2018/10/18 08:00:01
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Woke up this morning pondering on Picasso’s larger-than-life deformed chicken, as you do, or this old salt does, at least.
This version is my current favourite, but that will likely change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=514&v=6wRYjtvIYK0
Thank you, Munda, you brought a tear to this cynical eye. ‘Specially this bit – there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. poof! grounded. as in rooted.
Again after 84 years, Uranus in Taurus lifting the borders. Last round ended 1942.
How will it end this time?
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/10/10.html
What has The Saker done to offend Ian Greenhalgh at Veterans Today that justifies this mention https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/10/14/exposing-yet-another-anti-russian-disinfo-website/ ?
CIA dis-info site?
I guess so. Consider this sentence from the article: “categories of disinfo website are the anti-Russians; often ostensibly pro-Russian”
With that kind of “logic”, I guess I am CIA after all. Oh, and Mossad too, of course! :-)
Cheers,
The Saker
Of all websites in his list, Greenhalgh gives Saker credit for being “certainly the best written and least obvious” (In the comments section)
Interesting that Greenhalgh includes “Russia Beyond the Headlines” . Isn’t that operated and wholly owned by the Kremlin, and funded by a Russian state agency?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Beyond
Must have been some very indirect CIA funding…
I dont know that RBTH is Kremlin funded Serbian girl, but I used to read it regularly – had it delivered to FB also. But I stopped after the stream of “Putin is an illuminati Jew” etc comments that started creeping in.
I had enjoyed it at first, found lots of interest, but a friend warned me that it was basically “Liberal anti-Russia”. I always find out for myself – so I just stored the information and continued to read it. But over time – Yes – I had to agree, some of the comments were excessive, and I ended up blocking it. I have’t read it since.
So – I somehow doubt it’s Kremlin funded.
Saker, some of these folks have magic bullets that , when fired, circle right back around and smack them in their own ass, so we can definitely report that the problem lies in the Operators as well as in The Equipment!
I take VT with a very, very large dose of salt. Every once in awhile they publish a good nugget of info, but they publish a very, very large amount of total nonsense as well. Just because something is on VT doesn’t make it believable to me until I start to see lots of confirmations.
I recall, vaguely, that they admitted that they are permitted to operate and say true things because they tar themselves with publishing also total BS at the same time – thus are “not credible” when they write true stuff…
Even if I remembered the quote, the idea seems realistic, eh?
the whispering grass
sowing the earth with souls
heaven’s decree
upended again
that faulty floorboard
second time this week
another fine mess
the kabuki master
on standby
three minus one
riders leaving a monastery
wind lions dancing
caught in quicksand
no way back, or forward
the spring colt
fine raptor
the black of my eye –
turning on a dime…
step right up,
learn to sing and dance
hone your skill
mountains will fall
oceans may rise
but I will find you!
step right up
fire burns on the open stone
do you see?
dusk singing
cicadas exchanging greetings
evening star
the old man’s gaze
lingering
in the depths of a dream
cloud dragons
hunted by wind and moon
our night by the sea
Moon and Mars are riding this way
early night in the south of the day
in Aquarius borderfree realm of idea
to spit on the trenscendent fear
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/10/10.html
Good to see you both in line, waiter ! please bring two glasses of wine, and another one for me, this time no coffee and no tea…
…agreed! Thanks ioan, next rounds on me, brothers. Though I’m warning you, the “way things are going” I’m going to up the stakes ( my fave is rakija, or, failing that, vodka… )
The Russian economy has received 952 billion rubles during five years of preparations for the World Cup that Russia hosted in the summer of 2018.
In the next five years, the positive influence of the championship is expected to bring another trillion rubles.
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/economics/16-10-2018/141791-world_cup-0/?utm_referrer=last_news_list
… is everybody happy …
Is Everybody Happy?:Ted Lewis 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADhw1temyM
Presumably the plutocratic elite are while the pensioners continue to wonder what on earth is going on. Turkeys taste the same in both US & Russia.
You know guys, there is a good news here : the future pensioners have been told to wait…the bad news is that since 1990 they have been told the same thing. How many managed to make it ? Well…the future is still there …as always, at the horizon.
Sarcasm here, sarcasm there, tragic-comic everywhere. Tip : don’t ask me about my income…it is Ridiculous…that’s why I’m a “real” Art-man.
… one step forward, two steps backward … political trickery, and now, in Australia more ‘clever’ tricks have been installed … called “government corporations”. I’ve just looked at RT and Pravda … both are reading more like the “Woman’s Weekly” with lots of childish speculations of “could be” … “might be” … “maybe” and so forth. I talk to politicians to get information and have heard … ” well we are taken into a room, behind closed doors, as a group and told to forget about what we think, because what we think is irrelevant … ”
Has anyone seen the RT CrossTalk show concerning Russian Pension Reform ? … I’m joking of course.
Breaking News from Russia … Fined for discrimination: School ordered to pay after student excluded for her pink hair. (What happened to uniform and ‘uniformity’ and there is very good reason for it … to act together as equal team players.) Give me four hours live television with the Russian people, but that is not going to happen.
Very few Russian schools have uniforms, (except for First and Last Bell, when social constraints define what to wear). At my youngest daughter’s school there are girls with “unnatural” hair colouring and no-one bats an eyelid (except to think what twits they are). A few years ago, the “goth look” was in, it quickly faded away. Education is extremely important to Russians and to exclude a girl for hair colour is just wrong!
Autumn
by ioan
The northern sun, slowly is cooling down
Autumn is here, with her splendid colors,
All in red, yellow, gold and brown
Indian summer, with her warm and sorrows
Another year is nearing to its end
Another year, with laughs and tears,
With ups and downs, with old new trend
With stars which send their daily cheers
Is autumn now, harvesting the grape
A golden wine will be the high reward,
For all of you who dare the cup to take
In spirit of the truth, in spirit of the vineyard
Come on, let’s drink it, until to the end
Are you afraid, or willing yet to flee,
Leaving behind all which have us bent,
In search for truth, in search for liberty ?
Who is the one who wants to throw the stone,
Against his comrade, near in the line,
Turning his back, leaving him alone
In the battlefield, covering own’s eye ?
Wake up my friends, wake up and speak !
Don’t be afraid and be not shy,
I know you’re strong but also weak,
Let’s take our wings, let’s start to fly!
I speak in crosswords and in rhymes
I tell you this, now in advance,
The time shall pass, you’ll not remember
What did I told you, in this October…
… observe aspects of “robotic dancing” in old black and white …
LILIA PRADO & RESORTES recordando el pasado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-lvJytS-E
We cannot remind ourselves enough- Kosovo Is Serbia. However, a puppet state in Priština is
Preševo and Sandžak-Novi Pazaar are a integral part of the current Republic of Serbia, yet the USA-UK-EU-Islamist alliance is supporting these regions to seperate and create hatred of ethnic Serbs. Simulataneusly they support Liberal, ethnically Hungarian and Roma pro EU seperatists in Vojvodina, the northern part of Serbia, and by these plans they hope to reduce current Serbian territory by half, in addition to encouraging young Serbs to emigrate to Germany, further reducing this great nations population
The west wants to fully Islamise the south of Serbia. Now even the nominally pro EU Vucic government has to see reality. The West will always hate Serbia and humilate it, which is why recently Serbia purchased the S300 and a fleet of MiG29 jets. The Serbian Orthodox church backs the Moscow Church against Ukraine’s schism. This will further anger the Westerners..
I keep wondering what drives the intense and calculated hatred of Anglo Saxons against some ethicities such as Serbs, Levantine Arabs, Hispanics etc?
At the deepest level the motivation is Fear.
See the post below about American History.
I add that their Fear, given the present circumstances, is now logical. The ruling class and their associates stand on the brink of an abyss, they Fear their own populations, they fear that, as Bush 41 said, that if the people ever learn what we’ve done they’ll hang us from the lamp-posts – and they Fear the “other”. Both fears are entirely logical – they themselves have made it so.
… a new style of Indian music …
“Maha Ganapathim” Cassical Fusion song @ 53rd Bengaluru Ganesh Utsava..!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4imiKBwDoc
It looks to me as though the Khashoggi incident is being used to reinforce the official conspiracy theory re 9/11 (Saudis did it).
That may be OT, but this is my thought for the day (so far).
Katherine
New news aggregate website from RT:
Samizdat
https://www.newsamizdat.com/
They had an article on it, with link, yesterday, but couldn’t find a direct link to Samizdat from the RT website today.
The article descriptions at Samizdat discuss things within the articles which are not obvious to one looking at the article titles. Interesting.
I hope they do a good job with this, and keep it open to all views. I don’t really have a lot of trust in Right-Wing Today (aka RT) doing that.
Putin:
Putin Says Daesh Took 700 Hostages in US-Controlled Area, Executed Ten of Them
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201810181068990429-putin-sochi-valdai-club/
Some highlights:
“On Reports About US Genetic Research in Georgia
He also said that the reports about the development of biological weapons in a lab in Georgia, as well as the alleged genetic research by the US there, caused concern, and were very dangerous.
“I saw this statement by the former Minister of State Security of Georgia, and of course, it is alarming. These developments, if they are really carried out, are very dangerous and are associated with the latest achievements in the field of genetics. What it is about is that some drugs that can selectively influence a person in accordance with his or her belonging to a certain ethnic group are being developed,” he said.
RT Winning Competition With Global Media Judging by Reaction to Broadcaster
The RT broadcaster is winning the competition with leading international media judging by the fears its influence elicits, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club forum in the Russian city of Sochi.
“What is happening in some of the countries where they [RT] work? They are being shut down… It means fear of competition…. We do not have global media outlets. We have one media outlet that is not that big. If even it can cause such heartburn and such a fear of its influence on the minds, then, we are winning in this competition,” Putin said, when asked if Russia was winning people’s minds and hearts over.”
Reaction and analysis of VVP’s words at Valdai are of course the purpose of speeking…and an important audience includes especially Americans and English, and Germans…
Anyway one observer remarked: ” Strength through resolve. Resolve comes as a consequence of defending culture. (that’s a great quote!)
Putin wasn’t boasting or grandstanding about Russia’s hypersonic weapons capability. He told everyone they are deployed. He did this to shut up the U.S. neoconservative chattering class who he rightly says whisper in President Trump’s ear that they can win a nuclear conflict with Russia.
They are insane. And you have to treat them that way.”
Putin Lays Down The Law At Valdai enjoy! https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-20/putin-lays-down-law-valdai
Note the propaganda meme in this line leaving a subtle impression that there was a previous deadly attack in Crimea:
“The rampage is the deadliest attack to have taken place in Crimea since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. That annexation was condemned by many Western powers.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45900534
Yesterday they had :
“Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in a move condemned by many Western powers.
The annexation marked the start of a simmering conflict involving Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine that goes on to this day.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45891201
BBC/MI6, always predictably willing to use any tragedy to villify Russia.
BBC, you are despictable cowardly filth.
It is possible that some here may improve their understandings of the Nature of both the mythic and realpolitik of American History – as one of, it is unpleasant to say, aggression and murder – and additionally better understand the characteristic of American Protestantism. Trances of which today provide institutional structure and a flimsy cloak of morality to nazis. https://www.berfrois.com/2018/10/a-historical-parable-ed-simon/
Excerpted paragraph: “Right as dawn broke on December 14, a crisp, clear winter morning when winters were still cold, a masked group of vigilantes snuck into a Conestoga Indian village not far from where Millersville is today and killed six Susquehannock men, women, and children as they lay sleeping. The militia – prefiguring the posses that would later define America’s violent history – was composed mostly of settlers with Scots-Irish background from the borderlands on the western frontier of Pennsylvania. The Conestoga Indians they attacked hadn’t just laid down their arms; they had never picked them up to begin with. For if the shivering settlers at Fort Pitt had feared Chief Pontiac arriving from the west to cut their throats while they slept (and in turn decided to ameliorate their fears by inventing biological warfare, as the forks of the Ohio was the first place where smallpox blankets would be distributed amongst the natives), these murdered Conestoga at Millersville were good Christians who posed no threat to the men who killed them….”
With a tip of the hat to Ioan and apologies to Enya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zkjQVh5KmQ
Away, Away
When keeping her house, Miss cat and Miss mouse
requires of her the bargain of Faust
When the bungle in the jungle
becomes mumble-jumble
When children no longer spontaneously play
No longer will she stretch out this stay
Tide will be turning–sail away, sail away.
Like a crossword from the other Cafe, am I wrong ?
It just occurred to me that Rosa Luxemburg’s “The Mass Strike” is political Tai Chi.
The “Chi” in Tai Chi Men Qi Gong is not wasted breath…and neither is Rosa’s fiery, revolutionary prose!
The “Chi” is the energy, the Life Force that the inhalation of the oxygen is merely the start of. The exhalation of the Carbon Dioxide, so plants can practice their own Qi Gong Kung Fu…… is also a part of Chi.
Then the oxygen must attach to the right blood cells and the circulation must be enhanced to all parts of the body…..and mind, which should be in harmony with the movements and breath of the dizi and their master should be in coordination with it ALL…….. and as the energy tingles in various parts of the body….Mind will, at times, race and then at other times reach a State of ,Absolute Rest and become One with Pure Being, freed of all thought and attachment to anything…..at the fateful moment of pause…and commencement of rolling off in a New Direction!
I have skipped around the various chapters of the Mass Strike in my thirst for Political Chi. I landed this morning after reading VI…..on its inverse, which in Rome is IV:
IV. The Interaction of the Political and the Economic Struggle
“We have attempted in the foregoing to sketch the history of the mass strike in Russia in a few strokes. Even a fleeting glance at this history shows us a picture which in no way resembles that usually formed by discussions in Germany on the mass strike. Instead of the rigid and hollow scheme of an arid political action carried out by the decision of the highest committees and furnished with a plan and panorama, we see a bit of pulsating life of flesh and blood, which cannot be cut out of the large frame of the revolution but is connected with all parts of the revolution by a thousand veins.
The mass strike, as the Russian Revolution shows it to us, is such a changeable phenomenon that it reflects all the phases of the political and economic struggle, all stages and factors of the revolution. Its adaptability, its efficiency, the factors of its origin are constantly changing. It suddenly opens new and wide perspectives of the revolution when it appears to have already arrived in a narrow pass and where it is impossible for anyone to reckon upon it with any degree of certainty. It flows now like a broad billow over the whole kingdom, and now divides into a gigantic network of narrow streams; now it bubbles forth from under the ground like a fresh spring and now is completely lost under the earth. Political and economic strikes, mass strikes and partial strikes, demonstrative strikes and fighting strikes, general strikes of individual branches of industry and general strikes in individual towns, peaceful wage struggles and street massacres, barricade fighting – all these run through one another, run side by side, cross one another, flow in and over one another – it is a ceaselessly moving, changing sea of phenomena. And the law of motion of these phenomena is clear: it does not lie in the mass strike itself nor in its technical details, but in the political and social proportions of the forces of the revolution.”
I’m back…and thinking….today it is a BILLION veins…..extending to every corner of the Earth………and also: .If Germans were real early with the bourgeois revolution (which Russia skipped…or got in reverse order??) and a bit retarded with the proletariat one (requiring the Red Army’s taking of Berlin to Partially Join the Party) I think it may be attributed to their excessive taste for ORDER. I try to set a less rigid example.
There aren’t so many factories and workers in many parts of the world today. Farmers and peasants and even tradesmen are also relatively scarce compared to former times, when 90% of us tilled the soil. SO WHO will do the striking??? WHO??
Those who are already striking out on their own paths both together and in their separate ways!
The Mass Strike of the early to mid 2000s will be nothing like those of the 1800’s and 1900s in detail, but only in psychological and consciousness terms….and much more worldwide than Rosa, not anticipating the World Wide Web…probably ever imagined:
Anarcho-Crytpo-geeks, Masai Tribesmen in Kenya conducting business on their Nokias and riding into Nairobi on part of the African part of OBOR, remoralized Arab refugees finding their ways back home to pitch in in connecting Asia to Europe or North Africa…millienial MAGA (hey, Canada is America ALSO!) rappers like Frank from Montreal……the 2000s Global Mass Strike Does Not Demand Conformity to Old Paradigms, in ANY of the particulars Rosa discusses!
But it does involve the same “Chi” energy…throughout the noosphere ….which cannot help but improve (after smashing into a billion pieces!) the deadened, slothful bourgeois torpor and mind-controlled zombie state of the Last Half Century of Rentier-Financier-Luciferian-Counter-Revolutionary “New World” Order of Same Old Same Old EMPIRE of the Slaves…… Revisionism.
Another phenomenon, brother Bro is extemporating on another
m a s s -phenomenon, the mass-strike. Whoever wants to know
it, astrology sorts ‘mass’ to Taurus signifying the element earth
with it’s inertia and heavy weight, phsicly called mass, protected
by borders being the zodiacal follower of ‘energy-without-borders’
aka Aries. And since this spring Taurus the realm of mass is, where
Uranus, the toppler and lifter is ruling, according to the the zeitgeist
by the idea of lifting all national borders – idea and reality
of ‘the chosen’ – to rule it all.
Remember, the Veda says: the only demon is the never ending greed.
More about the regenerated mass-phenomenon:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/10/10.html
This is the RT article describing Samizdat.
New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster
https://www.rt.com/news/441535-new-samizdat-censorship-media/
“If the establishment media were truly balanced, the purge of alternative news outlets from de-facto social media monopolies would be a front-page splash everywhere.
Instead, the manner in which the move was either ignored and under-reported proves that those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.
Sadly, RT saw something like this coming. And for that reason, we have developed a new site to promote the free exchange of information and views. The fact it launches a few days after US social media giants Facebook and Twitter clamped down on dissent is merely a coincidence.
New Samizdat is a news aggregator with a difference. The website will attempt to bring you the most important and interesting stories across the English-speaking web, which are either undervalued or ignored by legacy outlets.
Sources will vary, but inquiring minds who challenge groupthink will be favored. However, you’ll see the MSM often featured too, as one of its greatest tricks is to cover vital and radical news but bury it in the mainstream.
New Samizdat will post the most interesting links, across all spectrums, with the intention of stimulating debate and providing access to information. And we hope it can play a small part in fighting modern censorship by giving you a trusted page where the most interesting news and views can be found.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/10/saudis-stonewall.html#more
The Saker, will your really leave us orphans of your opinion regarding this mess up?
The more strange part of all this for me is SA buying the s400 system.
Is this a message(threat) to the western powers?
Not that I think Russia will sell it but. It’s strange since this system will only make sense against The West.
There is also the 400bi weapons deal NOT signed and the Aramco ICO that did not happened.
And about Yemen, is Russia thinking about taking that old port back?
Selling guns to SA won’t help for sure.
Saudi Arabia is playing a dangerous game for sure.
‘Modern exorcist’ holds ritual to shield Kavanaugh from coordinated hexing by witches & sorcerers
https://www.rt.com/usa/441680-exorcist-protect-kavanaugh-hex/
“After a Brooklyn occult shop made headlines with a public hexing of controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh, exorcist Father Gary Thomas has stepped up to defend the judge’s spiritual flank with a well-timed mass.
When he heard the self-styled witches’ coven was planning to put a curse on Kavanaugh, Thomas – a bona fide Rome-trained Catholic exorcist who was profiled in The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, film and book – stepped up to defend the judge from the forces of evil.
Father Thomas takes exorcism very seriously, and so do “a load of exorcists” to whom he sent the headline about the upcoming hex. “Their reaction was similar to mine. That shows this is not something that is make believe.”
As the official exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, Father Thomas has been casting out demons for 12 years. During that time, he says, he’s seen the forces of evil becoming “more confident that the general public will be more accepting of the demonic,” blaming freedom of speech and freedom of religion. “Conjuring up personified evil does not fall under free speech,” he added.
Catholics less nostalgic for the Inquisition have also rushed to defend the embattled judge. One anonymous apostolate manager told the National Catholic Register news of the impending spiritual attack led her to fast and pray the Rosary for three days, and the fasting-praying combo seems to be catching on among other concerned Catholics concerned for Kavanaugh’s eternal soul.”
To be sure of its effectiveness, I would recommend that the fast be total and last at least 6 months to make sure crybaby kav is truly safe from those witches.
From nuclear holocaust to playing hockey: Five takes from Putin’s Valdai talk
https://www.rt.com/news/441666-valdai-club-putin-quotes/
“Any aggressor should know that retribution will be inevitable and he will be destroyed. And since we will be the victims of his aggression, we will be going to heaven as martyrs. They will simply drop dead, won’t even have time to repent.”
“We know for certain, it’s an obvious fact and our colleagues realize it, that we surpassed all our competitors in this area. Nobody has precise hypersonic weapons. Some plan to test theirs in 18 to 24 months. We have them in service already.”
“There’s no proof in regards to Russia, but steps are taken. Here, people say that a murder happened in Istanbul, but no steps are taken. People need to figure out a single approach to these kinds of problems.”
I listened to the live feed…Brother VVP words were translated “die like dogs. “, which some may feel is unfair to dogs. A better translation might be “die like rats”, so far as idiomatic Engspeak.
Putin to Poroshenko: Don’t be like Georgia’s Saakashvili, who lost vast territories
https://www.rt.com/news/441673-putin-ukraine-saakashvili-footsteps/
“The Ukrainian authorities are not just leading the situation into a deadlock, they are pursuing an anti-state and anti-national policy,” the Russian leader said, speaking at the Valdai Club plenary session in the Russian southern city of Sochi. He then compared Kiev’s actions to the policy of Saakashvili, whose military forces attacked the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia back in 2008.
“These criminal actions resulted in Georgia losing control over vast parts of its territory,” Putin said, adding that it was the result of Saakashvili’s policy.
Like Saakashvili, the current Ukrainian government still strives to resolve the ongoing Ukrainian conflict by force instead of fulfilling the Minsk Agreements, Putin said, adding that “it has become clear for everyone” that Kiev “does not abide by the agreements and has no intention to do so.”
The Russian leader then warned the Ukrainian authorities against “following in Saakashvili’s footsteps” and said that he hopes it does not come to the same sort of scenario. Putin added that “assassinating … people’s representatives” in the self-proclaimed Donbass republics is a “bad way” to seek peace with these regions.”
Russia getting rid of US dollar matter of national security – Putin
https://www.rt.com/business/441677-russia-getting-rid-of-dollar/
“We are moving to the de-dollarization of the economy. We are doing so not because we want to undermine the dollar, but because we want to ensure our security. We are constantly facing sanctions, they do not give us the opportunity to work in dollars,” Putin said on Thursday at the Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi.
The alternative to the greenback could become a basket of national currencies, an instrument being developed by BRICS countries. “If such tools are invented, it will be possible to get away from the dollar. As soon as this happens, the dollar will have hard times,” Putin said.
The Russian president said that the US is forcing a number of countries to abandon the dollar in international payments. “This is a typical mistake of an empire. Our American friends are undermining confidence in the dollar as a single currency,” Putin said.
“European countries want to trade with Iran. They do not believe that Tehran violated any conditions of the nuclear deal. Therefore something like an alternative to SWIFT international payment system is being invented,” the president said.”
Crunch could be when if usa withdraws from inernational nuclear agreement perhaps next week? Will all credulity in usa be destroyed? Even more sanctions against Russia to put europe on the spot?
https://www.rt.com/usa/441841-trump-nuclear-deal-russia-pullout/
Next week…that’s the 21st (Sunday)…but probably they will count from the 22nd.
This was pretty cool.
Fined for discrimination: School ordered to pay after student excluded for her pink hair
https://www.rt.com/russia/441525-school-fined-pink-hair-exclusion/
“The hairstyle saga began last month after Zinaida Agisheva, 15, returned to her gymnasium from her summer vacation sporting a dyed pink hairstyle and a modified twist on her school uniform.
Describing her look as “inappropriate,” the school administration ruled that she could not attend classes until she rectified her appearance to coincide with the dress code.
The suspension sparked outcry across Russia after a post by the girl’s mother, a local politician, went viral and sparked an investigation by local prosecutors into whether the case for suspension amounted to discrimination. A court has now ruled in her favor.
Finding that the school’s ordinance was contrary to the Russian constitutional right to free universal education for every citizen, the court ruled that the school’s uniform compliance policy did not allow them to “establish requirements for hair color and length.”
As a result, it fined the institution 50,000 rubles ($762.50) and its director 30,000 rubles ($457.50).
Zinaida has since been allowed return to class.”
Class photo moment:
https://img.rt.com/files/2018.10/thumbnail/5bc8c486fc7e934f1f8b45fd.JPG
US Navy Chopper Crashes on ‘Flight Deck’ of USS Ronald Reagan
https://sputniknews.com/world/201810191069017977-us-navy-chopper-crash-uss-reagan/
“A US Navy MH-60 Seahawk assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) shortly after takeoff at approximately 9:00 a.m. Oct. 19.” a statement from the Navy’s press service said.
The ship remains fully operational and has resumed flights.
“All injured personnel are in stable condition under evaluation by Ronald Reagan medical staff. While some personnel will be medically evacuated ashore, none of the injuries is life-threatening,” the statement continued.”
Furthermore, usn spokesperson admiral b.j. perphormer said:
“Our initial investigation of this incident has shown that john mccain was not at fault…this time.”
About those helio fubars https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-19/navy-investigating-2-mysterious-helicopter-crashes-amid-rash-suspicious-incidents
“…Meanwhile, Stars and Stripes reported Friday in a different article that the Navy is investigating the cause of another crash involving a HH-60H Seahawk helicopter, which crashed into another helicopter on an Okinawa runway on Oct. 9…”
and
“…Oddly enough, that was the second Class A mishap reported by the Navy this year this year. On Oct. 4, an F/A-18F Super Hornet made an emergency landing at Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., after an engine caught fire during a training exercise…” (Class A means >2 m $ or a total loss of aircraft)
and the now normal “putindidit” “… some even speculating that foreign hackers may have temporarily seized control of the ships involved….”
By the way, saying to the clerk and the people in the cue “Putin did it” brings general laughter…only the nitwits buy these stories, so far.
About this idea of a General Strike in Murka…
Uncle Ralph has offered a plan for something along such lines.
“:How the Rats Re-Formed the Congress
A fable about rats that invade Congress and astonishingly trigger a peoples’ political revolt. It starts when a Congressional reporter breaks a strange and shocking story: “Rats have invaded the toilet bowls” of both the Speaker of the House and the Minority Leader. The mighty rat invasions spark a national news frenzy.
Activists seize on the burgeoning story to organize for a populist agenda. Millions of postcards are sent to Congress. Spontaneous rallies break out everywhere. The activists see the rats upending “business as usual” routines on Capitol Hill as a powerful symbol against the lobbyists and their corporate Congress.”
RatsReformCongress.org https://nader.org/books/how-the-rats-re-formed-the-congress/
I voted for Ralph Nader!!!!!
Ralph’s idea is obviously not entirely work-able. I assume he knows this. Thus the implication that he expects some other outcome – one of which he declines to describe. A bit of careful reasoning will reveal the actual outcome of the rats’ acting against the corruption. It would simply be the beginning of “something”, not the end.
When men write in metaphor they do so for a reason.
… gotta watch this …
‘IN THE MOOD’ – Glenn Miller (Enhanced HQ Sound HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XElwAwS0GvE
I still remained at the uniforms on your comment well above. I was probably one of those crazies who loved the uniform in the school. The purpose was not just that of “act together as a equal team” – which is true, but also had a practical purpose : easier to wash that uniform than many other clothes, it was not expensive, durable and even elegant. We had also an emblem of the school on that uniform, with an identification number – which sometimes we took it down when after hours on the street, for obvious reasons…sometimes, on the way home, we entered a beer garden. Oh, what good memories from my youth, under a communist dictatorship..ha,ha ! Here is an example, of the uniform in school :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Iy7Ez7Fyk
and another one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_umdHIu2Ik
both Romanian films. Enjoy the atmosphere ! (and also that music)
… most of us had pride and respect. Pink hair is not “uniform” at all, and shows (pussy-riot style) contempt.
I wore the three Tudor Roses school emblem for four years. One winter we played rugby and on returning to class, after hot showers, were unable to button our clothes for around 20 minutes, because our hands and fingers were numbed by cold.
Yes ioan, many fond memories, and thanks for the movies.
At this stage of the decline in America it’s difficult to remember, and sad to remember, that American schools also had something quite close to uniforms…”dress-codes”…and the “code-defined” clothing “choices” were so limited as to in effect constitute a “uniform” mode of dress…students were immediately recognized. The codes varied from school to school, and made allowances for the financial limitations under which students lived.
At the same time there was considerable real freedom of thought and speech among students…though teachers were afraid of being blacklisted as commies or whatever. There was tension between these two groups, but mostly this was from external political forces….the spirit was free, constitutional, secular and “liberal” in the classical sense – and the “uniform” dress codes fit right into that. One could take Greek, Latin, calculus, and learn basic trade-skills too. They were good institutions.
I have spoken with “active-duty” school teachers in the US – they try, but the nazi Gleichschaltung which followed the brutal farce in NY in 2001 proceeds apace, and schools here now amount to an introduction to prison while they instruct in a vast set of lies and deceptions…many teachers find this unacceptable.
Wow!!! Infowars is streaming an RT video clip showing huge crowds of thousands of organized refugees crashing into Mexico from Guatemala en route to the US ( supposedly). The only other western media covering this is Fox News and that minimally.
Fake mass immigration for purposes of social engineering? Of course, Alex Jones is ranting and raving ( 2 hours and counting now) and taking this to the worse possibility.
The Mexican army is not known for its human rights record so if they are holding their fire or not engaging in repressive protective measures, then, they have been paid off majorly.
Yes, those evil refugees that want to apply for asylum because Obama and Hillary overthrew their government and put into place a dictatorship that tends to kill and torture people. How dare they want to leave such a utopia?
I saw a stat the last time Trump created a fake crisis over this that said that about 80% of asylum requests from Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador were rejected. But that means that 20% are legitimate. That’s one in five. Thus, if 500 people apply for asylum, then its likely that about 100 of those are legitimate requests. Nations have a duty under treaties and international law to at least process those requests. The ones who don’t meet a minimum criteria can be rejected and the person not let into the country. But for those 100 legitimate asylum requests, then that’s a basic human right under international law that must be respected.
Trump is using his campaign of hate to try to prop up his losing Congressional candidates in the final weeks of the election. In the process he is breaking international law.
I do hope that the people who feel this way never have to run for their lives because America has put death squads in charge of their country.
This is just strange. The timing is strange. I have to ask, who benefits? What influence does this have on the midterm elections? Is this an election ploy?
And yes, the Monroe doctrine has been alive and well since 1823. First, to disallow any other country to ‘meddle’ in Central or South America and subsequently to support massive international business with whatever it takes .. So, Venezuela is probably idiotic in managing a country’s finances but Bolivarianism is a direct result of first Spanish colonialism and then the US regime policies toward the Central and South Americas. The story of Simón Bolívar history is quite something to read – he was instrumental to change Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and influenced Panama to sovereign states. This sovereign status did not last long as the US was an ascendant power and stopped each and every effort at sovereignty using all and every method including death squads. Most know of know of the methods of the United Fruit Company who worked very hard to keep the peasants poor.
Anyway, this current caravan is clearly organized. We dismiss quickly as Soros instigated, but this one has a different feel to it. I think it could be anyone trying to stay in the headlines up until the US midterms. Mexico itself has many refugee camps already and certainly does not need this while the new president, AMLO has not even been confirmed. I think we see a planned crisis to influence US voters?
” I think we see a planned crisis to influence US voters?”
Obvious isn’t it?
Kent
ZH reports “mystery men” handing out cash to people that join the caravan:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-21/migrant-attack-caravan-regroups-5000-push-north-mystery-men-hand-out-cash
pale blue pearl dawn sea
the Christ walked water
a colloidal gold magenta.
autumn forest’s mantle
prepares the way now
flinging copper bracelets
deep red silver rings
onto green ground.
sun spinning oak into
heavens yellow bands,
swirling light windfalls
landing in open hands,
crowning the mother
stepping the lost leaves
gold covering of earth
she gathers her robe
made from nature’s
crinkled encrypted
ceaseless currency.
Ras
Golden season,
mother nature
Human reason,
crypted feature
Leaves are faling,
winter calling,
White, the Christmas,
If there’s morning
Who can tell,
what tells the Bell
When it’s closing
at that evening ?
Something that has been obvious for a while now, but from the horse’s mouth:
“There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it. We did it.” The culmination of the mania for privatisation? Or Murder Inc going global.?
‘A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War’:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan
Interesting detail in the article is that the men doing the dirty work were given military rank and status as military, soldiers, officers, not civilians. A legalistic cover. But vital.
By such logic, however, they do not escape…murder is still murder, and war without UNSC vote authorization is still a criminal act.
Withal, however, the distinction between civilian and military is increasingly obscure…ask the people at Hiroshima, or Dresden….and that was then!
… speaking of school uniform …
Students in Uniform at Christ’s Hospital Boarding School, United Kingdom …
https://school-uniforms.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006029
… and …
https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/school-life/photo-gallery/
Known locally by slang as “penguins”…..they were.. not kidding.
… The Moscow Times …
The Sweet Smell of Russian Money
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-sweet-smell-of-russian-money-59023
Would appreciate a little help here from funny friends, creatives, poets and sakerites.
We’re making progress with swag like t-shirts and mug, but for the life of me I cannot think up slogans for saker t-shirts for example.
What jumps into your head? What should we put on there? What will make sense and speak truth?
Keep flying with saker for high ideals
Fly high with saker over the dross of the world
Keep your eyes sharp on the world like a saker
Grab your truth with the claws of the saker
And similar etc
Some direction regards tone and intent might be helpful, i.e. I don’t think my first effort “Visit the Saker before meeting your maker” hits quite the right note in advertising terms, though I’d happily wear it or drink from it. (No discernible taste at all, here)
What are you aiming for— inspirational, gravitas, branding or just spreading the word of the site’s existence?
Simpler than any of that. Something that will make you, and me happy! and if someone should ask, something that we can easily explain. Example:
Wanted
Schrödinger’s cat
Dead and Alive!
How about:
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
or : ” I’m a Sakerite” ” Wings of The Saker” , “Vineyard Campus” , ” Saker’s Vineyard” , “Saker World” , “True Wings” , ” Don’t Give Up” , “Saker Isle”, “Wind of Change”, “Flying Bird”, “True Seeker”.
at the moment these came to mind.
Begin where today’s youth are now, start from yesterday’s unlearned messages (1967?), cut the snapchat, the world is hideous, begin where so many young people are now. serious crime and suicide increase in GB and mental health problems in young people, yea right on, hand them a mug* :
Th End, The Doors
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes, again
Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free
Desperately in need, of some, stranger’s hand
In a, desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, all the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There’s danger on the edge of town
Ride the King’s highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake, he’s old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, the west is the best
Get here, and we’ll do the rest
The blue bus is callin’ us, the blue bus is callin’ us
Driver, where you taken us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall …
(there’s more of course, but it may not fit on a mug.
* community of communities links
“Begin where today’s youth are now, start from yesterday’s unlearned messages (1967?), cut the snapchat, the world is hideous, begin where so many young people are now. serious crime and suicide increase in GB and mental health problems in young people, yea right on, hand them a mug* :”
I for one will not sit in despair and continue the complaints train. We had a joke when I worked with British expats .. how do you know that a british airplane just landed? After the engines are turned off, the wining noise continues.
For those younger folks – Normalize This! We would do well to spread news of this young poet far and wide.
https://saker.community/2018/09/25/normalize-this-by-remi-kanazi/
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=144&v=uaGNfKabwfQ
And here: (I never thought I would find this quickly, but I did).
/future-of-the-saker-blog-survey-results/
“One idea which I would be willing to explore is creating some kind of “Saker Blog Supporter Group” which could coordinate fund-raising for this, and possibly other, Saker blogs. “
Anon, some more for those young people that you are advocating for:
https://saker.community/2018/10/21/how-and-why-to-do-it-professionally-for-warriors-change-advocates-social-influencers-and-change-makers/
(and I have one more – give a moment)
Here is the last one for now anon. Some time ago there was a brilliant suggestion from one of our Sakerites, a digital artist and this was specifically for younger readers. The suggestion was that we take some of the more difficult and demanding Saker posts, and turn them into infographics … one page, message in graphics. I asked for volunteers at the time but soon discovered that I had just too much to do and could not at all give this enough attention.
Now, my question is, with your expression of care for the younger community, are you willing to help with this? It will be longer than the message that fits on a mug! Can you take anyone of the Saker posts and turn it into a one page infographic, specifically focused on younger readers? I have examples of how to do this, and specific posts that we tested with, but I cannot hold anyone’s hand. So, over to you anon.
On your comment “* community of communities links”, I’ll reply once again. We at saker.community do different work than here at thesaker.is. Just like the French Saker, the Italian Saker and all the other Saker sites do different work and stand independently. Why is that? So that the responsibilities are very clear. But, we are one community, decentralized.
“Sakerite” sounds to Murkins’ ears like a name for a mineral compound…thus
“For a Solid Foundation, use Sakerite!”
“Sakerite is Solid”
“Sakerite for Free!”
and so forth…
Thank you Amarynth, for your thoughts and for your links.
Psammite, an aggregate of sand.
To see the world in a grain of sand
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
All heaven in a wild flower
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Hahahaaa …. that’s damn ugly! But clever! I think I can do something with that!
For those astrology buffs: Jupiter ( righteous judge) entered sidereal Scorpio on 10/14/18. Istanbul is ruled by Scorpio and so is Saudi Arabia and parts of Turkey. A self indulgent, arrogantly stupid psychopath ( oh so very Scorpionic/ pluto) orders the hideous murder of a political opponent ( pluto/mars) and gets caught ( yea, Jupiter!) and all this as the man’s fiancee ( Venus is retrograde as well as hidden) waited outside.
Now if there were such a thing as a Turkish Julian Assange, those so-called murder tapes would be on the internet for all to hear. It is not over yet….the moving hand is still writing this one and has not moved on quite yet.
Just waiting for sidereal Mars to move to Aquarius ( hmmmm, look alert Russia with this) as Mercury skips to Scorpio. Tra-la-la and hoopdedo!
An interesting piece from Engdahl over at NEO (from youss in the sidebar). He excavates the history of the global warming meme in his usual precise fashion:
‘The new IPCC report, SR15, declares that global warming of 1.5°C will “probably“ bring species extinction, weather extremes and risks to food supply, health and economic growth. To avoid this the IPCC estimates required energy investment alone will be $2.4 trillion per year. Could this explain the interest of major global banks, especially in the City of London in pushing the Global Warming card?’
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/16/the-dark-story-behind-global-warming-aka-climate-change/
Reading “Conjuring Hitler” (Preparata) I see a reference to a review by Veblen of Keynes’ “The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920).
This review remains worthwhile and applies to just about 100% of today’s geopolitical parade…
Both Preparata and Veblen write in precisely correct English, but this is not entirely accessible to even graduate level experts in English…so it is also an exercise in that Language.
Veblen’s review is online at http://elegant-technology.com/resource/KEYNES.PDF
He is intensely critical of the Treaty, and of Keynes’ opinions, and indeed prophesies the nazi episode as designed to prevent German/Russian (at that point Soviet) cooperation, to prevent Peace, and to utilize zionism in Palestine for the dual purpose of holding a dagger in Eurasian Heartland as American pay for it…
In part Veblen writes: urgent campaign of the governments of the Great
Powers against Soviet Russia or to say anything in
approval of it all. But it is necessary to take note of
its urgency and the nature of it, as well as of the
fact that this major factor in the practical working-
out of the Peace has apparently escaped attention
in the most competent analysis of the Peace and its
consequences that has yet been offered.
I recommend reading Preparata and Veblen, if one wishes to understand the urgency forcing Imperial Forces into world war.
Along these lines here’s a nifty quote from http://www.voltairenet.org/article203557.html
“So the grounds are being laid for a European deployment, on the borders of Russian territory, of ground-based intermediate-range US nuclear missiles. It’s as if Russia were deploying in Mexico nuclear missiles pointed at the United States.”
Yesterday Comrade VVP spoke, and one thing he said was that the rockets (violating INF) would be met with immediate response…
He did not specify the precise nature, but he was emphatic, even emotional…
I. Shamir has also said a few things about the darkness http://www.unz.com/ishamir/cloak-and-dagger/
In part: “… Such a massive operation against Russian agents and their contacts could signal forthcoming war. In normal circumstances, states do not reveal their full knowledge of enemy agents. It made president Putin worry; and he said this week: we’ll go to heaven as martyrs, the attackers will die as sinners. In face of multiple and recent threats, this end of the world is quite possible.”
Such happy thoughts, eh?
That was an interesting and informative article from Shamir which explains adequately how Bellingcat got hold of the photocopies of the two Russian passports (although the copies could still be straight fakes). I do find it somewhat incredible, however, that the Russians with all their IT security expertise were not able to decently secure their most sensitive databases, but then most, if not all, people can be bought for the right price or the right carefully applied leverage.
(When I was living in Bulgaria during cold war times, I asked our state-provided local minder/fixer/guide how I could tell who was or was not a police informer. He told me that I should remember that every citizen had family and connections that could be used as hostages and leverage.
Belling the Cat, BTW, is an old folk tale that has versions in almost every society, even Japanese, where mice decide to put a bell on the cat that hunts them but then face the problem of how to accomplish the job and
survive the encounter. Higgins is a tool in every sense of the word, IMO.
And while on the subject of barking dogs, this is the sound of a zionazi lapdog’s bark:
Trump Vows to Quit Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia
https://sputniknews.com/military/201810201069068613-trump-quit-nuclear-arms-treaty-russia/
“US President Donald Trump said that he will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, media reported.
The treaty was signed in 1987 by USSR an US, which stipulated the elimination of nuclear and conventional missiles and their launchers with ranges of 500–1,000 km (310–620 mi) and 1,000–5,500 km (620–3,420 mi).
Commenting on his decision, Donald Trump said that the United States needs to develop this type of military equipment.
“We’ll have to develop those weapons,” the US president said commenting on his announcement.
A source within Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the situation saying that Trump bade such move because of Washington’s dreams of unipolar world.
“The main motive is the dream of the unipolar world. Will that come true? No,” the source said.”
The israeli pindo colony dropped the ABM treaty when they decided to pursue a first strike capability. Dumping the INF treaty will allow the zionazi-gays to build and deploy the eeaponry they think will give them that first strike capability.
The zionazi-gays are gearing up for full scale war. Installing the repression machinery at home in their colonies, and retooling their attack dogs’ war machine to fight aggressive wars with advanced adversaries.
Sen. Rand Paul: US Exit From INF Treaty to Undo Decades of Arms Control Efforts
https://sputniknews.com/us/201810211069072219-us-inf-withdrawal/
“Current US plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) will undo decades of bilateral diplomatic efforts between the US and Russia in the sphere of arms control, Republican Sen. Rand Paul said.
“This would undo decades of bipartisan arms control dating from [former US President Ronald] Reagan. We shouldn’t do it. We should seek to fix any problems with this treaty and move forward,” Senator Paul tweeted late Saturday evening.”
I sent a “Saker slogan” hours ago and suspect it has been misunderstood.
It means “for the sake of goodness” if the English language is applied correctly without any intonations and preconceptions.
Goodness includes truth … all things good.
So here is what I think will work extremely well …
The Saker … for Goodness Sake
That is so good Paul! Thanks.
So, with the withdrawal from the INF treaty I would say we’re back in cold war territory. Excepting, its worse this time around. We’ve had strategic parity and everyone knew that nuclear military adventures would bounce back on their own heads. We’ve all seen Putin’s comment at Valdai, that Russians will die and go to heaven and the rest will die like dogs – it was a surprise comment, critical, acerbic and disillusioned. (this is what it sounded like to me).
There is another piece to this and this is that a similar process of proliferation is happening around China. John Pilger did a documentary where he traced from the time of the Marshall Islands and the Bikini atoll the increase in US bases and now lilypad bases around China. We all know that China is weaponizing and that Japan is weaponizing. The John Pilger documentary is titled The Coming War on China and can be found on Vimeo : https://vimeo.com/277068625
I would almost call this a ‘must watch’. It is long, almost 2 hours, and slow and methodical. Pilger starts by visiting the Bikini atoll – the 5th nuclear test – then Japan and then China, and then he gently brings all of this back to today’s geostrategic situation and war plans. We all know the situation with Russia as this is our purpose here on The Saker. Adding this China piece in the current context will actually not give anyone any peace. It will colorize the picture of what we are up against and it remains full spectrum dominance and “we will blast you out of existence if you question us”. Many of us said some 2 years ago that it would be fine if Trump wins .. just not Hillary as she would dump us into more and more war. I think now, if I sit and think that Trump is a trojan horse for full spectrum dominance and MAGA and so on are simply pretexts, bread and circuses to keep the masses happy and paying their taxes.
I’m now thinking that Paul Craig Roberts had a point all along. I also checked 4 Q discussion boards this morning. There is not even one, not even a little bit of discussion about the withdrawal from the INF treaty. Not even one. Rather we see discussions of how brilliant President Trump is, how everyone else is the enemy, and how the US is being invaded by a horde from Central America. We’re in a world of hurt and its time to pray a little more. The US citizenry is being blinded and the world is readying for war is what it looks like these days.
This smells of desperation – Denmark politician proposes law which would give 12 years in prison for people who express a difference of opinion with NATO!
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201810211069077168-danish-bill-pro-russia-censorship/
“I would almost call this a ‘must watch’. It is long, almost 2 hours, and slow and methodical. ”
As always.
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/John-Pilger2016Blue.jpg
Kent
Amarynth says, “I’m now thinking that Paul Craig Roberts had a point all along. I also checked 4 Q discussion boards this morning. There is not even one, not even a little bit of discussion……….. etc…”
A few points about all this tension and well called for angst:
1) Until there is a FOUR POWER agreement of Russia, China, India AND the USA to terminate the NWO agenda of Permanent Empire for the Purposes of enforcing depopulation of the planet by 80% or more, tension will remain at current levels or worse and it will be necessary for especially Russia and China to deter US military aggression anywhere and everywhere……but especially against themselves and closest allies (including IRAN) with careful and close diplomatic and logistical coordination. This is what I mean by “Keep your powder dry, at all times!” …..and “all times” means ALL times …..FOR even if such a Four Power Agreement were to miraculously take shape under the current Trump administration………backsliding can still easily occur a few short weeks or months later in the event of early death of DJT and his replacement by PENCE……or by a different administration in 2020-21
2) But that sort of global vision and vigilance by the better among the “Q people” (who are by no means free of error or spats among themselves, etc,etc…what ELSE is new???) and concentration or even very much distraction by the INF treaty twists and turns thereof can’t really be expected to be their focus or much more than a passing “not good”.…”clowns and neocons still trying to control us with fear” type of observation for MINIMALLY 16 more days…… Because:
3) Whether Trump IS the Empire’s Trojan Horse (and this modern version would be infinitely more skillfully constructed than the Greek One of Lore…..virtually beyond the limits of feasibility or imagination….in comparison) or actually intends peace and co-operation ala LaRouche’s decades old Four Power Agreement and consigning Empire to the Dustbin of History……proposal as the only way to lasting peace and prosperity ANYWHERE on this planet…….. cannot be known for certain by Russians, Chinese, Indians, Persians, Syrians, Venezuelans, Vineyarders, “Q People” ….or anyone else on Planet Earth until the coup attempt is OVER and its treasonous perpetrators are on their way to GITMO. Just pre-requisite FACT!
4. Even with an absolute RED TSUNAMI 16 days from now……all but a handful of people around DJT will STILL not know….what to really expect from “The Plan” despite all the frequent “Trust the Plan” urgings by Q on 8 chan. Will it be necessary to keep repeating “Keep your powder dry!” every other sentence for at lest weeks if not months to come?? Probably so! Positive changes, even if they are on the way cannot come so suddenly that Eternal Vigilance could EVER be dispensed with, except recklessly and irresponsibly.
5. Under such conditions, especially with the mid-terms only 16 days away…the last thing I would expect or hope for from the better “Q People” (Neon Revolt, War Drummer, Dustin Nemos, Amazing Polly, Praying Medic….and the other fairly clear anti-Zionist ones as opposed to the Corsis, AJs, Jason Goodmans, et al) would be to take their eyes off of finishing off Hillary, Diane, Nancy P, the worst RINOS, etc to spend much time or ink or video frames on the INF business, as important and as alarming as that is. They are “on the wrestling mat” going for “pinning” Deep State Minions with TREASON charges…punishable by ejecution…impossible to do without a positive midterm result. That’s just the way that it is, for the moment.
Hopefully there will be a slightly freer outlook in 17 days. SLIGHTLY. But it could be worse before then (by some crazy violence provoked between the Four Powers by Empire Desperation)….or even after a Red Tsunami in 16 days. But a Red Tsunami Nov 6 CANNOT BE WORSE than a Blue One…..in the meantime!
Or Can it???? That proposition has to be the toughest “sell” I can imagine anyone having to attempt.
People say “new cold-war” – but is this not wishful thinking?
I vividly remember the cold war, and have read a great deal about it, which brought good understanding – so when I suggest that the scene to-day cannot fit under the rubric “new cold-war”, I have an informed opinion.
Rather am sure that a strong argument, indeed a nearly-irrefutable argument, can be made that the scene to-day is in ugly truth a real “world war”.
Just for starters, as they say, there’s the recent declaration to the Senate that the US will not permit the unification of the Eurasian Heartland. (This was discussed on Saker site.) That was explicitly the reason for the first world war (this is proved and I have the citations), just as Versailles Treaty set out to establish an anti-red militarized Germany (Preparata et al) – again to prevent unification – and the zionish enterprise (among many) does much the same to-day.
Unification continues and accelerates. This is not a phenomenon that Empire can countenance. Empire has zero diplomatic power and depends on Fear to rule. (at Valdai VVP admonished the Empire about using Fear – it’s unreliable, he said.)
Now I leave it to you – what’s logic suggest is next? Right…
Embassy Disappearances: Jamal Khashoggi and the Foreign Policy Web
The journalist, a notable critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was last seen on October 2 entering the residence of the Saudi consul-general in Istanbul, ostensibly to obtain a document necessary
for his upcoming nuptials. A senior Turkish official put forth a brutal scenario on Wednesday based on
obtained audio recordings. Saudi operatives, probably numbering 15 from the intelligence services and
the Royal Guards, were waiting for Khashoggi’s arrival at 1.15 pm. Within a matter of minutes, Khashoggi
was dead, decapitated, dismembered, his fingers removed. The entire operation took two hours.
The New York Times pondered how the brutality was inflicted. “Whether Mr. Khashoggi was killed before his fingers were removed and his body dismembered could not be determined.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/embassy-disappearances-jamal-khashoggi-and-the-foreign-policy-web/5657286?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
While President Continues to Play Dumb on Murder, 2016 Reporting Shows Saudis Only Blacklisted Khashoggi After Journalist Criticized… Trump
…the journalist was only blacklisted from working in the kingdom after criticizing Trump.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/while-president-continues-to-play-dumb-on-murder-2016-reporting-shows-saudis-only-blacklisted-khashoggi-after-journalist-criticized-trump/5657446
Why the Surprise? Saudi Arabia Has Always Engaged in Murder
It is understandable people are outraged over the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Meanwhile, few are outraged over the murder of thousands in Yemen and the prospect of the worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory. The United States in directly involved in killing innocents in Yemen.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-the-surprise-saudi-arabia-has-always-engaged-in-murder/5657466
There are analytical views that may be valid…that T-Man wanted Mr K done, Saud did T a favor…maybe.
Take VT with grain of salsa https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/10/20/intel-drop-khashoggi-and-some-very-nasty-truth/
Then consider Mr K’s “offense” https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-new-president-and-the-middle-east
Then regard https://medium.com/@journey_america/jamal-khashoggi-blacklisted-by-saudis-in-2016-after-he-criticized-trump-8404abac558f
And here’s RT https://www.rt.com/news/369343-saudi-writer-khashoggi-banned-trump/
Moving along in this deep murk…the Celestial Nikki the narc plans – (drum roll please!) to be el presidente of th banana republic… (actually an artistic flourish to the orange clown act, eh?)
for anything about times in Murka one must seriously understand that they are barking lunatics. And they are nazis… https://therealnews.com/stories/inside-nikki-haleys-shocking-speech-to-secretive-far-right-group
Oil Drum Roll
Khashoggi Repercussions Grow Beyond Saudi – Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5z_WCrlbU
Add to the comment of instrument of justice: “Russia isn’t a
colony of Israel Morris”
Azorka1861: But Russia has an influential fifth column like the
states of the former Soviet bloc
… music break …
“Eloise” Tino Casal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BunJzpnh7T4
https://archive.org/details/SolschenizynAlexanderZweihundertJahreZusammenBand1/page/n0
For those possibly interested, I found a downloadable version of volume one of ‘200 years together’ of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (just scroll the page a littlebit down).
Moreover, this volume one version is *uncensored*. The English version scrapped chapters 2,3 and 6-12. This comes at a price, while this version is in… German.
May someone find a downloadable uncensored English version, or volume 2 in German, I’m interested.
“End Game” (Slipping through the net anybody?)
Not an easy task.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgkB0IhfCQ
Kent
To late, is it??
NO!! it never is. Take that to the bank or somewhere else of your choosing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMy-uyATIMY
Play loud.
Kent
About the why and what of the loss of INF Treaty…thoughtful, and dark…
“… Now, let it be clarified this is not a temper tantrum by Trump by stems from the US policy to place accent on developing new nuclear weapons and aiming at securing a strategic dominance in the global arena. It was during the Obama administration, in 2014, that the US first alleged that Russia violated the INF treaty, but despite persistent requests from Moscow to provide substantiation of the allegation or at least to discuss the discord, Washington failed to respond.”
And:
“… no longer suits the US to be constrained by the INF treaty in the emerging New Cold War conditions where it has bracketed Russia and China as “revisionist power” whom it must counter. In fact, contrary to the INF Treaty, Washington has already deployed launchers at the US antimissile base in Romania and Poland, whose specifications enable them to launch not only interceptor missiles but also strike missiles…”
https://indianpunchline.com/what-trumps-pullout-from-imf-treaty-means/
(indian punchline sometimes seems to be “RF’d”…M. K. BHADRAKUMAR is author former diplomat and educated fellow…his opinions are also expressed on his “twitter” posts… https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline
In recent Valdai meeting VVP offered the view that rule-by-fear is (he was speaking of Empire) is a poor method, as such method yield unpredictable results. I agree, and believe History and Logic support this idea…so why the rule-by-fear method? I propose because of lack of options. Understand options are limited by delusion as well as circumstance…
Running out of options always leaves the “MacBeth Option” – Violence. And now the Violence must become of an atomic kind, it would seem. Some credibly claim that small “gadgets” have already been used in the Eurasian violence… Maybe so…
The Doomed
Mankind is almost incapable of dispassionate, unemotional thinking. In something which he has recognized as evil man can seldom force himself to see also what is good. Not everything in our lives (is) foul, not every word in the papers (is) false, but the minority . . . (see) life in our country as an abomination from top to bottom, (see) every page in the news. . . as one long lie, . . . so that a citizen. . . obtain(ing) information only from our news. . . expect(s) from experience to find only cowardly suppression of facts or a vexatious tangle of lies. Everything written about other countries, . . . about the treachery, . . . about the passionate hostility, . . . all this prove(s) to be lies. The maddeningly monotonous, hate-filled propaganda conducted on the principle that “he who is not for us is against us” . . . .
A.S. (modern edit)