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In 1840 in Germany, an earth battery was developed, using the earth’s currents for electricity, which probably didn’t catch on because of coal magnate interests of the industrial revolution. These monolpolists and roberbarons always protect there interests. The first four cars ever invented were electric.
There were multiple earth battery patents filed at the U.S. patent office, one which i suspect would result in an explosion since it used sulfer, but the others seem likely, and I suspect that when JFK was elected there was hope in America. JFK wanted to disolve the Federal Reserve and the CIA, and sever ties with Israel for going nuclear. Mossad agents have testified to Mossad involvement in asssassinating JFK, and it has even been reported in Israel, but those are only to be considered among friends apparently, since itvis not covered here, and Trump refused to disclose everything in the JFK paper declassifications.
At the time in the hippie culture was Age of Aquarius fever, belived to be an age of electricity, time travel ( Dr. Who ) return of ancient celestial and scientific knowledge and harmony, peace, and celebration.
Things got reaaly freaky at the US patent office in 1960 for perhaps fears that people would find out that the utility and fossil fuel companies were guilty of outright fraud, mass conspiracy, treason, and just about every other imaginable charge.
In 1960 and onward numerous sadistic Nazi like patents were filed for bilogical electricity generation, implanting electrodes in biological organisms, which is extremely sadistic and totally unnecessary. I think that it was a threat, thatbreally happened, just for totally sadistic fascist CIA mind control purposes.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US690151
RE “An awakening to the fact of pure evil done in their name….while they were asleep on the sidelines….allowing it all to happen, for far, far too long.” @ /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-11-18/#comment-723739
Recommended reading in the same vein:
Facebook explained by a CIA insider
at http://82.221.129.208/.vx8.html
… an intelligent initiative by Hong Kong police …
Hong Kong police use loudspeaker to induce surrender at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjfwsmuxUU
Yo, Mikey! Can you please address the sadistic human rights abuses taking place in America before globe trotting !
https://www.rt.com/news/474094-iran-world-war-us-protests/
Radical Tulsi Gabbard fringe candidate violates fashion rules and scares the hell out of NYT for wearing white, not winter white past Labor Day! Glenn Greenwald looks stupid for defending this fashion crime tearing up the fabric of American society!
https://www.rt.com/usa/474067-gabbard-white-pantsuit-nyt-clinton/
She comes from a tropical state in which white suits are common wear year around and are stylistically always appropriate but not to East Coast Looneylandia cultural supremists.
Distraction diversionary Cotten candy !
I think this headline is possibly fake news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-19/goldman-banker-in-insider-case-had-cash-stash-in-sunglasses-case
As you can see here, the space of $10,000; the number of bills in question is roughly two and a half times that. To my thinking such an amount would not fit in a sunglass case, or if if it did fit it would be obvious and not well hidden. I suppose it all depends on the sunglass case.
What if the insider –chump thrown under the bus– instead used 500 Euro notes? Yes, I could see $24,000 equivalent being perfectly well hidden in any sunglass case. But the news doesn’t seem to like to advertise that there are other currencies than the US Dollar. Besides, the 500 Euro note is currently being phased out because it is allegedly favored by criminals. Hey, we’re talking about just one bad apple here — no need to bring up shady denominations of notes, why that might reflect badly on the whole firm. Anyhow, that’s my two cents, or should I say Federal Reserve Notes.
Trump is calling for his own impeachment trial. He said that he wants Schifty Schift, Hunter Biden and CIA whistleblower Ciamerella to testify, but I think that Trump does not understand that He would be on trial, and not them, from my understanding.
I watched the whole Clinton ordeal and Monica Lewisky testified in in either the Paula Jones suit or Kenneth Starr investigation, but gave video taped testimony for the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.
You’re on a roll, girl!
Most Prolific New Vineyarder…….by a long shot.
I can’t keep up even with my own promises (but I will, finally…after this…lol) so I will mostly just watch you skate off into the distance, posting, elbowing hypocrites and morons aside…pausing for refresher at a Café…and skating on!
Other Champions, near me:
https://youtu.be/hQqr1I01wTs
Venice Beach Roller Skating Championship!
Maybe your right: It’s OVER! Civilization is LOST!
I forgot!
I did answer one of your comments, Andrea…as you skated far off into the distance…out of earshot, before I could gather my thoughts:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-11-18/#comment-723704
And some answers are actually attempted in a more serious vein!
Bro93,
Thank you! Didn’t see the video, so not sure what that is about, but I agree with much of what you said in the post. Of course I hope that I am wrong about Barr, but I have just seen too many on Trump’s team like Megan Kelley or Gulliani for example, no longer there but with so much experience putting Trump in stockades, of course they pretend that they are defending him in the lynchings, but they do him more harm than good, I have been very critical of many of Trump’s policies, but my criticisms are direct, and can be debatred on whether ny opinions or Trump’s on certain issues are better for America or not.
As far as remaining in political cults for self advancement, yes, it is extremely common. There is a huge surplus of starving underpaid political science majors. I was not willing to sell out.
Actually, it wasn’t Megan Kelley. I forgot her name, but the Fox news woman that was with Trump in the beginning and loaded the team with scum like Prieibus and other nazicons.
What does now this mean? A John Wear in RI and Ron Unz with ‘American Pravda’ are
featuring the Idea, Stalin wanted to occupy Europe, but Hitler leapfrogged him.
This was 44 years the western propaganda line I was raised in.
Lots of projection going on, Mundo! Much fear…not enough love. “Same old, same old” problem.
“Nothing new under the sun.” etc, etc.
But many more people than ever before in history…..are learning….from each other!
For example:
Chinese Gentleman speaks in Deutschland 6 days ago…….at the end his translator’s (into English) gets choked up and you hear his German for a minute or two…when the translator coughs and turns off her mike…how would you rate his German?
https://youtu.be/UsH88JoVX0U?t=2818
Sounds like excellent German to me…….but I only listen to lieder…..not a speaker by any means!
• Wang Weidong, Minister Counselor, Director of the Commerce and Trade Department at the Chinese Embassy in Germany, on “The Potential of the New Silk Road for Europe”;
Leibniz said much of the best of the West is congruent with the best of the East……..especially the moral philosophy of Confucius.
We can put the last Terrible Century far behind us….if we take the right risks and Win This War of Ideas!
Mr Wang Weidong details the role of Duisburg as the BRI hub in Europe…not some future pie in the sky…..already A LOT of trains!
Borstal Child
As the pangs of hunger knawed at his belly, the plan hatched quickly. Not without its flaws, but hunger motivates more than money. The past weeks had been spent weeding in farmers fields. Bare handing thistles from around young plantlings. On this night, with the other boys asleep in the dorm and prefects tucked in thier rooms, he quietly snuck to the door. The fresh night air gave the feeling of liberation.
The Borstal had it’s own large garden, tended by the boys and supervised by a lone gardener. Thier task, to grow food to feed the ever growing number of boys being incarcerated, from the youngest at seven to teens almost men, over 400 in all.
He crept along the rows of carrots, gleefully plucking and eating till the pains in his stomach slowly subsided. There was no sound, just an errie silence. Suddenly, the appearation of a pair of shoes and a slight cough signaled the jig was up. On the walk back to the dorm not a word was spoke.
In the morning, in front of the headmaster, the question arose, “so, you like carrots?” A time for truth? “Yes, sir.”
For a ten year old, the sentence of two weeks peeling potatoes paled in comparrision to two weeks of being fed carrots for breakfast, lunch and supper.
Several days into the sentence, the divil took hold. Sheer boredom can arise from peeling hundreds of potatoes every day and revenge can be served warm or cold………………….as long as you don’t get caught.
On a peeling break, a peeing break was requested. Returning from the washroom, the game was afoot. He carefully looked around, the cooks were to busy to pay attention to the ten year old in the corner peeling potatoes. One by one, as each spud was peeled, he carefully cut a small plug from one end. He then whittled a small hole, cut a sliver from the ivory white bar of soap he had taken from the washroom, slid the sliver into the hole and reinserted the plug.
Supper began as all others, the boys filed into the large dining hall, grace was said and as per custom, in silence, everyone began to eat. Then it began. A hand went up, “Yes?” “Sir, may I go to the bathroom.” Then another hand, then another, then another. Then several teachers along with prefects, stood and quickly ran to the bathroom………………….the firtilizer was flowing free and fast.
In the morning, back in front of the Headmaster and with the lack of proof, he stood his ground. “No sir, I didn’t do anything to the potatoes.”
Thanks for this excerpt, Sean. What is the larger context of the story, “Borstal Child”? Is it your creative writing, or another author’s?
The One Who Gives and Takes Lives
You are the medicine
for the sickness that
eats away at me.
Were it not for you, I would
drown in my suffering!
Yet, you are also
the ocean that pulls me down
into its fathomless depths.
This is the understanding
born of the seed-bed
of pain and anguish;
Do not be afraid
of losing your life. The
One who gives and takes
lives has another life ready
and waiting for you!
For those who haven’t seen it yet. I do confess a feeling of redemption, as must Putin. Probably what’s behind his recent comments about the ‘end of the dollar is nigh’ statements. Don’t care for Forbes (of the FT for that matter) but it’s nice to gloat a bit.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/11/18/for-wall-street-russia-has-become-bullet-proof/#3c5e387a6ffd
Retraction: Venice Beach Skating Championship was Fake News!
In fact, they’re really a joke….compared to the Real Deal.
Looks like the best in the world may be Portuguese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqtQlYww38 Lisboa – Travel journal
Wait… make that “Iberian”….looks like these champs are Spaniards….by their names and City of Origin, which seems to be Barcelona. Catalonian to be more precise………….
China probably already caught up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MCV4H3R6U
Greg Mirzoyan in China – Beijing bladercross
That was 9 years ago. Much bigger gene pool….and look at the state of the art facilities!
They might already be # 1
Main Skating Event for 2019:
Whether or Not Trump Can Skate Through the Deep State and Fake News…..& Stay On His Feet
Except for “minor” disturbances This is very nice.
Ana Vidovic plays Verano Porteno, Milonga del Angel, and La Muerte del Angel by Astor Piazzolla.
Enjoy
Kent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoN9axWAoPU
Here is Ana about 8 year earlier (in 2009) playing the same four Piazolla pieces, starting at 12:55.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1UrY_tRADk
The sound is much better. The video was recorded over the course of a few days in a studio. The only thing I don’t like is the decor sometimes with flowers and candles strewn on the floor, which I find rather silly. But the performance is superb. The full program is in the opening post with links to the beginning of each piece.
0:00 – Fandanguillo (Suite Castellana) – Federico Moreno Torroba
1:45 – Arada (Suite Castellana) – Federico Moreno Torroba
5:50 – Danza (Suite Castellana) – Federico Moreno Torroba
7:45 – Altiplanos – Pierre Bensusan
12:55 – Verano Porteño (de las 4 Estaciones Porteñas) – Astor Piazolla
17:12 – Milonga del Ángel – Astor Piazolla
22:45 – La Muerte del Ángel – Astor Piazolla
26:45 – Primavera Porteña – Astor Piazolla
32:25 – Farewell – Sergio Assad
35:35 – Cavatina – Stanley Myers
39:00 – Estudio N° 1 – Heitor Villalobos
41:10 – Estudio N° 8 – Heitor Villalobos
43:48 – Estudio N° 7 – Heitor Villalobos
47:50 – La Catedral – Preludio saudade – Agustín Barrios Mangore
50:00 – La Catedral – Andante religioso – Agustín Barrios Mangore
51:50 – La Catedral – Allegro solemne – Agustín Barrios Mangore
Pay ATTENTION to THIS! Listen twice or more… and think again DEEPLY… What’s really REALLY in front of you! (staring back at you)
—> The Flying Monkeys Have Decided to Destroy Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0FY5p_cfkQ
The mass ‘Colleteral Damage’ is activated…
X-mas is v.v.v.v.v.v far away for me… XXX
They have move… what now yours truly?
be safe you, your family and your cultural group
(or fight like you won’t come back)
Americans should take the subtle hint from the government that the government of both parties doesn’t give a a damn about American citizens, based on the fact that, well they were guilty of a cover up in the 9/11 attacks and the FBI and IRS both had 1 casualty in it, and that the U.S. government doesn’t care human rights anywhere in the world, and citizens of the world must acknowledge the not so subtle holocaust on Muslims which has killed at least four million Muslims since 2000 and two million plus prior to that. The media is guilty for being part of the cover up! Please meda, you obviously don’t care about America, but you are leaving a legacy of a terrible repuatation of pathological lying and a destroyed country to your children. Hope that dinners at The Four Seasons or Le Cirqs made it all woth while for you!
I realize that some do not believe in God. Well America, you win all of the nuclear waste! Call it karmic justice for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or call it the laws of nature if you choose not to call it God. BTW, no amount of money, power, or intelligence can ever solve that problem. That is just the way that it is, and you are going to have to accept it, whether you like it or not!
Ukraine’s infrastructure is falling apart all over the place. It almost looks as though there is a deliberate strategy to depopulate the country as fast as possible
https://ukraina.ru/opinion/20191106/1025579701.html
My apologies, Jack. I thought about you yesterday on the 30th anniversary of your departure from this planet, but put none of my thoughts on paper or in cyberspace.
However, thanks to Mulga Down Under’s participation in dialogue along with Rob, Chimmy and White Whale …in the prior Café….your spirit will be honored …..TODAY!
Mulga Mumblebrain on November 19, 2019 · at 9:45 pm EST/EDT
Good one, Bro-trillions of galaxies and so easy to get to, if this planet becomes uninhabitable.
Reply
And I did, (Reply) just a few minutes ago!
Bro 93 on November 23, 2019 · at 10:51 am EST/EDT
“We will go to the moon, within this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hahd.”
JFK
Back to the present:
That’s close to what Jack said….but here’s exactly what he said.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ateh7hnEnik
…and in a broader….more Universal Historical and Philosophical context wherein lies the “hahd” solution to Mulga’s Dilemma (Namely that Aurelio Peccei, of NATO’s Club of Rome………..was a political associate of those Gladio (NATO) Empire Masons who deployed the (fake) Red Army Faction, Bader Meinhof Gang, etc, etc to murder alternatives to their Empire……………which Rob and WW and chimmy so knowledgeably brought up…………….and that this troubling inconsistency………..as hard as it is for Mulga to work out….IS nevertheless…………… possible to work out!
And THEREIN …in contributions to solutions to the most difficult challenges lies the Greater Happiness and Achievement…and gifts to humanity, that we should seek.
And not in ease. Nor pessimism.
Bro93,
ok. have a good time.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heavens-Gate-religious-group
Correction, Jack (Kennedy). That was 56 years ago yesterday that you departed this earth. 30 years ago was The Wall.
Andrea seems to be associating your Space Program with some sort of religious weirdness…..or maybe I don’t understand her cryptic “send off”….?? LOL
It’s okay!
Like Jack said, in his link provided above “Mankind will explore space….regardless of whether Americans do so….. or do not do so.”
Rough paraphrase.
So my bets are covered….I’m not worried!
But really????? “Britannica” is the source of your snark???
Mine too!
https://youtu.be/l65_1S3qNBw?t=53
I invite you to see how that source and the snark it inspires in you….would go over …. in the Russian and Chinese Space Programs.
Let me know how that works out for you!!
I don’t think that I would try it!
LOL
Bro93,
You must be aware that there are no inhabitable planets that can be reached in your life time. That is why I said that. I thought that you were speaking of some type of astral traveling just because of that.
Bro, who or what controlled Aurelio Peccei is irrelevant to the natter of, ‘Were the Limits to Growth predictions proved correct”? The proposition relating to resources have, in some cases, been a little delayed, but not by much. and in regard to pollution, an ‘externality’ according to the capitalist Death Cult, they have been pretty spot on. So Peccei can be an alien, bug-eyed, reptile, for all I care. The science was and is sound.
The stupidity persists. Hey Pence, stop meddling! America is a disaster! Here Mike! Maybe we should put blinders on you so that you aren’t distracted! Stop the holocaust on Muslims! Your presence there is the problem, not the soloution!
https://www.rt.com/news/474185-pence-iraqi-kurds-strong-bonds/
https://stevepieczenik.com/2019/11/20/opus-192-pompeo-falls-down/
Pompeo is emblematic of the dynamic that makes the US “not-agreement-capable.” Dr. Pieczenic’s analysis is interesting also in its own right.
chimmy,
If it was just Pompeo that would have been great! He would have been gone in a New York minute. It is systemic corruption!
OK, OK, hands up… I take back everything I ever said about Don Drumpf…oh umm that’s right…except for the bit that I said that his foreign policy, trade tactics and ‘diplomacy’ make about as much sense as that of an illiterate blind drunken sailor.
“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good”…
… too true… the US trade war with China is one of the main factors that has resulted in the highest ever farm gate beef prices for NZ producers. Thank you King MAGA for this amazing gratuitous windfall!
The US has traditionally been the market that takes the overwhelming majority of what we call our “manufacturing” beef. These are typically low-grade cuts, particularly from bulls and older females and is usually ground up into mince for hamburger patties and the like.
Because our beef is almost exclusively grass-finished it has a very vivid red colour that blends nicely with the paler coloured feedlot finished domestically produced US beef. In the past, it was the US that underpinned the price for this product.
We now have the historically unprecedented situation where the Chinese are outbidding their US counterparts. This will amount to a windfall of billions of extra income for NZ beef producers.
The long-term consequences of this baffoon’s irresponsible bludgeoning negotiation tactics will be severe. The US is increasingly seen as an unreliable partner in trade. Countries that have experienced these tactics will never go back if there is a viable alternative trading partner. This situation will likely transfer into other commodities as well, due to a perception that hypothetically trouble lurks around almost every corner.
This rampant weaponization of goods and services and of the US$ by the current regime will systemically weaken the entire US economy…they will lose trade with this serially bad behaviour. This loss will not be transient it will be generational.
“There are no winners in a trade war”…WRONG…to date a little wee country in the south seas is already a clear benefactor. Go Don go!!!
Cheers
Col
The biological war attack on Eurasia in the guise of African Swine Fever, is the main reason for the great increase in prices for animal protein.
Citizen’s Bill Number Four
The Citizen’s request that all government employees, including the judicial and legislative and executive branches and all state and local employees and all state and local elected branches and judicial branches retire in two years , effective date November 23 2021, to give people time to organize.
Your systemic corruption has destroyed America and the world. We have repeatedly attempted electing new people and things just keep getying worse and more corrupt.
The American people have no faith, trust, or confidence in any of you.
Make yoyr last act as a governmemt employee be one that serves a higher calling!
Quit!
It does seem that things are bad, I must agree, but what is worse is it actually is much worse than you can even imagine from these eyes, that’s why things will pretty much stay the same, and there aint no one that can do anything about it, least not for a short while 5-10 years.
Alabama,
Can you please tell me what you mean by “it is actually much worse by these eyes?” I have absolutely no idea of what you mean by that,
Simple, Andrea. Alabama is an anti-Leibnizian:
“This is the worst of all possible worlds.” is his credo.
And being privy to The Inner Secrets of Just How Bad It Is….but coyly only slightly hinting at the horror of it….he gets off on spreading angst…and watching people get affected by it….who worry that perhaps they should worry …even more.
It’s rather amusing to behold.
“Different Strokes For Different Folks!”, I say.
Well i’ve been plenty worried about the direction of the human race for quite some time, now the politician gets to worry about their inability to, not only resolve these issues, but explain themselves as to their contributions of creating them.
It means that I have experienced things that leads me to come to the same conclusion(s), but for much worse, or different, reasons, or, so and so’s problems could be cured but the over all problems faced by humans still have yet to be overcome.
So you wont see me address others concerns even though they may be legit, b/c the over all concerns still left hanging in the equation are far more complex than the average, or even above average person, can comprehend.
Alabama,
Are you referring to finite resources and a planet that is not physically capable of growing with the population? If that is what you are referring to, there are no easy answers, but globalism and the industrialists are exacerbating the problem because industrialization results in more population growth than anything else on earth.
Another primary factor is those who believe that they are entitled to rig everything in their favor, not only over a couple of years, but a couple of centuries.
They believe that they own the world, and everyone else exists strictly to serve them.
Psychopaths are the problem.
Nope, its nothing like that, and I’ll include you as the ave person.
Go ahead, if that mqkes you feel better.
I guess that the 5-10 year time frame for things to improve might posdibly have something to do with the gas-lighting spooks and surveillance industry being totally busted. What will they do when everyone stops playing their retartded game of hide and seek? My guess is that it is pretty much dead.
Nope, closer to the tooth fairy returns to defend citizens rights and wins case against gvt. Read all about it, in about 5-10 years, but you heard about it here first.
Alabama,
My guess is that you are just a government employee. Maybe you are set to retire in 5-10 years and want a pension. Foggedaboutit!
I dont think you know what you are talking about, at least not around here my friend.
Once again I selflessly stick my neck out to do a public service!
About Trump
Written by Sylvain LAFOREST on 15/11/2019
I don’t want the Farmer from New Zealand to spend the rest of his life taking back, apologizing (albeit snarkily…lol) for his vast, vast underestimations of The Donald…even while he rakes it in from Cattle Futures based on betting on Trump’s meat headed muddle…as he sees it…..
Nor do I want Mr Zeusse to stray to far afield on the same sort of erroneous course!
Eric in the Good Old Days Trump was your fellow Democrat and even Ronnie Reagan was once a New Deal FDR man….like you!
Who was it that said “Political parties are like taxi cabs: You should use them to get to where you are going!” ??
But I digress….Here ya go Vast DJT Underestimators….the article LINK:
https://orientalreview.org/2019/11/15/about-trump/
“The timing is right for everyone to understand what Donald Trump is doing, and try to decrypt the ambiguity of how he is doing it. The controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can imagine on both foreign policy and internal affairs, but since he has to stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives, his strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see it. His overall objective is so ambitious that he has to follow random elliptic courses to get from point A to point B, using patterns that throw people off on their comprehension of the man. That includes most independent journalists and so-called alternative analysts, as much as Western mainstream fake-news publishers and a large majority of the population.”
Now here’s where Sylvain Laforest helps Eric Zeusse with his “Bias Against Billions” conceptual straight jacket in today’s article “Ukraine, Trump, Biden……..”:
“To start off, let’s clear the one aspect of his mission that is straightforward and terribly direct: he’s the first and only American President to ever address humanity’s worst collective flaw, its total ignorance of reality. Because medias and education are both controlled by the handful of billionaires
(There are bad ones and NOT SO BAD ones, Eric……lol)
that are running the planet, we don’t know anything about our history that’s been twisted dry by the winners, and we don’t have a clue about our present world. As he stepped in the political arena, Donald popularized the expression «fake news» to convince the American citizens, and the world population as well, that medias always lie to you. The expression has now become commonplace, but do you realize how deeply shocking is the fact that nearly everything you think you know is totally fake? Media lies don’t just cover history and politics, but they have shaped your false perception on topics like economy, food, climate, health, on everything. What if I told you that we know exactly who shot JFK from the grassy knoll, that the foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor was proven in court, that the CO2 greenhouse effect is scientifically absurd, that our money is created through loans by banks who don’t even have the funds, or that science proves with a 100% certainty that 911 was an inside job? Ever heard of a mainstream journalist, PBS documentary or university teacher telling you about any of this? 44 Presidents came and went without even raising one word about this huge problem, before the 45th came along. Trump knows that freeing the people out of this unfathomable ignorance is the first step to overall freedom, so he started calling mainstream journalists and their news outlets for what they are: pathological liars.”
I know y’all are not yet won over to any appreciation of The Goy Soy Boy Zio-Toy yet…..but Sylvain and I are not yet done sowing seeds of doubt………even though Kiwi Colonel is well aware that it is Harvest Season up in the Opposite Hemisphere, and he may question my timing.
Here’s some more seed:
“Mighty Russia
Since Peter the Great, the whole history of Russia is a permanent demonstration of its will to maintain its political and economical independence from international banks and imperialism, pushing this great nation to help many smaller countries fighting to keep their own independence. Twice Russia helped the United States against the British/Rothschild Empire; first by openly supporting them in the Independence War, and again in the Civil War, when Rothschild’s were funding the Confederates to politically break down the nation to bring it back in the British colonial Empire’s coop. Russia also destroyed Napoleon and the Nazis, whom were both funded by international banks as tools to crush economically independent nations. Independence is in their DNA. After almost a decade of Western oligarchy taking over Russia’s economy after the fall of USSR in 1991, Putin took power and drained the Russian swamp. Since then, each and every move that he has made aims to destroy the American Empire, or the entity that replaced the British Empire in 1944, which is the non-conspiracy theory name of the New World Order. The new empire is basically the same central banking scheme, with just a slightly different set of owners that switched the British army for NATO, as their world Gestapo.
Until Trump came along, Putin was single handedly fighting the New World Order who’s century-old obsession is the control of the world oil market, since oil is the blood running through the veins of the world economy. Oil is a thousand times more valuable than gold. Cargo ships, airplanes and armies don’t run on batteries. Therefore, to counter the globalists, Putin developed the best offensive and defensive missile systems, with the result that Russia can now protect every independent oil producer such as Syria, Venezuela and Iran. Central bankers and the US shadow government are still hanging on to their dying plan, because without a victory in Syria, there’s no enlarging Israel, thus ending the century-old fantasy of uniting the Middle East oil production in the hands of the New World Order. Ask Lord Balfour if you have any doubt. That’s the real stake of the Syrian war, it’s nothing short of do or die.”
“But, but what about those unprovoked missile strikes against Syria?”, sputters an Amen Choir led by Zeuss and a majority here.
More seeds:
“A Century of Lies
Now, because a shadow government is giving direct orders to the CIA and NATO in the name of banks and industries, Trump has no control over the military. The deep state is a rosary of permanent officials ruling Washington and the Pentagon, that only respond to their orders. If you still believe that the «Commander in chief» is in charge, explain why every time Trump ordered to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan, more troops came in? As I’m writing this text, US and NATO troops pulled out of the Kurdish zones, went to Iraq, and came back with heavier equipment around the oil reserves of Syria. Donald has a lot more of swamp draining to do before the Pentagon actually listens to anything he says. Trump should be outraged and denunciate out loud that the military command doesn’t bother about what he thinks, but this would ignite an unimaginable chaos, and perhaps even a civil war in the US, if the citizens who own roughly 393 million weapons in their homes were to learn that private interests are in charge of the military. It would also lead to a very simple but dramatic question: «What is exactly the purpose of democracy?» These weapons are the titanium fences guarding the population from a totalitarian Big Brother.
One has to realize how much trouble the US army and spying agencies have been going through in creating false-flag operations for more than a century, so that their interventions always looked righteous, in the name of democracy promotion, human rights and justice around the planet. They blew up the Maine ship in 1898 to enter the Hispanic-American war, then the Lusitania in 1915 to enter WW1. They pushed Japan to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, knew about the attack 10 days in advance and said nothing to the Hawaiian base. They made up a North Vietnamese torpedo aggression on their ships in the Tonkin Bay to justify sending boots on the Vietnamese ground. They made up a story of Iraqi soldiers destroying nurseries to invade Kuwait in 1991. They invented mass destruction weapons to attack Iraq again in 2003, and organized 911 to shred the 1789 Constitution, attack Afghanistan and launch a War on terror. This totally fake mask of virtue has to be preserved for controlling the opinion of the American citizens and their domestic arsenal, who have to believe that they wear the white cowboy hats of democracy.”
Get the Picture???
Things May Not Be As They Seem…..wow..how radical….worry warts…….with you so much smarter you wouldn’t last a week in his shoes, but The Donald now CONFIDENTLY begging for a Senate Impeachment Trial….(google it…Fox Friday morning….) after 3 years of slowly, grindingly……..Gaining the Upper Hand:
“But, but….”
But WHAT???
Oh, you mean this:
“So how did Trump react when he learned that American troops were re-entering Syria? He repeated again and again in every interview and declaration that «we have secured the oil fields of Syria», and even added «I’m thinking about sending Exxon in the region to take care of the Syrian oil». Neocons, Zionists and banks were thrilled, but everyone else is outraged, because the vast majority doesn’t understand that Trump is swallowing this pill solely for its after-effects. On this single bottle is written in fine print that «the use of this drug might force American-NATO troops out of Syria under the pressure of the united world community and flabbergasted American population.» Trump made the situation unsustainable for NATO to stay in Syria, and how he’s been repeating this deeply shocking, politically incorrect position clearly shows his real intention. He destroyed over a century of fake virtue in a single sentence.”
Getting a headache yet?? Upset stomach???
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjb2UJZ-5I
(need some video)
“Trump is only the fourth president in US history to actually fight for the people, unlike all 41 others, who mainly channeled the people’s money in a pipeline of dollars that ends up in private banks. First there was Andrew Jackson who was shot after he destroyed the Second National Bank that he openly accused of being controlled by the Rothschild and The City in London. Then there was Abraham Lincoln, who was murdered after printing his «greenbacks», national money that the state issued to pay the soldiers because Lincoln had refused to borrow money from Rothschild at 24% interest. Then there was JFK, who was killed for a dozen reasons that mostly went against the banks and military industries profits, and now is Donald Trump, who shouted that he would «Give America back to the people».
Like most businessmen, Trump hates banks, for the formidable power that they have over the economy. Just take a peek at Henry Ford’s only book, «The International Jew» to find out how deep was his distrust and hatred of international banks. Trump’s businesses have suffered a lot because of these institutions that basically sell you an umbrella, only to take it back as soon as it rains. Private banking’s control over money creation and interest rates, through every Central Bank of almost every country is a permanent power over nations, far above the ephemeral cycle of politicians. By the year 2000, these nation looters were only a few steps away from their planetary totalitarian dream, but a couple of details stood still: Vladimir Putin and 393 million American weapons. Then came along orange-faced Donald, the last piece in the puzzle that we the people, needed to terminate 250 years of the banking empire.”
There’s your Grand Strategy in Laforest’s article.
The rest is just tactics, finer details.
Bro, that is a very good article !
Reminds me that it might be a good idea that the Saker maintain a permanent link directory to various sources including Oriental Review.
Reference to a link directory: Blogroll at New Eastern Outlook
Bro93,
Thanks for selflessly sticking your neck out, hopegully, Trump won’t lob it off in one of his mysterious eliptical circles that you have referenced.
There are some factual errors in this analysys though. Firstly, Jackson fought the Biddles, not the Rothschilds, Russia was under control of the Warburgs bankng family, and is now under control of the Rothschilds, in some regards, but not totally. The Russian government does not issue its own debt free currency.
Also, Trump is a Rothschilds aquaintance, in the very least, but the Federal Resrve is owned 100% by the 37% of banks in America that are Fed member banks, not just Rothschild, as every other Fed member would like people to believe.
Bro93,
We knew that it would come down to this in hindsight didn’t we?! End sexual harrassment, racial discrimination, both of which have been heaflined ad nauseum, and dead tellers from bank robberies in one swoop! Just have to laugh at the irony behind this.
https://www.rt.com/business/473797-deutsche-bank-robots-replace-workers/
You say that the CO2 greenhouse effect is ‘scientifically absurd’, yet the US National Academy of Sciences has declared it ‘settled science’ and all, every, each individual (with no exceptions) Academy of Science and scientific society on Earth and 99% of actively researching climate scientists, agree with that declaration. How is it that you know the Truth, but all these tens of thousands of, often eminent, scientists are fools or lying rogues?
By God, People, Arise!
And Be Good!
(It’s Sunday mornin’ y’all!)
https://youtu.be/WLMK9-Ns-TY
Gotta get my senior in High School up…the same way I got up in College:
Johnny B Goode
Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well…
But he could play a guitar……. just like a ringin’ a bell!
GO, Go Johnny GO! Go…go…go Johnny go!
Go go Johnny B Goode
Already 5 times through….now it’s time to baptize Kirill………….again! LOL
(Still not up and at ’em…)
Just wanted to mention a person that I listen to online and I think is very interesting, perhaps some of you are already familiar with him: Sergei Miheev (Сергей Михеев).
He is a politologist (political science) and a (geo) political/historical commentator that appears on Russian talk shows and on various Russian online media on Youtube. He is Russian language only, sorry for the English speakers :P I think he is a very good speaker and is very astute in various political and historical nuances. His main views can be generalized as follows: conservative (he is Christian Orthodox), anti-liberal, pro-Russian, anti-Europeanisation of Russia.
Here is a recent interview he gave to a LatvianOff-topic – Russian language – channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htqbq_gqqeM
Title: Россия – ковчег. Жить ради комфорта и успеха – это как-то пошловато / Russia is the ark. Living for comfort and success is a bit vulgar.
Absolutely! Mikheev is one of the best Russian political commentators out there. I like him a lot.
The Saker
I don’t speak Russian and listened as I love to hear the language. Get ready to jeer/ howl cynicists.
Gas pedal, brake pedal.
The motorist gently directs his car forward with only a slight application of foot-force upon the gas pedal. Effortless and enjoyable, and accelerating onward toward the objective destinations, the vehicle responds by strict design to obey every subtle permutation of command. How simple it seems, and easy, as the car holds supine, but firmly, the relaxed commandant, whose every whim is directed to immediate action. The motor is his willing slave, and he, the eagle-eyed master, the bidding of which is never confused nor disobeyed.
Alas, the road reveals her bumps, as upon yonder rise a feckless trespasser, of the sacred right-of-way, garrulously charges the flank, only to hinder the smooth passage of our motorist. What now? The motorist must slow! and yield to him who yielded not! Oh, the curses! and what effrontery and disdain is this, to sabotage the raptor-winged commandment’s pure and blameless mission. The game begins thus, to slow the least, the most minimal amount, to conserve all inertial charge to its most extreme extent —the brake must not be touched! Not yet, not ‘til the ultimate moment, ‘til the ultimatum is broached, ‘til the offender knows the curse of doom upon his measly head.
Finally, with Herculean strength, the motorist slides his toe to brake, and presses down with a conjured force of a thousand nuclear bombs, and his soul shudders at the contortion. No longer is the car his servant, it is now his enemy, which defies his logic to crush and smother his attacker, the shiny bumpers and plastic-chromed valance refuse all subjection to infamy, however necessary, yes, the car is his foe, and every repeated tap to that unwanted brake only destroys further, the freedom and luxury of moment past. The destination in sight becomes obscured by the cloud of effrontery and insult, and the pleasant paved track is now a torturous trial, and a muddy bog, the ease and effortlessness of command is now a curse, and the first circle of Dante’s inferno, and the cooling winds of freedom are absent, gone, exiled to oblivion.
Oh, poor man, what effort is to thee to tap thy brake pedal? It’s not more than to go, than to stop! Will every poor man suffer such agony when his path be crossed by opposing men, whose agreement he declines to suffer? What effort is it for you to press that brake, and yield to brothers’ fate, and live in freedom’s land a while longer, and not a self-built jail.
A personal journal
Sourpuss,
Sublime!
HA! The more I chew the more … Delicious!!! SUPER!
and then…
the being snapped out and woken up…
he is neither the motorist and there is no pedal…
but the experience is so SO REAL – as if one was in one of those what they tell him is called —> ‘being human’
except nobody knows if there is a record (of time-space-motion) somewhere
or if one needs to “pay” for the (re)submersion and (re)immersion again (some kind of cycles thingy)
or who is running the script-screen these days…
and if this being running the script-screen is inside or outside the ‘room’…
or if that which runs the script-screen too can be or will be snap out…
Generally safe for public consumption but could be anti-religion —
The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory with Ruth Kastner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6NNWdVCQZU
Well, if I haven’t come across some info which leaves me truly dumbfounded if not horrified.
First was this news of what took place at something called Astroworld where Kanye West the supposed new born Christian performed along side Marilyn Manson. If this wasn’t enough imagine he performed at Lakewood Church a truly demonic freemasonic service with the Eye of Horus which is just sacrilege really. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!! It has left me shaken to the core.
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/kanye-west-performed-satanist-travis-scott-astroland-2019-marilyn-manson-sang-antichrist-superstar-burned-bible/
What comes next however, has left me reeling. I wanted to know more about this website’s owner and his motives and he says this about his personal testimony:
“Long story short, my old boyhood priest, Father Mike, looked at me quite sympathetically when I laid my burden down on him. He was kind and compassionate, and really wanted to help ease the suffering I was going through about the death of my brother. But when push came to shove, he could not say with any certainty where my brother was. You see, Catholic doctrine does not presume to know if a person is saved, and can only guess based on Catholic sacraments, the Virgin Mary’s intercession, and so on.”
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/alcoholics-anonymous-and-bible-i-came-face-to-face-with-the-living-god-when-i-read-third-step/
Are you kidding me? Catholic doctrine does not presume to know if a person is saved or not? Further we need the virgin Mary intercession? This is a complete and total first for me it really is. I am so bowled over by this news that I am having a hard time to believe this is true. And the more I look into this mans website lo and behold we have the Pope himself saying some truly astounding things. If one hasn’t seen this or know about it take a good look and ask if we haven’t got something insidious occurring in the city of Rome?
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/antichrist-pope-francis-tells-1-4-billion-catholics-personal-relationship-jesus-dangerous-harmful/
I am not aware of any religion that claims to have divine knowledge of whether or not any specific person has been saved or not, but if one would, that would be a solid indication to steer clear of it. Selling tickets to heaven would be a charleton scam!
@ andrea iravani
‘selling tickets to heaven’ and what do think the selling of indulgences was for which was wrong of course?
As for divine knowledge if one comes to Christ with a humble and contrite heart recognizing what Christ did I can assure you will know you are saved!!!! Period! this is what the Holy spirit is for!!!!
What do think that the apostles themselves went through life not knowing if they were saved? Really?
Well, the Protestants official dogma is that the electorate, ( those chosen to go to heaven, only 144,000 ) is predetermined, with the only way of being able to change that predeterminition by God is through hard work, hence the saying, ” the protestant work ethic.”
I do not believe in predestination, but at the same time, in quantum mechanics, things have been shown to be predetermined.
It is all very interesting. Very complicated, depending on which ever plane or dimmension or lens someone chooses to view things through.
Andrea, all knowing is within the individual. We have to trust our instincts, however. Once we catch some truth, the mind is right on our tail and begins to question and nag; usually going something like this…”nah, that can’t be, no way”… Personally, I think this deeper aspect of “seeing, knowing, being”, that lies within us has been highjacked by the priestcraft, and other canny types who’ve put their energy in the direction of mind control, so that most individuals do not trust the messages from the deeper self. In fact, we’re not taught to mistrust it. We’re taught to rely on outer authorities, and this has resulted in enslavement of the masses. Nor are we taught to go after truth, and test it for ourselves. To be a self-directed individual begins with listening to the deeper self. Then working with what one gets inwardly needs to be done quietly. Predestination ties in with karma. Everyone has an individual karmic load, or burden. But I don’t believe one’s fate is a foregone conclusion. We always have the opportunity to take greater responsibilty, to move into an area where we work off/create less karma for ourselves, and so on. Dreams are another way that the higher self uses to warn and give direction to the outer self, but of course, the censor attempts to maintain the outer status quo.
Dimitar,
No argument from me on any of that. Personlly, I am not a church attendee and I don’t knock it. If somebody is getting something that helps them, that is great.
“I do not believe in predestination”
Whether you do / do not is immaterial, it is written in black and white:
Ephesians 2 King James Version (KJV)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Not complicated at all. Religion is entirely infantile, another control tool beside its brother – Nationalism.
I suggest John Michell book Dimensions of Paradise for a true esoteric undetstanding of the 144000 that has been mistakenly literally misunderstood by eg Jehovah witnesses.
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“The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft and all the institutions of their civilisation. Plato, an initiate in the Egyptian mysteries, saidit was the instrument by which the ancients maintained high, principled standards of civilisation and culture over thousands of years. In THE DIMENSIONS OF PARADISE, John Michell describes the results of a lifetime’s research, demonstrating how thesame numerical code underlies sacred structures from ancient times to the Christian era. In the measurements of Stonehenge, the foundation plan of Glastonbury, Plato’s ideal city and the Heavenly City of the New Jerusalem described in the vision of Saint John, lie the science and cosmology on which the ancient world order was founded. The central revelation of this book is a structure of geometry and number representing the essential order of the heavens and functioning as a map of paradise.
@ andrea iravani
Yeah I don’t know where you are getting your info from but that is hardly correct. Furthermore why is it that whenever the topic of predestination comes up we hear about the 144,000? You been listening to the Jehovahs Witnesses have you?
As for predetermined the death and resurrection of Christ is the center around which everything revolves. Everything regarding his life was foreknown beforehand and written about centuries before any of it happened. Start there and not with the JW’s 144,000.
The Pope is out of control, a loose cannon. He worships pagan idols for God’s sake! (see the whole ‘pachamama’ incident). The Western Church is pulling loose from its moorings, and it’s a weird thing to see.
Ah yes, of course, the pope, demonic corruption of the spirit and world dominion, that was the topic….
(All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6)
And who goes with envy and callous intent – stalking the halls and corridors in anger…
But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
‘Tis then delightful misery no more,
But agony unmix’d, incessant gall,
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love’s paradise.
James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 1,073.
The voice of the Bolivian putschists. You’ll sort those ‘devil-worshippers’ out, no doubt. What a pity Klaus Barbie isn’t still there to lend his expertise.
Maybe not being able to say where the author’s deceased brother is should be called ‘honesty.’ Dogma teaches that there is some form or other of Judgement — a recognition of the reality and finality of death and life. A priest though qualified to administer the sacraments cannot say anything about any such man’s fate, other than that he is in the hands of God who is both merciful and just. Going by the Gospels we can say that there exists the possibility of a good outcome (Lazarus) or a poor one (the rich man). The man knew his brother better than the priest, yet he asked him. If he could not judge for himself why did he ask the priest?
There is no recipe. A lot of issues have been carefully thought out and are in the Catechism but no one is or was ever saved by canon law or an institution for that matter (c.f. Jn Ch 15). God works through the sacraments but is not constrained by them.
US sent ‘blunt’ letter to Canada criticizing defence spending: sources
https://globalnews.ca/news/6210623/canada-defence-spending-nato/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-pressure-us-defence-spending-1.5371352
(I know it’s an unending task to keep track of all the grievances between these two countries, but I’ll toss this in)
By the by, I wonder what Montreal’s La Presse has posted in recent US news:
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201911/23/01-5250935-affaire-ukrainienne-des-contacts-entre-giuliani-et-pompeo-a-un-moment-cle.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_cinemaStandard__4470675_section_POS4
A good video,though horribly sad,that is a record of Israels crimes against the children of Palestine.It breaks your heart to see the Israelis evil.But then,how many people will actually see the video,and who will care:
https://vimeo.com/71566529?ref=fb-share&1&fbclid=IwAR2khHffGtxN0Qjo_XWNfX5VnLyoVM2xVIDpsdoq8o-e_iiKEpb_2O_1pfk
But, Bob, pointing out Evil actions by the State of Israel is a sure sign of ‘antisemitism’ and a visceral hatred of all Jewish human beings, everywhere, living or dead, (driven by jealousy and envy at their perfection)and a desire to re-open the death-camps. I thought everybody knew that. Those so-called ‘Palestinian’ so-called ‘children’ were undoubtedly ‘antisemites’, too, and got their just desserts, and now for vengeance to the fourth generation!
My erudite friends have packed up their beloved books, moved them into storage in a small coastal town in N California and Next week the cats and a generator get thrown into a camper. They are leaving the big city. Why?
“People are too angry”
Sigh. These are only other people I know who eschew TV and feel that the end of the world is much exaggerated. Yet they leave.
My thoughts
Exile as a State of Mind
Hard rain’s a’comming
Batten down the hatches!
A hard rain’s a’gonna Fall
No Mr President
No Mr Patches
No Mr Roberts
Looming disaster will stall.
So buck up little camper
Self sufficiency’s the game
Make good strategy
For the long haul
We’ve allowed this mess
And we’re also to blame.
Check the mirror with gimlet gaze
It’s no fleeting fancy,no passing phase
No bump in the road, no election haze
It’s mass hysteria
Society’s craze. Splitting at the seams In collective rage
Shattered
battered
Yet still how it plays….matters
So here I stay
On rt this am…a look at USA university education system…students so full of me too and anger and brainwashed programmed politics….no room or wish for reasoning and listening to other perspectives to develop thinking etc …..only going to get worse.
Vietnam Vet’s Passing
His home we went to clean…
Walls weeping yellow tears
His was a hard death—the slow suicide
In nicotine haze
They do it quicker, different these days.
Walls weeping poison tears
Breath by breath his grief given vent
Until his silent scream was spent
Walls streaming tears of years,years
Tears wiped clean
Tears witnessed
Tears seen.
Thanks T13 for this post. I’m a Nam combat vet who lasted 5 months before I was wounded and medevaced to Japan. I was an Army “grunt”. We “grunted” because often we had so little energy left that……….we grunted.
I was shy of 20 when wounded in 67′ and have had a whole lifetime to dissect what happened in those 5 months.
I’d often heard that “adversity builds character”. Several years ago I realized what a crock that statement is. My gut check war experience told me that “adversity does not build character; it reveals it.” War is an awful thing in so many ways. Suddenly a young male is put into a situation where he can literally “get away with murder”. I was “slow on the trigger” when I didn’t HAVE to be fast. I saw young men who were FAST on the trigger when I thought they should have been slow; a body vs a prisoner. I saved several “prisoners” and also a young boy running from our “allies” who were raping and killing his hamlet while we surrounded it. In my view the ARVN’s, Army of the Republic of Viet Nam had the “character of feral dogs.
Regarding U.S vets, or any country’s vets, who commit slow motion suicide or fast suicide, it comes back to their character revealed in said war. You can run but you can’t hide from what you may have done. A young man I knew from my home county was involved in the “Phoenix Program” in Nam. Google it and read what took place. My friend was and is a mess. He is still living, if you want to call it that, in a VA facility in Florida. He was a farm kid like me who was maneuvered into a situation where he killed who “they” told him to kill. He tried to be “normal” and have a “normal” life but the memories were just too much. A 2am call from his wife back in the 80’s had me taking a shotgun out of his hands and me and another vet driving him through the countryside till after sunup to talk him back down. There were more instances before and after that. A life destroyed. The other vet that night, a cousin of mine who had been a horribly wounded Marine, is now in a “Soldier’s Home” with Parkinson’s. I visit him several times a week, but the end is near.
War is hell before, during, and after. My wife says I handle it better than anyone she knows. I suppose that’s true. I think it comes back to character. Mine was good when I was sent and it held when it was tested. Most of us went when called because we were ignorant. I would be stupid to go now.
I read every new article by Satoshi Nakamoto.
I do so because I am intent on discovering what role, if any, his Real Bitcoin (BSV) will play……….. not only in the coming Great Monetary Reset …that should take down the Central Banking Cabal which Sylvain Laforest spoke of in the article About Trump….which I posted yesterday….but also in terms of the Coming Global Cultural Paradigm Shift.
Many of his articles are super technical but I am looking for the Macroscopic Lay of the land from near earth orbit not cyber laboratory work under a crypto-microscope.
Today’s article is one of those from A Higher Perspective:
https://craigwright.net/blog/economics/work-is-infinite/
I deem it an excellent ingredient to add to the stew (debate) of ideas, ideologies and silly nominalisms that so confound the human brain.
I know the following article will offend the sensibilities of many readers…and that’s why I post it.
Get as offended as you like!
Work Is Infinite (title)
“Many in Silicon Valley and others like to promote the false concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and, specifically, how AI and automation will replace people. There is one reason they do so: to confuse people and allow a few technocrats to maintain control. Machine learning or statistical learning is about the most unintelligent thing in the universe. What it does is it allows individuals in positions of power to hide behind algorithms. It allows them to create a system that acts upon their will and say that it is really the will of a machine. But no machine has values or a will; no machine has a desire.”
ME: A recent declaration on the Bitcoin SV you tube channel is that “Silicon Valley is the Enemy”. I think Wright is …………right about that….and in this article he declares war.
And many of you will be Caught In No-Man’s Land…..unsure which (if any) side you are on in this war.
“Whether we talk about Marx or Keynes, the concept of automation leading to too much leisure and thus the concept of the privileged class needing to lead the masses in accordance with the Fabian socialist ideal are not new. In Silicon Valley, the same idea has been turned into the techno-communist dystopia as they seek to pull the wool over our eyes and create a world based on control and selling our information.”
ME: Is CAPITAL a dirty word?? There are distinctions between rentier-financier capital which mainly loots labor…..and entrepreneurial capital which employs labor at higher productive capacities and income.
If you won’t see the distinction, prepare to get triggered:
“In a capitalist society, unemployment occurs when people don’t want to take up a role they should take up, or when they don’t want to accept that they may not earn as much. The lie that you have been fed concerning capitalism is that capitalism is about the capitalist. It isn’t.
Capitalism is about the entrepreneur.
The entrepreneur creates new systems, which don’t need to present a massive scientific breakthrough but can even form something as simple as a business process that allows them to improve society. To do so, they require capital as investment. Such investment is all too often confused with vulture capital, yet the majority of capital investment is of a different nature, which includes family resources, banks, or the money that is used when people buy franchises or start new businesses.”
ME: Is this occurring in “Communist” China?
Will it (entrepreneurship) massively increase along the Belt and Road, connecting new billions of persons with infrastructure, productive plant and equipment and markets as never before, no matter what the name of the governing party is?
Both rumor and reason answer in the affirmative.
“Successful entrepreneurs may become capitalists in time. But the reality is that most people from the middle class are already capitalists; you become one when you invest money, and even when you hold a savings and investment plan. What few people understand is that the amount of work is unbounded. There will never be a shortage of work, nor of goods. It always comes down to a trade-off: Are you willing to work for what is being offered? Is the work being applied correctly and where it brings the most benefit? Are you wasting effort?
This is where capitalism benefits. It is a system that works with rules and within order. It is a means of measuring the wants and desires, that change moment by moment, of a non-uniform mass of people and a means of sorting conflicts between what people want and what is available.”
ME: Craig Satoshi Wright does NOT mean Vulture Capitalism, comrades. He made the distinction earlier in the article…..remember???
“The ability to have zero unemployment exists right now. It doesn’t occur because we allow people to have free choice. We allow people to have the option not to work. And it is an option because there are always alternatives. In a society that has a safety net, people choose not to work rather than work. People choose to stay where they live and near their families rather than move. Such choices are all open to some, but not to others. For many of the poor people on earth, the option of staying in one place and not taking up migratory employment is unavailable. And yet, it is because we are spoilt with choice in the West that we choose to live as if we had no options.”
ME: Whiners and Non-workers of the World Unite! LOL
“In the West, nobody is restricted from education. You may say otherwise, but the reality is that every hour of watching reality TV, taking Instagram pictures, or checking Facebook updates is an hour that could be spent bettering oneself. With the availability of free education, with libraries and, more importantly, online access to some of the most challenging works in human history for no cost, the only excuse is one that lies with oneself.
Some will argue in terms of privilege. They will tell you that it’s not fair because they come from the minority of the weak. What we see is a form of self-pity from people who refused to take action to improve themselves. In every city, jobs exist that nobody wants to do.
Each and every time you decide it would be simpler to sit down and grab a beer and watch television, you bypass an opportunity to read a great book, to study a technical problem, and to educate yourself further. Each time you come home from a job you don’t like and slouch about, you make a decision to accept the life you have. Herein lies also the reason why many people join protest movements. It’s simple, and it allows them to pretend they’re doing something when they’re really being lazy. It doesn’t require much thought to hand out leaflets and to join a religion, for much of what people talk about as true problems makes for a religion.”
Me: Now, we’re getting to the heavier part:
“Those who are part of cult-like movements such as Extinction Rebellion are simplistic fools who would not be able to get their own life in order and rather than attempting to do so, choose a religion based on hate and pessimism. For such cults are nothing more than religions. They allow individuals to believe that they are doing something, when in fact they are nihilistic and destructive. They let people pretend to take up arms for what they perceive is their true calling, when in fact they are merely tilting at windmills. Mostly, it becomes an excuse. It’s an excuse to say that they don’t need to change because problems exist outside of them. It’s an excuse where they can say that it’s not their fault. They can blame others and say that society is wrong rather than look close to home and decide to fix things themselves first.
Those who are part of movements such as Extinction Rebellion and the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement simply hate. They hate themselves, and because of they do, they take it out against others. Rather than learning, building, and creating a better society, they simply desire to tear it down and end it. There is nothing without humanity that matters. Anthropomorphising the earth as Gaia simply fails to recognise that the earth is not a living entity and that the earth does not have desire. The reality is that humans and only humans have developed a conscious desire and ability that allow us to explore and develop; no animal has ever done so other than us. In time, all life on earth will end unless we develop technology to change it.”
Me: Ironically, it is this creative capacity Satoshi speaks of that many here and everywhere unfortunately (we are not equal in capacities…only in basic human rights…) lack….and hate..in humanity …wherein lie the only ACTUAL solutions!
“If humanity disappeared tomorrow, in time, so will the earth. And at this stage of the universe, at this stage of the planet, there will not be something else coming to replace us.
There is one thing that has been true throughout the existence of humanity: we create. And in doing so, we find solutions to all of the problems that exist.”
Me: Of course there is a miserable minority of persons who will have none of such optimism….and they are fostered by the rentier-financier Empire oligarchy as a battering ram against the innovators and developers of a more human order……..which these psychopathic monsters have ZERO desire to yield to.
Here comes the part that will depress and enrage these self haters of humanity, whiners and complainers …. even more:
We Are Not in an Era of Decline.
The world is at the start of a golden age. Every year is better. Every day is better. Every single day that passes leads to less poverty, more vaccinations, healthier lifespans, and more freedom throughout the world. Some will try and tell you otherwise, but the facts of the matter speak for themselves.”
ME: I am wary of vaccinations with indiscriminatory abandon…… but soldier on:
“It remains that there is much to do, but there will always be much to do. No matter how much we do, there will be more to do. Yet, in the last two decades, extreme poverty has been cut in half. Not only that, we have a larger population, and we have reduced the number of people in poverty. The earth will not collapse with 10 billion people. In fact, if 100 billion people existed today, they would be fed and clothed, and the earth would not be collapsing. In the past 10,000 years, everything that humanity could want has improved. Access to clean water, access to healthcare, literally anything you can name has improved. Comparing what you have to the best of what is available is not the same as comparing what you have now to what was available 20 years, 50 years, or 100 years ago. In the West, the richest of us 100 years ago had less access to many things we take for granted than an uneducated tradesman does today.”
ME: Now, HERE comes true Sacrilege to the “Humanity is NOT Fundamentally GOOD” (But we ARE good……despite the fact we create some material and non-material trash….lol) Religious zealots and irrational self-flagellants sponsored by Oligarchic Elites:
“We Are Not in an Era of Decline.
The world is at the start of a golden age. Every year is better. Every day is better. Every single day that passes leads to less poverty, more vaccinations, healthier lifespans, and more freedom throughout the world. Some will try and tell you otherwise, but the facts of the matter speak for themselves.
It remains that there is much to do, but there will always be much to do. No matter how much we do, there will be more to do. Yet, in the last two decades, extreme poverty has been cut in half. Not only that, we have a larger population, and we have reduced the number of people in poverty. The earth will not collapse with 10 billion people. In fact, if 100 billion people existed today, they would be fed and clothed, and the earth would not be collapsing. In the past 10,000 years, everything that humanity could want has improved. Access to clean water, access to healthcare, literally anything you can name has improved. Comparing what you have to the best of what is available is not the same as comparing what you have now to what was available 20 years, 50 years, or 100 years ago. In the West, the richest of us 100 years ago had less access to many things we take for granted than an uneducated tradesman does today.
The true answer, the true solution to all our problems is to do what we have been doing for the last 10,000 years: to remain human. To invent new things, to create new things, and to form solutions. The only way we fail is to accept the nihilistic ideas of those who hate humanity and all that they are and seek a world without our existence. One where they have destroyed humanity in a mass suicide, so that they can argue that they won’t be alone. It’s one associated with Extinction Rebellion and all who follow them — those who seek comfort in a cult because it’s simple. As they are placated and they don’t need to work hard, they don’t need to take responsibility; they can blame others, and so they blame business and capitalism and government. It stems from a mentality that lets people focus on the external, and so rather than changing themselves, rather than learning and educating and developing new solutions, they allow themselves to live in a world where they can simply blame and hate.”
ME: It’s a wrap, with 2 final paragraphs:
“The reality is quite different to what most people believe. We live in the most prosperous time in human history, and next year will be better. A decade from now, it will be better again, and our children will live better lives than we can imagine. The only thing to be gloomy about, the only thing to despair of is that some people slow such growth down to a trickle and limit the rate of change in society.
It is the entrepreneurs in society who create change. Although change is disruptive, and in the short term, it seems to cause problems, it is such change that leads us out of poverty and into a world of plenty.”
ME: This however is not at ALL what some have been inculcated by the Oligarchy ( who want the Same Old, Same Old “ORDER”….with them at the top, manipulating a large base of whiners and complainers) into ALSO desiring:
The nostalgia of the past……the Glories of Feudalism…..the Simplicity of Serfdom…..as fervently as their New World Order Masters……desire it.
The Empire
Oh my, we have an ode to Capitalism, Trump and Faketoshi – the new little housegods and Bro’s Kumbaya piece. (Sorry Bro .. I’m going to beat you up a bit! But, you can take it eh?)
– Faketoshi’s crypto is known as the most ‘bank friendly’ cryptocurrency in the world and Faketoshi is hard at work creating a fake history for himself.
Trump – why do we not stop making this man into a little housegod and continually saying … Tomorrow he will do better. He plumb stole Syria’s oil and is keeping it under military guard. No way to whitewash that. He is not giving it to Syria you know. The latest little coup in Bolivia – Mr Trump supported that with his words, his emotions and his being and against one of the most honest and most real leaders that we’ve seen in our time – a leader that worked for his people and now is in exile. Trump does not need the support of his military because he is well in cahoots with them.
Capitalism – unfortunately we see now what this system does. It has the seeds of the destruction of the human being built into it. I have no hard ideology as I think any country or group needs what they need to flourish, and this may be connected to their own level of education, and perhaps consciousness, so, systems to my mind are ever evolving and they should do just that – the moment you draw hard stops, then is the moment that the people are just lost, because they are evolving (we hope). China again is an example – now that they have entrepreneurs, they are opening up their economy but supporting their entrepreneurs as much as what they support the state run enterprises. Communism with Chinese Characteristics.
At least the conscious person knows that while anyone else in this world is not cared for (water, war, food, roof over the head as the basics, followed by education and the opportunity for a productive life), we all are not cared for. Because what can overcome or overthrow one group today, can overcome or overthrow ourselves tomorrow. I would say you have not lived in a country under sanctions, you have not truly experienced war, you have not had to struggle for food for you family like most people around me, and so on.
How about trying this Kumbaya piece in Yemen.
Sorry Bro, I am a positive kind of soul, but not for the wrong reasons singing out .. All is fine, while the world is clearly burning. You may be fine, but talk to a little brown person in Bolivia today.
Aah, on that capitalism subject, that feeds into some work that I’ve been doing lately, on the Extinction Rebellion mainly white, mainly middle class capitalist climate bedwetters. But you know, before I could truly edit it, James Corbett wrote it nicely and dripping with sarcasm. Yeah, it will take a while to work through it.
https://steemit.com/climate/@corbettreport/how-to-protest-extinction-rebellion-style
I would suggest that the hard leftists go to http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/ and see exactly how the capitalists are funding the money flows behind this ’cause’ that you’ve taken on as a leftist cause. It is clear energy austerity. You should be marching against this austerity like the yellow vests.
And a little bit that I borrow from Dmitry Orlov from behind his pay wall.
“I don’t dispute that burning fossil fuels increases concentrations of atmospheric trace gases. I also know that a small rise in temperature has been observed, and an increased incidence of extreme weather events. But I don’t think it wise to consider computer climate simulations as a valid tool for making climate change predictions until they have been validated by several centuries of observation. This is how science works: theories->predictions->confirmations through experiments or observations. No amount of scientific “consensus” (groupthink, that is) can validate a theory.
I also find it somewhat preposterous that everyone and their dog chooses to ignore the rather obvious role of global warming in triggering the onset of the next ice age. We are in an interglacial period; it will end at some point. Lastly, what I observe is scientific groupthink being used to justify public subsidies for supposedly “sustainable” but actually counterproductive energy projects and a variety of financial swindles involving carbon offsets and credits.
Those who want to “save the Earth” should either go and live off the land using manual labor, or shut the hell up.”
And before I forget, guess where we find clear involvement of Extinction Rebellion. If you guess the Bolivia coup, you would be right. Information now beginning to pour in.
Climate change: Greenhouse gas levels hit record high ‘with no sign of slowdown’, UN warns
Report finds 43 per cent surge in warming effect since 1990
Andy Gregory
2 minutes ago
Good news for our denialist interlocutors-more ‘plant food’! And a great big ‘fertilisation’, seven billion plus, coming soon!
Dear me-did Orlov really write that? Feet of clay, or neurons, I suppose. We haven’t got several decades, let alone centuries, to observe the rapid destabilisation of the climate to know that the science is sound, the computer modeling ever more accurate, and the weather and climate disasters unprecedented for centuries, if not millennia. The bleachings of the Great Barrier Reef for example, have not occurred for at least 800 years, and the fires in tropical and sub-tropical rainforests not known for hundreds of millennia. And we have ice-cores going back hundreds of thousands of years that attest to the extremity of our situation. And your ‘report’ re. Bolivia is the silliest disinformation I’ve seen for some time. I know how your fellow denialists have concocted it, deriving from the disinformation blaming Morales for the recent megafires in Bolivia, and had rather suspected more disinformation to flow down the usual conduits.
Well that is the most lunatic denialism I’ve seen for quite some time. The world is a paradise is it, that could feed 100 billion people? Only in the twisted minds of capitalist fanatics it could, with fisheries everywhere collapsing, the climate rapidly destabilising, megafires raging, droughts deepening and become more widespread, alternating with unprecedented deluges and floods, the spread of animal and plant diseases, rapid disruptions to biospheres, the loss of topsoil and soil life, the destruction of insect life and derangements to the nitrogen, phosphorous and carbon cycles-all amid massive pollution of every type imaginable.
The progress of fanatic denialism to the cult-like invention of an Earthly Paradise just as every Life-support system on Earth collapses, is a sure sign of the Right, because denialism is a quintessentially Rightist phenomenon, going full barking mad. And aggressive, too, as the unhinged hatred of Extinction Rebellion and figures like Greta Thunberg attest. When cornered, the Right always turn to hatred and violence, to keep getting their way, to continue their dominance, but this time the growing public awareness of the truth of our terminal predicament will soon overwhelm the denialist death-cultists, although it will not be an easy process, and is almost certainly too late.
Something more from the Oriental Review:
https://orientalreview.org/2018/02/02/illyrians-autochthonous-balkan-people-nothing-common-modern-albanians/
I read the first paragraphs only.
I leave it to Dimitar to critique, as he’s in the Middle….hopefully under a diminishing siege.
And the author Vladislav B. SOTIROVIĆ…Serbian is my guess…..
Do Serbs and Macedonians get along?
I must rouse the Sleeper by Day through bribery……pancakes with maple syrup. When I rose at 4 am the loutish teen was awake in bed, in the dark… laying on his side clutching his phone and staring at its screen.
Yesterday the waking process lasted from 10 am to 4 pm. through 6 or 8 interventions. He’s so allergic to wakefulness during daylight that I will begin calling him Oblomov….the Gogol character whose mode of “coping”……engaging in the world…was NOT to.
By sleeping through what everyone else was doing, and refusing to participate in anything.
Is there a cure???
I am severely doubting that it IS the cure!
Bro, it’s all perspective, is the persons life moving forward? One I basicly (not proud of it) tossed out. I fully understand the ‘struggling musician’ and will support with all my ability, but clanging around the house at four in the morning (work day for mom and dad) making bacon and eggs……….on your own dime, own place. We gave him lots of grace hoped he’d figure it out, sadly, it was him or us.
The older boy is holding his own at uni………..but yes the ‘screen time’…………is some times my ‘scream time’. Not so much anymore, after the heart attack I have undergone a ‘change’.
Digression sorry, the perspective. You know where he is, as I do mine. My optomitrist told me his kid spends all his time in his room, gamming, screen timing. But like us, he knows where his kid is. I should mention the boy is third year med student on honor roll.
Hark back to when I was a lad……………..we were all on first name basis with the local cops and I’ll leave it at that. My kid blows things up on screen, we did it for real. His race games are on screen, ours where down the road at 100+mph in real time.
Conversley your or my kid could be like my cousins, on his second stint in the big house and cous is a nice guy, good home……………maybe it’s circumstance, luck of the draw, culture, peer pressure, all of the above.
I think sometimes parents are a little hard on themselves……………whose yard stick do you use and will we ever measure up.
Cheers M
gonna assume you got a millinial there, I have three, oh, and even though they leave home (will it ever really happen) they come back, my oldest, girl, just moved back home……………..yikes.