2018/01/26 22:00:03
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biden and his sewer mouth was running about what he did in ukraine:
53.00: ‘if the (state) prosecutor is not fired’ – biden would not give ukraine $1 billion.
Tried to get pence to do their dirty work.
54.35: biden says volker doesn’t have the authority (backing?) from Trump. Also pressurised Europe, & ferkel gave in to not lifting sanctions.
N.B. 55.37 biden says Putin is NOT going to send the tanks in to Ukraine!
57.13 biden still involved, claims he goes through, or deals with pence (not Trump) regarding Ukraine; no pressure that biden is aware of coming from Trump about opposing Ukrainian corruption, putting pressure on the present leadership i.e. continuing biden’s ways when he was vp.
In video, michael carpenter was on the left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_AqpdwqK4
Also see: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-24/son-bitch-got-fired-joe-biden-brags-he-forced-ukraine-fire-key-official-exchange
Wages:
Back in 1972, I submitted an application to be a bus driver in Los Angeles. Starting wages were $10 per hour. I heard nothing and eventually moved to Northern California. One year later, I received a (forwarded) letter saying Los Angeles was ready to interview me for the job. Since I had moved and had other employment, I declined the interview. A few weeks ago (in 2018) I happened to come across the Want Ad section of the L.A. Times newspaper. Two bus districts in the L.A. metro area were advertising for bus driver candidates. Starting wages were…….. $10 per hour. After 46 years of increases in the cost of living, managers are still willing to pay (a very generous) $10 per hour.
“Only in America….Land of Opportunity.”
This could explain the need for illegal workers: as long as there are 10% more workers than available jobs, wages will stay low. Illegals because they never report the abuse.
Good post. Since that time wages have not only stagnated but the cost of big ticket items has skyrocketed. It is interesting to look at some of these items as a function of hours worked.
Here are some numbers. I prefer to base on minimum wage.
Minimum wage:
1972 $1.60 per hour
2017 $7.25 per hour
Costs of various goods and services based on minimum wage hours worked.
Tuition, Harvard University
1972: 1750 minimum wage hours (10 months)
2017: 6205 minimum wage hours (3 years)
New house
1972: 17250 minimum wage hours (8.3 years)
2017: 46262 minimum wage hours (22 years)
Health care costs have also increased dramatically. These are very difficult to get clear data on. From data I’ve seen the cost of a semi-private room has increased from approximately $100 per night in 1972 versus as much as $2000 in 2017.
1972: approximately 63 minimum wage hours.
2017: approximately 207-276 minimum wage hours.
So these items are about 3 times less affordable now.
Brazilian regime starting to close itself.
So the leader of the opposition, former president Lula, was just condemned on trumped-up up charges of corruption. The reason for this, was that he was ahead on the polls for the 2018 elections, and the neoliberal banana regime enthroned by Hillary in 2016 could not accept this fact.
The lava jato/Car wash clique was enthusiastic with the ruling by the regional court that even came up with a harsher sentence (Moro condemned to 9 years and the TRF raised it to 12 years).
The kleptocracy in Brasilia was also very happy, it was a green light by the judiciary and the Lava jato/Car wash clique, to the pension reforms that aim to donate the pensioners money to the corrupt liberal elites(stocks went up +4% with the news of the ruling) and foreign investors.
White House Drops $24 Million for Two Air Force One Refrigerators
https://sputniknews.com/us/201801261061107470-white-house-24-million-refrigerators/
“The Defense Department sent out a notice in late December explaining that Boeing “has been awarded a $23,657,671 contract for engineering support services for VC-25A G12/G13 chillers, including prototype design, manufacture/procurement, installation, and the testing of one prototype.”
A spokesman for the US Air Force said the planes’ existing refrigerators have been failing at an increasing rate, “especially in hot/humid environments,” adding, “the units are unable to effectively support mission requirements for food storage.”
The Café de Flore is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included high-profile writers and philosophers. So says Wikipedia, and ‘so say all of us, tra la’, and hope full of Floréal, bountiful intellectual breadth of vision, warrior – like vigour of mind, cool and keen as french mustard, hmm – AND waiter –
O for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delvèd earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country-green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South!
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stainèd mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
From Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”, with love.
thank you, beautyfull and “fade away into the forest dim”
is a talk to the soul, she fully can appreciate
GPS jamming described at http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise seems, evidently, to be based on brute force signal to noise ratio.
That’s interesting because the maths involved strongly imply that signals from the several GPS systems in place can be decoded under “jamming condition brute force”.
Chin and Ru host very good mathematicians.
Further, the “BFJC” implied by the sited exercise also suggests several alternative methods of defeating jamming – methods other than signal processing…methods of a tactical nature.
Is pretty obvious to people who know about the physics and the maths.
Of course the exercise fits into the old pattern of planning for attack, not defense. As such, if we wish to tout Nuremberg Law, we can see yet another crime…planning a war of aggression. Yes, that is a criminal offense.
Not unusual.
I do not kow what to say about this…”HAWaii tourists say that they saw something blow up in the sky”, beyond it might be true. I think…
Some say a submarine launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhto4f-NiQs
Whatever…a FF is the standard these days. Of course FF may include the real thing , not only stooges die, or fake it.
@Anon
This was reported earlier from other sources also sub was destroyed.
There might be dolphin sub missing somewhere. Any guess?
S75 ponny
I was stationed on Okinawa June 67′ to March 68′ and witnessed surface/destroyer launched interceptor missiles far offshore on the China Sea side of the island. I could not see the ships because of distance but clearly saw the missile contrails as they arced towards drones, I guess. I was given a heads up that the drills would be taking place that day as I drove between bases.
The warring factions of the coup-counter coup have the ability to stage believable FF’s to trigger a result they want. In the Hawaii deal there may well have been “launches” to add weight to the ruse to cause an NSA data dump for interception during the alert.
I also saw the then highly classified SR-71, 2 of them, operating out of Kadena Airbase, coming and going. I was told they were “Blackbirds”.
Steve, since you were on Okinawa, you might want to read about a business that took place a few years before your posting.
here’s a fragment: ” Bordne’s shift began, he says, the commanding major at the Missile Operations Center on Okinawa began a customary, mid-shift radio transmission to the four sites. After the usual time-check and weather update came the usual string of code. Normally the first portion of the string did not match the numbers the crew had. But on this occasion, the alphanumeric code matched, signaling that a special instruction was to follow. Occasionally a match was transmitted for training purposes, but on those occasions the second part of the code would not match. When the missiles’ readiness was raised to DEFCON 2, the crews had been informed that there would be no further such tests. So this time, when the first portion of the code matched, Bordne’s crew was instantly alarmed and, indeed, the second part, for the first time ever, also matched.”
The full tale is found at: https://thebulletin.org/okinawa-missiles-october8826
The came to seconds to launch in 1962. I find it credible.
In another line, I was under the approach to Mather AFB when an SR71 came in to land. Only once. Generally it was B52’s. We were very surprised. I suppose some technical or operational situation brought him in. Never happened again.
why pushing a button when their is no reason for it, something must have happened otherwise no button would have been pushed at all neither the wrong one or the right one ?? something happened…
The real heroes
https://youtu.be/5hsBw9K0ZPs
Moving video! The Russians know the pain of loss!
Thanks for posting this, that’s what I call “the painful screaming of a loving soul” !
Daily reports from the Donbas:
https://steemit.com/@patricklancaster
Strikes me as objective an observer that I’ve found yet. I’d love to see this site cross post some of his work. (I have no vested interest in either Patrick or steemit FYI, just tying to circulate what seems pretty truthy to me.)
Lancaster has worked the whole war, married a girl from Donbass, I believe, and lives there.
He has cred.
Maybe there could be a regular roundup re Donbass as things seem to getting even more serious in the run up and more to Russian election…today for example are reports of minefild corridors being set near Gorlovka to protect a ukrop troop advancement from defenders….maybe southfront could post a summary now and then…though of course most interested people will be checking out Lancaster Ed Bbasurin and dni news presumably and ither main news suppliets FR and sputnik..plus past saker analysis…?
They have to maintain some reasonable control over information, Comrade, it’s where, one of the places where, the war is in fact actually going on, and saying the wrong thing gets people killed.
After the fighting ends there will be the History to write.
Meantime be satisfied with crumbs. I too would like to know. But think it’s better to keep secrets, just now.
I do pay attention to Comrade Russel (Texas), when I see he’s said something. People from Texas, by the way, are…well, Texans. It’s, after all, the lone star…although Oklahoma was socialist for a while.
How can Dennis continue to support this animal?
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/11/us-aerial-support-saudi-campaign-yemen-soars-trump.html
“US support for Saudi war in Yemen soars under Trump
Amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country, the US Department of Defense provided about 480,000 gallons of aviation fuel to the mission at a cost of more than $1 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a 140% increase over the previous year. The disclosure comes as Yemen suffers the world’s worst cholera epidemic and the Saudis face international pressure to lift their blockade of the country’s ports.
“This revelation should be a wake-up call to every policymaker and every American that this country is literally fueling the largest humanitarian crisis in the world and the worst cholera outbreak in recorded history,” said Kate Gould, a lobbyist with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group. “The [United States] is operating these gas stations in the sky to fuel Saudi and UAE bombers as they rain down terror on Yemeni water and other sanitation infrastructure — the last safeguards Yemen has against these disease outbreaks sweeping the country.”
I hesitate to say, but decided anyway that I ought to…Dennis might find these ideas reasonable and accommodating to his view:
“Concept of God: belief in a loving God
Concept of Love: the best way to serve God is to love Him and His creation
The “Inner Light”: the mystical “Inner Light” by which God personally reveals His immanence. A quietness of spirit results from waiting for the revelation. Such revelation then becomes the supreme authority for interpreting God’s will in conduct and belief.
Equality before God: belief that Christ’s sacrifice atones for all men’s sins. In contrast to the Puritan belief in predestination, this position held that all men are capable of achieving the Inner Light and thereby finding salvation.
Church Structure: no clergy or structure for formal worship, such as sermons; all men are equally capable of religious experience without the intercession of church discipline.
Humanitarianism: the best way to love God is through practical helpfulness to man. Their humanitarian treatment of the Indians and their opposition to slavery influenced others. Humanitarianism also expressed itself in pacifism, an opposition to war and violence. ”
If he does, then he perhaps ought to re-evaluate matters…
and consider this:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/quaker2.htm
I am always interested in the way satire runs, as it feeds into understanding the trends in the shared mythos of a moment in political history at a tight locus – a stage. I see focus there.
Die Anstalt, thus, a German politsatire “show”…is a favorite for me here in the ether. I wonder if people here ever watch it? Anyway I check it from time to time, and got to thinking that y’all might not have had fun with it…and there’s a relevance to Russia and the da’n war…
anyway… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkldaRRPAw4
Ther’s lot of them, some betternothers.
A fair question: Ask yourself this question: when was the last time that any American president got an approval rating of 86%? And who was that president? Donald Trump? Barrack Obama? George W. Bush? Bill Clinton? George H. W. Bush? Ronald Reagan?
(VVP has rating 83%) https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/01/28/what-new-world-order-agents-wont-tell-you-about-vladimir-putin-and-russia/
But the answer to the question?
1963 is when. http://news.gallup.com/poll/165902/americans-rate-jfk-top-modern-president.aspx
East to posit question as “jfk popularity percentage” and check for yourself.
And we know what happened then is also what’s happening now. It never stopped. It began in Warm Springs with the well timed death of FDR…youbetcha!
https://kennedysandking.com/home
Conversing with Bro – Part 1
Bro, at the last cafe you brought up some vital issues to which I would like to respond. Your last comment there came right after mine. I believe our conversation can benefit the whole community by bringing differences of opinion out in the open in a public forum like a cafe. I’ll proceed by comparing our comments in the attempt to uncover the underlying meaning.
You began by saying that you were on the verge of writing your second “I miss O’Leary” comment but my return made that unnecessary. I appreciate that since it feels good to be missed and augurs well for love. You end your comment with “Love, Bro 93.” I regularly sign off with Love, and this is the first time I recall you doing the same. It supports our having a similar basic value. Your very first words were “Oh Brother!” I’d like to think we were brothers in more ways than one.
So much for our agreements. Now for the disagreements. I am encouraged by your saying “But it is where we disagree, that I positively LOVE you.” You then illustrate that thought with a baseball metaphor. You say that my pitches are easy for you to hit for home runs. I disagree with you on this point, and will explain why.
You then move from the baseball metaphor to a rhetorical device by saying my comment above “is another Dennis Doozy of Dionysian Eroticism.” Now don’t get me wrong. I like rhetoric, and engage in a fair bit of it myself. You are especially good at it, and I do enjoy your word-play. However, rhetoric is not bound by the rules of logic, evidence, consistency or facts. I read my comment, and fail to see where I mentioned Eroticism at all; I do speak of love and sex, but by that I mean sacred, sacramental, sacred-mental and holy acts, which include physical sex but are not limited to it.
You then bring up Miles Mathis and say that I am highly selective and inconsistent in regard to him, particularly in the case of Bob Dylan. I have been into Dylan for a good forty years; he has gone from folk to electric to Christian to secular to main-stream sell-out to romantic Frank Sinatra; and may surprise us yet again. He has changed many times, and so have I.
When I first read MM’s reading of Dylan bursting on the music scene because of his Jewish relatives and connections in New York, I was surprised and skeptical. But on a second and third reading, with all of Miles’ evidence, and of Dylan himself telling fake stories, I had to concede that Mathis was probably right. I think that in the early years, Dylan was one of the many Intelligence projects to foster Change and to dull the intellect with emotional music. However, in his mid and later career, I think Dylan achieved some independence from his handlers, especially with his embrace of Christianity.
I argue that I am consistent with nature, which continually changes. To be fixated, stuck, rigid and unchanging is not nature’s way. As I got more information on Mathis and Dylan, I changed accordingly. You call this being highly selective and “totally untroubled by this glaring inconsistency.” I disagree. It is entirely consistent with nature.
It’s not clear from the context, but you say that either Miles or me “really ‘gets off’ on the Hitler was a Jew, half the Nazi Leaders were self-hating Jews Mathis Main Direction…But then Dennis ‘gets off’ virtually erotically (you can’t cognitively get off on something false, so eroticism will have to do, … the opposite of Love: FEAR!” I can’t understand what you are saying here, but I do notice that you keep bringing up eroticism. I have already pointed out that my comment does not mention eroticism.
In all my writing here and at my website, the Love Government, I have never spoke approvingly of eroticism; in fact, I have repeatedly warned against reducing love and sex to eroticism and hedonism. I do believe that nature and reality is sexual, but of a very high order. So this matter of eroticism is another area where we disagree. I recall your saying that you love me precisely because of these disagreements. Perhaps with further conversations, we will have a closer meeting of the minds.
I think I’ve proved that my “pitches” are not that easy to hit as you claim. In fact, I will go on to show that you are striking out and being called out on strikes more often than you are getting hits off me.
I’m at the club lounge and cafe, using their internet. I’ll take a break and post this. I have much more to discuss that is of vital importance to ourselves and our world. I’ll continue our conversation in Part 2.
Love, Dennis
Sorry, Dennis…..this looks like Rainout Café!
What have we done? Twenty eight comments in 3 days!
What a boring Homestand! I even left for 25 out of the 27 innings…..
Oh. Everyone left the park, but you’re still pitching?? LOL.
Obviously my comment in the last Cafe was much more about your fearful, slanderous poison X’s made up nonsense as applied FOR the Empire and against the President of China and win/win economic co-operation and the about 90% of the world that probably does not think “the Jews are being set up again by Rome” is necessarily a good thing.
Unless they are Catholic and “get off” on such demonic power trips. Ummmm???
Deft evasion of that main point made in terms of X Misses the Mark…….And Rome Caught Doing it Again….In The Occulted Dark!
But, moving right along, you have plenty of company and are “in the money” (betting with the majority and the PTB on the permanent patriarchal power plays of not just The Romans……..but also….. the Fed!!!! (OR……what’s your alternative currency,……….. sexual favors???) on your gratuitously ignorant anti-crypto-currency hissie fit.
But that is forgiveable, redeemable, as are most of the human race…..so NEVER FEAR!!
They don’t know what they don’t know. Didn’t Jesus say something like that??
Who knows, maybe we’ll find ourselves on the same team in the next pickup game on the Vineyard Sand Lot.
Since I am Captain and I get to choose first, I Take………. O’Leary!!
(I don’t know what I’ll do with him, except keep the other manager so busy guessing he’ll never develop a coherent game plan, but I do know that if we face each other one more game, the whole VINEYARD PICKUP (evidently sex doesn’t always sell…..) League may go bankrupt for lack of ATTENDANCE!
And….what a Let Down THAT would be!
Looks as if the Turks have gained some “momentum”
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/first-footage-turkish-troops-seizing-strategic-mountain-northeast-afrin/
“Oops” dept.
US military bases & patrol routes compromised by fitness tracker map
https://www.rt.com/news/417233-strava-bases-heat-map/
“Terrorists, militants and other irregular forces who don’t use jogging apps may have a tactical advantage after a worldwide heatmap by fitness tracking app Strava exposed the possible locations of hi-tech force deployments.
When the San Francisco-based startup published its map of more than one billion jogging and cycling routes late last year, it promised that data would be anonymized, and only those who agreed to participate would be included in the project.
However, it also inadvertently showed that despite tight restrictions on the use of electronics at many sensitive sites, military personnel on secret missions around the world are just as bad as civilian users at reading the small print and turning off privacy-destroying settings on the apps on their iPhones and FitBits. It also showed they are avid joggers even in the middle of combat zones.”
“Ahem (cough, cough), er…we got this.”
DoD ‘Reviewing Situation’ After Fitness Trackers Reveal Military Bases Locations
https://sputniknews.com/military/201801291061146454-pentagon-fitness-trackers-bases-revelation/
“Recent data releases emphasize the need for situational awareness when members of the military share personal information. DoD takes matters like these very seriously and is reviewing the situation to determine if any additional training or guidance is required, and if any additional policy must be developed to ensure the continued safety of DoD personnel at home and abroad,” Harris said.
The DoD personnel undergo annual training recommending limiting online public profiles, including personal social media pages, Harris added.
“Furthermore, operational security requirements provide further guidance for military personnel supporting operations around the world,” the spokeswoman noted.”
But…
“The outlet suggested in its article that the Pentagon had encouraged the use of fitness trackers among its personnel as part of a pilot program to tackle obesity.
The data revealed by the map came into the spotlight after Austrian student Nathan Ruser, studying international security and the Middle East, wondered if it was showing US soldiers. Ruser zoomed in on Syria and found out that fitness trackers were actively used there.
After Ruser shared his discovery on Twitter, analysts and experts joined him in examining the map, determining locations of a number of US military objects, particularly a Patriot missile system site in Yemen.”
Patriot missile batteries in Yemen? Don’t recall seeing that info before. Who might these be directed against, the Houthis don’t have an air force last I heard?
The Life Saver Team Takes the Field against Big Pharma, sponsored by The Empire, The Deep State…..London and Wall St.
On a whim the manager (yours truly) picked O’Leary to lead off….somehow intuiting that he might be Pro-Life.
People (including a few spectators in the stands) are dying of cancer, but many of them aren’t even aware of the fact…… YET.
One who may be setting himself up for A Fall is John McAfee…….who smokes like a chimney and projects a rogue image…..but has a softer side……which comes out very early in this interview where he describes his motivation for launching a new crypto-currency The McAfee Coin……which he says raised $20 million in a “Presale” pre ICO. (Initial Coin Offering.) :
https://youtu.be/OlzWXoB6u0A
This is the interview I told Amarynth about recently, without having the time to link it. It does not directly reference crypto-currency applications to medical technology, but I am going to do that for you indirectly.
McAfee in the above interview is critical of the way Venture Capital is raised in this country, and his cryptocurrency MCF I think it may become named….it is still pre-ICO….you can’t buy it yet, even if you love his idea……is designed to somehow shift society and venture capital out of the current paradigm……where Wall St and too many investors are 100 times more interested in compounding financial profit endlessly AT THE COST of Society and Human Life than they are in funding good ventures…..that might even SAVE their own lives!!!
He gives enough of an outline that a partner of mine (CEO of a Medical Technology company) who has raised tens of millions of dollars for ventures he headed in the past, got quite interested in MCF not as a future speculation, but as a way of possibly avoiding the death of his small company under the heels of the Darth Vaders in Big Pharma.
He’s under-capitalized. Sells 5-6 one million dollar units per year. Flat revenues and profits for years. No mater what the units do, Wall St is not interested! Can’t grow it. Needs $15 million in additional capitalization to “get over the hump” and start showing the growth that WOULD be backed.
As he put it, they (investors solicited by venture capital specialists) are MUCH, MUCH more interested in backing a new pill that costs 3 cents a pill to make…..and that they can sell for $10 a pop, to ease the pain from cancer or delay death from cancer…than they are in backing the growth of a unit that can reliably kill 100% of certain cancers in 20 minutes before surgeons close up the area a main tumor has been taken out of…..making remission far, far less likely….FROM LITTLE scattered INVISIBLE CELLS that no surgeon can see and no scalpel can remove…….saving the patient’s life, rather than milking his or her slow death for maximum profit.
Last week, he described his unit to me:
“It’s only about 3 ft long and is made of specialty metals with this series of round chambers that can accelerate electrons from zero to near the speed of light….in less than 36 inches. People look at it and ask, “What planet did THAT come from?”. It can be tuned to kill the invisible cancer cells with great reliability in a few minutes before the patient is sewn back up, and leave healthy tissues around them almost completely unaffected. No remission, so no chemo and no radiation therapy war of attrition between healthy and cancerous cells both being attacked and killed. But I can’t spend the next ten years of my life with flat line sales and revenues. This marvelous.s medical technology utilizing electron beams will most likely end up on the junk pile of great ideas that DO work unless I find some way to get this little company “over the hump”, in the next year or two.”
Can The Revolution/Evolution in The Internet of Money and perhaps MCF be the answer??
I don’t yet know, but at least I know that I don’t know. On the other hand, too many rigid sceptics out there don’t even know what they don’t know…..and aren’t even interested in finding out what they don’t know…until maybe they don’t know if they will live another year or two…..or not……unless the discover something new……PDQ.
No that’s not a crypto. It stands for Pretty Damned Quick.
Would be interested in the Saker / Scott’s take on the following fascinating article by Israel Shamir:
http://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-rich-also-cry/
If true, does this mean a change in balance may be coming between Eurasian Integrationists and Atlanticists?
In the Shamir article, the section on the alfa bank is interesting, beginning here:
“Direct and generous beneficiaries of their lobbying are the Three Alpha Jews, Peter Aven, Michael Friedman and Herman Khan. They are owners of the Alpha Bank, a very big Russian bank , and they are Old Money oligarchs from Yeltsin’s days when their kin ruled the land.”
This is because they were recently in the news:
Major Russian bank will no longer service defense industry over US sanctions fears
https://www.rt.com/business/415021-alfa-bank-defense-sanctions/
“Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees Russia’s defense industry, offered an alternative explanation for Alfa-Bank’s decision.
“I make no ethical judgement of the behavior of the Alfa-Bank board,” Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page. “But I will draw your attention to the fact that the bank asked for, and was refused, a license to operate with defense procurement funds.”
In the comments section, Rogozin added that Alfa-Bank, Russia’s largest privately held financial institution, “wanted to make a good impression on the Americans.”
Security risk, perhaps? ;-)
Pop the champagne? New war in East Ukraine
U.S., Russia, Ukraine headed for battle?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/22/new-war-east-ukraine/
[…] Freshly armed with promises of Javelin missiles, heavy sniper rifles and possibly a pipeline of other goodies, Petro Poroshenko has turned into Mr. Incredible. The Ukrainian parliament just passed a law which discards the Minsk agreements, which everyone knew were over anyway, declared Russia the aggressor, and shouts loudly to the world that Ukraine wants its territories back. “We are continuing to beat the path toward the reintegration of occupied Ukrainian lands by political and diplomatic means. This is the key signal of the law that the parliament passed on my initiative today. This is a signal both to Donbass and to Crimea: You are inalienable parts of Ukraine,” Mr. Poroshenko said of the new law. […]
I have crystal ball…and see “fire-finder” arty counterbattery sustem…ist kaputski at D+1 minute…after that no bet. Arty is key.
You fellas know this.
Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/
“Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.”
R.I.P. Robert Parry.
MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Supporters of Russian opposition activist and blogger Alexei Navalny held rallies in 46 Russian region. No serious violations of public order were reported, a spokesman for the Russian interior ministry told TASS on Sunday.
“Mass rallies authorized by the local authorities were organized today in 46 Russian regions. Rallies in Barnaul, Khabarovsk and Kemerovo brought together 150 participants each. Not more than 100 people took part in such rallies in each of the cities of Magnitogorsk, Orenburg and Kurgan. About 200 people took part in rallies in Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Vladivostok and Irkutsk, each. As many as 600 people gather for a rally in Novosibirsk and 550 – in Nizhny Novgorod. A rally in Yekaterinburg brought together less than one thousand participants,” the spokesman said, adding that rallies in other Russian cities had been attended by less one hundred people, while about 1,000 people took part in an unauthorized rally in Moscow.
“Police and National Guard officers, as well as people’s militias secured law and order at these rallies. No serious violations of public order were reported,” the spokesman added
More:
http://tass.com/society/987270
was big bit over weekend on sky tv regarding this to change 9implication) to bring down Russian government due to “blatantly flawed’ presidential election system………..Navalny arrest etc etc
”
.Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ‘released without charge’
The numbers attending protests across Russia appeared lower than previous demonstrations staged by Alexei Navalny.”
https://news.sky.com/story/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-released-without-charge-11227066
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http://russia-insider.com/en/navalny-his-2-percent-support-only-russian-election-story-western-media-wants-tell/ri22254
from Jan 19th
bit more analysis here
http://russiafeed.com/navalny-protests-sputter-fail/
The CNN reporter Mathew Chance had the chance to have an interview with Alexi Navalny. The latter said ” the whole Putin’s regime is corrupted, based on corruption…” and ” Putin has let only the weak people to run for presidency…” I don’t know if the video is on youtube for now but worth seeing.
Brave New World: recognising parents is ‘unconstitutional’ :
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/state-legislator-recognizing-mothers-and-fathers-is-unconstitutional
Muammar Gaddafi’s Water Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
Pipeline to Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wruiVD7k8hg
Pictures to Water Project
https://www.google.ch/search?q=gaddafi+water+project&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5xu6smf3YAhUEWRQKHTBKB_EQ7AkIXQ&biw=1024&bih=489
Gaddafi’s Prophecy, 2011 – “Europe will turn Black”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLflLdIJeMw&t=545s
Righty-ho all ye land lubbers, moons affect the tides, sea people will tell you that, and it’s the Month of Moons.
Our man Messirs Importance donned his nightwear some days ago, taking to his bed with blankets, hot water bottle, whiskyand lemon, and is now dead to the world.
His muse had deserted him, distraught and unable to face life, jittery about the upcoming Full Moon, he intended sleeping through a most portentous, poetically promising phenomena, presaging possibly more of the same, only worse.
He left a note on the kitchen table for his daily, “Do not disturb until February.”
His last poem at New Years, was his Saker debut, and since then he has been somewhat out of sorts. Let us just leave it at that.
So here comes January 31st 2018, and the second Full Moon in one month, a Blue Moon, and also predicted, a Super Moon,and an eclipse, all rolled into one.
The Super Moon appears 7 per cent bigger than most Full Moons meaning it’s an awesome spectacle.
In some areas, including most of North America, Australia and Asia there will be a total lunar eclipse, so the Super Blue Moon will look Red.
Perhaps Importance will wake up in time…
symnk
Importance
I’m not sure who’s that item, my friend
If should the butter melt over my head,
Or wait a specialist to have his say,
Who knows the stars, the Moon, their way ?
Indeed, my muses come and go,
Waiting for the Moonlight show
What can they say, yet, I don’t know
But when they come, the verses flow…
Hope you liked the Orthodox calendar
Made to wake up the spirit of the Russian Tsar
Here in this Vineyard and throughout the world
Reviving the new, letting behind the old.
What the Moon will tell, how will be the dance,
I’m also curious, just like Importance.
Ioan, thank you for poetically buttered response. Importance is a politician who writes poetry at night. And yes, i did like the calendar. Ah the Tsar, the holy father as he was once called, made timeless in Old Peter’s Russian Fairy Tales, the earliest stories told to me.
symnk
“Month of Moons”
Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
January 28, 2018
Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/
The Global Research team pays tribut to Robert Parry and his unwavering commitment
to independent and honest journalism. His legacy will live.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/5627594
Trump’s Foreign Policy Is In Service To Israel
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48680.htm
“Readers need to understand that there are no flaws in the agreement. The allegation of “flaws” is an israeli orchestration in order to resurrect the attacks on Iran that the nuclear agreement terminated. What Trump is doing is appeasing Israel. Israel doesn’t want Iran to have long range missiles, non-nuclear ones, that enhance Iran’s defensive posture. More importantly, Israel does not want to lose the nuclear weapons charge that Israel invented and hoped to use to have the US military destabilize Iran a la Iraq and Libya. Israel’s problem with Syria and Iran is that both countries support Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that has twice driven the vaunted Israeli army out of southern Lebanon, territory Israel wants to occupy for the water resources. If Israel, armed as it is with the American Zionist Neoconservatives who control US foreign policy, can resurrect the Western attack on Iran, Israel can perhaps pressure Iran to abandon Hezbollah and Lebanon to Israel.
Americans are so totally brainwashed by Israeli propaganda that there is no public restraint on Washington serving Israel’s interest. And that is what Trump is doing. The tough guy is nothing but a panderer for Israel.
What is going on has nothing whatsoever to do with the Iranian nuclear or missile program. It has to do with Israel’s use of US power, including the intimidation power over Europe, to remove Iran as a constraint on Israeli expansion.”
Vot aren’t you storming open doors? America’s Jewish option is a
political continent, some 70 years old, it’s a kind of ‘Titanic’ swamp
e v e r y American president has to deal with it …
to me the crucial cards have not yet turned on the table
so the bluff is goin on – the bet is Donald’s life, I mean
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Hint. Not everyone here is a trumpette. Or related zionazi echo chamber. At least not yet, anyway.
Some of us non trumpettes still appreciate material critical of the zio-massa. Imagine that.
sorry guys (and dolls) but “I was born by a river”
not exactly, cause my birthplace 1942 was evacuated
30 miles north where father was ‘in der Kaserne’.
But so more I’m a river gladly individualized in Bavaria.
Each week our puzzle to me appears enriched steadily
with new plays and new solutions played by our favorite
humble but powerfull christian, muslim, konfuzian
jewish and … last not least astrological, players …
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/01/my-diary-in-links.html
nothing special, my personal touched heart in the net
cheers till wednesday
Uh – oh, the Poles have really set the cat among the pigeons with their new law penalising claims of ‘Polish death camps’ as sites for ‘the holocaust’ :
https://www.haaretz.com/whdcMobileSite/opinion/in-defense-of-poland-israel-cannot-blame-the-holocaust-on-the-poles-1.5769759
The really interesting thing about it is the challenge to Israel ‘owning’ all the narrative about WWII victims..
Are we to see others following suit?
Well, given the current crop of pole quislings are a combination of nazis and zionazis, and the israelis are zionazis, the optimal outcome of such a confrontation would be mutual annihilation. Like a meet between matter and anti-matter.
Majority of Russians support ‘own internet’ for BRICS nations
https://www.rt.com/politics/417254-russian-public-support-idea-of/
“More than half of Russian citizens approve of a separate internet for the BRICS economic bloc, saying that the idea could boost the security of users’ personal data and help counter hostile propaganda.”
It would also prevent zionazia playing their usual games:
“In 2014, Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that “Russia’s disconnection from the global internet is of course out of the question,” but noted that Russian authorities had to be prepared for potential hostile actions of Western governments and special services.
“We all know who the chief administrator of the global internet is. And due to its volatility, we have to think about how to ensure our national security,” Peskov said. It’s not about disconnecting Russia from the world wide web, he added, but about “protecting it from possible external influence.”
Go ahead, uncle Sam – sanction the entire world!
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Turkey’s upcoming purchase of S-400 air defense missiles systems from Russia could trigger US secondary sanctions against Ankara.