@carad
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
My thoughts immediately jump to sabotage and arson….
https://www.rt.com/news/416339-russia-pipeline-village-blaze/ -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
I wonder how much Asian investment is guided by the Dadong ratings agency? Interesting to speculate.
https://www.rt.com/business/416096-us-economy-turkmenistan-china-credit/-
The Chinese have learned the trick of so-called “independent” ratings…
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
A review and discussion of humanities. Includes some history and shows interesting parallels with medieval to renaissance times. Calls for a return of moral purpose and a “return” to the humanity of humanities. I recommend it.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/ -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Sunday music musings… Chris Rea, “The road to hell”
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
I come from a city founded by gold mining… it’s a brutal, tough business. If things seem too good to be true, they certainly are in the case of mining.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
Is this any different to concentration camp slave labour?. Answer: not much
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We’re at War dammit! Given ‘er all we got! Or as they say in Sheboygan, given Err!
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
Indeed @phyllo, It is a bit full of the author showing off his vocabulary :-)… and it’s much later in the day here in Cape Aghulus (where I am visiting famiglia)
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Va bene , e verro . Il signor usare molte parole. Buona Cera . Enjoy the family and visit sounds beautiful.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
Thanks @tommivh
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
The Sanchi, Panamanian ship, en route from Iran to South Korea collides with Hong Kong freighter carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil. Payback for earlier collisions? Escalation?
“In this day and age with anticollision systems, radar, with ship identification systems, two enormous ships like this should not collide,” oceanography expert Dr Simon Box…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Finland being intel-oped? All I have is the machine translation, maybe Russian speakers can interpret better…
https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2966919&cid=5#-
It’s about military intelligence. Every country does it, so it’s not so big news. Well.. for me it was a bit strange because this newspaper is famous to be very anti-Russian. So it’s a little odd that they reported or “leaked” this story at the first place. It almost feels like a some kind of psyop.
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Thanks @tommivh
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
“A socio-cultural-political structure is in place wherein the individual is bombarded, to the point of psychical saturation, with self-serving, elitist manufactured media content. Decades back, news and entertainment merged thus freedom of choice amounts to psychical wanderings in a wilderness of empty, consumer cravings and unquenchable l…[Read more]
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“A sphincter-clinching tale of woe and warning “- Whoa , whoa , whoa! Cara -Mia , it is a wee bit early in a.m. In USSA for the metaphors of this Germanic author. 😜 That is “unthinkable Quot itian. “
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Indeed @phyllo, It is a bit full of the author showing off his vocabulary :-)… and it’s much later in the day here in Cape Aghulus (where I am visiting famiglia)
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Va bene , e verro . Il signor usare molte parole. Buona Cera . Enjoy the family and visit sounds beautiful.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
“In other words, America’s wealth is sustained by a pump-and-dump operation facilitated by the dollar’s reserve status, replacing genuine industrial production. It is worth clarifying one point: foreign owned dollars never leave the US, only their function. It is more correct to state that the US Government causes dollars to be diverted from forei…[Read more]
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Can’t we all just go to space together…. geez. We can resume fighting when we have Star Wars type tech.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
“The bet, on the part of elites, is that this tech breaks the inefficiency problem of classical authoritarian surveillance states: only a few people, comparatively, are needed. … Technology which can be used by elites to make other humans inferior, will be. It always has been, and it always will be, and the only way that is challenged is by c…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
“A remarkable sign of America’s interest in Australian diplomatic presence in countries it views as hostile was the revelation earlier this year that the CIA had requested Canberra to host a North Korean Embassy and to open its own mission in Pyongyang in 2014.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/can-australia-mediate-between-iran-and-america/9303104-
Australia has yet to have an American ambassador appointed to represents its diplomatic presence in our country
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Take a look at the locations of Djibouti and Gwadar on a map…. energy politics writ large?
https://www.rt.com/news/415172-china-report-base-pakistan/
They also have the port in Sri Lanka….-
While the “high ground” is now space, and naval power is showing its limitations more than ever, this does not mean that there is not room for second echelon powers like China to “mess about with boats”, which can serve to “impress the natives” – especially when the guns are within firing range of petroleum facilities.
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Mad Max with boats 🚣
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Aside from Iran’s declaration that they have “hard evidence” of foreign intervention in the protests, there seems little surprising here. What did the US expect to be the responses to their UN Security Council meeting request? Surely they’d “gamed” it out… why did they even bother? Another case of being completely out of touch or a strategy to…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Does this have a bearing on the Iran protests?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/middleeast/cia-iran-dark-prince-michael-dandrea.html-
Also, Iran is one of 3 countries without a Rothschild-owned bank or a controlled central bank. Common tactics to achieve these ends are assassinations and/or invasions in the pretext of controlling terrorism. I hope Iran can hold its own . . . The others are North Korea and Cuba.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
Comment on North Korea from The Saker blog by commenter _smr:
““DPRK: that is the big unknown here.”Most likely scenario:
China, weary of of the threat of millions of North Korean refugees flooding into China, decides that the idiocy has gone too far, bites in the sour apple and removes the ruling CIA – Kim Jong-un clan in a short but heavy-h…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
It seems China is preparing for war in North Korea.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/China-steeling-for-full-blown-crisis-on-Korean-Peninsula-
I wonder if that NK refugee who ran through the hail of bullets at that border and disappeared into a hospital with the insane amount of parasites in his stomach has anything to do with China actually getting its a$$ into gear and preparing for (what appears to me…) massive population displacement….or Trump dining in the Forbidden City….…[Read more]
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Yes, you are right. Russia has already strengthen it’s NK border. There will be a refugee crisis 3.0, if war breaks out.
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Or maybe it’s a plan like in Europe…
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they’ll probably be filled to the gills with all sorts of pathological agents and parasites and biological warfare things..
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
It seems China is preparing for war in North Korea.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/China-steeling-for-full-blown-crisis-on-Korean-Peninsula - Load More
Pipelines are vulnerable but less so than tankers