Asking for a friend who doesn’t have a Covid ‘passport’ because they had and recovered from Covid twice and considers that to infer full immunity better than some endless nouveaux vaccines – but isn’t allowed to travel.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 16 2022 10:26 utc | 105
They aren’t traveling to and fro UK hopefully. I’m going soon and last I checked no test was necessary there.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 16 2022 11:06 utc | 104

@
“They aren’t traveling to and fro UK hopefully. I’m going soon and last I checked no test was necessary there.”
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 16 2022 11:06 utc | 106
Still required for travel to Europe and to America and many parts of the World.
C.f Djokovic
It is a LIE and it is evident by the militaristic broohaha about a dead Queen of the Evil Empire run by murderous secretive ghoul ancient aristos and henchfolk.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 16 2022 12:04 utc | 106

It is a LIE and it is evident by the militaristic broohaha about a dead Queen of the Evil Empire run by murderous secretive ghoul ancient aristos and henchfolk.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 16 2022 12:04 utc | 108
Thanks for your reply. But:
What does it mean?!?!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 16 2022 12:22 utc | 108

@Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Sep 16 2022 10:09 utc | 104
A carbon copy, indeed….

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Sep 16 2022 14:12 utc | 110

Scorpion @ 84
I assume Mathis is intelligence. He is chronically a liar. Most liars are just tiresome to read and easily put aside. That Mathis is engaging and challenging almost all the time while just openly selling a line of bullshit is quite amazing.
He is from the same families he writes about. That is how he knows what he knows. If we knew why his persona was created and why it is funded and why it is permitted we would know a lot.

Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 16 2022 14:19 utc | 112

@Petri Krohn #91
Absolute formatting is zero proof of provenance; there are a multitude of tools enabling trivial copying of templates given a source. You can literally cut and paste from web pages or even photographs into text editors, these days.
That’s why modern analysis focuses on style, content, consistency and other means to divine provenance.
And as I have noted above: this document smells like a rat in so many ways. It reads more like an evil-ninja-wannabe geek or a movie cartoon villain a la Blofeld output than the true evil shit that RAND writes up all the time.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 16 2022 14:24 utc | 114

My last note for now on the supposed RAND document:
As I noted in my first posting: this “executive summary” has so many problems with it, that it screams fake.
I did note that there is an extremely small chance it is a pre-editorial work. I say this is extremely small because generally editorial work occurs BEFORE the executive summary.
It would be extremely odd to have an executive summary so filled with non-useful content as this one; however, it would not be odd if this is a real executive summary with several sentences inserted.
But were this the case, then the document is fake: insertion of extraneous material would invalidate its authenticity.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 16 2022 14:33 utc | 116

Oops… MICI =
Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 16 2022 15:03 utc | 118

Samarkand SCO Summit is now history. All of Putin’s many interactions are available at Kremlin website. The collective and very important “Samarkand Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization” again reiterates what’s important. Here’s its Preamble:

The leaders of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (hereinafter referred to as the SCO or the Organization), following the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Member States in Samarkand on September 16, 2022, declare the following.
Today, the world is undergoing global changes, entering a new era of rapid development and large-scale transformations. These fundamental processes are accompanied by the strengthening of multipolarity, the strengthening of interconnectedness, the acceleration of the pace of informatization and digitalization. Against this background, the modern system of international challenges and threats is becoming more complicated, there is a dangerous degradation of the state of affairs in the world, existing conflicts and crises are exacerbated and new local conflicts and crises are emerging.
The growing technological and digital divide, the continuing turbulence of global financial markets, the global decline in investment flows, the instability of supply chains, the strengthening of protectionist measures and other barriers to international trade exacerbate instability and uncertainty in the global economy.
The effects of global climate change and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic pose additional challenges to economic growth, social well-being and food security, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To that end, new approaches are needed to promote fairer and more effective international cooperation and sustainable economic development.
The Member States, relying on the proximity or coincidence of assessments of the current regional and international agenda, reaffirm their commitment to the formation of a more representative, democratic, just and multipolar world order based on the universally recognized principles of international law, multilateralism, equal, joint, indivisible, integrated and sustainable security, cultural and civilizational diversity, mutually beneficial and equal cooperation of states in the central coordinating role of the UN.
In accordance with the principles of the SCO Charter, the Member States adhere to a line that excludes bloc, ideological and confrontational approaches to solving problems of international and regional development, countering traditional and non-traditional challenges and threats to security. Taking into account the views of the Member States, they reaffirm the relevance of initiatives to promote cooperation in building a new type of international relations in the spirit of mutual respect, justice, equality and mutually beneficial cooperation, as well as the formation of a common vision of the idea of creating a community with a shared future for mankind.
The Member States stand for respect for the right of peoples to independent and democratic choice of the ways of their political and socio-economic development, emphasize that the principles of mutual respect for the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity of States, equality, mutual benefit, non-interference in internal affairs, non-use of force or threat of use of force are the basis for the sustainable development of international relations. They reaffirm their commitment to the peaceful resolution of differences and disputes between countries through dialogue and consultation.
The Member States reaffirm the non-direction of the SCO against other states and international organizations and openness to broad cooperation with them in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, the SCO Charter and international law, taking into account mutual interests and common approaches to solving regional and global problems.

More to follow.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 16 2022 15:37 utc | 120

1001: true false false true
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Aren’t you all missing the point?
I believe the document is a forgery, however it is a forgery filled with independent truths and/or likelihoods.
Two main possibilities as I see it:
1. Someone (third party or not) decided to have a go at doing propaganda.
· Backdating anything within a few years is a breeze and almost impossible to detect even with physical objects unless some kind of freak accident is involved and tripped up the creator.
· Copying PDF styles is trivial, simply edit the text and metadata in an existing one and chop it into size. Calibre (Wikipedia link) anyone? It’s open source.
· Whether the document is genuine or not and whether this is established or not is completely irrelevant if the goal is to popularize and disseminate suppressed points of view. Full marks for this one, it’s the way to do it.
The bold text is the point not to miss out on.
2. Unless of course the aim was to discredit the content in which case it’s a total failure (Streisand effect, the popularity of “conspiracy” theories, Overton window, and so on).
I would advise against using the document itself as any kind of argument. It is unnecessary to do so.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Sep 16 2022 15:53 utc | 122

@Sunny Runny Burger #124
There was no response because your assertion is not a very good one.
Let’s examine it in more detail: the RAND document is irrelevant because the West wants to promote the idea that the US wants to destroy the German economy.
How exactly does pushing an official document saying so, help?
Does informing the German (and American) people make this effort easier?
Are votes even needed for this process?
From my view: I see the answers to the above questions as being:
No help at all, possible harm.
American and German people don’t matter – but stirring them up could well cause problems or a failure.
No votes are needed if this policy is already underway.
So 0 for 3. Fail.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 16 2022 16:01 utc | 124

@c1ue | Sep 16 2022 16:01 utc | 126
Another way to look at the “RAND” document is as a limited hangout designed to soften the blow of the real economic fallout.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 16 2022 16:08 utc | 126

SCO Leaders Sign Samarkand Declaration (RIA Novosti, September 16, 2022 — in Russian)

As a result of the Summit, the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have signed the Samarkand Declaration.
The main provisions of the document are:

• The countries confirmed that the SCO is not directed against other states and international organizations and also noted the openness for cooperation, taking into account mutual interests;
• Called for an increase in the effectiveness of the WTO and reform of the organization, taking into account modern economic realities;
• Declared their intention to build up cooperation in the field of defense and security, create a single list of terrorist and extremist organizations, and also stressed the importance of holding joint anti-terrorist command and staff exercises Peace Mission;
• Condemned the unilateral build-up of global missile defense (ABM) systems by individual countries. This, in their opinion, has a negative impact on international security and stability;
• Opposed the militarization of the ICT [information and communications technology — S] sector and supported the launch of the development under the auspices of the UN of an international convention on combating the use of ICT for criminal purposes;
• Called for compliance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC);
• Advocated for the preservation of outer space free of weapons and stressed the need to conclude an international legally binding instrument that could guarantee the prevention of an arms race in outer space;
• Recognized as important the implementation of the action plan for Iran’s nuclear program [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — S], advocated strict observance of the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;
• Emphasized the need for an inclusive government in Afghanistan with the participation of representatives of all ethnic, religious and political groups;
• Agreed to create a special group on start-ups and innovations, as well as a group on poverty alleviation and [a group — S] on traditional medicine;
• Approved the title of SCO Goodwill Ambassador;
• Declared 2023 to be the Year of Tourism.

In total, the member countries have signed about 40 documents, including a Comprehensive Plan for the Implementation of the Agreement on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation.
…

Posted by: S | Sep 16 2022 16:15 utc | 128

Declared 2023 to be the Year of Tourism.
S | Sep 16 2022 16:15 utc | 130
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LOL. Become a mercenary and see the world.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 16 2022 16:21 utc | 130

Scorpion @ 119
We do get glimpses. I have personally known two from the families. Remember there are always younger sons and cousins. Not all of them are rich and powerful. Smart ones may get places and positions but often plain dumb ones get power.
Mathis briefly touches the actor James Franco. And his father, producer Doug Franco. I knew Pete di Franco, who was Doug’s brother and James’ uncle. Pete died recently of hunger and exposure, homeless. Doug had died young and when he passed no one in the family would provide for Pete, who was already old enough he had no notion how to start over and attempt to pay his own way.
I showed Pete the Mathis cites to his family and he confirmed most everything Mathis says about Marranos. Pete did not read more than a few words and then volunteered huge amounts of info. All of which tracks.
The other party I knew very well shall remain nameless. She went to Hollywood expecting her uncle to just maybe possibly conceivably get her hooked up with work. She made four movies, the last of which gave her two scenes and two and a half lines. If she had stayed she would have been a leading lady. She went to Hollywood to escape her family. Only to discover absolutely every last person in the business was her family. She had not known. Every person she met began with you are X’s niece so let’s figure out how you and I are related. Six degrees of separation absolutely applies in Hollywood and it is most often closer than that. Alcohol killed her young and it was horror at what her family was that sent her there.
So I have confirmation in personal experience that much of Mathis is real. And lots of it is BS. Regarding Dylan, the story of his early success makes no sense at all unless there is an outside source of power. Mathis’ take on the Zimmerman family is at least plausible though I aam not going to believe or vouch for much.

Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 16 2022 17:30 utc | 132

To c1ue at Sep 16 2022 16:01 utc:
we must be talking past each other because I do not understand your reply.
I don’t expect replies to any of my comments.
By “my assertion” I assume you mean the following?

“Whether the document is genuine or not and whether this is established or not is completely irrelevant if the goal is to popularize and disseminate suppressed points of view.”

Since the document with its content is already making waves shouldn’t this be considered a fact?
I did not say it was an official document, in fact I said the opposite.
I did not say “the west” was the source, I instead hinted at either the opposite or some third party.
I’ll stop there and ask whether it is my comment you are responding to?

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Sep 16 2022 18:08 utc | 134

So I have confirmation in personal experience that much of Mathis is real. And lots of it is BS. Regarding Dylan, the story of his early success makes no sense at all unless there is an outside source of power. Mathis’ take on the Zimmerman family is at least plausible though I aam not going to believe or vouch for much.
Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 16 2022 17:30 utc | 134
Thank you for your reply. Very interesting. I read years ago that any family continuously in England for 300 years is related to every other such family. I suspect there are many similar interlinked networks in the world, though I find it hard to believe that most who have such connections are aware of them. That said, many Chinese families have complete family trees going back long before the time of Christ so perhaps there are some in Europe as well, so…
Clearly Dylan got a boost early on but also clearly he is unusually talented. Certainly he was raised up by a Jewish entertainment network which probably took little interest in the original folk musicians who were more quaint than potent but as they gathered a following became worth infiltrating and managing especially as the CIA-led LSD revolution was about to take off in which the entertainment nexus was to play a lead role.
Feels to me like Miles probably got about half right.
It’s a little like the Shakespeare question. I suspect the official identity is indeed incorrect and he was probably a high-born lord who could not be seen to be a common thespian or was too close to the Crown to do so. The Earl of Oxford theory makes a lot of sense to me (they come from the de Vere royal family which is far older than the English royal families). But somebody wrote those plays no matter who that somebody was, not a committee and that’s all that matters. Given how public his life was the notion that somebody else wrote most of Dylan’s stuff, though remotely possible I suppose, is implausible.
Ultimately, we know very little. I have enjoyed many of miles’ pieces over the years visiting once or twice a year, but rarely come away convinced of anything except that, as usual, it is unwise to take things in the public sphere at face value. I am not yet convinced, for example, that the conflict in Ukraine is a real one. Most likely it is, but even so quite possibly the warring parties are in league for a hidden purpose. One never really knows…
Hmm…maybe miles could find links between BoJo, Liz Truss, Charles III, Putin and Biden!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 16 2022 18:40 utc | 136

Possibly better to put this here.

CitizenSmith@70
What it confirms is that arrangements for the Royal Funeral are made by the government (HMG). The idea that Charles makes these decisions is a joke.
Do people actually think that the ruling class in the UK, including the vastly wealthy City and the powerful Establishment depend upon the occupant of the throne to do their thinking and decision making for them?
Believing in fairies would make more sense.
Posted by: bevin | Sep 16 2022 16:28 utc | 105

b, the last time I took Bevin to task for telling his repeated lies about the Windsors, you decided to ban me for being off-topic, but not him for introducing the material in the first place.
He is telling lies again. So what am I to do?

Julian Glover
Fri 14 Jun 2002 08.43 EDT
The government has attempted to put an end to the spin row over the Queen Mother’s lying-in-state by releasing a 29-page dossier containing details of its dealings with Black Rod, the official responsible for organising the ceremony.
In a statement released this morning the prime minister also says that newspapers “continue to publish false accounts of what happened during that period” adding that “I have absolute confidence in the integrity of the civil servants involved in these”.
Downing Street claims that today’s evidence shows that although a No 10 official did call Black Rod, her questions about the prime minister’s role were guided by a 1994 note which suggested that the prime minister ought to be present when the coffin arrived at Westminster Hall for the lying in state.
Black Rod did not agree and Downing Street says it did not persist in its request.
Downing Street hopes that by releasing details of its involvement in planning of the funeral the public and the media will realise that there was no attempt by the prime minister to increase his public role.
However No 10 has left Black Rod to decide whether or not to release the memo he submitted to the press complaints commission and said to outline his concerns over the prime minister’s behaviour.
Yesterday the journalist at the centre of the row, Peter Oborne, described the memo as “dynamite” and opposition politicians have called for it to be put in the public domain.
Officials say their notes show that although the office’s initial discussion with Black Rod was based on the assumption that the prime minister would play a high-profile role but that when it became clear that he would not there was no attempt to change the situation.

https://archive.ph/i3WEL#selection-1059.0-1155.268
(The Guardian)

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 16 2022 21:01 utc | 138

Just for completeness:

Black Rod is an officer of the English Order of the Garter, and is usually appointed Knight Bachelor if not already knighted. Their deputy is the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod.[4]
Order of the Garter
….
Appointments are at the sovereign’s sole discretion

Both from wikipedia.
Now the sovereign is Charles. So the appointment of Black Rod is at Charles’ sole discretion.

CitizenSmith@70
What it confirms is that arrangements for the Royal Funeral are made by the government (HMG). The idea that Charles makes these decisions is a joke.

So who is the joker, bevin?

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 16 2022 21:23 utc | 140

Hello Karl. Hope you are well.
I got banned, that’s why!
I WILL drop you a line in a day or two.

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 16 2022 21:28 utc | 142

To try and distill all the SCO-related articles published today by Global Times would be a waste of my time and MoA bandwidth since just clicking the link and reading them would be far easier and productive. In the article recapping Xi’s speeches, I’d like to highlight the SCO’s emphasis on countering terrorism. IMO, this is used as a euphemism as the Outlaw US Empire/NATO are the world’s primary sponsors of terrorism which is used to destabilize nations and provide the basis for NATO’s Color Revolutions. I should further note that the first Neoliberal Era use of the terrorism/Color Revolution combo was in Chile to undermine one of the initial attempts at taking a political-economic path differing from the Washington Consensus (previous post-WW2 coups were of the “traditional” Imperialist mode) and became the template for future acts of terrorism, particularly the asset stripping aspect that we see again in Ukraine.
Rhetorically, SCO officials say it isn’t aimed at any one nation or bloc, but the reality beneath the rhetoric tells a different story. Xi’s warning against future Color Revolutions and need for SCO prevention is a case in point. Related is yesterday’s Global Times editorial, particularly the last two paragraphs that let it be known that the failed attempt to create a new economic order of the 1970s will not be repeated and provides the main reason why:
“Such a choice made by China and Russia has made peace and cooperation a powerful force of inertia that has global significance, particularly today. Those uneasy or even fearful about this should reflect on and ask themselves, rather than spending their energy and thoughts on smearing others. The international community can clearly see that the US in recent years has strengthened the Five Eyes alliance, peddled Quad, pieced together AUKUS, and tried to create an ‘Indo-Pacific version of NATO.’ All these are the most destructive force in the international system with the UN at the core. The outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is fundamentally the consequence of the failure of the Western military and political bloc in handling equal relations with a regional power properly.
“Under such circumstances, imagine that if the international community does not have another powerful enough force to really intervene, balance, hedge, and even reverse the situation from the direction of maintaining world peace and stability and promoting multilateral cooperation. The future of this world may well be tragic – a complete resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is nowhere in sight, and potential crises elsewhere will be detonated. This is something that many countries, including China, do not want to see and are trying to avoid. From a certain level, this is the significance of the meeting between the heads of state of China and Russia. As President Xi pointed out, China will work with Russia to fulfill their responsibilities as major countries and play a leading role in injecting stability into a world of change and disorder.” [My Emphasis]
So, take 60-90 minutes away from Ukraine and read about something more important. Oh, and here’s the transcript of today’s speech by Xi.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 16 2022 21:56 utc | 144

John Cleary @144–
Wow! I take a short vacation and good people get zapped. Good to know you’re still kicking, John. I look forward to your note!

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 16 2022 21:59 utc | 146

Today’s Strategic Culture Foundation editorial based on the SCO Summit provides a Big Picture overview of the where we are, where we’re going sort. The writer provides the following paragraph which I’d like to deconstruct:
“Indeed, one can go further and state that the U.S. and its Western partners are creating a world of unrelenting conflict, insecurity and regression. This is because Washington pursues the hegemonic ambition of a unipolar world dominated by the United States where the interests of America and its Western allies are the sole prerogative and priority.” [My Emphasis]
Let’s look specifically the bolded text–“the interests of America and its Western allies”–IMO is incorrect and misleading. The “interests” being served by Outlaw US Empire policy are not nations or polities, they are private individuals and select groups, including corporate governing boards, not their workers. Indeed, no common folk are represented at all for they are mined for their resources–Plundered–via a modern, financialized form of enclosure: Debt Peonage.
What the editorial and others missed observing is how the Class War is being taken up by the Multipolar World in its struggle with the Neoliberal Parasites, the latter really don’t belong to any nation aside from their residence and passport. They have No nations interest at heart; they are all out for themselves, although they act collectively at times to facilitate their actions. Regardless their nationality or ethnicity, they are Mankind’s enemies, and don’t care how many get killed to advance their interests.
IMO, it’s paramount to keep the above in mind as we analyze events as the year draws to a close.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 16 2022 22:49 utc | 148

Posted by: Bemildred | Sep 16 2022 16:06 utc | 127
no shit!! i get sick of fighting attempts by Microsoft to link all my devices. I don’t freaking want to link all my devices.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 16 2022 23:03 utc | 150

fyi
another good one by the editorial staff at Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/16/sco-summit-offers-vision-of-hope-amid-us-led-insanity-for-war/
SCO Summit Offers Vision of Hope Amid U.S.-Led Insanity for War
“….Cuba stands out perhaps at the most egregious case, under the hammer of sanctions for over six decades for no other reason than it has a socialist government. Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Nicaragua, and many more, are assaulted with economic sanctions simply for not complying with Washington’s writ for hegemony. All of this is completely illegal and in total violation of the UN Charter and international law. Yet the United States has the audacity to label others as “rogue”, “pariah” and “terror state”, when the fact is Washington is the world’s foremost criminal state…..
….The White House this week also warned China to “not do business with Russia”. It said that China would become “isolated” if it did.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin can but only smile at the ludicrous Americans. The SCO summit is testimony that Russia and China are far from isolated. They are embracing nations that represent the majority of humankind. It is the power-crazy American rulers who are becoming isolated in their appalling death wish for the planet….”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 16 2022 23:26 utc | 152

I live in Mexico and left London in 1974.

That explains a great deal!
You see everything changed after you left.
I’ll try to give a synopsis. You will remember the “Secondary Banking Crisis” built up during the years of the Barber Boom?
Well that required legislation to fix all of the scandals unearthed by the recession. Still, no probs. Ted Heath was at the helm and could be trusted to follow a smooth course.
But then the Socialists cheated. They got into power on the back of the Miners Strike led by Joe Gormley.
And the radical socialists would get to draft the laws to be introduced in the wake of the Secondary Banking Crisis.
Disaster looms. It’s Us or Them.
Suddenly, out of the blue, the champion of the socialists quits – at the age of sixty.
He is replaced by an older man, James Callaghan.
The Callaghan team introduce the new rules and regulations.
Importantly, they exempt certain named persons from the rules. Guess who?
The Callaghan family prospers. Callaghan becomes “Farmer Jim”. His daughter, Margaret Jay, goes to Washington as the Ambassador’s wife. She ends up in the House of Lords in her own right.
Every Labour prime minister since Wilson has fucked us, the people, up the arse.
While smiling.
The majority people are cowed dogs.

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 17 2022 0:02 utc | 154

Scorpion
For most of American history Jews couldn’t join golf clubs or attend colleges or live in well to do neighbourhoods.
The temporary importance of Jews in Russian socialist movements is obviously attributable to a Tsarist society in which they had relatively high levels of education (and very limited career opportunities), marginal social status, distance from official positions and professions all of which give rise to the existence of individuals with sympathy for the underdog and good reasons for wanting revolutionary change.
After a few years of Soviet rule the Jewish minority ceased to be an important part of the Communist party. Many were killed in the purges which wiped out most of the Old Bolsheviks (and Old Mensheviks too).
(Did you live in Chelsea Square, as a child, Scorpion?)

Posted by: bevin | Sep 17 2022 1:36 utc | 156

much of this occurred before the wave of immigration in the 20th century that included some jews.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 17 2022 0:33 utc | 157
You ignore the role of the major Jewish banks in the 1800s era which were behind little disturbances like the Civil War, various assassinated Presidents and so on. As it says in the intro to the article I linked above:
“Introduction
Much of the so-called “history” we were taught in our schools has not been so accurate as we might have believed. In particular, the book publishers, with cunning aforethought, have managed to eliminate much of the most important information necessary to give us a real understanding of the world in which we live. After the elimination of perhaps 50% of the crucial facts, much of the remainder that has been presented to us is factually false. Even worse, they have managed to construct a disconnected historical narrative consisting of sound bytes that appear unrelated and thus prevent us from being able to connect the necessary dots to see the overall picture as it really is (or has been). To make matters worse, our teachers, having been educated in this same system, are themselves ignorant of most of the crucial facts. In this essay, I will attempt to present some major sections of an important segment of our history so the relations can be made and the picture discerned as a whole.”
And specifically about America:
“Andrew Jackson was no sooner elected President than he was the target of an assassination attempt by a gunman named Richard Lawrence, who confessed to the police that that he had been “in touch with the powers in Europe”. Despite the obvious danger to his life, Jackson refused to renew the bank’s charter and the US national debt went to zero for the first and last time in the nation’s history. But in retaliation, the Bank’s president Nicholas Biddle, an agent for the Paris-based Jacob Rothschild, immediately cut off all funding to the US government and plunged the country into a deep depression. Simultaneously, the same bankers plunged the US into a war with Mexico, greatly exacerbating the economic hardship and once again offering the US president an opportunity to clarify his thinking.[18]”
So before the wave of (mainly Ashkenazi from Eastern Europe, i.e. non-semitic) Jews in the early 20th century there were powerful well-connected European banking and political Jews involved in historically important developments, few of them benign whose descendants later fomented communism to overthrow the established order all over the West.
Civil War? Way before their influence according to you. But read this:
“The bankers’ incitement of wars of clarification in America included the US civil war which, contrary to popular belief, was not about slavery but about political and financial control of the US. There is more than ample evidence that the severe divisions within the country which led to the American civil war were deliberately inflicted upon the US by these same bankers, who were fulfilling their warning delivered more than ten years earlier that disobedience would be punished by the crafting and imposition of a civil war. Their plan, which succeeded admirably, was “to exploit the question of slavery and thus to dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic”, thereby throwing the new nation into a bitter civil war with the intent of ending with two weak and easily-controlled republics instead of one strong one.
Germany’s Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck claimed the European bankers were responsible for the American Civil War, stating “The division of the United States was decided by the high financial powers of Europe”, and van Helsing wrote “The reasons leading to this civil war were almost completely due to the Rothschild agents”, one of whom was George Bickly who persuaded the Confederate States of the advantages of secession from the Union, thereby precipitating the American civil war. All American history texts attribute the civil war to slavery disputes, constituting one of the greatest lies and historical revisions existing in any nation.
In any case, the bankers did succeed in their incitement to violence, and the Civil War was unleashed on the US, with the London bankers backing the Union and the French bankers backing the South. Everyone made a fortune and by 1861 the US was $100 million in debt. At this time, Abraham Lincoln became the new President and snubbed the bankers by issuing US government currency popularly known as Greenbacks to pay Union Army bills without incurring debt to the Rothschilds.
At the time, the Rothschild-controlled Times of London wrote: “If that mischievous policy, which had its origins in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.””
Now maybe you don’t trust this article. Fair enough. But I’ve read this stuff over the years from many sources and am confident that it’s generally accurate.
I don’t have a bee in my bonnet about Jews btw, but I don’t like how history has been written to paper over their contributions past and present. That ain’t right. And the result is that we have extremely skewed and inaccurate notions about important aspects of our cultures and countries which are playing out even now with how we view the conflict in Ukraine between parties called US, UK, NATO, Germany, Nazi battalions, Russia, Ukraine and so forth. Every single word is viewed through a distorted lens because of our deliberately obfuscated history. That’s why it’s an important issue and the canard epithet about one being an antisemite for raising it is used successfully to shut down awareness. Works nearly every time.
You know who is in power by who gets to impose taboos. The world is hurtling towards a major depression and perhaps world war in no small part because of such taboos which most of us are too frightened to bust out of.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 2:53 utc | 158

(Did you live in Chelsea Square, as a child, Scorpion?)
Posted by: bevin | Sep 17 2022 1:36 utc | 158
Well, I think you minimize their presence and influence, old chap.
Wilton Place. Now probably Arabian Embassy Row. I walked from there to Hill House in the mornings through the last of the pea soupers around 1960. It was a different time. My stepfather hosted ‘All Our Yesterdays’ on the BBC; perhaps you watched it? Once a week. Short. I don’t think it was all that entertaining but I was too young to watch it. Indeed, the only television I watched back then was Dickens series I believe once a week on the weekends. I remember a very good David Copperfield and also a Christmas Carol production; the character of Scrooge impressed me deeply. My stepfather’s room-mate at Oxford was Thai Royalty, brother to the King. He visited London one year and I went with them in a Rolls Royce to see My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison and we sat in the Royal Box and I escorted his daughter Princess Nerissa on my arm at aged seven all dressed up with patent leather shiny shoes and a velvet jacket and felt very grand. A night to remember. Like I said, a different time…
I know about the golf clubs. One grandfather of mine was the eldest son of a Belarusian rabbi. He emigrated to the States around 1917 after refusing to go to Yeshiva. In America he never admitted to being Jewish and made a fortune in the States (probably with Jewish contacts in Scotland), and joined many golf clubs and only after he died did his wife, daughter and grandchildren learn his personal history (because relatives we had never heard of including Chagal’s lover (!) wanted to know if they were in his will!). I believe he was wrong to hide his background but don’t know his reasons for leaving Belarus and refusing to become a Rabbi and respect his walking away from that identity. Other grandparents were WASP descendants of Presidents 2 & 4, American blue bloods but decidedly middle class through and through. So I’m a mutt with no particular class – other than middle – or national identity.
None of that really has anything to do with my opinions about things. I stumbled into revisionist history in the 80’s with the first computers. I don’t know how or why. I like wondering what is behind things, perhaps, because I sense what is being presented is only the facade. My mother graduated from RADA, London. Cut her career short to become a wife and mother. Her husband’s father ran the Lyric Theater Hammersmith in the 20’s. So the family knows a lot about facades and masks perhaps. I like finding the person beneath them perhaps. I don’t have a racist or a classist bone in my body, though I personally love different races, ethnicities, languages and cultures and prefer societies with dynamic, playful and clear class systems, especially any with high culture elements which are increasingly rare in the West which has been taken over by materialism, commercialism, transactionalism and way too many isms including socialism, communism, capitalism and now scientism. Too many isms!!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 3:16 utc | 160

Egalitarianism I think is the biggest one, specifically equality of the sexes.
Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 3:19 utc | 163
There’s something about -isms that makes them all wrong somehow!
Extremism: they pick one side or thrust thereby excluding others and thereby lose the Middle Way and once that is lost harmony is lost, balance is lost, sanity is lost, good society is lost.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 3:29 utc | 162

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 3:29 utc | 164
“There’s something about -isms that makes them all wrong somehow!
Extremism: they pick one side or thrust thereby excluding others and thereby lose the Middle Way and once that is lost harmony is lost, balance is lost, sanity is lost, good society is lost.”
Interesting point. I suppose the counter argument is we need shaking up every so often (too much “Middle Way” leads to stagnation), but that, of course, can be very unpleasant to live through (or not live through).

Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 3:36 utc | 164

Posted by: JC | Sep 17 2022 3:32 utc | 165
Correction posted in wrong thread… sorrie should be in Ukraine – Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items

Posted by: JC | Sep 17 2022 3:42 utc | 166

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen had a baby.
His name was Jeff Buckley. His early death only cemented his legend, and now we can only guess at what a full corpus of his prime work could have been through the tasty scraps he left behind.
It is not all bad, though. In the horror genre, you often don’t get to see the full presence of what haunts the film until later to build tension.
Only we get no release in this case.
What did Kierkegaard say about the poet?
“Please keep torturing yourself for our enjoyment.”

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 17 2022 4:02 utc | 168

There is no unambiguous metric for happiness of which I’m aware.
Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 4:33 utc | 171
An acquaintance of mine, Ron Coleman, helped the Kingdom of Bhutan develop a Gross National Happiness Index.
https://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/gross-national-happiness-and-development/
So somebody has actually worked on it, unlikely as it sounds!
(Thanks for kind words. Ditto.)

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 4:45 utc | 170

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 2:53 utc | 160
which article Scorpion? the one that Bevin linked?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 17 2022 5:44 utc | 172

dunno about wiki, but Lawrence sounds like he was insane, e.g.
“Around this time,[vague] Lawrence abruptly quit his house painting job. When questioned by his sister and brother-in-law with whom he was living, Lawrence claimed that he did not need to work because the U.S. government owed him a large sum of money. Lawrence had come to believe that he was owed money because he was Richard III of England and owned two English estates. Lawrence became convinced that he was not receiving the money because of President Andrew Jackson’s opposition to the Second Bank of the United States. He felt that if Jackson were no longer in office, Vice President Martin Van Buren would establish a national bank and allow Congress to pay him the money for his English estate claims”
so you’re basically going by something attributed to this guy Lawrence, who thought he was Richard III , by some article by some author. who was it?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 17 2022 5:55 utc | 174

Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 3:36 utc | 166
so nationalism is wrong. and so is globalism, and tribalism, and individualism.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 17 2022 5:57 utc | 176

Martin Sonneborn to Ursula:
“When YOU started your service here, I thought you were just incompetent and a bit criminal, meanwhile I know that you are also impressively free of morals…”
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/25210

Posted by: YK | Sep 17 2022 7:17 utc | 178

@ too scents | 179
Yes, the FBI too BUT publicly, with a website. And not to chase US citizens that dish their president by threatening their family members at home – mafia style. Not a fan of the Comeys, Muellers, Strzoks & other black spots though!
Noticed how the EU is most gullible, as usual?

Posted by: Antonym | Sep 17 2022 7:58 utc | 180

Christoforou’s clown world today: van der Crazy talking about the “Russian military taking chips from dishwashers”:
“Now, we could say that’s an anecdote,” he said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. “But to be honest, it happens everywhere — it is 15-, 20-, 25-year-old semiconductor technology that is now being used everywhere.”
Note above article is from April 2022.
So. Much. Winning.
Posted by: c1ue | Sep 16 2022 15:58 utc | 125
Ancient news. NASA is a very keen user of obsolete unobtanium electronics. To maintain some of the EX CIA/USSAF flying piles of obsolete aircraft. All of which were extremely vulnerable to Soviet-made “Ground-to-Air missiles”. This included the long-range “Air to Air” variety as fitted to the MIG-25/31. Ah, the bad old days. When two fully armed MIG-31’s intercepted a very hot(air friction is a bitch at Mach 2.8) SR71A over international airspace. Long before it could cross the border without any pre-approved flight plans. Or, the wonders of the advanced Soviet/RF OTH radar.
Due to the extreme generosity from both the dumb&dumber USSAF and RAF sending manned target drones. As sent to spy on Russia during the cold war. The then Soviet aviation missile forces obtained excellent target practice scores.
The Soviets had so many free parts obtained from the piles of U2 junk lying around. They were able to construct a far more reliable twin-engined version “Mystic-B”. With one minor very important jet engine ignition upgrade. That was not fitted as standard on the single jet engine as fitted to the U2. Cost-cutting for profit Yankee accountants strikes again!
Then again! Have you ever wondered how NASA maintained the ancient decrepit aged obsolete USSA Space Shuttle?
Given that much of the Shuttles core electronics parts was unobtanium from any USSA makers after 1990. Hint one of the Space shuttle’s reserve backup computers. Was in fact an old well known RPN keystroke programmable HP-41CV calculator. One that was declared obsolete in 1990. lol
How soon we forget about how the USSAF maintains the ancient decrepit B-52s! By regular visits to the junkyard.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Sep 17 2022 8:48 utc | 182

*Antonym. Sorry!

Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 8:57 utc | 184

nope it’s not in the article that Bevin linked to, Scorpion. would you like to provide source for this article claiming that jews steered the US into Civil War after trying to assassinate Jackson? or influenced the US to invade Mexico. how about all the other invasions? how about the war on the native americans? jews?
Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 17 2022 5:49 utc | 175
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/jews-and-revolutions/
Saying a group did some things doesn’t mean they did every thing. But the initial point in the introductory paragraph is key: history and even right now current events are skewed to hide the movers and shakers from view and accountability. We are in a destructive robber baron regime wherein though many intuit this vaguely they never really identify the actual Barons doing the damage. Instead they take up (mental) arms against various causes, races and classes which the endless narrative spinners supply.
Fwliw I don’t trust ‘the Jews are behind it all’ view though certainly a class of them figure prominently in key sectors which is why, again and again, they have been purged. It’s an ugly thing but it has to be faced at some point. More importantly, and again, the skewing of history to hide the Money Power’s pernicious influence is responsible for far too much harm to far too many.
Because of this successful suppression of truth our cultures are infected with the pandemic of ignorance and wrong views and are degrading steadily damaging our peoples life journeys and enabling evil, like what we have collectively wrought in Ukraine, to flourish in our name as most of us dutifully cheer on.
We must do better!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 12:22 utc | 186

Perhaps I’m still not understanding, in which case apologies all round.
Posted by: RTX | Sep 17 2022 8:56 utc | 185
Well, I’m just nattering at a bar… No expert or authority (obviously).
I think when any given ism is followed as an Idea, which is abstract concept, it becomes extreme. Ideas dwell in the Head Realm. Reality dwells more in the Realm of Heart. The uniforms and panoply which are part of Royal display appeal to the Heart more than the Head. Head doesn’t stand in line overnight in the cold for no apparent gain. It’s all empty, all display, but then so are green grass, streams, trees and mountains, the sky, clouds and stars. Reality is vibrantly unreal, splendidly dressed up!
Head trips are often used to trick people into following with their hearts and therein perhaps is the deception-based source of all deviltry.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 12:50 utc | 188

@Sunny Runny Burger #136
I directly addressed your theory: that the document is published to popularize.
And I noted in at least 2 cases, the “popularization” does not help the effort and is much more likely to hurt.
In the last case – the real world case – it does not matter what the public thinks.
In other words: your theory is no good.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 17 2022 14:00 utc | 190

@Bemildred #127
IoT is not entirely a scam.
There are plenty of legit reasons to use microcontrollers (NOT computers) in many devices. A simple example is a timing belt or a timing chain in a car. What these devices do is sync valves and cam shafts – but they function as a basically completely repetitive set of actions. While there are many other functions in cars and other devices that are repetitive – a microcontroller allows a greater range and complexity of repetitive tasks as well as the ability to modify activity if desired.
But of course, complete junk use of IoT is making light bulbs visible on the internet and so forth.
My view is that IoT is used more and more because of crapification: it is a lot more effort and expense to make a mechanical control system than a digital one – digital ones are much less able to hold up over time. And that’s an extra bonus since it means the device has to be replaced sooner instead of being used 30 years or more…

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 17 2022 14:13 utc | 192

My view is that IoT is used more and more because of crapification: it is a lot more effort and expense to make a mechanical control system than a digital one – digital ones are much less able to hold up over time. And that’s an extra bonus since it means the device has to be replaced sooner instead of being used 30 years or more…
Posted by: c1ue | Sep 17 2022 14:13 utc | 194
At bottom it is the crapification of everything. When marketing rules everything, that is what you get. Even in defense, even in aeroplanes. You can have some limits on all this “profit seeking” or you wind up with lots of crap.

Posted by: Bemildred | Sep 17 2022 14:38 utc | 194

Unfortunately for some, it’s not what they want to do, because in the heart there is conscience and those other things like courage, and love. Even virtue. The brain doesn’t deal with those things so it’s a more comfortable place for some folk – success and power are brain things. But so is madness.
Posted by: juliania | Sep 17 2022 13:55 utc | 191
Whole post lovely.
Small biological niggle: the enteric brain (in the gut) has far more neural activity than the head brain. It took a while to accept this because our current superstition is that the brain does all the thinking.
Qualifier: it still might be that the brain does most of what we experience as thinking and what’s going on down below is something else. But consider this: when you consciously decide to raise your arm to shoulder height, for example, the neural activity – as measured electronically – starts in the gut, not the head.
Furthermore, such activity depends upon ‘alien’ cells in the form of trillions of bacteria who are not directly controlled by our nervous system which is also involved. It’s symbiotic. But without those bacteria – many of which are also part of our so-called immune system – the neural activity vital in each and every second of our existence would not perform. The Asians have claimed that the seat of Mind is in the gut for millenia but for some time we have put it in the head.
During the Napoleonic wars I believe it was a captured Italian officer who, before he and his men were to face a firing squad, made the following offer: ‘instead of shooting me, cut off my head with a clean sword slice and after that any of my men lined up here whom I can touch you will let live.’ (Perhaps he got this idea from watching the performances of beheaded hens and roosters.) The deal was made. They cut off his head and sure enough he walked down the line touching each and every one of his men before finally collapsing.
The first heart transplant recipient in the US had visions of someone attacking him with a knife. Finally they had him work with a police artist to make a drawing. The killer of the person whose heart he had received was apprehended for her murder. In Chinese medicine they say long-term memory resides in the heart (emotions in the stomach-spleen nexus, short-term in the kidneys). It would seem – at least in terms of the heart – that they have it right.
But like I said, just a little biological niggle.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 15:01 utc | 196

Putin’s Presser at SCO conference yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5icaLbUMA

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 17:00 utc | 198

@ Scorpion | Sep 17 2022 15:01 utc | 198 with the bit about gut doing some thinking
Below is the text from one of my web pages about neuromodulation that you may find educational

OUR STUPID BRAIN
Our Stupid Brain quotes from “Technical Foundations of Neurofeedback” by Thomas Collura.
“There is a tendency in Western society to think of human actions in terms of “voluntary”, in the sense that we first create a desire to do something and then instruct our brain to take care of the details. The reality is that this is somewhat backwards. As we have seen in our earlier example of the movement-related potential, the brain activity that leads to a voluntary movement precedes the movement by up to 1 1/2 seconds. That means that the very idea of the desire to perform the movement comes after the brain activity. As would seem necessary, the very desire to perform the action is a brain event, and hence is the result of brain processes. This challenges the idea that the conscious mind is “in charge” of the brain, and puts the cart on quite the other side of the horse……
The driving force for thought and action consists in the dynamic instability of the brain and its proclivity to always seek novelty, fulfillment, stimulation, safety, power, and other goals that it perceives.“
My addition to these thoughts is that this information is support for the argument that our glial/astrocytes hold or instantiate the goals listed above in a distributed manner

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 17 2022 18:11 utc | 200