Very interesting to see who attended today’s meetings with Putin on the development of the defence industry and with commanders of military districts. I’ll provide the translation of Putin’s introductory remarks later today which were of a rather general nature with the important discussions happening after the cameras were off. Although he’s not a young kid, he’s the youngest member of the government who IMO has a very promising future, and here’s what Putin said of him–teacher to student:
“New Minister industrial development, industry is also not a newcomer in this area. You worked, Anton Andreevich [Alikhanov], in the Ministry of Industry earlier. Now, bearing in mind your developments in the territory, you understand that and how is it done in the territories and what is needed to work was even more successful. I hope you will apply all these skills here and knowledge in order to act successfully.”
Some will wonder what happened with Medvedev–nothing. He retained his post and was at the meetings.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 15 2024 15:37 utc | 3

hopefully fico pulls thru..
is this an archbishop ferdinand moment? it seems like the reverse…
Posted by: james | May 15 2024 16:02 utc | 17
OT on the other thread “archbishop” 😀
Come on James, this doesn’t look like you
Yes, hope he comes through and with a vengeance for the joke.
Also hope someone follows the money that I would bet showed up in the would be assassin’s family
Maybe it came from Luxembourg, would bet a lot of ukranian companies there…

Posted by: Newbie | May 15 2024 16:11 utc | 5

It is not clear why Ukrainian fascists would want to kill Fico. Slovakia’s potential positive contributions to Ukraine by a compliant successor (whose presence is not even guaranteed) are not very important. Slovakia isn’t terribly important to the EU or NATO either. And it has very little to offer Russia, meaning Fico wasn’t much of a threat. EVen more, it is doubtful to what extent Ukrainian fascists are truly independent of the CIA and other western intelligence and military circles. I for one believe there are numerous fascist fellow travelers in the US army and CIA etc. but I don’t think that makes Ukraine the tail that wags the dog.
Fico’s SMER party is alleged to be pretty corrupt, so there’s a chance some cheated victim may have lost it. (Isn’t that what happened with Abe?) The incoming president elect, Pellegrini, was a big Fico ally, his #2 Man it’s claimed, but split away to make the HLAS party. Removing Fico could result in a de facto SMER/HLAS reunification, leaving Pellegrini the winner of the split after all?
But the problem with gossip is that gossip is a rule of thumb kind of thing. That means half-right, half the time.
Cui bono? is still a useful guide but you need to look at all the possible “who” (cui) and how much (bono.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | May 15 2024 16:45 utc | 7

One of the significant characteristics of Slovakia is its ethnic and geographical proximity to Ukraine. Like Hungary Slovakia might ‘gain’ population and acreage from any break up of the current Ukraine.
The most likely explanation for a ‘lone wolf’ attack is the tsunami or russophobic propaganda which has driven millions of people crazy. In so far as Fico has been portrayed as a Russian ally/puppet he has been turned into a potential target for those ‘sharing western values.’

Posted by: bevin | May 15 2024 17:43 utc | 9

🇸🇰 Slovak Prime Minister Fico’s surgery was successful, his condition is stable and he is conscious, local media reports

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/110571

Posted by: Norwegian | May 15 2024 17:58 utc | 11

Worth watching, quite amazing, The Mighty Wurlitzer at work, in a nutshell everything you need to know about capitalism and war:
Two days ago, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry published a propaganda video that turned out to be an exact copy of an 11-year-old American Jeep commercial for the Super Bowl

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 15 2024 18:22 utc | 13

Decided to browse the Daily Mail headlines for possible leaks related to the Fico shooting. I settled on these two:
“Coffee fans go wild for $1 Starbucks copycat drink recipe that uses only four ingredients”
Excerpt
“Recently, the US-based content creator [Cosette Manson] took to TikTok to tell her more than 786,000 followers that they didn’t have to turn to the coffee giant for their energy boost – adding that they could make their favorite drinks from the comfort of their home.
In a viral video, which has so far amassed more than 57,000 views, she took viewers through her process of making a copycat version of Starbucks’ Iced Carmel Macchiato – coming in at just $1.”
And this one — “Exclusive: Man with same sleep disorder as Joe Biden causes four traffic accidents in months: Wake up call!”
Excerpt
“The case was revealed in the American Journal of Case Reports, amid warnings from doctors that excessive sleepiness can raise the risk of traffic accidents.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by the upper airways becoming blocked during sleep and affects about 39million people in the US every year.”
… “In the case in Vietnam, the patient was also diagnosed with obesity hypoventilation disorder (OHD) — a breathing disorder that causes someone who is obese to have too much carbon dioxide and too little oxygen in their blood.” … “The physicians, from a Military Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, wrote in the report: ‘In summary, OSA… manifests symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, substantially increasing the risk of traffic accidents.
‘Regrettably, this issue has not received the required attention in Vietnam.’ “
Mike Mihajlovic most recent post is on Palestinian air defence: “A very clear example of Palestinian point air defense: a well-placed hit with the stone knocked down an Israeli drone. Palestinians are skilled with slingshots and throwing rocks by hand so this is not surprising.”
https://x.com/MihajlovicMike/status/1790178758286287143
A big piece of very interesting-looking space something-or-other was found in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/space-debris-farm-field-1.7204312
The Beaverton has a recent post about Saskatchewan
“The jig is up! Saskatchewan announces they were just fucking with everyone about the whole ‘bunny hug’ thing”
In Saskatchewan, they refer to hoodies as ‘bunny hugs’. All a carefully-orchestrated conspiracy, says the satirical news site.
https://x.com/TheBeaverton/status/1790186764214366593

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | May 15 2024 18:39 utc | 15

Did Blinken perform “Sympathy For The Devil?”
“I was there when Zelenskyy,
Sent old men to war in vain.
And conscripted little kids,
To fight for his cocaine.”

Posted by: Marielle Redclaw | May 15 2024 19:15 utc | 17

I would bet that when this Juraj Cintula is looked at a little more closely, we will find that he has ”won” a ”literary prize” (in cash) from some obscure literary organization that has no members and is financed by an NGO that is in turn financed and controlled by the US State Department.
I’d be curious to know who published his books, and how many connections away the US State Department is from them as well.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 15 2024 19:52 utc | 19

Judge Nap, who’s nobody’s fool, on RT on Fico:

Fico stood up to the West, but he shouldn’t have to pay with his life – US legal expert
The attempted assassination of Slovakian PM Robert Fico tells you about “the desperation of the West” to bring other countries into line, and the “demonisation of all things Russian,” says legal analyst Andrew Napolitano.
His comments come following local reports that the alleged 71-year-old shooter was part of a liberal opposition party and was spurred to act by “political motivations.”

6 min vid: https://t.me/RTnews_unc3/29860

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 15 2024 20:00 utc | 21

Erwin Sonderegger has written a very short article that touches on the matter of substance, and many others we’ve seen in the last thread.
At one point, he says that
If one has realized that all understand is within a particular ‘world’ of opinions and beliefs, one will stop to claim one’s specific world against others. … To claim something is not the only viable position in a debate. You may also choose to doubt, to question, or to simply not claim, among many others.
The original is in German; using simple language, it should translate readily.
°o°O°o°o°O°o°O°o°
[re-edited post from the tail end of the old OT]

Posted by: persiflo | May 15 2024 20:08 utc | 23

⚡️Prime Minister Fico has been placed in a medically-induced coma and will remain in it for 24 hours, according to media reports.
His condition after the attack is critical, he has lost a lot of blood. It is noted that the main arteries were not damaged.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/22503

Posted by: Norwegian | May 15 2024 20:13 utc | 25

Posted by: persiflo | May 15 2024 20:08 utc | 22
Thanks.
Not quite sure about the word translated into English as ‘substance’ / substanzen
Also ‘basic opinion’ / grundmeinungen
As in the title: Eine Welt aus Substanzen – viele Welten aus Grundmeinungen.
Is ‘substance’ / ousia something like ‘a particular phenomenon’?
I do not understand ‘basic opinion’ at all. Or is it ‘basic assumptions’?

Posted by: scorpion | May 15 2024 20:31 utc | 27

Fico was apparently shot in the head with a handgun. That is usually really bad, but apparently the would-be assassin used a “pellet gun”, which I believe is EU-speak for a shotgun. A handgun/shotgun that can fire multiple rounds probably has relatively small cartridges, so the pellets it fires are likely not much bigger than birdshot. They might not have penetrated the skull, which in turn means that Fico might be able to fully recovery mental faculties.
Just speculation.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 15 2024 20:35 utc | 29

Magnier’s take, I noticed that too about the bodyguards, “unprofessional” is a safe way of saying what he thinks:

Belgian military correspondent Elijah Magnier suggested on RT who might benefit from an attack on the Prime Minister of Slovakia.
“If we look at the [policy of] Slovakia under Robert Fico, we will see a deterioration in relations with the EU, Slovakia’s rapprochement with Russia, a position against the supply of arms and ammunition to Ukraine, as well as against Ukraine’s accession to NATO.
I think this is a very impressive list of motives to take up arms against the Prime Minister of Slovakia and [try to] kill him in such a brutal way,” he said.
Magnier also drew attention to the unprofessionalism of Fico’s bodyguards, who were not close enough to protect him.
“>https://t.me/ZandVchannel/113334

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 15 2024 20:58 utc | 31

@Bruised Northerner #15
What fell was almost certainly a piece of SpaceX debris given the copious amounts of carbon fibre. Another piece from a nearby area looks very similar and was positively identified as SpaceX.

Posted by: Altai | May 15 2024 21:18 utc | 33

Thanks Altai. You know, the weird thing is that SpaceX and the Canadian Space Agency have made no comments about it, according to the reporting. Isn’t there concern a competitor might get hold of it? Wouldn’t SpaceX want it back? Wouldn’t the Canadian Space Agency want to assure concerned Canadians about this incident (maybe provide a careful explanation of how it got there?)
I don’t know.
Canada’s branch of the Five Eyes, the Communications Security Establishment has produced another catchy YouTube musical video about cyber security. Like the one at Christmas, with the Christmas carols.
https://x.com/cse_cst/status/1790764821719232988

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | May 15 2024 21:23 utc | 35

Sharing something read elsewhere, interesting interpretation
Also, it is worth noting that, as reported by The Independent, the “shooting in Slovakia comes three weeks ahead of European Parliament (EP) elections, in which populist and hard-right parties in the 27-nation bloc appear poised to make gains”. What does it mean? In practice, with this shooting, most likely a covert operation organized by the CIA, the Outlaw US Empire has sent a powerful message to whoever gets elected in the next elections (not just for the EP): “Beware! If you do not follow our orders and, instead, dare to go against them, we will get rid of you one way or another!”. That’s probably how they keep all European leaders by the balls, e.g. German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who had to swallow the sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines, and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, who, like Robert Fico, pursued a sovereign foreign policy during her election campaign, only to turn it upside down once elected.

Posted by: Newbie | May 15 2024 22:20 utc | 37

https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1790761974411759657
New dissident pundit Benz, who has been in the area recently, says the hit was about Western pressure to influence Slovakian prosecutors. Like Biden in Ukraine years ago.

Posted by: scorpion | May 15 2024 22:24 utc | 39

A bunch of good questions @26:

Not quite sure about the word translated into English as ‘substance’ / substanzen
Also ‘basic opinion’ / grundmeinungen
As in the title: Eine Welt aus Substanzen – viele Welten aus Grundmeinungen.
Is ‘substance’ / ousia something like ‘a particular phenomenon’?
I do not understand ‘basic opinion’ at all. Or is it ‘basic assumptions’?

The term substance here means something different than the substances a drug lab would produce, or make use of as ingredients when cooking stuff. It’s much more difficult. As Sonderegger points out, substantia is actually a latin word that was used to translate a greek word, and this was not successful in historical view. What happened instead is that substantia acquired its own meaning.
From today’s view, the understanding of substance in this sense is as something eternal, primordial, and unchangeable. Derived from this is the so-called metaphysics of substance. The past 1,500 or so years of “western” european philosophy can be read as a coming to terms with this metaphysical assumption: that “the world” is made up of substance.
If you presuppose substance, you’ll end up having to reconcile with the basic factor of awareness that goes into each and all experience; both that of feeling, sensation, intution, imagination, and in experience of thought, deliberation, understanding, theory (in german: Meinung).
This is called the mind/body problem in today’s terms, using a materialist lense. Substance is more or the less the same as matter in this framework. What happens is that the materialist position must, as is well known, deny any role of consnciousness in the proceedings of the substance. So it gets often conveniently swept under the rug with the term epiphenomenon. In the immortal word of the recently deceased Daniel Dennett, ‘I haven’t found it [cosnciousness]. It’s probably not important.’
I’ll skip further discussion of the mind/body problem here, but shall invite everyone over to the philosophers’ corner to debate more on this.
Instead I would like to more towards the ‘first things’, as ousia may be translated somewhat roughly. (Actually, some others here, like Patroklos and juliania, will be able to do that better that I can, and invite them to chime in). The basic thought now is simple:
When you can’t rely with (absolute) certainty on your substance, then you will have to rely onto something else to gain bedrock. These are the Grundmeinungen Sonderegger is speaking about. You may call those assumptions, but that implies already a layer of abstraction on which those assumptions can be stated, perused, affirmed, questioned, negated, denied, etc. In a more socratic sense, these “assumptions” are made unwittingly and may be exposed through skillfull technique in a dialogue. Later, the academy differentiates between doxa and episteme – to give a hint what those mean, I’ll parallelize them with our current discussion on materialism: doxa would be the established conventional wisdom, the old paradigm if you will.
Finally, the notion of ousia as a ‘particular phenomenon’ is quite brilliant in a Husserlian sense. He’d call the accompanying hyposthasis (substance) a Regionalontologie.

Posted by: persiflo | May 15 2024 22:44 utc | 41

Newbie | May 15 2024 16:04 utc | 4
*** That is a sign of a healthy republic.***
But being in agreement with the surrender of massive powers to the WHO, WEF and related globalist agencies (servants of the monopoly-capitalist imperium) and agendas most certainly is not.

Posted by: Cynic | May 15 2024 23:21 utc | 43

But being in agreement with the surrender of massive powers to the WHO, WEF and related globalist agencies (servants of the monopoly-capitalist imperium) and agendas most certainly is not.
Posted by: Cynic | May 15 2024 23:21 utc | 42
Well, at the time RF only wanted to play along.
Maybe a bridge they’d cross later.
Maybe reform from the inside, maybe at the time not even considered. Who knows?
Sometimes you take a wrong course, sometimes you correct it in time. Sometimes not.
Could be worse, like boats in the US that seem to be feeling some kind of pier pressure 🙂
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna152425?

Posted by: Newbie | May 15 2024 23:33 utc | 45

Manage without Me | May 15 2024 19:22 utc | 18
*** There was an article on RT earlier about Blinker telling young Ukrainians to embrace conscription. How evil can he get?***
Maybe some of his relatives prefer not to be fixed with Palestinian spare parts?

Posted by: Cynic | May 15 2024 23:48 utc | 47

William Gruff @ 19, Norwegian @ 21:
If your reasoning turns out accurately, then the assassination attempt on Fico’s life and the context behind it would be all the more reason for Georgia to pass the law requiring all NGOs and media outlets in that country that receive more than 20% of their funding from overseas to declare themselves foreign agents and to open their books for public examination.
The poet/novelist assassin Juraj Cintula is now being demonised as having associated with extreme far-right organisations that have pro-Russian sympathies, but this detail is a red herring – those same organisations could have received funding and support from Western governments in the past as well.
The very much former Russian “opposition” activist Alexei Navalny also associated with far-right extremists in his youth, or at least until he was told by his financial benefactors to tone down his racism.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | May 16 2024 0:30 utc | 49

@ Raumati | May 16 2024 0:34 utc | 49 with the heads up about New Caledonia…thanks
I went looking and found this info
Global mine production of nickel in 2022 was estimated at 3.3 million tonnes, which is an increase of 20% from 2021. Indonesia was the largest producer at 1.6 million tonnes, or 49% of global mined production. New Caledonia contains about 7.1 million tonnes of nickel reserves….a bit player who the French are trying to rip off currently because they can and might not be able to do so in the future….
France has declared a state of emergency and bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia is hot news….another of the thousands of cuts that empire is feeling currently.
France needs a Harry and Meghan couple to go out “among the natives” like currently happening in Nigeria…..what does commonwealth translate into French like?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 0:54 utc | 51

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father which art in Heaven
The prayer begins with an assertion of a collectively shared relationship to a heavenly father. Heaven indicates an otherworldly and exalted realm. It is important to comment on the relational aspect that the Messiah of Isra’EL (as) son of Mary (as) dictated to us. The blessed master (Rabbi) (as) is obviously talking about God and as we know there are many aspects to relationship to the divine/transcendent/IT. Father indicates an immediate causal-generative willful source with mutually due considerations and responsibilities on both father and his children.
In the psychological sense this is a component of the Quaternio of Adam. [Interested reader is referred to Mysterium Coniunictionis – (V) Adam and Eve, C. G. Jung, 1963]. The quaternio, as the name implies, is a complex of the psyche, a pair of relational pairings configured in an orthogonal manner (as in a + cross). This structure is the highest modality of the as-yet unrealized Self, which the displacement of unRealized human-self from the divine-Self engenders as a model of Unity. As God, the only True Being, is One, the displacement gives rise to the structures that are reflected in the human psyche/soul. “Our father” affirms that this ‘father’, that is our ‘view’ of the divine One, is the one and same ‘father’ in every human being. This God the Father that created us, nurtures us, nourishes us, clothes us, shelters us, educates us, and most certainly loves us, very dearly indeed. Concerned with our development as any good father, and our coming to age of spiritual maturity, so that we may “inherit the Earth”. AlhamduliLLAH.
Hallowed be thy Name
As a Muslim saint said, ‘God is knowable through ITs attributes, actions, and names’. My dictionary says hallowed means “holy, sacred, consecrated, sanctified, blessed; revered, venerated, honored, sacrosanct, worshiped, divine, inviolable.” It is the ‘name’ that is to be hallowed (not an image ..)
From the earliest age, mankind instinctively felt the need to find a means of access to higher realms of its fully perceived reality, that is both the apparent externality (zahir) and the hidden reality (batin). To fulfill this need, man used various forms of external reality objects, both naturally occurring and man made, to focus their mental and spiritual energies in devotion and supplication.
Over time, as man came to conceptualize and differentiate different actions and attributes of the divine, these objects took distinct forms reflecting the distinct groupings of one of more attributes with one or more actions. In case of naturally occurring phenomena, such as the sun and the moon and the stars, the attributions were projected, and in case of hand-made idols, they took on distinct forms.
While it is evident (from surviving scripture and practices even in their degenerated forms that remain) that ancient sages and seers understood the phenomena of the veiling of the total reality (i.e. Maya) and that the outward forms were ‘spiritual crutches’ and thus focused on ‘internal images’, for the common man this was not the case. It should be understood that internal images are ideation, for all ideation of mind is a form of imagination. For example, we read in mystic poetry descriptions of the “beloved”, and various other symbolic imagery. It is to be understood that is the sense of such expressions.
External images of the divine, that is “graven image”, gave rise to outright idol-worship, and what was originally intended as a means of access to the divine resulted in the “sin” of the negation of the hidden reality (which is eternal and boundless), and the displacement and delimitation of the divine in the apparent exterior. This then, naturally, resulted in the even greater “sin” of polytheism due to the multiplicity of ‘attribute/action’ (that is Names) groupings. And the alleged gods were believed to entities residing in the apparent externality.
The mission to transform this ‘sinful mentality’ was tasked to Abraham (saws) and the prophets of his extended family (as).
So, having destroyed the idols, Abraham (saws) and the prophets among his seed (as) were inspired with ‘names’, as the highest form of internal image formation (as names resist externalization in graven image form), and insisted on the fact that God is One and HIS names are many. Many such divine names have been given to God’s elect for our benefit. Remembrance (zikr) and reverent meditation or simply calling on names as psycho-semantic vectors to the Self, is the meaning of the command by Jesus to “hallow” the name of God.
Thy Kingdom come
This is the kingdom of God that the Messiah (as) informed us is in each and everyone of us. The king “established on ITs throne” in Qur’anic terms. Here the blessed ‘Rabbi’ (as) was teaching us a means of reminding ourselves, daily, that the True Reality is within. So, here, what we are asking God in this prayer is nothing short of Self-realization and God-Centered-Consciousness. This is not an earthly kingdom. It is a ‘heavenly’ kingdom. We are praying for the ultimate in higher consciousness. The Muslim reader is referred to certain Hadith Qudsi regarding the heart of HIS Slave and what it can contain.
Thy will be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven
Earth here denotes the ‘dust of Adam’. Adam, as asserted, is a creature, a being, that has a multi-dimensional reality. Our current state is that of ‘fallen’, that is we are imprisoned in the lowest dimensions, that is the time-space 4d. This ‘sub-set’ of our total reality and being is pseudo-holographic. That is, it has a ‘heaven’ (that is space and its galaxies and stars, etc.) and an earth. As should be clear, this ‘incompleteness’ of awareness of ordinary consciousness results in a bifurcation between ‘matter’ and ‘space’, while we know of course that lower scale (quantum) substrate is distinct from the apparent (emergent) world we experience. So, “on Earth” not only means things such as ‘true belief moving mountains with words’ as indicated by Jesus (as) in the Gospels, but also a state of total Islam of creature to the will of God, and thought, speech and action fully in accord with the divine Will.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-Chapter-17/
Give us this day our daily bread
As creatures we require sources of nourishment. Given that we are spiritual beings, the nourishment we require also needs to be spiritual. Bread, in the language of the Bible, definitively means word of God. When the Word of God (as) tells us to take of his flesh and blood as bread and wine, He (as) is referring to the body and spirit of the Divine Word, that is scripture. Here, bread has a wider scope, since we are asking “God the Father in Heaven” directly for bread. So this is heavenly bread, sent down from father. That is ‘thought’. The ‘body of thought’ forms by divine inspiration and then we feed on the inspired thought, by reflecting and digesting to raise our awareness and feed our soul. (For the blessed and fortunate Muslim reader, the Names to be “hallowed” include Al-Razzaq and Al-Muqit, with the latter having a more spiritual aspect. Our learned brother Al-Ghazali (ra) has written a book on the matter of Names of Allah. It is recommended.)
In the Gita, Lord Krishna informs His devotee Arjuna regarding the 3 mental states (gunas), each progressively more refined and higher, corresponding to types. Each such state of mentality and spiritual state of being has its own characteristic food. While (symbolic) types of food are enumerated in the Gita, it should be understood that the scope is wider as indicated with ‘daily bread’. For example, food of the Tamistic (degraded lower self) is indicated as “stale food”, “leftovers”, “rotten”, “food made for others”. The domineering Rajistic relishes “hot, spicy” food, etc. The Sattvic state reaches for and delights in “pure, wholesome, fresh, nourishing” food, etc.
The correct understanding is to recognize that, for example, eating stale food is feeding on regrets, sorrows, and being ‘stuck in the past’. Left over food is regressive mindset thoughtlessly clinging to outdated forms, rituals and norms. ‘Food prepared for others’ is generational psychological garbage that is passed from parents to their children. “Sins of the fathers” ..
You should be able to extrapolate here to what is ‘fit food’ for one aspiring for the closest proximity to Father in Heaven.
And forgive us our debt as we forgive all indebted to us
The Self is the Fully Aware (Al-Aalim) and fully informed (Al-Khabir) and the Reckonner (Al-Hasib). God knows everything, sees everything, and there is no hiding 🙂 Let’s just put it that way. Yes, God, the Mild (Al-Halim) and Subtle (Al-Latif), did play ‘peek-a-boo’ in the Garden with Adam and Eve. Haven’t you every played that with a child? .
We too keep account, and ‘reckon’ the debts various people, & sometimes plaintively including the Merciful and Gracious God Himself. But we are not accurate in our record keeping, and naturally are not all-aware and fully-informed and more to the point, we’re stuck down here, in a degraded mental and spiritual state. Many of the perceived debts we hold on to are not even valid! Now “laws” were mentioned in regards to the hidden reality, and this here is pointing us to a fundamental (and wonderful) Spiritual Law. Our debts are forgiven as we fully clean accounts of those indebted to us. It is also a somewhat karmic law in the sense that our own sense of Self-forgiveness and Self-reconciliation which achieved give rise to the elevation of our spiritual being by God’s grace, can only be attained when we fully clear the book of grievances that we maintain. Forgive all. “Be reconciled with your brother”.
There is an similitude/analogy of this phenomena in the apparent externality. e=m*c^2. Now the ‘spiritual energy’ that is released here when ‘mass’ (debt!) reaches ‘the speed of Light’ is Love Energy. The energy bottled up in ‘unpaid debt’ is tremendous. And you will get this Love energy from the Source, the effacer of sins (Ar-Ra’ouf) the Merciful the All-Forgiving (Al-Ghafur).
And lead us not into trials and temptations but deliver us from evil
As mentioned in the previous comment, the three prayers we are reading are related. “Trials” here are the matter discussed in Sura Al-Falaq (the Lord of Cleaving Dawn), and “temptations” are the matter addressed in Sura Al-Naas (the Lord of Humankind). Here it suffices to make note of a peculiar matter. “Lead us not”, dear father. Why would father do this? What does it all mean. This matter will be considered when we continue the reading to these two Suras of the Glorious Al-Qur’an, the Book that makes things Clear.
The diligently-aware-and-careful-of-the-LORD-mentality (aka “fear of the LORD”) is the beginning of Wisdom. [Proverbs 9.10]
For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, forever and ever!
The Realized human is a powerful being, created in the image of God ITself by ITself. Since the kingdom is in you, then realize that it and you are “forever and ever”!

And God said
Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness
And let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over cattle,
and over all ‘Earth’ [as discussed]
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth
[Genesis 1.26-27]

InshAllah, we will continue our reading with the prayers to the Lord in the Al-Qur’an. [tbc]

Posted by: sunof27 | May 16 2024 1:37 utc | 53

RT:

Niger’s decision to scrap military ties with the US was in response to threats made by American officials during negotiations, the West African nation’s prime minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, said in an interview published by the Washington Post on Tuesday.
Zeine repeated allegations that a senior US delegation, including Molly Phee – the State Department’s top official for African affairs – who was in Niamey in March to negotiate the renewal of a decade-old defense agreement, attempted to dictate which countries should be Niger’s partners.
During the meeting, Phee warned the Sahel state against engaging with Iran and Russia at levels that were unacceptable to Washington if it wanted to maintain the US as a security partner, according to the Nigerien prime minister.
Phee also threatened sanctions if Niger pursued a deal to sell uranium to Iran, he reportedly added.
“When she finished, I said, Madame, I am going to summarize in two points what you have said. First, you have come here to threaten us in our country. That is unacceptable. And you have come here to tell us with whom we can have relationships, which is also unacceptable. And you have done it all with a condescending tone and a lack of respect,” Zeine said.
Niamey’s military government canceled its security agreement, which had allowed 1,000 US soldiers and civilian contractors to operate in Niger, in mid-March, just days after the encounter with the American delegation.
The former French colony’s new authorities began reviewing deals signed with Western partners since the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum last July.
France withdrew its troops from Niger in December after Niamey ordered them out for allegedly failing to combat the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel.
The authorities also accused the former colonial power of aggressive behavior and internal meddling.
Washington, which condemned the coup and joined Paris and other allies in suspending aid to Niamey, had previously ruled out disengagement from Niger, which is crucial to its counterterrorism mission in the Sahel region.
Zeine told the Washington Post that Niamey’s authorities were “bewildered” that the US insisted on keeping its troops in the country while denying Nigerien troops additional support, including military equipment to counter extremist attacks.
“The Americans stayed on our soil, doing nothing while the terrorists killed people and burned towns,” Zeine said.
“It is not a sign of friendship to come on our soil but let the terrorists attack us. We have seen what the United States will do to defend its allies, because we have seen Ukraine and Israel,” he added.
[_”let the terrorists attack us” = direct the terrorists to attack]
The landlocked country has turned to Moscow for security assistance, with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirming earlier this month that Russian forces were sharing a base with American troops in Niger.
Russian military instructors are reportedly in Niamey to train the national army in counterterrorism tactics, as American troops are scheduled to leave the African country in the coming months, as demanded by the government

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 16 2024 2:02 utc | 55

This edition of “Selections From Maria Zakharova’s Weekly Briefing” is now available to read. It’s shorter than usual but still filled with news you won’t have read elsehwere.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 16 2024 3:14 utc | 57

I’m thinking (or hoping) the exact same thing.
A ‘hard decoupling’ would have completely unpredictable consequences – civil war, fascism, war? The hegemonic transition is here, but it absolutely mustn’t involve a major war (which would be a first). Everybody should take an interest in enabling a ‘soft come-down’ of the Empire, manufacturing returning to the US and people enjoying a decent (if lower, in material terms) standard of living.
Posted by: smuks | May 16 2024 1:30 utc | 51
What is wrong with your thinking? You sound like a typical fascist storm-trooper. You want the totalitarian evil to continue?
The US needs to totally go down the S bend in multiple ways before it is rebuilt from the ground up again. Completely de-militarised like Japan was and Ukrinae soon will be – With no WMDs, no nuclear subs, no Marines, no Navy, no Airforce, no MIC, and no democrat or republican parties.
Broken up into four separate nation states and thus totally defanged in the both the region and the world.
All the high powered arms in possession of the public destroyed and the right to bear arms overturned and made illegal unless Licensed for professional reasons.
War and an invasion are unavoidable to bring down this criminal regime once and for all. If you need a civil war to work things out then go for it.
I am looking forward to China cutting the US and Canada off from all essential goods, food and manufactures of every kind until it implodes and ceases to function. Yes people will die. The American people have earned what’s coming to them. Goes around comes around.
If you are not part of the problem I recommend you pack up and leave asap. It’s all down hill from here (I truly hope.) AS MLK said “I have a Dream!” 🙂

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 16 2024 3:32 utc | 59

Manage without Me | May 15 2024 19:22 utc | 18
*** There was an article on RT earlier about Blinker telling young Ukrainians to embrace conscription. How evil can he get?***
Posted by: Cynic | May 15 2024 23:48 utc | 46
Hi, text and accessible RT link here
https://www.swentr.site/news/597633-blinken-ukraine-military-mobilization/
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 15 2024 14:31 utc | 371

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 16 2024 3:45 utc | 61

In response to
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ZH has a posting up with the title
France Declares State Of Emergency, Sends Troops, To Quell Deadly Riots In Pacific Territory
the quote

French President Emmanuel Macron has declared a 12-day state of emergency starting Wednesday as a result of deadly riots which have gripped France’s Indo-Pacific territory of New Caledonia.
Four people died and many others were wounded in clashes with police Tuesday night, with reports of looting and buildings burned to the ground. The mayhem was sparked by a vote in France’s parliament, the National Assembly, which authorizes residents who’ve resided in New Caledonia for 10 years to cast ballots in provincial elections.
But the archipelago’s indigenous Kanak people have for decades chafed over what they see as a power grab favoring the descendants of colonizers who want to remain part of France. These ethnic tensions have simmered for many years, and have boiled over this week.
The French territory lies east of Australia and is ten time zones ahead of Paris, and it has about 270,000 people. The new state of emergency aims “to restore order in the shortest time possible” – according to a parliament statement.
There are widespread reports that French military troops have been deployed to put down the pro-independence riots, and a ban on TikTok has also reportedly been issued, but Paris officials have sought to downplay these draconian measures.
According to the Associated Press, “Asked if France could deploy the French military to the island, Thevenot said it’s not the army’s job to maintain order but that it is helping with the transport of police reinforcements.”
However, later the AFP news agency wrote that France has deployed army personnel at New Caledonia ports as well as the main airport.
New Caledonia’s president Louis Mapou has said that the deaths from the last 24 hours of unrest included three young indigenous Kanak people and a French gendarmerie police officer who had previously sustained wounds. Hundreds of protesters and police have been injured.
“The moblie gendarme seriously wounded by a bullet in New Caledonia has just died,” Darmanin announced. “Our thoughts are with his family, those close to him and his friends. Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies violence. Order will be restored.”
Paris has confirmed an extra 500 French police officers have been sent to the territory to help restore order.
All schools and public buildings in the capital of Noumea have remained shut. Hundreds of buildings have been damaged or have been set on fire.
Fresh reporting in The New York Times demonstrates how seriously France is taking it, with President Macron having canceled an overseas trip:

The French authorities have undertaken what they called a “massive” mobilization of security forces since violent protests broke out in New Caledonia this week over a proposed amendment to the French Constitution that would change local voting rules in the territory. A vote in France’s Parliament approving the amendment on Tuesday ignited riots overnight that left four people dead, including a law enforcement officer.

According to more:

The French government said that more than 1,800 security officers were already in the territory and that 500 reinforcements would arrive in the next 24 hours.

At a crisis meeting, Mr. Attal said that the army was being deployed to secure ports and the airport.
Following a crisis security meeting chaired by Macron on Wednesday, the French president’s office issued a statement expressing “strong emotion” of the deaths as a result of the riots.
The statement further said that “All violence is intolerable and will be subject to a relentless response” to ensure that order and peace are restored

So now we have France committing genocide…..for order and peace….but not for the God Of Mammon cult with their hand up Marcon’s ass

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 4:29 utc | 63

I find it interesting that the BBC had this slant on what is happening in New Caledonia

Many are pointing to the ultra-violence that has become hallmark of the country’s drugs underworld.

Can we say obfuscation or outright lie?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 5:02 utc | 65

Some serious common sense reality about climate change and the bullshit ‘never going to happen’ solutions for it from Sabine Hossenfelder
Time to Get Real about Climate Change in simple savvy six minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaJqPCjNr4

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 16 2024 5:51 utc | 67

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 5:02 utc | 65
find it interesting that the BBC had this slant on what is happening in New Caledonia
Many are pointing to the ultra-violence that has become hallmark of the country’s drugs underworld.
Can we say obfuscation or outright lie?
Before retirement I had a UN instructor job that took me to many countries in the Pacific and SE Asia which brought me into contact with a lot of (mostly mid-level officials) and, in the Pacific at least, it is true there are large drug problems. With the exception of those lands still occupied by colonial powers (USA, France and Indonesia) e.g. Tahiti, New Caledonia, Hawaii, American Samoa and West Papua, the rest are independent, albeit impoverished states, some in free association with other larger countries.
For many years there was an undeclared war between the West and China, largely conducted for the West by Taiwan which poured useful and targeted assistance to many of the States. This was about recognising who is the ‘legitimate’ China. The CCP, on the other hand traditionally, bribed leaders to invest in ‘White Elephant’ projects of indifferent quality and value. The USA, and its new proxy Australia, is now out in the open with the contest as may be seen playing out in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
To return to drugs, Tonga (an ancient feudal kingdom) is famously corrupt and for many years acted a conduit for South American sourced drugs to mainly Australia, but also as a backdoor into Asia. I heard this, first hand from Australian Customs officials. When I was last in Fiji the Police were very concerned about the increase in drug traffic, some of which was reaching a local market. I think much of the blame lies with Australia, which for a number of years, has been deporting criminals back to their originating countries. To explain, there is a rich history of Australia (and New Zealand) importing labour from South Pacific. These, unofficial migrants, bring their families including young children. Some of these children get into trouble, join gangs and consequently become incarcerated. On release their ‘visas’ are cancelled and they are deported under section ‘501’ of the Australian immigration act. These ‘501s’ as they are universally known are not accepted by the communities they go to (in Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea) and often have no family connections. They, of course, still have their Australian gang connections.
It may be that New Caledonia has similar problems but, as any drug dealer could tell you, riots are bad for business. I do know I observed a sort of overt racially based contemptuous attitude from white, French colonists towards the Kanaks that might have been acceptable in the early 20th Century but is unlikely to engender much affection today. My money is on an outright lie.

Posted by: Raumati | May 16 2024 7:41 utc | 69

More suspicion about Fico’s bodyguards, from RT:

Fico security failed, ignored assassination attempt warnings – ex-police chief
‘Chaos reigned’ as Robert Fico’s security detail failed to prevent or act efficiently in the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister Wednesday, according to ex-head of the Slovak police Stefan Hamran.
Hamran also pointed out that a few weeks ago, Fico himself talked about a possible assassination attempt. “How were these threats analyzed? who rated them?” Hamran asked.
“>https://t.me/RTnews_unc3/29903

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 16 2024 9:07 utc | 71

I should have been alerted to the 40% gold tell, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 4:46 utc | 63
I did not feel like researching it, so I said nothing, but, linking physical anything to blockchain, is just simply not possible without someone needing to record information somewhere besides “the perfect ledger”.
*except perhaps some kind of ooak thing, maybe rfid chips in future, or electric energy, some like filecoin indicate memory storage, across a decentralized network.
Blockchain may be the future of finance, especially finance in trustless times.

Posted by: UWDude | May 16 2024 11:01 utc | 73

If you are not part of the problem I recommend you pack up and leave asap. It’s all down hill from here (I truly hope.) AS MLK said “I have a Dream!” 🙂
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 16 2024 3:32 utc | 58
Yes, he did. But his was a dream for a bright, peaceful future while yours if for a dark, violent, dystopian one.

Posted by: Phil R | May 16 2024 11:28 utc | 75

@Aleph_Null | Thu, 16 May 2024 06:41:00 GMT | 68
Thanks for the feedback and story, which sounds like a fever dream fwiw.
Further on Gödel, it seems that our disagreement stems from our respective notions of the axiomatic method, or, perhaps more precisely, the nature of the axioms themselves. I would claim they are designed, though the logical properties they express are universal.

Posted by: persiflo | May 16 2024 11:42 utc | 77

“Some serious common sense reality about climate change and the bullshit ‘never going to happen’ solutions for it from Sabine Hossenfelder
Time to Get Real about Climate Change in simple savvy six minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaJqPCjNr4“
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | May 16 2024 5:51 utc | 67
Man Made Climate Change is a myth designed by the PTB to scare the populace and allow the PTB to reduce living standards for the Peasants while they rape and pillage.
In the last 2.2 MM years we have had 17 ice ages (before fossil fuels I might add) ; approximately one every 100,000 years.
So we go into an ice age it get colder then when we get out of an ice age, as we are doing now, it gets warmer.
As far as C02 levels anyone with a high school diploma knows that the more C02 the more arable land and is good for plants, animals and humans: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC7C4946-11A3-4967-BF28-8D0386608D3E
“I can lead a man to water, but I can’t make him think.”
canuk
“Mathematically, the way CO2 absorbs energy, beyond a certain point, is LOGARYTHMIC. that is the CO2 is saturated, and the more CO2 you add now, the more NEGLIGIBLE the temperature increase.
To non-maths people, it’s like the law of diminishing returns.
Posted by: scepticalSOB | Feb 10 2024 13:40 utc | 220
===========
As Professor William Happer, Princeton professor emerita of astrophysics, has explained very clearly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGn-6kGoD0c
“A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing”
See also Chris Morrison, climate correspondent at the Daily Sceptic:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/02/global-plant-growth-accelerates-thanks-to-higher-carbon-dioxide-levels-new-study-finds/
Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 15:08 utc | 229″
Dog kindly please review the proven science and stop spewing out PTB propaganda.

Posted by: canuck | May 16 2024 12:00 utc | 79

here we go boys, euronews “reports” that

Cintula as a sympathiser and supporter of the pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci, known for its links to the Kremlin.

amazing, isnt it?
even though cintula said, live on camera, that he is pro-nato and pro-ukraine. and it is even known that this little leftist pos tried to “inflitrate” said “pro-russian paramilitary group”, but got rejected.
the narrative management in the west marches on. they dug themself so deep with their lies the only way out is to dig deeper until they come out at the other side of the planet.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 16 2024 13:13 utc | 81

LIVE: Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmqFczhmdIQ

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 16 2024 13:32 utc | 83

I recently opened up a Twitter account again just to see what it’s like. I shall mainly publish haiku but since so many stories now link to Twitter I thought it time to check out again for news. I don’t think I like it but will give it a few weeks.
Anyway, though only following a handful of sites, 50% news 50% haiku, this 32 page report popped up from an account I don’t follow. (Algorithms, algorithms…).

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/ccp-influence-and-radical-ideologies/
The Singham Network as a Vehicle for CCP Influence The People’s Forum, IPA, and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S., advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda. These three far-left SID4P Convenors are part of a network linked by close financial, interpersonal, and ideological ties to Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, a power couple within the global far-left movement with close ties to the CCP.
The “Singham Network” comprises a wide range of nonprofits, alternative media outlets, and donor organizations that have been funneling undisclosed funds and disseminating CCP-supported agendas and narratives into the United States since at least 2017. As outlined above, this network has played an increasingly significant role in fueling a more radical pro-Palestinian activism.
Singham’s association with far-left circles in the U.S. dates back to at least the 1970s. According to a document dated June 5, 1974, Singham was the subject of an FBI investigation into his ties to “groups engaged in activities inimical to U.S. [interests].”10 Singham’s connection with entities associated with the CCP is believed to have begun in the early 2000s. From 2001 to 2008, Singham served as a consultant for Huawei, a technology and telecommunications giant linked to the CCP that has been the subject of espionage investigations in Canada and the U.S.11 He currently lives and works in Shanghai, where he shares premises with Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Ltd., a Chinese propaganda firm focused on presenting a positive image of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the global south.

About how some pro-Palestinian demonstrations are funded by CCP-connected NGO’s. Have no idea if this is true or false, but assume all sorts of connections like this exist which typical news reporting simply neither sees nor covers. Wheels within wheels, levels within levels.
Of course even if this report is accurate and a group with ‘ties to the CCP’ is influencing matters in the US, it doesn’t mean that the ‘CCP’ per se knows about it. Because no doubt within their large group there are wheels within wheels and levels within levels.
Indeed, at this oligarchish level, I suspect nation-state distinctions are generally regarded as quaint and passe. Why Elon gets an immediate peer-to-peer meeting with Xi whilst Blinken and Yellen were ranked far lower and treated accordingly. Why Putin spent two hours meeting with the Chabad leaders in the Kremlin the same day he gave a historic interview to non-CIA Tucker Carlson. Layers within layers.

Posted by: scorpion | May 16 2024 13:42 utc | 85

Keating …

I know cuz I have a brain, honey

ROTFLMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJy60WOyIrw

Posted by: denk | May 16 2024 14:59 utc | 87

@ DunGroanin | May 16 2024 11:25 utc | 75
thanks for sharing that info.. i had no idea.. it sounds very wrong too..

Posted by: james | May 16 2024 16:29 utc | 89

LIVE: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping hold a joint press conference 40mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL3oIGhfctQ

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 16 2024 16:45 utc | 91

LIVE: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping hold a joint press conference 40mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL3oIGhfctQ
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 16 2024 16:45 utc | 92
“LIVE: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping hold a joint, press conference 40mins”
Even had your post from the Ukraine thread to make this joke. How a humble comma can change everything (and it would likely last longer than 40 minutes and include snacks)
🙂

Posted by: Newbie | May 16 2024 17:05 utc | 93

Reuters is at least calling a spade a spade
Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States
I refuse to register at Reuters and so don’t get to see the details of this claim but there must be some serious shit coming out of the joint press conference with Xi/Putin

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 16 2024 17:24 utc | 95

psychohistorian | May 16 2024 17:24 utc | 96–
I thought their statements to the press were rather tame. Now I’ll need to review them. Having done so, I see no direct reference to the USA, US, or America, although there are certainly indirect references, for example Xi’s fifth point:

Promote political settlement of hot spot issues for the sake of truth and justice. In today’s world, the Cold War mentality is still rampant. Unilateral hegemony, bloc confrontation and politics are the forces that directly threaten world peace and the security of all countries.
We are with President Putin in noting the urgency of the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the need to resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state formula in the implementation of the UN resolution.
China and Russia perceive a political settlement as the right solution to the Ukrainian crisis. China’s position on this issue is consistent and clear, namely: compliance with norms and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, respect for state sovereignty and territorial sovereignty the integrity of all countries and their rational security concerns creating a new balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture.

Putin’s brief mention of foreign policy had these three paragraphs that might include the Outlaw US Empire:

Both countries are pursuing an independent and self-reliant foreign policy. We are working together to build a fairer and a democratic multipolar world order, which should be based on the central role of the United Nations and its Council security, international law, cultural and civilizational diversity, a balanced balance of interests of all members of the international community….
[O]ur countries are advocating for a healthy improvement in global economic governance, for the reforming and depoliticization of multilateral institutions such as the World Trade Organization G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Forum and bringing them in line with modern Realities.
We consider it necessary to work towards building a reliable and an adequate security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region in which there is no place for closed military-political alliances. We are We believe that the creation of such alliances is very harmful and counterproductive.

Putin finished by saying they would be discussing foreign policy tonight and that Putin would make the results known. I’ll eventually have the full text and other China trip related reports available at my substack later today.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 16 2024 18:03 utc | 97

@psychohistorian | May 16 2024 17:24 utc | 96
You may find the Reuters’ article here via Yahoo. (Though both Reuters and Yahoo are part of the anglo propaganda machine.)

Posted by: LuRenJia | May 16 2024 18:13 utc | 99