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Great article (in spanish) about the decadence ot the empire and why they’ll never drop nukes on anybody, juicy stuff about the end of WW2 and how 24 hours later finished the Postdam reunión, drop their shit over Japan to “marcar la cancha” to the USSR
https://www.labatallacultural.org/revista-hegemonia/notas/8447/
I was scrolling through the Google Translation of the piece when I got to this part:
At that point I stopped bothering, for the author obviously had no understanding of what happened at the end of WW2. What Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Soviet entry into the war did was to prevent a slaughter which would have massively overshadowed the European Holocaust.
I tend to disagree. The bomb was only dropped to frighten the Soviets. And your time line for the Soviet entry into the war seems a little after the fact.
Zachary > I think you maybe need to revisit the timeline…
The situation in 1945 was as you describe, one which (was said at the time) prevented further bloodshed from a potential land invasion of Japan…(but it is said now)…was a hint to Russia..
It was a genocide…it was not absolutely necessary, as a pure sea blockade could have finished Japan by starvation, just as well…
The situation in 1949 once Russia developed RDS-1 prevented the USA from attacking Russia. This was planned at the time…The Americans became arrogant once they had the Atom Bomb…Eisenhower sent 100 bombers over Russia to photograph the terrain with a view to checking out targets… Curtis Le May was all for dropping Nukes on Russia…the Dulles Brothers planned this ….what the USA did not realise was that even if Russian was on its back, the superb Russian anti-aircraft artillery was still functional and available in large numbers…all 100 bombers + 200 flight crew were shot down…lesson learnt…but it took the USA over 50 years to admit this escapade…so the spanish authors assertion is correct….
Very interesting your citing of Eisenhower, LeMay and Dulles plans for possible bombing of Russia and Russian shooting down of U.S. bombers. Could you supply sources where we can read about these plans and events? I am sure many as myself have never heard of those matters.
Elaborate. How did the dropping of the bombs prevent genocide? And by who? Who would be committing the genocide that dropping nukes on unarmed civilians prevented? What was the need to destroy 2 cities let alone the one city? Why not detonate a bomb a few miles in front of Tokyo harbor, to demonstrate what the US could do?
Don’t forget Nagasaki was the center of Christianity in Japan. If say, it was some other religion, this would be denounced as a ‘hate crime.’
@Zacharia Smith
It was not the Bombs who forced Japan to capitulate, but the massive 2.3 Million strong russian Mech-Army which annilihated the large remaining Japan Army and the taking of the northern islands in a kind of Tornado. It was this Operation which forced the Prime Minister to hold an emergency meeting of the assembly NOT the bombs which had fallen earlier !!! The destroyed large land army was the last hope to defend the main islands, also Japan’s preparations on all islands were against the US and therefore faced the wrong directions. This is not fiction, anyone can check the dates and when the emergency meeting had been held and it’s subject.
Remember there have been several US-Terror-bombing raids which had killed more people than the bombs ! None of them triggered an emergency meeting of the assembly.
The bombs were dropped because it signified total technical supremacy to the world INCLUDING the UdSSR, and the tiny little gang-office clerk, Truman, thought he could impress Stalin which knew about the bomb for some time through his superb spy network.
It’s difficult to create a brief description of events which really need to be of book length, but I’m going to take a shot at it.
Commodore Matthew Perry’s two visits to Japan were a major factor in jolting the Japanese out of their backward isolation. Other nations were also closing in, and the more intelligent Japanese realized they were at risk of going down the tubes. Things came to a head in 1868-9 with a Revolution in which “modernists” of the Imperial faction overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate. The new guys didn’t waste any time – they started a furious ‘catch-up’ with students being sent everywhere to learn modern technology and other techniques.
The Imperials made major changes at home as well. They created a brand new religion called State Shinto which put the Emperor at the top of the pecking order. (at least in theory). In 1890 a barely noticed Imperial proclamation changed everything – the Imperial Rescript on Education. Posted in every Japanese classroom and memorized by every student, it basically declared that if it was necessary to lay down you life for the Emperor, that’s what you did!
Japanese foreign relations rolled along with great results from the Japanese point of view. Britain built a new Japanese Navy. The US President backstabbed Korea and gave it to Japan. Taiwan fell effortlessly. The defeat of Russia took more work, and a fair amount of good fortune, but it happened. Japan entered WW1 and had all the Pacific possessions of German fall into its hands with hardly any fighting. An astonishing run of good luck.
At some point a military faction of the Army which can be compared to the Taliban began a program of terror and assassinations which ended the very weak Democratic pretensions in Tokyo. THEY began running foreign policy. So long as the Army and Navy were winning, the Emperor was wholeheartedly with them. As the war with the US continued, he could see Japan losing and started looking for a way out. But he had a problem in that he was “officially” a figurehead. And if he made any obvious efforts, he would be replaced by a more compliant relative.
So Hirohito was forced to sit back and hope a miracle would happen – only it didn’t.
The US had a problem too – the Japanese soldier would not surrender. Ordered to stand and fight to the death, he did just that. US casualties mounted alarmingly. The first invasion of Japan was slated to start November, 1945. Everybody could see it would be a disaster for all concerned. Post-war interviews of Japanese commanders suggested they were prepared to lose 10-20 million people. US military deaths would be staggering as well.
The Manhattan project had been created with Hitler’s Germany in mind, but Germany had surrendered before the Bomb was ready. Given the situation with Japan, the Bomb represented a chance to break the deadlock.
Several cities were removed from the conventional bombing list of targets – Japan needed to have a crystal clear idea of what the single bomb had done. Yes, a “demonstration” was considered, but rejected for good reasons. Even after Hiroshima, the Japanese Army was in denial, so imagine how they would have handled a non-lethal “demonstration”. Nagasaki was necessary to prove the US was mass-producing the weapons.
By now the Emperor is thoroughly spooked, but he still doesn’t have enough leverage to exert his ‘authority’. It took the Soviet declaration of war to finally slap the Japanese Army into facing reality.
Stalin was not going to mind the huge death count the Army planned to inflict on the Americans. The European war had shown he just didn’t care. Japan would be occupied, divided, and possibly the Occupiers would never leave. Most of all, there would no longer be an Emperor of any kind! NOW the Emperor had the leverage to talk tough to the Army. He did so, an the war ended.
One more thing: all the whining the Hiroshima and Nagasaki deaths is always by people who never say a word about the far more deadly “conventional” bombings of the cities. The citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have already been dead from the firebombings! Starving them out? Great! Except I’d much rather be quickly blasted to bits than to slowly die of starvation.
There were no good choices at the end of WW2 in the Pacific, and as chance would have it, the US embarked on the “least bad” path. One which minimized the deaths and ended the war.
BS Ridiculous justifications of evil.
MacArthur was the theater commander and was kept in the dark. He said it was completely unnecessary. as Japan was thoroughly blockaded 100%….and defenseless………no invasion needed.
You may want to go out that way, but to justify sending Japanese civilians to their deaths by the many thousands …based on what YOU would (hypothetically, purely theoretically ) choose???
Monstruous egosim.
Really disgusting.
Bro, there are times when you and I disagree fiercely.
But I dare say, more times we agree fiercely.
I got to here: “… jolting the Japanese out of their backward isolation.” and I stopped reading. Thanks for saying what was necessary to say. Firebombing in Dresden, and firebombing in Japan was evil. Those that did that have no honor. They moved from fighting war, to burning civilians. And then, they added fuel to the fire with trying out The Bomb on Japan. And this is the path that “…. minimized the deaths and ended the war.”
It is a relaying of the most vile agitprop from a period in our world that used the most vile weapons against other human beings. “We did it because it was good!” Yeah right.
And now we are hunkering down in Iraq because we are a ‘force for good’. Some of us have stopped believing that old story.
I agree. So was the firebombing of Chongqing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Chongqing
Few people in the world had much sympathy for the Japanese before and during WW2. Their general behavior in China was atrocious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
The true body count will never be accurately known. Notice the part about the Japanese destroying all their records. It’s quite likely the death count in Nanking was as great as Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. I’ve uploaded a small file with a couple of contemporary articles in KEN and Reader’s Digest. On page 8 is the Japanese version of Nanking.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=09813736184308797757
After the Doolittle raid on Tokyo the Japanese went on another rampage. Once again, the death totals in China would have been at least as large as Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Notice their use of biowar. (The Japanese also used chemical weapons in China.)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/untold-story-vengeful-japanese-attack-doolittle-raid-180955001/
One of the tenets of State Shinto was that the Japanese were Gods – from the least peasant all the way up to the Emperor. The lives of all other humans were of no value – except for whatever utility they gave to the supermen of Japan. So they behaved accordingly.
Paraphrasing Hosea 8:7, the Japanese sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind. Some of us believe they have little to complain about.
Hey. Seems we have returned to last weeks cafe joint to read the paper again. But being lamestream news, the headlines may change but the narratives never!
The cafe mod has changed the header pic, so now this comment is redundant….
“The Most Popular Crook in America”
I considered putting this link in the “Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind” essay comments. Why do people tolerate being robbed? Why is this Republican Governor popular with 73 percent of Democrats?
I don’t yet have a good answer to either question.
https://newrepublic.com/article/156183/popular-crook-america
Dmitry Orlov on top form with details of the Russian changes announced – also crossposted under Putin’s speech but it is worth while.
His executive summary: ” Putin will step down as president after his current term, which will end in 2024 unless an early election is held, but the system he has put in place will stay in place. Essentially, life after Putin will be more Putin under a different name. If that’s all you care about, you can stop reading now.”
But it is worth reading on.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/01/life-after-putin.html#more
Also, Tom Luongo,
Putin’s Now Purged the West from the Kremlin
https://tomluongo.me/2020/01/17/putin-purged-west-kremlin/
Wouldn’t it be mighty fine if western malignancy was so easily purged from cultural, societal Russia.
The article states that the “The bigger shock was that in response to this Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev dissolved the current government willingly and resigned as Prime Minister.”
Far too smooth; politics is downstream of culture, just follow the money. The irony is the msm presenting this as Putin “gaining more control”
That wouldn’t help the recently impoverished pensioners much.
Some people come to their senses and recognize their mistakes and react to them in a positive way. Here in the states we go so deep into denial over our greatness that reacting positively only makes sense when its in the powers that be’s interest. If not in their interest, it becomes a problem and is considered obstructive or terroristic.
@ Anonymous on January 17, 2020 · at 6:48 am EST/EDT
but it was NOT so easily – VVP took his entire youth and life to make it happen. Now he can present The Russian ppl 2 choices, or maybe 3 now, rather than the one forced upon them after Bolshevik. Now they, the russian ppl, get to choose, from being full russian only, Atlantis russia, or and now, BRI RUSSIA.
That’s why he spoke at length about “birth rates” aka the new blood of russian, the new beginning of the new russia, as I commented.
the 2nd point – I think considering, the possible violent breakup and possible civil war in russia, this ‘far too smooth’ was a miracle. I think VVP has put in lots of work, for decades, forming personal relationship w the Atlantis faction and convince them to hand then russia ppl back their rightful destiny, that is away from the western slavery model. Thats why there was no bloodshed and everything went rather smooth and blazing fast transition. I suppose, as you suggested, VVP probably implicitly allow the Atlantis faction to keep their lot or loot overseas in exchange. Hence my comment, on observing his emphasis on ‘lunch boxes’.
I think VVP has indeed gain more control, if not all control. But he knows, and has promised the Atlantis faction I would imagine, he would not be ‘power grab’ but he want to hand russia back to the russian ppl. The Atlantis faction know their need the support of the ppl too but their approach to what is best for mother russia is different.
Do share your thoughts. Its very complicated and require one to understand russia, russian history and the mind of VVP to really read deeper.
Yes, highly complex, I’m a VP and SL fan, but for me its also a question of sensing which way the wind is blowing at any given moment, and from the background of information on here, especially during the last two or three months, I sensed ‘somethings up’ with the news and confirmed one step by the report link.
When at Uni we began with a module on learning skills, to identify what kind of set people used to best facilitate these. I’m visual, tactile, oral and the manifold complexity is mind blowing , but all the same, I shall think about what you wrote, and try to come up with something tangible at least.
(I thought the msm could have reached new heights of absurdity, tripping over themselves with anti Putin blather and losing the plot completely. That could backfire…)
Apropos my points above, are the factors of what drives the hostile propaganda war against Putin – why we want to stop the empires war on Russia ? Do we get so caught up in the complexity of geopolitics, involved in unraveling a multiplicity of influences, getting to grips with technology advancements that we lose sight of that ?
There had to be some slim kernel of truth in Francis Fukuyama’s hubristic assertion about the “end of History” hence the liberal democracy, broadly speaking. The changes also suggest Putin had the benefit of the US example — what not to do.
Yes, I see the positives – the evolution of democracy – but they don’t touch my assertion : far too smooth.
Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But There May be More to the Story
PHILIP GIRALDI • JANUARY 15, 2020 •
The United States has the cyber and electronic warfare capability to both jam and alter signals relating
to both airliner transponders and to the Iranian air defenses. Israel presumably has the same ability.
Joe Quinn at Sott.net also notes an interested back story to those photos and video footage that have appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere showing the Iranian missile launch, the impact with the
plane and the remains after the crash, to include the missile remains. They appeared on January 9th,
in an Instagram account called ‘Rich Kids of Tehran‘. Quinn asks how the Rich Kids happened to be in
“a low-income housing estate on the city’s outskirts [near the airport] at 6 a.m. on the morning of
January 8th with cameras pointed at the right part of the sky in time to capture a missile hitting a
Ukrainian passenger plane…?”
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/who-targeted-ukraine-airlines-flight-752-iran-shot-it-down-but-there-may-be-more-to-the-story/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7895319/Nearly-40-countries-face-civil-unrest-2020-flashpoints-predicted-75-nations.html
A look at civil unrest upcoming…..
Polish public to buy new lorry for stranded Iranian
An Iranian man whose lorry broke down in Poland will be given a new truck after a fundraising drive
December 21, 2019
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/polish-public-to-buy-new-lorry-for-stranded-iranian-1.954341
There are more and more reports saying that 11 US servicemen were injured during Iran’s strike. Colonel Cassad has a document that seemingly comes from the US reporting many more than 11. And then there are reports of 2 US Airmen ‘mysteriously found dead at a airbase in Germany.
I don’t think we know the truth here yet.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/17/616392/11-troops-wounded-Iranian-missile-attack
The crater pictured was over twenty feet deep, better hope the Air raid shelters are deeper. Either way, the mention of the C130 bugging out to feild hospitals explains Trump’s poopy pants demeaner when he gave the press conference after the Iran retaliation.
Palpapable changes in tone from Five Eye Guys over hear, blaming Trump for the escalation that led to the plane downing……..small cracks in the ranks?
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2020/01/16/vladimir-putin-prepares-his-succession
While we wait for Saker’s view on the intriguing changes underway in Russian governance…
Here is an interesting piece by Gilbert Doctorow.
I think we should review the information below to understand more the true nature of China. I don’t agree entire thing but we should put them in consideration:
https://maoistrebelnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/exposing_the_revisionist_deception_part_1.pdf
https://maoistrebelnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/exposingtherevisionistdeceptionpart2.pdf
How could it be
how could it happen
if this is hell
where is the heaven?
Is this a Matrix
a senseless machine,
what is the future
then where is the win?
Maybe all is present
like in a magic ball,
as an entertainment
for who makes the call?
Questions lying everywhere
creepy faces in the dark,
in the outskirts,in the square
here and there some people bark!
Your poem perfectly capture’s the questioning, unsure, concerned expression of the waiter ; today’s dilemma !
A few moments ago I had an idle thought about the Iranian shootdown of the Ukraine airliner. Seems to me that they could use as a “template” or “guideline” the 1988 shootdown of an Iranian airplane. From the wiki:
In today’s money the payments for the victims would be 63% higher, or $488,000 and $244,000. A similar compensation would be added for the value of the airplane. If I were an Iranian Big Brass person, I’d repeat the apology, and express regret that Iran is really short on money on account of the Sanctions. I’d offer to fill a Canadian or neutral nation’s oil tanker with an amount of oil sufficient to pay all the sums of money involved. It’s only right the surviving family members get some compensation for their losses.
Five minuets to midnight –
surely too late for the toast …
The barman’s counting up neat
piles of plastic paper money
the place is closing down,
revelers and patrons
scrape their chairs
collect their coats
a poet’s read his lines
some fool bangs a spoon
hoping for more.
.
at the end,
waiter and barman are leaving
lights go off
the cafe is closed
the two say hello
lighting a cigarette
tomorrow begins another day
with people playing roulette
This is an interesting article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dalio-loss-truth-media-threat-our-democracy
It talks of the problem with poor journalism in the mainstream media. I actually think that the problem is far, far worse than is set forth in the article. But the interesting part of the article is this. The author asks what can be done to restore journalistic standards in the MSM. I have often wondered this myself. We don’t want the government regulating what can be printed, for obvious reasons. On the other, not regulating has resulted in the total collapse of journalistic standards. The author of this article suggests self-regulation, as happened in the movie industry. I disagree. Hollywood has such standards but they are as much of a propaganda outlet as the MSM.
I have two suggestions.
One, it should be illegal for anyone to de-platform a media organization for any reason except for the clear commission of a crime. e.g. publishing child porn.
If such a law were passed alternative news site could compete with the MSM on a more level playing field. This would force scrutiny on the MSM and make it harder for them to misrepresents the issues of the day.
Two, it should be illegal for any government, military or intelligence worker to attempt to contribute to or attempt to affect a news story unless there is absolute full disclosure. i.e. the name of the person, the occupation of the person in the government, the full job description of that person, a full disclosure under oath of all information in their possession relating to a given issue and so on.
This would prevent baseless “according to sources” information from being published as “news.” It would also prevent intelligence agencies from pushing false narratives.
I can imagine that they would scream bloody murder about the “full disclosure” part due to “national security” concerns. But the truth is that the term “national security concern” is often simply a euphemism for hiding government blunders.
And we have had enough of that.
I would give up on trying to reform the media, there is nothing that states they have an obligation to report the truth, its just like gvt, they report and/or show an interest in what pleases them and them alone.
I personally am going to add them to my list of professions that are nothing more than the study of human denial. Until you can purchase a big media company and report the things important to you, there will be very little change.
Sadly, the tendency is not that of reforming (as I see it), rather the opposite is happening, with the inevitable total globalization the time for implementing the global Ministry of Truth is approaching very fast. Well, they may name it Reform.
Ioan,
I respectfully disagree. I think that globalism is on the run. Brexit, the Yellow Vests, the election of Trump (granted, Trump is a fool, but the globalists hate him), the declining popularity of the Republican/Democrat Globalist Coalition and so on. Throughout the world people are realizing that the promise of globalism (cheaper goods and services) is vastly outweighed by the costs (income inequality, mass migrations, the destruction of cultural identity which is replaced by a vapid consumer culture).
Granted, the beneficiaries of Globalism are using their considerable money and power to squelch objections. But – at least as I see it – it is collapsing all around them. The USA and Europe are a god awful mess. The US reeks with opioid addition, suicide, alcoholism, homelessness, mass shootings. Parts of Europe are in outright revolt. In the places not in revolt, the undercurrent of anger is unmistakeable.
Thanks Mike for your reply. As you may already know, I have a habit in searching the less positive aspects of certain things or let’s put it otherwise : presumption of events. Therefore, I presume that even if the actual state and pursue of globalism by the given actors is doomed to fail, there might be other powers who will seek to achieve the same goal, simply led by the gravitational force of the multitude of problems, challenges, facing the global community. If (a big IF) handled in the good direction for the benefit of all people, taking in consideration the environmental issues, that would be positive step, methinks. The bi-polar world order will be just a middle step. Well, my imagination takes the blame for the above thoughts.
Hi Bro 93, I have some food for thoughts for you regarding the crypto money. As you may already know, the new computer technology will be ready to be launched in the near future, that is the quantum computer. Some people say that this will revolutionize the whole system, making the actual crypto market obsolete, redundant. I cannot argue in what sense because I’m far from understanding the new technology but as I understood, the speed and depth of quantum computing will challenge everything in that domain. As they say, there is still some timetable until this technology will be available for usual citizens at an affordable price ( as for example it took some time for the actual technology to spread worldwide in the form of a pocket smartphone ). My question is for those who have a better understanding of this quantum computers, what is the big leap forward and how will it affect the future ?
ioan, Its a complex question because in technology nothing ever stands still.
Its going to take a long time for quantum computing to be available and open to use. I cannot say I understand all of it clearly, but I have played on the IBM play quantum computer that is open online – and quickly ran away from it – it hurt my head! (grins). There are probably very many good explanations of what quantum computing is on youtube and so on, but this is just the one that I found I could ‘get it’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52rxZG-zi0
The very basic answer is of course for the encryption hashing algorithms currently in existence (SHA256) and working for a linear computing world, new encryption algorithms will be developed, more suitable for a quantum world, where the qbit is able to respond to different states. The sheer mathematical complexity here really hurts my head.
Is there by any chance a cross-over connectivity in thought between the current science of quantum physics and quantum computing ?
I’m thinking in relation to the work of the quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli and his book Reality is Not What It Seems
Well, this is almost a trick question :-) And I don’t know if I can answer it with real fact, but it is fascinating. My quantum physics knowledge is basically David Bohm, Implicate Order and his discussions with Krisnamurti. I am not a hard physics scientist — not even almost :-) Yet, from the philosophical point of view, I get some things or I think I get some things or I just hope I get some things :-)
So, for the big picture, of course there is cross-over. But in terms of my little knowledge as yet with the Quantum machines, I can only see a level of severe logic and hard numbers that overwhelms if one cannot throw around the theoretical mathematics. I have not yet seen a cross-over in thinking. That does not mean it is not there.
“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.” – David Bohm.
ioan I am studying…but the instructor took a break…………
and while I won’t quibble with amarynth’s answers……..let’s see if she quibbles with Craig:
https://craigwright.net/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing/
which is short and begins:
Even if a quantum computer existed — they do not — Bitcoin would be fine.
and ends with:
The reality is that the arguments are spurious at best; at worst, they are intentionally designed to deceive. In a paper, we demonstrate the flaws in such arguments, and show that systems (such as Bitcoin) are safe for at least the next few decades and maybe all time from such an attack.
[1] http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/quantum-computers-will-destroy-bitcoin-scientists-warn/
[2] http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/nsa-working-encryption-cracking-quantum-computer/
18/01/2020
Illumining emerald gleam
Of vast skies before dawn
Over the frozen landscape
Distant roar of the traffic
Flight of crows so near
Screeching the icy air.
After the sunrising,
The first blackbird’s
Surprising song
Into pale blue skies
With the white doves
Soft echoing murmur.
walking on the alee
milky fog everywhere
no one knows what time is it
only the distant bear
here and there a walking coat
in the winter scenery
without shadow in the fog
shrouded in their mystery
… 1920s photographs beginning with a Cafe having a telephone …
“50 nostalgic photos of what the world looked like in the 1920s”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/photos/50-nostalgic-photos-of-what-the-world-looked-like-in-the-1920s/ss-BBYZMAL?li=BBoPWjQ
… and a wishful thinking duo …
RT News and Sputnik News are reporting Iran will send the black box of the downed airliner to Kiev,as Kiev has requested this, so searched Press TV News for more detail and have found nothing at all.
There is this …
6 F-35 jets were reportedly on Iran’s borders at time of plane crash: Russia
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/17/616436/Iran-Ukraine-airplane-US-F-35-Russia-Lavrov
Hopefully Iran has copied the black.boxes if possible…..in case someone else wants to alter the data.
@JJ
It’d give me a laugh if Iran would send fhe black box to Malaysia.
~They never got to see the black box ftom their MH17.
… two days later … via Press TV News …
Black box of Flight 752 still in Iran, civil aviation official says …
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/19/616575/Ukraine-plane-Iran-
Comet (the Martyr)
That comet, meteor, point of light, white, bright,
Filling all space in the twinkling of an eye,
Burning with god’s fire—
Moving ever onward in all directions,
Many faced, filled with eyes,
Visage razor sharp and deeply cutting
With flaming anguish into every stream
And fold of heart and mind—-
Such sweet agony,
Like the offering of one’ s heart
On an Aztec altar!
Brother Blue
the silent agony of those
who leave, unknown
without a trace
of their own…
Let me offer this music to Dennis J. Leary – who had his birthday last month in December, to Bro 93 who has his birthday this month and Mundo who will have his birthday next month and all of you who have a sentimental vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkCZ5vkiic My Love-Eddie Calvert
Look how we’re clustered together!
Except, to be true I (Feb 14) am Water Bearer with Mundo ( I am trusting you have him in the right Constellation….lol…) and have not yet hit the Big Seven-O
Your Day
From afar
Tell us, ioan
Where you are
In the firmament
Of stars!
Every sentient being has a sentimental side, especially as Our Journey Nears Its End. And Dennis loved to travel by train…………….so I add this sentiment to his memorable Vineyard Crossings and our favorite tracks:
Sentimental Journey
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna take a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
Got my bag and got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that “All aboard!”
Seven, that’s the time we leave, at seven
I’ll be waitin’ up for heaven
Countin’ every mile of railroad track
That takes me back…….
Never thought my heart could be so yearny
Why did I decide to roam?
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home.
And another Day, for everyone else, all throughout 2020:
Sentimental (Nighttime) Journey….sung by young Ms Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3NdLQjqOc
There is a huge and ongoing methane event happening in the Arctic – almost unreported. Methane is 100x more powerful a green house gas than carbon dioxide.
This event is certainly a game-changer for global warmer, and a likely game-changer for governments.
It wont mean a thing, the atm is growing, that means it can support far more pollutants with a lesser degree of harm than thought in the past, the scare tactics of climate change are far worse than any prescribed disasters. Larger storms, winds, and rising sea levels are the only concerns.
Had gvts not forced fossile fuels down peoples throats and instead thinned the over growth, made more individual windmills you would not see the strained effects of climate change, its all the politicians and their advisors fault as to the detrimental effects being felt by todays humans.
Trump Suggests He Ordered Soleimani Killed For “Saying Bad Things About Our Country”
Trump seems to be determined to nail down the title of Worst President in US History. This guy is making Andrew Johnson, Harding and Bush the Dumber look like rocket scientists by comparison.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/soleimanis-saying-bad-things-about-our-country-led-kill-order-trump
Re header photo
A known unknown/
How it’s shown
What he knew,flew
But
The thought,caught
I
Forgot
There are so many awful stories around that the ones standing out from the crowd must be unusually bad.
“National Archives says it altered Trump signs, other messages in Women’s March photo”
The National freaking Archives changed some images, then tried for a long while to brazen it out. They’ve finally apologized, but the fact they had the gall to actually do this is unnerving. And a person has to wonder how long this has been going on.
It’s that simple – if they are allergic to some of the pictures or words, Don’t Use Those Pictures!
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/478903-national-archives-says-it-altered-womens-march-photo-to-blur
“Sen. Peter Lucido changes story on sexist remark, now says he was misquoted”
A genuine POS State Senator humiliated a young woman reporter in front of a bunch of teenage boys, didn’t deny what he had said, and claimed he had done nothing wrong. When the pressure from everybody with any decency began to hurt, the POS just started lying. Michigan must be very proud.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/01/16/peter-lucido-allison-donahue-michigan/4489559002/
May heavy hearts be lifted by the grace strength and beauty of this performance
https://youtu.be/n3SfufW6D74
Mod: Many, many thanks!
TY mod – goosebumps, yes?
Mod: Goosebumps ++
Oh. I clicked your link and went on doing something else when the theme caught me.
We played this at my Mothers’ funeral.
It always hits a certain spot. A beautiful version, thank you.
Netizens Baffled by US Space Force Camo, Brainstorm Better Uniform Concept
https://sputniknews.com/us/202001191078074181-netizens-baffled-by-us-space-force-camo-brainstorm-better-uniform-concept/
“has drawn the attention of netizens who almost instantly mocked the use of camouflage as – according to many online military ‘experts’ – is not appropriate for orbital ops.”
Didn’t the geniuses at bum bandit central…er, sorry, I meant the pentagon, watch any Star Trek shows or films? Some amusing reactions.
For camo, space force outfits should be vanta black, with little stars and moons and planets and comets and asteroids
Oh my … that old lizzie queen – she’s just fired Harry and Megan. I love it.
” The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to lose their HRH titles and public funding, as they opt for “a more independent life,” Buckingham Palace has said, adding they are no longer “working members of the Royal Family.”
An arrangement agreed by the couple and the Royal family says Harry and Meghan will no longer be able to formally represent the Queen and will lose their HRH titles. They will no longer receive public funds associated with their former royal duties.”
Truly the only reason why I even picked this trash up is because I am watching a Netflix series about the Monarchy – called The Crown. This is a sickness really – not watching the series, but this specific Monarchy.
The Queen Elizabeth and her family do what their masters say, and have to obey their orders..
This was clear from the image sometime ago of George Soros jabbing his forefinger in the chest of Prince Charles at some do or other, to remind him who was boss, also the Epstein link interview with the Duke of York, and now Megan and Harry, who don’t seem to mind leaving at all, au contraire his older brother William, who when leaving Buckingham Palace yesterday after a meeting,on this showed in his expression profound discomfort and uncertainty in a newspaper image. (He is quite different from the rest of the “royal” family, but that’s another story.)
All this relates to a global picture, and more will continue to be revealed as the facade crumbles.
The globalist elite and their puppet politicians meet at Davos, world economic forum 21 – 24 january 2020.
The program is a new national socialist platform for world governance making nazism the global strategy
for dismantling democracy into a one world (Rothschild) government made possible by such organisations as
the Rockefeller Foundation were WEF and other organisations make up the framework where they gather their subordinates (politicians) to implement the following years directives.
The manifesto (2020) :
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/
global governance and social state responsibilities are the framework of national socialism here: global corporate socialism governance, meening government, a global government.
Now, how is WEF considered Rockefeller (corporation Rothschild inc.) and not Klaus Schwab, just a person and his vision. Well, WEF is a part of the Rockefeller Foundation. How did Klaus Schwab interface with the Rockefeller Foundation, and how does other world leaders and politician interface with the same Rothschild syndicate? Then there is the need for historical studies of the creation of such organisations as The Round Table, Fabian Society Coefficients Club, London School of Economics, PPE ( orig. Oxford ), Rhodes Scholarship, RIAA, CFR, Trilateral Commision, ECFR, John F. Kennedy School of Politics Harvard (HKS), we find that Klaus Schwab is a member the John F. Kennedy School and the Trilateral Commision, so it is therefore that he founded the WEF (for the Rockefeller Foundation). When we look at John F. Kennedy School Harvard Kennedy School HKS, we find that many of the american subordinate politicians are recruited and developed from there into a myriad of organisations where they are useful puppets in a coup d’etat against all people to usurp the governments who represented these people.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/
So Klaus Schwab runs this scheme which is one of many that target the governments directly.
Other Schemes target the UN.
Another graduate from HKS is Samantha Power fmr. US ambassador to the UN.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/samantha-power
So what else did she do? Carr Center for human Rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/30power.html
The phase within the UN adopting the principles of R2P (responsibility to protect) as a pretext for invading countries on behalf of the Rothschild syndicate led from the USA.
She was instrumental in the destruction of both Libya and Syria, and that amounts to massgenocide against the peoples of those countries while lobbying against genocide as a career.
This served directly to invade Libya where some corrupt journlists reported a chemical factory preparing to gas the people of Libya and other horrific claims against pres. Moammar Qadaffi. They were all fabricated lies.
Were did the false reports come from? Human Rights Watch and the CIA are good examples and other groups are making this a main strategy of intervention . https://newspunch.com/german-newspaper-editor-exposed-cia-dead/ . As an example a group called Truth-hounds has “revealed” in a report that Russia invaded Ukraine (Donbass) and are responsible for targeting shoolchidren in Donbass. The truth is opposite :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpZusD92rrg
Ukraine military and NATO proxy nazis invaded Donbass militarily to target the russian population and maintain an occupation to create a fake majority base for the coup government for foreign exploitation.
They now say that Russia invaded Ukraine and killed 13000 people (US government statements in the US Congress).
So much for human rights. HRW is financed by George Soros Open Society Foundations and US State Department as Amnesty International. Same as UN and ICC. Expect continuous falsity and abuse on the highest levels of governement and UN as they plan to dismantle democracy further .
The subordinate poiticians meet at WEF, Davos. Children now serves as their chosen weapons just like nazi Germany created national socialism that implemented that policy for the first time. Expect everything to be false, and make no mistake about it, everything is false and serve a purpose only.
Let ‘Kingdoms’ crumble, new statehood is on the horizons and the surplus is
given to the poor instead being extra-profit for the 0,9%. That’s real left a track
to a new Kingdom. Look at the miracle of clearness: VVP’ ‘stars’ while 1. 15. 2020:
Putin leading
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/putin-leading.html
I’m sure amarynth can find someone else on Bitcoin and Quantum Computing……but you can bet your bottom dollar that CSW has written on EVERY conceivable aspect of Bitcoin….bar none.
From the previous answer’s link, an abstract (summary) for the paper linked at the bottom of that article:
Bitcoin and Quantum Computing
15 Pages Posted: 3 Apr 2018
Craig S Wright
nChain
Date Written: Jun 29, 2017
Abstract
This paper addresses recently raised concerns that cryptocurrency protocols are not quantum computer proof.
We present clear evidence that attacks on bitcoin using quantum computers are not viable in terms of economic costs. The economic argument is presented under two strong assumptions: (i) availability of well-known bitcoin addresses that are single key reused addresses with exposed public keys, and (ii) existence of universal fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) of sufficient processing power and size in qubits. If the assumptions are relaxed, existing evidence asserts that quantum computer attacks are not viable in any foreseeable future, irrespective of economic costs. The Bitcoin protocol enables individuals and organisations to move their funds to unused bitcoin addresses and to use multiple-key addresses. This prevents any scenarios implied with the first assumption, and bitcoin addresses cannot be attacked if the public keys have not been exposed. Thus, no scenario exists where a quantum computer attack is viable.
Furthermore, restraints on and a slow progress in physically implementing FTQCs that are sufficiently powerful do not support claims about near-term solutions to NP-hard problems such as breaking encryption. The evidence and opposing research indicate that any scenarios under the assumption (ii) are at best a distant future. The paper concludes that while there are no attack-based use cases for quantum computers, there are viable use cases for QC recovery systems. These include scenarios where a public key associated with a hidden Bitcoin address and unknown private key is left with an escrow firm or family members and scenarios of long-term lost keys associated with early bitcoin addresses.
Keywords: Bitcoin, Quantum Computing, Encryption
JEL Classification: Comp
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Wright, Craig S, Bitcoin and Quantum Computing (Jun 29, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3152419 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3152419
The black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was mistakenly downed near the Iranian capital is still in Iran and no decision has been made yet to send it abroad, says the Civil Aviation Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CAO.IRI).
“We are trying to examine the black box of the crashed Ukrainian plane in Iran and our next options will be Ukraine and France. But no decision has been made so far to send the box to a second country,” director general of the organization’s investigation office, Hassan Rezaifar, told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Sunday.
(so where does RT News, Sputnik News and MSN source their wishful thinking fake news ?)
What can be seen in this pic should be more terrifying to the FUKUS neo cons than any Russian nuke, hypersonic or EW weapon.
Russian diplomacy.
A lethal weapon to globalist ambitions.
https://www.rt.com/news/478651-lavrov-reporters-berlin-talks/
The 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is valued at $30M to $40M …
See a 1939 Delahaye T165 …
Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard (Ventura County), California in April 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREBvtd-RnI
… and …
“Citroën: The Man, The Marque, The Mystique” Exhibit at Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tt7wsbl-M
… continuing …
Mullin Automotive Museum (full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6VnuE9i5fA
Le mariage de l’art et de l’ingénierie … plus 3 minutes of good music … no talking …
Mullin’s L’époque des Carrossiers presentation showcases the marriage of automobiles and Art Deco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XI29R-WeuI
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/french-masterpieces-mullin-automotive-museum-video-2797042/
A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans
By Tara Zahra – November 28, 2012
“Better enjoy the war—the peace will be terrible” went a popular joke during the Third Reich.
It was one of many ugly episodes in 1945. On a summer day in Horní Moštenice, a small town in central Czechoslovakia, 265 people, including 120 women and seventy-four children, were dragged from a train,
shot in the neck, and buried in a mass grave that had been dug beside the local railway station.
https://www.thenation.com/article/brutal-peace-postwar-expulsions-germans/
“Slovakia, a Nazi satellite state, was the first Axis partner to deport its Jews, with only a
single member of the Slovak parliament dissenting from this policy …. ”
This single person was Jànos Esterhàzy, representant of the Hungarian minority.
Jànos Esterhàzy biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Esterh%C3%A1zy
Trump leaving Davos…..
>….. And we’re starting phase two. Phase one turned out to be much bigger than we anticipated, because we have intellectual property protections. We have — many of the financial deals and aspects of the financial deals that we wanted, we got done, and other things.>…..
Lets repeat that key point for emphasis:
…..》 many of the financial deals and aspects of the financial deals that we wanted, we got done, and other things.《
In all the noise and circus about the US-China trade deal over the past 2 years its the agreement about financial services that I have been tracking.
Millions of keystrokes focussed on soybeans.
Very few, mostly obscure references to the US demands that the Chinese open the door for the rapacious financial firms like Goldman and JP Morgan and similar.
Yes. These are already in China. But they havent had the unrestrained and unfettered access they desire.
It seems that what the Chinese agreed to in the finances chapter of the deal has been mostly classified or redacted.
While everyone has been distracted by soybeans the *real* part of the deal has happen in the shadows (of course).
Also let slip by Trump at Davos……. bigly changes to WTO.
What are these changes? Well the US has lost WTO cases in dispute with China, EU and others in the past decade….
My bet is the changes result in the US always winning from here….
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/22/president-trump-press-conference-concluding-davos-video-and-transcript/#more-181627