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No Patriots, no F-35s: Pentagon to empty Turkish army’s shopping cart if it goes on with S-400 deal
https://www.rt.com/news/453401-turkey-s400-us-threat/
How fortunate for Turkey – no F-35 lemonjets or erratic Patriots. They can buy the infinitely more successful S-400 and Sukhoi alternatives.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/28/patriot-missiles-are-made-in-america-and-fail-everywhere/
A while back but if this is the level of competence…
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
What could the Empire do to punish Turkey? The attempted coup failed, so now what?
Charge 1000% more for the privilege of NATO? Place sanctions on Turkish Delights?
Sell them dodgy weapons, with back, side and front-doors in the software that will make them virtual Trojan Horses. I see that Erdogan and his advisors have wised up to that fact. With enough Chinese and Russian weaponry, and- who knows?-Iranian, Turkey can cut itself off from the dying US Empire and its NATO underlings, a collection of zombie cadavers.
Turks play old game. http://www.americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/brer_rabbit_meets_a_tar_baby.html
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br'er_Rabbit
F35 is a “flying restaurant” (with goodies for everybody) that captures the buyer in all sorts of ways, and is a rather ineffective and deeply unsatisfactory and expensive flying machine, but a really nifty trap. It’s computers (they say and I deduce) have fundamental interoperability errors – just fer starts.
Brother Erdo is playing game on Imperial OTAN and “Luckup-Barton Company”…”oh, please! Br’er Fox, doain a throw me inna dat brier patch!”
Is not “American Game” – Is old African Game. “Knee-o-conzz” and Sutler Capital blinded by hubris and greed can’t twig the game.
Brutal truth is F35 is not desirable machine. SU and MiG far superior in cost, operational availability, terms of purchase, production, and maintenance. No rational Nation would buy F35 except to do forensic analysis to discover more ways to destroy F35s. Same for rockets.
I agree. My country was most likely blackmailed to buy…
Austfailia did it enthusiastically and grovelingly, as usual, like the lackey stooges we are. Giving billions to our Thanatopian Masters is de rigeur for all our political invertebrates.
This is fantastic news, especially for the Russian Kleptocracy.
Selling S400 and, potentially, Sukhoi to both Turkey and Saudis will see them briskly rubbing their hands together all the way to the bank.
The Turks and Saudis, meanwhile, will be emboldened to continue to kill Syrians at will.
Brother Erdo is not liable to get a pass for murder and torture…“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap” (Galatians 6:7) But, it must be said, he’s between rock and tool-steel block, and stress like that kills the reason…”have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?” (Banquo in MacBeth) Well, yeah, Erdo did anyway… So, by the way, did Skirpal, probably “root BZ” (see my previous about Skirpal essay series 1-6 @ Saker Cafe this day)…
these old shoes
are ragged and worn,
there ain’t no way
I’m saying goodbye –
my grateful feet
years they’ve adorned,
when the going gets tough
we always scrape by
the cobbler he laughs
with a shake of his head,
the look in his eye
somewhat forlorn –
how does this leather
of just a few shreds,
keep out the stones
and stay the thorns?
with the glue barely dry
and that final patch on,
he tries to sell me
a spanking new pair –
but these are my shoes,
why can’t he catch on?
they’re never too tight
and they let in the air
back on the road
it’s a brand new tread,
the miles they pass
as that road it bends
around treacherous ledges,
through dry river beds –
I will follow that road
wherever it wends!
and when the time comes
for that extra long snooze,
way down underground
you’ll think that I’m dead –
but we’ve made plans
me and my shoes,
and we’re quite looking forward
to that brand new spread
under the stars
I make my bed
my home anywhere
the wind carries me –
I sleep with my shoes
right under my head
it’s more than enough
and it always will be
In dreams, old shoes may indicate attachment. The antidote is detachment. There’s an alternative ending;
I sleep with my shoes
right under my bed,
it’s more than enough
but less than it could be
Which would’ve indicated that the protagonist was aware that he’d formed an undue attachment to his “old shoes” ( which can be anything, our way of doing things…), but I chose the original ending, making it a little paen to a ‘faithful pair of shoes’ and thus sticking to the overall narative. Which is not exactly, “my way or the highway”, on the other hand, its not that far from it, lol. God knows a decent pair of shoes can be ‘the difference between heaven and hell’. As in everything, there’s that fine line.
Good poem my friend, I couldn’t stop myself not to add something…
I sleep with my shoes
right under my bed,
Luck, they’re not my foes,
for long I’ll be dead
it’s more than enough
but less than it could be
Then I had to laugh
when shoes barked me
Thank you, my friend. You have the right attitude, laughter where ‘foes’ are concerned, in fact, laughter all round, is the best medicine. Waiter, a latte double strength! Ioan, what are you partial to? My round …
First ending is best. Re shoe not needing horn poem
Thanks anon, I agree.
… The Rise of The Botnets …
When harnessed together, a network of zombie computers can be a force for evil — or good
Some botnets can create problems for years without being detected, says Adrian Dabrowski. He studies computer security in Vienna, Austria. Experts estimate that the biggest botnets can take over tens of millions of machines. Dabrowski says the problem of these malicious armies won’t go away in 2019. Indeed, it will likely worsen.
Adrian Dabrowski works at SBA Research, a cybersecurity company in Vienna. He studies ways that virtual and physical worlds come together. He has studied privacy and security in wearable gadgets like fitness trackers, for example. But recently, he’s been studying power grids. He’s worried that they’re an easy target for botnets.
In 2017, he identified how a power grid might fall victim to botnets. Computers need energy to function. Different parts of a computer require different amounts of energy. Botnets can harness and control those energy-guzzling features. For an individual machine, that would only mean a higher energy bill for the unsuspecting user. But a botnet controlling millions of machines could gobble up so much energy that it overloads the grid, and the grid shuts down.
Smart devices and computers can communicate over long distances via the internet, but botnets can use the internet to sneak into machines and harness them for crime.
Botnets may even cause real-world harm, such as sabotaging the electrical grid.
“An attack can basically render the grid unusable,” he worries. A loss of power would be more than inconvenient. It could be dangerous, too.
Wastewater treatment plants are often connected to the grid, so they could shut down.
If hospitals lose power and don’t have a backup source, patients could be in danger.
Gas pumps that use electricity stop working, so people cannot add fuel to their vehicles.
… extracted from …
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/botnets-malware-cyberattack-increase
(hundreds of patients in Venezuelan hospitals have recently died … murdered)
“hundreds of patients in Venezuelan hospitals have recently died … murdered”
By netanyahoo/trump & co., and the sods are ecstatic about it.
Venezuelan FM Blasts US for ‘Celebrating’ Amid Power Outage in Venezuela
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201903091073077661-venezuela-foreign-minister-usa-power-outage/
“While the Venezuelan society has calmly accepted the circumstances that resulted from the sabotage in the country’s electric power industry, and the employees of Corpoelec [national electricity supplier] are restlessly working, those close to Donald Trump have been celebrating, enjoying the reckless distortion [of facts] despite what Venezuelans are going through,” Arreaza wrote on Twitter in response to the recent comments by US politicians.”
Hang the whole sodding lot.
Fortunately, the Venezuelans have back up power generators in their hospitals. Apparently, they worked when needed. Unlike what would happen in a capitalist country where they would discover that the crooked contractor cheated them and provided inferior equipment that fails after the contractor pocketed the extra profits because under capitalism profit is everything and almost godlike.
My 2011 Toyota Hilux Workmate has “old style” mechanical door locks …
for which I am truly grateful …
Mystery device that left dozens unable to open their keyless cars in a shopping centre carpark is in a nearby chemist – but investigators still don’t know what it is …
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/mystery-device-that-left-dozens-unable-to-open-their-keyless-cars-in-a-shopping-centre-carpark-is-in-a-nearby-chemist-but-investigators-still-dont-know-what-it-is/ar-BBUyXZw?li=AAgfYrC
Similar one in Canada was caused, apparently, by a remote engine starter failing in some manner and jamming everything -some people have these remotes to get the vehicle warmed up before they get in when it is cold (-30C is not unusual and it gets worse than that)
Only in America???
As Stroppy Me down under says regularly, “Make of it what you will.”
(My) Red-Pilled Sister sends the following news, just now:
“Interesting……while everyone is chomping at the bit trading threats and speculation regarding whether or not
Trump… Barr…….Mueller…et al…is/are going to give us the straight poop, the unredacted incriminating evidence unearthed in the THE MUELLER REPORT…THE FINAL REPORT…of the US DOJ Special Counsel’s
Investigation into Donald Trump RUSSIA and COLLUSION…It is actually available for pre-sale on Amazon. ??
Only in America…????
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1552162010&refinements=p_27%3ASpecial+Counsel%27s+Office+U.S.+Department+of+Justice&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Special+Counsel%27s+Office+U.S.+Department+of+Justice
Once a friend of mine asked me if I accept Bitcoin for a piece of art. After a few days, went to the doctor and asked him if he accept Bitcoin : – what ? Bitcoin ?…what you mean ? asked the doctor.
– Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency used in the computer world and you can buy with it – I tried to explain…
– Well, my friend, I’m used to get the envelope with cash – said the doctor – and until now, nobody said to me such a thing…
– But doctor, this is…
– OK my friend…until next time…nurse, call in the next please !
…CGI … Computer-Generated Imagery
The Chemical Brothers – Free Yourself (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wzR_BVFsUU
… and …
The Chemical Brothers – Wide Open ft. Beck (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2dRkm8ATU
‘I’m winning!’ Trump attacks ‘Wacky Nut Job’ Ann Coulter for her border wall criticism
https://www.rt.com/usa/453442-trump-wacky-nut-job-coulter/
“Wacky Nut Job Ann Coulter, who still hasn’t figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am winning on the Border,” Trump proclaimed on Twitter.
“Tens of thousands of illegals are being apprehended (captured) at the Border and NOT allowed into our Country,” he added. “With another President, millions would be pouring in.”
An ideal solution to this skoolgrrrrrl feud would be for one to murder the other, get caught and be hanged for it. Both the coulter tranny and the israeli trump quisling are psychopathic nutjobs, probably equally so.
American diplomat tests Russian airport security.
“US embassy staff member attempts to bring bomb with fuse to Moscow airport – Ministry”
http://tass.com/emergencies/1048004
In America, inspectors regularly find that the TSA fails to detect explosives sent through security checkpoints on tests. My guess is that the American State Dept wanted to know if the Russians would detect this explosive fuse and other traces of explosives. Had the Russians proved to be as incompetent as the TSA, a terrorist with a real bomb would have followed.
Erasing 9/11 Truth: VT Restores One Key Evidentiary Piece
By VT Editors – March 9, 2019
Undertitle: 9/11 Hokum: Deconstructing Christopher Bollyn and Steve Jones
Last sentence: We see your true colors Chris. There can be no doubt that Steve Jones knows he is pro-
moting a fraudulent theory to the public. Steve has managed to deceive many people in the 9/11 Truth
Movement over the years. We’re on to you Steve and your days of relevance in the 9/11 Truth Move-
ment are waning.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/03/09/erasing-9-11-truth-vt-restores-one-key-evidentiary-piece/
The articles Bollyn and Jones don’t want you to see are listed below with links:
The 2. from them – Mapping Fort Lee, the Truth Behind 9/11
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/23/mapping-fort-lee-the-truth-behind-911/
… now spend one hour in awe … documentary
The Giants – flying boats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y22F9O3A0EM
update …
It is now being reported from Venezuela …
no deaths in hospitals due to electrical power outages.
True or not, a very wise and determined positive move.
The rolling power problems are being overcome so far.
Venezuela power ‘cyberattack’.
Also posted on the sidebar by p, a good piece by moonofalabama on this issue. I’m convinced it was some kind of sabotage. But it is the kind of sabotage that will not make a Latin American country tumble easily as the way of life is different. The first thing you learn here, is to manage power, or rather manage for periods without power.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/venezuela-three-total-blackouts-in-three-days-government-presumes-us-cyberattack.html
Telesur on their twitter has been announcing return of power area by area in the last 4 or so hours.
https://twitter.com/telesurenglish
A little history – around 2002/2003 I was living on a Caribbean Island and involved in a Caribbean wide project. This was a long project, 3 years or so, and it was easier to live there for the duration … anyways, this island that I lived on had a currency collapse as well as an electrical grid collapse at the same time – it lasted for 3 weeks but rolling power appeared before the 3 weeks was over. I thought to say a few words on how we and other people coped as it seems the same in Venezuela.
First thing, life slows down a little.
Second thing, all kinds of service economies appear overnight.
Third thing, people start working together.
Most everyone has a basic power generator – either gas, or petrol gas – within a social structure or a family or somewhere there is a generator. People really work together in such circumstances. A bunch of quick ‘gig-economies’ appeared overnight and I remember clearly the fellow in his pickup truck that came by, collected everyone’s gas cylinders and went far and wide seeking for gas for cooking and brought the cylinders back as soon as he had a pickup truck full of filled cylinders. Most supermarkets have backup generators to keep their cold produce cold. Lights are considered the last of the priorities and people are involved in keeping food cold and in being able to cook and wash. Of course hot water is not very important.
In small villages it was most often the attorney of the village and the supplier of building materials that have generators and cell phones get charged. I happened to have a satellite dish for internet connectivity, so, I was popular for that reason and specifically the business community came around to send their emails and keep business going. Our household could go from electricity to generator with the flick of a transfer switch. So fridge and freezer was the most important to keep working and lights the least important. Candles were fine. Many people also have battery banks to store electricity. This is common in the Latin Americas or at least in the countries that I know. Petrol gas must be hand pumped as well, so, long lines appear but you could always get someone in the gig economy to fill your gas tanks for you. It works to be a functioning member of the community as these quick services appear kinda from nowhere.
Hospitals and such type services switch very quickly to a basic maintenance mode on their backup generators. Anything that can wait, must wait. People don’t run around crazy, they are used to coping in these circumstances.
Most all businesses have backup generators, some with battery banks. We had a sizable power interruption where I live in Latin America just a few weeks or so ago, and the German restaurant (fully on backup generator) on the corner immediately became the information hub. Every now and again you could see a neighbor walking up to the restaurant who sent an employee up to the power company every few hours or so, to find the latest progress. People just naturally start cooperating and sometimes you see spectacular explosions of sheer irritability. One day I saw an owner of a small business walking out of his business, and just then the power when off again. He stood there and shouted out the most vile cuss-words imaginable at the heavens (Spanish cussing is truly creative). Just a momentary little relief from the tension and it had me laughing – he of course started laughing as well and went off on his errands with another explosive series of cussing.
This was my best thing. I had a little small generator on wheels, just for me – a yellow one. I could wheel that thing across the veranda and use it to power my computer and satellite dish because I had a project to manage, or wheel it to another window and connect a washing machine to it. Can you image – a woman’s best accessory is a yellow little power generator on wheels. I could fill it with petrol gas easily and as long as I did not overburden it, it worked fine for short term on-the-spot power wherever I needed it.
But it was a relief when power eventually was fully restored after 3 weeks or so.
These few notes to show that people cope and power interruption is not going to let the Venezuelan government fall. The coping mechanisms are already in place.
i mean yes,
cutting power also impeded the zionazi twitter revolution
– noone is able to follow gweedos tweets.
the pindos didn’t think this thru, did they?
Good summary, Amarynth! People ouside of the decadent us can and will cope.
Need to show that summary to rubio, who has been running at the mouth with glee at the “suffering” of the Venezuelan people. I’ve said it before, will say again, the man is evil through and through. He is not only bribed 100%, he is owned.
rubio, pompeo, abrams, pence make just “wnnerful” examples of psychopatic thugs in suits, but hey, they are the us govt.
Now, Taras, can you name ANY Thanatopian politician who is not a psychopath, or some type that does not reach that level of intelligence or competence?
In our area on westcoast of NA it’s not so different. We have backup genset but also use storage battery and sinusoidal 2 kw inverter, which inverter has also some solar input. Not that we’re rolling in money…we are poor…but it is obvious that Imperial lust does not see that reliable supply of electricity is necessary for “deplorablevolk” and that as Time goes on we shall be visited as Venezuelans are today. Actually the computer is always on the inverter, and the battery maintained by mains power in “float”, thus a UPS (uninterruptable power supply) with power for about 10 hours – leaving the generator to cycle off most of the time and save fuel. Gensets burn quite a bit of fuel and are, as used, perhaps only 5% efficient…ie fuel hogs. And in emergency fuel is like gold… I figure about 3 liters/hour. Spendy! Inverter by-passes this fairly well. Be careful with fuel and fire, especially when the power’s off – as fire-fighting in a blackout is, uh, bad. Really bad. Like almost impossible…so avoid accidents.
Actually, about inefficiencies of gen-sets, even giant steam, GTs or diesel are seldom even 50% – and the distribution system losses much of that…assume E< 30% overall for commercial power and you'll see how much goes to waste. Solar avoids this quite well.
Better study some electronics before you fry yourself or your friends, or the equipment.
Start @ https://maritime.org/doc/neets/mod01.pdf
https://maritime.org/doc/index.htm
https://maritime.org/doc/index.htm#neets
Avoid dead short between ears, and magic thinking – it don't work.
Long forgotten, the CIA did this stuff to Cuba, in the beginning, when Comrade Fidel was, they thought, working for them, and of course later, after they twigged to the fact that Fidel had played CIA for marks and suckers…which really pizzed-em-off. Fidel fought these quisling expats in the forests of Cuba for about 10 years or more… At one time I was acquainted with a Cuban expat former saboteur…nice kid…but confused.
I seem to recall that the cutting of electric power was part of the opening of “Desert Storm” attack on Iraq. There are small flying robots that trail carbon fibers and these conducting strings drape over the high voltage lines and trigger the circuit breakers to trip as a result of arcs. The damage is usually temporary, but of course they can use explosives too, and sabotage.
Last Sumner the US practiced or gamed grid-down “black starts” at Plum Island… geewhiz, I wonder why…
I have no expertise in power infrastructure, but my understanding of the US power grid was that it was at grave risk for two reasons. First, power system control infrastructure is digital, that is computer based. Second that these systems are accessible through the internet. No need to blow up anything or use drones if that is the case in Venezuela.
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/453406-iran-ahmadinejad-nuclear-deal/
Comrade Brother Ahmadinejad gives a fine account of reality to RT. Made a great impression.
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About flying gas tubes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R100 Nevil Shute is worth review.
Basic Newtonian principles of engineering, by the way, reveal that giant flying LTA tubes have mass/shear/moment/drag “problems” (fundamental and non-fixable defects) that guarantee frequent catastrophic casualties when operated in Earth atmosphere. They cannot survive serious storms.
They are indeed beautiful, though. And small (and generally non economic) airships suffer less from such defects. I have walked ’round under a Goodyear blimp, Awesome sight.
As lifting gas H2 is superior to He and entirely safe if nondelusionally-based procedures are employed. “If”…
Hindenburg failure propagation was due to unintentional ignorance of basic chemistry, ie delusional engineering. They painted the machine with thermite paint > FeOx mixed with Al in a drying oil. One fat spark and presto! (no imaginary “mininuk” required…)
Delusions sometimes incite the gods to teach man, especially in area of flying machines.
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Bernie the fake socialist is a scab-loving rat? WSWS > https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/08/endo-m08.html
excerpt> “Sanders intervention in the Wabtec strike was based on more than mere electoral calculations. It expresses the fear among sections of the ruling elite that the trade unions, long a pillar of the corporate status quo, are losing control and not able to suppress any longer the massive anger in the working class over decades of concessions”
“The deal effectively allows the company to unilaterally tear up the agreement in place before the merger between Wabtec and GE Transportation, the previous owner of the Erie locomotive plant.
Workers at the locomotive plant walked out February 26 after Wabtec imposed the terms of a new contract that included a two-tier wage structure, the ability of management to hire temporary workers, with no rights, for up to 25 percent of the jobs. It also reduced the number of job classifications and instituted forced overtime.”
Not to worry, Dennis will blame the Israelis and rejoice that the pesky unions are actually the fifth column (against the workers).
DEM = GOP
Bernie = Trump
“According to the conservative philosophy, more freedom allows solutions to be reached freely”
US turkey’s voting for xmas.
MAGA, build the wall, build the wall.
Q,Q,Barney McGrew,Cuthbert,Dibble and Grubb http://trumpton3.homestead.com/pughpughbarneymcgrew.html
Alexander Zhitomirsky art work> “Capitalism with its friendly Dean Acheson mask” > https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:89441/
Simply substitute facsimile of Bernie, Obummer, Trumpie the clown…any fraudulent quisling face that fits… is systemic defect in end-stage capitalism, the fault is less in ourselves as in our stars, ie ethics, such as it may be, is circumstantial according to perception. and perception is never accurate due to, as a minimum, latency of sensory input and logic, never mind emotions and lies by experts.
More of Comrade Artist Alexander Zhitomirsky@ https://library.brown.edu/cds/Views_and_Reviews/artist_lists/P-Z.html
His Truman is a hoot!
Brother L mistakes the zionish intelop, which is an agency, for a prime mover, which it ain’t. And conflates an anti-Semitic and anti Jewish intelop birthed by John Bull with one of the Abrahamic Faiths. Zionism is destroying the Jewish people. John Bull cares for no faith, nor any group. Of course, at this point, the zionish agency has very profound and deep 5th column in Imperial Halls of Power. L mistakes effect for cause, inverting the fundamental, and naturally it’s GIGO errors as result.
L provides a great illustration of operative self-propagating delusion. That’s a wonder to observe. And to learn from…lest we ourselves fall for tricks.
see also > http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2019/02/churchill-conflicted-legacy.html
(He’s far too kind to the old drunken quisling of the elite running CoL.)
The masthead picture of our cafe lady reminds me of “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.” I’m still back in the old cafe with the old lady giving her old man the fist. Ladies, please, “lay, lady, lay.”
At the last cafe, Dimitar laid down some very sensible guides for poets going through the blues over the bad news. Thanks so much for your views.
Anonymous asked: “Of the 6 points listed, which does Israel deserve the blame, nearly entirely, for?” — I’d say all six. The Anglo Zionist Bolshevik manipulator behind the irony curtain has transferred my country’s heavy industry to itself, China and Russia; and is now doing the same with our hi-tech. The plan was laid out five centuries ago in the Bunting Cloverleaf Map with Israel at the center of the obor roads and rails, with the Americas down in the left hand corner, mostly off the map. Trump was hired to carry out this plan by getting us out of Israel’s sphere of influence in Europe, Asia and Africa; the deal was we could have the Americas in return, until the wheel turns again. “This wheel’s on fire, rollin’ down the road.”
Anonymous quoted me: ““According to the conservative philosophy, more freedom allows solutions to be reached freely” but then muddies the waters by mixing oranges with apples and rich with poor. The link he provides says the rich are getting richer and the poor are staying poor. “The poor you will always have with you.” I disagree; this whole maelstrom mess could be changed to all being rich but I can’t talk about it because the truth hits too close to home, and convicts all of us of treason against humanity by the actions we are doing that are so commonplace that they are perceived to be beyond reproach. We get what we deserve and justice is not going to be nice about it. andrea iravanisteen the grand duchessoffranistan has already addressed the work requirements for the poor as a social disaster; blame Trump’s Zio handlers for another fiasco.
Anonymous continues with another quote from yours truly: ““which is not the case with totalitarian bolshevik soviet socialism.” I know the soviet revisionists are bringing balance, but I ask you: Would you really like to live under Lenin’s Ruthless Rules or under American constitutional freedom?–while it lasts. I’m beginning to enjoy puncturing anonymous balloons as much as Brother Obor’s trial ones.
Anonymous doesn’t know when to quit. He quotes me again: ““Regarding the debt, a strong economy will bring in more taxes with which to pay down the debt.” In support thereof, he directs me to VT, a government lackey; to American Prospect, yet another government rag; and Mulga who mumblebrains driverless work vehicles with union busting. Come on, guys, let’s get our act together before this whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Bene distinguere, bene discere.
I’m not the brightest bulb on the block, as you well know, but I can tell a “hawk from a handsaw.” I want to be super but end up being stupid. Go ahead, prove me wrong again. I can always change, like the time just did here in the US of A; I wish they’d leave well enough alone. Like Bro, says: I’m stuck in my ways like my Timex but at least I’m right twice a day. I need a break to wind myself up. I’m having fun now but will regret speaking out when a child like me is supposed to be seen, not heard. I’ll probably be back, unless that “long black cloud is comin’ down” along with the man in “the long black coat” and has me “knockin’ on heaven’s door” to escape the inner demons. “People are crazy and the world is strange; I’m all locked in and out of range; I used to care but things have changed.” Ah, but then there’s Dimitar with his scimitar of wisdom for poets.
“The plan was laid out five centuries ago”
At least you have a fertile imagination.
“The Anglo Zionist Bolshevik manipulator behind the irony curtain has transferred my country’s heavy industry to itself, China and Russia; and is now doing the same with our hi-tech”
Why then is FOXCONN (Taiwan based) setting up in Wisconsin https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/284816-foxconn-admits-it-wont-build-wisconsin-tv-plant-despite-4b-investment ?
“Reuters now reports that the company has effectively canceled the original plan(s) it worked out with Wisconsin. Instead of 13,000 jobs, it’ll hire 1,000 people. Instead of hiring skilled line workers, it’ll mostly focus on researchers and engineers. Foxconn describes these as “knowledge” positions. Instead of manufacturing, it wants to create a high-tech research hub.”
The $4B tax credit?
” Trump was hired to carry out this plan”
Which plan? the one to increase the public debt clock a tad more than it’s current $21.1T to the benefit of the FOXCONN shareholders?
“the deal was we could have the Americas in return”
Who is “we”?
“this whole maelstrom mess could be changed to all being rich”
No need to be rich – basic health cover for the 8.8% of useless eaters would be a basic decency though.
“We get what we deserve”
Are you referring to the useless eaters?
“Would you really like to live under Lenin’s Ruthless Rulesr”
Castro’s Cuba.
“or under American constitutional freedom”
If you are serious (and I imagine you are) that is both funny and sad https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/americas-oligarchy-not-democracy-or-republic-unive/.
“he directs me to VT, a government lackey”
Which government do you imagine Vot Tak is a lackey of (I know he detests the Trumpturd)?
“Bene distinguere, bene discere”
Most Irish are no longer Catholic https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/it-s-too-late-not-even-pope-francis-can-resurrect-catholic-ireland-1.3605271 – Latin is out of favour too.
You seem, like most Americans, you crave riches. You could probably buy a bunch of FOXCONN shares and benefit at the expense of your fellow turkeys. Donald is heavily invested.
Of late, I’ve been obsessed with how stupid I am, and how emotionally weak as well. The least little thing causes the bottom to drop out. I recover but then I’m well protected in this warm igloo I’ve been given to keep out the Wisconsin ice and snow. From the California fires to the Wisconsin freezes; where’s them gentle S. Cal breezes? I read here about people with real problems, and I wonder about my own selfishness. Damn. Bro might to right for once in his life. When am I going to grow up to be an adult, and get past the fixations of my baby, child and teen times? At 79, I should be rolling along fine. I was reminded of a poem I wrote years ago about this problem of how to grow up, this task of going from stupid adult to super adult. With trembling and trepidation in the presence of poets like Dimitar and prose and poetry artists like Bro, I humbly and proudly submit the following:
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The river of time flows upstream to the country of your consciousness dream.
You are going home on a watery road, pulling that barge and pushing that load.
The riverboat docks at all the main levels; you can run in the rain or reign in the revels.
You can pray with the natives or dance with the devils; catch fish on the pebbles or make hay with the rebels.
The Adult marina is only one stop in time’s arena: you can get out on the dock and shop til you drop.
The river of time will push you along, whether you sing your own song or mix with the throng of the right and the wrong.
An Adult Love life can be Super if only you don’t unconsciously dupe her. When pursuing the Love god Cupid, don’t make the mistake of being Stupid.
When I gave up reason, I was sold down the river; I committed self treason and pulled the trigger.
The hero of the age is Super man but without his womam, he’s an also ran.
Stupid in Love is the original sin; Super in Love is the big inning win.
When my ship comes in to the Adult river-port, give me a twenty one gun salute report. Say he was going up the river to a far bigger giver, to meet the highland sources of the wild river forces.
When my ship comes in, I’m going on board; when the boat bell rings, I’ll sheath my sword; when high tide begins, I will meet my lord.
If the Adult card is up, I drink of its cup; come wrack or come wreck, I stand on its deck. The Adult card is the half way house along the river of time; when I draw that card, I make it mine.
To be an Adult is to stand for Justice; to marry the Love that’s truly just us. Adult is the apex of human life; a courageous Ajax conquering strife.
I do battle on the plains of Troy; leave a child’s rattle and toys of a boy; drop the teenager playing coy and take up the sword of Adulthood joy. In this consciousness house, card game deal, I’ll find Achilles’ heel; and play Hector until I get her.
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I’m embarrassed. I couldn’t have written that. Must be that anima that mundanomaniac jung writes about; or all of you in some grand conspiracy; or wait, it’s Russia; of course, why didn’t I see it? Russia is tapping my brain out, especially Maria Zakharova or those beautiful horsewomen with Vladimir.
This is perhaps of interest to the good Saker:
An article on Russian military reform by a Swiss analyst, the first of three parts, outlining past, present, and future Russian military capabilities and reforms:
In English:
https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=35498
In German:
https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=35170
Russia’s seven-hour movie adaption of War and Peace is being released again:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/15/18223285/war-and-peace-sergei-bondarchuk-adaptation-1966?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Stupid, evil, callous words from a stupid, evil, callous man:
Secretary Pompeo
Verified account @SecPompeo
No food. No medicine. Now, no power. Next, no Maduro.
The well-nourished Mr P will also pass away, in the fullness of Time..and he might profit by reading Shelly>
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
………………………
Time always prevails…
As Groucho observed-‘Time wounds all heels’.
In the meantime,
hundreds of thousands of Syrians are dead/dying, tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance and tens of millions of Russians face pension poverty.
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-groucho-marxism-1.5248546
Thanks for your thoughts and thanks for your poetry, Dennis. I’ve been wanting to congratulate you on having reached the wonderful age of 79 with all of your ( most important ) faculties intact; happy birthday, whenever it is, and great to have ya back at the Cafe.
WW II Secret Soviet Aircraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfAqFZ2PZ4
Part 6 of 6 parts analyzing Skirpal intelop fubar by John Bull…seems quite carefully done, and I myself esteem the work @ https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/11/joining-some-dots-on-the-skripal-case-part-6-tying-up-the-loose-ends/
excerpt> “…smokes and mirrors, designed to stop us from considering some of the more obvious aspects of the case, and some of the more startling aspects of the case – Mr Skripal’s involvement with MI6; his likely involvement in or authorship of the Trump Dossier; the likelihood that he was due to meet people at the bench in The Maltings; the probability that this is why he was agitated and in a hurry in Zizzis; the likelihood that he knows who poisoned him and why…”
This series, like everything else in the miasma of net, might change, or go poof! Keep copy? Duh!
Blackstone Intelligence
Ilhan Omar Has Brought Israel Into Mainstream Discussion
Published on March 7th, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SkZOjkyWwY
Surrealism In Omar’s Antisemitism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIAQQkQVk9M
Theodor Herzl quotes:
“The power we need comes from anti-Semitism”
“Anti-Semitism will be our best friend”
Herzl was only repeating Judaic doctrine. Judaism was created in opposition to and antagonism towards the rest of humanity, and is the true ‘Oldest (extant) hatred’. No doubt it was a common feature of Bronze Age religions, and we know of it only because the Jews have survived as a coherent community, and not be absorbed by later cultures and civilizations. Talmudic, Rabbinical, Judaism spent centuries on deepening and hardening this basic xenophobic attitude towards the goyim, and ‘renegade’ Jews like Spinoza, and today is represented by creatures like the Yesha Council of Rabbis and Torah Sages, a highly influential and powerful group, who openly declare that, in total opposition to International Law, that killing enemy civilians is not just permissible, but is, in fact, a mitzvah, or good deed. Talmudic Judaism controls religious matters in Israel, their parties are central to Rightwing coalitions and their members are rapidly taking over the elite military and intelligence posts, thus making Israel a sort of Talmudistan, on the road to a full theocracy like their ‘cousins’ in Sordid Barbaria, and, hence, deepening the growing schism with Diaspora Jewry, hence, in part, the hysterical and fraudulent campaigns against fictional ‘antisemitism’ in the Western slave states.
It’s Time to Tell the Truth: Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy Supports Ilhan Omar’s Critique of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEwCQApNMc
Max Blumenthal: Report From the Real Venezuela
Published on March 7th, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfD-7_kXs9E
How the World May End – John Pilger on Venezuela, Trump & Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZKtpEi8Oo
Speaking of W3 and all that… A handy primer on how they work, in 2 parts. The recommended reading is, for me, old stuff, dust on my bookshelf. “They”, yes, it’s a lecture series on the suicide machines, so-called “atomic weapons”.
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=54504
Aside from that, cryptogon is a site that post some interesting material, and fairly often…
Israeli tactics honed to brutal perfection on the hapless Palestinians are now being used daily on Yellow Vest protesters. Macron learned well, it seems.
French ophthalmologists demand Macron ban rubber bullets as eye injuries spread like ‘EPIDEMIC’
https://www.rt.com/news/453470-france-rubber-bullets-eye-loss/
Selah
Israel advises India on repressing the Kashmiris. There the Indian occupation forces use bird-shot, aimed at the head, to disperse rioters. This led to an epidemic of eye injuries and blindness, even among bystanders or neighbours. When Kashmiri ophthalmologists gained expertise at removing these shot and saving sight, the Indians switched to irregular shaped shot, to make operations harder. I also don’t doubt that French police thugs may have been ‘trained’ in Israel, a global centre for training in brutal repression tactics.
Over at the War Room, there’s an eye-catcher, if not a barn-burner:
Neo-Empire: Russia in the Modern World, by Rostislav Ishchenko
Translation by Scott Humor
“25 years after the partition of the Soviet Union, both Russia and the United States [have] almost simultaneously declared a transition to pragmatic relations with their allies. Both empires offer no pay for being in a union with them. In the union framework, Russia offers to work together to make profit, and the United States offers to rob together.”
“Any state strives for the ideal, that is, to extend its power to the entire inhabited world (even if it does not realize this).”
What to make of this? Two empires in a hybrid war? The old lion and the new challenger? The first # is about right imo. The second seems not to be the case with Russia; yet all is not as it seems. Some say Putin is playing both sides against the middle; once KGB, always KGB. The neo-liberals in Russia get the press while the old guard presses silently along the corridors of power for total dominance. Hold on to your seats for the next act in this King of the Mountain Opera, posing as an operetta, tragedy-comedy directed by ex-theater wizard, Vladislav Surkov. Theater of War or Theater of the Absurd? Or both?
“She was the rose of Sharon from paradise lost
From the city of seven hills near the place of the cross.
I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy.”
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances…”
You’re reading this wrong. Let’s try again …
“25 years after the partition of the Soviet Union, both Russia and the United States [have] almost simultaneously declared a transition to pragmatic relations with their allies.”
Nothing to do with the US, as the US is not an ally. This rather contrasts the different approaches.
The next sentence is not drawing the two together either. Rather it is pointing out differences and the two different approaches.
“Both empires offer no pay for being in a union with them. In the union framework, Russia offers to work together to make profit, and the United States offers to rob together.”
You’re conflating these two sentences with a wish to draw the two together in some form. This is neither implied, nor is it stated by the author.
Russia has doorknobbed the US – until someone appears that can differentiate between Austria and Australia, or until someone appears that does not ‘oink together’ with the rest’, or until someone comes to their senses.
amarynth’s comment is heart-warming and personal, ending with “These few notes to show that people cope and power interruption is not going to let the Venezuelan government fall. The coping mechanisms are already in place.” — I have long argued for the value of small communities, which her experience bears out. — “But it was a relief when power eventually was fully restored after 3 weeks or so.” — Cart before horse here: small should be the norm, within the larger structures; not just a response to emergencies.
parrhesiastes gives us a most wonderful interview:
“Comrade Brother Ahmadinejad gives a fine account of reality to RT. Made a great impression.”
Indeed. Thanks. He is truly a great man. Israel had him removed and replaced with their stooge Rouhani, who I think bookends with Trump on the interview stage. Ah… speaks favorably of the Abraham religions and Moses, but he should bone up a bit on history. Abraham was from the land of Ur and was not a Jew so the Abrahamic religions are not Israeli based. Moses was the one who displaced the Canaanites, although he had Aaron kill them all: men, women, children, animals and all; presaging Gaza and animal slaughter today.
Representative Ilhan, D-Minn, committed the unforgivable sin of saying the truth, that the foreign state, Israel, runs the US. If you want to graduate from baby food to adult fare, check out another great man, imo, Brendon O’Connell, now at Vimeo, for the real goods on Israel.
Mr. p…speaker of truth to power, gives us the Brit version of flying gas tubes. If he hasn’t already, he should check out what Paul linked to: the German Graf Zeppelin of the same time, that flew around the world, plus its many other flights, up to the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. I have questions. Why did the Graf go over Russia where it ran into storms, and then the giant storm off the Pacific coast of the US; proving it could weather storms and lightning, even with hydrogen; but if that’s too risky, there’s helium. Over Russia was the shortest way but extremely dangerous, and almost doomed the project; it could have easily gone down to the Mediterranean and then over to Japan and back to New York.
In the politically charged atmosphere of the time, leading to WWII, I think the Germans purposely snubbed Stalin by changing the plan and bypassing Moscow, ostensibly to save time and gas. Also, the bosses of speed and sadism, wanted to sell oil and weapons, not tarry with slow, efficient and pleasurable dirigibles; so they blew up the Hindenburg to blow up the war.
paripatetic p closes the deal with: “Bernie the fake socialist is a scab-loving rat? WSWS…” Feel the Burn? The bosses use Bern to ‘control the opposition.’ But then they do the same with the Dems and Repubs.
I need to break for lunch; but I’ll probably be back, to the chagrin of some.
Dennis, I referenced Hindenburg flying tube. As to He v H2 gas as lifting gas, understand that the specific gas is the first engineering decision in the design. The design surrounds the gas and is determined by it’s character. The two (or more, as there are other LTA gases) gasses are not interchangeable in the same flying machine unless serious engineering compromises are made at the design level. Flying gas tubes big enough to be serious completion for HTA aircraft and cheap enough to make up for being slow (you have to make more if they’re slower) are intrinsically structurally unsafe and for this reason as well as basic operational economics, frankly, silly. Very beautiful, but silly… That’s clear enough if you study the several design approaches – which is why I made mention of Shute and R series – R100 and R101 and Hindenburg histories (and the ones the US Navy crashed after W1) are significant. (different designs) Yes, they float, but mass many tons, and they are impossible to control in bad weather, and also liable to catastrophic structural failure (they break up, as I wrote, shear, moment, drag etc etc).
It’s just Newtonian physics, man. They’re pretty toys.
Modern “Israel” is an Brit intelop gone roguish. It has zero to do with Judaism. Zilch. Nada. It’s fraudulent.A con-game. This mask is failing, most interestingly among observant and educated Jews. Actually our brother Comrade President A reminds me of a Rabbi I know… I got my dear wife to listen to his interview, and she too sees this.
Why fly “Russia” (USSR) with nazi flying tube? Same reason the German post W1 flew Poland with manned LTA balloons…take pretty pictures. Read obscure v Luckner autobio (I have done). Reconops. Plain and frank. Another “public secret”.
Nothing dangerous about H2 gas. Stable and safe as sunrise. And leaks simply float away quite quickly. However, like electricity…it does not obey magical thinking. In fact, with He it’s nearly impossible to control leaks (it’s an atomic gas and really tiny). H2 is a molecular gas, and a much larger item, far easier to keep in a bag as well as a better lift per cubic, and easy to make. He needs a star exploding, more or less, to make it, well, some gasses off from radioactive decay deep inside our Earth. Anyway ‘spensive and quite limited supply. H2 is essentially cheap, good lift, easy to control. Not that this matters, as the flying tubes are unsafe and uneconomic – useful in very special applications at seriously expensive levels.
( I wonder if balloons are seen as “drones”….anybody can attach some foil to give radar a target…and … Well, I guess the Airfarce would try to intercept @ perhaps 10 thousand buckies per intercept… Ok one buckie for tinfoil and rubber (condoms work), 10,000 times that to intercept… How entertaining… This is not a suggestion, but simply stating a well defined and obvious reality available to perhaps 3,000 million people with access to water, electricity, tinfoil, and condoms… Please do not try it. Might get somebody hurt.)
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About the USSR/USA – Szilard in the 1960’s, and much later on, Hobsbawm, both said that the two juxtaposed empires were a stable pair and really quite similar. Hobsbawm opined in, I believe, 1989 or so, that the dissolution of USSR would be “bad”, ie that without USSR there would be war. Actually, about 1975, I myself said this too in conversation with a lapsed commie and crypto-marxist lady law professor.
Bernie the Fake matters zero. The affairs of our species will move as glaciers. We ride the event, mostly. What matters is some unknown schmuck who says “no! I will not fire”, launch, shoot, or whatever. Poor Brad Manning matters far more that any “president” of a collapsing failed empire. Little Bradly says “NO!”
God bless him.
A truly awesome article on The Duran but from Off Guardian. A report from Switzerland on how the worldwide MSN feds pro-US/NATO propaganda throughout its media outlets. I’m not sure if Saker has read it.But I’d love to see his take on it.Here are a couple of inserts from the article:
“I’d imagined correspondents to be historians-of-the-moment. When something important happened, they’d go after it, find out what was going on, and report on it. But I didn’t go off to find out what was going on; that had been done long before. I went along to present an on-the-spot report.
The editors in the Netherlands called when something happened, they faxed or emailed the press releases, and I’d retell them in my own words on the radio, or rework them into an article for the newspaper. This was the reason my editors found it more important that I could be reached in the place itself than that I knew what was going on. The news agencies provided enough information for you to be able to write or talk you way through any crisis or summit meeting.
That’s why you often come across the same images and stories if you leaf through a few different newspapers or click the news channels.
Our men and women in London, Paris, Berlin and Washington bureaus – all thought that wrong topics were dominating the news and that we were following the standards of the news agencies too slavishly….
The common idea about correspondents is that they ‘have the story’…but the reality is that the news is a conveyor belt in a bread factory. The correspondents stand at the end of the conveyor belt, pretending we’ve baked that white loaf ourselves, while in fact all we’ve done is put it in its wrapping….
Afterwards, a friend asked me how I’d managed to answer all the questions during those cross-talks, every hour and without hesitation. When I told him that, like on the TV-news, you knew all the questions in advance, his e-mailed response came packed with expletives. My friend had realized that, for decades, what he’d been watching and listening to on the news was pure theater.
– Luyendjik 2009, p. 20-22, 76, 189”
“Among the most active actors in “injecting” questionable geopolitical news are the military and defense ministries. For example, in 2009, the head of the American news agency AP, Tom Curley, made public that the Pentagon employs more than 27,000 PR specialists who, with a budget of nearly $ 5 billion a year, are working the media and circulating targeted manipulations. In addition, high-ranking US generals had threatened that they would “ruin” the AP and him if the journalists reported too critically on the US military.
Despite – or because of? – such threats our media regularly publish dubious stories sourced to some unnamed “informants” from “US defense circles”.”
https://off-guardian.org/2019/03/08/the-propaganda-multiplier/
/why-only-fools-trust-americas-mainstream-news-media-after-the-2003-invasion-of-iraq/#comment-621266
vot tak on March 05, 2019 · at 1:22 am EST/EDT
The Propaganda Multiplier: How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
https://www.globalresearch.ca/propaganda-multiplier-global-news-agencies-western-media-geopolitics/5670371
Very useful article on the role news agencies (ap, reuters, etc) have in shaping the zionazi-gay media narrative in the west.
I prefer to link to Global Research over those 2 azz sites. It’s part of the BDS I practice regarding israel and their zionazi-gay network.
Jeez, Bob, Chomsky and Herman outlined the reality of the Western fakestream media as a propaganda system for the rich parasites who own Western societies twenty-five years ago, working from research by the likes of Alex Carey. And any sane observer must concur. The idea that there is centralised control may be a stretch, or sign of panicked over-kill, because the presstitutes know what is required in order to keep their highly-paid jobs, so don’t need intrusive policing. The execution of the occasional Thought Criminal that evades the careful vetting for ideological reliability that accompanies initial employment, serves to ‘encourage the others’. The growth of the Internet to disseminate facts at variance with Imperial dogma threatens the totalitarian brainwashing machine, so we currently see a frenzied campaign of censorship and repression, driven by fraudulent accusations of ‘antisemitism’, loyalty to Russia, and, best of all coming from such recidivist liars and humbugs, ‘fake news’. Big Brother’s triumph over Badthink is almost complete.
For Dennis, and the rest of us that are somewhat ‘childlike’, not ‘childish’, ahem…
well, I’m looking ahead
and the road is narrowing
my map is ragged
but may still be of use,
I’m done looking back,
it’s way too harrowing
and my rear-view mirror
is starting to work loose
I’m looking ahead
wondering what it’ll be like,
no doubt there’ll be
one or two surprises,
trying my best
to avoid the dike,
and thinking of you
when the need arises
I’m looking ahead
trying to find a clue,
I’ve travelled the world
and been to high places,
but one thing I’ve learnt
and it’s certainly true
everything you give
love always replaces!
well, I’m looking ahead
and the road is narrowing
my map is ragged
but may still be of use,
sometimes I look back
even though it’s harrowing,
and my rear-view mirror
is starting to work loose…
What does it mean to a rear-mirror “working loose”?
What’s in the mirror of you, the greater you, ‘the world’, or more?
In my rear-mirror is the kind conduct, that led me since
I was 39, now being 77.
And there’s also the upper mirror
of mine and the lower one.
The latter showed me in a recent dream 3 times a Tower like
that of St. Marcus in Venice, and in all 3 Towers, under
the roof was in stone inscipted “Satan”.
Methinks, we have to deal with that without trying to
envision the perfect paradise … but do the necessary
being in our command
Hi mundanomaniac. The “rear-view mirror” is “looking back in retrospect”, looking at the past. In a wider sense; our earthly or mental faculties, essentially amounting to reason, and over-reliance on them. It encompasses memories of course, ie; our sum total experience perhaps contained in a lifetime.
Nor am I particularly saying, “look ahead to some paradise yet to come”, “looking ahead” is more about being in this moment where our dreams take root, because being in the present moment is that fertile ground that allows us to create better conditions whether they manifest in this, or some other life. As above so below.
The idea of Satan is an old one. To me Satan is the seat of the negative force, and dwells in each of us. It may be the faculty of reason, of logic, of unrestricted self-indulgence, evil of course, etc., however, it has two sides or faces. A “good” and a “bad” side, in fact, many may think of it as “God”. It’s function, while keeping Soul a prisoner in it’s kingdom, is to temper the soul; ie; those worlds that lie outside the Soul Plane; the region ( more specifiaclly state of consciousness ) where Soul beholds Itself without any of It’s coverings, or bodies. Each body, the physical, the Astral/Emotional, the Causal and Mental/Etheric are composed of the psychic/spiritual matter of their respective planes and are dropped, as Soul finally establishes Itself on the Soul Plane. Soul needs to find the key within Itself that leads out of the Kingdom of the lower worlds, and eventually does.
The task of the individual in order to know Soul within, begins with not being ruled by one’s emotions, to “not take sides”, to gain control of our subjective self, to become a conduit of love without directing that love etc. These at least, are my views. Cheers.
Shoulda read…
“It’s function while keeping Soul a prisoner in it’s kingdom, ie; those worlds outside the Soul Plane, is to temper it…”
Apologies, I’m in a bit of a rush atm.
Please, parrhesiastes, be careful with terms. Am I Brother L? Is intelop intelligence operation or the name of a company? Same for L; is that for Leary?
“Brother L mistakes the zionish intelop, which is an agency, for a prime mover, which it ain’t. And conflates an anti-Semitic and anti Jewish intelop birthed by John Bull with one of the Abrahamic Faiths… L mistakes effect for cause…L provides a great illustration of operative self-propagating delusion. That’s a wonder to observe. And to learn from…lest we ourselves fall for tricks.”
If I’m L, I didn’t say “zionish” is prime mover; I’ve said repeatedly that Rogue Russia is behind them, and bigger powers behind Russia. A close reader would be more careful. I conflated John Bull with Abraham? What? Never did. If you read more carefully you would see that I pointed out that Abraham was not even Jewish, but from Ur. You and Bro mistake leery for leary. And what is “(He’s far too kind to the old drunken quisling of the elite running CoL.)”; who is CoL? If you want to argue, argue fair.
Anonymous wrote:
“Stupid, evil, callous words from a stupid, evil, callous man:
Secretary Pompeo
Verified account @SecPompeo
No food. No medicine. Now, no power. Next, no Maduro.”
Do you have a reliable link to that? I scrolled through Pompeo’s recent twitters; lots of nice words but nothing like you quoted. Are you being ‘callous’ or sarcastic?
Павел (Paul) gives us another priceless history lesson with “WW II Secret Soviet Aircraft” I thought the Graf Zeppelin link was unbeatable but this one may be better, for military karma if not for romantic drama.
No wonder Bibi said the best engineers were Russians; he should know since they now run Israel hi-tech. Bibi also said cyber is the domain of power; worrisome when Israel has backdoors and kill switches in virtually all computers. WWII brought out the best German and Soviet engineers Uncle Sam and John Bull could buy and supply. They played both sides. Germany would have won the war in the East if it weren’t for the British mole who gave the deciphered German codes to the Russians, who were waiting for the German armies. Germany could have easily invaded Britain but did useless bombings instead. Why? Did Comrade Churchill disapprove? The Masters of War run all puppets, then as now.
The documentary retails how paranoid Stalin was of his own air engineers and had many of them killed in the camps; he was terrified of flying himself. So much for the freedom of Soviet Communism. The Americans found out how good Russian designers are with the MIG15 in Korea and later with spudnik, unless they were in on the game all along, like now. Brilliant minds at work, but war is such a waste.
I was surprised to learn that defecting Russian pilots flew German planes. It figures. Stalin was killed in March, 1953, by his own four horsemen: Nikita Khrushchev and company, the one who pounded his shoe and boasted Russia would bury the West, which still may be the case if the Old Guard KGB prevails. Post-Stalin Russian wings took off freely, and look at them today; sweet revenge for what the West did to them in ’89. The US lets them steal our tech so we need more money for better machines. Oh, the rage of the machine age; it might kill us all. Thanks for the history lesson.
Got to go downstairs for supper, and listen to one Brendon O’Connell at Vimeo for another viewpoint. Nephew Stephen is away on retreat; won’t be back til tomorrow because of the snow storm. Then I’ll watch the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Bucks, the best in the NBA. I love to go with winners. Damn, we’ve got to win this war against Empire, Russian style.
“No food. No medicine. Now, no power. Next, no Maduro.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/433200-pompeo-blames-maduro-for-blackout-in-venezuela
The issue with that tweet : Pompeo made that tweet – it was captured by thousands – he started getting very bad feedback and cowardly quickly deleted it. But that tweet was captured by so many, that it lives on.
Let’s look at a few other tweets –
US Vice President Mike Pence said that “the tyrant” Maduro “danced as his henchmen…burned food & medicine.”
National Security Advisor and regime change enthusiast John Bolton accused Maduro of sending “masked thugs” to torch the aid crates,
USAID Administrator Mark Green stated with confidence that the Venezuelan leader “ordered the firing on and burning” of the trucks.
And Rubio’s snuff picture tweet is of course of a whole other despicable nature.
Of course, we know that the trucks were torched as a type of false flag by opposition from Colombia. Even the New York Times is now reporting on this and CNN? They’ve had to admit that they were spreading utter lies .. Apparently (and I don’t read much of this drivel) they reported that their own reporter on the ground personally witnessed this. But, there was no CNN reporter on the scene.
Now we kinda know for sure that Pence, Bolton, The USAid administrator and Pompeo are telling rotten lies with psychopathic glee. We all thought Hillary Clinton’s “We came, we saw, he’s dead” cackle cackle comment was the pinnacle of psychopatic glee, but this bunch is just as bad, if not worse. I’m beginning to think Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment had merit (and this does not mean that I support her, or her criminality).
You remind me, again, of the gullibility of humanity /a-ray-of-light/
The poor, poor NY Times, stuck on the sharp horns of dilemma.
Do they report what their buddies in the Intelligence agencies are telling them to report, which of course was the fake news story about evil Maduro personally burning those aid trucks full of humanitarian toiletries? But, in doing that, they are agreeing with what Trump was saying, which must have caused a lot of heartburn at the Nit Wit Times? So, what is a good propagandist to do? Apparently the Hate Trump feelings won out and they reported (eventually) that Trump was lying yet again.
This bit about “Gwenyth Todd – a former Middle East adviser to the White House, the Pentagon and the US Navy – was contracted to deliver six lectures aboard the Viking Sun as it sailed from Chile to New Zealand in February and March” caught my eye. It may interest y’all as well>
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/111170138/us-war-whistleblower-silenced-aboard-cruise-ship-to-new-zealand
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/03/11/us-war-whistle-blower-silenced-aboard-cruise-ship-to-new-zealand/
Using duckduckgo searched her – interesting lady. May hits on her by name. Evidently somebody wants her to dummy-up. (I have myself been told to do that, on occasion, but nobody slipped me a Mickey (and it looks like Mickey Finn was on that ship, eh?))
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Dennis, Hindenburg was not blown up. It caught fire. I see that online some claim the fabric-skin was not an exothermic thermitic composition. I have seen a video of an actual very rare surviving fragment ignited by a spark, and it burned just like thermite does – and I myself have used thousands of pounds of commercial welding termite – the sight was entirely familiar. Now, this isn’t analytical gas chromatography, but it’s quite persuasive.
If you look for aircraft fabric and doping materials you’ll see that the early compositions were nitrated cellulose – that itself is a mild-to-strong (it depends on the degree of nitration and the physical shape, etc) explosive, add cotton and Al and FeOx and so on, and it’s pretty much a flying fire alarm. No nazi bomb needed, just a technological attempt to do something beautiful, that didn’t work out very well. A dead-end, pretty much.
Keep safe, old man…
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Crosstalk today is good….Dima sasy it.
I need be brief since company’s coming and I am in arrears time-wise and otherwise.
I enjoyed Anonymous’s retorts to my reports; he sure has a fertile imagination which is my retort. We’re having company today or I might have time to continue this wonderful repartee. You might be right, though, about some of my too bald statements. I still have a head of hair, if not a head of air.
Ilhan Omar is truth speaker non pareil imo. Someone that beautiful can’t be bad or had.
amarynth writes “You’re reading this wrong. Let’s try again …”
Wouldn’t be the first time I’m wrong; or as the joke goes: I was wrong once in my life; I thought I was wrong and was not. I’m not following her reasoning; seems we’re saying the same thing, but I don’t have time to discuss the matter at length–so will concede the point since women are usually more perceptive. Oops, did I misspeak?
parrhesiastes lives up to his name. Many thanks for the educated and witty response to my rather clumsy armchair speculations.
Like a duck to water, I take to Dimitar’s poetic wisdom, like looking ahead through a windshield and backwards with a shaky rear-view mirror. A window-mirror world. mundanomaniac nicely complements higher consciousness reflections. When I have more time, I will reflect further on these interesting matters. I also enjoy the more physical, technical adepts here at the cafe, which gives a home to a variety of inputs, physical and metaphysical, a rare blend of elements that contribute to a hopeful future.
I am humbled by the ‘out on a limb’ statements I made about Pompeo. That he would take down his statement makes sense, which accounts for why I couldn’t find it. The feedback mechanism of an open minded cafe corrects for my short-sighted perceptions. Like Fagin in Oliver: “I think I better think it out again — I’m reviewing the situation.” That applies to Trump and whole raft of debris I’ve picked up over 79 years; time to throw over the rail much of the ballast, if not BS.
Thanks to all, and to all a good day. Company’s coming and I must mind my manners and be on my good behavior; something I need to learn likewise in this cafe company of confreres and consorors.
Just over an hour long a fascinating man – at the end he says why he’s in China…and that’s very interesting. Implied within the interview is a considerable backstory that serves to illuminate how fake the “US History” that the public believes really is…who knows that Marxist Trots ran a US city? Just fer starter…
“… interview with Professor Michael Hudson was conducted on 7 May 2018 in Beijing, by Professor Lau Kin Chi and Professor Sit Tsui Jade. Professor Hudson talked about his formative years, and his turn to economics from music as he found his mentor Terence McCarthy’s speech about economics beautiful and asethetic. He recalled his experiences in research and teaching, and the background leading to his writing the many books on imperialism, balance of payment, history of debt, and fictitious capital…”
see> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9pzzIIEj4
else-where a discussion speculating Trumpie-the Clown ain’t a goin ta “step-down” (how can he? He’s a low as it goes! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51248.htm
This dove-tails into that question … url speaks for itself.
https://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Purple-Revolution-US-Hybrid-Warfare-Home-to-Roost.pdf
U.S. Warns Germany To Drop Huawei Or Risk Losing Intelligence Sharing
U.S. Ambassador Grenell wrote to Germany’s economics minister that the U.S. wouldn’t be able to keep intelligence and other information sharing at their current level if Germany allowed Huawei to build out the country’s 5G network.
Axel Springer Group has been aligned with Imperial Intelligence since the beginning of the rehabilitation of the German nazis in the early 1950’s…at least I am fairly sure about that… Therefore it’s an indicator of considerable tension and a widening gap between said Intel Agencies and German re-emergence of some degree of sovereignty when Springer publishes this gem:
“In war games simulating a high-end fight against Russia or China, the U.S. often loses, two experienced military war-gamers have revealed.” FRN seldom reproduces English language press, but here we make an exception, because of the thorough and revealing nature of this report. Business Insider is controlled by Axel Springer SE, which wikipedia – for what it’s worth – reports as “the largest digital publishing house in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as Bild, Die Welt, and Fakt and more than 15,000 employees. It generated total revenues of about €3.3 billion and an EBITDA of €559 million in the financial year 2015. “
“US Forces totally obliterated…dadada…” ( Ah suspicion that theyz a startin’ ta turn… Comrade Dugin spoke to this matter several years ago… Well, it is something that seems inevitable, eh? I mean, either Germany gets blasted, or changes alignment, and soon. Ethics is circumstantial, so is German Policy)
see fortruss and also sources >https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/03/us-forces-totally-obliterated-in-war-game-simulations-against-russia-and-china-american-analysts-reveal/
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War on Iran…on schedule…it seems>
Interesting @ about 03:00 PDT CBC-1 (Canadian public propaganda radio, @ 1.1 mc) transmitted to Canadian and American radio listeners a long emotional story about the “lost Iranian revolution” and how terrible that it went wrong and oh the poor ladies…playing on emotions, and perhaps alos real fissures…withal, a fine example of what Sefton Delmer called “white propaganda”…well, it’s close to Grey Propaganda… (about the man> https://www.psywar.org/seftondelmer )
(sometimes I listen on the shortwave, never know what’s to find! Pity that most shortwave broadcasts are discontinued…for when they RF the ‘net (and they will) shortwave and radio generally will be what’s still working. Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, really all agencies of global power would be smart to re-establish those stations…)
see>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-stolen-revolution-iranian-women-of-1979-1.5048382
Now then, one does ask why? And it seems logical to deduce that CBC is curating the public emotional arena to create “consent” for fixing this terrible flaw, and to create the idea that it is desirable to “help” the wronged ladies of Iran, probably by murdering them…er, I mean bombing “critical regime assets”, and forgetting those incidental collateral deaths, ever so regrettable murders of helpless ladies and kids and old folks, after all, it’s the bombs that count, no?
Obviously part of an agenda… tic tic tic…
Perhaps the EU is worried about American illegal immigrants flooding the “country”:
News flash: US Citizens Will Need A Visa To Visit Europe Starting In 2021.
This is news worthy.
Syrian announced their intentions to retake Golan Heights. Forge iron while hot.
That IL20 incident is bringing unexpected dividends isn’t it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-10/syria-tells-israel-it-will-attack-unless-israeli-forces-leave-golan-heights
We need to find some real source for this. (No criticism but if this is true, then it is huge and I would want some real sources, not just ‘informed through diplomatic channels).
Yes, it is tectonically huge but not unexpected!
First time it was mentioned yesterday. This particular Zero hedge article which I linked was carried by R Insider and others. Simple search produces backing.
If Syrians execute this announcement it will have earth shaking consequences.
We live in interesting times.
I would recommend to read the linked article in its entirety before dismissing It as “fake news” It has reference links to ease Unbelieving Thomas syndrome and anyone with time on their hands can investigate further and share it with the rest of us.
Aside of that most firm verification will be the actual act of Syrians executing this announcement, time will tell.
Just saying
Sure … I guess i don’t want to fall over my own fingers because if this is real, then, well then …. well …
Bloody Hell! It would be Bloody Marvelous!
The link says its from Zerohedge, which automatically makes me suspicious.
ZeroHedge is not a news organization. Its a one person news “regurgitator”. Most of his “stories” simply repeat western corporate news with even more spin applied to it.
Also, since its basically a one-person operation who regurgitates what he reads, it doesn’t have very good editorial control. In other words, its highly likely to regurgitate something that wasn’t really very factual to begin with. That’s not saying that the site is always inaccurate, but a news organization that actually reports news is more likely to have editorial control and fact-checking before they publish.
Don’t know if he’s right or wrong in this case. It is highly likely that one would have to follow Tyler’s links down into his original sources to even get an opinion on that. Which is why I usually won’t follow a link to the ZeroHedge site. If its for real, I’ll find the story through other news sources, and with less rightward spin on it than Tyler’s version.
It looks like bulldust to me. If Syria attacked Israel, Israel would unleash a devastating air campaign, and their takfiri friends would be incentivised to strike Syria again. The best that Syria could hope for is massive further devastation, and a worldwide hate campaign run by the Zionazi Thought Police, evoking all the usual ‘antisemitism’, ‘New Holocaust’, ‘blood libel’ etc tropes. So, I reckon such stories are probably more likely disinfo by the Zionazis that presage a false-flag ‘attack’ on the Golan, that gives Israel the excuse for the regional blood-bath its lunatic rulers so clearly desire, and just before Purim, too.
Facebook won`t let this article fly: “goes against FB standards” they say. So, another sourcw would be good to prove it`s not “false news” at least.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Syria-vows-to-attack-Israel-unless-it-withdraws-from-the-Golan-Heights-582858
This seems very unwise to me and I actually hope this is not true. Syria is yet to retake Idlib. They also must settle the situation with the SDF. Were this to happen it’s almost guaranteed that Israel would demand that the US intervene. Trump would no doubt do everything in his power to comply. One shouldn’t expect a repeat of Lebanon in 2006.
Not in disagreement nor claiming to be expert on the subject.
Perhaps due to the gravity of such situations The Saker’s input may cast some light onto it.
OK, best I can find with the time available. Apparently this is a scare story told by Netanyahu himself to shore up his case against Syria with his best buddies in the US congress and senate.
This tells the story in short.
https://twitter.com/Canthama
If Syria has made diplomatic moves, then it is not public. The only places where this reporting exists and where it originates, is in the Israeli press.
Another depressing Monday in Looneylandia: Pompeo and his ” no power, no food…etc. no Maduro”
Crosstalk’s Dima was on fire today 3/11/19…his point about the attack on the Iranian embassy in Lebanon which was totally ignored by the corporate world press is well taken and we have another attack on an embassy in Madrid which the Spanish Press is laying at the door of the break away section of the USA which is run by convicted war criminals. This was done against the North Korean embassy on 2/22/19.
https://actualidad.rt.com/video/308170-confidencial-eeuu-asalto-embajada-norcoreana-madrid
Also the word for German in Spanish is Aleman.. The word for the name Herman is German. So everyone on Spaniih Twitter is having a grand time with the bozo in Marco Rubio’s camp who claimed ( incorrectedly) that a
German dam had been blown up..
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/308132-marco-rubio-culpar-explosion-dique-aleman-apagon-venezuela
The Venezuelan army has been dispatched to physically guard the electrical lines and substations in Venezuela.
This type of mass hack is considered an act of war by Looneylandia ( see below) Plus it is a crime against humanity since everyone who had food in refrigeration lost it. So much for humanitarian concerns by the techno-fascists running the regime in the USA against the people of a food-stressed country.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43224451/ns/us_news-security/t/sources-us-decides-cyber-attack-can-be-act-war/
Isn’t that ‘German Dam’ thing just so funny! Moon of Alabama has it front and center … Take a look … a fellow by the name of Germán Dam posted the first tweet here.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2019-13.html#comments
yes, ( re: “German” dam) not only was Rubio wrong on two counts of what and where but his accusation wasn’t even “germane ” to the issue. booooo! pun police!!!! hack, cough, wheeze!
I wouldn`t be surprised if Rubio wasn`t just another Dam German. His IQ is so germaine.
Some more joking for today. Even Android now supports Q.
https://twitter.com/AndroidAuth/status/1105053287223619584
LOL. In my search for decent television to watch, I recently got the DVD of “Star Trek, The Next Generation”. Thus, I just saw Q’s appearance in the first episode of what at that time was the ‘New’ Star Trek.
Hey, in a Day and Age when they’ve made the current ‘New’ Star Trek into a lousy comic book of a show. I gotta find something to watch. :)
But, it was a good reminder that even though Q is an All-Powerful and All-Knowing Alien Being, he can still be opposed and thwarted by smart human beings!
Nice compromise, RTEnglish. Perhaps this shows that you are beginning to understand the territory of Looneylandia, USA these days. There is the upper tip and the lower tip of the iceberg.
https://www.rt.com/business/453486-india-venezuela-oil-imports-abrams/
The Headline was:
“India must stop buying Venezuela’s oil, says US regime-change hawk Abrams ”
I would have phrased it …”convicted war criminal Abrams” or even more ironically “pardoned war criminal Abrams” but then I don’t have a news outlet to run in territory occupied by Deep State, USA. Good Luck, RT!!!
By the way, how do you pardon a convicted war criminal? Isn’t that the type of crime only a Heavenly Court can pardon? Seriously….oh, I feel a poetic screed swimming to the surface….. sometime along the lines of “go and sin no more?” What???? You are doing it Again??? Yank that man’s parole!!! Take his guns away!!! Lock Him UP!!!
Ask George H.W.Bush, recently proclaimed at his funeral and by all the western corporate media to be the greatest person who ever lived. That’s who pardoned him.
Hopefully that’s one of the questions that Saint Peter asked Bush when he arrived at the Pearly Gates. Although, since this pardon was a decade since George H.W. Bush had been CIA Director, if Saint Peter follows a person’s timeline in making his judgements, George H.W. Bush was likely directed to the Down elevator well before they got to the part of his permanent record where he was pardoning war criminals who had killed thousands.
Although, technically, what he was convicted and pardon of was in “Lying to Congress”. A fact of which Mr. Abrams was recently reminded by Rep. Omar. That was back before Lying to Congress became cool. Which was back before media consolidation had progressed to the current point where only a small handful of people have to agree that a person lying to Congress (like Clapper) is just cool and wonderful for doing so and thus something to be quietly applauded and publicly ignored.
The Pompeus.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Mike_Pompeo_Faces_of_Evil.jpg
Kent
Metaphors and “reality” Through a Glass Darkly.
My religious friend and I discuss metaphysical topics like good/evil …does man have an innate need for redemption.. the individual and his responsibilities towards the group (family, team, nation ) and the group’s obligations to the individual. Balance. serenity..mercy vs. justice. and What oh what is happening to people in Looneylandia etc….the physical changes we see in many of the young men.
What she claims is that these days people do not believe that Satan exists as a physical manifestation, in and of itself, on this planet and that leads to naiive thinking like the innate goodness of man and the inevitability of perpetual progress. Yes, we carry heaven and hell within as parallel vibrations to another Heaven and Hell. I suppose she is a kind of platonic idealist but, no …more than. She feels that these can exist on our planet not as shadows of another dimensional reality, but rather as independent freewheeling kind of beings. This, if we let them…if we charge them…energize them. A resonance can be set up by our thoughts, actions and feelings.
In effect, we materialize them.
Again, I have friends who have “experienced” UFO’s and those who have not and their explanations differ accordingly. You do not need drugs to “go for it”…Question more, Know More, Experience More.
Someone has very little self-awareness.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a pressing briefing on Monday that both Cuba and Russia are undermining democracy in Venezuela.
Redemption: the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil, and…the action of gaining or regaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt….
“Does man have an innate need for redemption?” Yes.
“The individual and his responsibilities toward the group…” The individual’s first responsibility is to himself. By this it’s meant that he must first liberate himself before he is able to be of use to anyone else. There are two major realisations that transform soul from being a subject of the negative force; Self-realisation and God-realisation. Socrates wrote “Know Thyself” – this is the Self realized state. The Persian poet Rumi was working from the Self realized state. You can see that from his writings, even though they’ve been translated.
Soul is a student of life, as well as a teacher. The finished creation ( the kingdom of the negative force ) is where we gain our basic training. Soul works its way through experiences that result in it’s having a great compassion and love for all of life. This love is noticed by the spiritual hierarchy and it is sent teachers that are appropriate for it’s state of consciousness at any given time. Soul may be born into one religion in order to gain the experiences that are on offer. Let’s say that it creates a bunch of karma for itself, ( due to wrong understanding of that religion’s basic tenets ) and develops a hatred for an opposing religion and people of that religion, it may be required that that soul then incarnate as a member of the religion that it formerly persecuted, in order to bring about a balance within the individual.
When Soul has outgrown one teacher/religion, another teacher appears. This is how the spiritual hierarchy works. It notices those souls that are sincere and want God above all else. This love is developed only after Soul has spent many incarnations enjoying itself in “the finished creation” and wants the real thing.
There is much erroneous thinking about Satan – that being is a part of the spiritual hierachy and has a definite function and purpose. While it is all of that that the medieval Christian and other religions make it out to be, it’s a whole lot more. At one time I used to play chess and hit apon a chess master – no matter what I did, I could not win against him. The negative force is like that – if we play it’s game, we’ll never win. We need to bypass it, go directly to love, and then develop that love. Love will take us to those that can help us. We go where our attention goes.
An edit ( the second half ) of Rumi’s poem “The Dream That Must be Interpreted” from “Lion of the Heart”, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
A man goes to sleep in the town
where he’s always lived,
and he dreams he’s living in another town.
In the dream, he doesn’t remember
the town he’s sleeping in his bed in.
He believes the reality of the dream town.
The world is that kind of sleep.
The dust of many crumbled cities
settles over us like a forgetful doze,
but we are older than those cities.
We began as a mineral. We emerged
into plant life and into the animal state,
and then into being human, and always
we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring when we
slightly recall being green again.
That’s how a young person turns
toward a teacher. That’s how
a baby leans toward the breast,
without knowing the secret of its desire,
yet turning instinctively.
Humankind is being led along an
evolving course, through this migration
of intelligences, and though we seem
to be sleeping, there is an inner
wakefulness that directs the dream,
and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are.
Not sure how one experiences a UFO, without tangibile evidence……………it’s just an experience. And human experiences are many fold………with absolutly no limit to the human imagination. Perhaps they are like miracles, one must experience, to believe.45
Language matters. Its one way that people are subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, manipulated.
An example from recent media (mostly western corporate media, but its amazing how many ‘alternative’ writers pick up and use similar language.)
We are of course told that the Skirpals were attacked by a Russian developed nerve agent named Novichuk. No need to echo the volumes based on this assertion.
But, in reading stories about the death of Kim Jong Nam (Kim Jong Um’s half-brother) in Malaysia often refer to the alledged agent as “VX” but never refer to it as an “American” nerve agent. There is of course no suggestion at all in the corporate media that because the half-brother of the North Korean leader was killed by an American nerve agent that the Americans might be behind this.
Also of course, the reference to the elder Skirpal as a “Russian Spy”, also frequently seen and heard, is backwards from the normal usage. The elder Skirpal was a Russian employed in a Russian government agency who was working with British intelligence. Thus, in the normal usage of the phrase, the elder Skirpal was a “British Spy”.
In terms of some famous spies, we don’t refer to Philby and Burgess as English spies, but as Soviet spies. Philby and Burgess were of course upper class Englishmen who spied on the United Kingdom for the Soviet Union. If Skirpal is a Russian spy, the Philby is an English spy.
Facebook has completely banned Zero Hedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge
The Pot … The Kettle. They’re both black.
@ /maduro-1-abrams-0-but-this-match-is-far-from-over/#comment-623319
I have posted remarks about Venezuela and Empire, according to Granma Cu… Their view is that the electrical sabotage is merely prelude to an attack of more serious nature… I think that’s obvious, some do not.
Nice that Cuba an’ me agree. Sad, too…
A fragment> “…The experience of the history of Cuba and other countries in the region shows that these actions are the prelude to larger acts of violence, such as the armed invasion of Playa Girón in 1961. The international community has enough evidence to be warned …”
Of course they write in Spanish.
US ‘Gets Its A** Handed To It’ By Russia, China in WWIII Simulations
https://sputniknews.com/military/201903111073135061-us-russia-china-high-conflict-simulations/
“Analysts with the nonprofit research organization RAND Corporation recently revealed at a panel discussion at the Center for a New American Security that in their simulated war-games against Russia and China, the US takes a brutal beating.”
Interesting material. Even with their built in biases, the war gamers were unable to make God’s exceptionals, along with their “godlike” tech and “vastly superior” material, defeat the inferior infidel.
Problem with the “G-d is love “cliche: take the 91st psalm. My Christian friend has a translation which uses the cozy word love. But in Hebrew, the original language , the word love is never used. Period. yet this poem /song is about an increasing level of intimacy, devotion and dedication by the divine in the end to his beloved ie The one who “yearns for Me “ and the word used is not a namby pamby word as it has overtones of lust in it. And the “one who knows My name”. this is the “one who calls upon Me and I will answer him”
This relationship can not be summed up by the word Love this rightly so it is not used in the poem. However “My salvation/liberation/with undertones of redemption” is the last Word of the poem/song.
It is the psalm of the warrior or he who abides.
Psalm 91 “he who sits” Like Abraham sitting at the entrance of his tent waiting…and where is “he who sits“waiting? Not only in Elyion but also In the shadow of Shaddai. The awe inspiring aspect of the divine.
So no messing around,plopping yourself down and nattering on about G-d is Love. So you start the relationship by very politely using the third person and indirectly using the name of the form of the divine which manifests as Adonai or my Lord. So one asks indirectly for a stepping down of the vast energies into relationship.
And what is the nature of the relationship requested in this poem? With A place beyond Time as well as the Force therein or at least the Force reflected therein?
Well you have to read it for yourself and ponder and maybe start to craft your own?
a lot of us old ones might be “sitting like Abraham” without
too many visiting our tent.
And in the night we might sit around the virtual fire with virtual
planetary neighbors.
We old ought to look and contemplate the species and answer
“Him” when we are asked.
From Alpine Forelands to Sacramento
be hugged by mundo.
Hi Mundo. Look forward to your poetry and prose. As I remember 3 angels showed up as Abram (not THAT one) sat at the opening of his tent.
Three Poems by Rumi
Blessing
I want to be where
your bare foot walks
because maybe before you step,
you will look at the ground.
I want that blessing.
The Sun is Love
The sun is love. The lover,
a speck circling the sun.
A spring wind moves to dance
any branch that isn’t dead.
Gnats Inside the Wind
Some gnats come from the grass to speak with Soloman.
‘O Soloman, you are the champion of the oppressed.
You give justice to the little guys, and they don’t get
any littler than us! We are tiny metaphors
for frailty. Can you defend us?’
‘Who has mistreated you?’
Our complaint is against the wind.’
‘Well,’ says Soloman, ‘you have pretty voices,
you gnats, but remember, a judge cannot listen
to just one side. I must hear both litigants.’
‘Of course,’ agree the gnats.
‘Summon the East Wind!’ calls out Soloman,
and the wind arrives almost immediately.
What happened to the gnat plaintiffs? Gone.
Such is the way of every seeker who comes to complain
at the High Court. When the presence of God arrives,
where are the seekers? First there’s dying,
then union, like gnats inside the wind.
Translation C. Barks
… The Hallucinating Wikipedia …
List of Presidents of Venezuela
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Venezuela
(Due to Wiki-wishful thinking, the BS-pedia is now not available in Venezuela)
… music break …
Jo Blankenburg – The Architects of Cronos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMbC47GNfpQ
Elon Musk says Australia’s energy emergency is easily fixable –
Part one | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BMaG3zyVo
(the problem is privatisation … Australian infrastructures which taxpayers have paid for have been sold to people who demand high return profits … “government corporations”)
Elon Musk says Australia’s energy emergency is easily fixable –
Part two | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U63z6YOGYCY
This is usually how it begins:
The US State Department announced it is withdrawing all remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela, citing the “deteriorating situation” and referring to the presence of US staff at the embassy as a “constraint on US policy.
Granma remarked about what they expect…
Meanwhile, the ICC is gone totally rogue…https://www.voltairenet.org/article202014.html
Madero, Assad…they’re gunna hunt non-obedient persons…Qaddafi’s murder reprized as legal? Well, yeah…
I thought Maduro had eventually decided to evict them…
… An Original Music Break …
… here we learn something and appreciate even more …
Theme from Mission Impossible – Folsom Lake Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaNrAiUNHtQ
… and …
James Bond Medley – BBC Proms 2011 Last Night Celebrations in Scotland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jdUhxOz0M
Mr. Fixit on call? I see that the singular Cheney has graced the halls of Imperial Junta-space yet again
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-cheney-told-mike-pence-trump-administration-looks-lot-more-barack-obama-1359260
What a guy! The most interesting aspect of Cheney is that he’s alive… I find that baldly amazing. How much does this cost and what special medicines are involved… Old Henry K begs the same question…
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About DARPA and Wiki….connecting the dots is hardly necessary….https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog gives a clue. Actually The PWE (Psychological Warfare Executive) and associated MI5 MI6 in W2 provides a fair model…though that was highly specialized and vastly complex, all done with paper and pen and real people…essentially the Brit turned every nazi spy and fabricated an imaginary vast invasion army that was supposed to attack cross-channel at Calais – which is why Hitler was sure, and wrong, when he saw Normandy as the diversionary attack that it was not… DARPA’s Wiki leads to being able to do such things to the public mind, and you, and me…
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They live on synthasised baby blood and serum taken from aborted fetuses………..hense the need for live birth abortions……….keep the baby (feel sorry for any woman who lets a madman abort a just delivered baby) alive (mom thinks it’s been offed) and then raise the baby to provide parts for the wealthy. It’s been happening for a while they just plan on making it legal.
Frau Vera L has posted a book review of > „Geheimakte Asyl: Wie die Politik in der Flüchtlingsfrage Deutschlands Sicherheit gefährdet. Ein Insiderbericht“, Broschiert: 320 Seiten, Verlag: dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, ISBN-13: 978-3423262309, Book by Stefan Meining.
An insider’s report ” Secret asylum: How the policy in the refugee question Germany’s security endangered. An Insider’s Report ”
https://vera-lengsfeld.de/2019/03/12/geheimakte-asyl-und-das-schutzkommando-merkel/#more-4192
Not a pretty picture…the denaturalization of the European Heartland leads to, if History serves to guide the judgement, to a vast chaotic pogrom….this is divide to rule, but liable to result in not rule, but anarchy, ruin, and war. The natives do not quite yet entirely twig to this unutterably vile and cruel deliberate process…but they are getting closer to seeing the stark bald reality…as the book illustrates, and as also the recent (see my posts) manipulation of Boris Peters by RBB does.
Re: header photo
Straw woman
Muzzle the guzzle
Still the thrill of the swill
She sips
With the tips
Of her lips
Not a good look for Porky:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4836803.html
(translate via google)
Poroshenko Falling Far Behind! Kolomoisky-Backed Clown Man Zelensky
Leads Election Polls!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgBqyhKZ1Y8
Ukrainian Nationalists Protest, Absolutely Furious at Poroshenko’s Looting
of Military Budget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQD_OXi0Aoc
Protests in Kiev, as extreme nationalists turn against Poroshenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmelVg5s-iA
I guess 5B for a wall and 500M to fund intervention in Venezuela – we know which one is going to be approved.
Trump Admin Wants $500M to Fund Its Intervention in Venezuela
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Admin-Wants-500M-to-Fund-Its-Intervention-in-Venezuela-20190312-0007.html
We should be doing some concerted work to stop this. I am writing all that I know (US friends, relatives, everyone that I’ve ever had anything to do with, work or leisure, a fellow that I met in a bar one time, folks that I’ve been on boats with … to absolutely create an uproar!
This is illegal for starters, then it is immorality of the highest order, and then, it is imperialism, creating conditions to outright steal from another country, or is it stealing another country. — well, OK, we all know what it is.
Where are all the Trumpies? Are you going to do something?
The alternative (Clinton) was even worse http://trumpton3.homestead.com/pughpughbarneymcgrew.html, apparently is a simple obfuscation.
Of course we need to delve much deeper though from the childish “is it stealing another country” narrative.
Most unfoturtunately the Palestinian elite are little different from their peers (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7443/palestinian-leaders-rhetoric)
“Where are all the Trumpies?”
Exactly the same place as the Ruskies.
Elites are looking after their own interests.
The US-Ukraine connection is a natural – have you read about the college admissions scandal, where Ivy League universities admiited the children of the rich and famous in exchange for bribes? Wonderful example of an empire in collapse.
Some US persons voted for the T-Clown because the Female Agent was a proven mass murderer, while the Mobed-up New York Clown was liable to act as a Bull in a China shop, which he does rather well. I have heard it said among Americanski voters that a vote for Trumpie was a vote to “throw a grenade”… They seem to have been correct.
Some “democracy”, eh?
The same people may applaud the Imperial attempt to seize Venezuela – because it too will fail – thus hastening the collapse of an appallingly cruel epoch…and rather rashly bringing into power another….
Of course, then, there’s is all the terrible fighting and the dying that will result. Is it not this way always when on epoch ends and another begins?
Is process, like glacier…fits and starts, and a cruel indifference to humanity itself. We have the fortune to witness a terrible time in history.
For almost fifty years I refused to vote for “the lesser of two evils”, and I never once voted for a winner.
In 2016 I decided to change tactics and indeed supported the lesser, less eviler candidate, and we won bigly.
In 2020, I think it will be necessary to change tactics again. Cthulhu. Or maybe Bernie (Sanders) & Bernie (Madoff). So many ways to get Americans to respect our betters again.
Traditionally, when a President submits their budget to Congress, the phrase that is used is “Dead on Arrival”. What a President puts in the budget they submit is meaningless. Its as silly and irrelevant as Presidential candidates submitting good-sounding bills as a part of their campaign propaganda. None of it means a think.
This should come as absolutely no surprise; the thugs in suits have been planning this blackout for awhile:
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/12/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event/
The question becomes then does any of thiis matter in terms of international law? The short answer is it does not, as we have seen in libya, iraq, maiden, syria,illegal sanctions whereever against whomever. The label applied to the us as a rogue nation out of control really does not get us to the actual reality on the ground. It is all military, as evidenced by trump’s latest offer for a new budget which guts the state dept with disdain and lays it on heavy for military programs.
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A September 2010 memo by a U.S.-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate.”
The memo has special relevance today as Guaidó moves to exploit nationwide blackouts caused by a major failure at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant at Guri dam – a crisis that Venezuela’s government blames on U.S. sabotage.
The Thugs in Suits are too stupid and poorly educated to plan such an event. They have to hire engineers and computer geeks to do it for them.
Just saying. When you look at Pompei or Bolt-on, remember they are probably too stupid to check their own emails.
When you are sitting comfortably I shall begin … “The Lucky Country”
Government-Corporation Mentality …
How and why did the Northern Territory lease the Darwin Port to China, and at what risk?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/why-did-northern-territory-sell-darwin-port-to-china-what-risk/10755720
(did not see “sovereignty” specifically addressed in the article)
… and …
China has banned fluoridation after research results prove neuro-toxicity … mental retardation … not to mention nine types of bone cancer … (but it’s for the teeth you know) … much,much more …
so the Australian governement-corporation imports fluoride toxic waste for Australians to drink,
wash their clothes in, wash their cars with, shower and bathe in … nourish all animals with … water lawns, flowers and vegetables and fruit trees … then out to sea to poison everything there … fish, seaweed, corals and Great Barrier Reef and the latter just acquired AU$450 million dollars of taxpayers money to save the Great Barrier Reef.
Calcium and fluoride have what’s called an affinity for each other … these two elements naturally bond together. Calcium is part neuro-transmission material in brains and meanwhile “we” are looking for the cause of Alzheimer’s disease …
(Australian Government-Corporations … providing real ongoing fairy-stories … all at taxpayers expense)
‘Credibility of US Imperial Blackmail’ Hangs on Success of Venezuela Policy
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201903131073180454-Credibility-US-Imperial-Blackmail-Hangs-Success-Venezuela-Policy/
“Noting there was already an investigation underway by Caracas into Guaido for the many, many Venezuelan laws he has broken thus far, Koerner said the renewed vigor came from a tweet the self-proclaimed interim president made on March 7 that “it is clear to Venezuela that the light will return with the cessation of usurpation,” meaning the Maduro government, and calling people into the streets.
”While that itself is not any kind of substantive evidence that he was responsible for [the power outage], it definitely… comes as part of this barrage of tweets from the likes of [US Senator] Marco Rubio, Pompeo, effectively threatening to make life absolutely unbearable for the Venezuelan people unless Maduro is ousted, in a totally kind of mafioso form of very explicit blackmail,” Koerner said.
“It’s no longer about Venezuela,” Koerner said. “It’s an issue of the credibility of US imperial blackmail. That if the United States cannot threaten a country and overthrow its regime, then the capacity of the United States to control countries in the hemisphere… is truly compromised.”
The article also contains a lot of useful info about electrical supply in Venezuela and some info about the government’s effort to alleviate the effects this war criminal zionazi-gay attack has on the people.
Russia To Defend Its Venezuela Oil Assets In ‘Toughest Way Possible’
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/South-America/Russia-To-Defend-Its-Venezuela-Oil-Assets-In-Toughest-Way-Possible.html
“At the same time, Russia, which vowed to defend its oil assets in Venezuela as early as the political crisis began in January, sees risks to its investments in the Latin American country and pledges to react “in the toughest way” possible within international law if those investments are threatened, Russia’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Vladimir Zaemsky, told Russian government-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview published this week.
There certainly are risks to Russia’s investments in Venezuela, but those risks are associated with Washington’s behavior, rather than with Venezuela’s government, as the case with PDVSA’s U.S.-based refining subsidiary Citgo has shown, ambassador Zaemsky told Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in the interview with a headline ‘Russia is not abandoning its friends’).
Similarly, Washington basically appropriated assets of a large oil refining business, without paying a cent for it and hiding behind tales of its transfer to “the legitimate president Juan Guaidó” [sic], Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted Zaemsky as saying.
The Russian ambassador to Venezuela also reaffirmed Moscow’s stance that Russian-Venezuelan relations are strategic and the countries continue to strengthen them.
Of course, it is unfortunate that the opposition has consistently rejected dialogue – upon direct instructions from Washington, as we all know very well,” Lavrov said, as carried by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On Saturday, in a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding Venezuela, Lavrov “condemned the threats the US has made toward the country’s lawful leadership, which is an overt interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state and a severe violation of the international law,” the Russian foreign ministry said.
Russia’s Rosneft is reportedly coming to the rescue with shipments of naphtha to Venezuela to help it make its heavy oil suitable for processing and exports. Two Rosneft tankers will be sending 1 million barrels of heavy naphtha to Venezuela in the next few weeks, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing shipping reports and a source with knowledge of the plans. These naphtha shipments could bring some immediate relief, but they would be lower than Venezuela’s typical monthly heavy naphtha imports of 2-3 million barrels, according to Bloomberg.”
Maduro Says to Request Assistance of Russia, China to Investigate Blackout
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201903131073182556-maduro-says-request-assistance-russia-china-investigate-blackout/
“On Tuesday, Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez said that the work of the country’s power grids had almost fully resumed throughout the country.
“I have appointed a special commission to investigate the cyberattack and requested the assistance of international experts. I intend to ask for support of the United Nations, Iran, China, Russia and Cuba,” Maduro said, adding that the mentioned countries had great experience in tackling cyberattacks.
According to Maduro, after a five-day nationwide blackout the Venezuelan authorities have managed to eliminate the consequences of the attack that “was carried out from the US territory.”
Earlier Venezuelan Prosecutor General Tarek Saab has requested to open an investigation into self-proclaimed President Guaido over his alleged role in sabotaging the country’s electric system.”
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”
— John Adams, one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence, Commissioner to the French Court during the Revolution, negotiated the treaty with Great Britain that ended the American Revolution. Principle drafter of the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, 1st Vice President of the United States, 2nd President of the United States. (In other words, he has the CV that says that maybe he knew what he was talking about)
Netanyahu wants US recognition of Israel sovereignty over Golan Heights
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190108-netanyahu-wants-us-recognition-of-israel-sovereignty-over-golan-heights/
US senator vows to seek recognition of Israeli rule in Golan
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/us-senator-vows-to-seek-recognition-of-israeli-rule-in-golan
Syria Criticizes US Senator’s Comment on Golan Heights
https://www.voanews.com/a/syria-criticized-us-senator-comment-on-golan-heights/4825848.html
Terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004: lies as if printed
Published – March 12, 2019
Now, new details come to light about how the right-wing People’s Party PP wanted to ascribe the
most serious attacks in Europe to other perpetrators with Fake News
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/03/12/terrorist-attacks-in-madrid-2004-lies-as-if-printed/
Spain And The Iraq War: 10 Years Later, Family Of José Couso Searches For Answers
Published – on March 19, 2013
Ten years have gone by, and Javier Couso is still fighting what he calls the “lies” about the Iraq war
that killed his brother, José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish TV network Telecinco.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/spain-iraq-war-jose-couso_n_2903601.html
Operation Gladio: CIA Network of “Stay Behind” Secret Armies
Red Brigades, “Sacrifice” of Aldo Moro 1978, Bologna massacre 1980
https://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-gladio-cia-network-of-stay-behind-secret-armies/9556
… same old story …
Tragic Incidents In Venezuela Against Vice President Nixon (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHR1dBTJrRA