2020/06/28 15:00:01
Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day.
The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week.
The Saker stated moderation policy will apply eg ‘no caps’, no obscenity … etc to all post.
The Cafe is now open for business … come on in and have a good time.
Saker Webmaster
Synecdoche
A word The Italian Pedant supplied …which had gone wanting in my Language Lexicon for the bulk of my life.
I see that it applies to nearly every argument (but not all) and must use it as a kind of Microscope of Reason for auto-correction of the eternally incomplete, often inconsistent…and frequently absurdly contradictory….. content of nearly every human being that ever spoke or writ upon papyrus, clay…..or Microsoft Word.
Now that I have it, thanks to Pamela and Il Pedante…..I will use it ….and perhaps overuse it…until it wears out and is replaced by superior technology or spirit.
Here is where you can find this useful tool…or Weapon of Mass Message Destruction…..if you fear it:
http://ilpedante.org/post/a-cult-of-death …and here is the first sentence of the first paragraph that I ever discovered this Wonderous Word Weapon:
“More than most recent events, the Coronavirus crisis seems to stand like a monument to false synecdoche, a textbook case in which the abusive extrapolation from the partial to the whole has become systematic at every possible level.”
I declared in the prior Cafe where Pamela bequeathed Il Pedante ….and Synecdoche to us…that I would certainly and joyfully subscribe to his blog. Realizing that he is Italian, I braced myself for the disappointment that I knew would sink my spirits…if only ONE Singular article of his were translated into English (but WAIT! What about Spanish? New hope floods my brain like Positive Cortisol……..) but Rejoice!
There IS ONE MORE gift from Il Pedante!!!
And even though it is 3+ years old…..Real Thinking………Is “Of the Ages” and never grows old:
http://ilpedante.org/post/the-slavery-of-the-good
Here is the appetizer that shows that Il Pedante understands the Capitol Hill “Autonomous” Zone, the Black Lives Matter “Justice Pimpery and a great deal more of Classic Synchedoche Mind Traps that ensnare their victims into supporting the exact opposite of what they think they might achieve That They Think Might Actually Be Good:
“In a public finance system where underinvestment is postulated as a dogma, it is inevitable that the poor and the impoverished contend the crumbs and dread the arrival of new mouths to feed. Moreover, if the same system preaches lower wages and lower social protection as a virtue and labor shortage as a guilt, leaving the weak with no other choice but survival cannibalism in which ethnic and racial hatred is only a pretext for gang war.
There is intent, or at least immense irresponsibility, in those who perpetrate these policies of scarcity and at the same time call for humanitarian corridors to take in foreigners, they advocate for the removal borders and dream of accommodating 300-400 thousand people annually, perhaps 30 million in 15 years. At the onset of a humanitarian catastrophe which would affect everyone – primarily the immigrants they support – they endorse the Cultural Revolution and criticize individuals of xenophobia, launching vibrant campaigns against hatred. As if xenophobia and hatred, were diseases from obscure origins, to be eradicated with the prophylaxis (in young people) and antibiotics (in the old), and not ethology, as a consequence of the policies they created.
There is intent and irresponsibility in this humanitarism at the expense of others, but above all, there is its opposite, namely racism.
“Anti-racists”……duped into becoming racists?
How is THAT done???
Simple, my simple son!
Synecdoche.
Thank you for your acknowledgement Bro 93. It’s a rarity to find someone who makes it :-)
I thought, for those who didn’t catch up with the Cafe you refer to , introducing Synecdoche, I’d include a link to a definition:
https://literaryterms.net/synecdoche/
@Bro93 Great find, thank you !
But not to dissolve the case of DIBUKK (the hebreaic meaining of ‘covid’ when mirrored divoc) of the masses.
It may have BEEN a case of Synecdoche behind which they can hide. But now it is a known fact that there is no such thing as a pandemic 100.000 % certain, but everybody behaves as if it is still existent foremost governmental bodies – and THIS is now officially CRIMINAL conduct, they cannot hide behind stupidity or whatever. The statistics are everywhere.
We should round’em up before the next circus round goes off !!
There started the beginnings in the last cafe of an interesting and I suggest essential topic for discussion – that of how far has the Anglo Empire culture slid from one of it’s founding principles, which was hundreds of years old, that of “freedom of speech”.
the idea started out, and indeed has been long supported that, as somebody said [now exactly whom is in dispute] – “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say to say it”.
Now, that is close to gone. Sadly it’s demise started years ago, long before this, in what we commonly think of now as “The Times Before”. And it started in science – with the hounding probably to his suicide by Paul Lammerar who disagreed with Darwinianism [ and to be fair, not by Darwin himself] by the English scientist William Bateson, then by others. It turns out, now that the Human Genome Research Project has pretty much also debunked neo- Darwinism, and epigenetics is on the rise, that Lammerar may have been right. Yet he was driven to suicide because he thought differently to others.
Just read “Forbidden Science” and now a new excellent book “Forbidden History” – different authors – to see how widespread this has become – and it started in “Academia” throughout the Anglo world – a hotbed of disastrous ideas that have contributed to the downfall of the Empire .
And all because of the dictatorial, fascist-like theory that “you are ONLY allowed to speak aloud that which the reigning authorities in your sphere, with their dominant paradigm and narrative, allow”. – Directly from the Roman Church, which committed the unpardonable sin of burning human beings alive – because they thought differently.
But now this is spreading throughout our society – to an alarming degree. Within society – say the smallest thing which hurts no-one – like the man in UK recently fired for saying that Men and women are different and men can’t be women; like the many people whose lives have been torn down along with statues of those who committed no sin to anyone, even who fought against slavery, and the attempt to dominate and destroy anyone who dares to commit the heresy of presenting a contradictory view or argument is now very clear.
It is, in fact, a “Clear and present danger”.
. It is so much one that it must be fought by us all I suggest, and not only in the public sphere. Not only as activists gaining media coverage, but among friends, on blog sites such as this one, where comments are made to a public we don’t know, on any public forum where comments are allowed, and among family and friends – and in cafes where friends meet to discuss world events and their implications for our lives.
Lets be among those who accept that truth is not often to found easily and clearly, but by discussion, every avenue opened to be explored, and discussion used to look at all the aspects and how they come together to finally show us the way to truth. For, had this been allowed, we would have found the truth of epigenetics long ago, along with the age of man, the growth of humanity, and many medical discoveries that were exposed too late to help many.
Here’s a humorous is angry take on the subject as it has infected the once “Left”, once a party where freedom for all no matter their social status and financial means, was a goal to be admired.
https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/videos/403725423855756/UzpfSTYyNzA2MjIyMjoxMDE1OTA3MTY2NTUxMjIyMw/
This does look like good news for Russia:
https://tass.ru/politika/8835383
However, must admit the stated figures look odd. Less than 1 million is 80% turnout?? Presumable a “lost in translation” moment.
Now all we need are the results , which I expect are likely to support Putin and the amendments.
What an article, what a pleasure to read such an intelligent, calm, insightful discourse.
http://ilpedante.org/post/a-cult-of-death
Pamela, i have printed this article, and will read at leisure after scanning the first paragraphs – i’t 8 pages long., groan, but I read enough to be highly impressed, so ta very much.
Anonymous,
In someways, here’s your longer article.
Lol. The conclusion coincides with mine if you noticed.
A very well written article which helps me to understand the track of destruction in intelligence the human race is on. I guess we are really seeing how civilizations collapse and who is left among it migrate to parts of the world to escape the collapse. Homo Sapiens seem to be on the same road their ancestors tread in the evolution of our species. One species comes to a climax and then dies out only for something else to come and replace it.
It seems like a major defect in our species aside from ego is our suggestibility. People seem to want to believe anything without checking out the facts.
I’ve always loved the song of the Australian Currawong, or Black Jay;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCa53J5EM
Seven Black Jays
Seven black jays
in ecstatic trance;
High up on
a windy branch.
Congregation
in full swing,
As fervid throats
take turns to sing.
What do they say,
what do they mean;
Are you well,
how have you been?
Perhaps to share
some wisdom gleaned –
Perhaps to vent
a little spleen?
Is it the wind and
the joy that flies;
Is it the place where
abundance lies?
Is it the storm
in yonder skies?
What is their secret,
I only surmise?
How sharp the beak
that takes the brunt.
How sure the eye
That guides the hunt.
How firm the claw,
And fleet the wing –
Are these the things
Of which they sing?
But, by and large,
I do confess;
At what they say
I only guess.
Their vocal skills
bear me along –
My heart it thrills
to hear their song!
Seven black jays
in ecstatic trance,
High up on
a windy branch;
That congregation,
in full swing,
As fervid throats
in rounds do sing!
Black As Day Jay
I wanted to flock together
With those birds of a feather,
Wings beating like thunder
From way, way down under
I left clicked on the link–
–My heart started to sink:
“This video no longer available”
My unfeathered fate….so bewailable!
Perhaps it’s because I used Duck Duck Go…
But I’d hate to Google it…’cause They Suck So.
To make up for it I’ll spin some oldie vinyl platters
For our SJW sisters and our Anarchist Brothers
Who’d burn it all down….if they had their druthers
To get high NOW! which is ALL that B.L. matters!
But here’s the Aftermath of The City Burning
Land of the Pilgrims Pride, to THEE… I sing:
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBboBz3yoc
And what would they say to us, now, No Justice, No Peace Brothers and Sisters???
From long ago and far away
They say, “Someday you’ll find
Those who rage are blind,
Oh, when your heart’s on fire
You must realize…..
Smoke gets in your eyes!”
Now, conservatives deride
Tears I cannot hide…
Oh, so I smile and say,
“When a lovely riot dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.”
Ha ha…
Not sure why it’s ‘unavailable’, here it is again; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCa53J5EM
Otherwise, search for “Currawong Song”, video’s 40 seconds long…Cheers.
that link on YouTube is labeled “unavailable”
A search will find a number of vidseos. The one in question has a currawong on someone’s porch, and aussie eucalypts + other birds in middle ground, all in green tonalities. As mentioned, about 40 secs.
The ‘Shadow’ is an archetype that consists of the sex and life instincts. Often described as the darker side of the psyche, it represents wildness, chaos and the unknown. The Shadow, acc. to Jung, can appear in dreams and visions and may take a variety of forms including a snake, monster, demon, dragon, or some other dark, wild or exotic figure.
This meditation on the Shadow came out of my exchange w. Alabama, last Cafe. Not for the faint-hearted.
The Beast
I am the beast,
You’d better beware;
Down in the shadows
I bide my time.
Way down below,
In my hidden lair –
When the light fades
Is a moment sublime!
Out on the moor,
The devil may care;
“I’ll always be here
At your command.”
It’s then I appear
With hidden snare,
As you come to me
With extended hand.
Gone are the days
Of sweet delight;
Of heroes and quests
And ideals to defend.
Welcome to the realm
Of endless night,
And the lonely vigil
That has no end!
Down in the gulch,
The fire’s died out;
It’s a game that we play,
You and I, old friend.
I see you’ve grown
Both sturdy and stout,
You say that you leave,
But I know it’s pretend.
I am the beast,
You’d better beware;
Deep in the shadows
There I abide.
All who stumble
Upon my lair,
Will find ,me waiting
There inside.
Gone, the days
Of sweet delight,
Of heroes and quests
And ideals to defend.
Welcome to the realm
Of endless night,
And the lonely vigil
That’s without end.”
Spookable Feast Cafe
This is getting dark and scary,
Say I to Saker Café voodoo chief.
(“There must be some way out of here…”
Said the Joker to the thief….”)
A Macedonian took my rhymes
A Fenchman stole my croissant.
An hour ago I ordered Café Au Lait
Now I don’t even know what I want.
Wait, what’s the hurry? A la Vierge,
Sweet Mary, no more dread or fear!
Only you, your bright spirit could delay
My departure. No, I’ll remain right here.
And spin some more goldie oldie vinyl……..
Only We, Only…..Who?
Only YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FygIKsnkCw ….and You Alone!
Your bright light is needed in this Dark Night of The Soul!
YOU are needed!
And I’m not talkin’ ’bout the table lamp………..
No bro, you really can’t get out of here.
The world put hundreds of thousands of intellectuals into the sack, where is the truly intelligent one
who managed to stay outside the sack?
– Rumi
The one who escaped the sack: He is the carpet weaver on the corner.
there’s no one intelligent
in this town, except him –
the carpet weaver
Who would have thought that The Duran had a clue? But they do.
http://theduran.com/armed-militia-groups-are-surging-across-the-nation-and-cops-are-joining-them/
Ok, the drive by BBQ is underway. Retrograde thinking abounds . I have offered to ( via bolt cutters) liberate our grills from their lockdown by the running dog owners of the Park, but have been stymied. I even offered to buy another lock as replacement. No, they are going to ask, politely, for them to give us our grills. GRRR.!!!!! and the woman in charge is hesitant to do so. If I were I true revolutionary, I would have nary a single hair on my head dealing with these people. sigh.
But I am practicing forbearance in my old age….yes, revolutionary inner fires have dimmed; however, with Aries moving into my 3rd house of communications and local community, I have determined to stand outside on a busy main thoroughfare with an American flag and a placard that reads ( oh my younger self weeps) “Divided, we Fall”. sigh. vague, non class based, squishy formulation!. But it will do. Practicing … withholding pearls from pigs here and trying to be humble. HA, that ! This will be every day for two peak hours ( 11-1:00). until 4th of July when grilling calls.
Bill Gates says ‘final hurdle’ to distributing a Covid-19 vaccine will be convincing people to TAKE IT …
https://www.rt.com/usa/493068-gates-vaccine-consent-coronavirus/
(Hi, Bill here … can you do me a favour …. )
The University of Tennessee has become the first one to require students and faculty to receive vaccines for the flu and Covid-19 that is yet to be developed sparking “push back” from critics.
The mandate was pushed through as an emergency rule by the university’s Board of Trustees, with the promise that it will soon become a permanent requirement.
https://www.rt.com/usa/493192-university-tennessee-covid-19-vaccine/
Paul, in Belgium the government has already admitted that vaccination will be mandatory. There is already a kind of test phase to couple that to a tracking app on your phone in 15 nations.
Since SARS-Cov-2 is a RNA-based virus, I don’t believe for a dime that we will develop a working vaccine. For decades no one developed a working vaccine for HIV, SARS, Ebola and the like. In test phases for SARS vaccine all test animals died -from the vaccine.
So either we get injected with coloured seawater containing a spying microchip running on Windows XP, or we get injected with poison.
And of course the app, the app, the app to make all kinds of things possible – like the Chinese social score.
I refuse forced injections with that (rather have the bullit), unfortunately 2G networks are being decommisioned because I was already making my mind up to search for a Nokia 1.0, but I will start searching for a Faraday cage suit for my phone (I already have such a one for all my cards containing RFID chips).
I was 16 when I had the flu for the last time. Never took a flu shot, and never had it afterwards.
This is a project, it might have the name ‘The mark of the beast’.
Cheers, Rob
Let me add something. Per/Norway (busy as always, thanks bro) posted this in the Readers Select News feed: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/28/2022-vaccination-passport-eu-keeps-quiet-over-suspicious-documents/
Add to that, I have such an idea that in Russia, China, Iran this idea might not fly. Will it be implemented in Israel (LOL), will it be an organisational success in Africa?
In his latest article on this blog, Jimmy Moglia nicely connected the dots (That there were a few points that I also thought ‘well…’ doesn’t compromise the big picture imho – thanks Jimmy).
Cheers, Rob
‘Bill Gates seeks to microchip humanity!’ Russian Oscar-winning director pushes vaccine
conspiracy… loosely-based on REAL patent
https://www.rt.com/news/487634-mikhalkov-bill-gates-microchip-implants/
Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov claims billionaire Bill Gates might be seeking to implant
humanity with microchips under the guise of vaccination, seeking to control people and
ultimately “solve” overpopulation.
Dear Moderator
I don’t know if this was posted yesterday or deleted or lost in transit
Hello to my dear friends at the Vineyard, I give heartfelt thanks for your Care and kind words
I received email from Dimitar who observed the synchronicity of his Café conversation with Pamela about Babuška, around the same time as Babuška had unknowingly posted a reply to Yuri, just a few hours after Pamela asked about my well-being.
I’m sorry.
I had seen Yuri’s post the night before, and replied next day without reading any further comments.
I have been absent due to having to fight the good fight on behalf of my neighbours- urgent matters relating to a Corporation.
As if my own family/parental matters are not enough, prior to scamdemic, the financial screws are tightening here, which of course is not being reported on by the crass media.
From Michael Leunig, Australian Living Treasure:
“When people demand justice they are both wanting something and offering something: they are offering the chance for collective truth and liberation from the sickness of denial.”
I am demanding justice.
Further, Leunig (2006) writes:
“Art, innocence, intelligence and nature are besmirched, while home and family are gradually becoming impossible or unaffordable. The western dream of wealth may well be eclipsed by the simple dream of survival.”
It is early Sunday morning here and I’ve taken this time to find some words of wisdom to share here.
The past few weeks I’ve been 24/7 nose to the grindstone to sort our situation and we are still only at the beginning.
Therefore I’ve had very short snatches of time to come to the Vineyard, only skimming some articles and not getting to the comments.
Yuri’s post caught my attention because I really needed that ‘other-worldly’ voice of Gurrumul to sing me into heavenly sleep.
Also, I dream of Community, in the previous links depicted as the Aboriginal Dreamtime
These people know, live and love the home given to them by Creation.
What the Empire took away from the First People, they are taking away from us right now, and have been doing all along.
So many of us are coming out of that sickness of denial.
Hence the Good Fight
Dear Dimitar, a quote from Morris West for you:
“Artists, they’re different… sacred, magical…They don’t need us. When they’re sad or glad or frightened, they don’t turn to us; they climb up to their tower of silence and look out on landscapes we’ll never know, and when they come down they’re purged and refreshed and they bring their works like a talisman of comfort.”
For Anonymous, Thank You for your kind thoughts
I suspect you might appreciate the following, from Sr Macrina Wiederkehr:
“If I could choose one great gift that the world is neglecting I would have to choose feminine energy. It is what we need to save the world. It is what we need to be saints. Feminine energy is powerful because it is pure presence-gentle yet firm. It is an energy that gives warmth, comfort, and spirit simply by its presence. It receives rather than takes. It invites rather than demands. It unfolds rather than controls. It empowers rather than overpowers. It finds it self in being rather than in doing. Feminine energy shows her best Face in leisure. She doesn’t take time -she has time. She has time to be. The world is starving for this energy. It is part of the fire Christ came to cast on the earth – a slow flame that burns from within and gradually transforms what it touches, precisely because it touches rather than clutches.”
Peace and Blessings to all
the sacred fire;
purifying all who come into
contact with it!
Babuška, thank you for your long comment, I did a search to find out who is Sr Macrina Wiederkehr, and discover she died in April this year, and was a wise Benedictine, and the quote is very fine. Dimitar, it takes some purifying fire alright to retain feminine power, we need the masculine energy as well, and ideally, are all blessed with aspects of both, of wholeness.
Your Morris West’s quote to Dimitar, is my lighthouse tower of survival in ever darkening and tumultuous times.
heroes are forged
from the raw material
of human beings
I am confused … scientists have spoken out … but the
Largest mobile phone operator MCI is to switch on Iran’s first 5G mobile network in the capital city of Tehran in August …
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/06/28/628460/Iran-telecoms-minister-5G-internet-roll-out-MCI
History of the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s Philadelphia …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_mG-qDzD8
… linked …
Wanamaker Organ Day 2017 – Parry’s “Jerusalem” …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnTaRBmDtw
(what an experience to shop at Macy’s)
Largest Organ In Europe (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPUnDA8-Ywo
You can change the French subs to English
Get a load of this CNN Brit and the Utter Rubbish & Bullshit he peddles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3Soydqub8
Russia offered cash rewards to Taliban fighters to kill US troops in Afghanistan
604,095 views•Jun 28, 2020
Although this following video’s title sounds “better”…in reality FOX sucks as well, in more than 50% of the things its reporters vomit, with a straight face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC0EysaLIVY
Trump denies NYT report on Russia bounties placed on US troops.
Lots of idiots in the Fight Promotion Through Rotten British Intel Lies Business
And then you have plenty of foolish axiomatically anti-American leftists that give DJT zero credit for challenging such garbage and sidestepping AZ Empire traps…..as though he were its Emperor.
Utterly absurd.
Dave X 22 has another take on all this, citing the Absurd British “Russian Bounty” Bollocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43atgWnaPnc
[HT] Access Closed, [DS] Panic, The Final Stage Revealed From The Beginning – Episode 2110b
It’s Empire Desperation, Guys.
Time for rising confidence when Susan Rice tweets out the Suicide Hotline.#..1-800-273-8255…..BTW, Alabama, I’m enjoying myself…and not trying to “get out of here, in the least. But it seems like some of them may be considering a Final Exit…….LOL
For those short on time https://youtu.be/43atgWnaPnc?t=1096 puts you right at the Bounty Bollocks
And here’s the Susan Rice Suicide Hotline Tweet: https://youtu.be/43atgWnaPnc?t=931
Pelosi on the Evil Duo…..Putin and Trump
Here’s what Pelosi puked out on Putin Trying To Get American Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan So That Trump Will Keep Them There Forever To Fight Russia and Protect the Poppy Fields,(Huh?? Why does Putin want that??? LOL) Except That Trump IS Putin’s Puppet & Won’t Bow & Scrape To Queen of England & Her Divide and Conquer Demands, Like Obedient American Presidents Are Expected To:
“This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed,” Pelosi told ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. “Just as I have said to the president, with him all roads lead to Putin. I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/28/pelosi-condemns-trump-response-reported-russia-bounty-us-troops/3274429001/
Those Russian Tires are amazing, Nancy!
Seems like Traitors can retread them for an eternity. But they’ve just about lost 100% of the traction they ever had….except with the 5-6% of the absolute dumbest of dumb shit Democrats.
Best Keep that Suicide Hotline # handy, Nancy.
You too, George Step-on-all-of-us.
Mein Gott! as Internal Exile would say. Now find a synecdoche for telling half the story and the half that is being told, is a 0 story because it is a lie and non-important electioneering stuff designed to make people stupid.
But let’s be magnanimous and award it a quarter of a story – and this is a lie anyways, so, it is a 0 on the truth scale.
– We need to remember that while the Dems have chosen Russia as the continuing enemy de jour (it is not a new story this and they are losing their shirts and we can expect that Biden can spell Russia (I think! unless he forgets how to write),
– the Trump party insults Russia equally as much and piles on sanctions and threatens new atomic weapons tests and are also losing their shirts and the enemy de jour of the Trump party is China.
So, the story *not* relayed here, is also a 0, because it does not tell about the 2nd chosen enemy de jour from the Trump party.
Find a synecdoche for two 0 propositions in an election year where both parties from the uniparty are losing their shirts, if you add both of them together.
The mind boggles with this kind of electioneering.
I think the synecdoche here is ‘stuck on stupid’
or the Chinese expression of that would be … ‘losing two shirts’
and Bro? He is riding a ‘0 horse’.
What do they say in the south of the US – ‘all hat but no cattle cowboy’.
Mein Gott!
Wrong again. amarynth.
Not riding ANY horse.
Now, In terms of assigning quantities, relative magnitudes (saying it is ALL ZERO…ALL an Illusion…just gets you Nowhere….FAST….the trick…in anything is to identify qualitative, operative singularities and principles at work or potentially at work if creativity trumps mind controlled superficial reactions…) et’s get down to more serious business….. and stop emoting and pretending…. and set some priorities.
The first task is to destroy The New York Times…..”the failing New York Times” as Donald Trump correctly labelled them and debunk this most immediate Enemy Image bullshit your emoting does less than zero to address…by “changing the subject” to China which is a lot more complex than you pretend.
For one, Trump still calls Xi……”my good friend”.
You could say that the Greatest Question………..most in need of close examination is:
Who is the World’s Greatest & Most Dangerous Pretender???
I am quite certain YOU will nominate “Don the Con”
But you’re missing the Forest (the process) for One Orange Leafed Tree (a mere personality or predicate), as I will develop further, after a little song break.
Meanwhile consider Harley’s 12 minute daily update for a little IQ booster from the Russian Foreign Ministry:
https://youtu.be/jyDbPZ7cQkg
New York Times Pushes for War with Russia
“The need for a Four Power summit to end the era of geopolitics is highlighted by an insane piece in the NY Times, which cites the usual anonymous—and lying—intelligence community sources, which claim Russia is paying a bounty to Taliban militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. The Times motto ought to be “All the lies that fit”, as they present a new fabricated narrative targeting Presidents Trump and Putin.”
I am sure you see that Putin is targetted, as usual.
But denying that Trump is targetted…or more seriously not caring in the LEAST that he is tells volumes……..which adds up to a lot more than 0. in terms of your missing the forest for one least favorite tree.
As profiled to do.
Bro,
Thanks for your perseverance. “The mind once expanded never returns to it’s original size”. I think that maybe some folks have ingested and retained so much MSM/accepted history “programming” they simply cannot purge enough space to accept a “new” paradigm that makes sense. There are many real journalists out there who present what is now happening at the macro and also street level, the events that literally will determine the future of humanity. The one eyed man is King in the land of the blind. Many simply do not want to see what you or I can see for ourselves. Putin, Xi, Modi, and yes Trump need to be on the same page. They are prevented from openly meeting by media, “deep state pukes”, military industrial complex interests, money magicians, and quite frankly, Satanists. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. True history is out there for the taking. Putin recently laid out what took place 75+ years ago. The atrocity of the “Viet Nam War” has been laid bare for all to see. The US “Civil War”
also. All “wars”. Egos prevent many from accepting obvious truths. It’s ironic that someone with the ego of Trump does. I wholly expect attacks on my last statement.
In Shakespearean days a mental fight was a skilled pass time, a jousting sport, now health and safety measures prohibit this challenging test of wits, wisdom and knowledge, back then was considered a vital part of social interaction, and often be incredibly funny and clever.
So, yesterday’s Hamlet:
To be or not to be
That is the question
And today’s
To profile our minds or not
And be or not to be
That is the question
Nostradamus 93
So now you are…”Not riding ANY horse”!
So you fell off then?
LOL
Col
Katica Illényi plays “Only You” on the theremin …
with The Budapest Strings …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuV4XiCTgn8
… meet the inventor …
Leon Theremin playing his own instrument …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o
Dr. John Cooper Clarke, Hugh Cornwell – MacArthur Park …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBH-ArhhyY
(this is Clarke near normal and it’s appropriate for where we are today)
What a veritable a la vierge moveable cafe feast of poetry, article and music links, thoughts, quotes and comments, thank you, for sustainable food for the future !
I found my thoughts echoed in the comments …
this young man is headed for international opera …
Choir of Boys of the Choir School by I.M.I. Glinka (St. Petersburg) Part 6 …
https://youtu.be/EFHQNgO3jTA?t=160
(timed video)
Храм Воскресения Христова в Сокольниках
Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n213Cm58H4s
You can change the subs to English
Final round now called in this drinking establishment for those who would like to collaborate on a book review to be published on The Saker blog on Starikov’s book – Rouble Nationalization – The way to Russia’s freedom. :-)
Add your thoughts to this book review and it could be a fun collaboration from cafe dwellers.
What’s the timing? How long to read, discuss and pull the contributions to the review together?
Bro 93 – how would 3 weeks sound? I am starting to read again today, because I have to re-read and will jot down my comments chapter by chapter. I was thinking each person interested could do the same, and I could combine the document with each person’s name (or non de plume) with his/her comment – chapter by chapter. The review comments may diverge of course, but that should make it fun and varied.
The other way that I see we could structure it, and this is more or less – the first 5 Chapters, which is generally just at the end of WWII
Then Chapter 6. How the advocate of peace Benito Mussolini ended up supporting the war – which is almost a bridging chapter, moving back to WWI.
Then, the last Chapter, which is the support for true Rouble Nationalization.
So, I see two possible structures for the review (others may have other ideas but let’s keep it simple I would say). And 3 weeks is not a drop dead date. The art of the writing here would possibly be stating things short and concise?
Three weeks seems reasonable…..not too short……not too long.
You already read the whole book?
Well done Amarynth!
How and where does one get hold of the book amaranth?
Here is the download link Pamela : http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf
LIke to be a part of it, but can you tell me where one can find it – the book i mean.
Did you get it from the download link I posted just above your post?
Apologies for the double message. I sent the first one while waiting in a hospital consultants waiting room and was unsure of its IN access. Couldn’t see it here when I got home so assumed it had failed and re-sent. Then saw the first one. Duh!!!
the gust of laughter’s jealous winds
bending trees doubled up with sins
cleverly ridiculing all it cannot reach
kissing a bees summer bliss it stings
in the sting concealed is what heals
unlucky winds cleverly doing good
Song Break!
For All the Life that Matters………..from the Platters:
https://ok.ru/video/407462089046
The Great Pretender
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender (woo-woo)
Pretending I’m doing well (woo-woo)
My need is such I pretend too much
I’m lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender (woo-woo)
Adrift in a world of my own (woo-woo)
I play the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to dream all alone.
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender (woo-woo)
Just laughing and gay like a clown (woo-woo)
I seem to be what I’m not (you see)
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around……….
END
Now, in the Present Tense, there’s a A Whole Lotta Pretense & Pretending Goin’ Down.
Who could we nominate for The Greatest Pretender(s)?
Before selecting the Greatest Overall In All Categories…consider the separate categories.
1) How About “News That’s Fit To Print”??? I’ll nominate the Failing New York Times for their Russian Bounty Bollocks.
This next category I really love:
2) Pretend City (or Country???)
…..there’s actually a place here in Orange County by that name……where “children can pretend to be adults” and run (or at least play around with) their own miniature museum city. My graduated High School senior got volunteer credits there…..helping the preschoolers……pretend….to tend to municipal affairs
And MY Nominee is CHOP/CHAZ!!!!!
3) Pretend Leader ……And Raz must certainly be considered for “The Greatest” Pretender Title….although he’s no ALI….. he does evoke in me………a personal example of some of THE most profound pathos among ALL pretenders of all time!!
I know amarynth will vehemently disagree on this one……and nominate You Know Who She Loves To Hate The Most…..LOL…..falling right into bed with my Nominee for Category Number One: (Fake) News Print Providers. But after all, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows. Sigh.
The last line of the Great Pretender song evokes in me the tenderest feelings….for Really Great Pretending….is a reciprocal, communal, social dynamic…not always a solitary indulgence:
“Pretending that you’re still around……….” So sad…the reciprocal Great Pretending Between Raz and his constituency! But that’s another song. called “Going Home”.
https://youtu.be/M9smSP1dq-A
Paul Robeson sings it. Paul was no Pretender. The Real Deal is the Opposite Category. For another Comment Series, clearly! Not this one. LOL.
4) Money or Currency Although Human Beings may be the Greatest Pretenders in Nature……we can also have some inorganic or even organic but not human entries considered.
The Fake One Eye (Mon-ey) is my nominee in the Derivatives (of humans’ imagination) Category. And this area is SO “rich” in imagination and pretending that there are entire subcategories in it (Like the CryptoCosm or Cryptoverse ….rich beyond belief with pretending potential…..SO RICH…it merits its own separate comments series…which merits returning to soon, because of the Faure article and our Starikov Ruble Nationalization Book Review Project.
Pretending and Legal Tender are not unrelated, as we see both etymologically and in various commenters there who struggle to “connect the dots” and separate The Mark of The Beast…from the more benign Deutsche Mark…and the Once Grandly Imagined but fleeting Pretend Empire’s Reichs-(mark).
The list is endless!
So amazing .. those that know what others think, why they think it, and even know in advance what others are going to think in the future and what it will mean in the future. Reminds me of ‘shining cities upon hills’, and practical ‘exceptionalism’ and other stuff like ‘shills for empirical control systems’.
Just a passing thought.
But I like the Queen and Freddy Mercury version of The Great Pretender.
But then, what I like most still after many years, is Mercury and Montserrat Caballé singing Barcelona and that lighsaber conducting .. What a duet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E
And just thinking about Caballé and that heavenly voice, my absolute favorite, her ‘little song’, kleine liedchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZSP1Dc78Q
Now why in heaven’s name should I even think of CHOP/CHAZ excepting as an interrupted social experiment that never had a chance, even if it had a chance, it was infiltrated from all sides from the start, just like occupy. Community endeavor, good or bad is of course not allowed in our capitalist societies. We have to be the rugged individualized cowboy on the horse that goes off to conquer the West single-handedly.
There was one bright spot, a fellow who knew what he was about in terms of community gardening. That piece was lovely to see. What was most striking though, was the criticism from the Trumpers which simply showed themselves up as incompetent and devoid of knowledge and people that will not know how to plant a pumpkin even if Trump paid them. Those that knew, sent positive suggestions and methods. That piece was lovely to see inside a sea of hatred and a mass of people that brought visuals of what many knew are the underlying societal cracks in the ‘exceptional nation’. Those that did not know, sent hatred, unable to see that support for one bright spot has the ability to change people. People that are content cannot be rioting – it is discontent that riot and allow themselves to be paid for that. But most in this deep divide accuse the paymaster, and refuse to acknowledge the discontent. These people are enthralled by the results, the symptoms of a society in deep travail, but refuse to acknowledge the travail. This society is not learning and as such will fail as many are chronicling here on the Saker Blog. Just imagine, a political choice between Trump and Biden. How perfectly insane.
But the political and deep social divide in the US has people feverishly taking sides, and very few of them bringing intelligence – One truly exceptional person right here in our Cafe, is Teranam13, who not only understands the swirls underneath the community action, but also understands the dangers, the deep dangers, not the shallow ‘who is the most stupid’, or only the symptoms of the disease, and is willing to stand on the street and speak truth and interact. Teranam13 also understands the underlying motivations and what may be born that is good. A word, a sign in the right place may make all the difference, just as a clever gardener may make a difference. Imagine truly getting out of cotton picking zeitgeist, but, what we see, is hatred and a whole word reeling backwards, wanting no part of that, and continuing to deal with their own problems. Much schadenfreude we see as well, from those whose own societies were very deliberately destabilized with these very same techniques and no ability to stand against them and the paymaster at those times was the US and cronies. I cannot blame these that express schadenfreude one bit .. they’ve lived through it .. including myself but I try to cool it with the schadenfreude knowing a little bit about Karma. If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. Their countries were torn from them and some wounds never heal – one only learns to live with it.
Kudus to Teranam13 for building up the honest and positive Karma and for being a fearless warrior for humanity!
Stupid and ‘pretend exceptional’ there are many, few there are like Teranam13.
Classic!! Thank you, Amarynth!
“So amazing .. those that know what others think, why they think it, and even know in advance what others are going to think in the future and what it will mean in the future.”
This is true.T 13 is cool.
But so are a lot of others that will probably vote Red instead of Blue, this November 3rd……like The Hound who passes by from time to time………………and millions of others that never comment here…..that you have shown little to no interest in comprehending, so far,….who are amongst the better anti-Empire allies you could find anywhere on the planet………..but in your venting, and open desire to see their nation……..which you mistakenly believe is irredeemably forever…….Imperial to Its Very Core.………wish.dissolve and break up….as the Neocons openly lust for ….in regards to the Russian Federation.
I don’t even write off the English to the extent you write off the Americans, (with the evident exception of T13) despite those “crown subjects” being steeped (like so many 3 century old teabags….LOL) in Empire 2 plus centuries longer than Yanks “across the pond”.
What Teranam kind of reminds me of is the unideological spirit of the author, BJ Campbell of the following article which my Red Pilled Sister sent yesterday in this email:
“BJ tends to do his own research… and thinking..
https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/spot-the-true-believer-f6b581f67e44 ” END of email
The article centers around Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and leads with this paragraph:
“In 1951, Eric Hoffer penned the book “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.” Everyone should read this book immediately, because it perfectly describes the confusing things going on around us right now.”
Which I will probably do, simultaneously with Ruble Nationalization, since it is clearly a treasure trove of non-ideological IRONY as BJ puts in context right after discussing the fascinating perspective of a Vietnamese (now American) lady living in Atlanta:
“……………………I reveal to you her anecdote, not to say she is necessarily right about any of this, but rather to proffer a perspective from a foreign national on the idea that the United States may be brimming with people leading futile, meaningless, spoiled lives. The petri dish. The ripeness. Hoffer discusses this.
When people are ripe for a mass movement, they are usually ripe for any effective movement, and not solely for one with a particular doctrine or program. In pre-Hitlerian Germany it was often a toss up whether a restless youth would join the Communists or the Nazis. In the overcrowded pale of Czarist Russia the simmering Jewish population was ripe both for revolution and Zionism. In the same family, one member would join the revolutionaries and the other the Zionists. Dr. Chaim Weizmann quotes a saying of his mother in those days: “Whatever happens, I shall be well off. If Shemuel [the revolutionary son] is right, we shall all be happy in Russia; and if Chaim [the Zionist] is right, then I shall go to live in Palestine.”
A possible next “Book Review” project, that “The True Believer” ???
On a hunch……… I nominate it …………after reading just a few brief excerpts provided by BJ. Campbell
It might take a special kind of mind
to review that book maybe you and
T 13 have that mind
I look forward
Fairly decent summary of the train wreck which is the current trump “campaign.”
https://www.unz.com/article/trump-is-losing-the-white-vote-with-jared-kushners-agenda/
What is laughingly referred to as a campaign is headed by bubble head kushner, who according to link in the article, has complete contempt for the voters who put trump into office. He says the white voters are not going anywhere and that the trailer parks are still full of prospective trump voters. That comment should warm the hearts of those who are alarmed beyond measure at the prospect of a looming biden win (or whom ever the dimos nominate in his stead) and hold their noses to vote for trump.
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that the 2020 “selection” really does not matter, it will paralyze the country for months if not into 2022, and the end result will be continuing chaos, looting of the treasury, looting, burning, and antifa beatings in the streets. Hard to look out past biden’s chronic senility, or trump’s incompetence, bumbling, corruption.
Absolutely Taras…
November 2020 will be just like 2016…heads or tails humanity loses…business as usual for the swamp…and most of the world absolutely dreading what the next act of the writhing self-destructive Empire will be as it descends into total disarray and disfunction.
This is the tragic reality the entire globe must contemplate…sadder still is the delusional and infantile mantra that Trump rides a white horse and will somehow miraculously come to the rescue of Mainstreet.
Nostradamus 93 by all accounts, has recently fallen off his horse…the Orange Crested idiot never ever rode one in the first place.
,
Sadly
Col
Some people think that time solves everything ! true…in some cases or in many cases but it is not a general truth.
By not answering to something or someone, letting time to pass over being convinced that everything is forgotten and that person or persons whom expected the answer have slept in their shoes, is not a very good type of behavior, what do you say ?
the above words are not directed to my email friends but it is for some folks in this blog. For those friends whom I didn’t answer to their emails, please forgive me, I will do it as soon as I have a break in my battle.
Thank you !
Was thinking of you today, prayers to Padre Pio on your behalf. Glad you are still ‘in the fight’ it beats pushing dasies. Keep well………stay safe.
Cheers, M
Thanks Sean, it may sound funny but I never dreamed to have so many fights running so oft in the toilet and bathroom…
But if time heals all wounds,
dont cha know that,
time also deals them.
Yes, time is a strange “thing”, here is past three in the morning, can’t sleep, jumped in between two flashes in the king’s room although I’m tired like hunted elephant in the desert…
Well its summer outside and the desert is not the best place to dwell during a heat wave, aside from that, a good # of folks, some even just over 30, have a difficulty sleeping at night and many are nothing more than ones struggle from within ones self.
Today’s people though may not sleep well from many reasons, one being the safety of their future mostly for financial concerns and the depth of going 5 or 10 rounds with the corona bug and how well does one adapt to that fight.
the journey through time
brings soul into harmony
with the laws of life
ioan, your original question strikes me as ambivalent, but the language it is framed in, and also a follow up comment are not, and I wonder if the question therefore did strike home as intended, to ‘folks on this blog’?
A question is a question ! I wonder who the folks are, and what nature of answer you would like to receive, or give even. There lies the potential for ambivalence in my eyes.
The pool of commentators here is quite small, and decreases steadily, but not the quality of them, tho’ naturally there is ‘always a fly in the ointment’, (‘medical dressing cream’ to bring the term up to speed;) Now what is it you are waiting for, and need, or want to give answer to ? I am listening.
All right Siberian Tiger, here is is an example : someone writes an opinion about something, another commentator replies with a subtle but open offence. This commentator, realizing what he/she did, just simply buys time, skipping any possible interaction with the offended person or even participating in the blog for a given time in the spirit of “letting the time solve the problem”. Then, after some time, he/she appears again as if nothing happened before, forgetting history.
Well, we see this kind of behavior in politics, there is a normal routine so to speak, but here, sorry, I think it’s the wrong place to do it. Why ? because, I’m still riding the naive horse of honesty, thinking that all of us have been coming here for a long time exactly to avoid dishonesty so masterfully applied in the world we live in.
I don’t want to enter much deeper into details, chewing everything as in the school by naming names and pointing fingers at them. If somebody still doesn’t understand what I mean, then let it fade away taken by the wind of thoughts and forget it, simply doesn’t matter. Now, I’ll go out on the balcony and spit it out too, being careful not to do it against the wind…
Fine, if that is the difficulty then so be it, and I respect your honesty.
Try yarrow herb tea, one cup in the morning, before eating, one in the evening before eating, chamomile tea anytime during the day, naturally, alongside any other treatment you may be taking.
Ioan ….I was thinking these past days about yourself and wondering how you might be.I thought you might be busy doing what was needed for you and I am glad to see you here commenting again.
No offence taken or given.
Sometimes and for me more and more often ,we need to take it easy,rest up and find respite from the rampant mind or encroaching desert ..seems daunting until calm and the Creator/creative becomes obvious again to us where it always resides.
Travel on we must.
I very much, concur with TJT. Ideally, we should make the effort to connect with ourselves on a deeper level, at least once a day. We get so caught up w. stresses involving “what we should be doing, achieving” etc. that connecting with the “I Am” within, is often overlooked, and it’s to our disadvantage. May the Blessings Be, fellow travellers, and may you all ride the wave as effortlessly as possible!
One for ioan + company…
“Ako Odam vo Bitola”; Toše Proeski -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvWNBdSrpk
A glimpse into a bygone world in Bitola, Macedonia, the city I was born in. interspersed with concert footage of Toše ( the Macedonian Angel, who translated from this world, in Oct. 07 at age 26 ). I was married in the building featured at around 5:00.
Ako odam vo Bitola – When I Go to Bitola
…Za Soluna, za Stanbula, Bitola ne ja ne davam…”
For Solun-a, ( Solun, or ‘Thessaloniki” ), For Stanbula ( Istanbul ), I will not give Bitola… “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvWNBdSrpk
Friends, you give me strength, you give me light, you give me water when I’m thirsty…
Brotherhood
by ioan
The wind is talking about love
The love of those
who have it in their souls,
And you my friends, you
just showed it right above,
How blessed you are,
my brotherhood is yours !
Not to worry, help is on the way from Big Pharma: $3100 plus for treatment! Cost to produce is a fraction.
https://sputniknews.com/science/202006291079751750-gilead-plans-to-charge-over-3000-for-covid-19-antiviral-remdesivir/
Small wonder fauci et al was so opposed to the alternative plan:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-created/5717275
(I do not know anything about the author, Dr Nass, but her article appears concerning but not surprising about big phara’s efforts)
From article:
13. You create an NIH Guidelines committee for Covid treatment recommendations, in which 16 members have or had financial entanglements with Gilead, maker of Remdesivir. The members were appointed by the Co-Chairs. Two of the three Co-Chairs are themselves financially entangled with Gilead. Are you surprised that their guidelines recommend specifically against the use of hydroxychloroquine and in favor of Remdesivir, and that they deem this the new “standard of care”?
14. You frighten doctors so they don’t prescribe hydroxychloroquine, if prescribing it is even allowed in their jurisdiction, because prescribing outside the new NIH “standard of care” leaves them open to malpractice lawsuits. You further tell them (through the FDA) they need to monitor a variety of lab parameters and patient EKGs when using the drug, although this was never advised before, which makes it very difficult to use the drug in outpatients. You have the European Medicines Agency issue similar warnings.
19. You have the head of the Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Tony Fauci, insist the drug cannot be used in the absence of strong evidence…while he insisted exactly the opposite in the case of the MERS coronavirus outbreak several years ago, when he recommended an untested drug combination for use…which had been developed for that purpose by his agency. And while he was bemoaning the lack of evidence, he was refusing to pay for trials to study hydroxychloroquine. And he was changing the goalposts on the Remdesivir trial, not once but twice, to make Remdesivir show just a tiny bit of benefit, but no mortality benefit. And don’t forget, Fauci was thrilled to sponsor a trial of a Covid vaccine in humans before there were any data from animal trials. So much for requiring high quality evidence before risking use of drugs and vaccines in humans!
20. You convince the population that the crisis will be long-lasting. You have the 2nd richest man in the world, and biggest funder of the WHO, Bill Gates, keep repeating to the media megaphone that we cannot go back to normal until everyone has been vaccinated or there is a perfect drug. (The Gates Foundation helped design the WHO clinical trials, and Gates is heavily invested in pharmaceuticals and vaccines.)
Donald Rumsfeld was chairman of Gilead Sciences from 1997 – 2001, before becoming US Secretary of Defense. What’s the chances he still has his fingers in the pie?
Report from Looneylandia:
Well, the corner I chose to stand with my flag was also the locale of a “snap” BLM rally which started to form about 1/2 hours after I set up shop. At least the time I had planned to stay outside passed quickly. It is clear that Black Lives Matter is a slogan used to divide the working class like all forms of racist sloganeering. It has a messianic component as well–“, -we are fighting a spiritual battle–we want equality.” said Cody their most competent organizer who was very, very well trained. He let the Black BLM folks do much of the leading but he did have the last word at the end of the rally and seemed a bit older…and…white.
He and I had a meeting of the minds as he basically asked me not to sloganeer his demonstration which is what I was doing from my perch on the sidelines…Hey, I was there first. OK..gotcha I just want to make sure that you are not going to lead these kids into danger. He frostily told me that he was “trained”. Yep, he sure was and as we shook hands at the end of the rally I really had to tell him ( he probably couldn’t have cared less)
that he did a good job.
So BLM had three core organizers for a crowd of about 50 young kids. I regaled their official photographer ( oh, yes, there was all sorts of talk about photos, videos on social media) about class politics and the anti war movement in the 1960’s. They have websites, links and everyone was told to to pass on information—evidently they are organizing buses in this suburb to go downtown to a big holiday demonstration. Oh, “All lives matter” is considered heresy and proof of the sin of racism. It has a big social media /Facebook presence.
“Oh, so the Dalai Lama is a racist because he came out in no uncertain terms that this was an example of wrong thinking and that each life matters?”
So Mr. photographer snorted and said that the Dalai Lama is not in good standing with BLM.
‘ Yeah, nor is any religion or church with these folks,” I said and was met by silence.
Looks like the “youth vote” is being organized by the “legal” or public face of Antifa in order to siphon votes into the Democratic Party which is typical CP popular front type politics. So when I started chanting some actual slogans like , ” 3rd Party–Youth Party” that is when Mr. Antifa, Cody, came over and we actually did a face to face kind of chat in which we came to an agreement ( basically: I won’t mess with your right of free speech if you don’t mess with our demonstration) Smart man, and dangerously charismatic. Yep, he could whip up the crowd ….let us hope he stays alive long enough to develop the wisdom of age.
Well, 50 years ago, I was there, too, only the ruling class was not giving us $$$, but then our opposition was visceral ( our friends were coming back from Vietnam in coffins) and power-based. Bring the Troops Home, Now. It was Not,” Asian lives matter” or “Killing is wrong- end the war” The Christian pacifist wing favored the latter one. Vague and squishy…
Sooooo…..BLM want to defund the police and in some place have no police….meanwhile in the CHOP…an armed occupier from within shoots two approaching black kids dead. Oh boy.
China re: CCP cronyism:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/83-tons-fake-gold-bars-gold-market-rocked-massive-china-counterfeiting-scandal
“This October, bankers in Hong Kong were in for a rude shock when they discovered some gold bars from the US to be actually gold plated tungsten i.e., fake gold bars. Acting fast, the Chinese officials found the perpetrators within hours. It seems that fake Tungsten blanks, between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz, were manufactured in the US about fifteen years ago during the Clinton administration.”
http://gold-quote.net/en/articles/fake-tungsten-gold-bars.php
(this occurred in 2009)
Racism is ok on reddit as long as it is racism against majority populations🤔🤢
https://twitter.com/CoachBayard/status/1277756225950748679
So if i went to occupied Palestine it seems i can actually say what i truly think about zi0n ists on reddit without getting banned😂🤓
… News of June 14, 2011 …
Is Gold in Fort Knox Real? … Ron Paul Wants to Know …
https://www.cnbc.com/id/43391588
There are few stories that explain the US regime and its successive extractive attempts of the rest of the world over various administrations, than the story of Afghanistan. I recommend Abby Martin’s 36 minute documentary.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/every-american-should-watch-abby-martin-afghanistan-war-exposed-an-imperial-conspiracy/269035/
Mark McCloskey & Patricia McCloskey: St. Louis Couple Pull Guns on Protesters
Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey are a St. Louis couple who were seen on video and in photos
pointing guns at protesters who were walking by their home in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 28, went viral
on Twitter. The husband and wife, who work together as personal injury trial lawyers, came out of their
house armed on Sunday to prevent protesters from walking onto their property in the Forest Park area.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/mark-patricia-mccloskey-st-louis-couple-guns-video/
Just caught this on my FB page with my early morning first coffee, so not yet tried to translate what Russia is saying but I can guess the principle.
In typical Russian fashion, not with anger, not with missiles or demonstrations, or demands for force, but with wit, humour, and unanswerable action.
https://www.facebook.com/llludima/videos/2560578354252532/UzpfSTY3MzAzMTMwMjoxMDE1ODU5NzE1NDg0NjMwMw/
On the US embassy walls in Moscow, which broke Russian law, let alone everything in good manners, courtesy and civilised behaviour, by releasing a speech by its Ambassador, about minority sexualities and to such people.
Russia has responded. :-)
Looks like a lot of navel gazing going on in the Centre of the Analverse, it seems there is a bounty on US soldiers heads.
I was ten when the war started in ’69, within weeks it went from peaceful protests, to protests with stones, bottles and paving bricks, then the Brit army showed up and then the guns came out. One day, walking along The Falls Road the Da stopped to light a smoke. A voice from behind some bushes spoke to us, strange accent, but in English. “Seen any f’n Brits,” he asked us. “No,” says the Da, “but word has it that a foot patrol is in the district.” “Good then, I’ll just wait here, got a spare smoke,” he said. As the Da turned to hand him a smoke, the fellow in the bushes stood up. Tall guy, blond hair, in full cammo and gear, with a scooped rifle that was taller than me. They exchangesd some more words and off we went. I asked the Da who he was, “some Aussie, wantin’ to kill some Brits.” Fair enough, I thought, and good luck to him. And I was ten, ah, the life a child in a war zone.
I doubt the Aussie was getting a bounty on the Brit heads, just ‘whack a mole’ pay back. “Turn about, fair play”, we say at home……………………I also doubt that anywhere on the planet anyone needs to put a bounty on a US soldiers head. Some things just get done for free.
Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo pleads guilty to murders in California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=dDMQyKh5ylQ&feature=emb_logo
Antifastan and communism wit a small “c”.
https://augenguy.blogspot.com/2020/06/antifastan.html
Maybe Pamela is interested in this: Innate immunity, cross immunity and viral interference ( from previous vaccinations)
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/30/can-your-immune-system-fight-off-coronavirus.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200630Z1&et_cid=DM580179&et_rid=905663882
A very interesting – and necessary – piece of news. A release from the Institute for Economic Research, upholding a point I made myself a couple of months back – that the greatest death rates in Western nations has been in “Care Homes”. [Give what they consider to be “care”, I find it hard to use that term. It’s basic, and many even not that].
The “Covid Pandemic” has in fact been a Pandemic in “Care / Nursing” homes – and this was totally predictable and could and should have been prevented.
As I’ve said, these happen every winter season – but few realise it. In these places, you have a number of the elderly infirm with many co-morbidities. Many can hardly even walk, shuffling along on Zimmer Frames / Walkers. Some in wheelchairs, others slow and unsteady. Crowded together, someone gets a Common Cold, and it goes through the place like wildfire. But in the infirm, a cold, which young people throw off after 5 – 7 days discomfort, becomes pneumonia, and within a few days – the elderly Resident is gone!!
We know about this – but we also know, no-body will do a thing. It’s said that “well, what can you do Sister? It’s nature, we cant stop colds, and they [the residents] are on their way “out” anyway”.
So of course a new variant of the Common Cold with some new unknown method of attack had a field day. A Nursing / Care Facility is a petrie dish of nutrients, a smorgasbord of victims, to a microbial infective agent.
But was a single thing done to protect these people especially? No, because making healthy young people stay locked under House Arrest and wearing dangerous face masks which only increase bacterial infections emitted from the upper body mouth and nose, and fail to stop a virus nanometers big, but leads to infection by bacteria in an under oxygenated environment, only makes people more sick. But isolating Care Facilities and ensuring they have maximum care, equipment, medication and staff, just didn’t happen.
So – when so much that was done was so clearly wrong, and so loudly spelled out by experts in the relevant medical fields – why did Governments do it, and what is REALLY going on, right under our noses??
https://www.aier.org/article/the-real-pandemic-was-a-nursing-home-problem/
It seems as if everything is something to be weaponized in the War for the Planet. When I first saw this reported a day or so ago in RT, it did not make much of a red light impression, but then the studies are out about “super spreaders” and so it made more sense. Plus, Russia has been very spot on and proactively protective of its population during this Virus-thingie miasma sweeping the planet. Of course, Infowars is of the mind that whereas the Virus-Thingee exists, it is being used to justify population control measures just as a ” second-wave” binary bio-Whamie-thingee is being prepared for the Fall season. So, to wit below
https://www.infowars.com/russian-anti-terror-chief-jihadis-are-intentionally-spreading-coronavirus/
Topic two for this post:
RE: Russia and the true believers in BLM…conversation went a bit like this.
“Well, you know..if Trump gets in then Russia will have even more influence…
“What influence? there is no proof for any of those stories..none”
“Oh no?, well Trump shook hands with Putin.”
What? Trump shakes hands with lots of people.”
Voice becoming strident…” So now,.answer this, did Trump shake hands with Putin….yes, or no!!?”
Incredulously. “Yes. he did.”
Triumphant: ” Well, there you have it!”
And that was the end of that interchange with BLM. At least the Antifa guy, just cut to the quick, recognized who and what I was so he gave me my space dealing by with me on the level he came to do business i.e. run the demonstration of upper middle class kids in an area that would brook no hanky-panky and to consolidate his command of them. Got to respect that. I almost wanted to tell him when he shook my hand just before he left …”Hey, Cody, keep your phone on airplane mode and don’t sleep in the same bed twice.” But, I knew he knew that and to say so would have been an elder patronizing the younger. sigh. .
So on that BLM conversation. This will be good for everyone to hear for the first time, or some may know – what is described as ‘left’ in the US and possibly other European areas, is fake .. totally completely fake.
Caleb Maupin does a good job here to describe the ‘synthetic left’ which is of course what we see in the US today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgKPyIj8Q60
If you want examples of real left, there are few better than Andrei Vltcheck. For those with time and interest, it is worth while to read his last 2 columns ..
https://journal-neo.org/2020/06/11/it-is-all-about-race-awful-hypocrisy-hypocrisy-to-say-it-s-not/
https://journal-neo.org/2020/06/25/why-is-this-ongoing-american-revolution-bound-to-fail/
Come-on, give it a go. You may find you’re a leftist after all is said and done :-)
Shows very well how minds that are operating on automatic emotive and “what I want to be” can be manipulated, doesn’t it?
How dim do you have to be, to accept a mere handshake as proof of anything except, perhaps, social graces?. And I suspect that your gentleman isn’t that dim.
Just finds it easier to go with “well, that’s what I want to believe”. And then we go and believe in “democracy”. Jeez.
So that’s what i saw going on with the congressional hearing today. Couldnt understand a word they said.
I just wanted to express my gratitude to
Littlejohn, Taras 77, Tomsk and others for all the interesting articles/op-ed`s etc they share in the news rss feed.
Thanks 👍
Per
Norway
Bit of news out of Canada, relating to Meng Wangzhou, the Huawei exec currently imprisoned on house arrest in Vancouver, while her extradition winds it’s way through the courts.
Former Deputy PM, John Manley, gave an interview today about this.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1758559299590
Going on the premise that Mr. Manley wouldn’t give an interview unless he had something pertinent to reveal, I spent some time tracking down info, based on responses he gave in that interview.
First of all, his interview today stemmed from comments he gave in an interview back in January:
https://www.bennettjones.com/Publications-Section/In-the-News/John-Manley-on-Prisoner-Exchange-with-China-BNN-Bloomberg
In his latest interview, he references recent prisoner exchanges between the US and Iran:
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/874079626/released-from-iranian-prison-u-s-student-xiyue-wang-says-he-was-held-as-a-hostag
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/iran-doctor-freed-returns-home-prisoner-swap-200608055957648.html
https://www.france24.com/en/20200608-iranian-scientist-released-in-us-iran-prisoner-swap-arrives-in-tehran
That first link (NPR.org) reports on the release by Iran of a Chinese-American student from Princeton, Xiyue Wang.
Why is China picking on Canada anyway with this Meng Wngzhou arrest? It was on the request of the US (and of John Bolton specifically, I believe.) It may have something to do with another Canadian prisoner being held in China.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-foreign-minister-corrects-canadian-envoy-to-china-on-imprisoned/
“Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur activist who became a Canadian citizen in 2005, was arrested in Uzbekistan a year later and sent to China, where he is imprisoned. China refuses to recognize his dual citizenship and has barred Canadian officials from seeing him.”
https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-canadian-languishing-in-a-chinese-jail-111736
“Huseyin Celil is from Burlington, Ont. He is an Uighur imam born in China who dared advocate for the democratic and religious rights for the Muslim minority group.
Celil fled China in the mid-1990s after being imprisoned for using a megaphone to broadcast calls to prayer. He eventually made his way to Canada as a refugee in 2001. Celil became a Canadian citizen in 2005.
In 2006, he travelled to Uzbekistan on his Canadian passport to visit his wife’s family. He was arrested there at the request of the Chinese government and transported to China without any due process of law. Celil has been in prison in China ever since.”
All right — so perhaps we can consider this arrest as a precursor to the subsequent arrests of Michael Spavor, a Canadian consultant who has worked extensively in North Korea, and Michael Kovrig, a Canadian former diplomat who worked for the International Crisis Group, a transnational, pro-peace think tank. (International Crisis Group was founded by George Soros, Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, Morton I. Abramowitz, Stephen Solarz – according to Wikipedia.)
So maybe what China’s really aiming for — in exchange for Meng Wangzhou — is a resolution to CIA / US Dept of State supported destabilization or color revolution activities. And as much as everyone lauds China, they do seem to be above international law, and perhaps now even more so, as the world’s economic superpower.
The Scrutiny On The Bounty
If you are the most decorated US Airforce combat spotter (on the ground, calling in coordinates) sent to Kandahar Province, Afghanistan………..two weeks after Sept 11, 2001 ….you might have something to say about the scum sucking liars at the New York Times…..and Andy Kubik most certainly does………..
https://youtu.be/1FS2tiETeY8?t=2049 Frank rings up Andy on Skype
The whole interview gives an inside look at the political awareness ….among veterans and active duty alike that you rarely get so up close … real and personal………….
But for folks short on time let’s get right to Andy’s view of the Bounty ……….and Russia…which is the exact opposite of the madness of the globalist neocon ACTUAL traitors and maniacs with little maneuvering room left ……………other than yelling “Russia, Russia, Russia!” through the MSM megaphone……….at a shrinking audience of Those Still Foolish Enough To Listen To Them:
https://youtu.be/1FS2tiETeY8?t=2945
Andy’s Story in Men’s Journal: https://www.mensjournal.com/features/what-the-war-did-to-andy-19691231/
The US objects to Chinese business acumen:
Pompeo: The Chinese government’s worldwide predatory economic activity undermines the rule of law and harms the well-being of peoples.
China has stopped sweet talking .. .
Quote Tweet
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
· 16h
As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China. People can see it, and I can feel it!
Response …
Hu Xijin 胡锡进
@HuXijin_GT
·
7h
You should be angry at yourself, at the disunity of US society in the epidemic fight. You have misplaced the relations between epidemic control and economic/political interests. You are too short-sighted and seek quick gains. Your government is really incompetent.
——————-
So, there you have it. Of course, this election season the US is still trying to fight their election on somebody else’s back. China/Russia ..
My comment is about the more immediately important matter …the Bounty Bollocks.
But yes amarynth ….the challenge IS the electoral process which China doesn’t share the difficulties of….nor the advantages of…although there are hints that by 2050 they may give it a go, after first securing poverty eradication within China…..and export markets and strategic imports and the defense forces to protect them.
Jeff Brown or Larchmonter 445 might give us more insight into when that Chinese society might be trusted with the vote………..
Steve Pahs outlines the risks of such American …… somewhat illusory “decentralization” (mostly ignorant American voters swayed by the Anglo-American Eastern Liberal Establishment of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s) further on down.
Meanwhile China struggles with the temptations of revenge against the Anglos for the Opium Wars…(evidently some there think sending Fentanyl to poison our youth and underclass …”turn-about is fair play”…an expedient policy) and working with the Bidens, the Pelosi’s, the Gates of Hell, the Zuckerbergs and such balancing their needs and ambitions and some of their corruption with that technocratic western corruption.
I recommend you digest Mathew Ehret’s article on “Canada Day” to reflect on the far richer complexity of the matter …..rather than missing the forest for the trees by being knee jerk anti American EVERY single opportunity you get,………… as satisfying as that automatic reflex is to you.
This is what leads you to making such egregious errors as opportunistically supporting the Empire scribblers for The Atlantic and missing the fact that if Trump simply succeeds in:
1) prosecuting the Russophobic ANGLOPHILE Coup Plotters (the main thing Andy Kubic gets right..he sees through them….the complexity of CHINA..not so much!) ..and not always being so predictably profiled to choose the NEXT ENEMY (it’s usually more an internal enemy or weakness than external strong threat……a weakness Andy shares with you..in regard to fixation on China……while your enemy fixation is on America…much more than Empire….(they overlap…but they are not 100% the same..you need to make the distinctions….) and most unproductively on Trump…caring not that that only serves to the advantage of far, far worse than he!
2) And crushing the censoring Tech Giants with Anti-Trust laws allowing sites like this to expand massively in reach and potential to educate…….. by trapping them and their Deep State Masters Into wearing out Russia-gate not only with this Stupid Bounty BS Russia-gate 3.0..but also..Russia-gate 4.0 and and 5.0 so on until 90 % of Americans are so sick of it that they join Andy Kubic in his entirely appropriate stance of regarding Russia as a far better ally than the Europeans or the Brits.
3) And indicting combo Deep State/Media personalities like James Comey and other CIA stooges on the broadcasting staffs of CNN, MSNBC and so on…crushing Fake News in the minds of people globally…not just here.
……….he, Donald J Trump….will have accomplished a million to a billion times more for the world than you or I could do here with a million comments.
So there you have it:
A more accurate assessment, IMHO, of the actual magnitudes and priorities of the matter.
Fauci, Gates, Zuckerberg, the bio-warfare psychos from Ft Detrick and so on DO have Chinese collaborators in Wuhan and other places, after all. But China in no way MUST be an Enemy….nor the Next Host of Empire and the psychopathic Luciferians dream of accomplishing.
One step at a time. And next major step is Nov 3 2020.
After that let’s see how whether Trump and his “good friend Xi” can’t clean up some of the remaining problem people in both societies, bent on conflict rather than cooperation, short-term enrichment rather than long-term advancement of all humanity….and so forth.
If you don’t insist that America lose, you might actually help bring about that era that Mathew Ehret discusses instead of contributing to a Deep State/MSM/Hollywood recovery from the greatest threat they have ever faced, simply because you can’t control your emotions and prejudices…..in order to set priorities more effectively damaging to the Empire Model of running the world.
There you have it!
Cheers!
I am going to respond to this, one last time.
“If you don’t insist that America lose, you might actually help bring about that era that Mathew Ehret discusses instead of contributing to a Deep State/MSM/Hollywood recovery from the greatest threat they have ever faced, simply because you can’t control your emotions and prejudices…..in order to set priorities more effectively damaging to the Empire Model of running the world.”
But first, I will ask forgiveness from many of the wonderful norte americanos on this site. You will see why, because sometimes one has to speak realpolitic, and of course, it does not apply to those that are not tonedeaf and colorblind.
Bro, take a look at this comment, before I give you mine. /usa-sitrep-the-collapse-of-the-united-states-is-no-longer-avoidable/#comment-826161
Let me quote it:
“Dear Uncle Sam,
Please understand that those of us who are not American do not give three monkeys about how great you are (there are a few zombies who still worship Murica). All we are asking you is to stop oppressing the world and start paying attention to your own problems. Do you thing you would be so great (pure codswallop) if you weren’t sucking out the wealth and lifeblood of poor countries? You were lucky twice (after WWI and II). There will be no third time lucky for you. The world has woken up. This is friendly advice from someone who has experienced your genocidal tender mercies.
OK now my more muted response.
Best way I can help the norte americanos, is to allow the current trajectory to play itself out because they made their own problems. It is so that it is always the people that suffer.
The trajectory is a financial, economic and cultural break in whatever is normal for the norte americanos. I believe that is the stance of Russia and perhaps China and all of the resistance countries and the non-aligned countries – and these are collaborating to take the economic hit. The empirical stance and methods that the US started using after the world allowed it a great power after they “won” the 2nd WW, was completely bastardized and corrupted and the US plundered, killed and destroyed others in a frenzy of bloodlust, absolutely convinced of their own superiority and their own ‘god-given rightness’. They cannot take power over even themselves as power corrupts them. They cannot be allowed to take power over anyone else again.
Now, the world is going into a different dispensation – the trajectory has changed. The most I can help the norte americanos, is to let the tone deaf ones (and there are very few of those on this blog), know that they are tone deaf and color blind. There is something that they do not understand and many are truly hurt by this stance and the irresponsible Trumpish and administrative fervor while not recognizing the bombs that are falling and the injustices of this very administration to others. Color Blind and Tone Deaf they are happy about Flynn but say not a word about Julian Assange. In fact, not a word on the threatened West Bank Annexation that Trumpy approves of, and helps with, and brewed up right in the White House.
My friends, my family, my country of birth are all enemies of the United States – not by their own declaration, the successive US administrations declared it so, and plundered them. Most norte americanos understand that it is a state business, and not the doing of the normal person. But there are some here that had to deal with the results, the pain of the US plunder first hand and are still having to treat their own wounded and their own wounds.
But sometimes you get a normal person coming along and they simply do not get it that they identify so closely with their administration, that one has to select very carefully as to who declared themselves an enemy of me, countries that I love, where I have family and where I have friends. It is quite stupid to go help that one that declared itself your enemy.
Perhaps you can fix that Bro93 instead of all the other fluffy shit. Before you don’t fix that (because you are fighting the next election right here in the Cafe so you are responsible), you can stay without my comments. You’ve had them. Now change, learn to read colors and develop some ability to hear tone. No, we don’t hate you for your freedoms. In fact, for myself, I am amazingly free of hate, and I sometimes wonder why, because I have reason enough.
There currently is an attempt to topple the centrist left President of Mexcico, known as AMLO. This is receiving US support on the basis of the same excuses as Juan Guidò. This attempt has US support for no other reason than AMLO supports Venezuela. And then, of course we have the ‘Ceasar’ sanctions against Syria kicking in. Your administration is out of control and has to be reigned in. Those that are colorblind and tonedeaf need to get that.
amarynth
Abolutely!
And let none of us forget that the deaths resulting from Uncle Sam’s global rampage since WW2 amount to at least 30 million souls. The seriously wounded to 300 million…giving a combined total of close to the current US population.
This horrendous figure takes no account of the 10 of millions who have been displaced, disenfranchised thieved from, constantly terrorized and starved.
The hegemon is losing its ability to practice the most obscene example of hubris in the history of humanity…Bravo! This is not any doing of its enemies perceived, contrived, or real. The real enemy is within, right in the heart of the swamp. Uncle Sam that has weaponized everything it can lay its hands on, including the dollar which as the global reserve currency of the world and which underwrote their rampage.
Trump, Pompeo, Bolton et al have hastened the process of self-destruction. To deny this is laughable to all but those that suffer from chronic cognitive dissonance.
Even the most dim-witted amongst us should be under no illusions. The smooth talk and cunning deception of Obomber is long gone. Now we have naked unveiled aggression and greed that is being flaunted to the whole world and bringing sharp focus to this disgraceful behaviour.
Many countries have demonstrated enormous patience in allowing the US time to complete the process of destruction from within…none more so than Russia. They have adhered to the time-honored strategy of never interrupting the enemy whilst he is making a mistake.
Make no bones about it, the weaponization of the dollar will be the salient cause of the demise of this empire.
Cheers
Col
Bro,
I watched and listened as Frank spoke with Andy and I just now read the Men’s Journal article. There are many many many MANY “Andy’s” out there. I know several. One from my home County was in the “Phoenix Program” in the Nam fiasco. Another I once worked with and his name was Andy also. My “County” bro was last seen in a VA facility in Florida. I had to to talk him down and remove a shotgun from his hands after a frantic 2am call from his wife. I drove him around till sunup in a pleasant countryside till I thought it was safe to take him home. Through the years he spoke of what “they” and he did in that program. They killed Anglos too. French. Bullet behind the ear. “County” bro and my Nam War never ended. Men’s Journal article says all 300,000,000 Americans share a little part of the blame. Broad brush again. 3 letter agencies and rogue elements operating for all manner of nefarious reasons under diplomatic immunity use people like Andy and me who THINK they are being “patriotic” to do the “dirty” work. The populace get’s castigated for these atrocities as if we voted for such.
These are VERY dangerous times and few see this clearer than those who have “been there”. All bets are off.
Hound
The 4th of July drive by saga continues: The back story that explains everyone’s trepidation is that once when someone wanted to organize a festive gathering outside the bounds of Park regulations, the owners issued a counter leaflet basically threatening everyone so it is wonderful to see the worried looks disappear from the faces of my fellow party plotters because the response from fellow residents is overwhelming: we are going to have some fun!!! safely!!!
Last night the social club board members all received an e mail proposal from our VP that we set up a permanent outside zone in which residents could gather. Ahhhhh. Liberation of territory. a senior soviet!!! First the February Revolution, then the October!!!
I emailed him and said that bright and early I would be up raking under the big shade tree across from NeighborHood Watch headquarters. ( It Had to be pruned too so after 2 1/2 hours and two large green waste cans later it was finally looking good.)
So as I was hauling two rumbling empty garbage bins down from the garden area to the central commons, out pops the NW captain saying, “Heck, I thought all that racket was a tank invasion.” ( we are a very quiet collection of older folks). We laughed and then noticed that two industrial size grills were sitting to the side of her driveway.
She smiled and said, ” you get more flies with honey…” and then I remember that when we were discussing the need to organize discretely so as not to tip off the owners, the issue of whether we would invite the caretaker or not came up. He is the only Ukrainian left after the purge due to the ill-fated hijack of Turner Classic movie channel in favor of the Ukie Presidential debates. ( that is another hilarious story from my life in the old folk lane) The objection to inviting him was that he would inform the owners. My position was that since he is part of the community, of course we had to invite him and if that meant that we would have to delay notification to the community at large until the last minute, then so be it. I forgot that I won that. We passed out 4th of July drive-by leaflet on Saturday and already today the 1st we have RSVPs from over half the Park. The ball is rolling.
Best of all, people are laughing and joking… I love my “peeps”.
Thanks for the stories… vivid and entertaining.
Interesting article in that the dnc, the dimo elite, and the oligarchs (prob w/exception of soros, et al) are concerned that they have or will lose control of the BLM and antifa. Thus, the killing, beatings, looting, riots, arson, will continue unabated while the dnc et al will continue to call for the defunding of the police.
This is ominous in that IF pelosi/schumer/obama decide maybe they have won and it is time to call off the thugs, the thugs may not listen and decide to continue:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/the_fatal_flaw_in_the_electoral_victory_plan_of_democrat_elites.html
In other news, Kushner has fired a trump campaign official and placed one of his cronies in his stead-kushner will guarantee a trump disaster election.
Came across this article as one of the top headline news on Animation World Network:
https://www.awn.com/news/simpsons-recast-characters-color-mike-henry-stop-voicing-cleveland-brown-family-guy
I don’t know whether to smile or to cringe.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think it’s crazy? In general, what are your thoughts on white actors playing non-white characters (and possibly vice-versa)?
Re: the question about actors doing what actors do best? Taking on another character and playing it? Harumph, well, what about the bad ol’ Shakespearean days when men played women’s parts!!!! strike down Shakespeare!!! Ban “Taming of the Shrew”!!! And, gasp, whatever are we going to do with Othello? and the ” my daughter and my ducats” dude? tsk, tsk.
Since Shakespeare was very probably a front for an aristocrat who did not want to end up in The Tower, it would be most ironic if his statue were destroyed by frenzied feminists and their feckless followers. It would give a double dose of meaninglessness to the act.
“Since Shakespeare was very probably a front for an aristocrat who did not want to end up in The Tower” — Indeed teranam.
Did you read “Counter Arguments for a Culture in Need” by Lliam Scheff? His excellent essay “Shakes-speare” or not Shakespeare” makes an almost water tight case for Shakes-a-speare being Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, plus a few joint efforts for those which were published after his death.
No way does anything support the standard myth, yet another example of suppression of evidence, refusal to look facts in the face when they get in the way of a good standard, accepted myth.
Apart from anything else, it’s an enjoyable read. He takes several “accepted narratives” apart in a lively, rather sarcastic and biting way, which makes it a fun bed time read.
This is a protest that actually happens across other national if not race divides.
I remember the fury being vented in UK during the excellent 6 part TV series “The Wives of Henry VIII” because Henry was played by an Australian.
Then in reverse, when a notorious Australian thug and killer who has been somewhat hero-ised, called Ned Kelly was played by – Rolling Stones singers Mick Jagger, it was the turn of furious Australians to give mouth..
It’s a sign of uneasiness in trying to define who you are and fighting to stop anyone who doesn’t fit expropriating your sense of yourself, I think.
Now the Archangel is racist? The insanity knows no bounds.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/guardian-promotes-petition-remove-racist-image-st-michael-stomping-devil-racist/
I have been trying to make my Protest Simple, through all the Channels I can think of almost direct to The British Government and The British Civil Service who apparently are opening the pubs on the 4th of July…I am not particularly interested in that, and we will not be going wearing a mask, and self distancing.
My wife and I (and their parents) want to teach our Grandchildren to learn to swim.
And despite the pubs reopening, they have kept ALL The Swimming Pools in England Closed.
The only response I get, is to teach them to swim in the sea.
They are only 4 and 2, and the sea in England is still a bit cold.
Meanwhile swimming pools, are treated with chlorine, yet relatively safe for humans.
Very few bugs will survive an English swimming pool, yet loads of kids die in the sea, cos they haven’t been taught to swim.
Can we please just reopen the swimming pools Worldwide, so all our Grandchildren can learn to swim, like we did.
Why take it out on the under-5’s? They really want to learn to swim with us.
Thanks,
Tony & Wife xx
In the past few days I have heard the word Nazi and China used in the same sentence, broadcast over the Australian media and my alarm bell is ringing. We are being conditioned with vile propaganda.
To those people who think China is bad because … blah blah blah … it is time to stop and think … allow me to assist here.
Who signed off on all Chinese trade deals including buying toxic fluoride from China to directly poison Australia’s municipal water supplies ? Who has not regulated in Australia’s interests.
Australia is Far East and is thus geographically part of Asia … Austral Asia … Australia.
The reason we have diplomats is so issues can be resolved quietly, but today the one-sided heavily biased issues are being openly broadcast over all media, including Australia’s ABC which claims to be a bullhorn in Australia’s interests.
I predicted quietly to myself some weeks ago we are being conditioned for war of the most destructive kind.
To those people who China bash I can only say be careful and start thinking clearly.
Australia to up military budget by 40% amid tensions with China …
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/07/01/628631/Australia-military-budget-40-percent-China
(read the comments)
Very long and detailed article on the fraudster Browder; not much new initially in the article as it is a detailed summary of the magetsky death and the browder fraudalent magnetsky act.
However, last part of article does discuss the article in German pub Der Spiegel which discloses the total fraud that is browder. Browder of course challenged and Der Spiegel stood by its article, resulting in much unfavorable publicity for browder in Germany.
Of course, none of this was disclosed in the western press but it was a first relatively that a major news source took on this cretin.
https://www.unz.com/article/bill-browder-a-billionaire-accused-of-being-a-fraud-and-liar/
Let us take a quiet walk (without music) through Pompeii and think about natural disasters and man-made warfare.
Pompeii Walking Tour in 4K Part 1 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJPcKLyXLQ
Pompeii Walking Tour in 4K Part 2 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXIbF4etSw
Pompeii Virtual Walk in 4K Part 3 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvnWHvHLrs
( … these tour parts continue …)