2020/01/13 15:00:01
Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day.
The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week.
The Saker stated moderation policy will apply eg ‘no caps’, no obscenity … etc to all post.
The Cafe is now open for business … come on in and have a good time.
Saker Webmaster
Trump’s Killing of Soleimani: New “Worst Mistake in US History”
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/trumps-killing-of-soleimani-new-worst-mistake-in-us-history/
“The tragedy, from the US point of view, is that this didn’t need to happen. Iran, a medium-sized player in a tough neighborhood, is a natural ally of the United States. As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in The Grand Chessboard, “Iran…provides stabilizing support for the new political diversity of Central Asia. Its independence…acts as a barrier to any long-term Russian threat to American interests in the Persian Gulf region.” (p. 47) Obama, guided by Brzezinski and his acolytes, set the US on a sensible path toward cordial relations with Iran—only to see his foreign policy triumph sabotaged by the pro-Zionist Deep State and finally shredded by Netanyahu’s puppets Trump and Pompeo. Iran, dominated by principled anti-Zionists, is a thorn in the side of Israel, so the unstable Iranophobe Trump was inserted into the presidency to undo Obama’s handiwork and reassert total Israeli control over US policy—the same total control initially cemented by the 9/11 false flag.”
Barrett pulling no punches on the zionazi murder of General Soleimani.
American foreign policy has been awful for as long as I can remember (I am almost 70). In the past twenty years it seems that there has been an olympiad to determine the most incompetent foreign policy actor of all time. Here the major contestants and their curriculum vitae.
George Bush – In response to a terror attack, protected those responsible for the attack and then destabilized nations not responsible for it, including nations in no way connected to the attack. Ended up destabilizing large portions of the middle east containing the most vital natural resources in the world.
Hilary Clinton – Turned the most prosperous nation in Africa (Libya) into a failed state. Drove the Russians into a de facto alliance with the Chinese – leaving America on the outside of Eurasian integration. The creation of such a Eurasian colossus has the potential to end the American Hegemony.
Donald Trump – Working on driving Europe also into the arms of Eurasia – further isolating America. Murdered one of the most revered figures in the middle east for no intelligible reason. Unified the Chinese nation against America by repeated provocations against key Chinese interests (Xingiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan) and by gangster trade practices.
Now, If I were handing out medals for incompetence … well, it is close. But I think Donald gets the gold. Hilary gets the silver and George gets the bronze.
However, in fairness to Hilary – had she become President – she would have started World War Three with Russia. That would have unequivocally earned her the gold medal.
A copy/paste of a comment, for those who are interested and missed it.
FULL LECTURE: How the West abetted Hitler [50 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJN8kgw55k
InessaS
Here is the full lecture by the Russian President on the causes of the Second World War. Why is this topical today? It appears the EU is attempting to rewrite history, by blaming the Soviet Union for the start of WWII, which claimed an estimated 27 million Soviet lives.
Yes and every Labour MEP voted for it,so says my local MEP.
It’s very dificult get information about how MEPs vote out ofthe European Parliament’s website. I’ve never succeeded.
Video is removed already. Censorship force is strong with Youtube these days.
Any other sources?
It is not removed, it just doesn’t have a thumbnail. Just click play, it will play. I tested it a moment ago. It is still there.
Trump contrasts ‘civilized world’ to Iran, but who are the true barbarians?
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477958-civilized-world-iran-trump-barbarians/
“Low-hanging fruit is the phrase which best describes the actual content of his address, how war was peace, and escalation actually de-escalation. How it was Iran which had “stood down” rather than he who had earlier promised a “beautiful” response from his $2 trillion armoury if a single “American base” was “attacked” by Iran by way of retaliation for the slaying of an individual who was effectively the second man in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
How it was Barak Obama not he who had blood on his hands, how Iran had used the money Obama “gave them” (actually Iran’s money previously frozen by the US) to murder Americans.
Iran was in conflict with the “civilized world” he said, and more than once.
That Trump first of all sees himself as “civilized” is surprising. It would be hard to name a single US president with a lower cultural level than the host of The Apprentice and most people in the world are frequently embarrassed by his distinctly uncivilised behaviour towards women, including his own wife just for starters.
His are the “civilised” values which annihilated 100 million Native Americans in the name of manifest destiny. The “civilised” values of Wounded Knee from the possessor of bone-spurs which precluded his own involvement in actual military conflict.
In fact, the only two countries actually supporting Trump’s actions on the Iran front (and one of them under duress) are Saudi Arabia, actually in a state of fear and alarm about where all this might lead, and Israel!
If Trump, Netanyahu, and the Saudi royal family really constitute the “civilized world” then humanity is in even more trouble than we thought.
Perhaps the safest definition of a “civilised world” would be a world in which states do not make aggressive war against other states, do not seek to destroy the governments of other states. States which eschew hegemony and the naming of centuries after themselves. A civilised world in which international law is obeyed and not trashed, a world in which no state occupies, oppresses, or exploits another. A “rules-based order” as the true barbarians currently describe themselves. In fact the hordes of Genghis Khan were way more civilised than them.”
Galloway in top form.
vot
But, but, but… the MIC [Murderer in Chief] and his SOS Fatboy just “want Iran to simply behave like a normal nation”.
What could possibly be more simple and straight forward than that request?
Well actually quite a lot really.
This is what CJ has to say on this in her own unique way….
The US likes its abnormality among nations just the way it is, thank you very much. The US is the exception to all its own rules. That’s how American exceptionalism works. This is one of those “do as I say, not as I do” situations.
The US doesn’t want Iran to be like America. The US wants Iran to be like the other nations which have allowed themselves to be absorbed into the blob of the US-centralized empire.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Saudi Arabia: arming terrorist factions, beheading heretics, committing war crimes and deliberately creating humanitarian disasters for geostrategic convenience, yet aligning fully with US military, financial, and resource control agendas.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Israel: a nuclear-armed military outpost which constantly bombs adjacent nations, interferes in the US and other nations’ politics to shore up support, works toward the slow extermination of its indigenous population and fires upon protesters with live ammunition.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand or the EU: obedient military/intelligence assets who function as extra American states when it comes to foreign policy and international affairs.
That is what the US means by acting “normal”. Not acting moral. Not acting healthy. Certainly not acting like the US. It means acting obedient, compliant, and enslaved.
Which is precisely what Iran is resisting.”
YCHMTSU
Col
and the link…
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/13/iran-must-begin-acting-like-a-normal-nation-says-totally-normal-nation/
Also… more proof of just how effective and far-reaching the recruitment capabilities of the Deep State really are.
They can recruit in the seemingly most unlikely places…even in a blog-site that calls itself usawatchdog!
Here is a copy and paste of the infantile and hysterical reaction by the moronic Greg Hunter. This is his reaction to the audacity of a regular commenter suggesting that Trump’s war on Iran is simply a continuation of Bush’s ‘axis of evils’ strategy. How dare anyone suggest such action by his beloved Drumpf!
Here goes…
“Montana Guy01/12/2020 •
Yes Iran will use asymmetrical warfare. It’s how Americans defeated the mightiest military and tyrant in the world.
War has been initiated against Iran. You can’t put those feathers back in the pillow. We now have initiated wars of aggression against two of Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ countries, one to go.
Long lost are the messages of these men:
https://i.imgur.com/OtPYhSY.png
Reply
Greg Hunter01/12/2020 •
Yes Fake “Montana Guy” commenting from another country. We still have freedom of speech here and a weasel like you can come on and trash America from another country. You can’t do that in the lowlife country you live in, but you want the Marxist socialist wet dream for the entire world that you suffer in now. Full verifiable name troll boy or no more comments from “Montana Guy” I am sick of your America hating propaganda comments that add nothing to this site.
Greg
Greg
Reply
Montana Guy01/13/2020 •
I’m curious Mr. Hunter, did Stan and Gina pass your virginity tests?
Reply
Greg Hunter01/13/2020 •
You are a troll and you are gone. And your “daddy’ would get his tail kicked.
Greg ”
Col back again…so if this is the sort of puerile reaction to a perfectly valid comment that a self-appointed watchdog site indulges in, then I rest my case… there is simply no hope left for the Hegemon’s reformation.
Montana Guy will be unceremoniously blocked as a commenter…same as I was…the crime…not being part and parcel of a sycophantic echo chamber that enthusiastically parrots the MSM’s narrative on all of the US’s ‘foreign policy’ issues.
So here are some of the basic rules to survive on WD as a commenter…
#1 The sun shines straight out of Drumpfs rear orifice…he can do absolutely no wrong…he plays 5D chess whilst the rest of the world really struggles with checkers or even tiddlywinks
#2 Any beliefs or comments by anyone who is not a rabidly Christian fundamentalist automatically have zero credibility…if you are a Rapturist then you really do belong in high office…preferably on the US war council
#3 Israel can do no wrong regardless of circumstances
#4 Palestinians have zero rights and are automatically to blame for anything that happens in their neighborhood and they deserve to be completely disenfranchised in their own country
#5 Tearing up the JCPoA was a whale of an idea [Fatboy thinks so too…funny that!]
#6 Putin and Russia are not to be trusted….ever. Rampant Russiaphobia and Chinaphobia is the order of the day. As a matter of fact, there must be an automatic phobia of any nation that is not a compliant lapdog vassal of the great US Empire.
#7 The attempted Coup in Venezuela was also a splendid initiative…they really needed to be ‘rescued’ for their own good…sort of much like….well Iraq [2x], Libya, Syria and the like
#8 Any form of socialism is really only just a stone’s throw away from all-out communism…ohhh that’s right…of course with the sole exception of the US’s very own home-grown brand of inverted socialism which works for the elite and penalizes the poor…so just try to keep quiet on this awkward one… avoid this subject at all costs or frame it as them being simply elite thieves. Of course, the bloated monumental MIC is essentially socialism too but let’s not go there either because just these two examples alone add up to the very inconvenient truth that America is extremely socialist by any standard. This whole subject must be kept completely taboo on WD because this unique US form of socialism is essentially based on lining the pockets of the plutocracy and on the business of global mass murder in contrived wars. We need to pretend that this is just not happening because it doesn’t fit with our socialism hating narrative.
Gosh…and I almost forgot…if you don’t buy completely into all 1-8 or even have the audacity to question them in any way then you are by definition a lowlife commie scumbag who hates America…or otherwise a troll!
Talk about the extreme example of cognitive dissonance…YCHMTSU
Col
To my email response to Red Pilled Sister and other family…..:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-01-10/#comment-744092
and her question about “Who says Soleimani was THE most effective person in the ME against ISIS”
she responded (high plains 44):
“MUCH clearer.. thanks..!!
next question:
if Suleimani was the direct source of the IEDs and roadside bombs in Iraq, etc. what faction(s) was he supplying them to and training in their manufacture..?”
to which I just replied:
“Seeing the TRAP humanity in nearly ALL locations is ensnared in, yet???
IEDs are the weapons of the technologically outmatched oppressed locals from Palestine to Iraq and Afghanistan in fighting their invaders with whatever they can get their oppressed hands on, beyond sticks and stones. And there are factions and divisions all over the place within them, also fighting each other. Chaos!
Would Soleimani organize the logistics of production and distribution of IEDs for elements of the “Axis of Resistance” to use to communicate to their enemies (including US!!) to “get the F out of here”???
I don’t know the details so I wouldn’t dispute it til I did know more about that detail. What I would say is that the capabilities that Iran/Soleimani organized and projected into allies and areas of vital interest to Iran went way beyond these weapons of the weak maiming the ignorant soldiers of the strong and included more traditional arms and organized formations pursuing and killing ISIS. Iraq is “next door to Iran…not to the USA , Britain, France, etc….SYRIA a little farther , YEMEN a bit farther still…..but the struggle in all those places…..Allied with IRAN…..is against ISIS…..and a stupid western public that doesn’t even realize that its own ignorant consent is in play in maintaining this whole horror show. SO, What I would dispute is whether your “next question” is necessarily the next BEST (ie…most fundamental ) question??
Better Questions, IMHO would be:
1. )If we, “THE “DEMOCRACY- LOVING WEST” created and supplied Al Queda, Al Nusra, ISIS……(what do you imagine Benghazi was about????)……can we blame IRAN…and a man such as Soleimani….for fighting Al Queda, Al Nusra, ISIS and its sponsors…..with whatever means be available???
.I don’t know about IED production and distribution….. I just know they are far from the full extent of means of force the General was in charge of….which include mobile forces with infantry assault rifles, mortars, rockets, etc, etc ie with far more standard military means than IEDs….. to assist allies in Yemen resist the Saudis (Big funders of the Head Chopping, CIA backed nut jobs) Israelis (allies in Lebanon, Palestine…resist Israel + US Deep State and Brit Empire) and so on. Was the general not also ensnared in some ways in Deep State plots?? Perhaps! But perhaps with more of an excuse (more dire circumstances) than you and your acquaintances for the last several decades…….
.2.) SO: How did we get there in the first place, and get so hated, for stirring up so much EVIL? Who put us up to THAT??? Thatcher, Bush, Blair, Israel just for starters. Plus MILLIONS of Idiot Box Watching DUPES that “went along to get along”…decade, after decade….after decade!
3.) Is there ANY solution, ANY way out ………………of the OLD EMPIRE “Divide and Conquer Humanity” TRAP???
Answer: Yes there is!!……….IF we reject active OR passive complicity in these crimes!
Start with CEASING to imbibe MSM mind poisoning Empire Propaganda and ceasing to tolerate F-ing Idiots that continue to imbibe it and refuse to learn a F-ing thing about the real world of Lies and Mass Murder they inhabit….and are therefore substantially responsible for, despite their pathetic denials!
Now, speaking of Harley Schlanger, who all of you recipients of this email met in person, (except a cousin in the email loop) as Best Man of my August 2000 wedding….I agapically suggest that you gain Better Karma by switching off the Fake News and consider taking some minimal leadership for addressing the Ignorance and Apathy of those around you….and consider Harley’s Monday through Friday 10 minute international briefings every weekday morning, where The Way Out of Complicity With Rotting Stinking Empire……….is outlined for y’all:
https://youtu.be/m8p408ynmBQ
Cheers!
Roadside explosive devices are rather easily made, a concoction of diesel fuel and nitrogen fertilizer set below a fuse of steel wool and a 9v battery is all it takes. It sits there and stews away until the pressure of the steel wool and battery terminals connect and kaboom, you are blown away.
It doesnt take a general to set one of these things up, as a matter of fact, one is better to use a scout to do this job as setting the things up is just as likely to blow up the scout as it is the tank in my mind.
Having seen my fair share of improvised fertilizer deterrants, the ‘tank’ might (I doubt it) get blowed over, the crew have severe headaches but that’s about it. Ferties are too big, too slow, can move stuff, great for smashing windows, sending a message but as a deterrant, arty shells with a little semtex and a det cap would deliver a more serrious, lethal message. Although that will require a level of Combat engineering that should never be left up to Scouts.
Warfare is not my particular home front strong point.
I went back one cafe to see why I was mentioned. I get it;something on ZH was helpful with your rightwing sis. Good. That’s good.It doesn’t redeem that Durden butt head or his pals.
I gave up on my sis when she married a b52 pilot in 1963. My spin has been solidarity with anti-war resistance since about 65, in Lubbock yet, being framed for weed there and consequently being fired from the City planning department, getting my share of tear gas in Austin, etc. Guess I’m just not one of the big shots in here like all the poets
Work on your body’s pH..
Sounds like you just didnt have a strong enough case against Lubbock. Not that I blame you naturally, he was quite proficient at prosecuting the law as he saw fit. Soon he’s going to be on the defense and not be so pleased about where his old case is headed.
“Guess I’m just not one of the big shots in here like all the poets”
O-M-G if you but only knew half of what lay in the lives of those poets . .
Whoever you are, put down your axe and grind no more, look after the heart of your body.
I have a pacemaker. ad you don’t know anything about me.
Highplains44. Enjoyed your comments. As for the core group? Ive spoken with some of my friends who frequent other blogs and one person just quit the comment section there because the same core people ended up talking to themselves about their pet peeves over and over again.
Try some poetry. Mine is awful but sometimes i just have to let rip like a loud
Impolite noise in a crowded elevator? As long as no guidelines are trampled the moderators are forebearing.
There are some awesomely creative people here and some gadflies who have come and gone over the years.
What one must remember is that we are not face to face so the emotions you are likely to project on someone are probably even more skewed than if you met them in a real for the first time.
As for Bro 93, He is the guard dog who likes to chew on people a bit but is very erudite and clever so hang in there with him. Therein lies precious gifts to mine
Mainly we are here to gain strength and learn from each other so that we can be better truth tellers in our own communities
And so we can support the work of this blog which i feel is a humble one which is on the front line center of the spiritual trenches.
If you are here then on some level conscious or otherwise you have heard the clarion call. ( to me it sounded like a deep resonating bong when the Odessa Trade Union Massacre took place )
I just knew then that what happened that day was deeply wrong and was totally crucial for all of humanity. Trust that voice within always.
Sister teranam 13 and highplains 44,
now and then a seed is popping. Your comment to me was such one.
Tera opened the box further.
I’m glad to have my Irma here with me for the last 39 of my 77 years.
To live at that beautiful quiet place in upper Bavaria, God placed us to.
to do his mundo – work as good as I can and to become more complete.
“Work on your body’s pH.. “reminds me that of protestant work-ethos ?
Whats with joy, enjoy the body, this divine artwork of highest interest to
God, because only one time in entire universe there is something like you.
What that means is the flag in the winds of reflection.
But body is right. Not our beauty or non-beauty, or our intellect, or something else,
our bodies tell us with whom one will ‘dance’ together forever. Oh what joyful dances.
these natural bodies can dance.
It’s to me of deep felt interest here in the vineyard to be part of our walk through the
weeks and months and years, and I’m glad to feel, it’s an innocent bunch
of ‘new’ (old) generators … (I read Burroughs Naked Lunch 1961) that kind of bunch
always gives birth, to new ways of American thinkers in the audience of the entire world.
“this blog which i feel is a humble one” I love you for this
and any thing crystallizing with it can only be humble but, like Saker does, with the best
of one’s strength, free and in respect of the wild alien persons with all their, our unconscious
impact waiting to be woken.
Try some poetry, kings and street cleaners tried it humbly.
I confess: language, words, meanings, associations was one steady stream in my early first
astrological years. So I learned to think, words are a precious gift.
THE WHOLE VINEYARD is a vineyard of words,exchanged in calm and peace be upon it .
Trust that voice within always…
Love empties me of myself.
I feel so embarrassed;
Was that really me?
The good news is
we’re together again at last!
There is no bad news.
Love road opens to the hot heart. ( n with thanks Ioan)
Not the lukewarm in these here parts.
It takes a loud yes and a fervent No
to tread the road, stay on the go
Either/or won’t make the grade
the hair of Salladin placed on the blade
Wisdom with love and help from above.
The love road itself is just the mere start.
Thanks Ter;I’m no longer a pariah aged neophyte The Trade Union massacre occurred a week before I was scheduled to go to Odessa to visit a lovely schoolteacher with whom I was corresponding. While astonished she was still misinformed, “there are no nazis” and “I hate the separatists”. Trip and romance cancelled.
Poetry lover all my life,if it’s good. Not all is.When it’s good it’s easy to memorize. I used to could say more than I can now. My mother could say the Thantatopsis when she was 85.
Our host is a priceless force.
Hello highplains44
It is true, I do not know who you are, but as a poet, and speaking for myself, I was alarmed by your comment, no insult intended, only to suggest your assumption was wide of the mark. After all, you do not know me either !
As for my comment on the heart, in consideration of your response above, I can only repeat this.
Highplains, Mundo, Teranam: Thank you. Good vibes in this place keep the trolls at bay. What other has a late-night poetry section? MoonofAl? Give me a break!). Also, blessings to the sad trolls in dreary cubicles in the Dead Sea/Arlington general area.
“It doesn’t redeem [ZeroHedge]”
No, it doesn’t. Nothing does. ZH has seriously degraded over the years. I will give them credit for pointing me to this site, but that was six years ago. One can theorize what happened. I don’t know the economics of a site like that. However, they have certainly perfected depressing “doom porn” to a T, probably utilizing the finest AI available. Since they have no moderation, the site is a haven for trolls, indeed is one of the few places one can actually watch them logging in to work and saluting each other as they begin their merry day.
I have to say, ZH was a hard habit to kick, because the site tends to make the sucker (your’s truly) believe his/her finger is on the pulse of something truly relevant. Having kicked the habit, I fully recommend doing so. ZH has some seriously strange algorhythmic dopamine exchange going on. They might be making a fortune on their patents.
The ZH comments section is a more dangerous habit than the generally crappy articles (minus the odd time they bless our beloved Falcon once a year with their attention). You know, you start to think that the American public might be getting a lick of sense, and good old so-and-so shows up to let you know Club ’82 hasn’t forgotten that same American public’s opinion, not for a nanosecond. It can be said that the ZH comments section is a “growth industry”, somewhere, for someone. If they say the sun is shining, you might want to go outside and check.
I’ve heard from the Muses and Sages (not to slight the music of the spheres) that kicking ZH can do wonders for one’s physical and mental health. A fine new decade’s resolution. It may be better than kicking booze.
Bro,
Thanks for the link and your great efforts to get folks aware of the difference between “State” and “Deep State”.
Seems those with TDS, many in my large extended family included, just don’t want to look behind the curtain.
Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is not a choice for me. Picking up the pieces of your friends or racing under fire to try to save their life blows ignorance away. The “Deep State” put me into that position. People with allegiance to a political party (corporation) or ideology are not easy to convince that there are “humans” who desire power and forbidden fruits who will do anything to get them. And, they are willing to destroy the earth to get them.
IED’s? I have VERY personal experience with them. They can be as simple as a grenade with the pin pulled but “spoon” intact slipped into a C-rat can and balanced in the bushes ahead of our advance. It could also be a 4′ diameter mass of concrete, nails, glass, stones, etc with C4 applied to the back….. sucker a platoon into the kill zone and……….
“History is a set of lies agreed upon”… Napoleon. Someone posted a link to Putin’s presentation regarding the alliances leading up to WWII. What he said were not lies. They were truths of what the “visible ” governments presented and is documented. But, there are other documents and history which present who funded and pushed for war behind the scenes. The Ford’s, Rockefellers, I. G Farben’s etc etc. The “Deep State” has always existed.
The “Orange Man” is their enemy. Soleimani is/was neck deep in deep state. He was the main Iranian in the “Nuke Deal”, not the Mullahs. “Their” $150b was dissected and given to a host of DS players. The “curtain pull” will reveal some rats some “Woke” folks won’t accept as such. Buckle up.
Steve Pahs/Wolfhound
@ Steve Pahs/Wolfhound
“The “Orange Man” is their enemy. Soleimani is/was neck deep in deep state.”
Your deluded. I don’t usually respond to these qanon fantasy posts, but dont slander the name of a good man, whos no longer here. A man who gave his life in confrontation with evil men. Trump is a zionist stooge, and a reprehensible human. No amount of fantasy will change that.
Wolfhound never quite came across as deluded, but that fantasy ridden wolf in the night, what dreams bestir his mind when prowling the night under the stars on those wastes of frozen plains ?
Perhaps that wolf in the wilderness is leaving a trail none yet follow …
Ahmed,
there is an excuse that most Americans are “turkeys” but there is a deeper truth – most Americans are simply, like their zionist cousins, evil.
Please take a little less than 10 minutes for this video that I posted before – Syrian Girl, who debunks all of these memes being thrown into the commons now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAwOJe1MTpA&feature=youtu.be
One two many annonymous’s and ‘I’m a thousand miles behind’, but the first comment in response to Ahmed.
BMW
I just come from the last cafe, where I found a comment written by Uncle Bob. I like it, I really do, there is the UB as I had the opportunity to know him from the date I came here for the first time. Of course, you can agree with him or not, that is your choice, in my eyes, UB has remained faithful to his critical thinking which is not only necessary today but almost a requirement if someone wants to remain sane and go biased. As a reminder, here is the link :
/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-01-10/#comment-744293
Thank you Uncle Bob for being here !
I just read that post. It is indeed interesting and insightful.
But I only partly agree about China.
First, the attempts by the West to foment separatism in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang have backfired. The unification of China is extremely important to the Chinese. Separatism is a hot-button issue both with the Chinese masses as well as with the leadership. The attempts to foment separatism has fomented nothing short of outrage in China against the United States. By way of comparison, American attempts to foment separatism is a mistake equivalent of the murder of Soleimani, as it effects the Middle East. It is a mistake of staggering proportions. Because of that (and because of a trend which has already started) the number of Chinese students studying in the United States has been in decline, boycotts of Western good has begun and trust that once existed towards the United States has been shattered at every level of society in China.
Second, that post seems to say that the Chinese will not protect their industries against economic warfare. It notes that there is a strict separation of business and government in China, which is the exact opposite of the situation in theUnited States. While it is true that there is a separation of business and government in China, it is not true that the Chinese will not protect both State and Non-State businesses against interference. The Chinese will most certainly act to protect even private businesses if the protection of the Chinese State is threatened.
Third, the post states that the Chinese will only invest in other nations if the Chinese get the best of the deal. Further the post states that the Chinese should also be investing in other nations (especially Russia) for strictly strategic reasons.
Those contentions are both true.
But expect changes.
Xi Jinping is not an absolute ruler – no matter what the Western press says. He has to listen to the Politburo for both legal and practical reasons. And the Politburo is increasing concerned that Jinping is not being aggressive enough in countering Western threats. Expect, for instance, the current Chinese pivot away from an export economy to domestic economy to increase; expect a slow but steady reduction of China’s treasury holdings and expect massive government support for the emergence of a high tech industry in China that will surpass the United States.
The Chinese are generally low key since they believe that American decline is inevitable and well under way. They also believe that it is just a waiting game at this point. But don’t mistake that “low key” posture for an inability to deal with threats. They can and they will.
Once you subsidize an industry are you not integrating business and gvt? I want to believe (only b/c I have heard complaints in the past about it) they do, or did, subsidize industries like solar, or ship building. So to say they have as policy no interaction between business and gvt might not be so true, no one really knows how deep it might or might not go b/c the chinese gvt does not willingly inform different country’s of many of their dealings, but I have to believe that on a competitive level this does exist to some degree.
The main difference is this.
The leadership in China is more of a civil service – even at the highest levels. You have to qualify. You have to prove that you know what you are doing and are competent at it. For instance, a George-Bush-type would never, ever get to high office in China based upon his family connections.
By contrast, in the US – money and influence can buy your way in. It can also buy political influence.
It is a completely different system.
This is not to say that there is no corruption in China – there certainly is. But it is prosecuted.- especially under Jinping.
Ours can be prosecuted too, it just takes longer to expose the corruption.
Alabama,
You wrote:
“Ours can be prosecuted too…”
Not really.
Here, things that we would consider “legal” would be considered corruption in China. For instance, John McCain once confided to a friend that George Bush was “as dumb as a stump.” Nonetheless, McCain supported Bush in his run for election as President. Basically, he was supporting someone for President whom he knew to be unfit for that office. Moreover, he had no problem confiding to a friend that it was okay to elect someone who was unfit for office since loyalty to his party was more important than loyalty to the country.
Stuff like that wouldn’t even strike most Americans as strange unless they really thought about it. Most American just accept stuff like that “as just the way it is.”
The people who are currently heading the Communist party in China were all raised in communes where they were inculcated with the belief that they – each one of them – owe an obligation to the nation as a whole. They also were taught that their first obligation was to the “people.” That is why in China you can fund private companies without the government necessarily being corrupted by it. The basic ethos governing the country is simply different than it is here.
I was thinking in a different vein about prosecution, closer to the educational side and then bleeding into the political side. China doesn’t have a health care crisis stemming from educated tyranny, we do. I could have chosen the political angle to begin proceedings, but wisely determined that our politicians are only as good as their ability to be educated properly.
Now that you brought up obligations, we too as children made a pledge to our country, not knowing there was already a formula for success rather than the equal chance we were lead to believe. Everyone was a product of their environment (even if you were just politically targeted and blamed as the victim) and this is ignored in favor of the simple monetary formula for today’s evaluation.
More on the IMPROVED Iron dome.
Upgraded Israeli Iron Dome Defense System Swats Down 100 Percent Of Targets In Tests
This seems to me to be to be a very optimistic attitude.
An enemy having a copy of your Wonder Weapon is often considered a problem.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31822/upgraded-israeli-iron-dome-defense-system-swats-down-100-percent-of-targets-in-tests
Nothing new – but this article is a very good reminder of how dire & dangerous RUSSIA-phobia has become.
On the unfortunate propagandistic behavior of our media which deprive the broad Western public of any chance to make sense of the most dangerous military and political stand-off of our age.
Western media coverage of Russia as an exercise in propaganda
Gilbert Doctorow, January 12, 2020
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2020/01/12/western-media-coverage-of-russia-as-an-exercise-in-propaganda/
The gold got impeached
in treasury got stranded,
then came old Aladdin
flying on Persian carpet
Forty thieves hath he
Carrying the gold in sacks
Across desert sands
(Thirty nine there were
One of them bore the silver
Dropped the lot and ran)
Thirty nine followed
When Aladdin descended.
Silent his carpet …
There ya go, thrice seventeen sweet soundless syllables.
In France a wonder to behold!!!!!
An amazing 200-meter-long crop picture appeared in eastern France on June 13, 2019 near the small town of Saint-Hippolyte. It was drawn within a “horse” shape in the landscape, in accord with the historical legend of Hippolytus from ancient Rome, and points toward a small town which bears his name.
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2019/Hippolyte/articles.html
Reading the entire article and one has to ask the question are these crop circles the signs Christ spoke about in Luke 21:11
More ominous or astounding rather is this paragraph:
Who was Saint Hippolytus in ancient Rome?
Saint Hippolytus of Rome was a Christian scholar-pope, who lived in the first half of the 3rd century AD. He is remembered today for studying the rise of the Antichrist, and eventual return of Jesus Christ, by Biblical prophecy (see Hippolytus_of_Rome or hippolytus_commentary-on-daniel).
Wow, imagine that? I guess Mr. Global is about to make its presence known and to those of us who have eyes to see the fulfillment of these words…
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thess. 5:2-7
Milan,
Thanks for the post re; the “Crop Picture” or as some may say “Crop Circle”.
On June 18 of 2019 I was in Strasburg and on the 19th Colmar. Colmar is about 10 miles east of Saint Hippolyte.
If I had been aware that this “sign” was so close I would have made the effort to go there. That region “spoke” to me as I’m a combat vet (Viet Nam) and I could feel the spirits of the French, German, and Americans who died in battle there in 44′-45′. It was a powerful experience for me to visit spot where common men died……for what?
The “Crop Pictures” are real evidence of an entity or entities that monitor mankind and drop HEAVY hints regarding our behavior and destiny.
Thanks again,
Steve
Julian Assange had a hearing today where he appeared in person. I have not seen anything about the results of that.
https://www.rt.com/uk/478146-assange-camera-court-extradition/
Incredible video on Ukrainegate.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/13/documentary-released-today-sheds-new-light-on-ukrainegate/
If this gets widely circulated, Biden will have to drop out of the race for the nomination.
South Front
Trump admits his intentions of keeping occupying troops in Syria.. Stealing Oil
https://sana.sy/en/?p=182483
————–
Army anti-aircraft defenses down a drone in Hama northern countryside
https://sana.sy/en/?p=182565
—————
Israel releases two Syrian prisoners in ‘goodwill gesture’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51058231
—————-
Jordanian princess becomes her country’s first female pilot
Princess Salma completed her pilot training with Jordan’s Armed Forces and was honoured
by her father King Abdullah.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/jordanian-princess-country-female-pilot-200109151419826.html
—————-
Sana’a-based Supreme Political Council has said that they will assist with the resistance
Breaking in #Yemen: The Sana’a-based Supreme Political Council has said that they will assist with
the resistance to expell US military presence in the Middle East. Which means: The entire Yemeni
Army now stands ready to confront the Americans.
https://www.facebook.com/YaQaem.Ahlulbayt/videos/1032920870398170/
Syria calls on Turkey to commit to its sovereignty and fully withdraw from the Syrian territories
https://sana.sy/en/?p=182574
—————-
Watch: Syrian Army tank absorbs militant missile and remains intact
In the video released by the Turkish-backed “Syrian National Army” (SNA), the anti-tank missile directly
hits the Syrian Arab Army’s T-72 tank, but fails to destroy the armored vehicle, despite the cheers of the militants.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/watch-syrian-army-tank-absorbs-militant-missile-and-remains-intact/
————–
Thousands of fighters transferred from Syria’s Idlib to Libya: Jordanian king
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is once again on the rise in the Middle East, King Abdullah of Jordan
has warned, adding that “thousands” of fighters moved from Syria to Libya – bringing the whole problem
even closer to Europe
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/thousands-of-fighters-transferred-from-syrias-idlib-to-libya-jordanian-king/
—————
Perpetual war.
Suits the Global MIC (particularly US / Russian) right down to the last dead Syrian.
Absurd. As though it is ONE monolithic complex, with Putin and Trump….joined at the hip!
I would expect guffaws of laughter from such an assertion. Makes ZERO sense!
Why don’t you ask Syrians if Russian military assistance has cost them Syrian lives…………or in fact, been a crucial element in Saving Syria?????????.
Stop with the Pathetic Pity Party, already!
“Absurd”
From a Trumpretard, that’s extremely rich.
I’ve no idea if Ahmed is Syrian. In any case, i’m very sure what he’d like have happen to you.
“already”
Hardly little englander parlance.
sigh :(
So is ‘Your post is always high quality!’ a sarc? a wilful insult? a swipe? a hidden private msg? or a sincere compliment?
We are all here – some to get paid as trolls, some here for disinfo-entertainment, some here for expert ego-expression, some here for making sense of the mad world, some here for light to peace resolution, and many more possible personal reasons.
We should be humble, dear friends, for if we have learned anything from the empire we discussed so much here, we probably don’t know even a smidgen of the reality, or ‘reality’ or holographic or whatever else. We are just here for the gathering of minds. No need for personal expression of ‘taste’, I would suggest.
Or are we, each individual ’empire-mind’ unto to ourselves here at Saker’s turf? Thats our reality-analysis is supreme?
Be like water, dear friends. Water flow are different level, some in the sky, some falling down as droplets, some a poodle, some flowing in dirty drain, some in crystal clear river, some in gushing unstoppable tsunami, some calm as lake etc. Be like water, and know there are other types of water at other levels. It reflects, if anything at all, what is inside, not ‘taste’. Water is essentially tasteless, but it can be flavoured.
Just a thought. Peace.
And my compliment is sincere. I do enjoy reading and learning from you. be well, dear friend.
You act as if an unexpected end is about to arrive, and you don’t how and you don’t know why, not so pleasant, so you sigh.
The water falls and waits to be tamed, to save your back from so much pain, you sawed and sawed, it seemed in vain, the power it brings now keeps you sane.
Now you are free again, to watch the lame, but its not the same, something has changed, and you dont how, and you don’t why, so you sigh.
didnt know you are a poet Alabama! Thats was beautiful! Simple imagery that touches some nerves! I see you drink deep from the wells of life too! Thanks for sharing :)
Being the legal representative for real woman, of the gvt war on woman, has its privileges. Tks.
I aslo appreciated it, isn’t it music for soul and balsam for the mind ?
@?,
You are so right.
There is no need for sarcasm or put downs. We can disagree without insulting one another.
Peace, my friend.
yes, be like water,
and be like fire
and be like earth
and be like air
each to it’s time
Mars in Aries for 6months this year so it seems like it is the time for fire. And making aspects to old man Capricorn who wags a finger and says tsk, tsk!
Venus retrograde : so let’s be a bit merry with the 1920’s song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmk8dbFv_o
So many unanswered questions!!
My opinion at this point is that the shoot down was the USA response Obviously not coincidence. Secondly the worried expression in these guys eyes next to trump. Presumably the intended 52 targets were not struck due to something… the us is and has been , along with everyone else, preparing for war , and in that case provoking it. So why then when the causud belli is given did they back down?! Who needs a false flag?!
Was it the accuracy of the missiles and the determination showed ? Or did Rus and C explain the consequences? Why the huge backdown? Certainly gives me hope that we might avoid the worst of ww3 , i say we ! They’re bearing the brunt of it in iraq syria Libya Etc . Hmm
This looks like a reasonable update on Julian Assange’s appearance in court today. I don’t know the source, but I got the link from Wikileaks Twitter Feed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/julian-assange-court-westminster-magistrates-mia-hmp-belmarsh-a9282201.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1578955756
Pompeo Chnges His Story, Now Says Soleimani Killing Part of New Strategy to Deter U.S. Foes, Including Russia – Is He Going To Try To Drone Putin?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said Qassem Soleimani was killed as part of a broader strategy of deterring challenges by U.S. foes that also applies to China and Russia, further diluting the assertion that the top Iranian general was struck because he was plotting imminent attacks on U.S. targets.
SyrianGirl debunking the main propaganda and lies spread about Iran’s missile strike. She says her next video will deal with the lies told about Gen Suleimani. Short and punchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAwOJe1MTpA&feature=youtu.be
A probable false flag terrorist strike has been averted in india.
(https://thewire.in/security/afzal-guru-parliament-attack-davinder-singh)
When police arrested on 11 of Jan 2020, 2 Hizbul mujahideen terrorists ferried by JK SP Devinder Singh to Jammu (https://thewire.in/security/davinder-singh-arrest-preliminary-investigation-reveals-group-was-travelling-to-jammu) in a car along with recovering a catche of AK47 rifles. Later his home was also searched from where one AK-47 and two pistols were recovered. The car is believed to be heading towards the indian capital city of delhi to launch a terrorist attack on 26 jan celebrated as republic day in india which the police is probing. Investigation is going on to find why Singh was ferrying the militants out of the Valley. Singh is a gallantry award-winning police officer. He was awarded the President’s medal for bravery on August 15 2019.
The interesting part is, Singh is not a kashmiri muslim.
His named comes up in the 2001 Parliament attack in which the alleged mastermind Afzal Guru was hanged to death on terrorism charges for the 2001 indian parliament terrorist attack. This attack happened when the current right-wing party BJP was in power in form of an alliance of mostly conservative parties. During his stay in jail while on trial, he had written a letter to his lawyer stating that he was tortured by Singh to take one of the terrorists involved in the parliament attack to delhi and manage a rented house for him.
(https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/davinder-singh-kashmir-cop-arrested-with-militants-all-you-need-to-know_in_5e1bf785c5b650c621e0e77b)
Guru had also alleged that the terrorist had regularly conversation with singh via phone calls and said that the call records can be investigated to support his claim. The allegations of guru against singh were never investigated and he was sentenced to death by the indian court on feb 2013. It was alleged by a prominent India lawyer-politician of BJP, named Ram Jethmalani, that Afzal Guru didn’t get a fair trial
Another terrorist strike on indian armed forces in kashmir area of Pulwama said to have been carried out by pakistani trained terrorists where died also has holes in it’s investigation. Where did the RDX for the blast come from? how did the terrorists infiltrate? how could the terrorists come so closer to the military caravan when kashmir is a militarized area? none of which were investigated.
In Militarized, india carried out an air strike in balakot area of pakistan where the terrorist training camps were, as alleged by india. The strike led to the downing of one indian jet by pakistan where an indian pilot was caught but returned to india. The success of the strike also came into question in international. BJP publicized the strike to win votes and came to power once more in 2019.
An Intellegence Bureau (IB) officer Satish verma had alleged that the government of india was behind the parliament attack and 26/11 terrorist attack. Both the terror attacks were set up with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation.
(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-behind-Parliament-attack-26/11-Ishrat-probe-officer/articleshow/21062116.cms)
He had also alleged that ishrat jahan encouter (where a muslim girl accused of being a terrorist was killed in an encounter by the indian police) was fake.
(https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/no-proof-ishrat-jehan-was-lashkar-operative-says-investigator-satish-verma-1283463)
What’s interesting is that right-wing BJP led alliance was in power during parliament attack while the secular congress led alliance was in power when 26/11 happened.
The indian reddit was discussing this conspiracy –
The recently implemented citizenship act on the basis of religion (granting citizenship to oppressed non-muslims from the neighbourhood muslim countries of india) and the creation of a nationwide register had drawn wide outrage by the indian public, much larger than the government had expected. The right wing BJP needs something big to divert the attention.
(https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/enld5s/policeman_named_by_afzal_guru_as_having/)
BTW, Jair Bolsonaro, the brazilian trump, is the guest for 26th Jan 2020 republic day.
(https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro-is-2020-republic-day-chief-guest/articleshow/72057574.cms)
A detailed story of the parliament attack –
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/amp/and-his-life-should-become-extinct/232979
Qassem Soleimani
In Memoriam
Thy beauty endureth and
The train of thy locks go down to Sidon.
The ladders to the greatest name
Seem scattered to the wind…
To whom are you fleeing o earth?
We let loose the red horses
At thy command, O peerless,
Most High, beloved one,
Our eternal friend.
Brother Blue the Iconoclast
Nice to see you again with poetry here Brother !
you are breathing images brother. Peace be upon you.
Beautiful tribute, LTB!
Thank you friends. I admire a soldier who acknowledges the most high and does right.
Brother Blue the Iconoclast.
Fishy Findings: 100% Replication Failure
The problem, of course, is that scientific research is conducted by human beings. Who not only make mistakes, but are susceptible to peer pressure, group think, intellectual fads, and noble cause corruption.
The fallibility of ‘science’ is splendidly illustrated by a paper published last week in Nature. It concludes that not one, not two, but eight previously published studies about how climate change affects the behaviour of coral reef fish are unsound.
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2020/01/13/fishy-findings-100-replication-failure/
Taji base under rocket attack. Keep an eye peeled as it is close to Baghdad and contains mainly expellable troops.
Something just may be afoot
The Soleimani assassination and missile response story is very flexible. Changes abound. Pompeo can claim a little credit here, Khamenei a little credit there, and Israel … every one comes up roses. But the plain fact is that Soleimani was betrayed by his own Zionist Organized Government.
Simply put, Deep State East in Iran makes a deal with Deep State West to remove one of its most popular generals, one who knows the Mossad much too well, and doesn’t play ball like a good general should.
Interesting how the MSM flogs the story. It’s not Iran that is plotting imminent attacks on the USA, it’s this rogue general.
Now, Phil, you’re picking an argument with Bill. Houghton, that is. Ramin’s article on the airliner, next to last comment there.
But so am I, with his attempted dismissal of what I had to say there:
/iran-keeps-openly-blaming-itself-yet-there-is-a-ukraine-air-cover-up/#comment-745186
Which supports your argument……… in ways you might welcome…or maybe not. Which ever the case may be, we must keep working to fill out the picture far better………than relying on a comfortable combination of naivete and cynicism….the way Bill does………..but not Polly!
This one is right up there in murky intrigue: I’m not prepared to dismiss the idea that this tragedy is not all what it seems on the surface. This article seems well thought out and notes some very inexplicable occurances: transponder turned off, Iranian commo blockages, aircraft turning inexplicable towards major Iranian military base, etc.
This article is worth a read and some thought which is not likely to occur in the zionist land of pompeo, kushner and trump. (maybe they know the facts about why the tragedy occurred or prob more likely do not care).
https://www.sott.net/article/427303-Was-Iranian-Missile-Operator-Tricked-Into-Shooting-Down-The-Ukrainian-Airlines-Plane-Over-Tehran
Big FWIW: Veterans Today has number of related articles but will not link as they tend to waft off into deep dark conspiracy land.
I posted this linked related article over on NonMSM news but I post it here as well, specially the last page of comments, which imo, “in general,” reflect some technical expertise and not speculation.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/was-the-shootdown-of-the-ukrainian-airplane-near-tehran-really-a-mistake/comments/page/3/#comments.
Thanks Mods!
Summary of changes in Russian govt, proposed changes in Constitution:
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/major-political-changes-in-russia/
Reports Lavrov may be retiring-major loss but understandable after months of dealing with pompeo/erdagan
@Taras77
Retirement age for govt officials in Russia is 70.
Lavrov born 1950.
He’s run out the clock.
Lavrov looks tired…I think his smoking habit has taken its toll physically. A good, good man. I will miss him and hope he stays around long enough to enjoy retirement and to share his wisdom with his replacement.
Attention Crypto-Anon!
Holding back the Dogs of War has been priority numero uno…last 2 weeks…..but it IS time to observe a flat out fact on the periphery of the Strategic Crisis:
It’s been a Yuge Week in the Crytpoverse for the Real Bitcoin which actually follows the 2009 Whitepaper in combining DATA (the “Bit” portion of the name…) with VALUE (the “coin” portion of the name.) Bitcoin Satoshi Vision…or BSV , for short
I have been busy and find gloating to be repugnant, so I have kept my keyboard silent on that topic.
But now, it’s time to Take Care of Business, (without gloating)…..and just state the facts….which excite me…but with some sadness.
BSV vaulted in total market cap from 9th to 7th last Thursday….up 48% in 24 hours,,,,past $160 or so, if I recall.
This seems to have woken up the entire space and total market cap went from 195 billion or thereabouts 5 days ago to $240 billion right now.. Wednesday am Pacific Time.
https://coinmarketcap.com/
The Most Excitement in these heady days of FOMO and FUD was yesterday, when BSV “flipped” BCH for several hours and passed EOS and BNB (my biggest gainer, but I dumped all of it for BSV when BNB was $35 and BSV was somewhere between $50 and $70….I can’t recall exactly.
I decided CZ was full of shit for delisting BSV and that CSW is correct: CZ (cEO of Binance Exchange) has been one step ahead of the law…but he’ll soon be singin’:
“I Fought The Law……and…. The Law Won.”
Yesterday was the highpoint, with BSV vaulting over EOS, BNB, LTC and BCH into the # 4 slot at one point reaching $460 …briefly….another big rise…………….more than a 100% additional in 24 hours.
As Shem Booth, alias Captin Bitcoin of the Bitcoin SV you tube channel puts it, “Technologically speaking, we are the Apex Predator of Crypto………………….and we will devour the rest!”
Others have come on his show pleading with Shem to dump Satoshi (CSW) and “be more nice”….bearing Courtroom rumor and FUD as “The Stick” while offering Crypto Comraderie…as The Carrot:
https://youtu.be/IUixj25hxDY?t=10192
Introducing Delta Trader (of BTC) from Scotland accusing CSW of courtroom farud 4 days ago’ show.
But the boys are seasoned in the fight and don’t raise the White Flag That Easily!
Also, days later, the BSV ladies, River and Rainwater are in no mood for sucking up to the BTC Scot, either:
https://youtu.be/T_QyY3GcyGE
#BitcoinSV #BSV #CraigWright
BitcoinSV rises 100% – World Awakens
1,554 views•Streamed live 22 hours ago
having been bullied long enough…and escaped the abuse!
MeanwhiIe I am just sad because $460 or even the current $310 (this is not investment advice, do your own research, etc they ALL can be high volatile in these Early Days) is a lot tougher to coax a family member or political comrade into researching so they can decide, ….AND ……then and only then, can I guide!
And I couldn’t ever sell just one ….maybe my Red Pilled Sister bought a few??? ..who knows……or even give 1 BSV Real Bitcoin to either ioan (don’t be embarrassed, man!! Donate it to Saker if it bothers you so much and burns a hole in your socialist soul!….BTW, ED from Serbia can help you there……..) or Quite Frankly…..
Sigh.
After the light goes on there are details to know: wallets, storage,,,,,where it all fits into the strategic landscape.
It does fit, by the way. But now …in the mid hundreds think how much harder it is for a family member or friend or Quite Frankly….to dive into the Twitter Wars and Social Media Crossfire and come out confidence and certainty “alive and well”….than if it were still $65 per BSV!
Only The Bold, apparently an even contemplate receiving a BSV as a gift….to educate oneself…….and indicate, by removing BTC, ETH and LTC from their webpages…and placing The Real Bitcoin (BSV) there………… that they are now, finally “arrived”…….among the True Crypto Cognoscenti.
Or,as that Deep State Shill Alex Baldwin so obnoxiously observes, in his online advertisements for Etoro crypto-trading ….”Ah! So you say you just don’t have time to listen to this advertisement, right??”
Then Baldwin smirks, “Oh, I see: Just like you never had time to invest in Bitcoin (he means Fake Bitcoin that Doesn’t Do Anything….ruined by the Cabal….BTC.)..or Etherium.” ( …which is also destined for Crypto Road Kill Status……).
Sigh. It’s a Jungle full of bullies and booby traps out there!
So, while Sir Toshi and Rivers (Craig Wright’s niece…with her own channel Bitcoin Bits) yuck it up all day and gloat, having a ton of fun (just look at the comments):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6NBrS1m6ys
BITCOIN BITS | Live Edition 4.30PM UTC | With @SirToshi & @Riverish333
597 views
•Streamed live 13 hours ago
I am sad.
I just couldn’t get the simplest realities across with BSV still in mid double digits…like $55…$65…or $75. It’s Lonely at the top of Mt Cryptolopolous!
Oh well, Onward! and Downward!
Down into the Dark Valley of BTC HODLers. Holding ON (for) Dear Life.
That is not utility…and only with mass adoption of real utility is there any stable, long term value.
However, THERE………..I can Still Do Some Good!
I can still use Serbian Anti-Trumper ED….(and unabashedly anti-ALL capitalists…’cept maybe CSW…who Ed considers merely misinformed politically, while being The Best Crypto Designer EVER……..) to sound the warning to BTC holders: Unless You Are A Whale………….You Will not Be Able To Get Out when it is clear that Apex Predator (ORCA) Bitcoin is chewing off the tail flukes of Fake Bitcoin White Lies Whale, BTC:
https://youtu.be/ZozUYzAkI0k
A Friendly Warning To BTC Holders 2 minutes 24 sec
WHY won’t you be able to get out??? Because, look here:
https://sv.coin.dance/blocks/fees
Because BTC corruption of the White Paper’s original protocol has led to much smaller blocks and therefore much, much higher transaction fees than were designed……….SO while BSV can handle thousands of transactions per second, …BTC can handle only 4-7 transactions per second ………and
https://sv.coin.dance/blocks BTC is 595 times as expensive as BSV to transact on………..
that means a TINY exit out of a Huge stadium and fees skyrocketing to $500 or more (quite probably) when the crowd decides to leave!
Which the whale can swallow…and exit…while the Little Fish gag on the exhorbitant exit fee and cannot exit as more and more whales and Bigger Fish get ahead in the exit line only by virtue of paying dearly to get out sooner…..more value intact…before Complete Meltdown.
Now, that’s whatcha call FUD!
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
But right now FOMO is the prevalent emotion.
Infinitely more important than either is how blockchain can provide structure and honest money in the future…as the Cabal Power of the Central Banking System’s structure……….is dismantled. So The Vision Goes!
Not much time for much commentary Bro, just a note – what Craig provided was keys to an encrypted file – not private keys to any Bitcoin – the file contains only public keys. Same old story. Don’t get bamboozled here – it was widely misreported. There are no private keys in that file …. Kleiman estate said that the “key slices” were just a list of 16,404 public addresses. (Remember all the old stories of how Craig or Kleinman is going to dump BTC – when Craig pays his 5 million or billion? Remember that? Now you can look back and figure that the stories were all nonsense).
What is now called Popcorn day, is coming up around 3 Feb. BSV is also still suing everyone that they can find. Now it is Kraken that they are suing for the BTC name. The latest case that CW brought in London against some Bitcoiner was thrown out for jurisdiction. (How to win friends and influence people and build an industry eh).
Also, don’t get confused about this latest pump ‘n dump. Bitcoin Gold was actually up something like 120% on the day – you explain that one as I was flabbergasted (not really – I saw the orchestrated pump). As for sustainability, Augur is actually sustaining the biggest change up, so far. We will see today.
Then, don’t get confused about the BTC warnings – simple reason for that, it is not owned by any community but owned by TPTB – so, it will keep trucking for the foreseeable future sucking up cash – fight the government is almost useless. It pays to be a good but exceedingly careful trader.
All I have time for, excepting to say that you have to verify what these bobbleheads on youtube say – all of them.
Oops sorry … Not BSV suing everyone, but nChain. See, you gotto verify what I say as well, lol.
These fluctuations in 3 digits are exciting in one sense, but meaningless in the long run.
The principle is very simple:
“One public blockchain… or none.”
The only one conceivably capable (even aiming for that goal!) is the Original Vision of the author of the 2009 Bitcoin White Paper.
.
Anyone’s opinion winning out, being respected, listened to, considered………..or anything else is insignificant in comparison to that simple principle….which ought to be clear.…but somehow escapes even most interested observers.
The rest of humanity aren’t interested until considerably more sanity …..and demonstrable utility.for their own lives……and thus stability….prevails.
You are right that nothing definitive has been finalized, decided in court…yet.
However, that IS where it will be decided, and probably soon…..not in any interim price fluctuations…of ANY of them.
Courts can get it wrong, but are more reliable than emotions, narrow personal self-interest, ego and social media….. so there is the best hope….with Law. The BTC Scot that called in…to your dismissively termed :”bobbleheads”….(calling Jimmy n Lose that is just absurd….in terms of tech competency and knowledge…) .proposing that Wright is THAT stupid????
Wishful thinking. Fantasy. Which is all that many in the space will be left with, that get this wrong.
2020 will not be dull….on nearly any flank…including this very poorly understood one!
Which is NOT the most critical one, immediately…in my view. But it will come more and more to the fore….and steadily so, if all goes well.
Cheers!
Cannot stick around to chat Bro, but I see what the sticking point is. It is this:
“The principle is very simple:
“One public blockchain… or none.”
It sounds high-falutin’ but it is not so in any area of our technical or life or landscape at all. Even the internet is not truly one internet but made up of many components from many many providers. The concept of ‘only one’ in technology conjures up horror :-) Just the sheer concept is anti-developmental. China will have many and more than one public, so will any other country in the world. BRICS will have one combined and hopefully (if there is anyone with a brain), have their own country blockchains interoperable.
Bitcoin and derivatives will remain almost for the unwashed many.
In my language, what you are saying is kinda like this … You can have any model-T you want, as long as it is black – or, the US Dollar/Yuan/Pound is the only currency and there can be only one. Or you may only use Microsoft Products – Linux will die. Think it through logically – We have a whole business culture developing, and they are all developing their own solutions focused on specific parts of business. There will be those that promise (and some will deliver) Enterprise Strength or Enterprise Level service and product, but they will compete.
So, today we’ve defined a main sticking point :-) We will have, and we have today, many blockchains, and some will be interoperable – and the ones that are not, will die – excepting for the real specialist ones.
Back to work I go.
The fateful days are nearly numbered, tomorrow with Mercury, on Monday for Sun. Time for new ideas
on the social issues like the Ru-President offered, con conceived under Venus in Aquarius, declared under Venus + ‘green’ Mars and ‘olive’ Moon.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/after-sacrifice-change-of-paradigms-in.html
On eve of world Holocaust memorial day, Israel home to 192’000 survivors
15 January 2020, – 2:38 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/on-eve-of-world-holocaust-memorial-day-israel-home-to-192000-survivors/?fbclid=IwAR1MSXXsBePmlrUfFN3C-9B1N4Wp-Smwr3RaTrNIbY7rCoJgQjWT883JggQ
—————————
Al Jazeera suspends journalists over Holocaust video
Network says clip alleging that Israel uses Nazi ‘racial cleansing’ against Palestinians was produced
‘without due oversight’
By Toi Staff
19 May 2019, – 9:43 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera-suspends-journalists-over-holocaust-video/
Can it get much more intriguingly complicated than THIS???
It even involves Megxit (Harry and Megan’s “escape” to Canada).
Polly’s follow up on Iran/Canada connections and the many many mysteries remaining concerning the downed airliner of Flight 752:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJV0bd_DfnQ
IRANADA – Iran International Swamp Part 2
20,691 views•Jan 15, 2020
Since “a picture is worth a thousand words” I give you a short cut to the typical graphic Polly uses to pose many, more questions……………than anyone could be reasonably expected to answer…in just a few days:
https://youtu.be/GJV0bd_DfnQ?t=2841
Megan and Harry arm in arm smiling all over the British newspaper front pages, and the poignant Queen, “If you must go, then go…”
But what and who has made them go… I was suspicious, of course; intrigue and bedevilment wherever one looks.
I offer the late Neil Peart’s lyrics about Meghan: ” Living in the limelight, the universal dream, for those who wish to seem. Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.” So maybe she just needed to be doing her own underlying theme, rather than the royals theme. Or, it’s about American taxation of Meghan and Archie and she and her son need fast track Canadian citizenship so she quickly renounce her American citizenship. Just a guess.
The poisenous UK press…..if Kate wears a dress more than once the Mail calls it “recycling” in a snidey way to bring her down as if it is worse than donating them to charity….the completely vile sick articles by Piers Morgan …..every opportunity to dig and keep them beholden in some way maybe the Andrew thing and why would a mother want her children anywhere near that situation….maybe Harry has seen through all the falsehoods and lies and stiff upper lip for the sake of the Family and that really really grates…..so I say go and try happiness elsewheres…your family deserves better. Cos it will only get worse…so called press palace spokespersons insiders people who “know them” etc doing everything to keep up their view of their useful status by provoking imaginations tensions suspicions jealousies strife rivalries and all the rest of it.
When it Royally Rains & Strains the Patience of the Lower Classes, Guys, It Putridly Pours Forth From PIE.
Jonathan Pie, reporting:
https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/videos/464573854169874/
I know Erdogan like a cat my have 9 lives.But he is pushing it.He barely escaped a coup not that long ago.And now after purge after purge in the military he has used them to invade Syria.And is sending some of the Turkish military to Libya of all places.I can see how he “might” have convinced the military to enter Northern Syria,right next door.But Libya is pretty far ,even on another continent.I can’t see the Turkish military soldiers or officer corp thinking that is a good idea.
https://www.rt.com/news/478416-turkey-sends-troops-libya-erdogan/
There has to be a hillary connection there, this wont end well.
Let alone confrontational attitude he has with Greece via Cyprus drilling for gas or oil there…..91 illegal overflights over some Greek Islands. I just do not understand Putins relationship with him….Russian airforce to me(correct me if wrong) is not used to protect SAA from Turkish backed militants who we strongly suspect are still supplied and supported by Turkish army and intelligence(either separately or in cahoots who knows) but contrastingly enough Rus airforce will attack HTS and al nusrah the “recognised” terrorists.. Erdo yesterday threatened to combat SAA in Syria directly too in the Putin Assad Erdo meeting.
Is Putin letting ambitious for what Erdo burn himself out in some kinda way…..or tacitly supporting him in some hidden way of a greater purpose yet to be revealed. Erdo comes across as Putin best buddy in that region but Assad is on the waiting list. Is Erdo just passing through…..or being used to pacify Kurds so they must turn to Assad……there were some more proposals the other day I think I recall to be accepted somehow back into the fold….does Putin give him any advice or just let him do his own thing so longs as they can work together in some way in Syria….is he trying to separate Turkey from Nato or at least point out home truths….or just keeps his nose out of Erdo’s mediterranean european interests……except the very recent Libyan ceasefire prposals ….has Putin used Erdo to get to that possibility….
…not an analysis….just some personal thoughts as far as my abilities can try to make some sense of Putin – Erdogan….which is mostly a mystery and for some intuitive reason I do not feel comfortable with but very edgy indeed…..does the average Russian….Lavrov…Shoigu…they just seem to leave it to Putin?????
Hellvigs article….January 16, 2020 …..Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind is reasonably accurate as to past regrettable developments in the USA and the West in general….. all driven in recent PAST 4-5 decades by the Malthusian Commitment of the Elites……………..to cull the human herd.
But it misses the opportunity before the world at PRESENT:
Big Things Happening with U.S.-China Relations, Putin Makes a Big Move for the Future of Russia
702 views•Jan 16, 2020
https://youtu.be/1W-vOfyvGQ4 Harley’s 10 minute daily update.
Gad, the nauseating news just keeps jumping out: kushner, the certifiable foreign agent, is on time mag cover:
https://sputniknews.com/viral/202001161078053769-cant-hide-his-true-self-netizens-jeer-at-kushner-looking-like-mannequin-on-time-cover/
For another view as to the zionist influence this individual has, see this article-to say that kushner should go years ago is an understatement but with the fawning family firmly in the white house, it is not likely to happen:
https://www.unz.com/wwebb/how-an-israeli-spy-linked-tech-firm-gained-access-to-the-us-govts-most-classified-networks/
Warrior Path: (and thanks to Dimitar)
the double edged sword-down the middle walk
Once started, continue! one cannot balk
Forward in time
Onward in space
But travel you must
and at your own pace.
I May Be Wrong.
but I highly doubt it….
I told Frank he’d reach 4 million subs……..
Here’s why:
https://youtu.be/at5pG5U6HeA?t=1172
The Great Pretenders
The chat box regulars are absolutely ruthless, Quite Frankly.
Cory Booker styled himself as slave revolt leader, Spartacus.
When CB quit the race for the Demonrat Nomination this week, one regular dubbed him, “Departacus”.
Another: “He gassed out……Fartacus.”
I haven’t laughed so hard in years………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objljEE7B6M&feature=youtu.be&t=682
HOW did the Iranian TOR crew not see it was a airplane?
The TOR system have IR camera + normal camera and is a short range weapon sys..🤔
(vid found in this ICH article; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52851.htm )
Is the Iranian TOR without cameras?
I have no idea, but if they do have both IR and normal lense something smells rotten in Copenhagen…
… Cafe music break …
Santa Esmeralda & Leroy Gomez …
“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” 1977 Resmasterizado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c5RZgeCLA