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鄧麗君 Teresa Teng 香港之夜 The Night of Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCTFpbhoQNo
Paul Craig Roberts with simple common sense on Epstein.
http://www.unz.com/proberts/the-epstein-mystery/
Move along, folks, Nothing to see here.
Yes, that sums it up. The coroner who couldn’t tell an exit wound from an entrance wound and the FBI clean up team sent to Pedophile island just seals the deal. Does the body of Epstein ( the DNA based one) swim with the fishes along with Bin Laden and the Skirpals? we will never know. What happened to the diaries that Epstein ( supposedly) kept? Will we have Epstein sightings along with Elvis now? Stay tuned for more distractions.
Stick around folks, more of nothing to see here.
Meanwhile back in Venezuela,Syria, Strait of Hormuz, and the Central Banks of Europe…..
Will we have Epstein sightings along with Elvis now?
LOL!!!
Epstein was legally charged with “conspiracy” and due to this charge his death does not stop the trial, on the contrary: Since he is no longer alive to file legal motions to slow things down, all the evidence is now open to the court. So his death (fake or real) might actually speed up the trial, and the fall of some powerful figures with it. Deep state civil war…
“all the evidence is now open to the court”
Yes, but the courts themselves are not open -powerful forces control them. Window dressing only with obfuscation, smearing and legal delay after delay.
I feel sure the NSA and alphabet agencies are closely watching anyone who was witness to whatever was going on around those in high office. They’d better be watching their backs and it will be interesting to see how many “accidents” and other “suicides” befall them -just in case they didn’t get the message. Anyone about to testify will be especially vulnerable.
I have to assume that whatever dirt Epstein had for blackmail and to protect himself from harm is now safely with the Deep State’s ‘memory hole’ program.
The sensitive material that Epstein possessed has now definitely changed ownership. What the new owners (deep state?) will do with it is the big question. Bury it or release to bring down certain elites…the bias seems to be towards the latter as there are already more than 2000 pages of court documents that have been unsealed.
Epstein’s diary is a conspiracy theory, I fear. He acted alone, like Oswald, Sirhan, Ray, Chapman and the 9/11 al-Qaeda hijackers. Move along, please.
The autopsy apparently says that Epstein had fractured bones in the throat, which you don’t get from kneeling down with a sheet wrapped around your neck. You do get it from garroting, a favourite method of Clinton’s Ukronazi ‘friends’.
Thought that from the moment I heard. He’s been whisked away to a tropical island to live out his time in splendor. Too close a friend of Clinton and Trump to be capped.
Maybe after the FBI have finished ‘sanitising’ Epstein’s island he will be back there. Wouldn’t that be something! Nothing like hiding in plain sight with maybe a little cosmetic surgery?
Either he got whacked by the alphabet agencies or they spirited him away and left a silicone manikin and actors. Interesting that he had an orange prison suit rather than the paper suicide one and his ‘face’ was uncovered on the gurney. Maybe all part of the performance?
Mother Jones: Epstein story is as “sketchy as shit”
“A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in
his jail cell. How predictably.”
By Jonas E. Alexis – August 12, 2019
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/08/12/mother-jones-epstein-story-is-as-sketchy-as-shit/
Jeffrey Epstein RIP
But Many More Questions Remain to be Answered
By Philip Giraldi • August 10, 2019
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/jeffrey-epstein-rip/
The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike… For those who are not planning to move off planet, here is this bit of cheery news. It’s various lethal particles of smog from autos, then radioactive crap, then Round Up and now bits of plastic…
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3022567/scientist-discovers-plastic-rain-over-americas?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1565678866
as for Epstein..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_DNrKVrQ8
… now here’s something worth protesting about …
demands for multiple immediate bans and regulatory solutions …
More than 17 million pieces of plastic waste flushed into sea via Hong Kong’s Shing Mun River each year
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2169129/more-17-million-pieces-plastic-waste-flushed-sea
(thanks to teranam13 for the linkage above … and Indonesia just loaded tonnes of toxic plastic hazard waste for return shipment to Australia)
I have this illustrious family member, now long since passed – PhD chemical engineering and can be called one of the fathers of the modern petro-chemically derived plastics industry – in his time very well-known in his field. Some plastics are still manufactured under his initial patents, but of course those belonged and still belongs to his employer – Big Oil. When he was old already we chatted a lot about this and he explained how the the modern plastics industry was born out of seeking solutions for waste from the petro-chemical industry. They thought they were doing good – finding solutions for waste. When he became more senior his job was to deal on high governmental level and build plastics plants near to petro-chemical plants and make this an industry for countries – all over the world he went, making high level proposals and implementing. He had spent quite some time in Russia already, when the wall came down, and of course, it was business as usual.
You would all think such a man was part of the problem. I wrote a piece about him here. https://saker.community/2019/01/03/a-story-on-the-fall-of-the-ussr/
I asked him once, if he was a young man now, knowing about the plastic pollution now, what would he do? He said he would go back to the lab and fix it personally, but we would have no hope from universities and industry, as nobody is going to spend money in fixing it at grassroots, i.e., the source, the lab work and the patents. In the mean-time, another industry developed, reclamation and re-use of certain plastics. Now they are building garden furniture and other stuff from it, and it just lasts and more and more trash and pollution from grinding the older plastics down! So, we think we are doing good but actually the plastic dust in these plants leave their own stamp on our air quality – Better just to leave the stuff and not re-work it. But, lots of money in that nowadays, so, there is no political will and all we can do, is pick the stuff up which is too little too late. The real solution is end to end design and manufacturing, i.e., if you make something, you have to take responsibility and design it through to end of life, and disposal. Again, no political will.
amarynth … your ending long sentence holds the key … if only it could be, but in the near future it will have to be, because this pollution is unsustainable and hazardous to all life. Paper and bamboo can be manufactured into various forms so the solution is already approachable.
” … if you make something, you have to take responsibility and design it through to end of life, and disposal.”
Paul, capitalists would grind up their grandmothers and used trophy wives for animal feed if there was money to be made from it. If any capitalist shows some signs of moral qualms, there are plenty of others who’ll take their place. It lowers everything to the basest level-the sordid calculus of profit and loss, the one-dimensional universe for one dimensional men.
Are you lot going out of your way to cheer up old recalcitrant humbugs up-or are you just doing everything down?
https://summit.news/2019/08/12/pathologist-connected-to-jfk-investigation-to-conduct-autopsy-on-epstein/
Pathologist Michael Baden, who served as chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy, is set to conduct an independent autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein.
“Epstein’s representatives have hired celebrity pathologist Michael Baden to conduct an independent autopsy and they were allowed to observe the autopsy,” reports the Daily Beast.
As chairman of the investigation into the JFK assassination, Baden bolstered the official story that Kennedy was killed by a single bullet, also known as the “magic bullet” theory.
Baden, whose career has revolved around investigating high profile deaths, also testified at the trials of OJ Simpson and Phil Spector.
https://summit.news/2019/08/12/epsteins-cellmate-was-transferred-out-day-before-suicide/
Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate was transferred out the day before the billionaire sex trafficker’s alleged “suicide,” meaning there was no witness to observe it.
What a stunning coincidence.
https://summit.news/2019/08/12/official-there-is-no-video-of-epsteins-death/
As news broke of billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s death this past weekend, there were calls for video footage to be immediately released, in order to prove what the vast majority disbelieve, that he could have committed suicide.
But, there is no video, according to officials.
First there were reports that 24 hour cameras were malfunctioning.
Then the news came that, actually, there are no cameras watching cells in the part of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan where Epstein was.
The ‘the video cameras weren’t working’, despite its inevitability, was quite amusing. Western Moral Values at their most rib-tickling.
While the western press is reporting the HK news with a particular “color”,
below is from CCTV – thats the official CCTV
Notice it not only put on music, its translated in ENGLISH and embedded in the video (you dont even need translator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0scqD1QJ0
you can read into what magnitude CCP has put on this HK clown-show…
P/s btw the airguns clip is from RT – is RussiaToday a friend of the commie? :)
There is also a clip from CCTV noting a particular Chinese family has disavow a family member (who is one of the protest leader and photographed w mr POM POM) from their family registry and cut off all relationship with him. In the east, it spells A LOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V5mYoYkbEE
As mentioned b4, the bloody valve has been turned on and this is not the first time this 5.4-type show has been put on… again by the west (same sponsors)
The implication is HUGE – Imagine CCP comes in and declare ’emergency’ on the WHOLE island! Nothing goes in and nothing comes out. And EVERYTHING turns dark.
Its not like, again, its the first time.
But the collateral damage has already been too great it saddens me.
Think carefully – if “emergency” is declared on the island, or just the money markets, the western dark pool will be frozen too! Never forget that! And given the fragility of the world-fiat-market, you can imagine the rest. Is this the button they designed to push?!
HK has always been acting and touted as the bridge to connect the east and west, a hybrid-harmony in some sense. But it could also be a double side-door. So 1) if one end of the bridge is burned, what will happen then? 2) if both ends are burned, what will happen then? 3) if the middle gets burn, what will happen then?
That’s why these western clowns are way more stupid than the avg morons, they are literally burning down their god father’s house and they think they are winning! The only ones that can top them are the HK protesters.
Given a military resolution is cued, allow me to a bit more liberal.
If my imagination (and only my imagination) runs out according to the yet-to-developed script,
these things could happen, (not in any order of importance)
1) The lingering british connection (as mentioned) could be decisive.
2) Kill off the “old money” and introduce the RMB as the official people’s money.
3) Move all financial centres to the mainland (no need to introduce extradition law no more)
4) CCP selected-members to be permanently part of the HK legal and gov system, thus naturally extended to civil, education and welfare systems.
5) Roll out the 5G surveillance system and possibly the Chinese Social Credit Score System (NOTE: the CSC is not rolled out in the entire china, unlike the western press mis-reporting. Its is only run on certain states, in particular those states known to have ‘western infiltration’ and foreign-spy-fester states.
p/s what do you think will happen to those protester-leaders? enojy their freedom in new-found-western-land, like the previous bunch being smuggled out of the country to “save their human-right lives”?
Obviously, even if HK is put on freeze for one week, the western world will blow up! The market is already jittery, given the western press showing their ‘glory’ picture of chaos in HK. 2 days of no show in HK airport has already been deeply felt and thats just airport.
So western friends, it might be renewed time to get those preppers-mind switch on again. This bloody valve has definitively been turned on and its not easily turn off. SO far the Chinese has not back down on ANYTHING. So unless the western-face leaders are coming out to confess their ‘great work’ in public, I don’t think this will go quietly. The Chinese (deeply felt they) have already been humiliated! It was more about money now… Pls, let us all, be safe.
I believe that most people analyzing such events as the “hong kong protests” are missing the forest for the trees. It is in the best interest of the USA, and only the USA, for every country on the planet to burn. Items like, jittery markets or derivatives crashing, etc., are exactly what is desired, and now required, for the continued survival of the USA. If my home burns I have only two choices: a) let my house burn with everything inside or b) save my belongings and transfer to what I perceive to be a safer place, i.e. USA.
Yes, I’m in agreement here. I think we are into the empire backlash and clawbacks of power. Don’t know about others, but I’ve been waiting for this phase to start as it was inevitable.
From Paul: please understand that the Empire has already been defeated. Please recognize that. A very simple sign is the rapid emergence of websites like Ron Unz’s Review that spend so much time and effort upon proving that the “white race” is intellectually superior to others. Whenever an individual is defeated instead of recognizing their shortcomings as attributes to be improved they instead offer deficiencies in others as a means of claiming some sort of “victory while caught in the jaws of defeat.” The same is true for any size group from a group of two to the largest nation on the planet. A very basic reason as to why the whole planet is having a hard time dealing with the USA is because they have framed it as an “empire.” that is completely incorrect. The US is a “MAFIA.” The game it is playing is very simple: the protection racket via extortion. Just consider the real reason behind Trump entertaining North Korea and making it into a global threat. It has everything to do with destabilizing South Korea as its firms, backed by the state for decades, are in the process of demolishing US firms, other than the Military-Industrial Complex, and Korea has cash, lots of it that can be utilized by the US. Same is true everywhere else..of course, a minor point would be that a deal with North Korea opens up its natural resources for exploitation without the Chinese..
“.The Empire has already been defeated. Please recognize that. A very simple sign is the rapid emergence of websites like ..like Ron Unz’s Review that spend so much time and effort upon proving that the “white race” is intellectually superior to others.
Really? I didn’t know that!
I used to spend some time reading articles there…………. but never even noticed (!!) ANY such thing, what with many articles by authors of many nationalities and skin hues represented there.
Could you provide some links to past articles espousing some of the worst White Racist Propaganda that emanates out of there??
Bro, if you go to Unz and scroll down the right hand side, you will find 3 categories .. race/ethnicity, race/iq and race/crime. All is very ‘scientific’, IQ and so on. I don’t think this is a torrent of white racist propaganda per se, but there sure is enough.
I’m always bemused as to which ‘White Race’ they are referring too. The Aryans? Well, of course. The Slavs? Please! The Celts? Maybe. The Mediterraneans? Easy on! And what about the mongrels? Hybrid vigour and all that.
Although it’s true that population based genetic studies have shown the concept of a White Race to be scientifically meaningless, it is nevertheless true that there is one country that can be said to be exclusively and truly White and that is Antarctica.
Interesting commentary about the hypocrisy of the Western media on the Hong Kong protests. It compares the coverage of the protests in Hong Kong with the coverage of the Yellow Vest protests in France.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/466396-hong-kong-british-hypocrisy/
As the US is closing a chapter in its history and starts to Think Locally, Act Locally and Live Locally (see Stanford Prof. Ian Morris’ thesis on Geography superseding History) – it seems that Economics has elected to hand over the Middle East to Russia, China, Turkey and Iran – making it even more volatile and explosive, if it is not already – since Britain has invaded Iraq in 1914.
Tulsi Gabbard’s call to take the US Off Fossil Fuels (OFF) and bring the troops home – speaks volumes – for energy observers in the Middle East.
Some see the writing is on the wall: Gabbard’s presidential campaign, if not successful in 2020, it would be in 2024.
Making the richest remaining oil reserves in the world a theater for endless conflict between Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, and the Arabs left in the middle – will create the best environment for transforming the global-energy-market to an ‘energy-black-market’, as oil reserves deplete to scarcity.
The Laws of Physics rule humans before Economics, though.
No matter what humans do, they will never succeed outsmarting the laws of nature and the fact that: “Energy, like time, flows from past to future”, as a proposal in Thermodynamics published in 2017 inspires – https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/press-release .
Humans may descend even deeper into the Peak Oil Musical Chairs game, they are playing since coal has peaked in Britain, back in 1913 , but this irrational behavior is only an indication of how they are primitive.
https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/the-peak-oil-musical-chairs%E2%84%A2-calculator?thesaker=pomc
Just in case the Nice English Lady thinks she can’t enjoy the Parody Project of Don Caron………….because he’s a Trumper…..that just isn’t so!
Hey, Mr Tangerine Man!
https://youtu.be/CAlvBMwN_7U
I just like BOTH Don’s wit (which cuts both ways……er, every way) …..but ….”What can I say??”, even wits like Don Caron can be duped by the billionaires behind the IPCC….particularly when they grow up in Ecotopia (“God’s Country”……….in Caron’s Case …..that “God” would be Gaia)……Chelan, the foothills of the Cascade Mountains…..Washington State.
I thought Caron also did the parody. “Yes, we have no Steve Bannon!” ….which amarynth might also enjoy……. but it turns out that’s a fruitier purveyor of parody than the straighter Man from Chelan, a smirking anti-Trumper named Randy Rainbow…who’s partial to pink shirts and ties and calling other news and political guys…”sexy” several of whose ditties plus WTF “News” network parodies I clicked on last night in my Midnight Delerium :
https://youtu.be/If4eQHYKSu8
My objection to Bannon is his immersion in video game culture (or something of the sort of Thoroughly Western Capitalist …..Zeru Sum Game “Winner Take All Megalomania he picked up at Goldman Sachs, maybe??) which forces him to think that “winning” must involve the “Defeat of China” plus more than half the rest of the human race, to boot….with no remorse whatsoever!
Sad!
But that’s been a common human failing since way before the Trojan War…and it’s present almost everywhere…including here, although distinctly less…..maybe because of Xi’s Win-Win-Win alternative to …….WW III.
It’s like The Malthusian Limited Cranial Resources Conundrum…………another fundamental Empire Axiom that even affects most who profess to be Anti-Empire! But they STILL dearly share Deadly Empire Fundamental and False Beliefs……..without being the least troubled by that fact!
I guess it goes back to Cain and Abel, ………and may require at least several more generations (or millenia) of healing before its grip on the human psyche…………might finally be broken.
I laughed for an hour this morning … an hour that I did not have. It made my day!
The music sometimes just hurts the ears but the lyrics are just too good! Yeah .. both sides of the fence and sometimes on top of the fence but truly funny.
Anti Trump is hilarious .. and little duffer boy on little drummer boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V4Io_bW_EQ
But also the anti 2 parties .. really funny stuff.
But more serious, Trump is pumping ‘oh so innocently’ the happenings in Hong Kong – and every anti-Chinese is jumping on there spitting vile gall.
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe!
So, I’m not going to comment on that supercilious venomous tweet …
“So, I’m not going to comment on that supercilious venomous tweet …”
Well, I do. My first thought was, that the USA intelligence finally found out what the rest of the world with an internet connection already knew for some two weeks. I guess the obduction of ‘Epstein’ will also take a time like that.
Cheers, Rob
I’m glad you’re enjoying the Parody Project of Don Caron, amarynth!
What I can’t figure out is why he didn’t name that one…”Little Trumper Boy”. ???
I don’t agree 100% with anyone else’s politics (That’s what makes it So enjoyable and interesting…because 100% agreement is SO….deadly boring! lol) but when the humor and irony cut both ways and the audio/video craft is as polished as Caron’s is……..I value it.
Because if I can’t chuckle many, many times a day, off and on…I know it’s just an off day……and I’m just not thinking very well…or perceiving reality clearly enough……..and so then….. I am looking to start over the next morning…….more on “the correct (not Right or Alt-Right….lol) foot”!
A duffer is something like a bad golf player, or something to do with golf.
Here in Austfailia, a duffer is a dolt, a simpleton, or, to repeat myself, a Cabinet Minister.
The picture at the top of this cafe looks suspciously like the famous Inspector Clouseau -just the person need to investigate the Epstein case. Bumbling about and knocking Deep Staters off balance left right and centre.
Also incapable of being assassinated even by the Clinton cartel. Perfect for the job.
I had that thought of Clouseau too ;-)
If I may believe some spinning stories, Epstein was kidnapped by the Mossad in a mystery van and swapped for some poor fellow. He is now in Switzerland for surgery, to get a new face.
To afterward have some relief from the pressure he’ll have a short holiday at the famous whiskey-a-gogo bar in the Pacific, run by Elvis and Jim Morrison. Thereafter he will give teachings at Mossad scholars in Tel Aviv. He will be assisted by his charming aid Ghislaine, who is suddenly ‘unfindable’ now for all 17 three-letter-agencies in the USA, lurking from a hefty budget.
For now, USA authorities will wrap up a story that ‘Epstein’ killed himself with the aid of toilet paper. The wicked man had us foiled! (Though the possibilty of Novichok is still under investigation, to give the Russians blame again). Since a lot of public believes anything, and deviation thought is punishable by the FBI, further nothing will happen.
And the show will just continue, to fine relief of the Clintons, Buckingham palace and many, many more.
Cheers, Rob
“The picture at the top of this cafe looks suspciously like the famous Inspector Clouseau”
If you look closely you’ll see it is actually an actor named Peter Sellers inpersonating the famous inspector.
Ha! That’s obvious now but for the first day or so the picture cut off vertically just above the cup. Someone later edited the picture to reveal the full face. Hindsight and revisionism are most wonderful human traits, yes?
It’s actually Geoffrey Rush playing Peter Sellers.
Who Invented the Rose?
Who invented the rose?
Someone may have thought
of a rose in passing,
but they did not invent the rose.
Someone, in some dream –
in some way known only to him
or herself, may have come across
“God’s fragrance”, and upon waking,
tried to remember that.
But he or she did not invent the rose.
Lovers, borne on wings of ecstasy –
may have “seen” or “heard” of the rose,
somewhere on their travels.
But they did not invent the rose.
Someone may have been riding
through some valley, and,
dismounting; think, “This place
is perfect, but something’s missing…”
They may not have been aware of it,
but they were alluding to the rose.
The story is told of a man;
A thorn had buried itself
in his body and festered there.
But he could have had no way of
knowing that the thorn and the rose
are One, so he too,
could not have “invented” the rose.
Could the lily have invented the rose?
Unlikely.
A turtle dove?
Now we’re getting ridiculous.
The bee?
Hmm… What do you think?
By now it should be obvious;
Who else but the Rose
could have imagined the rose?
Great patience and a deep,
unshakeable resolve are required.
Helped along by the Peerless Gardener, and friend,
and the endlessly changing seasons,
of course.
Continually imagining, re-imagining;
Refining the form that we eventually came
to know as “the rose”.
And re-imagining and refining Itself
in the process!
Imagine that;
A Rose imagining Itself into Being!
A Rose among Roses.
Be the Rose that you are!
And don’t stop imagining yourself
the way you know you truly are…
Until you get it just right!
RE: Header Photo 8/13/19
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Give Me Your Hand
Give me your hand,
Give me your heart.
The way you did,
Back at the start.
That Holy Dance
Can’t be undone,
When hands are joined
And hearts are one.
Give me your hand,
Give me your smile.
And let us walk
A little while.
That Holy Place
We used to go,
It’s waiting there,
Beyond all woe.
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That hearts may mend;
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That has no end!
It leads us on,
That we may know
There is no death,
And we still grow.
Give me your hand,
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What lies in store;
No longer blind.
Come let us dance
Come let us hum…
For Winter’s past,
and Spring has come!
“Don’t the people of Hong Kong know they’re being used by CIA/MI6 to carry out a colour revolution that does not serve their interest?”
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=126780
That the Trump administration would attempt to carry out a full-blown colour revolution – in broad daylight – in Hong Kong right in the middle of the most serious trade negotiations ever speaks volumes.
Just look at the war zone that the normally peaceful residents of Hong Kong have permitted to develop in their once well-ordered and clean city.
http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/08/cia-color-revolution-in-progress-western-powers-turning-hong-kong-into-a-war-zone/
Color revolutions across the world were all aimed at regime change. But Hong Kong is not a country. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government needs the authorization of the central government. Therefore, it’s meaningless to “overthrow” the HKSAR government.
The first step for Hong Kong’s color revolution is to completely paralyze the HKSAR government, police and the rule of law, and undermine Hong Kong’s status as an international financial center. By doing so, the radical protesters aim to force the central government to give up governance over Hong Kong, accede to universal suffrage and give the city back to the Western world.
The city’s international financial center status and its international shipping industry and tourism are the lifeline of its economy, which have been heavily stricken by riots. If Hong Kong loses its international financial center status, the city’s decline is inevitable.
The US and the West won’t feel regret for Hong Kong, nor will Asian countries and regions, including Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the island of Taiwan. It is Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland that will suffer the pain. The decline will lead to long-term turmoil in Hong Kong, thereby increasing China’s political and economic burden. This is what some American and Western forces want to see.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1161356.shtml
The words ‘color revolution’ and even extremist terrorism is now appearing in the Chinese press, Babushka in Oz.
They are always painfully correct in expression but see here and our of your link, these two paras made a lot of sense to me.
“The first step for Hong Kong’s color revolution is to completely paralyze the HKSAR government, police and the rule of law, and undermine Hong Kong’s status as an international financial center. By doing so, the radical protesters aim to force the central government to give up governance over Hong Kong, accede to universal suffrage and give the city back to the Western world.”
and
“The US and the West won’t feel regret for Hong Kong, nor will Asian countries and regions, including Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the island of Taiwan. It is Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland that will suffer the pain. The decline will lead to long-term turmoil in Hong Kong, thereby increasing China’s political and economic burden. This is what some American and Western forces want to see. ”
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1161356.shtml
It’s not China that has the most to lose. China has built up Shanghai as a major financial centre, free from Anglo- American influence. China’s gold exchange market is located in Shanghai, and the Shanghai free-trade port is a rival to HKs offshore status. If HK implodes the business will simply move to Shanghai and the big losers will be the HK population, not China. This colour revolution is not in the interest of HK and if they’re smart they will put an end to it fast.
Moon of Alabama has a very reasonable write-up on Hong Kong. He suggests the riots are reaching their end.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/08/violent-protests-in-hong-kong-reach-their-last-stage.html#more
It’s not ‘the people of Hong Kong’, Babs. It’s the usual Colour Revolution crowd, in this case the spawn of anti-Communist refugees from China, leftover collaborators and compradores with English rule, various terrorist emigres like the Uighur jihadists, Falun Gong lunatics and Tibetan exiles and triad leftovers expelled from China etc, and some stupid, ignorant, arrogant and manipulable young idiots-we’ve all been there. But that cohort is the shock troops of all good Colour Revolutions, with more violent elements waiting in the wings. It CANNOT work in Hong Kong, so these young suckers are plainly being prepared by their Western financiers, from the NED, CIA, Soros scum, MI6 etc, as sacrificial lambs. If the Chinese intervene, the ‘mysterious snipers’ will play their role, as always, and the Chinese will be blamed. It’s a real and invariable basic model, reproducible, with local characteristics, anywhere.
Peter Lavelle vs. Chris Cuomo just to give everyone a baseline on Cuomo’s A–holeness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_Dsf_5tm4
After so good poetry by Dimitar and teranm13 and after talk on Asia, here’s a singer from Kazakhstan I just heard for the first time :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcqfvPDPTk
He was posted on here before I believe, with his extraordinary voice, and looking like some elemental from another world – his mostly, strangely expressionless eyes – but this video you linked to, and all the others of him I just searched, have an, X factor, or X factor type, remake-or makeover, how to describe that !
Thanks ioan, that was marvelous. Of course, immediately I thought of Vitas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6b5mZZD-I
And then, with a few searches I found that there is horrible controversy (from the ones who cannot sing like this) as to who is better … Vitas or Dimash. What the hell is happening to us? that we have to pee over everything and cannot sit down and enjoy anything for what it is!
Well, I will ignore all of that and just enjoy! This all is out of this world! These singers are extra-terrestrial!
That is very interesting, I learned something new ! I never heard of Vitas and listened to his video’s. He was born in 1979, and is more theatrical by far in a westernized way than Dimash, born 1994. He is the extra terrestrial candidate!
From a Chinese TV commentary:
“This Dimash from nowhere is just stunning. The best ever possible voice from a human being. It is most exquisite and impressive. His singing transcends gender, language and borders which is the basic essence of music. This ‘’dark horse’ (wildcard) is way too dark.”
“This iconic song from the French rock opera Starmania is near 40 years old…but has never, I say NEVER, been performed as well as by this human, this ‘terrien’. This performance is indeed le vrais cris de coeur (cries of the heart) as it was intended. I tip my hat to you, sir. Salut!” – Comment on YouTube
My point above was the “X Factoring” of his video’s, very peculiar indeed…
WOW!
Thank you.
Kent
I like the word ‘glorious’ … its like something that just touches something inside. I always listen to the music that you post Kent, because good rock is good rock and there is no getting away from it – it touches the insides of the bones and shakes the marrow! These singers are different – it is if they touch something else kinda ‘not quite there’ and I have not figured out yet what it is.
It was gratifying to have Rudy Guiliani explain the Epstein matter on Fox News today.
His foreknowledge of 9/11 and intimate understanding of prison systems certainly adds to the credibility of his offerings on these subjects.
https://911truth.org/rudy-giuliani-closer-look-911-legend/
Something could happen here….?
https://theduran.com/overstock-ceo-turned-over-docs-to-doj-on-fbis-russian-and-hillary-clinton-probes/
Extract
“I gave to the DOJ documents concerning both the origin of the Russian probe and the probe into Hillary Clinton, both of which I was involved in, and both of which turned out to be less about law enforcement than they were about political espionage,” Byrne told SaraACarter.com Monday.
He noted that the communications will prove that the FBI also had an operation into Clinton Foundation that he was directly involved in.
“This is going to become the greatest political scandal in US history,” he said.
“If we survive it, and if Rule of Law returns to America, it will be due to one man: Bill Barr.”
That fellow right there, Byrne, has made me lost some of the last faith I had in humankind. You know he is the one who surreptitiously dated Maria Butina and reported on her for some alphabet agency, all when nobody even knew that he was even slightly working for the agency class and he comported himself as a man of the people.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
Israel’s man in the House of Representatives
By Philip Giraldi • August 13, 2019
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/majority-leader-steny-hoyer/
….. Israel’s enemies are also Hoyer’s enemies whether or not they threaten the United States. …..
Israel controls far, far, more than one man or woman in the USA political asylum. No ‘dual loyalty’ creature Hoyer, either. He has ONE overriding loyalty, like all the sayanim Fifth Columnists, and it ain’t to the USA.
Re: Nader’s Show
For the past month, I have been watching a relatively new show coming out of Iran with interviews of various Westerners. The theme seems to be how Iran is perceived in the West. Well worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8loO9onW02V2I20CbZ3oww/featured
There is no week where not the demons are turning their wheels, while the spots, belonging to
God’s ‘angels’ or children, or ‘great men’ keep thriving.
here is this week’s stream on its way to remembrance:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/08/great-mans-weekly-mirror.html
Boy in China can cut fruits by throwing cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47zT6i5x8E
… and …
Hong Kong Police’s new ‘water cannon’ anti-riot vehicles ready for deployment on city streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8XVEDoiQtk
Well well, the Lady Pimp has been found: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7352813/Ghislaine-Maxwell-consort-Jeffrey-Epstein-living-mansion-outside-Boston.html
Hiding away at some bloke from the Council on Foreign Relations. Then she didn’t need to flee to Israel, it’s basically the same.
That she hasn’t been ‘found’ to face ‘justice’ by the synergical forces of the DoJ and the agencies, but by a British newssite Daily Mail (always reliable) is telling too. And she is now sooo homey.
Cheers, Rob
I really think that ‘procuress’ is a better usage. Pimps is blokes, and madams have fixed premises.
Saker predicted the use of humor as a major weapon leading to demise of the looney tune deep state.
As one conservative comedian who is being banned from social media for his mocking the official version of the Epstein Elimination said,
how do you fact check a joke?
You don’t and if you try you yourself become a bad joke
Kill the laughter
legalise insanity (antifa)
Make everyone a 1%
Wannabe
Erasing all humanity
Or put them to sleep
With narcotic dreams
Deep
For those who serve the Beast
Blind them in self righteous hypocrisy
Award and applaud rank mediocrity
Turning thus democracy to idiocrasy
Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China in 4K Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFlWKKoPbd4
Tianmen … Tian = Heaven … men = gate / door
I met Chinese people today from Hunan and we chatted about the HK riots.
My curiosity about from where they came prompted sharing this video.
Compassion, love, forgiveness being a Jesus thing (lost on most of humanity), one wonders for those who are banned from the Sakers blog, if they repent, do pennance, say a Novina and beg for forgiveness, could they perhaps, if they promise to not transgress the transgressable, be reinstated? Anyone who has spent time in Coventry knows the effect of being ostracized. Can people be rehabilitated? With compassion, love and forgiveness, one hopes.
Now I don’t know what goes on behind the scenes, as emails flying back and forth, only what appears on the blog, so there could be other things being said that reinforce the ban, but that’s at the bosses dicretion, it is his site and we must abide.
Dear Sean
Please allow me to correct a misconception you might have: I am not God and nobody has to ask for my forgiveness or repent or do anything else other than behave in the first place and respect my wishes for this blog. It is my right and responsibility to decide whom I invite to this blog, and whom I ask to leave. If I find that an individual is trying to prevail over my instructions, or tries to find ways to bypass my decisions, this only confirms to me that I was right showing him/her to the door. Frankly, I would assume that anybody with a modicum of education and basic manners would never even think of trying to overturn a request to leave, but apparently some egos struggle with that. That is *their* problem, not mine.
So far every person I have had to ban truly *richly* deserved it. If they are not happy with my decision, I recommend they do two things:
1) take a long hard look at the mirror
2) take their business to one of the innumerable blogs which are not moderated at all
As far as I am concerned, this issue is now closed and I ask everybody to accept my decision. And yes, it is final.
Kind regards
The Saker
Thank you for the reply, points taken.
Cheers, M
thank you Sean!
Kind regards
The Saker
USA trying to seize Grace 1 tanker of Iran that was “arrested ” at Gibralter…..oh boy.
US moves to take Iranian oil tanker from UK: Gibraltar
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/08/15/603592/Gibraltar-Iran-tanker
and further to this Hong Kong has refused requests to visit HK by two US navy ships …
and here’s a good joke … Washington demands an explanation. … oh boy !
Well….the court ruling seems to imply that it has jurisdiction over Iranian oil being delivered to Syria….surely the EU sanctions are only for its own members and its dealings with Syria …I am not sure Iran would agree with that…especially as the release is conditional upon no delivery to Syria….wonder if Iran and or Syria can sue for damages….? Technically was the action piracy?
… read the comments …
Gibraltar releases Iran-operated tanker despite US pressure
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/08/15/603617/Iran-Gibraltar-release-tanker-Grace-1-UK-United-States
The presstitute vermin here call them ‘International sanctions’ as if they come from the UNSC. EU sanctions, to aid their jihadist allies and butchers in slaughtering Syrians, have no jurisdiction over Iran. The arrogance and duplicity of the West know no bounds.
Maybe its not over yet….https://sputniknews.com/world/201908161076562167-gibraltar-iranian-tanker-departure/
I get the feeling Gibralter is trying to wash its hands quickly…..in case USA decides to act independantly seize the ship whilst it it goes en route….faking evidence it is on its way to Syria….Iran has taken over “ownership” of the ship…. so any action by outsiders would then be construed as a direct attack on Iran? Iran denies it made concessions not to deliver to Syria…….
… read the comments …
US slaps crew of Iranian supertanker with visa ban after it set sail from Gibraltar
https://www.rt.com/news/466619-us-visas-iranian-tanker/
How incredibly petty and small-minded – taking aim at the crew – they are crew of ships, simply making a living and earning to support their families – just now they change vessels and have to jump on another ship to earn their income. These people are doing their jobs. Oh man! how mind-numbing stupid can it get? The US has nothing left to sanction, so, they’re sanctioning working people of other countries. Truly breath-taking ignorance and sheer disrespect. Don’t ever believe these people when they tell you they are concerned about the people of Hong Kong, or the people of Venezuela or the people of Iran, or any people because clearly, there is no concern.
I’ll stop now on account of not having energy for a rant lol.
Signs of the Times:
The Chinese have a “black box” at entry points to which they submit visitor’s cell phones, computer etc in order to look for key words. If there is anything on any of these which refers, say, to China in what they presume are derogatory ways ( i.e. the least bit critical or analytical), they will seize the device. So I have devised a code word, the borg, for the CCP dictatorship of the prole-letariat . Let’s see if the phrase “looks the kong will be assimilated by the borg” which I just sent to a friend’s cell phone will pass metaphoric muster the next time he enters borglandia. use no caps–caps attract attention.
Fight against the Machine where ever it raises its head in the world. This fight for humanity can be creative, indeed. For example coin a new English word , “epi-cide” No, that is not overdose by epi-pen…It is when a murder is made to look like a suicide (it could work the other way around I suppose, like in the Agatha Christie story, “And then there were None”)
The Epstein Elimination is the equivalent of ” shot in the back trying to escape” theme but carried to absurd and patronizing extremes.
So we will see many epi cide episodes in the future?
Racist incident in the parking lot.
Yesterday in a parking lot I witnessed a fat, white,middle aged distraught woman totally lose it. She made a bad parking maneuver in which she hit the parked van in the next parking space. Figuring the best defense for the indefensible was a raging offense , she jumped out to bully and berate a very surprised –” But you hit me!”- Asian American young man who had the presence of mind to pull out his cell phone and start recording. Before she backed out and peeled off, She screamed at him gratuitously ” Why don’t you ( his ancient parents were in his vehicle) just go back to where you came from.” Yep, that’s racist.
So when the young clerk from the local Trader Joe’s ( a yuppy type grocery store) and I rushed up to see if he or his parents needed help….he had tears in his eyes…. ” I’ve lived here all my life and no one has said that to me and with my parents right here.”
Two white people …generational differences- exchanged glances and said:
Older one: ” Well, some people just have no class” ( sigh)
The Younger one: ” it is sad when some people make unfortunate choices to act in harmful ways and have to bear the consequences.” ( sniff!)
But we both felt shame and discomfort which was buffered by both of our responses. Maybe our feelings were similar but certainly not as long lasting nor probably as deep as the Asian American young man’s. Racial identity runs deeply unconscious here in looneylandia as well as in its historical memory.
His car was not scratched enough for him to have to wrestle with his insurance company though. And when I checked his parents seemed fine. But the insult’s diluted stench still lingered in the air.
Meanwhile in Philadelphia, someone was shooting cops, terrorizing his neighborhood and live streaming it on Facebook. ( Since he was not a conservative and was killing cops etc., he was not a worthy of a content ban.) The shooter supposedly is on a list not to have a gun –so much for red lists.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/yvonne-lorenzo/washington-plays-russian-roulette/
Very critical and alarming article on bolton et al decision to terminate treaties with Russia. Good quotes from respected analyst martanov: The Russians are preparing for war as a logicand al outcome of this impending arms race.
It is more and more clear that trump does not have a vestige of control over important matters, just his tweeter.
It started in 2002 when Bush the Lesser withdrew from the ABM Treaty, the keystone agreement. You can NEVER trust the Thanatopians,
Forgotten Truth & History
Édouard Drumont – French patriot’s quotes regarding jews
Published on December 27, 2016
https://forgottentruthhistory.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/edouard-drumont-french-patriots-quotes-regarding-jews/
… a suspense movie drama …
Over a dead body two deviant passengers speak of democracy and taking a vote, but Miles the conductor says sternly, “There is no vote and there is no democracy. My train is a dictatorship and I’m the damn dictator.”
Night Train 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqj0dK__eE
I found this beautiful chant on my fav youtube channel and wanted to share it with you. I am thinking about translating them to Norwegian so i can pray in my native tongue. I have received a calling and will soon lift my cross and become a monk. I want to help the victims off the imperial terror and i feel/am powerless to do that were i am now, and i need to atone for my sins and all the dumb shit i have done in the imperial outpost of Norway. I never imagined that my heart would lead me down this path tbh, but i got the answer to my prayers and i will obey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFO2SW-etHk
… A fistful of dollars … Ennio Morricone
… Per un pugno di dollari …
Milano, Teatro Dal Verme – Ars Cantus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lGa6nsdlQ
Upon seeing the visual of a poster of Cardinal Pell with Satan on a wall in Rome.
Cardinal Pell-Satan’s Waiting
The Gates are open, Welcome to Hell!
When you’ll Arrive, well, who can Tell?
Perhaps you’ll sit first in a penitent’s cell
around your neck when millstone first fell
Your soul in Hades, began first to dwell
Yet..
At the true Trial, your final fate will jell.
To the Defense my claims I still must sell.
It’ll be a slam dunk!! Hell will claim Pell!
As the post re moscow protests is a few days old now
MOSCOW, August 16. /TASS/. Mosgortrans (a state-owned company operating public transport in Moscow) along with other organizations have sued the masterminds of protests in support of unregistered candidates for the Moscow State Duma to the total sum of 13 mln rubles (around $197,000), the Moscow City Court’s press service informed TASS on Friday.
“Lawsuits have been filed against Ilya Yashin, Yulia Galyamina, Lyubov Sobol, Ivan Zhdanov, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Milov to the total sum of 13 mln rubles,” the court informed.