Comment by Auslander
So, the die is cast. Trump is done for, Trump is a coward, Trump is a charlatan, Trump is a Russian agent, Trump is an idiot, etc etc etc. Blog is alive with ‘I told you so’ and ‘I knew he didn’t have it in him’.
Only a very very few of you have the stones dozens and in the end hundreds of our citizens, grandmothers and grandfathers, men and women and yes, teenagers, had during the last days of February ’14 when they blockaded, unarmed blockaded, the orcs in their bases and unarmed faced down the dreaded orc SBU when they tried to arrest Mr. Chalyi. How do you think these same ordinary citizens felt when on 26 February 2014 the Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet units in Sevastopol said in a short news interview that his orders, his mission statement, was to protect the Fleet, not the city of Sevastopol? Did they stop, did they give up hope and go home only to worry about the proverbial ‘knock on the door’? Hell no, they continued to blockade, they continued the struggle as more and more men, military age men, joined them and blockaded this peninsula and this city. What would you have done?
Mr. Trump is your last hope and you had better use it or lose it forever. No one else had the stones to stand up to what he’s stood up to in the last year. How many of you were at his rallies, how many of you helped him and his campaign? Are some of you complaining and predicting doom and gloom for Mr. Trump trying to help, to continue the struggle against those who are against him and those who are openly fomenting a coup d’etat against the sitting President of the United States of American? I think not, I think many of you were either along for the ride and at the first little thunderstorm immediately abandoned ship or were never really in the struggle to start with.
Know this. You have no chance but with this man, President Donald J. Trump. If he fails so do you, each and every one of you. Those of you who have the intestinal fortitude had better get out there and help rather than sitting on the sidelines in Starbucks and complaining over your overpriced coffee.
There are now four threads on this blog with together over 500 posts combined, almost all chanting ‘the end is near’. Yes, I agree, the end is indeed near, but not the end you think it is. President Trump is but three weeks in to his first term as President. Are most of you so feckless that if you don’t get your instant gratification you immediately turn on the man who was to gratify you? Again, I think not. For those of you who have the ability, get out there and help. If you don’t help then whatever happens is on your hands just as much as it will be on the hands of those who are moving heaven and earth to destroy this presidency in it’s infancy. How are you going to explain that to your children and grandchildren? How are you going to explain that you were there when the last hope arose on the horizon and you watched that hope go down under a horde of barbarians and didn’t lift a finger to help? How will you explain that? I know I couldn’t and I won’t have to. But you will if you don’t get out there and help now.
Auslander
Auslander, dear friend of the Vineyard, your perspective was the splash of ice water needed to cool the flushed heads, many of whom have perfected the bail out of the plane at first downdraft.
They normally bail on Putin. Now it’s Trump who they dump.
What did happen with the loss of Flynn is the realization that Trump cannot act in foreign affairs without massive public support. And that dashed our expectation that a detente had some chance.
Now, it will be long-coming, if ever. He has to get the millions of people behind him again.
Perhaps, his rally in Melbourne Saturday will be a call to arms for public support of an initiative to allow him space to deal with Putin. If the American support is there, he can beat the neocons at this effort.
Already, Vice Admiral Harwood, chosen as replacement for Flynn, has withdrawn. He demanded his own full staff and Trump refused to cut Flynn’s initial staff choices. So, the resistance from the IC is still working against Trump. We’ll see how he gets someone in there to do the job he wants and needs.
It points to how valuable Flynn was. Reports are he refused prepared Intel and worked his briefings for Trump from raw Humint and Sigint himself. Flynn knew the sources and knew the CIA and NSA were poisoning the PDBs from the getgo during the campaign and after the election.
We can take a deep breath, and we then get to work in whatever way to support Trump.
He may have had to jettison Flynn, but he doesn’t look like he will jettison his goal.
Hi Larchmonter445, glad to see you back in fighting spirit too. When I saw a report that one of the “liberal jihadi MSM” papers actually published an article with a reference to Melania Trump as a “hooker”, I am more convinced Trump is real.
I would like your thoughts on James Mattis and Keith Kellogg. Mattis seems to me to be a solid and no-nonsense person for his post, but I don’t see him as a “Trump’s man”, but rather a capable military man that Trump can depend as long as his policies can be justified and in the interest of the US. But I know nothing about Kellogg. Is he of the same caliber as Mattis and Flynn, and able to perform as a replacement for Flynn?
The opposition has showed their great strength and one of Trump supporters’ weakness: lack of visibility. They make sure they are seen and in numbers. But our side is not well represented. Auslander is correct: Trump supporters need to stand with him and be seen doing it. He needs all the support he can get, even if you don’t agree with some of his current position on certain topics, such as Iran and Israel. A MAGA sign can be carried with another sign that says: “No war with Iran” or “Two State Solution”. If you want Trump to change his position on those issues, he needs support to change too!
Mattis is a classic 90’s to ’15 American General. Awarded 4 Stars for what is his hallmark, Fallujah 2, the utter excruciating battle to claim back the city after it was lost. Americans think it was great.
Sorry, Villalobos from FMLN was a better military man. But we have him. He will want to “win” Syria and deprive RF of claiming victory over ISIS. He is a classic chest full of medals and ribbons Pentagon hero. I worry how “brave” he will be. Trump wants as little war as possible, as fast as possible and ISIS defeated. The US doesn’t fight that way and hasn’t won any war anywhere that way ever.
Kellogg is older, 3-Star, friend and buddy to Flynn. He’s a mellow man. Would be good as Flynn’s replacement. He fought in Vietnam and then all the usual other wars. A corporate guy. Not a war monger like Mattis.
Flynn was unique. He was a spirit. His specialty was Intel his entire career. He knew everyone. He was going to reform all the Intel agencies and he was going to help shape foreign policy for Trump by cleaning out the people who love war, can’t plan them, can’t win them, but always have another one ready to go. He would have forged the military cooperation with Russia. He was irreplaceable.
That doesn’t mean Flynn was some great pacifist or fond of others. But he had an open mind and knew the way to win fast was with Russia. And though he sounded to many that he was a real hawk against Iran, he was ready to talk. Trump wanted to sit and talk with Iran. All that is lost now.
Trump is going to have to forge his own new path. Flynn gone means the Flynn path is gone.
I worry about the Syrian war suddenly turning messy because the US generals want to take it over.
They would never want to be second to RF. Never. US military, all services and special forces think they are the best in the world at everything.
Mattis will do some very bold and shocking things soon. Be alert.
The Fallujah slaughter of civilians is part of Mattis.
I think President Trump is fully aware of the danger he and his administration is in and he’s taking it to the people. I doubt Melbourne will be the last public rally and if there is a growing groundswell of popular support for him it’s possibly the coup will stop or fail. On the other hand the President is not standing naked and empty handed in the middle of the swarm of barbarians, he does have weapons he can and I think he will use.
What this whole mess does is show President Trump and all his supporters exactly who his and our real enemies are. Most we already knew but it seems every day some new ones pop up.
It’s going to be an interesting ride and the fate of USA and in essence the world rides on the success or failure of the President to defeat the in process coup d’etat. Remember, I warned repeatedly during the whole campaign and election process and beyond that the orcs will not stop, they will never stop until they are utterly defeated and destroyed. The Labors of Hercules pale in contrast to President Trump’s task.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU
As the orcs have demonstrated over the years it is much easier to be a destroyer than a creator.
If defeating and destroying them is all Mr Trump achieves it would be a great gift to hobbit-kind.
Quite apart from the political morass, the world has a debt problem which can only be cured by a crash and reset of the system. World debt is now $200 trillion dollars or 3 times world GDP.
How does Mr Trump deal with this without crashing the central banking cartel?
Other presidents have been killed for such insolence. Yet it needs to be done.
The orcs are looking very insecure.
This could be an over reaction to the temporary loss of full spectrum dominance or it could be that they are actually vulnerable right now.
The Russians are on to them, the hobbits of Europe (at least in my acquaintance) are more than aware, the sand people have always known. Perhaps it is not such a great leap for the balance of hobbits in middle earth to be made to care.
As an afterthought, I thought I would mention how rare it seems to be that one reads any Christian philosophy as antidote to the orcs. It was after all His philosophy which led to many centuries of progress and civilisation.
I’m glad you wrote this because it’s sound much more credible from your mouth, as a born american, than from mine. Being an East European with “strange” revolutionary ideas, many americans are looking at me as an old specimen grown up in a communist/socialist country riding a red horse. Glad to have you here.
Hi Larchmonter 445,
An update on the Flynn replacement:
https://sputniknews.com/us/201702171050792817-trump-flynn-replacement/
“US President Donald Trump is considering four people for the position of National Security Advisor (NSA), including current acting NSA General Keith Kellogg……”
Calling Iran “The world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism”….was too much. I can no longer support someone who says something so diabolically ass backwards.
greencrow
Trump is already history by now!
1)
Trump is the least robotic, least mis-educated and most humane President the US has had in its history.
2)
Trump will remembered for ages to come for the simple fact that he had the guts to poke a hole into the taboo of all taboos by stabbing directly at the heart of the Zionists most powerful weapon – the media monopoly – used recklessly and treacherously by them to traumatize, subdue and enslave humanity.
Now, hold picture 1 and picture 2 simultaneously in your mind and let them merge into a bigger, coherent whole for a moment. Yes?
If you can’t hear a click!, and don’t have an aha! moment, it’s probably time to change your batteries.
Fine auslander, you bring up some legitimate points.
However, if Trump supporters can sit on their hands when Trump is openly saying that elements of US intelligence are committing treason and disobeying the orders of President (it’s illegal he says = treason), undermining and altering domestic politics, and have done this to previous Presidents (including Obama, although not as openly as this – eg the deliberate bombing/killing of Syrian soldiers to scupper a deal Obama had done with Russia). And we have that utter bastard and coward, Chuck Schumer, openly and proudly talking about how powerful the intelligence agencies that they can screw up a president “six ways to Sunday”; he says this is not as condemnation but with pride and admiration: a total Ex-ing weasel “, a traitor, a butt licker and open crook. What do you want the rest of us to do that don’t live in the US, are not citizens and don’t have the right to vote?
And how can you condemn people here at this site who have misgivings about Trump and don’t trust him, when we don’t see a peep of protest out of Trumps “die-hard” supporters showing up in the streets and demanding Schumer resign? (Too busy entertaining themselves? Too cowardly to defend their own rights? Where’s the over fifty percent of voters that put him into the presidency? Meekly whining in their kitchens to their neighbors?). Do they also have misgivings that Trump will do a bait and switch -like every other US president? You don’t have a problem with Trump’s utterly rotten choice in VP Pence (who I suspect is an anti-Russian snake and a man with a theological sickness that compels him to betray his own country “for the rapture”).
And this has to be said, you are a US citizen, what you doing in Ukraine? Why don’t you lead by example and go back to the US to organize protests against Schumer, his ilk and the treasonous elements of the “intelligence shadow criminals”, you have far more power and influence as an American citizen acting strategically in the US organizing your fellow educated colleagues against “the renegade deep state”, in support of Trump, in support of the US constitution and in stopping neocon war mongers, than providing tactical opposition in Eastern Ukraine when local ethnic Russians can and are doing it better than you.
Can you give concrete recommendations to your fellow Americans as to what specifically they should do to support Trump and protect their constitutional powers from a growing open coup by the intelligence shadow criminals? You’re a very intelligent man who knows the American system better than most here (because you’re a born and bred American with generational roots there and you’re highly Intelligent and highly informed). Please help your less informed and less intelligent compatriots with some wise actionable guidelines and recommendations instead of condemning them and also please lead by example.
People everywhere can work on this, first because it’s a world wide problem, and second because everyone has their government (as well as any other, actually) who can be written to or phoned, etc. to change their stance towards the US and the empire.
Being a citizen of the US gives virtually no extra points as far as influencing the bums in Washington. It’s only at the local level that a US citizen might have any impact at all, and it’s a long way from here to Washington. In the US, the electorate don’t matter except a little bit every 2 or 4 years, and not even much then the way the thing is rigged and gerrymandered, and with only a few key states. Mostly if you want influence you have to be wealthy. .
In your opinion Blue.
Auslander would be far more effective in the United States organizing his fellow upper-middle class or wealthy peer group, locally or otherwise than taking potshots from out in the Black Sea region. He has far more relative power inside the US than being outside of the US.
For instance, I have far diminished ability to influence party politics in India while I sit here in the West, whereas my cousins who live there are networking and connecting with policy makers often than me and have far more influence than me while I am remote.
The rest of my response to him stands – lead by example.
Not far more; he does great service to the cause by writing, and informing us what the situation is in Crimea and the area.
The power any one individual has in the US is quite small, even on the local level — but anyone can work on it despite where they are. Russ ‘Texas’ Bentley provides a great service, not only to the people in Donbas, but to those here who see his videos and learn.
We must all work in our own way, each playing their part, but at the same time are entitled to live where we choose and pursue our own lives as well. This is a group effort and very few can devote their whole, or even substantial part of, their lives to it — nor are obligated to do so. If everyone just pulled their own weight it would be easy to do this.
No Blue, I stand by what I say, he would be far more effective in combatting the problem if he was networking, influencing and organizing in the US rather than “raising awareness” about the Donbass, that’s what I meant by tactical versus strategic. The EU/US instigated Donbass atrocity is a symptom, the cause is the political system in the US. You want to be more effective go expose the cause in the US and apply political pressure there.
Keep in mind his level of influence and affluence may exceed yours and your experience base. Or alternatively his community could be very different from yours, perhaps more connected or influential. You cannot project your own experience in the US to hold true for other Americans belonging to different circles than you.
I’ve been in different circles of various levels, and I can’t say the wealthier, or more educated and politically connected are more responsive or sensitive then the working class or poor ones, and often less so because they think (with some validity) they have more to lose by getting out of step with peers.
In any case, it’s up to Auslander (whatever his social or financial class might be, which I have no real information on), I’m not about to criticize or tell him what he should do.
It’s your prerogative to not criticize Auslander, just like it’s his prerogative to criticize those here he thinks are not doing enough, just as it is the prerogative of others to criticize him if they believe he might be wrong on some point. As you can see from his response to me it was a mature explanation addressing my points and clarifying his situation: I totally respect what he’s doing and understand his constraints.
Your experience is your experience, your inability or ability to influence change around you is specific to you, don’t project your experience onto other people in such a subjective and variable laden milieu as social interactions and politics.
@Blue
I forgot to add, Auslander is not an ordinary man, based on my recollection of some of his writings and comments about himself, he stands out as being somewhat exceptional, likely somebody that has a Iot I respect and influence within his home community in the US. I would think somebody of his resources and personal attributes might be quite effective through his personal network.
I don’t know about Auslander, but I can say from personal experience that no mater what network you are with if you start saying things contrary to the local culture you are written off as ‘odd’ and mostly ignored, and if you keep doing it you find yourself excluded from the group. People do not like being disconcerted. Usually the only way to change someone’s attitude is to be sneaky and trick them over a long period of time — or outlive the old guard.
You can argue and discuss with them and they may accept what you are saying and agree, and the next day they are right back where they were. If you keep at it in sneaky ways the message may finally get through after a long time, and then they explain it all as they ‘teach’ or lecture you what they have discovered (or what they ‘always knew’) and have no clue where they got it from.
You also run into double-think and similar where someone seems to understand a thing and say what sounds like the right words, and then at some point, maybe after years, they say something which reveals that you were never talking about the same things.
This is one way in which Americans talk about bringing democracy, freedom, and well being to another country and then want to bomb that into them — and propaganda is designed to do that.
There are a lot of things that go on under the surface of consciousness — in others, and also yourself if you are not very careful, because of the tendency to hear what you want to hear. This can all be rather difficult, actually.
“And this has to be said, you are a US citizen, what you doing in Ukraine?” — fyi, it is now part of the Russian Federation. Outed!
Correction! Ausander is in PYCCIA!
@Mod put comment/response to “2 Cents worth” thru regarding being “outed” or more or distracting comments about my confusion about him living in Donbass instead of Crimea will continue to accumulate as you can see from “Blondika Florida” ‘s comment.
Some parts of the way you responded made it necessary to send it to be reviewed. Its better in comments not to be quite as derogatory. I would suggest in further comments to work on that and avoid that problem.MOD
Three Cents,
Yes, I am an American citizen with a wife and family in Russia. Россия. Not Ukraine and this city was never Ukraine in it’s heart, always Russia, and if anyone attempts to bring the orcs back to this city and this peninsula they’ll have to do it quite literally over our dead bodies.
I can not ‘come home’ to fight and help. If I could I would but reality is reality. However, I’m burning up the ether urging friends to at least pitch in to help and everyone can do something in this cataclysmic struggle against ‘them’. If you don’t get motivated, if you don’t speak to your friends and political activists, if you don’t go down to your local party HQ and volunteer to help, to do anything they need, if you don’t join the struggle then you will lose and if you lose this one it’s over.
I don’t think some, or many, of the posters here really understand the danger you are in. If the election had gone the other way my wife and I would be sitting on our second floor balcony for our evening wine and whine session whilst watching the cruise missiles fly up our harbor. It was that close and I can guaranty you that one missile, one shot, in to this country and you, my friend, are toast 15 minutes later.
As an aside, I could not vote this time. To get an absentee ballot I have to show my passport. USA says I live in Ukraine and Embassy in Moscow refuses to even talk to anyone living in Krimea or Sevastopol. Embassy Kiev said I have to go to the ‘free’ areas of Ukraine to Embassy or a consulate, show my passport and get a ballot and said ballot has to be mailed from my HOR in ‘Ukraine’. Sure, that would have worked real well but I can guaranty you this, for the election for President Trump’s second term I’ll crawl all the way across Siberia, swim the Bering Straight and stagger on down to Florida to vote if I have to.
As I clearly stated in my original post, get out there and help. President Trump is what you’ve got and you had better damned sight work with him and help him in the struggle against the coup d’etat against him. To do otherwise is to betray all who have struggled and fought to make America what is was until very recently and make it again what it was and will be again.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU
Thanks for your reply. I’m glad to see that you are keeping up your personal network and connections in the US and I hope you’re expanding them too.
Regarding you living in Ukraine, that was an error on my part due to a misimpression I had that you lived in Donbass instead of Crimea. It was a recall glitch, in retrospect I remember you helped with Donbass refugee children being given a safe haven in Crimea under Russian protection. I don’t even like referring to Donbass as Ukraine, but Putin insists on that region staying officially part of Ukraine, so that’s why I am compelled to link it to Ukraine.
Think on the idea of a series of well thought out recommendations for the “deplorables” to follow in order to continuously undermine the deep state.
Best of luck to you.
My pleasure, 3 Cents. I do what I can as I can. I can no longer travel long distances such as air travel so here I be.
Your mistake about my location was an honest mistake and I take no umbrage from that.
Auslander
There are people in the US who actively support Trump, like the Larouche movement, a self supporting political action committee. I discovered their site recently. They not only inform people but organise meetings, do radioshows, through out the US to unite and inform people, they are very active. There is a page with PDF leaflets which you can download and spread local etc. etc.
http://action.larouchepac.com
As an exemple their view on Ukraine and Russia: https://larouchepac.com/20170216/anglo-american-war-party-seeks-blow-ukraine-wreck-us-russian-prospects
The MSM and IC teamed up to create quite a lot of chaos with leaks and fake news, which Trump dealt with handily today and will continue to deal with regularly.
Millions of us threw caution to the wind rather than live one more day under the status quo, supported and voted for a bombastic political neophyte.
Most of us have jobs to pay the bills and not a lot of time to protest. But in our spare time, we’re reading The Saker, Auslander and Larchmonter445 to try and get views not poisoned by false narratives. Since 2014, your services have been invaluable and I thank you.
But don’t count us out just when we’re getting started. It took a long time for things to get this bad and will take a while to eat these elephants one bite at a time.
And don’t give up on the kid from Brooklyn who was never quite good enough. He has a fire in the belly to establish his legacy by making the world a better place, and he has a lot of help.
I’m encouraged that Bannon and Putin are brothers-in-arms against the nationless oligarchs. Flynn taught Trump that the Zionists are too powerful to be denied, so they will make pig noises about Crimea and Iran. But they know Shia Muslims control Iraq and Syria, which we broke, and that our military is in no shape to defeat them.
They also know that Russian electronic warfare devices prevent imposition of a no-fly zone in Ukraine and Syria. NATO is still reeling from what the NAF did to the UAF, using drones to coordinate missile and artillery attacks.
Mad dog Mattis will bray like a mule about war, but the West can’t even defend against asymmetrical warfare in Iraq or Astan. So, it will be loud and ugly, but there will be peace.
The West has demonized Russia since WWII, primarily as an excuse to fund the military. It will take a while yet to reprogram the West to understand many Russians are Christians just like them.
There will be war in Europe and America against the wealthy and powerful who are responsible for our sad predicaments. I have no hope for Europe, but the USA is the most armed citizenry in the history of the world. Most of the wealth is on paper, so the inevitable financial reset will erase a lot of that and ruin those holding a lot of debt.
We know what is coming and have been preparing for it for years. When the time comes, it is comforting to know that Putin and the Russians have gone before us and shown the way. They are a great people. It remains to be seen whether those of us in the West are as good, but I remain hopeful, especially after Trump’s press conference today.
White House Confirms Harward Rejects Trump Offer to Become NSA
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702171050770070-white-house-nsa-harward-rejection/
“Harward is conflicted between the call of duty and the obvious dysfunctionality,” said an anonymous source close to the Vice Admiral, referring to the current working climate of the White House.”
I would say “Straighten Up and Fly Right” applies more to the pence regime than to the people who put them in the wh. This regime has still to earn people’s support by deed, and they have done a govno job of that so far.
Another example of pence regime failure to make good on their lofty campaign rhetoric and instead show they are the same war criminal facilitators the previous zio-pindo-scum were:
Awkward: Tillerson and Lavrov First Meeting Makes Journalists Cringe
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702161050766466-tillerson-lavrov-meeting-awkward-moment/
“Ordinarily, the two would deliver opening remarks, take one or two impromptu questions, and then adjourn to speak in private. Lavrov greeted Tillerson by congratulating him on his appointment. A journalist then asked Lavrov about Russia’s stance on the resignation of US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
“You should know we do not interfere in the domestic matters of other countries,” Lavrov replied.
But when Tillerson began to speak, instead of returning the introduction or taking questions on his own, his staffers rushed the journalists out of the room. Lavrov was visibly surprised by this. “Why did you shush them out?” the Russian top diplomat asked.
The Secretary of State said, “The US will consider working with Russia when we can find areas of practical cooperation that will benefit the American people. Where we don’t see eye to eye, the US will stand up for the interest and values of America and her allies.”
Tillerson also called on Russia to honor its enforcement of the Minsk Protocol, meant to end the fighting in the Donbass region in Ukraine.
Tillerson did not take questions, instead walking out after his brief statement. A former CEO of ExxonMobil, Tillerson has no experience in politics or international diplomacy.”
There has been no f*%&ing change in real terms and the pence regime, by everything they have done so far, makes it quite clear there won’t be. Got it.
As I see it the US regime has decided that to stay in power they will need to distance themselves from any cooperation with Russia. I think that is the wrong move entirely. It won’t satisfy their enemies. The only thing that would satisfy them is to fully destroy the Trump regime.Trump should have called all his appointee’s to a meeting. Explained to them that the corner-stone of his foreign relations policy will be to have good relations with Russia. And get the US out of its foreign entanglements. Tell them if “you aren’t on board with that. Tell me now,and the door is to your left”. Right now it appears they are all intent on creating their own foreign policy,separate from the President’s. As that is one part of government that is supposed to be fully under Presidential control. That means they are usurping his powers. He needs to stop them now,not tomorrow,by which time it may be too late,but now.
UB1
Trump is not making the decisions, he is the PR guy, and perhaps does some business negotiating, for the pence manager team. Who in turn won out over the clinton manager team, to carry through zpc/nwo policy in their american colony and in their role as enforcer internationally for these oligarchs.
If trump was really the man of the people he portrays himself to be, he would never have selected pence and the rest of the toxic sludge lying on the bottom of the swamp that make up “his” regime.
“The US will consider working with Russia when we can find areas of practical cooperation that will benefit the American people. Where we don’t see eye to eye, the US will stand up for the interest and values of America and her allies.”
That’s almost word for word what Mattis said to NATO about cooperation between U.S. and Russian intel and military. In other words. a rehearsed “talking point.” I hope that Trump is watching his staff as closely as he is watching the press and the tweetland.
Watching the entire 2/16 press conference, perhaps more than once, is a must! I think the biggest problem is his narcissism. He talks, at least, as if everything is about him. “Russia is a ruse,” and then he explains that in terms of the leaks/lies about HIM — not a mention of the full-blown lies about Putin. Takes the press to task and calls it out of control, but no mention about the outright lies about Dr. Assad and the Syrian “war.” Study him, folks. He is also a victim of generations of propaganda — he is starting to see it as regards his SELF, but does not make the association/connection with his basic geopolitical assumptions.
He needs some heavy duty “kungfu-brain” mentoring from VVP, if you ask me. Don’t guess that will happen, though.
wow — powerful comment dear Auslander –
The 1st thing Trump needs to do (in my opinion). And should have done already. Is get control of the White House staff itself. He needs to fire anyone disloyal to him. And bring in outsiders. Even if it means getting them from just his supporters off the streets.He can’t be a “CEO” let alone President of the US without loyal people around him. And trying to just them from the “least disloyal” ones in the “establishment” isn’t good enough. He needs to “clean house” and start again from scratch.Then move on and do the same with every other government agency that comes under the President’s control. For someone well known for “firing” people. One would think he should realize that already.
Trump: Trumpeting For a War on Iran?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-trumpeting-for-a-war-on-iran/5573164
“Certainly Americans and non-Americans who took comfort in the fact that we would have a more peaceful world believing that ‘Trump would not start a nuclear war with Russia must now have reason to pause. The sad and stark reality is that US foreign policy is continuous. An important part of this continuity is a war that has been waged against Iran for the past 38 years⎯unabated.
The character of this war has changed over time. From a failed coup which attempted to destroy the Islamic Republic in its early days (the Nojeh Coup), to aiding Saddam Hossein with intelligence and weapons of mass destruction to kill Iranians during the 8-year Iran-Iraq war, helping and promoting the terrorist MEK group, the training and recruiting of the Jundallah terrorist group to launch attacks in Iran, putting Special Forces on the ground in Iran, the imposition of sanctioned terrorism, the lethal Stuxnet cyberattack, and the list goes on and on, as does the continuity of it.”
Yeah, this continuation of the zionazi war on Iran the pence regime is gaga for is really something to go out into the streets and demonstrate for…
I did not vote in this past election because no candidate was qualified to be elected president. Donald Trump had no governmental administrative experience at all, not even as a councilman on a local town board. Clinton is a career felon along with her perfidious husband, both unprincipled beings born of a congenital psychopathy whose conscience is void of human empathy or concern for equal justice under the rule of law. People like them are a scourge on all that is good of this Earth. God will decide their fate when he so chooses.
The American people are brainwashed everyday by military propaganda seen during the opening ceremony of every baseball and football game in America. The broadcast and print media bombard the citizenry daily with every conceivable distraction and lie about the reality of current events. When so many of the population spend their day staring down at their little screens of superfluous drivel, you know their minds have been placed into stasis. They are told what to believe by men in suits and uniforms adorned with shiny medals and ribbons.
The civilian authority no longer controls the military. The title, “Commander-in-Chief” has become a vacuous term of pomp and circumstance to impress visiting heads of State.The senators and district representatives in the Congress favor their personal bank and investment accounts over the needs of their constituents.
President Trump and his trusted inner circle fail to understand the magnitude of what he faces in Washington, DC. The most evil men in global banking and finance, CEO’s of multinational corporations including the mass media and foreign State lobbyists work in the shadows to systematically plan and execute the destruction of the Federal Republic and replace it with a unitary style government as is in Europe. It will become the NAU (North American Union), akin to Europe’s EU. The NAU will be a totalitarian State just like Rome became when the Republic fell to the reign of Augustus, the first dictator.
62 million people voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. How many would go to the Capital of their own volition and protest against the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court and the temple of Pentagon generals ad admirals, do you think? Not too many at this time in American history. However, if President Trump humbled himself to his base and pleaded with them to come to Washington to save the Republic, it might actually happen. I would go if he did that, for sure. And we would stay until the men in power resigned and the Governors of each of the States called for new congressional elections.
But Trump has not shown himself to be that kind of man because he gives all outward appearances that he doesn’t have the humility trait that a great leader has when it becomes necessary to demonstrate it. So he will be forced to leave office soon or his short term will end abruptly.
Either way, the march towards war with Iran, Russia and China is on schedule. There is no diplomatic path forward because Washington, Dc spews perfidy and vile machination every time it opens its maw. Its State Department representatives shake the hand of Russian statesmen and stab them in the back at every opportunity. We have seen that repeatedly in this new century. Russia will ultimately be forced to destroy the eastern seaboard of the North American continent to save itself from Satan on the Potomac; there is no other way.
I respect Auslander, I know he will fight to the death against the Nazi who have come into power when they invade his beloved Crimea again, aided by the US-NATO forces preparing to kill Russians in Eastern Europe. It is inevitable this will happen because as he summarized, Americans will not lift a finger to stand against the 535 self-serving puppets in the U.S. Congress or condemn the warmongers in the Pentagon.
“Americans will not lift a finger to stand against the 535 self-serving puppets in the U.S. Congress or condemn the warmongers in the Pentagon”. I must say have to agree to this. A change of attitude might happen when the Elit themselves feel threatened (ie in case of nuclear war) since they are basically cowards who send others to die for them. Then, the “movements for peace” could suddenly start to show up the thing is that hopefully will not be too late.
Great comment Auslandar.
To be clear, I am not American, nor do I live anywhere near it. However, I did (however prematurely) announce Trump as the man-to-beat half way through the 1st Republican debate. By the end of 2015 it was clear that he had nailed the Zeitgeist, and that he had all the other traits (famous brand, financially independent outsider, bombastic, media savvy, etc), needed to sell his narrative to a heartland that was desperate for his message. He also had a secret weapon… his buffoonery, so nobody took him seriously until it was too late.
Still, the doubts I harboured then are the same as I harbour now. Namely, does the faction backing him have the horse/staying/will power, and the talent to muscle the ball all the way to the goal-line? The opposing team has 100 players on the field to his 11, a full bench, and the noisier half of the crowd. Can he take all the hits and stay upright for the whole 100 yds? Well, he’s on his 20 yard line now, only 80 to go. Unfortunately, he’s already down to 10 men.
My expectation is that Trump’s rather quiet half of the crowd will stay quiet. The heartland that voted for change is not going to commit to civil disobedience until they see imminent, or even actual failure, and even then the failure must be due to obviously one-sided refereeing. If they do go active, I think it will be along vectors that lead to states seceding from the union rather than any march on DC with pitchforks and torches. Their local mayors, state legislatures and governors may have to deal with the will of the people, but as an old Chinese expression says “the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away”.
I’ve mentioned the Manoylo, Cat Motya, Ischenko and Lemire articles several times here, and they are what actually lend me the most hope for Trump’s ultimate success. These authors point to deep foreign support for a Realist faction in the US, and they expose the great antipathy other international power centres have for the Neocon program and its view of the world. The world really does want a serious and constructive American player on the world stage, but will no longer tolerate a hubristic, short-sighted, destructive wannabee empire run by corrupt ideologues.
In any case, the world can’t afford to wait and hope. The imminence of a massive geo-political/economic/financial catastrophe is increasing by the hour. A cooperative, constructive America is critically needed if the larger international community is going to avoid an abyss it may never climb out of. On its Neocon path, America is part of the problem and offers no hope for any solutions. The Kremlin and Zhongnanhai want and need America to be great again as much as America does. Otherwise, their only option will be to destroy it.
In other words, yeah, whatever Lavrov may say about interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, they’d be irresponsible to just carry on with their objectives and hope for the best. There’s a great many things they can do, from sharing intelligence, to tuning their diplomatic efforts, to tuning their military actions to take the wind out of the Neocons’ sails. I fully expect that, and I think it’s what we’re already seeing.
If the other nations in the world, especially European ones and the more powerful nations, acted sanely, this would be very helpful to those in the US working on solutions, and the international fascists would be dealt a powerful blow as well. This is all tied together. Do we signs of this happening?
Dear Auslander
Your views and sakers are shaped by the fact you are American or live in America
I am in the UK I am not American
Many people supported Trump because he wasn’t Hillary or because they were hoping for something better regarding detente with Russia or they saw him as someone who would shake up the system.
As an outsider in a country that follows everything the USA does I do not believe this is the person to put America on the right track
He has surrounded himself with people who are business as usual types and that is what they will deliver
By his friends you shall know him!!
My hope is that Russia and China and Iran are not drawn into this mess in the UK and carry on building their alliances . There long term security depends on being outside the US hegemony.
James,
I am in US and agree.
The problem inside US is they are all seems polarized, hot headed. IMHO, Trump may be the necessary catalyst to speed up changing of 2 party system.
“Many people supported Trump because he wasn’t Hillary or because they were hoping for something better regarding detente with Russia or they saw him as someone who would shake up the system. As an outsider in a country that follows everything the USA does I do not believe this is the person to put America on the right track ”
Yes, that is why I voted for him, and he not at all likely to put the US on the right track, but with the system we have he was only realistic alternative to Clinton — a real lesser-of-two-evils situation. With the system we have, however, there will never be a person to do that who can get into office , at least not without deep and far ranging changes to the culture and society, and mass movements. What Trump can — even might — do are thing which could encourage those changes and movements, even by blurting out the truth on national TV and such, and helping people wake up. For all the silly things he says at times they are not the standard propaganda and is often oft the neolibcons script. Even if what he says may not be correct, it helps to break the spell.
I am a Japanese citizen who expected Trump of considering at least for some, with the grave human rights abuse and nowadays colonialism his country is proceeding on Japan for late 71 years.
However, he has really less idea about Asian features like he had no idea about Taiwan when he took the phone from Ms Tsai.
He really didn’t have a clue, that’s the truth.
Like that, he still has no idea about Japan either, never know how much USA is hated now, and most likely HAS NO WILL to know what is so wrong between the two countries.
What is most serious is that Trump has not fired Harry Harris.
What do you think?
Is there any reason for any sane American President of not firing him?
I posted Bannon’s forum again and again BEFORE the election, telling that fire Harris for the first thing in office or a war will happen in Asia, especially in east Asia.
Trump is the last hope I agree but he’s actually too less in his capability, and has no staff to make up for the lack of his talent. This is the lack very serious.
Hi peace loving Japanese,
This is off topic but you might be interested in this deep investigation of Fukushima in English or Japanese. http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html
Hello, I agree Trump has no clue, and seems too full of itself to learn. I do not think he is last help, but I think he is the one to put the finial nail on the coffin. We will see.
He seems keen on stir up trouble in East Asia where all of us live:
https://www.defensetech.org/2017/02/16/first-f-35a-fighters-deploy-pacific-general-says/
First F-35A Fighters to Deploy to Pacific, General Says
I wish your country’s independence soon. It has never been closer than today.
US is running out of money, and still plan to spend big to prop up its military. All those spending I doubt will even keep up with repair of its war machines.
IMHO, let it waste all those money on things no productive to speed up its decline. After that, we can all live in peace.
All said, I did notice the irony of “with the grave human rights abuse and nowadays colonialism his country is proceeding on Japan for late 71 years.” I wonder what is Korean and the rest nations at pacific rim’s opinion.
While I have not encounter one Japanese that I do not like in person, I do encounter mostly pathetic Japanese right wingers on internet. It is really hard to gauge what is going on in Japan.
If anything, Abe got Trump’s guarantee on Diao Yu island, and now Abe plan on teaching Japanese pupil Diao Yu always belong to Japan, but refuse to teach magnitude of war crimes in WWII. Japan even has your emperor flag as your naval flag. I have to say Abe really putting up good effort of showing he is not benefit of Trump’s rising. I also read 70% of Japanese support his visit of Trump.
While I do hope Japan broke free from occupation, but I really doubt your wounds are not self inflected. I also do not have faith that Japan will be normalized after occupation.
For a culture worshiping wars, just add peace to your name is not going to convincing any one that you are for peace. Your nation’s behaviors so far are not promising.
By the way, America base is on colonized kingdom of liuqiu, not on Japan proper. It is people of LiuQiu who is suffering, and I do not think People of Japan is ready for sane world…
Oh I am a total east Asian unity disseminator.
I’ve been posting on Global Times for late 3 years by a name Michiko, so to know each other mostly with Chinese people.
Perhaps we might have chatted once or twice there if you are someone from China, who’s checking GT?
I always want to have an exchange with Korean people as well, but it’s not easy actually, just sometimes, when I get lucky.
Chinese people in the GT forum are nice to me, very, taking care of me.
However, there are too many features that I need to explain, about the issues you mentioned, of course.
I posted about those issues again and again on GT, for how I see the problems my country has, and I think most of the Chinese people there might have understood.
Anyways, your concerns are utter, as we might look not so sane lately, yes.
My kind of people(in my country) are, fighting against the awful revisionists for recent years, those nutted people like Apa hotel which you might have heard of.
Unfortunately, so far we have no much clout, yet.
However, my view for the relationship with China is all about 日中共同声明, stated by 周恩来 and 田中角栄, everything about the relationship is attributed to there.
IMO, 周恩来 is a Chinese man whom we owe most.
HI, I do remember reading a nice Japanese posts on GT site before. I did not go there until recently, and just as SCMP, it is now infested with Modi’s supporters. (I wonder what is the reason those sites do not block them.)
I also follow @178kakapo on tweeter, I believe he is a Japanese and is trying very hard tweeting about truth in Palestine.
I do understand your situation, and especially with American government’s keen interested in suppressing China, and people like Abe are taking advantage. I can understand you do not have much of cloud right now.
Koreans are very nice. I have not met one I do not like in personal. On internet, there was only one nut case.
While Korean and Chinese may be disapproval of Japanese government, but it seems we all agree that Japanese people we have met are all very nice. A lot of times we do wonder what happens in the past.
One Korean friend told me his answer to his Japanese friends on what he think of them. “Japanese people are lemmings, follow their government off cliff.”
The nuclear bombing turned Japan into victim instead of abuser in Japanese eye. The Japanese government and right winger play it up. Many argue the need of another war to settle the order because the Japanese right winger think they did not lose to Asian country, and there was no atrocity committed.
For me, I think things has good chance of getting back to normal after foreign meddlers left, Korea will be united, Japan will face their past and expunge the part of culture/thinking that led to war, and East Asia will be back to be a big family again as she has been for many thousands years.
Imagine what we can archive together…
Oh appreciate for the warm encouragement and support to the fight we are engaged in.
Just like other Chinese people I ever exchanged through the internet have given to me.
Yes what we need to head for is to take back the trust that 田中角栄 once brought back, and be a family like east Asia used to be, almost for late 2000 years except for two times of the aggression that former Japan had made, as that of Hideyoshi’s age, and that of imperial Japan.
I am a middle aged Japanese woman, very ordinary, nothing special, and I am an evidence to tell that the friendship restored in 1972 was not phony, but a real thing.
As I have nothing against east Asian neighbors, only have a feeling of affinity, because I was not taught anything to against them in my entire life.
As you see, current years, there’s a trend that jingoistic, revisionist dominant in my country, but it is something exceptional, not what I think of usual.
There’s a long and complicated story about 琉球, as 琉球王国 was robbed, and I know that Chinese people are much worrying about Okinawans in general.
Okinawans are now in a very complicated circumstance, as they can be called traitor soon when they show any bit of connection with China, while it is nothing strange.
There’s also a long time discrimination on them as well.
So they are getting very cautious now, but as far I see, there’s actually nothing negative toward China among ordinary Okinawans, of course there’s no history negative between Ryukyu Kingdom and Ming or Qing.
Okinawans deserve justice, after all the centuries of injustice they got through.
I am not someone willingly born to be part of the oppressor to Okinawans, hope they take back dignity and justice as soon as possible.
So far things around Okinawa are just getting worse, even after Trump, I have no idea what I can do.
I have faith in east Asian unity, like 一衣帯水 is still telling us nowadays, as I could have made it sure through the internet exchanges I’ve got, sometimes even with someone from Korea(not so many times).
I learned from many Chinese people online that we are family, and we are going to be the citizens of a most amicable, respectful region in the world again, in time.
And our(Japanese) stupidity is all out of necessity for survival in fact, as we are taught like “sticking to the US is the only way to survive, so you need to do anything as she sees fit”.
So China holds the biggest key, always.
All in all we Japanese are just like a naughty youngest brother of east Asia, making mistake, and going back to the elder brothers so to beg for pardon, like 田中角栄 did before, or 徳川家康 did more before.
However, it is off topic here so please call on me when you find me on GT or elsewhere, as I’m posting back and forth:)
I will for sure say hi when I see you on GT.
China is not a nation can not move forward. We understand Japan is under occupation, and we are patiently waiting for you to break free. At mean time we hope Abe and Co. will not do too much damage before it happen.
Thank you very much, I always know that Chinese people are looking out for us trying to wiggle out of western hegemony.
My first Chinese friend told me that China, Korea and Japan must be all together like family, as we used to be.
There’s a horrible time in the past, while not so long time in the 2000 years relationship, but we Japanese in the late generations are due to an appropriate attitude toward neighboring people in the most victimized countries, and it is not so hard as we are basically taught to weigh up a feeling of our friends.
Yes now it is not easy while USA is much hostile to China, as we are forced to believe like…”only way to survive is to stick to USA, or you are going to be doomed”.
However, I have faith in my Chinese friends that I interacted on the internet, they also believe that we are going to be together again, in time.
We nowadays Japanese might be seen queer, might be westernized in some meaning, but still appreciate 漢字, eating by chopsticks.
Most of us are not capable of English at all(I am a really scarce exception actually:)), kids are due to 書道 in school, and most of us are preferring 拉麺 and 餃子 than Pizza or hamburger in general.
Ideally, the Nuland coup would never have happened and Crimea would still be part of Ukraine. I think Trump would agree with that statement and it would be a great victory for him if he could get Putin to give back crimea in exchange for Ukraine going back to the special relationship they had with Russia. Everybody wins. Then Trump can bash Obama on how soft he was on Russia.
This idea came to me from reading: ”The Kremlin has told state-sponsored media outlets to pull back in its positive coverage of President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.“ Also, all these tweets from Trump saying: Maybe Russia needs to give back crimea….
So, lets pretend Trump and Putin are enemies so that they can make a great deal for both camp without Trump looking like he is a Kremlin agent. To me the big elephant in the room is the military industrial complex. I bet the reason everyone is after Trump is because they dont want him to kill the military machine and make peace with the world.
Putin could not survive as President if he even thought of letting Ukraine take back over Crimea.The almost 90% approval he got in polls in Russia after the return of Crimea would drop to 10% approval. There is no way a Russian government could ever lose Crimea again and survive. There would be rebellions or a coup break out almost immediately.Not even to mention the Crimean’s themselves wouldn’t agree to return to the junta. And no Russian army would force them. The soldiers would be more than likely to join them in fighting that instead.
Well, maybe you are right. Although I feel you misrepresent my comment. I did not say anything about returning Crimea to the junta. You return Ukraine back to the Russian family/alliance and then it does not matter if Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
So long as you dont have Nazis running the show in Kiev. My whole comment is dependent on that condition. By the way, economically speaking, it would be ten times better for everyone if Russia had access to the european market.
I feel people are too eager to pick a side and fight for that. It only creates suffering. It is better to look for solutions that satisfy everyone. A win win solution.
The Crimeans would never have it — they were not even happy about Khrushchev putting it in Ukraine. It’s doubtful if a return to Ukraine is at all possible even for Donbas.
And, after all, it’s not like territories and people can be traded around as if they were commodities or slaves. (Same thing with Syria.)
Surely “territories and people …[being] traded around” is the modus operandi of the Anglo-Zionist Empire. Keeping people off balance is invaluable for their one over-arching idea – Divide and Rule.
Very good point Franz. What saddens me is that even when you tell people how they are being played, they still insist that war is the only solution. This is the part I dont get. Or they blame Trump or someone but without ever considering what they can do to help prevent more color revolutions. I think Putin knows though. I hope it will be enough.
It is easier to fool someone than convince him that he has been fooled.
-Mark Twain.
Well said Uncle Bob 1, in that sense, Tillerson, Mattis, Pence and president Trump will have to accept this fact as a reality, unless they really want friendly relations with Russia on equal basis. To prolong or even up the tensions with Russia will not bring any good for US. Putin has some eight months at his disposal to be patient because next year will be presidential elections in Russia. That means also, that Trump must deliver some clarity in his own garden, build a strong team to be able to meet Putin in a constructive atmosphere. That meeting is crucial and the enemies also know that.
Thiamin, you will see Krimea and The Federal City of Sevastopol ‘returned’ to Ukraine about the time you see The Dark Lord driving a Kenworth with a Myers snow blade on the front in his kingdom.
There is no Russian regiment or security unit in this vast land that will lift a finger against the citizens of this peninsula. The welcome we got in Moscow in April last year was both stunning and an eyeopener. The moment they understood we were from Sevastopol they could not do enough to help with what we needed and it was not only those whose help we needed, even the people on the streets so to speak opened up dramatically the moment they heard ‘Sevastopol’ as my wife and I talked between ourselves. ‘Stunning’ is a vast understatement.
Auslander
i don’t think that americans are cowards. i think they just don’t have leader who is worth fighting for. they just feel that.
Why depend on Trump at all? In reality, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan (and India) should be determined to do everything possible so that the US empire will collapse. It is the only object of which must be kept clearly in mind. Everything else is, after all, just a mere tactics, little things. I have never understand this pathetic love affair with people like Trump. He is stupid, that’s true. But i am still thinking that the best way to do perfect job is to increase pain, tension, instability inside USA. USA really needs now real Maidan. Let them suffer like they have put other nations suffer previously. Let them feel what real revolution and collapse really is all about.
“Let them suffer like they have put other nations suffer previously. Let them feel what real revolution and collapse really is all about.” and “Trump is stupid” — who is talking there?
Nobody, through his backside!
I know Pythagoreans loved the beans but they used them for the brains not for backside talking.
What did you create in your life for the society? Who are you? Trump rose above many by himself, using his brains not … hot air!
And, don’t blame a whole people just to find yourself commenting here, to pass your idle time!
I happen to agree with Mathias as well. By select generals, big oils, science haters to his cabinet, by humiliating and picking a fight with a close ally and neighbor first thing on his job, he exhibit his ignorance loud and clear.
So Trump did win, not because all voters love him, but because he was not Hillary, and can be stopped if needed.
By the way, Flynn lied to his boss, he is obviously also not too bright either.
“science haters ”
That seems to be completely “off -the-wall” J. What do you mean? You haven’t been taken in by Al Gore’s nonsense , have you?
No need to shame me by mention Al Gore. I have very think skin…
He is your god loving Education sectary:
The future of STEM education is cloudy under Betsy DeVos:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/betsy-devos-future-of-stem-education/
Rick Perry’s War on Science
When Trump’s choice for energy secretary was governor of Texas, his administration tried to censor climate scientists.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/rick-perry-energy-secretary-climate-censorship
Rick Perry is the latest science-rejecting member of Trump’s Cabinet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-perry-is-the-latest-science-rejecting-member-of-trumps-cabinet/2016/12/14/93d19e7e-c183-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html
Of cause, Climate science is not science according to some.
Your last sentence is on the money. A proposition which cannot be falsified or verified has no place in science.
The proposition that human release of CO2 will cause catastrophe cannot be science because it can be neither proved, nor disproved.
It can be neither proved nor disproved because we do not know how climate is regulated. And so we cannot say that anything we observe in the way of climate change is caused by a certain thing , because we do not know what are the other things which might have caused it. These other unknown things can not be eliminated as possible causes because we do not even know what they are.
So please do not criticise those who say that AGW is unproven : those sceptics are absolutely right.
And Al Gore is a bullshit artist.
As always, just follow the money.
Right, science are for know, not for unknown. Human activity only adds only CO2, nothing else.
Discard data does not suit their political view is very good governess..
IMHO, climate science is also a common sense. It is something we desperately need to study.
If Rick Perry has nothing to worry about, his state under his control would not become the biggest wind energy producer in a state that is one of the biggest oil producer. However, he and trump has no qualm about taking you for a ride for their political gain.
The study of climate continues where honest science is being done. There is more that is unknown than is known.
Energy in Earth’s system is basically a one-way street : sun – ocean – atmosphere – space.
The ocean surface is warmer than the atmosphere, on average, so net energy transfer is from ocean to atmosphere.
Clouds have a major influence, as they control solar energy entering the ocean.
The sun, in turn, has a long term impact on clouds.
That is all that we know.
Until we learn how to predict activity of the sun, clouds and the ocean, we will not be able to predict future climate.
It’s that simple.
Well,
we could not predict weather not long ago either. We can not predict climate change, does not mean it does not exist, or not science.
Lets go by your logic:
Human activities affects forest covering of earth, which can not contain water, which turn fertile land into desert, which cause less cloud to form. Then desert gradually expand,, and destroy more vegetation, and more water skip, more deserfication, and a vicious cycle.
I thought all these are established science, but what do I know…
” . . . but what do I know…? ”
Well it does seem that you know when to pull in a red herring. viz. desertification.
Sun ; clouds; oceans. Unpredictable at this time, but still controlling the climate.
Here is liberal MSM reporting of non existing and Chinese instigated climate change, If mod let this be posted:
How climate activist Ma Jun went from China’s enemy to ally:
Ma Jun, perhaps China’s best-known environmentalist, thinks US President Donald Trump needs to visit China.
Trump is promising to reduce energy regulations, eliminate the carbon reducing Climate Action Plan, and has called climate change a hoax.
The Trump White House has also removed mentions of Climate Change on its website and issued a gag order to federal agencies — prompting some national parks twitter accounts to “go rogue.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/asia/china-environmental-leader/
Pollution (smog) and climate change is not the same thing, although related. CNN is dissembling again. CO2, for example, is a greenhouse gas but does not obscure the sky and is not difficult to breath in the concentrations of concern.
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Well said. It is up to Americans who care to help Trump or shut-up!
Both Trump and Putin should go into asymmetrical warfare as the most effective means against the Satanic Hydra serving us endless wars and other atrocities.
Let the Hydra eat pizza (pizzagate) by ordering large scale arrests of these creatures all over the world. Then go after the media who for a century or more have shielded these animals from being convicted given a well earned punishment (preferely a rope to hang around their necks). This will eliminate two of the most important tentacles (tools) from the Hydra. The mechanism to control politicians and others by blackmailing them reg. pedophilia and other crimes against children, and, if a decisive enough campaign against media, also depriving the Hydra of it’s present control of the same. A related idea to this could be a follow up with a “drivers card” for politicians and other people in positions of power (state and government officials, high military and security pos., CEO:s etc.).
Putin can fire a political broadside against the Hydra by open up all the Russian archives about the German concentration-camps of WW2. Loosing the Holocaust narrative for the Hydra, would be similar to trowing a spear of silver into it’s body.
The moderators made a brilliant choice.
I would really like to meet Auslander too.
about 10 years ago – i wanted to buy my son an unusual birthday present. it was a very cheap remote controlled helicopter..It was so cheap – I bought 2.
the other one was for me. to my amazement I could still do it – and flying a remote controlled aircraft is not that easy if you have only ever done it before – when you have been inside it…
let me try and explain…you climb into it..you take off. left is left – up is up – etc.
if you crash – the chances are you die.
So this morning – My son has just got this new second hand thing and on its third flight – complete with cheap new hd camera (the weather was brill)…it takes off – and he has pre-programmed – exactly where it is going to fly…he does it over the park near where we live and the school where he went when he was 5 years old
tomorrow – he is doing it over the south coast of England with his baby son.
he can also fly it just by looking at it so long as he has got his rc.
not got him the front seat of a real glider yet…but i reckon he’s up for it.
This guy taught me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Piggott
Tony
Tony, are you a pilot? I tried some soaring a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but I ran out of money before I could pass the flight test. I do have a power license, but again, “If God meant man to fly, he would have given him more money!”
Recently I’ve also done some RC flying, and it does take some getting used to flying in “reverse” when it’s coming towards you.
I’ve read some of Piggott’s books, seems like an extraordinary pilot and instructor, last I heard he was still active flying, though with another pilot on board.
One advantage of Trump, is perhaps a chance to do some more aviating, whether full size or RC, before everything blows up!
The “disappointment” with Trump says more about the commentators than about the man.
Anyone who fought and won the business and political battles Trump has, will not succumb to a bunch of bureaucratic snipers.
He may stumble or take a step back, but his decision to win this battle was taken long ago.
He is acutely aware of the power of truth in confronting the media arm of the conspiracy. Just look at his completely unfazed fight at his first solo presser. Priceless.
If I lived in the USA I would know what to do.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/he-will-die-in-jail-intelligence-community-ready-to-go-nuclear-on-trump-senior-source-says/
Absolutely right! This blog is important enough that there is a peril that predictions that are made here could contribute to their own fulfilment (in the sense of a “self-fulfilling prophecy”).
BTW: Wasn’t it really great to get rid of Flynn?
The pence regime reiterates it actual hostile approach to Russia (as opposed to regime spokesman trump’s shallow talk of bettering relations).
US will hold Russia accountable over Ukraine while searching for common ground – Pence
https://www.rt.com/usa/377791-pence-trump-iran-nuclear/
“Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Pence said, “The United States will continue to hold Russia accountable, even as we search for new common ground, which as you know, President Trump believes can be found.”
Pence praised NATO’s new military deployments in Poland and the Baltic states in the wake of what he called “Russia’s efforts to redraw international borders by force,” in an apparent reference to the 2014 reunification with Crimea.
Pence’s statement drew an immediate reaction from the head of Russia’s upper house Committee for International Relations. It’s not an “appropriate assessment of the situation in southeastern Ukraine, and adds no value to the peace process,” Konstantin Kosachev told the media.
“Mr Pence mentioned Russia twice, but one time in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, just repeating the ‘annexation of Crimea’ position and laying the responsibility for the implementation of the Minsk agreements purely on Russia – which is a dead end, it does not lead us anywhere,” Kosachev later told RT at the Munich Security Conference.
“And [the second time] through his repetition of the position of Mr Trump which we heard before, which is that America is ready to normalize relations with Russia, does not lead us anywhere either because it does not contain any further concrete proposals.”
Regarding Iran, the pence regime doesn’t even pretend they are not israel’s quislings:
“Under President Trump, the United States will remain fully committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our countries, our allies in the region, especially Israel,” he said.
Trump also appears to have aligned himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several aspects of his Middle Eastern policy, including what seems to be a shared outlook on Iran.”
Well, well, well, note the sequence of events here:
Poroshenko Claims Putin’s Decree on Donbass Passports ‘Violates’ Int’l Law
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702181050827364-poroshenko-putin-donbass-passports/
Moscow’s position on E. Ukrainian regions seeking autonomy hasn’t changed – Lavrov
https://www.rt.com/news/377815-russia-ukraine-documents-decree/
“Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko slammed the decision, calling it “another proof of Russian occupation.” After having spoken with the US Vice President Mike Pence on the fringes of the Munich conference, the Ukrainian leader accused Moscow of “violating international law” with its latest decree.
Kiev “vigorously condemns” and does not recognize the Russian decree, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Having accused Russia of “violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the ministry claimed the decision on the documents was a “de facto recognition of illegal authorities in Donbass.”
After porkshank speaks to pence, he makes his inflammatory accusations. Obviously porkshank is repeating what pence instructed him to say and it is pence who is deliberately stoking this anti Russia propaganda. This is a continuation of the zionazi war against Russia, through the Ukraine, without interruption, with the tuppence regime following on the obama regime with no substantial changes.
Note pence taking the reins unilaterally here. This provides further evidence, I think, that pence is the “general manger” of the tuppence regime, at the very least, in foreign policy decisions.
One thing Trump can learn from Mattis is the motto, “Be professional, be polite and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” That includes with particular emphasis the CIA and other participants in the “Deep State”. That Trump is still alive I suspect is partially due to Erik Prince, of Blackwater fame, being a friend and advisor. If anyone on Trump’s side can deal with the CIA “with extreme prejudice” it is Erik Prince. If Trump needs to defend his presidency against the obvious coup, I suspect “the deplorables” will back him should this particular need arise. They might even join in and do a more thorough “house cleaning”. The old saying, “Many hands make light work” comes to mind.
Trump is struggling, I think looking for help from the people but to no avail. When he tweeted the MSM is the enemy of the people, he was sending a message, I am with you, protect me to protect you. Still to no avail. It is clear now according to global research site, Trump is abandoning the world peace, that is making friendship with Russia. I believe, the people are only concerned with domestic policies.
The neocons are in the process of making him under their control like they did to Obama via blackmail, propaganda, etc. He may not be as complete puppet as Obama and he will give them a problem so most likely they will seek for his impeachment eventually.
It’s now April10th, 2017.
Auslander, do you still believe we must all stand behind Trump?
In order to support Trump now we’d have to join McCain, Hillary, Netanyahu, ad nauseam.
I never dumped Trump, I never believed in him, saw him as another stooge like all his predecessors and everyone who achieves anything through the thoroughly controlled political party system in the USA.
I never believed in him because he never wanted to do anything against the “deep state” it was all just talk. Now it is all disguised as concessions when there were none it was already a done deal. Nope Trump was not forced to accept Nikki or his son in law, there were no negotiations.
If there comes a time when a REAL leader comes a long, you will notice him for his total lack of “concessions” and the rally of his voters and followers to take up arms if need be.