2021/10/07 20:00:01
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What is life but a passing memory/ a temporary fling.
Where does one keep one’s heart safe- guard it, with all one has.
Where have I been?
Confused (mostly)
Saker and Co. opened their doors, always kept the “lights on” despite a very unforgiving life.
Where would any of be without their guidance? Their love is brighter then any dark in the world can throw at us.
Authors, contributors, even comments, all loved.
We would not be here (literally) without everyone’s presence.
What a beautiful memory.
“What is life but a passing memory/ a temporary fling…”
Life is a series of situations with endless twists and turns that gradually bring about subtle transformations within the individual. Looking back at our past, we should all be able to see how we have changed insofar as some of our reactions are concerned. Generally speaking, we should be able to say that we’re “better” at life, than in the past. Experience therefore results in wisdom.
Our problems occur when we do not understand the laws of life, and life assists in uncovering these laws ( through our “mistakes” ), so we do not endlessly repeat our unconscious behaviour. An example of some of these laws are the law of karma ( almost every single story, from nursery rhymes on, sketch out the implications of the law of karma ), and at the other end of the spectrum, the law of love, which leads to perfect self-responsibility, and the “karmaless act”, ( if one’s heart is sincere and one consecrates one’s self on behalf of the law of love – being selfless giving of one’s self – regularly, he/she will go a long way toward curtailing the needless burdening of one’s self with unnecessary karma ).
Some other laws of life include the law of grace; working toward an area of non-attachment mainly through discipline of the emotions, the law of silence ( too much talk means too many problems, lol ), the law of economy
( using our resources to the fullest etc ). All of these laws work together to educate Soul that at bottom of truth is love. Love that makes all things worthwhile, that gives all things meaning and purpose.
It’s said that in the world of Soul the great intellectual and the beggar stand side by side, the difference being the love that each may or may not have discovered within themselves, and did or didn’t live their lives by. Life may be a passing memory, but there is a purpose behind apparent events… and that is to enlarge one’s capacity to love. This may sound trite to some, however, this message underlies the teaching of all great teachers that have walked this earth.
you can take the pearl out of the ocean,
but not the ocean out of the pearl
1) (fyi) poetic device deployed , not entended from analysis, rhetorical device deployed, warning not intended for analysis , warning warning warning no analysis needed…abort , abort, abort, crash pending, abort , abort, abort!
Warning: poem does not apply to “real” life nor lady in picture,pay no attention! Nothing to see here just move along. Not a poem just an illusion to an illusion to an alliteration… abort, abort, crash pending, abort , malfunction(shutting down, log off)
Power off.
Power up…. screen on….
Cursor blinking…. … … .. (Waiting…waiting….waiting…)
Screen reads : abort abort abort
Reason: not intended for analysis
Reason : analysis not needed
Action: abort abort abort
System response : crash impending
Log off immediately request
Robot malfunction: abortive action required
Reason not possible to convert poem by analysis
Action abort abort abort
Action eject eject eject
Thank you Dimitar for your succinct explanation of the interplay of the the law of karma, as well as other laws governing ones sojourn in this wide world. As you expressed so well –
“Experience therefore results in wisdom.”
let the pearl in the ear ring
close to her eye lashes
shine as the sun and the moon
and brighten her eyes as
the stars in the heavens above
When one is united to the core of another,
to speak of that is to breathe the name HU, empty
of self and filled with love. As the saying goes,
‘The pot drips what is in it.’
The saffron spice of connecting, laughter.
The onion smell of separation, crying.
Others have many things and people they love.
This is not the way of Friend and friend.
Rumi
Mathnawi, Book IV
Thank you, Sudhi. I have a journey ahead of me and will not be around for a while. Feel free to continue with poetry inserts if so inclined. It’s been enjoyable. Catch you down the track a little. Best, D.
Wishing you a pleasant journey. The poetry will not be the same without you, for you inspire us to do better.
what greater deed can
one do, but that which
brings pleasure in the
heart of a good person
Thank you, Sudhi. If you feel like posting poetry, simply trust your instincts. We do not bear the burden of trying to post “great poetry” as a ‘poetry club’ might, but see poetry as a means of expressing ideas. Which is probably why some great poetry finds its way through. Best wishes, and catch up in a little while, D.
JJ and Alabama from previous cafe
So the CIA has a quota system like your neigborhood traffic cop. Incompetence will only get worse as the US is a quota country on both sides, inferior candidates and informants. If three black candidates and two whites are best for a CIA position but we need brown – we get brown. This is incredibly detrimental. Kamala is often referred to as a ‘milestone’. Worst thing you can do, we need to put the best in the targeted positions. Would you be investing in a company that didn’t have the crème de la crème at the top?
Thanks,
Here is the fix in two texts.
CIA Launches China Mission Center to Confront Beijing
2 hours ago
This April 13, 2016 file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. James Pars, a CIA intelligence officer, says his career was derailed after he complained that his boss at a base in a conflict zone repeatedly ordered personnel to travel through dangerous areas on non-essential trips to shop and buy food – Sputnik International, 1920, 07.10.2021
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has launched a China mission center to confront perceived threats from Beijing, CIA Director William Burns said on Thursday.
The center was formed “to address the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China that cuts across all of the Agency’s mission areas,” a CIA statement shared with the media said.
Earlier, a media report emerges claiming that CIA officers working overseas have been warned that troubling numbers of informants recruited to spy for the United States are being captured or killed.
The message, in a top secret cable, said that the CIA’s counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised, the New York Times report said on Tuesday.
William Burns, nominee for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, testifies during his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 24, 2021. – Sputnik International, 1920, 22.07.2021
CIA creates new mission centers focused on China and technology
BY OLIVIA GAZIS
OCTOBER 7, 2021 / 8:00 AM / CBS NEWS
CIA Director William Burns announced a series of organizational changes intended to hone the agency’s focus on key national security challenges, including the launch of two new mission centers, one focused on China and another dedicated to transnational and technological threats.
The China Mission Center “will further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese government,” Burns said in a statement on Thursday.
The Transnational and Technology Mission Center will focus on foreign technological development alongside issues like climate change and global health, the CIA said in a press release detailing the changes.
Apart from the new mission centers, the agency will also establish a new chief technology officer position and launch a “Technology Fellows” program to bring in specialized talent. It also said that its recruitment and onboarding process would be significantly streamlined. The reorganization is based on four reviews Burns initiated soon after taking office.
“Throughout our history, CIA has stepped up to meet whatever challenges com our way,” Burns said, “and now facing our toughest geopolitical test in a new era of great power rivalry, CIA will be at the forefront of this effort.”
“There’s no doubt we have the talent for the job,” he said. “And with the right approach, and the right structure in place, I know we’ll help ensure American leadership and American success on the global stage for decades to come.”
Burns has consistently identified China as an unparalleled challenger, and vowed to bring an “intensified focus” on competition with Beijing at his February confirmation hearing. President Biden has said the U.S., while not seeking a “new Cold War,” will confront China’s military, economic and technological ambitions and seek to counter its autocratic influence.
A bipartisan report issued last year by the House Intelligence Committee said China’s technological advances in particular threatened to erode the U.S.’ advantage, and it urged intelligence agencies to immediately “realign” resources dedicated to competition with Beijing.
“I think Director Burns made exactly the right set of moves here,” said Michael Morell, who served as the agency’s deputy director and is a CBS senior national security contributor. “They sharpen the existing focus on China and create a new focus on technology.”
“Of the two,” Morell said, “technology is the biggest area for growth because it’s evolving the fastest – and because the agency has a long way to go.” He said the CIA would not only need to better understand foreign technology developments, but also to use emerging technologies to enhance its own operational and analytic missions, all while protecting itself from advances used by adversaries to undercut U.S. intelligence efforts.
Current and former intelligence officials have acknowledged that new technologies have profoundly complicated the work of American spy agencies, whose operatives must now contend with near-ubiquitous surveillance, increasingly sophisticated facial recognition and biometric tracking tools, and advances fueled by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Key challengers like Russia and China have aggressively used new technologies to undermine intelligence operations worldwide, including by identifying and tracking intelligence officers and their assets.
Last month, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said at the annual Intelligence and National Security Alliance summit that the agency was already grappling with obstacles posed by ubiquitous surveillance.
“That is a problem that we confront and our colleagues confront in many places around the world,” Cohen said, calling it an “enormous challenge.”
“The answer to that is not to pretend we can roll back the clock 30 years,” he said. “We are, frankly, embracing the digital domain and…the ability to operate in environments where there is this surveillance – and to do so surreptitiously.”
Cohen will oversee the implementation of the new changes, the CIA said.
There are currently about a dozen existing mission centers at the CIA, whose organizational structure was significantly revised in 2015 by former director John Brennan. Two of them – the Iran and North Korea mission centers, both established more recently by former director Mike Pompeo – will be reabsorbed into regional centers focused on the Middle East and East Asia.
Burns has said he’s not trying to “reinvent the wheel” in his reorganization, rather to make “smart adjustments” based fundamentally on the Brennan-era framework.
In unveiling the changes, Burns said the CIA would continue to focus “sharply” on other threats, including Russia, North Korea and Iran, as well as combatting terrorism.
A source familiar with his thinking said the China Mission Center is, by design, now the only single-country mission center at the agency, highlighting its central importance to CIA’s work.
“John Brennan designed the organization of CIA to be adaptable to plug-and-play mission centers based on substantive needs,” Morell said. “Burns is doing exactly that – putting the focus on the key issues of the day, which have changed over the last ten years.”
I really have very little interest in the cia except to know who is going to represent them in court.
U.S. Troops in Taiwan
My husband left his tv on and when I went to turn it off Fox was talking about US troops in Taiwan. All over google but would like to find an Eastern source. Anyone?
U.S. News & World Report
China Fires Back at Reports of U.S. Troops in Taiwan
China has previously indicated it would retaliate swiftly and immediately to any indication the U.S. had deployed military forces to Taiwan. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AP-FILE)
Leaders in China almost immediately expressed outrage Thursday at a new report indicating the U.S. has secretly stationed forces on Taiwan in an attempt to bolster the island nation’s defenses against the increasing likelihood of an attack from the mainland.
The Cliffhanger
High up above the valley below,
The cliffhanger hangs on fingers and toes.
The wind in his hair, the sun on his face,
His heart held aloft in the gentlest embrace.
He’s come here to heal away from the crowd,
To scale the sheer stone and cry out aloud.
Love laughs in the day and rejoices in light,
But grows in a bed of sorrow at night!
High up above the valley below,
The cliffhanger hangs on fingers and toes.
The sun on his face, the wind in his hair,
His heart held aloft beyond all despair.
He’s come here to heal away from the crowd,
To scale the sheer walls and cry out aloud.
High up above the valley below,
The cliffhanger hangs on fingers and toes.
The sun on his face, the wind in his hair,
His heart held aloft beyond all despair.
Facing within the light so cool
Love One love All, a simple rule
Inner breeze as the Living Light flows
Filled with Light to fingers and toes
Heart aloft but deeply immersed
Follow the steps of He who went first
That is development, q and it is real, as real as I am here and all you are there, and see, the blog has changed, like fine, gold seams of a buried fossil or rock strata, they’re alive, living now, reflecting the current mars, sun, mercury stellum from the heaven’s to the earth ; no one need feel an alien, legal or illegal!
Seams of gold in the hearts of all
But how many know the inner halls?
Our inner wealth, piled up high
Is all we take on the day we die
what once thought
a mirage, has indeed proven
to be an oasis
whatever may come, whatever may be,
i surely will bear with you by my side
but if you should leave, I sorely would grieve
and the tears that i cry will never subside
wherever I am, wherever I go
it makes no difference with you by my side,
but if we should part, I know that my heart
from that moment on will never survive
whenever my time is finally at hand
I gladly will go, with you by my side
but if you’re not there, why should I care,
if the cold dark earth should be my bride?
whatever may come, whatever may be,
I surely will bear with you by my side
and if you should stay, we’ll cleave to the day,
and whate’er may betide, take in our stride!
*My Heart Leaps Up*
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
– William Wordsworth
there is a hairsbreadth
of difference between
heaven and earth
neither love nor hate;
remain self-contained,
living inwardly for God
creativity
is pushing the boundaries
of that which we know
Missed this on October 4th, Janis
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2012/10/janis-joplin-dead-october-4-1970.html?fb_action_ids=361182543967309&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B434249809944287%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D&fbclid=IwAR1ijBTjKwPqOL20mShtlGBfmkBQC4jHEbT5WZR65UVi_khwTiSCEFk_a6M
When he was PM Tony Abbott wanted to send 3000 Australian troops to invade Ukraine, immediately following the MH-17 shoot down.
From a timeline I saw once, the troops had begun their initial mobilisation ……… before the plane crash.
Which hinted at a bit of fore knowledge. (🤔)
Anyway. He’s now a former PM. And this week in Taiwan.
Tony Abbott, in Taipei, says it’s time to end Taiwan’s isolation
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/tony-abbott-in-taipei-says-it-s-time-to-end-taiwan-s-isolation-20211007-p58y4m.html
Tony Abbott has declared he wants to help end Taiwan’s isolation from global affairs, arguing it is time for Australia to stand by the democratic island as it comes under threat from China.
The intervention from Abbott during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at the Presidential Office in Taipei on Thursday, is the strongest endorsement of the island’s position by a former Australian leader.
The Australian government maintains the former Liberal leader is travelling in a private capacity, but Abbott was accompanied by Australia’s top representative in Taiwan, Jenny Bloomfield, to the meeting with Tsai.
Taiwan has been excluded from most international bodies including the World Health Organisation due to China’s objections since the 1970s.
No Australian leader or minister has been on an official visit to Taipei for the past five decades.
Beijing regards its neighbour as a province of China, despite the Chinese Communist Party never ruling the island.
“Taiwan is in many respects a model for so many countries in this part of the world.
Over the past 70 years, Taiwan has transformed from an impoverished dictatorship, into a vibrant, dynamic pluralist democracy. You have demonstrated to all the countries of this region, that it is possible to be rich and free, that it is possible to have liberty and democracy,” Abbott said.
Abbott said it was time for Taiwan to be admitted to one of the world’s largest trading blocs, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
China has also applied for membership as it continues to implement trade sanctions on Australia over multiple diplomatic disputes.
“I can’t think of a stronger signal of democracy standing shoulder to shoulder with Taiwan than Taiwan’s accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” he said. “And I do hope that your application will be welcomed by its existing members.”
Tsai said Abbott’s visit would “certainly facilitate even more co-operation and understanding between Taiwan and Australia”.
…… Abbott will deliver the keynote address at the Yushan Forum in Taipei on Friday.
If this place isn’t designed and insured to fall apart, I don’t know what is.
https://www.rt.com/usa/536917-biden-chicago-dementia-gaffe/
Oh dear, why on earth did I spend time listening to that :-) But I did and you know what – that third clip where he does not know if it is telephone or television – my mom has some dementia now, and that is a regular confusion for her as well – that could have been my mom talking. Thing is, if you learn about this, the person understands that they are talking a little gibberish, but there is no ability to really recover with some style. With my mom, we just reassure her that we got the message anyways otherwise she is embarrassed and feels ashamed. Other similar words as well. The guy has noise in his head for sure and he knows it. It is pitiful.
The whole political scene is dysfunctional, it wont stand on it feet for long, but then again i’m almost ready for it when it does.
Never in my life have I so felt that the world is in such an idiotic absurd state of stresses and tensions.. USA and friends v China and Russia …even more sanctions …gas hysteria Putin causes price rises to leverage west yet has built more pipelines…Syria v Turkey.. Iran v Azerbaijan….UK bankrupt over panic virus expenditures and promises to spend stupid money on stupid things eg new trade ship and endless idiotic rush in their trashy idealistic objectives…. ye god’s…tragedy unfolds relentlessly… relentlessly.
Much pressure because we are into a massive change. Martyanov says Geopolitics Of Madness.
But this is just one aspect of change.
I drop out, for days at a time where I pay attention and do what I need to do, but try not to let my energetics get consumed. That is a method of calmness for me and gads, I need that!
Check out the Valdai Club “Great Reassembly of the 21st Century” – its a good vision and they talk about ‘energies’ which is quite cool! /valdai-club-live-great-reassembly-of-the-21st-century-paths-to-the-future-and-russias-stakes/
It is still ongoing there live but good perspective as to overall change.
Eg
According to the document, “the EU has to make it clear that if Russia continues its current policy on Belarus, the EU will have to introduce additional containment and deterrence measures on Russia.”
Contrast with
MOSCOW, October 8. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that degradation in Russia-EU relations is getting chronic.
“Degradation is getting chronic. The past seven years of Russia-EU relations were years of lost opportunities,” Lavrov said at a meeting with members of the Association of European Businesses in Russia on Friday.
The sole constructive proposal made in recent months – the initiative put forward by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for an urgent Russia-EU summit “lost its way and was buried in the thicket of an absurd logic,” he remarked.
“Some EU members decided that such a summit would be a gift to Russia. We do not need gifts, we do not expect them from anybody, and we keep working not for the sake of getting any,” he said.
Lavrov stressed that the current state of affairs had gone too far and nobody would manage to reverse it overnight.
“Trust has been damaged too seriously as a result of a series of unilateral measures by Brussels. But we believe it is important not to aggravate this state of affairs, which we regard as very serious, and at least to refrain from introducing to our relations more annoyances and negative factors, which would merely maintain and build up the negative inertia of recent years,” he said.
“Ideally, we would like to achieve points of agreement there where our interests coincide. Business cooperation, business projects, mutual investment and trade are the obvious spheres where such opportunities do exist. The more so, since despite all the sanctions that our counterparts in Brussels keep building up we remain near neighbors. Also, we remain each other’s very important economic partners,” he added.
In this connection, Lavrov said that despite a certain pandemic-induced decline in trading relations trade turnover in January-July 2021 exceeded $150 billion, showing a 40%-growth against the same period last year.
Russia can’t rely on EU, given its sanctions-mania against Moscow, says Lavrov
Russia realized that relying on the EU in strategic areas of the economy, expecting supplies of technologies and components from countries that can overnight impose sanctions against us is simply impermissible for such a power as Russia, the foreign minister said
© Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS
MOSCOW, October 8. /TASS/. Russia cannot rely on the European Union in economic issues because Brussels can impose sanctions against Moscow anytime, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with members of the Association of European Businesses in Russia.
“We realized that relying [on the EU] in strategic areas of the economy, in the military industry, [expecting] supplies of technologies and components from countries that can overnight impose sanctions against us is simply impermissible for such a power as Russia,” he said.
Lavrov recalled that previously Russia and the EU had joint enterprises, in particular, joint production of military equipment with Ukraine and the Baltic States.
“We had such cooperation but now it is becoming history. We would be ready to resume it but there are no guarantees that on a new stage [of cooperation] some Russophobes from the EU would not want to punish us, that they would not demand new sanctions,” Lavrov said.
Ta for follow up post Amarynth.
I could remember someone saying that, rather than deal with the EU, Russia would instead deal with each individual country one by one. In that case, I can’t really see why not – if the tendency to treat ‘Europe’ as a single, monolithic entity didn’t start with the EU, then I don’t know how else. Also, someone else lamented how countries like Poland and the three Baltics have influence in the EU’s (already dictated by the USA) foreign policy at the expense of countries like Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
ye god’s…tragedy unfolds relentlessly… relentlessly.
/moveable-feast-cafe-2021-10-07/#comment-980838
Indeed, so it appears to us, but is only just beginning to gather some momentum, the plot of the drama unfolds in stages, and there are many still to come, why do we tear our hair and lament, when the 20c saw all this and far, far worse? Gradually, all over the world, the global terror machine is unfolding, the solution is love, peace, inner strength to stand up tall and speak out while you can, oh, and bless the poets, ‘for their unsung words are not yet known.’ (Rilke)
Via RT
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EU’s snub of Balkan nations exposes once and for all the myth of so-called ‘European unity’
Damian Wilson
is a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU.
EU’s snub of Balkan nations exposes once and for all the myth of so-called ‘European unity’
In turning its back on six Balkan nations targeting accession, the EU has revealed what many already knew: It’s a patronising, self-aggrandising project looking to maintain power in the hands of the ruling political elite.
The message to prospective new members seeking entry to the European Union’s plush, fiercely guarded club is loud and clear: If your face doesn’t fit, then you ain’t welcome.
The rich and powerful buzz around the Belgian capital in their fleet of electric Volvos, police outriders escorting them through the choking traffic, dine at Michelin-starred restaurants and stay in the best hotels during the week, before decamping to their chateaux and vineyards at the weekend. There’s no inclination to share the spoils, and certainly no point in opening membership to tricksy nations that just might question what the hell is going on.
Serbia inks deal with breakaway Kosovo region to end spat that featured jet flyovers and tanks at border
So, unsurprisingly, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania have had their hopes of joining the EU any time soon dashed. Not only have they been snubbed over efforts to impose a 2030 deadline for admission, but Brussels has now changed the rules of the game. It used to be that nations showing they could adhere to the rule of law and espouse European values would – after a suitable amount of time on the waiting list – find the gateway to membership unlocked.”
So….Serbia and Russia have common ground. Orban of Hungary seems increasingly fed up with EU…. Ursula Von der Leyen believes the western Balkans belongs to Europe….
Gorbachev once said that “the most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to recreate the Soviet Union in Western Europe.” He also said that “the EU is old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes.”
So…should Russia think about re-establishing some kind of influence in western Balkans despite previous attempts to blame Russia for so claimed coups etc should EU break up or the now appearing cracks fragment further in some way? Or just leave the deluded ones to never never land because they are beyond hope and could disturb CIS and nothing can change ? Probably Bulgaria and Romania….NATO strangleholds have gone too far.
Follow-up…
https://www.rt.com/news/537030-bosnia-serbs-withdrawing-consent/
Reasons why Serbia is getting fed up with EU and USA influence…moving closer connections to Russia?
https://www.rt.com/business/536824-gas-europe-falls-russia-boost-supply/
And then there are those who accuse Putin of being too docile, civilized and polite, and want him to be more rash and tough.
All I know is, Russia is no USA, and Putin, being an Orthodox Christian, is no Biden (or Bush, or Obama, or Trump). And seeing what the USA is doing with its own (aggressive) foreign policy, why should Putin follow the USA’s example? And if he did, wouldn’t that fuel the false Western narrative of ‘Russian aggression’?
I think it was Nietzsche who warned against becoming the very thing one tries to fight against. “He who fights monsters…”
The US has certainly set a bad example in various aspects. Case in point, the (illegal) nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has created the notion that bombing any civilian population is fair and just if not crucial, moral qualms about murder be damned. What makes it worse IMHO is the monopolization of the US (be it in the form of US military bases, the US dollar, the English language with US spelling/pronunciation, or Hollywood).
Daladier- Chamberlain behaviour.
I suppose an elaboration might be nice.
Please Russia arrest this criminal on her arrival monday.
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nuland to travel to Moscow on October 11- 13
Nuland was denied a Russian visa in May 2019
https://tass.com/world/1347421
The question that intrigues, what does “cookies” Nuland want to discuss that she is prepared to fly to Moscow?
I do hope the Russians troll her by having cookies served as part of the hospitality.
Afghanistan mosque bombing killing 100 Shia.
So we see the US plan is set in action.
ISIS-K is trying to draw Iran into a quagmire inside Afghanistan.
This would suit US, UK, Israel, Pakistan, and Turkey.
Russia is calling for a meeting with China and the Taliban to resolve issues so the two SuperPowers can enter the country, help stabilize security and get the economy up and working.
The Taliban is making some noise close to the Tajikistan border. This is a red line for Russia. And it will be a very deadly error for the Taliban. Russia will totally annihilate any forces that cross that border. They have airpower and massive artillery in Tajikistan. It would be folly to test the Russians.
Good article about Africa;
Discourse on the debt of Africa thirty three years on;
https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/10/06/discourse-on-the-debt-of-africa-thirty-three-years-on/
“This is the most crucial moment in Africa`s history. The choice on one hand, is to continue following IMF diktat and agree to a future of economic policy that benefits the banks of Wall Street and the City of London. For that choice there is a bribe which is called the Green Finance Package”.
There is an alternative for Africa to the diktats of IMF and Wall Street;
“China`s Exim Bank is extending credit for mega-infrastructure projects, for development of goods and services. That`s exactly what a bank is supposed to exist for, for the extension of credit for projects that will create progress and the upliftment of a nation`s standard of living. And it is exactly what the City of London-Wall Street banking empire does not do.”
“Hir I Kam, Hir I Go” – Magnifico & The Serbian Army Orchestra;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSvo31siKLc
No idea what they are singing about..but I kind of like that beat
Ottima band.
And it was only a few years ago Russia, as successor state to the USSR, cancelled all debts owing by African nations.
Afghanistan bombings killing Shias did not start yesterday. They have been happening for quite some time.
But regardless, I think you have a remarkably poor grasp of the Iranian mentality.
If an ISIS-K quagmire in Afghanistan will have the same outcome for Iran as the ISIS quagmire in Syria, ie. total systemic domination by the IRGC, then the Iranians would surely be only too happy to oblige.
The Afghanistan ISIS-K quagmire, the Azerbaijan quagmire, the quagmire in Lebanon, before that the quagmire in Yemen, and before that the ISIS quagmire, and the UN sanctions quagmire, the 8 year war with Iraq, etc, etc. Solving impossible problems and coming out of one quagmire after another smelling like roses, is the Iranian specialty, as history attests. I mean, where would Iran even be if it weren’t for all these quagmires? Certainly it wouldn’t have boots and loyalist armies on the ground all over the region.
I am sure the Taliban are going to be very terrified of Russia, after all your chest thumping here, but I don’t think they’ve got any expansionist designs in their heads; they are too busy trying to run the country that they’ve got. I think the last thing on their mind right now is to add more territory to their list of managerial duties, trust me.
But hey, good luck with your SuperProwlers, Larchmonter old mate.
Ah, auto-correct, I meant to say SuperPowers.
Best of luck to the SuperPowers stabilizing Afghanistan. I am sure the Afghans and Iranians will appreciate that very much.
SuperProwlers is much better!
prowl (proul)
v. prowled, prowl·ing, prowls
v.tr. To roam through stealthily, as in search of prey or plunder: prowled the alleys of the city after dark.
v.intr. To rove furtively or with predatory intent: cats prowling through the neighborhood.
n. The act or an instance of prowling.
its a sex beast! USA! USA! USA!
Prowling in the dark the
hunter lays down the rules
not knowing early morning the
prey had already set the trap
for the hunter to be hunted
The guy is serious?
Russian diplomat advises EU foreign policy chief to focus on domestic issues
Earlier, Borrell expressed an opinion that neither Russia nor Turkey would ever become a superpower.
https://tass.com/world/1347555
Reports of Israeli missile attack from or via al-Tanf area against Syria… that seems to be a little different from the usual attacks via Lebanon airspace. Is Lebanon in a more defensive situation to resist such usage…or IDF trying to draw Syria and colleagues into provocation against al-Tanf to invite a solid response back from USA occupiers and the militants trained and released from that illegal camp?
Six Israeli F-16s flying over the al-Tanf area launched 12 missiles towards the T4 airbase.
The Syrian Army’s Pantsir systems took out 8 of the incoming missiles.
Six Syrian personnel were injured in the attack, and very minor damage was sustained at the base.
But meanwhile, Iraqi sources are reporting that an unidentified SAM launched 4 missiles towards an unidentified aircraft which sought to attack military positions on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
The Iraqi Saberin News released the following pictures pertaining to that incident:
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i am reading Ehrets last article “Huxley was happy to discover that LSD-25 mixed with cannabis, hashish and mescaline was a perfect supplement for soma writing in his 1958”
I would not have “seen the light” and begun my road toward God and Jesus without my experimenting with Fleinsopp and mescaline(magic mushrooms and a cactus) years ago, so i am not at all sure that the mix mentioned above is so perfect for destroying Faith and controling humans as they imagined.
I do not tell this light heartedly or to ask others to try psychadelics, those things Can Really mess up your head!!!
A childhood friend is still “walking among the stars” 25 yrs after he ate to much lsd, i would not wish that fate on anyone.
But for Me the idea of a creator or God was idiotic before i literally saw “the Oneness” and felt Gods presence all around me, i used to laughed at religious people before i got humbled, saw and felt truth for the first time🤷♂️
Sadly that truth was revealed breaking the law, but for me it was a turning point to become a better human and finding the Orthodox Church on the path that is my life.
So imo huxley did not see the forest because there was to many trees blocking his view.
I do not use any psychadelic drugs now and havent since i was in my early 20s.
I was a nihilistic ego centered child of my time, and im not proud of it.
Per
46 yrs
Norway
(link to Ehrets article in newsfeed)
“Sadly that truth was revealed breaking the law..”
What does that say about the law?
Thanks Per.
The issue you describe has consumed my interest for decades now; I have come to realize it is a silent holocaust.
One of largest psyops in human history was rolled out soon after WW2 by the USA MIC using LSD and other designer drugs.
Pornography and certain types of music and motion pictures hit the same brain receptors as these drugs.
The Empire created cheap, highly potent synthetics which were sexy to youth.
They would even give free samples in night clubs, concerts and other cultural venues.
All this was conducive to mind control; these were refined during MK Ultra and other Nazi research.
They not only made profit but reshaped American society – who in effect became guinea pigs: the 1960’s decade of Sex, Drugs, & Rock and Roll!
Before that, America was quite conservative, in comparison to W. Europe.
And through Hollywood, music industry, beat generation, and other cultural soft power, it was rolled out worldwide, to continuing sad effects.
For example, one of first things the 2001 Afghan occupation did was bring in drugs and free pornography. The same was done before that to Palestinians villages by Israelis. Shocked conservative Palestinians saw Israelis broadcasting porn on public TV channels in Ramallah etc during 1990s occupations. One of first military objectives of Israelis was to capture or destroy local TV channels and then to broadcast their own calibrated poison.
It makes for more docile and easier controlled target populations.
It creates Chaos in society.
Youth, most who are not yet mature to handle it, are removed from their roots, in effect creating a tabula rosa, so you perpetuate subjugation of the next generations.
All this was meticulously planned, little was organic.
Also profitable to the same American bloodlines who had participated in British East India Co opium.
You were lucky! Many ended up like your childhood friend, dysfunctional to some degree for life.
An excellent and intrepid investigative journalist named Dave McGowan wrote books on this.
Please see his website maintained by his daughter, especially book on Laurel Canyon and the California scene.
Highly recommended and entertaining to read too.
Most celebrity artists of that seminal 1960s generation were children of the military intelligence complex.
http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
Professor E Michael Jones has also done some outstanding work on sexual liberation as a form of political control. Comedian Owen Benjamin too. As Owen points out markets are driven by our appetites and desires. TPTB know most people are watching porn. Which is why they can shut down churches and mosques with impunity. No one’s going to complain. If we started watching something else they would have to change tack too. Everything begins with moral integrity. Owen rightly observes porn is simply watching girls relive their childhood sexual trauma over and over again. It also feeds into human trafficking.
Silent holocaust is what it has become indeed, and I have also observed the effects of marijuana long time use, or even short spells can induce paranoia type behaviours, people, after all, are differently constituted. Luckily I know many sound individuals who do not use any form of mind or emotion type enhancement drugs. This interests me, what ultimately establishes natural freedom and independence in this respect ?
Hi Uli,
I agree with everything you wrote.
You wrote: “… 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴…”
This is true for the most, within organic (natural) systems.
However one of the great catastrophes in human history was Freud’s nephew Bernays. His generation perfected the art of mass manipulation (propaganda) using most subtle arts and playing on human emotions, weaknesses, and/or nature.
Sometime between WW1 and end of WW2 they perfected the technique.
IMO the development of this human psychology field by these people plagues us 100% worse than all nukes and bioweapons combined.
It allows them to create a false reality for those hypnotized.
They mainstreamed Stockholm Syndrome.
So today most humans around world (even Iran, China, Arab and former SU countries!) love modern mainstream US culture and lifestyle, which if followed, destroys a people.
Bernays was the one who convinced US women to smoke cigarettes.
Before him it was considered shameful for women to smoke.
Philip Morris and Big Tobacco paid him, and he delivered, linking it to feminism to drive demand.
After they learned the correct technique, and with MSM/Hollywood and other culture drivers at their service, it was easy for any other issue, including war/any commodity, even the political orientation of target countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
This is well known by countries who study negative western soft power.
For example, China is currently cracking down on Chinese celebrities and billionaires who were the spear-point of the cultural weapon of the West (even if those celebrities were themselves oblivious of their trojan role).
Many countries in past blocked western movies, music, etc.. for decades.
The internet was a natural counter by West, and unfortunately it looks like soon it will be split up into blocks.. although at instigation of despairing Empire, which is fighting a losing battle against Truth.
As Saker said, the brilliance of current Russian PR approach to Empire is showing its people the full ugly truth of Empire’s behavior and its 5th columns within Russia.
Nothing about West is hidden, unlike in Soviet times.
What happened to Donbass over last 7 years was not in vain; this exposed the criminals completely and strengthened Russians’ resolve 1000% (and all who cherish truth worldwide) to unite and to prepare to fight no matter what.
And this was largely accomplished with Western invention of Internet, where most Russian youth get their news!
What a sufficient and elegant weapon is the Truth!
So sorry for long story, but the short of it is that within inorganic, manipulative and captive markets, appetites can be created or shaped according to the controllers.
PS – hence their strategic investment into and emphasis on LSD or any psychotropic drug, medium, or deviant lifestyle which serves to enhance the effect of the propaganda.
Regards,
Yep. The Dave McGowan stuff is a rabbit hole.
Miles Mathis did some interesting stuff on Sharon Tate. And a few others.
But I’ve gone cool on Mathis. I find his bloodline work and psy-op intriguing, but I can’t accept that absolutely everyone is a fake death.
One or two, maybe, say Sharon Tate, but doppelgängers for dozens and dozens of people…. nah.
The PTB have no hesitation in dispatching anyone…. even their own, say like Robert Maxwell.
(Epstein didn’t kill himself)
The Manson book to read is the one by Paul Watkins. There’s a reason it goes for over a hundred quid on EBay. Mathis has obviously never seen a copy. He is glaringly disinfo.
Another excellent video by Andrei Martyanov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjNQZuS3ZM
There is a confluence of NATO run planets that are aligning against Russia in the next few months. The leaders must be prepared for a string of defeats and some big move. Could it be the appropriation of NS2, kicked out of SWIFT, or what?
MH17 fake verdict in the Hague, OPCW fraud, Sputnik vaccine, WADA, more spy scandals, a new NOVICHUK attack.
They are all in the pipeline in a co-ordinated blast.