2018/02/06 08:30:01
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‘Tis a while to be sure, since Shakespeare has been quoted at the Moveable feast cafe, and now will Hamlet shortly take to the stage.
And what think ye all besides, to some ennoblement of the soul, for, ’tis surely needed.
What are people saying, what do the people think, was the ever recurring question posed by Victor Klemperer in his fantastic wartime diaries when information became scarce, and all was propaganda.
Is it much different now ? The Cafe’s constant information and link streams are brilliant, but what about you and me, and do you laugh at the sharing of poetry, or a thinking that may not sit comfortably with your own ?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Act II. Scene II.
Ham : I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
Ros. My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
Ham. Why did you laugh then, when I said, ‘man delights not me?’
Auslander, touche ! – though ennoblement of soul would not have crossed my mind when considering your posts and comments… I am very interested in Ukraine, and do have a love of collies as well, thank you for updates on your books !.
You are most welcome. Ukraine we don’t have much contact with since early 2014 although we are very aware of the fighting in Novorossiya and the international situations in general and particular. For my blue girl, the day she got her championship is the day she retired. She did not like the shows and we tired of the steadily increasing corruption in the dog show circuit. I will never pay a judge so we just stopped, that was in I think 2012.
Auslander
For someone I may not know (and others who may enjoy)…
“What a piece of work is man,” from the stage of a theater just off Broadway, back when we thought resistance might make a difference. You’ll notice that this particular sell-out has never been “revived.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JshdUZ5KRpo
What ennoblement of the soul? Sure the writer thinks we are nothing but dust. “Shakespeare” was another propagandist and we are still forced to read in his work at school. War propaganda? Check! Deviancy? Check!
For GrandmaR, hair ! – and lots of it – long hair short sense – and who will “revive” the age of hairy enlightenment and all the world’s a stage ?
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII
symnk
Flopot, good friend, not the stuff of dust but of dreams . . .
Prospero :
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
We and our dreams are of the same material; quite literally, we are all the descendants of star dust. (No wonder that twe feel a great kinship with “the heavens.”) Just that will fill me with gratefulness and put a smile on my face as I drift off to sleep.
The entire gamut of human foibles and confusion, still in evidence today? Check!
Ah yes, seems the human race is still in evidence, Shakespeare is still read at school by that “whining schoolboy, with his satchel”… Genius survives it seems, tho’ I prefer ioan’s poetry, but will it be forced on school children in hundreds of years time ? Life changes, all that appears the same is not.
symnk
Dear symnk, though I thank you for your kind words, Shakespeare was and still is a genius of words, of expression, a real Master of beautiful English writing.
I’m just a beginner on it’s own,
a shadow, riding in my space, then gone.
I’m not rich, though, poor I’m not
The Holy Spirit, My silent God,
My older mom and a little dog,
That’s all I have, and that’s a lot !
“I’m not rich, though, poor I’m not
The Holy Spirit, My silent God,
My older mom and a little dog,
That’s all I have, and that’s a lot !”
that’s a neighbor on earth
Might as well start this cafe discussion. I published two new books late last week. One is the somewhat awaited “Sevastopol, The Third Defense, Book 1”, in which our gang from Never The Last One smells the trouble brewing in Ukraine and moves from Odessa where they were, most of them, living in retirement from service. Where did they move to? Sevastopol, on the urging of Annya Dmitrovna, wife of Starshi Sarjant Roman Ivan’vich. When asked why to Sevastopol and Krimea, as it says in the Post Scriptum from NTLO, she states Sevastopol and Krimea will not be Ukraine forever. Post scriptum for Never The Last One was written in late spring of 2013, before the troubles up north started.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4
Book 2 is underway and it will be published this early summer if not earlier.
Second book, “Blue Cloud”, well, I needed a bit of a break from always reading and writing of war, mayhem and murder so I took one and penned a little tome about life from the eyes of a young girl collie. It’s not in my usual cringe worthy style of writing, I tried to write as a very young collie would write. Two reviews already, one of which says I did, indeed, succeed in that endeavor.
“The greatest challenge for the ‘real’ author, was to capture the spirit and intelligence of the four legged variety of friends. This has been achieved and deserves a medal.”
Plans are to write more short books penned by ‘Annya Koli’ and at least some of them will be audio books. Photo is of my personal girl from our herd of collies.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0797XJM91
As many of you know, when I write books, all of which are 100% fiction, there is always some truth scattered amongst the fictional stories. In my opinion, any good fiction has to have some truth to make the fiction believable.
Auslander
Congratulation Auslander for your books. You made me curious about the new break away from your original stories, writing this time about four legged friends, you know, I love them.
Thank you, ioan. Blue Cloud is actually my wife’s fault, she suggested taking a break and she suggested both the subject and the name, I just took her ‘suggestion’, read order, and penned the short story. It was a quite enjoyable break and a couple of good friends and fellow ‘sakers’ were instrumental in suggests and recommendations and assistance with the cover. If you click on the ‘look inside’ on Amazon you will get an idea of the style. The hardest part was to write in how a very young collie would think and write but according to one of the two reviews so far, I succeeded in that task. Both reviews are very well written and complimentary. At the end of the little story is a glossary which ‘translates’ Annya’s words and gives the meanings of the two or three Russian words she uses. All in all, it was a lot of fun to write this one.
The second book, Sevastopol, The Third Defense, is in my usual style but that style has evolved a little over the last almost five years and is a bit more readable now. There will be more books in both the Blue Cloud series and two more for the Third Defense series.
Auslander
Thanks for the hint, she looks like a Princess…beautiful ! (if I were to be a dog, I would fell in love with her)
Everyone who meets her falls in love with her, she is that kind and tender. When we take her for her promenades in City Center Park she draws a crowd and regarding crowds, one of the events in her story is true. You will understand when you read it. The other dogs in the story are real, just names are changed as is hers. Her husband, our huge black boy Melik, died late last year, he was 16. She was quite distraught and to this day when she is outside she will sleep only in the place they slept together for 7 years. Same with her food bowl, no matter where you put it, she will pick it up and carry it to where they ate together and she will eat only in that spot.
Auslander
Animals are people, too. With many of the same emotions, but expressed differently due to their different skin. They are not dumb, either, just differently wired to suit their evolutionary niche. People not around animals don’t always realise that.
Ah, Auslander, almost forgot something for that Blue Cloud Lady, a love song :
Just one Kiss
by ioan
Will you dance with me, tonight
Hand in hand, in harmony
May we swirl in timeless flight,
Above mountains, above sea
-Say yes, say yes, my dear, tell those words I want to hear
Just one kiss, and nothing more,
On your lips, and that is all
Close your eyes and I close mine,
Just one kiss, that would be fine
– Say yes, say yes, my dear, tell those words I want to hear
Will you dance with me, tonight
Will you tell me : yes I do,
We shall swirl in timeless flight,
I shall fall in love with you
– Say yes, say yes, my dear, tell those words I want to hear
Just one kiss, and nothing more,
On your lips, and that is all
Close your eyes and I close mine,
Just one kiss, for endless time
Close your eyes and I close mine, Just one kiss, for endless time
The never ending compensation
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/germany-to-compensate-25-thousand-holocaust-survivors-from-algeria-1.5788879
https://www.big-lies.org/holocaust-revisionism/34-zeon-france-teheran-holohoax-cartoon-contest.jpg
A black swan event had occurred in Syria:
http://www.atimes.com/article/russian-turkish-axis-syria-faces-meltdown/
I have posted before that it’s too soon to write off the US war-mongers in Syria. In one big misstep, Putin had made enemies of both Erdogan and the Kurds. In green-lighting the Turk’s invasion of Afrin to bloody the Kurds, Putin had alienated the Kurds. Now with the downing of Russia’s jet and slaying of the pilot with a manpad likely supplied from Turkey, there is new bad blood between Turkey and Russia.
Erdogan is likely to revert to his Jekyll personality and cook Putin’s goose in Syria, this time together with the Kurds betrayed by Putin. I have posted before that dodgy Erdogan may yet cook Putin’s goose in Syria.
Now the bear-trap had just been sprung after the bear had been lured deep into Syria. Putin cannot now pull out of Syria with much dignity. Yet he must do so to avoid the meat-grinder – with the infuriated Kurds supplying the (guerrilla) forces and (Stinger) teeth on the ground. Not forgetting dodgy Erdogan supplying those Stingers and other weapons to the Kurds.
The Kurds have been fighting for hundreds of years. In fact after Saladin, they are known more for their fighting skills, tenacity and spirit than for wisdom. Their fertility rate is on par with the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. So they have a virtually endless supply of manpower! Even the Turks are scared of them.
Now only China is Russia’s all-weather and reliable friend.
I think you should still be considering and evaluating -for us maybe-the Russian Iran axis…………
Russian Iran axis is too narrow. It should be the Russian-Shi’ite Axis. Its about the blodd-letting between Sunnis and Shi’tes and Russian is now caught in it!
“Not forgetting dodgy Erdogan supplying those Stingers and other weapons to the Kurds.”
common mods, ban these idiots, this is getting ridiculous!
mod-to note: The Moveable Feast was created for just this sort of post. Whether we agree with this or not is irrelevant. The test is whether it violates the Moderation Policy set out by The Saker. Although I was not the moderator at the time, I agree it is not in violation.
I agree. The most useful type of debate allows people to state their opinions without too much interference. The truth can hold its own in any debate. But falsehoods and faulty reasoning get exposed in the light of scrutiny.
Consider for a moment that Turkish Airlines was one of the television sponsors of Superbowl LII; consider the size and scope of the Gullen network; consider that the term the “deep state” originated describing Turkish politics … There is a lot to consider. I have a hunch that somewhere in the mix is desperation, that plus the fact that certain parti(es) are not agreement capable
RATM
Agree 100%. It is an elaborate form of israeloamerican website trolling. Anyone who has been around a few years will recognize the technique.
vot tak and RATM. No I am not a troll. Just an armchair analyst wannabe trying to be factual. Sorry if I’ve hurt any feelings.
Now where is J when I needed him/her? I am being bullied by the tag team of vot tak and RATM.
Keep it calm Simon, you’re not bullied but what you said, it appears today as not having logic based on facts. If you follow the news, you may find out that the Syrian kurds have massed some 2-3000 troops in Afrin against the turks (and not against Syrian coalition with Russia) That would be the end of any Kurdish future autonomy. As we know, Erdogan is playing all kind of cards, he visited even the Pope and had talks with Macron, later in March he will have talks with EU leaders in Bulgaria. In fact, the Syrian Kurds are doing what the Iraqi Kurds tell them to do and that is not a friendship with Turkey, let alone a stand off with Russia.
Thanks ioan. I hope you are right. I hope that the Syrian Kurds are not as sore with Putin as I figured they were. BTW, I love your poetry.
Most people in the west barely know that Saladin was a kurd. To the west, all muslims are arabs.
Dont compare a devout muslim with those Kurdish Marxists who have no rules and will wag their tails to whoever delivers them their ‘freedom’. Many innocent Kurds have nothing to do with these kurds who are good AZ puppets and call their Kurdistan as ‘second israel’. There was much sympathy for Kurds around the world before the Syrian civil war but the kurdish leaders ruined it. These days Kurds are known more for prostituting to the anglo-zionists.
In light of Ayatollah Khamenei’s recent allegations that Uncle Sam is transferring defeated ISIS terrorists from Syria to Afghanistan, I think the article linked below would be a good read. In the article, retired Indian diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar writes about “governance voids” being created in Balkh and Farah Provinces which share frontiers with Central Asian and Iran respectively. These “governance voids” are allegedly being created intentionally in Afghanistan to allow the transferred ISIS terrorists to use them as launching pads into Iran and Central Asia (which is Russia’s geopolitical orbit)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/06/us-isis-nexus-afghanistan-becomes-hot-topic.html
If this article (and its related articles listed on bottom of page) is anywhere close to accurate, I can only say that this insanity in wash dc is bottomless. What can they possibly believe, that this disaster with ISIS in syria and Iraq will be more successful in afghan against the Iranians? I can only wonder and step back in total disgust. This has to be mossad and perhaps their lackey mcgurk and the clowns in cia and state.
BTW-this article sheds a lot of info about the mess created by the neo con geniuses in us foreign policy establishment:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/06/turkey-offensive-syria-us-falls-into-trap-its-own-making.html
If the purpose of the parasite is to create global chaos I’d say it’s doing a good job.
No sir, the purpose of the exercise is to target Russia with guerrilla warfare and hopefully embroil China as well. That’s why China is not fighting the terrorists in Syria. China knows that the terrorists will come to them. And China is ready to fight in a battlefield of her choosing and not a battlefield of the Neocons’ choosing.
SC
Quite right. We are not in dissagreement.
Well maybe something is to happen
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802071061444261-turkey-relations-us-improvement/?utm_source=m.facebook.com/&utm_medium=short_url&utm_content=gECc&utm_campaign=URL_shortening
Tillerson and MacMasterr to visit very very soon so relations usa Turkey can be settled……..everything going to turn upside maybe?????- with reference to a previous post regarding a certain ” rogue”………and elsewhetes thoughts that Turkey has absolutely no wish to have or restart direct diplomatic relations with Syria I read elsewhere….
http://russia-insider.com/en/mattis-threatens-aggression-over-syria-gas-attack-claims-then-admits-no-evidence/ri22444
https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/201802071061452099-erdogan-us-syria-russia-iran/
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201802071061441693-turkey-us-nuclear-weapons-incirlik/
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802071061440736-turkey-restore-ties-syria/
War In the Middle East all News
Erdogan held talks with Rouhani
02/08/2018 18:41Sergey Chernobay0044 views
On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held telephone talks with Iranian leader Hasan Roukhani. The parties discussed the situation in Syria, as well as bilateral cooperation in combating terrorism and ensuring security at the border. Erdogan and Rouhali also discussed the possibility of holding a Turkey-Russia-Iran summit in Istanbul. The exact date of the summit has not yet been determined.
The metaphor of America today is just this — a train wreck ( its been repeated at least 3 times in the front page news so everyone “gets” it) .It is in the zeitgeist.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/06/heroin-addiction-america-spearheaded-us-led-war-afghanistan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLs_0h9_wXM
then maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrFfRQsBqd0
As an old ’60’s radical, I was once told that you can tell where the CIA is active by which drugs are common on the streets of America..
— 1960’s, CIA in Laos and The Golden Triangle… Heroin and Opium on the streets.
— 1980’s. CIA in central America with The Contras. Cocaine on the streets.
— 1990’s. CIA in Afghanistan. Blocks of Afghan hashish stamped with ‘support the Afghan resistence’ on the streets.
— Now, the CIA and the US in general is back in charge of Afghanistan. Where the Taliban, religous zealots that they were, had managed to greatly reduce the poppy cultivation there. Now that the CIA and US puppets are back in charge and production has soared. Heroin is back on the streets.
With the added dimenions that in this ‘opiod’ crisis, we had corporate America sense that it could make big profits. Much of this started with the corporate salesmen from Big Pharma going to doctors and telling them that they could/should perscribe more opiates. Sales skyrocketed. Now, that they’ve made a big stack of money from these sales, the US govt is cracking down on prescribing opiates. This means a lot of people who became addicted to the legal opiates are now being cut off from that supply. Since they are addicted, they still need the stuff, and they are turning on the streets to Heroin as a substitute.
The CIA and corporate American, such a lovely combination. Talk about your Axis of Evil.
CIA = cocaine import agency
Another train story but this was not fatal and so no one will know about it. It happened today:
https://nypost.com/2018/02/06/amtrak-train-breaks-apart-at-125-mph/
when money is tight, first to suffer budget cuts is maintenance.
expect to see many more ‘accidents’ – either planes and/or trains
and/or bridges collapsing in the West.
This is how the USA and its allies “liberated” the city of Mosul (it WAS the 2nd largest city in Iraq), and the condition it remains to this day.
https://www.rt.com/news/417883-mosul-girl-coalition-bombs/
Watch the video:
https://www.rt.com/news/417864-mosul-liberation-bodies-ruins/
This is the US government’s position:
https://www.rt.com/news/415630-iraq-us-budget-war/
Questions:
Where is the United Nations??? Where are the Aid Organisations???
Where is Justice??? Where is International Law???
Where is GOD??????????????????????
One day, will these same questions be asked all over the lands of the USA, and those of its instigators/allies???
And yet usa and the Ukraine still want power of veto by 1 country eeerrr Russia probably taken away from UNSC….
Where is the UN? Hahaha! It’s been middle-fingered by the ZioYanks. But don’t worry, God Almighty is still around shaping events in His own strange ways! All will be clear in His good time.
Trump’s core:
‘You Ain’t White Enough’: Racist Tirade By Seattle Woman Caught on Tape (VIDEO)
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201802061061415031-racist-tirade-by-seattle-woman-caught-on-tape/
“In the video the woman can be heard repeatedly asking members of the group where they’re from and informing them that “you’re not white.”
“Where are you from? You’re not white,” the *possibly intoxicated* woman says. “Where the f**k are you from? Where are you from b*tch? Where are you from!”
Though the group ultimately decided to move away from the woman, their attempt at de-escalating the situation failed as she continued to follow them.
“You ain’t white enough b*tch… get the f**k… go back to your own f**king country,” she continues. “I’ll have you arrested so f**king quick, I have my papers on me b*tch.”
“Do you want a f**king response out me motherf**ker with your… what are you f**king Saudi n***a,” she yells out before she clarified to the group that she said “n***a” and not “n***er.”
Sastry later wrote in his Facebook post that this was the second time he was “accosted by white Americans claiming this country is theirs.”
“Both these incidents occurred in the ‘sanctuary cities’ of Boston and Seattle,” Sastry wrote. “I was born and raised in this country and have been blessed with opportunities that don’t exist or aren’t as accessible elsewhere, but I find myself having a more and more difficult time feeling welcome in my own country.”
“I think the content is very important because you see these things and you think that happens somewhere else. And I’ve said it to myself many times; however, that’s not the case. This happens everywhere,” he told the local station.
An investigation has been launched by the Seattle Police Department.”
It can happen everywhere in pindoland, but that it happened in seattle is not surprising. The place has a lot of “special exceptionals” living there. Renaming the place Aspergersville wouldn’t be a bad idea.
I dont understand how many whites mistake indians (the sastry guy) for arabs. Indians and Arabs look so different and belong to entire different race and cultures, the Arabs are Semitic and the indians (at least the north indians) are indo-aryan, most of the Arabs (muslims) are staunch monotheists while most of the Indians (hindus) are polytheists and their languages are poles apart. I am sure that Trump must have been confused when he recently met Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev. He must be like why does this guy look like a chinese in a country that got a ‘mozlem’ name and why does he speak Russian.
Well, I’m not a student of Gerald Celente but witnessing the Dow Jones ups and downs in the last days made me to have some thoughts. As we know, the Dow had a very good year (since trump came in office) until last Friday, when all hell got lose and the index dropped more than 1000 points in one day, breaking a record on Monday. Yesterday, comes with a gain of 500 points. What that all mean ? A check ? would they wanted to simply verify how the world markets will react, on how important still is the New York Wall Street, how strong is the bull, who is still the King in Power and how great is their influence in the world ? I don’t know, I’m not an economic specialist but surely something lies behind it, they provoked a sellout then later some collected the cream. Just as a coincidence, this happened after Trump decidet to sign the Memo.
There are many theories. One is civil war between Trump and deep state. I think Trump is less crazy than Hillary but I don’t see him as a “good guy” portrayed in the video. Yet I do believe there is huge infighting going on including or even primarily financial. Text below is a summary from a video titled Q: Rothschild Black Forest by user SGTreport.
President Trump released the Nunes FISA memo on Friday revealing the true nature and scope of the Clinton DNC FBI DOJ treason and the stock market promptly sold off 666 points. Q Anon on 5th of February asks
Stock market DIVE [666 – coincidence?].
Soros transfer of wealth.
Coincidence? No, more like a warning about who controls the markets. And it reminds me (SGTreport) specifically of the financial terrorism we witnessed in 2008 which was an electronic run on the banks to the tune of five hundred fifty billion dollars which was being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. The Treasury, to help they pumped a hundred and five billion dollars in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We had an electronic run on the banks and the subsequent threats to Congress by criminal bankers resulted in the tarp bailout blank cheque. According to sources Trump attorneys have approved a second special counsel to probe the FBI and Department of Justice announced on Air Force One today (5th Feb) which is Trump’s way of hitting back.
Q also posted this on 5th of February: Rothschild estate sale Black Forest.
Black Forest is in South West Germany and it is often associated with the brothers Grimm fairy tales (human hunting, cannibalism). It is confirmed, according to Mansion global dot com, that the world’s wealthiest family just sold an Austrian hunting estate almost the size of Manhattan which the banking family had owned for 143 years. Why sell now and why for just 112 million?
The same Q Anon update says: Marriage for power, not love. Hilton/Roth. Soros/Clinton.
Nicky Hilton marrying James Rothschild? Chelsea Clinton marrying Marc Mezvinsky in 2010 who is rumored to be the nephew of George Soros? …..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDixoT8GhMo
Trump VS the deep state globalist coup, the DOW tanks 666 points sending a very clear message, Q posts about the Rothschild black forest, very troubling news about a detective who made a huge impact on the Madeleine McCann investigation & much more. Thanks for tuning in.
Thanks for your reply, many cards to put together.
I always wanted to play with real excavators, bull dozers and skip loaders, and I got my chance. The saga lasted parts of three months! Dec 2017 start (OMG…that was idiotic….we were WAY off…) Jan 2018 up to Feb 5.
I forwarded the City Inspector’s Feb 5 report (“Passed”) to my partner and he emailed back,
“Good job. You should start a sewer connection business.”
This after his freaking out the day before about open trenches and “liability we don’t need” due to my “penny-wise, pound foolish” penny pinching.
I replied:
“I don’t know, I never considered myself “Main Stream”.
Although it’s pretty clear that the main consensus is to “Go with the flow!” , I’ve been mostly doing the opposite.
But it’s always possible that it’s all downhill from here.”
What does this have to do with your comment??
As Above “The Street”, So Below.
The Street Named Wall.
Most of reality is not immediately visible, and that’s by design, not accident. It’s called a “Need to know” basis. And for the most part, it has long ago been decided that we don’t “need to know” very much, at all.
When the septic tank and seepage pit fail inspection and the city has subsequently put sewer in the street, they have the power to force you to hook up to your lateral to the main line, put in many years after the house was built, with new septic system. Your septic is “grandfathered in”…..but only as long as it functions and can be maintained. If it needs replacement the city will not grant a permit to install a new tank and seepage pit or leach line.
This is the way I suggest that Wall Street and the City of London (add Frankfurt, Paris….and a few more others) might be viewed. Failed Septic/ Seepage Pit Sytems.
The permit to install was nearly $5000 and the contractor bid to do it was another $4100.
I figured I could dig a trench and finally get to play with some big toys and glue 4 inch ABS pipe and save 2-3 grand.
I did not figure that the location and depth of the lateral, supplied by Building and Safety would be inaccurate.
The lateral was supposed to be from a depth of 13 feet in the middle of the street up to depth of 5 ft and beyond the Right of Way (perimeter of the property for sidewalks, utilities such a cable, water, gas, etc) on to the exclusively owner controlled non-perimeter of the property. It was not.
The sewer line was put in the street early on, when it was one lane each way and a roller coaster and all older houses to that point were on septic. The plan was to make it a major arterial, in due time….with everyone eventually connected to the sewer deep under the street. So, AFTER the 5 ft depth on the Engineering Department’s map was published, the tops of hills were cut off and the troughs filled to even out the NOW 4 lane street for faster traffic flow.
We were in one of those troughs and there were several feet of fill dirt deposited on top of the lateral that originally had only been 5 feet deep.
Later, the Feds (Congress) got their oar into the situation and passed the ADA law. Americans with Disability Act. The city had planned on normal 4 foot wide sidewalks but they were forced to comply with Federal Law and install a handicap ramp for wheelchairs at the corner of the property. Federal law is that it must be all one cement pour and that corner unit became a huge triangle with its hypotenuse facing the house nearly 25 feet in length. And its width becoming a LOT more than 4 feet!
You might assume that the city, knowing where they had placed the lateral five feet under the original surface years earlier, and realizing that their much wider, federally mandated ADA compliant sidewalk would end up right on top of the capped off lateral would extend the lateral, right??
A lot easier to dig a hole and put in ten more feet of 4 inch pipe THEN, before the cement pour than bust up the sidewalk years later (ADA Law mandates 1 integral pour….no cutting a small piece of the corner unit to get to the lateral underneath allowed!!) to do exactly the same thing and then repour a whole new corner sidewalk, right??? Before they poured the corner sidewalk they would make sure it wasn’t on top of their sewer lateral, right???
Wrong!
They gave us an owner-builder permit to connect to the sewer not knowing that they had capped it with a huge triangle of concrete, making it impossible to even find the lateral, much less connect to it.
As they say, “Never assume. It just makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me”.”.
I’ll complete the metaphor after shower, breakfast and reading the Celente link.
However, may I hint that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is about as accurate a gauge of the health of the US Economy (Or Empire Economy) as that sewer map I was given by the Engineering Department??
Trump needs a better guide to “prospertiy for all” than that supplied by Wall Street and the City of London…..OR he’ll find himself “Up Shit Creek Without A Paddle.” PFF.
PFF = A variant on PDQ……Pretty Damned Quick.
The Coup Plot thickens from Stage # 1 ….to # 2.
Used to do land surveying for a sewer contractor. Their company motto was “Your $#!t is our Bread and Butter.”
:)
http://theduran.com/british-spy-who-meddled-in-us-elections-disappears/
Getting quite interesting now…wheels within wheels…..
Sexist paradise? Luxury island resort to open – for women only
https://www.rt.com/news/418125-woman-luxury-island-finland/
“A luxurious island resort exclusively for women is set to open off the coast of Finland, with a strict no-men policy in force.
The brainchild of entrepreneur Kristina Roth, ‘SuperShe Island’ aims to inspire women and allow them to focus on themselves without the distraction of the opposite sex.
The exclusionary approach of the island doesn’t just apply to men though – so far only guests from Roth’s network of friends have been invited and future guests will have to be vetted to see if “they’re well-rounded and would fit in,” Roth said, adding “but I don’t want to be elitist.”
Note the surname of the owner of “super she”. ;-)
Mars to start a major spiritual fire:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/02/mars-in-saddle-of-fire-on-friday.html
Aries Children in the realm of Air
“Conscious living with the gods
might become like being carried
by spirit’s blowing
like birds are carried
by up wind”
To circle in graceful gyre
hearts open
playing
with spiritual fire..
becoming as children clear
driving deep just to be…
Here…now and ever dear…
a late but not too late moment
under the wings of Aquarius
such a tender “graceful gyre”
“as children clear”
“driving deep just to be”
in the arms of the child of the sea
To circle in graceful gyre
hearts open
playing
with spiritual fire..
becoming as children clear
driving deep just to be…
Here…now and ever dear…
enshrined in my heart terra
Are events heating up in Afrin?
from today’s Almasdar News
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:13 P.M.) – The Turkish Army and allied Free Syrian Army-linked militias have scored a worthy advance against Kurdish forces in Syria’s Afrin region after a two-day back and forth battle for a key mountain and its nearby villages.
According to rebel sources, Free Syrian Army fighters – backed up by fire support and armor from Turkish forces – have seized the mountainous area of Sheikh Kharuz and the villages of Kharuz Fouqani, Kharuz Wastani and Kharuz Tahtani which surround it in northern Afrin.
The advance was made after a 48-hour swinging battle for the area during which time pro-Ankara forces endured inconveniently high losses in manpower and equipment and even claimed a fake chemical attack by Kurdish artillery on their positions (typical of Free Syrian Army factions when important battles do not go as expected).
On Tuesday, Kurdish forces launched a counter-attack to completely push pro-Turkey militias off the mountain, not only succeeding in doing this but also killing about a dozen Islamist fighters and capturing two armored vehicles in the process.
However, the last several hours has nonetheless witnessed Kurdish fighters pull-back from their positions on Sheikh Kharuz and hand over control of it and its nearby settlements to Turkey-led forces.
I got up at 6; the dawn was breaking, a brilliant half-moon with her attendant planet was overhead and the stars were fading away. I walked among the sacred art. I like to start my day with as large as overview as possible; the heavens serve nicely.
But the earth, nature, the world is equally important. Hence, the earth based art. The human body is my most important contact with nature. I’ve been reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, linked to by one minion a couple cafes ago. He speaks to my soul like no one else.
I haven’t read him since about twelve years ago, sitting in an empty house in Ventura, forced out by a crooked real estate agent, developer and court, losing about a quarter million, and soon to be divorced and bankrupt. I was too inexperienced and busy to appreciate him then but now he’s like an alter ego.
I remember reading that he volunteered as a nurse to help Civil War casualties in Washington, D.C., and thought he must be virtuous man, for the VA (Veterans Administration) of the time. I was a nurse too for mostly the VA, and saw some of the horrible conditions he did.
It’s Walt’s love for himself, his body, nature, ego, all religions although he practiced none, sex and thinking and living outside the box that attracts me. My daily reading includes Shakespeare, Austin, Mathis, Cardinal Newman, Dylan, Alex Jones, Stefan Molyneux and this vineyard and cafe; and a few others that are pulled into that orbit–and now I must include Walt Whitman.
My life is now settling into a routine, post-fire. Old monastic habits return. I keep one eye on the macro stars and the other on the micro day-to-day events. This cafe with its diversity is my premiere source for the micro; The Love Government is for the macro.
Jimmy Moglio has an article on revisionism current at the main page. I also like to “re-vision,” see things in a new light. It means seeing through the lies of history, so I don’t have to repeat it ad nauseum. For that I need the highest perspective possible: that of love. For many years now, I’ve been working on a grand revision that involves philosophy, theology, psychology as the big three (I have degrees in each), with many branches, such as poetry, music, literature and the creative arts.
I am not very bright according to my IQ, which was about 112; that is an advantage that has kept me from over-specializing. I like the general rather than the never-ending rabbit-holes of particularity. To keep my feet on the ground, I need venues like this cafe, with its rough and tumble activists and free-thinkers.
I wrote this in order to get a better grip on who I am and what I’m doing here. I go through frequent bouts of skepticism and self-doubt about myself, leading to depression and temptations to up and quit. Love always pulls me through. That’s why, satisfying as knowledge can be, it cannot compare with love for meaning and pleasure.
As an illustration of my preference for the general over the particular, and of the usefulness of terms that suit both, I will append something I wrote earlier on Hassan Nasrallah’s article here, defending Islam against Wahabism. It will be misunderstood but that’s the price for breaking new ground.
I’ll also attach something I wrote yesterday on the stock market’s drop of 666.
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In the comments at the last cafe is a link by vot tak to a speech by Hezbollah’s Nasrallah. In the first part, Hassan argues against the US bases in Iraq. I agree. In the second part, he argues against the term “Islamic terror,” in lieu of Wahabi terror, for example. He would focus our attention on a small group within Islam rather than Islam itself. This is misdirection, in my opinion; and at best, a half-truth.
Nasrallah’s argument is persuasive on semantic grounds, but it obscures the actual facts on the ground. If we are to win the war against empire, we have to face reality and not be misdirected by semantics. We must look deeply into what is going on in distinct cultures and in the world culture as a whole.
Recently in this cafe, there was a video by a Muslim who claims to know the Koran and Islamic community well. He converted to Christianity at risk to his life, because he identifies the tendencies toward terrorism within Islam, based in part on the Koran. In particular, he cites the infiltration of Islam into Europe, which in due course he says will bring destruction to European civilization by imposing Sharia law.
I am Irish American. The IRA (Irish Republican Army) has been very violent against the British occupation. I will compare the Islamic and Irish cultures to illustrate the effects of different cultures, and the driving ideas within them. All cultures have their strengths and weaknesses, and contribute to the world culture as a whole–so don’t think I’m picking on Islam.
I am part of the Irish culture, and therefore bear responsibility for what it does. I may be non-violent myself, and speak publicly against Irish violence, but that is beside the point at issue. I should have the intelligence to know that when someone condemns Irish violence, they are not talking about every single Irish person. They are addressing a general tendency within that culture. I don’t, therefore, get angry if someone says the Irish are violent.
The fact is the Irish are not trying to take over the world. They have a beautiful culture which has been helped and hindered by Catholicism. They want to be left alone, and cooperate with others peacefully. But no, they are attacked by the Vikings, and finally threw them out about 1000. Then they were attacked by the British, their precious forests cut down for the wood for British ships and iron for their factories and machines. I lived in Ireland, County Clare, eighteen years ago, and already then it was decaying from globalism’s cheap trash in lieu of a culture.
The Irish had plenty of diverse food but the English stole it and sold it, except for potatoes which have a tendency to keep people passive; and drove them off the best land or kept the Irish as serfs. The Irish finally drove the English out in the early part of the last century, except for Northern Ireland. On the whole, what the IRA did was justified violence in self-defense.
I call the Anglo-Zionists “Jew-Brits.” If you feel the disrespect in that term, it is intended. How can I respect them, and retain my own self-respect? They have run the US, my country, from way before the American Revolution, managing both sides; and therefore bear most responsibility for the Indian massacres and evil machinations occurring since, like creating the FED.
I am learning more about this in my reading of Miles Mathis’ article on Benjamin Franklin, the fake poor American, who was a crypto-Jew from the highest eschelons of the British peerage. Miles is a peer without equal when it comes to truth-telling.
Islam has a long history of violence and terror against weaker peoples. The Ottoman Empire was huge, and almost conquered all of Europe; which may have put Europe under Sharia law today. Islam was the largest slave and drugs dealership of all, and it could be unusually cruel; although it was generally more lenient to Christians, because they were people of the book, as were they.
You might ask: what about the Crusades?; glad you asked. Read Miles Mathis on the Crusades, for one of the biggest fake stories ever. They were engineered by crypto-Jews, not to conquer Jerusalem or the Holy Land, but to infiltrate and subvert Europe. The Jews plan for centuries. The important knights and nobles were targeted by beautiful mid-eastern women; the knights probably couldn’t tell the difference between a Jew and an Arab. The unsuspecting Crusaders brought their new wives and select members of the wives’ families with them back home. Jews did not marry just anyone; they went for the highest in power. Now they’re importing Arabs to out-populate the whites, and when the time is right, will impose general Sharia law on all.
This brief description is over-simplified to be sure, but it shows the inherent traits of two cultures. One is imperial and one is not. The situation of Islam today is complicated by Jewish machinations to use them to overthrow Western Civilization, and replace it with a Greater Worldwide Israel, using the US as its brainwashed bully.
To focus on the bad guys without regard for the masses of good people who enable the bad ones is what I call distraction and misdirection. The principle applies to all races, cultures and national identities. In answer to your objection, I love Jews and Gentiles, particularly those who need love the most.
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I see that the black magicians are signaling with black smoke more open than that coming out of a Vatican roof at Pope election time. On Black Friday, the stock market DOW fell 666 points, the number of the Imperial Beast. The cornered rats are telling Trump they’re going to crash his prosperity program, and they don’t care who knows about it.
The fired Fed, Yellen, on her last day, made a rare Sunday appearance to imply we were in a bubble which is bound to break, to scare the fish into the pump and dump, buy low-sell high, milk and bilk scam. Rothschild dumped some stocks like they haven’t in years.
I think the stock market is a part of the usury pyramid, which despoils the earth and and gullible people, and is a major cause of war. The shareholders and investors for interest are in stocks, all right: head, hands and feet, and when justice comes stepping in, in this life or the next, the money mongers will wish they heeded the Love Army’s fifth commandment against usury.
The parasite investors want to punish Trump for releasing the FISA memo, and the leftist, demoncratic press deny truth and reality like it was the plague. When the reckoning comes, it will be worse than the black plague for them. It’s Samson option time; let’s hope not or this will ensue:
“Thunder on the mountain heavy as can be
Mean old twister bearing down on me
All the ladies of Washington scrambling to get out of town
Looks like something bad gonna happen
Better roll your airplane down” Dylan
Love, Dennis
Nice omen-o-us, edge to that one Leary!
O Men and O Woe Men take heed!
Stop It!
What I mean is don’t “Pull out all the stops”, put ’em all back in, Lower!
I’m not trying to create a panic.
Carefully leave the Stock Exchange, in single file, calmly, like a fire drill in your grade school of yore.
If too many rush to be First Out of the Building, it may jam up the door jamb, and no one gets out alive.
Also: You may lose your shirts but please remember to cover your shorts.
And if you do get dammed up by a sea of bodies at the exit and can’t get your sell orders filled, repent in time to save your soul, cognizant of the fact that it is a mere margin call difference between dammed and damned.
Now watch it go to 30,000 on the DJIA before the pyromaniacs burn the Exchange down after sneaking out first and Then Yellen “Fire!”
Bro 93. Your comments may quicken the building panic. The stock market bubble was on purpose. Those manipulators already sold out. So when it burst, They will buy. That’s how they transfer your wealth to themselves. But those who was invest based on value and dividend need not worry. They would have bought when the prices were low and sell off some when the prices were high. They would load up when the prices goes down. Always invest based on dividend and value in the stock market. Many crooks in the stock market. Trust no one. Not even your financial advisers in the stock market. They already invested and trying to get your to buy to raise prices for them to sell out. There are no honest stock market investors who are filthy rich. The value investors will get rich in good time. The others if they are honest (read naive) will get burnt also in good time.
“For that I need the highest perspective possible: that of love.”
I think love is not a thing of the height, but the middle
the ‘highest perspective’ of the thing being for height = the eyes
to me is the study of man – everyday – by heart.
He converted to Christianity at risk to his life, because he identifies the tendencies toward terrorism within Islam, based in part on the Koran.
Yes, all those muslims who are not carrying terrorist attacks in the west are not good muslims. Hassan Nasrallah who is learned in islam and knows the whole quran is a bad muslim, all the sunnis, shias and sufis are bad muslims. All those anglo-Zionists are muslims who butchered millions of innocents by spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, Napalm in North Korea and carpet bombing Iraq and Afghanistan, killings in Africa, genocide of Palestinians. Bush, Obama, Nathanyahu, Blair are all secret muslims.
In particular, he cites the infiltration of Islam into Europe, which in due course he says will bring destruction to European civilization by imposing Sharia law.
I know these muslims who just show us that they are disunited among themselves and pretend to fight and hoodwink us with their fake shia-sunni conflict, but iran and saudi arabia have a master plan to infiltrate Europe with islam and impose sharia law. These so called refugees have infiltrated all the European white governments at the top levels and bodies of law making. The most prominent of these muslim family is the Rothschild family. They are making Europe more and more secular because they want a fanatically religious Europe to impose sharia law, yes this is correct logic. After all, capitalism, communism and all the -isms are islamic creations which originate from middle east, not europe.
Islam has a long history of violence and terror against weaker peoples.
yes, those European colonizers who overran the world with genocides and slavery in america, australia and africa backed by Jesuits were all crypto-muslims.
Islam was the largest slave and drugs dealership of all, and it could be unusually cruel; although it was generally more lenient to Christians, because they were people of the book, as were they.
Yes, all those drug dealers in USA and Europe are muslims. All those cartels in Mexico are all muslims. The people who bought the black africans forcefully in america under brutal conditions through sea routes and didnt give them their right till the 1960s were muslims. The Confederates were all muslims. Taliban are fake muslims because they just pretend to destroy the opium crops but they like opium. All these muslims just pretend to be teetotalers but have a big stash of alcohol and drugs in their homes along with a salve.
They were engineered by crypto-Jews, not to conquer Jerusalem or the Holy Land, but to infiltrate and subvert Europe. The Jews plan for centuries. The important knights and nobles were targeted by beautiful mid-eastern women; the knights probably couldn’t tell the difference between a Jew and an Arab.
I would disagree, they were not crypto-jews, they were crypto muslims. RIchard the lion heart was a crypto-muslim leading a fake battle against the muslims. All those beautiful middle eastern women came in veils to seduce the god fearing crusaders, but when the conservative muslims who keep their women in veils to prevent other men from seeing their females sent their beautiful women, the crusader fell victims to the temptations.
The unsuspecting Crusaders brought their new wives and select members of the wives’ families with them back home. Jews did not marry just anyone; they went for the highest in power. Now they’re importing Arabs to out-populate the whites, and when the time is right, will impose general Sharia law on all.
Yes, you are absolutely right. some distance above there is a comment by an anonymous about whites being unable to differentiate between arabs and non-arabs, we now know who was responsible for this, the crusaders. Had they not confused jews and arabs, we would have been able to differentiate better. Its not because of our ignorance, what can we do when all these non-whites look similar.
This brief description is over-simplified to be sure, but it shows the inherent traits of two cultures. One is imperial and one is not. The situation of Islam today is complicated by Jewish machinations to use them to overthrow Western Civilization, and replace it with a Greater Worldwide Israel, using the US as its brainwashed bully.
No, its not over-simplified. My old 75 years old conservative ‘christian’ white brain, which has seen the world through eyes of supremacy of western white Christians who fed it with diluted dose of manifest destiny since childhood to bring it into this wonderful stage of blaming all problems on muslims and islam, must simplify it even more . All problems are because of muslims and islam. We would be better off without islam.
btw, trump is also a crypto-muslim.
^^ this is an excellent (& funny) comment
dismantling zionazi propaganda argument-by-argument.
well done.
Att O’Leary above :
To focus on the bad guys without regard for the masses of good people who enable the bad ones is what I call distraction and misdirection. The principle applies to all races, cultures and national identities. In answer to your objection, I love Jews and Gentiles, particularly those who need love the most.
This is, was, will be, the best statement, why sandwich it between so much wordology !!!
symnk
Here’s a question. How does someone die of ‘excessive blood loss’ eight and a half hours after being shot in a major American city? https://www.rt.com/usa/418157-black-lives-leader-shot-dead/
Yes, I know there are major arteries and veins in a leg. But, I assuming someone could get him to a hospital? Big American cities of necessity have ER’s that are very skilled at dealing with gunshot wounds. Patching up a leg to stop the blood loss doesn’t seem impossible. Worst case would be that he might lose the leg, but I’m guessing that its possible to clamp that major artery closed somewhere above the bullet wound. And hospitals usually have a supply of blood to pump into someone who’s lost a lot of blood.
It the article had said that he died of blood loss at the scene, then I’d be more inclined to believe that. He got shot in that artery, and bled out quickly on the scene before EMT’s could not stop the flow of blood and get him to a hospital in time. That’s more believable. But to hear that someone died of excessive blood loss and that it didn’t happen until 8 and a half hours after the shooting, that doesn’t seem to add up to me?
It can’t be lack of insurance. Emergency rooms are required to treat people who come in, especially if they have a condition that is life-threatening. So, what happened? How does someone die from excessive blood loss some 8 and a half hours after being shot?
I was wondering about that also. Doesn’t seem to add up.
Its possible that sufficient blood loss would cause multiple organ failure which would then result in death eventually–its a complex thing to treat successfully and difficult for the patient to come back from.
We are quite fragile organisms and I would want a lot more info (post mortem results) before suspecting the medics of evil intent.
Jim Carrey Deletes Facebook Profile ‘Because of Russia’, Gets Trolled
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201802071061431030-carrey-deletes-facebook-over-russia/
“Comedian Jim Carrey has deleted his Facebook account and dumped his shares of Facebook stock in response to what he said was the company’s profiting from “Russian interference” in the 2016 US presidential elections.”
Which begs the question: was the film “dumb and dumber” actually an autobiographical account with carrey playing himself?
Anyway, a couple of the better responses to carrey’s promotion of zionazi propaganda:
“Deleting your Facebook account because they exploit people, invade privacy, and work with the oppressive deep state is a good idea.
Taking part in the Russia scare is cuckoo time.
— Shizzle the Land (@Shizzletheland) 6 февраля 2018 г.”
“Become a world-famous actor and comedian, pursue spiritual enlightenment with a fiery passion, plunge yourself into the task of mastering the art of painting, only to wind up the same kind of stuffy, McCarthyite authoritarian that real artists rebelled against in the sixties.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) 6 февраля 2018 г.”
Are you worth your salt in the crypto-currency debate?
I’m not sure that Peter Koenig is. Even though I like many of the points he makes in his articles they seem a bit too tinged with fear and resentment of the Powers That Shouldn’t Be…..and All the Complexities of Our World That Scare Us Simple But Obviously Better Souls.
A passing mention of “digitized money” will stoke those fears and increase the flock of listeners, readers, but will their discernment be worth a pinch of sodium chloride, that’s what I want to know!
I’m not sure that I am worth MY salt as crypto de-occulter either.
I know I have potential, but am I going to waste all of it, playing in the dirt and grading it??
For example the Hero of the Matrix Series of films, Neo is a crypto-currency. NEO I don’t know anything about it yet except for the fact that the coding is not limited to its algorithms…..hmmmm: The wallet that is recommended that it be stored on is called “City of Zion NEO Wallet”.
I put in a limit order to buy some of the stuff to find out if it is Red Pill through and through or just Zionist Goy Poison, with Israeli Flag blue core coated with red candy exterior.
If only I could triangulate with Vot Tak, Dennis Leary, and Miles Mathis helping out, with 120 degree opposite perspectives from three different angles I might find my way through the maze in this life time, and actually report my findings. (If you never hear from me again, you’ll have a clue as to what happened to me: Lost in the Matrix.)
Ramin came back with the Petro, various astute commenters begin to realize that blockchain has utility and nearly endless applications that won’t go away with anything like the rapidity with which their bodies and egos will vanish from the earth, and where am I? Playing with a grownup Tonka set and shirking my crypto-duty!
I also bought some SALT:
“Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.
Worth one’s saltTo be ‘worth one’s salt’ is to be worth one’s pay. Our word salary derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt). There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren’t actually paid in salt, as some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc. and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance.
Salt continues to be important enough to feature in the language for many centuries. Other phrases that would have been known to the medieval mind were take with a grain of salt, the salt of the earth and below the salt. The ancient roots of ‘worth one’s salt’, and its similarity to the 13th century ‘worth one’s weight in gold’ and the 14th century ‘worth one’s while’ (that is, worth one’s time), give the phrase a historical air. Nevertheless, ‘worth one’s salt’ didn’t exist in Roman Latin or even in medieval English and dates from as recently as the 19th century.
The earliest citation of the phrase that I have found in print is in The African Memoranda, a report of an expedition to Guinea Bissau, by Philip Beaver, 1805:
“Hayles has been my most useful man, but of late not worth his salt.”
It’s worth pointing out that, although English is replete with phrases of a nautical origin, none of the above salty phrases has anything to do with the sea.”
Yeah, I am an old salt having had more than my share of sea spray dry in my beard but in this crypto-case S.A.L.T. stands for Secure Automated Lending Technology.
I write this comment out of hoping that it will have some utility in allowing more crypto-phobes to at least know something of the extent of crypto and blockchain “apps” that they would otherwise have no way of even imagining (like me , six months ago) so they start to know the extent of what they don’t know and might at least yearn to get their feet or Big toe wet in, as opposed to being in a state of blessed, perpetual ignorance of the vast unknown ocean about to engulf them.
“It’s a platform that allows blockchain asset holders to leverage their holdings as collateral for cash loans.”
Hmmm. If you are impecunious that might just come in handy! You COULD get liquidity if the squeeze was on, and you thought you had to give up your crypto stake to “strong hands” but you weren’t QUITE so weak….because you had “options” other than forking over your One Strategic Move.
Very few have the tenacity and skill to become succesful traders at anything, but I figured back in August-Sept (When BTC was between $3100 and $4000…if memory serves…) that any idiot like myself could identify a mega trend like this one (you gotten a bunch of hints, including from Saker’s assistant) drive an older car and buy 6-7 BTC and check back in 5 to 10 years. And probably do way, way better than most wannabe traders who, being too social and gossipy and Ego-driven never learned (and never will learn) the lessons of the Whip Saw Song:
https://youtu.be/LiE1VgWdcQM
And routinely get Whipsawed right out of their Cash by forgetting most of the verses but especially the last Verse:
“What do we do with that Hot News flash, Honey?
What do we do with that Hot News Flash, Ba-abe?
We stash that flash right in the trash!!,
Honey trader, Baby Mine.”
Of course I pleaded then unsuccessfully for a distribution blocked by my majority partner and BTC zoomed out of sight and reach to 20K. Then just recently fell back to earth like Stage 1 of a Saturn V Rocket. But its still way above what I bought my first little bit in. (I’m taking pressure off Ramin, with all the pointed questions prying into his privacy.) But damn it, the Lazy Way is gone!
I’ll have to work a bit harder and smarter than I thought. It turns out I’m too old for big Tonka Toys and just watching others dig ditches wears me out.
So, when BTC was going nuts in late Novermber and December I noticed # 2 ETHERIUM (ETH) was sound asleep. I figured all the newbies would soon graduate to “Bitcoin Consciousness 2.0 or Second Grade” and that would lead to the realization that there are a few others besides BTC that might actually have a LOT more upside and that # 2 was not so damned expensive (@ $400 then….versus BTC passing $16,000 and heading to the moon…)…and THAT turned out to be the right move….on my radar, at least.
But I digress, Salt of the Earth. This is for you, so let me conclude this little humble crypto-offering:
“The SALT platform is the first of its kind. And it gives blockchain asset holders access to liquidity without having to sell their tokens. That’s not its only benefit. Your ability to borrow is based on your assets. That means you can borrow regardless of your credit score. To start you’ll be able to borrow against Bitcoin. In the future, SALT plans to add all blockchain assets.”
AND I stress again, the macro is much more important than the micro “my money”. No one will care about my money or yours even if yours is 1000 times more than mine in a century or two. But if BTC plays a role in weakening the central bankers and the Petro serves Venezuelans to resist the Empire….this whole crypto-flank might actually be of some more lasting importance.
And you can find out about it. Instead of carping about something that isn’t “you”, put a few hundred dollars worth into whatever crypto The Saker takes in donations….and quite possibly your little bit in dollars today can last 2 , 3, 4 times that much or more (in dollars value) as the months go by.
The chopiness now is an opportunity. You don’t want a V bottom where it takes off again like a rocket. That doesn’t allow enough time to learn. A “W” bottom, up once more and then DOWN once again is more likely. And give TIME to get your bearings. Small positions just to learn. Nothing that can hurt you. By May chances are a LOT more volume of investment liquidity will be trying to get through the same size hose, increasing the price pressure. However the micro responsibility is all on individual adults not me or anyone else here that knows a little or a lot more about the subject than you or I do.
Besides, who cares about the micro-perspective?? Its “small potatoes” anyway, and its main value is insight it can bring into the Macro Economic World Struggle for Freedom from Want, in any case. And that is really interesting!
Anyway I know how to do at least a little. I’m about 2/3 of the way into my long term diversification into a couple dozen small positions besides BTC and ETH. Various exchanges, various wallets etc.
Put a big toe into the Ocean. Get it a little SALTy.
I ‘ll try to do a little more, because I was invited to do so, but got real busy in the sand and dirt. If and when the better informed step up, I’ll defer to them! G’Night.
getting critically critical now
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https://southfront.org/us-military-strikes-killed-over-100-syrian-troops-msm/
It is possible that the US is preparing a new military action against Syria in order to undermine the progress in the political settlement, Russian Ambassador to Damascus Alexander Kinshchak said.
“In recent days, the topic of the use of sarin and chlorine by government forces in East Ghouta and Idlib has been actively revitalized. Given the sad experience of Khan Sheikhoun, it cannot be ruled out that in this way a new force action is being prepared against Syria in order to support the defeated militants and undermine the positive progress in the political settlement process that emerged after the successful holding of the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue in Sochi,” he said.
The United States is trying to push for new anti-Syria sanctions in the United Nations, which would violate its sovereignty, Russian Ambassador to Syria said.
According to him, it is very revealing how the joint mechanism of the UN-OPCW investigation “dealt” with the terrorist attack in Khan Sheikhoun, which “simply wrote the conclusions under the dictation of western countries, not giving a damn about the obvious facts and materials that refuted the scheme, that “Bashar Assad is to blame for everything”.
READ MORE: No One Tried to Reject Russian Expert Conclusions on Khan Sheikhoun Attack
etc
https://sputniknews.com/world/201802081061463629-us-syria-sanctions-un/?utm_source=https://www.facebook.com/&utm_medium=short_url&utm_content=gETP&utm_campaign=URL_shortening
That attack against Syrian Arab Army and coalition forces has taken place in Deir Ez-Zor province in eastern Syria, near the city of Kusham (near the Iraqi border) where Us troops are present with the SDF rebel forces (it is said, they are mainly Kurdish). That’s interesting : while in the northern province around Afrin, the Turks are fighting the same Syrian Kurds, the US refused to defend them against the Turks, in east, they provided “support” to the same Kurds against the Syrian Army. I’m pretty curious how all this will evolve, moreover when I just heard that a new round of peace talks over Syria with the participation of Turkey, Russia, Iran will be held in Turkey in the near future. The political-military situation in that region is getting even more muddy.
http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-turkish-axis-syria-faces-meltdown/ri22477
Possibly…….
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802081061470988-us-safe-zone-syria-daesh/
Issue going to be brought up at UNSC closed doors…more evidence being collected…Moscow says clearly now usa is illegally occupying for economic reasons of Syria…alongside daesh” type groups who had been stockpiliing weapons and using them against pro Syrian forces ….who had been on reconnaisance for these groups.
Don’t worry about the Kurds,
Many had drawn their blood,
Kurd against Kurd,
Kurd against Turk,
But sure as Putin’s eye,
Is fixed on the manpad’s fire,
Their new blood thirst is for,
Russian flavour!
http://www.fort-russ.com/2018/02/breaking-us-claims-aerial-attack-on.html
Joaquin Flores
US-led Coalition’s Strike on pro-Damascus Forces
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802081061470988-us-safe-zone-syria-daesh/
Over 100 Assad-regime Forces Killed in Syria After US-led Coalition Thwarts Attack
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/over-100-assad-forces-killed-after-u-s-led-coalition-thwarts-attack-1.5804393
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-defensively-bombs-syrian-army-kills-100-its-soldiers/ri22470
Analysis here too
https://southfront.org/pentagon-claims-it-informed-russia-ahead-of-its-attack-on-syrian-army-more-details-about-incident-appear/
What happened to Putin’s S-400? They should have no problem taking those planes out of the sky much faster than any manpads!
Jewish Conspiracy Responsible for Anti-Semitism, says Young Israeli
https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/11/Young-Israeli.html
This has never happened before – what is going on behind the scenes Trump has no know of this because his waiver was needed to allow Russians under US sanctions to visit the country.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-07/three-top-russian-officials-quietly-visit-united-states
“Sergei Naryshkin, the foreign intelligence chief, Alexander Bortnikov, who heads the Federal Security Service, and Lieutenant General (two stars) Igor Korobov, the head of Russia’s military intelligence, visited Washington in late January. Not much has been leaked to the media but it was reported that they met with CIA Director Mike Pompeo.”
Russians know that their intelligence chiefs visited the US, because their 60 Minutes tv program told them about it in comic terms – here it is with english subtitles, enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0__6HRFi8A
Maybe the attack on Syrian troops has been the response for that visit, I wouldn’t be surprised on that, the arrogance has no limits, so the provocations will continue.
David Cole: Jews need “Jew haters”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-C8euC00UY
It’s another form of encryption, Azorka /moveable-feast-cafe-2018-02-06/#comment-485374 and Anonymous 1 and 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0__6HRFi8A
Things are rarely what they appear on the surface.
These people have been about the decrypting work for half a century and can save scalps all over the world from an excess of head scratching, trying to figure it all out. “It’s the British, STUPID!”:
“The British Foreign Office on Monday intervened in a London High Court hearing in the case of former MI6 official Christopher Steele. Steele’s lawyer is attempting to quash an earlier court order for Steele to submit himself to a deposition regarding one of the many lies in the now-famous dossier he prepared in order to bring down the President of the United States. The case was brought by Russian citizen Aleksej Gubarev, who was falsely accused by Steele of hacking into the computers of the Democratic Party in the U.S. (which, as former NSA expert Bill Binney has shown, never happened). The details can be read below — but what is critical is the fact that the Foreign Office, which supervises MI6, sent a lawyer to the court “in case the government felt it necessary to request any testimony by Steele was limited to protect official secrets,” as BBC reported.
Why are the British so intent on preventing the truth to come out about Steele’s role, and the British role generally, in the attempted coup against President Trump? The fact is, the entire “Russiagate” case against Trump is melting down, while Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Devin Nunes have focused in on the primary role of British intelligence agent Steele as the key criminal conspirator. The desperate British effort to regain control over their former colony is in grave danger.
And this is not an isolated development. The world has entered a conjunctural crisis, which can not be sustained for many more months, or even days. The financial system is bloated beyond repair, with fictitious debt issuances designed to cover over the speculative bubble with more speculative paper. The demands from the lords of Wall Street and the City of London for the nations of the world to accept austerity, and to follow IMF dictates, are now falling on deaf ears, as nearly the entire developing world is joining in the new paradigm offered by China through the New Silk Road, bringing railroads, water projects, industry and hope to the former colonial nations of the world.”
https://larouchepac.com/20180207/british-have-shown-their-hand
Mo of A article suggests that US “retaliatory” strike on Syria-allied troops was simple aggression and that there was no original strike by Syria against which to retaliate. IE, The US is lying again as it kills people with some weak excuse for its aggression:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/syria-us-may-have-arranged-self-defense-attack-on-syrian-government-forces.html
The “Dearlove” Encrypted Code decoded:
“The last 48 hours have seen it revealed, by the British Foreign Office in a court case in London and by the Washington Post in a lengthy article, that not just “former” MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s dossier, but multiple British intelligence assets are involved — as is the Foreign Office — and are deployed from the top to get Trump. And deploying them at the top? “Former” chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove. The same Dearlove who commissioned his own infamous “dossier” for Tony Blair, which “proved” Saddam Hussein had nuclear and chemical weapons!”
Dear “Love” indeed!
Sir Richard Dickhead should be thought of as Sir Sheer Feer.
Mind Control and Empire through the Satanic Opposite of “Love”: Fear and Division….
The above decoding “key” excerpted from this Update:
https://larouchepac.com/20180208/british-intelligence-now-shown-leading-coup-against-trump-we-can-defeat-them
But will the evidence of British Inversion of Love (for the Love of Empire…not love!) get the Love Commander’s “Irish” UP????
Time will tell. But Sir Richard sure is giving Love a Bad name, Dearie!
And Now, If Leary Stands Up and the Never Trumpers Stand Down for maybe a week or two until the Occult Bureau of British Intelligence is as Thoroughly Exposed as The Wizard of OZ, we all just might get happily going along our way on the Yellow BRIC’s Road.
SOP for the FO and MoD. You’d be amazed, or perhaps not, at what they interfere in, all in the name of “official secrets”.
And did you know that the US has at least 10 permanent military bases in Britain whilst there are no Brit bases at all in the US, to my knowledge?
Alconbury, Barford St John, Croughton, Fairford, Feltwell, Lakenheath, Menwith Hill, Mildenhall, Molesworth, Welford. (Info courtesy of a written Freedom of Information request to Her Majesty’s Government, March 2017. Some stuff can be investigated, not just wildly speculated about.)
That should tell you something, I’m not too sure what, about the current balance of power.
And then there’s this:
“Terror trial collapses after fears of deep embarrassment to security services”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/01/trial-swedish-man-accused-terrorism-offences-collapse-bherlin-gildo
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmion_(poem)
Mind control is more fundamental than the bases full of order followers who are ultimately at the service of the architects of geopolitics, who are British….or Anglo-phile Americans….same thing philosophically.
Dumb brawn…at the service of evil brains.
I thought you were Irish???
British, mate. Do you know what ‘British’ really means?
Try looking it up. Google isn’t your friend but it sure beats the simplistic LaRouche agenda’s interpretations, hands down.
Humour is a terribly funny thing . . .
Sarcasm, much beloved by southern Sars
(Inhabiting sparse lowlands scrubby land)
Said to be the lowest form of humour
Is closest to our Neanderthal origins.
There’s free humour at another’s expense
Cheap but not so cheerful so watch out –
Mmmh delicious humour spiced with wit,
Malicious jokes aimed below the belt –
And a perfect joke just for me and you.
But oh the gung-ho gallows humour,,,
Watch your step mind how you go
Don’t hang high upon wasted words
For rigor mortis may yet set your jaws
Into Mirth’s unforgiving timeless grin –
Whoever laughs loudest laughs longest . .
symnk
Your style, your elegance, are all in bloom,
Made me swallowing your words with spoon
The creative possibilities are endless….Ru—oar!
https://www.rt.com/sport/418250-wada-headquarters-russian-fans/
“Conspiracy of Silence”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/shocking-story-israel-disappeared-babies-160803081117881.html
DNA tests may provide answers on missing babies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/israel-dna-tests-provide-answers-missing-babies-180208152948761.html
An unexpected headline in the Pindo Newsweek;
“Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas On His People
By Ian Wilkie On 2/8/18 at 11:44 AM “
Francy Bears Reveal Canadian Conspiracy Against Russian Sport
https://sputniknews.com/world/201802081061455075-fancy-bears-canada-conspiracy/
Angry Russian Sports Fans Besiege WADA Headquarters in Montréal
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201802081061470060-doping-scandal-russian-fans-message/