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Someone is thinking the same way I have been for years now. There is a correlation between mass shootings at home and imperial violence abroad
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/06/cherries-jubilee-some-of-this-down-here.html
In view of the carefully-suppressed “domestic problems” affecting the US, and the rapidly-emerging risk of loss of dollar primacy (which WILL be catastrophic for the US), it is at least “interesting” to remember back to 2012, and the “not so simply explained” relatively sudden purchase of BILLIONS of rounds of ammunition by many US Agencies who are not normally associated with the need for any firepower, let alone significant firepower.
One of MANY examples –
https://investortimes.com/freedomoutpost/look-what-other-federal-agencies-have-ordered-huge-amounts-of-ammunition/
Interesting, too that the majority of these orders were for hollow-point ammunition – and use of such deformable ammunition has been banned in warfare since the Hague Convention in 1899. Guess which Country NEVER ratified this Convention’s rulings….
Forward to 2015 – https://www.justsecurity.org/25200/dod-law-war-manual-returns-hollow-point-bullets-armed-conflict/
Hollowpoint rounds are always antipersonnel rounds, and were banned owing to the extreme amount of injury even lower kinetic energy rounds could inflict, since they are designed to impart ALL their kinetic energy into the target, rather than passing through it.
One shouldn’t jump to conclusions, but one also gets the feeling that “someone” saw all this coming, and that “someone” already knows how the situation will develop on the domestic front.
dum dums for zombies……kills em dead, every time.
Cheers M
Gets around the problem of poor marksmanship – hitting your opponent “almost anywhere” will severely incapacitate them at least (and probably kill them).
MG … Chilling stuff. I remember hearing about this years ago but nothing this specific. Man O’ Manischewitz.
Notice the fig-leaf of buying paper targets – and the “excuse” that these rounds were for “target practice”.
You don’t use hollowpoint for target practice – why use more costly, specialised ammo when off-the-shelf standard ammo is a) readily available, and b) cheaper?
Theses billions of rounds were purchased for a specific purpose. On the basis of demonstrated Governmental antipathy towards “The People”, I’d suggest the intended “targets” are very much non-paper.
HP does not penetrate ballistic vests, that way fink #1 blasts away and when he inadvertently hits his colleague (Fink#2) he is not killed – this way F#1 can blaze away free in the belief that only unarmed and unprotected people will die…nice!
Ammo has a use-by date…which implies a schedule.
I think it’s more due to the instinct driven reaction scheme who triggered these Ammo-frencies on part of the hirelings with dirt on their hands…., when bullets start to fly in large areas in the US they will be hit by a hurricane of lead flying in their direction in the order of 100 : 1 or more……the wisest option would be surrender negotiations to altleast save their lives – there is still room for this, god is all merciful, BUT he also is in ‘command’ of an army – who has never lost a single battle to date…
Ammo does not necessarily have a “use by date”. How it is stored or packaged has much to do with “shelf life”.
I’m a Nam infantry vet with a long career in marksmanship competition and have loaded tens of thousands of rounds of multiple calibers and rounds from 30 years ago that have been in proper storage fire exactly the same as recently loaded ones. Military ammo cans seal tightly and much surplus military ammo is packed in “spam cans” that literally can outlive you if stored properly. Yes, I have had rounds that were not in temp/humidity controlled places that corroded and had to be destroyed. I have also bought surplus WWII ammo in sealed cans that fired perfectly.
There may be 400 Million private guns in the USA but not that many “vests”. Mike Tyson the boxer said that “Everyone has a plan until they get smashed in the face”. Same thing in war from my experience (was wounded)
and I suspect that if the SHTF here as in any country it will be chaos with “alliances” beyond anything you can imagine. Pray it does not happen. We are not even sure who controls the “Nuclear football” with the launch codes.
As for hollow point bullets, I suspect it is mostly pistol rounds that the agencies bought up as military rifles are mostly for penetration and hollow points ain’t good at that.
Yes, that’s pretty much true in a rigorous way, I agree.
Previously Saker spoke to the matter. As do fire-arms instructors generally. The approximate instruction was to use up ammo after a year and replace with fresh stuff, and note the lot number and date, etc, against the possibility that there may be “after-action inquiries” as to whose bullet went where. The matter at hand involved pistol ammunition, I think. The assumptions revolved around a box of ammunition – maybe 50 rounds of .357 or some such, stored, I’d guess, on top of a bookshelf. (many fire-safes get damp!)
The assumption of course is that proper storage is just not going to happen.The vests being referred to would be possessed by government…of course they have plenty.
Naturally HP is not a military ammunition, it being prohibited by treaty law, and “civilian” departments of the several governments, not being military, are not assumed to have proper military type storage vaults with controls.
Sorry to hear that you got shot.
In the matter of prohibited stuff, I see that in the matter of 404 many weapons have acoustical suppression. In my ROTC days we were taught that silencers were prohibited, just like HP. It may be that there are regular violations of law by some governments. We were also taught that the M16 was an illegal weapon because the bullet was designed in such a way as to produce especially injurious wounds. The M16 was then replacing the M14, more or less. As a result of this instruction it became clear that following the ROTC pathway would involve me in a criminal conspiracy…and that was, I think, 1964 or so. Personally, I preferred a match grade Garand, but M1A1 or M14 were nice too. In youth I did some target work at the National Match level. All my youthful instruction was from W2 and Korean combat vets, and it was they who taught that M16 was an illegal weapon.
If one can afford a gun safe they can afford a $20 or less “golden rod” which puts out the heat of a very small light bulb. Most safes have a port to run the rod’s cord to an outlet. The rod eliminate humidity by keeping the space at a constant temp to eliminate condensation from temp changes. One of my large safes is for storage of ammo and components. The rods last for decades.
I have competed at local, State, and National levels with M1-A-1, M-1, and Ar-15. I carried an M-14-E2 full auto and also the M-16 full auto in combat. The M-14 was the superior weapon as it fired a .30 cal/.308 147 gr bullet RELIABLY as it was a gas piston “op rod” that cycled the bolt as opposed to the M-16’s “direct impingement” gas system that piped gas directly to the bolt “key” which fouled the bolt and receiver causing jambs. In civilian use you keep it cleaner than in combat and there are fewer jambs. The cartridge powder type is VERY important. The 16′ was designed to use a specific powder and apparently the the winning bidder on supplying the initial batches to us used a cheaper variant and cost us many lives when function ceased.
As far as the 16′ causing unusual woulds I’d put that in the “Urban Legend” category as the bullet at the time was a 55 grain ball FMJ that is basically a .223 varmint bullet traveling at 2700-3000 feet/second. The idea was that we could carry more ammo with a lighter rifle….but…..hitting power was low and it did not perform well in trees, brush, foliage, etc. The M-14 was not ideal as barrel rise in full auto was nearly uncontrollable. I know. BUT, that 30 cal round busted thru stuff the 16′ couldn’t.
I have Match Grade in all flavors listed , built by me.
Again, I pray that wiser heads prevail in this world and the carnage is stopped….with Russia and the “good people” on top.
Pax Vobiscum, Friend. Evidently you’re a fine marksman too. I applaud. Impressive collection too. I recall M14 jamming as well as rise…guys would overheat the breach. Nevertheless .308 round is, I agree, very effective, well, deadly. Of 30.06…I used to have a match M1, but I gave it away…maybe my son has it. The inner Quaker rises as I get older. People ought not wave guns around. I don’t like gunfights, and happy I am to say that I have never had to fire at a man…though the hammer has been back, so to say. Quite thankful.
The reference to “urban legend” and wounds might be seen by some as a deflection…but of course you were not there…and the Empire lies especially to soldiers…the weapon and bullet were and remain illegal as military devices. I am repeating what regular US Army instructors said to me at ROTC classes prior to the introduction of the weapon…M16 and .223 are prohibited under Geneva Treaty Law. A few years ago looking into the OICW (?) “mini-grenade” (eg < 500 g and thus prohibited munition, I discussed the old M16 claim that I was taught, and confirmed it circa 2012 with a legal expert in Laws of War… It's interesting, and I have often speculated about this, what my old instructors were really saying…what their view of the Changes post war meant to them, in their eyes. They were just at full retirement….was it "In the beginning of the Imperial Period, Rome followed the forms of the Republic, but only the forms". Was that their view? One man in particular was quite specific about Vietnam (then the big pending affray) and whether it was a criminal war, blunt about it. (and that ended ROTC for me) He was wounded in W2 and Korea….died about 10 years ago, he knew a lot. One must remember that many W2 soldiers were socialists or communists…they came from the 1930's political arena, and many had read Marxist theory…then they saw an emerging Imperial Fascist agenda abroad (especially in Korea) and a cold war with their former ally, and a red-hunt that threatened them personally if they spoke their minds. An old colleague once told me that he was ashamed and felt betrayed by the US…ashamed that as a recruiter he been used to lie to the boys…he had a bronze star. Felt betrayed about Vietnam, lied to. Senior NCO, he was crying.
About gunstuff, I was pleased to see Communist snipers removing fascists from Donbass with 'scoped Mosin-Nagants. Now that's a lawful weapon! 450 meters they said…(well they said, guy can get lucky)
I've never touched an M16 or an AR or an AK. Speaking of the Mosin, I think Lyudmila Pavlichenko gave a beautiful reply to Elanor's question "How many men have you killed?" "Not men, Fascists" she said. Interesting way to deal with the thoughts, very sensible, a lie she needed, mostly. No wonder Elanor dug her. I used to be on a team that had a lady marksman, and years later she told me how she always felt bad because she couldn't match my scores…but all those years I had felt the same way. I still do, she was the better shot. Like the girl in Monsieur Verdoux, she married a wealthy weapons manufacturing "defense" guy, a fascist. de gustibus non est disputandum
I heartily agree with your prayer. I think we're totally phucked. More or less wot we dun guna happen to us….but it's a matter of luck how it works out for the individual….and I think it's not really a political matter…just the history that flows from the natural decay of a moribund ruling class against the geographic realities…the ruin of vice. If I were writing the script and imagining the characters – the clowns…I couldn't do better than the freak show er have to watch.
Steady on the X-ring dude. Check out collapse of 1177 BC…. Pax.
It fits well into the plastic coffins for $1 billion that Obama bought to FEMA, and the Deagel predictions. Sleep on.
I just received this from my Ukrainian GF>
“In Ukraine salt has become as precious as gold due to the fact that the factory that supplied Ukraine and (probably) Europe was destroyed by the orcs. Now one kilo salt in Ukraine costs 3 euro and it is almost impossible to find it. Now there is the joke concerning this topic: “A single woman with a kilo of salt is searching for a single man with a canister of gasoline.”.
She might sound stoic and full of humour but her situation has been disastrous…no job (since 2014), no funds, no food, intermittent access to internet (since Feb 24th)…
Possibly harking back to the Roman Empire, where salt was used as currency (from whence the term “salary” is originally derived).
Salt’s important. We can live without spices, but we CANNOT live without salt. Hypokalaemia kills.
Yes.. the lack of salt helped cripple empires in the past.
Some had tea taxes, some had salt taxes, leading to revolutions against the same Beast.. Between the world wars, Gandhi’s salt march or Satyagraha in 1930 India was a major world milestone. It led to the loss of the British Raj’s crown jewel and its overall breakup. It inspired similar nonviolent civil disobedience around the world, such the US civil rights movement. Greedy oversights which turned the hearts and minds of millions of colonials against unjust tax laws..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March
Sometimes I see people wonder why so many Russians have nostalgia for life in the Soviet days. I think these two videos will present some clues to that. And remember, no computers or smartphones around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVJjiVXLP1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR5R_fm7Mts
There are many involved in different aspects of computer and smartphone technology, who would agree that these have not improved the sphere of social life, but have harmed it.
The past does tend to be heavily romanticized though, and there were good times,and in Russia especially for those who did have money, read Vasily Grossman for first hand accounts.
I knew someone in London 1972, the year of your second video who went to Voronezh Uni for a year as part of her course, On her return she told of all marriages taking place in Russia in disused halls and cinemas. She met a young man while there, helping him to the UK by marrying him he was so keen to leave..
Now all that is over of course, meaning the study possibilities both for English and for Russian students..
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Allen on June 04, 2022 · at 8:26 am EST/EDT
Seems like a little elaboration is in order. It is not Putin/Russia per se that is to blame but the rather the machinations of the planners. Just just be clear, we all(especially by now) realize that it was a reactionary measure and at that point no other realistic option was available…hence, the SMO.
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Seems like even more elaboration is necessary:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/08/despite-sanctions-the-ruble-is-stronger-than-before-the-war-why/
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April 8 2022
To sum up – The price of oil is going up and the ruble is worth just as much as it was before the war.
At the same time, Europe and the US are expecting food and gas shortages, seeing record petrol prices and talking about rationing.
Last week we wrote a piece asking “Is Russia the REAL target of Western sanctions?”
As the war continues, and the ruble strengthens, the answer is becoming pretty obvious.
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In fact, substantially more now than before the war – some reaction.
Lemmings_r_us
Exactly. Great article, btw- the elephant in the room is that this war is not about Ukraine, not about Russia, but about the “Great Reset(aka waged against the western population by the global elite). Unfortunately the majority of the people are not aware of this…even those that follow the alternative/independent media. I came to this conclusion in 7/20 and wrote numerous commentaries in this forum (about my thesis). Here’s an RT article about Putin’s reasons for inflation and the energy crisis in the US and Europe respectively.
https://www.rt.com/russia/556587-putin-inflation-us-eu/
He is correct that the former is caused by irresponsible money printing by the Fed and the latter by Europe’s “Green Agenda”. The implication is that is is the result of recklessness and incompetence. I argue that this is actually all intentional, where the planners were well aware of the potential consequences that are now coming to fruition.
This has to become a meme. Juan Guido returned to Venezuela and was promptly ‘chaired’.
https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1533185941669523462
Who else can we ‘chair’?
It is time to talk about food! Food generated in the laboratory. OK, we’ve had this among us, but mostly one can avoid it. We live close to a fishing beach and buy fresh seafood easily. But sometimes, if there is time pressure, my dear American husband will take a shortcut and buy something from the supermarket in a fancy bag. He has what I call American consumption habits, while my consumption habits are much more frugal.
So, in the past few months, we bought shrimp – to my toothsomeness, it was not shrimp but some gummy bear type thing that neither tasted like shrimp, nor could you bite it like shrimp. So, end of this – we will buy from the fishermen, and absolutely not in an attractive packaging. This again happened with pork chops .. which was not pork chops but stuck together like a pork chop. And now, my husband is banned from buying any meat or fish product …
It is not my imagination .. do take a look at this short tik tok! It is very real. We have to become exceedingly careful of what we buy and attempt to eat.
https://t.me/scifiworld0/2446
You may enjoy Valeria Kovtunova planting potatoes https://youtu.be/dE4JWt1yvj4
Many US people, btw, laugh in discomfort when I say that the stuff sold at US grocery stores is “pig chit”…they know, but are unwilling to admit…hence the nervous laugh.
Mrs P and I sometimes look at the young people of today in US, and then at old 8mm films from the 1950’s and 60’s…and note the sudden increase in morbid obesity, and other disease.
The physical size of the super-market has increased in rough proportion to the sales of “pig-chit” and to the adipose guts of the people…which is to say that all anybody needs is the corner store market and a garden. Proper shrimp? Not here, but crawdads and catfish, bass, and other species are about a one km walk, “free” for the taking…(license costs though). Very rare to see anyone fishing – and the river is swift and cold – unforgiving.
Very interesting, that potato planting. I wonder why they don’t cut their potatoes just so there is a growth point and plant them like that? They plant the whole potato.
Here is some more potato food porn – you can peel them quick.
https://twitter.com/F00d___Porn/status/1533371819730030592
The drill-brush-bucket method is very similar to the big stainless steel rotary peeling machines that canneries use for carrots and potatoes.
“I wonder why…” I too thought that. In less “Russo-phobic” so-called cold war of the 1950’s I recall the school library had biographies of Lenin and Stalin – which were very favorably disposed to the Soviets – and in the bio of Stalin there was a story that during the war Stalin was motoring along and saw women planting potatoes “stop!” Cried Comrade S…and he walked out into the field to show the ladies that they might cut the pieces smaller, only making sure each piece had an eye.
It’s always seemed interesting to me that the pro-Soviet books were not purged – I suppose that there were simply too many pro-Soviet librarians, and the political police did not read books from elementary schools, actually I bet they simply did not read books at all.
To cut, or not to cut. I think in commercial production they plant the whole seed potato.
I do both. If it’s a wee’n I just plant the whole thing, but bigger ones with eyes I cut up. Kinda governed by the amount of space alloted the potato patch.
The past two years I have been able to save some for spring plant. Store bought are hit and miss with GMOs out there. Had a potato sit on the counter for a few weeks. It never wrinkled, never sprouted eyes. My kid said it’d be green inside, I thought different. We cut it open, not a speck of green.
Cheers M
I wonder if one gets a bigger harvest planting the whole potato?
I understood there should be enough potato remaining to have enough starch and oomph in there to get it to develop a good root, i.e., planting size matters.
Well, anyway, if we can talk all day long about planting potatoes and potato skins and differences in planting and such stuff, I am convinced we still have our heads about us!
Having done it both ways — I find that I get more potatoes from planting the whole potato, and the bigger the better. (Small starter potatoes often produce smaller and fewer potatoes, or none at all.) The sprout has more resources to grow from, and you get more sprouts — each one growing more “limbs” that do the actual growing of the new potatoes. (They grow on those sprouted stems, not on roots. Which is why you should partially rebury them partway through the growing season.) Also, because the skin is not broken, you don’t lose so many to rot or disease.
Yes, every eye can grow a new potato plant, but when they’re so prolific that I have buckets of growy leftovers every spring, might as well plant for an optimal crop, rather than to stretch the “seed potatoes” as far as they can go. Better parents make better crops.
Potatoes are relatively sensitive to growing conditions, so your results may vary.
To peel or not to peel. Most flavors and tastes of any fruit or veggie are in the skin. Not to mention, esp with potatoes, the most nutritious part is the skin.
Now I know people who rave about making mash and leaving the skin on …yuck! But every other way to prepare potatoes the skin should be left on.
Neat trick though…..not sure how long it’ll work in Europe, need electricity to run the drill……lol.
Cheers M
Yes, scrub and eat the skin — for carrots as well and I cook everything in their skins.
I cook even potatoes for mashing in the skin, and then pull off the skin and through the potato ricer – does not matter if a piece of skin slips in there :-)
Great vid thanks Mr P. Not much different from what I have been doing. Our potatoes are planted, but I may try a few done the ‘russian’ way. Just for contrast.
Interesting she mentions the cold Spring they have been experiencing, I concur……brrrrrr!
Cheers M
I am curious about the use of ashes. And speculate that this may inhibit mold just a bit while the little potatoes leave dormancy and begin to develop immunity, or perhaps it enhances infiltration of beneficial endophilic mycelia….anyway, next year we’ll try the ash routine. Our potatoes are in grow-bags and lush-leaved. Surprisingly, we have had about 10 mm of rain in the last couple of days, but warm…things will go wild when the heat returns.
Valeria Kovtunova is fun. She reminds me of an algebra teacher I knew a long time ago.
Our Anoxia digs and her dacha are not very different…
Yeah, it looks like that around our world as well.
But the ash thing we do. It is like agricultural lime and balances pH. But you first need to know your earth if it needs it or not. In the tropics we need it, as any open land (not under tropical growth) loses its nutritional ability very quickly. So for us it is woodash (we actually burn wood in a pit that we have) and just masses of compost with either chicken manure or cow manure.
I’ve experimented with hugel kultur – when you make a kind of a mound around wood – search that! But for us, the strong tropical rains rained that hugel mound flat .. so now, I dig — then first layer is collected forest woods – quite large around. Second layer is about the size of what one would use as kindle for a fire and third layer is a sprinkle of ash and on top of that, comes the compost. Our land is karstic so, it does not want to retain water too well .. water runs into the underground aquafers and an hour or two later, the land is dry. So, my hugel kultur maintains the water and it acts like a big old sponge retaining the good stuff.
The tropics are different. But, here is the thing!
De Lepre, Mr P and others that have seen my woe!
I Did It! I managed to grow salad tomatoes – not a bunch but enough to harvest seed and eat a few. Perhaps today I’ll have a moment to go and take some pics. But it took some work – careful covering with a 75 percent solar screen when the sun got really hot – which is about daily. At the end of the day, I cannot tell you which variety as I tried four and only one of those varieties made it through – hot damn! in the flower box in front of our house! Real Red Tomatoes in the tropics!
https://inosmi.ru/20220604/sanktsii-254413155.html
(Don’t know, of course, how acurate these translations really are)
“Guancha”- China:
“Russia is winning the economic war – and Putin is not going to withdraw troops”
The West has recognized that the economic war against Russia is not going according to plan. On the contrary, it pushed up energy prices and strengthened the ruble. Readers of the Guancha portal admire Russia and advise China to learn from it.
Three months have passed since the West unleashed an economic war against Russia, and it is by no means going according to plan. On the contrary, we are doing very badly…
(Excerpt !)
Comments from Chinese Readers:
What does it mean to “take the bull by the horns”?
They wanted to impose sanctions against Russia, but inflation in the West has become higher than in Russia. This is an awkward situation…
guan_15834596952191 in reply
Western countries are all so ‘virtuous’, they care so hypocritically about developing countries, but the truth is that they are only concerned about whether they have stolen too little!
guan_layman in reply
Biden will soon admit defeat and express hope that Russia will sell oil at a lower price.
zmusic
There are energy resources, food, nuclear weapons, Avangard, Sarmat, Yars, Iskander… Who on this planet can destroy Russia?! Germany, Poland, Lithuania… they put a knife to their throats and are waiting for Russia to say that they are afraid!
guan_15753419191727
I’ve been thinking… China should still see the results, and if Europe really gets stuck in a swamp, then we can start to move in a certain direction… This could be the best chance in the next few years.
Usually
I can’t help but give a thumbs up: Russia really knows how to fight!
I follow closely
Now the whole world will pay Russia: the West sends money to Ukraine, but Moscow will have to pay twice as much later.
Prince brother take me to the universe
This time, Russia is really showing strength. The Chinese people support her. The Russians will not surrender and Russia will not fall. But the bald eagle’s beak will soon smoke.
J0kEr
This conflict also showed the real situation with European and American finances and demonstrated in a new way the importance of material resources. He allowed people to see that under the shadow of the omnipotence of European and American finance, only real resources and manufactured goods allow the world to function normally.
Woo-dee
Agrarian Ukraine can only export grain and women for surrogacy in the future…
Donkey in the wind
China must support Russia. In fact, the United States is already ready to force 4 Asian countries to join NATO and create an “Asian alliance” that will expand to the very borders of China. If Russia falls, China will be the next to be attacked!
I sincerely love the Chinese people
Anglo-Saxons:
Something has become ill for us, we can no longer stand it … Maybe we capitulate? ..
The moon is like a mirror, the sky is clear
Elliott’s article concludes by saying that while the United States has provided Ukraine with weapons such as the recently shipped American Wheeled Multiple Launch Rocket System (HIMARS), in the current situation, Russia is unlikely to “suffer a devastating defeat” militarily. Putin will never declare unconditional surrender. Why does Western public opinion feel that Russia has already failed? They even use the expression “unconditional surrender”. Elliott realizes that this will never happen. And we understand too.
Reincarnation of Huato
Do not use the word “country” in relation to the West, it is correct to say: the United States and its servants.
reed flower
That’s why NATO and the EU are stupid! Your total nuclear arsenal is much larger than Russia’s. If they pulled up to the borders of Russia and attacked it, I am sure that Russia would not fire nuclear weapons at its own territories. Only a powerful cumulative blow could strangle Moscow. But they are cowardly. Inferior countries rose to fight against it. The end result will be that the EU will suffer a crushing defeat. Russia will find a new direction of development – it still has China. The United States will be the best – they will not only make money, but also weaken the EU and Russia. Finally, it will be possible to extend the life of US hegemony for a few more years. But the decline of American hegemony is only a matter of time.
Kind
The United States is smug, they overestimate themselves and underestimate Russia, they are so arrogant that they really think the world will do whatever it wants. As President Trump once said, “The trade war is easy to win,” so where is the result? Launching a trade war against China ended with the US shooting itself in the foot. Hundreds of others were wounded, and they lost even more. Since then, they still do not dare to descend from their pedestal, although they have long become a laughing stock for the whole world.
sea reef
These Western countries are completely unscrupulous, they initially wanted to destroy Russia at the expense of the crisis in Ukraine. Now it turns out that not only did they fail to achieve this goal, but they also dragged European countries into it, which are not superior to Russia either economically or militarily. As for the energy and food crisis that will soon come to light, the future does not look very bright.
The direction of thinking of these politicians is obvious: to sacrifice Ukraine in order to achieve the least impact of the crisis on Europe. When Ukraine turns from cannon fodder into an abandoned pawn is only a matter of time. The issue is that Russia is not fighting Ukraine. Moscow has challenged the forces behind Kyiv, the United States and Europe. If they don’t back down soon, it will only give Russia a bigger trump card and show their powerlessness and incompetence.
Wang Ge
If you have food in your hands, you will not be alarmed; if you have a gun in your hands, you will not be afraid. Russia has both.
The beauty of the river city
Whether Ukraine can join NATO is up to the alliance to decide. After all, NATO was pushing Ukraine to join. Now Russia is fighting not with Ukraine, but with NATO. Ukraine is just the cannon fodder of the alliance, of course, it continues to overspend. After three months of conflict, the Russian economy has made great progress, and the US and Europe have imposed sanctions only on themselves, and the entire EU has fallen into a swamp of high inflation! The results of this conflict are already clear!
guan_16044104402786
China really needs to learn from others. Russia is under siege from all sides, and its economy is getting better and better – what a mockery of China! What Trump did to him for four years, Biden brought down on Russia in six months, and she is still alive.
Man in late autumn
Energy resources + food + nuclear weapons + vast territory + unique national character = Russia has more economic resilience and room to maneuver than any other country.
“Eye in the Sky”
by The Alan Parsons Project
https://youtu.be/fRMf3wKBCPo
Lyrics –
Don’t think sorry’s easily said
Don’t try turning tables instead
You’ve taken lots of Chances before
But I’m not gonna give anymore
Don’t ask me
That’s how it goes
Cause part of me knows what you’re thinkin’
Don’t say words you’re gonna regret
Don’t let the fire rush to your head
I’ve heard the accusation before
And I ain’t gonna take any more
Believe me
The sun in your Eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind **
Don’t leave false illusions behind
Don’t cry cause I ain’t changing my mind
So find another fool like before
Cause I ain’t gonna live anymore believing
Some of the lies while all of the signs are deceiving
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A really sad video from the liberated territory of Kherson. But it also shows the feelings of the people there. And it might be of interest to know that of the 8 mostly Russian speaking Oblasts ,Kherson was one of the least Russian speaking of them:
Ukraine Shells Family Of 8 & a Promise To Save a life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprR3CJcor0
Two epigrams from Martial (born 38-41, died 102-104), the great Roman poet-writer. He points out in one of his epigrams that he was already famous in life and favored by the Caesars. You can’t find a literal translation of his epigrams in English! I noticed in eBay a 16th century Latin text that is unexpurgated, so it is only the modern language reader who is not allowed to read Martial’s text. He would write epigrams about this fact and all it implies. Now, I think not all his epigrams are adequate for this café, even when they are funny as most seem intended to be. I bought a “completely unexpurgated” translation “intended for private circulation.” The book was published in 1921 in just 350 copies, containing all his 15 books of epigrams. Mine is number 217. It was sold for 25 dollars back in 1921. I paid between $100 and $150 for it (worth it) a year or two ago. The mod may blank out any bad word if he wants to in the future, or even not include that epigram (for any Roman poem I may post).
The Romans and the Greeks were very free. They did not have the Old and New Testament laws or the Koran. Let’s say they were free of all that. They had all the concepts of virtue (the Chinese too), except understood differently. Augustus passed moral legislation in 23 BC forbidding adultery. Domitian, who reigned in 81-96 AD, revived these laws, but it’s clear from Martial that Romans couldn’t be controlled by the State in that regard. The first epigram below reflects that. Martial was what today is called “bisexual.” The second one here reflects that. There were no such words in his time; “everything went”, but the “family” was sacred to them and only between a man and a woman and the laws reflected that and no one challenged them; the same or similar thing happened in Greece before. You can imagine the Romans laughing with some of these:
“Since the Julian law was re-established, Faustinus, and Chastity returned to our dwellings, no more than thirty days, at the outside, have passed; and Telesilla already has her tenth husband. She who marries so often does not marry at all: she is but a lawful adulteress. An honest whore offends me less.” Book VI. Epigram VII.
“I will not marry Telesina. Why? She is an adulteress. But Telesina likes boys. Then I will.” Book II. Epigram XLIX.
“Fabius left Labienus his sole heir. Yet Labienus claims he deserved more.”
Book VII. Epigram LXVI
“If you are poor, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Today, wealth is given only to the wealthy.” Book V. Epigram LXXXI.
“A moment ago, the little vase held perfume: now that Papylus has smelt it, it is fish-sauce.” Book VII. Epigram XCIV.
Martial’s epigrams are new to me, many thanks!
see> https://archive.org/details/martialepigrams01martiala/page/8/mode/2up
You’re welcome.
As you say Allen,
the planners are neither reckless nor stupid (definitely psychopathic though). As con-vid magically disappeared (for now) to be immediately replaced with the “SMO” it is apparent that they enjoy the intricacy/mass carnage of their games (slav_kill_slav). Personally, I thought i’d face starvation for refusal to have their gene “treatment” injected but am still here to witness the ongoing, worsening, chaos.
So yes, we have a huge, probably, insurmountable, problem. Even seemingly good folk, like Uncle Bob, still imagine the best that humanity can hope for is a benevolent monarch (as he has imagined Putin to be for many years) – they just can’t see the bigger, horrifying, picture.
PS: we’ve talked before on several occasions, in those days I as anonymous.
“they just can’t see the bigger, horrifying, picture.”
There are levels…There are no such “planners.” They don’t exist. Let’s talk religion or something like that, something beyond man. No man plans all that. Don’t you know man, rather? None would be more clueless than the ones seeing themselves as the “planners.” We know man (or at least ought to know him by now).
You mention Covid and sound as if you knew secrets about it. Maybe nobody, and I mean nobody, knows anything about its origin. It is hidden, after all, not open to our knowledge. Patrushev is into this. Yeah! He could use help because he suspects there may have been a “planner” behind Covid but doesn’t know who. The Western media is touting him as the next president. It’s not like they’re right.
Good to see you’re back “anonymous”, ahem, I mean Lemmings_r_us. Just want to expand on the psychopathy of the planners that you mentioned above. The explanation behind it is a disconnection from humanity. This is accomplished by attempting elite private schools and universities, a secluded, luxury lifestyle, and involvement in influential organizations such as the WEF (among other contributing factors).
https://www.unz.com/article/the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-globalist/
Now I want to address tranquilocomp‘s “levels”explanation. Esoteric knowledge is prerequisite in order to comprehend this concept. This is actually interconnected with the psychopathic nature of the elite. As I alluded, the fact that they are detached from humanity (as in the very basic traits that make us human such empathy and compassion) leads us to conclude that this is, existentially, a spiritual war. Hence, a spiritual solution is, ultimately, what is required to vanquish this monstrosity. I have attempted to describe as it is an abstract yet sentient force that is actually in control. Dmitry Orlov characterized it as the “techno sphere”. Anti-capitalists such as economist Richard Wolf and Zeitgeist creator Peter Joseph have assigned the blame on the prevailing economic system. While, on a more arcane level, David Icke claims that is is a dark force from another dimension that is pulling the globalists strings. Whatever the case maybe, I believe (as does Naomi Klein) that this enemy’s might is beyond our human capabilities.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/is-it-time-for-intellectuals-to-talk?utm_medium=reader2
This earthly plane is just but a moment in time and space….when one believes in God, really believes, no enemy’s might is beyond any one human’s capabilities. Power over us derives from fear, for those who believe, no ‘thing’ can have power over them.
Best analogy I can think of. Christians kneeling in front of hungry lions, denying Romans of their daily dose of pleasure.
Greed is definitely a dark force, but far from dimensional.
Right, back to the shallow end.
Cheers M
“Best analogy I can think of. Christians kneeling in front of hungry lions…”
I think this happened, but I am not sure that it did (need to check). Executions happened, like that of Justin Martyr (decapitated, with others). In 300 years, there were no more than 10 persecutions (I think 10 is a gross exaggeration). The Romans accepted the existence of Christianity always; that’s the bottom line. They persecuted sometimes, and there were executions because the Roman law was “broken” or they “disrespected” the Gods. Very few emperors persecuted them directly, two or three.
It was Christians who forbid the pagan religion by law once the emperor was a Christian and as soon as they could do it. This the pagans did not do to them. Why was there this difference? The pagans were open to all religions and respected the right to worship of all of them (within legal boundaries, I’m sure you couldn’t speak against an Emperor), not just the Christians. Christianity was not made illegal; it grew as we know. The Christians banned paganism under threat of force, of course, because, I think, of the Jewish influence in the Christian religion, and I am referring to the famed Jewish religious zealotry, and to Yahweh who ordered mass extermination in the O.T. and would brook no religious opposition. This spirit was transmuted in the new religion but remained always there and later some Christians killed other Christians not because of the influence of the New Testament but certainly under the influence of the Old Testament God. Please remember that the Jewish religion had been known for centuries by the pagans (that’s us, or the Gentiles), and few adopted it as their own, nor did the Jews want the number of proselytes to be large.
It was through Christianity that the Jewish scriptures became the “word of God”, and Yahweh became the God of the world! This effect is something to stop for a moment to think about. By then, the word “Yahweh” had been conveniently excised from the scriptures so that now it was a term (“Lord”) that others could better accept, and the tremendous Yahweh… was made to be a universal God according to even the O.T. This momentous conquest or victory was in my opinion the biggest effect of Christianity. That through Christianity the Hebrew Scriptures became the word of God for everybody (!) and their religions were proscribed by law. That’s what happened. It still took some 300 years for Christianity to establish itself as the only acceptable religion. Now there are many problems. I point out to you the main one: The New Testament Gospel writers believed their purpose had to be to persuade the reader that Jesus was the Messiah based on the O.T. scriptures. Everybody needed to check that. I think a handful have checked that in the last 1000 years. I hope you will (I don’t think you have because I have never known of one who has), because it is something that must be done, obviously. Otherwise, the seeker does not deserve the knowledge he’s seeking, right? If you check, you will realize that none of them applies, maybe one does but not well, and the others are not even close. You will also realize that the writers knew that, that they had to know it. That’s a problem and a spiritual problem also. Then came the Koran building itself on top these two complementary religions. Humanity is beaten from side to side, oppressed, attacked, fooled. Good luck…
There are good books on the subject. Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason is very good, as are his other religious writings.
Thanks, but by levels I meant understanding.
My problem with contemporary religion birthed from the middle East, pushed from the pages of the Bible. A small cadre of fanatics putting pen to paper setting out the ‘rules based oreder’, heard that before, kinda recent. The point, sorry, it’s a big planet with millions of people who were never corrupted by biblical fantasy. God is omnipresent, requiring no rules, enforced by no one, gathered in no specific place.
Cheers M
Oh. I thought you were “birthed from the middle East” because of some sentence. I think you would like Thomas Paine’s “Age of Reason” (if you haven’t read it).
Rabbi “S” used to say “there are many paths to God”…(I was a troublesome student) Before he was Rabbi “S” he was an organic chemist… so he knew…. I am quite sure he’s deeply troubled by “zionism” aka nazis. Quite sure. It would be an interesting thesis topic to explore the relationship in political theory between Maccabees and zionism and the more contemporary manifestations of European History, eg the Third and Fourth Reich. Just off-hand it seems as though “zionism” is stoking up the fuel for yet another episode of anti-Jewish pogroms… Rabbi “S” probably thinks about that… (contacts long lost, the Rabbi may have already departed.)
What has happened, what bedevilment to fills the air, on what grounds ?
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Meanwhile, here in Britain, we are about to have another go at re-shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Prime Minister Johnson faces a vote of no confidence from parliamentary members of the Conservative Party. Results expected by 2000hrs BST (UTC+1).
Never saw more pompous and unimpressive people than those parliamentary members on television. Many “conspiracy” theories should go out the window watching that pomposity. “Yeah, yeah!” they say. And how the voices rise when they disapprove of something! It’s a theater, like a theater. Like worse than children? Imagine the Russian parliament behaving that way, or even any parliament. They should form a club instead, the “Pompous Club.” In Buenos Aires, there’s a street called La Florida and people – strangers – gather there just to argue about anything. It’s fun to just listen. They do it better than the parliament; it’s kind of similar, theatrical too. They might go “noooo” instead of “Yeah.”
Soccer story. England and Argentina have a feud and have different cultures, but as mentioned above, some similarities can be found. I find a similarity. I was watching a soccer game at the Ferrocarril Oeste stadium in Buenos Aires long ago. You know how there’s that sector behind the goalie – more than 5,000 people there. There was this building next to the stadium, with balconies at an oblique angle from the stadium and closest to this sector of the stadium. One of the residents decided to put on his balcony a flag of either the opposite team or just a team this 5,000 plus did not like. This is their area to them. If you want to do that, go to a building on the other side. Would you believe they noticed? Say a few noticed, but how can 5,000 immediately notice when there’s a game being played? Similarity rising. All started jumping up and down, pointing with their arms to that balcony a good 150-200 meters away, and chanting SOB! I don’t know if the owner of that apartment saw this reaction to his innocent act (or maybe it was not so innocent). The fans are the main show to experience over there, and that was one of the best shows (so many that I cannot say it’s at the top). I kind of like those parliamentarians too, come to think of it, but they are not nearly as entertaining, of course.
…the fanatic fans sing songs to each other. I remember part of the response of one song from the Boca Juniors fans to the River Plate ones, which mentions some things that Boca doesn’t have but it has one consolation: “…Boca doesn’t have a woman, but it has a dopey son and his name is River Plate” (with a nice melody!).
>Never saw more pompous and unimpressive people than those parliamentary members on television.
100% agreed!
>Like worse than children?
Again, 100% agreement. Doesn’t even need the “?” at the end, they are worse than children!
When I read the transcripts of the solemn speeches and statements made by Russian politicians here at The Saker, and then compare those with the air-headed stuff spouted by my so-called leaders, I find myself in a state of despair. It really gets difficult to see a way out that doesn’t cause even more damage to the lives of ordinary people all across the world.
they will end up behaving like Ukraine Rada maybe…when UK is declared bankrupt and the peoples break down the doors in protest at a broken economy and broken lives…
…hoping the 140 who said no confidence could think about leaving to set up their own party.
Recently Hal Turner said that he’d had no idea that Soviet pilots flew against US in Korea. I thought everybody knew that.
“… November 1, 1950, UN pilots submitted first sighting reports of MiG- 15s in Korean colors and, although 12 days later the first victory was reported, it soon became very obvious that the F-80s, F-84s, and Meteors had at a stroke become obsolete. The MiGs could even outclimb the F-86s that entered combat in December, 1950, and enjoying an untouchable ceiling of 15,200 meters…”
https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/09/20/soviet-fighter-aces-in-korea/
And of the Moral Law “In fact, the Soviet fighter elite in Korea considered the Americans less aggressive and flexible when met on equal terms, and lagging behind in fighting morale considering them unmotivated, fighting without cause.”
Caitlin Johnstone on Twatter today. These ‘people’ do it to themselves. You don’t have to DO anything.
https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1533704619007873027
A must read! Putin and all the advanced judo tricks he did for Russia since year 2000 until today’s SMO.
An eye opener for me and those still in doubt of the “playing along” role.
https://cont.ws/@Dewsa/2299396
https://cont.ws/@Dewsa/2299396 (run through translat-o-tron).
Well worth the read.
This video was within a link posted by PerNorway in the news feed. There is a joy in seeing this kind of pompous boasting taken down so spectacularly :
https://youtu.be/Ob0Ta49vx5o
I particularly like the semmit ( old fashioned Scottish word for vest that seems to fit with what he’s wearing in his talks to camera ). The video’s a perfect metaphor for much of what’s going on in the world today.. e.g. Ben Wallace ( UK defence ) claiming, ” we have kicked Russia’s butt before -.and we’ll do it again ! ” – and the appeal to authority / credentials that don’t bear any scrutiny, can survive only by censorship.
Having ignored Putin’s explicit warnings since Munich 2007, the entire West, like Aikido guy, has believed its own woo woo and now that Russia has been forced to act, is asking “.. wait …what ?… what’s happening ? ” They now double down and ramp up the tough talk. It’s as if Aikido guy , fresh from his triumph above, decided to seek out every style of combat sport so he could continue to demonstrate his ‘ superiority ‘.
( I’d give him his own show. A sort of spoof superhero, the ‘ Crimson Semmit ‘, could take on all comers. Speech bubbles normally containing words like ” Kerpow ! “, “Wham ! “, ” Zap “, would now contain words like ” Oof ! “, ” Aarrgh ! “, ” Yarooh ! “. )
Unfortunately, NATO can do a lot more damage.
RF army tactics are working with Ukrainian military strategies in Kiev. 3elensky’s troops are doing exactly what Putin wants them to do. Reinforce Kharkiv defence of so called, the liberated territories by more troops therefore having less to reinforce suffering Division in Severodonstek.
With 3elenski as a Supreme Leader, sorry, I’ve meant Supreme Commander in Chief and his renowned military qualifications supported by his ex street gang member now promoted into military and intelligence advisers combined with US military intelligence and the Columbian snow, it’s just a perfect recipe for a disaster.
And when talking about the disasters let’s remind us of a few.
Kabul evacuation, Azovstal evacuation, just to refresh memories of the NATO Gangster Boss in Chief fighting this war.
“The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week.”
Why not open just one thread each week so that the thread of comments-conversations is continued more comfortably? After all, there is no difference between the two weekly threads.
Whos footsteps have I walked in, walked in over time, whos gold could have been mine?
Whos watch did I find? Whos line did I wind?
So I set out to see, without a fee, would it set me free, to be, me?
I tossed and I turned, I learned and I churned, and soon to me, I did see,
whos footsteps were before me. As you can’t see, I found that
I had walked in the footsteps of Bob Dylan, but what did that get me?
And I walked in the footsteps of Mark Twain, but what did that get me?
I walked in the footsteps of the military, but what did that get me?
I walked in the footsteps of Bob Dylan, but what did he leave me?
And I walked in the footsteps of Mark Twain, but what might he have left me?
I walked in the footsteps of the military, but what could they have left me?
I strove for the relevance of it all,
and both behind and in front of me,
I saw all I could see, for that the
military was there in the beginning,
And Twain was there during the middle,
and Dylan was there at the end.
And that my friend, was the bitter ending.
Dear Alabama, we need to focus! Grab your parachute, rugged britches, and the modernized Russian tactical shovel.
https://tacticalshovel.com/
Thanks to the Original Analyst, this is a worthwhile Georgian to follow for the real-time evolving catastrophe in the USA. The Southern Prepper estimates real inflation close is ~ 20%. You can speed up his videos to 1.75x speed with intelligibility, and they are nice and short anyhow.
https://youtu.be/3Dt9rce_yDg
Notes:
– Starlink sat receivers are being installed in US Walmarts.. in addition to generators investment. what memos did they receive? As Public Enemy warned us in 2020, “What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?”
– Inflation and costs of essentials (if avail) are going through the roof. Will only the vaxxed city folks receiving digital coupons from Big Brother be able to live soon in the enclosed West? Otherwise all are being priced out. Armstrong notes even the upper classes are on life-support:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/one-third-of-high-income-earners-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/
– truckers increasingly being forced to park their rigs as cannot afford diesel >$5.. Massachusetts diesel currently at > $6. And railroads are piling on, sanctioning shipping of diesel too.
– Pennsylvania coal region sees prices double overnight, in spite of having vast coal..
– no new cars available at auto dealers (and just a few used ones available). Most larger companies rapidly downsizing, due to energy costs and inflation and lack of part & customers..
– in spite of vast openings, new workers are seduced to stay home by US stimuli, resulting in restaurants trying to hire cooks at $20/hr and grocers at $21/hr. A factor could be increasing permanently discouraged workers dropping out for good. And how much is entrainment and mind technology breaking the flow to and will of workers needed at SMEs? Corporatism was defined by Il Duce as a tag-team of big business and big gov.. like Uncle Sam helping Walmart survive the coming deluge.
– Millennials & youngsters starting to move back in with parents due to costs.
– report from Canada: Lithium mines are shuttered. So all extractive mine work like gas & oil is facing disinvestment and sabotage. Are they shelving Teslas and battery cars too? Did Technocracy decide to wind civilization all the way back to the cave state? Maybe Zone B will come to Zone A in a generation for amusement and curiosity, the way we visit zoos or some visit the Amish homesteads in Pennsylvania.
It is shocking watching the real-time demolition of Petroleum Man in the West and the erection of a few mega-Walmart grocers which will be solely accessible to those part of the Program. All this is of course not newsworthy and flies under the radar of the criminally complicit media.
No telling how bad it could get.
A beautiful performance of Swan Lake – Tchaikovsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tzvebu6U08
Dear Puzzler, you are joy. That was one of my favs!
Here is another:
https://youtu.be/VJcnuZB4Xt4
So beautiful. Thank you A.H.H.
I shared five epigrams from the Roman author Martial, with an introduction higher up.
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Here are more epigrams of Martial:
“Why do I not send you my books, Pontilianus? So that you, Pontilianus, will not send yours to me. Book VII. Epigram III.
“I send you, Severus, these modest products of my suburban garden: eggs for your hunger, apples for your taste.” Book VII. Epigram XLIX
“While Eutrapelus, the barber, let his razor wander over Lupercus’ face, cleaning the beard off one side, another beard grew on the other side.” Book VII. Epigram LXXXIII.
One can imagine the Romans laughing with most of his epigrams. Nice to read, too, something Caesars read.
“Caesar, not only war-like Mars serves you with invincible valor; Venus also serves.” Martial’s “Book on the Spectacles”. Epigram VI.
Found written on an excavated wall of Pompeii, a soldiers final words ” Let the living live, they have sorrows enough without hitting them below the belt.”
There’s so much from the Romans and Greeks that their lives can be well-reconstructed.