What are we playing tonight?  Saturday night at the movies …

I realized I was only listening to old music and forgot about my protest music somewhere.  So, I remembered Xavier Rudd.  He is Australian and truly iconic.  Drums and a digiridoo are only some of the instruments that he plays.  He is of course a surfer and an activist and I would suggest a musical poet as well.  To my surprise he is on tour at the moment and very much musically right with it.

The first piece of his that I listened to ever was Follow the Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQvdgT6Eh0

Too tired to shoot anything lol.  I’m going to listen to more Kenny Rogers.  I did not even know I knew all his songs – yikes, country and western music?  I danced the dances and talked to the people while in the US.  Texas Two-Step!  But those guys .. they’re lying beasts.

Here is the last comment for Bolivia.

Tiberius says:

Two weeks ago. Two fucking weeks ago. Don’t tell me you don’t know who is responsible for this.

Have you ever live blogged a thing like that AHH?  It is tiring!  But with this one I know all the good journos, the media and have the commentary at my fingertips, so that helped.  But still .. weary this evening.

AHH, to your comment: ” I have to change my mind about divinely-sent Men sent to torment western demons – it is currently limited to Yemen and N Korea. I must take Russkies out of the short list for now.”

Yeah, I know damn!  But look at it like this.  The next step is all out kinetic war.  Let’s wait before and if we get there.   They are working the corridors of the UN, as I’ve asked for so many times.  They’ve called the original RIC together but India is full of it.  They’ve basically postponed the major tasks for BRICS to gain time for their senior staff.  I truly think we’ve stepped onto an escalation ladder where Russia will ruthlessly act.  But they are calling the two other major and huge civilizations together.

I don’t know but kinetic war is a horrible thing .. Be assured I can argue both sides of the case .. Russia to act in West Asia, or not and Russia to act stronger in the Ukraine or not.  But I get to the end game, and that is kinetic action on a wide level.  If that happens, the west will put nukes into play because they can make trouble, but they cannot make a war.   Right in the last few days there was a stand-off between the mainland Chinese and Taiwanese coastguards.  The Chinese scared them and then went home.

The stress on Russia is great, but the stress on the collective west is greater, exacerbated by the fact that they don’t understand this and live in lalaLand.  Usually and you would know, it is taken as fact that any negotiations are done with rational actors.  Rationality is assumed and presumed as a first principle.  That principle is now gone and we’re dealing with an evil, irrational, and insane actor(s) – add the EU.  (Those women are revolting!).

How full of balloon gas:

Trump claims he was tortured in jail

“I want you to remember what they did to me,” Trump said in the fundraising pitch. “They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail and took my mugshot.”

The politician spent just half an hour in a Georgia penitentiary last August; he was photographed and released on bail.

After a jury’s guilty verdict in another case, Trump declared himself a political prisoner.

Good that it was a little small test.  I’ve done so many that I’m allergic.  And what happens in my head is I immediately analyze the test itself – the brain is so washed to think in those terms that it automatically does it.

It depends on the instructions .. choose by way of your understanding of natural groups only, or what one can do with the grouping?  Then, many people have not seen those tools or what to do with them.  Don’t give me tests where the reasoning is not clear or I can break it.  So I’m the worst test taker in the world as inherently I am unwilling as I know how they are constructed and how numerical values are assigned.

So, I came up with many answers knowing that there are more still.  I chose again and again .. and could find something to do with every weirded-out grouping.   Like using the shovel to pile soil around the log and then using something to tamp it down in order to plant flowers on it in order to put more flower pots on top of the log … or do the same, on 3 sides and create a garden bench .. so what am I?  A gardener, a designer, or a Japanese child? .. or or or.  Throw one of the four out as a thought experiment and see what you can do with the three remainings.  OK, back to work lol.

They are insane AHH. They don’t care – as long as their own buts are safe in their calculations, they will let fly.

Our difference is not the eschatological comment (I made that), but my insistence that Russia and China could do something, I think.

Let’s leave Russia for a moment and look at China. They say a fat lot that sounds sweet and say nothing and leave the responsibility with the UNSC. They also say how good they are and how willing they are and how they made the points with Brazil and how honest and how holy … and so on, you get the picture. They talk to everyone, they say. But, that is where it gets left.

It is as if these countries allowed themselves to be emasculated by the vetoes of the US and Israel running out of their stables spitting long streams of invective. I’ve complained about this for a long time …

Simple stuff, why are they not out in the hallways in that hallowed UN building and shouting the odds, calling short press conferences, saying to everyone that Israel must stop .. I mean, there are court rulings and UNSC resolutions .. 3 I think. But they don’t and their language is not conducive – so, no real action, and language just gets left behind. What is the good of saying that the UN is a structure that must be maintained into the future, and not doing anything to confirm that in reality? (Yes, yes I know the UNSC must be reformed and a few others as well).

Reuters: It is learned that although China is not attending this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland, it has been lobbying several countries to join its six-point consensus with Brazil on a political settlement of the Ukraine war. One source said that China, in conversations with developing countries, said the Swiss peace summit was unconstructive and would prolong the Ukraine conflict. We do not know the exact developing countries. What is China’s comment?

Lin Jian: China welcomes and supports all efforts for peace. Our position on the Summit on Peace in Ukraine to be held in Switzerland is fair and just and we’ve been open and clear about our position. China has maintained close communication with Switzerland, Ukraine and other parties on issues related to the summit and encouraged equal participation and fair discussion of all plans at the summit.

and the more interesting one

Reuters: Israel’s public broadcaster reports that Hamas has demanded that China, Russia and Türkiye serve as guarantors for any agreement it reaches with Israel among alternations to a proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal. Israeli media says the US and Israel have both rejected this demand, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called some of Hamas’s demands “unworkable.” China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi previously has said that China would continue to play a constructive role in handling global hotspot issues. So what is China’s position on the idea it could work with other countries to guarantee a ceasefire? And is Beijing mediating with other powers to see this happen?

Lin Jian: Since the ongoing fighting began in Gaza, China has been working closely with all parties, including the Arab and Islamic states, to jointly promote ceasefire, call for the protection of civilians and do everything we can to ease the humanitarian disaster.

I would like to stress that the current situation in the Gaza Strip is unsustainable and the most urgent priority is to fully and effectively implement relevant UN Security Council resolutions, achieve an immediate ceasefire, protect civilians, ensure access to humanitarian assistance and realize the early release of all those held captive. China will continue to work with all parties to make unremitting efforts to end the fighting in Gaza as soon as possible, ease the grave humanitarian situation and deliver the two-State solution.

End of the story — that is where it stops — at the next question the same old gets recycled – probably tomorrow.

It’s weak AHH – very very weak. Because they are the ones in a sense being followed, they give the Arab community an out, and they give the UNSC an out – just because the words are perfect, but the action is not there. The points with Brazil .. it’s nothing out of this world.

… six-point consensus on a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, abide by the three principles of de-escalation of the situation.

no spillover from the battlefield,
no escalation of the conflict,
no provocation by relevant parties.

At the same time, we call on all parties to

adhere to dialogue and negotiation,
provide humanitarian assistance,
oppose the use of nuclear weapons and attacks on nuclear power plants,
and maintain the stability of the global industrial and supply chain.

And all parties say .. Oh How Cool! Sure, sounds good!

That is my issue .. where are the ships from Russia and China in front of The Gaza strip handing out emergency aid? Are they scared of Israel? It’s like everybody says .. So many of the international community agree (the China/Brazil they quote +100 countries) but then it stays there.

“So pl no one assume if I post something here I endorse it as truth or fully believe it. I will occasionally put here the liars’ narrative, and other unfiltered material, to point out what comes..”

Yup! I know that. This is not you, this is a world wide media tsunami. They catch me daily. We are not immune and I know you work hard at it in formal writing and I still look for the three sources. It is just difficult.