2018/12/23 10:30:01
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… a selected reading …
Philip S. CALLAHAN … Paramagnetic Agriculture
http://www.rexresearch.com/callahan/callahan.htm
Now, alas! China got his long sought after (beautiful) Indian wife after many a trial and error, repeated “no” answers and getting a sharp slap in the face at Doklam. Also India got her much desired (rich) Chinese husband. This is the first time the Indian foreign minister Nirmala hugged her counterpart (She usually shakes hands with her arms extended straight out at the elbows). And she hugged the Chinese Foreign Minister, the handsome Wang Yi, so tightly and intimately.
On a serious note, real life Indian-Chinese marriages are some of the most stable that I have observed. For some reason, the Indians and Chinese can communicate, especially at the emotional level.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1133087.shtml
The US likely eating its heart out!
Nice to hear from you again Simon, any sign of J ?
Here’s a cover version (beggars can’t be choosers) of ‘Pali Gap’ with some glorious tropical images:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miR4fC4zoBQ
Thanks one minion for the link to the music. I enjoyed it. As for J, there seems no sign of her (I think J is a woman). I miss her posts. She reminds me so much of China – the land of my ancestors.
Did the Americans really go to the moon?
A brilliant and thrilling 5 episode interviews on RT Arabic with Dr Alexander Popov
https://youtu.be/InKmdwt0XB4
Popov’s arguments about the Americans faking the moon landings are as follows
1- Apollo Saturn rocket was badly designed, inadequate, very slow and could not have gone to outer earth orbit let alone the moon. All apollo rockets fell near the Azores islands. He shows footage and timings and calculate speed and altitude to demonstrate that rocket could not reach escape velocity.
2- the most damning evidence is the fact showing russian astronauts returning from 6 to 11 days earth orbit being treated and helped by stretchers as they were unable to adjust to returning to earth gravity. It took them days and sometimes weeks to re adapt. Whereas all Apollo astronauts were shown picked up from capsule and were in perfect shape and were walking and skipping.
3- the color of the moon is dark orange no where near the color of grey portrayed in NASA images
4- the Russians monitored apollo missions 11, 12 and discovered that the rockets fall off near the Azores. For Apollo mission 13, So they mounted a giant ruse and captured the unmanned capsule from the ocean to show to the Americans that they know about the fake moon trips.
5- Few weeks after this there was a sudden detente between the Russians and Americans and Nixon started to offer gifts to Brezhnev and give loans and open industrial enterprises in USSR and offer cheap grains in effort to keep Russians quiet.
Very intriguing and compelling evidence.
Also important factor is that trip to moon was never repeated
Here my friend. Read all please.
“Walking the moon doggie”
http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Kent
Best fake Apollo moon landing series ever. Hilarious. Must read!
… a great link posted by Kent.
I wonder if American taxpayers would find this hilarious if enough of them knew the truth.
But yes, it is hilarious and beyond stupid.
The communications building was demolished years ago … now normally this would become a national treasure and be preserved.
Many circumstantial occurrences lead to a sorry and bitter conclusion … the world’s people were lied to. “By deception … … ”
… from bible super natural fairy-tales to the modern day most goyim swallow it all … hook, line and sinker.
Is it, … the Jews are “smart” or the rest of us are utterly raving mad stupid ?
The junk left behind is visible to telescope.
This does not prove anything except that the junk left behind is there. Really there. https://www.space.com/12835-nasa-apollo-moon-landing-sites-photos-lro.html
Perhaps the little green men from the stars put it there…but my bet is that Werner and his nazi pals put it there the hard way. With LH2/O2 in big and fairly inefficient (but Big!) reaction engines. (R180 + is Much Better!)
I myself have worked with more than two men who worked for the the famous nazi engineer…and they did not express the slightest doubt about how the scrap-metal got to the lunar surface.
If some films are fake, then some films are fake…the junk’s still there, amigo. Logic is the same both ways.
An engineer I know/knew (I suppose he’s dead now) >”In supersonic wind tunnel somewhere i near Dayton OK”…covered with hydraulic oil, lying on my back, foot-steps overhead…at 2 AM…”Who’s there!?” answer: “It is I, Werner!” and the two men joined in the oily leaking tubing and controls under the tunnel floor, working till dawn to run an engine start in vacuo test….” That’s Werner, Werner the nazi…” The moon shots were real…
Also they did not lead to wealth and power for Empire…so they stopped. The engineering and the need was not ripe…not after the Soviet’s stopped “N-1” see https://www.space.com/10764-soviet-moon-rocket-secrets-revealed.html
I get really irked when people concentrate on irrelevancies rather than the actual argument. Wernher von Braun was a German scientist who was taken by the Americans to the USA in ‘Operation Paperclip’ in about 1946. It is irrelevant what his religion was and to continue to call him a Nazi only misdirects one’s focus on his work in the USA.
Von Braun made a comment in about 1952 in regard of what type of rocket was required to reach the moon. Regardless to Von Braun’s comments the Russians overcame that problem in late 1957,
What is relevant though is the work by Professor James Van Allen who continued to use his ‘Rockoons’ to launch exploratory rockets into the outer atmosphere until 1959, and yet there is not one iota of evidence in regard to Von Braun’s rocket expertise in America until 1958.
Thus may I ask an impertinent question? What exactly was Wernher Von Braun working on in the US from 1946 until 1958?
I really do not think that he was working on the American Saturn rocket as about 13 of them fell over on launch which was really quite ungerman like,(but very much in the American manner) so he must have been working on something far more secretive.
Apollo 11 25th Anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeQriZqkKIk
Parrots don’t fly well, but they are good at “repeating what they’re told”
… and …
Please note the introducer says “QUIET DIGNITY” as a thanks for keeping his mouth shut, and a reminder to keep doing it.
4- the Russians monitored apollo missions 11, 12 and discovered that the rockets fall off near the Azores.
Yes the Soviets monitored the Apollo missions. Indeed I know one of the GRU interpreters for the Apollo 13 mission, and from what he’s told me over the years, I firmly believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Russia makes over 10 test launches of Tsirkon seaborne hypersonic missile
http://tass.com/defense/1037426
“The missile’s trials began about four years ago and are continuing now from the coastal stand, the source said.
“Overall, more than ten test launches have been performed against targets at sea at a distance of several hundred kilometers,” the source said.
The hypersonic missile “repeatedly destroyed designated naval targets at the hypersonic speed,” the source added, declining to give the date of the latest trials.
As another source in the defense industry earlier told TASS, there are plans to start the state trials of the Tsirkon missile in 2019 both from surface ships and submarines.
The Tsirkon hypersonic missile has been developed by the Research and Production Association of Machine-Building. According to open sources, the Tsirkon has a firing range of about 400km and can develop a speed of Mach 4-6, as various data suggest. As was reported earlier, Tsirkon missiles will be launched with the help of the universal shipborne vertical launching systems currently used for Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles. Such systems are mounted, in particular, on Project 20380 corvettes, Project 22350 frigates and Project 885 Yasen-class submarines.
Also, according to TASS sources, Tsirkon missiles are expected to be installed on the Russian nuclear-powered missile cruisers Pyotr Veliky and Admiral Nakhimov.”
Macron and the Air France Experience
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/12/macron-and-the-air-france-experience/
“On an Air France flight from Paris to Latin America, the plane is full, mostly with working class Latinos, going home for Christmas to spend a few festive days with their families and friends. They have worked hard to save their money for the trip. The plane is old and decrepit. Has no properly working entertainment system and that on a trajectory of over 12 hours without interruption. Who cares. Management knows that the humble passengers won’t complain. Anyway, they are under-people. Let’s reserve the better and newer planes for classier people. They pay better, are better clients. Isn’t that the thinking behind such decisions? Of course, it is. It’s the greed-driven maximizing profit scheme to the detriment of the population. It’s not just AF, it’s everywhere. Everywhere you look and are touched by a corporate giant. We, the people, are not even sheeple anymore; we are silenced. We are not asked, not consulted, whether we agree to be photographed and face-read at every corner. It’s just the way it is. It’s intimidation by control, by over-control, and by cattle treatment.
What does all that have to do with Macron? – Everything. The sort of de-humanized civil behavior is what he instills in people, in corporations. Greed first, everything else, like solidarity, is not even second, it’s of no value. The young who want so desperately rto cling to their slave-paid jobs, have to obey, or else they may lose their employment. But now it’s gone too far. Enough is enough. The Yellow Vests represent every industry, every citizen, every abject Macron law; they want to reverse the wheel, à la French Revolution.”
Playing catch-up here, I take your point re the Animals, definitely a (largely forgotten) band that came across far better live, if you like that kind of thing–‘You had to be there’–and knocks the ennobled Sir Mick and co. sideways, for me at least. Thanks.
OM
It’s very unfortunate that back then few live performances were recorded or filmed and that many that were it was done poorly.
Merry Christmas.
There must have been something in the early days, but all released live stuff by the Stones shows an uneven live band at best. In the Scorcese film, they play the chords to “Shattered” backwards, which is a feat of some kind, apparently they didn’t notice. The best Stones recording was unofficial, “Live’r than you’ll ever be”; this record started the bootleg phenom in late 60’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKnDck-9Ks
The real kicker is, Ron Wood was _great_ live with the Faces, Mick Taylor was superb (check out “I’m Free” at 14:27 above), Keith Richards could rock with his solo band, and Watts is a uniquely solid and simple drummer. It doesn’t make any sense, unless the singer’s b.s. and the weight of being the most obnoxious band caused real musical problems most nights.
Sorry to wander off-topic, but comparing the Stones to the Animals or Hendrix or almost any other big 60’s band reveals incompetencies in live performance unusual for the era.
Very depressing article: huber is a fraud, sessions set it up as a fraud, therefore a fraud himself:\
John Huber has developed almost mythical status among pro-Trump tweeters since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed him to investigate why the FBI spied on Trump’s aides and whether they protected Hillary Clinton and her foundation over alleged misdeeds. They hoped the Salt Lake City-based prosecutor would aggressively expose the malfeasance that has already led to firings and resignations among the bureau’s top brass.
Instead, more than a year since his appointment, Huber’s lack of traction on either front is leading many once hopeful supporters to dismiss his investigation as a “sham.”
The Clinton Foundation is heard from; whistleblowers less so, critics say.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File
RealClearInvestigations has learned from potential witnesses, their lawyers and others close to the investigations, that Huber has not impaneled a federal grand jury to subpoena witnesses or hear evidence.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/22/john_huber_vanishing_savior_for_gop.html
Three related remarks>
Elsewhere at Saker there’s to be found the theme of “likbez”…which I, as many, read. Just now I see that some 70 comments are posted…/a-much-needed-likbez-about-russian-tu-160-bombers-in-venezuela/
Adults skip along in reading, naturally gaining the written ideas, after some fashion, and in the process naturally also reacting – generating entirely new ideas. Many of these new idea develop as new questions…it is “discourse with the absent, or with the dead”.
So it is that re-reading often benefits. And so it is that re-reading leads to new investigations, bibliographies help in this process, a lot! And the comments too provide new themes to explore as well. Often comments are more interesting than the original object examined.
One additional product of this process is that the reader learns new words. “likbez” was not a new concept for me, but it was an entirely new word… I did know about Fidel and the Cuban literacy campaign, which I now see within the compass of a named Socialist Doctrine (and decent common sense!) – because of the new word, “likbez”
At the “TU Likbez “I did not see anybody ask what the word meant…maybe I missed it…but it’s such an important naming,an important concept as desiderata…was I the only reader that did not know this word?
Assuming that people will re-read and that the word will pop into significance for them…assuming that many people do not know this word/did not know it and skipped along as adults do…assuming these things I decided to write, say “Thank You Kindly! for the new word!”…and give forth the definition – which itself is worth study, or essay…as there’s a History there too.
A History no more “rusty” or “museum-bound” than the airplanes…or the Mauser Rifle (or the Mosin Nagant!).
To wit: (excerpt)
“… ликбе́з, Russian pronunciation: [lʲɪɡˈbʲɛs]; from a Russian abbreviation for “likvidatsiya bezgramotnosti”, ликвида́ция безгра́мотности, [lʲɪkvʲɪˈdatsɨjə bʲɪzˈɡramətnəsʲtʲɪ], meaning “elimination of illiteracy”) was a campaign of eradication of illiteracy in Soviet Russia and Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. The term was also used for various schools and courses established during the campaign. Nowadays this term is sometimes used in Russian as a slang for answers on common questions…”
I like this poster…https://learningagileandlean.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/432px-likbez.jpg
Wiki, the DARPA/CIA wiki of course, alas, has about the only essay I found in English…thus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez
I am indeed indebted for the word. Thanks!
p
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I would observe that an anti-likbez is also possible…and arguably underway within the class sans-culottes in the geographies under, ahem, “Imperial Control”. In fact one might posit the Hollywood TV does precisely this…and achieves precisely what the jpg poster says…”An illiterate person is a blind person”
One result is that Imperial Industries suffer from the “social promotion” of marginally competent or incompetent persons to position of technical and political power that they are unable to understand or work.
I have seen this myself…and myself heard first-hand with respect to some of the “great new weapons” that Empire fosters… This is a major source of flaws in design…reasons the weapons are not so great…
Anti-likbez may account for, indeed be, the ultimate cause, ultimate “fissure” that causes Imperial Collapse”. (not that this will be tomorrow).
Both the positive and negative concept/words are important.
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A reader remarked @ /a-much-needed-likbez-about-russian-tu-160-bombers-in-venezuela/#comments about the ballistic data…mistaking rifle data for pistol data…this was off topic… so I left it.
It’s a pity Hollywood has effaced the reality of fire-arms and bullets…even a .22 slug is like getting hit with a baseball bat. Our poor schools do not teach… We, at US public school (and otherwise) were entirely informed about the physics and the use…and that was when our “likbez” was in operation… This ended with the Vietnam disaster’s beginning, if one were to jot it on the calendar.
I seem to remember, in my reading of the piece (once only), that Saker gave a sufficient explanation of the word in the text, sufficient at least to grasp its intended usage in the context?
I’d never come across it before either and did not find it a stumbling block, so without going back to it will assume that the explanation was there.
I might go back and finish reading the newer comments but life is short, new stuff is on the horizon and that could be yet another endless task to saddle myself with, or an excuse to get stuck in time, past or present maybe?
Dear one minion…
Like I said, maybe I missed it. Of course the meaning was/is implicit in the text… but words are interesting, new ones especially, so I re-read. I make notes as I read…and chase these and the derivative questions until blessed sleep starts me again…sometimes I chop wood between chases…the maintenance of the mortal coil an’ all that.
As you say, imply, time is limited. I am old and have, thank the gods!, just enough pension to have time to read and re-read and chase down the trails these readings suggest. Saker is great for this as contemporary matters go, and it is very nice that real books are now often available for pennies, but the reason for this is very sad – few to zero people read…read deeply, engage in discourse with the dead. Learn and create from the past… This is blindness.
The word Likbez was never a stumbling block for me, it was rather a clue to a new trail…something to investigate. It illuminated a Policy that was properly named as opposed to one-of policies of individual governments and institutions, as I had thought the Cuban literacy campaign was.
We used to say of real liberal education that it created “cross-pollination” of ideas. It was Creation of the New. Alas this classical liberalism is gone now in Imperial Realms, being replaced with a “neomarxist (Trotskist qualities, chaos deliberately created?)” sort of fake liberalism. A rigid fascist structure of thought control….called “liberalism”…it is anti-liberalism, in fact.
Words! They are for me key to deduction, one set of keys anyway.
Meantime, Comrade Mike speaks freely to a Very Interesting “fissure” in the Imperial Institutions @
The Vocabulary of Economic Deception – Michael Hudson, #395 https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1
Good sound sober Marxist analysis… enjoy! I shall….shall enjoy Mike naming the devils, and shaming them.
Best, p
Music time : I have to confess, I love very much this song, this melody, originally composed by Slavko Avsenik. The title of this song is ” Der Wind bring dir mein Lied” in German, “Veter nosi pesem mojo” in Slovanian, ” The wind brings you my song” in English. The song on the video is sung at the burial of this great Artist :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPAzEj9M-g Slavko Avsenik The Last Goodbye 2015
If this is so then maybe you will enjoy a capella version too. Starts at 11 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KgmDZv9dDA
I wish Merry Christmas to everyone.
Believe it or not, a wonder just happened ! A few minutes ago I just wanted to share this song, maybe the most wonderful Slovenian waltz (Best Oberkrainer waltz) What they’re doing is fantastic !
Thank you for sharing !
Reading Shamir’s link from the previous café, I found this interesting observation (which struck me as relevant) regarding projected developments in the Empire as it careers merrily on in its erratic course, going who knows where? :
‘The Americans aren’t rebellious by nature; that’s why the US is so prosperous and that’s why the lot of a working American is going from bad to worse. Yes, Scylla and Charybdis guard the passage to well-being: over-rebellious folk grows poor as revolutions diminish the treasury; on the other hand, over-docile folk grows poor because their betters oppress them fearing not for harsh response. Wise elites navigate these narrow straits cautiously like the Swedes did until 1990. Obstinate elites have to be cured by revolution, like in England or France, or by state terror, as in Russia or China.’
Can you kindly give the url from Shamir link? Thanks!
The nature of America now, and then…this is interesting. It is true that they as a group do not rebel, not now…why is this? I have overheard American, working class veterans, discuss this question… And they are not intellectuals…
Consider these sources (below) and both “Democracy in America” ( Alexis de Tocqueville) and especially his companion’s far deeper “novel”…Gustave de Beaumont’s 1835 work, “Marie, or Slavery in the United States”
also:
https://www.reference.com/government-politics/did-shays-rebellion-affect-constitution-24ac8feea5f5617d
https://constitution.laws.com/declaration-of-independence/shays-rebellion
People say the South rebelled..but the so-called “Civil War” was nothing of the kind, neither civil war nor rebellion…that’s mere naming in rhetoric – it was a pacific and lawful secession from the federal government, never an attempt to take it over (which defines a civil war). Of course what followed was an attack by the Federal State against the secessionists and an invasion, followed by occupation. Every State in the “Union” is now, now, today, occupied by standing Federal troops. So much for the possibility for “rebellion” – which is itself a problematic term…as most Americans still hold dual loyalties…to State and, ahem…”sovereign fed”, and probably would prefer the pre-“civil war” state of affairs, as they would have evolved.
Auslander took exception to my previous observation that US police forces are militarized and for practical purposes indistinguishable from Army forces…as a combat experienced man he’s perhaps touchy about it, but he’s correct – they’re not the same – but for individuals alone they might as well be an army, and they act like an occupying force with license to kill. They are obedient to Federal orders and heavily armed. Many are in the reserve, and can be “federalized” with a word. Gleichschaltung? Yes, with one word, anytime.
In actual fact, one may consider that many Americans do rebel, but that they do so as isolated and easily liquidated individuals…they act in cunning secret ways – the only ways left to them. Spray-paint on speed cameras…cheating on taxes…spitting as a cop passes…small ways…there’s a vast latent potential for a real rebellion though, as Obama said when he spoke to the bankers….
” Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
No word on whether Obama fired up the little-used trap door Cheney had installed in the Roosevelt Room. ”
Every genuine popular leader finds a bullet, recently John, Robert, Malcolm, Martin…a long list…
They rebelled against the anglo-american war mongers when they leaked to soviet spies all the “secrets” of “the bomb”…they continue this sort of rebellion. It’s what’s left to them in a Police State…Snowden et all…for example. And they made rebellions like this movie…ridiculing the cold war 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-O7vtytLg
Good movie…it was pretty well black-listed when they made it…I remember.
My dear wife and I quote this part almost every day…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgJPmOUmDU
“Emergency! Everybody to Get From Street!”
Best (and have a fine Xmas & bless us all for the next year…)
p
I will look out for the full film, it looks a hoot, thanks.
Shamir’s link, posted by Bro:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/unz-goes-nuclear/
Tchaikovsky – Sérénade mélancolique, Op 26
Kent
And, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfuqwjtNLvc
Kent
Thank you Kent for sharing Sérénade mélancolique, interesting, this song inspired me on a few paintings.
Christmas is coming, it is at the doors, which one of us oldies does not have sweet memories from a time when everything had another light, at least in our eyes in that past…
Now Is Christmas
by ioan
Ah, the past, how live you are
Sweet and rose as child could be,
Memories from golden far
For a moment, before they flee :
It’s dark and cold outside,
Whistling deep and high so long
Like angry ghosts who take a ride,
The wind, is whispering its song
In the room is bright and warm
Yellow candle, glowing light,
Silent, safe from outer storm,
Now is Christmas, in its might
In the corner, little tree
Lovely green with golden bells,
There they are, my family
Opening my spirit’s wells
Time has gone, my years with it
And the world has changed around,
Nothing is like yesterday
Just my memories resound
Now remains the lonely candle
Without tree and golden bells,
With the inner peace to handle
Now is Christmas, but who cares ?
Anyway, if you care or not, I wish you Merry Christmas… to all kids, whatever their age !
I care ioan, thank you, and return your wishes and greetings. For Christmas and any other festival, I wish for you whatever you might wish for yourself.
As for myself, I have long since dispensed with the accepted mode of celebration and found substitutes that work better for me as markers on the cycle of time. I go through the motions with others in a social setting but things that are personally important to me obviously have most meaning to me–so I prioritise those. If Blake can do it, why not I? Or you?
New Year is more important to me, being one of those fractures in time, out with the old and in with the new, and I throw out the old clump of mistletoe that has hung by my door all year and replace it with a fresh clump. A very old Cornish lady that I knew introduced me to the custom, she had no idea why she did it, but she did it religiously and that appealed to me.
I am a shameless thief of any ideas (those things that like to be free) that work for me.
My favourite Christmas song, (naturally, because I find it cheering, YMMV):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
Pretty good Scottish folks song nuances isn’t it ? Once I had a favorite Scottish singer who sang at a Eurovision song contest back in 1968 -69 (?) in Brasov (Romania) I have to search for his name. Anyway, I learned one of his songs in Scottish back then, I liked it so much. Now I remember only the melody, sorry I can’t sing it here…
https://youtu.be/6S3XDunMj2Y
This is one of my favourite gaelic psalm singing…oh boy the hairs stand up and the heart goes out…good photos too….check out more.
.https://youtu.be/fMqKxpq6QAE
Photo of amazing Callanish ….very uplifting….happy xmas ioan and all.
One more
https://youtu.be/H9W6XKbn6TE
Psalm 23…sung gaelic style..I think preretable than some carols…..
Just found it ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuLxNTHtyeA Roddy McNeil (1968) – Brasov Music Festival (Romania)
Pah! Bah Humbug!
;-)
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative
Briefing on UK government funded org (Integrity Initiative) exists to spread disinformation about Russia, also used to smear Corbyn. Names of journalists paid to spread lies in mainstream media
excerpt:
8 Links of the Integrity Initiative with extremism in the Baltic States and Ukraine
Some activities of the Integrity Initiative in the Baltic states and Ukraine, where people who consider themselves Russian make up large minorities, appear likely to foment sectarian hatred and civil conflict.
8.1 Holocaust revisionism
The Integrity Initiative works closely with the Lithuanian government and armed forces. The officially-encouraged spread of Holocaust revisionism in the Baltic States has been documented in detail by the magazine Defending History. Lithuania and Latvia have passed laws that limit discourse about the Holocaust in their territories and deny the role of local helpers in the Nazi genocide. In Ukraine a law passed in 2015 assigned officially protected status to the OUN and other organizations that collaborated with the Nazis and played a key role in the mass murder of Jews.
Both the Lithuanian and Latvian governments promote the double genocide version of Holocaust revisionism, which equates the (undisputed) political repression in the Baltic states during the years of Soviet rule to the genocide directed against the Jewish populations of those countries. In November 2010 the UK ambassador to Lithuania (Simon Butt) drafted and sent a letter to the the President of Lithuania, co-signed by the ambassadors of Estonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, that expressed concern over the growing manifestations of antisemitism and denounced the ‘double genocide’ version of history unequivocally:
Spurious attempts are made to equate the uniquely evil genocide of the Jews with Soviet crimes against Lithuania, which, though great in magnitude, cannot be regarded as equivalent in either their intention or result.
In May 2011 it was announced that Butt had retired from the Diplomatic Service (at the age of 53) and would be replaced as ambassador to Lithuania by David Hunt.
The Integrity Initiative documents report that Lithuanian armed forces have been training the British Army’s 77th Brigade:
Lithuania has become particularly important in our network due to its expertise in dealing with Russian malign influence and disinformation. We currently have four centres of expertise in Lithuania. Since 2015 we have had a close link with the Lithuanian Armed Forces Stratcom team, currently drawing on their expertise, with the support of the Lithuanian Chief of Defence, to educate other national clusters on effective methodologies for tracking Russian activities. We initiated a link between this team and the UK 77 Bde, resulting in 77 Bde adopting the Lithuanian techniques.
8.2 Neo-Nazism
As documented above, the Integrity Initiative works closely with StopFake, which has downplayed or denied resurgence of Nazism in the Baltic states and Ukraine. For instance in this article StopFake defends military boot camps for children run by the Azov Battalion. The Azov Battalion was founded in 2014, and its first commander was Andriy Biletsky, who previously headed the neo-Nazi group Patriot of Ukraine. The US Congress has banned the use of US aid for provision of ‘arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion’.
StopFake has defended Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy against French commentators who have denounced him as a Nazi. When Parubiy visited Scotland, David Leask, one of the journalists listed by Integrity Initiative on its social media team, reported in almost identical terms to the earlier StopFake defence of Parubiy following his visit to France that Parubiy is now ‘on the centre-right’ in Ukrainian politics. As the centre ground in Ukrainian politics is now aligned with policies that in most other European countries would be identified as those of the extreme right, it is difficult to dispute the assertion that Parubiy is on the centre-right in Ukrainian politics. A detailed study by Katchanovski (2015, updated 2018) has implicated Parubiy’s group in what is now widely held to have been a false flag massacre of Maidan protesters on 20 February 2014.
9 Promotion of hate campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church in the Balkans
The Integrity Initiative handbook and the UK Cluster document list Victor Madeira as part of the Office Core Team with expertise on ‘Orthodox Church’. The slide presentation that he prepared for a meeting at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki) on 12 November 2018 has the title ‘The Russian Orthodox Church: a State Tool of malign influence’. The opening slide is a cartoon, that, with some substitution of religious identifiers, would not have been out of place in the pages of Der Sturmer. It shows the face of an Orthodox cleric as the front of a locomotive, holding what appears to be a purse. Other parts of the locomotive are labelled with dollar signs, a hammer and sickle, and the name Russkiy Mir (the Russian cultural foundation). A uniformed driver with rat-like features leans out of the engine room, which is labelled USSR.
Other passages in the documents emphasize the threat allegedly presented by the Russian Orthodox Church:
Savvidis’s role is to prep the ground for the expansion of the Orthodox church in turn the expansion of Russian control over Greece. Persuading them they belong to the Eastern world, not the western.
The Orthodox religion is an important weapon which Russia is using. The Russian patriarch is trying to exceed the influence of the Greek patriarch. The Montenegrin church is trying to sabotage discussion of religion and security. Montenegro and other Balkan Orthodox religions look to Serbia and Russia, not to Greece.
The Integrity Initiative handbook lists one of the ‘topics for research’ as ‘The Russian Orthodox Church and religion as weapons’. The slide presentation and the quotes above make clear that the Russian Orthodox Church itself is viewed as the threat, and not just wealthy donors to the Church like the Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis.
Two individuals with current or past affiliation to the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW), the governing body of the Catholic Church in England, appear in the UK Cluster document. Dr David Ryall, Secretary of the International Affairs Department of the CBCEW, appears under ‘UK General – Inner Core – Military & Defenceâ’. Primavera Quantrill, who held a post in the CBCEW from 2002 to 2005 and is now Partnerships Director at the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, appears under ‘Outer Core – Military & Defence’. Although there is no evidence that these individuals were involved with the Integrity Initiative (Ryall reported receiving emails only, and Quantrill reported knowing nothing about them), it is of interest that those running the programme apparently sought to involve lay officials of the Catholic Church.
It is obvious that the vatican is involved in trying to destroy the Orthodox Church, by splitting it in ukraine with poroshitko’s full backing, causing disagreements, tension and disunity.
Obvious to whom?
From the Roman Catholic point of view….The Vatican is under attack from the Deep State and some people who say they fight the Deep State, some Orthodox people around HERE, are allied in those attacks.
The text is laughable!
So… England is now a Catholic Apostolic Roman country, lol.
Please, no one from the Anglo part of the Catholic Church has influence!
This is ridiculous!
That’s exactly the part of the World attacking the Church, to the rejoicing of the orthodox.
Thanks for putting this stuff here, Anon. A written question was asked officially in Parliament regarding the release of this information to the public. The answer was that the information would not be released because that might undermine the programme—so it is clear that this mode of operation, making stuff up to fool the public into supporting wars of choice is going to continue:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-12-17/202753/
Gallows humor…maybe…anyway…comedy…https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=gd7P78w8cdA
“So, you’re living in a Police State!”
Agreeing with the chap who said ‘Not black enough’—still funny though as I’ve done a lot of those things myself, waved and chatted to the cameras in various places.
I got used to, and used, the constant surveillance working in the casinos but the all-pervasive net we have now, outside of a work environment, is irksome still…and growing. Why do people willingly spend their own money on household goods that spy and report back on them, kettles, toasters. and Siri/Alexa?
Spray paint is, they say, “an option”… One of many…
But why do they/are they “willing”?
I have no idea. Thing do change however – and Earth is one CME from a net failure – what then?
Rebellion?
I do not know…but we may live to see.
We do not “do” Xmass, but the “markers on the cycle of time” such as New Year…that’s something we note as hopeful.
Best, p
Merry Christmas everyone. May 2019 bring peace and joy.
Thank you Babuška. Same to you and all of your loved ones.
Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
20 Dec 2018
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bolton-threatens-force-africa-choose-between-us-and-china
“The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region.
“The ‘West’s’ political economies are spent forces, incapable of either keeping up with China’s phenomenal domestic growth or of competing with China in what used to be called the Third World.”
Donald Trump last week trotted out his war dog, National Security Advisor John Bolton, to growl and snarl over China’s attempts to “gain a competitive advantage” in Africa through “predatory” practices that supposed include “bribes, opaque agreements, and the strategic use of debt to hold states in Africa captive” to Beijing’s global schemes.
Bolton gave his speech at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, a place that specializes in crafting social policies that appeal to white supremacist majorities within the U.S. domestic order. He could be confident that the Heritage audience knows little about the actual state of the world, holds facts in low regard, and gives less than a damn about Africa. There was no need for Bolton, the man with the comic mustache, to make sense with this crowd, so he didn’t even try.
The net effect of China’s investments in Africa, said the nonsensical Bolton, has been to “stunt” Africa’s economic growth. Only blocks away from the Heritage Foundation, in Washington, the staff and officers of the International Monetary Fund — the guys that actually do hold much of Africa and the developing world “captive” with loan structures and political conditions that stunt the ability of governments to serve their people — had quite a different assessment of China’s impact on the African continent, whose dramatic growth coincides with Beijing’s rise to number one investor.
“China actually increased its contribution to the growth of sub-Saharan African exports, which helped cushion the impact on sub-Saharan Africa growth during the Great Recession.”
“Access to new markets for its raw materials has spurred Africa’s exports, which quintupled in real value over the past twenty years,” the staffers wrote in their inhouse IMFBlog. “But maybe even more importantly, sub-Saharan Africa’s trade engagement with China and other new trading partners has reduced the volatility in its exports. This helped cushion the impact of the global economic crisis in 2008 and 2009, when advanced economies experienced a deep economic deceleration, and thus curbed their demand for imports. At the same time, China actually increased its contribution to the growth of sub-Saharan African exports, which helped cushion the impact on sub-Saharan Africa growth during the Great Recession. On the import side, access to cheap Chinese consumer goods, from clothing to mopeds, has boosted African living standards and contributed to low and stable inflation.”
China and its “command economy” fared far better than the rest of the world in coping with the “American disease” – the near melt-down of capitalist financial markets in 2008-09 – and thus was able to provide Africa and its other trading partners some respite from the chaos and near collapse that enveloped the West. Most importantly, the Chinese offered what even the Americans concede is a “no-strings” arrangement, attaching no political conditions to their loans and projects.”
the deepest love is one with many difficulties.
a moment comes when love touches the soul
then you must give up your life.
rumi
Dimitar, I forgot to tell, you poem in the last cafe “the lamb has its meadow” is one of the best till now.Thank you !
World Poverty day
Happy Christless
Empty heart manger
Time-ticking bare
lifeless stable . . .
Happy Christless
World Wealth day
Excess gold Horde
Weight of Nations
Drags the earth
Screaming, iridescent
Shining
Violent plume
A dragons Wake
Joyful Song
Before dawn
Blissful Birds
Call the World
Awake
Though, deep in our souls there is hope…even if beaten and wounded…Thank you for your telling poem.
Here’s a song for you and for whomever has a bleeding heart :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTbMyvVpvI Manuel And His Music Of The Mountains – When Forever Has Gone
Netanyahu Unsuccessfully Tried to Split Up Syria – Turkish FM
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812241070973056-israel-syria-partition-cavusoglu/
“The Turkish PM’s statement comes amid the ongoing war of words between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Sunday, the Israeli prime minister called the Turkish president an “anti-Semitic dictator” who is “obsessed with Israel.” Erdogan responded by describing Netanyahu as “the head of state terror.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to partition Syria by using Kurdish forces in northern and eastern parts of the country.
“Netanyahu is worried because he discovered too late that he can’t divide Syria”, Cavusoglu said, claiming that Netanyahu planned to achieve this goal “with the help of the terrorists” from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), blacklisted by Ankara as a terrorist organisation.
He slammed the Israeli PM for “having sympathy towards [the] YPG”, also arguing that “Netanyahu and the PKK have something else in common — they are both baby killers.”
Cavusoglu’s remarks follow Erdogan and Netanyahu trading accusations in their latest war of words.”
For my German-speaking friends in the Vineyard, the Heilig Abend-version of my Blog.
My English-speaking friends will find the English version as well known will appear on Wednesday.
To all of you Merry Christmas
mundanomaniac
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.com/2018/12/24.html
Reflecting on many examples of Rising Consciousness in the Cafe and The World, I felt,at close of the last Cafe that I had reached A New Low..even for myself…….in cynical and sardonic humour.
So game am I to wrestle with Demons, Psychopaths and Cannibals, ( and kick their sorry rears!) and the baseness of material daily struggle that when I pause……… Ascending Souls seem to be drifting above me, calling down, to come along………….lightly …….and Transcend Gravity…and…The Darkness.
Previously to 2000 I had only a few hours yearly to reflect on my short-comings in Comparison to Christ-Consciousness in my first half-century of Short Christmas days. However, the past 18 years with this Russian- Californians family, the tree stays up til the call from the the parents in St Petersburg to their daughter, grandsons and son-in law on Russian Christmas. So January 7 caps off the Paternal Introspection of Imperfection of Two Christmas Weeks…..with humble resolve to do a better job….in the Just Beginning Year.
A few days ago my wife informed me that her friends in Russia are no longer the least bit impressed by American or European Capitalism….and evidently they were sharing thoughts on that general theme with this uniquely Russian “Christmas Scene”:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Brp9U5_grPw/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=44yoionesnqa
Vigilance against Ukie-Nazi-NWO Crossing the Dnieper perversions of the Valley Forge Washingtonian Meme are mixed with Mundo’s Astrological-Celestial View of The Donald From A Higher Perspective.
And I even think it possible that Mattis’ pique and resignation is benign deception…….. and in reality he is just being re-assigned and May Even Understand Who the Real Enemy is, Finally. One can hope, cautiously!
Here is one area even Dennis and I could often agree….on at least ONE possibility: “The Plan” …Just .Might Not Be A Dirty Zio-Empire Trick.
But Maybe the Mad Dogs of War Are Loose.and no one’s plan will round them up and muzzle their slashing teeth?
What IF….one were vigilant….not only against danger….but also FOR recognizing opportunity?
Ioan sent a Nice Christmas Greeting and I gave a short reply, but he deserves more.
Weeks ago he asked about my attitude toward art, which he clearly loves and practices and teaches. It was, I believe in response to my use of Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son……as a metaphor for Ukraine….in apparent hopelessness….Lost Sons of Rus…at least in part.
Last night I saw the theme of The Role of Art in the development of mankind and almost every comment by Gerry R , Dennis S and Megan B seemed synchronous with my thoughts of ioan’s thinking and spirit which always settle the occasional roughness of a bitter brew or point of contention in the Cafes of The Vineyard of the Saker.
For starters to situate the Role of Art…..the hopefulness post- Syria Pull-out DJT Decision…presented in video by Gerry Rose is not naive…he’s been at this for over forty years:
https://youtu.be/Fvc9A-EA-VI
Does the United States Need A Beautiful Culture?? (Hint: Yes, very urgently! As does the world. Which is why this video taped Saturday is my fuller response of encouragement to all serious dveloped and budding artists of talent and conviction, like ioan!)
“Every week now something extraordinary happens. As you know, the president just announced that we were leaving Syria, While the story behind the story is that he had called Erdogan and said “I want to leave Syria.” and Erdogan had replied, “Well, yeah, the territory that ISIS controls is only 1% of Syria.” and Trump turned to Mattis and said “Is that True?” And Mattis said, “Yeah.” and so Trump said, “Well, then we’re leaving Syria.”
And Mattis went crazy and everybody went crazy, BUT………the point is that the president and the institution of the presidency is finally asserting the authority to lead the country………..”
There’s about a 30 second break in the audio,90 sec in then Gerry asserts :
“We haven’t had a president….like this since …JFK or FDR…that actually knew what HE wanted to do…no more of these wars that go on forever, cost trillions, and accomplish nothing ….and the freakout now in the bureaucracy is that as the monetary system blows……that someone will defend the people (instead of the banks)….”
Then Megan opens the Art, the Culture theme of the event :
https://youtu.be/Fvc9A-EA-VI?t=590
“The Future is you’re all going to die. And what is the passion, therefore, that corresponds to Mankind? Since everybody is going to die, what is the meaning of human life? Is it a fact? Not exactly. It’s the creation of a more powerful capability of mankind, by purging mankind of its own corruption, extracting mankind into the freedom from corruption…….the beauty is creativity per se. It’s also the measure of what creativity is. So you take any composition, it’s a sacred business. If you really want to do it, you’re attempting a sacred work. And it’s a sense of man’s immortality. Even people, when they die, if they’ve lived well, can contribute to a memory of beauty, and that’s rarely done, these days…..”
At any rate, few here have the creative artistic impulse of our ioan (and a few others do, that I don’t know nearly as long or as well!) but we can surely participate in the social appreciation of creativity and even employ it politically in support of a Multi-Polar World of increasingly free and creative beings, shed of the shackles of Empire.
Merry Christmas, for the next two weeks!
The Integrity Initiative/Institute of Statecraft story is “leak of the year”, as relevant or more than the Wikileaks Podesta emails. A site called UK Column was following the story before most. I particularly enjoyed their kung fu takedown of the newspeak-ing modern spooks who’ve been outed/spotlighted in the leaks… funny in a Scanner Darkly kind of way:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/younger-generation-takes-over-mi6-%E2%80%98c%E2%80%99-saw-thoroughly-modern-spook
Merry Christmas Cafe!
Shout outs to Amarynth, Vot Tak, Bro 93, One Minion, too many others to name… to the entire “Class of 2015”, as it were… Anyone else remember the rowdy holiday cafes of yesteryear? Long may they continue, with wassail mug in hand. Don’t forget to mull your wine! (Slainte/prost/skol etc.)
Love to you and wonderful greetings for the season, whichever way you decide to celebrate … It is only important to celebrate and pay attention – life, humans, hope, aaah .. you all here know! Just celebrate! Just pay honor to a change.
Top member of the (anti) Russian “core”…Bill Browder…..of course! I really really hope the FSB have opened files on every member ……but what -legally- can they do?
Merry Christmas, Internal Exile USA.
Merry Christmas IEUSA,
Alex Thomson, who wrote that perceptive piece, is the lead reporter for Channel 4 News. I’ll hazard a guess that he will shortly be looking for a new job.
Here’s a song to add to the noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q97IfBOIR5Q
Sure remember the entire rowdy Class of 2015, the freshers as it were, bright eyed and bushy tailed and the best thing since white sliced bread ! Ho-lay and Merry Christmas, and to the newly arrived, the newly weds and the mods one and all !
Ras
Pogues! What an awesome track. That will be on “heavy rotation” tonight. Now, please fill in my gaps in musical knowledge with unknown greatness from Motorhead. (In this country, we heard “Ace of Spades” and that was it.)
As for A. Thomson, well perhaps he’s far too brilliant to be working for Channel 4? That essay is some kind of instant classic, I felt privileged to read it, almost like being let into some inner sanctum… the things that man must know. UK Column seems a very interesting lot of folks, V. Beeley among them.
Cheers to all, you wonderful lot.
I hesitate to post too much Lemmy, as he’s hard to take for most, and understandably so. But there is a stop-button and moderation here. His back catalogue is vast, for those who like that sort of thing, and sometimes surprising.
One of my favourite tracks, listener discretion advised but no naughty words, it is just shockingly grim which might upset some:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpRXQlkTYs
Thank you so much, that was the ticket. You can really hear the Hawkwind in there. I will hit the vinyl shop, thanks for the pointer.
https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1986/PSCF9-86VanTill.html
Refutation of . . . the snake eating its own tail (fanatics hysterical at heresy).
Worthwhile thoughts on the unknown nature of our Sun; it remains unknown, but few can recognize it.
That was a worthwhile read also, thanks. Layperson on the subject here, but the key sentence for me:
‘The credibility of a scientific claim, however, is established not by its boldness, but by its adequacy to account for physical phenomena in an accurate, coherent and fruitful manner.’
Long ago I would have written that out and stuck it on the wall at various points around the house where it would catch the eye several times a day, but those times are gone for me and now I am just pickier about the dead-end arguments/discussions that I step into.
Still, plenty to learn still about the sun, astronomy and the scientific method for enquiring minds not just looking to confirm what they think they already ‘know.’
Onwards!
(Follows an eulogistic apology for the ‘creator’ of the moonhoax: Who was Bill Kaysing?)
Having personally known Bill Kaysing for more than thirty years before his recent death, I have a couple things to note here . . .
1. He had the boldness and bravery to stand up for what he believed, which is more than many laying into him here, who graze like sheep in the common pasture, accepting everything they’re told by a government that has demonstrably lied far too often, when it serves their purpose.
2. He was a pretty decent guy, in many ways that those who slander him here could not possibly know.
3. It’s just a bit too bad that he is remembered now for a crusade he could not let go of (perhaps foolishly, I’ll concur), rather than the many earlier things he did: a score of books on living simply in a too-complex world, cooking and eating in inexpensive and healthful ways, breaking free of the too-‘civilized’ mode we’re all stuck in, being your own person in a world in which that becomes increasingly difficult.
Bill was an advocate for the homeless, the down-trodden, giving good, solid advice in every earlier work he published. Do him the honor of knowing what he did WELL, before you criticize what he did poorly. Think of how you’d be remembered, yourself, before you sling those stones.
http://www.orthodox.cn/localchurch/200406ancientcnhist_en.htm
Article on the Noachic covenant of ancient China; a small window into an oft obscured historical subject.
That was a good read for me, plenty of food for thought and exploration, maybe even some digging, thanks.
That’s an interesting article and has to be carefully studied because there is a bias (in my view) regarding the Bible “written by Moses” – as the article declares. So, according to the article, we have to “believe” the Bible timing but not the anthropology. So the human remnants of 2 mil years old is a hoax, according to this article, only because it doesn’t pass to the Bible timing “written by Moses”. And somehow, the Bible timing and the Chinese registered events have to be on the same wave, well…because of the Bible “written by Moses” of course, what else ? The whole Chinese history and culture has to be written anew until it fits a certain dogma ? The guys are doing a great job, there’s nothing new in this “endeavor”, changing history until it fits their global agenda, even if they mask it as “orthodox” on their page. I wonder what will say a Chinese ?
“Damn your eyes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVyorYFcXg&index=21&list=RDMMPsXGzblg7Ws
AND, Eva Cassidy “Nightbird”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-X1g-aEeNc&index=19&list=RDMMPsXGzblg7Ws
Enjoy
Kent
Porky and his gang held a wild office party-invitees were evidently closely screened; other info on serious pressure on the populace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHlza72fHP4
Vesti
English trans available via close caption
India – Assam’s Bogibeel Bridge Opens Today
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bogibeel-railroad-bridge-in-assam-indias-longest-to-be-launched-today-10-facts-1967660?browserpush=true
Merry Christmas everyone.
In a nutshell…
Everything looks like a nuthouse tightened around another nut… case.
It’s has been a fantastic year at the Caféine Bar.
Many thanks to Saker, his team and all known numbers… odd or even but no… nutters.
Long live… the Poet’s.
Best festive Seasons wishes to all.
The idea of sans culottes has been touched upon by many, and more recently quite a bit…what this eruption means in the US shocks me, perhaps because it may be true…here’s an example:
“Intel Drop: Ask Santa for a Gun, Trump’s Christmas of Chaos and Crow”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/12/24/intel-drop-ask-santa-for-a-gun-trumps-christmas-of-chaos-and-crow/
Trouble ahead, trouble behind. More to come? Well…
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This about Jesus is something I thought worth reading and thoughts…Jesus Was Born in a Police State
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50828.htm
Max and Stacy touch on related themes today as well…https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/447346-ai-mexico-stock-portfolios/ (I like the bit about pack animals)
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The idea of apology has been in previous cafe and other discourses at Saker been mentioned – mostly this indicates a created misunderstanding of the vital quality of apology in diplomacy. Yes, nearly all people working in English seem to entirely misunderstand what apology is, and is not. I’ll moot a clue about apology – it has zero to do with being sorry or saying that you won’t do it again. Rather the opposite. This is why apology is essential to useful diplomatic enterprise. For now this is QED. I may later proffer an essay in re.
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I wrote a critique of the Imperial “earth penetrating bunker-busters” and sent it along…alas poof!…gone.
I’ll simply say they are a fraud. In fact they are dirty tactical atomic explosives. The naming is designed to contribute to consent by ignorant persons to their use. The reasoning for this conclusion is based on fundamental physical laws and characteristic of the material involved…it can be no other way.
Best,
p
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2010/jun/15/secret-justice-criminal-informants-and-americas-underground-legal-system/
The Gulag Archipelago 2.0
An American Socialist goes walking. . .
I’m just one of Santa’s Little Helpers…….and I’m way, way, way behind.
I hope maya jena has something for the stockings because I didn’t buy a single thing! Like Donald Trump, all I did was try to keep The Main Petro Dollar Credit Card Under The Limit for the last few weeks!
There’s nothing under the tree.
I saw a big box wrapped with paper in the garage. Will THAT do??
Anyway, I have two more weeks to redeem myself.
Double-Header Elf
If the little Yanks get just bits of coal
It’s back to work at the Northern Pole
So their Cossack halves, 7th of January
Are not pissed at dad… but a little Merry.
But for right now, Western Christmas Day
I’m not working to load New Year Sleigh.
No! I’m here at my Elfin Bench for y’all
Packaging a big ole gift from London Paul!
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That was MY gift and I’m satisfied and back to work writing the transcript of what I enjoyed so much this Christmas Morning …to Share It with Old Friends and New!
So pardon me, it’s back to work! Greetings to Internal Exile (who was gone a while), to my Irish Wrestling Mates (who’ve taken a long break from the Bloody Mat), and to ….Blue!
I’ve got a Cat Joke for Siberian Blue…..later
AND I want to Follow Up On Chris K and the Cosmic Joke on The Human Race
/moveable-feast-cafe-2018-12-19/#comment-597424
Nobody engaged him???
Afraid to?
Courage Is A Large Part of Love!
To Infinity and Beyond, Space Cadets! (soon…but not today)
And weave that in to The Giza Debate with Pyramid Pavel-Paul
But the Majority Take Precedence, for Today!
So it’s back to Sirius Podcast Episodes 570 and 571 and my legal pad note taking…..
AND,,, then…after that gift is delivered……One More….if I don’t drop dead from exhaustion!
But before note taking/transcribing…..Time for my Chef Routine: Pancakes and Maple Syrup for the OC Gang!
In deflating Q-tard euphoria (LP doesn’t call it that…he calls it something like “those in the Alt-Media that believe A Plan is Progressing Nicely”) right after that first section of the Podcasts 570 and 571, London Paul uses the fact that Flynn must now co-operate with Mueller until March 20, 2019:
“What we can say is that this is NOT a victory for those who claim the Deep State is in retreat. As we keep saying, nothing could be further from the reality that we keep seeing. Once again, we must be extremely cautious when assessing what is discussed in the Alternative Media, particularly because much of it is not based on fact or reason.
In some respects, a narrative is being presented to the American People and it is simply NOT playing out at this time. Of course it does not mean that there are not developments ongoing and potential for things to change….but we have to deal with the reality of what we are facing, and as yet, we are NOT seeing this (the Deep State’s retreat, LP means) happening.”
Now, on to Venezuela and Russia, in a new comment.
LET’S REMEMBER ALL … In memory of victims of the TU-154 disaster in Sochi
It happened on December 25, 2016 – Andrey Kuznyev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7O23g7GCK0
Seraphim Hamilton: again stirring-up the pot; Geocentrism to Heliocentrism, and back again . . .
“Further, one must consider that general relativity entails that there is no such thing as absolute motion which is experimentally relevant. The only motion that can be detected is the motion of two bodies relative to one another. Creationist cosmologist John Byl believes that the Earth is the absolute center of the cosmos but that it is not experimentally relevant because of general relativity. This position is completely consistent with the scientific data. Even those who hold that it is not the absolute center acknowledge that the question is not absolute motion, but frame of reference. It is simply arbitrary whether one speaks of Earth or the sun as one’s experimental frame of reference. So in a way, the very question is scientifically outdated, relying on classical physics rather than relativistic physics. Some geocentrists such as Robert Sungenis argue that relativity is wrong and the Earth is the absolute center in an experimentally relevant way, relying on Tychonian cosmology rather than Ptolemaic- Tycho Brahe suggested that the sun revolves around the Earth but that the planets revolve around the sun.
Merry Christmas everyone!
If I was setting a Christmas story in the Year of Our Lord 2018, Joseph and a pregnant Mary would be traveling, just as in the traditional story, but instead of ending up in a stable with a manger, they would find themselves in an immigrant detention camp at a border when Mary gives birth to the Son of God.
I suppose the Three Wise Men can get in there by bribing some guards.
These days, if we saw a sudden and bright light in the sky, we’d all have to be afraid that instead of signalling the birth of the Son of God, it was an high-altitude nuke burst designed to flood half the world with an EMP pulse as the preliminary strike of Armageddon and the end of the world or at least human civilization here as we know it. If the nuke was launched by an American christian officer from a sect that preaches a lot from the Book of Revelations, then the officer responsible for that sudden bright light in the sky highly likely believes that it heralds the Second coming of Christ.
“Second Guatemalan Migrant Child Dies in US Custody”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Second-Guatemalan-Migrant-Child-Dies-in-US-Custody-20181225-0013.html
Actually, I think it is the third, as I seem to recall a mother suing over the death of a young baby also in a detention camp.
Merry Christmas!
The new cold war is now a fact of life.
This is taking several forms right now. However, an important one is economic.
Sanctions, trade wars, etc. are all part of this.
Western MIC is too deeply ingrained to not take action to protect its interests.
Those interests are the future technologies that the MIC will need to control going forward.
So the world will see an increasing divide in tech, innovation, R&D, intellectual property, etc.
That which is needed for the Western MIC to exist will be protected.
At the same time the same is happening with the non-western MIC of Russia and China.
This cold war split will carry over into other economic areas.
Multi-globalism is hear to stay. The only question is when the cold war will develop into a major hot war?
Or, GD, an adolescent species might reach adulthood and see other, more serious adversaries to interspecies warring parties over “scarce resources”..
Such as a species threatening large asteroid on course for earth collision within a decade or two.
Then we might put the weapons of mass destruction away and cooperate on a deflection strategy that makes breakthroughs that eliminate scarcity and resource competition consciousness….in a nearly Infinite Universe. .
Better late than never.
Such an asteroid might be the Best Christmas Present Ever……OR eliminate a few billion beings with the unrealized potential to do something about it……..but lacking the Moral Fitness to Survive….and the Collective Human Will to actually change character and DO what the Universe demands of it….or….Mess It All Up and go not so quietly “into That Good Night” of Species Death.
Panic Grips the Markets and the Trump Administration
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201812241070962132-markets-trump-usa-economy/
“It looks like the Trump administration is in full panic mode. Steven Mnuchin is trying to calm the markets, but his efforts are actually making things worse.
On Sunday, Trump’s Treasury Secretary called top US bankers: “Today I convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation’s six largest banks,” Steven Mnuchin said on Twitter.
The reason for the calls was to calm down the top players of the American financial sector amid an ongoing rout on Wall Street. Judging by the reactions seen on social networks, the plan backfired spectacularly.”
As the SS Trumptanic sails on into the night at full speed…
The Implications of Macron Implosion
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/12/the-implications-of-macron-implosion/
“Interestingly, the international press – the MSM – is taking it seriously. Why? They fear that this relentless movement may spread to other countries, even countries beyond Europe like “Trump Land”, the United States of America. And why not? The same malaise of capital being shifted upwards to the detriment of the poor and middle class exists everywhere, may even be most pronounced in the US, but nobody talks about it and pays attention to it, lest the people would have awakened to the growing disparity long ago and taken to the streets massively within the inner circles of the Washington Belt Way.
Seeing Macron from this perspective, he is just a little boy and a little full of himself, having been implanted by the foremost western banking clan, the Rothschild family, to help salvage what can be salvaged; i.e., milk to the bones the French and by association, the European Social system, what’s left of it. Greece was a test case. And look at Greece – the Elite is still so greed-driven that they‘d rather salvage their billions stashed away in Swiss banks, instead of showing some integrity and out of solidarity tell the EU and its fake currency, the Euro, to go to hell. No, they won’t. Greece could have been an example for the rest of Europe.
The likely truth is that the Yellow Vests will mean the end of the very short-lived arrogant Macron era – and – who will replace him? There is nobody prepared for it. The left-wing Mélenchon, good ideas, but conveys bitterness, has no charisma – and the right-wing Le Pen – is, though joining the left in extremis, aiming at getting out of the EU and of the Euro, but other than that, it’s outright fascism, ready for an alliance with Kiev. Who else? Chaos in the making, a good basis for a revolution, a revolution that may bring about more than meets the eye – a Europe-wide upheaval that brings back local sovereign states (whether Greece wants it or not!) with local money and local public banks that work for the public and for the local economy rather than for international profit and greed minded shareholders.
Wouldn’t that be a real revolution? It would open the gate to Russia, Eurasia, China – the New Silk Road, a gate to a “New Deal” of the 21st Century, a New Deal of Inclusion from Europe throughout Asia and Africa. Think about it – the map surely shows a super Continent that hardly needs transatlantic relations, especially not those that the masters in Washington propagate – their rules, their guns, their dictate, their monetary hegemony. No thank you, West. And good riddens, Macron.”
Russia & Venezuela
London Pavel, ……..er… Paul, continues:
“Recently, Mike Pompeo criticized the Russian Government for sending two bombers halfway around the world to Venezuela—never mind that Washington often does things like that with impunity, anywhere in the world that it chooses to do so.”
(I warn you in advance so you don’t gag on this one) LOL…:
“Pompeo stated that the Russian and Venezuelan people should see this for what it is, two corrupt governments squandering public funds, squelching Liberty and Freedom—-while their people suffer.
Incredible statements.
This of course comes on the back of the Maduro meeting with Putin in Moscow, where he secured support from Russia to increase oil production by one million barrels a day, as well as many investments and maintenance of defense systems.
The fact that Russia landed 2 nuclear capable Blackjack bombers in Venezuela as part of a joint training exercise in order to demonstrate that Russia was determined to show public support for Maduro could never be more telling. Russia’s Ambassador in Caracas stated that the deployment reflected the very fruitful military partnership that has developed over the last decade. Of course the primary signal to Washington is that Venezuela is not without international support.Russian military exercises involving Venezuela, of course, are not new. But the timing is ________ (inaudible) given that Russia and Venezuela are experiencing increased tensions with the United States.
Maduro, who blamed his country’s economic ruin on a US economic war returned from his trip to Russia with a Six Billion $ package of investments in deal designed, of course, to shore up Venezuela’s collapsing economy. Maduro also claimed that a White House Coup Attempt was afoot, designed to “disrupt Venezuela’s Democracy …and promised to reveal evidence of this…… at a future date.
It remains to be seen if that is true.
The Pentagon’s Spokesman Robert Manning said that Russia’s deployment was “inappropriate” given “the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Venezuela.”.
Quite! What that’s got to do with the unfolding tragedy, I have no idea.
But following his three days in Moscow meeting with dozens of top officials and with 6 billion in investments in hand, and a raft of other deals being agreed on, tellingly, when asked if Russia agreed to provide more financial aid to Venezuela, the Kremlin spokesman replied that a whole range of issues related to bilateral cooperation had been discussed. There is no doubt that russia will continue supporting Venezuela to one degree or another.
The fact that a meeting was arranged between the two countries’ Defense Ministers immediately following talks between Maduro and Putin, whereby Russia agreed that its air force and navy will continue using Venezuela’s ports and airports was very telling.
Many will see this as a calculated gamble, but Putin is not known as someone given to irrational bouts of judgment—-arguably, how many mistakes has he actually made, in the last decade?? Arguably, NONE!
And, of course, in respect to these Tu-160 Blackjacks, it is a supersonic variable geometry heavy bomber which is designed to strike targets with nuclear or conventional weapons deep in continental theaters of operation. And that’s why they sent them to Venezuela.
We might also not rule out that the deployment of these bombers might have something to do with a Russian plan to establish a long-term military presence in the Caribbean, something we understand which is now in the works—not to suggest that a New Cuban Missile Crisis is now in the works, but tellingly, these 2 Russian strategic bombers also carried out a 10 hour exercise which was conducted over the Caribbean, in part with Venezuelan fighter jets.
Apart from the aforementioned investments, Russia’s alliance with Venezuela is important because both are Non-OPEC oil-producing countries. Relation between the US and Russia are deteriorating given the US drone attacks on Russian bases in Syria, the escalation in the conflict via the Ukrainians in the Azov Sea and Washington’s ultimatum that it will leave the INF Treaty with Russia.
Maduro stated that the meeting with Putin was the most useful meeting in his entire careerand that, tellingly occured in strengthening the process of cooperation between Russia and Venezuela in the sphere of military and technical cooperation.
Venezuela’s economic crisis does largely stem from US sanctions, but not entirely. What Russia and China continue to do is support Venezuela in trade and investment, but the fact that the White House stated that they had been spoken with by representatives if Russia and had been informed that the military aircraft which had landed in Venezuela would leave shortly and go back to Russia spoke volumes. Russia did not leave because of US intervention, as the western media tried to portray.
The main form of comfort in all of this is the recent comment by the Kremlin that Moscow is still convinced that a Summit Meeting between Putin and Trump is equally necessary for both. I would concur, but the problem is that to a large extent Trump—up until his decision to withdraw from Syria, appeared NOT to be in control of foreign policy. We would hope that a meeting between Putina nd Trump happens, because I would suggest that it is even more”equally important” for Trump than even for Putin.
Now, we’re going to talk about Germany and Russia, because………”
Last one by LP til Jan 2.
You get the gist.
Greetings for the holiday season, to all.
Absent occasions for discussion on these various subjects, this cafe becomes sounding-board, and mental spring-board, and a moral pick-me-up. This Cafe, is that very humble image of the cave; the inn was at overflow, by self-important and accomplishing netizens, there was no room for . . . Life’s quiet strains.
Yes Chris, I noted your comments earlier, little time to do a comment myself but I’ll do that.
I was looking for some verses in translation that I know I have somewhere but cannot at the moment locate. Then the brand new hard drive in my old machine gave up the ghost. So, for now, I’ll post this informative article about the man Dattatreya and his verses, prompted by Simon’s marriage news of China and India:
http://www.shivashakti.com/datta.htm
Thank you one minion for the link, and here is something from the 24 Guru’s of Lord Dattareya :
An unmarried girl had guests while her mother was away
She was to show hospitality with food during their stay
Her bangles were making noise while she was preparing
Embarrassed she removed them, only one was remaining
***
Bangles are like spiritual aspirants living in the same place
Among a lot of people there is chat, dispute or disturbance
Dattatreya learnt from maiden that he should not seek attention
Only in solitude can he make a single-minded effort for liberation
The unCreated Universe is, by default, the impersonal atheist Absolute; (or, it is an inconceivable non-existent delusiveness, and an unreal figment of . . . the unknowable nothing).
How then, is the Universe such a grandeur, to these particularly unclever critics? Behold! its qualities, it is: infinite and therefore unsearchable; endless-beginningless and so, unobservable; undefinable, and therefore unknowable and indescribable in essence; the source of timespace dimensionality; source of life, and source of death; it is life and death itself. The Universe is our undeclared divine Absolute; we declare it, secretly. . . hush.
But not always. Before, at some strange time, of the lost pre-histories of that before-now era, it was not an absolute deity, but rather a Creation. The created cosmos: that which was brought into existence out of nothing; that which God brought into being. But, now that the Big Brother Theory, has fully elapsed into our memory banks, the Universe is an effect no more, but now the only cause; and all causality is irrelevant, because It is; and was not brought into beingness, but just is. Hail! The Universe is not made (unless self-making: this god made itself?), it always was, it may be destroyed and re-created in a whirling-hindi cyclic upheaval; but not really, thus remaining, our illusions of perceptions. Oh peoples, be deceived no more! Bow down before the god, that you made appear. . . or do not, as this god is after all, far too fickle for us; a supra-star of subjectivism.
if down for whatever reason, this shall lift your spirits!
babusha zoya and her brother valeriy sing from zoya’s kitchen – the title of the song: snova stayu odna, snova kuriy mama
transl.: on my own again i took up smoking once more!
they are irresistable. have a listen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwF1ZAHbhas
hope you’ll enjoy as much as i did.
lb
They are great ! wonderful, thank you so much for sharing these wonderful people, love them !
Indeed, we know little to nothing about the whole Universe, there is no surprise by the way. How far can we reach in that Universe with our best and modern technologies ? OK, we see something at a certain point in space, even that is relative cause what we see now, in reality there is nothing left or it is something new in that place because of the distance and the speed of light. But let’s put it this way : what is beyond that we can see and we cannot see ? is there an end ? no, there is infinite. Well, this Infinite is our bigger dilemma, we cannot handle it, we cannot reach around, it blows our mind. In this infinite, we discovered Galaxies, a lot of them – probably infinite – one of them is our Galaxy where is our Solar System with this planet Earth. We made our counting and created rules, after which we discovered there are Universal Rules which have a much greater power over our lives. Once, we, the humans (our ancestors) had a much greater knowledge which slowly but surely had been lost – probably forever – about the Universe and the Rules of this Universe – A universe which can be seen and what is more interesting and intriguing, the invisible part for our eyes for which we have only mathematical formulas.
What about parallel Universes and about Multi-Dimensions ? The Man itself is a micro-cosmos, a small copy of the Great Universe, with its palpable parts and with its invisible parts. God, in my definition, is the main Energy (with its visible and invisible parts) which is activated through the Rule. Nothing can change this Rule because it is infinite as the main Energy source. The most important thing though, is that this main Energy has Intelligence, without intelligence, there would be no Rule. What we can see in the Universe and around us is only the three dimensional world plus Time. The most part is hidden for our eyes but not for the soul. Our soul is part of that Higher Energy (we used to call it God) , the unseen part of our being. When we die, that part will continue to live, cause it is part of the Infinite, in a “territory” or dimension invisible for our eyes and perceptions cause that is also part of the Rule. The main obstacle for our “blindness” is to find in ourselves, in our materialistic and earthly views. This subject is so immense, provoking headaches for many. Personally I don’t like to use quotations from different sources for the sake to prove my thoughts but some may do that for a good discussion.
“The main obstacle for our blindness is to find in ourselves, in our materialistic and earthly views…” Yes. And at the bottom of our blindness is usually fear. If we can locate the source of our fear we can work on other issues that develop as a result of our spiritual inertia, such as various bad habits, and so on.
Coupla Cafes back, Teranam 13 used the term “compassionate witness” in response to my poem, “Loki”. I responded by pointing out, well at least I meant it so – that the detached observer goes along with the compassionate witness. Now, someone wrote ( it was an ‘Anonymous’, but appeared to be in Teranam’s style of writing, essentially berating me for pushing the line “detached”). I replied, rather harshly it appeared in print, which I didn’t mean, the importance of Soul having the freedom to have Its experience. Whether that experience from the viewpoint of the social consciousness, is “right or wrong”, in a moral sense, or not.
I stand by my statement, detachment /indifference is the single most important factor if one would achieve spritual freedom!!! Maybe even more so than love! I cannot stress this enough. Detachement does not mean aloofness, cold calculation, that one doesn’t care etc. Oh well, people are either going to understand what I’m saying here, or not. No matter. To wit; “God sees the sparrow fall, but does nothing to stop it…” Why?
Best to Chris k and Ioan.
Well… Dimitar is close enough to… ‘Reality’.
God is the Absolute Creator, Giver and Forgiver… then, who is doing the judging bit? Last judgement was created to rule by fear and superstition.
Knock, knock, knock… God is very busy, may I help you?
In anticipation to any given moment, place and circumstances we are bound to be acting, reacting or inactive… in a conditioned environment most likely set out by humanlike or inhumane minds.
Why not trust the very guidance received at that very moment… without fear of knowing understanding everything is set up in the most ideal conditions.
Is that ‘His’ (The) Will?.
By simply asking, intuitively… the inner compassionnate witness within is instantly guided to act or not without being the Doer… but the messenger, the channeler… Where is fear?
The sick, intoxicated, mentality ill, sociopath or psychos will be on the path to hurt and kill… not without karma for which they do not care or not aware of.
The server, in great compassion or dharma, will always seek to help according to the very guidance received.
Trust is well beyond faith… it implies God (omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient) is always right, no matter what… at any given time or place.
“Love incarnates Itself from Love in order to know (realize) Love” Sri Sathya Sai.
Does it make any sense in the physical realm or at the mental plan? We cannot even imagine…
On a any good day or night, any one could have a go at R. Steiner’s ‘Philosophy of Freedom’… or ‘I am That’ from Sri Nissaghardata… there is enough to permeate or besiege the most obtuse minds.
Twenty years ago, went to India for three weeks… ended up walking the place barefoot for three months. The very first week my sandals were stolen twice. Inner voice said: ” You ‘think’ you are traveling light because you carry only 10 kg on your shoulders… Om… when you have two shoes too many…”
Thank God… never had to worry about my shoes or the thinking bit anymore!
What a trip that was…
We are all “individuations” of the Divine. There is a saying that encapsulates it perfectly. “God created Soul, then threw away the mould.” If God created Soul and did not want another Soul to “come out” like the last one, then that means that each Soul is unique. If the “overlaw” is that “Soul exists because God loves it”, then Soul must – eventually – find a code to live by that is in harmony with this universal law.
As for judgement, it comes from the level of the mind. The level of the mind and the level of Soul, the Mental plane and the Soul Plane, are two different realities. The Negative Force is charged with keeping Soul in the ‘Lower Worlds’, the dual worlds. One day, however, Soul finds the key and establishes Itself on the Soul Plane. This takes countless lifetimes, until Soul is no longer interested in the illusions that the “Two Headed God” serves up to it, and finds the key to Its liberation. How It negotiates Its journey is up to It, however, the only ‘clause’ being It must live in harmony with the Universal overlaw, “Soul exists because God loves It”. When it truly needs assistance, that assistance will appear, in one form or another.
Here’s something peaceful from Chris Rea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu_Enr8JY5E
It’s as likely that God created the Universe as any of these https://www.rationalresponders.com/a_big_list_of_gods_but_nowhere_near_all_of_them
The probability that any one is responsible is, for all intents and purposes, zero.
Greetings Anony-mis (anthrope),
What do you surmise the case to be? — to state: “ . . . created the Universe . . . .” And then proceed to the short list, of your deities of choice, for exclusion. Do you posit the unCreated Universe that is not made; or maybe the sum illusion of all reality; or a third conclusion? a double negation (not uncreated, not creatable). . .
If the Universe is not Made, ie, created, then what is it?
Maybe it should be on that shopping list?
Recently VVP was asked at his Press Conference whether or not Russia might ever become (again) a Socialist State… It’s there, we all heard the question.
He said “no”; replied in the negative, I believe…but I did not hear the question or the reply in Russian – so I am open to refinements about the precise nature of this exchange…
( I can imagine many reasons why VVP might say this…but he may perhaps have wanted to avoid the full true answer – as it leads to complexities he does not need just now…or maybe he hasn’t yet realized it must again be Socialist – if things go on this way and reach Peace.)
Also recently, Comrade Michael Hudson has stated quite plausibly that Socialism is the ideal or best form of Capitalism…. His statement and contextual material is in abundance @ search term “socialism ideal capitalism michael hudson” (using dogpile engine).
Both are honest men, and smart and decent people.
Reconciling the apparent discrepancy between the two statements is a logic problem…
I think VVP’s reply is incorrect. And that, while the Socialism of USSR cannot return, this is irrelevant. It was a flawed Socialism, and history does not retrogress or repeat.
Indeed, it seems to me that, if Russia is to do what she must, then naturally she shall become Socialist – in a Coherent Socialist Logos (see wiki on meaning).
Many people bemoan the pension cuts and economic-disequilibrium in the Russian ground. Me too (though I am far away).
After this war comes to settlement in modus vivendi, I expect, there will then be a Change within Russia…to Socialist Capitalism, with major changes in social structures, and large increases in the support the State will create…large increases in employment, wages, and pensions.
This is, I suspect, nearly a sure thing – but much depends on how things go with the war, and, oddly enough, inside the US.
Before arriving there, a lot of things have to be done, a lot of things have to happen, meanwhile the simple individual has to wait, if he/she is lucky enough, maybe will see the light at the end of tunnel, if not…there is tomorrow, yet another day in “paradise”, people will rush again to work, then to shopping, for there is still time for celebration on the new year with lot of drink and food, the stomach is so near to our heart. When that fulfilled, the world looks much better, until fell asleep.
Above, in a reply, I entered a field, a complicated, much much complicated than a human being can bare to think about. To solve it, there’s no chance, at all.
Waiter ! give me glass of Gin and a beer please !
– Cigarettes ?
– No thanks, I have my own
– I forgot to ask you, may I smoke here ?
– Of course, this is not the outside world, we are moving around all the time since early 2016, soon we’ll be three years old !
– Ah, so we’ll leave the diapers behind, time to catch on the toilet and learn how it functions…
– That’s partly true, not for everybody
– Interesting, I met a lot of babies here, whom used to drink something else than milk…
– That is true, some of them are also smoking…but don’t tell anybody
– And…and, there are babies who teach the teachers themselves…they are so smart
– I’m delighted with this nursery !
hey ioan
“to smoke, to have coffee..”
enjoy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFGEx9SkDg&list=PLUOP-DOurYF-5jT5VLnWUYnVwp31dCcYd&index=2&t=0s
bw
lb
The rate of global wealth centralisation is accelerating.
With AI/Robotics/the military and computational genomics in the hand of the Capitalist class what do you imagine the drivers to the outcome you imagine will be?
Is a Russian military operation against Ukraine likely in the near future?
https://russianmilitaryanalysis.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/is-a-russian-military-operation-against-ukraine-likely-in-the-near-future/
Christmas cartoons – The Nutcracker
Soviet cartoon based on the fairy tale by Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
The story shortly: When the first child of the king and queen was born,everyone was invited
to the feast, only the evil witch mouse was forgotten. She did not forgive them and cast a spell
on the whole palace, and turned their heir into a nutcracker …
Love and kindness helped break the spell of an evil sorceress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKozhQNYCLI