2020/03/23 05:00:02
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Admiral McRaven … One of the Best Motivational Speeches …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuIGBCF9jc
… 李子柒 … Li zi qi makes her bed every morning …
Every stitch is a story of time, every thread a piece of culture. Thousands of years of customs that have ever existed in the land of Shu (present-day Sichuan) are sewn within Shu embroidery. The cycle of winter and spring continues, it’s yet another year. Thousands of years have been carried away by the river of time, but the beauty of Shu embroidery has remained unchanged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmEXbJUnFG0
The mystery behind the megalithic stone walls of Saksaywaman …
The site is famed for its remarkable large dry stone walls with boulders carefully cut to fit together tightly without mortar. The stones used in the construction of the terraces at Saksaywaman, which weigh up to 200 tonnes, are among the largest used in any building in prehispanic America, and display a precision of fitting that is unmatched in the Americas.
Now pause the timed link and think horizontally and then vertically …
https://youtu.be/lDdPGfvsfyI?t=266
… do you see what I “see” ! ?
I’m not sure I do, but I’ll wing it:.
At 266 seconds into the video I see an unusual rocky beach with an extensive flat horizontal shelf which is most curious not only because of its flat face pointing to the sky, but also the startling fact that this horizontal shelf is somehow segmented in parts that fit tightly together, rather than being a huge extensive volcanic slab in one piece, smoothed by incoming waves and outflowing sea water prior to the next one coming in to shore.
There are far more questions than answers.
1.) Where is this seemingly intelligently constructed rock shelf beach, of huge pieces fitted together? I have never seen anything like it. It would seem to lack any human purpose, unlike the walls of Saksaywaman.
2) Saksaywaman.is at an altitude of 12,000 ft above sea level, miles outside of Cuzco, Peru. What a strange correspondence between the “natural” rock shore horizontal wall and its counterpart high in the Andes.
https://youtu.be/GgWgoqxaIxQ
Can you offer any more clues?
Are there any other such horizontal “walls” ….floors actually…..(with “natural tiles” of immense proportions and thickness) anywhere else in the world???
It is almost like some megalithic temple floor, overcome by rising sea level???
Paul (Павел), there is something similar on the west coast of Ireland, County Clare, where a large area of shelf rock is called the Burren, I have no idea really if it is what you are describing or thinking of with Saksaywaman, but is an extraordinary and ancient place.
Interesting to read that an Inca back in the 1500s told the Spanish, ‘the walls have always been there.’ As with New Grange, when the first Celts got to Ireland, it was there before they arrived. Amazing as the planet’s surface history is today, imagine what lies burried beneath the Oceans, ‘overcome by rising sea levels.’
Actually not many Celts went to Ireland according to my History of the Cymru sean.
There is a piece which describes their [i.e. Cymraeg] actions after their defeat trying to drive the invading AngloSaxons from Cumbria, that “they went to finally drive the last of the Gaels away from Cymru, where they settled in the large Ireland and took for their own”>
Bro … thanks for your video link. My thoughts are the fragmented rocks are a natural phenomenon.
If those stones were removed one by one and re-assembled vertically to become a wall the fitting process would be minimal, but I have no idea how 200 ton fragments could be moved and moreso … lifted … ( … ahhhh ! )
Sean has added … that an Inca back in the 1500s told the Spanish, ‘the walls have always been there.’ As with New Grange, when the first Celts got to Ireland, it was there before they arrived.
Raisa tells of the Burren on the west coast of Ireland, County Clare.
Saker’s Cafe is certainly a place to spark interest, share thoughts and keep thinking.
sun-kissed still life earth
utensils standing sentinel
timeless action
the mosaic of life;
everyone plays their part
and hopes for the best
moonshafts light my way;
the bamboo grove creaking
in the autumn wind
Quarantine Hush
silent streets
solitary leaf
tumbling sound
my hearing found.
do not cross
the path is closed
by order of the king
walking backwards
into the kingsmans darkness
what a sunny day it is
We’re on a roll….go for it folks!!!
distant thunder rolls;
the days of the trembling leaf
and the shaking bough
days of head
in the sand
night of the
darkened heart
days of fear
and nights of trial,
of deep despair
and stark denial
what’s to be done,
when “those who know”,
drag their feet
and move so slow?
if you have
any patience left,
we’ll take that too
and leave you bereft
when will it end,
this nameless dread?
good sense has
well and truly fled!
Above-Top Secret contingency plans already exist for what the military is supposed to do if all the Constitutional successors are incapacitated. Standby orders were issued more than three weeks ago to ready these plans, not just to protect Washington but also to prepare for the possibility of some form of martial law.
According to new documents and interviews with military experts, the various plans – codenamed Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac – are the underground laws to ensure government continuity. They are so secret that under these extraordinary plans, “devolution” could circumvent the normal Constitutional provisions for government succession, and military commanders could be placed in control around America.
… extracted from …
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-top-secret-plans-if-coronavirus-cripples-government-1492878
The reportedly approved sweeping contingency plans involve everything from the evacuation of civilian authorities and their families to a secure location, all the way to schemes to circumvent the guidelines for the transfer of power set forth in the US Constitution.
… read more at …
https://sputniknews.com/us/202003231078676221-who-is-the-general-that-us-media-claims-will-be-in-control-should-the-trump-team-be-disabled/
( is stormy weather ahead ? )
Nine Il-76 of the Russian Aerospace Forces with military specialists and equipment flew to Italy …
https://www.ruaviation.com/news/2020/3/23/14864/?h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ZuNIuVynE
( creating deep friendships )
“Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace. This is meanness at the level of public policy. Moreover, the help was for an ally of Poland in the EU and NATO. From now on, Russia should not meet Poland half-way, on any issue.”
https://sputniknews.com/world/202003231078687190-russian-planes-carrying-aid-to-italy-blocked-from-using-poland-airspace—russian-lawmaker/
The Seasons
When spring arrives,
our hopes survive.
We will conspire,
we will consult.
When summer’s high,
the harvest nigh;
We will rejoice,
we will exult!
When autumn’s trove
adorns the grove,
And glory’s fled –
We’ll wonder why?
When winter’s hold
grips the fold…
We’ll make our bed
and say goodbye!
Bittersweet
Life is bitter, life is sweet,
Fill’d with joy, fill’d with grief.
From rosy blush to withered cheek,
It’s fond embrace is all too brief.
To Spring
The earth it stirs, the birds they sing,
The trees they yawn and stretch their limbs.
The child is born and wonders then,
How love was lost and found again?
@ Babuška and Dimitar, glad that you are here and keep the poems rolling !
Before They Cleave
water pours from the sacred pool,
spiralling down the ancient spool;
‘who today shall we befool?’,
the muses ask, oh, so cool
“there’s one over there in need of fuel,
one over here, in love with the jewel!
how ’bout him, he’s just outta school –
oh no, not him, he’s such a tool!’
they’ll have their fun, before they cleave
take a breath, and start to weave;
the poet stirs and tries to retrieve;
the golden rule… just believe!
“there’s one over there, who wants to achieve,
or this one here, still bereaved;
what about him, oh so naive,
or this one here, with his coloured sleeves…?”
Spirit blows where it wills
Drips deluges
Specialising in Surprise
God giveth,
and God taketh away;
what we need we get
This Cafe has the best social distancing on the planet, bar none.
When the Cat jumped out of the bag
It fell down the rabbit hole
So Trumpster says, ‘no worries, China virus no big deal,’ next Trumpster says ‘yes, this deal, is Huge!’
BoJo says, ‘r’ghty mates, stiff upper lip, we’ll herd, no big deal.’ Then BoJo says, ‘well, yes, it is a Huge Deal!’
The virus has two strains, S and L. S is mild flu like, L is leathal. So many A listers, politicos coming out with a ‘we have the virus, we’re cool, sing with us, Kumbia, all together now’. They have already been exposed to the S strain and know it. Pre inocculated.
Thousand of people in Canada, even Brits, some posting here (what about Aus/Nz {spanky Hanks}) raised the red flag, why were so many people sick with flu like symptoms, some quite sick, since back in Nov, Dec, Jan. CDC Canada head said, ‘nah, that was just the flu, no worries, be happy.’ Says ” flu gone, now, everything is Covid.’ Wtf??????????????
The Five Eyes and Aleyes, started S strain pre inocculations back in Sept. If one were to release a bio, how does one at least protect thier own people? This gives the non target people a chance to build anti bodies prior to releasing the L strian in Wuhan and Iran. It will still be bad, many will still die, but, mission accomplished.
Hey, it’s Monday
Just fellin Funkay
Batten the Hatches
Lash the Sails
The Whale, is set to breach!
Nice continuity on the line my friend, stay safe and be well !
Sean
Methinks you have put 2 and 2 together and made….well umm…4 actually!
Cheers
Col
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_86895.shtml
Europe
Finland Ends Homelessness
By Kathrin Glosel | Scoop.me
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020
Finland Is The Only Country In Europe Where Homelessness Is In Decline !!!!!!
In 2008 you could see tent villages and huts standing between trees in the parks of Helsinki. Homeless people had built makeshift homes in the middle of Finland’s capital city. They were exposed to harsh weather conditions.
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the “Housing First” concept. Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counselling – without any preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected thus make their way back into a stable life. And: All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness.
Russia
Crimea for Dummies
By Miguel Francis
RTD.RT.com
Friday, Mar 13, 2020
Locals’ point of view of Crimea’s reunification with Russia
removed copy/paste text … hs
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_87258.shtml
Another cafe, another header photo sets another poem bubbling (” Meet me at the quarantine Cafe”) towards a surface boil.
Interesting communications are happening. This was brought to my attention and if it is totally off the rails I hope Mundanomaniac will correct it. It has to do with historic Jupiter/Pluto Conjunctions within an orb of 2-3 degrees in Capricorn .
Evidently, understanding the need for quarantine is in the collective consciousness of Russia because during
a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in Capricorn ( do not know the exact degree) here is what happened:
In 1771 on April 4 ” The first quarantines are started in Moscow and St. Petersburg to fight the bubonic plague—over the next 12 months more than 52,000 people die in Moscow alone.” from Dark Star Astrology.
Wow, so if the death rate is typical of what happened in London in the 1300s, where 1/3 to 1/2 the people died that means Moscow had almost 100,00 to 150,000 people living there? I wonder how they managed that quarantine?
Ironically enough a Jupiter/Pluto conjunction is due April 4, 2020 at 24 degrees of Capricorn and the nations who find it more important to carry out political assassinations ( Jan 3, 2020) than to care for their own people (the Chinese inform US leadership of virus on Jan 3, 2020) will have some chickens coming home to roost -not roast : those are sold out in the marketplace.
China 2020
Chinese Socialism versus American Capitalism
Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Kim Petersen / March 21st, 2020
https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/chinese-socialism-versus-american-capitalism/
Chua examined how the US government responded to victims of Hurricane Katrina
and how the Chinese government responded to victims of the 2008 Sichuan
earthquake. According to Chua, there was no comparison: “The speed and quality
of the reconstruction [in Sichuan] puts to shame those Western governments who
relentlessly demonise China…”
COVID-19 is a circumstance that enables comparison of governments and their
economic systems in response to the same pandemic.
The facts available indicate that China with 1.4 billion people managed to flatten
out the curve of COVID-19 at approximately 80,000 after 5 weeks. The US with
0.33 billion (i.e., 330 million) people is now in an exponential phase of COVID-19
at 26,687 cases (see table above).
Trump’s unrestrained penchant for pointing to race and ethnicity and his utter lack
of diplomatic decorum was exhibited by his blaming China.
One frequently cited possible transmission vector is the Wuhan wet market.
Another possible transmission vector is bats. Is COVID-19 from Chinese bats?1
Others have pointed at another possible transmission vector with the US as the
source.
It is a fact that Fort Detrick, a US Army biological lab, was forced to shut down
over safety concerns in August 2019.
In August 2019, the appearance of “mysterious” respiratory illnesses were
reported in the US, yet regarded as “potential[ly] vaping-related.”
Subsequent events caused the launch of a petition asking the US government to
“publish the real reason” for the lab’s shut down, whether there was a virus leak,
and whether the lab worked with the novel coronavirus.
The Chinese online site of the People’s Daily called attention to the curious
sequence noted in the petition leading up to the outbreak of COVID-19.
Real-time update on coronavirus outbreak
https://www.globaltimes.cn//content/1177737.shtml
Critical Analysis
Seventy Years of U.S. Destabilisation in China: U.S. Sponsored Uyghur Insurgency
in Xinjiang
By Shane Quinn / Global Research
Saturday, Feb 15, 2020
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_86938.shtml
https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-sponsored-uyghur-insurgency-in-xinjiang-70-
years-of-u-s-destabilisation-in-china/5698425
China’s exit in October 1949, from the sphere of US control, was perhaps the
heaviest blow to strike American post-World War II global hegemony. China’s
successful drive for independence had been anticipated in Washington for many
months. The Pentagon’s strategies towards China have somewhat mirrored those
they directed against the USSR: Utilisation of proxy groups, extremists and ethnic
minorities, along with client states and of course sponsoring Uyghur Insurgency in
Xinjiang.
Human Rights
China’s damning US Human Rights Report has an agenda, but It’s Not Wrong !!
By Alan Macleod | Mintpressnews.com
https://www.mintpressnews.com/chinas-us-human-rights-report-propoganda-but
-not-wrong/265854/
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_87357.shtml
Monday, Mar 23, 2020
China just released a 13,000-word report on the state of human rights in the
United States. While the report clearly has an agenda, it’s not inaccurate !!!!!!
It begins by quoting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We lied, we cheated, we
stole … It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” Pompeo said of
his time as head of the Central Intelligence Agency during a Q&A at Texas A&M
University.
Media Critiques
Is Washington’s Attack Against Chinese Media a Bad Joke?
By Andre Vltchek | China Daily Global
Information Clearing House
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54025.htm
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_87307.shtml
The U.S. is insulting the Chinese media. It is affecting both countries. My
colleagues in Beijing believe, correctly, that Washington should have tried to
increase communication, not to bring it to a halt.
Twist what is happening; reverse facts. That is what the Western media does
when “dealing with” China, Russia, Iran or several “unfriendly” Latin American
countries. It is an extremely old game, with roots in the colonial era. But the
truth is, both the United States and the United Kingdom, in unison, have managed
to create a thoroughly and truly undemocratic global system of governance,
economic practices and “information” (in fact – disinformation).
Travel Analysis
My trip to China exposed the shameful lies peddled by the American Empire By
Danny Haiphong | Black Agenda Report
Popular Resistance
Sunday, Feb 23, 2020
https://popularresistance.org/my-trip-to-china-exposed-the-shameful-lies-
peddled-by-the-american-empire/
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_87056.shtml
China is a land of bullet trains and rising standards of living, in contrast to the
decay of the imperial center, the United States.
( Detroit’s Downfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6icZ105lT7g
Seattle and the Bay-Belt are Dying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw )
The truth is that peace-loving people in the U.S. would love China were it not for
the plethora of racist, imperialist lies that have been programmed into the minds
of Westerners. None of the Empire’s lies held up in my travels from Beijing to Xi’
an, then to Dunhuang to Ürümqi—known as the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region. I didn’t see concentration camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang. In
fact, it is difficult to walk more than a mile without running into a mosque. Every
street sign in the city is translated in both Mandarin and Uyghur languages.
Why expect anything changed—remember this, 2013?:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362486/KTVU-prank-Outrage-news-station-names-pilots-racially-insensitive-monikers.html
During the midday broadcast on Friday, presenter Tori Campbell, announced that her news station, KTVU, had just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board Asiana flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
A> divorces are increasing drastically because of corona
B> why
A> husband and wife are now obliged to stay locked up at home 24/7.
I dont know about divorces bernie, but I have friend currently residing in Queensland who informed me that a public announcement was made stating that police would no longer be on patrol looking for DUI drivers, nor attending to petty theft as they were too busy dealing with a huge rise in calls regarding domestic violence.
The strain of being stuck in close proximity for days on end, plus the strain of probably losing your job and having no money is coming out in an increasing number of men drinking too much and hitting their wives, it seems.
Nothing like a touch of Cabin Fever to show you if love really exists, or it’s all just a sad habit, i guess.
Even in regular times.
I once asked a friend, who is police officer, on what they dispatched the most. It was this.
Hew told me that he hated it. Just try to imagine that the neighbours called because they are smashing each others heads in, you enter, and then try to settle things down while you even don’t know any history.
Btw, don’t underestimate the amount of wives that start beating their husbands. Amber Heard, anyone?
Cheers, Rob
Yes, under these abnormal stresses it’s the weakest links that break first.
By the way, I just learned where this “separation, no touch, home arrest” came from.
Only some medical academic from London who wrote of and has been pushing “non-medical ways of treating an epidemic” a certain Neill M Ferguson.
That’s all I need – and should have known. The crazy ideas that have come out of Anglo Sphere Universities and have led to the deaths of thousands, from ersatz-liberalism, Darwinism, destruction of religion, transgender-ism, PC and “woke” ism, Marxism, Communism and central control, pushing the destruction of the concept of a separate Pacific Orient in favour of a vast vague, general “Eurasianism” which loses Russia, Europeanism and destruction of borders, all the kumbaya unrealistic untested ideas, go watch ANY interview with the UK writer and genuine journalist Douglas Murray. Now this. God knows how many nations, economies, people, will be destroyed and die before they wake up to how impossible it is.
And unfortunately, it lends itself to the those who want Globalisation, it’s very much a Rahm Emmanuel “crises we mustn’t let go to waste”.
I can imagine the misery of doing that job too Rob. And it’s not their job anyway. How much training do they get for it – little to none I suspect?. And it’s only going to get worse.
I suspect this idiot [Ferguson] knows nothing of Jung and Myers-Briggs. Those who, like myself, score highly on Introversion, can do it. Oh, we get lonely, we’re not hermits, we need normal human contact. But we dont need as much in the same way, and are good at keeping ourselves amused.
But those scoring high on Extroversion, who get their psychic / emotional energy from interacting with others are going to go stark, staring mad. Sadly as you say, domestic violence is a big problem in Aus anyway – just imagine it getting worse and going off the scale!!
Comments about Tulsi Gabbard and other politicians who might make good candidates for the US presidency:
I haven’t voted since that Texan with big ears ran, back in the mid-90’s. I realized right about then that US politics is theater, that it doesn’t reflect the reality of power in the US, that it mostly just occupies the masses with illusions of representation. I decided to wait until a candidate starts speaking the truth about US reality, which to me can be summed up in just a few sentences:
1. The US is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
2. The US War on Terror is misnamed. It is correctly named the US War of Terror.
3. All US presidents are war criminals and need to be brought to justice.
4. The US is not a democracy.
5. The powers that be, the people who direct the puppets in government, need to be identified and neutralized.
6. The US government needs to be fired, and a new government created. The new government needs to be isolated from the banking cartel, who now run the government.
7. The banking cartel needs to be brought to justice, as they are the masterminds of all terrorism.
I could go on, but these are the basics of reality. I have not heard a single politician mention any of these main points, so I have no interest in any politicians that are alive today. In my opinion, all of them are grifters, in politics for personal gain. That would include Dr. Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, and anyone else out there.
Personally, because of the Deep State surveillance and the pervasive corruption in the US, I don’t see my kind of politician ever rising in the American political scene. I don’t know what the future holds for the US – only God knows. But it’s apparent that it is a country where the truth is a foreign concept, where critical thinking is not accepted, where personal gratification is #1.
Sometimes it’s best to simply end what doesn’t work, and start over. Not that anyone in the US can end what now exists as the US government. The Deep State is watching for that and will quelch any move in that direction. It appears, though, that the US is working out its own end very nicely. Every move it makes with its terror campaigns all across the globe results in more countries working together with other countries to isolate the US from its economy. Every sanction the US imposes on other countries is another stitch in the net that removes it from global influence and relevance. If we are all lucky, the US will be removed by its own actions from the global political and economic and military scene. If we’re not, we may witness how other state actors have figured out how to disable the US without blowing up the planet.
The USA is over as a Republic under the authority of the People, as it is constructed by the Constitution.
There is a Shadow Government that operates the machinery of government. There is a Deep State that controls policy. There is a totally corrupt democratic electoral system that manages who gets one of the official positions of the government.
There is no accountability or justice for crimes of the officials or bureaucrats.
It has been this way for the Post War decades.
If anyone thinks otherwise, they need to study the context and events of Dallas, November 22, 1963.
That was a coup, not just an assassination.
It also was an object lesson from the Deep State that ‘informs’ all candidates and reform movements. The Oval Office belongs to the Deep State. The Shadow Government manages it.
We were warned in 1960 when President Eisenhower told us about the MIC. They even edited out Congress from the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, which Ike originally wrote. He was convinced not to indict Congress because it might lead to a rebellion against authority, and officials were very worried about the USSR should the American society become volatile.
So, 1960, 1963 and it was all over forever.
Forget the knight or iron maiden coming to the rescue.
The Empire is a killer, a brute and it is also a Hegemon with its base in D.C., solidly administered by the Deep State and Shadow Government.
The pathology was there for a century before 1960. Maybe, the argument could be made that it was there even earlier from the colonists and British and French wars against the woodland Indians. The nation that spawned from all that violence of revolution against the King amidst centuries of ethnic cleansing of Native Americans was probably as flawed as it was enlightened by its founding principles.
Violence is an American spirit. This is why Rule of Law is so important to most Americans. It is the social contract that citizens rely on to temper the violence. Problem is, it doesn’t apply to government. Never did. The US Army was operationally a massacre machine, denuding the Plains of Native Americans. Wounded Knee 1890 to My Lai 1968 to Fallujah 2004 (and hundreds of others in between) is a continuum that merely made the headlines, but was the way things are.
Today, American Generals and Admirals say proudly in their public defense that they are built and trained to “Break Things and Kill People”. Simple as that. From a government that employs the same dogma against its own citizens and citizen-challengers. Buck the system and you probably will die.
Hang on Larchie-I was trained to break things-and developed my skills until around 60 years of age-and I have no desire to pass them on to anyone.Buck stops.
dave, if you lived in the Donbass, you’d have lots of students…………anyone can be trained to break and kill……it’s the knowledge of the aged that teaches survival.
This reminded me at a sequence from the Call of Duty 2 – I think in the first scene after training – when the first fighting took place. After they finished it, one of the soldiers said “I thought that this was training…” at which the commissar answered : “fighting for survival is the best training”.
Wisdom resides on it’s undeserved Pension -in my case Leppy.I lived too long for anyone’s good
The creation of the fed was the true mechanism of the loss of control of the gvt. Stripping the congress of its fiduciary duties probably b/c they might oppose wars of a foreign nature and use the tool of money to prevent the country from entering them.
The congress then became the tool of the military to do as it pleases, and those pleasures remain right to this day in an all out war to prevent its self from going into irrelevancy. It will become irrelevant, even if its only delayed a while.
Yes, the governmental entity known as The United States of America has morphed from THESE United States of America. It was and is somewhat still a “federation” of states ceding powers to deal with foreign nation states to an agent of centralized power. In dealing with the C19 situation the President has made it clear that all the States and Territories are different and that the Central government agencies are and will deal with them as such. They will determine what is needed and we will help them however we can. That’s Federalism.
Broad brush terms like the “country” did this or the “country” did that may not be fair to the common person, state , agency etc. My county and State did not send me to Viet Nam, The CIA did. The Congress and Senate are not “the country” but act in a way to help or hinder all of us as citizens. Without naming all the moving parts of the “country” it’s clear that credit or discredit should be placed with the responsible party. The American (US) people get blamed for things the Deep State does. The Deep State is a relatively thin layer of nasty folks who inhabit not only the “government” but all levels and agencies of society. Of course, when the DS using diplomatic immunity and cover, not to mention my money, destroy other “countries”, the blame falls on we the people or other entities. The spit on Nam Vets didn’t start that war. They were victims as were the Vietnamese. The culture and DS that put naive, ignorant young men like me into mortal combat to control Golden Triangle opium are to blame.
I agree. Looking at The(se) United States of America as one entity it is easy to paint it as something very awful.
The “boiling” of a frog analogy is used to explain how we came to this. The ‘Ratchet Effect”. Small and BIG changes with each “crisis”. Central Banking allows the financing of mankind’s worst tendencies for goods and power. If 51% say something is okay and allowable, a politician will buy your vote. Social, cultural, religious, moral, ethical, etc standards that kept humans within certain boundaries can now be ignored because 51% say so.
We ARE in crisis right now as is the world. Till now, crisis has always been used by “the bad guys” to ratchet up their power over the people.There is a saying; “Always Follow The Money”. Right now “money” is being created and spent like never before. US short term rollover debt is at $23T and unfunded liabilities about $200T+. Neither can ever be paid off. Most other countries are sitting on this debt in the form of Treasuries, bonds and other “paper” as also we citizens. The Petro Dollar is still valuable because if every one dumped them they would be worthless. It’s kinda like a circular firing squad. So, why not spend them as you need in this “crisis” to restart your economy and rebuild infrastructure while we pivot to a new fair system? It won’t be a clean process but what’s the alternative. The “bad guy “problem would get sorted out also. This is a global problem and “disabling” the US is not the answer. Changing the global system is.
You’re barking up the right tree, Hound.
Great comment.
inspired by header photo and world events:
Cafe Quarantine
Come out let’s walk, cards to play!
No, you must stay six feet away
Meet me at the Quarantine Cafe.
Mask your face, wash doors, hands clean
So you lost your job? well, times are lean
Meet me at Cafe Quarantine
Smell my coffee and want to stay?
Then you’ll be wished a hasty good day!
Meet me at the Quarantine Cafe
Tune out the drivel, corporate stream
text me the future, your fondest dream
a better world together then we’ll beam
so Let’s all meet at the Web Quarantine!
Nice one, full of actuality…you have rolled it !
I cannot rhyme to save my life .. but anyways ..I can joke :-)
I like the pic
of a kitchen, not slick
—
there I cook witchin’
and the family stops bitchin’
earthy and so, so true with a twist of humor …love your Koan. let me dash off a bit of silliness…
Who comes tumbling when she hears one
stomach rumbling? Super Mom, that’s who
Whose devotion to duty is truly humbling
through tough times she comes stumbling
Super Mom, that’s who
Who will sell her shoes to make the stew?
Somehow stretching it to feed the crew.
Super Mom that’s who!
Kids eat first, somehow she makes do
Super Mom that’s who!!!
The Invisible Worm
You’d better run, you’d better hide;
Close the door and stay inside.
You know the rules, you’d best abide –
The invisible worm, it don’t take sides!
Hunker down and be content,
The days of spring have all been spent;
All those haunts you used to grace,
The invisible worm has laid to waste!
Emptied now, the streets and pubs,
Of punters and revellers and ticket stubs.
Those gathering places have thrown in the towel;
The invisible worm is on the prowl!
Well, I wear a hat, and I wear a coat,
I’ve built a wall and I’ve built a moat.
I used to stand so straight and bold;
But the invisible worm it can’t be controlled!
When I’ve had enough of dandelion leaves,
Of washing my hands and wetting my sleeves;
I’ll venture out in my old trusty jeep,
And hope the invisible worm’s asleep!
I hate to complain, I hate to squirm,
But I’d like to live out my natural term.
Oh God, up above, please re-confirm
You’ll keep me safe from the invisible worm!
You’d better run, you’d better hide,
Close the door and stay inside.
You know the rules, you’d best abide;
The invisible worm awaits wide-eyed!
Hunker down and be content,
The days of Spring are now all spent.
All those haunts you used to grace,
The invisible worm has laid to waste!
Emptied now, the streets and pubs,
Gone the revellers, their ticket stubs.
The bosses, the bands, all thrown in the towel;
The invisible worm is on the prowl!
I’ve built a wall, I’ve built a moat,
I wear a mask around my throat.
I used to be a sight to behold,
Before the invisible worm took hold…
Night after night, the same restless dream;
Out in a wilderness, a silent scream.
A fever, a shake, a hand of dread –
At last the invisible worm is dead!
When I’ve had enough of dandelion leaves,
Of washing my hands and wetting my sleeves;
I’ll venture out in my old trusty jeep,
And hope the invisible worm is asleep.
I hate to complain, I hate to squirm,
But I’d like to live out my natural term.
O God, up above, please re-confirm
You’ll keep me safe from the invisible worm!
Very good poem with such fine rhyme ! I realized afterwards the invisible worm is fear, as fear eats away at the heart, and fear is the pandemic. Or maybe you had another meaning, anyhow, I thought the heart could be seen as a rose :
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
William Blake
Well, yes, but it becomes a bit more psychologically complex perhaps:
“In his fascinating book Psychological Types, psychoanalyst C. G. Jung refers to William Blake’s assertion that human beings can be divided into two categories. Jung quotes from Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” as follows:
“These two classes of men are always upon earth . . . the Prolific and the Devouring.'”
Blake’s symbolism is aways multi layered in my opinion. The worm that devoured the Rose and the rose that allowed it to do so–by not knowing ( i.e. by being asleep) itself.
Over the Temple of Delphi:
Know Thyself.
“These two classes of men are always upon the earth, the prolific and the devouring…”
Blake has pointed out the two categories that essentially define human experience. I’m of the belief that each individual can be placed in either the love or power category as their predominant experience. Love being “the prolific”, ( lovers see the “one in the many”, ie; Soul in everything, and as such, all of life eventually becomes holy ) and the souls whose experience is predominantly power and it’s consequences, are the “devourers”. Sadly, it’s the devourers who have devoured the world, and since he who devours knows no end ( for his devouring has and will devour the world in time ) has more or less damned the world and the rest of us with it!
If we consider a moment, though, we will accept that today’s lover was yesterday’s powermonger. Indeed, the fabric of our world, is made up of those who abide by the ‘law of the jungle’, as well as those who are somewhat more advanced; who have learnt that without love there is no existence of any value. Yet we as Soul, have, at one time or another contributed to the condition the world today finds itself in, but we also have the choice as to whether to be a part of the solution, love, or not. To be or not to be, as it were.
fire consumes
everything in its path,
so too it is with love!
Right you are, Raisa. The image of the ‘invisible worm’ as a symbol, initially bubbled up, after reading tera’s verses, and does in fact, come from Blake’s poem, “The Sick Rose”. After the second draft, however, with the inclusion of the 5th stanza, it became more than mere satire, and I realized that the invisible worm is that manifestation of the mind that prevents us from becoming the ‘whole person’, and the primary catalyst endeavour on behalf of the universal mind power, is indeed, fear! So, yes, the rose is the heart, and the worm is fear.
Anonymous, has taken it a step further, however, by pointing out that the cure for fear is to “know thyself”. This is the state of self-realisation, as indicated by Socrates. I may humbly add to anon’s assertion re: Blake, that I aim for this multi-layered meaning in my own writing. Ie; that the narrative contains a deeper level that relates to Soul’s travails as it is continually faced by the shenenaigans of the mind. In fact, for me, if it doesnt have that double meaning at least, it’s not that interesting, if only because it’s captured half of our experience.
I really can’t add to the ongoing prognosticator’s paradigm, of collapsing crumbling chaos everywhere, because everything is pre-recorded here in these selfsame pages, that is, save the doing of it. So when I myself collapse and crumble to the ground, I’ll promise to share my fresh insights, because perhaps I’ll see the earth differently than you do, as we crawl along on hands and knees? —But will it then be too late, too late to speak about it? —And surely these are private things, the impression of the inner heart and the pounding pulse of a torn and shredded psyche, not such as one readily shares, or can be shared even. Who can hear my heart? Who can see my psyche? Naked we are born and naked we die. Now I wonder whether this nakedness at death is the wound of death, exposing our inner secrets to all, for all to gawk at — Look! The fool has died.
ChrisK, I made an exception from my dealings with the muses because of your sincerity :
For ChrisK
by ioan
Little things are growing in my mind
They grow and grow like flowers in the yard
You’ll be forgotten as reading for a gist
And nobody shall see when you belong to mist
Alone you came, alone you’ll have to go
Leaving behind the matter with its plow
A place in which you spent a certain time
Learning your lessons under the rule of dime
In vain your wish, in vain your hope
You cannot understand, you cannot cope,
You feel betrayed, you feel deceived
Set up your plans but someone else decides.
If they will laugh, what bothers you at all ?
The stupid minds one day will get their call
So why not ? accept to be called a fool,
It’s much better than dying like a dull.
Reading this poem again I was telling to myself : “man, don’t put words on others mind” and yes, that is, initially instead of “you” it was “I” – I the fool. Secondly, the “plow” is a typo, I meant “low” but never mind guys, seems like the muses have played me for their fun.
from chaos
comes order
the cosmos
death for what it is
but a fleeting moment
enjoy the openess
heart unchained
Amid all the hysteria, the madness, the bat shit crazyness, regardless of the who what when or why on CV 19, I kinda wish Andrew Cuomo was the US President instead of NY Governor. Cool calm demeanor, kinda refreshing, staged or not.
He wasnt all that calm, he appeared to me to be an aggressive parent who was over reacting slightly. Those people at the park were rather distanced, he wants a park cleared of people and arguing out of sight in their cramped dwellings of a major city. He wants people to be the way he wants them, and not the way they are.
AND in a uniform as well!
Watching the markets,
one should be aware that recessions are also engineered events where real economy shift hands into those of most economic muscles. Those most powerful operators in markets have a privileged position and have had since the financial crisis @2008regulated the markets according to their interests, squeesing more profit to themselves. The object of more regulations was planning for future recessions taking back losses from the last one. The failure to make any law that prevent speculation in beer trading is a solid indicator of what is going on. Beer trading is speculation in depression or recession.
Beer is an acronym for liquid, weak market. To liquidate means to change into tradeable assets leaving the investment, such as property or gold other commodities and money. The opposite of a beer market is bull, the acronym for solid or strong market that is lasting, an investment is like a bet on that effect.
To put it short, traders may bet on the downside of a certain investment in order to make profit out of a recession, and that is the weakness that is exploited during a recession mostly by insiders who are too big to be held accountable and have the economic muscle to buy as others are forced to leave. Those on top of that pyramid are well known for also running governments. When markets fall they cash in on the bear market where anyone having anormal investment should share the downside, they make profits, and by being insiders they are in a privileged position were normally they cannot act by the law. So everything has to be planned.
So watching the markets they are now in the beer and markets are manipulated grossly. Whatever they have done to stabilize the market have only given that as profit to the insiders, and they will continue to do so by milking the government and thus the people unless these possiblities are eliminated. Laws prohibiting such speculations must be put in place, not regulations by government insiders.
To return to the last cafe and the constitution.
Isnt the current defectiveness of the constitution what has partially brought us to this crisis of confidence in gvt?
The ability of money to control the political process, the lack of a mechanism of a low percentage of voterswhich then would insist on a mandate to bring to the people a constitutional convention, the lack of age limits to congress critters, and a military out of control, just to name a few of the more important ones.
To simply abide by the constitution has allowed the crisis to reach unprecedented proportions and actually hold congress hostage and be controlled and led by the oligarchs.
Absolutely not.
The constitution was bypassed when they put the party system in place, and changed the election process. The political system was thus corrupted and eroded over time.
John
Of course, the most outrageous and farcical “bypass of the constitution” was the creation of the FED which GAVE a cartel of thieving Banksters the keys and the ownership of the central bank.
This disastrous model still exists 106 years after its unconstitutional creation and to this day still strangles Mainstreet and enriches its owners and their network.
Of course, it is absolute child’s play to rob a bank when you own it…even easier when the last audit was 1953…a bit like taking candy from a baby.
YCHMTSU
Col
That’s true Col . It would have to be redone, and I believe it was done in illegal ways.
The system always had delegates, didnt matter how many parties, the delegates were chosen by majority vote of the land owners and thus they elected the president. It was meant to keep integrity at the level of the administration while the congress was elected by majority votes.
Not much has changed since then except the eligibility of the voters. I’m guessing you want to interpret the constitution in a manner that suits your vision of it, rather than the one written by the founders.
I did not invent anything and I did not bend it in any way. The proof is still there of course it is not just a matter of reading it though it requires actually to make sure it is understood then the manner of government is completely different than we have today, and there were serious concerns that made it that way in order to avoid giving too much power to the government or a president. As Sen. Ron Paul has explained, and I see that as a living proof of corruption of the constitution, every comittee in the Congress are run by corporate interests and not by the people’s interest. We also see it in the presidents.
Yes, the 3 branches are nearly all corrupted to the core, but one of the branches is less corrupt than the other two and has recently shown a stability that the country has yet to experience in all its history, a 4th in a row, two time president.
The place has basically been unmanageable due too many factors which I will not go into at present. Just know that everything that can be done, is being done. Even if many are not aware that it’s being done, or done in their interest precisely, its being done to advance the future of the evolution of human race.
You may not be thankful about it, you may not understand it, you may see a lot of people perish, you may not. Only time can tell, and we have plenty of that ahead of us, along with the misery that is sure to follow, just make the best of it and hope you are not a casualty.
Ron Paul speaks about the Coronavirus. Would the Russians agree with him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYH0LskZWVg
Wanderer
Very disappointing to hear Paul down-playing this emergency to this degree. This would be the first time I remember ever having a fundamental disagreement with his views.
The loss of civil rights is one thing and I agree entirely. However the downplaying of the seriousness is another matter entirely and Paul’s strategy could in a matter of days quickly lead to an Italyx6 scenario.
Based on …https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/…current figures…
Total cases 6×60,000 [Italian total cases] = 360,000
Deaths 6x 6000 [Italian total deaths] = 36,000
This is quite conceivable as the doubling rate of deaths is very close to 2 days. If you extend this doubling rate out, in no time at all the US health system, and particularly its ICU’s, would be totally overwhelmed.
Yes, by all means, minimize the loss of civil liberties but also the loss of life as well.
Cheers
Col
What a marvelous Cafe… there’s a number of tangents it’s gone on already. Cheers to the lot of yer.
I go on almost as much as cher collegue Bro93 about the Class of 2015, and the only reason I mention that year was that for me personally, that was the time when a number of people had coalesced on this site in outright rejection of the lying narrative from the West. I felt like I’d tossed a million things in the garbage and was much the better without them. Imperialism, the glories of the Eternal US Military, and Hollywoodian Reality were out the door, never to return. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
This doesn’t mean we didn’t lose friends… I lost friends. Anybody else lose friends?
I always used to say to people back then, if you want to see the footage from Donbass, go to f_ing Youtube. It may not be so easy nowadays, thanks to YT’s mighty Algorhythmic Heart Bypass (2017-8), however, Inessa S is still there and many others also.
The Donbass footage changed my way of thinking about everything forever. Surely this was the first war in history that was video-blogged. You could view “both sides” of the story… only one was telling the truth.
Reading Susan Babbit’s essay made me realize how important the Saker’s writing, and also his site (what reflection on a man’s values is greater than a public site?) was in thinking about what a “just world” might be. Also, that said Just World means a rejection of faux-western “liberalism”.
A lot of people get the Con of Neo-Con. Not as many get the Con of Neo-Lib.
Anyhow I don’t drink much these days but the shot glass has some sugarcane rum from Oaxaca, skol folks
[to the death of the myth of Tulsi Gabbard, maybe? You were right, as usual, Larch]
[and to the few remaining souls from 2014-15, there was a riotous new years eve around here I do recall]
Yes, it was indeed, and how much have we learned since, though we are still learning every new day as we are witnessing history rolling under our eyes, bringing in our homes the pressure we once saw in Donbass, in other ways by other means, re-dressed but still hideous, on a global scale. I’m also thinking oft to the old lads from that time, those who are no more here, what are they doing, how do they perceive today’s events. Thanks God, the classroom is not empty and there is a continuity in making our common studies through this still viable platform, the Cafe and the War-rooms (as we once called it).
Glad to see you here ! (and of course, All of You, new and old lads)
Always great to see and read you here, Ioan! God bless you! Also cheers to to many others to count (Hi Babuska and Amarynth) but you responded, so, hello! Prost!
I was looking at past and current Donbass footage last night and it was as horrible as ever. Thank God we at least have some glimpse of the truth via the honest voices that still exist on the internet.
And a million thanks to everyone who ever commented here who raised my awareness in one way or another, and that includes you, dear Ioan!
Hi my internally exiled friend – these days it is eternally exiled.
I know it is an expression from those that we don’t have much trust in, but I like it – it is hopeful and hopefully accepted in the real hopeful way … intending to solidarity and good times.
Next year in Jerusalem!
We don’t see enough of you!
Maybe “Internal Exile” was good training for the times we’re in now. I’d like to think so.
God bless you Amarynth! From the land of the Northern Crown to the Southern Cross, so to speak ;0
Btw, gardening is a fine pastime, perhaps the best one these days… keeping internet at arms length good for mental health, fortune cookie says!
Something good for meditation ?!
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Couple of comments from the previous Cafe I’d like to respond to here, if that’s OK.
One, about the word for manipulating to get a desired behaviour by another without them realising you are doing it – I suspect that Pavel had it closest with this:
Paul (Павел) on March 22, 2020 · at 9:28 am EST/EDT
… the technical term … “reverse psychology”
I must admit, I didn’t get the “YES, that’s IT” I was looking for, but it does come the closest on examination . An example given on looking it up is a good one from Shakespeare:
“There are numerous examples of reverse psychology in fiction, cinema, and cartoons, including William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar where Mark Antony uses reverse psychology to get the townspeople to cause a riot. Mark Antony pretends to side with Brutus by complementing on his deeds which have led to Caesar’s murder, while actually inciting the crowd’s anger.”
I was trying to find it partly because I could even “see” the page in my minds eye, (I have a slightly photographic memory) of the Russian word translated and even that it was in italics. But blurred so I cant read it.
Did you ever get an itch just where you can’t reach? For me somewhere low on my shoulder blade. Neither hand reaches. You cant get any force behind an implement and are reduced to either doing a bear like rub against a door or tearing off your clothes and scrabbling for the roughest towel you can find.
It was like that. Just in my mind.
So – many many thanks for relieving the itch Paul :-)
I wanted to know because – as Amarynth said, it’s something most parents have with children, especially teenagers, have to do in order to get something they want done and know full well that a direct request, order, or punishment is going to get them no-where.
But it’s also what, I suspect. President Putin knows how to do – and has done in managing his utterly non-negotiable-with American counterparts.
–
Dmitry Orlov suggested that this happens in negotiations with them. Russia knows exactly the one thing America wants, so goes along with everything they demand except that one thing. And, I imagine, probably saying something like “sorry, you’ll have to accept we beat you on that one”.
The Pompeo’s & Boltons of the Anglo world cant stand that. And they firmly believe they can get everything they want. So the talks break down, However, as Russia knew, things would go pear shaped, so back to the talks, Only this time, with America in a worse shape, Russia has now extended the things she wont give way on. Utterly furious, once again the Americans stalk out. Rinse and Repeat until Russia demands and gets everything she wants
I cant remember the example Mr. Orlov gave to substantiate it.
It’s just, bored to death with viruses – after working in the field for 20 years I truly dont want to go back – I started thinking about this issue of the change to the Constitution which will allow him to run again for President. in that TACC 20 questions, he had that slight, lurking smile that just touches the corners of his mouth, reminding me of his notorious sense of mischievous humour. And I started thinking of “Reverse Psychology” and wondering just what it is he is pushing the Empire to do.
Again, thank you all for your suggestions of help.
“the word for manipulating to get a desired behaviour by another without them realising you are doing it”
How about “apophasis”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
NO, not exactly ted, I get a definition of apophasis as ” a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony.”
I do agree with you that actually that “example” of reverse psychology – of the speech Mark Anthony gives at Cesears’ funeral, is more apophasis than Reverse Psychology, because he twists words to fit with the orders the conspirators gave him, but in such a way that he gets his desired end of stirring up the populace.
The Reverse psychology can be actions, strategies, things done though.
For example, I recall one time i did it with my teenage son [then] and his appallingly messy bedroom with clothes all over the place [everyone who had a teenage boy can sympathise, I’m sure].
Given that nothing I said made any difference, I suddenly hit on the idea of casually letting him know we had some white-tip spiders, noted for causing very painful bites leaving nasty big wounds. I added that, since they are known to like to get into clothes, shoes, etc, he would need to be very careful shaking his jeans out before putting them on.
As I had hoped, given he had a hatred of spiders, that room was spotless in 5 mins! :-)
Never thought I’d be thanking a nasty spider for help :-)
White-tip spiders, eh. That’s downright devious
Adjective
Showing a skillful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/devious.html
Now, when is merely offering some information with a suggestion for avoiding an unwanted damage to self being devious Ted?? [devious: “not strait-forward; underhand; in a circuitous way, unclear; dishonest”].
I’d have thought is was very clear, straight and unambiguous. But then again, I guess I would, yes? :-)
Pam, the end justifies the means. Parents understand.
Hmmm… try “stratagem”. Sounds like “strategy” which is sort of morally neutral (only one of the meanings of “stratagem” hints at deception).
No offense naturally, but it doesnt take a watchdog accountant to know if you have an itch you cant scratch, buy or make a back scratcher, humans were not made to be contortionists, they were made with a brain and to learn how to use it, even if they cant stand using it.
Ah yes, I have dont doubt that Alabama. As you say, we have a brain. However, i find that having to bend the arm backwards it loses strength especially in pressure. The “back scratcher” just barely tickles the surface so to speak. :-)
One can suffer an inner discomfort that can not be reached by a back scratcher, this is what makes us a human and not a god. And you can thank god for that, for she made certain that human behaviors and desires would lead to this discomfort and occasionally a pain, in her quest to further her evolutionary plans so that she, and not you, were the recipient of that honor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtasLsWX4Cs
Pamela I hope you enjoy this offering from our own (Austin) boys from about 1985.
Jimmy (guitar) is older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughn killed in a stupid chopper crash now so long ago.
be well
:-)
Thank you pariah. And it’s 2.34 a.m. Good to hear. Amazing isn’t it – is there any aspect to normal living someone hasnt written a song about? :-)
the next clip is same song,different personnel, about 30 years later
Pamela I feel sure Dmitry Orlov might give you the precise Russian answer you seek
Contact him and please let us know the result?
From the last Cafe
Raisa on March 22, 2020 · at 9:05 am EST/EDT
From what I have read of Pamela’s posts, a game of foojy may not have been her first thought or intention – despite her light heartedness at times – has she a penchant for the humoresque, a love of comedy even ?!
Hopefully we will all be further enlightened by her in the fullness of time.
Ras
My apologies for not getting back sooner Ras.
yes indeed, I do have a great penchant for the humoresque, a love of comedy. I was, at one time, noted for being “a funny person, witty and makes you laugh” I find a sense of humour one of the most important things for me in life, in dealing with people.
It’s the, single, most human thing I think. We can get satisfaction from meeting a challenge; a deep stirring from seeing a vast majestic landscape, a sense of deep peace and contentment from being in the quiet of woodlands. But we really only laugh between people – things they say to us, that we read, images, they are very much people base, although I think occasionally a loved animal can do it. It’s still positive energy shared between like minded human beings.
When you live alone and are too much alone, it’s the one thing you miss most, which is why you come to realise how important it is.
Re the “penchant for the humoresque”, you know, it’s one of the things I found I loved about Russia. Just every now and again, you will get that “comic opera” humour that I find so delightful.
A couple of years ago, I was reading – somewhere, my apologies have no idea of the link – of an incident in a rural town, in, I think Siberia. Apparently it was reported in the local newspaper that a police officer had noted in his procedures book a car being driven through the town with 2 men in front and very large bear in the back, leaning slightly out of window. The incensed Station Chief had demanded why he had not stopped the car and apprehended the men.
With a subtlety only a Russian could think of I suspect, the officer answered “but there was no reason to stop the car as they were not breaking any laws. After all, the bear had his seat belt on”!!
I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
However my search for this word was genuine, i promise.
$317B in “stay outta jail” or “bail outta jail” fines paid just by financial firms registered stateside past 20 years (2:25 mark), yet they’re shortly going to be the direct recipients of these trillions in largesse handed out by CONgress like Helloween happy sacks of candy to these scum.
only 11 minute video; he goes through other sectors’ fines past 20 years.
You can visualize all that summed up in 1 picture:
http://dailybail.com/home/blankfein-made-141-million-in-2010.html
MARCH 22
ALERT! JUST SAY “NO!” TO ALL BAILOUTS!! (Bix Weir)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMRc8uYLp8
Café and Bar Name suggestions, around the world:
Ireland: Coronach Café & Beár
Poland: Korona Kafe & Bar
Hungarian: Korona Kávézó & Rúd
I wasn’t finished……. Crown Cafe’s & Bars around the world:
RUSSIA: Kоронка Кафе & Бар
China 王冠 咖啡店 酒吧
Scots-Gaelic Crùn Cafaidh Agus Bar
France Couronne Café Et Bar
Just as Americans lead the world currently in either arrogant ignorance and blindness……. or resigned pessimism and self-loathing………….the Crown of Creation (homo sapiens) similarly considers throwing in the towel against an Invisible Enemy.
But none with such despairing defeatism as this Volunteer Nurse Lady From Tennessee:
https://youtu.be/EYQXMODNdf0
“Y’all, it doesn’t matter what we do. There are so many stupid people in this world, we’re not going to survive anyway. So TOUCH YOUR FACE!! Just touch it. It’s all that’s left.”
As a contrarian, however, I see opportunity on the flip side of Corona 2020 Crisis: Register the above domain names, youthful survivors…just add .com
Even if y’ll never open the joint, y’all can sell its website domain name to those that do. Survivors will have a smug sense of superiority and will wish to remember and celebrate this glorious year, for many decades to come.
The Incredibly Brave Toilet Paper Warriors are suing for the peace, and have given up and want their money back. Only to find Costco is not giving refunds on hoarded tp, rice, water, lysol, wipes and paper towels.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/costco-hoarders-discover-they-cant-return-toilet-paper
A new day down under – a new reality for everyone.
A strange silence has engulfed the land. Even the kookaburras forgot to laugh this morning.
Streets devoid of cars… ‘work from home’ …. a public transport bus lumbered past my house with a solo passenger.
No pilates classes today … or maybe never. Pilates teacher, a single mum with a mortgage – now joins the 1 km long queue of despondent jobless people outside Centrelink (govt welfare). Prior to yesterday they were self employed in fitness or hospitality or travel (and Aussie are/were great travellers) but now on the scrapheap of destitute.
No coffee after pilates to nattered with my friends. The cafe has pulled up the chairs to comply with orders to shut up… they can serve take-away only. No cash payments – just swipe card and stand back. Grim faces everywhere.
No school today – online learning at home. Parents are expected to teach kids and at the same time ‘work from home’.
No toilet paper, tissues or soap in shops… limits on milk, rice, flour. Biscuits and chocolates stripped to bare shelves.
Pubs, clubs and sports all closed. A huge spike in domestic violence is guaranteed. It was already a big problem here but without sport as an outlet and no jobs, and staying at home – it will increase.
But for the moment the beach is still freely available but cameras monitor crowd numbers. This area does not have huge crowds like Bondi in Sydney.
So life is changing and we must find ways to adapt and survive.
A big thumbs down to the surrealism of cabin fever and the 24 hour negative news.
A big thumbs up to this Cafe and Friends.
Take a deep breath in… hold it… now close your eyes and exhale deeply and relax. Repeat.
Ah, the kookaburra has found his laugh. A magpie warbles too.
Nicely written Babushka!
Take care
Col
Col I would just like you to know I did reply to your polite question of the last Cafe, but it did not make it into print. It was a long answer, and sorry but I cannot repeat it. I have arthritis in my hands, and typing a long reply which may get lost is not encouraging.
I just said that there is a limit to how long exponential growth can be sustained, so those figures for Ecuador are very unlikely; I added that there are also No Nursing homes here, as Family is paramount – all EI cared for by their family, thus maintaining a distance between them. Nursing Homes where a lot of EI are clustered are a hot bed for such illnesses.
I added all the things I would do if it were in my power which boil down to EVERY winter, not just odd ones like this have campaigns to remind everyone that , as we used to say across Britain when I was a child there “coughs and sneezes spread diseases; use a tissue, dispose of properly and wash your hands. If you have a cold, stay home, dont go to work and spread it” This was once generally Public Health. I would add, if there seems to be something new he public should be informed there is a new strain but it hasn’t been investigated yet, all EI and VH people should take extra care but others just go about your normal business, there is no need for panic and when we know more of this new strain we will inform you.
I hope this one gets through.
I dont know why but I do not have a Leave a Reply function available on my page, only as a reply to other commentators.
As the Crown of Creation, we can also be aware in these glorious days of another key word (in various languages), forecast to come SOON…..on a Friday (yeah, but which Friday???? …my bet is not this coming one, but rather April 3….mark my words….) in a tweet from the Tweeter In Chief:
I had forgotten it but thank Paul for reminding me: STORM
As in, “My Fellow Americans, The Storm is upon us.”
ERGO: There also could be considerable “upside” in domain names around the world with….storm in languages such as these, just for starters:
RUSSIAN: Гроза
French: Orage
Irish: Stoirm
Hungarian: Vihar
Romanian: Furtună (hold out your palm, those gypsies will forecast the weather for you….)
Chinese: 风暴
pronounced: Fēngbào
That last one is the most important. For it can plant the seed even in the most skeptical stubborn minded eternal conflict addict….that Xi and Donald —despite some maskirovka optics ….ARE in fact “good friends” and sharing code words and very possibly even operations during the Global Corona Lockdown.
See for yourself: https://youtu.be/oG38qGiReK4?t=1285
or Spanish…la tormenta. ( the torment?)
The french study of treatment of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is very promising and has been promoted by pres. Trump, studies are being done and experimental treatment available in the USA.
REF: Gautret et al. (2020) Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID‐19: results of an open‐label non‐randomized clinical trial. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents – In Press 17 March 2020 – DOI : 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105949
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/hydroxychloroquine-and-azithromycin-as-a-treatment-of-covid-19/
Another very scary example of the leadership’s acumen, originality, & schemes floated, by all from business leaders to politicians, how to get around/through this—it’s easy-peasy!:
go to 5:17 mark if unsure.
congresswoman rashida tlaib $1T coin.
march 23 video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzObqQyiMto
https://youtu.be/QzObqQyiMto?t=327
shouldn’t be long before Locohontas raises the bid.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q5oLPtwdjRc/maxresdefault.jpg
What a marvelous collection of poems and prose here today.
Some are funny, some are serious, some are short, some are long: But all capture the deep emotions of these times.
They are all so bloomin’ bonza that to mention anyone by name, would risk omitting another inspiring message.
With community like this, we will prevail. Thanks everyone.
Military is moving to Montreal and NY. Lots of people reporting it right now on FB. Don’t know what to think yet.
Strangely, I’m having optimistic thoughts. Perhaps 5G is twisting my reality, or overall tiredness.
Anyone have a read on Gabbard’s endorsement of Biden?
I’m also curious why Bernie went out without a wimper for a second time; at this point he has nothing to lose in pointing out the rampant corruption in the democratic party.
Do they seriously believe anything will change for the better with Trump out? Or is there backroom deals going on at some grand scale that they think make it worth endorsing Lichemaster Biden and his controllers?
Mostly a mild curiosity.
Google owns You tube and the story going around is that it’s algorithms were just recently relaxed after Trump made them offer “they couldn’t refuse”.
That things you would never be able to pull up with a Google search just 2-3 weeks ago…..are now coming up….in spades.
Many of you have probably heard the same “wild” allegations in the last few years.
About Angela being Adolph’s.
Justin being Fidel’s
Barbara being Aleister’s.
Of course I will adjust to new evidence of any inaccuracy etc but all I can say……after watching 3 videos attacking the globalists “elites” to fairly “edgy” music is:
“If a picture is worth a thousand words.”, you are getting pretty damned close to ONE MILLION words worth of rare heretofore heavily censored photos in these three videos……in which many, many photos I have never seen before………….are suddenly pouring out:
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGJNkR4BhY
The Cabal Part 1 (best viewed in full)
286,197 views•Premiered Mar 20, 2020 Now that’s a ton and a half of views in just 4 days……..
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DsFi91k6c
The Cabal Part 2
181,457 views•Mar 20, 2020
105,000 dropouts from video # 1. Not surprising! Lots of weenies among the “patriots”, too.
Kinda like political warfare boot camp going on here.
Suck it up, Buttercups. You CAN get stronger. Just takes a little time.
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Qip6UxDNs
This is not a game
114,954 views•Mar 23, 2020 Hmmm. The Pace is pickin’ up that’s just 1 days worth.
One more to review tonight. I already know it’s gonna be the esoteric one. Sumer. Babylon. Ancient traditions said to be still infecting a sick species’ “ruling elites” with their “old” (black) religion….I anticipate.
Someone here said things are getting creepier….. but he’s feeling oddly optimistic.Me too. despite the runny nose that does not feel at all out of the ordinary
I think he will agree these 3 multiply both the creepy…..AND the odd optimism by a factor of 10 at least.
Maybe by a factor of 100.
Ya gotta know what the problem really is…before you have much chance of solving it.
These are edgy as hell and a lot slicker than 99.99 % of what I have seen yet on the internet…before tonight.
No spoken narrative. The photos….some limited text…..and this umm uncomfortable………. music are serious weaponry.
I watched a few other videos on that channel. Quite interesting, especially when you have some context for the seemingly random bits of info. Those sort of videos are definitely not what I would recommend to people who are still sleeping. Slow and steady is preferable to being thrown in the deep end of depravity without warning.
I remember learning about pizzagate last year and the associated wikileaks. At the time I deliberately avoided investigating further as it was a little mind bending. I’ve since become bulletproof in regards to learning about the various depravities undertaken by the undead.
David Lynch tells us that the owls are not what they seem. David Lynch is a lovely human bean.
Bro, watched all 3 yesterday. I held off on passing them to some borderline “woke”. Took a lot of work to assemble the material but “you can’t make this stuff up”. Many simply don’t want to know as it upsets their paradigm that has taken a lifetime to assemble. My paradigm is quite fluid as my original was shattered in war. Some of the material is “dated”. Mark Cuban is part of one of the mosaics. I have a small connection to him as we both inhabit the Rugby family. He is younger than I but our paths have crossed. He played at Indiana University and I at Purdue. I doubt that my name would ring any bells with him. Many players on both sides and eras know each other and competed on the pitch as well as the parties. 5 years ago IU celebrated their 50th anniversary of their Rugby Team. We cancelled our 50th because of CV19. Mark C was at the reunion and was definitely a presence. He has contributed much $ to their program and the quality of their game is impressive on the college level, notably in the “7’s” version. I would like to believe that Mark is not “Cabal” linked. He was anti-Trumper early on but lately seems to have backed off somewhat. Last year at a Rugby party I was talking with an old friend of Mark’s and he was sporting a MAGA Hat. I asked if “Mark has one?” He said, “probably not”. But, he hesitated. I will accept the truth about anyone.
Also, thanks for the attaboy on my lengthy comment “Your’e barking up the right tree, Hound”. Your’s was the only reply. The silence was deafening.
Firstly, let’s take fantastic aerial views of the Causeway Coast.
Causeway Coast, Northern Ireland. HD Drone Footage …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJoCkriDZyc
Secondly, now let’s take a closer ground level view.
Giant’s Causeway – Northern Ireland – UNESCO World Heritage Site …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWpE60dZgU
… and … The Burren …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqokbOciEA
Paul (Павел)Thanks for the links ! I looked at the Burrin vid but the camera jumps to the next scene mostly too fast, the experience there being one of time standing still with the picture not moving in a strangely profound silence, I’m meaning specifically the great flat shelf areas of rock by the coast.
A fabulous experience of “rock” as antithesis to our technical domain of fast, flickering images accompanied by sound, but can be found viewing great works of art, and belongs also to our world of inner experience and perception. It is there always, and always threatened by extinction.
ras
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/the-current-coronavirus-pandemic-its-likely-caused-by-more-than-one-pathogen-and-there-is-a-missing-antidote/
So the dreaded Spanish Flu is probably not the work of a single pathogen which doesn’t fit the narrative of the vaccine barons.
“The Covid19 deaths will continue until everyone submits to medical martial law. Only then, will the deaths decrease for good behavior. This is the New Normal Order. If you disagree with this order, your friends who believe the propaganda will be calling you a medical terrorist.”
“Eventually, you won’t be able to drive a car without a vaccine. Certain businesses won’t let you in “Out of respect for those with vulnerable immune systems.” The new racism will be immunism. The healthy will be looked up as a new kind of ‘white privilege’.”
James True – Medical Martial Law
https://www.jtrue.com/blog/column/medical-martial-law
This just turned up in my Face Book Page from the gentleman who runs Global Research.
We are right now facing a very alarming situation, in an extremely dangerous cross roads, dear sisters and brothers! But the great threat is not at all the novel-Coronavirus!
Check it out, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 24, 2020:
“The tendency is towards a Worldwide lockdown spearheaded by fear and media disinformation. Currently, hundreds of millions of people Worldwide are under lockdown.
What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis?
A coronavirus vaccine program was announced at Davos at the World Economic Forum (21-24 January) barely 2 weeks after the coronavirus was identified by the Chinese authorities on January 7.
The lead entity for the novel coronavirus vaccine initiative is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) an organisation sponsored and financed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Note the chronology: The development of the 2019 nCoV vaccine was announced at the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) a week prior to the official launching by the WHO of a Worldwide Public Health Emergency (January 30) at a time when the number of “confirmed cases” Worldwide (outside China) was 150 (including 6 in the US).
CEPI is seeking a “monopoly” role in the vaccination business the objective of which is a “global vaccine project”, in partnership with a large number of “candidates”. It announced funding for its existing partnership with Inovio and The University of Queensland (Australia). In addition, CEPI confirmed (January 23) its contract with Moderna, Inc. and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been instrumental in waging the fear and panic campaign across America: “Ten Times Worse than Seasonal Flu”.”
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, March 24, 2020
https://www.globalresearch.ca/after-the-lockdown-a-global-coronavirus-vaccination-program/5706547
The tendency is towards a Worldwide lockdown spearheaded by fear and media disinformation. Currently, hundreds of millions of people Worldwide are under lockdown. What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis? A coronavirus vaccine program was announced at Davos at the World Economic F…
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The tendency is towards a Worldwide lockdown spearheaded by fear and media disinformation. Currently, hundreds of millions of people Worldwide are under lockdown. What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis? A coronavirus vaccine program was announced at Davos at the World Economic F…
I just thought I would share this – Prof Chossudovsky is generally well regarded and has been fighting the Empire for a few years now.
@Pamela,
You (and anyone else interested) might want to read this article by Peter Koenig, who also writes for this blog: https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153
It’s in the same direction. Mr. Chossudovsky is often in the right direction as well. Let’s see how calm TPTB will stay when the oil price dives to something between 10 and 20$.
Cheers, Rob
Thank you Rob – a very good article by Peter K. well worth the read.
And yes – what ARE they going to do when / if oil drops so low – and the “petrol station masquerading as a nation” copes so much better than they can :-)
Italy has discovered who its friends are, and that the EU is not one of them!
https://www.rt.com/news/483897-italy-eu-coronavirus-solidarity-russia/
No UK Update III due to fury.
Please could some kind, thoughtful commenter post links or any info on the question of cash and card payments for groceries and etc for the average fool on the street (that’s me) ? Since 2 weeks already I am suspicious of the banks longer – shorter ? term intentions re cash and cash outlets. Banks are now closed.
What about the kids, they are not shopping, they have no cash. They are at home. Their exams have been cancelled, all activities, social engagements, bang, gone. Home school ? No, they want their friends.
Problem is their parents are at home and try to supervise their time, some of them.
Social distancing breeds fear, What next ? Distrust. Distrust is seeded and will grow. Oh evil spirits of darkness dividing and ruling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And what do the kids feel now, those who are cared for to some extent (theses are the good times, the sun is shining for days – first time in months, the earth is covered in spring flowers), they feel a little dazed, a trifle, confused, there’s a sense of being let down – but by whom, everyone is saying and doing “the right thing,”
Young people are highly perceptive, sensitive and intelligent people, they know when something is not right, things don’t add up, they will suffer.
Domestic violence? Sure, encouraged by a sanitized Nazism/Bolshevist 21st century ideology newly branded as “social distancing.”
We have a nice problem in the UK, it goes under a word deliberately adopted by devious minds for the practice of child abuse; child means pedo, philia means love. An abhorrent word deviation in itself. Unfortunately it is more pervasive than people are generally aware of (but well known in educational professions) and set to carry on more freely, unabated and unreported.
Ras Rant over.
Paul Craig Roberts … October 13, 2019 …
“Now, if they can’t get Trump out, they will crash it. There will be a big crash before the election, and people will blame Trump. That’s about how smart Americans are. Now, there is one constraint for the Fed doing that because the Fed is a tool of the New York banks. If they crash the economy, they are going to crash those New York banks. That’s the only restraint on the elites. That’s their ultimate nuke. If they can’t get him out, they will say, okay, we are going to bring down the economy and too bad for the New York Banks, or they will find some special way to bail them out while everything else goes: the pension funds, the hedge funds, the mutual funds. They will wipe us out in order to get rid of Trump.”
https://usawatchdog.com/oligarchs-will-crash-system-to-boot-trump-paul-craig-roberts/
An interesting and very frightening documentary. They show the news sources they are referring to and give pretty good substantiation for their claims.
Must admit, when I was told Australia was going to put money into Gov.Super citizens, I was very very surprised – the Aus gov doesn’t ever give it’s people any of the money the country earns.
Well, the reason for that is given here – a time when you either show you had a world wide vaccination, or your money is withheld.
I guess a lot of us could write this off as “over blown, unlikely fear mongering”. But after watching the mass of the Empire being manipulated into hysteria, I’m now pretty much open to anything.
Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLBXfKDbbI
Australia is following much of the UK lock-down script …
Coronavirus: UK brings in strict curbs on life to fight virus
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52014472
Paul if America got an itchy bum and scratched, Aus – with no itch and no idea why it was – would also dutifully scratch its bum :-) !!
My dear American friends.
Please look at this: https://twitter.com/alx/status/1242115409802919944
Now, I’m pretty sure that on the final DNC nomination he’ll be sweeped aside by the Hildabeast (and Bernie Sanders gets another house), but really, did millions of American citizens vote for his nomination?
You don’t want this poor lad in the neighbourhood of The Button. He’ll confuse it for the remote control of his TV set. Ok, he won’t remember the code anyway, that’s kind of a relief.
OMG.
Cheers, Rob
5g and Covid19 are seen to have a correlation by many pretty good thinkers- Dr Cowen and Dr Klinghart are just two I’ve listened to.
It is also being said that during the increasing ‘shelter in place’ mandates lockdown there is a big rollout happening. Not here to argue- just sayin… rolling, rolling, rolling the towers are a rolling to these US cities.
k
https://healingthebody.ca/map-shows-the-cities-where-deadly-5g-cell-towers-are-being-rolled-outdo-you-live-in-one-of-these/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com&fbclid=IwAR2uSwBTIinbhfzCOsc-RGAAstJS0YZwqb50JnBq2iKl8rYMxrsY47-akbo
The idiocy of mankind is truly staggering!!! I have no doubt that humanity will itself be the cause of its own undoing. An extremely bitter pill to swallow for those of us who have young children. Logic dictates that a weakened immune system from prolonged exposure to EMR will make us easier prey in the long term for super-viruses and God knows whatever else the ‘infernal engines’ of the negative force – our own minds, if we’re to be completely honest, throw up! My question would be how truly effective is the device they’re selling, or is it just another marketing ploy on the back of our misfortune?
I just read a description of a 5g world scenario based on the Chinese goal of having 1 camera for every 2 people. It seems like everyone will be ‘living’ in a dense electrical field. You won’t need ID as you will be recognized where ever you go. No longer need your phone for uber- just say the word ‘uber’ and you face and location will be sent to uber drivers. Your health medical stats, bank info etc will also be read by facial recognition.
I don’t understand who can survive this without total breakdown of all organic systems. If I am on the computer too long or too late my etheris field feels electrified and I can’t fall asleep.
k
We as humans are hard wired to find and exploit defects, its like the military, they dont have to be perfect, they just have to recognize you are not perfect and then use expansionary policy’s in the name of a perfection of their own desires.
That article states that a tower will be needed for every 2-8 houses, but this an impossible task, leading me to question the veracity of the article. Yes, humanity will be the cause of its own undoing, but moore likely by pressing too many buttons in a physical sense than being deformed by devices of electrical waves.
God knew this, and knows the current environment is not suitable for the advancement of the human race, but only to collect the resources so as to then apply the mechanism required for advancement, after said resources are collected.
Now is not the time to panic over anything, panic time arrives when too much time has passed and the full amount of resources have not been collected, which is far from today.
Today people are staying in a state of shock, the surprise of the “attack” reached its target in way that the large majority of people did not expect at all. And this is just the first phase, at the moment, people are still trying to cope with the ordinary realities which are becoming more and more stricter, as soon as they realize the level of shit they are just entered as sheep in the slaughterhouse – in every aspect of their life – then that will be another phase. At the moment is easy to imagine all kind of nasty scenarios as long there is food and money to buy with but when this “honeymoon” will end because of its sustainability, what will happen then, what is to be expected ? Everything which was normal today, tomorrow will have a total different value. In my opinion, there is to be expected a rise in nationalism everywhere, just looking at Europe, every country is realizing the big mistakes they have done in the name of globalization, not being capable today of being self-sufficient, they don’t have strategic reserves for their economies, falling pray to the international system of globalized economy. Look at many aspects of the main industries which become interdependent, thus all this has led today to the closure of many factories which gave an assured living for many millions of people. The great run for getting huge profits, has promoted the export of their production facilities way abroad, far away from their home country. Now, this bits back very painfully cause it has weaken the self-defense of its economy at home, affecting its own population in the wake of a “perfect crisis”. The west, in its pursuit for globalization, has become its own prisoner – just as curiosity, none of the EU countries has produced sufficient protection products against such pandemics, guess where they come from now ?
yes, you guessed, China, in numbers of millions – probably not for free… The irony of this situation is the well known arrogant policy of the west, namely the sanctions, used against countries which were not enemies of the west. Remember the sanction policy targeting Russia after 2014, the biggest country closer to the west, the country which had and has the greatest opportunities for a closer cooperation both politically and economically, with a president who comes once in a thousand years and who offered his open arms for cooperation with Europe. That train has been rejected, sadly.
At least, Russia has come out prepared, thanks to the western sanction policy they entered in deep reforms, just in time. Not so the EU, who was caught with pans down, closing its borders within the borders. The way the EU has developed its own policy, will definitely enter in the future studies of history.
I think its closer to we trained ourselves to be wanting of our pleasures (like food choices) at a moments notice year round rather than living as we once did on a seasonal basis. Overnight shipping, instant communications, fly anywhere around the world in 80 minutes, and once trained we become frozen at the thought of not having our all our conveniences instantly at our finger tips.
In reality, you cant shut down the country down for the sake of a few unhealthy citizens, some of these people lead suspect lives compliments of their parents and education system and if they now cant breath from inhaling a bug, its not the fault of the ones who were say raised better or properly. A thinning of the herd is after all, a natural event.
Thinning the herd deliberately is not a human thing .. Even elephants mourn those that die. All great animals mourn. Are we less? I don’t think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZPxbirBSg
Agree. The “greater good for the greater amount of people” is a catch-cry of the demon-mind, the very same enamoured of its own “brilliance”, and which brings us all good things, such as ‘peerless technology’, ‘mysterious pandemics’, slight variations in the weather patterns etc. etc. Every life is as valuable as the next, and this is what consciousness understands.
This may be so, but is satan a human thing? Or should I say a humane thing? definitely not, he exists but trapped in a corner (as he apparently is) you can expect him to react in, inhumane ways, this is probably our situation today.
And tomorrows reality is actually an illusion, and christ is gods savior, not ours. When she can no longer afford the time to sustain her life, she takes ours in large quantities and begins her quest anew, and yes this is deliberate, but is it fair? She believes so, she has given humans all the chances she can afford, and humans to date have taken all the wealth, power, and control from her, leaving her no choice except the destructive one. For there is no constructive god, only a destructive one. she is the riddle wrapped inside an enigma.
Alabama, Ol’ Nick can be beautifully used as strawman as well.
Words that I’ve come to just detest:
They, as in somebody that we cannot get to, cabal, something … but undefined – a hated ‘they’.
Flatten the curve, as in massive mind control.
Cull the herd, as in accepting an animalistic future – sheeple
The Storm – as in everything that does not make sense but is chaos, is defined by some faceless military entity but not too worry, here comes Trump in his superman suit (grins).
Actually, all memes – because they give a short shotglass of beautifully energetic endorphins, cortisol and adrenaline and we feel so good as if we’ve actually done something.
Mmmm, I think I have an anger brewing :-)
The anger has always been there, compounding its interest waiting for the family to do the right thing, only to find the family wanting to follow the law, and that’s where the trouble starts, no keeping the peace now, its desperation time on the ranch and no holes barred.
Jeez, it is not an either/or proposition. ……the economy or a bunch of useless old people? It is called a false dichotomy. Why would you let, of all foul things, a neocon politician define the terms of our action or inaction?
And a word about Satan: He wants all of us dead…shredded into minute pieces, thrown into the hottest star in the farthest ends of the universe never to be reconstituted again. and his hatred has no end in its depths and what it will do to get us to kill each other. He does not cower , he does not stress….he has plenty of humans who will help him–most of them by the insouciance of careless thinking.
Just make sure you are never one of them even if you have no belief in heaven or hell. My advice…not humble at all and not solicited…because I cannot just sit and watch someone unconsciously mouthing the lies of the evil one.
Dear ioan
I do see ‘it’ the way you do
Having come to Australia with only a suitcase, my parents bought a television in 1958, with spare pennies after they bought a house and put food on the table.
Both my parents worked extremely hard 7 days a week.
What struck me as a child was that having survived the Great Depression and WWll, and living with multitudes of New Australians who had been recruited from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe, my mother in her spare time knitted many clothes for the children suffering the war in Korea. As did the other mothers.
Then there was the Australian involvement in the war in South Vietnam, which had in fact been going for many years previous, with the French being booted out.
So many of us now know the depths of depravity, deception and sadism to which TPTB descend, but tell that to anyone and you and I are met with a range of responses from blank blinks to vicious vitriolic dismissal.
I used to feel physically ill hearing Julia Gillard ( a former Prime Minister) bombastically say “Oi have a vision for austraya… ‘ as one by one Australian manufacturers shut down/moved off-shore. People then were losing jobs and over the next few years we were hearing /reading about increasing, unsustainably high levels of youth unemployment.
Yesterday I read on internet news about aged care nursing home residents being found abandoned and dead in Spain, due to mass Covid19 panic.
I also read a report about a “team of special experts” being put together to cope with the escalating crisis in Australia.
We now know the orchestration of it all
All my life starting as a ten year old on my parents’ television, I saw lines, lines and more lines, one country after another. Food lines. Lines of fleeing refugees. Bombs. burning.
And always the Allies, we the victors as we in Australia, so isolated, watched the victims and the destructive devastation around the rest of the planet.
Gillard never articulated her vision for Austraya. Then she was gone – I’m told she works closely with Hitlery these days on some education program for the globalists. Of course, no more mention of the First Bloke who was parachuted into The Lodge by those who control the show.
So now it is our turn to stand in lines- food, money, vaccinations, whatever the psychopaths determine
And the younger, brighter scholars, artists, sages, saints and sinners in our Quarantine Café- thank you terra- are keeping us informed, inspired and encouraged (as in Heart)
We are the Resistance
Babuška
If and when this is ever over and if any of us who frequent our Cafe are still standing strong and defiant, as a band of brothers and sisters we should raise a glass or two together. I suggest we can wear the moniker of conspiracy theorists as a badge of honour. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
An interesting aside gave me a much needed laugh this morning. The carbon activated filter for my Sundstrom mask need an airtight container. A Spicy Guacamole home style dip container fitted perfectly. It was made by …..Black Swan……absolutely priceless!
What a wonderful thought Hawksmere.
Love your Black Swan story.
I heard on the radio about 50 million masks on their way. And a support team for our military is coming from Kuwait. Plenty of jobs for some, then
Stay strong and defiant
Now look who is helping Italy in their struggle against Covid-19. Yes, they have made mistakes, but now It’s not time for regrets but action.
The project is called ‘From Russia with love’.
https://youtu.be/EeBKX0ABE5I
Well Ursula von der Leyen, eat that. Oh excuse me, you were already busy with your lobster.
Cheers, Rob
Italy got no help from the EU. Reached out to other countries.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FEE4zHsLm/?igshid=ueii3pw4cjtf
Here’s a picture that speaks a thousand words:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-HilJnAFa9/?igshid=13s2bwnetvfii
To show their contempt, the Polish authorities refused to let Russian airplane heading for Italy cross their airspace: https://www.globalresearch.ca/poland-sabotages-russian-coronavirus-relief-efforts-italy/5707472
Italy must be so happy with the cooperation of their EU and NATO partner. It is crumbling before our very eyes.
Cheers, Rob
Andre is a great writer, a great reporter who goes to the places and talks to the people he reports about. His reputation is growing. This is an excellent “more in sorrow than anger” but very very striking home to the heart of the matter.
https://journal-neo.org/2020/03/24/it-is-not-china-but-the-western-world-that-should-be-defined-as-the-real-sick-man/
I truly respect Andre Vltchek. His books are here:
https://badak-merah.weebly.com/andre-vltcheks-books.html
Rossie Indira from Badak Merah publishing who publishes and translates for Vltchk is ‘good people’. Vlchek’s book Oceania is one of his classics and details the consequences of colonialism and neocolonialism on the Pacific islands and ocean nations. That book is one of the ones that made a lasting impact on me.
And if you like travel writing – of course, this is completely different .-)
My Eight Day Journey Around the Planet – With COVID-19 on My Tail
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/03/22/my-eight-day-journey-around-the-planet-with-covid-19-on-my-tail/
The Deep State Department orders war games in the midst of global pandemic:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moment-un-chief-urged-global-ceasefire-stop-covid-19-pentagon-staged-war-games-aimed
She is My Son: Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1E9uWm9nJc
The 23rd psalm with descant
Our school choir sang this at the 1958 eisteddfod
The 23rd psalm has been a source of consolation all my life. This version is particularly magnificent being sung in Westminster Abbey
https://youtu.be/yHQoRfFr1rE
I have long been fascinated by the legend of St George, said to have been born in Lydda Palestine. There, in Palestine he is “Patron of Healing, especially of lunacy, and is honoured as such even by Muslims”
And so in these times of extreme lunacy, the relentless plunder, mayhem and stripping of Resources by the human locusts I return to this magnificent psalm
We were, children of the Empire, until we woke up
The above quote came from The Story of St George by Anthony Cooney
Both the 23rd psalm and the comment that we were children of the Empire until we woke up, much appreciated Babuška
Thank You amarynth
You might well relate to the fact that it has all come to me through much grief and weeping, as one friend commented: “it’s as tho you have crawled across a desert of broken glass.”
The fact that Pamela left Oz reflects just how alienated I have been in Oz til now. I stayed here because my family is here. Otherwise I would , like Pamela, be somewhere else. LOL
I always loved that line from John Lennon” if you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else”
Two of my four kids are on the same line on the same page of the same book. Until then, I’ve only encountered like-minded Souls on the internet.
Peace to You
This is a heart centered astrological talk by a Serbian astrologer of some renown whom I really enjoy ( he whips out a cigarette right in the middle of a talk on corona virus…for example and then cracks a astrology based joke about it when his interviewer calls him in it. Hilarious.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbm5RY0FII
Chinese woodworking …
Chinese language only but much is visual …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUG5YZTlQs
Water. Where there is water there is life. A common observation, as the deserts are devoid of life, and the oceans and rainforests abound with it. Of course the Arctic is a desert too, and it is all ice.
Have been thinking about Life. At first it was the evolutionary question as to how life must have organized itself, the question is put forward as a deconstructed recipe, ie, working backward from the ingredients list: assembly of various ingredients, admixtures of this and that, and presto! There is a foundational presumption at work here in this cookbook way of thinking, which is that life evolved. It is a conceptual challenge for evolutionaries to do away with this presumption, which is like saying: “imagine you don’t exist”. Not really very thought provoking staring into Nietzsche’s void.
So I turned back from this and began to deconstruct something other than the living organism itself, so instead of devolving evolution, I decided to describe a framework that supports the Life that we have seen here, and not one that builds it in the imagined past. Here is an overview:
—water, fire, earth, air (building blocks)
—progenitors (the parent factor, ie, life begets life, no life without life)
—protection (environs that nurture; sheltered space; freedom to live; freedom from untimely death)
—intelligence (intrinsic capability of continuation, of fulfilling all need, of direction)
—first cause (a first cause, and a continuing element)
Life isn’t any of the above, not one is in and of itself life as we understand or perceive it to be. Life appears to be a sublime power unto itself, a divine image or reflection of the Creator in the Creation. The word made flesh. It appears that evolution has confused the subtle nature of Life with the substantial nature, confusing the continuing terrestrial spark of Life with the power that brings it into existence: evolution is teaching either that Life makes itself, or that Life is inherent to Earth; hence the commingling of biology with goddess worship, the Gaia hypothesis; and also the logical necessity for divine intervention, hence SETI. Either Life is a god, the earth is a goddess, or foreign gods intervened in earth, these are the logic deductions of evolution.
A key concept is that life is itself the best evidence of the anti-entropic nature of the Universe, its built-in capacity for higher and higher levels of organization and complexity……..where formerly inorganic elements get organized into living matter such as you or I..trillions of atoms organized biologically where the part inside the human crania becomes conscious of this whole amazing process…and the miracle not only of life….but also of consciousness.
Some forms of conscious life (many humans) are inspired by this notion and the evidence that backs it up. But there are other humans that actually belong to a fascist death cult and they have little to no regard for humans other than themselves, their group or tribe and are not enthusiastic about anyone else thriving…or even surviving, for that matter.
In fact, they fear such thriving of any others but themselves, projecting onto others their own psychopathy, unable to imagine anything other than ……A Hell On Earth ….of Each Against All…in a permanent state of fear, hate and warfare. Hence geopolitics, a system of eternal war with ourselves.
This is an adolescent’s nightmare worldview, which it is necessary for us to grow out of, and very soon, what with weaponized viruses, nuclear weapons proliferation and so forth.
A word about deserts, Chris: In my view, it’s all relative!
Deserts actually teem with life compared to an asteroid orbiting the sun with no atmosphere. Even there I have read that cosmonauts have been able to determine that space itself is not entirely empty…and that there are viruses floating around out there in space!
Ironically, I have also read that natural viruses can actually be a catalyst for some kind of formation of primitive life or compounds that make life possible. If that’s the case, then the seeds of life would seem to exist throughout the Universe.
In deserts life is more sparse than in the Amazon Basin (thousands and thousands of species of plants and animals in any given square mile of jungle) and a lot of more complex desert life hides out under the hot surface during the heat of the day but particularly if rain patterns (or irrigation) improve…it’s all set to bloom…to explode with a lot more life….and immigrant species new to the area, moving in:
Las Vegas.
Oooops! Maybe not the best example. lol
Bro,
“But there are other humans that actually belong to a fascist death cult and that they have little or no regard for humans other than themselves, their group or their tribe and are not enthusiastic about anyone else thriving…or even surviving, for that matter.” That’s called “Schadenfreude”. I didn’t know that description until I was in my 30-40’s but I recognized it quite young. I’m the 3rd of 7 brothers and #2 was Schadenfreud personified. I pegged it as “It’s not that I should succeed but that you should fail.” Other would be to take joy in other’s failures. What you point out is important in dealing with other humans. It was a key piece for me. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hound
O.K. Fellows and Lassies,one last crack- I took her to the waterfall and I’ll never get her back She will never be in my bed For a Kiss or even a smack- I took her to the waterfall-and I will never get her back
down by the waterfall,
how my tears sting,
our love was so strong,
now it hangs by a string
my bed’s so cold
since she took to the wing
down by the waterfall,
she ended our fling…
… Radio Times celebrates the centenary of Doctor Who’s Patrick Troughton …
To a generation of kids watching British telly in the 1950s, Troughton was the first Robin Hood, and Alan Breck in Kidnapped. In the 1960s, he created a terrifying Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop.
In the 80s, he became genial magician Cole Hawlings in the BBC classic, The Box of Delights. But his most enduring role was of course the second Doctor in Doctor Who.
To mark 100 years since his birth, we’re looking back at the actor’s life and career across five decades in Radio Times …
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-03-25/rt-celebrates-the-centenary-of-doctor-whos-patrick-troughton/
I even remember the first one William Hartnell.
Dr. Dean Burk became a co-founder of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1937.
He headed its Cytochemistry department for over three decades.
Dr. Dean Burk – Fluoride Causes Cancer …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2rCaUIyNJw
Fluoridating municipal water supplies in the USA began in 1940s.
Now would be a good time for some loud questions …
but we hear nothing … it’s all about Corona …
Apocalyptica: Nothing Else Matters (live acoustic at Nova Stage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfRGBa6s5W4
CoronaVirus… Irrationality comes along and shows its nasty face…
UK
https://www.newcoldwar.org/nurses-on-coronavirus-frontline-facing-abhorrent-abuse-from-public/
Nurses on coronavirus frontline facing ‘abhorrent’ abuse from public
Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning, Ms May said: “I’ve seen all over Twitter some of our nurses and midwives and care staff being spat at and being abused by member of the public. Leaders of the profession have this week spoken out against the harassment and urged people to “be kind” to frontline professionals at this time of international crisis.
Escalation in virus-related racial abuse leaves overseas Chinese students traumatized
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1183527.shtml
Escalated racial abuse against Chinese people amid the coronavirus crisis across the world has left many overseas Chinese students traumatized, said psychological experts. Overseas Chinese students, especially those studying in the US and Europe, live in fear of assault as US President Donald Trump persists in calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus.”
The treatment of nurses doesn’t surprise.
Years ago, tired of struggling to live on the smell of an oily rag after working long, tiring and often emotionally draining hours, tired of being lied to and betrayed by a Government that wouldn’t listen, nurses across Australia went on strike.
it was controlled and limited. No body sick was left, but new cases, “cold” list cases were refused; out patients, and new non-emergency admissions were all refused.
A high profile female TV anchor on a 6 figure income for sitting at a desk and talking to people – who later went into Politics’ – said we were “non-nurses” and interviewed one scab describing her as “a real nurse”
I had a friend who was a Theatre nurse [note to Americans – O.R.]. she got a call for an emergency, and in uniform hopped on a bus to go in to work. She was spat on, abused and all but pushed off the bus!!!
There are times when it’s hard not to feel contempt for people, it really is.
@Ashino Wolf Sushanti
I’m glad that you shared this. It is a bloody shame.
As a citizen, I’m proud of people that work graveyard shifts and start to run in order to help people. I’m talking about firebrigade people, policemen, ambulance personnel and nurses -and please do not feel offended when I forgot some.
It is a hidden secret that in many so called ‘no go areas’ in Europe these people can’t go anymore without being harassed, and in quite of these areas even post is not delivered anymore.
In these times we should support each other. I have been married to a nurse for years, and from first hand I can account for the hard work, the harsh duties and serious responsibilities that they have, and also for the lousy payment. I once told her that I got the feeling that they are seen as garden seats – they are put away when thought not needed, and quickly assembled when needed.
It is ridiculous to read. Do those people realize, that one day their lives could be relying on them?
Sorry when it sounds a little emotional, but I mean it. People have gone crazy. Did someone already checked on something in the potable water?
Cheers, Rob
Hi Rob,
I noticed this comment of yours : ” I once told her that I got the feeling that they are seen as garden seats – they are put away when thought not needed, and quickly assembled when needed.”
You are so right.
I used to say – indeed, I still do – that we are “the forgotten profession”. The thing is, when people need us, they really need us. And they are so often deeply gratefully for what we do. I lost count of the times someone reached out and clutched my hand saying “you’re an angel Sister, bless you, thank you”. It’s very nice, of course, because you have done your job well if you can bring that sort of relief. It’s what you are there to do.
And when they go home, they forget and that’s OK too. Because we want people to forget a bad experience and get on with their lives – that’s part of the job too.
But it’s not right to forget us politically, to expect us to be so poverty stricken we cannot live with any modest dignity, saying, as I used to hear so often “nurses have their dedication” – and with those who spit on us when things are going wrong, it’s not right to forget all we do for you when really need us.
And believe me, when people really need us, they really really do.
But so many just forget. As you said.
w, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) condemns the decision by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to hide the emer- gence and spread of COVID–19 within its borders during the initial weeks of the outbreak;
(2) assesses that the decision by the Govern- ment of the People’s Republic of China to hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 during that pe- riod almost certainly contributed to the rapid spread of that disease throughout the Indo-Pacific region, Europe, and the rest of the world;
(3) finds that the Government of the People’s Republic of China should be held accountable for the impact, of its decision to hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19, on the lives and livelihoods of the people of the United States and other nations;
(4) calls for an international investigation led by public health officials from the United States and other affected nations to determine how the handling by the Government of the People’s Republic of China of the COVID–19 outbreak prior to March 11, 2020, contributed to the emergence of the COVID–19 global pandemic; and
(5) calls on the international community to— (A) quantify the harm caused, by the han- dling of the COVID–19 outbreak by the Gov- ernment of the People’s Republic of China, to the health and economic well-being of the peo- ple of the United States and other nations; and (B) design a mechanism for delivering compensation from the Government of the Peo- ple’s Republic of China to all affected nations for the harm caused by its decision to hide the emergence and spread of COVID–19 during the initial weeks of the outbreak.
^^This is why Trump + Pompous insist on using “china virus”.
Update from a tiny town in S Ecuador
Some stats: Population 4000, 45 minutes from a supermarket, no gas station, off the beat and track- seems NOT
Police are enforcing restrictions- no movement from town to town, (we have small shops, but no access to supermarket), we can only shop on days that code to our gov ID number, must wear masks and gloves, no loitering, no public transportation, and a countrywide curfew 2 PM to 5 am. Workers here are totally dependent on the buses to earn the days wage for basics, so many can’t work. The curfew is also a further restriction on working.
Our sweet little town has gone silent. Now we know why- the ‘tech giants’ have arrived in the white trucks and are installing 5g antennas and cables all along the electric poles and lines. (worldwide roll out program timed just right). One larger city- Guayquil- (the major port) is under military law. but good new! IMF just “loaned’ Ecuador more money for the ‘crisis’, adding it to the debt tab.
Just sharing the news, and how far the tentacles are reaching.
k
Great confirmation something put up a few days ago stateside “land of the frei”:
https://www.takebackyourpower.net/5g-biometrics-covertly-installed-during-lockdown/
In recent days a couple videos have begun circulating on social media with evidence of apparent installations of 5G and/or biometric systems while children are home due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
I saw similar reports including photos of the ‘white trucks’ in various small towns in the US. Now that it is happening here I am convinced of the ‘conspiracy coincidence’ that this was part of the plandemic all along.
k
It’s not that bad here in Cuenca, but it is getting worse. They are only limiting cars by number plate, but I’ve not been asked for my cedula number when shopping, only made to wait out in the hot sun due to the control on people to keep their distance!!
I didn’t know about the 5G coming here.
Nor the military in Guayaquil
Nor the increased the debt – thus being thrust into the maws of the devouring cancer.
They are undoing all the things Correa worked so hard to put into place.
if I’d realise this could happen, I would never have elected to come here
Wonder if I can claim cultural refugee status at the Russian Embassy :-)
kinterra, you have written the comment of the year, (one of many ha ha!) concise, vivid, simple and terrifying, well done.
Now my advice is to forget, let go of 5 G, having a back up system to enable ongoing protective coverage of the immune/etheric functioning. First step, every time the 5 G thought enters you brain/mind/field of consciousness, calmly replace with another one of your choice, keep repeating this until it becomes habit – not your thought, the effort to divert and change track.
Try that for a while, you may find your own supportive actions to create inner accompanying freedoms and well being. The mind is very powerful never forget it !
Plow away, let us know how you get on.
Ras
I have a cousin stranded on the Galapogos Island . They are feeling very vulnerable at the moment, but no way to get off the island. Several Kiwis and Aussies stranded there. No help from the govt whatsoever.
Busy night in North America for our lawmakers. Let’s talk stimulus / emergency aid packages, shall we?
Following the twitter feed of CTV’s Mackenzie Gray, I noticed that the US reached an agreement while the Canadian legislation was delayed by more than 12 hours. Coincidence? Not. (imo) Canada’s bill C-13 is now in the Senate. While this is pitched as an attempted power-grab by the minority government leading Liberal party (which it is / was), I am noticing it is becoming an attempted coup d’etat (imo) by Conservative opposition members. Past events suggest the White House (both Obama and Trump) just hates the Trudeau government – exact reason unknown – and this looks like yet another attempt at removing him from power – this time by removing power from him! There are two other powerful opposition parties: Quebec’s Bloc, and the leftie NDP. Hope that’s enough to defang any overreach by Conservatives. Or Liberals. :-) Politics. Some things never change, to quote journalist Susan Delacourt.
Apparently Vladimir Putin is learning how to take the Corona Virus by its little horns and judo “this thang”:
1) He enters the lab facility with Denis Procenko….virologist, I presume:
https://img.tyt.by/n/03/b/putin_denis_procenko_kommunarka_koronavirus_2_kremlin.jpg
2) Putin dons full protective yellow virology lab gear, head to toe
https://icdn.ensonhaber.com/resimler/diger/kok/2020/03/24/putin_5647.jpg
3) Having studied the opponents moves up close, and mapped out a match strategy, Putin demonstrates a high confidence in the Russian virology lab, and bides adieu to Denis, shaking his hand:
https://img.tyt.by/n/reuters/0c/b/putin_denis_procenko_kommunarka_koronavirus.jpg
In Harley’s briefing this morning he outlines who the Russians have just sent in 14 plane loads of decontamination equipment to Italy…………………
https://youtu.be/5zhFo2ccYd4?t=265
and contrasts this generosity of spirit with the nastiness of certain American institutions who have even influenced some of his less than calm and thoughtful viewers to call him “a Chinese Communist Agent.”
Who he then proceeds to chastise:
“You are siding with those who are trying to sabotage the Belt and Road Initiative for the same reason they were trying to get rid of Trump with Russiagate, Namely they do not want cooperation between the United States, Russia and China because they want to protect the collapsing, failed, economic order. You need to reevaluate where you are getting your information from, whether its Marco Rubio, The American Enterprise Institute………….or the Epoch Times….which WAS good on Russia-gate but is determined to stop the Belt and Road Initiative. So if you are spreading Anti-China Rhetoric, one has to assume that you are also a defender of the speculative casino economy…and the attempts to bail it out at all costs, instead of prioritizing human life.”
title of today’s briefing: Will We Protect Our People….Or The Markets?
“What Would Hamilton do?”
Incapacity to comprehend Hamilton is one of THE most serious mental weaknesses among so called US “patriots”.
See where the 6 trillion $ man (Larry Could be More, or Larry Could Be Moe), the helmsman steering this economic good ship lollipop, was out late evng 24th press conference announcing “it’ll only have to tide us over for a few weeks, months at most”?! LOLOL.
Is he a big tipper or something? Or did big pharma add a zero or 2 to their already beyond usurious cost of those test kits?
Anyway, here’s the exact link found in a vid screenshot one to bookmark of where these trillions will be showing up–the FED balance sheet of assets:
Assets: Total Assets: Total Assets (Less Eliminations From Consolidation):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
there’s a little slider at bottom right below chart can move that to change chart end date. Default is MAR23 last update, so note that’s right before this announcement.
https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lp4ef3f42c.jpg?w=450
Meanwhile, this from Jolly Olde England:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/royals/source-prince-charles-has-a-bad-cough-as-he-battles-the-coronavirus/ar-BB11H4qb?ocid=primentp
I don’t know why I am skeptical. Fake tests as some sort of celebrity and royals’ “new thing” to gain sympathy?
OR: The Great Equalizer??? Dunno.
The person had slight symptoms….decided to ahem evacuate to Scotland then took a test…..non essential travel????
A Cheap Trumpista Trick??
Or the God’s Honest Truth?
Lay it on me. Let the chips fall where they may.
All I know is the volume and rarity (or psywar sophistication???) of the pictorial evidence is getting quite advanced since The Donald is reported to have met with Google executives and gotten the search algorithms relaxed.
https://youtu.be/rKkpj3bNVaY
JFK JR and Family are they Alive?
77,433 views•Premiered Mar 23, 2020
When the answer is “NO” but nearly in the same breath it is added that “Disinformation is necessary.”…..that CAN lead to various conflicting conclusions. SO …dunno….. but will not be surprised by much of anything, frankly.
Including the plain fact that MYTH can be more powerful…therefore more real (in that sense, at least) than reality itself. And The Makers….sure are workin’ hard these days on our perceptions of what is, what might be and what others believe to be.
I wish I had the time to follow up on some of the particulars…like the JFK Memorial…from the Air …and its shape . Someone will, I suspect. But where is it??
There are many of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_John_F._Kennedy#Massachusetts
Just some thoughts on COVID-19 crisis.
Gutterez, UN sec. gen, says humanity in danger, but there are no signs to that effect
So coronavirus may be designed to cause panic and force government control.
The virus seemed engineered to target pneunomia (respiratory disease) and lower respiratory infection
where there are normally high deathrates among several age groups.
We see that those that die from COVID-19 possibly could have died naturally this year, but that is not possible to prove,
even if all is unrelated there will still be no catastrophich increase in deathrates over a year, worldwide deaths corona is 20.499 during 2 months, that is about 10.000 people died during the first month of the infection.
Yearly statistical deaths from lower respiratory infections and respiratory disease are 5.92 million people ref:
wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leading_cause_of_death_world.png
Of this 246.600 every month die from related lower respiratory infections alone every month, including respiratory disease the number would be 493.333 every month.
So where do the panic come from? It seem to be engineered by authorities all over the world, the first being China who started a stampede in that respect by withholding information about the virus.
Conclusion: COVID-19 target people with certain illnesses to create suddenly high death tolls and panic, individuals with certain pre-existing conditions must take extrem precautions to avoid contracting the disease.
There are no danger to humanity.
The globalist elite use it as a crisis to strengthen totalitarian governments by emergency measures. Hiding their coinciding shcemes and defeats all over the world , they are now in a dictatorial push.
Seems so. However according to Martin Geddes of Edinburgh …they are toast and will lose:
https://mailchi.mp/martingeddes/death-of-a-supermafia?e=0b5a729b7f
artickle begins with:
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
— Sun Tzu
I have intuited quite a few of Geddes’ conclusions for at least several years, if not decades.
This section of his article, for example, is old familiar territory:
Antifragile Doctrines for Longevity
“The Deep State supermafia has its own religion — the Cult of Osiris — with doctrines that have helped it endure. (The “Lindy effect” is a kind of “theory of evolution” for cultural memes and their longevity.) A critical doctrine is “revelation of the method”, which means telling your victim what you plan to do to them beforehand.
This is seen in their psychopathic morality as a means of getting “malinformed consent”. That it is not fully informed is deemed the victim’s problem. From the perspective of the perpetrator, they were given fair warning, so have no reason to wriggle out of whatever deal with the devil was on offer.
More deeply, if the victim does react, you have a “stressor” to your system that allows you to learn how to adjust to stay unseen. Just as airline safety paradoxically improves with every crash, because their causes are always investigated, “covert power” gains ever more “safety from discovery via enhanced stealth” from every failure of “revelation of the method”.
This is an antifragile scaling property which has allowed their parasitic culture to persist over millennia.”
The article seems to be concerned with how people will take the really bad news….of what’s been going on. But its last and darkest paragraph…ends on a victorious note:
Pure Evil and Unlimited Violence
Lastly, but most importantly, to make sense of the Deep State supermafia, you need to understand one key thing. It is evil. To the core. That means it has no boundaries on the wickedness it will engage in. Literally none.
I thought industrial scale torture, murder, and even cannibalism of children was the worst of it. I was wrong. You need to be thinking of depopulation, genocide, and total enslavement. You need to be thinking of deliberately engineered suffering, conflict, and death. You need to be thinking of eugenics, human sacrifice, and ecocide.
Profiteering from these has been considered mandatory.
And now it is all coming to an end.”
I would like to introduce to this wonderful cafe,Mr Prem Rawat https://www.premrawat.com/
Broadcasting from his lockdown
I guess some might look him up on …..pedia ….but then Pamela’s description of ….pedia “as useful as chocolate teapot”springs to mind.Enjoy his wisdom.
God bless all.
… quoting an extracted paragraph …
It appears that this supermafia has succeeded in “privatising” much of the “raw data” of society (e.g. via corrupt medical and tech institutions). Meanwhile, they have polluted, erased, and inverted the open and public science and historical record. As some have said, if you think “fake news” is bad, wait until you learn about “fake history” and “fake science”.
(a very interesting post Bro … but what are “rabbit” and “white rabbit” references about ?)
You (Ted Stomach-Turner and his Guidestones Globalist Cohorts) WISH!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coronavirus-deals-blow-to-putin-s-plans-to-stay-in-power-until-2036/ar-BB11Huyp?ocid=primentp
There are today more than 2500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia, with hundreds of people hospitalised.
Death toll today stands at 11, with age range still 70’s to 95
Two children ages 4 and 7 from same family also infected
68-95 as of today
A time with time for many, to do a little research into the background of our current foreground.
What chance has Astrology to understand such rare but repeating things like an epidemic ? What does Mars to a constellation, Saturn + Pluto together in Capricorn. which has not occurred since before 500 years outbreak of reformation?
The answer has firstly been to be watched since 2008, when the chance of Pluto (sacrifice ) in Sagittarius’ (‘expanding’) ended in Pluto in Capricorn (‘contracting’).
Capricorn’s ruler Saturn’s device is: reduction to the collective necessary , to secure the measure of a species. Symbols: The King, the father, the State.
2018 Saturn entered his sign. The King back in his castle, making things right. Since last Summer he eventually entered the close resonance with Pluto with whom he met in common breath since January in close timely connection with a new virus
Before that all inner Planets this winter got their kicks, chances to do the extra-rare
wise thing.
Vladimir Putin used it:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/putin-leading.html
Angela used it:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/01/angela-regiert.html
Now we are within the two weeks of Mars ( inflammation) with Jupiter
(expansion) and Pluto (sacrifice).
And the current grade of civilization makes it possible, to practice a
nearly planet-wide voluntary sacrifice, to prevent the terrible non-voluntary
‘Lombardian way of catastrophe”.
There now is time for a more comprehensive reading of the epidemic history
and it’s constellations.
For now we have the musings on the current week, and first ideas on Saturn’s entry
in Aquarius, where he was not for 30 years.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/03/open-windows-in-silence.html time
Let’s save the old Europe – Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YZTOqtHbY&feature=youtu.be
The Old Europe | The original song | Lyrics only in Hungarian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9hs0f9DHJs
Corona-Virus situation in Russia
Between Two Worlds
American in Small Town Russia – Luga
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luga,_Leningrad_Oblast
Images – https://yandex.com/images/search?text=%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%
B4%20%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0&from=tabbar )
https://halfreeman.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/the-coronavirus-healthcare-politics-in
-my-two-worlds/
Asking me about the coronavirus situation in Russia and how it has impacted life here
where we live. So I will put the other blog on hold and give some observations on things
here in Russia. Clearly, the situation is changing rapidly worldwide with COVID-19, so this
is just a “snapshot” of what it is like here now.
Obviously the description and numbers I give today could be completely outdated by the
time I publish the blog. Also, I found different organizations actually give different
numbers. For better or worse I relied on the WHO and the CDC. Despite discrepancies in
the numbers, I think they are accurate enough to get an idea of the situation.
Also
Mr. Putin’s nationwide address on the corona virus epidemic
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
Additionally
Take a look at following website
Russia in Global Affairs
https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/
The goal of the journal is to facilitate exchange of scientific knowledge across borders
and across disciplines in political sciences and foreign relations; we aim to publish
original research based on both empirical, rational and theoretical studies that is of
interest and value to the international intellectual community.
Although mostly from a rather consvervative point of view but nonetheless quite
interesting and actually from indigenous >Russian VoicesView Points< !
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-staggering-collapse-of-u-s-
intelligence-on-the-coronavirus/
Scott Ritter
The Staggering Collapse Of U.S. Intelligence On The Coronavirus
An agency tasked with tracking future bio threats fell down on the job, causing us to
wonder what else we don’t know.
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the United States unlike any other event in
recent history, proving to be far more disruptive to American society, and far most
damaging to the U.S. economy, than even the events of 9/11.
The CDC has recently acknowledged, during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee
on March 11, that its biosurveillance program has uncovered evidence that Americans
who had previously died to what had been originally diagnosed as influenza have, through
post-mortem testing, been found to have actually have perished from the coronavirus.
The U.S. response is something President Trump has likened to a “war,” going so far as
to label himself a “wartime President,” leading the U.S. against “the toughest enemy” in
a struggle in which he vows “total victory.” If the fight against the coronavirus is a war,
then the virus clearly took the U.S. government by surprise. “Certainly we didn’t get an
early run on it, Trump noted in a press conference on March 17. “It would’ve been helpful
if we knew about it earlier.”
The coronavirus was clearly part of the NCMI’s remit. And yet its first Infectious Disease
Risk Assessment for COVID-19 was issued on January 5, 2020, reporting that 59 people
had been taken ill in Wuhan, China. This report was derived not from any sensitive
intelligence collection effort or independent biosurveillance activity, but rather from a
report issued to the WHO by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, dated January 5,
2020.
Almost everything the NCMI knew about the current situation in Wuhan came from the
WHO, which had been working very closely with Chinese authorities from the Chinese
Center of Disease Control (CCDC) to determine the origin and nature of the coronavirus
outbreak.
While a great deal of attention has been paid to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market
in the city of Wuhan, which sells live poultry, fish, and several kinds of wild animals to
the public, a detailed investigation by the Joint Field Epidemiology Investigation Team, a
specialized task force working under the auspices of the Chinese Center for Disease
Control (CCDC), found that the COVID-19 epidemic did not originate by animal-to-human
transmission in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, as originally believed, but rather
human-to-human transmission totally unrelated to the operation of the market.
Read on follow the link…
Also
Trump is failing at defeating the ‘invisible enemy’ By: Azhar Azam
https://azhar-azam.blogspot.com/
Sidenotes
American “Kasperl-Theater” at it most pathetic caricature edition… lol…
US government threatens families of Int’l Criminal Court staff if they try Americans for
war crimes
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/20/us-threatens-families-international-criminal-
court/
Failure to contain coronavirus in Iran will adversely impact the entire world’
Politics – March 26, 2020 – 11:50
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/446323/Failure-to-contain-coronavirus-in-Iran-will-
adversely-impact
Coronavirus is a crisis. In Iran, it’s a massacre – because of Trump’s sanctions. Even
before COVID-19, these sanctions were recognized even by biased Human Rights Watch
as undermining access to healthcare.