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Big Power Equals Big Heart: UFC Champ Khabib Nurmagomedov Helps African Kids
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201811151069820163-khabib-nurmagomedov-ufc-africa-charity/
“Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian sportsman and UFC champion, spoke about his engagement in philanthropic activity in Africa. Khabib shared a photo from Nigeria on his Instagram page, where he is surrounded by local children.
Under the photo sportsman wrote that he has always wanted to help people in Africa.
“It was my childhood dream and I was praying God to give an opportunity to help people in Africa,” Nurmagomedov said.
He also added that he is going to return again to set up new projects.
“…I’m going to come back here in 4 months to launch few projects that we already targeted,” Khabib said.
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani reported that Nurmagomedov’s “Main objectives are to repair water wells and build new medical centres.”
UFC lightweight champion @TeamKhabib is currently in Nigeria on a charity mission. Main objectives are to repair water wells and build new medical centers. Here’s a photo his team sent me of Khabib with some local kids earlier today. pic.twitter.com/xmJ9kF3jVU
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) November 12, 2018
Nigeria’s parched predominantly Muslim north has suffered in recent years from desertification and a deadly conflict with the Daesh-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram.*”
Great idea, as long as he does’nt pull a Bono, where the high profile gig of saving starving children in Afria, and hobnobing with elite gentry, begets the poor terrorized children at home.
The American Dance of Life: A Handful of Unrelated but Connected Notes on the U.S. and War
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/11/the-american-dance-of-life-a-handful-of-unrelated-but-connected-notes-on-the-u-s-and-war/#more-86312
“Diego Rivera’s painting at the beginning of this article is called “Gloriosa victoria” (“Glorious Victory”) and was done by him in 1954 as a protest against the U.S. overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected government that same year. At the painting’s center, U.S. Sec. of State John Foster Dulles shakes hands with the new (Washington-approved) president of Guatemala while behind them other U.S. officials hand out money to Guatemalan soldiers.
One event from almost thirty years ago left an indelible impression on me. It illustrated for me how society as a whole, including every institution and product and entertainment that’s part of it, increasingly becomes a mass-delivery device for saturating us with the propaganda necessary for keeping us synced to what’s psychologically required of us in order for the nation’s economic elites to retain power — and grow wealthier. Just think of how often we buy a tee-shirt emblazoned with the name of the company which manufactured it. This shows how the U.S. economic (and cultural) system has conditioned us to do what would have been considered impossible years ago: to fork up our hard-earned cash for the “privilege” of advertising a manufacturer’s product with no cost to the company! We’ve turned ourselves into walking billboards for corporate America’s further enrichment.
But that’s only the small-fry stuff.
On Super Bowl Sunday 1991, while Frank Gifford and his colleagues announced the game on ABC, their play-by-play commentary was spliced with live war-updates from the network’s then-top newscaster, Peter Jennings. After a while, it was impossible for the viewing audience to tell which was the main attraction: the game or the war. But in reality, the question was irrelevant. The truth was that ABC had created a new kind of event, a hybrid form of activity which switched effortlessly back and forth between the “pastime” of real blood being spilled in a real war and another pastime, the football game’s highly disciplined athletic violence. An amazing simultaneity had been achieved: the crowd’s roar was like a split-personality screaming in 2 voices at once — one voice cheered on Baghdad’s obliteration, the other shouted for running back Otis Anderson as he plunged off-tackle toward MVP immortality.
This display of athletics and patriotism was reinforced by a Disney-influenced halftime show that featured a blond child, surrounded by a chorus of other kids, singing, “You are my hero, you are everything I want to be” in honor of US service people in the Gulf. As the boy’s sweetly warbled song turned the Florida air into an oozing goo of patriotic emotion, upbeat images of US military personnel periodically flashed on the TV. All this activity soon led to a special message, projected on the stadium’s giant screen as well as on televisions across the nation, from President Bush. In his message, the president extolled the virtues of fighting a war in which goodness (i.e., the US) would triumph over evil (i.e., Iraq). As halftime ended and the 2 teams prepared to resume their battle on the field, fans waved flags and a patriotic jolt better than any crack high swept through the stadium crowd and the nation’s millions of TV viewers. When the kickoff occurred, somewhere in the Middle East an Iraqi target was undoubtedly leveled, detonated by a high-tech US weapon. The crowd cheered.
In the midst of such patriotism-infused cultural events, with people who are ready to kill for their country bonding everywhere in a euphoria of nation-love, it’s difficult to be a nonconformist, which is why the idea of turning the whole of society into a sprawling propaganda machine appeals to the 1 percent.
Events like the 1991 Super Bowl raise politics to the level of pure spectacle. Such events — with their efforts to induce a trance-like national pride, and their emphasis on the wholesomeness of the military mentality and the moral purity of those in power — are not confined solely to the US and are not without precedent in the past. An example of this is Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Triumph of the Will, the German film that is a classic of Nazi propaganda and which includes many of the same elements that the 1991 Super Bowl/Gulf war extravaganza included. Riefenstahl’s film is alive, not with apparent hatred, but with the apparent power of goodness. Triumph is a feast of the images of such goodness: blond young men smiling and expressing male solidarity, buxom women working hard for the national good, a feel for the middle-European beauty of German cities and countryside, and a night-time political rally at Nuremberg which, with lit torches and an almost churchly atmosphere, seems, not like a mundane political event, but rather like a futuristic mass in honor of everything mysterious and noble in the galaxy. The film’s purpose was to create in the hearts of “good” Germans a sense of grand national destiny, a euphoric awareness of their historic mission to reorganize life on the planet in the name of a higher good that only they, among the world’s peoples, were capable of comprehending. Nazism’s deepest realities — racism, hatred of democracy, its belief in the usefulness of genocide — were hidden in the film behind images of happy nuclear families and individuals devoted to traditional values.
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Rather than expressing a truth, the phrase “The land of the free and home of the brave” impersonates a truth.
The phrase is a lure like the lure on a fishing line. We are meant to bite down on it in a gluttonous spasm of patriotic hunger, only to have a hook rip open the roof of our mouth, then anchor itself unbudgingly in the wound.
This is how we’re caught. How groupthink triumphs.
Revolting against such a reality makes sense. But to revolt doesn’t mean lecturing people about what they should do. It means working alongside people so we can learn together how to transform ourselves into a relentless mass force for a revolutionary reorganization of the nation and a reinvention of values.
The wars are everywhere. Wars at home. Imperial wars overseas. Our struggle may be complex, but our goals aren’t. We must fight injustice and inequity wherever we find them within the U.S., and stop exportation of violence, murder, and oppression to other lands. We don’t need reform, we need revolution.”
Cultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building
https://petras.lahaine.org/cultural-imperialism-linguistic-perversion-and-obfuscation/
“In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics.
The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.
We will proceed by identifying the key terminology which furthers imperial aggression. We will then describe the economic and political objectives of linguistic imperialism.
We will conclude by examining the political/cultural alternatives.
In its original meaning ‘populism’ referred to mass movements composed of exploited workers. Popular movements fought oligarchical bankers and media moguls.
At the turn of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th century, populists formed powerful political movements and electoral parties in the US, Canada, Russia and Western Europe.
By the mid 20th century, populist parties and movements multiplied, and in some cases, came to power in Asia and Latin America. Populist movements gained mass support in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. In the United States populist parties and movement represented farmers who fought railroad monopolies, bankers and corrupt political bosses.
Nationalism and populism were the twin motors of independence and social justice.
Nationalism was based on ending imperial domination and recovering national cultural values free from colonial impositions. By the turn of the 21st century with the rise and advance of post-colonial regimes, the western imperial powers sought to denigrate the movements and parties which questioned their legitimacy.
Imperial ideology resorted to distorting and reverting the positive concepts associated with liberation struggles into their opposite. Instead they associated populism with oppressive and authoritarian doctrines of regressive regimes.
Populism was emptied of its original emancipatory content and replaced by, and associated with reactionary, racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, fascist ideology.
Any and all popular mass movements, independent of their socio-economic content, were painted with the same regressive content. Likewise, nationalism was linked with neo-fascists who expelled minorities and migrants.
As a corollary the imperial ideologies presented US and European empire builders as inclusive upholders of democratic values who fought against ‘nationalists’.
The principal enemies of ‘populism’ are staunch western neo-liberal ruling classes and their venomous scribes in the Financial Times, New York Times; the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Anti-populism in defense of ‘western democratic values’ serves as pseudo-progressive propaganda in favor of imperialism. The anti-populist rhetoric amalgamates rightists and leftists, chauvinists and defenders of national independence.
The purpose was to justify US and EU multiple imperial wars and coups throughout Asia, the Middle East, North and East Africa and Latin America.
While the ‘virtuous’ anti populist and anti-nationalist rabble-rousing media, condemn the populists they promote and defend murderous western wars and coups in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Honduras, Somalia, South Sudan, Venezuela and the Ukraine.
‘Anti-nationalism’ serves to disarm pro-independence critics of imperialism and to ‘legitimize’ western leaders. Media ideologues attacked rightists, ‘nationalists’, who attack immigrants but obfuscated the fact that the immigrants were victims of western imperial military invasions.
Rightist domestic nationalists and neo-liberal imperialists reflect two-sides of the same coin. One excited the nationalist passions of the masses, the other proceeded to satisfy the voracious appetite for capitalist profits.
Anti-populism and nationalism, were the driving force of neo-liberal elites which exploits the domestic workforce and attacks social welfare and workplace democracy. They portrayed popular social movements as versions of ‘populism to be condemned as enemies of free-markets and free elections.
Nationalists opposed to imperial wars are denigrated as authoritarian enemies of western security, globalization and democratic values.
US and EU imperialism face adversaries from within and without. Domestic opposition has turned against costly wars and financial profiteering and has turned in favor of greater welfare.
In desperate need for a new ideological defense, the western powers have fabricated new enemies, labeled ‘populists’, a disguise for supporting economic oligarchs. The western elites seek to undermine anti-imperialists by lumping them with far-right nationalists.
The ideologists of western imperialism have other propaganda tools. National independence militants are equated with ‘terrorists’. Russian defenders of secure borders are described as authoritarian expansionists. China’s international economic networks are dubbed ‘colonial debts collectors’.
The mass media’s drum beat is necessary to obfuscate reality. The US and EU have nearly 200 overseas military bases throughout the world. China has a tiny base in East Africa.
The US has a string of military bases surrounding China. Beijing lacks a single overseas military base surrounding the US.
While western colonial and neo-colonial elites plunder Asia, Africa and Latin America, China finances infrastructure, invests in productive enterprises and does not operate military bases to intervene in Third World countries.
The US and Europe hijack progressive concepts like populists and invert their meaning, into regressive reactionary movements, parties and personalities.
Pro-imperial colonialist racist labels are pinned on ‘nationalists’ many of whom are defenders of national sovereignty and oppose imperial hegemony. Political language at the service of empire is no virtue!”
These 3 pieces I’ve posted excerpts from are meant to be an interconnected series.
Kevin MacDonald – The Culture of Critique
The best strategy to destroy Europeans, therefore, is to convince the Europeans of their
own moral bankruptcy. A major theme of my book, The Culture of Critique: An Evolutio-
nary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Move-
ments,71is that this is exactly what Jewish intellectual movements have done. They have
presented Judaism as morally superior to European civilization and European civilization
as morally bankrupt and the proper target of altruistic punishment. The consequence is
that once Europeans are convinced of their own moral depravity, they will destroy their own
people in a fit of altruistic punishment. The general dismantling of the culture of the West,
and eventually its demise as anything resembling an ethnic entity, will occur as a result of a
moral onslaught triggering a paroxysm of altruistic punishment. And thus the intense effort
among Jewish intellectuals to continue the ideology of the moral superiority of Judaism and
its role as undeserving historical victim while at the same time continuing the onslaught on
the moral legitimacy of the West.72
https://archive.org/details/TheCultureOfCritiqueAnEvolutionaryAnalysisOf
Que Jianyu keeps breaking Rubik’s cube world records in increasingly crazy ways
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/que-jianyu-keeps-breaking-rubiks-cube-records/10501542
BEST Magic Show in the world – Genius Rubik’s Cube Magician
America’s Got Talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFA-RmV_wG0
Israel Wins 2018 Midterm Election
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-wins-2018-election/
“Judging from the mainstream media, Israel was not a major issue in the midterm election but it sure did come up a lot when candidates for office were wooing Jewish or Evangelical voters. To cite only one example, Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis criticized his opponent Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum during their gubernatorial race for receiving support from the Dream Defenders, a group favoring Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, and giving a speech welcoming members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to his city. DeSantis claimed in a video clip that “I can find anti-Semites around him, but it’s almost like ‘we don’t want to discuss that.’”
DeSantis, who sponsored the 2013 Palestinian Accountability Act which called for the withholding of U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, charged that Gillum would not be a “friend” of Israel. In 2017, he co-founded the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus, saying “Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East, as we share common national interests and possess similar national values. Israel is not the problem in the Middle East; it is the solution to many of the problems that bedevil the region. American policy must ensure that Israel emerges victorious against those who deny or threaten her existence.” Earlier this year, DeSantis drafted a proposal calling on the U.S. to recognize Syria’s Golan Heights as an ‘integral part’ of the State of Israel.
DeSantis boasted about his presence in Jerusalem when the U.S. Embassy was moved to that city in May and has promised as governor to visit Israel’s illegal settlements on the West Bank, which he refers to by the preferred Israeli usage as “Judea and Samaria.” He threatens critics that “If you boycott Israel, the state of Florida will boycott you.”
One might note at a minimum that for Ron DeSantis and ambitious slimeballs like him it is all about Israel due to their own political self-interest, with nothing actually in the mix for either Florida or the United States. The uninformed public buys into the narrative because it doesn’t know any better thanks to the media’s heavy slant in favor of Israel, allowing uncritical support for the Jewish state to continue under the radar unchallenged. DeSantis, a former U.S. Navy lawyer, has demonstrated that he reveres Israel even more than his former comrades in arms. In his congressional district there are a number of survivors of the U.S.S. Liberty, which was attacked in international waters by Israel on June 8, 1967, killing 34 crewmen and injuring 171 more. They report that DeSantis has been completely unsympathetic to their requests that a commission of inquiry finally be convened to determine what actually happened on that day.
In fact, Americans have never had the option of voting on the “special relationship” that Israel enjoys with the United States as no Congressman would dare run against it lest they be smeared in the media and find themselves running against an extraordinarily well funded opponent benefitting from large donations coming from out of state sources. The list of prominent politicians “taken down” by Israel is lengthy, and includes Cynthia McKinney, Adlai Stevenson III, Paul Findley, Chuck Percy, William Fulbright, Roger Jepsen, and Pete McCloskey.
It is particularly ironic that as the midterm campaigns were drawing to a close there appeared some serious investigative journalism that demonstrates precisely how Israel and Jewish groups corrupt the political process in America to provide virtually unlimited support for anything and everything that the despicable Benjamin Netanyahu and his gang of war criminals seek to do. How the process has succeeded is best illustrated by the current Israeli government’s policy of “mowing the grass” in Gaza where it is using army snipers to kill unarmed Palestinian protesters. Washington not only does not protest against the in-your-face war crime, it aids and abets it with U.S. Ambassador David Friedman justifying the military response as measured and appropriate…”
Scratch a modern pindo nazi/fascist and invariably a zionazi is exposed.
Israel Always Initiates Violence in Occupied Palestine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-always-initiates-violence-in-occupied-palestine/5659849
(Lendman’s blog was deleted by the “you know who”.)
Lieberman Quits Netanyahu For Not Being Violent Enough to Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V69d2khz4y4
China’s ‘artificial sun’ reaches 100 million degrees Celsius marking milestone for nuclear fusion
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/china-attempts-to-create-an-artificial-sun/10495536
Did Putin not get the memo on pence? He shouldn’t be speaking with this dunce.
https://cdn1.tass.ru/width/744_b12f2926/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20181115/1207639.jpg
If someone is non-agreement-capable, what are you when you try to make an agreement with him.
… music break … dynamic !
Alpha Blondy – Zenith Paris – Mai 2009 – Peace In Liberia
https://youtu.be/5U08rNN-3w0?t=180
(three minute entre is in French … standby for the electric guitar soloist)
Get your hash rate here if you are watching the Bitcoin Cash hash wars which should have been an upgrade, but, people will do what people do and sometimes these fellow earth dwellers just wanna fight!
https://cash.coin.dance/
At the time of writing, there is 3 hours 20 minutes to go before the upgrade begins.
It will most probably take a few days to settle out. In the mean time, the crypto markets are scary low. Time to either wait for a buy opportunity or sit back and relax until the dust settles. Seemingly the first 10 major cryptos on https://coinmarketcap.com/ are re-arranging themselves as we speak and XRP has just kicked Ethereum to the 3rd place.
Uhm, that XRP kick of Ethereum was just temporary, seemingly. Eth is back in 2nd place.
What fun!
Big T says it’s market commotion and overreaction to a “fork” within Bitcoin Cash….but not nearly as significant an event as last year’s fork within Bitcoin that created Bitcoin Cash…so why the turmoil?
My Take:
People love the drama. It makes them feel more alive to be scared shitless even if they lose a bundle financially doing exactly what the manipulators profile them to do: Have the emotional control, attention span and patience of a flea!
Here’s Bix showing Cryptos are subject to some (not all) of the same games as any other market:
https://youtu.be/LdwzGs6U6ow
Crypto Market Manipulation! Part 2-The Solution!! (Bix Weir)
I’ve got my reservations about Bix…however: Most “trades” are not even trades, he claims. Just manipulation of emotions, using derivatives. No real buyer or seller like you or I behind most of the “trades”, he says.
AND that is somewhat credible if you see 100% of the total capitalization in any crypto turning over, trading, in a very limited amount of time……as he goes through with a number of them above…….a few short weeks, for example….when you know damned well most people know all about the volatility and long ago decided to HODL: Hold On (long term…do nothing) for Dear Life…and ride out ALL the huge swings up and down…..long enough to pay back their initial investment with 10% or so of their stash….then let all the rest whipsaw up and down a few more years until volatility decreases dramatically…..at a substantially higher plateau.
Who has the discipline and who will get whipsawed, having put themselves in a vulnerable position….. violating “the rules” by risking too much and being unable to hold on when they still should???
Uhm, we’re seeing history being made in this hash war. This is how we should make war … Let the machines fight it out.
So today, I’m watching the Bitcoin Cash Hash War and many things will improve if the right side wins. My husband is ‘lovingly’ insulting me. Says … “Other people go to the racetrack, or buy a lottery ticket … you go to the hash wars. I always knew you were a little weird and you’ve never failed to confirm my knowledge.”
Uhm, I think I’ll just ignore him for a while (grins). Tech is fun again.
There are always some who serve. I guess we know who we are. This is an offering again from a soldier, a father, and a nurse.
True Commander
My friend used my son
To shoot me through the heart.
He’ll use most anything
To get an early start
On a new day.
He calculates his lines of fire
He digs his trenches deep.
When he gets you in his sights
Your heart ain’t yours to keep.
He’s a soldier’s true commander.
The more I see the way he works
The more I admire him.
There’s not a duty that he shirks
Though others may despise him.
He’s a worker through and through.
I don’t really blame him
For blowing me away.
He knew that I could take it
That hell would have no sway
On his eternal soldier.
He knows that I’ll keep marching
And always turn the wheel
He’s let loose his ragnarok
And he doesn’t seem to feel
The terror of wrathful deities.
He’s a soldier’s true commander.
Posted in the spirit of “rhyming with light the gods of our youth.” I may have posted this some time ago but I think it’s appropriate again.
US ‘participating in war crime’ by supporting Saudis in Yemen – 2017/11/14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn7OHCHSVXA
The US military’s role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen is unauthorized, according to a new,
non-binding resolution passed by the House of Representatives. But is the declaration any-
thing more than symbolic?
Pentagon Inadvertently Reveals Secret Saudi Operation – 2018/11/14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwm87YlAow&t=4s
“Operation Yukon Journey,” hitherto a closely guarded secret of the Pentagon, points to direct
US involvement in the carnage inflicted on Yemen. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof and
journalist Hadeel Oueis join Rick Sanchez to discuss the revelations.
‘A price needs to be paid’: US Senate bill targets Saudi Arabia |Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5ycofy3xQ
The United States’ senators are proposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia for the
murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and for its role in the war in Yemen.
A senate bill, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, seeks to block arms
sale to the kingdom and prevent its warplanes from refuelling at the US bases.
Khashoggi Killed to Cover Bio-War in Yemen, Duff on Press TV
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/11/16/khashoggi-killed-to-cover-bio-war-in-yemen-duff-on-press-tv/
This is an amazing video discussing ancient Greek heritage of Aromanian Vlachs, number of times people are demonstrating their being oldest European-Greek population residing in Epirus and Thessaly). I wish my second best friend, who is a confused Greek could see it. I am providing this to all confused Greeks, who in addition do not know of Latin being one of the original few dialects of Greek language from Chalkidiki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7we2x90k38
BTW, just so you know the famous Count Drakula, was Greek Vlach King in Vlachia. and the name Draculias is one of the ancient Greek names, and still used in. Glad to oblige.
Addition from Lekakis, at the same panel (beautiful):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f0ArZI4J0g
He quotes many sources, including many Romanian.
He ends, than any one doubting this is purely “Vlakas – idiot”.
Chaos In Israel: Are Bibi’s Days Numbered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifFm1l9kepc&t=93s
The surprise resignation of Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman over a ceasefire agreement with Gaza – after a botched Israeli raid broke the initial ceasefire – has brought Israel to the brink of snap elections. Who are the main players and what to expect?
Here:
https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/xl/dette-er-_sola-ts_-og-_helge-ingstad_-kollisjonen-1.14289883
4 billion NOK!!
Kent
Prophetic! Solzhenitsyn’s Famous Harvard Speech Predicted Complete
Collapse of American Society – Dmitry Kiselyov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmxyLp_mPU
On Tuesday, the mid-term elections were held in the USA. The bottom line is President Trump
strengthened his position in the upper chamber of the American parliament. He gained a majority
in the Senate. It means there will be no impeachment. Trump will remain in office. But in the lower
chamber of the Congress, in the House of Representatives, Trump lost his position. Now, he has
a minority there. Since it is the Congress that determines the country’s foreign policy, this means
that it will be obviously impossible to agree on major issues with Trump. Trump has only a consul-
tative role.
Azorka 11.15.18 3:56pm
Perhaps a different perspective on the 2018 US Mid-term Elections.
Over the last 30 years, Major Industrialists / Banks / Wall Street Brokers took over financing Congressional – Senatorial – Presidential elections, forming a left+right wing “Uni-Party” docile to their outsourcing manufacturing practices, while retaining the semblance of a two-party rivalry, with fake Republicans and fake Democrats playing Kabuki politics.
Suddenly, Donald Trump tore the Kabuki mask off his Republican primary rivals and that of his Democrat challenger in the 2016 Election. Despite his electoral victory, President Trump came to Washington to discover that 60% or more of Congress and 60% or more of the Senate still report to their major financiers. While he won an effort to significantly lower taxes, President Trump largely failed to enact new legislation on Capital Hill, or gain control of the Federal Bureaucracy.
The real battle during the 2018 Mid-terms, was a contest between the new Trump Deplorable Party and Big Business’ financed Uni-Party. In terms of results, President Trump lost 48 Uni-Party Republicans and gained 21 real allies. He also gained 3 allies in the Senate. These are modest gains, but Big Business had to spent a fortune merely to hold on and further deepened the cold anger of Trump Deplorables.
Rome was not built in one day and President Trump seems engaged in a multi-election campaign to expose Kabuki politicians and break the Uni-Party. President Trump’s chances of ultimate success may be slight, but his trade ventures have re-invigorated the US economy, which is something of a miracle.
I’m not quite as optimistic as you about the congress-unless the house dimos continue their infighting, I expect their threat of some 80 investigations to completely grid lock the govt-that may not necessarily be a bad thing temporarily but the important issues will not get any attention.
The senate may balance out the crazies in the house but I do not see any strong gop voices over there-graham may be getting his cajones back but that is too early to judge ; the senate intel cmitte pretty much is a zero, foreign relations has menendez, cardin, browder’s sychophants.
Generally, I think the gopers and trump need to get their act together to defend against this dimo strategy to blatently steal elections, ie florida, ariz, calif is a lost cause. If they do not develop a strategy, they can kiss 2020 goodby and maybe the following elections. So far, I have not seen anything from the gopers which would give me confidence that they indeed recognize the threat from the dimos and their election manipulations.
Anyone here feel too ‘white ‘?
Want to be ‘woke’?
For a bargain 120$, Culture Wise Collective offers this:
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So …does this mean Afros are in or out?
“white-adjacent” ??? Is that beige?
… white is not my problem ,,, my main problem is being a GOY and the knowing and feelings of “being a Goy” within myself … ” being of less worth than a Zionist Jew’s little fingernail ” …
need a treatment to ” feel DEGOYED ” … at least.
I used to be a very proud Anglo-Saxon-Roman.
We are all One in the all-knowing, all-seeing One who is the Creator of All. Not only Jews, altho they continue to be attached to their special delusion of ‘choseness’ – please do not label yourself with the label given to you by other humans. You are made in the image of God.
The God who designed us with the ability to sin knowing we would take advantage of that “freedom”. With a deity like that no wonder we’re in such a mess (which God had planned to occur and knew it would happen).
You are correct – we are an exact image.
Simple Solution: Get a Tan!
Enough sun will turn you brown.
On the outside, at least.
Geez! Who cares?
Neurotic nonsense.
“white-adjacent” is nonsense, literally.
Reds have lots of tonal shades close to red, all other coloures likewise, but try wearing a pale beige shirt instead of a crisp white one to sense a definition of whiteness.
Black is adjacent to white.
Ras
Judging from responses, I don’t think this particular scam will get too many offers from Vineyarders ….
Amazing that some will indeed pay for the privilege of being ‘caucased’ out of their ‘trance’ induced by ‘whiteness ‘….but then, snake oil always has it’s takers..:)
UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genocide-coming-but-its-worse-than-that.html#comments
Psywar, as practiced by the guardian. Nice deconstruction.
Mainstream media on Gaza: Israelis get killed, but Palestinians merely ‘die’
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/444058-israel-attack-palestinians-killed/
“However, this wasn’t the only title the Guardian had previously given this same story. The original title was a poorly crafted “Israeli officer killed during raid in which seven Palestinians died.”
You see, prior to the title’s amendment, the Israeli officer was “killed” during the raid, yet the Palestinians (who were killed by the way) merely died. The Israeli officer was killed by the Palestinians, but the seven Palestinians died from some unknown cause. This is a clever yet obvious play on the English language, whereby the deaths of the seven Palestinians are brought about passively, whereas the Israeli officer is actively killed by his aggressor.
In actuality, the perpetrator of the raid is the person bringing about the violence. The Palestinians who react in response are not, in any normal sense of the word, the perpetrators of the violence in question.
Furthermore, the Israeli officer is the one that is highlighted by the title, whereas the lesser deaths of the Palestinians are brought about as a side note. The Guardian explains in the text of its report that seven Palestinians are dead, but the identities of those Palestinians are not highlighted.
If they were militants, why not say so? If they are not militants, are they in fact civilians? If they are civilians, why is the Israeli officer highlighted first in the title, and not the tragedy of the seven civilian deaths? If they are militants, why are they given a lesser status than the Israeli officer? Well, as far as we know, two of those killed (I mean, died) were Hamas commanders. The rest of the deceased were aged between 19 and 25.
Of course, the Guardian will no longer have to worry about answering those questions as it wasted no time in changing its headline in the wake of what can only be described as a viral Twitter frenzy. The UK-based Canary described it as the “Guardian headline on Palestine that’s shaming the entire field of journalism.”
If they had been allowed to get away with this shoddy piece of journalism, one could still argue that it is just a title and we should not spend our time fussing and feuding over the intricate wording of titles. After all, what matters to a story and its journalistic integrity is its content, right?
Anyone who knows and understands anything about modern journalism and propaganda know this to be complete nonsense. Firstly, a study by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute found that over half of Americans surveyed were mere headline readers and nothing more.
The effects of this painful reality go well beyond that of a resulting lazy populace. As explained by Maria Konnikova in the New Yorker:
“Psychologists have long known that first impressions really do matter—what we see, hear, feel, or experience in our first encounter with something colors how we process the rest of it. Articles are no exception. And just as people can manage the impression that they make through their choice of attire, so, too, can the crafting of the headline subtly shift the perception of the text that follows. By drawing attention to certain details or facts, a headline can affect what existing knowledge is activated in your head. By its choice of phrasing, a headline can influence your mindset as you read so that you later recall details that coincide with what you were expecting.”
According to Konnikova, Ecker’s findings show that misinformation causes more damage when it’s subtle than when it is blatant.
Say what you like about Fox News, but its blatant approach to lying makes it less of a threat in my mind than papers like the Guardian who advertise themselves as “editorially independent” and “free from commercial bias” as it deploys more subtle techniques to not only toe the establishment line, but to provide free public relations for states such as Israel, who regularly contravene international law in a variety of ways.
Make no mistake, the Guardian editors knew what they were doing when they released this headline. It was not done by accident. This is a tried and true strategy in which Western media will paint the aggressors in a conflict as being passive players with little fault as possible – so long as those players are the US, UK or its close allies.”
The point made about subtlety is a very important one in how population control, via media, works in the zionazified west. Subtlety directed at the supposed “thinkers”, fox, or trump tweets for the neanderthals. The zionazi-gay media is weaponized to influence various audiences with psychologically designed tailored psywar.
Another example of how zionazi-gays work to influence people.
Removing Billboard “Honoring the First Responders of Gaza” is Attack on Free Speech
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/11/removing-billboard-honoring-the-first-responders-of-gaza-is-attack-on-free-speech/
“Nearly 3 weeks into its planned 4-week run, an electronic billboard honoring first responders in the Gaza Strip was pulled November 13th because the billboard company received phone calls and email complaints calling their staff terrorists and anti-Semites, and threatening a boycott.
The Palestine Advocacy Project sponsored the billboard on Interstate 93 near Boston to highlight the desperate situation in the Gaza strip, and to emphasize the humanity and agency of the people of Gaza, who are often portrayed as terrorists or victims. The billboard included a photo of deceased Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar and text reading: “Honoring the First Responders of Gaza. Saving Lives. Rescuing Hope.” It was estimated to be viewed by over a half million motorists each week of its planned 4-week run, beginning 24 October. The billboard was met with positive media coverage.
This week, a coordinated, aggressive campaign was launched against the billboard company with accusations of anti-Semitism, intended to damage the company for hosting this billboard. Sarah Gold, a volunteer with the Palestine Advocacy Project, said, “This campaign is neither engaging us nor our perspective. Instead it is attempting through intimidation to eradicate the avenues of free speech we have endeavored to use; to silence us.”
The billboard is another casualty in an ongoing attack on free speech. Palestine Legal states in their 2017 report “The Israeli state and its proxy organizations in the U.S. are investing heavily in punitive measures to intimidate and chill the free speech of those who wish to express criticism of Israeli policies.” The report documents 308 attacks on U.S.-based Palestine-related free speech in 2017 alone.
Razan al-Najjar and other Gazan first responders were doing their best to attend to wounded civilians; yet celebrating them is construed as an act of “hate & anti-semitism.”
Israeli, Saudi Agents Hit in Strikes on Terrorists – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201811151069838965-irgc-says-strikes-killed-saudi-israeli-agents/
“Israeli and Saudi agents were among terrorists believed to have been killed during a recent Iranian missile strike, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force commander Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh has said, Iran’s Ahlul Bayt News Agency reports.
According to the general, the Revolutionary Guard targeted a terrorist meeting with a precision missile strike, killing militants as well as Israeli and Saudi representatives said to have been present.
“In another operation targeting the fortress of the ‘democratic terrorists’, we targeted two meeting rooms where representatives of the Saudi and Zionist regimes were also present and engaged in discussion,” Hajizadeh said during a speech in northern Iran on Wednesday.
Hajizadeh accused Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel of attempting to foment unrest in the Islamic Republic, and suggested that these countries want Iran to suffer a Syrian-like crisis.
On October 1, the Iranian military conducted missile strikes in Syria against Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (MALLA) ringleaders who claimed responsibility for the September 22 attack in the city of Ahvaz, southwest Iran which killed 25 soldiers and civilians and injured 70 others.”
Something unusual happened to me:
I was exchanging foreign language conversation with a woman in Crimea, and since she asked what I wanted to talk about, I said that I’d like to know what had been her experience when there was the referendum to become Russian.
She got very upset and told me that it was not something she wanted to discuss, that it was a private thing concerning Crimeans only and not for foreigners, and that she wanted to talk about the past only (culture, history, art, etc.) and not the present.
Now I wonder, is it her personal view, or is it censorship, or what? Those of you who live there might know?
I see the cess in the pool at Hollyweird raised $60 mil for the torture and killing of Palestinian children. Was asked yesterday if I’d seen Meg, duh, I could not hold back. Not sure if the BDS targets the Hollyweird child molestors, but anyone attending a cinima where pedophiles gleefully hold the audience in awe, should hang their heads in shame for supporting such abominations that pass for human beings!
Report from Looneylandia: Fires in Paradise. Are you sure you want to retire to California, Ms. Merkel?
The header photo for 11/15/18 is how the cafes look in Northern California. PM 325 which is particulate matter of 325 (of 2.5 microns ) level .This level is Hazardous to your health. N 95 masks will do to filter out most of the heavy duty crud. I always have a few on hand because that is the mask we used to don on entering highly contagious patient rooms. Also, I have an air purifier running on low full time because I have an allergic cat–my little canary in the mine . She is not sneezing today so that is a good sign.
Everyone is donating money, food and supplies and watching the new Democratic Party ( of course there is no bickering here about election results since they already have the illegal vote in the box ) Governor to see what he will do or, more importantly, not do since outside of SF and Sacramento Northern California is a red state. There were a few reports about PG &E’s sparking transformers but these were hushed up very quickly. The utilities pay off the Dems. big time and control the press. Better have rumors of saboteurs. This is so Stalinist like.
The ideologues are blaming “global warming” which of course can be blamed on having too many people on the planet rather than the elite’s inefficient, toxic energy systems and social organizations. Actually, due to low sunspot cycle we are in a period of planetary cooling if anything.
But they have Ocasio Cortez busy working on “saving the planet” per their useless programs of social control and financial malfeasance ( Paris Accords). They sure shut her up quickly re: Palestine. Throw the new kids a bone and keep them busy.
Hoping for the spiritual renewal of America…and waiting for rain.
Well T, you don’t need to wait and see what Gov Brown will do. He proactively signed a bill into law in October 2018 allowing PGE to bill CA customers for any expenses incurred, including lawsuits, related to the fires. This is essential the asme amount of bailout the banks received in 2008.
The smoke is seriously bad here at the coast. Wearing my mask, staying inside, and packing boxes. Soon to be a refugee myself.
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The Halifax International Security Forum is on. @HFXforum (Twitter), http://www.halifaxtheforum.org — “North America’s leading Foreign Affairs and Defense Conference. Promoting strategic cooperation among democracies.” Based in Washington, DC
Canada’s Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. Vance, will participate in a panel discussion on Inclusive Security on Nov. 17th at 12:15 PM AST.
Discusses ‘Fort Trump’ at Pentagon
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak met with Pentagon chief James Mattis in
Washington, DC, on Tuesday to advance discussions of a new permanent American
military base in Poland dubbed “Fort Trump.”
https://sputniknews.com/military/201811141069810863-polish-defense-minister-fort-trump/
Federal News Agency
Politics 2018/11/16
Americans never quit: in Sovfeda they explained why Poland was scared to deploy the US
military base – by Mikhail Blinov (Sovfeda stands for Soviet Federatsiyi / Совет Федерации / en. Federation Council which is the shortcut for the Parliament of the Russian Federation)
The United States decided not to deploy a military base Fort Trump in Poland, Onet reports, citing its own sources. Nevertheless, Americans will be present in the state of Eastern Europe, only in a different format. The idea of placing a permanent military base on Polish territory, as previously assumed, “has practically no chance of implementation.” “Poland is ready to abandon the original concept of Fort Trump in favor of another form of Ame-rican military presence. According to our sources, the issue of increasing the US forces is almost certainly resolved, but the Americans put several conditions, ”write journalists Onet. First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council Vladimir Jabarov, in a conversation with a correspondent for the Federal News Agency, explained why Poland was scared to deploy the US military base. In addition, he drew attention to the negative trend of rapprochement between Warsaw and Washington, not only at the diplomatic but also at the military level. “Most likely, Poland refused because its authorities understood: if Americans come, then they never leave. Getting rid of this base will be much more difficult than inviting Americans. However, the United States will be present there in a different format, there is a very active rapprochement between Poland and America. The Poles are trying to play the role of one of the main partners of the United States in Europe and the most important partner in Eastern Europe, ”says a member of the upper house of parliament. “I think such a rapprochement in the military sphere will not end with anything good for Poland. Sooner or later she will have problems with her neighbors. But they chose this path: for a very long time they complained that the Soviet Union was present in Poland as part of the organization of the Warsaw Pact. Now there will be Americans or parts of NATO. They can not do without the help of their friends. At first it was the Soviet Union, now it is the United States and the Alliance. Such a people: if only to lean against someone, ”summed up Vladimir Dzhabarov. Recall that in September of this year, Warsaw directly addressed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, with a proposal to station parts of the United States Armed Forces in Poland on an ongoing basis. Trump himself then stated that the United States is currently considering this idea, but Warsaw is ready to pay for it “billions and billions of dollars.”
(Google translation)
https://riafan.ru/1121663-amerikancy-nikogda-ne-ukhodyat-v-sovfede-obyasnili-pochemu-polsha-ispugalas-razmeshat-voennuyu-bazu-ssha?utm_source=push-notification&utm_medium=push-world&utm_campaign=push
Jim Acosta
The Boor of Boors
His 15 minutes of fame ran out
Let him posture and let him pout
claim free speech violation,
due process abrogation.
“Holier than thou”
he may ceaselessly tout
“I am the victim”
he’ll scream and shout
But in the end
there is no doubt
We all know he’s
the big lout
Give this man a Nobel Prize:
Prince of Sleaze
and
King of Lies.
My cynicism is just fueled into semi poetic frenzy complicated by metaphor coma……
by these:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/444191-obama-nobel-strip-bomb/
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/13/bernie-sanders-wife-inquiry-dropped-964513
Let me wax lyrical-satirical
Olly, Olly Oxen Free, Bernie
You can come in now Bernie,baby
The coast is clear, so is your lady
Your Party now doth you await
August cover to give, it’s not too late,
to conceal its acts criminally shady.
US Justice Dept Accidentally Reveals Secret Indictment Against Assange – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/us/201811161069880329-assange-justice-department-indictment/
“The US Justice Department is apparently poised to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, though it remains unclear whether the charges have already been filed or not.
This development came to light on Thursday purely by accident when prosecutors pursuing an unrelated sex-crimes case submitted a filing which contains two references to Assange, CNBC reports.
According to the media outlet, the prosecutors wrote that the complaint “would need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and can therefore no longer evade or avoid arrest and extradition in this matter”, and that “due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.”
As Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia, explained in a statement obtained by NBC News, the filing “was made in error. That was not the intended name for this filing.”
Earlier, Assange’s lawyer Carlos Poveda told Sputnik that Ecuador might extradite his client, suggesting Quito might have reached an agreement for this with London and Washington.”
And this after the material exposed through Wikileaks was praised and promoted by trump and his allies during last septic presidential [s]election. The israelonazi’s quisling trump regime is proving to be the most duplicious and slimy yet of the american regimes.
Free speech for CNN, but not for Assange: The media’s double standard
https://www.rt.com/usa/444208-acosta-assange-big-difference/
“Two journalists on the bad side of Donald Trump were vindicated this week. One had his White House credentials restored. Another got proof that Uncle Sam wants him behind bars. Guess which one had all the support from the MSM.
CNN’s Jim Acosta was kicked out of the White House because the US president didn’t like the way the journalist bombarded him with confrontational questions. Less than a week later, a Trump-appointed judge ordered his access restored, at least for the time being. A big win for the freedom of speech in America.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is in a self-imposed confinement in Ecuador embassy in London because he believes that if he leaves the British will snatch him and ship to the land of the free to be prosecuted as a spy. His situation did not change much this week, except that his suspicions of a secret indictment were collaborated an Assistant US Attorney, in an apparent slip of the pen.
Somehow many of the people and media outlets, who stood by Acosta in defense of his right to pester the US president – sorry, hold the US president accountable – were nowhere to be seen when it came to defending Assange’s right to publish America’s dirty little secrets.”
… music break …
Small Faces – Tin Soldier (good quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo
(patriotism is noble love … a deadly attraction for soldiers)
It WAS the “noble love of patriotism” that allowed me to be drafted into “our war” in 66′. That faded quickly as personal honor and loyalty to the others so trapped kept me in “Indian Country”. It was truly a deadly attraction for many around me. I felt guilt when wounded and med-evacced to Japan. And…..it continues.
OK I am not making light of the purposeful underdevelopment in lands to the south, or the caravan that’s Too Late To Vote (This Time) or the human trafficking of Venezuelan and Central American women and young girls and boys and so forth.
But the amateurism of this south of the border capitalist attempt to build a following (subs, “likes” …..whatever) appealing to the most ignorant knee-jerk Deplorables has just had me in stitches for the last few hours, and since “Laughter Is The Best Medicine”, I just have to share it:
Before it was “beisbol” but today
“Reporting On The Caravan Bin Berry Berry Good To Me!”:
https://youtu.be/V7vqAQJm6sA?t=33
Travelling along the edges of The Eternal Caravan (“more coming, from Brazil!!!”…. LOL) our Fearless Derechista Profiler of Los Gringos Estupidos pulls off the road to take a leak and lo and behold, “In the woods there were hundreds of tanks with RED STARS on them!”
Of course no photos of these Lobos de Mexico…but we get a couple seconds of some kind of armored thing with a tiny cannon on it.
Hmmmm the buildings behind that thing don’t look very Mexican.
Hmmmm: The banners say 1941-1945
“Those Damned Ruskies Are Celebrating Victory In the Great Patriotic War right down in Mexico!!
And now they are preparing to invade El Norte! Texas! Subscribe!!”
And “Remember the Alamo!” LOL.
Absurd. Even if they existed in someplace other than this “news entrepreneur’s” delirious imagination, where’s the air cover, Deplorables???
Ergo Unsubscribe.
“Russian or Chinese or something! Red Stars!”
Cracks me up.
… thanks for the laugh Bro 93. Now most people would have a mobile phone handy to take a pic, especially someone “on the road”… and someone could have got a few pics all in due course, if the matter was so, so, so extremely serious and nation threatening … and those comments which follow the video are … better let the people decide …
(this proves that taking a leak can have consequences … leak with caution ;)
“In the woods there were hundreds of tanks with RED STARS on them!”
Bro … he says there were ” thousands, and thousands, and thousands of tanks”.
So glad I was not drinking coffee or eating at the time, and how I have laughed, and laughed and laughed … still laughing and snorting … Tanks Bro !
UN votes overwhelmingly in favor of condemning Israel’s occupation of Golan Heights region
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/un-votes-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-condemning-israels-occupation-of-golan-heights-region/
“The General Assembly of the United Nations voted overwhelmingly in favor on Friday of recognizing the Golan Heights region as Syrian territory.
A total of 151 votes were cast in favor of the draft resolution, while both the United States and Israel voted against it.
Another 14 states abstained from the vote, resulting in the adoption of this latest draft that calls for the condemnation of Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights.
During the meeting of the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, Syria’s Permanent Representative at the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that the vast majority of nations favored the resolution, adding that it sends a clear message to Israel about its ongoing occupation of the Golan Heights.
Furthermore, Al-Jaafari said that this vote shows that the majority of members states are against the continuation of the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan, and also affirms that Israel’s attempts to annex the Golan are null and void and without any legal effect.
Syria’s Representative said that the United States’ vote against the resolution isn’t surprising, since Washington is Israel’s partner in its wars and aggression in the region.
He accused the U.S. of allowing businesses like Genie Energy, Afek, and AES Corporation of conducting the illegal exploration of the Golan Heights’ oil.”
whoa! so the CIA blatantly undermines Trump and his Dept of State’s attempts to smooth over the MBS debacle by pushing this ‘rogue actors gone bad’ line of B.S. and “heads will roll” etc. etc.
https://www.rt.com/usa/444216-cia-saudi-khashoggi-assassination/
So they have ‘high confidence” that MBS ordered the assassination. Hmmm. in spook speak this is more than ‘highly likely”. Ok so what is up?
1. attempt to rattle Trump and gain concessions
2. attempt to extract concessions from MBS
3. to retaliate against Trump’s expulsion of Gulan ( Gulan’s loyal network must squawking up a storm).
4. to make points with Turkish intell counterparts in their two faced war against Assad… ( with Isil down/Saudis are down) or with Qataris?
5. to continue a slo-mo, sub rosa coup against MBS– in which case more will be revealed.
6. all of the above.
Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/11/cornered-trump-gets-thumped-on-cuba-at-the-un/
“On November 1, 2018, for the twenty-seventh straight year, the full United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted by a near-unanimous 189-2 for “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The Israeli government, as usual, voted automatically with the US without saying a word on the floor. There were no abstentions, but Moldova and the Ukraine chose not to vote at all.”
WHY, Alex??? WHY????
https://youtu.be/3-wjmIFlnNo
https://youtu.be/3-wjmIFlnNo?t=13
… he probably could have done it quicker if his balls weren’t weighing him down
… political reading material from Australia … extracted …
The anti-China hysteria propagated by the world’s major media and the Anglo-American “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance is just a transparent replay of the racist “Yellow Peril” scare run by the British Empire in the 1890s—saying that hordes of Chinese were about to overrun our defenceless
continent. Then, many in Australia were seriously debating breaking with the City of London centred British Empire and becoming a republic. Today, many are once again debating whether to stick with our war-mongering “Dangerous Allies”, as our late Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser so in sight-fully termed them, or to join the “win-win” prospect of Xi Jinping’s BRI. After all, China has lifted 800 million of its population out of poverty in the past several decades, and plans to eradicate poverty entirely by 2020 through a government directed program of physical economic growth.
Typical is China’s 25,000-km high-speed train network, its building of the world’s largest water projects, including the Three Gorges Dam and the South-North Water Transfer Project, its cutting edge nuclear power and space programs, and now its Belt and Road project, which is bringing the continent of Africa, among other places, out of the hideous legacy of European colonialism.
Read the full article at …
http://cecaust.com.au/pubs/pdfs/20181023_Five-point-program.pdf
(Their view is interesting … and rather global, don’t you think ? )
French Polynesian president acknowledges nuclear test lies
http://590kid.com/french-polynesian-president-acknowledges-nuclear-test-lies/
I haven’t forgotten “Capitalist” Cannibalism Installment # 2.
# 1 was, appropriately, Halloween Day. My Irish buddy shouldn’t be kept waiting 3 weeks I don’t think….for more Capitalist Bashing Candy.
I’ll get to it this weekend, I think…..unless California goes dark.
The Zeitgeist is Mass Strike, after all, and that could include Edison. LOL
I’ll whistle past that Graveyard.
Speaking of Halloween Candy, let’s not sugar coat things.
It COULD, after all, be a Trick….and No Treat At All!
Alright, kids. Time to roll a little Q-Russophilia, as an example of something kinda tempting ……but ….dare we take even a nibble of such Conspiracy Candy??
I don’t have every detail of the Conspiracy Candy Bag in fine focus (Not my job! Just an interest I have….) but when strange wonderful things are said about you, Russia, it’s probably worth your while to sort out who in the hell and what in the hell…..or in God’s Name or Something Else’s Name is going on here:
…..”for this they blamed Russia, a growing force of opposition to their ambitions of global control. By casting Putin as an Enemy and blaming him for this illegal Uranium deal, they had planned a devastating nuclear war between the USA and Russia that would have exhausted the last two remaining pillars of freedom for the world, accelerating a horrific End Game that had become inevitable…. This Cabal miraculously lost power in 2016…..etc, etc”
https://youtu.be/mDyUDCP5Wc0?t=483
Reality, or an Apocalyptic Movie Script…….starring Huh? JFK Jr.???
I don’t know. I think I got a handle on the Demons, Psychopaths and Cannibals Essay Part 2
But Geeez! I’m barely done with Jack, and not at all up to speed on Jack Jr!!!
Survived a crash of a small plane and was hidden away…for how many years???
That seems like a bit of a stretch , even for my extreme plasticity of mind!
… “They” are controlling the media (continuing action in present tense) … still at it … emitting powerful propaganda.
https://youtu.be/mDyUDCP5Wc0?t=141
What is it about JFK jnr burial site Bro ? … cannot find the allegation about that
Busy Saturday Pavel…back to you later in afternoon Pacific time…on JFK JR mystery, mystique and more………right now Assange is center stage…quick update:
“The news this morning is all about the pending indictment of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, by the United States Department of Justice. Wittingly or unwittingly the Justice Department revealed the existence of a sealed indictment of Assange in a pleading it filed in a related case in the Eastern District of Virginia. According to the DOJ, the pleading in which Assange’s indictment was revealed, is a mistake.
While others will talk about the horrendous Constitutional implications of an indictment for publishing truthful information—to wit, the 2016 emails of Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and John Podesta—and the implications are truly catastrophic to the very survival of the First Amendment, we will look at the larger context. By indicting Assange, the United States seeks to shut him up about the biggest intelligence fraud yet conducted in human history—the fraud that the Russians hacked the DNC and Podesta and handed Donald Trump the Presidency. As the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity have repeatedly demonstrated, “the evidence” that such a hack occurred, as recounted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his indictments of several GRU officers, is extremely dubious at best and more than likely entirely fabricated. The likelihood is that the Clinton and Podesta emails were leaked to Wikileaks and that Julian Assange and former British Ambassador Craig Murray know the name or names of the leakers, as they have said, publicly. The leakers were not Russian state actors.
Moreover, the people pushing Assange’s prosecution are the actual criminals—John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper. Not only did they fabricate evidence against a major party Presidential candidate, and then seek to subvert his Presidency, but just this week, it was revealed that Brennan and Clapper collaborated to spy on Congress and their own agencies. They were seeking to isolate and destroy any dissent from their so-called “intelligence” briefings and assessments, often simply cribbed from what they were told to do by MI6.
Earlier, in 2017, Assange’s lawyers were in conversations with honest DOJ officials in a deal which would have revealed the names of the leakers and the security vulnerabilities which led to Assange capturing not just the Clinton/Podesta/DNC email trove but also the CIA and John Brennan’s own Marble Framework hacking program—the one which allows the CIA to hack and intercept communications of foreign states and attribute that activity to a nation other than the United States. That deal was shut down by James Comey, John Brennan, Senator Mark Warner and others who saw the entire Russian hoax evaporating and their own criminal culpability for precipitating an unlawful coup against an American president rising like a phoenix from the ashes. That is without reference to the monstrous crime against the human race, by Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Obama et al., in bringing tensions between the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and Russia, to the boiling point. This all was done on behalf of a British Empire which views Donald Trump and his campaign for rational relationships between nation states versus submission to a globalist order as a mortal threat to its existence. The Assange indictment is just part of Robert Mueller’s scheme to fabricate evidence concerning the Clinton/Podesta email saga. He has otherwise pounded long-time Trump friend Roger Stone and Info Wars’ Jerome Corsi with the claim that somehow they were the link between Wikileaks, Russia, and the Trump campaign. Mueller has threatened them with a bevy of process crimes, like false statements and obstruction unless they collaborate with him in supporting an outright lie.
As the President tweeted on November 15th: “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want.”
https://larouchepac.com/20181116/robert-mueller-and-his-ilk-are-about-commit-massive-crime-will-you-let-them-get-away-it
Be real nice to know who paid off Ecuador because somebody sure did.
Recent news was that it was tied to some very big G-Sachs loan deal. Other news in Ecuador is also tied to the G-S mafia absconding oil revenues to fund the countries programs.
k
… music break with images … very soothing
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oANV6SQhwI
Heart-achingly beautiful and resonating. Thank You 🙏
Would you dare dress like this man ?
love the colours man !
In my dreams I want to be African … and dress like this man !
Diamond Platnumz ft Rayvanny – Salome
(Traditional Official Music video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bPjsDcPHks
… Modern Talking … various non-stop dance moves
Khiêu vũ cực đẹp – Modern Talking tuyệt đỉnh – ĐIỆU NHẢY HAY NHẤT HÀNH TINH 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpYyrq6E6hc
In a café at the end of Oct., I mentioned that Mark Rutte had stopped by Canada on some kind of “charm offensive” visit, for some undetermined reason. When I read his comments about the EU army in this RT article, I think it sounds like he’s including the Netherlands as one of the Nordic countries (sort of.)
https://www.rt.com/news/444230-european-army-nato-split/
Maybe there is some kind of NATO reform in the works.
Lee Camp finds out who meddled with US midterms… but it’s not the usual suspects (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/usa/444242-lee-camp-israel-midterms/
“It turns out that “a single foreign government” had as many as 28 political action committees (PACs) that donated millions of dollars to candidates they wanted to succeed in the November midterm elections, Redacted Tonight host Lee Camp said. “You Russian bastards,” Camp mockingly erupts in a rant, before telling the audience that it was actually… Israel.
“I am reporting this with a heavy heart because I’m a patriot, alright?” he said. “And that means, I don’t want foreigners screwing with our elections, I want our democracy to be screwed up by Americans – for Americans, by Americans, the way it has been for centuries!”
You can watch the full show here.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZFI2uNguc
happiness
https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1063817401354072064
https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/1063797846128898048/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3AHenryMakow&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.henrymakow.com%2F
About those fires, the Paradise or “Camp Fire”…
These urls seem relevant:
https://www.buttecounty.net/Portals/1/GrandJury/08-09/Grand_Jury_Report_FY08-09-Sec10.pdf
https://newsbout.com/id/18481243943
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Utility-emailed-woman-about-spark-problems-1-day-13385661.php
These documents illustrate for Truths…The Governments knew the risk, published proof that they knew, and no effective actions took place………………..
This book review is also interesting… http://www.unz.com/jthompson/natures-egg-and-seed-plan/
Fun and creativity in cryptoland. Amarynth and Bro enjoy!
How Dapps Work in 2018
And a musical one, also hilarious My favorite coins
Ingrid
Well done!
But how are we going to get Greater Adoption, besides retooling Favorite Things?
How do we get the Dennis’ of this world to see cryptos as “sexy” since Mary Poppins is so squeaky clean???
Ah, there it is, first and most often repeated suggested rhyme to “coins” at the Rhymezone site:
From “Glorious Glutinous Greed” from “Glorious Glutinous Greed Lyrics – Z, the Masked Musical of Zorro musical”:
As each stuffed bag of coins
Brings a heat to my loins
From “Calico” by Marissa Nadler:
Sell her to the gypsy for a jar of metal coins
Take her to the mountain and thrust yourself into her loins
From “Record Haters” by E-40:
Spend about a half a hundred thousand, boost up my coins
Preceed to spit mo supafly than Donald Goins
From “Fool” by Damien Rice:
No more tossing coins
Or him between your loins
From “Remember The Days” by Roll Deep:
You could find me in the smokers corner, flippin some coins
Or find me in the cafeteria gettin double sirloins
From “Off to the Races” by Lana Del Rey:
Light of my life, fire in my loins
Gimme them gold coins
Or go searching for more ideas in Iowa, (Des Moines!).
When in Doubt Up the Ante and Raise the Stakes! Sirloins!
SZZL coin
All Sizzle, No Sirloin!
Now, to get more serious, the Embodiment of Centralization and Psychopathy and Fraud (Christine LeGarde…the IMF) will of course do her utmost to Enslave The World and Ruin Peer to Peer Payments and other contracts and fraud-free things and Keep Satan Enthroned:
https://www.bitira.com/imf-sees-promise-in-cryptocurrencies-issued-by-central-banks/?fid=51802&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BitIRA+-+Newsletter+-+11%2F17%2F18
The Ultimate Outcome, Good or Evil depends on how the preponderance of human consciousness is activated…………… or lulled to sleep, poisoned, and robbed.
Thanks Ingrid. A lot of fun :-)
Ludic News, World Headquarters
“The Human-Being has un-officially been re-defined.”
Today, scientists voted to bring up-to-date the definition of the Human, as well as the other human metrics of Freedom, Captivity, and Torture. The democratic voting took place at an ultra-secret meeting of the International Consortium of Revanchism, ICOR, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, and the new definitions will be based on ‘what we call the fundamental constants of nature’, as Carl Popper of the International Bureau of Penology told Future News Today, instead of the less precise definition these units were tied to. The Human-Being, for example, was defined by an abstract dollar amount of anywhere from fifty-thousand upwards of five-million dollars.
The re-definitions have been in the works for some time “This is the most important decision that ICOR has made in the last 100 years, which may be a slight exaggeration, but at least since 1960 when they adopted the dollar value definition” Rudolph Karnap, supreme under-secretary of BLUD told Mimic News last year. And while the changes won’t necessarily be reflected in your day to day life, they’ll make more precise any unit-tabulations going forward.
The Human-Being will now be re-defined by the Heisenbergian Constant, Freedom is now defined by the Sartrian Constant, and Captivity and Torture, by the Lamarckian and inverse-Moore Constants, “it’s about as excited as you’re going to see bean-counters get”, Walter Horton told Komsomol News “I can’t believe we’re finally doing it.”
The new definitions have un-officially been put into place retroactively.
Some brilliant investigation journalism from the times:
‘All out of anti-Russian stories?’ Times gets grilled for calling ‘Masha and the Bear’ propaganda
https://www.rt.com/news/444273-times-masha-bear-cartoon-propaganda/
“Children’s show is propaganda for Putin, say critics” – reads the headline on a weekend edition of The Times.”
Further evidence that brit public schools cause permanent brain disfunction among their student victims.
… continuing with a ‘war and peace’ theme …
Many “governments” never act on the basic principle … we want peace …
Scott McKenzie – San Francisco [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcyRLtwUVY
( … so what is the meaning … the purpose, of government )
“Is Hypnosis Fake?” Hypnotist stuns TEDX crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RA2Zy_IZfQ
On stage hypnosis is fake and the TEDX crowd need to wake up.
I have participated in such a show to get to the truth, but tell this to folks you know in the audience after the show.
The truth is, the “hypnotised” just go along so as not to spoil the show, and also, once all are assembled on stage it was announced those who could not be hypnotised were of low IQ … not intelligent people. I did not want to be branded ‘the village idiot’ so I performed like an idiot.
I managed to ask very quietly several people … “are you hypnotised” … as we performed and they all responded “no” or a similar negative response.
It’s already tomorrow where Pavel is but I am answering this before 6 pm Pacific Time so I am barely holding to my promise to answer today, “this afternoon” re : JFK JR……even though it’s yesterday here from Where They Are Down Under.
There are children and Big Kids in any group of people and among the Qrius to know WHO IS Q??….a popular guess is…….JFK JR!!!
Don’t ask me why. I already asked myself why.
The best that I could come up with:
There is a expressed longing for 911 and JFK to be solved by Trump and Q and these people of unjaded, “virgin minds” have glommed on to JFK JR as The Answer…..as we see in the video where the narrator’s voice is claimed:
“JFKjr is the Voice! He is alive! See it before It is Taken Down..”
https://youtu.be/mDyUDCP5Wc0
The voices are not terribly different, but I’d say you’d have to be smoking weed to stake your life or reputation on the idea that they are the SAME voice.
They may soon lose their virginity.
Human beings look continually for closure……trouble is,….Time and Matter Seem to be Open-Ended.
Just when you think you have It All Bottled Neatly Up…..”IT”…(JFK JR……Elvis……????) .somehow escapes!
So get over it already. But no, we are human. We HAVE to keep trying!
Look, Pavel, all I know is that The Q Idea is that Hitlery and the Deep State either blew up JFK Jr’s small plane somewhere near Long Island (I told you…..still working on Jack….never started investigating Jack Jr….but many have……I’m slow) and killed him….so The Wicked Witch of The West could outdo Pappy Bush and take the US Senate Seat for NY State from Another Dead Kennedy..(Jr was the announced Dem candidate for the seat …OR…..they failed and “THE ALLIANCE”…….(reality and film are interchangeable you see……we might be in a Star Wars Sequel…….don’t laugh…..we’re a species of Story Tellers) prepared the DownFall of the Cabal using Junior as Leading Man Who Can Inspire Deplorable Nation to Defeat the Empire….and Restore the Republic.
Even if you think that’s preposterous, understand that emotion and myth…..are PART of REALITY…so just roll with it a few minutes…if you can.
Because things are about to get “Qurioser and Qurioser”.
Check out this “L” shaped Airforce One Returning From Overseas image:
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/11/17/your-frustration-is-their-torment-mercenarypropagandists-like-travis_view-rothschildmd-willsommer-jaredlholt-jordanuhl-will-fail-newq-qanon-neonrevolt-panicindc-greatawakening/
by clicking “READ MORE” after the first paragraph of the article and then scrolling down about halfway down the article, until you see AF1 Flight Path WTF Evasive Maneuvers ……near and over Cape Cod headed WSW……..
As Neon Revolt says…..of Trump (a friend of JR, so the script goes) and AF1….. trolling the Deep State by flying directly over Junior’s Crash Site.
So, the Kennedy Mystique is Massive in all this.
Now, Junior is just the surface, the recent past……..stay tuned for Kennedy and Johnson Mountains (well, high hills???) in Texas and ALL KINDS of Masonic Sorcery and Mumbo Jumbo involving numbers of latitude and longitude, dates etc,etc…..in a future installment…..the Killing of the King Dark Masonic Ritual….and all that “woo-woo”.
And that’ll take us back to your Giza Pyramids where you answered “How?” ….and then the WHY? will be looked at.
Involves Mt Ararat and Balbek.
And a peak in Sinai.
… I took about one hour looking and reading on the link and don’t really know what to make of it … this lot is more difficult than was translating and understanding Ezekiel Chapter 1.
I want you to have a copy of my book, so please send me your postal address. Also want Dr Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Lendman and Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey (Editorial writer for Pravda, based in Washington D.C.) to read Raising Stone 1 and understand two ancient documents … converging and thus providing sufficient evidence of the construction method.
Lengthy numerous communications through emails has not worked so I need postal addresses.
This fake history and news in our modern times needs to be addressed.
Busy week. Noted what you say and ask for….and will reply….in time… but patience please.
Sometimes a day or two go by where I can’t be here for even 1 minute.
From trump 2 years ago:
5 times Trump praised WikiLeaks during his 2016 election campaign
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wikileaks-campaign-speeches-julian-assange-2017-11
“Here are a few times Trump mentioned WikiLeaks during his campaign, according to widely available video footage of Trump’s campaign-trail appearances:
October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: “This just came out,” Trump said. “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks.”
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” Trump said. “It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it.”
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: “It’s been amazing what’s coming out on WikiLeaks.”
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: “Another one came in today,” Trump said. “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove.”
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: “Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn’t want to keep you waiting,” said Trump. “Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks.”
And trump now:
Trump Quietly Orders Elimination of Assange
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50620.htm
“This conservative new President of Ecuador, who has replaced the progressive President who had granted Assange protection, is obviously doing all that he can to comply with U.S. President Trump and the U.S. Congress’s demand for Assange either to die soon inside the Embassy or else be transferred to the U.S. and basically just disappear, at Guantanamo or elsewhere. Ecuador’s President wants to do this in such a way that Ecuador’s voters won’t blame him for it, and that he’ll thus be able to be re-elected. This is the type of deal he apparently has reached with Trump’s agent, Pence. It’s all secret, but the evidence on this much of what was secretly agreed-to seems clear. There are likely other details of the agreement that cannot, as yet, be conclusively inferred from the subsequent events, but this much can.
Basically, Trump has arranged for Assange to be eliminated either by illness that’s imposed by his Ecuadorean agent, or else by Assange’s own suicide resulting from that “torture,” or else by America’s own criminal-justice system. If this elimination happens inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, then that would be optimal for America’s President and Congress; but, if it instead happens on U.S. soil, then that would be optimal for Ecuador’s President. Apparently, America’s President thinks that his subjects, the American people, will become sufficiently hostile toward Assange so that even if Assange disappears or is executed inside the United States, this President will be able to retain his supporters. Trump, of course, needs his supporters, but this is a gamble that he has now clearly taken. This much is clear, even though the rest of the secret agreement that was reached between Pence and Ecuador’s President is not.”
Total scum.
Assange needs rescuing urgently by spetnatz. As well as Skripals. The world would cheer….well they would for Assange.
Damascus, SANA- The unique architectural style of ancient-fashion Damascene houses and buildings, which amazes visitors of Damascus old city, makes these houses deserve to have UNESCO World Heritage site status.
The winding alleys away from the monotony and boredom and embracing houses in Damascus old city reflect the nature of inhabitants and summarize some of the characteristics of Damascus old city with all of its civilized, historic and human heritage.
French poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who visited Damascus in 1833, described the genius Damascene architecture and architects as saying: “ A people whose architects are capable to draw a likeness of Khan Asaad Pasha and workers capable to execute it will not die in the field of arts”.
https://sana.sy/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/b-2.jpg
The City where I live in Australia could be “lifted” with such architecture, and many places could be so “lifted”. I wished to become an architect, but had to settle for diesel and mechanical fitting trades. I do not see this wonderful architecture being duplicated and transposed. A lot of modern architecture is stupid and boring also.
You have made a great post Dr NG Maroudas.
US Navy Officer May Face Questioning Over Collision of Ships in Norway – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201811181069905207-usa-norway-ship-collision/
“The US officer was on board of the Helge Ingstad as part of the exchange program, Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for the US Navy’s 6th Fleet, said, according to the newspaper.
The US Navy supports the Norwegian investigation, the spokesman noted but declined to reveal the identity of the officer or the exact role the serviceman had played on the vessel.”
Let me guess, he had a navigation related role…
Molotovs & tear gas: Greek protesters march on US embassy on anti-junta uprising anniversary (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/444283-athens-clashes-protesters-police/
“Violent clashes have erupted in Athens on the 45th anniversary of Greece’s anti-junta uprising, as protesters burned US flags in front of Washington’s embassy, condemning it for having backed the brutal military dictatorship.
Earlier on Saturday, thousands of people had assembled at the gates of NTUA, where the military dictatorship crushed the student uprising 45 years ago. Carrying a blood-stained Greek flag, they marched across the historic center.
Ending the march in front of the American Embassy, demonstrators burned a US flag, condemning Washington for its support of the military junta that ruled Greece between April 1967 and July 1974. Shouting anti-American slogans, the activists also demanded the removal of US bases from Greece.”
Scholar: No Matter What China Does, West Interprets It as ‘Evil Plan’
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201811181069902177-prc-usa-trade-war/
“Li Kai, an expert from the Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, has outlined in a written interview with Sputnik that the logic of the report is deeply flawed.
“The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s report is an example of a biased opinion of the Westerners towards China. This misunderstanding is a result of the long-term demonization of China. No matter what the PRC does, in the West, it is interpreted as an evil plan. This concept is deeply rooted. The report states that the US will create a foundation to intrude in China’s projects abroad and neutralize its influence. From my standpoint, this initiative is shortsighted in terms of logic and rationality.”
“The initial intention of China to promote the Belt and Road Initiative is connected to the surplus of economic capacity inside the country, especially in the sphere of infrastructural construction. Demands for these services in China are close to being fully satisfied, and the country is hoping to export its strong construction capacities to other countries and contribute to the satisfaction of global demand in this sphere. Internal overcapacity is what most developing countries really need. If some countries lack funding, China is willing to offer them loans. It’s a win-win strategy for China and the rest of the world.”
Kai says: “The objective development of China is the reason. the PRC has been developing rapidly, and not hiding an intention to expand its influence across the world. It, of course, makes America really concerned. The point of no return has already been reached. Through this information war, the US is trying to create a foundation to counter China’s steps forward in the financial and infrastructural spheres. They’ve already missed a moment, where they could influence China’s actions without facing any consequences. I suppose this line has already been crossed. In recent years, China has enhanced its potential for development. The PRC is now one of the leaders in high-tech and finance. Soon the US will have to put up with being at least an equal partner with the prospect of losing its dominant position and ending up on the sidelines.”
Meanwhile, a couple of well known israeli quislings (read: traitors) are upset about China operating in the “greater” israeli area of control:
“A letter sent on Tuesday by two prominent senators to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis, has attracted a great deal of attention.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democrat Senator Chris Coons think that if China gains control of the Doraleh Container Terminal, a Djibouti port facility by the Red Sea, it could further boost Beijing’s influence in East Africa.
They see it as a threat to US economic and security interests. Thomas Waldhauser, a USMC general and commander of United States Africa Command, warned Congress several months ago that the US military may face “significant” effects if China takes over the port terminal in Djibouti. The observers outlined that the letter by the senators was sent shortly after the mid-term elections and turned out to be one more PR move to oppose China’s rising influence in the world.”
China: A New Philosophy of Economics
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50619.htm
“The west consistently seeks to undermine the interests of their partners, be it for trade or political agreements; be it partners from the west, their smaller and weaker brothers; or from the east; or from the south – there is always an element of exploitation, of “one-upmanship”, of outdoing a partner, of domination. Equality and fairness are unknown by the west.”
It’s called rightwingery.
“Or, when the concept was once known, at least by some countries and some people, it has been erased by indoctrinated neoliberal thinking – egocentricity, “me first”, and the sheer, all-permeating doctrine of “maximizing profits”; short-term thinking, instant gratification – or more extreme, making a killing today for a gamble or deal that takes place tomorrow. Futures trading – the epitome of manipulating economic values. Only in the capitalist world.”
Again, the result of rightwingery.
“This has become a key feature of western commerce and trading. It’s manipulation and exploitation over ethics; it’s Profits Über Alles! – Doesn’t it sound like fascism? – Well it is. And if the partner doesn’t fall for the ruse, coercion becomes the name of the game – and if that doesn’t work the western military move in with bombs and tanks, seeking regime change – destroying the very country the west wants to dominate. That’s western brutal economics – full hegemony. No sharing.”
IE: rightwingery, again.
Daffy Duck – Mine, mine, mine!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMNPQ35OUc
But back to the article:
“China’s approach is quite different. It’s one of sharing, of participating, of mutual benefits. China invests trillions of dollars equivalent in developing countries – Asia, especially India and now also Pakistan, Africa, South America, largely for infrastructure projects, as well as mining of natural resources. Unlike the gains from western investments, the benefits of China’s investments are shared. China’s investment and mining concessions are not coerced, but fairly negotiated. China’s investment relationship with a partner country remains peaceful and is not ‘invasive’ and abusive, as are most of those of the west – which uses threats and guns to get what they want.”
I like this Koenig’s writing…
Big trouble at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC). 21 Nations and no leader statement after the conference. RT reports here: https://www.rt.com/news/444296-apec-statement-china-us-tensions/
This Chinese statement is relevant. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1127771.shtml
Take a look at the uncomplicated cartoon top image that speaks volumes.
“China’s approach is quite different. It’s one of sharing, of participating, of mutual benefits.”
https://www.rt.com/business/362657-china-has-most-billionaires/
“China has more billionaires than US”
Centralization of Wealth and Global Financial Apartheid http://alterbeacon.com/centralization-of-wealth-and-global-financial-apartheid/
Wasn’t it Scrooge McDuck??
It’s been a few years. Sigh.
… looking back with Pravda columnist Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey about Tony Abbott’s ‘shirt-front’ comment. Interview by Latika Bourke … WOW !
5. You keep attacking (Australian Prime Minister Tony) Abbott personally, and you seem to take great offence at Mr Abbott’s comments about Mr Putin, are you oversensitive?
Well to be honest, if someone made those threats to me I’d say bring it on and call the person responsible a shit-faced, pig-headed arrogant piece of crap. The fact that a head of government makes such thuggish statements about a visiting head of state just about puts the perpetrator at the bottom of the pile. So I don’t think I am being over-sensitive. No, in fact I wish I had been more vociferous.
6. Will President Putin come to Australia and what will his message be for Australians?
Well that’s up to him and his office. There has been no indication he won’t come, and anyway he is going to Australia not to meet Abbott but to participate in the G20 Summit. His preoccupation is economic issues not the infantile and puerile drivel of a wannabe political lightweight.