I have been shot, stabbed, broken thirty plus (30+) bones in my body, beat senseless more times than I can name, stitched up numerous times, gone through chemo therapy, experienced six heart attacks, had pneumonia six times in my life, and nothing matches what I just went through last night. I had to deal with a kidney stone and I am not sure it is over yet…
It came under control after I used a pain-killer that was prescribed once by a Russian doctor. It is called Nise and pronounced just as you think it is, Nice. Nise is a narcotic, mild but still a narcotic and normally I do not take such pain killers, because they make me sick or nauseated. Sick was a blessing compared to the pain, so I took two…
After an hour, I was able to at least lay in one position and not have to have Sveta help me to the bathroom or any other such actions. Simply getting in and out of bed, was hell itself. I had been driven to use a cane to do simple acts of movement. I am now doing better and it has been sixteen hours since taking the painkiller…
I have dealt with this several times, but this must have been a large one and; well you know, lets hope it is the last one?
I remember many years ago a man told me that kidney stones is the worst thing in the universe. He laid in the hospital and they were having to deal with a serious issue he had. I remember thinking; “Worse than being stabbed and shot?” Na!!!
Oh was I wrong…
Have a nice (nise) day, for after yesterday, I sure will have a great day today…
First article; is an audio file of James Howard Kunstler about USA, Ukraine and Russia; this article is all over Russia and no where in the west as far as I can see or hear. I will not translate the article, for it is in Russian only, but I did find his MP3 recording in English… (Actually Sveta found the link as she was searching Russian news! :))
This is interesting for right after Kunstler gave this interview, Obama then said in an interview, “And since Mr. Putin made this decision around Crimea and Ukraine — not because of some grand strategy, but essentially because he was caught off-balance by the protests in the Maidan and [Ukraine’s then-President Viktor] Yanukovych then fleeing after we (USA) had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.”
We admit point blank that we started this situation in Ukraine, be it for what ever reasons and why, we did it… (The USA!)
Yes, it seems we are starting to wane in our ability to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now lets see who has the most power; the warmonger or the occasional sanity-monger among the psychosis of the US landscape?
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Second article: Delusional America by Paul Craig Roberts…
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
Enough said and here is his article…
Delusional America
Paul Craig Roberts
Robert Parry is one of my favorite columnists. He is truthful, has a sense of justice, and delivers a firm punch. He used to be a “mainstream journalist,” like me, but we were too truthful for them. They kicked us out.
I can’t say Parry has always been one of my favorite journalists. During the 1980s he spent a lot of time on Reagan’s case. Having been on corporate boards, I know that CEOs seldom know everything that is going on in the company. There are just too many people and too many programs representing too many agendas. For presidents of countries with governments as large as the US government, there is far more going on than a president has time to learn about even if he could get accurate information.
In my day Assistant Secretaries and chiefs of staff were the most important people, because they controlled the flow of information. Presidents have to focus on fund raising for their reelection and for their party. More time and energy is used up with formalities and meetings with dignitaries and media events. At the most there are two or three issues on which a president can attempt leadership. If an organized clique such as the neoconservatives get into varied positions of authority, they can actually “create the reality” and take the government away from the president.
As I have reported on many occasions, my experience with Reagan left me with the conclusion that he was interested in two big issues. He wanted to stop the stagflation for which only the supply-side economists had a solution, and he wanted to end, not win, the cold war.
Both of these agendas put Reagan at odds with two of the most powerful of the private interest groups: Wall Street and the military/security complex.
Wall Street for the most part opposed Reagan’s economic program. They opposed it because they understood it as Keynesian deficit pump-priming that would cause an already high inflation rate to explode, which would drive down bond and stock prices.
The CIA and the military opposed any ending of the Cold War because of the obvious impact on their power and budget.
Left-wing journalists never picked up on this, and neither did right-wing journalists.
The left could not get beyond Reagan’s rhetoric. For the left, Reagan was trickle-down economics, Iran/Contra, and the fired air traffic controllers.
The right-wing liked Reagan’s rhetoric and blamed him for not delivering on it.
For the left, the Reagan years were a traumatic time. Robert Parry has never recovered from them. He can scarcely write a column about events today, which are horrific in comparison, without dragging Reagan into it. Parry doesn’t realize it, but if it is all Reagan’s fault, little wonder it has been impossible to hold Clinton, Bush 1 and 2, and Obama accountable.
Having written these lines, I already detect the denunciations coming my way for again attempting to “rehabilitate Ronald Ray-Gun.” Reagan does not need rehabilitating. This column is not about Reagan, and it is not a criticism of Parry. It is praise for Parry’s column, “‘Group-thinking’ the World into a New War.” https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/30/group-thinking-the-world-into-a-new-war/ Read it.
The pattern since Milosevic (and before) has been to demonize a foreign head of state and to take the US to war to get rid of him. That way the secret agenda is achieved under the cover of the necessity of deposing a bad or dangerous ruler.
Parry describes this well. Group-Think plays the important role of preventing any dissent, any suspicion of the case against the demonized person, and any examination of the real agenda that is being pursued.
Now it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is being demonized. As Parry and I and Stephen F. Cohen, the most knowledgeable of the Russian experts, appreciate, Putin is not Saddam Hussein and Russia is not Iraq, Libya, Syria, Serbia, or Iran. To foment conflict with Russia that could lead to war is worse than irresponsible. Yet, as Parry writes, “from the start of the Ukraine crisis in fall 2013, the New York Times, the Washington Post and virtually every mainstream U.S. news outlet have behaved as dishonestly as they did during the run-up to war with Iraq.”
When Professor Cohen pointed out, correctly, that the lies about Russia, Ukraine, and Putin were hot and heavy, the propagandists had to get rid of the man with the facts. The New Republic, a hang-out for low IQ fools, called America’s leading Russian expert “Putin’s American toady.”
From Parry’s reporting, it appears that Group-Think has spread from the media and foreign policy community into the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, which has decided that academic careers require adherence to the government’s propaganda line, which means the neoconservatives’ line.
As I have written on a number of occasions, facts no longer play a role in American political life. Fact-based analysis is also disappearing from academic life and no longer plays a role in official economic reporting. A matrix has been created, an artificial reality that channels the energies and resources of the country into secret agendas that serve the interests of the ruling private interest groups and neoconservative ideology.
The United States government and the American people cannot contend with reality, because they do not know what the reality is.
In America’s make-believe world, neoconservative toadies such as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, set the Group-Think tone, while knowledgeable experts such as Stephen Cohen are tuned out.
In effect, America is both blind and deaf. It lives in delusions. Consequently, it will destroy itself and perhaps the world.
Ukraine Civil War; It really is funny (not ha ha) that the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is involved in this corrupt, dishonest, and disgusting war truly based on lies, even more so than the US war in Iraq. How come Obama got such an award before he even performed any action yet alone one of peace? Was that part of the NATO country-Nobel peace prize voters propaganda plan to soften up the US citizens so they would accept the Bankers/NATO leaders Wars for World domination as “justified” wars?
What needs to happen, realistically, is for Russia to step in a make the peace, on both sides. It’s time for the bloodletting to end and no other country has the ability, authority, or necessity to stop the war more than Russia does, as it is happening right on her doorstep. She should just disregard western objections and actions that might come. These will happen anyway, whether Russia steps in or not, as they are part of US realpolitik to isolate and weaken her, irrespective of the current situation in Ukraine. Russia has a duty and an obligation, as sanctioned by international law, to intercede and bring an end to this disastrous war…
But alas to intercede now may be too early in the game. Let the NATO Alliance Countries wake up and then see what the USA is doing to their nations. At the moment they are still fast asleep and dreaming of handouts from their governments…
A step in the right direction has happened though and the west is trying to find that way out of the mess they created…
Russia is a simple country and Russians are not under any rules really. They do what they want, how they want, and when they want, “Life to a Russian; is rules, to be broken.”
It took me a long time to understand this and longer still to become this…
It is a simple day of images, but young people are playing sports (as a Russian would say) and the elder are gathering food. Milk is sold like this in a dozen places every morning nearby me as I walk Boza. It is what creates sanction proof Russians. The young people playing soccer is an example of how tough Russians are. The kids do not care that it is -10 below as I snap this image and they play like this, just as many play chess in the same freezing weather; outside…
Caviar; a day without caviar is a bad day for a Russia. I have posted many times about caviar only stores and caviar, on everything. Caviar to a Russian is akin to what makes life perfect…
This last image is a sweet and sour image for me. The young boys are having a blast! They wear the Burger King crowns, eat, drink, and be merry. That is fantastic and no different from the kids in the U.S…
That is what made me sad; for like Syria, Libya, and many-many others. America wants to destroy the homeland of these kids. How would you appreciate another country trying underhanded tactics to destroy a countries lively hood?
These kids deserve a normal life, even if it is only normal for them in their country and I am here to tell you that Russians have a much more normal life than Americans…
That is something to think about and is why I love Russia…
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease – 74.9; I had some people ask what and why I do this at the end of many posts? I do it because, I work at writing at a level that people from non English native countries can read the articles and that happens to be exactly the level of reading to target for Americans…
Think about that also…
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90.0–100.0
easily understood by an average 11-year-old student
Russians are getting tired of the haughty American and only about a quarter of Russians have anything good to say about America now days. I remember well when I came here the first time; Russians loved Americans…
The Russians love polls and the latest polls being run show, some serious number changes in attitude. From highs of, love America at 80%, to now lows reaching, love America, at 17%. I have talked many times, right here on this blog, that Russians were star eyed and dreamed of gold paved streets and golden paths to freedom, all over America…
I remember how close lots of Russians felt to “America” in the late Nineties – that started to change with the Iraq war, when the only places where we (Americans) could discuss what happened were the Russian blogs and fora. Censorship was already in place in the West and has slowly gripped the whole country, while you slept in dream land. There were lots of genuine American trolls who made it clear that they were fascists in disguise (“Shut up Boris or we’ll casually kill ya”), but then, nobody really liked Saddam Hussein. Therefore, the US kept at it, and though they blundered a lot, they see themselves as successful overall. They will carry on, they really want a Total Empire – why else would they call it the New World Order? They also want depopulation, which most people refuse to even understand. They also want to control all resources. All in all, what do they have to lose when all is at risk anyway ? Now, I would have been surprised, if that made the Russians like us. I wonder what the public opinion in the EU and in the BRICS actually is? It seems to be very ant-American and growing from my viewpoint…
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23.32.154.0 – 23.32.154.255; this is final set of IPs before being sent through Germany in multiple ways. These IPs are a full range of just one set of IPs that TSA uses…
I have dozens of different IP ranges and they all always lead back to DHS, which as far as I can tell even TSA leads ultimately back to DHS. Makes sense in a sick society way…
The above article link seems to have set them off into a frenzy and I seem to have hit the nail with that one. There are several more before that, that are upsetting them also, but this particular article above, has set their frilly panties on fire…
It gets old after awhile!
The land of the free-less and the home of the scared rabbits is constantly after what I say. They can not disrupt me with comments as they do big news sites, for I moderate all comments. They can only denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack, and we all know that America would never abuse the internet, Right?
So for now, our host is taking a beating and they are trying to deal with the attack. Several times we are left not even able to get into our own site, but that is just okay, for DHS and TSA and the government of America, just plain sucks…
I bet money that you would never say all the things you do – if you still lived in the US! I think you are just tough acting because you can’t be stopped as easy! Come home and see what they do to you!
You have **** for Brains!
I saw that letter and almost tossed it due to cussing, then I thought about what they said. It is a simple minded message and has a simple minded hidden meaning, that they never intended to express…
Number one, they would have lost money, because in America, I was much worse than I am now! I have had to mellow due to six heart attacks, but in my time I have been beaten for asking why? I have been jailed for interfering when someone is being abused by the police! I have stood toe to toe against the KKK when a black boy was being wronged. I have stood toe to toe against the locals in many places I have lived. I have walked into dozens of fights knowing I would be on the bad end of things. I have been blackmailed to keep quiet and I have been strong armed by big corporations and federal people…
All because I would ask why and I would express what I thought was wrong with the situation at hand…
Number two, the person just expressed what is so commonly being expressed by Americans time and time again. I see it in articles, comments and conversations! Americans are scared of their government…
The underlining message in the nasty e-mail is: You would be suppressed if you lived in the USA!
“Come home and see what they do to you!” – Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy…
Think about what they said…
I think they are right and they didn’t mean to be right about that particular issue…
Thank you ALL for hating and criticizing Russia and Putin! It just shows that the country is moving in the right (for Russia) direction! Much appreciated!! It would be worse if Russia is praised!
When Russia was praised; Yeltsin was getting drunk and giving it all away and Gorbachev sold it to the highest bidder…
Evil Russians charged with espionage, one arrested in New York
Is it a spy, or is it an investigative journalist? Does anyone care any longer? Does anyone know? Does it matter? The U.S. is laying the groundwork for a move against evil Russian media, a move against evil Chinese media, a move against enhanced border control, a move enhancing visa control, and a move to shut the Americans in; just because…. (Terrorism you know?)
Americans seem more and more like a group of unfortunately brain-damaged people sitting in the lounge of an insane asylum, making crazy quilts, trying to put back together a world they deconstructed and can no longer understand, nor, therefore care to understand…
One thing seems clear and that is the extreme vulnerability of the U.S. to anything resembling reality and so if presented with an actual existential threat, they will crumble. Therefore the need, desire, and urgency to seal the world out, as we coerce the inner peasants…
From the Guardian: They were also accused of helping a “leading Russian state-owned news organization,” gather information which would help the Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR…
The complaint does not name the offending news organization, but the complaint adds: “The News Organization has been publicly identified by former SVR agents as an organization that is sometimes used by Russian intelligence to gain access to and gather intelligence under cover of the news media.”
In recent years, the evil Kremlin has made a push into western countries with state organizations such as evil RT and evil Sputnik launching English-language versions and opening bureaus around the world.”
These organizations that mimic the western organizations and establish information about the west, within the western borders; become attacked by western governments, as spy organizations/terrorists…
The copy scores 46.1 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered difficult to read. Try to make shorter sentences, using less difficult words to improve readability… 🙂
Poroshenko the yes man. Poroshenko, president of Ukraine? Poroshenko the Chocolate Baron. Poroshenko the stoolie…
This entire undertaking has been an act bearing despair from the very start. A Washington driven result goal, to encompass, subdue and restrain Russia with NATO partners, structure, and desires…
So far the method has not gone well for anybody involved and has just succeeded in producing meddled with a country of people, who are closer to Russia than all other country’s, but since their geological place makes them Russian like, they have become pawns in an exceptionally risky round of “Atomic Chicken…”
None of the culprits of this method think about Ukraine. Even Russia will (be forced) forlorn Ukraine, to protect Russia before long. The Ukrainian people who voted to join the EU would be advised to quit being astonished by false guarantees and wake up to the truth quick, that their best associate in the world, is Russia. That one (Russia,) soon lost…
Presently Ukraine is in an enormous money related wreckage and in a wicked common war stoked by the desire of a little, however perilous gathering of western people who need to control the world…
Poroshenko the Chocolate King…
We are seeing wholesale disloyalty to a country of people and if Poroshenko was a genuine patriot with positive plan towards his nation he would not have acknowledged position of boss Washington manikin in any case. On the off-chance that he had honest to goodness charitable desire to use his personal riches and impact to help his kin and his nation he would have taken influence not by clandestine subversion backed by the Chicago mafia, but by open majority rule, as it implies. Presently he has dug himself a cesspool of a pit and he is driving his nation by the nose into the pool with him…
Poroshenko the Chocolate Baron does his job well in Ukraine and he will have a place of reverence in the west, alongside Georgia’s, ex-president, Sassy the Saakashvili…
I have been shot, stabbed, broken thirty plus (30+) bones in my body, beat senseless more times than I can name, stitched up numerous times, gone through chemo therapy, experienced six heart attacks, had pneumonia six times in my life, and nothing matches what I just went through last night. I had to deal with a kidney stone and I am not sure it is over yet…
After an hour, I was able to at least lay in one position and not have to have Sveta help me to the bathroom or any other such actions. Simply getting in and out of bed, was hell itself. I had been driven to use a cane to do simple acts of movement. I am now doing better and it has been sixteen hours since taking the painkiller…
