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Great picture Saker!
I was thinking that that is the type of bar I would be comfortable hangin’.
That was even before coin operated machines.
lining up for shots,
there’s mike and the drifter
ol’ sally, do tell!
down from the high plains
new jersey as well…
@Alabama, @Dimitar,
I wish I could meet you guys there for a brew.
Cheers, Mike! As ioan likes to say, Waiter, make mine rakija! ( Something like a Macedonian vodka, but much, much stronger! ) In fact Mike, I’m not much of a drinker, but I’m going to reach for one ’bout the time this comment appears, feel free to do so at about the same time! I’m holed up in bed recovering from some kinda bug that’s played havoc w. my body for days, but today’s my first ‘good day’. Taken care of business for the day, I’m onto the real work, so… ‘na zdravje’, to your health, my friend!
I am drinking some Bardonlino as we speak.
Some of those dudes look as if they work up a sweat during the course of a day, probably come out smelling like a camp fire, then home to the wife and a cold shower.
After a long sleep, the day aches and starts all over once again, workin and a sweatin, only to find themselves at the end of the day back at the bar, for one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
I wasn’t coming anyway.
High Plains,
I want you there.
lining up for shots;
there’s mike and the drifter
old sally, do tell!
down from the high plains,
jersey as well
here comes alabama,
‘ain’t no coin machines,
make mine a whiskey;
an’ one for the queen!’
well, sally she says,
‘don’t mind if I do,
but if you’re a man
you’ll join the queue!’
she loves the attention
the men they oblige,
they treat her like royalty,
they let her preside
men, women and wine,
whiskey and song,
ain’t no problems here;
we all get along
it ain’t Solomon’s temple,
but it surely will do,
the grace of good folk
that share the same view!
And invite High Plains in for a drink as well.
Those cats were hearing a toast; that looks like a Guiness in front (Irish miners?). Fellow in far right may be skeptical.
Great poem Dimitar to compliment the photo.
I think I’ll join you guys and the lady at the bar.
Great.
Let’s get us all there.
It would really be good to meet you all.
who could ask for
a balance more replete?
without you, babuška,
we’d be incomplete…
Last Call For Alcohol!
This is the version I know…………….John Lee Hurt it.s on a vinyl LP….in a big box in the garage…with all the rest…resting in that box………..since CD’s came along in the early eighties…….
https://youtu.be/q-fSZRYeBWk
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
ioan’s dog…..gives his mark of approval review………..on The Red Chair
Hi Bro… I have a request, friend, would you mind passing on your current email to amarynth in order to pass on to me? There’s something I need to confer with you on, privately. Best, D.
Some recent events in timeline of what’s going on now, esp. wrt this “coronavirus” :
As mentioned in a post now too far back another long thread too much to find it in, so i’ll give the basic info:
Go to 4:40 mark & watch till end, only 5 minutes to hear him tell it all about the exact plot being acted out now as in the 2011 movie Contagion:
FEB 26 Chico Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcaoeicDKGg
Somewhere this forum about a week ago that Turk ultra-nationalist openly serially bragging on twitter last August/2019 about exact details of what we’re seeing now so far, just as if read from a script.
Found the exact event/date Putin made that stark prediction (boast?) that “the USD will collapse SOON”. It was Nov 15/2019, said in russian and translated, at a conference in russia.
Another coincidence?
As of this posting time, I’m still waiting for the flashing safety sign to change, or be changed by someone out there, perhaps in a flub, a gaffe, or just misreading his script, like in this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_xpos5-XY
Don’t Panic! (we’re out of coffee) Scene from Airplane
So, any guesses as to who exactly of all these famous players is on which side?
Fascinating information about health properties of forsythia in Chico Crypto’s video. Where I live, it is a very common plant in the gardens. I never noticed its fruits, only vivid yellow flowers in early spring, but I will pay attention this year. It is a popular ornamental bush because it is undemanding and it flowers among the earliests.
A few articles:
Phytochemistry, pharmacology, quality control and future research of Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl: A review.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28887216
Can Chinese Medicine Be Used for Prevention of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)? A Review of Historical Classics, Research Evidence and Current Prevention Programs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32065348
This entry relates to Balkans and more, as it may explain few things:
First the video dedicated to Ipsilantis family, which was from Moldavia and relates to Russia as much as Greece and other countries, which exist today on Vlach lands.
Konstantinos Ipsilantis (the father) was the Wojewoda (Voyevoda) of Moldavia and a close friend and advisor of the Tsaritsa Katerina of Russia. He also had palace(s) and possessions in Russia. Two of his four sons Alexandros and Nikolaos served in Russian army as high ranking officers. Alexandros (may have been a general) lost his right arm during one of the battles between Russian army and Napoleon.
Actually, there is a Russian book about Alexandros written by Soviet Colonel who was surprised to find records about him in Russian archives. Check his mother (needless to say Vlacha from what’s today Roumania). She had four sons and all four fought for Russia and died for Greece’s Independence.
The video is about the hearts of the two brothers in a Church in Greece, the papas (priest) says that Orthodox religion forbids dismembering of any type, which is allowed in and Western and Central Europe
and it was requested by Alexandros in his Will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5rLiy8rGfY
His mother Maria at 6:50 when asked why she spent her fortune for Greece’s independence answered: “what’s money when I gave my four sons to the cause”.
18:08 Alexandros’s monument as died in a battle against the Turks in Roumania (the land of the Greeks).
20:01 one of his Russian medals
49:59 His letters to the Vlachs of Vlachia and Moldavia, in Greek, calling them to rise up and fight for the independence of their fatherland the Greece (Balkans included).
Remember, Roumania came to be in 1860 after which it scrambled to create their own non-Greek identity and written language, as Vlachs idiom was never written, as they used proper Greek ” the word bilingual is used by others to avoid accepting their Greek identity, even though their idiom is also Greek”.
BTW:
Wojewoda was a hereditary position of an Army Commander who represented the king/tsar in his absence or on request. Also, the title Tsar was nothing but a naming equivalent of Greek Κέσαρος or Cesar in Latin.
For example, Polish Kingdom had Four Wojewoda’s and one Kasztelan (equivalent position).
THeir actual name is Αριμένοι Βλάχοι (Arimeni) and not Aromani as it’s being pushed by the West.
The name comes from “Ar” – or “Arura” an Archaic Greek word for Earth, as they were always working with animals. The name Vlachos comes interchangeably from two sources: One being “Velachos” which is associated with the sound the sheep and goats make “Ego Velazo – I make the sound of a sheep or goat”.
Other sounce is from Doric dialect (their linguistic idiom basically comes from Doric dialect as well as Eolic, and they also use many words used by Homer (Ionian)), where the sheep and goat voice would be referred to as “Ego Vlachao – I make a sound of a sheep, which they make in their song Skaros “.
So much for the fairy tale about their Latin language and origins. They existed and spoke their idiom tens of thousands of years before dialects from Argolida and Chalkidiki got transplanted to Iberia (Spain), Lucitania (Portugal) and Italian Peninsula and became known as Latin.
Also, “Arios” really meant “one that works the fields – peasant”, and not what people think about “Arians”
Arian really meant farmer.
That said, read the real history to find out that Makedonia comes from Doric dialect where Makedon meant “tall” Needless to say that Makedon and Magnitis were brothers and Sons of Thessalos.
This is for the benefit of Dimitar from real Makedon (me as I am Magnitis):
Macedonian Song: Gia ti Makedonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UME5df42cXU
Also for Dimitar and the like: Vlachoi, there are about 300,000 to 500,000 of them in your neck of the woods
do you really think you have a country?:
Warning Vlachoi and other related people heavily rely on Flogera (floot) and nowadays on clarinet.
Two of their classics “Skaros”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNvJn0QqQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlUXeHMRH4
Vlach love song in Vlach idiom (panarchaic Greek idiom):
Βλάχικο ερωτικό (Κέντ τιρτσιάι σουκάκια)~Τράσιας Φώτης & Σμόλικας Κώστας
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za06kpXnX4k
Arvanitovlachoi also known as Karagounoi, are the same people, here is a song in Vlach idiom:
Νάστα (Αναστασιά) Αρβανιτοβλάχικο τραγούδι με τον Φώτη Τράσια και τον Κώστα Σμόλικα!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhvpM3IGTU
Last one, “they took the sheep, sloppy Vlacha’ (it’s always wife’s fault) …”
Τα πηρανε τα προβατα-σβαρνιάρα
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZC1MOz7uc
Another group, who like Vlachoi One more thing, and I hope it gets accepted. the video dedicated to Ipsilantis family
from Vlachia/Moldavia. Konstantinos Ipsilantis (the father) was the Wojewoda (Voyevoda) of Moldavia
and a close friend and advisor of the Tsaritsa Katerina of Russia. He also had palace(s)
and possessions in Russia. Two of his four sons Alexandros and Nikolaos served in Russian army
as high ranking officers. Alexandros lost his right arm during one of the battles against Napoleon.
Actually, there is a Russian book about Alexandros written by Soviet Colonel who was surprised
to see his name in Russian archives. Check his mother (needless to say Vlacha from what’s today Roumania)
She had four sons and all four fought for Russia and Greece’s Independence
The video is about the hearts of the two brothers in a Church in Greece,
the papas (priest) says that Orthodox religion forbids dismembering of any type,
which is allowed in and Western and Central Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5rLiy8rGfY
His mother Maria at 6:50 when asked why she spent her fortune for Greece’s
independence answered, what’s money when I gave my four sons to the cause.
18:08 Alexandros’s monument as died in a battle against the Turks in Roumania (the land of the Greeks).
20:01 one of his Russian medals
49:59 His letters to the Vlachs of Vlachia and Moldavia, in Greek, calling them to rise up
and fight for the independence of their fatherland the Greece (Balkans included).
Remember, Roumania came to be in 1860 after which it scrambled to create their own
non-Greek identity and written language.
BTW.
Wojewoda was a hereditary position of an Army Commander who represented the king/tsar.
Also, the title Tsar was nothing but a naming equivalent of Greek Κέσαρος or Cesar in Latin.
For example, Polish Kingdom had Four Wojewoda’s and one Kasztelan (equivalent position)
Αριμένοι Βλάχοι (Arimeni) and not Aromani as it’s being pushed.
The name comes from “Ar” – or “Arura” an Archaic Greek word for Earth, as they were
always working with animals.
The name Vlachos comes from either of the two sources
“Velachos” which is associated with the sound the sheep and goats make “Velazma”.
From Doric dialect, where the equivalent word is “Vlachao”.
So much for the Latin fairy tale about their Latin language and origins
They existed and spoke their idiom tens of thousands of years before dialects from Argolida
and Chalkidiki got transplanted to Iberia (Spain), Lucitania (Portugal) and
Italian Peninsula and became known as Latin.
Also, “Arios” really meant one that works the fields, and not what people
think about “Arians”
That said, read the real history to find out that Makedonia comes from Doric dialect
where Makedon meant “tall”.
Macedonian Song: Gia ti Makedonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UME5df42cXU
This is special for Dimitar.
Vlachoi, there are about 300,000 to 500,000 in your neck of the woods
do you really think you have a country?:
Two of their classics “Skaros”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNvJn0QqQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlUXeHMRH4
Vlach love song in Vlach idiom, which is really panarchaic Greek idiom:
Βλάχικο ερωτικό (Κέντ τιρτσιάι σουκάκια)~Τράσιας Φώτης & Σμόλικας Κώστας
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za06kpXnX4k
Arvanitovlachoi also known as Karagounoi, are the same people, here is a song in Vlach idiom:
Νάστα (Αναστασιά) Αρβανιτοβλάχικο τραγούδι με τον Φώτη Τράσια και τον Κώστα Σμόλικα!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhvpM3IGTU
Last one, “they took the sheep, sloppy Vlacha’ …”
Τα πηρανε τα προβατα-σβαρνιάρα
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZC1MOz7uc
Another group, who like Vlachoi considered the oldest Europeans are called Sarakatsanoi. They have the same profession and customs like Vlachoi, but no idiom.
Both originated from Thessaly and Epiros (Mountain ridge of Pindos).
Here is their Skaros, any difference? No.
Σαρακατσάνοι Αυτοί οι άγνωστοι
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBsfnBiNHrc
Λιάκαινα – Κώστας Νάκας
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXOVu0R_liQ
‘Ενας λεβέντης χόρευε – Σταύρος Μπόνιας & Βασίλης Σερμπέζης
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrjZ_ElafWs
Sarakatsanoi in Thrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk7gyoCnj5w
In Bulgaria (the song is in Greek)
26-ти СЪБОР на КАРАКАЧАНИТЕ КАРАНДИЛА ‘2017 http://www.kotelnews.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmG2hMEYzd4
Сu Тendа – пътуване с каракачаните
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3CAwspOGfI
Thanks for your patience.
I wish you all the best in your “Greek view of the world”, anonius.
However, no matter what “authority” you lean on will convince me of whatever you’re trying to convince me of!
You’re fighting a losing battle, friend, you just don’t know it. Why? Because you’re stuck in a cycle of trying to prove something that cannot be proven! Look up the word “indefencible”.
Okay this is one and only reply you will see from me on you comment.
Oh my God, really? HEBREW is GREEK says Liguist Hebrew Professor, Yahuda
http://www.jewworldorder.org/original-hebrews-israelites-and-semites-are-greek/
You can download the document.
https://archive.org/details/Hebrew.is.Greek
One more
https://epdf.pub/hebrew-is-greek.html
Video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggD9kp5uEc
The NET is full of idiotic and uneducated fairy tales about sanscrit.
Excellent comment (26) in the article:
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/32365/is-sanskrit-really-the-mother-of-all-languages
I quote:
“Sanskrit is not the mother of all languages. Sanskrit is not even the mother of the modern Indo-Aryan languages of the Northern India. Neither it is their father or grandfather. In fact, no language is a direct descendant of Sanskrit.
Saying that Sanskrit to the modern Indo-Aryan languages is the same as Latin to the modern Romance languages is absolutely wrong. The Romance languages are direct descendants of Latin, but the modern Indo-Aryan languages are not direct descendants of Sanskrit. The best European analogy is the role Ancient Greek played for the modern European languages: Ancient Greek affected them all, filled them with lots of words and syntactic structures, but none of those languages is a direct descendant of Ancient Greek, naturally with the exception of modern Greek.
To continue the family analogy, to the modern Indo-Aryan languages Sanskrit is a cousin grandfather who was their teacher, their guru. The Indo-Aryan languages descend from grandfather’s siblings, but grandfather himself had no children.
Speaking more linguistically, there are actually two languages called Sanskrit: the Vedic Sanskrit aka the Vedic
language (ca. 1500 to 500 BCE), and Sanskrit proper aka Classical Sanskrit (ca. 200 CE to 1300 CE), the latter being a refined and artistic, highly elaborate version of the former. The Vedic language was once a vernacular, but since the texts in it were holy and highly revered, the language was later standardized and it underwent polishing by Indian sages and philosophers giving rise to Sanskrit whose name can be translated as “well prepared, pure and perfect, polished”. But apart from Sanskrit proper, the Vedic language gave rise to its sister languages, not so refined, not so polished, but which were really vernacular languages in the times when Sanskrit became the language of educated philosophers, brahmins, and poets. Those sister languages are called Prakrits, “natural, original, unpolished”, the main ones being Maharashtri, Gandhari, Shauraseni, and Magadhi. Pali can also be considered a Prakrit, although later they did polish it very much. The Prakrits are the Middle Indo-Aryan languages, it is from them that the Modern Indo-Aryan languages developed.”
Now (you Dimitar) learn Greek and here comes the truth. We have archeological evidence that Greek alphabet was around no less than 7000 years ago, but archaic writers, including Romans often reference the writings of the “Old Ones – Pre-Pelsgic”. The videos below reference those old records. First, Greek travels and colonization of the World in Pelasgic times (long before BC – 6,000BC). There is actual evidence of ship making in Crete going back 130,000years. Minoan ship wreckage from about 2,500BC was found in the heart of Germany not to say about hundreds of archaic Greek cities in Germany.
Phoenicia was Greek (their Greek alphabet), so was Aramaic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z61IFwyBXGA
at 40:51 he shows archaic Macedonian plaque (oh my God it’s in Greek). He had one video explaining Greek origins and comparing linear A and B to Egyptian, Sanscrit, and other writing syllabic systems, unfortunately Youtube “vanished it”.
Building first cities in Egypt, India, Mesopotamia (including Sumer), Ukrainian steppes (the Scyths), America,
Polynesian Islands, etc.
In the video immediately below they also explain the word Ari (Arianoi, Arians), and so on.
But before we go there, if you look at this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
you will notice that there is no Greek page, because it’s all Fairy Tale.
Sorry, these are in Greek.
ΠΕΛΑΣΓΙΚΑ- Η ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΕΞΑΠΛΩΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΛΑΣΓΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ 1o ΜΕΡΟΣ (Populating the World Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlalUMmE3-k
There is also Part 2
Sumer the country of the Greeks.
ΠΕΛΑΣΓΙΚΑ – ΣΟΥΜΕΡΙΟΙ ΜΕΡΟΣ 1ο (Part 1):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CW2XFiwvo
ΠΕΛΑΣΓΙΚΑ – ΣΟΥΜΕΡΙΟΙ ΜΕΡΟΣ 2ο (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aNpHdeJwA
Greek Asia Minor
ΠΕΛΑΣΓΙΚΑ – Η ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΜΕΡΟΣ 1ο (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSl6iagdACI
ΠΕΛΑΣΓΙΚΑ – Η ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΜΕΡΟΣ 2ο (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peEgorokMZ0
The story goes on and on.
Similarities between Greek and Indian Gods (care to guess how they got to India? The never came to Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVaHEY_14ZU
Btw… an indefensible is something that can neither be proven, nor disproven by argument. You seem to not understand this. Ie; that there are different viewpoints in the world, and like your fellow Greeks, you act as if your “evidence” is conclusive. However, thousands – yes, thousands of virtually identical words are rather conclusive, in my opinion.
Were you confident of what you are saying you would not be trying to continually “prove” it to me. The fact that you’re continually trying to “prove” the “Greekness” of Macedonia shows that you’re, in fact, trying to prove it to yourself! Because you’ll never prove it to me, neither will you prove it to a single Macedonian.
So what’s the problem, anonius? A smart person would recognise that the problem is within themselves, not outside themselves.
Whether you address me or not in the future is up to you, I could care less. The only time I ever respond to your posts is when you’re continually trying to pass off Greeks as victims, etc. and yet ignore Greek genocide of Macedonians. Such an attitude reveals that to you, all that’s important is to impose your view, and this has always been the downfall of all human beings who have come to any amount of power which they then use against other human beings.
Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread. You’ve now wiped out a neighbouring people, by stealing their identity, still you’re not happy. There is a price to pay for such acts, and Greece will pay in the true coin for destruction of Macedonia with it’s own dissolution. This is a process already long begun.
In fact, what is all of the so-called great history you claim, in aid of? So that you can repress, deny, censure a neighbouring people? Where is the wisdom? A country of a few million people such as Greece is the second most indebted country in the world today behind the USA!!!
Read this, again… Greece is the second most indebted country in the world today behind the US!!!
The simple fact is that nothing will save you, and that whatever is left you will not have any control over! Kind of an ironic outcome, but in fact, the outcome, all those who try to live a lie at any cost. “Victory” is hollow, indeed!
For anonius, just to let him know that not everyone thinks the way he does; Macedonian Folk song about the Division of Macedonia, 1912/13, and a few other examples of Macedonian folklore in occupied Aegean and Pirin Macedonia.
VARDARE EGEJ KAJ TI E VARDARE PIRIN KAJ TI E ( Vardar; ie; Rep. of Macedonia, Where is Aegean Mkd. ie; Greek occupied Mkd, Where is Pirin, ie; Bulgarian occupied Mkd )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKZfE-qiBV8
Aegean Macedonian Women’s Dance – Žensko Beranče ( Ethnic Macedonian women’s dance brought by refugees escaping from the Greek Civil War to Rep. Mkd, circa 46-49 from Kostur, Aegean MKD. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2lkEDKlw-A
Ethnic Macedonian Dances from Aegean Macedonia featuring Macedonian Gajda ( Bagpipes )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVZMMBtgHk
Belomorska Kitka ( Belo More = Aegean Macedonia ),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8LJb17UpI
Pirinska Kitka ( Flower ) ( Pirin = Bulgarian occupied Macedonia )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpRDSmQ_WA
I noticed in the feed of videos that there were also Macedonian folk dance ensembles doing Traditional Macedonian dances, but passing themselves off as Greek. These would no doubt be ethnic Macedonians, or “Pushkari”, who have bowed to political pressure and have become “Greeks”. Greeks have no problem with accepting them as their own, thereby enriching their own culture no end. Btw. among those who still maintain their ethnic Macedonian identity, somewhere just under 800,000, that no songs with Macedonian language text is allowed, but music is, ‘acceptable’. This is 21st C. “Greece”, EU member etc. where you have to be who you are in secret, in order not to upset the delicate Greek sensibilty.
I’m posting this excerpt of a Glossary of Macedonian/Sanskrit words, as refutation of anonius’ claim
that Macedonians are Greeks. Furthermore, while Sanskrit is a classical language, the Macedonian words are virtually unchanged and are still in use today!! Words unchanged over centuries speak of an ancient people and language. I know this for a fact as I have studied Macedonian myths/practices – most if not all, have their roots in pre-Christian times.
Sanskrit Macedonian ( latin transc.) Meaning in English
Avi, veni Ovni ram
Avisa Ovtsa sheep
Avidam A-vidam as-I-see
Advaya Odvaya free form duplicity
Ažidahaka Aždaya evil dragon
Anga Noga leg
Antar Kantar balance for measuring weights
Anšala Inšala lust, strong
Asthra Osthra spear, also sharp
Arati Orati to plow
Bambhara Bumbar beetle
Baghavan Boguvan full of wealth
Baghata Bogata rich
Bhava Biva being
Bhavaniya Bivanya happenings
Bhaga Boga God
Bhadra Bodra Brave, good
Bhala Bela white
Budhi Budi awaken ( male )
Busa Biser pearl
A mere twenty words from the Glossary of the Macedonic/Sanskrit document proves that both the Macedonian language and the classical Indian language, Sanskrit share common origins. There exists proof easily available today in the internet age, that Macedonia is and has always been the native land of the Macedonian people. Serbs, as admitted by one poster here at Saker has Macedonia “on a technicality”, re: the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which in reality is a covert effort to steal the Macedonian spiritual legacy, and assimilate Macedonians as Serbs. Greeks claim the name, although Makedonija has never, ever been “Greek”, and Aegean MKD was forcibly taken from the majority Macedonian pop. in the Balkan wars c. 1912/13, another “technicality”. Bulgaria, a hybrid country confused about its identity, ( BG istoriography begins as Turkic/Mongol and ends as Slavic, read Macedonian ), claims language as Bulgarian, another “technicality” etc. The reality is that Macedonia is old, very, very old… and as it’s people were forced to emigrate over the centuries, were forcibly assimilated by stronger neighbours, became easy prey come the post industrial era of superpowers and their interests.
I beg people’s patience with posts like this, but even a casual observer will find the comparisons interesting
Dimitar, that is fascinating! Thank you for sharing that. I’ve studied a couple of languages on the eastern side of India, Thai and Indonesian, and know that Indian culture and Sanskrit had a great deal of influence long ago on both. The greetings Sawasdee in Thai and Om Swasti Astu in Balinese are both cognates of “swastika,” which in turn, I’ve heard, is a cognate of Russian “svet” and English “sweet.” Indonesian “kepala” (head) is another example that sticks out. Some time ago I encountered the numbers 1-10 in Javanese, and they seemed very similar to those in Russian.
Thus you have an eager audience with me.
Whole pdf here; http://www.pollitecon.com/html/ebooks/From-Sanskrit-to-Macedonskrit/
I guarantee you’ll find this a fascinating document, Patricia. Let me know what you think, when you can. My first art teacher, a Danish national, who happened to be a practising Vedantist, some 35 years ago shared this with me. I had no idea of it’s importance until a number of years ago when I found this document. The info contained therein, is entirely opposite to what the West passes off as ‘history’; ie; that Macedonia/Makedonija belongs to the Slavic world and not to “the West”. However, this is known in many countries of the East, in Russia and other Slavic countries.
Apologies… http://www.pollitecon.com/html/ebooks/From-Sanskrit-to-Macedonskrit.pdf
Or just google From Sanskrit to Macedonskrit, Patricia.
Yup……fascinating.
Dimitar
While I am not getting into this argument about Macedonia you do i assume know that Most European languages are closely related to Sanskrit ie it is part of the Indo European language group, which includes Greek,. Macedonian, Latin German Persian and the languages of Northern India. Greek is itself apparently closest to the Indian/Iranian languages.
You will also see close relationships between many of those words and Latin and french eg Sheep, to see, bela
Macedonian does not in fact derive from Sanskrit, along with the rest you mentioned, they all derived from a common proto-language, the origins of which are shared by both Sanskrit and Macedonian!
The article is supported by many examples of characters found throughout the region, that are all recognisable from today’s Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet.
A few more facts,
Putin has acknowledged that Macedonia gave Russia her alphabet.
Today’s Republic of Macedonia has more examples of archeological examples with proto-Slavic characters, scripts, letters than almost any other country in the world, and so on.
Macedonian is also the dominant middle language on the Rosetta Stone, which was proven by Tome Boshevski and Aristotle Tentov, two Macedonian linguists, a number of years ago, to widespread “humiliation” from Greeks and others on the Western payroll, however, that discovery had been made before, by Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion ( 1790 – 1832 ) who correctly recognised and underlined ythat the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone are in fact; Hieraglyphic, Old Macedonic and New Macedonic ( yes, he refers to Koine as “new Macedonian script, ie; derived from Macedonian ).
There is even a facsimile in the article of the original newspaper article some 200 years + old
In the article, there is a further facsimile from Websters, dated circa 1967, where they listed all Slavic languages such as Russian, Polish, Serbo/Croation, Bulgharian etc. etc. as deriving from Macedonian, which in subsequent re-issues was changed to Macedonian simply being one of the Slavic family of languages. So why was it changed? One thing is certain, the West knows the true history of Macedonia…
If, as you say, you are a dispassionate observer, then I recommend you read the pdf. It’s not a long file, some 52 pages, and over half of that is the Glossary. By the time you study the Glossary you will be astounded by the similarity; thousands of words are compared and no one can deny their common origin. If you do read the article, please get back to me if you wish with your opinions.
Thanks to ‘watcher’ for his question, because it does in fact bring us to the point that the whole “Macedonian Question” is some two hundred + years old, (actually way older, but for the last two hundred plus years, it has been a political issue among the great powers, Macedonia’s neighbours, etc ). It does not begin since Tito recognised the Macedonian identity and their right to a state within the Yugoslav Republic mid- Twentieth Century, and especially not since Macedonia split form YU in 1991, when Greece, in tandem with the Bill Clinton govt. raised the “name issue”.
It’s a political tactic that Greece plays the “history card”, because it’s a diversion from the political issue. Ie; the West not allowing a sovereign country to use it’s historic name, identity and cultural markers, when in fact it’s a political issue of basic human rights!
This is something that anonius himself, has never addressed, ie; the political dimension, nor has he ever responded to my questions of a political nature re: Greece’s repression of its Macedonian minority, its continuing attempts to wipe it out etc. He cunningly diverts the discussion to Macedonia’s history, and, armed with a battery of so-called ‘arguments’, tries to imply that the Greek genocide of Macedonians is a right that they have, because of their “historic claim to Macedonia”! It’s all a red herring.
In my reply, above, to watcher, I made the point of Webster Dictionary censuring the information that the Macedonian language was the root language for all Slavic languages, something that the West well and truly knows! So, the question remains, why are special rules made where Macedonia is concerned, that break all laws of legality, of logic, of common sense… and are imposed on Macedonia, and apply to no one else? Even the so-called imposed name, “North Macedonia”… where is Southern Macedonia? North America, South America, North Korea, South Korea, North Macedonia…?
Being an Ipsilantis descendant in Greece, I thank you for this informative historic post and I would consider your outline quite factual and defensible.
Not sure which post you’re referring to, there Milos, but if it’s a belief, it’s an indefensible. Therefore, one belief versus another is an indefensible.
A defensible is more of a scientific or mathematical equation. Matters/arguments where history, personal identity, beliefs are concerned fall into the domain of indefensibles.
Imposing of restrictions, censure on a weaker neighbour, party etc. has many names, but has no justifications spiritually, nor in any ethical or moral sense.
My view is that Greeks are free to believe what they want. But they have no right to disavow a weaker neighbour of the same right. Hope my position is clear. Mr. Anonius has not been able to grasp such a basic concept, I’m afraid.
Frankly, the Sanskrit and Macedonic Glossary disproves his case entirely, but never would I deign to impose my understanding on Greeks. I’m simpy backing up my argument with historic facts that go back some 4 to 5,000 years before the Danaan settlers even arrived on the Pelopopenese. You can believe what you want, it’s a free world, but one should have basic dignity to give the same to his neighbour, as the Christian Bible
says, “Love Thy Neighbour”. If one cannot love a neighbour, then one is not loving one’s self.
For an Ipsilantis Greek maybe, but for an ethnic Macedonian, no.
Life is a free-for-all. The effects of our actions are sufficiently delayed so that most of us cannot put together cause and effect, ie; why certain events have befallen us. We take the gifts of life for granted and put down our difficulties to bad luck. What are we going to do in the situation we now find ourselves in? Well, as Saker is fond of saying, probably double down further, and hope for the best, and when we find ourselves ‘under the gun’ next time around, we’ll do the same, and on it goes. What’s that definition of madness, again? Hoping for a different outcome?
The merry-go-round of seeking things that we’re convinced will improve our lot, only keeps us in a cycle of cause and effect. Confronted on a daily basis with what appears to be the ascendency of evil over the good in man, the destruction of our planet, “good” seemingly powerless, etc. etc. we wonder what’s life about? Am I a meaningless speck of consciousness or can I do something to help? Everytime the thought comes into our heads that we need or desire something, the answer must be ‘that man does not live by bread alone’ ( by effect or by creation ) but by Spirit, the Creator. That must be a continuous realisation until we have overcome our desire for anybody or anything that is in the external world. We have to lose all desire for the visible – in the realisation that we live not by that which is visible, but by that which is invisible. Then we shall find that the Infinite Invisible will produce for our experience the persons, things, circumstances and conditions necessary to our daily life.
Someone was having a dig in the last Cafe at happiness. But what is happiness other than being in a ‘close embrace’ with Divine Spirit? Our emotions will always effect our thoughts and vice versa, but in fact, happiness is our natural state! We’re simply under so many influences from the astral world ( the influence on this world from the Astral Plane is greater than any other of the invisible planes, esp. the lower astral… ), that we live in an almost permanent state of unrest. But once again, if we can cut through the storm of effects from the world around us on a daily basis, and remain on track to find and maintain that neutral centre within, then Divine Spirit can flow through us into the world around us, thereby creating ITs own effect. Letting go and letting God. This is an aspect of the nothingness that the great mystics refer to.
In “The Hidden Teachings of Rumi”, American writer, Doug Marman ( along with translators Farzad Khalvati and Mitra Shafaei ) analyses a poem by Rumi, “Love of Nothingness”. Rumi writes; “Whenever nothingness arrives, our existence seems to decrease. I praise the nothingness, that, when it comes, expands our Beingness.” He describes the terror we feel at being emptied of everything we’ve come to accept as being familiar, of everything we’ve come to accept as defining us as individuals and our standing in the world. But he goes on to say, that the Beingness we find there ultimately unencumbers Soul of all attachments and allows It to redefine Itself and embrace Its purpose with renewed vigour. To be as pure a vehicle for Divine Love, or Divine Power if you like, in as effective a way as possible, ie; utilizing one’s natural talents and loves.
I have found that political science is based on a visual plane, rather than based on reason, or a reasonable plane. So basically politicians cant be reasoned with b/c their actions are based on visual outcomes that trump actual reasoning, and we have many proofs for this theory.
The pinnacle of happiness though, is based on experience, experience based on feelings, deep feeling at that.
Some people have deeper feelings than others, and as such, have a greater depth of happiness than the ones who have less depth.
This is what makes us different types of people, and once one type of person doesn’t understand the other type of person, a hate can be spawned, and then acted upon in the form of majority law, only growing the hate deeper from the minority standpoint.
And since education and communicating are lacking where the different levels of happiness reside, we have a never ending battle of the ideologies. Perhaps one day this can get 1/2 straightened out, yet I doubt it.
But life and the pursuit of happiness continues on, sometimes in war, sometimes in peace, there is no stopping this, b/c it is part of the evolutionary process and as such, will always carry on.
The Experiencer is good to continue, in whatever all genres paradigms belief feelings, as long as there is still air time
There is nothing else
When the light/source is turn off, so does the experience of playing on (and recording?)
There is nothing else
Maybe it is just, IS
IS of which have no past nor future. IS that has no before nor after
There is a front cover for the book and there is a back cover, and the story in between, if its is opened up and read. And a character comes to live, strictly by the script that was written to its destiny
IS is IS
Is there something else?
Are you The Reader or are you The Experiencer?
Is that so?
Read or Experienced
IS is IS
Are you the Reader or are you The Experiencer?
Both. But not everyone can read another’s experience, especially if they haven’t had the experience in question, hence the need to be as clear as possible in our “reading”, or explanation. If we’re going to try to explain or at least probe, a subject, then we should at least define a parameter or two.
Your comment is rather cryptic, to say the least, ?, unless it’s read as poetry, which is probably best. But even then, it’s somewhat difficlut to take away a ‘germ of understanding’. Hopefully, I’m not being pesumptuous. Not intending to be, but you can be a little obtuse in your style of comment, my friend.
The subject of “nothingness” is not something we readily understand in the human state of consciousness. And just when we do get comfortable thinking “we understand”, it usually means we don’t.
My take is that Nothingness is the gateway to Beingness. I don’t know if there’s much more we can say about it, frankly. Except that upon the death of the physical body, we will know a lot more. Though, it’s not imperative to die
to experience “nothingness”, not at all. Ultimately, the individual is the canvas, that the experience is “painted onto”. Clumsy, I know, but what I’m getting at… many, if not all, inner experiences fade with time, but a truly spiritual experience will transform the experiencer beyond anything he/she has known or accepted himself to be
up to that point!
There are three types of realisations that Soul is destined to experience. The cosmic consciousness is an enlightenment of the mental body, and may pass with time.
Self Realisation. Every Soul is destined to experience Self Realisation; it is the discovery of one’s self as an eternal Being beyond time and space, and occurs differently for every Soul. It is lasting and promotes changes in the individual that he heretofore, has never known. It may be possible for someone to slide back from Self-Realisation, but it is only a temporary delay. I recommend those who wish to gain insight into the Self-Realised state to read Rumi, esp. Doug Marman’s book, “The Hidden Teachings of Rumi”. Coleman Barks translations are also good.
God-Realisation. This is the ‘game-changer’!! Once the God-Realisation experience has occurred, there is no going back! Once again, God Realisation occurs differently with every Soul. There are two accounts of God-Realistion that I know of that have been “translated” into book form. The first, by American writer, Paul Twitchell is titled “The Tiger’s Fang”. The second is by Harold Klemp, and that book is titled “Child in the Wilderness”. Both accounts are wildly different. I recommend both books, and readers can make up their own minds.
The only other point to make is that an individual may reach Cosmic Consciousness by his own efforts, it’s doubtful that anyone would reach Self and God-Realisation on their own. They would need to have a competent guide/teacher, otherwise they would be “burnt to a crisp” spiritually!
No one can tell where thoughts comes from and where it goes
but all of them think to himself he is a thinking being
p/s all are free to experience and read however they like :)
the story of life,
the nuance in its telling;
you are that!
The teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza are very helpful to reach the goal of the Super Natural Being we all are already. To experience this enlightenment takes time and effort indeed. But if you do the work consistently there will be a break through. Here you can find hundreds of testimonials of people who cured themselves from all kinds of diseases from parkinson to cancer and became greater than themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LMx0Zj9bLE. Or read his books and do the work: Becoming Super Natural, You are the placebo and Breaking the habit of being your self. Also the lecturers and interviews from Bruce Lipton help you to discover who you are. Both teachings are as well scientific as spiritual. I think this is the new normal and the solution for our wellbeing and thriving of our species.
So how will this work out in this earthly plane of suffering? Will it be a division of consciousness? I hope that more and more people come to understand that they are far greater than they are led to believe.
“How will this work out in this earthly plane of suffering? Will it be a division in consciousness?”
There’s a battle occurring within each individual, just as there are battles occurring in the outer world around us, Ingrid. Those battles are always a battle between love, or the expansive, universal state of consciousness, acceptance/forgiveness etc. and power, the consciousness of control, censure, restriction. The gap will keep widening. More will jump ship from power to love as things become more extreme. The world may “go up in flames”, and power may win in the short term, but love, always wins in the long term. Lovers don’t always get there reward in this world, though.
Actually its a very rare occurance for lovers to reach their pinnacle of love, and once there, there is no understanding, just a secretive silence awaiting another pair of like minded lovers to converse over their accomplishments. Rarely are they found, but the pair do leave clues behind in decoration, movies or photos in hopes that the passing of knowledge will aid some different future pair to their journey of happiness.
But oddly they never leave behind enough to complete the picture, it always takes further study and experience (and expertise) to get to the end of the love rainbow. And if one would achieve this task on a singular note somehow, and not have the partner to the end, satan condems this and has no problem ending their life to enhance his power and glory in the vacuum of knowledge, in the name of accumulating money.
This is the way of the worlds past, present, and future.
Alabama, what need does a true lover have for money, friend? Or knowledge or anything else for that matter? Human love is a catalyst that propels the individual unit of consciousness toward becoming a lover of God, or of Truth. Love gives a sense of being a part of something greater than one’s individual self, and even survives death. I’ve personally experienced meeting loved ones in the dream state, who’ve passed on and saw that certain conditions were different – things I could never have imagined, that I could in no way have foreseen, because they were a part of the world that those souls had earned for themselves, and I was given the opportunity to meet with them because of the love we shared. And this is an experience that many have had!
Love strikes at the most vulnerable point in the body, but grows and carries Soul far, far beyond the borders of any world, physical or otherwise! Love is the golden coin that one presents at every turn in the worlds of God, to gain entry, and the doors are opened. Love is the only thing you get more of by giving away! That’s why it’s an Ocean of Love and Mercy, my friend! That’s why the Lord of the Negative Worlds keeps the individual introverted through fear, through attachment, the mental passions etc. He keeps people on the treadmill of cause/effect, the exertion of personal power, and then reaping its wages. For one reason only, to keep Soul just a step away, if need be, from the love within its own heart that will ultimately set it free.
Here is the great secret of the ages… All is love, there is nothing but love!! How does one become that love? By giving it, and by loving all of life! Not personal love, but charity, or detached love. Until one puts aside all that he thinks he is, all that he things he owns, all that he thinks he needs, wants etc. and the pursuit of those things, then he will not have love!!!
This is what all servants of God have taught throughout the ages… but they are always outlawed, belittled, crucified, villified for their trouble. Why do you think that is? Because the ‘evil’ in man, which is the ego, the love of power, the possessive, the dominant “my way or the highway” type of consciousness is the Devil’s only tool against love. So he keeps people’s attention off love and on everything else!
Love cannot be in 2nd or 3rd or 4th place in one’s life to make a difference. It must be greater than fear, it must consume the consciousness, so the individual is willing to give up everything for it if necessary. People will either understand this or they won’t. And if they don’t they will, one day. Soul is given as many incarnations as necessary to come to these realisations within itself, because God has no use for an ignorant or unseasoned Soul. The journey of Soul through the lower worlds is to make it more Godlike, and the difficulties It experiences forces it to look deeper into Itself than it ever has. The question God asks, is… well, how badly do you want love, dear one? And the next question is… what are you prepared to give for it?
Well Dimitar, if reaching true love costs money, and you have none (or not enough), one is eventually going to feel spited by the need to have something, (money, or what ever is needed that costs money) and the inability to aquire it.
One might even go as far as to spite god for having put them into that position and not having the ability to grant it. Remember I am referring to the pinnacle of love here, there are perhaps 100’s of lower forms of love that satisfy each to their own, but those always leave a percentage of frustration behind that many times flowers and roots into a destructive pattern of behavior as each decade goes by and the pain of life now is greater than the love once enjoyed during ones youth.
As for how badly does one want love, well one can go to war over it, and as for the giving, this is a hard question if one has nothing to give b/c someone, or something (like the law) has taken from you that which one would have given, if they had not taken it to say, prevent one from gaining love, weather being money or even a person.
Myself I have gone to war against the law for love, so I guess I give my services against the law to gain love. But if real true love only comes around once every twenty years or so, and you have accepted a declaration of war from the law, and that war is only a few years old, like Lincoln thinking the civil war was going to be a short affair, but soon realizing there was not going to be a quick victory, he addressed the nation with a day of humiliation conceding the fact that, this was going to be a long war.
I too have accepted the fact that this war over love, and against the law, is most probably going to be a long war. And the only question that remains is one going to have to go on the offensive, or might it be a defensive strategy that could be employed, and still successfully win the war?
Alabama, I’m talking about inner possessions, friend… nothing to do with the outer world. Attachments, likes, dislikes, predjudices, fears, habits, etc. are what is necessary to be surrendered.
Anyway, I’m outta here… preparing for the road tomorrow. Apart from maybe a post or two, if necessary, as reply to my posts, I’ll catch ya in a few weeks! Best, D.
ok, take care.
CDC: Nearly 1 in 10 American Adults Are Severely Obese
https://sputniknews.com/society/202002271078422962-cdc-nearly-1-in-10-american-adults-are-severely-obese/
“A report released this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that around 42% of American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 are severely obese.”
That may be true of the u.s. west coast, but for the rest of the country once one gets away from the west coast all the way across the country to the east coast, it is a gross underrating of the bulbous state of affairs in pindoland. In my personal observations the obese figure is more like 75-80%, while those severely obese is closer to 25%.
Here in the states we are in a deflationary spiral, this will only add to the social problems this country faces. It will be a good long while before this trend is turned around and may get worse before getting better, if it ever gets better.
In 1980 prior to the food pyramid and other subsequent us government dietary guidelines there was this comedic movie made called “Fatso” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOOqjplprk ;
by today’s standards Mr Deluise would barely qualify as “chubby.”
Roughly 10 years later, my grandfather who was born in and emigrated to America from Germany went to a nursing home. Visiting him I remember him commenting on the Nurses aides, spreading his arms wide and emphatically intoning, “Never before have I seen such hu-u-u-u-gh behinds!” (You had to be there to experience the full effect.) It became a long running family inside joke.
I have been contemplating fasting for the season of Lent. Already I regularly skip breakfast, in what is known as intermittent fasting. Culturally we have been conditioned to eat three times a day and the lion share of the American diet is carbohydrates.
In the Lord’s prayer, we ask for “our daily bread” which is the bread that we actually need, not to be confused with a carbo rush.
When Native Americans were rounded up and put on reservations they were introduced to white flour as if to get them ‘hooked’ and be adsorbed by ‘the system.’ Black Elk relates in Black Elk Speaks getting ill eating cookies and biscuits when he toured with Wild Bill’s western show. This is the mirror opposite of dieters experience the “keto flu” making the switch from carbs to fat.
Well this was a bit unorganized. I think I will go back and be a lurker. Maybe someday(or not) I’ll share my thoughts about Q– a banned topic I know– Rene Girard , and political science “Satan casting out Satan” and how they fit together — this is something I actually have been thinking about, but it is probably above my pay grade.
Coincidence I listened today to a health video docuseries on the liver, each day a new vid for next 8 days still.
There’s everyone from alternative, open -minded MD’s to dentists, cardiologists, internal medicine, DO’s DC, etc.
The MD who got off the pointless pill-for-each-ill treadmill now does other natural lines of diagnosis & remedies had happen to him specifically that—severe right side pain, acute but intermittent, just around lowest right front rib. So, wasn’t the gallbladder, not appendix either. It was that big right lobe of the liver.
He pushed in with his right hand, fingers straight & flat, and nearly passed out from the pain.
Sometimes just twisting at the hips brought it back.
Wasn’t on any drugs, not a drinker or smoker, in his 50’s, so what was it?
It was simply too much carbs, which are highly inflammatory.That’s grains, breakfast cereal, any bakery items of course, etc.
It’s exactly the way the frenchies make their pate de fois gras, from geese or ducks–they literally force-feed stuff them with carbs till their liver nearly explodes from fatty liver. then off to market.
why did it happen at all to him, 1st time ever? Age. Liver can only handle so many toxins either at once, or cumulatively lifetime. So his liver’s efficiency & capacity was less in his 50’s.
All the doc did is go complete cold turkey off carbs, & it was gone.
if someone has poor blood sugar regulation, as in too low more so than too high, that’s also done by the liver during sleep, putting out glycogen. not anything to do with the pancreas/insulin if an empty stomach at night–those 2 organs can be thought of as the day-night BS teeter-totter, as another utube health vid by a really amazing doc puts it. So if liver’s unbalanced/under attack/inflamed, another symptom is waking up thru the night due to too low blood sugar.
But how to get past the contradiction of too low blood sugar, when carbs hurting the liver but are definitely preferred to any sugars, which will only spike insulin to drive down the level while awake?
Answer is to have a small serving of WARMED OVER (reheated from the fridge) starchy/carbs, like potatoes, rice, about 2 hours b4 bed.
It’s been known not many years now, even with the internet, that if you cook some complex carbs from raw or dry, then cool them completely for about 6 hours in the fridge, then when reheated the oligosaccharides change ever slightly chemically into a slow-burning version of the original. Quite amazing.
Re cooked then chilled starches, Indeed tom, it’s called Retrogradation ; “Retrogradation restricts the availability for amylase hydrolysis to occur which reduces the digestibility of the starch.”
As it become indigestible, that means it’s actually now a fibre, and body just excretes it, thus reducing the sugar load and energy supply to the body.
I’ve long thought that so much of obesity is just a function of what any persons’ given limits for food and starches is. We seem to have developed a mentality in the AngloEuro Western nations, that more is fine, of everything. The only reason people used to have one medium sized potato with a meal was because they were poor, or there were few potatoes. However, now we can afford a ton per meal, so go ahead and have them.
No.
If you look at what a normal meal consisted of in days gone by, most were very moderate. I think we each have a given amount we can use before we start to make stores in the form of fat. A woman with a build much like mine might be able to get through six slices of bread and 4 potatoes a day and stay slim. I try the same and I put on weight. We just have to find out for ourselves what we can use.
This labelling of all high blood sugar from over eating as “diabetes” seemed to me to be as absurd as someone who drinks half a bottle of vodka, then gets called some sort of disease state because they get drunk and sick.
It may be all you can tolerate is one slice of bread, kept in the fridge and then toasted, per day. And if that’s so, that’s what you limit yourself too, without any name of “diabetes”.
The other issue with these allowed levels is the way they keep changing. First a BP of 130/80 was fine, then they decided 120/80, now apparently they want 110/80 – when few except the very young athletes will achieve that. Given the propensity to then give drugs, I’m suspicious.
Iv’e spent a long time working things out for myself, and reading into this area, and have come to the conclusion that, in the main, our ancestors from 100 yrs ago had more sense, and that each of us is very different, and trying to follow a one size fits all is lacking in common sense.
If you enjoy following medical information that moves away from the standard western model often, you might like this gentleman:
https://www.youtube.com/user/YorkCardiology
He fixed my insomnia after a few years of struggle – with one simple little supplement I had no idea I was so low in – Magnesium.
@ vot tak
“… In my personal observations the obese figure is more like 75-80%, while those severely obese is closer to 25%. …”
Yes, my observation too.
As for the causes…
One is https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.esellerpro.com%2F2486%2FI%2F466%2F1%2Fstressed-is-desserts-coaster.jpg , an unnatural “American way of life” is certainly not without consequences.
Other ones include, a massive poisoning of the population by toxic chemicals in the food, water and the environment, and the extremely unhealthy types of foods consumed. All enabled by the thoroughly corrupt FDA, which is there merely to promote the interests of the big businesses – while pacifying the masses by creating the appearance of protecting them.
I have recently read some alarming statistics, a most disturbing trend, whereby within a few short years some half (?) or so of all the children born in the U.S. will be autistic.
There is also a genetic factor, of course, though this is not unrelated to the above factors.
It’s late and a lot of work for a luddite to present the links; apologies. The Mercola website is convenient. The autism epidemic is clearly parallel to the vaccines containing what the promoters euphemistically refer to as adjuvants , mercury and aluminum compounds. The enforcement of these injections dovetails nicely with the other sources of such systematic poisoning via chemtrail poisoning, primarily aluminum and barium nano-particulates. Bill gates-of-hell has a patent on coronaV. A few thousand tons of roundup in the tossed salad with 5G dressing, we’ll get rid of a lot of useless eaters and they’ll praise us all along.
Keep ’em focused on pervert rights and overwhelmed with war news and plunging income security,what could go wrong.?
Your kingdom may be humble, it may be grand, but the wise king knows that there is always another step to take toward a more effective governing of his dominions.
“No matter what you do, you cannot succeed…” He also knows that despite his best efforts, there is no end to people’s needs, desires, wants…
“Golden tongued wisdom..” A form of prophecy where we hear something, a word or phrase that we take to have direct relevance to a situation or problem at hand.
The Wise King
Well, you dot your “i’s”
and you cross your “t’s”,
You hedge your bets
with the greatest of ease.
Others sleep, you
prepare for the freeze;
You know that the forest
depends on the trees.
You’re the king of the castle,
with its walls so steep;
Your meadows are thick
with cattle and sheep!
So much to be done
for the kingdom’s upkeep;
Shoulder to the hoe,
there are harvests to reap!
You lead by example,
you live by creed.
You share what you have
with those in need.
Too little’s not enough,
and too much is greed;
No matter what you do,
you cannot succeed!
A bushel of wheat
and an old millstone.
Or a sumptuous feast
while you sit on a throne?
All of these things
are but gifts on loan,
For man does not live
by bread alone!
Children shed tears
for sparrows that fall.
Maidens shed tears
behind garden walls.
The widower and the widow
in her old black shawl…
Every minute of the day
you hear Death’s call!
You are the Wise King,
the Lord of the keep;
Your rivers are wide
and your waters, deep.
At times you can hear
the Golden Tongue speak…
Lovers will listen
and the faithful will leap!
5 years ago today was Boris Nemtsov murdered
A letter to an undisclosed-recipient – Sunday, March 01, 2015
Greetings A,
A, no doubt you have heard about murder of Boris Nemtsov on your western media propaganda
yesterday and today, trying to blame President Putin and the Kremlin ….
…. Putin has never and currently has no need to ‘assassinate’ his opponents as western media
are already suggesting. Nemtsov was a political small potatoe who posed no threat at all to
immensely popular Putin.
http://leurenmoret.info/currents/conversations/cruel-murder-of-boris-nemts/index.html
Russia seems to have lost patience with Erdogan today. Erdogan is releasing the hordes of jihadis and refugees into Europe becaue the EU won;t defend him from Russia. There are black swans all around us right now.
Yeah, almost, no one is taking notice here, but the situation in Idlib is spiraling out of control. RT reporting more dead Turks (terrorists) after a Syrian airstrike. Again, famous Saker words each “click” brings us one step closer to the “bang” are becoming a reality. Anyone care to comment?
Keep an eye on the non msm news. War or climb down? This could go either way. We’ll know in the next few hours, I think.
I remember from watching a few documentary interviews – how people who had known Vladimir Vladimirovich from way back in the day, stated that he could not forgive anyone who had betrayed him. He repeated this again in the Andrei Kondrashev documentary. Whether he actually forgave Erdogan the last time he betrayed him, I dont know. Maybe Erdy got away with it by claiming he acted in ignorance.
But somehow I Just dont see President Putin forgiving a second time. He must be livid. And he wont let this one go by.
Just look at the South Front military map for Thursday, 27 February 2020, https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/27feb_NorthWest_Syria_Map.jpg ! Turks have recaptured Saraqib – which means they have now cut the main Damascus-Hama-Aleppo highway M5!
What is Russia now planning to do about the situation?
According to RT.com, Erdogan seems to be trying to involve NATO in the fight, referring to the “Article 5” and some 33 Turkish soldiers killed in the fighting. If indeed so, is a very major war looming?
Moscow is strangely silent. Is this just silence before a big storm – or silence before retreat?
Life imitating art or just ‘co-incidences’?
Coronavirus was eerily predicted in a 1981 novel “The Eyes of Darkness” by (Leigh Nicholas) aka Dean Koontz – which talks about a deadly virus used as a biological weapon named Wuhan-400.
The epicenter of real-life Coronavirus is … Wuhan, China.
The plot revolves around a mother who attempts to find out what happened to her son after he mysteriously disappeared on a camping trip. It turns out that the boy is held in China – more specifically in Wuhan, the site of a deadly virus outbreak.
Another strange fact: The 2017 French comic Asterix and the Chariot Race featured a masked villain named … Coronavirus.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/coronavirus-was-eerily-predicted-in-a-1981-novel/
Maybe the real war that is happening right now on earth is – The Frequency War
He who controls frequency, controls everything!
What is not a frequency? Our being? Our thoughts? Our experienced ‘reality’? The virus?
Just thinking-out-loud :) Just an observation and question
Peace
I would go with everything has frequency or rather, is frequency. Yet, for me the metaphysical and the physical must sing the same song. :-) Thing is, frequency is metaphysical. We create (and we are creator beings in my view), by using thoughts, feelings, hopes, wishes and in the unseen realm. But, bring that through to reality, and we will see if it stands up. We as beings are in reality because we are designed to be so. With correct frequency, we can even create DNA change in ourselves. There are great teachers out there (if one can sift out those into ‘new age’ beliefsets), that are working with this. I like the work of Dr Joe Dispenza and also very specifically Bruce Lipton. But one has to take care that you don’t again create your own god out of yourself, so this stuff should also be very carefully discerned. Can’t be so ‘heavenly minded’ that you are ‘no earthly good’.
The virus? We simply have to see what develops. I read some time ago that the very popular fiction writers are actually paid for their plots in many cases by the various intelligence agencies.
In order to bring about their “order” a tale must be spun by self-styled globalist elites……of desirability ….or doom….take your pick, but in either case………The Most Common Narrative is the inevitability of the “New” Order desired by the Masters of Discourse.
Thus much (but not all!) of human history becomes..the “same old, same old” His-Story of intention to coopt the Time and Energy …the existence of others……nullifying their creative potential….or at least nullifying it from sparking interest in creating any alternative outcome……not desired by the Olympian “gods” or oligarchy for all they have to offer their creator: Self Glorification of their Own Absurd EGO.
Which is quite an affront to the spiritual notion “Fear is an Illusion….All is Love.”
Thus the need for False Flags and new fake, supposedly “natural” virus outbreaks……..to continually fan the flames of fear.
We’re talking internal work Bro. I don’t think these glib statements like ‘fear is an illusion’ are truly always glib because I don’t think fear is an illusion. I think it is a reality that we can only work with if we work on internal fortitude and it is a very necessary emotion for our wellbeing – it is a real warning when needed. All is love? well, do we even know what that is? I mean really, deeply – within that resonance? I don’t think we really know. But these are just my thinkings.
SImplify it then, and make it more practically clear:
Those who use fear of the virus’s real, threatened or exaggerated spread have zero love in their intentions… they have no idea how to use love in policy…. much less even conceive of it….
But Fear???
They seek to rule through it………because they are ruled BY it.
It is all they know, and thus they are trapped in seeking to master it…..for “What “else” is there…in their minds?
This is what I intended to say.
As to fear being a “necessary emotion”….I kinda doubt that one!
Cautious reaction or prudent anticipation in putting safer preventive measures in place are far, far better served by clear thinking and calm under pressure than getting all emotionally flooded with fear……about anything, IMHO.
“Focus on what’s real……….not what you feel.”
The problem is, many say….and earnestly feel, “Well come on, now! IS there, could there EVER be … anything more real than what I feel?”
Most definitely!
Creativity (which is motivated by love, far more effectively than by fear!) is more real.
Take Harley’s approach today, for example:
https://youtu.be/rreZWNwAm8w
Don’t Blame Coronavirus for the Coming Economic Crash
Come to think of it, I’ve never once seen him fearful, either in person…or on video and I’ve known him since the early 1990’s………when his assignments divided his time between California….and Texas.
Does he “fear” a crash?
You could most definitely fear it if you avoided even thinking about it til the last moment, and realized you were unprepared…and had no idea what to do about it, either personally or politically….except panic!
But what about if you had worked tirelessly for nearly a half century against the public errors predictably leading to the current unprecedentedly dangerous mess, including 911…and most things since that we don’t like… and knowingly faced, for a long time, with action, not fear…an even higher degree (general war…mass death???) of intensity of crisis eventually, but ALL the while consistently organizing for the saner (and more loving!) alternative needed to dial the public fear down???
Fear under such circumstances would be way out of character…and just get in the way of continuing to provide an example of the thinking and leadership required………..in the midst of a known and anticipated worsening of a crisis……………….. long, long prepared for!
Unfortunately some people wait for fear to kick their asses in gear.
With rather mixed results, I might add.
A few days ago I wrote w few lines about fear :
/isnt-it-time-to-leave-the-past-behind/#comment-759721
What I can add is that fear is part of human character, from the smallest to the biggest. Fear has dominated human history, being always exploited by the Masters but also by our brothers and sisters in our daily life. Whatever potential danger gives water to fear it is natural, once we are in a prison camp.
Our weaknesses are being exploited by those whom you mention, unless we are not reaching the perfection, who can achieve that? maybe a few people did, I’m not among them anyway.
Bro .. “SImplify it then, and make it more practically clear:”
OK, we are talking about our own internal processes, not about what ‘they’ are, whoever ‘they’ are.
Emotions are as necessary to us, as breathing. That does not mean we cannot reason – that means that there is meaning to our reasoning (if we are not very screwed up).
Fear is an emotion .. sometimes an emotional response because it is for most of us unclear whether our world is stimuli-response or response in our brain first, before stimuli. There are many experiments for the latter, i.e., something ‘outside’ of us, which may even be still ourselves but in esoteric realm, already figures a situation, even before we are physically aware of it.
Even babies respond to fear stimuli, there to protect us.
The world is governed by fear on different levels now, with subtle, pervasive styles hard to evaluate..
Hard on recognition and on evaluation ; their ingenuity surpasses everyday levels of awareness.
Censorship is such a pervasive weapon of mass control.
Try to think about this, freely, and without emotion. Critical thinking has mass value, after all ; )
The question, the issue here seems to be lost. I’ll try and be more direct. What are you, and I, and each of us that know the fear is a control tool, doing about it? Personally, ourselves. How are we ‘training’ our own fear, how are we doing internal work, so that we are not overcome?
Its not so hard to understand – I’m talking personal domain. Not ‘they’ and ‘them’. Surely we are not without ability.
That seems an excellent response. What am I doing about it ?
I try to meet fear at any moment with thought and not reaction based on prior assumption. It is very hard.
What inhibits me at any time of the day when face to face with making a conscious decision, or choice ?
Why am I phased about another’s perception of an issue or topic, that is different from mine ?
Fear is a driving force, a motivator, a divider and conqueror if we allow it to imprison thought process
Emotion is the brilliant enabler of thought through reverence, and reverence is bound to humility.
I view the human experience from the personal. I have “general” fears from such as the Corona virus and my family being affected. There are more immediate fears such as the night before entering “the valley of death” as in the next mission in the night or morning. There is the sudden fear when the first shot is fired or booby trap tripped. Fear is then a huge detriment to your performance. I’ve experienced these. Curbing fear and doing what is needed may or may not be a choice. I experienced both. I saw both in others. You don’t know how you will react when people are dying. I didn’t and neither would you. Movies and books are produced showing such. Yes, fear can motivate as well as paralyze. Timing is everything. One thing I noticed in at least the American military is that when a soldier is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, he is SOON taken out of combat. You don’t want your HERO to be a coward in the next fight. It’s not certain that he won’t, or that he will be killed.
Right now, general fear is being used to blunt the enlightenment of humanity to the satanic criminal’s plan for us.
How we as individuals and humans in general respond is critical. I don’t have the answer. I’ll know it when I see it.
Steve Pahs/Wolfhound, I always read your thoughts and accounts of life experiences with interest and deep respect, as I know other’s do here.
What I am trying to say concerns the preparation and way to deal with fear. There is such a conscious path.,
As I also wrote above, it is a hard path, and perhaps the reason so many choose to avoid it, but one is free to try, no one and nothing can take this freedom away.
If I had not learned the rudiments of this from my own life experience, I would not write about it on here.
As the light of the sun melts ice, the light of clear thought and discernment melts fear.
If that sounds nebulous and ungrounded then so is the sun.
@amarynth
You may like these…
Indian Thought with Kiran Kumar Salagame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYgh5C_shtI
Indian Psychology with Kiran Kumar Salagame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9qZ_KRGWKM
HAS or IS? Just like the slit experiment – it may come down to the Observer Effect – wave or particle. Itd be a great subject to study and for SELF-discovery too :)
Anyhow I was thinking somebody may be use satellites to manipulate frequencies in this grand virus show. If they can beam frequencies in a room and conduct the voice of god Advanced Brainwave Entrainment Technology, may be, just may be they are now deadlier to beam frequencies to move, wave or particles, which is everything, whether HAS or IS. They have always wanted to be the Mind of GOD.
Now that’s some serious species-control alien-tech sh*t!
Peace :)
Catherine Austin Fitts – Black Budget Space Wars And AI Superpowers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqWy4Twh0RQ
CAF talk about many things inc possible nano tech in the CoV19
Thanks ?. I would encourage everyone to take the time for this CAF interview. It is less nuanced than others and a very wide scope. This woman is worried. Well, I am too as things are happening very fast.
So, it is to the tribal sounds music I go. Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq “You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zb0WTSLsY
You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind)
Whether you’re woman or whether you’re man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
Oh you got to run you got to run
Whether you’re woman or whether you’re man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
Oh you got to run you got to run
Trying against the odds you’re in a trance
Say who’d you think you are to have a chance
You’re a no one, from a place
Where everyone, knows your face
You come and go and you know the sun
So you better hang on and hey you better run
Cause here’s your chance and your race has begun
Down, in a hole
You feel like two different people in your soul
Feel like a loser, until you see
That as you bend
You learn to be
Your own best friend
And you learned how and you learned when
To take a chance on the spirit of the wind
Ho!
Hay ha hay ha ya hey hi yo
Hay ha ha heyo heyo hi ya yo
Hay ha ha heyo hey ha ya yay
Hay ha ha ha heyo heya
Whether you’re woman or whether you’re man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
Oh you got to run you got to run
Play, hey women down
We’ve been so broken been so low that it kissed the ground
But you can see yourself a winner beyond the money
And the greed, beyond the pride and the pure and tested need
And to be a champion is more than luck and speed
There’s power and freedom in the spirit of the wind
Ho! Ha!
Hay ha hay ha ya hey hi yo
Hay ha ha heyo heyo hi ya yo
Hay ha ha heyo hey ha ya yay
Hay ha ha ha heyo heya
Whether you’re woman or whether you’re man
Sometimes you got to take a stand
Just because you think you can
Oh you got to run you got to run
Hay ha hay ha yo hey hi hay
Hay ha ha hayo ayo hay ha ho (Standing Rock!)
Hay ha ha hayo hay hi ha yay
Hay ha hay ha heyo heyo
https://lyricstranslate.com
Nice one amarynth, many thanks for sharing !
I’d like to share a touching short video on Twitter.
Years ago doctors found out that a girl still in the womb had an underveloped right arm. They even said that “abortion was an option”. Her mother refused.
Now just look what has become of her, 17 years later she tells it herself.
https://twitter.com/Sam_DeLoach/status/1231950566932254720
Cheers, Rob
An interesting and disturbing interview some may have missed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5fhQYIgzO0
Lavelle interviews Alastair Crooke {and even manages not to keep interrupting :-) }
What disturbed and surprised me was Crookes’ clear interpretation that the entire mess in the ME is a direct cause of an Israeli religious war based on their interpretation of Isaiah, and also that America now follows this. He says America is beginning, among it’s Fundamentalists, to refer to themselves as “Judeo-Christian”.
Armageddon followed by the Rapture, it seems.
This one is new to me. Crooke seems to come with good credentials for his working knowledge of the ME.
I wonder what Saker would say to his claims, or other commentators.
Seemed to make sense to me.
The sky is blue because it glows!?!
Lord Rayleigh, some many centuries before, determined that scattering of visible wavelengths must account for our azure skies. Has this theory now become obsolete? Surely the color of the Northern Lights is not such, but rather is well known to be a chemo-luminescent glow, an energy emission in the visible spectrum. Is lightning any different, is not a spark blue, the same blue as the sky? —The phenomenon of Airglow.
9300+ athelites participated in the Wuhan military games. They came from 110 countries. The games started on Oct 19th, 2019. Most of, if not all, will have recieved inocculatiuons for specific diseases/viruses present at the games location. How many thousands of Wuhan support workers were present for the games. How many were autoinocculated by being in close contact with said soldiers? Spanish Flu 2.0. Covid19 is not magicly spreading to other countries, it’s being brought back by returning soldiers. One of the major causes for the spread of the Bubonic Plague was defenders of besieged cities would throw the dead bodies of plague victims onto sieging soldiers, those soldiers who became infected, brought the plague home with them.
If they really got infected, we will never find out, everywhere the military have their own well established tough rules, soldiers being kept in quarantine is not going to be big news, no journalist will be allowed to investigate in that “club”.. As for the relatives, they are used that their kid, husband, friend etc., being a military man/woman, have to obey the orders and keep their mouth shut.
Peter Lavelle talking with Dmitry Babich, Marcus Papadopoulos, and Alexander Mercouris.
The ‘Russiagate’ hoax lives on! The sequel has just been released. Starring, of course, Donald Trump,
but also now Bernie Sanders! Indeed, Russiagate has achieved cult like status. Also, Turkey on the
ropes in Syria. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EF2b7EK0s
In keeping with the good cheer depicted in our Café image
In celebration of Life
and the kaleidoscope of topics discussed here
An exhilarating version of a golden oldie
Windmills…Mind…
https://youtu.be/5q3y5jYZ6V4
Mods, please, is it possible that my astrological comment below Saker’s analysis, for another time is not appreciated there, but only in the cafe? Well, be it as it will, I then try it here again. Feel free to delete this).
The ‘Sultan’ Recep seems to be obsessed. On Sunday March 1., he will start the war for ‘his’ land.
How much is psyop, how really dangerous is he. He became 66 on February two days ago.
Horoscope allows to read his current state.
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/02/recep-in-fever-time-for-isolation.html
People residing in the states had better pray the virus doesn’t arrive here or they will become prey to the health care industry. This industry is so corrupt, that a person who came in for testing found that they did not have the virus, but then were hit w/a $3000 bill, I heard this from a congressmen on cnn, so if this word gets out to any degree people will for go the testing in lou of a bill they cant afford to pay, only increasing the chances of spreading the virus. Isn’t democracy great?
Yeah, it is, you pay the health insurance for years or a life long period then when you make such a decision…bang!!!… moreover when you can’t afford to give up such a sum.
I already have so many cases against this gvt that I wont feel pity when it all collapse’s in a chaos filled room of shouting imbeciles wondering where it all went wrong. And they have no one to blames but themselves.
How many coronavirus cases reported in israel?*
Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Available in 90 Days – Israeli Scientists
https://sputniknews.com/society/202002281078433432-coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-available-in-90-days—israeli-scientists/
“Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis confirmed Thursday that scientists are close to developing the first vaccine against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
The vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days if all continues going according to plan, Akunis noted.
“Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough. I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,” Akunis is quoted as saying, the Jerusalem Post reported.”
Big surprise, eh? Create a new disease and then be the first out with vaccine. Besides the geopolitical angle, it’s a great business strategy, yes?
* As far as I know, there have been zero coronavirus cases registered in israel.
7 Total in Israel. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Health-Ministry-confirms-second-case-of-coronavirus-in-Israel-619189
Of course these could be double or triple for all we know.
From various reports that came flying by last week, I would say that these tests are quite unreliable, and have a chance of a false negative when infected and tested of around 80%.
So you can multiply the numbers with a factor 5.
In the county just a few kilometers from where I live, already 35 infected were counted yesterday. Multiply that with 5, and try to imagine how many of them have partied at carnival last week…
Be safe.
Cheers, Rob
I would say yes if it wern’t for the superb ability of the israelie to lie so comfortably well. They have a big financial stake in reporting this, so if and when it does not materalize, expect the mkts to tank in a serious way.
But by then they will most likely have extracted a good portion of their wealth and be once again sitting pretty controlling the financial world with their collaborators, and holding the not so fortunate to the task of paying their bills.
According to a report from CBC News, the decline in China’s industrial activity has caused a 25% drop in carbon emissions into the atmosphere. This means there is less pollution blocking solar radiation … resulting in a rising temperature here on earth.
And may I add that when compared to this rising temperature, the Coronavirus is not the big problem.
Pompass is one sick dude but, but, he is trump’s leading “diplomat!”
https://www.rt.com/news/481947-iran-pompeo-coronavirus-insult-sanctions/
I dont know so much about the pomp, but I did see billy (gates) with an evil grin on his face today, as if it was partly his doing to whittle the weak so as to not stress out the few remaining resources the planet has left for the future generations. He was giving away money to stop the spread of the virus.
Musical Chairs in the White House
On the job training in the intelligence community
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/musical-chairs-in-the-white-house/
“Here in the Land of Oz, otherwise known as Washington, one continues to run into people who should know better who insist that they have a friend in the White House who confirms that President Donald Trump is really a man of peace being obstructed as he seeks to withdraw the United States from senseless wars in Asia. They argue that the Deep State or Establishment, to include the media, are so blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome that they cannot get behind his policies even when they would be good for Americans.
The problem with that argument is that there have been clear instances when the president could have followed through on pledges to reduce troop levels or withdraw completely from war zones before reversing himself and doubling down rather than doing the right thing. One need only cite the increases in numbers of combatants in both the Middle East and Afghanistan and the reversal of an initial decision to stage a complete withdrawal from Syria which instead turned into a move to occupy the country’s oil fields.
Donald Trump’s latest appointment, guided purely by malevolence, is, however, in another category completely, even in an administration where bullheaded ignorance is considered a virtue. Rick Grenell, currently the United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, is completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), where he would be the nominal head of the entire intelligence community (IC), 17 organizations including the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and National Reconnaissance Office. Just as Grenell had no qualification beyond loyalty to become an ambassador, he will undoubtedly continue in that vein as DNI. Among the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) responsibilities is the briefing of the president on national security related issues.
Grenell is a solution from hell which will only make it even more likely that the poor decision making on foreign and national security policies that has characterized the past two decades will continue unabated and indefinitely into the future.”
Which really only goes to show that its the military that runs the country and not politicians. We have military troubles that need to be addressed, not so much political ones.
A detailed analysis of grenell’s zionazi-gay ties, along with those of some of trump’s other severely zio-compromised associates and political appointees.
The Lobby
With Grenell Appointment, the Israel Lobby’s Foothold on US Intelligence Grows Even Stronger
With Richard Grenell now overseeing all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, Israel’s influence over the U.S. intelligence community has reached new and troubling heights.
by Whitney Webb
February 25th, 2020
https://www.mintpressnews.com/richard-grenell-israel-lobby-us-intelligence/265181/
“Last week’s appointment of U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell to the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) received criticism from both sides of the political divide, mainly for his lack of experience and history of outspoken and partisan political statements. Much more overlooked, however, are Grenell’s ties to the powerful American pro-Israel lobby and Israeli politicians alike, including organizations and individuals with a history of espionage and blackmail against the United States.
Beyond the potential effects on the upcoming election, these troubling ties between top U.S. intelligence officials and a foreign government do not bode well for American national security and will only advance the long-standing practice of American neoconservatives conflating Israeli national security interests with those of the United States.
Now, with Richard Grenell overseeing all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, Israel’s influence in the U.S. intelligence community has reached new and troubling heights. Yet, his appointment is only the latest move by the Trump administration that places pro-Israel partisans in highly sensitive positions, suggesting that similar appointments are likely in the future, especially if Trump is reelected in November.”
vot
If nothing else at the very least the Clown in Chief is both consistent and predictable in this instance. With the latest outrageously irresponsible appointment he makes about as much sense as a long list of other lunatics and psychopaths he has promoted….the likes of Bolton, Pompeo, Abrams, Haspel, and Haley spring to mind.
Draining the swamp…what a sad joke…nothing could be further from the truth.
There is no grand plan… this is another sad example of an incompetent blundering baffoon being totally out of his depth. As such it is very much business as usual for the MIC.
If you need any more proof…which you don’t…look no further than Trump’s treatment of Assange. Yes, Trump probably is preferable to the Wicked Witch…but we may as well praise him for being preferable to Hitler or the devil for that matter.
Faint praise indeed
Col
BELOW I LIST SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY
…OR SIX REASONS WHY COVID 19 WILL VERY SHORTLY BE ENDEMIC AND A MAJOR KILLER IN EVERY COUNTRY ON THE GLOBE
[Disclaimer…I have no medical or scientific background in this field. What I do however have is a lifetime of practical experience as an active livestock farmer in observing, treating, and attempting to control and manage destructive pathogens]
#1 No vaccine is currently available, and the likelihood is that a reliable one will not be useable in any meaningful volume for at least nine months. The nature of the virus and the fact that its ability to fool the immune system makes it hugely problematic to produce an effective vaccine and could significantly extend this timeframe https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
#2 No reliable test yet and a very high incidence of false negatives in tests so far
[#’s 1 and 2 alone means we are pushing poo’s uphill with a very sharp stick…add in 3-6 to the equation and the situation is a complete unmitigated disaster just waiting to unfold]
#3 A long incubation period [at least 24-30 days and perhaps in some cases even longer] in which carriers can unknowingly spread the disease to countless other individuals depending on how socially active the carrier is. Add to this the likelihood that super spreaders can asymptomatically facilitate the spread almost indefinitely. 14% of people with influenza also show no symptoms but the flu does not have this extremely long incubation period
#4 CV-19 preys on a totally naive herd…influenza, by contrast, kills 290-600K annually but in a herd that has been exposed to the pathogen for millennia and as such has a built-in degree of natural immunity
#5 A massively transient herd [perhaps the word ‘flock’ would be more applicable] that compared to animals is practically impossible to effectively contain or control
#6 An R-naught and infectivity rate that is off the charts [10-50X] worse than the various combined forms of what we term the common flu virus
HERE ARE SOME ILLUSTRATIONS FROM MY CHART BELOW OF SPREAD RATES AT VARYING R-naughts for CV-19 after 10 generations of spread
An R0 of 1.5 would infect 86
[Not in the chart…but an R0 of 2 gets to 2048 after 10 generations…once you go past 2 the maths goes wild with the exponential effect of the spread]…we are already seeing similar patterns in countries outside of China that have relatively reliable reporting…it goes without saying that the US does not fit in this category and with a compulsive liar like Pence as the CV-19 Czar, the misreporting will only get worse.
An R0 of 3 infects 177,147 without major societal behavioral changes
An R0 of 6 infects 362,000,000 ditto
R0 of flu at 1.5 R0 of CV-19 at 3[highly likely] R0 of Cv-19 at 6 [possible]
1.5 3 6
2.25 9 36
3 27 216
5 81 1296
7 243 7776
11 729 46,656
17 2,187 279,936
25 6,561 1,679,616
38 19,683 10,077,696
57 59,049 60,466,176
86 88,573 362,797,056
Assuming there is no change of behavior to curb the spread this 360 million would translate to…
18 million deaths if the death rate is .5%
36 million deaths at 1%
72 million at 2%
180 million at 5%
[Death rate of the flu is roughly 0.05- 0.1%…Death rate of CV-19 could vary from 0.5% – 5% depending on demographics and the ability of health services to cope… which means even at the lowest figure it is 10x more lethal and could possibly be in the realms of 50x more lethal]
Given that the Spanish Flu killed an estimated 50-100 million people [roughly 5%] with a much lower population and R0, the outlook is extremely grim without both an extremely effective vaccine program and a major change in social habits.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181120-what-if-a-deadly-influenza-pandemic-broke-out-today
It is obvious that the only way to control the spread of CV-19 is to control the R0’s…and how would we control the R0’s…
#1 An effective vaccine…NOT AVAILABLE IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
#2 Completely change our transient and institutionalized social behavioral patterns…unfortunately these options are severely limited and without massively draconian measures will fail anyway. Obviously, because we still have to function as a society these measures are in varying degrees at odds with effectively controlling the outbreak anyway. In maintaining a functioning society, we have to maintain at least minimum levels of…
A Governance…for policy and strategy
B Law and order…essential to avoid a Mad Max scenario developing
C Trade and distribution…in order to feed, function and survive
D An effective health system that will not be overwhelmed
Best of luck and regards to all
Col
My apologies…in the transition of the file into the post the r-naught table columns have become jumbled.
The R0 of 1.5 goes from 1.5 up to 86 [the first number in each line]
The R0 of 3 goes from 3 up to 88,573 [the 2nd number in each line]
The R0 of 6 goes from 6 up to 362,797,056 [the 3rd number in each line]
Cheers
Col
May I suggest you update your research at the following web page.
You’ll find the information concerning the 1918 Influenza Pandemic especially helpful.
https://rense.com/general87/indu.htm
A mind-numbing read. Especially about the lawsuits/convictions. Is there corroboration? Not that I doubt the chicanery.
Also I recently read re the 1918 flu, aspirin had just been developed, called the miracle drug, used to suppress fever. We now know fever is a response to pathogens to kill them with high temperature. But then they would eat the equivalent of 20 or 30 325’s in a day, thus never having any fever, and dying from the flu.
@Col
Interesting thoughts, if as you say, there is no vaccine at hand (yet) then that implies that the virus wasn’t “introduced” as a bio-weapon, it came naturally. Because, if it is a bio-weapon, those who utilized it as such may have the vaccine – for themselves – otherwise they will be infected as well. But if they have it and just wait for the results, that would be a horrible crime which if not punished then I don’t know what level of crime must be achieved to wake up humanity.
ioan
You said…”But if they have it and just wait for the results, that would be a horrible crime which if not punished then I don’t know what level of crime must be achieved to wake up humanity.”
I absolutely agree… but then think about 911 for instance…crime doesn’t get much more obscene than this Deep State orchestrated false flag. The deaths of thousands of innocent people were in effect just minor collateral damage to these lunatics. Furthermore, the deaths were absolutely necessary to create the required amount of public outrage to serve the agenda. To date not a single person apart from the odd patsy has been held accountable for this…this did not “wake up humanity” either.
I absolutely believe that CV-19 was a bioweapon and that it was released to curb the growth of China as a financial superpower. The final catalyst was the recent creation of the BRI juggernaut which was quickly becoming the most momentous economic initiative in the history of the world. The Hegemon needed to stop this and as I have said many times before in my posts it was totally predictable that they would throw every spanner they could lay their hands on into the works to stop it in its tracks.
Well CV-19 is one humongous spanner. One that will immediately and permanently hinder if not paralyze the whole project. No amount of munitions or sanctions could have rivaled the effect of this action. IMO the own goal theory, ie the dire consequences the Hegemon itself will reap on the home front is a moot point anyway, simply because these morons regularly score own goals. Sometimes this is just plain psychopathic insane incompetence. Also, the often labeled unintended consequences are not unintended at all. There can be a cunning twist where they are turned to the aggressor’s advantage because they always create and own the vast majority of the narrative.
Often these psychopaths have a number of agendas all going on at the same time. This can have the effect of confusing the masses whilst ‘achieving’ a number of seemingly unrelated objectives. Some of us could see a pandemic in the Hegemon’s own back yard as an own goal. I would wager that this would be viewed by these murderous psychopaths as an added bonus since they deem population culling as a noble and necessary cause.
In this case, they can turn these deaths into an asset as they can further demonize their contrived enemy by framing them as being caused by the enemy.
The absence of a viable vaccine at this stage could be explained by…
#1 Revealing it too early would potentially expose the culprit who engineered the virus
#2 The old adage…’ never let a good crisis go to waste’…why not indulge in a bit of population culling in the meantime especially if it can all be conveniently be blamed on the enemy and help in the creation of outrage.
By the way, I am of two minds about vaccines because I have witnessed first hand in my career as a livestock farmer the incredibly positive effect they have had on some animal-related pathogens. However, in NZ agricultural vaccines there doesn’t appear to be the sinister background agendas that often accompany so many of the globally deployed human vaccines.
Cheers
Col
Am I wrong here? A chimera is created in a laboratory. It is released to the public in the hope that the concoction will stabilize and produce casualties; final stage of development– also, the scientists like to think that they have mastery over the variables but they do not. Concurrently a media campaign is launched. In a sense the virus itself is pretext, while important compartmentally, fear and panic are the tools sought.
Finally one must not discount the role of iatrogenic illness.
https://scotthumor.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/the-rt-and-its-subtle-art-of-information-warfare/comment-page-1/?unapproved=1885&moderation-hash=134248ac8bad917c898b322290e6d258#comment-1885
This explains the RT ever increasing deterioration from one of the world most trusted news sources a few years ago into a bait click-farm with pics of buts and tits on its front page and direct links to Russia’s most vicious enemies.
Yeah, that’s true…. I stopped pretty much watching RT now the latest “viticim” of neverending pc blah,blah, blah !!!!
That also happed to RussiaBeyondTheHeadlines once a highly sophisticated, also intresting & entertaining website. Such diverse, such good interviews & articles, objectively critical if necessary, great foto-reportages and so much more…. once, as I said and now an utter piece of “pop”-culture trash crap of the latest 10 or 5 things – whatsoever – you should “know about”. Aweful. What happened??!!
WHO did this… the painfully dumbed down changes to RBTH.com. Just for the sake for more clicks and a ‘younger & sillier” audience ???!! If this is the way, then Russia… viel Glueck !!
Thanks for the post. My feelings also re; RT. It’s become the thirst quencher that isn’t. I still check it but it has become mostly feathers and less meat. I view the world from personal experience and from other trusted observers.
James Corbett’s take on Corona “Pandemic”.
https://steemit.com/coronavirus/@corbettreport/coronavirus-the-cures-will-be-worse-than-the-disease
Kent
The best thing you can do, is to stay safe there where you are – you know what I mean. Maybe it will be like the Zika virus a few years ago in Brasil, today it is already long forgotten, so it will take a few more months to have an idea on how this virus will develop. Until then, enjoy the nature and fresh air.
“… The best thing you can do …”
And failing that … here’s some good news: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/nightmare-londons-worst-case-plan-coronavirus-includes-giant-morgue-hyde-park
ioan
The Zika virus was not in the same league as this corona virus. Basically only pregnant women needed to be careful and if you stayed away from mosquitoes you would be pretty safe.
Yes, you’re right, I remember I wrote another stupid poem back then about Rio and Zika.
I have just finished chatting to a Taiwanese friend. She informs me Taiwan acted quickly to control the outbreak, but they only had 60 cases all from people coming in from China, and 2 died, who were elderly compromised. All others recovered well.
Not a bad epidemic, but a fairly standard “winter cold” scene.
I’d suspect the panic is doing more harm than the virus.
It was a point the writer, doctor and film maker Michael Crichton made, talking about his plan to write a novel about a major disaster. He picked on Chernobyl as a seed idea, but in his researches into it, found not nearly enough people had died to constitute a major world disaster, and moreover, more died from silly actions taken due to fear than had from any radiation. As he said, the deadliest part of the whole thing was the fear caused.
It’s this I find more frightening – how easy it clearly is to create a world wide panic and stampede effect, how much the media driven by their owners control the minds of the masses, and how they can do just about anything they want with them.
Does China Outspend US on Defense?
Can We Afford an Arms Race with the World’s Biggest Economy?
GODFREE ROBERTS • FEBRUARY 28, 2020 • 1,900 WORDS • 16 COMMENTS • REPLY
https://www.unz.com/article/does-china-outspend-us-on-defense/
The Chinese people are well aware of our efforts to humiliate (now attack?) their country… Is it game over? Read Notes [2]
With a world seemingly tilting around us, we have not really picked up on the troop withdrawal deal in Afghanistan. So, they say a gradual US troop withdrawal over 14 months, if I understand things correctly.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2012/02/29/619789/Taliban-Afghanistan-Doha–Pompeo-Ghani
We can only hope that the end of that war is upon us in reality. But Trump bellows like usual, saying it will happen if ‘bad things’ don’t happen. Well, ‘bad things’? Anybody’s guess what those are and who will decide what ‘bad things’ are in these circumstances.
I remember after 9/11 – so very clearly. I was cooking breakfast when a young friend of the kids came flying into the house full of vigor and bloodlust, announcing … Hey, did you see, we’re going to fall into Afghanistan! and he continued singing the praises of this action with eyes red of bloodlust. I remember my own astonishment, and my hands wanted to flap this news away and became almost unable to continue cooking this breakfast, and my heart dropped into my stomach and I asked him .. Do you know anything about Afghanistan? And he of course said it does not matter one whit – the US will smash and pummel and shoot up and bomb Afghanistan to the last Afghan standing (of course the words used were not as mild and it was rather F Up Afghanistan).
And now we are here – a trillion or so dollars later, thriving poppy fields, many people killed and no-one even knows how many Afghans died and this war is described as a stalemate by the US commander in the area, and as a win by the Taliban.
If I asked that boy today .. Do you know anything about Afghanistan? .. he would probably still say .. It does not matter.
Geez, I just wrote this and that deal is already in trouble.
“There is no commitment on the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners – Afghan president after US deal”
So, the story goes that the US cannot broker such a deal – the Government is the one that can do it.
https://www.rt.com/news/482040-afghanistan-taliban-prisoners-release/
and
“Iran says US has no legal right to sign peace deal with Taliban and determine future of Afghanistan”
https://www.rt.com/news/482047-iran-us-afghanistan-deal/
(please read the pieces and do not only depend on the headlines that are quoted here)
A bit on the higher level trends in cryptocurrencies. (I’m talking about coins, and not about blockchains – a blockchain is a ledger of transactions, a coin is the result of that – simple explanation).
I seldom write about crypto coins these days as it is hard to grab hold of higher level trends. But after having lived through a few more crypto wars, I am still happy about the ability to not use banks, to have our very own currencies (talk about personal sovereignty!) and to be hardened against governmental attacks on my own pocket.
This massive experiment in people creating and managing their own currencies is continuing and governments are now trying to roll their own all across the world. The .govs can do that, but we will always have our people’s currencies.
So, to major trends:
Coin Agnostic – Most crypto enthusiasts these days have become ‘coin agnostic’, i.e., we know that there are differences between coins and we use the one most fit for purpose and mostly in a community that suits us. There are coins better to buy and sell things with, there are coins better to keep as savings, and there are coins easy to use, and hard to use and combinations of these. One of the first questions for me is, can I buy something with it, or can I sell my product for it? Most wallets these days can simply exchange one for the other, as it is needed.
Needless to say, there are still crypto wars going on, with this one and that one saying ‘We are the Best’ and ‘We are the Only’, and ‘Our Candy is the best Candy ever!? This is just marketing. The crypto space is both somewhat standing still because they don’t stop their wars, and in the process developing tools for ordinary people to use. So, it is a question of what you want to accomplish. I hold different coins for different purposes and recognize the marketing. My thing is more toward the reason and fundamental characteristics for coins in the first place, and this is
Durable – not a scam (different blockchains do different things and some scam)
Portable – can use it anywhere in the world
Fungible – interchangeable, I can take 20 bucks and change it into two 10’s without losing anything
Scarce – no government printing of currency – it is a cash basis and not a debt load
Scalable – the underlying blockchain can process as many transactions as is needed without falling apart.
Neutral – I don’t have to belong to ‘the right party’ to use the coin that I prefer
Not for millionaires only but for ordinary people to use – from the goat-herder in Afghanistan to the business owner in Venezuela up to a country that is fighting imperial sanctions
If I want to give ‘John’ or ‘Suzi’ money for any purpose at all, I can do so without a 3rd party rentier type in the middle, like a bank, taking some fees on that transaction, or deciding that my transaction is moral or not.
Sharia Compliance
Certain coins are now Sharia compliant and specific Sharia exchanges, for example Beldex, work with the Muslim community almost exclusively. https://www.beldex.io/
Countries
These are rolling their own coins and anyone tells you that their coin is going to be accepted in say China, or a specific country is talking nonsense. We will have ‘people’s coins’, rolled by communities of people and these will cross borders, and we will have .gov issued currencies. We will end up using both but for the people, there is choice.
Politics
The right, the left, and up and down are using crypto currencies. Coins are no longer only for anarchists, or only for this or that … communities drive the acceptance of a coin. So, while cryptos were mainly developed by mad bearded spitting voluntaryist anarchists, the groups that are more community or socially oriented, are now using them as well – No Politics in the usage here – neutral
Crypto Debit Cards and usability
There us a meeting of the current financial structures which is growing and there are a bunch of crypto debit cards now. So, on can put your coins on a debit card, and go shopping. I have no idea of the cost of these transactions but here is a bunch of those … https://news.bitcoin.com/13-crypto-debit-cards/
The Virus
Of course the crypto community at large is preparing, but they consider themselves hardened as people generally work all over the world, and not in one office. So, the risk is spread already, just because they are not working together in one place generally. These are people very accustomed to work online and this also takes a different level of skill.
A major trend is development of all kinds of financial software that runs cryptos and wallets on phones that makes transactions with cryptos very very easy. Some communities are still into trading and exchanges and getting rich, but where the opportunity for ‘getting rich’ was simply buying and holding cryptos was say 6 years ago, that has changed now. We’re into business and most of the normal rules for investment in business still function. While the whole crypto-sphere is still almost virgin territory in terms of technology development, the investment opportunities have changed. I’m not so into that, unless I find something that really impresses me – for me, it is using coins and not using the financial system that is impoverishing so many people.
Each time I use a crypto to buy something, or sell something for a coin, I feel just good! I am not making a banker rich with paying them transaction fees or card fees or something.
No fundamental disagreement with most of the of the developments you have outlined in terms of the changes after 2018 ……………from before then.
Might add something in the next Cafe, however.
For now, this
Every state of mind I experienced, at every stage, has had to adjust and I don’t expect that it will be different for anyone else….either watching from a distance…”safe” from risk of ignorance and mistakes…..except for being taunted by a disgusting jerk like Alec Baldwin…for being a “gitchy goo-boo” (baby) for not wanting to listen to his Stupid E-TORO crypto trading Ad ………….”AH, you’re “too busy”. ….just like you were too busy to invest in Bitcoin…or Etherium” …… (Implication: “You moron!”) or sticking their big toe in the waters and testing them.
Forget it Alec. An automated program doesn’t make anyone “a trader”.
I received a hybrid kind of Visa Debit card (it’s metal) and haven’t used it yet. It’s on my list, just to have a new experience, particularly if I travel overseas. Presumably the crypto on that thing is interchangeable with dollars inside the US…..and Euros in Europe for example…..avoiding exchange fees…which are pretty damned high!
But now I have no illusions: Law is still law, and if more than $10,000 worth is on such a card (it isn’t and may never be…) US law is that it must be reported when leaving US borders.
Jeff Berwick is or was Canadian…..but I wouldn’t be surprised if his Anarchy catches up with him soon enough….even in his new home in Acapulco!
I signed up for Twetch…which is BSV/Money Button based social media where following and liking involve rewarding others with micropayments (I think 1 cent USD equivalent is the minimum for now.. much smaller in the works eventually) and (Its a 2 way street) receiving same……….which is not a complete joke for the prolific ones there with their meme’s and videos….. a few thousand “Likes” today can pay for cell service..or a few coffees a week…………..a few million per week……… in a few years for those who have earned a huge following, can actually mean independence, even significant wealth… while I only have the time and energy to possibly observe…very rarely ..and try to navigate in unknown Crypto waters…not having grwon up with a computer in my hand……….tailing after FOMOby Dick whose handle amused me enough……(FOMO= Fear Of Missing Out….lol) to send him 4 cents worth. …when I have a moment…about 10 minutes a week, so far, first week….while others must LIVE THERE..I am guessing…by evidence of their vast satirical and humorous output with text, graphics, video, sound and anything else absolutely flooding the Twetchverse!
Why bother, if I don’t even know how to put a whale in my profile circle like FOMOby Dick did??
This stuff is disruptive folks! These are people that intend to “take down” Facebook, Twitter and more.
Or at least have a ton of fun trying!
So while I never have and never will do FB, Twitter, Instagram etc,etc hating their centralized control-freak NWO allied models…..observing the development of disrupters of them …………..does interest me!
Meanwhile the deeper issue of this…in the Coming Global Monetary Reset…and how THAT could function is what has more strategic relevance for everyone…whether they have ANY inclination to explore the theory or the experiences…joys, frustrations…….or the opportunities-gains-losses-lessons or not.
It is still very, very “Early Days”….and in my opinion, “anything can happen”.
There’s a female you tuber “Rainmaker” involved since 2011 who writes code but did not want thousands or tens of thousands of BTC when they were a few cents each…because she was suspicious of what was going on….like you the reader probably are…..but her poem explains where her search has led her…….and why she will persist in it.
And she does not feel the least bit stupid that she could have invested a few hundred dollars in 2011 and have been “set” for the rest of her life………..
Next Cafe if I can find it. I transcribed it on a sheet of paper. It’s floating around here somewhere……….
Useful video which gives a health perspective when discussing any virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-syQsGB4XU
A little bit of advertising at the end, still very good.
Yes , the good doc explains inflammation, diet disaster, an unstated indictment of capitalism. Sobering.
A thread that will make your skin crawl..
https://twitter.com/BBassem7/status/1233790840029368320
He called his thread “This is what Turkey is defending in Idlib”
report from Northern Transhumania , Looneylandia. circa March 2020
This will be very big news: Bernie is supporting the student labor union, as a social democrat he has that correct and as a candidate for March 3rd California Democrat primary he has it even more correct.
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/485369-uc-santa-cruz-fires-striking-grad-students
You gooo ! National wide student strike in solidarity!!! Show those sell out from the 1960’s boomers how it is done, Gen. Z. My goddaughter ( secularly speaking) is at UCLA and very active politically so she will get her training wheel trail very soon it seems.
Two recent sources of information on the SARS-covid-2 or whatever it is called.
First, a sober article by Bruce Wilds on ZH: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-five-things-we-need-know
“If it does, which for many it does not, this implies that when we see deaths, those people have had the virus for weeks. If you don’t get better after two weeks you may eventually find yourself drowning in your own body fluids quarantined in a hospital. If you do get well after viral pneumonia, the virus most likely has permanently damaged your lungs and might just be hiding there in your respiratory cells, waiting to revisit, maybe more than once. If it returns your survival is even less likely.
This virus is particularly dangerous because, as noted, it may cause no symptoms at all in many carriers of the infection. ”
Second, a pre-peer publishment of an academic study to the R0 value of it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1
“The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. Integrating these estimates and high-resolution real-time human travel and infection data with mathematical models, we estimated that the number of infected individuals during early epidemic double every 2.4 days, and the R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6. We further show that quarantine and contact tracing of symptomatic individuals alone may not be effective and early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus.”
Now, I don’t want to imitate Michael Snyder, but that is seriously more contagious than the spanish flu in 1918.
The more frequent authorities declare on tv that they have everything under control and we should not panic, the more I grow convinced that they have nothing under control.
Cheers, Rob
Rob
Methinks you and I are very much on the same page…see my earlier post in this Cafe.
For authorities to say they have everything under control just proves that they are either liars, are deluded or live under a rock.
I would give the US and its health system less than a month before it is starting to show signs of a Mad Max scenario…I wonder what Trump and his CV-19 Czar’s spin will be then!
Very best regards from the south seas
Col
“An editorial published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine speculated that the coronavirus currently causing panic in world markets could turn out no worse than “a severe seasonal influenza” in terms of mortality.
Citing an analysis of the available data from the outbreak in China, the authors note that there have been zero cases among children younger than 15; and that the fatality rate is 2% at most, and could be “considerably less than 1%.”
Those who have died have been elderly or were already suffering from another illness — as with ordinary flu. The underlying data suggest that the symptoms varies, and fewer than one in six of the cases reported were “severe.””
The authors note that coronavirus looks to be much less severe than other recent outbreaks of respiratory illnesses:
There is no democratic about democratic socialism. Unless you define it as such, and that is exactly what the democrats are doing with this dangerous ideology. They change the language as they go along. The Ideology of democratci socialism is Fabian socialism which was quite popular with the elite rulers in Britain. Those rulers were a mix of the nobility and lead by the Rothschild Society. Fabian Society created the Coefficents Club where they all met as a synergy between thevarious organisations they ran in order to control the politics of the country and indeed the world. So the elite could easliy adopt and be in favour of an ideology that preached the pure economic model of governance where people had to prove they were useful or otherwise be killed to put it bluntly. But it is actually the policy of democratic socialism of the elite who run the world at the time, and it has reappeared in the age of tech media censorship where they censor and disinform the public by easily manageable systems pushed through every mobile phone and internet based platforms they run as people are taught from the age of 5 to use their products of phones and tablets with these ideologies and programs. People then believe that all this is good.
Democratic socialism has a close relative called national socialism. Indeed they were cousins one grown in the european continent, the other in the anglo american empire. The killing of the useless, became a close relative of the european nazi (nationalsocialistisch) german NSDAP policies after the Adolf Hitler restructure of the Reichtag and the continued racism against jews, and also the killing of the useless ideology.
Today the enemy may seem different but not the policies of democratic socialism.
Also the safeguards built into the american society have eroded with the abandonment of the rule of law of the American Constitution. In it political parties are avoided by clearly laying out the manner of elections of representatives, senators and the president, the freedom of speech is there to safeguard against such misconstructions of power, the right to bear arms is for the protection of the constitution and can not be part of a restriction as is exactly written down.
Now, the democrats party are being financed by the very elite of the british empire and their organisations, George Soros, a former director of CFR the american Chatham House (RIIA) the succesor organisations to the Roundtable. A Ocasio Cortez , a former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders 2016, was George Soros funded, and the democratic party was restructured by his agents there. Bernie Sanders now have the funding of George Soros and a “reschooled” party in national socialism.
So how does the social democracy of Norway which is frequently mentioned fit in. Well it is a pure model of national socialism without either killing of the useless democratic socialsim or any of the NSDAP original pure racial society. It is however a pure model of nazism where actual policies were adopted by Einar Gerhardsen since WW2 postwar (party-controlled run) elections that resulted in the totalitarian state that managed to slowly implement all the purist national socialist programme of NSDAP letter by letter. So while not being extreme in any noticeable way Norway changed and ran a totalitarian social economy and ideology.
The implementation of such an ideology to run America is disastreous, even worse is democratic socialism now massively funded by George Soros (the Rothschild syndicate) in order to extract more money from the government (the people) on a steady scale while making people themselves obsolete in any manner of influence and in which also contains the extremism of killing of the useless as normal behaviours (abortion, elderly, and also non contributors in general, as G. Berrnhard Shaw (Fabian Society) said you have to prove your usefulness or you will be killed in a comforting way. Some of these elements are already in place, censorship is promoted via the social media hype control system of Google (YouTube), AOL (Verizon, Yahoo), Facebook and Twitter and others who do openly violate the constitution.
i suspect that the effects on economies and trade delay will be much more severe than any infections. here in australia we are very dependent on imports and exports to china. in spite of that, our mainstream media and government have been upping their anti-chinese propaganda for several months. before that it was all anti-russia. no doubt obeying orders from our masters in the usa.
here is a recent article from prof. Michel Chossudovsky ….. https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-a-fake-pandemic-whos-behind-it-global-economic-and-geopolitical-destabilization/5705063
This Coronavirus seem to be timed with the presidential election and the Democrat’s Party that still seem to be commanding the FBI and CIA and State Department not to exclude the Pentagon by stay behind officials that are widely engaged in illegal wars across the globe. It seems a probability they are behind bioweapons grade influenza and the accompanying media storm in order to destroy the economy that they see as pres. Trump’s stronger point in any presidential debate. Although in reality the fundamental economy remains strong, their attempts to crash the markets have seemed evident also before the elections of Congress. Everything they do seem to be timed and their pawns surely also control the coronavirus . It used to be a patent of CDC for some reason, but it was developed by independant researchers , and has been widely experimented on by biowepons grade labs (BSL-4) probably to create more harmful variants (bioweapons).
“Although in reality the fundamental economy remains strong”
https://www.crainscleveland.com/opinion/personal-view-rust-belt-shows-future-growth-borne-out-need
A recent New York Times op-ed by Farhad Manjoo pieced together a pattern of human activity that’s increasingly disabusing the bias of where the future is. These activities include housing sprawl into wildfire areas, and the tenacity and frequency of wildfires tied to the carbon emissions created by such land use inefficiencies. They include a homelessness epidemic part and parcel with housing unaffordability, which, in turn, is tied to growing income inequalities provoked by an innovation economy that creates “winner-take-all” effects.
That innovation economy — what’s it really about? A colleague of mine recently opined that Silicon Valley matured via “tech for the sake of tech: making computers, search engines and software. Now, it’s 20-something dudes making solutions to replace what their mom did for them at home … laundry, food, rides around town and recommendations on where to eat.” Put another way, it’s about consumption. That’s why Facebook and Google make the lion’s share of their profits on precision advertising.
Historically, that’s what American progress has been so often about: consuming toward some virtuously vague notion of growth. That’s a bias that will be hard to bust, if only because “bigness” is so ingrained in the American psyche. It is questionable, then, that the Sun Belt will pivot from the consumptive model of development, despite the costs. Rather, the low-hanging fruit may be picked until the branches are bare.
It is true that expansion of the business is the holy grail of success in America. Because it is easy to control profit and the business with growth.
However there are different forces at play that seek to control and use businesses and corporations one of these goals were the surveillance state.
There was a distinct policy goal of the state to control internet and its technologies just as there was a distinct policy goal of the state (the policy facilitator of the corporations) to control the press and media and in fact acquire the press and media on a worldwide scale. The CIA operation Mockingbird is such an example. A whistleblower in Germany revealed he had been working for CIA in order to lie and deceive the people and he also admitted to writing the article on Moammar Qadaffi’s chemical factory that led to the war on Libya. He had been handed the article by BND agents (CIA) for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (newspaper) and it was a total lie, in which the political agents of the empire ran into actions.
The tech companies became the targets of the state in which CIA created Google. Google has now been grown into a mega bubble, running the phones operating systems, were they now demand access to the microphone and camera, creeating the web browser, and all intrusive google analytics and tag managers built into the very core of the internet itself by design as well monitoring everything you do even logging into your private bank account, Google search engines, translators, everything is monitored and stored as data related to you.
So while your activities are principally not related to buying or selling anything, someone has payed for advertisement, in effect buying you off to the tech companies. But somebody has to pay for this extremely ineffective way of advertisement and propaganda and that is where the totalitarian state and their policy of
controlling the people, create massive delusions and propaganda, and spreading these through the tech
companies they controlled in the first place comes in. People may therefore become more or less bought off and may live off these lies and propaganda by counting clicks on their pieces, and various forms of blogs.
As such they have also given away enourmous amount of wealth (which they had stolen in the first place from the people) for specific political goals , the totalitarian superstate. And of course the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google frontmen become entusastically promoting this superstate politically and practically. The name philantropist comes to mind as well, it is a long historical tradition in the syndicates that controls the politicians who made it possible.
Trump’s relatively recent tax giveaway (to the rich) was similar theft from the people.
DEMGOP, no difference – the tent cities just keep getting bigger.
If people knew that no one dies when he dies,like in the Groundhog Day movie,then no much room for fear,except for the real and wisdom one,the fear of the Lord!
That which is of nature returns to nature, that which is of God, returns to God, Sherlock. Eventually.
The key to overcoming fear is the creative imagination within man. How much does the individual want to experience himself other than a physical/ emotional/ mental entity, ie; a being that is limitless… not bound by matter, energy, time, space? And is his desire greater than his self-pitying state of fear?
Fear, also, it should be pointed out, is a state whereby one is paralysed by being the effect of his own morbid
imaginings. The trick is to use the imagination and direct it, not the other way around. One must become predominantly cause in life, not effect. Fear arises when people do not know thay are being the effect of something, it can be anything, even a so-called sacred scripture… the test is whether one feels worse or better after reading it.
Finally, God should not be feared. Whoever promotes fear of God, is wrong, frankly! What people fear is the unknown, and once again, wild imaginings that they have done some evil beyond comprehension. FYI, Soul does not die, but it can be trapped. And the way it is trapped is through fear, ie; introversion, etc. But once the imagination is set free, the imdividual can work toward those inner planes that are light-filled. One puts one’s self there through the imagination! One points one’s self in the direction of God, and help will appear. All that remains is to accept the help when it comes.
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
“The man, who never in his thoughts and mind, never travelled to Heaven is no artist.”
“What is once proved was only once imagined.” William Blake.
“The man, who never in his mind and thoughts, travelled to Heaven, is no artist”
What is now proved was once only imagined.”
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‘the real and wisdom one,the fear of the Lord!’
Wisdom of former times, and no longer appropriate What is past its sell by date becomes poison in time.
The evangelism of the ‘one in four’ in the USA that was highlighted by Alastair Crooke in the interview by Lavelle (posted by Pamela above), is connected to the global administering of this poison.
The spirituality of Christ has a different focus.
Motto: And Thomas answered and said to Him, ” My Lord and my God ” ! ( John 20:24 )
Dear Dimitar,about the fear of Lord some wise thoughts here:
http://www.orthodox.net/gleanings/fear_of_god.html
You wrote:
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” …true,he needs an airplane !
God said: For without Me you can do nothing ! ( John 15:5 )
“The man, who never in his thoughts and mind, never traveled to Heaven is no artist.”
You know better here, I need a lifetime to write a “poem” .
“What is once proved was only once imagined.” William Blake.
It sounds good,but many ” perished ” on the way !
The Basics of Spiritual Life, Based on the Writings of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov):
http://orthochristian.com/53476.html
About imagination in prayer Bishop Ignatius writes, “The Holy Fathers strictly forbid using the facility of the imagination; they command us to keep the mind formless, not sealed by anything material.” “While in prayer, we must have the mind formless and take special care to keep it so, rejecting all the images fantasized through the facility of the imagination . . . Images, if allowed by the mind in prayer, will become an impenetrable curtain, a wall between the mind and God.” On the contrary, he warns, “fallen spirits seek to incite our imagination.” “Blood and nerves, – he wrote, – are activated by many passions: anger, covetousness, lust and vanity. ”
All the best !
Why it makes sense to openly oppose violation of international law and refer it to the UN and the ICC (International criminal court) and absolutely not claim that if USA is behind it therefore it is legitimized. That is a fool’s point of view, and a very dangerous view. So that is what you will see in the various organisations publications because they are not representing the truth or the sanity of anything absolutely not they represent the opposite the dangerous shaping of illegal criminalizing behaviour and their creations (of war).
So here is one such illadvised commentary from the “Middle East Policy Council” called “Suleimani’s extrajudicial killing legitimazes assasinations as a foreign policy tool” : “Americans, once the most prominent proponents of international law as the regulator of relations between nations, have now fully validated the law of the jungle.”
Well they have done no such thing they have made a spectacle of themselves. They are still guilty of this crime, the only thing that remains is bringing them to justice.
The proxy government in Iraq fails as new prime minister seen as a foreign puppet of USA.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/03/01/619931/Iraq's-Prime-Minister-designate-withdraws-candidacy
About Tawfiq Allawi:
https://dinartimes.com/2020/02/01/who-is-the-prime-minister-designate-muhammad-tawfiq-allawi-get-to-know-his-biography/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohammed-tawfik-allawi-Iraq-PM-protests-corruption-elections
Tawfiq Allawi had been appointed by another american pawn, Iraqi pres. Barham Salih, formerly PM of KRG (Kurdistan) a placement who is therefore very close to the american policies of partition of Iraq which also plays into the hands of foregin powers Turkey and Israel, as well as NATO’s war in the region . NATO was recently
asked to stay in Iraq for “helping” the iraqi government.