2021/09/23 22:00:01
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Just read reports of victorian police whistle blower alleging that during last 30 days british mercenaries have been flying in to Australia to help control the population. If true, that is very frightening. Link not available at this time, from telegram channel.
On June 5, 2021, twenty years of American rule over Bagram military base ended. An Airbase which was a monument of the Soviet Red Army’s rule over this country. After the Muhjaheedin’s victory, this base fell to them, and then the Taliban pitched their tents there, until the US invasion and the occupation of Afghanistan by NATO, at which point the Americans rebuilt this airport.
But Bagram wasn’t just a military base, and the prison there was nothing short of Guantanamo, but there is very little information available about that prison. Guantanamo prison and Abu Ghraib prison, were two prisons whose photographs were published, which exposed the pinnacle of the cruelty of the US Army.
At Guantanamo prison, which was founded after 2001 in Guantanamo Bay, and where some members of Taliban were held, torture methods such as waterboarding, sexual torture, faked executions, force-fed drugs, and using dogs to incite fear, were routinely used against prisoners.
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/06/27/1400062716270065923614974.jpg — the famous picture of Ali Shallal Qaisi from Abu Ghraib, which was printed on the cover of the Economist
In Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, where the opposition to the Baath regime were tortured under Saddam’s reign, images were revealed after the US invasion of this country, which made Saddam’s tortures look like hugs and kisses.
The images that were published from this prison in 2004, which CBS ran a report on, displayed horrendous scenes of prisoners stripped naked, tied to walls, and terrorized with dogs.
The Tasnim news crew, while in Afghanistan, happened to meet an Afghan man who had fought the US and spent time at Bagram prison, and he recounted his memories from that time. To protect him, his name will not be mentioned here.
The following text is the story of this short meeting with the Bagram prison inmate:
“For 11 years I was a prisoner at Bagram!” — This one sentence was enough for us to ask him to tell us about those 11 years, during our short car trip together.
Bagram is a military base near the city of Bagram, a monument to Soviet rule over this country, and the Americans inherited it after the September 11 attacks.
And now, here was a man describing the heart of this base, from its lower levels. Before we could ask anything, he spoke: “they pulled my fingernails…they destroyed my ‘madar -zadegi’…” The driver, who understands more Farsi, and could tell that we did not understand the meaning of ‘madar-zadegi’ translates: “His testicles…”! At this, our penny dropped; even imagining medieval torture is painful.
This Afghan fighter was one step ahead of our thoughts, and before we could ask anything, he went on: “The US did every kind of corruption that they could… the Jews and the West had come to pit Islamic countries against each other… right here we captured a Daeshi from Bangladesh who wanted to go to Iran to take the lives of Shia… For us, 10 Americans are equal to one Daeshi, because we don’t like Daeshis, because wherever they go, they destroy everything.”
We ask him to please tell us more about his captivity. From the first days of the conflict… “The Americans were kind the first days. They’d being us Kebab, and anything we wanted; they would tell us that we will take your families anywhere in the world that you want, but you must work for us. Go to Iran and Pakistan and conduct operations. They meant suicide bombings. The first days they didn’t torture us at all. If you accepted their offer, they would take you anywhere. Your family to France or the US… anywhere in the world that you wanted. But we did not accepted their offer. The Mujaheedin would not accept their invitation.”
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/06/27/1400062716154362623614924.jpg — A photo from the US Bagram prison in Afghanistan
He says: “the Americans and their allies would stomp on the Quran. There was one guy, named Carlo, he was part of the Italian forces. He would rape little Afghan girls in front of us.” Such a heinous act, in front of a people, who we had learned in the last few days, are very sensitive about protecting their own, would have been true torture and torment!
“They would take us out to the yard, where they would pull a sack over our heads, and then they would bring the dogs. Trained dogs, who would urinate on us… There was a Pakistani woman prisoner, and they had a dog rape her in front of us. I saw it with my own eyes, with 4 other people.”
I was so shocked at this, that I asked: did you see it yourself?? And he swore that he had seen it. The truth or falseness of this statement is only known by he who said it.
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/06/27/1400062716172787623614944.jpg — A picture of the US prison at Bagram, Afghanistan
Among the famous prisons in the world which run by the US, I have heard the name of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib a lot. Prisons, whose mere names would cause shivers, in the past. But now it appeared that in the heart of Bagram, was the second branch of Guantanamo: “In Bagram, there were two prisons. One of them was a dungeon, which in Pashto is called ترجل “torjal” and is like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. I was there for 6 and a half years. The other was a general population prison. They pulled all of my teeth with plyers…”
I ask him: “Did you ever see any American officials there, to whom you could have complained?” Even though I realized my question was stupid, he gave a clear answer: “One time the Red Cross came, and after I explained to them what was happening, the Americans came and tortured me. I understood that the Red Cross had sold us out!”
He shows me the marks from his fingernails being pulled, and then he pulls up his sleeve and shows us deep scars on his arm. His Pashto accent will not allow me to fully understand how he was tortured, but from the word ‘spray’ I understood that they had used chemicals to draw a memento on his arm..!
It is interesting that at Bagram, they had Iranian prisoners as well: “There was one Iranian, that they had brought over from Abu Ghraib. There was one Cuban as well, brought from Guantanamo. They tortured them the most, together with the Pakistanis. It was the work of the Jews. The Jews would torture them. The Zionists were worse than all the others.” From these words, my mind goes to distant years. A time when Mossad operatives came to Iran, and trained SAVAK interrogators. The Israeli torture export industry had reached Afghanistan as well.
At this point, we arrive at our destination, and 11 years of captivity was summed up in half an hour; even though we had liked to know more secrets from this military base.
Secretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken
United States government official
As world leaders gather for #UNGA76, we must all condemn arbitrary detention. Iran has detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for 2000 days now – another shocking instance in addition to the Namazis, Morad Tahbaz, and Emad Shargi, among others. Human beings are not bargaining chips.
Can someone pls tweet #Julian Assange at this sanctimonious POS.
Thx
Nazanin Zaghari is a spy. Her case has nothing to do with Assange.
When Iran held the CIA’s Jason Rezaian for 544 days, the US went through the same shenanigans, but eventually agreed to trade him for some Iranians that they had abducted and were holding hostage.
Zaghari is MI6, and eventually, the Brits will make a trade to get back their asset. Right now, I think Iran is demanding that the UK unfreeze £400 million Iranian money which the Brits are illegally holding on to, so that Iran will even begin to consider making a trade.
how many days has canada, on behalf, of USA detain Meng?
can somebody tweet blinken?
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234866.shtml
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234799.shtml
Anti-Empire doesn’t seem happy about it:
What’s the general consensus on whether abandoning coal power in the name of curbing “global warming” is considered “woke”? I thought Western energy policy was already bad enough with similar (possibly misguided?) measures.
” All This And More”
It’s not that I’m so cheerful, though I’ll always raise a smile
and if at times my nonsense rhymes then I’ll stand trial
My friends are all around me but they only breathe through fear
Were I to cry, I’m sure that still they’d never see a tear
In darkness through my being here, away from you
the bright light of your star confronts me shining through
Dull and sullen, much subdued, my skull a stony glaze
Whirlpools rage on constantly, I’m not so well these days
There must be something somewhere near who sees what’s being done
The harbour lights are burning bright, my wax is almost run
In darkness through my being here, away from you
the bright light of your star confronts me, shining through
Come Lollard, raise your lute and sing, and to my ears her beauty bring
like Maddox in the days of old we’ll feast and drink until we fold
And folding still we’ll spare a thought for what’s been lost and what’s been caught
and maybe then begin again for love is life, not poison
In darkness through my being here, away from you
the bright light of your star confronts me, shining through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGMoqYsdcY&ab_channel=ProcolHarum-Topic
“Too Much Between Us”
There’s you, you’re sleeping over there
whilst me I’m sitting here
with so much sea between us
I can’t make it much more clear
There’ll be no time for crying
We won’t make it more than six
I could change my plea to guilty
but I don’t think it would stick
Still those other ratings far too easy to despise
You’ve said so much in silence now I truly am disguised
Let him who fears his heart alone
stand up and make a speech
For him perhaps an emperor’s throne
if he could only speak
Far too few and far to follow
For shame I’ll heed the cry
Be with me when I need a drink
be with me when I die
Still those other ratings far too easy to despise
You’ve said so much in silence now indeed I am disguised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q3KcW1g9Zg&ab_channel=ProcolHarum-Topic
“Rambling On”
Our local picture house was showing a Batman movie
You see this guy fly up in the sky, thought to myself, ‘Why shouldn’t I?’
So I bought a pair of wings, went up upon a wall
I was about to jump into the air when a guy from the street called
He said, ‘Hey wait a minute! Don’t you realize the danger?
What do you think you are, some kind of angel?’
I considered for a minute, realized he spoke the truth.
For the barbells on my eyelids only emphasised my youth
and the sawdust in my plimsolls means the same to him as me
But that’s neither here nor further, so I spoke considerately
‘Now if you understand just what I’m trying to say,
whatever you do, don’t grin, you’ll give the game away!’
By now a crowd had gathered and it seemed that all was lost
In the anger of the moment I had diced with death and lost
It seemed to me the time was right so I burst into song
In the anger of the moment the crowd began to sing along
I could not see a way out of this predicament
Just then a breeze came through the trees and up in the air I went
I must have flown a mile, or maybe it was eight
Thought to myself pretty soon I’d hit the Golden Gates
Just then a passing bird for no reason I could see
took a peck at my wings and that was the end of me
I went down, hit the ground faster than the speed of sound
Luckily I broke no bones only tore my underclothes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-gjz5jZs0&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGA&start_radio=1&
ab_channel=sbritt
‘Still There’ll Be More”
I’ll bathe my eyes in a river of salt
I’ll grow myself right up to the sky
I’ll sing in the forest, tear down the trees
I’ll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves
I’ll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You’ll cry out for mercy, but still there’ll be more
I’ll put a blight in the orchard
I’ll run wild through the fields
I’ll waylay your daughter and kidnap your wife
Savage her sexless and burn out her eyes
I’ll blacken your Christmas and piss on your door
You’ll cry out for mercy, but still there’ll be more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRQE-cxpjM&ab_channel=FfrancRogowski
“The Milk Of Human Kindness”
When you knew that I had given all the kindness that I had
did you think that it might be time to stop?
When you knew that I was through
that I’d done all I could do
did you really have to milk the final drop?
Not content with my mistake
you behaved just like a snake
and you left me for a wasp without a sting
Tell all my friends back home
that I did it on my own
and that to their well-worn cares they should cling
When you knew that I had given all the kindness that I had
did you feel you had to break that lonely vow?
When you knew that I was through
that I’d done all I could do
did you really have to sow that final plough?
Not content with my mistake, you behaved just like a snake
and you left me for a wasp without a sting
Tell all the folks back home that he did it on his own
and that to their well-worn cares they should cling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUhGrUMm8A&ab_channel=ProcolHarum-Topic
“The Devil Came From Kansas”
The Devil came from Kansas. Where he went to I can’t say
Though I teach I’m not a preacher, and I aim to stay that way
There’s a monkey riding on my back, been there for some time
He says he knows me very well but he’s no friend of mine
I am not a humble pilgrim
there’s no need to scrape and squeeze
and don’t beg for silver paper
when I’m trying to sell you cheese
The Devil came from Kansas. Where he went to I can’t say
If you really are my brother then you’d better start to pray
for the sins of those departed and the ones about to go
There’s a dark cloud just above us, don’t tell me ‘cos I know
I am not a humble pilgrim
there’s no need to scrape and squeeze
and don’t beg for silver paper
when I’m trying to sell you cheese
No I never came from Kansas, don’t forget to thank the cook
Which reminds me of my duty: I was lost and now I look
for the turning and the signpost and the road which takes you down
to that pool inside the forest in whose waters I shall drown
I am not a humble pilgrim
there’s no need to scrape and squeeze
and don’t beg for silver paper
when I’m trying to sell you cheese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHkwyrUiGmU&ab_channel=ProcolHarum-Topic
Kent
Great news, hopefully
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-reaches-deferred-prosecution-agreement-with-us/ar-AAOMzYj?ocid=EIE9HP&li=AAggFp5
Cheers, M
She is out – Canada frees detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou after US drops extradition bid
https://www.rt.com/news/535777-huawei-meng-wanzhou-deal/
Dare I say, now for Julian Assange.
And it was an exchange. The two Michaels are on their way home to Canada.
https://www.rt.com/news/535788-trudeau-release-canadian-citizens-china/
And the Canuck spy agency tweeted about being pleased to see them coming home.
Intriguing this happens immediately following Canadian selections.
Coincidence?? (usually not)
Have you seen any useful commentary connecting the dots?
You know the 2 Michaels were accused in China for spying. There is a bunch of laughs across the Twitter sphere following all this .. apparently, the very first tweet in the whole sphere that welcomed the 2 men home, is from the Canadian security and intelligence service.
https://twitter.com/csiscanada/status/1441571942721593345
To have a conversation was never so difficult as now
Your assembly has become so different now
Why now do I have to choose the troubled path of love
The hard days journey was never so difficult as now
Who has taken away my patience and tranquility
Why is the heart so troubled as it is now
The reflection on the cheek has begun to glow
Never was the full moon as warm as it is now
Pestle has struck the mortar and imprisoned the lover
The sound of chains were never so troublesome as now
I do not know how those eyes mesmerized me
Why has my mind become attracted to it now
Why is the glance of beloved now become neglectful
They were never negligent to the hearts disposition as now
The eye of the beloved was ever an enemy
But those eyes never looked so perilous as now
What is the reason ‘Zafar’ that everything is worse now
Your exquisitely beautiful behavior was never as it is now
– Bahadur Shah Zafar
(the last Mughal emperor of India)
Mehdi Hassan sings “Baat Karni Mujhe Mushkil Kabhi Aisi”
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=igAPIzQbidk&feature=share
yesterday was so
easy, today is so hard;
but better this than
retracing yesterday’s steps
and finding happiness gone
Thank you Dimitar for your kind reply.
Time shows no quietude
the hardship faced each day
brings hope for a better morrow’
a phoenix arises from yester’ ashes
gold becomes pure, passing through fire
life teaches the artist
the art of life; nothing lost
is nothing gained
life teaches the artist
the art of nothingness
everything lost
becomes life
God has given man
failure in order to come
to know Him
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,
Now I know they are here to stay,
Oh I believed, in yesterday.
P.M.
Heavens falling out of the sky
Sends a message to you, and I
See people crawling out of their trees
Chained to sickness, the dogs are free
I want to be saved
I want to be saved
From the sound, the sound
The world is spitting out
Only love can save me now
Gone so down
Lost is all I found
Only love, love, love can save me now
Drowning madly in deep blue seas
Waves of sadness swallow me
No soul can hear me beneath the weight
No gods or saviors, no hands of fate
I want to be saved
I want to be saved
From the sound, the sound
The world is spitting out
Only love can save me now
Gone so down
Lost is all I found
Only love, love, love can save me now
I want to be saved
I want to be saved
I want to be saved
I want to be saved
From the sound, the sound
The world is spitting out
Only love can save me now
Gone so down
Lost is all I found
Only love, love, love can save me now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWsnG51Ea4&ab_channel=ThePrettyReckless
Kent
Previously I wrote about the economic analysis H.K.Smith made of a prior, “model” of fascist capitalism, and why (writing for publication as v Bock was laying siege to Stalingrad in ’42) that manifestation would fail. I said I’d copy it out… Well, memory is fickle, it’s longer that I recalled, and there are two entire relevant chapters. I expect Michael Hastings would smile at the analysis, and enjoy the read (or re-read!)
Withal, these chapters are beyond my typing, and there is no need.
Kindly refer to Internet Archive Last Train From Berlin by Smith Howard K.
The particular chapters are “The Economics of Decline” and “Valhalla in Transition”
It’s a free download, and a worthy read altogether, as many sinister matter gain gravity it can make a pleasant and perhaps relevant (and encouraging!) improvement of Spirit.
…….
I am very sorry to read (at first post above) rumor about Brit mercs. Hope that not true. One might hope that the Aussies are kind to them and give them a bigbig welcome.
https://www.theonion.com/iran-starts-stockpiling-strontium-just-to-stress-out-u-1847735645
TEHRAN—Giggling to themselves as they transported large quantities of the alkaline-earth metal to a highly secure containment facility, top Iranian officials reportedly began stockpiling strontium Friday just to stress out the U.S. intelligence community. “Oh man, they’re gonna lose their shit when we take all the strontium we can find and start filling concrete silos with it and spinning it around in centrifuges,” said Hamid Yazdani, a research scientist with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, adding that baffled members of the CIA and NSA would “freak the fuck out” when they saw caches of the naturally occurring element, which would be placed in a spot clearly visible to U.S. surveillance satellites. “We’re putting guards around it and everything. Then, just to sell it even more, we’re gonna photoshop some redacted documents about strontium refining and send a bunch of fake texts about how we’re smuggling it to Hezbollah. We didn’t know what else to do with all this strontium, so we figured, why not have some fun?” At press time, sources confirmed that U.S. officials, having determined that gathering large amounts of any element on the periodic table constituted suspicious behavior, had ordered a series of lethal drone strikes.
From the BBC’s Building 7 highlight reel: ARD and the Sunday German elections! 😂
https://sputniknews.com/20210924/german-television-station-gives-national-election-results-two-days-before-the-election-1089386768.html
Thank you Dimitar, Sudhi and other wordsmiths for your poetry. I am sure that it is appreciated around here by a lot more people than me.
I have a notebook where I write down some words that strike home.
As these words did;
on September 17, 2021 · at 7:39 pm EST/EDT
Gregorian – I’ll find my way home;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgU3ojwlCM
You ask me where to begin
Am I so lost in my sin
You ask me where did I fall
I’ll say I can’t tell you when
But if my spirit is lost
How will I find what is near
Don’t question I’m not alone
Somehow I’ll find my way home
My sun shall rise in the east
So shall my heart be at peace
And if you’re asking me when
I’ll say it starts at the end
You know your will to be free
Is matched with love secretly
And talk will alter your prayer
Somehow you’ll find you are there
Your friend is close by your side
And speaks in far ancient tongue
A season’s wish will come true
All seasons begin with you
One world — we all come from
One world — we melt into one
Just hold my hand and we’re there
Somehow we’re going somewhere
Somehow we’re going somewhere
East meets West at Carnegie Hall
Joe Bonamassa – ‘Drive’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apXVpnGM6AE
oops… I will try again. Don’t know what happened to the link re; the ‘words that strike home as these words did;
“the storms of life
pry me away from my safe
harbour, that I may
exchange my forbearance
for Thine”
these words were written here:
on September 17, 2021 · at 7:39 pm EST/EDT
God is the sole hope
of the hopeless,
the curer of the sick
and the solace of the lonely.
He does not abandon
those who seek refuge in Him.
He rewards those who
show patience.
Those who advance
steadily shall win.
Those who advance
steadily shall find peace.
Those who advance
steadily shall find love.
It’s Friday night around here and that means ‘Friday Night Blues Party’
Robert Randolph & The Family Band – The Sky is Crying;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8vcibB_9ys
Y’know, I was having some cold feet regarding the German elections, and thought I’d discuss them on the newest Moveable Feast Cafe possible (so it wouldn’t be ignored once the next one comes up), but wasn’t sure of what to ask specifically, or if I should still even be worried about which party will be selected since the USA might rig it anyway. Not living in Germany myself, I can’t vote there.
Nord Stream II took loads of man-hours and euros to build, including the moolah that German business investors spent on the project, and I’d hate to see all that effort, plus the opportunity to build a bridge between Russia and Germany and give the latter some strategic independence from the Anglosphere, get wasted just because of some stupid politician’s words and actions.
Okay, now that I’ve thought about the question in hand: of the political parties and/or chancelleral (for lack of a better term to describe the equivalent of presidential) candidates in the race, which ones have the best policy, or track record thereof? (Of course, Greens are out of the question – Baerbock said something about canceling NS2)
It’s amazing to read the honest words of the poets, what would life be without loss, death and rebirth every day, how boring and meaningless, and so encouraging to read of others stories and journeys, so it was always, and hence the world has mountain ranges of of books, “we read to know that we are not alone,” as Lewis once said, and as the corporate powers, the elites’ say now, shut up, or we’ll make you.
You can’t shut up the rose, and you can’t shut up the human heart
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/07/02/1400070211412853723666994.png
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1400/07/02/1400070211452166323667074.png
Turkey and Israel, finally out of the closet.
https://riafan.ru/1526608-biograf-merkel-predskazal-razvitie-otnoshenii-moskvy-i-berlina-posle-ee-uhoda
Laschet did voice his support for Nord Stream II a day or two ago, if I recall correctly. But now that his party is in the top of the race last time I looked (unless someone has more reliable live stats), what will the rest of his policies be?
(Some months ago he said something stupid about Russia. He did apologize for that, didn’t he?)
Small one minute joke for y’all
https://saker.community/topic/new-chatter-and-jabber-thread-starting-on-september-19/#post-6273
Please Amarynth / flight-tracker readers,
this development of a Chinese commercial flight detour around Alaska was shocking.
I was aware Chinese (esp students, high-profile businesspeople and science researchers) were starting to limit trips to Zone A, given AZ kidnapping gangsterism and discrimination, and Russian high-profile people were warned a few years ago about traveling to territories with extradition treaties with the crazed Hegemon, but this re-routing of a flightpath in official peace-time is scary.
It is a significant marker before general hostilities, when even basic communications between nations are being curtailed.
Hopefully it is mere prudence to protect a single VIP-flight.
But consider in one of your future sit-reps on China the pattern of flight exchanges (# flights/volume) between US and China and how has evolved in recent months, at least 2 years prior to covid-19 and since.
I know much of travel is still affected by the covid, but may still be a worthwhile review, with comparison with flights to Germany/Japan vis-à-vis USA during covid era.
Thanks in advance
I believe (I mistaken) thought the picture on cafe picture board was triumphantly reminiscing the old yeaster years gone by before “inflation” (the 5 cents circle in middle of picture board) –
I thought (mistaken) , I was expecting to browse and laugh about postings linking inflation to our paper monitory floating in the wilderness (with the non-thinking wilder beasts) without being linked to biblical silver or gold.
All those prices should still be 5 cents (!?)
The quality of the drinks on the board did not increase by 500% in taste (value) – (we are not in heaven)—-we need to pay off usury / riba off of printed money (ungodly) to printing press–hike up the price and keep printing more$$$$- to pay off that (Ponzi) scheme .
There is no place like home-
There is no place like home..
There is no place like home….
(Just say these words three times…repeat , then tap ones shoes together)
Happy times continue unabated — the Empire now also confesses openly that it has problems with Russia’s increasing presence on the African continent. I just saw a newsflash where Sweden’s most devout NATO bootlicker alongside Carl Bildt — the hideous Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist — read out a scripted communiqué about the situation in Mali deemed very worrisome due to the government’s cooperation with the Russian Wagner grouo (military contractors). I ”almost” felt sad for Peter Hultqvist, not because of his physical appearance which he richly deserves, but because his Russophobia and acts of support for the ’rules-based order’ amount to such totally wasted efforts. Hell, he couldn’t do shit neither about Nordstream 2, nor the rout of NATO in Afghanistan. And here he is supposed to come to the rescue of imperialism in Africa at a time when China already has a strong clout in the southern part of the continent while the Russians are slowly but surely ousting the French out of the Sahel.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Weekend Fun (and I mean Fun).
1. What is the one question that you would like answered, before you step off this mortal coil?
2. What is the one thing that you would like to do yet, before you step off this mortal coil?
I’ll answer mine, but let’s roll and see what the commentariat has to say :-)
Ok, I’ll bite.
#1 How long before Zone B MP’s police Zone A and they arrest and bring the nazis to trial? What day?
#2 Write my books.
Of course one’s goals and desires may adapt to circumstance over Time.
1) ”When will Ukraine go back to Russia?”. Having this question answered before I die in all likelihood means that I’ll live to see it 😊
2) Tease the Ukronazis by having the Russian National Anthem playing at full blast on Maidan Square, Kiev. If that will be the end of me, it would be something to be proud of!
1) Where is it that I’m going to? :-) is what I’d like to know.
2) I have some things that I want to do yet. Ride on the fast maglev trains. See a person develop into full health after years of struggle. Take another trip across the world – backpack, credit cards, good walking shoes and destination as the spirit moves.
OK then, I’ll take a nibble…
1. How can humanity find and know the Christ, irrespective of all religions, as the unifying element of the heart?
2/. Go to Russia, and have a glass of vodka or cup of coffee with Vladimir Putin, and tell him most earnestly that his country IS the future, and nothing the west does or says can stop it and that he must remain faithful.
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P.S. In a letter of 1854, Dostoevsky wrote when released from labour camp to the woman who had given him a copy of the New Testament, and said “if someone were to prove to me that Christ was outside the truth, and it was really the case that the truth lay outside Christ, then I should choose to stay with Christ.”
1. Is there other life out there,..beyond our planet earth?
2. Take a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUINpw6CFTw
“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1235027.shtml
Not to sound too cynical, but is there a difference between wokeness and political correctness? Is this even an example of either one (or both) at play, let alone a good example?
Unlike a few other titles I’ve heard of, such as My Hero Academia or Konosuba, this particular title Ultraman Tiga was relatively popular before it was removed, and certain netizens weren’t happy about that.
In the end, I fear that parental negligence and scapegoating (when parents blame their children’s poor behavior on anime, video games, etc.) might be just as much a problem in Zone B as it is in Zone A. In other words, universal.
(Disclaimer: I’m not big on the Ultraman franchise in general. Not really my cup of tea.)
Apparently Australia intends to start/join a war against China, (our largest trading partner), to satisfy the rapacious gluttony of the US military machine.
But first, some defence people need to have a little cry, and are being offered counselling to deal with the trauma of the canceled submarine contract:
Who said the French were crybabies?
Defence staff offered counselling for ‘stress and uncertainty’ after French sub deal scrapped
As Australia switches to a nuclear-powered fleet, military personnel and Defence Department staff who are feeling distressed by the scrapping of the $90 billion French submarine program are being offered professional support as well as assurances their positions will be kept.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-26/defence-staff-offered-counselling/100489608
It’s a very dark film, youtube> “CARING CORRUPTED – The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich”
Of course this matter has absolutely nothing to do with our present Time, who could argue differently?
Most realistic adult “sakerites” will find the film a refresher applied to what they already know, but nevertheless it’s sobering effect may be welcome in the face of agitprop campaigns.
I myself take issue with the omission of mention of who financed the national socialists in Germany, and their agenda. The guilt is always heaped on a single fella, who probably escaped anyway (Stalin said so, anyway).
What is happening with VP? After going into isolation, no news or whereabouts?
Well he has had a few days in the taiga with Shoigu recently.
Huge, huge piece here….
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/09/26/jasenovac-the-latest-holocaust-embarrassment/
Brother Glen Diesen’s excellent paper> “Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia ”
Yup. The bigbig geostrategic plan of those horrible Roooskies and Commie Chinese is to, rather that join Europe (that’s long gone) create forces that will bring Europe, in the fullness of Time, to be a part of Eurasia in the hopelessly unbeatable geoeconomic “Earth Island” powerhouse ” MacKinder’s (and Her Royalness’) worst nightmare! The process is far past stopping. The outcome is sure.
(One may speculate on the celestial wisdom of Uncle Sam in forcing Russia and China to do this, but, honestly, one need not even ask if their Lordships’ level of reality-perception is even up to following Diesen’s paper. The Stalingrad of this century has past. The Reich is sure to go the same way as last time, and surely too, the western lords, the reich.)
Why, I well remember when B43 said “History? Who cares? We’ll all be dead.” (43 got hizzelf a BA in History (many say “gentleman’s C grades”, which means he did not study) Ignorance can be terminal, they say…
See also Karlov1’s @ MoA, where (inter alia) “As with Yamamoto’s understanding that Japan had already lost WW2 to the USA prior to its Pearl Harbor attack because of the USA’s vast industrial and resource dominance, the Eurasian Bloc has already neutered the Outlaw US Empire’s attempt to restart the Cold War as it simply lacks what it takes on several crucial levels, Human Capital being the most important. Certainly, more battles will be fought just as Hitler continued after Stalingrad, but the outcome is already known unless some spectacular mistakes are made by the Eurasianists.” (see MoA week in review)
Diesen’s paper> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1879366521998240
I have said for years that those fine fellas runnin’ (and looting) “the west” of “Zone A” were and are delusional, thus doomed by the gods. I published 20 years ago that a reign of terror in the USA would follow on the false flags on September. The cop’s terror in Oz escaped me though. In retreat, terror come home to ruin it’s originators.
It’s fairly clear that the remaining regions of Zone A will inevitably come also to heel. Comrade Brother Panarin’s maps do come to mind. “Zone A in hysterical “Hail Mary” may try what they will. If they use violence against the Eurasian Zone, they’ll only draw down darker shades of doom. Inevitably all of Zone A will come to Heel, as there can be no other result.
One may speculate on when the Russian’s and the Chinese will be asked by desperate regions of North America to come and help relieve the suffering survivors. Not entirely tongue-in-cheek. These are Times one would prefer had been expertly avoided, but the savages and fools are ignorant and lost in intrigue and delusion. Pity.