2019/12/23 18:00:02
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For those of you interested in ukraine & its corruption etc, I came across this site, https://twitter.com/UkraineLiberty – ‘The ONLY group protecting 🇺🇸 Americans in Ukraine’ – caution, some graphic images of Donbass civilians murdered by the kiev regime.
Ralph, that is just a partisan blowhorn twitter. It steps aside what the issues are around Ukraine, and is just another Trumpish Oh, It Is So Important batch of unconnected information, without setting the true context.
Tell me who the Americans are that have to be protected from the Ukraine Corruption. Sorry, but I believe this is a limited hangout type of twitter feed.
We must not forsake that which binds the good in each of our souls.
Love, compassion and truth are our stalwart ally.
Let us give pause in our vigilance against the machinations
of Satan and celebrate the beginning of the Messiah and prophet
who came to save those that have fallen away from God’s Logos.
Hark! the herald angels sing:
“Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled”
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic hosts proclaim:
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”
Hark! the herald angels sing:
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Thank you Poke The Truth ! for all of us !
Please speak for yourself ioan (or adequately explain the logical problem of evil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
Peace.
Divine Spirit is a creative, sustaining and maintaining force. IT can be heard and seen with the inner senses of Soul as Light and Sound. IT is neither good nor evil, but neutral, in a manner of speaking. However, men may shape, mould or use IT to their own ends, IT is available to all, and not “withheld” from anyone. However, all actions in this universe have an equal and opposite reaction, so, an individual who may be doing “evil” to whatever degree, whether out of willfulness, ignorance etc., will be held to account at some point for his actions.
There is a “Lord of the Lower Worlds”, known variously as Satan etc. but this being is not an outcast from Heaven rebelling against God, but a part of the spiritual hierarchy. Their are beings known as Lords of Karma, who are accountable to this entity, whose primary function is to “mete out judgement” to Souls who are under his jurisdiction. The Lords of Karma themselves are imperfect beings subject to various influences, shall we say, and so, no judgement is perfect, but generally appropriate. Hell is a state of consciousness, as much as a place, but its purpose is ultimately to provide a context for learning so that a Soul who has done great evil, shall we say, will undergo various rehabilitive programmes in order to understand that this is not the way to be. Nor is Satan himself, exclusively evil, but has a benevolent face as well, and uses guile as much as anything else to
keep Soul in the prison of the lower worlds. To keep It in a state of imbalance. That is his purpose and function.
There comes a time however, when Soul moves out of the jurisdiction of the Negative Lord, and begins to undertake a learning of another kind. This in spiritual terms, could be described as becoming a candidate for Self-Realisation. Self-Realisation signals the fact that a particular Soul is ready to accept responsibility for Its actions, and is essentially motivated by Divine Love and not selfish gain. I said, above, that in this universe, all actions have an equal and opposite reaction. There is in fact, a third state of being; the karmaless act. When one rises above the dichotomy of good and evil, one becomes a vehicle for Divine Spirit. The Spirit of Life reaches through the individual and does ITs own work. These are the miracles that go unnoticed on a daily basis. So, in a manner of speaking, good and evil are relative states, two sides of the same coin, whereas the neutral act, or state of “non-power” ( when an individual is allowing Divine Spirit to reach through him/her and do ITs work without being directed by the individual ).
How does one achieve Self-Realisation? Soul will be shown the way, and It will be given the necessary help. But Its intention must be pure, and as such will be given many tests so that the spiritual hierarchy is able to assess the true state of one’s state of consciousness. The major tool in the tool-box of the Lord of the Negative Worlds, is fear. Its agents will always create a sense of fear, dread, anxiety in the individual and aim to trap him through introversion. Soul, on the other hand, must find a way to escape. That way is Divine Love. But we only begin to make real progress when we put this goal above all other goals. Thy will, not mine. The rest is then added unto us. We do not become passive particles of God, we are still active participants in life. We simply move, live, breath and have our being in a world we access that is beyond the apparent, or outer world. A world beyond both good and evil.
Dimitar,
you have a vivid imagination – I appreciate that,
You have made no attempt to address the logical problem of evil as it applies to the deity (YHWH) that ioan, apparently, believes in.
That is not a surprise, since there is no logical answer.
Peace to you too
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting. Psalm 100:4-5
Why don’t you define “the logical problem of evil” for us, anonymous? Without reference to wikipedia or biblical quotes, huh? I mean, in your own opininion?
First you ask a question, and then front up, saying, ” there is no logical answer”. There’s no logic in anything you’ve said, which to me reveals you’re nothing more than a game player.
Dimitar, the logical problem of evil is, as stated on the wikpedia page, extremely straightforward.
However, if you really do need any clarification, here is a lengthier discussion (including various proposed defenses) https://www.iep.utm.edu/evil-log/
Since you, presumably, have never yet been dead (unless, like ioan, you have been on a series of non remembered reincarnations) your self descriptions of what the “Soul” is really like also makes you a game player of the very highest order (also known as a vivid imagination).
Sorry, I do not partake in discussions with unnamed individuals who first of all, do not know the first rule on a public forum, which is respect for another’s viewpoint. Since it’s gone over your head, you did this by dismissing my comment as “vivid imagination”, not once, but twice. Nowhere did you try to refute anything I said, you simply belittled me, and Ioan, in both your comments, assuming an air of superiority and allknowingness, as if your viewpoint is the one and only viewpoint that has any validity. I asked you your ideas on what “the logical problem of evil” was, and you’ve again posted me links; that is, someone else’s viewpoints.
What factors, societal or at home, contribute to the lessening of individual freedoms of speech, to inhibit our communication in a world where supposedly there has never been greater opportunity via the wonder-web ?
Political correctness used to be a very common term, one never hears it now, it’s old hat. Well, one never hears it because it’s sunk below people’s skulls. The man who mistook his wife for a hat mistakes her no longer, he is subdued, a victim of unconscious mind control of a very different order.
Terrifying, but to be silent is to acquiesce.
How to reclaim freedom to think and articulate ones own thoughts and not be crushed – to be or not to be, that is the question, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of an outrageous fortune, or take arms a against a sea of troubles’ – Shakespeare says it better, but it really is an existential life and death matter.
The ghost of Christmas coming up next !
European Culture and Values
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, English
Hypocrisy. Noun.
1. A feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not: Behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe.
Synonyms: Dissembling, insincerity, Angela Merkel, EU, et al.
President Trump has signed the budget defense bill for 2020. However, in that bill are sanctions against any and all companies and individuals working on or with Nord Stream 2 pipeline, apparently right down the the scullery maids on the ships laying the pipes.
https://www.rt.com/news/476557-eu-rejects-nordstream-sanctions/
https://www.rt.com/news/476549-germany-responds-nordstream-sanctions/
https://www.rt.com/news/476542-nordstream-jatras-sanctions-us/
https://www.rt.com/business/476498-eu-extends-sanctions-russia/
While the bill does not enter in to force yet, Washington has already informed all parties who will be sanctioned to cease and desist now, not tomorrow, now. The Swiss have already bailed with nary a squeak. Washington has also told Erdogan that Turkey will be sanctioned for Turk Stream pipeline system. Apparently what Erdogan said was unprintable but methinks CehSha might regret what they just did.
Germany, in particular Madame Kanzler Merkel, has screamed bloody murder, calling the sanctions against them ‘illegal’ and ‘immoral’ and ‘detrimental to the German economy’.
Now, I fully understand that Foggy Bottom could care less if Germany or France or Poland or Austria has enough natural gas to heat their homes in winter and keep the factories running year ’round, and I also fully understand that the sanctions are not so much against Germany et al as against Russia in particular. However, while the sanctions against the two projects will hurt Russia, at least in the short run, I find it almost humorous, in a disgusting and hypocritical way, that Germany/EU are screaming bloody murder now that their ox has been gored.
This, by the by, is the same Germany/Holland/UK/Danemark/Belgium/France/Portugal/Greece/Spain/Italy/Austria whoever/whatever that three days ago renewed the sanctions against Russia for another six months.
And the good thing is scuttlebutt going around is Foggy Bottom is ruminating sending Navy ships to enforce the sanctions against Nord Stream. No official verification yet, and scuttlebutt is often scuttlebutt, but sometimes it ain’t. They can’t be that stupud…..can they?
Auslander
Author http://rhauslander.com/
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521849056 A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
An Incident On Simonka paperback edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1696160715 NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Do I really have to answer that?
Nope, it was rhetorical.
They can.
However, they are overplaying their hands with this kind of nuclear option, because they can’t go back. And that against a NATO partner (NATO is already crumbling away under our very eyes).
Nordstream will be finished, which it is actually almost.
Merkel has a noose around her neck from the German industry, who think pragmatically. Germans are getting fed up with the yankees, some Bundestag (parliament) members have already asked for the expelling of that ridiculous US ambassador Grenell – what do you expect from US dimplomats when frog Pompeo is the highest boss?
Let the US Navy send their ‘It’s an Armada, it’s huge!’ which they also ‘did’ to the DPRK, remember? Just imagine that a Russian sub slides silently under their ship and blows their electronics out. Would be fun, wouldn’t it?
Cheers, Rob
Yeah, pres Trump signing sanctions. That is a violation against international principles, where UN Security Council is in principle entitled to use sanctions as a means of preventing war. The UN Security Council is in principle the only entity to use military sanctions as a means to prevent war.
The use of sanctions by UN do not mean that it is available for memberstates (countries). Using such means
should therefore be a matter for the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly. Sanctions are likened to the final diplomatic warnings, it can only be a stage of the reactions from the UN Security Council to prevent war the next stages would involve UN led military intervention.
Sanctions, as those from the USA in which they involve EU and other allies, are making a mocking of international principles, and are designed to give USA a competitive advantage and destroying the economy of other countries, are in violation of the principles of UN, and should have been receiving condemnation resolutions from the UN General Assembly, and urgent meetings in the Security Council. This cannot go on as it puts world peace in danger, the very foundation of the UN Security Council is to counteract it , if necessary with military intervention.
John, you are completely correct. But it is going to take a major allay, like Germany, to finally stand up and say this has to end.
Here it comes. The totally detached fools have now driven the key ally Merkel/German parliament into a defensive position, all good news. It could lead to abandonment of the absurd Nato farce and more handshakes with his Excellency.
Merkel will fold, her squeaking is a sop to the major German industrialists. She’s a dead woman walking anyhow, she’s had at least two strokes and is happily spending her remaining time amongst the cognizant plugging her people in to positions of power, kind of like Clinton and Obama did to Uncle Sugar.
“… Merkel will fold …”
Yes, my thinking too.
As for Lavrov’s brave statements… The Kremlin crew obviously did not learn anything from the South Stream débâcle in 2014. Still making deals with their “partners”, counting on reciprocating honesty and honour of the Devil Himself… The naïvety displayed is simply astounding.
Auslander, if we don’t know it now, we better get to know it … These people are pushing war mongering to the nth degree .. they are cruising for a bruising, not understanding that nobody really wants to shoot them out of the sky – so, they push and push and provoke. Let no navy ships appear.
It is incredibly dangerous times.
“not understanding that nobody really wants to shoot them out of the sky”
That, they will never understand.
Kent
Extremely dangerous because the congress and the government he runs are using pres. Trump’s weak or non-existence understanding of international law and its principles, to enter him into violation of international law in almost every area in existence. The one-sided support of Israel in direct violation of international law, warcrimes against Syria, warcrimes against Palestine, warcrimes against Yemen, warcrimes against Afghanistan, warcrimes against Iraq, false flag attacks against Iran, criminal negligence regarding Ukraine situation, sanctions and regime change operations around the world, to mention some organised state crimes.
VVP will not be goaded in to an attack no matter what they do short of tossing a missile or two at Sevastopol. The last perfect man we had on this rock, we hung him on a cross. Everyone, including VVP, makes mistakes and he readily admits making mistakes. No one expected the sudden and full court press against Nord Stream and Turk Stream, and no one expected the Swiss/Dutch consortium to fold so fast. As it looks now, Nord Stream will be completed by early summer, and that’s qualified with if Germany doesn’t completely fold and stop the project.
The problem EU is facing is Russia literally just opened the Power of Siberia pipeline to Katai, and Katai is an every more rapacious consumer of energy supplies who is also a completely honest and reliable customer. In other words, if Nord Stream is not completed, Russia will turn to The East, to more reliable customers, and wait for Germany to come hat in hand to Moskau begging for more gas and POL. Germany and much of Europe is in process of shutting down coal fired and nuke power plants to ‘save the environment’. All it will take is one severe winter with the orc gas lines collapsing from decades of no maintenance and outright sabotage and the likes of Mutti will be licking Putin’s boots whilst begging for more gas.
Hi, Auslander, I’m happy to see you here and really hope you’ll be here for long. As for Merkel, yes, you are right, she will fold. Do you think Putin does not know that ? The inner relationship between the two countries had always been interesting and let me tell you, that it had been always under some sort of shadow. Why? they were and are not fools, they know each other interests and they knew it for long, whatever happened on the surface during history is just the surface and nothing more. The chess play is going on as usual, the common enemy is playing on long term in the same way, for long term and that enemy is the enemy of all of us too. It is time for history books to be let where they belong to, history books.
The reality is much different, that’s why it not and never was actual to be scrutinized properly and that’s why the people are still dreaming – it is meant to be so.
I know, many will not understand a word about what I did wrote now, but time will solve things and, time permitting, I will give some hints in the new year.(this will not be a sauna massage for many).
Lavrov’s comment :
“Question: What specific measures can Moscow take to counter US sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream? When would they take effect?
Sergey Lavrov: I cannot tell you everything. This matter requires quiet work and analysis. I can assure you that unacceptable and uncivil moves like this, in violation of all conceivable norms of international law and diplomatic and human behaviour, will not go without response.”
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3977778
And here from Vesti News .. they start with the other pipelines, explain the agreement with the Ukraine but what I found interesting is at the 10:00 min mark, where they have extracts from the letter that went to Allseas. Very very threatening. This again explains to us what we are dealing with here. These people think the world belongs to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wPjPiuioqA
I’ve never seen nor heard of such language in international or national business. No wonder Allsea folded instantly, their huge US assets were threatened with instant confiscation and any assets they own that came within US territorial waters would be seized and even their employees are under threat.
After reading all, and looking at other sources, my thoughts are Nord Stream 2 is dead. Even if Russia finishes the laying of pipelines to the German coast, Germany will be under giant pressure to not connect to Nord Stream 2. Merkel has the spine and intestinal fortitude of an amoeba. German business in US will come under the same threats of confiscation. Benz, VW, Siemens, Krupp (yeah yeah, I know, but it’s still Krupp) and Opel have massive investments in US, as do other German firms, and all will be threatened with instant confiscation. I say again, Nord Stream 2 is dead. Mother lost this one, and my thoughts are Mother will turn to Katai and India for expansion of not only gas but other businesses.
Auslander
Auslander
It will be another Orwellian tragedy if the Hegemon wins this round.
Even if Russia finishes the NS2 pipeline, Germany the pathetic groveling vassal, still has to have the courage to turn on the tap. So I guess the outcome of this current fracas now rests in the hands of the current Chancellor. Visually this piece of work could well pass for Hitler’s niece…hmmm…wonder how reliable she will be when it comes to doing the right thing for her country. Methinks probably about as reliable as her lookalike predecessor.
So yes, begrudgingly I have to agree that it now looks decidedly dodgy now for the whole project. It also appears that the timing of Warshington throwing this giant spanner into the works is to deliberately cause maximum annoyance, inconvenience and financial loss to Russia. That is their normal playbook so to a certain degree it was all pretty predictable. It was just the time-frame that was the wild-card…not the modus operandi.
Drumpf and Fatboy Pompeo continue to throw their weight around on the world stage like a couple of idiotic mafia thugs. All the while they are blissfully unaware of the rate at which they burn what little is left of their countries diplomatic capital. Their extraordinary mawkish and belligerent behavior has turned a smolder into a veritable bonfire. They have become so emboldened in themselves that they make no attempt whatsoever to mask their serially obscene behavior. It stands brazenly in broad daylight now for all the world to see.
The Deep State may win this round temporarily but their blatant serial thuggery guarantees they will ultimately lose the battle proper. A new juggernaut has come to town. This is an alliance and a cooperative of major powers that have a massive investment in global economic initiatives. This alliance is completely and utterly fed up with the obscene greed of the Hegemon. Now is the ideal opportunity for Germany to contemplate their running mate. Their decision on NS2 will reveal which path they choose to tread.
The Hegemon’s days are numbered. And what do you know, the new juggernaut is not actually invested in perpetual war and mayhem…now there’s a novel idea!
My warmest Xmas greetings to all participants in the best geopolitical blog site on the globe…bar none!!
Col
“… The Hegemon’s days are numbered. …”
Of course. The only problem being, in which time frame? In 100 years?… 1000?……
Just recall how in 2008 every Tom, Dick and Harry got into the profitable business of Hegemon’s Imminent Doomsday divination. Judgement Day blogs simply mushroomed, myriad astute “analyses” were writ (certain professor Igor Panarin even predicted dissolution of U.S. into no less than five parts by no later than 2010 :-))…
And lo and behold … now is almost 2020, and The Hegemon is still – The Hegemon. Alive and kicking (everyone at will), printing $$$ with no end in sight, terminating Nord Stream 2……………….
Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays, as the case may be) to all the Saker bloggers.
Best of everything to all of you for the New Year.
salud amor y pasada y tiempo y por disfrute
Google translation,MOD: health love and past and time and for enjoyment
A reply to Ioan’s poem, “Where Are You?”, from last Cafe.
Mantle of Blue*
I am far, yet I am near,
Behind the hidden veil men fear.
He who is patient, he who is true,
Will find the way and receive his due.
No lover ever loved in vain,
There is a reason for the pain.
Nothing ventured is nothing gained,
Your mantle of blue knows no stain.
Just beyond your eyes and touch,
The nest you lined and loved so much.
When the time comes you’ll break the spell,
Deep within your heart I dwell.
No lover ever loved in vain;
There is a reason for the pain.
Nothing ventured is nothing gained,
Your mantle of blue knows no stain.
* Mantle of blue; a poetic reading of ‘the cloak or garment of Soul’.
Thank you Dimitar for your wonderful poem ! I will try to do my best and play my role to the end.
Thank you, Ioan. In the interest of balance its always good to remember there are two sides to our predicament. Blessings, D.
I don’t tend to easily like much poetry – I have been a lover and reader of poetry all my life, and have very specific likes. But this one I do – it has music in it’s choice of words, and meaning beyond nuance also. Thank you.
These lines “No lover ever loved in vain,
There is a reason for the pain.”
Reminded me, for some reason I dont know, of a line by the first Western woman to become a Buddhist monk, Pema Chodron: ” Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know”.
I keep asking myself, what do we need to know from the pain of the Empires violence, so we can make it go away? :-)
Hello Pamela. Thank you for your thoughtful reply. The poem is about the difference between human and divine love. The nature of human love is such that it brings us suffering, because the conditions inevitably change, and what we considered a perfect love is lost and we end up with a crisis of emptiness. But this process of loving and then losing love, experiencing pain, etc. is what brings the human heart a greater capacity to love. It seems we do not grow spiritually without pain. We may not like it, but we are forced to grow for our own survival. Life works on our weaknesses like a laser beam on our most vulnerable point, making us strong. We need to become strong because God has plans for us, and will not let us be idle. HE will have us one way or another. In the end we come to understand that we are the very love we seek or want, and we gradually relinquish the things that hold us back in order to maintain the spiritual state within. It resides within us, and we realise we are that love more and more, through loving all of life without reservation. But we love from a spiritual viewpoint, we love the spiritual self behind all appearances. We don’t necessarily like what everyone does. This is my understanding, anyway. Regards, D.
I had a very wise teacher who told me one day. “Your task is to see the faults of others and then choose to under them”
Oh !!! Slam dunk
Choose to not see them. Correction
Well put…
btw, ‘teta’ in Macedonian, is Aunti…( am guessing this is a typo ) teta, er, tera…
Another ‘Putin done it’ story for the holidaze. From zerohedge.com DEC23:
Italian Prosecutors Believe Joseph Mifsud – The Man Who Started RussiaGate – “Is Dead”
What happened to Joseph Mifsud? It is the biggest mystery surrounding the man that allegedly began the FBI’s probe into President Donald Trump’s campaign and the now debunked theory that campaign officials conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.
Reports are frenetic, schizophrenic & confusing, with this update indicating he’s ” 20% alive, only 80% dead”:
Sources interviewed from the Italian prosecutors office, told the journalists that they believe there is an “80 percent” chance that Mifsud is no longer alive.
Italian prosecutors believe Mifsud dead. Papadopoulos tweets Mifsud alive & “more to come”
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the disappearance of mysterious Joseph Mifsud. The Maltese professor palyed an instrumental part in setting up the George Papadopoulos dangle operation, that launched the CIA/FBI spying and surveillance of the Trump campaign during the 2016 US presidential elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S44m_WjgW8o&feature=emb_logo
Lil Joey Mifsud is not sleeping with the fishes. More to come.
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) December 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1208166035360104448
https://www.rt.com/russia/476667-putin-crimea-bridge-train/
Classic!
Meanwhile in the empire:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476696-russian-aggression-is-just-pretext/
We have $700+ billion budget with moar F-35’s, a space command designed to soak up the billions, more $13 bil+ ford class carriers which have yet to complete sea trials after two years running; but hey, …..
Meanwhile we all sing Hallejuva, Right??
Viewer discretion and interpretation advisable (or mandatory) (silent monk version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA&app=desktop
Kent
Only in the U.S.A. . . .
A country that runs a prison system like the #US prison system has any right to call itself civilised, let alone lecture others on human rights and decency.
Today I talked to Willie Simmons, who has spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9. He was convicted of 1st degree robbery & sentenced to life without parole in 1982, prosecuted under Alabama’s habitual offender law because he had 3 prior convictions. 1/12
https://twitter.com/bshelburne
In what society do 5-year-old kids have “lunch debt”.
5-year-old pays off lunch debt for over 120 classmates with stand selling cider, cocoa and cookies
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/474950-5-year-old-pays-off-lunch-debt-for-over-120-classmates-with
China detaining millions of Uyghurs?
Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing. Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz. While CHRD states that it interviewed dozens of ethnic Uyghurs in the course of its study, their enormous estimate was ultimately based on interviews with exactly eight Uyghur individuals.
By Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/
The weird thing about the accusations about China’s treatment of the Uighurs is how weak China’s reply to it has been – why don’t they reply to the charges and defend themselves or tell their side of the story?
Where did you want to see China’s reply? Not in the western media for sure. They have replied, invited many countries to take a look and various countries availed themselves and sent envoys, and could not find anything wrong, they have had no terrorist attacks in this area in three years or so, and they put these people with no skills in schools and educated them. So, it depends where you look for replies.
Here is a bit ..
Allegedly ‘missing’ Uyghurs found living normally
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1174468.shtml
And the old Christmas card trick with a ‘message from a Chinese prisoner asking for help’ which is going on now ..
Humphrey fabricates ‘foreign forced labor’ in another attempt to defame China
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/1224/c90000-9643503.html
Apropos U.S.A. Justice… aka mendacity – hypocrisy & indeed double standards . . .
The US State Department has declared that Narendra Modi, as India’s head of state, receives sovereign immunity from US lawsuits, even if they allege human rights violations he committed as an individual while Chief Minister of Gujarat .
https://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2014/11/is-narendra-modi-leader-of-worlds.html
I’d rather take counsel of Those Far More On The Ground …………..in Europe, Russia, Syria etc …….than very nervous hand wringers and worry warts in far away places.
Little Signs From Bigger People ………..I find far more indicative of the actual potential for peace, prosperity and sanity….than the fear porn addicts’ unshakeable faith…………that insanity……. will almost surely prevail in a World Gone Mad…and so fretting 24/7 is a fully justified, almost mandatory and positive indulgence.
Such a debilitating emotion, IMHO, hampers the reasonable and careful steps that can guide humanity through the land-mined traps in the strategic landscape much, much more assuredly than was the case just a few short years ago, and blinds the observer to what is new, and strikingly better in the overall world situation…..in my considered opinion.
First and foremost, for me, among these “Little Signs” that loom very, very large is Vladimir Putin’s public, open, fearless, and frank observation that Pelosi and Schiff’s Impeachment Initiative is farcical political desperation.
Can you imagine him saying such a thing before Mueller’s probe ended with a whimper and Bob Melted Down in front of Congress, unable to even recall pertinent elements and major players within “Russiagate” in an almost helpless, pathetic CYA exhibition of dodging the Demoncrat’s insane lust for “collusion crimes talking points” ??
You’d think the Russia-gaters would have had a field day with that free “Collusion Ammunition” served up for them on a silver platter by the Russian President…….but it seems the only one dining on that three year old rotting buffet ………..is Mad Maxine Waters. Besides Pelosi ONE other sputtering octagenarian hag using “PUTIN” as her nearly chargeless cattle-prod shock for herding the sheeple …………does not come off favorably as a reasonable leader…….compared to the fully self-controlled and rational Russian president.
Perhaps that is why the presstitutes in the MSM found no fuel in Putin’s remarks capable of rekindling the Dying Embers of the 99% Discredited (except for Mad Maxine…trying to whip her One Trick Pony for one last lap around the Beltway Circus Tent) Russiagate Hoax.
Another subtle indication that the hyenas were loathe to charge the lion (and get raked by its claws, again…of defiant ridicule…if not yet the long awaited by Deplorables….Indictments.) was Donald Trump’s calm remark that he had been invited to Moscow for the 2020 Victory Day celebration…..and was very seriously considering accepting the invitation.
In reviewing this just concluded Autumn’s articles by Israel Shamir, on his website I find my cautious optimism confirmed by someone far closer to the action:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/the-biden-affair-in-the-ukraine/
“The Ukraine is the second home for CrowdStrike, the cyber-security company that was instrumental in accusing Russia of meddling. Its founder and head, a Russian Jew and American citizen Dmitry Alperovich is a pathological Russia hater on the model of Masha Gessen and Max Boot. People in Kiev say he had built the case against Russia on the strength of a single server allegedly used for hacking the DNC. The server is located in the Ukraine, not in Russia. President Trump asked for its whereabouts in his conversation with the Ukrainian President Mr Zelensky.
The subject of the server makes many people in the Clintonite camp extremely nervous. They already marked it with “conspiracy” marker, meaning you may not touch it. In another “conspiracy debunking” item they created a straw man, saying “the notion that there is some missing “server,” and that the server might exist somewhere—like in Ukraine—has no basis in reality. The DNC’s network consisted of many servers and computers”. However, the server Trump asked about is not the DNC server, but the server allegedly used to hack DNC server. It had left some Russian-language traces, and it was presented as a proof of Russian involvement. But Alperovich’s hackers in the Ukraine also use Russian as their working language, and this allowed the Russia-hating Jew an opportunity to create the whole chain of “proofs” of Russian hackers’ activity with fancy names. Recovery of the server would put paid to the whole myth of Russian hacking, and would make the Clintonite case untenable.”
and
“How could they find fault in Trump allegedly threatening to cut aid to Ukraine if they think Biden was perfectly all right for doing exactly that? But these guys aren’t playing cricket.
The forthcoming Presidential race is becoming a global affair, it seems. In so many countries the US influence had been delivered by agents of Clintonite clan, and all of them are tempted to do what the Clintonites ask, that is to help them to undermine President Trump. In the Ukraine, the struggle of Clintonites and Trumpers is far from over. President Zelensky promised President Trump to help him; but the oligarchs of the Ukraine are in Clintonite camp.
All but one: Igor (Benny) Kolomoysky, a maverick Jewish oligarch and a friend of the President, is an enemy of Clintonites. He also stands against IMF, International Monetary Fund, the powerful bankers’ body that issued many loans to the Ukraine. Just this year, Kiev has to pay six billion dollars to the IMF to remain solvent, and IMF refused to refinance it. The loans were mainly stolen by the gang of the former President, Mr Poroshenko. People in Kiev say that about 1.7 billion dollars of the latest loan had been pocketed by the American supporters of Poroshenko, meaning Joe Biden and his ilk. Now Mr Kolomoysky suggests the new Ukrainian president may default on IMF loans.”
The Good Old Debt Bomb Fuse IS Lit!
Moves and countermoves. And the evidence is that Obama and the Clintons have lost too many pawns.and major pieces…….and the vise is tightening………..like a Donetsk “Cauldron”.
Or let’s look at Syria, from Shamir’s point of view:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/cautious-optimism-on-turks-and-kurds/
“………….. President Erdogan knows that his citizens are fed up with millions of Syrian refugees. If he doesn’t figure out how to drive them back to Syria, the Turks can drive him away – this scenario has already been rehearsed in Istanbul, where citizens voted for the opposition promising to make peace with Assad and send the Syrians back home. Erdogan says he recognises the integrity and sovereignty of Syria, and that is already big progress, but Damascus doubts his sincerity and condemns the invasion.
There is a simple way to deal with the refugee problem: let them go home, to their own towns and villages. Damascus government wants it and ready to accept them, granting amnesty and pardon for past offences. But Erdogan is not ready for that, yet. The Americans do not want to vacate their zone, for it has oil. If Assad will get it, he will be able to rebuild Syria with his own money without assistance from the West. The West wants a Syrian government poor and broke, needing money, taking loans, begging for help. That’s why they do not allow the Syrian army to enter the areas beyond the Euphrates. Syrians tried to make a move when the American troops departed, but they were warned they will be mercilessly bombed if they just try. For Syria it is too much: to fight Kurds, Turks and Americans at once.”
And Israel???
“They demand the creation of Kurdistan under the Israeli-American protectorate, having cut it from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The implementation of such a plan is fraught with ethnic cleansing and can raise a wave of refugees in the tens of millions of people, which, of course, would be ok with Israel: it does not accept refugees. As opposed to other forces, Israel would be satisfied by ruining the region. Defeat of Kurd clients and success of Erdogan, this sworn enemy of the Jewish state, is a huge blow for Israel.”
And Trump???
“What is much worse for Israel, is Trump’s intent to leave the region. There is a good chance you haven’t seen relevant tweets of the President, for the MSM doomed to surround it by the wall of silence. This is what the President said while ordering withdrawal:
“Fighting between various groups that has been going on for hundreds of years. USA should never have been in Middle East. The stupid endless wars, for us, are ending! The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE … IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY! Now we are slowly & carefully bringing our great soldiers & military home. Our focus is on the BIG PICTURE!”
Just for this recognition “GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE … IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY” and for this promise “The stupid endless wars, for us, are ending!” Trump deserves to be re-elected and remembered as the most courageous and independent US President since Richard Nixon.”, writes Shamir.
“The Middle East needs reconciliation, Moscow believes. Syria’s integrity under Damascus is the key to reconciliation. In parallel, the ongoing process of constitutional reform will help to resolve differences between communities peacefully. The chances of implementing Moscow’s plans aren’t bad. One of the main instigators of the Syrian imbroglio – Saudi Arabia – had been beaten in Yemen and is no longer eager for battle; ditto Qatar and UAE. Europe is less keen on removing “bloody dictators” than it was. CIA, Jewish Lobby and Clintonite Democrats would keep Syria boiling, but mercifully they are not in full command in Washington. We may feel cautiously optimist, though many things can go wrong.”
So the work is to keep them from going wrong by increasing the chance that Donald Trump WILL make that visit upon the invitation of the President of Russia, next May.
Shamir appends an update to his article on Syria that ends with these three very short sentences:
“Russian Air Force provides some possible answers. Russian diplomacy has a difficult but not impossible task. Even more reason for cautious optimism!”
Christmas Cheer to All….and to all a Good Night!
Combat is messy. This is combat. I survived my war. We will survive this one.
Thanks Bro for your persistence in a view that I share. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemons”) said that “If you don’t read the paper (MSM) you are uninformed. If you read the paper you are misinformed”. Thankfully we have an “alt” media and personal experience that allow us to see through the propaganda and form a basis of what is happening. It’s quite simple really. Follow the money. It has always been so. We will win. We have no choice.
This is the gruesome account of the first half of the Clinton Body Count documentary.
https://www.infowars.com/must-watch-film-new-look-at-the-clinton-body-count/
In the last Cafe I posted a reply to amarynth : /moveable-feast-cafe-2019-12-20/#comment-734083
Aah, I did not see that ioan. Will remind The Saker that we have to do something :-)
A quick hi to our commentator friend who signs himself ?
I saw your comment in the previous cafe :-)
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-12-20/#comment-734319
All I can say, is my crystal ball is somewhat murky at the moment. My own expectation is that we’re going to be in all kinds of hot water for a few years to come. Sometime this global revolution phase will settle down. Will we, the ordinary people, have won more freedom. I hope so.
In the mean time, I wrote a love story to a friend just because we need to grab hold of what is real :-) Enjoy
https://saker.community/2019/12/22/a-love-story/
Very lovely story :)
I have a father and he was mostly around but yet my whole life is fatherless…
then I died, giving up the idea of family of love of belonging,
and I got out of the body… and the world of matter the world of relationships ceased to exist at once!
Sad? No. Funny? No.
What is it then?
Answer: Why does it have to be ANYTHING?
It become clear – I learned what I could not have ever learn when cased or trapped inside the body –
In return to your kindness here,
“Man, having chosen to spurn spirituality and thus ***lost the union in consciousness, which is his birthright, now seeks to console himself with worthless worldly bubbles. ***With the arrogance of ignorance and blindness he claims the reality of his environment and endeavours to possess something outside himself, something to which he is half alien. ***This striving for worldly things still further buries the inner divinity, which becomes so encased in materialism that it can no longer be roused from its deadly slumber.”
You see, dear friend, the soul that came to play the character of my ‘father’ were so into world things, so much so he made his one and only son, one chance from god, one test from god, a thingy. That soul will ceased to exist (along with the surety of death of things).
Such is the ‘human’ story.
Sad? Funny? Should I even feel anything?! Hmmmmmm….
But when I reached NOTHINGNESS-EVERYTHINGNESS, I learned ‘Immortality’ !!!
“If you will destroy the previous thought, you can see the future.”
Then I ‘woke’ up…
and took form-body-story again…
To amarynth, Saker, and all, and all your family and friends,
→ May you write a love story with those surrounding (god sent to) you always ←
Many thanks again and happy holidays to you :) and your family :)
p/s in the east, family is ALL! Peace2U
The Siddhartha road is not for wimps (grins). It wipes one out and re-births one in the same moment. Some have help from plant teachers or entheogens, others just duke it out.
Yours is the Eternal Story ? Thank You for so generously sharing
I offer ‘Immortality’ which, when I first heard it, wrought amazing liberation,adventure and discoveries in my own Journey
.
https://youtu.be/bZolfKgW5Is
To eveeyonel in the Saker community I wish all the blessings of Christmas- Love Peace and Joy
The good Christmas story about peaches … The word “peach” goes back to the Latin phrase malum persicum, meaning “Persian fruit” and is connected also to the rose family. The tree’s spring time blossoms are known significantly as a color all of their own, termed “peach blossom,” and is the tone of healthy skin in a white person. With that,and the rose connection we are led to the Virgin birth spoken of in the 14th century carol :
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu,
Alleluia.
For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space,
Res miranda.
By that rose we may well see
That he is God in persons three,
Pari forma.
The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis deo:
Gaudeamus.
P/s Warning! Not for religious devotee. Pls keep your peace w your god.
Unless you are the original poster… (which I dont think so)
HA :D v.Nice! So you cracked the da Vinci code for everyone :)
So is it Rose of Sharon or Rose of (The Eye of) Sauron ?
Some unlucky ‘peach’ goes bad and rotten while they contaminate with poison of this world…
Some v.Unlucky ‘peach’ are simply ‘born bad’ and made to bring the poison from the other worlds…
Who curse them to be ‘born’, and then curse then again to be ‘bad’, and then again curse them to ‘ceased to exist’ as their due judgement and final end?
Did not the ‘father’ curse his one and only ‘son’ 3 times too?
What creature ‘deserves’ helplessly hopelessly haplessly to be curse by god, their god, some other god, 3 times from pre-birth to post-death?
Such creature surely has NO FREEWILL!
What ‘peach’ story is that?!
Some ‘peach’ hey?!
So?! What should we, the lucky good ‘peaches’, do to them?
Both – the ‘father’ and the ‘son’?
amarynth, and all the friends at Saker, please be assured that my comment above in response to your story was written purely inspired by this. Christmas wishes and thoughts I felt were in the carol
Hopefully that is self understood by everyone, but in case it is not, or puzzling :
I honestly cannot understand the content, nor motivation for the reply to this posted above. It is beyond me.
But the cynicism, scorn and antagonism apparent in the post, I certainly feel.
Not to worry at all.
We’re this strange human family and we’re either putting ourselves through the lessons that soul needs, or somebody, some power out there is steering this ship. I’ve long since put away even the idea of chasing the paradox of the *logical* problem of evil. It is just that, a paradox, not logical, and the peach gift story touches and plays different games with us, melody or harsh cacophony, depending on what our worldview and experience is – because it touches all the major archetypes. That story touches some, and in others it creates revulsion. One day I’ll rewrite it from a more esoteric perspective. The father archetype is immeasurably strong because of the depth of integration in most all of our religions.
Be assured, all is good on my side.
I wanted to say how touching your story was, and thank you for posting it, because it’s one of those stories that express the small miracles that occur daily purely out of hearts that know the value of doing things with love. In so doing, they demonstrate God’s love in action. God’s love is here and now, and is expressed through kind-hearted people like the elderly couple in your story.
Re: “evil”. Evil exists for the sole purpose that its practitioner comes to know that there is good. One cannot know what good is until one has experienced the consequences of having done evil. The journey of Soul spans eons, and that journey one day brings the individual to the borders of the true kingdom that lies beyond the worlds of dichotomy, of good and evil, darkness and light, etc. One then understands that good and evil are two sides of the same coin. Soul’s journey toward God continues in earnest, as it comes to realise that one’s destiny is to become a bearer of Divine Spirit. Thats about all that can be said of it, because beyond this point, one can only know, and act out of knowing. One can never explain to another what one’s understanding is. Each individual must unlock the puzzlebox within themselves. No one can do it for them.
Pls do be at peace. I am merely posting some sharper open questions, not necessary direct to you, since we are at a open forum. If its not to your taste or level, just ignore it. Be well.
p/s I have been accused as ‘possessed’ and ‘jerk’ and whatever else… so they are probably right :) but what they dont know or dont want to know, is if there are places darker than black, of no return – and still go there to find out if one would still come back…
I need help!!!
Can any one tell me what book say something like that “Chinese can become human only when they accept Western democracy?” I really want to review the book like that check what wrong to the person who write that book?
First, define “Human”. Then define “democracy”. “Democracy” is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for lunch”.
“Western” democracy seems to be based upon ‘fractional reserve banking” Debt slavery. (give me $5 and I’ll loan you $100 at ?% interest. Democracy “allows” you to vote for officeholders who are supposed to make sure that your “human” rights are protected under basic laws agreed upon in your society/culture. The “officeholders” (in the West) can also pass “law” that allow certain political groups to bypass “basic” laws. It’s a way to purchase votes.
To say that you can only be “human” if you adhere to “Western democracy” is total BS. To politicize “humanity” is the ultimate rascism. ALL humans sprang from an original seed. Argue as you like when and where that seed originated or how it evolved. “Primitive humans” by “Western standards” in the Amazon or anywhere else may well have a better understanding of life on planet earth than a “Western Democrat”.
Into my 8th decade I have grown the food I eat, heated my home with wood, (still do) attained University degree, physically designed and built structures of all manner, gone to war with humans from the East up close and personal, interact with humans from all over the planet on the sidewalk in front of my home, and I know that they are individuals of the human family that have my respect if they deserve it. Those who question your humanity do not deserve your respect,
Humanity has come to a reckoning. We HAVE to get the “money/capital” right. If we can, population, trade, human rights, environment, galactic position, will take care of itself.
You seem to be an “enlightened human” to pose the questions you have.
Whats its got stuffed full in its pocketsies – gold, trinkets, free speech…
Unorthodox Black Sheep VN, like your interesting articles plus that you ask for feedback and don’t seem afraid of the big bad wolf – and call everyone ‘you guys’ –
The devil never sleeps, he’s short of time and with insomnia, why? He’s a gambler, analyses gambling strategies, and is successful, 24/7 and waging high stakes. Creating fear is his main strategic component. But one day he will go bankrupt, spade up and do not acquiesce or be curtailed by any devils wily tail and tall tales, its all lies.
“Every attack planned by the thieves was thwarted by Morgiana, a brave and intelligent slave girl working in Cassim’s household. Eventually, vengeance is wreaked when all the thieves are killed and Morgiana is given her freedom as a result…”
@Unorthodox Black Sheep VN, as an aside, I thought your urgent question was clearly rhetorical in nature and intended to stimulate thought.
However, I forget the name of a book I once read on the topic, or the exact title, but something along the lines of “She who Must be Obeyed, the ‘she’ in question if I remember correctly, being the subversion of femininity into “democratic autocracy.”
Open Sesame ! I know many Chinese and they are beautiful people.
HA :D OMG
China claims to commit to non-interference (thus no much to say here than what’s already said by many here)
but the timing is just ‘delicious’!!!
ON CCTV (China state TV channel)
[中国新闻] 中国人权研究会发文批“美式民主” | CCTV中文国际
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pnkBHFWjR4
google translation: China Human Rights Research Association issued a document approving “American Democracy”
***But the word ‘approving’ should be ‘criticising’. (Thanks goo-bots! Nice. v.Nice!)
The short news clip talks about USSA’s monetary system, inequality, voting fraud, gun control and the POTUS selection system +++ THE LOT!!! (and not miss a beat)
Hmmmmm…. so much for non-interference, hey?!
(read: somebody in the east has been watching ‘you’ all along)
Ha :D dear me… subtle msg sent, in a particular time of the season…
(and RU sent msg on their hypersonic – where is chairman Kim’s xmas gift?)
2020? anyone?! What a wonderful world!
Hi VN, you will find that somewhere in a speech … it is not in a book as far as I know, but the idea rings a bell for me … I’ve seen it somewhere before. Perhaps in a journal. Here is a start for you, in International Studies Quarterly. The word ‘normal state’ is considered or defined by the West to be one that is democratized – western style. Pompeo uses that word frequently, and there is a reason for it.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4621734?seq=1
I think the word that you need to search under, is a ‘normal country’ or ‘normal state’ and perhaps not democratic. Here is some history.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/435654-its-time-for-china-to-become-a-normal-country
… The Oldest True Stories in the World …
Evidence gathered in recent years shows that some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events.
https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/
It’s so easy, but fife years I didn’t do it:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/12/thanks-und-frohe-weihnachten.html
Frohe Wichnachten for you too my Lieber freund ! I was thinking on you these days and i’m thankful to the stars that you are fine and still here among the old lads. God bless you and your family, have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year !
Thank you iaon, I’m happy to be here ‘among the old lads’. The Vineyard
to me gives the reason, to keep formulating, what I wouldn’t learn to know
if I hadn’t to formulate it. It’s the poetry of our Star-planets-drama, i’m trying
to submit as our unconscious drama, waiting to become conscious, to give
us an understanding of the ‘players’ playing us.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too.
Dear Saker if you have the time to write your personal impressions about Russia being expelled from the olimpics. This has really made me mad, but how this can affect the Russian people? There is no doubt that this exclusion is politically motivated.
Dear Oscar
I am aware of that issue and I will try to comment upon it.
Kind regards
The Saker
My Dear Friends ! My mom prompted me to wish you all a Merry Christmas – yes , you heard it well, – she adored her kid as the One Born kid in Betlehem was adored that time, that’s why I wish you to adore your kids more than anything else, at least this time of the year ! Be happy with your families at least now, be happy that you have a Family and please share your Love to them as much as you could do it, at least this time of the year ! To have a family is a great gift, they are your home, they are your responsibility of your life ! take care my Friends and may God bless you all !
You too…..maybe one day every person on the planet may be able also to think of everyone as part of the family of the world.
It’s Good
Creation spoke -the earth formed
Into being
Then casting its awesome
seeing
Its awesomeness again gave voice: “ki tov”
It is good ! At heart, at essence, good !
Those who call it bad have just misunderstood.
the worst of our species intrinsically are a 99% perfect beings
Accidents happen to the pilots, gainers and losers,
and their followers,
I have no answer, but me
hence
no follower
but ‘ve a certain hunch of a re – naissance in the physio/psychical mirror of
‘religion’ , a real rebound into the openness of
God in an ubiqueness of psyche mirrored by in matter
in an everlasting mirror invisible like but powerfull like a mathm. formula
and so on as an constant interplay of coast and vastness
through the times only fixed by births which dream an unconscious
but preordered dream by mother time
and the fathers of the zodiac are undoubtedly heirs of
hundreds of thousand years under Gods Sun and Gods Stars
constantly thinking about the similes of human small and great dreams
living in the tent of the fathers
at the edge of the camp
where the good part of all Kings
and presidents are visiting
like the vineyard
where the constructive professionalism
is the only measure to any co-menter
in the vineyard
When I followed my thoughts this afternoon, I suddenly realized, that
it’s diary-Wednesday. Forgot it about ‘first day of Christmas’. Not much time was left to work. So I did the concentrated version for the last week of the year:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2019/12/accepting-vanities-humiliation-jupiter.html
Tolstoy’s realization was that life itself wasn’t evil and meaningless; rather, he had lived evilly and meaninglessly.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/__trashed-2
Blessings for Holy Christmas and the Twelve sacred Nights!
Each of the Twelve Nights correspond to one sign of the zodiac, and thus give a signature to how the coming year will unfold as the sun courses through the sidereal signs.
Such great mystery surrounds us.
k
Might be a sign that the empire is cutting back altho hard to fathom with the obscene $700 bik + “defense” (sic) bill
$700 bil is just the tio of the berg:
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/24/us-navy-proposes-decommissioning-first-4-lcs-more-than-a-decade-early/
It is hard to understand this level of librul stupidity and ignorance as reflected in this article that the tweeters believe that trump is no longer pres after impeachment.
This account goes a long way towards understanding why the american populace is so brain dead and why it is so easily manipulated by the press, by the politicians who reflect in spades the stupidity of the populace, and the govt which reflects in spades the evil of its manipulators.
I am not all sure that the optimism of the author for 2020 is justified; just hang on, it will prob get worse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dear-liberals-enjoy-xmas-2019-youre-gonna-hate-2020s
Music for a More Thoughtful Future Christmas
First the Low Road….
Feliz Navidad! Jose Feliciano…………gets drafted into Deplorable Meme Warfare:
https://youtu.be/O3s7kHigzaY?t=1186
The SP Wolfhound may enjoy (as did I, briefly………I admit!!…..mea culpa…. )….before my Christmas Heart softened for these Dingbat Demonrat Mariachis….for surely there must be succor on the strategic horizon…..there must some day soon, be Reconciliation, Atonement….. Redemption….Forgiveness …….after a few hangings, mind you!
All things in their proper order!
The Serpent must be de-venomed first, before all….winter of 2019-2020
I don’t endorse that sort of Silly Dilley Daily Dose gloating, ……(so don’t shoot the messenger….por favor…)…….I’m just reporting on the MAGA celebratory mood in Deplorable Land…..reaching Absolutely Pitiless Proportions against the Fake Left.
Both Sides Now …………………are becoming cringeworthy, IMHO.
https://youtu.be/UjPoWpkBzmM Take it…….AWAY, Judy!
Sooo, …..I’ll Take The High Road…e’en though You May Get to Scotland Before Me:
https://youtu.be/rbb9aRSQpsY?t=33
PS: regarding the Mariachis Clip…………I was gonna say, “I doesn’t get any more Deplorable than this!”….but in my brief surfing of the ‘net…….the truth IS………..I’m afraid it did.
I will wait until this Most Merry Holy Day passes…….before I prove it.
That Deplorable Reportage must wait………….. for the Next Café.
In honor of my English roots I served Standing Rib Roast with Yorkshire Pudding on Christmas Eve. Time to serve it up once more!
Peace, out!
Cyber bullying in relation to young people committing suicide is a well known phenomena, and increasing, also with the incidence of pre-teenage children who self-harm.
The Word is also a super weapon, and interestingly, of a global survey Russia appears with the lowest occurrence, with the facts, figures and graphs of this naturally readily available in seconds from many sources.
I am wary of statistics, but if correct wondering why Russia’s youth may have cause to suffer least from this ?
Just a note to those friends that are entering an election year, not that the previous one even stopped ever. I understand that you’ve got your favorites and that you’re riding them like jockeys ride a good horse, fully believing that your side is 100% right and the other side is 100% wrong. That is of course your privilege and I have nothing much to say about that excepting that it does not work like that in real life of course, and what it looks like is that the election is now Trump vs others – it whirls and swirls around Trump – a person, not a principle.
Those pesky Chinese have just written a paper on money politics in U.S. Something in this struck me.
“Since the beginning of the 21st century, the election costs of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have increased rapidly from 700 million dollars in 2004 to 1 billion dollars in 2008 and 2 billion dollars in 2012,” said the article.
“In 2016, U.S. elections, including presidential and congressional elections, cost a total of 6.6 billion dollars, making it the most expensive political election in U.S. history.”
The article said that money politics of the United States has distorted public opinion and turned elections into a “one-man show” of the wealthy class. These numbers are only the visible part of the iceberg, and does not include the ‘dark flows’ of money.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/26/c_138658435.htm
Looking at these numbers it becomes clear that something is wrong on all sides on the face of it.
Saker Cannon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saker_(cannon)
Pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=saker+canon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIvdPGptPmAhWkxIsKHQ54B4sQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=937
Kent
Halooo … Merry Xmas and a prosperous new year … Old Kimmy has shot his ww … missile.
https://www.rt.com/news/476880-north-korea-fires-missile-japan/
(Is this going to be an annual event or am I just losing it? there is a number of US Lawmakers that are going to lose it big time!) I have a tad of synestheasia and sometimes see things in music. This comes to mind for some very strange reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolpPmuK2I8
Retracted minutes after – NHK retracts news bulletin saying North Korea fired a missile into the sea off Japan’s Hokkaido