2020/01/20 14:00:02
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Red Pilled Sister is out of the hospital and back on duty…………
Today’s MLK DAY ………Gun rights rally in Virginia shapes up as THE FIRST MAIN Deep State Versus Deplorable Nation Battle of the 2020 War for Narrative Control.
She writes, in the middle of the night:
“much of the MAGA are warning people to NOT go to the Virginia rally… that it is a setup to blame violence on Trump/ [censored Capital Letter] supporters/ 2nd Amend: and to instigate much wider spread violence..
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/01/19/virginia-lawmaker-warns-gun-owners-governors-fake-state-of-emergency-is-a-set-up-ahead-of-rally-877416?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL
https://canadafreepress.com/article/antifa-will-pretend-to-be-maga-amp-nra-advocates-at-virginia-2nd-amendment
https://twitter.com/hansauf/status/1219082128505348096/photo/1
others need to prove their macho..???
https://twitter.com/meanswhatitsays/status/1219089953675730949
others note that Trump seems to be ‘being drawn into the engineering’.. setting it up.. so the big question is: how many traps are being set and who’s gonna spring the definitive one…??
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/18/beware-virginia-a-remarkable-confluence-of-events/
more ‘coincidences’… the point here is not necessarily that any of all of the projections are ‘true’.. but that they are defining the narrative for large numbers of gun rights advocates… with a massive laundering of known government false flags..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-going-military-jams-gps-across-east-coast-fbi-seizes-night-vision-devices
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1219147142645809152
End of RPS’ email…………
Unfortunately I don’t have the time to open these links this morning as my training starts at 7 am…and I have to leave now………….I will look for the reports from the Vineyard perspective as to how History will regard MLK Day 2020 near the Capitol…….in the late afternoon, Pacific Time…..after training ends for the day.
Well Bro, nothing in the mainstream so far – probably being slow walked everywhere. It is around lunch time in Virginia. I searched through a few mainstream sites but nothing. This is the only report that I find and it is from Huffington Post (yeah, yeah, I know). He has a bunch of pics in there and it looks to me as if the folks wanna fight! Too many weapons for a civil disobedience. They’re itching .. all of them, for a fight. Not a place to take the wife and kids I would say :-)
https://twitter.com/SebastianMurdoc
Nothing. No violence. Reportedly the armed demonstrators even picked up the trash. That’s how the Alt media is playing it: A big Victory for the Second Amendment and defeat for MSM and Dem Gov Northam.
Not that easy for an arsonist to start a brush fire when thousands of people have their phones on “video”.
That is very good – the no violence part. I hear through the grapevine that antifa decided to give this one a miss and they did not appear in numbers at all.
Defeat for the MSM? I have this stinky feeling that we’re going to have to perhaps rethink the role of the MSM. Bear in mind that we have no television, have not had one since 9/11, don’t watch that stuff and so on. But I read something this morning that was staggering. Apparently the NYT have to have some of their work approved by the State Dept, before publication. A devious mind will immediately reason that the MSM is perhaps only the foil, the chosen antagonist in the play. Don’t know as yet, a new idea for me.
> Defeat for the MSM?
The woke media goes broke and suffers layoffs for years.
Or, to express it in one picture — https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/gawker-3-0/
> I have this stinky feeling that we’re going to have to perhaps rethink the role of the MSM.
Fourth Estate is not all that complicated. It sings the tunes it’s paid to sing, and is very bad at pretending it’s not a choir.
If you mean that after their latest failures (most importantly, against Trump) the obviously weak parts of MSM are not used for important tasks in propaganda war anymore, but demoted to cheerleaders and distraction — yes.
– Otherwise they would be bailed out one way or another.
– The “debates” of clown candidates were supported by CNN et al. The promotion campaign of St. Tulsi Who Says All The Proper Things was not left to their “skills”, she borrows good moves from Trump instead. My theory is that clowns were a decoy, “dark horse” Toolsy is the true bet to regain control.
To each his own.
But I wouldn’t be caught dead cheering for your scenario. There’s absolutely no upside in it.
Except for those whose control you imagine cannot be broken.
If you are committed to THAT belief, nothing good by way of creative problem solving solutions could possibly come from you.
Is that an identity or way of thinking you were born with, …or chose……….or did someone or some thing (like the very thing you discuss!) implant it in you??
US continues to stir up trouble in the Middle East, their mere presence is mostly illegal and has other objectives than enforcing peace and fighting terrorism. In fact they are supporting terrorism as a strategic alliance.
The reports of support to IS are many and again such reports has resurfaced as it becomes obvious on the ground by groups fightning IS and other terrorists and are reported in local media again resurfacing in english speaking media. Farsnews have reported on US military movements supporting IS and other terrorists recently.
The training of terrorists are lead by US with an international NATO presence that has consisted of deployments by norwegian and danish miliatary at al-Tanf in Syria and ayn-Asad in Iraq. Now transport, training and deployment of terrorist forces of Nato and USA is reported from western Anbar province preventing security by Syrian military and iraqi military respectively, and creating a blockade of Syria by the land route to Iraq.
Blockades are considered to be warcrimes by recent standards of the Roma Statutes and amendments.
Training of terrorist forces means that they share the responsibilities of those fighters actions which is so far
warcrimes to the scale of nazi waffen SS forces during WW2. So it is no coincidence that Iran has designated Pentagon as a (state) terrorist entity, and it is Pentagon that leads NATO and provides planning and briefings for NATO includes NATO in the same category of state terrorist entity, and NATO actions confirms that very well, remembering for instance targeting of civilians in Afghanistan, targeting of civilian infrastructure in Syria including demolition of the Aleppo power plant after IS had been forced to leave by the syrian army. It is of course evident that the NATO forces of IS/ al Qaeda at the time were shelling indiscrimanely the civilian population of Aleppo and had occupied Aleppo in that way .
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13981029000438
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13981029000641
NATO stands for North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation.
Make that Nazi American Terror Organization, and it gets almost scientifically accurate.
Nussiminen’s riddle: If a global plebiscite were held with, say, all people at least 18 years of age being eligible voters and where the question addressed reads: ”Which country, including its population, would be most welcome to get rid of?”, then what would be the percentage in ”favour” of the Exceptionals and Indispensables, either Pindo or Israeli?
My guess is well over two thirds.
Yes, I would estimate it at 70% – 75%. Duly accompanied by very angry noises from ”concerned quarters” about antisemitism and, of course, Russian meddling 😄
(MLK- excerpts from “Beyond Vietnam” speech, Riverside church, April 4, 1967)
“… the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. .. for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. …
So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children …. We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village.
Somehow this madness must cease ….
I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in (Vietnam). I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken …If we continue, there will be no doubt in my mind and in the mind of the world that we have no honourable intentions …
The war in (Vietnam) is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit ….
In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. ….. .
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered….
… A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, … of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
(Part 1)
(Part 3)
The Saker recently published an important piece about the murder of General Suleimani (what it means for Muslims and the resistance movement in the ME):
This echoes what MLK pointed out in 1967 and what Pinter said in 2005 … He ended his Nobel address (a must-read for all people concerned about this “sacred war” which is not about religious beliefs but fundamental moral values and justice) with these words:
People like Pompeo, Bolton, Trump and others …. (including so-called "leaders" in Europe) have no dignity and no honour … they destroy whole societies, tear people (who fight for justice and dignity and against the imported terrorists) into pieces with drones, then spit on their graves by denouncing them as “terrorists” … ( a projection of their own crimes)
Why do we let them get away with it?
Why do we let them get away with it?
Yes, that is the question!
Why?
It is impossible to justify murder but that is the “game” that pomp and trump are playing with multiple changes in the rationale for drone murder.
Yet, the sheeple either do not care or, enabled by frauds in the MSM, are co-opted into believing the “justifications” and continue with shopping, super bowl speculation, the impeachment game, etc, etc.
The question remains and will remain.
The leadership of VVP with the gods has found e sequel in Angela with the gods
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/angela-regiert.html
What does your NATOist disinformation starchart for Angela mean?
The Truth About the Trump Economy
Jan 17, 2020 Joseph E. Stiglitz
As a general rule, I don’t like economists. One of them who has never managed to **** me off is Stiglitz.
IMO Trump cannot win an honest election. Besides being a total disaster for the most of us, he has begun to endanger the lives and prosperity of even the top 1%.
Still an opinion, but I believe the general disgust with Trump has already reached levels where even Biden or Buttigieg would defeat him. Since both of these people are essentially Republicans pretending to be Democrats, I couldn’t vote for either of them, but I think most other people would do so.
Senate Republicans aren’t likely to convict Trump. This could cost them dearly.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/grim-truth-about-trump-economy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-01
Joseph Stiglitz:
Political party Democratic
He is clearly a Liberal / progressive economist, a true “impeach Trump for whatever”.
As official unemployment is at 3.9 level, 50% of Obama level … maybe time for Joseph Stiglitz to consider Prozac?
Hey Whats going on in China with that mysterious “flu” spreading rapidly?
Heard that the known cases have now tripled and spread to Beijing and Shanghai.
I would not be surprised if it is that, the rapidly declining empire has deployed a bio-weapon against China, in a desperate bid to slow China’s inevitable rise.
It mysteriously appeared in Wuhan which is a busy crossing point that connects several cities – ensuring that it would spread – and on the eve of one of the busiest travel period for the country.
I’m very suspicious. We have to be.
Selah
@S400
Agree. My immediate thinking was bio-weapon.
Along with the swine virus.
And the Fall Army Worm which had no place in China.
In 2003 an Australian epidemiologist died suddenly after he spoke up proving the N1H1 virus was not natural by lab concocted.
I had the link for more than a decade. But its gone to the memory hole.
Its a lot more difficult today to retrieve past things from the cloud as links are broken and/or automatically deleted if one does not keep up a continual servicing of the website, even if it means just signing in every few months where the account was created.
It better not be a bio weapon. I am on my way to China tomorrow.
Wear a correct mask and keep up the antiseptic spray on it and somethng for hands every time ypu touch a door handle or bannister of lift button or computer keyboard card machine ….wipe every knife fork with it or use cutlery chopsticks etc from sealed packets..wipe every jar lid or bottle top before handling it.
Thanks for the advice.
I travel a lot overseas. I am not often worried – even when there are risks in the place that I am traveling to.
But I must admit, I am a bit worried this time and not just about the virus.
Take daily doses of vitamin C. At least 3 grams per day spread over the day. Much more, up to bowel tolerance, in case of an infection. One form that is many times more powerful and easier to take orally is so-called lipospheric vitamin c (Livon Labs, etc.). It has saved people from certain death by swine flu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrhkoFcOMII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhLYqF85EA
Want more info on the incredible features of vitamin c? Research the work of the MDs Dr Frederick Klenner and Dr Robert Cathcart. The cardiologist Dr Thomas Levy has put much of their research into a book named: “Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins”. You can find him also on Youtube.
Other very good measures against infection; Vitamin D3 (75IU per kg of body mass per day) and a daily dose of (2 to 3 grams) magnesium-chloride.
Do your homework and stay healthy! Bon voyage!
Assessing Israel’s tactical laser breakthrough
This is a refreshing little article in that it subtly deflates the latest technological miracle from the Apartheid state.
For example, an attack can be arranged to happen during a rain storm. Or heavy fog. Also, in the unlikely event a functional super-laser is built, it can simply and easily be overwhelmed.
Announcing new weapons is a LOT easier than creating them. Or making them actually work.
https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/01/17/how-realistic-is-israels-tactical-laser-breakthrough/
Torture: A mainstay of Israeli apartheid and colonialism
https://samidoun.net/2020/01/severe-torture-in-israeli-prisons-targets-palestinian-steadfastness-walid-hanatsheh-samer-arbeed-mays-abu-ghosh-and-more/
That’s a Palestinian site. The second link is to “an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2018-01-31/israel-shin-bet-first-torture-probe/
Back in 2016 my disgust with Hillary was such I carefully examined Trump as a candidate. In the end, I could not get past his whole-hearted embrace of torture. I don’t vote for criminals, so neither he nor the Butcher of Libya got my vote in that election.
How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq
https://www.unz.com/wwebb/how-a-hidden-parliamentary-session-revealed-trumps-true-motives-in-iraq/
The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may be shaping America’s new Mideast strategy.
Since the U.S. killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis earlier this month, the official narrative has held that their deaths were necessary to prevent a vague, yet allegedly imminent, threat of violence towards Americans, though President Trump has since claimed whether or not Soleimani or his Iraqi allies posed an imminent threat “doesn’t really matter.”
Also other things china is doing…
Launch of “Shanghai-Macao Gold Road Project” — Start a New Cooperation Mode among Gold Markets of the “Belt and Road” Countries
https://www.en.sge.com.cn/eng_news_News/543418
Based on the successful launching of the “Shanghai-Macao Gold Road Project”, SGE will gradually increase the number of participating banks and expand the pilot area to further enhance service capabilities and provide an open and inclusive gold market trading platform for market participants. Under the high-level opening up of market infrastructure, SGE will further explore cooperative opportunities among gold markets of the “Belt and Road” countries, and comprehensively assist the development of the real economy, the internationalization of the Renminbi and the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center.
So?
If china takes over the oily stuff and the shinny stuff, say over 50% of world market, or rather if they come out and say in public they have cornered 50% of those 2 markets, given they already have the hard stuff, given they own a heft chunk of all the foreign banks in the world, inc all the private banks, what else is there the west would play as their ‘most powerful’ card? Now that VVP has moved on w the new russia (think military and gold aspect too) and we have not even finish the first month of 2020… The Switch, dear friends, there are many new developments, from the east, that can can easily switch in to place to replace ‘the previous’. I am looking forward to VVP’s new Switch-ON gov and what great blessings it would do in world stage!
“The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not”
I’d say this this scheme could be compared to treating the measles by painting the spots”.
Even in this day and age $119 billion is a hell of a lot of money to throw away.
https://dnyuz.com/2020/01/17/the-119-billion-sea-wall-that-could-defend-new-york-or-not/
From the RT site:
“Iran will leave pact barring it from getting nukes if complaint over 2015 deal filed with UN – Zarif “
This is rich – France, Germany and Britain are filing a complaint about Iran not fulfilling treaty commitments. Yet the reason Iran is exiting the no-longer-existent treaty is because those three nations themselves reneged on obligations to help Iran if the US reimposed sanctions. Most likely it didn’t occur to these nations the subject would ever come up, for Butcher Hillary was expected to win in 2016. France and Britain are nuclear powers, and Germany is the strongest nation in Europe, yet all of them are showing themselves to be afraid of Trump – and of their own shadows.
Other Iran news: that nation is once again preparing to launch some satellites. Rocket science is hard, and anyone who looks into the troubles the US had when it first began will understand that. This is strictly a guess, but I’ll predict Iran may have some more surprises in store on the rocket front. One of these days we may see some more precision work with them in taking down an important US/Apartheid state satellite. Nobody would be killed and an expensive asset would be gone. Again, it’s just a WAG, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
https://www.rt.com/news/478709-zarif-iran-nuclear-npt/
https://apnews.com/4af5bb698a1dceac0b7a00c85f5a264e
This really doesn’t surprise me. Rather than condemning the murder of Soleimani, Britain, France and Germany acted as if it hadn’t even happened. Then, they say that they are going to file a complaint against Iran.
For what? You might ask.
Apparently, they are upset that Iran refused to re-negotiate the JCPOA once the United States breached the existing deal. Iran was expected to re-negotiate a worse deal for themselves so that the United States can later come back, breach the re-negotiated deal and ask Iran to re-negotiate an even worse deal and so on ad infinitum.
Iran refused.
No surprise there.
Now Britain, France and Great Britain are filing a complaint against Iran!
Predictably, Iran is just plain fed up. They just want out of the JCPOA altogether. Who can blame them?
When Britain, France and Germany sold out the Iranians – just what was Iran supposed to do.
Are the Western leaders really that stupid?
Don’t even answer.
I think they are really that desperate, and behind the scenes they are fighting a losing battle, and with each loss comes a public reaction. At this point they cant really be silent about it b/c that is their weapon of offensive, take advantage of a country and be silent, ignore the criticism and move on.
By reacting the way they are, only shows the opposition slowly gaining momentum, until the last straw breaks their camels back and a national crisis is then born. We don’t know the exact form of the crisis, but as you said, this year could be a pivotal year, and I personally am throwing as many straws each day as is humanly possible.
We are dealing with selfish bunch who is hell bent on living a gluttonous lifestyle and insisting that everyone follow their lead.
Alabama,
You might be right as to the US. I am sure that – at least – some of them understand that the ship is going down.
I doubt that Trump understands this – or Pompeo, for that matter. But for other more circumspect players, it might be the proverbial “Hail Mary pass.”
As far as the Europeans are concerned, they know better. They are just craven cowards.
Mike, Alabama, and Zachary
It is beginning to dawn on the world that Warshington is simply agreement incapable.
Meetings, and sadly now too, even simple dialogue have become a waste of jet fuel, time, energy, and breath.
Iran is in no doubt whatsoever about this sad reality.
Any agreement/treaty with the Hegemon and it’s close allies is completely farcical. Before the ink is even dry on the paper or the parties leave the room it is quite simply meaningless. And this is for many more ‘reasons’ than I could poke a stick at… I will point out some of the more obviuos recent examples…
#1 petty partisan politics […hmmm, the 3 Ps…]
#2 a change in POTUS
#3 newly discovered or revealed resources that the bullies fancy getting their thieving hands on
#4 any slight change from total compliance and groveling servitude by an existing vassal or comrade in arms
#5 if the country involved does not have predominantly white skin colour…which also as a corollary gives them the right to indiscriminate murder or to even indulge in flat-out genocide…particularly if they are in the ME or North Africa
#6 a change in the wind direction…or for that matter any whimsical or totally ridiculous thought on ‘awakening’
Sad times indeed
Col
Col:
It is beginning to dawn on the world that Warshington is simply agreement incapable.
Agree with your reasons but to my mind the main reason is that washington is a criminal enterprise dominated and controlled by psychopathic murderers.
Not much else needs to be said!
No doubt they know better, but at the same time are at a loss as to how to resolve it being tied to DC at the hip financially and not able to access their registered contributions. This being said, all they can do is financialize the assets on their books and then inflate their obligations away knowing their hands are tied to DC’s pocketbooks
Using the same formula as us of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses they walk the tightrope of diplomacy in public and most likely scorn the Americans in private. Its the two edged sword or juggling of the hot potato they are certain not to be holding once the house of cards collapses here, but at the same time cant avoid the fallout of consequences sure to drop on Americas shores. The Trump repatriated money was being used as collateral in Europe and so just build a larger pile of collateralized assets here in the states and introduce austerity there.
We see a preview in France of the austerity equation and no doubt if it debuts here, could be just as bad if not worse, there is no actual timetable for this but the odds of occurring are fairly good at this point.
Alabama
…you said….”privatizing the profits and socializing the losses”…absolutely!
I refer to it as inverted socialism.
Morons like Greg Hunter can’t see this. People with a few more brain cells can, but usually choose not to talk about it, let alone address it…unless of course, they are part of the thieving plutocracy…then they think it is an absolutely marvelous idea….ummm…and don’t mention it either.
Whilst they are busy continually banging on about the evils of socialism the likes of GH completely miss the tragic fact that the US is right up there amongst the leading countries when if you account for their monumental ‘defense’ spend and all its periphery.
Add in the inverted socialism that you point out and the highly socialist model of Murica is completely and utterly obscene and is based on two giant pillars…
#1 A ‘defense’ budget [this all needs to be accounted for in the maths] that almost equals the combined budgets of the entire rest of the world
#2 An ‘exceptional’ homegrown system that thieves from Mainstreet and lines the pockets of the 0.1% that make up the plutocracy
Of course, in 1913 [the year before WW1 broke out…AMAZING coincidence that!] the plutocracy were given on a plate complete outright ownership and control of the farcically named FED. It’s an old saying…the easiest way to rob a bank is to own it…too true in this instance. Plus if you are not even audited then it is very much like taking candy from a baby…which of course they do… by the fricken truckload!
Ohhh…and I just bent the truth a tad…they WERE actually audited last in 1953…thats a number that is dead easy for me to remenber…it was the year before I was born.
YCHMTSU
Col
……”Morons like Greg Hunter can’t see this” …..
Especially one who appears to be under the influence of liquid refreshments in his more recent outbursts. LOL
The worst case of this comes from the health care industry. The rich indulge in a lot bad behavior that the lower classes simply not only cant afford, but if caught serve a hefty jail time sentence. They call it being entitled strictly from a monetary perspective.
Along with this behavior later in life, comes expensive operations and treatments, they love the fact that the industry does everything they can to increase the life span of those who can afford it. But the industry then subsidizes the cost of those expensive operations and treatments and spreads them across the board to people like me who pay the monthly premiums for decades, but never make a claim of sickness. If they can afford to pay, and need the expensive care, they should simply pay for it.
-ownership and control of the farcically named FED.
You haven’t understood all banks create money. FED is just one of the banks.
Sberbank will follow same rules: lending out money they don’t have. Then Sberbank has the audacity to charge 10% interest on that -> 10% interest on something they don’t have
(?)
Net revenues per bank employed at home is at level $150,000. Half the employers will be the losers at school, now producing values 3 times a doctor.
kjell
Hi there from down under!
I am afraid your argument basically only amounts to just another case of whataboutism.
Studying various CB models just happens to be a passionate hobby of mine…yes, yes I know… seriously weird behavior for a farmer!
So below are some of the reasons why I had to respond to your comment.
And by the by, Greg Hunter the watchdog [LOL} suffers from a very similar delusion…funnily enough, he too employs the exact same defense.
So here goes…every single share in the FED is owned by a cartel of thieving private banksters. This would not be a particularly big deal in a tiny country like NZ for instance with a GDP only equal to that of Kentucky, the 28th ranked US state in terms of GDP…also see below link…out of date I know… but still able to help with perspective of state GDP compared to sovereign countries around the world.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps
NZ’s central bank RBNZ is totally Govt owned…not one single share is owned by any private corporation or bank. If we were dumb enough to adopt the CB ownership model of the FED then it still wouldn’t be a big deal… EXCEPT for us NZers.
We would indeed have been comprehensively broke many moons ago. However, the rest of the world simply would not bat an eye because our idiocy would have had almost negligible global consequences.
NOT SO WITH RESPECT TO THE FED …in this case the model employed by the US empire/hegemon since WW2 is adopted by the very country that monopolized both reserve currency and default currency status almost exclusively.
Until relatively recently this status has allowed the US to sell endless debt. So why is this such a global problem then?…well I could be here all night but let me just list a few for starters…
#1 This model has ended up funding an MIC which is at least equal to the rest of the world combined in size and in turn has been used to create and fight perpetual war on a monumentally obscene global scale. In effect, the rest of the world, by buying this debt, funds the hegemonic bully which in turn terrorizes them…unless of course, they happen to be spineless compliant vassal lapdog nations…in which case the bully doesn’t bother.
#2 As such Mainstreet Murica has very little if any say in stopping this warfare. The only way they ever have had any say in the matter is if too many body bags come back home from these foreign escapades. However, this hurdle of backlash on public opinion doesn’t work anymore as the casualties are mostly anonymous private contractors and proxy army personnel from many different countries. They are simply just regarded expendable collateral by the ‘MOD’. Joe Blow public no longer reacts because he is blissfully or conveniently unaware of this human toll.
#3 Domestically this has all led directly to a crazy system of farcically inverted socialism. In essence the system thieves from Mainstreet whilst providing the plutocracy with unfathomable wealth. The plutocracy, in turn, renders any thoughts of the country clawing back even a partially functioning democracy, completely futile. Incidentally, the lobbying power of the plutocracy also means that there is not a snowball’s chance in hell of Mainstreet ever getting rid of the FED model…barring total economic and social breakdown or civil war, that is.
#4 In effect this is the mother of all Ponzi/counterfeit schemes. When not if it all completely goes tits up it will be a cataclysmic social and economic breakdown for not only the US but the entire globe.
These are only some of the many reasons why the FED’s outrageous ownership model and money printing antics is such a big deal.
Needless to say this will almost certainly happen with both a bang and a whimper.
Col
Trump threatened UK with 25% car tariffs unless it agreed to accuse Iran of breaking nuclear deal
The link says President Dumbass is blackmailing again. Probably what happened, but the round heeled FUKG group may not have needed a lot of pressure.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-tariffs-uk-iran-nuclear-deal-france-germany-eu-a9286496.html
Zachary
….yep, and doesn’t he just get more and more like Tony Soprano by the day…what next… well actually nobody has the slightest clue…least of all the MIC.
No no no, not the Military Industrial Complex…nooooo…the Moron in Chief…same acronym, different entity… but how different… now when I come to think about it, they have STRIKINGLY similar mandates…pun intended!
YCHMTSU
Col
And if you want a prize example of cognitive dissonance then look no further than Trump’s speech at Davos.
Begins at 49.40…
50.16…”The US is in an economic BOOM the likes of which the world has never seen before.”
50.43…”America is thriving…America is flourishing, and yes America is winning again like never before.”
I will hazard a guess that a BOOM is indeed imminent…but not in the sense that this idiot used it.
YCHMTSU
Col
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoQpDiHJCNk
Oh, the ironity!
Did u note that the UK hasn’t had one true Brit-owned/controlled automaker in nigh on one generation now?
They’re all pretty much German, or Italian.
Yes, the plants and badges are the same, eg Rolls,with the same local work forces, but they’re all foreign-owned.
BTW, interesting to watch on u-tube the many docs showing modern car assembly at any of the big names, like BMW, Porsche, HUGE factories, super modernized & roboticized, yet in the overhead camera views there’s barely a few people scattered about, doing fine-fit & final trim inspection & windshield polishing (not sure why that hasn’t gone yet to a robot).
Here in canada, the last shift at GM’s Oshawa plant finished right before Xmas—a century of building cars gone forever. Just 300 jobs saved to convert one small corner of it to a stamping plant, employs 300.
But example Chrysler hasn’t had an auto plant in Detroit for a dozen years now.
An old buffer from the Swedish MSM with many years spent in the USSR and Russia has just published a book which is now being promoted by selfsame Swedish MSM:
’Russa without Putin — more free, peaceful, and fair’
As the introduction puts it: ”Here he explains why the Russian people deserve another leader”
Senile bloody crackpot; do shut up.
Predictably an “Atlantic Integrationist” hoping to buy a piece of Russia!!
Actually, when I first heard about this piece of lit(t)erature my suspicion as to its author was an appreciably younger, preposterous buffoon who actually is an asset to us Russophiles due to his level of inanity (and obesity, LOL). I really can’t see why someone approaching the age of 80 would need to write this garbage.
Do the dreaded land-buying internationalist’s create powerful currents and undersea volcanoes in Russia ?
Trump at Davos. Scheduled meetings with:
>Dr. Barham Salih, President of the Republic of Iraq >Imran Khan of Pakistan, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
>Simonetta Sommaruga, President of the Swiss Confederation
>Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
> Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government
>World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab
Which intrigues you the most.
For me is the meeting with the Kudistan Regional Govt. Nice stone in the shoe of Iraq, Iran AND Turkey.
Piercingly poignant
Once Upon A Time in The West
https://youtu.be/Yf_KXyMaoB8
also “Piercingly poignant”
https://www.google.de/search?client=opera&q=once+upon%2C+knopfler%2C+lyrics&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB7LNZyEpMk
Thank You Mundo -Agreed
this concert is a new one to me. I’ve always adored Dire Straits and MK.
I come to the Vineyard (not as often as I would like) to learn.
And Learn I do :-)
Beautiful
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Once Upon A Time in The West – Three Variants
Patricia Janeckova – Slovak operatic soprano (born June 18, 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOy6M_X2MO8&list=TLPQMjMwMTIwMjAy7GqeLFihZA&index=1
André Vásáry — Male Soprano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC20KYQxtWs
Katica Illényi – Theremin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY7sXKGZl2w
Assasinations of IRCG lt. general Soleimani and Iraqi Army’s PMU force deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis broke international law, a former Nuremberg judge has weighed in on the killings by a US led drone attack.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/killing-soleimani-broke-international-law-former-nuremburg-war-crimes-prosecutor/
The question is who actually carried out the attack which is supposed to have been directed from the US base Ayn al-Asad in Iraq. Those people did not operate the drone on orders from pres. Trump they targeted leaders of legal representatives of the iraqi army and the IRCG who is legally fighting against terrorist forces in Iraq together with the iraqi army forces of Kat’aeb Hezbollah PMUs acting on intelligence. The attack they carried out violated the conditions for the US and NATO military presence in Iraq. The US base also houses NATO military forces from Denmark and Norway. It is clear that pres. Donald Trump took responsibility for the attack. A case has been filed at ICC international criminal court by Iran. Iraq have notified the UN Sec. general Gutteres and the UN Security Council, but according to the statutes of ICC (international criminal court) may also file a warcrime case directly to ICC, as the attack took place on Iraqi soil.
So while pres. Trump authorized the attack there is still the question of who actually carried it out and who were their accomplishes. Or were there standing orders from the US president to carry out such attacks ?
These questions need answers because there are serious violations of the Roma Statutes and their amendments including the serious amended crime for aggression. Since there are these serious crimes, there is an urgent need of officcial investigations, such as can only be carried out by ICC , the international criminal court . They need to find out also whether forces that are under NATO command which are signatories and having ratified the Roma Statutes were involved.
Some countries like USA, have not ratified these international treaties and have withdrawn from the responsibilities for warcrimes . This does not mean that they cannot be investigated at all since there are rules under which ICC may open an investigation .
It appears that ICC may open a case for Iraq and Iran in this case in accepting the ICC jurisdiction of the specific case. USA has by law denied any war crime investigator to enter the country, so they have really planned to evade justice and will not take part. I think this case may be investigated without USA due to the seriousness of the crimes for example the crime of aggression, crimes that are also a violation of the UN charter and should be referred to the UN Security Council urgently.
US military started a war on the Iraqi army by attacking member of the PMU (popular mobilisation units) Kata’eb Hezbollah base before assasinating its deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. USA and NATO has violated the conditions for their presence in Iraq as confirmed by passing a resolution in the Iraqi parliament and given the direct order to leave by the Iraqi prime minister following the even more serious incident and warcrimes, the assasinations of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the IRCG general Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport.
Kata’eb Hezbollah have relocated to another iraqi army base in western al-Anbar province near the border to Syria fighting the terrorist forces in the region that appears to be affiliated with the NATO/US forces in the area threatening iraqi security and the stability in the Middle East.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13981030000232
Life is too fast.
Yesterday in the Security Council, Russia brought in the sanitized OPCW report – this was the one that the missile strikes on Syria was based on – and this report was fake news. The specialist that was supposed to testify before the UNSC, was not given a visa and had to testify via recorded video. Guess who wanted this information to disappear. I think we have not seen the last of this yet. Russia chooses her issues carefully, and seemingly they are on this one. I don’t think it is the end of it. They may be working up to a UNSC sanction for the US, Britain and France missile strikes. https://www.rt.com/news/478754-opcw-whistleblower-un-douma/
On Iran, two things. First (sorry for Zerohedge, I do despise them!) it is now open news that Washington is working through internet and technology media (remember the Hong Kong protests) to inflame Iranians and prepare the grounds for regime change. No wonder that Trump bellows on his Twitter that Iran Must Turn On Its Internet! That was not because he feels sorry for the Iranians, that was because the SOB Washington message could not be spread.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-officials-admit-major-covert-tech-assistance-fueling-iran-protests
Then still on Iran, the stories that they may not enrich uranium under the JPCOA is bunkum. They may – if it is used for peaceful purposes and under the supervision of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
Last, but not least, the Lawyers for Assange are under scrutiny. This is scary news.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202001151078040995-assange-case-lawyers-of-wikileaks-founder-becoming-increasingly-inaudible—publicist/
Now let me say why I despise Zerohedge. It is not that they are a news aggregator and will publish anything that inflames. It is not that they take work from sites like The Saker and republish it. It is because they monetize other people’s work that I despise them.
Very very last … it is time that we take a look at The Saker’s reports quite early on after Trump was elected, during the Mike Flynn thing .. The Saker said Trump was rolled – just at that moment The Saker recognized it. I stood back from that, and was willing to check it out for a while. But in hindsight, The Saker was right. It is time that we recognize clearly that it is not Trump’s work to drain anyone else’s swamp, but he needs to keep himself in the US. He cannot displace US American problems on other countries any longer. His outright lies in foreign relations are also getting too big and the stealing of course is in your face. I see no other outcome for the US Americans but to take their own sovereignty back – some way or another. A bunch of Trumpers with Guns and the 2nd Amendment? Yeah, great stuff, but not going to do it when Trump hollowed out the 1st Amendment with his executive order that nobody may criticize Israel or the jews. I wrote a piece on Pepe’s question this morning and in that I mentioned that zionism is not contained in the Jewish population alone. The Christians United for Israel in the US is now by some millions a bigger population than the complete Jewish population in the US (and they are only one group). We cannot any longer talk of the Zionists without mentioning the Christian Zionists.
So, in my view and I’m by no means an expert on the US American constitutional issues, Trump made that executive order to appease the unending hunger for control and bloodlust of the Christian Zionists and Zionists combined. This is how he buys his vote.
Sorry guys, but there is very little ‘clean’ left on Trump.
Hmmmmm… ‘They may be working up to a UNSC sanction for the US, Britain and France missile strikes.’
This is interesting and I have not thought of it… Possible and if true and successful, then co-coordinating with other events, in the dishonest money markets and the conflict action zones, this could trigger all the hell-gates officially open for the definitive end of USSA. The Bear and the Dragon appears, to finally, pushing back, HARD. The last 2 minute rant of Tom Luongo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiWieR_5Y1I) is insightful for those who still not understand the implication since the iran general was murdered. OrangeJesus appears to be ‘over’ whether he ‘win’ or ‘lose’ in his art of the deal/scam. It appears many dots are now openly joined together to form the BIG picture and ‘disclosure’ for general world public (aka change of world narrative/regime). Do stay safe.
Could be!
However it could also be that the complexity of Traps and Counter traps has ensnared the emotions of Amarynth, the Kiwi Colonel ……….and Zach….causing y’all to miss the Bigger Picture.
Wayne Jett says:
“In 2016, the globalist cabal was only a few years behind in its schedule for poisoning unwanted humans, and had numerous operations underway to achieve that outcome. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan had made limited moves against the cabal, but had insufficient personal security to succeed. JFK was viciously murdered in broad daylight, with the official report of the event still filled with lies, and RR was shot almost fatally only months after taking office, eventually serving two terms under constant threat of assassination.
President Trump’s physical safety is far better secured than was the case for his predecessors, and he has more comprehensive awareness of cabal operations, practices and players. The cabal has made every effort to remove him from power for three years, but has failed. ”
and concludes his article https://www.classicalcapital.com/Trump_On_Offense_2020.html thusly:
Onward And Upward
“The events of 2020 will turn upon how successfully President Trump acts to terminate the power and influence of the globalist cabal in America, in Iran and worldwide. That is the central objective, and it will entail more challenges and conflicts than are presently apparent to the public. Despite the turmoil experienced in the past three years, accomplishments to date have strengthened President Trump politically while a number of his entrenched antagonists have been routed. The year 2020 offers prospects of being Donald Trump’s best year yet in the White House.”
I am loathe to assist ANY of those entrenched antagonists. You that I am addressing are not among them, even remotely.
But I would advise not to be sympathetic to any of them or their minions here in the Imperial Homeland (like Buttplug)….quite yet.
Cheers!
However it could also be that the complexity of Traps and Counter traps has ensnared the emotions of Amarynth, the Kiwi Colonel ……….and Zach….causing y’all to miss the Bigger Picture.
I’m in a rare good mood today – and usually ‘see things in music’ in this good mood. So, let me sing you a little bit of a very old song :-)
Did you see my little Jimmy marching with the soldiers up the avenue?
Were you there, and tell me, did you notice?
They were all out of step but Jim.
The events of 2020 will turn upon how successfully President Trump acts to terminate the power and influence of the globalist cabal in America, in Iran and worldwide.
Heavens help us! Keep him safe over there by you and don’t let him loose. Sorry, he has no worldwide jurisdiction and none in Iran. What he has just done, is generally accepted as murder. And while you are about it, do you think you get him to refrain from droning, shooting and sending missiles to kill anyone else? Really, its enough now. It is not Trump’s job to kill who he wants to kill – that behavior is rightly called gangsterism. You have enough in your own country that deserves the guillotine.
The Bigger Picture is just so. Bigger. As in, one not limited to a single story in news and ensuing shouting matches, but rather including a wider context.
>Sorry, he has no worldwide jurisdiction
War is not limited by “jurisdiction”. Even a Cold one. It’s kind of by definition between a sovereignty and a sovereignty (however upstart, decrepit or otherwise diluted they may be).
So the globalists want to consume every existing sovereignty into their “comprehensive Planetary Regime”, those opposing them try to pull it back. Since infiltration is on the table, the issues of jurisdiction may be relevant to some parts of this conflict, but not necessarily every part.
> gangsterism
Huh. Wasn’t someone directing the force of the arms “toward putting an end to the rule of gangsterism in international affairs” not a century ago?
A-and toward “equally toward the reestablishing of order in the world society”, while they were at it? But, but, in what jurisdiction “the world society” is?
Well we still seem to have to suffer with Pompeo Pence Abrams Pence Espers who still very very much trying to run the world ….determined for enact space wars….naval confrontation for example with Russia in the Arctic….”motivation “of other countries to join in their world chaos plan….he seems well capable of putting his own foot in his own mouth….eg firing of missiles on an excuse that his daughter got upset about children to Syria whilst having afternoon tea with his friend so claimed the President of China……
So our tutor yet again offers up great pearls of wisdom.
It would be nice though if just once you could spell it out in a way us lesser intellects could understand. Perhaps using plain concise English explaining exactly what the “Bigger Picture” is that myself, Amarynth and Zach are sadly missing. You never know, this might do the trick and get us all up to speed…finally.
Hint…try it without talking in riddles…now there’s a novel idea…or is this some sort of cunning defense mechanism that conveniently obscures everything on the rare occasion that you do get it wrong.
Cheers from the south seas
“Kiwi Colonel”
I have mostly given up on trying to read Bro….I prefer steam engine videos. Steam engines tend to stay on track.
LOL
Col
Right .. we don’t get ‘the bigger picture’. I happen to know where that ‘bigger picture’ referred to comes from mostly. But, let’s take that as it is, and look a little at this part of the ‘bigger picture’. From Whitney Webb at Mintpress:
“How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq
The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may be shaping America’s new Mideast strategy.”
“While the situation between Iran, Iraq and the U.S. appears to have de-escalated substantially, at least for now, it is worth revisiting the lead-up to the recent U.S.-Iraq/Iran tensions up to the Trump-mandated killing of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in order to understand one of the most overlooked yet relevant drivers behind Trump’s current policy with respect to Iraq: preventing China from expanding its foothold in the Middle East. Indeed, it has been alleged that even the timing of Soleimani’s assassination was directly related to his diplomatic role in Iraq and his push to help Iraq secure its oil independence, beginning with the implementation of a new massive oil deal with China.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hidden-parliamentary-session-revealed-trump-motives-iraq-china-oil/264155/
Turns out that dear Trump killed for plunder. That is a big part of the bigger picture. He plundered in Syria, he tried to plunder in Venezuela, he plunders by sanctions. Time that the Trumpers keep his feet to the fire instead of obfuscating. You all know the history.
Cuaght a glimpse of this thread…it’s always good when a conversation involves many diverse voices! LOL.
But gotta run. Will answer next cafe.
This could be fun. Especially if USA responds by leaving UN and cutting all support. Who will drag it along, then?
– The Christians United for Israel in the US is now by some millions a bigger population than the complete Jewish population in the US (and they are only one group). We cannot any longer talk of the Zionists without mentioning the Christian Zionists.
20% true. The Khazars are as numerous as the Germans or the French. When you believe there are 4 millions to fight for you, there are 20 millions. Small error ->big consequences. Most Khazars could not care less about israel? Just like the German Jews could not see any good reason to move to a desert named Palestine
-Actually, I like Germany
Black is the dominant color of this cafe. Black is all colors, white is no color.
Anonymous on January 20, 2020 · at 7:34 pm EST/EDT
What does your NATOist disinformation starchart for Angela mean?
Thanks dear newcomer on the troll-farm? Thanks for “disinformation starchart”, this
was my first in 39 years. I think by time a lot might be following.
Baby, I’ m born 1942. I know what NATO was and is. Nato’s star is blue the blue
of the coastal merchants and robbers of Europe and Amarica, civilizing the planet.
We loved this blue, NY and SF, after red Nazi-catastrophe for 70 years. And all our
NATO didn’t bite anyone, till late ninetieth somewhere on the Balkans where our green
peaceman Joschka was struck by the charm power radiated by Madeline Albright.
Since the the Green changed into stars and stripes.
To my star-chart: what does it say? No use to tell it you. Astrology is for those who
have a desire to think. Only your own found treasure trove belongs to you.
Astrology is easy a game, the creator of Sun provided the players with Earth as Sun’s
genius-child in the family, acting in a circular raster of twelve archetypes “called
signs and times”
The chaos of colors and things ordered by time and place in the disc / circle of
360 ° = a day = year. There is nothing possible, which has not it’s place in this circle.
But without the astrology of ‘our given Star-Family we fatefully do not know the circular
order we are in and part of, which on different levels act like a God-made perfect cellular
watch. The drag of modern man is to feel ‘so out of place’ , all the more because each one is needed at his/her place like a cog of a cogwheel.
But no one knows, where one belongs. Natural people had humble spiritual ways
to release their children to their ‘real Name’ found in a ‘vision seeking’ ceremony.
Astrology is a technique of reading the signs of the times which we are a part of.
That does not mean, that the Astrologer ‘knows’ the future, but he has an added
symbolic conscious with open eyes for synchronicities like with VVP and Mrs. Merkel
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/putin-leading.html
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/angela-regiert.html
It’s the supreme
meaning of life, to become conscious of one’s cog-place in God’s unknown wheel.
mundo was questioned
why? I may ask
can merkel interfere
in the stellar task?
that would be preposterous
at least…
ordering the schedule
for new planetary twist
for a new allignment
offering her manure
on golden plates to moon,
jupiter, saturn,
inviting all the stars
then putting up herself
above the zodiac
as new sign on horizon
above the well known twelve.
Hi Mundomaniac:
When I approached the only commercial bookseller remaining in a brick and mortar set up ( besides the few used book stores) in my town and asked a clerk why the astrology magazines had disappeared from their usual place on the rack, he said that their “distributors” were responsible for what appeared on the rack and when.
‘ So, we have in their section —the meditation magazines ( clear your mind) and the techie magazines ( become part of the hive mind) but where is the poetry and the astrology which is metaphor? We need metaphor to stay human.” He smiled and shrugged his shoulders and said the usual lie for Americans who run you down in the aisle of the grocery story only to throw back over their shoulders a hasty, ” Sorry”. But he was nice and a bit sad and lingered a bit as he said it and really was taking responsibility for something that wasn’t his to take maybe? So I lingered to thank him, after all. Desolee. the French sounds a bit more authentic and it was I who whispered , Sorry, as he turned away.
And thank you for all your postings, Mundanomaniac.
The senate impeachment proceedings are coming up soon and demacrats are speaking publically. Listening to Chuck Schumer (D) I came to the realisation that they are “Hollywood” actors.
Their case materialised from a spy in the WhiteHouse where they was searching for anything to hang a constructed “crime” on, and ended up with a phonecall. If the president had actually ordered a crime to be committed that would have been a case, but actually the crime must also have been intercepted or taken place, law enforcement are determining what is a crime in the USA. And of course they are committed to intercept crimes in the making. The same is the case for bribery. They are of course entitled to try a case of clear planning of crimes and bribery. But nothing of the sort happened. There was on the contrary the president’s incentive to investigate a crime of bribery and extortion including americans committed in Ukraine.
This would expose a person running for the office of president, it would be very important to avoid such a person to take office. This is evident from the constitution. A president that is criminal may not hold the office of the president or any other office of the government of the United States.
That is the meaning of impeachment ande removal of such a president that is being criminal while in office.
So while the president performed his duties of seeing to that the laws are faithfully executed regarding public office, the president also fulfilled the purpose of the constitution on behalf of the people to investigate criminal activities of a person running for the office of the president to avoid such a person to hold office.
Political parties are not part of the constitution and the partisan charade of the democratic party defending their corrupt candidate for the office of the president emphasize the corruption of the constitution that has taken place
by unlawfully engaging political parties to represent the government of the United States which is a coup against the people and the republic.
In the case a president a senator and a representative were elected according to the constitution there would never have been such acts of treason committed as we have now by this impeachment and other acts of treason against the constitution as these political parties are of course actors attached to special interest groups and are not even representing the people any more.
Political parties must be disbanded for anything to change and for the constitution to be reinstalled. Then presidents senators and representatives must be tried for impeachment for having attachments of any kind, that will be under the impeachment for bribery.
It’s just a freak show.
Now read this:
“This is why Dems are terrified:
House investigators have evidence that the Obama admin possibly increased aid to Ukraine in exchange for money flowing back to Clinton foundation and dirt on Manafort. ”
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1218547091565371392/photo/1
And I thought Brexit was a clown show…
Cheers, Rob
And that is only payoffs to the government. The whole case is enormous.
For example Ukraine’s gold reserve was airlifted to New York.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2014/03/21/the-latest-heist-us-quietly-snatches-the-ukraines-gold-reserves/
Chevron was given full control of the oil and gas grid (shutting off gastransport to Europe as a political tool against Russia. While they actually demand that Russia deliver subisdised cheap gas to Ukraine). Burisma was created as an offshore company to exctract the ukrianian gas reserves and take the value to foreign accounts. That is involving payoff to the american government ending in the hands of Biden. Totally corrupt. The war against the people of Ukraine are on many fronts, the important change to fascism empower law enforcement on an uprecedented scale also supporting an illegal war against the russian population that has by now made enormous suffering and 13000 people dead, massacres, unlawful detainments, torture, murder and war against civilian population that actually forced the ethnic cleansing of Slavyansk, a city with large gas reserves wanted by Burisma. The negative impact in Ukraine for this illegal coup also involve foreign investments and ownership buying everything of value and destroying the rest, and making the populations dependant on IMF loans handed out sparingly by a corrupt government. Robbing of a starving people and war against civilian populations is another crime against humanity in fact committed by Joe Biden. The implications are endless in fact when just starting to rewind the scope and width of these crimes committed during and after the coup d’etat against Ukraine.
21wire quote:
According to reports out of Kiev (see links below), the US has quietly transfers 33 tons of Ukrainian gold out of the country and back to vaults in the US. Presumably, this sovereign wealth transfer would be counted as partial “collateral” for a fresh round of IMF, US FED, and ECB paper debt that is currently being organised for dumping into the Ukraine’s economic black hole…..
33 tonnes of gold.
33.
Such a masonic number.
They love their little insider nods and winks…..
33 tons of gold. Metric? Let’s just say 66,000lbs. A cubic foot of gold is approx 1,200lbs.
66k divided by 1.2k = 55 cubic feet. The logistics of that “quiet move” would be interesting. Who did that and how?
Ghadaffi’s Libya gold was 250 tons that was “quietly moved” after Hillary cackled about his demise by sword up the rectum. A Western Style Central Bank was set up within weeks. The UN supports the Tripoli gang I believe which is probably where this bank was set up.
Stories and movies have been produced about the “missing Nazi Gold”.
Seems to be a recurring story; “We kick your ass, steal your gold, give you depreciating paper you can never repay, while we make your assets collateral to be taken also. Greece?
A real audit of Fort Knox and NY Fed vaults may (should) cause some necks to be stretched.
Which aircraft?
Here they say unmarked (which is unlikely), so maybe USAF C-17? military transport plane, hard to see markings at night from a distance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gxdzgAl5w
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-gold-reserves-secretely-flown-out-and-confiscated-by-the-new-york-federal-reserve/5373446?print=1
http://iskra-news.info/news/segodnja_nochju_iz_borispolja_v_ssha_strartoval_samoljot_s_zolotym_zapasom_ukrainy/2014-03-07-9122
http://www.gata.org/node/13754
– That is involving payoff to the american government ending in the hands
In one case $1 billion was transferred to an oligarch bank …then money disappeared.
I. e. Ukraine was used for whitewashing theft of US tax money.
From 2016 on (January) Ukrainian actors were used for framing Trump for “Russian collusion”
It’s ALL entertainment—are you not entertained?
Except politics is the special case of having the most freakish, ghoulish obnoxious repugnant cons of any.
(far beyond the percent they always note are in the Notorious Felon League).
Like the WWE, a subsidiary of the WWWE (Wide Wide World of Entertainment), all scripted and rehearsed by actors. Practice is where they get most all their injuries, including those leading to like-long painkiller addiction, & a far shorter life.
Like the NFL (NOT Football League), legally classed & carried on as 1 of the only 3 “sports entertainment” businesses= scripted matches for forever, yet not 1% figuring it out in 50+ years.
Like Al “Jowls&Howls” Jimmy-Jones appearing at that gun rally in VA in that armored truck in a total staged show, just like when they 40 years ago wheeled out the ayatollah, supposedly hiding out in france for decades, & wheeled him into Iran ready to go.
Here’s more, but bad ad lib lines, by a current in-place actor:
https://www.liveabout.com/donald-trump-quotes-2733864
Donald Trump Threatens War With Iran Over Hand Gestures
“When Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water.”
Draft-Dodging Trump Says POW McCain ‘Not A War Hero’
“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”
—On John McCain, despite the fact that Trump himself dodged the draft to avoid the Vietnam War
Donald Trump: ‘I Love the Poorly Educated’
“We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
—On his performance with poorly educated voters who helped him win the Nevada Caucus (Feb. 23, 2016)
Donald Trump Brags on 9/11 That His Building Was Now Tallest
“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan…And now it’s the tallest.”
—Bragging about his building following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in an interview with WWOR/UPN 9 News in New York. 70 Pine Street, just a block away, now being bigger (Sept. 11, 2001)
Great idea! A-and exactly how you propose to implement it?
Ban or formally limit them? That would work well — just like separation of Church and State, which somehow resulted in zealots preaching non-stop (“Everything Is Heresy, and You Have to Point It All Out!”) and calling for slaughter of heretics and unbelievers (“10:10 No Pressure”).
Overhaul of the rules to rearrange incentives against huge parties? That maybe could sort-of-work, if there was a way to do it without opening a big can of poisonous worms and being consumed by them before you get there. Is there any? Also, why won’t this end in “out with huge parties, in with permanent coalitions of small parties”?
Besides, do those parties matter as much as un-elected bureaucrats?
Ban them since the system of government and election is clearly laid out . People that run for these posts are elected according to the constitution, not according to being a party (of interests, meaning corrupted). The basis for elections are based on personal abilities for the job especially those of representatives (lawmakers). They were to be reputable, there is a clause for not living in the state at the time of being elected, meaning also experienced, less attached and knowledgeable of the United States in which they serve, it is a requirement for senators as well. Then it is the simple task of understanding the constitution, make that priority one and implement it again.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The election of the president and vicepresident are as a result of anti corruption measures elected by following the rules : The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
Ban them since the system of government and election is clearly laid out by the constitution, and it is clear from the considerable effort in its making over years that political parties or other powerstructures are guarded against.
The Virginia Bill of Rights is an interesting document for the Bill of Rights, and the Fedrealist Papers for the Constitution as well as other historic documents.
Seeing this in context of the corruption today is remarkable: (excerpts “The Virginia Declaration of Rights” 1776 2-5, 12-15 ) :
” That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge be hereditary.
That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judicative; and, that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. ”
” That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.
That the people have a right to uniform government; and therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.
That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. ”
One must return to the principles and the agreed constitution. People that run for government are elected according to the constitution, not according to being a party (of interests, meaning corrupted). The basis for elections are based on personal abilities for the job especially those of representatives (lawmakers). They were to be reputable, there is a clause for not living in the state at the time of being elected, meaning also experienced, less attached and knowledgeable of the United States in which they serve, it is a requirement for senators as well. Then it is the simple task of understanding the constitution, make that priority one and implement it again.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The election of the president and vicepresident are as a result of anti corruption measures elected by following the rules : The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
The Apartheid state continues to crack down on its Arab ‘citizens’.
https://jewishcurrents.org/welfare-state-of-exclusion/
Sample:
(the (un)happy Israelis)
I noticed less are dying from cancer in Gaza than Israel / Jordan / Egypt. It will presumable be the same for diabetes – heart diseases – dementia. While care of elderly is a joke in West (lonely and doped down), care of elderly is top notch in Gaza
It seems that ht e5th column will remain… https://sputniknews.com/russia/202001211078096832-whos-in-whos-out-whos-who-of-russias-new-government/
It is a big disappointment Siluanov stays as minister.
Defense, Foreign and Finance ministers retain their positions in new Russian government
https://www.rt.com/russia/478790-new-russia-government-foreign-defense-ministers/
Who’s In, Who’s Out, Who’s Who of Russia’s New Government
https://sputniknews.com/russia/202001211078096832-whos-in-whos-out-whos-who-of-russias-new-government/
Sergei Lavrov is staying on as foreign minister.
Sergei Shoigu will remain minister of defence.
On the economic front, Medvedev-era minister of energy Alexander Novak will be keeping his post, as will minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov. Significantly, Anton Siluanov, who has served as Russia’s minister of finance since 2011, will also retain his post in the new government. Described by the foreign press as a ‘liberal technocrat’, Siluanov has sought to continue the privatization of state industries and resources to raise revenues, and to continue Russia’s cooperation with global financial institutions including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Late last year, Siluanov suggested that there was a consensus among the G20 nations on the need to further reduce barriers to global trade.
Members of the Medevedev government who didn’t get posts in Mishustin’s include minister of economic development Maksim Oreshkin, minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky (his post taken up by documentary filmmaker Olga Lyubimova, daughter of theatre critic Boris Lyubimov), education minister Olga Vasilyeva, and minister of labour and social affairs Maksim Topilin. Vitaly Mutko, who served as minister of sport between 2008 and 2016, lost his post as deputy prime minister responsible for housing and urban development. Former minister of health neurologist Veronika Skvortsova was replaced by Mikhail Murashko, who is also a medical doctor.
Alarming, alarming? Yesterday’s unbelievable event over Canberra has left me truly reeling and asking some serious questions. Droughts followed by lightning strikes succumbing a country to forest fires and the killing of millions of animals and then what a huge dust storm followed by hailstones over a countries Capital City?
Are you kidding me? What are we seeing these words being fulfilled in our own day and age and if so WHY?
“The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.” {Ezekiel 14: 12-14}
I would think a people and nation needs to come clean I figure about something. In old Israel whenever some misfortune occurred the people were quick to repent and look to God for answers and salvation but we I guess are into what? Geo-engineering? Cloud seeding and other such nonsense?
This is simply astounding and terribly troubling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What comes next?
I am not surprised with what is happening in Australia. The island is a desert — only the coastal areas are greener (well, not really very green…). Australian environmental destruction started with the Brits and their sheep and cattle farming and mining activities in the 1800s. It never stopped, despite the decades-old claims of environmental specialists and activists about the need to control or change those activities. These claims were never taken seriously by the government or producers…
My husband and I taught Sustainable Development in Australia, for Graduates/PhDs, in the late 1990s – early 2000s. My husband was among the early pioneers in studying the link between the economy and the environmental issues (he was teaching in Harvard at the time their study was published). We lived in Australia 6 years, in the Wombat State Forest, in Victoria.
We raised again the issue that the Australian economic activities were unsustainable, that the environmental destruction was happening too fast, that it was devastating… We were UNPOPULAR…
In our time living there, the Murray River had already dried completely in places, for a large part of the year, impacting agricultural production: water was used mostly in vineyards — the amount of water used here was phenomenal. The water of the Murray River was also used for other crops, such as apples, and for raising sheep and cattle, although in lesser proportion.
We told Australian students that the territory of the country, according to specialists (whose conclusions my husband checked for the possibility of biases), should have a population of about 6 million, as the delicate environment could not sustain more than that. At the time, Australia had already about 21 million inhabitants!
Thus, what is happening there, now, was predicted and advises were given.
But, Australia is NOT alone. Look at what is happening also in Saudi Arabia, another desert that by now has totally destroyed its underwater resources for a stupid agricultural activity: the plantation of grains — basically wheat, but even rice in certain areas. SA was, for a time, the 6th producer of wheat in the world! The environmental cost was many times higher than the total production…
Then, we have the construction of nuclear plants in areas prone to earthquakes, such as Fukushima; or the deforestation of large areas in the Amazon forest for agribusiness interests (such as the GM plantation of grains), etc.. I could go on and on highlighting environmental catastrophes that could have been avoided if measures had been taken in time.
No doubt, the environmental disaster of our lifetime has been caused by the generalised contempt towards genuine knowledge and the rejection of proper planning/organization of our economic activities by frenzied private interests. The disrespect for specialists, the invasion of the academic fields and the media by those interests, has deformed science, has blocked public awareness of what is at stake, and has ultimately open the door for total annihilation of life in the planet Earth from the relentless destruction of its sensitive, glorious environment. Without a powerful public mobilization to reverse the madness of what is happening, there is NO HOPE that we will make it.
@MC
When I read and hear of some 43,000 fracked wells all over Australia that alone tells me everything. Our industrialization is truly killing the planet but water is a gift from God and we are told it is God who brings the clouds ultimately:
He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. Job 37:13
I would think sustainability of any kind begins here with water.
Milan,
There are many environmental concerns in Australia… The Australian aborigines were careful about the environment, they were sensitive to it. They made frequent collection of dry wood, which they burned, cautiously. They cleared the forests as much as they could and made controlled burning of large areas, although they could not avoid occasional wild fires, which are a natural occurrence in Australia as it is known for generating new growth (as in the case of the banksias). These fires are expected to happen in the Australian forests, where the majority of the trees are eucalyptus, whose leaves are combustible (the wonderful koalas feed of them and, then, sleep for hours!).
Wild life needs protection, though; not just the houses and agricultural land, as forests have also been surrounded by farmers. If the maintenance of the forests is made by local authorities with budgetary problems, they will not do a good job and wild fires will become more likely… The whole society must be involved in this activity. IF people WISH to live in Australia, THEY must KNOW ABOUT THE HAZARDS and must TAKE CARE of the environment as a communal interest.
As to sand storms, indeed, they are scary… I have been under some of them in SA, as well. But, they are, again, a natural phenomenon, caused by dry sand and wind. They almost certainly happened before in Australia, and may have scared the hell out of the poor aborigines. In the US, I had been in a snow storm in Illinois that was perhaps the scariest thing that happened in my life…
As to water, I agree with you that it is one of our most important resources and that WE MUST TAKE CARE OF IT. Industrial and agricultural activities MUST be made responsible for keeping water clean. These groups, however, have powerful lobbies that neutralize any governmental measure that affects their PROFITS. It is ALL ABOUT MONEY! Money buys everything. A REVOLUTION is definitely overdue…
MC thank you for your thoughtful and sensitively-expressed experiences of the Australian landscape and your painful stoushes with the usual suspects.
Right now I’m sitting on my parents’ porch, which faces west to the Blue Mountains. We came here in the fifties. My parents never left, until recently. My father died as he lived, almost two years ago. My mother pretty much walked out of here nine months later. She is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is now in a first class residential care home close to my own home in Q.
With the extreme drought and accompanying water restrictions, my father’s European garden is burned to various hues of brown,orange, black and grey. He spent sixty years vigorously taming the bush and clay into the object of his desires. He lost no opportunity to condemn and complain about the natural elements.
Today the air is thick with smoke from nearby bushfires. I hear thunder but sense no sign of rain at this moment.
Across the road is a National Park, which the RFS is closely monitoring. Scheyville has undergone several traumatic and turbulent human evolutionary transformations since white settlement, which are now recorded on the Internet with varying degrees of thoroughness.
But all I have ever seen and sensed in this region, is the Spirit of the Aboriginals who were here before us.
This Timeless Land has never really changed. It continually reverts to itself, which is the sacred thing for me, and which brings home to me the veracity of your words and wisdom here.
All of which is to say that while my parents turned themselves inside out to become Model New Australians, and failed in their heavy-handed attempts with me, I now can’t quite believe I’m the last one standing.
From the time I was ten years old, a child from the Netherlands in a white convict settlement in the region of five Macquare towns, I was hammered with the diktat of imbibing ‘proper English values and cultural mores, not to forget etiquette for young ladies’. I struggled with the education system and various of its practitioners. From there it was all the other systems of rule by punitive shame & blame games. Always asking the hard questions and wondering why all these people who set themselves up as the experts and authorities over others, could not and would not answer my perfectly innocent questions.
Now I know.
At 71 I’m gobsmacked that the levels of sadism are what they are: intended.
‘The banality of evil’ says it all.
As a Post Script I add that on Wednesday night I stood on Central Station platform where a Sydney train pulled to a stop in front of me, bearing an advertisement in glorious golden hues: “Babylon”
Being 9.30 pm I could barely see the fine print- enough to make out the message that this is a premium development of high-rise living coming soon to Rouse Hill.
All the bush land of the past sixty years of my life here is now rapidly being levelled, cleared and rebuilt into another globalist city.
Babylon- near the Hills of Carmel in the Australian bush.
I weep
indeed water as part of the first duality ( actually triplicity) as physical creation’s first element ruach Elohim. hovered over the water..”
Funny, Monday will be a water triplicity in Pisces composed of Neptune, Venus and in square Mars.
you mention the before (“hovered over the waters) of the creation = water, while the first day was fire
was light
my archetypal actors originated off the fourth day of creation: lights on the firmament giving “signs and times”.
“We need metaphors to stay human” Your’s, teranam, is apt for label over the poets corner in Saker’s Cafe. Thank you from heart.
And here is my vision of the 4. week 2020 below our consciousness:
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-lion-star-entered-origin-still.html
Fill’er Up!
When hydrogen as fuel
On earth as it is in stars
Relieves hydrocarbons
Of their grim extraction,
The Oily Way Shall Pass
And frustrated motorists
Will no longer snarl
About turning deserts
Into parking lots of glass.
When Modern Mariners
Have such a source
On ships and lifeboats
(Just in case!) I think
Much less despair will
Afflict those who abandon
Ship….yet have means
To float, desalinate
Some sea….and drink!
Water, water everywhere…
That beings on earth
May flourish in greater
Joy…..that cool oasis
Shade shall dot deserts
With irrigated groves
Of dates where even fish
And frogs swim in grass
Lined channels in the sand.
@ MC Good for you! Thanks for the much needed information. Maybe you can actually break through the resistance that occurs on this site about any possibility of man made ecological problems, which always seem to be ignored as hoaxes to cause fear. Thanks for your words and your research. I know it hurts and angers when no one hears ugly truth.
The best to you!
The Saker has asked us to avoid discussion of the AGW issue. /moderation-policy/
Ecological problems there are many and many are as a result of incredibly shortsighted actions of us humans. Nobody here to my knowledge has ever ignored that. To the contrary, people are careful, they do their own bit as much as is possible, they are aware and they are conscious. What they are also aware of, is stuff like the nonsense Green New Deal and similar, that is based on hijacking finance to a new cause and kneejerk decisions for renewables without the necessary care. In my view, it is a different type of austerity and a tremendous hijack of money. True ecologists do not fall for it.
The cry is to ‘save the earth’ but our true ecological knowledge is bitterly deficient.
MC of course is correct. Wildfires are not a new phenomenon, but is a known and even accepted thing that happens because of the specific climate and specific flora. If one wants to live at peace with your environment, you must manage for the risks. I also fully agree that environmental concerns are societal concerns and we cannot leave those to governments to manage as they wish. I have seen quite some work where people consider that the situation in Australia is even a widely managed event, with a lot of weather manipulation as part of the picture.
There is also talk in high places of ‘climate refugees’. I think of Australia each time I see that phrase mentioned. The phrase ‘engineered disaster capitalism’ has also appeared both in relation to the California fires, as well as the Australian fires. Dr.Farrell has some speculation out there as well:
https://gizadeathstar.com/2020/01/australia-burning-disaster-capitalism-or-something-else/
So, I don’t think anyone with a brain ignores human action in some ecological disaster as you state. And it may be nefarious action.
The Cafe (A poem.)
Droughts and fires
Lightening flashes
Hailstone throwing
A troubled question.
We desperately need
A dictionary overhaul
Explanatory terms and conditions
For new times with new meanings.
The earth is metaphor
Euphoria and meteor
Not the past tense of sense.
More than all else
We need to listen.
What is the truth
You are trying to say ?
What vast conception
Do you wish to convey ?
Or shy shiny tiny ideas
Masses of dots and stars
Spanning earth and skies
Anxiously daring to connect…
And have I dared
To understand ?
… a story worth sharing …
Two Classics, One Car: A Collector Shows Off Her Lifelong Favorite | The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCpK1W_Gjw
Thank you for that one.
When (if) I get to be 101 years old, my XJ6 would be comparatively old (1994 model).
Enjoy driving it now once in a while, not in the winter season though.
Regards
Kent
This is not what I mean by “greening the desert”:
Impeachment Trial Proceeds While Int’l Bankers Inject Billions To “Save” Their System: Coincidence?
As billionaires meet in Davos to push their green bubble, which would bail them out while destroying what’s left of an industrial economy in the west and likely condemn several billions to death, the Federal Reserve has now decided it must pour tens of billions of dollars to bail out hedge funds directly. This is occurring as the impeachment trial of Donald Trump proceeds in the U.S. Senate.
Harley breaks it down ……….in clear terms:
https://youtu.be/D33VOIVIc5c
Never heard of this man, but his analysis (some 9 minutes) is razor sharp. Thanks. It’s another example of that nail-hitting remark of Alabama above, ‘privatizing the profit and socializing the losses’.
Good that he mentioned the Glass-Steagall act, that was installed after the Wall Street crash of 1929 as a protection against it, and euthanized by Bill Clinton in 1999 (and most probably the fuel for the financial crash in 2008). Well done, Bill.
Yes, a green bubble. Greta Thunberg is actually listened to in Davos and she asked for a fossile free world . Now, that would destroy all economies.
I’m pretty convinced that it will again result in even more money sucked out of our pockets to the usual suspects.
Actually, I don’t blame her. She has an opinion and voices it, there is nothing wrong with that. Only I got the idea that she is being used, and here and there she is being seen as some kind of eco-messiah. Come on, she is a girl with issues. I remember what kind of convinced ideas I had when I was 16-17 years old. Now I’m relieved that no geopolitical strategy has ever been based on it.
Cheers, Rob
More than what you ever wanted on Greta and the non-profits behind her.
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [ACT I]
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
Another take on Greta, from the standpoint of cultural upheaval: https://culturewars.com/news/greta
Thanks, that’s also a nice one. Bonus quote (Michael Knowles, Fox News commentator):
“the climate hysteria movement is not about science. If it were about science, it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left.”
I’m not all sure about the ‘left’. However, her scripted message is that we should go back living like the Hobbits and the Amish. And here in the West we should make that sacrifice.
In the meantime she (and all her ‘handlers’) will never go to China, that is responsible for ca. 60% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Coincidence?
I still think that the sinister agenda behind it is wealth transfer.
Cheers, Rob
The British East India Company is often referred to as the real british empire. So while the Royal Family represent the British Empire historically and what the British Commonwealth is today, there is also a hidden british empire the even controls America, the United States in reality, just like in reality the British East India Company was a representation of the real powers behind it. So policies do not come out of the mouth of Queen Elizabeth, and do not originate in the House of Commons or Lords, there are some real powers. These real powers feed the dangers of what must be acted upon thereby making it appropriate to decide the right policies. As for the royals, it is easy to push the idea of overpopulation, they feel crowded by people, their castle being surrounded, their estates being taken by people. This makes it easy to engage in policies like climate change catastrophies, overpopulation measures. It becomes easy to push the idea of making the policies to control overpopulation. Zbigniew Brzezinsky pushed the idea that it is easier to kill a million people than to control them at a CFR meeting. He has also doubled down on this in private meetings with the elites and royals, saying that while in the the past a millian people were killed, it was now possible to kill 10 million people.
See William Tarpley Who are the Windsors. At 20:50 overpopulation, Malthus, (failed to mention Fabian Society kill the useless, and fail to mention the Rothschilds as the top of the pyramid control over the money , running the british empire ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNDb-FsO8A
See Zbigiew Brzezinsky at CFR Candada.
http://www.truthandaction.org/brzezinski-easier-kill-million-people-control/3/
So all this are historic prerunners to the Rockefeller Club of Rome Limit to Growth, UN sustainable development, Climate Change policies of today have special purposes that has nothing to do with
what they are supposed to be about. They are vessels to gain control over all people, take back
control over those by national socialism by fascism by force , and kill the rest of humanity.
That is also embedded in new program of the WEF. National socialism and fascism. see 2020 charter.
As Brzezinsky has also been behind the creation of al Qaeda and the use of jihad as american forces,
there were alwasys the larger policies behind it hidden from view. Create policies that the elites and the royals swallow, keep people in the dark, and now the scary realisation that people has discovered it all, and therefore the creation of mass extinction policies or nuclear war as viable reactions for the insane secret rulers.
It will be so cool if Tulsi can get Hillary Clinton in a court of law (we hope it is a lawful court of law).
Tulsi has filed a lawsuit against Clinton for defamation for calling Tulsi a Russian Asset.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-sues-hillary-clinton-over-russian-asset-remark
‘Respect the rules’: Macron yells at Israeli police after they try to enter French territory in Jerusalem
Conrad Duncan – January 22, 2020
French president Emmanuel Macron has been filmed yelling at Israeli police in an angry confrontation
at a church during a tour of Jerusalem.
Mr Macron was visiting the Church of St Anne in Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Wednesday, where the
French flag has flown ever since it was gifted to France’s Napoleon III by the Ottomans in 1856.
It is seen as a provocation in France for Israeli police to enter the church’s sandstone complex, which is considered a French territory.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/macron-shouting-video-israel-police-jerusalem-st-anne-church-french-territory-a9297476.html
An interesting speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbqLogFiwc&feature=emb_logo
Jeez, then there is this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/pentagon-racks-up-35-trillion-in-accounting-changes-in-one-year
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“In layman’s terms, this means that the DoD made adjustments to accounting records without having documentation to support the need or amount for the adjustment,” said Dwrena Allen, spokeswoman for the Pentagon’s inspector general. “The size and scope of unsupported adjustments is deeply concerning because it tells a story of poor internal controls and lack of financial data integrity.”
While the Defense Department couldn’t “adequately support all accounting adjustments, that does not mean they were inaccurate or erroneous,” said Allen. But “because the DoD could not provide support, the auditors could not draw conclusions regarding the adjustments.”
My comment: or in other words, no one has a clue where the trillions are going.
Iraq now tells the US and allies to leave immediately, and not after a year.
https://ejmagnier.com/2020/01/22/immediate-us-withdrawal-due-to-its-violation-of-the-agreement-and-iraq-sovereignty/
I think they know where its going, but the burden of proof resides with the prosecution, and they ain’t talking. Birds of the same feather and all.
Too cynical. Too defeatist.
Status quo ante is exceedingly boring and toleration of it simply feeds the evil and helps evil hide in shadows most people are loathe to peer into, thus allowing it to grow more dangerous. We should be, can be better than to accept that status quo ante with a shrug of our cynical shoulders.
Alternatively, what if there were an immutable audit trail flashlight or bright lamp brought into almost all significant dark corners of human activity and corruption?
What if crime were disincentivized by making it doubly, triply or 10 times more expensive…..and hard to get away with???
See if you can ignore the “noise” associated with the very, very poorly understood invention called “blockchain” …… and grasp at least the tail of the signal long enough to tune your receiver (mind) to it……………..and begin to amplify your comprehension of that signal.………and its positive potential in flushing out the worst rats and cockroaches in service of the Empire of Evil:
https://craigwright.net/blog/law-regulation/looking-the-other-way-2/
“Things started falling apart for me in the middle of 2010. Under my pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, I had started to lose faith in my own project. I had been pushing for commercial applications to be built on top of Bitcoin. I wanted systems involving micropayments. I wanted methods of utilising Bitcoin on websites and automated systems. And yet, the first thing people developed was a heroin store. (In the article “heroin store” is a link which you may follow for the detail, the documentation…………underestimating Dr Wright is a serious mistake many foolish people have made……..but that is changing ….) .
For some reason, it seems, I attracted every wacko and anarchist fool in the industry. I mean the information technology industry. After a certain point, I started losing control of my own project and was being pushed out. Most of the people you see running Core (BTC) are utterly depraved. Mr Antonopoulos has only just testified under oath about how he wants to see child pornography rings expand because of Bitcoin. What they fail to understand is that the entire creation of Bitcoin was designed to mitigate all of the previous problems. The one thing that I’ve needed to be able to achieve such an end has been scale. Not scaling with megabytes of data, scale and price. As the value of what is now a derivative of Bitcoin has gone up, it becomes captured in the same economic framework as the original idea of Bitcoin I created and published in the white paper is (as BSV).
You see, I have been working this whole time. It involved not just patents, but I’ve been working on scaling my creation. I spent a lot of time between 2011 and 2015 gaining enough knowledge to be able to scale Bitcoin without the help of certain other people — if you could call such people who promote crime, drugs, terrorism, and about every other despicable thing people.
The previous 9 1/2 years, I have been waiting. The value of Bitcoin (and all derivatives) needed to increase enough, and we needed a solution that could be quickly implemented and scale. There were a number of other aspects that I needed to complete, too. All of it is now complete. The year (2020) is going to be quite interesting as a result. Bitcoin is a system that utterly destroys anonymous criminal systems.”
Can it be applied to solve the problem Taras identifies and you shrug your shoulders at?
As far as I understand the matter as a layman, a generalist…the answer to that question………as well as countless other similar moral conundrums afflicting humanity…..including disincentivizing vote fraud…(as well as falsely claimed vote fraud….and subsequent Empire interference “Regime Change”………………..using fake charges of fraud…………….is a resounding “YES!!”
Cheers!
If in as you say “what if”, I say if it were to occur, it would have occurred by now. The fact that it hasn’t only suggests that it simply cant, it is to entrenched to be changed, the problems are too deep to be solved, they will just be continually debated by those who thrive to debate just for debates sake.
As for crypto, it is not the means to my end so I have brought it to my logical conclusion and moved on to fight the fraud that invades my world, and if that trickles down to society, so be it, if not, no big deal, b/c me and mine are not affected beyond what we can control.
Cheers indeed, for there is so much to do and plenty of time to do it, qualified people on the other hand, not so much.
Amazing depths of illogic, down there in Home Sweet Home, Alabama:
“If “A” has not already happened…………….it can’t happen!
Maybe not in your mind, sir.
But please bear ONE thing in mind:
Your mind is NOT the Center of the Universe…………and contrary to your prejudice………….the Universe and what created it (which wonder ought to give you a clue, but apparently hasn’t yet………….LOL) has creative capacity …..for new, never before encountered expressions and realizations of creativity within it.….and all of its parts…………..including your mind…even as you reject that notion, and encapsulate ideas into dead specimens in jars of your meaningless labelling……….such as “crypto” (What the hell does that mean??? Do you realize it has at least a slightly different meaning…..producing an enormous gulf in differences in meaning between Dr Wright …… a deep understanding, or amarynth…a different understanding…..than Wright’s OR yours!!!! …… or my own….yet another understanding and yourself……ZERO understanding ………besides…..”Not ME” ergo “I have no desire to understand anything further!”
WOW. Thank you for the absolutely stunning example of Solipsism In Action!
On the contrary. It has affected your life marginally (caused the daft utterance: “If something doesn’t already exist…then it can’t exist in the future!” and has also caused my response which now a few hundred other people might or might not observe and think about …or not think about….and either discover something new…..OR more likely (I fully realize this!) continue plodding uncreatively along on as ever before…until new situations are created around them….and NOT by them.
Such as, quite possibly: Honest Money due to the invention of an Immutable Permanent & Public Ledger
“Impossible!”, you say????
Stick around a few more years….and then let’s compare notes, shall we???
Same Old Same Old Same Old Same Old
New Creation Never Seen Before??? Impossible!
Thanks for the chuckles that should last most of today!.
-My comment: or in other words, no one has a clue where the trillions are going.
It cannot be that easy to hide $21-$43 trillion. It is 60-120 times Israel’s GDP.
Just look at those who have 1000 cars … and you know something is not right ;)
My guess
-Space programs, like carrier size spaceships
-Underground contructions
(One doesn’t need $1 trillion for a color revolution. $5,000 million is good enough.
$21 trillion -> Color revolution in 4200 nations?)
Around 2014/2015 the term “Secret Space Program” came into common usage. This actually came from Catherine Austin Fitts, who said she cannot figure out where on this earth the money is … they must be sending it off-planet.
Then during those years, 2 or 3 very good annual secret space program conferences were held, with CAF, Dr Farrell, Dark Journalist, Linda Moulton Howe, many many others – excellent quality work. And then, some nonsense peddlers stole the term, much of the work from these researchers and others and tried to trademark the term as their own. The alternative research community around this came into uproar and the fallout of this is still continuing today – but they never managed to register or TM that term for them.
Attila Jozsef
Lullaby (Altato) – 1935
The sky is letting its blue eyes close;
The house its many eyes closes, too.
The quilted meadow lies in a doze:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
The wasp and beetle are both asleep;
Their heads are down on their feet, and through
Darkness, a drone in the dark they keep:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
The tram has fallen asleep as well,
And while its rattling slumbers, too.
It tings in its sleep a little bell:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
The coat is sleeping across the chair,
The tear is sleeping where it’s worn through;
No more to-day will it stretch the tear:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
The ball and whistle are both at rest.
So is the wood where the picnic grew.
Even your sweets by sleep are possessed:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
All will be yours in the crystal ball;
You’ll be a giant, it will come true;
But just let your little eyelids fall:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
A fireman, soldier, herder of sheep,
You’ll be all three, and each will be you.
See, your mother is falling asleep:
Go to sleep softly, little one, do.
Translated by Vernon Watkins
Attila Jozsef – Biography
https://www.wikizeroo.org/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvQXR0aWxhX0rDs3pzZWY
Photos: US Armored Carrier Catches Fire Amid NATO Show of Strength Against Russia
https://sputniknews.com/military/202001221078107552-photos-us-armored-carrier-catches-fire-amid-nato-show-of-strength-against-russia-/
“A total of four fire brigades – WSP Bemowo Piskie, OSP Drygały, OSP Orzysz and JRG Pisz – descended on the northern Polish village on Saturday after a US Army Stryker’s engine fire caused troops to halt their ongoing mission, according to UK-based outlet Defence Blog.
Task & Purpose noted that the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, originally headquartered in Germany’s Rose Barracks, was participating in the Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) mission which kicked off earlier this month.
The mission, which came about as a response to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, is intended to demonstrate the “strength of the transatlantic bond” with forces led by the UK, Canada, Germany and the US. NATO asserted on its website that the operation makes it “clear that an attack on one Ally would be considered an attack on the whole Alliance.”
The Gods (meant in a neutral gender, bugger off zionazi psywar critters) work in not so mysterious ways. ;-D
Now, this might be fun.
Lawyers of Ghislaine Maxwell have filed a complaint that her e-mail account was hacked shortly after in some legal document this address was made public: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7919155/Ghislaine-Maxwells-personal-emails-HACKED-leaked.html
(I know, it’s the Daily Fail, but the original document is embedded).
Now, one would think that the Clintons are already sweating, but I wonder.
Remember the hacked e-mail account of John Podesta of the DNC? Wikileaks has published them. There was some amazing dirt among it.
Let me give a simplified summary of some dirt, distributed over many mails.
Remember the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010? The Clintons went there, to ‘help’. Billy was supposed to to the lobbying for investments: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid
However, that comes at a price: Billy wanted lucrative mining contracts for his ‘friends’.
Hillary was busy negotiating with an orphanage to *buy* (I’ve read the negotiating mails) young kids. Well, what do you think they were supposed for?
Some people tried to smuggle them out of the country, but were caught and thrown in jail. Yes, in Haiti they can do that. In the USA this is ‘complicated’.
Was there outrage? Well, maybe I missed it.
I don’t think much will happen. This rhino-legged Jezebel will still be around when the sun has already died.
Cheers, Rob
More astonishingly bad behaviour from the Idiot in Cheif’s administration…I quote from CJ’s article…
“WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson gave a brief statement to the press after the latest court hearing for Julian Assange’s extradition case in London today, saying the Trump administration is arguing that the First Amendment of the US Constitution doesn’t provide press freedom protection to foreign nationals like Assange.”
and that goes along with what Fatboy said in 2017 as CIA director…
“Julian Assange has no First Amendment freedoms. He’s sitting in an embassy in London. He’s not a U.S. citizen,” Pompeo told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
That, like nearly every sound which emits from Pompeo’s amorphous face, was a lie. The First Amendment is not a set of special free speech privileges that the US government magnanimously bestows upon a few select individuals, it’s a limitation placed upon the US government’s ability to restrict rights that all persons everywhere are assumed to have.”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/23/wikileaks-editor-us-is-saying-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-foreigners-in-assange-case/
YCHMTSU
Col
That only serves to demonstrate the monstruous activities of the US government and the representatives such as Mike Pompeo a totally false person such as the government he then serves.
Every individual in the world has the freedom of speach. Wikileaks being based in Switzerland and Iceland have also strong protection for freedom of speech as well as other individual rights, so has the UK. USA has to regard the freedoms of international treaties and sovereign nations as well as the constitution of the USA.
UN declaration of human rights – Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
A person in the USA has the basic rights of the constitution. Citizenship are only required for holding office (government) those are special requirement. At the time of the constitution people did not have a citizenship of the United States, everyone were considered we the people, that applies for the fundamental rights or the rights of the constitution. It is the law of the land that applies. I don’t consider now lawful actions and laws by the government that has termed people illegals, procedures for lawful entry and stay and so on, but that is another matter and does not apply to the question here.
John
Absolutely…Fatboy is nothing more than an obscene dangerous thug.
In the position he holds he is undoubtedly the single most dangerous man on the planet. He continually gambles with the very survival of humanity. The truly scary part is that along with Pence he is a foaming at the mouth rapturist. They believe that whenever they toss the coin, heads or tails they win either way because this is their divinely bestowed destiny.
Two out of three of the most powerful offices in the US are held by these rapturist nutjobs.
These lunatics are Trump appointees. This fact alone proves the Deep State has Trump exactly where they want him. An even grimmer scenario that we need to be mindful of is that the situation would be even more dangerous if something happened to Trump and Pence became Potus.
YCHMTSU
Col
Col.
Yes, that is what we are dealing with. And there is no alternative. I wonder if that is not the great deception,
a great distraction while other things happen right before our very nose. Look at what is happening that
integrate Greta Thunberg, who no person in their right mind would chose to lead anything, has become a
propaganda tool and claimed leader they now use to implement old nazi ideologi for the whole world.
It is totally undemocratic and outside democratic control , as there are no real democracies since we
are not taking part in decisions any more.
UN is converging on the (private ) World Economic Forum which is Rockefeller Foundation, and known to gather world elite politicians being fed the program. There is a new world programme, perhaps
that is what we should worry of as all the other distractions keep coming. I see the program as nazi ideology
and they are implementing it through all companies it is a requirement also for all stakeholders.
Come to think of it..
Assasination of gen Soleimani . Military operation.
Assasination of ceo Assange. Civilian (covert) operation.
They are more or less the same activities, remove any opposition and have no accountability, disregarding any international law, human rights, and so on.
My Trip to Germany ~ How Multiculturalism Ruins Tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkdSWJn-nwk
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
Seems speculation here at the cafe that coronavirus looked like a bio-weapon may not be too far fetched.
Also. Well done on locating it in Wuhan. Evidently one of the mega-hubs of Chinese transport.