Some time ago, I found myself lost in the middle of Appalachian Mountains. I’m considered to be a generally decent driver, especially when it comes to golf carts. Mountains and golf courses are not very dissimilar. In both locations occasionally, you might run over a seedy, balding, middle-aged hog.
My GPS system was stuck on the “no signal” mode. The map showed only one road over the bridge and across a mountain river. However, when I got to the bridge, it wasn’t there. The river, however, was. Eager to get to the highway before dark, I turned around, naturally, and went back the way I came, just like I do while shopping for groceries. It might come as a surprise to you, but dwellers and inhabitants of the Appalachian Mountains don’t have electricity. Those who do have it, use it sporadically and not for any commonly accepted purposes. Soon, I found myself in total darkness, and no matter which turn I took, I ended up in front of the mountain river and the remnants of a bridge.
After five or so attempts to escape the damn place, it looked like I might have to spend the night there. Backing up from the river edge to park my car, I realized that my path was blocked by a truck. Its headlights in a rearview mirror blinded me for a moment, but I knew it was a truck. I put the brakes on, and heard the truck’s door open and slam shut. A tall figure walked towards me. The figure was wearing faded jeans, a red and black flannel shirt, and holding a long handle lumberjack axe. When he approached my car, I rolled down my car window.
“Hi, there,” I said. “I’m Scott.”
“Jim.” We shook hands.
“Thanks for stopping,” I said. “Look, I am absolutely lost. Do you know how to get out of here?”
He smiled with his wrinkly face, and showed one perfectly preserved tooth in his mouth. “You can’t go this way,” he said. “River took the bridge.” He raised his right hand and pointed with his three-foot long axe into darkness.
“Yes.” I said “I noticed that the river took the bridge. Can you help me to get back to the highway?”
He gave it a thought. “You won’t find your way back in this dark,” he said.
“I will try,” I said. “Don’t wanna sit here in a car whole night, you know?”
“OK,” he said. “Just follow me, and I will get you to the highway.” He got back to his truck, and I drove behind him, turning left and right, up and down the sides of the mountains, having no idea whatsoever, where I was going. In about half a hour, I noticed distant lights, a gravel road tuned into payment, and I saw a road sign. I have never been so happy to see a road sign in my life. The Appalachian stopped his truck, I pulled alongside of it, lowered my window, thanked him and waved goodbye.
I want this story to become an allegory of what I see as the beginning of getting out of the woods process. We are not fully back on paved highway yet, but we avoided crushing down from the destroyed bridge in the dark, and we have met some forces of good to guide us to the safe grounds.
Ukraine
1. After it became clear that the Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected an agreement with Ukraine [source]
Washington immediately initiated a witch hunt for Russia’s influence in the EU, blaming political parties and oppositions for being on the Kremlin’s payroll. Because only a Kremlin stooge can defend interests of his own country and protest against an openly fascist junta being in the same union.
2. On top of the Dutch snubbing the all important American interests, another zrada (treason) came from the legal side of the fence. The General Court of the EU ordered that several Ukrainian businessmen and former government officials, including former prime minister Mykola Azarov, be removed from the blacklist, arguing that a letter from Ukrainian prosecutors used to target the individuals did not provide evidence against them.
As pro-Washington blog puts it: Court deals new blow to EU on Ukraine sanctions
3. Growing hostilities towards Ukrainian migrants in Poland resulted on January 17 in attacks on the migrants shelter in Kutno. 120 Ukrainians were attacked in the middle of the night by men in black masks and severely beat men and women alike. Several were hospitalized. Some attackers were arrested and latter released by the Police without any charges being filed. After this attack, some migrants have decided to return to Ukraine.
Being against any violence perpetrated by men against women, no matter how politically motivated, I don’t see anything wrong with the Poles teaching the Ukrainians a lesson. What Ukrainians refuse to comprehend is that they cannot glorify Stefan Bandera and his terrorists who killed hundred thousands of Polish civilians and simultaneously come to live and work in Poland. Just like they can’t declare Russia an “enemy state” to kill Russians in Ukraine, and after that to go and work in Russia.
4. Andrey Knyazev, an expert: US planning to reformat Ukraine [source]
5. Trutnev and Poroshenko got into wrestling match in Davos [source]
During closed-door negotiations, Poroshenko and Yury Trutnev, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, jumped to their feet, grabbed each others’ “items of clothing” and started wrestling each other to the ground. Trutnev, who has a black belt in karate, apparently won. President Putin while being briefed on the accident reportedly told Trutnev to be careful next time.
6. The USA intends to create a new military defense holding on the basis of PJSC “Motor Sich” [source]
January 27th, French Bulletin “Intelligence online” in the article “Les republucains volent au secours de Kiev” continues the publication of the USA plans to create in Ukraine a new production vertical on the basis of PJSC “Motor Sich” www.motorsich.com/eng/
The US Congress, where the majority are Republicans, wants to increase the size of American assistance to Ukraine in the field of intelligence and military equipment.
The USA intends to create in Ukraine a new defense holding company, the center of which is JSC “Motor Sich”, specializing in the production of aircraft engines. It is reported by the French publication Intelligence online, with references sources in the American defense industry. It is assumed that the Ukrainian company, which will be combined with a number of other Ukrainian defense firms, will be modernized with the help of American equipment and technology.
The creation of the new holding, according to authoritative Russian military blog bmpd, kept by the staff of the Center for analysis of strategies and technologies, is part of the U.S. strategy directed at military support of Ukraine. As reported by Intelligence online in December 2015, the new holding company will be created with the help of major U.S. corporations, including L-3 Communications and Raytheon. According to interlocutors of the edition, on the basis of “Motor-Sich” expected to create defensive holding, able to repair and upgrade the armament for the Ukrainian army.
7. Turkey, NATO and Ukraine set to create a new military alliance in Black Sea [source]
8. Russian rabbi slams Ukraine president for ‘using Jewish card’[source]
Poroshenko was lying when he told Israelis that Jews can’t go to synagogue in Russian-annexed Crimea, Rabbi Boruch Gorin charges
9.Poroshenko ordered to destroy the Nazi Right Sector militants [source]
Ukraine junta now claims that Right Sector is Putin’s agent and acts on the orders of the “aggressor state.”
Novorossia
1. DPR Defense Ministry: Situation Report, 28.01.2016
Russia
1. Swine flu from Ukraine is spreading to nearby regions of Russia. Ten people have died in Rostov-on-Don in January [source]
According to the local authorities by January 27, 327 people have contacted flu virus H1N1. Ten have died.
As I reported earlier as rumors that the US funded and operated bio-chemical labs located in Eastern Ukraine have released this deadly virus.
These rumors were confirmed by the intelligence services of Donetsk People’s Republic. In Baturin’s press conference. See, 20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab “Leaks” Deadly Virus In Ukraine
2. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: I expect the Council to bring about even more consolidation of the Orthodox world
“Neither Ukraine will not be considered at the Council, nor the possibility of granting autocephaly or legalization of the schism will be discussed at the Council. Patriarch Bartholomew publicly confirmed it. He said unequivocally that no efforts for legalizing the schism or for granting autocephaly to anyone unilaterally will be taken during the Council or after it. All those who have provoked this unrest in Ukraine should understand it. The Orthodox world will not support this unrest, this schism. There is only one way to overcome the schism. It lies through negotiations and the achievement of results on the basis of the holy canons. Those who wish to be in communion with world Orthodoxy should reunite with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the basis of the existing canons. There is no other way and no other message to Ukraine from the Patriarchs.” [source]
First after 12 centuries Pan-Orthodox Council the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Hania, Greece, from June 16 to 27, 2016.
3. Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, reports that Moscow has become one of the safeties megapolis in the world [source]
level of criminal activity in Moscow is lower than in London and New York
“In Moscow, the level of crime is lower than in New York, London and Paris. According to the overall figures of crime, Moscow is almost at the level of Berlin, one of the calmest cities of Europe,” Sobyanin said. He said last year, the economic and social situation was worsening every month, but nevertheless “all worst forecasts from the point of view of economic decline and thus the worsening of a crime situation, failed” [source]
4. Swedish court of appeal decided against the so called “Yukos shareholders” [source]
5. Kadyrov announced an agreement between Chechnya and Mazkorp Arab Emirates in creating a first Islamic bank on the territory of Russia [source]
Attempts to create banks in Russia working according to the Islamic principles of finance have been made in 2015. Back then Tatarstan came up with the initiative of attracting capital that would bypass the West financial sanctions as a first Islamic bank of the Federation under the auspices of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). There were reported hundreds of billions of dollars ready to be poured into the development of different industrial and agricultural projects in Russia. The idea was discussed with Russia’s Central Bank, and of course was stopped in its tracks, by pro-Washington central bankers.
On Thursday Kadyrov reported on his instagram account
“Dear friends! Today I had an important business meeting. From the UAE it was attended by the leaders of MAZKORP Helal Hilal Suhail, Rashid Almazrouei and Wael Saab. We discussed the task of opening Islamic Bank in Grozny. This issue is in its planning stage. At this meeting we agreed to proceed with the project. For Chechnya, the opening of this Bank is of great importance. Today, in our Republic the Emirates’ capital is involved in the construction of large facilities. The only obstacle for future development is the lack of Islamic banks. МАZCORP also intends to take equity participation in the construction of a pharmaceutical cluster “Magnus-Grozny,” and to invest in the construction of a multifunctional high-rise complex “Akhmat-Tower.”
Also, Islamic bank to appear in Russia’s Chechnya
What’s extremely important to understand is that Kadyrov is moving ahead with something that Tatarstan failed to accomplish last year, which is to break Washington’s hold on Russia’s finances. Remember, it was said many times that the Western economic sanctions were designed to slowly strangle the country. That’s why Russia’s central bank and it’s Ministry of Economic Development fight so hard against allowing Islamic banking, as that would give Russia channels of capital that are beyond the control of the CB, Wall Street, London, and Brussels. If it’s not derailed, this would be a huge step in breaking the chokehold of the colonial laws that Russia was saddled in 90s during the American occupation, and current economic sanctions.
Last year the Central Bank flatly refused to issue licenses to Islamic banks. Ever wondered, why the Head of The Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina didn’t go to Davos, as she planned? Maybe, she is not allowed to leave Russia, unless she issues those licenses?
There is no doubt that Kadyrov negotiates with a full support of Putin and his patriotic forces in government.
Also, it’s not a coincidence that Kadyrov’s involvement in creating ways to bypath the power of the Central bank, is announced only now, after Kadyrov took a stance against the Western facilitated campaign to single Chechnya out and break it from the rest of the country. Kadyrov declared an all out war on the enemies of Russia, its state and its people, which is not a small detail to be overlooked.
I wrote about this epic battle here.
PS: There are some exciting developments in the Kadyrov vs. 5th columnists battle and involve the secret services of some unfriendly countries. All of its twists and turns are being packed into my new book.
Thank you for your time,
Scott
Who owns/controls MAZCORP. Nothing comes up in a search. Any more info on Mazcorp?
“UAE it was attended by the leaders of MAZKORP Helal Hilal Suhail, Rashid Almazrouei and Wael Saab”
Can you find any more information on this Maskorp Scott? I looked it up simply out of curiosity (also the reps names) and nothing has shown up which make me even more curious.
The only place these names turn up in my searches is in articles on Kadyrov’s announcement.
Thanks Scott… great metaphor hook to capture the readers attention.
On a related note there are photos and talk about a meeting in Davos between the Crimean Tatar traitor Mustafa Dzhemilev. And the Russian 5th column traitor Mikhail Kasyanov of the Parnas party.In which Kasyanov promised the Tartar traitor to “return Crimea to Ukraine” when (if) they come to power.So for the over 90% of Russians that support Crimean union with Russia. That should be a good reason to never vote for Parnas.And for the Russian government,that should be a valid reason for a treason charge on Kasyanov. If I was a Crimean prosecutor I’d be preparing the charges right now.
Scott, Ukraine point 3: how can you write that, have such an opinion??? Maybe those Ukrainians had fled the mad zombies in kiev; since your paragraph doesn’t give more info, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. In fact, how do you know some weren’t even from the Donbass?
Dear Ralph,
I don’t believe that you can cure fascism and neo-Nazism, like Bandera worshipping, by lecturing only. Ukrainians had committed atrocities during the WWII that even exceeded the Germans’. Ukrainians have to either stand up against this mid 20th century cult, or to discover that this stick has two ends.
Until Ukraine denounces this cult of Bandera, I am with Poles on this one.
PS: People from Donbass have been moving to Russia, not to Poland.
So you’re saying that 40+ mil Ukrainians can be divided into two groups: one is people of Donbass, the second are Banderites who can freely beaten by will by anyone on spot, right ?
I’m not suggesting that there are no Banderites in Ukraine. Just that there are millions of people who are not involved in this crazyness and who are suffering tremendously by poverty&war in that unfortunate country.
What you advocate here, Scott, is a mob violence against random people.
Dear Rachotilko,
Ukrainians have to face the music and understand that Europeans hate them and that they are not welcome in Europe.
When Germany occupied a part of the Soviet Union including Ukraine, many people became partisans and started the resistance on occupied territories attacking Germans soldiers. Would you call the partisans movement “a mob violence against random people?”
There are about 500,000 Ukrainians migrant workers in Poland officially, and probably as many unofficially. Many of them fought in so called ATO against Donbass, because of the compulsory draft, or as volunteers. They have experience of killing civilians. I reported before that with those migrants came Jihadists from the Middle East, who are using Ukrainians passports to penetrate Europe.
I see Ukrainian mass migration as a soft occupation of Poland by the state that proclaimed Bandera death cult as its official ideology, and is also under a complete NATO control.
Here is a scenario: the US wants to create chaos in Europe to implement a new Marshall Plan as demanded by Soros.
Soros’s new Marshall Plan for all of Europe, including, this time, even his bête noire: Russia.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-28/george-soros-finally-suspends-his-lifelong-war-against-russia
Migrants from the Middle East and Ukraine, who are trained militants, get weapons from NATO bases and attack the local civilian population to create chaos, just like they did in Syria.
What you see as a random attack on individuals, I see as Polish resistance to the soft occupation by Banderastan.
1, Ukrainian partisan resistance against Nazi Germany was of course legitimate, because it was a resistance against an hostile armed force. The aims of Wehrmacht and SS was land theft, expropriation, murder, extermination.
2, None of that happened in Kutno. Were there any arms found there among the Ukrainians there ?
3, Do you have *any* proof that trained militants form a significant portion of Ukrainian migrants ?
4, There is a reasonable fear (as acknowledged by european intel services) that islamists do infiltrate among the human wave of Middle Easterners running through Europe. On the other hand, proportion of islamists among the Ukrainians is below 0.01%, I believe.
5, There is a huge cultural and religious gap between Middle Easterners and Europeans. There is almost none between Slavic Poles and Slavic Ukrainians.
6, The Polish attackers themselves bore all the marks of belonging to extreme-right violent hooligans. They attacked migrant workers from war-thorn country.
7, I am really surprised that Andrey-Saker suffers these wild fantasies full of flawed ethics on his blog.
Ethics is something you lie to your kids about, in the hope that such education will make them better people one day. Only problem is, when they grow up they realize that reality is very different.
Some Ukies committed major crimes against Russians, other Ukies stood by and said nothing, done nothing, in effect tacitly supporting the crimes. Anybody, no matter what religion, has strong feelings about justice with regards to crimes committed against them. Its a weird thing, all cultures have it, its in our genes, maybe aliens put it in there. Justice demands measures be taken against criminals, if no measures are taken, then the crime never really happened. In effect, the burning alive of those people in Odessa I believe it was, never happened.
This drive for justice is strong in men, females tend towards forgiveness when a heartfelt apology is given, even if its just lies. Men focus on the facts, women on the emotions. The Ukies should be made to pay for their crimes, hopefully no political deal allows them to escape their just reward.
Dear Rachotilko:
“7, I am really surprised that Andrey-Saker suffers these wild fantasies full of flawed ethics on his blog.”
The Saker has nothing to do with my opinions.
I believe that it’s you, who are ” full of flawed ethics.”
” The Polish attackers themselves bore all the marks of belonging to extreme-right violent hooligans. They attacked migrant workers from war-thorn country.”
Not quite:
1. In Ukraine people now have to recite a pledge of allegiance to Bandera every day at work and in schools.
2. Kiev junta authorities only issue permit to leave the country to those whom they consider to be a “true Ukrainians.” To be a participant of the war against Donbass is one of the ways to prove that he/she is a true pro-Bandera Ukrainian.
3. The EU and Polish authorities won’t grant entry visas to those from Donbass, whom they consider to be “terrorists and pro-Russian sympathizers.”
4. Poles know what to expect from bandera-fascists.
5. Poles have been asking Ukrainians to leave their country, but they wouldn’t leave.
6. People from a small Polish town don’t want to live next to a group of Bandera followers.
7. Authorities wouldn’t do anything to address their concern.
8. Poles have not killed any of those Ukrainians. They just asked them to go back home.
What’s wrong with this picture?
If Poles would agree with Ukrainians coming freely to their country, they would show support for the ultra-national ideology of Bandera followers that based on instilling terror on civilian population, and ethnic cleansing.
Poles know about this terror movement very well. That’s why they are angry. That’s why I say that their anger is justifiable.
“The aims of Wehrmacht and SS was land theft, expropriation, murder, extermination.”
Actually, the international Zionists had declared war on Germany already in 1933. The Bolshevik’s (90% of the Kommisars were Jew) were poised to invade Germany in 1941 when Hitler beat them to the punch. If the Bolsheviks had succeeded, Germany would have faced the same treatment that the Christian Russians and Tsarists did in 1919-1941, and Hitler knew this. He didn’t know that he was going to get the same treatment anyway.
What Hitler wanted was a united Germany for Germans and not Bolshevik Jews. That he was forced to invade Poland, France and Russia to protect Germany shows the power of the international Zionists, who ultimately succeeded in getting Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor in order to bring the USSA into the war on the side of the Zionists.
To say that Germany wanted an empire with Ukraine as a province is absurd.
Scott, no, Europeans do not hate Ukrainians, I would say that most are indifferent to them.
Stop shouting – your caps have been amended on this occasion. Next time don’t use caps. Saker rule 1. Mod TR
Ralph, that indifference will rapidly give way to mutual burning hatred by the time the Ukro-trash is let loose upon the EU (with the full consent of the Eurocrats). Yeltsin-time Russia will be back but this time right where it really belongs: in the imperialist heartland and its neoliberal cesspit of criminal insanity. If Russia nukes the deranged European animals, I’ll be most grateful.
Scott, you still haven’t proven your point that it was a justified attacked because they were bandera etc supporters who had acted like thugs or so, or that they had done something else like committed crimes/violence against Poles.
For instance also, I personally know 2 people in Kiev who are NOT bandera etc lovers, in fact, they are from the Donbass. Therefore, for example, you cannot just say all people in Kiev are bad/deserve bad things happening to them.
Dear Ralph,
Ukraine has to denounce its Stephan Bandera death cult worshiping.
Until it’s done officially, I believe that Europeans have the rights to defend themselves against invasion by Ukrainians, whom they see as extremists.
Today, Kiev held a torchlight procession in honor of the defeat of the Ukrainian army near Krut in 1918
http://rusvesna.su/news/1454085976
Today, Ukrainian army has initiated attack on Donbass along the entire front line
http://rusvesna.su/news/1454096829
Scott, what has that got to do with Ukrainians being beaten (unjustifiably, until proven otherwise) in Poland?
Dear Ralph
Don’t you think that living in Kiev as part of the Western occupational forces impairs your judgment?
Poles’ protests against Ukrainian migrants invasion are justifiable because it’s self-defense.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Poles+protests+against+Ukrainian+migrants
Hi Saker and Scott
Are you aware that the oddball HenryMakow is cutting and pasting and throwing your articles together to present a different narrative to your originals?
No, I wasn’t. Thank you, my dear Babushka. I will look into this.
Dear Babushka,
I found something interesting, and should have a post next week concerning henrymakow.com.
It’s a “honeycomb” web portal, collecting information on the specific users. They have started posting our materials to capture the information of our alleged readers.
Do NOT go there. DO Not read their materials. Do Not comment.
Hugs
Scott
i have seen him do this on twitter @HenryMakow, follow him and observe.
Thanks Scott…
I was aware of the toxic nature of Makow’s site… just wanted to alert you to the way he is using your articles.
Cheers
Hopefully From Fort Russ to add to your discussion : Lavrov made mention of a “rabid Ukrainian diaspora” and got this knee jerk reaction from of all people, well, fittingly enough, a jerk:
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2016/01/canadian-fm-responds-to-lavrovs-comment.html
I don’t know what it is about Canadian governments and their doting over neo-Fascists in Ukraine.
I can understand to some degree about the election and wanting the 10% Ukrainian vote but now….?
Dion says we should support Turkey over the SU-24 shoot down and while trying to outdo the russophobia during the election, Trudeau junior said he would boot Russia out of SWIFT.
I doubt his father would approve were he alive.
Do they really believe their own BS or are they just being good vassals?
Sorry everyone, it makes me ashamed.
“Do they really believe their own BS or are they just being good vassals?”
That’s no mystery whatsoever. All these swine and scum employed by the propagandistic sector of Western imperialism — media whores and politicos being the two major subspecies — are ‘cultivated’ by sheer bribery. It breeds consent and cynicism; hence they enjoy and identify themselves 100% with the very filth they’re spewing. They are vassals and they know it. They’d be very ready to subscribe to any lies and imbecilities for the same amount of money.
I think I spotted an article earlier in the week fortruss/sputnk about someone in Canada wanting rapprochement Rus-Canada……….might be worth checking………ah here we are
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160128/1033852038/russia-canada-relations-analysis.html
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Diasporas often have a romantic notion of their mother country – Irish Americans in the 1970’s and 1980’s joyfully gave $millions to the IRA to support the bombing campaign against the hated English – 100’s of innocent British people lost their lives because of some Irish American’s in Boston donated a $ or two.
This is also about a strategy, but in Syria
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/world-war-3-new-axis
Scott, your lost in Appalachia rap made me proud to be an American, if it was an American Appalachia.
OT. I see this vineyard as providing meaning to a lost world. I would suggest making our meaning more clear to three foot ax carriers and those who have an ax to grind. It’s an information war and we need clear information for the general public.
The Masthead. First time readers of my IQ level might think a saker is a football player who makes sacks. And we are a vineyard that sells wine. And that we run an airline that “flies in Iceland?”
If it’s an information war for the mind of the general public, we should gear our language for them.
I’d say “saker-falcon.” And a “bird’s eye view of a vineyard-world of peace and intoxication. Hey, I’m playing with words. Drop the “intoxication.” I can translate to intoxicated by the wine of love but no one else would know what I’m talking about. Well, many have that experience here already of my thoughts.
And what does “flying in Iceland” mean to Joe Public? That we have an airline that flies to Iceland? Oh I said that already.
Actually, Iceland is a pretty good sister-state to Russia if indeed Iceland is independent financially from the bankster banks. And a triangulation of Russia, Florida USA and Iceland may have some geometric power.
I read most of the articles and comments with about a 50% comprehension and 1% retention. Maybe I want to be insular with my own little clubby house. But how is that helping Russia?
Since we’re small and free, in some respects we can show Russia a thing or two. Maybe in the grand scheme of things that’s why the Saker landed here, even though some maintain that Florida is the US appendix.
OK, so I failed in trying to be funny like Scott. Give me a break. I’m 76 with that old-timers’ disease.
Finally, does an Islamic bank run on interest? Seems they want investors. If so, what’s the difference from the big boys’ banks?
My dear Dennis,
I have been reading your comments with a great pleasure. Thank you.
In general terms, Islamic banking is a banking system that is based on the principles of Islamic law (also known Shariah) and guided by Islamic economics. Two basic principles behind Islamic banking are the sharing of profit and loss and, significantly, the prohibition of the collection and payment of interest.
For Russia the most important aspect of Islamic banks, that they are not controlled by the US Federal Reserve Bank and operate outside of the Western sanctions on Russia.
So Islamic banking is basically venture capital.. ??
Not so much risk. More like trade capital. They’ll fund the goods for the camel train because they know there is a market at the other end. They won’t fund your voyage of exploration. This means that they like to lend on hard assets like real estate or shiploads of cement.
Scott, your support is much needed and appreciated. I also take pleasure in your thoughts.
I like the comments on Islamic banking. Now I see why Muslims are so hated by the West. Islamic banks are messing with the mob’s money.
I don’t take interest on my money. It has nothing to do with Islamic banks. It’s just common sense when the dot connections show the picture.
I’d like to think some in Russia get the destructiveness of this legalized greed. And that Russia has a way of getting clean capital outside of the dirty interest money. It may also pave the way for Russia to eventually ditch the interest racket.
From one of the links about the sexy Russian girls plugging the ruble, it seems some youth get it.
There is discussion here about intrinsic value of gold, aesthetics, gentleness, beauty; using a gram of something for 100 watts for one hour for a dinner with six people.
In my view, and in the love government’s view, people are the intrinsic value. Islamic banking seems to be built on this. As well as religions and societies before the flood of patriarchy washed away common sense for dollars and cents.
People are the main value but there are lesser values such as gold, eye candy, fantasies and still objects in a thong.
With modern computers able to do immense algorithms in a second or two, we should be able to calculate these factors into the mix to produce a true and stable reserve backing based on people and their real needs. And to hell with the greeds.
Where there’s a will there’s a way. Those sexy ruby ruble girls get my vote for the waves of the futures.
Dennis James Leary: Nice Meeting, Regards, Stuart.
Dennis, you write, “people are the intrinsic value.”
IMHO, “People are [mostly] potential”.
“Intrinsic” : is : “Actual or Actualized Potential”.
When “people” are themselves whole, then Yes! People are the [same as to what it would mean, if people were compared to a scale of value:] “intrinsic” : but people are not whole, ‘people’ are separated from wholeness, and thus: diseased, disordered, and debased.
As well, “people are not perfect, nor are they often actually just themselves” – ergo, ‘people are’, and that’s about all you can say with : is : and : are : about : People or Dogs.
Have a pleasant weekend hiking in the woods, Dennis!
Well met. Nice description of people. I try not to forget the intrinsic potential a la Jesus’ “love your enemies” and Machiavelli’s “hold them close.”
Here’s another take on people from Dylan:
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They’re all drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you’d better take your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel…
“Jesus’ “love your enemies””
No he doesn’t – he sends them to hell (or maybe purgatory) for ever.
Dennis James Leary,
I don’t understand. – I actually understood what you wrote.
What’s more, I agree!
Greetings from the Peninsula.
Peter
Islamic banking? Some info at wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance
Islamic banking is a tough one to explain, since as most here will know from Sheikh Imran Hosein’s lectures, lending or borrowing at interest is absolutely forbidden. It depends on the state and religious interpretation but for the most part it involves various protections to ensure the borrower doesn’t bare all the risk. The idea behind it is that all transactions carry a certain amount of risk and its the attempt to immunize oneself against this risk that causes inequality.
But fiat money is a form of debt and as such is absolutely forbidden…so any Islamic banking system not using exclusively gold, silver or another currency with intrinsic value is not Sharia compliant.
There really is no such thing as “intrinsic value”. Value is a degree of human attention and motivation and does not reside inside any given object of “value”.—That humans have a psychological and emotional obsession about something like gold or other items is an emotional and psychological quirk of the human species, and is frankly very mysterious. It’s like the nebulous human concept of “aesthetics” or “beauty”—what is that in actuality?
Anonymous : “There really is no such thing as “intrinsic value”.”
For simplicity, let’s say, that i have one-gram of a ‘material’ that will produce 100 watts of electricity for one hour (60 continuous minutes).
What is the value of having one : one-hundred-watt light-bulb on, for dinner, with six people?
Anonymous: “Value is a degree of human attention and motivation and does not reside inside any given object of “value”.”
Can we agree that 1 gram of substance is also an object? And if so, would not the ‘value’ of ‘one-hour of light’ be reasonable ascertained in price: by town, by region, by country, or continent?
Anonymous: “That humans have a psychological and emotional obsession about something like gold or other items is an emotional and psychological quirk of the human species, and is frankly very mysterious.”
For discussion, let’s say that my above one-gram substance was gold.
Anonymous: “It’s like the nebulous human concept of “aesthetics” or “beauty”—”
‘Real Beauty’ has to be demonstrated; and while a ‘quality of leisure’, can be noticed, as in seen; For instance, real beauty can be exhibited in the gentleness conveyed in the handling of a very simple every day object, such as a napkin – and i don’t mean to myself, just the mere act of noticing other people’s gentleness is an exhibition of the concept of Beauty : Part 1 : Notice aesthetic beauty in gentleness. That’s both beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, even if only ‘eye candy”.
‘Real Beauty’ can not observed in a photo or an image, though ‘Real Beauty’ can be perceived in perception. ‘Real Beauty’ needs to be demonstrated, and that’s because ‘Real Beauty’ is physically present only in the moment of action. A still object cannot be beautiful by definition. A still object in a thong can be worshipful, as in idyllically idolically. However, fantasy is attached to catastrophic thinking, which means that all fantasies ‘acted out in the flesh’ end in catastrophe, if not ended rationally.
Fantasy is the ‘path to self-ruin and self-destruction’. This is the primary reason why ‘Fantasy’ is so harshly judged Biblically and why The Bible begins in Fantasy with the story of Genesis, Which: IS: Total Fantasy. All allegory; yet most have no idea how subversive the sub-text : IS : .
Since the predominate mode of production in the world is capitalist, we should ask how capitalism measures value. Capitalism measures the value of a product by the socially necessary labour time it takes to produce it. “Time is money”
RR
“Capitalism measures the value of a product by the socially necessary labour time it takes to produce it.”
Yes, but I observe also often that the value of a product is measured in the labor time it takes to buy/afford it.
What is necessary for covering my basic needs has intrinsic value to me: food, shelter, clothing, tools, knowledge, competences. Precious metals have none because they are useless in survival mode. In contrast, iron and copper are valuable. Our usual valuation pyramid is turned head down.
RR: IMHO, “the predominate mode of production in the world [today] is [exploitive, not,] capitalist.”
Capitalism was to make everyone ‘a share”. This didn’t happen; instead – what metastasized – was an involution, a pre-maturity which collapsed (or conversed) into a perversity. RR, we live in ‘Perverse Times” now!
Ergo, “value” is labor extracted behind the barrel of a gun.
The ‘labor’ is ‘purchased’ or ‘bought’ under conditions of gross exploitation.
We live not in Capitalism’s corner anymore, this is Barbarism in the 21st Century!
RR: “Time is money”
Q.: “At negative interest rates, what is money worth?”
A.: “Less than nothing.”
Q: “Then, what of time, then.”
A:. “An eternity for a nickel of your time.”
Time, like “money” are both “constructs’, one however is divine, and the other, is all too human.
Time is to lead us back to Eternity, which is our ‘natural state’ or “where we are most “@om”, at home with ourselves, our Self and our self, so in that ‘sense of demeanor’ – time is (useful to the) divine, though sublime, for it too is a construct, it’s just that time’s construct is Universal, whereas, ‘money’s’ construct is merely just global. Trust Me! It’s done this way in other parts of the Galaxy and thus time would not be seen as money, just opportunity to increase emotionally – through space, in time, at your own, comfortable, pace. The essence of leisure is “going at your own pace or style (“as your style permits”)”.
Left out the word, “not”, fourth logos “in” first gnosis; interesting, don’t want to say anything about, “want not”.
So. Version 2:
Trust Me! It’s [not] done this way in other parts of the Galaxy and thus time would not be seen as money, just opportunity to increase emotionally – through space, in time, at your own, comfortable, pace. The essence of leisure is “going at your own pace or style (“as your style permits”)”.
Well put. It puts me in mind of Majorie Kelly’s The Divine Right of Capital which has replaced The Divine Right of Kings. Things instead of kings.
Dennis, please. The masthead is fine.
“If it’s an information war for the mind of the general public, we should gear our language for them.”
No, you don’t want to cater to people who have football on the brain or can’t figure out that a saker is a bird (so it flies) and therefore “Now Flying in Iceland” means there is an Icelandic Saker site.
If they can’t figure out these basic things because they lack the time, intelligence or motivation, you are wasting your time with them. Worrying about them is more than a bit neurotic. The sharper ones that want to learn something will be appreciative of being challenged to get up to speed and figure a few things out.
Don’t look to accomodate the lowest common denominator. You don’t want to be anything like the people that are already doing that in western society. You want to organize people that are fed up with that mind numbing crap, and looking for something a LOT better.
agreed—i like Saker cos is simlar to ‘seeker”
Hi. I am not suggesting that we dumb things down towards the lowest common denominator. I usually advocate for the opposite: to raise our intelligence and level of consciousness.
There are plenty of sites that cater to special interests of superior intelligence. I visit some of them but am not accepted as a blogger because I don’t measure up.
I consider myself a commoner with average intelligence, and have my own ax to grind. So far I have been accepted here. I would hate to see this vineyard get too uppity for me.
Putin’s base is ordinary people. And Russia’s information is being geared toward them. I think the vineyard should follow suit. The information war will be won on the ground, not of the lowest common denominator, but on the most common ground in the middle of the Bell Curve.
Name recognition is important and part of that is meaningfulness. Command the high ground which is in the middle like the Bell Curve. We might eschew advertising but it’s part of the modern world. If we want to save Russia by stopping the empire’s war we have to deal with what’s real.
A masthead gives a clear message with emotional power. It comes from the topmost part of a sailing ship where a flag flies. The main strength is in the bottom hull; the depths of consciousness as it were. We need to be recognized as a friend or foe first from the masthead and then demonstrate our strength down below. Well, like Putin’s Russia.
Islamic banking is a very recent invention. It is part of the Saudi campaign to create distance between Muslims and other religions. In that it is similar with other cultural habits that are suddenly claimed to be essential for “good Muslims” like the wearing of veils and burkahs.
“your lost in Appalachia rap made me proud to be an American, if it was an American Appalachia.”
This http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/pride_1 gives “pride” as:
1. a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get when you, or someone connected with you, have achieved something special
2. a feeling of respect for yourself
2a. a feeling that you are better or more important than other people
Can you please explain why this rap makes you proud to be an American?
Hi. I felt pride according to your quoted definition, with the exception of 2.a., because it portrayed the man with an ax as strong, independent and helpful. I’ve been lost myself and have been very relieved when someone helped me. There are many Americans who fit that picture and it makes me proud to be one of them to the extent I can be that.
Also, the man with the ax is probably from the lower class. In itself this proves nothing but it is a contrast with the upper class who often are pretentious, uncaring and far from helpful. My prejudice is obviously with the middle and lower classes. Scott’s anecdote confirmed my beliefs.
Ok Dennis – don’tget me wrong with what follows since i’m just as much a confused SOB as the next but:
“1. a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get when you, or someone connected with you, have achieved something special”
What did you achieve that was special wrt to a set of mountains that was special?
2. a feeling of respect for yourself
again, why – i.e. what did you do to gain respect?
Class is something assigned by “society” – it means nothing unless you consider yourself as “lower” – from what I see they are already mostly lower than you could ever be.
Again, can you please explain why this rap makes you proud to be an American?
Can you please get up off your knees?
Hi again. Quite penetrating questions. I can only attempt an answer with paradox.
Mountains. They urge me to stand up tall; and given my humble background I’m inclined to get down on my knees at the awesomeness. (I was raised Catholic and became a priest. My dad was a traveling salesman for auto parts. As a kid, I was in awe of a neighbor who was a banker and a classmate whose dad was.)
Self-respect. I waver between narcissism and humility. I play the humble card to prop up my ego.
Yes, class is assigned but it is also a matter of mind.
Scott’s rap does make me proud to be an American. Your question why is very deep and valuable to explore. Maybe it’s as simple as Scott visiting America. Maybe it’s as complex as the Statue of Liberty.
Great intro story Scott.
Item #4 in the Ukraine section is a wonderful article also – thanks for the link:
Andrey Knyazev, an expert: US planning to reformat Ukraine
And now the Donbass International News Agency is on my radar.
I trust you and Saker are keeping an eye on this concept, that the US is preparing a division of Ukraine, to begin this spring. It makes a lot of sense, from the US side.
And as the article says, there’s what America wants, and then there’s what Russia wants. We shall see.
Knyazev’s ramblings notably lack any specific source citations!!—So how reliable is any of that stuff?
It’s called food for thought, no more, no less.
What part of “We shall see” do you not understand?
Choose a name instead of Anonymous, we can discuss this over the next few months.
To supplement Item #4
“USA and Russia prepare public opinion for the section of Ukraine” (VIDEO)
http://rusvesna.su/recent_opinions/1453802515
So in shifts of accents in a Hollywood TV series is quite possible to judge the shift vectors and priorities of U.S. foreign policy.
And here, literally in recent days, two top American TV series, “Elementary” and “Madam Secretary” shows the Kiev regime as dictatorial, and its militants as terrorists.
And if in “Elementary” Ukrainian militants-murderers up for the first time, in the second series the Kiev regime falls in the mud for quite some time and consistently, and “the President of Ukraine Mikhail Basico” tipped hanging on Mykhailivska square.
The funny thing is the interpretation of Ukrainian events in “Madam Secretary”. Supposedly good and innocent the U.S. wanted to help the young Ukrainian democracy to resist Russian aggression, but no aggression was not, and all the evil plans of “the usurper” Bosica, who in blind Russophobia wanted to play off between USA and Russia.
Thus the United States explain to their citizens why they leave Ukraine. And, by the way, after such innings I have serious doubts that the Pig will escape in the US, when the time comes, someone should be assigned to the extreme, and the candidate is already selected.
And then there’s Putin said at a forum onf that the region was annexed to the Ukraine and wrongly by mistake (see video below). The Russians, too, are preparing public opinion, just in a different way, not so “prominately” as Americans.
By the way, in the TV series “Madam Secretary” Moscow is allegedly planning the invasion of WESTERN Ukraine. That is, South, East and Centre is already ours?
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Also here
http://politikus.ru/events/68568-novoe-kino-ssha-ukraincy-terroristy-i-poproshayki.html
Also, the Kadyrov developments with the Islamic banks, in your final item. Who would have thought of him as a financial warrior. But his courage cannot be questioned, nor his passion to assist Russia to advance in all things good. And his hold over his own nation, combined with his love of Islam and his hatred of lies make him an implacable foe.
I’m grateful for your perspective here, that Kadyrov moves with Putin’s blessing. May it all be as you suggest.
Scott, somewhere in your article you mention a book you are writing, or have written. Can you give us more information?
Scott, I neglected to add, your writing is graceful and elegant. A Pleasure to read. Thank you for spending the time to proof read. It definitely paid off. Very well cadenced: lyrically, and whimsically, for so difficult a subset of subjects in Journalism: ‘News of the Front”.
“…Countries which have been at the wrong end of an IMF or World Bank
defaulted loan renegotiation, or countries which have suffered from
western sanctions, including exclusion from the SWIFT system for
international trade settlement, are going to embrace the CIPS system.
Countries which suspect or believe that foreign country derivative use
has manipulated their currency lower in foreign exchange markets
causing economic havoc at home will likely avoid dollar transactions,
and settle their trade balances through CIPS in other currencies…”
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article53747.html
That is right, because if we can know what the event will be, they will put a band aid over it and use derivates to cover it up. After all this is life’s blood here and they wont take it. Something will happen that will cause one of the first lines of defenses to break. It would be a question of doing the least to keep it afloat and at that point something else will break which might cause 5 other things to break at the same time and they wont have the time or resources to hold in the dam. If and when it happens it was cascade so fast most people wont know what hit them. Mainly because we are living in a world of financial wizardry and computers and so much money that a few will see it and they will pull out their money or play the other side so fast that the rest wont have time to react at all. So a few will make a killing on the event and they would be the catalyst for what will come. After all, this game is for winners and they all are playing to win big. The market has been made into a game where if you win then others will lose and the fed is controlling this tightly because if you follow the fed you can get rich so everyone just follows. Something the fed don’t see will be an advantage a few will take. Its a dog eat dog world with no loyalty to anything or anyone except the bonus..
Ukraine’s self immolation continues….
https://www.rt.com/business/330313-ukraine-antonov-officially-abolished/
and also in conjunction with ref to item 6 Ukraine
the birth of “skynet’ becomes even more assured-flight, intelligence, war budgets, armaments, a so called cause and death wish by ukraine………rus developing those armoured soldier body shells, robotic weapons…..I do wish we had an analysis from a psychologist to do a report on the ukraine politicians political psychosis, is it is just a case of rehab with life medication for them, or making into zombies(unless they are already) locked away in their own medical world,or self immolation?
Thanks Scott for another great piece.
I wondr if anyone could do a “battlefront’ analysis, ie what is the current line up of all the weaponry etc, eg are the ukr tanks, vehicles etc being more properly repaired, is their airforce getting fixed, operational etc……..Kiev seems to be moving stuff around, sort of creating pressure points on Donbass line, trying to confuse/obscure the situation, Basurin’s intelligence seems to be working well behind Ukr lines, but more time does allow ukr to reorganise after the USA complains? or proudly announces how much it has spent on ukr military 266 million…………ukr still getting training etc etc, polish mercenaries creating hell Mariupol kidnapping young ladies etc etc, there is still a war of “attrition’ so it seems, but there is an attempt to get areas cleaned of mines I seem to remember, and Donbass surely shows how intent it is to create its own sense of “civilisation, cf Ukr wants to ban all books even published/printed in Rus…………..their paranoia increases in proportion to their desperation…….exponentially/ they walked out of some Black Sea organisation……….some PACE thingy………..finance minister still spouts how the 3b can be repaid just needs more negotiation although Yats has said it will never be paid.so many schizophrenic schisms in ukr.
Yes that is horrible. A fine World renowned company from the Soviet days. A company that was a leader in aircraft design for generations. One of the prides of Ukrainian technology. And the junta throws it away like thrash. They should be toppled for that alone if nothing more.
It’s the ultimate sell-out of the manufacturing, scientific, and technological know-how of a country. An asset totally unique in the world just to be pissed away. Really sad.
Here is an example of the thinking in Donbass and Russia about Ukraine.Posted by one of my Donbass friends.The translation is rough,but the meaning is pretty clear:
Great, better not say!
Yegor Kholmogorov:
” like it’s the Russians or no, no, no, ukrainians today to consider themselves to other people. And their ethnic-determination follows the principle: for or against the murder of the Russians. Originally in advancing in the brains malorossiyan Ukrainian project has played a crucial role in the negative, self-determination – against moscals here. Now it was the only one.
Ukrainian – it’s not the one who loves poetry and drama of taras shevchenko collecttion, not the one who wears a vyshyvanka and snacking on salo varenikom, and not even someone who respects the bandera. All these ethnic characteristics only plume chief – the desire to kill Russians and endorsement of such desires.
Ukrainian today, sad as it is, it’s the one who burned people in Odessa and executed children in gorlovka either actively endorse and supported these crimes. The same person who rejects these crimes and do not wish to be complicit in them, Russian, what would be the stamp or stood in his passport.
There is no “UNITY” between the Russians and ukrainians can’t be here. And No, there is no difference between the Russians and velikorossiyskogo malorossiyskogo origin, when they take in the hands of the vending machine with George Ribbon and become under the red wrappings with andreyevskim cross. I’m afraid that in Belarus, the situation will soon be similar.
Therefore, the question of “Russian triyedinstve” are now a political mistake. Talk about ” Triyedinstve ” leads that turns out to be all the same, where be to donbass – in Russia ” or ” in Ukraine “. However, this is the main question today “.
Basically they are saying,you define “Ukrainian” today as someone wanting to kill Russians. Everyone in Ukraine,not wanting that ,is defined as “Russian”.
KIEV, January 29. /TASS/. At least 155, including two children, have died of flu in Ukraine since the start of the epidemic, the country’s health ministry said on Friday. Most death cases (32) were registered in the southern Odessa region, the ministry said. Health ministry data shows swine flu (virus A/H1N1) is the most widespread strain in Ukraine.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/853101
following on from my previous post
“That’s why until fairly recently the lion’s share of theory and research on psychopathy focused on decidedly unsuccessful individuals, such as convicted criminals.
But a lot of people on the psychopathic continuum aren’t in jail or prison.
In fact, some individuals may be able to use psychopathic traits, like boldness, to achieve professional success.
Successful psychopathy is a controversial idea, but it’s not a new one.
In 1941, American psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley was among the first to highlight this paradoxical condition in his book The Mask of Sanity.
According to Cleckley, the psychopath is a hybrid creature, donning an engaging veil of normalcy that conceals an emotionally impoverished and profoundly disturbed core.
In Cleckley’s eyes, psychopaths are charming, self-centered, dishonest, guiltless and callous people who lead aimless lives devoid of deep interpersonal attachments.
But Cleckley also alluded to the possibility that some psychopathic individuals are successful interpersonally and occupationally, at least in the short term.
Researchers have recently speculated that people with pronounced psychopathic traits may be found in certain jobs such as politics, business, law enforcement, firefighting, military services and high-risk sports.
Most of those with psychopathic traits probably aren’t classic ‘psychopaths,’ but nonetheless exhibit many features of the condition.
One in particular is boldness.
Boldness encompasses poise and charm, physical risk-taking and emotional resilience.
In studies, researchers have found boldness is modestly tied to impulsive heroic behaviours, such as intervening in emergencies.
It is also linked to a higher likelihood of assuming leadership and management positions.
Several specific facets of such performance, including crisis management, agenda setting and public persuasiveness, were associated with boldness too.”
“Successful psychopathy is a controversial idea, but it’s not a new one.
In 1941, American psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley was among the first to highlight this paradoxical condition in his book The Mask of Sanity.
According to Cleckley, the psychopath is a hybrid creature, donning an engaging veil of normalcy that conceals an emotionally impoverished and profoundly disturbed core.
In Cleckley’s eyes, psychopaths are charming, self-centered, dishonest, guiltless and callous people who lead aimless lives devoid of deep interpersonal attachments.
But Cleckley also alluded to the possibility that some psychopathic individuals are successful interpersonally and occupationally, at least in the short term.
In a 1946 article, he wrote that the typical psychopath will have ‘often outstripped 20 rival salesmen over a period of six months, or married the most desirable girl in town, or, in a first venture into politics, got himself elected into the state legislature’.
How to spot a psychopath
‘HOW TO SPOT A PSYCHOPATH: FROM CHARM TO MANIPULATION
Psychopaths display different traits depending on their disorder, but common signs include superficial charm, a grandiose notion of self-worth, the need for stimulation and impulsiveness, pathological lying, the ability to manipulate others and a lack of remorse and empathy.
Experts claim people usually find psychopaths intriguing, but can’t put their finger on why.
This is down to incongruous behaviour because psychopaths tend to do a lot of acting to deceive, or mimic normal reactions, sometimes changing their views and reactions quickly.
For example, Mr Wells said upon meeting someone, he tries to become ‘the most interesting person they know’ and presumably adopts suitable interests and responses to do this.
His response also gives away another common trait – a grandiose notion of self-worth – in that he can be the most interesting person in the room.
Psychopaths occasionally tend to exhibit unconvincing emotional responses, with slip-ups including tone of voice or body language.
This may be because they are unable to understand emotions such as fear and love, but can mimic them.
Generally psychopaths’ ’emotions’ are shallow and short-lived and there is a manipulative ulterior motive to showing them.
For example, Mr Wells said he offers to do favours and tells false secrets to people to gain their complete trust.
He also displays insincere charm – another trait associated with psychopaths.
He says: ‘I keep secrets, and tell them fake secrets to further gain their trust, and once they trust me enough, I ask for favours, reminding them of the favours I did them. I can get literally anything from them, which is incredibly useful.’
Psychopaths typically display an incredible ability to manipulate others and sometimes take pleasure in doing so.
Psychopaths often have an air of superiority about them, perhaps shown by Mr Wells’ belief he can spot other psychopaths
Even expert Dr Hare warns that anyone can be duped during a short interaction with a psychopath.
The boldest presidents were not necessarily extreme or pathological on this dimension, but boldness was markedly elevated relative to the average person.
Although boldness was tied to some successful actions, the study generally found that other psychopathic features, such as callousness and poor impulse control, were unrelated or negatively related to professional success.
Boldness may be associated with certain positive life outcomes, but full-fledged psychopathy generally is not.
Could psychopathic traits be adaptive? Few investigators have explored the ‘Goldilocks’ hypothesis. Moreover, we know surprisingly little about how psychopathic traits forecast real-world behaviour over extended stretches of time.
The charm of the psychopath is shallow and superficial.
With that in mind, we would argue that boldness and allied traits may be linked to successful behaviours in the short term, but that their effectiveness almost always fizzles out in the long term.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3420708/Do-work-psychopath-Experts-reveal-traits-tell-tale-signs-successful-ambitious-people.html#ixzz3ycjcJWy7
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More studies — Political Ponerology
http://www.ponerology.com
I like the sound of this
“Lt. Col. Michelle L. Baldanza said the US aircraft was on its regular route in the international airspace over the Black Sea when the Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted it in “an unsafe and unprofessional manner.” She added that all details of the incident involving the Russian and US Airforce aircraft were thoroughly studied and investigated. US Fox News also reported about the incident over the Black Sea. FoxNews.com cited Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook as saying that Russian military officials discussed during a video conference with Pentagon on Thursday flight safety over Syria “to avoid accidents and unintended confrontation between coalition and Russian forces whenever the two sides operate in close proximity.” READ ALSO NATO increasing activity near Russian borders since 2004 — Russian envoy Russia’s Su-27 fighter jet forced US spy plane to alter course — Defense Ministry Pentagon claims Russian Su-27 fighter intercepts US intelligence plane NATO tactical aircraft double flight intensity near Russia, Belarus borders However, Baldanza said that “No specific incident or event prompted today’s discussion.” The Washington Free Beacon daily reported that the Russian fighter “came within 20 feet of a US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea on Monday.” Citing US defense officials the daily reported that “the Su-27 flew alongside the RC-135, an electronic intelligence-gathering aircraft, and then performed what they said was an aggressive banking turn away from the intelligence jet.” “The thrust from the Su-27 ‘disturbed the controllability’ of the RC-135, said one official familiar with details of the incident,” the daily added.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/852969
yup a fine example of working together considering
“MOSCOW, January 28 /TASS/. Russia will resume work with NATO if the Western partners are ready for an equal dialogue rather than an “ardent monologue”, which they have been trying to impose on Russia of late, Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the Russian Federation Council Committee for International Affairs, told journalists on Thursday. Commenting the words of NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that time had come for holding a Russia-NATO Council, Kosachev said that NATO and other Western organizations, which are too much preoccupied with sanctions and isolation, had not noticed that they had replaced a dialogue with flamboyant speeches long ago.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/852928
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MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. Moscow believes Kiev can implement the Minsk peace agreements and calls on the European partners to support the Ukrainian government in these moves, Russia’s envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Friday. “We know that the Kiev authorities can fulfill the Minsk agreements. We expect that the Western colleagues will provide them with the necessary support here, including through the OSCE,” Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website. The diplomat also said he was surprised by doubts voiced by the Ukrainian authorities that there is a need to adopt a new law on elections in Donbass. “We are surprised by the doubts of Ukrainian representatives about the need for the new law on polls in Donbass. The existing legislation has not been agreed with the regions’ representatives as demanded by the Package of Measures, and is not in conformity with the situation.”
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/853003
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OSCE confirms pullback of heavy armaments from Donbass continues, notes faults World January 28, 21:24 UTC+3 The OSCE urges all parties involved in the activity of the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) to continue working in Donbass
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/852951
yet
“Ukraine’s Donetsk republic accuses Kiev of planning provocations against OSCE observers World January 28, 19:10 UTC+3 A spokesman for the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed republic has warned the OSCE mission about the threat of such actions”
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/852911
and
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51922
“The commandant of the city Pervomaisk (LC), located on the contact line, gave an exclusive interview to our channel.”
and
“The situation at the contact line over the past day has a tendency to aggravate. Ukrainian law enforcers hundred forty and eight times the territory of the DNI fired as a result of thirty-one of ceasefire violation. This was during the briefing, January 28, Deputy Commander of the Corps of Defense DNI Eduard Eduard Basurin.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51926
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http://www.anna-news.info/node/51925
news summary for Donbass 28 Jan
eg
“The authorities of the DNI in the past week have restored 21 objects of infrastructure, including residential apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. This was reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Construction and Housing.”
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link to video re genocide in the Donbass
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51975
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extract here
“Over the past six months, it finally became clear that all parties, be drawn into a war with Russia (a sanctions, information, etc.) were among the losers.’
from http://www.anna-news.info/node/51968
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51959
is a link to discussion re Novorossiya last year and year to come
“Stanislav Glazov leading studios and technical director of the Internet Channel Anna News Vladimir, who recently returned from the Donbass try to sum up the interim results of the analyzes of the situation in the New Russia at the end of last and the beginning of the year.”
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http://novorossia.today/is-it-a-compromise-between-donbass-and-ukraine-vladislav-berdichevskiy-and-vladimir-oleynik/
28th Jan. /Donetsk/ Novorossia Today. The deputy of the People’s Council of the DPR from the fraction Free Donbass, deputy chairman of the Committee for internal policy and international relations Vladislav Berdichevskiy and Ukrainian politician from “Committee to Save Ukraine” Vladimir Oleynik discussed in a videoconference possible compromise between Donbass and Ukraine.
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Dear JJ
Thank you for updating my SITREPs.
You have been a great asset to our efforts to keep public informed.
Hugs
Scott
oh gosh oh wowee, hope so , not wishing to impinge in any way, just extra bits and pieces leaving the main themes to you–ta
its just that often you post one then the next day even more news is going around-must be something you said…………….actually I wonder if anyone does read the anna-news links I post………..
adding just in case
“New “trouble spot” in Ukraine: How the U.S. and Turkey are creating a “Kosovo” in Kherson Oblast
Подробнее: https://en.eadaily.com/news/2016/01/27/new-trouble-spot-in-ukraine-how-the-us-and-turkey-are-creating-a-kosovo-in-kherson-oblast‘
Excellent link JJ.
Here’s one from William Engdahl giving historical background/political context to the issue:
http://m.journal-neo.org/2015/12/31/recep-erdogan-first-as-tragedy-second-farce-third-as-monty-python/
I think we need to proceed cautiously with point #3 in the Ukraine section of this SITREP. Many of those Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Russia are in fact fleeing the madness that is now western Ukraine. Imagine the sacrifice and toil one must endure when making the decision to leave their homeland now rendered unrecognizable by forces beyond their control only to be greeted in what was hoped to be a place of refuge by mobs wielding clubs.
Hi, Bill J.
Ukraine has to denounce its Stephan Bandera death cult worshiping.
Until it’s done officially, I believe that Europeans have the rights to defend themselves against invasion by Ukrainians, whom they see as extremists.
/ukraine-sitrep-january-29th-2016-by-scott/#comment-204170
And the Europeans have to denounce their own colonialism, and stop worshiping mass killers. Such as Columbus, Churchill, Cortez, and others. And in addition, Americans must renounce their worship of founding fathers, such as Washington, or Andrew Jackson, or Lincoln. These people have committed unspeakable crimes. Europeans have no moral authority to judge and denounce Ukrainians, while benefiting from Plunder and suffering of third world people. The same goes for Americans. Do not judge for thou you will be judged.
Violence is never justified. It only creates more suffering and traps people in endless conflict. As Gandhi once said: “eye for an eyes makes the whole world blind”
My God Scott, I read the intro with mounting trepidation..ready to bail-out before it reached a ‘Deliverance’ – style denoument..
Whew. You sure know how to lay on the drama..
Great sit-rep.
The news of a Chechan-based Islamic bank is fascinating.
Although I know the main import is the injection of capital into the economy, I am far more interested in the implications for interest-charging.
Roman Catholicism also prohibits usury, even if the Vatican is part of the international system of compound interest.
An article by one of the neo-cons warned against the present pope’s ‘leftist
‘ hostility to capitalism, failing to understand the historic Roman Catholic religious prohibition on usury.
The widespread hostility to the Catholic Church in the Anglophone media has a different basis to the Russian Orthodox schism and historic enmity -especially due to Croatian war crimes -in Russia.
It’s a lot closer to the same reason Iran is demonized.
They both have doctrinal, if not practical prohibitions on usury.
What is the position of Orthodoxy on the issue?
And what threat would a potential ecumenical alliance between all three pose to the world banking system which enriches through compound interest the few at the expense of the many?
The problem with focusing on psychopathy as a personality disordeR – apart from the implicit assumption it can be treated , is that it deflects attention from the socio-cultural-economic matrix we are embedded in.
It is truly pathological, and that pathology is, of its very nature, psychopathic.
Look no further than the lying, pornographic, child-hostile media.
And that’s just for starters.
“Mask of Sanity” by Hervey Cleckley is essential to understand how the psychopath works, a preliminary step to avoid “it” if you meet one of them, get away from “it” if you have had the misfortune of that “it” has already come into your life or catch “it” and apply “it” the full weight of the law, although the latter, as will be seen from reading the book, it is often quite difficult because of its misclassification in the world of DSM.
Now discontinued, but fortunately available on the network.
Yet it remains a medical textbook in the field of Psychiatry, is easily accessible for anyone´s reading.
Especially recommended for those who want to fight or defend themselves from Evil in its purest essence, for students of Criminology, Police and Secret Service who really want to do their job well and serve Humanity, and for those citizens who one day realized that through their life had passed “something” that had ripped their own essence and are still perplexed, probably bankrupt, and mainly unable to understand what has happened:
http://www.quantumfuture.net/store/sanity_1.PdF
Ukr is selling out of date flu vacinnations to its populus if they want urgent one now, anna-news 52137
and docs say Kramatorsk was source of new artificial flu released from US bio labs in east ukraine, reports many bodies eg ukr soldiers etc…….http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/flu-epidemic-emerged-from-us.html
collaboration China-ukr re silk road partial success via Black sea Caspian sea
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52116
maps etc discussion
Polish Lithuanian Ukr establishing joint brigade
http://russia-insider.com/en/military/poland-lithuania-ukraine-launch-joint-brigade-2017/ri12555
Kerry has visited IMF to postpone any IMF payments to ukr
anna-news 52140
remember some had said the money was only an incentive to continue the war and was used to fund the war, maybe this is a “result’ of New;and Surkov? Or maybe Kerry is trying to prevent Rus getting back its 3 b? Who really knows……
article re poverty in ukr anna-news 52159
anna-news 52143 video
people hold a mock burial of Yats
anna-news has article that ukr forces will join US forces against Daesh(sorry forgot number)
apparently Poro is in agreement his government cabinet can be overhauled but Yats must remain
Poro has admitted EU gas is more expensive than Rus gas
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/poroshenko-lets-slip-that-european-gas.html
Visa has dropped its sanctions against Crinea-good for my mrs visiting home
Ukr is going to shut off crossing points with Donbass
Crimea has had lots of military investment
Polish and Danish mercanaries in Ukr forces
quick summary today, actually I have got to do some work but just keeping you in the general picture…………………………….where is no link just copy paste number into anna-news………………
plus just spotted a protest in Donbass against Catholic church apparentlt sending donations to ukr forces..
“A rally against the activities of sectarian organizations gathered today in Donetsk, about two thousand people. The action took place under the walls of the Greek-Catholic church in the frontline Kuibyshev region. Residents were holding placards, people chanted, “No faith, blessing to the war in the Donbass”, “Stop the persecution of the Orthodox”, “Get out of the sect of the NPT.”
“This church is collecting humanitarian aid from parishioners and transfers it to the Ukrainian army. We do not want our land was a church who preaches war and imposes the idea of “independent Ukraine” our residents, especially young people “, – told journalists Donchanka Nataliya Pyanova.
The rally was held at the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin – the current Greek-Catholic Church . The protesters called on the Head of the DNI Alexander Zakharchenko to take action and to expel from the country’s sects.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52182
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52187
statistical analysis of ukr economy……