Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “Sign of the Times”

(1) “[bla bla..] could force Russia to move capital to Siberia”  Hmm! This may be a good time to make use of Climate Crazies’ frothing. The larger hints won’t die down. A few years ago, Shoigu mentioned intent to build ***three*** new capitals in Siberia. And now this… Hey, Russia did say it reoriented away from the closed “St. Petersburg window to the West.” And that means closer to new Best Friends Forever, no?

(2) Lavrov demotes Oz to an island in ASEAN (LOL!) “The fate of continental Europe is shared by the other members of the collective West, including countries located in southeastern Asia.“ Ah, the understated and dry diplomatic putdowns! Why we love him so.

(3) Bitter Anglo-Saxons turn against India…. they humiliate Modi during his visit to Oz by screening the BBC documentary hostile to Modi (and censured in India) in their Parliament House. This lends credence to the deduction Biden left Asia quickly without attending QUAD as they had lost India… so the usual insults, threats, sanctions and the sordid viciousness is being rolled out. Puts in context Jungle Borrell’s recent bitterness whenever he speaks about India!

Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “lingering Imperial mentalities” 

(1) The UAE’s insidious role as Imperial bulldog building “lily-pads” and ports through southern Red Sea bottlenecks around Gulf of Aden, Horn of Africa, and Bab El Mandeb. This modern Sparta (and as irrational and irredeemable) may be the most detested gauleiter throughout West Asia, North and East Africa. Or is it being given a role by supranationalist Zionism akin to Venice?? Either way, if continues on current trajectory, very dark future ahead for UAE. It also informs why Russia-Iran-India are turbocharging the INSTC to circumvent Bab El Mandeb, Red Sea and Suez. The good news from Armenia biting the bullet and settling Nagorno-Karabakh (or Artsakh which they’ve held claim to for 3,000 years before Azeris even showed up) bolsters the trans-Caspian INSTC trade flows too.

(2) How old Imperial borders define ongoing mindsets and shared realities…  Very useful video. This was highlighted in Lineaments regarding 1885 Berlin Conference-constructed African borders which stand to this day.. but the same principle holds worldwide. It is salient as we contemplate the next SMO phase and Poland. Medvedev messaged a lot recently about the coming disintegration [Fifth Partition??] of rabid russophobe Poland…..

(3) Internet Archive under the guns of the Ministry of Truth. Much WILL be memoryholed, the good old fashioned way – drowned in saucy Lawfare. So many soulcrushing mental gymnastics used to reach desired ends… Modern Western Law appears an adjunct to Stalin’s Dictum: Voters are unimportant; the Ones who count the votes determine everything… similarly for Those who deemed fit to interpret Law… “one Law for thee, one for mee…”

Hi emerson, I don’t remember Canthama. I’ve lost touch with much of Greater Syrian history. Was more informed decades ago. Nasser, Assad Senior, Gaddafi, their promising generation was mercilessly attrited and taken down one by one after internal division, wars, economic siege, lack of PetroSheikh support, etc.. they simply lacked resources to fight against the Empire of the combined West, their real antagonist. And Russia was not then ready.

Assad senior and Gaddafi were actually close allies for a while in 1970s during pan-Arabism wave. They almost created a confederation state of Libya-Egypt-Syria.. but Empire picked them apart, key being Egyptian submission to US leading to peace with Israel. Then he miscalculated in 1975, intervening in Lebanese civil war, turning region against Syria. Then 1980 Iraq-Iran war polarized and nearly finished off the region, weakening the resistance camp and a Greater Syria project involving Syria, PLO, Jordan, Lebanon… so so many losses, devolving into bickering and disunity, so sad.

I remembered that Salafis and MB attacked Syria in Daraa in 1982.. so he would have had experience dealing with that Imperial proxy clique even before London. And far more important than either Assad is the united, multicultural, multiconfessional, highly resilient and geopolitically agile Syrian state apparatus.. a deep state! Only such nations can stand against West.

so it is doubtful he was naive even before London. However the 1990s were the Hyperpower moment… a deadly allure to all where both the resistance and socialist camp let their guard down for years and are to this day clawing back sovereignty and dignity.

PS – it dropped! A is processing it.. here’s the ToC.. it may not make as much sense to those skipping earlier parts. This is a condensed summary, nearly tied for third shortest part. Enjoy

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Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “Natural Wonders of three continents” 

(1) Stupendous geography & bounties of Peru. is it suprising such a land inspired the flowering of one of the most unique civilizations, that of the Incas??

(2) “Secret” North Korean exports to Africa. (“to contemplate N.K. is to stare into the Abyss,” says our intrepid & mindwashed reporter, lol!!!) The wonders of Mansudae Art Studio! Every Big Man Dictator’s dream. Also consider the viciousness of the losers of the Korean war and their planetary siege tactics… a tale in itself

(3) more on ill gotten British crown jewels (African edition) quite an amazing heist really. $40 Trillion looted from India?? That may be peanuts compared to how Africa was royally pillaged

You’re welcome emerson, I find that speech by Gaddafi to be one of most important I heard in my life. Haunting given what was done to him just three years later. Note back then, Al Assad was laughing at him like many, clowning around. (iirc it was held in Damascus) He’s neither laughing now nor so innocent of the import of Gaddafi’s words, eh?? So many veils dropped since 2011.. folks thought Bush II (Cheney really) was a mad aberration but Obama’s ungodly duplicity and rampage and Russian return to West Asia sobered everyone up. And here we are.

Mr P, I apologize. I wasn’t monitoring misfiled comments. Amarynth and I don’t know what’s going on. For this Salon, if we include more than 2 or 3 links in a comment, it neither posts nor sends an email to moderation. It hangs in limbo. I need to remember periodically to go and check for them. So all please holler if not done within few hours, and I’ll remedy. Thx

The Comedian’s trajectory is fascinating. It may actually be parabolic, with 2018-2020 his golden age?? I have not dug into it, but he was said to be a prostitute in all-male clubs in Moscow?? That may be factual given what we saw of him in leather and platform shoes dancing in homo-erotic videos going viral months ago. Imagine the heft of the kompromat file on this media creation!

Re: “Considering Brother Medvedev’s note about Kissinger meeting Brezhnev, many expect there may soon be a reunion between these two fellas.”
That is excellent point.. Medvedev’s Telegram account is the most important soft power weapon currently in the hands of the Russian Security Council. Even amongst the mockery, there are salient thrusts and threats! And perhaps Wicked Old Heinz won’t be the sole malfeasant meeting Brezhnev soon?? Smoothie was snickering in last video with Ania that plenty of cruise missiles were preprogrammed with names (and real-time targeting coordinates) of the crazies…

What shocked me most about developments in the last week was this twitter of the Russian embassy in Washington DC mocking the fate of the Patriots. See the risible counterpoint the deep state added to the tweet, lol! Oh, the sweet agony! How to royally shaft the MIC and add salt!! We are in the short strokes phase (Roman legionnaire arms) of finishing off the bastards face-to-face. And some yahoos actually contemplate VVP or his nomenklatura would accept the mooted Minsk III and freeze the Ukraine like Korea!!! Heck, they are lustily adding gasoline to the flaming West!

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The issue of Pakistan is intertwined with India and endless work to take South Asia off the connectivity grid of Eurasia, and to make it a ground to assault China from the SW… no land war on China is possible without India…..

atm, Pakistan is the Cudgel used by Empire to beat India at “moments of recalcitrance.” This is its key utility.. And it appears center on the board right now, given Indian

1. refusal to join QUAD in war on China
2. working to settle border issues with China
3. refusal to stick with unipolarity
4. refusal to sever long profitable relations with Russia
5. leadership in dedollarization and diversification from the dollar system
6. profiting from SMO through Russian oil trade (internally and as middleman)
7. refusal to join Green Agenda Craze by deindustrializing (they INCREASED carbon footprint though increasing Russian oil, lol!)
8. serving as leader of entire Global South as head of G20 and other fora

The Rage of Empire is incandescent.

It informs

1. top Bilderberg topic right now is INDIA
2. pushing to make Pakistan an officially failed state – a black hole next door with nukes and all that entails
3. exploding the Kashmir file @ the G20 (with foolish connivance of India itself!! The Modi gang can be triggered all too easily too) – which Chinese friend of Pakistan is boycotting.

There are levers West can harm an India which attempts to sit on two chairs (like Turkiye and KSA). All Global South need to quickly understand they need to abandon West ASAP. Every contact, relation, business, forum and opportunity will be used to harm them and multipolarity. When will India get it and fully dissociate? Hopeful not as late as Pakistan

Oh boy, can I pl put IK behind me 😅🤯
I avoid following celebs like the plague. And it is becoming seedier than a too fast done Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood flic I watched in the 70s.. My friend the Prof keeps sending me Urdu videos too, and says there is a way google can translate it, but I am a semi-luddite and didn’t have the heart to tell him i want out.

I fear it won’t end well for IK. The Junta have killed sitting PMs! And themselves been blown outta the sky with the US Ambassador on board too (talk about misplaced insurance…). Larry Romanoff in his latest taught me why De Gaulle acquired a fear of flying. All imperial outposts are pitiless lands run by hard-boiled men..

I have no proof, but I think IK is being set up to be a “beautiful martyr” by the West. It is amazing the Junta didn’t bite so far. Imagine if the Biden clique shot Trump in February 2021? That is the kind of effect it would have. If my theory on IK being Agent 007 is true, perhaps the Junta is being advised by the SCO how to gently remove the hot-air so he doesn’t take the country with him. This would be his last use for his AZE handlers. So lawfare, removing media attention, smear tactics. Jail was tried as with Navalny, but became too risky and they backtracked. He really has a following.

Anyhow, I cannot help with their internal politics. Not my strong suit for any country. They will continue to harass him. This is easy for a state. He has redundancy in real estate though, lol. Just one of his properties is 150,000 m2. NATO currently owns less real estate in Bakhmut and Lugansk combined! “Catch Me If You Can (2002)!”

Maybe the Russians and Venezuelans are advising the neanderthal Junta, given expertise with Juan Guaidó, lol. “How to make a puppet irrelevant!” No need for hard power. Just string him along, sit with him periodically and hold his hand, media photo-ops with embarrassing plants sitting nearby, while away his media energy, and wait for the Tik Tok attention spans of his handlers to snap and discard him. Aren’t legalese, procedures, officialdom, deliberate diplomacy, drawn-out thoroughness and stately bureaucratic processes beautiful and deadly in their own right?! How many Narcissists committed suicide rather than endure and be smothered in this unsexy and undignified fashion?

PS – The IMF is as dangerous as managing IK safely. My read is the IMF (like sanctions a tool of western state-craft) is applying hard-ball tactics, beyond asset-stripping and austerity. Are they trying to deepsix the CPEC, sabotage Gwadar port, etc…? We do not know the conditionalities, as not public. But Pakistan is balking. Some GCC pals stepped in with help in March/April but Pakistan has been mismanaged for so long, its debt is unsustainable.
“Debt servicing ballooned to Rs.3.58 trillion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year till the end of March 2023 against the net revenue receipts of Rs.3.4 trillion consuming the whole revenues.”  (!!!!)

I was shocked at 80% of Nigeria’s budget consumed by debt-servicing. For Pakistan it is 105%!!! This is criminal and worse than lawfare. It attempted genocide by odious debt. At essence Pakistan has same problem as West. Unrepayable obligations to satanists with cans kicked down the road.

It needs to default. Will it be a test case for the new birthing economic system? This is not far away Africa. It has a border with China and its economies are becoming integrated. Most investments and imports are from China.. It just paid for Russian oil in Yuans… Why not test taking a small economy entirely off the dollar system?? a golden debt jubilee…

PPS – OK. Have been really busy wrapping up Lineaments.. last part 08 out within a few days.. (seriously, I promise it is LAST one this time, and under 3k words too! 😂 Although the ToC for entire set is 4.5k words and 10 pages, lol. I aged writing this!!!)