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I need some hours to review more serious, less esoteric material on Iraq-Iran but in the mean time, I must say that A Few of my Fellow Englanders ( be they “Little”…..or a tad Bigger) are favorably impressing……on some visual acuity scores here, already, in 20/20:
Ricky Gervais attacks ‘woke’ Hollywood and shreds Apple, Disney and Amazon in savage Golden Globes monologue:
“Apple roared into the TV game with ‘The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. So you say you’re ‘woke’, but the companies you work for, Apple, Amazon, Disney … If ISIS had a streaming service you would be calling your agents.”
He also poked fun at Leo DiCaprio for dating young women, Felicity Huffman for her role in the college admissions scandal and Martin Scorcese for his critique of Marvel DIS, -1.10% movies. No punches were pulled.
“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he told the star-studded audience. “You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, come up accept your little award, thank your agent, and your god and f*** off.”
Watch his full monologue, under 8 minutes:
https://www.nbc.com/the-golden-globe-awards/video/ricky-gervais-golden-globes-monologue/4093467
Is it meaningless?
I don’t think so. Politics is downstream of culture and these cretins have polluted it worse than anyone else on the planet, for Clowns In America…..The Queen…..and their god…..Moloch.
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/938830604673732608?lang=en
Ricky Gervais
Verified account @rickygervais
Replying to @sneknostep
But why isn’t it up to Israel what their capital is? That’s what I don’t get. Could you enlighten me please?
Gervais is a piece of sh*t (a kindred Nazi). No different to those he was having a laugh with at the fountain of scum.
So why didn’t you enlighten him, Anonymouse???
He asked, and even said “please”.
What you don’t understand is that this involves many, many strategic issues way,way beyond the personality or past of the Ricky delivery boy……or even the Nothing But Cocaine (NBC TV) network that hired him……which represents a significant political/ cultural shift infinitely beyond the insignificance of your usual humorless peevishness…,.behind the Mask of Anonymous.
Meanwhile others should judge for themselves, so thank you for your prompting me to search out the whole monologue…8 minutes or so, which was not easy to find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNdTLHZAeo
8,082,472 views•Jan 5, 2020
The joke about Epstein, by itself…..is probably worth a billion times more, politically than your above comment designed to get it NOT to register with people, whether you are conscious of that fact…or more probably…not.
Fail
It has registered with many millions of people……….
Who will give no more of their money or political attention to Hollywood, sour puss.
Because, like you Bro, he doesn’t give a fu*k about the Palestinians (or the folk commiting suicide in the Wuhan FOXCONN factories).
Shhh, they’re not the only one on here…
the iraqi parliament’s resolution is a non binding one , eh
Let’s go to Colombia another horrific fundamentalistic neo-liberal/neo-con “experiment”:
https://astutenews.com/2020/01/05/neo-liberal-colombia-where-life-has-to-defeat-death/
Extreme poverty, extra-judicial killings, corruption, unemployment, an embarrassing foreign policy, police brutality, extremely high crime rate – everything is inter-connected. Everything seems to be explosive.
Since the beginning of the PROTESTS…,
police, military and the para-military response in Colombia has been so outrageously tough, so violent, that even some mass media outlets in the West had no choice but to notice and to report the gravest excesses.
The explosion has been spontaneous, angry, and for the extreme right-wing government of President Iván Duque Márquez, very embarrassing.
You get a clear and loud message from Mike Pompeo aka Trump in Washington. You can go ‘all the way’. You can kill, without being criticized. You can torture.
According to the national victims’ agency more than 150,000 people were forcibly disappeared between 1986 and 2017, with up to 80,000 still missing. Combatants on all sides of the conflict engaged in the practice.”
The regime is waiting. Will the demonstrators get tired and return home? If they retreat, fine. If not, it is likely that the state is ready to protect the status quo by crushing them; by killing many, injuring thousands, like in Chile.
Political correctness is the end of politics. Introduction to Crosstalk programme Politics as Religion.
Peter Lavelle. Crosstalk show. RT. Monday.
No, Peter Lavelle, it is far more serious.
Political correctness is the politics of nazism. National socialism, democratic socialism, social democracy,
It appeared in nordic social democracy decades ago, morphing into the complete totalitarian state, and it is spreading to USA because it has been implemented by the democrat’s party in USA, forming the basis of censorship both in social media and elsewhere in media, in corporations, and in politics from where the dictatorship is implemented.
Brazil got a puppet president using an anti-political correctness and racist speech
Meanwhile the protests in India also going on – quite strongly – but silenced by western mass media aka corporate press…
The following article gives a good overview and also explains the historical background.
The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets !
By Vijay Prashad, Monday, Dec 30, 2019
Challenging Modi’s Bigoted And Dishonest Government
Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people – mainly young people – gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward. They are angry at the government’s attempt to define citizenship in a narrow and bigoted way; but they are also angry at the arrogance of the government and at the disastrous way in which the government has managed the economy.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_86558.shtml
Am I the only one who finds it astounding that an army of absolutely inept people got so much power on USA? They have no standards when choosing people for important roles or they choose the most batshit crazy people to do the decision making on a country filled to the brim with nukes? It’s horrible for all parties involved in this insanity. War Pigs, a song composed in the seventies, continues to be relevant to our contemporary circunstances.
Someone needs to stop Uncle Sammy’s madness
USA is a war economy. Their entire gov/population are groomed and geared and programmed for that.
So essentially they are saying, they are going to plunder and murder, until they become the loser at war.
All they need to do meanwhile, is to have the most deadly weapon and never hesitate to use it, with no regard to the rule of law or basic human rights or respect of other cultural differences. And unfortunately THE PPL who was sold the idea they have freedom and rights, and who voted their gov into power, can’t or won’t stop them, now blatantly committing war crime, in their name. They dont even hide and try to deceive anymore. Naked serial war crime in display by the ‘most powerful country’ and they are wearing it like their trophy badge.
So what are they REALLY saying to the world?
Unfortunately, its shouting, it will take war to end the USSA regime.
And sadly there are too many USA population still thinks USSA is unchallenged, that the 42 million Iranian cannot beat 330million USA. But are they willing to go to the front line of a foreign country to ‘spread freedom’? Are not the overflowing of homeless VETs an admonishment from their god? While all 42 million Iranian will fight to liberate their country from the invaders.
The USA population still dont realised or dont want to admit their gov, their congress, their military, their monetary system, are all war-purposed and all are soaked with blood. Until they themselves bleed and die, the rest of the world will need to keep fighting until we have peace, our rightful peace, on our sovereign land.
Unfortunately they, The USSA MIC and The USSA The PPL, have decided their chosen fate. They cannot even see, in the last murderous act, they have no friends. How will they even negotiate or plead at The Reset? Somebody here mention ‘yard sale’. Yes it can and probably will happen to the all-powerful USSA one day. Very sad!
In the end it will be looked upon as a foolish maneuver when the highways are flooded with crashing vehicles and the rr rails need to be widened. All that money and people could have been used to upgrade the infrustructure.
Unless that’s all those military boys know how to do is kill, then better overseas than on the streets of America.
Foolish? by who?
You actually imagine the US Kleptocracy (who continue to get richer while the infrastructure crumbles) think it is a foolish manoeuvre?
You imagine they are invested only in the US (rather than their global playground)?
You imagine they give a sh*t about G.I. Joe?
You imagine they are not currently making a profit from oil price / exchange rate, er, insider info?
C.mon – not all US citizens can be turkey’s.
Surely?
Hmmmmm… refreshing honest reflection from Alabama
and I totally understand you and where you are
You are at the end of Qing dynasty or the end of USSR as I mentioned several times
and there are no good options for you, at your level, and you are seeing your world burn into ashes and the future literally ‘liquidating’ like water through your hands…
“Unless that’s all those military boys know how to do is kill, then better overseas than on the streets of America.”
So now let me turn on the Unfounded Imagination mode (so I am not responding to Alabama alone)
Pls I am referencing back to Qing and USSR to show you where (I think) you are now…
and again, I stress and highlight and color-code, I understand…
but sir/madam of The PPL, we still have a problem!
As said, there are to major category of The PPL – 1) those who won’t and 2) those who can’t
1) those who won’t – are basically saying, better you, your children, your family, your cultural group your country suffer, murdered and die, than me, my children, my family, my cultural group and my country. We vote them in for a few bucks and you can’t blame us for prioritising our own survival (over your dead body)!
2) those who can’t – we dont have the means and we are also being targets and victimised. So whether we fight our gov for the re-establishment of The Republic or not, we die, and you die, anyway. So we are already dead before the fight even begins… with those who has total control over our lives and our entire being, and our future, and our children’s future. We simply can’t and are worthless to the regime change to restore The Republic of USA.
So ‘they’ keep killing our The PPL in the east, in your name, with your money, and put the ‘revenge’ squarely back to your children and your children’s children. And if we, The PPL from the east strike back, you lament you are not responsible and are not to be the target of the ‘payback’ group. Yet, ‘they’ kill ALL of our ppl, children, women, they have no care. And now, those to strike back against the empire, and the empire quickly set you up as ‘collateral damage’ grade, and throw you at the front line, with neon sign ‘revenge here’, we are to separate you out, as the good american?
So what can you do, all you good americans? LOTS!
For a start,. You can die a honourable death, if that be so, like the Iran general. You defend and die for your country – The Republic of USA, not their ‘democracy’ of USSA (or worse). It takes courage to be in The LIGHT of Force! (that’s why I pointed you to the skywalkers since you are most easily ‘learn/program’ through visual means) Unfortunately, the ‘sequel’ of my rant on the body, soul etc didn’t make the standard – so the idea I wish to share was truncated (god’s will and mod’s will be it)
Like the Iran general, staring at death, and death staring back, like you are now, you have a choice, good americans. You die as the Light or your die as Darkness, regardless of what religion, god or GOD, those are the same options to The PPL in the East. We must choose too!
Hear the Yoda – Fear NOT!
If you won’t or can’t, we will and we can!
Do understand – Our choice is to answer to our god and GOD too!
P/s a or some magician has been called out from Persia, for this time of signs… if ‘they’ need a fake dishonourable reason to leave, so let Nature do its beatings… so it has been granted
U.S. Is Alone in the Middle East Now by Tom Luongo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpFFUXnWpg
p/s Luongo touch on The Switch in the east and many other important point of views and Rus and Chi moving into Irak
After the very bloody COUP in Bolvia – thousands injured, arrested, detained and a death toll
from “a dozen” till hunderts or even thousands – depending of which source you choose to
believe ! Also remenber whitewashed by HRW & Amnesty…
Evo Morales posted a video on Twitter with a message calling for justice to act against what he now considers a proven coup.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/coup-in-bolivia-camacho-reveals-pact-with-police-and-military-20191229-0011.html
TeleSur – Bolivia
https://www.telesurenglish.net/SubSecciones/en/country/bolivia/
Does someone who has access to local news confirm this?
https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/1214170432603086853
How can a possible China’s military presence affect the incoming conflict?
@Straight-Bat
/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-01-03/#comment-740550
Your comment is very informative to me and help me understand more about China. What you explain about Deng action and its result is exactly what I know about this. This is one of many thing I admire about China.
I afraid that my opinion on China about its imperialism and opportunism nature is still true. Based on its history, China had willing to choose wrong path to put its own interest first. I admire China willing but I criticize China about this too because it is too ruthless.
I need to see more truthful evidences from China behavior especially the in South China Sea. Unfortunately, China don’t have anything to prove its trust, in my opinion. Do not underestimate the Sino-Centrism.
My “1970s Vietnam view point” plus current knowledge is still good, I afraid
Thank you so much for your explain.
Some news for everyone:
https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/afghanistan-reacts-to-suleimanis-death/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/06/iran-tension-soleimani-explainer/2822590001/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/06/soleimani-peace-mission-assassinated-trump-lie-imminent-attacks/amp/
The situation is really chaos right now.
Look like Qatar is demonize Soleimani (I think so). Let view the propaganda:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/soleimani-anti-imperialist-hero-200105211451136.html
Unorthodox Black Sheep VN,
I admire PRC precisely because of those reasons for which you call it as “Imperialist”:
First, PRC puts it’s interest at the first place –
unlike most other countries where political leadership puts the interest of Anglo and Jewish global oligarchy as the most important one which supercedes the interest of 90% common people;
Secondly, PRC gives due weightage to trade and commerce which (in the Empire era) caused a scenario many call as ‘sinocentrism’. Just like any other empire, Chinese emperors also expanded their territory but never beyond their adjacent land/region (unlike Greek empire/ Roman empire/ Spanish empire/ British empire/ French empire who always invariably wanted the whole world !) – because of large population, less arable land, industriousness of community Chinese always flourished in trade-commerce resulting in prosperity of China … The way industrial revolution in Europe and colonisation of the world resulted in (imperialist) Eurocentrism, there was no such thing as Sinocentrism that came out of 2500 years of trade and commerce between China and Asia / Europe / Africa !
The mantra that ‘China is imperialist’ will be a sweet music only to the ears of Zionist Fascist Deep State who murdered Stalin, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, John F Kennedy, Hugo Chavez, Qassem Soleimani, to name a few …
It is imperative that Vietnam (of Ho Chi Minh and Gen. Giap) makes a course correction and joins ‘Resistance camp’ instead of clinging to the very unfortunate memory of 1970s conflict. The seriousness of Soviet-China conflict was at least 10 times more (than Vietnam-China conflict). Both sides: Russian govt and Chinese govt continuously made course correction and now Russia-China relationship is the bedrock of (world wide) Resistance camp !
China has more billionaires than US https://www.rt.com/business/362657-china-has-most-billionaires/
A parasite can not make rich pickings from a dead host. The US had rising living standards for most of its people, once upon a time.
@Straight-Bat
First, PRC puts it’s interest at the first place –
unlike most other countries where political leadership puts the interest of Anglo and Jewish global oligarchy as the most important one which supercedes the interest of 90% common people;
I never consider the action is imperialism, I consider the action is Patriotism and I am in fact fan of China on this above.
Secondly, PRC gives due weightage to trade and commerce which (in the Empire era) caused a scenario many call as ‘sinocentrism’. Just like any other empire, Chinese emperors also expanded their territory but never beyond their adjacent land/region (unlike Greek empire/ Roman empire/ Spanish empire/ British empire/ French empire who always invariably wanted the whole world !) – because of large population, less arable land, industriousness of community Chinese always flourished in trade-commerce resulting in prosperity of China … The way industrial revolution in Europe and colonisation of the world resulted in (imperialist) Eurocentrism, there was no such thing as Sinocentrism that came out of 2500 years of trade and commerce between China and Asia / Europe / Africa !
The thing above, in my opinion, is not proof to prove that China is not imperialism, China is an imperialism country especially in 18th century but China don’t have chance or lost their chance to become more powerful imperialism like European ones and Japan due to their arrogant (Sino-Centrism) and they refused to modernize their country with industrial revolution due to their Sino-Centrism mindset that means refusing to learn new things. China was modernize like European Countries and Japan in 18th and 19 century, I’m sure that China would do what European and US was doing during the 19th century: genocide, invade, etc. Take note that Sino-Centrism or China Arrogant was the main reason for their Century of Humility. I will repeat here again:
https://www.unz.com/ldinh/tet-offensives-hungry-china-and-dumbed-down-americans
By 1820, China has expanded to roughly its present shape, with some territory lost since, and other regions becoming more firmly under Chinese control and Sinicized. From 1735 to 1792, China waged ten major wars, including campaigns against the Burmese, Vietnamese, Gurkhas, Xinjiang Muslims, Dzungars and Jinhchuan hill tribes. If you haven’t heard of the last two groups, it’s because they’ve been mostly wiped out. Though extremely costly, with two clear defeats, these wars were dubbed the Ten Great Campaigns by the vain and delusional Qianlong Emperor.
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History is replete with magnificent men grossly wronged or abjectly humiliated. For defending a disgraced general, Sima Qian was castrated, then jailed for three years, but this didn’t stop the Chinese Herodotus from completing Records of the Grand Historian, a colossal history of China spanning 2,500 years. For the sake of his masterwork, Sima Qian continued to serve the expletive who had transgendered him, the Emperor Wu of Han.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_genocide (I know wikipedia is not reliable but I think the link is right)
Review the video to understand more how arrogant China is:
Patriotism in Chinese Cinema | Video Essay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4jasq2uY8
Arrogant will destroy China again if they don’t their self-delusional behavior.
The mantra that ‘China is imperialist’ will be a sweet music only to the ears of Zionist Fascist Deep State who murdered Stalin, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, John F Kennedy, Hugo Chavez, Qassem Soleimani, to name a few …
The mantra that ‘China is imperialist’ is also a bitter pill or red pill for people, especially the anti-imperialist, who put their trust so much on China.
Russia and China work together is very good news and I hope both countries can maintain their friendship and attack the AngloZionism. However, Russia trust China not because the “China is not imperialism” but because they have strong border to each other, that means Russia cannot invaded China or China cannot invade Russia. I believe many Russian officials is not fool enough to believe China is anti-imperialism. Take note that some people may not or never forget China crime.
China imperialism action on the South China Sea will going to destroy their sea trade road if they keep the un-practical believe that “South China Sea is belong to China” unless they honestly set a discussion on how to have fair share to other countries, especially Vietnam, on South China Sea.
If you feel this strongly about ‘China imperialism action on the South China Sea’, you should lobby china directly.
Posting here will not help vietnam or your personal goals.
Its good to share your views here and some enjoy reading what’s going on in Vietnam,
but for all practical purpose, posting here is just for rants, ideas too dangerous for the MSM and in some case, preparation for the future events (if applicable to individual circumstance).
Unless you are trying to get the saker community to lobby china for vietnam?
Or are you or some family/friends, who are fisherman, you know directly affected by or in the fishing industry in vietnam?
@Anonymous on January 07, 2020 · at 9:59 am EST/EDT
I’m so sorry sir/ma’am, I just try to prove my point that China is not anti imperialism country, China must be opportunism (and imperialism) to put its own interest first. I will consider my post here is an observation.
If you feel this strongly about ‘China imperialism action on the South China Sea’, you should lobby china directly.
Posting here will not help vietnam or your personal goals.
Come on sir/ma’am, I think you call me “keyboard hero”. Your ad-homine (if I am correct) does not help you debunk my point. I don’t gain anything from my post.
Unless you are trying to get the saker community to lobby china for vietnam?
Or are you or some family/friends, who are fisherman, you know directly affected by or in the fishing industry in vietnam?
Call me disinformation agent if you want sir/ma’am, I don’t care. There are many ways to know what happens in Vietnam even VN Government try their best to hide like chat chit with some at cafe, talk to taxi drivers, etc.
@Unorthodox Black Sheep VN,
I noted your entire response has reference to the history of 18th and 19th century. I clearly wrote before & I repeat again, PRC-Taiwan was imperialist empire before 1912 – after that PRC didn’t show any imperialist behaviour (Deng era mistakes not withstanding). You are repeating that point again, which I agreed long back.
Your only point on SCS is invalid simply because you earlier accepted the fact that, no other neighbouring country had navy before 20th century other than China. Obviously, Chinese empire used to rule the SCS zone.
In my opinion, BRI programme is unparallel in world history of past 5 milleniums – China using the huge forex surplus for doing business with 100+ countries in order to earn profit + employment for its own country as well as enhancing infrastructure-energy-industry-farming in 100+ countries for their benefits.
You shouldn’t be one of those who cries “debt trap by imperialist China” (forgetting that most of the debt is due to IMF and WB loans).
@Straight-Bat
I noted your entire response has reference to the history of 18th and 19th century. I clearly wrote before & I repeat again, PRC-Taiwan was imperialist empire before 1912 – after that PRC didn’t show any imperialist behaviour (Deng era mistakes not withstanding). You are repeating that point again, which I agreed long back.
I response to second paragraph because the part:
Just like any other empire, Chinese emperors also expanded their territory but never beyond their adjacent land/region (unlike Greek empire/ Roman empire/ Spanish empire/ British empire/ French empire who always invariably wanted the whole world !) – because of large population, less arable land, industriousness of community Chinese always flourished in trade-commerce resulting in prosperity of China …
I think you say that China empire never want to invade any country in the world. Forgive me if I misunderstand what you say.
Your only point on SCS is invalid simply because you earlier accepted the fact that, no other neighbouring country had navy before 20th century other than China. Obviously, Chinese empire used to rule the SCS zone.
I tell you that today any countries around the SCS to claim their owns. It is about power. I don’t see my point is valid here. China behavior on SCS is imperialism, if China is not, then why China keep ramming fisher boats of other countries? The countries around the SCS must have seriously discussion on how they can have fairshare on SCS but none of them for some reason does not think about it.I don’t see my point is invalid here. This is 2020 right now, “Chinese empire used to rule the SCS zone” is invalid, and to be fair any countries around SCS had right to claim SCS to its own if SCS is good for their interest.
In my opinion, BRI programme is unparallel in world history of past 5 milleniums – China using the huge forex surplus for doing business with 100+ countries in order to earn profit + employment for its own country as well as enhancing infrastructure-energy-industry-farming in 100+ countries for their benefits.
I never said the BRI is bad sir, but since you bring the BRI topic, I have to tell you that in my personal opinion, this is just theory. We never see the what it will become in reality. China can build a very effective spy on the country in BRI, you know? This is the example:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/#comment-101910
You shouldn’t be one of those who cries “debt trap by imperialist China” (forgetting that most of the debt is due to IMF and WB loans).
I don’t cry anything about the debt trap, this is the fault of the pro-money in my country Vietnam, not China of course. Is this another kind of ad-hominem?
Unorthodox Black Sheep VN,
You quoted my statement ” just like any other empire, Chinese emperors also expanded their territory but never beyond their adjacent land/region …” , & then you wrote your response as ” I think you say that China empire never want to invade any country …” >>
Well, either you didn’t understand my language or you are out to create artificial hue and cry !!!
Did I not write that Chinese emperors also expended their territory ?? Please read the definition of empire (as against kingdom) which means multiple kingdoms and multiple communities were brought forcefully under same emperor – how was it possible without invasion ? Also the concept of country / nation / state are only 2 century old … There used to be kingdoms and empires. So, when we use the term as ‘chinese empire’ it is not a historical fact (there were Han, Tang, Song, Ming, Yuan empires in the geographical region which is known as China).
If I were Chinese govt. I would done the same thing what China is doing in SCS – if my predecessors were ruling Spartley and Paracel with a bluewater navy why should I give it to neighbours ?? I would call neighbours for discussions about resource sharing – if they abstain, I will demarcate certain portion and intimate them – but I won’t allow any neighbours naval force !
On BRI, what you said about spy network, is theoritically possible … Now I don’t look it from that angle – I am confident about economic and social benefits on both sides China and host country…
This is my last communication on this chain – so I would like to point out that Vietnam Communist Party owes a lot to Chinese Communist Party (and Communist Party of Soviet Union) for logistics and moral support during struggle against France, and USA in 1950s and 1960s. The China-Soviet tustle reflected in south-east Asian geopolitics of 1970s and 1980s … The breakdown of trust between China and Vietnam (even if the trade and commerce relations are strong) is truly an Asian tragedy – it is even more tragic that, different socio-political groups (of Vietnamese in Vietnam and immigrants) continue to keep the distrust alive and try to fuel further conflicts (even if that is detrimental to Vietnamese living in Vietnam).
@Straight-Bat
I don’t have to reply to me if you don’t want because I never claim that I win because you don’t reply me. This is just a discussion and I just want to learn more but that does not means I will agree anything I learn immediately.
I admit that I misunderstand your Chinese Empire part and I apologize for this.
If I were Chinese govt. I would done the same thing what China is doing in SCS – if my predecessors were ruling Spartley and Paracel with a bluewater navy why should I give it to neighbours ?? I would call neighbours for discussions about resource sharing – if they abstain, I will demarcate certain portion and intimate them – but I won’t allow any neighbours naval force !
This is pretty double standard to me because according to your own logic,the whole Western European, North Africa (If my memory serve me right) must return to Italy because Italy ancestor, Roman Empire, had ruled areas in B.C. SCS today is disputed territory, not sovereign territory anymore, the Chinese Naval evidence is just more reasonable than other countries claim because China is the only Naval in SCS in the ancient times but the evidence in fact is irrelevance today. The China 9 Dash-line is very dangerous to other countries national security, look again and see how dangerous it is. This is reason why no country around SCS let China claim the whole SCS because they understand the potential of SCS. There must be neutral representative (practical version of UN) to help countries around the SCS has fair share. In conclusion, China today does not have any right to claim the whole SCS and their imperialism action in SCS that pouring the oil into fire.
The relationship between China-Vietnam is really complicated that Vietnam owns China. It is undeniable fact that Chinese people had saved anything they have to support North Vietnamese in the Resistance War Again US. I support you should read:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/
About BRI, I support you should read the comment of Conical Hat, the author of report above, to understand more how China can create a spy network in BRI. This is just my personal opinion but I think it should be put in consideration:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/#comment-101910
That all, you don’t have to reply to me if you don’t want to but I hope my explain help you understand why I say China is an imperialism. By the way, I am real person not “you are out to create artificial hue and cry”.
Fix typo:
The relationship between China-Vietnam is really complicated than Vietnam owns China. It is undeniable fact than that Chinese people had saved anything they have to support North Vietnamese in the Resistance War Again US. I support you should read:
Unorthodox Black Sheep VN
I followed this not in detail because we were busy at The Saker Blog. It is a hot issue. But reading everything this morning, it is as if you want to create trouble for yourself. I don’t know, but sticking to your point without taking interest in the view of anyone else, or seriously looking at sources and material that are opposite to your point is not wise.
“I don’t have to reply to me if you don’t want because I never claim that I win because you don’t reply me. This is just a discussion and I just want to learn more but that does not means I will agree anything I learn immediately.”
This is not win or lose, this is a discussion. China is kicking their own fishermen out of the Yangse River because they want the fishery there to recover from over fishing. (Actually, the photography here is beautiful – http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/09/c_138689954_9.htm)
Russia found some North Koreans fishing in one of their waterways and kicked them right out.
Vietnam’s fishing boats are found even in Malaysia and Philippine waters. Vietnam fishermen is not the absolute innocents here. But as you yourself say, Vietnam is so deeply embedded with the current hegemon, that I personally am glad that China is holding its hand over those waters because it keeps the hegemon out.
It is a hot issue, but it is a regional issue. It is one of those issues that the hegemon uses to exploit and try to make enemies of neighbors. China wants to solve this issue regionally. So, I would suggest you all sit down together and solve it regionally. What is wrong with negotiating some fishing concessions (or oil concessions). You will find that China is approachable if you also keep the hegemon out.
This is the state of those waters : https://www.fni.no/news/fish-not-oil-at-the-heart-of-the-south-china-sea-conflict-article1556-330.html
And here are some new actions happening :
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/vietnam-advances-plan-protect-disputed-maritime-claims-stronger-fishing-fleet
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/12/06/vietnam-confronts-china-in-the-south-china-sea/
And, Vietnam is standing away from Belt and Road – I would suggest to choose your friends.
https://theaseanpost.com/article/challenges-belt-and-road-initiative-vietnam
I just want to confirm that the stance of China is this:
“This would eventually pose significant security challenges to countries in Southeast Asia, he said, urging nations to come together to hammer out a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea to remove a “major source” of potential confrontation.”
This article spells out what is at stake for the region.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3045422/doubts-over-phase-one-trade-deal-us-china-ties-still-deep
@amarynth
This is my fault for you to misunderstand something I said, I blame myself for this. Let me correclt to help you understand more and if you get confused (mainly because my horrible grammar) please just tell me:
I don’t said that I care about win or loses in the discussion. I just want to point out that I want to learn more from other people view points like I trust people says but that does not mean I think they are correct or they are correct but that does not mean I will agree immediately for some reasons or something like that. If I don’t care about other viewpoints, then I just go full “sinophobic” instead trying to explain my points.
Let me give some feedbacks:
Yangse River is in China and this is China problem so this is very off-topic when you try to apply the incident to SCS.
I don’t say Vietnam is innocent. SCS is disputed area so anything can be happened. No countries in SCS want to share SCS right now. China fears on US-Vietnam relationship does not excuses their imperialism actions. Look at their activities and dash line so you will see how dangerous China is to other countries national security. China’s saying, in my opinion, always unreliable than their actual action.
https://twitter.com/rdmartinson88/status/1214245208264605696
https://twitter.com/SecurityScholar/status/1213802444469071872
https://twitter.com/rdmartinson88/status/1161295760715128833
https://twitter.com/rdmartinson88/status/1164611669026332672
https://twitter.com/rdmartinson88/status/1178654712960356353
China is messing up everyone in SCS now. If China want to have fair share on SCS, China should respect UN EEZ. Oil, gas, and power always China primary goal, fish is secondary.
Vietnam had ton of reasons to stay away from BRI. This is example:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/#comment-101910
Sorry, I have to agree with Vietnam about this.
To be fair, I will say that Vietnam Coast Guard and Chinese Coast Guard are ramming at each other so much. I hope two countries don’t go war each other in the future.
I admire China in many things but that does not mean I will let China go away with their mistakes. I prefer Vietnam is absolute neutral in the world but the Pro-US and Pro-China faction in Vietnam are destroying the Vietnam Neutral Policy. I suggest you read:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/
By the way, another Kevin Barrett Podcast on China and very interesting to hear, I think so:
https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_china-brutal-or-benign-ellen-brown-vs-peter-myers-plus-gordon-duff-on-soleimani-murder-looming-ww3/
amarynth,
your response to the communication trail (myself and Unorthodox Black Sheep VN) is logical.
i couldn’t understand why Unorthodox Black Sheep VN keeps on repeating illogical stance. Being an imperialist empire until French empire colinised the Vietnam empire, how Vietnamese can call other historical empires as “imperialist” ? Roughly during 3 centuries (around 1500 to 1800) Di Viet empire invaded Champa kingdom and destroyed most of that society, and acquired the land which we know as south vietnam (later, French empire colonied entire vietnamese empire).
Since different Chinese empires controlled the SCS region through bluewater navy (not built by other kingdoms around SCS) until European powers took control 1850 onwards, undoubtedly PRC can claim back SCS (and Taiwan-Hong kong-Macao) after foundation of the state 1949.
If Vietnamese government (and the state) can hold on to the regions of old Champa kingdom which they added during past 5 centuries, why Chinese government shouldn’t hold on to SCS which they had been ruling since Han empire (about 2 millenniums) ?
i also failed to understand why Unorthodox Black Sheep VN keeps on sending links of reports that only speak on (so-called) negative features of Chinese governance and affairs while negating on reports that stress on positive sides.
@Straight-Bat,
You don’t have to response to me if you don’t want but allow me to explain to you:
i couldn’t understand why Unorthodox Black Sheep VN keeps on repeating illogical stance. Being an imperialist empire until French empire colinised the Vietnam empire, how Vietnamese can call other historical empires as “imperialist” ? Roughly during 3 centuries (around 1500 to 1800) Di Viet empire invaded Champa kingdom and destroyed most of that society, and acquired the land which we know as south vietnam (later, French empire colonied entire vietnamese empire).
I also my own country Vietnam is imperialism but that does not mean I don’t love my country so why I cannot call other countries imperialism? What Vietnam had done to Champa is undone now. Let me explain to you in simple way, Champa also wanted to invaded Vietnam in the past but Vietnam had beat them so badly and Champa is slowly disappeared one by one.
Since different Chinese empires controlled the SCS region through bluewater navy (not built by other kingdoms around SCS) until European powers took control 1850 onwards, undoubtedly PRC can claim back SCS (and Taiwan-Hong kong-Macao) after foundation of the state 1949.
I told you already SCS today is the disputed territory, the Chinese hoax claim same to the Vietnamese hoax claim does not matter anymore, Chinese dash line is really dangerous to country around the SCS and no countries will accept the China claim. I told you that China Navy evidence on SCS is just reasonable than other claims in practical ways but the evidence is not good enought to prove SCS belong to China. Are my English really so bad so you don’t understand?
If Vietnamese government (and the state) can hold on to the regions of old Champa kingdom which they added during past 5 centuries, why Chinese government shouldn’t hold on to SCS which they had been ruling since Han empire (about 2 millenniums) ?
Listen carefully, old Champa was disappeared because since about 5 centuries ago and Victory (Vietnam) had right to claim Champa to its own not loser and Land =/= Sea. Han Empire owned SCS???? That make me ROFL!! Why? Because if my memory serve me right, Ming Dynasty had the True Power Navy in the sea. Do you know the Three Kingdom Era or Do you truly know China History? If you know then you will never say China rule the SCS since the Han Dynasty.
i also failed to understand why Unorthodox Black Sheep VN keeps on sending links of reports that only speak on (so-called) negative features of Chinese governance and affairs while negating on reports that stress on positive sides.
Because many people talk about the positive on China but they never (dare to) about the negative side of China and they always keep the cliche “China is innocent”. If China has positive and negative, I will talk about both of them. I told you that I admire many things that many anti-imperialist already know about China but I will talk about the negative side on China too when I noticed.Let make ask you a directly question: Don’t you truly believe anything negative about China or you just don’t want to know?
If you to discuss with me more then post your comment on moveable feast cafe 2020/01/10 but if you don’t want to waste your time with me, just ok and I respect your decision.
This is very interesting. The Department of Defense has just notified the Iraqi leaders that DOD will comply with the resolution of the Iraqi Legislature and leave the country.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-army-tells-iraq-it-preparing-move-out
On the other hand Trump says that the United States is not leaving Iraq.
What does this mean? Who is running the country?
Now, it has become painfully obvious that Trump has to be removed from office. The murder of Soleimani was an act of absolutely monumental incompetence. It is obvious to absolutely everyone that he has to go. But I doubt that even if he was charged with this offense – an international war crime – that the Republicans would remove him from office. And I doubt that either the Republicans or the Democrats would so much as charge him with a war crime since they are all up to their necks in war crimes.
So maybe the powers actually ruling America have come to the conclusion that “enough is enough” and have simply taken matters into their own hands.
I just read on Russia Today that they have confirmed the authenticity of the letter about withdrawal from Iraq. It was confirmed by a DOD spokesperson.
https://www.rt.com/news/477597-us-coalition-iraq-sovereignty/
On the other hand the Secretary of Defense has denied it !?!?
Here is the article where the Secretary of Defense says that the United States is not leaving and the letter is incorrect.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001061077961429-us-led-coalition-tells-baghdad-it-will-move-out-of-iraq-official-disputed-letter/
What is going on?
They said it was a draft that somehow leaked out with no signature.
Yet another article saying that both American military sources and Iraqi sources have confirmed the authenticity of the letter indicating that the US will withdraw from Iraq.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-military-tells-iraq-preparing-move-official-letter-201753616.html
Deep State (Langley) makes “hit” on Sulaimani to remove liability involved in “Iranian nuclear deal” and Trump gets blame and takes it to keep the lid on the can of worms he’s lining up to spill. The “powers actually ruling America” shouldn’t be and are being systematically expunged by the Orange Man. BUT, you want him removed!
The “Nuke Deal” was orchestrated thru the Obama White House, State Dept, rogue generals, banks, etc gathered around a honeypot of $150 billion dollars of sequestered Iranian funds that was delivered on pallets of cash, financial instruments, weapons, etc with deep state folks from several “countries” getting their due bribes; and Sulaimani was in the thick of it.
You are right. “Enough is enough”, but my “Enough is enough” differs from yours.
Trump invited Iran to take “reciprocal action”. Translation; “Our Deep State” took out one of your Deep State; You may take out some of ours”. Sounds fair to me. Military out of Iraq? I trust Trump’s timing, not the DOD’s.
《冰雪奇緣》Let It Go、アナと雪の女王、Frozen、겨울왕국、Холодное сердце
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI_P7pnZrJs
… did you spot the three Mag wheels ?
… and to action …
《追追追》指揮/黃光佑 嗩吶/林子由、彭彥翰
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEG5DRXvuFk
Translate:
“Chasing Chase” Conductor / Huang Guangyou Suona / Lin Ziyou, Peng Yanhan
… as we listen to this joyous rousing military music the man in this Cafe’s header photo is reading US forces and others are leaving The Middle East …
… the words of 追追追 subtitled in English …
黃妃 Huang Fei【追追追】Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNo3LuZXA1w
… and finally … for Saker’s Vibrant Cafe …
蘇打綠 sodagreen -【追追追】Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_MeFj_BWE
Now that we are in this mess lets enjoy an appropriate song for this moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx6IwshTL6M
(Black Sabbath – Into the Void)
Orlov has a couple of zinger articles on his site, as only as Orlov can describe (bulk of the articles behind a nominal fee paywall, unfortunately, but the flavor can be gained from open access on his blog):
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
Donnie Walks off the Reservation
Until now, Donnie Trump, Putin’s man in Washington, has been more or less doing as he has been told. Since he is due to be reelected later this year, now is a good time to evaluate his performance so far, and I am sure that his Kremlin report card shows his overall grade as “acceptable.” Here are some of his most notable achievements, listed in no particular order:
• He has steered trade negotiations with China into a cul de sac where the Chinese basically do whatever they want while the US pays them ever more for the privilege of importing their products.
But lately there has been trouble in paradise.
__________________________________
Predictions for the 2020s
While many commentators see it fit to publish their predictions for the year ahead, I find a single year to be too fine-grained for any meaningful forecast. For me, plus or minus five years is about the right size of the error bars to place on any prediction with regard to timing, making it possible to time any major change to within a couple of decades. And it just so happens that another decade has gone by since I published my last set of predictions for the United States in the 2010s and it is therefore time to come up with a new set, for the 2020s.
I did my review of Mr Husein Askary’s take on the Iran/Iraq spiralling hot spot for the Empire of War…..and also reviewed Paul Craig Roberts’ newest article…and posted both over here, this morning:
/yemens-ansarullah-were-partaking-in-regional-drive-to-boot-us-forces-out/#comment-741209
From whining about Putin’s slowness to strike the Hegemon………….PCR….is finally getting it…..and preferring Vlad’s Way:
“Putin’s Hour Is at Hand” his article is titled. Find it within the above linked comment.
It starts:
“Vladimir Putin is the most impressive leader on the world stage. He survived and arose from a Russia corrupted by Washington and Israel during the Yeltsin years and reestablished Russia as a world power. He dealt successfully with American/Israeli aggression against South Ossetia and against Ukraine, incorporating at Crimea’s request the Russian province back into Mother Russia. He has tolerated endless insults and provocations from Washington and its empire without responding in kind. He is conciliatory and a peacemaker from a position of strength.
He knows that the American empire based as it is on arrogance and lies is failing economically, socially, politically, and militarily. He understands that war serves no Russian interest.
Washington’s murder of Qasem Soleimani, a great Iranian leader, indeed, one of the rare leaders in world history, has dimmed Trump’s leadership and placed the limelight on Putin. The stage is set for Putin and Russia to assume the leadership of the world. ”
It seems the stock of restraint and emotional control….has risen in PCR’s eyes…in the last 5 days.
Bro,
Read my reply to Mike from Jersey re; the Sulamaini hit.
Also, the Golden Globes piece is priceles!
“Also, the Golden Globes piece is priceles!”
Yet another (among tens of millions) US turkey.
god help the Paletinians (and the rest of us).
All this unicorn talk … Here is one for you Bro.
“We’re Going To War, Bro”: Elite 82nd Airborne In Largest ‘Fast Deployment’ In A Decade
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/were-going-war-bro-elite-82nd-airborne-largest-fast-deployment-decade
Whoopee! We’re all gonna die!
And it’s one, two, three, four
What’r we fightin’ for????
Beats me if I’ll ever come back
From somewhere over there
In Iran….some Stan….. or I-raq…….
“The older soldiers in their 30s and 40’s were more somber…………”
Ya think???
Hopefully it’s the just campaign footage they’ll be posing for………….
“Whoopee! We’re all gonna die!”
Funny, that’s what some of the other Nazis said at the start of Nuremberg.
Bit of a rah rah article, the Unit size being to small and as we have just seen Iran has first world targeting capabilities and other known unknowns. They’d be ducks in a barrel (where can they go where they are out of reach?). I’d go with, since they are infantry, the size being perfect for a Tactical Retreat, imho.
Now that it is increasingly difficult for you to, miraculously, support the oranguturd it seems the VVP shirt is definitely out of the wardrobe and firmly lashed on.
For a while at least /moveable-feast-cafe-2018-05-07/#comment-520645
“Meanwhile, I wore my Putin T Shirt for inauguration day in Russia and now it looks like I will be putting it back in an almost inaccessible corner of the closet where things hang on hangers unworn for years on end. LOL
And I thought I was fairly sure Vlad could be counted on to not disappoint. Looks like we may have to keep a good many judgments suspended for a good long while longer than most human stamina can endure.”
Gasoline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S5NDIc1_3U
Hold me down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAHRurZfmHo
Kent
To all those people being bullied
To all those people who have lost a loved one
To all those people who have lost a pet
To all those people being abused
To all those people going through depression
To all those people with anxiety
To all those people in poverty
To all those people going through a breakup
To all those people having a bad day
To all those people with insecurities
To all those people just having a hard time,
Don’t forget
Your weakness today
Is your strength tomorrow
It always gets better
Your loved ones will remain in your hearts
You always have the memories
Love yourself
Stand up for yourself
Money can’t buy happiness
Those lovers
Just weren’t right
Don’t abuse yourself
Don’t abuse others
Kill them with kindness
Treat people with kindness
We’ve all had these times
There will always be a hole in our chests
But
Let’s all be each others’ strength
weather you’re
Black
White
LGBTQ+
Christian
Atheist
Etc
Love yourself
Love others
Don’t cut
Don’t kill
Don’t criticize
Don’t beg
Don’t do drugs
Don’t starve yourself
Don’t starve others
We aren’t supposed to do any of that
Just keep your strength
Keep your faith
Don’t change because you were told to
Be yourself
Credits to “Skyfly” as comment to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGALaVgwdc0
Kent
Seen on twitter @Partisangirl Reports on twitter timeline.
CONFIRMED: DEFENSE OFFICIALS CONFIRM TARGETING OF AYN AL ASSAD.
CONFIRMED: AT LEAST SIX OBJECTS HIT US BASE IN IRAQ.
UNCONFIRMED: SOURCE OF FIRE.
Link- https://twitter.com/Partisangirl
Mundanomaniac ? any words of wisdom from the stars?
Cornwall Castle
When the dogs of war are set loose
Baying like a pack of hellish hounds
In foreign lands, we’ll serve mousse
And Madeira port and sweeter sounds
Shall grace these walls where a King
Arthur and his knights at table round
Blessed these isles with rule of law
And Concordia! Today our Lady Irina
Greets the guests, artists in awe
Of ancient stone, wood, iron patina.
Inspired are they, by such a spot
On the coast where sits….Camelot!
Irina Kudrenok of Kazakstan is your hotel hostess and today the occasion is the Birthday Celebration of the President of Irina’s homeland, Mr Nazarbayev.
(This is all new to me, I’m Just a California Yankee in King Arthur’s Fort, on assignment for Deplorable News Network…….)
https://www.1888pressrelease.com/the-secret-of-camelot-castle-captured-on-film-for-the-first-pr-233147.html
This wonderful new British short film entitled, “Camelot Castle Celebration – The Secret of Camelot Castle” which comprises the recent summer birthday celebration of President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, as well as the opening of the first of many new spectacular art galleries of Ted Stourton’s work, will both entertain and surprise. Never-before-seen inside footage of the exquisite interior of Camelot Castle, its Great Hall, its stunning entrance hall and foyer and its beautiful guest rooms.
Also for the first time ever, the film includes exclusive and extremely rare filmed interviews with John and Irina Mappin and Ted Stourton about their purpose and about Camelot Castle. It clearly portrays the joy and excitement that many local friends of Camelot, from Tintagel and Cornwall, and the hotel’s International Noble Ambassadors experience as they celebrate the unique surge and inspiration of creativity for which Camelot Castle is renowned, and so well loved, the world over.
The film can be seen here in full:
http://vimeo.com/13887539
What has a beautiful Russian woman http://www.irinamappin.biz/ an Englishman named John Mappin (her husband) and Arthurian Lore have to do with the Current Global Strategic Situation???
I’m not sure. But being as I’m a betting man, I’ll betcha more than you……or I…….. would have ever thought!
Aviation experts,……help!
I only have time to note that this article and linked video within may assist greatly in blowing up the Empire’s Ukrainegate Gambit. Maybe It’s already been shared here, but if so, I didn’t notice in the time I have for keeping up:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukranian-whistleblower-reveals-mh-17-tragedy-orchestrated-poroshenko-british-secret-service/5699826?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&dbr=1
The article by Paul Antonopolous published Monday ends thusly:
“The MH-17 tragedy also strangely involved Australia, according to Prozorov, with Australian intelligence agent Peter Kalver, likely belonging to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation if Prozorov’s allegations are correct, having a British phone number beginning with +44 and ending with 575, despite operating in Ukraine and being Australian, in which the national phone code of his home country is +61. With these revelations, Prozorov explains that “we collected enough information and documents that allow us to draw a firm conclusion. The Boeing crash was a provocation that had been planned and realized by the Ukrainian top leadership and the Western intelligence agencies.”
It is highly recommended that the documentary is viewed as all the information, in which all of it is relevant, cannot be confined into a single article. The insights and information provided by Prozorov thoroughly examines and concludes that MH-17 flight downing was an aggressive action taken by Ukraine with the backing of foreign intelligence agencies, particularly British, to discredit the Donbass militias. I would argue this was also done to legitimize a Western intervention in Ukraine.
Well, we more or less “knew” that in our bones……….the very same day.
But a verdict reversal in the court of World Opinion……….may take 5, 6, 7 or more years.
Last sentence:
“Just as Bellingcat’s disinformation campaign against Syria has failed, Higgins and other peoples campaign to blame the Donbass volunteers for MH-17 tragedy is also crumbling apart.”
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Let’s see if “this is it” for putting the lies to rest.
The video that they urge be watched, I link for y’all amateur, pro and semi-pro specialists on this flank that should not ever be conceded to The Deceiving Demons Of Empire. It is to be found within a second article by Andrew Korybko (published Sunday) , linked in the main article:
https://youtu.be/gVMbCTWRcSs
*
I was wondering if this is part of the due revelations by or via the German private detective coupla months ago was in the news…….???????
The Old Stone Well
There’s an old stone well
At the top of the hill,
Where the lovers once met
And drank their fill.
And the words he wrote,
Are there in plain view;
‘It was worth living,
Just to love you!’
Well, a rumour began
The way that it does,
Just an ordinary day,
And the town was abuzz.
Something had happened,
No one knew what.
But the families were angry,
And tempers were hot.
It was said in hushed tones,
Blood had been spilt.
The dagger had been buried,
Right up to the hilt.
T’was the father for sure,
Or the brothers at least.
They’d got up and left,
In the middle of the feast.
Plans had been made,
Deals had been struck.
That young man had been bold,
Till he ran out of luck.
The way of the world
To some may seem strange,
But the schemes of men,
They never will change.
There’s no one to blame;
The trail has run cold,
It was some kind of pact,
So the story was told.
Now the whippoorwill cries
And the night is coal black,
But the lovers are gone
And they’re not coming back.
There’s an old stone well,
At the top of the hill,
Where the lovers once met
And drank their fill.
And the words he carved,
Turned out to be true;
“It was worth living,
Just to love you!”
Ah, to savor the sweetness of your rhyme…..
‘Cause she had kisses, sweeter than wine………….
The worthy and often outstanding articles and sitreps fly by with barely enough time to read, let alone digest and comment, while the cafe slows down and regurgitates the old, with few taking seriously the new !
Waiter, apple turnover ! New recipes ! Welcome back good posters of yore and the new!
It’s still close to New Year –
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Ring Out, Wild Bells by Tennyson
“Hell’s Bells….and Heaven’s too!
Wish I had time to versify with Alfred…and Alfreda….you!
Ah shucks! Edgar Allen’s mature version will have to do….
….. in place of my Tricycle Bells, too childish…and new!
Better the olden…..the golden ones for you:
The Bells: https://youtu.be/e_gfTVClku4
my perception of our current extreme rare and complex constellation. The last one like this
was 500 years before at the inception of the Reformation. 2020 looks like Sun + Mercury
this time together approaching to the reef.
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/saturnpluto-sacrifice-of-king.html
. thanks Mundanomaniac.. I hope I don’t annoy you too much .If I may play with the metaphor of “The Tribe” which you mentioned and the use of the scapegoat on its Holiest Day, Yom Kippur. ( when the die is cast for the next year).
A red flag was dipped in sacrificial blood in the temple before the goat was driven out of the city and over the cliff, everyone waited in playful tension waiting for clemency to be granted for the next year…for the cloth in the temple to turn white before their very eyes. But alas….this year in another temple a red flag was raised.
In Collective unconscious metaphor rules which is why the black Magicians of the Corporate media slyly chant “MH 17 ” “MH17” over the smoldering ruins of the tragic crash outside of Teheran.
Will we in the West ever see manifest Perceival and the Fischer King? Surely, it won’t be reported on the evening news
Also, I see your Pluto in water and how a bloated, fetid corpse in water floats eventually to the surface… Just look at the dazed and bloated tight faced look of many of the walking dead leaders.!!!
13th Century resonances with Pluto/Saturn? Yes, there is the children’s crusade 1212 and the story of the Pied Piper from that era but the big move was that Venice ( responsible for the Crusade that sacked Constantinople)
issued the ducat ( gold and silver) which became the reserve currency/ or standard for several hundred years.
Perhaps the important resonance from those times to these times is the cryptocurrency and use of plastic debit cards instead of money.
I am already here in Transhumanian ( or Inhumanis) State of Looneylandia getting glances of dismay from store clerks as I hand them bills requiring them to make change as the people in front of me just whip through flashing cell phones or swiping cards.
Sigh trying not to be a curmudgeon.
Oh my spell check has a playful sprite in it which turned the word “prayerful “into a flippant unintended opposite in my reply to mundanomania’s contribution,
No insult intended
“Endless MH17 Saga !!!
Ukrainian SBU whistleblower Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Prozorov released a documentary about the MH17 tragedy late last month titled “MH-17: In Search Of Truth”, which true to its name shares some shocking truths about what transpired on that fateful summer day back on 17 July, 2014. His investigative work relies on his personal knowledge of the events surrounding that affair (including through his contacts at the time), classified documents, eyewitness reports, and logic to strongly make the case that the UK conspired with Kiev to take down that civilian aircraft as part of a preplanned Hybrid War plot against the Donbas rebels.
http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1241
Protests in Chile…
Chileans Ring In New Year With Large Protest Against Regime
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Mayor-of-Santiago-City-to-Face-Constitutional-Accusation-20200102-0001.html
And let’s not forget this… meaning “good” protest vesus “bad” protest
TRUMP BLAMES MASS UPRISING IN CHILE ON “FOREIGN EFFORTS”
November 3, 2019
https://astutenews.com/2019/11/03/trump-blames-mass-uprising-in-chile-on-foreign-efforts/
US President Donald Trump blamed the historic mass protests that have gripped Chile for the past two weeks on “foreign efforts” and declared his support for the right-wing government of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera’s attempts to “restore order” in the South American country.
Chile: Mayor of Santiago City to Face Constitutional Accusation
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Mayor-of-Santiago-City-to-Face-Constitutional-Accusation-20200102-0001.html
TeleSur – Chile
https://www.telesurenglish.net/SubSecciones/en/country/chile/
@ Mundo
A shout out to you for your brief and pointed comment last cafe. However, I don’t think you go far enough—wasn’t it his mercy to the worlds who made the comment about the anti christ being sandy haired and sitting in Jerusalem?
One could say this is the beginning of the end and those afflicted with what we might call “the English disease” (the five eyes and Israel ) are quite unaware of the huge change coming. This is because a people still acknowledging the most high just does not register—the collective west no longer gets it, especially the u.s. The last time this was a factor to the English and their sons was in Cromwell’s time and that was long ago. There is no consciousness whatsoever in the west of the most high as there is in Iran—–in the sense that fear of god would guide one and this would express itself as a preponderance of light in the people. This is why the u.s. Is going to change a lot. Justice requires it.
Here’s a little joke: The Donald decides to consult the oracle (I Ching) in deciding the hit. His helper says “Wonderful, great good fortune! You drew the 1st hexagram , the Creative, the forces of nature recognize your preeminent power and position! You are truly blessed!” What he didn’t have the guts to say was that POTUS also got a changing line in the sixth place. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
The supreme concourse would still be laughing if it wasn’t so underlyingly tragic.
God bless and keep Suleimani.
Brother Blue the Iconoclast
your question: “wasn’t it his mercy to the worlds who made the comment about the anti christ being sandy haired and sitting in Jerusalem?”
my answer can only be like this: https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-donald-in-front-of-triumph.html
and yes, the sand haired flying king is the Leo, whose kind of uses to follow it’s, well – majestic emotions.
Kings are chief militates, MAO found ‘the barrel of the guns’ where political power comes from and the chief lion dared to kill them king
ok, the world has another chance by the true and professional holy sacrifice of the king
and america has to be newborn out of the rot and the local ‘red’ identity with sweat and neighborly honesty might be a given state of + and –
and all looser’s fight is to be lost to entitlement on the titanic
mundo
Relatively unreported facts but timely amidst all of the vile comments coming out of Israel and US state dept and the hysteria from MSM. (Yes, I know, no surprise).
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Irans-Jewish-community-pays-condolences-after-Soleimani-death-613377
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2020/01/httpsenwikipediaorgwikichristianity_in_iran.html
Attention Crypto-Anon: Coding clues, coming from Cornwall & 2 Craigs……not just the Craggy Coastal Outcrops Close to Camelot Castle!
Caution, amarynth…(this could be…just TOO upsetting..) proceed at your own risk……….
Meanwhile, back at Arthur and John’s (and Irina’s) Castle, it Seems To All Be About True…OR False (???) Flags:
https://youtu.be/HKXo0Ub_t6Q
World Moving Towards Sanity: A Conversation w/John Mappin Of Camelot Castle
7,568 views•Jan 5, 2020
The surname Mason Craig…..(bricklayers, not goodness slayers) interviews the Man of the Castle, John
Who proceeds to RAP………in honor of His American Friend, DON:
cued up to save you time:
https://youtu.be/HKXo0Ub_t6Q?t=41
“I’m not your usual
Trump Supporta
But he laid down a challenge,
So I thought I oughtta
When he came down
The Trump Tower
Escalator
We just knew:
This was America’s
Bolt from the Blue!
For way too long
The Human Race
Was being crushed
By the blokes
Who run this place!
We needed a champion…
We needed a knight
To draw his sword
And start to fight!”
Some Cafe customers begin to faint, besides themselves with dismay………..Waiter, call an ambulance! With plenty of oxygen tanks………
“We hoped and prayed
This day would come,
A winner to defeat
The swampy scum!
The Olde Fake News,
That horrid bunch
Going more insane
With every counter-punch.
Magan Kelly tried
With Fox’s help
To take him out
Below the belt!
Rosie O’Donnell
Came to his aid,
You serve Trump lemons—
He makes lemonade.”
You get the Cornwall Driftwood.
“It is the Truth, It is The Search for the Grail!
Now it’s is long
I must admit, Anon
But therein I promise
In Craig’s query of John,
After the Brit is done rappin.
Mason asks it of Mappin.
Oh, I hate to be so coy…….
Let’s cut to the Crypto-Chase,
My Noobie Boy:
It’s all about whether
“Code is Law”,
As Crypto-Anarchists
Defiantly proclaim…
Or whether Code
WITHIN LAW—
Is the Higher Aim!
I Fought The Law—And The Law WON!
https://youtu.be/AL8chWFuM-s
Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and’a the law won
I fought the law and’a the law won.
I needed money ’cause I had none
I fought the law and’a the law won
I fought the law and’a the law won.
John Mappin does not know the Other Craig.
But he will, soon enough, I predict..
Waiter, call a second ambulance!
Anarchy and the Foolish Belief in Assassination Markets
By Craig Wright | 06 Jan 2020 | Alternative Coins & Systems
“In 2008 and 2009, a group of people mistakenly thought that the world would be better off without banking. The loosely aligned anarchist group Occupy Wall Street protested for many months, before falling apart due to a lack of coordination. One of the main problems with anarchy is a lack of leadership. Occupy Wall Street debated for months over a slogan and a goal. Unable to even determine a purpose, the group fell apart and ended up achieving nothing. The other alternative form of such a system lies in the introduction of a strong man; the “paramour” that always follows an anarchist group and does not fall apart is the totalitarian leader. What the anarchist fails to understand is that such a system either is totally useless or ends in what the anarchist despises the most.
In today’s post, I will use one of the more critical foundations of Western culture in explaining the origin of law and why anarchy fails. Aeschylus was a Greek playwright who authored three tragedies that are often grouped under the name of the Oresteia. To start, I will examine aspects of Aeschylus’ works in order to detail issues with the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. The plays collectively presented in the Oresteia demonstrate how vital law and lawbreaking can be……..
………………From here, I will skip forward to Plato’s Euthyphro. Plato does not tell us what a law is and how a law differs from a decree. He does not tell us who was empowered to make a law, nor by which standard of justice we decide which acts are just or unjust and how they are measured. He does not tell us how the law would be applied in a particular case or go into the difference between common law and equity. In particular, Euthyphro is concerned with conflicting laws and requirements of honour. In the Oresteia, we see how civil law supersedes the natural law of retaliation. We have not eliminated the conflict between demands of justice and piety, but rather see that conflicting interests must be balanced in the creation of a working society………………”.
This part pertains to international relations, as well:
“……………..But the rub is, a society is made up of many people who have differing views and perspectives. No society can be created nor stand together without a way of allowing individuals to interact and maintain what is justly theirs, which in itself is even a subject of law. For what is property? How does property transfer from one party to another, and when have terms been breached? In all events, what may seem fair to some will be unjust to others.
It lies here that we can see the need to control the baser instincts that come from our animal natures.
Here also lies a significant aspect leading to the creation of blockchain-based systems. In creating Bitcoin, I needed to find something that would not, as all other peer-to-peer networks had, devolve into an anarchist ‘free-for-all’ (and hence corruption). I designed Bitcoin to be a system that could not be subverted by those seeking to avoid the law. It is not a system that cannot be followed or traced; it is a system that protects privacy and destroys anonymity.
Assassination markets do not create societies. They create corrupt systems and kleptocracies.
It is not politicians nor wealthy businessmen that become the target of such a system. In places without the rule of law, ones in anarchy, it is not the people who have a choice of removing politicians and corrupt individuals, it is corrupt individuals who remove troublesome people in their populace. The cost of removing those higher in society is significant. And contrary to common assertion, very little coordination occurs, meaning that the reality of the scenario is one where those with money are able to focus on a target. In assassination markets, it is the corrupt who lead.
Most people do not seek to rule through fear. They seek simple lives, that they can live with their families, and when faced with threats against their families, they choose the option that will give them life. We see the scenario in anarchist states now, and we saw it in totalitarian regimes in the past. The mistake made by many people promoting anarchy through anonymity lies in the failure to comprehend that anonymity favours the corrupt. In seeking power, those without limits will always defeat those with limits in a limitless system. The virtuous always have self-imposed limits. We do not introduce laws into our societies to curtail the freedoms that we seek, but rather to limit the power of the corrupt.”
Complete article here:
https://craigwright.net/blog/law-regulation/anarchy-and-the-foolish-belief-in-assassination-markets/
Enough for now. But I wonder if this from Wright Is a Veiled Message to Don??
Timing is Everything.
Ok let’s step out of consensus reality and look at metaphorical currents.
Netanyahu is not a very competent black magician. Israel lost this round which is why he told his cabinet to stop gloating or Stoat ing. Oink oink over the assassination.
However on March 9 there will occur another metaphoric window as Jews celebrate Purim ( polar opposite yet connected energetically to Yom Kippur)
consider yourself alerted.
It would be a lie if I would say that I’m enjoying your blue dreams. Do you really think that everything is over now and there will be peace, with honey and milk flowing from every corner of this earth ?
Tell me please, is the Empire beaten (and by that I don’t mean an entity but a way of thinking or a spirituality if you will) ? By the way, this spirituality is widespread allover the world, has its members in every society, every country, and they are also welcoming everything which would prolong the status-quo. Peace has a price and people are eager to pay that price, only to stay a bit more…
Somewhere…. Over the Rainbow
It would be terrible if it were “over”….my friend!
No more useful work to do…..The End……..
Like school, after one quiz…comes the next.
Pass or fail…there will be………another test!
For recess, do third graders pine and yearn.
Alas! They’re here to write, read….and learn!
Teachers may tire of school more than they…
But a five month vacation…doesn’t pay!
Evil Empire may get us down and sad…
But if The Good needs you… just be glad!
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE