2021/09/30 21:00:02
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Brother Sean the leprechaun’s “sis” has a colleague (absolutely unknown to her) – who happens to be the mother of some of Mr P’s grandchildren.
She reports from the ER essentially the same sort of stories. Some of the kids submitted to the pressures, alas (!) and the natural (?) course is proceeding…to the obvious end result. RIP. There’s one left that’s not the walking dead. Both Mr P’s bio-offspring? Walking dead and 100% insane.
They’re trying to fire the gal, after 25 years in the ER. Never missed a day…
Of course history never repeats, and never rhymes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=Rz8ge4aw8Ws&feature=emb_logo (Aktion T4)
https://youtu.be/nxNjyE65IS4 (RT Docu)
Six degrees of separation, reduced to two (or is it three?).
Fascinating how connection and serendipity are revealed.
left a note for WW on ‘happenstance’ ‘coincedence’ and ‘somethings up’ ………..in yesterdays cafe, for whatever reason it failed to be posted…………as bwbs has mentioned similarities in yestercafe. And it was benign. I’ll repost the gist of it in chatter….
Cheers, M
Mr.P, I made a space on an alternative Saker Community site to discuss issues that are verboten on this site for those that wanted such a space. It is all above board and agreed with all the necessaries.
It is here, https://saker.community/forum/forum/
and Le Lepre’s info can be found here: https://saker.community/topic/new-chatter-and-jabber-thread-starting-on-september-19/
Mostly unmoderated .. first few posts are moderated but thereafter we look after ourselves.
Many thanks!
Meditation on MFC pic
Sitting
At my favourite caf
Through the window
Illumination
Warmth, on my face, as a caress
A moment in contemplation
Allows lightness
To bathe my soul.
sunlight pours into
a world of shadows,
illuminating the daydreamer’s
smoky haunt
Shadows on my soul
Fleeting Retreat
A moment in flux
Exhale
Pause
Inhale
A new thought drawn
Shadows on my soul
uncovering the
secret way soul has of being
with the mystery
Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery… John Keats
The Riders At Dawn
Are they ten, are they twenty,
Are they a hundred or more?
Are they horses and men
Of nothing but brawn?
Some unearthly king’s
Elite retaining corps?
Who are the riders
On the crest of the dawn?
Awakened to the pounding
Of swift hooded hooves,
Rolling like thunder
Right through my brain;
The earth it trembles
And the house it moves,
To the roar of the riders
As they pass through the lane!
I’m always dumbfounded
And strangely perturbed,
There’s no sign of uproar
Or gathering storm;
The turf lies unbroken,
The sward undisturbed,
With no trace at all
Of the riders at dawn.
Where do they come from,
Where do they go?
To what commission
And to whom are they sworn?
What do they see
And what do they know,
And why do they gather
In the hour before dawn?
Are they ten, are they a hundred,
Are they legion or more?
Are they horses and men
Or spirits unborn?
Some golden king’s
Elite retaining corps?
Who are the riders
On the crest of the dawn?
In life’s favoured paths
I stood alone
and watched the faces
which came and passed
Life has dispensed
many sufferings
why then did I kiss
all those afflictions
The storms of life
left marks on their ways
but still I continue to
seek its footsteps
Everyday is a succession
of sorrows of sustenance
while nights pass in the
series of life’s memories
O, Lord, give me the wind and the cold;
The ache and the pains of sickness and fever.
O welcome, weariness and sleeplessness by night –
My broken state is a prelude to your love and mercy.
Do not fear the place of darkness and cold, for it is
the fountain of life and the cup of ecstasy.
“Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair
And what may quiet us in a death so noble.”
(from ‘Samson Agonistes’ by John Milton,1608 -1674)
renouncing the world;
man must take up and solve the
problem of the little
self, before taking up the
greater problem of God
The fountain of life lies shattered
as cold winds pass bringing
with it aches, sickness, fevers and
darkness in the heart of mankind
Since the beginning eternal
light broke through bringing
with it the the cup of ecstasy
from the moon and the stars
fortune rewards patience;
the unceasing internal
melody will lead soul to
the place that lies beyond
the stars, moons and suns
My condolences Mr P and Sean.
We battle against principalities and powers.
Prayer is both the key armor and weapon of these days.
And it will prevent our hearts from exploding given what we are witnessing.
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Being slow boiled in the Anglosphere: the rolling out of a creative martial law…
These contrived “driver shortages” and “worker shortages” everywhere: In UK, now in USA. Excellent way to have excuse to bring in troops on streets… and so unoriginal with same lame excuse being deployed simultaneously across Anglosphere…
And people get used to seeing these troops “keeping the peace and maintaining civilization.”
All this was expected, but this new twist stood out:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-bus-driver-shortage-is-so-bad-that-250-national-guard-members-were-activated-to-drive-students-to-class-in-massachusetts/ar-AAOqU7M
Are readers in various US states seeing more National Guard or similar troops out and about more?
Reminds me of that interesting predictive programming movie, “The 5th Wave (2016)” – one of worst movies I ever watched, in fact I lost gray matter watching it, but I endured as it was a hot tip on truther channels last year.
Its premise appears to be in motion now: the military is on streets during a 5th wave, with children removed from their parents… or is it that custodians will soon be needed given a shortage of parents?
There was a forgettable movie from early 1990s – “the Hand that rocks the cradle;” the contemporary refrain appears to be “Who’s Driving the School Bus?”
Andrea Bocelli and Hauser – Melodramma;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrxaZMzz_4
English Translation:
This song of mine
A hymn to love
I’m singing it you now
With my pain
That is so strong and so big
That torments my heart
But the morning is a clear one
There’s a smell of wine amidst the fields
I dreamed of you and now
I still see you there
Oh, it’s so much nostalgia
Frescoes1 show the hill
I cry, what a madness it is
To go away later
This song of mine
A hymn to love
I sing it and I feel
All my pain
That is so strong and so big
That torments my heart
But the morning is a clear one
There’s a mill amidst the fields
There is where my destiny was born
Without you, it is bitter…
Without you, it is bitter
And this heart is singing
A sweet melodrama
It’s the hymn of love
That I’ll sing for you
It’s a melodrama that
That I sing without you
Translation by Alma Barroca
I love singing along with Andrea’s the Lord’s Prayer every day. Also Pavarotti’s Ave Maria. I like Pavarotti’s Caruso more than Bocelli’s….
I think Iran and Russia each still have a driver, females though.
https://www.rt.com/news/536361-germany-blackouts-power-ad/
One reader said this:
I’ve been told here and elsewhere that East Germany had a relatively decent standard of living (why else would some former East Germans miss their old lives?). Was it really as bad as the scenario in new governmental ad/PSA was? Or is it another case of certain RT readers blaming everything on communism?
[1. Hope this doesn’t violate any new moderation policies. Please inform me if it does.
2. A ‘preview’ button would be nice.]
Comrade Brother Victor Grossman, a US born refugee from the red-hunt, speaks to how it was in East Germany. Also publishes a news-letter by email. A bit of sleuthing and you’ll find him
Brother Mercouris reasons about the very recent meeting between Brother VVP and the Sultan. Mercouris, of course, misspeaks about “SU75” (meaning, one must assume SU57 “Checkmate”, and may be, I think, entirely correct in his opinion that Turkey and NATO are finished with one another. video.
see> “Putin Erdogan Negotiate Massive Arms Deal, Turkey’s Relations with US ‘in Crisis’ ” (use search, Mr P is reluctant to post url of Duran) :-)
Deal? Mercouris expects> More SS400 batteries, very sexy Russian Li-ion battery subs, fighter jets, and engines, and supersonic flying robot bombs. The rocket torpedo? Not spoken of, but I laid a bet on that too down at “Stumpies Liqueur and Asbestos Paint” .
Evidently His Excellency the Sultan plumbed the “depths” of that good man and Celestial intellect, the fella who is claimed to be the US President, and by implication also the overall Character of the cadre or faction claiming to run what is sometimes seen as the “4th Reich”. One does recall his Daniel and the famous message: “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin”.
Recently the Sultan demanded his money back from the US on the F-35 “flying restaurant”. (he won’t get it)
No doubt the Great Leaders of zone A will follow the great American naval dictum>
” When in Danger
or in Doubt
Steam in Circles
Toot! and Shout!”
Since the US has ignored STEM curriculum, increasingly, since about 1970 (at least!), the Great Movement for Democracy may be obliged to employ catapults, bribery and criminal intrigue having been shown to be an insufficient method of power protection.
Does anyone know what happened to the Skripals after leaving UK. What news from their familly about any contact with them ?
Nothing in mainstream media….just guess. To Surely it is D notice.
John Helmer blog Dances With Bears probably best source for all matters Skripal.
http://johnhelmer.org/british-convert-skripal-sturgess-inquest-into-novichok-show-throw-trial/#more-45533
Sometimes we may tend to forget just how evil the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine are.But then a friend from Donetsk reminds us:
October 1 is a day of memory and mourning for children who died in the military aggression of Ukrainian militants. They will never hear a school call again…
The memory of the dead children will forever remain in the hearts of the residents of Donbass.
… In autumn 2014, the Day of Knowledge on the flaring military fires of Donbass was postponed from September 01 to October 01
On October 1, 2014, the first call rang in Donbass schools. A joyful child with bouquets astr was in a hurry to school.
The silence of a sunny autumn morning was torn by shell explosions, the bells of flying glass, the screams of people…
And now the blood of the wounded and dead Kiev Avenue is already lit at the bus stop No. 17, doctors are running from ambulance to the wounded (ambulance station is very close, and to run faster than to get there), military guys are running to help…
Under fire and 57 school, scared children are hastily taken to a bomb shelter in the basement of the school… There are dead and injured, just a few minutes ago a beautiful and elegant school already without glasses, drenched with blood…
Rescuing children in school 57, teacher Grebenkin Andrey Egorovich, soldier of the DPR Army Kirill Valerievich, Sakhno Sergeyevich, died…
So Ukrainian fascists decided to congratulate the children of Donbass on their first day of school…
Almost everything destroyed by war can be corrupted and fulfilled.
Only those who left cannot be returned…
Anna Stavitskaya
Donetsk – Staromikhailovka Abakumova Turquoise DPR
yesterday at 8:00
The first call. Bloody ′′ truce “. October 1, 2014
Shelling of school N-57 and stops at 48. Kiev Avenue
In September 2014, the first ′′ Minsk conspiracy ′′ was signed. They talked about the world for the first time. Indeed, the intensity of shelling of the cities of Donbass, compared to the summer period, has decreased slightly. But this ′′ truce ′′ also lasted less than a month.
For the children of the Republic, the school year began after the bloody summer on October 1, a month later. Despite recent shelling, students came to the first call with flowers, a good mood to sit behind their desks and gain new knowledge.
But October 1 for children of students at school No. 57 Donetsk will now forever be a tragic date. The school yard was shelled by Ukrainian war criminals from RSZO Hurricane. The shell fell 5 meters from the school. As a result, a school building was destroyed, a biology teacher, two parents, and a fighter of SVD ′′ Berkut “. died.
July 30, 2014 (video N-6, in the post). School 57 teachers are showing a school basement prepared bomb shelter hoping they don’t have to use it when children start their school year.
Donetsk. October 1, 2014. First call…
Next to school, shells of the same shelling fell at the bus stop. The people who were waiting for the bus were falling down, right when it pulled up to its last stop.
War crime of Bandera junta, claimed the lives of 8 civilians in the city. Jet artillery shells fell next to a traffic stop along Kiev Avenue.
As a resident of Donetsk describes it:
′′ October 1, 2014 was a warm sunny day. Children went to the first call in DPR. Beautiful and elegant. First graders with funny bows and huge bouquets. I looked at them and smiled – Donetsk is alive.
But in an instant, everything changed – shell whistling, explosions, fire, screams of people and ringing flying into the dust of glass…. The smell of blood (yes, blood smells sweet and nasty, especially when there is a lot of it…), the smell of powder, burn and I don’t even know what yet… A blood-filled Kiev Avenue and a flaring bus… Printing station… The ambulance station is very close and doctors just run on foot trying to help the victims… The militia guys are trying to help the wounded, but many are already trying to help can’t help…
No words and photos can convey emotions from what is happening…”
All this happened against the background of the unfolding fights for Donetsk airport, in the noise of which Donetsk spent the last few days, and which will accompany the city’s life for several months, until it was taken by the militia.
One of the dead on this day at a bus stop in Kiev was the father of our fighter from my unit. The deceased was taken on October 3, from the Kalininsky Morgue and the picture there was remembered for me, and still does not come out of my head.
I then made a very short recording on my page (I actually didn’t write anything in VK at all).
– ′′ Yesterday I was in the Kalininsky morgue of Donetsk. Took the body of one of our fighters father. Father died at the same stop. With the same trouble, the guys from the SVD ′′ Berkut ′′ met there
The morgue was killed by the dead, and the main one in it (I don’t know even what to call this post) was scary. Especially he shouted hard at those who arrived on an old jeep, a French woman of an old age and her interpreter accompanying her. They came for the body of a Red Cross employee. The deceased was a loading physique, and there was no one to bring the body into the jeep, the famous humanitarian movement. The man in the morgue worked alone. The rest were girls who were just taking another two hundred into the morgue. One on one side, the other on the other.
Never forget that these people left in Donbass are heroes.
The main one remembered everything to the Red Cross. And the last time the dead was the morgue was also overwhelmed with the dead (bad coincidence), and mostly that it doesn’t understand their functions. Since there was no help from the hospital.
Max couldn’t recognize his father among the dead. They say it’s a common case. When you can’t find out in a dead person, someone who was still alive and well recently. The chief shouted (not angry, but nervously) so that they would analyze their dead faster. My phone, the airport is tearing up, said. We need to make room.
Our Max’s father was buried under the rumble of the cononade of the fight at the airport, next to his mother who died before the war….
In a few days, we will be sent to the airport.
According to the materials of gr. ′′ Cleansing ′′
Sounds like a place to avoid, if one is able.
Just an note of explanation. I sometime, tongue-in-cheek, refer to “Anoxia”, “Stumpie’s book-making liquor and asbestos paint” and so forth. Anoxia is a fictitious place first mooted by William Burroughs, in, I think, Naked Lunch – a place of delusional existence (well, the complicated sodomite artist knew all about the heart of American contradictions and classes, and perhaps was one of the prophets of the 20th century) . Stumpy is William “Stumpy” Zevon (father of Warren Zevon the artist musician). Stumpy is/was said to run book-making in the Jewish Mafia of Los Angeles from a store-front that was notionally an Asbestos Paint Store. Cute! (evidently fire-proof, ie “protected”). His boss was said to be Mickey Cohen. Hollywood looked clean and the sidewalks were swept, and vice was kept underground and discrete, but it was a rank bordello with “fixers” and mob lawyers (many may recall how Sirhan was done and who did what, and the set-up at the Fri-r’s Club). Mickey and the sheriff were old chums and childhood pals and, many said (including Mickey!) that this old relationship continued into and through their lives – ie that a kind of mutual assistance and coordination (protection runs both ways) existed. Burroughs saw it all. Most of these people were actually pretty decent people, kind, and fair. One may see them as victims of class struggle in a corrupt arena.
Apartheid has arrived here. The Pure Bloods are being barred from interacting with the GMOs. Restaurants, bars, gyms, church, movies, sports centres, music venues, all closed to Pure Bloods. Pure Bloods are quitting or being released from jobs. ,Pure Bloods are also blamed for making the ‘protected GMOs’ sick with the very thing the protected GMOs are protected from.
Madness descends upon the land.
Cheers, M
Service NSW is working with the Australian Government on a way to show proof of COVID-19 vaccinations through the Service NSW app.
Once COVID-19 digital certificates are available in the Service NSW app, you’ll be able to prove your vaccination status when you check in to a venue.
(WW: and you have to check in everywhere… every single shop, outlet, everywhere)
A COVID-19 digital certificate is available online now to people who have received 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
How NSW’s vaccine passports will work
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-nsw-s-vaccine-passports-will-work-20210922-p58ts9.html
How will I be able to create my passport?
NSW …. “busily working with the Commonwealth” to access the data to allow the state to have its vaccine passport available via the Service NSW app.
… information being obtained from the federal government through the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
The purpose of the passport through Service NSW is to simplify the venue check-in process, so people don’t have to juggle separate apps for QR codes and proof of vaccination.
How will businesses enforce the rules, and what about the risk of forgery?
Businesses will need to take reasonable steps to ensure patrons are adhering to the rules, and while they are not expected to be law enforcement agencies, they “can’t turn a blind eye”, Mr Dominello said.
“The framework will be basically the same as what we’ve done with the QR codes,” he said. “The responsibility must rest on the individual.”
He said penalties of imprisonment and hefty fines exist for any offending, and for individuals who deliberately do the wrong thing and “get found out, there could be jail time”.
WW: From Oct 11 to Dec 1 only vaccinated (with digital passports as proof) are legally allowed to enter cafes, restaurants, pubs, sports venues, movies, hairdressers, and I am not sure about indoor shopping malls……
Right now, this weekend, the NSW govt is in chaos, with the Premier resigning due to a longstanding corruption “cloud”, and the Deputy has also resigned, along with another portfolio holder.
The incoming new premier is no “new broom”.
He’s a case of “new boss, same as the old boss”.
Or… those who wanted Gladys gone…. shoulda been careful what they wished for…
But now the “new” team can blame the ousted team for anything and everything wrong with the NSW covid response….even though they were senior members of Gladys team, and responsible for the decisions to date.
If you don’t have your life jacket, get one now, before they become mandatory……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukIoZ8d3Ew
Cheers, M