2016/10/24 16:00:01
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Sir James Goldsmith was a European billionaire who warned about the perils of ‘free market’ trade deals. He spent hundreds of millions supporting his cause. An important video link can be found below.
“In 1994 Goldsmith founded and financed The Referendum Party in the United Kingdom, modeled upon the Majorité pour l’autre Europe, with the objective of seeking a referendum for its national withdrawal from the European Union, which would go on to stand candidates in the country’s General Election of 1997. As the mid-1990’s progressed Goldsmith involved himself in British politics, appearing with increasing regularity in the political press, and in domestic political televised debates, raising opposition to the nature of the European Union and what he perceived was mainstream media culpability in playing down its supranational ambitions, and pouring scorn on a Westminster parliamentary political order that he stated had failed the nation and was now willfully betraying its governmental sovereignty” – Wikipedia
James Goldsmith Exposes the Myth of Free Trade Deals – Video
Sir James Goldsmiths Book “The Trap” – Book Link
“In the world as a whole, there are still 3.1 billion people living in the countryside. If intensive methods of agriculture were imposed universally and productivity per person were to reach the levels of Australia, then, as we have discussed, about 2 billion of these people will lose their livelihood. Rural communities throughout the world would be washed away as if by a great flood. Whole populations would be uprooted and swept into urban slums. As the affected nations become ungovernable and impoverished, so their people would be forced to seek refuge elsewhere. Mass migrations of displaced people would follow. Yet economists totally disregard these social and economic costs when they calculate the cost of food produced by intensive methods.
Modern society believes in intensive farming because modern culture is based on measuring and counting rather than on trying to understand long-term and more important consequences.” – Sir James Goldsmith
Just another Anglozionist corporate raider and asset stripper promoted by the Zionist controlled mass media. Vultures who feed on the weak.
Another message from heavens brought by the Angel to his Tribe: “We Jews are so concerned about the welfare of the goyim and should herd them into small plots of land to enjoy the spiritual value of subsistence peasants”.
Some in the Anglo-Saxon intelligence community seem to be fairly uncomfortable about the Japan-Russia deal planned for December.
https://rusi.org/commentary/russia-and-japan-wrong-premise-unrealistic-expectations
Anybody else like this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xsUdyAhwwrM (from 20 seconds in).
Nice. Here in “West” we know this for decades. It’s called “Village People”. Maybe you
know their famous song “YMCA”. ;-)
I do know the Village People, but this music is better, that is, I like the music, not interested in the people.
Can/will anyone reliably confirm that poroshitko is a jew, walzman?
That dancing has nothing “gay” about it. Its traditional Russian folk dancing. And has always been popular among the Russian (and Soviet) navy. That video was of amateurs (though actually pretty good) doing this type of naval dance.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJ24crk1v8
Hey Bob,
I was kidding. It was the first thought that struck my sometimes nasty brain. And because this is here the “easy-going-area”, I found it OK to not reflect seriously on everything that I write. A kind of “mom & dad are out and the children are alone home”.
But nevertheless gays would like these boys…
Could you imagine these dancers on a CSD (Christopher Street Day)? They would be a major attraction!
Damn: Ups, I did it again (Britney has stolen this from me). Mom & dad are still out!
;-)
Fantastic vid, Uncle Bob 1. Thanks for sharing! The athleticism of these naval dancers amazes me.
Or maybe this music, techno bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=phDIdrTgoA8 Slightly different version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7jlIRijv5M
Ralph, you don’t want to go there, but since you did….enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpQlM4L3-7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJYgasK-XQ&index=1&list=RDAwJYgasK-XQ
Thanks guys for the musical introduction in the Cafe of the Bible. Special thanks to Auslander for the beauties and welcome in the Cafe !
Thank you, ioan, I will stop by from time to time.
Have another, one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6AnjV8S6Xw
And now for something completely different ;D
Tracktor Bowling Nichya
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWv2mOmJc5c
SIMANTIKA – Vkoshmare.ru (live, feat. Nookie, THE SLOT)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZWALzhXu0
Russian Rock “SLOT” Boomerang -RAMP 2005- Lughniky Venue
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF4FfmuuEn0
Anon 4:50 was I.
hug
mundo
A cup of coffee, a bible and a letter opener. A vineyard cafe, a love manifesto and the opening of a revolution.
I just posted a description and sources of the Love Bower at the old cafe which as of now has not yet gone up. So this a good transition to a new tradition, a new edition of the old bible which needs to be opened with a blade to fill the chalice cup with love’s wine juice.
This is a good time to introduce some of The Love Government’s unpublished work on the heart of love in the bower, and the triple play of the war room’s thesis, cafe salon’s antithesis culminating in the love bower’s synthesis.
The manuscript consists of visual drawings and a written text framed by seventy-eight Sex Tarot cards. The one quoted below is card VI from the major arcana called Lovers. It shows the heart of the love culture and bower: sexual love in all its variety and ecstasy in a communal sex setting:
“Love is a many splendored thing. Its central expression is sex, not the sex we have today but the sex of the love culture of our origins 100,000 years ago. That manifestation itself was from the culture of our ancestral creators in the starfield and beyond.
There have been many such epiphanies across time and space, some in by-gone eons on this planet and in multiple frequencies in other galaxies or in multi-dimensional universes. Love-sex is boundless.
For us, however, sex on this planet at this time is what is relevant. Sex Tarot focuses on the specifications of our origination 100,000 years ago which lasted about 25,000 years. That is the paradisal Golden Age that the ancient texts refer to.
The Lovers Card is a faint approximation of those foundational years. Much is not shown but the heart of what was going on is shown in its wonderful nakedness. Womem loving womem, men loving men, womem and men loving each other and one person loving herself or himself.
All of it was healthy, well-governed, safe, fulfilling and natural, despite what we think in our unnatural anti-love age. Sex was embedded in nature and enfolded into a small community where everyone knew everyone else intimately and sexually.
Sex was communal, not a commodity. Sex was public, not private. Sex was for all, not a serial monogamy arrangement. Sex was about pleasure for all, not property for profit. Sex was for love, not lust. Sex was about giving, not getting.
The very phrase “having sex” betrays its patriarchal contamination. We already have a sex; we don’t have to get more of it. We give our sex to the community. We flow in and out of each other like the tides of the sea and the turning of time.
The sacramental sign of these flowing relations is the sexual fluids. They are sacraments revered with the highest honor when the consciousness is honorable. Sex cannot be sacred without a mind that is sacred.
The sense of the sacred was destroyed by patriarchy and along with it true sexual fulfillment. The Love Government and its Sex Tarot clears a path back to the future in the present by raising sex to the standards of our original plan for womam and man.”
Hi Mr. Leary: If I may be so bold as to offer a slightly different view of key 6 Tarot: The naked man represents the ego mind( that doer mind with which we calculate gain and loss) which looks to the naked female which represents the subconscious mind ( emotional memories by which we really make our decisions unbeknown) and she is shown looking to higher mind usually represented in the more classical Tarot ( not the Crowley cr-p) as the Higher Mind or the Archangel Michael. It is about unity of self/Selves in which the highest ecstasy/joy lies. Outer male or outer female may or may not be part of this process.
Right after this Tarot card you get the Chariot or the Yogi who commands the horses of his mind by Will which is infused by Love for Micha-el, fiery Prince of Thought. The next card comments of the Courage of the Heart based wisdom which transcends Time.
But my humble thoughts…added to the mix of what looks to be a studious cafe. Coffee in a teacup or Kvass?
Thanks. You have expressed this card so beautifully and profoundly, much better than I can do. I agree with your reading and hope to hear more from you concerning these matters.
Oh, Brother! Leary beat me to the coffee/tea cup punchline again!
OK, I’ll one up ya, Dennis. Let’s play cards!
One of the reasons I maintain that the World Trade Center was designed for immolation and the bringing in of a Loveless One World Government of Fear, War, and Loathing is this 16th Trump Card of the Major Arcana, a burning tower (or TWO ….n a rush, couldn’t find that version….) with on fire people jumping off of it:
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/meanings/tower.shtml
No Leary isn’t part of the occult priesthood, and neither am I.
But these things ARE psychological/spiritual tools and can be used alternatively, for either good or evil.
Obviously, they were used in designing 911 as a manifestation ritual (it FAILED folks, remember? 2 planes make it to Manhattan, but 3 buildings come down???? Larry Silverstein: “Oy Vey!!! Holy Kaballah!! WTF do we do now???”……….8 hours later: “Pull it!” bldg. 7 untouched by Flight 93) by the numbers (flights 11, 93, 175, 77) but also by the numerous symbols.
When both are extensive enough to write a book on the combined occulted subject matter, you are not dealing with coincidences. You are dealing with the insides of evil minds.
Lover’s Card: http://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-lovers/rider
…….somewhat more benign, perhaps?
Once again, my belief and YOUR belief are irrelevant . It is the beliefs of the architects of the ritual, the occultocracy that has run the last several puppet presidencies, every bit as much as they ran the Third Reich, that count in the analysis, not your or my beliefs.
But these decks and their symbols are pervasive in society. Often subliminally, in corporate logos, art and all kinds of both unconscious manipulation and positive influence. In service of both good and evil. Unawareness is not good, BTW.
Many thanks for the information on the Tower and the tarot links. I read down to comment 21 and see you are on quite a roll, even for you. I concede the game with pleasure. Makes me wonder where you’ve been and where you’re coming from, since you come from all over the place. I also appreciate your information about Alexander Pope and Hamilton. The link to Gutenberg is new and valuable for me. This chalice and blade cafe seems unusually arresting. It charges my batteries anyway. Like you said, a library of distilled information not to be found elsewhere. The pool of energy here is enough to fell seven towers of power; and the vineyard has hardly been born. Makes me wonder where I’ve been and where I’m coming from. I wish I had the time to read through all the past cafes to glean that energy and information. I regret that I miss so much of the conversation that appears late in the middle somewhere. Like the Aecletic commentary cautioned, the Tower represents my pride a la A. Pope. As brother ioan suggested: keep it coming. I’m not into competition but if I were I’d have to retire from the field with all the talent here. Goes to show what a community can do at Cafe Rue Avenue.
@ Dennis
Caught you again! Not picking on you, mind, but that cup is a tea cup. Which is a change to the Café décor. Have we been taken for a ride and end up in a tearoom for the 5 o’clock customary?
Is This Your Cup of Tea?
This Café has the look of a library.
I see no pastries, baristas or stools.
If I’m not mistaken, that isn’t coffee
In the cup, my Bon Ami, Monsieur Jules.
On the table cloth is an open Book,
That is upside down or sideways.
I’d like to take a closer, better look,
Chapter and verse within my gaze.
The bookmark is a crucifx or silver key
To unlock some clue or hidden passage.
I’d sit down, and orient the pages to me
To divine the meaning and the message.
If the absent soul returns to claim their tea
Before I can digest both pages, I’ll just exclaim,
“Pardonez- moi, this open book attracted me,
And key-cross drew me in, like a moth to flame.”
Then perhaps we could discuss the synchronicity
Of this thoughtful place, this table, and this time,
The warmth of friendship and cozy authenticity,
That sometimes coincide, in each others minds.
Very good Bro, very nice atmosphere there in your poem, brought in this Cafe. Thanks for sharing and for caring, to keep the candle alive.
Ooops! My conscience (ioan) is here. I thought you were on sabbatical. So I decided to refine myself, to start the day, and a new cafe.
Then that Finnish cat showed up and my right brain free association went wild.
I’ll try to get back in balance, and more mindful of my vigilant conscience.
Actually, it was very nice, this morning.
Gotta keep it going all day, though. I know. Moi ploha.
I’ll try to make amends with another installment of the Real Pope (not that weirdo with the fish headdress, in the Vatican….) to follow up on one probably mostly wasted, here, in the closing10/21 Café:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-10-21/comment-page-1/#comment-288032
(except for my ever-watchful conscience, ioan, who caught it and introduced the most arcane symbology yet seen in politics………………….which left me with my skivvies on the ground, and out of my mouth, nary a sound.
So, yes, refinement, the high road, the middle path, And Verse 6:
VI. “What would this man? Now upward will he soar,
And little less than angel, would be more;
Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears
To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears
Made for his use all creatures if he call,
Say what their use, had he the powers of all?
Nature to these, without profusion, kind,
The proper organs, proper powers assigned;
Each seeming want compensated of course,
Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force;
All in exact proportion to the state;
Nothing to add, and nothing to abate.
Each beast, each insect, happy in its own:
Is Heaven unkind to man, and man alone?
Shall he alone, whom rational we call,
Be pleased with nothing, if not blessed with all?
The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find)
Is not to act or think beyond mankind;
No powers of body or of soul to share,
But what his nature and his state can bear.
Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Say what the use, were finer optics given,
To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven?
Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o’er,
To smart and agonize at every pore?
Or quick effluvia darting through the brain,
Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
If Nature thundered in his opening ears,
And stunned him with the music of the spheres,
How would he wish that Heaven had left him still
The whispering zephyr, and the purling rill?
Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives, and what denies?”
Exit, stage left, better balanced, at least for now.
“My conscience (ioan) is here”
Impossible – you haven’t gort one.
I am amused by your spelling, dead end mind, and habit of constantly projecting your own issues on to me, when I am nothing like you. Thanks for the smiles and chuckles you inadvertently give, while leaving the impression you do not intend to do any giving of any sort, whatsoever. Oh, well, better luck next time!
Ukrainian music has a certain something. Imagine the atmosphere when the entire people sing along to this catchy tune!
https://youtu.be/ApmgFPWzMFc
Wow! “It’s got a back beat you can’t lose it!” for sure.
Backside to steel door, steady beat, Ukrainian Rock n Roll!
Insistent, persistent beat!
Apologies to Chuck Berry – Rock And Roll Music Lyrics, Mangled, UKRO-NAZI Style
Just let me hear some of that
Adolf Hitler music,
Any old way you choose it;
It’s got a backside beat, you can’t lose it,
Any old time you use it.
It’s gotta be National Socialist music,
If you want to dance with me,
If you want to dance with me.
I’ve got no kick for modern jazz,
Unless they try to play it too darn fast;
And change the beauty of the melody,
Until they sounded like a Russian symphony,
That’s why i go for that
Adolf Hitler music …
I took my loved one over cross the Kiev tracks
So she can hear an Azov Battalion sax,
I must admit the have a rockin’ band,
Man they were going like only fascists can!
That’s why i go for that
Bun and door rockin music …..
Way down in Odessa they gave a jubilee,
The swastikaed skinheads had a jamboree,
They’re drinkin’ homebrew from a water cup,
Porkie’s spies, they got all shook up
And we started playin’ that
Stepan Bandera music ….
And gave all the jews a fit!
That’s why I like that Ukro-Nazi music,
Don’t waste your backside, come, on use it
Pound it against the steel door!
Oh give me more, give me more!
This is tough like a rock, and is ticking like a clock, shaking tee cup and the bible, shaking even flame of candle.
N
That “musician” reminds me of S.W.A.R.M., especially the critters at justthetalk.com and freerepublic.com.
vot tak,
He will bring the Ukro-trash another fabulous victory right there in Kiev in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest — and rightly so!
Oh the rythm….the melody….the harmonies…the exquisite contrapuntalism…
Rollover Beethoven!
A Mozart of the derrière :-)
Saker promised a podcast behind a pretend paywall. Is it coming or not?
not sure … i’ve heard no more … mod-hs
A new cafe has opened in the Vineyard. This one has the look of an open book. Words will certainly jump off that book and come alive here.
As is becoming my usual habit, just when I was just settling into the old cafe, it is closing time…….
Anony, as I may not find you again among all the unknown anonymous’, I wanted to say a proper farewell.
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-10-21/#comment-288011
and for ioan.
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-10-21/#comment-288005
k
Got that k and replied /moveable-feast-cafe-2016-10-21/comment-page-1/#comment-288246
of course, in my opinion only ;-)
Thanks for your reply to anonymous and for your kind words. Of course, here where I live, is the same situation, such ideas cannot be discussed with anyone. We are not alone with such experience, there are m,any also here, so, we are gathering into this Cafe to share our views. It would be a great miracle to meet us together in this life. That’s a sorrow, we couldn’t do that. What about destiny ? it is not always karma.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Drops New Video Implicating Hillary Clinton
https://sputniknews.com/us/201610241046680208-project-veritas-releases-video-implicating-clinton/
Those evil Russians are closing in on her. But never fear, george soros and his magic voting machines are here.
Soros-Linked Company Supplies Key Battleground States With Voting Machines
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610251046685928-soros-voting-machines/
Over 80 NGOs call for Russia to be dropped from UN rights council over Syria
https://www.rt.com/news/363943-un-human-rights-russia
The way I look at it, there are 2 ways to look at this govno.
Oh, no, the whole world is against Russia.
Or.
That’s 80 corrupted israel-american ngo tools who need to be neutered and/or sent back home. At the very least, anything out of those frauds should be discounted.
Personally, my opinion of the subhuman scum running them is they are the lowest of the low. They take the desire of decent people to help others and use that to cause grave harm that furthers zionazi/nazi geostrategy and population control.
@ vot tak
Something good comes out of it. At least one can identify the NGOs who are the open/covert tools of the Anglozionist empire, plus the many other ones who keep in the shadows.
There is a scandal that has blown up in the US state of California (and it may spread nationwide) .That if Trump jumps on it quickly could be a huge help to his campaign. The National Guard, to get reenlistment’s up for the wars.Signed up thousands of people with faulty paperwork.Paying out millions in bonus that they weren’t entitled to.So now after an audit the government is demanding the veterans and serving soldiers repay all that money.As much in many cases as $15,000 per person.And even though taxes were taken out they want the entire amount.And say the people can dispute with the IRS over the thousands in tax money deducted. Threatening to seize their paychecks if they don’t pay. That is sure to outrage the veteran and military community in the US. Plus the millions of military families.If Trump was to attack the Obama regime and Clinton as a part of that regime for this. It is a surefire issue to gain him votes among those critical groups.I just don’t know if his advisers are smart enough to see the possibilities this offers for him. Saying that as President he would remedy that for “our brave veterans and soldiers”.In the US that is a winning move for a candidate.
https://www.rt.com/usa/363963-military-members-repay-bonuses/
UB1
Another example of what happens to people who think they will make out well taking uncle sam’s recruitment shekel (or uncle bibi’s recruitment dollar). It is a scam from the beginning. Pure flim flam, the con really works on the greedy and unprincipled. Plays are their greed, depends on their greed.
Sign up and you forfeit your life, your choice, their prerogative.
(door slams) Damn, that wind is playing havoc with my hayfever. A cup of Earl Grey thanks, leave the pot. Is this seat free, don’t mind if I do. The kids are fine thanks for asking; my oldest daughter is about to graduate and has her first serious boyfriend, the youngest two are straddling adolescence and are a writhing handful. Three daughters? Yes, and I am told there is a special place in heaven for the father of daughters. Work’s fine, finally found a career where I can be paid to help people (within my skill and personality set). And in an industry which is recession-proof, which considering what is about to happen is important. You have to come out and see my new band, we are almost ready to gig. Hard and classic rock, puts lead in your pencil. Rock and roll will never die.
Sorry to drop the tone, but have you started preparing for what is to come? Two catastrophes are about to happen; the economic collapse of the West, and/or the hot phase of WWIII. How best to prepare is the question, and how to protect our children? War first. If the war stays away we will suffer rations and shortages, and the loss of our best and brightest overseas. I have started to learn to grow vegetables, though my thumb has many shades to go before I get to green. If the war comes home, out here in the New World it would probably be nuclear and no need to prepare. The Hot War scenario I still think is unlikely, but the shadow is lengthening.
The economic collapse is a certainty, and I think a very similar scenario to the overseas Hot War. History teaches us what will happen if we do nothing; polarisation to the extremes of left and right, street-fighting, the rise of Fascism. You could argue Drumpf is laying the foundations for this. We are the problem, the Middle Class; we are the reactionary element who will do and support anything to keep our two SUV’s. We elected Hitler. If we do nothing, this is the play.
It seems to me what we need to do is provide hope for our people. We need a broad movement toward self-sufficiency, so that people don’t drop to the depths of despair. Reinstate your local community, grow and barter food, rainwater tanks, solar panels, volunteer; disengage from everything the Government provides. Why would we want them anyway; they keep us in a state where we are scared, sick and dependent, then ‘retail therapy’ us to the eyeballs. Whether the issue is massive and permanent unemployment, or massive and permanent war, we need an enormous social paradigm shift. Before we are forced to, we should start to change our minds about what is important in life so the shock is less. Cut the cord good people, become adults, take responsibility and hold on to each other.
Nothing else matters.
@ Earthrise
I get your message. The trouble is that post-industrial societies are urban, services-dependent and based on consumption funded by debt.
Many people may be able to become self-sufficient and live independent lives free from capital/state oppression but those many are too few to make a difference let alone to change or challenge the politico-economic order. Can you imagine a mass exodus of hundreds of millions of people to the countryside?
I am deeply distrustful of political parties because their logic is to grab power, even anarchism is suspect. Our predicament is that no change is possible without organization and that requires setting up structures that fetter our autonomy because ultimately they will act and function like parties. On the other hand nothing will change by individual acts of rebellion.
The time for popular uprisings is over, at least in the western world. Most people (consumers) are trapped in a vicious circle of dependence for their basic needs and mortgaged their lives to the capitalist creed. Once caught in the consumer vortex they can’t escape. As has been said many times in this blog: our identity, consciousness and world view is inculcated into us from childhood and is constantly shaped my the manufactured reality being daily pumped into our senses. Some can escape, but that requires a great mental and emotional effort and even material sacrifice the great majority of the people are incapable of enduring.
Considering the huge difficulties of overcoming people’s inertia and apathy only a cataclysmic event would urge them into action. In my view the Russian Revolution only succeeded because the Tsarist regime was so retrograde, discredited and rotten and there were no sound state structures set up when it fell, that is, power was there for the taking. And the Tsar dug his own grave when he took Russia to the war.
Elsewhere in Europe the state intervened to moderate the excesses of capitalism and even the capitalists realised that it was in their self-interest to adopt a “social conscience” because the Russian Revolution could become a model to replicate. But that was once upon a time when the state, although always the tool of the ruling class, still had some independence and many politicians still adhered to some notions of honour, civic duty, integrity and honesty. (I read once a charming story of the president of one of the first European republics catching a tram in the morning to go to his office!).
“…The trouble is that post-industrial societies are urban, services-dependent and based on consumption funded by debt.”
Thanks Anonymous on October 25, 2016 · at 3:58 am UTC,
This is the problem. I have been thinking on this collapse for quite a while, and I think a lot could be done on a suburban block. I understand this won’t help the high-density city-dwellers, but as I said originally the problem is the middle class, and we tend to live in the suburbs. Properly planned and executed, an urban suburb could approach self-sufficiency (did someone say central planning?) With a division between food types, traded freely within the community, we could come close. Also divide the craft skills between us and then barter the results. Setting up a local militia could provide the framework for this kind of cooperation, and draw out the leaders.
I actually think this is the kind of life our souls crave for; we are so separated from our natural state depression is dissolving all the joy in our lives. As you say what is missing is the motivation, so unfortunately we are not going to be able to prepare for what is to come until the shit hits the fan. But if key people are ready with a plan, to give the people another option during the dark days to come, we may appear on the other side with our humanity intact. Our enemy has been in long preparation; generations of social engineering dividing us into individuals (consumers) has white-anted our defences. The middle class is going to beg for Hitler again to save their privilege, but we all know this is never coming back. Our wealth is only illusionary, it has been since the 70’s, nothing but paper and threats. The sooner we accept the new paradigm, the more lives we save, and the more of the West we preserve.
@ Earthrise
Your suggestion (communalism, to give it a name) has some merits and may be feasible in some communities on the basis of co-operative relations. In my student days our shared household (in a big city) got most of our fresh farm produce from a local residents co-op. Such set-ups are very good to instil ideas of sharing, association and co-operation and activism (the best teacher) and should be encouraged. Such communities can network with others and expand to become a political force but always within the constraint of the current order.
I learned recently about a town in South Africa (Orania) which shut itself out from the outside as far as practicable. It’s an Afrikaans-only self-ruled community and they are guided by self-sufficiency principles. The South African authorities tolerate it (it is a quaint experiment) and don’t interfere with the town’s affairs. But I don’t think it would be allowed in the “land of the free” or most western democracies. I have heard of similar, but older, communities in Southern Brazil and a famous one in Paraguay settled by Australians who got fed up with the government back in the 1890s! On a smaller scale, I have heard of some groups of East Germans settling in Spain and Portugal (well, they did it in large scale in earlier times) in the 1990s and form small self-help communities taking advantage of depopulation of rural areas and consequent low land prices in those countries.
This type of activism is important to raise people’s consciousness about themselves and their condition and seek grass-roots solutions to emancipate themselves and it could become a political force by being apolitical and engage in civil disobedience action by not participating in the government-imposed obligations (tax, elections, rules) protected by the sheer number of resisters. It’s possible, but you would need the fortune of a Soros to bring it to fruition.
I found this also as a very good idea, it can be realized, but only with people who have similar ideas, who can come together to achieve that. Putting together shoulder to shoulder needs not just only trust but a great deal of enthusiasm and coherence. Majority of the people prefer to live an individual life, being trapped in the daily struggle at work and by consumerism. All in one, this kind of community to be created needs a new kind of people which are hardly to be found in many places. It is also hard to escape the rules and the laws of the actual system, which is not so “liberal” in this sense, otherwise, the system itself would be in danger of self allowed destruction, loosing his hegemony. In my view, the only way to have something done, first, the large majority of people have to waken up. How this will come, I can only guess, and you too…
Thank you all for sharing your time and wisdom. Communalism, Anarchy, or my favourite, Grassroots Democracy. As you all rightly say, we are so unprepared and unsuitable for this option. When I first came to the realisation that power devolved was the answer, I joined the Greens (South Australia). They have Grassroots Democracy as one of the four founding principles, and I thought I’d test to see if this world could be voted in via the representative (Liberal) system. What I found is that almost no-one is prepared to give up their time and wealth for this goal. We have been so individualised by capitalist and liberal ideology that it is virtually impossible for us to join together like this. We have used our wealth to out-source all our civic responsibilities, and we are so time-poor slaving to pay for this lifestyle we have neither the energy or the inclination to be active. I am a Sociology major, so I understand what has been done to us during our childhood socialisation will prevent us from coming together freely. Knowing this hasn’t helped me break from my own socialisation; I really don’t like most people and can’t think of much worse than living on each other’s lap.
Something major has to happen to change this reality. The first is we need to lose the wealth. While we have it, no-one will lift a finger to change. The advantages of an Anarchist lifestyle only become apparent once we are all poor and permanently unemployed. It is the reality we will soon face that will make Anarchy possible. Even then, people socialised into this economy will be imperfect Anarchists; we will not be able to shake our programming. We need 40 years in the desert raising another generation socialised into communal and collective paradigms to build and populate this brave new world. Our job will not be to build, but to teach. And protect this next generation long enough for the world to change.
Yes, I imagine a lot of us are thinking about everything you said. I moved to the Philippines a year ago, wanted to come back recently at least for an extended stay, but now with Hillary promising to sew the seeds of WW3, I’m at a loss about what to do. For me anyway, if Trump wins I will probably come back, maybe even permanently. If Hillary wins it will be a short stay at best and maybe none at all until I scope out the fallout of all she wants to do.
Community cooperation is a trend that was bearing some fruit way before Hillarythreat, and I love it. Hope it continues no matter the future.
Dakota Access Pipeline: Police fire on media drones, mass arrests, treaty rights declared
https://www.rt.com/usa/363949-dakota-pipeline-drones-blockade/
“Protests over development of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota led to more than 125 arrests and a highway blockade over the weekend, as pipeline opponents claimed “unceded territory” in the direct path of construction.
Meanwhile, local law enforcement fired on two unmanned media drones, claiming that “protesters attacked a helicopter with a drone,” and that the helicopter pilot and passengers were “in fear of their lives.”
“Today, the Oceti Sakowin has enacted eminent domain on DAPL lands, claiming 1851 treaty rights. This is unceded land,” Camp-Horinek said Sunday in a news release, adding, “We need bodies and we need people who are trained in non-violent direct action. We are still staying non-violent and we are still staying peaceful.”
“We have never ceded this land,” said Joye Braun, organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. “If DAPL can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal homeland. We are here to protect the burial sites here. Highway 1806 has become the no surrender line.”
US Prosecutors Rarely Held Accountable When Innocent People Sent to Prison
https://sputniknews.com/us/201603291037171208-prosecutors-rarely-charged-misconduct/
“The report, released on Tuesday, examined rulings from 2004-2008 in which courts found prosecutorial misconduct. Researchers found 660 cases, ranging from mischaracterizing evidence to suborning perjury, yet in 527 of the cases judges upheld the convictions. It was also found that only one prosecutor was disciplined for their actions.”
The usa in a nutshell.
I mean seriously, could it be any different in a crude, backward, fascist colony owned and run by a much weaker and smaller zionazi massa? I’ve come to the conclusion americans are too subservient to feel humiliation about how thoroughly messed their priorities are anymore.
Trump Insists ‘Accurate’ Polls Show Him Defeating Clinton
https://sputniknews.com/us/201610251046686954-trump-polls-clinton-election/
“Trump cited an Investor’s Business Daily poll, which he described as the “most accurate,” that has him leading Democrat Clinton by two points nationally.
Trump said Clinton would have gotten nowhere in her campaign without biased coverage in her favor from much of the US media, members of which he labeled “thieves and crooks — not all of it but much of it.”
He also cited a revelation in a WikiLeaks-posted email involving Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in which a Democratic consultant recommends manipulating polls by oversampling party voters who support Clinton.”
Why Cooperation with the West on Syria May Become a Trap for Russia.
A month ago I wrote a column, «He Who Hesitates Is Lost — And Russia Hesitated». The consequences of this hesitation are now apparent:
1. A UN report orchestrated by Washington has accused Syria and Russia of war crimes in Aleppo. According to the report, «indiscriminate airstrikes across the eastern part of the city by Government forces and their allies [Russia] are responsible for the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties. These violations constitute war crimes. And if knowingly committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against civilians, they constitute crimes against humanity».
The UN Human Rights Council has now voted to start an «independent» investigation. The purpose of the investigation is to indict Russia and Putin as war criminals and to «bring to justice those responsible for the alleged abuses». Moreover, «the situation should be urgently referred to the International Criminal Court. Every party to this conflict must know that they will be held accountable for the international crimes they commit – all, without selective protection or discrimination». Keep in mind that Washington provides the largest share of the UN’s budget, and the UN will overlook that it was Washington that sent ISIS to Aleppo.
Obviously, neither Washington nor the UN will be able to drag Putin into the International Criminal Court. The purpose of this orchestrated exercise is its propaganda value. Among Washington’s many concerns is that some Eastern European countries, alarmed by the conflict that Washington is leading them into with Russia, will threaten NATO with a non-participation statement. If Russia is branded a war criminal, it becomes even more difficult for countries that foolishly and thoughtlessly joined NATO to extricate themselves from the consequences.
2. Washington has succeeded in bringing to power in Poland the far right-wing Law and Justice Party. These agents of Washington have re-opened the matter of the death of Poland’s President Kaczynski in a plane crash, making wild claims that the crash was a terror attack by Russia aimed at depriving Poland of its political leadership.
Despite massive and convincing evidence to the contrary, the Law and Justice Party’s claims will find traction thanks to the scary portrait of Russia painted by Washington’s demonization campaign. The intended result is to further blacken and isolate Russia and its government.
3. As the anointed spokesperson for the neoconservative warmongers, Hillary wants Washington to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria. A no-fly zone would require Washington to attempt to prevent Syrian and Russian air strikes against ISIS positions. It seems clear enough that Syria and Russia would not accept any attempt to deny Syria the use of the country’s own airspace in the conflict against forces sent by Washington to overthrow the Syrian government, as happened to Gaddafi in Libya. Hillary’s no-fly zone would result in military conflict between Russia and the US.
To advance the no-fly zone proposal, the «use of chemical weapons» ruse has been resurrected. Fabricated reports are appearing that the Syrian air force is guilty of dropping chemical weapons on the Syrian population. On October 22, the Indian Express reported that on October 21 the UN-Led Joint Investigative Mechanism informed the UN Security Council that the chemical attack on Qmenas «was caused by a Syrian Arab Armed Forces helicopter dropping a device from a high altitude which hit the ground and released the toxic substance that affected the population».
The report concluded that three of the chemical attacks investigated were made by Syria and one by the Islamic State. The fact that the Russians resolved the chemical weapons issue in 2014, a year before the alleged attack on Qmenas, by taking possession of the weapons and removing them from Syria means that the report has little credibility. However, at no time during Washington’s 15-year-old attack on Muslim countries have facts played any role, and certainly facts have played no role in Washington’s demonization of Russia.
4. Diana Johnstone has concluded that Hillary intends regime change for Russia and will use the presidency for that purpose.
It is impossible to imagine a purpose more reckless and irresponsible. Many members of the Russian government have stated that Washington’s provocation and demonization of Russia have brought trust between the nuclear powers close to zero and that Russia will never again fight a war on her own territory. Sergey Karaganov told the German news magazine, Der Spiegel, that if Washington and NATO move from provocations to encroachments against Russia, a nuclear power, they will be punished.
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated US nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won. If nuclear war is believed to be unwinnable, there is no point in a war doctrine that assigns the weapons the role of surprise attack.
The Russians are aware and disturbed that Washington has made the situation between the US and Russia more dangerous than during the Cold War. Vladimir Putin himself has stated that the West does not hear his warnings. In an effort to avoid war, Putin wrings everything possible out of diplomacy. He enters into agreements with Washington that he must know will not be kept.
So much has happened to teach him this lesson — the Washington instigated invasion of South Ossetia by Georgia while he was at the Beijing Olympics, Washington’s coup in Ukraine while he was at the Sochi Olympics, Washington’s abandonment of the Minsk Agreement, the advantage Washington took of the Syrian ceasefire agreements, the violation of Washington’s promise not to move NATO to Russia’s border, Washington’s sacking of the Anti-ABM Treaty, the orchestrated blame of Russia for MH-17, Hillary’s hacked emails, etc.
Washington clearly intends to use Russia’s military and diplomatic assistance to Syria to convict Russia in world public opinion of war crimes. It was Russia’s hesitancy in Syria that enabled Washington to recover from the defeat of its ISIS mercenaries and substitute control of the explanation for defeat on the ground.
Russia’s air assault on ISIS in Syria caught Washington off guard and quickly rolled up the Washington-supported ISIS forces, completely reversing the tide of war. Had Russia finished the job, Syria would have been cleared of hostile forces before Washington could catch its breath.
Instead, pressured by the Atlanticist Integrationist element in the Russian elite, the Russian government withdrew, announcing mission accomplished and relying on the Syrian Army to complete the job. This strategic error allowed Washington not merely to replenish the ISIS munitions that had been destroyed and to muster more mercenaries, but more importantly to come up with a plan for Russia’s and Assad’s undoing.
By the time that the Russian government realized that early withdrawal was a mistake and re-entered the conflict, Washington had decided that if Damascus could not be «liberated», Syria could be partitioned and pressure kept on Assad in that way. Yet the Russian government continued to postpone victory by cease fire agreements that Washington used to rearm ISIS and as propaganda weapons against Russia.
Whatever the outcome of the military conflict in Syria, Russia faces a war criminal conviction by the Western media, if not by the UN Human Rights Council, and a no-fly zone in Syria if Hillary becomes president of the US.
This is the huge cost that Putin paid for listening to the unrealistic, American-worshipping Atlanticist Integrationists who are determined that Russia be accepted by the West even if it means being a semi-vassal. If there is nuclear war, the Russian Atlanticist Integrationists will share the blame with the American neoconservatives. And all of us will pay the price for the disaster produced by these few, the neoconservatives demanding war and the Atlanticist Integrationists demanding appeasement of Washington.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/10/24/why-cooperation-with-west-syria-may-become-trap-russia.html
(I just posted this on SST, seems to fit here quite nicely)
Paul Craig Roberts, some of you and others in the Alt Media space have complained that Russia showed weakness and made an error in instituting the two Syrian ceasefires (and the pause recently). I am of the opinion that the Russians are playing the propaganda game superbly, using their experience with RT to perfection. Russia can’t/won’t win an conventional war in Syria, they have stated they will not die in a ditch in the Levant. Managing international opinion is key to their eventual success. And if the recent moves by Natwest in Britain are any indicator, it is working.
By Cooperating With Washington On Syria Russia Walked Into A Trap — Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/10/24/by-cooperating-with-washington-on-syria-russia-walked-into-a-trap-paul-craig-roberts/
Who is right?
I think russia is aware of moves against her re UNSC even, eg remove all or none vote to a majority……exposures recently re inconsistency of human rights issues and some downright balderdash eg re Medjlis attention seeking over last year or two—so hopefully ther are perhaps exposing these and have developed plans…..certainly most obvious is western powers having more concern for moderate rebels in Aleppo when in fact these ‘persons’ are killing innocents in western Aleppo………….but then when Belgium and usa seem in denial re “weddings and funeral’s’ etc…….yet accuse rus of war crimes…………
…….
no one in his right senses would forget that three
games are to be played by the leaders
the 80%, the 20% and he 5% game
and keping the fourth from
doing the pigeon
Thank you Natoistan for a good summary of events that, handled differently, might have resulted in better outcomes.
I also profess the view that appeasement to the Washington wardogs is counterproductive. A good thing about the wardogs is that they are very predictable and you don’t need a degree in geopolitical or military science to anticipate their attacks and, especially, their goals. They even boast about them: The New American Century, New World Order, Full Spectrum Dominance, The End of History, The Exceptional Indispensable (have I missed any?)
All that bombastic bluster can be reduced to: “I am the top dog and I will destroy you by whatever means foul”. To believe that you can outsmart the top dog by cajoling him with nice names and kowtowing to his demands and agenda is like trying to be nice to the schoolyard bully by giving him gifts. Prevarication and vacillation denounce lack of resolve.
natoistan Russia can only be held responsible for “war crimes” if they wish to play the US game.
Most of this crap is becoming meaningless as it is ongoing and continuous propaganda.
Russia has bigger fish to fry.
A big percentage of the noise that comes out of the US is just that. Noise.
Too many people expect Russia to react every time the US breaks wind.
PCR is a nice guy but whisper the magic letters R – U – S – S – I – A in his ear and the poor man goes haywire. Maybe PCR should stick to topics he has a certain knowledge of – like Texas, his dog or the good, old days of the Reagan administration. Just saying.
Hi smr, your comment brings in it’s American stressless politeness my
German poor directness into smiling. Very much I appreciate your short comments
just as like as those from Franz.
Just saying
More show from the Rada….
https://youtu.be/DRIywMZmLk4
Regarding Bob Dylan’s silence about Nobel price:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/24/there-must-be-some-way-out-of-here-the-silence-of-dylan/
There has been quite a number of interesting opinions about whether or not it is deserved, but his silence is pregnant in a sense of increasing suspense of what he is going to do with it:
a) Reject it, like his spiritual mentor J. P. Sartre
b) Accept it, and sing a protest/antiwar song, instead of speech, in Stockholm after receiving it
c) Accept it, then donate prize money to Iraq’s , Libya’s, Afghanistan’s, Syrian’s and Palestinian’s children (that certainly would justify the prize, albeit aposteriori)
d) Forced, by those who really granted him this prize, to do/abandon b) and abandon c)
e) Something else
Curious situation. Something is happening.
Best regards, Spiral
d)
The whole 60’s music scene was largely a CIA exercise in social engineering. And what an overwhelming success it was.
Half the world went gaga over a couple of dozens of singers, musicians, performers trained, housed, groomed, dressed, financed by the CIA. Like ISIS, the hippie stars could use all of CIA’s high-tech gadgetry and infrastructure – music clubs, recording studios, tabloids, radio stations, TV networks, record labels, studio bands – free of charge.
Soon the whole Laurel Canyon based freak show got so out of hand that – imagine that! – the CIA itself got scared and decided to shut the whole flower power thingy down with a bang. Another hoax was in order: the fake Sharon Tate murder by no other than CIA’s very own Charles Manson.
Bob Dylan (fake name, fake everything) knows of course about all of this and is rightfully completely disgusted and depressed by the whole farce.
The elite wanted him to play the clown, and said yes. And now the elite gives him the most important elite price for his service in the elite’s name.
Bob Dylan doesn’t complain. He knew what he asked for when he made the deal with the … But to expect him to be ecstatic about the ultimate humiliation, the Nobel prize for literature, would be naive.
http://mileswmathis.com/dylan.pdf
http://mileswmathis.com/tate.pdf
https://pieceofmindful.com/2016/08/05/a-piece-of-two-hearts/
https://pieceofmindful.com/2016/08/08/true-faces/
bullshit
Adorable café, with Bible and cross.
Interesting video by Catherine Austin Fitts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeEzmmCd5c
Hi, Vercia.V, I wonder if you missed the great interview with Lady Asmaa Al Assad published some days ago..
If this is so, I think you would find it interesting…Through the end of the interview she was asked what she thought of those same who some years ago were calling her “The Rose of the Desert” or “The glamourous Syrian First Lady” and now they say she is “The wife of a tyran”……
She answered that if you remain humble, rooted in your foot and values, you never
give any importance neither to adulations nor to demonizations because, normally they come from the same people…..
By the way, I read the other day that you now are living in Switzerland and I found it strange since I recall you saying that you were living in Venezuela and, for what I could understand, you seemed a convinced “chavista”….
I remember all these from your talking with “elsi”….Did yoy know that she came back a while the other day for to, courageously, as she usually does, defend the honour of “Motorola” the “Hero of DNR” recently assassinated?
It was in the thread retired by The Saker….only can say you that she was the same of always….Since we talk about religious articles, I will say, God bless her.
Dear Fatima
I simply loved that interview! unfortunately I have lately very little time and have refrained from writing, but never from reading…in fact I was brought up in Venezuela and lived there the time BCh, or before Chavez. And yes, I am convinced he was most needed and hope they don’t forget him. But I do live in Swissland, with husbie and kids.
Thanks for mentioning Elsi, I liked her a lot but I lost trace of her as I said…little time to enjoy myself. I do wish God will bless her as well as you and everyone in this fantastic cafe.
I was also quite sad about Motorola, one more Hero dead without a consequence.
Love, V.
Whilst trawling the insanity, I came across the name Rutherford – and thought – I know him – “The Rutherford Institute was named after Samuel Rutherford, a 17th-century theologian who wrote a book”…but this is the Rutherford I know..”Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS[1] (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.[2] Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867).[2]
In early work, Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.[3] This work was done at McGill University in Canada. It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in 1908 “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances”,[4] for which he is the first Canadian and Oceanian Nobel laureate, and remains the only laureate born in the South Island.
Rutherford moved in 1907 to the Victoria University of Manchester (today University of Manchester) in the UK, where he and Thomas Royds proved that alpha radiation is helium nuclei.[5][6] Rutherford performed his most famous work after he became a Nobel laureate.”
This is from the American Rutherford Institute
https://www.sott.net/article/332033-The-US-is-on-a-path-to-total-dictatorship
“The US is on a path to total dictatorship”
“Unaffected by elections. Unaltered by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law.
Say hello to America’s shadow government.
A corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country, this shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.
No matter which candidate wins the presidential election, this shadow government is here to stay. Indeed, as recent documents by the FBI reveal, this shadow government—also referred to as “The 7th Floor Group”—may well have played a part in who will win the White House this year.
To be precise, however, the future president will actually inherit not one but two shadow governments.
The first shadow government, referred to as COG or Continuity of Government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a “catastrophe.” COG is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances—a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown—to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transition to martial law.
Yet it is the second shadow government—also referred to as the Deep State—that poses the greater threat to freedom right now. Comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes, this government within a government is the real reason “we the people” have no real control over our government.
© A Government of Wolves
The Deep State, which “operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power,” makes a mockery of elections and the entire concept of a representative government.”
Check out Ex Canadian Ambassador Peter Dale Scott re much more information about Dick Cheney’s Continuity of Government (COG).
Tony
got ten minutes, wife and me will be going
to Franco
and each one to a glas of Sardian
Vermentino
watching Murnau’s passengers
up and down the Obermarkt
this day has something to harvest
– look at Mundos week – it’s Venus/Neptune
+ red Saturn/Jupiter day what a load
of intelligible rhythmic givens by two actual
Gods and two virtual fire Gods
of the four and the three
“mundo’s Week” today yet only in German language,
tomorrow in English:
http://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2016/10/24.html
PS: but the chart is the same
Totally on the point.
Since you , Tony, who are a guy who do not pass everyday here, and so still find time to go to a good live concert, can see it, I wonder why the super elevated minds who populate this blog, in almost every thread, act as if there would be any hope with “The Donald”….
As an fyi to non-American visiters here.
Our election is currently being stolen. The world will be facing 100% all in deep state controlled America. Most of you know what that means so prepare accordingly.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/texas-rigged-first-reports-voting-machines-switching-votes-hillary-texas
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/executive-orders-sale-leaked-email-shows-hillary-auctioning-laws-highest-bidder
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/podesta-shocker-cheryl-mills-tells-podesta-we-need-clean-obama-has-emails-her
Potus himself is tied to email leaks. He is in losition where he shoulr be impeached. Which would make history… first black president of US, first black president to get impeached.
I will tell you, the real America is not being shown. Trump is +60% in real polls with real people. Latina magazine did a poll. Hispanic women voted in poll 87% Trump. Only 2% Hillary. That is Hispanic women who “should” have been doubly offended by Trump who are voting for him over Hillary.
This is last chance for peaceful change in America and it is being stolen. What is coming to us and the world is blood and hardship.
ActivePatriot,
Some would argue that this last chance died with Kennedy, I would argue it died a long time before that. What is happening is bigger than America, we are looking at epoch-changing events. Not since the Industrial Revolution has the world seen a shift of this magnitude. Trump can’t save us, the forces are too powerful. Unfortunately this is going to have to play out, as we all have lessons to learn. Only through these lessons will a better world be born. Interesting the number of Phoenix tattoos being drawn these days, our collective sub-conscious is screaming at us. The depression epidemic is no accident, we have strayed so far from the path that we are about to break into a group of partying Elves (Hobbit reference :) )
Thank you ActivePatriot, we really need to hear American accents saying these things.
Earthrise,
I would agree with you that Trump cannot save the US. I take him as sincere in his desire for a return to a better America because he has spoken truth to the corruption that exists like no one else running has. Many people tapped for greater things have personal weaknesses, some rise to the task and others do not. He is trying to win election and focused on that. My problem is either he still is holding back or he still has not gotten up to speed with the full weight of the situation. He could literally be killed for stating his intention to see Hillary in prison if he is elected.
I also agree this has a long way to go to play out. The American people will not escape the turmoil they have let loose upon the earth. The American Deep State government has released pure evil upon the earth and the American people will have to answer for this because it could not have been done without our tacit support since the government is an extension of the people.
I will also tell you our media is in overdrive pushing for our involvement in Syria. No-Fly Zone and boots on the ground. 24/7 they push this agenda on both left wing and right wing media. The only thing that it seems the left and right can agree on is that we need to ignorantly walk into another war. Some of my own family feels this way and I do not bother trying to convince them otherwise. I tried that during the Iraq war and get tired of saying “see, I f**king told you”
We are far closer to the beginning then the end in this struggle. There are a lot of American people who know what is going on but, right now, they are still too few to wield enough power to prevent what is coming. If Hillary does get elected through massive vote rigging, the struggle will not end. The efforts to expose corruption and treason will not end. Things will get worse, the people fighting this corruption and treason to our country will be persecuted and thrown in jail, lose all their possessions and have their names entirely destroyed. But the fight will go on, things will get even worse and the potential for a civil war within the United States actually will become a plausible scenario. In the midst of that we will be in direct war in the middle east. That is the future I see. Not a place for the naive or stupid as that will no longer be an acceptable excuse when we are in a fight to the death with evil.
AP,
I could not agree more with your post. I am behind Trump too, as I still keep a small, flickering candle of hope alight. It is the distance people need to travel which worries me. There is such a big drop from a McMansion and two SUVs, to soup kitchens and thrift shops. I am trying to find the meme which will make this transition easier, otherwise people will beg for a saviour (Hitler). We need to start seeing the simple life as preferable, as the answer to our depression and alienation. The re-institution of community and the primacy of family. We have been so skilfully social engineered, over centuries of liberalism and capitalism, socialised from birth into this false paradigm, the mountain seems so insurmountable. But necessity is the mother of invention, once the economy collapses this will change very quickly. Which way though, I don’t know. But I have hope.
Earthwise
I have been following your thoughts in this cafe. As well as trying to figure out how we can prepare outwardly for any number of scenarios we are likely to face, an inner preparedness is also needed. Part of the meme for myself is to inwardly prepare to face the inevitable suffering, and to imagine how I will try to remain centered, kind, and uncompromising of my values in the face of adversity. The general American psyche is terrified of suffering. They always want a happy ending in the movies. Other cultures, Russian included as I understand it, accept suffering as part of life, and know that suffering has virtue in the long run in that it develops our character like nothing else can.
Much of the US’ plundering of the world has been to secure a state of perpetual comfort without suffering or pain. This state of comfort is also what has kept people asleep.
As well as trying to figure out how we can prepare outwardly for any number of scenarios we are likely to face, an inner preparedness is also needed. I think people will fare better or worse by how they choose to face whatever situation they find themselves in.
K
Kinterra (earth family? beautiful idea.),
Your point about suffering is well taken, it is like our civilisation has not lost it’s innocence yet and still believes in fairy tales. I think you are right about the struggle (or lack of); it seems we need the struggle to grow and develop. And as far as that elusive meme, we are all here, and in many other places real and virtual, all coming to the same realisation. Finding it together is maybe the first step in learning to work as a community again. I feel our community will be vital in what is to come, a memetic force for good in dark times.
Our earth family
Yes – the kinterra name implies our human family in kinship with nature- The All Mother as I like to call Her.
Thank-you for commenting back. You have helped me to move along in my own thinking and to name a significant meme- ‘a learning community’. There is no prescribed path through this epoch of change- we will only learn our way through – the operative words being ‘we and learn’. Community and kinship are essential for navigating these troubled waters ahead. We are not well prepared, but I hope this will change, which brings me to something else that came to me this morning.
We choose our memes, and they become inner operatives invisibly steering us towards their realization. I love the last phrase of your post – vital memetic force. So much depends on how we look at things.
We have to consider as well, the archetypal memes for all humanity, which have powerful collective force. The eternal memes of basic human virtue and vice are tectonic forces of momentum that move us into cycles of being and becoming. We are rooted into this force and move within it either consciously or unconsciously. There are vast resources of myths and stories, religious and indigenous, that offer guiding memes to understand how our choices towards good and evil determine the outcomes we experience, and the effects of our choices on the world.
But we are forging a new story now, and there will be stories within stories. I am cheering for the meme of collective merit to awaken, and discover anew the vital memetic force of the good
k
Anybody see this:
http://westernsentinel.com/kremlin-turmoil-clinton-foundation-ceo-requests-urgent-immediate-asylum/
“An extraordinary Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today says this morning President Putin was “officially presented” with a Main Directorate for Migration Affairs (GUVM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) “file for review” relating to a request for “urgent and immediate” political asylum requested by an American citizen named Eric Braverman—who was the former CEO of the Clinton Foundation”
If this is true this is huge.
Potentially dangerous to approve said asylum request for Russia/Putin as if a espionage case can be constructed retroactively against him, it would *totally valuidate* HRC´s ‘Russia is spying narrative.’
“what does it mean”………….might be a predictable clue to decipher this?
The soccer moms, you know, the type who are hired by Coca-Cola, stopped by to give me advice (one of them being my own Mom). What to say about that. Guaranteed, whenever I bring up the fact that I was technically murdered, then revived, (even if I don’t say it to any of them directly), they will bring me a sunny gift basket, with a pocket book on “Forgiveness”, and explain how being murdered is just like being part of a family. With domestic abuse issues. Just like a family. Can’t choose your family. And sometimes they kill you. As long as everyone sticks together.
Did someone say something about parallel universes, recently???
I think they are actually trying to be helpful, it’s just so twisted, their reasoning. … I apologize to anyone who’s reading along, for dragging you with me on this path of entirely artificial (and deadly!) familial bliss. I’m just grateful to be able to speak truthfully, without being censored most of the time, on this web site.
And I miss Cat Motya’s blogs. I tried to auto-translate a couple from Russian, the first one which was basically indecipherable, except for the f-word, in its various forms. The second one, on the Anti-Christ and Christ, auto-translated almost perfectly.Thank you Jesus for Cat Motya! :-) And, of course, for The Saker, Scott, and the rest of the crew who make this site possible.
@ S113
The nuclear family (3.2 persons in most of Europe) is a recent construct, an unnatural unit imposed by capitalism. Children are brought up in a stressed environment and are always the sensors and victims of stress faults and no escape valve is available to them.
Families are not stable units any more, and not permanent either, neither is there continuity. You need a long memory to remember the large household spanning several generations of grandparents (often great-grandparents), parents (often uncles and aunties) and numerous children, and that was the perfect structure for a child to be raised as a emotionally healthy person.
Parents are also victims of the nuclear family where two adults, often the bearers of creased individualism, are trapped without the support system of a larger unit. They bring home all the tensions of the outside world and the family, instead of solace, exacerbates tensions and rises conflicts.
We are all children of the new nuclearized society heading to further atomization and extinction of the family and many of us are the debris left in the wake of change. Maybe that is the reason why some of this new “children” are steering the ship “mother earth” into oblivion.
Not a salutary thought but we will all die; so why not altogether? It’s easier when we act in groups.
Ouch Anonymous on October 26, 2016 · at 12:26 am UTC,
I agree with every word. Another reason I am cautiously cheerleading for the whole house of cards to fall down is that it is poison to our humanity. How much happier are we going to be with a whole lot less?
Anonymous, I admire your boldness in replying to my comment! If I wasn’t living it, I’d stay far away from all this talk. :-) Life’s funny that way. I do think you raise insightful points. I wasn’t intending to belittle mothers (soccer or otherwise), let along my own mother, or families in general.
I shared this because it shows how deeply involved outside forces are, in the day-to-day acts of mothering (in this case). It’s really extraordinary how these moments, reactions, responses of a mother towards her children have been completely hijacked to serve an outside agenda. Truthfully, I’m not sure what exactly the agenda is. Thanks to this website, I have a few more ideas.
I was intending to belittle the heavily-advertised heroism of this outside influence, which in my life, outweighs my own voice in my relationship with immediate family members. To state it bluntly. Even when talking about my own life or experiences. The outside adviser knows best! Better than me!! I’ve given up on real communication with them for this reason. The love between us, the bond and desire to communicate is still very much there, but this overseer strictly guides the use of words at all times, it seems. Hard to believe we have succumbed to this.
I think it’s actually a study in authority. How some people are so capable at seizing it, asserting it, able to sell anything because of it… and how most of us are challenged to decide who to give authority to, whose authority to accept, on an ongoing basis (myself included).
I’m more confident than you or Earthrise in the outlook for the family unit. I agree with the concerns you raise. Yet, on the other hand, I’ve watched some people who have very few family members in their lives, build wide, diverse, supportive bonds with others. So I have developed confidence in the human spirit, and it’s ability to connect and bond with others. At the same time, I’ve witnessed the sheer brutality of some forces (probably all capitalist ones) who excel in undermining this indwelling human capacity to create loving bonds with others. The very process of building intimacy has been so viciously attacked.
I share in the perceptions stated in this thread. As you also state s113, there is a victorious spirit in some people that remains resilient, and maintains an inner self-determination.
But it not just the power of authority that has given things this described course. There seems to be a more sinister force at work. As though a shadowy matrix has cast a veil over the world. We as a humanity seem to be slipping into a fog with few traditional reference points for where we stand, or the course we are taking. I sense authoritarian forces within this fog. But it is hard to pin point them and to name them in all their specters.
K
I think your perceptions are very astute, kinterra (as usual!) I can’t identify the authoritarian forces, but you are correct to warn of the more sinister force at work. It seems to me that those who represent this force have much more experience, observing humanitarianism in action, than the rest of us do in responding to a force this sinister, exploiting our humanitarianism. We are at a disadvantage, I think, but it takes a long time to realize this in the daily experience of it.
S113,
Thank you for your balance. What worries me these days is what I call “the Battle for our Souls”. It seems many people raised in abusive households feels the pathological need to transfer this pain to others. This commonly gets passed to their children, who pass it on to theirs, ad infinitum. Same goes for good families, love is like a flame which is passed and shared down the ages. What veritably happens is that the child from the bad home meets the child from the good home; as one wants to save the other, and the other needs to be saved. The children from this union live in a household where there is a battle for their souls, between the forces of light and dark.
I put it this way as it seems to me now that it is not that power corrupts, but power attracts the corruptible. Much of the evil in this world is done by socio and psychopaths who have no discernable humanity. They are attracted to positions of power, both because they can play the game harder without morals, but also to protect themselves from discovery. I am a Sociology major and we are taught how childhood socialisation largely forms the adult. The science suggests psychopaths have a gene which is activated when raised in abusive (survival) situations, but in a loving household this trait sees people become very passionate and artistic. There is this society-wide struggle going on, with the balances of good and evil constantly shifting. And as we have been socialised in this capitalist (greedy) and liberal (selfish) paradigm, we are in real danger of losing this battle.
Western civilisation has hardwired in this fatal flaw, and so we must fall for humanity’s sake.
Sorry, forgot to put my name to that one.
Earthrise, thank you for a very insightful comment! I just wanted to add that I’ve seen that young males are especially targeted, to surrender their sense of humanity, for a ruthless, domineering posture. Very few safe harbours accessible to them at a tender, somewhat vulnerable age, while they grapple with this tremendous pressure. This is by design, I think. This very much concerns me.
Dear Dennis, you’re silent, are you again in your low’s ?
For Dennis with Love
In the last Cafe in rain
Comes the thesis out from frame
Our friend Dennis just wrote a thesis
Finishing with going, going, gone
It looks like a gun, pointing at the Sun
Dennis, is master of his words
Trapped between two worlds
Once is flying like a dove
In the world above
Once is landing low
In the world below.
Once above, then below
That’s the life’s reality show
He’s smart enough and quick
He’s stubborn but not weak
Shooting arrows as we speak
Wearing his bow all the week
As Sagittarius, he’s half a horse
and half a man
That’s why he speaks of womam
As half horse, you’re a rider
As half man, you’re a writer
To have two worlds in one
Isn’t an easy task to done
Horse loves the herd, not just one or two
Now I understand your communal view
Horses are very sensible indeed
They eat grass and not eat meat
They don’t fell in love with a cow
What will say the bull ? Oh, Wow !
I know another horseman, Kerry
He has a horse like face, I hope you don’t, Leary
I love meat when I want to eat
Not being a small guy, rather big
Having the experience of communism
I never heard of communal sexism
But I can imagine that pretty well
In the underworld, named Hell
Having said this, dear Dennis
You’re the sweetest menace
Drinking your tea, toothless and slurping
Looking at this screen and loudly laughing
I doubt about him being toothless at all.
As far as I can recall, amongst his never ending essays on the “Love Army”, he has talked us about several visits to the dentist, that he is retired with a good income, and do he usually donates to The Saker about 100$ in a shot.
Although this could not sound very poetic, an abbility I fear lacking of, I wanted to make some justice to the old Leary…..
Btw, I find really strange that now all the regulars in the cafe seem to be able to write poetry, an abbility not so common nor easy at all to find in a person.
At least, I venture that require many time to do it, so I also venture that you, the
“Dead Poets Society” enjoy so plenty of time as Leary, and so much income, I fear….
Dear Dido, Is not fair to search in our pockets but if you are a woman, I found it sexy. As for my time, yes, I am retired but don’t have so much easy time to spend just for myself. Thanks God, I have a lot of things to do and my life is not boring. Poetry ? before I came here in this Cafe, never ever thought that I will do it, but something happened, the muses began to visit me. If you noticed, I told earlier that the majority of poems are the work of the sleepless nights. Well, when man gets older, these things may happen, man cannot asleep so easily, maybe because I used to sleep after lunch, which becomes nearly a tradition in my life. Habits and habits may differ.The love for women was one of these habits also, being a romantic man, I had many gains and many losses. Life is the greatest teacher and I’m grateful for having the power to go through the path which was given for me. Of course, I’ve made mistakes which I regret but I am still learning till the end of my days here, on Earth. I’m still young in my soul and spirit , says the kid in me.
my take
time enough, income less, at the campfire of the elders
Greetings Dido,
Interesting that you would see it this way. Usually poets and artists are notorious for being poor. I feel inspired by your comment to wax on a bit. I hope you don’t mind.
The artist and poets are more often mocked as being ‘fools’ who give themselves over to ill-considered pursuits with no expectation of recompense except to fulfill an inner need to express the inner fire of their creative elan.The general disdain towards the artist or poet in favor of the purely pragmatic can be included in the list of reasons why we now live in such an arid and barren season with lengthening shadows of fear and war. The cafe is often a gathering place of such ‘fools’, none of whom claim to be poets, but who are willing to engage in child play with words and poems and stories, to balance the difficult and heart-wrenching ‘news’ that is also discussed here.
The despair and doubt in the world is overwhelming and if not kept in check, it would lead to pessimism and even nihilism. Lest we become bent and old drunkards from it all, we need to keep fill the other balance pan of the scale with images and sounds that delight, and which coax underground well springs of joyous creation to appear amidst the degeneration and decay.
Central to overcoming the systemic indoctrination against the free and sovereign human being is to grasp that art is not an arbitrary pursuit, but necessary and essential for being human. The energy of the influences of art sustains and maintains our human essence, and stokes our Divine Promethean Fire to also act in praise of the creation in all its manifold Truth, Beauty and Goodness. Creative acts mirror our image and likeness to the Gods, who themselves who moved by Divine Creativity, fashioned this glorious creation, of which humanity was to be a crown jewel. Though fallen, our awakening must come, and true creativity arises from our divine nature and is a revolutionary act.
In the spirit of rebellion against the dictatorial state, write poems every day .
Golden Words
What if we all
Began speaking in rhyme
All the time.
Line by line.
Not straight,
But curving,
Sounding,
Resounding
Around the globe.
A movement
Of soul,
Warm and bold
Turning hearts,
And words to
Gold.
Feel free anyone to chime in and add more lines.
k
Behold
by art embolded,
k
double speak
takes itself so serious
but poets swoon delirious
smells, colors, sounds and feeling
strips its seeping sentience stealing
So poets unite,
rally to the fight
we must begin
there’s a world to win
Really love your wit, ioan, and your thoughts on destiny. (Actually this café is very witty overall, and I’m enjoying that). ioan, who is so kind, humble and gracious… I wonder what wisdom and insight you could tell us. These rays of light, that twinkle in your verses, suggest an imense, powerful and vibrant source. Glad to have met you here, virtually anyway! And the rest of the café too!
S113
Ah…destiny, an interesting theme of discussion – when kinterra will also join in ( I’m sure, he has a lot to say about that) , and you too my friend. Many will join too, I believe. “kind, humble and gracious” ?
these are too overwhelming words for me my friend, as if I could be a prime-ballerina on the stage of Carnegie Hall…but anyway many thanks for your appreciation.
Love to all, especially ioan and Dido, who mentioned me personally. I especially like your dedication, ioan, For Dennis with Love; so allow me to preface this with: For ioan with Love. Love is a reciprocal action and I like it that way. As for Dido, every time I hear that name I practically swoon; I see her, the ancient Dido, hurt so bad that she dies for love. Sometimes I hurt so bad I want to die for love too but the Love Army always pulls me off the pyre of fire.
I was silent and low but you pulled me out of it. This morning I got as far as Vercia V. (another name I love for its association with Veritas or Truth, and that last name which is real tongue twister but a hero). Anyway, I felt happy to have her, you Vercia, back from your busy schedule. I followed your links which led to other links and soon I was down in some rabbit hole of darkness upon darkness. It was captivating stuff and I spent all day following that trail to nowhere.
I am a Dennis the Menace but I am also a little leery of…, well, everythng except love. I’m becoming a one horse Sag on a one track railroad. I’m becoming detached from practically everything other than that four letter word with its endless associations. I guess they used to call it a one track mind.
But I also am a sucker for the other side, which boils down to anti-love; so they’re both about love but in different ways. In other words, the empire’s net often traps me and then I have to learn once again not to stray too far from love. Dido made a huge mistake to hinge her future on one man who was into war, not love. He just used her as the event makes clear. But then it’s a story of the hurt of the times.
I listened to the new podcast over at the war room by Saker. I was impressed by how brilliant he is but our starting points are entirely different. He starts and ends with God. I do the same with Love. The bible equates God and Love with the famous formula: God is Love but in my mind there’s a vast difference in the two. Anyway, that got me going on a downhill ride. What am I doing on a site like this where most of you all are believers in God. I think he’s very real but not too nice for kicking Eve out of paradise for doing what she always did naturally. I could go on forever on that but–back to love Dennis.
The reason I stay here is because of love, personal and political; expressed officially by “stop the war on Russia” campaign. That to me is brass tacks love. I do my bit, as the Irish say, to stop war by sharing what I do to stop it. I’m the only one I know who thinks this way but so what? It’s what I do to save myself and stop my own infernal internal war. Gee, I’m getting too serious again.
Lighten up, love. God and I go way, way back so I think we understand each other well. We just agree to disagree. I think somewhere down the line God will see he made a mistake, and will take Eve back to her natural home. I think to myself: if God is Love, why not drop the word God and go directly to Love? He thinks the opposite: drop the word love and go directly to God. To me that doesn’t sound workable at all.
See what I mean about being Dennis the Menace? I’m a menace to the Wilson’s of this world. Mr. Wilson was Dennis’ next door neighbor; and Dennis was a thorn in his side. I’m a rambling wreck from Lover Tech. Maybe I’m just a court jester, telling the king things others will not. In this case, Saker plays king. But he’s king of the road for me and I love him.
I want to turn this world right-side up, not play Atlas and carry it on my shoulders. In other words, turn Count Khazar into Lady Godiva, whom my little leery child sees as a beautiful naked sag, not an emperor with all the beautiful clothes.
I don’t know why I love this vineyard but I do. We’ll be together as long as the love lasts. Maybe my kind of love will get too much and we’ll have to part, but, oh, parting is such sweet sorrow. Could be in ten years or tomorrow. Then I’ll really be going, going, gone. Until then, I’ll be around to menace all the Mr. Wilson’s here.
The day has run its course and it’s dark now, and I’ve had a rather dark day too. I try to lighten up before the lights do go out but I’m confident that in the morn that Son of Love will return. I’m becoming a bit unhinged here so before I say something I shouldn’t say I better sign off with my favorite word: Love!
P.S. If I make it through the night I’ll probably check in here tomorrow morn. If I have good dreams I’ll share; same for thoughts. Despite being dark the night clears a lot of my problems up. Love you all, night and day, every which way. One more time: love!
Valentine,
Your post reminded me of a beautiful piece from V for Vendetta:
“I know there’s no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks. But I don’t care. I am me.
My name is Valerie. I don’t think i’ll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography that i’ll ever write, and – God – i’m writing it on toilet paper.
I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don’t remember much of those early years. But I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain.
I passed my eleven plus, and went to a girl’s grammar. It was at school that I met my first girlfriend. Her name was Sarah. It was her wrists – they were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew.
Sarah did.
I didn’t.
In 2002 I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn’t have done it without Chris holding my hand.
My father wouldn’t look at me. He told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing.
I’d only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have.
It is the very last inch of us.
And within that inch, we are free.
I’d always known what i’d wanted to do with my life, and in 2015 I started my first film: The Salt Flats.
It was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed, I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again.
We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew scarlet carsons for me in our window box. And our place always smelt of roses.
Those were the best years of my life.
But America’s war grew worse and worse, and eventually came to London.
After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone.
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like “collateral” and “rendition” became frightening. When things like norsefire and the articles of allegiance became powerful. I remember how different became dangerous.
I still don’t understand it: why they hate us so much.
They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I’ve never cried so hard in my life. It wasn’t long until they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place.
But for three years I had roses – and apologised to no-one.
I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch.
But one.
An inch.
It is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I hope that – whoever you are – you escape this place. I hope that the world turns, and that things get better.
But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may not meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you: I love you.
With all my heart.
I love you.
-Valerie.”
Yes, beautiful excerpt, but, for me, the best message from “V of Vendetta” is to, after all the suffering, bullying, treason, character assassination of any other intend of exterminate your inner love and joy and with it all your inner strenght, to not surrender and die in way one way or anothet and limitate yourself to introspection or refugee with your loved ones ans some others in a remote countryside closed community.
The ultimate Phoenix is who realise that an ultimate act of love, not only for its near loved ones but for all humanity, is to be done to get the Evil real evident to enough amount of population so as something can change.
Obviously, this is not a task for whoever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=vR1B6zp701E
You most probably will have to sacrifice all what is beautiful in your life, not only the smell of roses, or the enjoying of an amazing sky on early night , but even your very life.
For what my nick name is concerned, I diid not choose it because I think it is worth to die for love because of any man. From my point of view, if a man does not treat you well, with respect and valuing your love so as you feel you grow in a relation with him, remaining in such a relation it’ s in any way worth, least keep griewing for ages for having lost nothing, not to mention let yourself die. A waste of time and energy.
I always say that there is a lot of fish in the sea, so why remain with one you gound poisonous?
Dido was not only known by her love affair with Aeneas. Before she was Princess of Tyre ( today south Lebanon, btw, fiefdom of Hezbollah….), was married with a man whom she did not love but who loved her a lot, and so, for surw reached to love him the same way. She was warned that her own brother was planning to kill her husband to obtain all his wealthy possessions. Her brother managed to kill her loved husband but she was able to catch what she could of his treasure and with a group of loyals shipped through the Mediterranean till she arrived to the
coast of today’s Lybia where she was astute enough to achieve, from the chief of the tribe who was in power there at those times, the part where she would found the flourishing and powerful trade culture Carthago was.
Also, by the time I started posting here, about July, last summer, it happened that I got a haircut very similar to which Dido, the English singer, whose music I find adorable, wore in the past. Yoy know, I love passing the summer in the beach and much of the time in the sea, so I found this hairstyle not only very comfortable but also I find myself much more beautiful indeed.
And so, I was not able to understand why The Saker said the other day that wearing a short hair is ugly. Well depending on the woman and also on the size of the cut. Anyway, I find many women with short hair absolutely beautiful while others with long hair, specially at certain elderly ages, very disadvantaged.
https://youtu.be/1TO48Cnl66w
So, for the reasons one commenter choose a nickname are wide and varied enough.
You only can lucubrate about that…
Well it seems that the link to the scene I wanted to show from “V of Vendetta” was nit right.
Let see if now:
“V of Vendetta – Evey’s awakening”
https://youtu.be/vR1B6zp701E
each day
you can ask
your onknown God
for the way
Dido,
The scene you describe is one of the toughest in V4V. It makes you dislike V for a bit, which was a brave choice by the writers. Valerie’s letter and Evey’s eventual awakening are linked. V is trying to show her that what is real about us, what is best is kept in that last inch of ourselves. He brutally broke down the rest of her to show that there was a little spark which no-one else could touch (unless you let them). And once we realise this, there is no longer anything to fear.
As far as our romantic partner, or any other person we love in our lives, I am still learning. I have found though the other person is incidental to the love we share. You can change the friend, change the lover, what stays the same is the love inside you that demands to be expressed. All we need is a safe receptacle for that love, an external focus. It is more about who we are, and how we relate to others. The idea that there is someone out there for us is wrong, the person is inside. I have only had one romantic partner, so I cannot speak of the love shared with different partners. But the love I have for my first childhood friend is the same as for my current ones. It is not so much my love for a particular person, but how I chose to live my life. People can change, but the song remains the same.
Interesting short video here. Michael Moore,an “arch liberal” talking about why Trump will win the US election. I’m not sure he’s correct. But the video does make an interesting point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeYbEOSqYc
Good morning. Well, to be precise, it’s not yet morning. It’s still dark. The sun won’t be up for another two hours. Of course, how do I know what time it is where you are? I don’t. Does it matter? Not at all with an all night and all day cafe. Open 24 hours as they say.
I came right here. Usually I go first to the last, to the last comments that is. Not now. I feel happy just talking even if no one is there. I’m talking to myself and I’m everywhere. Isn’t that a strange thought?
I had dreams but I can’t remember what they were but I do remember that I had an anxious feeling, kind of a chronic one that is quite familiar. Anxiety is a kind of unidentified fear. I’ll use this machine as a sounding board and see what it sounds like. So I’ve got this chronic feeling of fear that is coming from some place but I can’t identify it. Let’s talk about that. This is sounding like a therapy session but it’s free so what the heck.
Let me guess. Last night here I was disrespecting God. No, I actually do respect him but not in the way I was raised. I don’t worship him anymore. See, isn’t that disrespect? Everyone worships God. Well, not exactly. I don’t anymore. But then I get that guilty feeling for not doing so and become fearful that I’m guilty.
Oh man, I’m getting caught in a circle which is fearful in itself. Can drive me crazy. Unless it’s a circle of love. Love always comes to the rescue. A womam’s circle of love is the original bower that is safe and free from fear. How do I know? Well, I can give reasons but I just know. That’s where the whole story starts. It’s the only thing that makes sense to me.
Men speak of the big bang as where it all starts. But that doesn’t explain anything because where did the big bang come from? Well, it came from God but where did God come from? He’s eternal. Who says so? God. So we’re right back in a circle, a mother’s circle because Eve is the “mother of all the living” according to the word of the Lord.
Now to tell the truth, I think patriarchal men created God in their image to square the womam’s circle; you know, make their own four-square church. I must be getting close to the truth because the fearful feeling recedes into the darkness from which it came.
God said “the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.” He also said: “love casts out fear.” So love casts out wisdom and the Lord. Back to the womam’s circle of love in an eternal bower. Ah, the miracle of a mind without war. Love and only love, now that’s my cup of tea, per the picture above (and I admit my mistake in thinking it was a coffee cup).
Back to the bower, that’s what I say, and what I say the Love Army says. Back to the bower sounds like a good slogan. Don’t know what to do? Go back to the bower, visit the war room and then come here to the always open cafe to talk about it.
I’m feeling up in my cups now. Thanks for being here even if you’re not. Ah, love sweet love. How come I don’t get that feeling with God? Ah, God sweet God just doesn’t cut it because God’s history is not sweet. We’re trying to change it by saying God is Love but that doesn’t really cut it either.
Let’s get logical. “God is Love” is a proposition with three words. God is the particular and Love is the universal; like when you say an oak is a tree; so that God is included in Love, which means that you can just say Love and that includes God, without mentioning him. Does it work the other way? With an absolute equality (which exists only in the mind) that would be true in the mind but not in the reality of nature. But let’s try it anyway. Love is God. Now love becomes the particular and God the universal. So then God includes Love and therefore love can be dropped.
But that doesn’t square with reality. I know that I exist in this body because my parents made love. God was not needed for that. That is proven by its opposite proposition: my parents did not make God. So that proves love is the universal and God the particular instance. It’s logical but is it true? and how do you know truth?
In Saker’s last podcast he refers to the story of Pilate asking Jesus what is truth? According to Saker the irony is that Jesus is the Truth who was standing right before Pilate who could not see it. Jesus speaks for God who is said to be love so once again we are in a circle of love.
Anyway, in my mind at least there is this merry-go-round between God and Love. I bear in mind that I am a former God lover, ordained a priest in both new and old age religions and everything in between. Enter war into the conversation. How did you get here? Oh, yes, there is a war going on which is the whole reason for this site’s existence. Must not forget that.
My heart tells me that God is a warrior, not a lover except maybe in a Platonic way. When is the last time you saw God depicted with a penis, much less in the act of love? But that’s not fair because he does not have a physical body but his son does. Isn’t that the point, though, God is super-natural, not natural; even though compensated by having a physical son.
Sure is Gordian knot. Untying it is impossible but cutting through it is possible. I do that by simply dropping God out of the equation which becomes Love is Love. That solves it for me except for the nagging anxiety. The word “God” comes from the German “Gott,” which by sound resonance sounds like “you’ve got to do that,” which is pretty much what God’s history amounts to: obey or else you get abandoned like poor Eve for doing what comes naturally.
I’ve “got” an ax to grind regarding Gott because I feel like he ruined my life, but that’s not fair because maybe it wasn’t God’s fault. Maybe he was hurt way back when like the rest of us, and was just doing the best he could. But that’s sacrilegious and fear and guilt producing because God is perfect and so was his son. I’m not perfect so I obviously need to be saved by the perfect, exceptional ones which brings me to politics and war, and the war room, the first building put up here.
Oh, what a tangled web I weave when I first deceive. It’s tempting to just believe, just believe in anything to relieve the fear and confusion. Make it up. Believe anything: God, love, money, a pink elephant in the sky and so on. Now that is really fearful because it is chaos, the original condition according to God. A false flag though, because the original condition was the orderly world of a womam’s circle, herein called a bower.
I am getting tired of this nonsense. Time to stop the spinning and just go “back to the bower,” or the original paradise which is the point of the Love Army and ultimately the point of this here cafe. The voice activated password key is the search word “love,” at least for me. There’s no door anyway because this place is always open in my mind, although it sometimes goes down mechanically and disappears entirely.
What’s the gist in all this mist? It isn’t the iron fist of war, not for me anymore. I need to go directly to love and to the heart of the bower which is quite beyond words. Still, until I get there, words are terribly important: terrorize or realize, far, far below the conscious level and the unconscious level as well. For lack of a better word, I call that source of all words by the word “lovscious.” The lovscious includes the conscious and unconscious levels. It’s a play on words but what is not in this wordy world?
The early gray dawn is making her move and so must I. I’ll proofread this stream of consciousness whatever you call it and see if it is postable or needs more stamps of approval. To be or not to be is not the question. To love or not to love is the subject of this session.
P.S. I just finished proofreading and poof–the magic dragon swallowed it whole. I really am a nut-chase from the fringe element. Oh, well, I’ll be grateful for what I have; better than being in the hell of war. That thought brings me crashing down to earth. What can I say except I love you? So I’ll say it yet again: I love you. Maybe it’s just words and maybe it isn’t. Maybe to make it real I have to first think it. Love.
Love casts out fear and the Lord?
No…love casts out fear which is the beginning of wisdom…hence love is the fulfillment of wisdom and the Lord.
Just a thought.
Yes, you could see it that way. I was teasing and seeing if the Lord would deny the logic. He didn’t say anything so I’ll leave it on the record, with your alternate interpretation. Always good to hear from you.
It is always good to read you, genuinely, Dennis.
@ Earthrise, Dido and Uncle Bob above:
Thanks so much for sharing so much of your self. I don’t know who you are in your circumstances but I can feel your love come through these wires and that is gift enough. The link to Michael Moore’s molotov cocktail speech was heart-warming with no bitters needed, as is the link to “God is in the Rain” piece.
Truly, love is the antidote to war. A Love Army must have a Love Bower as a bee must have a flower. My heart is full like an overflowing tea cup, thanks to you and this cafe which includes all of us, warriors and lovers and cafe talkers. I grow sad for leaving now but glad that I can come back and once again take the mythical journey from war room to Cafe Love to the love bower.
BBC calling! BBC calling!
Syria conflict: Schoolchildren killed in Idlib air raids
There are no barrel bombs or chemical weapons in this meme as this was a deliberate precision targeting of three-in-one schools. The obligatory white helmet threesome are front and centre impeccably dressed and looking remarkably dust free for digging in rubble. As is the injured child.
The one man UK dress shop Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is of course quoted and it must be noted that strangely “Activists shared photographs of dead bodies – many of them children – on the floor of a makeshift treatment centre” -although none are seen here.
Obviously in any war, civilians make up a very large percentage of the casualties; you’d think the vassal BBC could do better -so much of this looks like an orchestrated photo-op.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37777646
And just in case anyone thinks the ‘Syrian Civil Defence’ might have any Syrian provenance or funding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_Defense
I have probably said this already. It is my shorthand for the actions of the AngloZionist Empire in general. It is shorter than a Jeremiad and longer than a pithy stream of invective.
“The AngloZionists are the people of consummate cant.” Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche of course said “The English” but how was he to know what was coming?
Cant. Yes, that description fits very well. Tedious and sanctimonious.
How about British Bloviator Cant?
I’d really like to know just what percentage of their audience takes their propaganda at face value. I fear it is quite high.
“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963), ch. 2.
servus everyone,
is it a sermon my prey of the week
is it a wanderin’ stick for the weak
is in white light all the color
is in children man’s recover
to my dear friends in this virtual
corner of the world on our desk-
and other -tops
where
the grapes of poetry are waiting
for the harvest by
man and
woman in liftime
here it is our chronicle
in the middle of the week:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2016/10/hearth-and-brain-in-greenblue-cloud-and.html
Thank you for the midweek chronicle. Although I always enjoy your essays, I do not know how to read these charts. I would very much like to learn. Is there a credible online source for more information?
dear Ano of 11:01 pm
this is the basic of my teacher Wolfgan Döbereiner
https://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Astrology-Munich-Rhythm-Theory/dp/B00V6T9XFC
for a short orientation in the Internet might be this one of value
http://www.radical-astrology.com/articles/articles/others/dobereiner.html
By the way, I’m thankful for every question
re: mundanomaniac: ” Neptune the child of Pisces in Pisces
where all meaning is waiting in solution
it is for the rooting of the Taurus-Venus
and the balance of the Libra-Venus
to be in union
with the spirit of the
God infant out of time
forever hovering
over the waters”
And the catalyst of the meaning from solution?
Neptune higher love meets Venus love in resolution.
as a child of Neptune I confess, the higher (deeper) kind of love to me is
to be carried by confidence in the unknown God loving each of his children,
not so much his adults.
ah, so no connection, no ” union”? only perpetual “hovering”? hmmmm? perhaps the “hovering” has a “through a glass darkly” mirroring with only occasional breakthroughs ? No wonder D. Leary is so filled with longing.
I turn to Hafiz:
Love is the Funeral Pyre
Love is the funeral pyre where I have laid my living body
All the false notions of myself that once caused fear, pain
Have turned to ash as I neared G-d.
What has risen from the tangled web of thought and sinew
now shines with jubilation through the eyes of angels
And screams from the guts of Infinite existence itself.
Love is the funeral pyre, where the heart must lay the body.
Another small hint: to leave the stage of solution= Pisces the “child” has to leave Pisces and to converse into origin = Aquarius who is to be mirrored by Taurus
President Putin was in Yalta Crimea today, speaking about current plans to improve the situation there, check out Russian spring website.
Craig Murray has just published a book. I haven’t read it yet. I have never even met him. I tried to post this on his website…
My history ain’t too good…at school when I was 13 I had to choose between history, french, woodwork (most of the girls did domestic science (cooking))…and physics,maths,chemistry biology, geography, general science,advanced maths,English Literature & English Language and all this religious nonsense. There was a Music Class too – but I was rubbish at that as well…
So I had the choice at an English Secondary Modern
I cut French (I hated The French Teacher (and My Mum spoke Perfect French- she grew up in France)..
and the Cooking – I thought I do that in the Chemistry Class – we just don’t eat it.
and History – All you want me to do is remember the dates by rote…you are not actually teaching me anything with Flair or Interest
So history had to go too.
I didn’t have to go to History, French, Music or Religious Classes any more.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Remnants_of_an_army2.jpg/1920px-Remnants_of_an_army2.jpg
Tony
Uncle Bob: I hope this helps alleviate your pessimism about the US electorate.
Breitbart – typically Zio-warmongering, reports Trump (via Reuters) saying Clinton’s Syria policy will lead to war with Russia.
The comments were almost uniformly in agreement, and well aware of media/manufactured Russophobia.
This from Republicans?
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/26/donald-trump-hillarys-syria-policy-lead-world-war-three/
I was feeling ashamed of myself for some unknown reason but it passed. Before that I was feeling what’s the use? but that too went into the bin of the past. Now I’m “torn between Jupiter and Apollo.” Should I hurl thunderbolts or play a harp next to moonlit streams where I ‘turn and see you standing there with silver bracelets on your wrists and flowers in your hair?”
I did feel good about completing a reconstruction project I’ve been putting off. While working I was thinking about all the limited handyman projects I’ve done that are long gone. I said to myself: why can’t I fix myself? Can’t I go right back to the beginning and fix what was broken? If I can do it in one case, why not another?
So I checked with my mama and papa, now on the other side, and they said they would too if they could. So I pretended they were from the love bower and then I went on from there through my birth, nursing, childhood, teen years, adult stages and into where I am now. All fixed up. But then what am I going to do in a sucked up world?
It stands to reason that I have to fix the world too. Before I was thinking what’s the use because I’m going to heaven. I had to fix that thought too. No, there is no heaven away from this earth. That stands to reason also. How could we be allowed heaven for messing up this earth? No, we hang around here until the job is done.
I’m doing what I think will fix things up nicely with the Love Army; surely there is a battalion or two in the reconstruction business. First we have to win the war and then put the pieces back together. I won’t see it through these eyes but with a new set of lover’s eyes.
I hate to go there because it’s going to take the wind out of my sails and depress the hell out of me but yesterday I was reading about chemtrails and how they’re building a fence around the earth up in satellite space. They’re dumping tons of aluminum and other heavy metal nanobots or nano-robots which will get into lungs, blood and brains and which transmit and receive instructions. These robots are tiny, 1/1000th the width of a hair; invisible except for giving the sky a silver-ish color and trapping heat. I took this and many other similar nefarious things into my mind which did it no good.
Now I am feeling depressed but a love thought struck me. I can use love to clean my body like nothing else; like a healthy immune system does to the millions of microscopic pathogens every day. I assist the process by eating a diet full of energy and thinking love thoughts. Now I feel better because there is a solution at hand.
This world can be fixed if we identify the broken parts and replace them with ones that work. But that takes work and who wants to work that hard? There’s so many easy ways out of work. Now I feel irritated at myself for telling me what to do. No, self, I’m not telling you what to do; I’m just saying that if you want to stop war and start reconstruction, it’s going to take work.
Ok, ok, I’m doing what I can but these nanobots of depression, resentment, hopelessness, listlessness and their dozens of cousins are getting me down; I don’t know how long I can go on. All right, already; I get the message, the one you sent in the bottle, the one with the genie inside. Love, it said, is your genie; just rub her the right way according to the Love Bower protocols.
I just saw a butterfly through my window. Feels like I am that butterfly flitting all over the place. Does she have to work? Well, she did to get out of that cocoon but now she’s free; oh, love let me be free to fly to you in your flowered bower. There she is again with him; what does she think this is, a gym?
I don’t know why I’m talking with my fingers; hey, isn’t that sign language? I should be walking and talking–into town with the Love Army but I don’t have the energy which is like that butterfly who comes and goes without a license. I’m using poetic license in this pre-stoic prose. War just flitted into my mind like a blind man leading the blind. I surround war with love and melt guns with the sun, unlike a son of a gun but like the daughter of a mom having fun. I’m on a run, just free associating, and this ain’t no psychiatric couch.
I hear a bird chirping and Jesus comes to mind, saying be like the birds and bees, flowers and bowers. I invited him and Mary Magna-line to come to the bower tonight and show us how. He bowed and she curtsied; but with delicate courtesy she said they only did it as a community. I asked: like communal sex? He looked like the leaning tower of Pisa and she smiled like the Mona Lisa. I said: you don’t need a visa and I’m just a tease-a. I think they’ll come but had to run.
It’s three pm and the temp is 88 and climbing in this solar oven they call a motorhome. If it gets too hot I’ll go out and sit in the shade and put away my tools.
Oh, love, why do I love you like I do? Or maybe it’s not that at all but why do I need you like I do? I think I’m coming to the end of the line if not the end of my rope. I’ve done too many things, too many mornings and a thousand miles away. Time is funny that way: gets married to Space and can’t get away. Another cogent reason for communal love, if not sex–what’s time and space if it can’t be numbered? So there are those three but the greatest is what? Time has hours and space has miles while numbers are unlimited. How many stars are there, mundo?
That made all your names line up in row from anonymous to zionist-not. I think I’ve had enough fun for one day. I feel the need for something serious and new; not the same old war news. Maybe serious sex that has some real meat on its bones, not this needy and greedy lust that passes for love. Yes, must get away from these towers of power; and back to the bowers of endless hours spent in creating the unbelievable and inconceivable.
I hope to see you there later. Maybe Jesus and Mary will show up; wouldn’t that be a blast from the past? A repast that would last forever while traveling at the speed of love through all space, time, numbers all recorded in your face. “I turned around and you were standing there with silver bracelets on your wrists and flowers in your hair.” Like Easter morn when Mary came up to Jesus at his back, thinking he was the gardener, and said: “Sir, can you tell me where they have laid him?” Jesus turned around and said: “Mary.” She collapsed into his arms with ecstatic joy. That alternative gospel story chokes me up and brings tears beyond my fears and years.
OK, I’m out of here, going, going gone but probably not for long when my digits begin to itch. What a bitch to be “tapped inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again.” Got to get out of this ditch where the witch “gives out the flowers I gave to you.” Enough, Menace, you’re getting to be a Dennis.
—————–
D is for Dennis, a Menace
To the Wilson’s of the world
And for Dionysus, a nemesis
To the gods of the overruled
A player raising new games
From old forgotten names
For Dennis James, a kid
Telling stories he never wrote
Playing songs without a note
And for Discerner, who
Though a slow learner, grew
To know the things he knew
And for Disciplinarian
Now a Libertarian
And for Devotee, now a trainee
In seeing what we shall see
And for Delicious
Once married to nutritious
With a child who was ambitious
And for Denise
Last but not least
When, come the time, you go into the outter space….. just……what you need to do is……
“Calling Earth”
https://youtu.be/vWgI9Vm-qdA
Also love is not everywhere not in every person, as some of you try to convince us.
Sometimes, what we try to convince ourselves of, is not love but a social formality with the norm and a given up of what we would like to have, or simply, a mathematical callculation……
To find real love, that what really makes you feel good, in peace, being nothing but yourself, that what makes you feel that you have a value, that which really takes care of you, always, and never fails you, you most probably would have to fight extenuating battles, to cross not only red lines but social classes, cultures and even far frontiers…..
That’s the prize for the bolds who do not content themselves with substitutes……
https://youtu.be/rfpHj1lC5Yk
This is an addendum – after 1999,200,2001 and all that..this was like nearly 6 or 7 years later…I hadn’t seen him in years – but he remembered me and my wife – and we were really interested at what he had to say…but this guy kept interrupting being very rude – wouldn’t let him speak freely to his friends in his local pub…
He spoke at Royal Geographical Society in London the next day
He told me the Truth.
He went to Afghanistan completely Independently as if a Journalist but with no Organisation or Backing. He was alone. The Americans would have shot him on sight – except he was an Incredibly Large Man – even Bigger Than The American Soldiers..and all he had was his camera and his notepad. He didn’t have a gun.
It was a long time ago…Glad he is still here and alive.
This extremely Large Man, was at the bar in my local pub with his mates in 1999. Very Tall and Fit and there was this £20 note on the Floor…between his legs..so I bent down and picked it up…
I asked is this your’s mate…and he said yes…
Well I couldn’t get served.
So we got chatting..I said you are Fckin’ Mad !!!
But He was Serious.
No one had done it before..and he wasn’t lying cos we watched it on TV over the next couple of years.
He was an insurance salesman – and decided to give it up and live – move to the Island Taransay – and be filmed every waking hour by The BBC…
I personally thought that was a really strange thing to do…
I think he’s Scottish.
http://www.jockandthebeanstalk.com/
Tony
@ Tony
“I think he’s Scottish”
I had a good laugh! You thought he was Scottish!
Seriously? You can tell a Mancunian from a Liverpudlian and you can’t detect a Scott a mile away?
That is funny!
Night has dropped into place and my bed beckons. I just read Pepe’s article at the war room in which he describes Putin’s Sun Tzu moves on the battlefield chess board. If he is right, it’s good news.
While reading the article I was listening to sacred Hindu music; quite a contrast but there are holy and just wars. Surely this must be one. Hopefully Pepe is right about the bluffing on the part of a weakening empire. Maybe we can win this war without a major disaster.
I’m feeling pretty peaceful for a change, thanks to Putin’s team. Virgil wrote: “Arma virumque cano,” “of arms and a man I sing.” In our day we know who the man is. Not just he but all of us in our degree. May we all rest in safety because men have risen from sleep, roused by a not uncertain trumpet.
“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility
But when the blast of war blows in our ears
Then imitate the action of the tiger
–Henry V
Happy dreams to all and to all a good night.
It’s an hour past my bed time, and I’m sure you, Dennis are asleep, so my comment won’t confuse you and your serene and peaceful last two Wednesday (Pacific time, despite the time stamp on your second one) comments.
I am weary and cannot complete what is most probably pooper-scooper duty further on up the chain of comments. Someone else can volunteer. I’ll stop here at the bottom where I start when time is short. An English pub sandwiched between two classic Leary Loveabys. A most restful combination, which I need, and appreciate!
And I hope my link will amuse you Dennis, somewhere close to the break of dawn, Thursday. I won’t be around here much for closing time, or in Tony’s case, Last Call for Alcohol. See ya in the next , weekend Cafe.
The link, Dennis, should be right in your wheelhouse (sex and religion):
/state-of-the-nation/comment-page-1/#comment-288941
A wee bit of humor for ye. Top o’the mornin’ to ye, Leary!
Good morning from southern cal. I’m in a serious, sober mood; still emotionally quiet. A good time to reflect on philosophy. The latest comments also seem in that vein with some short history thrown in for good measure by Bro 93 and Uncle Bob, playing off an article linked to by Fatima I think. The history is over my head but I enjoy armchair philosophy.
Philosophy is about perceptions of realty which often pair off as conflicts with symbolic representations. Trump and Clinton are one such event in the present political area. Man and woman have obvious differences as do sex and money, equality and hierarchy, orthodoxy and protestant (protests against the establishment), Puritans and monarchists, secularism and religion, etc. These dualisms are not static but constantly shifting, changing, assuming new names, often reversing and adapting to the times.
Most, if not all of the fun of dualism boils down to sex. The most obvious thing about us is that there two kinds of us: male and female with our primary and secondary sexual characteristics being outstanding and inward leaning. The right and left brains follow suit. Trump wears a wig and Hillary likes to wear pants rather than dresses; so it’s a mixed bag. “She’s got all the downtown boys at her command; but you’ve got to look closely, she’s no woman, she’s a man.” That being said, we must add: long live the difference.
Philosophy has long struggled with the notions of unity and duality. It need not lead to a war of the sexes but it often does. The problem lies with the lies, or in the false flags of philosophy which all go back to patriarchy which reversed the natural order for an artificial new world order with men on top as opposed to lying side to side when making love. Just a metaphor, folks. But when men want to be on top all the time, problems arise.
Equality is a false notion of the patriarchal mind to sell the idea of power-over, power over love. There is no such equality in nature; it exists only in the mind. There is always some difference in nature. No two leaves are exactly the same. Equality is a false flag to cover misogyny. The original order was loverarchical, not patriarchal. Nature is mostly parthogenetic with sexuality added later.
Philosophy has its basis in nature, not in revelation as in religion. However, nature does have its revelations, the chief of which is that it is womam centered and matri-focal, with man in a supporting role. This would be a philosophy of love, if there was such a thing or could be such a thing under patriarchy.
Bearing in mind the various cross-overs, Trump is a man’s man and Hillary a woman’s woman in a political perception. Looking more deeply, this is deceptive because they are both patriarchal, Hillary having become the female body that insists on wearing the pants in the political family. In a twisted way, she represents the original womam governing order of love which accounts for her subterranian popularity among women and minorities. If this were the original love order, there would be no politics at all, much less armies to kill.
The establishment is patriarchal, catholic, orthodox and Roman-like. This is not natural and so there arises protest movements like Protestantism, Zionism, Puritanism and Wahhabism. But both sides are ruled and fueled by Patriarch-ism. So as often observed, politics becomes a distracting show, if not a circus of clowns and fools, all puppets on the strings and payrolls of the patrix (patriarchy).
The Roman Empire is still the model of patriarchy, cruel as can be but selling itself as Pax Romana. The original Jews were violently opposed to the Empire and even succeeded in kicking them out for a short time. The real Jews wanted to be left alone in their little empire with their One God. The Romans destroyed them but in the process changed them into protesters of a different kind. Some of those zealots ended up as Khazars who mixed their blood with other violent races, and today have come back as Zionists with a rage against the Anglo-Romans like never seen before.
The roles have been reversed but as the same Patriarchy. The Jews gave the name to Patriarchy and revealed the game. Now in their rage against the machine, they have become the machine to conquer the whole world. Patriarchy on steroids.
So now in Donald and Hillary we have male and female patriarchs, one appealing to men and the other to women; one from the established order seeking to preserve it and to even make it great again and the other to establish a new world order based on equality of the masses without classes. But it’s all a hoax and a Roman circus because both groups want to be on top. Trump wants to ride Hillary like patriarchs have always done to woman; and Hillary wants to ride Trump like women have never done before.
The Jews are taking their revenge on the Romans for destroying their temple and their God, and they are using women to do it. By this time patriarchy has washed women’s brains enough so that they can’t tell a woman from a broomstick; and to put the icing on the cake have made men into women too.
All by just tweaking philosophy and therefore religion. It’s an information war after all. And since the Jews gave up on sex with their sexless God, they have mastered the art of money and trade. The point is that now a philosophy of love has been totally blacked out in our cult of a culture. Well, that is until the Love Army arrived at the vineyard cafe door and posted a real thesis on the door that comes with unity and duality, orthodoxy and protest-ism and love and war.
From Monica Lewinsky to Leon Trotsky there have been Jews taking their revenge on the goyim by using her to get back at him. They have not succeeded yet because the Russians have proved to be good patriarchs, too good at the art of war so far but their soft underbelly is still money and the Jews are experts in that arena and themselves good at the long game.
The Russians stand for orthodoxy and the established order, like the Romans who were all about order that allowed for diversity. The Zionist Jews are about order too but with a big difference. Like Wahhabism, Calvinism and pure Puritanism they insist on one God who makes them the exceptional chosen ones, and will destroy all the other idols. Due to their suppressed rage at their perceived victim status, they have garnered an incredible ferocity, like the Jews of old who fought to the last man at Masada in the desert. The Romans crushed their dreams for glory only to metastasize it.
Since patriarchy killed off loverarchy or naturarchy (matriarchy is a patrix false flag which never existed) we are like fish in its lake and know no other way of philosophy. The patrix (patriarchy) began the war system with killing animals and finally women, turning them into animal pets. Classism and dualism taken to extremes. Now Zionist funded women like Hillary are taking their revenge on their persecutors, the Roman empire and now the American. The Russians are a tougher nut to crack because of their large land mass with their back to the frozen North. The lessons of Napoleon and Hitler have been learned that external force does not work with a cornered and equally smart and armed enemy. The fox has to somehow get at the porcupine’s soft underbelly and turn him over. In the meantime, keep the war pot stirred to distract and the Roman bread and circus acts going to soften up the people.
I’ve got to hand it to Count Khazar and Madam Z; they sure know their business of sex and money. They’ve got a philosophy of war that just won’t quit. Well, I’ve got a philosophy of love that is just being writ. The Love Army can also play the long game. The philosophical pieces are being set up but still not put into play. Love appears to have been dead like Sleeping Beauty but when the Prince kisses her she will awaken and it will be love at first sight; the time will have come to set things right.
The Russian men of arms are preludes to the kiss of life that will awaken the sleepers from their philosophical comas. In the meantime, we have the Roman-Zionist drama for our entertainment, a mystery play for our enlightenment. A woman Jew appears to have written under the pseudonym of Shake-speare (shake his spear) a revenge literature on the Romans, a counter-intelligence drama under the cover of brilliant language. I think Robert Zimmerman is up to a similar thing but only time will tell, perhaps if he lives long enough to bring out a couple more albums.
There is a philosophical trinity of sorts in my mind with Christ, Shakespeare and Dylan which I’d love to deconstruct if I live long enough. I’m using this vineyard as a sounding board but not misusing it, I pray. That’s why I need a community to listen and learn from. This vineyard community is against war and therefore has to be for love. I love that. Like I said, I’m in a reflective mood rather than reactive one. Love ya all till death do us start on a whole new fun joyride.
Good essay Dennis, nicely weaves together disparate but important threads. You trace this back to the Romans, I go further, to the dawn of civilisation. Civilisation itself is the problem, as it changed the relationship between us and the Earth. Before we could only ‘own’ what we carried, and we lived in harmony with the biosphere. Once we ‘fenced in the commons’, we were able to produce more than we needed to survive. This created a prize (Tolkien’s Ring), which psychopaths coveted. This prize was converted into currency, which now means we can own/carry more than we need, to the detriment of others. This kind of society lends itself to Patriarchy, and nothing we do will change this until we renegotiate our Social Contract. Power concentrated is the problem, Anarchy is the solution.
Dear Dennis,
Most of what you write is good or very good, and this one is outstanding.
Thank you very much.
bp
In memory of Martin. I am not German, but I speak the language and this is what I want my country to look like. English translation. If Martin is here, I am Sassnitz.
Auferstanden Aus Ruinen – DDR Anthem English Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM