2019/04/27 16:30:02
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My thoughts are completely on the Saker’s health.
I hope all here will meditate and pray for Andrei’s health and whatever he is experiencing comes out as a success.
The power of unified thought and prayer is cosmic.
Keep Saker foremost in your mind.
Yeah, may God Almighty heal the Saker. My prayers are with him to get completely well soon.
Explain to this child… 700 million was raised in 24 hours to rebuild a cathedral owned by the richest organisation on earth
… this is critical thinking … very sharp … to the point, and concise.
And in this week’s episode of “Lords Gone Wild,” we feature an excerpt from The Canadian Manifesto, a new book to be released on May 1st by Conrad Black. A (choice) excerpt was featured in today’s (Apr. 27) issue of the National Post. Lord Black writes:
“My suggestion is that simultaneously with proposing a tighter trading and foreign policy bloc of the more advanced Commonwealth countries: the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, which would have a combined GDP of about U.S. $6.5 trillion (exceeded only by the United States, the European Union, and China), we suggest that the monarch be joint chief of state with a president of Canada, which office would incorporate the position of governor general and be popularly elected for a five- or six-year term, renewable. This official would have augmented powers, somewhat like the president of France, and the prime minister would lead in parliament and chair the ministers of the various departments, as he/she does now. But the president would have the authority, as the French president has, to conduct foreign policy and champion other initiatives within the governmental structure, subject to parliamentary assent.”
I believe the “foreign policy” and “other initiatives” in question may involve the Canadian Armed Forces (who are recruiting, by the way), who report to the Governor General and to Her Majesty (tough to bribe?)
Lord Black also defends Trump and the conservative movement in a piece in the Issues & Ideas section: “Trump’s nationalism is of all colours”
Mr. Trump, you may be negotiating deals of the century while I am just a lowly servant of the New Commonwealth Order, but let me give you a tip. If the English ruling elite makes you a promise, don’t believe them.
Interestingly, the other national newspaper, The Globe & Mail, features a special report on the rise of far-right groups in Canada, and has a lengthy article on Russia and China desiring to create an alternative trading order. Maybe the owners of this newspaper don’t fare so well in the New Commonwealth Order.
https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lists-and-rankings/richest-people/rich-100-thomson-family/
‘Lord’ Black? Lord Elpus!! When did he get out of the nick?
Good point, Mulga! I was trying to cleverly point the finger at the House of Lords across the Atlantic, but he’s a Baron, not a Lord, is he? Never mind. :-)
Another accolade from Mark Rutte to the Canadian military:
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1118575444830425090
What is this?? All I can think of is that either the Netherlands is playing the stooge for Britain, to sabotage any alliance among the Nordic countries, or that he is actually scared and seeking some shelter behind a ‘Nordic-alliance’ shield. (PM Rutte, Denmark is much closer.)
Please bury the tin foil hat.
In the aftermath of WW2, the Netherlands were liberated by mainly Canadian (and also Polish) forces. Rutte is only referring to that. He may be a globalist and a lying a**hole, but I don’t think there is more behind this.
Cheers, Rob
Globalist lying a**holes usually don’t name flowers after you unless they want something, no? (If the Clintons or Soros named a flower after you, you’d see it as a charitable act of goodwill? They’re hiring, in that case!) This is after his trip to Canada in the fall – which contained a PR push with the Canadian populace. More goodwill? Anyway – let the Danes handle it. ;-)
P.S. I love this gesture, and I will be buying this tulip – but there’s gardening and then there’s national security.
Excellent report/interview with Sharmine Narwani (part I of two) regarding Syria – the story so far. Not much will be new to regular readers at the Vineyard but it is a pleasure to read so much of it confirmed by a real journalist who has been in and out of Syria for the duration. From Israeli pay offs of jihadi fighters, to the saudi chemical debacle at Ghouta and the co option and downright capitulation of the western press, probably the most concise exposition of how we got where we are and little, if anything, of which has appeared in any mainstream news outlet in the West.
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/21/reporter-sharmine-narwani-on-the-secret-history-of-americas-defeat-in-syria/
The Western fakestream media presstitute vermin did not ‘capitulate’. They went gladly and joyfully to war against Syria and its people, and are and were complicit before and after the acts of aggression and genocide. All for money. May they rot in Hell for it.
… two emails from Dennis Leary …
March 13 and 25, 2019 …
Your book arrived yesterday.
Thanks so much. It’s really interesting and attractive.
Makes engineering easy to understand.
I like the Occam’s Razor method of the simplest and most elegant explanation.
Years ago, I visited the pyramids and Cairo museum but didn’t really understand much then.
My son is studying engineering at Berkeley; I’ll share the book with him.
Cheers and all the best. Dennis
( and twelve days later )
Hi. I read your book on pyramid construction.
I like the mechanical explanation as opposed to speculations on space visitors, etc.
I am impressed by the talents of ancient engineers.
Modern technology fills us with hubris so we ignore real history.
We miss the simple explanations under symbolic language like that of Ezekiel, and we don’t get the humor in jokes like “gold ants.”
I will use this information in deconstructing cafe discussions.
I read the verses from chapter 1:16-21. I think you said that you wrote about the whole first chapter; I missed where that is.
Thanks Dennis … await your presence in Saker’s Cafe.
( Ezekiel Chapter 1 is translated at http://www.haitheory.com/index.html )
… regarding Saker’s health … pay attention to physical visitors, physical gifts and beware of food outlets, if you are not thinking along these lines already … think “contaminants”.
We can only hope that the IT jobs will return to native-born Americans:
The Myth of India’s Information Technology Industry
The Mercy Seat
the hunting horns
are sounding high,
the dogs have
been unleashed
that swarm will soon
be upon me,
if I don’t move like
lightning greased
I pawned my razor
but not my gun;
there’s a victory
in every defeat –
I don’t remember
much of that night
except a scalding,
blinding heat
there’s a river
and a crossing
just a few short
miles ahead,
I’m looking for that
mercy seat
and a place to
lay my weary head
the hunting horns
are sounding nigh,
the dogs have
been unleashed
that swarm will soon
be upon me
if I don’t move like
lightning greased
‘Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness the catastrophe toward which the world is headed will be unavoidable.
…In other words, we still don’t know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of all our actions if they are to be moral is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where all our actions are indelibly recorded and where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
…The interpreter or mediator between us and this higher authority is what is traditionally referred to as human conscience.
Vaclav Havel, Past President of the Czech Republic, addressing the US Congress. Washington, D.C., February 21, 1990
I do not see freedom to have confidence in one’s ability to exercise the basic right of human conscience to be incomparable with freedom of speech, and the suppression of both are gaining ground. They infiltrate and seek to destroy this higher authority, which is not “politics, science and economics”, but the right to exist and develop human conscience itself.
Therefore we need a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousnessto avert the threat to life on earth.
.
‘Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness the catastrophe toward which the world is headed will be unavoidable.’
If that is truly the case, the catastrophe toward which the world is headed is unavoidable. What, then, you might well ask, is the solution? I’m afraid you’re confusing me with someone who thinks there is a solution. In any case, some ‘global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness’ ain’t it. That is nothing but a New Age fantasy.
Sounds like echos of Dr. King’s famous Riverside Church speech….
“It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” [applause] Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ”
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html
MLK got that one wrong, did he not? Then they killed him for his impertinence, one among hundreds of millions, with billions more to come. The USA is the Empire of Universal Death.
No man can survive a full frontal confrontation with the social consciousness of the day. The social consciousness is a kind of herd consciousness that will kill, maim, murder anyone that threatens the status quo, and is controlled by the negative force. It’s an irony that man kills his saints, then puts them on a pedestal.
That’s what I dont like about the status quo (majority thinking) b/c the majority can be dead wrong about some things, and the only reason it is sustainable, is b/c they are in the majority.
The herd instinct exists in order for the group to survive, but is diametrically opposed to the spiritual instinct, which is expressed through the individual. “The man who never in his thoughts travelled to heaven, can never be an artist,”…Blake.
Heaven is place where people do not die, at least not for 1000 years, so humanity is a long ways a way from there.
And the individual spirituality is so selectively interpretative as to be a non factor among the truly intellectual peoples, they know where and why the spirit exists, and it does not bode well for the common human, one in a million [(at best), prolly closer to a billion)] makes the grade over there. No offense naturally, just an observation.
Hi Christopher, if I may add a few thoughts…
“We need a global revolution in consciousness to avert the threat to life on earth…”
Any true revolution in consciousness must begin within the individual him/herself, and is a process that occurs within the spiritual body, or Soul, of the individual. It eventually transforms one’s existence into something untranscribable with words. Reincarnation, karma are spiritual facts that govern human existence, but there is a higher law, the Law of Love. The Law of Love will lead man out of the mire ( maya, or illusion ) of human existence, and eventually toward the greater realizations that every soul must one day experience, Self Realization followed by God Realization.
How do we experience these states? The emancipaton of Soul takes countless lifetimes, but it does not happen as the Persian poet Rumi, said, in his poem “Mountaintop Trough” by “straining one’s neck and looking up at the mountain”, ie; without effort. It takes dedication, commitment, sacrifice/discipline and mostly love, a love that we eventually become! How much are we prepared to give to achieve a transformation in consciousness? One minute a day? Ten minutes? An hour? Whatever we put into it, we will reap.
To take control of one’s life is the great spiritual adventure and rests/hinges on the principle, “Thy will be done”, ( not mine ). There’s a paradox in this statement, evidenced in the story of someone saying, “well, how can I be concerned with the question of God when I have not enough food to eat?” If one’s attention is on God, then God will see to it that we have enough to eat.
A very good way for the individual to start to bring about a concentration of his spiritual energies is to find a mantra, a spiritually uplifting saying, or phrase that inspires him/her, and begin working with that on a daily basis. One must also begin to spend a certain amount of time observing/experiencing his inner world. Initiative and creativity are of paramount importance, but also sincerity and love. HU is the best mantra or spiritually charged word, I’ve found. But OM, or AUM are excellent as well. Even the word God, or the name of one’s spiritual teacher. Prayers, spiritually uplifting inspiring verse etc. are very good too.
Leonard Cohen:
“My old teacher told me that the older you get and the lonelier you get, the deeper is your need for love. Like everyone else, I have looked for such deep love. And as you get older, you need this love to be grounded, until there is no difference between you and your love, or what you love or what you are. It’s just the one thing.”
Thank you, Kemosabe. Nice quote from Leonard.
Here’s a headline you won’t see ….
“Google kills four in Seattle”
There are headlines in American media about a crane falling onto a Seattle street and killing four people. But, you have to read closely to know that the crane was constructing “Google’s Seattle Campus”. But the sensationalist headlines are careful not to mention google.
This of course differs from other corporations. Who knows exactly how and why? But take for instance another headline I’ve been seeing which says something like “Uber passenger shot and killed.” Since its Uber, their corporate name/brand gets blasted to top billing in the headline. Turns out it had nothing to do with corporate Uber. It was one passenger shooting another passenger. The Uber driver was just an innocent bystander, undoubtedly afraid for his/her life. Note for instance that if the ‘news’ story had simply been “Taxi passenger killed by fellow taxi passenger”, it probably doesn’t even get broadcast beyond the local news of that city. But since its Uber, it gets blared at high volume across the nation that Uber passenger killed.
So, something related to one corporation gets the corporation top billing in a headline that had nothing to do with them. But another corporation that is more involved in an incident (Google is more involved in a construction accident at one of its buildings that Uber is when a passenger get shot, maybe not much more, but some), the Google gets their name buried and its acted like they have nothing to do with the story.
Just observations. Not only do different countries get treated very differently in corporate news, but so do different corporations.
Slow day at the Uber PR Department, is it? How happy a fate to be a Uber-mensch.
They also said that Seattle is a booming b/c its a new tech city and that there are 60 cranes actively working in the city, this one was being dismantled, so, who needs terrorists when we have plenty of incompetence working right here at home?
Do not over think this.
I saw a piece in corporate media today about LBJ’s daughters christening a new warship.
Ah, the famous chant can live on…
“Hey, Hey, LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?”
Such a person must be memorialized in a weapon of death. Although, exactly why he didn’t rate an aircraft carrier, such as even America’s clumsiest President who was only known for pardoning Nixon did (Gerald Ford), is left unanswered?
A tragic man, LBJ, who wanted to be loved but not the only way he could love his defeated father.
No! He had to “win” at ANY cost.
And to do so “Landslide” Lyndon lied and cheated, stole elections………..made numerous deals with the Devil and probably committed treason before during and after (cover-up) November 22, 1963.
I highly recommend LBJ: The Path to Power by Robert Caro for Herb’s Book List because of its insights into the moral compromises made by this hyper-ambitious.man…….that pushed the already weak US Republic down along the slide into the evils of full-blown Empire.
From a book review:
“We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.
We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . .
Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines.
We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ “.
Quite a bit of Book One of Path to Power contrasts him to the man he stole the election to the US Senate from, then two term Texas Governor Coke Stevenson.
Contrasting the two men at the time of my reading Path to Power, I thought “Wow! What a personality glimpse into Where America Went Wrong From A 1950’s Perspective. Compared to Stevenson, LBJ was an absolute piece of shit!”
Just a little attention to the voltairenet article that SusieQ posted for us on the sidebar. Here it is again:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206216.html
It looks like an onslaught on Cuba is taking shape now, first with the legals. So, if you read this article you will have knowledge of the compensations paid when assets in Cuba was nationalized. Its good in these days to have the facts at the fingertips.
One other thing that I’ve noticed in the last few days … I had upgraded browsers and so on, and tried out the search engine duck duck go for some research. To say the least, I was totally disappointed in the pages of hits all from reuters, bbc, cnn, cnbc, fox, bbc .. etc etc … you know the list. I found only the babblehead media and nothing that would help me in research. So, I changed back to startpage.com, and found a much better lineup with the same searches. Just to let you all know.
@ amarynth … I have installed the “startpage” search engine and tested along side what must be google … small letter i in a circle icon … in the address bar.
When I type telesurenglish in the address bar the connection times out, same happened twice yesterday also.
When I use “startpage”, and you will see its icon … telesurenglish loads within a few seconds.
I have made “startpage” my default search engine.
Telesur is a Venezuelan media outlet and there is some worthwhile reading there …
5 Ways the British Empire Ruthlessly Exploited India
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/5-Ways-the-British-Empire-Ruthlessly-Exploited-India-20170425-0033.html
( thanks to amarynth )
https://orientalreview.org/2019/04/27/interpreting-president-putins-speech-at-the-2019-bri-forum/
A remarkable speech in every sense:
the contrast is striking with the thugs in dc swamp, no threats, no bombast, ……
The new state of Israel will be in Ukraine (Zhirinovsky + Danilov) – Video
Published on January 4, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59TEZKcxoP0
There is connected the famous speech of Vladimir Zhirinovsky from 2004 in St. Petersburg with the
speech of Sergey Danilov from 2015 in Ukraine. It was a revelation ..
You can change the subtitles to English
Gaining…
by ioan
I’m getting old and tired
By fate I’ve been hired,
I knew it from within
Believing, I could win…
As a springtime butterfly
Who is dreaming that he lives,
So I dreamed I’ll reach the sky
Beating liars, beating thieves!
The stage had been already set :
The Sweetest candy, easy showers
Flowing setbacks, step by step
Within minefield full of flowers.
But stupor ! My wings were cut
Had to learn to walk and think,
And my prayers to the God
Have been taken by the wind,
Thieves and liars beat me down
Using every trick they had
Painting me as crazy clown
No surprise that mom got mad !
What to do now, what to do ?
While the minefield there, is true
I can’t jump and I can’t fly,
Useless spending tears and cry…
Witnessing there’s no more Jury
All is changing, light is out,
Calming down my fists of fury
I begun to train my mind,
What I gained ? Experience
About kings and about fools,
Without cure for pestilence
In this world of growing dulls.
I also learned that I’m alone
There is no such thing as wonder
Only darkness on his throne
With his angels on the plunder
Slowly but surely, as time passes away
The hope is fading, in this month of may
The winners are cheering, day after day
While their feet are made out of clay.
Friend, I was completely stuck all day. Until I read The Mercy Seat, Pyramid Reviews and The Gaining. I had a dozen vague, listless, contradictory ideas, absolutely nothing clicked……nothing fertile was conceived …and still less was born. Until a very short while ago………..those vital bits of thought and creativity brought my mind out of its listless, abject torpor and analysis paralysis.
A Poet’s Rest
Hope, health and even life may fade,
As fearful doubts heaped heavy upon
Our lungs smother even the least afraid,
Stifle bravery, all wit, goodness…gone!
“At the end of the day”, life’s talent spent,
We shut it down, doze off into fitful sleep,
Dream, question what it means, or meant,
We’re done, expiring, we no longer weep….
It’s our Final Curtain, not a last “Hurrah!”,
No cheers, no one clapping in the dark.
No! Alone, a singular audience in awe
Freed from body, matter, care and work.
I may be a sick eagle, looking at the sky,
Weighed down by melancholy and regret.
Like many others, I know that I must die,
But this is just rehearsal, dammit! Not yet!
As long as Dimitar, Dennis Leary and ioan
Feel their muses, their pens have any breath,
I awaken yet again, weary, not sad, not alone,
Greet Saker’s dawn, cheat defeat..and death!
In gratitude and persevering humor…………April 28, 2019
Friend, you are anything but a sick eagle, but for what it’s worth, I know the feeling well…
Very inspired poem Bro, oh, that’s you, you have your own style, another one of your best poems. You and Dimitar are needed with your enthusiasm…when my own is at low…at least now.
There’s an interesting idea pertaining to the question of enthusiasm, in these lines by Rumi…
what happened to the newlyweds?
what shape are they in now?
if you understand this
you won’t have to participate
in this world’s games
Life is not a game, unless games are your life.
You obviously know this from experience.
Possibly, I have plenty of it.
Let ‘winners cheer’ friend. A true winner is quietly gracious. Everything must one day be paid for in the true coin. You are describing a natural process. This sky gives way to another sky, and another, and yet another… In the Love of Spirit, Dimitar.
Accused ‘spy’ Maria Butina wouldn’t be in jail if she ‘wasn’t Russian’ – attorney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcdwBXva2A
Excellent article by Orlov:
https://russia-insider.com/en/martyrdom-st-julian-wikileaks/ri26882?ct=t(Russia_Insider_Daily_Headlines11_21_2014)&mc_cid=7c3dcf25d7&mc_eid=7ea0ecabd9
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He is a towering figure outside of Australia as well. While other Western journalists run around trying to please their owners, sell advertising space, or struggle to avoid getting banned by the all-seeing eye of social media corporations, Assange has been both principled and fearless. Through his media outlet Wikileaks he has laid bare the dirty secrets of the US State Department and the war crimes of the Pentagon, corporate malfeasance and political corruption, hanging out for all to see the dirty laundry of many powerful and influential people. This made him a cause célèbre: Time Magazine pronounced him Man of the Year and he received human rights awards, standing in the same pantheon as Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. But such are the vicissitudes of fortune that now he is being martyred—a sufferer for the truth, unjustly accused and persecuted by a doomed race of inveterate liars.
This was inevitable. In the process of publishing evidence of dirty secrets and war crimes he made plenty of powerful, influential enemies, and they eventually scared up some false evidence to use against him. In 2012, faced with the unenviable fate of being extradited from the UK to Sweden, there to be humiliated before a Swedish kangaroo court, Assange opted to enter the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where he spent the next seven years living in a small room. It was, in essence, a form of solitary confinement, which is commonly considered to be a form of torture.
Into his lap fell a mother lode of evidence that the Democratic National Committee, charged with providing for honest and transparent primary elections, had instead conspired to steal the election from the popular firebrand Bernie Sanders, who spoke before packed stadiums, and to give it to Hillary Clinton, an evil-tempered, screechy, sickly crone who on most days could barely fill a school auditorium without bribing people. To me, choosing between Sanders, Clinton and Trump is like choosing the color of flower petals to gently blow across the surface of a cesspool, but it appears that for some naïve and idealistic people Assange’s truth bomb was something of a revelation: “What? Hillary evil? Noooo!”
Assange published this information, and in so doing he stepped directly into the snake-pit called the Clinton Foundation—a vast, global grift, bribery and money-laundering scheme that, among other things, provided weapons contracts in exchange for lavish bribes from foreign officials. Its tentacles reached into all of the major US federal agencies, which had been stocked with Clinton partisans during Bill Clinton’s two terms as president.
Yury Kotenok (en. Kitten) YouTube Channel
Where will Israel go?
Part 1 – published on December 15, 2017
Alexander Zhilin – a military expert, a retired colonel – that everything is just beginning in the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1cbBANuxo
Part 2 – published on February 6, 2019
Andrey Devyatov, a military expert, on what new territories are being prepared in the vast expanses of
Eurasia and, in particular, the southern regions of Ukraine (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, etc.), where there
is a massive construction of residential quarters and where only about 250 thousand have recently
moved Israelis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nlj-pPi_sQ
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Verygood is *Dymon’s (ru. Димон) YouTube Channel
Israel is a beautiful country which everyone wants to leave.
Published on December 21, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gTARvDelk
*Dymon (Dmity or Dyma) – he emigrated from Ukraine (Kharkov) – after destroying of the Soviet
Union – into Israel. I don’t know more about him.
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PRAVDA|RU (en.TRUTHRU) YouTube Channel
Jews flee from Israel
Published on March 30.2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXqfKpSOJNc
You can change all the videos’ subtitles to English
P.S.: The World Infiltrators. They have a promised land everywhere.
Sorry, at “Where will Israel go?” I exchanged the two links.
Correctly:
Part 1 (Zhilin) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nlj-pPi_sQ
Part 2 (Devyatov) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1cbBANuxo
Putin’s passport easing for any Ukrainian (not just those in the south east) seems to be a problem for some … including the so called “comedian”, who is clearly a paid actor with a mental problem.
This comedian is offering Russians an easy route to a Ukrainian passport to live in the Ukraine … which must be one of his better jokes !
Ukraine to grant citizenship to Russians ‘suffering’ under Putin’s rule
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/28/594619/Putin-Russia-ukraine-passport-conflict-citizenship
( and things could have been so different … constructive )
So many incongruous contradictions and vexing, solution-less puzzles…..
Signs of the Times.
Words, Swords and More Words, Worlds Within Worlds and Songs Without Words.
My thought?
The London Guardian Is All In a Russophobic Knot and Vlad and Kim Ought….
To Simply CUT that Guardian Knot!
MAGA
Make Alexander Great Again
Why NOT??
CSW may have gone to school with Assange Down Under but his interview yesterday calls Julian a “nasty little prick”. But then he calls himself the same thing. Everything is code. Everyone has to mine a node. Forget it, says CSW, unless you join a “pool”.
Cool.
You can be a pining fool in love but don’t be a mining fool alone and under water in the deep end…..
Dr Craig S Wright has got a Vision that makes other “projects’ look like primary school assignments…he wants to flunk them all….under the slogan “ONE (internet 2.0) or NONE”.
People like our Nice English Lady are very annoyed with such Aussie Arrogance crashing their Crypto Party….but I’m afraid Craig has more than a few dozen very good legal points and patents registered….and will actually prove the “I Am Satoshi” bit in British court, (“the only place where it counts”….he notes) this year.
Everyone that has ever seen the London Economist late eighties cover with the Phoenix Rising Out of The Monetary Ashes of Global Systemic Currency Collapse with an emblem that looks a hell of a lot like the Bitcoin Logo (there were/are a handful of actual metal Bitcoin coins, I have heard tell….but this phenomenon is digital, not metal, in essence) has this queasy feeling that It’s All A Rothschild Chipping Scam From A to Z Empire…..but there are Counter-Indications that ease my mind.
My business partner was troubled by one of those signs…but not me. “I like the way he rips those young crypto scammers apart”, he told me, “but there’s something he said that’s troubling me.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“The name of his family trust.” he replied.
“What did he name it?” I inquired.
“The Tulip Trust.”, he replied, worriedly.
I laughed. That’s the kind of name I might pick, just to troll all the worry warts.
Craig was being interviewed and was asked where he came up with his pseudonym’s first name. I saw the video of him calmly replying, matter of factly:
“I used to read the London Economist and in the late eighties they had this article on the collapse of fiat currencies, with a phoenix on the cover.” He explained. “I remembered that issue’s cover article and many years later, realizing I would need to choose a pseudonym, I picked “Satoshi”…..which is Japanese for ‘ashes’….”.
Which made perfect sense to me, actually. As do many other CSW things…..which are mainly presented by piece by piece, step by step method of construction not mere assertion, opinion or emotion. If you can’t construct it, you don’t know it……you just FEEL it. But not yet EVERY thing is adequately constructed yet.
It might be there. But I don’t see the full blueprint in my mind yet. It’s too vast to grasp in a few weeks.
So I’m not worried, but I am concerned. Not so much about the Vision of Satoshi, and phoenixes and ashes and all that symbolic occultism, but more about the slight fading from the radar of the Assange abduction/arrest …..and CSW’s odd JA antagonism……right now…(deception???)…and resolving the dissonances….in the current world situation and Vineyard of the Saker vibes…..if that is even possible just yet.
Patience!
Concentrate on encouraging test results! Assange is next.
An interesting analysis by Stephen M. Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, published last Friday in Foreign Policy magazine:
America Isn’t as Powerful as It Thinks It Is
-The era of unilateralism is over—and Washington is the last to realize it-
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/26/america-isnt-as-powerful-as-it-thinks-it-is/
P.S. Stephen M. Walt is the coauthor with John J. Mearsheimer, professor of political science at University of Chicago, of the seminal study “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=891198
When Uncle Satan is in a hole-hand him a bigger shovel.
Assange
“Deception is necessary.
Q”
In the mid seventies Bering Sea king crab fleet, one younger Norwegian captain (first name Sigmund, I recall….) was famous for lying his head off all over the long range radio (could be heard in Seattle, if tuned to that frequency, so we’re not talking citizens’ band…”Smoky”…lol..) loudly whining and complaining in Norwegian……..especially when his fishing was really good.
His nickname in the fleet was “Big Noise”.
I heard him a few times my first season, crying and moaning out loud over the radio, from the Compass Rose to Kodiak, when I stood watch a couple of hours, on our typical 12-14 hour steam southwest into “Dutch” to unload, even when the radio was turned down so the captain could sleep. He was a lot louder than anyone else in the fleet, and was constantly complaining about how miserable his fishing was, so (in his mind) everyone would stay away from him and where his crab pots were set.
Before we were done unloading once, Big Noise miraculously filled up really fast and came along side of us and tied up to us and came over the deck rails to visit, less than 24 hours after one of his radio deceptions, all smiles and joking, waiting his turn to unload.
The next season his younger brother came on board, one of 3-4 deckhands. He liked to talk on the radio too, whenever he stood watch, so soon enough, he was known throughout the crab fleet as “Little Noise”.
I intuit that there is something of strategic importance about “crazy-like a fox” Craig S Wright (Bitcoin’s Satoshi, …..he says he will prove in court this year…) who I call “Big Craig”, and not just because he’s a billionaire.
He’s probably either Cabal or Anti-Cabal and in that realm of contention, Deception and Occultation Is About the Only Constant.
But the uncanny thing is that Big Craig’s intention to make his move to Crash the Crypto Pump and Dump (his words, not mine!) Party last November was announced last August on you tube by the fellow I now call “Little Craig”……of Craig Mason’s Reasonable Conversation Channel………. who interviewed Dr Craig Wright about what was coming in the fall of 2018…….and why.
And I was led to this stuff I now post on Assange………by “Little Craig”:
Scott Bennett: What Assange Will Tell Congress…
Julian Assange will be presenting material to the US Congress which will do the following:
1. Confirm that Russia did not provide the cables and emails and other computer materials obtained from the Democrat National Committee computer servers, but instead confirm that Congressional staffer Seth Rich was the source, and was killed for it. Julian Assange will confirm that Seth Rich had become disenchanted with the Democrats because of the hypocrisy and betrayal of Bernie Sanders and favoring of Hillary Clinton as the Democrat nominee. Seth Rich then provided this material after downloading it unto a thumbdrive and providing it to an individual (Walsh) who then turned it over to Wikileaks. Seth Rich was consequently targeted for assasination by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and this will be exposed.
2. Julian Assange will confirm that Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, and others had nothing to do with coordinating with him to benefit Donald Trump.
3. Julian Assange will confirm that he shared with Swiss Bank whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld the Wikileaks cables from Hillary Clinton’s State Department communications from 2009 that contained a “racketeering conspiracy to finance terrorism” using the Union Bank of Switzerland involving Robert Wolf (Chairman of the Americas and Brad Birkenfeld’s boss). Julian Assange will confirm that Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer and Loretta Lynch (later AG) conspired to work with Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Foundation, and Donna Shalala (Presdident of Clinton Foundation) and others to confiscate 19,000 Swiss Bank accounts in exchange for a percentage of the funds contained in these accounts. Many accounts actually belonged to other politicians and high profile Hollywood and international figures.
4. Julian Assange will confirm part of this “pay-to-play” scam by Hillary Clinton entailed the transfer of Chinese Uighar terrorists out of Guantanamo Bay Cuba to Switzerland in order to “make this go away” for the Swiss Government.
5. Julian Assange will confirm that Bradley Manning (Chelsea) submitted materials that were Mossad videos pretending to be Arabs, torturing people in Iraq in order to justify continuous war.
6. Julian Assange will confirm that Edward Snowden worked with the CIA to target Brad Birkenfeld in order to obtain Swiss Banker information; and then Snowden worked with Scott Bennett at Booz Allen Hamilton, and also had left America after he saw Scott Bennett and Brad Birkenfeld’s report “Shell Game: A military whistleblowing report to Congress about terrorist financing”.
7. Julian Assange will confirm that wikileaks cables contain information proving the 911 connection to CIA, Mossad, MI6, Saudi Arabia, and confirm the Robert Mueller connection to the cover-up of the FBI cameras around the Pentagon, and Booz Allen Hamilton’s connection via the Carlyle Group and Leon Panetta and Michael Hayden (both former Booz Allen Hamilton partners).
Julian Assange will confirm other things…..more to come.”
I have followed Scott Bennett for a few years now. Seems like one of the MOST genuine whistleblowers to me. Explicitly clear on the Zionist Deception. Bennett was imprisoned for asking too many questions about Iraq and other areas where he was stationed as a US Army Intelligence officer…….and finally “put two and two together” and snapped out of his initial youthful and naïve “patriotic” stupor when Brad Birkenfeld was in the same detention facility with him..for several weeks…….and they compared…… “more than a few notes” with each other.
I too have come across very similar assessments from a couple of other sources. I sincerely hope there is some truth to it. Praying Medic comes across as a reliable and intuitive assessor of Q decodes. Has been fascinating to watch developments especially as an observer from both the polar opposite of the political spectrum and a resident of the Assange’s Antipodes. “The more you know”.
The Voltaire network argues convincingly that NATO only survives because of propaganda in the MSM.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206332.html
Let’s speak about deception first in a few quotes:
“Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!” – Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
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“By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War” – There is no need to put a link here – we all know where this comes from.
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“I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.” – George Washington, letter to Dr. John Cochran, Aug. 16, 1779
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“There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.” – George Eliot, Romola
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“It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that … begins by deceiving others, will end … by deceiving himself.” – Charles Colton, Lacon
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“A life of deceit is one of unmitigated torture–a living hell, which should deserve our pity for the unhappy beings who submit to it..” – Charles William Day, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
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“If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.” – Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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To say that deception is necessary, gives the states and .govs the ideal excuse to deceive, to deceive you and me. You’re handing them the excuse and making them proud of their deception because you agree to it!
What is necessary is the opposite of deception – transparency is necessary.
If you beg for deception to be necessary this is what you advocate for.
betrayal
disinformation
duplicity
falsehood
fraud
hypocrisy
lying
mendacity
treachery
trickery
untruth
beguilement
blarney
boondoggle
cheat
circumvention
cozenage
craftiness
cunning
deceitfulness
deceptiveness
dirt
dissimulation
double-dealing
dupery
equivocation
flimflam
fraudulence
guile
hokum
imposition
insincerity
juggling
legerdemain
pretense
Is this not what we are working against? Is this not why the Yellow Vests are out every weekend to oppose and expose? Is deception not what Julian Assange exposed? Is deception not what a whole bunch of alternative writers and journalist are working hard to shine a light on?
Transparency is necessary. And those that preach deception and normalizing it, are most probably deceiving you.
Just recently we saw what deception looks like from Pompeo himself … in a clintonuesque moment, cackling and in hubristic pride saying how much he/they lied, stole and deceived in the CIA. And the crowd applauded and hooted and stomped their feet!
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Leaving this at the bottom of my posts for a while longer.
Only Dust left in the Bottom of the Ammo Box – Fundraiser
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@Amarynth
You missed something, deception comes from the word deceit, and deceit from the Latin “capio” take, meaning take on a role, mask, virtue, vice, etc.
So deceit may be utilized for the good, and as such is vital component in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Characters make use of deception to work for good things, they rid themselves of bad situations, or play humorous tricks on other people to achieve given ends, transformation, development etc.
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Ras
Ras, deception ‘for my own good’ is nothing but coercion.
It does not compute .. the ones and zeros come up with a divide by 0 error (in computing terms).
Surely we’re not going to sit here and be deceived by erstwhile ‘role players’ and walk into our own destruction?
Geez, just read ioan’s poetry about what he finds in life while dealing with a very stressful and difficult situation and one can know that this is never ‘for your own good’. Sorry, does not compute. Does not compute in any decent religion, does not compute in any decent system of morals and ethics.
Shakespeare describes human nature as it plays out in the world of men. I think, as such, it is useful for study as it pays to be aware of the many ways we are regularly deceived and deceive ourselves. Naifs, and those determined to remain naïve in the face of all evidence to the contrary, do themselves a great disservice, I think, since we carry responsibility for all our actions, like it or not, admit it or not. You can only assess the truth of others speech and actions by your own inbuilt (through long practice) yardstick of truth, and that has to be constantly kept accurate, by being scrupulously truthful yourself.
To deceive others you must first deceive yourself, never a good long-term strategy in life.
‘For your own good’ is always a lie, it is for the good of the narcissist speaker, invariably. The speaker just wants to dress it up for his own comfort and convenience.
Concerning ioan’s suffering, perhaps he speaks for many who struggle and fight for survival on different levels, such is poetry and drama, art shows us that life has direction, beauty and purpose. I meant Shakespeare deliberately used deception as means to spotlight the human dilemma and experience.
Ras
What can I say ? life is a bitch, sometimes you are confronted to take a decision contrary to your own conscience, and I mean very painful decisions regarding persons you love so much. Who is forcing you to do that ? the situation itself, but who created that situation, yourself, your loved ones or external factors did have their fundamental contribution …well, the question is not a easy one for sure, it may be you made mistakes, it may be you had bad luck but, external hands are also deep in your troubles…and that leads to the society you live in, furthermore, it leads to politics, to persons…well defined persons. On the other hand, religions have stepped long ago in a shadowy territory, making more and more trouble than easing the burden of people. They know some truths, they don’t let you know it because that serves their purpose in sharing the power together with the powers may be, everywhere, deluding the people in their needs and creating havoc and suffering. How can expect someone to be religious when confronted with such realities ? while the kings and lords and popes and priests of all sorts are “blessed”, they are safe and well, if they are ill, they have a decent (the best !) treatment cause they deserve it, huh ?
Thank you Amarynth.
One or two further aspects of deceit / untruthfulness and the antidote, transparency, that I see as important.
First, the socially engineered drive for politically correct speech and thought. To me this is a kind of “required lying” and ranges from euphemism to obfuscation. If we are conditioned over time to refer to things with less and less “reality” based language we are essentially destroying the ability of language to be a tool of communication and thinking. We are also ignoring and repressing rather than addressing difficult issues, topics, situations.
The political correctness crowd and social engineers would have us lie ourselves into la-la-land with their language conniptions. There is, I believe, a way – increasingly marginalised and forgotten it seems to me – to speak of things as they are but with *kindness*. Can we restore it and encourage it?
[Aside: Here I would like to say that it seems easy for some to use “truth telling” as a destructive weapon, full of contempt and scorn. I am not advocating this kind of “black truth”.
On the Internet, some have described a rising trend of using a type of judgemental “truth” in a kind of war of words … but even in school yards there always seem to be those who resort to “name calling” to cause hurt. The differences between name calling and factual description have been actively blurred (perhaps by the social engineers) for many years.]
The second idea is related.
These are all the untruths and crucial fictions (as one blogger I follow describes them) that we hold about ourselves, our families, society, the world. Perhaps this is the area that psychologists and Jungians might label the repressed or shadow self but I think it’s a bit more than that and also includes beliefs and ideologies and our constructed identities and cosmologies. This is more challenging to be transparent about since it is often painful and uncomfortable to see these things about ourselves.
Maybe we we need a dual process: seeing the truth about the world and seeing the truth about ourselves?
For me, what I find hardest is living with the knowledge that I am complicit with many things I view as wrong or problematic.
Just one small example: if one uses a mobile phone, tablet or computer,
– it was probably made with rare earth metals in its components and
– these were probably mined from central Africa
– by people under duress
– in a country kept purposely poor and war ravaged
– so that there is no effective opposition to ecologically devastating mining, slave-like labour conditions, or the ravages of an imposed resource economy and IMF/World Bank debt.
On the other hand, the proliferation of these devices allows us to reach people with the information about this exact situation (and potentially bring about action to address it). More significantly, the vast consumer demand for these devices has allowed China to develop massive manufacturing capacity which has lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty and has in turn perhaps been a necessary input to the Belt and Road, a programme which has the potential to improve the welfare of many more.
Good springing from wrong? I don’t know but this is not easy knowledge to hold in the mind and heart.
There are many other things difficult to live with once one becomes aware of them. So many in fact that finding out about them could be traumatic. Maybe for some, ignorance and denial is a way to preserve some kind of sanity? I don’t know but this too is part of the situation.
SusieQ, you (and ioan) illustrate so well how damn hard it is to live a moral and ethical life in our post modern (or post moral) society where you almost have to ‘screw the system’.
So Assange will be allowed to publicly address congress? And apparently to present whatever information he chooses to present? That seems somewhat implausible. I recall there were similar expectations when Manuel Noriega was arrested. That the Bush administration wouldn’t dare arrest him since his CIA connections would be revealed and it would be too embarrassing. None of that happened though and Noriega was safely squirreled away until his death.
This is exactly the type of deceit that is now running rampant through a sub-section of the US population. They cannot get it in their heads that Assange lived in an embassy with a cat for company for 7 years to avoid this coercion, but, the deceit train is running at full steam – how it would be ‘for his own good’ if he gets taken to the US in ankle bracelets and shackles and put in some incarceration somewhere – and sure, he will solve all the problems and ‘tell the truth’ so that the deep and existential angst and pain in the US population will subside.
And everyone that have never spoken about Assange ever before, are on that train, (get those youtube clicks boys and girls) and they all know exactly what will happen. Somehow, the little bit of tell the truth is not sinking in and even here, we have folks that justify deceit as ‘for our own good’.
All indications are that the US government are setting up to charge Assange under the espionage act.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/26/view-27th-vigil-a-fortnight-after-assanges-arrest/
Once Assange is renditioned he will disappear as completely as matter sucked into a black-hole. To imagine otherwise is nutty.
There is a good Counterpunch article unravelling the behind-the-scenes politicking and horse-trading going on between UK, US and Sweden over Assange and the black hole or Super-Max cell that is reserved for him.
It also mentions that back in Maggie’s time at the helm, her good friend the Chilean dictator Pinochet visited her in London. There were huge protests due to his well publicised death squads and other human rights violations and Spain requested his extradition to put him on trial. Maggie refused the request, overriding the judiciary who were to have granted it.
So Pinochet, acknowledged murderer and torturer of many of his own citizens, gets a pass but for the man who jumps bail any flimsy excuse for extradition must be followed through to the letter:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/25/avoiding-assange/
A very great mistake made by human beings is to refuse to face the fact that the ruling scum are, indeed, Evil in every way. The garbage that the differences, between the morally sane and creatures like Thatcher, are merely due to differing ‘opinions’ is, in my opinion, garbage. Thatcher was a vile creature, as were her acolytes and collaborators, and as, indeed, are her descendants still active in UK politics.
Excellent article. Let those that think that all this Assange stuff is only a red herring and that Assange is going to walk away from this, from an extradition, read this.
Back to the drawing board after many interesting and varied comments prompted by the question of deception !
The word deception is from deceit. from the Latin, capio, to take, and has nothing to do with evil per se, but is the adoption of some form, a taking on of a persona, a presence that is now recognized as evil.
The etymology of a word will lead to its true meaning, despite the change of understanding and common usage,.
It is rare to find in positive form, but it exists historically, and forms an essential aspect most famously in the characters of Shakespeare’s plays, that upon occasion, are quoted on this illustrious forum. carpe diem, seize,take hold of the day.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearnèd luck
Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
(Midsummer Nights Dream)
Urgently need to get socialism into that American Dream …
San Francisco Homeless Mess – 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHp95N3iWyY
I think US citizens do not understand what socialism is …
too busy hearing and singing about freedom and liberty …
and now need weed to survive …
… and …
Former banker in San Francisco confronts new reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkawn1tLp-8
Why the label need?
Just get free education, healthcare and that’s pretty much it.
No labels
… include containment of banking and military industrial complex, ceasing surveillance via internet and mobile phones etc. The elite endorse communist/socialist ideals when it suits them, when their schemes need bail out monies via US taxpayers, but the people do not benefit, such as when the banks were bailed but people lost their homes permanently.
“Free” healthcare and education are wishful thinking without the appropriate platform for change and that platform requires a label and then that label and then that platform once enabled and established requires political scrutiny to keep it from being derailed. Derailment has already occurred in “free” education outside US and national healthcare is failing due to private interests (greedy bastards).
It is not obvious US citizens have no chance, short of a revolution ?
” Herderism,the core organizing principle of our society for the past 10,000 years, supresses spiritual awareness in individuals and in our cultural institutions, including in our religious institutions. Through acculturation,this has become invisible to us. When we have religious teachers,practices and teachers that do not question animal agriculture and eating animal sourced foods,we have religions that lack spirituality and that tend ironically,to reduce spiritual awareness in individuals and in society as a whole,while contributing to delusion, injustice and war. The four core practices of animal agriculture are mentally reducing beings to mere material objects;enslaving them from birth to death;sexually abusing them and stealing their offspring;and pre-meditatively killing all of them.On every level–physically,cognitively,emotionally,sexually,spiritually,culturally and ethically–animal agriculture undermines our sensitivity and awareness,and promotes materialism and exploitation of the weak by the strong. The fact that it is so wide-spread,deeply rooted and generally accepted makes it’s relentlessly devastating effects virtually untrackable to their source,even to those of us who consider ourselves to be spiritually oriented” -Will Tuttle,author “World Peace Diet”. It stands to reason that what has been shown ad infinitum is that physical health and recovery requires a whole food plant-based diet, which is also a vegan diet.Since physical health and spiritual health go hand in hand this entails a lifestyle of ahimsa.Eat well and get well.
There speaks someone who has never known starvation. Oh, for the luxury of choice, dressed up as ‘spiritual elevation’ and ‘moral superiority’.
Whatever did humans do for millennia before the vegan industry was dreamed up to cater for their oh-so-refined needs?
Believe me, if you are hungry enough, you will boil your boots and book covers and gladly tuck in, as thousands have done already in times of famine.
Cannibalism isn’t off the menu either:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160403-andes-uruguay-rugby-cannibal-plane-crash-canessa-ngbooktalk/#/01ihadtosurvive.jpg
Oh. The v word offends you.Herderism has been around for 10000 years.Vegan was coined by Donald Watson at Oxford in 1948 so it can be left out and the comment remains the same.If not for animal agriculture the whole world could be fed.No idea how you equate a distaste for millions of bodies killed in wars (lots for your cannibals )with moral superiority or privilege. A whole food plant based diet will mean the difference between life and death for the Sakr.Very cheap.Read the China Study by T.Colin Campbell,the largest nutritional study ever done.Spiritual health and physical health are related.Wars will go on forever unless you look into yourself and dare to entertain a new way of thinking and being.And even consider a new idea.Did you even read what Tuttle wrote? Enjoy your club.Pat yourself on the back.Recycle your ideas in profound ways.How’s that working for you?
It really is quite simple. Eating animals is bad for the animal. Less so with hunter-gatherers where we operate like other predators, just taking a few of the weaker and less agile beasts, but hideously so in industrialised animal slaughter in the ‘Eternal Treblinkas’ of abattoirs and export ships sailing to the Middle East, crammed to the gills in the eternal quest for profit maximisation. It is bad for the natural world, in its capitalist form, because it destroys rainforests, and leaves behind oceans of waste that pollute waterways, even the seas and destroys biodiversity. It even destroys the effectiveness of antimicrobial medicines, as so many are fed to livestock that they become incubators of bacterial and fungal resistance.
And then it poisons the consumers as well, the more meat you consume, the unhealthier you become. And it promotes food scarcity by taking land that could produce far more sustenance if growing fruit, vegetables and grains, and turning it over to animal herding. Of course the militant vegans, no doubt thoroughly infiltrated by police and intelligence ‘sleepers’ are harming their cogent arguments with their direct actions. What a pity that is, because they certainly have, in my opinion, the science and morality on their side.
Grateful for your accurate portrayal of the harms animal agriculture inflicts on the animals and the planet.
Animal rights activists are actually considered terrorists and as such I am sure they are infiltrated by intelligence.
I don’t think the movement would have come as far as it has– “The Economist” magazine,in it’s January issue, declared 2019 the year of the vegan–without Peta and other direct action groups.A group I admire now that has chapters in 80 countries is Anonymous for the Voiceless. They have a form of activism called the cube of truth in which 4 people form a square ,each holding a screen with a video of animals in slaughterhouses.Others are nearby to provide information to those who are shocked in disbelief at the reality of what they see.This is peaceful but effective. They are doing one in New York City this July in various locations which is going to be 24 hours non-stop for 10 days.They are taking care to get all of the necessary permits and permissions from NYPD in place.It will reach thousands.
‘Spiritual health and physical health are related.’
Only in so far as everything is related to everything else, however tangentially. How, I wonder do you measure either spiritual or physical health? Take physical health—that stymies even the best doctors and scientists. Currently it is ‘an absence of disease’, a negative conclusion, but there are many top athletes in peak physical condition who suddenly drop dead for no overt reason. Its called Sudden Adult Death Syndrome and is so far inexplicable.
How about spiritual health? Who measures that and how? The definition of spirit is: – an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms, from the Latin ‘spiritus’, literally, breath, from ‘spirare’ to blow, breathe.
So anyone still breathing has spirit and is ‘a spiritual being’ by my reckoning, even at death’s door.
And I have no problem with veganism at all, I’ve tried enough fashionable fads in my time to know that none of them make any appreciable difference to either health or longevity, although they do make the convert or devotee feel virtuous and superior for a while. And that does feel good—-until it wears off, as it always does since change is the one constant in life and then its on to the next fad, chasing the dragon.
BTW, Cynthia, I did read the ‘China Study’ when it was first published and didn’t note any correlation drawn between ‘spiritual health’ and ‘physical health’—- at all— in that study.
An interesting point raised at the time was the fact that people eating the traditional SE Asian diet covered in that study had a much higher incidence of stomach cancers (and subsequent mortalities) than those eating any other diets. It was a remarkable finding. The conclusion that I drew from it was that living (eating to live) itself has its own dangers to health, no matter what you eat—but that the dangers to health themselves vary according to what food group is predominant in whatever particular diet you choose.
So, swings or roundabouts. We get to choose which road we take, if we are lucky or privileged enough to have a choice, but all dietary roads lead eventually to the same outcome, different causes maybe, but exactly the same outcome.
Lets be clear on The China Study, generally considered to be the Vegan Bible and yes, I have read it some years ago already.
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/the-china-study-myth/
I always get worried if what I eat is prescribed to me by a bunch of vegan’s most of which at the end of the day, do not thrive (there is the bell curve and sure, some do thrive). And there is good support for what I am saying here. I’ve been across the world and have always collected old methods (from at least the grannies) of preparing food. So, in one way, we have lost the ability of proper food preparation, because we live very much further away from the source of our food.
What should people eat? They should eat what is right for them individually as each of us has an individual digestive system and surely, we do not have 2 stomachs like cows for example to process a high level of green fibre. We also have the tooth structure of a meat eater, carnivore. For some, it is an animal derived diet, for some it is a plant derived diet. And then, on the other side of the bell curve, we have wise men, yogis, sitting on top of mountains, subsisting on a little water plus a honey like substance available to those with advanced yogic methods, that is produced in their own throats. Get the full bell curve in front of you before telling others what to eat.
What people should not eat, is processed and poisoned foods. In the plant foods, there are just as many that are highly hybridized and have changed their characteristics so much over many years, that we mostly cannot eat them. Wheat is not wheat any longer, but a highly hybridized short wheat, specifically bred, but they forgot that the short wheat which was a tall grass with a deep root system before, cannot now reach deeply into the earth, and bring up specifically the minerals that it used to do of old. We do not have wheat any more, but after 100 years of hybridization of wheat, we now have short stalk, thin husk wheat … That is why use of the older non-hybridized wheats like Einkorn now is resurging because this wheat is causing all kinds of health problems,
So, wheat today is sweeter, bigger, have thinner husk, needs massive amounts of water, needs fertilizers because it cannot get sufficient from even enriched soil itself, has massive amounts of gluten and in use, we are not using the correct methods. Time of old, we all did different types of longer fermentation processes – now the ferments are quick and leads to fluffy high breads – gluten and nothing much else inside there. Ask any vegan if they actually know how to ferment foods. Can they actually produce the foods that they eat themselves or are they buying off the shelf?
Usually people with wheat or gluten sensitivities can easily eat the older wheats. And so I can go through every vegetable known to man (well most of them) and trace the history between what they were, and what they are now. Tomatoes for instance when they started arriving in Europe, nobody would eat them, they were considered to be poisonous. Now, they are highly hybridized, grown for looks instead of value, picked half green just at the stage when that fruit is fully developed in size, but not ripened, waxed and then ripened to change color in a gas chamber in order to feed the demand through a just in time production system. Bananas used to have seeds – big ones, almost like watermelon. Pineapple used to be a long thin fruit that needed to be cooked before eating. I was in a meeting once with a bunch of Swedes wanting to buy organic bananas from the tropics. But they only wanted to buy hands of bananas with only 5 bananas on and of a specific length … Oy – this is what the buyers want to buy to be able to present it ‘pretty’ and then the producers go more and more to tissue culture propagation of banana plants – i.e., in a laboratory, to grow only those plants that produce these specific characteristics. Zoom, over the heads go food diversity and plant diversity.
So, there are just about no soybeans left on this earth that are non-gmo’d. I bought some from a specialist seed grower some years ago and grew them out … 3 years and one can be reasonably OK that you now have a bean that is organic but it is still gmo’d. The go-to protein foods of vegans are soybeans for tofu and various plant based cheeses, and wheat gluten for seitan and tempeh. So, without knowing, the vegans are consuming gmo’d soybeans, and short stalk wheat, highly hybridized.
We also have a population that is generally in one way or the other been through trauma. Food can heal – people that are ill or not healthy need different foods than those that are healthy. Gramma’s chicken soup was not your normal chicken soup – but a healthy broth brewed up from the bones of a healthy free range chicken – and certain illnesses heal from this broth alone as it gives the immune system a strong starter kick.
There is no one size fits all in food consumption. Ask an Eskimo or Inuit to go vegan.
Factory farming is cruelty and one cannot consume anything that comes from there. But if you need to still eat meat, there are now many alternatives where animals are treated humanely – those that grassfeed their animals. Ask any one of these vegans whether they have spent any time at all on a true farm. They probably have not and have no idea where their food comes from.
Yes, I have no doubt that a spiritual life plays into the food that we consume. But truly, just as the pesky kind of christian wants to enforce their system and belief set, so do the vegans. Surely this business is the business of God and human, individually. No matter which type of spiritual path you follow, something happens after death … and one stands alone in front of God, in terms of Christianity, or into a period of soul development or rest, or the bardo, and then a soul returns to this earth depending on development, in terms of more Eastern type philosophies. I’ve never found anyone that wanted to enforce their diet, way of life, beliefs etc., willing to agree to stand with me at my moment of truth and pay for their beliefs if I followed them.
Our food is in a bad place. Our production of food is so messed that it is a true catastrophe. Environmentally we are killing ourselves. Each time a true plant based diet becomes fashionable, miles of already shrinking forest is chopped down, to supply us with spiking demand for something like coconut oils and so on, in terms of what has become fashionable. The China study was a politically driven study, rules based laboratory driven agriculture, no matter all the sweet words of true research that is spoken about it.
If I get asked about healing foods – and it has been 30 years that I’ve been researching, the first two go-to places is the:
Weston A Price foundation – https://www.westonaprice.org/
and
Healing with Whole Foods – Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition, by Paul Pitchford.
And don’t get me started on seed production and hybridized seeds usually F1 and heritage seeds and open pollination methods. Ask any vegan if they know anything about this – chances are they are following a religion and have no clue. Where I agree with the vegans, is minimal cooking but some things need to be cooked.
You’ve hit on one of my passions – healing foods. In our household we cook 2 eating plans. One is a high fat keto eating plan, that is necessary for the person because everything else makes him sick. For me, mostly vegetarian but because I do most of the food prep, I taste any meat dishes. I even make my own bacon which is easy, but a little painful at the smoking stage. The farmer that supplies the pork belly is clean and animals do not eat gmo’d foods. The difference between a religion and a healthy eating plan is whether your food is clean and mostly, do you know the hands that produced that food – and do you know that is clean food source – it is a never ending battle in these days that all food is increasing in price and reducing in quality. What is often forgotten is that food is different in the various climatic zones as well. One size does not fit all in terms of eating food and diversity is in serious danger.
And then, all the laboratory grown gristle junk these days, is also called ‘clean food’. This seems to be the future: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/9/18255806/fda-usda-lab-grown-meat-cell-based-vegan-vegetarian
Ethical veganism or a newer name I have heard which doesn’t risk sounding like” I am ethical and you’re not” is simply” vegan for the animals”, is about compassion and empathy for all beings.It is about eating low on the food chain.And yes plants have feelings too I believe but they don’t have advanced nervous systems and probably don’t feel pain and fear the way animals do. It is about giving up human entitlement and dominion and refusing to use animals for food and experimentation and clothing and entertainment just because we can because it is not kind.It is about recognizing the right of all animals to live their life because their lives are as important to them as ours are to us.
Just gonna throw in a Ho Ho Ho for the day. Anyone catch the news from the Apartheid Occupation of Palestine. A new and exciting discovery, one for the ages. Really! They found a letter written by a Roman general to his boss in Rome. This general actually stood around, watching and listening to Jesus addressing the crowds just days before he gets curcified. Turns out Jesus was a blond haired blue eyed guy who spoke three languages. Take that…Pope Francis; looks like Bibi was right, Jesus was one of their guys, and he did speak hebrew. Oh, and the common folk didn’t like jesus, anymore than the Pharaceses did.
But if a guy can walk on water, change same into wine, heal the blind, cure the lame………….pretty sure he could pull a Dolittle and talk to animals if he so chose. So why pick three languages? Control the narritve.
Mental string theory soup: Metinks Mcluhan was part right, but it still comes back to narritive and who controls it. Granda, in the trench, hot of the press ‘fake’ newspapers, and that was 1915. If he only had text. Holocost, Holocost, Holocost, no investigation allowed, decent punishable under law. 9/11, six million theories, pick one! Americans won WW2, well, don’t ask the natives. E=MC2, lots of bs, which boot to wear? Sadam bad, kill, kill, kill. Check. Libya, Gaddafi, bad, bad, bad. Must kill. Check. WMDs, for how many scheckles? Damn I miss Sherman. Syria….let’s not even go there, too many angels in White Helmets. Yeman………….where? My heart bleeds. Palestine Oy Vey!!!! Oh, and it’s getting hot out………………..spring is comming! I hate it when my wife asks…….”what are you thinking about”. ‘Really, you really wanna know?’. “Pruning the orchard, dear.”
Sean De Lep, my friend, interesting thoughts in both of your comments above. Time permitting we will talk about that in the coming days, hopefully (apologize for giving you this name – I like it, sounds like a crusader’s name)
@ioan. A founding father of the Templars and I, share the same last name, our familys come from the same area of England…………….so you are not far off the mark. Not that I would aspire to be such, they missed the ‘compassionet heart of Jesus’ part, and got hung up on the scheckles, hmmm…..seen that before, seems to be a recurring historical event. Damn greed! Everybody loves a good mammonite, yes?
Top of the morn’ to you. Cheers, M.
Calling all Ar-ists, musicians, poets!
My Cockney BSV mates are really exci-ed today:
https://youtu.be/sEKI2roe67E
BSV DJ Sam Cox interview
“You can Immor-alize your con-ent man, for like…forever on the immu-able BSV blockchain….and cu’ ou’ the middleman…..so ge’ on the ba-el field, ge’ cre-a-ive and ge’ PAID!!!”
Don’t ask me exactly how it works now or will work no’ so long from now. I’m no’ a techno-nerd. And I’m still workin on swallowin’ my t’s that are in the middle of words. Bu’ I’m gaining an overarching overview, alrigh-, tha’s a cer-ain-y!
For those who follow Thierry Meyssan and Peter Koenig regarding chaos and the the goals of the Empire.
Check out a one-hour podcast April 24
http://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_peter-koenig-this-empire-is-going-down/
Around minute 23, he says, “Everything is linked in the end to the economics, to the monetary system which is totally fraudulently based and been able to hegemonize the entire world over the past 70 years…..
When the end game comes, like a wild animal, the US slashes around to bring down as many countries with it as they can….
The empire is on a losing string. The US does not want to let go. They have a plan for a new American century no one wants to talk about. This plan is followed almost by the letter….
They do not want to win a war. They want constant chaos, which is a constant reason to interfere, to produce weapons, and to fight.
Do not forget that 50-60% of the US GDP depends on wars and the war industry and all the associated industries like banking, electronics, air spaces, manufacturing, all linked to the military industry……
If peace would break out tomorrow, the US economy would collapse.
If you analyze the US economy, there is nothing solid. There is only destruction and that is not sustainable”.
All the above relates to a topic I have been asking Saker to discuss with CA Fitts regarding Trump and MAGA.
It seems to me that Trump and both parties are committed to an economic war against all who oppose the “Empire”. NATO is a big part of it because they choose to side with the US. Chaos is the strategy of maintaining dominance.
Koenig suggests that Russia and China have only recently understood “the game” and have accepted the challenge.
MS
PS. Prayers go out to Saker
Well done, Comrade Belugov! Did ‘Russian Navy whale’ trick Norwegians into seizing spy harness?
https://www.rt.com/news/457826-russian-navy-beluga-norway/
“The Arctic whale was first sighted last Thursday by a group of fishermen off the coast of Ingoya Island in Norway’s north. It was quite friendly and willing to play with humans, but what was peculiar about it was the harness it was wearing, public broadcaster NRK reported.
The fishermen took pictures of the animal and reported their find to the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, which is tasked with freeing whales from ropes, fishnets and other trash in which they may get tangled. The authorities sent a crew to the location and encountered the same whale. They tried to take the harness off, but the beluga would not allow them, so they had to send in a swimmer in a warm suit to relieve the mammal of the attire.
The harness had an attachment point for a GoPro camera and carried a note: “Equipment of St. Petersburg” in English, according to the tabloid Verdens Gang. It’s not clear where the beluga came from, but the general speculation in the Norwegian media is that it must have escaped from captivity at a Russian military facility. Because who else would make a cetacean wear a GoPro camera?”
“Equipment of St. Petersburg”, them thar Russians are so sneaky and clever. The west is lucky israel’s norwegian colonials are on the ball 24/7, like the swedes, who knows what Comrade Belugov might have got up to had he escaped detection.
The ‘esteemed comrade’ is probably a cameraman for Attenborough’s next epic nature film, gone on strike for more fish (plankton?) and better working conditions. It’ll be wearing a yellow vest next time it is sighted.
Today I received a campaign video from the Tulsi Gabbard 2020 campaign (for President of the USA). I’m not the sort to go around trying to post that on this site. But, it moved me, and I do feel that others should see this.
So, I’ll post the link to the video on YouTube here. And I’ll leave it up to the moderators to watch this 6 min video and decide if it belongs. I’d understand if they say no, and cut it from this post. But, I am also sitting here with tears in my eyes after watching this, and I hope others watch it as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=397&v=NpdYbJFh5Jo
On Stephen Lendman’s site in an April 18th post about Gabbard and Sanders and their stance on Iran and Venezuela he quotes Gabbard as being very hostile towards Iran.i.e.she said she was in favor of a nuclear deal such as the JCPOA because without it “Iran would very likely go full speed ahead to develop a nuclear bomb with no monitoring.” She goes on to say she is opposed to war with Iran now but if it is required in the future a deal will put us in a much better position because it will allow us to gain more intelligence…. I didn’t watch the video but she sounds more like a war monger than a tear jerker. I mean I know everyone likes her because she wears red lipstick but just sayin’.
Putin “checkmates” the comedian …
Putin hopes to achieve agreement with Zelensky on citizenship issue
http://tass.com/politics/1056360
“If they begin to grant citizenship to Russians in Ukraine and we give our citizenship to Ukrainians in Russia, we will promptly achieve a common denominator and the expected result,” Putin said. “We will have common citizenship.”
I think the best thing over there, and everywhere, is that similar peoples being together is the best idea. Its when different types of peoples whom dont understand each other, then fight for resources with the majority winning at the end.
Problem there is that these resources (eventually termed money) are fought with insanity, the majority going insane and controlling most of the money. This leads to politics ruining the human race, a reset is done, and the whole thing starts all over again.
What makes peoples the same, they find love at the same age. Yes, its that simple folks.
‘Espionage inside the embassy:’ Assange accuses Ecuadorian diplomatic staff in London of spying
https://www.rt.com/news/457865-embassy-staff-spied-on-assange/
“Lenin Moreno’s government violated Assange’s privacy by secretly recording the journalist’s daily activities starting from March 2018, said a complaint submitted Monday to the attorney general’s office in Ecuador on behalf of the whistleblower. It says the spying was conducted with the help of Promsecurity, a private contractor firm which administers electronic surveillance at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Naming three officials of the diplomatic mission, including Ambassador Jaime Marchán, as well as four members of Promsecurity, the complaint alleges that the government violated at least four counts of domestic law by illicitly monitoring Assange’s activity. Those involved apparently tried to extort €3 million from WikiLeaks threatening to publish audio, video and personal documents of Assange unless they get paid. Ecuadorian law provides penalties of up to five years in prison for each violation mentioned in the complaint.
The lawyer did not reveal to whom the Australian’s personal information had been leaked to, but noted that that the Spanish authorities are already investigating the extortion scheme.”
Very Jewish mafia of israel’s quisling regime in Ecuador.
So Where is the Swedish Warrant?
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/so-where-is-the-swedish-warrant/
“All those Blairite MPs who seek to dodge the glaring issue of freedom of the media to publish whistleblower material revealing government crimes, by hiding behind trumped-up sexual allegations, are left looking pretty stupid.
Sweden was always a fit-up designed to get Assange to the USA. And now they don’t need it, so Sweden has quietly gone away. All the false left who were taken in by the security services playing upon a feminist mantra should take a very hard look at themselves. They should also consider this.
If you seriously put forward that in allegations of sexual assault, the accuser must always be believed and the accused must automatically be presumed guilty, you are handing an awesome power to the state to lock people up without proper defence. The state will abuse that awesome power and fit people up. The Assange case shows us just that. And it is not the only case, currently, as everyone in Scotland should realise.
But there is more. If you believe that any sexual accusation against a person should be believed and automatically and immediately end their societal respectability, you are giving power to state and society to exclude dissidents and critics from political discourse by a simple act of accusation. That power will be used and abused by the security services.
In the case of the allegation in Sweden that did fall through the statute of limitation, the accusation was that during the act of consensual sex Julian Assange deliberately split the condom with his fingers, without consent. I quite agree that if true, it would amount to sexual assault. But the split condom given to Swedish police as evidence had none of Assange’s DNA on it – a physical impossibility if he had worn it during sex. And the person making the accusation had previously been expelled from Cuba as working for the CIA. So tell me again – we must always believe the accuser?”
Today the Hegemon has a group of soldiers helping Guaido attempt a military takeover of Venezuela, the next step in their destabilization of that nation.
We shall see if their coup succeeds or not…it could be the start of another Vietnam in South America.
We just had another silent coup here in the states, most were captured but one fled to the venuzelan embassy here in DC, he is trying to report his adventures, complaints, and seeking outside help, no one is coming to his aid, dont know if there is any connection but their is a large amt of irony involved here.
Developments in Venezuela: Gweedo has started a coup with soldiers, unclear how many: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/venezuela-says-its-putting-down-ongoing-armed-coup-attempt
Most unclear for me at this time, from where this shady Leopoldo Lopez has popped up. I thought this bloke was in jail?
Because this Lopez is the guy the oilgarchs would really like to have in place.
Maybe Gweedo realizes, that the present stalemate makes him a liability for the US, and that they will try to ‘sacrifice’ him, blaming Maduro? Let’s face it, the man has less charisma than Macron. Would you buy a car from him?
Still many uncertainties.
Cheers, Rob
From TeleSur:
“The self-proclaimed “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, went live on Twitter this morning to call on the military and people to begin an uprising against the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Country’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino rejected the coup attempt and said that the country’s legitimate military forces would respond to any attempt to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. “We reject this coup movement that aims to fill the country with violence. The pseudo-political leaders who have placed themselves at the forefront of this subversive movement have used troops and police with weapons of war on a public road in the city to create anxiety and terror.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-Defense-Minister-Rejects-Guaidos-Calls-For-Coup-20190430-0008.html
Lopez is a rich kid who went to Ivy League unis in Pindostan, Kennedy school of government, etc, and a self-admitted member of the 1%.
Leonard Cohen, ‘Waiting for the miracle’. I like the pic on this one, it makes me think of the Hindu Holi festival where everyone chucks coloured powders over each other for some unfathomable reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q48vRCHtfU
Holi 2019:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/holi-2019-hindu-festival-of-colour-when-is-it-celebrate-india-nepal-powder-a8801616.html
According to AP, “Lopez said he has been freed from house arrest by members of the security forces responding to an order by Guaidó, whom the U.S. and dozens of other governments recognize as Venezuela’s rightful leader.”
https://www.apnews.com/0153cace08c84c8fbf34f9c6a7bdd4dd
According to RT/Ruptly: “Footage shows tear-gas canisters being fired near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda, or ‘La Carlota’, air force base. One witness told Reuters that the gas is being fired towards Guaido, who appears to have gathered about 70 men in military uniform.”
https://www.rt.com/news/457897-tear-gas-caracas-guaido/
Hmmmm, Reuters. I’m not an expert in coups, but ain’t 70 men for a coup a little… thin? Do I smell despair here?
Cheers, Rob
And one woders if rhey are really military or pseudo just dressed up….stolen guns etc…..how did they get them…is the military base there if that is what is it… entirely suspect as traitorous?
New attempt by the zionazi-gays to rejuvenate their failing coup against the people of Venezuela.
LIVE UPDATES: Situation in Venezuela as Guaido Calls on Troops to Oust Maduro
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201904301074578884-venezuela-military-guaido/
Also:
https://www.rt.com/on-air/457898-venezuela-caracas-military-uprising/
Pindo supercreep Marco Rubio tweets some real Orwellian nonsense:
@marcorubio
“Just saw @CNN shamefully call what is happening today in #Venezuela a “coup attempt” “
Operation Libertad of Venezuela….Guaido starts.. and Pompeo has publicly signed off on…..as of today.
Situation somewhat unclear. There already has been shooting.
The Venezolans could take the French approach in this case. When someone or some people really have done something ugly there, they will be surrounded including snipers. They don’t even make arrests then. Not exactly a correct legal approach (being accuser, judge, jury and executioner at thesame time), but hey, when he is surrounded on some airport with shooting pals, who can tell who shot?
If he cannot reach a tipping point today, I think he’s toast.
He has been protected a while under heavy threats of the USA, but that will stop at a certain moment.
Venezuela Coverage –
I opened a thread on the watch list here for comments:
/us-backed-guaido-calls-for-venezuela-military-uprising-in-video-of-him-surrounded-by-soldiers/
Maybe an active and open feed regarding the situation in Venezuela might be useful ?
I’m off to take my soon to be 15 year old daughter to school early.
‘I have an excursion’, she said. ‘Oh yeah, what’s that’, I say?
We’re going to the Holocaust Museum…
I’m sick of politics, but there’s no escaping it.
One can only rise above politics and keep a balanced perspective.
Ah, school. I remember well the day my son came home from school and explained to me all about WW2 and how the ‘allies’ went to war against Germany to save the ‘jews’, not democracy. Hmm…..fake education. The one good thing, I got to explain, from my Gpa’s point of view, not only his experiences during WW2 but also the lies he was fed during WW1, in a nice un anti-sementic kind of way.
Capitalism: A Love Story (Full Documentary) – 2:07:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9PYQWqWde0
A documentary film by director Michael Moore that focuses on the late-2000s financial crisis. It exam-
ines the social costs of prioritising corporate interests and profits at the expense of the public good.
Among the issues discussed are Wall Street’s casino mentality, bankers’ influence in Washington DC,
the large volume of home repossessions, corporate-owned life insurance, private ‘for-profit’ prisons,
poverty-level wages, and the consequences of wanton greed.