yes, ahh, you’ve cut it cleanly.  the staging was baked in.  it explains why the silent films were allowed such freedom, empire hadn’t yet grasped their potential.

ahh, you & amarynth, & such posts as these are why the hearty salon is of vital importance.  blessings.   agreed on the Night Porter & all sorts of other such bibelots (which in retrospect must’ve been fodder to guide us gently into that cattle chute), are now cringingly distasteful.

of curious interest:  bacon’s brother was a spy for walsingham: founder of the code followed yet by mi6 & the cia.    the bacon brothers from much of what i’ve read were wanna be bros that acted/reacted much like Richie Rich, both  were wards of burghley.

i admit to pausing on tommy douglas.   i was very young, undoubtedly impressible & blind but i marched with tommy d.    got spat upon while walking side by side.   scales are dropping @ the rate of raytheon shares, yet i continue to believe if he was an agent he was an unwitting one, smart as sun yatsen, so to be hoodwinked is a big rat to swallow, for he believed wholly in such things as xi & putin believe.   nutz to crunch tonight amongst my dreams.

powerful opening to another morning in the midst of the maelstrom, ahh.

when yemen partners with china & russia, as well as syria & iran, she should no longer be targeted.   thieving bedouins would encounter chinese & russians on site, working alongside the yemen govt.   thieving would be frowned upon, discouraged in an oriental way; bedouins would be required to strike deals, as profitable to yemen as those china & russia have already signed, therein ensuring any continued thieving would naturally burst like airborne spores throughout the most exquisite & profitable deals, delivering the bedouin a momentary conundrum of which serves me better?    yemen’s formal application would signal a shift from bedouin rules based order to international law.  apologies for being redundant, unfortunately i am not acquainted with why yemen delays?

yes o/c…rust.  small price for spending december in a hammock.  🙂

this is deja vu for me, some years ago (@ the rate time is flying it may’ve been only 4 or 5 years ago, pre bioweapon), when india did something which i thought was badly done & quite shoddy.  they invited empire aboard a ship (i believe although it may’ve been an aircraft), which india had worked on jointly with russia.  @ the time i thought, mother must’ve anticipated this, she simply had to, & has installed back doors & instant notifications, alerts & possibly a quick self destruct if necessary.  russians are trusting, it’s an important part of their code of honour but they are not fools.  russian history has repeatedly taught them to beware of foolish behaviour, hence the compulsion for plans.

india stands to lose so much more than it can gain from playing empire’s ukrainian fodder aloft the south china sea.   the sugar plum dreams may be blinding but, ahh, as you’ve so beautifully described, the persian, hindu, turk & african will not knowingly cut themselves off from victory & great good fortune.  no matter how much modi might wish to once again don the great white stetson & wave to the crowd from the steps of the white house.  that time has passed & cannot be repeated, not even as farce.  bolton, pompeo & dumpster’s charm have been fully eclipsed by the heady perfume of long term prosperity, the return to the great shining wealth of raj, india’s natural birthright.   china & russia do not offer this on loan or lend lease but arm in arm striding on ahead sans humiliation.   how can empire compete with that sugar plum?  even modi must see the difference?

it’s mind boggling that india contemplates this gamble.  surely modi’s advisors & defence generals see it with absolute clarity.  if india choses empire, india will lose everything.  there is no doubt.  china & russia, iran, possibly pakistan (hoping & hoping) will win.  there is no way short of full on nuclear exchanges & even then china & russia will win…& when they do, india aligned with empire will lose big time, the whole show.  india is well aware of the fate of widows, let alone abandoned courtesans, it also knows empire is not to be trusted.  this leads me to hope, india is playing its part to keep the drunk occupied, detained, distracted rather than settling down to bed with empire & bet its nation’s fate alongside a tawdry empire in the war to end all wars.

some of lavrov’s rebuttals & answers of late have seemed sincerely mystified.  how can empire’s emissaries believe what they are saying?  can they really be that stupid?  surely they know they have been defeated, the caravan has moved on, with it all hope of empire’s fortunes lost, ever to be regained.  empire must sit down, sign & hope it can recoup some lowly shelf well down the pit they themselves wantonly designed.

to the notion, washington will neither save nor spare london…will london spare washington?  london may be spared until city has fully removed itself to beijing & moscow.  my guess.  tel aviv also will retreat to its carpetbag for the journey.  the serpent doesn’t imagine it will not survive.

thank you, amarynth, & i apologize for your having to explain the obvious.  simply & end of story:  i respect you so much & am so deeply grateful for global south.co & all you do that i really did not wish to overstep.  thank you, & i wish you & your family well.