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It’s a strange thing, but in this world, imagination trumps the will. And for most of us, it’s the uncontrolled imagination, hence the saying “his imagination has run away with him”. But there is a solution, known as the Altar or Temple within. This is where we go to get a handle on the imagination, among other things…
The Place Where You Forget Your Name
When you go to the place
Where you forget your name,
You lay down your dagger
You lay down your blame.
You lay down your memory
You lay down your game,
When you go to the place
Where you forget your name.
When you go to the place
Where you find your sight,
You no longer see in terms
Of darkness and light.
You no longer see in terms
Of wrong and right,
When you go to the place
Where you find your sight.
When you go to the place
Where you meet your soul,
There are no longer parts
There’s only the whole.
There’s no victory, no failure
There’s only the goal,
When you go to the place
Where you meet your soul.
When you go to the place
Where you forget your name,
There’s no way to return
To from where you came.
Nothing has changed
But nothing’s the same…
When you go to that place
Where you forget your name!
Not to quibble theologically, please, oh please no! But there is no “there”: both states of being are “here”. And I do believe that in the Christian tradition it is no further than the space of a hair? In the Jewish tradition one must go through the Tree of Knowledge to access the Tree of Life but those are metaphors from the school of hard knocks and not from the “beam me up, Jesus” academy. oops…there I go into the maelstrom of doctrine.
So going “there” and being “here” are one and the same really. Try living with others without a bit of false personality.?
The task is the balancing and the living with paradox in the realm of polarity —not going “somewhere” else. Here and now, babe, here and now. But enough of this …hopefully you don’t think I am scolding as it seems many people who used to post here have gone away offended which is why I don’t usually comment on other’s posts. Besides, you write much better poetry than I. :-). !!!!
“beam me up , Jesus”
I am not any expert but perhaps that would read better as “beam into me, Jesus’
Where , there , here. Cross out the ‘w’ and the ‘t’ and you end up with here.
You are a treasure Teranam
Lol Anomalous I get, from
“Here and now, babe, here and now”
nowhere
now here
Presence with Quality
Peace
Just for fun
https://youtu.be/93rSXA8aeG4
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
There’s no “up”, nor is there “into me” (as its already within us – only needing to be realized – and lived from)
“Your hope of glory … ” Colossians 1:27 [my emphasis]
Blessings
Both are true. The intrinsic nature of the heart is its Buddha nature or Christ nature to be realised as it is our font of the divine. It is also true that Buddha, Christ and others lived as historical personages and although no longer in human body still can be accessed through intercession.
It is much easier for the holy beings to help those who open their heart by reaching out for help.
As regards hither and yon it is written nicely by a medieval monk in “Cloud of Unknowing”
“For heaven ghostly is as nigh down as up, and as up as down: behind as before, before as behind, on one side as other. Insomuch, that whoso had a true desire for to be in heaven, then at the same time he were in heaven ghostly. For the high and the next way thither is run by desires, and not by paces of feet.”
Best wishes
When we’re in a state and we don’t like it, a reactive state, let’s say, it’s a “here”. Wherever, whatever, however it may be, then we know that the place we want or need to be is a “there”… that’s about when we try to switch the attention. It may be a hairsbreadth, but a hairsbreadth is a gulf akin to an eternity. There’s here and there because we’re in a dual world, and everything is constantly changing, we move from here to there. The thing is to be that which we are, the I AM in the Here, Now, and so we must make the effort to be so. Otherwise, no master would do any spiritual exercises, because he’d forever be in a “perfect state”, but consciousness moves on, with or without us, so it’s up to us. We need to stay abreast of where Divine Spirit leads otherwise we get left behind. In Spirit, D.
A reactive state involves stiffening the neck, narrowing and shortening the back by increasing spinal curvature, and stiffening the pelvis. Try thinking about these areas and wanting them to be free but without doing anything, since doing anything involves using the muscles in a way which has the stiffening built into it.
But this is contrary to logic Johny, the stiffness, narrowing and shortening did not arrive by doing nothing, so why would one want to believe that somehow doing nothing now would set you free.
B/c its the easy thing to do naturally, plus i’m committed to the palm thingy anyhow and so diverting from that practice is out of the question for my generation.
Geez … it not possible – EVER – for people to go with the flow of the sentiment of something and not have to pick it apart, which smacks hugely of EGO?
That should read: ” … is it not possible” – just to demonstrate your point!
Mythic Artist, ( great name, btw… ). Nah, we all know each other here, just a friendly discussion and it always leads to a broadening of our understanding, esp when everyone chips in. All good friend, and welcome.
Inner temple, inner altar, inner fountain. Fountain of peace, light and love. One person with an overflowing heart can light the candle of many others.
Sitting at the source of the fountain indeed
Nothing has changed
but nothing is the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38yPujHrC4o
A fine example of someone doing exactly what
you’re talking about there, Anom…
“Stephan Micus; A Film Portrait” ( long version, 53 min. )
Something for those with shorter attention spans, like myself…
Stephan Micus “The Horses of Nizami”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G_S341vEPM
You’ll like this, siljan… majestic, trancelike, stirring…
or theres this …
“Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters
After a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters
After [attaining Zen], mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
– Dōgen
Exactly, Insanity is Statistical… but I suspect that process goes on and on, because we find ourselves entering new worlds, and the whole waters/mountains/waters thing occurs again and again.
I will have to make a point of watching that whole film soon Dimitar. This is not ‘elevator’ music. You have to sit down and listen. It moves you to a different plane. What would the world be like without music…
My favorite Dance – Omar Bashir;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAOsFxRIS-E
On a different note. If masks become mandatory around here, I’ll have to invest in one of these;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZcbqaJbOuU
” What is life if full of care, we have no time to stop and stare ..”
Past and future – or the dwelling on them – steals our present from us, and without presence, now, we have little chance of finding ” that place ” .
My cat teaches me lessons in Zen – no I’m not joking :-)
Stare within, our inner light
becomes more wide and cool and bright
Our consciousness thru this light flows
Our Inner Place the wise one knows
Zen cats
Not here
Nor there
Zen cats
Everywhere
Lucky animals, no need to fitter about dualisms……we humans still have a way to go I suppose, “to infinity…..and beyond.”
Schrodinger Cats and Cheshire Cats
Maybe there but
you won’t know
until it’s here.
Was there but
except for grin
disappeared!
Sean and T13,
Love your posts !
Make about as much sense as Schrodinger – and no cat was harmed.
What is life if full of care, we have no time to stop and stare ..
I learned those lines a lifetime ago, at secondary school Sandy,
And in all the years since, I never heard anyone else say them.
Until now!!
It’s so pleasurable for me to see see it.
I think it’s a Welsh poet isn’t it – is that why you had it at school ?
I only know these two lines and I’m not sure where I heard them. They just came to mind reading this thread – the idea of taking time to stop / look within –
– and I was serious about my cat teaching me Zen :-) I’m guessing you know what I mean.
Lol. Yes, cats do indeed teach us much – and a lot of their philosophy is also “Tao”.
Which in the end, is where I am at, really. I came to it myself, thinking I was alone.
Then I learned of the School of Thought, found Lao Tzu, and realised I had “come home”.
I suffered agonies of shyness as a young teenager. Looking a little different, because of my Circassion colouring and bone structure, I got looked at a lot when I was desperate to be invisible.
Entering a room with people in, a coffee bar, was worse. I’d stand outside for ages, summoning the courage to go in. Then I read this neat little piece for those with this issue – “watch a cat , see how she enters a room of people and copy her, for cats are the epitome of cool, and controlled elegance. So I did. When a cat enters a room full of people, she will stop at the door and just look calmly around. She makes no effort to take a step for a few seconds. She selects her preferred spot. Then walks slowly and calmly to it, to sit and survey the room and settle herself down”.
And do you know what? I works, perfectly. I never had a problem entering a full room again. LoL.
Pam… those lines are ‘from the same page’ as;
carpe diem ( Roman… ), or
seize the day
and, on cats;
humans bring out the
human in cats, and cats bring
out the cat in humans
You know, talking of those words of standing and staring brought back to mind another, similar, line from a very old poem.
“When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o’er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.” John Milton (1608-74).
I remember being tasked by an anaesthetist while waiting to collect a comatose patient to take away and care for, “what – nothing else to do but stand here, Sister?’
to which I replied “they also serve who only stand and wait”, you know. To a blank, rather stunned, stare.
You know, I’m beginning to see why I’ve always been considered a bit odd!! :-)
We are all born with our one Talent but not everyone invests it. We all have our level of inner brightness. The brighter we are the higher the consciousness. We can raise our inner light/ consciousness many times with our spiritual practices or we can lower our light / consciousness with depraved behaviour. With the current pandemonic I see a deliberate attempt to lower the consciousness of humanity. All many of us can do now is maintain our inner light and stand and wait to play our role.
Ah, it begins, planned and slowly but steady the commander in corpse is pulling back into his basement, with a few nice nurses and some child hair to sniff.
(Heels up) Harris is already taking up tasks that are quite unusual for a VP: https://thenationalpulse.com/news/kamala-harris-is-now-taking-joe-bidens-head-of-state-calls-for-him/
“Vice President Kamala Harris has begun to take calls on behalf of President Joe Biden, raising questions about his ability to do the job of President. ”
Remember how crappy she performed in the primaries? She was shred to pieces by Tulsi Gabbard, and I’m not going to post it again. And now she is talking to world leaders?
The positive point is that she is toast for the world, just because some blokes think she’s adequate because ‘she has the right RAL-number of her skin’. So woke, you know.
The sun has already set here. I’m already grinning at the thought that the dear leaders of Binomi will call her. Enjoy the bumpy ride in reality.
Cheers, stay safe and healthy, Rob
Ah, La Presse… here are a couple news articles with catchy videos. Videos that help to ease my anxious, skitterish Canadian mind, anyway. This is in follow-up to my comment from the previous café, regarding re-militarizing of the Arctic region to counter Russian aggression.
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/moyen-orient/2021-02-16/manoeuvres-iraniennes-dans-l-ocean-indien-avec-des-navires-russes.php
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/2021-02-16/la-russie-prete-a-revenir-au-traite-ciel-ouvert-si-les-etats-unis-font-de-meme.php
With Russia’s new stand-off, very fast munitions, militerizing the Arctic is redundant, even for Canada, but it’s a niffty idea to suck many more millions of dollars from the Canadian tax payer. Canada, being a cold water country, needs to up armour it’s current fleet of dories and add a few paddle guided dug outs….them Russians ain’t seen nuttin’ yet!
Cheers, M
Has anybody noticed how quiet the press have become on the U.S presidency now Trump has gone?
An unelected guy is in the Whitehouse and barely a peep whereas when Trump ran the show if he walked on a checkered floor they would comment on the fact he walked on more white squares than black!
The mainstream propaganda media is the enemy….stop buying their product.
CNN/BBC and the like, have a Jonestown ‘cult’ following, so many people with whitewashed brains just sucking up the garbage daily……..’the crying schmuck at the impeachment trail, his poor daughter afraid to come to work at the capital’ the amount of morons that suck that stuff up, there is no product to buy, it’s free, for the watching, and addictions……..well if you know anything about addictions, for the most part, it ends, sadly, when the person dies.
Cheers, M
btw, Trump gone…….where. There’s elections in 22 months, with no shortage of quislings to purge Bidet’s still in hiding and his 2IC is testing the diplomatic waters……how many thumps under her bed will be Trumps’.
On the funny side of life. The Type 1 diabetic wokester, fountain of intelligence, currently attending university in my basement, was all giddy with glee at the removal of a racist, pu@@y grabbin’ sexist from the Whitehouse. It’s been, let’s say, a bone of contention for the past few months. My house, yes, but sometimes keeping the peace tactacly, is easier (I have a wife). So yesterday, for fun, I threw out the news that the price off insulin was being raised. He was unaware, so had to go look it up. I didn’t smile or gloat (sure as hell did on the inside) and just let him read off how his newly minted pu@@y saver is allowing drug manufactures to raise the costs of insulin at community clinics, something Trump had made the drug companies supply at cost. Small seeds sometimes grow the biggest doubts………and he never uttered a peep.
“and he never uttered a peep.”
Haha, that’s great Sean. When they’re left dumbfounded you know its sunk in.
Cheers
Anything that strengthens the hand of the thug niten yaahoo cannot be good news; not sure about whether the analysis is reliable but it is “out there.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-trifecta-court-cases-cement-netanyahu-power/275425/
One more question, what has happened to the forgotten political prisoner, Julian Assange?
If he committed murder would he be out on parole yet?
apparently the US intends to appeal the UK court decision and request extradition to the US
To sandinED
Wow. And yes – I’d love one, especially to purr me to sleep on restless nights :-)
Now, the time of 2nd dose for the mRNA vaccines is upon us: ( maybe the cold weather will hold up the second jab a bit.)
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/investigations/i-team/memphis-doctor-believed-to-have-died-of-rare-covid-related-syndrome/522-7bb29487-c330-4de4-b1b0-188fe3865e35
So who gets exposed the most to the nasty viruses, bacteria etc in a society but the health care workers. I rarely got sick when I worked in a hospital at bedside because?????? my immune system was primed and ready. I just hope these workers are not more prone to auto immune side effects.
Questions being asked in my neck of the woods.
If the jab becomes ubiquitous, what about blood donations? Will the bloodbanks be ‘contaminated’.
Same question on organ donors.
We’re still thinking that because of how this thing works, it is the cumulative effect that becomes too much for some immune systems. It is of course that all cells in the body all of a sudden go on the defense, instead of a few at a time, as it works normally.
Here in Germany it was decided by the Health minister that blood donations should continue, while according to him ‘Covid-19 is not transmitted by blood’.
Maybe they should read more scientific stuff about what’s already known since the SARS epidemic from 2003: hell yes the virus it can come into your blood, since lung tissue is in close contact with blood to make oxygen transfer possible (also an infection in your blood can jump to lung tissue).
That’s the reason why other organs can be attacked too, it even can come into the nerve system and even the brain. It now also becomes clear, that male testicles can be attacked resulting in infertility: https://summit.news/2021/02/03/scientists-ominously-warn-covid-is-reducing-fertility/
Add that with the stark warning that the vaccinations can result in female infertility while the vaccin trains the body to attack a certain protein in the virus ‘skin’, that is identical to an essential protein for the growth of womb slime in a pregnancy.
And all that is a ‘coincidence’ that just happens to coincide with Agenda 2030? I wonder.
Cheers, Rob
Hi Rob, the questions that we are working with are not the Covid questions, but more the mRNA questions. Blood and organ donations? What remains of the mRNA if someone has taken the jabs, and then donate? It becomes staggering, trying to think through the ramifications of this massive experimentation.
Ah ;-)
I guess nobody knows exactly what happens when this mRNA comes in your blood ‘freely’ and may reproduce without an end. In fact, it’s very creepy and I’m not exactly waiting in the line to get jabbed.
For more insight in the dangers, from an experienced medic: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Dccv1kgGBBLl/
The scary part is, that it may last more than a year before all kinds of auto immune reactions may occur among the vaccinated. They may not survive that.
Same with the animal tests at a vaccine development for SARS, those vaccinated and reinfected all died.
Cheers, stay safe and healthy, Rob
(via CHD Newswatch) headlines – links are for those who need the details
– Four People in Oregon Who Received Both Doses of Vaccine Test Positive for Coronavirus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-people-oregon-who-received-both-doses-vaccine-test-positive-n1257886
– CDC to Investigate Nebraska Man’s Death Following COVID-19 Vaccination
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/02/cdc-to-investigate-nebraska-mans-death-following-covid-19-vaccination.html
– California Woman, 78, Dies After Vaccination, Though No Sign of Link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/78-year-old-woman-dies-california-vaccination-site-after-being-n1257885
– WHO Authorizes Astrazeneca’s COVID Vaccine for Emergency Use
https://apnews.com/article/who-astrazeneca-vaccine-emergency-use-3270b68714c77cf4b292ad25a147323f
– Oxford-Astrazeneca Testing COVID Vaccine in Children as Young as 6
https://www.foxnews.com/health/oxford-testing-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-children
– CDC Updates COVID-19 Guidelines for Those Who Are Fully Vaccinated
https://www.wtvm.com/2021/02/16/cdc-updates-covid-guidelines-those-who-are-fully-vaccinated/
“– Oxford-Astrazeneca Testing COVID Vaccine in Children as Young as 6”
Excellent. That should help the Astrazeneca / Sputnik V double dose trial underway very nicely:
http://r-pharm.com/en/borba-protiv-covid-19
December 21, 2020 Gamaleya Research Center, biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and R-Pharm Group signed a memorandum of cooperation to fight coronavirus. As part of the collaboration, the Gamaleya Center and AstraZeneca are investigating a combined vaccine for COVID-19, which will consist of two components – one developed at Oxford University and used in AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the other included in Russia’s Sputnik V.
So Russia jumped the profit train, and the acceptance of an 100% obvious hoax is becoming more and more mainstream even here on this site.
Lifetime frequent Covid-19 strains vaccines will be accepted norm too. Nobody will think about it as abnormal, it will just become a natural part of life.
For my part I am just chocked that maybe the social engineers were right anyway. It is possible to complete alter human perception and personality after design. Zombies selling their soul for pennies.
Tomsen – youre late to the conversation
What trolls typically attempt is to sidetrack / distract from the substantive issue at hand
– Does SARS-CoV 2 exist? Yes
– Are people getting sick from it? Yes
– Can people die from it? Yes
– Has the fear been ramped up/sensationalized by MSM for the benefit of selling vaxxes from Big Pharma? Yes
Ive explained before why any leader of a free and independent sovereign nation, not just Putin or Xi, did what they had to do – to protect their own people
Anonymous’s problem is, she allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good
In her mind, because Russia / Putin didn’t do this or didn’t do that – theyre to be condemned – but we never hear a peep out of her as to how the virus was created/released in the first place, (hint: the US has 25 (BSL4) biolabs around the world – who does the funding?; why so many?; and, why in other countries?)
2 + 2 = ?
“– Does SARS-CoV 2 exist? Yes”
That beamed in directly from a convert at the B&M Foundation.
The reality is that it is strictly a “computer” virus:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2021-02-16/#comment-908284
alternatively described well here:
I asked him to define “viral morphology” for the layperson.
“In the fish market,” he said, “it’s like giving you a few bones and saying that’s your fish. It could be any fish. Not even a skeleton. Here’s a few fragments of bones. That’s your fish. Listen, the Corman/Drosten paper, there’s nothing from a patient in it. It’s all from gene banks. and the bits of the virus sequence that weren’t there they made up. They synthetically created them to fill in the blanks. That’s what genetics is; it’s a code. So its ABBBCCDDD and you’re missing some what you think is EEE so you put it in. It’s all synthetic. You just manufacture the bits that are missing. This is the end result of the geneticization of virology. This is basically a computer virus.”
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/12/03/ten-fatal-errors-scientists-attack-paper-that-established-global-pcr-driven-lockdown/
GlobalResearch has a paper from a few researchers who have been searching from autopsies, laboratories, far and wide for tissue from “Covid death” people.
Using the tissue, they do a search for Corona particles. They can’t find, and haven’t found, a one.
Just Influenza A and Influenza B.
Thats it. Co-relate with figures for deaths from Influenza since the Covid hysteria began.
They are close to zero.
Compare to Influenza deaths for past 5 or more years across the World.
They have been equal to the Covid deaths for 2020.
Co-relate, draw conclusion.
You are right. So few know enough to know. There used to be a bumper sticker – when they were all the rage, remember those days? – in Aus “If you think education is expensive – try ignorance”
Well what we have is a world being wrecked based not just on lies and manipulation but the ignorance of the masses.
Incidentally, they ended up with a computer sequence which was 80% comparable to a known Corona virus, so said they decided that “that’s it”. They decided this was close enough and said that this unknown particle was a novel Corona virus and called it Corvid19.
Comparison of the Chimpanzee with human genome shows a 1 – 6% variability.
How close to chimp do you think you are, friend. ??
@T
I am late, so? Listen, I work in Engineering. The simple math in the virus case simply doesnt fit. It tells me there is another agenda probably political.
So what do I do personally after this conclusion?
I hear 90% of the PCR tests are false. I hear Africa get 1% of Western worlds cases. I hear 99% survive infections without medicine nor vaccine. I hear the vaccine dont work for some people, other die.
I hear WEF we are robbed every penny by 2030. I see the virus is planned until 2025.
So something big is going on, with only Africa and some other Latin and East countries left out of focus.
Virus is said to be a poison to the lungs, an irritation.
Ok, so something is in the air which probably is going to be worse until 2025 perhaps with bodies on the street and Russia prepare for this potential “attack”.
So I take your point.
An FYI, simply to expose the reporting of lies, recall that Barcelona and an Italian city (?) reported the presence of Coronavirus from back in March 2019
Wuhan’s COVID-19 outbreak probably 500% bigger than first thought, WHO team tells CNN
“… The WHO team’s findings also suggest that the virus may have emerged earlier than initially thought.
This discovery is the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that suggests COVID-19 may have been spreading globally before December.
One analysis by Harvard University,[1] based on Wuhan hospitals’ satellite images and search engine traffic for coronavirus symptoms, suggests that the virus may have started circulating there as early as late summer.
Another study from Milan’s National Cancer Institute[2] suggests that COVID-19 cases may have been found in Italy in October 2019.
Wuhan’s public health officials told the WHO about the illness on December 31, 2019.
But government records show China’s first coronavirus case happened on November 17, 2019, according to an investigation by the South China Morning Post.”[3]
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/who-signs-wider-wuhan-covid-19-outbreak-december-2019-cnn-2021-2?r=US&IR=T
Refs:
[1] Analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in Wuhan China indicates early disease activity in the Fall of 2019 https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767
[2] The coronavirus emerged in Italy as early as September of last year, a study shows https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-emerged-italy-september-of-last-year-study-shows-2020-11
[3] Exclusive | Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back
Wuhan residents commemorate doctor who raised alarm over coronavirus, a year after his death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIt84h84Ab8
Around a year ago, sometime before or after the doctor’s death, there were allegations that he was silenced by Chinese authorities.
One comment on the video said that he got silenced by local authorities in Wuhan, and then the central government punished said local authorities and honored the doctor’s contributions.
What are your thoughts on this narrative? Sure, this may be one comment out of many, but given the way the Western MSM distorts many things about China, how much merit does the comment’s narrative have?
Josep,
do you honestly believe that China, having been the victim of so, so many outbreaks of SARS / MERS type viruses (at least 6 that I know of) that decimated its poultry and pig industries since the year 2000, and almost immediately before the economically busiest time of the year – Chinese New Year – would attempt to suppress any info from qualified professionals who could assist it in identifying and containing a medical illness / disease and protect its people?
As I’ve said before here in the Cafe (and I hope to God for the sake of humanity that I’m wrong, as it will mean it can be released any time, anywhere) if it is true that it was a bioweapon released at the World Military Games in Wuhan in OCT 2019 in which the US finished – believe it of not – 12th, the Chinese authorities scrambled to:
– identify what the virus actually was, so they knew how to treat it and
– assess where it was coming from so they could contain its spread
those analyses take time
For me, the smoking gun remains Trump’s words in MAY 2019 that China won’t become the world’s largest economy “on my watch”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3010927/chinese-economy-will-not-be-number-one-says-trump
Question is: What did Trump know – and when did he know it? (this is no endorsement of the Democrats, either btw – theyre as corrupt as each other)
Regs
“– identify what the virus actually was, so they knew how to treat it”
The Chinese twaddle is the same as that everywhere else:
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045
Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR
Victor M Corman, Christian Drosten
In the present case of 2019-nCoV, virus isolates or samples from infected patients have so far not become available to the international public health community. We report here on the establishment and validation of a diagnostic workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation, designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens. Design and validation were enabled by the close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV, and aided by the use of synthetic nucleic acid technology.
Well, he was censured (I think told not to use social media but I don’t remember the details here – he may have been arrested briefly) by local authorities on the basis that rumors could start a panic. In China, one needs to understand that you have to take responsibility for your speech. This concept is not usually understood. They make a difference between free speech and stupid speech and what societal harm may result from your speech. The central authorities actually fired the local authorities and the doctor has been revered since.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arkansas’ anti-BDS law violates the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment
“One of the greatest threats to free speech are laws banning state contracts with any company or citizen advocating a boycott of Israel,” tweeted journalist Glenn Greenwald of the ruling. “Every court to review them, except one, declared them unconstitutional. That sole court just got overruled: good news. These laws, which proliferated in numerous states, haven’t received the attention they deserve given what a grave threat to free speech they pose.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1361702890541301761?s=20
“This is an important victory for civil rights defenders and for Palestinian rights activists, but it’s just one battle in a much larger war.”- Caitlin Johnstone
Russia, perpetuating the plandemic lockdown:
https://xn--80aesfpebagmfblc0a.xn--p1ai/news/20210217-1201.html
MOSCOW, February 17. / TASS /. The possibility of returning the Moscow City Duma to the face-to-face format of plenary sessions will be considered after the deputies provide information on the presence of antibodies to coronavirus infection. About half of the deputies of the capital’s parliament have already confirmed the presence of antibodies to COVID-19, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Alexei Shaposhnikov, said on Wednesday.
Source: https://tass.ru/obschestvo/10718903
Texas, the state was given too much rope and hung its self.
If I were an insurance company doing business in Texas, I would reconsider my obligations to this state, you may be getting fleeced.
On a lighter note, who in their right mind would consider moving to Texas from here on out, or California, or Illinois, or New York, we are fastly running out of viable safe places to avoid the coming storm called, climate change.
Of course, those who read outside the Oceania MSM have long known about “Regime Change”. Seeing the perpetrators admit it in print is a stimulus to making firm determinations of who is doing what to whom and where, though
From “Putin Today” we have:
<b<We want nothing less than regime change in Russia
” Continuation of the story with leaks on the British operation “Integrity Initiative”.
We want nothing less than regime change in Russia
New documents reveal new attempts by the UK to undermine Russia’s position
In 2018, we wrote https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christopher-nigel-donnelly.html a: the “honesty Initiative” is a military intelligence operation disguised as charity, with the aim of creating a “Russian threat” . The report was based on internal files of the British Integrity Initiative, which were purchased and published by an “anonymous” organisation.
Data obtained by the same group from the British foreign and Commonwealth office reveals:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/british-embassy-infiltrates-lebanons-military-intelligence-provides-snooping-equipment-manipulates-p.html large-scale British propaganda programs in support of jihadists in Syria, as well as British influence operations aimed at undermining Lebanon’s security institutions and secretly influencing its population.
Now, another large set of files has been published from the same source. They describe the British government’s extensive program aimed at disrupting activities in Russia by organising and funding “independent” Russian-language media outlets, “training” Russian journalists, and secretly paying Russian influencers. This is certainly not the only British anti-Russian agenda, but it probably secretly has the greatest public impact.
An anonymous author has laid out the full program of Subversion of Russia in four extensive parts:
один https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-I-02-04 ,
два https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-II-02-04,
три https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-III-02-04,
четыре https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-IV-02-12.
The information discussed is taken from government files containing various projects, both from companies and, interestingly, from charities that apply to launch FCO projects. All basic files are available for download https://ufile.io/ltsh22zy as a single archive file (~ 80 MB).
The most interesting file is the application of the companies on projects. They reveal previous projects, methods, and people, and thus create a bigger picture.
The budget of various anti-Russian projects amounts to tens of millions of pounds a year. The first programs were launched in 2016, and some continue this year.
A “vendor event” for one of the projects outlined the General idea https://www.moonofalabama.org/11i/urussia1.pdf:
Program areas
ENGAGE – working through the British Council to implement people — to-people activities-between ethnic Russians and local communities to develop connections in line with 21st century skills-includes English language skills and media literacy, social enterprises and cultural events;
ENHANCE — support for independent media in Russia’s near abroad to ensure the balance and pluralism of Russian-language media in the Baltic States and Eastern partnership countries;
EXPOSE — by exposing and exposing Russian disinformation in real time, which can be reported in the mainstream media in order to expose malicious state disinformation in the countries targeted. If you expose disinformation, it is unlikely to have an impact; consequently, the Russian state becomes less reliable.
ENABLE – work with allied governments through the government communications Service to improve their strategic communications with the public.
Please note that “Russian disinformation” is something that Britain doesn’t like about Russia. The best way to “expose “such” disinformation ” is by spreading your own. These are not defensive programs, but attacks on Russia. Projects aimed at achieving the aforementioned goals were to be implemented in almost all countries bordering Russia and having a Russian-speaking minority, as well as in Russia itself.
The British government doesn’t want you to know about such projects. On the sheet “Event provider” is indicated:
Safety
No unauthorised disclosures of activity related to this work. The contract will have to look at who we are working with. Reasonable measures of basic it security should meet our requirements, but the FCO may request an explanation of what steps have been taken to ensure security and the obligation to exercise caution. It should be noted that for security reasons, some grant recipients will not want to be associated with the FCO. It should be noted that the program team would prefer that the program documents do not get into the Russian media. We know that they are watching us, and we expect to be exposed soon.
What is the overall purpose of such secret programs? Author of the TV series “Undermining Russia” https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-I-02-04 explains that about the” poisoning ” of Alexey Navalny:
HMG’s {Her Majestys’ Government: edit} many years of painstaking work through its embassies and intelligence services precedes the chemical attack. They create media outlets, CSOS, and pseudo-humanitarian organisations that are just in the right place at the right time, with their cameras at the ready, when “suddenly” a terrible accident ” forces everyone to act.”
Do you believe that HMG staged the “Navalny accident” as part of some secret operation? Did HMG create the media, nurture the bloggers and stringers it controlled? Did it involve Russian youth and CSOS? Was it trying to demonise Putin, as it did with Assad, by labelling them as Evil dictators who poison their own people with banned chemical weapons? Do you know what all this is for?
They need it to disenfranchise the country’s leader and convince people around the world that “there should be no obstacles to fighting a mad dictator.” Can you understand the gravity of what is happening? Well, you should understand that. They are preparing us for war with the Russians and Chinese. They are looking for causus Belli, and only the truth can stop them, because ” If wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped with the truth.” (Julian Assange)
This opinion is not even exaggerated. The “West” has knives against Russia. We mentioned earlier https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/04/russia-think-tank-study-shows-how-to-overextend-and-unbalance-the-us-of-a.html a report by the Pentagon’s RAND think tank that assesses how best to” unbalance and reformat ” Russia.
After all, it was clearly aimed at regime change in Russia or, if it was impossible otherwise, at war. Friday by Gabriel Felbermayr https://www.ifw-kiel.de/experts/ifw/gabriel-felbermayr/ the President of the Kiel Institute for world economy was asked by a German radio station about new sanctions that the EU may impose on Russia. He is skeptical that this can work, because https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neue-eu-sanktionen-gegen-russland-europa-allein-kann-nicht.795.de.html?dram:article_id=492386 (my translation):
Our goals in relation to Russia are very big. We want nothing less than regime change in Russia, which is difficult to achieve under economic pressure.
The new documents also reveal some interesting things https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-II-02-04 new facts about Navalny, who appears to be on the British government’s payroll:
These revealing documents show that the FCO has set up a network of popular youtubers in Russia who investigate government corruption, and youtubers are receiving help from some Baltic journalists. The FCO also has experience in provoking protests in Russia.
By now, you must have guessed the identity of one of the popular youtubers investigating a corruption case. After receiving the EXPOSE Network files and reviewing the case studies two years ago, we were unable to find out which YouTuber FCO supports through ZINC. We refrained from making any preliminary conclusions, even when journalists discovered that Vladimir Ashurkov, a close associate of Alexey Navalny, is part of the integrity Initiative cluster.
But when we saw Mr. Navalny and Bellingcat together, everything became clear. Digging deeper, we found another Navalny supporter who lives in London — a certain ghostly Maria Pevchikh, who promotes the smart voting system in Russia. The labour party used a similar voting system to pick up the voices of conservatives. Thus, it is highly likely that the UK recommended the system to Mr Navalny.
It also turned out that Navalny had launched a smear campaign against RT, one of the few media outlets in the West that allows those who disagree with the official position of the Western government to speak out. It should be noted that Navalny’s campaign ran in parallel with the Integrity Initiative campaign. A reasonable question arises — why does Navalny, who is mostly involved in political battles inside Russia, spend time fighting a TV company operating outside the country? Was RT such a problem for him? No, it wasn’t. This was a problem for the Western imperialists, and apparently they advised Navalny to join.
One way or another. Here again are links to the four parts of ” Undermining Russia»:
один https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-I-02-04 ,
два https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-II-02-04,
три https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-III-02-04,
четыре https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-IV-02-12.
They give a detailed picture of the methods that the “West” uses to destroy foreign countries. The knowledge you need to really understand what’s going on in this world.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/new-documents-reveal-more-british-efforts-to-undermine-russia.html -original in English (see the link for an extensive discussion of the submitted documents).)
LJ: colonelcassad ”
I dont know about you, but for me, seeing it bald and bold in print like this makes my confidence in a future without war somewhat lessened.
Because, all you can think, reading this and realising that many in the Ruling Junta of Oceania actually like this, agree with it, and push it, is “can they really truly be this stupid? this venal? this psychotically evil?”.
Sadly, of course, the only answer to the rhetorical question is “Clearly, Yes”.
One wonders-and hopes-that these continuing revelations have enabled MFA and FSB to further investigate all the info and establish the full extant of these subversive activities….following the money….and in the light of recent statements by MFA these can be fully publicised eg in those forthright Thursday press conferences led by Mmme Zakharova for example ….but also in the international press…UN and all other bodies eg OSCE Russia is a current member of…and that the firmest action can be taken to nullify them and protect Russian interests.
A look at Texas from Russia via “Aftershock” – amusing in it’s way. I wonder how the natives of Texas would feel, realising that they are viewed by those they choose to look down on in this way?
A small piece under the headline “You see, we have this tradition in Texas”
Many residents of Texas meditate on a lamp in a frozen house, quite rightly wonder why the state’s largest producer of energy of all kinds in the United States, can not provide enough energy to last only a week in subzero temperatures.”……………………………(…………).
The last candlelit Texas sit-in took place as recently as 2011, and the same in February and on the same days. A Commission was set up on this issue, which conducted a thorough investigation at the highest level. As a result of the investigation, a weighty report appeared on as many as 350 pages with a bunch of diagrams, graphs and all sorts of useful tips.
It should be noted that the report mentions the epic failure of local energy in 1989, in its consequences comparable to what is happening now in Texas and 2011. And if you read the reports of meteorologists, it turns out that such weather events in the southwestern United States occurred regularly in 1983, 1989, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
So sitting by candlelight in a frozen cardboard house in Texas in February is a local folk custom.“
Finally, a Western Biblical scholar who thinks…he talks of the cumulative affect of practice in a very humble way.
He talks about reading with understanding of context…and discusses Psalm 91. Dr. Michael S. Heiser, author of Unseen Realms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor5h_SLKzY
well, confer http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-great-extinction-and-current.html
with the time around February 12 , compare it with a big acquittal and a prolonged Texas shut-down
with ice on the lemons in a month ruled by Aquarius/Capricorn over the northern hemisphere …
but that’s one of the levels of our rhythms — it’s not what to do? but to watch! what happens? how to
get a connection with our unconscious flow — and to watch no longer with with intellect but with heart, our oldest watcher, nine months older than breathing intellect.
get the week:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2021/02/with-sun-into-heart-of-innocence.html
yes, Heart with the original brain cells which then migrate upward as the cerebral organ forms over time.
but here is information just for fun…
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oh, dear, whatever are those greenie techies who moved to Texas ever gonna do now with their boondoggle Teslas? What do you say? The masses need it more…well, you know the answer us elitist eugenicists have for that!!! snarc.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/texas-freeze-raises-cost-charging-tesla-900
Attn: warning folks about zero hedge—-some articles contain rank Russophobia ( re: the totally junk article on weaponized Ebola on 2/17/2021)
Russ Limbaugh has died.
This is a great loss to Free Speech Radio and Conservative Ideology.
He was a very creative force in Communication.
Irreplaceable.
RIP to a great American citizen.
Whilst I guess that photo of German kids was taken in Grunewald, near Berlin, probably late 1950’s or early 1960’s , when I was about the same age, it could just as easily have been taken in England with my school trip, cos we looked almost exactly the same.
So why were we fighting each other in two world wars? We were much the same. Still are.
Whilst I am somewhat amazed to have got as old as I am, and still in relatively good health, the world has now entered an extremely dark space, and hardly anyone is taking it seriously. Very few websites will even discuss it. Almost everything apart from the “official truth” is being censored. Speak what you are convinced is the truth, and you will be ostracised, by not just your friends, but your family too.
They do not want to know. They have been brainwashed by repetitive propaganda on the TV screen.
I know it must have seemed pretty bad when my parents got married in 1939, just before WWII started.
I think what is happening now is very much worse than that, but almost everyone is blind to it.
Whilst I have recently been ill, there is no way I am going to allow myself to be injected with a vaccine against the equivalent of a bad cold or flu virus, when I have seen numerous, very well documented reports, that the vaccine has killed or seriously harmed, during only the very first few months it has been available, far more people who have taken it, than those who refused it.
I have tried to warn several people I know very well of the dangers of the vaccine especially the mRNA version. At least two of them, have already been injected.
My words have no effect against incessant propaganda.
It’s like having a little umbrella against a water cannon.
Tony
Nice observations, Tony. Yes, ca 1956, but how do you know they are Germs, and that it is Grunewald *in* Berlin? One of the ladies changed her religion from protestant to israelic and thus managed to become an israeli professor with a stupendous ability to tell not-yet-israelis what will happen next to them and/or their loved ones. The two guys, patently lumped together in this moment, have the same christian name (warned against by one esoteric site because such people tend to be too outspoken, creating enemies, so that adopting another first name was advocated), and later, independently, worked in the same field. One of them, raised in blind veneration of everything english, had all his career chances destroyed after ignoring all calls to join their forces, and, like all the others, “meet interesting people” for recruiting or destroying them. Once one of their top agent runners stalked him… silently… perhaps because, Wikipedia informed afterwards, at that moment he was already dead… or “dead”… whatever.
This concerns me because the immune systems of health care workers are already functioning at peak efficiency so if a toxic-vaccine is given which amps it up even further leads to death, then, this needs be explored thoroughly.
Maybe these new experimental mRNA substances only “work” in a Goldilock’s zone ( not too weak, not too strong) immune system condition? Just asking.
https://humansarefree.com/2021/02/28-year-old-brain-dead-5-days-after-second-pfizer-vaccines.html
I worked out where this photo was taken, cos I clicked on it, and I did a save as…and the photographer or whoever made in available on the internet wrote some words to describe it in filename before he pressed send
bp4MFC_D9-34595st1Berlin_Grunewald-864x400_c
At the time, my camera was a Box Brownie, my Mum said I could borrow.
“It was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film.”
The Definition in The photos, because of the large film size, was and is completely amazing. The earlier Plate cameras were even better. I have seen the original photographs in my local museum from about 150 years ago.
I travelled a lot – even when I was kid, and will continue to do if I can.
I like meeting people in foreign lands, particularly when we hardly understand a word,,,in each others languages – and we communicate mainly by gesture, hand signals, touches and cuddles
I am just a tourist – sometimes just hitchin’ with my pretty wife
We have never had a problem….just friendly people.never had any connection to any military…we often had absolutely no idea where were going, at very short notice….extremely cheap….and 36 hours later we find ourselves somewhere e.g. in the rural depths of Kerala as if we were still teenagers..
Have you checked the visa’s and stuff will work OK. Is there any sea…???
My wife has dragged me to completely different cultures all over much of the world, for the last 40 years. I find it always works best, if she thinks its her idea.
Where are we now?
How do we escape this World Wide Lockdown?
I am much better now and want to travel again.
Tony
Nice one Tony. I hope you get to travel to every single one of the places you and your pretty wife have yet to stumble through.
Ok. It has been awhile since I slapped RT around—wake up, wake up!!! But,,,sigh… I just have to call them out on their use of the descriptive adjective “far-east” in reference to the city of Vladivostok below:
https://www.rt.com/russia/515861-french-planes-intercept-black-sea/
Yeah, you know, that city in a galaxy, far, far away..and in the other direction to all meaningful life and, oh, the horror the horror, think of the time zone disparity!!!
No, this should read most especially in this article ,” Vladivostok, home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet.” This port, city and fleet etc. just might be responsible for saving St Petersburg someday. So a little respect, please?
Being from Vladivostok: It must be like saying you are from North Dakota and then seeing a strained look come over people’s faces as they think,
” There’s a North Dakota? jeez, I know there is a South Dakota but…”. Or saying that you are from New Mexico and people compliment you on how well you speak English. sigh.
Obviously, the MICIMATT InfraTards have decided to attack me since I dared to call them out on their evil lifestyles and blatant lies. The professors and PhDs. seem to have taken it the worst of all and their narcisstic injury is of their own making. What did they expect people to do after the legitimacy of the entire university system has been totally destroyed by a surveillance cult of pathological liars that have destroyed the world and have been wrong on every single issue, and have corrupted everything and everyone that they come in contact with? They are not worthy of teaching anyone anything! They charge obscene fees to students, parents, and the government to drill propaganda and blatant Pentagon lies into students heads! Students, parents, the government, and tax payers have to pay obscene amounts of money to this club of pseudo-intellectuals to be brain washed with lies, just in order to participate in this sick fu***d up society! Now, those institutions that I have rightfully called out for fraud and demanded accountability from are expressing narcisstic rage, trying to make me look insane, by parroting me. They are frauds. Their motive is obvious. They are the scum of the earth! Professors are addicted to adoration and admiration of their students and society, but they are not worthy of any of it, because they are the pathological liars that have willingly sacrificed the entire world for the purpose of their own unearned, undeserved self-exaltations!
Andrea Iravani
I will die a happy woman, because now their mental incompetency and crimes against humanity have been fully exposed and are on display for the world to see and to know that they are masked monsters guilty of fraud, and that they are 100 times more stupid than retarded people, because even retarded people would realize that being fully committed to being evil, illegal, wrong, and pathological lying to cover up serial criminal behavior is a strategy that is guaranteed to fail! Everyone knows that except the ivy league, ivory tower, pseudo-intellectuals that have set policy for America and the world in their MICIMATT InfraTard low IQ losers club! Nobody is more anti-American than the surveillance state which is filled with losers! James Bond wannabes are a dime a dozen and there is no demand for them, and a gross over supply, which is why they have now resorted to 9/11, the scamdemic, and spying on viruses, hunting for space aliens, and polluting society with propaganda and blatant lies in the John Bolton under-world view that the truth ought to be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
Now America has been exposed for running an economy of mentally incmpetent terrorists and spies. God damn America. America will never be great again as long as the surveillance state exists, and the surveillance state just keeps getting bigger, which guarantees that America will just keep getting worse. There is really nothing to miss about not being a part of this sick, evil, mentally incompetent, country full of frauds and losers.
Andrea Iravani
Stop the world, I wanna get off …
Bill Gates Goes Full Captain Planet, Wants To Change ‘Every Aspect Of Economy’ While We Dine On Fake Meat
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bill-gates-goes-full-captain-planet-wants-change-every-aspect-economy-while-we-dine-fake
Fury at ‘do not resuscitate’ notices given to Covid patients with learning disabilities – Vulnerable people have encountered ‘shocking discrimination’ during pandemic, says Mencap charity
“The Care Quality Commission said in December that inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices had caused potentially avoidable deaths last year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/13/new-do-not-resuscitate-orders-imposed-on-covid-19-patients-with-learning-difficulties
Doing more with less … (via CHD Newswatch) headlines (links are for those needing detail)
– COVID-19: World’s First Human Trials Given Green Light in UK
“Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world’s first –
COVID-19 “human challenge” study, which will take place in the UK”
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56097088
– To Get Their Lives Back, Teens Volunteer for Vaccine Trials
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/health/covid-vaccine-teens.html
Follow the money …
– Insiders at COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Sold Nearly $500 Million of Stock Last Year
https://www.wsj.com/articles/insiders-at-covid-19-vaccine-makers-sold-nearly-500-million-of-stock-last-year-11613557801
– My Teens Are Coronavirus Vaccine Guinea Pigs
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/parenting/teen-coronavirus-vaccine-trial.html
– Brooklyn Woman Fired From Job After Not Getting Vaccine Because She Wanted to Wait
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/brooklyn-woman-fired-from-job-after-not-getting-vaccine-because-she-wanted-to-wait/2892578/
– South Africa To Return 1 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses To Serum Institute
https://greatgameindia.com/africa-return-covid-19-vaccines/
Geez, that’s a surprise I must say!
“Gates told CBS News we might need a third shot of a currently available vaccine, or a “modified” vaccine as the virus mutates, but CHD’s RFK, Jr. asks why we haven’t focused instead on non-vaccine strategies, including therapeutic drugs.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-third-shot-coronavirus-variants/
This comment is mostly for Josep and joey_n who ask good questions here in the Cafe (a good backgrounder, esp. reference to Valentine’s book, we had St. Valentine’s Day just the other day)
Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms – Edward Curtin
“The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime …
“The censorship of Robert Kennedy, Jr. is an exemplary case. His banishment from Instagram and the ridicule the mainstream media have heaped upon him for years is not simply because he raises deeply informed questions about vaccines, Bill Gates, the pharmaceutical companies, etc. His critiques suggest something far more dangerous is afoot: the demise of democracy and the rise of a totalitarian order that involves total surveillance, control, eugenics, etc. by the wealthy led by their intelligence propagandists.”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/02/14/opening-the-cias-can-of-worms/
Interesting development … maybe India is turning from willingly being a US client state? (they still allow US forces to access to the military bases, btw)
India joins Iran-Russia’s two-day navy exercise
India has joined Iran and Russia in a two-day navy exercise dubbed “Iran-Russia Maritime Security Belt 2021” in the northern part of the Indian Ocean. … The Indian Navy has also joined the exercise with a select group of vessels, Admiral Gholamreza Tahani, spokesman of the drill, was quoted as saying
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-joins-iran-russias-two-day-navy-exercise-chinese-navy-to-also-participate/articleshow/81054834.cms
… and I thought this was interesting, just an FYI
“One-third of U.S. military rejects Covid shots. They can still deploy” – because you know they have to keep killing brown people in their own countries!!! [my cynicism]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/one-third-of-u-s-troops-decline-covid-19-vaccine-pentagon-says
Vernon Coleman on the disgrace of no informed consent sought or given, in the vaccine roll out. He outlines how the advice given to persuade people contains outright lying and he goes through the death and injury figures – not being shared :
https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/02/17/vernon-coleman-questioning-the-nhs-vaccine-persuaders/
it’s not very long and can be understood at 1.5 speed.
Thanks Sand, you’re a marvel!
Cheers,
T
It is stated by the US the reason Europe requires “freedom molecules” by way of their more expensive LPG, in opposition to Russian gas, is that Europe is too “energy dependent”on Russia. And they risk Russia turning the spigots off. (Russia has always honoured her energy commitment contracts).
And ha!
A week of cold weather in Texas. ????
US slows and stops supply of gas to Mexico.
Seems freedom molecules ain’t free.
MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. The American authorities would be better off devoting their energies to solving the power outage crisis in Texas, where the population has been left without heat and other crucial daily utilities, rather than focusing on Nord Stream 2, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Again an FYI:
China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base (via Futurism)
China’s space program is increasingly dominant.
Picking Sides
The governments of Russia and China have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding that says the two countries will collaborate on an upcoming lunar base.
Specifically, SpaceNews reports, the memorandum suggests that Russia will sign on to help China with its planned International Lunar Research Stations (ILRS). It’s a striking — but not surprising — pivot from Russia’s partnership with the nations contributing to the International Space Station that could have a major impact on the geopolitical landscape of space exploration.
New Partnership
The goal for the ILRS is to establish a long-term robotic presence on the Moon by the early 2030s and a sustained human presence later that decade. Russia, which has previously expressed that the ISS is becoming unusable during its final years of operation, will lend its own space travel expertise to the project, SpaceNews reports, though the details of the tentative agreement haven’t been finalized.
“This [memorandum of understanding] fits the larger trend, which is Russia moving into a closer orbit with China,” University of Leicester international relations expert Bleddyn Bowen told SpaceNews.
Odd Man Out
Relations between NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos have been strained as of late, and this new agreement could further diminish NASA’s role as the global leader among space programs.
That’s compounded by the fact that the European Space Agency is also keeping an eye on the ILRS to see if it wants to join the program, SpaceNews reports – a move that would further isolate NASA, which is banned from collaborating with China in space, from the global community.
FYI
The many-headed hydra …
Georgian Prime Minister Resigns Over Disagreement With Team on Opposition Figure [Nika] Melia
“Melia, who chairs the United National Movement party, was briefly arrested for leading riots and anti-Russian protests back in June 2019 to be later released on 30,000 Georgian lari ($9,063) bail. He was obligated to wear a monitoring bracelet but removed it publicly during protests that erupted in November 2020 following the general election, which the Georgian opposition did not recognize. This prompted the court to revise conditions of Melia’s release and impose a new bail, totaling 40,000 lari.
Earlier this week, Melia was stripped of his parliamentary immunity over refusal to pay bail. The Tbilisi City Court ruled to remand Melia into custody”
No doubt, following a similar template to Navalny, Melia will be funded/coached/supported by zionist globalists
Thank you and at last!
Russia to present new concept of national digital currency – Central Bank
https://www.rt.com/business/515916-russia-digital-ruble-concept/
The Central Bank though wants to own it, with ‘accounts at the Central Bank’. This should not happen and commercial banks should manage this – in Russia. The Chinese situation is different. Russia’s Central Bank (although more and more decoupled with currency swaps and trading in local currencies), is still too close to the current system of Central Banks.
Now they simply also have to allow other crypto currencies to exist. Please be aware of the difference between digital currencies and cryptocurrencies.
Musings: I’d like to comment on something that teranam13 said, on the Great Thread of State of Being first in this cafe. It only tangentially has to do with the philosophical content of state of being, but more with a physical manifestation.
The short comment is: “… as it seems many people who used to post here have gone away offended ”
Things, people, circumstances and everything is truly changing. The best way for me is just to say we’re in the Age of Aquarius now. For me it feels as if the hours have shortened and much good information is being presented generally. It feels as if waterfalls of new insight and new information come to me. There is of course just too much, and we have to cull what is not of social or spiritual importance for us. The Age of Knowledge is also knowledge of ourselves yet again.
I usually feel the ire of the offended in some way or another. But the offended will go anyways as their schtick perhaps is not accepted. (Note the trolls are never offended hahaaaaa … they get paid to not be offended – and if you respond to them, their pay increases – I could not be bothered and would rather people recognize the patterns of trollery than to continue fighting trolls. If they get too loud, we’ll knock on The Saker’s door for a purge).
Others, and I hear from these also regularly, left because they want to reduce social media footprint. Yet, they still chat but on a smaller scale and more individual perhaps – going back to email. It also seems as if many conversations are developing on other platforms. This is good and bad as there seems to be scattering, but also, on the other hand, a more intensive investigation of whatever the folks are interested in.
And then, I also frequently get this and I’ve redacted this example of course:
Greetings from xxxxx. I wanted to send a quick note to Thank you. I consult the Cafe daily. I don’t post as there are many good voices and I am content to read and absorb. Even though it is unlikely we will ever meet, we are connected as we are all One.
Does this not want you to be accurate with content, true to yourself, and sharing your areas of expertise or express the insecurities that we all have? For the unknown soldiers?
My hope is that we can pull this place together. Quantity is not always quality. Poems, Musics, Jokes, but also our own knowledge. I was nattering about baking bread, the staff of life, and got angry mail that they are not interested in my bread. Well, I like posting recipes and methods and will do so again.
If others want to leave, let them go in peace. If you feel the mods mess with you, they are not all-knowing and cannot always be correct. If someone does not understand what you presented and nobody comments, well, that is the way the cookie crumbles. Try again – the problem may be in the message, or not. Perhaps it is just not the time. Perhaps that mod just really did not understand what you were talking about.
On the Great Thread of State of Being, this is my reply.. The concepts that we seek for are sometimes so elusive and this is a fun illustration of just that: https://saker.community/2021/01/03/time/
A final comment, if you missed it, the youtube discussion between Alastair Crooke, Pepe Escobar, Max Blumenthal and Mohammad Marandi is a must-watch imo on the geo-political space.
/the-post-american-world-crooke-escobar-blumenthal-and-marandi-lay-it-all-out/
Nice post A, I am some of the above- cutting back on screen time and on other forums (telegraph, discord are popping). But I am not offended in anyway and I love this space and zip read through the cafe every day- mostly not posting because I speed along to the next thing. Life is just like that now. I love your bread recipes, not because I bake, but because I savor those kinds of impressions- a genre of life and life poetry to me. And, I sooooo appreciate the cafe’istas who faithfully report what we all need to know now. And (humble nod) I honor and feel the spirit of Ioan here always.
Now, in terms of truth and accuracy of content, (don’t get offended :)- a new Age- in this case Aquarius- is established by a precise astronomical calculation- when the vernal point- the moment the sun crosses the equator on the spring equinox- happens against the background of one of the twelve zodiacal constellations. Currently today, in real time the vernal point is in Pisces. We are still in the Age of Pisces.
The vernal point moves one degree every 72 years. Each constellation is 30 degrees thus 72 x 30 = 2160. So each Age is 2160 years. (This all goes back to the Babylonian Magi Priest-Kings who were the first to establish a map of the zodiac, later taken up by India, Egypt, Greece etc). (It is sadly misrepresented by modern tropical astrology which ignores the actual placement of the sun and planets in real time).
Today the vernal point is at 5 degrees Pisces. So in about 350 years, about 2370, the vernal point will occur against the background of Aquarius, the sign of the Water Bearer. This is when the Age of Aquarius begins and it will last 2160 years until the Age of Capricorn. That said, before any event there is always a heralding of that event. So the new energies of Aquarius are trickling in as you suggest, and many of us are feeling them.
And lastly and most excitedly- each age brings on a new civilization and a new capacity of consciousness for humanity. These developments occur in specific geographic areas of the earth. The Age of Aquarius will be the Age of brotherhood and sisterhood- a faculty that as we have not yet managed outside of familial ties. But it is arising and guess where this new age will be geographically centered??????? Russia!!
k
PS In case you didn’t figure- this is mostly gleaned from Rudolf Steiner.
“Currently today, in real time the vernal point is in Pisces. We are still in the Age of Pisces.”
It’s odd isn’t, because when you have a long moment activity, as in this case, it seems there are various interpretations.
One I read stated that for the first time we now have two planets contiguously “in” Aquarius which the reader claimed constituted the beginning of the transition, and thus we are beginning to be in Aquarius.
What do you think?
Hi Pamela,
I’m not sure I quite get what you are asking. There are long cycles and short cycles. The sun travels through the zodiac annually and it is currently traversing Aquarius. All the planets do the same in their own shorter or longer cycles. So the planets will cycle through Aquarius- the moon being the quickest cycling through in 29 or so days. As far as an entire AGE of 2160 years- that is not based upon the cycle of a planet. It is based the vernal point- the place where the sun crosses the equator in the spring (heading north,)
Hope you are doing well.
k
kinterra, it is all so interesting, and riveting, and absorbing, am i a fish or a waterman, or even a ram perchance, and what of it, is it here or there, or somewhere else ? i am not trying to be deliberately obfustacative or obtuse, but just to say something unfashionable, not so nice that is, and that is how low vision emanations can’t see the wood for the trees due to too close proximity of forests of ego’s and of woods, so to say, and of would be goods, the best woods of all. not you, and i mean that, nor anyone else.
Hi Amarynth,
Firstly, many thanks for your comment. You said what needed saying, as I, and I guess others, have wondered why come Cafe’istas just ‘up and off’ without explanation (not that they must explain)
I, for one, was extremely grateful for your bread recipe as I’ve put in a home vegie garden and am seeking to become as self sufficient as practicable hence less reliant on foodstores in case the ‘collective West’ goes down the toilet – of which there is an imminent risk
Secondly, w.r.t. a new age, my sense (instinct) is that we are in a new age (in spite of kinterra’s far more in depth dating of 2370) – or as Robert Anton Wilson wrote in Prometheus Rising – “a new ball game”. There’s definitely a different feel to this present time in history – like we’ve turned a corner. The Saker is right – there is now a well established, well-defined Zone A & Zone B – which means that humanity now has a choice between Zone A’s ‘race to the bottom’ which will end in barbarism (as predicted by Steiner more than 100 years ago, in a hat tip to kinterra) and a new, mutually beneficial trade & infrastructure economic development approach – a common destiny for humankind under the aegis of the Eurasian civilizational states* of Russia-China-Iran – Ive posted this link a no. of times as a summary: https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the-community-of-common-destiny-in-xi-jinpings-new-era/
This shift in economic & socio-cultural power from the West to the East has long been prophesied, (for those with ears to hear) so the transformation from globalism (i.e. the domination by one nation, the US, over all others, which we’ve been in more or less since end-WWII) to a multipolar world has an ‘air’ of inevitability about it
So in sum, its an incredibly exciting time to be alive – and we all really should give ourselves a great big pat on the back for coming back (into the physical) at this time – to experience this level of awareness in the long arc of the evolution of human consciousness
That being said, it is not too fanciful to rule out the possibility that the Elites have overreached with the Covid shenanigans – and have woken up a lot more people than otherwise would have – but still early days yet!
Thirdly, the YT discussion with Crooke, Escobar, Blumenthal & Prof. Marandi is spectacular (altho Blumenthal doesnt reveal anything we didnt already know in his 1st stint, but makes salient points in his 2nd go-around). I always hesitate when a vid is more than a hour long (being HFA) – but with the exception of Max’s 1st 20 mins or so – it really is worth every minute. And its wonderful to see the camaraderie amongst 4 vastly experienced and knowledgeable people – without them talking over the top of each other – which is the bane of a lot of US i/views
* I use the term for the thousands-of-years-old civilizational states to distinguish Russia, China, Persia (modern day Iran & Iraq) from the hundreds-of-years-old Anglo-Zionist white-settler colonies: US, Canada, Australia, NZ, aka FV-EY nations – as theres such a huge difference!
So, many thanks for all that you do here in the Cafe and more generally on VoS
Kind regards
Tyson,
I too balk at long videos. I’ve started switching on the subtitles in English and setting the speed at 1.75 which saves a fair amount of time. Didn’t want to miss these 4 – well worth the watch.
Hi Sand – good suggestion, thanks for that.
Kind regards
Hi amarynth, re: Newton’s and Einstein’s statements ( that can be found at the proferred link near bottom of your comment ), “Time is absolute”, and “Time is relative”, respectively… both are correct but spoken from two different states of consciousness. In Newton’s case, time is absolute only where that which is affected by the passing of time is concerned, ie; where all temporal / embodied forms are concerned. But to the individual ( the inner man, or woman if some are so inclined ), time is relative, because it is only a measurement of experience. That experience however, does leave it’s mark on Soul. Eventually we become a greater version of what we once were. Ie; more tolerant, accepting, forgiving… in short, we become a greater vessel for love, or charity. From here, it’s not a very big leap – though not for all, perhaps – to accept that our education continues beyond the lifespan of ‘three score and ten’ allotted to man. Why? Because Soul’s education continues throughout eternity. It has much to learn, far more than a single lifetime can offer. Think of a jagged piece of stone, born of fire and washed by oceans for millenia, until becoming a polished thing of beauty.
This is my opinion, in any case. Kindly, D.
People also have left for different reasons other than being offended. In a community, all voices are heard and are equal.
This Cafe is a shadow of what it once was, despite the good intentions and fine people and links, the spirit has been driven out, silenced, and cannot be reclaimed by falsity.
“and got angry replies they are not interested in my bread”
What’s a café without bread?
From Putin Today:
I am sure the West did not expect this from Russia: Russia has established the production of gas turbine engines for the fleet
Noting that commentators of Oceania have tended to listen to those production floor workers who tend not to see what’s under their noses, they ignore people like the writer, who keeps trying to get across the message – that Russia is a very high tech, successful nation; the writer states that:
“ even the Chinese write about the same thing, saying that the Americans did not believe that we could:
The Sohu reviewer notes that the construction of such power plants is a high-tech {plant} and high-tech process, which only a few companies in the world are capable of.
Currently, the United States, great Britain and Ukraine are the world leaders in the production of gas turbines… Russia’s success in creating gas turbines for frigates is an unpleasant surprise for the United States and Ukraine.
And yet, we were able to!
As reported by the web resource Sudоstrоenie.info in December 2020, the first Russian-made gas turbine engines and gearboxes were loaded into the hold of the aft engine room of the Admiral Golovko frigate project 22350 (serial number 923), which is being built for the Russian Navy, at Severnaya Verf Shipyard (part of United shipbuilding Corporation JSC) in St. Petersburg.
The M90FR gas turbine engines are manufactured by the UEC-Saturn plant located in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. The ship will be the first in its class equipped with a fully Russian power plant.”
Russia continues to forge ahead – and Ukraine will lose yet another source of income!!
If I could use “Reply as an addendum to the above, so to speak, :-) I’d like to add this snippet:
Russia is one of the three largest pipe manufacturers on the planet. How did that happen?
Probably everyone should know that the USSR did not know how to produce large-diameter pipes (for main oil and gas pipelines) and one of the most striking events of the 60s was the conclusion of an agreement between the USSR and Western countries on the exchange of Pipes for Gas. And actually under this contract, pipes were supplied until the end of the 80s. It only seems that pipes are simple … in fact, making large-diameter pipes is a troublesome task.
Then there was Perestroika, destruction, restoration, and in 2001 the pipe metallurgical company was founded. And it began to assemble metallurgical and pipe plants under its control-the Taganrog metallurgical plant, the Volga, Seversky and Sinar pipe plants, then the Romanian TMK-Artrom and TMK-Resita entered, then the Orsk machine-Building plant and so on …………………………………………………
After giving more detail and a couple of charts showing explosive rate of growth, the writer finishes off with:
“So that’s what I’m getting at. For all those who believe that nothing is produced in Russia — here, 3.8 million !!! (a million!!!) tons of pipe products worth 230 billion rubles. And this is not the oil and gas sector, this is metallurgy, one of the basic areas of the non-raw {i.e value added } material economy.
And for those who support the domestic industry — guys, we are among the top three leaders in the world in the production of large-diameter pipes!”
It never ceases to amaze me – from being almost destroyed beyond recovery a mere 30 yrs ago, to being among the Worlds leading manufacturers in so many fields, and the World no. 1 Wheat exporter, – with more and more plants and projects designed to grow in same way, just imagine what Russia will be in another 30 yrs time!! And then on into the future.
No wonder Oceania is scared to death. I think just a few can see the writing on the wall. And I dont think they like what they see.
Too bad.
Big pipes? So the two migrant workers who where working for the US Army boring tunnels under and around Iraq the past two years have moved on. The Iraq project stoped at about 60% complition. Apparently there was some urgency to ‘bug out’, something to the effect of being confined to base as missiles were falling all over the place. One’s back home now, the other picked up work in Algeria. There they are laying pipe in excess of 25′ diameter. Wonder where that pipe is made, that’s really big. I’ll try and find out what material it’s made from.
Cheers, M
However, it should not be taken to understand that Russia has no sense of the danger she lives under – constantly.
I still read so many “Russian doesn’t understand…..”, “Russia’s leadership is naive in trusting the West….” etc etc.
They dont.
From News Front, by Yuri Selivanov,
An American “colt” {gun} at the temple of Russia
“Under the cover of well-worn science fiction thrillers about “Russian aggression”, the United States is creating a colossal strike potential in Eastern Europe under its command to deliver a lightning-fast and targeted strike against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
To begin with, we have a fresh reason to recall what the Russian Federation looks like in the crooked mirror of ” purely concrete and truthful ” American propaganda. In this, as always, the Pentagon helped us. Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a briefing at the US Department of defence on February 16.
“Russia is a clear threat to all NATO allies, including the United States. Russia undermines transparency and predictability. They use military force to achieve their goals. They support proxy groups and sow chaos and doubt, and undermine the international order.. I think we see Russia’s desire to undermine security and stability around the world with its authoritarian approach.”
Pay attention to the deliberate ornateness of the syllable, the use of various kinds of muddy words in the favourite Anglo-Saxon style “highly likely” (very likely) and the complete absence of not only any evidence, but even a slight hint of any.
Hence the obvious conclusion – we are facing the most low-grade propaganda, behind which there is absolutely nothing but the desire to portray the other side as a fiend of hell, and themselves against this background as angels of heaven.
It is with such a completely insolent kindergarten (according to the quite infantile level of its egoism and narrow-mindedness) that Russia has to deal today. And it is not at all surprising that the leadership of our country, with all its truly angelic patience, is beginning to come to the conclusion that with these incorrigible fans of the cult of “chutzpah” (super-arrogance), in one way or another, it is time to finish.
Moreover, in real, objective reality, and not in the other world of enemy propaganda, everything is exactly the opposite. And it is the West that is the most dangerous and unpredictable aggressor here, the threat from which is growing almost every day.
And again, for a fresh example in the pocket, we will not climb. Here is the latest information on what exactly the same Pentagon is doing exactly at a time when its troubadours are shaking the air with myths about the Russian threat.
“The commander of the US ground forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, announced plans to create a so-called Theatre Fires Command as part of the US forces in Europe. According to the plan, the command will represent a constantly functioning centre that is engaged in peacetime and wartime in identifying potential targets in the theatre of operations and constantly monitoring them in order to quickly defeat them in the event of war with army firepower, primarily long-range rocket and artillery weapons.
According to General Cavoli, theatre fire command should “become a key element of future multi-domain operations in major conflicts.” To defeat the targets identified by this command, it is also proposed to form small highly mobile fire units/formations (the so — called “multi-Domain task Forces” — MDTF), which will use high-precision long-range missile weapons, as well as electronic and cyber warfare means.”
Now let’s translate this “multi-domain” American concept into a simple and understandable Russian language.
First, what exactly are we talking about? And it goes, I dare say, that the United States, under the guise of a smoke screen in the form of empty chatter about the “Russian threat”, in reality creates a situation in Europe, the military danger of which exceeds everything known to us before.
What they are currently planning is an order of magnitude more dangerous than all the types of military confrontation that were before. Even taking into account the well-known historical fact of the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
Why are we dealing with an unprecedented threat to peace and international security? First of all, because the United States decided, in fact, to put a gun to the temple of its opponent, that is, Russia. And keep him there, on a combat platoon, constantly, including in peacetime!
Moreover, we are talking not so much about relatively small types of strategic weapons, such as long-range bombers, Intercontinental missiles or submarines, which are under strict and fairly reliable control, but about the means of destruction that are in service with the ground forces, which are much more numerous, diverse and very poorly amenable to effective control of the highest level.
That is, all this mass of weapons-from front-line fighters with bombs and missiles, to tactical missiles and field artillery, to company mortars inclusive, will be online, using all means and methods of target reconnaissance, to monitor the enemy in peacetime, being in instant readiness to deliver a massive strike on it. This is exactly what I mean when I talk about the situation of a cocked gun held to our temple.
Nothing is more dangerous for the political and military stability in Europe than we can imagine. A simple question – how long can you live and work in peace with a gun to your head? I think the answer is obvious. Sooner or later, and most likely sooner, such a situation will certainly lead to a psychological breakdown, or to a program failure, and the blow may be dealt.
It is obvious that the other side, which is treated in such a careless manner, will not sit idly by and will also take the necessary measures to pre-empt this threat. This will at least double the risk of a military catastrophe, even as a result of a computer error common to the current “super”technology.
The probability of which in real life will only increase due to the fact that this whole system will encounter various situations that it can interpret as preparing the enemy for such a preemptive strike .
Take the same military exercises, which can be quite large, with mass movements of troops, military equipment, equipment of firing positions, massive radio exchange, and so on. Why isn’t this a pre-strike situation? So we need to react immediately. That is, to deliver a preemptive strike. Time for decision-making in such an environment is always given the very minimum and the probability of an incorrect assessment of the situation, especially against the background of a General problem of relations, is very high. And here at hand is already assembled, adjusted and specially designed for such cases “fire system in the theatre of operations”. The same gun that is already hanging on the stage and must necessarily shoot.
How serious all this is is also indicated by the scale of the plan. Americans are not used to petty things. Theater of military operations (TVD) this space is several thousand kilometres along the front and one and a half to two thousand in depth. That is, everything living and moving within these spaces can be considered by them as a potential threat, which should be responded to in a shock way.
In addition, the Pentagon is by no means going to limit itself only to its own forces in this theatre. We are talking about combining all the fire weapons at the disposal of many local armies into a single shock fist and under the American command. On the whole huge front-from the Baltic States and Poland, to Romania and Ukraine.
It is no coincidence that just six months ago, the headquarters of the US 5th army corps was deployed on Polish territory, which is practically the only operational-strategic management structure at the Eastern European theatre of operations. The Pentagon does not make much secret of the fact that this headquarters will be responsible for managing all the forces of the Western coalition deployed on the potential Eastern front against Russia.
“The command of the US 5th army corps in Poland will be the only structure of this level deployed in Europe. The US Department of defence stressed that the main task of the us military corps will be the coordination and control of US ground forces in Europe, operational planning, cooperation and synchronisation of US forces with the troops of other NATO countries.”
Thus, the “puzzle” is formed quite correctly and according to a pre-made plan. No sooner did the American “coordination centre” appear in Eastern Europe in the person of the headquarters of the 5th corps, than they immediately began to “hang” the practical functions that were clearly not prepared yesterday in the form of “theatre fire command”. This, in terms of the scale of military preparations, the level of constant mobilisation of forces and means for launching strikes, the degree of automatic response, combined with a high probability of misjudging the situation and making erroneous decisions, including for the reason of banal drunkenness, which is quite common for the American army, creates the highest level of military threat and such a degradation of security systems that Europe has never
This is the objective reality, which, unlike the Pentagon’s false stories about “Russian aggression”, is really a terrible threat to the entire European continent. Moreover, this threat is strongly formed precisely by those who have declared themselves its main defenders and benefactors. Indeed, the ancients were right when they said, “Fear the Danites who bring gifts!” Especially if these “Danites” wear the uniform of the US armed forces.+ ”
I think clearly they not only are sharply aware of the weapons of death constantly a mere 10 minutes away from the entire of Western Russia, but that they are standing ready to respond.
And they know, as it seems few if any of the threatening nations of Oceania do – the immense danger these idiots are in – constantly.
Because let one missile get let loose and head for Russia, and I’d say its curtains for most of the Empire of Oceania.
@Pamela
Interesting resume. Just wonder why Kremlin hasnt been a little more consequent setting up clear red lines. Whatever the cold war was, there was never doubt that any interference with Sovjet would result in prompt hard answers.
But I guess Russia is still vulnerable, and thats why they are still playing the soft game despite the many provocations.
On Alex Salmond Show today on RT an intensive care doctor on all things covid :
https://www.rt.com/shows/alex-salmond-show/515823-covid-vaccination-rollout-prediction/
He’s quite an impressive speaker but I’m alarmed. He goes through the misinformation canard, citing the doubts about fertility effects as not true, whereas the government’s own advice issued to doctors warns that the effects on fertility are unknown and that pregnant / breast feeding women should not be given the vaccine and warned not to get pregnant in proceeding months, see article below :
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-covid-jab-warning-no-breastfeeding-avoid-pregnancy-2-months-unknown-fertility-impacts/5732865
He also makes the claim that asymptomatic people are unwitting super spreaders – on what evidence ?. From the following article :
“…So-called asymptomatic cases have never in the history of respiratory disease been the driver for spread of infection. Rather it is symptomatic people who spread respiratory infections – not asymptomatic people.(2)…”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-doctors-alliance-open-letter-uk-government-world-governments-citizens-world/5727390
He names steroids as saving some lives in the ICU but makes no mention at all of preventive measures – Vit C, D etc., or Ivermectin and HXC.
This is a highly qualified and experienced man. I don’t suggest that he not be allowed to speak, but there should be a similarly qualified speaker invited to present the other side.
The first Global research article above also points out that it is not only the vaccine producers who have been indemnified against prosecution , but also all medical professionals involved. So quaint notions like ‘ first do no harm ‘ and ‘ informed consent ‘ can be ignored with impunity.
An Irish doctor refuses to administer the ‘ vaccine ‘ and is using Vits, HXC and Ivermectin. He is of course, being threatened with removal of his licence to practice. He vows to fight any such move in the courts. Good man !
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/gp-prepared-to-fight-hse-in-event-of-removal-over-vaccine-views-1.4486934
Orlov has written IMHO a very important analysis as to some important questions as to why trump was such a failure and what of the future of trump 2.0 or 3.0.
(My opinion is that trump certainly is not the answer for any sane future for this country but as it is commonly reported, he and his followers are not going away any time soon).
But what is his agenda? As he did in 2016, throw out promise after promise, continue to play his desperate followers, while he and his happy grifters move merrily off to the bank.
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-trump-was-bound-to-fail.html
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Lengthy intro not behind paywall:
Why Trump was bound to fail
American society is at this point so polarized that the vast majority cannot see a thing—any thing—for itself. They can only see each thing from the right or from the left, and so all they can see is what it looks like from the right or the left, not what it actually is, because to see that they would have to soar above it—above politics, that is. But if I were to tell you that I can soar above politics and give you an eagle’s eye view of Donald Trump’s presidency, you would be quite reasonably suspicious of my own political biases, whether conscious or not. To get around this problem, what I will present is a view of Donald Trump’s presidency from the vantage point of one of America’s enemies—of those that America has publicly singled out as its enemies—namely, Russia. Russian analysts—the ones I particularly respect, being a very choosy connoisseur of Russian analysts—tend to see Trump as a useful idiot. They are somewhat disappointed that Trump turned out to be insufficiently useful and a bit too much of an idiot.
This is interesting but not too important; Trump’s presidency is over, Trump’s (second!) impeachment trial is over, and waiting for the outcome of future criminal cases alleging that Trump led an insurrection is like waiting for the cat to catch the last mouse. But Trump’s movement, his followers and supporters, have not gone anywhere, and given the non-negligible likelihood that the Biden administration will turn out to be a much larger disaster than Trump’s was, we may yet live to see a Trump 2.0 and a Trump 3.0 and so on, none of which, according to my favorite Russian analysis, will work any better for a whole set of well understood reasons. Do you want to know what they are? Well, then, read on!
T77 asks: “But what is his agenda?”
Same as Obama’s psy-op “Hope” and “Change” , “Hope” and “Change” – when I clap my hands don’t wake up!!!
By offering hope to people who are now destitute (I think 50%(?) of the US population is now living in poverty) – only to dash it – destroys hope – something to believe in, something to live for – and makes people easier to control. I shared a Russky’s (I hosted) experience of this in a response to Tomsen (above)
This is all articulated beautifully from a Soviet defector’s YT i/view that the American Elites have rolled out on their own population! KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America (1984) https://youtu.be/IQPsKvG6WMI
Note: there’s a longer i/view available on YT for those interested
Taras 77, this piece by Dmitry should be required reading for sure :-)
Besides the rest of the whole piece, it is the best description ever of what Trump actually offered his base. It makes perfect sense.
Another piece of required reading is Smoothie. He is writing a series on soft power and this is part two.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/02/untreatable-soft-power-part-2.html
It is scary scathing. There is something that I really agree with him. I said it once and probably in the wrong group because they wanted to annihilate me – shoot me with their eyes. These based their Russian hatred on Solzhenitsyn’s writings, and I mentioned that they should bear in mind that he was a great novelist – not a great historian. Oh boy … I made the wrong comment to the wrong people – you could cut the tension with a knife lol. All the stuff about ‘communism’ from the Jordan Peterson body of work, is also based purely on Solzhenitsyn as if he is a perfectly accurate historian. Andrei Martyanov describes the story of Solzhenitsyn in this piece. Prepare for scales being ripped from eyes. I’m quite sad.
Thanks, Amarynth!
I would very much like to learn the names of the Russian analysts who Orlov respects, i.e. from this quote in intro above:
Russian analysts—the ones I particularly respect, being a very choosy connoisseur of Russian analysts—tend to see Trump as a useful idiot. They are somewhat disappointed that Trump turned out to be insufficiently useful and a bit too much of an idiot.
I am following Andrei Martyanov as well.
I have long ago given up on any attempt of discussion and/or debate about Russia here in the West or even with friends and family-one cannot penetrate the absolute mindless hatred and suspicion about Russia, credit the absolute shut down propaganda which has been waged for decades by press under control of mockingbird/cia.
Short story about one of my closest friends over many years: I mentioned that I did not believe the garbage about Putin which was the flavor of the day at that moment; he was aghast, astounded, outraged, etc, etc. Of course, he lives in Northern Virginia, where he is fed a daily diet of Wash Post vipers’ nest of neo con as well as the cnn, et al garbage.
I just shut down the conversation and filed the experience away; family same way.
Just some thoughts…
I see Gundersen has made some progress understanding the fubar @ Fukushima. “Processed video sheds light on black smoke at Fukushima Daiichi’ (fairewinds.org) (Fuk designs are running in USA and liable to go bang. It’s still a secret or/and mystery what really happened, but “authorities” don’t want to know… ‘Cause it can/will happen again… Consider that the gaswells froze in Texas… And everybody knows it freezes in Texas….the depth of dumazz is astounding…just like everybody knows (knew) that earthquakes and tsunamis happen in Japan… Throw rocks in your path, don’t be surprised when you trip…
Sahra K @ http://aktionsmail.team-sahra.de/issues/versprochen-gebrochen-ein-jahr-corona-politik-der-groko-370638 Has significant things to say. I would not be surprised to see Sahra take Muti’s job, someday. I suppose this German doctor goes, sorta, with Sahra> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/17/viel-gluck-dr-fuellmich/
I am enjoying Saker’s story about an old friend, and thank him for this pleasure.
One of the crazy assumptions in the delusional cohort ’round Mr 10% and the female is that Russian patience is a given…and that Russia will never attack “first”. I am not so sure about that. Another assumption seems to be that the US would prevail. Thus I wonder how they will act when brother Putin hands the US some well fried meat, ie a defeat, a big fat defeat. And I wonder, where that might happen… The intrepid defenders of freedom seem to imagine that they are themselves safe (except from the people – hence the army guarding the regime). My bet from ignorance is that DC might go poof in big big ‘sprize, maybe the entire region. Withal, what happens after defeat? One possibility is to expect Chinese and Russian military police being invited into the remaining States… (I know, sounds nutty).
Meantime…Ed Curtin is a fine writer. His review of Dulles v JFK is good. https://off-guardian.org/2021/02/07/review-jfk-vs-allen-dulles/
Later, my friends.
The Blind Faith Mythology of Covid by the Pseudo-Intellectuals and Atheists
Silicon Valley atheists have faith that God does not exist and have faith that covid exists, even though nobody has proven to the that God does not exist, and nobody has ever proven to the that covid exists, but it has been proven that covid does not exist when 1,500 covid samples were examined by seven different universities using electron microscope examination which revealed that all of the samples were infulenza A or influenza B. Dr. Derek Knauss also called the CDC and asked for the covid virus genome sequence, which the CDC said that they do not have.
Shown here:
https://libertyinternational.wordpress.com/category/health/
This places covid in the category of cult practices. People accept covid on faith alone, and even when rock solid evidence is found to disprove the outright fraud of covid they choose to believe in it regardless, and have made extrordinary lifestyle changes in order to accomodate the mythology of covid. Of course the fact that they all tremendously benefited financially is motive for them to perpetrate this fraudulent myth which they should be sentenced to life in federal pennitentiaries for and have terrorized the country and world over the mythologically and scientifically fraudulent cult of covid.
Well, the LA Times apparently did not think that it was relevant that the CDC has confessed that there is no such thing as covid, and decided to feature an article on new vaccination eligible recipients, all of whom happen to have higher than normal health costs and risks, and new borns are really just an expensive pain in the ass for the government too, so you can now officially refer to this as a Eugenics targeted assassination genocide program.
LA Times:
Who is now eligible?
Those who will be eligible in March include those with:
Cancer, current with debilitated or immunocompromised state
Chronic kidney disease, Stage 4 or above
Chronic pulmonary disease, oxygen dependent
Down syndrome
Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
Pregnancy
Sickle cell disease
Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies (excludes hypertension)
Severe obesity (body mass index greater than or equal to 40 kg/m2)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hemoglobin A1c level greater than 7.5%
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-13/california-covid-19-vaccine-shortages-delays
More Evidence of Targeted Assassinations!
Vaccines to Exterminate Seniors, to Save Corrupt Government Employees, University Professors, and the Medical Mafia! We Can’t Have 23 Million Overpaid Government Employees and Non Working Seniors! Would You Rather, Save Seniors, Or Continue to Overpay Corrupt, Incompetent, Lazy Government Employees That Refuse to Do Their Jobs and Abide by the Constitution?!
They Are the Persistence Which Must Be Met With Resistance!
Their Lifestyles Are Crime Against Humanity! MICIMATT InfraGard Cult of Corruption!
CNA James, whose video the criminal psychopathic hacker prevented me from watching, has stated that people are dropping like flies from vaccines in the nursing home that James is employed in.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cna-nursing-home-whistleblower-seniors-dying-like-flies-after-covid-injections-speak-out/5735639
As I have previously reported:
Well, It sure as hell appears that the vaccines are killing many more people than they are reporting because on November 16, 2020 there were 2,487,350 annual total deaths until November 16,2020. Verses 2.7 million to 2.9 million total deaths per year between 2015 and 2019. On December 22,2021, they report that there have been 3.2 million total deaths in America. So, between November 16,2020, and December 22,2021 there were 712,650 deaths. So, once again, medical error is the third leading cause of death in America, but they are claiming that it is covid. It is their treatment and prevention of covid that is responsible for far more deaths than “covid”! Of course they claim that the Novemeber numbers might not be accurate, because it is nearly impossible for the government employees to be able to count to over two million and get it right the first time. That is just expecting far more from government employees than they are capable of doing!
https://apnews.com/article/us-coronavirus-deaths-top-3-million-e2bc856b6ec45563b84ee2e87ae8d5e7
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/11/facebook-posts/chart-comparing-2020-us-death-toll-previous-years-/
Now The Atlantic Council is worried that there may be a pandemic, and are insisting on DoD spending. Deja vu! Where did they ever come up with that idea?! Let’s not and say we did, since we already did that, and it did not work, a few times, in 2020, 2009, & 2003. They consider themselves to be ideas people and a think tank.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/atlantic-council-braces-for-bioterrorism-attack/275361/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901
I also discovered that in 2017, the Trump administration issued an edict that all conversations by any scientist that works for the government, including the CDC employees must be cleared through the Atlanta Communications office, which was then required to be cleared by Mike Pence after the scamdemic, according to Harvard Law Edu:
“Motivating the Knight Institute’s concern in this instance is a record of severe restrictions on the rights of government scientists to speak freely to the press. In 2017, Axios published an email from Jeffrey Lancashire, a public affairs officer, to the National Center for Health Statistics, announcing that for every employee of the CDC “any and all correspondence with any member of the news media, regardless of the nature of the inquiry, must be cleared through CDC’s Atlanta Communications Office.”
“According to recent news stories, scientists and health officials at the CDC must now coordinate with the Office of Vice President Mike Pence before speaking with members of the press or public about the pandemic,” the complaint reads. “These stories have raised concerns that public health experts who know most about the risks to the public are not being permitted to speak candidly and that the information the government is now conveying may be incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading.”
https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/cdc-sued-to-disclose-restrictions-on-scientists-right-to-speak
When I was first alerted to the page being removed from Global Research, I searched and found the link for libertyinternational, and also found exerpts with the link to the Global Research article in the hoaky website TopSecret.com, which has conspiracy theories of QAnon, Lizard People, and earth invading aliens, and GlobalRisk which a hacker prevented me from visting so I do not know if the mention of the lawsuits by the seven universities against the CDC was included on that website’s article with the same title or not.
Obviously, it was Global Research that removed the article, perhaps by request because of the mention of the lawsuits and my reaction of justifiable rage to the lawsuits. So, are the lawsuits now, Above Top Secret? Would it surprise anyone if they were? If there are secret FISA courts, maybe there are secret arbitrage courts. I hope that they simply dropped them matter, but knowing how corrupt those organizations are, I have little faith that that is what happened. After all, had over $21 trillion missing from the Pentagon.
Pick a Direction that is Not Heading Twowards Evil and Corruption
The ruling class has to change course. If someone were to chart evil and corruption, the same way that they chart stocks, they would see that it won’t be long before they all decide to blow up the entire planet with nukes. I am not exagerating. They just get more and more evil! The scamdemic was a Globzi psyop.
Now they want to vaxx pregnant women, for a non life threatening virus, which was what really startled me, particularly since the vaccines have been killing so many people. When California decides that pregnant women should be vaxxed, which they did, it kind of looks like they plan on nuking the earth to me! Actually, almost everything is startling! What isn’t startling? These people are out of their minds! They just leave me stunned and dismayed! It is truly shocking!
The trajectory of the level, intensity, and frequency of evil and corruption is bleak for humanity and all life on earth!
How do we stop them? Hint, Republicans or Democrats are not the answer!
If anyone wonders what is wrong with America, the stock market answers that question. The government, stock market, and economy, financially reward irrational gambling which has been made exponentially worse with a culture of bail outs, and punishes financially responsible behavior both by leaving the financially responsible on the hook for the recklessly irresponsible, and because they are not receiving generous government bail out subsidies that the recklessly irresponsible are receiving.
It is not limited to the stock market that corruption and reckless, evil, violent, destructive behavior are rewarded, but since most large companies are publicly traded, they have monopolized policy that is in the worst interests of this country, and everyone in it.
They financially reward evil, destructive, corrupt policy as a way of life. They also financially reward violating the constitution through the financial support of the techno-cratic surveillance
state.
Far too many people have placed their own financial interests not only above the interests of humanity and the country, but against their own lives and their own families lives by financing the surveillance state which would not exist to anywhere near the extent that it does without tremendous financial support.
Far too many Americans have also placed their own financial interests above their own best interests, families best intersts, and the countries best interests by continuing the propaganda, and refusing to report the truth because they were financially rewarded for pretending to espouse the legitimacy of the political system, the judicial system, the corporate sector, and just about everything else in this country.
The fact that foreign sovereign wealth funds and foreign individuals have a financial vote in how our country is run and which rights we are illegally deprived of is treasonous.
Foreign banks should not be Federal Reserve member banks and should not ever receive bail outs. I do not even think that our own countries banking institutions should receive federal bailouts other than FDIC insurance and insurance on deposits limited to the account holders and should be limited to U,S, citizens and legal residents of the United States.
Of course ETFs have made all of this even worse.
Andrea Iravani
Where are the churches for the Covid believers, the hospital inner sancturies of the jab givers ? It is a disease you know, to believe without cause, and needs a cure, as does the virus covid 19 and neither of them, nor the belief in atheism for that matter, will be healed by any kind of vaccination. The sickness of humanity, I’m onto the case !
I may be onto the case, let’s see, at times the boundary line seems to move between what is real and what surpasses realism, or life as we know it…. the above comment was more of a reaction to the current 24/7 news vaccination indoctrination. Even without watching or reading, it is mind numbing. Perhaps it would be better to read studiously, sensibly, take notes and that way keep steady, like keeping your eyes on the horizon in stormy and churning seas. Consciousness is good, but life is short and there are other important things to attend to..
I am going to see my doctor, I had many text reminders from my GP surgery, and he will ask me if I have had the first vaccination, one of two, a third in the autumn, and I will tell him no, I don’t wish to have these, and tell him I don’t get fevers, coughs or flu. then he will say, I might though, or more likely, I must protect myself in order to keep others safe.
Million upon million healthy people are being vaccinated to keep others safe, and their own safety, from what ? From death I suppose. Anyhow, I have not worked out the rest of my argument yet, I want to keep it civil, rational, clear, he’s a good chap, stressed and over worked, and the staff also.
Every resident in the UK received an information pack from the NHS, with pictures of well looking, smiling elderly people, and half truths or incomplete explanations about the vaccine. A colour brochure did explain that the vaccines do not guarantee not getting Covid19 nor keeping well, and social distancing and mask wearing will have to continue.
Something of a blatant declaration of the futility of the whole operation, accept that no one will dare think of that,.
Now people are getting sick and dying form the jabs.
@Andrea
What a splendid work Andrea, thanks.
An FYI: (via CHD Newswatch)
– Many Top NBA Players Hesitant to Promote Coronavirus Vaccines
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30918396/sources-many-nba-players-hesitant-promote-coronavirus-vaccines
– WHO Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine for Emergency Use, But Some Nations Say ‘No Thanks’
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-approves-astrazeneca-vaccine-emergency-use/
– No Jab, No Job: Vatican Gets Tough With COVID Anti-Vaxxers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC
– AstraZeneca Vaccine Faces Resistance in Europe After Health Workers Suffer Side-Effects
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-02-18/astrazeneca-vaccine-faces-resistance-in-europe-after-health-workers-suffer-side-effects
– Pfizer Study Deals New Blow to South Africa’s Vaccine Hopes
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica/pfizer-study-deals-new-blow-to-south-africas-vaccine-hopes-idUSKBN2AI10V
re: Cookie Boy’s question /moveable-feast-cafe-2021-02-16/#comment-908174
– a succinct summary here from Lendman
Biden Regime Wants Julian Assange Crucified
https://stephenlendman.org/2021/02/biden-regime-wants-julian-assange-crucified/
Yet another sign of decline for an economically advanced economy …
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII
“In the first half of last year, that was 77.8 years for Americans overall, down one year from 78.8 in 2019. For males it was 75.1 years and for females, 80.5 years.
Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years,”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/18/22289500/us-life-expectancy-drops-a-year-in-pandemic-most-since-wwii
Saudi Arabia’s deserts are covered in snow, and it is the first time in 50 years that it has snowed in Saudi Arabia.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102191082125999-saudi-arabia-sees-snowfall-for-first-time-in-50-years—photo-video/
Andrea Iravani
The collapse of a society can also move quickly.
In addition to the covid crisis, now the total disintegration of Texas and perhaps the insurance industry, and just around the corner ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-chips-analysis/analysis-carmakers-wake-up-to-new-pecking-order-as-chip-crunch-intensifies-idUSKBN2AJ0LD ) two American auto companys will have to fight off bankruptcy or go to uncle sugar for assistance as they were not represented at the chip table and find themselves now with a pile of debt, and no income for a good long while.
I eventually found some Russian economic export numbers that are realistic.
Non-resource, non-energy-based goods (one has to be clear on what that means – non-energy is of course gas and such things not included and non-resource is more nuanced .. not raw wood, but furniture with wood as a component – i.e., value add to my thinking – would be non-resource. Food would be non-resource. Those fancy watches, caviar, railroad cars, motor cycles, vodka, clothing, and such goods.)
In this category and as a result of economic diversification, Russia exported:
2020 – $161bn – a new record for the third year in a row,
2019 – $155bn in 2019
2018 – $154bn in 2018.
I have not seen this plotted against a base year, which is the usual method. It looks like for the public and the business community, they present simply, year on year.
This really looks good.
https://www.exportcenter.ru/en/news/russian-non-resource-non-energy-export-volumes-reached-heights-in-2019-/
Apparently our dear leaders are going bonkers in their strive to show us, expendable peons, how good they are in micromanagement on very inaccurate data, and defying logic:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128789/Epitome-stupid-Brisbane-residents-slam-bizarre-Covid-rules.html
“Brisbane residents have slammed Queensland Health for telling them to wear face masks when they drive, even if they are alone.”
I wonder, whether this also counts for motorcycle drivers under their helmet? ;-)
Cheers, Rob
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts today the following article, from it :
” International Alert Message about COVID-19. United Health Professionals
The lockdown ” a global scientific fraud of unprecedented proportions ”
…Stay home, save lives was a pure lie.
Remove the following illegal, non-scientific and non-sanitary measures : lockdown, mandatory face masks for healthy subjects, social distancing of one or two meters.
The lockdown not only killed many people but also destroyed physical and mental health, economy, education and other aspects of life.
The natural history of the virus [the coronavirus] is not influenced by social measures [lockdown, face masks, closure of restaurants, curfew
When the state knows best and violates human rights, we are on a dangerous course.
Exclude your experts and advisers who have links or conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies :
Stop the vaccination campaigns and refuse the scam of the pseudo-health passport which is in reality a politico-commercial project….”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-alert-message-about-covid-19-united-health-professionals/5737680
I’m reading several articles, one after the other it seems, where the tone has changed. It’s pretty clear, Russia has not only had enough of the nations of Oceania, especially the predominant Anglo-Saxons, but the voice of conciliation; dialogue; the extended hand, is also at an end.
The tone of what I’m reading is blunt, “in your face” and doesn’t look like going away anytime soon. I’d say again, as before, the trip Borell made, and the things said, were, finally, “a bridge too far”. And what’s more, the bridge fell down, – there’s going back over it.
This below is interesting, not only as the illuminator of others, but where it comes from – RussStrat carries Official imprimatur.
Today, from Alexander Vladimir at RussStat:
Russia seizes strategic initiative from the West
” Time for persuasion is up: Russia moves to actively contain the collective West.
It all started With the day of the Russian diplomatic worker. Employees and veterans of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation celebrated their professional holiday on February 10, 2021. The next day, on February 11, Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov delivered an opening speech at a briefing on arms control and strategic stability at the Rossiya Segodnya news AGENCY.
Regarding possible agreements in this sensitive area for the collective West, he noted the following:: “A balance of interests will be found and agreements will be reached. If we do not find a balance of interests and again face destructive approaches to the set of issues that I have just outlined, then there will be no agreements. Our colleagues in Washington and other NATO capitals should clearly understand this.
The time for unilateral concessions that Russia once made has long since ended. The world is too cruel and too cynical to believe in fairy tales. We do not believe in fairy tales, but will firmly and adamantly defend our own national interests.”
The position is set out reasonably, rigidly, and there is nothing to add to it.
On February 12, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a landmark interview to the Solovyov Live YouTube channel. To Vladimir Solovyov’s question “are we going to break with the European Union?» Sergey Lavrov replied:
“We assume that we are ready. If the business is mutually beneficial, we will continue it. I am convinced that we are now fully self-sufficient militarily. We need to achieve the same situation in the economy in case we see again (as we have already felt more than once) that sanctions are imposed in some areas that create risks for our economy, including in the most sensitive areas (supply of components, components).
We do not want to be isolated from the world, but we must be prepared for this. If you want peace, prepare for war” (a detailed analysis of this interview of the Russian foreign Minister by experts of the RUSSTRAT Institute can be found here).
In the interview, Sergey Lavrov also focused on the special role of Russia in the world, and why the collective West is pursuing a coordinated policy not just to contain Russia, but to aggressively contain Russia: “Because they don’t like us because we have our own judgement about what’s going on in the world. And unlike a huge number of countries that also have their own judgement, we Express this judgement and defend it with practical actions.”
I immediately recalled one of the founders of Russian geopolitics, General Alexey Yefimovich Vandam (Edrikhin), who in his work “Our situation. Geopolitics and Geostrategy “wrote that” the main enemy of the Anglo-Saxons on the way to world domination is the Russian people.” Thus, the historical mission of Russia after a century remained the same – to prevent “the triumph of the Anglo-Saxon race on the whole globe.”
And here, as Sergey Lavrov correctly noted, at the moment our country has become completely self-sufficient in military terms. It remains to achieve the same situation in the economy.
In this regard, as Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute, notes in her telegram channel, 2020 was marked by an increase in the volume of exports of Russian non-primary non-energy goods abroad. This figure was $ 161.3 billion. In 2018, it was equal to $ 154.3 billion, and in 2019 – $ 155.1 billion. In 2020, there is a 4% increase compared to 2019. Accordingly, Russia’s dependence on raw materials exports is decreasing, and the story of the” gas station country ” is gradually becoming a thing of the past.
In addition, Russia, following China, is among the first to emerge from the second wave of coronavirus, without killing its economy with anti-covid lockdowns. The Russian vaccine against the coronavirus Sputnik V is triumphantly marching around the world – 27 countries have already expressed their readiness to use it in the fight against the epidemic.
Even the American newspaper the Washington Post was forced to quote a laudatory review: “the Results are great. Good safety profile, more than 90% effective for all age groups, 100% effective against severe disease or death, refrigerated storage and low cost. What else do we need?»
We will continue to follow the dates. On February 17, RIA Novosti published an interview with Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. In particular, he said the following: “If the US policy remains the same, if it keeps this pressure and pressure as a key element, then we will pursue a policy of active containment of the United States in all areas.”
In fact, we are talking about the fact that Washington has received the last warning. While Russia was limited response to the attacks of the United States. However, Moscow may well change its tactics and move to active actions in different directions in the image and likeness of the United States, that is, to intercept the strategic initiative.
The choice of pain points for influencing the United States is huge because it promotes its hegemony around the world. Accordingly, they are highly vulnerable and unable to react quickly to simultaneous actions of various kinds in different parts of the world. And here the Russian savvy does not take. It is possible that the US political elite will simply be in a state of severe psychological shock, as it has long been accustomed to comfortable conditions for conducting a global counter-struggle, when only it has a strategic initiative.
The brilliant foreign policy combination of the Russian foreign Ministry was completed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a video conference with leaders of state Duma factions on February 17, he openly confirmed the fact of the strategic importance of the Nord stream 2 project for Russia.
Vladimir Putin said the following: “Why does everything revolve so much around Nord stream 2? They want to make Russia pay for their [Western] geopolitical project in Ukraine.” He also noted: “In fact, everything is quite primitive. We have long understood this.”
It is obvious that the implementation of Nord stream 2 will allow not only Ukraine to be completely thrown off the Russian balance sheet, but also a significant part of Eastern Europe, leaving them alone with their economic problems. Therefore, Russia will act decisively on the issue of Nord stream 2 and will not give in one iota.
Thus, the collective West has some (short) time to comprehend the new geopolitical realities. Russia is taking the strategic initiative into its own hands, and the time for persuasion is up. If Europe is ready for an equal and, most importantly, productive dialogue on really sensitive issues of bilateral cooperation, it will know what to do. Moscow will no longer engage in a petty and endless dialogue about anything.
There is an old Russian saying, along the lines of “I will greet you with an open hand, if you approach me with one. But approach me with a sword, and to you the sword I will present. ”
Russia is at an end with having it’s open hand greeted by a sword – and one that is used to wound moreover. As it says on it’s site, RussStrat was ” created to develop strategic approaches to Russia’s foreign policy that are compatible with its geopolitical and economic interests, including through scientific and research developments, and assistance in shaping Russia’s political and economic strategies in the international arena.”
This is official. Developments should be interesting.
NB. The bolding is mine, to highlight what I thought was an interesting point. Other than this, I do no editing.
Global Governance
We are entering a new era of uncharted territory. One where nation-states and sovereignty/autonomy confined within established national borders of the past centuries are now rendered obsolete for all practical purposes. This can all be best described as an emergence of global governance. The key distinction here will be evident to those with a discerning eye. The reason the term “government” is not used is because those that will (and already do for the most part) control the levers of power in all aspects of our daily lives are supranational actors such as corporate conglomerates and political organizations (NGOs). For we are witnessing this transformation right now as we transition into the “new normal”.
THE NEW NORMAL – DIE NEUE NORMALITÄT
This is all made possible via the advancement of highly sophisticated technology such as A.I., telecommunication, mass surveillance, biometric screening/identification, the inevitable digital currency and robotics/automation. Almost all world leaders are on board with this imminent reality. This inevitable future will be ubiquitous as escape to some remote part of the globe will become clear as a futile attempt. Once the bleak actuality sinks in, despair will be the natural byproduct.
Those that subscribe to the narrative(s) of the so-called alternative/independent media are also living in a fictional world of the “East (Russia, China, Iran) vs the West (US and EU). The truth of the matter China is much closer the US and the EU than Russia. Trade between the two is substantially larger and will remain so indefinitely. The consumer demand for Chinese products far exceed those of of the Russian market. Those that think that the Asian internal demand will replace the West are delusional as they are sadly mistaken in that assumption. Iran is basically irrelevant. Those that cling to this “wishful thinking” in toppling the Empire are entrenched in naivety as they are trapped within their own echo chamber ;(ironically the same concept as what they accuse those that acquiesce to the MSM). Quite amusing to the presence of this unwitting indoctrination I must say.
Prominent world leaders such as the Chinese Xi Jinping as well as pretty much of the western world are all on board. Just look at what is happening to the Chinese population with mass surveillance and biometric identification (as I mentioned above). That leads to Russia’s Putin. Perhaps with largest squad of internet Cheerleaders assembled vis a vis “keyboard warriors” (Couldn’t help myself with a little sarcastic levity). Truth be told, it’s a moot point whether he is an “enemy of the New World Order” or not. (On a personal note, I believe that he is genuine as revealed in the latest WEF convention). Yet what can one human do against a tsunami of cascading events. There is no way he change the course of this chain reaction set forth as if through shear inertia. As I have detailed in my past analysis, what is simultaneously happening is the collapse of the US empire while a master plan of global governance is unfolding via a contingency. It’s as if it has a life of its own, a sentient entity if you will-engaging in an act of self-preservation at the expense of the majority of the population. In other words, it’s no longer about maintaining power as it is about pure survival. For in order that the “1%” to live, a large segment of the “99%” must be sacrificed in the metaphorical alter known as resource scarcity.
You are doing nothing useful here but generating fear mongering. I suspect also you have no understanding of China, nor her way of doing things.
You cannot compare China to the US for the simple reason that she is, like Russia, under attack. Her responses to being infiltrated and subverted cannot be compared to the surveillance practised in Oceania, since they are not under any threat but what they are doing to themselves.
China has risen from ashes of Gun Boat Diplomacy and the Opium Wars to being about to head the world. And with not a shot fired, not a single military invasion, not one CIA “Economic hit man” subversion, – by being hard working, productive, and trade, trade, trade. They are a nation of traders. Let a lone a Chinese arrive in your town, and within days a small shop selling some limp worn out veges and a few tacky trinkets has opened. Go back 5 years later to see a thriving business of good quality goods. Oh – and restaurants. The world has Chinese restaurants to burn.
This is how they are dominating, and will dominate. And Russia is the same. Go look at the many details of the enterprises opening there, the income being generated from trade with the world. It’s this which is beating the Oceania Saxons and their thoroughly nasty Pirate philosophies.
There is no “Global”. China, Russia, Iran, are setting their own course, because their love of sovereignty is prime among them all. Do you really see them taking orders from the Rothschilds, the Bezos’, the Soros, of the world??
Get real, and please, enough of the doom gloom and despair, The sky is NOT falling, and there are enough of us prepared to stand up and say NO – even it they dont include you.
Right on Pamela!
The evidence for Vit D against covid is once again confirmed – and ignored. This is tantamount to murder as PCR has observed :
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/02/18/the-covid-pandemic-is-the-result-of-public-health-authorities-blocking-effective-treatment/
https://www.unz.com/jcook/why-politicians-and-doctors-keep-ignoring-the-medical-research-on-vitamin-d-and-covid/
A worrying opinion from the latest Duran Live Line.
I dont listen but it popped up on my YT Index page, and I was caught by the opinion of AM that war is inevitable – probably from America and in the ME. Starting in poor, beleaguered Syria, who has never harmed anyone.
I give it credence because, when he frees his mind of making excuses for Trump, Mercouris is a pretty good analyst. Like him or not, he “has the runs on the board”.
He does seem to predict a number of events correctly – which makes this more disturbing.
Anyway – listen to the early part and take it as you wish, I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEjnRKaAZ0
Any insights on what this nuclear construction might achieve- it’s unlikely a good thing?
https://alethonews.com/2021/02/19/satellite-images-reveal-israel-quietly-expanding-secretive-dimona-nuclear-site/
“Any insights on what this nuclear construction might achieve”
To threaten all of the European capitals if they dare criticize the zionist entity. It has the same intention as the limited ‘bomb in a suitcase’* blast that obliterated Beirut’s harbor in AUG 2020
The Greater Israel project (Eretz Y’israel) is an ongoing project, see: Gen 15:18 for its origins
* The ‘bomb in a suitcase’ is an exaggeration but these days nuclear tech has got the size down to approx, 3m x 2m
PS if you want an understanding of the Zionist jew mindset (as opposed to the Torah jew or Messianic jew mindset) read the Talmud – and if that doesnt open your eyes, nothing will
And of course, the release of these pictures now, (if theyre genuine) also serves to intimidate Iran
Regards
(via PCR) “This article makes it clear that we are being experimented on, not vaccinated”
What you need to know about the COVID Vaccine
https://everlyreport.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-covid-vaccine/
This confirms what Michael Hudson (i/view posted in the Cafe by Amarynth) has been saying re: the financialization of the ‘collective West’ economies. Btw, more than 170 years ago, Marx predicted a dual economy, as witnessed by the stockmarket record highs which are now utterly detached from the real (productive) economy
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become ‘techno-feudalism’ | UpFront
“A recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth increase of half a trillion dollars – enough to pay for every person on the planet to get a vaccine. In this UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill discusses with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis what is driving the staggering wealth inequalities and how governments are offering socialism for the rich, and austerity for the rest.” (25:25)
https://youtu.be/_jW0xUmUaUc
Note 1: forgive YV’s pro-vaccine stance – he’s an economist, not a medico
Note 2: not all assumptions implicit in the i/viewer’s questions are correct
Note 3: if you listen to what YV says about the EU’s response to the 2008 GFC, you’ll see why theres nothing democratic about the European Union – the ECB (European Central Bank) is a banksters cartel!
Note 4: what he says about Biden being “a strong ally of Wall St” towards the end, is critical in prediciting what will happen to US foreign & domestic policy going forward
@Tyson B
Sorry, but I see Varoufakis as a fake light. All your 4 notes are simplicities anyone can be aware of.
But a matter of interest could be, its all stated in the Bible: Matthew 25:29
29 “For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away”.