2020/03/12 18:30:02
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Report from N. Californian Over-55 mobile home park’s Association meeting.
Envision a long table with three people-President, Vice-President and Secretary sitting facing a crowd.
Our meeting to decide whether to continue with the St. Patricks event had twice the usual attendance which is very unusual. So we had the “let’s do nothing” viral deniers and the “well, let’s do something, but not panic” crowd. We had 4 motions on the floor and my job as secretary was to organize them and hold off the vote until everyone had their say. The President was mostly frozen and said little.
At one point I took the bull by the horns and said, ” If we are quarantined by force, which is possible since we could become a nexus of infection here, then there will have to be an ad hoc committee formed which will negotiate with whoever controls the exit/entrance to the Park so that resident’s needs are taken care of. ( I heard a little whisper from the President—‘I don’t want to be part of it’– which I ignored.) But we are not there yet and hopefully will not be but, if so, I volunteer to be part of this committee.”
Going down with the ship — many spiritual lessons to be learned therein.
After that people did relax and made group decisions that were almost unanimous with some events postponed and others not. There were discussion on how to run them safely including buying next day delivery of alcohol based hand wipes from Amazon Prime, taking people’s temperatures, hand washing etc. etc.
Can anybody recommend a Hub Adapter for a Samsung S4 – must have 3 USB ports or more (1 for keyboard, 1 for mouse, 1 spare or for extra memory), with HDMI. Is there anything I should be aware of considering it’s an old mobile/cellphone?
Many thanks.
Let’s call it Hurricane Harvey…………
https://youtu.be/NUCSyOQl1ng?t=331
23 year sentence
And when the world has been in an optimism drought…… when panic, dread and fear and doubt….
have prevailed for SO long….. it’s imperative to wring as much fresh political anti-Globaloney Ammunition out of Harvey…….as we possibly can!
Doubting Dilley??
Please! Don’t be silly.
One last review of X22 and you decide if you’re bettin’ on these losers to take out the Mostly Imaginary…….Orange Menace:
First, at the 5 minutes 30 sec mark…..Hildebeast & Harvey exchange favors, cash back to 1999 Senate race, New York State.
(By the way, Harvey Will Not Have Killed himself…)
At 6:24….”Remember Obama’s daughter? She interred for Harvey Weinstein.They all praised him…said he was a great guy.”
CJ Truth tweeted out: “Harvey Weinstein is a wonderful human being, a good friend, a power house.” — Michelle Obama and Dave has the videotape from CJ of Big Mike telling the world so:
https://youtu.be/NUCSyOQl1ng?t=398
Dave: “They were all with him. And this is a blow to THEM.”
SO: Don’t let your aversion to a color (Orange) deprive you of fully enjoying the Long Delayed Justice.
All for now, except another song: You’re No Good Linda Rondstat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bj_32QeAaU
Dedicated to all those Bernie Supporters….who’ve been treated all these years by the DNC……like long abused women.
I asked a question in the last Café
What happened to the children?
https://youtu.be/Jj5Xczethmw
One of the most haunting films I’ve ever seen
I haven’t seen the film, but I would assume it might carry the same haunting, sad, message that the movie “Sleepers” – a much under rated movie in my opinion – did. That damage to children carries on into adult chocies and behaviours in different ways according the adult, but they are all “damaged”. It , too was very sad. No “happy endings” t here.
What happened to the children which that movie depicts Babushka?
I’d say they are the American Anglo Empire world we see now. Many are drug addicts; too many have committed suicide; many joined the Army as a way out, only to become more damaged and perhaps contribute the shatteringly high rate of suicide among Am-Vets; some became the soulless sociopathic businessmen of America, the “the bottom line is money, have you got more now than yesterday, and do whatever you want and can to get it, “It’s the God” – that is decimating the society and economy of the world.
Did some make it to the happy ever after of fairy tales. ??
Maybe, but I doubt many did. That’s why happy ever after endings for such tragic beginnings only happen in fairly tales, maybe.
It’s funny Pamela, in a very black kinda way, but when working with children in the Clinic, I was accused by a sneering social worker, of believing in fairy tales.
With all the serenity I could muster, I replied: “as a matter of fact, I do!”
You can image the cold, vindictive hatred that reply evoked.
Another treasure in my library is a book of fairy tales my father brought home in Haarlem, Holland. I was three years old. My mother was standing at the kitchen sink and could see no use for such a thing- I couldn’t even read.
But my father pushed on, saying he would read to me. And that he did- every night we went on wonderful adventures.
Until the greatest adventure of all- six weeks on a luxury passenger liner to the other end of the world.
Fast forward three decades to my vocation/dream job within the Institute of Child Guidance, when I read a wonderful book by Bruno Bettelheim on the uses of ‘enchantment’.
I discovered myself in CG Jung’s Memories Dreams and Reflections
I joined the CG Jung Society
A bit further along: ‘We live in an enchanted universe in which we are eternally sorrowful and joyful’ – Fr Richard Rohr
There are huge kernels of clear-eyed wisdom in the fairy tales, with which children easily and honestly identify.
One of my favourite “therapeutic” activities at a table with three children aged around 6/7/8 was reading and discussing The Little Prince.
From Michael Gurian’s Love’s Journey:
“I came to understand that the fairy—tale ending-they lived happily ever after”-is not just saying,”they got married.” It’s about much more than teaching us that we, like the fairy-tale couples, should learn to be good, helpful people, and marry; it is the spiritual statement, if you go through what these characters go through, you will find joy. These stories teach…joy is the great quest. It can be our daily quest.
This daily quest has always been hard, in any culture…We live…in a society whose most biologically essential alliance-the male/female alliance-the one on which the future of the race, through the birth and care of its children, depends-exists without a clear design or story…our culture is a gender war that destroys relationships. At least Mother Russia today has clear and positive policies in this regard.
As for Once Upon a Time in America, I strongly recommend you watch it. When I was copying the link to post here, I cried just listening to the music and reading some of the comments.
Another film through which I cried pretty much the whole time, with a few bursts of laughter, is Oranges and Sunshine. True Story – that depicted the precise Australia in we landed here in the fifties. Cruel and harsh for too many, but it taught resilience.
And sooooo much space and blue skies
Fairy tales in fact, contain far greater wisdom and truth than most can imagine. To understand their message, however, we need to start thinking outside the square a little. First of all, we need to grasp the Great Overlaw of all of life, and that is that Soul exists because of God’s love for it. Divine Spirit, or the Voice of God, which maintains and sustains all of life is nothing more than this law of love in expression.
Furthermore, it’s Soul’s destiny – that means each and every one of us, to one day become a steward of this Divine Love, in effect, to become a co-worker with God, and all of those Souls who already have earned their place in the spiritual hierarchy. What has all of this to do with fairy tales? Two of the currents or energy flows of Spirit, that we work with on a daily basis are the masculine and feminine energies, yin and yang, anima and animus etc. To achieve and maintain a high state of consciousness, Soul must learn to work with each of these flows to the extent that they harmoniously blend together in whatever we are doing such that the one is always in service to the other and vice versa.
A basic theme of fairy tales is a “fall from grace”, followed by an extended period in the wilderness. This is a period of separation between the primordial, naive consciousness and the Knowing, Realised consciousness. The one embarking on the journey is usually young, beautiful and is either a boy or girl and destined to inherit a kingdom. The journey is usually triggered by “Sin”, and the one who expells Soul out of Paradise is usually an archaic anima form such as the Wicked Witch, etc. This is the trigger that starts the journey of unfoldment of a pristine Soul (Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel etc. ) In order to win the kingdom that is Soul’s birthright, it must first become separated from all that is warm, supportive, nurturing etc. It may be blinded, be put under an evil spell and be compelled to take the form of a frog, a beast, or be treated unfairly by a hateful stepmother.
Soul spends a prescribed period in the wilderness, for Jesus it was 40 days, for Sleeping Beauty it was a “100 years” after pricking her finger. What we all seek in the wilderness is to try to find union/balance between the masculine and feminine, the twin polarities of our own nature, and for these polarities to take their rightful place
under Soul’s jurisdiction, what usually happens is a ‘kiss’, ie; reconciliation. This act of sublime love brings about reconciliation that heals the wounds of separation. Even the tried and true outcome, “living happily ever after” is a reflection of the state of God-Realisation.
Unbeknown to each other
We were writing with all our heart mind and soul
Synchronicity
The soul may be foot loose and fancy free, and the fairy tales might contain some significance to someone at some point in time, but why is it that all I see are the signs of gods evolutionary process as going in reverse.
That today’s or tomorrows losses must be relived and regained in experiments on god rather than on the gods behalf. I still believe god has a long ways to go to overcome gods own lost opportunities, to much has to be done and still learned, and there is little to no help in even getting started much less making progress.
I am reminded over and over again of the tales in the book of the 1000 and one nights, and the numerous times the mysterious author has reached a point at the end of the story where it ends with, or Allah ends with, there is no hope, we are doomed.
We, or I, today, see too many paths (too many risks on gods behalf) that end with very little hope, when success for each and everyone of them, is the only solution.
Straight into darkness does not appear to be an overly promising position. I will choose the path of experimenting on god, and let god wing it to success as I watch from a distance and wish them good luck as they have done to me.
ignore the doubters,
the well-meaning naysayers –
trust the path itself!
The road less traveled leads to isolation, this is where you shall find me, if you need more, dont be afraid to bring more, but dont count on me to bring you more, b/c I will be on the road to isolation.
“Why is it that all I see are the signs that God’s evolutionary process as going in reverse..” Maybe because your perception is limited, Alabama. And I don’t say that as insult.
“…there is no hope we are doomed”, ” too many paths that end with very little hope”, “success is the only solution”… Alabama, you have opinions entirely your own, you have intelligence, imagination, and free will. You can either choose defeat or hope for something better. However, when someone is in a hopeless state and expects something better to appear, he/she may have to sacrifice his/her attitudes that brought him/her to that place in the first place, in order to get to a better place. The first step begins with the individual.
“…straight into darkness”… the other trait you have is immortality, so, sooner or later, you’ll bounce back, or find yourself in a set of new conditions, I guarantee it.
“God watches from a distance”… only insofar as we do not engage IT, and have thrown in our lot with our own ‘abilities’, ahem. How open are we to guidance? How willing are we to take a step in a new direction?
I think that’s the over all problem, the step in the new direction is one that throws the machinery into reverse, undoing much hard earned progress, progress that will be lost and not returned to, a lesser value will have to be settled for in the future of attempting to advance human evolution, for the mistake of trusting god.
So if you trust god and then get trusted by god, you regret your decision, and if having to trust god a second time in the future, a much higher price must be paid by god or services toward the advancement of human evolution will not be rendered, not even to god.
Showing us just how powerless god really is when god has to rely on humans to do their bidding, which they obviously have to do or they would not be in this position of having to rely on humans so deeply to do their bidding, they would simply bring the bid to the table and be done with having to rely so much on humans.
I have yet to see their ability to accomplish this to date, and they’ve had some 4.5 billion years to resolve their problem(s) of seeing their machinery being thrown into reverse after waiting an untold amount of time to see it built in the first place.
Something tells me they have not thought this thru completely, or humans are a lot worse lot than humans (and god) are willing to admit, thus justifying punishing said guilty contributing humans. Mostly of the law making and enforcement variety as we have already proved where the troubles began, ran, and currently reside, as to bring us to this sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. I dont prefer de-evolution any more than anyone else in this position, it lessens the chances of success.
I see “fairy tales” as another form of Myth, in which so much wisdom was saved, – archived almost – and passed on, to last many generations. In many ways, we have lost not only the ability to do this ourselves, but even to see the depth of wisdom and meaning in them.
I always saw the “happy ending” as a message of hope that following the rightful path of choices will always lead to a positive and wanted outcome. Many were – not exactly “morality” stories, although they contained an element of that, but of almost a direction to take, advisory almost.
And some, of course, were symbolic in so many ways that we have lost now too.
I didn’t know much about the standard Western fairy tales growing up. I learned about Snow White etc from Disney. I grew up in a Cymraeg house you see [Eng. Welsh] and few of those were suitable for a child anyway. The renditions of them later on, such as the Black Cauldron I got for my children – and my son now reads them to his children. So ours is a Welsh tradition, but they contain the same element, of magic, mysticism, symbols of nature, and yes, good outcomes.
Pamela, you’re origins are Welsh, I take it? Have you heard of the Mabinogion?
:-)
I have it Dimitar – but thank you. Yes, it’s the basis of our mythology and some good modern stories in English are written which have used the stories. “The Owl Service”, for example, uses the story of Lleu Llaw Gyffes (“Bright, of deft hand”), and the wife Gwydion and Math make for him “a wife from flowers, called Blodeuwedd”.
I found an online version, so it’s on my Kindle to dip into from time to time. It informed a lot of English folklore, like Merlin and Arthur, but getting the English to acknowledge this is uphill work :-)
What is the volume titled that you have, Pam? I have the Evangeline Walton novels, or ‘re-tellings’, and thoroughly recommend. I doubt anyone comes quite close to this woman, not Tolkien, not anyone.
The volume title I have is just “the Mabinogion” Dimitar. It’s the Oxford World Classics version.
It is the 11 medieval Welsh prose tales, taken from the White Book of Rhydderch [c1350] and the Red Book of Hergest [c 1400]. These were translated from the Old Welsh into English by Lady Charlotte Guest,from 1838 to 1849 and all draw on the storytelling conventions of medieval, “cyfarwydd” or storyteller, which goes back centuries before that.
The volume I have is the Oxford Classic version with a forward by Sioned Davies, Chair of Welsh at Cardiff University.
The only fiction I am aware of that stole most of its ideas from the Welsh Mabinogion is Lloyd Alexanders “The Black Cauldron” [Disney did a comic style film] and “The Owl Service” 1967, which I did quite like, although not the ending.
I prefer to read the original really but I’ll look for the lady you so highly recommend and see what I can find. I have a feeling the books will hard to come by, but maybe archive.com will have something.
Thanks for that.
Amazon ususally have a copy of “The Mabingion Tetralogy” by Evangeline Walton.
Thanks for those titles, I’ll seek them out. Best, D.
Sleeping beauty takes just 3 years to wake up, but the 100 years to prepare for her arrival after having the resources to prepare. One would have thought more thought would have been applied to the preparation knowing the waking part is so easy, yet apparently this is not the case, probably caused from the endless war of ideologies.
The wars are not dead, so long live the wars.
Another little tid bit from fairy tales that does come to me occasionally is the fictional structure in stories of 3 sons, who are set an adventure or task. In his humorous satirical “Disc World” series of stories the writer Terry Pratchett stated that Narrative Law had now determined that it is impossible for a 3rd son, setting out on an adventure which has claimed his 2 older brothers, to fail to succeed.
Vladimir Putin is a third son !!! :-)
define your need;
without need God gives nothing,
then humbly submit…
Dimitar this is a PS to the comment I just posted above, and closes my circle in search of co-mm-unity with you and your shimmering poetry
No potted list on the uses of enchantment is complete without the splendid words of Sr Macrina Wiederkehr in my beloved copy of her book: A Tree Full of Angels – seeing the Holy in the Ordinary
In this Café we have only words.
“How full of power they are! What a source of healing, consolation and joy, hope and encouragement they can be for others! People can die for lack of words.They can starve for longing for a human voice. A word of kindness is a Word made Flesh!…Our response to all words, if we want them to feed us, is to listen and connect them to our lives.
Not all words are nourishing. Words can also intimidate and stifle growth. These words are destructive. They wound rather than heal; they discourage rather than encourage. It is both frightening and awesome to be aware of how much power we have. Power to bless! Power to curse! Let us get on, then, with the task of blessing…
Thank You Dimitar for bringing your steadfast blessings to this sacred space of the Vineyard of the Saker
Thank you, so much, Babuška for the wisdom and goodwill you bring, that we may all be reminded by our individual voices, of the gifts of Spirit on a daily basis. All is not doom and gloom, far from it! Also, to the Saker himself for providing us with such a wonderful forum, to the rest of the posters and the many unnamed readers!
you are ticking on the
essential button
I know it, if you “define”
it’s a prayer
stay with it and nourish
your virtue
he who prays to God
and ties up his camel leaves
no room for error
So the FED just pulled out the big gun…a quote from the below link…
“After increases in its repo facility twice already this week, from $100billion to $150billion to $175billion per day, and adding added a new 1-month term repo facility, the New York Fed just stunned the market and fired its biggest bazooka since Lehman (not coincidentally, just moments before today’s 30Y Treasury auction, as a failed auction would mean, well, game over), by announcing a total of $1 trillion in 3-month repos over two days ($500BN today, $500BN tomorrow), as well as an additional $500BN in one-month repos offered weekly, which means up to $3 trillion in cumulative repos (if fully allotted) may be online by the end of the month.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ny-fed-conduct-1-trillion-repo-over-two-days-stabilize-treasury-financing-market
Rather than resort to drink for temporary anesthesia I listen to Incredibly Upbeat Dave….of X-22 Report. LOL.
That way, I get the pain relief instantly, but no hangover the next morning!
There’s the daily economic digest of about 15 minutes and the political one of about twice that length.
As long as the main thesis that Dave has is not yet disproven by events…which turn him into a bitter sourpuss, I am willing to consider that his “take” on reality might even be possible.
If so, Colin….the Final Popping of the Fake Fed Money Mother of All Bubbles…….may not be The End of the World;
After all, “It’s Only Paper” (ie it can be reorganized) …..and with the shortage of TP…..well crumpled paper currency would be much nicer than sand paper!
And oddly enough, Dave supplies comforting hypotheses to issues your post raises. When I have to reject them….I will…as hard as they are to fully swallow.
In the mean time, I just keep chewing and digesting X22…..along with plenty more food for thought that is available out there on the world wide web, from less optimistic folk.
The 15 min economic wrapup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9VBxAfc3Dc
The [CB]s Were Just Setup, Gold Positioned, Timing Is Everything – Episode 2120a
The political wrapup is often very similar week after week after week. But sometimes there are momentous shifts. Today’s is one of those.
But what else would you expect….with the Coming of The Ides of March………..following hard upon the first 11 days of March Madness????
https://youtu.be/72IMunO1utQ
Green Castle Online, The Stage Must Be Set WW, Times Up, Patriots Ready – Episode 2120b
I advise to pay very particular attention to the tweet by Eric Holder right here:
https://youtu.be/72IMunO1utQ?t=967
followed by Hitlery’s…….in terms of Fear and Panic by both…..exhibited as coded…almost subliminal assassination threats……their “primary” (pun intended) hope at this late point……. with most of all other political “ammunition” …..having been exhausted.
The travel restrictions and cancellations of so many events make an eerie kind of sense in the showdown or “storm” that Dave posits is occurring.
Ecuador has just reported 17 cases of CoV-2019. This is one per one million people. One listed as serious. Zero deaths so far.
I just trotted down to the nearest supermarket for a few things, to find the checkout packed with people.
And trolleys loaded to the hilt with — yes. Toilet rolls.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!!
So I kept a straight face and laughed when I got home.
Look on the bright side:
The toilet “paper” of the beduins of the Arabian Peninsula and many other desert peoples for most of human history has been………………sand.
Hopefully not too coarse.
Ouch. Brings a grimace to the face – however, there is, at least, lots and lots and lots of it.
If only we’d known – imagine buying a few shares in a leading brand. !! Actually, I wonder if that’s the secret reason for the generated panic – someone somewhere has shorted on Loo Paper and is making a fortune. Follow the money trail to find who started this one :-)
I wonder what generations to come will name this hysteria – the Great Loo Paper Panic of 2020 – and ye Gods, tomorrow is Friday 13th. I’m not going out anywhere. :-)
The great loo paper is immortalised in fine beaded jewleryhttps://liciabeads.myshopify.com/collections/toilet-paper-jewelry
A really weird mood is descending over Oz .. all sports cancelled… but trains, schools and universities still open. Yes I am making and freezing food before the medical marshall law kicks in and we are locked in our homes.
Given the insanity gaining strength around the planet these days Babushka, perhaps staying is the only sensible thing to do.
Not protection from a virus, but from those infected with hysteria and panic into hair pulling screeching toilet paper thieves :-)
The N.E. of Scotland above this rides In Aberdeen they use both sides.
It is not very long ago that Italy only had 17 cases too. Some of the Italian population no doubt would have been laughing at anyone making any sort of preparations at that early stage too.
In spite of Italy having a highly sophisticated health system and their Govt taking comparatively early widespread containing action, today they had 15,113 reported cases… up a whopping 21.7 percent in just 24 hours. Deaths in the last 24 hours jumped by 189 to 1016.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/stocks-collapse-coronavirus-global-pandemic-live-200312235606108.html
The health services in the worst-hit areas are becoming overwhelmed with an ICU doubling rate for the virus at just 2.6 days…https://www.zerohedge.com/health/one-step-away-collapse-doctors-northern-italy-overwhelmed-coronavirus-patients
I don’t think there will be too much laughter now in Italy regarding individuals making preparations and taking precautions.
There are very few countries in the world who took very strong action early enough to affect the exponential spread of CV-19…namely Singapore, Hong Kong, and Hungary…others including USA, UK, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, and Sweden all show the disastrous hockey stick progression chart…see 4:56 mark…
https://www.peakprosperity.com/the-w-h-o-finally-declares-coronavirus-a-pandemic/
The long and the short…I sincerely hope Ecuador is taking a very swift strong and proactive approach to this pandemic…(Removed insulting language.Saker just posted that we needed to be respectful of each other and not violate the blog rules,MOD).
Ecuador is taking NO specific approach to this at all. Ecuador is a Roman Catholic nation. They either believe God will take care of things, or what will be will be. I asked the agent to fix the busted electronic front gate to my gated community 4 days ago. I’m still waiting. An Ecuadorean friend finally got all the paper work completed for selling a block of land so that he can move forward with building on it. It’s only taken 9 years!!
They figure that this approach has been theirs for thousands of years, and here they still are, thus they will continue. It hasn’t hurt them yet. I think they have a point. No-one is in any state of fear, since they can’t see what good that is supposed to do. Neither can I. I’ve been around people in bad states in hospitals for over 50% of my working life. No-body benefited from being in fear, most in fact did worse.
As to Italy having a good health system – that is not the report I have received from those who have used it. My daughter holidayed there a couple of years back – her stepson broke his arm. her report was horrendous. They had to take in food as it was not provided; they needed to change and wash the sheets; the doctors took forever to set the kids arm. They ended up cutting short their holiday to return to Holland. So, when i read of the mess Italy is in, I wasn’t surprised.
Also I recently read a world survey of nations smoking habits. Whilst China leads at about 27.7%, Italy was close behind at 23.7% in 2016. So again – no surprises.
As to ” Some of the Italian population no doubt would have been laughing at anyone making any sort of preparations at that early stage too.” I’m not sure what precautions against getting a cold storing loo paper is supposed to do. Yesterday in Uk a man in an overloaded van was stopped by police – it was crammed to the hilt with – yes, toilet paper. What in Gods name do people think loo paper is going to – destroy the virus? Storing food, water? No .Loo paper – yes. It’s amazing.
However, Australia has a very good take on it.
Herewith some Aussie culture – and attitude: https://www.facebook.com/ABCCOMEDY/videos/246406619862059/UzpfSTE5NjM2NjEzNzA4MzE0NzoyODE0MDE2NTQ1MzE4MDgw/
Remember the Naomi Mantra: Keep calm and think for yourself.
ireland is a catholic country. It has closed all its schools.
Ah yes. Here we come to depth, complexity and deeper meaning :-)
Irish are Gaelic Catholics. Here they are Latino Catholics. Big big difference. You would never see a pageant like the Christmas Eve Carnival procession you see here I suspect :-)
Also the language actually carries a form – the object reflexive – in which they pretty discount all responsibility for – well, just about anything really as far as I can tell. Makes for a very different mindset.
A quote from the below link regarding the current situation in Italy…
“From the first patients to the entire country being quarantined was 22 days. In just 22 days, the virus had spread to such a degree that an entire country has suspended mortgage payments, stopped all non-essential movement, and ceased business. Their medical system is so overwhelmed that they are forced to choose who to save and many people over 65 are not even assessed as the hospitals reserve their resources and space for those who have a higher chance of survival.”
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/covid-19-lockdown-quarantine-pattern/
An arbitrary anecdotal judgment of Italy’s health care system may not be of much scientific weight against this study which paints a very different picture in world health care rankings. Italy is actually ranked 2nd in the world behind France at #1
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/best-healthcare-in-the-world/
Also, the 2016 cigarette consumption per person per year showed Italy ranked #41…not great but it is actually ranked lower than a number of other developed countries notably…
#20 Austria
#33 Germany
#34 Japan
#40 Spain
Some other very developed countries came in only slightly higher at…
#42 Switzerland
#44 Netherlands
#50 Saudi Arabia
#51 Denmark
#53 Israel
The simple fact is that some areas of Italy’s health system are already in complete disarray just 22 days after their first CV-19 case was diagnosed…this cannot be lightly dismissed as an inevitable or self-inflicted predicament by blaming excessive smoking and an anecdotal observation of one patient’s unfortunate experience.
Yes Colonel, it is not a joke. But many responses to it most definitely are.
Merkel’s, for example.
Or Pelosi’s
Or the New York Times, which criticizes China’s response as “authoritarian” …and “anti-human rights” or “freedom” ………….while being one of THE most prominent purveyors of “post-industrial society” madness that have all too predictably brought all this (Covid 19 being just the “tip of the iceberg” ….about.
For this sort of breakdown (of which COVID 19 is only the marker most in the public mind….other than worry about soft enough tissue “down under” so to speak ) is not exactly a surprise to those of us who recognized the wrong turn in public policy in the West, particularly since August 1971.
Harley points out this morning that LIFE …in China, Italy and everywhere else just so happens to be a more important human right than the New York Times’ right to pontificate about anything at all right now:
https://youtu.be/kHGVQvVpUpE
But I’m curious. What is your solution, other than garnering more agreement to your view that “The Virus” is THE biggest, scarriest thing to ever confront humanity and that people like Pamela (who from what I can ascertain in my limited budgeting of time here, is suspicious of various motives at play around this thing…) must immediately submit to hysteria…or be considered irresponsible.
So, other than seeing and recognizing that there is a recent problem (as though it popped out of nowhere in the last 90-180 days….lol) my questions to you are:
1) To What do you attribute the cause of this and other threats to public health and sanity?
2) What is your proposed solution?
Because if you have one, I haven’t seen you articulate it yet.
And most of what I do see articulated out there among the political opportunists like the New York Times …who have been and still ARE the problem….needs to be rejected by any calm person who has been warning that these kinds of things (austerity against the global population) must eventually lead to Mass Death and De-population.
As designed.
Duh!
Bro…you end the post with a resounding Duh!… perhaps not a particularly respectful end to a post aimed directly at me… or have I misunderstood the meaning… no matter it’s certainly nowhere near enough to ruffle any of my feathers…not sure how well it would go down with some other commenters here though!
To answer your questions…
#1 I attribute this to the very same cabal and its captive countries [three in particular] and their out of control three-letter agencies that cause 90+% of the mayhem on our planet. I also believe that the virus is being tracked back to its original source right now. It will be child’s play for competent virologists to track the journey as well as the origin of this pathogen and eventually even the exact location of patient zero.
In fact, I would lay odds that this has already been established but not made public because of the highly unpredictable nature of the culprit/s. Addressing this too quickly it would almost certainly lead to an even greater risk of a full-on WW3.
One thing to me is clear though…this cabal creates the narrative…it owns the narrative and it repeats it to the degree that it actually becomes fact in the minds of the majority of Mainstreet even when it is both totally fabricated and farcical [eg 911]…indeed this is their MO and it has proven time and again that it works for them. They will fabricate the narrative in this instance too and keep the truth well away from most of us.
These horrendous acts that they perpetrate follow on at regular intervals and in turn distract from one another so that the public is totally overwhelmed in trying to just keep informed, let alone work out the whodunnits or help set the wheels in motion for anyone to be held accountable. Look no further than the rollercoaster events in the first 75 days of this decade to illustrate this MO.
#2 The answer to this is very simple but up until recent times almost impossible to achieve because of the Cabals monumental network and reach…indeed anyone that got even close risked having their brains blown out.
In essence, the Cabal is a terrorist organization pure and simple…a global one. What is the best way to attack a terrorist group regardless of size?…obviously remove its funding…what is the foundation of this funding?…in particular the FED but also the multitude of other privately owned CBs around the world.
I believe this network has been so monumentally powerful and entrenched that it was dangerous to confront let alone attempt to dismantle [JFK]. It really had to be left to destroy itself from within. Indeed that is precisely what is happening right now.
IMO CV-19 is the Black Swan event to the extent that we knew one would come around but probably didn’t expect it in the form of a global pandemic.
I believe Putin vividly sees this whole charade unraveling and he realizes that now is the time of reckoning. He will not throw any lifelines [C below]. He will not lift a finger to help the flailing stricken Hegemon. He has long been the model of extreme patience… standing back and allowing the process of self-destruction to proceed…I am sure he is intrigued in noting that they didn’t really need any outside help… MAGA and his team have actually accelerated the process with their serially outrageous behavior and were doing a splendid job left to their own devices.
But CV-19 is not just a Black Swan event…this is a perfect storm…some of the components I see staring me in the face below…
A Obviously, the pandemic will have a devastating effect on supply lines, economies and society for years… it is one of many factors feeding the perfect storm.
B A financial situation that was already unsustainable and broken with ludicrous global debt levels and multiple sub-primes looming that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park.
C Russia coming to the conclusion that the US is impossible to deal with diplomatically and to draw a line in the sand this week basically saying they will no longer assist the OPEC Cartel to prop up the ill-founded US oil industry which was always a product of the most extreme malinvestment imaginable.
D KSA also defying OPEC = rendering the organization irrelevant
E OPEC manifest irrelevance and disintegration = Petrodollar erosion
F Petrodollar erosion = US reserve currency increasingly losing credibility and support
G US losing reserve currency = US is no longer able to sell endless debt = US days of indulging its global hegemony effectively over.
The extreme social upheaval in all the above crises coinciding will add to an already dangerous concoction of obscene plutocratic wealth and comparative poverty of much of Mainstreet…this was a tinderbox well before this escalation.
Incidentally, I believe the combination of C-G will push the US to start a major war in the ME within weeks if not days and this will add to the mayhem.
I am very curious as to your comment…”Because if you have one, I haven’t seen you articulate it yet”…since it has been a regular theme that I have pushed since I began following “The Saker” blog… I outline this briefly below.
So too re your comment…” is not exactly a surprise to those of us who recognized the wrong turn in public policy in the West, particularly since August 1971″.
In fact the rot set in some 57 years before the date you mention. This was when Congress illegally and unconstitutionally handed over for free the US Central Bank to a Cabal of thieving private Banksters the year before WW1 broke out.
The dropping of the Gold standard was one of the steps along the way as the Cabal consolidated power and control but it was not the beginning of the process. The other notable power grabs along the way were the Breton Woods agreement and the repeal of Glass-Steagall by the Slick Willy brigade in1999.
In short the whole ridiculous privately owned CB model by grabbing ever-increasing control of what was to become the world’s overwhelming reserve currency in effect proceeded to milk and control not just the US economy but much of the global economy as well.
This has turned out to be the most extraordinary and long-lasting financial swindle in the history of mankind. To me, it explains much of the extraordinarily dysfunctional world we live in today and the route cause of probably at least 90% of our current global disasters.
Cheers and regards Bro from the south seas
Col
Many thanks, Colonel for the detailed reply.
You ought to know that I agree with many particulars in your comment…..but have to differ in some relevant details. But why sweat the small stuff …like writing off the entirety of the territory between the Canadian /US and Mexican/Us borders………..and all 350 million or so souls residing there??? And not bothering to distinguish between any of the warring factions here.
If you don’t want to see the distinctions, you won’t see the distinctions. I get that.
What’s the motivation? Those here may have ummmm slightly more of it…than you do!
Of course it didn’t all start August 15 1971………….but I was an young adult then….so have a little more responsibility for that than 1913…..when my father hadn’t even yet been born. Or…..ooops we’re back to Adam, Eve & the Serpent.
Ya gotta stop somewhere! LOL.
Pamela also makes partial sense to me. Except for blaming everything on industrialization.
Isn’t it as clear as the noses on the fronts of our faces…that without the increased capacity to maintain more persons on the average square kilometer of land on this planet…that industry provides…..the majority of us would not even exist to have the pleasure of agreeing, disagreeing, arguing, rejoicing, enjoying, stressing, relaxing….and everything in between…with each other??
And you wouldn’t be down in the South Seas …..she in Ecuador (I was there 1959-1963 4th to 7th grades) nor would I have ever seen so much of this world either. …
Cheers from Alta California (Spanish Dominion….El Camino Real)…or wait! Before that….Aztlan!
No worries Nostradamus…but could you do one small thing for me?
Re your question…
“You ought to know that I agree with many particulars in your comment…..but have to differ in some relevant details. But why sweat the small stuff …like writing off the entirety of the territory between the Canadian /US and Mexican/Us borders………..and all 350 million or so souls residing there??? And not bothering to distinguish between any of the warring factions here.”
Would you please write this again in normal everyday prose rather than as another riddle. Perhaps if I could understand what you are asserting [being decidedly so not “brilliant” and all] I might at least be able to make some sort of an attempt to answer it.
Cheers
Col
Why should they? Their vitamin D status is perhaps the highest in the world. Any pandemic will be much milder there. Likewise, they do not get the yearly flu and cold that we get in temperate climates every winter.
Pamela
Ok hands up, I really do need to come clean and offer my absolute sincere and humble apologies for the comparison I made in regard to similarities regarding two almost identical stances on CV-19. Namely, it being merely a “variant of the cold, and it will go away”.
I need to make this apology… to Trump.
Turns out Trump has just done a complete about-face and is now extremely concerned. In fact, 2 hours ago he declared a CV-19 national emergency!
Comes from shaking hands with Bolsonaro I guess – that OMG moment. I wonder who is scrubbing Trump down?
We’re going to see the celebrity or the elite game being played, with elites (currently the first lady of Canada) contracting Covid19, and then .. wait for the Hollyweird pitch .. a miraculous recovery. Tom Hanks and his lady will probably be first.
amarynth
Bags not me!
Stay safe
Col
@amarynth and all
My prediction is of the opposite from ‘a miraculous recovery’
I think they will do a ritual cleansing, in the public view for ‘justice’, and harness enough ‘credit’ and ‘full faith for the new benevolent gov’, to re-start the new world…
By their new ‘scientific’ pyramid structure, we would then be dropped from ‘collateral damage grade sub-species’ (from WWII) to ‘master robot control over the non-robots’ (and non-participation, non-agreement, rebellion will be hunted and put down since ‘we’ collective no longer hold any value in their calculations and matrix in human market place)
Good thing is VVP is still standing… strong
whatever comes after April (in 2 wks or so) aint gonna be ‘normal’… Just a feeling
… that which is clear now, to be ‘cleansed’ from the clock-work viral event, the ‘source’ must be ‘addressed’… to put it gently
Psychopathy and sociapathy and S@tan1sm is bottomless (and cannot be cured)
BUT FIRST, we need to unlearn and re-learn to see things as IT IS, the beginning of wisdom
If the gov is committing war crimes, it is a war criminal organisation. PERIOD!
Many are already putting concrete effort to prevent and halt SARSIII
If we want to restore a collective peaceful future, mandate under heaven, we cannot respond like the western The PPL did, when 9ONE1 was ‘dropped’ on them. And through their ‘full faith and credit to their gov’ or whatever else, the rest of the world has suffered immensely, was murdered by millions and plunged into more coerced suffering than perhaps during Rome.
‘Disease X’ is china’s open invitation and calling for the international community, who in infected, to be judges, based on the Nuremberg Principles.
Nuremberg Principles with Amy Benjamin by The Solari Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7KMo4HRBE
Do take extra care there. No more play time. No more wait time.
Be safe there
p/s log off for now… much to do around here…
@ Col, the Kiwi Farmer.
Thank you for acknowledging that there is a big difference between Trump and myself.
Trump has back tracked on just about every thing he ever claimed or said, every promise he made he has broken. He has launched a veritable war on Russia after being voted in for saying he would make friends with them, and has bombed more in the ME than even the evil Obama. Thus that he is a Quisling of the first order – and a murderer of decent peace seeking Iranian Generals is, I think, now clearly established. He changes with the wind, and thus seems to be a man of straw.
I have made my views known after much thought and reading, and using my training and past experience – not just to gain some personal political advancement. I still stand by my views as I have all my life stood by what I believe or know to be the truth. I believe I am a person of honour and integrity – certainly I have striven for this all my life. Being so, of course, means I have often been on the receiving end of anger and bitter fury – you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen a bunch of Fundamentalists frothing at the mouth because you have pointed out all the science which proves the Theory of Evolution to be impossible!!! :-)
I do appreciate you acknowledging the difference between myself and a snake oil salesman, failed businessman with not a single principle to his name.
Pamela
I suggest you read my post again…the apology I need to make is actually to Trump!
You have obviously not changed your position one iota… no surprises there.
LOL.
Have to laugh – thank you Col — but yes, I did understand your intention in your first post about your apology to Trump. I was merely pointing out how I saw it in a way that kept me within the bounds set by Saker and interpreted by the Mods.
However, once again, can I thank you for your observation of me; “you have not changed your position on iota..no surprises there”.?
It re-iterates what I have always aimed for – to be a person who, once they have taken a position based on reality, facts, evidence, and their own knowledge, carefully forms an opinion and then wont be budged, because the basis of the opinion has not changed.
I can change. I changed my views substantantially about America, and Israel. But I have to have good reason with evidence I can see for myself.
I’d like to think I am reliable, and not a “Woman of Straw” blown on any wind, and you have indicated I am just that. So — thankyou.
It is one thing for any of us to take a position that is clearly at odds with reality but only really endangers one’s self…this is clearly our right as an individual.
It is quite another matter however when we put ourselves forward as an expert and publicly influence other people to the extent that they then put themselves, their contacts and their loved ones all at significantly added risk.
I think few people have that sort of power you know – a famous medical specialist perhaps, and those the masses like to follow. But mainly, you know who has that power?? It’s GovProps’. The Government propaganda arms, those things which we used to call “newspapers” and have long ceased to be anything but.
Read the revelations of the German ersatz – by his own definition – journalist Udo Ulfkotte, and how he knows from personal experience that ALL US/EU/ UK and 5 eyes “Newspapers” are bought and paid for by the CIA.
And when it comes to making a decision which is congruent with reality, can I ask you to do one thing for me??
First, go look at this headline and lead photograph:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Then look at this figure:
1,145 people in Britain [England Wales and Scotland] have been confirmed to have a Coronavirus CoV2019 infection
Britain has a total population of 66 million.
That means, that of the total population 0.0017% have the infection.
Figures have confirmed that of ALL deaths 80% have been among the over 80 yr old with chronic ill health, and between 55 and 80 also with chronic ill health conditions. Thus 0.00136% of the population is at risk.
Now, please, tell me how you find any congruence between these two facts???
Which of us, in other words, is more congruent with reality.
And I can put no-one at any risk who has decided that maybe my words carry relevance. That accusation is the action of tyrants done to silence those who would question their actions – that if others follow the speaker they are responsible for the flow-on effects to those others who act on what they have heard. Neither I nor any other person can be held responsible for the actions others choose to take as long as they do so in complete freedom of choice.
As I keep saying – remember the Naomi Mantra ” Keep Calm and think for yourself
You said…
“1,145 people in Britain [England Wales and Scotland] have been confirmed to have a Coronavirus CoV2019 infection. Britain has a total population of 66 million.That means, that of the total population 0.0017% have the infection”
Your figure of 0.0017%would only be correct if…
#1 The entire population had been tested and all the results had come to hand…this is simply not the case…as of March 9 only 26,291 people had been tested…that is 0.0003983% of the 66 million population had been tested before that date
#2 The test was accurate which it is not…it gives many false negatives for a number of reasons
It is the nature of viruses with high doubling rates that confirmed cases at any given point in the early stages of spread are only a small fraction of the number that are actually affected. I find it astonishing that you ignore this simple fact of how geometric spreads and testing procedures work. They are also highly predictable and there are numerous contemporary models out there that illustrate this…indeed most of their exponential hockey stick graphs are almost identical.
You then ask…
“Now, please, tell me how you find any congruence between these two facts???”
There is, of course, no “congruence” whatsoever because these are simply not “facts”… this is just playing around with numbers and attempting to pass them off as facts.
Please focus on some facts that put the spread rate and the Ro of this virus into the true context of how it can manifest…here is just one of the many examples…
It took just 22 days for Italy to go from its first confirmed case to its health services in many of its northern towns being totally overwhelmed. As soon as health services reach this stage mortality rates climb drastically not just from the extra CV-19 cases not being treated adequately but from all other unrelated medical conditions as well.
Please refer to the 5.44 mark of the below link to view the bar graphs and to the 16.00 mark for another one that illustrates how slowing spread rates can help stop hospitals being overwhelmed
https://www.peakprosperity.com/the-w-h-o-finally-declares-coronavirus-a-pandemic/
The same alarming graph patterns are now showing up state by state in Australia as well…https://www.covid19data.com.au/?fbclid=IwAR167v9hwtYQKZwrACX0CBXeSUPDaxcH970syZdjphRMUjuUxBtUXhmGAIE
Here is another link that might help some of us come to terms with how misleading and potentially dangerous the “variant of the common cold, it will go away” narrative really is…
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
A quote from this link…
“This is a pandemic now. It can’t be eliminated. But what we can do is reduce its impact.
Some countries have been exemplary at this. The best one is Taiwan, which is extremely connected with China and yet still has as of today fewer than 50 cases. This recent paper explains all the measures they took early on, which were focused on containment.
They have been able to contain it, but most countries lacked this expertise and didn’t. Now, they’re playing a different game: mitigation. They need to make this virus as inoffensive as possible.
If we reduce the infections as much as possible, our healthcare system will be able to handle cases much better, driving the fatality rate down. And, if we spread this over time, we will reach a point where the rest of society can be vaccinated, eliminating the risk altogether. So our goal is not to eliminate coronavirus contagions. It’s to postpone them.”
Pamela
From Robert Fulghum, he of that memorable book
All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten
‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death”
You are not alone here, in your beliefs.
Please consider the fact that there are, as ras so heroically pointed out in the last Café, numerous people who come here to read, and never comment. We don’t know them, but they know us. Even if your words encourage, inspire one person, you have done a good job.
And I also endorse Bro’s exhortation on growing a thick skin. I know how hard that is for Highly Sensitive Persons but nonetheless, that is what Christ demonstrated in His words, thoughts and deeds as he was confronted, challenged and cajoled by the Sanhedrin.
Perfect Love casts out fear
Here are some more words from Fulghum, on humour:
“I return each year (to Crete) in part because I expect laughter
Asbestos Gelos – fireproof laughter, unquenchable ,invincible, raw, reckless, wicked…jokes that mask fear and failure, stupidity and foolishness…without this laughter the Cretans would not have survived their travails and tragedies across the centuries. Cretan laughter is fierce, defiant laughter – up yours! to the forces of death and mystery and evil”
These are rough notes, not an exact quote.
Thank You for the SamiJ vid – he is priceless. Yes the Aussie humour was forged on these Fatal Shores.
It’s a beautiful country in many ways
Peace and Grace to You
Thank you Babuška in Oz-we all thank you.
Thank you very much Babushka. You calm friendly and very supportive words bring strength. I had forgotten that very good point you highlight for me also – that many many more people read our words than comment back, and if only one takes away something of value to them – that is a good thing.
i’ll keep going bearing your words in mind.
Einstein too, said the most important thing we had and could use – was imagination. Indeed, it’s pretty much what was said by Schwaller de Lubicz, who interpreted the symbolic code of the Ancient Egyptian Temple, that it’s imagination that backs symbols which are infinitely more wide ranging and deep in their information and effect on the mind than any linear language such as English can be – and that in losing Symbols we have lost a huge amount of valuable tool and thought.
As one with a very vivid imagination it’s almost impossible to understand that there are those who claim to have none – I just dont know you live without.
I had not heard of the writer you quoted, so thank you for that, too. I’ll go looking for him.
I am in ecstasy also – when I came to Ecuador, I had to leave about 2000 books behind. One was Colin Wilsons’ “Beyond the Occult – 20 yrs of research into the Paranormal”. I found it downloadable for free on archive.com [or maybe it’s .org] so now have many happy hours of rediscovery ahead.
Take care in living in a country which seem also to have decided to experiment with losing it’s collective mind for while. I agree stocking up and staying home is probably wise, since who know what hair pulling screaming insanity awaits in supermarket aisles :-)
And dont forget to buy loo paper :-D haha.
The Naomi Mantra ” Keep Calm and Think for Yourself. (you dont need this. I am currently using it as a sign off to get it out to as many as I can)
I thought of you on seeing this Babushka – I think you would be interested and might enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-GqZjKtJk
Thank You very much Pamela – I just watched it and am immensely intrigued
Amazing work being done everywhere, ‘digging’ for information that is deliberately withheld by ‘conquerors’ over the millennia
Present in the moment
Aware of the cycles
In harmony with eternity
-Roberto Assagioli
I’ll write a related quote separately
On the subject of white paper coronavirus medical and world political disarray, spirituality weighs in with depth, try to counter fear and mind control and dig deep within to find its life sustaining source
Thanks for the Australian input, very much appreciated. I always loved this ballad :
Song of the Artesian Water
(Banjo Paterson)
Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought
But we’re sick of prayers and Providence—we’re going to do without
With the derricks up above us and the solid earth below
We are waiting at the lever for the word to let her go.
Sinking down, deeper down,
Oh, we’ll sink it deeper down:
As the drill is plugging downward at a thousand feet of level
If the Lord won’t send us water, oh, we’ll get it from the devil
Yes we’ll get it from the devil deeper down.
Now our engine’s built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot
And he marked it twenty horse-power, but he don’t know what is what
When Canadian Bill is firing with the sun-dried gidgee logs
She can equal thirty horses and a score or so of dogs
Sinking down, deeper down,
Oh, we’re going deeper down:
If we fail to get the water, then it’s ruin to the squatter
For the drought is on the station and the weather’s growing hotter
But we’re bound to get the water deeper down.
But the shaft has started caving and the sinking’s very slow
And the yellow rods are bending in the water down below
And the tubes are always jamming, and they can’t be made to shift
Till we nearly burst the engine with a forty horse-power lift
Sinking down, deeper down,
Oh, we’re going deeper down:
Though the shaft is always caving, and the tubes are always jamming
Yet we’ll fight our way to water while the stubborn drill is ramming
While the stubborn drill is ramming deeper down.
But there’s no artesian water, though we’ve passed three thousand feet
And the contract price is growing, and the boss is nearly beat
But it must be down beneath us, and it’s down we’ve got to go
Though she’s bumping on the solid rock four thousand feet below
Sinking down, deeper down,
Oh, we’re going deeper down:
And it’s time they heard us knocking on the roof of Satan’s dwellin’
But we’ll get artesian water if we cave the roof of Hell in
Oh! we’ll get artesian water deeper down.
But it’s hark! the whistle’s blowing with a wild, exultant blast
And the boys are madly cheering, for they’ve struck the flow at last
And it’s rushing up the tubing from four thousand feet below
Till it spouts above the casing in a million-gallon flow
And it’s down, deeper down
Oh, it comes from deeper down;
It is flowing, ever flowing, in a free, unstinted measure
From the silent hidden places where the old earth hides her treasure
Where the old earth hides her treasure deeper down.
And it’s clear away the timber, and it’s let the water run
How it glimmers in the shadow, how it flashes in the sun!
By the silent belts of timber, by the miles of blazing plain
It is bringing hope and comfort to the thirsty land again
Flowing down,further down
It is flowing further down
To the tortured thirsty cattle, bringing gladness in its going;
Through the droughty days of summer it is flowing, ever flowing
It is flowing, ever flowing, further down.
Beaut. Ras.
Note that instead of addressing the problems with the crashing economy and the epidemic, Trump is instead starting a war in Iraq. ejmagnier reports that last night the US bombed a civilian airport in Karbala, killing policemen, soldiers, and a civilian.
He really was “”something” wasn’t he? Almost unheard of outside Australia when he should be famous world wide.
Really appreciated that one, thank you very much Raskolnikov.
And it reminds us, yet again, of that which really matters. Without the air we breathe – clean and fresh – and the water we need – also clean and fresh – we have nothing.
Water is in fact becoming in short supply again, in many parts of the world. It’s been warned of – that the once mighty Ogallala Aquifer which fed the mighty Colorado is drying up failing to reach the sea; that KSA has drained the last of its Fossil water wells; that China is buying in water, some from Canada but much from Russia – and that Russia has the greatest clean fresh water lake in the world. China and Russia will come to a deal.
I have a bad feeling that as the wars over oil dry up, as the production of clean gas and other sources takes hold, the next lot of wars are going to be over water.
But – again, back to the poem, and I remember too, how although Patterson did document worries woes and hardships, all ended well. He lived in a time of hope, and a positive belief that they could work out their troubles with a little calm thinking and hard work.
A better time in that regard.
Ras and Pamela
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/government-pressured-to-declare-water-emergency-at-tamborine-mountain-20191218-p53l7g.html
Right here is just one aspect of our ongoing dilemma
Also Israel has signed a Management Agreement with NSW Water of which most people I encounter here are unaware
That last piece of news makes me go cold for some reason Babushka. It’s been claimed by many that Israels wars on it’s neighbours in the ME are in fact in order to get access to much needed water. They will take this away to Israel while Australia desperately needs every drop for itself – and I have little trust for Israeli governments.
This is very bad. no wonder they are being secretive about it.
Pam
As a farm boy near Amarillo Tx,about 1955 my dad befriended seismograph crews doing oil exploration in the area (most farmers had mineral rights contracts) and extracted tentative opinions which led to his taking out a loan and drilling the 2nd successful well in the county, developing to 650 gallons/minute, from the Ogallala. As there were no regulations, in a few years everybody had a well. .In growing season we boys would drive the dirt roads at night with our warm contraband beer and note that as soon as the exhaust hum of one well faded we came in earshot of another:Wilson’s, that’s a chrysler hemi, Byrd’s, continental six; Harris’s, etc.
In a few years our well was down to 400 gallons, then 3…….sixty-odd years ago……The present owners hardly bother,and it will never recover.
Thanks for that pariah – it was interesting – and as you say, you are someone who can provide a living document of that loss. It seems there has been absolute uncontrolled atrocious management, fired by the mentality that “it will always be there no matter what we do”.
I read that the Colorado used to go, fast flowing and rock carving to the sea. Now its a shallow, sluggish old river, and disintegrates into swamp way before it gets to the sea. If that is so – it’s another indication of how bad things are.
The Ogallala Aquifer was the biggest in America – it was truly huge. Now it’s nearly all gone.
I have a bad feeling that the Dust Bowl of the 1920’s is about to return, and in a much much condition.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-colorado-river-runs-dry-61427169/
oh well
That was a very link pariah – htank you. I even signed up to receive regular information from t hem – a thing I rarely, to almost never do.
I want to investigate this loss of clean water access to people more. I have a strong suspicion it’s going to be the biggest issue ever in years to come – and not that many years away either.
The people Of the Anglo Empire have been utterly delinquent and criminal in their abandonment of any careful conservation of water. To have had, such a short time ago, so much clean good water and treated it as an ignorant Jungle savage might have treated high quality medical supplies speaks to an appalling lack of intelligence, foresight, imagination and understanding. Their criminal neglect is comparable to that which we would expect of ignorant jungle savages and their care of a high cost medical facility – as something they cannot recognise and have no use for!!
Australia has regular drought years – this has been known from the first. They often are sequential with a build up of related issues – water insufficiency leading to water restrictions on domestic use; raise in domestic fees; raise in cost of vegetables and drying out of bush land, leading to great loss of income, life and homes in subsequent wildfires. Yet, when the rains come, are there adequate catchments to gather in the flooding waters or do they just lead to more damage and loss from floods – well we’ve seen the answer to that one.
Waters gush out to sea, leaving the land as dry almost as before.
KSA has dried the last of it’s fossil water wells. Many places in India, Burma and other close areas have no water. The poor people there spend all day walking to well, the women with buckets balanced on their heads, to collect the little allowed, and carried home for food, and what cleaning they can manage.
This can only get worse as more and more of the end result of industrialisation takes place – the metropolitisation of peoples. Supplying fresh clean potable water and water used for cleaning, sewerage to concentrations of millions of people is huge, massive, and incurs great water losses.
And then I remember that you can go a long time on not much food, or fossil fuel – but only 48 hours without water. And Russia has massive catchments of that clean water. I hope down the years her Rulers to come stay wary of the Anglo – and others – and remember how duplicitous they are, how untrustworthy their offers of friendship. Because of lot of them are going to want to get their hands on Russia’s water, which they will desecrate and destroy as they do all things they touch.
My apologies for some jumbling of writing in the first paragraphs or so. I clearly wasnt as careful in editing as I usually am, and also Disqus has me “trained” in thinking I can edit post publication!! I forgot.
Pam
Now that you are going on the Colorado R, I will provide you with a “good read” written by a remarkable man :
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7550366-canyons-of-the-colorado
who as you will learn did his feat with one arm, including scaling the walls repeatedly to take barometric readings (to approximate elevations).
Enjoy!
oh, btw, I noticed your reference to Colin Wilson, whose Ritual in the Dark I was turned on to back in lubbock circa 1965.
Oh great. Another Colin Wilson reader. I think there are few of us around these days – he was such a big name once.When more people read and thought.
I can understand your being caught up by him too.
I picked up a copy of his ” The Philosophers Stone” browsing in a council Library many years ago, and was very interested and intrigued – he wrote like no-one else I had come across.
I read a few other things – the Spider World fiction, and Vampire aliens. But his non-fiction got me more – and
Beyond the Occult really was his tour de force I think.
Thank you for that link – I’ll get onto it soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiVwOy8TEA
Mara! “Song of the Artesian Water”
Wonderful cadence in Banjo’s poems.
Takes me back to my little bush 2 teacher school when we had to learn the great Aussie masters by rote. Plus recite the multiplication tables and copy cursive writing from the blackboard. Oh and those ink stained fingers from dipping the pen.
I am going to dig up my old poetry books as a distraction from this loo shortage madness and panic.
Wishing all good health…
I see Trump has started not greeting with a handshake but with the hand position of Namaste.
Namaste is of course a heart centered practice, and most people don’t say it .. it is like a hand ‘mudra’ and it draws together the power of the lower chakras and readies the energy to move upward to the higher chakras. It is the fulcrum point as number 4 of the 7 major energy centers in the metaphysical body – the energy body around the physical body.
So, a greeting of namaste says I see your heart/I have your heart and you see my heart/you have my heart, and it is a statement of oneness. Between people so inclined, it is a quick joint meditation. It is very similar to the Mayan greeting of In Lak’ech or In Lak’ech Ala K’in which is a statement of oneness – literally, there goes another I, or me, or you are another I, or me, very graciously honoring connection as spiritual beings.
Here is the thing that really struck me .. the associated organs with this energy center is the heart, the circulatory system, the arms and hands. So, it is the heart in terms of value, the circulation in terms of oxygen and the arms and hands in terms of taking those two, and doing something with it. (Some folks will get it that these things are fairly often in threes and sevens).
Above that are 3 more chakras .. the one of all-powerful communication, the one of all-seeing vision and the one of all complete inclusiveness and wholeness. And bear in mind the heart center is the 4th chakra in a wheel – the fulcrum point. This Anahata chakra or energy center, done in front of the heart of the body, represents of course, love, unconditional love, acceptance, compassion and intuitiveness – complete in itself, but also part of the system of energy. (This is very shallow explanation in reality).
I came away from Trump’s Namaste, thinking ..
is this virus going to be a movement of consciousness toward the heart center, a lifting of consciousness .. or a forcing of human consciousness deeper into the gutter as we use Namaste without a clue what it means? And if we use Namaste with a clue what it means, how can that change our humanity?
This became the focus of morning spiritual practice and I opened the virus numbers for this morning – it took a while to run the energies and to get into a right place. With a proper namaste to those newly ill, and those who died and those who are very ill I said to them, see my heart/I see your heart. Of course when I recognized the hearts and the humanity of those who are in illhealth, sick and dying, when the faces started rolling by my metaphysical eyes, those under threat and in travail, my heart broke open and I sobbed for humanity. I am not ashamed to say this. I sobbed.
We see numbers, six there, a couple of hundreds dead there, new infections a thousand or so .. and so we go on. We read the numbers .. are our hearts reading those numbers as well? Is the ultimate enemy not death? Is the ultimate opposite to love not rather death, i.e., an absence of life?
Well. the purveyors of mass death, the “Die-ins ” and such certainly come close to being “the ultimate enemy”.
Those who see other humans as a cancer they’d sooner be rid of than to take into any account whatsoever are those of whom I speak..
Prince Phillip’s famous declaration about wanting to be reincarnated as a deadly virus comes to mind, most prominently.
Or Bertrand Russell’s 180 degree opposite point of view (to yours) of not caring about anything but his “class” of devil worshippers. lamenting that War had thus far in his time failed to reduce population sufficiently for their Empire tastes;
“If a Black Death could spread across the globe once in every generation then the human race could procreate freely, without making the world too full. This state of affairs might be unpleasant….but what of it?? Really high minded (sic!) people are indifferent to the feelings of others. “, he wrote.
THERE is humanity’s ultimate enemy. All based on Ego run amuck…and a worship of the particular…….above the Universal.
Nice comment, BTW. Esotericism can quickly veer off course (I am thinking fondly of the Love Bower proponent and “communal sex”…as proposed solutions to our ills…… a bit more humorous and ridiculous today than it was months to a few years ago ..ummmm??…..and yet many of us can even find some fondness in our hearts for such among us…) but yours this morning seems quite solidly based.
Trump and Namaste??
I dunno. But we may soon enough find out.
But I think that Crypto-Corner wise we have to observe the “market contagion” there as well…the blood bath….
and as always….NOT panic.
Maybe critique Michael Hudson’s Truth And Light series…where he is inspired that the Original Bitcoin….as a system…is “biologically inspired”.
the latest episode with a very esoteric physicist Nassim Haramein https://youtu.be/yXDfE5NWoGg
Spacetime, Space Memory and Bitcoin – A Conversation with Nassim Haramein – Truth and Light Ep.5 pt1
Don’t know if I understand 1/100 of Nassim’s cosmology….just know it has a LOT to do with the GIZA pyramids….Paul/Pavel. lol…. Could be an enlightened genius…or a crackpot….that sort of comes with the territory of esotericism!
The first Episode in the Truth and Light series of Mr Hudson’s:
The World’s Control Chain and Why Bitcoin Matters – Truth and Light Ep.1
https://youtu.be/UeZEKLw9g_I
How many even in the Crypto-Sphere have ANY idea what he means???
I have a rough idea…similar to a basic comprehension of your comment… but these things have to be “hashed out” (pun intended) more generally before any sanity or increased love around this planet …or any microcosm thereof …any system of thought, social practice….economy or any other part of the whole…..deserves to survive…..and thus have any chance of “mass adoption”…. (the precondition to durable survival..)..as any useful or needed portion of the whole.
Which is…as it should be!
Bro … my findings have nothing at all to do with cosmology …
My Egyptology is totally focused on the construction technique used for Egypt’s last four Pyramids … Sneferu’s Red Pyramid and the three at Giza of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
My findings explain in detail two ancient documentations along with tomb artefacts used for block raising.
There are too many professional crackpots out there because haitheory has been around for almost twenty years and crackpots are still talking about ramps … and The Great Pyramid was constructed within twenty years.
Bro, I really do look forward to hearing your thoughts on all this and hope you located your copy of Raising Stone 1. Hopefully you have understood my translation/interpretation of Ezekiel chapter 1 because this and the Herodotus-Egypt document are proof of construction by convergence, which is usually upheld by universities when considering proof of events in ancient history. At university we study very thick volumes of historical documentations and must cite these where applicable in research assignments … very similar to studying LAW.
Two ancient documents by different authors are the minimum requirement for proof, and two documents exist.
Herodotus reports on machines made of short planks working tier to tier of Pyramid steps, and Ezekiel reports of the machines in a verse … “their rims were high and awesome with eyes all around.”
The machines exist today as small fragile wooden tomb models … short curved planks with cross-pegs …
search: Petrie rockers … and you will find haitheory.
Paul I did not say that your theory has to do with cosmology.
What I was implying is that Pyramids, for a great many people..(Michael Hudson of Bitstocks and his new collaborator in esoteric explorations….Dr Nassim Haramein among them, quite clearly) DO have something to do with much more than just themselves and how they were built.
I am clear on the distinction: You are concerned with the “How”.
Others seem much more intrigued with the “Why?”
While we are on the subject, recently I wondered about the HOW of stone raising in the pyramids of Meso-America and wondered if you had investigated their engineering methods….specifically the rack and pinion.
Unlike yourself, I am no pyramid expert. My impression is that those Meso-American pyramids are newer, and smaller….but I have no idea of the relative block sizes and weights and other differences.
I found the book, by the way….but I wrote in the Café a week or two ago that something on the community website to do with Captcha stifled the entry of my “book review”. I also noted that you have enough reviews….they are very well written and I was much happier with all 10 or 11 versus mine….but that I had an idea of a different sort.
Part of it was physical models of the cranes and live demonstration of the lifting of a real block….could be full size right there at Giza (which would require a political victory, I would imagine..)…OR scale model anywhere in the world that would accept the idea and house the model demonstration.
The other part has to do with outflanking the Fake History Academics….should you be able to prove the lifting physically as well as historically…………by recording video, audio of the modelling as well as your book and whatever references in it that can be uploaded……etc more or less eternally..(well….as long as humanity lasts…which could be quite a long period of time, Mate!).……..on another array of non-material (energy and data) blocks…those of THE one …and only……global blockchain (One or None..).worth talking about that is…one globally adopted and put to use as the foundation of the new internet….The Metanet.
Sort of “thinking outside the physical blocks” you might say.
Or rather, proof of work…applied in both the material as well as the non-physical realms of the Multiply Connected Domain.
This notion may leave you cold…..but if I was in your shoes I would be in contact with Misters Hudson and Haramein…..on the idea of weaving the two together…..and totally outflanking the academic stuffed shirts.
If you were interested I would rather work on that kind of flanking operation …..because I think it has a reasonable chance of success, and that would be way, way more important than a 12th or 13th book review..that probably won’t be any better or add anything further than the first ones did.
Bro … some may have read only the latter half of your pivotal sentence which contains the word crackpot. Many people do not read. I have a video showing a model step-walking when hoisted …
Rampless Pyramid Construction – haitheory.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVG7mzJUZa4
I have documented the mechanical advantage of the ancient pinion-pulley …
http://www.haitheory.com/Images/Wheelbarrow.jpg
Let me put the matter of construction in a nutshell …
When you mass produce millions of sandstone blocks approximately same size cubes and assemble some to make a square base layer firstly, do you then expend time and energy to form ramps to proceed with the more than two hundred layers to be added … or are you more intelligent.
Hint: you have a very large solid stone base layer laid down with four equally long sides to work with … if you could use all four sides layer by layer, and get the job done quickly … you would of course, because
Pharaoh wants to see his Pyramid completed before he dies and Pharaoh Khufu did stand in the entrance of his Pyramid and address the workforce … who put their wings (pulley lobes) down and fell face down to the ground on hearing Pharaoh speak.
http://www.haitheory.com/Images/22-26.png
http://www.haitheory.com/Images/Rainbow%20haitheory%20Ezekiel.png
And when your time-frame is twenty years there is only one realistic option in the real world.
The logistics of using any form of ramp/s within the twenty year time-frame cannot deliver on time.
Ancient Egyptian engineers were intelligent and I suspect “the gate-keepers” have an ingrained “white policy” type problem with this … why else the mass-media and two universities involved refuse to report my findings …. to at least allow people be aware.
I know I have been shut-down … period … and agree with you Bro, that extended reviews are irrelevant.
Action is required by some mass-media at least … and if anyone out there knows of journalists who are free to inform, please alert them to haitheory.
Raising Stone 1: Paul Hai’s racks & pinions theory is available at https://saker.community/
(50% of the book price goes to The Saker)
I had an Aryan friend in Vladivostok who was a converted Hindu, from the Brahmin caste, to Roman Catholicism.
He told me that the Namaste – which I have used a great deal for many years after working with many Indian doctors and meeting their families when I was a student nurse in UK – and saying the word, basically means “the God / Spirit within me salutes the God / spirit within you”
I could only think – how beautiful.
Pamela
After many years of Church and community life, I commenced yoga practice.
I had suffered pulmonary embolisms on a flight from NYC back to Australia-fell off the plane in transit in Papeete where I was taken into intensive care. That is a whole other (and eventually hilarious story)
Back in Oz following a lung function test the specialist diagnosed me with early stage emphysema. I’m not a smoker but I am polite.
I listened to the expert advice and treatment plan, thanked him kindly as he handed me his referrals and whatever else, and headed straight for the yoga studio near my home, dropping said paperwork in the nearest bin.
Within months I was off the warfarin and not much later my lungs were normal for my age.
The point of all this is to say that the institutionalised Christian church too often fails to instil in its flock the essential message that every namaste imparts: “the God / Spirit within me salutes the God / spirit within you”
I could only think – how beautiful.”
Multitudes of faithful Christians fail to get this message. Somehow (?) I knew that no amount of belief in an external deity was going to fix my early stage emphysema LOL
Babushka,
What you went through !! A pulmonary embolism – as I’m sure I have no need to tell you – is life threatening and very very close to the last door through which we all must pass.
I’m so glad you didn’t go through it
Interesting that yoga did so much for you – and I congratulate you on throwing away the meds. I had a similar experience here – after being treated for a genetic disorder of insulin production, which got worse as I got older I came here very sick, having to inject insulin, take other meds and feeling as if I were being sucked into a whirlpool. I found an excellent Canadian Alternative Health practitioner whose ideas marched in step with my own, and between us I was able to ditch the lot – of Western Main stream poisons.
And the thing I found the best was meditation. I had learned it from a TM course I did in Melbourne 0 yrs before, but had let it lapse a long time ago. Now I wouldn’t be without it – and can attribute the health I have now mainly to that.
Had you practised yoga before, and were a skilled practitioner, or did you start as a beginner at that time? I guess you keep it up now too. I’ve never tried it, but I should. I think I’ll try some of those ‘Yoga for beginners” vids on YouTube and make a start.
As you said, you do realise, it’s the God within that is going to help you, every time.
Stay well.
” Is the ultimate opposite to love not rather death, i.e., an absence of life?”
I would say no, how can that be?
Love is the emotion – in it’s form as Compassion – that is the force which holds the Universe together, which flows as the Delphic Oracle put it like ” a flame which surrounds the Universe and is all though the Universe, being in all things, and all things are in it”
But death is a physical thing – it’s the visible cessation of activity in this form, at this vibrational level in which we experience ourselves.
And indeed, for many believers in older forms of spiritual belief, the idea of death is a mistake – there is no death. It’s a view which gained substantial support from modern science, Einstein even, who showed that Energy can only change it’s forms, it cannot die; indeed the concept of “death” as a cessation can be said to have become a trite idea generated by those who would control our minds from thousands of years back, in order to instil fear.
I would agree rather – that because of Love itself, the Force, there can be no death – that we are like the beautiful poem which says “do not stand at my grave and weep….”
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Mary Elizabeth Frye 1936
‘Where was your patient zero?’ Chinese official speculates AMERICANS may have infected Wuhan at army games & calls to ‘come clean’
https://www.rt.com/news/482990-china-coronavirus-us-come-clean/
“Lijian Zhao 赵立坚
✔
@zlj517
2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”
“It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” Zhao suggested, calling for the CDC – and the US in general – to “be transparent” and share what they know about where and when “Patient Zero” was first diagnosed.
In the video, Redfield acknowledged that some cases of coronavirus were misclassified as influenza as the medics did not have an accurate test for the new epidemic at the time. He did not elaborate on when these misdiagnosed cases first appeared – saying only that “some cases have been diagnosed that way.”
In the absence of any patients’ details or chronology of deaths, speculation has swirled. Zhao’s “theory” in particular focused on the military delegation that traveled to Wuhan in October for the Military World Games, weeks before the city confirmed the outbreak in December.
Zhao is not the only high-profile political figure to voice suspicions about the timing of the Games and the introduction of the coronavirus in Wuhan. Former Malaysian PM Matthias Chang offered similar speculation back in January, zeroing in on the event as the launch point for what he deemed a biological war waged by the US against China.”
Beijing won’t disown spokesman’s theory of US hand in coronavirus outbreak
https://www.rt.com/news/483018-china-us-theory-coronavirus-spokesman/
“Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang wouldn’t comment on Friday about remarks made by colleague Zhao Lijian. Instead, the ministry official stated that the international community had differing opinions about the origin of the Covid-19, Reuters reported. Geng also chose not to discuss whether Zhao’s theory — that it may have been the US military that brought the deadly disease to Wuhan — matched Beijing’s official position.
Geng had earlier lashed out at Washington for claiming that Beijing had engaged in a “cover-up” to hide the outbreak, widely believed to have begun in China’s Hubei province. He told reporters that now was the time to “come together to fight [the virus] instead of leveling accusations and attacks against each
Bank Holiday coming?
Yesterday (March 12) the British Government had a ‘Cobra’ Meeting to discuss the Pandemic.
Reporters mentioned that the term “Bank Holiday” was mentioned.
It was explained that this was a reference to the forthcoming Easter ‘Bank Holiday / Spring Break’, but as we watch the financial markets melt down and the US inject c.$1Trillion to prop them up, it may be that the Brits (and the US too?) are planning a Bank Shutdown (aka “Bank Holiday”) over the Easter Holiday.
Keep watching, and prepare accordingly if you live in the UK or US.
UK may soon have essential supply lines with Europe cut – France, germany, Denmark, and Spain beginning to suspend exports of essential items.
This is a big story, with a possible twist to it as the US has not stopped flights and shipping to and from the UK (Gold and Art transfers have been suggested ahead of the possible “Bank Holiday” at the end of March / beginning of April).
Anglo-American Elites co-ordinating wealth transfers?
As Europe goes, so goes the U.S.
Dow futures down the limit, circuit breaker triggered, Fed at zero rates, $700 billion treasury’s borrowed to calm mkts for week ahead, prep for another turbulent financial week to come.
I love the Cafe photo: a poem “I need a drink” has started to bubble up inside.
Latest news. Well, the morning after the community meeting, the State Board of Health issued an edict effectively banning St. Pat’s day–not that anything gets ever said threatening the use of State power, at least not yet.
So anyone over 60 is “advised” not to congregate in groups ( other than family groups) of more than 10 and not to sit any closer than 6 ft away ( crank up your hearing aids, boomers!)
The aged stoners ( yes, there are a few) have stocked up on weed and their favorite munchies. Little Debbie snack cakes and yoghurt is the cuisine of choice for the ex heroin dealer across the street–Amazon Prime delivers them by the box load. He is armed to the teeth and like a wizened dragon of yore, sits guarding what must be a 2 ton steel safe stuffed with collectibles, gold and other precious items as such Ill gotten gains from his former illustrious careers.
I ,who live across the street and who put up an Earth flag every April 22nd, have another reputation entirely–that of being a bit hyperbolic, overly emotional but the one whom you call upon in a pinch just before you resort to 911. It could be worse. Now this I do not understand… The Ukrainian caretaker(Cancer) unconsciously takes a step back when I ( lots of Mars energy) breeze into the clubhouse? Hmmm. I am only 5ft. 2inches . then he catches himself and steps forward again. We actually like each other and have an unspoken agreement not to call each other out especially when he repeats the owner’s barefaced lies or I filch wood ( just a piece or two) from the huge pile down near the garden.
We are older folks but we live in relationship still. We insist on it and we depend on it and we honor it. During the meeting, representatives of all the (sometimes warring) factions showed up.
Yeah, I need a drink was my mantra yesterday lol.
Here is something that your post made me think of .. Even the flippin’ ducks know how to do it. I don’t know how to get this short video out of the tweet, but it is in this tweet.
https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1237431775367802880
So totally sweet….you made my day, thank you Amarynth!!! No time for a drink as people are making their way to my door and a de facto ad hoc committee is beginning to coalesce hopefully around a couple ( lady in her 80’s
from post war Denmark who is tough as nails and sharp as a tack and her husband who is Mr. Firm Diplomacy Plus).
Life is just Duckie!!!
In June 2014, in search of a dissertation topic, University of Pennsylvania student Whittaker Schroder, who worked on Golden’s project, drove around Chiapas looking at archaeological digs. Toward the end of his stay, a man selling carnitas on the side of the highway started waving at him as he rode by.
… How they found Sak Tz’i’ with the help of a food vendor …
Schroder thought he wanted him to buy his food. A vegetarian, he kept going.
Finally, a day before his departure, Schroder decided he had nothing to lose and pulled over.
The man wasn’t interested in selling Schroder carnitas after all. He told Schroder his friend had discovered an ancient stone tablet. He knew Schroder, who’d been doing research in the area for several years, was interested in the Maya. Would the graduate student like to see it?
… an extract sourced from …
Ancient Maya kingdom unearthed in a backyard in Mexico
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-ancient-maya-kingdom-unearthed-backyard.html
Bubbling up from the murky martian depths….( there is water on that dry planet after all!) of my subconscious:
per the header photo:
I need a Drink
We shall fight on the beaches..
false bravado
I need a drink
I am old my power leeches
fear and defeat
I need a drink
Buying up toilet paper
Will that save her?
I need a drink
Stir up false faith and voodoo
What will that do?
I need a drink
Band together, make some plans,
barricades man
I need a drink,
right now, ya think?
can’t stop daydreaming;
drinking in my sunday best
means nothing to me!
… more details on Sak Tz’i’ (“White Dog”) …
via Associate Professor of Anthropology Charles Golden and (his) … “Golden’s project” …
Archaeologists have long been looking for a “lost” capital of the Classic Maya – the royal court of Sak Tz’i’ (“White Dog”) – having had only circumstantial evidence that the kingdom’s capital was most likely in what is now Chiapas, Mexico.
https://sputniknews.com/science/202003131078558702-scientists-discover-ancient-maya-kingdom-in-cattle-ranch-in-mexico/
Paul,
My being a retired building contractor I became familiar with a lot of Sub-contractors thru the years and one stuck out in my circle. They were a Mexican family who did mainly roofing but adapted to many other trades with little effort. They came from a rural southern Mexico village in the mountains that was quite remote and they showed no “Europeon Spanish” features or body style. Once I asked about their heritage and without hesitation they said Mayan. I was impressed but kept some skepticism handy anyway. BUT, the father who is about my age, has the features and profile of the classic Mayan figures that are shown in the article you linked. Also the stone carvings of the Mayan King who seems to be in some sort of “spaceship” is the spitting image of this man I know.
Even after decades of living in the US only the oldest son speaks english well. Their food is simple and what they would eat in the village. I have not been to their village although I have been invited. A late friend of mine did visit and I saw the pictures. It was remote and the culture of family and community very strong. The “Frontier Rules “are /were in effect and if the “sheriff” needed killing, he was. Disputes and “fines” are settled on the spot. Makes me wonder if the old “Empires” operated along those lines and was carried to the present. I do know this. If my life was threatened, my “Mayan” friends will be here in minutes.
Steve
Sometimes my words are engaged in another realm, after being saturated with daily realities on the ground, for a certain time I’m used to walking, read and mostly listen as carefully as I can. Not that everything interests me but I do realize that there is a difference in human relations everywhere, which I wouldn’t dress them in very appreciative words, trying to be courteous. Therefore, I will make a pause in postings, keeping my senses open until I reach some sort of conclusion on what to do further on. As I already said, I put aside the painting and drawing – that’s a fact now – soon I will post probably my last poem here in the Cafe but maybe I will remain for a while here to annoy you with my thoughts.
From the openess of your words, I have felt your pain. Now the room grows quieter…………………..I wish you all the best.
Cheers, M
Dear ioan
Your words never annoy me and I’m glad of your threat to continue bringing us your words
This Café would be bereft without you
Human relationships are universal- that is the human condition everywhere.
Love (and grace, as Sean previously pointed out) transcends all
Deep peace to You and I feel assured in my bones that your artistic juices will flow again
last poem? Please, no ioan say it aint so!!
Another corner will go dark if you do.
Stay well, and your thoughts can never annoy.
Dear ioan
Your words have a magical quality that flows from the heart, as does your art. In whatever you do, my you find comfort in knowing you have many friends here. Take care mate.
you can take art out of the artist
but you cannot take the artist out of art…
The incredible matrix
Love and life
Can it be explained
By the passage of time
Or design
Of a supreme being
Thanks for the welcome ioan
Thank you guys and gals for your friendly support, you are medicine for my heart as you were always in the past years. I live through difficulties which are challenging me in my every day’s life, have to face them as you face them too. Not having a family and relatives to give a hand is not nice but I must deal with everything as they come, and they are coming, letting me little relief to communicate with the muses of poetry. I’m glad that here are many very good poets, talented and inspired people who will keep going on.
One think I have to remind you all, a meaningful thing which went out also from my mind : this year, February the 5th, was the anniversary of the first opening of this wonderful Cafe !
The Cafe (and we all) are now four years old ! (another two or three years and we can go to school)
Happy Birthday Day for all the clientelle and blessings to Herb who is the Goodfather of this place !
Waiter ! – Happy Birthday to you too, how could we forget such a pleasant person ?
– Champagne for all…and a toast with the best wishes !
Here is some Medicine for the People – sit back – drink tea :-) – watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgP8LkEopM
I do not read arabic so i can not confirm.
“In response to the airstrikes, the Harahat An-Nujab movement announced the start of an armed confrontation with the United States”
https://twitter.com/ynms79797979/status/1238575347622428672
posted 10 min ago
Two poems of Sàndor Petöfi
The song of the dogs – 1847
Loud the storm is howling
under a thundery sky.
The twin sons of winter,
snow and rain, sleet by.
What’s that to us? We have
our hearth-side, by the grace
of our good kind Master
who gave us this place.
We shall not die of hunger.
Our Master wills it thus.
When he has fed his fullest
the leavings are for us.
True, his whip sometimes
cracks, and the weals
it leaves are most painful;
but a dog’s hurt soon heals.
And then our Master calls us,
his sudden anger over,
and with true gratitude
on his boots we slobber.
—————————————–
The song of the wolves – 1847
Loud the storm is howling
Under a thundery sky.
The twin sons of winter,
Snow and rain, sleet by.
It is a barren plainland
We chose for abiding.
Not a bush grows there
For shelter or hiding.
Hunger gnaws the belly,
Cold gnaws the bone,
Two torturers who will not
Leave us alone.
And there, the third torturer,
Guns loaded with lead:
On the white, white snow
Our blood drips red.
Freezing and starving
And peppered with shot.
Yes, our lot is misery …
But Freedom is our lot!
Both poems translated by Fraser, G. S.
Everything is Related…..But How?
Coronavirus as Use Case for Bitcoin SV’s Big Data Capacity –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woeyZ9eCv8A
Blockchain suffers from a bad name among certain girls and boys that never played with blocks, and don’t like engineers.
Right-brain intuits like Polly and Dennis are creeped out by Left-brain imbalanced Technocracy psychopaths..and control freaks………but would benefit from a little play with blocks….IMHO….and hopefully come to the conclusion that a “balance” (not a preference for one side of the brain or the other) is the ideal to aim for.
The control freaks, criminals and anarchists dream of anonymity for themselves because theft and lawbreaking are shortcuts to material wealth…and always have been….since pirates roamed the seas and highway robbery became an overwhelming temptation to those seeking to escape the back breaking toil………..of tilling the soil.
I am positive that upwards of 99% of those reading these words are either repelled by the idea of getting a chip in their forehead….losing their freedom and privacy (that would be about 98% of you …..Polly and Dennis most prominently…among those protesting and freaking out vocally) and being “chained to a wall of blocks”…..there’s that right-brain imbalanced but highly associative mind for you….LOL……OR 1% of you by contrast might be attracted to the idea of hiding in the shadows of anonymity…..and taking illegal, anarchistic shortcuts.
Both are a misunderstanding of the potential of eliminating the shadows of crime-enabling anonymity while preserving privacy…..that a properly conceived and implemented “Time Chain” offers.
(TIME CHAIN An Immutable Public Ledger with timestamped entries that can virtually eliminate (not perfectly…but damned well!) much banking fraud, vote fraud and other evils ………were a much more fortunate name for the single ledger technology/discovery with the potential to eliminate the double, triple and quadruple entry frauds of Central Banks …….as the South Seas Colonel has properly identified the Top of the Control Paradigm Pyramid. As well as the and Bernie Madoffs… and Enrons…down from the top several steps.
Thanks to Our Lovely Pandemic Crowning the First Quarter of the 20/20 Year of Satoshi’s Vision a few percentages of persons (single conscious digits is all that it takes for historical breakthroughs….the rest will benefit without being conscious of how it happened….in most cases…) here might just grasp the strategic relevance of this not -so- easy-to-grapple-with technical/conceptual matter.
But Fear of the Unknown is a powerful mental block to discovery of solutions to these devilishly difficult dichotomies……such as privacy/anonymity (NOT the same things…A contract can be private….but if it is anonymous…..the injured party to the transaction has ZERO recourse under law……”There’s the rub”, folks.
Start with the English blokes above introducing the overview…….and I shall attempt to “round up” the Texan …Ken Hill I believe his name is….of EHR Data Inc……who went into much more detail recently (in London Feb 20-21) on privately controlled medical record keeping for the future…..on the Global Time Chain of the Very NEr Future…and how that will be a tremendous boon to efforts at eliminating pesky pandemics in this decade and beyind……….. while saving thousands of billions of present dollar value medical record keeping costs……………and time delays….which can not only kill bodies….but economies as well.
When the people did not fit the scheme.
The people were discarded.
Nazism Democratic Socialism Social Democracy Coronavirus Ebola Anthrax Swine Bird Libya Syria Iraq Afghanistan. People should never forget.
In need of refreshment in these seriously bad times.
THIS my friends is the official Russian contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest this year.
Hillarious, different, and very refreshing compared to the slick pop from all other countries.
Made my day.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=193&v=L_dWvTCdDQ4&feature=emb_logo
Kent
What fun, thanks Kent. :-)
Wish I knew what they were singing, but the visuals are great – especially Mr. Tubby.
And 70’s flares. Who thought we’d ever see them again??
email from my Red-Pilled Sister
Don’t blame me if it contains any inaccuracies……she just has more capacity for visiting more “boards” than I do:
“apparently Trump is activating the National Guard in all states and territories..
not sure if you’ve seen the multiple vids of released prisoners/illegal immigrants in Turkey rushing the Greek border.. all young males.. the Turks bussed them from the prisons to the border.. several vids of Erdogan berating the Greeks who ‘should allow them to pass through to the richer’ EU nations.. Greece is now building a wall on their border with Turkey.. police from multiple of those ‘richer nations’ are moving into Greece to back up the Greek border guards..
this guy has a bit of just about everything and has been reliable to all assessments I’ve seen on his reporting of ‘on the ground’ Europe…
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland
the US is in the process of landing 20,000 troops with full equipment deployment including tanks and air support in various European ports to ‘conduct joint military exercises’… Duckduckgo ‘google’ if Based/Poland doesn’t have this..
lots of conjecture as to what is ‘really going on’… I’d love to hear/read whatever you come up with..
we’re closing on Tuesday and I don’t have time for more that this right now… suddenly there are 10,000 things to do… ;)”
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Now to find and review Mr Hill’s Coin Geek London Conference Medical Records on BSV presentation.
Oh, dear! Poland Based Flunks History.
You’ll see in the twitter thread…above….lots of tear gas….Molotov cocktails….burning tires at the Greek border…..plus Spanish farmers supporting French yellow vests……OK …so far, so good!
But then…… some plain historical stupidity………….as though Gaza……historically….were the Siege of Vienna……5 or 6 centuries ago.
Poor, poor Polish Grasp of History and Geography!
Blue Pilled Sister Getting Slightly Redder responds thusly:
“Bay Area is in full panic mode –
all schools closed down, all meetings of every sort cancelled, grocery stores stripped bare…
Full tsunami/hurricane/tornado/bubonic plague lockdown.”
I replied:
We’ll make MAGA “preppers” out of them yet!
Welcome to The Storm!
LOL
“Have patience with everything that is unresolved in your heart and try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek out the answers now which cannot be given to you because you cannot live them. And what matters is to live evetything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then, without noticing it, you will gradually come, on some far-off day, to live your way into the answer.” Rilke
I’d Like To Know
I’d like to know
what the star knows,
And why it trembles
by day and by night?
Is death overcome,
Is sorrow undone;
That the star it shines
so clear and so bright?
I’d like to see
what the star sees,
It must be something
wondrous and grand!
The ocean’s expanse,
the moon’s sliver lance;
Shadows in flight
across the land!
I’d like to be
like the star free,
And live in the moment
in a state of play!
To sup with the Gods;
What are the odds?
Sharing tales of
the Ancient of Days!
I’d like to know
how the star knows,
It’s place in the vast
assembly above?
To be who I am,
To do what I can,
And cleave to the Will
of the One True Love!
I’d like to know
what the star knows,
And why it trembles
by day and by night?
Is death overcome,
Is sorrow undone;
That the star it burns
so clear and so bright?
The One Who Opens Hearts
The moon is low, the hour is still.
The night is cool, sleep your fill.
Where we’re going there is no fear;
The one who opens hearts is here!
Take your rest, my little one,
One more hour until the sun!
The one who is a friend to all,
Is here at last and standing tall!
He you’ve loved and longed to see;
The Ancient One to set you free!
The One who holds Death in thrall
Has come through time to heed your call!
Wake up, my love, wake up, my son;
Danger is past, the hour has come!
The One who holds your secret heart
Has prepared the way; it’s time to part…
Hearken, hearken to the drum;
The One who opens hearts has come!
Hearken in your hour of need,
Hearken one and all, Godspeed!
Keep going Dimitar, let the muses work…they need you !
Throw me your rope, brother… you know there’s no leaving this path were on! Rest breaks are of course, ‘allowed’… warm regards, D!
Couldn’t find the video yet…but here’s the recap from London 3 weeks ago:
EHR Data partners with nChain to migrate healthcare data to Bitcoin SV
Business 21 February 2020
Steve Kaaru
EHR Data Inc. has partnered with nChain to digitize medical data, and for the first time, give patients ownership of their healthcare data. The Texas-based company, a subsidiary of the National Health Coalition (NHC), just made the groundbreaking announcement during the CoinGeek London Conference—it will work with nChain to migrate NHC healthcare data to Bitcoin SV (BSV).
The opioid crisis has become one of the biggest of our time, with up to 250 deaths registered daily in the U.S. alone. One of the key factors behind this is the lack of interoperability in medical records, with most of the data locked up in massive silos owned and operated by big companies. Physicians end up prescribing drugs with no prior consideration of a patient’s medical history. The new system, known as the global electronic healthcare record (G-EHR), will get rid of this, Chief Clinical Officer Cheryl Jorgenson told the audience.
The system, which is currently in a proof-of-concept stage, will consolidate the data silos into one, allowing for global interoperability. Patients will have the ability to dictate who can access their medical data. With this, it will be possible to have patient loyalty rewards such as incentivizing them to live in a healthy manner.
EHR Data could have easily developed a private database which could contain these medical records.
However, it would miss key elements that a public blockchain like BSV has including trust and immutability, Ron Austring, the president of Daedalos Inc. explained. Working with nChain on this venture was a no-brainer for the firm as nChain has established itself as an expert in enterprise blockchain solutions, he added. The Metanet was also a key focus for the project as it will enable the actualization of the vision.
The G-EHR will incorporate cutting-edge patented technology from both EHR Data and nChain. It will guarantee the patients of their privacy, through the use of private keys and encryption, obfuscating the patients’ personal profile while sharing crucial data.
The two companies are also working on a global workflow engine (G-WFE) to provide a single universal source of truth. It will rely on the Bitcoin SV blockchain to provide real-time financial processes and the BSV token to settle payments. With 4.2 billion opioid prescriptions made annually in the U.S. alone, the system is expected to add up to 32 billion transactions to the BSV network annually.
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If there are any time chains that can successfully compete….then, “The More, The Merrier!”
Bro, let me explain to you why you are advertising (some would call it shilling). You are really calling out one blockchain of your choice, without knowing the industry, and I am sure you think this is groundbreaking. It is not Bro .. it is just shilling and I think you don’t know because you do not know the industry. Apologies if I am wrong, but I don’t think so.
Please go and do a search for ‘enterprise blockchain medical vertical’ – you will fall over your feet with developments. This is neither new, nor is it groundbreaking and yet you are pushing it as if it is the bees knees. For folks like me, it is like you are advertising Windoze.
People that know enterprise systems write these what you’ve just posted over breakfast for the trade mags. I must have written 106 (haha – I have no idea) myself over many years in the industry. There is no real proof of concept here .. proof of concept ‘stage’ means we’re trying to figure out how to do it but there is nothing yet but in the mean time here is a press release that sounds good. There are thousands of these in the industry per day.
So, go and do that search – this is neither unique, nor is it something that is not done anywhere else. So, you are advertising. OK .. will you stop now? I know all the dark to light stories out there and once upon a time somebody in the BSV world said something like dark to light and now they are as good as Trump himself /sarc, but will you stop advertising your blockchain of choice now? Please buddy. (I hate it if you make my life difficult – here is 15 for ya – https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-healthcare-applications-companies).
(Yes, this was work).
Did I say it was unique, announcement wise? It doesn’t matter what is announced.
What matters is what is followed through on……built….realized…implemented.
Unless Captin can be refuted by “proof of smacked bums” (his bums rather than the many fragmenters’ bums) in terms of what he lays out here……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661aCR3hza8
One clearly aims higher than the rest …combined…..by orders of magnitude. Which might be worth talking about in terms of strategic potential.
Anything else?? Seems like a waste of time, quite frankly.
I said Let the Competition Begin In Earnest!
At least that is what I intended to communicate.
May the best tech win! As it should. And no….many blockchains will not get anyone anywhere.
That much is clear.
Any more than a lot of little squabbling villages will stop an invasion. This is the logic of the transition from feudalism to nation state republics.
Zbiggy said it clearly: “We prefer small, weak states. They are easier to control.”
Frickin Polish aristocratic oligarch…speaking of the peasants that should be toiling in “his” ancestral fields .
Whatdoesit mean?
Earlier today, Gates stepped down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by his friend and fellow billionaire, Warren Buffett. Both men have been in the press a lot lately amid the market turmoil (Buffett) and viral panic (Gates).
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-gates-resigns-microsoft-board
Friday the 13th doubleheader starring Mr. Bill, you say…not unexpected at all.
Maybe he’s answering the call needs more time to do charity work?:
http://www.illuminatiagenda.com/bill-gates-backed-meningitis-vaccine-paralyzes-50-african-children/
This is as boozy a Cafe since the glory days of the “class of 2015”, AKA: Good times.
Given the mission of the Cafe as I understand it, in 2020, today’s atmosphere is a real success.
Ras is here. Teranam is here. Bro is here. Amarynth is here.
What more could you want in these stone cold crazy times?
It’s wonderful to see the Cafe in such great shape. Old-timers, new-timers (hello Dave), Skol to you all.
But Ioan is threatening to leave which he does every now and again.
Don’t Go, Bro
on bended knees
I say: cut the tease
of Ioan-exit
it’s such a vex-it
when you text-it!!!
Besides, we’ll miss your calendars. yeah I succumbed to drink and really, really bad poetry.
Ioan really isn’t allowed to leave. ;0
Glad you’re here, T.
Tulsi Gabbard, who is dissed and ignored left and right, puts forward a bill to give UBI to people suffering from the virus, so, you know, they don’t get thrown out into the street or something.
Simple, really… the idea that someone in the government gives a flying f*ck about the citizens who pay their lousy salaries.
Jimmy Dore, for political stuff, is killing it these days. Quite an interesting interview.
Yes, we have to go to comedians these days to get the news…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6BQFdnA_U
p/s “bad poetry”? Nah, you were just emotive. You had an emotion, you expressed it, you’re human, God bless you.
This is just too good…as in funny haha…… not to share:
https://youtu.be/cgbNpz0wkpU?t=353
“He’s just a humble supplements salesman from Texas. Why can’t they leave him (Alex Jones) alone???
Interesting show, Bro.
Bro 93 thanks for the poem and I absolutely love. John Barbour—he does not mince words and worrying about being “nice” is way down in his priorities when it comes to telling his truth.
This Cafe is bound for Glory :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2uciHpe4U
For those who can’t make out the lyrics ( myself included). Bound for Glory ( a Woody Guthrie favorite)
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/752531
On poets and other unknown mysteries of life, how do you know what you think is right ? I have been on here in varying guises for four years, many people will know that, but only discernment and intuitive love can tell who I really am.
Now, don’t get the violins out because I mention the word ‘love’, I see grass and the clouds and the sun and rain every day, they simply are, as love, but I don’t want to call them trite.
Trite is defined as ‘lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse’ and therefore in tired, prejudiced minds, and never in nature or the truth of the human spirit for whom no second of life can succumb to overuse.
We are all using the same words every day, but the user is unique and can be discerned by the other.
Now I fear I am hastening to where all roads lead and must depart. God bless you one and all !
Ras
Baby, Please Don’t Go
Though you so tire of life…
The fussing, interminable strife
And have shortness of breath
Be with us forever…e’en in death!
Too many sad announcements..
Irrevocable pronouncements
Of the bittersweet end of the road
Flatten our tires, a crushing load.
A New Silk Road Cafe of Wanderers
Of international poets and ponderers..
Thinkers and lovers…..and e’en trolls…
So enriching a collection of souls!
“Sweet baby, baby please don’t go
You know we love, love you so!
But if your planet now must roam…
Come ’round back to us, home.
I know the orbital origin of Ras,
Pain, trouble, “These two shall pass!”
Sometimes we just want to be alone.
But in The End….we all come home.
This poor attempt at verse is also written for another announcer…and many more that departed…in the middle of the night ……without a word….not just here…but all over the world….since the dawn of man…and even man’s best ancestral friend. That clue and the rhyme of the last cuplet should give a hint……of whom I speak.
And now a bluesman…and harmonical vibration add energy to a corresponding …universal lament:
Baby Please Don’t Go…………..Muddy Waters
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/?filmId=1004741713046859880&text=baby%20please%20don%27t%20go%20muddy%20waters&noreask=1&path=wizard&parent-reqid=1584184125353299-346099402102347565001470-man1-3568&redircnt=1584184259.1
Man, that’s a lot of code! It’s urgent enery…itsplayer’s face…and Muddy’s …is what got me, more than its words:
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Down to New Orleans, you know I love you so
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way’d out here, and let you walk alone
Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
Turn your lamp down low
I beg you all night long, baby, please don’t go
You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
You brought me way down here
‘Bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Baby, please don’t go
Back to New Orleans, I beg you all night long
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
I get you way’d out here, and let you walk alone
You know your man done gone
You know your man done gone
You know your man done gone
To the county farm, with all the shackles on.
Hmmmm:
Vibrations: Ras is of Russia, I get it mon!
Positively with you, any wanderer, wandering on.
Heavy shackles I felt in the Virgin Island air…..but even there…Another Ras Vibrational Prayer:
If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You’re saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)
Say you just can’t live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
‘Cause it’s news (new day) – news and days –
New time (new time), and if it’s a new feelin’ (new feelin’), yeah! –
Said it’s a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!
Pickin’ up?
Are you pickin’ up now?
Jah love – Jah love (protect us);
Jah love – Jah love (protect us);
Jah love – Jah love (protect us).
Amen!
… Ras sounds like he is morbidly serious as does ioan and you, Bro, post exactly the song I had in mind but was not brave enough to post it. Could this imply cosmic communications are at play and more mysteries await us all (LOL).
… Ya all listen to this song before “leavin” this Cafe …
Pick Yourself Up · Nat King Cole · George Shearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ViFpURIDk
… and I am perplexed by questions like, “Which came first … the chicken or the egg?” to which I confess I do not even know how to start thinking to unravel and answer this question.
I do know our solar system was here before I arrived, but until I arrived and was schooled I knew nothing of the solar system and soon I will not know anything at all … or so it seems to me.
What is the universe? … I do not know and yet I am within it … even in pre-human form parts of me existed for billions of years … atoms, elements and compounds.
Very strange … but I do know about Giza Pyramid construction and never been to Egypt and this is also strange. There is complexity here to the point where I feel some thinking does not work at all in providing answers and so paradoxes are created and then it is most relaxing to have a cup of tea and watch the world go by with great benefits to one’s health. Some have gone insane.
Thought thought that if he planted a feather a bird would grow … some knowledge is via trial and error. We all learn the hard way that fire burns skin and water is not good to breathe. Time for a cuppa … yet again … and relax.
Wounded by rejection
Stung by lecturing rebukes
Shaking the dust
Adieu Ras- your words will be sorely missed
@Raskolnikov
My dear friend, I really hope that you will stay – as a matter of fact, I am not leaving the scene, only the poetry for reasons I told but I will come in with my thoughts after a pause which I need. Here is a song for you but don’t take it as a good bye, when you hear it, think on me as you are dancing with me in the backyard of this moveable cafe :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsdTvFpggG4 Engelbert Humperdinck-The Last Waltz
Did the Colonel From the South Seas already provide this?:
“As readers will recall from the earlier article (above), Japanese and Taiwanese epidemiologists and pharmacologists have determined that the new coronavirus almost certainly originated in the US since that country is the only one known to have all five types – from which all others must have descended. Wuhan in China has only one of those types, rendering it in analogy as a kind of “branch” which cannot exist by itself but must have grown from a “tree”.
The Taiwanese physician noted that in August of 2019 the US had a flurry of lung pneumonias or similar, which the Americans blamed on ‘vaping’ from e-cigarettes, but which, according to the scientist, the symptoms and conditions could not be explained by e-cigarettes. He said he wrote to the US officials telling them he suspected those deaths were likely due to the coronavirus. He claims his warnings were ignored.
Immediately prior to that, the CDC totally shut down the US Military’s main bio-lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, due to an absence of safeguards against pathogen leakages, issuing a complete “cease and desist” order to the military. It was immediately after this event that the ‘e-cigarette’ epidemic arose.”
the link and within it is the link to Larry Romanoff’s article of March 4:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-further-evidence-virus-originated-us/5706078?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
” … rendering it in analogy as a kind of “branch” which cannot exist by itself but must have grown from a “tree”.
… and then it seems it has fallen off the back of an unspecified truck … somewhere.
And now my favorite song of all time … gives me strength … motivates … fearless …
The Herd From The Underworld + Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xFM7tPUWU
Ahahahah! With men and women, the masculine and feminine…the “meeting of minds” and the parting of ways…..can be …more painfully gut-wrenching….
resonates and revives a much earlier tune….along the lines of the same old, same old story….
Micro (personal) and Macro (political) example:
The Deadbeat Anglo-Zionist Dad. ( “….a child I am told”….)
Some good-byes are more bitter….than sweet or even bitter-sweet…with a sharp twist of the dagger, which hurts. Especially if the departing one left you pregnant, devastated, impoverished………….. and finished his farewell song with these two lines:
“You just kinda wasted my precious time….
But don’t think twice….it’s alright.”
The Chutzpah! The Projection! The Self-righteous EGO of Zion! LOL……. (But it’s no laughing matter.)
With REAL love, It is necessary to put yourself in the shoes of The Other
If Ukraine is the New Zion…..this may be the Song of the Exodus from Palestine:
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright https://youtu.be/1iHhWh9FtsQ
Well it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If’n you don’t know by now
And it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It’ll never do somehow.
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m a-traveling on
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
And it ain’t no use in turning on your light, babe
The light I never knowed
And it ain’t no use in turning on your light, babe
I’m on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was something you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
So it ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal
I can’t hear you anymore
I’m a-thinking and a-wondering, walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul (Yeah, right!)
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
So long, honey babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
Goodbye’s too good a word, babe
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t a-saying you treated me unkind
You could’ve done better, but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
And by the way, I ain’t payin’ no “child support”, ya hear??
Today, March 14, 2020, the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) is releasing the complete audio files of Yanis Varoufakis’ Eurogroup meetings in 2015.
During 2015 Yanis Varoufakis participated in thirteen Eurogroup meetings. After the first three Eurogroup meetings it became clear that no minutes were being taken!
This kind of intransparent action by an unelected group of politicians who influence all our lives is unacceptable. That is why DiEM25 is today releasing the recordings of the meetings of the Eurogroup from 2015.
https://diem25.org/euroleaks-the-full-2015-eurogroup-recordings-now-public/
https://euroleaks.diem25.org/
Nasal Cleansing (Jala Neti)
This is one of several yoga techniques for cleaning the body, making it less appetizing for foreign pathogens. Take your pick from the many techniques on Google. The benefits from this can be felt usually within seconds.
I use Siang Pure Oil Original WHITE Formula to keep awake especially on long road trips.
Just invert the bottle over one finger and wipe under the nose.
Don’t wipe eyes with that moist finger.
Siang Pure Oil Original WHITE Formula Relief of dizziness and muscular pain 7 ml
On ebay it is a fair price … about US$4.50
It’s always on hand on my driver’s side door … is very effective.
Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov recommends all those anxious about their health work on strengthening their immune system using traditional means … “Mix lemon with honey and water and drink – then the virus won’t get you. Eat your garlic.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/483160-kadyrov-coronavirus-russia-advice/
Such a relief to see Kadrov’s sane, balanced, words.
And his “lemon with honey and [hot] water,,, ” if you are not Islamic or a teetotal non-islamic person, a shot of Scotch goes very very well in there, too :-)
Every boiler room has turned into a pressure cooker, and I love it!
Fundamentals, adoption, adaption, and staying power will win in the end.
If you don’t blow a gasket first………
It isn’t Shilling Sir Toshi’s doin..in North England… it is Elimination Jousting….. and he lays its principles down better than any non-geek for other non-geeks….. that I know of.
“The ignorance in the whole space is simply insane.”
Captin is a calming, more peaceful and diplomatic influence, but the edge and pith of the mind of Toshi are more my style. LOL.
Whale Watching In A World Gone Crazy:
https://youtu.be/zIOVlk9aWP8?t=369
Toshi pulls no punches:
“If you are a trader you are either with the whales and manipulating the market…..or you’ll get REKT. So don’t even try it. If you have any early luck…..it will soon end.”
That is not where profit lies for the smaller fish in the sea. It lies with calm, unemotional understanding.
In markets as in pandemics the fear, the loss of senses and the one track mind that cannot adapt to the unexpected….is the most vulnerable.
Amarynth will appreciate the naysayer in the group Jimmy N Lose who takes no prisoners (refusing to guard or defend even Dr Wright…dissing him with disgust….) and doubts anyone too stupid to adopt his diet will survive anything in the Cryptoverse….or the Universe at large:
https://youtu.be/zIOVlk9aWP8?t=3018
His diet: Raw meat 100%.
And he’s writing off all non 100% carnivores as plainly too stupid to survive either market crashes or Corona. LOL
It’s now officially the Ides of March, so hear, hear!
Friends, Americans, Russians, lend me your……umm….”EAR”????
What the…..????
I don’t know!
Anything, except that were are in some sort of global struggle of good versus evil, Light vs Dark……or perhaps just ignorance and Ego…………on a Grand Scale …versus itself and the Universe..and that some sort of very strange code is now in effect…..BIG TIME!
And not merely as laid out in this one mysteriously intriguing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0Z7sKrp10
Lend Me Your Ear – In Pursuit of Truth Presents – 3.15.20
I have been picking up snippets of the code elements Red….Green……Ear……..Dog …so much so that my spiritual combat secret code manual is getting really Dog-Eared from looking up esoteric references of military and secret services and societies code…..to try to make sense of what may be afoot.
Any clues from your neck of the woods????
Beware The Ides of March
I realize that the Aussies and the Colonel from the South Seas are still in bed asleep…..but it’s nearly 11 am back east….and what?? midafternoon on the western tail-end of “The Corona Continent”.
Too many crowns and thrones cluttering up those countries. Y’all ever consider joining the 21st century????
Please know I have to go shim up some laminate flooring that’s sliding around like a giant skate board ….which is bound to completely wipe me out………….and so, y’all can have at it with no further trepidation today…….
But before I go check out this interview…..the attitude....the SHIRT… and ask yourselves if all Americans are cowardly, brainwashed moron losers………. that NO ONE in Russia or China or Iran……would ever want to know and try to deal with…..as opposed to Kerry. Clintons, Abedin, Schumer. Pelosi et al:
https://youtu.be/ORxhdB6POTc?t=1835
Does he look worried, like the country will collapse??? Or rather someone richly enjoying himself??
He IS worried that about 20% of the USA might collapse…..psychologically…..as “failed personalities” …because as a “Life Coach”…he knows their problems are severe:
go to 55 min 30 sec….about them ..and how… it will take a lot of time to repair the damage there.
Frank Quite Frankly agrees…… at 58 min 30 sec
“We will need TIME! A lot more than 8 years!”
After Brenden signs off…in regard to Corona and China….Frank has a little bit of a brain gap….but I’m not worried. Give him time. He CAN put two and two together. And he’s got a lot more two (good data) comin’ at him a lot faster than anyone I ever knew…of his young and tender age……..
Ciao!
and……Arrive Derci, Roma:
https://youtu.be/-Gz07QiFevg Dean Martin 1962
Frank likes Dino. And the Rat Pack. And I gotta send him this comment……capiche??
“Into The Sun”
The city street, the desert heat
Burns my mind and forces my feet to keep moving
Three in the afternoon
Wasted, feel my father disapproving
There’s a desperation in this town
Vultures flank the fools and clowns are crying
Shell-shocked and landlocked
Don’t know if I can leave but I feel like trying
And I’d better run into the sun
Until I hit the ocean
Words and tears have long dried up with my emotions
Just ’cause you don’t see the way I feel
Please don’t question my devotion
Blistered and broken
This hearts for sale but no one’s a buying
Something still burns inside of me
But I can feel it dying
And I’d better run into the sun
Until I hit the ocean
And I better run until I hit the ocean
And I better run until I hit the ocean
And I better run until I hit the ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXlrpVJly2w
Kent
“The whistler”
This time is different
It’s not like the times before
I crossed my heart, that I won’t kill no more
Jesus watch over me, keep my anger at home
You better bless these wicked hands, because they got a mind of they’re own
Don’t go downtown
Devil whispers in my ear, “It’s time for your curtain call”
So, I dress myself on up with alcohol
Step aside, step aside let the whistler through
There really ain’t no help at all for folks like me and you
Don’t go downtown, don’t go downtown
Get your god d-mn hands out, don’t you look at me
No one’s dying here alone
Well, I came to get it on
Let’s get it on
This time is different
Not like the time before
I crossed my heart, that I won’t kill no more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hrbJfzj-E
Kent
While the nightingale sings,
both night and day,
I am with my beautiful
beneath the flowers,
until our sentry from the tower
cries: “Lovers, get up!
for I clearly see the sunrise and the day.
Very nice, Dave. Feels like it wants to continue…
Cat out of the bag. FEMA camp next if you have tested positive.
Literally they stated live, that if you isolate all tested positive together, they could not infect others, and since all “would have it”, they couldn’t infect each other.
-42 minutes at link live stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSWUDrAVHk
Kent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5K7wu0taA
Does anyone know what this is all about – what the gang is chanting??
Some mob in Kiev has gathered outside the Russian Embassy, lobbing some flares and chanting. About what, I have no clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-GqZjKtJk
I repost this excellent link from Pamela elsewhere in this Café because watching the presentation on DNA reminded me of the following words from Taylor Caldwell which have stayed with me for forty years – there we go Dimitar – as God is my witness
“The mighty and splendid Babylonian Empire (or Chaldea) is not familiar to many readers, nor its studies in medicine and its medical treatments by the priest-physicians) and its science-all of which the Egyptians and the Greeks inherited.
The Babylonian scientists understood magnetic forces, and used them. These things were contained in thousands of volumes in the wonderful University of Alexandria, which was burned by the Emperor Justinian several centuries later in an access of misguided zeal. Modern medicine and science are beginning to rediscover these things. The present age is poorer for Justinian fervour. Had Babylonian science and medicine come down to us unbroken, our knowledge of the world and man would be vastly more advanced than it is at present. We have not as yet discovered how the Babylonians lighted their sails at night by a “cold fire, more brilliant than the moon, and how they illuminated their temples by this same cold fire. Apparently they had some way of utilising electricity unknown to us, and not in our present clumsy manner. It is reported that they used “land vessels” without horses, lighted at night, and attaining great speed.
(See the Book of Daniel)
It is also reported that they used strange “stones” or a kind of ore for the cure of cancer. They were expert in the employment of hypnotism in psychosomatic medicine. Abraham, a resident of the city of Ur, in Babylonia, brought this treatment of psychosomatic medicine to the Jews, who used it through all the centuries. The Magi, “the Wise Men of the East”, who brought gifts to the infant Jesus, were Babylonians, though that nation long before had suffered a great decline.…”
Taylor Caldwell
Dear and Glorious Physician
-The Enthralling Life of St Luke
The joys of martial law, see below
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-15-federal-government-to-control-grocery-distribution-national-guard.html
Medical martial law in full swing in Aussie… the mood in Coles supermarket this morning was surreal. No chatter just very quiet people stocking their trolley with the few basics that are still available. Just doing as told by Govt in case they have to self isolate.
As of midnight all persons entering the country will have to self isolate for 14 days… but they can catch a taxi to their home. Go figure?
All sport cancelled but schools will remain open because having kids run around the streets unsupervised is no good. And their parents perhaps work in the health care sector– so we need them to stay at work.
Social distancing – stand 1 metre apart – no handshakes. No one allowed in your house if they don’t live there. (kiss Easter family gathering goodbye).
This is madness on steroids… didn’t have this panic during 1950’s polio epidemic… but then they quickly rolled out a vaccine.
Hegelian is working overtime: problem — reaction — solution. Virus… panic… vaccine/micro chipping or whatever.
Some 4 people have died in Oz… from something! Every death is a sadness, but the reaction seems too much.
Soon they will be knocking on my door to take me to some ‘isolation’ place… if we follow the UK model.
Peace and blessings to fellow cafe dwellers because soon we won’t be able to enjoy a cafe coffee… we will only have this virtual cafe.