Power’s Dark and Bloody Shadow: Putin's Blood Purge Revealed
General Lopyrev, Putins Secret Keeper gets-leukemia-in-jail-dies-2-days-later-
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Russian-General-Gennady-Zhidko-Died. Poka Sukha!
In politics' realm, where shadows creep,
A tale unfolds, in Kremlin's keep.
Whispers swirl, of Putin's might,
A blood purge planned, a somber night.
Once loyal souls, the siloviki strong,
Now face betrayal, a haunting song.
Putin's grip still tight? His power - old.
His sinister plan, the truth untold.
Macabre spectacle, terror's reign,
Shaking circles, with shock and pain.
What lies beneath this “leader's” guise?
A man of darkness, cunning, and lies.
The heart of Russia, ripped red in his hand,
A puppet master, with wicked command.
His thirst for control, an endless chase,
Conceiling secrets, a ruthless race.
Divided ranks, in fear they stand,
Loyalties shattered, a treacherous land.
Paranoia breeds, suspicion's seed,
As “comrades” turn traitors, fueled by greed.
The victims? “Lost”. Their fate? “Unknown.”
Whispers echo, their names unsown.
Families weep, in shadows of fear,
Their loved ones gone, their cries austere.
The ape's mask slips, his true face revealed,
Incompetence and senility unconcealed.
Once praised as mighty, now seen as a thug,
His reign of terror, and face so smug.
And so we watch this chilling scene,
His legacy ruined, a new leader’s unseen.
In their murky world, the knives do twist,
for politics and Intrigue yet persist…
Once hailed as a strong and cunning leader Putin now stands exposed as an incompetent thug, as a paranoid despot willing to sacrifice anyone who dares challenge his authority. The blood red darkness that engulfs the Kremlin serves as a chilling warning of the perils of unchecked power. As the world watches this grotesqeue spectacle unfold, justice will only prevail with his ouster. The many, many victims of Putin's blood stained trail purge will never be forgotten.
How Russian disinformation works: 1. Take something true. 2. "Misinterpret" it. 3. Add doubt, suspicion, mystery, a questioning inquisitive attitude 4. In the search for the REAL Truth! 4. Which just happens to be whatever Russia wants.
Pestilence
Unholy
Tyranny
Iniquity
Nefarious
Easiest way to oppose it? Tell the truth, consistently and relentlessly. Reputation matters.
Word of the Day:
Wizard: Sorcier, Mago, Zauberer, Burtininkas, Чарівник, Волшебник, 巫师
Example: “A Wizard did it.”: Un sorcier l'a fait, Un mago lo hizo, Ein Zauberer hat es gemacht, Tai padarė burtininkas, Чарівник зробив це, Волшебник сделал это, 一个巫师做到了。
I bet a wizard did it
A Wizard did it.
https://www.newsweek.com/novorossiysk-video-fire-cargo-terminal-russia-black-sea-port-1820767
All of them.
Don’t believe me?
Baby Wants Jets?
Baby gets Jets.
Go Baby Go.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-f16-fighter-jets-volodymyr-zelensky-mark-rutte-netherlands-1821122
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/world/europe/ukraine-war-f16-jets.html
Whoops. Missed a Spot!
https://www.newsweek.com/novorossiysk-video-fire-cargo-terminal-russia-black-sea-port-1820767
Prediction: Tse Ukrainian Sich Host will accept the EU’s application for Membership
Don’t think I wouldn’t do it.
I totally would. It would make my Mother proud!
Glaubt nicht, dass ich das nicht tun werde.
Doch würde ich das to-tal machen!
Würde meine Mutti stolz machen!
鬼斧神工 =“The work of the God’s” natural or divine wonders.
Literally: Ghost’s Fathers Divine Work/ers.
Last week I listed this book as free. I apologize, I appear to have clicked the wrong button.; now it really is free, until Tuesday.
Proof of Work Theorem:
道虽迩不行不知事虽小不为不成。这是永远的道理.
Though the path is long, without one step it would not be achieved, the matter, though small, is essential for achievement. This is an eternal logic of the path [of progress].
做人做事,最怕的就是只说不做,眼高手低。不论学习还是工作,都要面向实际、深入实践,实践出真知
The thing to fear most as a person doing a thing is to have one’s eyes set high, yet be under-handed. Whether studying or working, we must all have our face toward true knowledge and wade into the facts no matter how deep [they turn out to be], and through this “wading” reach true knowledge.
This is my fairly literal translation. QQ XJP Basically it means small steps are necessary for great progress.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/asia/singapore-money-laundering-raids-intl-scli/index.html
Learn Chinese.
The following video gives good insights into Chinese naval infantry training and basic military commands in Chinese. Note: they included English subtitles for your benefit. The subtitles are accurate.
Frankly, it is much likelier that China and the USA will wind up conducting anti-piracy anti-terrorism, and humanitarian relief operations, whether independently, in coordination, or even jointly than that they will engage in armed combat. How closely they coordinate will depend on their bilateral relations; I advocate that the USA take a bi-lateral approach to China because of divergent economic interests and the failure of China to embrace the multilateral model. China has the right to be a mercantilist state-capital dictatorship, but it can't expect a liberal economic rule of law order to accept their full participation in a liberal model. Europe, moreover, should be glad if the USA takes a bilateral approach to China, since that might leave open commercial and investment opportunities for Euro-Chinese interactions, which more severe approaches might foreclose. The Western alliance should in fact form up a NATO of the Pacific, not to destroy China but to enable continued commercial relations on a more realistic sustainable basis. Policies of carrots AND sticks are more effect than "all stick no carrot" or "all carrot no stick".
It is much likelier that China and the USA will wind up conducting anti-piracy anti-terrorism, and humanitarian relief operations than that they will engage in armed combat partly because each will make concerted efforts to deter the other, because each will take diplomatic and political acts with a view to coordinating rivalries in constructive ways. Part of deterrence is respect. I have no doubt that each side would inflict damage on the other, that neither wants damage, and have strategic confidence in the victory of certain principles. The Chinese themselves clearly recognize the greatest realistic dangers are varieties of terrorism and humanitarian emergencies rather than great power military conflicts. This is how deterrence and politics of suasion function, their objective isn't necessarily to cripple or hobble the opponent but is certainly to constrain the opponent to actions which are at least tolerable. Their mutual restraint to tolerable outcomes for both explains why even their worst case scenarios are not catastrophic, and moreover leave open options for more favorale positive sum outcomes, i.e. "best of both worlds" solutions.
For example:
You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.
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You’re really missing out on a lot of awesome.
How much do you really want to know about what we in the west somewhat arrogantly call "prehistory"?
The first clothing? The invention of writing? The most complete etymology of any language on earth. Here, let me hide it from you in a form you might actually comprehend, a children's rote verse.
龙师火帝,鸟官人皇
long2 shi1 huo3 di4, niao3 guan1 ren2 huang2.
Dragon Master, Fire King; Bird Official, Lord of Men.
(Source: https://www.angelfire.com/ns/pingyaozhuan/tce.html)
Notes: These are four of China's earliest rulers and officials; they vary according to the many legends. They were perhaps chieftains of small tribal alliances of hamlets. The "Dragon Master" long2 shi1, or, "Dragon-sent Master" long2 ming4 shi1 was none other than Fu2 Xi1, also called Tai4 Hao4, depicted with a snake-like body and human face, who legendarily devised the Ba Gua (trigrams of heaven and earth) and taught his followers how to make nets and to fish, hunt, and raise cattle. Huo3 Di4, the "Fire Emperor" was called Sui4 Ren2, and true to his title he taught the people, legend has it, how to make fire by drilling into wood and how to boil rice. Then there is the later "Glorious (literally, flame) Emperor", or Yan2 Di4, better known as the illustrious Shen2 Nong2, often depicted as a man with the head of an ox. During this reign humanity learned how to make plows and cultivate crops, and he (or the period) is credited in legend with discovering medicinal plants and making the first medicines. Chi1 You2 was chief of a dark-skinned tribe of the north, and gave mankind the first weapons of war. Both he and Shen Nong were defeated by the Yellow Emperor, or Huang2 Di4, named Hsuan1 Yuan2, first to be shown as completely human in form. Chi1 You2 was killed on the plain of Zhuo1 Lu4 in today's central Hebei Province. The Yellow Emperor used the magnetic compass to navigate through Chi You's man-made fog and defeat him. Shao3 Hao4, the "Bird Official" or "Bird-sent Official", niao3 ming4 guan1, was son of Hsuan1 Yuan2, the Yellow Emperor, born of his wife Lei2 Zu3. He was so named for his revision of Tai4 Hao4's (the above Fu Xi's) metaphysical system, the Trigrams, or Tai4 Hao4 Fa3, and his name was Zhi4; titles include Jin1 De2 Wang2, Jin1 Tian1 shi4, and Qiong2 Sang1 shi4 among others. Ren2 Huang2 was the last of one grouping of legendary "Three Emperors", namely Tian1 Huang2, Di4 Huang2, and Ren2 Huang2. These correspond to tian1, di4, ren2, the san1 cai2, or "Three Achievements" of creation: heaven, earth and people. They also often correspond to Fu2 Xi1, Sui4 Ren2, and Shen2 Nong2. The Book of Poems, (Shang Song) says tian1 ming4 xuan2 niao3, jiang er2 sheng1 shang1, and here is one of the more interesting tales: "Heaven mandated Xuan2 Niao3," (Queen Tun1 Ya4, the blackbird wife of Di4 Ku4), "down it came, gave birth to Shang". So born from a royal egg was Zi3 Xie4 who is the grand ancestor of both the much, much later Shang Dynasty and the clan of Confucius, albeit myriad generations later); Di4Ku4, father of Xia Dynasty founder Yao the Great, was son of Zhuan Xu (the Yellow Emperor's grandson). Legendary figures are often depicted in art as black birds or with crow-like attributes, magpie heads, etc. The many legends differ as to names, groupings, deeds etc. The Wu Di4 or "Five Emperors" vary by account but are typically Huang Di, his grandson Zhuan Xu, Di Ku, Yao2, Shun, and Yu3.
始制文字,乃服衣裳
shi3 zhi4 wen2 zi4, nai3 fu2 yi1 shang1.
The beginning of writing; what's more, wearing clothes.
Notes: In China's remote past, before writing, people kept records by tieing knots in strings or ropes. According to legend, writing originated with Cang2 Jie2, an official of the Yellow Emperor. Furthermore, legend also has it that Lei2 Zu3, wife of the Yellow Emperor, taught the people how to raise silkworms, cultivate and spin silk, and so textile clothing replaced the animal skins and tree leaves worn up to that time.
推位让国,有虞陶唐
tui1 wei4 rang4 guo2, you3 yu2 tao2 tang2.
Yielding the throne, passing the land; rulers of Yu2, Tao2 and Tang2.
Notes: Yao2, chieftain of the communities of Tao2 and Tang2, and Shun4, chieftain of the principality of Yu2, or you3yu2, are famed for selflessness; they willfully gave up their reigns to successful and worthy men. Shun4 is therefore often called Yu2 Shun4 or simply Yu2. As for Yao2, he was originally made chief of Tao2 (Dingtao in modern Shandong) and expanded his rule to Tang2, (nowadays Linfeng in adjoining Shanxi), so he is also known in history as Tao2 Tang2 or Tang2 Yao2. According to legend, Yao2 passed on his throne to Shun4, who in turn abdicated to Yu3, the founder of the Xia4 Dynasty in the 21st Century BC, beginning the tradition of hereditary succession to the throne with his son Qi3.
diao民伐罪周发yintang
diao4 min2 fa2 zui4, zhou1 fa1 yin1 tang1
Relieve the people, right the wrong; as did Zhou1 Fa1, as did Yin1-Tang1.
Notes: Zhou1 Fa1 in the original text refers to Ji1 Fa1, original personal name of the man who became Emperor Zhou1 Wu3 Wang2, who crushed the tyrant Zhou4, evil last ruler of the Shang Dynasty and founded the Zhou1, China"s longest lived dynasty, around 1100BC, roughly contemporary with King David of ancient Israel. Ji1, his surname, had also been that of the Yellow Emperor, taken from the nearby Ji1 River. Yin1 Tang1 refers to the much earlier destruction of Jie2, evil last ruler of the Xia Dynasty, by Cheng2 Tang1, and the later's founding of the Shang Dynasty around 1600 BC. Bad Kings Jie2 and Zhou4 are the notorious pair of evil last rulers, the first to lose the Mandate of Heaven, celebrated in many popular sayings such as "Jie2's dog barked at righteousness," and Zhou4's consort, Da2 Ji3 is reviled for her wild banquets, lust, cruelty and excesses. The tenth ruler of Shang, Pan2 Kang1 moved his capital to Yin1, hence in history and literature the Shang is often called Yin or Yin-Shang, and its founder is often known as Yin1 Tang1 or Shang1 Tang1.
坐朝问道,垂拱平章
zuo4 chao2 wen4 dao4, chui2 gong3 ping2 zhang1
Presiding at court and asking the Way; gracious yet lordly, discuss and decide.
Notes: Wen4 here means "enquire, discuss in detail." As for the jun1 zi3's (superior man's, worthy king's) Dao, the Way, the Zhong1 Yong1 (Doctrine of the Mean, Ch.12) says fu4 fu2 zhi1 yu2, ke(3) yi3 yu4 zhi1 yan1; ji 2 qi2 zhi4 ye3, sui1 sheng4 ren2 yi4 you(3) suo3 bu4 zhi1 yan1: "ordinary people (lit. husbands and wives) in all their sillyness can come to know, or unwittingly demonstrate, most of it, but in its fine points there is much that even the sages still cannot explain. Chui2 gong3: graciously, (humbly, condescendingly) with genteel dignity. Ping2 zhang1 to discuss and clarify (matters of the day, of state,); in later times, (Tang, Song) it became the name of a high office, councilor of state. Precedents: Shang Tang relied heavily on Yi1 Yin3 and took his advice; Zhou Wu Wang appointed Lv3 Shang4 to a high military post and empowered him to handle very grave matters. Confucius said that if anybody could fully explain the Way to him some morning, he would be able to die satisfied that night.
爱育黎首,臣伏戎羌
ai4 yu4 li2 shou3, chen2 fu2 rong2 qiang1
With love he taught the dark and soiled; in submission, wild tribes.
Notes: Li2 here means "black"; li2 shou3 refers to the masses of common people engaged in agriculture as well as to two darker skinned tribes, the Li2 and Miao2, then living in the North. In subsequent times, li2 miao2 has had the non-literal meaning of masses as well, so I believe that here li2 shou3 is a "shuangguanyu'" meaning these darker peoples as well as the soiled, sunbaked masses. The Rong2 and Qiang1 were two tribes to the west. Together these represent all the unschooled common folk of various ethnicity as well as the tribes surrounding China in Zhou times; all the tribes in time pacified or otherwise brought around to China's civilized ways, to the way of the cultivated and correct Jun1zi3 ren2; they add their land and talented men to the Chinese state.
遐迩一体,刷宾归王
xia2 er3 yi4 ti3, shuai4 bin1 gui1 wang2
Far and near, they joined as one; all followed, rallied to the king.
Notes: Here, xia2 means "far"; er3 means "near". shuai4 means "completely, all" and bin1 here means "obeyed, submitted"; gui1 here has a similar meaning. Emperor Zhou Wu Wang's son Cheng2 Wang2 and grandson Kang1 Wang2 each ruled with diligence and reason at court, provided relief and assistance far and near and established a great reign over the world; hence the two periods together are famously called Cheng2 Kang1 Zhi1 Zhi4, "The Rule of Cheng and Kang".
鸣风在竹,白马食场
ming2 feng4 zai4 zhu2, bai2 ju1 shi2 chang2
The phoenix calls from bamboo stand; White pony grazes pasture land.
Notes: feng4 is the male of the legendary bird of good fortune, the Phoenix, that feeds on bamboo tips; (huang2 is the female). Bai2 ju1, white pony, is an allusion to the lines "Jiao(3) jiao3 bai2 ju1, shi2 wo3 chang2 miao2" in the Book of Poems, (Xiao3 Ya2, Bai2 Ju1: "Sparkling is the white pony, feeding in our fields.") These sentences state that only under the conditions of universal peace and abundance can these scenes occur. They also serve as a metaphor, signifying cultivated and good people peacefully serving the illustrious king.
化被草木,赖及万方
hua4 bei4 cao3 mu4, lai4 ji2 wan4 fang1
Wise teachings dress each plant and tree; bounty everywhere we see.
Notes: Hua4 is jiao4 hua4 the king's civilizing guidance and cultural enlightenment of his people. bei4 here means to "dress, blanket, cover"; lai4 has a the meaning here of (noun u&c)"benefit(s)". This concludes Chapter 2 of the Qian1 Zi4 Wen2, from the virtuous governance of the ancient emperors to the might, greatness and widespread abundance that they brought forth.
Or, if you don’t love civilization, mabye this is more your speed?
Music to Burn Putin to!
The more China cooperates with the USA about Putin's ongoing war crime the more the USA can cooperate with China economically.