2017/11/11 09:00:01
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ANTONOV AN-22 – The BIGGEST PROPELLER PLANE in the world – Landing and Departure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6f46e2Rizo
Russian students study and build robots at school in Yakutia …
their teacher is charming … intelligent and innovative … securing grants and winning prizes …
and the local music is different and interesting to hear …
Yakutia, Maldzhagar (ENG SUB)
https://youtu.be/YpzucM3mZO8?t=2416
At the fish market in Yakutsk, milk is on sale as frozen blocks in plastic bags, … top shelf far right.
Milk … in Russian … молоко … looks like it’s 80 roubles a block.
Russia рыбный рынок Якутска + SAMURA! Yakutia
https://youtu.be/GSe1retzOvM?t=707
Dear Friends, Saker in particular, and several people who meet here, are evidently pretty savvy about what is possible and what is not possible and what is easy and what is not in the Computer and Communication area, after whatever happens to RT/Sputnik/and so forth. This begins, we imagine, @00:00 EST 14 November with RT. Is beginning, not end, obviously.
So, fellas, what will be left for Murkis to use to know the sort of things they want to know?
What’s expected?
Thanks
LZ
Today is singles’ day in China. It was reported that sales on Alibaba’s Taobao reached RMB 10 Billion within 3 minutes 1 second – a record!
And ambassadors from Argentina, New Zealand, Australasia, and Brazil delivered fresh meat and produce:
http://k.sina.cn/article_6400815191_17d84b0570010028n8.html
I want to turn northern Myanmar into an organic food paradise (I am not joking) for export to China just 50 KM away. The infrastructure is challenging and therefore also the logistics of fast delivery after off-line or online sales. The soil there is so fertile. It will be quite a challenge.
I knew you went there:-)
Yes it is part of the golden triangle. A lot of drugs, jade trade there. careful do not get in any trouble. If you turn the area in to farming land, what about the forest cover?
That place was very dangerous. I remember reading a book about the area, the people are not someone one can easily mess with in old times.
I keep well clear of all the illegal going ons. Also well away from the jade and gold. These are known as the “resource curse”. The forest cover is still there but there is enough fertile land without forest cover. The people are poor but intelligent and hard working. They were pauperised. But China is just 50 KM away and a border free-trade zone is being mooted. The challenges are interesting. Agriculture is the immediate future for economic recovery followed by tourism. But tourism can be messy.
Are they Chinese got annexed by British? A hundred years ago? I hope Chinese government help those people.
The Chinese government will help them. They Myanmarese got bitten thrice by the very, very unreliable Yanks (1962, 1988 and now). They need the infrastructure, investments and markets which China can provide on a win-win basis.
They are not Chinese but culturally quite compatible (Chinese can be compatible with virtually any culture). They paid tribute to the Manchu emperor but was colonised by the British when China was weak.
The British divided and ruled and exploited the country. They left behind a badly divided nation at independence in 1947. That is the origin of the present trouble including with the Rohingyas which the locals called Bengalis.
The Zio-Yanks increased the troubles by their anti-Chinese geopolitics. The trouble started in 1962. But I am sure the troubles will stop since the locals are now wise to the schemes of the Yanks. The present trouble with the Rohingyas/Bengalis can certainly be traced to the Yanks. The trouble won’t go away suddenly but will gradually diminish as economic development takes hold with China’s help.
But businessmen entering Myanmar need to be sensitive. It’s like courting a beautiful woman. Virtually literary so with Daw Aung Suu Kyi now in charge of the economy. Gentle, persuasive, a step at a time. And win-win always.
The translation is a little clumsy.
The Australia Said the “The lobster I bought here has an Indian (ocean) flavor.”
With the Brazilian ambassador, Aunt Zhou, when chatting with the consul general, jokingly asked: “Would it be more convenient to buy a Brazilian visa?” That translation of the question should be “Would it be more convenient to get a Brazilian visa for large buyers?”
There are more, but you can get the sense of to story.
LOL. A man confiscate wife’s bank card before double eleven, the wife send him a “Iron Rooster” banner. It says, “Iron Rooster, not even one hair can be removed”. It is Chinese expression to say some one very stingy.
https://news.sina.cn/gn/2017-11-13/detail-ifynrsrf4330147.d.html?vt=4&pos=108&his=0
the small text in parentheses on top of picture says: the man is Jack Ma’s forever sworn enemy, he confiscated wife’s bank card to stop her from buying, and she send him a Iron Rooster banner.
Hey Dennis and fellas…LZ suggests a fun interlude – the story is closely related to the present day realities and LZ is pretty sure Dennis will enjoy, as he did Bontsha, if LZ memory is intact…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-_zRv7JIc
4 hour audio book free, relates to Christian eschatological canon…as art and literature
Pax
LZ
Thanks for the post—Heinlein’s best line: ” I’m not suspicious rather pragmatically pessimistic.”
Just to toss this claim out for consideration…pederast cults…is believable? That’s not important…what is important is proof or disproof of claim/story. These stories have long tales..
what say y’all…
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/11/10/the-strange-case-of-ted-gunderson-2/
LZ
Of course it is real. Not every detail forwarded by alarmed individuals who may pass on something with hyperbole or error, but the general phenomenon:
Mind Control. Through Fear.
Degeneration through greed and fear of pathetic cases like Hillary Clinton. They become secondary psychopaths.Trapped in evil and power and the money that seduced their ridiculous egos and sick souls………..
But the primary inbred psychopaths of the “bloodline families” use these secondary minions to do the bulk dirty work for them….while they sit back and gloat and laugh at mind-controlled humanity which they calculate can never face the darkness they come from.
Making their egos “more fit” to rule than anyone else’s, for lack of care or concern for anyone or anything but themselves and their system of enslavement.
It’s too big for the police, and many in the FBI or the equivalent in Britain are part and parcel OF it. With no idea how to dismantle it….even if they were so inclined…..because it’s too much bigger than they are.
But I don’t think that is forever…..because humanity would self-destruct, not survive this disease…if it were eternally incurable.
I followed the John Dekamp (and Paul Bonacci…one of the victim testifiers…since crushed…declared insane…..well………… you might go insane too with a ruined, stretched out rectum as part of the cause …..) back at the time Dekamp was fighting hard….and for what….he and Gunderson were TOO OUT GUNNED, people.
That’s the short version of this individual’s view of the matter.
Most shrink away at the first whiff of evil and trouble. Dekamp and Gunderson are hardier types that could not do so and live with themselves IMHO. So a huge crushing weight was loaded onto their shoulders.
There are hundreds of thousands more shoulders to bear the load today. Of course their discernment must be fostered to avoid a hysterical witch hunt that jumps to conclusions without proven evidence……..but the problem is nearly as old as humanity itself and means developed to enslave the minds and psyches of other humans….for LARGE SCALE (as in Empire…) control.
Then you have some stupid schmucks like Sam….and “Son of Sam”……. David Berkowitz that just come spinning out of that whole sewer….apparently randomly or chaotically. It’s pervasive enough to produce low-level societal effects like that.
You wonder why the US Military has problems? “COL” Aquino….on the video link with Gunderson and Geraldo Rivera,that is in your link…… Aquino of the Temple of Set, was with the Psychological Warfare Division of the US Army, stationed in the Presidio of San Francisco.
At the time I had heard of many cases of sexual abuse of children of service people at that base, which allegations I would not immediately dismiss as absurd.
The Roman Legions also had their Sex, Death and Murder cult…The Cult of Mithra…commanders were initiated by being bathed in the blood of a sacrificed bull. Ahhhhh, the Imperial Tradition!
It all comes in the Imperial Package.
“Of course it is real. Not every detail forwarded by alarmed individuals who may pass on something with hyperbole or error, but the general phenomenon. ”
Precisely, Comrade, Precisely so!
A vast quasi sexual cult of rituals and murder to create the cement to bond devils to one another in a supercharge of blackmail. Once initiated,,,only one way out…
Not only devils can use pitchforks…and they know it. This binds them together as one evil organ, as does their greedy lust for power.
Of course Higher Echelon Catholics……………. and Sex………….are perhaps a greater part of this evil entrapment than even Full Spectrum Chutzpah Zionists and the Timid Jews the ADL and Freemasonic B’nai Brith and neocon Russia haters enslave……Just as Venetian methods predate Anglo Empire methods.
But forget the nominalism, the labels and the identification or aversion to such and concentrate on the moral character…or lack thereof.
Who is immune because of a Name They Give Themselves??
Who is condemned by anything except their own Weak Heart and Enslaved Mind….whatever names or associations they have been linked to in the past or present?
Well every comment should have a provocative link somewhere in it….and I will go with the synchronicity of the moment and give you this one seen just minutes ago….that reminded me to check back in with LZ99:
https://youtu.be/NEdKB9XmjEU
“They go after the young and the women first.”
Katy Perry: Pizza by the Slut
@Bro 93
“Of course Higher Echelon Catholics……………. and Sex………….are perhaps a greater part of this evil entrapment than even Full Spectrum Chutzpah Zionists and the Timid Jews the ADL and Freemasonic B’nai Brith and neocon Russia haters enslave……Just as Venetian methods predate Anglo Empire methods.”
Yet, you can add to these entities the full spectrum of religious fundamentalists on every side, who have the Apocalypse in mind, who have the fix idea of self-implementing Armageddon to achieve The End of Times and the arrival of the Savior…whom they think He is or will be ? rather they wait for Antichrist cause if they wait for Christ, they definitely won’t be happy with the outcome. But, who knows, maybe God has put this ultimate deception in their mind to make them be assured for the ticket to Hell. That train is already in the station, waiting fully decorated, with glance and glamour and welcoming posters, all first class wagons.
@ Anonymous 11/12/17 6:55 The Demons trans. R. Prevear and L. Volokhonsky p.385
Dostoyevsky alert: Stavrogin laughing says,
..”.There’s one thing better still: get four members of a circle to bump off a fifth on the pretense of his being an informer, and with this shed blood you’ll immediately tie them together in a single knot. They’ll become your slaves, they won’t dare rebel or call you to accounts. Ha, ha, ha!”
As Stefan Trofimovich might say in his inane and irritating way, ” C’est vrai–plus ca change….”
What a work is The Possessed ( The Demons) ! The opportunists, the psychopaths, the inept and cowardly bureaucrats, the enablers, the destablers, the glib sociopathic sycophants, the ready victim, and equally ready victimizers, the narcissists, the feeble minded,the bipolar hysterics….yet still Dostoyevsky manages to weave in a thread of goodness, virtue, nobility and honor however tarnished or battered the frail human attempting to manifest these might be.
Five tonnes of earth is dug up and sifted for just one gram of diamond !
Are we humans mad ?
sakha yakutia diamonds 1 Documentary Lengh AMAZING Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHv9xaRMu8
In Western Australia there used to be vast mountains of Iron, that have been reduced to deep valleys.
a long text , seems worth the space to post… machine translation from Russ to Eng. Happy Birthday… His pathway to now is illustration of kateonic response to evil, a lesson..
http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2017/pressreliz10112017.htm
November 11, the legendary Russian scout, a convinced anti-fascist, fighter for peace and social justice George Blake turns 95 years old!
On the eve of this date the jubilee was personally congratulated by the Director of the SVR of Russia S.E. Naryshkin:
Photo Press office of the SVR of Russia
Dear Georgy Ivanovich!
From the management, all employees, veterans of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and from me personally, please accept the warmest and most heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of his birth.
All of your life you devoted to the noble cause of protecting the ideals of humanism and justice, the struggle for peace. Your feat and outstanding contribution to ensuring Russia’s national security were highly appreciated by the leadership of our country, as evidenced by numerous awards.
Our Service is well known to you as a reliable combat comrade, wise with the experience of a person, a talented scientist, an outstanding writer and a skilled mentor. Your selfless devotion to the cause, the highest intellect, dedication, dedication, courage and fortitude, love of life and benevolence are an example for the staff of the SVR of Russia.
On this memorable day from the heart I wish you, dear George Ivanovich, good health, inexhaustible vitality, optimism, vigor and energy. Happiness, prosperity and all the best to you, your family and friends!
Accepting the congratulation, George Ivanovich turned to friends, colleagues and like-minded people:
Photo Press office of the SVR of Russia
Dear friends and colleagues!
November 11, I, the Russian intelligence officer, Colonel George Blake, turn 95 years old … In the life of every person, and I’m not here any exception, there inevitably comes a time that can be compared to the fall, which is connected with the summing up of the year. Remembering the past, I involuntarily ask myself how honest I was with my contemporaries and descendants. The 95th anniversary is a good occasion to evaluate its long and difficult life.
Many of my biography is well known. Its feature, in my opinion, is that the main stages of my path are associated with an important choice. The choice of their position in difficult and contradictory conditions dictated by the history itself. I could become a peaceful priest, but I became a scout. I could easily survive the war and the years that followed, but I preferred the dangerous path of an active participant in the Resistance movement. Miraculously avoiding the Nazi concentration camp, I became a British commando, who had risked his life more than once …
After the end of the Second World War, being an employee of the British special services, I stood in the front ranks of opponents of Russia, my present Motherland. A little later there was a terrible Korean war in my biography. I saw her real face, including the bodies of civilians killed by the American military machine of this long-suffering country. It was then that I realized that such conflicts are fraught with mortal danger for the whole of mankind and I made the most important decision in my life: I initiated and co-operated with Soviet foreign intelligence to protect peace throughout the world.
95 years … This is very much for an individual. And very little in the scale of human history. The memory of the past, about which I do not regret a bit, as I have repeatedly said, makes me look optimistically into the future.
I would like to take this opportunity to address my colleagues, first of all to the young employees of the Service.
Comrades! You will have a difficult and responsible mission – to save the world in a situation where the danger of nuclear war and the associated self-destruction of mankind, once again put irresponsible politicians on the agenda … When terrorism lifted its head and leaves its bloody tracks in many parts of our planet. There is a real war between Good and Evil. And I believe in you, in your unselfish and selfless service to our common cause, your professionalism … I believe in the final victory over the mean enemy. This faith gives me vitality.
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the leadership of the Service, my colleagues in illegal intelligence, for many years of faithful friendship, sensitivity, care, attention and understanding.
Compatriots! Russia became my second Motherland. There is a wonderful Russian wish for “peace to your home.” And I really want the world to be in yours, or rather in our home.
Peace to your – our home!
Clean and sunny all over the sky!
I have the honor!
An outstanding man, rarely seen nowadays in open but I hope there are many many unknowns like he. I’m glad that not everybody is a barbarian as some may think, wrongly.
Sputnik has an article up on Blake also:
Legendary Soviet Spy George Blake Calls on Russian Agents to ‘Fight World Evil’
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201711111059013368-russia-intelligence-george-blake-address/
“Blake was recruited by MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service in 1944, after joining the Royal Navy. He was serving in Korea when the war there erupted in 1950 and was detained by the North. He said he volunteered to work for the Soviet Union after witnessing ruthless US bombing of North Korea’s towns and villages.
As a double agent, the legendary serviceman also worked in Berlin, where he passed some of the most coveted British secrets to the Soviet Union, including a Western plan to dig a tunnel from West Berlin to the east, to tap telephone lines in the east.
He was foiled by a Polish defector in 1961and was jailed by a British court for 42 years. In 1966, however he was able to escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London and fled to Berlin through France. In Berlin, he travelled from west to east in a wooden box attached to the undercarriage of a car. He ended up in Russia, where he has been living ever since.”
The story of the two nuclear protestors and one minor crim ( former cell-mates) who masterminded and effected his escape from Wormwood Scrubs to East Germany is worth looking up too. They disapproved of his spying but decided that a 42 year sentence was unfair when the Cambridge 5, or possibly 6, (a spy-ring of establishment toffs) were treated far more leniently.
The escape committee all got off too, despite the judge recommending convictions all round.
Yes indeed – that thought had occurred to LZ.
Can Comrade One Minion or indeed anyone propose a source for that background…escapes are escapes…but not always as they seem. People lie, and believe. LZ prefers truth and science – well Marxist analysis is the science he uses in political matters…
This particular escape seems genuine. But sometimes escapes are permitted…James Earl Ray’s escape, for example. One idea that seems incorrect to LZ is that UK wanted the escapee to lead them to some other persons…but then he failed to do that, or they lost him in the hunt-phase. LZ think that the escape was real. Would like to see detail…
Machines, so far as Marx-science goes in matters of steel and iron, aluminum and engines and chrome and chemistry also can be examined and understood via Marx… LZ has tried that.
Interesting outcomes. Adds to understanding.
Pax
LZ
There was a book (long out of print now, I’m sure) written years ago, under a pseudonym, by one of the protestors, detailing the escape–it was definitely an amateur/local job according to that. There are still some extracts available on the net.
It was otherwise shrouded in mystery by the int. services who have never been keen to publicise their losses. It would have suited them to allow lurid speculation of a crack Soviet squad breaching our defences, springing George from the Scrubs and spiriting him away behind the iron curtain but I think the mundane tale that Randle told rings more true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Randle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Pottle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bourke
the idea was that uk let him escape…is a possibility to consider… but i agree, is most likely a genuine escape, possibly the fella upstairs blinded the guards. it happens…
is the stuff great myths are made from
If you saw the Scrubs, an enormous sprawling pile built in Victorian times and at that time never updated, you might give less credence to the idea of ‘allowing’ him to escape. They wouldn’t have let him loose in that area of the city and expect to keep tabs on him, not even in the 60’s when plod pounded the pavements and made their presence felt.
Our prisons, even the modern high security ones, are notoriously leaky (underfunded, as ever) and vulnerable to resourceful escapees who know how the system works inside and have a ready-made activist network on the outside willing to help him lay low.
Its a great story regardless, George should tell it for a final corroboration.
https://youtu.be/1-naa420BJc
Would it be possible to translate this Russian video into English .
BREAKING: Hezbollah leader Nasrallah slams Saudi aggression – says Israel will not invade Lebanon
http://theduran.com/hezbollah-leader-nasrallah-slams-saudi-aggression-says-israel-will-not-invade-lebanon/
“While many have suspected that Israel and Saudi have worked in collusion to provoke a crisis in Lebanon, Nasrallah stated that this collusion will not amount to a new Israel war on Lebanon. He stated that the Israeli regime is well aware of the international climate and will not likely enter into a new conflict that would be long, costly and ultimately unfruitful from the Israeli perspective.
However, Nasrallah warned that Israel is capable of igniting sedition in many places through the use of proxies. He cited the recent events in the Golan Heights where Israel allowed the safe passage of al-Nusra/al-Qaeda terrorists into the Druze village of Hader in order to create bloodshed. He stated that the only way for al-Nusra terrorists to reach Hader, was for Israel to allow them to pass from illegal Israeli occupied Syrian territory into Hader and surrounding areas.
He also said that the primary target of Saudi’s anger is Iran and that Lebanon is merely ‘on the road’ of Saudi’s path of anger. Even though Iran is closer to Saudi than Lebanon, he expressed his assessment that Saudi is afraid of attacking Iran directly, knowing that this would be the biggest Saudi failure of all.
In respect of Saudi failures, Nasrallah pointed to the failure to destroy Syria and Iraq, the failure to establish a Kurdish statelet in Iraq, the failure to subdue Qatar, the failure to ‘win’ in Yemen and the failure to even secure Bahrain as the small island is now entirely dependent on Saudi and UAE direct cash injections after waging a costly internal war against Shi’a human rights activists.
Nasrallah further accused Saudi of being in a state of denial over Yemen. Saudi absurdly blames Hezbollah for trafficking weapons to Yemen, something which is impossible due to the Saudi imposed blockade which has starved thousands of Yemeni civilians.
The leader of Hezbollah then turned to interference in Lebanon’s domestic sovereignty. He stated that it is clear that both Iran and Saudi Arabia have influence in Lebanon. The difference, he pointed out, is that while Saudi meddles in Lebanon’s internal affairs, Iran does not. Iran is respected but Iran does not instigate sectarian crises, tell Lebanese businesses how to operate nor tell Lebanese which factions to support or proscribe, while Saudi has done and continues to do all of these negative things.”
‘Nasrallah stated that this collusion will not amount to a new Israel war on Lebanon’
I have been saying that in few posts. I said ‘Israel doesn’t dare attack Lebanon’.
Yet everybody was panicking. Sometimes the alt-media gets it very very wrong,
it’s like a circle jerk, everybody echoing everybody.
Pepe & Co. failed big time, Pepe failed even concerning Catalan independence
(he was supporting it).
I do expect Pepe & others to address their mistakes, just be honest about and
they are forgiven.
The latest in the war of fascist Ukraine against the Ukrainian people and Russia is shown in this article in The Duran:
“Ukrainian regime in bid to kick Orthodox clergy out of their churches”
Religious freedom in Ukraine has gone from tenuous to dangerously imperiled.
http://theduran.com/ukrainian-regime-in-bid-to-kick-orthodox-clergy-out-of-their-churches/
I think that will be a tough egg to crash, I still remember a few years ago when a massive nation-wide religious (orthodox) column went on the streets in Ukraine to promote peace. They can take from the people many things but their faith and symbols(after having a long history in suffering for that religion) cannot be taken whatever they planning in their sick mind.
in our symbolical corner here in the cafe I say hello to all child in old bodies and to the younger elder
I’d like to share with you a Trebbiano del Abbruzzo, dry Bernsteinfarbener
white Italian, in our virtual kitchen together with my dear old girl who is happy about the stabilizers in
Moscow and Beijing
and to be a not only virtual but real tool for your analysis of any current
unconscious but powerful trait of the archetypes/gods constellating our potentials
I give you the supplement about the two of three main actors i9n Beijing and DaNang
Now, adding to the last update, the very last one in the never-ending-game
“The Toppler and the Waiver”
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/11/the-toppler-and-waiver.html
Interesting read & illustrations: The American Empire and its Media
https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
Why isn’t Russia part of the TPP agreement now that the US has withdrawn from it?
Yesterday I started to panic. Because in Canada, the lunatic fringe has revved into overdrive. (And that’s not a sly reference to SanctuaryOne or Franz who express opposition, frustration, whatever. These other commenters seem to claim to be conservatives, but they are far too extreme to fit into any Canadian political party. I keep waiting for the leaders of all of Canada’s political parties to denounce them. And then when that doesn’t happened, I panic even more. What is going on??)
I watched a clip on RT just now of Putin’s first handshake with Trump and Putin looked uncomfortable to my eyes. (Not helping the panic situation…) In all their other encounters, I thought Putin acted like a marionette, operating with masterful skill and precision.
Anyway, maybe the issue is trade. Or maybe I’m just wishing the issue is trade because that would be such a gift for NAFTA negotiations, which are scheduled again for this week.
Well it could be suggested (cynically) that Junior is merely following his Master’s orders:
‘We weren’t ready’ to close deal: Trudeau defends Canada’s actions on TPP
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-tpp-canada-not-ready-apec-1.4398824
And as for cynicism and frustration, rightly attributed to me, you might want to see the very last comment (from me) in the previous cafe as I ponder the monumental stupidity of WWI on this Remembrance Day. I never met my paternal grandfather as he was blown to pieces by a German shell.
However there was exciting news yesterday as my “Putin’s Praetorians -The Top Kremlin Trolls Confess” book finally arrived and which I have now started reading. Highly recommended.
I keep looking at the hilarious cruise ship cover picture and feeling that I am in the company of great friends.
The only pity is that there are so few of us.
I still think we should start a voluntary passenger list of all our handles. It might go viral.
All aboard the Oceanic Troll!
Uk Daily Mail even last week was still spouting forth about the putin trolls in that building …..
My Uncle Gale was killed by a German shell in the Argonne Battle one month before WWI ended.
Then I find out that the Carnegie Foundation not only helped plan WWI but helped prolong the war.
See below, copied para from HenryMakow.com.
“In the minutes one of the board’s early meetings in 1908 the order of business was to determine a means to change American society to conform to corporate interests. The question discussed was, “Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?” They agreed war was the most effective means to speed up “progress”.
When the motive of war is to change society permanently, we can see the motive for prolonging wars for years that could have been resolved quickly, or easily avoided to begin with.
The Carnegie minutes not only recorded a 1909 meeting planning how to get American involved in a war, the archive contained a copy of a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson instructing him not to end the war too quickly.”
I am now most of the way through the book “Putin’s Praetorians -The Top Kremlin Trolls Confess”.
It’s great to hear from all the characters but forget proofreading, it looks like the book never had a copy editor. It is riddled with typographical and grammatical errors, ambiguity, run on sentences, missing negatives and spelling errors.
As for Jeffrey K. Silverman’s chapter I am led to assume the poor man must have sufffered brain damage from his many beatings otherwise it stretches credulity that someone who ‘finished his MSc’ and was a copy editor could write such a disconnected, rambling and poorly-worded piece.
The Saker’s part, near the beginning, is excellent, as are others, but as the book progressses it seems to get steadily worse until there’s a howler on just about every page.
On a blog one has to expect and accept typos and other errors -we all make them- and most here are very forgiving and make allowances for anyone whose first language is not English or whose articulation is less than stellar. That guilt includes me.
Grammatical errors and quaint translations can add an authenticity to the author that a polished, professionally proofread coating would diminish. That’s understood.
In a book though you should not expect stupid spelling errors such as “Kiew’ rather than ‘Kiev’ (page 99), ‘I I wanted distraction’ and ‘Haiti n 1987’ ( both on page 129). “and how I have him Phil’s name and information.” (page 141). Was that supposed to be ‘gave him’ ??
“The potential for…was at hand. But this did start to happen. Instead…”.
Was that supposed to be “did NOT start to happen”? (page 179)
These and many more are unnacceptable in a book that costs $33 USD.
A simple spellcheck will highlight most of the errors; a single read will catch the rest.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the CIA hacked in to the publisher to discredit the book and its message.
I have now finished the “Putin’s Praetorians -The Top Kremlin Trolls Confess” book.
I won’t bore anyone with the remaining errors except for two:
1) Even the back cover has a glaring error and it is The Saker’s endorsement:
“Truly, this book is about much than just fans of Russia,…..”
-an easy one to fix:
“Truly, this book is about much morethan just fans of Russia,…..”
2) The full page picture of the map, US banknotes, glass presumably of booze, and a gun.
” A single bullet is dreadful cheap after all you’ve wasted”.
” A single bullet is dreadfully cheap after all you’ve wasted”.
Adverb not adjective, please -and I consider this exhortation to commit suicide both crass and distasteful.
On a more positive note the essay by Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Stankevich (the ending guest) and one which is a translation from what must be very eloquent Russian, is quite superb.
It’s too late for the paper book and although I am far from a professional copy editor, I could clear up 90%+ of the glaring errors for the electronic version -assuming not already accomplished by someone more qualified.
I could also suggest revisions of some of the clumsy grammar written by those whose native language is presumably English.
And also I could outline the typographical inconsistencies -but I am probably talking to a brick wall.
“and Putin looked uncomfortable to my eyes. (Not helping the panic situation…) In all their other encounters, I thought Putin acted like a marionette, .”
I found the same with VVP’s press conference, your description “operating with masterful skill and precision”
to me is precisely to the point.
If you look on the transit of the current Saturn on his Mars, you see someone’s vigor being kind of frozen
or someones vigor freezing a situation …
have a look like here
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/11/the-toppler-and-waiver.html
@ mundanomaniac: Putin wore a tie under the blue jacket that stylistically was supposed to button up to the neck or be left a bit open to a bare chest or nice shirt. So, yes, he did appear a bit hunkered down; however, at one point a flicker of amusement at Trump’s antics seemed to flicker across his face. With his Gemini moon, he can recognize trickster energy and actually enjoy the show/farce of it all.
He knows what he has to do and is sticking to his guns! And Trump can recognize and appreciate that, too.
Forward to the past:
‘Tainted by association’: CIA whistleblower says progressives kicked him off EU panel (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/usa/409528-kiriakou-eu-panel-winnie/
Kiriakou, who spent two-and-a-half years in jail for exposing the CIA’s torture program in 2007, was invited to address the European Parliament on national security whistleblowing Wednesday. However, he was bounced from the panel at the last minute, because one of the other panelists objected to his presence.
Kiriakou told RT he “thought it was a joke” when Winnie Wong, co-founder of the progressive organization, People for Bernie, refused to appear on the panel with him, because “she didn’t want the appearance of Bernie Sanders appearing to endorse the Russian media.”
“I laughed when she first said it because it was so ridiculous that I thought she was joking,” Kiriakou said. “Then she walked away, and one of the aides handed me an updated schedule, and my name then, was not associated with the first panel.”
Wong told Kiriakou she already “ran it up the flagpole” with her organization which supports the independent US Senator from Vermont, and they told her not to appear on the panel with him.
“While they were supportive of me as a person, as an individual, and supportive of the fact that I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, the fact that I was now associated with Russian media meant that they could not appear on this panel with me,” the whistleblower said.
The ex-CIA officer said the current state of American politics feels like “a red scare all over again,” adding, that politicians are once again looking at Russians as “the bad guys for absolutely everything.”
“They feel they can’t even risk even a tangential association with the Russians or with anything Russian for fear of being branded by their political opponents. It’s ridiculous. It smacks of the 1950s to tell you the truth,” Kiriakou said.
“This is only going to get worse as we move our way closer and closer to national elections here,” Kiriakou said. “If you don’t participate in this mantra of the Russians being behind every problem in the United States, you’re weak on Russia and you’re un-American and that’s what we’re seeing now being laid as groundwork.”
There is a lot of nonsense on the web about poor victim bernie sanders and the might have beens had team clinton not cheated him out if the deem nomination. But as one can clearly see here, team sanders is the same zionazi govno as team clinton and team trump. Three different faces, each a pretence of a different choice, fronting for the same oligarchy.
Speaking of getting kicked off panels, the EPA recently banned independent scientists from participating on their panels.
Pacification of the people will remain undisturbed, if only for a little while, given that abrupt climate change lurks just around the corner.
Yeah, funny thing about the climate: It just won’t stop changing!
Like anything else with gazillions of moving parts. Best accept it. And that it may go the opposite way you suspect: colder.
I read somewhere, (I think it was Pravda) a few years ago, that russian scientists are saying, a smaller Ice-Age will occur in the near future which will be “short”, only 30 years. Then I will see Kent moving in my country or we shall move all to Grece… The scientists say that the winter period will be larger and havier and summer will be short. Mother Earth won’t ask for our permission anyway.
She dosn’t care with kings and lords, with their deals and power, she has her own principles and laws. When she needs a cure for herself, she does that. People are coming and going for thousand of years, she remains.
Bernie Sanders was very quick to join the chorus of those who see Russia as the bad guy, he did so last time just one day ago live on CNN.
The following poem was inspired by twilight. I confess, I do always read his postings, he sees things from another angle, from some unusual, but definitely interesting. Therefore, it may sound pessimistic – after all it’s my poem and I preserve myself the right to do with my poems what I want and how I feel at that moment (the moment of capturing a certain essence) :
When All Is Done
They wait the day, when they can say :
“Mission accomplished”
Their work is done, we’re finished
Then, will be silence,
It will be peace,
When all is done
We’ll be released.
No more hunger, no more thirst
No more last and no more first
No more guilt and no more fears
Watching eyes and hearing ears
The game is over, with a flash
What remains behind, the ash
The memory, like smoking grind
Will be taken by the wind…
With a swirl, a blink of eye
Far beyond the seventh sky
Then will be silence,
Then will be peace,
When all is done
When all released.
thoughtful….thank you…..yup…..I.read twilight…..sometimes we need an “opposite” as a reality check, like using dissonance theory to keep us on our toes….and nearly every day events certainly surprise us, everything is sometimes very fast paced I am astounded.
individually we all will be there on our personal day
the person dies, the mind, immaterial, will be,
where your poem tells,
but, to your pessimistic mirror I will ad an optimistic
image:
it’s an unknown volume of goodness underway,
eating the demons away for a time, maybe ‘and a half’
like no gas was ever used in the barbarian II. WW
even while I think a lot of goodness was eaten away
in the thirtieth in Europe and in Hollywood
Jung was warning of psychic epidemics, systems of lies,
seizing masses, weakening the psychic immune-systems
torturing the souls, I feel this is what is crying in you poem
dear ioan, help us god further on
Here is something for you and for your Lady so close to you :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3VLjuuSOxA max raabe-ich tanze mit dir in den himmel hinein
thank you, well meant – but I’m a ’42er
this was the smoothly gliding
musical lie of the barbarous thirtieth/fortieth
I hate it since I heard it from our Volksempfänger
but thank you for the fish
Yes. as people speak of the unspeakable in the mid East: war because some spoiled, incompetent, brutish Prince desires it so.
http://theduran.com/anatomy-of-a-purge-is-saudi-arabias-mbs-a-tyrant-reformer-or-charlatan/
Might your poem speaks out of Spiritus Mundi.?
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
That’s it teranam, that’s it, the harsh reality sounds like this. Only the kid in me, still, is full of hope. That inner kid gives me the power for each day.
same to me ioan
thank you Teranam for Yeat’s ‘Second Coming’
one year after the first (WW) was finished
gladfully now the saker is listening to the lord of the Yineyard
Poland’s Mighty Submarines
https://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/105899/15/1058991541.jpg
Here we have another case of having to use “our lying eyes” to see the truth in Catalonia. RT has a report of 750,000 protesters demanding the Spanish regime release the political prisoners they arrested.One picture is a drone shot of a “sea of cell phone lights” miles long.
https://www.rt.com/news/409578-catalan-jailed-leaders-protest/
BRICS? Perhaps it’s wrong name. Real one is BRPCS. Sure that U-boat case is like letting them study T-72 but can anyone really trust India more that Erdogan’s Turkey. Jesus what a whimp.
https://southfront.org/india-allowed-us-officers-to-study-nuclear-submarine-leased-from-russia-report/
India is also participating in the air international air exercise held by Israel.
One India origin UK minister Priti Patel held an unauthorized meeting while in a secret trip to Israel due to which she had to resign.
Recently an Israeli army delegation visited India.
“but can anyone really trust India more that Erdogan’s Turkey”
should be more like
“but can anyone really trust Modi’s India more that Erdogan’s Turkey”
The reason for the India-Israeli romance is because of the Indian right-wing party, BJP , in power which is controlled by the brahmins. The brahmins follow a very racist ideology similar to the jews. They view more than 1/4 of India as untouchables and kept them as their slaves for more than 3 thousand years.
They have a religious scripture called manu smriti (which establishes the indian caste system) which is similar to the talmud of the jews.
you can get more info about the brahmins, manu smriti, indian untouchables and indian caste system on the net.
I think India is being used by the neocons as a sort of sample test for some of their long-term global ideas. Modi is certainly willing to offer up his people as test subjects e.g. for the new cashless projects, despite the problems that arise.
has nothing to do with brahmins per se RSS , Hindu fundamentalism penetrates all casts but true rarely the lowest ones
Here is more learning from brother Israel by Indians:
Israeli and Indian generals jointly mull ways to crush militancy in Kashmir
http://defencenews.in/article/Israeli-and-Indian-generals-jointly-mull-ways-to-crush-militancy-in-Kashmir-444259
Trump cook up Indo-pacific, to convince APEC to admit India so Indian can mess up APEC after it messed up SAARC.
I suggest As biggest economy on Indian ocean, Indian should form a AIEC and compete with APCE. Indian can be the biggest brother (bully) on the IOR, and put army on member nations in name of loving big brother, and block the Indian ocean if they do not comply.
In APEC, Indian will only be poisoned curry and insist on spread some in everyone’s favor dish, wither they want it, like it, or not.
There are four different issues/problems which impact the Indian position in geo-politics:
1) Indian elites-aristocrat class never forgot that, on partition in 1947 the Indian territory lost the regions that are now known as Pakistan and Bangladesh (countries). So they are not ready to face the reality in north-east region (of India) where British occupying forces seized south Tibet and added that part with India. Indian elites know it, but they will not be ready to hand over that south Tibet region back to China simply because it compensates someway the ‘lost territories’ in west and east region (of India).
2) Indian political leaders (not only nationalist right-wing, but many in the centre-left wing parties) are influenced by Zionist thought process i.e. exceptionalism. Indian ruling class thinks that entire south Asian landmass owes its civilization to the Aryan tribes which entered this region 4 thousand years back originating from Eurasian steppes, and hence leaders in every country (of this region) need to follow the Indian position on everything : economy, politics, geopolitics, culture …
3) Indian oligarchy-bureaucracy-political elites are in deep relationship with the Zionist plutocracy in North America and Europe continent due to which Indian businessmen and managers are increasingly positioned at the senior positions in Zionist owned corporates and banks. Tacitly, there is an evolving nexus between Anglo and Jew Zionists with the Indian elites-oligarchs (particularly, Brahmins and Baniahs) whereby India will be positioned in every multilateral institutions to bolster the Zionist interests and play the role of Trozan horse within the ‘Resistance camp’…
4) Increasingly, Indian political leadership and oligarchy wishes to play the role of a ‘spoiler’ in China’s economic growth and prosperity. Even if it does not provide any benefit to Indian masses (on the contrary, it would have a win-win for Indian economy also if India joined OBOR programme), but the ego of Indian elites would get satisfied if they find no other Asian country is doing well in the international arena !
Hi Straight-bat,
Pakistan’s Musharraf said some time ago, India is a nation of small heart. It can not stand anyone of its neighbor doing better than it, and actively sabotage the neighborhood.
I read some where that Indian took over Tibet in early 1950s while China was in Korea war. But I can not ind anything on line.
Indian nationalists want Pakistan and Myanmar. If Myanmar was waving between China and others before, the Dong Lang incident changed that. Now expect Myanmar to be very tight with China.
The North East need to come off India.
Some time ago, I was surprised to learn that US companies were not promoting Chinese/east Asian for managerial role as they feel threatened. The Chinese in managerial position you see in America are most likely the owner of the company.
There was a article on Sina talking about one thing Indian does better than Chinese is they have a lot of MBAs and many of them managing well know companies. The commentator then as the author why there is no Indian company competitive in the world, but China has quite a few. So want you have said does make sense in a way that not only in the companies seems not want to put Chinese in high position, but the elite universities also have a lot more restriction for Chinese.
Indian Caste system maybe the culprit for their entitlement and exceptionalism. However, the internet full of Indian talking like they are on top of their world. The government change their history to suite its political needs, a population used to live in its place of traditional order.
The so called democracy brought India smooth talkers and skilled election manipulators, not honest, ward workers, it is far too easy to get votes to fan the hatred of Pakistan and China.
There are people who are worthy friends, worthy enemy, of something in between, then there are someone who is pure nonsense and doing nothing but drag you down. India is this some one. It is best to limit engagement.
You are quite right that India is very impatiently trying to get into Israel and US bed, and think every one else want to contain China as it does.
Straight-Bat, brilliant comment. Every point that you made is straight on, especially the last one. India rejected the One Belt One Road initiative by China which was an opportunity for India to remove millions of their masses from poverty, but instead they are planning to sabotage it. USA has given more role to India in afghanistan for this one reason. Afghanistan happens to be on the OBOR.
SB, here is something to illustrate your points. lets see what will come of India:
Great democracies should also have the world’s greatest militaries, resolve Trump and PM Modi
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/great-democracies-should-also-have-the-worlds-greatest-militaries-resolve-trump-and-pm-modi/articleshow/61632880.cms
Hi J [13-November 3:24 pm UTC], J [9:55 pm UTC], Anonymous [13-November 8:45 pm UTC],
There exist some notions in MSM and Alternate Media about Indians, their behaviours and their objectives – few of that are also mentioned in your response. These notions, some of which are correct, while some others are wrong, have been propagated over time by
(a) the Zionists purposefully to alienate India from its Asian roots and push them into Anglo camp (the old colonial Masters);
(b) the Indian ruling (political) parties to garner votes during elections by equating ‘nationalism’ with ‘opposing all neighbours as villains unless they follow Indian ruling party’s instructions’.
I would like to point out few such notions –
(1) India captured southern part of Tibet – No. India (post-independence from Britain) never occupied any land either with Chinese border or with Pakistan border. McMahan line which was drawn by a British officer before 1920, demarcates the border between China and British occupied India – that line itself showed southern part of Tibet as north-east region of India.
Similarly, in Pakistan border also, after independence in 1947, a brief war was fought in 1948 over which parts of Kashmir will be included in India and which part will go to Pakistan – the UN sponsored cessation of war demarcated the actual line-of-control, which is still maintained.
Yes, there have been occasional violation of those ‘artificial’ border lines in both Chinese and Pakistani borders with India (where both the sides engaged in such activity), wars were fought, but the demarcation lines are still maintained.
As we grow old, people like me, always wish that, these great Asian societies should come together, discuss among themselves heart-to-heart, and resolve all issues amicably without war, and increase cultural exchange.
(2) Indians dislike Chinese – No, and Yes. Ordinary people (90% common population) of India don’t have any ill feeling towards the Chinese people. In fact, the 90% population is so hard-pressed to earn their livelihood that they do not have any time to think about anything else other than how to earn some money that can sustain their family.
The elites-oligarchs-aristocrats of India started disliking China after the border war in 1962, and more importantly, after 2008 Olympics which brought China to global limelight – in addition to that, the Zionist Masters have been busy in propaganda in global and Indian local media to create a ‘false sense of rivalry’ with China about economic growth etc.
Interestingly, during the period 500 BC to 1500 AD, Indian elites-aristocrats were in continuous touch with Chinese elites exchanging religious-cultural-educational views. The past socio-cultural relationships have been buried deep so that the Zionist Masters can create a dangerous war between India and China in order to (a) destroy both the economies and societies (b) profiteer from selling of military machinery (something they have been doing for past 300 years in Europe pitting one great country against another). Every PM of India (after Gandhi-Nehru family) were trapped by the Zionist Masters, as evident from Modi-Trump declaration.
(3) India has been historically a single political entity – No. Except when there was a strong clan/family which politically united south Asian landmass (now divided into Bangladesh/India/ Pakistan) under one political entity, this landmass remained fragmented with regional kingdoms and small empires which continuously fought among themselves – somewhat resembling European landmass. From 2000 BC to 1947 AD, the only unifying forces were Mauryan empire (direct central rule), Gupta empire (through tributary system), Mughal empire (direct central rule), British empire (through tributary system) – each time they could hold central power for about 150 to 200 years.
It is imperative that Indian elites-oligarchs should put sincere effort for nation-building instead of spreading false narrative on history and/or preparing for war with neighbours just to please Zionist Masters and swindle more and more wealth (as they are getting integrated into Zionist world order system). They are under-estimating the resolve and strength of the ‘Resistance camp’ !
Of Cause Straight-Bat,
Sikkim, Kashmir, break up of Pakistan and here about South Tibet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute dispute your claim No 1 “India (post-independence from Britain) never occupied any land either with Chinese border or with Pakistan border. ”
The claim that Indian is so stupid to be fooled in to opposing everyone of its neighbors by Zionist instigation, is as laughable as you claim of “India (post-independence from Britain) never occupied any land either with Chinese border or with Pakistan border. ” and India only hate China after 1962.
The war happened 3 years after India and CIA supported Tibetan separatist, gradually take over Chinese border posts one after another, killing many Chinese soldier in process, and 12 years after Indian march into south Tibet taking advantage of Chinese was in Korea.
I am not sure what kind of cool aid you are drinking, but you Indians seems have generic defect of facing historical facts.
Let’s say only 10% of elite hate China, 80% of Indian MSM, 100% of ruling party and I get the picture.
India did not exist before 1947, and Buddha was from Nepal. Buddhism is almost in no existence in India, there is no need to claim that ancient connection. The ancient people and culture that Chinese once in connection with no longer exist. And the people where Buddha was born, Nepal, is oppressed and militarily occupied by you Indians.
India has been independent for 70 years now, time to man up owning everything you do, instead of blame others for your misdeed!
J,
Except Sikkim, all other areas you mentioned (Kashmir -Pakistan side, Kashmir -China side, south Tibet) are not occupied by India after 1947 – Indian government claims each of those areas because of British India’s legacy where in McMahan line was marked before 1920 …
What you mentioned as cause of border war in 1962, India government claim those land as within McMahan line !
Buddha was born in Nepal but his entire working and preaching activity was in (currently) India … So, Indians claim that L anyway.
I don’t think, constructive discussion can happen if you accuse others of ‘generic defect’ – as I noticed you accused Uncle Bob earlier, and now me !
Nicevtry, India claim whole Tibet, Myanmar, Afghanistan and they will not get it.
The “McMahan Line” was never agreed to by China. It as an arbitrary line drawn up by the British. The Chinese freezed the text of the treaty containing the line for further discussion but never agreed to it. Also no further discussion took place.
Spot on J on the historical facts!
I grew up with Indians. At school, the Indian girls were my most loyal and enthusiastic supporters when it comes to elections to student committees. Among my closest friends were Indian boys. We still have many fond memories of one another. One of them called me “brother” and close friend (still treated me as one). But it’s hard to understand them. I was one of the few who did understand them and trusted them. Among the most honest individuals I came across are Indians. But by and large, my community are vary of them. But Chinese being Chinese, managed to get along with them. But when it come to trust and inter-communal relations, the best is to be transactional with them on an individual and case by case basis because of cultural differences and perceptions.
There is no disagreement that Indian and Chinese can be, in many cases are very good friends. Your experience is not unique. In US, Chinese and Indian second generation are very close. In Singapore they intermarry. I have good friends that are Indians as well, and one of them come to US not long ago. It was around 2000 I first experience Indian hostility.
The time Indian seems has intense nationalist movement, and was hype up 1962 war as Chinese aggression. One of my good friend actually asked why the war, and I had no clue. He then commented it must be the defeat made their country so bitter.
After Modi get in office, I all of sudden encountered foul mouthed Indian commentators all over the internet. I was shocked, and took a lot of time to get used to the idea the Indian elite actually hate China.
If you follow their on line publications, you’d find it is shocking how vulgar and full of hatred their comments are.
Many Indian overseas still has the entitlement. Someone commented that Hindu nationalists in US want special treatment as minority, but back at home, they support the government discriminate the minorities. BJP’s biggest donors are oversea Indians.
Look at second generation politicians in US, they are not some one for inspiration.
Someone asked not long ago that Indian is doing as well as Chinese in US, why is India much worse off?
It is fact the Indian government and Indian elite see China as enemy, or at least, stir hostility against China for votes, while its MSM sensationalize everything to gain viewership, and to serve government agenda. Their delusional view of self and the world also does not help the relationship between India and the neighborhood.
Chinese getting along with them individually or not is not the problem, it is the collective that destine to bring China and the neighborhood down with them turn Chinese off.
I went to school in Singapore a very long time ago and you are right about the lack of inter-racial problems there, considering the large contingents of Malays, Chinese, mostly Tamils and a handful of Anglos that make up the state.
However I remember the huge public education programmes undertaken by the newly independent state to ensure social harmony, equality and tolerance and that everybody identify as Singaporeans first, regardless of ethnicity.
I went back for a visit a few years ago and the education projects are still ongoing and the results are remarkably successful. Lee Kuan Yew was a communist insurgent before independence but when he became PM he rapidly embraced capitalism to ensure that the state survived. Not too dissimilar to Mr Xi, I think.
Hi OM,
Thanks for the first hand information. Quite some people think Singapore’s rise has root in Confucianism as is China right now. The four Asian Tigers were all under Confucius influence. Korea practiced neo-Confucianism in ancient times.
So is Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Neo-Confucianism
Yes, when I was in dire need of face-to-face help and guidance, I had the great good fortune to stumble across a Korean teacher, now sadly long dead. I still consider myself very lucky indeed to have had such an example to learn from.
That is because the indians that you came in contact are tamils. They are south indian dravidians as opposed to the north indians who consider themselves to be aryans. The tamilians are less prone to be racist and to consider themselves special. The tamils who were taken as indentured laborers by the british to their colonies in various parts of south east asia, where they finally settled, were mostly from the lowest rungs of society.
Actually, the Indians that I came into contact with then were first and foremost Singaporeans and all that caste nonsense of highest and lowest was never an issue.
The Chinese are never going to forget the Indian contribution to their ‘Century of Humiliation’. Indian businessmen like Tata and Sassoon in cahoots with the British earned big profits by selling opium to china and destroying millions of Chinese lives.
Anon,
I do not think Chinese really hold that against India. India was under British occupation at time.
Chinese view of India is not because what they did in their past, but their stupidity today. It does not act like a nation with thousands years of wisdom. It act like headless fly.
The Sassoons were reported to be Baghdadi Jews recruited by the British to run their narco empire from Singapore to China.
Another false flag?
https://southfront.org/bahrain-officially-accuses-iran-of-blowing-up-strategic-oil-pipeline-in-its-territory/
Sure.
“This pipeline it is the only one that links Bahrain and Saudi Arabia currently. The pipeline is operated by Saudi Aramco and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco). Another pipeline between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain is currently under construction.
The Bahraini Ministry of Interior accusations could be a part of the ongoing propaganda war against Iran, especially that the Ministry didn’t provide any evidence to support its claims yet. The accusations against Iran are similar to the ones made by Saudi Arabia against Iran in Yemen, and against Hezbollah in Lebanon lately.”
If Trump knows the full story about Saudi Arabian involvement in 911; irrefutable evidence having been provided to him by US military intelligence members loyal to their oaths then Trump now owns Saudi Arabia.
Trump knows all about Mueller and his investigation. Mueller knows that Trump knows. Will Mueller end up indicting himself?
Could well be that Trump now owns the whole swamp.
I can believe many bad things about Saudi Arabia but I seriously doubt they were the main actors of 9/11. If you read and accept John Perkins “Confessions of an Economc Hitman” you will also understand that the US has essentially owned Saudi Arabia for some considerable time.
Ask yourself who owns the USA.
Perhaps Trump knows all about the main actors too. Perhaps he’s got the dirt on every single one of them. Seems to me that could well be that it’s Trump who nows owns the USA. Perhaps he’s played the trump card: he wins, they lose, and all at once; could be that he’s been holding it all along.
You do realise that the person he played on the reality TV show was not real, it was a manipulated and made-up persona, don’t you?
Not real? Awe, c’mon. Next you’ll be trying to tell me that professional wrestling isn’t real, or that all the huffing and puffing between Trump and Jong isn’t just a distraction to divert the audience’s gaze while the real work is being done.
This is a lot of wishful thinking about Trump, he’s not the master chess player.
He sure ain’t; doubt he even knows the rules. No, Trump is playing Battleships and already knows all of his opponents’ positions. He can make hits at will.
I doubt he knows, beyond a nodding acquaintance with the alphabet characters making up the word, what a ‘will’ truly is.
At http://www.voltairenet.org/article198714.html T. Messan moots idea more precise and comprehensive…Saudi and zion are marks, both criminal and also conspirators, but also under the overall control of the evil cabal at the center…
So, not to clutter the space, but here’s a sample…
“…The deep state, like any other, has its own history. In the contemporary American history, the countdown usually begins with the assassination of President Kennedy.
Meyssan, on the other hand, starts counting the new history of the “deep state” from September 11, 2001. In his opinion, on this day, in the United States, a coup d’État took place that brought to power a group of people united by a common idea.
The roots of this idea in the early 90’s can be found in the “Defense Policy Guidance” by Paul Wolfowitz- the concept of global leadership and the suppression of any possible competition.
“Until 2002, they assumed that energy resources were running out. They had to control all sources of resources and, therefore they invaded Iraq. But now they understand that oil and gas will last for the next two or three centuries, maybe even longer. And the policy of the West is changing. At the heart of this are ideas unacceptable to a normal person. The US military is confident of the need for looting and plundering all existing major states and dividing the world into two parts. To achieve this, they began the destruction of the entire Middle East. We saw this happening in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia. And this is not a side effect, this Is the goal. The point is to destroy all major state institutions so that nothing could compete with the United States, ” says Thierry…”
You get the idea.
Sous nos yeux…his new book…
Can anyone give a source…please? for the book in English… My French and German is childish and hard for me…my Russian? I wish! (Though LZ does understand slightly some spoken Russian.)
Pax
LZ
I want to draw the Leprechaun from Ojai back onto the court with pure Hype and Hyperbolic LOB!
(Position yourself under THIS one and you can do a forehand smash that bounces in front of me and goes waaay UP into the stands.Game, Set, Match on the line!!
Look, I know we can’t volley for 3 hours straight like the Chinese tag team of Chow and J versus the doubles team of Bob and SB….but hyperbolic shots are about heighth…not duration of net volleys directly into opposing team’s face!
Mathew Ogden provides the hyperbole WAY UP: “I don’t think it would be an overstatement to say that we are witnessing THE most important moment in modern world history……We are watching before our very eyes the unfolding of a New Era ….. both a New Era in terms of US/China relations with the events that have occurred over the last several days…and consequently a New Era for the ENTIRE WORLD. These two countries, arguably the two most important countries on the planet have now forged a relationship that is UNPRECEDENTED in terms of its level and in terms of its magnitude. The two presidents (Trump and Xi) of these two countries have repeatedly stressed this New Relationship that they are inaugurating will be beyond anything that the world has seen before, and that not only can all the problems between of these two powers be resolved by this New Relationship, but with the participation of other partners around the world, MOST if not all the problems facing Mankind, at this point CAN BE SOLVED,”
Wow! Talk about serving one right over your plate! No, not dinner…Home Plate….er…wrong sport….ready now,,,coming down 5 feet in front of your net…..WHACK IT at me….drive me off the court!
https://youtu.be/hWOqnbQtPiA
Wait! It’s all kinds of footage (I haven’t seen elsewhere….) of Donald and Xi Together…seeming to confirm that mouthful of hyperbolic optimism Mathew just laid on us, over and over again…..in Xi’s translated words…and Trump’s direct ones!
Holy ZION!!! What’s a Dennis the Menace Tennis Player To Do? Smash his own alter-ego on the Plane of World History and say he’s just Don the Con (like many other cynics here will insist!)??
Call time out for a broken racquet string??
Retire?
Or reach into his Bobbie Riggs Dennis Bag of Trick Shots and come out with some totally confounding reply, with massive counter-spin??
Place your bets, Dennis Fans!
re: our elusive idealist, Dennis
Flaunt the taunt, aim the blow low
Dennis is this show’s Peter Pan
Do you believe? Just clap your hands!
Perhaps the lust for fairy dust
just keeps some from going bust
His gentle tone does reprimand
yet harsh notes he does not stand
For others on this site my self included
with rhetoric at times our hearts occluded
Carry on the battle inward and outward
Our hearts and minds too much enguarde!
Interesting article:
China’s Alaska deal makes Russia shudder
http://www.pravdareport.com/business/companies/10-11-2017/139158-china_russia_usa-0/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation
Come on J, this “shuddering” is just a psychological sop to Exceptionalist Bruised Egos fearful of the huge Russian Bear and covetous of Chinese Capital (savings) because we don’t save squat…we just compound debt and put off repayment for future generations.
Read the text and you see that the Russian attitude is calm and realistic: Diversification of supplies is “Normal Business Practice”.
More importantly the seeming slight of The Bear is more than compensated for in your own link by this subsequent link it ends with….42 seconds showing Wall Street Swindler Taking the “SWIFT” Slide to the Down Side:
https://youtu.be/xJwpUpTVpp4
USA Watches China Build New Capitalism!
It is normal for a great culture that endured a Century of Humiliation to feel its oats as it rises, but it will rise faster and farther with Confucian wisdom and balance than Taoist Tennis Court “Swag”.
Otherwise you alarm Bob too much and make my organizing of Leary, who sees you and Simon and Xi as Zionist agents, an extremely uphill task!
Co-operation!!!
Remember, this isn’t Tennis, really.It’s WIN,WIN, WIN!!
Even for small players!
The three biggest ones (CHINA, US, Russia) must love each other and all the rest,
And lead the World in Maturity and Wisdom, not trash talk swag and beating breast!
Hi Bro,
You are quite right. I stump this on accident, and thought it confirms with my view of Russia is learning some good ideas under Putin.
It is Russia Site, and the Russian expert was not hopping mad because Chinese did business with US, and has not move along fast enough for Russia/China pipe line.
He was introspective. I was impressed.
I think when he said “Unlike Russia that has experienced two revolutions over the past hundred years, China has been developing peacefully for five thousand years without any revolutions,” He meant that Chinese has been working under same principle of “It is an open secret that China does not take any political positions – the country is primarily interested in internal development, plus the development of the region where it is located. The Chinese do not play political games,”
I have to say again, I am impressed with Russia under Putin, however, I am not sure about Russia after him. Something he imply as well.
Like he said, here is enough need for Russian gas from China as well, I am not sure what ever reason is still on the negotiation table, it will be taken care of.
It’s good to get your feedback J…..and Chinese moods and thoughts and emotions and insights are interesting.
You have American children studying Chinese for a “great business future” (my Broker’s grandchildren) and his wife listening to knucklehead Republican MIC types warning that “China must be stopped….war may be unavoidable.”
Oh, what are they doing that is worse than the West? Not sitting on their laurels of the last 5,000 years or the last 30 years, but still rapidly growing??
Horrors! The audacity!
Everyone knows we developed first and it should STOP there! Sorry Other People! Now Industry, manufacturing, engineering, science are just the Bad Homospiens Abusing Nature.
We in the West have it, and the GOD Given Right to SIT on IT forever…..and BAD CHINA is not co-operating…….something must be done about this dark, threatening CHANGE!!! LOL.
Leary is mixed up. Have compassion! He’s been through the relationship mill and things look so dark a great change in the last few days affecting a bright future for billions…….is outweighed by his openly, courageously depressed mood.
Could dozens, hundreds or even millions that see reason for more hope and less fear of his Count Khazar lift his mood??
I severely doubt it!
And I think it’s honest. Many mistakes are honest ones………………….
Nevertheless, we must save his split 3 ways pension. Or he won’t make it to see his grandchildren.
I know I can;t change his mood. Nor Xi or Putin. Nor possibly even Trump in the video coverage Dennis says almost dejectedly he will watch. But scores of millions here and abroad are thinking better than they ever did before. Some are frowning, some are smiling…..many are changing….
Enough Aggregate Learning and Consciousness for Humanity to Pass the Big Test??
We’re going to find out pretty soon, I think.
Hi Bro,
Right again. The world is more than 300 years old. Regions rise and fall constantly. It will not stop because this time the white man got on top. Instead of complaint, the best way is learn from it and move on.
Some time ago, I spoke to a lady from upstate New York. She told me that GM car was a good car, because her friend who work at GM told her that it took $80,000 to make a car that sold for less than $30,000. I had to explain to her GM either inefficient, or have a terrible business model. It does not say that car is any better than cars from other brand.
As or Dennis, You have done your best, He has to do the rest. He can think about the world is ending, or he can think about tomorrow is first day of rest of his life, and he will make best out of it.
From his rant between divorce and acupuncture, I kind of getting idea where his sinophobic come from.
If I was in the Russian government,I wouldn’t be very happy about that article.Not just because of the the premise of the article. But because of some of the false history used in it.Since when would anyone believe his conclusion that China was “trudging” along for thousands of years making progress without revolutions. Just with a cursory glance I can name several monstrous revolutions within the last few centuries alone.It is the constant revolts/revolutions in Chinese history that mostly accounts for the concern the Chinese government gives to internal security today.
Ming Dynasty
“Li Zicheng’s rebellion was a peasant rebellion aimed at the overthrow of the Ming dynasty; it led to the establishment of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty. Li Zicheng began recruiting troops at Xi’an in Shaanxi province, and later went on and gained power throughout northeastern China. From 1620, towards the end of the Wanli Emperor’s reign, social and economic conditions under Ming rule worsened drastically. Li Zicheng did not become the emperor, but he paved the way for the rising of the new Qing dynasty, after overthrowing the Ming emperor by capturing Beijing. The Qing troops, arriving from the northeast (originally from Manchuria) were allied with Wu Sangui, a former Ming general, an alliance which eventually lead to the defeat of Li Zicheng, though the impact of his rebellion were tremendous.
Revolt of the Three Feudatories
“The Revolt of the Three Feudatories was led by three territories (三藩, Sānfàn) in southern China bestowed by the early Manchu rulers on three Han Chinese generals (Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Zhixin). In the second half of the 17th century, these generals revolted against the Qing government. This rebellion came as the Qing rulers were establishing themselves after their conquest of China in 1644 and was the last serious threat to their imperium until the 19th-century conflicts that ultimately brought about the end of the dynasty in 1912. The revolt was followed by almost a decade of civil war which extended across the breadth of China.”
White Lotus Rebellion
“The White Lotus Rebellion (1796–1804) was an anti-Qing uprising that occurred during the Qing dynasty.”
Taiping Rebellion
“The Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864), usually known in Chinese after the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (t 太平天國, s 太平天国, Tàipíng Tiānguó) proclaimed by the rebels, was a rebellion in southern China inspired by a Hakka named Hong Xiuquan, who had claimed that he was the brother of Jesus Christ. Most sources put the total deaths at about 20 million,[4] although some claim tolls as high as 50 million.[5] Altogether, “some historians have estimated that the combination of natural disasters combined with the political insurrections may have cost on the order of 200 million Chinese lives between 1850–1865”.[6] The figure is unlikely, as it is approximately half the estimated population of China in 1851″
Nian Rebellion
“The Nian Rebellion (t 捻軍起義, s 捻军起义, Niǎnjūn Qǐyì; 1851–1868) was a large armed uprising that took place in northern China. The rebellion failed to topple the Qing dynasty, but caused immense economic devastation and loss of life that became one of the major long-term factors in the collapse of the Qing regime.”
Du Wenxiu Rebellion
“The Du Wenxiu Rebellion (1856–1872) was a separatist movement of Muslim Hui in western Yunnan, led by Du Wenxiu (born Sulayman ibn `Abd ar-Rahman).”
Dungan revolts
“The First Dungan Revolt or Muslim Rebellion[8] ( 回變, 回变, Huíbiàn; 1862–1877), known in China as the “Hui Minority War”, was an uprising by members of the Muslim Hui community in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia.”
Boxer Rebellion
“The Boxer Rebellion ( 義和團之亂, 义和团之乱, Yìhétuánzhī Luàn) or Uprising ( 義和團匪亂, 义和团起义, Yìhétuán Qǐyì; November 1899 – September 7, 1901) was a revolt against European commercial, political, religious, and technological influence in China. By August 1900, over 230 foreigners, thousands of Chinese Christians, an unknown number of rebels and sympathizers and other Chinese were killed in the revolt and its suppression.”
And of course the most recent,famous in modern times.
Xinhai Revolution
“The Xinhai Revolution (辛亥革命, Xīnhài Gémìng) was a republican revolution which overthrew the Qing dynasty and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The revolution had ended the monarchy which had a history for 4000 years in China and replaced it with a republic, with democratic ideals. The ensuing revolutionary war lasted from October 10, 1911 and ended upon the formation of the Republic of China on February 12, 1912. Since 1911 is a Xinhai Year in the sexagenary cycle of Chinese calendar, the Xinhai Revolution had got its present name.”
Chinese Communist Revolution
“The Chinese Communist Revolution started from 1946, after the end of Second Sino-Japanese War, and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. It was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party’s drive to power after its founding in 1921. In the official media, this period is known as the War of Liberation (simplified Chinese: 解放战争; traditional Chinese: 解放戰爭; pinyin: Jiěfàng Zhànzhēng).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution
Beware of those with an agenda teaching history.Like the author of the article they count on the gullible to accept their statements without investigating them. RT has another more balanced article on the same subject.
https://www.rt.com/business/409450-china-alaska-deal-not-real/
No sweat bro. Just return Outer Manchuria and I guarantee that there would be a far better alliance between China and Russia!
Haha,sure thing.I’m sure they’ll talk about that right after China gives Tibet its independence.
Uncle Bob 1. Hahahaha! Just as you have only one concept of power, you seem to have only one concept of “independence” – the Westphalia concept desperately derived to stop the 30 years of barbaric slaughter (1618 to 1648) due to greed by the elites and masquerading their greed as religious/moral issues so that the masses will be willing to sacrifice themselves for their wars!
Your mindset won’t fly.
The Tibetans have always been “independent” since they voluntarily became part of China many centuries ago when Russia was still a small town of barbarians at the mercy of the Mongols. Tibet is now very developed and continuing apace to catch up with the rest of China.
The Tibetan elites i.e. the Dalai Lama clique want the “Westphalia” type of “independence” so that they can continue to exploit their own countrymen and enslave them as feudal serfs!
But Outer Manchuria is stolen Chinese land (like Crimea). Lenin was reported to want to return Outer Manchuria to China and restore the Treaty of Nerchinsk (signed in 1689). But Stalin reneged on that promise. So much for Russia’s integrity! But there were reported to be secret protocols when China settled “forever” (Xi’s word) the boundary with Gorbachev. And Russia is showing that she can neither populate nor develop Outer Manchuria up to and including Lake Beihai (Lake Baikal). Why soo greedy for land?
“The Tibetans have always been “independent” since they voluntarily became part of China many centuries ago ”
You and I must have different ideas on what the word “voluntarily” means. I don’t class being conquered by military force as “voluntarily”,but maybe that’s just me. But I think the easy solution to see who is right is to have a UN guided referendum on it.There could be one in Tibet,and in the Russian far east at the same time. Then we’d know for sure what the people want. If you are right,you would get what you want. But while I’m not sure about voters in Tibet. I’m pretty sure the Russians in the Russian far east will vote to stay a part of Russia.
One more point.You have seen a map,right. You may notice that between the Lake Baikal region and China is the country of Mongolia. China is nowhere near that region.So unless you also want Mongolia,oh wait a minute.That is what you want,isn’t it.Ha,ha,yes,you Chinese nationalists do dream big.
Referendum? Hahahaha! The sinicised Tibetans are now much more than the deluded serfs wannabes deluding about their old serf-masters headed by the Dalai Lama. No need for a referendum.
As for “referendum” in Outer Manchuria, the Russians committed genocide of the original inhabitants. But now the modern Cossacks there cannot “lug” it the life there – too much hard work and no more peaceful original inhabitants to kill. They want to return to Muscovy where they can live off the original Russians by touting their services as mystical “protector” of Russians, now against the Ukies!
Give Outer Manchuria a generation or two and have referendum. They would then want to join their super rich relatives across the Black Dragon River and leave the dwindling paupers behind, with the lands of Outer Manchuria of course.
As for “Mongolia”, that was stolen by Stalin from China at a time when China needed help to throw back the Zio-Yanks and their running dogs in Korea. That was the price exacted by Stalin for ‘help’ at a time when only China was daring enough to face down the aggression of the Zio-Yanks. Stalin was quite contented to hide behind China’s skirts even though Russia was as much threatened as China (like now). So much for socialist brotherhood especially of the Russian kind – comrades!
Predictable,I figured the idea of a referendum would terrify you. People that are afraid they’d lose one always are afraid of one. I see too that the face of Chinese ultra-nationalism is pretty much the same Russia-hate as that in the West.Only hidden by an Asian face.Since you are so Russophobic,I have to wonder why you visit a pro-Russian site.Surely you can’t imagine we would like your Russia hatred (at least most of us).But just to set the record straight for you.Mongolia was conquered by the Qing (Manchu dynasty) and added to their empire in the 18th century.And in 1911 broke away from China.China tried to hold it,but they broke away finally in 1921.Both of those dates are before Stalin ruled the USSR.So any blame for that isn’t his fault.Considering that the only reason Mao was able to win the revolution was the aid he got from the USSR. I’d think the Chinese might be a little happy for that.Unless of course you are one of the pro-West Chinese that don’t support the PRC government. Which of course would be a problem for them to consider.Still though it is interesting.
Hate the Russians? That’s in your mind. I love Russians. That’s why I am here. Just that I worried that their hubris and slanted learning of history can do them in if no one alerts them (as it did the USSR). It’s Russians like you with the type of mindset that is really anti-Russian i.e. anti their true long-term interests. The Zio-Yanks will love to see your type proliferate. It’s aiding their game. Truth and facts teller like me do not play their game, nor yours.
That you accused me of hatred just because I tell it like it is shows how deep is your mind-set. Would you like to see me stop ruffling Russian feathers and stroke their egos instead?
Oh,yes,you love Russia. I think you comments tell a different story, “stealing land,committing genocide,dying population,etc,etc”. Yes,that really shows your “love” pretty well.I think maybe they can do without that kind of “love”.But now that we see we won’t agree.We should end our conversation.Before we are told to stop arguing.This is my last post on this subject.
As for Mongolia, you will never understand the real Asia of millennia old if you keep looking at Asia through Russian or even Western eyes.
Russians and Westerners are new-comers. They don’t understand Asia. Their ideas of international or in the case of the Chinese, civilisational relationships, are conditioned by the very recent Westphalia experience of relationships between “nations”.
The Westphalia concept of nation or the nation-state is piece-meal and was designed to stop the greed and self-interests-fueled conflagration then going on from 1618 to 1648 – the so-called 30 Years War – that was the symptom of the failure of Western Civilisation. It failed to stop such wars as can be seen. It managed only a pause before the slaughter began anew.
The imposition of the Westphalia concept of the nation-state on the world by the colonialists was and is a disaster. Many ethnic groups were arbitrarily forced into a “state” (e.g. in Africa) for exploitation purposes. When the colonialists left, their successors continued the exploitation (e.g. India).
As for the relationships between the states? The inherent contradictions in the Westphalia nation-state concept were replicated world-wide among the new nation states (not to mention among the old nation-states themselves as can be seen in two very, very bloody world-wars) spawned after WW2 and the break-up of the colonial empires. Russia is the unwitting and proud heir of the Westphalia concept of self-seeking and self-interested nation-states ran on a Machiavellian basis. And therefore USSR/Russia is equally guilty of the chaos and bloodshed that sprang forth thereof.
In Africa, there were wars after wars after wars as a result of both Russian (USSR) and Western shenanigans, until the Chinese stepped in at the beginning of the 21st Century.
The Chinese notion of “Tao” is the principle that runs through its civilisation and guide her relationships with other peoples. It has a moral basis and not just win-win and self-interest. That China is always acting for her own interests in her relationships with other countries is a Western interpretation and I would say a Western slander. It is a Freudian slip that read the West’s motives into China.
As J pointed out, I am also hopeful that Russia through Putin would have learnt and is now pursuing peace and the interests of not only herself but also of others. For when others prosper and live peacefully, there is only gain for all, not loss.
That’s one of the reasons why I am so interested in Russia and now am watching Russia’s action in Syria and the middle East. Hopefully Russia is in there to make peace and not for reclaiming her super-power status. For if Russia develops peacefully and consistently, she will naturally becomes a so-called “super power” – which is a Yankee concept that China never bought into! Russia will then becomes a “super power” which is not hegemonistic like the US.
So do you still think I “hate” Russia?
Hamid Karzai: US colluded with ISIL in Afghanistan
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/hamid-karzai-colluded-isil-afghanistan-171110191715544.html
“In my view under the full presence, surveillance, military, political, intelligence, Daesh [ISIL] has emerged,” he said.
“And for two years the Afghan people came, cried loud about their suffering, of violations. Nothing was done.”
“And the next day, Daesh takes the next district in Afghanistan,” he said referring to the Arabic name of the armed group.
“That proves to us that there is a hand in it and that hand can be no one else but them [the US] in Afghanistan.”
“I told the Western human rights bodies as to what was going on in Afghanistan. They were hiding it. The Western press was hiding it. I told them. I raised it.”
This interview, being on al jazeera, will probably be seen by a lot of people across the Mideast. Exposure of “the big secret” (u.s. use of daesh as proxy army) just got greater.
Nurember Law on Medical Ethics makes absolute prohibition of medical procedures on humans without imformed consent.
this is ignored in Murka…injection are required even without consent.
here is comment from another site…
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Nov 11, 2017 9:07 PM
You got it.
Most Americans have bought into vaccinations as a ‘necessary evil’, even to the point of being open to FORCED vaccinations in the event of a pandemic due to an erroneous belief in ‘herd immunity’ which supposedly magically protects everyone. I believe that this is THE primary means by which governments will introduce a soft martial law, because the public will believe it is necessary ‘for the common good’. And this can be instituted with impunity via police roadside checkpoints, forced entry into homes, mandatory evacuation into FEMA camps etc. with little pushback.
For the record, I have a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics (UT Houston, 2000). I got my degree while studying Anthrax, and I was paid on a CIA grant. While there I learned many, many disturbing things about our government ‘bioterror’ program, including the farce that was Kenema National Labs in Sierra Leone, Africa. Suffice it to say, that if there IS any disease outbreak, it will definitely be some bug that was developed in that lab (or a similar one) that will be featured.
It isn’t by accident that Legionnaire’s Disease; Ebola; Marburg; AIDS and other such diseases have grabbed headlines since 1975 – when the lab started to really get going.
‘Oh, it’s just the locals eating bush meat’, they’d say when there was an outbreak. ‘Lets make a vaccine to protect them!’ Well, it was the vaccines that CAUSED those problems to begin with.
Several things to think about concerning that lab: why is that facility in Africa, and not in the USA? Most would say, ‘well, DUH, that’s where the diseases are!’ And there is truth to that, but the real reasons are that – 1. the government there is bought and paid for, with no oversight on the lab; 2. the people there are not well educated, which leads to 3. they have been even more brainwashed into the need for vaccinations, leading to a perfect source of willing guinea pigs.
Also, there is little media presence there, so when ‘breakouts’ DO happen, they can be attributed to ‘those careless bush people’ instead of there being any real investigations which would show that those exhibiting symptoms almost ALWAYS were vaccinated with the VERY SAME THING THEY CAME DOWN WITH.
And one more thing about Kenema National Labs: back during the Ebola scare, there was a man from the World Health Organization who investigated that lab by the name of Glenn Thomas. He apparently had discovered some unsettling things and was going to report them, but unfortunately he just ‘happened’ (along with many prominent microbiolgists) to be on flight MH17 when it went down. Conveniently, it turned out. And not long after that, that lab was quietly shuttered.
So anyway, that’s my long-winded take on why this is not merely fear-mongering; it is PART OF THE PLAN. And it would be best to be both aware of it and prepared for it when it happens…”
Some probably recall how the 3rd reich murdered in the beginning, mostly by injections following a “court order”…cops gave the “spritz” straight to their hearts.
4th reich has a bigger plan, better materials, and they’re gunna do it if they can…objective conditions are in place, is obvious. also unthinkable…
What a “beautiful” world we live in, end solution anyone ?
Uncle Bob 1 on November 11, 2017 · at 5:48 pm UTC
Here we have another case of having to use “our lying eyes” to see the truth in Catalonia. RT has a report of 750,000 protesters demanding the Spanish regime release the political prisoners they arrested.One picture is a drone shot of a “sea of cell phone lights” miles long.
Very cute with the lights. Very cute indeed. So well organized, so sleek. So affluent, too, chartering more than 900 buses from all parts of Catalonia, as reported by the organizers themselves and most newspapers, including the main Catalan daily La Vanguardia: http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20171111/432786794815/manifestacion-barcelona-jordis-presos-catalunya.html [La organización ha anunciado que han superado los 900 autobuses que se desplazan de distintos puntos de Catalunya para participar en la manifestación.] Can you estimate how much it costs to chart 900 buses from distances hundreds of kilometres away? Who cares? Money comes from taxpayers and private donors to ANC and Omnium.
But was that demonstration any larger than the two huge pro-unity demonstrations that took place on October 8 and October 29? No. The only difference is these didn’t have the pretty phone light effect, because they took place in plain daylight. Take a look and check how your “lying eyes” behave. We apologize for not providing the moving evening effect.
October 8 Huge Demonstrations in Barcelona for Spanish unity
https://youtu.be/bkTGH4C-6hM?t=10
October 29 – Pro Unity Demonstration in Barcelona (photo album)
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/29/album/1509272679_208787.html#1509272679_208787_1509292364
I don’t know were they larger? I guess it depends on who you believe. The police say that at least one of the pro-Spanish ones was 350,000 people. Though the pro-Spanish organizers claimed around a million. So who to believe depends on the side you are on I suppose. As for busing in people from all over Catalonia.You seem to have a problem with that,I don’t. At least they were Catalans demonstrating about their own region.While the pro-Spanish are said to be busing in people from other areas for their demonstrations. Outsiders from the region.That concerns me a lot more.Who do you think pays for those buses.The Madrid regime maybe? Taxpayer money. Or donors from their political parties maybe.Who knows,the newspapers don’t want to talk about that I guess.But again if you support Spain controlling Catalonia,as you do,you would overlook that.
It is perfectly legal for the central government to encourage legal regional population shift into Catalonia ; besides a 90% vote of 40% of the electorate does not a majority Independence movement make, but maybe a color revolution, it does.)
Do I hear a voice for Walloon independence and the rights of oppressed Flems? or is it Flemish?
Now what nonsense about what is happening in Saudi Arabia are we going to be manipulated into buying?
So then you don’t have a problem with the Germans moving Germans into the Polish territories in pre-WWI Germany to change the population. Most people today consider that a “legal” but very wrong move. And I guess the elites importing millions of third world immigrants into Europe is fine with you too.It doesn’t seem to be with the native population. As for Belgium,yes,there are many voices for Flemish independence.I’m not sure about the Walloon’s.Many of them talk about joining France.In fact the two areas have strong home rule in their regions,so they don’t break apart.So the only thing we can learn from Belgium,is a smart way to keep their country together.Spain should learn from them.
Large number of Chinese warships at east sea observing 3 us carrier war game.
https://mil.sina.cn/sd/2017-11-12/detail-ifynstfh5956485.d.html?vt=4&pos=108&his=0
Sorry, you have to use google translate.
J, I wonder what happened to China’s type 055 DDG? The report only shows the 052 – 054 shadowing the Zio-Yanks’ very big sitting duck targets. China show scare the daylights out of them by using the 055 to deal with them!
Dear Communal Cafe Diary,
I’m just emerging from a three day deep sadness and depression mood, occasioned by multiple factors converging in a “perfect storm.” I had to take cover in a cove, and seek “shelter from the storm.”
Apolonia is taking me to court, which forced me to go to the court house as “respondent.” This is the same superior court that, in cahoots with a crooked real estate agent and developer, and lawyers agents of he court, deprived us of our house and money; and led us into divorce and bankruptcy ten years ago.
I have always given Apolonia as much as I can, since she is a green card Dutch citizen with practically no financial security, other than her meager acupuncuture and herbal revenue. Money has been no problem between us, either during our marriage of eighteen years, divorce of ten years, or raising of our now twenty-four year old son.
She now has her own place up in the Carizzo Plain, where she met an analytic philosopher, former professor at Berkeley; who persuaded her to do as he did with his ex–get the court involved for her “security.” She is suing me for half my income, which California law provides for those married ten years.
The money is not the problem for me. It’s freedom versus law. I have no problem giving her half freely, but when the law forces me, I resist. Over the last few months, I have been dividing the half equally between her and my son, who is back in college. She agreed to this arrangement, until he completes his education, and then I will give her a full half.
I’m put in the position of asking the crooked court to allow me to continue what I’ve been doing, a snowball’s chance in hell fires. I want to act like a father, and have the pleasure of giving the money directly to my son. Besides, I think it’s unhealthy to have a young man dependent on his mother for money, especially since I don’t trust her to give him what I have been giving him. Something to do with the Oedipal complex of over-control by mothers over sons.
Another storm is my relationship with this vineyard, which is a karmic clearing house for me, bringing up “stuff” that I have been stuffing down for years, perhaps lifetimes. Bro is chief provocateur, with many other agents of revelation. Bro is quite the brother, telling me the truth, but also soothing me, as with his recent conciliatory post.
Another storm is this China card, a sort of bull in a china shop. My gut tells me there’s something crooked in China’s totalitarian train globalist network of rails; but identifying it in logic is another connundrum.
Then there’s the “iron curtain” that prevents me from getting a handle on what’s causing the evils in this god-almighty war torn world. In the background of my mind, the vanguard banner of this vineyard waves like a star-spangled banner: “Stop the War on Russia.” It keeps me awake night and turns my daydreams into nightmares.
This morning I got up on purpose at 633, to tap into the cache cafe of the mystic 3 + 9. I came over here, made a fire in the woodstove, made a cup of hot tea, and ate my breakfast of two handpicked oranges; before logging in here with my Cafe Dear Diary, to the Dennis Monologue, Bro Dialogue and Community Multilogue.
Now I have to decide if I will take my hour and a half walk out and into Vulva Valley along Love Army Road, or have an early brunch of what?–raw or cooked food? I’m afraid eating cooked food is cooking my brains, but then again, cooked food is comfort in a workers’ paradise.
Can I blame you according to the Dylan Dictum of “I was all right until I fell in love with you.”? This Contrarian Cafe has got to show Russia the way; Uncle Bob can’t do it all by himself. I can talk love to the consternation of my critics, but we’ve all got to pitch in before the pitchforks come out. OK, OK, I know we’re doing it already, but not at the level needed.
I’ve got to engage with Count Khazar at his level; but how can I succeed when he’s pulled the wool over sharp-shooters and tennis masters like Bro 93? The Khazarian China Card is the last straw that might just break the bank and the back of resistance. Where’s Lord Leary when I need him?
Trump is being bashed left and right, even here is on the vineyard courts, except for Bro’s “wait and see” strategy. What chance do I have? I can’t wait and see. I’ve got to start playing my trump to draw out the Khazar’s trump; sort of like Bro does with me. I’m no good at playing “poker face,” and what good is my ace and joker when the Count owns the house? The house of cards must fall.
My only chance is to play the Roman Card, like Vespasian did against the Jews in 70 AD; but this time on the spiritual level. I don’t have the hand for that–the Love Army does. The Romans created Christianity from Jesusanity to combat the Zealot Zionists. But the Zios have learned a few tricks with 2000 years of hard knocks. They’re playing their Trump card and their China card, and fooling everyone but me, apparently.
It takes a fool to see a fool’s game. In the court of kings, the fool has no power except her wit. I’m no wit, so without it, I have to be a fool for love. In my darkest despair, I remember the Love Army and its first commandment: “think love.” That’s my ace in the whole and and wild card Joker of Joy.
The weatherman made my decision for me. It’s overcast in Sunland and my belly is hungry so I’ll eat first and walk later, hopefully in the sun. Got to run, but in the meantime while I eat, I’ll listen to that LaRouche link that Bro provided, and see if Count Khazar is still putting on that puppet show.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted at 933 consciously, unconsciously and lovsciously; to bookend my rising at 633, a nice 3 hour span of eternity in microcosmic measure, against the vast starry background of Martian astronomy and Venus astrology…
not that it helps, much, Dennis, but most Murkin men of a certain age have to be assaulted by the courts…often the thin edge of the wedge is a relationship, sometimes it’s indefensible fraudulent “memories” and accusation, sometimes it’s getting fired at 19 years for a fake dope test by Luck-Up Corp. I have seen these often…and every day in the diversionary bs their lordships offer us as “news”.
Think happy thought…dark time is just before dawn.
Is an insane time…everybody knows this. You are not entirely alone, Friend.
Chin up, Dennis. Life sucks sometimes and it is still OK. We plod on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDNtqy0zjJA
And here’s an Ace for you to keep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4
Dennis, I have never dismissed your World view, Zionist strategic ideas, and in fact have thought it through independently myself over the years and wondering about the truth. Yes, it is very possible.
It is possible because I know many small details which do not make sense, things which every sovereign country should be declaring and doing, but none are.
Smoking is one, … smoking kills and yet is promoted World wide !
Many comrades die !
Why is smoking not banned worldwide ?
They can’t do that, too much money comes out from tobacco business to make such a decision, and even if they make that decision, the smokers will find their way. The fact is, they know that smokers will not give up therefore they increase the price of cigarettes constantly. On the other hand, the ban is not the best solution, the smoking is less dangerous than drugs. The pharma industry is doing and has done much much greater damage among the populations. Just look at the statistics how many people worldwide are taking anti-depressants. I agree that smoking is endangering our health but cannot be forced on anyone to give it up. The overall environment we live in, is posing many potential dangers which causes many illnesses and death. It’s still a long way to Tipperary.
Trump Russia: US ‘in peril over president’s stance’
“Mr Clapper said he was alarmed by the president’s comments.
“Putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy and our whole process,” he told CNN.”
No Mr Clapper, President Putin has no need undermine the USA since you are doing a fine job of that yourself -along with a little help from your friends at the BBC/MI6 and CNN/CIA etc.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41962023
SO is right!
Clapper himself says that Ru is exposing the “fissures in our tapestry”.
“Our Tapestry (of lies)”, that’s the ordinary turn of phrase in native white americans of his class. i have never heard the word “tapestry” in any other context except occasionally in a church or museum…i am 70 years old and was born to Clapper’s class… They are running a vast whorehouse.
Murka going Direction “R”…and Clapper knows it. So does the T Man…and Comrade VVP. War and Direction R are indistinguishable at end of an Empire…always. Similarly, at such time, Big Business, Organized Crime, and Politics, and Government become indistinguishable.
Look! Is condition R just over the horizon, see clouds? Clapper does!
Ask Jesus. Carpenters see stuff, eh? Or ask Wm Burroughs…another (minor) Prophet…his poem “Thanksgiving”…sez true…and Prophet Bill said it long ago. Did you know that he learned buggery at Los Alamos, up on “the mesa”, within feet of where, a few years later, they made the damned gadget? Figures… Anyway Bill says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri70SABXZUY
Crazy Rhyme
The chorus is singing a song, a wonder
Players are playing their fairly play
Heaven and Hell are showing no anger
Time has stopped, nothing in their way
The wonder itself is wondering no more
On how fairly players love their say
Hell is playing too with Heaven on shore
While time will tell who’s gonna pay
Chorus is singing with Heaven and Hell
Playful, the anger plays with Time
No way that Wonder has stopped to tell:
“who understand such crazy rhyme ?”
I just came back from my walk along the Vulva Valley River Road. Hawks or buzzards were flying over my head, making lazy circles. I must have looked alive because the buzzards looked for the dead. Actually, I like to arrange for my dead body to be given to the scavengers, like my ancient ancestors did. Sure would save some cash.
Bro, I watched the LaRouche link, with Helga within. What I found most interesting was Trump meeting Putin and Xi. Not the sweet talk but the saucy body language. Trump towers over Putin in height and weight, and has a two inch advantage on Xi. Donald comes in late, and Vlad rises to meet him.
Trump shakes with his right hand, and invariably puts his left hand on a leader’s arm, shoulder or back, sometimes patting it, and then covers the man’s hand with his own left hand. A power gesture to show who’s boss, if anyone has any doubt.
Did you notice the Don’s body language during Xi’s speech? The Donald sat in a easy chair, alternately giving the woman’s “V” sign with his two hands in front of his genitals, and crossing his arms tightly across his belly, with that signature frown of his. When he leaned forward, the bight red tie hung low over where he is hung. Interpret that as you will; but to my mind, it shows that sex is where it’s at in love and war–and communal sex at that, in full view of the whole, wide world; naked power at its best.
Please recall that when Donald and Melania visited Saudia Arabia and Israel, Melania brushed off Donald’s hand when arriving and descending the ramp. Another sign of the times. Thanks for the heads-up, Love Bower.
Now, flash back to the Vatican reception by the Pope. No such hanky-panky. Donald, Melania, Ivanka and family, the females dressed in black with veils, did everything but kneel and kiss the Papal Ring, and his assets in the bank. Does that show us who is who among the three city-states of Rome’s Vatican, London’s City and Washington’s Mall? Who has the biggest obelisk of them all?
True, the Zio’s have penetrated the Sistine Chapel but don’t count the Romans out just yet; it’s the Roman Catholic Church after all. “You know the streets are filled with vipers / who’ve lost all ray of hope / You know, it ain’t safe no more / in the palace of the Pope…”
Bro was expecting an overhead slam for height. Instead, I went low with a sleight head fake, and back-spun a slice just over the net, and caught him flat-footed. Score: 40 Love, Leary.
Love, Leary, Ojai Tennis Tournament; advantage to #1 seed Leary, with Bro a close second; posted at 211 pm in the month of 11, contrary to what UTC says apparently…
Hi Dennis!
You observed that “…Trump shakes with his right hand, and invariably puts his left hand on a leader’s arm, shoulder or back, sometimes patting it, and then covers the man’s hand with his own left hand. A power gesture to show who’s boss, if anyone has any doubt….”
Is indication of T Man internal fundamental a-priori assumptions about himself.
Obvious. His fundamental assumption is that he is weak, powerless, fraudulent…stuff along those lines. Obvious that this characteristic makes him like putty, an ideal pharmacos…poor devil… Fella could run this mark like a toy train…and competent snake-oil salesman could…oh, wait! That’s what Rockefeller Sr, was, eh? Coincidence, pure coincidence…but anybody can play with this toy train.
Oh yeah…about his popeness…I heard his telephone number down at the bar…yeah!
“VAT 69”
Actually I like this Pope…but he’s riding a dead horse…Christendom is moving East, to the Light, I am sorry to see it go. Not his fault. Maybe he’ll make a good salvage. It happens… I see the Church as a protean machine that can conserve good, or not – it’s situational.
Anyway, Cheers! Celebrate Life!
I LOVE it! Most entertaining!
A Legend in His Own Mind….on the Court of His Choice.
Speaking of Bobby Riggs, isn’t it convenient when you can also appoint yourself Scorekeeper and rig the outcome of the match, by Papist Assertion??
But man, don’t plagiarize! I already used the Love -40 or 40-Love so that’s not available original material in your Vulva Volley!…….LOL….we have to have some rules here…..
Flat footed?? In your dreams!
I have inserts that insure the proper arch……nothing you can do about that….no matter what spin you create with no matter what Lep-retard racquet!
All this sexual dominance fantasy and heigth of obelisks and hard-ons just proves my point about the sex hangups of Catholic Heirarchy……..and the Vatican…over here:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-11-11/#comment-440635
and here:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-11-11/#comment-440973
But, Frankly, I don’t know why you’d even WANT to bring up Rome and Romans in the Vineyard of the Saker…….’cuase he says they’re just a bunch of Frankfurter Imposters (Franks = Frankfurters…right???)
So, waving those Obelisks around for Male Dominance Purposes purposes does seem kinda silly!
I’m sure the girls will agree.
My question is: Are they (The Franks)…..Kosher in Rome or just Kosher Nostra?
Hebrew National is the brand at Yankee Stadium and man is that loaded with Psycho-Sexual-Politico-Imperial Innuendo!
Level out your mind, man! Too much immodest magical maniacal made up m***urbatory mood-making……that’s NOT going to cut the mustard in stopping war. But it might start one at least in the Cafe, if you get too carried away with Donald’s trick grips and catcher’s signs flashed from his crotch.
It’s Stop the Empire’s War on Russia around here, not “Snap Out of Your Depressive Funk By Hitting Some Kinda Vatico-Phallico Stroke To Celebrate Trump’s Defeat of Vlad and Xi …..with Slight of Hand Mastery….and Rigged scorekeeping……….ALL TO WHAT??? Forget about …….the Other Court that had you down in the dumps??.
“This too, will pass!”, without the need to conjure up a complete load of war-like erotically unhinged Diplo-body language analysis…..Puleeese!
he’s had a slight sleight of hand
see how he’s wavering at the net
but the umpire’s waived your point
and crowds are waving to the players
at dennis’s tennis’s Win Win game
hurrah with cheers to all the winners
sherbet lemon, oranges freshly squeezed
tournament tennis’s vineyard cafe feasts
championships on love-lorn lawn courts
Prince Charles blames “foreign Jews” for Middle East turmoil in 1986 letter
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/prince-charles-blames-jews-middle-east-turmoil-1986-letter-a8050586.html
I’m starting to feel sheepish about my accusations towards the Royals for visiting Canada in these past couple of years, to scold the colonials for misbehaving. Now, it’s starting to look like this segment of the Anglo elites is very much ‘agreement capable’, still maintains skilled diplomats (of whatever title?), and may be critical to ushering in the multipolar (of sorts) era. My bad.
Prince Charles takes the Queen’s place and lays a wreath on Remembrance Day.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/queen-elizabeth-prince-charles-remembrance-sunday-wreath-1.4369960
Trudeau has clout — how ’bout that — he’s been invited by Duterte to give a speech to the East Asian Summit, a powerful security group which includes the US, China, Russia, India and Japan.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3857639/justin-trudeau-human-rights-philippines/
It depends what sort of agreement you mean.
Charles forbear, King George V told the Foreign Secretary to find a reason to go to war (WW1) with Germany even though the British Cabinet had been unable to find one
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10991582/Revealed-how-King-George-V-demanded-Britain-enter-the-First-World-War.html
I’m no historian, but I understand there is clear evidence that the Royals supported both world wars. That said, it’s hard to imagine that whatever ‘big win’ the Windsors expected to personally gain, or for mighty Brittania to gain, from the Second World War and the subsequent creation of Israel, ever materialised. I wonder if there are hard feelings, actually. Maybe the elites have less independence than we know, or fall into groupthink.
On the other hand, the collapse of the US creates a vacuum. Perhaps this is simply the filling of it. It does seem to be sensible action, which frequently cannot be said of elite undertakings. Maybe this time they will fund both sides in the American Civil War. :-)
To stay alive was their biggest win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
and, just like Henry Ford, supporting both sides in any war is the Elites most profitable type of business.
Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with Patriarch Kirill in Moscow
http://tass.com/society/975424
“The goal of the Archbishop’s trip to Moscow is the official inauguration of the Reverend Malcolm Rogers to the duties of father superior of the St. Andrews parish in Moscow.”
And Lebanese Maronite Chistrian patriarch now on red-carpet visit at invitation of Saudi royals. Holy unprecedentedness, Your Grace.
All those years ago and it only just comes to light now. Charles has just made his position very clear to those who are paying attention. Now let’s see who protests too much, methinks.
Banned Soviet Film 1973 about Judaism Zionism Fascism
Russian speaking without subtitle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSVQHZ3VOt0
Russian speaking with German subtitle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_keykbNTq8&t=3546s
Russian Politician Zhirinovsky Brillantly Exposes Western Propaganda
Against Russia – with English subtitle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VWp-WqvrU
It’s not yet 3 am, much less 333, but methinks it’s the witching hour at the tennis court. Bro has fallen under the spell, which reminds me of Gertrude at Hamlet’s play, the Mousetrap: “The lady doth protest too much, me thinks.” The lady in this case is a man. I’m trying to avoid ad hominems in favor of an “homo ad hominem” approach; but even so I can feel the moderator’s finger itching. Come on, we’re all adults here; if we can’t take the heat, we shouldn’t go near the heart. “To be or not to be; that is the question,” the “be” in this instance means “This above all: to thy own self BE true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man…” Spoken by Polonius, who was true to himself, by hiding behind a curtain, which got him killed. Carpe, diem but don’t let us rue the day. This little match of competition will give way to cooperation when we brave few, brothers and sisters of the vineyard fight another Agincourt–not of England and France, but a cosmic dance of the Great Romance of Love and War.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, wishing you all a good night…
Sighing in near despair at the “tax-due” line after husband dropped at 50, she realized that she would have to sell all the land
to pay tax…
leaving her in serous financial condition,
with children.
Little Boy: Why are you crying?
Mother (she explains)
Boy is shocked…
With a tired resigned sigh Mother says,
Just be glad.
They don’t take everything.
They can.
Shocking the child even more.
So What?
Well, that’s it.
Be glad.
Celebrate what’s left to us
while “Direction R”
becomes “Condition R”
Is one planet,
one sky,
LZ would be happy to see less conflict, fellas.
Let’s try.
Pax
(LZ would moot Macbeth, not Hamlet…seems more relevant…as proximate operational model of Condition R. In re old Mac…not everyone’s read http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/10/v-golstein-end-of-cold-war-and.html . Of course people have various, and very creative ideas when they re-visit old Bill)
The url’s mooted by Azorka1861 are interesting. LZ says thank You Kindly!
I wonder what y’all thought about “thanksgiving” from the other Old Bill (Burroughs, not Shakespeare).
Adios, Comrades…Crosstalk is doing the Soviet Condition R 100 years…very convenient… I expect the dialogue from movie The Cruel Seal is unknown to y’all…there’s a wonderful scene (one of many) that I’d propose at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMYYnvZteo there’s a clip…the “First Lt” gives a good imitation of how fear makes bad…later there’s a scene where that same man is subtly informed about how to get a transfer…hoe to fake an ulcer…which is the Idea…and he’s removed…
Yes indeed. Like Macbeth, his own fear obliges him to make futile attempt to Stop Time…
This is an operating machine element…look and see it.
Macbeth essay in se http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/10/v-golstein-end-of-cold-war-and.html
g’nite
Pax
LZ
“All done on purpose to try and stop Brexit. Just like the last election with policies that would obviously be hated and reduce their majority. These traitors would rather their party lose power than leave the EU.”
The above quote from the comments rings true … and worth contemplating …
Tough times for Theresa: PM faces horror week as Government ‘smells of decline’
https://www.rt.com/uk/409687-theresa-may-brexit-confidence/
A great article in The Duran about Ukraine:
“Transgender Ukraine, desperately in need of western approval”
The split personality of the Russian soul: Moscow and Kiev.
http://theduran.com/transgender-ukraine-desperately-need-western-approval/
The Cosmic Score
Before 2 am I kept wondering “What’s the Score?”
Twice “Deuce!” struck a chord—stopping my snore!
I rose two hours early, to take my morning walk,
Searching for dual confirmation. Would the sky talk?
There in the East hung a wistful, waning Dennis Ball,
One orb, but with double characteristics, All in all!
The bottom side was lit from below, by the rising sun,
The Earthshine on the higher part very dimly shone.
Partly lit, mostly dark, was this single satellite in space
Veiled hair, eyes, lips, lit only at the bottom of its face.
The veil was curved up at its corners, made a crescent
Whose two ends pointed upwards, lifting, luminescent.
“Love” means “No points.” “Deuce” means “two to go”
Before there’s a “winner” or a “loser” at the end. SO:
We all know this isn’t really Tennis or even Dennis Ball…
We’re actually right back where we started: Love-All!
CIA Secret Airline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzCJrfTgms
Guns, Drogs and the CIA Frontline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM&t=345s
Uncle Bob 1 on November 12, 2017 • at 11:24 am UTC
I don’t know were they larger? I guess it depends on who you believe. The police say that at least one of the pro-Spanish ones was 350,000 people. Though the pro-Spanish organizers claimed around a million. So who to believe depends on the side you are on I suppose. As for busing in people from all over Catalonia.You seem to have a problem with that,I don’t. At least they were Catalans demonstrating about their own region.While the pro-Spanish are said to be busing in people from other areas for their demonstrations. Outsiders from the region.That concerns me a lot more.Who do you think pays for those buses.The Madrid regime maybe? Taxpayer money. Or donors from their political parties maybe.Who knows,the newspapers don’t want to talk about that I guess.But again if you support Spain controlling Catalonia,as you do,you would overlook that.
Well of course the size of demonstrations always depends of who makes the claim. I am basing my estimate on visual impression from the available pictures in both, pro and against demonstrations. The two pro-unity demonstrations seemed just as big, even if they lacked the phone torch effect, a very Sorosian touch these days. And before that, a feature of which nazis and their ideological heirs, including the KKK, have always been very keen on.
As for buses, there is no need to bring anti-independence people to Barcelona from elsewhere in Spain, though some may have come, when a very clear majority in the Barcelona and nearby Tarragona areas are against independence. In fact there have been some initiatives toward independence of the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona from Catalonia in the case of an eventual secession of Catalonia, with a view to re-unite those two provinces with the rest of Spain. It is well known that the majority independence is only in the provinces in Girona and Lleida, the other two provinces are agains it. It would be interesting to see the reaction of the Catalan government to such a proposal if it ever came to happen.
But you can get a foretaste of that in the following youtube clip. The little region in the very northwest corner of Catalonia (in orange in the map at the link above) is called Val d’Aran. It is strongly anti-independence. The guy in the exchange in the clip below is asking why they should not be allowed to have their own referendum to stay, regardless of what the rest of Catalonians have to say. The lady, independentist, Pilar Arhola, thinks it’s an outrageous idea, because that little region is part of Catalonia. He says, well by the exact same reasoning, Catalonia is part of Spain, so why shouldn’t the rest of Spaniards have a say. Another guy tells her she is denying him the exact same thing she is demanding from Madrid, and so on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XNZs-I8BSY
The logical weak point of the notion of a universal “right to secede” per se, is that it has no pre-defined limits as to what it should apply to. If a subset of nation A decides to secede from A, does a subset of newly seceded nation enjoy the same right. The Canadian Clarity Act contemplated this and said it might.
Saker et all have asked previously some questions about the imperial forces and how they might do in a real fight…one way such fight can go is given by previous reality…I would propose a history fragment that informs these questions.
as:
in 1945 the Japanese tactics were swarms of suicide boats and airplanes..some purpose built for suicide attack.
Read report on one ship, an attack transport…USS Goodhue. I know a survivor..well, he recently left earth. So knew survivor. Goodfella too.
at http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-uss-goodhue-a-torrent-of-kamikazes-at-okinawa/
Read carefully and consider implications. Times change. Physics does not. Direct assault by ship against land force is totally pointless if land force is ready, coordinated and brave.
Can anybody spell “Iran”?
Regarding the Rajoy regime, I am of course repulsed by its level of corruption and subservience to corporate capital, as well as the Macron regime, the Merkel regime, or for that matter the Puigdemont regime, the Mas regime before him, and the Pujol regime befor them, and pretty much all of Europe’s politicians. It so happens that the Catalan independence movement stinks very strongly of being supported by forces that wish to accelerate the loss of sovereignty of nation-states, and view their fragmentation as a way to achieve this, in favor of a “federalized” (i.e. more strongly centralized) “Europe of the Regions” that could be easily managed to submit to neoliberal polcies by an increasingly undemocratic central government. See recent articles by O Colmain on this:
http://www.gearoidocolmain.org/catalan-independence-tool-capital-labour/
http://www.gearoidocolmain.org/israel-will-bank/
And this thing by Pamela Anderson praising the return to a medieval notion of borders in Europe. How cute.
http://www.pamelaandersonfoundation.org/news/2017/11/6/catalonia
And the whole Israel and freemason thing is actually disturbing. The head of the Catalan Parliament, Carme Forcadell, who spent a few hours in prison before being released on bail, recently presided a celebration of the 300 anniversary of the foundation of modern Freemasonry, and she did this inside the very Catalan Parliament building!
And here is José Luis Caritch, a Catalan guru freemason giving his vision, in Spanish, of the inevitable grandeur that awaits Catalonia after the invevitable (predestined, he calls it) independence, all coached in the usual array of bullshit used by freemasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UBh8vHMVNk
I don’t know what to believe about the masons. Are they a conspiracy theory or are they actually powerful in some way? Is it just a networking group or are they the illuminati?
Can anyone offer some insight into the Masons?
I don’t know anything about the freemasons either. Information about it out there seems a bit confusing and vague. From the talk by this Catalan separatist mason guru in the link above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UBh8vHMVNk
there seems to be a lot of nonsense and bullshit built into it, but it is fascinating nontheless because the nonsense seems interspersed with persistent forked-tongue terminology when they mention (very often) the words fraternity and liberty and the occult and lots of other things. So the nonsense may be a deflection technique. Freemasonry in Spain started in the early 18th century. It was banned during the Franco years and the ban was declared unconstitutional in 1979, 4 years after Franco’s death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry_in_Spain
More extraordinary, to me, seems the fact that the president of the Catalan Parliament, Carme Forcadell, a very dedicated independentist, presided over the commemoration of the 300 anniversary of Freemasonry last september.
Here is video of the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCrhrpR-_c
Part 1:
Good morning, Vineyard World. Talk about synchronicity and serendipity: the convergence of space and time where the Love Army condenses a global vineyard into a local cafe’s “I heard it on the grapevine…”
I want to reprise this cafe for the record in my remedial education program. I took brief notes, which I will use to joy-jog (thanks, Love Bower for the initial mistake in typing joy instead of joy, oops, did it again; meant jog) my memory, and work backwards in time and space. I’ll start with the next to last entry, as of this time; excluding Uncle Bob’s repeat of the Spain issue.
Bro put up a beautiful, sweet poem, entitled “Cosmic Score.” He got up early at 2 am for his walk, and saw the same sky and moon as I saw on my walk-about, among the masculine standing stones and feminine vulva dolmens, at 4 am, after rising at 333 to plug into the energy of that trinitarian community plus the base(ball) consciousness of 9. Hence, the synchronicity and serendipity just noted. He asked himself: “would the sky talk?” Yes, indeed, in sign language. Read the poem and wonder. Allow me to quote my note: “In East hung a wistful, waning Dennis Ball [the moon]–veiled face / back where we started: Love – All!” I could not express it better.
The moon this am was incredibly beautiful, lying on her back with arms extended to the invisible sun. Talk about Brother Sun, Sister Moon. I could swoon.
I stood at the Lover’s Shrine. To the North was the North Star and a little east was the Big Dipper; to the south were the Three Sisters. After pausing at the half dozen or so love-art structures, I came here to my outdoor office/kitchen, turned on the lights and the electric heater, and boiled water on the propane stove for hot tea. I did not make a fire in the woodstove, to save time, and due to running out of wood. Later, I’ll chop wood; now I carry water.
I got it out of the way first: I completed the court forms, which I’ll take to the hall of justice later today. It rejected my first forms. I was in a terrible mood and didn’t care what I put down. I went to court and was so unhinged, I could not understand what the clerk was saying, and left in disgust. Anyway, today is entirely different. I have a plan and took more care. Need to clear my court karma over the losing of our house and most of our money. Next step is to serve Apolonia, which I’ll do on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the US, when Francis and I visit her on the Carizzo Plain.
Azorka: I watched a bit of Air America and Guns, Drugs and the CIA. Time permitting I’ll watch the rest later. Thanks.
Dear LZ: I’m glad you mooted MacBeth instead of Hamlet. I thought of doing that when pursuing the “rue the day” meme, which appears in both. Your link was awesome. Regarding Change and Time, I’ve thought of this often; it’s a critical notion. I conceive of it as one of those dancing Hindu goddesses, whose whole bodies are constantly changing, while dancing in place, illustrating Time and Timelessness, in graceful timing and spacing. When we don’t go with the flow, we get fixated on security and full dominance. Darwin’s “evolution” is only half true, and therefore “evilution.”
And yes, I did read the “other Bill (Burroughs)” and loved the poetry. Your Cruel Sea link is likewise appreciated.
Azorka: Thanks for the links to the black and white 1973 Soviet films with that sobering music. I don’t know Russian but the mood music and pictures sure made the point of the horrors of war. It takes me back to the Jewish – Roman wars that killed 50,000 Roman soldiers and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, and Masada in 73 AD; the mother and father of all wars, presaging the Apocalypse we fear today.
That war continues to this day with the Roman Catholics versus the Jewish Khazars, each with their own Messiah. Trump is making a deal from the middle. The Russian politician, Zhirlnovsky, is disclosing how that affects Russia and Orthodoxy.
Pavel/Paul: Regarding smoking tobacco: in my view, it’s an allegory for the smokescreen of Empire lies, going all the way back to the First Patriarchs, 100,000 years ago, who overthrew the Love Culture of our Origins, beginning with jealousy of womem and the killing of small animals.
ioan: Thanks for “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary,” which awakened my childhood feelings. My grandfather, Dennis, came to the US at age ten, with his relatives; forced out of Dear Old Erie, due to the starvation program of the Bloody English.
End of Part 1; Part 2 to follow… Time to eat my breakfast of two oranges.
Love, Dennis, Ojai, posted at 8, ain’t numbers great?
Hi Dennis,
Not fan, myself, of ‘The Cruel Sea’–all too familiar dialogue for me. This submariner film/mini-series was superb though, has it all as one commenter said:
“Incredible. Germans singing an English song about a place in Ireland that is sung on the radio by the Soviet Red Army Choir.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zajdE5U2e8
Dennis:
A Couple of Couplets
Clearly Spirit has precedence over Matter
Being that it is Prior…… and also Higher.
Don’t take yourself too seriously
Or every shot and spin literally….
In other words, lighten up….don’t fret about water under the bridge, missed shots, bad calls…..Time rolls on….or it would STOP with Permanent Instant Replay….which might be kind of a metaphor for Hell.
MI6/BBC is ramping up the obfuscation propaganda with an extensive article. I can’t bring myself to read this rambling swill carefully but it appears they insist the phantom St.Petersburg troll factory, AKA IRA, is cranking out false Ukraine Nazi videos to try and convince people very poorly that that there are nazi types in Ukraine.
Why bother when the real swastika adorned ones strut about quite openly?
Bellingcat is featured; need more be said?
Inside a pro-Russia propaganda machine in Ukraine
By Andrei Soshnikov BBC Russian
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41915295
Novaya Gazeta I know of but I hadn’t come across “Moi Region” till now.
The author of the BBC swill, Andrei Soshnikov, seems to be a resident there and the main one behind the phantom troll factory ‘sensation’. Does anyone know more about Andrei and Moi Region?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house
https://globalvoices.org/2015/03/14/russia-kremlin-troll-army-examples/#
Phil Butler, a media analyst, has very convincingly debunked the existence of any ‘troll factory’ by pointing out that were that true the Twitter universe would appear very differently from what it is now.
uk Daily Mail still splurging out this stuff the other day…..but has reported on this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5077259/Poland-defends-Far-right-march-Islamic-holocaust.html
also reported by
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201711101058999548-polish-far-right-goes-global/
Probably the best article on the purge going- ons in Saudi Arabia:
http://theduran.com/anatomy-of-a-purge-is-saudi-arabias-mbs-a-tyrant-reformer-or-charlatan/
This goes into the “Don’t mess with Texas” file:
https://www.infowars.com/good-samaritan-stops-rape-with-gun-didnt-think-id-ever-have-to-pull-it/
my favorite line is when the rescuer say, “he was complying so I did not feel the need to shoot him…”
Russia Today (RT) Documentary … many interesting observations … worldwide !
Revolution: 100 years young. Lenin’s socialist vision in capitalist world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zWGCp01nk
Part 2
Hi. I got back from the court house. What a difference my mood makes. I had the same clerk. Before, we were irritated with each other, because I was in a bad mood. My papers were rejected. Today I was in a good mood, and so was she; and quite helpful. The papers were accepted.
Allow me to continue my summary of what had juice for me in this cafe so far. No thanks, I don’t drink coffee.
Paul: I enjoyed Russia’s “biggest propeller plane,” sort of like who’s got the biggest you know what in the locker room. Boys will be boys. Toys come in all sizes.
I really enjoyed the Russian students with their robot vehicles. My son, Francis, was here yesterday, and he copied it. He’s studying engineering in preparation for robotics. He started a robotics club at school, to the consternation of the more sedate clubs. He will show the video to the club members. Thanks.
LZ: Thanks for the Heinlein Hoag stories. I listened some and want to go back when time allows. Also for Ted Gunderson @ VT re Satanism. Satan is the religious term; perverse patriarchy is the historical, psychological tag for me. Bro pointed out that the Roman legions did this kind of sick sadism. It’s very real, an addiction to killing young life to compensate for a wasted adult life, a la the popular cult of Count Dracula. Count Khazar is a more sophisticated version. “They go after the young and the women first.” Indeed, the “they” are twisted patriarchs and matriarchs; like Katy Perry having sex with a pizza. Disgusting. This stuff needs to be uncovered in deep history; and then we can stop war, like stop killing innocent animals, and the slippery slope to human children.
Paul: The diamond quest up in the cold, bitter North is a testament to man’s insatiable greed and display of vanity. Like King Midas and gold, you can’t eat diamonds, although it’s been tried. Girls like diamonds, but such-like are no Girl From the North Country: “If you’re travlin’ in the North country fair, where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, remember me to one who lives there, oh, she once was a true love of mine.” I’m partial, because that’s where I’m from–Highway 51 ran right through my town, and Highway 61 was not far off.
Saker thinks PCR is right! Wow, that’s saying a lot. I’d think the same if it were not for the Love Army and Bower. The Ortho Church says the same, but the language has become thread-bare; I try to restore the original tapestry with love language, tough and tender.
LZ: the 95 year old Russian spy is an heroic inspiration. I intend to live to 100 and/or 101; what I will be when I grow up, I know not.
mundomaniac: Loved your Donald chart, especially “Donald’s ‘son’ = Sagittarius.” That’s my sign; no wonder I like Donald. And Bro, I do get elated watching Trump, not dejected which comes from other sources.
Direction R: I was introduced to Bill Burroughs through Dylan Bob. Reminds me of teranam’s description of Dostoyevsky’s subterranian characters in the Idiot. I wish I could read Dos but I get too depressed. You can be my screen and I’ll take your descriptions for the whole.
Bro, allow me to balance your perceptions of yours truly. You have a way of skewing the scale in ways I did not intend. Perhaps you lack the capacity to understand what I am saying; that’s fine–I can reset the scale.
I did not mean “flat-footed” literally, which you reduced to that level by talking about shoe inserts and foot arches. Surely, you understand metaphors, so why are you couching terms in a misleading context? You hit on “sex hang-ups in the Vatican” as if there were not some good things happening there; much of the press is mere allegation, although some, if not much of it is true. But is it not the case with other professions in equal measure?
I get Saker’s view on the Franks capturing the Vatican; and I agree with him. I also like Orthodoxy now more than Catholicism; but they share some commonalities still. You think I might start a war in the vineyard. Are you serious, or just teasing? Or both? I enjoy the double entendre but also desire straight talk. I do the same thing, so I might be projecting upon your projection.
one minion: I love Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler, and knowing when to hold and fold. My basic conceptual system uses the metaphor of a house of cards, which will fold, leaving only what I hold closest, which is the great mystery I call love.
I liked Jeff Brown’s article, especially about Trump. He said Donald has his own security. Funny, but I broached this idea a couple of years ago; saying he hired 300 Russian spetsnaz to do just that. Also, his image of Trump having to throw saurians a piece of meat (dare we say pizza?), and dogs some bones–for his safety and survival.
Regarding Saker’s interview with Monk, contrary to most comments, I liked Monk; perhaps because we share simple, childlike minds.
One final thought: I think Bro said this morning he took his walk two hours earlier than usual. If true, that was the time I was walking. I think he resides in Orange County, south of LA while I live about sixty miles north of LA, as a crow would fly. We have our differences, but I think agree on most fundamentals. Vive la difference!
Love ya all, Dennis, Ojai, 444 pm. Why does this generally get posted at 744 UTC? Has Greenwich moved to NY?
Dennis, thanks for taking notice. The Yakutia fish market looks abundant, but about the quality of fish, these fish would contain pollutants. The diamond miners pollute the rivers and the diamond miners are nomads, leaving their mess and creating new messes in their search for their profits … crazy … illogical. Diamonds can be man made, so what is this nonsense ? … a covert operation to destroy the Russian environment. Likewise, is all the fracking for shale gas … same BS. Putin, the great leader needs to stop this nonsense … (((nonsense))) … ??? … (I think so).
Hi Dennis! LZ noticed that you exist near highway 61… So, one might say, do we all…and to celebrate this art…there’s a movie almost nobody know…
“Highway 61” 1992. Deep expedition into dark side…makes people uneasy…good art. Not for the young child though, not at all. It would trouble their minds. A certain juxtaposition of Force in a disequilibrium runs from rural Canada to nawarleenz in a contest, maybe…it’s been years…
Trailer on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VxntoErjSA
K R The Gambler always seems to exist in congruence with some work in Ethics by A. Einstein, which itself built in the German School of Philosophy…and condenses, in part to K R song…Ethics is precisely dependent on perceived situation interacting approximately with apriori assumptions, but is latency and imperfect – most perceptions are wildly inaccurate. Indeed yes, yougotta know when to and when not to… Macbeth failed the final exam…Banquo did not. The Constant being the Rate of Change over Time…a constant that’s elusive and at given moment unknowable, but of which objective existence is proved in Logic. End practical product? You gotta think about stuff, and learn, and then make best guess, it’s the way of life, conflict, judgement, guesses… You may be pleased to hear that “bred-Quakers” like LZ always hear a soft voice that makes them hold back, Kateonic, and they hold the basic assumption that all Ethics controlled human relations, business actions, must pass review as to Justice. Like proper Jews, they see Justice as a Primary Law, not subject to question or disobedience except by force. To understand this about himself LZ made explorations and discovered the Metaphysics of Conflict, which he wrote about 10 years ago. Interesting subject – there’s an entire scientific field, a formal hard science under the metaphysics. Unhappily the practical application of parts of this hard applied science is now a social engineering matter…as the TV would illustrate if we were to connect the thing. LZ does not do that. (Much more recently LZ did enter, for the only time, a Quaker Meeting House. Nice, it was, but sorta silly too. He learned nothing of value there. A dead end. Nice to know that. They do a good job with the kids there, they’re commies with a small c, on a good day, so they take care with the children properly with Ethics and of course the other Nurturing stuff good people seek.)
Glad y’like the eschatological Mr Hoag, is also paperback short novel, which is easier to enjoy.
Since I called down old uncle Albert I’d mention that he was, if I remember properly (I recall the day he died) was…well, Einstein was romanced by zionists, but rejected their blandishments. He knew when to fold ’em, eh?
Pax
LZ
Abby Martin speaks with Brian Becker …
To understand the context of this first socialist experiment, how it happened and what caused the many problems it faced, Abby Martin sits down with Brian Becker, long-time socialist organizer and co-author of the new book “Storming the Gates: How the Russian Revolution Changed the World.”
Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution Proved Possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAK9G8f87fw
… listen carefully … but also read the comments section !
There are many questions yet to be answered correctly and truthfully about this particular ‘revolution’.
Russian/Soviet Christians in my view could have been included in Soviet society and at a later stage the ideas of religion as an opiate be offered as an education.
Many people gain strength and comfort from religion and if that religion truly serves the Soviet peoples, this is good, is it not ?
Lenin was too strict with Marxism and he expected too much in much too shorter time … thus the inexcusable trauma and mass murders … all of which could have been avoided.
Next time we need to get it right … if we survive the present nonsense !
was addressed also last monday on crosstalk..one opinion there (Babich’s?) was that the Russian “civil war” was in fact a foreign intervention under Churchill. Think “Syria” prior to Ru liquidating bandits in expert way… As such the Bolshis were obliged to harden into the militarisation that stood, just barely, against the second wave, which was created by the famous Third Reich…consensus seem to LZ to revolve ’round what might be called “the justification by necessity” that sticks uncomfortably to Stalin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6EjtIYyVl8
Interesting facts of pre Soviet history … well presented.
Pre revolutionary Russia & Nicholas’ reign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINWbLyeOS0
Theresa May accuses Vladimir Putin of election meddling
Not another one…..
“In a major foreign policy speech at Mansion House in London, Mrs May described as a “very simple message” for President Putin, she said he must choose a very “different path” from the one that in recent years had seen Moscow annex Crimea, foment conflict in Ukraine and launch cyber attacks on governments and Parliaments across Europe. ”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41973043
I have seen this same script too many times now; May is being a meek and compliant vassal.
If these people told the truth their front teeth woulld fall out.
sad to live in a country where the politicians are so so deluded and unable to see what really matters, eg failed USA coalition to remove ISIS and “assisting” them at times, deliberately attacking SAA, but no congratulations to Russia for taking on that huge task.
I have very little time for bro but, as with most, there is some truth (rather than goodness) in what is said:
/altright-vs-the-saker-a-very-telling-example-of-a-very-ugly-trend/#comment-441814
“Fact: The Public in almost all societies, from small tribes to large nations is almost always like “reeds in the wind”, bending to whatever persuasive nonsense they just heard last OR…they made up their minds years ago and no amount of contrary evidence or hard proofs can move them to grow in understanding anything more…EVER. At the extremes, they are either “putty in your hands”…or stubborn as mules….”
Another, er, ******, said practically the same thing:
“Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
So, no need to feel sorry for those of us who happened to be born / live in the UK – it is the same, nearly, everywhere.
one of my great uncles in ww2 was a conscientious objector…but served as , or was told to serve in bomb disposal so I believe………did not make it, or died in “mysterious circumstances ‘ I am told……………
“mysterious circumstances ‘
sounds about right.
Little did he know at the time but rather than objecting to the “Your Country Needs You” posters, if he was British, he’d probably have done better to, er, liquidate his King
/moveable-feast-cafe-2017-11-11/#comment-441873
Conscientious objectors, and anyone with a conscience, are an affront to those without one.
I’m more generous with my time, even with nominalists that pick out a word both Herman G and I used to equate my purpose with his……Nice contortion there, Anonymouse!
No, I will give anyone the time of day…..LOL
I didn’t think I had time for Asia’s Got Talent but I clicked on something that looked like it…..AND I see that Duterte entered the singing contest…..he says , at the order of Trump:
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/162252/duterte-sings-dinner-trump-strugges-asean-handshake
Either the Donald thinks talent judge in music trumps firing most business apprentices or an Asian Simon Cowell boycotted POTUS and POTUS filled in for him. Something like that.
I told you the situation was fluid.
Even men’s fashions and diets are changing….getting more Asian:
“Each of the men sported a cream-colored barong Tagalog, the traditional Philippine shirt made of fiber from the pineapple plant, embroidered and worn untucked.
They were served ensaladang ubod at alugbati with tamarind vinaigrette dressing, sinigang na maya-maya sa miso, bistek sushi, grilled apahap fillet and Filipino caramel flan.”
And “Thas whas happen-NING!”
In Manila.
Many years ago, I heard that exact, charming pronunciation …….In Eagle Rock…a part of LA just west of Pasadena. I love that melting pot!
AS RT registers in the US as Russian agents, the US openly influences Hungary’s politics and media:
uthored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Hypocrisy may be the only consistent guiding principle of US foreign policy.
Here’s a prime example of the “do as we say, not as we do” that is the core of how Washington does business overseas: In the same week that the the US Justice Department demanded that the Russian-backed RT America network register as a foreign propaganda entity or face arrest, the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DNL) has announced that it is launching a program to massively interfere in NATO-partner Hungary’s internal media.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-13/meddling-us-state-departments-new-program-take-hungarian-media
@JJ
Russia kicked them badly in their rose asses, would they congratulate for that ?
No, Theresa is scrabbling desperately for anything to excuse the horrendous mess she is in–shifting the blame. Nobody believes this mess is anything other than entirely self-inflicted by this shoddy shower.
She’s way beyond her expiration date anyway, even her cabinet of fools want rid of her. Lord preserve us from Boris Johnson.
Russian Foreign Ministry Trolls Theresa May on Twitter
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201711141059093233-may-accusations-russian-response/
“During a speech at the at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at London’s Guildhall, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has accused Russia of meddling in the affairs of other states by “planting fake stories” in the media and generally trying to “sow discord in the West.”
“So I have a very simple message for Russia. We know what you are doing. And you will not succeed,” May declared.
“We know what YOU are doing as well. Dear Theresa, we hope, one day you will try Crimean #Massandra red wine,” Russian Foreign Ministry tweeted in response, accompanying the message by a picture of May sipping on a glass of wine during the very banquet she made her statement at.”
Nice one. :-D
Adversary air services
A private company, Draken International, is aquiring lots of fighter jets to provide “adversary air services”. They now have over 100 fighter jets. I gather this means that bombing services are being privatized and subcontracted, like prisons and everything else. Crazy world.
http://www.drakenintl.com/blog/blog/news-and-press/draken-adds-21-supersonic-radar-equipped-mirage-f1m-to-the-fleet
Lakeland, FL (Novemeber 9, 2017) – Draken International, a global leader in advanced adversary air services, has acquired 22 Mirage F1M and F1B fighter jets in an effort to enhance adversary services for the United States Air Force and other Department of Defense clients. The Mirage F1Ms were predominantly flown by the Spanish Air Force and have been fully modernized. This acquisition increases Draken’s fleet size to over 100 fighter jets as the company continues to expand its capabilities.
With the completion of the procurement phase, the Mirage F1Ms will soon join Draken’s existing fleet of radar-equipped Douglas A-4K Skyhawks and Aero Vodochody L-159E “Honey Badger” fighter jets. Draken remains the only commercial air service provider to have purchased, imported, certified and executed sustained flight operations with radar-equipped and threat representative fighter aircraft. These important capabilities inherent to the Draken Mirage F1M, L-159 and A-4 are essential for supporting Draken’s Nellis AFB ADAIR contract which provides adversary training for the prestigious USAF Weapons School, Red Flag exercises, operational test support, RTU support, and Combat Air Forces abroad.
Draken International is also prepared to use all 22 Mirage F1Ms for various contracts within the US Department of Defense to include the US Navy, US Marine Corps, as well as numerous coalition militaries. As the sole provider of commercial adversary services to the USAF, Draken International is primed to deliver extensive capacity to cover the majority of the 42,000 flight hour requirement for supporting combat readiness training at 12 operating locations throughout the US.
The US Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC), which includes the Weapons School (TOPGUN) and Carrier Air Wing Training, is currently reviewing proposals from contract air service providers for a high-end supersonic, radar-equipped adversary solution at Naval Air Station Fallon. Draken’s Mirage F1M offers Fallon an extremely cost-effective Mach 2+, radar-equipped platform that meets or exceeds all posted requirements….
Full article: http://www.drakenintl.com/blog/blog/news-and-press/draken-adds-21-supersonic-radar-equipped-mirage-f1m-to-the-fleet