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  • amarynth
    Keymaster

    For me it is such a day for your poetry.  Today was my husband’s birthday – first birthday without him since he died.  I thought I would be OK, but oh dear – I fell apart.  I felt pain viscerally – remembrances.

    My beloved, my sun, my moon.  Today was a harsh day.  And some very good things happened too.   So I can feel the contrasts of your two lovers.

    Thanks Dimitar

     

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 10 July 2024 #35723
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Canadian citizen and journalist, Laith Marouf, was reporting for Free Palestine TV along with Hadi Hotait in Marjaayoun, South Lebanon, to report on Zionist revenge attacks in the region, when they both faced an assassination attempt.

    https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/israel-attempted-to-assassinate-canadian-journalist-in-lebanon

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 10 July 2024 #35593
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    I’ve used some while being scathing about NATO today. Thanks!

    Let us just ask AHH who is the main squeeze here in the hearty salon.  AHH do you have a way here?  Its nice to have it woven in, but you might be thinking differently.  Over to you my friend.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 10 July 2024 #35570
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Thanks for the artwork Kid. Nice stuff.

    I wonder though, this thread is going to go poof in a day or two. Should we not make a thread for your artwork? You can pop something into a thread that fits, but at least your artwork is then front and center in its own space?

    Would you like that? I would like to keep it handy to use on the main site.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 10 July 2024 #35552
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    OK, my thoughts on Orbán and he is now talking to Erdogan to support his peace initiative. I really do not care about the Ukraine. It can fall in the pigpen for all I care. It has to do with in a sense trusting Russia to do the right thing. I care more about the Palestinians.

    We see the same play by the west. They speak one thing now, and another thing in a moment. This is absolutely deliberate creating chaos. We can debate if they know it, or not, or if they don’t know what to do and chaos is a natural outflow. You see Netanyahu do this as well. First he likes a peace plan, and then he shoots it down to smithereens. Smoothie had a piece up talking about the war mongering of the US soldiers (NATO as well) and it is the same as the warmongering by the zionist israelis. We may not use the word zionist any longer.

    I am, in my heart of hearts beginning to say … Bring it on.

    From NATO there is this one woman (Pentagon) that says they will be upping weapons production for years and years and continue making war forever. https://www.rt.com/news/600803-nato-protracted-wars-pentagon/

    London is committed to increasing its outlay on defense to 2.5% of GDP, Keir Starmer has said.

    And then, somebody says Russia/Ukraine will talk peace by the end of the year.

    These people want to spend money that they don’t have but they will pull it out of the pockets of their citizens.

    On Orban, he is up one moment and down the next. Here is from Eurasia and Multipolarity Channel:

    Orban made a gloomy prediction for Russia and Europe: it will be much worse.

    The military train has no brakes, and the driver has gone crazy.
    It seems very likely, upon careful consideration, of course, that all this fuss about “pacification” – Orban’s throwing around the world, statements by Bulgaria and Turkey about the need for negotiations and their mediation – they are not really about peace between Russia and Ukraine. Part of Europe has realized that it is being dragged and pushed into a big war, which is becoming almost inevitable.

    According to the old and unkind European tradition, Poland is the point of crystallization of the war. Kiev’s representative, former Ukrainian president Zelensky said that the Polish-Ukrainian security agreement signed in Warsaw provides for the possibility of the Polish side intercepting Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.

    A tactically understandable decision is that the Russian Aerospace Forces have taken out the air defense of Ukraine and those airfields where the F–16 could be based. Now Kiev’s hope is that the Poles will cover the border strip with Poland by 15-20 kilometers (for how long the Polish air defense will last?), and Western fighters can be kept in this strip.

    But strategically, this is another step towards dragging NATO into a full–fledged war with Russia. Here, for example, is the assessment of the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot: “The war in Ukraine is sliding further into a global conflict thanks to this incredible agreement that Zelensky concluded with Donald Tusk – the security agreement signed today in Warsaw allows the Polish army to shoot down Russian missiles and drones in the airspace of Ukraine. It’s called joining the war! On the initiative of that very Europeanist Tusk! Let’s remember that Poland’s membership in the EU and NATO will require us to show solidarity if Poland goes to war with Russia! Let’s urgently stop this madness!”

    The Baltic States are not waiting, but preparing. Together with other Baltic countries, Estonia is developing a “drone wall” project to protect airspace. By 2027, Estonia plans to spend 1.3 billion euros to replenish ammunition stocks, including kamikaze drones, long-range artillery, HIMARS complexes and medium-range air defense systems. In 2025, concrete protective bunkers will be installed on the borders with Russia, trenches will be dug, anti-tank weapons, including mines, will be installed. This is the notorious gun that hangs in the first act on the stage.

    Orban, who issued a gloomy statement “What lies ahead is much worse than we think,” writes bluntly in his article “European governments in the thick of war”: “Europe is preparing for war. Every day they announce the opening of the next stage on the way to hell. We are showered with this every day: hundreds of billions of euros to Ukraine, the deployment of nuclear weapons in the middle of Europe, the recruitment of our sons into foreign armies, the NATO mission in Ukraine, the sending of European military units to Ukraine. My friends, it feels like a military train has no brakes, and the driver has gone crazy. We have to hit the emergency brake so that at least those who want to can get off the train and not participate in the war.”

    It is not difficult to guess who is the driver of this train. Hint: “the driver has gone crazy.” According to Ruslan Kosygin, in 2004, the American military presence in Europe amounted to 100 people and 4 aircraft. In 2023 – 36 thousand people and 92 aircraft. In 2024, 80 thousand were already caught up. Only at the Belarusian border, according to him, a group of 11 thousand American soldiers has been deployed.

    Orban is now trying to be the brake on the military train and involve as many European and world leaders as possible in braking. He notices correctly: “Everything is simple for Putin: look at the facts, energy sources, and population. Putin cannot lose. If you look at the soldiers, weapons and technologies that are used in the war, then defeating Russia is a difficult idea to even imagine.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 10 July 2024 #35517
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Oh yes, it could actually be worse instead of better.  We’re not dealing with rationality there.

    I cannot always say what I want to say, but I really believe Russia should take the Ukraine, despite the utter and deep howling of the international community, if only for the lies that they told.  Remember Russia was on its way to surround Kiev, when they turned around and withdrew, and all of us were astounded … then only afterwards we found out that the peace negotiations had made progress.  But, it was only a lie.  And the Minsk accords, both sets of accords were done to deliberately deceive Russia.  Well, I don’t think that will happen again (I hope not!).   But then I also believe someone should go and make war against Israel.   And then I can argue why Iran for example should not enter in the fray.

    And in two seconds, rationality leaves the room.

     

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 2 July 2024 #35484
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Stupid Show More Button … here is the whole text:

     

    #YEMEN: There is a striking paragraph in the statement of the #Yemeni Armed Forces about carrying out three operations against two American ships and one #Israeli ship.

    The paragraph, which appears for the first time in military statements, is directed at Saudi Arabia in the first place, then the #UAE in the second place, and then others.

    The paragraph confirms Sana’a’s knowledge of the secrets of what Saudi Arabia is doing, whether in the siege or providing facilities for the Americans in their attacks, and that it is close to implementing a major matter.

    The concluding paragraph of the #Sarie statement says: “The #Yemeni armed forces, with the help of God Almighty, are fully prepared and prepared to carry out the required tasks against all parties that support the #Israeli enemy and that target the #Yemeni people and provide military facilities to the American enemy and the #Israeli enemy in targeting the #Yemeni people.”

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 2 July 2024 #35473
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Hi AHH, that OSINT chart is questionable. Source .. a few but Taiwan MOD and Japan MOD – do not make me happy lol.

    South – they are fighting floods at Yueyang, central China’s Hunan Province. But there is a lot of them perhaps some others are elsehwere.

    East – usually is around Taiwan.

    Yellow – No clue.

    But China announces their exercises. The comments on that chart are just pushed too much you know .. pushed beyond what they are doing. Once China goes out in terms of the military, we will all know it. It is in any event so huge that it is hard to follow.

    Xi Jinping signed a lot of commendations today.

    in reply to: Africa #35320
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Let me leave this here.  This is an interesting story from the South African white community.  With the last election, there is some hope for this community and they all feel it.

    The community is working together and their slogan is:  ‘We will do it ourselves’.  They fix their own roads, the one town now has their own fire station, they are building last I heard some small power stations and they do a lot of community outreach and specifically safety outreach.  Remember, you may not donate to anything that is white.  You may only donate to black causes.  I have told about the approximately 300 pieces of racial legislation on the books, mostly new and designed to display some very weird restorative justice to people who were not even born during the apartheid years.  People are legislated out of the workplace and the crime rate on white is much higher than the crime rate overall, which is horrendous already.   This is after these white Africans in a referendum voted for change in the country many years ago and there was a Truth and Reconciliation process to work for better relations.  There is always the story that capital is still in white hands and if you are white, you get accused of having ‘capital’ lol.  After 30 years of freedom?

    When I was there last, a good 12 years ago, my mom regularly donated to a seed bank.  I wanted to take some seeds and go and make vegetable gardens at a nearby very poor squatter camp.  I was told under no circumstances, as I would be killed wanting to do anything ‘while white’.   It is a forgotten community and the podcast will tell you why.

    The podcast makes a short but good overview.

     

     

    in reply to: Africa #35312
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 6 July 2024 … Open Thread #35311
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    This was several tests — kindly ignore — they are gone now.

    Here goes another:  Yeah, it goes poof!  Done with this messy stuff for now.

     

     

    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Saturday night at the music (or the movies)

    OK, I had this horrendous experience.  This state took everything, even computers and so on, but I have some back now, as they decided I am too salty for them to digest.  Long story, luckily I knew some laws, made friends with their lawyer and now they are leaving me alone.  So, computers came back.  One has a screen problem and of course I don’t have another cable to test on another computer.  I have not touched my husband’s computer which is still there in the corner, and when I feel strong, I’ll put it up and clean up.  What also came back and I waited for it, is four backup disks – this contains almost all of our history for many many years.  One disk had about aah .. easily 800 movies, selected, sorted, not too violent as I watched them with my son and he reacted to something too violent and so on.  First the little cable would not plug in and I despaired – it felt as if the slots were broken after being forced.  Then, I sat down with the phone cable, my tablet cable and another one that I found, and a new one (which I did not even know about) slipped in and I could open the backups.  So, the big sort out has started but first I backed up my current computer and feel a whole lot better.  There still is some work to do, some sort out, but oh man .. a good backup .. I feel fine!

    You know what is missing?  The disk with the movies.  Some sneak thief took that one.  This was 10 years worth of careful selection, music concerts, movies, documentaries, and so on.  OK,

    What are we playing tonight?

     

    in reply to: Africa #35271
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    We have an Alliance of Sahel States (AES)

    BREAKING! The presidents of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso signed a charter on the creation of a confederation.

    The primary objective of the 1st Summit of the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS, AES in French), involving the leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, was to adopt a draft document for the creation of an AGS confederation, according to the Nigerian Press Agency (NAP).

    The summit, held in Niamey, is chaired by Niger’s leader, Abdurahmane Tchiani. Presidents Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso and Assimi Goita of Mali are also in attendance.

    On Saturday, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the military leader of Niger, stated that the people of his country, along with those of Mali and Burkina Faso, have “irrevocably turned their backs” on the West African bloc, ECOWAS

    The last colonists are now being pushed out …

    The German armed forces will give up its airbase in Niger, which was used as a military transport hub, by August 31, as the sides failed to extend the agreement concerning the base, German media reported, citing the German Defense Ministry.

    The talks broke down after the new Nigerien authorities had refused to grant German soldiers with immunity from prosecution, the NTV news outlet reported, citing a document the ministry had presented to the parliament.

    Germany expects to withdraw its troops from the country by the end of August.

    The German military has used the base in Niger’s capital, Niamey, since 2013 as a supply center for its armed forces in neighboring Mali, which were stationed there as part of a UN peacekeeping mission.

    Nigerien authorities have also terminated military agreements with France and the United States, which led to the French and US forces’ withdrawal from the country.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 6 July 2024 … Open Thread #35248
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    Let’s try this cronetoo. The link does not work.

    https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/does–israel–want-war

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 2 July 2024 #35209
    amarynth
    Keymaster

    “We trust the institutions of the nation.’
    [Did the ‘Eye-Raanian’ branch of the civilizational-states just use this election to educate the world about the reality of the Fallen West? How democracy really works, in a civilized orderly fashion, without legerdemain and hostile divide-and-rule ambiance??? O my]”

    Yes, in a big big way. I’ve seen several writings and videos about it already, mostly by butt-hurt Americans who cannot believe their eyes.

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