John Day
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I’m going to speak up on my own for Caitlin and Ilargi here. I’m a sensitive, entitled, 60 year old white male vegetable-gardening fixie-rider who grew up on Marine Corps bases during the Vietnam war and is no stranger to fist-fighting, or meditations on universal compassion. My patients range from PCP-using black male schizophrenic gang members with 3 little teardrop (murder) tattoos, to white women with PTSD from guys like that.
There is a disturbance in the force. Everybody is feeling it. Everybody feels tense. Hell, drivers are almost hitting me several times on one commute, due to an urgency, coupled with a blindness. People are feeling the stress of the impact coming and looking at their smart-phone porn, shouting “LA-LA-La-lalalalalaaaa!”
The last time the Zeitgeist awoke was 1967, and it was the left that jumped the social consciousness, Walter Cronkite, Jim Morrison and The Grateful Dead. BAM! Oil peaked in the US after that, but not the world. The zeitgeist slept, and was carried on as a fake ghost, like Marx is carried by Marxists, Keynes by Keynesians, and Jesus by Christian hierarchies. https://michael-hudson.com/2017/12/he-died-for-our-debt-not-our-sins/
Things being cyclic, the Zeitgeist is at the extreme of a Yang swing, and about to turn hard Yin, so it is appropriate that the political right, out of left-field, become filled with the Holy Spirit and start emanating the light of universal loving-oneness out of their entire beings.
I’ve read about this kind of esoteric stuff, but at 9 years old in 1967, I was like the little lame boy who couldn’t follow the pied piper into the maountain.
We’ve all heard for years that we, as a species, need to evolve from materialism to spiritualism, or die, and we’ve all examined things pretty closely and figured we’re doomed.
The Way of the Tao is Reversal.
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Cheshire CatThanks Ilargi,
This really hammers it out clearly.
Also: Tom Keiley at INN World Report would like to talk to you about an interview
https://archive.logosradionetwork.com/category/inn-world-report-radio/
His email is pretty simple, and Eleni may be contacting you about it. I’ll happily provide it for you.
Again, BRAVO!
(Oh, cool, my avatar image shows up now)“Since large, concentrated societies contract to the Core to protect themselves and their critical assets, those in the core historically won’t offer time or resources to help anyone but themselves: the army, the police, the roads, the tax officials. When that is true, you may want to localize, decentralize and maintain your own Core, with your own people, at home. This re-localizing will re-establish the balance of power in the Periphery where most people live.”
Thanks, Dr D. I think people are confused by the magnitude of difference of the scale you are addressing here. We can be effective at the scale of a small agricultural community of the year 1900. That is also a good fallback scale for the reset of the complex society to more stable and much smaller regional units. Here is Murray Bookchin on Municipalism, where the impetus of political power arises from the many small, local economic units, where it coalesces at a human scale. https://social-ecology.org/wp/1999/08/thoughts-on-libertarian-municipalism/You may recall that incoming Fed Chair, Jerome Powell let this slip last December, about the Fed needing to unload it’s short-volatility position.
“It is about $1.2 trillion in sales; you take 60 months, you get about $20 billion a month. That is a very doable thing, it sounds like, in a market where the norm by the middle of next year is $80 billion a month. Another way to look at it, though, is that it’s not so much the sale, the duration; it’s also unloading our short volatility position.”
[Powell had given fair warning, and got right to work on his first day.]
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/fed-chair-makes-striking-admission-we-have-short-volatility-position
So what is taking the least heat? What will central bankers support as cleanest-dirty-shirt, to send the stampeding herd into? I think they actually want the herd in the crypto corral.Oh, it seems you have posted a semi-banned and politically incorrect work of art as the poster today. I’m shocked, shocked…
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42904024Ambrose says the EU refuses soft Brexit (gonna’ teach a lesson) so Theresa May has to take the WTO option right away (all that’s left, and actually not a default-setting). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/02/01/eu-refuses-soft-brexit-must-invoke-wto-immediately/
Happy 10th anniversary. I have been on board since about May 2008. I’ve finally sent another (borrowed) donation to you, having been more faithful in donating to the Greek soup kitchen in recent years. We keep being “close” to paying off the credit card, a “receding horizon”, to be sure.
I’d like to mention other Oil Drum veterans, Gail Tverberg (the Actuary) https://ourfiniteworld.com/
and Nate Hagans, who teaches more and blogs less, these days https://www.themonkeytrap.us/
Gail’s take that “The Depression of the 1930s Was an Energy Crisis (peak anthracite coal) is really a well supported hypothesis, which explains a LOT of history at once. https://ourfiniteworld.com/2017/12/19/the-depression-of-the-1930s-was-an-energy-crisis/All of the resources of the global nuclear-dollar-oil-gas-empire must go into maintaining the structure. When the structure fails, the music stops, and all participants are on their own, feeling hungry, some armed and with nothing to lose.
It is incumbent upon us, while we have some opportunity, to forge small living/growing/habitation systems, like little right-living lifeboats for the vast systemic reset from a world of growing energy/resource-availability, to a world over Seneca’s Cliff. Save what you can live in/on, but that is hard to steal and transport away. Sweet potatoes are hard to steal. Wheat, rice, corn and beans are easy to steal.PayPal just let me send $99.99 to recedinghorizons for soup for Greece.
Thank you for your work in that Ilargi.
I am still in credit card debt, and making excuses for it being so many years since I donated to TAE, itself.@V.Arnold
“Outlaw nation:, yes; under Corporate Control, though…
Artificial Intelligence has already taken over,; It’s called “The Corporation”
Corporations, just like a potential runaway AI, have no intrinsic interest in human welfare. They are legal constructions: abstract entities designed with the ultimate goal of maximizing financial returns for their investors above all else. If corporations were in fact real persons, they would be sociopaths, completely lacking the ability for empathy that is a crucial element of normal human behavior. Unlike humans, however, corporations are theoretically immortal, cannot be put in prison, and the larger multinationals are not constrained by the laws of any individual country. With the incalculable advantage of their superhuman powers, corporations have literally taken over the world. They have grown so massive that an astonishing sixty-nine of the largest hundred economies in the world are not nation states but corporate entities… Around the world, worker-owned cooperatives have demonstrated that they can be as effective as corporations—or more so—without pursuing shareholder wealth as their primary consideration. (Who will bell that cat? Be a cooperative worker, I guess.)A.I. or Charter of the Forest? The sustainable one has no chance against the rapidly accelerating one, which stands to sterilize the face of the planet. “Creative destruction”? The best we can apparently hope for is immediate financial collapse and EMP warfare that AI can’t thrive in.
Lovely.
Growing vegetables, while it remains possible…Two things:
3 thumbs up on the DNC rant Dr D (I’m also Dr D) It is pretty serious that Seth Rich may well have been murdered for leaking to Wikileaks. that really looks like the case to me. The Clinton syndicate has not been hesitant to murder, ever. That still cannot be said openly. With Brazile coming out openly in a (limited) attack, some other power has her back. I wonder about Mueller, too. He is deeply compromised in the Uranium One corruption shenanigans. His FBI prevented a whistle-blower from talking to the press, and hushed it all up for Secretary of state Clinton, while Bill got half a million to talk to some guys, and the Clinton Foundation got over $10 million (as i read). I think the Deep State control of this country is being contested right now, actively.
Secondly:
Irony alert: The Lebanese PM (with a Saudi passport) resigns on order of Saudi Arabia, in Saudi Arabia, on Saudi Arabian TV. In his Saudi written resignation statement (excerpts) he accuses Iran of foreign meddling in Lebanese politics. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/lebanon-hariris-resignation-the-opening-shot-of-the-saudi-war-on-hizbullah.html#moreThe EU has been a growth based Ponzi scheme, worth holding together as long as overall economic growth let the cans be kicked down the road by promising better days ahead.
That’s ending. It has ended, and the concept is slowly catching up.
Division into small enough entities to be coherent will be hard, and our owners will want to rule by controlling border flows and turning the smaller entities against each other, It’s always worked before…The main point of this article is that little bit near the end. The rest is a plea for the reader to consider it, a broad plea. We, here know Obama as a skillfully-lying puppet. Kiwis probably still like his style.
Yes, we are manipulated by a power that distorts the “reality” we see, to lead us astray, like a manipulated GPS navigator telling the driver to turn left, turn right and go straight.
“Eco-Thrifty”: We can all move safely in this direction. It’s a process, not a purchase.
“Tipping points”: I think we all get that. Change in the dominant paradigm comes quickly (finally), then the degraded paradigm fails to work at all, then…
Artificial suppression of any form of “volatility”, as we now see with financial “markets”, is a late play in the life of a financial system. How might a financial system safely allow more volatility, when the market has been lulled into perfect complacency by the elimination of all volatility, by massive VIX suppression?
Yeah, panic > crash > reset, etc. I think our shadowy rulers/owners have long been preparing for that, but are becoming aware of other preparations, which threaten their prior preparations in this global conflict.“Sharing is at the heart of the permaculture ethics, where it is joined by caring for the environment and caring for people. Although we practice permaculture on our farm and in our community, we’re not dogmatic about it. What drives the eco-thrifty bus is resilience accompanied by regeneration.
Resilience, in this context, is the ability to withstand a pulse. It does not happen by accident. It can be designed, built and managed. Resilience only matters 0.0001% of the time, but when it matters it really matters. Resilient homes stand up to earthquakes and hurricanes. Resilient farms stand up to major rain events and extended droughts. Resilient communities withstand economic downturns and ‘natural disasters’.
Regeneration, in this context, is about getting better, stronger, more resilient over time. Regenerative farms grow food while building soil fertility, reducing erosion, storing carbon, managing storm water, and increasing biological diversity. Regenerative communities reduce crime, domestic violence, drug abuse, and suicide rates while keeping wealth and resources circulating locally. They improve quality of life while shrinking energy use, pollution and wealth inequality.”
Much appreciated, Ilargi, and “you can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself”.I was born the year The Ugly American was published, and have lived and traveled abroad for several years on-aggregate. Yeah, Trump is an American, recognizable as such at any airport in the world. Why quibble unless you think you are to subtle to be tarred with the same brush. I have always been recognized as an American, when traveling. No big deal. Easy.
What seems really important to me is not just that our owners/rulers don’t have a coherent narrative, by which to lead us to the branding chute and the slaughterhouse, but that they seem to be shooting it out at the OK corall, while the herd is wandering in every direction, with a huge thunderstorm darkening the sky, with lightning visible in the black clouds, a cold wind swirling in, and the first little drops falling.
What happens next, hasn’t happened yet. I think it’s up in the air, and Trump being the disruptor of this huge criminal empire of chaos is probably the most that history can ask of the man. I sure can’t ask more…
As an aside, I have less negative judgement against Richard Nixon than is routinely expected of me, less and less, the more I learn. He generally did what he could with a really bad hand, though he should have ended the Vietnam war sooner. I’m not sure he was allowed to. We assume he could have, perhaps wrongly…Let’s move the imperial culture-war from Syria to the Chinese border. Burma will do nicely!
Thierry Meyssan has the story of what is going on in Burma, why the Buddhists are killing (armed and unarmed) Muslims, and why right-thinking Muslim governments like Saudi Arabia must send armed forces to restore peace, PRONTO. (Oh, it’s to block Chinese access to some seaports, as their big investments in rail, pipelines, roads and ports are about to start paying off.) Thanks Eleni.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article198141.htmlLast 3 days of blog stories and comments are excellent ll around.
Bicycle-helmets off to all participants.
Gotta’ go dig up sweet potatoes and pull weeds.First, about Spain/Catalonia: It has been clear for a month, and I have been saying (elsewhere) that the declarations and actions of the Spanish government were of a sort to increase divisiveness, the exact opposite of their stated intention of creating unity. This is now extremely evident, as people who went to the poll to vote “stay” got treated to badly that they voted “go”. The Spanish police and the Catalan police and firefighters contested some polling places, and Catalan police are being charged with dereliction of duty. When the enforcers change sides, the revolution has gone live, and this action forces the uniformed enforcers to change sides.
Whose interests are served by this antithetical behavior? I can’t answer. What is the utility of another Spanish Civil War? To whom? I can’t see the grand sinister plan yet. It just looks stupid. I doubt it really is.
Puerto Rico is still broken. My friend, Manuel is a doctor in the only hospital in the smallish town of Yauco, southwest part of the island. He has been getting one gallon of water per day to drink, and gets 2 minutes on the phone with his wife in Austin from the military, a couple of times per week. His hospital very nearly closed. The relief is just not getting to the rest of the island. People who can get fuel are driving to San Juan for water and food, which is dangerous at night with damaged roads. My main hope is that this will use enough US military resources to delay what looks like a planned invasion of Venezuela, to bestow democracy upon their oil reserves.
Have a nice day…There must be a financial reset, since all the debt is owned by a small percentage at the top, who are not allocating resources for economic health, but for personal protection when the rest of us sink.
The young employables (not all employed) are less capable than in prior eras, less experienced and less adaptable. The ageing boomers will need a whole lot of care, or some hemlock, or some “balanced strategy” of the two.
All of this is in a trend of plummeting free-energy from fossil fuels, and awareness of the ecological doom which looms from all the greenhouse gasses which are in the atmosphere and have decades to play their roles, even if production stopped suddenly.
I don’t see a large plan. Command economy is what tends to happen in dire emergencies. Growing vegetables and building a core network of other humans you can trust and work with (hard to find), and shrinking your distances to those you can bike and walk, is critical for surviving short-term and long term in situations like Puerto Rico is having.
The sun is still shining somewhat. Fix the roof!Am I the only one who recognizes this as the “incompetence defense”?
Of course they see what is going on, and see what they “must” do, and that the two cannot be linked rationally with the theories they have been using.
What “must” be done, will be done, theory or no.
I don’t know what is up with Fischer. He could come back after the crash, untainted, and so on.@V.Arnold
I perceive the average TAE participant to be a baby boomer, as I am. Considering one’s own passage out of life, in a sustained Limits To Growth economic decline, is an important part of planning.
“Last bullet”, or “hemlock” could both be shorthand for that. We don’t contribute actual production in our last 15 years of life. The retired elderly are a group that gets culled early, and with a lot of mechanisms which are less visible, like just turning off the AC in summer for a couple of weeks.
My comment was made to readers who appear caught in the doldrums of abstract consideration of whether a tsunami 15 feet high will be in the spot where we stand, in a few minutes.Thanks for the Bitcoin insights, Dr Diablo. I am much like Simple Simon, “penniless”, myself. No virtual dog in this fight…
“These charts didn’t warn me.” There, I said it. Now what?
Again, it’s not time for markets. It’s time to support sustained basic human existence in partnership with mom-nature. I’m still “long” subsistence farming. I’ve started digging beds at the vegetable garden of this place, which has tiny houses and RVs for homeless people. It’s something… https://mlf.org/community-first/
Here is the vegetable garden I’m growing for the people at work, my gift. https://www.statesman.com/lifestyles/doctor-leads-example-with-garden-people-community-clinic/5Sq9dsCdVEoxomdfXG7OVM/
Here is the how-to-do-it succession rotation gardening protocol for central Texas, that I worked out at home. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Getting to work takes years, not seconds.So what is the next game? Or, what are the next competing games? That’s a game, isn’t it?
History gets very real periodically. Not a game. Live or die together. There’s no making-the-jump-to-lightspeed. You snap to awareness in a snail body, with the beak of a raven about to snap you up.
Get ready. Plant your fall garden. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Save the last bullet, too…@Rapier,
Ilargi often used to refer to “the Tyler Durdens”.
Nobody really knows who Tyler Durden is. It’s cool, not embarrassing…Grow your own vegetables and cut out the financiers… Be an Agrarian-Freeman.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.htmlAfter the Great Reset:
1) Bitcoin as global reserve currency. Bye-bye Triffin’s Paradox. It is right sized for massive transfers, not cigarette purchases. The complexity-cost only makes sense at the highest level.
2) Transaction tax everywhere. “Tobin Tax”, “Robin Hood Tax”, “Stamp Tax”, but make it something that is everywhere the same to thwart global capital exploiting local markets of all kinds.
3) Elimination of debt-based currency. Debt is the money of slaves. Let’s move up the scale to barter-based currencies, silver and gold based currencies, oil based currencies, whatever works out in real terms.
Charles Hugh Smith’s essay today points out that there is only one empire, the global financial empire. To be the global hegemon, you have to borrow the most from the banks, The era of exponential growth is over. Debt based money can only work in the epoch of exponential growth. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly17/one-empire7-17.htmlI was famous yesterday, for doing what I always do, bike commute and grow vegetables. This story is about the vegetable garden I put in at the clinic where I work, in the break patio area.
https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/AustinAmericanStatesman/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=AAS/2017/07/17&entity=Ar04301&sk=8B81855C
Do what you can do… daily.Subsistence farming is ok. Better than not subsisting, as Zerosum observes.
Here is a story about the vegetable garden I put in, and which I tend, at the clinic where I work, in Austin, Texas, https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/AustinAmericanStatesman/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=AAS/2017/07/17&entity=Ar04301&sk=8B81855CDownload that sense of responsibility, fellas… It is what it is, and we have to do what we can do and be seen doing it, and explain it to people in a positive way. I’ve started a 9 bed vegetable garden at my work, in the employee break patio area, and it is generating interest. After a little over a year, it is doing quite well, getting big and shaggy. I keep giving it haircuts. It’s the clinic’s garden, but I tend it. It has been a lot of work and expense, and there will be the fall makeover, and digging up all those sweet potatoes again, but maybe I’ll get some help this time, or not… Here’s the link to the home garden, and succession-rotation program I worked out, posted last July. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
We are engaged here in the discourse of the rich. We are fortunate already.
We have the luxury of education and of insight. Who is better positioned than we are to personally experiment with energy-economizing.
Those of us who are older can just rely upon memory for half of it.
There are energy waste-sinks all around us. I used to have a back yard, but it is now a vegetable garden This is steps from my kitchen, and I sit facing it as I type. It is therapeutic. I ride a bike to work. My perception of life process is in transformation. It seems to take awhile.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.htmlSenators Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul voted against the Russian sanctions, the only two.
Rand Paul is younger, and comes from good stock.
I’d vote for Rand Paul & Tulsi Gabbard, together or separately, after the “Great Disruptor” performs his magic upon the stage of history. (Yes, Karl Rove, I’m thinking of you…)Its clear that the upshot of this testimony is Loretta Lunch obstructing justice, and Comey doing contortions to accommodate it. Trump-the-boor is basically vindicated. We still see no Russian interference with the election, either.
Reality Winner got misused all around, and was light-and-flaky to begin with.So central banks will soon own everything, and the king of central banks, the Fed, is owned by private banks. This is an accelerated approach to “one world government, controlled by central bankers”, isn’t it?
3 US aircraft carrier task forces will be arrayed around North Korea. Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks for massed launches of those new hypersonic missiles, I hear. Is this a hubris? Imagine the loss of face if North Korea hits an American aircraft carrier. What humiliation! Certainly North Korea doesn’t have any of those good Chinese or Russian missiles, though…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-17/us-deploys-two-more-aircraft-carriers-toward-korean-peninsula-yonhapMore Bombs Gone Bad.
The US led forces have now bombed their own rebel chemical weapons depot and accidentally killed hundreds of civilians, even a dozen moderate-rebels.
It’s not like what Syria did though; not the same at all.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/syria-claims-us-led-coalition-strike-isis-chemical-weapons-depot-has-killed-hundredsThat lying Ophthalmologist! 😮
Speaking with the BBC earlier this morning, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the U.S. account of the recent chemical weapons ‘attack’ in Syria was a “100% fabrication” which can only lead him to the conclusion that the West must be working “hand and glove with the terrorists.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/assad-chemical-attack-100-fabricationHow come chemical weapons attacks happen a month or two after John McCains secret visits to moderate terrorists in Syria? (Yeah, it’s only twice; prob’ly nothing to it. Thanks anyway, Eleni.)
Every time John McCain makes secret trips to Syria, chemical weapon attacks follow
Oh, yeah… McCain points out that Russia and Syria did it again, same as last time.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/McCain%3A_Russia_cooperated_with_Syria_in_chemical_attack/57854/0/38/38/Y/M.htmlUh, oh… An MIT professor analyzes the White House proof of Syrian chemical weapon attack from the air, finds the same crater, already on Google Earth, and points out from the White House photos that a 122 mm artillery rocket of stuff had to be put on the bottom of that old crater, with explosive on top of it, to create what is shown in the pictures. Oh, my,… have we made some kind of mistake?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Vs2rjE9TdwR2F3NFFVWDExMnc/viewYou may recall this from a couple of days ago:
“We’re not going into Syria,” Trump said. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.” “We’re not exactly on the same wavelength with Russia, to put it mildly” — again called the nuclear deal with Iran “the single worst deal ever,” and said of the worsening nuclear situation with North Korea: “I knew I was left a mess, but it’s worse than I thought.” Trump also damns Steve Bannon with very faint praise. (Neocons/Neoliberals appear to hold most face-cards again.)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-declines-to-endorse-bannon-says-us-not-going-into-syria-2017-04-11Now there’s this:
It appears that Mike Cernovich, who earlier this week wrote that Trump’s national security advisor, Gen. H.R.McMaster, was planning on sending as many as 150,000 troops to Syria, may have been right again. According to Bloomberg commentator Eli Lake, who has now made a habit of confirming Cernovich “conspiracy theories” (he did so previously with the Susan Rice scoop), Trump may be on the verge of escalating the proxy war in Syria by sending anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 troops on the ground, and – if Cernovich is indeed correct – as much as three times more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/trump-may-send-50000-troops-syriaNorth Korea opens a new street in Pyongyang, the “Big Event” journalists were told to prepare for, and forbidden to bring cellphones to. Kim Jong Un appeared outside and in public (An open target! That’s why journalists were forbidden to carry position-sending cellphones. I suspect he will not be an open target Saturday when they underground test that nuke.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/north-koreas-big-and-important-event-street-openingNuke ready to detonate on Granddad’s 105th birthday. Happy Birthday Kim il Sung!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/north-korea-said-have-placed-nuclear-device-tunnel-could-be-detonated-satuday-morninTrying to get ahead of the news-cycle again, the US might resume massive bombing of North Koreans after a 63 year pause, to prevent an underground nuclear test, which could kill hundreds of millions of Americans or something.
The U.S. Navy has positioned two destroyers capable of shooting Tomahawk cruise missiles in the region, one just 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site. Additionally, American heavy bombers are also positioned in Guam to attack North Korea should it be necessary, and earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group was being diverted to the area.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/us-may-launch-preemptive-strike-north-korea-ahead-nuclear-testBOOM!
One day after the Trump administration demonstratively used the GBU-43/B Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb (MOAB, also known as Mother Of All Bombs) the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal in Afghanistan, in a clear show of force meant to send a signal to North Korea, it released a video of the explosion.
(It’s been sitting there for so long, and we couldn’t just let it get past it’s shelf life, so we had to use it, and it helps legitimize our new president.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-14/us-releases-video-mother-all-bombs-explosion-which-killed-36-isis-fightersThere is a bipartisan move in Congress to resist presidential commitment of American troops to help slaughter starving peasants in Yemen, to benefit our good friends, the royal house of Saud.
https://theantimedia.org/lawmakers-trump-military-yemen/German Finance Minister and deep-state Sith-Lord, “Wolfie” Schaeuble goes all Trumpish on Islamic wetbacks!
“Such migrants who do not accept Europe’s way of living should be told “you have made the wrong decision”, Schaeuble said during a round table discussion in Berlin. “There are better places in the world to live under Islamic law than Europe,” he added.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/wolfgang-schaeuble-if-muslim-migrants-dont-europe-go-elsewhereCIA Director Pompeo declares Wikileaks to be “a hostile intelligence service”, which should justify anything, anything at all… [Forget the nice things we said last year before we joined the Borg!]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/cia-director-brands-wikileaks-a-hostile-intelligence-serviceKorean War 2.0
China Threatens to Bomb North Korean Nuclear Facilities if North Korea “Crosses Chinese Bottom-Line”, and moves troops to North Korean border.
Chinese diplomacy does Judo with American demands, tells North Korea, “We are not acquiescing to an American attack. This is our business and the PLA will attack if you cause problems.”
China clearly defines sphere of influence, while calling for denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-11/china-threatens-bomb-north-koreas-nuclear-facilities-if-it-crosses-beijings-bottom-lAs tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program mount, the United States Air Force has deployed a WC-135 (a.k.a. the “Nuclear Sniffer”), an aircraft that specializes in detecting radioactive debris after the detonation of a nuclear device, to Okinawa, Japan to assist with monitoring for potential nuclear tests in the region.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/us-deploys-nuclear-sniffer-plane-japan-monitor-north-korea-nuke-testsDonald Trump called President Xi on the phone to discuss trade and the developing North Korean situation. According to China’s state television, Xi stuck with his objective of “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula, and called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension… “We hope that the relevant parties do not adopt irresponsible actions. Under the current circumstances, this is very dangerous,” Lu told reporters at a regular press briefing… Translation: Trump is strongly urged not to launch a unilateral strike on North Korea as he did on Syria without express Chinese prior approval.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/trump-unexpectedly-calls-chinas-president-discuss-north-koreaRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted the Trump administration’s “ambiguous and contradictory” foreign policy at the start of talks with Tillerson in Moscow Wednesday calling the demand for the Kremlin to abandon Assad “absurd.” Furthermore, he warned Tillerson that Russia “believes it’s fundamentally important not to let these actions happen again.” The Moscow meeting will “further clarify areas of sharp difference so that we can better understand why these differences exist and what prospects for narrowing those differences may be,” Tillerson told Lavrov.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/russia-slams-absurb-trump-demands-warns-tillerson-dont-strike-syria-again“Idlib was a false-flag attack, and we have learned that more are coming.” Vladimir Putin
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-11/putin-russia-has-learned-more-false-flag-strikes-are-being-prepared-damascus-regionAmericans kill Syrian moms and kids on ferry boats, who knows how many?
It’s OK, because it’s just regular bombs and drownings, and we don’t have to look.
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960120000565Trump clarifies everything:
“We’re not going into Syria,” Trump said. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.” “We’re not exactly on the same wavelength with Russia, to put it mildly” — again called the nuclear deal with Iran “the single worst deal ever,” and said of the worsening nuclear situation with North Korea: “I knew I was left a mess, but it’s worse than I thought.” Trump also damns Steve Bannon with very faint praise. (Neocons/Neoliberals appear to hold most face-cards again.)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-declines-to-endorse-bannon-says-us-not-going-into-syria-2017-04-11“Who is playing the long game (in geopolitics) and what’s their game plan?” Charles Hugh Smith is not ready to cede (pyrrhic) victory to neocons just yet.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr17/long-game4-17.htmlPrelude to WW-3 stories for today:
Speaking at a behind closed doors forum for the highest echelons of government and staff in his home city of St. Petersburg, Putin responded to questions about the metro blast by pointing out who is responsible for the vast majority of world terror attacks: the U.S. deep state, and the radical Islamic groups they sponsor to destabilize key regions in the world… The Russian president said that “95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA,” and the St. Petersburg metro bombing must be investigated “with this in mind.“
Putin claims that the CIA is a rogue element of the deep state, and “an expression of the will of world oligarchy and their vision for a New World Order.“ “The CIA does not work on behalf of the American people or act in their interests.”
https://www.unz.com/forum/putin-95-of-world-terrorist-attacks-are-orchestrated-by-the-cia/Moon of Alabama says Syrian gas deaths and reprisal attack were “Trump’s theater”, a made-for-TV movie. (A movie like this would take a long time to stage/produce. The script/casting would have already been in place when Trump entered office, right?).
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/trumps-khan-sheikoun-production.html#moreThierry Meyssan also figures it’s Trump’s show.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article195904.htmlFormer DIA Colonel says intel. analysts are freaked out over this sloppy lie and:
Former DIA Colonel: “US strikes on Syria based on a lie”
There are members of the U.S. military who were aware this strike would occur and it was recorded. There is a film record. At least the Defense Intelligence Agency knows that this was not a chemical weapon attack. In fact, Syrian military chemical weapons were destroyed with the help of Russia.
The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believes was a weapons/explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine and they followed the wind and killed civilians.
There was a strong wind blowing that day and the cloud was driven to a nearby village and caused casualties.
We know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called “first responders” handled the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin they would have died. Sarin on the skin will kill you. How do I know? I went through “Live Agent” training at Fort McClellan in Alabama.
Veterans Today: President Trump is now threatening to take America into a war against Syria, Iran and even Russia, a war he says is justified by “evidence” he has received from the Syrian White Helmets, … a “Deep State” organization, a melding of CIA, al Qaeda and Britain’s intelligence services.
Swedish Doctors For Human Rights (swedhr.org) analysed videos, the rescue after an alleged attack by Syrian government forces. The doctors found that the videos were counterfeit, where even Arabic stage directions were overheard, and that the alleged “Rescue” in actuality is a murder. On first analysis, it looked as though the doctors working on the child assumed he was already dead.
The White Helmets, supposedly an independent NGO, receives up to $100m from the CIA and UK Foreign Office, “dark project” funding. Murdering children is their stock and trade…
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/06/swedish-medical-associations-says-white-helmets-murdered-kids-for-fake-gas-attack-videos/Russia and Iran say the US “crossed a red line” in Syria, and that they will retaliate with military force if this is repeated. (Dangerous set-up!)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/russia-iran-warn-trump-they-will-respond-force-if-syria-red-lines-crossed-againSecretary of State Tillerson will not meet Russian President Putin on his upcoming trip to Moscow. He will have talks with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (lots to discuss).
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-10/putin-will-not-meet-tillerson-russia-confusion-grows-over-us-policy-toward-syriaFollowing the Syrian attack on a weapons depot 4/4/17, which released toxic chemicals (Sarin too?), Russian President Putin called Israeli PM Netanyahu, castigated him for false-laying-of-blame. Putin also made a deal. Russia has always said East Jerusalem is the future capital of a Palestinian State. Now Russia still says that, but “within that context” West Jerusalem is recognized as the capital of Israel. That is a big present for Bibi. What does Bibi Netanyahu give as quid-pro-quo? Thanks Eleni.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/israel-just-received-a-huge-payment-from-russia-what-is-its-side-of-the-deal.htmlChinese paper (presumed government opinion) says that Trump’s attack on Syria is a threat to China that North Korea is headed for a bloody-decapitation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/syria-strike-designed-to-intimidate-north-korea-chinese-state-newspaper-says
