2020/01/24 01:30:01
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where is everybody?
would especially like to hear from Isabella; and you other guys ‘course.
The astonishing effrontery of death threats toward Soliemani’s successor as the new normal is revelatory , self declaring by these gangster-thugs of their total disrespect for all bodies of law, decency, humanity in general. it might as well be stated as a challenge to the entire world to try and stop us. I can’t see how sensible senior military staff can evade the responsibility of calling this what it is. Some of the quieter ones, however deluded about empire v. security,must recognize the outrage unfolding. And some do care about “their boys” in that military mental framework.
IMO what we are viewing in slow motion is a climax of the showdown, desperate ziobankster-mic cabal v. Everybody;everybody!: workers, yes, managers, their very minions, the old and the young and yet unborn.This fight can no longer be postponed.
Just sayin’
Still here highplains.
Doing more reading into Cultural Hegemony and how it impacts on sense of identity, and how this destroys so much of a people and each person displaying it.
Thank you for your query – will let you know when the piece is finished!!
Cheers Isabella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-W9b-_K_Xo
Tulsi with the indefatigable Dennis.
“Life is the blessing given to you,
To uncover the jewel and discover anew…”
The jewel is the “untapped spiritual potential” within all of us, meaning only that there are still more layers of existence, experience, understanding yet to be discovered by all of us.
“The One to fire the flame of love…” To a Christian, this would be the Christ Consciousness.To a Moslem, Muhammed, etc. It is in fact, the merging of the Light and Sound of God, into a matrix or form recognisable to a particular group or state of consciousness.
A Song as Old as the Hills
Come, all ye sailors of the Cosmic Sea;
Come gather around and listen to me!
I’ll sing you a song as old as the hills,
To bring you along, and give you the chills…
Separation is the illusion one must endure,
Till suffering has made the Soul pure.
When the mind surrenders its measuring rod,
The journey begins to the Heart of God.
A wayfarer, once, far from home;
With a dear companion, set out to roam.
Along the way, the friends would part –
Both were sorely grieved at heart.
That parting, the one, would soon regret;
That which was said, would soon forget.
Till one day he woke, on a strange new shore;
His longing had brought him home once more.
Eons had passed, but the friends met again;
The journey through time had not been in vain!
Life is the Blessing given to you,
To uncover the Jewel and discover anew…
The One to fire the flame of love;
The thunder in the sky above.
The One who promised he’d never part.
The good that dwells within each heart.
Come all ye, seafarers, ye wanderers, bold;
Words are but silver, but silence is gold.
Listen to the sound, singing within;
Listen carefully, beyond the din…
You can hear him in the newborn infant’s cry.
You can see him in the old man’s dying eyes.
He’s the King of Heaven, the Bearer of Grace,
In all things is His Radiant Face!!
I like it!
Brother Blue
Thank you, Brother Blue. I will pare this poem down further, but wanted to post it here in its present form for now.
That goes to heart and mind. Very old motives in new vigor.
love never rests;
softening the hardest hearts,
hardening the soft…
An expression of the Divine to accompany our Vineyard poets
https://youtu.be/HSgwumNnbHk
Sublime! Thank you.
I wish to share an opinion which I also believe provides a key: The Saudis have teamed with Netanyahu to destroy Israel. Before you regurgitate years of CNN/MSM narratives and a geopolitical mish-mash in protest, hear me out…
Why would they want to do that? To manufacture an apocalyptic war that they believe will usher in the anti-christ. Yes, I know this sounds like tin foil hat territory but I see this as is bigger than an oil or natural gas grab. I believe there are layers of cover stories but that this is the objective at their core. Whether you believe it or not is not consequential, but whether or not they do.
These two countries are well known to be not only on the same page as the neocons but also together fund their “think tanks” and donate heavily to their “campaigns” and their “pacts” – the endless warmongers who heavily influence MSM and D.C. – and as a result – US foreign policy in the Middle East. A policy that has continually failed in the Middle East in terms of all stated intentions. Unless those intentions were otherwise…
General Wesley Clark had a hit list of Mid East countries which I believe would have united to oppose this. They have been or are being taken out one by one no matter who the president is. A path is being cleared, not for peace, but for war. A big war. Because if unimpeded by regional players, it will prompt the involvement of global players, and that means a global conflict in short order, a global war with Israel at the center. An apocalypse.
The Saudis are not only anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-Muslim etc. (unless it’s their own brand of Saudi Islam – a denomination called “Wahhabism”), but have a scorched earth policy toward all historical landmarks of all other faiths. This is the antithesis of everything Israel is and stands for. This puts Israel in the Saudi’s cross hairs. And yet Netanyahu’s partners with and defends them. What’s wrong with this picture?
The Saudis denomination of Islam, “Wahhabism” is the most radical version of Islam on earth, the one that is just not the most under reported, but censored throughout western media and politics. Their practitioners are the ones you hear about in the news daily that commit crimes of terrorism, that pillage, plunder and desecrate. When you hear about “jihadists,” in MSM, 9 times out of 10 it’s them, censored by both MSM and D.C. Leaked documentation reveals the Saudis not only indoctrinate them with this denomination of theirs, but also fund and arm them as well. This included the 911 hi-jackers.
These Saudi practitioners and proxies encompass the 31 flavors of Al Qaeda worldwide, which include Isis, al nusra, boka haram, al shabab, the Taliban etc who all were indoctrinated with – and practice – the Saudi denomination of Islam, “Wahhabism.”
They not only want to destroy all religions on earth which is not their own (and “martyr” those people that don’t convert to it), and destroy all physical structures and artifacts that represent any other religion, but destroy all governments and replace them with ones that enforces their version of sharia law. And with guess who running it all afterwards? Them. Remember Saudi Arabia is a theocracy.
And the Saudis crucify Christians there to this day, and also chop off their heads (in Saudi Arabia they use a sword, on the plains of Syria they – Isis – use a knife). It is this theocratic tyrannical infrastructure that I believe will create the basis for the infrastructure poised to be expanded elsewhere in the Middle East. Including Israel. Now that the US is a net exporter of oil, the neocons back up oil cover story for Middle East meddling is losing steam.
The other key is Netanyahu’s cooperation with a country such as the Saudis that include his direct defending of their proxies – the 31 flavors of Al Qaeda (e.g. on the fields of Syria) and treating them (in Israeli hospitals). It is my belief that he is also in on it, as a Cabalistic – so called “Jew”- which, really isn’t Jewish anyway, but all things Cabalistic are also masonic, who have revealed they are luciferian (see Pike).
It is my belief that this key exposes what Netanyahu truly intends for Israel: It’s destruction. And it’s destruction at the hands of the Saudi’s and their proxies which if he gets his way in a run up to an apocalyptic war, will soon surround Israel with the black flags of isis (or other Saudi proxies), confiscating the armaments of the surrounding countries, and posing the greatest danger it has seen. And all with the support of Netanyahu. This is unfortunately what I believe is in store for Israel if Netanyahu and his buddies the Saudis get their way in the Middle East.
Not sure if I want to bite, but eminence grise Henry Kissinger has in the past 2012, 2013(?) casually mentioned that in ten years Israel will no longer exist. So what happens if there is global economic collapse? The current arrangement, having a society built on wealth transfers from the US can only go on so long. On the side, it is interesting to note the author Nick Kollerstrom lists Netanyahoo in Who Did 9/11: a view from across the pond as a “visible architect.”
As for Wahhabism, I suppose unreliable Wikipedia will do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Mr._Hempher,_The_British_Spy_to_the_Middle_East
Here’s a good article about ideology that seems relevant that I’ve been wanting to post: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/no_author/the-geopolitics-of-epistemological-warfare-from-babylon-to-neocon/
The scam will continue, but will change venues.
“Major crowds have gathered in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to denounce US military presence in the country after the US assassinated Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was second-in-command of the Iraq’s PMU, in Baghdad earlier this month.
Iraq’s al-Ahd news network reported on Friday that Iraqis from “all of the country’s provinces” have gathered in the city.
The protesters were seen carrying banners and chanting slogans calling for the expulsion of US forces.”
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/24/616953/Baghdad-anti-US-rally
Regarding the dangerous US policies in the Middle East and the dangerous escalation by the US assasination of iraqi PMU Kata’eb Hezbollah Abu Mahdi al Muhandis and iranian lt general Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, there has been a steady escalation in US government since George H. W. Bush declared war on everyone according to their “national interests” which has been proven to run their military for economic gains by robbing or otherwise destroying other nations they hold in contempt.
The war on terror was such a grand deception scheme. While working under cover secretly creating organisations like al Qaeda, their agents using al Qaeda and the name of its leader Osama bin Laden to create the false flag attack known as 9/11. It is very unclear whether Osama bin Laden even was aware of the greater plans created for his organisation and in his name. On the contrary some video emerged later that seemed to
indicate that he was made aware of the attacks and then had to claim some enthusiasm for not offending his visitors. It is also very hard to determine whether even this was false videos. US had agents fluent in arabic in Afghanistan producing fake videos. It is known that Barack Obama later president of USA was a CIA agent that visited Pakistan and that he was a fluent arabic speaker and even known as a muslim while beinb brought up in Indonesia by a CIA family. Since that time it is hard to know even who Barack Obama is. Source: Wayne Madsen, the CIA placement of Barack Obama in the White House in “The Manufacturing of a President. The CIA’s insertion of Barack H. Obama Jr. into the White House”.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/wayne-madsen/the-manufacturing-of-a-president/paperback/product-21612385.html?showPreview=true
There are therefore reasons behind the total collapse of international politics and the situation in the Middle East growing out of hand evolving into outright assasinations of national leaders that has resisted US occupation and politics. George W. Bush was right when he said that the terrorists planned to attack, but he did not mention that they were the terrorists at that time having developed al Qaeda, and at this time hugely expanded its forces and created IS as well.
Now, those fighting al Qaeda and IS has become the natural enemy of the United States. And the UN fail to act as also the UN charter has been violated. The control of these organisations have fallen under the same US umbrella. And that umbrella is not created for the american people, but for another national interests, the interest of world domination through economic and poltical dictatorship in which financial interests and those of the corporations are given the ability to rob the world of its resources on a grand scale and insert its corrupt leadership into other nations.
The UN at last had a session, not regarding the dangerous and illegal attacks on Iran, but on the Middle East. Iran was allowed to take part on day 2 and was among the latest speakers. The UN web TV instead covers a private conference in Davos by such corporations I earlier mentioned robbing nations, Rockefeller Foundation World Economic Forum.
http://webtv.un.org/search?term=Davos&lan=english&cat=&sort=date
Total coverage into LIve UN web TV of a conference that is private and nevertheless plan a nazi governance through corporations demanding social responsibility down to individual level and social stakeholder responsibilities. Using children as propaganda under just liek the earlier german nazism, using climate change agenda as the earlier Club of Rome agenda (Rockefeller) Limits to Growth ideology fronted by Club of Rome member Gro Harlem Brundtland in the UN made its front.
The UN Security Council meeting must be searched for the actual date, it is hidden from view totally replaced by a Davos private conference.
http://webtv.un.org/search?term=Security+Council+Meeting+Jan+22&submit=Search
So we can find Iran being able to comment on the situation in the Middle East on what was primarily on the situtation in Palestine, on day 2 among the last speakers at around 2:39:40. That which is a situation for the UN Security Council prevention of war, referring of warcrimes, was not on the agenda.
That is the current state of world affairs and democracy. It is not present and everythin is a delusion. The terrorist that George W. Bush declared war on are his own developed into myriad forms and even detached from the USA afterwards but clearly developed by them and all over the world. Now they (USA) represent the danger of world peace while having developed politics that exclude democracy to counter it , on the contrary developing dangerous nazi ideologi, propaganda and their tools.
For those that still stand with Julian Assange, things have changed. Follow here on Caitlin Johnstone’s blog and listen to the video from Hrafnsson that Caitlin links there. Astounding stuff.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/23/wikileaks-editor-us-is-saying-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-foreigners-in-assange-case/
Again, this shows the tactics of the current empire of which the US is standard bearer. Claiming long arm of the law jurisdiction, but not giving basic protections that all of that entails. Different rules they claim for themselves and are willing to extend to others. This is why they kill leaders of other countries.
USA is clearly a rogue state by now implementing dangerous ideologies and practices replacing the clear thinking of freedom and safety for people by creating a form of government that beyound that framework were to be controlled. A United States standing army were seen as a threat to people, freedom and safety. A militia of the people of the several states were to be the defense. And a never changeable right to bear arms. That is the constittution of the United States. As we see how far away the government has evolved into a fascist superstate closely resembling any dictatorship in the worlds history consisting also of the individuals forming that government and congress to be brainwashed totally insane partakers of the madness, indeed driving it forward as if where great work for the people they claim to represent while actually admitting that people dont know so they cannot possibly interfere in politics. Everything is thus false and dangerously constructed to be false serving only other purposes than a reasonable government creating safety and freedom, taking away the safety and freedom every step of the way while loudly hailing its achievements.
Journalists are now a part of the enemy picture of the United States, indeed the very enemy that they are free to go to war against. And that is not as a matter of speech, but really assigning the status of unlawful combattant and terrorists to journalists are part of the Pentagon War manual. If I remember correctly since the Ukraine war on the russian people of Donbass in Ukraine where Rand Corp. had produced a Pentagon manual for the conflict where the Ukraine state and NATO trained nazi forces attacked the civilian population of Donbass, the airforce dropping illegal phosphor bombs over the villages and towns wherafter the armies entered and shot everyone out in the street that protested, and then took everyone prisoners. That is the planned the use of concentration camps for the population separation of women and children and possible combattants all men, and later journalists were included as combattants for reporting on the illegal war.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ethnic-and-cultural-cleansing-in-ukraine/5387539
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/us-think-tank-plan-on-e-ukraine-suggests-genocide-and-concentration-camps.322396/
The extremist government of USA are delusional, and the mass delusion is spread internally via online media such as social network that filter and spread exponentially their own praise and base every article on that. This created the need for censorship of evil truths which they have implemented to avoid doubts . It has been demanded that also people in general must be “protected” from the truth so that general censorship was implemented as well by using full scope of internet platform of course creating only greater understanding for people and governments not under mass delusion from the expanding mass of material, which is however growing very large and USA has a large alliance including NATO to spread it so a general virus warning is recommended at this point.
https://shadowproof.com/2015/08/10/pentagon-war-manual-gives-military-license-to-target-attack-journalists/
So Julian Assange is no doubt a victim of war, a war that is beyonnd anything we have seen so far, and is illegally held. None of the US rulings are legal, they are merely unlawful like the (amended) constitution points out:
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
Some of these restrictive clauses are :
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The response of the delusional government has been to make journalism an act of war, employ the US army on against the people in the exercise Jade Helm (AI warfare), it was even reported that Barack Obama had passed a law that authorized the use of the US airforce against the people possibly because it involve drone warfare and are considered difficult to defend against .
Top comment John!!
Assange is now out of solitary confinement and in a section of Belmarsh with 40 prisoners or so.
Other prisoners agitated on his behalf, saying that his treatment is punitive. On this linked tweet is a short statement.
https://twitter.com/DEAcampaign/status/1220708757702877186
Greetings to you amarynth
I hate to say it but I smell a very big fat…weasel.
TPTB want Assange dead not merely indefinitely incarcerated.
What better way than to contrive a plot where a prisoner does away with him for them. I am sure if they wave enough coin around someone amongst this group of alleged dregs and cut-throats will only too willingly put their hand up.
The successful volunteer will also be pronounced dead but will in fact be very much alive, given a new identity and then whisked away to some faraway paradise where he will spend the rest of his life in luxury. Or they could simply just double-cross him. Having him die in the skirmish would be even easier and absolutely guarantee that he won’t tell any tales in the future.
A phrase coined in the TV program “The Blackadder” springs to mind…
…” a plot so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel”
Man do I hope I’m wrong!
Col
Home’s where the heart is
The place of warm refuge
Where fires rhythm beats
Where thinking’s intuition
Lights up a concentrated
Homework on all matters.
where thoughts are flying,
unlimited and free
nobody can crush them
there’s my home to be.
I shall keep
my heart among the stars,
where none shall hunt it out…
There’s nothing like a Good Argument in the Morning To Get You Going!
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It’s better than Caffeine!
Thank you, Alabama!
Last day of this week’s training. Anxious to catch up with other arguers’ arguments in the last Cafe, who I’ve unfortunately had to neglect for a few days!
I’ll be back!
Corruption is the name of the game in the us but no surprise-index number now lowest in eight years:
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/01/jamie-dimon-gets-31-5-million-pay-despite-banks-criminal-charges-as-u-s-slides-below-uruguay-on-corruption-index/
Pigs feeding at the trough, getting theirs in huge amounts.
Putin returns fallen cap to member of Palestinian honor guard during Bethlehem visit (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/479112-putin-palestine-honor-guard/
https://twitter.com/hamada_najar/status/1220682697548451846
it is grizzly and evil those deeds in this thread, but it gather the uk/us war crimes in Iraq in 1 thread so it is easy to find when “needed”.
It dont belong in the news feed imo, so i try to post it here instead.
https://twitter.com/Hakicat/status/1114222947869384704
Fairly good summary of the Davos charade and the bellowing and bragging of our circus barker, trump:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/david-stockman/davos-man-bastard-progeny-of-keynesian-central-bankers/
This is an important article that debunks the “justification” of the murder of the Iranian general because pomp and bolton succeeded in categorizing the republican guard as a terrorist org-it was murder and should be subject to criminal code.
https://www.sott.net/article/427945-Ex-CIA-lawyer-says-Soleimani-hit-is-a-homicide-under-US-criminal-law
Also, declaring someone a terrorist is another warcrime in this case, the planning of a crime started with totally unsubstansiated claims of unilateral nature . It is very clear that neither lt. gen. Soleimani nor the IRCG are terrorists, nor are the iraqi forces of PMU, they are part of the iraqi army as IRCG are part of the iranian army. So this naming of terrorist in advance only serve to make the case more serious, a premeditated murder, the act of agression (see Roma Statutes amendment), a warcrime (Roma Statutes) that was planned in advance. And now the seriousness of this behaviour has come to light even more, they are threatening to murder representatives of other nations they dont get along with, as a deterrence. No, morons, that is not a deterrence.
John…absolutely!
Until we start locking them up, and throwing away the key, the likes of the Bushes, Blairs, Clintons, Boltons, Pompeos and now Trumps, to name only the tip of the iceberg… the mass murders will continue.
To date, the West continually rewards these obscene mob-like murderers in high office with unimaginable wealth and yet locks up or victimizes humanities heroes who have the courage to question and to expose these crimes. [Assange, Snowden, Manning, Greenwald, etc]. Talk about a totally arse about face justice system!
Trump in all his bumbling idiocy has completely removed what few shrouds hid this type of outrageous murderous behavior. He now openly brags about his crimes…mind you so too did Obomber, but just in an ever so slightly more refrained way. Indeed the trend in the US is ‘exceptionally’ grim…what sort of a bludgeon wielding lunatic will we see next?
The West no longer has any notion of a moral compass. This instrument now lies shattered on the floor. Although it is already broken ruble, the plutocracy continues to club it into ever-smaller splinters by the day.
The particularly repulsive aspect of this is not only that Trump and Pompeo flail their weapons on such a massive global scale, but that they do so with such unashamed glee and with an absolutely undisguised self-congratulatory swagger.
YCHMTSU
Col
Would you, could you, Colonel, recalculate if Pompeo were to join Bolton, as among the many hired…..then dismissed….by Orangeman?
Or would you merely be momentarily shocked?
I regret ANY killing.
Wouldn’t it be better to “communicate” some other way???
Consider:
Cain and Abel.
Stalin and Trotsky!
Now there’s one that might be more justified, eh? Considering what Leon’s globalist plans were………… on behalf of London and Wall Street! And the danger to Russia, which he evidently intended to use…for their (the bankers’) and his own personal agenda, primarily…with little regard for Russians as a people….in contrast to Stalin who was not incapable of either killing or of surviving many, many life and death “choices”….and while we were indoctrinated by monster tales…… my wife, for example..from the Soviet System.regards him…quite positively!
One mistake is to overcomplicate a puzzle, a strategic problem, missing the essential factors for less critical ones that one is directed to internally mostly by ones “passions” or interests….or prior prejudices.
Another mistake is to allow fear, typically introduced, by an outside agent such as Greta’s controllers or those hiding in the shadows who patent viruses along with vaccines that they propose can “save” you…… but are actually intended to biologically program you…. or increase the political narrative control of those Nazis who love this sort of thing. Epstein’s crowd.
But the most common mistake is to oversimplify very complex problems and jump prematurely to false or woefully incomplete conclusions , based on prior prejudice or impatience….. or simply brain strain….and most commonly of all, a gregarious tendency of the typical person to want to fit in comfortably “down at the pub”…….er Cafe……. with his “mates”….as soon as possible…and settle in for an enjoyable time.
For starters, with Trump, there is far, far too much unknown in too many areas for me to be on board the Trump Train 1000 or even 90%…………
However, for the one to be not even remotely capable of considering being 10 or 20 % on board for a short leg of the journey, for something of the highest immediate urgency (defeat of Hitlery, Brennan, Clapper etc) OR possible taking down of the Fed for generational benefits that might accrue from that Trumpian tendency for possibly a century to come…….OR dismantling NATO…….indicates to me people in over their heads…..in treacherous cross currents……unable to cope with the complexity of the problem confronting their awareness and computational power….and endurance….to balance and prioritize……just far too much diverse and contradictory and confusing input………… at one time.
But if they are at least trying, and at least exercising that overwhelmed calculational capacity honestly (it is the most common conundrum all of us face, whether we admit it or not…but the more intellectually honest ADMIT IT…REGULARLY….and ..say, “I don’t know! I’m reserving judgment on that until I have more data….” and then patiently proceed.to collect said data…..confirmatory OR contradictory to one’s initial always incomplete…in fact forever incompletable (100%) assessment … in which case……”It’s All Good!”
Or at least infinitely better than the far, far greater majority rejecting ANY engagement against any organized evil, EVER…..even once in their entire lives.. LOL.
So, on the virus that has so many rightfully suspicious antennae tingling, why don’t we at least begin to inquire where Orangeman fits into THAT …..additional, NEW scenario???
And, one way or the other ultimately, combined with a flurry of other swirling factors…….”let the chips fall where they may”.
On that score, y’all may have more, but I at least have this, from last night:
https://youtu.be/I-d_4Gt7zTE?t=1221 just a few seconds Trump’s tweet about Corona Containment by Xi, thanking him…………
But you might want to briefly consider, (for a few moments…or days …or years..;.or whatever your attention span can handle…..) out of the corner of your eye, your peripheral vision the remainder of the much, much wider context Dave puts those few seconds into.
It’s ALL got to fit……..in one coherent strategic context………..no matter how long it takes.
!00% completion is not possible and is therefore not the realistically attainable goal.
Elimination of all critical errors of inconsistency and ranking issues in their correct priority of capacity to determine the most beneficial outcome for the greatest portion of humanity…IS possible…and must therefore be the objective…….overriding all others.
Bro, you sound uhm … what can I call it without being toooo truthful? You sound very confused. Over complication, oOver simplification, 20% on board (which part hangs off board then?), virus, peripheral vision, onfirmatory, contradictory … and so we go. Trump said thanks to Xi – for what? Do we have to break out into song and poetry? (Well, the poets have already done that here in our world in the cafe)
It truly sounds that you have to exercise your overwhelmed calculational capacity honestly and admit – We have enough data. It is not the Brits, it is not the Chinese, it is not the Russians, it is the USA that needs to become a normal country and stop killing people via kinetic or economic means. And then we can sit down and pick up the pieces. Trump is failing. You better pick up the slack, and the other good folks in that country.
Great…our self-appointed tutor, sort of a bit like a modern-day Nostradamus has every one of our collective shortcomings worked out! WTF would we be without him? Well, absolutely no doubt about it… in an even worse pickle.
Of course with my limited grasp of the real situation, I really struggle so I need all the help I can get. Probably the fact that I am only a farmer doesn’t help much either.
I have to say I do find many of the ‘quatrains’ a tad challenging to wrap my head around. So often they appear to me to have multiple meanings depending on how you attempt to decipher them…I will just bumble along anyway and do the best I can.
All I can do really is keep reading and learning and aspire to become as informed and learned as ‘Nostradamus 93’ and try not to get too much egg on my face along the way. No doubt my “attention span” will be severely challenged…but of course you do tend to get that on the big jobs.
Here goes then I’ll give it a whirl
Col
Nostradamus 93
you said…”Would you, could you, Colonel, recalculate if Pompeo were to join Bolton, as among the many hired…..then dismissed….by Orangeman?”
Well actually now that you mention it…no I wouldn’t…not significantly.
As despicable as Tony Pompeo is, getting rid of him would be only the tip of the iceberg. Not a lot would change. Trump would still be surrounded by numerous swamp creatures anyway… not only as ‘advisers’ but knee-deep in his swamp pit…oh meant to say cabinet… as well.
As I have stated on The Saker numerous times before…be very careful what you wish for when it comes to changes in high office in Warshington. Yes admittedly, it is very hard to imagine anyone more incompetent and warmongerish than Fatboy as SOS. However, the sad reality is that there is always a substantial line-up of certifiable psychopaths and lunatics perpetually waiting in the wings. Anyone of these would absolutely jump at the opportunity.
Judging by Trump’s past picks I wouldn’t get too excited
Colonel
Col, yes, “senators” cotton or rubio standing in the wings.
“Hold the Line”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdzRrzFeLU
Kent
Attila Jozsef
Mother. (Mama) – 1934
For a week now, again and again,
Thoughts of my mother have racked my brain.
Gripping a basket of washing fast,
On, and up to the attic she passed.
And I was frank and released my feeling
In stamps and yells to bring down the ceiling.
Let someone else have the bulging jackets,
Let her take me with her up to the attic.
She just, giving me no look or thrashing,
Went on, and in silence spread out the washing,
And the kneaded clothes, rustling brightly,
Were twisting and billowing up lightly.
I should not have cried but it’s too late for this.
Now I can see what a giant she is.
Across the sky her grey hair flickers through;
In the sky’s waters she is dissolving blue.
Translated by Vernon Watkins
The cudgel of Russia – Fedor Chaliapin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uAO0-PlsQ
Nikolaevsky Choir
Album Songs of Russian Revolutions
The Earth is the blacksmith workshop, the battlefield for souls. It is the central stage of action, it is not our permanent Home. It couldn’t be, that would be the greatest and ugliest joke ever. However, the blue planet is beautiful, it is almost a perfect world and there lies the attraction…despite being doomed to putrefaction. If there are inequalities during lifetime, the end station is equal for all. However, it is hard to comprehend why all the living creatures on this planet have to suffer. As far as I understand, there is no way that the so called karma is equally applied for a bee or a rose. By the way, karma simply means tit for tat, how this applies for a flea, I have no idea but even for humans, this is catch 22, a no way out, a twilight zone, where one can wait for long until “liberation”. If you come back for reciving the tat, you may provoke another tit…and that could continue. People always had the tendency to search for explanation, as an ardent necessity to find out the truth but no, there is silence, therefore we believe or not our own made logic, based on our experience or on others. I don’t know how long will continue this masquarade but I, for sure, have enough. I had enough in counting the losses, I had enough in licking my wounds, I had enough of being a good boy for someone and being the bad boy for other, I had enough on witnessing the sufferings, I feel ultra saturated wih deceptions and lyings. If there is a need for revolution, that would be up there on the gods level who created all this mess, letting people and every living creatures in a limbo, hiding themselves behing darkness and silence. “Patience, my boy” – I hear (or imagine) they are saying.
And so it goes, until the kid in me asleep forever. Then I wake up, or decide to go with him.
The above lines were written by me, ioan
Very profound, my friend. Likewise, the body ( earth ) is the battlefield between the soul and mind. The mind can never win. It can delay victory, however, for a very, very long time, and does.
Of course they were written by you ioan, who else, and you, and all else, don’t forget when facing despair or exhaustion saturation point, it is said : “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are Gods” ’?
(John 10.35)
Very heartfelt, ioan dear friend
‘If there are inequalities during lifetime, the end station is equal for all’ is very very very true…
but I think you are still on ‘earth’ and experience as ‘human’ when you lament that…
Try that when you are ‘off-earth’ and ‘beyond human’ find out how you experience differently.
There, dear, notice, there lies the 2 assumption that may have been the stumbling block, the illusion and delusion, of you have written experience here.
What if, there is no karma? Or, karma is but a dream? Who died? Who suffered?
Can anyone die and suffer in a dream?
What if, karma does not count for anything? There is no records, EVER! Who’s counting?
Just to encourage you to continue with your spirit or spiritual journey :)
There is so much more than meet the eyes (your current filters).
What do you see when you close your eyes?
Peace :)
@Can anyone die and suffer in a dream?
Sure they can, as a child I had these occur.
When one dreams they are falling from a high place, but just before you hit the ground you wake up suddenly to realize it was just a dream.
Someone then quoted, what happens when you don’t wake up?
Well, you die.
Its not that black and white :-) There are many more ways that such a dream can either manifest, or become something different. You can dream right on and dream you die and later on, wake up and realize you did not. Or, you can wake up in hospital having really broken your head falling off the bed. It is not a must to die in those circumstances – dreams are strange.
Thank you both Alabama and amarynth :)
Both of you are higher paygrade and the general public
If one is trained, and one can be trained, implying it is a learned skill,
there are many things and magic, can be done in the dream
Then there are those who are ‘natural born’
Just to ‘disagree’ w you – what happens when you don’t wake up?
Well, you dont die, you just continue to live in the world of of dreams :)
Like the movie, Inception! Must be REAL! Ha :D
Maybe you’re right but hopefully the synchronicity will work positively and we will continue living in our best dream. Remains to be seen how we can contact other dreamers in that realm, persons with which we had a good relationship.
ioan
There are ways to set up meetings in the dream state. It begins by visualisation. You may request such a meeting of your teacher/guide. Imagine it occurring over and over with the individual you’d like to see, and surrender the outcome to Divine Will. The initial step needs to be imagining yourself in the company of the loved one. A particular attitude is required, that of detachment, but there needs to be a kind of expectation as well. It’s something you can do, the visualising part, while stating something along the lines of, “Master, I’d like this to occur if it’s at all possible…” before bedtime for example. You need to stay with the exercise awhile.
Continue in dream, from which state we know we can wake up, or continue in coma – which is quite horrible.
A note on dreams of dying… it can be very frightening, should you dream of yr death. It doesnt always mean yr physical death is approaching, however. it may mean that you’re moving into a different state of consciousness, shedding an old skin…
Actually for the most part, I don’t place too much relevance in dreams anymore, nothing in a dream ever came relevant in real life(so far).
But quite a while back I had recurring dream that I never finished my college education and nervously had to go back to school to finish and get my degree. This happened so frequently and for so many years that I actually trained myself to tell my self in my dream, that you did finish college and do have your degree. He then stopped his downloading of that particular dream.
Fascinating personal dream experience! Thank you all!
When I was quite young, under 10, I had a dream I was back in old china times and I was to meet a girl, a love one, forbidden by the state or family or someone, on a bridge somewhere on a secret location. After all the drama and chasing, we finally get to the bridge and was walking toward the middle to meet finally. Then the YUGE crocs came out from nowhere under the bridge and snap it into half and … the dream ended and I woke up pissed (not urinate but angry) Who is that that dares to f*up my dream? So I worked out the details I want in my dream and the following night, as I sleep, I went back to just before meeting at the bridge and I see the girl. I know the crocs are there and ppl were chasing from the back, and I dreamt we leap into each other and raised to the sky, like in legends!
Point is, that surprise me back then, I was able to cue it at the point of meeting at the bridge and start my dream from there on… and roll it according to the script I made up during my waking hours.
Nowadays, I just let the dreams go nturally, except if I have a bad cream, I won’t wake up until I get it ‘sorted out’ in the dream state, to my satisfaction. F*em all- its my dream! But these day I can just go places w/out the body, either through meditation or other options, so dream is one that has less control since its more theatrical by its nature. Still dreams appear to be a special place/state where no other means can ‘portal’ through.
It seems one can do a lot in their dreams… and it can link back or cause an effect back to real life. Question, I later deduce, after decades of soul searching and rational thinking, is, what meaning will you put on it? Maybe, it is truly another place one can have their existence, if one vibrate at that kind of frequencies, and feel just like ‘on earth’.
Good Dreaming, dear friends :)
Opppsss… ‘except if I have a bad cream’
must be (D)reaming of the cream I like in my coffee, which the doc has forbade me :)
“…I was able to cue it at the point of meeting at the bridge and start my dream from there on… and roll it according to the script I made up during my waking hours.”
You’ve given us a perfect example of exactly the right thing to do. We don’t have to accept anything as a foregone conclusion in life. In fact, everything that happens to us we can either approve or reject. You had the presence of mind to change an outcome to something that suited you much better. We don’t have to accept anything in our lives we don’t want.
Someone explain rhis dream last night…..me travelling with other cars in southeast europe on some kind of holiday tour…area bit rough semi derelict run down people struggling etc. Nearly at evening destination but in afternoon stop at run down hostelry for basic cuppa tea or liquid refreshments cake or equivalent….elderly people . Food basic but okay.I decide to go for stretch legs walk bit of fresh air….follow a road for a bit come to a town old streets bridge stream….turn to come back but after a while I know I made a mistake. I have no contact details on my phone to get directions or rendezvous so am a bit helpless. On a stone tablet by the side of a road or lane as a memorial the Battle of Taniot or Taniott. 4 people males again bit poverty stricken in this countryside sitting at a table kind of rough cafe at roadside I ask if anyone speaks english so I can get help…one does and thinks he knows where I need to get back to. Meanwhile in the news is Bulgaria has blockaded or kidnapped the prime minister or president of either Albania or Greece or something so the whole region is very tense and wondering what comes next.
Why do I dream these kind of things….interesting….I suppose it proves my mind is still capable of something. Writing stories?
Ha ha… I’m no expert in dream interpretation, so wouldn’t attempt in the event that I get it wrong, but what we need to look for in our dreams are certain re-occurring symbols, that are unique in their meaning to us. What is occurring in the dream state is the higher self is trying to get a message to the outer self, but what happens along the way is that the mind scrambles the message ( in order to lessen what may be a shock to our outer state of consciousness ). This is the censor in action. Usually, the weirder our dreams the greater extremes the censor is going to to preserve the reality we’re comfortable with out here. Some general symbols may be, a house is our state of consciousness, a car is our body, etc. etc. PS The writing stories suggestion is a good one, and you’ll find that many great writers, artists, inventors etc. have received inspiration/ideas from dream experiences. Dreams are as real as our outer reality, imho, its just another setting, or context for reality. For example, the emotions you experience in a dream are just as real as you may experience “out here”, no…?
Here is a link for those interested that offers further insights into the fascinating world of dreams and the dream state;
https://eckankarblog.org/category/dreams/
JJ nobody can interpret your dream for you for the dream is like a private msg for you – good or bad
What I find interesting is that, you remembered well + in details + in specifics + you even remember speaking English (that means sound projection inside the dream) One more question, do or did you dream in color?
In general, its a lost and trying to find your way home type of dream – could be interpreted as ‘hero journey’
If it still lingers for you, maybe you want to look into it. If its does not, just let it go. If its that important, it will come back, maybe in a different drama scene, but if you are careful in noticing the sequence, it should read similar, then you may want to pay more attention to it.
Just my personal opinion – Also I notice the western dream interpretation and the eastern method can be quite opposing – so again, its only personal to you. Depending on your personal psychic attunement level too, you may be tapping into the larger dream pool, like some dream about 9ONE1 before it happen. Peace
Jordan Parliament passes draft law to ban gas imports from Israel
After being passed by Parliament, motion to halt Israeli gas imports will be referred to cabinet
to be made law.
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/jordan-parliament-passes-draft-law-ban-gas-imports-israel-200119152037559.html
I don’t know much about this source, but what I do know is that anyone that digs into Clinton activities tends to have a seriously compromised life expectancy.
In fact, this phenomenon has even spawned a new word in our ever-evolving English language…ARKANCIDE.
It could well be argued that it is far more infectious than SARS or even Coronavirus and that it is indeed an epidemic for anyone that is that dares to pry.
It is also somewhat unique as a pathogen in that it doesn’t actually kill you directly, but simply acts by compelling you to take your own life.
YCHMTSU
Col
https://truepundit.com/top-fbi-agent-died-after-uncovering-hillary-clinton-funneled-billions-of-tax-dollars-from-state-dept-to-clinton-foundation-and-associates/
Col. I reckon your farmer instincts are probably pretty close to the mark.
Back in 2003 an Aussie scientist pointed out how H1N1 combined swine and avian DNA in a way that could only be possible in a lab…. could not be naturally ocurring. Not too surprisingly, he died suddenly a week later…….
Here is an extract from a Sott.net piece from some years back.
https://www.sott.net/article/375723-Pentagon-Biological-Weapons-Program-Never-Ended-US-Bio-labs-Around-The-World
Why The Pentagon Collects And Studies Bats-
Bats are allegedly the reservoir hosts to the Ebola Virus, 》》Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), 《《 and other deadly diseases.
¿However, the precise ways these viruses are transmitted to humans are currently unknown.¿ Numerous studies have been performed under the DTRA Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in a search for deadly pathogens of military importance in bats. 221 bats were euthanized at the Lugar Center for research purposes in 2014. Bats have been blamed for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa (2014-2016). However, no conclusive evidence of exactly how the virus 'jumped' to humans has ever been provided, which raises suspicions of intentional and not natural infection. Engineering Deadly Viruses is Legal in the US Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first appeared in 2012 and is thought to have originated in bats and spread directly to humans and/or camels. However, like Ebola, the precise ways the virus spreads are unknown. 1,980 cases with 699 deaths caused by MERS-CoV were reported in 15 countries across the world (as of June 2017). © WHO 3 to 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died. MERS-CoV is one of the viruses that have been engineered by the US and studied by the Pentagon, as well as influenza and SARS. Confirmation of this practice is Obama's 2014 temporary ban on government funding for such 'dual-use' research.
》》》The moratorium was lifted in 2017 and experiments have continued. Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) experiments are legal in the US. Such experiments aim to increase the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens.
Clarification.
this reply was intended for Col’s comment on the Wuhan coronavirus further along in the thread.
The Wuhan conronavirus is on everyone’s mind this week. Although it seems outside his area of expertise, I would still like to hear if the Saker has any thoughts on this matter. Is it likely or possibly a biowarfare agent?
Thank you for any response, and please ignore this if it is not relevant or of interest,
Anon
Just me, but this latest outbreak looks dodgy as hell from where I’m standing. Including…
#1 The timing…from more than one point of view.
#2 The location.
#3 The fact that the virus appears to be extremely and very conveniently racist.
#4 In regard to a certain Hegemon the gloves are completely off now in dealing with any perceived or contrived enemy. They no longer bother with mere formalities like declaration’s of war etc… apparently, these are just regarded merely as signs of weakness now. However, they are very inventive and have at least six ways to Sunday to wage war nevertheless.
The above combination of factors strongly suggests to me that these are not “merely unfortunate coincidences”
To quote from the below link…
“As with SARS, this new virus appears to be tightly-focused and race-specific to Chinese. We might in other circumstances pass this off as an unfortunate coincidence but for some major circumstantial events that serve to alter our focus. One of these is the history of American universities and NGOs having come into China in recent years to conduct biological experiments that were so illegal as to leave the Chinese authorities enraged. This was particularly true when it became known that Harvard University had surreptitiously proceeded with experiments in China that had been forbidden by the authorities years earlier, where they collected many hundreds of thousands of Chinese DNA samples and then left the country. ”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-new-coronavirus-an-examination-of-the-facts/5701662
It’s more than obvious this virus outbreak is a tad too convenient. My guess is the zionazi-gays genetically modified the SARS virus and introduced into China through one of their covert ops critter units.
Re: header photo
Nod to Kent and Ioan’s postings. My muses for these musings
Hey! When is the Beloved?
So, the Friend is late
Chairs stacked behind
my fate. Alone . The wait
Fear not ! Beloved knows the date
So relax —hold the line
love isn’t always on time.
A recent fave, in ‘final-edit’ form…
The Cliffhanger
High up above
the valley below,
The cliffhanger hangs
on fingers and toes.
The wind in his hair,
the sun on his face,
His heart held aloft
in the gentlest embrace.
He’s come here to heal,
away from the crowd;
To scale the sheer stone
and cry out aloud.
Love laughs in the day,
and rejoices in light,
But grows in a bed
of pain at night…
High up above,
the valley below,
The cliffhanger hangs,
by finger and toe.
The sun on his face,
the wind in his hair;
His heart held aloft
beyond all despair.
He’s come here to heal
away from the crowd.
To scale the sheer walls,
and cry out aloud…
Ha ha… not sure how this ended up here, lol… it may just fit, however…
Brilliant effort, btw. tera!
Your poetry, Dimitar, is a guiding light !!! versatility of form and verisimilitude of content. thank you.
Thank you so much, for your kind words, Tera. An appropriate analogy to writing poetry came to me after reading your words. It’s not unlike wandering about in a lake where the water is waist high. You can see fish jumping about nearby, further away, everywhere. You know you want to catch one of ’em ( fish equals a poem; they’re so damn slippery ), so you gotta move about slowly in the water. You need to be persistent, very, very patient, and hungry. The more hungry the better. Mostly you need a good pair of hands; rod, bait, nets, etc. etc. all to the writer’s discretion. If you’re hungry enough, you’ll make the effort to catch “a nice one”. PS All who participate in poetry in this Cafe, do their bit in raising the consciousness, or at the very least, pointing out the fact, that all is not gloom and doom, ie; there is another deeper viewpoint, the real viewpoint, as amarynth once pointed out.
… leaving me in a dream
gladly me being awoken out of
masterly scaled like a
beautiful snake
One in Four Americans Say Trump Should be Tried for War Crimes Over Soleimani Killing
https://sputniknews.com/world/202001241078131748-one-in-four-americans-say-trump-should-be-tried-for-war-crimes-over-soleimani-killing/
“Iran announced it will pursue war-crime charges against President Donald Trump at the International Criminal Court in The Hague over the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Do you agree or disagree with such charges?” asked a recent Business Insider poll given to a total of 1,083 Americans.
According to the outlet, a total of 27.4% of those polled believed that Trump should face a war crimes tribunal in The Hague. However, a larger percentage, 35.6%, disagreed with the idea.
A total of 24.8% of respondents said they “neither agree nor disagree” with the tribunal and 12.2% responded “I don’t know.”
What do these figures mean? Roughly 27.4% of business insider readers are probably decent human beings. 24.8% and 12.2% are semi-human/semi-zombie, and 35.6% have exited the human race altogether and are essentially an alien species of parasites, who feed upon humanity.
LOL!
Col
Does anyone remember the first time they felt their body laugh?
John Rappoport has for a long time been the voice in the wilderness against the medical cartel, and Big Pharma. There is probably nobody else in the Western world that has done as much research as he has. And, he paid the price for it many times in his life.
Here he is questioning if this new virus is a covert op.
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/01/22/is-the-new-deadly-china-virus-a-covert-operation/
Here he talks about the history of fake epidemics
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/01/23/china-virus-epidemic-the-gong-show-on-roller-skates/
And here is some history of the people involved in this virus scare
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/01/24/man-who-pushed-sars-dud-now-pushing-new-chinese-virus/
I take no position on this because it is all questionable – this very timely virus.
And now my mind has gone full conspiracy theory :-)
38 infected coronavirus patients CURED in China as epidemic rages on
https://www.rt.com/news/479148-coronavirus-patients-cured-china/
The world’s at blistering war !
Words fly as burning hail
Invisible silver daggers
Shoot through the air-
Take up a weapon !
Blast insolence –
Ridicule and –
Arrogance !
Storm idiocy –
Drain a swamp –
One withering sweep
Of contempt’s fiery words –
And peace will descend again
Soundless onto battles baffled ground …
The US job numbers – this is really funny – only about 40 seconds long .. how Trump’s numbers grow. He truly makes things up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwi7gMHcmI
You believe $110.000 millions in export not much.
“Goods contribute 67%, or $1.7 trillion, to U.S. exports.2 One-third of exported goods are capital goods ($562 billion). The largest sub-category is commercial aircraft ($130 billion). Other capital goods include industrial machines”
US export is $2.600.000 mill by this source. $110.000 million = 4% of export.
If 30% of US jobs depends upon export -> 42 mill jobs depend upon export.
$2.600.000 mill -> 42 mill jobs
$110.000 million -> 1.7 mill jobs ?
I like live music, because it’s direct from performers to audience.
I’ve been to many concerts, some artists I still pity that I haven’t had the chance to hear a concert from (Bruce Springsteen, for example).
But sometimes I hit upon a concert that I got the feeling ‘OMG, I really would like to have been there’.
Let me share such an experience. It’s a concert in Italy by Peter Gabriel from his ‘secret world’ tour. He’s on fire, and his band is fantastic. Besides his year-long buddies David Rhodes on guitar and Tony Levin (‘uncle Tony’) on bass, may I draw attention to vocalist Paula Cole and percussionist Manu Katche.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azas-1zInJ8
Cheers, Rob
Wow. Excellent concert. Thank you.
However sound and picture quality is embarrassingly bad. Pity.
Small contribution as we\re at it (PeterGabriel I mean).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
Kent
I don’t intend to neglect anyone, even if some of you’d prefer that I do so. LOL.
I need to go back to the last Cafe later in the day, and prioritize answering whatever dissonance still echoes there.
Meanwhile there’s this one, this morning for the Colonel, in case he misses it…(as I often do, lacking the opportunity for retracement and review………..):
/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-01-24/#comment-750933
Now, for me at least, a a far, far simpler Puzzle, whose solution I am much, much more confident of, is the one that leaves Alabama in the Cold…..at least this winter….if not forever.
In the last Cafe I did have a bit of early morning time to kindle the fire on that subject…..and later today or tomorrow will still the Crypto Coals to warm him up a bit more than there:
I already gave y’all the link, (in this Cafe, Alabama…..) so probably, it’s on to other campfires for most of this Cafe’s guests.
However, until it is proven that the Cryptoverse has ZERO to do with the Coming Monetary Reset affecting billions of persons (and not merely leaving Alabama and the Nova Scotia Leprechaun COLD…unable to turn over the frozen cerebral engine with that evidently too weak spark…..) I will rekindle my key points….with further fuel for thought..
Later!
Particularly as that Far Simpler Puzzle (for me, at any rate!) is so illustrative as an example of Puzzle Solving that can be applied to most anything else we discuss here, as well. So I’ll use it to address itself….and quite a bit outside of itself……in Microspheres (individual minds) and Macrospheres, alike.
And hopefully, the Answer to THAT puzzle will be more widely grasped …soon enough!
Not so sure of the cold you are referring too, as I have my own timetable when it comes to things of that sort. Many things including time fly by so fast around here that i’m sure I miss a thing or two of relevance to most people, but i’m not most people so I don’t get affected by missing them.
And the puzzle i’m working on takes a lot of time and a ton of money, many lawsuits, and making certain my point gets across even if many fall into denial about it all, and would prefer to not hear from me. But eventually they will as time waits for no one and is not prejudice against anyone either.
Cheers….
Report on alternative methods for treatment of sinus /chest infection:
This year the upper respiratory infection that I usually get came on fast. It was treated with zinc tablets and aggressive Vit C and herbal remedies. But what often happens is that it tries a dive towards the lungs at which point I have to obtain bronchodilator inhalers. This year I have added using the modified Russian space technology lmultipurpose transcutaneous electrical stimulator . I’ve found the asthma/bronchitis points and every 4 hours hit them. I may have to increase the number of times and length of time during each session . Hmmm it seems to be working Effectively on the second day so either I am getting better or my brain is on alert, saying, “oh, you again. Yeah I know, I know the immune system!! Lungs!!! focus !!!Gotcha!!”
Hola T
Can you explain a bit more about this- lmultipurpose transcutaneous electrical stimulator?
k
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My chiropractor turned me on to this and there was a distributer in the USA. Plus one used to be able to order it on Amazon. Vaccines etc.. stuff of the 20th C will be like putting leeches to bleed someone for pneumonia was for the 18th. It is well known that people who had chicken pox as kids never lose their immunity but those who have the vaccines ( no quality control or double blind studies or accountability by the manufacturer) gradually lose immunity and have to be revaccinated. Frequency medicine….banned in the USSA!
Funny you mention that about the pox, I don’t recall being vaccinated, yet never contracted the disease after having been exposed to it again. Something that occurs to people after the pox that is said to be much worse than say contracting it a second time, is the shingles, I understand its a very painful, kinda like cant even sleep on it without excruciating pain.
And since most people contract in their elderly years makes it that much more difficult to deal with, obviously no cure or shot to prevent it, you just have to live through it. I don’t know how it is contracted and am not concerned about it b/c they say first you have to have had the pox, which I never had so didn’t need to inquire about it. As him/her about this critter and see what they say.
Shingles………….I’m a couple of months shy of 73. In my early 60’s I had some pain in the right eye, upper face and scalp. It turned out to be shingles of the “internal” variety. There was little to no surface rash or pustules. It affected my optic nerve and eyeball and gave me a months long headache that NO painkiller touched. A brother in law had it on the left side a year earlier also eye, temple and head. He had a pustule ON HIS EYEBALL! He just wanted to die. I took two nasty shrapnels wounds in Nam in 67′ and multiple broken bones when I was 69′ when a dumb kid on a phone pulled into my path on my motorcycle. Those were NOT as painful as the shingles I had . When you are symptom free for 6 months you can get a shot that curbs recurrence. There is a booster at intervals after that.
I pray it never recurs. It tests your resolve. I did have Chicken Pox when I was young. Still have a “pock” on the tip of my nose.
So the story’s I heard were mostly true, thanks for that reply and confirmation. Were you ever able to determine where the shingles was derived from?
When you get C Pox the virus goes dormant and may or may not re-emerge as “Shingles”. I don’t know what the trigger is. I’ve always been in very good physical condition so I was surprised at the onset of Shingles. It seems that many of the onsets are evident at a person’s midriff area. Again, it can be internal, external, or combo.
The internal at the head has to be the worst. None is fun. Being in good general condition will help in dealing with it and an attitude of “this too shall pass”.
The best treatment, is to not need treatment in the first place, its called preventative maintenance, to prevent a cancer (which is somewhat well known outside the cancer curing industry) is the more prudent path to take, as is preventing sinus/chest infections. This is easily done, just not easily taught as we as Americans are prone to bad behaviors from childhood and taking bad risks (sports for instance) simply as a culture. Its what makes us great and different country’s not so great, until its too late.
So, with that being said, what you would have had to do in your early 20’s, would have been not to engage in sexual behaviors as a child (I know culture wise this is a hard thing to do and except, I mean kids are entitled to this because the parents were entitled, right?), so having grown up right in the first place, the second thing you would start doing in your early 20’s, would have been to try and hold back your sneezes, (i know, another hard thing to try). Do this for say another 30 years until you get to the point that perhaps you simply realize you might be able to sneeze through your nose, (oh yeah, a nearly impossible thing to try you say, except I did it), now after 10 more years of that, you will have reached the point of the bacteria (you know the stuff that feeds off your sinus’s and multiply’s) that causes these symptoms, they then start to be ejected out of your head and once gone, guess what? no sinus problems, its like magic, no moore sickness, colds, down days, you are a free and healthy person at last.
Now, if you did not choose this path of prevention, you are stuck being a guinna pig for the treatment/cure industry and must try all those innovative things that make us what again? Great again yes, as we accept tax free dollars to cure all the illness’s we as humans have found a way to get, but not get rid of for some reason.
So, in order to keep the doctor away, you can eat an apple a day, or sneeze your life away. Yes its really that simple, or not, depending on the path you chose, or was chosen for you.
Good luck humans, and teach your parents well, or find your way to hell.
This is just my personal opinion so just take mine to review.
Corona Virus is possible Chinese Bio Weapon but Chinese lab for some reason like accident or stupid, etc. let the Virus out. If Corona is not Chinese creation, then Chinese scientist cannot develop anti-Virus Corona so quickly.
https://www.rt.com/news/479148-coronavirus-patients-cured-china/
Please just correct me if I’m wrong.
“Please just correct me if I’m wrong.”
Why? You’re doing quite well, though obviously not in the way you intend. :-D
Because I do want to hear other opinion about this and I cannot be right on the matter 100% according to my own knowledge.
Let’s see how YOU would do….as “a member of the jury”….if the Defense team did not discover real grounds for having you removed:
https://youtu.be/qPXP6fGv6aQ Rudy Giuliani common sense Ep. 1: Since no crimes exist, it must be dismissed
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Jan 25, 2020
Rudy recommends that the Republicans Control Their Passions…..as IKE did and McCarthy and his mesmerized minions ….did NOT.
surkov out, Kozak to take over; Pushilin rumoured to be in Moscow.
The CoronaVirus 7
Either the unluckiest of times for it, or the most propitious if it was a deliberate bioweapon used to weaken the Central Government.
Wuhan has the only biolab in China that would be dealing with these kind of viruses.
The timing of the movement of up to 5 million inhabitants on the move, as across the nation, 700 million take to trains and planes and buses to “go home” for the ten day Spring Holiday. The greatest migration each year anywhere on earth.
The virus had a week or two head start, long enough to seed into many carriers and get inside the holiday traffic.
The government has reacted very fast and powerfully to limit the spread, contain the sick and treat all who are critical. They are building two hospitals for the critically affected. Each will be up in less than a week. They did this in Beijing in 2003 for the SARS epidemic.
Understand that China is under attack in a hybrid war and biological warfare is part of the toolkit. Nothing is off limits to damage the social confidence in the CCP and President Xi in particular.
If this was not an outside weapon inserted in Wuhan society, it is a remarkable confluence of coincidences.
The Chinese would be blamed for their weapons lab being a possible source. The spread so wide so fast would be devastating to the happiness of people who could not get to their home town, get to be with family, get to leave for school or return to their jobs, and for those who lose relatives and friends and have to go to funerals instead of parties for the holiday. Tourism and retail sales are pulverized.
The impact of this epidemic harms China’s image with friends and neighbors around the globe. The cost will be tens of billions of dollars immediately and maybe ten times that over time depending on how it spreads and how high the death rate.
If this was not from the outside, but a natural event, it is the worst bad luck. Psychologically, it harms the image of China as a modern, leading edge nation to be a model for other developing countries.
Why would it not be a CIA dirty trick? It’s very hard to accept that it was just bad luck, bad timing, fate.
However, we have to wait for the Chinese final report on this event. It might just have been the risky consumption of some bat or snake or other animal that carried a mutating virus and it transmitted to humans.
Of course, that bat or snake might have been visited by a human from Langley.
I’ve never believed that green monkeys were the source of HIV virus.
After all, that Belgian Congo biolab the US and Belgium operate is still top secret. No one has ever gotten in, seen the records of what experiments were going on, and all lips were sealed all these years.
I always thought that 1+1 =’d 2 and AIDS was deliberately inserted into humans. (Even if green monkeys were on the menu of some people.)
The US has spread dengue fever, swine flu and other pandemics over the decades as a bioweapon in Africa and Latin America. Just ask the Cubans, and why Castro built such a wide and deep corp of doctors and nurses and an outstanding pharma industry.
I just tend to think, after watching the madness and terror the US paid for in Hong Kong, nothing is off the charts for the CIA. Just recall that China caught and terminated over 125 CIA agents in the last few years. They penetrated CIA’s communications and got a trove of names of traitors and agents and killed them all. So, you know Langley is looking for payback.
As a almost 2decade “conspiracy theory nutjob” I am conditioned to question curious and “conveniently timed” events such as this Wuhan “flu”.
Oh.
And there’s this:
https://www.healthpolicy-watch.org/global-health-emergencies-advocate-peter-salama-dies-at-age-51/
I don’t believe in ‘coincidence’, never have. This ‘new’ disease is too convenient and in my opinion is yet another attack on Katai that will cost her quite some billions. The residuals will start later this week, travel bans to begin with. Already, according to US DoS, a charter flight evacuated a number of Americans from Wuhan.
The disease will spread to Russia for sure, so there will then be a travel ban for Russians to EU and US. If the disease really takes hold in Russia, two things will happen. One, it will drive Russia and China closer together to fight this coming ‘epidemic’, read attack, and two, it will cost Russia billions to fight it. Anything that costs either or both countries massive amounts of treasure is never regarded by Foggy Bottom as a bad thing.
How convenient.
Auslander
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10130701/en
North Korea had no plague-related deaths for 500 years until the US started bombing villages with plague infected fleas in 1952.
https://www.sott.net/article/382272-March-1952-US-dropped-plague-infected-fleas-on-North-Korea
Russian genetic material is being harvested all over the country, purposefully and professionally, President Vladimir Putin has said, possibly hinting at the US Air Force's earlier move to acquire Russian tissue samples.
https://www.sott.net/article/366002-Putin-claims-someone-is-harvesting-Russian-bio-samples-for-obscure-purposes-US-Air-Force-admits-to-collecting-genetic-data-for-research
The China National Defence newspaper claims the US military is developing a genetic weapon through a secret R&D; project, with alleged participants claiming that the genes of Chinese, European Caucasians and Arabs are all part of the research. A large number of non-military organizations are also said to be participating in the US gene battle project in the hope of developing drugs and food that will mutate the genetic structure of certain people groups, the paper added.
The report said that the US has already developed actual genetic weapons, such as implanting an African and Middle Eastern virus in ordinary winemaking yeast to pass on various diseases.
https://www.sott.net/article/396115-US-may-be-collecting-Chinese-genes-for-bioweapons-Military-report
^ Just sharing the fruits^ of some lazy, casual Sunday web-surfing.
Ethnic Bioweapons
Ethnic biological weapon (biogenetic weapon) is a theoretical
weapon that aims to primarily harm people of specific ethnicities,
or genotypes.
Although officially the research and development of ethnic bio-
weapons have never been publicly confirmed, documents
show that the US collects biological material from certain ethnic
groups – Russians and Chinese.
The US Air Force has been specifically collecting Russian RNA and
synovial tissue samples, raising fears in Moscow of a covert US
ethnic bio-weapons program.
Apart from Russians, the US has been collecting biological material
from both healthy and cancer patients in China.
Source: Pentagon Biological Weapons Program Never Ended: US
Bio-labs Around The World – Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
https://entretiensentresoi.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/pentagon-biological-weapons-program-never-ended-us-bio-labs-around-the-world-dilyana-gaytandzhieva/
Transnistria — The Country That Doesn’t Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kVnrqBb6y4
Fascinating — a Soviet time capsule in an outlying Russian exclave.
There were many that have never trusted Putin over his Ukraine policy.I remember my friends in Russia complaining about how hard it was to sent military aid to Donbass.That the government stopped them as much as they could.Only because some local officials supported Donbass were they sometimes able to get it through.But then I’d read,that no,don’t believe it,Putin was supportive of Donbass.So now what are we to think of this https://www.rt.com/russia/479193-putin-aide-surkov-leaves-reports/.
Is the mask about to fall.And has Putin decided that “better”,not good relations with Ukraine (Russia can never have good relations with Russophobe nazis) is worth more than the people of Donbass.How easy is it to believe the false promises of Kiev.That they agree to not “punish” the people of Donbass if they take it over again.Then when they later break those promises,its easy to say,”those bad people just fooled us.See how bad those nazis are”.
Most times first impressions are the right impression.And when your eyes,and your friends,tell you something its the right way to see things.As the saying goes “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help”. Crimea was one thing,it was vastly important because of location.Though Putin fools himself if he things the nazis and their western masters will “ever” forget about Crimea.They will never do that.Only the liberation of Ukraine or at the very least Novorossia can assure full protection to Crimea.The nazis will grab Donbass,and then lust for more.For whatever reason,Russia’s leaders seem to always underestimate the west’s hatred of Russia.I suppose bad habits are hard to break after centuries.Though you would thing after WWI,WWII,the Cold War,and its aftermath during the 90’s. And now especially after the last 5 years,thinking would change,but maybe not.
@Uncle Bob
Putin is arranging the bait. Economics decides Donbass. The Ukrainian oligarchs that have stakes in Donbass have an opportunity to gain if the war is ended. Or, inevitably, they will lose all.
Giving up Donbass will never lift the sanctions over Crimea. So, there is no gain for surrendering Donbass.
Additionally, the border that Russia now controls is the expressway for any Ukie-NATO attack right into the soft western region, a short sprint for armor. Having Donbass defend at distance from the border saves billions in military costs.
Giving up Donbass would mean the US Navy in the Azov Sea.
Should I keep listing the reasons why you should not lose faith?
2015 was not the optimal time for Russia to expand the war, take Mariupol and all of the two oblasts or even the dream region of Novorossiya. The geopolitics was not good. The budget couldn’t afford it. The Russian people did not want hundreds of funerals. And supporting 10-15 million people who would have been coming onto Kremlin cost sheets was an impossibility. There were no riches there. Unless you love fracking. There was just agriculture done like it was the fifties.
Putin knows what he’s doing. He’s used Vladislav Surkov, Boris Gryzlov and now Dmitry Kozak to “negotiate” with the Ukies. Kozak has a relationship with a key oligarch, and as Deputy Prime Minister Kozak was inside the negotiations with Gazprom for the most recent deal with Ukraine which included paying Kiev $3Billion and setting the five year deal for gas transmission to Ukraine and through Ukraine. This is very sensitive for the EU.
There are two ways to put the Nazis back into their cages. Fight them with the Russian military or entice the oligarchs to put them out of Kiev, away from the government and isolated in the Lviv zoos where they come from.
Putin is taking the second option. He knows how to manipulate oligarchs. He’s done it for 20 years.
Have faith, Uncle.
I’ll add this, Dmitry Kozak is Ukrainian and just appointed Putin’s Deputy Chief of Staff.
We can see that Putin is using a teaspoon of honey instead of a ladle of vinegar.
What does it mean in terms of policy?
Ukraine will get a chance to step back from the abyss.
Putin will not give up Donbass or Minsk 2.
The defense of Novorossiya is multi layered and multi faceted, doesn’t matter who actually performs President Putin’s instructions concerning same.
As far as President Putin is concerned, Minsk 2 is engraved in stone. The orcs signed it, Mutti signed it (France hasn’t mattered since roughly 1814, Uncle Sugar was denied a seat at the table), so there is no turning back. Of course the orcs have honored almost nothing in the agreement, and as such are daily suffering the consequences. OSCE doesn’t matter now, too many times they’ve been caught, as in Syria, salting the mine so to speak, planting arty targeting devices, blatantly falsifying evidence and twisting facts and having an ‘I don’t see those three orc tanks sitting amongst the flats buildings 300 meters from the lines’ visual perspective deficit and amazingly having the propensity to leave a particular village that is victim of their visits but moments before orc arty hits the village. Coincidence? Sure, and I believe in the Tooth Fairy, too.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One, paper back edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521849056 A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
An Incident On Simonka paperback edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1696160715 NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Optimism or blind hope when analysing facts are not the same as looking clearly at the facts (evidence) and projecting possible outcomes. What happened to Brazil in 2016 is a case in point: there was too much ‘good talk’, but the reality was very different — everything went wrong, there. And the evidence was CRYSTAL CLEAR, pointing in a straight line to the consequences. I wonder if the unrealistic assumptions were on purpose, to diffuse attention.
As to Donbass, the situation is different because it directly affects Russian interests. We can be sure that President Putin will do the right thing. He has surprised the world, before! Whatever he decides, it will be for the good of Russia. However, he needs precise information of the facts on the ground. General Shoygu knows the facts — better than we do. He will not let Mr Putin down. We will see…
When in fear, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
And try like hell to get others to do the same…
Why don’t you try some poetry, the first lines are perfect and I’m not telling you this as irony.
ioan
Uncle Bob, Putin on 19 10 17 said any seizure of the border between Russia and the republics would lead only to a tragedy comparable to the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia & Herzegovina. “There would be a massacre. But we will not allow this.” Clearly, to trust in God is best, nevertheless, Putin is in power because of God, and so I trust Putin will protect the Donbass people regardless of his critics claims.
This is serious! I believe we should take our eyes on the matter.
This is another possible proof to prove that Corona Virus is created by China Government.
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
Another ‘proof’? Show me the first ‘proof’.
Corona Virus is possible Chinese Bio Weapon but Chinese lab for some reason like accident or stupid, etc. let the Virus out. If Corona is not Chinese creation, then Chinese scientist cannot develop anti-Virus Corona so quickly.
https://www.rt.com/news/479148-coronavirus-patients-cured-china/
I can be wrong of course but who know.
you are making some ppl think all vietnamese are like you – a china hater w/out rational thinking… you can pls read other comments above and see if you can refute them, like Larchmonter445, White Whale, Auslander and others who have done their ‘homework’ of rational thinking… of course they can ALL be wrong too and YOU ALONE can be right too… wouldn’t that be nice?!
I don’t represent my country. I am an unorthodox black sheep, and I am can assume to use that my ideology can be accused “China lover” by some of my fellow Vietnamese.
I read them all and most of the comment had stepped into “China is completely innocent” trap. That why I raise the issue to get people notice and discuss what Chinese Government are doing. Take note that Wunam had the virus lab, coronavirus is spread from Wunam, and China develops the anti virus only about 3-4 weeks. That why I suspect coronavirus is Chinese bio weapon, and China must develop their own anti-coronavirus to save their own skin before they use to attack other countries. Corona virus is spread may be by accident or stupid or Chinese elites want to use their own people like lab rat to test their own poison but who know.
You said:
you are making some ppl think all vietnamese are like you – a china hater w/out rational thinking
Don’t try to use the moral code to silent me. I just tell everyone what I think. If I’m wrong so I’m wrong, no hurt feeling.
Do you even notice you seemed to get very defensive EVERYTIME – how exactly is anyone trying to silence you? by moral code? WHAT?
If according to your theory or speculation, that china is the culprit here, why not use in on Vietnam?
Why use it on their own ppl to come up with the cure, as you said, so quickly?
Use it on Vietnam and demand a ransom from the Vietnam ppl and then bankrupt them and turn all vietnamese in to slave for china – is not that better deal for china? Thats what come western country has done and some is saying are doing again.
Why not china use the virus ON VIETNAM? Pls answer.
[Dear mod, please post my comment. The Sinophilia like the above cannot get away with crime]
@Anonymous on January 26, 2020 · at 12:34 pm EST/EDT
I truly don’t think I am defensive. I just want to raise the issue to get more notice. The one who is being defensive is you. I told you I could be wrong.
Don’t use Vietnam to change topic. China must develop the anti-coronavirus in case if the virus out of control to save their own skin. China just fail to control the virus and barely develop anti-coronavirus. That why they don’t use yet because they don’t have chance.
You truly believe China can beat anyone if China want like American Exceptionalism or your believe is Great Han Ideology exactly. In reality, China truly can’t rule the world but Chinese elites with Great Han Ideology don’t know that they are dragging their own country to the hellhole.
Your Sinophilia behaviors are very funny to me. You can keep screaming I am Sinophobic if you want, I don’t care.
You make your own trouble UBS. If you treat people with respect you won’t have a problem with comments.
But, if you post a comment, be realistic and understand that others will respond and that you will have to stand for your beliefs and that people will disagree and that you still have to remain respectful. If you don’t care, what should anyone else care about you? One thing about the commentators here, they care!
You truly continue to make your own enemies! – A smart word is Sinophobic – to me, it looks like racism, and we have strong rule here … 4) All racist comments are banned
@amarynth
Dear Ma’am,
If that person is truly respect me like you respect me, then I will be respect like you suggest. The problem here is this guy is literally Sinophilia and he attack me in metaphor ways. The person just goes full “whataboutitsm”. I attack him back not because I am thin skin but because I realize that I cannot that let Sinophilia get over with their wrong doing.
I truly don’t see my comment is Sinophobic, I am talk about China government.
I just raise the issue to get people think and discuss. That all.
Why dont you go back to your original post and talk about corruption in Vietnam since you are a citizen there?
Why do you keep takling about china like its your home country and you know all the insider news? Or at least comment on USA or Japan or any other country… Why do you just ‘negative comment’ on china ONLY? What other things do you know about china? Have you ever been to china? There is so many unanswer question about you and from you.
You are exposing yourself to be like a certain kind of charecter – a china hater, which is a highly paid job these days in the asian forum/social media market, like in Taiwan they use it so successfully to win election and previously in Japan, when the 2 country relationship was not as stable, it was used to convince the Jap population China will invade them soon. So lets get some FACTS here, like adult conversation: 1) Nobody here can do anything about what China internal policy is and will be. 2) Nobody here in this forum can save Vietnam (if that is your goal) if you are trying to solicite some anti-china sentiment here. You do admit ALL your comments on China thus far is all negative and nothing positive, right? Posting your negative personal opinion here will not be beneficial to Vietnam at all.
So why do you post here? Only you can answer that. Can you name at least 5 good things you see in China? A normal person will see both good side and bad side of China. Or China is all evil and all bad to you? I cannot help but wonder why a vietnamese, or rather a poster claim to be vietnamese, would be so obsess in negative comments on China and talks about nothing else? Why dont you talk about USA or Russia or even EU since alot more ppl here are from there? China is not perfect but china is not vietnam, thats for sure. Are you some kind of china expert from vietnam? Whats your professional credential will you pls share with us? Why should we listen to you?
If you just want to post here and intend to raise awareness of your nagative opinion of china, be free to do it and nobody is stopping you. But if you post here on your personal views on Vietnam, since you are vietnamese as you claim you are, possibly more ppl will read it. Just another positive suggestion. Again I am not stopping you and I am treating you like an adult, thats why I still reply to your post, although it make no sense to me at all. But I think this is my last. There comes a time, one should know to stop going down with the vicious cycle spiralling and let it go. Be well.
China’s New Coronavirus: An Examination of the Facts
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-new-coronavirus-an-examination-of-the-facts/5701662
Romanoff covers the Chinese response to the disease and also discusses the biowar aspects in some detail.
I would say that we definitely do not have sufficient information to consider the seriousness of the threat from coronavirus!
However….
I would also say that the hysteria currently being generated and the multiple conspiracy theories out there do not add one iota of useful information; e.g. take a look if you will at the latest from zero and comments to his articles; I had to hold myself back from running out to purchase a hazmat suit (sarc)
Anyway, Moon has a respectable take on the issue and some of the more skeptical comments add to his article:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-coronavirus-no-need-to-panic.html#more
I also found links to rappoport and off-guardian posted herein by amarynth on January 25, 2020 · at 5:14 am EST/EDT to be useful.
Just saying but I have deferred the plan to purchase the hazmat suit-(sarc)
Globaltimes is running a real time update … China’s reaction is massive – I went to read a bit about Wuhan and it is a business and transportation hub – so millions and millions of people cannot travel during the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival. From the real time update, universities are suspending entrance and spring terms. They also have updated infection and death rates. It would be a good link to keep while all this lasts.
https://www.globaltimes.cn//content/1177737.shtml
No hazmat suit for me, and this is all toooooo suspicious in terms of timing, especially during the swine flu – and still seemingly it is a ‘virus’ that ‘attacks’ Chinese people so far.
Put this in anywhere re viruses. Scoff if you wish. There are numerous natural plant substances which are highly successful antivirals and have saved countless lives, notably during the early nineteens. One is lomatium root, a native to the usa west; another mainly preventative is elderberry. Cheap and abundant.And harmless.
@HP44.
I would never “scoff” at plant based solutions for a huge range of ailments.
There is a reason why Big Pharma is busy trying to patent plants and also modify and also ban plant based solutions.
Putin in Jerusalem.
https://twitter.com/Kremlinpool_RIA/status/1220328632293429249
The Father of the Coronavirus Virus is the Centre of Disease Control’, Planted in China by the C.I.A.
C.I.A. Patent US7220852B1 – Coronavirus aka SARS
Patent for a virus explains this “sudden unknown outbreak”
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=5500
or
https://prepareforchange.net/2020/01/24/c-i-a-patent-us7220852b1-coronavirus-aka-sars/
So far, not a peep here. That being said, from the looks of other informations and yours, Babushka, this thing might really get out of hand. Thanks for the links!
Auslander
Deadly earthquake rattles eastern Turkey
2020/01/24-25
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reached 22 on Saturday, asrescuers
searched for an estimated 22 more people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200124-deadly-earthquake-rattles-eastern-turkey
I always prefer an “epidemic” of justified paranoia to the Same Old Same Old Pandemic…………of Apathy!
At least it raises consciousness and sharpens the wits of practitioners of black (deathly) humor.
In this regard I must thank Taras 77’s Moon of Alabama link which has got a lot of infectious comments …..always a good thing!
Since I am always suspicious of the shit-eating grins of “The Elite” billionaires and Epstein Royal A-Holes chums (and the Extraordinarily Convenient Timing….which Mass Consciousness is well tuned into…..similar in scope to the “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself mass awareness I single out this comment in Taras’ link….as my favorite:
Posted by: Realist | Jan 25 2020 18:37 utc | 12
Some additional info on the Gates connections:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to the organization that ran the simulation that says this new virus will be on plague proportions with 63 million dead. Although they used criteria that considered this virus far more dangerous than SARS when it is at best one fourth as virulent. Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security ran the simulation and is a think tank (not affiliated with the medical center) that does policy research and gives policy recommendations to the United States government as well as the World Health Organization and the UN Biological Weapons Convention.
Gates is also linked to the organization that was awarded a recent PATENT on “a novel Coronavirus”. Gates is an advocate of vaccines for everyone but oddly enough has refused to have his children or any members of his family receive a single vaccine. (MY BOLD)
This is the patent for the coronavirus, filed 2015, awarded in 2018 patents.justia.com/patent/10130701 This assignee of this patent is the government funded Pirbright Institute out of the UK, some of their major funders are the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1219795721286586368.html
Lastly scientists close to the same people running the simulation which was actually a training exercise predicted in 2017 that the Chinese would probably have an incident at Wuhan. Why did they single out Wuhan? Other countries, like India and Georgia, also have BP4 research labs. The interviewee was Tim Trevan founder of CHROME Biosafety and Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, talking to Nature magazine (Maryland is the home of Fort Detrick, Maryland. Home of the U.S. Bioweapons program). https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
All of this reminds me of as A User | Jan 25 2020 23:45 utc | 59 pointed out of Rumsfeld and the SARS scam. Not buying into any of it at this point.
Posted by: frances | Jan 26 2020 0:31 utc | 65
@ Posted by: Alpi | Jan 25 2020 21:11 utc | 42
For sure. China – and humanity – doesn’t have the divine right to exist and prosper, so there’s always a chance a deadly virus wipes out either China and/or humanity any time, any place.
And yes, the R0 model doesn’t describe reality with an 100% precision. It is just an approximation, a model so that the experts can act and try to catch up or be one step ahead of the curve.
With the information we have now, however, this is the (partial) conclusion we can reach.
And its understandable people from Hubei and Wuhan are worried, desperate and angry – they want to get out, and, if the virus is indeed deadly, the decision to quarantine hte region made it a giant coffin. I would be too if I were one of them. Doesn’t change the fact the Central Government had to make a decision and live with the consequences in the name of the greater good.
Posted by: vk | Jan 26 2020 0:46 utc | 66
end of copied and pasted links on the topic
While still maintaining caution about Trump and hoping to hell that Pompeo is the next to be fired or “resigned” I find Orangeman’s anti-panic (and Gates Foundation Vaccines Bonanza) tweet of assurances of calm and of thanks to Xi for effective response……probably a good thing!
clinical study from the lancet on the viral epidemic
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2930183-5
death rate: 15%? and transmission rate upon exposure 83% ?
This epidemic will be studied by those who want to know. How does a centralized society deal with a massive shut down quarantine? How is social order kept intact after the first shock passes? Social solidarity–how is that measured? How quickly can a society be reorganized into a self sufficient, self help one? Burial? Treatment plans? Caring for the sick? Doctor burn out?
What I find interesting is the latest information which may or may not be true of how infectious this is–even before someone feels symptoms that they are carriers and for up to 14 days before individual onset? This is turning out to be a perfect storm perhaps. And if anything blows the world economy, it would be a pandemic.
Ironically: year of the rat which was the carrier of the plague that so decimated Europe and came from supposedly the Far East.
In theory, if true, would be, one of satans greatest tricks, to expose the population w/o causing injury to himself.
Or, since these virus’s normally spawn during the winter season when many are packed indoors, could just be a natural thinning of the herd, and naturally a lesson to those who insist on relying on others to produce things that, in theory, could have been made by them.
A law for truth in design, advertizing, and manufacturing could have prevented this potential outcome. But as we all should know by now, the western politician, is NOT the sharpest tool in the shed.
OK Deep breath. I know many people on this site just love the CCP ( Chinese Communist Party) and sing paens to its deeds. Count me out big time.
Once that has been established let me just say that when a society as complex as is modern society sets up a system of brutal and unfair social control ( like a social credit score) with almost instantaneous blockage of goods, travel, services etc. it sets up a creative individual ( those who are the most troublesome sometimes) to set his mind to decide quietly to bring it down at its most vulnerable points. Maybe it was a beloved brother who was unfairly targeted for central government socially mandated persecution or the person himself.
People like Snowden can as mere individuals wreak tremendous havoc and if they are pushed into a corner ( (year of the rat) they will retaliate while being smart enough to do it in ways not to be caught especially if they feel that they have nothing to lose. These are not the people trapped in brutal factory work who in despair launch themselves out the windows to be snagged in suicide nets. Or crazy people who rush out stabbing with knives right and left. No. And there is no control mechanism for the ” lone gunman” so to speak perfect enough especially if there are enough of them.
The only solution to the vulnerabilities inherent in overly complex systems…is local( decentralized yet connected) nexus points of social solidarity. i.e. supportive community. Oh the techies traitors in the USA are watching this China scenario big time and taking notes because they think they can do it better than the CCP.
Just saying….We need different paradymes for the 21st century. The CCP is not one of them. Russia may be–let us see after the end of V. Putin’s 6 year plan.
We gotto discuss this … this usually described as ‘brutal’ social credit system. But, it will take time. For a start terranam13 let me ask you some questions:
How many credit card score companies does China have? An how public is your own credit score? Do you have to pay to see it?
How many jails for profit?
Who goes to jail in China? If you jaywalk, what happens to you? If you grab/steal and apple from the market stall, what happens to you?
If you commit bad fraud, what happens to you?
If you smoke in a train where people do not want you to smoke, what happens to you?
When do Chinese people call the cops on you?
What is the purpose of the police in China? What is their job?
I you stand on the streetcorner (imagine Seattle or San Fran) high as a kite and urinate against a window of a store, what happens to you?
If you drive badly, and you hit another vehicle, what happens to you?
How does China, the CCP take input from the society?
Is anyone aware that they solicit input far and wide on government efficiency even through their major press?
Has anyone used Weibo or any of the other Chinese social media and figured out what is acceptable and what not?
Has anyone sought input from the average person on the street about what they think of their social control system? Does it work for them as a civilization?
Does anyone know if it is possible to increase a low social score?
Anyway, anyone who calls the Chinese social credit system brutal or unfair, should at least be able to answer these questions.
Peace.
That is just a start.
Let me add one more .. China is basically free of almost criminal level poverty. Who created this? Who was actually in charge running the programs to reduce poverty so that people could be human?
Let me ask you this: Have you been to China and traveled there for any length of time? Do you know anyone who has set up a factory in China and has had to deal with the bureaucracy and the system for any length of time?
I am not comparing systems. I have no defense of what has grown to monstrous proportions in Looneylandia so forget the comparisons to invalidate the issues I bring up ie.mass technologically based societies and the elites that run them and for what purpose?
And no, I have not traveled there but yes, I have close friends who have had factories there since 1996 and when I try to communicate with them when they are in China like to send blog posts from The Saker or even youtube videos those are blocked. So that I know from experience.
As for trusting their economic data? please be aware that they fudge opportunistically just as much as the Looneylandia folks do with statistics.
So, Amarynth, be more real.
amarynth, a Chinese person could explain better than me; but, as I have been to China every year for over a decade (as a teacher of urban planning and sustainable architecture, I have participated in conferences and meetings and worked as a teacher and a consultant), I have travelled around and I can see that some of your questions are total misconceptions, while others are fair…. Actually, some Chinese could probably be offended, others bewildered by those questions, as very rarely we see something that remotely resembles some of your descriptions.
Jaywalking, for example, is NOT prohibited and, as driving (cars, scooters and bicycles) without respecting the rules, they are very common (and dangerous!). It seems that the Chinese government is having difficulties in controlling these behaviours, although, if they did, safety for everybody in the streets would increase. Robbing ‘an apple’, on the other hand, is definitely very rare.
I have never seen anybody smoking in a train. But, I noticed that the role of the police is basically guidance; their attitude is pleasant, but strong: they guide while at the same time, gently, they ‘reveal’ the law.
As to social media, it is very popular, indeed; but, I guess the people understand that there are limits to what they ‘should’ use it for… I have a Chinese telephone (and a bank account!), and I have never been told not to do this or that. We cannot use Google, there, and western social media is censored (I cannot use WhatsApp to call my kids when I travel to China). But, these are protective measures of the government of a country that has been victim of foreign abuse and knows what has to be done to avoid that this happens again (I wish the Workers Party of Brazil had done the same before the US sponsored (classic) coup d’état of 2016…).
I am not familiar with the social credit card, though… But, I imagine that it is welcome by many Chinese. Because China is not just its government; China is its PEOPLE! They have a sense of responsibility unknown in many other places. This is so, perhaps, because there is cohesion between the Chinese (as a nation) — the sense of ‘community’ is universal in China. And there are no stronger means of social control than the ‘community control’.
We can identify some communities in China, such as the ‘elderly’ or the ‘farmers’ communities, for example; or the ‘national’ communities. The concept of community is problematic. It can divide rather than unite people — the west explores the ‘national community’ concept in China to harass the Chinese government. As to the concept of community as a ‘local’ attribute, it is a western conception. This is actually a World Bank ideology of the 1980s, when communities were seen as a solution to all local problems, mostly in the ‘Third World’; however, in practice, when the idea was adopted as policy, the outcomes were very poor…
And, yes, you are right: China is basically free of almost criminal level poverty. I have travelled everywhere, including the Tibet and other remote areas, and I have never seen a destitute Chinese in a situation of dire poverty and famine. China is NOT ‘Third World’, and has probably never been. Yes, they suffered; but, this was as consequence of western aggression. They have a wonderful history — well documented in their hundreds (if not thousands) of museums around the country. They are more than a nation — they are a civilization, and they are proud of it. I believe that this is behind their success.
I am not afraid of stating that there are many reasons for those who visit China admire the great Chinese nation and their accomplishments. Most of what I hear against this country is slander, typically because of ignorance or a fruit of western propaganda against the country.
Thank you MC. Sort of what I thought.
Thank you MC. teranam13 et al.
Be more real? I will respond to that a little kneejerky, with .. know what you are talking about before you talk about it.
Take a note of what MC says .. the average person does not know about the socalled social credit system. In reality it needs a 8 part Ramin type series. So, just in point form and only on the social credit system because the level of education needed to the West regarding China is daunting. Incorrect understanding is the name of the game. Passing on of stupidity is par for the course. So, the social credit system:
It can be better described as a public trust system.
It has been trialed in various areas using different methods for the past five years.
The end of 2020 is basically the end of the trails
The focus has mainly been on businesses. China has a problem with businesses not acting for the good of the community. There are reasons for that. So, business can be assigned a public trust number, made by the people that buy from that business, so that everyone knows if they are trustworthy or not . It is a social issue in China and even government departments are open to be ranked.
The questions that I asked and MC quite rightly said these are strange questions, are exactly the questions that the various areas trialing the system came up with – the idea is that if one does socially unacceptable things, there has to be a direct social remedy – the full community cannot be punished by having to keep such a person in jail and paying a communal price, but personally, one must take responsibility. So people are not stuck into jail for stupid social transgression like jaywalking, like the little scooters crazily weaving in and out of traffic and buying travel tickets from scalpers. but you will soon find your picture displayed on a pole somewhere, saying, this person is a jaywalker – direct social remedy for social type transgression because you are transgressing against the social order. I have not been able to find (probably because it is not open information yet out of the various trials) how someone can improve their own public trust, after messing up.
The idea is to educate, have social type transgressions directly ‘paid’ for by the transgressor rather than punitive measures by society. MC is right in describing the actions of the police.
It is also a debt control system – if you are not responsible and take on too much debt, and cannot pay your debt, the community is not going to eat your debt .. you are responsible to the community as a whole, the community at large, and you will have to be sanctioned very directly for your own social transgressions. It works with the Chinese concept of ‘saving face’.
These are just a very few misconceptions. All of these are available in honest western media. This system is not even implemented yet, and the trial is not complete and we do not know what it will look like – it may even be different for different areas with different cultural emphasis.
Westerners do not understand China unless they’ve spent much time with Chinese people connected to their country and took the time to really get the differences, to really understand what is truly civilizational differences, or lived in China or visited regularly with a sense of open inquiry.
I have it under good authority that The Saker Blog is open in China. And yes, anything belonging to Google and google itself is questionable. I follow a youtube of an American that lives in China, and he is now running a set of statistics of how many times his youtubes are just clearly banned (not from China but from the Googleplex in California) because he describes daily life, what he finds good, what confuses him and so on. Daily living stuff, and the Googleplex bans him if he says anything positive about living in China. So, we can cry all we want that Google is not welcome in China, but very few of us know the reverse of that because it is not in our media.
About the fudging numbers – there is no way that the real upliftment from poverty can be fudged. Does China present their economic numbers in the best of ways? Of course.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/china-social-credit-system-digital-trust-online-fraud-scam-west-12212976
@amarynth
Dear ma’am,
What do you mean “I have it under good authority that The Saker Blog is open in China”?
amarynth, yes, The Saker is open in China!
WOW! amarynth, you have done your home work!
Yes its a trail and social behaviour modification program in guiding The China PPL back to Confucianism – their roots. Yes it can and has been abused by some – but on the flip side this is where REAL human rights from the grassroots is born. The China PPL will decide what is of acceptable therefore the Party can integrate into Law.
Its early days but it seems most China PPL, who were under the trail, like it, as it gives them a voice against big business and even some local government official or rich ppl’s unruly sons and daughters and a whole lots of scammers and foreign infiltration fake news organisations.
Its like The China PPL social order firewall.
As with all firewall, what it keeps out is clear from what it keeps in – that is function and purpose!
MC
Very, very well done job explaining all that. Thanks.
MC.
What you write corresponds to what I hear from my Chinese friends. No system is perfect and even when it would be so there will still be people complaining etc. The Chinese script is daily expression of the Chinese tradition
@amarynth
My comment had nothing to do with teranam13. I just post here to get your attention.
Remember the video “Vietnam ram Chinese fish boat”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-spwog6Je4
Actually, according to the video, Vietnam Coast Guard Ship, KN-762, ram the Chinese Coast Guard ship, which is bigger than Vietnamese one. By the way, if you look at the 11s in the video, you will see that Vietnamese ship fence was broken by Chinese Ship ramming. According to the video from Vietnam that is related to the event from Chinese video:
Tàu Trung Quốc quấy phá như thế nào? (How Chinese Ship Harass?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYwG9AiuOk
Chinese Coast Guard Ships were the one attack Vietnamese Coast Guard first.
From this, I conclude that Chinese government had lied about the event in May 2014. Chinese Coast Guard was always the one who provoke Vietnamese attack Chinese, not Vietnamese provoke Chinese attack Vietnamese.
Dear ma’am, I know you just want present a big picture but your big picture is really wrong because you seem believe anything China government says without any questions. I recommend you should not trust anything China government says but you should be skeptical about what Chinese say. Remember: The Chinese talks is not the Chinese actions.
UBSVN:
“Remember: The Chinese talks is not the Chinese actions.”
I am sure this is Vietnam’s experience…if not always….often enough to deeply impress your mind and your feelings
But you could go around the world and everywhere find the small neighbor’s fear and distrust of the much, much bigger neighbor.
But should this “experience” …..this feeling….and other feelings of suspicion and distrust and OPPOSITION in general…to China…….. without distinguishing the good from the bad………be the determinant factor…to the exclusion of all else in the current strategic “balance of forces” ????
A perfect example of what I wanted to get around to FINALLY with amarynth and Alabama (in completely different ways on a completely different subject.)….but the PRINCIPLE….is nearly identical.
However, on the matter of how to regard China in the bigger picture involving the future of billions of persons amarynth will find me alongside her…arguing these points with you and Teranam…all while she will doubtless find the same PRINCIPLES…. applied to that other subject……probably harder to accept than you will find this comment…at least initially.
And probably for some time to come!
I have no illusions about that! LOL
But I’ll give it a go….in the morning, next Café.
@Bro 93
Very reasonable, I truly appreciate and grateful at your feedback and criticism to me. Don’t worry, I am just very skeptical on China. I never let the “Sinophobic” cloud my mind.
Just say that I truly admire China on many things, I trust Chinese commoners and I don’t (never) trust Chinese elites on many things.
Well, if you and anyone else in the blog truly curious about how Vietnamese Sinophobic act, I suggest you guy can review my argument with the Vietnamese Sinophobic guy name “Smith” here to understand more how Vietnamese Sinophobic is. This is my link that contain my argument with “Smith”:
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Unorthodox+Black+Sheep+VN
That Vietnamese Sinophobic is really dangerous, in my opinion.
Very best of luck to you, Bro 93!
It appears to me the agenda may be or is, to come to a Pro-Rus side to flame anti-china sentiment thereby causing a split in the social media/forum space and use Pro-Russ ‘new converts’ to attack China. Saker’s blog is read widely in Eurasia and very fertile ground. Classic antifart or libtard or black terror standard op that cant even spell 3 letters one trick pony. The fingerprints of its MO is quite clear… Thus far we only have, ‘No you are racist! NOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU ARE RACIST! because I say you are….’ that level of, well, if you still want to call it, discussion or even conversation, but perhaps monologue would be still too kind.
SO good luck! I gave up on “saving lost souls”
Could that same fear Bob extend to banks? The smaller banks being held captive to the larger banks and thus not able to extend say lower interest rates, even if they wanted to, because of their inability to service all the new customers that would welcome lower interest rates, or corresponding higher saving rates.
And the fear factor I believe stems from the raging ideological civil war, and the mostly the embarrassment stemming from exposing the bad ideological behavior that supposedly wasn’t able to even be detected, the old, you weren’t there so you cant know about, syndrome.
But just as the drug user uses while you are not there, technology has now over come that barrier. And the same is true of ideological behaviors, there is a test for that now, and it is this test that instigates the fear that somehow, my sins can be exposed, and Jesus is not to be blamed, he did not die for my sins this time around.
Please take into account that (for instance) Germany has such a “system of brutal and unfair social control” (by bogus “moral” credit being increased or decreased according to “well behaving”, i. e. abstinence from any unwanted public activity) – with the only ” small” difference that you are not told beforehand 1. that this system exists and is used to spy upon you/everybody and judges the “culprits” in silence and his absence, 2. what on its scale is “good” and what is “bad” (hint: the Grundrechte in the fake Grundgesetz are fake, instead you must know that you will never be forgiven to ever have believed in their being valid), and 3. what your current score is (or will be if you…) and for doing or not doing exactly what. Proof: lack of any paper, site or person in the business of presenting and/or discussing things like as is done here and by other persons quoted here: you “must know” (and “good Germans” automatically do) that every opinion of your own is verboten – those who know never say or said anything of any worth, and those who tried did not survive … socially. But, for gud reklama, their living corpses are still housed and fed, thank you, but preferably without comfort like heating and electricity (pretexts for taking everything from such un-citizens are easily found and executed, no help against the crimes of this regime exist. Well, it is the well entrenched, immortal Bundeswehrmacht/military-Verfassungspraeservativ/denunciation-PolitischePolizei/facts creating system that worked so well in the past that everybody (except some) found we needed it this time again… a sort of permanent nationwide stammtisch where Herr Apotheker and Herr Lehrer and Herr Kriminalrath decide for everybody what has to be done. The AfD will certainly not want to change anything about it, and the other parties have built and run this system for decades.
So, will this country, because of this, end in a virus epidemy? I do not see such a connection, but another one: since this kind of German regime ended twice in a long big bang, I don’t see a reason why it should not do it again this time – all of this while Germany seems to be looked upon from the outside as a “paradigm for the 21st century”. Is it? The once so cautious Eastern World Powers seem to be of this opinion and set to follow Angela H. in everything. If they do, those who are still so concerned with ” freedom there” will probably stop denouncing them.
Photo #5 …
“An airport staff member uses a temperature gun to check people leaving Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, China.”
https://sputniknews.com/photo/202001261078124537-secure-contain-protect-china-fights-coronavirus/
反对 恐怖 检查
Fǎn-duì kǒng-bù jiǎn-chá
Oppose terror check
(word for word translation)
What we can look forward to this coming week (provided there is no big bang somewhere).
Bibi and Trump unveiling the Deal of the Century, with no Palestinian in sight. I picked up somewhere this morning that the King of Jordan already said no thank-you, even before the details are public. Bibi is of course fighting the political fight of his life, and it suits him to have one after the other election end up in stalemate, because then he continues on. Its such a mess. But I do like the theory that Michael Hudson expressed (not detailed enough), that the main decisions are now in the US, and not in Israel so much.
The main attraction is of course impeachment but really, wake me up when it is over and if by some mistake Pence takes over – well, I prefer to remain asleep I think :-)
There is something else interesting that I never knew and got this from the Chinese press. I’ve said for a while now that the UN will move, change or otherwise reform. Putin said in 2014 already that reforms are needed, but the UN as an organization is also needed. So, here is commenting from China to move some of the UN secretariats to other countries. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177881.shtml
And this is the piece that I did not know. “On November 8, 2019, the First Committee of the UN General Assembly voted on Russia’s proposal to move the UN. With 18 countries voting in favor, 69 against and 72 abstaining, it failed to be passed, showing that the conditions are not mature yet.”
I knew Russia was agitating but did not know that they actually already brought a proposal. This is of course because the US is refusing visas to leaders from countries that they do not like and generally slow-walking the visa process so that working teams cannot get to the UN on time. Nasty nasty stuff! But another reason why unipolarism is being rejected in the world for multipolarism.
And then the other thing that Larchmonter445 reported on here : /sitrep-iraqs-million-man-march-against-us-occupation-and-pentagon-admits-to-34-injuries-from-iran-strike/#comment-751471
And he says : “The Iraqis send a message to the US Embassy:” This is the 3 missiles that Iraq flew right into the huge US embassy in Iraq and one hit the dining room if reports can be believed. We have US soldiers with ‘headaches’ and perhaps we will see US soldiers with ‘stomach upsets’.
Russia called on the US and on Iraq to get into meetings pronto to discuss an orderly retreat of the US from Iraq. So, the pressure on the US to leave Iraq is just getting stronger.
We remain very close to mistakes in our world that can be very very serious. We’ve all seen the US forces in Syria blocking Russian soldiers to go on their way. A mistake here can be just fatal – one pissed off soldier and bang.
Michael Hudson (economist) posted a very long transcript of a discussion on democratizing money. In that discussion he says that the economics today, the markets are one mistake away from tumbling – because of the high frequency trading. It is very long and of course more detailed than that, but I found it excellent. https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/democratizing-money-a-discussion/
Something hanging in the background around Brexit, is that Boris is not as keen on deals with the US as Trump makes him out to be. The UK is insisting that they will decide by themselves on 5G and Pompeo is spitting snakes, threatening that the UK will lose their sovereignty. The UK is also saying their first trade deal will most probably be with Japan, or somewhere in the East. Some analysts are already talking about a split in the Anglosphere. Boris may just feel that the UK bread is buttered by slowly moving toward a multipolar world.
So, if we are blessed by universe and we don’t see mistakes that can cause general mayhem to break loose this coming week, we can celebrate. The move of the world from singlepolar to multipolar is truly now rolling downhill evident by the state of chaos.
Thanks amarynth :)
If a cat has 9 lives, bb must has 99!
Look at the UN vote, with the 72 abstaining, that practically means its going to move and everyone is just waiting for the even-more-weaken USSA, to step up. Where do you think would be a good place for the new location?
Last few days of Jan lets hope it does not end with a BANG! By Feb, some of the WS boys will be back and China will be back too – so there should be some huge market swinging action too! The Fed may demonstrably lose it while live in market open. Then they may have to declare ‘system failure’ and close for ‘technical upgrade’ for few days – standard procedure. 29K appear to have been stunned. What will OrangeJesus do?
“Orange Jesus”-“He’s not the Messiah-he’s just a very naughty boy”