2017/12/23 03:00:01
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Back in September, the DPRK called nikki haley a ‘political prostitute’.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/north-korea-haley-political-prostitute-careful/
Interesting; that’s what I have been calling her – apolitical prostitute, bought by Anglozionist money
From the linked article:
“U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a political prostitute, has kicked off a hysteric fit, exasperated by the DPRK’s nuclear weaponization that has reached its final phase”
Verdict: Beware, lousy misogynists! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And it’s not a matter of just Nikki Haley either, mind you.
For Saker readers with shortwave radios in the United States, the DPRK can be heard every morning in French and English on 9435 kHz. There is usually a jammer nearby which this winter has not been particularly effective.
Shortwave and ham radio are often considered old fashioned, but so far as free media are concerned, they are the way of the future.
http://www.northkoreanradio.com/
recordings of NK radio transmissions
Russia Is All In: Putin Wants To Build A 8,400-Mile Train Route Connecting London To Tokyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=DAesOURSDh8
plan calls for also a rail link under Bearing Strait to Alaska, hence BC and US West Coast down to Mexican border at Sacramento…
If this — truly stunning — railway line is actually being sanctioned by Russia/Kremlin/Putin, then the gloves are off for all the world to see, most notably by the Pindo regime headed by Trump. Shall we call it a “somewhat ill-concealed” attempt at swamping the US territory by Kremlin trolls from the north and Mexicans from the south?
Putin, your arrogance is bordering on the ridiculous!
http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/seikan-tunnel/
just a matter of rather brutal economic and engineering…when it is time to make railroad, railroad happens. The Alaskan aspect will naturally await suitable conditions. This, if the imperial lardships continue making such astonishingly stupid choices, is going to happen pretty soon. Perhaps 30 years from now the road will run from London to Alaska…and a beer in New York will be “one ruble”. Maybe sooner if they smash NK
Another fascinating story but the question is who were those “original sources” really because ring of several dogs sniffing their tails is not any kind of primary source, OK?
” Mikhailov’s arrest, which was followed by the arrests of Ruslan Stoyanov, a senior investigator at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, Georgy Fomchenkov, a former FSB official, and Dmitry Dokuchaev, a Mikhailov lieutenant, coincided with US intelligence agencies releasing public conclusions that the Kremlin had interfered in the 2016 election. The disclosures implicated the FSB’s Center for Information Security—Mikhailov’s and Dokuchaev’s department. ”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/is-putin-trying-to-pin-the-dnc-hacks-on-americas-own-spies/
“A story in Novaya Gazeta “… oh yes… really? Back to the good old days of Yeltsin and neoliberal Russia?
Russia’s new cruise missiles – the end of the Carrier Battle Group?
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/the-sound-of-hypersonic-missiles.html
Thanks very much for that. I also enjoyed this:
“It is his militant stupidity which is awe-inspiring. If anyone wonders–Ukraine’s “project” was to a large degree Joe Biden’s brainchild. We all know how it turned out. It was on his watch, together with Barak Obama, that US-Russian relations have been destroyed almost completely. So, yes, Joe Biden is an idiot.”
Joe Biden’s World
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/joe-bidens-world.html
Putin’s Family Values
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjWYmBF2T94
‘Dateline’ documentary program – SBS Television Australia
I Just start to test this new Browser, Ghost browser. There is particulars features that would probably make me hard to come back to a “usual” browser…. well, first VERY good impression :
https://ghostbrowser.com/
‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler’ by Antony C. Sutton … from the preface …
“This is the third and final volume of a trilogy describing the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany.”
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_Hitler-5.pdf
… sourced via …
http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm
It seems as though there will be large scale violence in Korea, with political and economic results that cannot be predicted beyond “bad”.
If this happens these posters may disappear..
I’d want to have copies for the History, and so might you.
http://www.koreanposters.com/
(Some could be adapted to my little US river town…semper fi and all that stuff)
If the US starts the action, China will enter the war. In ways that the US cannot handle.
Also, defense of North Korea will include assistance from Russia. They will counter any US invasion of the North.
High school gym language deleted … note to commentator … please re-read Saker’s moderation policy mod
Read up on Operations of the US military since Eisenhower retired, and Bradley and Marshall turned over the Pentagon to inferiors. There has not been one successful Operation of Scale that went right. Not only don’t the US win wars, they don’t do Operations well.
The world understands that Seoul will lose tens of thousands of people, the US military will suffer hundreds, if not thousands of its Korean Peninsular troops, and South Korea will be ruined for two decades, and its military reduced by 20-30% by a short-lived action.
If Japan is seen in the early hours of this phallic wet dream of McMasters as being an accessory, it may suffer some hits on its citizens and infrastructure.
You can imagine thousands of cruise missiles striking the North’s military and science infrastructure. And maybe half the artillery set to unload hundreds of thousands of rounds on the South in the first eight minutes will be destroyed. But North Korea will never surrender to an attacker. There is no part of Korean civilization, North or South, that has any surrender in it.
Does Trump want this mess on his record of ‘achievement’? No, because he wants victories, not catastrophes.
The military lunatics might convince him it’s actually possible to strike and have no adverse action originate from Pyongyang. He might believe such briefings.
But the damage done to the US economy, major tech companies, Wall Street will be as much as if North Korea struck the US with a missile.
If the Operation lasts a few days, a few weeks, the US will be finished in global affairs.
And conceivably, its Asia-Pacific hegemony will cease to exist.
The world never believed Bush-Cheney with their WMD bullshit over Iraq. No one will believe an Intel report justifying a decapitation strike on the North Koreans. Everyone knows the hardest regime to get reliable Intel on is North Korea. It virtually does not exist. The best they have is when a satellite sees a rocket on a launch pad. They never predict day-time-place and content of the action. They just don’t know and have no clue what Kim is really doing until he does it.
If I had to name the Operation, I’d suggest Operation Blue Veiner.
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The following strategies should have been implemented years ago, regardless of sanctions, and these are still awaiting implementation. What is the problem?
“The Central Bank should be accountable to the state. Presently, the Central Bank is practically unaccountable hiding behind a vague definition of an independent institution.
Undoubtedly, Russia needs to change the nature of the money issue. The Central Bank should credit the real sector of the economy. What the Central Bank is doing today is a mess. Instead of strengthening the financial position of the real sector of economy, the Central Bank wastes billions, even trillions of rubles, to sanitise the banks that suck the Russian economy dry and redirect that money to offshore companies, etc.”
… extracted from …
Pravda.ru – Oleg Artyukov (author)
http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/21-12-2017/139500-russia_sanctions-0/
Who owns the central bank? ( Who owns it ) They are the money-policy makers.
Sea: I found the following book helpful with similar questions.
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf
Live Stream starting at 08:00, Dec 24, 2017 (Beijing Time) …
“China’s amphibious aircraft AG600 is making its maiden flight in Zhuhai. AG600 is the world’s largest amphibious plane and the first large specialist civil aircraft developed entirely in China. With a 36.9-meter body and 38.8-meter wingspan, it can compete with Boeing 737 or Airbus 320 in size. Its chief designer Huang Ling expects AG600 to play important roles in various tasks including forest fire control, maritime search and rescue.”
… sourced via China Global Television Network (CGTN) …
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d4d444d7845545a326c4754/share_p.html
Poland wanted to be European, and now Europe is punishing Poland for resisting the migrant invasion of Europe – you must go down with the European ship or else!
Trump To Announce Anti-Tank Missile Exports To Ukraine, and there’s also talk of anti-aircraft missiles.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-23/russia-hawks-are-winning-trump-announce-anti-tank-missile-exports-ukraine
Russia gives Syria 40 modern main battle tanks:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-gives-syrian-army-whole-battalion-t-90-battle-tanks/
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That is because trump weely weely wants better relations with Russia. It even says so right on the sales brochure for the missiles.
Psheks, Ukros, and Balts = The absolute bottom rung of Euro-trash. Their “countries” would actually benefit from being saturated by Third World immigration; a judgment that will likely dawn upon the host populations concerned given the atrocious, prevalent demographics they are up against. After all, who is otherwise going to stop the Russkies from taking depopulated lands and make something useful out of them?
Live Stream starting at 08:00, Dec 24, 2017 (Beijing Time) …
Crew boarding the AG600 now … 10:30 Australian Eastern Time.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d4d444d7845545a326c4754/share_p.html
Today i will be short, as a Christmas “gift” my dog is ill, mom the same, little time for myself. Two poems for you :
Merry Christmas
by ioan
Merry Christmas, my good Friends
Wish our friendship never ends
Merry Christmas for every child
A newborn Jesus be in your heart
Merry Christmas for young and old
Wish your hearts to be of Gold
Merry Christmas, Saker and Dove
Wish you for all,
from ioan, with Love
Silence
by ioan
When everything is said,
When nothing more to talk,
When every game is played,
When every path is walked,
Then bells will stop to ring,
Then wind will stop to blow,
Then voices stop to sing,
Then begins, the silent show
The shadows, memories of past,
Empty cups, a pair of glasses
Lonely tables full of dust
Joyful place for web princesses
When everything is played
And nothing more to tell
When every bill is payed,
Resounding the last bell
The show, can now begin
The clock stands now still
Neither whisper nor suspin
All is quiet, all is chill
The room is getting windy
And ghosts are coming in
The chairs are lying empty
And Silence will be Queen.
An interesting and detailed article (not just some silly list) about ways in which Russia is currently better than the USA:
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/10-ways-russia-better-than-usa/
A Winter’s blessing
May your mother be calm
May your dog be healed
May your Heart’s balm
with this blessing be sealed.
re: winter’s blessing poem—a better ending…less egotistical more spiritual
“May Love’s balm, in your Heart be sealed ‘
Many thanks tera 13 !
Much appreciated thank you.
Christmas Greetings Dear Saker Friends,
Thank-you for continuing in the spirit of poetry dear ioan, T13 and all. I’m jumping into the cafe today to share some Christmas cheer and contemplations. Love and Blessings to you all!
k
The Annunciation
When the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary to announce the birth of Her Divine Son, he bowed before Her. Gabriel’s gaze was always directed in contemplation of God’s eternal formless majesty. Mary’s face, which he now beheld, revealed to him the image of God the Most High in human form, thus he bowed before Her in holy reverence.
Christmas Eve
During the Christmas season and over the Twelve Holy Nights, Heaven bows low to earth and earth lifts itself toward heaven. As the celestial hierarchies flood the earth with light, choirs of Angels and Archangels encircle the world bringing tidings from Heaven singing “Peace on Earth”, “Goodwill Among All Peoples”, “Glory to God in the Highest”.
At the midnight hour on Christmas Eve these celestial forces form themselves into radiant lines and points of light into a likeness of Mother and Child. This image of Mother and Child is the most holy secret of the Earth’s cosmic destiny which fortells how the human soul was born from the divine, spiritual universe, and that each of us is a Christ in the making.
Do you have an astronomical link?
Or is it esoteric?
Sounds lovely, either way. :-)
Dear kinterra, it is always a good sign when you came in here !
Happy Christmas Ioan, and all at the Vineyard.
Hope both your dog and mother get well soon.
Don’t forget to take some time out for yourself.
Thank you Eimear, I wish you Happy Christmas and blessings !
Ioan
I hope your mom and dog will get better soon. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Thanks vot tak for your words, I still hope for better.
Not to be overlooked: The other frontier
https://www.rt.com/news/414065-s-400-russia-east/
So back to the St. Petersburg cathedral attack: Andrew KORYBKO on 23/12/2017 wrote “Trump Saved St. Pete’s Because He Wants A Piece Of The Syrian Pie” This was apparently part of a radio programme on Sputnik.
https://orientalreview.org/2017/12/23/trump-saved-st-petes-wants-piece-syrian-pie/
This viewpoint mirrors this from new euro med dk:
http://new.euro-med.dk/20171218-another-1939-putin-and-trump-now-allies-in-syria-to-constrain-iran-there-trump-just-declared-war-on-iran-and-proclaimed-russia-the-antihesis-of-the-usa.php
Just food for thought, not wishing to rehash Saker’s earlier post on the subject.
I’m disapointed by the recent adoption of new sanctions by the UN (with the backing of Russia & China) against North Korea .
One hypothesis is that Russia & China want to give the US a way to save the face without harmig too much NK That would be the most generous explanation: https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Can-North-Korea-Survive-An-Oil-Embargo.html
The less generous one would be that China & Russia, as imperialist powers, hope either a regime change that favorize them (rather than the US) or at least to transform NK into a vassal state whose rare earths can be looted.
If there’s a war on the Korean Peninsula, no one will need rare earths for a generation.
South Korea will be sent back to level 1960. Japan may also lose a hunk of their hi tech use of rare earths. And China might lose much of its Northeast provinces, especially around Dalian where both SK and Japan have free trade zone hi tech plants.
The reality of war is no one knows its borders, its limits, its duration until it concludes.
China and Russia want to develop the Korean Peninsula. The US wants to own and dominate it.
So, vassals are for the Hegemon.
And you toss around imperialist powers like you know what you speak of.
There is no sign of China or Russia being imperialist. Except in the warped minds of the US NSC and neocons and the satanic Khazarians.
So why did they vote for sanctions?
It is ugly scenario. NK gets smashed by US and Russia and China win ww3 as world reject empire in an agony of witnessing the vast sea of millions murdered…while aircraft carriers go as submarine, down
Of course China and Russia and India and so on, Persia too, are “empires”…thousands of years of imperial history. These empires know how to rule disparate peoples in relative peace. They are ok.
Murka does not act as empires must act, it therefore cannot continue as an imperial state. This explains why “sanctions vote” went through…they will permit Murka to ruin both NK and itself, since it is determined to do so, idiotically.
They want NK to give up nukes. They have always been for denuclearization of the Peninsula, which means, also, the US leaves. The South Koreans want this also. President Moon is with Russia on the concept of economic development as the enticement for NK. The Russians and the Chinese would bring high speed rail, fiber optic, oil and gas pipelines to the Peninsula. It would integrate N & S with Eurasia. South wants to leave the US vassalage.
That’s why. And most of the sanctions impact is downstream. Oil and and crude oil are actually virtually the same import from China. 24 months for Russia to move 30,000 NK workers back to NK. What hurts is the embargo of NK exports.
The sanctions, as sold by Media, sounds really bad. They have a long window before they really hurt. 15 months for some and 24 months for others. Even the “blockade” is not a real US dominated naval blockade.
Read the details.
Indeed so. I did read details and agree as to the specific.
In US mythology the example of Pearl Harbor is a useful point to examine.
Examining PH and the multitude of Congressional Investigations – in which many lies were spoken – we see a classical deception.
The same deception is occurring today with NK. So what’s this deception?
Focusing of the outcome avoids the exposure of the Strategy that brought the outcome.
That would be the secret maneuvers that Churchill and Roosevelt played out in order to force Japan to make the attack.
Now we see a similar methodology. Any kinetic events that follow will be, by distracting from the Strategy, functioning as deception. They are attempting to force NK to act.
Evidently Ch and Ru have calculated their own methodologies to operate inside the Imperial one…recalling that the idea is to bring all of Korea into their own spheres even more than they are now.
Since Empire is determined to do this crime it is only prudent to 1) permit this idiotic strategy, and, 2) to make the best of it. In the end all Korea, probably in ruins, will join Ch and Ru.
In the end it will be to the ruin of Imperial Ambition when the fight occurs. Ugly though. Perhaps not all the Imperial Fleet will sink…nobody can yet say about such after-effects.
jfb: I’m disappointed you’re disappointed. What on earth are you talking about? Imperialist? Prove.
Comparing the Chinese and Russians with the (rather than) United States in imperial ambition implies that the former have a money printing machine like the Fed. Can’t have one without the other. No money printing machine makes it harder to buy politicians, MSM’s, 800-1000 overseas mil bases, etc. I’m afraid, rare earth minerals or no, your proposition makes no economic sense. It’s US hubris to think that everyone else dreamed up, wanted, and implemented their very own Fed.
China is an imperialist power in the making the same way than the US, the Mongols, the Roman Empire,etc… There is no such thing like a benevolent state which fight for “justice” by pure altruism.
So why did China vote for a compromise with the US & sanctions while NK has not done anything wrong? Claiming with sanctions that NK should eventually trust the US & disarm while Iran, Libya, Iraq were cheated with the same approach is unbelievable.
Either they want to gain time (which will open the door to more US military provocations), or either they hope that NK will place itself under their protection in exchange of a total submission. China is likely the leading power which adopted such a strategy, but the Russians followed
“while NK has not done anything wrong?”
There are international laws and rules about proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The fat man has been firing missiles all over the north Asia Pacific. Some have come down near Russia, Japan and other places. Pyongyang has no right to fire missiles that endanger other nations. And it has no right to test and develop nuclear weapons.
Aside from that, nothing wrong.
He’s a menace. And they are amateurs at nuclear testing. They caved in the insides of a mountain because they tested their device on the cheap. Now that site is imploding.
Just because the US is completely insane in trying to dominate the globe doesn’t grant every other country to do similar things. Russia and China are ready to protect NK. He won’t talk and do anything to help fend off the US.
You might want to explain your thinking to Israel. They aren’t “permitted” to have nuclear weapons either,but they do. And then talk to India and Pakistan as well. They also weren’t permitted nuclear weapons.But they developed them anyway.And I don’t see any sanctions imposed on them either.Its very “convenient” for the so-called “world community” to decide “which” countries are “allowed” to break those rules and which aren’t. I don’t personally like the spread of nuclear weapons either.But I’d advise any country threatened and bullied by the US to get nuclear weapons if they hope to survive.Only when there is something done to stop the US from attacking weak states (and I see no one trying to do that).Will there be no need for the spread of nuclear weapons.
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When zionazi, inc. fails to get their war going and dies from the resultant peace, then what.
Exactly. Given that the US “exercises” against NK include “decapitation” which pretty much means what it says, and the examples to NK of Libya, Iraq, Syria, etc, the only sensible option to ensure their survival is to hang onto their nuclear weapons. The problem with the issues everyone has with Kim lobbing a few missiles into the sea is that, should he not demonstrate what he has, he runs the very real risk that the Hegemonic Pentagon will decide not to believe that NK has any weapons – they do, after all, tend to believe what they want to believe!!
He could end up with them invading him anyway. As the character in the movie “Dr. Strangelove” says “why did you keep the Doomsday machine a secret? The whole point of it is to let everyone know you have it”. i.e. frighten your enemies into a more accommodating attitude!! The US has left NK with no option but to demonstrate what she has.
The entire fault for the NK / nuclear issue lies with America – going all the way back to the Korean War and the utter devastation America unleashed on those people – and all stops since.
Yanks don’t want NK with nuclear arms?? Fine, stop threatening and invading the rest of the world first US.
Comrade Saker
Here is my Christmas wish list:
1)1,000 s-300s for Syria
2)1,000 Buk missiles for Syria
3)100 Panstirs for Syria…
Please Santa Putin….
This video is popular. The Sun/the Son gives us a choice. We have better chose wisely. The true Sun. The sign language is a good help.
СУД
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=n4zdGnaKWBI
Some generations later, I think, stuff like I’m producing, will be an item of breezy
exchange of thoughts. There will be a time, where the subject ‘calendar’ will appear
in the 1. class, and the zodac will be a tool, to get a feeling for the invisible powers
arranging symchronicities like this one:
Before I began to write, I loked at the chart of the day, and suddenly I saw:
firstly hey,
Mars and Jupiter both are expanding aka ‘fire’ principals
in Scorpio – doing as Pluto pleases = by sacrifice, expanding sacrifice,
in Capricorn = the top, as Saturn pleases: by ‘constraint to the imperative necessary’.
Don’t know ‘what it will be’, but it will be on top of man’s world, maybe no one will realize it,
but it will happen anyway in the ‘socket’ of our northern common soul, and it might be
that in the archetypal storm of the niveau of 300 hpa, some arrows of Jupiter and gusts
of Mars might reach the surface of consciousness something below 1.000 hpa of ‘psychic
pressure’.
Secondly while musing the chain from Uranus to Mars to Pluto and Saturn, simply following the basic rule: the sign rules the light/planet telling in where + in what order = sign it has to happen.
And musing Uranus, remambering the old teaching Uranus = the unexpected I opened the Vineyard
and found Buttlers piece and the first word o his was = Uranus = the ‘Unprecedented’, hence unexpected.
Synchronicities, arranged by the invisible dynamic of the ‘archetypes’, happen by the day, but to catch
them by their tail in a sudden insight, owing to some astrological education, I’m sure will not be kept astray in time coming and Uranus the heavenly light within us will be happy, to finally reach the bright surface of human consciousness.
I wish it to mankind, to realize the love = order above and underneath our psyche’s conscious horizon.
May christ the child everyday somewhere be found within us ‘in a manger fo a bed’, far from the
guarded properties, to become a seed-bed for passion and truth.
(I assume this is true) Dumbf*** nikki haley got played for the idiot she is. Russian pranksters Vovan & Lexus called her and claimed that Russia had interferred in the elections of a ficticious country, and she retorted: “of course they did!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RgXL7byTF0&feature=youtu.be
Anybody want to comment on this article on Russia? When I was in a Russian hotel 2 years ago, I got 36 Mb/s download, and 38 Mb/s upload – yes, in that order. Fairly long, but that is not a complaint from me:
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/10-ways-russia-better-than-usa/
Mentions that food is organic, and grass fed by default (at markets) which, I have read, is good for eating butter and beef, as its much healthier than those cattle which is not grass fed.
By the way, where is Scott, and also Baz?
Ralph, the article is interesting and the comments also, but many who commented did not read the article carefully. The Russian Central Bank needs to work for Russians and when, and if this happens Russian people will have a higher standard of living, but also the private bankers will receive diminished financial returns and resort to war to regain control.
Year 2018 is going to be interesting, where we see potential wars at three strategic points possible and all simultaneously for major chaos toward Russia … Ukraine, Russian far East border with North Korea and ISIS strengthening in Iraq. However, Russian and China, with Iran are determined to do what is right … read the following …
Russia & China to kneecap petrodollar in 2018 predicts Saxo Bank
https://www.rt.com/business/414061-china-russia-oil-dollar-yuan/
It’s a very rough Holiday Season for 2 of the Cafe’s most stalwart regulars, iaon and Dennis.
With his Jerusalem Zio-coordinated lockstep with Russophobic Politico-Ho Nikki Haley, (Ho,Ho, Ho!) The Donald and his Semper Fi Trump faithful are really getting so roughed up in the War Room, taking so many heavy body blows I am beginning to wince, along with Dennis, and feels his pain…..
What’s a Brother to do?
When they go heavy, I go light, to lessen the load, and keep moving:
Spotted minutes before boarding my flight home for the holidays, leafing throughthe current issue of the New Yorker, for the cartoons:
https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/5a298ec5b8fd557fdce6ee98/master/w_964,c_limit/171218_a21550.jpg
What’s missing from the above link is the caption of one of the two outdoor observers, watching Santa Claus, reindeer and sleigh flying off into the sky, away from them:
“Learning the truth about Santa Claus is always painful.”
That’s for Dennis and others reeling from VT’s relentless body blows to the hopeful side of our political psyche’s, just emerging from the Darkest Day of the Year, the Dec 22 Winter Solstice.
The Other Levity is for ioan. A good cynical quote spotted in print in the White House Visitor Center on Pensylvannia Avenue, uttered by a lousy President (Harry S Truman) much beseiged and “hounded” in his only elected term of office:
“You want a ‘friend’ in Washington? Get a dog!”
“and others reeling from VT’s relentless body blows to the hopeful side of our political psyche’s”
You have no idea. I’ll confess, since it appears you have found me out. I am an evil disciple of lucifer himself. My adopted theme song:
Atakama – ТИХО [Official Music Video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8vWAv4rfk
She does all the vocals in that video. Skerry stuff, eh? Now what do you think that song is about.
Holiday Cheer, anybody?
For those who grew up with rock n’ roll and love it still…
The very best Van Halen bootleg, Greensboro NC 1981. The best I’ve ever heard Eddie VH play. The band is on fire. The audience is nuts. Some “language” makes this not for work and “adults only”, but the musicianship is on the level of jazz musicians all ’round. The good-timey vibe is elevating for this season, and something we in the ‘states need to remember that we ever produced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdxi0R-c3ho
If I play with words and spellings it is because i love them and that is the only reason and no one need be afraid, it will not hurt – much . . .
the chop the waiter served me on a plate just now – he nearly tripped and dropped it on my plait – my hair’s a mane, in the main, and wound round my head, see what I mean ? FYI, something like a chop is not “choppy – the windy sea ;s the only thing that’s choppy ! If you are manly you can chop wood for the fire with an ax, if you are womanly you can pilot a heli-chopper (helicopter;)
AND, ioan, something like a bus is not bussy, But, may be bossy if its busy looking like the back of a bus. A bust-up bus, has had an accident, a woman’s bust is her chest (and not a chest of drawers). To go bust is to run out of money, but still go bussing around London on bus’s with Day Rider tickets, viewing statues and busts of the famous …
I love the things that go round and round
Like the years, months, weeks of daily sound
With four seasons dancing round and round
The streets are packed with festive shoppers
Lights brightly shining children now all smiling
Carol singers candle light toys and tinsel galore
I could not really ask for anything much more
Happy Christmas all good people on this site
Peace and light be with you on this holy night
It shall build a shining arching bridge from here to there
Where all good Orthodox Christians, Christmas share.
And all who believe in love and light and peace
Walk over the bridge and see the wondrous sight !
I like the way you play with words. This poem of yours is great. Happy Christmas my friend !
Grudinin is interesting man. The farms is subject of https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0906/In-capitalist-Russia-a-socialist-garden-flourishes
But I know noting of the important – his character.
the monitor article seems to be pre fake news, ie true.
Snowden App is ‘Easy’ for Use as Surveillance Device – Analyst
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201712241060286241-edward-snowden-app-security/
“He said that “it will be an ideal app for you to use, if you are really paranoid about someone touching your belongings when you are out of a hotel.”
When asked whether the app will help protect a PC from hacking, Choong-Fook Fong noted that you should “not take on this app to protect your [internet] security,” which he said should be provided with “strong access control.”
This app is mainly used to detect changes in the physical environment, which means something like intrusion or illegal access to your belongings,” he pointed out.
Also, Choong-Fook Fong did not rule out that any Android phone with such an app “can be easily used as surveillance device,” which he said will help a user listen to conversations and see what is happening in his room.
The tech website Gizmodo has meanwhile reported that the Snowden app specifically features an accelerometer which can sense the movement of the phone itself.
Additionally, the app contains a light sensor in order to distinguish changes in light and has a monitor to detect whether the phone has been plugged in or unplugged.”
OK, but can the app prevent a phone switching on and calling “contacts” numbers when the phone is placed in a back trouser pocket. What is humourously referred to as “butt calls”.
Interesting, I’ve been thinking that a super-brilliant bad*ss hacker with intimate knowledge of hardware architecture and machine coding skills could hack the security agencies themselves and utilise all their tech surveillance, including satellites!! Enough to make Moriarty proud!
If so, then perhaps otherwise inexplicable mishaps become clear.
No software would protect against this.
Just some idle thoughts which may be of help to some who are having problems.
seems like a stand alone gizmo would work better and might not be hack-able…buy a magnifying glass and get some dust to sprinkle.
if complexity becokns you – what one might do…any oneshot circuit I used a photo-transistor and a charged cap…open the box or the room and the transistor triggers and dumps the cap. If it does not trigger when you return, then somebody triggered it for you, no sweat. Varieties are endless. And yes, I caught my sister in law doing a burglary…with precisely this gadget. In that iteration the load was an air-horn and an 80 gallon air tank, but a simple resistor would work in silence…depends what you desire to achieve…
iphone is poison.
Here is a history lesson of European arrogance and interference which has created an ongoing disaster which is not going to be solved anytime soon.
“Armed with superior weaponry and the most powerful exterminating agent, disease the Europeans wiped the Aztecs out and systematically dismantled their great temples and pyramids.
Then, they set out to quickly build the most renowned city in the Americas.
They rejected the Aztec way of living harmoniously with the land and, instead, filled their canals, destroyed their “floating farms,” and drained water from the lake until it was completely empty.
This set the city on a collision course with nature.”
Watch the video, read the transcript and click links to learn more.
Mexico’s vast capital, Ciudad de México, the largest city in the Americas, is under threat from a severe water crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dEKLuZXrUc
Tell it like it is in Puerto Rico–the electricity still is not on for my brother who goes to his son’s apartment located in the tourist area of San Juan each night to sleep. He goes back home each day in order to keep homeless people from setting up squatter’s rights–many of the homes in the neighborhood near the University are deserted. He is middle class and manages but many others have left.
He says the beaches and small towns in the south side of the island are deserted. ( his wife sent him an airline ticket to fly to Florida for Christmas with family living there).
One does not survive on $11,000 year unless the safety net is up and functioning like, say, in Cuba especially on an island in which most everything must be imported by ship.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/hurricane-maria-man-made-disaster.html
Claudio Colombo & Carl Nielsen – Carl Nielsen: Piano Music
11 views on You Tube. No comments. Amazing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CEAu4WOGI&list=PLUj_rw-e0fTuhokO7WbJCwIl-qY4hGykY&index=4
Kent
Here’s wishing all of you a Merry Christmas, in the spirit of Donald and Melania’s Christmas Card. I hope we succeed in MAGA. After I recover from the fire, I will continue my work to MEGA–Make Earth Great Again! The Fire of Love will stop the Empire’s DEW–Directed Energy Weapon; with The Love Army’s own DEL–Directed Energy Love!
Love, Dennis, Ojai Library, Christmas Eve Day
One of the most Russophobic MSM “reporters” has authored a new Russia-hate book. The notorious Luke Harding at the Guardian has a long record of writing Russophobic books and articles.His new one “attempts” (with no real evidence) to prove Trump- Russian collusion.There is an article on RT about his book. https://www.rt.com/news/414118-luke-harding-interview-fiasco/
But even better is the interview he gave on The Real News.Com.The interviewer destroys him and his book.The interviewer isn’t pro-Trump,or pro-Russian,but is interested in the truth.And simply destroys Harding’s nonsense book.It is well worth watching Harding get his head handed to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=578&v=9Ikf1uZli4g
“In the Mood for Love” – Shigeru Umebayashi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9fKuymA0I
Kent
“We came – We saw – She hung”
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/ClintonHang1940.jpg
Kent
That would “was hanged”, not “hung”…. Billyboy is maybe “hung”, but no matter. The process is similar to “12 Steps”, but adds a special graduation ceremony…the “thirteenth step”
Remember Donbass.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Givi01.jpg
Kent
This, my friends, might give some people second thoughts about the meaning of the phrase “Bullshit”.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Bullshit..jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Bullshitlarger.jpg
Kent
Is there a body attached or not? You decide.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Theresa_May_Police_Speech_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Kent
Christmas Day Report from a ‘proud Christian’ nation !
Agence France-Presse news article via MSM reiterates again that …
“An international investigation concluded the plane was hit by a Russian-made BUK missile transported across the border into Ukraine from Russia and fired from territory held by separatists pro-Russia rebels.”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/mh17-families-voice-concerns-over-new-discovery-of-remains/ar-BBHg8ar?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=mailsignout
California Wildfires Hot & Out of Control From 49x More Aluminum In Soil w Kristen Meghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic0UarudZiU
https://southfront.org/kurdistan-workers-party-declares-new-self-rule-region-northern-iraq/
PKK declares self rule in northern Iraq.
Let us see how Turkey and Baghdad government are going to react.
It looks like this “declaration” is most likely going to be followed by other declarations ( in Syria )
From ‘the American people’: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin gets horse manure for Christmas
https://www.rt.com/usa/414109-mnuchin-horse-manure-christmas/
“Officers were called on Saturday to the Bel-Air area where one of Mnuchin’s neighbors found a suspicious package on the driveway addressed to the treasury secretary, the Los Angeles Police Department told NBC. The gift-wrapped package alerted the neighborhood and they called the police.
The LAPD dispatched a bomb squad and even closed the street while checking the suspicious box. When officers unwrapped the package, they found a “pretty good quantity” of horse manure inside, LAPD Sgt. Briggs told New York Daily news.
A Christmas card for the former Goldman Sachs banker signed “the American people” was reportedly attached to the package. Sources told local media that the card contained a reference to US President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax overhaul signed on Friday.”
Christmas Pastries Mysteries Platter
“This is tantalyzing, this is exquisite, this is delicious!”
Have one:
https://youtu.be/coCP8MAwdws?t=531
Q Anon, Lionel asserts, posts photographs and flight path info of Air Force One recently carrying Trump over North Korea.
I’ve been travelling, so I may be 10,000 miles behind. This intially strikes one as a Santa Claus or alien craft sighting. Things are getting “curiouser and curiouser”.
I know one thing: Some will take a bite, and might change their minds. Most won’t be able to, yet, in their rigidly fixed positions.
Sigh.
I woke up rather stiff, myself.
Time for my Tai Chi routine. Stay flexible, my friends.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-24/pakistan-opens-fire-along-border-killing-indian-troops-warns-nuclear-war-cannot-be-r
Tensions are rising in Asia .
It looks like that there will be some kind of “” turmoil”” before the new equilibrium is going to settle.
I foolishly joined a Reddit group and tried to talk sense to some Trump is saving the world type people. I made intelligent, reasoned statements. I got banned because members of the group thought I was Artificial Intelligence.
Most people do not know about this bit, back in ’62 –
“…According to Bordne’s account—which, recall, is based on hearing just one side of a phone call—the situation of one launch crew was particularly stark: All its targets were in Russia. Its launch officer, a lieutenant, did not acknowledge the authority of the senior field officer—i.e. Capt. Bassett—to override the now-repeated order of the major. The second launch officer at that site reported to Bassett that the lieutenant had ordered his crew to proceed with the launch of its missiles! Bassett immediately ordered the other launch officer, as Bordne remembers it, “to send two airmen over with weapons and shoot the [lieutenant] if he tries to launch without [either] verbal authorization from the ‘senior officer in the field’ or the upgrade to DEFCON 1 by Missile Operations Center.” About 30 yards of underground tunnel separated the two Launch Control Centers. …”
url https://thebulletin.org/okinawa-missiles-october8826
they had the machines and they were launching, and somebody said “no” and guns were drawn…
So much for command and control…
#Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder Has #EricSchmidt and Other Evil #DeepState Swamp Dwellers Running for Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jCk8Vmpjg
… linking …
Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/