2019/01/13 07:30:02
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I came to the Saker website in 2014 as the war broke out in Ukraine. I was trying to understand what was driving this. Peace was simply not an option. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand the policy apparitus behind the war, who was making these decisions, why, and why it was all done in secret.
Last week I came upon Col. Fletcher Proudy, a staff officer in the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson governments who was a key man in establishing the Post war national security state and served as the liaison officer between the army, Whitehouse and CIA. He tells everything you need to know about the nuts and bolts of the American Empire. Absolutely amazing 4 part interview that tells everything you need to know about how we got to where we are today. It’s long but profound in its insight and analysis. My main takeaway is that the empire does not drive events, it reacts to them, and that’s why it cannot formulate a coherent policy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwbqWWglElg
Good listening.
Fletcher Prouty.
What is driving it is U.S./NATO/western expansion to the east and against Russia. They want an anti-Russian Ukraine and to draw it totally into the western orbit. To do that they promote fascism in Ukraine to attack anyone who is not anti-Russian.
U.S. wants a one-world government and they want to control everything. They are always attacking a country if it doesn’t have a puppet government and is resisting U.S./internationalists’ desires.
That is what has been going on in Syria. They want Assad out and an obedient government installed and have been behind the entire war there too – siccing one terrorist group after another on them. And ISIL is a U.S. creation and got its start under U.S.-controlled Iraq, and U.S. didn’t interfere as it took over one barracks or weapons depot after another. ISIL/ISIS was used as an excuse for U.S. to directly intervene there. And it looks like the deep state is reeling back Trump’s wish to get out of Syria.
As related aids to understanding these two or three might also be useful
http://www.unz.com/jthompson/correlation-is-not-causation-but-its-the-way-to-bet/
William “Bill” Binney, former NSA technical director on how NSA track you. From the SHA2017 conference in Netherlands. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=uYg_0Imrnr4
Barbara Honegger’s analysis of the entire hoax and crime-set known as “9-11” with the names of the principal criminals is a public secret anybody can look up on YT, for a time.
From a Greek Hymn
MICHAEL. Prince of Angels !
Of Fire is formed thy being,
And wondrous is thy beauty.
Without the body’s sheath
Thou rangest o’er worldwide spaces,
Obeying thy Kings behest.
Mighty art thou in power !
A wellspring of living water
In the temple of man’s body
Rises at thy command
And showeth fort thy glory.
Mighty art thou, O MICHAEL !
Mighty Thou Art O Michael
Defender of the Human Spirit
Hear Our Prayer
Let Thy Power Restrain the Evil Ones
Cast Down their False Towers (5G)
Built to Deceive and Destroy GOD’S Peoples
Let the Glory of Thy Countenance Blaze
In Testimony to God’s Kingdom
Which Reigns for Eternity Knowing no End
Mighty Thou Art O MICHAEL!
Hear Our Prayer!
k
Welcome back kinterra, I missed you for long, Happy New Year !
Oh, Michael, Michael
The Power is your Well
You brought together ole good fella
Raskolnikov, lady kinterra
As in the old times,
Your name is praised in rhymes !
Greetings to you dear ioan- always a round of rhyme in time- spiraling out and in again- knowing no end.
k
I found this good article in the sidebar, written by a comedian, Lee Camp about a silver bullet. This is about actions, not endless discussion, and I am beginning to think that the comedians are the last outpost of our truthtellers left in the west. Carlin and Frankie Boyle come to mind, for US and UK examples and Dieudonne in Europe.
Its about conscientious objection, which we can all do and take action on now, without disturbing our normal lives too much.
Here’s a disclaimer: I still eat meat, in very small quantities, due to physical internal problems that cannot be supplemented otherwise, so I won’t be joining the abattoir boycott, but there is plenty more food for thought that just requires a minor lifestyle tweak that anyone can do.
Something for everyone in fact.
There are some laughs in it too, very important in our dismal world today:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-silver-bullet-to-stop-the-corporate-state-pillage/
Agree:
“and I am beginning to think that the comedians are the last outpost of our truthtellers left in the west.”
I also believe, that comedians being the last source of truthtellers, they are also best positioned to administer another tool: ridicule, absurity, hypocricy, etc, etc to our “leaders.” At this point, effectiveness is debatable, not sure whether many of our ‘leaders’ even read-moreover, absolutely sure that our prostituted press will not carry anything outside the narrative such as ridicule but it is worth considering.
A comedian could spend a week alone, with photos of course, on the results of pomp ass’ force for good with his latest pronouncements a good place to start.
I came across this video on USSR
Video: Iranian Leader’s shocking account of the USSR collapse:
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/5454/Video-Iranian-Leader-s-shocking-account-of-the-USSR-collapse
What is peoples opinion of it?
Previously @ Saker this http://www.gorby.ru/en/presscenter/news/show_28867/ was posted. /placing-the-usa-on-a-collapse-continuum-with-dmitry-orlov/#comment-602788
Stephan Cohen is an expert.
Your video is interesting. It does not seem to contradict Cohen’s view, but adds to it.
His view? Well, he never says “greed”
an excerpt>
(from a list) VII. But seventh (and finally), we need an additional explanation; Why did the top Soviet state (not party) nomenklatura permit Yeltsin to abolish its own state, which had given it so much power and privilege for so long?
The answer is. those elites, in Russia and in other republics, were already seizing the great wealth of the Soviet state. They were now motivated by a will to property ownership.
Sure, it is very hard to define a time for the beginning of the end of Soviet Union with certainty, in my view the roots are going back in time, but one of the first signs was the death of Leonid Brezsnyev in 1982. The next two leaders lived a very short time : Yuri Andropov (November 10 1982 till February 9 1984) followed by Konstantin Chernenko (February 9 1984 – March 10 1985) Gorbachev took power at March 10 1985 – December 26 1991. I remember very well because I had the opportunity to visit Soviet Union in late 1984, visiting Moscow , Leningrad and Kiev. When in Leningrad, sitting at the table in the hotel’s restaurant after a few drinks with our guide, asked him about the near future of the Soviet Union in general. He didn’t told a word, picked a match-box from the table and wrote a name on it : Gorbachev. I wanted to take that little box but a colleague was faster, then back in the room I read what was wrote on it. We never heard of that name before… the events succeeded in a fast tempo, them I learned that name in the radio.
Mr Cohen’s wording seems a little strange to me. True, the Soviet elite group had a privileged position in that society. However, as far as I know, they remained mere managers. They did not personally own the wealth and resources they controlled and managed. Thus their ability to “seize the wealth” depended on their position within the state structure. Since they did not own the “means of production” they were also not able, for example, to pass that privileged position on to children. Thus the difference between ownership and management is profound.
Perhaps they do seem “strange”. This and your questions may be because of an incorrect understanding of actual reality and fact. Perhaps S. F. C. is foolish or in some other way wrong. Perhaps. Contrariwise, it may be that he’s correct and any error lies elsewhere…
S F C @ http://www.gorby.ru/en/presscenter/news/show_28867/ was addressing a large group of experts when he expressed his idea about what happened and so on…I wonder if they thought his expressed thoughts “strange” or if they understood the Soviet Reality “as far as “they” knew”, differently…
Why not muster your questions and the underlying views and assumptions, and address the man himself?
He may be addressed via:
https://www.thenation.com/authors/stephen-f-cohen/
https://eastwestaccord.com/contact/
The guy’s not on Mars and the symposium Saker would, I am sure, be delighted to know his reply. One might invite S F C to write an essay on this matter for possible publication…perhaps Saker would publish it and expose the “strange”, or liquidate it.
Yes, ownership and management are often different. Management is work, ownership is rente income for which zero work is required. Of course most managers pretty much play golf while the secretaries do the management work for near slave wages…
Sometimes rente types pretend to be managers…as they line their pockets…
At 5:14 “Otherwise, the aids and support promised by the US would be cut.”
Why was Russia/USSR so dependent on and needy or wanting of U.S. aid and support that it would agree to U.S. declaring the Baltic states were now independent – just like that & with no negotiation or treaties for the minorities and new relations before it happened?
George Bush was a mean and uptight looking man.
Reading between the lines, I think that Gorbachev was knobbled or bought off in some way, compromised, at least, into surrendering to the US demands. I wouldn’t speculate further than that as the ways to do it are numerous. He did move to the US after the deed was done and stayed there.
I find it hard to believe that he was such a true believer in peace and brotherly love between nations, with the US such a glaring example of the opposite, that he just handed over his nation to their tender mercies. What was in it for him? Sainthood? He was a politician, after all.
Gorvachev was one of the recipients of the georgia guidestones handbook. Maybe he believed in the guidelenes and was trying to get them implemented?
I had only the vaguest notion of what the Georgia Guidestones are so looked it up on wiki. I don’t think that lets Gorbachev off the hook, at all, as he cannot have been that naïve, and at his age, to attain the position he did in the USSR.
‘Age of Reason’ sounds all very nice but I am reminded of Ghandi’s reply when asked what he thought of western civilisation, he said that he thought it would be a good idea.
When you think of how long it took us to get this far, Gorbachev cannot have believed that abject surrender to the US would miraculously lead to an ushering in of the Age of Reason, could he?
What was he smoking that day?
Here’s a short piece from the only MP (Member of Parliament) tabling questions to the government over the Integrity Initiative set-up that currently is or intends to meddle everywhere it sees a threat to the neocon way of doing business.
He, Chris Williamson MP, has yet to get any answers of substance but says he intends to keep plugging away at the questions:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chilling-manipulations-institute-statecraft-are-straight-out-cold-war-playbook
Rabbi of the Pure Hearts : Inside Lev Tahor – the fifth estate
Life in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Lev Tahor is supposed to be simple: the rules
for dress, diet, schooling, marriage and worship are clearly defined and closely followed. But
last November, in the middle of the night, about 200 members of the sect fled their homes in
Quebec to start a new community in Chatham, Ontario, amid allegations of child neglect. Now
the sect is fighting to keep more than a dozen children that a Quebec court ordered removed
from their families. Recently released search warrants show Quebec provincial police have been
investigating allegations of unlawful confinement and physical abuse of children within the sect,
as well as marriage of underage girls to much older men.
Their ongoing legal battles are raising an old dilemma: when does a group’s right to religious
freedom get trumped by society’s obligation to protect children? It’s also prompted a lot of
questions about life inside the secluded community – and the past of its charismatic leader,
Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The fifth estate’s team travelled from New York to Israel to investigate
his murky history, and host Gillian Findlay spoke to people with an intimate knowledge of his past.
With unprecedented access to the community in Chatham, including first-hand footage of a police
raid there and an extensive interview with Helbrans, ‘Rabbi of the Pure Hearts: Inside Lev Tahor’
reveals the challenges of life in the Jewish sect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnyx6pqb-zM
Hezbollah Head Nasrallah Suffers Heart Attack – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201901131071436839-nasrallah-heart-attack/
“Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been hospitalised after suffering a heart attack, the newspaper Israel Hayom reported, citing Lebanese journalist Jerry Mahar.
According to Mahar’s source, “a senior figure in the Hezbollah organisation was hospitalised” on Saturday in Beirut, while other sources confirmed that it was Nasrallah, adding that he “has been fighting cancer for years”.
Hezbollah has not commented on the reports and has not provided information on its secretary-general or his condition. Nasrallah has not been seen in public since November, when he criticised a possible ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.”
Article referenced to israeli sources, await reliable info. Hope he is OK and wish him all the best.
This has to be a sign of desperation:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/our-advisory-board/
https://www.newsguardtech.com/about/why-should-you-trust-us/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-11/new-narrative-control-firm-works-destroy-alternative-media
Deep State, Dark State, Neocons, The Borg, Mr Global, etc etc … Do we really know what we are talking about? Kevin Shipp, a CIA whistleblower and a man much attacked by his previous employer has done a series of videos explaining what fits where and who plays which role in the general zoo of the unelected powers. If you search on youtube, you will find more of this, but he did 4 shorter videos. I liked watching these, because it is now easy to fit players into roles. It is not exciting stuff, a little boring, but really educational. OK; always there is the question – what does he *not* talk about and in this case there is not much talk about the Zionists and organizations such as USAid or NED or those types. But then again, they don’t fit into a fairly neat block on an organizational chart. There may be some deeper details on his Patreon site. Kevin Shipp talks about The Shadow Government as the overarching beast, and then fits all the others in there. It is quite staggering.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGBT7-06gECLJus3o2SE3w/videos
The easiest place to start is with the 4 part series – Shadow Government Short
A friend brought me a book by Milan Kundera called Testaments Betrayed. I agreed to read it even if I was totally nonplussed by The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But, sometimes an author will just “nail it” for you even if his erudition and viewpoint might not always completely resonate with you. Here it is: ( in the essay, “the day that Panurge no longer makes people laugh”)
” I was raised an atheist and that suited me until the day when, in the darkest years of Communism, I saw Christians being bullied. On the instant, the provocative, zestful atheism of my early youth vanished like some juvenile brainlessness. I understood my believing friends and, carried away by solidarity and by emotion, I sometimes went along with them to mass.
Still, I never arrived at the conviction that a God existed as a being that directs our destinies. Anyway, what could I know about it? And they, what could they know? Were they sure they were sure? I was sitting in church with the strange and happy sensation that my nonbelief and their belief were oddly close.”
If I can comment respectfully, although my thoughts may ( or may not ) be in another direction to what your own thoughts re: Kundera’s quote may be. “Belief”; 1. an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially without proof, and, 2; trust, faith or confidence in ( someone or something ). What is the difference between a “believer” and a “non-believer”, other than the fact that someone may formally align themselves with others of the same belief or non belief?
The tendency throughout history has been to use belief as a justification for imposing one’s will over others, for murder, genocide, and so on, while the non-believers are left to… well, make do, if indeed they’re allowed to survive at all. Arguing beliefs is an indefencible, cannot be proven or disproven, so the stronger reverts to brute force. What happened to the so-called beliefs of the believer? Aren’t believers supposed to be ‘higher’ on the spiritual scale than non-believers? Most believers would say so, but maybe, just maybe, those categories are simply nice little terms for the mind and not much more.
It’s said the mind believes, and is ready to argue, even kill for that belief – an intangible thing, while the soul knows and feels no need to argue or explain itself ( unless another has interest in hearing its views ). It will make every effort to come to an accord with the next person, if there is the slightest hope of an accord being reached, of course. But in fact, one cannot explain what one knows, one can only demonstrate it. Someone who has not had a spiritual experience cannot understand such things – they have no yardstick by which to gauge such matters – they’re left with their facts and figures, their maps and documents, their ‘belief’. My father for example, says “well, no one has ever come back from the other side to tell what’s there…” But this is simply materialistic thinking. One can die daily if one should so want, ( visit realms beyond the physical realm while maintaining a body ) but few have the patience in our world of instant gratification to develop such skills.
So maybe its not so much what we believe in but more what we do in our daily lives. Every day we’re faced with countless choices between choosing the road of love, or the road of power. Are we prepared to forgive a slight, to go out of our way to help another? If one can’t understand the idea of “live and let live” then that person is the effect of another’s postulates/suppositions etc. Its an interesting fact that when one stands before Yama, the Angel of Death, no attorneys are present, no pleas are entered into, one is judged according to one’s actions and must accept the sentence, like it or not.
Thank you for your comments, Dimitir. I like to play a bit with metaphor and archetypes sometimes so as to not become mired too much in my own subjective seriousness.
Interesting it is that Kundera continues this “my faith/your faith “ dichotomy in his discussion of the two clashing characters in Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain.
He concludes this with “ and suddenly we understand that what sets men against one another is not irreconcilable ideological antagonism but an aggressivity (sic) beyond the rational, an obscure, unexplained force for which ideas are merely a screen, a mask, a pretext.”
Here in Looneylandia I choose to name this the thought form or demon , if you will, of hatred.
We Have Ways of Making You Think – Goebbels Master of Propaganda – BBC Documentary 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIWugzkUEc
Jewish leaders of the “Third Reich”
Adolf Hitler, real name Schicklgruber, the biological father is Alois Hitler, the son of a Jewish banker,
and Clara Schicklgruber. A study of saliva samples of 39 relatives of Adolf Hitler showed that his DNA
belongs to the haplogroup E1b1b1, which is observed among the speakers of the Hamitic-Semitic
languages.
Heinrich Himmler is half Jewish. Father – Gebhard Himmler, was a teacher, mother – Anna Maria
Himmler (nee Geyder), daughter of Munich jeweler Solomon Geyder.
Rudolf Hess, half Jewish, Hess’s mother Sarah Hess, changed her name in 1924. From the side of
the mother he had family ties with Churchill, the British Prime Minister. Churchill’s mother is a Jewish
woman named Jenny Jerome, daughter of a wealthy American businessman.
Reinhard Heydrich. Three-quarters of the Jew: the father is a pure Jew, Zus, changed his last name to Heydrich, the mother is a half-Jewish Elizabeth, nee Krantz.
Adolf Eichmann, from a Jewish family who has converted to Lutheranism. Mother – Maria Eichmann,
nee Schefferling, died in 1916. Brother – Emil. In his youth, Eichmann was nicknamed “der kleine Jude.”
By his peers for his dark hair and eyes.
Alfred Rosenberg was born in Tallinn to the family of the Baltic Jewish merchant Waldemar Rosenberg,
born in 1862 in Riga, and St. Petersburg-born Elfriede Caroline Siré, born in St. Petersburg, from a family
of Huguenot who migrated to Estonia.
Josef Goebbels, three-quarters is of Jewish origin. Born in the family of accountant Friedrich Goebbels
and his wife Maria, nee Oldenhausen. Maria’s father, Jacob Oldenhauser, came from the family of the
Orthodox Jews of Cologne.
https://1k2.io.ua/s1684084/evreyskie_lidery_tretego_reyha
Text above the picture: percentage of Jewish blood
In the picture from left to right
above: Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Goebbels *
below: Alfred Rosenberg, Hjalmar Schacht **, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann
* In the text the percentage is 75% (3/4)
** I think it’s about Hjalmar Schacht, but I’m not sure. His name does not appear in the text. He was
Hitler’s banker. Schacht was one of the 24 executives of the National Socialist regime accused in the
Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was acquitted
on October 1, 1946 in all charges.
Maybe Miles is not 100% wet.
Self-loathing seems to endemic among many individuals, peoples and tribes.
They say it is nearly universal result of Parental Abandonment.and that the psychopathy of the bloodline “elites” derives from such emotional wounds.
No, Hitler was not the son of a Mister Hitler (who was the son of a Jewish banker named Hitler) and a Clara Schicklgruber, but the grandson of not „a“ Jewish banker, but of one of the five sons of THE banker, the initial english Rothschild, Solomon Rotschild, boss of the Vienna branch, and his house maid, Anna Schickelgruber. Their son Alois Schickelgruber invented a better sounding name „Hitler“ „as if he was seeing himself as the founder of a dynasty“ (as one biographer put it), and married thrice, among two others Klara Pölzl, married Klara Hitler, who gave birth to Adolf Hitler. The name Angela was cherished in the Hitler family and thus used thrice, the last time given to Adolf Hitlers daughter with Eva Braun, initiated in Argentina, produced in Hamburg, then transferred to East Germany, later picked by the Weizsäckers, Kohls, Schäubles & consorts to ruin reunited Germany in the final WW (also #3) to be started on Angela Rotschild/Hitler/Whatever‘s 60th birthday by a remake of the Gleiwitz false flag stunt, the MH17 stunt. Although it misfired (splendidly explained in the last cafe how all secrets are known: “who knows, knows!“), Angela Hitler still does everything she can think of – which is not much – to start it anyway, because of Kerch or whatever. The ukrosite io.ua seems to be a non-starter, too, 2 comments in 5 months, both „erunda“, and also the given info just looks interesting but seems not to be reliable and thus not usable.
Read this first : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Schicklgruber
than compare with this (among many others of this sort)
http://lloydthomas.org/1-IsraelTimeLine/7-1930-1999/hitler.html
Dr Kelly: another example of a “suicided” expert witness under the Blair regime-nothing to see here, just move along:
https://www.sott.net/article/404848-Key-questions-remain-unanswered-in-the-suicide-of-chemical-weapons-expert-Dr-David-Kelly
Miles Goslett recently published a book on this controversy, ‘An Inconvenient Death,’ for anyone interested in following the strange story of Dr Kelly’s untimely end.
Thanks much!
Detailed commentary on the book, published Apr 2018 (surprisingly, avail on amazon, 2 reviews);
https://www.sott.net/article/381472-New-book-alleges-Tony-Blair-blocked-Dr-David-Kelly-inquest-within-minutes-of-body-being-found
Thanks for the link. Important recording.
Prouty’s office was right down the hall from some of the main Deep State war mongers in the 1950’s and 1960’s inside the Pentagon.
During Dallas late November 1963 they got Col Prouty out of the way, assigning him to an Antarctic Expedition for two weeks.
He learned of the JFK assassination at the logistical base of the expedition, in New Zealand, Nov 21, the day before everybody in the US (because of the international date line) where he learned the name of the supposed assassin….Lee Harvey Oswald …as the whole made up story had already been written and released…..in that part of the world….”the day before”. And he instantly knew it was fake news.
This was supposed to be in reply to the first comment in this Cafe.
As good as it get’s (as far as wartime documentaries are concerned anyway.
That is of-course if you are interested in military/geopolitical analysis and carry some sort of ballast in the field.
Dry, but extremely interesting on part’s of wwII most people knows next to nothing about.
Few minor glitches.
“Scandinavia the Forgotten Front”
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmWSpdaNWg
Kent
That was fascinating, Kent, thanks. I had heard bits of the story before but the way that was put together made it much more understandable to me.
I particularly liked two bits, about the local rifle club wiping out the opposition at a road block and the Finns getting resupplied by their opponents through a bit of guile on the Finnish part.
War, eh, what is it good for?
Only that hit your head one minion ? from my understanding, what is astonishing, is that after the German-Soviet Pact (in which they agreed to partition Eastern Europe, they both agree to attack Poland. The Germans did the attack at 1 September 1939 – France and England declared war at 3 September against Germany. The Soviets did their part of invading Poland by 17 September – no war declaration from England and France.
At 30 November 1939, Soviets attacked Finland bombing Helsinki (over 200 civilians killed) – France and England did not declared war on Soviet Union…
After such state of realities, what was in Hitler’s mind, I wonder ?
Don’t bother with quick answers, I’m just exercising my critical thinking.
I don’t trouble myself with mind reading, ioan, as I know that I cannot read anyone’s mind with any accuracy.
What I do know though, is that the start of hostilities was no surprise to anyone who was watching the developing situation. There was a period of about six months prior to the start that was called the ‘phoney war’ where everyone knew what was coming but not how or when it was coming. All interested parties would have been working out what they considered the best positioning for themselves in that time.
it is also long over as a conflict. I am not interested in refighting it. The next one is looming as I write and it is unlikely to be any improvement.
For those interested in history of German and Soviet relations between 1918-1941, look here for more :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations,_1918%E2%80%931941
Barrett in a Sputnik interview on 9/11:
Deep State Doesn’t Want to Expose Full Truth About 9/11 – Political Scientist
https://sputniknews.com/interviews/201901131071442661-us-9-11-dark-overlord-leak/
“Sputnik: For the time being we see these documents building up a picture of insurance litigators, but there’s always a chance that they’re sitting on a smoking gun.
Dr Kevin Barrett: Well the insurance litigation documents are going to be very interesting because that’s one of the great questions around this scam: how did they manage to convince reinsurers to accept these monstrous losses? Larry Silverstein walked off with almost $5 billion in a cash settlement after buying the entire trade centre two months before 9/11.
Now the trade centre was condemned for asbestos, haemorrhaging money, high vacancy rates, communications infrastructure from the 1960s that was no longer adequate, the city of New York had been desperate to tear down those buildings for years, and they were even under court order to get rid of the asbestos that would’ve cost for more than the buildings were worth. So Silverstein, with organized crime ties, took over the trade centre two months before 9/11 in a sweetheart deal with Eisenberg, the head of the Port Authority, both of them being extremist Zionist Republican billionaire financiers, and then “boom!”, the whole place just gets blown up on 9/11, bringing Larry Silverstein a massive insurance settlement. How did they play around with the reinsurers to force somebody to eat that $5 billion that Larry Silverstein and his friends managed to make in that two-month insurance scam — that’s a very, very interesting question and I hope we learn more about it.
The Project for the New American Century, of course, had called for a new Pearl Harbor exactly one year before 9/11, but it hasn’t helped the American empire, we’re not seeing a new American century and I think some of the managers of the empire are quite unhappy that they railroaded into going along with this horrific crime, which is actually destroying the United States empire. So there is a factional fight within the deep state, although I’m sure that most of them don’t want to expose the full truth about 9/11 because that would be so destabilizing that it would frighten them.”
Bad, bad Sputnik, allowing lines like :
“both of them being extremist Zionist Republican billionaire financiers” and discussion of the pnac. Don’t they know that is not allowed in israel’s american colony (and probably soon such criticism will be a crime).
Agreed that 911 is the litmus test for any American….alive and awakening at some perceptible rate….OR either dumber than a door knob OR a snivelling worthless- to- humanity coward……or in a coma for 17 + years…..and counting.
If they didn’t get it in 2001 they were dead asleep at that time and most of us do spend about a quarter to a third of our lives completely unconcious….and another large percentage partially conscious.
That’s no crime!.
But I know people that “got it” (snickering at the farcical pristine passport floating down unsinged…that same day….) but didn’t want to get and fully digest….and then courageously deal with… what they themselves knew within minutes or hours of the event and shortly thereafter…these people bent over backwards to accommodate themselves to blatant evil….deciding to excuse their fear by calling what they themselves either knew or strongly suspected…to be “unthinkable”.
Why isn’t it clear to them that if no one says “NO”…… civilization is lost…perhaps forever….and deservedly so??
If it depended on them…it would be, I assert.
However, apparently it doesn’t depend on them, and their chance to be at all meaningful and necessary beings in history….with some lasting significance after they are dust….was self-abrogated many years ago and …most probably, in many sad, pathetic cases……….might never be ignited.
Instead, there’s international resistance, no question about that! No matter what Americans do or don’t do.
But what about internal resistance??
Someone here said a few days ago here, “And then there’s Q.”
This can be read either as a joke, like making fun of Bitcoin when it was a few cents…….or a subtle hint.
I’ll go way, way out on a limb and say this: the best, clearest litmus test, for starters…….whether the letters are q or DJT……… is 911
If Trump is owned by Silverstein and Sheldon Adelson and Rothschild he’s not worth a shit, ultimately, even if he entertains by destroying the Clintons and DiChiFi Spy and Chuckie Shumer.
Worrying, in that regard is Rudy Giulani. It’s possible his abetting role in getting the fallen steel evidence far from the crime scene as quickly as possible was expediency under extreme duress…to save his own skin. It’s ALSO possible he would appreciate avenging having been put in that position.
I don’t know!
But with the Grand Jury assignment to inquire into the 911 coverup…and the following little teasers it just may be worthwhile to control emotion, reserve judgment….and follow developments long enough to…….conduct the litmus test…and find out what the FINAL results are:
https://thewardrummer.com/911_coverup/
War Drummer is off on a few things, IMHO, but he’s no simpleton, no dummy.
A sample:
“Congrats to everyone. We were able to transition and stay together despite their attempt to divide us and demoralize us. Q told us all this was going to happen. And when it happened, he posted Q2165.
As you can see, Q says they will fail. I told you the Alex Jones shutdown was a hoax. They did it with his complicity to target Q. Just like when a plane crashes and you are told it’s an accident… Analyze his stats before the shutdown and after. You’ll see before, they were diving. Like crazy. Why? Q. They could not afford to lose their controlled opposition leader who was advertised by no less than the witch herself, they had to do something…”
is how the linked article begins….quickly followed by clip of The Witch Declaring AJ Her Real (read:controlled) Opposition
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Then WD gets into all kinds of number play I simply don’t have time to join in on….all to do with coding messages. Frankly, I wish all that weren’t needed but apparently code in war is sometimes used. LOL.
DJT is firmly in to the litmus test with his number code messaging, apparently.
Let’s see if he passes or fails.
WD’s article ends like so:
Conclusion
9/11 was an operation conducted by the enemies of America hidden in Secret Societies and in the highest levels of our Government. In addition to its evil spiritual component, the motivation was to manipulate public opinion to go to war. Since the perpetrators were in positions of power, the 9/11 cover-up was subsequently easy to implement, leaving the families of the victims in deep distress and with little to no hope of seeing Justice ever be done. Until Trump. He has instructed Rudy Giuliani to quietly do what is required to ultimately expose the most scandalous cover-up in our history and finally bring the perpetrators to justice.
Q307 Who financed 9-11? Who was Bin Laden’s handler? Why was the Clowns In America tasked to hunt/kill/capture UBL? Why not MI? If we found UBL, eliminated his security, why would we immediately kill him and not take him alive? Why wouldn’t we want to capture UBL alive and extract other possible T-level events? Perhaps someday people will understand ‘they’ had a plan to conduct ‘another’ mass extinction event. Q
There is an answer to these questions from the last lines above, there is an entity who has performed for long the so-called targeted killing, with a methodical and non the less symbolical habit. So, it is not something which has to do only with 9-11, I remember very well how the former Communist Romanian president and his wife had been assassinated before the eyes of the entire world (symbolic) and at 25 December 1989 – at Christmas Day (even more symbolic), not say that their trial was a fake, illegal bullshit, a masquerade of justice “in the name of the people” and “democracy”. I would like to see the day when all these “good deeds” will be judged openly for the whole world to see. If that will happens in our life is another question.
So, why did Giuliani visit Israel in December of 2001? One would think that in the aftermath of 9/11 Guiliani, Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg and Governor Pataki would have had more important things to do than “showing solidarity with Israel”. The trip was apparently paid for by New York business man Jeffrey Silverman, Israeli businessman Daniel Ben-Naim and DJT himself. Why did he fly in Trump’s jet?
Some very good questions.
911: To state the obvious, the evil on this one is massive, universal, and extraordinarily broad on a world wide basis. Just imagine, the actors in this massive crime sitting down to plan the event and to coordinate the details!
For that reason, among others, I personally do not believe the issues will be solved while the criminals are still alive, close to seats of power, and blocking all attempts at discovery. There have been tons of very good research but most if not all remains on dusty shelves.
Having said that, it still remains very important to continue to chip away at the stupid narrative, and supporting serious efforts to get to the “truth.” Ignore the hysterical cries about conspiracy theorists and possible future false flags.
On other tack, I was encouraged but not to the point of giddiness about the linked article below and its comments. It is vitally important to see where this goes. Maybe, just maybe, the change is coming, similar, as been said, to the turning to the gigantic oil tanker in the deep water.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-the-israeli-effort-to-keep-trump-in-syria-failed/
To look for some of the following is to start, emphasize, to start to hope:
-reduction in israel influence and meddling,
-some reduction of the annual $4 bil contribution,
-some limits on AIPAC, FDD, dual citizen senators, all israeli firsters, other “think” tanks, zio cons, neo cons, etc, etc
see also Conspirationnisme et analyse @ http://www.voltairenet.org/article204719.html
Thus-far solely in French.
I plodded through it with my rusty school French, then had a brainwave. Machine translation on bing:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.voltairenet.org%2Farticle204719.html
Psyche quickens, boiling blood vigors in the veins;
Half-recalled undone deeds, casts a freezing pall,
Cutting deep to marrowbone, every prayer strains
Reaching for inner hope, redemption from the fall.
Some say life ends, begins again, still others refrain;
While dreams reveal nuance of hidden realms within;
Sleepers awake, return to life, rouse to the mortal din,
Death lies immune, deaf and dumb to our every slogan.
Time may grant defeat, or capture the towers of conceit,
Tell from the very start, the birth of mind, will, and heart;
Tongues will speak in wisdom as purest crystal fountains,
When Calliope kisses coeternal Eos, and coeval life returns.
Define life: How is life to be defined?— by observable functions, or absence of functions?
We say what is inanimate: as a single snowflake melting in the palm; but can not say for a fact that there is no life there, when even this unique water-crystal is after-all some living process of welkin wonder! No, we painstakingly define and blatantly pretend to understand the activity of this life that we participate in; but how can these academic assumptions and otherwise, be assumed as the limit of all the life that exists, in all its forms? To define life that we know of, by what it does, is not a definition at all: it does not say what it is, only what it does; or what we vaguely claim it to do; and truth be told, how can we know the half of it! Why would we blindly claim this limited vision as erudition?
Abiogenesis: the making of life from non-life. Non-living inanimate matter; but . . . where is life not, and how can we be sure: after all, we don’t dare to answer the question of ‘what life is’; it is blatantly unjust to all reason to claim that it is, or was, not somewhere, when we are too cowardly to say what ‘it’ is! The calculating and clinical “rational” creatures of mortal life and death, claim to know how to kill life, even boast of obliterating all life with radiation; but, how can this kind of heartless abstraction claim to know anything truly relevant about life? Do these deniers and doubters ask out-loud to the very heavens above:— Where began life, was it before all time and space, before thought and mind; or did, maybe, life always cling to life; can it be true that life begets life?
Or will the deniers of life ask other skeptics to defend their views:— if all life began at such a place, then do you say it was once born? Well, if born, who or what gave it birth? How could the unknown and unseen “before time” world give birth? How does the “un-living” give birth to the living?
—And if life arose by its own might from nothing . . . what then?
Doubters, doublethinkers, and dastardly devils, have in common one trait, they argue against life, against living, against the freedom of pure existence; but their umbrage disappears with the warming austral breeze of new life.
As I see, both your poem(which is wonderfully deep) and the comment above, are related, your main target is life (in a good sense) and I appreciate you way of thinking, putting your finger on the wound, thinking loudly on what others may think quietly (if ever think on that matter at all) but there are who have the same questions, arrived at the same conclusion of knowing little or nothing. I tried to make a reverse and begin with death : if there is death – in the sense of nothingness, total disappearance of a living creature – than life is in vain with all the sufferings and happy moments, with all the knowledge and hard work. I can’t imagine that life is creating itself in all forms, in perpetuity, ad infinitum, without any reason. And the people have not even managed to discover all life forms, not to speak about understanding its function. Very few sectors of science is working with these questions, the world of money is not interested to find those answers, thus very small money effort is invested in research and study, even if there are such scientists, their work is hardened by all kind of biases. From here derives a meaningful aspect of the human tragedy : the mental and spiritual blindness.
What I had to say about Life, I did say it a few Cafe’s ago, but that is my own opinion, I can’t prove it in any likable form for other readers, nor can I state that this is “official” , recognized by an official scientific community. Then it can’t be because it is, yet again, a matter of believe – which is not scientific, of course.
As being a belief, it is automatically classified into a different category, more closely related to religions or sci-fi literature, or in other words, fantasy.
Interesting question here : not being able or not having the means to prove something. Be it scientific or political, or simply a criminal act, the same old human law appears to be applied everywhere. How much difficult is the same path of proving when you try to speak about soul and spirit.
I bought a bookmark yesterday. I usually just use whatever is to hand so there are often strange objects left in my books. This one had a quote on it from ‘WE’, a sci-fi novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, a writer I first read around age 20 and who is still right up at the top in my estimation, so it was worth a couple of quid for me to buy:
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t even be worth reading.”
How boring life will be once we have all the answers, once we know and understand everything, not worth living at all.
To live on a metaphysical knife-edge of insouciance, in other words, gives to life a certain excitement and flavour, to those who otherwise would simply drop-down dead from boredom.
The question off-hand: is life on earth Life, as in animus and spirit, or is it merely an ill-defined corporality. Those who live for the moment have their own arguments, and must draw their own conclusions, however unfinished; yet even these down-with-earth types, may on occasion find themselves living with elan vital if not careful.
Life just is, that is the one indisputable. Anything else is putting legs on a snake, to use a hackneyed phrase. Of course it could just as easily all be an enormous mirage, a dream in an unspecified head (see? cannot avoid anthropomorphism in language, or logos (word) as parrhesiastes insists on bringing up as the end/beginning point) but I don’t buy that, at all, though plenty do.
When I am wounded I bleed, just like everyone else. I have had very bloody dreams but I always wake up from them unwounded.
Basically I am not interested in defining life (though I tried quite hard, at one time, to do just that) I am interested in living it, to the very best of my limited ability, to the very last moment. The rest can take care of itself.
I looked up ‘elan vital’ as although I have my own understanding of it, I thought I should investigate what exactly you might mean by it, and I remain quite puzzled. Do you think it possible to live without it? I am referring to your last few phrases:
‘yet even these down-with-earth types, may on occasion find themselves living with elan vital if not careful.’
Thanks anyway for your comment. It has reminded me of some old friends I had almost forgotten, the Stoics and Zeno. I will attempt to renew acquaintance if I can only get through my current stack of new reading material.
It seems possible/likely that life is, ultimately, futile but it needn’t be boring .
You mustn’t have caught the wind-surfing bug. The local wind patterns and micro surface conditions will always be unpredictable so long as the super-computer is left at home.
Never windsurfed, no, but that first parachute jump, when the canopy opened and going in was no longer the main worry —heaven, absolute heaven.
Apropos of nothing at all, this came up on my machine while writing this. A truly preposterous voice. That algorithm has its uses too:
I intended to post a link above but either forgot to add it or it got moderated, No matter, I found something different that always makes me laugh, no matter how many times I see it.
Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU
and what the Muppets did with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MnX1wT7BRU
New Evidence Links UK RAF Pilot to 1961 UN Sec Gen Plane Crash Death
https://sputniknews.com/society/201901141071445148-new-evidence-links-raf-pilot-un-sec-gen-death/
“Investigators claim that a 1961 plane crash in Africa that resulted in the death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and all else aboard may have been the result of a missile shot from another aircraft piloted by Belgian RAF member Jan van Risseghem, who was a mercenary pilot on behalf of Congolese rebels at the time.
Hammarskjold, a key post-World-War-II Swedish diplomat, and 15 others were killed when their plane came down in the jungle as it approached Ndola in what is now Zambia. Hammarskjold’s plane crashed nine months after Patrice Lumumba, the left-wing prime minister of the Republic of Congo, was ousted and executed by forces backed by the US.
According to film-makers investigating the crash for “Cold Case Hammarskjöld” documentary, Van Risseghem, who died in 2007, admitted to to a friend that he had shot down the UN plane. In addition, the film-makers collected testimony from another pilot that weakens Van Risseghem’s original alibis, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Hammarskjold’s plane crashed en-route to a summit at which he was attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in the mining-rich Katanga province, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Katangese separatists at the time were supported by powerful Western political and mining interests who were not eager to see Hammarskjold’s diplomacy succeed, according to the documentary.
Van Risseghem’s flight logs previously showed no record of him flying during that particular month. However, Roger Bracco, another mercenary pilot for the Katangese, alleged to the filmmakers that Van Risseghem’s log books looked forged.”
This is an interesting essay I was emailed today, about Trump’s wall and what it might mean to Americans. Its taken from a forthcoming longer book on the subject by a chap called Grandin, so there is an element of advertising in it, but we’ve all got to eat, I suppose. The book is called ‘The End of the Myth; from the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America’ so it has a lot of ground to cover.
The Great Wall of China gets a mention too, for comparison regarding results and effectiveness:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176515/tomgram%3A_greg_grandin%2C_bricks_in_the_wall/#more
I doubt I will be reading the book as it is so culture specific, and I have a stack of books to read on British myth which is of more immediate interest to me, living within it as I do—–but the essay is a worthwhile, if quite long read that may be of interest to Americans.
And there is a nice little Pink Floyd reference/pun there too, for the poets and wordsmiths.
Discussion of the “hawk” Tulsi G who’s running for office of el presidente @ 30:20 > Crosstalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92hiKnPkbo
I believe the lady was discussed in previous Cafe.
My gut feeling is that she will probably fail, but create a strong effect on outcome.
(The usage of Spanish “el presidente” is a very obscure reference to a skit created by Andy Rooney and transmitted right after the stolen election of 2000… The skit? I have searched mightily – it’s entirely erased…which itself says something… Anyway Andy did a routine with a telephone wherein he called the US “election” (directed by the Supreme Court) as fake as the election of the dictator in a banana republic, such as those the US has curated since the job Teddy Roosevelt did on Panama…a cliché for native speakers of American English ) Anyway “el presidente” conveys contempt for the servile satrap and his country because real power resides elsewhere. It is not intended here as a pejorative.
That was the best Crosstalk I have seen for a long time.
About the lady, Chris Butler (Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda, for short) has been trying since the 70s to get hold of some political power and did have some minor success in Hawaii. He must be very proud of Tulsi.
When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are “Brothers”: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/01/when-bolsonaro-and-netanyahu-are-brothers-why-brazil-should-shun-the-israeli-model/
“But, while Bolsonaro sees in Netanyahu a role model – for reasons that should worry many Brazilians – the country certainly does not need ‘brothers’ like the Israeli leader.
Netanyahu’s militancy, oppression of the indigenous Palestinian people, his racially-motivated targeting of Black African immigrants and his persistent violations of international law are not at all what a country like Brazil needs to escape corruption, bring about communal harmony and usher in an era of regional integration and economic prosperity.
In recent years, Brazil has emerged as a sensible regional power that defended Palestinian human rights and championed the integration of the ‘State of Palestine’ into the larger international community.
The new Brazilian President wants to reverse Brazil’s foreign policy on Palestine and Israel, the same way he wants to reverse all the policies of his predecessors regarding indigenous rights, the protection of the rainforest, among other pressing matters.”
Rather than an american puppet, it is clear that “bs scenario” is an israeli/zionazi puppet, much like trump and his quisling regime of neocons.
I expect that in light of what’s generally known now about the History of US policies post W2, in such light, the “genre” of Warner-Pathe film is highly interesting.
Here’s one from about 1950, stay with it, after the B29 crash it gets really interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZez1z0u8Dk
The full corpus is fascinating, you can see the gears of propaganda turn and watch the myths of “cold-war” being created.
It seems that the media flood of “TBS” now operating is simply another phase of an established Policy of, well, Rente Capital I’d say, but City of London may mean the same thing, the US being the tail of the British dog.
As we career shambolically towards the Brexit deadline, a pundit today said that Britain is likely to lose its biggest financial centre status (that is a euphemism for the square mile of the City) which is all that is keeping us afloat at the moment. So someone else is likely to be wagging the dog shortly. Frankfurt or HongKong? Perhaps we should run a book on it, though even with no gambling interest myself I am sure its already being done.
Career is Freudian slip/typo, amigo, careen… shambolically The terms are perfect. (So was “career”!)
It was said recently by Danny Dorling (Oxford) that possible sequences of event caused by BREXIT may weaken or end City of London control over the dominion of USA…well Ireland too?
They make war and get his twin, Chaos. Thus undermining they themselves.
Mrs May seems to imagine that Art 50 is revocable. I read it. It’s not revocable, but will be revoked, they say. Thus more chaos…
Art 50 is clear as can be… “…Union shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union….”
(it does not say “shall negotiate and/or conclude” > There’s no “or”)
fulltext: https://qz.com/943226/what-does-the-full-text-of-article-50-that-triggers-brexit-actually-say/
Since CoL has been deep into the body of USA since Lincoln’s murder, and especially after FDR’s murder, they’ll hardly give up easily because of a few deplorable votes and mere legalistic custom.
Yeah, they may move or try to move CoL to Ireland. The Irish might not like that… But a constitutional crises is simply part of losing a world war, and they’re losing.
“well Ireland too?”
There’s be little difference https://www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airport-military-3861764-Feb2018/
Trump and VVP will continue to showcase their weapons in Syria and the S300 will make no difference to the attacks by the other pillar of Zionism.
Career, as a verb, is to move fast and without control, like a runaway truck, as we have been doing with Brexit for over two years, and still no closer to a viable solution.
This is scary, to me at any rate.
I found it while looking for something else on the Intercept. Its titled:
‘For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too’
and goes on to detail how Amazon has subcontracted work to Ukraine and allowed Ukraine access to confidential customer details that only require an email address to surveil all film footage of all customers, inside and outside their homes. Of interest to early adopters everywhere, I should imagine:
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/
Sex, Tapes & Slurs: GOP Senator Smeared as Hostage to Gay Blackmail Material
https://sputniknews.com/us/201901141071472828-lindsey-graham-smear-campaign-blackmail/
“Over the weekend, Jon Cooper, chairman of the Democratic Coalition, took to Twitter to ring the alarm, stating that in conversation with an unnamed Republican official, he was informed that “[Graham] is kowtowing to Trump (and indirectly Putin) because he’s being blackmailed over his sexual orientation (an open secret) or even financial corruption.”
“Rather, [the unidentified official] thinks it probably involves some pretty serious sexual kink,” Cooper added, before noting that “there’s a strong likelihood that [Graham’s] being blackmailed by the Russians.”
A handbag fight among israel’s fascist queens. LOL about “the Russians”, standard zionazi-GAY propaganda line. :-D If anyone is blackmailing the sod, it’s fellow zionazi-gays, it’s their standard mo.
Homosexuality among the zionazis, nazis, extreme right seems to be fairly ubiquitous.
We can be confident that there is blackmail. The uncertainty comes from the who or what behind the blackmail.
When I think of Putin and Trump(what he says, supposedly stands for, not what he ultimately does) I think of “the logical best case scenario,” the multi-polar world” ala Pepe Escobar, the way things are going to be.
We can be certain that people and groups of people (in America, in Europe, in Russia), are in danger of losing their catbird seat. These are are likely the ones behind the blackmail– if it should even be called that, more like opportunism. When Francis Fukuyama announced “The End of History” he announced the perfection of the global scam, Liberal Democracy and all it implies.
Note how Putin and Trump take the place of the bad man, victimizing the poor gay man.
For those of you who haven\t seen it yet.
Trump Trackdown ‘The End of the World
And, it is from 1958.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1D2ynASqe4
US air traffic controllers aren’t being paid, Canadians show solidarity in cheesiest way possible
https://www.rt.com/usa/448796-air-traffic-controllers-send-pizza/
“Ever since the US government shutdown, many federal employees have been left wondering when their next paycheck is going to land. Some, like air traffic controllers, already face extreme stress at work, but help is on hand.
Since Friday evening, air traffic control units from across Canada have been sending pizza pies of solidarity to their US colleagues to try and boost morale as the government shutdown means they are working without pay.”
Air traffic controllers, obviously, this job fits the bill of non essential government employees. Sabotage air safety for a goatsodding border wall. Way to go, netanyahoo. Oh, excuse me, in america the thing is called trump.
One of the consequences of having a government that is little more than quislings of a hostile and exploitive foreign power.
Looks like bolton’s boy friend has been acting out again:
Berlin Sees US Ambassador’s Letters About Nord Stream 2 as Provocation – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201901141071446062-germany-usa-ambassador-nord-stream/
“Earlier on Sunday, German media reported that Grenell had sent letters to a number of German companies and hinted at the possibility of imposing US sanctions for supporting the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction project.
According to the publication, the companies that received the letters appealed to the ministry for advice on how to respond to such threats. The ministry advised them to leave the letters unanswered, regarding them as a provocation, the newspaper said.”
German Politicians Outraged Over US Envoy’s Threats to Nord Stream 2 Firms
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201901141071454937-germany-us-nord-stream-ambassador-row/
“Both conservative and left-wing German politicians have unanimously lambasted US Ambassador Richard Grenell over his warning letters to the companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 project and called on the country’s government to react.
The deputy chairman of the left-wing Die Linke fraction in the German Bundestag, Fabio De Masi, has called on the government to confront Grenell, pointing out that extraterritorial sanctions against German companies contradict international law.
“The US ambassador has apparently gained the impression that he is the governor of the emperor from Washington in Germany”, he said on Sunday.”
A list of previous mafia behaviour by grenell in this article:
US Ambassador Richard Grenell threatens German firms over Russian pipeline
https://m.dw.com/en/us-ambassador-richard-grenell-threatens-german-firms-over-russian-pipeline/a-47062540
“Grenell managed to prompt irritation in Berlin on the day of he took office in May 2018 by tweeting that “German companies doing business in Iran should wind down operations immediately.”
Less than a month later, Grenell told the far-right Breitbart news website that he saw his tasks as one of “empowering” Europe’s right-wing governments and budding leaders. He also said that NATO members should back US interventions abroad.
“The US should no longer come to accept any excuses for not taking part in military intervention,” he said.
Last month, Grenell accused Germany’s Spiegel magazine of having an anti-American bias and demanded an investigation into stories written by its disgraced reporter, Claas Relotius.”
Zakharova sums up the repulsive fecal fetisher’s actions below.
Moscow Pans US Envoy’s Scaremongering Rhetoric Towards Nord Stream 2
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201901151071480108-russian-foreign-ministry-germany-nord-stream2-criticism/
“It is part of a larger campaign… to contain Russia globally… Of course, it is unacceptable and it is not what an ambassador should be doing, it is in fact the opposite of that,” Zakharova told Rossiya 1 TV channel.”
Austria’s OMV Slams US Ambassador’s Letters About Nord Stream 2
https://sputniknews.com/business/201901151071500256-austria-omv-nord-stream-2-us-letters/
“The letter in an absolutely unacceptable threat to German companies. This is an expression of the changed US foreign policy. Washington relies on confrontation, not cooperation with its allies. I deeply regret this,” Seele said as quoted by German newspaper Handelsblatt.
“We’ll take care of our own energy policy so that security of deliveries and competitiveness are regulated in such a manner that we find satisfactory,” Seele said.
He specified that he did not believe that the possible sanctions against the Nord Stream participating companies would have significant influence since unilateral restrictions always had “limited effect.”
The “our way or the highway” actions of grenell on behalf of the trump regime show how that quisling regime is essentially an expression of israeli likud policies, methods and especially, likud “personality”.
This, incidentally, is why certain sectors of “the establishment” oppose him, the regime is being too obvious and garnering much more resistance than their more “subtle” methods would, and this is hurting zpc/nwo strategy.
The article that I was originally looking for in the Intercept, recommended and briefly discussed on the Crosstalk programme, about the FBI investigation of the Donald:
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/
Something different, bread and circuses yes, but actually nice and relaxing stuff to do with living. The Global Times out of China is usually accepted as the ‘formal word’ from the centrally managed country. They’ve made a spin-off website, dealing less with politics and ‘formal words’ and more with living stuff. The photos are just beautiful overall.
Two just nice things that I saw this morning – a cotton seed sprouted on the dark side of the moon:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/15/WS5c3d57e1a3106c65c34e48d0.html
and
Jack Ma, a fellow that I’ve watched throughout the years because of his tech development joins a teacher that took her class to the beach:
http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/15/WS5c3d4858a3106c65c34e484c.html
oh yes .. check the ice shaped butterflies- stunning.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/11/WS5c38301aa3106c65c34e3ee1.html
At Saker we have discussed Firzgerald/tanker collision fubar. Some may recall.
Some time ago the USN ship Fitzgerald collided with a tanker, which is really pretty hard to do, nearly impossible if the ships follow COLREG rules. A copy of COLREGs is on the bridge of every ship in the world, at least a copy better be there!
It seems USN failed to teach the officers and enlisted these vital rules. And, get this, kept secret the investigation results so as to conceal evidence of liability and guilt (people died, it was murder, and they obstructed justice by concealing evidence…to minimize liability)
And now the kitty has escaped from the paper tiger, e paper “bag”…
https://sputniknews.com/military/201901141071474263-USN-Probe-Crash-Numerous-Routine-Violations/
The COLREGs are simply and easy to know. As a guy living on his 33′ steel boat back in the 1980’s I posted them, read them, and passed several test for certificates @ 100% correct answers…never got less than 100% in fact. The rules are solidly dumb and easy to know. The idea that a deck officer would not get 100% on a COLREG test is simply breath-taking Though I once heard that they get 10% “credit” on exams if they correctly put their names on the exam paper at California Maritime Academy. Of course in the instance it was USN “training”…I guess the USN must give more credit, perhaps 50% extra credit if the officer is a pervert or a girl…
Collapse yet? A navy that cannot even con a ship! Fools, sodomites, and “PC” meets Reality…Reality prevails.
This link provides info on one of the most impressive cities in the world-Sevilla. Photos speak for themselves!
For me, at least cathedrals going back to 1100-1200 illustrates beauty and dedication.
I hope all enjoy.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sevilla-in-one-day/
This is a very good summary of the evil that is the neo cons and their abiity to survive, re-emerge via other sources: to my mind, it is the endless money, endless funding by these wealthy cretin supporters. Another is their ability to find willing allies whereever who are eager for more war, more interventionism, i.e. the dimos.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bulwark-weekly-standard-778709/
“The neocons are trying to create with Democrats a true political movement of shared goals and common adversaries. Apart from “liberal interventionism,” they’re emphasizing stridently anti-populist leanings, making little distinction between Trump and “mouth-breathers” like Rep. Steve King on the one hand, and Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the other.
Onetime neoconservative icon Max Boot even went so far as to compare Ocasio-Cortez to Sarah Palin, bemoaning the fact that she has more Twitter followers than Nancy Pelosi — more evidence of democracy’s imperfections!
Both groups get starry-eyed around generals and spooks and mourned the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis like music-lovers after the death of Prince (“I am shaken,” said Nancy Pelosi). There were even shared fantasies about a presidential run by the Nosferatoid ex-Defense Secretary, whose greatest achievements to date had been grimacing with military severity while standing next to Trump, and clamoring for an increased role in the bombing of Yemen.”
The terrible forthcoming destruction of the « Caribbean Basin »
President Trump has announced the withdrawal of US combat troops from the « Greater Middle East »,
but the Pentagon is still pursuing the implementation of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski plan. This time the
aim is to destroy the States of the « Caribbean Basin ». This is nothing like the overthrow of pro-Soviet
regimes, as in the 1970’s, but the destruction of all regional State structures, without consideration for
friends or political enemies. Thierry Meyssan observes the preparations for this new series of wars.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204656.html
Media: the hostess of the exploded apartment in Magnitogorsk will avoid punishment …
Author: Philip Bogdanov …
A woman who owns an apartment in which a gas explosion occurred can avoid criminal liability.
The publication “URA.RU” has understood this situation. The fact is that apartment 315 on Karl
Marx 164 was rented daily.
According to the letter of the law, the one who was in the apartment is guilty. The hostess was not
in the building, which means she cannot be punished. These words belong to the lawyer Yevgeny
Chernousov.
Recall that the gas explosion occurred on December 31 in one of the residential buildings of Magni-
togorsk and killed 39 people. The authorities are actively assisting the tenants of the house: families
of the deceased and victims will receive monetary compensation from the regional and federal budgets. Investigating the tragedy is engaged in the IC of Russia ….
(Google translation)
https://inforeactor.ru/204508-stalo-izvestno-kak-budet-nakazana-khozyaika-kvartiry-v-magnitogorske-gde-mog-vzorvatsya-gaz
Classical Music Mashup II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczH85-0BDk
Remastered version. I don’t really know what that means. It sounds the same to me as it always did. It used to have a lovely vid though, a gentle trip through the universe via the Hubble telescope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEE
I’m puzzled at this report too, at our Gavin’s belligerence regarding his nine new jets and his claims that he has the people to teach Russia a lesson.
News for you, chum, you are a bit of a laughing stock amongst the people you expect to lead. What do you expect from an audience that had previously heard your suggestion of using paint guns, wielded by Gibraltarian civilians, against Spanish ships in territorial waters. This was after Gav’s suggestion of sending a gunboat or two had been howled down as too extreme.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201901111071390817-russia-puzzled-by-uk-militarism/
I am starting to remember why I don’t take much notice of our crop of politicos.
“As Frank Herbert said in Dune, the most enduring principles in the universe are accident and error. Trump did not want to win. This was a brand-enhancing stunt for him that got out of control.”
Accident and error, I just love the random factor. ‘Don’t forget the joker’ The above quote is from Yves Smith in the comments to this piece (taken from the sidebar again):
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/reckless-advocate-military-force-demands-john-boltons-dismissal-reports-asked-pentagon-options-strike-iran.html
This is nice, if you like that kind of thing, and I do, obviously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFxH4kky6z4
Lovely picture here to accompany the news that the left and right demonstrators in the UK have adopted the Yellow Vests.
Just to confuse the issue still further, our cops, also known as ‘old bill’ or ‘the bill’ amongst other more unsavoury epithets have been wearing the yellow vests for donkeys years.
Some bright spark is going to have to come up with a better distinguishing mark and not just mindlessly ape the French in this instance, as this is never going to work for very long in Britain, which enjoys an occasional good riot just as much as the next country:
https://www.rt.com/uk/448639-yellow-vests-uk-protests/
Is there Redemption for “The Least of These” ??? Those Americans, Brits, Catholics and Poles with the sorriest Recent Record of Performance in Anti-Imperial Resistance to Organized Evil on the planet???
My Word Document on that subject sits half finished. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it! Someday soon.
I really miss the tussling with my Irish Catholic Cafe friends. This is for them, for their remoralization and spiritual healing (if still in snake-bitten shock…..) in case they are,recovering, laying low but still scanning Vineyard articles and comments.
I’ve been saddled with mundane, wearying assignments………( even the reading is spotty for me this month) ….but London Paul’s Podcast # 583 as I collapsed into bed from exhaustion last night inspired me to hopefully re-moralise my Irish friends of 2018…….., wherever they are:
“We are beginning to witness the implosion of the European Union and Eurozone in two developments for entirely different reasons…….”, London Paul began, last night.
One positive and one negative. The positive inspiration comes from two Mathews (I wish I could quote a lot more Scripture….) and the negative from Macron and Merkel….
Catholics are taking a beating (you’ll see, the premise is: Their Downfall was a Rothschild loan in 1832 to the Vatican Bank…and Overt Pedophilia, Satanism and Globalization Of Universal Enslavement of Mankind Were in the Nearly Invisible Fine Print…..
“Give The Devil A Ride…(Take His Loans, i.e) & He’ll End Up Doing the Driving …..and molesting your children in the back seat…with his tail.
However, Nationalism to the Rescue!
And what nations are more Catholic than Italy and Poland???
Italy and Poland Take Macron and Merkel to the Mat..….nominally (Mateo and Mateus) and figuratively:
“Italian Interior Ministry Head Mateo Salvini and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met this week…and let’s start with a very telling remark Salvini made recently:”:
“Today begins a journey that will continue in the coming months for a different Europe, for a change in the European Commission and European policies which puts at the center the the right to Life, Work, Health and Safety—ALL…. that the European elites financed by Soros and represented by Macron deny.”
….. extremely telling words, says Paul, “And very powerful at that!” .
And then Salvini’s more recent visit to Poland where he stated: “Populists from Italy and Poland should spark a European Spring and forge a new equilibrium to replace the influence of Germany and France……”
“Salvini is determined to launch an alliance to challenge Brussels and regain sovereignty and transfer key European Powers back to Nation States.”
Then Paul goes into the completely divergent Macron/Merkel Cabal Goals….colliding this May in the European Parliamentary Elections….. and hints that the Cabal Goals are as doomed politically as Merkel and Macron are.
I woke this morning with a new burst of energy. It may last most of the day!
Oh, I will even punch my clock on the Crypto assignment: I renewed an ad in Craig’s List for leased space and noticed a little check box that said “Accept cryptocurrency?”
I checked it..
Some say it’s the Mark of The Beast….but do they know what they are even talking about????….and WHAT, pray tell are THEY using??? LOL