2019/01/09 20:00:01
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Indications of sudden change…?
It came as a surprise to me to see George Galloway’s opinion-piece @ https://www.rt.com/op-ed/448381-fall-empires-washington-london-paris/
And what Corbett has done @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xgjxJwedA
Corbetter also did the 911 wargame stuff, but this one hits the critical, ah, “parts”…right to the bushes…
And so it goes…the Turks say there’s a softcoup in USA, well, yeah, it does look like that…and the three capitols are non-functional except, for now, as police state operations, eg the Great Men and Lesser Men are afraid to set foot among the people…and it’s getting worse? Well, yeah…
Whither? Well nobody knows, but it seemed like a good time to dispel rumors about fascism, and stuff that ain’t fascism – hence a pdf of old Benito’s Doctrine!
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
Enjoy!
Yes, the Corbett report is a total stunner-the amount of work that he put into that report is beyond belief and there it is for all to see!
Christpher Bolyn, linked on corbett’s you tube side bar, has also done major work on this crime, which was NOT organized and carried out from a cave in Afghanistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzeixUAzHc
A very important question is how many of these crucial witnesses cited in corbett are still walking around, in new identities, in hiding, or just died of “natural causes.” Bollyn says he has been repeatedly threatened, prob explains why corbett operates from Japan, as I understand, but prob no place is 100% safe.
A lot of this “stuff” comes up like bile in my throat when I start looking but it is what it is and world wide cynicism is one of the most useful emotions a criminal can rely upon. (Just move on, it is just another conspiracy theorY)
Thanks very much, parrhesiastes! I have seen major portions of corbett’s report in my previous searches. I have learned to deal with the bile!
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
Unfortunately when you’re still trying to prove who perpetrated an event in 2001, you have lost your vigilance.
This is the problem we now face.
Divide and rule is the name of the game and the division bit is as described by George G. becoming pretty serious.
The problem is the people who created the division bit are even better at the rule bit.
Which is still to come in theory.
(See Egyptian, Persian, Spanish, English, Dutch, Russian, German and US histories)
Our common foe is a political fanatic and while we try to convince ourselves and our friends and families of what has happened in the past, our future is also in their sausage machine.
I am generally suspicious of cliche > “The Price of Freedom is…”
Is this quotation not ambiguous? Does it not mean that eternal vigilance costs all of the freedom? That one gives up freedom by becoming vigilant..particularly when the deal is without end, ie static? And since nothing is immune from Change, is the quotation not also an absurd contradiction, in fact sarcasm? Time cannot be held captive, vigilance notwithstanding…think about MacBeth…he too was vigilant…and his failure is what’s eternal…not his vigilance. Shall we shiver in cold poverty up on crumbling battlements? Is that freedom?
I myself suspect that our elder Brother Herodotus spoke more honestly when he wrote:
“…for without strong constraint agreements will not keep their force…” (it is a dynamic circumstance)
Perhaps the best strong constraint is Love…but in the old days? Marriage and diplomacy were more ordinary.
The entire text? Well, specific @ http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekFeb2011&getid=1&query=Hdt.%201.75.2
I am not sure “we” have a “common foe”…and as to “a political fanatic”..what? Only one? And since people have zero political power, can they have political foes at all?
Me? I’ll settle for being good to my neighbors…which seems to be the “weapon” VVP is using so very well…if this is not “love” it’s about what can be done…”trust” being what presages “love”…and VVP/Ru is keeping closely to Law and fair-dealing…with terrible effect on NATO/Murka?4thReich.
And all our yesterdays
Have lighted fools the way to dusty death
Indeed, and alas… this seems fitting http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_5_3.html
and the witch-hunts we do see, as –
Mac Send out more horses; skirr the country round;
Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.
How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.
(fear and madness, sound familiar?)
It’s worth re-reading Mac as his denials and delusions lose charm and his ability to suspend disbelief meets steel Reality…
But Mac didn’t surrender, he took, ruined, many people and much treasure…Saker noted https://russia-insider.com/en/us-will-be-forced-face-reality-2019-drop-neocon-dream-world-domination/ri25844 and https://russia-insider.com/en/empire-blinked-2018-several-times-going-make-2019-very-very-dangerous/ri25817 Saker seems to expect some sort of reasonable, or near reasonable, outcome.
Some of the men in positions of power are crazy and ignorant lunatics…and the Logos of centuries has failed for the interests controlling the rest…nothing works, so they double, and double, and double…
The direction looks really bad, but it might be only very bad, or really really super bad. Doubling leads to catastrophe.
I did read a comment under a Saker piece…let’s see…
excerpt (url :
David James 14 hours ago
AS an addition to this GREAT article;
US Military Update: January 2019
Current Hardware status;
US Air Force: Heavy Bombers—Currently the US has 12 flyable B-52’s with 8 being repaired with cannibilised parts. B-1b’s currently 4 are flyable, with 2 reserves marginally capable. B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers; 6 flyable, but only in “low threat environments”.
USAF still has 136 flyable F-15 variants use…”
He goes on, and it’s clear the structure the US has is not up to a war…
That leaves suicide… A bit like Mac, eh?
Excellent.
My compliments.
And then there is Q
‘then there is Q’ and then a great awakening
The Storm by Walter de la Mare,
First there were two of us, then there were three of us,
Then there was one bird more,
Four of us – wild white sea-birds,
Treading the ocean floor;
And the wind rose, and the sea rose,
To the angry billows’ roar —
With one of us—two of us—three of us—four of us
Sea-birds on the shore.
Soon there were five of us, soon there were nine of us,
And lo! In a trice sixteen!
And the yeasty surf curdled over the sands,
The gaunt gray rocks between;
And the tempest raved, and the lightning’s fire
Struck blue on the spindrift hoar—
And on the four of us—ay, and on four times four of us
Sea-birds on the shore.
And our sixteen waxed to thirty-two,
And they to past three score—
A wild, white welter of winnowing wings,
And ever more and more;
And the winds lulled, and the sea went down,
And the sun streamed out on high,
Gilding the pools and the spume and the spars,
‘Neath the vast blue deeps of the sky.
And the isles and the bright green headlands shone,
Ad they’d never shone before,
Mountains and valleys of silver cloud,
Wherein to swing, sweep, soar –
A host of screeching, scolding, scrabbling
Sea-birds on the shore –
A snowy, silent, sun-washed drift
Of sea-birds on the shore.
Thank you for sharing this poem !
Yes, thank you.
It took me to the beach of St Andrews Scotland, to Cape Town South Africa, San Diego USA and the shores of Sydney Harbour.
What a wonderful skill to have.
A meditation on the “Way of the Warrior”. Events described are derived from the Genpei War – late 12th Century in Japan – and specifically the fierce ‘Naval Battle of Dan-no-ura’ where the warring clans, the Minamato ( also known as Genji ) and the Taira ( t-EH-ee-i-ra, – aka Heike ) fought their final battle. With the Minamato triumph, the Shogun era ( essentially military dictatorship ) was ushered in to last for 700 years.
https://www.artelino.com/articles/naval_battle_dannoura.asp
The Way of the Warrior
they fought like lions
paying their dues,
with no place to flee
and nothing to lose,
expecting no quarter
giving none in return –
the way of the warrior,
of fire interned…
by noon that riptide
had begun to relent,
the fury of the Heike
was all but spent
the drunken tiger
lay on the seabed –
his fleet in disarray,
the emperor dead
a fortress I’ll build
a sturdy redoubt,
the empress mother swore
at her army’s pullout,
where the mountain meets
the waters that churn –
at far Kobe
we will adjourn!
as night closed in
on that battered old quay,
a battalion of horsemen
gathered at the scree,
nestled in that bluff
and surrounded by sea –
that demon lay hobbled
for all to see
when fire began
to rain from above,
the ides had appeared
for that labour of love,
neither thunder nor lightning
could begin to quell,
the flames that arose
as that fastness fell
the Taira elite
once again stayed fate –
scooped up by their armada
anchored in the strait,
but the Genji and the Heike
would once again meet,
in the waters off Shikoku
in dawn’s red heat
they fought like lions
paying their dues,
with nowhere to run
and nothing to lose,
expecting no quarter
giving none in return –
the way of the warrior;
in fire interned!
holding him close
in their watery descent,
through the blood,
the fear and excrement,
that jiji maddened
and the boy foredoomed –
his breath expelled,
his life consumed…
by noon that riptide
had begun to relent,
the fury of the Heike
was all but spent,
the drunken tiger
lay on the seabed –
his fleet in disarray,
the emperor dead
as night closes in
on those forced to flee,
ill omened or cited
by destiny,
a samurai true
when called to the task –
does not hesitate
nor will he ask…
“drunken tiger”, samurais were referred to as drunken tigers, ie; drunk with righteousness ( referring to General Tomomori, who, mortally wounded, tied an anchor to himself and threw himself overboard.
“jiji” an affectionate term for grandmother; referring to the emperor, a boy of six, and the moment his ‘baba’ committed them both to a watery grave. Death was preferable to shame.
“scree” a rubble of stones at the bottom of a cliff
“That demon lay hobbled”… this is a reference to the great fortress built by the Taira, ‘furrowed into a mountain and surrounded by sea’ which, in spite a violent storm, lit up like a bonfire after the young general Yoshitsune rained flaming arrows onto the fine woodwork of its rooves, ramparts etc. etc.
the final stanza refers to the great Minamato general, Yoshitsune, who, having been the brilliant strategist behind the Minamato victory, was then condemned by his elder brother, Yoshitomo, who became Shogun –
to death. Yoshitsune fled with his family, ( he had taken a Taira noble as a wife, hence the decree from the Shogun ) and seeing no chance of escape, murdered his entire family, before committing hare-kiri himself. All this before the age of thirty.
What a history poem, Dimitar…and your explanations as a crown to it…beautiful ! thank you for sharing !
Dimitar, as I told you, you have a great talent, your poetry will be better and better.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, my brother. And thanks for the support. What interests me is what happens when human beings are pushed to extremes; the idea that a human being is like an iceberg, only the tip of which we are aware of, and that this great unformed potential lies hidden away within all of us. We’ve lost that vitality, instead of tigers we’ve become ‘Garfields’, an idea promoted by those who benefit from us being and staying ‘sheeple’. This includes subtle but powerful imputations such as those by author John Newton, ( he wrote the words to ‘Amazing Grace’ ), speaking of “a poor wretch like me…” Anything that promotes “helplessness”, “wretchedness” of human beings is of the negative force and does not reflect the true nature of Soul.
Re: the author of Amazing Grace—/Ahhh, he is humbling himself to ask forgiveness for his great crimes against humanity ( he was a slaver) “Lord I am not worthy but just say the word and I shall be healed”
It is An appeal for grace. And it touches on a theme I have delved into before which is the spiritual impetus of remorse versus the nagging ache of a sense of guilt.
The soul does not make it without ithe ego’s annihilation … whatever spiritual technology is utilised .eg realisation of nothingness or extreme sense of humility.
What is humbled is the ego, (and only the ego, not the whole person) which cannot be annihilated anyway and it is, ultimately, extremely foolish to try to do that.
Humbling of the ego, something that cannot be done except by oneself, (i.e. no-one can bully you into it if it is to be a genuine change) is just putting ego in its rightful place, in service to something greater than itself.
If you, or whoever is feeding you b.s. try to coerce or annihilate the ego by force, you just drive yourself mad.
So tread carefully and beware of b.s.
All one needs is a personality which one realises Is coherent but not inherent
.Before you do blithely call b.s. about the realisation of emptiness, I’d suggest you try it or at least speak to those who perhaps have experienced it for however brief a moment. Ah but since you have already pooh poohed The terms of this discussion it is not likely that you will do so. Pity.
30+ years do you?
And why are you so touchy on the subject, I wonder?
What does ‘realise’ mean, anyway, if we are going to discuss the parameters of the discussion (!!)?
You cannot annihilate the ego, but you are welcome to keep trying if you refuse to recognise obvious b.s. At your own peril, of course.
Trungpa was a charlatan of the highest order but he did know his stuff and get it right on one point, his warnings against spiritual arrogance and hutzpa, something that he couldn’t resist and which did for him in the end anyway.
As they say, everyone goes their own way to hell.
Here you go, Trungpa calls it ‘spiritual materialism’ and its worth reading, about how special people with attainments and visions are (not) and how to deal with it—- the specialness, that is, IIRC.
Pity he didn’t take more of his own good advice:
https://www.shambhala.com/cutting-through-spiritual-materialism-458.html
Just ordinary human beings here.
I agree with you on ‘Amazing Grace’ BTW, teranam13. Dropkick Murphys do my favourite version–well they would, wouldn’t they–but this is just as good, squaddies with pipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AeV8Jbx6M
Kali yuga, is currently about 4,000 years old, calculating from the descriptions in the original sanskrit. How can one observer, however long-lived, possibly make such a designation without living through and comparing it with the previous, supposedly better behaved yugas, also supposedly lasting similar aeons?
We are in the territory of metaphor here, with yuga being just an unspecified long time. If it is metaphor it is a picture, an image in your head, not to be taken too literally as reality. Metaphors are easily replaced and swapped about, at least a lot more easily than reality is. Reality is what remains after you figure this out, which is figuring out how your brain works and how it doesn’t.
For me everything is metaphor because I can’t think any other way. I have no idea how others manage to think or if they do.
I quoted that line – not to judge the author’s intent or the place it had in his narrative – but to describe a prevalent state of consciousness esp. in Christian or Western circles of man as hopeless sinner. If we go by that tack ; “Lord, I am not worthy…” ( the ego petitioning God ) then when is soul ever worthy? So I’m speaking about two different sate of consciousnesses, the ego or mind, and soul. Two different states of consciousness and two different experiences entirely.
Man isn’t a hopeless sinner, man is generally kept in ignorance either by his own qualities of pride, hubris, greed etc etc, or by whoever is supposed to be teaching him differently. The reasons can be reliance on faulty ideas of what is in ancient texts, a death-grip on fixed ideas of what it ‘should’ be, or it can be in order to keep control over the ‘hopeless sinner’, because of the teacher’s own ignorance or unchanged qualities.
There is in fact only one ‘state’ of consciousness, it is the ignorant mind that divides it and then labels each ‘state’ differently. So there is only one consciousness, our job is to align our little source to the much larger source. Easy to write or talk about, of course.
Logically, this makes no sense, but that is one of the obstacles, relying on logical thinking, which never produces a result in this sphere.
You essentially have to get out of your own way and it will naturally start to happen. The potential is there in everyone and always was, ‘hopeless sinner’ or not.
Once, someone (I don’t know who) said : “think with your heart and feel with your mind”. In other words, let your heart be the first who make the judgement. That sounds funny but things are getting complicated when different situations occur in our life, sometimes there is a constraint, the ego must comply to the soul, a no way out situation in your particular life or – as we talked earlier – in a general, more complex constraint such as war. Interesting how people react totally different in life-changing, highly stressful, life-threatening circumstances, when the action and reaction time is short and decisive. Such constraints are very dense in a given time and space, as if one minute is like a day, a day like a year.Time is losing its real meaning, soul and mind is pushed to the limits, ready to jump in the unknown, though eager to stay yet another day if possible. In such situation, mind-ego and soul-spirit are very close to a common ground, they want to survive, each for their own purpose and scope, the catch 22.
As an artist Dimitar, you might enjoy this. Then again you might not—- but I found it intriguing enough to mark a date for a visit in my diary.
One of my many personal internal wrangles has to do with technology and how it resolves itself with living things. I don’t expect an answer but I do like to gnaw on the bone of the question, hence the planned visit to look at work that someone else has done on that subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enx-vyWn7UU
Now here adding to our mundane, conscious elaborations, the unconscious weekly weather for the
greater man, living underneath our collecive consciousness, signifying the unconscious
numinose powers in us on their weekly way.
This to know, to me is man’s honor.
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/01/awsome-mixture-in-capricorn.html
Low Hanging Fruit:Easy Pickings
Since Eastern Prelate’s bold revelation
Heaven has been in high excitation
The angels are all a flutter
Satan smiling as he mutters
“Indeed social media obsession
Leading to societal regression
Heart from head it severs
Bringing forth the nutters
Making it easy endeavour
A soul in sin to shutter “
Besides to me it’s all moot
Those who’d take selfies
At Golgotha
Are low hanging fruit
Easy pickings this dim generation West
The Orthodox East is the challenge to best
east or west, they deal with it
being dumber and less wit
(thank you teranam for sharing !)
To Ioan. Hi Happy New Year!
Poor ol’ Satan. Sometimes he just breaks his teeth on those nuts that are just too hard to crack .
Satan’s teeth crack through all nuts with ease, black, and pointy, they are made of magnesium alloy.
Happy New Year, and great poems altogether, thank you !
Ras
walnut shells stuck to molasses
a smile that hisses, exuding gasses
a pill or two to sate the masses?
that one is here behind dark glasses!
where have you been my ancient friend?
this heart’s torment knows no end
you have the time, the time to spend?
I have the secret, all ills to mend
the price is simple, the price is cheap
your desires fulfilled, thy soul I’ll keep,
its an honour to be caught in my daily sweep
just look at those hopefuls in that heap
when all is forgotten life becomes fun
one more underling wandering stunned
my net of fear most finely spun –
my love operates one to one
so there you have it, my infamous clout
well before noon, and I’ve won the bout
and if one or two should make it out
why should I care, why should I pout?
etc.
Once in a while, there comes down the line something that is indeed astonishing but at the same time, does wonders to put things in perspective and allows one to sit back and try to control hysterical laughter: this is one of those “somethings”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/08/democrat-rebuttal-pelosi-and-schumer-appeal-for-destruction-of-a-borderless-nation/
Rules which the dimo politicos live by:
Rule #1: try not to look creepy as hell…(I won’t single out the dimos
Rule #2: try not to appear evil in disposition…
IMHO, it does not seem to be working very well-even with lapdog press, a lot of these people appear creepy as hell, not only the two pictured.
Forgot to add:
I think the cat nails it for me!
Good poems, relaxed atmosphere in the New Year.
But psychopathic criminals feel the walls closing in and are sharpening their evil wits and Nazi Icepicks for “Democracy’s” Last Stand Against……Dictator.Putin!
Red Pilled Sister sent me this brazen Frontline documentary psycho-profiling job on Putin and Russians with little emotion or outrage:
“…creation and dissemination of a rather smooth anti-Putin narrative… quite plausible to ready minds..?? interspersed with a ‘truth’ or two.. neatly set forth as sadly mistaken by Putin but clearly understood by right minded people… ? ”
She makes it sound mild, almost palatable.
However, if you are anywhere near so comfortable and cozy ..I predict .it will snap you out of that lax, defenseless mood pretty f-ing fast:
https://youtu.be/b1HWNcLDK88 The Putin Files: Julia Ioffe
And get your blood boiling!
Psycho-profiling of those her masters are determined to kil, starting with the President of Russia…of whom she says on several occasions….”……….If he lives that long….”
It’s long and I haven’t finished it yet, but this CIA “Sochi Olympics Reporter” may have made a mistake by these minutes of also satanically profiling Russian women and their appreciation of any sort of masculinity not approved of by the Empire:
“He (Putin) is a man about to turn 65. Over 60% of Russian men do not live past 60.”, Julia, smiles, glowing with satisfaction.
“They often succumb to disease, to alcoholism, to violence.And here is a man who doesn’t drink, who is athletic, who leads a healthy lifestyle which is a big propaganda point of his.”, she notes.
“He is manly. He is virile. And it’s not coincidental that Putin’s strongest, most ardent supporters are Russian women over the age of 55, women who are on a pension, whose mates have either dropped off somewhere along the way, because they are unreliable, alcoholic, couldn’t provide for their families, or, because they have succumbed to disease….” this CIA sorceress…virtually wills it…in reptilian fashion.
“So he is the man in their life that they never actually had in their life.”, this dyke projects, “and it’s a very potent symbol. (CIA Dark Masonic Sorceresses are BIG into symbols,,,LOL. )
She reminds me of that Alaska fisherman’s expression when it was so cold that flying salt spray would instantly freeze when it hit the pilot house or crab pots building up to several inches thick ice within a fraction of an hour:
“Man, It (she) was colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra, in a snowbank, in February!!”
Hoo, with tongue in cheek, I will see your vile Julia Ioffe and raise you Molly McKew !
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/molly-mckew/
(Very very long transcript which basically regurtitates the standard neo con bilge on the Putin era to date; as a reminder, she was an advisor to Saakashvili after the debacle in Georgia in 2008)
Neo cons never ever are concerned with the facts, but mckew comes out with more embellishment than I have seen on MH-17 at the end of the transcript.
BTW, mckew has just been hired as a lecture at Georgetown University, which in my mind has become somewhat of a vipers nest for anti-trump, anti-putin radicals: (I know, they just hired who now????)
https://www.rt.com/usa/448609-molly-mckew-georgetown-russophobia/
(Comments are interesting: flat-earther, etc)
Skynet takes command . . . of the drone army — created in total secrecy, by the evil emperor palpatine.
Disbanding and dismembering the empire; selling it out, as Unz describes the sale of nuclear secrets by the clinton-gang, for every last penny; indebting the empire to ‘bankers’, purposely and willfully. ‘Bankers’ own the empire! ‘Bankers’ own the collateral livestock too! This blog has made it a vying point amongst the readers, to see who can most belittle the aircraft-carrier force-projection military model (and all the accompanying claptrap) — but without any discussion about the alternative model. Not the counter-forces of Russia, China; but the alternative military model to the aircraft carrier force-projection. Of course this is frankly make-believe at best, as no such thing exists, . . . or does it?
The empire is owned by an unknown banker entity. Presently, the empire, by some, or all appearances, may act with self-volition . . . but in the future, it will not, and can not — because, it has sold this right! The money was taken by grubby fingers (maybe even the same grubby fingers that now own it?) the fact is settled, what remains is the aftermath and the fallout. And the drone army of the future.
Autonomous vehicles. Reality, or not? What are the hold-ups, or what have they been? Not technology; the ‘tech’ was in place, sitting in the consumers’ pocket, ten years running . . . not technology, but bandwidth. Bandwidth in terms of industrial capacity, global infrastructure, social pre-conditioning (not that kind either — but, that too, no doubt), the communication bandwidth and computing capacity infrastructure just was not there. But, it has arrived. To whom is due the credit . . . yes, you and I; we ourselves have ‘got it done’. Bitcoin. The new ‘dawn’ of the One World Currency, has revolutionized, not just the future of money, but autonomous robots. By creating the cheap and abundant glut of processing machines, everywhere, for everyone . . . Everyone in need of an army of battle bots. No, the bandwidth was lacking, it has now been fulfilled — autonomy is born at last.
A small crypto update – as I’ve only looked at a few top coins.
This news is out, but I don’t know if it is for real yet – we will have to wait for a formal announcement of some kind.
Russia plans to buy bitcoin as a hedge
“US sanctions may be mitigated only through Bitcoin use. Because of US sanctions, Russia’s elite is forced to dump US assets and US dollars and invest hugely into Bitcoins. The central bank of Russia sits on $466 billion of reserves and has to diversify in case there are limited opportunities to do it (in the future).”
https://bitcoinist.com/russia-ditch-usd-bitcoin-prof/
And this is a discussion on what is really happening in Russia
https://news.bitcoin.com/russias-vtb-banks-ceo-very-very-dangerous-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies/
I cannot personally verify if this is true. Do we have a French Vest here? Can we get verification on this statement?
You can now purchase Bitcoins for cash in french newsstands: 6,000 newsstands soon.
There is a steady stream of announcements of crypto being accepted for tax payments – this is across the world that these come in from.
Across the crypto sphere – the biggest problem now is that some of the early Bitcoin businesses are running very hard into legislative problems. Some countries are worse than others. Here is a nice sweet article about one of the first gunslingers, Erik Voorhees who runs a crypto exchange – Shapeshift. This will be followed by a explanation of what those legislative problems are.
So, we have more or less 2 types of exchanges. The first is one that complies with all the banking regulations in their jurisdiction and one can buy or sell cryptos for and with fiat cash. These are basically like Coinbase in the US.
The second type of exchange is peer to peer, where one does not need the banking regulations but one can add crypto and tokens to an exchange and then exchange or buy another crypto or tokens. Peer to peer, person to person with no banking rules and regulations and no accounts. There are many of these and a few in basically every country. To use this, one has to look into an exchange in depth, to see if it is reliable – and believe me, if not, twitter, reddit and others just simply blow up against that exchange.
So, this article on Erik Voorhees gives a good representation of how a crypto business grew up during the past ten years and the legislative barriers, even using a peer to peer exchange. Yes, I know it is Forbes but it is an accurate representation. Note the heading .. Bitcoin’s last gunslinger. I have news for them, there are many more gunslingers out there.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/01/03/bitcoins-last-gunslinger/#117e7f8a40bb
Here are those legislative barriers in reality:
This is one of the first types of exchanges mentioned, where you can onramp into cryptos with fiat cash, and then offramp into fiat cash, registering and complying with all financial rules across the world – The exchange is Kraken and this is not a recommendation as I’ve never used them so, don’t know. Kraken explains how the legislative barrier has become almost unmanageable. These exchanges are being killed with secret subpoenas for financial information of users. It is worthwhile to take a peek where these subpoenas are coming from. People that follow the crypto sphere will remember that during 2017, where the new phenomenon of a ICO (Initial Coin Offering) sprung out in our landscape and opened it up to small investors where one could invest directly in what you believed in, strictly for your own account. Many of those new fledgling businesses prohibited participation in an ICO from US citizens. Of course the US crypto enthusiasts were furious – how dare they be excluded! But that decision was prescient. Here is why.
Kraken Exchange
Verified account @krakenfx
Peek at our Compliance team’s 2018 Transparency Report. You can see why many businesses choose to block US users. Cost of handling subpoenas (regardless of licenses) is quickly becoming a barrier to entry. Inquiries up 3x YoY.
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Crypto is here to stay. It is not ‘the devil’s currency’ and neither is it ‘the currency of the dark overlords’. One has to be careful which crypto you choose to work with.
There are 2 reasons to use cryptos:
– one is that you are an enthusiast and you want to put a ding into world banking control of humanity, and the other is pragmatic
– where it makes economic sense to use a crypto instead of a fiat currency.
Oh dear………… I’m behind on two announced mini-essays and also AWOL from the crypto-sphere assignment.
Been too involved with brick and mortar…principally 2 new kitchens…………..
But I do have the time to say that I have used Kraken Exchange.
It’s for you Europeans to convert your Euros into Bitcoin or Ether and then diversify into other projects. BTC and ETH are like the reserve currency cryptos.
But a non-European like myself found my way to Kraken because at various times various crypto exchanges used most often (Binance I like the most…Bittrex second most) may not offer a crypto at all …….at the time of one’s interest in it.
In such a case the “coin” I was interested in was not offered on Binance, Bittrex OR the Asian ones (Binance is a Taiwanese IT whiz from Vancouver who has set up shop in Malta…rumor has it….) Kucoin or Huobi…but on Kraken….and then (as with all these exchanges, you don’t need dollars or Euros or any fiat……..once you have Bitcoin or Ether.……….as every other crypto that I ever heard of is traded into with either BTC or ETH…..minimally
But if you are European and just starting without any BTC or ETH….Kraken is for you and your Euros as the Entry Into The Cryptoverse!
You just send some of those to Kraken’s account # assigned to you (Acct ID, password and 2FA (two factor authentication) are the hurdles you have to endure….but will appreciate! If you are going to be your own banker and cut out the Rothschilds, you need to learn how to use the vault keys. Public for receiving………. Private or Secret for getting in and sending out…..
AND, before you get any crypto even to play around and learn, you need to know what your long-term storage or “wallet” of choice will be: Hard Wallet (encrypted private key inside a small device fitting in the palm of your hand….Ledger or Trezor the two best known…which you can’t even access…see….let alone a hacker…SO most secure…to Android or I-Phone Wallets to Desktop Wallets…………all recoverable if a phone gets lost or computer gets stolen ….with a random unique 12 or 24 word “seed” …that can recover or regrow the temporarily lost account.
Stored under lock and key or safely hidden. Nothing of private key ever on any file or email in your computer while online.
For starters. Meanwhile everything evolves. evidently Zcash and Litecoin are taking up some of the exchange work previously reserved only for BTC and ETH….at least on Gemini..the exchange created by the twins that sued Zuckerberg for stealing their social media idea…..
Gemini is safer than your FDIC “insured” fiat dollar account, according to my business partner. But many exchanges are suspected by the purists who will deride you as a fool for leaving your crypto currency on ANY exchange:
“If you are not in sole possession of your private key….you don’t own it…THEY do! They may owe it to you, (like your regular bank…your deposits are THEIR money to lend…not your money!) but they OWN it if the private key is theirs and not yours.”
The lull and capitulation of the short attention spanned masses is not likely to last all of 2019.
The time to learn on the cheap is now….as long as the lull lasts.
Even if one is against the digital currency concept (you already have it…just not under your won control…with credit and debit cards etc) , after reading Unsafe At Any Speed……….. one should go to a car dealership and take a spin in a Corvair. That way you can speak with the authority of a Ralph Nader……instead of just spouting off with ignorant prejudice…..without getting rear-ended, of course. That would be learning the TOO hard way…….
There. I was settling in to too mellow of a mood.
Needed a little crypto-rant opportunity. LOL.
Thanks!
Here is a short film clip I found on Unz today,while reading Fred who is in /sarc mode, I think. The clip made me happy anyway before being on my way to my busy day:
http://www.unz.com/video/presstv_thirty-legendary-t-34-tanks-returned-to-russia-by-laos/
And a little something from the Pogues, no naughty words, about refugees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27iJsZpQn3A
I too saw the bit about the T34’s
I looked into this machine a bit,,,and as an old engine guy, I must say that the engine is absolutely beautiful.
Of old clips…who remembers Tet?
Radio Moscow from 1968 https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/2i3k6b80959ilkwz45s0v7s2uhe54k
Reporting on Tet…@ about 3 minutes in…1968…that’s about the time I told “them” to get somebody else…
It’s a nice thing to realize that we’ve been at the edge so long and have yet to fall into the abyss…
Enjoy.
I remember Tet. As non combatants, Britain got nightly news reports and film footage, one-sided, of course but there were also at that time plenty of reporters giving the other side an almost sympathetic hearing too.
The counter insurgency strategy used in Vietnam, Phoenix programme, etc, was a direct lift from what the Brits had invented and practiced in Malaya prior to Independence and the formation of Malaysia which then included Singapore. My father was posted to HMS Terror, the aptly named naval base in Singapore to facilitate the withdrawal of Empire, which was why I was at school there and got completely bowled over by all things eastern, and particularly impressed by sinology, the Chinese way of looking at the world.
I remember TET. I was on Okinawa during TET. I was wounded in March of 67′ while with the Army 25th Infantry Division out of Cu Chi about 20 miles NW of Saigon. After a couple of months in an Army hospital I was re-assigned in June 67′ to the 2nd Log (logistics) Command on Okinawa till March 68. My ammo dump sent many tons of artillery shells by sea and air to Nam during TET. The dirty little secret at the time was that the facility I was at also sent artillery nukes. I did not have clearance to enter the “dump” facility proper but my friends who did dropped strong hints of what was there. It then made sense as to why our facility was remote and the company headquarters, which I did frequent to pull CQ duty, was far underground with huge blast door entrances. Just recently I ran across some declassified reports that High Command was pressing Prez Johnson for permission to use the nukes. Our small 300 man company and big dump was right next door to the larger Marine Camp Schwab
and Henoko Village where the controversial new air facility is being built on filled in lagoon. I snorkled those beautiful waters. I understand the many reasons why the Okinawans are so against the new facility.
I escaped that war with my life. That was my immediate “abyss”. Yes, the LARGER one still looms. My gut tells me that Putin, Xi, and yes, Trump are together in the struggle against the real enemy of mankind, the cabal, moneychangers, satanists, whatever label you want to give it. It’s real. Always follow the money.
I hope that your wounds do not still give you too much pain, Steve.
And yes, it is still all about the money, keeping the world a safe place for the United Fruit Co, as General Butler said so long ago.
The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4
Here, now, on cusp of econ-o-crash 2.0…. Taking a look down the dark hall to 2008 when econcom-con became fubar’d as eco-o-crash 1.0 I recommend this old essay (which maybe I pretty much wrote in draft for old Bill, a bit, as he was kind enough to say to me)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/will-the-pentagon-be-the-next-u-s-institution-to-crash/
excerpt:
“… a system cut free from the opposition that kept it honest passes into hubris, otherwise known as irrational exuberance, and after hubris comes the fall.”
Without strong constraints agreements fail…something Herodotus points out in his Histories…well, without the USSR the US went bananas…and here we are.
“econcom-con”? “economic control con-job”…. lifted from Seven Days in May…a good movie yet.
movie > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o3lNlJRmtY
Bill Pfaff? RIP Bill. Good man. He’s gone now.
Enjoy!
Federal News Agency
“We lost everything”: the former Ukrainian minister told how European standards led to a collapse
in trade in the country
Author: Aliya Sadykova
Kiev, January 11, 2019. Because of its desire to join the European Union and break ties with Russia,
Ukraine has lost a number of sectors of the economy and production, said former foreign minister
Leonid Kozhara.
According to him, the foreign trade balance of Ukraine for five years has decreased by almost half.
According to the “Politnavigator”, in recent years, Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
He recalled that Kiev for several years doing everything to meet European standards for accession
to the European Union.
At the same time, the change of standards, for example in trade, led to its collapse. The politician
cited the example of 2013, when the volume of Ukraine’s foreign trade reached $ 160 billion.
“According to the results of last year, it would be good if we closed down 100 billion … Those sectors
that were promising would turn into unpromising. Where Ukraine created tens and hundreds of
thousands of jobs, we lost everything, ”Kozhara stressed.
He clarified that, above all, the chemical industry suffered losses.
Recall, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Viktor Bondar told why the European Union had deceived Ukraine.
“Europe fooled us through economic agreements. They gave us quotas for the supply of our goods
to Europe, which Ukraine chooses for the first two or three months every year, ”explained the deputy
of the Verkhovna Rada.
According to Bondar, in this way, the European Union intentionally restricts exports from Ukraine, which ultimately leads to the fact that no competitive industry is created in the country.
“They do not give us the opportunity to create high-tech industries that would really compete with their engineering, with their production of helicopters, locomotives, and so on,” stated the parliamentarian.
However, this is not all the consequences of a big “European deception” of Ukraine, the deputy believes: Brussels is forcing Kiev authorities to buy their high-tech goods.
Ukraine signed an association and free trade agreement with the European Union in the summer
of 2014. In the same year, the political part of the agreements began to operate partially on a
preliminary basis.
(Google translation)
https://riafan.ru/1139920-my-poteryali-vse-byvshii-ukrainskii-ministr-rasskazal-kak-evropeiskie-standarty-priveli-k-obvalu-torgovli-v-strane?utm_source=push-notification&utm_medium=push-world&utm_campaign=push
Thanks much for this, Azorka1861!
The tragedy is that the average person on the street is barely surviving, babuska’s freezing in unheated apts, young people bailing for europe for what ever is possible there, or Mother Russia, always standing by and wondering just how stupid people can get to fall for the lies, the corruption, foisted upon kiev by the likes of the kagan war family, the mccain psychopaths, the volker lap dogs, etc, etc.
Meanwhile, the oligarchs continue with their looting!
Now comes the pomp ass swagger diplomacy and whatever evil and destabilization that will bring-for the mean time, he seems to be preoccupied with putting together an arab nato (hilarity) or worse yet his “force for good” with all of that imcompetence, meddling, arrogance, that goes with that. I would expect Kiev’s time for pomp ass’ tender mercies and meddling is coming!
I do get some understanding from Larison’s blog posts on American Conservative on bolton, pomp ass, et al=scathing!
Btw, maybe hoping against hope that we will not see bolton re-try his hand any time soon at “diplomacy in mid east” (read nitenyahoo errand boy kicked out on his ass and humiliated by the turks).
I guess the message there is do not f___ with the turks in their back yard!
Voltaire often says things interesting and there’s not always a translation…the headers often do lead to one, but not always…
Hence, from French >
“United States owns nearly 1,000 F-16s, which are also operated in 25 other states around the world. Although it is planned to produce 300 F-35s over the next 10 to 15 years, during a future war, the US air fleet will be based on the F-16s. This is why Russia has organized itself to have a large number of aircraft with similar performances. The one that was chosen to adapt to the F-16 standard is remarkable and demonstrates the professionalism of the Russian technicians.”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204702.html
Ru gunna eat Yankee lunch? If there’s a buffet…maybe so.
I did notice that the US has stopped the Israeli sale to the Croats of this airplane, so maybe they’re on to the game and want ’em back for spares…
Obsolete, but geewhiz I’d like a ride!
I’ve just been reading about Migs in Mig Alley during the Korean war, and the subsequent space race which was the next step in the duel between the two superpowers of the day. I’d take a ride in one of those, if only!
It is one of those little “public secrets” that the US bombed Soviet airbase and destroyed fighter planes belonging to Soviet AF during KW… I F Stone;s book on KW tells much – including that there was no “surprise attack” by the North…rather the North counter-attacked – and within the halls of power this was precisely the desired result of numerous provocations…I mean even soy-bean futures market knew the war was being “curated”…and Stone has an eye witness who was with MacArthur in Japan when the news burst in that “the South has invaded the North!” The North then did what they thought best…and fell for the trap, sort of.
At this point it seems as though it is the hunter that has fallen into the trap…
I recall the aircraft destroyed were “aircobras” – some of the best V12 powered mid-engine prop fighters delivered to SU under lend-lease. Obsolete, but fast and dangerous airplanes.
The Soviet airfield was in Siberia USSR, not anywhere in Korea, though not very far from the border.
It’s assumed that some Soviet personnel died in this attack, which is pretty much erased from canonical history. I do not imagine that the Russians have forgotten…
There was an airstrip…where in 1950 the US very nearly had an atomic explosion…
from the ‘net: “Travis is the home of the largest airlift organization in the Air Force, it began as an isolated airstrip with a few tar paper shacks set in the middle of a wind-swept prairie during World War II. Activated on 11 May 1943, the field was named Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base, after the two closest–mostly agricultural–towns. Planned shortly after Pearl Harbor, the base served as home for medium bombers and fighters assigned to defend the West Coast. The first runway and temporary buildings were constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the summer of 1942. They were used initially by army and navy fighter planes for takeoff and landing practice. For a few months, the outline of an aircraft carrier’s deck was painted on the runway to help newly-commissioned navy pilots practice maneuvers. The strong local prevailing winds nearly duplicated those at sea….named in honor of Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed in a B-29 crash at the installation on 5 August 1950…”
What’s not said is that the B-29 had a gadget in the bomb-bay and was loaded with fuel for the trip to Korea…the gadget did not detonate…otherwise… B-29 were liable to fire and engine failure on take-off especially – and burn nicely, Mg and Al being highly combustible metals, not to mention all the gaso.
Hunter and hunted, are you telling me that there is no difference between the two, parrhesiastes? ;)
I had heard about the extra fuel tank installed in some bomb bays for long haul trips but they were eventually scrapped due to their weight disadvantage and flammability risks.
I had not thought about the idea that there is no difference. Upon consideration I think there’s some truth in your question…at least “hunting” has “unintended and unforeseeable outcomes”. This the specific, but the general principle is violence has undesirable secondary aftereffects.
I guess it depends on why you’re hunting and what “quarry”.
In the case of men hunting men, yes indeed, two can play. Generally the self-aware quarry hunts the hunter. This works with wolves and bears and so on, and men…
Once, a lifetime ago, I had to hunt a lion in oak canopy forest…I took my dog…he hunted while I watched our backs and the trees with my eye and rifle. I was pretty nervous… We were losing livestock to the lion, and he could (did) take a goat (several) and clear an 8 foot fence… I did get 1/2 of my goat back, but the lion lived on.
In the matter of Korea, the US has got a pied a terre in Asia – but at the cost of abandoning the very Law that supports the US’s existence. Korean occupation nearly went nuke, and may yet…
I was watching Warner/Pathe news reels from those days, and General Ridgeway lying to Congress about germ and chemical warfare – he was denying that the US used such things, and he was lying to Congress about it. This is an example of the hunter becoming entangled in his own net. Similarly General Marshall lying to Congress about Korea and Pearl Harbor and on and on… Warner Pathe on YT…
The B29’s had to refuel at least once on the way from ‘Frisco Bay to Korea unless they were stripped down and loaded with extra tanks… Everybody was lucky the gadget didn’t detonate at Suisun – but there was a radio-active mess to clean up.
I have thought about how Truman would have reacted if an atom bomb had gone off there. Would there have been a political way to avoid blaming the commies, an “counter-attacking”?
I once took my two dogs for a walk in a small safari park close to where I was living at the time. They showed complete disdain and disinterest in all the animals, no fear at all which was their normal demeanour.
However they both began to get nervous around where the big raptors– eagles, vultures, buzzards etc, were perched on posts in the open. As we passed a pen with a wolf pack, a skinny and small bunch of specimens, both dogs showed fear for the first time ever.
First and last time for that particular walking path, for all of us.
There were lions and tigers there too, but while the tigers were healthy and fit in captivity, the lions were lethargic and mangy, obviously feeling it.
White Helmet Chew: How to rehabilitate a ‘head chopper’? Janitorial jobs, while not flashy, can provide the basics of a comfortable life. The best ‘janitor’ jobs are usualy government positions, decent wage, pension, good benefits (kids get braces, dental work and eye care, not flashy, but decent). But to get those janitor jobs, mainly in school divisions, one needs a Power Engineer Certificate first. To get that you need schooling, and hours on a job somehwere. Part of my job is training new engineers, while they go to school. So the new hire tells me that he has Syrians in his class. But, oddly, while they don’t have an ‘Engineers’ ticket, they are working as janitors in a local school division. Hmmm………..I asked him how long have they been in Canada, he says, ‘since October’, hmmm……quick google search and there’s Canada, back in October, repatriating our finest liver eaters with a hero’s welcome. So, there you have it. From chopping heads and feasting on the finest human entrails to cleaning the toilets for children.
I have a friend who is fond of saying, “Things are more like they used to be than ever before”. Operation “Paper Clip” brought hundreds if not thousands of German scientists and engineers to the US after WWII. I went to a Catholic Grade School 52′-60′ as I was born in 47′. Our janitor’s name was Hans Schumacher who had a heavy German accent. His children went there too. Other last names of my classmates were Schacht, Wolsiefer, Haas, etc. I never thought much about this until I learned about the Vatican being involved in these resettlements.
When I was a grunt in Nam I came to REALLY dislike “our” allies in the South Vietnam Army for their cowardice when operating independently and their brutality when we had their back. In a skirmish I captured two “VC” and gave them over to some ARVIN Rangers who brutally beat them and I was fended off by my officer when I tried to intervene. On another occasion my company surrounded a Hamlet and allowed these “Rangers” to enter. The blood curdling screams from the women and children made me want to go in and kill our “allies”. I managed to rescue a young boy who broke out in front of me in terror. There is a famous film clip of a South Vietnam General during TET in Saigon shooting a manacled “VC” in the head. He was brought to Washington DC after Saigon fell and set up in some bs business.
“White Helmets” in Canada? Oscar winners. I hope I live to see “the reckoning”.
This is a good article by a repected critic of the obscene defense spending and weapons program. Wheeler was on this F-35 debacle almost from the start, labeling it a flying swiss army knife (apologies to the makers and fans of the swiss army knife)!
One will need a very strong stomach t(and several cups of coffee) to work through this article upon which wheeler obviously has done a huge amount of work. In brief, wheeler says:
italic textIn past years, Congress has become notorious for adding dubious items we call “pork” to spending bills. That way, senators and House members can advertise themselves to their constituents as bringing home the bacon, while picking up a few campaign contributions from thankful contractors along the way…
In truth, both parties in Congress have simply swapped the pork system for a scheme that is even more venal and underhanded. They’ve circumvented their own rules and are putting even more pork in defense bills than before. They hypocritically proclaim that their bills are earmark-free, while simultaneously boasting about the pork to constituents. They deceptively pay for the hidden earmarks by raiding essential accounts for soldiers’ pay and military readiness, and they readily accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from the very contractors who received huge chunks of the billions of dollars that Congress added.
The new pork system is deceptive and complex. It took all of my 31 years of experience on Capitol Hill to fully unravel it, with the help of some excellent research from two outstanding watchdog groups, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/those-porky-pentagon-earmarks-never-really-went-away/
Finally got around to reading the full report, Taras 77, (that’s a good site, even to this socialist), and can only say that this kind of sleight of hand is all too familiar when tracking our own slippery politicos and their legalistic shenanigans with our tax money.
I once totted up, just for interests sake, how many of our dodgy politicians had trained as lawyers, it was an eye-opener.
Thanks, One Minion.
If you really want to get into the black humor of this swiss army knife, google for some articles by Charles pierce on Esquire politics-pierce has a scathing sense of humor and inserts the knife quite adeptly. At times, I will break down with laughter but I believe that ridicule, sarcasm, absurity is what is needed and may, just may, embarass these clowns.
(Use google or duck or other search engine-esquire’s search for pierce provides just a laundry list of his articles and not useful(spoiler alert, he is almost over the edge on trump/absurdities)
Nah, prob not but always looking for hope. It is commonly accepted that neo cons do not “suffer” from embarassment and I would say that their political bretheren are the same.
E.g. Pierce, after long discussion about f-35 issues, he pointed out that the pilot need not worry about breaking his neck on ejection (problem being studied at the time) if another problem being studied. lack of oxygen for pilot at high altitudes, was not solved. (I know, dry, but he inserts like a knife-just saying).
Best pocket knives on the planet, Taras 77, if you need that thingummy for taking stones out of horses hooves.
Best present my ex ever bought me, something that I wanted and needed for once, although I never owned or had much truck with a horse.
Tulsi 2020: Anti-war Democrat says she’s running for US president
https://www.rt.com/usa/448623-gabbard-tulsi-running-president/
While I admired her stance on Syria, the following gives serious reservations about whether the woman is genuine:
https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabbard-russia-must-face-consequences-continued-aggression-ukraine
Also leary of her views of Muslim people.
She is also an avowed disciple (from the cradle) of a self-styled guru who runs an outfit called ‘Science of Identity’, a leftover from the heady cult-utopia days of the 1970s, a breakaway group from the Hare Krishnas.
That doesn’t necessarily negate anything she says and does– but it does tell you who is manipulating the strings, a white Hawaiian godman, for his own purposes.
Why the Jews received the Ten Commandments
First the God went to the Arabs:
– Arabs, here’s my commandment.
– What is this?
– You shall not steal.
– This is not good, we are poor and need to live.
Then the God went to the Persians:
Persians, here’s my commandment.
What is this?
You shall not commit adultery.
This is not good, we do it.
Then the God went to the Jews:
– Jews, here’s my commandment.
– How much does this cost?
– It costs nothing.
– This is good, then give us ten.
Funny in so many different ways, thanks Azorka.
This came up on the machine learning thing that shuffles the music decks here, not my favourite version which is a much longer take, but apt nonetheless as plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
Alternative Mathematics | short film | English
You can change also the subtitles to English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw
A bit late for New Year but then the music to Rabbie Burns poem is always heartening to me, another moveable feast, and Burns Night is coming on the 25th of this month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to1xT93IlUI
Ein Blick, a snap-shot in Dissolution and Collapse…
Although WSWS is biased in their Logos, they are also a good source of the way the winds blow…so it is that today’s WSWS is not very pleasant…
These sad and sober tidings> the proles are not content
“…Trump at the Rubicon, The political significance of India’s two-day general strike, Trump’s “national emergency” threat and the danger of presidential dictatorship, US government workers call in sick, demand strike action against lockout and payless paydays…” all @ https://www.wsws.org/
and a specialty site that deals with biker club news in the land of freedom…also has news about freedom of association and speech… Of course they are attacking low-lying fruit, a class of not so bad and not so good young fellas, some of whom are actual criminals…and at least a few are pretty respectable, but the case-law is developing and the Constitution is the target…with political association on the bull’s eye…http://www.agingrebel.com/
Can we say “4th Reich” yet?
Actually it looks to me like a phase in collapse…I mean the Constitution is the only body of Law that defines the USA, so if it is liquidated…where’s the USA…”poof!” Gone… By definition
Jakiw Palij: Nazi guard deported by US dies in Germany
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46828006
Palij is believed to have been born in 1923, in an area of Poland that is now in Ukraine.
For 14 years US authorities could not persuade Germany, Ukraine or Poland to take him in.
But last year, it was announced the German position had changed.
A Former Nazi Guard Deported From The U.S. Has Died In Germany At 95, Reports Say | TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W_5EOEqzo
Nazi Guard : that guy was a German soldier, probably in one of the so-called Verfühgung Batallionen = Disposal battalions of the SS. They were used in rotation as guards and sometimes sent to the front line when there was a need. If he was of Polish origin, then he wasn’t a member of the party, so he was not a Nazi. The simple fact that somebody was a German soldier in the Wehrmacht doesn’t mean that all of them were party members by far. To be a member of that party, wasn’t so easy, even for a born German, any “false” behavior in your past made you inapt. The most people, as in the Communist countries, weren’t party members. Anyway, the status-quo in conceptions regarding that issue is still persistent.
Another stupidity is the habit of fishing old small fishes and putting them on a theatrical trial with big fanfare, while the bigger fishes were brought out safely by the OSS and had a good and silence life.
You know what this means ? – it means : “beware you little man, you, who are the latest on the pyramid, you, who actually had to do the dirty work on our order, you, who suffered the misery of war, we find you anywhere, be frightened as long as you live “.
Scientologists and advocates of Democracy are wrong: Consensus is neither Science nor Truth.
Agreement is not reality. The more that agree, and think they know it all, the more likely and deep the common delusion they suffer from.
Any argument otherwise is brainwashing and mind control.
For……… even the True Theorems of Rock Hard Arithmetic can never be completed!
And one of those true theorems proves it:
“Do you find this shocking and close to paradoxical? It was even more shocking to the mathematical world in 1931, when Godel unveiled his incompleteness theorem. Godel did not phrase his result in the language of computers. He worked in a definite logical system and mathematicians hoped that his result depended on the peculiarities of that system. But in the next decade or so, a number of mathematicians–including Stephen C. Kleene, Emil Post, J.B. Rosser and Alan Turing–showed that it did not.
Research on the consequences of this great theorem continues to this day.”
The above quote is an excerpt from: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-godels-theorem/
The 27 year old Czech demolished the Empire Mathematicians’ life’s work, with ironclad logic (their own language…which they DID understand) AND an artist’s soul and intuition.……which they entirely lacked and could never fathom….and their admirers….still resist. And so, the bodies of their mentally enslaved victims, the casualties of the Anti-Human Culture of Empire ….continue to pile up.
Does that leave the rest of us hopeless……….or is there hope in what Godel so artfully proved?
I was struck by a statement in a class on economics aired last Saturday on the internet ….thought about it all week……and I will try to find it before I have to leave this morning…..because in some way, I feel that some people are drawn here to this Cafe and Vineyard by a noble calling expressed in a statement by a famous artist and professor of Universal History that:
“the most perfect of all works of art” could only be “the establishment and structure of a true political freedom”.
Such a structure, IMHO is not only possible to build….but necessary for civilization to survive the present century intact, not only with the best art and science (They are related! Their strict division is an Empire Mind Enslavement Trick!) ) of Russia and the West, China and India….. intact …..but new political artistry and creativity anyone, ANY human being from any small country could also participate in….
I will search now for that statement I found so striking, even if it takes watching the entire class again.
I’ve always been waiting for Gödel.
I know he’s going to complete his theorem. I just know it. Logic tells me that we are rational and smart enough to encorporate all of reality into our maps of what really is. It just takes time. I’m still waiting.
Heavens, the #GiletsJaunes are tearing it up! I wonder if our Ramin Mazaheri is on one of the spots.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash
‘ProporNot ID Sevice’ is already claiming a Russian separatist is in charge of the GJ’s security:
‘PropOrNot ID Service @propornot · 17m17 minutes ago
The individual in charge of “security” for the #YellowVests/#giletsJaunes in France just happens to have spent time fighting for the Russian forces invading & occupying Ukraine.’
Mr P is probably supervising the filling up the Molotov cocktails as I write.
Beethoven’s 5th Symphony – shown with drawing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E5PpkJe7-Tm5k_l_uo59ld8G2aalSRXr/view
Great animation! Who is the author?
Here’s one one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMAKpxN8N0
The author is called DoodleChaos
Line Rider – Mountain King
Edvard Grieg – “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIz3klPET3o
Dance of the Line Riders
Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0jDUQ2aJ4
DoodleChaos – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVimh35ecf46P_Bt-2AArg
Holger Strohm ► Merkel promised in the Israeli Knesset to destroy Germany
Text on the video: New Year address to situation of the nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvhLMJhEtko
You can change the subtitles to English
Recall that Merkel was in Israel on the Day of German Unity instead of celebrating the festivities
in Germany. Was it allowed to be used as a sign of the demonstration of power on the national
holiday of the Germans to instruct her to further atrocities? (Catja)
‘Jewish Terror’: Settler attacks on Palestinians TRIPLED last year
https://www.rt.com/news/448660-settler-attacks-increase-palestinians/
“In what has been dubbed the ‘Jewish Terror’, settler attacks on Palestinians and their property tripled last year, with nearly 500 incidents reported ranging from racist graffiti, to assault, to the destruction of olive trees.
According to figures reported by Haaretz, there were 482 politically motivated crimes carried out by settlers in the West Bank last year, compared to 140 in 2017. It’s the highest number of incidents in four years.
#Israel#Palestine
Vandals torched a mosque before dawn on Friday in an apparent hate crime attack, at the entrance to the #Sa’ada Mosque in the northern West Bank village of #Aqraba, pic.twitter.com/h7jT7LWN37
— Warfare Analysis (Shahroz)™ (@NatsecPack) April 13, 2018
These attacks frequently include assaults and stone throwing. The most common episodes have seen racist, nationalistic, and anti-Muslim graffiti spray painted around Palestinian neighborhoods and on property, with about 540 vehicles damaged.
The attackers have also targeted olive trees and grapevines. Around 7,900 trees were destroyed or damaged in what is seen as a calculated attack on the livelihood of many Palestinians, who rely on the trees for their income.
Settlers often frame these incidents as “price tag” attacks, a form of retaliation for Palestinian violence and Israeli government policies they perceive as threatening their settlements. Some attacks are used as a form of intimidation in a bid to capture more Palestinian land.”
Dimitri Orlov and Saker’s brilliant ‘Placing US on the Collapse Continuum’ in musical form:
https://youtu.be/VPiBLyrxXeg
How hard it is, to be an Atheist. A real, perfect Athiest!— not that one can ever know; but dreaming, at various and sundry times, of a perfect Atheism— for one’s self and for the whole world together— it becomes plain how far-away this Hope must be. It’s farther than the Moon, than the Stars, farther than any thought can carry us.
This world is too greedy, it covets the Heart and Mind, and it does not let them go without a fight!— a fight to death! That fight we lose everytime, everywhere, everyhow.
This world is jealous, and it steals life away without letting us see how we were blinded— until too late!
Meaningless-minds float in mental fog, selfish-hearts toss and turn with a useless goal, and the tortured life ends like someone waking-up from a bad dream!
It is no-life worth living to be a slave to the idea that this world is true!— a slave to the idea that this world is all there is and worth giving everything to it.
Cruel cruel world, when will I reject you? And spit in your face!