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Mr P
ParticipantAs contrast and as a method to help place the “now” as apposed to the “then”, one may read/scan through the WW2 period of US propaganda – quite pro-Soviet…
See> collection https://archive.org/details/pub_popular-mechanics
I read most of these issues as the consequence of a Church paper-drive (in US used newsprint was a market, back when the industrial base existed). I rescued most of the collection, and read every page, many times in some matters)
From 1940> https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1940/Popular_Mechanics_01_1940/
As I recall you’ll see stories about the Brave Soviet Army and Airmen, and so forth. Also an undertow of cryptofascist clues about what was to come after…
I remember too…a bragging about the addition of cadmium to incendiary bomblets, phosphorus mostly, such that the cadmium vapors would ruin the lungs of the firemen…I think that was a Brit gag…but yaneverknow. Chemical war? Yewbetcha.
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Despite the emotion and vulgar language Brother Hal displayed yesterday evening, he did interest me with the claims of nukesniffer aircraft ostensibly searching for Poseidon machine. His opinion of Comrade Putin’s face…? (weight of world) Well, yes, but if you watch the entire parade film he also smiles a few times. Nevertheless it seems that the die has been cast, and the war-period we may come to see as “skirmish” has ended. Of course he was misinformed about the USSR never being at war with Japan! Poor sod. Especially since that war has yet to end.
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In Anoxia, At Stumpy’s Grocery> Some dope addled women held up the queue, and we began to chat… I mentioned the Alaska bit…and the bigbigplan to denazificate and demilitarize, and the Hawaii Kingdom bit. Fort Ross and the Russian River… There gathered a small cluster of discussion. Having salted the scene, I lapsed to listen. They came to agreement! It reduced to the consensus that it would very jolly if the Ruskies rid the US of the criminal gang. Anoxia is a “military town”. How about that.
…………… Thanks Brother for the Krokodil image. This was spoken of by Smoothie, and it’s a great poster. Speaking of which, Brown Univ has a collection of Soviet Posters, quite cheery! I can name some of the faces, but not all, pity…
Best! P
ParticipantYes indeed I have happily savored Linh Dinh’s wonderful writing. Long time too.
Only slightly tongue in cheek> They say that Rus wants the Fort and the River back, as well as Alaska…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_River_(California)
Anoxia is located in Jefferson. https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.1/communities-rural-discontent-finds-a-home-in-the-state-of-jefferson
If the people of Jefferson knew more about matters, they’d probably vote to join Russia by referendum, or more reasonably, trade agreements and recognition of Sovereignty.
Sometimes a lot happens very fast, sometimes not.
R H Dana said that Rus had a station at Long Beach (Los Angeles port now) I imagine that’s an over-reach, but one never knows…
……………….But I want to tell a story about a fella I never got to meet.I dated one of his daughters in the 1960’s and she told this story> 1942 US fellas enlisted, but not her dad. Soon came the draft, he refused, no fight imperialist war! There were many other fellas felt the same, she said. In mountains there were old CCC camps, and the US put the refusniks in remote camp, poorly guarded. They brewed hooch and grew marijuana…all through the war. Her dad was major instigator of this mild rebellion, and everybody knew him as “The Big Apple”, since he was a Communist from New York… She was a Commie from Los Angeles, and beautiful, like her sisters, and her mother.
The story is imho, true. And it was an undoing of the myths…
There! Best! P
ParticipantSome time ago I watched a clip of Howard Zinn telling a story about his awakening in W2, he was an officer-bombardier. He said that a tail or waist gunner and he were chatting, and Zinn remarked that they were fighting nazis and fascism. The gunner disagreed. He said they were fighting for imperialism. How about that. Rather a shattering of delusion.
Evidently Klaus Fuchs thought so too. And that war continues…
I note that in US media they speak of Ruskie parade celebrating defeat of Germany, not of nazis and not of fascism. A bit of a tell, that. Eh?
Best! P
ParticipantRecalling that the League in violation of its own charter illegally expelled the USSR…thus assuring war, many say.
In view of that, the UN goes even further, and expels Peace, endorses war. How fitting, it makes a nice rhyme.
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Sudhi! Glad you check’d out Connie C!
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Best! P
ParticipantA minor note. VVP @ the Parade seems to be wearing, rather without subtlety, a ballistic armor vest. Very obvious under his coat… As in there is no attempt to conceal the fact.
This is yet another telegraph’d signal. Bellum vita gentis et ducis hoc debet ostendere…so to say. The people must see that they are all at war with the fascists and nazi rats.
Great leadership. Parade> https://youtu.be/bAhtGOjJ_FE
Best! P
ParticipantOh! Brother! No sweat! No offense whatsoever. I agree that my syntax can be, often is, unpolished. I did aspire to be a beatnik… maybe I managed, our digs are almost classical beat, right down to guitar and the VD poster from Berkeley back in the day. Not quite Pia Zadora’s beat pad in Hairspray though. Got a “Ruski Soldat” Bear wearing Ushanka and Saint George ribbon, a Soviet ruksack (with star) and a plastic ppsh41 tommygun…even the bikes are beat sorta bikes. Soviet flag draped over little Ivan. Sehr camp.
Evidently (as we’ve previously spoken of> “Moscow is preparing to launch the procedure for returning Alaska,” – Vyacheslav Volodin said.” (at g-chronicle too)
“…There appears to be a deep foreboding among many Americans of all classes, that a reckoning is coming….” This was, I’m pretty sure, seen on the horizon even before VE and VJ day…the American Blacks coming home from the war were going to demand full civil rights, and many intellectuals of the American Left understood that if this necessity was not satisfied then there would follow strife and dissolution, drift by degrees into a fascist tyranny. As a child I overheard such discussions. Of course the “nationality issues” (as the Soviets used to say) were cynically and deliberately used to profit the very few and divide everyone against his brothers. The matter of course went forth to every group, shade, or identifiable quality…against commies and against intellectuals, and on. Naturally everyone knows know that there’s the Devil to pay. People joke about how it might be just fine if those Commies nuked DC. They may get to see that.
I’ve spoken before about the spooky action echos from the future. Perhaps that’s not delusional, dunno.
Happier note (pun!) Connie Converse https://archive.ph/3iUYP There’s link in the article to her some of her old songs… A mysterious girl…
Anoxia has several features that sustain it fairly well under strain…rail and river and soil and farms and orchards, sawmills and grazing spaces, a common confession, and a homogeneous population…if left alone. These “hicks” mostly know how to do things. If left alone. They have nutty ideas…but the basics are there, they are kind people, I get invited to church frequently…I may start visiting them to hear the sermons. I wish they published though. There’s a story about the Quaker who attended a Methodist preacher’s sermon> After a few minutes he stood up and said “Preacher that’s a lie!” I try to stifle myself…
Best! P
ParticipantHowdy AHH and All.
(The CrossTalk 5/8 includes Dima B…and his face is worth watching… Peter interrupted him at the end…but DB was on a roll, imho he’s obviously seeing a tragic future.)
About the frauds, the bit with Pearl, and Moon, and so on… these stories are very pretty, but they’re also inconsistent with fact… for example west coast amateurs triangulated the Japanese fleet, and one of the Matson liners Radio Officers logged the Japanese Kana Morse. Noting that it’s easier to fake a moon landing than it is to do a moon landing… ! But maybe they did place machinery there. Part of the gag… They say that NASA has lost the famous rocks and even the film…whaddyaknow. “Fissures in our tapestry” was the complaint uttered by [Casey, I think] … I heard him say this, he was going on about the Ruskies.
Mother used to as “Heretic” ask questions.
Reading around I see that it’s said that the Imperial Actions since, well, shall we say since the buildings exploded murdering thousands, at least, have a theme or core character, that of desperation.
Indeed, this very word often appears in reporting on the Great Western Leaders and their cunning plans and glorious victories.
Obviously Latin…but it’s an interesting word.
“Having lost all hope; despairing. Marked by, arising from, or showing despair. Reckless or violent because of despair.” (American Heritage)
Looking deeper, we find: “…careless of danger, as from despair; utterly reckless…”
And get to the Latin: “dēspērāre to have no hope”, and taking that word apart, we come to “spero” (first conjugation) > “hope”. Minds one of Dante…
I note that this condition naturally and necessarily produces non-rational destructive behavior. And in the fullness, expiration. Two more interesting Latin terms…http://www.latin-dictionary.net/search/english/destructive
and> the later Latin (circa 1400) form “expire” in the sense of not breathing…death.
Speaking of George Szamuely… (that’s an old Bob Newhart gag!) anyway Galloway has him https://youtu.be/_D6hYJkBQ0g He’s somewhat blunt. Telegraph…didahdidda.
Best! P
ParticipantIndeed!
Not to say who says, but I know, by “quellen”… In jails and prisons the primary dope traffic runs through the guards. Of course there are free-lance fellas, but the business runs through the guards. This scales up…in the California example it’s just the same. My eye sees ongoing Aktion T-4 as having a multitude of avenues to a chilly single goal. Recalling https://archive.org/details/alfred-w.-mc-coy-the-politics-of-heroin-2003 and https://archive.ph/Dkevn I am privy to a startling number of face-to-face testimonials from guards and former employees, and former colleagues who were ensnared one way or another and in prison. They all tell about the same story from their respective experiences and observation – word “Rashomon” – don’t quite know how to use it. Anyway all point to the same principle at work. Do/did “trusties” do the labs for the drug tests in the joint? Yewbetcha! That alone…
Down at Stumpy’s a fat old Black fella in a wheelchair, paralyzed by a stray bullet many years previously, got happy-drunk the other day. Nobody knew the guy. He was babbling about buying pounds of heroin out of the trunk of a Rolls Royce at an estate in Beverly Hills. He said that was in 1969…then he lit a cigar, and rolled back out to his old caddy, and spit gravel down the county road, cigar in hand out the window, waving through the dust. (more or less a true story) Vietnam “China White” via Air America and their pals. Well made diacetylmorphine HCL, dangerous but predictable.
Anoxia radio calls code for dead bodies – sometimes the coroner, sometime fire department, once in a while a natural and expected death – every day. The stuff, the dope these helpless nutzlossen are being fed is far more dangerous than the classical drugs…real Russian roulette stuff. Nothing accidental about the supply chain, nothing at all. Inside job. Contractors. Hey, it’s vice! O Mores O tempora…
Best! P
ParticipantYesterday, listening to rural bus driver declaim as to the good and the not good he sees, he spoke to the helplessness of the people in the face of the ongoing. Passenger spoke of war 404.
Driver replied that Russia and China have the means to fix “Newsom” and the nazis. “They have armies.”, he said.
Everybody’s twigging to the gag. Even the hicks, er, “deplorables” > https://archive.ph/g7UgF motis in fine velocior, eh?
Best! P
ParticipantFinished film. Easy to see that in 1965 it would have been problematic for Soviet States. Easy to see why, now, it’s a sensible choice to show it.
In particular, it ends with a little Soviet girl telling us the story of the “golden egg”….and do we not hear President Putin and many speak of “the golden billion”, in the sense that the film suggests – that a tiny mouse has set in motion the shattering? Yewbetcha. I’d bet that Brother Putin watched that film long time ago in KGB school, not big bet, but bet.
Long film.
………Tiny drone and tiny mouse…and tiny dope fiends…and tiny minds…small thing at right moment…cascade of metastatic failure…..
Brother Medvedev recently wrote, I think, about sending Russian surface warship to add to the submarine fleet standing off US coasts… (this a vague mirror of Alexander doing the same, sorta). Hard to ignore surface ship. That’s an invitation…one that works even if it’s not accepted.
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Brother H. Turner’s angst and turmoil… He speaks of his heart-attacks and such…I wonder if he’s taking statins…and about the psychological effects in concert with events and perceptions. Just a thought. His audience interests me more than the man, though I do feel sympathy. He smokes, they say, and I expect he downs a few alcoholic pain- expellers now and again. I hope he finds peace.
Best! P
Participantamarynth. Your work is wonderful. Blessings. Nothing stays the same for long, machines desire husbandry. Thank you very kindly.
It’s been said between the Alex pair and elsewhere that many question as to why some “targets” in 404 are not destroyed. And it’s been pointed out that these places are probably inhabited by both nazis (any nationality) and by Russian agents (any nationality) providing intelligence to Kremlin. Well, of course. And of course this is normal, natural.
In the first 1/2 of “Ordinary Fascism” (Soviet 1965) nazi film is, in part, addressed. We see human-ness undone, and the substitution of it by salacious scene and spectacle, sex…and a famous actress, a “super-star” of nazi film> Marika Roekk. Alas! I did not know of this lady. Indeed, a beautiful woman.
Banned after the war from acting – this for her intimate association with the ubernazi cadre. But! Looking further, we see another lady inside! No doubt her spirit has company to-day inside those “targets” in 404, and doing dangerous repetition of her courage Huh?
The ‘nazi” Schauspielerin was a Communist and a spy… Very risible indeed, and good cover after the war too! Marika Roekk, 1913 – 2004, d @ 90! R.I.P. good lady.
See> https://archive.ph/Dox1R (Interesting that Gehlen Organization is both mentioned and “corrected” in the Guardian (back in less terrible times it was a good newspaper, as these things go)).
The Lindsey Graham blather about murder calls up the murder of I. Yamamoto and many similarly stupid (and more recent) crimes. These almost always have worked to the detriment of everyone. Such matters telegraph fear, fear of Peace, fear of “other”, and presage defeat. Defeat? Yes, between Yamamoto and the nukes threatening USSR, the US managed to ruin the Peace and “make” the Soviet bombs…and laid the ground for the defeat we see before us. One has only to walk an American city – utterly defeated. Particularly in the American huckster example, the hustler is defeated by the mark inside. Like the “CRM114 in the film, the auto-destruct circuit…
Best! P
ParticipantDear Sudhi, No need to worry about offense. It’s just sad to see young women allowing themselves to be degraded. In a way I have always been a camera. I am sure that the middle-aged lady had some regrets. But a path in life once taken…
Brother AHH, I agree, though Brother Hal imho is hysterical with “transient stress psychosis”…understandable! In degree “ah suspicion”, so are we all. The ground seems to suggest a set-up for a bigbig false atomic false flag in 404. (drum roll please! Theater, Party night at Armageddon!)
The effect of nazi attacks on Ruskie icons…a gung ho resolve to liquidate nazis… So it may be. The Czar may be sad or happy, but now he’s under pressure to satisfy the lusts of his peoples. The direct attacks, and there are many small and not small, function similarly to the Imperial German sabotage attacks in Wilson’s America, possibly as the Pearl Harbor thing did. Of course PH was a ploy, but nevertheless the resolve did materialize.
Speaking of nazis… bigbigfilm> 1965, Mikhail Romm> “Der Normale Faschismus”
entire film> (for now!) https://archive.org/details/ordinary-fascism
The film presented highly inconvenient truths as to the real nature of USSR and real nature of fascism… There are numerous analytical examinations, reviews. These are very interesting. It was on YT; they say that Mosfilm owns rights and made YT remove it, maybe so.
Best! P
ParticipantThank you Sudhi!
The article says in one place more or less what I knew from disparate reading. The one very conclusive photograph of the scene is a “bar” was not very nice, and I had not seen it. Pornography generally, to my eye, is pathetic and crossed against the female in a socially and morally damning assault on culture and maternity. It happens, but it is not good.
Remembering Doonesbury comics and the offer of reward for anybody who would prove GW’s military service, the offer for a picture of a pregnant Mike is, well, I think they call it “trolling”.
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ParticipantI suppose I meant something like “industrious”… “smart” being vague, and simply as a casual remark. I don’t see it as hierarchical…a bit of Candide. Of course, I agree with your father’s saying. Actually it rings familiar.
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ParticipantRead 5, not %…
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