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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
Indeed… unless some parties have “moved on” I see lots of drama coming
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 5 months ago
China looking to South America… I wonder how their win-win approach will go with all the factions embedded there?
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative reaches ever further around the globe.First launched as the “new Silk Road” to reignite centuries-old economic relations with Central Asia, it was soon extended to include a somewhat less h…[Read more]
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Good luck to the Pekinese…
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Indeed… unless some parties have “moved on” I see lots of drama coming
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In the past, China and India favoured monetary silver; the British managed to drain a lot of silver, especially in India by manipulations of the rupee. As the above article states, Asia seems to have benefitted from the silver road much more than Spain: Spain frittered away most of their wealth on military and naval expenditure (sounds familiar)…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 5 months ago
Is a UK power faction behind the recent US-India overtures? This article makes me think perhaps so…
“India is the third-largest source of foreign direct investment into the U.K., behind the U.S. and France. There are more than 800 Indian companies in Britain, employing nearly 110,000 people, according to a study by accountants Grant Thornton f…[Read more] -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
And this, from Nikkei Asia on the Aramco deal…
“TOKYO — Plans to list shares of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, have taken a new twist in recent weeks with talks of selling shares directly to China or other inst itutional investors first — rather than going to the stock exchange — emerging as a potential option.Adding to t…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 5 months ago
From the Times of India, from an Indian economist…
https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/the-1917-russian-revolution-was-a-german-plot/-
Interesting… I spoke with a russian collegue this am. she told me that a few years ago, the national holiday associated with the ocktober revolution was.. cancelled..? We had a quick conversation about orthodox vs western.. then ultra-orthodox vs everyone.. I didnt realise that a lot of seperation came from them thinking that the earth was…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 5 months ago
Been travelling and not posted for a while. This is an interesting view of the latest Saudi developments:
“There is another more positive scenario about the crackdown on saudi princes and the removal of an anti-Syrian PM in Lebanon.Saudi Arabia has publicly blamed Qatar for supporting Islamist terrorists. In return Qatar was about to make p…[Read more]
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Now when we see that S. Arabia says or does this or that, we will have to wonder which of the 3 tribes if any is involved
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And this, from Nikkei Asia on the Aramco deal…
“TOKYO — Plans to list shares of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, have taken a new twist in recent weeks with talks of selling shares directly to China or other inst itutional investors first — rather than going to the stock exchange — emerging as a potential option.Adding to t…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
Thank you for the recommendation of the book… added to my getting-longer-and-longer wish list 🙂
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
Makes me think of bats… Bats make me consider other things hanging. Very disturbing.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
Hello Jeannette 🙂
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
I’m not the biggest fan of Chris Knowles and his blog. He does draw fascinating inferences and is good at finding links by association but at the end of his blog posts I’m usually left thinking “and so?”. There’s something missing and “empty at the centre” about them to me…. almost like a kind of postmodernist esotericism/o…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
The existential threat of technology
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/how-facebook-and-google-are-leading-us-to-a-world-without-mind/story-UYGUA7iRc3SD9DDQPc3MfN.html-
Nicholas Carr has been saying so for a very long time. I used to read his blog very regularly but stopped doing so because it made me very unhappy:
http://www.roughtype.com/
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Yip, let’s go back to finger counting!
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Are your fingers white?
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
I put that into Google translate and got “paralytic follicular” …. am I missing something?
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Google translate works good only for the “big” languages. I sometimes use Finnish-English or Finnish-Russian Google translation and get totally terrible and sometimes very funny translations.
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Ha ha hah- yeah, I’m a terrible speller in Greek , English, German, Italian , Spanish and Japanese . I was spelling in grekish -my own phonetics. The translation was meant to convey” My pleasure or you’re welcome my friend” (feminine)’. Mi dispiache amici.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Thank you @phyllo
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Parakolo fillikia-mou
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I put that into Google translate and got “paralytic follicular” …. am I missing something?
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Google translate works good only for the “big” languages. I sometimes use Finnish-English or Finnish-Russian Google translation and get totally terrible and sometimes very funny translations.
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Ha ha hah- yeah, I’m a terrible speller in Greek , English, German, Italian , Spanish and Japanese . I was spelling in grekish -my own phonetics. The translation was meant to convey” My pleasure or you’re welcome my friend” (feminine)’. Mi dispiache amici.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Does anyone know any Ancient Greek? How does one say “bread for the soul”?
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Ψωμί για την ψυχή
Psomí gia tin psychí. Modern Greek.-
Thank you @phyllo
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Parakolo fillikia-mou
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I put that into Google translate and got “paralytic follicular” …. am I missing something?
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Google translate works good only for the “big” languages. I sometimes use Finnish-English or Finnish-Russian Google translation and get totally terrible and sometimes very funny translations.
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Ha ha hah- yeah, I’m a terrible speller in Greek , English, German, Italian , Spanish and Japanese . I was spelling in grekish -my own phonetics. The translation was meant to convey” My pleasure or you’re welcome my friend” (feminine)’. Mi dispiache amici.
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Iammas Malakas 🙂
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Longish commentary on geopolitical order…. raises a couple of interesting questions
http://russia-insider.com/en/china-russia-alliance-does-not-have-be-threat-west/ri21331-
When my eye first fell onto the sentence I read “longish comedy” – but perhaps Russian media is not yet quite up to satire on the antics of the Chinese oligarchs.
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I don’t know about the military alliance… they have a good relationship but they are not best friends and there are some issues. But who knows…
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Interesting little story… Russia is DONATING some military equipment to the Philippines.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-22/russian-ships-deliver-military-equipment-philippines-
Duerte says that he doesnt want 2nd hand equipement anymore from the Merikans. http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/06/03/524055/Philippines-Rodrigo-Duterte-terrorism-Marawi
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Interesting… The Const1tution stops them from spending MORE on military than they do on education..
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201706021054258791-duterte-russia-weapons-philippines/
Well that explains why the equipement was ‘DONATED’..
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Mars has an anomalous magnetic tail…. remnant of a cosmic directed energy weapon attack?
https://www.rt.com/news/407438-mars-magnetic-tail-atmosphere/-
I read the comments after article and they spare y’all a lengthy one here. I very much doubt the mission and it’s resultant”findings” and it’s just more NASA bull puckey .
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
What happens if one’s sense of time develops differently? Here on earth we have our solar orbit of 365 days, our day-night spin of 24 hours… these things are foundational in how we conceive of and experience time and all time related things like progress, development etc…. What kind of thinking / consciousness results when these fundamentals a…[Read more]
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Given those conditions which might not be conducive to a broadly human consciousness (magnetism, rotation) argue against a society living on Nibiru, perhaps the orbit speaks to its artificiality ? The Moon, Phobos, Iapetus and now Nibiru ?
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Alarming in so many ways…..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data-
If ‘they’ win, we will be herded into cities, the countryside will be protected from us, we will be rationed some medium of exchange and energy will be monetized. https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-322-what-is-sustainable-development/
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Also from the Guardian: The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase
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In the past, China and India favoured monetary silver; the British managed to drain a lot of silver, especially in India by manipulations of the rupee. As the above article states, Asia seems to have benefitted from the silver road much more than Spain: Spain frittered away most of their wealth on military and naval expenditure (sounds familiar)…[Read more]