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You realize, of course, that the so-called “manifesto” of the “El Paso Shooter”…………was uploaded, posted or whatever………by someone other than himself…..after the shooting and was done on Instagram and not 8 Chan???
https://youtu.be/yKPdbEAmWGE
So WHY…was 8chan targetted???
Hmmmmmm!!!
Short Statement by the owner of 8 Chan Jim Watkins who was falsely accused………….
The sense of what is truly sinister in all of this needs some significant sharpening, IMHO.
And make it backfire against The Empire Corporate Whores and Mass Murder Accomplices (Genocide on a scale vastly outnumbering all random and false flag shootings combined………. since the Beginning of Time………..IS their agenda.
Make no mistake about that and gullible error will be avoided far more often.
8 Chan allows freedom of speech. They allow statements even if they are not politically correct.
Freedom of speech is crimethink in the modern world.
There MUST be a difference between free speech and homicidal or genocidal racist and xenophobic hate speech, otherwise all efforts to create a moral philosophy or religion that protects human life have been in vain.
There is, indeed.
But your rulers are not interested in that distinction.
They seek to limit information and opinions flowing therefrom.
For instance, you will rarely hear in the corporate media the fact that only a very small percentage of the Crimean population claim to be Ukrainian, most of the population is Russian. There are other nationalities to be sure. But the dominant component of the population is Russian. You can even corroborate that fact in the “CIA Factbook,” which is available online.
The corporate media simply cannot allow such facts to become mainstream since the people might then give credence to the election results in Crimea which overwhelmingly supported re-integration with Russia. Thus, this information is crucial to the formulation of a fact supported opinion on a matter of importance. And the narrative pushed by the media might collapse if this information became generally known. Thus, this information cannot be allowed to circulate to the general public.
Of course, without freedom of information, freedom of speech is useless. That is the plan. The plan is to create illusion that you have freedom of speech, when in fact you do not.
Of course-the ENTIRE popular discourse in the West, ‘mediated’ by the fakestream media, is nothing but a heavy blanket of outright lies, massive omissions of facts and various hate and fear-mongering campaigns. The Society of Untruth.
Hate speech also includes covering up mass murder and genocidal acts: do you realize that according to that criterion, you too, mulga, are papering over the crimes of China’s communist party under Mao which lead to death of millions of Chinese (something officially admitted to by the current chinese government and CCP). You continue to deny the mass killings that Mao was responsible for, from the famines caused by his ignorant great Leap backward, his Cultural Revolution and his treacherous shacking up with the war criminals and demons, Henry Kissinger and the sick crook Richard Nixon, against Russia. Removed – no personal attacks on other commenters. Mod.
Mao presided over the transformation of China from a devastated and pillaged wasteland to the society that was ready to make the leap forward to being the largest economy on Earth, with the greatest infrastructure systems ever created. Under Mao life expectancy grew from less than forty to nearly seventy, the fastest such leap in history. Child mortality was slashed, illiteracy almost ended, female emancipation was realised for the first time in Chinese history. Some mistakes were made, but I suggest you read the series of articles published here on the truth of the Cultural Revolution.
Of course China’s rise has Western racists in a frenzy of outrage. One little cottage industry is to invent or massively exaggerate any human tragedies that occurred from 1949-76. It’s a filthy exercise in political reaction and racist fear and hatred. Is that you, Anonytrot?
Mulga you are not a more authoritative source on Mao’s crimes than the CCP of China which has admitted the horror of Mao’s rule. The current president, president Xi, was a victim of Mao’s misrule.
This is not directed against you, but I do find it very amusing that people these are so insecure that they can’t handle reading truth and need to censor it away. When that happens it is a victory.
The CCP says that Mao was ‘70% correct’ but, in my opinion, they underestimate. And you, dear shade, censor your own identity. People and glass castles, and all that.
Anonymous,
Prove what you say.
If anything has become obvious over the past few years, it is that the American media are pathological liars. And that history that is taught in the west is largely propaganda.
@Mike
I have better idea: you try to disprove what I wrote. The onus should be on the person the disagrees to do their own homework to Burress their objections.
I say that you, Anonymouse, are a serial murderer-disprove it!
Oh no .. you gotto prove what you say anonymoose. That responsibility is on you. You cannot take your responsibility and make others work. So, to prove what I say, I’ll make a statement as a thought experiment. “I say you are a lazy-ass and braindead also and you cannot stand for any of your statements and you are probably writing from your mummy’s basement and reading only msm lol.”
According to your theory, you now have to disprove that statement. And also, Mulga’s statement, you have to start working now to disprove that, according to your theory. See it does not work, so your statements are a waste of time. So, if I’ve got the process sussed out, we can now wait for a major kneejerk. (What am I wasting my time for?).
Like the utter lie of the ‘One million Uighurs imprisoned..’, that followed years of lies that Uighurs were not allowed to grow beards or fast during Ramadan. Utter, purulent, lies, peddled by fakestream media presstitute vermin without any conscience of morality-as ever.
That lie quickly became ‘two million’ in the mouth of one US politician, then ‘three million’ according to US financed Uighur terrorists operating in Hong Kong, and, finally, according to one superannuated Murdochite poltroon on Sinophobia Central, the ABC, all the Uighurs. There is a certain quite predictable illogic to presstitute lying and hysteria. They are performing for their owners, and any independent thought is, of course, completely out of the question, and all that is left is competition to show that you are the biggest lying propagandist of them all, and worthy of promotion.
This IS war. I recognize it. I’ve been there. We fight “fair”. THEY do not. This is the end of the beginning. The beginning of the end will not be pleasant. The events of the last few days are proof.
I’m going to plant a few hundred hectares of pop corn. Going to be a really valuable commodity as this pans out. Sit back and enjoy the show!
@Bro93
The whole is a production with very high likelyhood. For one – the photograph of the suspect shooter standing at the entrance of Vieno Cielo Walmart Supercenter, is a fakery – and EVERYONE can easily crosscheck it via Google maps, I took screenshots there and the photograph is a production of most likely earlier photos put together, there is a stop – sign on the ground in front but there is none at the walmart store – but it is the ‘right’ Walmart (the one near Vieno Cielo in El Paso) because the blue posts are there and the entrance matches as well.
Remember ONE thing ALL terrorist acts are either planned, funded or guided by State actors almost always – only they have the capability to get away with it AND the means necessary. From which direction the production comes is also clear – from those who oppose the migration policy of the current President.
Possibly real people died, but also possibly as with Vegas none at all died. The heavy involvment of the Army might be a distraction or itself a SIGN.
Eat it your Government is producing this ! (with dead bodies or without) ! It’s the same here in Europe ALL ISIS-affiliated attacks are controlled operations – just like the ones in Syria are….
Hong Kong rioting continues …
Started two hours ago outside The Sham Shui Po Police Station …
Located at the junction of Yen Chow Street and Lai Chi Kok Road, Sham Shui Po Police Station was built in 1925 to tackle public security problems in Sham Shui Po. It is classified as a Grade II historic building.
http://www.huluhk.org/SSP/heritage.php?id=police&lang=en&img=police_p1.jpg
… live broadcasting …
浸大學生會會長買雷射筆被捕 深水埗警署現場
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HusaIljqVIk
( 大學生 says university students … say no more ;-)
In 2200 before our era a severe drought beats down on The Egyptian Empire. it brings about total famine and extreme chaos
It seems to have been the result of an extreme warming which also created the Sahara desert. Maybe the chariots of the Egyptian produced too much Co2
Ah, bernie, the drought of 2200 BCE is NOTHING to the droughts coming, soon, caused by anthropogenic climate destabilisation. And, remember, Egypt is but one corner of the Earth, whereas, this time, the whole planet will be devastated.
Dear Mulga,
I read all your comments with great interest Honestly.
But 73 % of the Earth surface is water. Lots of water surface in the tropics where it is already hot so If the earth Temperature would rise as some estimate we will have floods that will wash us of the Earth surface Or else the clouds will cut of the sunlight and we may freeze. By the way what is your definition of “Climate” Also what is your take on the coming solar minimum
THANK YOU! I am so sick of this “anthropogenic climate destabilisation” scary stories. You made me laugh and for that I am grateful :-)
You don’t find the end of human civilization, and, quite possibly of humanity entirely, ‘scary’? How odd.
Well, the ‘coming’ solar minimum will slow down climate destabilisation because the Sun is the prime driver of climate on Earth. But it will only slow down the process, not end it, unless it is a minimum beyond those previously experienced by humanity. And what if it doesn’t come in the next fifty years or so? As to the Earth’s seas they are rapidly heating, having sequestered 150 zettajoules of heat in the last 200 years (ten to the 21st power)as 90% or so of the extra heat trapped in the Earth system goes into the oceans. That heat GUARANTEES millennia of continuing climate instability. And at 2 degrees Celsius rise in global average temperatures, all the shallow water coral reefs in the tropics will be gone, as is 50% of the Great Barrier Reef already. The facts of sea level rise by thermal expansion and ice-sheet melting, indicate 50 or so metres of sea level rise, not our complete inundation, but that in itself is an utter catastrophe.
@Mumblebrain
CO2 is NOT the main driver of climate change. Everyone can easily check it out for himself – in a dry clear night temperatures even in summer can easily go down from 35°C to 10-15° C, while if the air is very humid and the night also clear it can remain at 28° with ease. IF CO2 would be the main driver there could hardly be a difference between the two, but it is !!!!! Therefore CO2 is nothing when being compared to water vapor, THIS and the amount of sun energy reaching the ground makes the difference – thus the earth’s ellipse’s path slow rotation and her slow tumbling around the pole- and eatorial-axes THIS created the far larger climate changes in the past and WILL in the future (eg. the ice-ages – yes they are very real !).
Also this climate change hysteria is just another tool to guide the herd to accept more and faster relocation of wealth to the top, it’s that simple and should surprise no one IF he knew what game is really being played….
Water vapour is vitally important to the climate, but it is short-lived in the atmosphere. It precipitates out as rain, snow, sleet etc. CO2, in contrast, is long-lived in the atmosphere, therefore accumulates as it has done since the Industrial Revolution, going from 280ppm to 415ppm and 490 ppm equivalent when you take other greenhouse gases like methane into account.
The Sun is the biggest driver of climate, but greenhouse gases come next. And water vapour increases in the atmosphere as temperatures rise, exacerbating the problem in a positive feedback, and causing great deluges and floods.
This is science 200 years in the making, and agreed to by ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies, and 99% of active climate scientists, on Earth. If this was some massive conspiracy to trick the public, it would be easily the vastest such in all history, with not one significant whistle-blower of integrity. And, somehow, all the montane glaciers, the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets, the Arctic sea ice, the permafrost of the north and submarine methane clathrates, all furiously melting at historically unprecedented rates, are in on the conspiracy, too. It beggars belief, I would say.
Academies of Science and scientific societies, and 99% of active climate scientists, on Earth
sorry not true recently 60 Finish scientist released a report in which they contradict your statements. $0 italian scientist contradict etc, etc. there are other groups or individuals. but you have to look for it yourself. I can only add Professor Valentina Zharkova:
you have not given a definition of Climate Also you seen to have forgotten that in the 70 ties climate scientists predicted global cooling because of CO2!! and the coming of the ice age.
Bernie, we’ve seen these ‘sixty Finnish ‘scientists’ and other such disinformation for years. All end up being exposed as disinfo by the fossil fuel industry or hard Right ideological enemies of Life on Earth. Meanwhile the glaciers and permafrost melt, the megafires rage, record heatwaves assail Europe and reports by real scientists show that the food system is in dire peril and that coral reefs are being killed, not just bleached, in mere days, by marine heatwaves. The sheer body of real science and hard evidence from reality is utterly INCONTROVERTIBLE.
@Mulga Mumblebrain
You should read more carefully what I’ve wrote – IF CO2 was the main driver of climate change THEN there could barely be a difference in the humid or dry clear sky (no clouds) night cooling rate.
This dynamic has absolutly nothing to do with the time water vapor remains but is solely dependent on the level of CO2.
If you cannot get this into your brain then your position together with the idiots is a valid one.
Have you ever read the nice Wikileads files regarding one of the leading IPCC affiliated ‘science’ Labs which led to a scandal back in 2009 ? There one can clearly see what kind of ‘science’ is at the core of the whole undertaking – it’s subject being not physics but rather one which has a lot to do with ‘politics’.
Oh, Dan, surely you’re not referring to the ‘Climategate’ hoax perpetrated to sabotage Copenhagen? How quaint and nostalgic of you. There was NO need,however, because Obama scuttled the process himself, like the loyal servant of the money power that he is.
Some places to look for anyone interested in more extensive models of climate and the larger earth-solar system-space, chiefly driven by electromagnetics, plasma and cosmic forces:
http://www.spaceweathernews.com
http://www.plasma-universe.com
Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t get any crazier.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-06/vp-pence-signals-us-plans-sanction-top-china-officials-over-human-rights-abuse
Let me get this straight.
Trump is trying to starve to death the citizens of Venezuela since he disagrees with who the Venezuelas elected president. Trump is also trying to starve Iran to death since Iran refuses to give up the benefits Iran obtained under a treaty.
And, now, the Trump Administration is going to sanction China for human rights violations?
Someone call “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” we have a story here.
Yes, we all have to grab hold of something or stand firmly on our feet – get enough rest and stay grounded. People are flipping out left right and center because of just everything and tremendous pressure from everywhere.
China – well Trump and his insane asylum have now managed to really piss of the Chinese. I don’t mean just anger, I mean completely pissed off where the ordinary Chinese person in the street now is angry at the US – considering them an existential enemy. A few days ago a Chinese news reader flipped – he just flipped totally and ranted that the Chinese will push American noses into the damn dust and the only thing that Americans are good for, is to carry a shit stirring stick. It was quite a rant.
But the last few days was really interesting and also terrifyingly scary. China again took unerring aim at the Dollar by devaluing the Yuan and stopping state agricultural trade with the US. This is a very risky strategy and I just hope that they know what they are doing. What this does, is discourage trade with the US but encourage trade with the rest of the world because of a more affordable Yuan, and of course increase the trade deficit with the US. But, this is not trade war de-escalation, or even a tit for tat measure – this is a clear escalation. We’ve not seen escalation from China so far, only tit for tat and then very focused and less than the US.
Thing is, it is not only trade war issues but now becoming currency war. Besides the US interference in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan – all in various different forms – the Chinese are not happy about the US planning to deploy new missiles in Europe and also in Asia.
Trade war is now currency war .. and here are a few tweets:
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Hu Xijin 胡锡进
Verified account @HuXijin_GT
16m16 minutes ago
Hu Xijin 胡锡进 Retweeted Donald J. Trump
China has no motive to hurt US farmers, it is the current US administration that is hurting them. I believe US farmers are not fools. They can tell whether the administration is doing good to them, or sacrificing farmers’ interests for its political ambition.
Hu Xijin 胡锡进 added,
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
As they have learned in the last two years, our great American Farmers know that China will not be able to hurt them in that their President has stood with them and done what no other president would do – And I’ll do it again next year if necessary!
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Hu Xijin 胡锡进
Verified account @HuXijin_GT
12h12 hours ago
Since the US has imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, the label of currency manipulator is seriously devalued in its impact.The trade war has been protracted to now, the US has put the biggest card on table, China is relieved. Now fight, China no longer expects goodwill from the US.
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Hu Xijin 胡锡进
Verified account @HuXijin_GT
Aug 5
Based on what I know, in view of new tariff threat by the US side, the Chinese side has decided to suspend tariff exemption for US farms goods and Chinese enterprises have halted buying US farm products. The Chinese side won’t submit to the US.
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And with this background, Pence wants to sanction Chinese executives? This will not end well. And the story that China has been declared a currency manipulator is actually very funny but also tragic. What happens is that one of the banks .. not sure which one now, world bank or something, now has to decide whether the US has a case for tariffs and if currency manipulator is actually true or not. The Chinese from what I see are laughing and calling this blowing hot air, as tariffs are already in effect.
Together with Venezuela, Iran, bad situation with Russia, the axis of resistance is just growing. The Dollar is soon toast as the mechanism to trade with Iran without the dollar has just passed its first transactions.
In the mean time, the US is taking everything that belongs to Venezuela, while Trump has just signed what amounts to a blockade (not physical so far).
Hell has broken loose!
Amarynth, interesting that the Chinese, after the Russians, are now securing and diversifying their food supply.
One factor that caused the defeat of Germany during WWI is the British naval blockade which prevented Germany from sourcing food and other supplies via maritime routes.. Basically the Allies starved the Germans out…
If you are getting ready for actual, military “hot” war, then securing your sources of food is of a wise move.
The Anglo-Americans warfare tactics include incapacitating the target country’s food chain. Just look at what they’re doing to Venezuela.
During the war in my country, NATO tried to mess with our food. They eventually sent in the World Food Program (WFP) to declare the local food chain to be “contaminated” . They couldn’t starve us out because Serbia has lots of small, artisanal farms and people simply sourced directly from them.
I am glad to see Russia and China, who do not have such a surplus of food producers, have started taking action regarding their sources of food.
Hence swine flu, a bio-weapon that Thanatopia used against Cuba, in 1971.
I read the Chinese press just to get an idea of how they say things, and the farming and food production is truly amazing. What is also amazing is that they talk about food and farming continually and discuss just about everything.
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0806/c90000-9603819.html
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0807/c90000-9603939.html
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0807/c90000-9603929.html
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0807/c90000-9604083.html
and check this out ‘Serfs emancipation day’ (I hope they mean it!)
http://en.people.cn/102775/414877/index.html
The trade war is heating up and divorce between US and China is inching forward – but not to be feared according to …
https://theduran.com/u-s-china-trade-war-ushers-in-new-world-system-video/
The Evil psychopaths in the US ruling elites think that they can treat China, the longest continuous high civilization on Earth, the largest economy on Earth, growing twice or three times faster than the USA, with a scientific-technological base now greater than the USA, as they do Panama, Grenada or Iraq. You really need to be congenitally disturbed and mentally insufficient, then marinated in the group delusion of Exceptionalism or Indispensability and craw racist supremacism, to imagine that China will surrender to the diktat of scum like Trump, Pence, Obama et al, after 200 years of struggle and sacrifice to restore China to its rightful position among nations and cultures.
Meanwhile, the Russian Kleptocracy is trying to starve the Russian pensioners to death.
It’s a funny old world.
Anonytrot, you are so obvious, even behind your cowardly anonymity.
Can’t be any worse than the appalling regimes in the US and UK, which allow poverty on a massive, massive scale. In the UK we have old people freezing to death in their homes because they can’t afford to turn on the heat. Homelessness in both the US and UK is at record levels.
Austerity imposed by Tory regimes since 2010 has killed an estimated 130,000 UK citizens. Not bad, but nothing compared to English genocides in Ireland, India, China, Africa etc, but it does show that Rightist psychopaths hate ALL other human beings, along racial, class, economic, sectarian, ideological and other lines.
Is this true about “pensions in Russia?”
I know a lot about China and I have been there a few times, I know a lot more about Europe since I have been there many times. But I don’t know a lot about Russia.
I have a few Russian friends. One told me that under Yeltsin, the “pensions” did indeed evaporate. He said that the value of the pensions payment became so small that they were not worth picking up. On the other hand, another Russian friend told me that in the past decade there has been a tremendous increase in the standard of living. The last time she returned to Russia, she was astonished by the change.
I don’t know. And if there are some Russian nationals, I would love to hear from them.
The United States is currently trying to starve both Venezuela and Iran to death. A food shipment to Venezuela was just seized in the Panama Canal.
Venezuela’s crime?
They elected (by an overwhelming margin) a president unacceptable to the United States.
This from the country that has killed sixty million, directly of indirectly, mostly the latter through economic terrorism, since WW2. Pence is Evil Incarnate, and, no doubt, will be President in 2024, if his Master does not call him home to Hell first.
… as you saw the police opened their door and spoke to the students …
… a new live stream broadcast continues here …
浸大學生會會長買雷射筆被捕 深水埗警署現場
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJTUhKXCWK8
(HK authorities announced today HK could handle the situation.)
Regarding the spoiled brat and ungrateful idiotic kids in Hong Kong that are carrying out unwise, violent and near traitorous actions against their own country, China, they should heed the example India just set in the last 24 hours.
The Indian government finally showed some backbone and stripped the state of Kashmir of their privileged and coddled status in article 370 of the Indian Constitution (the Indian version of one country two systems). An excellent development that gives the Salafist miscreants and Sunni Islamist leaning ingrates in Kashmir a well deserved lesson of what happens when these ingrate separatists confuse tolerance for weakness. The spoiled brat protesting ingrates in Hong Kong should also take note of this lesson: push your luck too much with a benign and tolerant central government, and you could find them removing all your privileges.
The Indian state has endured treachery and outrageous behavior from the spoiled kashmiri Sunni establishment in Srinagar for too long and have responded by not only obliterating all privileges afforded the Sunni Muslim majority, but also by breaking the predominantly Buddhist and Shia region of Ladakh away from the dictates of the Sunni dominated assembly of Kashmir. So Kashmir has been split and reduced in size: Ahh! The irony! – the separatists who wanted to balkanize India find themselves balkanized instead.
Now will the spoiled brat and selfish Hong Kong youth, (who show shameless contempt for mainland Chinese people despite living off the hardwork of these same mainland Chinese), take heed and understand how quickly the Chinese Central government can strip them of their privileges and undeserved coddled status?
Very silly comparison. The reality you completely ignore is that the people of kashmir have been brutalised for 70 years in the most militarised region on earth. The indian comparison is strikingly similar to that of Israel. The current fascist regime upholds the values of its RSS ideologues who dream of a Hindu dominated state with muslims, christians and lower caste indians as lesser people with superior Brahmins running the show. No surprise India and Israel are close friends, with Modi and Netanyaho bromancing gleefully. Go read their ideologues. How similiar they are. Just like Isreal has changed the demographics of its region through terror and settlement building, it seems like Modi is listening well. Not to mention the valuable control of water resources they covet with the aim to subjugate and neutralise pakistan. The truth is they would like to reunite with pakistan similiar to the wishes of the crimeans. Russia was able to do this with its power unlike Pakistan which is weak at present. Pakistan has continuosly appealed to its counterpart for talks and resolving the regional dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions enacted. India has firmly refused. Its quite obvious why! Which you bizarrely ignore! It is a disputed region who deserve their right to self determination willfully ignored by the international community. They have just trampled the right of the kashmiris, trampled the UN resolutions, trampled the indian secular constitution unilaterally under a complete military and civilian clampdown. Do you need any further Zionist playbook.
Dear Abdullah,
Would you care to comment on the 500,000 native Kashmiri Hindus terrorized and ethnically cleansed out of the Kashmir Valley by the “poor victimized Sunni kashmiri majority”? … No I didn’t think so.
Anonymous
Not to undermine past injustices of which there are on both sides, The reality of the present is that India under its current leadership is venturing on a path that is dangerous and thus the beginning of its decline. This may alarm you. Why do i say this. Putting aside the historical controversies and disputes which both states have responsibities for, by unilaterally disbanding Kashmir’s special status and not engaging in its peaceful resolution either bilaterally with Pakistan or world bodies, India is ensuring an increase in already hot resentment that could get bloody indeed. The desire of the right wing RSS ideologues which are embedded in the BJP leadership is to transition a secular republic with religious freedoms to a more Hindu centric nationalist ideology. This is part of the Hindutva worldview who claim a larger india even outside its current borders. At present a rising (dare I say imperialist but that is the concerm here) India sees a weak pakistan in dire economic problems and is exploiting this weakness. This carries 3 dangerous strands. Firstly, by further militarising the indian part of kashmir already heavily militarised is to provoke a situation that will lead to conflict with the aim to annex the rest of kashmir. Secondly, this objective will put india in control of water resources it needs and which pakistan heavily relies on is a serious declaration of war. Thirdly, by annexing all of Kashmir it intends to entirely disrupt the flagship CPEC corridor running though pakistan kashmir, to the eir of the Chinese Economic ambitions. If this is indeed the foolish path they are embarking on i am sure you will agree it is a destructive and unforgiveable venture. I feel Israel has India’s back and is using India for the break up of Pakistan and the weakening of China. Hence, their close relationship. Both are involved in the seperatist insurgency brewing in Balochistan which is intended to target again pakistan as well as China’s massive port and agreed upon military presence. However, with Iran and Pakistan seemingly working together this will ultimately be foiled as both have interests with China’s regional developments. Not to mention Pakistan’s participation in settling a peace accord and growing influence in Afghanistan where India has lost footing, thus a further potential partnership in the region to India’s loss. I do not intend to delve into the history of this region which is hearbreaking to say the least and are victim to such regional shenanigans in which I include pakistan. In light of the above a peaceful inclusive settlement of the Kashmir people is deserving for its people of all religious affiliations between both state actors and world at large. It can be a neutral buffer region that shares its vital supplies to all surrounding regions. To put it simply it can be resolved for the betterment of its people and the region can improve. Alas, it seems nefarious agendas are taking over. I hope I am wrong.
Dear Abdullah, as per my previous post, you have once again skirted the uncomfortable fact of the “poor and oppressed Kashmiri Sunni majority” having ethnically cleansed 500,000 native Kashmiri Hindus from the Kashmir valley.
This was done via the use of terror against the unarmed civilian Hindu population of the Kashmir valley, the methods used (similar to the events in Syria recently) included: raping and murdering Hindu girls and leaving their twisted bodies on public streets for everyone to see, extortion demands, whereby if a Kashmiri Hindu family did not pay an exhorbitant sum of money to Kashmiri Sunni activist by a certain deadline, then the family was to be exterminated, and finally, open threats of murder shouted through loudspeakers in Srinagar for Hindus to leave or be killed. Reminds me more of the situation of the Serb minority in Kosovo or of Christians in Sunni terrorist controlled areas of Syria than any comparison you made.
Palestinians don’t have the right to buy land in Israel, whereas Kashmiris can buy land almost anywhere in India. Palestinians cannot forbid Israelis from buying land in the West Bank or Jerusalem, nor can they stop outright expropriation. Yet Kashmiris, for the last 70 years, can stop any non Kashmiri from buying land in Kashmir (in fact, by default, non Kashmiris are banned from owning property in Kashmir). Palestinians in the occupied territories cannot vote in Israeli elections, yet Kashmiris can vote in Indian elections. Palestinians cannot challenge Israeli supreme Court decisions, yet Kashmiris can legally ignore the Indian supreme Court’s decisions (kashmiri law superceded Indian national law).
Your comparison of the coddled kashmiri Sunni majority to the genuinely oppressed Palestinians is insulting to the Palestinians and a futile exercise is sophistry.
Yes, I believe you are right that India is preparing a military option potentially to conquer the small rump portion of Kashmir held by Pakistan. This will provide India leverage against both states that have been attempting to destabilize India. From my sources it appears that India is planning to wage a very intense and violent war against any party that tries to intervene in Kashmir or Ladakh. I believe you are also right the India has set a trap for Pakistan to do something stupid like use violent means on India regarding Kashmir, be that through the use of jihadi terrorists or via direct military action. If Pakistan does pull off such a boneheaded move, this will free (ie give an excuse to) India to carry out the very actions you pointed out. The same scenario applies to Ladakh, the Indian government has been quite transparent that they are going to rapidly build up logistics infrastructure (roads, rail, communications, etc) throughout Ladakh while simultaneously building military bases and airbases to complete the security belt started 4 years ago along the Indo-Tibet border. The fact that both regions have been turned into Union Territories (which are direct Central/Federal government control) points in this direction.
So the ball is in Pakistan’s court not to do something stupid. Overall the Indians have played their hand with competence and very efficiently and it is an excellent development.
Kashmir has endured thirty years of brutal Indian repression, aided and abetted by those experts is suppressing restive, imprisoned, Moslem populations-the Israeli Zionazis. One tactic, of many, stands out-the use of birdshot to deliberately blind protesters and bystanders. And when Kashmiri doctors became expert at saving sight by removing round birdshot, the Indians started using irregularly shaped bird-shot, to increase the malevolent effectiveness of the weapon.
Yeah sure mulga, just such nonsense emanates from the same sources that accuse China of
the gross human rights violation of forcing pious Muslim uygurs into re-education camps in China.
I’ve been enjoying watching powerless and impotent anglo empire swine in the BBC, and their equally swinish parrots, lecture either Russia, China or India about human rights. It’s hilarious to see the frustration from British establishment BBC types and their agents/acolytes and other ‘liberal” snowflakes over the fact that there is absolutely nothing that they can do about imposing their will of these 3 countries. Their frustration is delectable.
The hypocrisy of these Anglo-Empire is extreme given the unmatched barberous record of the Brits/Anglo-Empire of having actually successfully genocided entire peoples and forcing opium down the throats of chinese (killing millions) or like the Aussies exterminating the Tasmanians. In fact, even today Australia, their robber Barron mining families and their criminal Anglican missionaries continues to screw over the native aborigines to this date. Shamelessness is a characteristic of hypocritical “finger-wagging” and “exceptionalist” products of the Anglo-empire who, in their narcissisism consider themselves to be do-gooders qualified to lecture others for crimes they themselves are guilty of..
According to Russian media all India has done is strip Kashmir of certain racist privileges (* see below)and freed ethnic and religious minorities (Ladakh Buddhists and Shia) in Kashmir from the abuse of Kashmir Sunni majority.
* Racist policies such as only allowing Kashmiris to buy land in Kashmir, excluding non-kashmiri Indians from buying land there, yet Kashmiris enjoy the right to buy land in any state in India, this is absurd given that uygurs cannot deny other citizens of China from buying property in Xinjiang and have been rendered a minority in their own homeland). The comparison is valid.
I certainly agree with your depiction of the lies re. the Uighurs and the genocidal record of the English in India, for which the Indians must, I believe, demand huge reparations one day. but the repression in Kashmir is undeniable.
Wrong mulga, the fake news propaganda of repression in Kashmir is deniable. And.. given that India is becoming very powerful, there’s really nothing that anybody can do about it.
The integration of Kashmir is an internal matter for India and other nations need to mind their own business.
It is very amusing to observe the frustration of usual Soros conditioned idiots, ie the liberal socialists that are a product of his training. It’s equally amusing to observe the frustration of hypocritical Countries that object to this move to bark in anger only to be slapped down and warned by the Indian foreign ministry to butt out or else expect interference in their internal affairs.
I do wonder what the reaction of the Western fakestream presstitutes would be if it was 70,000 Tibetans killed in Tibet since 1989, by the central Government, rather than 70,000 Kashmiris killed by India?
6.3 million Hindus live and work in Saudi Arabia.
1.6 million in Oman.
1.1 million in Kuwait.
0.9 million in Bahrain.
1.3 million in Qatar
9.0million in UAE!
Also hindus live in Malaysia, Indonesia in millions
5 million hindus live in Pakistan
5 million in Bangladesh
And in many more muslim countries
No one forced and told any Hindus to say “Allah Hu Akbar” Or to go back to India.
No one threatened or harmed a single Hindu in the name of Religion.
Several Hindus live next to mosques in Gulf, they have no problems.
Not a Single Incident Of Mob Lynching Happened With Any of those Hindus.
*-Why Hindu extremists are lynching Muslims in India?
*-Who is responsible for this?
*-Has India taken any tangible actions to stop this barbarianism?
*-Has India punished the responsible culprits and facilitators?
*-What role has UNESCO/UNO played to stop this brutal abuse?
Please present facts and your evidence. There is 1000 year long history that proves otherwise. Making false claims doesn’t serve anyone’s interests.
Ok kpax, you just teased me with your wonderful poem in the last Cafe : /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-08-03/#comment-679447
This poem was written a while ago, hardly wanted to post it because of its sadness (at least there is hope at the end lines) :
The Price of Love
by ioan
How did I fall so deep in trouble,
How did I fall so deep in love,
My soul is laying now in rubble
I cannot leave nor fly above
The circle is closed, nothing to cheer
Shortage of time, little to spend,
The one, who is for me so dear
Not long ago, back home she went
I have no words, I’m full of faults
Living a life between two worlds,
My soul is crying, my eyes are dry
Thinking on you, my dear, oh why
The sky is falling on my head
I wish I wasn’t then, so bad,
Tempting the fate, letting to be
You’re now so far away from me
I hear the gong, something went wrong
Waves after waves, as tragic song,
I couldn’t stop it, neither you
We had to live it…going trough
Who knows the mystery of heart
Who knows the mystery of pain,
when every hope just falls apart
As if we lived our life in vain ?!
The price of love we had to pay
Is higher than we thought,
The path we followed in our way
Got harder, every day, for both,
Forgive my weakness if you can
Forget the hardships and the sorrow,
May love be stronger now, and then
For we shall meet again, tomorrow !
One of your most beautiful poems that I can remember at least! I was going to post something which is similar in tone but instead, will post a short Haiku sequence. Like your poem, the ‘upshot’ is in the very last line, which ironically, can be read in two different ways. It’s not that I’m that clever, more likely Spirit is always one step ahead. It’s about infidelity, but I try not to take moral stances in my writing, just present scenarios which I consider interesting. These are the conondrums that Soul creates, and then attempts to extricate itself from…
The Games People Play
the jonquil bed –
a cat flinging itself up,
chasing butterflies
taller than the rest –
the way she would tilt her head
when speaking with him
her misplaced slipper;
found only after sunrise –
his wife saw it first
deathbed poem;
he lived to be a hundred
but died nonetheless
the games people play,
some better than others –
a few best themselves
Dear Ioan,
I read your wonderful lines as a heartful testimony in dealing with great actual focus.
The teasing was actually in trying to bring cheerfulness in your current stage by reintroducing the absolutely odd British couple F&F (in regard to any future… Folly)!
I mut confess ‘Abstraction Re-pair’ was coined with the two first lines setting up the stage… when sharing your last painful personal episode. And the price could be very high when the attention (or focus) is meant to see… attachement to pain.
Time (another illusion) moves mountains.
Why looking into the abstract of any creative… construct?
Eventually here lies the undefined re-pairing in non-dual mode… Life giving birth to Life and so on, taking our bed as well back to the grave or else.
Is there anyone we could not betray in Life? Is there a guide so permanently present to whom we cannot ‘pass any orders’… or command, ever by our side… inside the Self?
In the Abstract of the Soul… yes.
Dimitar could intuitively feel it… and this led to beautiful Haiku hints… about ‘infidelity’… status in history of Man/Woman. Some are… simply better than others in masquerade.
What a Sequence!
Well, since we’ve come ‘full circle’ with kpax’s ‘intercession’, I’ll post my poem originally intended. Btw. please grace us with more of your wonderful work, kpax, ( if and when you see fit, of course ), it does get a little lonely over here in ‘Poetry Corner’. Poetry helps me externalise my internal experience and so transform my day to day life. I truly recommend it to all. Its not as hard as it may appear. The interesting thing about the following piece is that there is the experience, but also a detached level of observance; in the east, this is known as ‘Lila’, or the Dance of Soul…
Blue Day
It’s the strangest day;
there’s a demon on the loose.
I’m trying my best
to keep it at bay.
I guess the pigeons
have come home to roost;
My defences are down –
it’s a blue day, today.
Was it something I did,
or something I took;
That I lie in trance
thus betrayed?
Where is the hand,
by hook or by crook –
To pull me out of
this mess I’ve made?
Everything I say,
comes out wrong.
Nothing I do
cuts me any slack.
Just yesterday
I used to be strong,
But today is blue
heading into black.
Who laid the bait
that got me hooked?
And who’s, the promise
that led me astray?
I’m as sad as a clown
whose goose is cooked –
My defences are down,
it’s a blue day…
A blue day today!
everything is blue, yesterday was green
bad will spirits playing on your screen
everything is blue, what about the grey ?
comes a tempest in your mind,
lightning, shadow, heavy rain,
then is silence in your room, comes the sun again.
Dear kpax, I understand what you mean, I love humor – even in poetry – hopefully I’ll get back to that state of mind sooner or later, at the moment I have to deal with some obstacles, hard to jump or circumvent…no, its not athletics.
there was a strapping young gent
everything he had, he spent
as time did pass, he had to ask
where did everything went?
he tried his best to be good
coz thats what he was taught he should
when at last bereft, and sorely cleft
he accepted he’d did what he could
well, time may be cruel
for the wise and the fool
how the grass it grows, nobody knows…
but none is exempt from school
Just shoot me, I know :)
There was a strapping young gent.
Everything he had, he spent.
As time did pass, he had to ask –
Where did everything went?
He tried his best to be good.
The way he thought that he should.
When at last bereft, and sorely cleft,
He accepted he’d did what he could.
Well, time it is said to be cruel.
But the wise were once prize fools.
As the grass it grows, every child knows…
None are exempt from school!
With apologies, but the second version is light years better. For those who are interested in the writer’s craft,
it’s a good example of how a little work can put your idea in top shape.
As the HK protests continue to grow.What is the best answer to them. Strip arrested protesters and the protest leadership of their residency permits for HK. Send them for re-education to further regions in China,and then settle them in other provinces in interior China. And continue that with all further arrested protesters.Spread the word among the US backed protest groups that will be official policy from now on. And the rioting protests would stop. If not just continue until you have purged out all the protesters. Either way the results would be the return of order and stability. According to the latest article on The Duran,China has about had enough of the protests spreading violence and is about to “bring the hammer down” on those protests.
https://theduran.com/hong-kong-protests-turn-violent-as-china-remains-firm-in-extradition-law-video/
The treacherous compradore scum waving US and UK flags and calling Beijing ‘Peking’ and China by a racist epithet used by the Japanese genocidists, must be rounded up, serve considerable time doing something useful like reforesting the deserts or testing new pharmaceuticals for toxicity-OK, that’s going too far. Remedying desertification would, possibly, turn some of the less vicious into better people, but the incorrigibles should then be given a choice. Denounce your Western controllers and live like decent citizens, or you will be deported to your spiritual homeland in the USA-to dodge bullets (or not) and load up on opioids.
In the last Cafe, somebody asked where is Dennis…Well, if nobody knows to tell the truth, I will repeat : Dennis has been banned, so, no, he is not dead as some may suggest, he is well and alive, singing with his Love Army here on earth, fighting against the Empire in his own way, reading, hearing, learning, stubbornly refusing to eat meat and keep pets but still loving women goddess, believing in a community of peers and hoping in a better society until is not too late.
Somebody in the form of a moderator also said he had simply not been heard from in a while, made no mention of a ban, seems unlikely that someone who kept his daily diary here, would suddenly leave w/o giving any explainations, I have left many a blog in my day and always signed off in doing so giving said reasons.
I have to say something here. Now do remember, I am not responsible for moderator rules, for banning decisions or for any of The Saker’s decisions. My work her is totally divorced from all that and I work more with content and as a extra set of hands for The Saker when required.
So, this is a personal comment and must not at all be construed as a comment for The Saker Blog. I think I’ve just learned some of the way of thinking through the years.
First, I refer you all to the mod rules. We have rules – we have to have rules because The Saker Blog gets 2 to 2.5 million hits a month and a big number of comments. Then I refer you to our current internet discussion environment, which may be really difficult to manage, to keep a clean environment.
Then, we have to remember we are in The Saker’s house here.
So, one of those rules is not to discuss Nuclear weapons, because nobody knows what the deal is.
Rule 13 …
“13) I am banning any and all references to use of tactical nuclear weapons…”
So, if someone continually changes The Saker’s words on nuclear weapons and lays words in his mouth – how much respect does that show for the house that we are in?
Refer to the rule that says nobody owes anybody any answers. If banning decisions are taken, nobody owes anyone an answer and it seems you know more than me here.
Then, ioan says … “loving women goddess”
I stress again, this is personal opinion.
ioan, there were no women commenting here while this loving women goddess shite was happening. I know, because I was looking for them. How many of our mature women here commented on that specific, continual and persistent piece of .. well, let me not give it a name ….. . Just me commented … and I have a soft heart and a tough skin and too much experience for most. When an ex Roman Catholic priest starts telling women about women goddess while preaching also free love, in graphic physical terms, the women leave.
Why do they leave? Because no mature and wise and experienced woman will give credence to that. The fact that the women just left, speaks volumes.
The fact that they are now interacting here with ease, speaks volumes and I am glad for that.
Some women talk in among themselves about these mysteries. But to push the point, we don’t analyze your willy in graphical terms to prove that we are women goddess. This whole women goddess thing is so criminally messed up from the so-called new age religion, that I don’t even want to start with that.
re: Dennis in the Sky with Diamonds….One can misuse a site when one uses it as a diary entry site or as some kind of endless psychotherapy loop. Since I felt Denis of ex Ojai fame was doing just that, I would mostly skip his long winded, repetitive diatribes. And they were diatribes under the guise of syrupy love and pseudo erotic union–heady stuff for many it seemed. I suppose for a Mars-Sun Aries(me), lying around the Love bower with my legs in a randy position Boor-ing
I’m going to add something here, rather dispassionately, and hope it won’t upset anyone, but if it does, so be it. In this world, we’re largely concerned with the pursuit of power ( in a world of power, one needs a certain amount of power ), and we attempt to put that power to use by buying us freedom. Freedom to do what we want. However there are certain laws, one of the main ones being that “my freedom ends where yours begins”, meaning that if I step conciously, ie; on purpose, or inadvertantly -not on purpose, over the dividing line, there will be consequences. We are territorial creatures and try to mark our territory with warning signs, but trespassers are sooner or later found out and dealt with. So if Dennis was banned it was for a reason; ie; he stepped over some line, real or imagined, and the people whose Blog this is, reacted. It may or may not be just, but then who truly understands what we call justice? Justice is meted out by imperfect beings toward other imperfect beings. On the other hand, the qualities of love and mercy continue to the heart of God’s True Kingdom, well after the play of karma is behind Soul. Personally, Dennis’ contribution was a highlight of the Cafe, and I miss him, but I can’t bring him back. Dennis, please don’t hate me if you’re reading this. I’m not condoning anyone’s behaviour, just pointing out the way this world works.
Well, I’m a woman, and I write poems on here, and I read other’s poems and comments too. I think about them, learn much, and from the articles on here too, and all their comments. I did read Dennis’ posts, and commented now and again, and if I recall there was no Goddess sex talk explicit or otherwise in the last months or weeks before he vanished, although plenty at one stage.
Certainly nothing ever more than the types of comments and innuendo the LGBT illicited. He’s gone, that”s OK, I thought his writing wacky, highly original, and a bit long winded.
That is not the issue I spoke of, concerning my comment at the previous cafe about things on here one is allowed and not allowed to mention. I did so in the most diplomatic way that I could, on several occasions, and the comments were always trashed. It happened too often for these to have disappeared due to any other reason.
That’s OK and fair enough but I won’t try and broach the same topics again. They had nothing whatsoever to do with breaking listed moderation rules, only unspoken rules.
We’re living in amazing, desperate times, that’s why I’m, just about, still here, reading and thinking and trying to understand.
The Crossroads
at the crossroad –
time for decision,
this way or that
to avoid collision?
looking for answers
with all my precision,
but this wasnt taught
on televsion
guess this ways okay
I’m down on provisions,
looking for a friend
in my line of vision
no matter where I turn;
something to learn
no matter where I go,
someone’s toes…
standing at the crossroads
full of indecision,
please show me the way
to avoid collision
Thank you for your poem, your many poems and thoughts on here, also the information in the past concerning Macedonia, which I found valuable.
I agree with your comment above mine in essence, and there is wisdom there.
My points above, concerning something that one is not able to mention, either in poems – these were also deleted- had to do with the underlying problem of the status quo, with the hypocrisy of the human comfortability mode, the soft apathy-angora option, and correctitude – to be poetically political – and worst of all, indifference.
Keep the faith,
ras
‘Raskolnilov’ always piqued my attention, every time I saw it. As it’s a word in the Macedonian language, I sought clarification of the mood, the sense that it roused in me – which came to expression with “Laughing the Unlaughable Away”. Of course, we’re all the “raskolnik” sooner or later, and have to apply creativity continually redefining our place in life, once we’re confronted with that experience. Our state of consciousness changes, and there is reaction. We end up an outsider. What, and in what measure, do we have to change in ourselves to ‘remain solvent’ in the world we’ve created thus far? We may choose to continue being an outsider, but that gets lonely. Sometimes we need to practice indifference, cause we outgrow a particular state of consciousness which at times means leaving people we love behind, but we continue loving them all the same.
The US just sent their mouthpieces to Australia, telling our government to do more to counter the Chinese aggression and influence in the area. For once, our gov said ‘no we will not host US missiles to point at China’ our biggest trade partner’.
Long before the British landed here, the Chinese were trading with the Aboriginal people – bringing rice and various plants in exchange for sea urchins and other sea food. The Chinese lived in harmony with the indigenous people during the harvest season, then returned to China.
Food and trade has been the great connector. Interesting series on ABC TV .
Waltzing the Dragon by Benjamin Law.
A documentary to the ‘sweet and the sour’ of the China-Australia relationship, digging deep into overlapping histories of the countries, unpacking the present and looking to the future of Australia’s waltz with the dragon.
Part One: Homecoming
Benjamin and mum Jenny look for the ties of blood that bind China and Australia today and have kept its people at odds in the past. They travel from Caloundra to Canton in search of mysterious family roots.
Part Two: Fortune
Benjamin’s workaholic dad Danny is part of a 300-year old tradition of Chinese seeking their fortunes in Australia. He recalls his early business development days in QLD during the post-White Australia Policy Whitlam era.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/waltzing-the-dragon-with-benjamin-law
The frenzy of Sinophobic hatred in Australia is almost unlike ANYTHING I have ever seen in my life. But it does match perfectly the frenzied hatred that emanates from Rupert Murdoch’s media hate-machine, directed at China (of course) Russia, Iran, refugees, Moslems, the Palestinians, Greens (a biggie for the Murdochite enemies of Life on Earth) unions, ‘Leftists’, ‘do-gooders’, ‘the morally vain’ etc, etc. After forty years of peddling greed and hatred Murdoch has helped create the sort of society he has always desired in the twisted depths of his sick and vicious psyche.
Today, Hastie a former SAS killer and ‘Christian’ fanatic member of the ruling hard Right Federal regime, has described China, in a newspaper article, as the same type of ‘threat’ as Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union. The greatest threat to Australia in all our history, obviously more than Japan when it was bombing the crap out of Darwin and Broome, fighting our troops in New Guinea and treating our POWs like vermin. This the China that gives us 55 billion per year in trade surpluses, 1.4 million well-behaved tourists last year, and tens of thousands of students whose fees keep our tertiary system afloat. The frenzy of hatred just reached a new fever pitch.
passerby passing
unattended bicycles
Cafe closed, lights on…
I think Dennis was trying to describe something, some vision that was not nearly as concrete as it sometimes seemed from his manifestos. There was something behind his, well, is monomania the word? It sure came out in a bewildering and sometimes off-putting fashion. What was motivating his deal?
Dennis is gone.
What went wrong?
A vision he had,
but not the song.
We get old and
vision fades,
but not the need
to share the vibes.
Trying to map it to words.
When sometimes words don’t make it.
When sometimes there are no words
sufficient to convey it.
It seems to me that Dennis was trying to translate something to words, and it didn’t work, at least for me. I don’t think that is all too uncommon. I think at the end of the day, Dennis was a mystic. He felt he had to say something, felt he could try it here, and just couldn’t fit it into words. The result, well, we all remember.
I hope he is well.
“It seems to me that Dennis was trying to translate something to words…” The way he did that, was Dennis’ way, or is Dennis’ way. We’re all doing that same thing; standing at this gateway ( the human body ) between our individual inner experience of the Divine, and our place in this world at the same time. We’re continually learning to express that in a better, more refined or concise manner.
One of the most baffling mysteries in human history has been trying to explain the incredible feat of engineering that resulted in the Great Pyramids of Egypt. For thousands of years, historians, architects, and scientists have tried to come up with their best explanations for these massive constructions.
To this day, the mystery is still not fully solved. No one truly knows just how it was done. But there have been plenty of explanations given, and we will examine the top 10 most plausible construction theories of the Great Pyramids.
… the above is extracted from …
https://listverse.com/2019/01/10/10-most-plausible-pyramid-construction-theories/
I left a comment on their site. They thought I was a crank three times by scrubbing my comments, so I logged in and posted … seems to be accepted now.
For those new to Saker’s Cafe … you will not regret buying and reading my book …
https://saker.community/product/raising-stone-1-paul-hais-racks-and-pinions-theory/
… journalists take note …
The Documented Ancient Construction Method of The Great Pyramid
Читайте больше на http://www.pravdareport.com/science/142069-great_pyramid/
Dear Pavel let me unveil the mystery about the Pyramids and the origin of the stones they are made off…….to tell you the truth …..these “stones ” were not stones at all when they came to the construction site but were a type of “sand” !…….and this is how it worked…if you put a bit of this “sand” on the palm of your hand and poured a little bit of water that is enough to make it wet…..within a second or two it turns into a little hard stone……and no one will believe you if you say this was sand a few seconds ago. So all you have to do is make a four sided wooden frame (or simply tell four strongman to hold four pieces of woodboards) pour the quick drying sand into it ….then simply add water….as soon as the water reaches all part of it….the sand turns to a single stone in accordance to the size of the wooden frame…..so practically you can make stones of different sizes to your hearts content…….this is something i have done and not something i heard……..and the person who discovered this sand and its property of turning to stone by accident is an acquaintance of mine….i was hoping he would write a book about it but he hasn’t done so yet…..along ofcourse with many other artefacts which included gold and silver coins depicting Queen Attiya of the land of punt which the egyptian Queen Hatshepsut (her actual name is Ruun) payed a visit to thousands of years ago…….anyways all they did was carry this “sand” by boats (after cutting a water channel from the Nile river) to the construction sites….make them frames to whatever size and shape they wanted and poured the sand and added water and with in two or ten seconds (according to the amount of sand and the size of the future stone) they had a stone …..that no one would ever believe was sand a while ago…..
How were the interior granite structures quarried, shaped, moved, and positioned? What were their purpose? The Great Pyramid seems to be a “machine”. For what purpose?
Maybe this article will help……
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/could-ancient-peruvians-soften-stone-00847
But believe you me there is a granite sand that when get wet forms into a stone or a rock…..so imagine having a type of ” miracle sand” that can become a rock once you added water to it…….wouldn’t you have built gaint rock structures to captivate the minds of your unsuspecting community who didn’t know of the existence of such a type of sand……..
Hong Kong rioters are about to get drenched by water cannon very soon …
Hong Kong police take delivery of new HK$16 million weapon to use against violent demonstrators
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2162930/hong-kong-police-take-delivery-deadly-new-hk16-million
(the testing of the water cannons has completed)
“The Philippines will never allow the US to deploy nuclear weapons on its soil to counter China’s growing influence in the region, President Duterte declared, slamming Washington’s untrustworthiness even in small arms deals.
Following American withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia last week, Washington made clear that it is now free to deploy ground-launched ballistic nuclear missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers anywhere in the world – including Asia, to counter China in the region.”
… extracted from …
https://www.rt.com/news/465940-manila-no-us-nukes-inf/
Павел (Paul), I have something for you that you may find good. Its Dmitry Orlov who just wrote an article on;
The Technological Revolution Devours its Children
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-technological-revolution-eats-its.html
This is a follow-up and talks about his book on Shrinking the Technosphere, which I found very good and quite practical.
The two older articles that he wrote about that, are here. Solid thinking and a little more philosophical but well thought through in an exceedingly technical world.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/10/shrinking-technosphere-part-i.html
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/10/shrinking-technosphere-part-ii.html
As always, an excellent article by Dmitry Orlov. Sharp and painfully true. Thanks ;-)
It reminds me of a sarcastic pamphlet I hit upon quite some years ago in one of the many project containers I’ve been (you often find such things there, I wonder why ;-)):
“How can you loose money?”
1. With gambling (that’s the fastest way).
2. On women (that’s the most pleasurable way).
3. On IT (that’s the most guaranteed way).
Cheers, Rob
As George Best said, ‘I spent a lot of money on women, booze and fast cars. The rest I basically wasted’.
… I extract the following (thanks amarynth) …
The all-time high mark for standard of living was set by white American suburbanites in the 1950s, when daddy worked at a factory punching holes in sheet metal and earned enough money to pay for a house and two cars and feed the whole family, a dog and a cat, while all mommy had to do was operate various labor-saving domestic appliances, pop out babies and take them shopping. It’s been a downhill ride ever since then.
This is an interesting article. It is a very good historical summation of how we got into the current financial mess in the Western world.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/07/avoid-collapse-means-restoring-glass-steagall-without-green-new-deal/
I especially like the comment on Glass-Steagall. The repeal of Glass-Steagall by Bill Clinton was one of the major factors giving rise to the 2008 financial meltdown. However, the author goes far beyond that to discuss a history of financial engineering which collectively led to the mess that the Western world finds itself in.
I don’t agree with everything he says but there is a lot of thought provoking content.
What’s not to agree with?
Wolfhound, I agree with most of it. However, I believe that there is a large omission.
I don’t think that modern economics (including this particular article) sufficiently takes the issues of resource depletion and overpopulation into consideration.
For instance, the Belt and Road Initiative is a very positive thing. It will integrate markets in Asia and make them far more efficient and productive. But no matter how well it integrates markets in Asia, it still does not answer crucial questions. These questions are: are these levels of population sustainable under any circumstance? Can the world’s resources continue to support this level of population? Will adverse ecological effects eventually become too large?
If an article on economics does not address these issues, I think that it is necessarily incomplete.
Mike from J.
When I said “What’s not to agree with?” concerning the article, I guess I meant the history presented. It’s a pretty good presentation of the history of our present mess. I, like Bro, have had this on my radar for most of my life. I was born in 47′ and “reborn” in 66′ in the paddies and jungle as a grunt getting several ragged holes in me for my effort. Gets you thinking, ya know. Purdue (Krannert) econ grad 72′ and private building contractor till 10′. I saw the “gold window closed”, the high % rates of the 80’s etc etc etc thru now. Glass-Steagall “repeal”, subprime everything (cars now) derivatives on such all packaged up with a bow on top. All this sloshing around ripe for the picking by black hats of every stripe.
Maybe the most misunderstood thing is “What is Capital?” I get all kinds of mostly wrong answers to that question. “Capital” is profit from creating a good or service and selling it for more that it took to produce it. I can save that capital, consume it, reinvest it, or lend it out, etc. Central Banks can “create” capital with a keystroke based on fractional reserve without turning a screw. That makes my “real” capital worth less as it expands the available supply of “currency or money” representing capital.. Nice work if you can get it. Capital can be represented by many things; wheat, corn, whiskey, (my favorite), lumber, precious metals, sea shells or a piece of paper. That “paper” SHOULD be a “certificate” and not a “note”. A certificate has capital value and a note is a debt. Federal Reserve Note vs Silver or Gold certificate. The certificates are not foolproof as the Goldsmiths issued more than the gold they held. It was made legal when they gave the King a cut. Ah, the beginning of fractional reserve. Sweet, for “them”. Not so sweet for me.
So, we separate banking again and all is wonderful? NOT. Ending Central Banking and allowing the Gummint to issue the currency may or may not be be a great thing. Maybe digital currency can be a foundation allowing the productive to control capital, but we are getting above my pay (IQ) grade. Let’s just get to the start of this paragraph and look forward to how a “sound” money/capital system would affect resource depletion, expanding populations, wars, political positions, consumerism, etc. Debt based “Free Money/Capital” gets Gummint pukes hooked and compromised by “them” to bribe voters with “free stuff” to have more babies who grow up and also vote for them. I think that the cause of expanding populations, wars, political positions, consumerism, etc are explained by the previous sentence. Of course there is MUCH more to it than that, but you get the idea. “Always follow the money”. Get the money right and I think that will go a long way toward stabilizing……well, most everything.
I use the “Wolfhound” handle as that was my Regiment’s name when I was a soldier. 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, US Army (Cu Chi Vietnam). The Wolfhound name was given by Russians in their far east during the Revolution. The 27th was sent in thru Vladivostok in an attempt to affect (meddle in) who would rule. The Regiment moved so fast in the wintry conditions that the locals said “they ran like Wolfhounds”. The name stuck and I will forever be a Wolfhound.
Steve, thanks for sharing. Great hearing insight based on your life journey!
Collapse is HAPPENING-avoidable it is no longer.
There could still be some informational tidbits missing as to the actual cause of that crisis, much of which has yet to make it into the public realm or political debate, and probably never will as it is too politically offensive to be considered for discussion.
It does though explain the terrible situation the human race finds its self in and the reasons why their is no turning that ship around any time soon.
Monti Czardas – Sophia Tyurina saxophone and the Symphony Orchestra of
Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkvQmzwT68
Sophia (born in 2008, in Balakovo city, Saratov region) has been making music since she was five.
She studies at a music school in the saxophone class, and also plays the violin and guitar.
George Gershwin “Summertime”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug3SgCK7xls
Bessame Mucho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhT_A7UtoHE
Antonio Vivaldi – Seasons – Summer Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvkVPYeNIM
For me Astrology is an art form but for those with a deeper systematic approach it is not. The proof is in the putting as they say. This was written a month ago by someone who sometimes lets the current narrative in the USA color his perspective a bit so I find his comments on the midEast ( who ever can get that right?) a bit shortsighted; however, this one bears notice since it is predictive.
Re: India, Pakistan over Kashmir
” the charts set for the beginning of the wars ( note: 1947,1965) tend to have much planetary activity in mutable signs….
Looking forward, the June 21, 2020, solar Eclipse at 0 degree Cancer will be conjunct the national Mars of both countries and will be on a World Point. ; Its shadow will run through China, India and Pakistan. In 2020 there will also be two Lunar Eclipses in mutable signs. Most telling will be the Solar Eclipse of December 14, 2020 at 23 degrees Sagittarius conjunct the Sun of the Kashmir region. I think that this combination will likely be enough to raise tensions in the areas. Because the June 21 Solar Eclipse is at a World Point and conjunct Mars, the Major powers will have to step in to prevent a more widespread conflict”
Bill Meridian p. 19 Dell Horoscope Sept/Oct.
I have never had an idea, why the Solar eclipses, signified any collective change of significance. In essence a simple conjunction of Moon and Sun, happening each month, eclipsing Sun when at the node of Sun’s and Moon’s track. I guess, the impact of the senses in the naive souls of the past paid for their relevance. So far my ignorant stance.
The current week in my view is a rare example of high time for private ‘expressionism’, when all planetary neighbors, close to Sun and us, are in Sun’s realm, Sun simile to the heart. Two weeks as you please.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/08/5-powers-focused-by-sun.html
The serendipitous fact that the moon is four hundred times smaller in diameter than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth, thus giving the perfect fit that allows the Sun’s disc to be hidden, but the corona to still be visible, is spooky.
re: header photo 8/6/19 with a dash of despair ( only a self indulgent one, mind you)
California Serfing
Lights on? But the Coffee is cold.
In the land of the free and the bold
Lights On?
To Rope a Dope
with 2012 Hope
and Racist Hoax
No one is Home?
All are working,
Twerking
shirking
but still not yet serfing.
Empty bowls
many Spoons.
thrown Bones
Soon, oh soon
for whosoever
croons Master’s
Looneytunes.
My apologies–the negative thought forms are rife here in 4G-5G land and I hope that this poem serves only as a call out and not a demoralization. Thanks to Paul’s advice, I turn off my computer wi fi each night and put my silenced cell phones in a metal pot with a lid far, far away from the sleeping space .
I promise a more militant poem next time…. I am reading two books about the Battle of Borodino. Now, one can argue that Napoleon had received bad news( Salamanca Defeat) and was not feeling physically well( a urinary infection) but there was more to his hesitation and lethargy. Thought forms work both ways.
What a gruesome series of frontal assaults! And What a price paid. Oh, very, very few Russians allowed themselves to be taken prisoner from the get go ( Battle of Sheverino on the first day) and that gave pause to Napoleon, too.
Oh, the man who burned Moscow( the Mayor) also burned his estate outside Moscow hammering a mocking note for Napoleon on the charred ruins. Wow!!!
Nothing to apologise for. But I do know how you feel, ( see ‘Blue Day’ above…); it’s a…
“Sign o’ the Times”, by Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdxM72EZ94
Napper’s piles gave him trouble on the morning of Waterloo, too.
Well, this little post is accompanied by bitter cussing in the background.
So, whatever was signed by the US on Monday to further totally sanction Venezuela and fully embargo it economically, is taking a further turn. A ship carrying food to Venezuela was seized in the Panama canal. I cannot figure out how it was seized, but apparently the insurance company was informed not to insure the cargo. Lots of rules and laws around carrying cargo and insurance.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Food-Shipment-Destined-For-Venezuela-Seized-Due-to-US-Blockade-20190807-0012.html
https://news.antiwar.com/2019/08/07/us-seizes-cargo-ship-trying-to-deliver-food-to-venezuela/
A pattern starts to emerge.
A ship seized in the Panama canal. An oil tanker seized in the Strait of Gibraltar. A fleeing collision tanker and an supposedly illegal tanker seized in the Strait of Hormuz.
We can just wait to see it in the Strait of Malacca as well (‘This freight ship was transporting materials to a Chinese tech firm that we have univocally sanctioned’).
Sidebar: you won’t read this in the MSM, but reacting on the German rejection of participating in the Hormuz policing, behind closed doors, you can hear remarks like “Did Ursula leave operational Navy vessels anyway?”, and “we can’t even protect our citizens in public swimming pools from harassing immigrants, and now we are asked to police the complete Strait of Hormuz?”
Piracy is going to be big the coming time.
Cheers, Rob
That may be a very prescient comment.
Artists, Musicians, Poetrymen, append for me your earphones!
https://youtu.be/u4HTk2X8y3A?t=873
BSV Galaxy / Bico.Media How to upload to Bitcoin / Turing Completeness
ALSO: I don’t know how this relates exactly or even not so remotely to Mike from Jersey’s post and Wolfman Steve’s positive rejoinder.
All I know is that my comprehension of THAT history and topic is More Complete Than Most, (because I was on it with more fervor in the eighties (the skids were being greased against production and for casino gambling then….with the S & L Crisis…Charles Keating and all that Flim Flam…..long, long before Slick Willie and Enron etc…) than I am on this BSV Mystery Exploration 35 years later…………) whereas this Satoshi Vision Turing Complete Thing …in my comprehension and facility to explain ….is …..Far, Far LESS Complete Than I’d Like!
In fact it is nearer to being 100% Incomplete than it is to being 5% Complete!
Which is a good thing…..because that void, that gaping hole, that unlit terrain………….compels the hungry, searching mind to search for comprehension, detail. operational principles…… much, much harder.
Shem Booth (The Host…”Captain Bitcoin” is now easy for me to understand, as long as I put a dash (-) everywhere where a mid-word letter T belongs.
So……… “Da-a” = Data
“U-ili-y” = Utility
Jim-Jim Loos is tougher to listen to. I don’t know whether that Australian Outback Accent or what the heck it is???.
All I know is that Turing Completeness is Key……….and these guys that have been in the crypto trenches 9-10 years know 10000 times more about the details than I do……….and if you are a musician, artist, poet, content creator of any sort……..who want your creative output to be stored……immutably……for as long as human civilization exists……and don’t object to being compensated by persons that access that creative output during your life…..OR to set where the micropayments go…….in perpetuity…after you depart this planet……..you might want to “Lend Them Your Ears” for 30 -40 minutes and join in the struggle to comprehend,,,,,How On God’s Green Earth you upload ANY such creative content on Bitcoin Satoshi Vision and why it might be (they claim quite confidently….) that BSV The ONLY ONE that is Turing Complete…………AND therefore ..CAN do THAT job.
John Pilger visited Assange:
John Pilger
Verified account @johnpilger
Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him.
I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.
6:57 AM – 7 Aug 2019
… The “Ghost Village” of “Ma Wan” … Hong Kong …
Most visitors to Hong Kong arrive from the city’s international airport via the Tsing Ma Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension spans connecting the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. But few notice the ghostly ruins of Ma Wan Village just northwest of the structure.
The once-thriving fishing and farming community first settled over 200 years ago, was earmarked for redevelopment in 1997. A dispute over the property halted development and has left the village frozen in a state of decay for decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0r23p1iXoc
Investment scams cause the highest financial losses to Australians, coming to a combined $86 million in 2018, according to the consumer watchdog ACCC.
Five charged over Queensland cryptocurrency fraud …
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6316939/five-charged-over-qld-cryptocurrency-fraud/?cs=14264
President Xi inspects poverty alleviation achievements in SW China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d5CriKhRVA
Here is something that we need to pay attention to, because the assault on all of us is becoming all pervasive and on every front that one can think of, from the food that we eat, to the seeds for that food, to the freedom to walk a street or go into a mall, to the freedom to simply disagree with someone without all hell breaking loose, and so on .. everyone can add to this list from their own perspective.
What is happening now is a nothing more than an upwards trajectory of further sheer evil. In response to Rob’s comment in this Cafe, “Piracy is going to be big the coming time”, which makes one think of mad mobs doing what they want to peaceful people, the trend is now so noticeable and Caitlin Johnstone explains as follows:
“One of the many challenges we face as a society is that we’re always a few clicks behind the murderous oppressors who are driving us down an Orwellian, omnicidal, ecocidal trajectory. We’ve caught on to all the tricks they were using a few decades ago, but now they’ve got a whole new array of tools that our eyes aren’t yet trained to watch for on a large scale. We’re not yet trained to watch for civilian-slaughtering warfare that doesn’t involve bombs or missiles. We’re not yet trained to watch for empire-armed local militias which accomplish all the bloodshed with none of the flag-draped coffins coming home. We’re not yet trained to pay attention to the prevalence of drone strikes. We’re not yet trained to pay attention to the tremendous advances in the field of war propaganda.
If we want to change the world, we’re going to have to find a way to educate ourselves about the latest tricks of the empire in real time and on a mass scale. We’ve got our work cut out for us. “
This is the article on medium – if the medium nag screen appears, just click on the x and the nag screen will disappear – it just is an easier and cleaner read.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-empire-tightens-sanctions-on-venezuela-and-manning-b767769d69d1
So, the thing is that this trend is a western trend and everywhere where the west is doing destabilization. You, and I my friend, is like nothing in the eyes of this kind of evil. We have no importance, we have no defense and we have no ability to deal with this, excepting to expose, expose, expose – and think for ourselves. If the US promises to ‘end hunger in Venezuela’, they are actually promising to kill everyone that does not agree with them and a few besides (collateral damage) – and of course, there will be fewer that need to eat.
Amidst the ‘gloom and doom’ stories today I hit upon this: https://sputniknews.com/amp/middleeast/201908081076499989-pentagon-claims-iran-uses-gps-jamming-in-the-gulf-so-it-can-lure-and-seize-foreign-ships–report/
Now, I’m not a maritime expert, but had talks with a former colleague who has spent some years in shipping. Actually, he once sailed an oil tanker through the Strait of Malacca. On ist smallest passage it’s not even 3 km. wide. That seems broad in view of ‘swimming’, but you have to realize that when you change course with an oil tanker, it takes up to 20 minutes before it starts reacting. You’d feel some sweat emerging on your back, and it’s not from temperature.
A shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz is also 3 km. wide. And crowded. What do you think, would anyone take the risk on collisions and just jam navigation and communication tools? And even then, don’t we think ships sailing there have no radar aboard? And that these Strait is one of the most heavily watched shipping lanes in the world, by several parties? And of course it has to be ‘Ze Iranians’, no sh*t Sherlock.
Also very, very vague sources and we’re yearning for stupid things like ‘facts’. The Skripal-like smell stinks to high heavens. I call BS.
You know what imho is the biggest threat to shipping there? The presence of the US Navy, who cannot distinguish container vessels, oil tankers, and docked freight ships anymore of lately, and ‘forget’ priority rules?
But maybe they use that ‘Google-calculator’ for navigating (I wouldn’t advise it for calculating your mortgage or tax revenues either).
Cheers, Rob
Borodino: The big puzzle of this battle is why did Napoleon not take advantage of the extremely weak Russian left and adjust his strategy accordingly ? 2/3 of the Russian forces were on the right flank guarding the main road to Moscow . It took 1 hour for the first reinforcements to march to the main area of the battle–center and south.
Two reasons:
1. Napoleon desperately wanted to engage the Russian armies in a major battle and was afraid even on the eve of Borodino that they would “slip away”. But that explains Shevarino which one French General just wanted to by pass or flank it but not the strategy at Borodino.
2. Raevsky. And this gets a bit psychological so bear with me. Napoleon had a fixation on him due to :
a. Raevsky’s comportment with his children at the battle of Mogilev/Saltonovka
b. Raevsky’s teaming up so effectively with Neverovsky at Smolensk
c. Raevsky’s Redoubt smack dab in the center of the Russian line ( Napoleon believed that he could take the southern fleches and then attack it advancing up a ridge ( that wasn’t there) from the South.
d. Napoleon’s comment on the eve of the battle of Borodino on the portrait of his infant son which was very possibly an oblique reference to Raevsky ( who was the equivalent of a 19th C. father of the year at Saltonovka)
I’m not quite with Tolstoy on the vast forces of history that flow through individuals willy nilly…but sometimes it IS just a matter of being in the nexus of events. ( a certain place at a certain time). It seems perhaps that people play to the camera these days in proclaiming this to be so. But I think it is much more subtle.
Somebody reported this .. but I cannot find it now, so, here is a continuation of the Hong Kong protestor found with a US state department … uhm, person?
This little protestor, in his belief in his own superiority, gave the game away … “He claimed that their discussion focused on the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act – a bill proposed in the US Congress which calls for involvement in safeguarding “democracy” in Hong Kong. The two also reportedly discussed banning US exports of equipment to Hong Kong police.”
When contacted by AFP for comment, a State Department spokesperson said representatives of the US government “meet regularly with a wide cross section of people across Hong Kong and Macau.”
Oh yeah? Perhaps time for the rest of us to start meeting with a wide cross section of people across the United States?
So, of course, what is the US State Department discussing with Hong Kong protestors?. And the tweet in the RT report speaks volumes … “It would be hard to imagine the US reaction if Chinese diplomat were meeting leaders of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter or Never Trump protesters.”
And, I’ve not seen the US State Department meeting with the Yellow Vests. So, this little protestor boy just gave the game away. Its a kind of color revolution happening in Hong Kong and wanting to destabilize China. If you did not know this before, or you doubted your own lying eyes … ;-)
(Nothing to see here folks … the hegemon is just doing god’s work by exporting democracy).
https://www.rt.com/news/466078-hong-kong-us-joshua-wong/
And the Real Evil Empire had the gall to whinge about its subversive diplothugs being exposed. This from the country that goes into hysterics over NON-EXISTENT ‘Russian interference’ in their crooked and rigged ‘election’ process, and which runs organs like the NED to subvert elections and societies anywhere on Earth-and no-one should think that the CIA etc have gone out of business as well. The sheer stinking hypocrisy of these thugs is only exceeded by the grovelling subservience of the Western fakestream scum who will not report US actions, but will peddle any lie that slanders China, Russia or Iran etc.
Poem of sorts
Borodino and Beyond
What to do when the wolf is at the gate?
Wring your hands , bemoan your fate?
No, with brothers together band
Fight and die– protect your land.
What to do when threat’s within?
who to fight, what’s to win?
When there’s no land,
No band of brothers.
When leaders whisper
Just Kill the Other?
Solidarity can be found
when one looks for common ground
Set the standard, make the call:
All for One and One for All
Clear your mind for the long haul.
A Poem of Different Sorts
There are many sorts under the sun.
A way for each and every one.
Whatever sort you may be,
You are soul, you are free.
Time is a sieve, it truly soughts
The wheat from the chaff, the way it ought.
That which is left is what you are;
It’s sort of simple; a shining star!
There are many sorts of shining stars,
Shining bright, shining far.
Whatever sort you may be,
You are Soul, you are free!
Cccc…
Time is a sieve, it truly sorts
the wheat from chaff, as it ought
I’m shocked to see there are no walls in Hong Kong. If only there were then there would be a spot to stand those traitors up against. After they are caught red handed (no pun intended) plotting against China with US officials.As the saying goes (amended slightly) “no traitor,no problem”.
https://www.rt.com/news/466078-hong-kong-us-joshua-wong/
Ask Alice.
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
And call Alice, when she was just small
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDnnT88A3w
Kent
Hong Kong activist goes on defensive after being photographed with US consulate official
https://www.rt.com/news/466078-hong-kong-us-joshua-wong/
(unconfirmed … credit cards with $250 to $1500 and food vouchers)
Will Russia being selling the S-400 to everyone who wants it???
(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
This is an important article about FDD and its “officers” (read extreme neocon warmongers);
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel-mcadams/2019/08/08/for-cliff-may-war-pays/
FDD seems to be in a very advantageous with the trump warmongers: bolton, pompeo, abrams, pence. They seem to have easy access and a close relationship to policy pronouncements vis-a-vis Iran, which has been its primary focus. Adelson is or was a heavy contributor.
This is the sickening article as reference by May:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/07/why-endless-wars-cant-be-ended/
May and the ceo dobowitz tweet daily about their views on Iran and prob are consulted frequently with their access to pompeo and bolton. Wars have been very profitable as fdd’s staff (mostly infamous ziocons) has been increased significantly since Iran became a prominent focus.
‘Traffic chaos’ as large-scale power cuts hit London & SE England
https://www.rt.com/uk/466178-large-scale-power-cuts-hit/
I feel sure this will be ‘Skripaled’ and guilt assessed immediately -Putin’s personal hand obviously being responsible.
Everyone knows he did it so he must be the guilty party, right?
Portland Demonstration to End Domestic Terrorism
Portland, OR August 17th
This will be a total mess. Antifa plans to come disguised as Maga supporters in order to make provocations. Joe Biggs who is the military Vet organizing the Demonstration was harassed by the FBI after he reached out to the Portland Police to assure them that 1. his folks were coming unarmed ( no weapons at all) 2. no violence is planned but will do self defense if attacked 3. there will be many, many camera crews to document exactly who starts what, when and how.
I would urge Biggs to have his squad leaders on Bluetooth or something from military surplus which might be more effective ( ship it to Portland or have a supporter there hold it for you) and hand them some distinctive ID ( headband) which he keeps to himself absolutely until the last minute.
OK Derp State has a problem—if they let this demonstration come off peacefully and without dramatic stage crafted induced violence then their narrative falters ( that is if they control Antifa) Portland is not a border town so hyping the race card won’t be so easy.
But if they craft some covert operation ahead of time, there is no guarantee they can really pull it off or even control it— even with MSM liar Media providing the “Truth vs. facts ”
Poor dears–they so want another Charlottsville: Chaos, extremists, self righteous liberals posturing and a sacrificial lamb or two.
It is not a “Demonstration to End Domestic Terrorism” – it is specifically against Antifa. It will be Proud Boys, 3 Percenters and other right-wing domestic terrorist groups coming specifically to goad Antifa into a confrontation. I have no use for Antifa, or the other groups, at all. I just think your post was a bit misleading.
There are already member of the right-wing groups posting YouTube vids that they will seek to provoke violence. Lord knows what Antifa has planned. Portland should simply shut this thing down on this basis alone, revoke the permit (if they’ve even issued it yet), and let ’em do it somewhere else.
This is not going to end well, for anybody, and indeed is an ugly mess. I believe you have somewhat mischaracterized it in your post, though.