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January 18, 2024
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2024-019
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The ancient skills that haven lost.. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 13:16 utc | 301 RUSSIA’S SANCTION SAGA… AVIATION Posted by: MD | Jan 20 2024 13:22 utc | 302 Oliver Krug | Jan 20 2024 13:13 utc | 300 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 13:29 utc | 303 THE FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN RUSSIA’S SMO/WAR – UKRAINE Posted by: MD | Jan 20 2024 13:39 utc | 304 https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/why-civilization-is-older-than-we Haven’t seen this posted: Harbin war museum sees soaring visits
Posted by: Another Brother Ma | Jan 20 2024 14:18 utc | 306 https://www.rt.com/business/590907-russia-uk-fishing-agreement/ Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 20 2024 14:52 utc | 307 lots of fantasies flying around,
Fact
Harod PInter is definitely not, nor Jeffrey Sachs, nor William Blum, Ofer Cassil…..
Been saying many times Posted by: denk | Jan 20 2024 15:02 utc | 308
Two points in reply: Re the POP’S CHiwawa Posted by: denk | Jan 20 2024 15:12 utc | 310 Scorpion | Jan 20 2024 14:18 utc | 305 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 15:19 utc | 311
Yes, he’s a bit too conventional / Darwinianist / materialist for my taste, but still some interesting observations. None of us is perfect or has all the answers! Sorry, botched the formatting:
2. China is the oldest continuous, high population civilization with hundred million plus populations in the world. I believe (the odious) Klaus Schwab is right in describing them as our model for the future. Obviously some ‘Chinese characteristics’ won’t export well but there are basic organizational principles that other nations will adopt as they too find themselves comprising hundreds of millions or billions. This is more about logistics than ideology. Scorpion | Jan 20 2024 15:10 utc | 309 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 15:52 utc | 315
I live in an Olmeca area with pyramids so old they look like overgrown hills. The people living in the hill country village area I’m slowly moving into (because of affordability not whimsy) are the descendants – presumably – of those who built those pyramids and cities, but they have no knowledge of them at all. So some civilizations and cultures die, but the people live on. Sad but true. But the Sun did not stop for all. That would have been news. But it does stop for some, which is our clue. Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 17:11 utc | 317 Could someone please explain why Russia is not banning strikes on Syria when Iran is a major help in the fight against Ukraine/NATO Posted by: Emile67 | Jan 20 2024 17:13 utc | 318 We Are The Problem Posted by: ld | Jan 20 2024 17:19 utc | 319 Carl Gustav Jung’s model of the psyche and the theoretical framework he built around it is informative. Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 17:30 utc | 320
At a certain level, that which is subjective is not separate from all and everything. Our objective universe is a type of spell wherein seemingly separate entities remain forever intertwined whilst forever meeting and parting. Like watching wave action on a lake. Or clouds forming, moving, transforming, dissolving. So the sun did not stop moving and yet thousands saw it stay still in the sky that day. I doubt this ‘trick’ could have taken place in New York. But in Mongolia, where shamanism is still very much alive, or in the Amazon, or in part of Mexico, or in the Ozzie bush….who knows. I neither believe nor disbelieve but as far as I know my friend is not a liar and people invite him all over the world because they find him helpful. I just like to barbecue large filet minons and crack jokes with him in my execrable Spanish. We get on great. (He wants to sacrifice goats to protect us and I keep desperately refusing!) Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 20 2024 17:37 utc | 321 Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 18:01 utc | 322 OT Posted by: suzan | Jan 20 2024 18:17 utc | 323 @Moonie 88 Posted by: Sam | Jan 20 2024 18:45 utc | 324
That is a very appealing explanation of Farsi etymology. Me gusta! Thank you. > They both walk into town with purposeful gravitas but seem much more relaxed and nonchalant on the return journey! Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 19:28 utc | 326 > They both walk into town with purposeful gravitas but seem much more relaxed and nonchalant on the return journey! Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 19:29 utc | 327 > I wonder if traditional Persian culture is at odds with modern materialism too, or did you have those battles centuries ago? (And if so, who won?!) Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 19:52 utc | 328 @scorpion Posted by: robinthehood | Jan 20 2024 20:23 utc | 329 “…The facts are this: The Taiwanese people have been self-determining their existence since 1945 after the Japanese left and the defeated KMT civil war army arrived. Posted by: bevin | Jan 20 2024 20:27 utc | 330 I am real late to the party here but just read karlof’s #2, his Lavrov quote and half a dozen silly rejoinders. Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 20 2024 20:54 utc | 331 Scorpion | Jan 20 2024 16:21 utc | 316 “At the end of the conference they did a famous old trick the Buddhist and Hindu yogis used to play during their conferences: they stopped the sun in the sky for a day. As his plane took off to return back to the Americas, he could see the sun still there in the same place.” Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 20:58 utc | 332 When you look up at the sky and see that puffy white cloud you are looking at a formation that may be as little as 0.00003% water vapor. That is four zeroes to right of decimal. That trace of vapor clearly interacts with radiation. You can see the cloud. The cloud is visible. Because solar radiation reflects white off the vapor. Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 20 2024 21:05 utc | 333 oldhippie | Jan 20 2024 21:05 utc | 333 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 21:13 utc | 334 Atlantis. May or may not have existed. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 20 2024 22:45 utc | 335 Re: RU attacked Kharkiv hotel with 200 French “mercenaries” killed: Posted by: AG | Jan 21 2024 1:24 utc | 336 bevin | Jan 20 2024 20:27 utc | 330
That too is a choice. Read the US Declaration of Independence. The people never have to do as they are told. The recognised KMT Government self-determined on behalf of the people what transpired in 1945 and soince, and the People have been with them, their Govts, all the way ever since. Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 1:36 utc | 337 Lavrov #2 Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 1:40 utc | 338 @ bevin | Jan 20 2024 20:27 utc | 330 Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 2:00 utc | 339 AG | Jan 21 2024 1:24 utc | 336 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 2:09 utc | 340 @ oldhippie_the_scientist | Jan 20 2024 21:05 utc | 333 Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 2:11 utc | 341 Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 1:36 utc | 337 Posted by: bevin | Jan 21 2024 2:27 utc | 342 This essay by the Japanese scholar, researcher and author Kohei Saito was first published in Unherd on January 9, 2024. Saito has just published a new book: Slow Down: The degrowth manifesto (W&N, Orion Publishing Group. Posted by: bevin | Jan 21 2024 2:32 utc | 343 “I see the storm at MoA this has caused, which is odd since I’ve posted very similar writings before over the years and there was never so much hair pulling and feet stomping.” Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 2:38 utc | 344 I come from the school of life where one can’t be too humble or use too much self-deprecating humor. LOL Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 2:55 utc | 345 Which brings us to this cute little line: Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 2:57 utc | 346 You are being very dishonest: the situation in the Donbas in 2015 was quite different from that in Taiwan in 1949. Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 3:01 utc | 347 This is the goat fantasy..
Fact…..
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A travel blog depicting happy Chinese people having fun…
TIP of an iceberg
Fact….
hint
Really ? Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2024 4:46 utc | 348 [a revised take] Regarding @ karlof1 | Jan 19 2024 16:52 utc | 161 and other comments since.
My comment was about one sentence Lavrov. Not Hudson, and not Karl. But Karl’s reply completely threw me. It distracted me and confused me no end; to a point where I have totally misunderstood / misconstrued his opening remarks: “Agreed, you pointed out the problem with absolutes” — which was “Lavrov’s” absolutes – the basic ERROR I was pointing out at the beginning!
Talking in circles? Yes. Because the only thing I had raised was the specific comment by Lavrov himself, being:
And not Karl’s long winded comments about everything else. From then on it got even more confused. A total misunderstanding. But I am very happy now that I actually know and understand what happened, when, and why. (sigh) LD Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 6:06 utc | 349 Below are two quotes from Xinhuanet postings
https://english.news.cn/20240120/9e777463c765486c8b1b4e7771288561/c.html
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 21 2024 6:49 utc | 350 In the end, US Patent law is applicable only as far as our armies can reach. And as it’s increasingly obvious the US army is no match for Russia, China, and perhaps Iran, our patents and intellectual property is not really enforceables there. Posted by: Passerby | Jan 21 2024 9:26 utc | 351 Interesting propaganda article by some Italian, translated to English, that still can’t help admitting that Russia is totally invigorated and that the young look up to….. Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 21 2024 11:23 utc | 352 Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 20 2024 21:05 utc | 333 Posted by: Passerby | Jan 21 2024 12:58 utc | 353 @Peter AU1 340 Posted by: AG | Jan 21 2024 13:55 utc | 354 “In the end, US Patent law is applicable only as far as our armies can reach. And as it’s increasingly obvious the US army is no match for Russia, China, and perhaps Iran, our patents and intellectual property is not really enforceables there.” @ 338 Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 21 2024 15:40 utc | 356 the goat misdirection
What bollocks ! Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2024 17:01 utc | 357 Jews vs Arabs Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2024 17:09 utc | 358 canuck | Jan 21 2024 14:05 utc | 355 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 17:17 utc | 359 oldhippie | Jan 21 2024 15:40 utc | 356 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 17:19 utc | 360 @ 338 – If someone misses the point entirely that is just par for internet. Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 21 2024 21:22 utc | 362 re my @349 (and possibly oldhippie @331 too)
Aha. Yes — it is no wonder I became so confused later. I really do get it now. 🙂 Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 22 2024 2:17 utc | 363 pop
urgh, !
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Which is true of course.
There’r ws [white supremacists] at UNZ who gushed at this revival of ww2 AXIS powers and an reinvigorated McCarthyism all across anglophone Posted by: denk | Jan 22 2024 4:44 utc | 364 “It’s not just political Berlin that is mourning the late CDU politician. The French president practiced German for weeks in order to pay tribute to Schäuble in front of the Bundestag.” – FAZ. Posted by: Oliver Krug | Jan 22 2024 17:58 utc | 365 Emile67 | Jan 20 2024 17:13 utc | 318 Posted by: Cynic | Jan 22 2024 21:14 utc | 366 |
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