2018/04/27 09:00:01
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Those who have the highest righteousness do not consider themselves righteous; therefore are they righteous. Those of lesser righteousness never forget that they are righteous; this is why they are truly not righteous. Those who have the highest righteousness act so without thinking of righteousness. the men of lesser righteousness are consciously righteous. Those who have supreme humanity act rightly without thinking of humanity.Those who weigh human rights practice them self-consciously. Those who follow formalism practice it, and the people do not respond; then they use force to make formalism effective. This is why men become self-consciously righteous after they have lost the way.
–The Tao Te Ching
Different traditions have different parts of the truth. Above is something that applies to our political world.
I am started reading the Tao by after reading the biography of Fr. Rose–highly recommended– and I read about Fr. Rose because of his book on Genesis– also highly recommended.
” Different traditions have different parts of the truth.” – absolutely, chimmy. It is ridiculous to claim for certain culture with her traditions that they have the Truth appointed to them – and that must be recognized by everybody else – but that small tricky human tongue produces such marvels, even the angels don’t dare to fart … because of such preposterous words. They’d better do something, before they get too ballooned…
Tao Te Ching
Chimmy, grab a beer, find yourself a comfortable place, relax and have a listen.
Alan Watts – Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXF2WhbaOhE
You won’t regret the hour spent.
Thank you, useful.
as Jesus put it, ‘ let not thy right hand know what thy left hand giveth.. ‘
Russian Navy Hits and Sinks a Decommissioned Frigate in Syria Live Fire Drills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYxQ58e8XM
I think the text below the video can give an impression that sinking of a frigate happened before April 14th attack on Syria. Even if drills of Russian navy started before the attack, sinking of a frigate occurred on April 15th.
@ irrelevant
you have links you asked for in a previous cafe
Not your average household cleaner: Russian town plans new ‘Novichok’ brand of products
https://www.rt.com/politics/425312-russian-town-novichok-patent/
(“keep rubbing it in”)
At least they have a sense of humor, that’s very healthy !
The inventor guy hit by a car is apparently doing okay sone serious bruising and his mate who was driving has said sorry…..visited him in hospital I think the report said….end of conspiracy theories.
And here I thought Novichok was a condiment -time for some lunch, would you be so kind as to pass the Novichok? Thanks!
Russian farmer unveils Novichok inspired cooking oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpK5uSgKTo
Looks as though you can soon do that. The people of the town recently published a “thankyou” to the UK for the free publicity, and have gone online with a range of “Novichok” products, including household cleaners.
Love that sense of humour and asymmetric fight back. Go Team Russia !! :-)
UN estimates indicate that Kiribati could disappear in just 30 or 40 years. That’s because the average elevation is less than two meters above sea level. And some of the knock-on effects of climate change have made the situation more difficult. Kiribati can hardly be surpassed in terms of charm and natural beauty. There are 33 atolls and one reef island – spread out over an area of 3.5 million square kilometers. All have white, sandy beaches and blue lagoons. Kiribati is the world’s largest state that consists exclusively of atoll …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0j6kr4ZJ0
Why is having a house so difficult a problem …
Homeless in Hawaii Documentary 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdT-_co19U
Heads up for May, folks. Peter Lavelle predicts Ukraine will be used by FUKUS to “spoil” the World Cup attendance.
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/425280-trump-administration-foreign-policy/
It will be mean and nasty whatever is decided but May that fizzle as badly as the missile strikes on Syria…. And so be it!!
My guess is that football fans with money enough to go won’t care.
Did you notice how quickly BoJoke backed off of calls to boycott the world cup? The English football coach quickly made a statement that said he didn’t care what BoJoke thought. And, apparently the English football public wasn’t in favor either, as within a few days BoJoke backed off on the issue. The only good thing to come up with it is that Russia won’t have to host Mayday or BoJoke or any whining, complaining British Royals as they’ve announced that their ‘boycott’ is only applying to them.
Entertainment is today’s Opiate of the Masses. Sports is one flavor of this opiate. Good luck trying to tell an adicted population to give up their favorite opiate for politics that doesn’t mean anything to them and doesn’t do anything for them.
Besides, tickets are already sold. And most who bought tickets probably paid for travel at the same time. Good luck getting money back from an airline if you want to cancel a trip. The addicted have already paid for this fix, and won’t just walk away from their money or the high they are anticipating.
More likely than not, it will be a two-some in May: Ukraine and Syria/ Iran
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/04/26/israeli-war-with-iran-increasingly-likely-mattis-warns/
RUSAL chief Oleg Deripaska has resigned after US demands and sanctions
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-27/deripaska-agrees-resign-rusal-will-sell-controlling-stake
Who is next?
Notice he’s not giving up his money. He intends to be bought out. Perhaps he’s been wise and decided that as a very wealthy man he can now just enjoy life and his family. Or he can of course re-invest some of these funds in an internal Russia business, or perhaps in a business that sells to China.
The west is trying to build a new Propaganda Curtain across the world built largely with bull-droppings. The west deludes itself that life will be awful for the people on the correct side of that Curtain who can now only interact with and sell to Russians and a billion plus Chinese.
It remains to be seen – but not for long – who the next one will be.
Deripaska has just told America, the Fascist Empire, that it rules the world including Russian business. It gave him orders to leave, and he folded. So now, America will pick another one, just by way of showing it can, quite apart from whether it does any good to anyone, or has any other point.
When the English were making the so-called British Empire, far flung diplomats and serving officers knew one thing. They could never “give in” to the threats, demands, or violence enacted against them, because no matter how they felt, it meant that if they did, then they were making life impossible for the other representatives of Empire.
Whatever one thinks of Empire – and I hold no brief for any of them, at all – the principle of knowing that once you’ve given in, you’ve allowed a crack in the damn wall, and now life is going to get much harder for everyone else – does apply in these situations. What’s to stop them now demanding that a huge sanction will stay in place unless Lavrov, Shoigu, resign?. They are trying to isolate Putin along the lines laid down by Saul Alinsky “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”.
Whether this writer is correct nor not that it feeds into a support for Putin – and I doubt it does – it means the Empire is now encouraged to go for someone really close to him and necessary to him.
If the Kremlin has any say in this at all, I sincerely hope it gets blocked – for the sake of Russia and the rest of the world.
Isabella
It’s a zerohedge article. It claims deripaska is close associate of Putin. This same deripaska whom Putin publicly humiliated (“give me back my pen”)?
I’d wait for a more credible source on this.
ZeroHedge was quoting from a release by RusAL, vot tak. They confirmed it. It’s also been confirmed on RT. So I think I would take it.
As to Deripaska – I wouldn’t put too much weight on the “come here and sign this” episode. Putin was furious, and they all knew he had good reason. I’ve seen Deripaska interviewed much later about this. He said, “we got into a confused state and couldn’t move. We couldn’t decide what we had to do. The thing about him [Putin] is that he knows it all stops with him; he has to be the last word, and take the final responsibility, and he can do that”.
He has said other complimentary things in other interviews too – can’t remember them in toto; he did make a comment i found interesting, that “Putin is trying to build capitalism without capitalists” Which, if true, would be brilliant.
Getting back to Deripaska – I think we have to accept it’s true.
“Putin is trying to build capitalism without capitalists”
snake talk by the unknown Putin.
http://anonhq.com/checkmate-central-bank-russia/
“Putin is under pressure from a lot of sides: geopolitically, economically and militarily. This is why we should watch the Central Bank of Russia closely. Nationalizing it would give us the first signals that things have changed. Changing the ownership from Private to State ownership could indicate Putin’s need to raise money for other projects, not approved of by the West. This would show the West that the Rothschild stronghold (over the bank and therefore Russia) would no longer be tolerated.”
https://www.vox.com/2017/7/18/15983910/donald-trump-russia-putin-fbi-collusion-fusion-gps
“To understand the roots of the collusion, set aside Putin and follow the money.”
That’s what Seva Gunitsky, a politics professor at the University of Toronto and the author of Aftershocks, told me in a September interview. I reached out to Gunitsky after he posted a short but incisive thread on Twitter about the financial roots of the Trump-Russia collusion case.
Gunitsky, who was raised in Russia, has followed the evolving relationship between Donald Trump and Russia for more than a decade. He says the prevailing narrative about Putin interfering in the American election in order to undermine democracy is wildly overstated.
Putin is happy to sow confusion and distrust in America’s system, of course, but to assume that’s the basis of this operation is to overlook a much simpler motive: money.
The financial connections between Trump and various Russian banks and oligarchs (business elites with ties to the Kremlin) stretch back decades, which is likely a big reason why Trump won’t release his tax returns. Trump’s election, Gunitsky contends, presented Russian oligarchs with an opportunity to recoup losses and leverage Trump’s debts for political gain.
I asked Gunitsky to lay it out for me as clearly as possible, and to explain the financial dealings between Trump and his Russian business partners.
Here’s what he told me.
Sean Illing
This collusion story gets more convoluted by the day. But you seem to think it’s pretty straightforward.
Seva Gunitsky
I think it’s justifiable for you to say that it seems impossibly convoluted, but I would say it’s still much simpler than this idea that there’s a global conspiracy designed to bring down democracy. I’m not saying the political dimension is unimportant — surely it is. But if we’re talking about the roots of the collusion, we have to look at where Trump’s links with Russia begin. And it begins with money. [These roots] don’t start with the election; they start with money, and namely Russian oligarch money.
Sean Illing
So walk me through the trail. Where does the money lead?
Seva Gunitsky
Again, this doesn’t start with the election; it starts with Russian oligarch money pouring into Trump’s real estate and casino businesses. Many of them Trump has been working with for years, well before he developed any serious political ambitions. And we’re not talking about small change here; we’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Possibly even enough to keep Trump out of another bankruptcy.
Sean Illing
And we know this how, exactly?
Seva Gunitsky
We know because they’ve told us. We can talk about specific cases in a minute, but Donald Trump Jr. has already admitted the importance of Russian money to their business ventures. He said publicly in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” It doesn’t get much clearer than that.
Sean Illing
And this is why you think Western media has overplayed the centrality of Putin in all of this? We have this notion of Putin as a kind of master strategist playing 10-dimensional chess with Trump. I think it’s obvious that once Putin saw an opportunity he took it, but these financial ties go back a long way, long before the 2016 election.
Seva Gunitsky
I think that’s right. Putin is often put up as this sort of central antagonist, but the Russian government is not this shadowy monolith. It’s sometimes portrayed this way in the West, but in reality the Russian government is messy and disorganized and ad hoc.
It’s possible that Putin was not even fully aware of efforts to court Trump up until last year, or a couple years ago. Putin, we often forget, has supporters to keep happy as well, people who desperately want to open up those channels of Russian finance.
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya posing during an interview in Moscow. Getty Images
Sean Illing
We know there are deep links between Russian money and Trump, but let’s talk about how the interests intertwine. What did you make of the recent revelations about Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya?
Seva Gunitsky
So we have this infamous Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. last year and apparently several other people, including a former Soviet counterintelligence officer. I think the tough question critics have been asking is where is the quid pro quo in that? The Magnitsky Act, ostensibly the purpose of the meeting, isn’t going anywhere, so people are concluding that there wasn’t a quid pro quo here. But we should be talking a lot more about the Prevezon case.
Sean Illing
Explain what that is and why it matters.
Seva Gunitsky
So Prevezon is a holding company with links to Russian elites that has been accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through New York City real estate. It’s also part of Hermitage Capital, an investment fund that was being investigated by Magnitsky (the Russian lawyer who was killed in a Moscow prison in 2009) more than 10 years ago.
Prevezon was part of this giant tax fraud scheme that Magnitsky uncovered in 2008, which led to his death and which led indirectly to the Magnitsky Act of 2012. The U.S. Attorney’s Office was also preparing a massive case against Prevezon last year. Until it was abruptly dropped.
Sean Illing
We’ll circle back to the case being dropped in a second, but let’s stick to the role of the Russian lawyer that Trump Jr. met with.
Seva Gunitsky
Now, Prevezon’s lawyer was Natalia Veselnitskaya, who of course met with Trump Jr. last year. She had been pushing for a long time to get something done about the Prevezon case. So it’s very possible that she went into that meeting essentially asking for help, in return for which she would give the Trump campaign dirt on Hillary and the DNC.
It’s impossible to know for sure what happened in that room, but these are extremely plausible interpretations. It’s hard to say what the groups’ motivations were. These motivations are all entangled — I want to stress that. I don’t want to insist that this was all about the money. I’m only saying that the financial motivations in all of this have been understated in relation to its importance.
Sean Illing
So what happened with the Prevezon case?
Seva Gunitsky
Several months after Trump takes office, the Prevezon case is dismissed. So what happened? The U.S. attorney was carefully preparing a case against Prevezon Holdings. They were all set to go forward, and then suddenly the case was settled. Prevezon’s own lawyers were kind of shocked. We know they paid something like $6 million, which is a fraction of what the lawsuit was about. So they were extremely happy about it.
Congressional Democrats have openly expressed concerns about what happened here. They want to know why it was settled so quickly. Was pressure being applied from above? In any case, we can see the possible motivations of the people approaching Trump for favors. When I say the collusion starts with financial interests, this is what I mean.
It’s not that obstructing democracy wasn’t important; it’s that it was potentially a happy byproduct of these financial relationships. And I think for Trump it was always about the money. It’s just that now he’s undergoing a level of scrutiny that he’s never experienced before.
Sean Illing
Do we have any evidence that Trump was involved in any way with Prevezon?
Seva Gunitsky
We don’t know that Trump was involved in any way with that. Obviously, it’s kind of his wheelhouse, New York City real estate, so I am sure he at least heard about it. But we don’t know if he has any direct connections.
But it’s not even necessary for him to have any direct connections here. They’re only asking for some relief in this case, in return for certain compromising documents. So the interesting thing for me is, was there pressure placed on the U.S. Attorney’s Office by the administration, by the Department of Justice? What we know is that Preet Bharara, the attorney in charge of the case, was fired in early March, and shortly thereafter the Prevezon case was dropped.
Sean Illing
And we still have no explanation about this?
Seva Gunitsky
Not as a far as I know. They had been ready to prosecute, witnesses were flown in, it was all set to go, and it was settled rather unexpectedly. So I think this is a case that hasn’t really entered the public consciousness yet. But I’m sure that [special counsel Robert] Mueller’s team is looking at it.
[Author’s note: Foreign Policy published a detailed report about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s possible role in dismissing the Prevezon case.]
Sean Illing
Do we know of any public reactions to the dismissal of the Prevezon case from the Russian lawyer or from anyone else associated with this?
Seva Gunitsky
Veselnitskaya was ecstatic about the Prevezon case on her social media. She said it was “settled on Russian terms”; that’s a direct quote. She said it was the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and she said there’d be more to come. Again, like so much of the evidence here, this doesn’t prove anything definitively. But there’s an unbelievable amount of smoke, and a massive web of overlapping interests.
Sean Illing
As hard as it is to make sense of all this, it does help to explain Trump’s unusual consistency on all things Russia. This is a guy without a fixed ideological core, but his bizarre pro-Russia posture is arguably the only issue on which he’s been consistent.
Seva Gunitsky
I’d only slightly disagree here and say the thing about which he’s been most consistent is the desire to make money. And if we take that, then his consistency on Russia becomes much more sensible.
I think you’re absolutely right that he has no strong ideological commitments. We’ve seen that painfully over and over during the last few months. But if his financial interests are tied up with Russian oligarchs, who in turn are tied up with the Kremlin and thus have parallel interests, then Trump’s “consistency” becomes much more explainable.
And if we emphasize this financial angle a bit more, it also makes a lot of sense that he would not want to release his tax returns. Because that would expose just how deeply embedded he is with Russian money.
Sean Illing
To be clear about what you’re saying, you’re not denying the political motivations of Putin or the Kremlin. In your mind, this is about understanding what catalyzed the alleged collusion process, right?
Seva Gunitsky
That’s right. I think the idea of parallel interest is key here, that the Russian intelligence service, once they saw what Trump was doing, quickly latched on in order to push their own agenda, which was very similar to the Russian oligarchy agenda. And it’s hard to even separate the two because, as you probably know, in Russia the distinction between political power and economic power is very fuzzy.
Sean Illing
Looking at the timeline here helps to clarify your broader argument. It’s not like the Russians foresaw back in 1987, when they first started dealing with Trump, that he might become president in 2017. It seems clear enough that the financial ties were already there, and when the opportunity presented itself, the Kremlin took full advantage of it.
Seva Gunitsky
Absolutely. There’s a tendency here, in part because of our Cold War inertia, to see Putin as this creature with his tentacles in every part of the country. And I think that may be overstating the case just a bit. He’s been in power for 17 years, the people who support him are starting to itch a little bit, and he has to keep them happy. They’re not happy about sanctions; they’re not happy about restrictions on their financial dealings.
If they have financial leverage over Trump, and they clearly do, then why wouldn’t they want him to become president of the United States?
There are smart people here.
The vox outfit is zionazi-gay disinfo.
“Magnitsky (the Russian lawyer”
He was an accountant, not a lawyer, browder calling him his lawyer was part of browder’s scam. This gunitsky is a zionazi-gay disinformant.
“He was an accountant”
https://www.rt.com/news/423231-browder-dutch-minister-threat/
“When Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer hired by Hermitage, was found dead in his Moscow prison cell in 2009″
At least you didn’t mention the dreaded websayanim word.
“At least you didn’t mention the dreaded websayanim word.”
Given the obvious zionazi-gay bill browder/magnitsky act propaganda nonsense you posted, I didn’t think it necessary.
Sergei Magnitsky – tax lawyer?
https://browdersrednoticerevisited.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/sergei-magnitsky-tax-lawyer/
“In his book Bill Browder consistently misrepresents Sergei Magnitsky’s professional status, always describing him as a lawyer
According to his university diploma, Magnitsky graduated from the G.V. Plekhanov Russian Economic University in 1993 “specialising in finance and credit.” A 1998 certificate confirms that he was a qualified auditor and his employment records indicate he worked as an accountant and auditor from 1995 up to his arrest in 2008.
However, in his own 5 June and 7 October 2008 testimonies, Magnitsky gives his role as ‘auditor’, not lawyer, at Firestone Duncan. [http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/testimonies/#D65]
This confusion may have arisen in the media due to the fact that outside Russia Magnitsky’s role would have been carried out by a lawyer. This does not explain, however, why Browder refers to Magnitsky constantly and deliberately as a ‘lawyer’. As an experienced businessman, with lengthy commercial experience both in Europe and in Russia, you might expect Browder to know the difference between a lawyer and an auditor.
This is no reflection on Magnitsky who quite accurately records his profession in his testimonies, as noted above. However, it needs to be stated publicly that this is yet another subtle falsehood that Browder has allowed to spread publicly simply because it suits his own story.”
You missed the obvious point – which is, you berate Mr Gunitsky with childish name calling but no evidence to counter the substance of his claim (which may or may not be true) while no mention is made of RT’s same mistake.
Everybody but the Russians are zionazi-gay when, in fact, if not at the top of the list they are very close /moveable-feast-cafe-2018-04-27/#comment-517041
As an aside, it would be interesting to have you dropped into the middle of a gay club at some stage with your beliefs pinned to your chest.
The result would probably be akin to the pleasure the Israelis got while pulling their sofas out to watch the bombing of Gaza last time around.
This gunitsky is one of those anti-Russia horse manure merchants the neocons pepper their bs anti-Russia narrative with. The sort featured by the new republic and washington post. Take a look at this twitter exchange.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sevaut/status/942167804735868928
“Seva
@SevaUT
Good thread – Russia has mostly ignored Canada, but this will change. I would expect more micro-targeted attacks like the Chrystia Freeland ‘Nazi grandpa’ story.
Stephanie Carvin
@StephanieCarvin
This year Canada has taken two bold anti-Putin steps: passing the Magnitsky Act and selling lethal weapons to Ukraine. This has largely been done without much public interest or debate. #cdnfp
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Canadian society seems less susceptible to broad attacks – or at least, has fewer volatile cleavages for external actors to exploit – so the RUS strategy will be to undermine & delegitimize specific people and policies.
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for example, just a few months ago Russian trolls tried to attack the CAN defense minister, a Sikh — just as 450 Canadians were bound for a NATO mission in Latvia.
Matthew Fisher: Sajjan a target of Russian cyber campaign aimed at undermining NATO’s presence in…
nationalpost.com
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Russian displeasure with Canada will intensify as Canada takes a larger role in NATO. And RUS has little to lose – trade between the 2 countries is tiny, since they export the same stuff. So Trudeau better keep his passwords safe.
Eric Morse
Eric Morse
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Replying to @SevaUT
Chrystia story was pretty low hanging fruit you have to admit. They’ll have to up their game a lot.”
The commenter is spamming zionazi-gay propaganda. Pure and simple.
vot tak,
Firstly, thank you also for the Alan Watts Tao link. I listened with interest, as I’ve been getting increasingly deep into the way the very old Eastern philosophies of being are actually being supported by much modern science these days. I had not read the Tao, although knew of it, and hearing Alan’s introduction was a good way to start.
Re the guy you’ve been answering and very well – thank you from me.
He bored me to death, I dont talk – usually – to “Anonymous” persons, and as soon as he started quoting some ex-pat Russian [?Ukrainian?] in Canada, that’s was enough. I am aware that there is something of an enclave of bitter Russophobic Russians in Canada – especially Ukrainians. The horrible FM is a good example. And then the Browder criminal??
Come on, it’s just another anti-Russia, Putin and Lavrov hating troll – actually, more like an Orc come to think of think of it. I just can’t be bothered with them, and can’t summon the energy to argue with them. So thanks for doing it.
Isabella, you might enjoy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBJFJVZMnlo
about The Dao of Physics.
Cheers Isabella
Watts has been a favourite on Eastern philosophy, religion and culture since I was a teenager. He explains these in a way that makes it easy for a western acculturated mind to understand.
The link by GrandmaR about “The Tao of Physics” should be very interesting, if it is about the book by the same name. I have not opened the link yet. The book is excellent.
“Come on, it’s just another anti-Russia, Putin and Lavrov hating troll – actually, more like an Orc come to think of think of it. I just can’t be bothered with them, and can’t summon the energy to argue with them. So thanks for doing it.”
In the zionazi-gay media on last Thursday and Friday, they were spreading browder nonsense about the meet of the trump people and the Russian lawyer. I was rather surprised to see only one disruption troll spammed that nonsense here. Usually, like after that Sunday zionazi-gay air strike on Syria, one sees them S.W.A.R.M. this site.
In perusing the internet today, I came across a couple of items.
The counterpunch website, like The Saker, tends to post links to videos of musical performance they like. Today’s choice was Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen combining for a performance of Smith’s “Because the Night.”
https://youtu.be/6zMMTcYEXDU
Thus, all morning long, I’ve had the refrain “because the night, belongs to lovers” as the song in my head.
Except apparently in Salisbury, England,
https://www.rt.com/uk/425293-sex-salisbury-police-skripal/
where the Salisbury police chased a naked couple through the city for the crime against the state of Making Love, Not War.
The Salisbury police chief even is quoted as saying the Salisbury police have better things to do. Apparently refering to their role in trying to start World War 3. But that of course didn’t lead to the police calling off the chase, because if the craze of Making Love, Not War catches on (again), then that can disrupt the core of British society and ends the plans he’s cooked up with Porter Down to start world war 3.
Trump displays shrewd deal-making skills with latest Twitter threat against US partners
https://www.rt.com/usa/425310-trump-diplomacy-of-threats/
“Donald Trump has wheeled out his signature negotiating tactic – thinly-veiled extortion – in an attempt to drum up support for Washington’s 2026 World Cup bid.
Trump took to Twitter on Friday in an attempt to persuade Washington’s valued partners to support a US bid to host the international football tournament, together with Canada and Mexico. The author of ‘The Art of the Deal’ once again proved himself to be a master of persuasion.
“The US has put together a STRONG bid w/ Canada & Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the US bid,” Trump tweeted. “Why should we be supporting these countries when they don’t support us (including at the United Nations)?” he added, flexing his rhetorical extortion skills.
Peppering friends and foes alike with demands and threats has produced predictable results for Washington’s diplomatic efforts on the world stage. According to a State Department report released on Thursday, the UN General Assembly considered 93 draft resolutions last year. However, only in 31 percent of the cases did the majority of General Assembly members vote the same way as the US did – a figure 10 percent lower than in 2016.”
Tantrum
https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/201804271063965917-trump-fifa-2026-mexico-canada/
https://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/106396/59/1063965926.jpg
If I’m not mistaken, the first Cafe was at February 05, 2016.
Cafe Blossom
by ioan
Time was running, time was still, we were running on our will
The first Cafe, then honeymoon, everything was full in bloom,
Deadly poets come and tried how it is to kiss the bride
And the waiter let us try, pleasing us with wet and dry
Went the music, noisy ism’s, hitler’s youth and communism
Stalin greatness and the Lenin, Until coming of old Yeltsin.
Martin had a Russian girl,which to chose, the red, the pearl ?
Then we learned the communal, from our Leary, from Ojai
With Patriarchy and Matriarchy, giving birth to Gaytriarchy…
I laughed then a week upon, I’m sure I wasn’t alone !
Right wing views in eyes of Elsi, have been crashed without mercy
Time is running like a wheel, which is coming down the hill
Between battles in the war-rooms, we were scared by coming mushrooms
How to stop the war on Russia, how to save the brave Natasha ?
Heavy talks about religions, in the battle with the Legions
Hot discussions with hot heads, sometimes trowing with some eggs
In the battle, in the heat, many folks have rushed to quit,
So the horseman left the battle, jumping hastily from his saddle,
Letting comrades on this page, feel themselves as if in cage
Time is running down the hill, sometimes giving us the chill
Cafe cups, glasses and chairs, the show goes on, somehow, somewhere
A Movable Feast, running on wheels with friendly waiter, serving us meals,
Always the same but always is new, while we’re aging, thinking at blue…
The show must go on, saving Russia, saving our souls, the kids of Natasha
Time is running, day and night, once is bad and then alright !
And dancing on table tops
And the chinking of glasses
Philosophizing, story telling,
About all that matters.
Fists pounding on tables,
And silent applause,
Taking our stand,
To further the cause.
History set straight and unwound.
From the lies we become unbound
Is that ioan somewhere around?
Have him bring another round.
Poetry, praying, singing, and playing,
While at the door war wolves are baying,
Inside the enemy we are slaying.
Nothing here goes without saying.
The cafe spirit is alive
Buzzing like a fertile hive
The nectar here tastes sweet and good
The Truth is our holy food.
To be continued.
Love
k
In the battle of survival
of the deadliest poetess
it is iona’s farts and flair
for scented flowers so fair
giving cafe’s steely edge
first strike word capability.
so lift your banners high
oh ye poets of the day
make hay while ye can
for the lives of Leary’s Lavrovology
are here today and gone tomorrow.
What can I say to you, both,
I’m happy to be with you on board !
MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. British prog-rock band Jethro Tull will play concerts in three Russian cities as part of the group’s 50th anniversary world tour. On Friday, April 27, the band will rock the stage of the Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
Speaking at a press conference at the TASS news agency ahead of the concert, Ian Anderson was ironic about the band’s date anniversary.
“Fiftieth anniversary is not a big deal. Another Western rock band is celebrating its 50th anniversary…We’ve got Jethro Tull, Yes, King Crimson, Deep Purple (the bands that also turn 50 this year – TASS). It is not so uncommon,” the veteran rocker noted.
Anderson said that doing this tour was not his first intention.
“I am not a nostalgia person. My original thought was that I would not do anything special in 2018. But then I changed my mind,” he said.
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The musician explained that by marking this date with worldwide concerts he pays his respect to the band’s fans and also to all the musicians that had been part of Jethro Tull over the years.
“There are 36 musicians that were part of the group over 50 years. That changed my mind and I decided to postpone the new album,” Anderson said adding that he had started working on the new material last year.
More:
http://tass.com/society/1002167
Anyone remember them….”living in the past”..??????? I have their double album from that time….oh the great names…ELP…Yes…King Crimson..Wishbone Ash ok….Cream…Iron Butterfly…all that lot….etc etc
We are all living in the past I’m afraid. Not to bad though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPwYhHX_jY
Cause who knows where the time goes??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8
Let’s go hunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuxq_J1VuA
Regards
Kent
Europol has been cyber attacking ISIS
Europol director Rob Wainwright said the two-year operation compromised ISIS’ capability to broadcast and publicise terrorist material.
‘With this groundbreaking operation we have punched a big hole in the capability of IS to spread propaganda online and radicalise young people in Europe,’ he said.
The ‘simultaneous multinational takedown’ was coordinated by Europol from its headquarters in The Hague, and led by the Belgian federal prosecutor.
‘Dozens and dozens’ of police fanned out in their countries, seizing servers in the Netherlands, Canada and the United States as well as in Bulgaria, France and Romania.”
More Western worries about China!
After 300+ years of subservience, do they (the Chinese) Still not know that they are NOT permitted to rise to the level of rivals (equals)???
https://gumshoenews.com/2018/04/27/vanuatu-and-peace-in-the-pacific/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-25/top-us-admiral-warns-china-now-controls-south-china-sea
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-25/chinas-newest-aircraft-carrier-set-sea-trials
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-24/china-prepares-mass-produce-hypersonic-vehicles
World governments are spending a lot of time trying to figure out ways to keep the JCPOA agreement in place. But in my opinion,its already dead and gone. It took a long time to work out the deal. And almost as soon as it was signed the US and its stooges have tried to overturn it.I think they have succeeded.
Lets look at what the agreement was about. It was negotiated “solely” for the purpose of curtailing Iran’s nuclear enrichment program,”no more,no less”. It served that purpose. In exchange for Iran’s agreement to the deal.The sanctions on Iran’s economy were to be lifted.And Iran was to be free from restrictions on trade.UN sanctions connected to that were removed.And “some” of the other sanctions that were supposed to be removed were also removed. But its important to remember that even at that stage,the US broke their word and didn’t remove all the sanctions they promised to.From then on,it got worse.
The US started to make further demands,totally outside of the agreement.They demanded that Iran’s missile defense program,and their influence in other countries (Iraq,Syria,Lebanon) also be curtailed if the agreement was to continue with their inclusion.At first the EU member states that signed the agreement objected.But since they are stooges of the US,it didn’t take a mental genius to see that they would cave in to the US demands.The British we knew for sure would.Then we saw France cave.And today we see Germany caving in.
https://www.rt.com/news/425345-existing-iran-deal-not-sufficient/
That will leave,as everyone should have always known. Russia and China,as the only countries wanting to stick to the agreement (besides of course Iran).So here we are.The agreement is dead.The only thing left is the burial service.But lets not lament it,I don’t.The important part of the agreement,from Iran’s viewpoint has been accomplished. The UN sanctions are gone. And unless Russia and China decide to side with “their Western pardners”,they aren’t coming back.Iran should by now realize,that dealing with the West is a foolish step.So they “should” be moving heaven and earth to direct their economy fully eastward.If they need to buy anything,buy it in the East.If they need to sell anything,sell it in the East.By now they should clearly see who their friends are.And even more clearly,see who their enemies are.
Macro says different things on different days depending on who he’s talking to, so who knows where France stands on this deal.
True,but he was the first EU power to say the deal needed to be “redone” to make it better for the US. So I think he is “in the bag” with the US.
A
“Macro says different things on different days depending on who he’s talking to”
So does trump, and all the rest of israel’s quislings. Notice that of late?
It’s called psywar. The mouthings do not match the actions, and are simply there to present a propaganda image. They are salesgrrrrls.
The real world moves on, though. Already, business interests in those zionazi dominated countries, outside of the pindo land of quislings, of course, have begun doing business in Iran. This means israel’s macron/merkel quislings will not have such an easy time enforcing israeli policy in their local capitalist establishments as aipac’s trump/congress quislings will.
There are ways to use capitalist greed that don’t help the wrong side.
“This means israel’s macron/merkel quislings will not have such an easy time enforcing israeli policy in their local capitalist establishments as aipac’s trump/congress quislings will.”
The slack will undoubtedly be taken up by Russia:
http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/04/25/the-resumption-of-russian-israeli-free-trade-talks-proves-ties-are-fantastic/
That article was:
“Written by Andrew Korybko”
Enough said. :-D
mod-to note: Andrew Korybko has been a regular contributor to The Saker Blog, with over 40 articles.
“mod-to note: Andrew Korybko has been a regular contributor to The Saker Blog, with over 40 articles.”
vot tak is obviously a double agent zionazi.
“Enough said. :-D”
Ronan Keating – when you say nothing at all
That’s probably websayanim – whatever tf that is.
mod-to note: “Sayanim” is simply the plural of “SAYAN.” It means “volunteers.” Websayanim then refers to “web related volunteers” associated with “trolling” or directed negative comment against articles or comments posted on any particular web site.
“mod-to note: “Sayanim” is simply the plural of “SAYAN…”
At least that’s now clear. Thanks :-)
VT, you’ll definitely not like this one by Andrew either:
“For amoral reasons that have nothing to do with “obligations” but everything to do with “balancing”, Russia might have refused to sell the S-300s to Syria in order to satisfy the strategic interests of “Israel”, which wants to retain full control of its neighbor’s airspace in order to bomb it at will on the pretext that it’s targeting the IRGC or Hezbollah. It’s for precisely this reason why Tel Aviv is so vehemently against Moscow’s rekindled interest in giving the S-300s to Damascus, but just like in the past, this system might never make it to the Arab Republic and there’s a chance that Russia’s statements on the matter are once again all about taking what it believes to be the “moral” position at the time and nothing more.”
Eh?
“vot tak is obviously a double agent zionazi.” NO!!
“mod-to note: Andrew Korybko has been a regular contributor to The Saker Blog, with over 40 articles.”
I have read most of Andrew Korybko’s analysis/articles, here and elsewhere I believe.
All though he offers fresh and different angles of approach, has a brilliant mind, and is always enjoyable. Still, there is something “Fishy” about him that sticks out, and raises at least my “Very clever” “BULLSHIT FLAG” all the way to the top.
Regards
Kent
“NO!!”
Thanks, Kent.
I’m one of the lucky ones who have a personal “anonymous” stalker. Makes me feel honored. ;-D But, unfortunately, the “zionazi” smear must be true since the “mod-to note” appears to endorse that commenter’s framing of me. Otherwise, why let the comment through?
@vot tak
I also have my anonymous friend from time to time and others too. Think to them as the salt and pepper in the Cafe. In fact, we always learn and they learn too. Sadly, the events are not looking too rosy in these days ahead, keep your powder dry.
Ioan
“Think to them as the salt and pepper in the Cafe.”
Nah, they are more like the loo getting clogged.
“Sadly, the events are not looking too rosy in these days ahead, keep your powder dry.”
And the plunger handy…
“And almost as soon as it was signed the US and its stooges have tried to overturn it.”
And almost as soon as it was signed israel and its stooges have tried to overturn it.
Fixed. Important to understand the zionazi pecking order.
Uncle Bob 1, I don’t know how is with you, but I wait for the “new Putin”, in a couple of days he will swear in for a new term in office. I expect this term to be decisive. There were many talks about time – that time is good for Russia, for Putin and bad for the Empire – well, time can be good but time can be bad if someone doesn’t chose the right timing to defeat it’s enemies. If someone doesn’t want to accept the reality on who are it’s true enemies, then buying time is a loss of time. The recent back-off by Merkel has come by no surprise, she has (she had) the Masters who dictate her in the same way as they dictate to Trump and Macron and, and…They will not change, precisely now, when the Big Prize is so close (I would like to say : looks so close), so, they won’t give up.
A refreshing summary…
“The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/26/the-league-of-assad-loving-conspiracy-theorists/
Embassy’s Press Officer reply to a question on briefing by Russia and Syria at the OPCW
“It looks like London is so obsessed with fakes and lies that any truth becomes propaganda to them.”
That is absolutely the truth. For you Brits (at least those that buy Brit newspapers, or watch BBC) my statement is obviously, by your definition, ‘propaganda’. Bit of a sticky wicket, what!
https://www.rusemb.org.uk/fnapr/6511
Micky Flanagan An Other Fing Live 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiifASKdhY
Western media silent as Rodchenkov’s Russian doping claims fail to stand up in court
https://www.rt.com/news/425357-rodchenkov-cas-lawsuit-doping/
BREAKING: WADA informant retracts his testimony
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/04/breaking-wada-informant-retracts-his-testimony/
MSM hides WADA report that US overtakes Russia in doping
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/04/msm-hides-wada-report-that-us-overtakes-russia-in-doping/
Russians should sue not just WADA but all organizations and individuals involved to the bare bones.
….
WADA reveals worst doping cheaters in 2016, Russia not even in top 5
https://www.rt.com/sport/425395-worst-doping-cheaters-wada/
Unexpected Results? WADA reveals worst doping cheaters in 2016, Russia not even in top 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61RFLBmQbi0
ARAF president says IAAF warning to bar Russia’s neutral track and fielders is real
http://tass.com/sport/999583
MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. A warning from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that Russian track and field athletes might be completely barred from taking part in international tournaments, even under neutral status, should not be underestimated, the head of the All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) told TASS on Friday. …
WADA: 15 international sports federations carry on with doping probes in regard to Russia
http://tass.com/sport/1000286
MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Fifteen international sports federations carry on with anti-doping investigations in regard to Russian athletes, Insidethegames sports web portal cited World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Craig Reedie as saying.
“It is a very complex investigation,” Sir Craig Reedie said. “What we can see so far is that many International Federations are overstretched with the complexity of the data.” …
Vangelis – Song Of The Seas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_EkT1VmcJo
Unfortunately this is real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOuzYvksRw
The Mountain Jews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_jt5tXnFQk
(A Russia Today documentary)
Here’s an idea. It seems to me that the missiles that struck the targets were allowed through. Clearly with such an effective rate at the airfields ,the sites that were hit, were either not defended (why bother) or , it occurs to me and I don’t know anything about electronic warfare abilities of the RAF that perhaps these were actually targets that the US did not aim at and the strikes we redirected to them……
That would certainly have the effect of damping the ardour to carry on with the other 200 planned(it seems) when nothing got through to the targets and maybe missiles being redirected .plus of course the Chinese posture by Taiwan .
A question to the Saker or others, is this Possible?
Hi. Six or seven cafes ago my back got much worse, so I could not get to the internet at club or library until now. Finally, the muscles have gotten over their spasms, and have begun to heal and get stronger. The back is still sore, and I’ve got to be very cautious by supporting the back and holding onto supports with my hands (like this vineyard on a different level). I’ve got a walker now for that purpose. I was able for the first time this year to ride the trolley into town.
I’ve been out of the loop as far as public events go, but my “back attack” has brought many blessings to the Love Army’s love and war games. With my body out of play, I’ve had plenty of time to think “love,” the first division charge of the Love Army, whether I feel it or not. I don’t know what’s in store but my priority is healing the back, and all those shadowy things “back there.”
To further complicate matters, two county code enforcers and two police officers showed up and told me I was living here illegally. I don’t know when but I may eventually be evicted so I’ve got to make alternative plans.
Fortunately, you and the vineyard stand guard for Russia. I do what I can. I’ll post a couple of Theology ACTS I wrote on a word processor, a sort of “leap of faith” on my part. At this point in my cafe catch-up phase, I noticed that China Cheerleaders, like Ramin, Jeff Brown, Lpac and Pepe are still acting like adolescent, starry eyed, cult groupies. Whether they are being paid off in some way by ZioSino agents, drugged or blue-pilled, or have fallen under their spell surreptitiously, I can’t say. That’s judgmental but how else can I say it and be truthful?
I was also put off by the fake war over Syria, testing the new weapons and defenses to generate war profits. Sure looks to me like all the actors on the world stage, including Putin, Trump and Xi, the big three, are getting the same script to read from; in other words, this phony facade of news is orchestrated from the same top-down power source in the game of top gun and super dog. The bosses don’t even need real wars anymore; actors and animated images get the same results at a much lower cost.
Speaking of new weapons, I note an inordinate amount of attention given to block chains, or stock drains, or whatever they’re called. It’s so obvious to me that this movement is just another version of the “chain gang” song, or is it “working on the railroad” for obor, or “sixteen tons” of “workingman blues” forever. How a stalwart investigator like Bro can’t see the obvious scam is beyond me; maybe his star chart was hit by an asteroid from Bitcoin Void.
It’s strange to say, but war has changed in a fundamental way. Most wars are fake now, made up on computer screens; shattered to bits like glass, into shards of disease, toxic food, domestic violence, meaningless, depression, drugs, stupifying entertainment, moronic media, frenetic addictions, fearful adjustment, happy pretensions, and yes, bitcoins and on and on. Our standard for the good life has put the bar so low a snake can’t crawl under it. We should shoot for the moon; if we miss, we will hit a star.
Russia has won the war in one way and lost it in another. The rulers softened her up with the big, hard wars and now have engineered the comfortable soft war of a new uni-polar world, posing as multi-polar; virtue signaling is the new politically correct slogan. Nothing illustrates this better than the kind and generous Chinese Communists, magically morphed from history’s biggest murder machine to a “Deus ex machina” solution to all our problems. I’m told that Mao studied at Yale or one of those skull and bones places; traces of which are now erased in the new version of a Hollywood Chinese Holy Land.
In Occam’s Razer style, for simplicity’s sake, I boil the whole mess down to one protagonist and one antagonist: Lord Leary and Count Khazar; a projection of my angelic and devilish self. To avoid the charge of solipsism, I add the amendment that every one of us has a similar dynamic of outward projection from inner injection of perfection or perdition.
A similar pattern obtains on large societal scales, like Russia, which as I said, has already lost the war, while also stopping it, by playing the enemy to the Best in the West. With Napoleon and Hitler, Count Khazar put Russia in a defensive mood forever, and now has demolished its trust in “partners,” in other words, made Russia solipsistic, rigid and militaristic.
Such a state is unstable in the solvent acidity of the new immorality of boundary free pleasure and pain. Sooner or later, the chemistry will reach its tipping point, and the old Russia will be no more. No one, other than Count Khazar and Lord Leary, will know how the petri dish went so quickly from red to blue, in the litmus test of truth. The Count will figure it was his connections to the men in black, while Lord will have the Love Army at his back. (How well Dennis knows the lack of a well-supported back when under attack).
A common mistake is to blame the elites for our troubles. There would be no elite at the top of the pyramid if there were no Stockholm Sycophants at their feet in the mid and bottom rungs to support the ponzi penis pillar of patriarchy. The only way to see what’s going down is through the lenses of the Love Government’s Ten Commandments of Love; otherwise we’re stuck with limp love, when what we need is tough love.
Without a back bone, we will always back down when we’re challenged on our home court. The architectural skeleton has ten major bones of contention:
1. An ideology of love, rather than some chicken shoot power.
2. A love food diet, rather than the meat of slaughtered animals.
3. A love for free animals, rather than pets who make us pets of empire.
4. A communal love and sex marriage, rather drowning couplets.
5. Gift money, rather than usurious stocks and block chains.
6. Love endorphins, rather than dope, drugs and upper-downers.
7. Love born life, rather than abortions of inspiration.
8. Love motivated conceptions, rather than contraceptions.
9. Constitutions of character, rather than prostitutional charicatures.
10. Loverography, rather than pornography and ponerography.
Since brevity is the soul of wit, the Love Army has encapsulated these broad principles into its ten divisions; and since drama is everyone’s karma, love is the “Greatest Story Ever Untold.”
With Russia out of the way, the mother of all wars will come into play: the Love Army versus the Evol Army; “Love/Evol” being inversions of each other–Lovelution and Evolution. True love will expose the pseudo-love of romance, sentiment and merriment by the advance of the Love Army’s Ten Commandments of Love: regarding thought, food, animals, sex, money, drugs, abortion, contraception, prostitution and pornography; in its positive and negative engagements, and subtle, hidden arrangements. Romance, sentiment and merriment will be transplanted from its soil of foolishness into the good earth of joyfulness.
The Love Bower will open its doors to the perceptive and receptive, and “communal sex” will put the scoffers to shame when it names names, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is the fountain of youth and mountain of truth. The Cafe archives will furnish abundant material for a new Shakespearean trove of comedy, history and tragedy. But I exceed my commission; and must get back on track without backing off from the point of attack. For a more sober balance, I will post a couple more “boring/boring through the gates of hell” Theological Acts.
We’d like to believe the world is being run by some invisible hand of group dynamics, and if it is, that large group of anonymous silent majority is usuns, as previously noted; but primarily this tall tale is packaged and sold by the managers of the mind to take the spotlight off themselves. Nearest to the top are the best and the brightest, but at the very pinnacle of power sits one man at a time, from the old blood-money line, in the old game of “king of the mountain.” At present Count Khazar rules the roost of chicken-hawks in his coop; that’s not his real name, which can’t be pronounced except by priests on rare festive celebrations when the money is counted.
Well, anyway I’m back for the time being, until the next back attack, or worse, heart attack from empire hit men. Count Khazar suspects his time is up and someone is coming for him, but he doesn’t know it’s Lord Leary (not Dennis Leary) and his vanguard, volunteer, vineyard Love Army. Don’t tell him and give away the game before its time, or we will lose the advantage of surprise.
Love, Dennis
Armchair Cafe Theology (ACT) Part 26
Theology literally means the God Order; in other words the God System. It’s a class system, with God on top and everything else under him. God is said to be “super-natural,” lording it over nature and all things natural. This produces a split or schism in our perception of reality. The word or term “God” need not be used, and the class system can remain exactly what it was. The class order is prior to the God order, the latter being only one of many ways invented to describe the former.
For many people, theology is a boring, esoteric exercise that has no relevance for the real world; they may go to religious services and say their prayers on weekends and holidays, but come Monday, it’s back to the real business of grappling with the demands and necessities of life. This is the result of the schizophrenic split in our awareness of how we think things are. Little do we suspect that our minds are being managed by the unseen powers that be.
Even more than money, the bosses do not tolerate anyone messing with their system of being on top, whether it be of the world, a neighborhood or a household. Patriarchy, in common parlance, means “rule by men,” and literally “the father as the first cause, prime principle and most important value.” What we take for granted as gospel truth was not always the case. Patriarchy was preceded by an entirely different social arrangement, namely, a lover culture or loverarchy. Patriarchs rebelled against the love system, and still are, now having almost totally obliterated it from our minds.
Pseudo-love as been substituted for true love. The world has been turned upside down, where white is black and black is white. We have bitten into the apple, and bought the “Big Lie” that God is in the sky, whether that be Jove with his thunderbolt or God with his chosen race of rulers, imposing their will in his name. Gods come and go, races change places, games switch names but the class system of chosen and unchosen, masters and slaves and rulers and the ruled cannot be touched, even with a ten foot pole.
The irony is that despite our protestations to the contrary, we love the system which cares for us from cradle to grave. We have our position on the pyramid, and come hell or high water, we do not want to slip lower. The governors at the top keep injecting us with fear of falling in with war victims, terrorist plotters, insane shooters, the homeless, wiped out shareholders, disease ridden invalids and death delivering torturers.
The real culprits are kept carefully concealed, or misdirected to the elites, unknowable evil forces, God, moral meaninglessness or nihilism, enemies (Russia currently), extra-terrestrials and a thousand other decoys and red herrings. All the while, we ignore the axiom of truth: “I have seen the enemy and it is I.” Indeed, that is the creed written on every cafe wall, which is quickly altered from “creed” to “screed.”
A true theology reads the writing on the wall and applies the truism to itself. Theology must lead us back to truth because it has led us away from the same. It matters not that God has, chameleon-like, assumed manifold disguises, covers, facades, fakery and chicanery. Underground currents that are hidden from our view, are far more powerful than the ones we think we know. Knowledge is power, and power separated from love is absolute evil personified.
Patriarchal men wanted to be gods, shamen, kings, rulers, lords and eventually God himself. That idea doesn’t sell well, so they had to cover their tracks and hide behind stratagems. Men are gods alright, as Shakespeare beautifully painted them, but are they gods of love or of power? Ah, there’s the rub, which is skillfully concealed, confused and then scrubbed out entirely. If our minds have not turned to mush from tens of thousands of years of psychological operations, popularly called brainwashing, we could see the ruse for what it is, but as Abraham found out in bargaining God down to save Sodom, ten good men can hardly be found in the cult of patriarchy.
And how would we know anyway, if our minds are lost in the fog of false information? I can only speak for myself and for the Love Government, particularly the Love Army, with its Ten Commandments of Love. We are men of love, who stand for womem and their children; and therefore against the pseudo-men of power, who rule this earth with iron fists in velvet gloves, holding iron rods concealed behind their backs.
“We brave few” rediscover and rehabilitate our backbones and frontal bones, in all their physico-spiritual dimensionality and diversity. We experience ourselves as gods of love, and reinvent in our image a God of Love, and with him, a new theology of love. The false God of Power, the fabricated Empire of Evil, behind all the empires that ever were, and the empire of today, so bent on destroying Russia, will read the writing on the cafe wall, and with its dying breath, give one futile “Last Hurrah” before its final fall.
Oh, the wailing at the wall will be besotted with tears from underground fears that will rise from whitewashed sepulchers, as Justice comes marchin’ in to deal with the sins of 75,000 unrepentant years. Her terrible swift sword will cut the Gordian Knot of patriarchy, and proceed to uproot the taproot of evilarchy; as the Lords of Karma apply the bitter medicine of loverarchy to the souls of present and previous times. Oh, happy day, when She’sus Love will wash our sins away with one quick fix of a painful purgatory.
But all that lies in the future; our work is cut out for us in the present. You have your own personal mark to make on the measuring stick of time, as I have mine. By a loving providence, we meet here in a vineyard cafe, an Arthurian Round Table for a Camelot Moment, to tip the scale of the world one way or the other. A featherweight may make the difference, and you or I may hold the breath of that feather in our hand. “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
Love, Dennis
Armchair Cafe Theology (ACT) Part 27
Years ago a premier magazine created a stir with its cover: “God Is Dead.” The governors of the world wanted to kill one God and raise another: they drove a nail into the coffin of the God of the Believers, and rolled back the grave stone for the God of the Non-Believers; so they could play one side against the other, and in the clamoring, take the heat off themselves. Predictably, it set off a war of words between religionists and secularists.
The real God of this world, Count Khazar (and his tribe) sneak around like arsonists, setting fires everywhere that will attract attention and create fear. A fearful populace has no time to think, much less think twice; ditto for dissolute and stoned zombies who have have been smitten, and bittten the zio-sino bait, hook, line and sinker. Fortunately, Count Khazar and his army of arsonists have met their match, although they don’t know it yet, with the arrival of Lover Lodge and its army of amorists.
Armageddon has run up against Amorgeddon, like the tale of the battleship in fog, with a faulty radar, heading straight for a lighthouse, demanding the supposed ship change course or be rammed. The empire’s mobilized project meets the immovable object; the maw of the beast chokes on an immovable feast. Theology, in its succinct scripture, says: “Love casts out fear.” Love makes the world go ‘round; fear would put love in the ground, six feet deep, but it lacks that kind of power which only love has.
God is far from dead, but would it not be better to throw God out with the holy water, like the baby with the bath water? No, no, no. That’s what the Bolsheviks tried, and proved God was dead–from space where God could not be found. Later, the same Bosses behind the Bolsheviks, trained the Maoists to throw Confucius and Lao-tzu with their I Chings under the bus to make way for the obor orb train of steely rails. With God and Man out of the way, nothing stood in their way, not even Russia which was long ago brought under imperial sway by a back door banking way, after the feints by Napoleon and Hitler.
“Go ahead, make my day,” said a steely eyed Man of the West, an empire hero made in Hollywood, the acme of fake manhood, for an increasingly fake world. What need is there for real wars anymore, when you can create them with actors and computer graphics, a thousand times cheaper, with far greater results in dumbed-down and drugged-up tax-payers and drone soldiers? Count Khazar laughs his way to the bank; the bank graphs his assets and opens wide its spread-sheets for him, and lets him cherry pick what he will.
The sacred and secular God is the lynchpin of the whole lynching class system. Its authority in spades is laid out in step pyramid grades. God is most powerful in his absence, because absence make the heart grow fonder, especially when we flounder in our own permissive indulgence. We long for an absolute center that holds us safe, like the mothers of the love culture used to do when we were babies in the bower; but we do our best to deny it.
The Prodigal Son is a chip off the old block of a prodigal father, the one who left the mother to go hunting with the boys, and left the joys of a lover for the toys of a luster and hustler of patrix power. The Prodigal Father finds himself on a dung hill of lucre, eating husks with the hogs, and realizes he’d better return to his son and his mother before heaven closes its gates for a very long night.
In all my years as an altar boy, acolyte, deacon, monk and priest, I found Father God rather distant and aloof, sexless and restless; but I thought the lack of real relating was my fault, which I tried to rectify by becoming Father Dennis. Now I see it was a trinity with their gates shut: father, mother and son, under the shadow of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and both trinities just couldn’t get it on with sex–certainly not all the way.
Looking at the world now in the broad sunlight of 78 years and counting, I guesstimate God is at an impasse, in danger of being cut off at the pass of relevancy. As a dutiful son, I cannot let this come to pass, or the world will pass the point of no return on its lemming march to the cliff of catastrophe, short circuiting itself to electrocution. Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all; better to have given all than to endure the final, fatal fall, in a second “fall of man.”
God is, after all, “The Man.” The Fathers of the Church, in their long hours and late nights of finalizing the doctrine of the Incarnation and “homoousios”-“homousios” hair-splitting, nail-biting dilemma of God and Man, called it a day and went on their way, “into the mystic” with Van and Jim Morrison, like kings and pawns into the same box.
In the meantime, The Lover waits for her erstwhile LoverMan to return from across the barren fields, dropping toys of the boys, retrieving adulthood joys, with a sparkle in his eye and lilt in his voice, acting like the Father he once was, a lover among lovers, in the communal sex bower, and Greatest Of Defenders (GOD) in the vanguard of the Love Army. Oh, happy day, when God reenters the fray, this time on the side of love rather than power, to protect the bower of the earth, and to restore its long neglected worth.
All this and more, remains to be manly renewed with the rediscovered “theology of love,” as She’sus Jesus foretold: “All these things that I do, you shall do too, and even greater. Man is to have joy, and to have it more abundantly, when he remembers that Womam is his Joy, and the melding of his love waters with hers is the Spirit’s-spirits whom I will send you in the intoxicating intensity of clarity and charity.”
Love, Dennis
I new you will come back Comandante ! it isn’t you, the Love Army creator, the Horseman with his arrows who’ll leave the battle ! by the way,you said : Love reversed gives (means) Evol (evil ?)
In the same way, Dog reversed gives (means ?) God !
You have me in the battle, comrade Learywitch, let’s have the dance as in the old days, with one condition : be a little bit shorter, will you be so kind ? then I promise I will in the same way. Maybe we can convince KIm to come back and sut the door again, screaming “Alarm !”
Bravo! God is indeed the man and lays down his life and takes it up at will! The lord has arisen! And I don’t think the most high would act like the jerk he’s made out to be. I know him. Good to see you. You’re becoming positively lyrical.
And interesting and mature discussion of the history of debt and interest which centers on Biblical and historical practices and reasons… http://www.unz.com/mhudson/debt-jubilee/ Comrade Jesus comes into the discussion…and the discussion relates also to the Catholic v Orthodox matters – thus relating also to the current post at Saker in re Orthodox Churches used as pawns. audio and with transcript.
in another matter the overall view of the why behind the fake attack in UK – Skirpal et al – also both audio and transcript.. https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201804291064003910-douma-skripal-one-operation/ (Hint, Russia is being framed in a coordinated way, global way)
Further afield https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html (transcript) relates, as seen now, to the denaturalization or denationalization of peoples in such a way as to make them unable to resist video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZPqf4ojN8 well worth the listen… Very well worth it.
Also a very well written essay: Enoch Powell: “The Man and his Politics” at Katheon…http://katehon.com/article/enoch-powell-man-and-his-politics
Nice to see that Dennis is back. Hi Dennis!
Wait and see.
I’m a melancholy man, that’s what I am
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground
I’m a very lonely man, doing what I can
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we’re going to keep growing, wait and see
When all the stars are falling down Into the sea and on the ground
And angry voices carry on the wind
A beam of light will fill your head And you’ll remember what’s been said
By all the good men this world’s ever known
Another man is what you’ll see Who looks like you and looks like me
And yet somehow he will not feel the same
His life caught up in misery, he doesn’t think like you and me
‘Cause he can’t see what you and I can see
When all the stars are falling down Into the sea and on the ground
And angry voices carry on the wind
A beam of light will fill your head And you’ll remember what’s been said
By all the good men this world’s ever known
Another man is what you’ll see Who looks like you and looks like me
And yet somehow he will not feel the same
His life caught up in misery, he doesn’t think like you and me
‘Cause he can’t see what you and I can see
I’m a melancholy man, that’s what I am
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground
I’m a very lonely man, doing what I can
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we’re going to keep growing, wait and see
When all the stars are falling down Into the sea and on the ground
And angry voices carry on the wind
A beam of light will fill your head And you’ll remember what’s been said
By all the good men this world’s ever known
Another man is what you’ll see Who looks like you and looks like me
And yet somehow he will not feel the same
His life caught up in misery, he doesn’t think like you and me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66KMiXcOjPU
Kent
Question.
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
’cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed.
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That’s what the war of love is for.
It’s not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It’s more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.
And when you stop and think about it
You won’t believe it’s true.
That all the love you’ve been giving
Has all been meant for you.
I’m looking for someone to change my life.
I’m looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it’s done to me
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me through.
Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she’s waiting there for me.
But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose.
I’m looking for someone to change my life.
I’m looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it’s done to me
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew.
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our souls.
It’s not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It’s more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
When we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWG4HqREdsA
Kent
Ohhh I remember that one…MB
“The Story In Your Eyes”
I’ve been thinking about our fortune
And I’ve decided that we’re really not to blame
For the love that’s deep inside us now
Is still the same
And the sounds we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It’s been shining down upon me now
I realize
Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We’re part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day
But I’m frightened for your children
That the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we’ve been waiting for
Will turn to rain
Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We’re part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day
But I’m frightened for your children
That the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we’ve been waiting for
Will turn to rain
When the final line is over and
It’s certain that the curtain’s gonna fall
I can hide inside your sweet sweet love
For ever more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Zr440nXe8
Kent
Great share Kent ! the Moody Blues, nice to have them in the Cafe, thank you !
Same Joe, but different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHpbMnExSk
Kent
Well??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RhZDGLEXM
Kent
This is a good interview covering the general topic from an ‘expat’ Gazan now domicile in USA. .
“A Palestinian Refugee Explains”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a261Jez82Hs
Should anyone feel like a lighthearted few minutes, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvl6kpjivs
Zhirinovsky commenting on video of Trump brushing down Macron “Look at him, he’s like a big cat playing with a mouse” Very apposite!!
Or, as Trump himself put it, in a comment that revealed the 1% attitude to the rest of the people on the planet (not just women) ,
” grab them by the p***y “
Movie Time …
Sky High- Main Title – The Man From Hong Kong (1975) – Jigsaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pN4Ujto48s
Insider british diplomat Craig Murray now believes the british government may have been involved in the Skripal incident. It seems a government censorship gag-order ( ” D-notice “) may have been given to the msm over the whole Skripal affair, hence all the odd happenings…
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/probable-western-responsibility-for-skripal-poisoning/
moon of alabama has now picked up on this, and provided further details, including strange re-editing of previously published news in the clinicalservicesjournal about the skripals…
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/04/the-silence-of-the-skripals-government-blocks-press-reports-media-change-the-record.html#more
Extract
“The case does not exist in the media space. Nevertheless, without any doubt, Russia’s Investigative Committee, Russia’s Embassy to the United Kingdom and Foreign Ministry will be cheering them up with news from the front. We have something to tell them,” she said.
”
More:
http://tass.com/politics/1002502
MFA Zakharova this evening on Rusdian tv this evening…..
American (US) propaganda film 1962 …
Red Nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKPRljhPnIk
… cough … er, … Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish-born, March 3, 1847
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Love your film picks, Paul!
… thankyou Acacia, … let us see what the Cafe has to say about this one !
Mind you, this one is “White page in the Cafe” ( you know I like your links, sometimes my time is not enough to watch them all – the Vangelis song above – I love it as his songs in general.)
People are so sociable. That’s nice, but niceness and sociability can be exploited by witting or unwitting Agents of Empire, and used against your better interests.
Our common interest in the USA and West in general, our “general welfare” (as in the Preamble of the US Constitution, in particular…….not referring to poverty pimp handouts ) might include things like getting some preventive measures in place before the petro-dollar implodes and social chaos and homicidal chaos threatens effects worse than being laid up with a bad back.
But NOOOOO! If the Love Commander can’t take personal, egoic credit for any measures, anywhere, what the hell good are they???
LOL. So transparently ridiculous it’s kind of endearing. The way Arnold Schwarzenegger was once described to me as a “Loveable NAZI”.
This is why Dennis is so invaluable, as a prime example of…….Ego IS the Enemy!
He’s so precious in that regard! Simply Irreplaceable. As unconscious of this ME principle (“If not ME…..the VOID, The Abyss, THE END!!!”) as it is humanly possible to be.
Totally incompetent in many of his proudly ignorant “shoot from the lip” comments, ignored by many, ducking the real theological debates over at
/the-number-of-the-beast/
where my little comment on “falling one short” (to act) could not have been inspired by any other example than our Love Commander.
Put I take that back. He did step up to the Café Counter and present his tickee.
So, that token worth a little poor poetry in his honor…..must be honored and WILL be honored:
Oh Commander, My Commander…… What Now?
Love is good, sex is simply necessary. OK, SO WHAT?
Your patent rights long expired. Still trying to cash in??
Time presses on, and on, harvest wheat must now be cut,
Yet, you decline to reap, sow again, deny all right action!
Decrying cities, science, marriage, pets, transportation,
Commanding all to regress some eighty thousand years,
You eschew most everything invented and done since then,
And put out your cooing call for communal coital volunteers.
Commander,tell us how this sensuality will ever be sustained
How billions (all pet species,too) will not be condemned to die,
If any progress is disdained? Reverse Time? How harebrained:
Our youth like rabbits, jumpin, a humpin, a comin thru the rye!
The greater part of Love, Commander is not the initial coupling,
But rather a couple decades of good guiding loving parents’ care!
The here and now of such langorous limber entwined suppling
Yields lasting responsibilities both consenting mates must share.
In their moments of wild and lusty passion, they know this
And already think ahead at least eighteen or twenty years.
As their parents before them, they own and must owe this
Generational debt or it will all surely end in sad, bitter tears!
You imagine that servile fathers went insane and rebelled
And brought sacred matriarchy to a tragic undefended end.
Pesky Testosterone rose up and Gentle Estrogen was felled.
More likely: there were simply many communities to defend!
But why trouble with trifles, the Saviour Bit is in your teeth
Onward! Let no caution slow Commanding Feelings down,
Zig and zag across the fields, and the blasted bloody heath
Inventing millennia of Imagined Events – Paradise renown!
Yet, pause: What’s past is past, and Time’ll scarce rewind!
No use to fret or worry now, or wonder how on earth, how
Cities and towns, All Not You will melt away, just so inclined
To perish calmly, without resistance. Man, come on, now!
A tribe of Defenseless Lovers in lazy, sensuous season
Of fruit, nectar, made up love bliss, created in your head.
Free of the clear consequences of Natural Law or Reason
Would have had to adapt, change and evolve, instead!
Like you Canute stood in the surf, commanded it to leave,
But it knocked him off his unstable, arrogantly planted feet.
Only the moon can reverse the waxing tide, halt the wave
And cause the Flood of True Progress to obediently retreat!
We are Here and Now, and the important work we should do
Is not an unbearable, distasteful burden that we need escape
By reversing Father Time, knocking oldest Chronology askew.
Real Lovers Embrace a New Birth of Freedom Taking Shape!
It’s a pity there are unconscious agents of Empire and Vatican Apologists That Won’t Crush That Serpent with Their Heel (“I can’t do THAT to ME!!!”) that want to abort that new birth of freedom and carry on with such unconsciously laughable, almost loveably EVIL (because so easy to point out, so transparent!) sentiments as,
“Rome (ME!) is setting up The Jews Again to Take the Fall.” And ME good, Me = Love, Remember?
And THAT’s just fine and dandy, Love Commander??? How’d you like to be set up again and again to Take the Fall by that Snake Pit in Vatican City??
Priceless unconsciousness. Simply priceless!
What’s THAT or any other egoistic, evil nonsense like it got anything whatsoever to do with “Love”, pray tell??
But welcome “back”, by the way. Glad it’s feeling better!
Talking of Crypto’s is OK for me, I’m still living in my physical body and I have to pay my bills and a lot to spend on doctors and medicine for mom, but this comment of yours above, brings the old days of this Cafe back on track, I also welcome you Bro 93 ! The poem is well quoted in my eyes !
I suppose, in the meantime, all we can really say is thank our lucky stars not to have been born in Syria:
“I was also put off by the fake war over Syria, testing the new weapons and defenses to generate war profits. Sure looks to me like all the actors on the world stage, including Putin, Trump and Xi, the big three, are getting the same script to read from; in other words, this phony facade of news is orchestrated from the same top-down power source in the game of top gun and super dog.“
“Russia should have sent them years ago. Russia is very slow and sluggish, and while it dawdles thousands upon thousands more Syrians die. Is Russia going to wait until the last Syrian?
“
/russia-considers-delivery-of-s-300-air-defense-systems-to-syria/#comment-517482
Xi to the rescue, eh /east-med-sitrep-march-april-2018/#comment-509358
“Bah.
Every few months we hear China has ships or soldiers here, there and everywhere in the Middle East, especially during moments of rising tension. These reports always turn out to be false and seem to be generated in pro Russian alt-media, likely because it is neccessary to convince the pro Russian cohort that China is onside with Russia to sustain a specific illusion about how the war of Oligarchs against Humanity is proceeding.
China is onside with itself and with the Neocon conceived Petro Yuan after that, as their three recent abstentions, failing to support Syria and Russia at the UN once again demonstrate. They stand to inherit the world when Behemoth and Leviathan wreck each others economies in an utterly pointless conflict except that is will serve as cover for a financial fraud a hundreds or more times elaborate than what occurred in 2008. If in doubt check the number of ‘Khazarians’ moving to Hong Kong and Singapore and finding for themselves a Chinese wife with which to spawn. Like Zuckerberg for example, LOL. These sociopaths are incorrigible and like those guys you see who always wear the jersey of the last world champion in any given sport thay plan to be on the winning team one way or another.
This is the double game being played by Atlanticists in Russia, who control RT, Russia Insider and etc. They don’t care what happens to Russia or Syria so long as their bank accounts in London and increasingly in Asia are secure.”
Good poem! Your rage is palpable!
Austrian UN peacekeepers watch militants in the Golan heights set up an ambush for Syrian policemen. But do not warn the 9 syrian policemen who later pass through their checkpoint about the ambush waiting for them. All the policeman are killed in the ambush further down the road… see the AMN report, audio is in german…
Is this standard UN peacekeeping policy ?
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/graphic-video-un-peacekeepers-watch-nine-syrian-policemen-get-ambushed-by-militants-in-golan-heights/
On the continuing story of love and war in Russia, in respect of militarization and the shift of global power, the events of one hundred years ago are good for gaining insight into Russia’s unique, independent human and cultural heritage.
Getting closer to this is made harder through Bolshevist propaganda successfully muddying the waters of truth.. The written testimonies of those in Russia living through those events, and spoke truth to their perception of events, include those of the Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia, who through her personal circumstances met Lenin, and witnessed the events that unfolded through 1919 to the end of 1920.
Also, while on the trail of truth, the great Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman. All of his works, up to and including An Armenian Sketchbook, written two years before his death of cancer in 1964, are an expression of his deep compassion and love for this country and people.
shymnk
Just re-saw Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” on the local free-to-air tv.
The future with Trump (or Pence) — and just as likely if H. Clinton had weaseled her way into office — is captured in the segments of watching GWBush and his Goldman Sachs gang stacking the regulators and fleecing the nation. Gave me the shivers to see Trump following a similar path but with the military industrial cabal in place of banksters. Something is afoot and Iran (& others) had better be ready.
What floated past my FB page the other day was another early signal — certain Iranian women are suddenly (according to some msm) rebelling against the hair-covering etc. And zero about Saudi regime head chopping and women not even driving etc.
A review of Moore’s film is quite insightful on how 2008 was engineered and rammed through — I suspect we can expect a re-run with a military focus in due course. This is not news of course for many, but the way the game plan is set up and run can be remembered a little better via this film.
Evidently there was a spy at Sputnik…and he’s written his “tell-all” testimonial…get your own copy? Sure, all 91 pages of TBS… https://cryptome.org/2018/04/stanton-sputnik.pdf
a fragment from the “conclusion”?
Here:
“…I can’t say with absolute certainty why I was released. I was never a speedy newswire
writer and there were deadlines to meet. Others were much faster pitching and
transcribing testimony, speeches. Initially I racked up about 20 interviews (known as
exclusive’s) with former NATO commanders, active duty CG’s , a former SECDEF and
others in and out of government, but that began to dry up within a few months of my
June 2016 start date as Russia’s activities were revealed.
I confess that the bulk of my behavior at Sputnik USA was an act: I intentionally made
mistakes, dumped in pitches to editors I knew would be rejected and argued silly points
all to extract responses from my Russian masters. I had a higher purpose there, of
course, and that was on behalf of a client. A burden has been lifted and I am overjoyed
to be “out” and done with the tasking…”
Interesting…if somebody is licking an ass for money, I can understand but when is doing it as a volunteer act…remembers me of “love Bower”
Never been a fan of hollande, but this was great:
‘Touch of Homophobia’: Hollande’s joke on Macron’s ‘passive’ role with Trump angers govt spokesman
https://www.rt.com/news/425397-macron-passive-homophobic-joke/
“Hollande’s remark was in response to the rather tactile relationship between the two leaders, displayed during Macron’s visit to the White House. The French centrist president seemed to enjoy a cozy atmosphere in the company of his US counterpart. The pair repeatedly shook hands, kissed cheeks, and slapped each other on the back, displaying a touch-feely friendship that caused a major Twitter meltdown.
These handshakes are “strange,” Hollande noted, speaking to the Quotidien program on TMC, aired on Wednesday. “From this point of view, Emmanuel Macron is rather passive in the couple,” said. The audience then broke out in laughter.
The ex-president lashed out further at his successor, who once served as the economy minister in his own administration. Asked if Macron is the president of the rich, he replied “No. He is the president of the VERY rich.”
Hopefully, more french will notice the obvious and remark upon the subservience of their supposed “leader’s to his “betters”. Such an awakening to their “petain” situation could only improve the current depraved political scene in France.
Needless to say, the zionazi-gays in the micron colonial regime were not pleased and responded like one would expect – queenly. ;-D
Meanwhile, RT has been prominently displaying the hand holding photos this last week, as they did with this article. Obviously, another example of the evil Putin trying to influence politics in one of israel’s colonies…
The real international community meets in Yalta – without the neocon thought police
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/425471-neocons-yalta-crimea-economy/
“Around 600 participants from 71 countries met in Crimea at the 4th Yalta International Economic Forum to discuss global co-operation and the building of a better world.
This was the real ‘international community,’ as opposed to the pretend one restricted to just the US and its closest allies.
In February 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, the so-called ‘Big Three,’ met in Yalta to plan for the post-war world. In April 2018, the world faces the threat of war again – not from goose-stepping Nazis – but from similarly Russophobic neocon hawks who seem hell-bent on total global domination.
The imperialist agenda has been thwarted in Syria, where regime-change plans have been blocked, hence a ratcheting up of Cold War 2.0 tensions with Russia from Washington and London. But at the YIEF, one could see the strength of resistance to the serial warmongers.
Journalists and other public figures in Britain today who don’t go along with Russophobia face attacks from truly repulsive gatekeepers. Even university academics are under threat for daring to question the War Party line. At least in Crimea, we didn’t have to worry about the witch-hunters.”
Calls for Arms Embargo Against Israel: Jewish State Atrocities in Gaza
https://www.globalresearch.ca/calls-for-arms-embargo-against-israel-jewish-state-atrocities-in-gaza/5638326
“Palestinians participating on Gaza’s non-violent Great March of Return have called for an arms embargo against Israel.
100 Jewish snipers were ordered to shoot unarmed civilians with semi-jacket bullets which are variously called dumdum, hollow-point, expanding bullet, explosive, soft-point, soft-nosed, that inflict horrific Grade 3 wounds as on contact, the bullet splays out talons massive internal tissue damage,
“Half of the more than 500 patients we have admitted in our clinics have injuries where the bullet has literally destroyed tissue after having pulverized the bone. These patients will need to have very complex surgical operations and most of them will have disabilities for life.” Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, Medecins Sans Frontieres’s head of mission in Palestine.
These high velocity bullets ‘are prohibited under a number of treaties’ for causing ‘superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering’.
That the Jewish state uses Gaza to field test new weapons has been well documented and today in Gaza doctors have also remarked on a new tear gas, not gray but green in colour, that causes severe spasms and ‘cramps, vomiting and stress, severe cough and a faster heartbeat…Because the gas is unknown and the health complaints are also unknown, the use of this gas is very dangerous and one does not know what more damage the gas can cause to the body.’ Khamakar Press
Of course testing weapons on civilians is a war crime and yet Israeli armament companies boast that their weaponry is field-tested which boosts sales to morally shoddy western governments. This impunity and complicity can come to a halt with campaigns focusing on the S in BDS- Boycott Divestment and SANCTIONS.”
And who you thinks will listen to that call for arms embargo ? using your words, the pindoland ?
It cannot get any more evil than these psychopaths-congess and zios in admin should stand up and take a bow. Israel does not heed no stinking arms embargo-it has and gets all it needs from that home of democracy and freedummmmmm. Gad, vomit inducing.
” dumdum, hollow-point, expanding bullet, explosive, soft-point, soft-nosed, that inflict horrific Grade 3 wounds as on contact, the bullet splays out talons massive internal tissue damage ”
against unarmed civilians who pose no threat ??? only a culture that has no conception of military honor would do such a thing…. this is who the zionists are…?
Bio work on EOS founders delayed.
I know I have to elevate to the highest level to get above the insane chain disdain refrain coming from Brother Bane and Pain of My Existence….AND…..I would fain dive right in, but I refrain (different meaning) until I can explain all from the Plane of the Thane of Lepretardish Chicane, who I fein as a brother!
(Look it up. Yeah it’s in Sinn Fein too….).
But it’s “All Good”. I can’t complain:
https://youtu.be/br2dnNIdRZY
Ala Moana Boulevard, Revisited.
The war between competing “deep state” Controllers is heating up. Good journalism, Mr. Draitser. Thank you.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/27/how-clintonites-are-manufacturing-faux-progressive-congressional-campaigns/
I suppose it’s possible than when an anonymous source is quoted in the media, describing local protests over a corrupt government in that region, that there actually *is* a local person responding to corruption. Alternatively, the US State Dept may be stirring something up in the (conveniently located) Horn of Africa.
http://www.africanews.com/2018/04/28/protests-in-ethiopia-somali-region-decry-bad-governance-fake-prisoner-release/
US State Department rep dropped by Ethiopia for a visit on April 26 (after spending a few days in Eritrea and Djibouti.)
Breaking
No english reporting as yet….
Russian spring apparently reporting Israel targeted “Iranians” in Syria just now c 22.00 uk time
http://rusvesna.su/news/1525034276
Any connection to the 80000 so claimed Iranians in Syria by Israel???,,,
Remember, new #US Secretary of State ‘Ayatollah’ Mike Pompeo, who hates #Iran with a passion, was in #SaudiArabia yesterday and is visiting #Israel right NOW This is his welcoming present
https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/990710368853987328
Syrian Government has confirmed that bases in Hama and Aleppo have been hit by enemy missiles.
https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/990710798451400704
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 54m54 minutes ago
The HUGE strikes plus subsequent explosions even caused a small earthquake: 2.6 on the Richters scale.
https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/990711841839042560
Unconfirmed, so no official Syrian and or Iranian statement yet: dozens upon dozens of (mostly) Iranian soldiers (of all factions) have been killed tonight. A bloodbath
https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/990714220831535105
It seems serious. Everything your link says seems compacted here. I am still listening.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P6w6xQniRg
Feels like a blow against humanity….yet another one……another one…another another one….
contradictory first reports about who was hit
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Ivan Sidorenko @IvanSidorenko1 12h12 hours ago
#Syria #Hama #Aleppo – two different comments from two different #SAA #SyrianArmy #SyrianArabArmy Soldiers 2 Hours ago :
– They hit an Afghan Center in Salhab – Salhab Mesyaf Aleppo
– Coalition airstrike theres Iranian and Afghan Barracks
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 11h11 hours ago
It seems Israel did not only target big ammo caches, missiles but also large contingents of IRGC-trained allied forces sleeping in their barracks. Remember what the paranoid Israelis said just a few days ago:
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 11h11 hours ago
Brasco_Aad Retweeted Brasco_Aad
Syrian military cargo plane (picking up allied forces?) flew from Teheran to Hama to Damascus less than 24 hours ago.
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 5h5 hours ago
Casualties: between 26 & 38
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 2h2 hours ago
Israeli media: The strikes targeted Iranian surface-to-surface missiles.
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 2h2 hours ago
Iranian state agency: No Iranians died in last night’s attacks. All of the dead are Syrian security forces.
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 2h2 hours ago
Brasco_Aad Retweeted
#Israel/i Security Cabinet to convene for emergency meeting
Brasco_Aad @Brasco_Aad 28m28 minutes ago
#Israel/i F-15s.
Brasco_Aad Retweeted Wael 🇸🇾 @WaelAlRussi
#BREAKING Identified; the weapons which were used yesterday against the #Iran/ian base near #Aleppo #Syria Were the #US made glide bombs the GBU-39B Here’s two images showing the GPS/anti-jam device of the bomb And the bomb glide wings. The primary suspect is #Israel
Wael 🇸🇾 @WaelAlRussi 5m5 minutes ago
Most likely the hostile jets dropped their weapons over the #Kurds controlled areas. Where as a radar operator you can’t tell if the jet is assigned to the #US coalition or not, and what’s the jet intention/mission.
Tass report…MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Monday Tehran will respond to the strikes against its facilities in Syria, according to the Al-Manar TV channel.
“Now for every your strike you will get retaliatory strikes,” Khamenei said. The Supreme Leader warned that “the era when after delivering strikes the adversary managed to avoid a response is over.”
The statement was a response to a missile strike on the positions of the Syrian army and armed units of Shia militias fighting alongside with Damascus. A Syrian military source earlier told the SANA news agency that the strikes were carried out overnight to Monday against the outskirts of Hama and Aleppo.
According to Sky News Arabiya TV, the strike destroyed a large depot with Iranian weapons 10 km to the west of Hama (220 km from Damascus). The report said there were deaths among the Syrian forces and Iranian military advisers.
A source in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied reports that 18 Iranian advisers were allegedly killed during the recent missile strike on Syria, the Mehr news agency reported.
A commander of pro-Iranian forces of Fatemiyoun Shia militias fighting alongside with the Syrian army said their base near Aleppo (360 km from Damascus) was not targeted by any strikes. According to him, the military facility is not damaged and there are no casualties among the personnel.
Lebanon’s daily Al-Akhbar blamed Israel for the recent missile strike on Syria warning about a quick and an inevitable response to this attack.
More:
http://tass.com/world/1002546
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5674503/Israeli-PM-Netanyahu-says-reveal-dramatic-news-Iran-nuclear-deal.html
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to make a televised speech this evening to reveal ‘dramatic news’ about Iran, his office said today.
:Netanyahu has called a special meeting of his Security Cabinet before he is set to speak on a ‘significant development’ on the Iran nuclear deal.
His speech follows the visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday, during which the pair discussed Iran and the accord.”
Words fail me
American Voters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhnE-uxN_A
Kent
Yeah, we can count on them
John Helmer has a thoughtful column…evidently he expects Ru to increase EW over Syria…as a minimal response that postpones actual newkillerkombattoetatoewith th’ Roooskies (As Major Kong put it in Strangelove)
He goes into considerable detail about inner workings…and posits that the EW response is the last step short of shooting.
Maybe he’s right. Actually he’s more or less right, I believe. Honestly, the logic of empire admits no other options beyond surrender or war, does it? The matter of schedule, that’s another question.
http://johnhelmer.net/the-samson-haircut-option-one-step-before-russia-opens-fire-on-american-israeli-forces/#more-19116
Half of uk 5 year olds cannot use sufficient simple words and phrases to interact with others and teachers….this is how bad it is now…so
“Today Mr Hinds is launching a £5 million pilot scheme in the North of England to help parents teach their children vocabulary at home through reading and singing nursery rhymes. It will be run by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and will provide workshops in nurseries, community centres and homes. The projects found to be most effective could later be rolled out across the country.
In addition, £8.5 million has been made available to councils across the country for language and literacy development projects for disadvantaged children.”
Flaming heck…how to teach people to be decent parents……
“A lot of hype last night as some non essential sites inside Syria were attacked, near Hama city and eastern Aleppo, the result was unfortunately the loss of 13 KIA SAA solders with few dozens WIA, and contrary to what was speculated last night, no Iranians, nor militias funded by Iran were hit. All the human losses were from one site in Hama while in Aleppo no losses at all. Regarding material loses, the attack was limited, and destroyed regular ammunition like a large cache of mortars and grad rockets, many were recently piled up to support the offensive in the Rastan pocket.
For the past few days, large Antonov cargo planes made several round trips from Iran toward Hama airbase, al Nayrab airbase near Aleppo’s International airport and T4 airbase.
It seems these activities freaked out Israel and they decided to strike in fear of shipments of ballistic missiles and sophisticated Iranian AA systems to the SyAAD, but it seems Israel got bad intel and hit areas that did not have any of the special cargo delivered by Iran, which main indicate that Syria, Iran and Russia were expecting the attack to happen, but not aware of the location of it.
Iran is indeed shipping large quantities of long range ballistic missiles to Syria for a while and most recently Iranian made AA systems and the key aspect is that Iran wants to test in real combat the new systems, that could include Raad (BUK like), Bavar 373 (S300 like) among others, it makes sense since Iran has only tested in military drills so far.
The information to last night attack is confirmed by Syrian MoD and SAA members, neither Israel nor the US have said a word of the attack so far, this is a clear failed attempt to draw Iran into a conflict with Israel, the strategy by the US, KSA and Israel continues the same, provoke Iran until it responds emotionally in counter attack Israel, but it seems the coalition of evil idiots did not learn much after 7 years losing the war of aggression against the Syrians, neither Syria, Iran, Hizballah nor Russia tend to react emotionally, any response come in a right time and asymmetrically.
Yes, Syria, Iran, Hizballah and Russia are playing for the long run, these folks do not deviate from the real objective that is to weaken the US presence in the region for good and ultimately force its retreat, all other smaller players such as KSA, UAE, Qatar and Israel are struggling to fight their last battles.
One day all the war of aggression against the Syrians would be fought in Israel, KSA, Qatar, Jordan and Turkey, all the countries that allowed the US,UK and France to create the wahhabeasts army to kill Syrians would pay with war inside its border. Form the list above Turkey may have decided a new route after the US back coup, still too soon to tell, but there is no doubt that war is coming to Israel, Jordan, KSA, Qatar and UAE, it could be civil wars or else. This day is approaching as hundreds of thousands wahhabeasts were annihilated in Syria, an army that size will be missed by their funders one day…
The offensive in Rastan is about to start while Yarmouk pocket will be shrinking everyday.
All the action in eastern Euphrates yesterday was part of Syrian Arab insurgency, no planned SAA offensive, you will hear more about insurgency in 2018, this movement is solid and there many thousands of people that will take arms to expel any foreign invaders and the traitors helping them.”
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Hello “NN”
You said, “this is a clear failed attempt to draw Iran into a conflict with Israel, the strategy by the US, KSA and Israel continues the same, provoke Iran until it responds emotionally in counter attack Israel.” You seem to know a lot about the intentions of these countries’ leaders. But can you explain why the US, KSA and Israel would want Iran to attack Israel? How would Iran attacking Israel promote the Hegemonic goals of Israel and the West?
Or is this latest attack on Syria just more of Israel’s passion for over-control? Actually, I don’t even see how Israel benefits.
NN
Thanks for posting that material. It contains a lot of very useful data of what is going on in Syria.
Japan Wants Cryptocurrency Exchanges to De-List Anonymous Altcoins: Report
“Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is pressuring local cryptocurrency exchanges to de-list privacy-centric altcoins such as Monero, Zcash, and Dash.
[…]
Japan’s licensed cryptocurrency exchanges recently formed a self-regulatory body that will have enforcement power over its members. Among other things, the organization may curate a whitelist of cryptocurrencies that exchanges are allowed to list, which would provide the FSA with an easy avenue to pressure exchanges to de-list cryptoassets of which it does not approve without having to codify the prohibition into official policy.”
… here is a dramatic high society Chinese Television (HD quality) series with English subtitles …
Heirs 01(Hawick Lau, Jiang Xin, Damian Lau, Wu Mian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRayLqiXMI
Apr 30 at 8:48 AM
Paul Joseph Watson Retweeted
Instant Reporter @InstantReporter 26m26 minutes ago
BREAKING: Parts of Israeli airspace has now been closed for civilian aircrafts. Israeli gov could give green light for massive airstrikes in #Syria & even in #Iran. PM #Netanyahu is going to give a speech tonight after intelligence uncovered a new secret nuclear program in #Iran.
Let’s keep our wits about us these days…. Pompeo and Head of Centcom met this weekend with Bibi-Boy in Israel.
So Israel is going to claim that Iran has or is seeking to have WMDs… where have we heard this script before?
Meanwhile, Israel has what… 75-150 undeclared nukes? And Iran is to be subjected to inspections and maybe a few air strikes, while Israel just gets to say “no comment”…or could Israel finally be held accountable for its dishonest policy of “nuclear ambiguity”?
The esteemed Netanyaho say Iran has bomb program…https://www.rt.com/news/425534-netanyahu-israel-iran-deal/
If this were true, then Iran would have gadgets already, like Israel.
Evidently the “ranging shots” went without reply, so Zion has intent to smash. Ah! Weiter Lebenstrum fur die NAZI Judenvolk Just like old times!
Yup so now we can surmise Israel is using the same M.O.as claims Russia had secret novichuk development and storage program…Syria secret chem weapons…therefore logically Israel is now confirmed as behind all these deliberate intentions to promulgate WW3..and behind all these false flags….
A familiar script? Netanyahu summoned his US vassals and is now calling them to war against Iran?
Where’s that US fleet at? Anybody know?
https://www.rt.com/news/425534-netanyahu-israel-iran-deal/
Ah, Pompeo. When asked about the Palestinians being killed by Israeli soldiers, he answered : “Israel has the right to defend itself…” really good guy, isn’t it ?
New Zealand, shame. Shame! For sending “a negative signal to foreign investors.” Thanks to the IMF for staying on top of this threat to the rules-based international order.
https://www.rt.com/business/425529-new-zealand-home-sales/
This is an absolutely stunning breaking interview of the Syrian independent member of parliament Fares Shehabi by the bbc hardtalk program. The msm typically try to aggressively browbeat non-western interviewees that they disagree with. Unfortunately, most of the interviewees either get cowed or they get emotional and angry.
Fares Shehabi instead is factually and rationally aggressive, fact by fact, counter-argument by counter-argument, not allowing the bbc interviewer to shut him up. It is a model of how to deal with the msm.
the msm have already managed to get the interview wiped off youtube. but it is still available here
http://www.syrianews.cc/syrian-mp-fares-shehabi-pummels-bbc-colonialist-sackur/
download it and upload it and torrent it everywhere you can so that they cannot wipe it off the net.
Watching that dreadful Beeb propagandist Sackur was a stomach – turning experience.
You can see the corruption in his dead, soulless features, in marked contrast to the dynamic and honest Shehabi.
Shehabi completely owned this creature at the end.
Greetings patrons of Saker’s café! Some recent analysis raised the question of whether another Plaza Accord is in the works. With no knowledge at all about currencies, I couldn’t determine the validity of that speculation. Does anyone have any thoughts/analysis on this?
Plaza Accord
(lines written in two minutes on the paper bill with my change for the waiter, perhaps he will read them…)
The art of laying down one’s Life
Is a Design in God’s hands, the secret
Is in having the hands of Gods,
And knowing the art of Death,
Is an art of the future blessed by those
Who understand Life’s laws of composition.
Black and white flight of a magpie
Swaying of the pink
cherry blossom branch
Link to your source(s), so we can consider this?
Source is op-ed from Global Times “China won’t repeat Japan’s Plaza Accord mistake”
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1095660.shtml
I would agree with the gist of this article. China will not agree to something like the Plaza Accord.
For that matter, it has never been clear to me why the Japanese govt ever made that concession. Clearly, a stronger yen in the mid 1980s would have hurt its export-driven economy. That would have been obvious. So, the concession was made for some other reasons, which I don’t understand. If somebody understands this better, please feel free to chime in.
My general sense of the situation in China is that Beijing is trying to stimulate domestic consumption and transition the economy to be driven by that, rather than cheap exports. In any case, global demand has dropped off and their primary export partners are drowning in debt, so they have little choice going forward. Also, the Chinese economy is plagued with a lot of bad debt which, ironically, was the situation in the Japan after the bubble burst in the early 90s.
Whatever happens, it will likely not be a repeat of the Plaza Accord.