2018/05/04 08:00:01
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My dear friends, as I promised in January, here is the time to say a few words about the calendar for 2019.
First : my idea is to have a continuity of Orthodox Calendar but this time not with icons. I’m thinking about Russian Orthodox churches interiors (pictures taken inside the church) For this I need good quality photos – the best solution (ideal) would be if those photos were(are or will be) taken by you (because of copyright issues). Once you have those photos, I will ask The Saker on how they will come to me.
There is another solution: to search on the net such photos and post the link for me (in the same way, it would be ideal if there are no copyright issues on those photos)
Second : If you have any other suggestions for a calendar for this community, please share them, or if you have any questions in this regard, ask me.
Third : any suggestions you may have, I will discuss them with Saker, Amarynth and Herb and they will make a decision. Thank You !
Perhaps we should say then that any photos should be high definition ioan? 300 dpi?
I’ll go with what you decide on the visual side, but I truly loved the icons (smiles).
Of course, the icons are the most relevant, I love them too and I would have nothing against if I’ll do it again (anyway, it would be different but in the same way beautiful). For the icons is not necessary 300 dpi, even a smaller like 72 dpi is good if there are 1280 x 1024 minimum pixels. ( in this case I would like to have also the links for download ) Gals and guys, make your offers.
Hi ioan,
I have some pix taken inside Pravoslav churches, but mostly outside Mother (and inside Sv. Vladimir at Xersones, where Mother was baptized in 988, photography was not allowed), the last time at Easter night at Aleksandr Nevskij in Paris. I also found the interior of TM cathedral very appealing.
However I do not understand your pix math. In my version it is either a size measured in pixels (e.g. 1280×1024) or a pixel density across the whole surface (e.g. 72 dpi), and when you have the digital photo (because you made it) plus a computer plus any photo software you can give your pic any size in pixels or density in dpi or both you want. Thus, for preparing such pix, a statement by the editors which size they want the pix to be would be helpful.
In reproducing anything like art, including architecture, there are copyright questions not only with the photographer but primarily with the owner of the object, thus for churches the church org. Perhaps Pravoslav church orgs will be nice enough not to care, but this is then their being nice and not the state of the laws you want to evade.
Yours, bp.
Thanks bp for your observations.
ioan, I’ve made a space for us to add all these photos and to keep everything together:
… it is here:
https://saker.community/topic/gathering-of-photos/
Those that want to add a photo should register on the first page here :
at registration and log in:
https://saker.community/
You will receive an email with log-in details and then you can go to the gathering of photos thread in the forums section.
Don’t look at anything else yet … I’m still really busy on that site and need a few more days to structure everything, but this way we can keep all the photos together and visible for everyone.
Are you happy with this ioan?
Wow !…that’s excellent ! Thank you amarynth for your effort, I recommend to everyone to take a look at it and you understood perfectly what I wanted to say with the interiors ( that photo looks good indeed ), now anyone can have an idea ( the icons are still not excluded )
I may have been wrong with that link … the gathering of photos thread is here:
https://saker.community/topic/gathering-of-photos/
Sorry amarynth, I got a reply from Auslander and I cannot log in, didn’t get my password on my mail !
OK ioan, I’ll send you a password on your mail in the next few minutes.
Before the Skripals completely disappear down the memory hole – here is an article worth reading – early reports from the scene say they were poisoned by Fentanyl.
Clinical Services Journal – reported on 5 March 2018, the following:
Salisbury District Hospital declared a “major incident” on Monday 5 March, after two patients were exposed to an opioid […] It followed an incident hours earlier in which a man and a woman were exposed to the drug Fentanyl in the city centre. The opioid is 10,000 times stronger than heroin.
Clinical Services Journal is a specialist publication for healthcare professionals in the UK’s acute healthcare sector. It is thus a serious publication written by and for people very familiar with issues such as opioid poisoning.
https://www.sott.net/article/384462-Salisbury-gate-smoking-gun-found-Initial-reports-said-Skripals-poisoned-with-Fentanyl
We get impression UK govt is deliberately destroying evidence in Skripal case – Russian Ambassador
by Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/425777-skripal-evidence-classified-poisoning/
On 4 March 2018 two Russian citizens Sergei and Yulia Skripal were reportedly poisoned in Salisbury, Wiltshire with the toxic chemical named A-234 under the British classification.
On 12 March Foreign Secretary Johnson summoned me to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and said that Russia was “highly likely” responsible for the attack. He invited us to respond by the next day, whether this had been a direct act by the state or Russia had lost control over this nerve agent.
The incident had international repercussions, including expulsion of 150 Russian diplomats from 28 countries, notwithstanding the fact that the charges were based on assumptions and unverifiable intelligence. The Western countries lost the same number of Moscow-based staff. Meanwhile, the British government provided no evidence either to the public, its allies or Russia. Subsequent events revealed that no proof of Russia’s involvement existed.
On 1 May, National Security adviser Sir Mark Sedwill confirmed that (despite a number of previous leaks) no suspect had been identified, a statement that speaks for itself.
Two months have passed since the poisoning and more than a month since Prime Minister May accused Russia of this crime. However, despite our numerous requests, we have not been granted access to the investigation. The FCO and the Metropolitan Police have refrained from contacts.
We have been denied consular access to our citizens in violation of the Vienna Convention on the Consular Relations and the bilateral Consular Convention. We are still unable to verify their whereabouts, health and wishes. Considering all the facts, we now have more reasons to qualify this situation as an abduction of the two Russian nationals. We will continue to seek the truth and demand answers from the British side.
We also get the impression that the British government is deliberately destroying the evidence, classifying all remaining materials and making independent investigation impossible. Sergei Skripal’s pets were incinerated without having been tested for exposure to nerve agents. Then a decontamination of the area was announced, which reportedly included destruction of potentially contaminated objects along with Sergei Skripal’s house, the “Mill” pub and the “Zizzi” restaurant.
The media coverage of the Salisbury poisoning is not as free as it should be. On 8 April it was reported that the National Security Council “had seized control” over the media response to the incident. On 18 April the media regulator Ofcom announced investigations into the RT channel regarding Salisbury. Is it a coincidence that no one has ever seen any photos of the Skripals since the incident, and no attempts have been made by the media to interview them? Hospital privacy and security might be an excuse, but it looks like the Skripals’ privacy is better protected than that of pop stars and even the Royal family.
The UK has also refused to interact with Russia in the OPCW. Instead of using the standard procedures, whereby Britain could have engaged Russia directly or through the OPCW Executive Council, the British government has chosen to cooperate with the OPCW Technical Secretariat under a classified arrangement. On 13 April Russia itself initiated Article IX of the Chemical Weapons Convention procedure to obtain a response to a list of questions to the UK submitted via the OPCW.
Replies received are unsatisfactory and don’t answer our legitimate and reasonable questions and thus don’t help establish the truth. As to the OPCW report, it clearly lacked impartiality as the OPCW-designated laboratories were given only one task, which was to check whether the nerve agent identified by the UK was present in the biomedical samples, and the samples were taken only in the locations designated by the British side.
Meanwhile, the UK is depicted, by the Conservative government, as the “leader” of the Western efforts to “hold Russia to account”. It seems that the Cabinet has no interest in functional bilateral relations, which have reached a new low since the Salisbury poisoning. Russia is again presented as a “cyber threat” and the British public is being prepared for a massive cyber attack against Russia, which would purport to be retaliatory by nature, but in fact would constitute an unprovoked use of force. The Foreign Office has ignored the Russian offer for consultations on cyber-security.
Nevertheless, every day the Embassy receives letters from the British public with regrets over the current official policy towards Russia. People fail to understand how it is possible to blame Russia without any proof or evidence being presented to the international community. This contradicts the British tradition of open and fair work of judiciary. Many believe that this policy is rooted in the anti-Russian sentiment within the current Conservative government.
The Embassy has published a report “Salisbury: a classified case”, which summarizes the sequence of events and Britain’s and Russia’s positions. I invite the British side to give it a thorough consideration. The list of questions to the British government is constantly growing. What we demand in the first place is transparency.
‘No need to lie’: Zeman says Czech Republic tested nerve agent similar to Novichok used on Skripals
https://www.rt.com/news/425783-zeman-czech-republic-produced-novichok/
The Czech Republic has apparently produced and tested a nerve agent of the so-called Novichok family, the country’s president Milos Zeman told state media. His statement follows an inquiry conducted by the Czech security services.
“One has to conclude that our country produced and tested Novichok, even though [it was produced] only in small quantities and then destroyed,” the Czech leader told the Barrandov TV Channel. “It would be hypocritical to pretend it is not so,” he said, adding that “there is no need to lie.” …
“The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons stated the nerve agent allegedly used in Salisbury for the Skripal poisoning was of high purity and resistant to weather conditions.
“In response to questions from the media, the OPCW Spokesperson stated that the OPCW would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in Salisbury on 4 March 2018. The quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams. However, the analysis of samples collected by the OPCW Technical Assistance Visit team concluded that the chemical substance found was of high purity, persistent and resistant to weather conditions,” the OPCW statement read.
Earlier, the New York Times reported, citing Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, that 50 or 100 grams of the substance had been used in Salisbury.”
Russia must demand the Director General must go…
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Four Ways the Crime Lab Can Frame You…or Ivan, or anybody. Keep a copy to show your mates…
audio and transcript…
Obviously Mr S and kind is/are kidnapped in a new and ever so special way
The Crime Lab, be it in Podunk, Hokum, or London…is crooked. Their job is to support whatever the story may be… https://www.corbettreport.com/crimelab/
But of course this must be fakenuz…right?
Extra thought…the D G said he had been “informed”…obviously completely badly…wonder if it was the same guy that had
“informed “BJ..
Hi Babushka,
This article was posted in the last cafe by AfricanPostman, but it’s worthy of a re-post.
One of the author’s claims that I found especially interesting was that Downing Street has effectively gagged the UK media via a DSMA (Defence and Security Media Advisory) notice on the Skripal incident.
I’d be curious to hear more about this angle as, if true, it would represent a pretty dramatic censorship effort.
Acacia, the UK government issues “D notices” whenever it wishes.
Amb. Craig Murray has been writing about the “d-notices” issued to the English un-free press.
“Where they tell you not to look.”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/where-they-tell-you-not-to-look/
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and btw, its always good advice to look where they tell you not to look.
” don’t look at me, I’m naked…”
“of course I won’t, you’re faked “
It is highly likely that the British government is a serial liar.
The 101st Giro d’Italia starts in an hour. This year it starts in Jerusalem.
https://twitter.com/giroditalia/status/992323085884903426
Reports that Israeli Police are calling Palestinian activists in Israel with threats should they dare to protest the Giro.
https://twitter.com/PACBI/status/992314497716105216
Israeli bullet destroys dream of Gaza cyclist heading to Asian Games
GAZA STRIP – The moment Alaa al-Dali was shot in his right leg by an Israeli sniper, a long sought-after dream came crashing to the ground with him. The 21-year-old cyclist had been training for months to compete in the 2018 Asian Games being held in Indonesia this summer.
“My dream flashed before my eyes as if it had already become a thing of the past,” al-Dali recalled.
He was participating in the protests kicking off the 46-day Great Return March campaign on Land Day, 30 March, calling for Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their former homes now inside Israel, when he was shot near the eastern Gaza border fence.
“I knew the moment I was shot and fell to the ground, I knew that I would never be able to ride a bicycle again in my life,” al-Dali told Middle East Eye. “I have been training for months, for at least six hours a day […] to represent my team and raise my country’s flag at the Asian Games.”
After undergoing nine operations, al-Dali’s family was told by doctors that his leg would have to be amputated due to damage to his bones and tissue caused by an alleged “exploding” bullet, which is prohibited by international humanitarian law. It is designed to fragment and explode upon impact, smashing bones and tearing blood vessels. …
http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/israeli-sniper-ends-palestinian-cyclist-s-dream-1587355566
Following Arens ‘warning’ to Russia, former bouncer Israeli Defence Minister Lieberman is trotted out to make ‘conciliatory’ noises :
https://sputniknews.com/world/201805031064127380-israel-wants-russia-to-respect-interests-in-syria/
Perhaps Arens is an hubristic idiot too far, even for the Red Shield colony…
Scary if they think Lieberman is the reasonable one ….
I hope the first thing that Russia told Israel is that Israel’s security interests end at the Israeli border.
Time for Russia Rep Shulgin to OPCW to demand the Director General resign for claiming this methinks
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805041064138604-salisbury-agent-killing/
Plus
..https://www.rt.com/op-ed/425777-skripal-evidence-classified-poisoning/
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805041064138731-skripal-case-anti-terrorism/
Plus Zakharova statement on Czech Presidents statement the N was made there
http://tass.com/politics/1002821
Posted on Sushi11 yesterday the article re load of this N was on the door yet noone there died ….messily treaded around Salisbury….even though so little is apparently lethal….and easily disabled by wet conditions…..Russia has produced a document too
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5686471/Sergei-Skripal-daughter-got-Novichk-SHOES-spread-deadly-nerve-agent.html
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/425777-skripal-evidence-classified-poisoning/
Putin looks at mending fences with West to revive Russia’s economy
https://archive.is/1Ynms#selection-1641.0-1641.66
The Financial Times?? Seriously??
An Anglo Fascist Empire publication, citing “a government official” [cough cough] and claims of what Putin is contemplating [how do they do it, read minds from miles away and no direct contact?. Is’ just magic is what it is] and you offer this for validation??
No, Putin is not going to take any notice of anything Kudrin says unless it fits with logic that Putin likes, and is in tune with other advisors plus Putins own [Ph.D economics] views and, finally at the end of the day Putin’s own personal decision.
He just listens, that’s all : thus obviating any accusation of sidelining those of Western persuasions.
You need to watch interviews held with those who have known Putin for many years.
“Is it possible to change his mind?”
“No”.
“Can you argue with him?”
“No”
“Is he open to pressure?
No”.
I am noticing something curious.
Lately, [mostly on the Jew hate/bait site Russia Insider, but now quoted here] a change of wind direction regarding Western attacks on Putin.
For so long we had the “Putin is an evil, strong, powerful, demon. He can interfere with elections in US, he can attack our power grid, our phones, our minds. He is all powerful and leaps tall buildings with a single bound”
Then this maybe, I suspect, caused a pause for thought. It was supposed to be “Putin will destroy you, but no fears, we the mighty — whoever – will protect you”
Now I suspect there’s been a “Hang on”. Seems lots and lots of people actually like – a powerful man. He’s garnishing admiration , even in the US. Comments all over the UK say “At least he stands up for his people. He stood up against the US of A. He’s strong leader. I wish we had one like him”.
And someone who actually is a sort of semi Asian expert has said “OH, yes, didn’t you know?. Asians worship strong men who are leaders. They dont care if they are an authoritarian dictator”.
So the wind has changed.
Now I am reading stuff like this crap Anon. is shoving. That, in fact, Putin is weak. He failed over Ukraine – the US won and invaded with impunity. He failed to stop the recent strikes in Syria, Israel is mocking him and he can do nothing. IN fact he pleaded with NuttyYahoo not to do it [Urging doesn’t actually constitute pleading, but what the heck]. Ad\nd more. He is failing here, there and everywhere, he is accused of — get this — cowardice and / or collusion over not supplying Syria with S-300’s yet.
It’s a new attack coming on Ladies and Gentlemen, brought to you by Soros & Deep State Ltd, the only people who think you can change horses mid stream and no-one will notice.
right n Isa;
btw today was Haymarket massacre 1898 and Ohio State student murder 1970.
And today is Uncle Karl’s Birthday…
But for the obviously ordered murders …Crosby Stills Nash & Young Ohio 1970 Kent State University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68g76j9VBvM
Enjoy!
For Karl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJJJeQyZS9w
And Pete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v85NWc0RIKc
And Uncle Vlad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs
They, you know who, are terrified of us…
“Ad\nd more. He is failing here, there and everywhere, he is accused of — get this — cowardice and / or collusion over not supplying Syria with S-300’s yet.”
Anonymous on May 04, 2018 · at 9:33 am EST/EDT was not me. Nor have I read that article.
It is true, I have complained bitterly that Putin (or rather the Russian / Global Oligarchy) will not supply S300 but I have never stated it was related to cowardice. Neither have I ever complained of their “failure” in Ukraine – like a well oiled machine all contrived conflict is proceeding according to very well laid plan.
Collusion is 100% accurate though. None of this type of issue ever arose when the ideological difference existed between State Communism of the USSR and State Capitalism of the West – “partners” did not exist. Economic interdepende was minimal.
If it weren’t collusion then cowardice could be an explanation but, since both “sides” have weapons aplenty to annihilate each other that seems unlikely as the underlying motivation.
What therefore is the most likely reason to explain reality?
Collusion.
You’d do better to identify the real enemy rather than berating your real friends (me) or repeating your childish infatuation with base attraction to machismo (or wishing to p*** on English in your pubs).
Just like Trump – if you imagine that no one is pulling the strings behind the “unknown Putin” then you are deluded. Everything really is just a rich mans trick.
“What good would a world without Russia be?”
becomes, after Alexander Zasypkin “We will shoot down the missiles and target the positions from where they were launched”
“What good would a world without power and (Saudi S400) money be?”
The real opposition (a short period of the ascendency of the USSR) was overcome last century and wishful thinking is not the source of a just alternative.
Of course, as with you, all just my personal opinion – what else have we got.
If I may quote:”You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts”.
If you want to say that Putin is merely someone’s puppet who pulls his strings, provide the facts that support your contention.
Or I may feel obliged to say that you seem to be a brain dead mushroom filled with bitter cynicism because you failed to take care of your soul and have no twits to see past the way the Deep State is manipulating your perceptions into being just what they want them to be.
Just my option, of course.
“If you want to say that Putin is merely someone’s puppet who pulls his strings, provide the facts that support your contention
If I may quote African Postman /syria-sitrep-how-the-russian-general-stuff-is-fooling-the-us-and-israel/#comment-518889
“My friend, we have no guns, and we dont live in the proximities of the gods and their secrets, so let us be confident, provided that we have the right to check their actions from time to time.”
In a similar fashion, those of religious faith have varying degrees of confidence in their belief. However, there is no way to prove the substance of their opinion.
If you wish, search string “who is pulling Putins strings” will provide abundant plausible members of the Russian Oligarchy. Whether they (or others) are directly pulling his strings (or he is, in fact) the “alpha” male is immaterial. We can only logically discuss policy results.
So, for facts, we are left to depend on real effects.
Why do you consider, with direct intervention in September 2015 (and every opportunity prior) that “Russia” has left the SAA directly exposed to multiple strikes from multiple belligerents without the possibility of extensive, self-controlled, S300 protection?
In light of this fact, how do you conflate “Russian” actions as opposition to the empire rather than a part of it while hundreds of thousands die (and continue to do so). If belligerents knew a strike against SAA would result in near certain destruction of the offensive assets – do you imagine the attacks would occur in the first place?
Instead, global arms sales increase
global-arms-industry-first-rise-arms-sales-2010
and the Russian arms industry learns new tricks
Syria experience helps Russia build tank for urban combat
but how many have been supplied to SAA
New T-72 version spotted in Syria
It is a carefully controlled, reasonably low-level, conflict
Documenting Syrian Arab Army’s Armoured Vehicles Losses
“In 2016, thanks to foreign reinforcements provided by Iran, air support from Russia, and small shipments of modern T-72 variants and T-90 tanks (And later larger shipments of T-62Ms and BMPs), the Syrian government started gaining the upper hand in the Syrian Civil War.
…[]…
Also, in early 2017, the supply of TOW ATGMs significantly slowed down and a few months later aforementioned Timber Sycamore programme was terminated. While both rebels and IS were still able to exact a significant price for government advances in their territory, they were only able to slow down this advance – rarely stopping or reversing it for longer than a few weeks.
…[]…
The 6th largest tank fleet in the world has arguably been destroyed… the inability or unwillingness to learn from previous costly mistakes, the lack of proper combined arms training, obsolete equipment, and a proliferation of powerful anti-tank weapons.
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Why do you consider the “Russians” have sold S400 to the Saudis (presumably they have not even been offered for sale to the SAA)?
The Russian deployment to Syria is not designed to win the war but rather prolong it ad-infinitum.
From where/what do you draw your confidence?
Troll.
I have no intention of wasting time and energy explaining to you from where I draw my confidence.
it’s the old adage “For those who cannot understand, no explanation is possible. For this who do understand, no explanation is necessary. “
“Troll”
I suspected you would not attempt to answer why S300 has not been made available to Syria over the years nor why S400 is sold to Saudis.
Some Welsh are obviously as rude and deluded as some English.
Putin named Medevev as his “prime minister” again shortly after being sworn in.
Craig Murray still going on the Skripal case. Interesting to see the UK authorities issued a D notice to stop the media reporting on the Trump Dossier/Steele etc link:
Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/probable-western-responsibility-for-skripal-poisoning/
Wind of Siberia, this move is more than one-week old, even two. It began here in fact, with Sushi backing fully the BZ hypothesis (and yet without explaining his volte face regarding the “standard procedure” for testing claimed earlier). After piling the contradictions about the event of the poisoning itself (on the park, by Russian food, at home, by the door knob, thru food coming Russia or perfume, and on and forth) not a single official explanation holds water and people have to pay attention to what seemed marginal at the begining, with the first fentanyl assessment now deleted from medical official site. The UK-government-did-it case has gained a momentum by default in some sort : what appears clearly now is the constant effort of the government to hide or erase or censor or delete or abolish or classify one thing or another, In short, to make impossible any opened and falsifiable exam of the case. The Dnotice is the harder evidence of this all organised lie. C.Murray had a follow up to the article you just cite.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/where-they-tell-you-not-to-look/
But while wating for Sushi, go to this state of the art summary if you have some reading access to French language
http://www.entelekheia.fr/skripal-et-le-poison-de-poutine-la-theorie-du-complot-du-gouvernement-britannique/
No doubt the servile capitalist press will soon discover a Russian plot masterminded by Comrade VVP…in Lake Tahoe… “Bear invites himself into Tahoe home for lunch”
This is merely the thin edge of the wedge…
http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article210427724.html
I assume that in his spare time VVP trains saboteur bears…
Now for the beach landings to reclaim lost property…like the rest of the US westcoast.
Who would question such a claim, after, ahemm “suitable media preparation”?
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In another area. Last Cafe, Paul wrote:
The only Englishman sent to Auschwitz – Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1ZAYE397w
Thanks. Video begins, however, with a canard… There is no tangible evidence that the person Hitler was the designer of or even aware of the extermination. No diaries, no written records from the circle around the weirdo-fallguy Mr H. Rather, the impression that forms is one of betrayal and set-up. By? MI6… Two of the evident goals were to 1) create the exodus of “zionists” to further destabilize Palestine, and, 2) to exterminate the Slavic People.
What we see to-day are similar methods on a more diabolical application, for similar goal – to rule world heartland, or destroy it.
MI6 created, from suitable pieces, Zionism as a tool to assist the “Atlanticists” to control the US itself. Yagotta look deep…
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in other matter…Sam posted “Putin has said: “Aleksei Leonidovich Kudrin has not left my team. We are old comrades, he’s my friend. He did a lot for the country. I’m proud that this man worked in my government. Such people are needed and will be needed in current and future governments.” ”
Keep your friends close, enemies closer…
I too am surprised by the factional attraction to the “west” that VVP seems to be presiding over.
I believe he’s running a little game, but…we shall see…
English speaking nations share a common process of oligarchical rot.
It started in the head (GB) 300 years ago and overtook the torso (USA) quite decisively a little over a century ago, cemented by the “Special Relationship” engineered against the World Island’s heart (Germany) quite out in the open, but more clandestinely against its body (greater extent of territory, resources, and then population) in Russia (priority target # 2 on the surface, but fundamentally target # 1) followed by China, principally.
The problem the Western “Elites” of a Moral and Spiritual Garbage Can (Empire) have is that divide and conquer through warfare has become untenable in the nuclear age and increasing numbers of victims, including in the Head or Home Country of England are waking up defecting from the Empire idea.
Now the world is headed for a major reset of bankrupt Empire Frauds and Swindles which Jim Willie summarizes quite nicely here:
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2018/05/jim-willie-global-reset-challenge-ultimate-twist-2943347.html
I have heard of Willie before but read very little by him until this morning. He came more to the forefront of my attention because he is credited with nicknaming “London Paul” of the Sirius Report….which I decided to subscribe to two day ago (daily short audio only podcasts) because that Londoner seemed such a prime example of a person from Empire having gotten out of the Imperial mindset altogether, and having become a patriot of not only the world, but the “Mother Country” UK where he was born. Soon enough, evidently Paul (and many, many others) recognized that the scourge of the oligarchism that radiated out of Venice to England and Netherlands and then to the appendages as far away as Austrlia and New Zealand, besides just the greater body of English speakers in the USA and Canada had made his native land something shamefully evil.
Americans in growing numbers are going through the same process of awakening Paul seems such a prime example of IMHO..
Ditto Canadians, Aussies and Kiwis.
Other people around the world that threw in their lot with these “winners” are also getting increasingly uneasy.
You know, Uncle Karl mooted idea that, at least in non Malthusian realm, man is product of his environment. In capitalism man is subject to the capitalist environment. Without Jubilee to regularly relieve the moral corruption and contradictions of capitalists themselves, they gradually become, under this steady influence, more corrupt – this by degrees – until Jubilee become impossible and a singularity (which is a couple formed from war and revolution (always a couple all joined together in logic)).
At such a time Property is Everything, and People entirely disposable – merely useless eaters…Unnütze Esser
Today they go by less frank terms, “homeless” etc.
The idea here being is that the “moral rot” is a necessarily unavoidable phenomenon, if one stays in Capitalist Mode too long… It is also the basis of VBD (Very Bad Decisions). It is defined by Delusional Thinking. Magical Thinking…
That is just where we are at this oh-so-special moment in History. Reality, when it asserts, sweeps everything anew…unpleasantly.
This scene minds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZQox85JLI (kinda waiting for the next farcical event…)
So while waiting for elevator door, Music (10 hours of special elevator music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zQTmkY7GI Enjoy!
“English speaking nations share a common process of oligarchical rot.”
Hahaha.
/sochi-is-russias-tropical-paradise/#comment-214033
Quote:
Russians are getting wealthier but inequality grows
Published time: 11 Oct, 2012 12:07
https://www.rt.com/business/russia-households-wealth-creditsuisse-169/
Gap between rich & poor in Russia among world’s biggest
Published time: 9 Oct, 2013 16:00
https://www.rt.com/business/russia-world-household-wealth-944/
Gap between rich and poor the biggest threat to global economy – World Economic Forum
Published time: 17 Jan, 2014 13:23
https://www.rt.com/business/world-economic-forum-inequality-754/
Is the Wealth Gap Growing in Russia?
A new study claims that wealth inequality in Russia is getting worse, and proposes ways to rectify the problem
End Quote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
“Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning ‘few’, and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning ‘to rule or to command’)[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people might be distinguished by nobility, wealth, family ties, education or corporate, religious or military control.”
From 01 January 2006, inheritance tax was abolished in Russia
I suspect Putin is keeping the door open to the west, even if most of his business is now done in the east. So he keeps Kudrin handy. Kudrin is an Atlanticist so he has friendly connections west, plus he was the one who championed the idea of national reserve funds that have bailed out the Russian government more than once. And Putin values loyalty, so he would remain loyal for a long time with a colleague, even if that colleague was asked to resign from office.
Seems the White Helmets have failed to deliver the right level of ‘professionalism’ to their US funders :
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805041064135803-usa-stops-white-helmets-funding/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
Presumably the utterly amateurish effort used to justify FUKUS intervention in Douma has raised questions about whether US/NATO are getting ‘bang for their buck’.
It will be interesting to see who they will finance to produce better agit – prop…
They will be painted over as “Grey Heros!” – ie simply re-named…
My thoughts exactly!
I hope they put “Sham” in the new name again, like they did with Al-Qaeda in Syria.
George Cloony will step in-another air head with too much money.
Interesting, Samantha Power went ballistic on twitter when news came out and was promptly hammered in response-gad, what an embarassment she was but now, another psychopath, haley-seems to be a prerequisite.
I’m dreaming of a White Helmet
Another fake that comes and goes
Where George Soros glistens
And crap ’enlistens’
To hear praise in media shows
I’m dreaming of a White Helmet
With BBC approval right
May there days be merry with bribes
And next year a Nobel piece of prize
Nussiminen, welcome to the Deadly Poets Society ! you have the ironic stuff in a poetic way, it would be good if you may produce more, for us to have a good smile, for you to increase your muses’s energy.
Thanks for sharing !
Instead of ‘deadly’, could we be ‘he resurrected poet society’?
k
Yes, you’re right (remember, this name came at the beginning as an variant from the “Deadly Poets Society” film) Resurrected sounds more optimistic, more for Life, indeed. (RPS)
PS. still waiting for your Cafe poem part two.
I’ll take the heat ioan.
Though I liked parts of the movie a lot other parts, (eg the suicide) including the title…..not so much.
A lot of humanity comes through…but it IS Hollywood.
It is part of a matrix that at its head is EVIL, even if the human heart is allowed to be depicted.
So unlike the banned poetic society or the sacrificed young man, my thought was to preserve the most of the best spirit of the movie by simply adding the suffix “ly” to Dead Poets Society to invoke a rather more potent resolve to do that which we probably cannot imagine Dear Dennis ever doing, namely, to Crush the Head of the Serpent of Empire Evil With His Heel …..with DEADLY force and grind it into the pavement.
Then other parts of poetic expression that are more joyous, more gentle, more sublime and agapic forms of love can manifest in calm and radiant peace, and beauty……with some security.
Thank you, ioan!
The UK national anthem seems quite tempting to fiddle-a-little with these days:
God save our BOJO ass
Hairstyle of utmost class
May is his lass
Send him victorious
Sexy and glorious
Novichok stoned before us
God save this ass
That’s another gem !…
I had never heard of Thomas Merton but an Off-Guardian thread on his suspicious death prompted me to look up quotes. He seems to have had the ability to formulate some of my half-formed thoughts some 50 years before they floated into my mind. A Christian friend says he was much influenced by Merton’s writing when young. He was probably martyred for promoting peace and inter-ethnic understanding, same as MLK, and around the same time.
“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation “
‘we are the warmakers’, sit down with a nice cup of tea in the sun, and watch the flowers grow, pondering deeply. . .
@Anon: “Let’s sit down with a nice cup of tea”. Tah! Better than getting up to kill 3 Million Arabs.
Do you think your Christian friend would even have considered inequality of, say for example only, lbgt rights in some jurisdictions as injustice or tyranny in themselves?
@Anon: “LGBT Rights!” That’s MSM opium for the masses, to cloud their thinking and hide major injustice: namely, robbery and extortion with mass murder committed by the AZC who own the MSM opinion-formers.
Christ was not crucified when He sympathised with sexual transgressors, but when He drove the money-men out of the Temple.
Some interesting recent news on currency swap agreements
Nigeria and China agree to 2.36 billion currency swap agreement
http://www.africanews.com/2018/05/03/nigeria-china-agree-236-bn-currency-swap-agreement/
Indonesia and Japan agree to rupiah-yen swap
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/indonesia-japan-amend-bilateral-swap-deal-include-rupiahyen
Trump wins the first round in US-China trade war
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/386286-trump-wins-the-first-round-in-us-china-trade-war
Trump’s Team Gives A Master Class In How Not To Deal With China
or
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2018/05/04/how-not-to-deal-with-china-trumps-team-in-beijing/#255d12d93be0
“A common epithet for an unwieldy piece of work is to say it looks like it was designed by a committee. That describes the Trump administration’s leaked list of demands presented to China in Beijing this week. The only real surprise is that the U.S. delegation did not add the symbolic flourish of delivering the demands in a gunboat.”
And http://www.breitbart.com/ has world most stupid commentator.
https://sputniknews.com/business/201805051064169417-us-econimists-letter/
Loads of economists sign letter of warning to Trump not to begin next greatest economic depression by trade wars…
article on “Emerging World Brain” ( and it is not silicon-based) … Leads one to consider how the discussion in this Cafe is so valuable and that the work that the Moderators do is, indeed, high service
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-02/emerging-global-brain
Yesterday , Sun + red Uranus merged their ligt and my greatest scholar for ten yearsafter called on me after 12+ years.
61 years old, mother, spouse, secretary, now some years part-time paid ‘professional grandmother’ to her daughter’s 2 kids, instead of working in the system. Daughter is major Tonmeister, has to travel to where Concerts are to be mastert. She couldn’t perform this, without such naturally feeling plus professional mother, paid by her.
400 km east grandmother is at home at her household with spouse, when kid-mother is at home herself in south- west Germany.
To me she is another example, to invent new adaption on a natural trieving trail, men are expected to. Life is experiment of God, or ‘spirit of universe’.
In this Cafe all this ‘news-agency + discussion’ – part of the cafe is to me the ‘western’ part, the other, ‘eastern’ part, where I feel at home, is the poetical corner of dead and thriving poets, who, like leaves telling us about nature, tell us about rhythms and meaning of life … as do the gods of the heavenly circle above Earth.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this merge of political, poetical, astrological and mystical meaning
can’t be anything but valuable and is unique. Naked capitalism is near but has no Cafe.
As valuable like Saker, being born in the mornings before noon, like Vladimir, born in the mornings, like the Donald, as valuable the quarter between sunrise and noon is filled with meaning of coming times, like current three years Saturn’s chain in Capricorn = before time, and Neptune lonesome security far before time in the lap of God.
The new world has to be born by each single individual, beginning with matrimony.
And each one’s before-noon- quarter containes the unconscious message of the future, to be passed into time, which each one’s horoscope makes visible in an abstract symbolicly true way.
So much for my vision in the vicinity of Carl Jung, which has it’s place, since beginning,
in the Cafe of the great humble Saker
deeply admired with so many
by mundo.
Hi mundo ! because you wrote so beautiful about this Cafe, I’d made an exception for you :
Himmlische Konzert
by ioan
Die Zeit hat keine Sorgen
Ob ist Abend oder Morgen
Jeden Tag und jeder Nacht,
Zeit ist immer an die Macht.
Zeit wird laufen schnell und still,
Unberührt von wünsch und will
Sterne laufen immer wieder
Denn sie singen neue Lieder
Und beeinflusst unsre Welt:
Mit der größte, himmlische Konzert!
Heavenly Concert
Time is not at all worried
Whether it’s evening or morning
Every day and every night,
Time is always in it’s right.
Time will run fast but still,
Untouched by desire and will
Stars keep going all along
Cause they sing always new songs
Influencing world’s events :
With the biggest, heavenly concert!
“Time will run fast but still,
Untouched by desire and will”
Thank you ioan and keep it going
down from heaven heartily flowing
great ! but difficult to translate, if i may, here is another, freer attempt
Time is and lives without a care
Whether it be evening or morning
For each and every day and night
There dwells in time what is right
In peace above desire and yearning
The stars ever again run their course
And with singing of songs ever new
Holding their sway over our world
With the grandest heavenly concert !
Thank you for joining the play with time and rhyme
You are welcome, but who will set your beautiful play with time and rhyme to music ?
symnk
What are we to make of this RT report:
“Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will visit Moscow to partake in the Victory Day commemoration on May 9, according to the Kremlin Press service. The two leaders will discuss the ongoing “regional situation,” Netanyahu’s office said, without giving any details. Putin invited Netanyahu to the Victory Day celebrations on April 30, during a phone talk between the two leaders.”
And just as important.What must the Syrian and Iranian governments be thinking about this.I guess we’ll see the child butcher Netanyahu all smiles in a place of honor at the Victory Day parade.I can’t even say just how revolting that will be.The dozens of Palestinian friends I have on FB .Daily post pictures of the homicidal Israeli butchery of their people in Gaza and the WB.The young children and the aged terrorized and murdered by the Israeli beasts. I’ve seen so many horror pictures that I can barely stomach viewing them.And here the Israeli hyena will be honored on Victory Day,”tell me it ain’t so Joe,tell me it ain’t so”!.
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That makes me headaches too, especially after reading this article : /the-warmakers/
Of course the optics are bad, or even a bit sickening.
Here’s a thought, though: if you disagree with a colleague and there needs to be a discussion, do you just avoid them completely, wait for the discussion to happen later and possibly on their terms, or do you invite them to a party that you’ll be organizing anyway? At the party, you act friendly but not too friendly, and discuss your differences while your opponent is floating on a bit of hospitality.
To me, the latter sounds like a better way to establish a position of strength.
This may be very clever (I hope). See all this Nitwityahoo! Do you really want to mess with this? Or is it a better idea for you to behave? Just sayin’
Exactly. Not quite a charm offensive, but an indirect show of force.
There is a theory about the famous gardens of Versailles. Beyond the evident solar and Apollonian themes, which served as metaphors for the Sun King himself, the gardens are noteworthy for their immense scale and strictly-ordered space.
The theory is that foreign leaders visiting the Château de Versailles would be invited to stroll in the gardens, the unspoken aim being to subtly and elegantly impress upon them the French ability to order and control vast areas of land. Invariably drawing a comparison with the more meagre gardens of their homeland, the visitors might conclude that just as the French had imposed order on this land, stretching beyond what the eye could behold, so too they could order and control the space of another country.
UB1, I tried to reply with the following to Isabella on May 05, 2018 · at 3:50 pm EST/EDT but it has not appeared there. It fits as easily in reply to your own “What are we to make” comment though, so I will attempt to post here:
“If you want to say that Putin is merely someone’s puppet who pulls his strings, provide the facts that support your contention
If I may quote African Postman /syria-sitrep-how-the-russian-general-stuff-is-fooling-the-us-and-israel/#comment-518889
“My friend, we have no guns, and we dont live in the proximities of the gods and their secrets, so let us be confident, provided that we have the right to check their actions from time to time.”
In a similar fashion, those of religious faith have varying degrees of confidence in their belief. However, there is no way to prove the substance of their opinion.
If you wish, search string “who is pulling Putins strings” will provide abundant plausible members of the Russian Oligarchy. Whether they (or others) are directly pulling his strings (or he is, in fact) the “alpha” male is immaterial. We can only logically discuss policy results.
So, for facts, we are left to depend on real effects.
Why do you consider, with direct intervention in September 2015 (and every opportunity prior) that “Russia” has left the SAA directly exposed to multiple strikes from multiple belligerents without the possibility of extensive, self-controlled, S300 protection?
In light of this fact, how do you conflate “Russian” actions as opposition to the empire rather than a part of it while hundreds of thousands die (and continue to do so). If belligerents knew a strike against SAA would result in near certain destruction of the offensive assets – do you imagine the attacks would occur in the first place?
Instead, global arms sales increase
global-arms-industry-first-rise-arms-sales-2010
and the Russian arms industry learns new tricks
Syria experience helps Russia build tank for urban combat
but how many have been supplied to SAA
New T-72 version spotted in Syria
It is a carefully controlled, reasonably low-level, conflict
Documenting Syrian Arab Army’s Armoured Vehicles Losses
“In 2016, thanks to foreign reinforcements provided by Iran, air support from Russia, and small shipments of modern T-72 variants and T-90 tanks (And later larger shipments of T-62Ms and BMPs), the Syrian government started gaining the upper hand in the Syrian Civil War.
…[]…
Also, in early 2017, the supply of TOW ATGMs significantly slowed down and a few months later aforementioned Timber Sycamore programme was terminated. While both rebels and IS were still able to exact a significant price for government advances in their territory, they were only able to slow down this advance – rarely stopping or reversing it for longer than a few weeks.
…[]…
The 6th largest tank fleet in the world has arguably been destroyed… the inability or unwillingness to learn from previous costly mistakes, the lack of proper combined arms training, obsolete equipment, and a proliferation of powerful anti-tank weapons.
“
Why do you consider the “Russians” have sold S400 to the Saudis (presumably they have not even been offered for sale to the SAA)?
The Russian deployment to Syria is not designed to win the war but rather prolong it ad-infinitum.
From where/what do you draw your confidence?
This is the announcement on the Kremlin site Uncle Bob
“Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu will make a working visit to Moscow on May 9. He has been invited to attend a military parade marking the 73rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Mr Netanyahu will also hold talks with President Vladimir Putin.”
That’s it. Nothing about being a “Guest of Honour”. That’s something that the Duran editor made up. In fact, it’s a working visit, that’s all. As to the invite to the Parade – it’s protocol. Remember, when Oliver Stone was making his documentary, he was there at this time, and he got an invite too. For a visiting Head of State to get an invite is standard procedure, that’s all. It doesn’t mean a thing.
Note that Netanyahu will go to Russia, following a phone call from the President of Russia.
It sounds a lot like a summons to me. I remember getting those. “Isabella, the Headmistress wishes to see you at 4pm in her office”.
They were never good news :-)
However, diplomacy and public face are important. Both are going to pretend they are friends, and all is well.
I’d doubt it. We should wait and see.
But perhaps President Putin has seen the same photos you have – and is in a position to do something about it, which we are not.
Lets have faith and wait and see.
Putin invited Netanyahu to the Victory Day parade of Russian military hardware. LOL!
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Yes Bibi, those are the S-400’s, and the S-500’s . And those are the S-300’s. I’m so glad you are getting a chance to see them up close. There’s our Armada tanks. Those launchers are the cruise missiles we launch from the Caspian Sea and which easily reach Syria and could go further. Those are a hyper-sonic maneuvering smart bombs that can easily get passed the Iron Dome. And Bibi, those are the unlimited range cruise missiles which could attack a country at any time and from any direction, should they be foolish and bomb an ally or ours.
Oh, and there’s President Assad arriving. I’ll have to leave you and go greet him. After all, he’s an important ally. And there’s Mr. Rouhani as well. He’s another important ally. Its good to have allies, isn’t it Bibi? Have a nice flight back to Israel. Hope you sleep well on the flight and don’t have any bad dreams.
“Yes Bibi, those are the S-400’s, and the S-500’s . And those are the S-300’s. I’m so glad you are getting a chance to see them up close.”
and it continues
“we’ll maybe sell you some to go along with your Patriots but don’t worry Mr Assad has none of those.”
What are we to take from it is one question. What is the zionist to take from it is another.
The shrewd and cunning King of the East is taking his enemy up onto the mountain. There he shall see alternative futures, as the Army rolls through Red Land. As metal hawks tear open the sky itself…
“Chose your Fate”, he’ll whisper, “and chose wisely”…
Hitler, we have heard (from revealed sound recordings), did not believe the reports about tank production…
The charming Mr N is going to get an eye-full…
Elena Freeland presents some of her research on chemtrail spraying as a military program for the complete control and weaponization of space. Her new book is “Under an Ionized Sky: Chemtrails & Space Fence Lockdown.” Elena is an thorough and dedicated researcher with important information about what is taking place behind the curtain by diabolical corporations. Her final message is consciousness has generative power.
k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1281&v=2Z7KOYQrG5U
For those of you who enjoy classical music:
Alexander Borodin’s tone poem In the Steppes of Central Asia :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00j8u7elu24
“The program depicts a caravan of Central Asian traders, escorted across the desert by Russian soldiers.” First theme: the military guard, heard from a distance, on clarinet, and then horn. Second theme, with “Asian” inflections: the merchant caravan, conveyed by richer horns, more present, and a chromatic pizzicato of strings to paint its movement across the desert.
Soviet war movie in four episodes …
Паршивые овцы. Серия 1. Black Sheep. Episode 1. (With English Subtitles).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYaTmmyaWE
Her is something for you, maybe you like it : a Romanian gangster-film made in 1972 (in the communism/socialism era) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKdh4wCaFg with clean hands-romanian gangster film 1972-eng.sub.
Nor That’s a real cop show! Bravo!
… much appreciated ioan … the film looks to be very interesting from just two minutes viewing and I’ll be watching later when I can be fully attentive. Please post film links with English subtitles whenever you find them, and you know the storyline is interesting.
Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko – Cha-Cha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP0OCCjHCpg
Darina …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfUSsOJan8
(Arabian sensuality … classical music with dance)
Poor Arabs. Compared to their ancestors they are intellectual and moral pgymies. Going downhill giggling, the fools.
Hadiths: “No time will come upon you but will be followed by a worse” and “The best of my people are my generation, then they that come after them, then they that come after those.” “You will follow the ways of those who were before you span for span and cubit for cubit until if they went down into the hole of a poisonous reptile you would follow them down.”
Tribalism is a bitch to overcome.
Well, not all Arabs are too deep in the pit to get out, and there are nicer videos of slightly more innocent sensuality available. LOL.
Writhing on the Ground Like A Serpent in Hashish Den of Iniquity is pretty far down there, IMHO.
Shisha (water pipe tobacco) … the most common form of tobacco smoked in a water pipe is called Maassel, which is sweetened and flavored in such flavors as apple, mint, cappuccino, etc. Shisha water pipes are most common in areas of China, India, Pakistan, and the Eastern Mediterranean Region, as well as United States.
Darina Konstsntinova (Ukrainian) is a professional choreographer and dancer. Now she’s an international teacher and performer who is giving workshops all over the world. Winner of the Gold Cup in Amsterdam at the festival “From Cairo with Love” 2013. Gold medalist of the International Festival “Orient Dance 2013” in categories:
Pros improvisation tabla
Pros Shaw + fusion
Professionals Raqs Sharqi
Gold medalist of the International Festival “Orient Dance 2012” in the category:
Professionals improvisation tabla
Youth Show + fusion
Bronze medalist at the International Festival “Orient Dance 2012” in the category of young professionals Raks Sharki
The winner of the Cup of Ukraine in 2012 in the category of youth (UMDF)
Champion of Ukraine 2011 classic belly-dance
Champion of Ukraine 2012 classic belly-dance (youth)
Vice-champion of Ukraine in 2012 of improvisers belly-dance
Champion of Ukraine 2011 classic belly-dance (junior)
Finalist of the World Championships 2011
Champion of Ukraine in 2011 among improvisers belly-dance
Champion of the Western Region Junior League version Professionals 2010
Vice-Champion of Ukraine Junior, winner of the Silver Cup of Ukraine 2010
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stated,
“Iran will raze to the ground, Tel Aviv and Haifa, if attacked … ”
(Is the above clear. Is it a joke. Is it a statement of intention ???)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkdRAE68dJ8
Iran has been attacked in Syria and prior to that attack Israel was warned about making just one more mistake. Well that attack is a mistake, and I stress “is” because the mistake has not gone away into the past tense “was”. The mistake stands ever present in the present tense to be dealt with in due course. By using the present tense as such, such situations become increasingly dangerous because they become additive (mistakes add up), presenting in the present … right now … always now ! There is no dilution with passing time … no forgetting and no forgiving, especially when such events occur frequently these days.
(I added this English language perspective because foreign commentators tend to use the past tense in such situations, which is comforting, but slants the truth of the event.)
Yes, indeed, them’s fightin’ words…
And the uncovering of semantic deception via tense is an astute observation.
The trouble with violence is that once begun, no one can know how to stop it, nor where it is going to take you.
A cardinal rule in tradecraft is “do not start stuff if you do not have the option of stopping it…think of dynamite…do not light fuzes… Alas, today… Right. They sizzle along toward the squibs.
The idea that a fake state, a contrived intel-op, (zionish ops in Palestine) could rule Persia is flat absurd…
Well, they did somewhat for awhile. A short while in the span of history, but long enough for a lot of people to be tortured and killed. I’m referring the Shah of Iran, who was a great friend of Israel.
Mr. Moon (of A) has a great post – which gives evidence of a truism that is usually ignored… A Truism I wish to repeat here…
The Truism is this: “In the Realm of Conflict, Victory and Betrayal always (I would capitalize “always”) exist as a Couple. This is to say that, Comrades, if Victory occurs, then Betrayal is also occurring.
The Moon Post? http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/05/the-historic-background-of-chinas-perception-of-the-west-by-carl-zha.html#more
Ignore this basic principle and Victory is stolen.
See if it is not so…
Errors in perception naturally happen, so this principle is sometimes obscure – well, nobody makes Betrayal Plans openly, do they?
………………….
Thanks to Paul, by the way, he posts wonderful things. Some are too dark for my eyes, and some too bright, and all are very fine!
And Thanks too, extended to Auslander…who gives sober and mature views grounded in a realm of Reality.
Russia: The Enemy By Choice–PCR
The article in the link below shows why it is futile for the Russian government to rely on diplomacy and international law in an effort to arrive at an understanding with the West.
Washington and its vassals have designated Russia the enemy and are using propaganda to indoctrinate their subjects with this conviction.
It will be interesting to see what Putin says tomorrow in his inaugural address.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49364.htm
Russia 1
News of the week with Dimitry Kiselyov 06.05.2018 – Video
You can change the language of the subtitles from Russian to English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvByMEBf2t0
May 4 was the 48th anniversary of the massacre at Kent State University. US National Guard soldiers were ordered to open fire on peaceful protesters opposing the war in Vietnam.
Immortalized in a piece of music that is famous, at least for us old grey hairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0BUJtLXXS8
Tin Soldiers and Nixon Comng
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the callin
Four dead in ohio.
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… and they’ve been coming for us ever since. We’ve been on our own ever since.
I suggest reading the essay of which the following quotation illustrates… “… a sort of doe-eyed “imagination to power” idealism, without changing the foundations of society would lead to the creation of new markets and novelties that exploited the working class and did nothing to work towards the stated goals of Marxism.
Writing later, he noted the effect of this phenomenon was simply a more permissive capitalism, which “turned left on the political cultural-level and turned right on the economic-social level.” This combination created a new “libertarian leftism” or “libertarian liberalism” which tasked a new managerial petit bourgeoisie class within a social democratic state that is tasked with maintaining a liberalized, permissive culture and a more fluid, less restricted sort of neoliberal economics. In this stage the “subject” that has supposedly been liberated is in fact increasingly alienated, even within their own families…”
http://fashthenation.com/2018/05/from-clouscard-to-dugin-the-contradictions-driving-leftists-to-the-alt-right/
Well, you get some idea – it’s a thoughtful and perceptive essay…he’s digging into the substance of realpolitik…
I’ll keep a copy…I love this kind of analysis…
(Y’all ever read “I Will Bear Witness”? (Klemperer, 2 volumes…well, that’s an old man…what else is there but to note the History down, and the crimes.?)
Q Anon out of the corner of The Collective Eye.
https://youtu.be/WB_PkYN9MFI
MCCain Funeral Wish: That Obama and Dubya Bush Attend his funeral and Trump stay away.
Jordan’s best line of this episode of Destroying The Illusion: “What is this, High School??”
I hope I’m on the Senator from Brain Damage’s do-not-invite list as well! If he did invite me, I’d be so very offended.
Look guys, if he could, he would put on the do not invite list the Death itself… with so many plans of wars and punishments, seeing Putin being still there … his dream of tanking in Russia’s petrol station, falling apart… not a pleasant end station for him, and … maybe he shall reincarnate in Siberia or …even Syria !
Evidently the implication is that the Yemeni fellas have been able to avoid interceptions by system P…so the fines fellas are going to go murder and steal…what ever it takes to assure those interceptors remain sell-able… The idea that “ignorant colored folk” (they really think this horrid stupid stuff…) can defeat the system P, an icon of vesternsuperiorityanexceptionalizm, cannot be tolerated… But you analyze yerself…
“The deployment came following reports that Patriot interceptors supplied by the US to Saudi Arabia were increasingly failing against missiles fired by Houthi fighters.
The secretive US mission, according to the report, is aimed at helping Saudi forces locate Yemeni missile launch sites and destroy the missile supplies of the Houthi movement.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen since 2…”
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/05/06/560773/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-counterattack-Asir-UAE-Socotra
Looks like the ‘Russian troll farm’ has some good lawyers and have filed a legal discovery notice. Investigator Robert Mueller was caught flat-footed on this one. Apparently he’s not used to suspects that bite back.
Lawyers for the company accused of funding Russia’s election interference ‘troll farms’ are demanding that special counsel Mueller turn over reams of information, including the identities of informants, details of any electronic surveillance, and a list of “each and every instance” since 1945 in which the U.S. “engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes in any foreign country.”
The ambitious demand for legal discovery surfaced on Friday in Mueller’s criminal case against 13 individuals and three Russian companies charged with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
https://www.sott.net/article/384814-Accused-Russian-troll-farm-goes-after-Muellers-files-in-bold-legal-discovery-move
And it gets better. Mueller is now trying to delay the case, but a federal judge has rejected his claim.
Mueller probably never expected legal counsel for the Russian trolls to actually show up, and now he’s been caught with his pants down. It’ll be nice to see if he can actually produce some form of evidence of “fomenting strife”.
https://www.sott.net/article/384897-Judge-rejects-Muellers-attempt-to-delay-Russian-troll-farm-court-hearing
Great talk by Shaykh Imran Hosein
The part that will probably interest most of us begins at 28:28 until 46:48.
Signs Of The Times Part 29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUPLAYER_SheikhImranHosein&time_continue=12&v=l2gb_rTsWbc
Also his essay:
The Qur’an the Great War and the West
http://www.imranhosein.org/articles/signs-of-the-last-day.html
Israeli security officials believe Iran may be preparing a missile attack in retaliation for the April 9 strike on Syria’s T-4 airbase, in which seven Iranians were killed.
“We are not interested in escalation, but we are prepared for any scenario,” he said. “We would stand firmly against Iran, and it is better sooner than later.”
… again … “We are not interested in escalation … ”
https://sputniknews.com/military/201805071064203489-israel-iran-missile-attack/
Crypto notes:
This site provides market stats, as an alternative to Coinmarketcap:
https://www.totalcryptos.com
Some research on faked trading volume on a few exchanges (caveat emptor):
http://bloc10.com/chasing-fake-volume-a-crypto-plague/
It’s still the Wild Wild West (or rather WORLD) in the Internet of Money.
The temptation to rustle cattle and hold up stage coaches is intense!
But competition and the speed at which data flies around the globe should put the heat on the tails of the fakers and fraudsters.
Now, thanks to Mujo I know another alternative to http://www.coinmarketcap.com which has been accused of faking data in order to get a competitive trading edge…..for its own account. True or not true takes time to investigate. But the people who will do that are out there and so are the alternative sites:.
We can try totalcryptos.com and also http://www.coincodex.com which was recommended by the whistle blower crying “FOUL!” on coinmarketcap.com
Another example: Right now the PEOPLE in crypto are quite accessible.
CARDANO (symbol ADA) was recommended by my advisory service as a competitor to EOS and NEO.
Kyle (The Awakenment you tube channel Brit) chose EOS saying they had both the technical edge AND business edge over ADA.
EOS CTO (Chief Technical Officer) is Dan Larimer who was taught coding as a child by Stan Larimer, his computer science aeronautical engineer father, also involved in Steemit and Bitshares the two most used crypto “businesses”. (They are not owned by anyone. This is an evolution in business too, not just money.)
EOS CEO (business honcho) is Brendan Blumer who made scores of millions in related business (gaming) as a teenager.
That made my partner load up, right there, after assessing Larimer and Blumer quite a bit more heavily on EOS (than otherwise recommended) in his diversification.You can’t rely entirely oin other people’s brains and intuition. Otherwise, how will your own ever get developed??
I told him Kyle pegged the Cardano team as a bunch of academics with less tech and business edge than EOS by a long shot.
My partner went further than I did and saw a video of Cardano main mover Charles Hoskinson and was turned off…;pegging him as a “used car salesman”.
Well, one’s intuition is not always spot on, and we can be unfair.
But in earlier days a lot of these crypto guys worked together on Bitcoin and emerging projects. My partner went one better than me in my scouting around to pick up clues, and found that Dan Larimer and Charles Hoskinson had interacted closely on some earlier crypto project and Dan Larimer had the opportunity to select or reject Hoskinson as a member of one of the teams forming, early on, years ago. Bfore EOS or Cardano ever came about.
Larimer’s crytpic comment (which my partner says he saw) on why Charles was “deselected” then was three little words: “For moral reasons.”
That was enough for my partner to deselect Cardano from his (recommended by advisory service) diversification plan, altogether.
Not so yours truly. But (months ago) after getting my ADA on one of the exchanges, the next task was to move it to a “wallet” where the owner controls the “private key”.
For ADA that’s called the Daedalus Desktop Wallet. And you get it by going right here:
https://www.cardano.org/en/the-daedalus-wallet/
My immediate reaction to the symbology was ….”Hmmm ….that logo/symbol.looks positively demonic!”
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
(“Foreign Correspondent” program … ABC … Australian Broadcasting Commission)
Steven Spielberg: “Never forget OUR holocaust – it’s what let us keep perpetrating another one!”
My question: What does OUR mean?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/05/05/steven-spielberg-holocaust-education-should-be-mandatory/
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/05/06/spielberg-urges-mandatory-holocaust-education-theme-parks/
Join Pria Viswalingam for a six-part documentary series, Decadence, as he considers whether we are now completely bogged down in a mire of meaningless self-indulgence, and whether we do really need iPods, plasma screen TVs, Brazilian waxes and self-navigating 4WDs to achieve happiness.
Decadence – Meaninglessness of modern life – Episode 1 – Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWCJqZTVrb0