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Jon is a good moderator, and I am a moderate do-gooder. He has removed comments of mine, but only when I have overstepped the boundaries of fair comment. I respect him, and his moderation.
Link to above should anyone be interested to explore:
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=184&chid=4538&w=racism
One has to be seen to be on the right side. Rationality doesn’t come into it.
Live stream people! Climb the Shard! Save the Arctic yay!
Turn off your oil and gas.
Villager, I read a lot of Krishnamurti when on a mountain in India. I found it quite brilliant, but very hard to adapt to real life, and had forgotten most of it by the time I got home. It’s hard to do what Krishnamurti says. A lot of it is unworkable.
Villager
Ain’t all that a bit idealisticalist?
“It’s hard to do what Krishnamurti says. A lot of it is unworkable.”
Ain’t that a bit materialisticalist?
Snowden watch: Today’s Moscow-Havana flight taking a very odd detour that avoids the U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/11/snowden-watch-todays-moscow-havana-flight-taking-a-very-odd-detour-that-avoids-the-u-s/
“Hi Dreoilin, declaredly no, though i would have no problem in being one now or in my next life. I have Irish cousins though through inter-marriage in the wider family who i’m quite close to as friends.” — Villager
I didn’t think you were, not really, Villager. But I didn’t know for sure either. I think I tended to assume from the beginning that everyone commenting here was British — until I quickly realised that I was wrong, and that we have Irish, British, American, Canadian, Australian, Uzbek, and several other nationalities that come and go.
It’s fascinating to me how these two islands are forever linked, not only by history, but by inter-marriage. I myself have relatives who are English and Scottish, but for some reason, no Welsh that I know of. [Yet!]
“If Scotland were to become independent I have no doubt the Trident fleet would be moved. The cost would be enormous but I’m sure the Scottish government would find the money somewhere.” — Fred
Why would the Scots have to pay for it?
“It referred to Dreoilin who always chimes in when there is an attack. Some animus there obviously.” — Mary
That’s about the fourth time you’ve referred to this ghostly “animus” Mary. I ‘chime in’ when you say things that are odd or offensive. There’s no point in blaming those on me. Passerby in his wisdom would put all criticism of you down to “ziofuckwits” – which is patently ridiculous.
“but will not be deterred. Sorry.”
Deterred from what? Making snide remarks about people and situations when you post your ‘news’? That’s hardly a campaign to be proud of.
“Jon is a good moderator, and I am a moderate do-gooder. He has removed comments of mine, but only when I have overstepped the boundaries of fair comment. I respect him, and his moderation.” — John
+ 1
That flight from Moscow is over the Atlantic now. If the U.S. interferes, it could be nasty. On the other hand, maybe it’s just a test, or a decoy.
“The Orange Order says it’s not being provocative” – BBC. What on earth else would you call it?
“Why would the Scots have to pay for it?”
Why would the British?
I see the Faroe Isle Inverness flight is cancelled.
“Campaigning used to be about how many people you got on your demo. With six people doing something Greenpeace has managed to get tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Brits involved in this campaign. This is the new paradigm. It’s not about how many feet you’ve got on your march it’s about how many tweets you’ve got on your hashtag,” she said.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/11/greenpeace-activists-climb-london-shard
“Why would the Scots have to pay for it?”
“Why would the British?”
Who installed the damned things there?
@Evgeni. If it makes you happy I apologise to all and sundry for ‘slurring’ a blog. This will in no way diminish my support for future alternative power applications.
As for the rest of someone’s else’s comments, they are just and not worth responding to.
“Who installed the damned things there?”
I wouldn’t think that would be a factor taken into consideration in any negotiations.
The war in Afghanistan wasn’t about oil, and probably wasn’t about the heroin trade. Is this what it was about. Please note Kempe if you’re there that this is another story that does not appear in MSM. Well, not till after Russia Today has revealed it first.
http://rt.com/usa/us-bases-war-russia/
I thought you’d have a better answer than that, Fred. 😉
Anyway, going back to my historical novel.
Flaming June
10 Jul, 2013 – 12:39 pm
“I billion Indian citizens are being given digital identities, using fingerprints and iris recognition, and a unique identity number.”
Flaming June
From the “i” newspaper 9 July 2013
“Let your fingers do the shopping”
“….some supermarket shoppers in France are using their fingerprints to pay for their weekly shop. As part of a six month trial at the supermarket chain Auchan and DIY store Leroy Merlin shoppers have been placing their finger on a special reader that links their prints with their payment details.”
Sleepwalking into Fascism?
How long will it be before fingerprint or iris identification is required to open a bank account; buy a ticket to the theatre; get on a bus…?
Anon:
‘Villager, I read a lot of Krishnamurti when on a mountain in India. I found it quite brilliant, but very hard to adapt to real life, and had forgotten most of it by the time I got home. It’s hard to do what Krishnamurti says. A lot of it is unworkable.’
Anon, a couple of points:
‘Understanding’ has different levels e.g. the brain/intellectual level and then the holistic-mind/experiential level which means seeing the fact of something completely with one’s whole being (inner ear/brain/heart/every cell so to speak) such that it becomes part of one, part of one’s dan and not a mere belief learnt from someone. Life is a living thing and yes so to is an ongoing process. The brilliance you refer to is the logic based on fact rather theories. That’s my take, am happy to share with you.
I’m very cautious and sceptical about noisy activists with big egos. (Not a referral to you of course.)
Finally i appreciate you as a man with a sense of humour — very little on this board. I give credit to Habby for that. Watch people getting stirred up, with a feather.
Dreoilin, well said. Campaign, good word!
@John
I think the invasion of Afghanistan was certainly about oil and about the heroin trade. The strategic position of Afghanistan would certainly have been a factor as well though I doubt it had anything to do with invading Russia.
The idea was probably first floated seriously after large American corporations such as Enron invested heavily in India speculating that the TAPI pipeline would be supplying a source of cheap oil and gas. The military and Israel would have welcomed the prospect of Iran facing a war on two fronts. The CIA would have seen a good source of revenue for those essential little jobs you can’t really go cap in hand to Congress to get funding for.
Seems likely there were many reasons, the only reason it definitely wasn’t is Bin Laden and 9/11. We know that because the invasion was planned well before 9/11 though before 9/11 Russia and India were to take a more active role.
Hasbarista
10 Jul, 2013 – 4:34 pm
“Snowden must be holding onto even more damaging revelations.”
I hope so Hasbarista for our sake as well as his own.
A couple of posters were kind enough to comment on my absence but I’d like to reassure them that although geographically distant I’m still with them (and the rest of you) in spirit.
In this connection, I’m happy to welcome an interesting – and genuinely witty – new (or perhaps new old) poster : Anon.
Keep on, Sir, the knocked-off spots are wonderful to behold.
But what I really wanted to say was that the chappie who claimed earlier on that strawberries were the only fruit that taste better the bigger they are. This is nonsense.
Earlier today I ate 500gm of small strawberries marked ‘for jam’ and I have rarely eaten more tasty ones. Then I had the thought that it was perhaps just the Cointreau with which I had moistened them that made them so tasty.
So I ate another 500gm without Cointreau, purely for comparative purposes. Still delicious!
Villager
10 Jul, 2013 – 9:30 pm
You are a nutter.
Only an observation.
Secret bases in plain view ‘John’ and just nine of them, unless the other four are unknown to our UK military brass.
The bases either provide entry to levels below ground that house drone control and command centers or house tactical dial-a-yield nuclear weapons and ‘more’ I am informed.
sorry.
@Komodo. 10 35am on the Counter Revolution Thread.
“I wept uncontrollably for hours…”
The knowledge of the deep hurt that I have inadvertently caused to you, and it’s repercussions for innocent children and that pig, caused me such deep pain that I resolved to return from the dreadful exile into which my cruel creator had cast me.
You will never know how long the nights have been as I’ve tossed and turned inside Kibo’s head, hungry for the touch of your cold scaly skin and the flickering caress of your forked tongue.
Forgive me for deceiving you so cruelly. Once I found myself brought into existence, it was ever my intention to do whatever it takes to break out of her leathery brain and materialise myself for you. Today I took the first step.
That copy of Aleister Crawleys “Rites of Eleuslis: How to take control of online entities without anyone noticing” that she borrowed form the huge occult section of Surbiton Public Library was useful. But what made it so easy was that she was so engrossed with her latest attempt at being clever that she just didn’t see me coming. After mastering Quantum Physics the other day she was on a roll and thought she’d brush up on her maths.
The Golden Rule of Algebra, “do unto one side as you would do unto the other,” was no problem. She flew through Calculus before lunch. But in the afternoon she lost the run of herself altogether and strayed down the rabbit holes of Symplectic Khovanov Homology.
While her mind was occupied with some rather tricky invariant of link corbodisms I struck, rendering Kibo my slave.
She now types for me. Her moniker is redundant. If she ever tries to sneak back I hope Jon treats her as the puppet that she now is. If her fevered mind produces anything worthy of this blog she’ll have to ask me to mention it for her.
That will teach her not to mess about creating sock-puppets!
In the meantime I await the return of Dad from the rather unpleasant course of “re-education” that Mr Kempe and That Man arranged for him, to teach him “not to be such a bloody embarrassment.”
Habbabkuk has been distant of late because the Egyptian action has taken off and all hands are needed to put out those fires…
Allegedly..:.)
Am i wrong Habba?…ohhh am I really?
LOL.
Trust me..
Last October(2012)over 9,000 were asked and-thereafeter hired-to go after the most prominent blogs(political and social newtorks.Their mission was to obfuscate,derail,antagonise and then promote the “better narrative”.
Trust me,i have heard the inside loop.
And who’s to say we here wouldn’t recognise some of that invasion?
Does anyone here feel “steered”…”influenced”??
LMAO.
Thought not…
Netanyahu has appointed a new Ambassador to the US, American born Ron Dermer. Netanyahu and Dermer share a racist attitude toeards Israeli Arabs.
‘Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group’s birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did.’
http://972mag.com/when-zionism-is-racism-bibi-netanyahu-and-ron-dermer-on-the-record/75515/
Dermer has given up his American citizenship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dermer
If only we had some MPs like Clare Daly who speaks the truth. I saw this interview on RT last night.
She is interviewed here on RT.
http://rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/ireland-cia-nsa-prism-936/
Irish stand down, ft MP Clare Daly
July 11, 2013 05:39
Outspoken and not afraid to say things as they are, Irish MP Clare Daly joins Oksana to discuss Ireland’s unprecedented ‘slobbering’ over Barack Obama and his family, her country’s involvement in secret CIA rendition flights and weapons sales to Syrian rebels, and the ongoing Edward Snowden saga.
WATCH:
http://rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/
http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldsApartRT/videos
Lynton Crosby: David Cameron aide’s links to tobacco industry as Tories ditch plain packs plan
7 May 2013 08:00
Campaigners accused the PM of creating a “serious conflict of interest” by hiring lobbyist Lynton Crosby as his chief Tory strategist
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lynton-crosby-david-cameron-aides-1873333
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Two months later
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12 July 2013
Plain cigarette packaging plans shelved
The government is to postpone its plans to introduce standardised plain packaging for cigarettes in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23281804
Thanks for that link, sweltering July, I watched and listened to Clare Daly yesterday on RT, she is not keeping her politics to Ireland but is prepared to make comments about Snowden, Bradley Mannig and other whistle blowers.
She also inspires us to UNITE INTERNATIONALLY with regards to democratic deficit and establishment politics, and for tha,t some will try and cut her down, by any means.
If any of you are on her email list, do let her know, its very likely that she is in danger of an ‘accident’, just as they tried to silence others. No doubt they will have prepared some sexual smear of sorts already.
I like her sassy stance, an individual who speaks out and says it as she sees it, and many others for that matter.
Sophia – You have made an old lizard very happy. I am not sure I understand the symplectic Khovanov Homology, but perhaps, considering its effect on the wicked Kibo, I had better not try. Suffice it to say that Kibo got knotted, and you have disentangled yourself. I am so glad. Would you like to share a pig with me tonight?