2018/03/06 04:30:01
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Did you ever think that all of the border gadgets and methods of searching the public that have been enabled over the past years make it virtually impossible for the said populous to transpost say gold in thier pockets without being detected.
Like say for instance if there is some sort of drop in the value of the USD related to Word currency and all of this chatter about the Chinese and Russian economies developing alternate currencies in the economic side of the current war. It follows then, that gold then gains more relevance as an International commodity.
The North American Island is essentially closed off from any viable method of transporting said precious metal off of the vast island.
I often thnk about that when I look down the road 10 to 15 years hence.
The Jews made two earh shaking inventions:
– They can make 6-10 kg Gold out of 1 kg (only they can, we cannot)
-> Papergold also called ETF-Gold, it is estimated that the circulated Gold surpasses physical Gold by a value of 6 – 10 : 1.
When the Swiss where hookwinked to sell 1500 t back in the 90s , the Swiss got 2 billion, while the ‘Goldmakers’ got aonther 300-400 billion, not bad isn’t it ? Ever wondered why there are physical Gold buyers in every town ?
The ‘Maker’s inflate it 1000% not bad isn’t it ?
– They can make 6-10 $ out of 1 $ (only they can, we cannot), we all should know that miracle, it’s ordinary banking.
Some more modern inventions with outright evil properties are the State-Dept rollovers and only paying down the yearly interest. In this way a bridge built for 1 Million is paid several times over in a hundred years, though it may not even exist anymore !! Thus State depth is driven beyond all sane limits, every percent more adds 1 percent ad infitum to the income of the owner (mostly Banks, but also in total perversion pension funds).
Unless the interest rate is below 1%, such practice chokes an economy in no time to a virtual standstill. Theoretically one reaches the point where one is paying anything built for all eternity without being able to build anything new, thus at the end paying for nothing forever (because the paid for is long gone to dust).
Not bad isn’t it ?
Also more recent inventions are of even a more sophisticated nature, and touching questions of being.
‘We live in a strictly rational world’, has been thaught to us thanks to Isaac Newton, Decartes etc. REALLY ! are you sure ?
Oh sorry forgot the Post-Modern world, or the Sponge Bob world, where anything is rational, YES anything is rational, because nothing is fixed (all is relative), fundamentally, thus ANYTHING IS RATIONAL. Isn’t that cool ?
Then came the Post-Post Modern:
Because anything is rational, it could also be virtual or a multiplied kind of multiverse where the subject (Person) itself also goes into flux – so anything is rational and anyone is anything
What comes after that we start to get a taste of it.
Some analysis of what’s happening in Italy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-05/debt-crisis-dead-ahead-italys-results-are-truly-forza-italia
The comment by Haus-Targaryen is intriguing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/comment/11284208#comment-11284208
Well he’s not wrong. Any reform to the existing EU treaties requires a vote of unanimity between the 28 member states. If Salvini thinks that Italy can somehow “negotiate” concessions from the EU straightjacket then he’s in for a surprise. As no reform is possible, the only way for a a country to obtain national sovereignty is an in/out vote like Brexit.
I am not sure the European Central bank can turn off the taps in Italy, like they did with Greece, without risking a bank collapse (which could threaten the entire European banking system). So maybe the tactics in bringing the Italians to heel will be slightly different this time.
Italy, Austria, Hungary and UK, respectively the Former Holy Roman Empire, Former Austro-Hungarian and Former British Empire, will fall into ever more poverty and chaos rapidly. These countries will be geopolitcially caught in a void, stuck within the Empire and its institutions yet despised by this same Empire. The people in these countries have voted for the wrong things in ‘democracy’, in the eyes of the Empire’s sick rulers. USA internal chaos will continue….Anglo Zionists dont know wether to keep Trump and make him a start a war with Iran, or Impeach him.
Germany and the American Democrats/Anti-Trump republicans is now the main driving force of The Empire. Many Germans still support the Merkel regime and its aims, a Stronger EU, NATO, encourage Islam in Europe, expand into the Balkans and Ukraine, and keep war sanctions against Russia. Along with a element of Germanic Supremacism. They see it as a great opportunity to restore German hegemony. Germany have never been so powerful since 1943. The AfD will be just another form of this ultranationalism, very bad for Russia, but against the Eurozone. Any kind of German rightwing is bad for Russia. Pro Russia sentiment is only on the Far Left. The Left party, ex communist party, is the only force of reason in Germany now and they are popular in the ex DDR.
V depressing here on the US’s largest aircraft carrier. We have yet another Russian spy attack story. Evil Putin strikes again etc etc. The relentlessness of the anti-Russia campaign can really get a lifelong Russophile down. Although I noted on the state-controlled broadcaster’s website this morning that the Russian spy story was only fourth on the list of ‘most read’ – behind an actress getting a tattoo and other equally significant stories. Someone commented years ago on a TV debate show that people shouldn’t “mistake newspaper opinion for public opinion”. That stands true of course but it can be terribly disheartening to speak to seemingly intelligent people and realise they have been swayed by all of this BS. Or for people to tell me that I “don’t realise you are being spoon-fed Kremlin propaganda”. That was funny, but infuriating at the same time. I suspect this evening there will be calls for a World Cup boycott from the mainstream media, who will make no attempt whatsoever to find out what actually happened. But that raises interesting questions, does it not? The World Cup is big business. Very large corporates make a lot of money out of it. Are they really going to want it to be moved at the last minute? Or boycotted by some teams from big consumer markets like the UK? I am not so sure. I have tickets and will look forward to my sixth visit to Russia. Sochi here we come. Happily no England fans anywhere near the place! I was going to post about the Team Sky doping scandal, but events have overtaken that. But great, isn’t it? Apparently they “crossed an ethical line”. Haven’t seen any suggestion that all British cyclists should be banned from international competition. Have we had calls for the resignation of Lord Coe (instrumental in banning all Russian athletes from athletics championships) for misleading a parliamentary commission? Nope. The hypocrisy is breath taking. Hope something happens soon to cheer me up!
I think I wrote the last comment in the Cafe Con Steam Rising.
/moveable-feast-cafe-2018-03-02/#comment-493502
It was in response to Lumpy King pot shot at 1/6 of the human race, China, but as usual, I had sex and Leary on my mind, and poetry….whose essence is irony.
If he read it, I knew it would also provoke him. But I also realized that China is his bone of contention and he’ll invent any non-sense to keep gnawing on that bone to his unrigorous heart’s content, and ignore all evidence that maybe he should get a new, non-Empire MSM produced bone.
It is the Year of The Dog….so what do you expect???
Be that as it may be, here’s a Trump Bone for LK, DL and others who fear of China gnaws on…….to gnaw on today:
“Over the past week, President Trump has trashed the efforts by the British and their assets in the discredited Obama intelligence apparatus to invent a justification for war with Russia and China. The Western media unleashed a tirade of denunciations of China, and especially of President Xi Jinping, following the announcement that term limits were being dropped from China’s Constitution, calling Xi a ruthless dictator, a new Emperor for life, and a danger to the world. Trump responded at a private dinner with Republicans: “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
The pathetic media whores went ballistic.”
Entire briefing here:
https://larouchepac.com/20180306/old-paradigm-dying-trans-atlantic-region-british-are-panicking
And here is the expected Attack on Russia hosting the World Cup – it was inevitable that the Empire would manufacture an excuse to boycott the event:
Boris Johnson Threatens World Cup Boycott If Russia Behind Mystery Spy Incident
Well. What did you expect?. He can’t even play tennis.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Boris_Johnsen_Faces_of_Evi_Tennisl_resize.jpg
Kent
A Russian transport aircraft An-26 has crashed in Syria, according to the Ministry of Defense.
At 15:00 Moscow time today, the plane crashed a mere 500 meters from the airbase in Khmeimim. All 26 passengers and 6 crew members have been killed.
500 meters is 0.31 mile, for those of us who are locked in that measurement system. less than 1/3 mile.
Wonder whether it was taking off or landing.
Grandma talks to herself: or ain’t the WWW great?
It was landing.
https://www.rt.com/news/420608-russian-plane-crashed-syria/
At one point, this site provided links to Oliver Stone’s movie “Ukraine of Fire” with English subtitles.
Since then, I’ve searched several times for a version done in English (with no subtitles). Finally, I’ve found it, so I thought I’d share it back to this site.
https://vimeo.com/250899571
I found it via this article … http://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/03/06/all-fire-and-fury-in-ukraine/
So, to those of us limited by speaking English, enjoy!
(and note of course that there are other video services out there that are not callled Youtube and which are not controlled by Google. Always a useful piece of information.)
“Odds and ends, odds and ends; lost time will not come back again.” Dylan
I want to tie up loose ends at the previous cafes, which will loosen me up by letting them go.
one minion is stuck on Dylan. I am too. He’s such a mixture of the good, bad; ugly and beautiful that it intrigues me to no end. I’m a year and a half older than he; he’s like another younger Brother Bro. Such brothers keep me “forever young.” “I was older then, I’m younger than that now.”
Speaking of Bro, he writes so much that I think he has a ghost writer who takes over when he’s asleep or at work. Who is this Brock Pierce that wants to affect a million lives? I want to affect one life: my own, and if none or one trillion are affected by my life, what can I do about it?
Bro wonders what “peer to peer consensus” has to do with “communal sex.” Well, the Jew-Brit marriage arrangement of the peerage is surely among peers, and is a community of interlocking sexual power marriages. It’s vastly different than what I mean by the term “communal sex”; namely, a safe and well governed inter-personal community where everyone’s sexual needs are met with respect and good order.
Bro is enamored with more than bits; he likes a funny bookie, a Brit by the name of Felix; no, not the tabby cat, but the rich fat cat who Wired our brains with fake science. That’s not my idea but Miles Mathis’s, who believes he’s a hired actor for Intelligence. By the by, “rich” has nothing to do with bits or dollars and cents. I’m relatively poor but consider myself richer than King Midas or the Queen of England. Did you know that the Vatican owns England?; wait until it gets compensated for its lost monasteries, and gets them back to boot.
Bro must have some lepretard in him with the gift of gab to come up with the formula: stone sphere to biosphere to noosphere; unfortunately leaving out the love sphere. Love is no crypto sphere, and I have no objection if Bro wants to risk losing the family jewels. I’m readying a rescue party to pull him out of such a quicksand “get rich quick” swamp.
Bro picked a fine time to post “picked a fine time to be a dumb ass.” I had to laugh. Maybe he had me in mind and maybe not–but I recall that the pointer finger has three other fingers pointing back at the finger pointer. His philosophy seems to be “embrace change, choose evolution and no standing still.” I prefer a ballet dancer who has plenty of these qualities, but dances in place.
Bro posted Putin singing the National Anthem with 130,000 people. This “made in Hollywood, Russia” video is pretty slick, with beautiful women around him, but I prefer my Love Army marching litany song. Trump will now have to prove his manhood by gathering a bigger crowd, and singing “God bless America.”
I mentioned Bro in seven straight paragraphs–is this solipsism in reverse?
Ingrian, congrats on the Orthodox Communion and christening. Roman is a fine name, as is the maxim “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” The Brits should print that on their two bit bits of nonsense. I love the translation of “super-substantial bread.” You’re a budding theologian, and very pleasing to read.
teranam tears me up with her reference to Jimmy Kimmel’s serious poke and joke at the huge Oscar Man with no penis. That’s what the Jew-Brits are doing to men, and separating women from them: divide and conquer, unhappy singles make those cash registers jingle.
So much for the old cafes. Bro got in the last word there, and he’s at it again in this one with his China romance; and takes exception to Lumpenkonig’s and my skepticism of such a tight totalitarian system of ranking and rating its citizens. Bro says it’s the same in the west with credit agencies, but that’s hardly the case, since China lacks many of our freedoms, and we’re not rated on our social conformity, at least not yet, until China owns more of us.
Bro is sold on Larouche pac, which likes Trump’s praise of Xi and his new dictatorship for life, missing the sardonic irony and twinkle in Trump’s eye. My predictions about Donald are coming true: he is actually stopping war, which is why the Brits are panicking at the prospect of losing the profits of war-mongering.
“Come, you masters of war…I just want you to know I can see through your masks…” Dylan
Love, Dennis
re: the Nunberg farce and the Star Chamber. I hope by now someone has put Nunberg on the national mental health gun register . Seriously, he looks worse than Hariri did when he was forced to read a statement by the Saudis while his wife and children were held hostage.
Nunberg knows that he faces either years in prison or years of ,as one man put it, “living out of a dumpster behind the downtown bus station.” It is costly to defend against charges of a secret state panel.
here is what Hafeez Shirazi has to say:#360
“Mansion that was secure has now completely perished:
about its past, go and ask the ruins lying cold and bare.
The night of separation has now thrown out its shadow:
see what prowlers at night, play with imagination there!
The tale of love is such that it never reaches to an end:
here, even the most eloquent of tongues split in despair.”
Armchair Cafe Theology Part 9
Saker brought up Fatima in a recent article. I agree that insofar as it’s Rome’s attack on Russia, and a foolish attempt to convert her, Fatima is a devious hoax. I’m not going to address that now, but focus on the theological implications of such visitations from the invisible world.
Seventy years ago I can remember the prayers for Russia’s conversion after Catholic masses. As an eight year old, I had no idea of what was involved, and just assumed Mary was doing good for the world. Now I see it is ridiculous that the mother of God would be playing prejudiced political power games.
The blessed virgin revealed herself to children at Fatima. Stripped of all the nonsense, that’s basically it. These kind of visions, revelations, visitations and para-normal experiences have been happening to all kinds of persons throughout history in all cultures and traditions. Probably half the population now has experienced such phenomena, but in our sceptical society, they are afraid to say anything lest they be labeled a kook, or worse.
Such events are two-way portals between the visible and invisible worlds. If individuals and societies expect such visits, they will be more common and accepted; if not, they will be repressed and scoffed at. Needless to say, shysters and charlatans use visions to fleece the gullible sheeple in return for sexual and monetary gains.
Hence, mainstream authorities try to separate the wheat from the chaff, and protect their own founders’ revelations from God or god-like authorities. The more remote and invisible the better, since then it’s harder to be challenged. In the case of Fatima, the church authorities stepped in and declared the visions to be genuine.
Obviously some standard of judgment is necessary. Invariably, it comes down to: does it help or hurt the established order? Dissenters used to be burned at the stake as heretics; now they’re sanctioned and staked out as conspiracy nuts or fake news sites; and stripped of their assets in one way or another.
My standard of judgment is love, and more precisely the family of lovers associated with a love bower and an Eden community of lovers. I have not had any overt visions or revelations but I have had plenty of small intimations of being guided and protected by lovers from the invisible world. The visitor portal opens both ways: from their side and mine. I can prime the pump so to speak by desire, intention, attention, consistent practice and frequently asking for their help. Jesus called it knocking on the door: “Knock and it shall be opened.”
In theological terms, it’s called prayers of petition. It does work because we get what we ask for, not necessarily right away. We’re “asking for it” in more ways than we think, not just with our minds or lips. This prayer transaction runs the gamut from saints asking for God to satanists asking for Satan. Another name for it is justice, and justice will not be mocked.
Presumably, the children of Fatima, their parents, relatives, neighbors and countrymen were asking for the help of Mary, but what else was rumbling in that collective unconsciousness of memory that led Mary to give open secrets, calling for the conversion of Russia to save the world, or else; and still not opened secrets that portend disasters for the uncooperatives?
Clearly, visitations are not as simple as they seem. Humanity has a knack for being messy on the seamy side while promoting the good side. I’m an example of that which is why I have to work like hell to stay on the straight and narrow, in other words, the orthodox path. Every step along truth’s way is tested and re-tested for reliability. Visions can easily fall in with the crowd of sentimentalism, romance, easy money, white lies, invisible blocks and chains, two bit seductions of endless prosperity for free, and self-deceptive fakery.
I was raised on stories such as Fatima. Never did it enter my mind that they could be turned into nefarious plots of power in the world I lived in. I was molded with stories of God and his angels, saints, son Jesus, apostles and martyrs; there were also fairy tales a plenty, of kings, princes and princes, cute little animals who could talk, of good guys and bad guys, Santa’s and Easter bunnies, of deaths of grandparents and stillborn sisters; always with God in the background to enforce them and punish me for disobeying their morals.
As I got older, the stories became more serious with death dealing consequences. I could go to eternal hell fire for an impure thought. I was born in sin, and brought my mother to death’s door when she birthed me in terrible pain. I was imbued with guilt and shame by black robed priests and nuns. But I could be forgiven in a black box by one of the blackrobes. I took it all on faith and dared not question the system.
The world was dangerous and unpredictable; the system of religion was safe and protective. What I dared not question or fight, I could join and gain the adulation of relatives, so I became a priest and monk. The meta-story of God held me fast in its grip. But within that system, I sought out love in devotions like the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, not too different than the Fatima private revelations.
In my mid-twenties I discovered that the protestant biblical exegetes had a different interpretation of the story that made more sense. My professor saw that I was checking out their journals from the library, which we had to have for accreditation, and warned me of the danger. But the damage was done, and truth began to turn my head another way. The logjam was broken and it continues to break now.
Don’t get me wrong. I had wonderful experiences growing up and in the monastery; priceless really. That mixture of pain and gain continues to this day. The Fatima appearance of Mary is a universal archetype, replicated on countless levels of the seen and unseen worlds. The powers of darkness will always try to corrupt it. Nature’s revelation has passed into theology as a doctrine of Revelation.
For me, Womam is the revelation of salvation. I call her The Lover, who is all of us as lovers. She is the mediatrix of truth, the High Priestess in tarot and the Theotokos, Mother of God, in Orthodoxy. She is the Grandlover who goes by many a name, among them the Virgin of Fatima, Guadalupe, Medjugorje and hundreds more, thousands in other traditions and millions if we include the names of humans like you and me.
What about the final secret? Here’s what I hope happens. Due to public pressure and to prevent hanky-panky, the secret is opened in a public forum by a neutral observer, with TV coverage world wide, next month on April Fools Day. It reads; “I am Mary, the Mother of God. Stop falsifying my messages. I have been saying, and am saying, that Rome needs to be converted, not Russia. You can start by getting rid of the Illuminati Temple inside Saint Peter’s, and replacing it with the humble manger scene of my son’s birth, who was a poor man who fought against Rome. Love, Mary.”
Love, Dennis
“Racial stereotyping is always something to complain about. It is dehumanising, intolerant and ugly. It is racist and profoundly offensive of its target. This is so whenever it is used to mock or label any ethnicity or national or cultural group. Russians are not an exception.
A society that indulges in it, and which tolerates those who do, forfeits its claim to anti-racism and interracial tolerance. The fact that it is treating just one ethnic group – Russians – in this way, denying them the moral and legal protection which it accords others, in no way diminishes its racism and intolerance. It emphasises it.
Red Sparrow is just one more example which makes the case.”
http://russiafeed.com/red-sparrow-yet-another-russophobe-film/
In ye olde UK there are no exceptions-(See weer all crazy now-and ”Russki Death Gas kills all known double agents”,etc.”).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JflMmGk_7yQ
Wow. Besides reading Felix’s book “How to Get Rich”……..which is as scandalous a title for most as a book by the title “How to Get Laid…Daily…Each Time With a New & Better Partner”…..I continue to read Crypto-Currency White Papers.
Once I’m given an assignment, I’m like a dog with a bone. I don’t let it go until it’s ground into oblivion…..or bone meal.
Bitcoin was First Generation.
Then came Etherium, and Vitalik met Putin. ( You’re getting the short version. ) That was Generation Two.
Now, according to the latest White Paper Bone I’m Gnawing Into Digestible Bits comes AION: The Third Generation Blockchain.
“In the future, blockchains will federate data and value in a hub and spoke model similar to the internet. The future of mainstream blockchain adoption will be achieved by the development of a networked, federated blockchain to integrate these separate spokes. That integrated blockchain network is AION.”
Thus it was spoken.
Triple WOW. Or Bow wow wow! Sounds to me like We (the World Wide We of the Astute and Awake and Nearly Clairvoyant..)..ought to keep at least 1 Eye On AION!!!
If we want to be rich. But rich in WHAT???
Consciousness, of course, you money grubbing philistine! Or Pharisee.
Don’t you see??
Felix does, and he’s trying to tell you and me:
“Lastly, in my reasons not to get rich (he means in money) we must come to philosophy, and the benefits of hindsight. If I had my TIME again, knowing what I know today, I would dedicate myself to making just enough to live comfortably (say L30 or L40 million) as quickly as I could —hopefully by the time I was 35 years old. I would then cash out immediately and then retire to write poetry and plant trees.”
Instead, he “blew it” (not his money…..his real currency…his time) and got addicted to the rush……of cash!:
“Making money was, and still is, fun, but at one time it wreaked chaos upon my private life. It blocked me from writing poetry until my early fifties. It consumed my waking hours. It led me into a lifestyle of narcotics, high class whores, drink and consolatory debauchery……..
But like an old punch drunk boxer, I couldn’t quit. I always craved just one more massive pay day. One more appearance under the lights under the lights, with the roar of the crowd and the stink of the sawdust and leather. One more fight. “I can take this young punk……just this once, so I can go out as a winner. So I can retire as The Champ. Than I’ll retire. Just this last one.”
His addiction almost killed him, but my partner, who gave me the book will spoil the details for us….we’ll leave them for later. Felix continues:
“Pathetic. I should have known better. There is no such thing as a permanent champ. After all, I co-wrote the first best selling biography of Mohammed Ali back in 1974. (You’ll find it, republished as Mohammed Ali, the Glory Years on Amazon.com) And there isn’t a single fan of Ali who does not wish he had quit the ring several years before his failing powers made the decision for him.
It’s no excuse, but making money is a drug. Not the money itself. The making of the money. This sounds like so much hoopla, but it’s true, all the same. Nobody believed that exercise could prove addictive until science stepped in and discovered ‘endorphins’ or whatever the damned things are called. And making money, I assure you, is a hell of a lot more of a rush than jogging.”
WHEW! We have just side-stepped something as dangerous as heroin addiction, my friends.
But HOW have we escaped, if we won’t listen to Felix’s Words of Wisdom, Quit Early, and Write Poetry??
Because those cut out to be rich will surely NOT listen to him, in the beginning. Or they’d never GET rich!
Because We Are Too Old!!!
Saved by the Bell!
Of Time.
Because he says You Need the Bullheadedness and Stamina of Youth to Get Rich…..and ends one chapter saying forget it…..unless you can partner up with a young dynamo…but….”Choose Carefully!”.
But (the intimations of “the rush”, like teenage hormones stir in the nether regions of the back of our brains…….Dope Springs Eternal…… ) there may be New Life and Old Dogs Might Learn Rich Tricks……YET!
Why do I peddle this addictive poison?
Because this isn’t the first How to Get Rich book I’ve read!
Felix got rich in Business. The Tech/Computer Electronic Gizmos Publishing Business.
But Rich Dad Poor Dad Guru Robert Kiyosaki says business is just a training guide for investing, read balance sheets, Smell The Profit and Loss and Pick Winners!!
No, not at Santa Anita and Del Mar, you fool!
Investing is Where the Really Big Bucks Are …not living and dying with the ponies, not working 12-16 hours a day getting off on watching the cash flow through the till.
But the truth is you have to be so conscious as to be practically clairvoyant to pick more business winners than losers.
Just look at the faces of most passengers de-planeing from Las Vegas…they picked the Cleaning Business…but instead of owning a piece of the Laundromat they just fed it their last quarters! Or stock bubble investors reading their portfolio reports in 2000 or 2008.
No…….most of those who are …….. the Really Rich…….. Are Already Writing Poetry and Planting Trees!
Even if they are short of dough and not all that comfortable!
More later. How Is It Strategically Relevant??
Use your imagination. Read the code. Or better yet, write it!
Sigh. Another long and challenging day so VCO and I are having a later than usual wine and whine session in the Florida Room. Sophia and Ye’katarina are snoring at our feet, young Aleksandr is eyeing my glass of wine, VCO is growling about officialdom we tangled with, pleasantly I might add, today. We are listening to some good music, Russian folk and patriotic songs, so here’s one of them. Shortly she will read to me part of Never The Last One, her ‘English improvement lesson’ of the day. Enjoy! Kuban Kossak Children’s Choir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJbbYr9Z_w
Auslander
OMG, those cossacks are rich in tradition, and know the steppes to get there!
Now, before I could nap and reflect, sprang up on my lap top a younger group of even richer females, rich in many beautiful forms and expressions of love:
https://youtu.be/ZuiaMQ3pwrI
Poor Old Felix’s Second Poem:
He should ask this of the young ladies!:
What’s It Like Then, Being Rich?
“What’s it like then, being rich?
Knitting gold to warm an itch?”
Very much like being poor,
Wealth is just a key, no more.
“Why not share this magic key
To luxury —and start with me!”
Surely better that you earn it;
Could I trust you to return it?
“How does one become your ilk?
Is it bred in mother’s milk?”
Many paths can lead to riches
Few in sunlight, most in ditches.
“Wherein lies the difference
From us—this odd ambivalence?”
Envy, malice, obligations
Toadying from poor relations.
“Grown far richer than his neighbor
Why would any rich man labour?”
Wealth is salt in wine immersed,
Quaffing but excites the thirst.
“Salt my arse! It’s filthy greed–
How many homes does one man need?”
For some the tricks in trading it;
For others in parading it.
“I’ve seen. But surely comfort pales
Perched on padded Chippendales?”
When affluence holds no surprise,
Wonders come in others’ eyes.
“Aye, the yes of tart and whore!
What might you miss if you were poor?”
Time. The luxury of choices.
First editions, Old Rolls-Royces.
BRAVO!!!!
k
This interview will NEVER be shown in Ukraine! The fluent deputy told the TRUTH about Poroshenko!
[Vladimir Solovyov’s (Владимир Соловьёв) interview with Vasily Volga (Василий Волга). Vasily Volga
– born on March 5, 1968, in Severodonetsk, Lugansk Region, Soviet Union – is an Ukrainian oppositio-
nal politician, leader of the political party “Union of the Left Forces” since 2007; ex-deputy of Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine (2006-2007). He lives now in Kiev.]
English subtitles available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBAAqqh6GY
Hubby and I have just returned from a trip to Vietnam, a country whose history has puzzled me for many years. As Saker’s mission is to stop the Empire’s war on Russia, a visit to a country that has suffered the Empires’ war might interest some readers.
We almost crossed paths with a US mission with an ulterior motive.
US presence in Vietnam
The arrival of an American aircraft carrier in Vietnam indicates Washington’s intention to make the country a part of its new anti-Chinese block, which also includes Japan, Australia and India, an expert on Asia told RT.
USS Carl Vinson and two other US Navy vessels were greeted in the port of Da Nang, marking the largest American military presence in the country since the Vietnam War in 1955-1975.
The five-day visit of the 103,000-ton aircraft carrier is ‘a minor provocation against China…aimed at inciting or strengthening the anti-Chinese moods among the Vietnamese,’ said Yury Tavrovsky, a professor at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
https://www.rt.com/news/420544-us-aircraft-carrier-vietnam-china/
My awakening to Vietnam
For teenagers, such as myself, growing up in Australia in the ‘Swinging Sixties’, life was innocent and carefree. The rest of the world and its troubles were far away from our big island, but that changed in 1962, when Australia entered the Vietnam War. With the introduction of compulsory National Service in 1964, suddenly, every 20 year old boy held his breath. Birth dates inscribed on marbles were spun in a lottery barrel. The prize – two years in the Army, plus three years in the Reserves. The boys were rounded up, plucked off farms and pulled from desks; a rifle shoved in their hands, a few weeks of training and it’s, ‘Off to war, son’.
Prime Minister Harold Holt infamously proclaimed that he was ‘all the way with LBJ’ (President Lyndon Baines Johnson). Australia sent 60,000 troops – which included some 18,000 conscripts.
One particular Army Training Camp was a half hour drive from the hospital where I was a trainee nurse. The nashos (as they were called) in their stiff khaki uniforms, and bristly short back and sides haircuts, swarmed like bees to the dances held in the nurses’ home. The nurses endured stomped on toes, the whiff of Old Spice after shave and sweaty palms but the bond was instant. The nashos looked at us with awe, knowing that our gentle hands had touched death; while their hard hands would soon trigger death.
One scared country lad, with no idea what he was fighting for and couldn’t even find Vietnam on a map, begged me to be his pen pal. A few scrawled notes on soiled paper arrived from him and then they stopped. The killing fields claimed him.
Every night, the TV news served up as entertainment, the horrific bombardment accompanied by breathless descriptions. Followed by titillating commentary about ‘bra- burning’ feminists. Followed by disparaging commentary about the long haired hippies, anti-war protesters and arrest of conscription conscientious objectors.
Too naive to the ‘Empires way’ we were transfixed and appalled. As the bodies bags started returning home, and images of massacres, Agent Orange and ‘Napalm girl’ filled our screens, the outrage and anti-war protests increased.
Finally, the madness ended. Some, 508 Australian troops were killed. The vets returned home. There was no welcome – no fanfare – just shame and accusations of war crimes.
Then came the boat people
Vietnam stayed in our awareness as refugees jumped on any rickety vessel trying to get to a safe haven in Australia. They mostly settled in western Sydney – Cabramatta became ‘little Vietnam’. Gradually the boat people were accepted and Vietnam faded from our memory.
Within the last decade, Vietnam hit our screens again. Travel shows assured us the Vietnam was no longer a toxic dump.
Vietnamese-Australian, celebrity chef and author, Luke Nguyen, enticed us to taste Vietnamese cuisine. He even took Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull out for Banh Mi breakfast in Da Nang.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-celebrity-chef-the-pm-and-his-first-vietnamese-breakfast
Vietnamese-Australian, author, comedian, screen actor, Ahn Do, made us laugh and cry. His memoir, ‘The Happiest Refugee’ received awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gt1pA3F-E
Modern day Vietnam
So a few weeks ago, hubby and I packed our bags, for the latest ‘must go to’ Asian tourist destination – Vietnam. We were curious to learn if they had really kicked the Yanks out.
Flying Vietnam Air, the inflight promotion video showed delightful smiling faces, lush mountains, murky Mekong delta and scenes from the recent ASEAN conference with a beaming Mr Putin (no image of Trump).
First stop, Ho Chi Minh City (many still call it Saigon). Pulsating energy in the crowded marketplaces and high octane organised chaos on the roads. With a 300% tax on cars, motorcycle is the choice of transport. The whole family – mum, dad and two kids all aboard. Amazingly there was no road rage, the bikes flow like a river, around people and other riders going the wrong way, with only a gentle toot toot. We ventured into this chaos in a traditional cyclo, a three wheeled bicycle with a passenger carriage at the front, with the elderly Vietnamese driver using pedal power to navigate. This allowed us to take in the amazing sights, sounds and smells.
Then the history lessons started. A bus ride out of the city to Cu Chi, to see part of the sprawling underground tunnel complex used by the Viet Cong soldiers. Our tour leader (25 year old Vietnamese) gave very confusing messages – he was quick to instil that the war was a ‘Civil War’ between the north and the south, but then as the day progressed he would say the ‘American War’. Perhaps he was testing the group reaction, before stating the truth. (He was our tour guide for the next nine days).
Next stop: The War Remnants Museum.
The signage says it clearly –REQUIEM – The Photo Collection of the US Aggressive War in Vietnam’. It would be easy to label this display as ‘pure propaganda’ (as the Londoner in our group muttered). However, the most disturbing photographs illustrating US atrocities are from US sources, including those of the infamous My Lai Massacre. Three levels of images, tragic beyond words.
The Southern mountains and rivers belong to the Viet people,
It was so clearly written in the Celestial Book,
Those who dare to attack our territory,
Will be immediately and pitilessly annihilated.
Ly Thong Kiet.
Visiting Ho Chi Minh’s tomb and museum. Interesting to see his motor car gifts from the USSR taking pride of place.
Over the next few days we enjoyed great food and more sights, before flying to Da Nang (the American Naval contingent had not yet arrived). Then, time in the countryside and the heritage listed former capital of Hoi An.
From there to Hanoi. Mere words cannot describe the unreal juxtaposition of people living in poverty shanty houses, overshadowed and surrounded by skyscraper richness.
The people are poor in possessions but rich in spirit and culture. In a supposedly communist country, capitalism and Buddhism are very evident. In the country towns, houses that front the street are obliged to run a business – so there is an abundance of small vendors selling everything from shoes, sunglasses, motorcycle helmets, fruit, vegetables, lean-to coffee shops with a hammock (driver reviver centres), and of course, the ubiquitous motor cycle repair shop.
In the cities, people seem to live on the street, as in cooking and socialising. Stepping outside our three-star hotel, on the street you will find: a flower vendor, a woman chopping up meat, a vegies stall, and huge pots simmering pho broth. A further stroll around the block reveals, an egg seller, vats of live fish and prawns, women pounding up meat and prawns for spring roll fillings and everywhere people crouching on low plastic seats, drinking coffee, playing cards – and surprize, surprize – glued to their mobile phones. There is only one MacDonald’s in Hanoi!
Then, on to a magical overnight cruise on Ha Long Bay.
Measures to makes live more bearable
Two initiatives stand out – KOTO and the Production Workshops
We had lunch at the KOTO restaurant in Hanoi, founded by Vietnamese-Australian, Jimmy Pham. Opened in 2007 by the then Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.
http://www.koto.com.au/about-koto
KOTO stands for Know One, Teach One. The purpose is to end the cycle of poverty by empowering disadvantaged youth to forge a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.
KOTO has trained over 700 students in their hospitality training centres in Hanoi and Saigon, with 200 of them currently enrolled.
We also visited the Production Workshop for Disabled People.
http://hongngocvn.com/?Aboutdetail&newsID=13
Founded by war veteran, Mr Doan Xuan Tiep, with the purpose to support disabled people (second generation sufferers from Agent Orange). More than 600 workers have been trained free of charge in traditional skills and trades such as: embroidery, fine caving, lacquer, ceramic, gemstone and jewellery making.
Some might say it’s a ‘tourist trap’ and the prices are high, but the work is all hand crafted and of intricate detail, especially the silk embroidery made by deaf and mute girls.
Overview
Vietnam is an amazing and interesting country. I am rushing out to buy Luke Nguyen’s cooks books to keep living the experience. (Although I still prefer borscht to pho).
So it remains to be seen if Vietnam turns back to the US or turns to Russia and China.
Thank you for the wonderful post card.
Excellent report, Babushka. I don’t know if I was ever in Viet Nam but the country was destroyed end to end in the war. The war also changed US and several other countries forever, good or bad is yet to be determined. It’s good to see that, after 40 years most of the infrastructure damage is repaired but the environmental and psychological damage will take some more generations to be less on the surface. Sad.
Your country was foolish to send in what were raw troops to fight an army that had been fighting for 30 and more years. The results were sadly predictable, just over 500 dead and 3200 wounded, all for naught. US and allies lost that war along with the war in Laos and Campuchia.
Truism: When they are shooting at you when you leave, you lost.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A Deep Look In To Russia, Her Culture And Her Armed Forces
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Thanks T1 and Auslander for your kind feedback.
You are most welcome, my lady. You have to get to work and finish your book! I recognize a teaser when I see one!
Auslander
Great report. I too have been to Vietnam, twice. I loved it so much the first time i had to go again. The people make it. Super friendly and welcoming. The first time we had visited Siem Reap in Cambodia to see Angkor Wat beforehand. That’s beautiful but there were quite a few beggars on the streets, many injured by land mines. In Vietnam we saw none. What we did see were schools for the disabled and the art market Babushka refers to. My only concern on the second trip was our guide. A young man who had attended Catholic school and spoke good English. He was very anti-China; I assumed the priests had instilled this in him. He also spoke about some London School of Economics (i think it was them) campus that was going to be opened in Hanoi. That’ll be trouble, i thought. A neighbour who lived in Vietnam for many years says the Catholic church wields a lot of influence. But if you can, visit Vietnam. It has an absolutely inspiring history and great museums and art galleries. The artistic heritage was a real surprise. Oh and they still love Russia and appreciate the help it gave during the American War. Like Babushka i grew up in Australia and as a young girl was terrified of planes flying overhead because of the news film I’d seen of US bombing in Vietnam. I remember the huge cheer Gough Whitlam got at an election rally in 1972 when he announced he was abolishing conscription. Australia didn’t have conscription in either the first or second world wars but did for Vietnam. A disgrace.
I was here briefly in the morning and read about Babushka’s trip to Vietnam with great interest,
Then I moved on to Cameron Pike’s article regarding Senile Dementia In High Places Canadian.
There I expended my quota of writing minutes for today (A day or two later Dennis….not today…got work to do!) and hope to enrich….in some way, the SE Asia dialogue…..though the closest I ever came to Vietnam was Bangkok, Thailand, where the only thing I remember was dropping my stuffed Koala bear (bought in Sydney) in a very reddish, muddy river.
Mom or Dad grabbed the bear (I was 4…..1954) before the low-lying rivercraft drifted away, but my Koala (which I subsequently clutched much more tightly….) had a lot of reddish stain on it ever since!
/canadas-envy-russia-and-china/#comment-494332
with a comment that draws attention to this Vietnam trip……and, with a link at the end COl Fletcher Prouty…try to (hopefully) enrich the back ground and understanding of what happened in that area of the world…..and how the tragedy that later unfolded in the sixties…..was prepared by the Deep State in 1945+
Babushka,
I also thank you for the vivid picture that you presented of a land that I was med-evacced out of in March of 67′. I was drafted and sent there as a rifleman in the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division that had it’s Base Camp at Cu Chi. The “Tunnels of Cu Chi” were actually located by Australian “Special Forces” before my unit arrived from Hawaii. I was wounded on 12 March 67′ many kilometers SW of the Cu Chi District. I was raised on an Indiana dairy farm and really appreciated the rural beauty of Nam. I had very little interaction with the “normal” Vietnamese who just wanted to be left alone to live their lives. I was not an aggressive personality by nature so when I did have some normal contact, they recognized that and treated me quite well. I got the impression on several occasions that we shared being caught up in a senseless slaughter. We were.
I’ve never returned and probably never will as age has caught up with me. I get the impression though that they have become more “free market” than we are now. That’s REALLY ironic as the “reason” we were told we had to
war against them was to stop communism! I saw death and destruction firsthand on both sides……….their losses could be called genocide. The chemicals war crimes. Most fights were at night. I don’t know for sure whether or not I took anyone’s life. I put mine on the line to save one, but he died as I carried him. At times I’ve felt that the “draft dodgers” had more courage than I.
I hope that the Vietnamese people and government stay neutral and don’t become someone’s “ally” against another. That’s my dream for all.
Theoriginalhmm – the conscription issue was indeed a big deal – politically and socially.
Bro 93 – an interesting memory – you will have to tell us more of your Aussie escapades.
Steve – thank you for sharing your story. I feel your pain at being caught up in that senseless slaughter.
An old book which tells it the way it is (probably nothing new for readers here).
War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler
https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
casus belli
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43303651
https://www.rt.com/usa/420662-sanctions-pyongyang-chemical-agent/
throw in a false flag
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/03/05/white-house-considers-military-action-against-syria/
I didn’t know that intelligence people at the level of a CIA Moscow Station Chief believed their own propaganda meant for the masses:
https://www.rt.com/usa/420653-sipher-russophobic-tweet-backlash/
A number of sites have been cordoned off. ..no signs of any decontamination procedures yet of any kind which is suspicious…or time is available to ” plant” stuff……
Nerve agent confirmed…. by government Porton Down chemical bio research centre “just down the road” that is handy isn’t it…….just when additional claims of chlorine attacks by Assad are still continuing too but not seemingly being accepted too much…however that could change…….oh boy…….
Have any of you heard of Kim Jong Un’s offer to disable his nuclear weapons, should he gain a “guarantee” from the West that he would not be attacked? Noticed this on MSM today, sounds very foolish on Kim’s behalf and if true, would definitely portend disaster for N.Korea. Gaddafi anyone?
The US is paying 10,000 jihadis in Syria a monthly salary…perhaps if the many unemployed back home knew about this they might object to it?
http://www.stalkerzone.org/paid-opposition-10000-militants-in-syria-receive-monthly-wages-from-the-pentagon/
Surely that gives the right for Syria to sue for war crimes and terminate all these contract holders……
Big loss for Russia in Syria, if this is true:
https://russia-insider.com/en/huge-blow-russia-transport-plane-crashes-syria-all-39-onboard-dead-possibly-20-were-experienced
Russian Army in Damascus?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article199874.html
Thierry Meyssan: a highly credible an accurate source!
Anyway: has anybody any further info or confirmation on this?
Was there not footage of Russian troops when UN convoy travelling through or there…..tv reporters mentioned them maybe they got it right or wrong…..
PressTV (Iranian) has on site coverage of the battle for East Ghouta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_MszsZYgXI
The brightest week for all of us which is early on the northern hemisphere.
(The southern one is called to raise her own southern astrologers.)
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/03/brightest-week-in-mars-backpack-for-man.html
Now Mars, Venus, Mercury, Uranus = 6 signs, are in the Dispisition of Jupiter in
Scorpio who is loyal to Saturn in Capricorn.
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
“Wisdom od the ancestors – wisdom of the people”
This week in the love calendar is the eleventh week of the solar year, which occurs in the suit of time. The theme is “Teen”, the fourth developmental stage after womb, baby and child; the polarities of the tarot icons are “Trust” and “Trussed”, with the cards the Eight of Swords, showing a trussed up and blindfolded teen age girl/woman surrounded by eight swords, and the Page of Swords, a teen age woman brandishing a sword like a giant. Beatrice-like, Joy takes us like Dante through a house of consciousness to our home in Paradise. The etymology of “teen” is “misery,” a sad fact for many of our teens in this class society of programmed misery for the masses by the masters.
The stream of consciousness poem and a shorter 21 line poem follow:
“I step on the stage of a different age
And pay the going wage to turn the growing Page [of swords]
I add another floor to the consciousness building
And pursue experiencing more fulfilling
The process is easy if the stage has been set
If the baby’s been nursed and child needs met
But if the womb was a tomb
And the nurse was a curse
And the child magic was tragic
The teen age is worse
In the trip of life, it’s sight’s peak or bust
I’ll be stripped in the strive without a teen-ager’s trust
Trust in myself on this stage is a must
A dried twig will be swept out with the rust and the dust
Now I’m older and I grow much bolder
I go back in time to find the tongue tied teen
Who lost her mind when her heart got colder and her culture sold her
It’s not a pretty picture to be a broken fixture
When you can’t get out and you can’t get in
You’re stuck in the middle with no end in sight
You don’t know what’s wrong and it doesn’t feel right
If I don’t have trust, I build up a crust
If I don’t have the balls, I build up walls
If I cut my cord, I’m angry or bored
If I can’t get altitude, I settle for attitude
I’ve been there before where I couldn’t find the door
So I built me a house and married a spouse
On the teen age stage it’s love life or bust
I’m looking for the Page where I can make love on trust
I’ve got the fake game down to a tee
It’s the great love game remains a mystery
I’m going to get back on track and be right on time
To get on line with the sacred circle and make her mine
I’ll shake off my truss and and make love with trust
Romeo and Juliet lived in a by-gone age
When love and trust were all the rage
Now our story’s less gory and so is the glory
I’ll take my chances and make my advances with the great romances
Teen in me, you are free
Trust no other but your lover
The one in two who is you
Four of time, teen of mine
You can shine
Get a grip, let it rip
Baby, face it, you can ace it”
———————-
“Critical, testing
Seldom resting
Keep on going
Tight and growing
Spice your style
With a smile
Yearning, burning
Ever turning
Keep on gunning
Loose and running
You can do it
You will prove it
Do your thing
Have your fling
It will bring
You the dream
That you’ve seen
Get a grip
Let it rip
Baby, face it
You can ace it”
Love, Dennis
Armchair Cafe Theology Part 10
Usury is one of the greatest evils ever inflicted upon mankind, along with the other violations of the ten commandments of love, introduced by the Love Government and Army. I’m going to investigate usury as part of my own education and edification, and publish it here in case anyone else finds it useful for theirs; in addition to the overall project of the vineyard in stopping war in general and the war against Russia in particular.
I will address usury from many different perspectives, and divide this comment into separate parts. Under the onslaught of the patriarchal empire, the term usury has fallen into disuse; and I doubt whether any of the mainstream academics, philosophers or theologians have any appreciation for the destruction and degradation that usury is having on our culture. What was once judged a great evil is now considered a necessary virtue.
The word usury breaks down into the parts “use” and “you”, in other words “use you”. The “ry” is a modifier, as in bakery or mastery. Truly, usury uses you and me for its evil purposes. Usury used to be condemned by Orthodoxy, which is now largely silent about it. Orthodoxy should be proclaiming against it in every one of its sermons and official declarations. The fact is the mainstream churches probably use usury itself to survive.
Thomas Aquinas said that usury is a sin because only God can make something out of nothing. The church fathers said much the same. Usury uses money to make money be loaning out money at interest. Usury does not produce anything of real value; hence, it is useless to all those except the ones who profit by stealing money they did not work for in any real sense. Of course this is vociferously denied by those who falsely claim what they are doing is work, and the highest work at that. Lies upon lies.
In order to understand the lie of usury, we have to start with the root idea of evil; that master concept and overall explanatory term, without which we fall into sophisms and platitudes, and other ways to deny the truth of usury. We need to get to the real cause of evil and its historical occurrence and development. Unless it’s historically verifiable, it becomes just another misdirection and distraction.
That specific and technical cause of evil in the case of our species is “Patriarchy.” Patriarchy means “rule by fathers”, who are necessarily men. Such rule is a rebellion against “governance by womem.” Rule is based on violence and force; governance is rooted in cooperation without violence, a given when nature oriented womem are not violated and forced to act differently by patriarchal men.
The “fall of man” was a rejection of womam and womamly values by violence of men. If we use the theological term “sin,” this was the original sin, which destroyed the “order of love” for the “new world order of power and force.” Patriarchy overthrew “Loverarchy,” patriarchal men chose to be killers rather than lovers. The first murder was that of jealous thought, memorialized by the story of Cain’s jealousy of Able, the first of God’s Chosen People.
That class system, or classification of Chosen and Unchosen, is the cause of evil, technically known as patriarchy, or rule by men-fathers over womem-lovers. Our original condition was that of lovers, living together in small communities. Non-patriarchal men defended and enhanced the lives of womem and their children. The Patrix (patriarchy) first attacked womem, and when men true to their nature, rose up to defend womem and children, the patrix also attacked men who would not go along with their evil plan.
If we can read between the lines of the patrix lies, the ancient texts clearly portray through stories and myths the truth of what happened, and therefore of the origin of evil, which over time would result in a progeny of evils, including usury. We can also see evil for what it is in the world today. However, that ability to see truth is contingent on our extricating ourselves from evil, or we are caught in it, and dnot able to see that we are.
In my own patrix history, I’ve been blind as a bat, and couldn’t see the broadside of the evil barn either. My 78 year old body painfully attests to that. By the grace of love, I’m still here, and due to my practicing the ten commandments of love, the scales are gradually dissolving from my mental eyes. I’ve also done my preliminary homework over many years; for example, reading the abundant literature on patriarchy.
Usury is rampant today. The business sections of TV, internet and newspapers are chuck full of stocks and bond stats, which is nothing but the scores in a gambling casino. The moralists of old condemned gambling right along with usury as devilish addictions. That’s why the Poet can sing: “This world is condemned, all the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem.” Truth is to no avail for addicts of cheap and easy money.
The argument is sold to young people that they should make as much money as they can when they’re strong and aggressive, and then retire early and “eat, drink and be merry,” or plant trees and vineyards. I don’t think justice can be mocked in this way. Such hypocritical behavior ruins the life of the planet and the lives of untold millions by forcing corporations to pillage the earth and ravage the lives of persons, or their ceo’s can be sued and jailed by their shareholders. Greed on steroids.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The Love Government shows an alternative path that is fulfilling and happy for all concerned, and it can be even joyful when engaged 100%–all the way is a breeze but 99% is a bitch. From one to the other we can easily switch. // To be continued.
Love, Dennis
WATCH: US F-22 Pilots Shoot the Breeze While Filling Up Midair
https://sputniknews.com/world/201803081062330944-f-22-pilots-refueling-riddles/
“Don’t believe Hollywood: fighter pilots are humans too and their conversations sound like everyone else’s.”
Most homicidal psychopaths carry on very well in regular conversation. The turds know full well the crimes they glorify and excuse themselves as they commit them. I’ve dealt with pindo military scum for several decades now, and while a minority few are human beings, most are bottom rung scum, looking for self enrichment at everyone else’s expense, IE: the criminal element decent societies put to the run, sword or rope.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Aiding Zionist Group’s Push to Oust McMaster
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201803081062332621-billionaire-adelson-zionist-oust-mcmaster/
“General McMaster should not maintain a position where he can continue to undermine President Trump’s policies on Iran, Israel and the fight against ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ — a term that General McMaster believes should not even be used,” the Zionist Organization of America said in a statement last fall.”
Gee, I thought mcmaster’s bum belonged to zionazi, inc. 100%. Oh my! ;-D
Look at it this way. The various zionazi quislings are josling for position. IE: goat buggering factions are competing with the sheep buggering factions. Neither consists of a human element.
I like a good laugh once in a while. Very refreshing. If the “buggering” was accompanied by a graphic illustration I’m afraid it would have been deleted. Sometimes, however, graphic illustrations are not necessary, as in this one.
Priceless.
Regards
Kent
The world is waking up to what’s really going on. The evil empire, the empire of chaos (the USA), has a fictitious narrative that’s is almost a direct 180 degree opposite version of reality. Many authors are educating their readers about the truth behind what the US is doing. Yet many of these authors are still using many terms that the empire uses. For example, they use the term “war” to describe US military activities in the ME and NA. To me, war is when two armies fight each other. When an army (or air force) fights unarmed civilians, to me that is not war. When a military unit trains crazy people how to use advanced weaponry to murder civilians, that is not war. I think that using the term “war” to describe dropping bombs on hospitals, schools, mosques, and apartment buildings with the intention of murdering the civilians inside those places gives those acts some semblance of legitimacy. Oh, it’s “war”, the US Americans say. Uh, no, it’s not war. It’s murder, it criminal activity, it’s terrorism, it’s barbarism, it’s evil, it’s foul, it’s satanic. But it’s not war.
For example, the Syria campaign of terror started in March 2011 by the USA with their terror cohorts in KSA, Quatar, and Israel (who did I leave out?), is not a civil war, which everyone and his uncle calls it. A civil war is started by people who live in the country. This terror campaign was started by the US terror cabal, I guess it would be called the AngloZionist empire. Why would anyone want to legitimize it by calling it what the Uncle Satan calls it? Uncle Satan is a liar. Nobody should use any words that come out of his mouth.
It’s just annoying to spoil an otherwise great article by using empire terms. Sorry, I’ve lost the article that set me off, but it’s common. I’m sure everyone has noticed it. I mean, everyone who’s awake and knows lies from truth.
Found this fascinating article on the site of Perseus publishing, which seems to be an anthroposophical publisher. The article’s main topic is an outline of the pre-planning of the current war times by the British establishment (or at least one faction of them)… as outlined in an Economist article from 1992.
http://www.perseus.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Disastrous-21st-Century.pdf
“…at the very same time that the Single European Market 1992 pro ject was due to begin (1st Jan. 1993) an article appeared in The Economist magazine of London (double issue 26.12.1992 – 8.1.1993) which gave a stark indication of how the Ahrimanic forces would seek to block what Steiner had said is so necessary for the future. The article, written in 1992 on the very verge of the age of the World Wide Web, outlined a conflict that would last for most of the first half of the 20th century; it would begin with an Islamic group seeking a Caliphate and along the way it would involve the destruction of Russia as we know it. The anonymous, three-page article was quite specific as to the year in which the strategy would begin – 2011!
The article was written in the form of an extract from an imaginary history of the world written in the year 2992, and is titled: “Looking Back from 2992 – A World History, Chapter 13: The disastrous 21st century”. It is accompanied by three illustrations in mock mediaeval style. This is a semiotic reference to the well-known book by the American historian, the late Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror – The Calamitous 14th Century. Tuchman’s book dramatically portrayed the real disasters of Europe’s “puberty crisis” in the 14th century, which was in many respects truly cataclysmic. The Economist article’s subtitle implies that the 21st century will be a similar century of calamity.”
Continues to a detailed outline…
The author of the article, Terry Boardman, has a website where he publishes similar delving explorations of surface world and perhaps hidden world connections between things…. his most recent few articles focus on the Cecil family. I have read a few, see a list of his most recent articles here:
http://threeman.org/?page_id=18
I am not sure what to make of the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner. If one sets aside the framing perspective of anthroposophy, I think the article contents stand as valuable insights. The framing itself is also interesting and I need to explore a bit more to have a view on it.
Thank you very much for these links. Great value.
Regards
Kent
Steiner’s Magnum Opus of Western Christian mysticism is Gospel According to St. John
https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=75
Thanks Terranem.
Here is an audio recording of Steiner’s book “The Gospel of St. John and its relation to the other Gospels” as read by Dale Brunsvold:
http://rudolfsteineraudio.com/gospstjohninrelation/gosprelation.html
There are many more of Steiner’s works recorded in audio by Mr Brunsvold on the site. Here’s the home page: http://rudolfsteineraudio.com/
@SusieQ
I have been pondering about the concept of truth having a frame, whether philosophy could be the picture and the frame, or truth remain unframed, and what about lies and the dissemination of the lie, what kind of a frame it might require. I think great ideals, beauty and goodness could be frameless !
The closest I came to an imagery for this is contained in these famous lines of William Blake’s poem:
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
I had a strange question:
Why are there no white helmets in Palestine? The Brits & US didn’t organize them. Sure, but who says you need them to be a white helmet? Just make some patches, put on some white helmets and start filming. Don’t even need to act due to the daily atrocities.
“Why are there no white helmets in Palestine?”
The israelis don’t have the access.
Russian Embassy in US Thinks Something ‘Broke’ in State Dept Amid Fake News Flow
https://sputniknews.com/us/201803081062336342-russia-embassy-us-fake-news/
“The Russian Embassy in the United States suggested on Thursday that something might have gone wrong in the US State Department, commenting on State Department’s spokeswoman Heather Nauert’s massive anti-Russian campaign on Twitter.
“In the last couple of days, something seems to have broken in [Nauert’s] department. We hear a stream of ‘fake news’ – about Russia’s atrocities against the peaceful population of East Ghouta, about Poroshenko’s gas ‘heroism’, and sincere joy over the Oscar award to the story about the inventor of an alcohol doping-cocktail. And earlier, as we have noted — disinformation about possible meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his US counterpart Rex Tillerson,” the embassy said in a statement on its Facebook page.”
The soulless harpy nauert is just expressing her boss’s (that’s trump, not tillerson, though he probably thinks the same way) views on Russia a little more honestly. Interesting how how the u.s. state dept consistently picks incredibly repulsive “heathers”* to represent themselves to the public. Look at the last few of the critters going back through the obama regime. I don’t remember the spokescritters from the earlier regime’s, but they probably used whiny queens.
*Heather’s is a film from around 30 years ago. If you have seen it, you’ll understand what I meant. If not, it’s worth a couple of hours to check it out.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0097493/
US driven by neo-imperialist ambitions in interfering in other countries’ affairs – Lavrov
https://www.rt.com/news/420774-lavrov-neo-imperialist-us-interfering/
“Rex Tillerson’s criticism of China’s policy in Africa is not exactly appropriate, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He also slammed the US for interfering in other countries’ affairs, pursuing neo-imperialist ambitions.
“I didn’t know that [US Secretary of State] Rex Tillerson is a specialist in Chinese-American relations,” Lavrov said. He added that “it’s not exactly appropriate” for Tillerson to speak about Africa’s relations with other countries, while a guest, especially in such “a negative way.”
Earlier on Thursday, Tillerson urged African countries to carefully weigh the benefits of Chinese loans at a news conference in the Ethiopian capital during his first diplomatic trip to the continent.”
I think the very patient Lavrov has grown tired of the course antics of the buggery club known as the u.s. state department. With the exception of the trump cheerleaders on israel’s pindo “conservative talk radio”, I think most everyone has.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5475325/Russia-cripple-UK-intelligence-chief-warns.html
because we assume they can…and wish too ….we assume it will be them…we will assume an assumption of an intention of some kind of war to totally paralyse the country….our assumptions means that we will respond to such an assumed declaration of war in a warlike manner…….sighs….WMD’s all over again…..another guy says aussie flu or another in next few years will mutate go pandemic killing 33 millions… I wonder which would be less painful…..
Paul Craig Roberts in his usual voice : Also in the future, as the Federal government takes on the State of California, events should prove interesting–especially as the ex-Jesuit Gov. J. Brown tries to push back. It seems as if the Democrats want to dump Fenstein for someone younger ( reasonable) and more crazy-left ( unreasonable). If they do not care about power in Washington, DC or have plans to alter it, then cutting off someone with seniority ( who did stand up to the CIA ) makes sense.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48906.htm ( list of the usual suspects)
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/07/stalinist-purge-america/ ( an either/or scenario)
(sorry to use this source : CIA-CNN has the righteous indignation of the Grand Inquisitor of the State of California down pat:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/07/politics/jerry-brown-fires-back-jeff-sessions-donald-trump-mueller/index.html
Meanwhile, In Gov Brown’s California, being poor and homeless is a crime:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/arrests-crimes-against-homeless-in-los-angeles-on-the-rise-report-rt-us-news/
Back in the 70’s feinstein was an opportunistic rightwinger, since then she has degenerated further to the right and is indistinguishable from the neocon plague. It was her, and the majority of politicians in the dem party, that lead me to realise that there was no real difference between them and the rep politicians. Both being hopelessly fascist and corrupt.
vot tak, it is the same in all nations – the fix is in, and the deep state pawns pretend to be left or right and deny an opening for any real opposition or change to the status quo. Democracy is just a sop to make us feel like we have a say in things.
Yes anon, we should all bury our heads in the sand, arse up, of course, and accept what the zio-madter race ordains…
Happy Woman’s Day for all ladies here in this Blog
We wish you all the best, from ioan and his dog !
“And that, of course, leads me to wonder if the whole sanctions regime against Russia has, at its core, the whole GMO issue. After all, that means Russian agricultural goods cannot be imported, things like, oh, natural heirloom seeds and healthy grains and so on. That would, after all, represent a severe threat to the “market” that is all but dominated by the likes of I.G. Farbensanto in the west.”
Source:
https://gizadeathstar.com/2018/03/gmo-geopolitics-russian-agriculture-tops-arms-trade-major-export/
Ukraine Begins Seizing Gazprom Property Citing Stockholm Court Decision
Accoriding to Swedish court, Ukraine does not have to pay the contractual penalty fees, but Gazprom has to pay Kiev $4.5 billion for the transit of gas that never happened, because Ukraine is in a poor economic situation.
Russia needs to find another court, one with fair and honest judges.
Since Gazprom has shut down gas transit through orcland, from what I understand, the orcs stealing (israeli style, their owners) the equipment of Gazprom used to transit gas through orcland benefits these low life how? Oh, foolish me, the sods and their Jew mafia “business partners” will sell it for scrap, under the table, naturally.
Just a brief visit from old LZ – who’s dropping by to point out that “intelnews” is bogus…and that this is obvious due to gross lies… lies that anybody can show with ease…
Like the claims about vx and sarin in this: https://intelnews.org/2018/03/08/01-2283/
Everyone must know this before it is deleted. Why is the US government always hiding it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-lCJp9v1E
But what is it?
Looks like yet another sad, sad truth in the annals of the united mistakes of america.
Love is good and usury (unproductive trickery, fraud, and enslavement) is bad. Ergo END the FED, if you are an American.
Regardless of how that action affects your pension in the short term, you should be for it?
Ah, but do you know HOW to get from “here to there”?
Or just pontificate?
Real wealth, honorably produced is good as long as the material result is not admired more than the spirit…the ideas, the creativity, the honest sweat that mutiplied it and the forebears who built the roads, the power plants, the training centers etc are not forgotten for their indispensable role.
Many of the leading lights of the Internet of Money espouse resistance to the Fed and Central Banks in general. Actually most of them do. Are they frauds?
Or do some of them have actual workable steps that could weaken or even break the power of private central banking?
These questions ought to be investigated and answered, rather than just glossed over with a feeling of moral superiority that is self-satisfying, but is devoid of intelligible steps.
The steps to get from here to there need to be outlined on both the macro (world and national ) and the micro (individuals and family units, and smaller communities) scales.
One can say, “Oh I don’t know what steps would work and which would not , but I do know the loving feeling that is needed.”
That’s OK…but limited to the Spirit…..Mind (thought, concretely applied) and Body (Action, work physically done) unengaged, productive work required to sustain present and future generations……unrealized.
SO, when Mind and Body are engaged and the Spirit is right to boot…it is NOT a good thing to complain, confuse and obstruct, is it???
It is just misplaced Pride.
“Ah, but do you know HOW to get from “here to there”?
Or just pontificate?”
funny, ‘pontificate’ s meaning is: building bridges
sorry, exactly I mean: ‘pontifex’ = ‘builder of bridges’
crucial: what kind of bridges?
Bro saying: bridges between ego and the way from here to there
in a way the ultimate statement to me seems to be this:
any ‘beyond the little ego’ has to start in the ego
with the miracle same time.
while only then: ‘good riddance’ to poor ego in
the given miracle one has to marvel like a child
instead of ‘teaching’ like an old …
Glory to Mercury and Venus, newly cleaned of demons
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2018/03/brightest-week-in-mars-backpack-for-man.html
The steps to get from here to there need to be outlined on both the macro (world and national ) and the micro (individuals and family units, and smaller communities) scales.
My take is, to view them outlined from the beginning of universe, at least creatively complexed by Suns,
in each center of 12 directions,
always ready to be rediscovered by childlike marveling adults.
Bro, you two desert-coyotes, the Irish and your South State kind of, good to have you with us others in the vineyard, due to create some vine for the planet.
Pentagon’s Secret Next-Gen Bomber Design Faces ‘Hiccups’, US Lawmaker Says
https://sputniknews.com/military/201803091062358031-pentagon-bomber-design-hiccups-us/
Given the development time frame and the designation, I’m guessing the b-21 is an upgraded b-2 rather than a new design. Looking to cost at least $2 bill a pop, with the usual cost over run scam, this should satisfy the zionazi, inc. mic division.
During a Wednesday meeting with members of Congress, one US military leader told lawmakers that he was “disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent unveiling of a powerful nuclear weapon, adding that the Russian leader will likely use it to “further intimidate” the US and its NATO allies, per RT.
“I think the statements made by Russian president Putin, while not surprising, were nonetheless disappointing. While we have been aware of the development of Russia’s capabilities and watching with concern some of the development that has occurred in terms of Russia’s doctrine and exercise program, it is nonetheless disappointing to see that the president of the Russian Federation chose to feature these capabilities in a way that he did,” John Rood, under secretary of defense policy, told the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, during the discussion.
Any comments about the alleged Russian attack on a former double agent in Salisbury UK?
Apart from previous posts and other websites… the only reasonable thing that seems to be happening and that sky news is reasonably reporting are strong indications that rhe original contact with suspected vx chemical happened at the house…hence the Detective Sargant as a ” first responder”became affected …rather than everything happening “Georgy Markov style”…..
What a Wonderful Underwater World!
Dakuwaqa’s (Shark God’s) Garden – Footage from Fiji & Tonga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbHKAWIk3I
Human Being’s Garbage – Footage from Bali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWgfOND2y68
here is a really important petition to sign – Lithuanian former judge sought political asylum in US – being sent back – her niece was the victim of pedophilia to high officials in corrupt Lithuania –
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-murdered-home-raided-after-they-exposed-high-level-government-pedophiles/