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    • #14711
      AHH
      Keymaster

    • #14725
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “The future is BRICS”

      AB Atwan says BRICS Cape Town Foreign Ministers’ meet had three bombshells  This was the meeting held just 4 days ago or so (doesn’t it feel like a year? We will never have peace while nazis rule the Ukraine or Londonistan).

      (1) They issued formal invitation to VVP (!) Was that swept under the radar of the Last Ukie Offensive and their dam-busting Spite? (2) five are being admitted to BRICS soon — he mentioned oil countries.. (3) a gold-backed currency is being unveiled.

      (4) the same Palestinian sleuth gave particulars on the unusual Persian Gulf naval force Smoothie mentioned:  5 of the 6 GCC (KSA, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain), Iran, and Pakistan & India (!!) This is almost too good to be true, especially inclusion of latter two. Where to Oh US Fifth Fleet (@ Bahrain) and Centcom’s Al Udeid (Qatar)?! All this is so breathtakingly rapid, for the locals know you do not give a vicious toppled king any time or space to bring “Freeum and Demoncracy” before the eviction notice.

    • #14726
      Sudhi
      Participant

    • #14733
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Thanks for the changeover AHH.

      • #14737
        AHH
        Keymaster

        🙏🏼

        MKB had an interesting article in the Cradle… continuing the thought, that it wasn’t merely OPEC but OPEC+ that barred the rotten western MSM, closely followed by SPIEF also blocking them — this appears a focused Russian campaign to neuter the toxicity from any of their serious venues. The 64-million-dollar question, vital to the sanity of “Informational Hygiene:” will the Global Majority rapidly follow?? This could herald a seismic wave as consequential as dedollarization. And as necessary, to free the captive minds worldwide.

        Second, there appears high Saudi-Russian-Iranian coordination. Note the mortar in the middle. And Russia’s privileged generational love affair with our India, and via China, its deeper ties with Pakistan, who now buys Russian oil in Yuan. So it appears Russia midwived the new Persian Gulf navy above.. to get the Pirates out. And once out, they cannot garrison either Syraq or Yemen, or send regular drones to Af-Pak…..

    • #14747
      AHH
      Keymaster

      This outlawing of western media is as crucial as dedollarization or defanging their military, as underway in the SMO! This empire is an Empire of the Mind above all… via lies, deceptions, narratives, and convincing their gullible victims to bankroll their own oppression and military exploits against the Global South. So occasional banning is not enough. The Chinese-grade Great Firewall has to be built against all their media, until sanity returns to their elite. This is an even greater and more fearsome weapon than sanctions!

      And this entails curtailing, ostracising and barring their army of media henchmen and enablers worldwide amongst the 90% Rest of Humanity. I spoke about this briefly in Lineaments Part 04 (subsection C2):

      2) Ensuring informational sovereignty: there is urgent imperative to get out of the western media bubble, the Matrix-like 360 degree construct which brainwashes from the cradle to the grave. Media imperialism needs to be addressed. Most of the Global South media relies on three western-controlled newswires for informing its own staff of international (and often local) events and thereafter transmitting, usually verbatim, to their local populace: the New York City-based Associated Press (AP), the London-based Reuters, and the Paris-based Agence France-Presse (AFP). The published number of journalists for each are: AP 3,300; Reuters 3,100; and AFP 2,400, not including input from their considerable intelligence, political and commercial interests. Their pools of resource, diverse global reach and presence and number of bureaus dwarf all competitors. These set the Narrative assaulting mankind.

      Local non-western sourcing needs to be developed, funded, and cultivated, circumventing the ideological binding of “media imperialism,” which is defined as….

      As Russia protectively tightened its media laws, holding publishers accountable for disinformation and serving foreign interests, the similar understanding and enforcement of informational sovereignty needs to become widespread. Ours is an age of unrestrained mindwars and undue external influence requiring considered protective mechanisms at the state level. South Africa and many Anglophone countries unfortunately followed in the steps of the Anglo-Saxon and Europeans and blocked transmission of Russian Television (RT). MultiChoice, the Europe-based global distributor of RT, within days of the start of the SMO cut its satellite service to all providers. This included 20 million paying subscribers throughout sub-Saharan Africa. At one fell stroke through one typical provider, the SMO was leveraged to disconnect at least 1 in 10 Africans from Russia’s premier voice. How many of Russia’s recent satellite launches included mechanisms for informational sovereignty, so as to never again rely on any western middlemen?

      Going forward, among useful African metrics will be reversal of these deplorable decisions. Decrying motions by intelligentsia are insufficient. State action is essential. One additionally anticipates the banning of instrumentalized western social media, such as Meta which was declared a terrorist organization. It is anticipated the Russian and Chinese diplomacy and initiatives within the BRICS+, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), African Union, and other multilateral organizations will draw attention to the imperative of informational sovereignty. The bungling and heavy-handedness of westerners in their coordinated deceitful media offensives further incentivizes Africans to take self-defensive measures against forces hostile to their national welfare and development. The gloves will come off soon on the part of the 90% in equal measure.”

      If one dispassionately analyzes the western tools of statecraft, one finds shenanigans such as militias, cults, terrorists, NGOs, and coordinated media PsyOps come to the fore. And in this, the entire combined West is unanimous in coordination, seamlessly, as with economic sanctions. To permit their media to ply its trade will result in endless proxy generation and self-defeat. That is why I love this new-found Russian term – “Informational Hygiene” – the fight is being brought to them in equal measure. And this term will become the bedrock of true sovereignty going forward, as the Global Majority frees its mind.

    • #14760
      Sudhi
      Participant

      A highly sarcastic and entertaining article by Dmitry Orlov:

      “Vladimir Zelensky, Hero of Russia”

      “During his time as president of what remains of the Ukrainian SSR, Zelensky destroyed the country but achieved a lot for Russia. Here are his main achievements in no particular order…

      https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1253142

      “All this raises the question: who does Vladimir Zelensky serve? The answer seems obvious: Vladimir Zelensky serves Russia. This goes without saying; after all, he is, in fact, Russian. More precisely, he is a Russian Jew, but as a Russian Jew, he is, like all the other numerous nationalities of Russia, first of all Russian, and then a Jew. His native language is Russian, and he learned Ukrainian (as well as English) only after becoming president, as part of on-the-job training. He is culturally Russian, and before he became president, his comic routines were quite popular among Russians, as in (former) Ukraine and in Russia itself. But he is not at all funny in either Ukrainian (which he speaks tolerably well) or English (which he speaks mediocre and uses reluctantly). Obviously, his soul is with Russia.”

    • #14769
      Mr P
      Participant

      Western tools of Statecraft…(Very Droll!)………..the crime scene is endless and everywhere…reading on counter-rotating propellers and this came up>  “In 1957, British RAF Shackletons participated heavily during Jebel Akhdar War in Oman to expand the territory of the Sultanate, which was a de facto British colony, in order to gain access to oil wells in the interior parts of Oman. The RAF made 1,635 raids, dropping 1,094 tons and firing 900 rockets at the interior of Oman between July and December 1958 targeting insurgents, mountain top villages, water channels and crops in a war that remained under low profile.” Shameless, eh? Bald murder of helpless people to steal their stuff. There’s a name for that.

      (the Shackleson used CR props…very sexy way to murder people.)

      Mrs P dug-out from the soil red onions to-day.

      serachterm > “die linke keine bomber uber unseren kopfen” (which is from a poster Sara W sent) Big demonstration. Meantime in, perhaps, memory of Otto John, the German Feds plan to “outlaw” AfD…which may give a bit of a boost to Die Linke. Grossman wrote to the plight of the German left, what’s left of it. All very nice of course. I’ll wait for the film.

       

      Best! P

       

       

    • #14770
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Jebel Akhdar = Green Mountain in Arabic. A fitting name, pre-echoeing more Green Zones to come in Baghdad, Kabul, etc.. The Olde British Empire, criminal even on its death bed.. this was around the Suez Crisis period, when Eisenhower & Khrushchev together unceremoniously buried the old wretches.

      Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “Light a Fire….” 

      About three days to June 12th… the air cover demanded by the Cokehead comes to join the festivities?? Even calm and steady Larry Johnson’s worrying openly about expansion..

      (1) Rites on June 06…  A man casually remarking the June 06 date of the catastrophic dam breaching didn’t surprise him as it was a historic date led to my searching for western atrocities or significant events on this date:

      • 1891 – birth day of Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa
      • 1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, Allied invasion of Normandy, France — commonly referred to as D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history.
      • 1968 – execution of Robert F. Kennedy Sr.

      However, except for RFK above, these don’t appear to be what was on his mind. He is a historian of Ancient Egypt and the western occult, so there’s something else.. likely something to do with the numerology of the date, a “66,” undoubtedly a favored day of skullduggery for deviants..

      (2) The End of military supremacy! As the Ukies and their nazi handlers chose to burn through about 4 brigades in last 4 days of “the most trained and best armed brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” on a senseless optical offensive, there are now several major implications: the entire world watches this epic burning Pyre. These sacrificial lambs were trained by the West itself in western training grounds. So it is above all a burning of western prowess, training, arms, and standards – all trumpeted by their own media to the world. The epic self-immolation in motion! The ongoing loss of basic respect would require their torching of half of the earth’s surface to regain the Old Fear – for which they have not the arms, time, treasure or willing blood. Oh, the consequences of poking the Bear in his old Lair…

      • #14772
        Sudhi
        Participant

        Dear AHH, if you are into numerology, please don’t go by the Gregorian calendar when there are other calendars that are more accurate.
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

      • #14773
        amarynth
        Keymaster

        Apropos of absolutely nothing.  I explained once before that my personal and best informational style is auditory, kinesthetic – and music does this to me.  It makes me jump to something else and Shirley Bassey made me jump to this.  Oh, how well I know every note and every chording and the meaning – because 20 years after the phenomenon, we only, back in Africa, got it.  We were 20 years behind.

        Something in the way she moves …

        And then to Mean Mary

         

         

    • #14771
      Mr P
      Participant

      BBear makes friendsBear has good friends….better be nice Mr Fascist!

      • #14775
        AHH
        Keymaster

        About the dangerous friends of gentle Bears…

        ZZzzzzzzzz……………

        “Where there’s Smoke…”

        Canadian fire smoke wafts South and blankets NYC — Snake Plissken might recognize the Signs before “the Air Defender Doubledown.” Banksters are going down! And even the Cokehead’s olfactory bulbs, cauterized by too much necessary coke, would be able to taste the brimstone in the air.

        A small sample of triggered comments:

        • “Escape from New York” wasn’t a science fiction film, after all!
        • New York has had rat infestations for centuries, this is just the air pollution catching up with the other kinds of pollution. Still that pollution causes less than a fraction of the deaths that the humble cheeseburger does in the US.
        • What do you expect to find where the most Godless gather? It’s like digging down into a sewer and hoping to find a clean toothpick!
        • There’s no way that New York is the most polluted city in the world, California is way worse, there are human people sleeping on the streets there. (!!!)
        • Well what’s wrong with that ? As long Americans are the Numero Uno, all is well … they will declare themselves as the winners; who knows a Nobel Laureate may be in works now for the Most Foul Air … it will be a retroactive Prize for New York … LOL
        • New-Yorkers adore filth anyways….. Hey they deserve far worse……Gotham City is indeed brown… Ugly city. The only thing nice is Central Park. The rest is excrement and it’s filled with vulgar swine like hustlers…… No savoir vivre… Just in your face vulgarity. Arrogance of the ultra rich with their obscene 5 th Avenue….. I hate the place as much as I hate the UN and Wall Street and their finacial terrorist banksters… Parasite to the world. Both.
        • [By a commentator called GoodHope:] The US hasn’t seen anything; They will know there is truly God (!!!)
        • And all the money needed to fight the wildfires Trudeau gave to Ukraine to lose the conflict. The West is managed by idiots or in the case of Canada a drama school teacher.
        • Canada doing their part lol
        • the majority of the fires across Canada is from arson not so called climate change…arson ‼️
        • Hey Justin, how about an apology to the American people! Maybe now you will shut up about climate change as you and your country just became the world’ single biggest polluter several times over China and India!
        • [By commentator Trippleboosted:] Its an alien invation but unfortunately their ufos will be out of focus due to the bad air quality
        • The MSM loves a good disaster, and this fits the bill. And it lets them avoid talking about topics like Joe Biden or Ukraine.
        • Interestingly, the same parasite that does this in New York, is the same one that runs england. But england has clean trees, they dont work for a living at all. england or canada is the bloodsuckers SAFESPACE. They dont poison their own well. New York and usa is the shellfront for dirty business. Thats how it can have no problem arranging that 9/11 against New York. They run New York, but its for spitting on. They dont respect those rats. Every parasite was out of town that morning, dancing around in new jersey.

        😅🤓🤯🙄🤔😿👆👆

    • #14776
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      listening to shostakovich, 5+9, it’s late for me, early really, i’ve been up since 1am, so i’ll crash soon, but before i do i hope to respond to your new thread, ahh.  beginning with the image…absolutely seductive & carries the day, i hope the surroundings & wildlife, beautifully.

      MKB has undergone such a shift, we all wish we might be visited by such metamorphosis.  he absolutely lifted the carpet, took us to view the underside, to see the knots & many coloured threads, yes, indeed, we are living in magical times.  & the discussions must be so keen, the delicate weaving of when to tighten & when to weave a few more tenderly tied threads.  & yes if you play the market, short, by all means.

      amarynth, on george, i’ve been watching & re-watching a video of robbie robertson on the band.  in canada (this wasteland of snow & fires) the band was a big deal, & changed grass roots music so i’ve been trying to piece together how robbie was so completely oblivious to levon’s pain about recognition for contribution.  yes, robbie wrote the songs, levon arranged—but…?

      bears…forest fires.  i’m not sure i mentioned i worked on a fire tower @ the base of wood buffalo park when i was in university.  a great summer job.  lots of time to read, & think.  the first time i encountered a bear, nothing like a grizzly or kodiak, a black bear…i was walking alone, just me, my dog & through caribou moss & labrador tea, there it was, standing, much taller than me, i hadn’t noticed but it had been watching me & as i climbed slope it stood, & i was very close, so near, i could see its eye lashes & what struck me wasn’t its size or what it saying with those beautiful eyes but its nose—it was an amazing shade of naples yellow & very like the soft plastic of toys & wanted for all the world to reach out & go REET.  squeeze it.  i didn’t o/c & the bear saw me for what i was, a silly thing of no consequence, certainly not as important as blueberries or annoying no see em black flies.

      the bears in the photos all look possessed, as though they are nothing more than fur, rugs, or lions ready for vegas.  i admit as much as i love russian films, & i do, i cringe when they bring out the bears.  but we all live in worlds still coming to terms with what we have done.  certainly, ahh, you are right, canada—turdo & chrystia are empire’s spent condoms disguised & designated as puppets…our ride home.  blessings.

    • #14795
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “floating & buried detritus”

      (1) Escalation against Russia – Cyber division: Hackers Crash ENTIRE Russian Banking System. Undoubtedly this was expected, the last of a constant wave in last years, and a key plank of inciting chaos within Russia.. The creation of alternatives to SWIFT weren’t single measures of resiliency. And the coming Great Bifurcation of the Internet is now inevitable?? So this may be too little too late by the spiteful Usual Suspects…

      (2) South Africa won’t enforce ICC Putin warrant – minister. the sordid saga continues. This confirms the information revealed by AB Atwan above, following the BRICS FMs’ meet.

      (3) What’s Next??? Smoke wafting down from Canada, Trump’s slow-motion disembowelment, blowing the legacy dam, worthless musing by the demented Danish Fogh of War, etc.. the mindless and pitiless Mighty Wurlitzer hungers and needs to be fed. Every hour. A single day of Calm and Reflection would lead to unimaginable Loss and ever quicker desertion… When your entire construct is upheld by Lies and BS, it needs a constant diet of more Lies and BS to hold off drowning by Reality. And Reality is having pretty good days lately. So up the Atrocity Escalator, to cover with even Greater Noise…

    • #14806
      Sudhi
      Participant

      • #14808
        AHH
        Keymaster

        🤣😂Lol, this is a good one.

        But as we laugh, this is a death-blow to the Merchants of Death. At stake is a $2T market, which is gonna implode anyhow as conflict fires are put out, the broke Pirates leave the scene, and there is less need to police against them. Currently the West’s share of global arms sales is humongous (60 – 70% on average for countless years).

        And projected to tank (no pun intended) in current and future orders as every day of the SMO continues, exposing real capabilities in modern combined arms warfare versus the gleaming breathless sales pitch……

        Note the weaponry and air defense complexes of the countries in green (and the pipsqueak in red) are burning wholesale in so many videos watched by arab, african, asian and latin american customers….. Prior PR has met the SMO asphalt. As emerson said, sell the worthless stock!!!!

    • #14816
      siljan
      Participant

       

       

    • #14818
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      🙂 dear siljan.  thank you.   roy’s chair’s still rocking.  & it’s alright.  blessings.

    • #14820
      AHH
      Keymaster

      The criminality of the Anglo-American media is limitless. Mercouris made the excellent point yesterday that despite the terrified Ukies hiding the very news of the start of their “Counter-Offensive,” it is now pointedly publicised in CNN and in the UK. Implication: they ensure the suicided do not relent and back off to save their remaining men.. they reveal the ongoing CO to commit their wholesale killing. The hatred of and pleasure in killing Russians, slavs, and any human in general is breathtaking..

      ZZZzzzzzzzz……………

      Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “Eurocrazies begin to implode” 

      (1) “the Supreme Court of the Netherlands recognized Crimea as part of Russia” They still carried out an act of spite – sending priceless historical art to Kiev. But the reasoning in the fine print is the story here… Remarkable! The Dutch, survivors like the UAE… rats feet scamper over shattered glass. Time rips free in the inner provinces…

      (2) BoJo gets Trumped! 😅  Oh, the delicious commentary..

      • I am sure in labour camps in Siberia, he will finally get the chance to fix that backward-and stupid haircut! 3x lifetime honest labour will for sure cure his insanity! The same goes for the entire western power elite. Down with US NeoLiberalCon empire of profit, wars, war crimes, and genocides! Down with Fascism!
      • The rat limey has more where that mangy haircut came from. Party gate has almost nothing to do with the actual problem, except a general rat limey arrogance. You can party gate all you want, except for your LIMEY BANKER CRIMES AGAINST ALL HUMANITY. The limey rat, has been conspiring with jewish crimes for the last 400 years. WE CAN PROVE IT! It has ALL been spreading outwards from england all this time. holland and sweden and France have all been secondary mutts before and after that. City of london is the central bank of the entire coward mass murderous racket.
      • Q: Does he think he’s going to take over for Stoltenberg?
      • A: He’s stupid enough to qualify and evil enough
      • Any bets he’s the next Nato Secretary General? Just part of the big clown show🎪
      • Wow! The timing couldn’t be better because the next leader of NATO could be from the UK.

      So what gives? Is NATO about to go full retard? As Ukies are now sent to their futile deaths, will crazies resist sending suicide pilots in their hundreds? Medvedev just sounded a warning to the US! What intel he must have.. And NATO’s first SOB was a Brit; their last could be too.

    • #14823
      Mr P
      Participant

      “Morinin’ Friends –

      It’s a feature of symposium that new things come “poof!”, they were not, and then they are, so to say. Thus > …honest labour will for sure cure his insanity! The same goes for the entire western power elite... drags up thought about health and work, as in FxD/T work, possibly with axe or shovel.

      If The Great Boris had been humbled and made strong by honest labour, would he be Boris? Among the convicts-to-be>  Bringt Arbeit Klarheit im Arbeitslager? Und Scham?

      I’d like to have the agenda for Paris triparte meeting 12 June, the little fella and Olaf all round the Pole, so to say. Rubric “Plan R, Final”, no doubt. Anyway, ah got me a bad feelin’ about it.

      I liked the bear cartoon. Thanks. Not knowing how to take still frames from old films, I don’t…but if I did…well great stills in a bad film that’s actually good- George Raft badly cast, London deserted, 1952 “I’ll Get You”…

      Best! P

      • #14829
        AHH
        Keymaster

        I greatly fear the lunatics will go for the sucker punch too. They’re counting on quality over quantity. That has been their MO to date. Piecemeal insertion of Wunderwaffe that was supposed to compensate and overwhelm the Asiatic Hordes tout-suite.

        Apparently they were counting on night vision tech to aid them in the last nights’ mass-suicide charges, counting on Russians to be stuck in 1970s!! Even the Russian warplanes had adapted and evolved and bombed the nazis to smithereens.

        And when it inevitably failed, in would go the next one into the waiting wood-chipper. Do the degenerates really think this limp process will sooth the Russians and prevent escalation into nuclear war? By slowly and so carefully increasing the temperature, and not calling it a war, it would save them???

        Lavrov warned them a few days ago not to bring in the nuclear-capable variants of the F-16s. And Russians prudently dispersed their troops widely, not just along the long front line needing defense lines, but the real ready heavy troops are far back in three areas of Belarus, southern Donbas, and Russia proper. Most will not be within reach of B-61s…
        Oh, the sweet agony of the Losers! 
        It will be a change of elites either way. Neocons soon into the chipper! More likely at hands of the less-crazy in western Oligarchy.

    • #14831
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Yes, to the last few comments.  We seem to be at a ‘noisy pregnant pause’.

      I picked up somewhere that Leopard shares are tumbling.

      So, what do we have?

      – Continuation of demilitarization, denazification and de-nato-ization in its current form?   Yes, this will continue, but I think something more will change here.

      – Ukraine stops fighting on account of being made lame?  And the west loses and poor ol’ BidenCo loses with everything around that like paying for the mess?  Is this not the usual pattern?  ‘We’re done fighting now, we declare victory and we leave!’   It is clear that there is a bus and a Zelensky encounter in the hopper.  He is not the head of the snake, but he is the modern depiction of the snake – the proverbial flag, the Main Pennant.  But, no G20 for him, no NATO for him, no EU for him .. and what is the continual existence of those organizations.

      – NATO enters, sneakily or otherwise, bigger than the current?  Certain European countries better evacuate damn quickly.  For European countries, governments will fall and upside-down hangings will take place.

      China enters if NATO enters?   Oh boy … I’m going to stop this line of thinking now!

      Another thought on another track:

      I don’t like Trump.  But the sequence with him now, is just the same as the sequence with Imran Kahn .. same playbook, same hands at the tiller of this boat.

      What a time!  Heaving a new world into its orbit.

    • #14839
      Mr P
      Participant

      Mr S > https://simplicius76.substack.com/  has posted a thorough view to the affair 404 in technical and thoughtful terms, as of about now minus 12 . He apprehends the possibility that nazi404 will turn to defense if the Red Armies overdo it, just now. Nazitowestenland is obviously planning to use atomic stuff, but they may not have taken a final decision. I’d say that Mr S’s apprehension might extend similarly – if Red Armies overdo it, exceed some unknowable rate of defeating the nazis that may decide NazitowestenlandHQ to use those nifty antique jets on the old Charge of the Light Brigade routine. Maybe the little fella and the obedient guy and the Pole are being set up for the gag. I do wonder though, if they’ll consider the recent fleet exercises last seen headed to ward Guam… I mean consider in the full scope of the business. And their own persons.

      A charming thing, even in the horrors Mr S shows, was his usage of “cozen”… of which word neither I nor Mrs P were aware. “swindle by artful cunning, I would say it means. It’s a fine word for the context of conflicts, and especially of violence – recalling Master Sun Tsu and his heavenly cohort of philosopher-warriors. Oh! Look there, Stalin puffing away and Trotsky arguing with Liddel Hart….

      Best! P

       

    • #14841
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Re: “China enters if NATO enters?   Oh boy …”

      Yes. Their recent moves were unambiguous.. sharply cutting off the US & Canadian warships on a “FONOP” of Taiwan Straits and harassing other airborne platforms, refusing to meet Austin in Shangri-la, and now a new joint strategic exercise announced yesterday, just as the Ukraine war reaches an inflection point. Note the new exercise’s arrangement was conducted personally by Gen Gerasimov while at the front in the heat of battle! Signals and messages and portents..

      China really has no option, not after seeing the criminal craze — marked by how Ukies are being killed en masse without regard for human life, the Nordstreams, the Dnieper dam, the refusal to negotiate, the relentless escalation.

      And as they lack capability in every conventional metric to achieve their aims, that sadly means only atomics are left. And perhaps all this was mere foreplay, and time waster, hoping against hope the sanctions and economic collapse could carry them through. Atomics were always the real Plan R. Nazis are simply nazi.

    • #14843
      Mr P
      Participant

      China Warship> In my wild days, for a time, I lived aboard a 6 ton steel river-boat, displacement hull with a strong V8, and quite comfy. After some hull modifications she was a formidable and reactive maneuverable craft, and I became fairly adept at motorboat riverain maters. ( it was possible to turn her 180 without losing way, without changing vector, thus backing against prop thrust) And rules of the road…actually went to school and passed the courses and exams. Thus the video of the overtaking maneuver was a great pleasure. I put myself in ship C and ran the maneuver as though I’d had the con. C starboard overtaking N port, N became forced to reduce speed or ram. N chickened out. C did not. Technically, legalistically, C was at fault, iirc the Rules. Noting that the rules are not relevant to the encounter. (and recalling that in wild days I myself have done similar, for similar reasons to richguy boats… a big middle finger…riverainpolitics. And I have heard stories of people brandishing weapons afloat…) Stuff happens. Next time maybe no more Misterniceguy…

      Best! Hot day a’comin’ an’ the old feller needs to get busy in the coolness. P

    • #14848
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Enjoy the cool!

      The quality of the discourse:

      🇦🇺 An Australian woman Monica Smit, walking through a cemetery in Paris, believes the French who died in WWII were fighting Communism. 😁

      “Germany tried to warn Poland and Hungary.” 😂

      Who liberated them concentration camps, Monica?

      A clip from Cossack Aussie ..

      https://t.me/inessas1992/4134

      There is a LARP going on, and it is broad.  Most of the Russian quotes from Russian soldiers are part of it.  You will not really hear one word from the Russian soldiers unless it is authorized.

       

       

      • #14850
        AHH
        Keymaster

        About dear Monica….. 😭😭unfortunately she is not on a complete mental walkabout! Yes some of what she regurgitates is clear agitprop, used to brainwash the ahistorical, but there were MANY frenchies fighting communism.

        It was the hook the Anglos and their own rotten elites used to get them to fight alongside Fascists. European elites back then were as united an anti-Russian front as now… And consider how quickly and easily the French lost. They conceded so as not to waste German energy on “the wrong front.” And subsequently formed Vichy collaboration. So many french hated and fought communism, both inside France and on soviet territory alongside the Wehrmacht, which had millions of non-Germans in its ranks…

        Rabid russophobia is an ancient tradition throughout Europa…. and in 1941, some French elders had living memories of the bitter humiliation their grandparents suffered as Russia took the fight all the way back to Paris on hot pursuit of Bonaparte’s regime! I wonder, did De Gaulle represent a minority amongst the French elite position?? I have not studied their history in detail. But the same masons and Exceptionalism permeates them as in Anglo or Germanic lands. Even many lefties in 1930s and 40s were anti-Russian, just like current US Democrats and European Greens fervently hate and lead the anti-Russia canceling and genocidal war. The two are not mutually exclusive.

        Re: nightvision’s “Anatomy of a NATO-Planned, Trained, and Armed Disaster”

        He makes point that Russia’s grinding with standoffs and huge ongoing attrition of UkroNATO may be TOO good, :
        “Russia has the opportunity here to deal a truly ‘decisive’ blow to the AFU. The big danger it appears to me is that, having suffered these losses, the AFU will clam up and switch to a defensive posture everywhere, while continuing its asymmetric Twitter psyop war and terror tactics, but, most importantly, having preserved the majority of their new brigades as a final life line.

        This is very dangerous for Russia in the sense that by crushing Ukraine’s offensive too hard, Russia runs the risk of prematurely causing UA to call the offensive off in order to simply preserve the last of their forces and gear. This would only result in the long drawing out and delaying of the inevitable end, causing many more months/years of suffering…

        …One way to do this, as others have remarked, is of course by letting the AFU overrun some of Russia’s lines in order to let them get over-committed into a deep salient which can then be turned into a huge boiler/kill-box. The problem with this strategy is that it takes a massive amount of coordination to pull off correctly and is extremely risky….”

        So some moot a measured “retreat” like in other fronts in the past, where they used the opportunity to keep funneling grinding towards them and attriting relentlessly, all while the yahoos and their fanboys were cheering on twitter.

        However, I don’t think this is needed this time..

        1. They need to perform, and quickly, and I agree the land-bridge to Krim must be taken. So the mice will keep coming to them, in spite of horrendous casualties. They’re outta Time, Tide and the indulgence of Cruel Masters.
        2. This is no open plain, but encroachment on Krim, which they will use the opportunity to shell and missile it for PR purposes. So not a single step back. This is born out by being the sector with the toughest and most layered defences. It was always going to come down to Krim.
        3. There is need for closure. Ukies are about out of their third army. And not much ammo or hardware coming to replenish them. So they can be pursued if they retreat into a shell or terrorist posture.
        4. There is need to start the Russian Offensive. History, Medvedev, and the need to officially put NATO outta its misery, to the Global Hollering and Honking of Mankind, indicate bolder moves are in the offing.

        ZZzzzzzzzz……………

        Heartwarming video of the resuscitation of Mariupol!

    • #14851
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      thank you, ahh, for the cruise through mariupol, it’s lovely to see it in late spring, roses & people relaxing, loving their home, each other, as though the other was but a dream.  the last glimpse i remember was in early spring, still cold & shoddy & it concentrated on the construction & sweeping up, preparing to restore & rebuild.  russians do restoration work with love & artistry.  would russians could’ve restored dresden & its meissen.

      a relatively recent rand paper, released midway through the smo, spent considerable paragraphs listing how in victory russia would be made to pay reparations.   victory according to rand was still but a trick or 2 away. defeat was beneath considering.  the authors spent much effort in the effect reparations would have on an already broken russia.  sanctions were admittedly having little effect, but rest assured they would they would in due course.

      it never occurs to empire’s grand schemers that empire may be made to pay reparations…defeat is still inconceivable, a probability manifestly impossible, their brains freeze, the hard drive dies.  but it’s amusing to envision hitlery forced to return gaddafi’s turquoise & gold, digging her way through libya, or nuland washing clean streets of maidan, odessa.  empire’s trillions returned to iraq, syria, afghanistan, sudan, yemen, the countries, the people empire destroyed.   i pray crimea’s exquisite artifacts are returned to her.  maria Z is on it! so we know these treasure have a guardian with tremendous power, one to see them safely home.  but until the war is over & the papers signed (we’ve chatted before about priceless artifacts & empire), if the dutch vassal gifts them to ukraine, these astonishing treasures will be diverted enroute to a private study somewhere in city.

      ZZZzzzzz

      i posted on the chronicle that empire will now attempt to destroy zaporizhzhia.  they’ve foreshadowed this for the duration, & will take chekov’s gun on the table in act 1 must go off in the third.  i suppose that’s as much chekov as empire knows.  stupidity is predictable.

       

    • #14852
      AHH
      Keymaster

      “russians do restoration work with love & artistry.”
      They unfortunately have a lot of practice rebuilding…

      Emerson I have such terrible foreboding!

      I think something far far worse than mere repayment of reparations is on the table now. The Rest have reached a limit. They are only human too, and wish to bequeth their grandchild a livable world.

      Their permant enemies’ inhuman conduct over the generations, and current openly genocidal Total War, involving every WMD and other terrible weapon imaginable, leave no choice.
      Zone B has largely been in reactive mode so far, not so much hoping for sanity to return and a basic sense of self-preservation and human decency… but giving them rope to hang themselves in front of the public opinion of mankind and to build the Outrage. And the Horror only mounts, without reprieve. We cannot breathe. Hell has more relent!

      And their suicidal delusion: They behave as if they hold the whip hand, owning 100% of the correlation of forces, and there is no accountability. Demons from the Pit have more mercy towards other humans. Poisoning the lands of others, destroying agriculture land, lives of entire generations, and openly bringing unlivable blight.

      I think terrible decisions have been made on these human devils. They only wait to finish off their nazi footsoldiers and conventional capabilities — nearly there… then?? How they secure the nukes and other gadgetry I don’t know. Or perhaps endure and rebuild yet again???

      I am not a sadist nor enjoy horror, so I can’t see ahead. But I suspect the Sino-Iranian-Russian diplomacy of the last years has borne fruit. The 90% Rest are determined to finish them, not precisely genocide, but a self-protective Blockade. A physical one, where they refuse to trade or even interact, and a psychological one where they teach their societies and children to avoid their small regions on Earth. Like those old medieval maps that used to say, “Here live Monsters.”

      And with a minuscule portion of earth’s resources, irreversible deindustrialization, self-poisoning, lost scientific know-how and rigorous education, and implacably hostile Rest and a Total Embargo — they will wither on the vine, regress and return to a comfortable default medieval feudalism. The equivalent of defanging, declawing and putting in an invisible cage the Anti-Civilization — for the protection of the Rest around them that must live as best as they can

    • #14853
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      i feel you are right…monsters there be.  yet, the Rest are not, the Rest have never let go of love, hope & the most surprising of all, joy.  monster sea & monster land are devoid of joy, real, non contrived uncontaminated blessed joy.  love, hope & joy are divine.  herein is the world’s saving.  & the inheritance of Rest.   yes, you are right, those few of us living here in monster land will be cast to dim, dimmer fading finally, irrevocably to darkness.  in our velvet black we may struggle to begin to grasp how we created this land, how blindness has beget our dark inheritance.   love is the one sole thing which does not decompose, love prevails,  i believe the mysterious dark matter holding our universe is love.  love will guide us, help us grope through this blind alley, our monster land.  the Rest will inherit love, peace, prosperity & joy.  yin & yang.

      good morning, ahh.

      • #14856
        AHH
        Keymaster

        Not you dear emerson. And for so many living in Zone A. I am talking about the elites, their apparati, and the silent majority. Unfortunately they are holding millions hostages, like Azov at Mariupol. Yet they simply have to be dealt with, they leave no alternative.

        Even if Zone B were to forgive them their sea of crimes and even forego retribution (as you mentioned astutely, most of Rest are kind people of Joy, willing to forgive and forget) they continue to plague us to this moment, sitting blocking our road like Cannibals with possessive eyes and practiced butchering knives. They are determined to keep to their “way of life.”

        How do so many good souls living amongst them cope with what comes? I don’t know. However Divine Law adheres closer to the Law of non-western lands — for the greater good, to benefit as many as possible. Perhaps two-way migrations will take place, as most resettle amongst their spiritual kin.

        PS – imho City designed the cast to ensure nonresoluton and intensification of conflicts. Their very uniform inadequacy is telling. Chao ab Ordo requires a general leveling, to then be able to Build Back Better according to the same old rotten template (meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss). A worn stale game which is ending too.. all this wriggling and tactical sleights of hand and feigning of ignorance and political logjam fool none at this point. Larry Romanoff isn’t the only incisive mind which deconstructed the western game of parliamentary democracy and the necessary antidote. That is why I suspect the entire society is being dealt with, as all elements interlock into a relentless and fearsome Enemy — the media, transnational corporations, banksters, MICIMATT, feudal elites, and mass consumer base providing silent consent and legitimacy for the entire sordid pillage-fest and global rampage.

    • #14854
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Somebody, please hide this man away!

      • #14855
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        he’s an assassin.  he boasted of stealing syria’s oil.    biden, dumpster–criminals both.  one is a  senile mobster waging war to keep his kid outta jail,  the other is the personification of stupid ignorance & a bankrupt thug.

        these 2 specimens are what city decided to gift to the world & murica.   city thought nutty in israhell, dumster/biden in murica, truss/bojo/sunak in the uk, turdo in canada, vile der lugen & scholz holding up the EU…not one nary a one with a brain, heart or soul.  mind boggling, impossible to fathom how the wizards of city imagined that cast would possibly be the winning hand?

    • #14862
      Mr P
      Participant

      The assembly of intrepid great leaders. Consider the aesthetic they present. Has Heaven ever before staged such a parade of specimens? Collectively they telegraph as clearly as a bill-board – caricatures of the full array of cardinal sins. My old Rabbi friend used to say> First, God whispers, then, if man does not listen, He throws rocks Well, here we are.

      Best! P

      • #14869
        AHH
        Keymaster

        The lovely Polish-American lady Ania, with whom frequent guest Smoothie appears smitten (🤣😂 and do not blame him!) had a recent vivid sense of déjà vu. Their rotten elite in 1939, which as you know zealously worked overtime to arrange the WW2 soiree, absconded just before the Nazi invasion… They had their own rat-line, even before the Nazi ratline was created! She sensed History about to repeat, and by the same supranational Anglo-Polish elite coven. Might Duda and Gang’s family travel plans tell the tale, just as Soviets in Brezhnev years monitored the travels and absences and public appearances of the US nomenklatura??

    • #14888
      siljan
      Participant

      @ emersonreturn

      You are welcome, glad you liked it. The Wilburys were quite the group. Too bad they did not get more time together..Yes that rocking chair was a moving tribute to Orbison.

      On a totally different topic. Does anyone here know what happened to Gilad Atzmon?
      His last writing on his website is dated March 27 of last year, 2022. I miss his reports about the Land of the Chosen. Always very interesting and revealing.

       

    • #14889
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      hello siljan,

      🙂   i don’t know, & yes, he is missed.  fingersXed someone knows something.  given what’s going down in ‘the land of the chosen’ his slant would be a cool satisfying sip of sanity.

    • #14890
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Interesting moves in Germany….

      • It moves to outlaw AfD, itself an unwieldy conservative rabble coalition, the sole current major sane alternative (no pun intended) – which is by polls the highest or second highest polling party. The others were discredited in suiciding Germany and being abject slaves to imperial ideology. A useful controlled opposition, to whilst away Time as euthanasia fully sets in??
      • It moves to throw Poland under the bus – through the ridiculous legerdemain of the yacht Andromeda allegedly sabotaging the Nordstreams. Younger Alex thinks this is a counter-threat to Polish claims of $1 T for ww2 compensation. It rather appears cowardly dissociation from the general war now unfolding… too little too late! Germany has been implicated thoroughly and found wanting. But nevertheless a useful pressure point which can be used to wedge apart what remains of NATO solidarity…

      All this is dissatisfying and appears rearrangement of Titanic deck chairs.. the magician’s act of political charade as the elephant in the room – deindustrialization – briskly proceeds apace. Heralding a wave of migration to saner environs??

    • #14891
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      i’ve been waiting for such a turn, thank you, ahh.  when you look @ maps, & you have maps, & can connect roads, passes & strangleholds as no other…almost all the bri maps fix an end on or very near germany.  for a while i thought, O well, germany (europe) will be bankrupt, they won’t be in the market for much, other than grain, perhaps used pre-owned cars & clothing so the bri connections to EU & germany will wilt & wither.  dust to dust, another route will supersede.  but should the population rouse themselves the Rest awaits.  china will be delighted to engage with  german businesses, there’s always room for another, let’s see if your cars are still worth our while, or hey maybe you wanna by a rail system, or a new airplane?   didn’t russia just today say she is trading still with austria?  what the bri has taught me, & it is certainly its super glue, is very simple…business, do business, get on with making your life & the lives of others better.    i look forward to your take.

      • #14892
        AHH
        Keymaster

        Yes Emerson I am quite pessimistic about Germany for next generation or so. However, they are ancient in their wickedness and there could be games within games going on — secret understandings with Russians. If Prigozhin is permitted such florid dissimulation, impugning the very character of senior most military hierarchy, what else is underfoot? And I have not studied them well in the last few decades. Perhaps they are playing possum until the Empire dies out.

        However going by their continued voting patterns, how they march in lock step with Empire into the 404 black hole, how it thoroughly de-energized itself from cheap Russian oil and gas, and as Smoothie said how already about 2 million Germans migrated or submitted applications to migrate to Russia, I think we may have to write them off through the medium term..

        For sure silk roads will remain waiting for them once they recover a sane elite. ATM Empire has its hooks too deep into them, and ever keeps bloodying their reputation through atrocities against Russians. If I was Russian, I would want the stink of civilizational decomposition to abate before risking further contact with the deranged.

        I defer to Mr. P who watches them more closely, such as their native German publications and people on the ground and through the old communist cadre within Die Linke, and so forth. But these appear marginalized groups of the former GDR East Germany. Most Germans are fully mindwashed and with the program.

    • #14893
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      ,yes, i concede (evoking joni mitchell) i really don’t know germans @ all.   alistair crooke, following their polls, believes there is a genuine undercurrent against the ruling party elites, although this undertow may be throughout all of europe, & it’s completely to be expected, given how shamelessly empire has ensnared them.  alistair attributes germany’s  dissatisfaction with the govt, & greens most especially, to a recent poll which cited the number of immigrants as now greater than native germans, apparently this enraged great chunks of the population (not altogether out of character).

      germany?  beethoven, schubert, schumann…& the polka & beer gardens?  i neglected wagner, prigozhin’s avatar. his choice was curious,  yet undoubtedly wagner enlivened the troops.  there is a russian tradition of  appreciating music, rather than norma jean, russia would send the troops off with a concert.  i’ve a tape of russian troops before flying off in WW11 listening to rachmaninoff played by gilels.

      as for numbers returning to russia…if i had been born in east germany & witnessed the behaviour of annalena, i too would board a plane/train bound for st. petersburg.  in a heart beat.

    • #14894
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      considering the reparations to poland—empire will never allow that.  it would set a precedent, empire might be expected to reimburse syria, iraq, somalia, sudan, vietnam, the philippines, afghanistan, who knows, even japan.  empire cannot allow that pony outta the barn.  blessings.

    • #14895
      Mr P
      Participant

      I do take an interest in German area, partly because I have long had the notion that Germany would be the signal pivot in this portion of European History, partly due to memories, partly due to sympathies with the old left, I guess. At one time I had a large extended branch of family there – some were nazis, some were not. They’re all dead now. I get the idea that Die Linke and AfD will mutually subsume. Become as one. The drivers being in the process of becoming “other” the cathode in opposition to the “heated” anode represented by Olaf the Obedient. Alas, AfD/L will be infiltrated and broken by intrigue with all the horrors of gladio, and broken by legalistic magic. Or maybe simply outlawed. Nevertheless, go against custom and more and long established ways, and an “other” pops into existence. Actually it’s a basic in conflict creation – an interest of mine.

      In the Industrial Phase (ted kaczynski) everything runs, ultimately, on the chemistry of C and H2. It runs in a cascade. Without the cheap gas and juice Germany is in denouement. Period.

      Smoothie’s 2 million so far…. Let’s estimate. Speculate. Ask. How many people live in Germany? Who are they?  How many capable working age educated Germans. How many families? How many Children… There’s a spreadsheet, I bet. The de-industrialization gag follows General Ripper’s principle… two can play at mitosis (pardon the tautological pun). We shall, I expect, see the nazi Germans affiliate appropriately, and the good Germans? Ah! I rather expect the result will be favorable to the good. I note that being forced to take up roots and move is liable to create a slowburn motivation, a persistent social memory drang. Who will be left behind? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

      german map proposed plan M

      Previously, of course, many German POWs worked in USSR/Russia, as we know. I believe many decided to stay after their release in the 1950’s – but it’s a bit out of my depth. Here’s a bit about the Soviet/German rockets> https://warontherocks.com/2019/10/the-forgotten-rocketeers-german-scientists-in-the-soviet-union-1945-1959/

      I like the Soviet Poster! And I cotton to the genre. Although I do recognize, now, some Russian in print, and catch words and get new ones, I can’t read the poster. Alas. But I get the idea. Yewbetcha! And probably not just Germans… 😉

      We get to cling to the wreckage. Neh… Anoxia abides. Rode old bike ’round the village, did electrical work, world war continues… Mother told me about how it was. She was right. It’s terrible. It becomes normal, which is itself appalling.

      Best! P

    • #14928
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Italy as a microcosm of dying Europa?? Not merely demographics, but a sclerotic paradigm unwilling to distribute opportunity (especially to the young), evolve from rentier economy, and unburden locals from taxes and being legislated to death (ahem — 😐 California and Blue states..) haven’t they learned anything after the periodic collapses of three millennia? And how many books were written of Oligarchy, usury, and avarice.

      And could this bleak tableau help explain why the West is hellbent on conquering Russia at all costs for new sources of lifeblood for the People of Perpetual Plunder? I’ve observed this model in USA too… opportunity deliberately denied to local youth, which in the old days used to drive feedstock into the stormtroopers and foreign legionnaires… and now into the seedier underground. Enforced austerity is a driver of fascism too

      It is a pity about Italy. What a beautiful land. Even better than a dreamy postcard. A land that seems to sleep for millennia in the sun, with such violent and quarrelsome men sweeping back and forth in vain

      No, they do not have all the time in the world. Many dials and clocks are ticking down and into the red. Everything’s been committed. It is beyond Biden’s paygrade and risible US election politics. Merkel, Hollande, Il Papa, Finland, Japan, Sen Graham — all released the Hounds of Hate. Onwards into the Breach!

      PS — yes, RIP Unabomber, and today Signore Bunga Bunga (Putin’s former quasi-consigliere)

    • #14930
      Sudhi
      Participant

    • #14931
      Mr P
      Participant

      Ah! Brother and Friend…and that’s a story I bet…anyway do you (and the fellas down at the copshop, hi fellas) Know the possibly good old days when there was at least a simulacrum of socialist drang in the US, as in the film propaganda series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsintGi5JA  That’s the “Why We Fight Capra film documentary section #3, absent from some “collections”, ahemm.  But here’s the full canonical meat> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwVCjzrJsXwAiWBipTE9mTlFQC7H2rU

      The Russia bit may be worth a quick trip through.

      And could this bleak tableau help explain why the West is hellbent on conquering Russia at all costs for new sources of lifeblood for the People of Perpetual Plunder?

      Man, you know. Like scorpion. They either sting or they’re not scorpions…it’s who they have become. And our dear westleaders are probably all taking dope of the street as well as of the pharmacy… something I would point out is not much of a distinction. That’s to say they have suppressed empathy and moral restraint, reduced higher function…so I’d bet. Party on! Yeah. Ah seen the show…it’s a re-run, and the endings can be nasty.

      Withal, the first url shows why fascist monsters want, and what they want, and all the nifty stuff they want to steal… well, in their own words come to whisper and haunt, eh? How stupid evil folk can be, despite their cunning arts, they always tell. Hustlers beware…the Gods speak truth through strange mouths.  Though, come to think on it, who else but a sodomite would know of the full character of his topic, the liquidation of quality by vice? What other? Well there were others too, and they also were a bit odd, eh?

      The principle I see is a systemic “other” couple>a pathological hunger and drang to plunder forming a “heated anode” (attacking) and juxtaposed the treasure held dear with the owners thereof. Said owners have a nice assortment of brains, resolve, and pitchforks. Both groups, sets, yet coalescing and becoming obdurate, the drivers for this process continue to operate. Anyway, Capra’s long “Russia” is worth the time.

      Noting also that the fascist junta has an existential abyss at its back. And hope dies last. Even though they’re personally cowards, they’ll scruple at nothing.

      Best! P

    • #14952
      AHH
      Keymaster

      B of MoA recently opined that after the destruction of the third iteration of the UkroNazi proxy, the West would be confronted with two choices, “Send in ‘western’ armies with the equipment they still have or declare victory and go home.” I disagree! Neither option 1 nor option 2 appears realizable in the face of Russian determination for total unconditional surrender of the combined satanic west. And they are gritting their teeth to settle with the deviants after the torment of a millennium.

      Option 1 is out of willing proxies, after having watched with mouths agape the total obliteration of Ukies and total incineration of the best western weaponry. Even if a few slow-witted are convinced to suicide themselves, it will not hamper proceedings significantly or for long. It would eventually come down to US boots… themselves inadequate to the task of Asian land-war, and unsurvivable in the required scale of crossing the Atlantic unmolested.

      Option 2 is no longer possible in the age of the internet, where the 90% Rest of Mankind got front-row seats in real time. What was really incinerated in the Steppes of Novorossiya was western mojo. This was unsurvivable. This unmitigated and historic catastrophe sunk greater Empires in the past. They will be mocked in the Four Corners and on the Seven Seas. They may even be given alms and rum (and fentanyl to ease into the loong sleep) out of pity for degenerate and broke old kings hobbling along on the streets.

      This leaves Option 3 or Option 4.

      Option 3: commit to the bitter dreg and fully attack with all tools at disposal, without pretense or shame. The Pirate Ship foundered on the Rock of Russia… It must move the Rock aside (and Time, the Heavens, and Fate itself) to even have a chance, nevermind have renewal. They will look with longing and bleary drugged desperate eyes at Chekov’s Gun on the Wall.

      Option 4: Admit the checkmate and Kneel. Impossible with current nomenklatura and technocrats of Empire. There would have to be wholesale change of elites, as promised by Putin. And given rabidness, rank irrationality and the retribution waiting for their sea of crimes – for they are the living modern manifestation of Kamikaze nutcases or their beloved Salafi suicide-bomber proxies. They will not permit themselves to be captured, and yet cowardly hide behind manipulated western Law, removing possibility of solving them in a legal manner in front of tribunals. They will be followed even unto the outhouses, per VVP.. but these minutae aside, the larger question is what sane realists remain who can sign the sheets and help effect the change of regime.

      ZZzzzzzzzz……………

      Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “What time is it?? Time to Nuke or Kneel!” 

      (1) Meyssan calls it as is blindingly evident to the lucid. He tends to be a little ahead of the current moment, like Kadyrov about a week ahead of proceedings, but is largely on the money.

      (2) A panicking Macron enters NIRVANA and nearly gives the game away. Do shredded Ukies actually have capacity to survive for mere days?? Oh, the sweet agony of GlobalNazidom Inc.

      (3) Vucic repeats his warning from last summer. Hell cometh for the hopeless West, should it insist to continuing fighting a lost war.

    • #14973
      Mr P
      Participant

      So far, they always double. And so far they believe delusionally. And their personal safety is on the table. And they cannot run away. Having summoned Mars, they’re subjects of  Phobos and Deimos. Zugswang. And I see that the Great Intellectual has “decided” to send more DU to 404…which as everyone knows, is seen by Russia as an atomic attack. Hanged for crime looms, why not use everything…. How am I to collect from Stumpy?

      Evidently the unwilling fellas surrender’d to R and left the leopard engines idling… pssst, you got a white tshirt buddy?

      Best! P

    • #14982
      Sudhi
      Participant

      Excellent essay by Alexandr Rogers in his live journal :
      https://alexandr-rogers.livejournal.com/1672098.html

      The journal remains under heavy attacks for quite some time, and access to it has become infrequent.

    • #14984
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Sorry all … I am scarce in these woods for a little bit.  Just a week of picking up medical pieces while the world is exploding.  It’s been funny – not my medical pieces but one that is dearly beloved.  Who came home after the first small surgery yesterday, quite in shock.  He was traumatized.  But hells bells, I told him.  But hells bells, he did not believe me – who wants to believe your wife?  Who really did not want to talk the scare into someone else ya-know.

      We got past this point .. he said he was traumatized because all of a sudden he realized that this is real .. he is in the hands of the medicos, and they will tell him which room to go to next, how many steps and when to weewee and what to wear.  He did not expect full surgery with all the bells and whistles.

      OK, today is checkup and tomorrow is another surgery.  The next day is checkup and then he has a few days free lol.

      The only thing that I am allowing him to read, and he is wearing a set of spectacular dark specs, really Hollywood, (I’m falling in love again!) is the new Michael Hudson .. We should be out of this by end of week.

       

      • #14986
        Sudhi
        Participant

        Dear Amarynth, I’m so sorry to know that the surgery has caused trauma and shock to your dearly beloved. Perhaps the surgery will remove the malady, one never knows.

        Homeopathy can be fantastic in helping recovery for post-surgical healing, and for removing scar tissue after surgery :

        HOMEOPATHY FOR SURGERY


        “Staphysagria 200c: in abdominal operations, Staphysagria is preferred after the operation, which suits clear-cut incisions. It is nicely complemented by Bellis Perennis 200, which acts in deeper tissue, is better than Arnica after major abdominal surgical work.”

      • #14992
        AHH
        Keymaster

        Dear A, I very much agree with less screen time. Most unkind even to healthy eyes. Here are some which should help during the frustrating recovery period…

        • activating voice-reader mode – many devices and sites offer audio reading of desired written material.. a way to stay on top by news junkie without straining the eyes
        • warmer, less harsh lighting. Switching to yellow soft light bulbs makes a world of difference!
        • Activating night-mode everywhere, including yellower lighting on screens. Monitors with Low Blue Light if avail is optimal. I bought a large monitor years ago for this low blue light and to blow up the font to larger comfortable size. Do what it takes to result in less white light glare and straining as possible. I do this all the time now since read so much. It also saves energy levels, headaches at end of day, etc…
        • Frequent breaks. 10 minutes on screen at a time in first week or so, then long breaks off-screen..
        • Until recovery, switching to news aggregators such as the Duran, Smoothie, [Wife!], etc.. instead of primary sources. Will save time using reliable secondary sources.
        • since will be on post-op local steroids, boost immunity through good food, honey, sunlight (but early/late day with the least glare), FOLLOW EYE DOC ORDERS (!!) – can be especially difficult for stubborn men
        • No bending down or heavy lifting or anything which can increase intraocular pressure (straining on toilet too! So plenty of fruits and water to avoid constipation)
        • No rubbing of occasionally itchy eye-ball – if can’t control himself – wear hard shield patch during sleep
        • Be optimistic as outcomes for these surgeries are amongst most successful since amongst most common on earth and so being treated by some of most experienced docs. For the similar cataracts, 85% regain function and recover within a mere 3-4 days…

        Salute!

    • #14993
      Mr P
      Participant

      At 93 it went well for father of Mrs P. Blessings Dear. Prayers. P

    • #14998
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      amarynth, prayers & blessings to you & your beloved.

    • #15000
      Mr P
      Participant

      A gentleman barrister in London, whom I keep a weather eye upon, has written >

      From Hegemony to Multipolarity: How Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Russia is Creating a Modern Eurasia (Abridged Version)

      Brother Makinde sometimes writes things with which I may disagree. But we have agreed on many occasions.

      Excerpt> The overarching objective of the “Defense Planning Guidance” for the 1994–99 fiscal years which was published for internal consumption in February 1992 by Wolfowitz and fellow under-secretary Scooter Libby, was that the United States would use the vacuum caused by the breakup of the Soviet Union as an opportunity to prevent the rise of any nation attempting to take up the mantle of a global competitor.3 In seeking to achieve this, it explicitly disavowed being bound by multilateral agreements and envisaged destroying by military action or the application of economic pressure any nation which operated in a way which was inimical to America’s declared political and economic interests.

      In this instance it may be that our Brother undervalues the diabolical cadre as a foundational driver…ie his views, though deep, might be deeper yet.

      Best! P

    • #15001
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Today (Moscow time now) begins the SPIEF economic forum in St. Petersburg.. one of the most anticipated gatherings in the world this year.. Note the highlighted attendance by ASEAN (third biggest economic zone), in addition to BRICS, CIS, West Asia, and 2/5 of Africa.. business continues for the part of the world interested in constructive wholesome living.

      Mr P: Wow! The FA Axis video confirms what I was told by a mathematician once – anything and everything can be expressed mathematically. I am no longer “Jadad,” lol

      Sudhi: I remember reading an Afghan saying (and they really love and observe their proverbs), to paraphrase – first came a solitary explorer or wanderer, then merchants (or teachers or surveyers??), then came the invading armies… a variant of what my History teacher explained as the three Gs or the three Cs: God, Gold, & Guns (not necessarily in that order, or in import). An efficient process, well demarcated by the Graeco-Romans on how to pillage and subdue the subjects with various devices. It must really be tiresome (but interesting) to live in crossroads of civilizations like the Afghan or the Russians of Novorossiya

      Addendum: I found it:

      “first comes one englishman, as a traveler or for a hunt. then come two and make a map. then comes an army and takes the country. therefore, it is better to kill the first englishman”
      – pashtun proverb

    • #15002
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      dear, ahh, thank you for leonard.  i didn’t get a notification of your posts on the june 11 pepe, so checking something else, came upon them…i apologize & i did reply.

      i’m travelling for the next few days & will be reading but responses will be spotty, more so than usual.  🙂

      i’ve never heard michael hudson as emotional as in ‘the long interview’.

      yes, the dam.  the dam.  the dam.  how very near we are.

      small wonder you have such a shaking in your bones.  you know.

      the sputnik although similar in some content, was nearer to his usual A follows B & this is what happened & why & this is the result.  not seeing it ( buggering europe specifically germany etc.), doesn’t mean the result wasn’t the intention.

      & tomorrow SPIEF.  i adored russia day!  especially, the tallest building in the world celebrating russia.  can you have such a light show & still be fence sitting?

    • #15003
      siljan
      Participant

      amarynth, peace & blessings to you and your hubby and a speedy recovery for him.

      Thanks for all you do to make this site such an important source of information, wisdom and wit

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