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On current events:
It is now pretty obvious that, if anything, I did not exaggerate anything in my (now in-)famous “Will Afghanistan turn out to be US imperialism’s “Last Gleaming”?” article. Now with so much more coming out, we find out that the reality of what took place was even worse, more shameful, more disgusting and more ridiculous than anything I had mentioned.
The pace of decay of both the Empire and the USA is very rapidly quickening and reminds me of a Jim Jones in Guyana kind of mass suicide, just slower, but no less deadly.
Here is the sad but undeniable truth: if your head is in the sand, your butt is in the air.
I will just add that a lot of the current butt-pain could have been avoided if US Americans were not so darn sure that they are the best at everything by definition, axiomatically.
For a while, delusion does work. But sooner or later, reality will inevitable come back and bite your butt very, very hard. For the alternatively gifted, I will say that often stuff which begin in a fun circle end up in a painful cluster (fill the blanks in your head please, not in the comments section!).
Frankly, I am not interested by internal US politics anyway, and neither am I interested in which of the five stages of grief many (most?) US Americans are going through right now.
Until at least most of them reach the “acceptance” phase, they are really best left alone, both for their and our sake.
I wish all those who celebrate the US Labor Day a very fun, joy filled and peaceful day!
Cheers
Andrei
PS: as promised, I leave with with some music. Raphael Rabello and Marisa Monte. Enjoy!!
May I suggest this spanish guitar and songmusic….kinda haunting sends shivers etc
https://youtu.be/6N5HYh78oeE
very very nice!!!
I love Flamenco and I might post some of it in the future here
thanks for a great video!
How about this version by Manzanita of “Romance arabe” :
https://youtu.be/9MVzrT6_UUw
Love both the music and the beautiful lyrics!!!
Andrei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfwInxcqoo
Another more traditional version
Thank you.
Ever come across Tomatito….spanish Roma flamenco
https://youtu.be/eZN0k0N0FBI
He plays a bit here
. Film Vengo
Vengo is a majestic ode to the artistry and magic of flamenco dancing, set against the compelling backdrop of two gypsy families locked in an age old struggle for power. Set upon the dusty plains of Spain, a proud Clan leader, Caco, played by famed flamenco dancer Antonio Canales, must fight to end the bloody feud that’s been raging between his family and the rival Caravacas clan for generations.
could be of interest to you….by Tony Gatlif who years ago did latchtmo drom I think it was…music of gypsies from Ragasthan Eypt across europe to end with flamenco. Last 8 mins or so on youtube..
https://youtu.be/2lt3tdmKnJE
Best wishes.
Mensch, Vielen Vielen Dank ! Das ist eine ganz große Überraschung diese Art von Musik hier in deine, (unserem) Blog hören zu bekommen! Besten Dank meinerseits, bin selber aus Brasilien und der Gitarrist Rafael Rabello ist ein absoluter Virtuose leider gewesen, denn er ist nicht mehr unter Uns!
Man, Thank you very much! It’s really a big surprise to hear this kind of music here on your (our) blog! Many thanks on my part, I am from Brazil myself and the guitarist Rafael Rabello was an absolute virtuoso, unfortunately he is no longer with us!
Você pode postar aqui em português, sem necessidade de usar alemão, mas por favor fornecer uma tradução automática quando possível
You can post here in Portuguese, no need to use German, but please provide a machine translation when possib
Andrei
Hello Saker!
Thank you so much for your warm words about the possibility to post here in portuguese as opposed to German, but my own experience of Portuguese in this world has been very difficult for me over the past few decades! Anyway, the reason I’m here today is to post a link to a very good audiobook by Patrick Baab and Robert E. Harkavy. For those of us here who might be interested, pulling through some details about the web of daily machinations, like a red path unsolved for decades to this day!
https://www.anonymousnews.org/2021/07/28/hoerbuch-im-spinnennetz-der-geheimdienste-von-patrik-baab-und-robert-e-harkavy/
In the spider web of the secret services, about the link and connection between the death of Uwe Barschels, former governor of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, of William Colbys, former CIA chief and of Olof Palmes from Sweden. Unfortunately not in English, it’s just amazing!
Hugs!
Zé ca roceiro
Try this – nearly 50 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JUqOyh06g
Great stuff. And now if you want to hear some fusion of flamenco, jazz and Balkan traditional music check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFwwIHw6nw&ab_channel=sslavi
That Jim Jones analogy was spot on.
(Nuff said/ well said)
@Saker
“Frankly, I am not interested by internal US politics anyway, and neither am I interested in which of the five stages of grief many (most?) US Americans are going through right now.”
You totally have this wrong. You are misreading the many (most) Americans.
The public was done with Afghanistan ten years ago. Bin Laden (or his double) was dead.
There was a war going big in the Middle East. South Asia has no draw for Americans. No one is connected to it or the Stans or Pakistan. India has some Americans who are concerned because of China and Pakistan, but this is minor.
The whole thing (Afghanistan) was about waste. Waste of life, waste of money, and waste of time. Americans understood the Military and Elected warmongers were bullshitting them and stealing them blind.
The ignominious exit was a slap in the face.
The bombing and death of 13 young troops was more waste of life, more insult.
The abandonment of 85 Billion Dollars in war machinery and ammunition is high crimes, but everyone knows no one who will go down for the crimes.
The Americans will take it out on the Establishment in DC in 2022. Trump is stirring them up with his video ads and rallies.
In fact, if he wanted Trump could attract 80,000 in a football stadium and they would pay to be there. They know they have been used, raped, led to ruin and taunted by the MIC, the Deep State and the Dems and their dummy Joe Biden. They want a leader back in charge.
They don’t feel Afghanistan as a military defeat. Whatever history writes, it must address the deliberate actions to leave behind the makings of ISIS 2.0, a caliphate in the making. Just as they invited the rise of the original ISIS, born out of the Republican Guard, nurtured and armed by the abandonment of Mosul with its treasure in gold bullion (to pay the fighters) and massive weapons depots to arm them, the US has done the same in Afghanistan.
The people suffering grief are the warriors who were misused and the warmongers who belong to the MIC.
Citizens know their real enemy are in office in DC.
If ISIS 2.0 or AQ reaches out and strikes US like AQ did 20 years ago, Americans will demand a total war to completely annihilate them.
Biden committed political suicide abandoning citizens, wasting over two dozen troops killed and wounded, and empowering the Taliban and AQ with massive military equipment, and soon, billions of dollars released to them, held in US banks/FED.
So you actually believe AQ striked the US 20 years ago?
US Americans can demand all they want until they are either too broke/woke or nuclearly annihilated.
Get out the popcorn and watch the US eat s**t, with no going back.
Larchmonter, you said ‘strikes US like AQ did 20 years ago’ & ‘You totally have this wrong’ – regarding the former, it is you who have it totally wrong: it was not aq which did the damage on 911 but the sigs of PNAC, go and read it and then come back here and acknowledge this.
Did 2 mega buildings convert to radioactive ash and dust because a plane hit them very hard? Yes but only if you are comatose. The propaganda is so strong, so physical on the brains of the people, they regurgitate it automatically or adopt it as our own thinking. Probably, Larchmonter knows better.
If ISIS 2.0 or AQ reaches out and strikes US like AQ did 20 years ago, Americans will demand a total war to completely annihilate them.
Dear friend,
Is that not exactly how we got into the current clusterbleep in the first place?
And you want to do that same thing again?????
if the same causes produce the same effects, then what you are describing will result in the same results we are seeing today.
I don’t believe that US Americans will want a repeat of any of that.
Besides, to wage total war, you need a competent military, and most of the US military is useless, and you sure can’t win against the Takfiris with SSNs or Trident missiles :-)
The Iranians had Trump for breakfast and are still laughing.
Now even the Taliban are laughing.
It seems to me that what you are currently experiencing is the stage of grief called “anger” combined with “denial”. And I am very very sorry for the millions who feel the same anger and pain.
But reality is what it is and does not care how we feel about it.
Let’s see what the future will show us about Trump, Big Red buttons, Rocketmen and the like.
Hugs
Andrei
I read it that Larch is saying that Americans as a group will demand something, not that he himself was doing so.
@Andrew,
Exactly.
Sometimes folks take an analytical POV as a personal statement or position.
I think I know the temperature of my countrymen. They won’t want another war. They will want a military conclusion to anything that comes from Afghanistan. What people would just take a terror strike and turn the cheek?
The issue is not forgiving terrorism, the issue is that US Americans remain unaware that their military cannot do anything useful.
This is collapse of the last big US myth to die.
Yet, the myth is not collapsing on ‘the street’. People remain in a state of cognitive dissonance — unawareness — they don’t care. Larchmonter445 writes it as it is, not as it should be, or how we can analyze it, or in any other way than how it is on the street. It is immaterial if he himself is angry or not. Biden ‘screwed up’ Afghanistan, therefore we will get him. If Afghanistan moves in a direction we do not like, we will get them, bomb ’em, or drone ’em or something. They have no idea that this is no longer as easy as before.
If we wait for the American people to have a change of heart collectively, we will wait a long long time. That is exactly why we should put our heads into where the world is growing, instead of where the world is dying.
This is what the Americans are busy with: “Biden’s DOJ will use “all options” & full force of federal law enforcement to make sure babies less than 6 weeks can be killed in TX.
But Biden’s admin will NOT use the full force of the federal gov to stop the illegal invasion at the TX border or save Americans in Afghanistan.”
I’m not even giving the name of this quote as it is ubiquitous. And Trump is doing Save America Rallies. This is how it is.
Thats the whole point, everyone knows america cant turn a cheek. The Biden collective can use terror to serve its interests, as its been clearly shown since manbijj 2017 at least.
Thats an easy thing to do for the white boys in the negev desert.
Larchmonter, I’ve been reading your posts for years and have thought your brilliance is a twin to the Saker’s, but this post has me wondering if I’ve been wrong all this time. I thought it was common knowledge that Bush/Cheney and their terrorist buddies in Israel pulled off 9/11 with a controlled demolition of three buildings. You think AQ did it??? If there is a second event like 9/11, you can be sure that it will be a concoction of US black ops and deep state “intelligence”, a false flag to justify whatever new war they want to happen. Maybe killing a few thousand more American civilians would do it? Have it live on TV, roll out the pictures of the chosen culprits within 24 hours, yada yada yada.
I do object to anyone calling US military personnel “warriors”. The correct term for lewd, profane, ignorant, uneducated murderers is “terrorists”.
Your comments about funding, arming, training homeless Takfiri thugs to do terror work is spot on. It’s what the US does, create chaos through terrorism.
Patrick
§§§Larchmonter, I’ve been reading your posts for years and have thought your brilliance is a twin to the Saker’s, but this post has me wondering if I’ve been wrong all this time. I thought it was common knowledge that Bush/Cheney and their terrorist buddies in Israel pulled off 9/11 with a controlled demolition of three buildings. You think AQ did it???
>Was about to post something almost identical to this.^^^
Surely surely surely L45 you cant accept the AQ bin laden did 9/11 while hiding in caves in torra borra or bullamanka or timbukt officially decreed conspiracy theory?
I still think people are misreading Larchmonter’s hypothetical, which is that if Americans are TOLD by the media/government that AQ committed some “new 9/11”, then as programmed they will rise up as one and demand terrible retribution, no matter who really did it. I remember in high school, a kid said in class that the Japanese deserved 100,000 dead in Hiroshima (not even counting the 100,000 at Nagasaki and the other 66 fire-bombed cities in Japan) because they killed the 3,000 at Pearl Harbor and fought against us. It is easy to have governments spark the spirit of unrestrained retribution. Bad enough that governments do bad things, but they also maneuver to get the citizenry to acquiesce
@all 9-11 Truthers
Surely, you must account for 19 aliens who flew the planes and executed the plot.
Since we know their identities and from whence they came, by whom they were paid, and by whom they were inspired, the facts rest on AQ and Bin Laden, as do all subsequent testimony from co-conspirators captured.
The rest of the crime is where your brains rest, solely and devotedly, a layer above the AQ perpetrators.
It is quite similar to the JFK assassination.
There were shooters and others at Dealy Plaza who killed JFK.
There were layers above who authorized the plot.
There were others who silenced witnesses.
Those of us who have probed that event over the half century + know the shooters came from CIA assets.
We know Bush Sr.’s links and LBJ’s links.
Some know Naval Intel’s links.
Some understand the Mafia’s links.
9-11 is a layered crime. AQ is the public, documented layer.
I referenced that in my comment.
For all who can think flexibly, you understand.
And for those who say they know my words over the years, but insist my recent comments shake them, certainly you never understood that I eschew ideological filters in front of my thinking or by which I communicate.
If you need only what you yourself believe and all others are wrong, then you have the wrong guy here.
I like facts, proof, something unchallengeable.
Though we know the buildings likely were brought down, as experts in such matters have provided information how it probably was done, what is undeniable is planes crashed into the buildings. And the hijackers of those planes came from AQ.
9-11 also fits like a lego set with the prior attempt by AQ eight years earlier to use a truck bomb to bring down the building. In fact, on 9-11 when I saw the blue sky and first plane hit on the Tower I knew it was AQ. They had said it and published it that they wanted to bring down skyscrapers. Facts. Not ideology. The second plane jolted others to think it was a terror attack. Duh!
Cheney on the next day tried to blame Saddam Hussain and wanted the attack to focus on Iraq. He ultimately convinced Rumsfeld six months later to abandon the hunt for Bin Laden and turn on Iraq.
I think that was opportunistic. If it was ‘the plot’ from the getgo, we would have gone into Iraq also, because our first 6 months effort in Afghan was CIA, Northern Alliance and Air Power bombings. Not troops on the ground in any sizeable scale.
For instance as comparison, JFK was killed because he was pulling out of Viet Nam. He signed an EO in late October. Eleven days after his death, LBJ reversed the EO and expanded the war. This is clear indication of one of the motives for eliminating JFK. Facts.
A lot of people wanted JFK out or dead. Mafia, Cuban-Americans outraged at Bay of Pigs, CIA, Naval Intelligence (notice who staged the phony NV attack on the USS Maddox, Gulf of Tonkin). Facts.
My mind goes for the facts and I don’t give a flying fuck about Zion, Jews, and all the universal evil sources to blame. When it’s them in particular, it’s them. When it’s something else, I examine the facts.
There are many ways to examine, investigate, analyze a major event. They begin and end with facts, not ideology.
agreed. i will take what you have said on logic.
as an engineer who has built countless large structures in my lifetime i can tell you from simply looking at the film of HOW the buildings came down only one method of demolition could have achieved the precise way in which they collapsed. who did it and why i leave to others. only math and physics am i speaking about not politics.
The Zionists were a layer too!
They were enraged at JFK’s stance – he was against their nascent A-bomb program at Dimona and was initially for repatriating Palestinians in Palestine. These were two key issues for them. Ben Gurion resigned from his leadership position a few weeks before Dealey Plaza.
Also one of JFKs key mentors was James Forrestal. Remember that iconic photo of him in front of his memorial at Robert E Lee’s former estate. Forrestal detested the Zionists and was planning to publish incendiary stuff before he was thrown off a high window. Zionists were clearly implicated in Forrestal murder. That may have hardened JFK stance.
The next presidents drew the key lessons, not only to not cross the CIA and MIC but Zionists too. LBJ rolled over during the USS Liberty incident, etc..
On Sept. 11th, 2001, the United States of America (with help from its allies) staged a false flag terrorist attack and murdered around 3000 of its own people in order to launch a fake “War on Terrorism” that would would kill over 1 million more people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere….
9-11 and the USA-led War on Terrorism are the Crimes of the Century.
Now, if there is another 9-11, what will America do?
Rinse and Repeat.
Best comment ever. Thanks. He is entirely wrong about this one. AQ is a USA fiction. Like the supposed death of Bin Laden by Americans. Neocons did 911.
I found this interesting article:
“…If you believe the official narrative, Osama bin Laden was a sort of latter-day Jesus who repeated the miracle of loaves and fishes except with skyscrapers, knocking down three of them (WTC 1, 2 and 7) using just two airplanes. Another of his miracles was to make an entire passenger jet, piloted by an amateur, pull some truly stunning aerobatics that no passenger jet has pulled before or since, then ascend unto heaven through a wall of the Pentagon, engines, seats, luggage, bodies and all, leaving behind a small charred opening plus a part of a cruise missile that apparently had been hidden on board and that was subsequently carried away wrapped in a tarp on the shoulders of some very nervous and displeased-looking gentlemen in office attire. Another plane full of passengers left a smallish charred pit in the ground and recordings of rather scripted-sounding cell phone conversations held while the supposed plane was in an area lacking cell phone coverage. Bin Laden orchestrated all this mayhem by satellite phone, or by telepathy, without ever leaving the comfort of his cave in Afghanistan. I encourage you to believe this narrative because believing the alternative may cause you to lose your mind. Many people already have.
And if you wish to be stubborn and refuse to believe the official narrative, then it becomes quite plausible to think that Nineleven was a lavish American hoax: that the three skyscrapers were mined by some Americans, that the Pentagon was hit by an American cruise missile fired by some more Americans and that Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent who made grainy videos and scratchy audiotapes to inspire America’s pet terrorists (branded Al Qaeda, later rebranded ISIS/ISIL/Daesh/Islamic Caliphate). Osama was looking forward to a comfortable retirement somewhere in friendly Pakistan—a retirement that was cut short by an attack by a group of navy seals some time after his death from kidney failure…”
https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/2021/08/28/the-afghanistan-rout-and-american-glasnost/
yesterday for the …..first tme….. in my lifetime i saw a printed sign in someones front yard in a nice new england suburban home……..it read………..”i support our government”
if you want a canary in a coal mine this comes fairly close.
Good evening everyone, first of all I’d very much like to congratulate Mr. Raevsky, The Saker, for his outstanding knowledge of Brazilian (really) good music and I mean really good; once I’m not a total hypocrite I must assure that I think Anitta simply wonderful or very very hot as a woman but I very much dislike this sort of music.
Talking about Brasil, I don’t know if everyone is aware but our clown-in-chief wishes a coup d’etat à façon de Napoleon III. He and his minions are calling everyone out tomorrow (brazilian independence day holiday, sep 7th) to scream loud that he is our “mito” (myth) and “messiah” (his middle name is Messias, messiah in portuguese) and must rule unrestrained by the judiciary and nobody may confront his ultra-colonialist agenda selling every little bit of state owned energy (and I mean ANY be that eletricity or oil) to anyone that willingly will pay for it a ridiculous fraction of its value. Water, eletricity, oil, drilling – nothing scapes. And I believe that with asians finally kicking the US out, they will very much tighten the grip over latin america. I truly foresee mayhem and poverty and social crisis on the rise for the region once the USA acellerates it’s free fall right to third world-dom as Andrei (and others) have been advising us for the last years. Cheers from Rio de Janeiro.
PS: there’s one brazilian musician named Yamandu Costa. He plays 7 stringed classical guitar and is absolutely outstanding.
No es lo mismo Marisa Monte que…
que what?
The America reflected in the mass media is indeed hopeless, but it is an illusion. The awakening of the American working people – the sleeping giant – is quickening, and is a cause of great hope for me. An awakening that is going on all over the world.
Even in the Ukraine, where for a brilliant moment it burst forth.
Perhaps you cant see it. Most people born to class privilege can’t. But if you open a space in your mind for that possibility, take a quiet interest and watch quietly, without fear or anger, you will begin to see the evidence, like the first signs of spring, all around you.
Andrei, you showed Marisa Monte. She is a Brazilian singer. Below are two links where she sings with the great Cesarea Évora, an African singer from Cape Verde.
They sing “Mar azul” and “It’s sweet to die at sea”. All the singers wanted to sing with Cesárea Évora. Perhaps a secret desire to compare herself with the biggest one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OQ37VA1yI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NWC1rEPMbE
Oh my oh my! Cesarea Evora…my heart melts and my mind is stilled whenever I hear her voice, in which is expressed the entire history of human love, kindness, passion, sadness and suffering.
Sorry, also meant to say thank you Jose for the links.
Sorry I must have missed it – how does one sign up?
I have the very same question.
Suggestion for Herb (pls excuse my presumption)….
How about a “sticky”, pinned post, or link or banner or …..something …..directing people to the vignettes and the request form to join the discussion.
(I’ve seen this “how do I “ question a few times already, and I anticipate, it will keep being asked for a while….
just a suggestion….
”Until at least most of them reach the ’acceptance’ phase, they are really best left alone, both for their and our sake.”
But what about the Pindos’ fabulous private firearms and the owners’ equally fabulous dexterity and commitment to using these for the sake of severely punishing corrupt, tyrannical, ’unconstitutional’ government officials, keeping the latter firmly in check? Have I been lied to?
On a more serious note: Comparing the average Pindo’s typical ”courage” and ”sense of justice” to what guides the world’s downtrodden, oppressed peoples fighting for liberation is so absurd that it’s comical. Suffice it to say that the only sound judgment with US connections on the September 11 fireworks came from a US expat: Bobby Fischer. People working in the very power hubs of US imperialism are neither innocent, nor too ’indispensable’ to be sacrificed in the interests of Zionist globalism. I, for one, will dedicate the upcoming 20th anniversary to some nice gloating, especially against the backdrop of the US defeat in Afghanistan and with the firm conviction that the monster will be dead and buried before the end of this decade. Care to join in?
Just in case you never heard about this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBEMRyt6Qg
Nice! French are resisting in biggest numbers. Maybe they will lead in struggle once again.
It seems that people in other countries are beginning to wake up to. There were huge demonstrations in Amsterdam, last Sunday. People of all colors, beliefs, age, political and social backgrounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqfVZsjzC38&t=233s
I think it’s question of western cultural decline. And it’s impossible to stop that process. Impossible.
Lost in all the finger pointing at Biden blowing the withdrawal are these items:
Biden told us that the Afghan military was up to the task of keeping the Taliban in check for at least 6 months. Who sold him that fairy tale?
Pinning the debacle on Biden and expecting Trump to do better? Trump negotiated unconditional withdrawal of all US forces. That gave the Taliban all it needed to know…bide its time and when the US left, strike.
The military dragged its feet systematically pulling people out, the military stalled for 20 years withdrawing from Afghanistan….so a large part of the debacle falls at its feet.
And finally, why has the Bush Cheney Rumsfeld cabal not been called out for invading when the Taliban offered to turn OBL over to an international court given the evidence?
They were the most responsible for this disaster, yet their names don’t even come up.
So, yeah, whether its the Republicans or Democrats, the trajectory–wars based on lies getting slammed by Reality–remains the same.
The events in Afghanistan were orchestrated by non-governmental forces which want the “corrupt secular civilization and society” to be replaced by totalitarian microregulated regimented theocratic “God’s brave new world” where everyone will be forced to live like an austere monk and austere nun against “worldly human nature” and in “imitation of Christ suffering crucified on the cross.”—That is a very credible explanation
for what has happened.
These non-governmental forces have a worldwide approach beyond concern limited to any one “empire”.
Do lighten up,
Someday you’ll be staging an LGBTQ++ parade there and duly enjoy the incredible turnout. Be patient and all the world’s anti-totalitarians will prevail eventually.
Say, are you implying that anyone who does not favor a “totalitarian microregulated regimented theocratic “God’s brave new world” where everyone will be forced to live like an austere monk and austere nun against “worldly human nature” and in “imitation of Christ suffering crucified on the cross”—thereby favors LGBTQ+++?
I notice some evidence that those glorious heroic Taliban tend to be “G” and “Q” and “P”—for man-boy pedophilic,—but they do abhor women and are not “L” or “B” or “T”. How about just simply “S” for straight who
believe adult men and women should interact and mingle freely and be friends and have no disgust-anger-fear or shame between them?
I call bulls••t when I see it. This forum suffers from what I refer to as ’the anonymice scourge’ with a preponderance of people to whom defeats and setbacks for imperialism and Zionism are a source of grudge and disbelief such as yourself. The use of the word ’totalitarian’ shows you’re on board with the MSM all along the line.
Again: The West lost in Afghanistan and it lost resoundingly. Deal with it.
Six Palestinians have escaped an Israeli maximum security prison through a tunnel. The reports read like a Hollywood movie.
They are still at large, and the Israelis have not found them.
Meanwhile, the Jews and the Gazans have been ramping up the fighting again for the past couple of weeks. There is a lot going on, but perhaps the most notable is the fact that Gaza air defenses shot at Israeli jets last night.
It is only a matter of time now before they shoot down an Israeli jet.
Went to a Renaissance Festival yesterday in Hudson Valley.
Almost nobody was following the signs asking for people to wear masks and people were laughing and enjoying themselves.
What a great metaphor for America right now. The Empire is being ignored and people are moving on with their lives on a local level.
We’re past the Acceptance phase over the death of the Empire, time to move on and rebuild on our own terms. And yeah, it will be at a near-medieval level. The decay in modern infrastructure in the US can’t be reversed by this generation.
Just watched al jazeera documentary shadow world….the international arms trade…Bush Blair Obama Wolfowitz extracts versus middle east journalists like Chris Hedges…code pink…activists against drones etc etc….I recommend it.
We’ve seen the studies finding that elected “representatives” (with very few partial exceptions) vote as their big donors want, not at all as their constituents want, and not at all as they campaigned to vote. The news and social media, also controlled by a few billionaires, decide what information most people are exposed to. Education has been incredibly dumbed down. White (ooh, evil!) life expectancy has been dropping for a while now. Suicide rates are up in rural areas, although farmers have always been accustomed to dealing regularly with all kinds of disasters, at the best of times.
So it seems a bit unfair to write off and blame the US common man/woman for much of the mess we find ourselves in. You know, those disposable Deplorables in flyover country? Not that anyone is perfect, except possibly those of us here. But maybe a little compassion for the relatively powerless, manipulated, and already suffering might be good for our souls? They tend to deal with hard realities a lot, and they might actually be all that survives.
The escape of the Palestinian captives from Israel’s highest-security prison, is a major security and intelligence scandal for the Jews.
This successful escape by Palestinian prisoners, who got out of their cell through a tunnel, was quite an imaginative and unprecedented feat, which will go down in history, and perhaps one day movies will be made about it.
The secrets of this operation, and the details, are still very few and unknown. The Israeli security services, which have been shocked and humiliated, and have suffered a massive blow, are doing their best to hide information. But what is clear is that this was a very courageous and meticulous act, one which raises many questions. The first and foremost being, how did they dig the tunnel, which must have taken months, without any prison guards noticing, in Israel’s maximum security prison, and what did they do with the dirt they dug up, and how does one hide such a thing from prison guards?
A car was waiting for the prisoners at the exit point of the tunnel. Another question that arises is, who gave them the cellphone in their cell, so as to make it possible for them to stay in touch with the outside world, thus facilitating their meeting with the getaway car? Will these liberated champions be able to cross the border into Jordan or Syria, or will they attempt a martyrdom-seeking mission against Israeli targets?
The answers to these questions will be revealed in the days and weeks to come, no doubt. But what is already clear is that this heroic operation was a disastrous blow to the occupying regime and to the whole Zionist project, and has inflicted a security and intelligence defeat on the Zionist regime, which is perhaps the worst defeat in the entire history of this regime.
It is indeed a fact that this was a terrible defeat for Israel’s security and military services, which many Israeli analysts admit, but what is more, if it weren’t for the resistance mentality and the powerful will and ability to design this escape plan and to execute it without a hitch, this defeat would never have been revealed at all.
The Fath movement and the Islamic Jihad movement ought to be very proud of their 6 liberated warriors, who pulled off this feat.
This operation, which was carried out in cooperation between the two movements, signals the start of more joint operations to come. This victory, which came after the great victory of the Sword of Jerusalem, and just a few days after an Israeli sniper was shot dead at the Gaza wall, has achieved all its military, security, and psychological objectives, and is a massive victory for the Resistance, and a humiliating defeat for Israel’s security apparatus.
Regardless of what comes next, and where these liberated champions end up, or even if they get caught, it takes nothing away from the massive defeat and psychological blow to the Israelis, and raises big questions about their future and the future of their polity.
It is very sweet to see people in Palestine and Lebanon celebrating. There is nothing as sweet as the taste of victory against the enemy in this time of corruption and misery for Arabs.
The Zionist regime, which defeated countries and Arab armies within hours, once upon a time, cannot defeat a few resistance fighters in a cell, in an Israeli maximum security prison. The stage is changing very quickly, and the myth of Palestine has changed many old and new equations, and continues to do so.
Congratulations to the liberated champions. May they fare well in the days to come.
These sort of incredible events begin to occur as power shifts to the World and Ideology of Resistance.
My favorite, La Rumba…if this doesn’t get your feet tapping, check your pulse, you may be dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiFFdCBSJr4&list=PLywoWAfO1trIdRxeIEwBnWefjV5FE7R-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCzaiJEoEY
anybody else got russia 90´s war songs in their youtube ?
You mean the Soviet-Afghan War songs of the 1980’s or the Chechen War songs of the 1990’s.
I love Russian Chanson music. I also love the band Kino.
This American: Acceptance.
And working on self-actualization.
Thanks for the updates.
Andrei My Orthodox Brother,
Forgive me for missing the discussion. I would have liked to participated. I am notoriously bad at checking my email.
I had a question for you. I know you live in Florida. Where in the Former USA do you think will be a good place to live if it all comes tumbling down like the USSR did in 1991? I currently live in California and am married (to a woman from the former USSR). We have three children the oldest being in middle school on down to second grade.
I have been thinking about this topic for at least 15 years now. I had read before Dimitri Orlov’s “Reinventing Collapse”. I believe that was from 2007. I used to be for returning to my wife’s homeland in Central Asia, or to Russia (I like Sochi as far as climate goes).
Most of my blood relatives are in Kansas and Missouri and I definitely am drawn that way for that reason, but I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter as to good places to live in the US should it all fall apart like the Soviet Union did?
Thank you Andrei and God bless you and your family.
ZONE B nations should set up institutions for the ZONE B region – this is only natural – and do so on Geo-Physical lines. Zone B is Africa, Europe, Asia and the central region (WORLD) that is circumscribed by these 3 vast continents. For various and sundry reasons, It appears there are and will never be any good ideas from ZONE A on how to manage Zone B.
Dimash Qudaibergen performed with the vocalize “Ave Maria” at the final gala concert of the International Competition of Young Performers “New Wave-2021” in Sochi, Russia. “Ave Maria” conducted by Igor Krutoy is a variation of the opening theme of Schubert’s melody adapted to Dimash’s voice. So beautiful.
Please enjoy this vocal masterpiece https://youtu.be/mLG8g2ooFSA
About the singer, from Wikipedia: Dinmukhammed Kanatuly Kudaibergen (Kazakh: Дінмұхаммед Қанатұлы Құдайберген, Dınmūhammed Qanatūly Qūdaibergen; born 24 May 1994), known professionally as Dimash Kudaibergen, is a Kazakh singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is university trained in classical as well as contemporary music, and is known for his exceptionally wide vocal range. He has performed songs in twelve languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimash_Kudaibergen
if that ever find its way to the chinese media I guarantee it will hit over 100M view in under 24hrs!
angel in human form!
thank you :)
bwbs
Dimash became an international sensation overnight, thanks to appearance on “The Singer” television show in China in 2017.
Glad you enjoyed :)
Some street musicians
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/estacion-de-metro-restauradores-lisboa-guitarrista-anonimo-verdes-anos-de-carlos-paredes
Street Flamenco bailao
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/flamenco-en-la-plaza-de-espa%C3%B1a-sevilla
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/isa-alarcon-sanchez-y-familia-jardines-de-murillo-sevilla
Celtic music
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/las-mujeres-y-los-musicos-primero-santiago
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/las-mujeres-y-los-musicos-primero-vigo
Street Jazz
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/las-mujeres-y-los-musicos-primero-cangas
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/las-mujeres-y-los-musicos-primero-porto
And this man, the late fadista Padre antonio with some political fados from the Salazar’s dictatoship of Portugal
https://www.dodgone.com/blog/eterna-saudade-fadista-louco
Please follow the links and help yourselves
Hi Andrei
What is the purpose of life of a grouping whose goals do not coincide with those of the general public?
That depends on the group, of course.
Do you know of a grouping (association of individuals) whose goals are contrary to those of the general public and are based on an ideology (or religion)?
Yes, true Christianity immediately comes to my mind.
Thank you for answering
Cheers!
Andrei