@erichwwk #4
Robert Barnes talked at length about the RAID ™ yesterday on the Duran.
Basically:
1) The warrants were not served on Trump the private person or ex-President; they were served on the Office of Trump. This was to ensure that there could be no blowback because serving on Trump the private person or ex-President conveys a number of rights, but serving on an organization does not.
2) The warrant also searched for “documents marked classified” as opposed to actual classified documents. This is ironic because if Trump does not have the right to unilaterally declassify (i.e. there is a process) – the same holds true that something stamped classifed is not actually considered national security until again, a specific process is followed.
There was a lot more, but net net: Robert Barnes sees this entire thing as a fishing expedition that isn’t going to yield anything, except perhaps reclaiming some of the potentially incriminating material which would uncover Deep State machinations re: Russiagate.
So no, there isn’t going to be any kind of arrest in Barnes’ view.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 2 2022 14:53 utc | 103

A well-researched video on how “We the People” of “USA USA” got to where we are now. I wish they had included the corruption of the media as well. Yet they cover some interesting historical notes.
https://www.movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy
I volunteer regularly regarding this issue. I have found that money in politics and corporate “personhood” resonate with people whose other political beliefs are all over the map. Unfortunately it is hard to get people to demand politicians who actually support the 2-part amendment that is needed. Not that I think this would solve every problem. If we only had a free press too….

Posted by: Tiger Lily | Sep 2 2022 15:29 utc | 105

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ezpc26Yc5A
steel drum made in russia, but sold thru a usa distributor… my friend bought a couple of them and i got to play on one of these 2 days ago.. it was super fun!

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 16:00 utc | 107

https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1149711
As expected, Nord Stream 1 stopped for long, maybe forever. EU economic suicide goes as planned. I wonder how much would USA manage to benefit from devouring EU.
My American penmate about 5 years ago was planning to move to Germany if s-t hits the fan in USA. Back then Germany looked like safe heaven comparing to USA split by pro-Trump and anti-Trump derangement syndromes.

Posted by: Arioch | Sep 2 2022 16:33 utc | 109

@ james | Sep 2 2022 16:00 utc | 109 with the Russian steel tongue drum link…thanks
I have 3 of them and bought the first in early 2018
I have revised trap drum stands to hold them and I play standing with mallets because of my nerve damage. I have them where I am playing all three as part of various ditties I have created….MUCH FUN!!!
grasshopper percussionist

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 2 2022 17:44 utc | 111

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 16:00 utc | 109
Re steel drum made in russia.
Mine was made in China. It’s a bit smaller about 12 inches across but makes very similar sounds. The Grandchildren love it. It costs about £60.

Posted by: tony_0pmoc | Sep 2 2022 18:02 utc | 113

@: james | Sep 2 2022 16:00 utc | 109
Thanks james. Didn’t know about them before now. Fun looking at other u-tubes and learning.
One mentioned meditating. Interesting!
“…I play standing with mallets…” – psychohistorian | Sep 2 2022 17:44 utc | 113
Wonder what a young Gary Burton would have done with these drums.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2022 18:37 utc | 115

Jon M @117–
Thanks for your reply and valuable input. Yesterday was the traditional Knowledge Day in Russia and the EU showed it has none. I intend to write an essay about how that all works with world events.
Scorpion @119–
Agreed. I just wrote my sentiments about that on the Biden thread. PavewayIV’s comment there’s marvelous.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 2 2022 18:48 utc | 117

karlof1 | Sep 2 2022 18:48 utc | 120
So, do you believe the timing to be just happenstance? The reason I ask is as follows:
*it is now clear that the IAEA inspection was engineered by the Russians. That is what is dominating German and French state propaganda tonight. Absolutely no anti-Russian coverage on this issue is evident. Clearly there is missing nuclear material and it has panicked Europe.
*there is some coverage on the Gazprom cut-off, but it is being treated as a distraction. There is residual anti-Russian propaganda evident, but much less than one would expect.
*the G-7 oil cap issue is a storm in a cup: it offers nothing new and lacks internal European support.
I understand the Russian manipulations, but this feels subsequently different somehow. Perhaps due to the surrounding events of the past 48 hours. In any event, the Germans seem to have just returned electricity prices to their previous levels. Is this just another countermove by the Russians or something more?

Posted by: Jon M | Sep 2 2022 19:11 utc | 119

you don’t get much and display an arrogant, know it all attitude as well… i could easily say the same of your political ambitions here… i resent your response.. cheers..
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 14:44 utc
I just dropped by to see how you were stewing…
“get much” what?… typical non-statement I “get” people like you all too well.
“political ambitions”? Like trying to help a party and some upstart NDPers that I REALLY don’t like, but which are probably that last best anti-WEF hope in Canada, to oust a batch of dictatorial slimeballs sooner rather than later?
The NDP isn’t doing its “job”, which is to be the OPPOSITION to anti-working class dictatorial slimeballs. Bernier, the Greens and even the Bloc may have better policies, but UNLESS THEY WORK TOGETHER WITH THE POLIEVRE CONS AND GET THE TRUDY/FREELAND/SINGH CABAL GONE, THEY ARE AS POWERLESS AS THE REST OF US.
Hold your nose for a good reason, vote strategically, pick a winner, even if at the election after the next, we have to turf them too.
Or the world can all just sit around and twiddle collective thumbs…
You don’t like the Cons but what other party has even a ghost of a chance of dislodging the Cabal?
We’re waiting.

Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 19:24 utc | 121

“Hold your nose for a good reason, vote strategically, pick a winner, even if at the election after the next, we have to turf them too.
Or the world can all just sit around and twiddle collective thumbs…
You don’t like the Cons but what other party has even a ghost of a chance of dislodging the Cabal?
We’re waiting.”
Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 19:24 utc | 124
Life’s values are to be LIVED, not brokered. Please tell me how can one broker with self-defeated fascists?

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Sep 2 2022 19:34 utc | 123

Since this is the general open thread, there’s a question I’ve been meaning to ask.
Can anyone tell me why the term WEF appears to be used exclusively by Canadians? I mean, the institution is international, as is its reach. And yet, I only hear it mentioned by Canadians.
Or perhaps it isn’t the acronym for what I think it is?

Posted by: robin | Sep 2 2022 19:41 utc | 125

Can anyone tell me why the term WEF appears to be used exclusively by Canadians? I mean, the institution is international, as is its reach. And yet, I only hear it mentioned by Canadians.
Or perhaps it isn’t the acronym for what I think it is?
Posted by: robin | Sep 2 2022 19:41 utc | 128

WEF = World Economic Forum
Canadian politicians in key leadership positions are either on the Board of the WEF or listed as participants by Herr Schwab. Many policy decisions appear to be in lockstep with the stated Agendas of the WEF.
Some of are nostalgic for the days in the late ’50s and ’60s when Canada had an independent foreign and domestic policy.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Sep 2 2022 20:05 utc | 127

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2022 21:17 utc | 131
My brother-in-law was born in East Germany. My niece and him have a Child Born in America, about the same time, as the levee broke in New Orleans, and they on the Campus, were organising tents and beds for the survivors of the floods… They Moved back to Germany, and now live in England…We will probably meet again at family funerals. That’s what our family do..
I always loved Abba, but I particularly liked Abba, when my wife (heavy rock) and I took our young teenage kids, on holiday – Greek Islands, Spanish Islands, Amsterdam, and many other places ( we took our first child to a festival, when he was 3 months old)
We were all innocent then.
Lets try and get this innocence back for our Grandchildren, before we all killed by The Lunatics currently in control of Western Governments
You Bastards, want to freeze and starve and impoverish my Grand Daughter to Death. She is not due to be born for another few weeks yet. We need to keep our home warm for her…Look at the state of you – Not Impressed.
“Abba – Dancing Queen (Official Music Video Remastered)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
Tony

Posted by: tony_0pmoc | Sep 2 2022 21:57 utc | 129

Jon M @122–
Hard for me to say about the ZNPP issue as I was away from all credible news sources for the past 5 days and am trying to catch up. Those running the Ukies have tried for a month to create some crisis involving the ZNPP but have finally failed. Yes, Russia wanted IAEA inspectors since West was lying about the situation as usual. I’ve strongly agreed with Hudson’s analysis ever since he published it and I discussed it here back in February. I have additional analysis published at my VK site. Beginning with the voided EU Constitution referenda, I’ve been against that organization since it seeks to control European nations not to advance their peoples’s wellbeings, same for NATO. What’s occurring now merely reinforces that analysis. The Russophobic depth initially surprised me; but when I examined it, its origins and perpetuation by MI6/CIA and their Nazi roots explain a great deal.
Russia suffered the fate of wanting to be part of the In-Group, and finally completely turned to the East when Putin resumed the presidency in 2013. Dialog with the West was kept until the West proved it was unworthy of being talked to further. Currently, IMO Alastair Crooke’s analysis is the best amongst English speakers, but other sources provide insights too, like this item by Ehret, “China’s BRI Shapes a Multipolar Future for Saudi Arabia”, which indirectly shows the utter idiocy of the G-7’s oil price cap attempt.
IMO, Putin and Russia seek justice not revenge and they’re close to attaining it. The West’s Pleonexia is a very harmful disease that must be admitted to in order to become cured, but none of the former Plundering Nations are close to confessing. Three generations from now I expect relations to be improved but rather different. Europe risks becoming Diesen’s neglected Eurasian peninsula with the Baltic trio likely to suffer the most next to whatever remains of Ukraine. They can have a decent future if they’re honest about their past–and that goes for the whole of Europe. But that process has yet to begin.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 2 2022 22:12 utc | 131

@ psychohistorian | Sep 2 2022 17:44 utc | 113
hey! that is awesome how you’ve set them up like that and have 3 to play on with mallets… very cool!
@ Tony_0pmoc | Sep 2 2022 18:02 utc | 115 // tony_0pmoc | Sep 2 2022 18:48 utc | 121
thanks tony… that guy in the video you linked is a real gas! he is having a lot of fun with his didgeridoo and etc. etc..
@ waynorinorway | Sep 2 2022 18:37 utc | 118
its a fun sound! i have known of them before, but my friend who just got two of them was excited and so we played some together with me on the steel drum and him on guitar… it was an enjoyable afternoon a few days ago and i thought it would be nice to play one more regularly.. i have too much on the go at present though…. there is an autobiography on gary burton that is hard to get.. i lent my copy to a friend.. its a great book and gives a history of how there was a lady in indiana where gary is from – anderson, indiana ) who just happened to be into the vibraphone and etc and as luck would have it gary was turned onto her leadership in the community to take up vibraphone! the vibraphone at the time was a fairly obscure instrument and indiana was not exactly the centre for creative music and jazz, although as memory serves hoagy carmichael is also from indiana – i read a bio on him – great book as well – but that is a different story!
@ Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 19:24 utc | 124
your acerbic attitude doesn’t really cut it with me oc…. find someone else to talk down to…

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 22:25 utc | 133

We were all innocent then.
Lets try and get this innocence back for our Grandchildren, before we all killed by The Lunatics currently in control of Western Governments
You Bastards, want to freeze and starve and impoverish my Grand Daughter to Death. She is not due to be born for another few weeks yet. We need to keep our home warm for her…Look at the state of you – Not Impressed.
Posted by: tony_0pmoc | Sep 2 2022 21:57 utc | 132
Well said, Tony!
Though along with innocence I would add: warriorship!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2022 22:45 utc | 135

Old canadian #83

It would seem the object of both China and Russia’s actions are to ensure the EEF/Rothschild/Blackrock-class do not end up in charge of their countries and their “friendly” international partners.
Is China misusing draconian lockdowns and social credit systems? If the “news” can be believed even a bit, probably. But that doesn’t mean they are in league with the WEF. Is Russia a far different culture to US/ZATO, and unwilling to tolerate their illegal incursions and sanctions any longer? Absolutely, but it is up to the US/ZATO crowd to make peace within their own borders, not blame Russia and China for the problems the Rothschild/Blackrock-class created.

It is definitely a civilisation struggle and time indeed to lay the blame with the thieves – Rothschild/Blackrock-class – not the next victims in their sights.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 3 2022 0:10 utc | 137

NATO no match for American inner cities?
Three Dutch Commandos who were on ‘Urban Warfare Training’ in the States were shot last weekend. … Apparently, they went out to a bar and got into a scuffle with some locals, not realizing that they play for keeps. … The results? 1 KIA and 2 WIA.
The shooter has been apprehended and is expected to face charges in November.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/us/shamar-duncan-charges-indianapolis-soldier-shooting/index.html
Of course we can assume these Dutch Commandos were preparing for deployment to Ukraine to take on Russian Forces. … But, the inner city American kids put a stop to that. … They deal in real urban warfare.

Posted by: Robert | Sep 3 2022 0:45 utc | 139

@ tony_0pmoc | Sep 3 2022 0:29 utc | 141
nice story.. thanks tony!
@ Robert | Sep 3 2022 0:45 utc | 142
that is a sad story.. you would think these subservient dutch folks would wake up and smell the coffee, but it is unlikely… their leaders are beholden and have their head up the usa -nato ass so far, i don’t think it is possible..
@ farm ecologist | Sep 3 2022 1:06 utc | 143
yes, it is a shame he is not running and that he lost to annamie paul who decimated the greens.. i live in one of a few ridings that was green in the previous federal election – paul manly was the green rep for where i live… as a consequence of annamie paul – paul manly lost in a close race to the ndp candidate.. maybe he will reconsider in the next election.. i don’t know.. he was beaten down by elizabeth may, as i understand it… she was the king, or queen maker for annamie paul… she ought to live to regret that, and is apparently considering sharing the leadership with someone else…. i have met her.. i know paul who also plays bass guitar is a lovely man.. green folks when politically correct getting annamie paul as green leader… what a huge mistake.. i hope those who elected her reflect on it all.. thus, i am probably going to vote maxine bernier as an alternative… his part got something like 7% federally last election.. he was also 2nd place runner up in the conservative to andrew scheer… so both lascaris and bernier share that 2nd place position in common.. things have to change in canuck politics… voting cons or liberals is not the way for it to happen..

Posted by: james | Sep 3 2022 1:27 utc | 141

Possibly the oldest man in the world, 99 in charge of the Planet Film Show..so never having that much interest myself, (I assumed he, whilst being very clever and powerful) and I do not disagree with everything writes…well does he have any kids? (never personally become aware of any of them) whilst not on the same level though possibly bowing before – the likes of David Cameron (probably not gay), Tony Blair (miranda) – and most of the rest…Did Henry Kissinger have any children??
I tried to find out
“Kissinger married Ann Fleischer on February 6, 1949. They had two children, Elizabeth and David, and divorced in 1964. On March 30, 1974, he married Nancy Maginnes.[228][229] They now live in Kent, Connecticut, and in New York City. Kissinger’s son David Kissinger served as an executive with NBC Universal Television Studio before becoming head of Conaco, Conan O’Brien’s production company, in 2005.[230] In February 1982, at the age of 58, Henry Kissinger underwent coronary bypass surgery.
Kissinger described Diplomacy as his favorite game in a 1973 interview
Not convinced henry has any children, but probably male, and possibly never had any interest in sex, but probably not gay either.
Some people are like that. They prefer football to sex.
Maybe Kissinger realised, it was not a good idea, if he did not personally reproduce Kissingers, though it was a great name, he acquired from his home town
“There are 7 mineral springs in Bad Kissingen, all of which are still used today.”
“The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great-great-grandfather Meyer Löb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen”
What’s he on? He is even older than our Queen, who I much prefer even if she is Church of England.
Tony

Posted by: Tony_0pmoc | Sep 3 2022 2:13 utc | 143

The anglo fetishism on chinaman.
A family affair….

Threat from China recalls that of Nazi Germany, Australian lawmaker says
CCP China is the Nazi Germany of 21st Century and America Needs to Wake Up
China threat’ emerges in elections from UK to Australia
Facing China threat, the US must get tough on the Solomon Islands
Australia faces massive existential threat from China
China A ‘Military Threat’ to Australia, According to New Poll
Liz Truss vows to designate China as ‘acute threat’
China cyber attacks: the current threat landscape
Global alliance formed to counter China threat amid rising tensions
China is alarmed by the Quad. But its threats are driving the group closer together
West must stand up to China over Taiwan threat, says Truss
UK PM hopeful Sunak:
China ‘number one threat’ to Britain, world
Most Australians Expect China Will Pose Military Threat in Future, Survey Says
Published: June 28, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. ET
Terry Glavin: It’s official – China is a threat to Canada’s national security
When it comes to defending Canada from the menace posed by the People’s Republic of China, it is now a matter of public record, and should be a matter of some embarrassment to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, if not shame, that the course his government embarked upon almost four years ago was dangerously naive, if not recklessly thoughtless.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-its-official-china-is-a-threat-to-canadas-national-security
oops
Even the formally relatively benign kiwis are obliged to fall in line with the lets fuck china fest..
Fearing China’s militarisation of Pacific, NZ MPs set up anti-China group, open door to Taiwan

Hmm..
Blood are thicker than water innit ?

Posted by: denk | Sep 3 2022 3:15 utc | 145

@ james | Sep 3 2022 3:30 utc | 150 with the Jackson Mississippi report
But America will send another $3 billion to Ukraine next week…..because Freedumbocracy……/s

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 3 2022 3:47 utc | 147

watcher | Sep 3 2022 2:44 utc | 163
“…I suspect China will react sooner rather than later.…”
I’m hoping sooner.
We laugh at Lithuania and Estonia and Moldova – barking chihuahuas aggravating the Russian bear. Australia is of course, itself a chihuahua. A mongrel crossed with blue cattle dog. Ready to nip at China’s heals for its master. Pathetic. Sickening. Grotesque
If China can stomp the US Taiwan bullshit before we humiliate ourselves further … that’d do us an enormous service.
Here’s a vid of Moldova “leaders”….. some want to forget pride and negotiate gas with Russia… the Head Bitch is having none of it.
We await the same if we remain the US regional “”Deputy Sheriff”” [lol. How condescending] ….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 3 2022 4:03 utc | 149

… there is an autobiography on gary burton that is hard to get..
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 22:25 utc | 136
Sad he had a stroke a few years ago and lost his sense of pitch. Great career, lots of precious stuff from back in the ECM/CTI days.
First caught Burton @ ’68 Monterey Jazz Festival, on outdoor stage with Red Norvo, Cal Tjader, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson and him.
Five vibraphones lined up across the stage. That was it. They just riffed off each other round and round for 20-25 minutes.
GB was just starting to bring in the 4-mallet technique. He kinda blew the room away, as Paul Simon might put it.
Guess the same kind of set up would work with steel drums, eh?
btw, have you started your Vanc. Island Party yet? Sounds like it’s due.
(Then you could call your call your combo the VIPs. I kinda like that. Yeah, James and the VIPs!
Or VIPers. How about St. James and the VIPers? Or steal a bit from Doug Sahm – Sir James and the VIPers.:-)
Good vibes to you Sir.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 3 2022 4:24 utc | 151

Hey james! I don’t know if you heard but I just learned that Joey Defrancesco passed away a few days ago at the age of 51. The wife and I saw him perform at Jazz Alley and thanked him personally for his excellent jazz and his “Organized” show on Real Jazz. He was pleased to autograph his “Master Plan” CD for us. He was one performer I figured I’d be seeing again. Alas, he’s gone……

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 3 2022 4:52 utc | 153

Send in the clowns is apt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6KGuTr9TI&list=RD8L6KGuTr9TI&start_radio=1

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 5:23 utc | 155

How many that comment here actually have a family? Children and grandchildren? How many are still with the love of their life from their early twenties? That sweet voice like a little bird chirping.l She wants that we should be buried together.
My family mean a lot to me but I watch my children being led away by the pied piper.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 5:43 utc | 157

@Paul Greenwood | Sep 2 2022 14:20 utc | 97

This is the 1978 Oil Shock to 10th Exponent

Make that 1973

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 3 2022 6:04 utc | 159

waynorinorway | Sep 3 2022 6:09 utc | 165
do you have family? Wife, children, grandchildren?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 6:29 utc | 161

@Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 5:16 utc | 160

It is open season on the trolls. b deletes me for being off topic but US/UK troll factories can post to their hearts content. Slava Ukraini.

Moon’s a Harsh Mistress (Radka Toneff)

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 3 2022 6:36 utc | 163

@ Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 6:29 utc | 166
Yep, all of those, and I work hard to keep the pied piper away from them.
Yes, it’s difficult but we can’t give in, can we?
My message to you was one of encouragement – and challenge. You must understand that.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 3 2022 6:43 utc | 165

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 3 2022 6:43 utc | 170
norway, i am tired. we are not only within but also heading into an exceptionally nasty era.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 3 2022 7:13 utc | 167

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 2 2022 22:12 utc | 134
Not related directly to this post, karlof1, but I am playing catchup myself, coming out to a lovely post-midnight cool breeze as our town slumbers. And I just wanted to thank you for an earlier short post you did briefly describing your travelling about Oregon. It very much brightened my spirits when I read it, so again thanks very much.
Oregon reminds me of farm country in New Zealand, and I get a seed catalogue from there — Nichols Nursery in Salem, very good seeds. One time they had a New Zealand maori winter squash,(landrace, so called, and race it does) which in good years has been very successful for me rampaging over my fruit trees (it loves to climb). I love them because I don’t have a credit card but they always accept my checks, unlike many other places. And they encourage seed savers, of which I am one,so the kumi kumi squash is a staple for me now.
Oregon beaches are lovely, and my family once took a boat ride up the Rogue River. As I remember, the crew sort of forgot about us so we had a long wait before they returned to take us back down.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 3 2022 7:36 utc | 169

I was looking at odt.co.nz a few days ago (fairly staid Otago NZ paper) and caught that a New Zealand soldier off duty had died in Ukraine. The short article took pains to say that it was unfortunate, that New Zealand is not at war with Russia so still has a Russian embassy – but also that army personnel should be aware that puts them at risk.
A blog I would visit in New Zealand, mainly to see what comments were doing is now more closely monitored, don’t know if that is a good sign or not. They were getting plenty of pushback on the mainstream line when I visited previously, so the truth is making its way in.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 3 2022 8:05 utc | 171

I take it rjb and bevin deny there is a campaign in the US to demonize, demoralize, deracinate and disempower white people.
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 21:41 utc | 20
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What Im damn sure is an anglo driven anti Chinese campaign worldwide.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/open-not-ukraine-thread-2022-142.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d4b7f50200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d4b7f50200b

Posted by: denk | Sep 3 2022 15:24 utc | 173

Peter@176, that happened to larchmonter445 @ reminiscences of the future. he now posts as larch. the trolling has gotten a little more edgy. i suppose it’s b/c like larch your posts are sought out & after & touching a carpet ptb do not want lifted. good on ya! & may your day be brightened with less pain.

Posted by: emersonreturn | Sep 3 2022 15:29 utc | 175

@ psychohistorian | Sep 3 2022 3:47 utc | 149
so insane and the insanity continues…
@ waynorinorway | Sep 3 2022 4:24 utc | 153
thanks friend.. gary burton was an amazing and under-rated musician… i got interested in the autobiography on him from reading a great book by mercyn cooke – ” pat metheny the ecm years, 1975- 1984”….. he was quoting from the gb book quite a bit and thought i would enjoy reading it.. i found a copy and really loved it.. he is a great story teller… some of the stories of him playing with stan getz and describing some of the craziness are worth the price of the book! i think i paid 25$ can for a copy… i have never seen him live.. lucky you! i used to listen to that ralph towner duo with him – matchbook.. as a drummer, i would play along to it! i also loved the duo stuff he did with chick corea… reading the book forced me to realize how under-rated he is… he has played with a whos who of jazz greats and seems like a very humble guy from the book.. i am sorry to hear of the strokes and his inability to play..
about the vip – love the viper concept, lol….i am not interested in politics from the point of view of getting heavily involved… i wouldn’t be able to stomach it.. fun idea though to entertain the possibilities.. ranting on moa seems to be the extent of my political involvement!
@ karlof1 | Sep 3 2022 4:52 utc | 155
so sad.. yes, i was aware of that… someone else died on the same day – i can’t remember, but another lesser known and great musician as well… joey was truly amazing… every keyboard player i play with – especially those with aspirations to play b3, were in awe of him… my buddy marty was a kid when he went to a jam session in los angeles that jimmy smith was hosting… of course marty was in awe of jimmy smith, as was joey, but in terms of technique – joey was in his own world of genius.. alas, i never got to see him play live like you!
@ Norwegian | Sep 3 2022 6:36 utc | 165
thats a beautiful song.. thanks… i was listening to a michael brecker cd yesterday that a friend had lent me.. i had forgotten how james taylor had sang on a few tracks…the musical director for brecker was the same guy who was music director for taylor – don grolnick – a fellow most everyone has never heard of.. he passed away many years ago.. anyway – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYdofX01OM – not the same and a different vibe, but a pretty song non the less..

Posted by: james | Sep 3 2022 16:23 utc | 177

All the world’s mad except you and me….
and I have my doubts about you.(Auld Scottish saying).
It may appear that the world is run by madmen and women (and LGBThingies, cokeheads, and “undefined and wokies”, to be politically correct), and the general populace is stuck in place without moving … but is this the reality?
It has a connection with the Existential war between Russia/China and the capitalist mindset. The Russian part is that they have said NO to unlimited expansion and theft. (Asset seizure). However, the dirty big elephant in the room, is not the Politicians or any visible “leaders” or even a deep state, although it must have connections with the latter, but the 700$ trillion (and counting) derivatives market. The Black hole of Finance. Outside of any tax jurisdictions or any “official” control.
ALL these derivatives are based on some sort of basic collateral at their roots. Your house, business, stocks and shares, Art works, personal debts, have been split, bundled and resold multiple times. Where they are resplit and bundled into new financial “entities” to make more profits, before the next “wash and repeat”. Daisy-chain finance. No problem as long as no one needs money rapidly and calls in his bit of Derivative.
IF one “investor” needs to get his money out, then the one who “sold” the last bit pays (as the “originator”). If then He,she or it finds that this leaves them in a awkward position, they will “call in” further down the line.
Rapidly it becomes who gets he-she-its cash out the first. ALL based on the “original” collateral. YOUR house mortgage, business etc. is “owned” by an unknown number of people each with a claim, who want to get their money out.
(One thing to note is that JPMorgan and the Bank of America, are said to be the ones *Keeping* the books on who and what derivatives are issued. (Their sale is another question).
You can’t tell me that in a 700$trillion (but who is counting?) mashup, there have not already been many who want their money out.
All this leadup is just to point out that NEW collateral is needed AT ANY PRICE, to keep the whole caravan on the road.
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It becomes clear that the present “austerity” and “Green deal” are only to get more collateral in a position to be used to hold up the derivative market. (Real businesses and debts, savings, Bank accounts).
Because there is not enough colleral to support the money mass that has been created and hidden in derivatives, it becomes obligatory to find new sources. Russia says no way, and so they turn to China, steal gold and oil from anyone, land if they can get it, and are ransacking Europe to “make up the shortfall”. Anything and everything has to become collateral to be “owned by the dark pool”, to stop it from imploding. You probably already own nothing – are you happy?
Unsustainable, but who cares? Yes, who? Can people be “financialized, bought and sold”? None of “your” leaders can or will do anything if they are not paid.
It does mean that the whole shebang could collapse literally any given day.
Tuesday OK?
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PS. Not to worry, I recalculated that the Apocalypse or the end of time will not arrive until Thursday, June the 14th 2036, at 14h40 minutes. (Give or take a couple of minutes as a margin of error). Which correponds to a theoretical arrival of Apopis (Asteriod) nearby, or the US elections that year. So we have a bit of time left.
I had to recalculate, as the last time I did that it didn’t work out as I thought it would, and we are still here. I wasn’t FAR wrong as I ended up with 2001 – end of December , but I only missed the 9/11 by a short margin.
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(Based on Daniels description (or the apocalypse) in the Bible, where T + T squared + half T, (Time, times and half a time). All you need to know is the value of “T”. (43 for the first attempt and 44 and several decimals for the second))
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Can someone call a taxi? – I know the way.

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 3 2022 18:58 utc | 179

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 3 2022 18:58 utc | 180
“You can’t tell me that in a 700$trillion (but who is counting?) mashup, there have not already been many who want their money out.”
I read around 2008 crash time that there was over 1.5 quadrillion in those derivatives. Probably doubled by now. I have been presuming that they are the main reason for the upcoming Reset. Debt jubilee by mass asset-stripping = ‘you will own nothing and by happy’ hour time!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2022 21:08 utc | 181

John Menadue reports concerning a long-running international anti-Chinese propaganda campaign, with link to a Stanford Internet Observatory study:

The study is called: “Unheard Voice: Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations.”
a) Narrative creators made multiple fake personas with AI-generated faces to appear as authentic human beings. These appeared as accounts of “real people” on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other media;
b) Narrative creators posed as journalists running independent media outlets;
c) Narrative creators made memes and short videos (for sharing on Tiktok, Instagram and others);
d) Narrative creators ran hashtag campaigns across platforms;
e) Narrative creators launched online petitions on “change” style sites known for “human rights” campaigns.
The players had “an interconnected web of accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and five other social media platforms” indicating a high level, well-organized operation to deceive. This enabled agents to back up false narratives by quoting each other: they backed up false news with quotes from what seemed to be small news operations or even large ones, like Voice of America, to promote a pro-west, anti-east narrative.

https://johnmenadue.com/massive-secret-network-revealed-to-be-pushing-western-narrative/

Posted by: Hope | Sep 4 2022 0:32 utc | 183

If you want to see fascist evil-spirited antidemocratic insurrectionists at a horrible Trump rally, the first after his home being ransacked (Melania has thrown away the clothes they rifled through!), go to around 2:04 to watch these ghastly people dancing to YMCA by the Village People shortly before Orange Man Bad himself comes on stage.
A terrible contrast between his hugely attended rally and Benito Biden’s scripted Hell Realm extravaganza. I can see why Biden feels the need to scream from the rooftops that the soul of the country is at stake. With opposition like this so implacably arrayed against him he knows these anti-democratic fascists have no love for him and might send him pacing in disgrace which of course would be a terrible thing for the country he so dearly loves – where else is it perfectly legal to bank bribes from foreign governments and still get elected to be in charge? God Bless the USA!!!
What’s most devious about all this is about how happy and cheerful all his followers seem. Truly scary!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/live-stream-video-president-trump-live-wilkes-barre-pa-first-rally-mar-lago-raid-bidens-moloch-speech-233000-watching-live/

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 4 2022 1:46 utc | 185

Biden says this on Sept 1, 2022: “You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-America.”
and I like Sarah Abdallah’s response on Sept 3,
Sarah Abdallah @sahouraxo
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1566114178829516800
But it’s okay for the US to initiate violent insurrections in an attempt to overthrow the governments of:
Syria , Iran , Guatemala , Congo
Iraq , Brazil , Chile
Argentina , Grenada ,Panama
Venezuela , Haiti , Honduras
Libya , Paraguay , Bolivia
Cuba , Nicaragua
And many other countries…

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 4 2022 6:25 utc | 187

September 4. /TASS/. The Pentagon is poised to shortly relocate the programs unfinished in Ukraine to other post-Soviet states, as well as to Eastern European states, such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and the Baltic states. The enlargement of the network of bio laboratories, which may be used to develop and store components of biological weapons, poses a threat to the military security of the Russian Federation

Posted by: rk | Sep 4 2022 7:27 utc | 189

@Bad Deal Motors On | Sep 4 2022 9:53 utc | 190
Bill Bar’s father was an interesting man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr#Career

Posted by: too scents | Sep 4 2022 10:10 utc | 191

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 3 2022 15:26 utc | 174
Thank you. Off to read now.

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Sep 4 2022 10:29 utc | 193

Why did most of these East European and Russian people, change their surnames, when they moved to Germany?
What were they ashamed of?
Tony
Posted by: Tony_0pmoc | Sep 3 2022 3:13 utc | 144
Serfdom(slavery) in Imperial Russia was abolished by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. Why would an illiterate Russian serf need a surname prior to that date?
I would suggest you read up on the history of Prussia and ultimately the forced reunification of Germany in 1871. As bonus Government provided medical care and a pension retirement age of 65(Count Otto Von Bismark Reforms). Surnames were made mandatory as each independent state/principality was gradually integrated into the Prussian State at gunpoint. For census and stocktaking reasons. The average life expectancy of a German Peon prior to 1900 was less than fifty years.
History tells us Germany of old prior to the Napoleonic era consisted of 300 assorted independent kingdoms.
To receive a surname in France circa 1601. An era of serfs or tithed slaves/subsistence agriculture. This would indicate that person is buried in a marked grave. Was a man of substance and wealth. Probably a wealthy merchant who purchased a surname. Or a noble or a minor nobility at birth. If a family crest is on the marker(strict rules apply). The illiterate peons in France in 1600 would be considered wealthy serfs. Only if they had more than ten copper coins at death.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Sep 4 2022 11:13 utc | 195

To Denk, posting @ 186
That sounds very unlike Bertrand Russell, in both diction and sentiment. That is to say, I don’t believe he said any such thing.

Posted by: Hope | Sep 4 2022 14:17 utc | 197

Indeed, are there any benefits for nations remaining within the EU?
Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 2 2022 17:18 utc | 110
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No. They are better off being sovereign countries with their own currencies.
But now the problem is far beyond that. They need to deny the US and embrace Russia. A very big step.
Basically just embrace socialism. But this hurts a lot of elites.
The Ukraine war also threatens to expose a lot of western dirty laundry.

Posted by: financial matters | Sep 5 2022 2:25 utc | 199