, “the Devil is in the Details”…..of various options of how you get from HERE (great danger of rule of Fear, Violence and Death) to a better Stage in the Development of Humanity.
This will take careful navigation, understanding of the lay of the land and a certain detachment from the infantile ego and yes, Love of Truth and Love of Humanity to keep a focus on overcoming the obstacles (symbolized in this Metaphorical Shooting Range by bottles and tin cans of various descriptions) and charting a careful course through a veritable minefield of strategic dangers, including systemic finacial collapse, cultural and spiritual degradation and violence and WAR, any day, week, or month now.
Now “infantile” may be a harsh and offensive word here, but I’ll stick with it and let anyone who insists this “bottle” should not be targetted, not be shattered to smithereens, in solidarity with the soon to be described foible of my dear Cafe Brother Dennis, and use it again with their name on the bottle (and Dennis’ removed) without hesitation,
The reason being is that I don’t think anyone’s ego is worth coddling when it is making an elementary error of the sort I will now outline, with regard to number, not as commonly understood, that is, as measurement of quantity, length, area or volume but as symbol, metaphor or poetry, in a light consciousness raising or poetic fashion OR in a dark occult ritual sacrifice (911) fashion.
Dennis is a social being who likes attention and love (Don’t we all?) and mentions me often with regard to number in my handle (93) as though he’d like an answer back saying how cool it is that he was born in ’39 or some irrelevant (except for play and horsing around) thing like that.
Same with getting up at 3:33 am! Do you realize that this is simply ridiculous invoking of “number magic” mysticism of a completely frivoluos and ego-driven (“Look at me!”) nature and entirely misses the point of something more serious???
Sorry to burst your bubble Dennis but I don’t believe that getting up at 3:33 am is a sign of anything special, except an annoying sort of narcissim which is either deliberately or unconsciously avoiding something billions of times more important than how special it makes you feel to see certain digits on your electrical clock when you swing your legs from horizontal on your bed to vertical on your floor.
Stop it! Get over it, already! We love you, but DO GROW UP!!! Please!
The 93 has to do with people without 1 billionth of your loveability who want to rule the world through Fear and Lower Consciousness and blatantly advertised their intent in an occult “hidden in broad daylight” ritual sacrifice of some immediate 3000 human lives on September 11, 2001 and many millions more, subsequently.
For people who don’t know the gist of the ritual from previous posts and links decoding the Enemy’s number magic beliefs…it’s not the Key to the Universe….but anything empowering to the enemy should be deprived from them…..by waking up as fully as possible to what makes them tick………and nothing is so graphically illustrative of their nearly unfathomabley dark world view than their ritualistic Luciferianism laid out Sept 11, 2001.
It’s…”in the numbers” and frankly a lot of people can’t even handle looking at it……which is why the occult priests gloat over their “superiority” over “The Dead” as they call ordinary human beings who are not fully aware of their unfathomably evil intent.
..Dear Dennis,(and others) please understand, the importance of decoding enemy code and beliefs and spiritual darkness has NOTHING to do with what I believe….or you believe ….or anyone reading this BELIEVES..that’s all Besides the Point!!!……..AND….the point is I don’t believe ANYTHING on this score! But I DO KNOW what they believe. And it is important to grasp what they believe! They are the ENEMY!!!
You wouldn’t want to know the mind of the Enemy? Very, very foolish childishness, that attitude, IMO!
It’s right there in the flight numbers (principle of action of the ritual sacrifice) 11, 93, and 175 of those flights intended for Manhattan September 11, 2001 that gives a deeper insight into their depravity than any of their other hideous crimes that I can think of…… And it’s been gone over several times here over about two years and I wish you could educate someone on it besides missing the point and then assisting others in missing the point…….which many do have some difficulty “getting”….and could maybe use your help at least by not turning “numbers” into some sort of ego-driven joke, if you could get outside of yourself long enough to tackle real, almost unfathomably dark EVIL in high places, instead of escaping the task via some numerological ego-stroking, erotica lark.
But too often you go tripping off in a field of tulips like Tiny Tim, seeking FUN, approval, comraderie, support, love for your considerable capacities TO PLAY with a bunch of frigging numbers which don’t have any bearing on anything!!”
Tiny Tim: https://youtu.be/SqfqW6RJVHw
Not useful, IMHO!!
Oh, I’m not against play with any toys, even toy numbers, for a few minutes to loosen up, but after that, how about laying down the narcissisitic ego toys and getting down to some necessary work against evil, for no ego or immediate tangible reward gratification, other than increasing your talents and those talents of others of ALSO diminishing the capacity of EVIL to run amuck and mock people too unimaginative or blocked to even begin to understand their “in your face, in broad light” number “magic”…..???
Since the ritual FAILED because of the failure of Flight 93 to reach Building Seven… the Omen from the Universe is that these psychopaths may be mopped up by a general, determined “awakening”.
Could that be more useful than going off into left field about the digits on your clock when you woke up??
I think so.
I trust the old Timex will “Take a licking but keep on ticking”, survive and maybe benefit to some degree by this admitedly somewhat “tough” (on the old ego) love bashing.
Dennis is the loveable extrovert but I know many a bit more introverted are not that different than him and frankly not all that useful in the struggle to Stop the Empire’s War on Russia, presently. If Dennis might get outside of himself (he’s SO useful as an example because of his extreme stubborn Lepretard Puckishness….”oh, no, that’s not for me, I demure!” .making it such a privilege to work this case…..if he were to drop some of the nonsense and get more serious, get outside of his own ego, just think what progress in that necessary direction millions of other less difficult cases might accomplish!
Mind-boggling! Inspiring!
My turn done. Out of rounds, for the moment….barrel overheated………Next??
I agree 93, if your saying what I think your saying about Dennis. To me Dennis L makes this all better; he is a likable intellectual senior citizen with a unique background; kind of an indispensable type that any group would be lucky to have; but he is spending way to much verbiage on essentially the way out there. When he zero’s in, he can be so right on for his take on it all; also enjoy his gardening, star-gazing and weather; I’m from Boston and also a senior citizen so that could explain my appreciation for this left coaster, and so many others to be found here on this wonderful blog, especially our Saker.
Dennis uses this blog as a kind of daily, dear diary entry. That the moderators are long suffering and have worked with him over a year period is to their credit.
And that the new folks arriving find him fresh and amusing is OK and that he has a coterie here who find him inspirational or perhaps essentially irritating is part of an online cafe culture, perhaps.
Best of all, one does not have to read him or hear him unlike in “real” life in a boisterous world if one does not want to
It is all good.
Ursula Haferbeck – Comment to the Hooton Plan
(You can turn the subtitle in English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSTErstU_7w
Azorka1861, I do not see English subtitles, but do see German subtitles when clicking CC.
Павел (Paul)
I try to explain it despite my bad English. (I use Google translator.)
1. click on the symbol rectangle on the left (subtitle)
2. click on the symbol logwheel (taking on)
3. click on subtitle(1) – German(automatically generates)
4. click on automatically translate
5. click on the desired language
P.S. Now I have arrived at home. I live in Central Europe (в Швейцарии)
Best regards Азорка
Азорка, thankyou for your guidance and now I have the English subtitles.
10 months prison sentence for the 87 years old woman – without proving – (judgement 12. No-
vember 2015)) because of *opinion commit a crime* (*……* Google translation;, in my opinion
criminal or illegal speech because Meinungsfreiheit means in English free speech; Meinung
means in English opinion and criminal means in German kriminell)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZXqwhkL-k
Epilogue of Ursula Haferbeck at the Process 11. Oktober 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR79NU7mYi0
Live and Let Die Rescore – The Heroin Farm & Boat Chase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8q0LsO4PA
The steering wheels on these speedboats are on the right hand side of these machines, so I just wondered why American cars have steering wheels on the left hand side. What is wrong with conformity which would be beneficial to safety. I have never driven a left hand drive vehicle on any official road and would be very anxious in doing so. We talk about a civilised world but such a simple thing as driving position has not been agreed on. The right hand drive is favoured (technically) because we favour (majority) our right eye as we favour (majority) our right hand and when we are passing oncoming traffic the right eye becomes critical in making the passing safely. So our right eye should be adjacent, to the centre line of the road, and this means driving on the left side of the road in a right hand drive machine. Americans, Chinese and Russians could be discussing this safety issue.
It didn’t take long. Independence aspirations in Catalonia are blamed on Russia. Spain’s highest circulation newspaper, El País, claims that Russia’s “interference machinery has penetrated the Catalan crisis” and that “the global network that worked for Trump and Brexit, is now dedicating its efforts to Spain.”
https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/09/22/actualidad/1506101626_670033.html
I’m very surprised at how bold China is becoming in its support for Venezuela:
“China and Venezuela sign deal to systemize the judiciary”
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-and-Venezuela-Sign-Deal-to-Systemize-the-Judiciary–20170923-0019.html
“Our objective is to systematize the judicial service in Venezuela, to contribute to the efficiency of the processes, to increase procedural speed and to eliminate congestion, to offer the people an increasingly efficient, modern, advanced justice, Moreno said.”
…. “The agreement also seeks to strengthen cooperation between the two courts in the criminal justice sector and the joint fight against transnational crimes.”
Has Auslander seen this article?
I’d like to know what he thinks of its thesis,that Crimea needs “de-Ukrainianization”.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/09/irish-crimean-crimea-in-dire-need-of-de.html
I walked the streets all night
Looked in hotels and stations
A Christmas was somewhere
All was without and not within
Far away was one who saw
Life moving slowly past, alive
Alive, alive, oh so alive
Lost in nights unknown streets
Stand still very still for I’ll shoot to kill
The man calling a girl ‘tart with a cart’
Who one could save, alive, alive,
Not even one far away who saw
Regarding “Trump – he’s unstable and has Twitter”, netanyahoo’s boy toy had another fascist twitter episode:
A Tweet Too Far: Twitter Explodes Over Trump’s Feud With ‘Unpatriotic’ Athletes
https://sputniknews.com/us/201709241057652786-trump-sports-twitter-feud/
The Israeli quisling continues to show what a traitor he is to the usa.
“It’s really sad man … our president is a asshole
— Lesean McCoy (@CutonDime25) 23 сентября 2017 г.”
Batter Up: First US Baseball Player Joins American Football Protests
https://sputniknews.com/sport/201709241057657590-first-us-baseball-joins-protest/
“In an unprecedented move, the first professional baseball player has now “taken the knee” as the US national anthem plays prior to the game, simultaneously refuting divisive commentary by a sitting US president and supporting a widening peaceful protest movement in America.
As the fray between sports figures and the US president widens, Major League Baseball (MLB) member Bruce Maxwell has widened the protest by becoming the first baseball player to join in the peaceful protest movement shining a light on racism and other social and economic inequalities within the US.”
The Israeli quisling trump likely spouted his nonsense about the sports player protests to draw attention away from the reaction to his Israeli un speech and his doubling down supporting daesh in the ME. It appears he managed to increase the protests against his zionazi/nazi allies in the israeli owned/operated police state apparatus in pindoland.
This is so much better than had clinton been doing it. :D
Wave of anthem protests across NFL as Trump clashes with players & owners (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
https://www.rt.com/usa/404417-nfl-anthem-protests-trump/
“Sunday saw an unprecedented number of NFL players and staff engaging in a protest against the US national anthem after President Donald Trump called for protesting players to be fired.
In the opening game of the day, more than 20 players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars knelt and linked arms during the pre-game national anthem as an act of protest.
The owner of the Jaguars, Shad Khan, also took part in the demonstration. Khan had previously donated $1 million to the Trump inauguration fund.
The protests escalated when a slate of nine games kicked off Sunday afternoon. Athletes and coaches from nearly every team playing either took a knee to protest the anthem or locked arms in solidarity with players who were demonstrating.
At the Atlanta Falcons v Detroit Lions game anthem singer Rico LaVelle also took part in the demonstration.”
Well, whatever the reason behind netanyahoo’s boy toy trump’s attack on peaceful protesting jocks, it’s coming back to bite him big time now. The more these israeloamerican neocons act, the more they damage themselves.
Oh multi million dollar athletes have a “right” to protest whatever a bent knee is supposed to represent this year ( Trump is a jerk? Anglo American 1% run the game of life in the US?)yes, and fans have a “right” not to attend the games. College football is free and so much more interesting.
In the meantime, class politics in the USA remains as dumbed down as ever.
Maybe instead of division and fighting, everyone can crowd onto the field and make a meaningful gesture of “and before the almighty, every knee shall bend” At least that is a clear statement.
I have a better idea, t, drop the rediculous anthem playing nonsense, its just a dumb sports event, ffs, and fly the pindo flags upside-down everywhere.
Thoughts about North Korea :
There is a single nation on earth who wants to keep the old style communist system and that is N-Korea. This is viewed as such a great insult to the Empire who seeks the one world – one government, it can’t tolerate it anymore. Meanwhile, he succeeded to align almost all the countries
(all the countries that count) behind him in struggling N.Korea, forcing it in a very dangerous corner, where any deal possibilities are very, very narrow by day. The chances to get out of this trap is becoming less and less optimistic. As if the whole world agreed upon a deal above the head of N.Koreans trying to move the Big Wheel further in the brave New World but this small isolated country is up to use his stick to stop the Wheel. Now, the anger and frustration is growing…
The German Pol,
has emerged as an Aquarius-thing. Aquarius = suspension of hitherto valid measures …
for German Sakerits my reading of today , https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2017/09/25.html
english take on Wednesday
A litlle random journey through some of my depictions And Merkel youth) for the past three years if you don’t mind. (if you do, just skip this post.
The Merkel http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/CO9oKIdXAAAvqo0.jpg
Whatever in the room with China: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/ElephantInRoomRed.jpg
Lion Please show in full size to get the details: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/LionEyes010766.jpg
The Clown: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Trump_Clown.jpg
The rumsfeld: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/DonaldRumsfeld02.jpg
The Elephant Frog. http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/ElephantFrogKipKat.jpg
The clothes (not mine, but its is good). http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/EmperorsClothes.jpg
Help me: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/FrogStuck.jpg
Beauty: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/GaladrielFace.jpg
One of the Kerry’s: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/John_Kerry_Would_rather_be_up_there_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
It laughs: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/MCcain_06_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Summer/Winter cabin (200 km from here). http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/MountainCabinSummerWinter.jpg
The Blair: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/TONY_BLAIR_Disgrace_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
More beauty: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Zorba02016x.jpg
Cheetah: http://fotovision.no/GLP1/Cheetah_0001_ANar.jpg
The Cheney: http://fotovision.no/GLP1/CheneyBuste.jpg
Tounges: http://fotovision.no/GLP1/One_Tongue_Faces_of_Evil50.jpg
Ukrainium: http://fotovision.no/GLP1/Ukranium_0002_Ukranium%20copy%203.jpg
Favorite Whiskey (request from one of the regular posters: http://fotovision.no/GLP2/Midleton2015_MG_0001_resize.JPG
http://fotovision.no/GLP2/Midleton2015_MG_0002_resize.JPG
For the shooting range (Bro 93): One of my previos models with one of my old guns. (.38 SW 1939 with handles made out of a whale tooth (by me)).
http://fotovision.no/GLP2/PetraII069FilmLomo2_resize.jpg
Enjoy
Kent
P.S. Very random, as I have made many hundreds.
What can I say, masterwork each one of them…the Emperors Clothes was very funny, something like Dennis rants on communal…
“A picture can save a thousand words” … this posting saves thousands of words.
German Polls
Go sleep you dumb sheeple
and don’t forget your twinkle
Everything is fine and nice
well prepared by master mice
You will have a sweet dream
next day, have a sour cream
Eat it, lick it, till understand
it’s your choice, it’s your blend
Have a nice day and happy end !
Ja, and don’t forget the mea culpa
When you’re dancing the polka.
And then, the ultimate perfect baby-sitter, top of the Ice-Berg visible pedophile.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Jimmy_Savile_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
(Have your sick-bag ready)
Kent
To the Syrian People and her Allies -Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. May you have the courage to fight and cleanse the land from the scourge that it at your doorstep. The great test of your willingness to resist is upon you now . I understand that President Bashar understands this and that he and his wife understand this song . Sto Lat brave Soldiers .
https://youtu.be/siXe7bKt1q0
Firstly, I’d like to thank Bro 93 for his engaging with me. His passion for fighting the empire, stopping war and lifting humanity is inspiring for me. Although my methods differ, I want the same thing. This cafe is a place where I can relate in a personal way. I believe that ultimately the political is the personal.
Conflicts and disagreements are beneficial to our common cause. If we walked lockstep, we do a disservice to the Saker’s “authority,” and stymie our effectiveness. Increasing honesty and forthrightness, with respect and tolerance, assists me in growing personally and fostering needed change in the world.
Bro got in early at this cafe with the high overview. He (you) linked to Goya’s Sleep of Reason and compared him to Kent’s work, indicating the high level of art and analysis that characterize this vineyard and cafe. I get an education here that no university could hope to match. It’s not just the information, but the energy of real persons behind these screens.
Understanding one another is hard enough in physical, bodily relations; and even more so in this virtual realm. The rewards are well worth the risks of misunderstanding. I can hardly understand myself, so with another person like Bro, communication is a challenge.
For example, you say someone declared war on you a year or two ago. Are you referring to me? If I gave that impression, it was not my intent. Far from it. You also mention “his fellow lepretard.” Who is this? Trump? Just points for clarification.
I gather that the gist of your critique of me is my ego structure, which you appear to think needs shattering, which you illustrate with the link to the boy shooting a bottle with his air-soft gun. I immensely enjoyed that scene, and recalled when my son was at that stage, playing war games with his friends, and their air-softs. A very nice soft and penetrating parable.
It’s kind of an analog war, that shooting of cans and bottles, love tunnel or ok corral style. The image of cans or bottles stacked up in a pyramid reminds me of patriarchy’s penile, phallus fallacy, which I would like to shatter to smithereens. You have referred to that pyramid with the eye on top, on the back of the dollar bill, I believe.
Regarding number symbols, true, I do enjoy them in a childlike way. But there’s more to it. I really do get a kick of energy from 333, 444 and 555 when I get kicked out of bed by a force I can’t explain, other than with a metaphor like the Love Army. For me, numbers can be playful or deadly serious.
Creation, good and ill, would be improbable without the aid of numbers. I do take them seriously; and do not doubt that evil entities and men use them in nefarious ways. Such psychos get a sick joy from the power of numbers, as in the case of the dark, occult ritual sacrifice of 9/11. I see the ritualistic, Luciferianism lurking behind the number 93.
However, numbers cut two ways. For me, the numbers 3 and 9 describe community and the basic consciousness necessary to turn this world, exemplified in the Love Army’s nine divisions, after the first. I agree that decoding numbers has little or nothing to do with belief; numbers work automatically, no matter what we think or feel.
That’s why I like the Love Bower idea, with its implied positive sexual love rites. Our world is so depraved and dangerous now because these sacred and natural rites have been killed by patriarchy. Even the Christian 3fold Trinity is erotic, and that is no ego-driven joke.
Numbers are magic, black and white, and simultaneously scientific–it’s just that our science has not yet caught up with them. I agree that evil is defeating by awakening; however, not solely. The 1 and 9 love commandments of acts are the sine qua non of defeating empire, in my opinion.
So it appears we have a fundamental difference regarding the ego. I used to go along with the culture’s denigrating of the ego, but no more. The ego is part of me, and I appreciate its vital, but limited role. I would never give my ego the feeling that it must be shattered. That is a patriarchal fallacy.
The ego is part of the consciousness and unconscious structures according psychoanalysis. The ego is in the center of our psychic organization, and can be likened to the heart. Jesus said: “As you think in your heart, you will become,” or “As you think, in your heart you will become.” Put down the ego, and you put down your defense against empire.
There are very serious matters in the depths of who we are. That is why I view the China savior complex with suspicion. Without changing human nature back to what it is intended to be, adult toys like obor distract and misdirect energy that is needed for true reform.
My reading of Russia, China & associates is that they are attempting to set up a more benign empire, but an empire nevertheless, which in the final analysis is just as benighted. In short, they are not on track to what needs to be done: change ourselves. They are not aware of even one of the Love Army’s commandments, which augurs not with reality as I see it. I could be wrong, but I will definitely be wrong if I do not sing my song.
Another difference you and I have, Bro, is about Trump. I am skeptical of all the “group think” that is coming down on his head–too much like lemmings following Tiny Tim, tip-toeing through the tulips. Leary is not about Tiny Trump or Tim.
I see that the Love Army is using Trump, who is an actor fit for the asymmetrical war we’re in. He needs to survive and get a second term; he’s not much good dead, except as a martyr, and I doubt he wants that. By acting a weak, push-over role, he holds up a mirror to ourselves, we the people pets of empire.
He appears to be a prisoner in the neo-con, zionist white house, but appearances deceive. “Ever since the British burned the white house down, there’s a bleeding wound in the heart of town.” Dylan. But Donald can turn on a dime, and may do so in a second term.
Donald is backed by a largely invisible group, that is more powerful than the Anglo-Zionists. The art of the deal is being set up whereby the neo-cons will take the fall for the fall of the US empire; and the neo-Romans will ride in as saviors, just like 2000 years ago.
Donald doesn’t need to think; he acts impulsively, like with a “tweet too far,” the football fiasco, chronicled by vot tak’s link on RT. Someone is thinking for Donald, and it’s not just Netanyahoo. I can relate to Donald because Dennis is like him, just on another level.
The Love Army and Bower thinks for Dennis, like getting him out of bed at 333, 444 or 555–if there were a 666 and 777 on the clock, it would be on dock. Neither Donald or Dennis know what they’re doing. They both shoot from the hip at those cans and bottles, while you, Bro, take more careful aim. It’s the same game.
It’s kind of like Stefan’s link to Molly Malone’s sad tale, which warms the cockles and mussels of my Irish heart, a mix of sad and glad–not unlike Kent’s and Dennis’ Summer and Winter Cabin photo. Or, the Three Graces, striding down that dock so beautiful and free, including Merkel, who later in Emperor’s Clothes, is shown in the line-up of penisphile men. Ukrainium, indeed.
It sure is a crazy world. “I’m all locked in and out of range; I used to care but things have changed.” Now I just love everybody and everything, according to Jesus’ “love your enemy,” and the Love Army’s “think love”–always and all ways.
Finally, let me end this with a new beginning. Kent’s whale tooth 39 pistol, in Bro’s belt, ready to fire at Leary’s leprechaun Guinness beer can on the top of that patrix pyramid. Will it hit or miss? Love always hits the mark, although you can’t tell by that first kiss.
Love, Dennis, Ojai High, posted at 8 pm pacific, so terrific are you all…
Occult Message in Speech by Christine Lagarde of IMF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYmViPTndxw
love to have you both Bro and Denis,
what a richdom of reflection
what a beautifull talk between
Sagittarius and Aquarius and the
former reflecting
the individual’s soul
the latter the society
keep on brothers, both great
… and both small, thet’s the rub
No intervention: Venezuela has right to pursue own path, Ecuador president tells RT
https://www.rt.com/news/404434-ecuador-lenin-moreno-venezuela-intervention/
““Ecuador has stated there should be no meddling, each country has right to its own path, its own way, the right to self-determination, there should not be even the slightest possibility of other countries’ intervention on its territory,” Moreno told RT’s Eva Golinger on the sidelines of the ongoing General Assembly annual session at the UN headquarters in New York.
The remarks came in response to a question on the US president’s debut speech at the UN”
Hear that israel, er…(cough, cough)…trump?
In Syria, as a result of shelling by ISIS terrorists, Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov has died.
According to the military department, Lieutenant-General Asapov was in the senior group of Russian military advisers, he was at the command post of Syrian troops. Russian servicemen help the Syrian commanders in the operation of the operation to liberate the city of Deir ez-Zor.
“As a result of a sudden mortar shelling by militants, Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov was mortally wounded by a mine,” the Defense Ministry said. They added that the lieutenant-general is presented posthumously to a high state award.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/09/russian-general-killed-in-syria.html
May he rest in peace
Deepest sympathies to his family, his friends, and his brothers/sisters in arms. Even many of us in “western world” have deep appreciation for his chosen work and sacrifice.
How The IMF Really Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfYQhZPXbs
The Bretton Woods System in five minutes – the University of Shed makes economics fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMHevIw9HU&t=0s
Here is a very good Russian movie with a clever ending.
Personal Interest. Russian Movie. Detective Melodrama. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDFeppP4ZQ
@Bro 93 (and all).
Target practice. Shooting range somewhere!.
Enjoy
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Don_Quixote_Windmill.jpg
Mid 70’s Dutch rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_POi_DKuKA
Fightin’ windmills Golden Earring
Glad to see someone putting a stop to those tilters…..:-)
Six thousand workers in the Australian Mining Industry in 1991.
Communism had just failed in the Soviet Union.
We voted NO to the proposal of a twelve hour working day!
We were called together to vote again on the same proposal with the same result.
We were then told, by our Union, that our vote result was not acceptable and we were required to vote for a third time, and we would be called together again and again until we voted correctly.
We voted correctly the third time and I resigned my Union membership.
The same pathetic non democratic nonsense is at work here …
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709261057692827-uk-citizens-support-second-referendum-brexit/
Clarification: six thousand workers at Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa City in Queensland State.
Never heard of that before, thanks for sharing. And when I remember back 30 years ago in my former country, Australia was seen as the country of hopes, seems that everything good lasted only until Soviet Union went down in history.
http://staging.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/2000/100B09_223_engl.pdf
Read from page 40 about long working hours combined with shift work effects on health.
Western Australia State (WA) now has a limit of ten hour shifts, however the rest impose twelve hour shifts.
Academics continue to write these papers, but the situation from 1991 is ongoing.
Family values are not valued and community values are not valued and many workers do like their salaries. Most people are greedy and are striving to be better off. Never enough, never satisfied. Workers are unaware of the health hazards and the Unions only offer commonsense information such as eat well and sleep well. When doctors cannot diagnose causes for health symptoms, such as heart beat rate out of sync, the question usually is, are you a shift worker!
Here is an article about Japan, the price for too much work :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/04/death-from-overworking-claims-hit-record-high-in-japan/
In my Union we actually got to “every friday is a black friday, no work on friday, or saturday, or sunday. Except by volunteers who do not already have 40 hours – and they get 1.5 for the first 8 and 2.0 after that…for the fri/sat/sun. Plus per-diem and meals…
Since then (we had a 2 week general strike) the bosses have been pushing back…and many young fellas will indeed vote away what we struck and struggled for…
I’m ready to walk out any time, Comrades. But I’m so old it maters zero…
LZ
Canada is back in the news for all the wrong reasons -banning Chelsea Manning, which implicitly means Canada gives no support for whistleblowers and has no issues with US helicopter gunships deliberately gunning down innocent people together with those who attempt to aid them post shooting.
Now Poroshenko wants satellite coverage to monitor ‘Russian and separatist rebel troop movements’ and help him ‘implement Minsk’,
The stench is overbearing; read this propaganda from the fascist supporting Canadian state broadcaster, if you can:
Ukraine asks Canada for access to satellite images to monitor Russian, rebel troop movements
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-canada-satellite-access-1.4306406
Canada did not ban Chelsea Manning. She was denied entry at the port of St-Bernard-de-Lacolle because she has a criminal record for a serious indictable equivalent offence which makes her inadmissible to Canada. This decision would have been made at the local level according to CBSA protocol. The basis of Canadian law, is reasonableness. Was it reasonable for local CBSA officials to make the decision they did? Yes it was. Is it reasonable for Canada to offer an appeal process to Chelsea Manning so that she can argue her case to adjudicators who have the power to interpret law and make considered decisions? Yes it is.
Denying entry is not bannng? Was it ‘reasonable’ for Canada to ‘ban’ (or ‘deny entry’ in bureaucratese) George Galloway?
“One year after Ottawa branded George Galloway a terrorist, effectively barring him from entry into Canada, one of Britain’s most controversial public figures touched down in Toronto Saturday.
Dozens of placard-waving supportrers (sic) welcomed former British MP George Galloway to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, less than a week after a Canadian judge ruled Ottawa’s decision to bar the outspoken firebrand was politically motivated. ”
and:
“In the days leading up to his arrival, the federal government and the Canada Border Services Agency accused Galloway of supporting terrorism for providing medical supplies and other aid to Hamas, which Canada considers a terrorist organization.”
http://www.ctvnews.ca/george-galloway-allowed-into-canada-1.559088
We will see how the appeal process works (or not), but I would think it highly unlikely that there is no political component at work here. If the US tells Canada to ban Manning permanently then Canada, like a good vassal will very likely comply. A threat to ‘national security’ or fake terrorist label is all it takes. How’s Arar’s ban from the US proceeding?
I think I’m reaching the point of needing to be more consistent with my stated goals, as I have developed over the years. I want to be more honest and direct, and less dependent on signs, symbols and metaphors; and “by indirections find directions out.” (Polinius in Hamlet).
I’m grateful to this community for providing assistance to me on my journey. Here at the vineyard, and especially in the cafe, I get valuable feedback on my progress. I also am able to archive my development in what I have written here, along with the contributions of others. We are all on a journey, which is well recorded here, for our respective educations.
These are valuable but secondary considerations in respect to the main aim of stopping the war on Russia, and thereby aiding the cessation of war itself. To be consistent with the gifts I’ve been given, I’m sending the Saker another $100 in cash by snail mail, in response to his appeal for financial assistance.
Over the years, especially the last twenty-five or so, I’ve recorded my thoughts and desires in writings, audios and videos at what is now thelovegovernment.com, and in recent years, here at the cafe, condensed into metaphors of the Love Army and Bower. These are the standards by which I evaluate myself.
War is unwarranted violence, directed at life itself. Violence can be overt or covert; the latter being more subversive, and more difficult to detect and correct. I have developed the ten commandments of love to specify what I need to do for myself, and to offer to others as a way to achieve what we say we want.
For me, it starts with thought, or consciousness, and what is above and below that–according to the maxim: “think love.” I look at my own thoughts, and find that there is much hidden violence therein; from small minded false judgments to deeply ingrained habits.
Ironically, this vineyard surfaces my violent tendencies with its war analyses. Thinking war is not thinking love. As Jesus pointed out, “as you think, in your heart you become.” Despite my best intentions, thinking about war sucks me into it, and suckers me therefore into the empire’s agenda, by associative contamination.
That’s why I have developed an alternative way of thinking and acting, centered on making love, not war. I need to be aware of war, since it’s a major part of human reality, without becoming addicted to it. That’s about the gist of the first love commandment: to “think love.”
The angel of truth is in the general entails; but the devil of the big lie is in the specific details, which in my thought is contained in the last nine love commandments. These are counter cultural and politically incorrect–in the extreme. It’s taken me 77 years to see their validity, despite their unpopularity.
The second love commandment is about food. We are what we eat, in a similar way to: we are what we think. The food I’ve eaten for most of my life is laced with violence. By eating it, I make war. The worst is eating slaughtered animals, which makes me a war-monger.
Not quite so bad, but still evil, is eating animal products, like milk and eggs. It’s not murder, like eating meat; but it’s stealing from another species. These actions have consequences of suffering and death, no matter how much I try to deny them, the worst of which are these endless wars of empire.
For most of my life, I’ve been aiding and abetting war and human misery, by what I’ve been eating; and I’m not alone since the vast majority of us do the same. This hidden evil goes back to our origins, when men first started killing animals to garner power by which to overthrow the love culture.
I was raised on the eating of animals and their products. Only in the last few years have I become more sensitive to the stench of this rotten practice, and to the denied and buried consequences in our rotten culture of war and suffering, inflicted upon innocent animals and subsequently upon ourselves.
My own diet has been a decades long series of changes. Gradually, with consistent effort, I am eliminating violence from my diet. Right now, I eat fruit, including the fruit seeds of pumpkins and buckwheat; all raw and uncooked. It seems to be working for me, but time will tell how well.
I share this personal information with you to be consistent with my need for honesty and integrity. It’s my contribution to our common cause of stopping war. You can, and will do whatever you choose; that’s how it should be. I don’t want it any other way.
This site is situated, by means of the Saker, in a country whose constitution has a first amendment of freedom of speech, and freedom to gather in a place like this. We learn from each other; particularly about the most effective means to stop the empire’s war. We have the privilege to state our views within a well-moderated and safe venue.
I enjoy playing armchair warrior and geo-political analyst, but I need to be more cautious of the dangers of such audacity and pretense. Bro is correct about the harm my ego can do if it is not ensconced within a context of true care, and he does me a service by challenging my ego assertions.
I choose not to denigrate my ego, or suppress its desires, but to bring it and all my faculties under the umbrella of love. For that I need a community of persons with similar needs and desires. This vineyard is not perfect, nor am I, but it’s the best I can find at this time.
So I will once again post my letter in this mail box, where it will soon slip into the archives, for future reference and self-education. Hopefully, with each article and comment I read, and with each post I make, I will become more real and honest.
My intention is to go deeper into the ten commandments of love, since I sense this is were the juice is. This may be offensive to you, but fortunately when you see my name, you can skip over what I write. For those few who do reply to me, whether positively or negatively, l extend my thanks.
That thanks is extended likewise to the Saker and staff. Without doubt, what I say is offensive to some of your views, but I hope you will not take offense inordinately. The path we have chosen in opposing war is bound to cause consternation the closer we get to causes, rather than symptoms.
The sun is about to come over the eastern hill on yet another day in paradise for some, and a living hell for others. All of it is well documented here; but more than that, is dedicated to stopping war; and more than that, is destined to fulfilling what we most need and desire.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, 8:00 am pacific
Denis, you probably know about the China Study.
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell (2006): What to eat and foods to avoid.
http://www.chewfo.com/diets/the-china-study-by-t-colin-campbell-thomas-m-campbell-2006-what-to-eat-and-foods-to-avoid-food-list/
My son has taken to the vegan way of eating and I look for factual information to become convinced.
It is a fact the animals are being raised in appalling conditions and this is evil.
My wife informs me the Chinese government is warning against the vegan diet after some studies of aged vegans. She reads and works with the Chinese language, so I will be following this up later when I understand and can translate the information.
A ditty or two for Dennis
Twin City Boogie
Leary is off to visit his not-lost kin
a railing trip of unity to the City of Twin?
Why does he voyage so far from home turf?
Into broken heartland, is Americana his search?
or does he like many want a change of scene
a rest, a respite, a refurbished dream?
Bon voyage, Saker-buddy, fly high and fly free
Take time to listen, to heal –just let it be
When you revisit tthe Vineyard you’ll still see
comrades waiting, in the storm, in the lee
Denis dear, sorry, but you should xxxx xx at this one
“That’s why I have developed an alternative way of thinking and acting, centered on making love, not war.”
with this one I’m at once in the in the kitchen with my dear Irma – yes making love by cooking, eating, talking with the flame where you are –
no more commandments, us guys commanders are our girls
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/
This is big on midEast Arab media…it may or may not be legit but is important. The source is usually quite reliable.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-video-isis-fighter-admits-isis-forbidden-attack-kurdish-forces-deir-ezzor/
Some basic info on the Catalan referendum
In the first place, this referendum is totally illegal, no question about it, but that’s not even the most relevant thing about this matter. It has also turned into a farce, a possibly dangerous one, flouting all existing minimal standards for this kind of plebiscite (in part because of the over-reaction by the Spanish state, although it is understandable the central government is starting to be fed up with this “anything-goes” seditious behavior, which does not even represent a majority of Catalonians.)
More on that below. But first some basic factual information. I don’t like El País, or The Economist, and the Spanish government is made up of a bunch of corrupt thieves and boot-lickers of the Empire, like pretty much all governments in Europe. No doubt the ultimate aspiration of the independentist Catalonian politicians is to become independent bootlickers to the same system, so they can milk the Brussel’s udder directly instead of doing it through Madrid.
In spite of all that, the historical and legal information in the following two pieces is in my opinion pretty factual, and should be easy to verify. They should be consulted to understand some basic things above all this emotional victimization din.
Myths and Lies of Catalan Independence Movement (El Pais, English)
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/25/inenglish/1506339116_980655.html
Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegal (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/09/economist-explains-17
Now, with almost complete certainty I can say that Catalonia enjoys the highest or one of the highest levels of regional autonomy of all the lands in Europe that are not independent states.This is a result of the 1978 Constitution, 3 years after the death of Franco, a Constitution which Catalan voters approved by an overwhelming majority of about 90%. The level of autonomy has steadily increased since then, to the point where the only logical next step would appear to be full independence. The only problem is that the same Constitution that they overwhelmingly voted for, clearly proclaims “the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation”, rendering secession illegal (and therefore secession referendums as well.)
Still, a referendum on secession *could* (and, in my opinion, should) be made legal, but this requires a constitutional amendment by Parliament. Even then, assuming independence would obtain a clear majority in a real referendum (right now it is supposedly polling at some 42%, but of course the “no” voters will not bother showing up to this increasingly absurd spectacle) the next stage would have to be a process of negotiation to carry out the separation. These kinds of divorces require a lot of negotiations. Unless you are a territory under old-style colonial rule, you can’t simply make a unilateral declaration of independence following, say a 50.01% “yes”, and then say “Done, I’m outta here”. Imagine that. An endless multiplication of Padania-like states and statelets, reproducing like rabbits just because they feel like being born.
Some of you may be thinking of Crimea freeing itself from freshly nazified Ukraine. But the comparison is ill-conceived at all levels for obvious historical reasons.
Catalonia has been part of a, first geographical and then political, entity called Spain for a very, very long time. And the independentist slogan “Catalonia is not Spain” is a blatant lie mostly for foreign consumption or for the indoctrination of tender minds.
The very first region of Spain where the Romans settled was precisely the Catalonia/Valencia area, a logical consequence of its proximity to the Italian peninsula, relative to the rest of Spain. Now, the Romans referred to these lands as “Hispania”. So Catalonia in this sense was their very first “Hispania” as far as the Romans were concerned. Look up the word Hispania on Wikipedia or elsewhere, to see subsequent denominations of this area by the Romans as they spread over the entire Peninsula: Hispania Citerior, Hispania Tarraconensis and so on. But the Romanization of Hispania began precisely in Catalonia in 220 BC. The process took 2 centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Hispania
But that’s only geography. Politically, Catalonia was even an independent kingdom. It was a principality within the Crown of Aragon, when its King (Fernando) married the Queen of Castile in the 15th century, bringing together most of the territories of what still constitutes Spain to this day (the kingdom of Navarre was incorporated somewhat later).
The undeniable fact is that Catalonia has been part of a nation-state called Spain (one of the oldest in Europe) from the very beginning of the so-called “Westphalian system” of nation-states in the 17th century, when the notion of national sovereignty and territorial integrity is supposed to have been adopted.
The plan the independence movement has is to make a unilateral declaration of independence (as if they were some oppressed African colony exploited by a distant metropolis) only 48 hours after this illegal, possibly violent and poorly organized referendum where the other side largely won’t vote.
I don’t know how long Chechnya, for example, or Siberia, have been part of Russia. But how would you think Moscow would respond to a unilateral declaration of independence in Chechnya, or in Siberia or any other of Russia’s regions, after a circus referendum organized by the independentist political parties?
Please do read the two links above for some basic accurate information. Because most of what I see out there is a lot of theatrical gesticulation and screaming with very little non-emotional content.
One thing is for sure : if that referendum will be passed and recognized by the EU, it will amount to a precedent and a lot of other similar issues will follow in Europe, from west to east. The danger will consist in the partition of certain states and will lead to the disintegration of the EU as we know it. That’s why, I don’t see how the Eu will approve such thing, even if Junker said recently in an interview that he will take in consideration such a referendum and the results of that.(split and reign)
If you say that only 40% of Catalans will vote for “yes”, then there are the majority with “no”. Anyway is hard to understand qui-bono. The nationalistic feeling will grow to a new level. But wait : what if Catalonia will be so successful, and after a while she can repeat the history and swallow the entire Spain, the new capital being this time Barcelona ? Ok, just joking.
I am starting to think that perhaps they won’t make a unilateral declaration of independence after all. I can’t see how the UE could possibly recognize it, in great part for the reasons you mentionned, unless there are some really hidden agendas at play here. It would open the door for all manner of nonsense and demands from regions that feel they deserve to have their own specialness rewarded with a custom- ordered statehood. But also because, if they make a unilateral declaration, the central government in Madrid may well decide they’ve had enough of this, arrest the main organizers and formally charge them with sedition, a pretty serious crime of which they are most definitely guilty.
Who knows? How this nationalist sentiment kept being fed is a bit of a mystery. Independentists in Catalonia are still in the minority but they were much more in the minority only 15 years ago. If you go back 100 years, independentists were really a very very tiny minority, if they existed at all. And if you go back 200 years, they didnt exist.
Or you can read chapters 60 and 61 of part 2 of Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s, where the knight and his squire ride their mounts all the way to Barcelona. You never get the impression at all that they are traveling in a foreign land. http://cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/TEI/TEI_1615/1615/chapter60.html
A correction to a sentence in my previous comment. Where I wrote: “Politically, Catalonia was even an independent kingdom, it was a principality within the the kingdom of Aragon”
It should read: “Catalonia was *never* even an independent kingdom… “ etc
Thanks, Paul and teranam 13, for your recent replies.
I have not heard of the China Study. From reading your link, it appears to be a sound approach, at least the one I have taken. I have gone into further refinements, based on my own health and mental requirements.
I think China is right about warning of the dangers involved. I have experienced these first hand. It is not an easy matter changing diets. Such modification changes everything in the personal constitution, from digestion to spiritual perception. In my case, the body has to deal with 77 years of toxic habits, and the releasing of those sometimes makes things seem worse before they get better.
Another danger is charlatans and food gurus who make money on desperate and gullible people. Diets are highly personal affairs which require baby steps when changing; that’s been my experience. Fortunately, I had Apolonia to guide me through the middle ranges.
She came over here from Holland in her twenties to study macrobiotics with Michio Kushi in Boston. She had an awful time with anorexia in her teens, associated with her upbringing; and spent a year in hospital and could have died.
I have now gone considerably further than she, based on my needs. There’s much meaning in the saying: we are what we eat. I propose to be a lover, and a stopper of war; and a large part of that goal concerns what I eat. I share my experience unabashedly, but in no way want to impose my views on anyone; which would boomerang badly if I did.
teranam, your ditty is so sweet, and it’s right on true. I leave on October 11, from one home to another. I do seek Americana in the best sense of the word. I’ll be stopping at Dodge City on the way to Kansas City and then Chicago, to meet my nephew, and then travel by car to Wisconsin, and the cranberry marsh where I lived for eight years.
I romanticize the trip as a love affair between the Ojai Chumash Indian maiden and the Tomah Menomonee Indian chief. Tomah is the town nearest the cranberry marsh. They meet at Dodge City, about the midpoint of my journey. Ojai means “moon” in the Indian language. Chief Tomah was reportedly an accomplished hunter who worked for peace.
My sister, two years younger than I, has a disease like Parkinson’s. She and her husband are traditional Catholics, and very traditional Americana in their ways. They are very accepting of me, and my wildly untraditional departure from the way we were raised. I just want to be with her, and the large extended family she is the heart of, and bring healing if I can.
In the process, I hope to heal myself. I have come to appreciate that family is very high on any scale of values worth having. My blood family and other various families, like this vineyard, segue into the eternal spiritual family, represented by the numbers 3 in 1, according to my developed Trinitarian theology.
Looks like it will get to 90 again today. The laundry will dry quickly on the line. I’ve had my breakfast of two oranges, and brunch of watermelon; and now look forward to lunch of soaked and sprouted buckwheat and pumpkin seeds, along with avocado I picked from the trees I water, a few lettuce leaves from the pots that I water, plus a pinch of salt. This new, new raw food diet is taking a little while to set in. My body is saying: what the hell is this?; changes, changes, changes.
Btw, pumpkin and buckwheat seeds have all the essential amino acids, plus many more goodly nutrients, to add my two senses to the China Study. I’m not aware of what this has to do with China; the authors’ names are not Chinese. Seems everywhere I look, China is in the picture. My nephew’s ex, who is still a sweet part of our extended family, is Chinese; I’ll ask her about the China Study.
It kicks up a fuss but slowly gets into the groove of returning to a facsimile of what we were designed to eat in the Garden of Eden. According to the bible, Eve ate fruit naturally, until jealous patriarchs artificially changed the rules, hiding behind the ruse of a powerful God.
The time has arrived for lovers to reclaim the God of Love, which Jesus and John started and this Vineyard will continue in a new spiritual deal of cards from another world–“into the path that we’re hurled, where the cards are no good that we’re holding, unless they’re from another world.” Dylan.
Love, Dennis, Cafe Ojai, California South, 1 pm pacifically, 8 pm universally, 0 pm synchronisally
Hi, ioan, eonity of starry skies,
“Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah…Dinah, won’t you blow your horn…” Nat King Cole. You’re in the kitchen with Irma. Sounds wonderful to me. No railroad horns needed.
You moved to “xxxx xx” a sentence. When I was a kid, xxx’s meant kisses, and ooo’s were for hugs. With that in mind, I second your motion.
You amend to “no more commandments, us guys commanders are our girls.”
Seven minutes later, you provide a chart in English with “no more ten commentments.” Then follows the full chart in German, which I know not.
However, I can cherry pick words and detect a pattern I do know. “Mars in Jungfrau…Venus…der Geist Symbol…Mars and Venus in Jungfrau…”
I misread the chart as “Mars and Venus are in the kitchen with Jung’s wife, as spirit symbols of love,” analogs of you and Irma.
Don’t bristle. I take the stars seriously, but sometimes I like to have fun at their expense. If I can’t appreciate “twinkle, twinkle, little star, I wonder what you are,” I have to wonder what happened to my inner child, who will grow to be my inner anima womam commander of us guys.
I call my Inner Womam Commander the Lover, and am proud to be in her service. She is like the Daystar with limitless star galaxies as her handmaidens.
The last two nights when I did my holy walk-about, Orion’s belt, or the Three Sisters riveted my attention, to match the crystal white crescent moon at my retiring hour. What a pageant of plenty we have in the stars and planets.
As always, thanks for your starry crown of priceless news to remove my thorny crown of spiceless views.
It’s now going on 3, my favorite number of community. I need a nap. I’ll think of you and the Three Sisters, and if I can sleep, dream that way too.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted at 3 pm pacific time and 10 pm common time and xxxooo love time
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Denis, you: “That’s why I have developed an alternative way of thinking and acting, centered on making love, not war.”
the “xxxx xx” is for ‘stopped’
“You amend to “no more commandments, us guys commanders are our girls.”
Seven minutes later, you provide a chart in English with “no more ten commentments.” Then follows the full chart in German, which I know not.
However, I can cherry pick words and detect a pattern I do know. “Mars in Jungfrau…Venus…der Geist Symbol…Mars and Venus in Jungfrau…”
I misread the chart as “Mars and Venus are in the kitchen with Jung’s wife, as spirit symbols of love,” analogs of you and Irma.”
Denis, in the chart you rightly perceive Mars and Venus, roughly man and woman, in Virgo in the kitchen.
But I have to add: it showed the moment of my comment in synchronicity with Uranus at the ascendent and Jupiter at the descendent in the luckymost opposition/completion of Aries = man and Libra = woman.
These synchonicities are happening without conscious will, the more so they are allways stunning exact meetings of time and meaning.
Cheers
Oops, I got my stars crossed and signals mixed with my last post. It was addressed to mundanomaniac, not ioan. Blame it on my old-timers’ disease. My excuse is that star gazers and poets gather together like birds of a feather.
The night before last, I got up at 444. This morning I decided not to wait until the clock digited 555. The triple 5-pointed stars are not pleased when I fail to dot my i’s and cross my t’s. In amends, I’ll patiently wait for 333 to post this apology.
Numbers, stars and letters are my betters. I’m betting on them, to help us take down the empire. Folks in the war room would look askance at such nonsense, so don’t tell on me, at least until Trump gets a second term. Then all bets are off, and the impossible is on.
Love, Dennis, OK Cafe, Ojai, 333 pm by the pacific hour
Love, Dennis
How on earth do they do this?
Does anyone know?
https://youtu.be/gFIIt2c1wG4
you practice for hours taking small steps, keeping a perfect level sense of posture, yes it is hard but rather nice to feel one is floating.
It’s as off they were on wheels… absolutely amazing control and timing.
Regarding the Russian round dance chain, linked by Eimear, I’m shocked. Must have been photoshot or a computerized platform with wheels. Really, if the human body-mind can do this, a vineyard can stop war.
My son is studying to be a robotic engineer. I’ll show him this to bolster my argument that robots are no match for humans, or ever will be. I might also use it to strengthen the speculation that Russian womem came through the North Pole, not Africa–but that’s so over the top, and off the edge that it might give him a dim view of his dad. Sad, isn’t it, when the youngsters lag so far behind the oldsters.
Love, Dennis, posted at six two three, or for my math son, 6=2×3. Hey, Bro, numerical humor is one way to beat the empire numbers of sick seriousness.
There’s a provocative new book out by James Whitman entitled _Hitler’s American Model_ that documents how Nazi Germany looked to America as a model for the construction of its race laws.
In particular, the USA’s discriminatory racial regime like its Jim Crow apartheid system; exclusionary immigration laws targeting non-Whites; or anti-miscegenation statutes were so admired by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis that they provided a blueprint for the infamous Nuremberg Laws of the Third Reich.
In fact, Hitler even deemed America’s One Drop Rule (to legally determine who was Black) as being *too extreme* for Germany.
You could say that in contrast to Nazi Germany, which was based upon Aryan White supremacy, “democratic” America was founded and built upon Anglo White supremacy.
Germany and America have much in common–and that’s not a compliment.
Given the rise of White nationalism, the Alt-Right, and xenophobic anti-immigrant (read: anti-Muslim and anti-Latino) vitriol in the USA, as exemplified by Donald Trump and his supporters, Whitman’s book is highly relevant today.
It is not without reason that some people called the United States of America the Fourth Reich.
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10925.html
The United States — A Model for the Nazis
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-united-states-a-model-for-the-nazis/#!
The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_fbi_the_silent_terror_of_the_fourth_reich