2019/12/30 17:00:01
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This is a strange one-evidently the security state, i.e. the elite, or the deep state, or the intell apparat, or MI-6, have decided that Buttigieg is their guy (this is starting to look similar to the obama “selection” process when he was selected out of the blue in 2008).
Maybe they are starting to cut biden loose at long last:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/30/coup-plotters-cia-agents-mayor-pete-endorsers/#more-18405
The SCM (security-state corporate media) is abandoning Biden. He’s becoming a total embarrassment. See here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dont-touch-kids-you-pervert-bidens-middle-school-gymnasium-rally-melts-down-chaos
Buttigieg is well tied into the security state but has no real visible record to expose him on. Expect the SCM to start publishing glowing articles on him and attacking anyone who challenges him as a “Russian Puppet” or an “Anti-Semite” or something else.
Buttigieg will be Obama 2.0. Personable but basically more Clinton-Bush-Obama.
Except Nancy holds all the cards over there, a couple days before Biden gets legally questioned she will drop the impeachment bomb and give Trump the lenghty trial he wants, this only extends and pretends the corruption so as to not be held accountable until the very last minute. I’d say about a week before the election with my educated guess.
There are a lot of comparisons of the modern US to Fascist states,or in the opposite direction to Communist states. While its easy to see some similarities between these.And certainly in some circumstances. I see a much closer example that fits the US. Its a bit ironic as well. The US fits easily into the example of the militarist Japan of the 1930’s. Like Japan the US has become a military state.Constant never ending war.The rule of law being eroded. Politicians fighting like rabid animals for power.And all of them trying to latch hold of the military for propaganda.So far Trump is the winner there,he got 2 to 1 military votes in 2016.And may get the same or better in 2020.The quest for total military dominance over the entire world,800 to 1,000 military bases worldwide (the US surpasses Japan there,who “only” wanted dominance of Asia in that period).No matter which political leadership the US has,the military comes first (just as that period in Japan).To make myself clear,I include the “deep state” as part of the military apparatus,the connections between,say the CIA and the military have been well reported on in the past.The US’s always growing military budget equals by itself almost the rest of the World’s military budgets put together.And while that hasn’t served them well in the quality of its equipment.Its served them well where it “really” matters,the bank accounts of the MIC and their military and political associates.We all know how the story ended with Japan.The constant drive to expand led to destruction for much of Asia,and certainly for Japan herself.The coming fate of the World with the US militarists can’t be any different.
The US served and keeps serving as the template and bulwark for fascism everywhere. Nazi Germany was outright modelled on the US and the Japanese were taught American manners in the late 19th century. Russia and China have a huge task taking down this evil monster as peacefully as possible.
Nussiminen,
Nazi Germany was outright modelled _by_ the US and GB.
It is not very well known but Hitlers party was financed by foreigners, mainly Wall street.
Moreover, plenty of German industry including weapon makers were owned by Americans.
Hatred of the US is not an excuse for bad history knowledge.The nazis modeled their racial segregation and eugenics policies on the US at first very much,then greatly outdid that model.But their governing policy wasn’t based on the US. At no time did or do nazis believe the US Representative Republic system is a model for them to emulate. If you think I’m wrong please post proof to the contrary.As for Japan they may have modeled some business practices on the US of that period.But their Army was modeled on the French at first,then the Kaisers German army post-1870.And their Navy was modeled on the British Navy of that period.Again,if you disagree you are free to post proof to the contrary.
Why is there a seeming reluctance among some to give credit to the Germans and the Japanese for their own ability to commit evil themselves.There seems some thinking that they needed to be guided by the hand and taught how to do wrong.Those two peoples have had great civilizations for thousands of years.Over a thousand in the Germans case,and several thousand in Japan’s.They dominated their respective regions both culturally and industrially in the modern period.They didn’t need more than studying for a short period how other countries handled issues,to be able to conclude what to change to fit their own wants.They handled mass murder quite well on their very own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_military_modernization_of_1868%E2%80%931931
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics
This very post inaugurates the new decade; fireworks exploding all around me here in Gothenburg 💫💥✨ A great time to celebrate Putin’s stunning 20 years as Russia’s leader!
When I say that Nazi Germany was modelled on the US, it isn’t confined to what you admitted yourself; to wit eugenics and racial segregation. The Nazis looked at the US, Britain, and France and ”saw the light”: enslavement, genocide, and worldwide plunder and war as a way of achieving national cohesion and social peace at home. Granted, there were atrocious crimes perpetrated by Imperial Germany in China and Africa, but this was entirely because of the imbecile Wilhelm II’s desire to simply ape the Anglo-Americans and the French. Imperial Germany had no need for it; it had industrialised at breakneck speed without any colonial robbery. Hitler and Mussolini, however, were fully committed to the FUKUS way of wealth acquisition as Mein Kampf makes very clear indeed. To me, the issue of republican paraphernalia seem quite moot.
Looking at Japan, it was the haughty, arrogant US naval visits (Matthew C. Perry) in the 1850s that set Japanese militarism and colonial oppression in motion. The Japanese knew how the British had subjugated China and they knew the track record of French imperialism in Indochina. So they decided to conquer and tyrannize themselves.
Happy new year!
This is why the people must question the legislators intentions concerning addressing the public debt.
You simply cant continue telling the youth about the American dream once they realize that there is a quadrillion dollars of wealth around the world and they have less than nothing. They enter the world deep in debt with the intention that they will be servicing the elders commitments of the past after watching their elders struggle with debt loads that seem unsurmountable.
I don’t see an easy way out of this for them, and that doesn’t bode well for anyone.
Saving money and your life!!! Here a great piece to follow such advice.
The Way Of The Coyote
https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/the-way-of-the-coyote/#more-5038
Still, no matter how self-sufficient we become, most all of us will have to buy some food at a matrix supermarket. Food is central to life and shopping for food can make or break your plans to exit the matrix. Shopping for food is an art. And it is a war.
Where you shop is important. Never buy food from a convenience store, gas station or one of those high-priced snobby organic food places like Whole Foods Market. What a scam!
If you have a farmer’s market in your area, these are great places to buy local produce. Look for farmers in your area willing to sell you a half a beef or hog. Look for signs on the road nearby for people selling eggs and other produce.
We are fortunate in this area to have many salvage grocery stores. These grocers buy large lots of food that didn’t sell at regular supermarkets. Often it’s a new flavor of a product that didn’t take off. Other times the items are near or just past the expiration date.
Most of these stores are well kept and clean, though occasionally we’ve come across one that looks more like a botulism laboratory. Those are weeded out quickly and soon close their doors.
We focus on two stores within 45 miles of our home. Once every two months we go to one or the other and spend maybe $125. At that distance you need to stock up to make the trip worthwhile and so that you have to go less often.
Another thing to avoid is GMO foods, and generally factory produced meals or factory foods in general. Buy the ingredients as they come out of non GMO farmers, organically grown or bio organic and ecologic are not scams in principal, as they avoid chemical fertilizers and spraying and cannot be GMO based, and should be clean and safer to eat. They are however overpriced and a source of speculation. And I think that many farmers produce quality food in general so bio organic and ecologic may not be necessary.
Recently Pres. Vladimir Putin at CIS meeting commented on the european powers trying to deomonise Russia and historically the Soviet Union and Stalin for actions leading up to WW2; Instead the european powers had cooperated closely with nazi Germany, and indeed directly with Adolf Hitler. Pres Vladimir Putin presented a large number of Soviet Union documents. (source: RT today).
Now western powers including EU repeatedly claim that Stalin had cooperated with nazi Germany and were to blame for cooperating with Adolf Hitler, and indeed for WW2 as well.
Not so.
The european powers lead by the actions of United Kingdom (Great Britain) (City of London) (the crown) more or less constructed WW2 in my view. (Even actions that brought WW1 has been traced back to city of London).
Great Britain ‘s PM Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement 1938 allowed the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Poland gained control over Zaolzie. First Vienna Award dismantled Czechoslovakia althogether and gave Poland control over the norther territories of Czechoslovakia. Great Britain conspired further with Poland with whom they established a common defence treaty. The central power behind all these events were Great Britain allowing it all to happen.
Another overlloked paper is the british “White Paper” of 1938 that closed Palestine for jewish immigration.
Seen in context this is an apocalyptic event, creating a crisis for the immigration to Palestine from Germany in the already established deportation of foreign citizens policies targeting jews primarily by nazi Germany.
It is also known that the leadership in Great Britain were heavily influenced if not directed by the zionist leaders that had enourmous influence over policies, the Rothschilds had joined the zionist cause officially. The Rothschilds tightly controlled the economy and policies through the treasury and ownersip of Bank of England.
They have indeed an enormous influence over the political establishment since even before they gained control over Bank of England way back in 1815 beloaning in grand schemes the kings and royals all over Europe with direct cooperation from their network controlled by the brothers historically, establishing control in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Britain and the United STates . Now the barons citing themselves as the defacto leaders of the british empire.
So when the largely jewish-hating polish government (this was documented by Vladimir Putin) worked with Great Britain and had established a common defence treaty, also started mistreating german citizens in Poland, a setup for WW2 was in the explosive phase and that was what had Germany invade Poland and had Great Britain declare a worldwide war with all their allies.
Now these are of course my commentaries and not from pres. Vladimir Putin, who stressed the importance of the historic documents from the Soviet Union clarifying that Staling did not cooperate much with Adolf Hitler at all, and only after France did not interfere with the german polish occupation of Czechoslovakia, did Soviet Union refrain from taking any action, having tried to establish a common cause with France to counter Germany. Soviet Union agreements with Germany happened as the last of the european nations involved in these matters. So that EU now trying to demonize Russia for WW2 is history falsification.
Note.
It was Great Britain that formally established Palestine as a jewish national home, an autonomous nationstate, by international law after occupation of the Middle East during WW1, in which the british established the Mandate of Palestine , established international law, the League of Nations. The treaty establish the zionist organisations as the appropriate jewish agency to establish such an autonoumous nation : quote ARTICLE 1.
The Mandatory shall have full powers of legislation and of administration, save as they may be limited by the terms of this mandate.
ART. 2.
The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.
ART. 3.
The Mandatory shall, so far as circumstances permit, encourage local autonomy.
ART. 4.
An appropriate Jewish agency shall be recognised as a public body for the purpose of advising and co-operating with the Administration of Palestine in such economic, social and other matters as may affect the establishment of the Jewish national home and the interests of the Jewish population in Palestine, and, subject always to the control of the Administration to assist and take part in the development of the country.
The Zionist organization, so long as its organization and constitution are in the opinion of the Mandatory appropriate, shall be recognised as such agency. It shall take steps in consultation with His Britannic Majesty’s Government to secure the co-operation of all Jews who are willing to assist in the establishment of the Jewish national home. unquote
The german policies of the nazi party somewhat echoed international policies being established by international law , that jews were to immigrate to Palestine. It was the policies of the british government who sought the geopolitical leverage in the Middle East after establishing arab royalty as their vassal rulers for the Middle East. These vasall in turn established a 100 year right of the british empire to resources, commerce, trade, and transport operations by signing appropriate agreements with Britain to that effect. True vasalls and corrupt regimes throughout the Middle East.
There had been certain international acceptance for jewish immigration to Palestine with both Turkey and Germany prior to WW1, jews in general was not in agreement with such policies, why would the jews want to immigrate to Palestine? There were discussions of a national state somewhere, but Palestine not really. It seemed to be the policies of a political organisation however, the zionist organisation, and the policy did not create a huge response.
The nations involved had established a policy that played into the hands of the german nazi party and its program (NSDAP programme).
By the 1930s the policies of the Mandate of Palestine had failed, and the arabs were in revolt. Therefore the new british policies may have sought to force the issue by another war as it turned out and partly the jewish people were sacrificed in their scheme in my view. But that is part of the larger issue and up to interpretation. However, the british “White Paper” 1938 together with british official policies towards Germany seem to be the clue to that effect.
Certainly only the nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler were responsible for what happened to the jews. The planned execution of jews in concentration camps, (following the Wannsee Conference), the Waffen SS orders to kill were in force from the beginning of the war, military attacks against jews and other civilians across the entire theater of warfare, the internment and transport of jews to concentration camps from all occupied countries, all this were the actions of the german nazi regime and them alone, and Adolf Hitler signed all orders that are later destroyed since 1943.
The confetence of Evian 1938 resulted in no country taking jews from Germany.
Why?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference
I think that the nations in Europe were dependent on the british government which held all the strings. They did not respond to the Soviet Union (France), were involved in national socialism (Scandinavia), or were involved with the British government who held all the strings.
Correction.
The British White Paper followed the Evian Conference, and it is indeed the “White Paper” 1939. Prior to the White Paper, the british government made a statement 9th November 1938.
” Conferences recently took place with Arab and Jewish delegations, lasting for a period of several weeks, and served the purpose of a complete exchange of views between British Ministers and the Arab and Jewish representatives. In the light of the discussions as well as of the situation in Palestine and of the Reports of the Royal Commission and the Partition Commission, certain proposals were formulated by His Majesty’s Government and were laid before the Arab and Jewish Delegations as the basis of an agreed settlement. Neither the Arab nor the Jewish delegation felt able to accept these proposals, and the conferences therefore did not result in an agreement. Accordingly His Majesty’s Government are free to formulate their own policy, and after careful consideration they have decided to adhere generally to the proposals which were finally submitted to and discussed with the Arab and Jewish delegations. ”
It is clear that it was the british government ‘s own policies that were adopted.
That was policies not taking care of, nor looking out for the jews in Europe, that after the Nuremberg Laws had become grave, but clearly that of the zionist leadership and the british governments own ambitions not responding to the gravity of the situation of the jews, and directing a catastrophic chain of events to happen.
The original Balfour Declaration served as the political guidelines for british occupation of Palestine as well as the endresult at the League of Nation’s Versaille Treaties regarding the Middle East , the establishment of mandates, and the Mandate for Palestine :
It reads:
“November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour
The Avalon Project British White Paper
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/brwh1939.asp
Documentation.
How Lord of the Treasury, Balfour, complied with the owner of the Treasury, Lord Rothscild (Bank of England owner), as directed by the zionist organisation and presenting a corrupt act as from one hand to another in world policies, also serve to understand how the Rothschild’s controlled the english empire’s policies so that they could direct such an unlikely claim to an autonomous state in Palestine for european jews.
It will also serve to show how they are capable of directing any policy in the angloamerican establishment and its sphere of influence in modern history and indeed today.
Source: Hidden History
One should look closely at the american lead demonisation of Russia and Iran. Today Sec. of State, Mike Pompeo and pres. Donald Trump again accused Iran of attacks in Iraq, while it is well known that USA is illegaly operating miliary forces in Iraq attacking shia muslim militia and now claiming that the shia muslim response demonstration against the US embassy in Baghdad was lead by Iran.
The Iraq issue is I think partial pushback against the wargames just held between Iran, Russia and China. Of course, everything is Iran now. There are a few things that I picked up – Tom Luongo speculates that Pompeo went ‘off the reservation’ but I don’t think so, not according to Trump’s tweet this morning.
https://tomluongo.me/2019/12/30/pompeo-iraq-israel-iran/
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Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2h2 hours ago
Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!
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So, some faction killed a US contractor (read mercenary) and two Iraqi and four U.S. soldiers were wounded.
US says it is Iran.
So US went on a rampage and shot Iraqi forces and Magnier reports:
32 killed and 45 wounded the count of #US violent aggression on #Iraq security forces brigades 45 and 46 last night on a military position established to counter-attack and raid #ISIS remnant at al-Qaem, the borders between Iraq and Syria.
So, now the US embassy in the Green Zone is being stormed by protestors
https://www.rt.com/news/477181-iraq-protesters-break-into-us-embassy/
US still says it is Iran and Trump accuses Iran.
So, I think two things may be happening here. Do you catch a wiff of Bibi Netanyahu wanting to secure his place in the next elections by ginning up against Iran?
And then a bully pushback against the war games.
PressTV has some reporting:
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/31/615008/Iraq-Baghdad-funeral-US-embassy
Since this is the last MFC for 2019, I wish the Saker community a happy new year — firmly underlined by the fact that tomorrow (New Year’s Eve) marks the 20th anniversary of Putin’s ascendancy to power in Russia. In hindsight, the significance of this power shift cannot be over-estimated.
Yes;can we at this cafe somehow collectively salute the remarkable man to whom we owe perhaps our lives, certainly our hopes, for a saner, better informed future. His burden and challenge has been all these years on an unimaginable scale, yet he keeps on with such judgment and aplomb, balance and courage, as to forever amaze.
To the new year, for which we may owe you in entirety, your excellency. May you never vary.
highplains44
We can’t fix WW2 unfortunately. My comment is for the folks talking about how and where to shop. I have mentioned in this forum, in response to someone else newly poor, before. Anyone suggesting to buy half a steer or something, still has a house, a garage, a deep freezer. What I am seeing in more and more people in RVs and trailers, tents, and self made shacks. This is the reality on the ground in California. Our ability to buy half a steer, while an awesome idea, is impossible. Shopping at farmer’s markets, also out of reach for us, except in Los Angeles where the county gives you dollar for dollar for your EBT, making that 5 dollar batch of kale (no more than half a dozen leaves) affordable. Eating healthily makes you feel better in mind than I think it does good for the body. We’ve been driven out into the country. Foodbanks dole out expired organic milk, expired yogurt, everything is past it’s expiry date. There are no chain supermarkets here. We eat horrible processed foods or die. There are thousands of us up here. I am not on psyche meds or opioids but in any group of four, where I am the fifth, almost always the other four are on both those drugs. For me, it is the end time, as I am in my 60s and will probably die before it gets really bad. I am really grateful for that. I truly am. The food advice here is for those who haven’t collapsed. We forage for wild mushrooms, wild greens, roots etc. My neighbors eat roadkill, for real. I couldn’t stomach it, unfortunately. I couldn’t even try and I’ve eaten fresh killed monkey brains in Thailand, many dogs in the Philippines and termites in South America. I just couldn’t do it. That all said, it really means nothing to us (my peers) who is in office. Nothing will be fixed enough in my lifetime to restore my life to any semblance of what it once was. For New Year’s I will watch my new red neck neighbors get drunk, fight, make poor choices and go to jail. It does have a certain charm. Have a happy new year one and all. I wish all of you the best. In spite of all I have said, I am happy.
Billy Estes: ” We’ve been driven out into the country. Foodbanks dole out expired organic milk, expired yogurt, everything is past it’s expiry date. There are no chain supermarkets here. We eat horrible processed foods or die. ”
Sadly that is the reality for so many people. The general population actually live on processed foods. I do think of all the children who eat these horrible processed foods, grow up with that, are electronically poisoned by Wifi and 5G, go to universities and then get mentally poisoned as well, by social justice ideas and democratic socialim, political programmes that actually came out of the social commonality responsibility of every citizen of the nazi programme of the NSDAP.
So it is a good idea to look at history before going forward !
Another comment though:
Find a patch of earth and grow something. Come together and grow something. One neighbour may grow vegetables, another may grow tomatoes, another potatoes and so on . Come together and grow awareness. That makes a resistance. Resistance means resilience. Resistance means creating a society. A society means creating a self governance……
To Billy Saul in transhumania. Keeping yourself clear as possible allows you to be of service . What other way is there to be in times of mass insanity?
People where I live know I am a bit eccentric and way too emotional but they also know that if there is someone
Strange sitting in a car outside their place that they can call on me to check it out or If they need to borrow a trash can or need help with an IBS attack at 3 AM.
The same teacher who told me that I needed to decide “not to see” the faults of others also said that tasks on the spiritual path are just to do what is put before you with as much clarity and grace as the current state of ones personality permits.
Alex Jones is beating the war drums against Iran while totally misrepresenting the facts on the ground in Iraq. This is Too bad since he has such a large following that questions the usual narrative.
The Iraqi government needs to act decisively immediately or it will be the first to be sacrificed in the coming struggle. Remember what happened with the US and the Kurds?
But this coming open war is just part of the internal war inside the USA. This little ploy of theirs will not work. At least not for long and not in the way they anticipate.
alex jones is either controlled opposition or way confused. So many welcomed his hard work and challenging that it is hard to recognize his faults. All along his thread never confronted the israhell murder machine, while addressing the US arm.as if separate. Maybe now we see the motive comng to maturity as his following will buy the Iran-did-it meme.
oh well………..
The Book of the Heart
Secrets written in the
Book of the Heart, do not
readily translate into words.
Lion and gazelle meet
face to face; neither
makes a move.
A falcon disappears into
a forest, and does not return.
When God sets traps for
you, enter them gladly.
The arrow that strikes
the eagle, is made from
its own tailfeathers.
Saker, any idea when you’re going to do an article on orthodox theology?
Early in the next year, I promise!
The Saker
Specifically, why is it that orthodox nations have a moral center yet the nations that are traditionally western Christian nations have completely lost their way? What is the fundamental difference that allowed western Christians to be so vulnerable to dilution and dissolution? Yet Orthodox nations still retain moral common sense? Is it because orthodox emphasizes the real bible (New Testament) while western Christianity has been forced to become too pliant while at the same time embracing the Old Testament (which I always thought was what Christianity was getting away from, ie the vengeful carnal eye for an eye tribal Old Testament philosophy).
It is confusing, can you help us navigate this maze. What are the fundamental theological differences between these 2branches of Christianity? Why is western Christianity not contemplative (seems to emphasize actions and deeds and the material world) but Eastern Orthodox is contemplative (spiritual and meditative).
You probably can tell just from the confused nature of my question, how perplexing this is to a lay person or a non Christian.
Great questions Anaam! Raised RC, pulled out a few years ago, have been looking into the Orthodox Church but Yikes…information overload. Look forward to the Sakers article in the next few months.
Thank you Saker, I look forward to it.
May you and your family have a great peaceful and successful New Year (Gregorian) and a Great Orthodox Christmas on Jan 7th (Gregorian).
Dr. Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s permanent representative to UN, scorched Turkey and Qatar in the UN general assembly on Dec. 28th accusing both countries, under american leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, of spending billions of dollars on terrorist forces occupation of Syria. Judgement day any time soon? Has the world forgotten that there is judgement, a war crime tribunal, the International criminal Court of UN? When is the tribunal on IS, al Nusra, FSA and the White Helmets going to be held ?
Is there a judgement Day ?
Remember…..“The International Criminal Court unacceptably threatens American sovereignty and U.S. national security interests,” Bolton told the Federalist Society, a conservative Washington-based think tank. Bolton also took aim at Palestinian efforts to press war crime charges against Israel for its policies in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza.
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He said the U.S. would use “any means necessary” to protect Americans and citizens of allied countries, like Israel, “from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court.” The White House said that to the extent permitted by U.S. law, the Trump administration would ban ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the United States, sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system and prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system.
“We will not cooperate with the ICC,” Bolton said, adding that “for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.”
The cafe
One solitary visitor
Sitting in his corner
So now dear Mundo
An end of predicted
‘Week of humiliation’
And open for business
Now free of compromise
Where you can come on in
And have a jolly good time ?
Irony, the salt of the earth – Happy New Year to you and likewise to all friends and visitors, с новым годом !!
Strictly speaking: “He has not a l l cups in the cupboard”
And “Where the peril is, there also is the rescue” Hölderlin
NATO member Turkey sending al Qaeda and ISIS fighters to Libya.
NATO member Turkey leader Pres. Erdogan signing order to send turkish troops to Libya.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-has-transferred-isis-and-al-qaeda-terrorists-to-libya-lna-spox/
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-officially-signs-memorandum-to-send-turkish-troops-to-libya/
Sounds like a plan to further demolish the Middle East and Northern Africa amidst the depopulation taking place by war. Turkey and NATO is the western alliances key player in the northern part of the Middle East creating the refugee crisis for Europe, another event in the same chain of events to look out for. The peoples uprooted by war are an easy target for CIA, MI6 and NATO for recruitment into al Qaeda and IS and the other organisations created on the fly. Reuse by Turkey and resbranding in american camps keep the charade of war going. The war is on Syria, Yemen and Libya with the possible escalation of Iraq (again) and Libya blowing into a full war (again), and the full scale threats against Iran.
Happy New Year! No?
The US has bombed three countries in the past 24 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=M_JNL2eg0ok&feature=emb_logo
Certianly not so happy for the victims. Remembering that syrians, yemenis, libyans and not to forget afghanis and iraqis have been living in US created hell for years.
Happy new year to you, the Saker and the Cafe !
Looks like Syrian Girl is on the job reporting.
https://twitter.com/partisangirl
amarynth
What sort of a totally obscene bunch of morons could possibly hatch a scheme like this…Ummmmm….
…how about the Bibi worshippers and grovellers Humpty Dumpty and Fat Boy.
I would say that the SOS’s days are decidedly numbered now. As always though it is a case of being very careful what you wish for when it comes to this dangerous idiots cabinet. It often seems that no matter how bad a member is that is being replaced, they can always conjure up someone even worse. Although with Bolt-On and now Fat Boy, that remains quite a challenge!
Happy new year to all Saker staff, writers and commenters
Col
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all.
Happy New Decade, Moveable Feast Cafe and Vineyard of the Saker!
On the last Day of the Dying Year, I am filled with optimism that Discernment (vision) just has to improve in 20/20 fashion and expressed that irrepressible optimism for the purpose of needling US Parochial Patriots….right here:
/blaming-china-for-the-great-recession-to-avoid-emulating-chinas-socialist-inspired-success/#comment-737247
Got a little caught up on my reading…….you see…and a little caught up on My 2020 Personal Political Perspective and Required Resolutions Revisionism……PPP-RRR……and learned something Quite Interesting from Quite Frankly about the Parisian “Ex-pat” Roaring Twenties Literatti (Hemingway, Fitzgeralds et al ) Community in 1920’s Paris……..where the cultural term “Moveable Feast.”………..evidently originated in Ernest’s brain quite a bit less than a century ago, as he reminisced, in writing, before he blew it out the back of his skull…..with his own personal fire arm.
Don’t believe me???
https://youtu.be/Pmte73NlX_I?t=2373 cued right up for Quoting In Ernest:
“….’A Moveable Feast’…., as Hemingway would write in his later years….” says Frank, waxing nostalgic for the “rich” post WW I Cultural Degeneracy …………..that led straight away to the Rise of Fascism and the Second World War.
“Roaring Twenties, Here We Come!” is the title of last night’s Quite Frankly Podcast.
What Could Go Wrong??? LOL.
Plenty could…. but we like to live dangerously in The Fast Lane.Of Our Imaginations………… rather than die slowly of boring old age……especially if the trenches of both world wars came decades before us, and very far away from our direct experience,,,,,,,,,, unlike the more affected …..and sobered……….. people of Russia, China….and Europe.
New Year’s and New Decade’s Resolutions….later today.
Remembering Julian Assange, the victim of US and british detention for years.
Julian Assange has been regularily tranquilized in british prison. Source: RT.
Medications may be the reasoin he appeared to be unable to focus during a former appearance in court.
According to the report in RT Julian Assange had told a friend during a christmas call that he is slowly
dying in prison. He must be urgently released.
According to Perpetual Optimist Dave of X-22 Report, your imperative demand will soon be satisfied:
https://youtu.be/E6ouLUDW_gI
JA (Julian Assange) Key To DNC Hack, Remove/Replace Operation Ongoing, Traitors Everywhere – Episode 2058b 121,993 views•Dec 30, 2019
Dave’s range of analysis also figures into one other 2020 theme that is on my “To Do” list to also discuss, very soon: “structure”
As in WHEN will the “gold destroys the FED” action manifest……and why is the Donald Holding Off On Dropping The Golden Hammer…..or Delaying Driving the Golden Spike Through Central Banker’s Hearts.
Heads up for the Quite Frankly video intro’s, he only has 44.000 viewers he complained, seems it’s a it’s a three month slump, anyhow, entertaining,very adaptive and fluid mind, throwing out info, thoughts, politics, ideas, all kinds of stuff as though its somehow second nature to him. Old man in a young body as one commentator said,
Frank, as host of Quite Frankly…… is smooth as silk….with talk, video clips…music…..as an amiable but no BS host….has.been doing it for a long time…though only 34 years old…a rock drummer and proud Italian American New Yorker that loves the City’s food establishments and other things and is horrified at how NUTS the people there are……..politically.
Quite Frankly Podcast is still small enough ( I can see him reaching 4 million subscribers some day….) to read personal emails and answer a few of them……and he’ll take live calls and develop relationships with callers over time………but I’m a morning person…best from about 4 am to 11 am…….and pretty much “taking gas” (pit stop term for recharging………..batteries almost dead……..) ..from then til bed time
Time permitting I might post one of them (my emails to Frank) and let y’all know where that little “connect with an ‘Awakening’ aggregator, channel host” project stands.
Like ALL of us, these people make some errors of judgment………..NO ONE has the Complete Picture……… or ever could….. but Frank is a good soul, has a fabulous raunchy, irreverent sense of humor and keen insight…..and even a softer side………….although my most lasting memory of him may be from his discussion of Donald Trump and himself as New Yorkers………..bearing the “bad rap” (Frank isn’t rude..at all…but does admit fellow New Yorkers can wear on him a bit……LOL…..and DJT actually can be very nice! Or nasty…lol as the case requires….) the “Rudest People in America” smiling and laughing after playing a movie clip of a young boy accused by a New York department store Santa of going through the line twice already…..getting in a shouting match argument with Mr Claus………..and finally yelling, “F you, Santa!”
With the adults in the store, New Yorkers, all, loving it, and exclaiming, ” Whoa!…WHOA!!”
Merry New York Christmas!
I also wrote to Polly St Germaine…whose Ukraine work (she’s Canadian, abhors Russia hating Christia Freeland…Trudeau et al..did well documented work on the CIA recruited the Vindman brothers (one an “Impeachment witness” with some name association (Shabtai Kalmanovitch….to the elderly Kalmanovitch woman, over here….. that raised the Vindmans….???? ) speculating hypothesizing.. that I sought some Russian help.from, for her….from the author this article
https://cratology.org/masters-of-the-universe/
the only such qualified person I know personally in Russia, he being from the same city (St Petersburg) as my wife of now 20 years. He answered in detail that some of Polly St Germaine’s work is on the right track……but the Kalmanovitch Connection?? NO: Try again! No connection, according to him, other than a name thousands of people share.
By the way, Polly’s videos led me to Quite Frankly. She hasn’t answered my email, as yet. I’ll send that author’s reply in English, ….plus an article in Russian on Shabtai Kalmanovitch that he linked to her next, after today….but I will CC Quite Frankly …because Polly led me to him….and he DOES read emails and answer some of them …usually with a short sentence. Even 40 subscribers emailing you out of 40,000…is too time consuming!
I know that, but I also know that Poly, Frank, Tracy Beanz and other researchers and aggregators’ main lack of fruitful intelligence facts is from foreign sources.
SO, while domestically (North America sources) a great deal can be learned from quite a few of them………internationally there are many more voids where even I ….(and sites like this one, Quite Clearly!) might be able to help, considerably!
Unless you’re from a British Commonwealth nation…and much prefer an even more divided and screwed up American Colony!
Cheers and Happy New Decade!
I am here quoting a short comment on another forum in it’s entirety. Hit’s a nerve (or should), here or elsewhere for obvious reasons.
“Woodsman” ·
Here’s a memory some folks may share:
That day, maybe back in your teen years, maybe a little later, when you realized that even though you weren’t so smart, no brighter than average really, it was nonetheless possible to take a piece of complicated academic writing, either science or philosophy or some other item you’d normally assume was waaay beyond anything a normal person would be able to understand; stuff clearly meant only for high level university types, scientists and such, -but that if you just forced yourself to read and stumble through the big words, if you kept digging at it, trying to figure out what was being said and why it was being said, trying to understand.., that at some point, holy crap, you DID. You understood it.
-Moreover, it wasn’t just a one-off event, but rather a repeatable experience! It might take a while, requiring several runs at a given problem, but it turns out that ideas thought up by humans were indeed decipherable by humans, and that because you are a human, you could do it too.
Then at some point along the way, you further realized that, (holy crap!) some of those super-smart magazine articles and the super-smart people writing them.., well, you weren’t entire certain at first, wobbly in your self confidence, but it slowly became alarmingly obvious, (alarming, because of the implications), that some of those authors, maybe even a lot of them were fallible humans capable of making mistakes . They had blind spots and poor judgement. Some of them just plain full of shit. -That YOU were in fact more on the ball than some of those people you had always assumed knew their subjects, were experts, were trustworthy and correct!
Remember that?
I do. I’m still pretty sure I’m a big dummy in my heart of hearts, but what has become obvious is that there are a lot fewer smart people and a lot more big dummies out there than one would assume by looking at all the people wearing lab coats, talking in jargon and making pronouncements. If you pick apart the jargon, you realize that many of the people speaking it are in fact simpletons, liars or simply using the jargon to camouflage their personality quirks and stupidities.
I think the problem with groups like this extinction rebellion bunch is that they never made that initial discovery. Realized that they could understand this stuff on their own -and that it was important to do so. That it was better to at least try to understand, to recognize that supposedly smart people are often wrong a lot of the time, -that it is okay to run into problems which cannot be solved but which must be relegated to, “Maybe I’ll work it out later” (How does gravity work?) -Than it is to leap on a high action bandwagon where you end up gluing yourself to a train.
It is possible for regular people of average intelligence to grasp complicated ideas and to work out truth from fiction.
Now THAT’s a course which should be made mandatory in school.”
Link to article, where “Woodsman” posted this comment.
https://www.sott.net/article/426532-Clueless-Extinction-Rebellion-Protesters-Dont-Know-What-CO2-Stands-For
See you all next year.
Kent
I used to try and read art history and current art theory…”criticism”…….eulogising….etc…clearly non understandable and a load of….it was widely known as artsb******s…a book was written on that subject.
https://www.artybollocks.com
Maybe should be one for politicians…..
Happy new year….
Thanks Kent,
I read the SOTT article/”interviews of the protesters and also the comments section. Good stuff.
In the movie “Who’ll Stop the Rain”, Nick Nolte’s character in the movie about a Nam vet caught up in the drug smuggling etc of that war made the statement “I’m tired of taking shit from inferior people”. Yeah, common people CAN if they work at it understand things they formerly thought they couldn’t or shouldn’t. Nam was my war and I was a 19 year old drafted grunt rifleman. Fresh from 6 months of infantry training I put my officers and enlisted leaders on pedestals from habit. After a couple months of action I had to be restrained from “fratricide”, literally. Some DID deserve and get my respect but others were inferior people with rank over me and held the power of life and death over me. Adversity does not build character, it reveals it. We are seeing that in our present society.
I try not to call it a culture as it has no “mores”. The “Extinction Rebellion” is fully staffed with “humans” who have little desire to research for themselves and form opinions based upon facts. REAL adversity will come and their character will be revealed.
Hello, I have read the Saker for a few years now but don’t often post.
However, now that things seem to be getting so bad I would appreciate some input on a couple of questions.
1. Why is Bitcoin and crypto curriences so popular now?
I live in Florida USA. I can not go to the gas station and buy gas with crypto.
I can not got to Publix and buy groceries with crypto.
I can not pay my electric bill, water bill, or rent or car payments/insurance with crypto.
I have heard you have a process where you can take crypto and put it on a card which will transfer the crypto into dollars. But I can not pay directly with crypto.
So how is this better? Also, at any time any of the corporations, banks or government can say it is illegal and not accept payment in crypto. And even if it isn’t illegal they can simply refuse to take payment.
In addition, if this is all done over the internet any corporation can say, hey we will not process any financial transactions in crypto… except the crypto issued by the central bank.
My second question, is there a library where they not only list trust worthy books, but also list them according to subject matter.
I know the Saker has a library with books, but it does not have a cross reference where I can find books about a specific subject. Say for example the last Israeli Lebanon war… It just gives book titles.
Thank you for your time and consideration, MarkM66
Hello, Mark!
You’ve come to the right place with your questions!
Not because there are many here that will engage in this topic with you….quite the contrary!
But there are 2…and maybe three of us here…..and with connection to the other things that doubtless brought you here….our 2-3 very widely differing perspectives (Agreement is SO Boring!) will most probably be a rich vein of discovery for you,as we argue over HOW….and to what benefit….or lack of benefit …..”Bitcoin” (you will soon discover that that “bottle label” has entirely different meanings…..on different bottles…to their supporters…OR detractors…LOL) affects, (or will haver ZERO effect??) on the Coming Global Monetary Reset….everywhere.
On one side, you have the very nice and technical English Lady, amarynth and her article of 2-3 years ago….that has been part of My Crypto Journey. Now, after about 20 minutes of searching using “Cryptocurrencies, The Internet of Money” ….(“The Internet of Money”….I know that much was in the title…..) and other variants …it does not come up. For me. Maybe she will provide the link!
However amarynth created a Vineyard Community site or page within a page and there I just found this more recent material and scanned through it 80%:
https://saker.community/topic/bitcoin-derivatives-a-necessary-but-short-history/
The main Bone of Contention Between amarynth and Bro 93???
While amarynth was thrilled with the 2009 publication of The Bitcoin Whitepaper……her heart (in my opinion) is with other interpreters………and NOT with its actual author!!!
Who she now considers a Real Pain In The Ass….a Fraud……and (in agreement with many others that I consider intoxicated Crypto Cocaine Party Animals….lol…) to be “Faketoshi”….and NEVER in a million years the actual inventor, by the person of now famous pseudonym …………Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://youtu.be/MSikhu1X49M
If you love Controversy as much as I do…… “It doesn’t get any better than this!” LOL…this one is an absolute Deep, Deep Rabbit Hole Doozy…………… and as Difficult Puzzles GO…..THE most profitable one socially, politically, civilizationally and quite possibly .IMHO…(Do your own research….this is NOT investment advice!) ……………..personally financially……. for the Solver ….than any other AS Difficult Puzzle you and I are likely to come across ………….ever again……….in our lifetimes.
Now, besides my deep suspicions that CSW aka Craig Steven Wright IS Satoshi Nakamoto (in direct contradiction and utter dismay….to the Nice English Lady (amarynth) and IS a White Hat …..a member of “The Alliance” against the Globalist Cabal…. based not just on number code “hint, hint” (his 17 academic degrees…. why not 12…or 16…or why not continue on, Ceaseless Academic Student…and get 18 total?????) I have read almost every article he has written…or tried to catch up with almost all of it.
Here is one I understand but amarynth would (I imagine, with her anarcho-capitalist libertarianism) be very loathe to digest …and in fact, find 100% indigestible:
https://craigwright.net/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/bitcoin-is-anything-but-anonymous/
Which draws the crucial…but somewhat hard for very many to grasp…distinction between Privacy (good!) …and Anonymity (The Darkness EVIL must have to hide…….).
Now, my comment above about writing an email to Quite Frankly …was prompted by the fact that (like many such bloggers…including Saker and tons of others) Frank has BTC, ETH and LTC code “receive addresses” on his web page…and I thought he might have knowledge of the subject
I know that Frank has had Red PIll 78 on QF….and Frank has been on Red Pill’s Christmas Show with Neon Revolt…….and I reached out to help these people…simply because I have had probably 100 times more time in the last 3 years to go deeper into this subject matter than they apparently have.
Frank’s answer, unfortunately for the last month or so….. was….”Look man, I really can’t discuss it with you, because I don’t know enough about it.”
But fortunately, “It’s all good!”
In particular, I had wanted to help Red PIll 78 who didn’t have on on site bathroom to shower in until a few days ago…..poverty!! and …who had Bob Kudla on his show 6-8 weeks ago and had earnestly asked him his opinion (like which one is “good”) and I told Frank that listening to the answers Kudla was honestly trying to answer….RP 78 with..”was painful”.
Painfully UNAWARE of what I consider the overwhelmingly probable facts of the matter!
Right here I have credited Craig Mason’s Reasonable Conversation Channel with helping me make sense of what I now regard as the Cabal Hijacked CryptoMESS of thousands of barren “currencies” that will never be widely adopted “means of exchange”…ie “money”.
However ONE….could…the one that scales The Most….with the lowest fees and that provides utility marrying value (“coin”) with Data, Information (“Bit”). The Power is all there in 2 syllables…but speculation with “dollar sings in their eyes”…seems to have blinded almost everyone to the theoretical foundation that any enduring utility ….mass adoption….and therefore Value…must have.
SO: Just days ago Red Pill 78 had Craig Mason on his show…..and the last 10 minutes RP 78 pops the Right Questions………….and Craig Mason provides (IMHO) the Wright Answers:
https://youtu.be/rzprfLUacQY?t=4055
There are many, many more resources to research, Mark. One more while we’re at it…..that explains why it had to be this way…..why Bitcoin had to be released to the world…WHY The World Screwed It Up……….and How It is being Restored to Genesis Block…Quite Early in 2020:
A Short History of Bitcoin Myths on bitstocks.com … https://blog.bitstocks.com/the-rebirth-of-bitcoin-bitcoin-myths-series
“Ask And You Shall Receive!” …including plenty of opposite opinions…and especially Emotions!
It’s up to you to sort it ALL or partially (LOL) out……………..IF you want to!
Cheers!
“It’s up to you to sort it ALL or partially (LOL) out……………..IF you want to!”
Quite a mouthful to digest (as usual). AND, a maze of epic proportions (there is no way out imo).
I haven’t got neither time or interest to go there, sorry.
Making firewood for the next 6 winters (from cutting down the trees, cutting into 3,5 meter logs, transporting them home, cut in 30 cm’s pieces, split and stack them) makes a lot more sense to me atm.
If, any of you wonders how many trees that might be. It’s in the hundreds, many hundreds. Very satisfactory work indeed.
In terms of cubic meters it it also in the hundreds.
Regards
Kent
Why answer negatively then? LOL.
Think about it:
There are many flanks to the battle…… of an individual’s quest for knowledge……or a communal, collective effort to evolve to a better society and civilization.
Within that vast panorama there is an almost equally vast division of labor. Some do a very great amount…..others do what they can! Nothing to be ashamed of if it is positive in the aggregate, in any degree!
I have thinned 13 acres with a chain saw before. I can relate to the labor of wood cutting…or “parking out” ….making park-like…. a piece of wildly wooded property.
But if I could not do it or had no need or desire to ever do it, I wouldn’t vote against it ……or say “count me OUT, YUCK!!!”
Some people have smaller digestive systems…and there may be no incentive for them to take a bite……… of a vast conceptual smorgasbord……until they can personally relate to benefits that might accrue directly to themselves…..and things or people that they personally, directly care about.
Those exist for you, but your interest is not piqued enough to want to see them yet.
They exist in the digital realm……of audio (music), video (movie-making) and pictorial and graphic art…..your Creative Wheelhouse, Man!
That’s the DATA……the “Bit” part of the “space” that I said was lost to the greedy souls with nothing but Get Rich Quick Dollar Signs In Their Eyes………..
But it’s OK, mate! No problem: “Chop wood, carry water.” (activity besides meditation, or ….meditation within activity…..including “parking out” some acreage)………….as The Eastern Teachers (Gurus) Say.
There will be smaller bites (Bits…if you will….lol) of ideas, concepts…and then APPS and products ….which you may nibble at at first, without knowing in the future …..looking back…….that THAT is what I was talking about in the Café, years earlier.
AND, like the internet …. several billion people’s lives may get enriched, without them ever first comprehending the earlier steps of development……that made that possible.
Were you aware of it, in the late 1980’s…early 1990’s, with the internet???
I wasn’t!
But I am aware, this time, with the concept of the Metanet.
Vision….. a noun to consider…………. in the 20/20s!
Enjoyed the blues verse, by the way! Things like that will be immutably recorded on the Metanet for centuries, possibly millenia to come…….either publicly available to all……..or privately preserved by and for families…..keeping the blockchain storage “keys” to themselves……so their thoughts, their poems, songs etc are there for future generations of family members…..OR everyone and anyone on earth.
Conceivably including everything ever recorded in this Vineyard and its Café.
Happy New Decade, Kent!
Trump is calling for the Iraqi people to rise up? How DARE he? Where is Iraq demanding an emergency meeting of the U.N. security council ? Oh yes this body is too busy enacting world wide rules of mass surveillance .
Silly me. “We are all mere troops in proxy wars among the world elites” which is just one of a few sub narratives of 2020.
The dividing of world resources among the 3 consortiums of US, Russia and China is a sub plot woven in.
Happy New Year!! My movie marathon for the day is the Matrix series interwoven with Monty Python. What’s yours?
I recently watched “The Last Kingdom”, on Netflix, and recommend it. Here’s a plot summary; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom I won’t say more, except that what I found fascinating was that both the Christian Saxons and Viking invaders, that were trying to impose their will over their opponent, believing that their will was that of their God, ended up paying the price. Those however, who were able to accept that what their God was ‘saying’ to them may not be what they wanted in the moment, were the ones who prevailed. Brilliant performances from Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred, kidnapped by the Vikings at age 11, after his family was killed and who then ends up growing up and ‘becoming a Viking’ himself, and David Dawson as the sevrely tested, King Alfred. Three Seasons in all, but definitely leaves you wanting more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Oliver
Check out his tv programmes….celts…sacred history of britain ….vikings …etc etc
Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving his traditional New Year’s address in Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHlPro49Uuw
This is not warning, it is a threat: Trump declares US embassy in Iraq safe, says Iran will pay ‘big price’ for attack
https://www.rt.com/news/477237-trump-threat-iran-iraq-protests/
“This is not a Warning, it is a Threat,” Trump declared in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, adding that Iran will “pay a very BIG PRICE!” for the embassy siege earlier in the day.”
Looks like bibi’s buttboi hillary trump (or is it donald clinton, I often confuse these two great american leaders) has been given his zio-marching orders to ratchet up american aggression against Iran, using the justified Iraqi reaction to the attacks the americans just carried out against Iraq. Question, is the 2 minute wonder boy* bluffing, or will israel’s primo colony begin attacking Iran directly now?
*Stormy Daniels actually estimated he lasted less than 2 minutes in the interview.
Iran’s Supreme Leader hits back at Trump’s ‘big price’ threat, says US ‘took revenge’ for defeating ISIS
https://www.rt.com/news/477260-ayatollah-trump-threat-baghdad/
“If you were logical – which you’re not – you’d see that your crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan… have made nations hate you.”
“Look at what the US is doing in #Iraq & #Syria. They’re taking revenge on Hashd al-Sha’bi for defeating ISIS.
Since #Hashd crippled & destroyed ISIS -which the US had created- they’re taking revenge. The Iranian govt & nation & I strongly condemn the US’s malice.”
Welcome to 2020 Sakeristas
My isp has blocked the site for over a week.
But happily at moment I can send greetings to cafe regulars and lurkers.
Very scholarly yet vivd discussion about what Jesus was actually saying in the Lord’s Prayer. I enjoyed his talk about culturally based idioms. More than 1,000 that were used in the Aramaic based scriptures. For example the idiomatic language for the phrase, ” He’s crazy”: in English is, ‘ He has bats in the belfry’ and in German, ” He has no cups in the cupboard.’
https://youtu.be/M-yStfOrJAo
Happy New Year: No, Fear ! Be Clear –help is always Near.
and to keep personality distracted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E
My first knowledge of Alex Jones came from a post on internet claiming that Alex Jones, the most unlikely deep state globalist agent, in fact was the one to look out for, their main media-psyops operation. So I did watch his show and did find it neither entertaining nor specially revealing as I was more into actual crisis like the war in Libya, Syria and Ukraina. Obviously Alex Jones has become more entertaining and relevant over the years, bringing the show right into the 2016 presidential election.
Alex Jones expressed on his show that the ongoing operation of the globalist deep state regime media psyops is based on pacifying the public by dishartening and depressing the people into hopelessness, so that the policies of dictatorship may be implemented without resistance. Dismantling democracy little by little so that people are mesmerized and will not react to anything. I cannot remember the exact words he used, and I have emphasized the meaning. I think he expressed depressing the people into hopelessness.
He did not admit he was not doing it, but look again. Look closely at the way he treats what he also demonize, the fake corporate news, spending hours and hours reading and treating corporate news as proof ! New York Times has printed it so it must be true, right? That is beyond reason for a man emphasizing the nature and level of fake corporate news, very suspicious behaviour for someone revealing secret plans of the elites those elites who own the corporate media, the secret rulers Alex Jones claim to expose.
He claims he do not know it himself if he is their agent. Really?
What kind of a denial is that? MK Ultra or Schizofrenia comes to mind on that one.
Alex Jones is listed as a member of Knights of Malta (I cannot verify it) at biblebelievers.org.au (lists members of Knights of Malta): https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm
Some informations circulates on the internet of both parents ties to CIA which seems to be legit since Alex Jones confirmed it for most part regarding his father at least , and other information links Alex Jones to CIA as well.
Some of this seems to be legit but I don’t know that any information regarding Alex Jones can be verified .
http://alexjonescia.com/
I am pretty sure he is in essence working as media-psyops as described by Alex Jones himself, the plan is to depress people into hopelessness (so that their one dictatorship can be implemented without resistance), he just avoided putting himself in the main role.
See also example of non issues and cover-ups with Alex Jones :
Alex Jones uncovered: Barbara Hartwell https://barbarahartwell.blogspot.com/2007/01/genesis-communications-network-alex.html
As always, go with your gut-feeling. Look at the man, listen to his voice, see his antics, and it is a no go, a waste of time. Maze trap.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Kent
Sure, but it is hard to determine who to believe. The internet and also the examples I posted cannot be confirmed and some are really confusing. The parties involved in defamation are also targeting Alex Jones and even Julian Assange with similar charges.
I honestly don’t know who to believe on the charges of being the main globalist media psy-ops operation based on internet sources. I am not sure about gut feelings as well. Only the real actions that speaks for themselves.
And there are many pointers leading to that conclusion.
His total unapologetic support of US military operations against other countries, regime change operations, his denial of zionism control, his one sided support of Israel. The main pointer is beginning to stand out on its own, his support of the placement of Donald Trump in the Whitehouse.
Because.
Donald Trump reveals himself to be a total zionist puppet as well as a major player in the object of dismantling of democracy little by little targeting gun control and freedom of speech under media-psyops constant distractions of impeachment that is working in tandem with the democratic party’s lucicrous operations the very base of the US constitution is undermined.
The primary goal of the globalist elite now is dismantling of democracy, and the US constitution are failing and brought under the politicians control, and who controls them? That answer is very simple. The presidency as well.
One week only is starting a year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year
and a decade, but both are set arbitrarily, after all.
“In the year 153 b.C. the Romans changed according to their calendar the start of the year of office at
January 1. the das of inauguration of the Magistrate.”
But that artificial date is close to the winter solstice, start of the hunger-season occasionally. A lot being used to be in the world, currently isn’t. Give it a glimpse.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/off-friday-8-in-spirit-one-in-matter-of.html
Probably a whole lot more to this than this – I assume – abridged version here:
https://abc.net.au/news/2020-01-01/png-helicopters-cabinet-secrets/11811170
Prompts me to muse about all the mercenry/off books / freelancing spooks involved in international hot spots.
And off course none of these freelancers get to operate without tacit – even overt – authorisation from the official intell spooks.
Recent example being Christopher Steele work for FIB and CIA.
Speaking of Steele… Alexander Downer makes an appearance in this strange episode.
Just a little food for thoughts (maybe=?).
You may be an ambassador to England or France
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
Indeed you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You might be a rock ‘n’ roll addict prancing on the stage
You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage
You may be a business man or some high-degree thief
They may call you doctor or they may call you chief
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes you are
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk
You may be the head of some big TV network
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame
You may be living in another country under another name
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes you are
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a construction worker working on a home
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome
You might own guns and you might even own tanks
You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side
You may be workin’ in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair
You may be somebody’s mistress, may be somebody’s heir
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk
Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk
You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread
You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
Indeed you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray
You may call me anything but no matter what you say
Still, you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC10VWDTzmU&list=PLIT9R7jvvEQFE9XU2Kg65T7EcrSBS-lnz
And then, the optimistic rolling of the dice from Bro some cafe’s ago might not be a distinctive owl, even though there might be arguments of “slow trains a coming around any bend.
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions
Are they lost or are they found?
Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down
All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
I had a woman down in Alabama
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic
She said, “Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic”
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
All that foreign oil controlling American soil
Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walkin’ around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more
You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin’
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency
All non-believers and men-stealers talkin’ in the name of religion
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions
They talk about a life of brotherly love
Show me someone who knows how to live it
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop it
I don’t care about economy, I don’t care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eAQy9228I
Ioans “slow train” framed.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/_MG_5720.JPG
Kent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eAQy9228I
ioan’s ‘slow train’ is quite beautiful! Very nice combination Kent .. with Dylan :-)
“2019: The year of peak green bullsh*t”
You can say that again, and again.
Sick bag anyone??
https://www.sott.net/article/426598-2019-The-year-of-peak-green-bullsh-t
Kent
Let’s round up the day by some classic “Fletcherism’s”
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHwasYjcIA
Kent
For Teranam 13 and others focused on the Embassy Drama in Baghdad:
“O, ye of little faith.”
This may not be as simple as it looks. There is skullduggery by the Deep State afoot with the Embassy demos, apparently. Perhaps the initiative is theirs….and the US President’s purpose….. with his response forced is to disable their (DS’s) effort to entrap him in WAR??
Their principal remaining hope???
It isn’t exactly the first time, IS IT???
Red Pilled Sister has plenty that points in the above direction but a quicker recharge than me studying all of that and condensing it, since I’m “taking gas”….or already on battery recharge…tonight….is just to pass on a Just Plain Masterful and Short……..(only 45 minutes…versus the usual Mon-Fri 7 – 9 pm Eastern………… New Year’s Day Quite Frankly:
https://youtu.be/U_8-VN2bMY8?t=1982
Now the composition of the whole 45 minutes is ART but I cue it right up for y’all……. on the beautiful, hopeful concluding minutes of an episode for moving out of a very, very dark and disturbing couple of decades…..and moving into one of potentially infinitely more light…..and truth….for the Entire World….including Iraq and Iran:
But you’ve first gotta take down the Evil Doers…..HERE……. to get there.
National Slavery & Human Trafficking Month Begins” 1/1/20
Embassy stuff….early tomorrow morning…..Pacific Time
Uhm 2020 – is it 2020 vision? Will our vision improve in this year with those nice numbers? I hope so.
I have only one new year’s resolution .. and I’ve done it already, so I’m trying to enter this year without emotional debt. This was to forgive Chris Hedges for handing out that Emmy award to the documentary makers about Bellingcat. I watched his work after that, it was not even announced on his own Twitter feed, and it is as if he had to sign a Non Disclosure or something. I have to write this off to something that he was obliged or obligated to do. So, he is forgiven and his work is just getting more superb work. Take a listen (and I don’t agree with everything and I am not a fan of the Intercept, but this is shorter than usual and Hedges does make things crystal clear on where the American empire finds itself, the Trump phenomenon and why, and the only solutions for the future of this country that is now in deep bondage and incredibly fragile).
Chris Hedges on the Rot Within the American System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-ILh3h1Kc
And then in the Cafe we saw so much rabbit hole and strawman stuff on cryptocurrencies that I cannot even respond. Hanging out on a thin limb while falling off into rabbit holes is not the place you want to be. This is a major change that will affect the whole world and one has to at least understand it in its context. In this year we will see China float its own cryptocurrency and the first Alpha and Beta tests are already happening with a group of 6 banks. Russia will follow but timing is uncertain, or perhaps she will work with BRICS and roll out a cryptocurrency inside of BRICS. Russia is taking over the chairmanship of BRICS for this year. I have also seen that the Petro in Venezuela is being somewhat rescued.
Crypto Blood x Andreas Antonopoulos talk about where we stand after about a decade. It is not too complex or technical for most. Andreas also explains why Bitcoin (I’m talking about all) is not much used within the United States – because of their taxation rules. This one is worth it for an overview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=p3LpJI-NWNU&feature=emb_logo
And a little more fun .. what are the cryptogeeks looking forward to this year – the halvening and the dickening which is funny – the dickening refers to John McAfee pledging to eat his penis on national television if BTC doesn’t hit a $1,000,000 price by the end of 2020. So, let’s see him get out of that one. He is such a colorful character.
https://coinspice.io/news/welcome-to-2020-from-trump-to-brexit-halvening-to-dickening-its-going-to-be-wild/
And then for those who want to spend time to understand all this, this is a deep dive. You need to have patience, understand the language and possibly go and read the first section as well. If you have no technical interest, don’t even click as you will glaze over in a few seconds. So, the warning is this is for those that truly know the cryptocurrency space (or want to get to learning it).
https://read.cash/@unitedstatian/the-bitcoin-wars-continued-last-part-f1729a1e
And then finally, for those not interested in Hedges, or cryptocurrencies, you have will have to love this. I think I’m a fan of a Chinese online star :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=r6z_ia0L7Wc&feature=emb_logo
I feel strangely elated for the coming year. There are no illusions – I think it is going to be one hell of a year with the societal craziness increasing, continual little wars either threatened or real, and always the dark note of stupid action by the falling empire. Countries are buying gold as fast as they can, Russia is loaded for bear and China is getting there quickly. A fall of current empire economically will not be pretty for the whole world. But, it is going to be a fast year … the false past will be destroyed in some places for future to emerge and in other places the true past will be recovered.
I wish you all fair winds and following seas.
I’m in the slow learners class with crypto currencies, but it interests me, and the input on here of Bro and amarynth I have found complementary, despite their different opinions and approach. I am with Quite Frankly, I simply don’t know enough to comment on crypto however.
But being so relatively new, and with such global impact across the world, it seems obvious that this will have a spiritual dimension link, and my sense is that both are developing now, crypto’s are gaining ground, and simultaneously with spiritual intervention, or growth, partly manifest and most noticeably at the moment with the Awakening that one hears of.
I guess it could be another one of those highly emotive topics, involving watching, listening and learning …
Seems there are so many cross over points and skill transferal and idea’s connected to the crypto debate and application practice, I’m ready with pencil in hand, back of the class ; )
A sound Learner Approach, Crypto- Anon.
We are here to learn….all of us…whether we accept the “assignment”….or take any notes…..or not. LOL.
May I ask what part of the world….or US… you reside in??
I live in a relatively quiet and blessed rural oasis close to a world hub of evil, the city of London, which I love !
Nothing really new here below but an excellent summary of the mind-numbingly ignorant narratives, lying media and associated cognitive dissonance. Although with no ‘cognitive’ there can be no ‘dissonance’. Truth may be a precious resource to be used as sparingly as possible (alway best to ‘salt’ the grandest lies with a tiny grain of truth) but ignorance is over abundant, stifling and increasing daily.
Some of Craig Murray’s writing is priceless:
” But by and large everyone accepted the Iraqi WMD had been a fiction. The mainstream media Blair/Bush acolytes like Cohen, Kamm and Aaronovitch switched to arguing that even if WMD did not exist, Iraq was in any case better off for having so many people killed and its infrastructure destroyed”
https://alethonews.com/2020/01/02/the-terrifying-rise-of-the-zombie-state-narrative/
Latest from Edward Snowden. From China with love. Best wishes from Big Brother:
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1208469511051075585
Valdai Discussion Club session 2019 in Sochi | English | 3:06:34
Vladimir Putin spoke at the final plenary session of the 16th meeting of the Valdai International
Discussion Club.
The session was attended by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, King of Jordan Abdullah II,
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaad-HB4JY8
More Evidences that proves China is an Imperialism Country, not anti-Imperialism. You guys should listen and read:
https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_welcome-to-2020-baghdad-anti-us-uprising-pros-and-cons-of-the-rise-of-china/