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New Flash: Satan withdraws all claims against the Pope…wants him doing his work on Earth
re: RT article 10/21/19
Angered at Pope Francis’ apparent worship of false gods and idols, a crack team of angry Catholics have slipped into a Roman church and made off with a collection of Amazonian statues, before dumping them in the River Tiber.
In a video apparently filmed in the early hours of the morning and posted by Catholic news site LifeSite News, a pair of worshippers rise from the pews of Rome’s Santa Maria in Traspontina Church near St. Peter’s Basilica, remove several carved wooden statues of a topless pregnant woman, proceed outside to the Castel Sant’Angelo, salute a statue of Archangel Michael, and chuck the figurines into the Tiber River below.
Yo Mama!!
In a church not of her Faith
Pachamama has no place
A Wrong two sided has been done
mixing that which never will be one
Confusing the rightful place of each
between two faiths makes a breech
Destroying proper lines in life
which keep fast the social peace
with this great sin of wanton strife
Pope Franics does a loathsome deed
Putting church unity to the knife..
my beloved Beast he does feed.
My man on Earth!!
opportunity is rife
chances there’s no dearth
of dimming the Light.
Rightwing racists posing as ‘Christians’. How uplifting.
Yes, Mumble…Brain? It is now a fight for the 2nd amendment as well as the 2nd Commandment.
As for who is who in Western Christianity, how they operate and how the think—you might want to read the Speech of the Gran Inquisitor in Brothers Karamazov.
Know it well-what has that to do with Rightwing racists expressing their race hatred of the indigenous? Guns and goons, as they say.
More nonsense from Hillary:
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton – 00:06 UTC · Oct 19, 2019
When I was a little girl, I wrote to NASA and told them I dreamed of being an astronaut.
They wrote back and said they weren’t taking girls.
A new generation of little girls watched today’s historic spacewalk. May their dreams of reaching the stars have no bounds.
Oregon Designer @Easycure – 6:40 UTC · Oct 19, 2019
You were born in 1947, NASA wasn’t formed until 1958 and we didn’t have an astronaut in space until until 1962 when you were 15 years old.
You didn’t write a letter to NASA when you were a little girl and you should definitely stop drunk tweeting.
Cheers, Rob
I have often wondered about the following:
Suppose Hillary Clinton – in relation to a particular topic – would actually benefit from telling the truth.
Would she tell the truth or is she characterologically incapable of telling the truth?
Interesting question, I’ve given it some thought.
Now, I’m not a psychologist at all. But I would describe Hyena Rodent Clinton as a sociopath. Lack of conscience, utterly selfish, no responsibility for own actions, pathological liar, and so on.
I wouldn’t exclude it that she would tell the truth if it would give her a high benefit. But, given the huge webs that she has already woven around her I wouldn’t count too much on it. I think even Slick Willy sleeps with one eye open when in the neighbourhood.
Cheers, Rob
Hillary makes it to the oval (padded) office.
https://www.checkpointasia.net/asylum-orderlies-return-hillary-clinton-to-padded-cell-disguised-as-oval-office/
Perhaps NASA could now shoot her off into space?
What did the cosmos do to deserve that?
Videos: MAGA Hat-Wearing Man Sprays Bear Repellent on US Anti-Trump Protesters
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201910211077111908-videos-maga-hat-wearing-man-sprays-bear-repellent-on-us-anti-trump-protesters/
“Video footage of the incident shows Dempsey wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat and spraying the repellent into a crowd at the popular tourist destination.”
Gee, another trumpette having a tantrum because people have different views. What a tremendous shock! The photo at the top of the article shows our hero in action, the maga dunce cap turned around backwards, naturally.
“At one point, he is seen spraying a man on the ground directly in the face as bystanders try to stop him. The video also shows people running away from Dempsey, shouting and coughing. One witness told local outlet KRON4 that a woman started vomiting because of the pepper spray.
In another video, Dempsey can be seen telling police at the site of the incident that he was “attacked” by the anti-Trump demonstrators.
“It’s these “f**king libtards over here, these commies,” he is heard saying to a police officer. “I didn’t do anything.”
Definitely a rush limbaugh disciple, one of the hardcore trumpettes.
“Dempsey was booked on suspicion of illegal use of tear gas, assault with a caustic chemical and parole violations on Saturday, according to the Huffington Post. Jail records at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reveal that Dempsey, who is being held without bail, is due to appear in court Tuesday.”
On parole, eh?
“Court records obtained by the Santa Monica Daily Press reveal that Dempsey was convicted of burglary in 2006 and 2009. He was also convicted of larceny and conspiracy in 2012.”
Ah, a career criminal. A parasite. Typical of the pindo far right.
IMHO if not a lone deranged outlier, most likely it is someone one of the so-called left posing as a trumpette. It’s a signature tactic of Saul Alinsky to dress like the enemy and be a @$$hole.
Ahhh, the fabled ‘Saul Alinsky’, the Emmanuel Goldstein of the MAGAts. I hear that he created Obama in a test-tube, somewhere-straight up.
I rather imagine that he was conceived while his mom was maping kinship diagrams in preparation for the Indonesian genocide.
That’s interesting-tell us more, please.
I based that musing on background provided by Wayne Madsen’s book on Obama :
https://www.globalresearch.ca/review-the-manufacturing-of-a-president-the-cia-s-insertion-of-barack-h-obama-jr-into-the-white-house/31463
Unfortunately the link is more of a blurb promoting a book than an rewiew.
Thanks. I have read a little on Uncle Satan weaponising anthropology, mostly in Afghanistan, but I’m sure it has been used elsewhere. The Indonesian genocide in 1965 was greeted in Washington with delirious delight, and has now been disappeared, or, as with an Austfailian intelligence/military asset of the USA I saw recently on TV, downplayed by 90% in the number of those slaughtered.
Yep, the left vs right divide and conquer idiocy.
The morons will fall for it every time!
Except …not quite every time.
Some people are catching on, studying it more deeply, policing the agent-provocateurs in their midst (both Yellow Vest in France……and Anti-Soros and antiAntifa Deplorable Trumpers in the USA…and stopping people like Dempsey (sometimes …actually, more often than not….Monarch Mind Control CIA assets) before they carry out their assignment as New World Order…………easily profiled nto the ever popular Left vs Right Teams of Miondless, Manipulated Gladiators in the Arena …..as Empire Dupes and Slaves….one and all.
Bro, I enjoyed this .. a very balanced small documentary tracing Brexit and the Rise of the Donald and basically the emotions and thinking underneath there. I thought you would too enjoy it (not only for Bro, I think it is overall good). A few interesting comments in there, and on the whole I agree with the sentiments expressed.
What does make me shiver though, is the concept of the Hegalian Dialectic .. https://www.rooshv.com/what-is-the-hegelian-dialectic
The whole world seemingly is up in arms and so many countries are just bursting into civil action. So, if we’re moving to the :
– antithesis being civil unrest
– from a thesis of understanding more or less what our leaders have done and the situation of humanity
– what on earth will be the eventual synthesis?
Anyhow – enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=afMofYie4Lc
The synthesis is a dead planet thanks to ecological collapse.
Mulga, your (removed insult,MOD) and you’ve missed Hegel’s great work here.
Really, nobody believes your prophesies of planetary doom. And if total planetary doom is in my future, I would rather let the bigger forces do the deed, than a bunch of deranged deplorables in thrall to their masters. But, knowing just a little of the yugas in the spiritual sense, all is well with the world, even though it is not well. Soon we will be out of the Iron Yuga or the Kali Yuga.
Kali Yuga – darkness and ignorance, people lack virtue and become slaves to their passions. People become liars and hypocrites. Real knowledge is lost. The environment is polluted, water and food become scarce. Wealth is heavily diminished. Families become non-existent and so on and on … And we might even freeze our asses. And then slowly, the yuga ends, and we can look forward to a renaissance. But you know, none of us are going to get out of here alive.
A little spiritual sustenance may be the prescription for your doom. Hell’s bells, go drink a belt or something. I’m watching the whole old series of M*A*S*H. A whole lot of fun and if the Americans did not get it then, they’re going struggle to get it now. It was all on the TV screens even back then.
Yeah, nobody you know does, but vast millions of informed and concerned human beings do. I know that you will deny them all, in obeisance to your pseudo-religion, but the planet is warming faster than for 55 million years. Arctic summer sea ice is disappearing, and high latitude ‘amplification’ of temperatures has seen the differential between high and low latitudes reduce, thereby deranging the jet-streams, with calamitous results. The seas are warming, and oceanic heatwaves are wiping coral reefs out, around the world. Sixty percent of large, non-domesticated, animals have disappeared in the last forty years. 95% of large pelagic fish have disappeare. Forests are disappearing, and megafires raging. Permafrost and montane glaciers are rapidly melting, diseases and pest species are spreading to new habitats, insects are disappearing, and methane is erupting from east Siberian seas, and leaking from fracking wells, the definitive death-knell. And you deny ALL this, and much more besides. Truly bizarre.
Wow, this is another trick of the climate change believers. This is to roll all biodiversity issues right into climate change so that they have a big and fully stuffed basket of things that they can call on, rightly or wrongly.
Madly repeating a bunch of talking points with no support whatsoever, in my book, looks like propaganda.
Sorry for the length of this and apologies if something I said looked like insult. That was not meant to be. I can get colorful for sure, but this is more serious.
Let me give you a few quotes on the discussion of the last Biodiversity report – the one that left me totally underwhelmed and I probably actually called it sh!t. The commentary is now in from various stakeholders and it turns out it is fairly sh!tty.
– This report btw, clearly stated that habitat loss is the problem, and there is no evidence whatsoever that warming is causing species extinctions, but habitat loss is. Overfishing is a problem. Reefs and estuaries (where most fish breed – the large ones as well) must be protected. New to us in our world is that reefs do recover or regrow if left to their own devices. We did not know this a hundred years ago. Extinctions also took place in various forms right through the existence of our very old earth.
Anyone seen a Woolly Mammoth or a Dodo Bird lately?
This is quite fun to read about extinct animals – https://www.adventurealternative.com/adventure-blog/friends-of-the-past/
– Secondly, what is not reported in this list of talking points is that there was such an outcry after the summary of this report was published, that the IPCC itself apologized for ‘bad writing’, and could not confirm most of their statements.
– The IPCC reports are not descriptions of climate change or of biodiversity, but they are documents that are negotiated politically. This process is outlined at the end of this too long essay.
– There is much evidence that the extinction threat is being overhyped. Everywhere I look, I find evidence of people working to ameliorate this threat. Our larger earth community is standing together, setting aside land for animals and wilding land. Here is what I consider miraculous – you’ll probably cry if you have a heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvwHHMEDdT0
– My problem with this climate change issue, is that it is being used to not only create a new product (i.e., carbon credits) for the elite to sell, but that the infrastructure for that is not positive for human kind and a carbon credit does not exist. It is a derivative. In fact, it stinks.
– Further, there are no solutions posited by the propagandists, only that we have to revert to something like cave dwellers, but, personally, none of them are doing that.
– Never ever do they talk about the financial and economic aspects. David Suzuki, the so-called icon from Canada laughs and says he does just what he wants to do, he just buys a few more carbon credits. What we learn here, is that the rich is slated for survival and there is no will among these people to actually go on their knees and plant a tree. It is business as usual and this process is designed to impoverish you and me. The process, not the climate. At the end of this, there is a description of how this actually works. It is not science.
I have no problem with working hard to to get and then keep our earth in a pristine condition. In fact, from a permaculture concept, all the permaculturists that I know, keep some land for wilding. We do that as well and use a fraction only of our land. A reminder, I was the one that reported here on the rewilding of Chernobyl and how rare animals and habitat that is healthy, is recovering there. So, to call me a denialist will now and in future be considered an insult.
– This is also a characteristic of the climate change bunch. One is not allowed to research, you must blindly believe. One is not allowed to dig into any one or more aspects, and you will be insulted. You have to buy and fully believe the whole kit and caboodle and stick yourself to something with superglue or climb a train and inconvenience everyone else around you. But those that work continuously, those are the deniers. It is an insult.
Let me state now here clearly. There are many problems on our earth and it behooves each and every one of us to study these, and understand what is happening and as an earth community we need to take intelligent action that we understand. We understand what planting trees produce. That is why many countries, notably India and China, are doing just that in massive scale. For China at least it means giving up massive swaths of productive food growing land, and changing their food production to do more with less and using technology very cleverly to produce food. If you go and research this, it is kinda miraculous what these people are doing.
– We need to work for the peace, which is a word that never passes the lips of the climate change propagandists. There never is one word said about war, and that kind of destruction. Never ever.
– The climate change propagandists talk around their own talking points exclusively. They would drop a bunch of propaganda statements like we saw here, and never ever give any proof or any support for their propaganda. Because they say it is so, you must believe it is so, otherwise you are a denier.
A few comments from the discussion of the latest Biodiversity IPCC report – The US House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife held a hearing on Responding to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Wrightstone added; “In an incredibly ironic twist that poses a difficult conundrum for those who are intent on saving the planet from our carbon dioxide excesses, the new study reports that the number one cause of predicted extinctions is habitat loss. Yet their solution is to pave over vast stretches of land for industrial-scale solar factories and to construct immense wind factories that will cover forests and grasslands, killing the endangered birds and other species they claim to want to save.” (JC BOLD)
Analyst Kenneth Richard: “During the last few hundred years, species extinctions primarily occurred due to habitat loss and predator introduction on islands. Extinctions have not been linked to a warming climate or higher CO2 levels. In fact, since the 1870s, species extinction rates have been plummeting.” – “No clear link between mass extinctions and CO2-induced or sudden-onset warming events.”
NY Times Andrew Revkin: UN IPCC Claims About Extinction ‘confusing’ — NYT: UN IPCC Scientists “acknowledge there was inconsistency and flawed writing’ in extinction section – ‘In the Summary for Policy Makers of the report on climate impacts, there are different summations of extinction risk within a few pages.”
Anyway, there are many more. From here, you can wend your way to the individual testimonies if you do not like the site itself.
https://judithcurry.com/2019/05/22/hearing-on-the-un-biodiversity-report/#more-24890
There is zero evidence today that species extinction is as a result of warming. There is also 0 evidence that the extinction rates are as you state them Mulga. There is also 0 evidence that we actually know all the species on our earth … we don’t even know that – we know but a fraction. It is also never stated how many new species are discovered every year on our planet. I grew up in the wilds and to me I will fight the hunters if it is wild and uncontrolled hunting. But then again, hunters do a lot for species protection as they want to take a deer or two home to their families during season. Some are crazy with spittle flecked moustaches and shoot whatever moves. Yet, in large portions of Africa for example, the game farms work against extinction of large animals, in order to give a portion of that to the hunters. I hate hunting. But that does not mean I’m going to glue myself to a train.
It looks to me like you’re mindlessly repeating all the talking points Mulga, but there is no followup and most of the ones that you mentioned, were not supported in the IPCC Biodiversity report. We have to seek a balanced view and make decisions from deep intelligence and knowledge. Species extinction by the IPCC itself, is as a result of habitat loss, not warming. Reefs recover and new ones grow. It is a natural process. It is really only a few years that we’ve been studying reefs intensively, and this is as a result of the popularity of diving and snorkling, i.e., tourism. Tourism started the reef protection efforts and it is while sailing that I learned about this.
We actually know very little. What we need is more education, proper education and proper understanding of the massive cyclical nature of our earth in its solar system, as well as the millions of creatures beside man, that live on this earth with us. Propaganda is not going to do it but deep education in a community of earth dwellers where few know that eggs come from chickens and milk from cows – to actually do something real on our planet. Everyone should spend some time on permaculture farms. Max Igan some time ago suggested that every person born on this earth should be given a piece of land that may not be sold, but must be developed according to permaculture processes.
Today (and this is just a crazy example and illustration only as carrying capacity and water is not figured in), we can host just about the whole world in Australia alone, with 768 685 000 hectares of land. Too many people? I don’t think so. Too many people penned up as livestock with no idea of a natural environment, yes.
It is time we look at what is being done instead of propagandizing talking points.
The actual process of IPCC reports work like this:
Canadian UN expert Donna Laframboise, who has written several books on the biased UN “scientific” process, explains how this new species report was crafted behind the scenes:
“[The UN] draft a summary known as the Summary for Policymakers (SPM). Then politicians and bureaucrats representing national governments attend a plenary meeting where the summary gets examined line-by-line and rewritten…But it gets worse. Over the next few weeks, the text being summarized – the underlying, ostensibly scientific document – will also get changed. That’s not how things normally work, of course. Summaries are supposed to be accurate reflections of longer documents. At the UN, they represent an opportunity to alter those documents, to make them fall into line…This is no sober scientific body, which examines multiple perspectives, and considers alternative hypotheses. The job of the IPBES is to muster only one kind of evidence, the kind that promotes UN environmental treaties.”
“That’s how the United Nations works, folks. Machinations in the shadows. Camouflaging its political aspirations by dressing them up in 1,800 pages of scientific clothing.”
These politicized summaries are where propagandists are taking their talking points from. No wonder they never give any solid explanation of understanding, as most of them just do not dive into it, and check it out. They may understand on other levels the evils of government, but in this case, they buy hook line and sinker what UN government tells them to say. In my view, these are short-term thinkers and are exceedingly disrespectful to all on our earth and do not understand the vast history and the cyclical nature of this blue marble that we live on. They also do not even seek understanding. They just want things right now!
“The synthesis is a dead planet….”….???
Bullocks!
I don’t think so at all. Although a great many minds are certainly being deadened by such poisonous pessimism…hatched by the Empire Oligarchy..…….to the point that all thinking…all effort to innovate and meet ALL the challenges of modern existence ……….simply horrifies and offends the poor, humorless, tortured victims and mental casualties of the Empire Extinction Propaganda.
Because it IS their propaganda, Mulga. Not yours. And Certainly not Putin’s or Xi’s….or even Trumps! LOL.
Think about that for more than 2 seconds. Could YOU be the odd man out amongst those 3 persons ….none of which are sickened by the extinction poison you have imbibed???
Then how is your poisoning even going to help the first two of those three…even as you join Kathy Griffin, vot tak, Robert Deniro, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan and their British Masters in wishing death on the last of those three????
Because being Anti-Orangeman ….as well as anti-90% of the populations of their nations even existing……I doubt will qualify you, with your current morally muddled baggage….to count as a valuable ally.
I think, far more happily, than you ……that the natural ordering of the Universe is further richness, further complexity, further order, further creativity, further solutions to complex problems………..if the mind is not corrupted and deadened by pessimism….to the point that people like yourself and “Infinity and Beyond” shameless promoter of the elimination of the vast bulk of humankind…………the ironically named “Infinity and Beyond” deigns to allow 50 million of us to …………. Live???……or turn the clock back probably at least 10,000 years:
/western-central-bankers-theyre-god-they-trust-a-10-part-series-on-the-qe-economy/#comment-711906
Does he (“Infinity”)imagine that by falling for such tripe “they” will include him (or her?) in those Few Lucky Ones To Be Spared …by the Georgia Guidestones …that snatched his mind out of his body?
Do you??
It’s such mental and moral collapse that is much more the real threat………….the persistent inability amongst growing legions of persons victimized by the oligarchy’s several centuries of cultural warfare against civilization to come even remotely close to …….”the ability to apply prior learning to the effect of discovering, promptly, appropriate constructions of relevant solutions to unfamiliar problems.”
It’s not entirely your fault that you are currently flunking The Test That We Are All Taking Right Now…on all but expressing distaste for the Empire….while imbibing its Poisonous Nihilist Propaganda.
You were targetted by a very persistent attack. …which left you devoid of creativity, humor, irony …and Metaphor.
A subject I’d like to return to later today, Cafe Poets, time permitting!
Meanwhile, you can join “Infinity of Pessimism” and dutifully to oligarchy produce and distribute thousands, millions more Suicide Pills…for purposes of helping “the planet” Eliminate Their Useless Eaters.. keep repeating your Death Mantra ….or wake up and decide to “get well”.
And get even with the mind benders that turned yours against itself…and your entire species.
Cheers!
The evidence of global ecological collapse is irrefutable, yet the denialist cult denies it all, and raves on with paranoid delusions of vast conspiracies by the very global elites who created and finance the denialist industries. If it was not so hideous that denialism makes the mass extermination of Life on Earth that much more probable, you’d laugh your head off at the malicious imbecility of it all.
Like I said, check that with Putin and Xi.
You know more than them??
Now, that’s a real “knee slapper” trigger for uncontrolled laughter…..if your answer is:
“Yes, I do know more than those deluded Denialists, Putin…and Xi.”
In fact, I am already grinning broadly in anticipation of your Holier Than Thou…nihilistic absurdity…..almost daily…if not in every single thread.
Keep’em coming, for surely Laughter Is The Best Medicine……….but He Who Cannot Laugh Even At Himself…..is just sad!
As is He Who Cannot Appreciate Irony…..or Metaphor.
Which I did not get around to this Cafe. Maybe next one!
Xi a denialist??!! Ludicrous, to be polite.
One might hope that he will get the opportunity, one day, to use his ‘bear repellent’ on a real bear, Kodiak brown preferably, and see how well it works.
Ever encounter a bear? We have some that live on our property. Very polite, they don’t bother us, they don’t like humans, unless you befriend one. Lots of youtube vids of old ladys chasing bears with brooms. Never use pepper spray…….unless it’s a right wing antifa thug, the Bear, he’ll just take the can off you and beat you over the head with it.
Last year a Russian aviator, trapped on an ice sheet (they still exist) terrified four Polar Bears all by himself. The bears were finally saved when a Russian SAR unit took the aviator away. Great story btw, someone should make a movie.
Yes, ice-sheets still do exist, but they are melting rapidly, everywhere on Earth (with a very few, small, exceptions, which will almost certainly prove temporary) including The Big One-East Antarctica. As for brown bears, I believe they have a sense of smell 1400 or so times better than ours, can climb trees and run faster than Usain Bolt, and are best left in peace.
Russia’s SPFS Alternative Payment Network Enters International Markets
https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russias-spfs-alternative-payment-network-enters-international-markets.html/
“Russia’s System For Transfer Of Financial Messages (SPFS) has gone global this week with the introduction of the system into banks in the Eurasian Economic Union. SPFS is an alternative to the US backed SWIFT network of financial transactions, which has been used in the past to cut countries that do not follow US trade or political policy from making global transactions. Russia, Iran and several other countries have been targeted in this way to damage their ability to trade and remit money internationally.
Last month, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Iran was one of Russia’s partners, and that the two countries were working on ways to link Russia’s SPFS and Iran’s SEPAM, a Persian acronym for that country’s own homegrown electronic financial messaging system.
The next stage for the SPFS system is to expand its reach and begin to compete with SWIFT. How much it is able to win ground from SWIFT depends partially on future US policy and any additional actions it could make in the future to block other countries from using it. There have on occasion been some worrying actions on behalf of the United States.
One example concerns a small business transaction – Danish newspaper Berlingske reporting that US authorities have sufficient control over SWIFT to seize money being transferred between two European Union (EU) countries (Denmark and Germany), since they succeeded in seizing around US$26,000 that was being transferred from a Danish businessman to a German bank. The transaction was automatically routed through the US, possibly because of the USD currency used in the transaction, which is how the United States was able to seize the funds. The money was a payment for a batch of Cuban Cigars previously imported to Germany by a German supplier. As justification for the seizure, the U.S. Treasury stated that the Danish businessman had violated the US Embargo against Cuba. Should petty incidents like this occur again then the credibility of SWIFT could be further damaged.”
That shows how drama queen petty the freakshow running the usa actually is. And how totalitarian and essentially outlaw. This is the american right, not just the zionazis, but the rightwing american establishment that predates the israeli take over, as well.
With good luck and a fair wind Russia could become the centre of the new Capitalist world.
God willing.
An electronic payments network has nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with paying vendors and sending money to other countries.
Now SWIFT’s ability to claim money for themselves that is not their money is hampered in a large part of the world. I am very happy to see that the new payment networks are coming into operation. China, get yours operational as well asap please. I use a SWIFT method of transferring money to another country regularly, and it is utter hell.
Of course, these kinds of SWIFT predatory actions are now focused on the smaller business, as they simply cannot focus on larger enterprise because those financial crimes they protect. The little guy, the guy that buys cigars from Cuba to run his business, that is the type of thing that they now focus on.
These new payment networks will take the teeth out of the empire’s ability to raid others and steal and plunder. Goodbye the sting and stench of sanctions. Hallo and welcome to free trade and multi-polarity.
It’s NOT the ‘US’ Treasury-it is the Zionazi Treasury, openly run and controlled by ‘dual loyalty’ sayanim.
The day in court for Julian Assange. It is really upsetting. Here Craig Murray outlines what happened yesterday.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/
Yes, I noted the same article-this evil is sickening, it is happening before the world without anyone in charge rising up to shout outrage.
This is western “democracy” and western “values” on full and open display.
FWIW, I have noted more frequently of recent time a number of articles outlining the outrage at the extent of evil present in government and elite oligarchy machinations-no other way to describe it, not incompetence, not mistaken intentions, just pure unadulterated intentional evil amongst the powers that be.
Examples:
https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
(Hannah Arendt=Banality of Evil
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-age-of-radical-evil/
The dishartening aspect is that it continues and continues with the press enablers, the sanctimonious politicos, doing nothing but standing by in silence or actually endorsing the evil, as in this case with Assange.
Amarynth/Taras
Julian Assange is in court again facing extradition proceedings to enable the US to finish the job that the British have begun…namely the slow painful killing of the most important and courageous whistleblower/journalist of all time.
Welcome to dystopia and Orwellian times folks, we have officially arrived. The West now rewards despicable mass murderers like Bush, Blair, HRC, and Obomber and yet locks up or kills the heroes that expose their massive killing sprees.
IMHO the demise of Assange is the most monumentally disgraceful affront to free speech and honest journalism in history. The lack of action on the part of the Australian Govt is particularly disgraceful. Trump allowing this farce to proceed is obscene in the extreme and absolutely underlines what a backstabbing reckless baffoon he is.
NZ is not a lot better…the apathy here is a disgrace. The average person is not even sure of who Asaange is, let alone the disgraceful circumstances of his incarceration.
Truly troubling times
Col.
Col, the Austfailian regime, being Evil, incompetent, sadistic, vicious, imbecile and pig ignorant, is incapable of ‘disgraceful’ actions, as if some aberration, if only because its every action is an affront to humanity, morality and decency.
At long last there seems to be some attempt to help Julian from the Aussie parliament …….
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/eleven-mps-form-group-to-advocate-for-julian-assange-s-return-to-australia-20191023-p533ho.html
Again: Assange and Manning can testify what awaits anyone being serious about confronting the Empire from within. Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely nothing of the sort.
Heather Mac Donald On How The Delusion of Diversity Destroys Our Common Humanity
And Open-Minded Curiosity
April 22, 2019
Is the dedication to diversity undermining American culture? In her book The Diversity Delusion, Heather
Mac Donald argues that the focus on race and gender diversity is harming society. Mac Donald and Peter Robinson discuss how she was protested off of school campuses by students because of her ideas. They
discuss the collapse of free-speech ideals on college campuses in the United States and how the
dedication to diversity doesn’t extend to a diversity of thought.
https://www.hoover.org/research/heather-mac-donald-how-delusion-diversity-destroys-our-common-humanity-and-open-minded
What really destroys ‘our common humanity’ is capitalism and the rule of capitalists. The diversity and Identity movements are just ‘Divide and Rule’ policies of the ruling capitalist elites.
Has Putin Been Keeping a Grudge All This Time? Nose Got Broken During Boxing Match!
2019/10/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S__1msWW8jI
On November 10th, in Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.
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Putin Keeps Iron Grip On Far East Governors! President Won’t Let Them Weasel Out Of Their Duties! .
2019/10/21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_tMcCpIJT8
Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin held yet another, though not the final meeting on dealing with the consequences of the floods.
Azorka, you should have pointed at the 6:50 in the first video. Excellent moment.
This event is generally kept quiet as Soros’ and Germany’s gang received a huge slap on the face. The event is the rejection of the entry application to EU by Skopje (FYROM) (I refuse to use other names) by France, Holland and Belgium. Zajev was so sure to be accepted, he offered to resign if he gets refused the entry to EU. Well, he hasn’t resigned yet but Skopje is going to face election in April, which is the result of that rejection. Also, Skopje is facing a real thread of dissolution, because Albanians, who supported Zajev may start the drive for Greater Albania. Karma is a bitch, isn’t it?
Self-aggrandizement at others’ misfortune is a curious human trait. Theft of name Macedonia, aided and abetted by Soros and co., is on karmic slate of Greece.
“… Albanians, who supported Zaev may start the drive for Greater Albania…” If you know the Balkans you would know that Albanians do nothing of their own volition. Greater Albania is supported predominantly by all Balkan politicians who are on US payroll. Prevention/end of Greater Albania will come when sovereignity returns to Balkan states ( when US hegemon is past ), not before. Albanian ego is out of control due to US stoking of that very same ego.
As for the name theft; there cannot be any legality as it was a US installed ‘Hunta govt.’ who achieved it against wishes of Macedonian population. It is legally null and void, as it was against international law, Macedonian Constitution etc. etc.
Albanians have a long history of ethnically cleansing and pushing others out. A Catholic bishop, based in Skopje in the late 1700’s to early 1800’s witnessed Albanians pouring down from the mountains in Albania into Kosovo and quickly changing their religion (Catholic) to Islam to secure privileges from the Turks, and then they would attack the Serbs there for supposedly disobeying Turkish rules.
The Albanians made Kosovo unsafe for travel as they would attack people along the roads by rolling boulders down the hillsides/mountains or creating some obstacle, then they’d set upon the travelers and rob and kill them.
They have a history of violent and sadistic rulers too.
That they are much weaker without foreign backing doesn’t excuse their own opportunistic and greedy moves.
https://republika/mk/hronika-na-najavenata-smrt-na-imeto/
The idea of Greater Albania, along with Megali Idea ( Greater Greece ), Greater Bulgaria and Greater Serbia are all ideas promoted by the rulers/religious elites of these respective countries. However, in the above document, large pdf format, there are countless maps of Historic Macedonia in it’s rightful geographic and ethnic boundaries, which, unlike the aforementioned countries, was actual, historic reality. I’ve pointed out that Macedonia has been encroached upon with portions of her territory and cultural lagacy stolen from aforementioned countries and this is supported by these maps, many in possession and known in the West, by those – US/EU, now supporting fascist agendas like those entertianed by Albania, Bulgaria and Greece.
My point being, that whereas, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria have maps of expansionist versions of their countries, ie; where they would like their borders to be, Macedonia is the only country that actually was larger than it actually is today. If it weren’t so, how could there be so many maps of a country that seemingly never existed, according to Greeks, Bulgars etc?
But it was still Serbian, Greek and Bulgarian troops who pushed the Ottomans out of Macedonia. Macedonia didn’t have its own army and couldn’t clear itself from the Ottomans.
“But it was still Serbian, Greek and Bulgarian troops who pushed the Ottomans out of Macedonia…” to divide Macedonia up amongst themselves. Macedonian people survived 500 years of Ottoman occuation, intact. Yet it’s doubtful that they will survive a 100 years at the hands of “Orthodox Brothers”, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, and Albanians ( Albs. in region only took up Muslim faith during Ottoman times… )
Well, guys below, no matter what you say it looks like Kosovo situation is heating up, and if it does you hang on to your chairs as well. This fellow says that Russia is sending S-400 to Serbia and I would not be surprised if other toys are on their way as well.
EurasiaHeadline NewsRussia
MAJOR: Russia Deploys S-400 and Pantsir to Serbia (VIDEO)
https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/10/major-russia-deploys-s-400-and-pantsir-to-serbia-video/
Some Greek analysts ventured to say that Greater Albania is almost a done deal, and not thanks to Greeks look at uncle Sam.
BTW, Μεγάλη Ιδέα is not about you guys it’s about recovering our Ionia with Konstantinople and Pontos from the Turks. Mind you Turks have opposite plans. But enjoy someones dreams:
Σενάριο Πολέμου: Ελλάς vs Τουρκία – War Scenario: Greece vs Turkey 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgbWyZIswDY
Well, we lost the war in 1922, because the West cut off all the funds and Greece run out of ammo.
Then Prince Alexandros (father of Prince Philip) was scapegoated and executed.
There is a Turkish video, which supposedly comes from Turkish Airlines and Greece is nowhere in sight.
BTW, Albanians are Greeks, like it or not.
VESTi Exclusive: Turkey Outsmarted! Alliance Between SAA and Kurds Prevents Turkish Invasion!
2019/10/21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcozz_e3Piw
Squads of Syrian militants, which are led by the Turkish military, are pushing soldiers of Kurdish groups
out of urban quarters. It’s the former so-called Free Syrian Army. After rebranding, it’s the National Syrian
Army – an illegal militant group; it consists of obvious Idlib radicals and also of the allegedly moderate
armed opposition. The group is sponsored and supported by Ankara; the militants are coordinated by
Turkish intelligence agencies. In general, it’s a Turkish proxy, as people say now, who fight when
necessary against both Syria’s government forces and Kurdish groups.
The German BND intelligence organ (the old Gehlen Group) told Merkel in 2012-‘The FSA is al-Qaeda’. Yet NO Western fakestream media lying, verminous, presstitute dares ever state that truth. They are, in my very firm opinion, complicit before, during and after the fact in all these jihadist vermin’s crimes against humanity.
And Fraulein Angela exclaimed: “Das Ist Wunderbar!”
Most of the Alt-Media in the USA also finally caught up to German Intelligence services……….several years later, so why so glum??
Better late than never!
Disgraceful! US Troops Pelted With Tomatoes and Stones By Noble Kurd Allies During
Retreat! – 2019/10/22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXBAjXYlLog
Today, a large American troop convoy with almost 100 armored vehicles left northeastern
Syria. The USA will withdraw more than 1,000 servicemen from Syria to Iraq by the end of
the week. Only 200 soldiers will stay in Syria to guard oil fields belonging to US-based
companies.
The truth behind US giving up Syria & Turkey to Russia – 2019/10//21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9rywXfNYak
Turkey does not look at Syrian territory: Erdogan | English speaking and subtitles
21/10/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqsGOOwsz5U
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech at the TRT World Forum in
Istanbul that the military offensive in Syria was not land grabbing.
Interesting article on Mauritius-Russia and Russia-Africa relations.
President of Mauritius Keen to Discuss Bilateral Ties With Putin at Russia-Africa Forum
https://sputniknews.com/africa/201910221077115658-president-of-mauritius-keen-to-discuss-bilateral-ties-with-putin-at-russia-africa-forum/
“The inaugural Russia-Africa summit and business forum, co-chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Sisi, is scheduled for 23-24 October in Russia’s Sochi. There will be 54 African nations taking part in the Summit, with 43 of them represented by their heads of state or governments.”
Will be a big time in mundo’s circle of fate, mirroring ‘our’ unconscious
great collective man/woman. Sun enters Scorpio =the ability, not to
eat one’s baby, family, tribe, when hungry, an ability reaching until the
sacrifice of Russian Soldiers whose chance 1942 in Stalingrad to survive was about 24 h.
Half a year later at the salient of Kursk, Red Tank-drivers readiness for death prevailed over
Hitlers Tigers.
Mother Russia, the cradle of man.
Well, Sun = heart in Scorpio = the room of waiver … and coincidentally Wednesday/
Thursday
uniting with the hoary meeting of SATURN7 JUPITER
in 8,8° SCORPIO hence ‘Kingsconjunktion’ for about 800 years in and for the
element water (next 2157) = feeling.
‘Water’ signifies the qualities of the floating quarter of and in us, on the level
of matter, soul and spirit.
How incredible apt is Mother Russia’ s Vladimir Vladimirow’ s Conference with
the Black Continent , cradle of our music, dance and joys of the body and of our
sins of 500 years.
Moon = she-man travels Leo and Virgo and ‘Mother Russia’ is a respectful
man.
Ok. You can have the visibility of all this in mundo’s weekly
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/10/on-ladder-of-time.html
Transit only: US troops pulled out of Syria & moved to Iraq are now asked OUT of the country
https://www.rt.com/news/471525-esper-us-troops-syria-iraq/
” US forces that crossed into Iraq after pulling out from Syria can only use its territory for transit and do not have permission to stay, the Iraqi military said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of military vehicles carrying American troops crossed into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq in a long convoy on Monday.”
Appears israel’s proxies forces are not wanted in Iraq, either… :-D
It would seem that Iraq – being a sovereign nation – has the absolute right to forbid US troops on their soil. But, notwithstanding that, a spokesman for the Pentagon just issued a statement saying that the issue has not been decided yet.
Well, if Iraq doesn’t decide the issue, then who does?
I wonder how the New York Times will spin this. Just how do you get around that fact that Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Actually, I fear how the New York Times will handle this. It is starting to spook me how the Corporate Media can say absolutely anything that the want and just get away with it – no matter how self contradictory it might be.
You are living in a miltary corporate dictatorship covered by a tough but micron thin veneer of narrative controlled freedom.
The pentagon decided, to not tell the American public, yet. This means officially they have not been kicked out, but figuratively they are being kicked out.
Its not official until they have an official response at the ready, which, being the slow pokes on defense they are, is completely understandable, once you understand how the military works.
Yes, I know. But how long can this go on before people start seeing it for what it is?
I really don’t think it can go on much longer.
Mike, no offence intended, but you are now just getting spooked by the US corporate media? Those of us on this side of the cage have been freaked since Colan Bowel waved a vile of coke in front of the cameras, and started a war. Worse than Clinton’s Blow Job war. Yes, coke is a weapon of mass destruction, but it’s usually self inflicted. Your corporate media is CIA controlled. Rule of thumb for those on the outside, ‘everything coming from US Five Eye media is the opposite of the truth.’
No offense taken.
It just seems that the powers-that-be are getting more and more outrageous. And since I grew up valuing honestly, I constantly find myself feeling like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights. I keep asking myself, can this really be happening.
How much crazier can it get?
The sea change is happening. Look, what the zodiac tells:
1. on ‘the deal’ – the transits on the three major players – now my reading
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/10/1092019-transits-on-three-players.html
2. Sea change on the planet in four days, happening in Syria – and the miracles of ‘times of the elements’
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/10/sea-change-in-syria.html
It’s never too late to receive an enhanced vision
Key Highlights From Putin-Erdogan Talks, Joint Memorandum on Situation in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/world/201910221077116176-key-highlights-from-putin-erdogan-talks-as-they-discuss-situation-in-syria/
“In the presser that followed the talks between the Russian and Turkish presidents on Syria, Vladimir Putin stated that foreign forces currently deployed unlawfully in the Arab Republic must leave in order for the country to return to stability. He added that Turkey shares this vision, as well as that the idea that the Arab Republic’s integrity must be preserved.
Separately, he advocated that the Syrian government and Kurdish forces need to hold broad talks in order to take into account the interests of all the religious confessions that exist in the country. Putin noted that Russia shares Turkey’s concerns about separatist sentiments in Syria, which, as the Russian president said, have been stimulated from outside the country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed in this regard that the implementation of the joint memorandum, signed by the two presidents as a result of the talks, will undermine “any separatist games” being conducted on Syrian territory.
The two presidents have reached an agreement that the Turkish military operation in Syria will be limited to a distance of within 30 kilometres from the Turkish-Syrian border. Moscow will send military police, while Damascus will send border guards in order to ensure the removal of YPG forces and their weapons up to a “depth of 30 kilometres away from the border”. The operation needs to be completed within a timeframe of 150 hours.
After YPG forces are removed, Turkey and Russia will organise joint patrols to the east and west of Ankara’s military operation, covering a 10-kilometre wide zone, with the exception of Qamishli city.
At the same time, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated in the wake of the Sochi meeting that the US, which is currently withdrawing its troops from northern Syria according to its agreements with Turkey, has to fulfil all of its obligations in Syria within 1 hour and 31 minutes. (Shoigu strikes again :-D ) Shoigu added that Erdogan and Putin didn’t discuss how long the Turkish forces will stay in the zone comprising Operation Peace Spring in Syria.”
RT provides additional info. I recomend reading both the Sputnik and RT articles at their respective sites and also the additional material linked to in each of these articles.
Russian & Syrian forces to deploy to northeastern Syria outside Turkey operation zone – Putin-Erdogan agreement
https://www.rt.com/news/471529-putin-erdogan-sochi-talks/
“US stance on Syria too ‘fluid & contradictory’ to listen to
The Turkish-Russian memorandum mostly covers the same region and the same issue as the deal reached between Ankara and Washington five days ago. Still, the US and its “ceasefire” were barely mentioned by the top officials after Tuesday’s Sochi talks.The reason behind that was summed up by Russia’s foreign minister.
”We do not particularly look at the United States and its stance. That stance is quite variable and contradictory, and of course, the coalition led by the United States is in Syria illegally, this is well known,” Lavrov told reporters.”
As the troops were leaving Syria they were spotted flying the American flag upside down, according to answers.com this is a sign of distress, it can mean a lot of different things to different people but universally it is considered a desecration.
https://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_it_mean_when_the_flag_is_flown_upside_down
Now on the other hand it may just be a group of rebel bandits redefining what new fangled interpretation they want apply to their direct disposition, This flag flying incident could be the military’s response to their new bosses decision.
https://www.salon.com/2017/07/03/an-act-of-true-patriotism-fly-the-american-flag-upside-down-this-fourth-of-july/
Patriarch Kirill Warns That US Agents Working Overtime to Create Schism in Orthodox Church!
2019/10/21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9_0ZIoJ8A
On Friday, the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow hosted the opening of the 23rd World-wide Rus-
sian People’s Convocation. The plenary meeting was moderated by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Kirill. The topic is “Saving the Nation is the Present and Future of Russia”. It’s no wonder that, at the
same time, the Church of Greece’s position on the Ukrainian dissidents became another highlight of the convocation.
Irrelevant CIA-Controlled Patriarch of Istanbul Triggers Schism Among Orthodox Christians
2018/09/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNYDLxrm3s
Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow Cyril’s Visit to Mount Athos – 2016/06/02
x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JglXa6xns
His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Cyril I visited giant monastery of saint Pantelejmon’s at
the Holy Mountain Athos in Greece, to mark 1000th anniversary of Russian presence at Athos. President
of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin also was present to honor this great anniversary of this great
spiritual center for the Russian Orthodox People.
Crosstalk Bullhorns: Ukraine sinks – 2019/10/21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_hqUSDbxkQ
Do elections mean anything anymore? Well, ask the Ukrainians. They have a new president and
a new parliament. But change comes slowly, if at all in Ukraine. Corruption and neo-Nazis block
the way forward.
ioan
Please check your email :-)
Intelligent Stupidity
Posted By Julius Evola On May 23, 2016
André Martins de Barros, The Scholar [1]
André Martins de Barros, The Scholar
Translated by G. A. Malvicini
The term “intelligent stupidity” was coined by a distinguished representative of traditional thought, F. Schuon (although G. Bernanos had already used an analogous expression, l’intelligence des sots, and another Frenchman had written that “le drame de notre temps, c’est que la bêtise se soit mise à penser” [the drama of our time is that stupidity has started thinking]), to characterize a form of intellectuality that has come to dominate large sectors of modern culture, and which is strongly represented in Italy. This intellectuality proliferates in the margins of journalism — that scourge of our time — and the literary genre of the essay. The “cultural section” of the big newspapers is one of its main centers of dissemination, and it is exercised primarily in the field of so-called “criticism.”
The main characteristic of “intelligent stupidity” is the absence of principles, of interests in higher matters, and of genuine commitment, while its supreme concern is to be “brilliant” and “original,” attaching great importance to slick and professional “good writing,” to everything that is form and not substance, to esprit in the frivolous and urbane French sense. For the representatives of this “intelligentsia,” the brilliant sentence, the dialectical and polemical statement, have much more value than truth. Ideas, when these people make use of them, are only a pretext; the important thing is to be brilliant, to appear to be extremely intelligent — in the same way that for the politician today, the party ideology is merely a means of building a career. The “vanity fair,” the shabbiest subjectivism, often outright narcissism, are essential components of this phenomenon, and when these cliques of intellectuals take on an urbane tinge (in literary “salons” and cultural associations), this aspect becomes even more apparent. Whoever it was that said that “of all kinds of stupidity, the most annoying kind is the stupidity of intelligent people,” undeniably had a point. When, in analyzing a person down to his very core, we discover that this person is a non-entity, it would really be better if he were not also intelligent.
However, the matter cannot be reduced to the annoyance these scribblers cause; we must emphasize their perniciousness, since “intelligent stupidity” is remarkably organized, especially in contemporary Italy. It is a kind of freemasonry, implanted in various circles, holding practically all the key positions in publishing, wherever these are not already occupied and controlled by Leftist elements. Its representatives have a highly developed instinct when it comes to immediately recognizing anyone who is of a different nature, and promptly ostracizing them.
The-librarian-andre-martins-de-barros [2]We could adduce a trivial but significant example from the present time. There is a group of intellectuals gathered around a fairly well-produced and widely distributed journal [Il Borghese, a post-war Right-wing journal]. It presents itself as anti-conformist, and likes to criticize the political regime and contemporary mores. But the editors of this journal were careful to avoid contact with the few authors who could have provided it, had it had serious intentions, with a positive foundation in terms of principles and a traditional worldview. These authors are as ignored and ostracized by them as by the Leftist press, precisely because that group feels that they are men of a different type.
This clearly shows that this brilliant anti-conformism is just a means of getting attention and of “dazzling,” while everything really remains at the level of dilettantism. Moreover, the founder of the magazine in question, who died a few years ago, once stated baldly that if a different political regime were in existence today, he would probably have switched camps, just in order to still be part of the “opposition” — with the same goal, of course, of being “brilliant” and showing off his “intelligence.” The group of intellectuals we referred to willingly opened itself to a few people who had shown, initially, a feeling for superior ideas and values, but who then put them aside, so as to better be able to market whatever talent for writing they had. Thus, renouncing all intransigence, these people easily adapted to the line of “intelligent stupidity,” which only impresses the ignorant and those suffering from intellectual provincialism. The example is anecdotal, but very revealing.
It is hardly necessary to point out that the counterpart of “intelligent stupidity” is a lack of character. This becomes obvious whenever its representatives were involved in politics in recent years: opportunism and a chameleonic nature are their recurring characteristics. Once fascists out of convenience, they now parade their anti-fascism, when they at least should have the decency to keep silent, and completely refrain from discussing such matters.
We said at the beginning that “criticism” is one of the main provinces of intelligent stupidity, the one where its most pernicious varieties flourish. Here, as we shall see, we can make a connection with what we wrote earlier regarding multiple subliminal influences coming from the environment [3]. To tell the truth, it is quite an extensive subject. In general, we should single out the “critic” as one of the scourges of modern culture, a scourge that originated in bourgeois civilization, in parallel with the development the publishing industry and the commercialization of culture. Criticism is a phenomenon that has spread like a cancer in our time, but which was nonexistent, or nearly so, in all normal, traditional civilizations. There, on the one hand, there were the creators, the artists, and on the other, there were those who, directly and without any intermediary, judged and appreciated their work: rulers, patrons or simple people. Instead, in our time, an insolent and impertinent parasite, the “critic,” has interposed himself between the creators and the public.
In stating this, we do not mean to say that all judgment concerning artistic productions should be ruled out. We believe, however, that if a judgment must be made, it must be pronounced from a higher point of view, by those whose authority has been conferred upon them by true principles and a tradition. Which amounts to saying that it must be pronounced by a type of persons now almost non-existent (and even if they had existed, their words and deeds would resonate very little in our age). Pace those who propound the theory of art for art’s sake, pace Croce with his horror of any judgment not based solely on the expressive capacity encountered in a work of art — judgments of the aforementioned kind would be made from a point of view that transcends that of art. They would be value judgments taking into account whatever a given work might signify within the totality of a civilization, and not just in a particular domain, or on a purely aesthetic level.
Andr_ Martins De Barros – Tutt’Art@ [4]Far removed from all of this, “criticism” is now condemned from the start to pure subjectivism and arbitrariness. Today, it is often the critic who manipulates values along the lines of “intelligent stupidity,” being highly skilled at creating an appearance of value where there is none, and concealing it where it does in fact exist. As for the public, we again encounter, in another form, the easily manipulated passivity so typical of our contemporaries (having now become, in the language of democracy, “adult”). We have discussed this earlier [in “Subliminal Influences [3]”].
Indeed, in the artistic and intellectual field, a situation similar to that of advertising and propaganda has come into being. New reputations and new “masterpieces” pop up everywhere, with battages to start trends and fashions. That which has been observed with regard to people who always follow fashion, also applies to today’s public: they are ridiculous from fear of seeming ridiculous. They passively allow their opinions to be prompted and manipulated, they do not dare to openly express what they think and feel for fear of being accused of being philistines or fools, once a verdict has been passed by the pontificators of “criticism” on such and such a work of contemporary art or literature. Whatever differences of opinion and controversies that may exist among “critics,” they never touch upon the essential, their only function being to spice up the dishes served up and artificially generate interest.
This certainly goes for many authors made famous by “critics” — Nobel laureates and bestsellers included — but whose fundamental insignificance would clearly appear if only one had preserved some degree of spiritual freedom, if only one had serious, higher points of reference, and if one from the start had denied all authority to the pontificators of “criticism.” If the tendency to passively and indiscriminately follow the dictates of fashion in hair-style and clothing — what some unknown individual in this or that capital came up with the idea of promoting as fashion — can be regarded as an essentially feminine character trait, the same phenomenon, in the field of art and literature, is not essentially different. It merely re-confirms, on another level, what can be observed in the forma mentis that is now widespread in much of today’s so-called educated public, as well as in everyday life and politics. Again, it is a sign of the times.
Source: L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)
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Anticipate another "Assard" chemical attack…. now that the White Helmets have had their next production bankrolled!
https://www.rt.com/news/471560-trump-funds-white-helmets/
More info on the up coming Sochi Africa-Russia summit. Some highlights and surprising figures.
Russia offers African leaders no-strings-attached business and protection from Western pressure
https://www.rt.com/news/471550-russia-africa-summit-sochi/
“Heads of African countries have flocked to Russia for a first of its kind summit, where Moscow will be offering business ties and security arrangements alternative to ‘colonial-style’ relations with the West.
So does Russia, which has the advantage of old ties in the region and touts itself as an ideology-free pragmatic partner that wouldn’t leverage its offers to extort geopolitical allegiances.
“We have something to offer our African friends. This, in particular, will be discussed at the upcoming summit. And of course, we aim, together with our African partners, to uphold common economic interests and protect them from unilateral sanctions, including by reducing the share of the dollar and switching to other currencies in mutual settlements,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a recent interview for TASS. ( https://tass.ru/interviews/7020800 )
The Russia-Africa summit in Sochi expects over 3,000 guests, including 44 presidents and prime ministers of African nations.
But Russian trade is rapidly growing, having almost tripled since 2010. It also already has a strong economic foothold in some African nations like Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa or Tunis, playing on its strong points.
For instance, one of the top Russian exports to Egypt is wheat.
Another area where Russia has an edge over competition is civilian nuclear technology.
There is also the traditional article of Russian trade in Africa: weapons. Moscow currently has arms trade agreements with over 30 African nations.
Russia has a less tangible edge over some of its competition in Africa, since it has no toxic historic colonial baggage. In fact, Soviet Union supported pro-independence movements throughout Africa as European nations were withdrawing from it. It was, of course, part of the Cold War ideological confrontation with Washington, but it built some goodwill that comes in handy today.
In the 1960s Moscow gave free education to thousands of Africans. Soviet-trained engineers and technicians were essential for manning Soviet-constructed infrastructure in African nations, while Soviet-trained officers commanded African troops equipped with Soviet-supplied hardware. A similar trend emerged today.
Last year some 17,000 students form more than 50 African nations were getting higher education in Russia, including 4,000, who won scholarships from the Russian government. Hundreds of others were sponsored by Russian companies investing in energy and mineral projects in Africa, which want a cadre of trained employees recruited from the local population.
“What we aim for is not to ‘redistribute’ the riches of the continent, but competition for cooperation with Africa,” Putin said in the interview. “The important thing is that it stays civilized.”
Russia roasted by MSM for leaving moribund Geneva war crimes body… which 3 of 4 other UN Security Council members NEVER joined
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/471564-russia-leave-war-crime-body/
“Russia has come under MSM fire for quitting a dysfunctional war crimes NGO – the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – which the US, China and France never joined to begin with, a detail that eludes attention.
That’s what Russia has decided to do with the Swiss-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a good ol’ Swiss construct that draws it members from the international community, but mainly the friendly types who are unlikely to ever find themselves on the wrong side of the Geneva Convention.
The Cook Islands, for instance, but no Saudi Arabia. St Kitts and Nevis, but no Lebanon. And Iceland, but no Israel. And Russia… well, not any longer.
After 30 years of pumping money into the IHFFC, the Russians have finally lost their patience and withdrawn their membership, which this year contributed 5% of the commission’s budget. It has caused quite a stir in the mainstream media Stateside, which would be understandable were it not for the fact that the US is not, and never has been a member of the commission of which Russia should apparently be a part.
Under the headline, ‘Putin Pulls Russia Out of Convention on War-Crime Probes’, Bloomberg screams outrage, with Reuters, Yahoo News and US News all following in a similar vein.It is no surprise that Russia has finally lost patience with this outfit, but the response to this is surprising.”
Not really surprising the zionazi-gay media makes a propaganda issue of this, low rung propaganda is pretty much all they do, or are capable of, now. Pathetic, the zionazi-gay media has degenerated to fox/tabloid levels throughout.
Bravo Russia, well done.
The Hungarians named in 1956 the whole UN, in connection with the Revolution,
Shit Discussion Square.
Explanation: In Budapest there is a place called Servite Square, in Hungarian Szervita tèr.
Szervita written separately, Szer-vita/Ser-vite. At Szer e was changed to a, so became
from Ser Sh.t. Hungarian vita means Discussion, and tèr means square
Servite Order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servite_Order
Trump Administration Delays Lifesaving Protections for Wolverine, Hermes Copper Butterfly, Candy Darter, 43 Other Species
Feds Fall Behind for Third Year on Backlog of Wildlife Needing Protection
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-delays-lifesaving-protections-wolverine-hermes-copper-butterfly-candy-darter-43-other-species-2019-10-21/
“In total, the administration failed to designate protected critical habitat or to make decisions about whether species should be added to the threatened or endangered lists for 46 species in fiscal year 2019, which ended Sept. 30. This is the third straight year the administration has fallen behind on the backlog of wildlife needing protection.
“Scientists across the world are sounding the alarm over the extinction crisis, yet the Trump administration won’t even let the fire trucks out of the station,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “To have any chance at survival, these species need protection, not more delay.”
Overall, the Trump administration has only protected 19 species and only three in all of fiscal year 2019. This is the lowest of any administration at this point in their term.”
Neocons are extremely hostile to the environment.
Dear me-I can just hear the resident omni-denialists approaching, to assert that wolverines, candy darters and copper butterflies are thriving, just like polar bears, and this is all a conspiracy by nasty, ‘hysterical’, Greta Thunberg and her sinister ‘controllers’.
Just the same old story – made up of wild allegations. Nobody said any of what you just alleged Mulga and no reasonable person in their right mind will say anything of what you alleged.
What I said is that habitat destruction drives wildlife extinction. Not climate change – and even your most favorite IPCC attests to this fact. Now let us not make that even worse by building massive windfarms and massive solar systems which will not power our world. Some technology must be opened up to humankind and I believe it exists. The balanced way is to work very hard at the technology (which the Russians are doing), and do our planning on our planet with some smarts and intelligence which most countries in their rights minds are now paying attention to.
Trying to shout others down under false pretenses will do nothing. Encouraging all and every alternative method of generating power for our world will do something.
Using the Trump administration’s excesses with drilling in the arctic and anti-wildlife stance as proof for climate change theories will not do it. Basing these theories on deeply flawed so-called models will not do it. The global warming hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis and the models are falling apart. So is a rate of extinction and it is more productive to see how many are actually working, real work on the ground than sloganeering.
if you read from this very self-same site the ones that they call their successes, it was all habitat destruction. So, your statement here holds no water, but then again, this is one of the very clear signs of the climate change cadre – very little of what they come up with, is actually factual and most of their ‘work’ consists of shouting at others based on highly politically created statements.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/esa_wild_success/
So, habitat destruction destroys wildlife. Duh. Trump’s wall is absolutely devastating for animal migration. (People too, but I guess those are not yet fully on the way to extinction – there are some billions left but by the time the climate changers get hold of us, few of us will be left lol).
Mulga, this is again a wild allegation that holds no water and by the latest reports, polar bears have enough ice and are doing fine. If the wind blows, it is not climate change. We’re not living in a perfectly controllable system. Our earth is a wild one.
What do you think drives habitat destruction? Do you think that rapid climate change and greater weather extremes might have something to do with it? Do you think that oceanic heatwaves and the bleaching and destruction of coral reefs might have something to do with it? Do you think that mass deaths of highly biodiverse biospheres like kelp forests and mangroves and sea-grass meadows might have something to do with it? And arguing that climate models are ‘falling apart’ is pure invention. In fact the models are growing more effective as computer models do, in all fields. And the assertion that polar bears are doing just fine is complete fake news. I urge any who want to see the devastation being visited on the Arctic north to see the ANC’s Foreign Correspondent this week, and the pathetic sight of native people whose worlds are being rapidly destroyed by the climate destabilisation you deny.
So the people who live thousands of miles away on the other side of the planet know more about the Polar bear population than the people who live amongst the Polar bears. That’s rabid irrationality. A scientist telling a Inuet hunter, ‘no, my computer analisys is correct, the encrease in polar poulation is in your head.” Kriekie mate, for real?
The ABC program talks to locals living with the rapid destruction of their homes and habitats by climate destabilisation that you deny is happening. What is going on? Are all these locals lying, too, as part of the Great Conspiracy? Do they go out at night and set fire to the permafrost so they can ‘fake’ the film of the carnage?
ABC don’t do fake news or fake stories? They don’t work for those trying to fleece us? They are not behind or party to the biggest lies, hollowhoax, wmds, white helmets, the same people now are telling the truth? They found a concious? So, no more lies, only truth from the MSM? Thank God!
Honestly, sean-they don’t lie ALL the time. They have downplayed or outright denied anthropogenic climate destabilisation for decades, but now that is impossible. To ‘fake’ the story you would need to fake the video of melting permafrost and eroding coasts, and hire actors to play the locals, and keep it all ecret while their created their fakery.
OMG – Let’s start with Polar Bears – according to the WWF
“Today, polar bears are among the few large carnivores that are still found in roughly their original habitat and range–and in some places, in roughly their natural numbers.
Although most of the world’s 19 populations have returned to healthy numbers, there are differences between them. Some are stable, some seem to be increasing, and some are decreasing due to various pressures. ”
https://arcticwwf.org/species/polar-bear/population/
See Polar Bears are just fine according to the World Wildlife Foundation. Please see the treaties that stopped polar bear hunting on that overview page.
Mulga, your information is about 10 years behind and is incorrect.
I won’t spend much time on habitat destruction as it becomes complex and the drivers basically are development, farming activity and industrial activity in the main, secondly in the near shore areas, by run-off of toxic products. Then there are storms and other weather activity. There should be draconian regulation and enforcement here. In fact there should be huge outcry and massive work done to get rid of the toxicity in any of our human endeavors. But, we are doing it on our end of the world. In fact, on our end of the world GMO’s are outlawed and people may not spray or use toxic chemicals because of our very active honey industry.
What are you doing?
I note your change of language – Climate Destabilization, not any longer Warming. For that, you call me a denier but you’ve changed the descriptors.
I never ever denied that climate on our earth is not static, not stable and always cyclical and always changing and many times in various states of upheaval. So the oft-peated denier insult is now also falling apart. It is part and parcel of our world, our planetary and solar system that climate changes in cyclical patterns.
But destabilization is such a nice word – if you do not define it. It can be used for everything and anything. Cute word substitution eh? We cannot define destabilization, as we do not know what a stable climatic condition is because it always changes. The real issue here is that the warming hypothesis cannot be supported any longer as we are clearly now changing climatic state.
Models – everything is being questioned more and more and models becoming more robust is just nonsense.
– “Our models are Mickey-Mouse Mockeries of the Real World” September 26, 2019, Dr. Mototaka Nakamura, a researcher with impeccable credentials with a 25 year specialization in abnormal weather and climate change. Look for his book – Japanese and English.
– Out of Mexico, just out, so there is not much commentary yet – Professor Nasif Nahle that massacres the complete CO2 theory.
CO2 Retains Heat For Only 0.0001 Seconds, hence warming is ‘Not Possible’. (Of course, this is longer term). Consequently, Nahle concludes “carbon dioxide has not an effect on climate changes or warming periods on the Earth.”
It has not been published yet so I cannot give you a link. He works at Faculty of Physics of the University of Nuevo Leon. If you have uni connections, you can request the paper. I am not sure yet where it is going to be published.
and
– The shallow theories of forcing are just truly blown with this paper. It is of course highly technical – bottom line, if your model is merely a chemical model of “coming ice age/global warming” models of the past few decades – then your model isn’t of much use. The predictive quality of the climate models today, have been exceedingly poor because there is not yet a model of our complete climate on earth and within the solar system. It does not exist.
“The solar forcing datasets are provided at daily and monthly resolution separately for the
– CMIP6 preindustrial control, historical (1850–2014),
– and future (2015–2300) simulations.
For the preindustrial control simulation, both constant and time-varying solar forcing components are provided, with the latter including variability on 11-year and shorter timescales but no long-term changes. For the future, we provide a realistic scenario of what solar behavior could be, as well as an additional extreme Maunder-minimum-like sensitivity scenario.
This paper describes the forcing datasets and also provides detailed recommendations as to their implementation in current climate models.”
That is your way to the paper – https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/2247/2017/
And this fellow made a video that most non-technical people can follow – but I warn you it is boring and long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWoPzaDmOA
So, models falling apart is actually correct today and is not invention as you say.
In general, I mentioned many times before that specifically the physicists are blowing the current models out of the water. But these models are actually blowing themselves out of the water, because the predictive ability of current models is just not there. We have not all drowned on the Miami coast in the year 2000 or whatever. Sea level rise is very miniscule and as always, the islands are vulnerable to any changes.
In the mean time, we’ve figured out that reefs recover from even the most severe abuse. There is a lot of work being done here from various perspectives, i.e., seeding, laying down artificial reef around which new coral can grow, in places leaving older shipwrecks as a reef establishment structure, even up to replanting coral. .
Many people are actively working and not spending time super gluing themselves to something. Some of us, including me, have been involved in non-destructive ways of living, studying various methodology, putting it into practice, for a very long time. Most of us have never denied that climate changes because it would be utterly stupid and even idiotic to do so. So far, you have not even given the path to any serious and scientifically correct work that one can refer to but you propaganda drop political work which you call science. You don’t debate anything, but simply pour out incorrect information that stand for an increase of the power of the regulatory state. It is perhaps an idea to ask who you are insulting and what the knowledge base is, before you insult.
There is now a groundswell, a sea change of fast growing opposition to the IPCC’s politically driven work.
Climate cultists are instructed never to get involved in anything detailed and to remain with propaganda statements as these are short usually, and easy for the press to pick up for some vapid reporting. I cannot remember if Mulga has ever referenced her work.
In addition, climate cultists are instructed to stay with one solution only – the one of kicking us all back to a stone age with no productive activity.
So, I have to reject most everything you say out of hand in the post that I respond to. And then, if you can talk about the peace, as well as properly constructed and good initiatives on our earth, and the vast work being done to stop pollution, wake me up.
These people are actually doing something.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-plant-soldiers-reassign-climate-change-global-warming-deforestation-a8208836.html
https://www.alizila.com/how-alipay-users-planted-100m-trees-in-china/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/one-third-worlds-new-vegetation-in-china-and-india-satellite-data-shows
For people that are glazed over with my documentation .. this is easy. I don’t really go with this guy’s politics, but his information on what is happening is correct.
Note the language changes for one. The new word is not climate destabilization, but climate emergency.
Note the handling of developing countries.
Note the sheer propaganda aspects.
Erasure of long periods of past climate history.
The threats to people to even just ask a question.
This is why I continue talking about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bpxAIYrtGLw
Slightly off topic, great rant btw, well worth the read. And if medals are in order, you deserve one. Sometimes in conversations with people, like yesterday, someone disparrages Trump off-hand, in regards to the ‘turk’ invasion he authoriszed (or other imagined slight), and although no fan of Trump, I’m left short of a counter……….like, I don’t like him, they don’t like him, I think his Syria move was good (too tired to argue………..with everyone) they think it was bad………..and I’m not often left short for words………so I’m coining a new, disparraging reply……………..”Oh, you must watch a lot of CNN!”, them I’m going to just drop the convo and walk off. That ought to rattle a few cages.
Cheers, M
Reforestation efforts are admirable, but have NOTHING to do with anthropogenic climate destabilisation. It is nothing but a straw-man diversion, a favourite denialist trick. I have used ‘destabilisation’ myself for some years because denialists, in their endless semantic contortions, use increasingly rare outbursts of cold weather (caused by climate disruption, particularly of Arctic vortices etc)to debunk the entire 200 years of climate science and the consensus of ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth.
‘Climate cultists’ are NOT ‘instructed’ in any manner whatsoever. That is just a paranoid fantasy, and projection. They make up their own minds based on science and evidence. They differ widely in their prescriptions. Some, deluded or worse in my opinion, want to use the capitalist cancer itself to address climate destabilisation, through carbon prices, taxes and ‘carbon trading’. Others want a ‘circular economy’ where all polluting waste, including greenhouse gases, is recycled and not dumped on the biosphere. Others want geo-engineering, massive renewable energy to keep up current standards of consumption, others want radical downsizing, regenerative grazing, bio-ecological agriculture, kelp-farming and dumping in the deep oceans etc. So your proposition is utterly false.
As for your assertion that I have not pointed to any ‘serious’ science, well that is laughable. I have pointed to 200 years of climate science, the Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics and the absolute consensus of ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth, while you simply regurgitate the long discredited propaganda of the denialist industry, created and financed by the very elites you claim to oppose. One or two outlying nonentities in provincial ‘institutes’ with ‘theories’ so ludicrous as to incite as much mirth as contempt. ‘CO2 cannot be a greenhouse gas’??!! There goes the work of tens of thousands of scientists over 200 years, in one fell swoop, plus the basis of all understanding of the Earth’s climate. Do you really not comprehend just how ludicrously preposterous that is?
Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-uk-killing-julian-assange/5692753
(Lendman)
“In cahoots with the Trump regime, police state Britain is killing Assange slowly, wanting him, whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, and other truth-tellers silenced.
What’s going on is the hallmark of totalitarian rule – controlling the message, eliminating what conflicts with it, notably on major geopolitical issues.
Losing the right of free expression endangers all others. When truth-telling and dissent are considered threats to national security, free and open societies no longer exist – the slippery slope America and other Western societies are heading on.”
The trump persecution of Assange is an example of the total lack of any moral grounding trump embodies. Along with his co-criminal zio-colonial regime. During his prez campaign, trump praised WikiLeaks repeatedly, upon mounting the pindo colonial throne, he did a 180 and revived the persecution of Assange. Pure hypocrite.
Did the Kurds even fight one major battle with the Turks? It appears they did not. This is similar to Afrin where their forces all ran away when the Turks came.
In this case the Kurds suddenly asked the Syrian government forces to come a few days into the Turkish offensive.
Erasing the Dead
Seeking to Deport Haitians, the Trump Administration Is Counting Deaths in Displacement Camps as “Progress”
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/haiti-tps-earthquake-displacement-camps/
“But in November 2017, the Trump administration abruptly terminated TPS for Haitians, setting off multiple battles in court. If the government prevails, current Haitian TPS recipients — many of whom have children who are U.S. citizens — could be deported to a country that is now in the midst of an escalating crisis.
A federal judge, in temporarily blocking the policy in April, found evidence that the decision was made in “bad faith” by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, which went “fishing for reasons” to end Haitians’ eligibility for TPS and ignored relevant facts about the persistence of hazardous conditions in the country.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Kuntz also said there was evidence to suggest that “a discriminatory purpose of removing non-white immigrants from the United States was a motivating factor behind the decision.” The Trump administration is now appealing Kuntz’s injunction and defending the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation in four separate lawsuits.”
Those Haitians brought it on themselves, they should have opted to be white Jews…
Haiti is still being punished for Touissant Louverture and the slave revolt from 1791.
They were forced to pay ‘reparations’ to French slave-owners and their descendants until 1947!!!!!!! And Hispaniola, the island paradise that is where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are today, suffered a TOTAL genocide of its native peoples after Spanish colonisation. The remnants, including children, were finished off by giant mastiffs, among other paraphernalia of ‘Western Civilization’, tearing them limb from limb.
Coup D’ Etat underway in Bolivia to prevent the re-election of Evo Morales. Not surprisingly, the coup has foreign sponsorship.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Warns-Coup-Attempt-Underway-in-Bolivia-20191023-0002.html
Iraq is now appealing to the international community to help them rid their country of the US troops that just arrived. The US position is, “don’t worry, we won’t stay forever.”
But the US will not say how long they intend to stay.
https://www.rt.com/news/471645-iraq-pleads-un-help-us-troops/
Astrologically to be proved: the autumn-months are the densest packed with fate and order in
our unconscious. Hence the density of major political acts. The archetypes/planets are working
full time in our depths, unconsciously merging the ‘great man’ in the depth with rational deliberations
of the day.
Don’t believe it, give it a try.
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/10/our-heart-enters-duty-stage.html
More discussion on the Fed’s repo efforts: the question remains as to what the Fed is not telling us as this repo effort surpasses the panic in 2008=”someone” is in trouble.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/10/23/intervention/#more-206153
To expand on the comments regarding “climate change” may I suggest one listen to this l o n g (1 hour) discussion with Elana Freeland.
https://www.veritasradio.com/guests/2019/10oct/VS-191017-efreeland.php?fbclid=IwAR1ex4lsqgXmJr8ecTVbTVjj01DKG3NPIex-ADQluGih-ePPitVJA33wfhk
Additionally this…
https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/15/are-we-blocking-out-the-sun/
Either and/or both articles/talks enlarge the conversation regarding “climate change” which I suggest should more appropriately be called geo-engineered climate change
Sorry, neither of these videos adds much to understanding the real causes of climate change.
Norwegian Billionaire Invests Millions in Disproving Darwinism
https://sputniknews.com/society/201910241077134299-norwegian-billionaire-invests-millions-in-disproving-darwinism/
“Norwegian multibillionaire Einar John Rasmussen has contributed NOK 15 million ($1.65 million) to the newly created BioCosmos foundation, whose goal is to disprove Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Instead, the foundation is committed to spreading the theory of “intelligent design”, which is based on the idea that nature is so finely tuned that evolution couldn’t have occurred randomly, but is the result of engineering.”
It’s not just the pindos who have been buggered stupid…
“It’s not just the pindos who have been buggered stupid…”
No, you’ll find them anywhere. Just a few non-sensitive ideas I hit upon regularly:
-I thought this hardly didn’t exist anymore, centuries after Galilei, but some time ago a complete congress was held nearby with hundreds of vistors, who are convinced that the earth is flat.
-There are still people who believe that nuclear explosions are fake, and just simulated to scare us.
-Many times I hit upon stories that we have never been to the moon, and that is was filmed in a studio. I even had a colleague, quite intelligent, who told me that. I still see the gazed look in his eyes when I debunked this in a few minutes.
-Popular too, that we already can build car motors that can run 100 km. on 1 liter of petrol, but the big oil companies keep that secret to protect their business. (“there was a retired engineer of an oil company that knew this secret, suddenly he died and his laptop had disappeared!”). I’m an engineer and have calculated on this for fun, and I can assure you: Not.By.Far. Complete bogus.
But fun reading sometimes ;-)
Cheers, Rob
Ha, the moon story :-) I’ll have to let you know that I truly question this, but not enough to worry about it, or even spend time on it. Wagging the Moon Doggie by Dave McGowan is a big read.
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
And Dmitry Orlov wrote a piece not so long ago that was actually quite hilarious. It was behind his pay wall, and I have not seen it elsewhere. It was titled How to Fake a Mission. If you have access to his Patreon it makes a good read. In the end he asks the question — If they went to the moon, what happened to the rocket engines? How come they’re buying those from Russia now? If you are interested, that one is a good read.
And that is all I know.
I haven’t read this Orlov story, but I have a great respect for him so I’ll distract from commenting on an unread story. The engines might just have been burnt in the atmosphere?
Let me introduce to you the 4 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflectors: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100413-apollo15-LRRR.html . These are essentially units with many inverted reflecting prisms. Just like when you throw a tennis ball exactly in the corner of two walls and the ceiling, it’ll come back to you. These units have been used since 1969 by by now I guess thousands of astronomers from multiple countries to regularly measure with great precision the distance to the moon, using lasers.
The tentalizing question, of course, is who placed them there since 1969…
(The Lunokhod unit, btw, is Russian and was placed in a unmanned mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme )
The ‘studio’ story filming a fake moon landing might be based on the Hollywood movie Capricorn one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One
A movie about a movie, so to say ;-)
Cheers, Rob
Small addendum, remembering back the Apollo returnings, they always landed at sea, the capsule hanging from three parachutes (half spheres, or ‘papillons’ as they say at French para’s). Maybe the motors just plunged in the sea.
I’ve had the great privilige to once have been able to visit the Johnson space center in Houston. That is very impressive. Outside is a complete Saturnus V rocket, that propulses from a swimming pool per minute of fuel. You can’t imagine the Mercury capsule of John Glenn, you have more room in a closet. A Space Shuttle looks like a hotel room compared to that. Also the Apollo capsule is very small, with three astronauts sitting (actually lying) shoulder to shoulder. ‘You must really like each other’, was my first thought. We could have a look in the Mission Control Center too. If you are in the opportunity to visit, don’t hesitate ;-)
Cheers, Rob
Don’t take it so practical (yeah yeah .. engineers would do that :-). Even if the physical ones were gone for some reason, surely the design and the builds would survive?
Rob, if you send me your email (use the community email at the bottom of every page) I’ll send you Orlov’s piece.
Has anyone seen anymore info on Bolivia and the attempted “color revolution” there? I’ve barely seen anything legitimate sources about it and I’m in the country right now. If anyone can help me out, that would be much appreciated. I just need more sources besides TeleSur and FRN.
Thanks in advance.
RT Español
https://actualidad.rt.com/
Sputnik Latam
https://sputniknews.com/latam/
That is all that I know.
Medium is a message as Marshall McLuhan once said.
Just wondering what message makes visitingS-400 Triumf and Pantsir-S1 in Serbia! missile systems to the Balkans for their first ever exercise abroad. Love is in the air?
New interview from North American insider, former Canadian Deputy PM, John Manley. What’s he leaking info on today?? I can’t tell – but it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been outsmarted!!
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/manley-shuts-down-notion-trudeau-won-t-build-trans-mountain-expansion-1.1336289
For Canadians who don’t live in Vancouver, and aren’t part of the political class, I wanted to share some info on Jody Wilson-Raybould. I lived in her riding, Vancouver Granville. There is a large Jewish community in this area, including a Chabad-Lubavitch centre. The Jewish community are fantastic people and neighbours, btw, but somebody more fanatical and hardline seemed to co-opt JWR after she was elected – presumably someone with much wealth and power. This was visible if you were out and about in the community, like I was (some disturbing posters outside a synagogue, if I remember correctly.) I was concerned. It was a bit of a relief when she was removed as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (and in the future, we should all be very alert to cabinet ministers chosen from this riding, no matter which party is in power.) I wondered how the Liberal party would handle this in the 2019 election. Well, their choice of candidate said everything: Taleeb Noormohamed. Nice move, Liberal party (although I still voted further to the left.) That’s a report from the friendly streets.
Blue Bird, Sing Me A Song (1928) HOT!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4t7jkJQE20