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Is a coup ahead? Where is vaccination taking us?

Avis Krane

 

There is nothing worse than people acting decisively, who hide their deep human confusion behind this decisiveness.

 

During the summer months I spend practically all my time at the Aleksandrovskoye Commune, unless there’s some kind of emergency. I already give more than half of my energy and time to this commune, to working with it in all kinds of ways. And before turning to the main topic, I would like to briefly explain about why this is so, and what follows from this circumstance, including my view of what is happening. This is not a lyrical digression; it is substantive. Then we will move to COVID, the vaccination, and everything associated.


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The Game of Draughts by Mattia Preti, 1635

Essence of Time. Chapter 24

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I, Volume II, and Chapter 21, 22, 23)

July 12, 2011.

Major challenges exist. They are formidable, unambiguous, and obvious. The consciousness mobilizes quickly against them.

There are also challenges of a diffuse kind. Some diseases are like this… For example, multiple sclerosis. These challenges are like dots on a certain board: one square has one figure, and another square has a different one. The squares are ambiguous, and so are the pieces… and all you need is for a certain composition to take shape. The very moment when that composition finally takes shape, you die. But before the composition takes shape, nothing happens. That is the danger.
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Mother by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1913.

Essence of Time. Chapter 23

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I, Volume II, and Chapter 21, 22)

July 5, 2011.

The great twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht had a play titled “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” [Here and thereafter “Caucasian” refers exclusively to the inhabitants of the Caucasus mountains. The Russian language does not utilize the word “Caucasian” as a generic term for white people – translator’s note]. It depicts an ancient Chinese legend in a contemporary style. The essence of the legend is that there is a child. There is a woman who has become his mother, who raises him and loves him terribly – Grusha Vachnadze, if my memory serves me correctly (everything takes place in some Georgian village). And there is a princess, who once abandoned this child, and now wants to take possession of the child and screams that she is his true mother.


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Shepherd wolf by Gustave Dore.

Essence of Time. Chapter 22

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I, Volume II, and Chapter 21)

June 28, 2011.

In the late 1980s, I came to Baku as a member of an anti-crisis group, which I myself created to provide something to counteract the version of events that the democrats were promoting at the time. And also the dumb official version, which had nothing living in it – it was clear that it was created only to emphasize all the “brilliance”, all the “subtlety” and “truthfulness” of the false democratic version, or pseudoliberal, as we now call it.
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"This protest was stifled by the noise of private conversations" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals by J. J. Grandville. ca. 1837–47

Coronavirus — its goals, authors, and masters. Part X

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Part I, Part II, Part III, PartIV, PartV, PartVI, PartVII, Part IX)

Hegemony is the credo of the neoconservative movement. Its leaders have insisted since the middle of the 20th century that the United States is obliged to exercise global humane hegemony over the world by virtue of the absolute superiority of its cultural and socio-political values.


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The Evil Genius of a King by Giorgio de Chiricho, 1914-1915

Coronavirus – its goals, authors, and masters. Part IX

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Part I, Part II, Part III, PartIV, PartV, PartVI, PartVII)

The prevailing global trend became dominant after the collapse of the USSR. They did not destroy the USSR to bestow the graces of the market on everyone. They did it to drive humanity into unheard-of slavery. And the COVID story is just one of the stages of this enslavement.


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