Westerners haven't heard the truth spoken in the Main$tream (Legacy) Media for such a long time that they wouldn't recognize it if they heard it. The above, hard, searing interview is how the truth sounds. Imagine if Abby Martin went on one of those drivel talk shows on CNN or FAUX or NBC and talked about the things she's talking about in the video above. Imagine if she could describe the things she saw during her recent month long stay in Israel. Now THAT, my friends, would be freedom of the press!
But, the Satanic CIA did it's mockingbird stunt just so that nothing like the above could ever reach the tiny, addled brains of the sheeple. The CIA [Covert Israeli Agenda] destroyed one of the pillars of a true democracy and THAT is precisely why the world is now in the shape it's in...teetering on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
Then the Internet came along.... and the truth started to seep up through the floorboards again. What to do? What to Dooooooooooo!?
Politics is theater...and in this day and age it is becoming more and more obvious that the usual political themes are bankrupt from overuse, repetition and are generally stolen from past productions. Witness what's going on lately regarding North Korea. The plot is loosely taken from Shakespeare's "The Tempest":
"The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone, and is illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1926. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore [regime change?]his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand...."
Scene from "The Tempest
The Atlanticist Ziofascist Empire, thrashing around in its dying throes, has borrowed from Shakespeare to conjure up yet another "Tempest" on the Korean Penninsula. This is not the first time it has staged this kind of distraction. Just about every decade since the Korean War, it has staged a production where some obese oriental ruler, after being terrorized and taunted, shakes his fat fist at the US--and the equally obese West gets to orchestrate a media storm or "Tempest" in order to terrorize North Korea, its regional neighbours in South East Asia, AND its own American population. Here's the latest on the Korean "crisis" from RT. Please read the following and I will have more thoughts in comments to follow: ********************* The US and North Korea must "hit the brakes" and find a peaceful resolution to their ongoing crisis, China's foreign minister said. It comes amid a war of words and mutual strike threats between Washington and Pyongyang. The remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi were made during a Tuesday phone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
“The most important task for the US and North Korea is to ‘hit the brakes’ on their mutual needling of each other with words and actions, to lower the temperature of the tense situation and prevent an ‘August crisis,’” Wang said during the conversation, according to a statement published on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website. He told Lavrov that China and Russia should work together to contain tensions and to not allow anyone to "stir up an incident on their doorstep." Lavrov echoed Wang's sentiments, telling the Chinese foreign minister that "a resolution of the North Korea nuclear issue by military force is completely unacceptable and the peninsula’s nuclear issue must be peacefully resolved by political and diplomatic methods." The Russian foreign minister noted during the conversation that tensions between Washington and Pyongyang could rise once again, as the US and South Korea prepare to launch large-scale military drills on August 21. However, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday that "there will be no war repeated on the Korean peninsula," adding that military action against Pyongyang should be decided by "ourselves and not by anyone else." Moon said that Seoul would work with Washington to counter security threats, but stressed the need to focus on diplomatic efforts. Meanwhile, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, currently in China, met with his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday. No details of the meeting have been released, though AP reported the conversation "touched" on North Korea. READ MORE: ‘Korean peninsula on the brink’: US & N. Korean warmongering paradoxically identical – Zakharova Dunford's visit to China came after he stopped in Seoul to meet with senior South Korean military and political officials, as well as local media. The top official will also visit Japan, which on Wednesday conducted air maneuvers with US bombers southwest of the Korean Peninsula. The exercises come after Pyongyang threatened to strike the US territory of Guam, stressing that a ballistic missile would fly over three Japanese prefectures. However, the US also conducted several military drills and air patrols in the region prior to the threat Dunford has noted that the US is seeking to resolve tensions with North Korea peacefully, but said that Washington is willing to use the "full range" of its military capabilities. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson echoed that sentiment on Tuesday, telling reporters in Washington that "we continue to be interested in trying to find a way to get to dialogue, but that's up to [North Korean leader Kim Jong-un]." That statement followed US President Donald Trump’s warning last week that his country's military was "locked and loaded," and that North Korea would be faced with "fire and fury" if it continued to threaten the United States.
Kim vowed on Tuesday to wait a little longer before hitting Guam, and to watch “[the] stupid conduct of the Yankees,” while urging Washington to refrain from further escalation of the crisis. However, he said the plan could still go ahead, and threatened to "wring the windpipes of the Yankees and point daggers at their necks" in the event of any further "power demonstration." On Wednesday, Trump praised the decision to delay the strike plan as “a very wise and well reasoned decision.” ********************* Smoke and Mirrors on the Korean Peninsula In the latest Act in this ongoing deadly farce, Kim Jong Un has "wisely" backed off his threat to attack the USrael military base on Guam. The western "Legacy Media" has been selectively and deceptively reporting on the situation on the Korean Peninsula (both north and south) for decades.... and have created a totally false and fabricated scenario for what is actually going on in North Korea. But, due to the rise of the Internet and Alternative news sources, such as Global Research.ca, bloggers like this one are now able to access realistic and rational reports from behind the curtain. Korea is no longer a "remote land", able to serve as a theatre for lies like the island in "The Tempest". Just today, Global Research has posted a report that indicates that the North Korean health system is better than the one they have (or don't have as the case may be) in the United States. So much for North Korea being a "primitive, backward land".
Pyongyang, Capital of North Korea
Having recently visited South East Asia, including Vietnam, but not including Korea, I can personally attest to being gobsmacked by the richness and fertility of that area of the world. My first impression of Vietnam was: "No wonder the US wanted to strip it of its resources!" Some parts of Vietnam, in spite of the war in the '60's and '70's and the dropping of tons of toxic poisons on it...are still like the Garden of Eden. The Vietnamese people still live off the land--and prosper--in their small towns and villages.
No doubt, the same applies to the Korean Peninsula. If they lied about Vietnam, no doubt the lies about North Korea are even bigger. I know there have been reports about deliberate desertification of North Korea via weather modification/weaponization. I know that economic sanctions have for decades prevented economic growth and have deprived North Korea of basic foods and medications for their citizens (just like Iraq before it's military destruction). The country has been systematically isolated and kept back. Why?
Well, the answer, again, is obvious. The Atlanticist Empire does not want South Korea and North Korea to unify [divide and conquer]. For their financial/military dominance to continue...USrael needs to keep South Korea as a virtual occupied military base--with weaponry trained on their arch-rival, China. There are even reports that it was USrael that provided North Korea with the nuclear weaponry it is now threatening the US with! South Korea, like several other nations around the world, [Philippines, Venezuela, Germany?] has been making noises recently about independence from the post Korean War occupation that prevents the unification of South and North Korea. Since the Korean War...families have been separated between North and South and the economy has been stymied by inability to build pipelines through North Korea to China and other mega transportation infrastructure projects that would enhance commerce in the region. Whenever the "independence/unification" chatter gets too loud in South Korea, the perps bring out their old, stage-worn crew of actors and themes. The hope is, that each new generation of Koreans (and Westerners) can be terrorized anew with the same old play.
The Final Act? But in this new information era, the new generations of Koreans, both in the North and South, look forward instead--towards a future as part of China's Silk Road....not the barbed wire and bristling missiles and threatened nuclear Armageddon's of the West. China and Russia are stepping up to the international plate in terms of defusing tensions created by the Smoke and Mirrors crowd [witness Lavrov and his Chinese Counterpart's calming words in the report above]. Could this latest "Guns of August" performance by USrael be the last Act in a very worn out play? The world is hoping so.
It's Tuesday, and the Western legacy Main$tream media is still foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. The latest foamination arising out of last weekend's manufactured [false flag?] crisis resulting from a "riot" in Charlottesville, Virginia. Below is a good analysis from Lew Rockwell.com. Americans and even some in the alternate media are responding to the strident 24/7 M$M dog whistle coming from the ziofascist, CIA neocon, globalist perps--who seem bound and determined to split the US civil society wide open--rather than have their carved-in-stone Satanic, warmongering agenda delayed and/or thwarted by the bumbling nincompoop, Donald Trump. Below, are a couple of excerpts from David Stockman's post and I will have more thoughts in comments to follow:
Who would have thought the red hot war of words between Kim Jong-un and the Donald could be wiped right off the cable gab-a-thons in just one weekend. But the Charlottesville riots did exactly that, thereby delivering still another cautionary tale about the unhinged times now upon us.
So we will say it again. The boys and girls buying the dip again this morning are out of their ever-lovin’ minds because this weekend did not really bring a respite from the Korean crisis. Instead, the Charlottesville override was yet another nothing event that was blown into a massive Cable Spectacle because it provided still another excuse to hound, denounce and vilify the nation’s legitimately elected president.
Indeed, the market should be selling off not on account of Korea anyway because the generals are not about to let the Donald start a nuclear war. The punters and gamblers should actually be heading for the hills because the Imperial City is on the verge of a thundering political/constitutional/fiscal crisis that will soon hit the world’s financial markets like a ton of TNT.
To begin with, it wasn’t the riots and the antics of a few hundred abhorrent white supremacists, skinheads and neo-nazis that triggered the 8-box marathon of righteous indignation on CNN, MSNBC, etc. It was the Donald shooting from the hip again. You only need to watch his Saturday press conference twice to see that he ad libbed the part about “many sides”.
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With that inartful quip, the media pontificators and scolds were off to the races. The Donald’s mention of the absolutely true point that there was violence, hatred and bile flowing from both sides—–the thugs of “Unite the Right “and the ruffians of Black Lives Matter and the AntiFa brigades—was instantly transformed into an implied endorsement of white supremacy; and actually worse: New evidence that the Donald is a crypto-fascist and back at his alleged dog whistling game of egging on the racist “deplorables” that allegedly elected him (with Putin’s help, of course!).
Here’s the thing. Donald Trump is his own worst enemy and has now proven to have a skin so thin that he should be considered a political hemophiliac. He’s going to bleed out at his own hand.
In this morning’s incident, for example, he chose to blast the only black man on his 28-member national manufacturing Council in a context in which the core issue is that he has been falsely accused of racism. You can’t get any denser than that!
So it is no wonder the main stream media can carry on its anti-Trump jihad with impunity. The Donald’s utter inability to let any slight or perceived insult go unanswered is providing constant fuel for an endless round of media magnified political “crises” that are not really anything of the sort.
The fact is, in a society of 325 million people there are always going to be a few thousand crazies inhabiting dozens of fringe nooks and crannies, and from time to time their antics, anger and depredations are going to disturb the social peace in the unfortunate localities where they erupt. Ordinarily, they burn out quickly and that should be the end of the matter, as it should have been in Charlottesville.
But we are in a different ballgame now. The campaign against Trump has become so deeply rooted and institutionalized in the Imperial City and its media collaborators that every outbreak of politically incorrect behavior—–both in the form of innocent pro-Trump rallies and in despicable white supremacist agitation—-is going to be hyped and dramatized to a farethewell by the national media as another episode in a rolling indictment.
It is already too late for a reset by the White House. The anti-Trump campaign is determined to see it through until he is removed from office, and we don’t see any evidence that this outcome can be avoided."
To the rest of the world...i.e., all those of us who can't hear the ear-splitting blast from the never-ending dog whistle, the rank and putrid hypocrisy almost overwhelms the senses. First...all this talk about neo-Nazis and the far right. Where did this come from? We certainly didn't hear it when the Kiev junta was installed in Ukraine...with its Azov battalion neo-Nazis. Shortly after the coup, Russia tried to get a resolution passed at the UN condemning the rise of neo-Nazism...and it was voted down by the US--and Canada...who thereafter appointed a neo-Nazi-supporting Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, who is banned from visiting Russia.
Secondly, the commotion caused over the death of one activist in Charlottesville...in the same time period that a family of 10 was wiped from the earth in Afghanistan by a US air strike (which news did not appear on the US media radar at all) does make the bile rise in the throat of any casual, objective observer.
The entire charade reminds me of a board meeting I attended many years ago. The longtime president had been defeated in a recent election, but was still used to commanding the floor at the meetings. She came with her usual confidence and assumption of control. But the other members of the board were caught up in the new era that the election had opened up and were talking around her and over her and ignoring her "calls to order". They had "moved on" and the power had shifted. This is the situation that USrael with its controlled media perps is now finding itself in. The US, being financially bankrupt and, even worse, bereft of that all important "soft power" in world geopolitics...has been left behind.
The "meeting" (world politics) is going on over and around it. Shocked and stunned...it's desperately thrashing around trying to "call the meeting to order" [order...out of chaos]...but the world, increasingly coalescing around the new power...and insulating itself from the sounds of the "dog whistle"...is moving on. You see.....Soft Power is also like a dog whistle. It is an invisible force that affects behavior. While the perps are blowing their dog whistles at their ever-shrinking minions...the global power has shifted....and most of the inhabitants of the planet can no longer hear the ziofascist dog whistles.
According to this article in the UNZ review, Google has been orchestrating a massive "thought cleansing" censorship program over the past several months. This blogger has noticed along with many of my colleagues a dramatic variation in the number of "hits" on our blogs. Checking my Greencrow As The Crow Flies [GATCF] stats regularly and reviewing in particular my all time stats of readership since 2013, when I began to blog full time, I see this:
Now what did GATCF Dooooooo to cause such a
dramatic drop in readership?
In Other Words, Why Did I Fling
Myself off that Statistical Cliff?????!!!!
Well, I'm certainly not going to ask the behemoth algorithm all-seeing eye in the sky, Google, what went wrong way back in early 2016! Please read the following article from the UNZ review and I will have more thoughts in comments to follow:
Google’s New Search Protocol Is Restricting Access to 13 Leading Socialist, Progressive and Anti-War Web Sites
New data compiled by the World Socialist Web Site, with the assistance of other Internet-based news outlets and search technology experts, proves that a massive loss of readership observed by socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites over the past three months has been caused by a cumulative 45 percent decrease in traffic from Google searches.
The drop followed the implementation of changes in Google’s search evaluation protocols. In a statement issued on April 25, Ben Gomes, the company’s vice president for engineering, stated that Google’s update of its search engine would block access to “offensive” sites, while working to surface more “authoritative content.”
The World Socialist Web Site has obtained statistical data from SEMrush estimating the decline of traffic generated by Google searches for 13 sites with substantial readerships. The results are as follows:
wsws.org fell by 67 percent alternet.org fell by 63 percent globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent commondreams.org fell by 37 percent internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent democracynow.org fell by 36 percent wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent truth-out.org fell by 25 percent counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent theintercept.com fell by 19 percent
Of the 13 web sites on the list, the World Socialist Web Site has been the most heavily affected. Its traffic from Google searches has fallen by two thirds.
The new statistics demonstrate that the WSWS is a central target of Google’s censorship campaign. In the twelve months preceding the implementation of the new Google protocols, the WSWS had experienced a substantial increase in readership. A significant component of this increase was the product of Google search results. The rapid rise in search traffic reflected the well-documented growth in popular interest in socialist politics during 2016. The rate of growth accelerated following the November election, which led to large protests against the election of Trump.
Search traffic to the WSWS peaked in April 2017, precisely at the point when Google began the implementation of its censorship protocols.
Another site affected by Google’s action has provided information that confirms the findings of the WSWS.
“In late May, changes to Google’s algorithm negatively impacted the volume of traffic to the Common Dreams website from organic Google searches,” said Aaron Kaufman, director of development at progressive news outlet Common Dreams. “Since May, traffic from Google Search as a percentage of total traffic to the Common Dreams website has decreased nearly 50 percent.”
The extent and impact of Google’s actions prove that a combination of techniques is being employed to block access to targeted sites. These involve the direct flagging and blackballing of the WSWS and the other 12 sites listed above by Google evaluators. These sites are assigned a highly negative rating that assures that their articles will be either demoted or entirely bypassed. In addition, new programming technology teaches the computers to think like the evaluators, that is, to emulate their preferences and prejudices.
Finally, the precision of this operation strongly suggests that there is an additional range of exclusion techniques involving the selection of terms, words, phrases and topics that are associated with socialist and left-wing websites.
This would explain why the World Socialist Web Site, which focuses on issues such as war, geopolitics, social inequality and working class struggles has experienced such a dramatic fall in Google-generated searches on these very topics. We have seen that the very terms and phrases that would under normal circumstances be most likely to generate the highest level of hits—such as “socialism,” “Marxism” and “Trotskyism”—produce the lowest results.
This is an ongoing process in which one can expect that Google evaluators are continuously adding suspect terms to make their algorithm ever more precise, with the eventual goal of eliminating traffic to the WSWS and other targeted sites.
The information that has been gathered and published by the WSWS during the past week exposes that Google is at the center of a corporate-state conspiracy to drastically curtail democratic rights. The attack on free speech and uncensored access to information is aimed at crippling popular opposition to social inequality, war and authoritarianism.
The central and sinister role of Google in this process demonstrates that freedom of speech and thought is incompatible with corporate control of the Internet.
As we continue our exposure of Google’s assault on democratic rights, we demand that it immediately and unequivocally halt and revoke its censorship program.
It is critical that a coordinated campaign be organized within the United States and internationally against Google’s censorship of the Internet. We intend to do everything in our power to develop and contribute to a counter-offensive against its efforts to suppress freedom of speech and thought.
The fight against corporate-state censorship of the Internet is central to the defense of democratic rights, and there must be a broad-based collaboration among socialist, left and progressive websites to alert the public and the widest sections of the working class."
Folks, this was bound to happen. Orwell predicted it.... and it is the way the world rumbles and has throughout history. It can be summed up in the age-old maxim:
"POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!"* *In Fact, Google is stealing statistical numbers from me...the fruit of my blogging labour...just like in the story linked to above...where the Sherriff's deputy is stealing the farmer's hay...while in police uniform.
One other thing we know about power....once an entity has it...they NEVER willingly relinquish it. No...the only solution to the gradual but steady and relentless elimination of free speech on the Internet and the cleansing of thought is to find another outlet. I suggested in a post a month or so ago that RT and/or PressTV should get into the Internet Platform business...that is if they want to prevent the total elimination of their market in the West [as the West becomes more and more brainwashed]. Of course, eventually, RT and/or other Internet news sources, once they become powerful will eventually ALSO become corrupted. But that's "human" nature....just as it is also human nature to gravitate towards truth and to demand to be able to express it and have it promulgated to the masses. Or, will humanity have to return to the age old method of distribution of truth...sneaking out at night and nailing pamphlets and/or hand written diatribes to poles in the town square?
We're back and unpacked from our yearly Gulf Island Cruise and the crew are recovering nicely. I hope my "virtual crew" [you readers who I took along, via the Internet] are also resting comfortably. It was a pleasure having you along and your presence made the trip even more meaningful, adding an element of sharing and mentoring in the "sport" of sailing a small craft through familiar waters. At our ages, we don't know how many more of these sails we will be able to do...so passing down the information and experience to others is key.
When we re-entered the Port of Vancouver after our eight hour sail/motor across Georgia Strait in calm waters, we felt as if we were entering a war zone or the aftermath of a "Nuclear holocaust"...so dense was the smoke from the wildfires blazing in the BC Interior. In all our 45 years on the West Coast, we've never seen so much smoke.
Port of Vancouver, and City Outline
Shrouded in Smoky Haze from BC Forest Fires
There must be a lot more forest fires in the interior than we are being told. Just yesterday, the BC government issued a complete ban on anyone entering the BC Back Country. Of course, as the Captain said, the winds are blowing from the opposite direction of normal for this time of year, which has resulted in the smoke blowing towards metro Vancouver. Anyway, today for the first time in 6 weeks, there are "real" clouds in the sky and a slight prediction of rain for tomorrow. One thing I meant to mention...throughout all these weeks of smoky overcast...there have been NO chemtrails. I have looked for them every day and detected none through the orangey-grey haze. Wonder WHO makes these decisions. Who decides: "Hey, we have enough haze down there in the Pacific North West....so let's move the chemtrail program to, say, Hawaii"...or some such?
As we look ahead to the last few weeks of summer 2017, I see some dark, geopolitical clouds on the horizon. There's the usual late August, early September fear of a major False Flag. This annual psychological terror time period has been with us since at least 9/11. This year it comes in the form of an EMP [electro-magnetic pulse] threat. The EMP threat carries with it the entire catalogue of contemporary fears...loss of electricity for daily needs, darkness and immobility due to no fuel supply for our cars...and, perhaps worst of ALL...loss of access to our cell phones and Internet devices...will we even be human anymore without instant connectivity to the Internet???!!!
So, as we brace ourselves for this seasonal terrorist rite of passage...let me again thank my 'virtual crew' for your patience, forbearance, interest and support during our humble voyage and, for those who like to reminisce...I have provided below two maps of the geographic area and catalogue of links to posts made during the sailing cruise:
"Anonymous" recently commented that I should "get back to work". Being out on the road, or, in my case, out on the water does lend a certain "otherworldliness" [call it perspective] to the "work" of posting about geopolitics. Sometimes, even, as happened recently to me, a writer will get a flash of inspiration, a lesson, from nature. Sometimes, the "natural lesson" when combined with a timely and cogent link(s) can morph into a theory, a reflection or an "insight".
A day or so ago now, while slowly motoring up the passage to Nanaimo from Ladysmith, the water was flat calm and glassy in the early morning light. It looked like a mirror. Suddenly, about 10 feet to the right of our boat, I saw a small school of tiny fish, like herring, leap in unison out of the water, flash brilliantly in the sunlight like a shovelful of diamonds thrown into the air, then, almost as one, dive back beneath the waves. This scene is captured on a much larger scale in the video above.
Generally, when fish jump out of the water, it's because they're being chased by a larger predator(s). We will never know for sure what causes any individual school of fish to jump into the air--what for them is a new paradigm, an alien universe. The depths of the ocean contains diverse predators...from the simply larger salmon...to seals, porpoise and then the ultimate (in these waters anyway) killer whale.
I got to thinking that the mass of humanity is like the small fish...under constant threat, terror and predation from dark forces beneath the surface...forces that provoke mass frenzy, insanity and suicidal behavior. It also got me thinking that, like David Icke is always telling us...there are different levels and/or elements in the universe--and we are only privy to the one we are in and probably unable to survive outside of it...like the small fish in that split second they are flying through the air.
Finally, I began to contemplate on the motivation of the predators...is it just greed and self satisfaction that drives their pursuit? Or is it even more primal than that. Then I saw the article in Fort Russ about the motivation behind the recent American government passing the sanctions against Russia. Here is a quote:
"...But they [USrael] are incapable of being world’s first by simply being the best at everything, so they choose to stay on top by bringing everyone else down. Through various methods..."
And it seems that the small fish breeching into the air is like the history of humanity speeded up a million fold. Each breech is a civilization reaching the pinnacle of its evolution...that is when it is "shining like diamonds" just before it descends back into the blackness and is dragged down by the "dark forces". This scenario is repeated over and over throughout history...and probably even before recorded history. I started thinking about John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost" again. The longer I live the more I believe that the blind poet was telling us about another inhabitation of this planet...by what he called "angels"...who fought a tremendous battle wherein good triumphed and the vanquished were banished to hell. Perhaps the battle was fought on another planet and the evil Lucifer and his cohorts were banished to earth where they are compelled to rule by deception---and create hell over and over again [history] to infinity.
In a post this morning, Paul Craig Roberts saysthat the Nuremberg trials after WWII were just another evil farce and a travesty of justice. Remember the film "Judgment at Nuremberg"? Remember when we were all being brainwashed as teenagers into believing that this was a prime example of good "triumphing" over evil? What else are we but tiny fish leaping and dancing in terror before the 1%?
Then, I saw a wonderful interview with Rock Star Roger Waters this morning where he provided some small modicum of hope that we are not so helpless and that we do have some small degree of control over our existence:
Roger Waters on RT
"We're Winning...That's What Scares Them"
So, as we end our vacation with our rare contemplation of nature--up close and personal--and as we re-enter our familiar environment of M$M madness, insanity and terror propaganda...hopefully we will be able to factor in a little bit of perspective gained from reflecting on the bigger picture of life on this planet. Perhaps, like Syd Barrett, we're all more than just tiny fish, flashing for a split second in the sunlight of human history. Perhaps we are all "crazy diamonds".
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon Shine on you crazy diamond Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine
Songwriters: DAVID JON GILMOUR, RICK WRIGHT, ROGER WATERS
Well, Folks...we're at the end of our two week sailing holiday. Tomorrow, we depart from Nanaimo, BC harbour for our home port in Port Moody, BC, just 45 minutes from Vancouver. I have to say that the City of Nanaimo takes the award for the best stop and moorage of our two week sail. We hadn't sailed here for at least 25 years, since our boys were small and boy, has it changed! And, for the better. The good folk of Nanaimo snatched their precious waterfront from the talons of the greedy developers...who usually win every tug of war in every city in North America...and have transformed the waterfront completely. It is now a people-friendly seawall walk through tourist souvenir shop and restaurant areas, park areas, Sea plane and ferry landings and even a fishing pier and a man made tidal beach that is swimmable.
The above sounds like I am a flunkie for the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce...but I am not. I just see here a template that can be borrowed by almost every ocean-front community in BC and elsewhere. And tourism seems to be flourishing in Nanaimo...."Build it...and they will come". As an example, Port Moody, BC where we have our boat moored is planning a huge waterfront development with high rises and high density housing to be built over the next few decades. I doubt that Port Moody has the vision...or the strong community-minded City Hall that Nanaimo obviously has to realize the transformation here on the waterfront.
But, as we walked to a restaurant just two blocks away from the waterfront last night, we saw clues to the cost to the community of the newly refurbished waterfront. Homeless and/or distressed individuals approached us for handouts, nearly always aboriginal in appearance. Nanaimo has a large First Nations population and this segment of the community has always stayed at the lower end of the economic scale. One thing I forgot to mention, there is a very high police presence on the waterfront. A badass inflatable police boat with a huge officer toting a gun on his belt was roaring around the harbor as we came in. I smiled to myself as I imagined his gun going off by accident and ripping a hole in the huge dingy...badass no more : ). Also, police on bicycles patrol the seawall constantly. This was reassuring, at night particularly.
So in a few moments, we release the mooring lines and we're off!
"What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out."
~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963
Charles de Gaulle
“If NWO agents cannot use reason to make a point, then they are right: I am their enemy.” Vladimir Putin
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." JFK
Our rights will not fall due to limitations nor will they be abolished by unjust rule.
Ali Badwan re Palestine
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'.....the truth is that Western corporate so-called news media are simply this: one giant troll army marching in lockstep with the political agenda of Washington and its coterie of Western allies.' Finian Cunningham
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” – George Orwell
... the [NATO] alliance is takingupon itself“global functionsrealized withviolation ofinternational law.”
"Those who stand up for justice will always be on the right side of history." Copied from a protest sign seen at a demonstration in Palestine.
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"Authentic journalism is journalism that tells the people something the government doesn't want them to know." --Gary Webb (1955 – 2004)
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Anyone who relies on the Western media lives inside The Matrix. - Paul Craig Roberts
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Greencrow is an Internet identity and avatar I chose in 2003... when I first started going on news forums. I first used it on The New York Times forums (was kicked off that forum for insisting 9/11 was an inside job--since reinstated) but have used it on many other forums such as YouTube, CBC, Rabble.ca (kicked off that one) Rigorous Intuition (kicked off that one too) and a few more I can't think of at the moment. In any case, Blogs are supposed to be fun and I hope this one is for me and my readers. gc
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