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Imagine that on an April evening in 1912, the captain of the RMS Titanic had announced a grand ball at which the male passengers were asked to wear their wives’ clothing and vice-versa…. That was approximately the condition of Western Civ verging on springtime in 2023: preoccupied with silliness while the iceberg awaits.
But who would have thought the sinking of civilization would occur with such fantastic comic ornamentation? Men, in more ways than mere costuming, pretending to be women… incompetence honored, feted, even worshipped… intellect reduced to anti-thinking… anything of value thrown overboard in some weird post-modern potlatch ceremony of twisted moral righteousness…? But the hour is late, the party is near its end, and the iceberg is struck. The rest of the story will be you holding onto a few valuables, including your life, while the lifeboats get lowered.
From here forward, things get pretty interesting. And from here on, nobody is really in charge. The vacuum of leadership we’ve been living in becomes impossible to ignore, and nature (it’s rumored) hates a vacuum. For the moment, circumstances are in charge, not personalities.
Look no further than the fiasco in Ukraine, engineered by geniuses of the US foreign service in some daft exercise to show the world who’s who and what for. And, remind me: what was the basic idea there? To hamstring and hogtie Russia so badly that her people would overthrow the only rational head-of-state in Christendom, a figure who makes the presidents, chancellors, and prime ministers of Western Civ look like a troop of gibbering mandrills, with painted faces and blue butts, the ass-clowns of geopolitics?
Something tells me that this gang will not make it to the lifeboats. They’ll be left on deck gripping bottles of single malt scotch whiskey, singing Don’t Cry for me Argentina as the band plays, while the whole wicked colossus slides beneath the moonlight-tinted green waves. All of which is to say: these perilous and confounding times we live in are coming to a climax. Events are afoot now, choices must be made, truths will emerge, no one will be untouched, be careful who your friends are.
We’re waiting for financial markets, banks, and monies to blow, as an engine will when submerged in water. It can’t not happen, though every known device has been deployed to keep up appearances. The credibility of finance was thrown overboard a long time ago. Capital was sloshing around in the bilges as the ship heaved and pitched in the angry waters, and it had to go somewhere. The next turn will be when you go looking for where it went and you discover to your nauseated chagrin that the capital is just… gone! Through some legerdemain of physics, it disappeared… turned into a kind of anti-matter… fell through a black hole (possibly ripped by that iceberg), or up the smokestacks, like it was never there at all.
When that happens, our collective attention finally gets galvanized as by no shock before. When capital is truly gone, transmogrified into a whole lot of nothing, the time for standing by making faces and whining is over. By the way, this is the way the world ends for the vacuum known as “Joe Biden” and the Party of Chaos he is propped up to represent. Chaos, we will be astounded to learn, is not your friend, is not the solution to anything, least of all a polity that is floundering in lifeboats over cold, dark, deep water a thousand leagues from dry land. What’s more, there are no ships coming to the rescue. Guess why they put oars in the boats. Get set to pull, me hardies!
Yes, we’re at sea now, without a compass. Yet the stars sparkle dazzlingly above, and some aboard can actually read what they say and what they point to. If safety and sanity will not find us, maybe we can pull together toward wherever they wait. My gawd, it’s going to be a long haul, but have a little faith — remember what that is? (It’s the conviction that all of us together stand in some meaningful relation to existence.) Even if you’re too mentally drained to believe it, act as if it is so. Or, in post-modern parlance, fake it till you make it.
Didn’t think it would come to this when you signed on to the voyage? I guess so. You were comfortably ensconced one winter night in the mini-McMansion, on the overstuffed sofa, entertained by some Netflix inanity, scarfing down the microwaved cheeze morsels… when the wife said, “Hey, let’s book a cruise!” Seemed like a good idea at the time, which is what everything in the annals of history is and was. And now, look at where you are!
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Where is John Galt?
John Galt has just noticed the crown lying befouled in the gutter and is wondering to himself,
“Hmmm, I wonder if that is in my size.”
@Minnie—-
“And the sky is dark and still now, on a hill where the angels sing…
Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle, looks just like a diamond ring.”
But it’s far, far, from me.” ~ John (I miss him so) Prine
I had the great good fortune of seeing him live in a very small venue. “Lake Marie” was always a favorite. Thanks for the reminder.
This article puts me more in mind of needing a Captain William Bligh. When he and his loyal crew were put in the Bounty’s lifeboat after the mutiny, he brought his starving and dehydrated crew, by sheer force of will, from the middle of nowhere in the Pacific safely to land. There were losses along the way, and great suffering for all, but he accomplished an astounding feat. The tale of Fletcher Christian and the mutineers is more romantic, but William Bligh, despite, or maybe because of his flaws, is the real hero of this old story.
Puts me more in mind of John Maynard Keynes when he wrote this:
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
In the latter stages of the war all the belligerent governments practiced, from necessity or incompetence, what a Bolshevist might have done from design. Even now, when the war is over, most of them continue out of weakness the same malpractices. But further, the governments of Europe, being many of them at this moment reckless in their methods as well as weak, seek to direct on to a class known as “profiteers” the popular indignation against the more obvious consequences of their vicious methods.
These “profiteers” are, broadly speaking, the entrepreneur class of capitalists, that is to say, the active and constructive element in the whole capitalist society, who in a period of rapidly rising prices cannot but get rich quick whether they wish it or desire it or not. If prices are continually rising, every trader who has purchased for stock or owns property and plant inevitably makes profits. By directing hatred against this class, therefore, the European governments are carrying a step further the fatal process which the subtle mind of Lenin had consciously conceived. The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices. By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract and of the established equilibrium of wealth which is the inevitable result of inflation, these governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the 19th century. But they have no plan for replacing it….
The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths. The various belligerent governments, unable or too timid or too short-sighted to secure from loans or taxes the resources they required, have printed notes for the balance. In Russia and Austria-Hungary this process has reached a point where for the purposes of foreign trade the
currency is practically valueless. The Polish mark can be bought for about [three cents] and the Austrian crown for less than [two cents], but they cannot be sold at all. The German mark is worth less than [four cents] on the exchanges….
But while these currencies enjoy a precarious value abroad, they have never entirely lost, not even in Russia, their purchasing power at home. A sentiment of trust in the legal money of the state is so deeply implanted in the citizens of all countries that they cannot but believe that some day this money must recover a part at least of its former value…. They do not apprehend that the real wealth, which this money might have stood for has been dissipated once and for all. This sentiment is supported by the various legal regulations with which the governments endeavor to control internal prices, and so to preserve some purchasing power for their legal tender….
The preservation of a spurious value for the currency, by the force of law expressed in the regulation of prices, contains in itself, however, the seeds of final economic decay, and soon dries up the sources of ultimate supply. If a man is compelled to exchange the fruits of his labors for paper which, as experience soon teaches him, he cannot use to purchase what he requires at a price comparable to that which he has received for his own products, he will keep his produce for himself, dispose of it to his friends and neighbors as a favor, or relax his efforts in producing it.
A system of compelling the exchange of commodities at what is not their real relative value not only relaxes production, but [also] leads finally to the waste and inefficiency of barter. If, however, a government refrains from regulation and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.
The effect on foreign trade of price-regulation and profiteer-hunting as cures for inflation is even worse. Whatever may be the case at home, the currency must soon reach its real level abroad, with the result that prices inside and outside the country lose their normal adjustment. The price of imported commodities, when converted at the current rate of exchange, is far in excess of the local price, so that many essential goods will not be imported at all by private agency, and must be provided by the government, which, in re-selling the goods below cost price, plunges thereby a little further into insolvency….
The note circulation of Germany is about 10 times what it was before the war. The value of the mark in terms of gold is about one-eighth of its former value….
It is a hazardous enterprise for a merchant or a manufacturer to purchase with a foreign credit material for which, when he has imported it or manufactured it, he will receive mark currency of a quite uncertain and possibly unrealizable value….
It may be the case, therefore, that a German merchant, careful of his future credit and reputation, who is actually offered a short-period credit in terms of sterling or dollars, may be reluctant and doubtful whether to accept it. He will owe sterling or dollars, but he will sell his product for marks, and his power, when the time comes, to turn these marks into the currency in which he has to repay his debt is entirely problematic. Business loses its genuine character and becomes no better than a speculation in the exchanges, the fluctuations in which entirely obliterate the normal profits of commerce….
Thus the menace of inflationism described above is not merely a product of the war, of which peace begins the cure. It is a continuing phenomenon of which the end is not yet in sight.
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You can replace what Keynes refers to as Europe and the entire globe today. The dollar is the world’s currency and it is backed by the biggest debtor nation the world has ever seen. The dollar has value because no one can believe that it doesn’t. And it won’t.
Everything we are seeing right now is explained in Keynes writings 100 years ago. well everything but the evil, planned murder of 90% of the world’s inhabitants. That is merely Satanic and those evil fuckers infest the US government the most.
The causes are well-established and apparent to anyone who uses logic. The metaphore is spot on. As our host states, the Titanic has been hulled below the waterline and is sinking fast. For those who make it into a lifeboat, there will be no land in sight and no Carpathian steaming to the rescure to pluck you out of the unforgiving sea. It all depends on who you’ve got in your lifeboat.
There’s an article in the Gateway Pundit today that states that the South African electric grid is about to fail (they’ve been suffering rolling blackouts for months), and it looks like civil war is breaking out. Several people I care about live there and have not, to this point, made any attempt to leave.
This is excessive
John Galt remains in the pages of a very long, difficult to read, but an amazingly prophetic book by dear Ayn Rand. Her story is pleasant in the fact that those who create and build are able to escape the yokes of the sellout scumbags that control them and not only deprive the scum of their services but create a world of their own made by hand. Back here in American reality, the builders are all either sold out as well, or simply no longer here or no longer able to mount an offense.
We are on our own without any oars, compasses, or even the wills to attempt to make a change in course. A dead society walking.
The fish rots from the head down, although the rot is now completely pervasive.
Not to be a shit, but that is the most incorrect ‘truism’ ever.
A fish rots from the stomach, especially if having a full belly when caught. The acids at work will burn right through the belly if left un-iced in short enough order.
The oilier parts of the fish, the collar (at the pectoral fins,) the belly and the head do go rancid sooner than the rest of the fish however.
Anyway, that’s one that bugs me after over a half century of commercial fishing.
The division of labor has gotten very specialized. One gadget can have parts made in 25 different places around the world. How’s that going to work out when the financial world stumbles, international payments become difficult to impossible, and supply chains collapse.
Got gold? Maybe China and Russia will let you play in their sand box.
A really good point.
Is this the real reason supply chains are failing. Are the PTB globally manipulating the production of everything?
Just wait until Toria Nuland and Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken and “Joe Biden”’s brain decide to “sanction” China for being best buds with Russia!
Wait! What do you mean China is cutting off our Tylenol and antibiotics?!
Of course the US can go in and occupy a third of Syria and steal their oil. Who will sanction the US? Micronesia??!
Never Micronesia! They are a reliable member of the International Community that votes with the US at the UN.
Muller,
…would you rather have gold or a machine shop?
Funny you should bring that up, Elysian. My uncle started a tool and dye shop over fifty years ago. He died two years ago – filthy rich. His widow still holds onto the business – a gold mine.
But technology changed during those years. Today the work is done via computer programming an advanced piece of equipment. They have a really hard time finding qualified people and pay well.
But I’m wondering if such a sophisticated operation could continue in a world made by hand.
I think machine shops are here to stay, Muller. Maybe CNC and CAD machining will go by the wayside, but lathes, milling machines, drill presses etc are always useful. A few years back I worked part time for a millright who had a business moving & setting up machinery; some of the shops we went in were using Bridgeports from the 1940s. I remember talking to some of the guys in there, they told me those machines will last forever all you gotta do is keep them maintained.
i have a machine shop with both manual and CNC equipment. i plan on being here hell or high water. built my own diesel 7.5kw generator that can run all of it.
as for the rest, unfortunately lost in a boating accident…
Perhaps in the future, combination blacksmith/machine shop, pretty much meet the hardware needs for the entire village.
And the head of the fish are the real rulers, the bankers and super rich. Close thy Atlas Shrugged and open your Iron Heel (by Jack London).
Love of money is the root of all evil. Though to be fair, Ayn Rand did say it should be real money, gotten by real goods and services. And though naturally she was enthralled by genius and the works of genius, she made a point of saying the same principle applied at all levels. And when the good Capitalist Elite were ruined by the bad ones, the good ones were willing and able to support themselves in a humble fashion until Galt’s Gulch was able to accommodate them.
I question how many such good Capitalists are left now at this late date in our corrupt civilization, given the corrupting nature of money. The Iron Heel is more on target, even if simpler.
As you pointed out, Jarek, Ayn Rand did distinguish between the “good capitalists” who believed in producing things of value and being fairly paid. Versus the bad ones who just want to grab wealth by any rotten means possible, e.g. Warren Buffett versus Jamie Dimon.
In our America the Dimons predominate and suck the lifeblood out of society like a plague of vampires. The solution is harsh and clear.
Buffett is a good capitalist?
LMAO
What does he produce? Returns?
The same lad who promised his estate to Gates upon his passing?
Who donates to the Democrats? Who wants to pay more in income taxes?
The kid selling lemonade on your cul de sac is the best you’re going to get and even then she’s probably mixing your lemon sugar slurry with the garden hose
the art of these so-called capitalists is to confuse all of us regarding what “productive” means.
centuries of guaranteed returns for those at the top is theft. socialize the losses, privatize the gains and all.
anybody that really believes that there really is such a thing as “financial products” is not a capitalist – they are tyrants with modern tools.
maybe there really is nowhere to invest that truly increases wealth instead of just shuffling it up into the waiting hands of the elite. maybe the notion of wealth is about to be radically redefined, and human progress is just commencing on progress with a very different vector.
i sometimes feel that there is a master fulcrum out there, that some small action can have a butterfly effect and cause a cascading phase change in all this. hopefully away from the waiting dystopia….
where should that lever go?
Buffett is an establishment shill. Please pay attention.
All Buffett is, is a weasel who allied himself with the Party of Chaos decades ago, and was rewarded for his fealty by being called “The Oracle of Omaha.” He paid cash for BNSF, saying it was undervalued, just before his buddy The One cancelled the Keystone pipeline. Guess how the oil was shipped? On tank cars originating on BNSF. There has been speculation for years that the mismanagement of the other three US railroads (Onion Pacific, CSX, and the Atlanta Derailment Experts, aka NorFUCK Southern) has been kabuki theater, a contrivance to see which one Buffett will buy up for a song (with federal regulatory approval, of course). Right now, the best guess is NS, but if CSX dumps an ethanol train in the Port of Albany and vaporizes New York State’s capital, they could yet win the contest.
What a fucking sick joke this country has become.
It’s been a long, multidecadal series of rabbit punches with a number of knockdowns this century past. All since the inception of the Federal Reserve, including the two world wars, and the Viet Nam 60s and their domestic assassinations—all below the belt and of course, not called by the ref.
Round 15:
An enormous centrifugal arc of a telegraphed KO-haymaker is in our vision field as it comes closer to consummation. As if in a slow motion dream, most just stand there resigned to kinetic fate, panting and wheezing, unable to lift their arms.
Most. But not all.
not all at all.
as the sheep will follow a disguised wolf, they will also follow true shepherds once the costumes come off and the fog clears.
If the ‘noble’ sheep have the discipline and work ethic of grandfather sheep.
I see the day when the Wall St. and Zuckerberg/Apple/Google/Microsoft geniuses will be begging the food cart entrepreneurs for a cold falafel.
I was fortunate to grow up in a house that had both The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. I read them both when I was 12, and they were instrumental in giving me permanent antibodies to bullshit.
These should be required reading in middle school – would help set kids free from group think.
Great post Mr. K. thank you.
Correct-O-Mundo…Better Atlas and Fountainhead than gender correction indoctrination. Have we all gone mad?
The soppy immoral immature spoiled minority has determined the fate of mankind.
Are there any men with ‘balls’ out there?
Time to take (at least) our country back from the Sodomites. And whatever it takes. Even Trump!
Yeah. But why would the important people want to raise children who’ll grow up to become intractable enemies when they reach adulthood? Better to teach them that boys can get pregnant by beating off, and all girls are weak unless they become lesbians or undergo sex change operations, and that the most important thing is to fuck anything that moves because doing so will give them warm memories in their forage. That way, the threat is extinguished, and the PTB remain unchallenged.
I was very favorably impressed by Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal by AR.
It would prolly make Jarek’s head explode.
Any discussion about capitalism needs to be preceded by a definition of capitalism. Otherwise we might just as well listen to the wind blow.
Also, it would be useful to have a clear definition of what we mean by a non-capitalistic society. What would it look like? Jarek advocates a system in which government control business–presumably instead of vice-versa. So, what exactly does this mean? What would government decide, in such a case? How many toasters you can manufacture? What kind? How much (and of what kind) corn you’re allowed to grow? We need some specifics here.
Jarek also seems to hold the view the business itself is an evil. I hold the view that I am really grateful that someone has opened a tire business in town. I like being able to buy new tires when I need them. Likewise, I am grateful that there is an auto parts store, a grocery store, a few restaurants, a bakery, a hardware store, etc. A person who starts and runs a business is performing a service. Jarek’s view that business is evil seems to be predicated on the belief that the owners of Walker Tire, Bill’s Automotive, The Mixing Bowl Bakery, and the Black Box Coffee House, in Odessa, Missouri, are plotting to become Wall Street moguls or some such crap. Actually, they’re probably plotting to buy ten acres in the country and raise goats.
Independent business where you provide goods or services that other people want and for which they will voluntarily pay you. The most convenient way for them to pay you is in dollars. If you are a good businessman or woman, you have priced your product or service so that you can make a living providing it.
The dictionary defines capitalism as the private ownership of the means of production. The means of production, as defined by fundamental economists, are land, labor, and capital. Who the heck SHOULD own the means of production? Government? While the means of production should not be owned by monopolists (which comes to about the same thing as their being owned by government), certainly they should be privately owned by private individuals, and said ownership by private individuals should be as widespread as possible, and preferably universal.
You’re a vicious dummy, Ant. I’m not anti-business. I’m anti letting business do whatever it wants. Big Business ends up running show unless monitored and controlled. Small and middle sized can do less damage and yes, much good. I’ve said this repeatedly. You’re just trying to smear me.
I liked that one too. I also liked For the New Intellectual. Her play called The Night of January 16 is very interesting. Twelve people are chosen from the audience who will act as the jury. The play is based on a murder of a businessman and whether his assistant/secretary killed him. Rand wrote two endings for the play. One for a guilty verdict and one for an innocent verdict. I’ve seen the play have both endings and I’ve read the book.
We the Living is also a good read and is a autobiography (somewhat) of Rand in the USSR.
@ Jarek:
You have repeatedly stated that you are opposed to capitalism. The dictionary definition of capitalism is “the private ownership of the means of production.”
Ergo, if you are opposed to capitalism, you are opposed to the private ownership of the means of production. In which case, you should explain who you think SHOULD own the means of production. It can be either “the people” or “the government.” So which is it?
Also, the last time I got involved with you in a discussion of “capitalists,” you explicitly stated that the goal of the small businessman or woman was to grow ever larger and morph into Multinational Conglomerated, Inc. This is manifestly not true.
Does your supposed ideological distaste “capitalism” perhaps arise from your family’s expectation that you get a job? Or start a business enterprise of some kind? A pretended opposition to capitalism allows you to pretend that doing anything at all is against your principles, and thus works as a defense when people accuse you of being an idle, lay-about kind of guy. You can retreat into pretended moral superiority.
@ Jarek:
Get wise to yourself.
The vast majority of businessmen are obsessed with growth. More, always more. I admit there must be exceptions, but as Buddha said, there is no end to desire. And as Christ said, love of money is the root of all evil.
Business is a necessary evil to avoid a greater one, that of Communism.
You didn’t even know the difference between interest and usury so you aren’t the one to correct me.
@ Jarek:
“The vast majority of businessmen are obsessed with growth.”
No they aren’t.
The vast majority of small business owners are people who are seeking econommic independence from the corporate world. They have discovered that that have a particular skill or passion, and that engaging in this activity gives them joy. They are aware of being able to make a special contribution to their communities, and able to provide their communities with things they want and need.
The baker knows that he or she can make real bread, so that the people in their community don’t have to eat Wonder Bread. They can offer cakes, pies, cookies, pastries, etc., that would otherwise be unavailable to them, so that they have no other choices than Little Debbie Snack Cakes.
They know that their community needs auto parts so they can fix their cars, or they need a good, honest mechanic.
In my case (soap making–from which I am retired), I know that commerical “soaps” and shampoos are really synthetic detergents, and that I can provide them with a quality product that would otherwise the unobtainable to them, even at health food stores. There’s a lady down the road from me who raises goats and makes artisan cheese. There is an elderly couple who recently retired from beekeeping and selling honey.
Most small business are not “scalable,” for a variety of reasons. It’s usually quite a struggle to get a small business to the point where it produces even a modest living. But if you start when you’re young, keep at it for 40 years, and make some wise investments, you could do all right.
Even big businesses have a tough time of it. Most big businesses aren’t really even businesses. Probably the main way to “go big” is to have an operation that depends on government subsidies or other government funding. For example, my daughter has some friends who got rich installing solar panels–a business that is subsidized out the wazoo. The husband happened to have the required skills and knowledge, and you might say he stumbled upon a gold mine. But my point is, if your business is government-dependent, you aren’t running a business.
Most farming is the same way. The big corporate farms are not really businesses. They are, in effect, government operations.
To be brief, you have no idea what you’re talking about, as usual. And since you have never done anything, it is impossible that you could know what you’re talking about.
@ Jarek:
And do, please, lay off the “Buddha says” bullshit.
As always, you use (or misuse) philosophy to explain why you, personally, refuse to grow up, and either can’t or won’t do anything at all.
Further, I rather doubt that laying on your ass and not giving a shit about anything is a teaching of authentic Buddhism–though that seems to be the view of the few (supposed) Buddhists I have encountered: “I have found peace and happiess by not giving a shit about others–and their needs and sufferings.”
I do sometimes think that I’m being a bit hard on you. There are some very strong indications that you suffer from some kind of disability. (Autism?) Likely, you are genuinely unable to do much of anything. Generally, autists are not able to do even the most menial jobs, due to temperamental issues. I know one guy (or rather his mother) who can do simple farm work that can be performed alone
If you are on disability, you have been diagnosed. If you haven’t been diagnosed, it would be best for you to seek a diagnosis, so that you can take a realistic view of your prospects in life.
People who provide services for others are not capitalists, they are small business people.
To be a capitalist you have to employ labor. There is no capitalist without labor exploitation. Your teenagers don’t count.
You can own a small business and employ labor without being a monopoly capitalist. You are then a petty capitalist.
Most likely a chain will come into your town and put your small business out of business, no matter how much you cheat your employees.
My daughter owned a small bookstore without employees, but when Barnes and Noble came into town, she ended up out of business and in debt.
That’s just how it works.
Paula: So could we say entrepreneurs are small but want to be big? Capitalists in the making?
Anthea: You make your small town America sound very ideal indeed, alas it is ruined by small minded people like you. Thus the best and brightest flee to the cities to escape the carping criticism of your kind.
If you had found a way to scale up your business, you would have done so. All of us are vulnerable to the desire for MORE.
@ Jarek:
There’s nothing wrong with scaling up a business, if you can. Perhaps you can cite the way in which doing so is morally objectionable. What “scaling” means is that you’re providing more of your product to more people. This is a good thing. It also will require greatly increasing your work load. I have no problem with people making money, as long as it’s made honestly.
So what’s your problem with that? Buddha has a problem with people baking excessive cookies or something?
There are two main reasons why most small businesses aren’t scalable. One of them is that you can’t afford to hire help, as profit margins are too slim. The other issue with employees is that they can’t do what you do without long-term training, as it is a skill that’s developed over time. In my case, I often puzzled over which tasks could be delegated to an employee, and about the only tasks they could perform without a lot of training were washing up the dishes and sweeping the floor. It would have taken months to get an employee up to speed on producing the products, during which time you would have been paying them to do nothing–and actually paying them for the priviledge of being educated. And they’d probably quit in a couple of months, after you’d been paying them for doing nothing. Most small businesses just don’t have the capital for that.
Another problem with scalability being able to capitalize an expansion–which is very risky. With soap making, you’d need a phsycial plant, considerably more equipment, and employees.
Soap making can be automated to some extent. If you look at the Zum bars in the health food stores, you can see that they’re a quality product in most ways. At least they’re real soap, and not synthetic detergents. Most health-food-store soaps are made mainly with palm oil. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s not exactly anything high quality about it. (I think you would have to greatly simplify your formula–and use the cheapest fats and oils–to make it more feasible to capitalize your business.) Now, Zum bars have “swirls” in them, in imitation of artisan soaps, but they are pretty obviously machine made. Swirls look a LOT better when they are done with skilled human hands and the colors are selected by skilled human eyes.
To factory-produce soap, you have to reduce the job to a manufacturing job that can be done by relatively unskilled labor. And even then the cost of the unskilled labor could very well bankrupt you, along with your other capital investments.
Actually, I think Dr. Bronner’s has the right idea; they make liquid soap–and it’s real soap. This eliminates endless problems–and makes the production relatively unskilled.
My go-to auto mechanic for the past 25 years told me several times that he really needed to hire some help, but whenever he got a job applicant, he quickly discovered that, “They can’t do anything.” The only way to scale a business related to car maintenance/repair is to open something like a Jiffy Lube, where you can train employees to do ONE job. And it had better be one simple job, and you’d best pray they don’t screw it up.
You can’t do much in the way of scalability with any artisan product, though a bakery seems to be one business where you can employ several people. But you can’t really get big without your overhead costs (and issues related to automation) forcing you to compromise your product.
Most small business make only a very modest living–and in fact most of them fail within the firsrt year or two,,during which they make no profit at. When I first started making soap, my profit was about $20 a week. You’d be better off getting job as a cashier in a gas station, at least at first.
I know quite a few people who run small business. One of my former neighbors (before I moved) started a small home business as a confectioner, but even after about two years, she has been unable to quit her day job. Another couple who are former neighbors have made a modest living for twenty years or so making jewelry. One woman makes cheesecakes out of her home. Then of course there is the car mechanic, the artisan cheesemaker, and the two market gardeners. One woman makes baked goods for farmers’ markets. One of my former neighbors is a licensed grower of marijuana. He is highly skilled, a really amazing guy. The husband of the cheesecake maker has a full-time job but also moonlights as a musician. Those are just the ones that I know (kinda-sorta).
All of them are people who are providing outstanding products or services who are doing an immense service to the community. That’s what small business is.
One thing that I have probably mentioned here in the past is that, up until about 1910, no self-respecting adult aspired to get “a job.” They aspired to start a business or run a farm. Getting “a job” was for two types of people: the rather “slow” or unmotivated, or for young people who were just starting out in life, who would get “a job” in order to learn skills and save to capitalize their own business or farm.
Because, at that time, most people of normal intelligence were either business people or budding business people, almost everyone understood the realities of business. They could also do basic arithmetic. No one had to explain to them why they didn’t get paid much to be a bell-hop, because they were planning to open their own hotel and knew perfectly well that you couldn’t pay a bell-hop a “living wage.”
Since around 1910 it has become very difficult, if not impossible, for the average person to start a small business. Most of the reason that this is so is due to government intrusion and over-reach. Another reason is that about half the people in the US work for the government.
IMHO, most big corporations could not compete with small businesses on a level playing field. You could level the playing field simply by getting rid of government as completely as possible. We could thus go back to the times when the US was prosperous–and the food was good, and the doctor made house calls. The degradation of almost everything you can buy, from food and medical care to manufactured goods, lies at the door of government, which it has achieved chiefly by impoverishing the nation through outright theft.
If you look at architecture alone (as our host is wont to do), what you see is impoverishment. The churches that used to be fine buildings are now pole barns. Homes are no longer well built. Why are people so poor, compared to 100+ years ago? The government stole everything that wasn’t nailed down. And then they came back and stole that.
Oh brother! There’s always some sophomoric Ayn Rand fan who thinks this is some profound statement.
We’re doomed
Yes, we are doomed and no, I’m not an AR fan, just responding to a reference. I am, however, one of those who not only spent a career building but was engaged in the political morass on the inside, so I know what I am talking about when I say that we are toast.
As the story goes, Murray Rothbard and his wife were at a get-together with Ayn Rand. Rand starting frothing at the mouth and became furious that Murray would not denounce his wife for being a Christian. Murray grabbed his wife by the arm and said “Joey, lets get out of here. This lady is nuts.”
I never heard that story before. Thanks, RD. Yes, Ayn Rand was a character, probably an alcoholic (which contributes to outlandish behavior). But often the creative minds are plagued by a lot of ugly baggage, what we metaphorically call “demons”.
Do you think she and Alan Greenspan ever did the big nasty?
The idea is nauseating. It gives a whole new definition to “bumping uglies.”
Israel is now 8% Christian. But what kind? Therein like a coming tale.
A lot of Israel today is a rather hedonistic beach culture.
How many are traditional Arab Christians and how many are recently converted “messianic Jews”?
and 34% Muslim.
correction: lies a coming tale.
Yes, to all of you. Jew, Christian: Traditional and Zionist, Muslim, and Pagan hedonism.
Who will bring it all together?
IDK why, but Israel is one place that I could for which I could not be less interested.
I find virutally nothing about it interesting, attractive, or even worthy of my time.
Strike “that I could”
Phone probs.
Night Owl, best keep an eye on Israel what with it being right there in the Cradle of Civilization, where the real action takes place and always has, especially since Netanyahu is back in power and pushing the Noahide Laws. Check in with Stephen Ben Nun on “Israeli News Live” for updates as things progress, especially the construction of the 3rd temple.
Sure, Walter. It is the cradel of civ. I just have no interest in modern day Israel.
Not saying it is logical. It just is. Have travelled extensively and I am a student of history, but Israel just never drew me in.
The 8% will fuck it up, mark it. Of course, accompanied by the young higher educated Jews who have co-opted American hedonism and moral debauchery.
Is this anti-Semism by NO? Or a profound if unconscious instinct for survival?
The more one looks, the more one will see and more one will be seen.
The Israeli Christians will greet the Antichrist as if he was Christ. Not the Traditionals, at least one would hope not.
What in particular did Ms. VanPeebles find to disagree with in Ayn Rand’s prophecy?
She was a comic book writer, with comic book heroes, with fantastical comic book endings.
Another example of sublimating philosophy through fiction and mistaking the result as fact. She even had a comic book philosophy to go along with it.
She can be forgiven however. History is replete with works of fiction being interpreted as fact.
Fantasy can live in the world of the mind but Rand cannot exist in the world of reality.
Her comic book fans with their simpleton’s take: let business people and innovators do what they want! Hands off!
Look where that got us: a cabal intent on ruling the world free from the government s of the lowly.
You must be a left winger, Connie, because you have everything ass backwards.
An unholy marriage of elitists and government is enslaving us. They are able to do so by private institutions (called Central Banks) printing as much money as required to control everything, including politicians. Fiat money is the fraud which enables evil doers to make us debt slaves, using the equivalent of faerie dust.
Via alternating cycles of boom and bust, which they control, they bankrupt the honest entrepreneurs and pick up assets cheaply.
You are mistaking our dystopia for capitalism. Ayn Rand saw the difference. Clearly, you have not read her work, or read it thru a distorted, socialist lens.
If she is a left winger, you are a wing nut.
Well said. Capitalist can’t be allowed to do whatever they want. The want to make money, first and foremost. For many, there’s little or nothing else. To that end, they will employ all means be they fair or foul.
To true believers: study the long struggle against child labor, pollution, or just giving workers any rights whatsoever.
Capitalist philosopher, John Locke, studied the issue with great attention and came to the conclusion that it would be wrong to deny children their right to earn money. He was a genius and probably didn’t know any children. A natural born Kesan or follower of Kesa (who doesn’t believe that children really exist. They’re just adults in small bodies and deserve to be FREE!)
Honest entrepreneurs! And what do these stalwarts want more than anything? To become big. And then? To become bigger. To become those whom the pretend to hate.
To Christ’s love of the money is the root of all evil, add Buddha’s there is no end to desire.
Such men will always exist and they have rights – just not the right to rule and ruin us. Better men must keep them in their place. As usual, the Vedic civilization got it right. Of the four castes, businessmen are the second lowest.
Yeah I’m a left winger because I’m not in the Ayn Rand cult.
You people need to come up with a “you’re a left-winger if” bit.
You like trees? Commie!
You eat vegetables! Commie!
You don’t believe in altruistic billionaires?
Commie!
You don’t think profit driven industries should be answerable to the citizenry?
Commmmmmiiiiiiieeee!
jarek – you’re confusing money and wealth.
its that creation of wealth without an enforceable moral foundation that got all this sideways.
the money people have chipped away at moral foundations for centuries.
capital, like a rifle, has no moral quality of its own. it acquires the character of the one wielding it.
This Connie character reminds me of Redneck Liberal, angry and spitting bile. Perhaps they are one and the same.
Well you remind me of my ass. I can’t always see it but it’s there, and I’d rather it be quiet than start making noises that only serves to embarrass everyone who hears them
“This Connie character reminds me of Redneck Liberal, angry and spitting bile. Perhaps they are one and the same.”
I still suspect it is Carghoul going for a long-term troll op.
He knows he can’t come out with full blown BlueAnon twaddle right out of the gates, so he has opted to pretend he is a reasonable, middle-of-the-road kinda guy, building credibility while slowly transitioning toward his talking points.
This is how the good paid trolls do things.
That said, they are still easy to spot.
Love of money is the root of all evil. No distinction is made between wealth and money.
That being said, being poor in spirit does not mean being poor. One could be poor and not be poor in spirit. And one can be rich and be poor in spirit – but alas, it is hard, harder than for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle (one of the gates of Jerusalem.
The camels had to get down on their knees. It was a defensive measure I imagine.
Connie, I’ll take AR over Pink Floyd any time. With the 50th anniversary of their turgid, pretentious “Dark Side of the Moon” album, all the Bobos are coming out to say how “far-sighted” it was. Yawn.
That’s good to know. How did you possibly reckon I give AF?
Your fake exasperation is boring. Have you ever read Rand?
And, by the way, there is Hope. But not for you.
Are you being ironic? Just reread what you wrote
It is profound and life changing when you read it in your teens. Stepping out of the miasma and realizing that your mind and reason have validity. Being inspired by heroes, as fictional as they may be.
Yes there is much more, but it’s not a bad opening.
When I was a teenager, a friend recommended a Rand book to me, so I read it.
It was about a narcissistic architect, is all I remember. I thought it was stupid. I never read another of her books.
Obviously, your milage varied. Jake, is that you?
You have outdone yourself this week. Thank you.
Maybe the best of all.
Nearer to God are We
Yes, I agree. This is a very clear description of where we are as a civilization. But he prompts us to . . . . have a little faith. Faith in what? That is always the perennial question.
jesus saves–just ask the 122 passengers on the airliner as it slammed into the mountain,every one praying like the end was near..it was ….keep the faith baby….
Theodicy is a topic which greatly predates you, happiface. Volumes have been written.
Certainly not the Deep State which spends all its time stealing from us, our livelihoods, our kids, and our lives.
Maybe, maybe not. There are many different stories out there about what happened on the Titanic. For example, let’s take a look at what the man known as the “Godfather of rap” has for us regarding this famous sinking. It’s from the poetic comedian Rudy Ray Moore:
httpX://youtu.be/Cj-FPJIlboQ
One Randean Superman got his family to the boats – like all the other male tycoons did. Unlike them though, he didn’t just retire to ballroom and wait for the end while stupefied on gin. He got to an opportune spot and leapt. He made it to some debris and hung on until rescued.
He was savaged by the press for surviving instead of dying like a gentleman.
Anyone who can survive the Titanic without taking up a seat in one of the lifeboats is a hero in my book.
It’s funny the changing mores over time, isn’t it?
hollyweird will shortly be bold enough to remake titanic the movie with an update “for modern audiences”.
hilarity ensues.
Back then it was ‘save the women and children first’. I wonder about today’s priorities with all the racial and sexual identity victims.
Does a black man who identifies as a woman in order to play basketball count for more than an Asian lesbian? The ship would sink before they sorted it all out.
Until we get chipped and can get the right signal, people will have to a tattoo that indicates their probably pronoun, but more importantly, their status.
I have heard a conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic. Related to insurance issues, I think.
Has anyone else heard of this?
The iceberg denied any prior knowledge of a plot and was never seen again.
Or the iceberg could not comment at the time because it was an ongoing investigation.
Under the bright lights of police interrogation, the nervous iceberg began to visibly sweat.
Connie says they had weather machines back then too. Ice makers!
The rumor is that three opponents to the Federal Reserve were aboard.
Fire and Ice Jarek?
always at opposition
It was fire not Ice that sank the ship jarek, but as Billy Joel said, “we didn’t start the fire”
Conspiracy, Peebs? From you? I thought conspiracies were only for wackos.
Degrees Ja’rule.
Small margins. Ask the camels with the broken backs.
What does it take for one to believe that Fauci was hiding the virus origins as opposed to believing that the U.S. used an earthquake machine to punish Turkey?
Are those small margins? Or gigantic leaps?
You’re on the spectrum, you should know.
Well said, Peebs. All lies in jest. Or is it. all lies and jest? In any case, the words of prophets are seldom written on the subway walls, much less in rest rooms.
If the ship would have had watertight bulkheads (walls reaching all the way to the overhead) in each compartment it probably would have suvived.
If the engine had not been put in reverse (which slowed the turn), maybe it could have avoided the iceberg.
And once hit, some say if the Titanic had made for the Californian at full speed, many lives might have been saved.
Sage advice……..knowing who your REAL friends are’
Beware of your democrat fam/friends !
They possess the mindset of snitching to the authorities if we go full blown tyranny.
As usual another brilliant piece Jim.
Somebody mentioned a sister in law who called the police to tell them that that sis had gone to January six.
I wouldn’t want to join that family for the holidays!
hxxps://scheerpost.com/2023/03/05/chris-hedges-lynching-the-deplorables/
As a Newby here to Responses, I’ve been reading CFN for over at least five years. I decided to register today so that I could say that I thought Jim’s piece today was one of his best written I’ve seen. Loved the wrapup at the end:
You were comfortably ensconced one winter night in the mini-McMansion, on the overstuffed sofa, entertained by some Netflix inanity, scarfing down the microwaved cheeze morsels… when the wife said, “Hey, let’s book a cruise!” Seemed like a good idea at the time, which is what everything in the annals of history is and was. And now, look at where you are!
Did you see the movie, Starman, Starman?
Like Germany in the 30’s. Their self righteous indignation will overtake any sense of morality and human equilibrium. Thank you mass media, Hollywood and higher education.
More violence is performed by leftist ideologues than any ‘Trumper’ or conservative. But ‘they/them’ will never let America hear it.
“We’re at sea now.” Yeah, until we’re beneath it. The elites get the lifeboats. The rest of us are locked down in steerage.
The Uber elites seem to think their compounds and security will be their life boats.
No, they’re on the mega yachts
And we’re Leonardo DiCaprio holding onto some flotsam for dear life. He didn’t make it, as I recall.
Too bad more don’t realize the fix we’re in. I blame the MSM.
“Faith — remember what that is? (It’s the conviction that all of us together stand in some meaningful relation to existence.)”
Does the American public really have any ‘Faith” in anything at all anymore? Far too many cannot even spell the word, much less articulate what the concept even is. No dowd, the MSM was only the tool utilized by the demons that lead us (to our own demise btw), it is US(A) that has earned the punishment that we are all in the process of receiving, for as our host noted:
We “were comfortably ensconced one winter night in the mini-McMansion, on the overstuffed sofa, entertained by some Netflix inanity, scarfing down the microwaved cheeze morsels… when the wife said, “Hey, let’s book a cruise!””
Those who cannot swim are best served by avoiding the deep water at all cost. We screwed ourselves and we are now going to get what we deserve.
One of the great delights of Kunstler days is reading your beautifully crafted, articulate and thoughtful replies, Walter B. Together, your words and JHK’s provide an unfailingly accurate assessment of where we are, whence we’ve come, and where we’re bound. Thank you.
I second that sentiment.
Fully agree, Pondernot
Ditto….However, I believe there is still a tiny bit of rope left for America to pull us away from the degenerate visions of Hollywood woke corporations, the media and the droll like metaphorically fat hedonistic ‘couch potatoes’ that binge on Netflix and Facebook. I just hope there is someone out there that can motivate us to pull the rope before it really is too late.
But I’m ’rounding third base’ now, so my suffering may be shorter than most. I hope and earnestly pray that we ‘turn it around’…
Walter, I’ve been saying the same thing for a long time. America’s problems are of her own making. A righteous people would have no tolerance for an unrighteous Government. Our Government is nothing more than a bright reflection of the people.
1. Our government is buried by debt. So are most Americans.
2. Our government is obsessed with control over others. Americans too are obsessed with forcing other Americans’ behaviors (see covid mania).
3. Our Government is obsessed with illegal warfare. Americans are in support of all of our wars, all soldiers are put on pedestals, etc, etc, etc.
4. Our Government administers death without ceasing. Americans fight for the right for women to butcher their own babies.
5. Government doesn’t obey its own laws. Do Americans obey the law? Not on the Interstate highways they don’t.
I could go on but I am sure you get the point.
I only hope JHK and you are right and that the big correction is finally upon us. Seems like it is only ever kicked down the road over and over and over again and nothing ever happens. The news media is still spouting lies. Corporations still rake in billions in profits. Disney still makes shitty movies and TV shows. Anthony Fauci is loving a posh retirement instead of swinging on a lamp post. Nothing ever changes. Justice never comes.
Best,
CP
You are kind, thank you, and quite correct. The need for the Big Correction is certainly upon us, though Jim and I probably have different ideas as to what form that will take. My assessment is that our host retains hope that there are forces of good intent that can and will (or may) be able to effect correction and bring this boat back on course and still afloat. No fault in that.
I on the other hand have always believed that the real power is in the people, so if the people degrade to a point that they cannot even look into their own underwear and determine what sex they happen to be, well there ain’t enough power there to float even the smallest vessel.
My belief is that things have been degraded by spirits of malevolence and evil that are so powerful that only a superior force of spiritual being can and will remove them from this place, and dispose of them properly, so MY hope remains in He Who Shall Return.
I blame stupid people.
They’re the reason for most of the mess we consistently find ourselves in.
I’d like to dig through old footage of the “civil rights” marches, find the dumb boomers who are still living and throw them in Gitmo.
A good idea but not so possible as they are the ones running Gitmo these days. The first generation to totally sell out all of the values they. once held dear, though a few of us, and our host, have remained true though outcast by the sellouts.
LBJ fucked America with his Great Society bullshit. 22 Trillion has been spent since 1965 on racial imbalance and forced equity results. The programs and ancillary expense would astound all.
And those ‘dumb boomers’ then, had the kids (and grndkids) who are the woke assholes now that force complicity of government and corporate America to embrace every vacuous feel good policy that is destroying the very fabric of America.
Stupid people who think they are smart.
Spinning threads of “reason” until they have wrapped themselves and those around them in an impenetrable cocoon of self-conviction.
Sure they are right.
Their logic always leads them to the same place—the place they started.
Correct-o-Mundo!
….wrapped themselves and those around them in an impenetrable cocoon of self-conviction….
LOVE IT
That’s what is wrong with the IQ test that many hold so dear.
I submit that such a test is nearly useless. Not completely, because they do still use it as a basis for figuring how retarded you are.
I say this because no one has come up with a measurement of how stupid a person is, and we all jut saw and are still seeing that some people who would rate above average on an IQ test also have a heapin’ helpin’ of stupidity, which cancels out any intellectual advantage one may have.
Also gullibility is not linked to IQ.
Yes, mediocre people are often wiser since they have no interest in extravagant theories of how the world works or should work. Thus do the brilliant end up stupider than the stupid.
And the Xhosa tribesmen, IQ around 70, out thought the people behind high tech (nuclear power) White South Africa.
Low IQ doesn’t preclude cunning after all. Yet high IQ idealists often eschew such things, especially when it comes to their beloved non-Whites. And the Xhosa were helped by international Capitalism/Communism who are both high IQ and very adept at trickery. .
Did Islander believe that South Africa was going to become a multicultural, high tech paradise once the Blacks took over?
I would be my life on it. She’s one of the idealists.
Jarek just making up shit.
So you didn’t support the Blacks against the evil Whites?
C’mon girl, let your hair down.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested on April 5, 1943, and was imprisoned in Berlin.
Following the failure of the attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944, the discovery of documents linking Bonhoeffer directly to the conspiracy led to his further interrogation and eventual execution by hanging.
Bonhoeffer had a most interesting theory with regard to stupidity and it’s propagation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc&feature=youtu.be
That shows to me why we need to throw out anybody in public office who finds a reason to exceed their constitutional limits on their powers or the duties of their office.
Given the chance, they will always do something stupid.
Dunning-Kruger effect.
Hitler was democratically elected making Bonhoff an insurrectionist. Well said, Berryl.
And who are these stupid people, Connie? Aren’t they the ones who believe government propaganda and the MSM which faithfully upholds it.
Covid, Ukraine, Russiagate, Hunter Biden, CRT and woke thinking, the Nordstream Pipelines destruction, etc. We are fed so many clear-cut lies. Do you see it, Connie?
Speaking of the MSM, I missed it when Bobby Jr. said Rolling Stone’s editor is a spook.
That explains a lot.
Here are the links to articles about that:
Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone
Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cia-liberal-media-outlets-the-real-anthony-fauci/
Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA
Part 2 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/the-daily-beast-ties-to-cia/
And, of course, they controlled (and possibly still do) National Review. Its all a front: left, right and up the middle.
Anderson Pooper is also one of “them”.
Beryl,
Thanks for the links. I’ve just read part 1. Its very interesting. I have not read much about the Daily Kos before.
Given the author, Dick Russell’s, twenty year history with RFK Jr (they even wrote a book together), this quote leaves me scratching my head:
“I am fully vaccinated and a believer in the efficacy of the vaccines.”
Did he not read RFK Jr’s book? If he is that in tune with the reach and grasp of the US government’s tentacles and is willing to publish writings about it, how did he miss that the plandemic is a psy op?
Those are good questions, mrs.
I’m stupid. And I know it.
Knowing that I’m stupid and ignorant I know that I have to delve into things, read-up on things, educate myself before I make a determination or form an opinion.
I feel uncomfortable assimilating someone’s opinion as my own. It feels lazy and fraudulent.
I know we stupid people are nurtured and inculcated that way: presented the work and research of others and told this is the consensus. And we believe it.
How many times in polite company do you hear, “wasn’t it Voltaire who said…”
I don’t know! I wasn’t there
But that’s what THEY told US
Connie, you’re killing it today. I never read Any Rand but if Milton Friedman liked her, she probably sucks. The Free Market™ made China powerful in their quest for cheap labor and cheap consumer goods. Now we see how that worked out.
So do I, unfortunately, stupidity is endemic to humanity. As long as humans exist there will be stupid ones. Nature figured out a way to get rid of the stupid, called Natural Selection. Humanity has managed to save and preserve the stupid and now their genes are flowing through the gene pool.
That’s the only explanation that makes any sense to me. That or television induced hypnosis.
The MSM believes its own fake reporting.
The entire Deep State is the problem, the MSM is only the propaganda area of it.
Did you know that intense pressure is being put on Fox management to stop the conservative bias and the Libs are trying to kill Newsmax.
Free press? This is a Uniparty oligarchic state right now.
Speaking of Deep State, I have come to the conclusion that the single most responsible individual for inflicting the scamdemic on America is Mike Pompeo.
I’m wondering why we call it the Deep State when it is right out in the open.
Which is how Pompeo did it, right out in the open.
The people responsible for inflicting the scandemic to happen were the millions who let it happen. It takes two to be oppressed.
The Covid Hoax was the ultimate IQ test.
IMO, it should replace the standardized IQ test.
Speaking of FOX News. I recently watched Hannity for the first time in years. His neocon, jingoistic support for the Ukrainian war is sickening. I think they call swamp creatures of his kind “controlled opposition”.
Hmuller, agreed.
Great post, Jim.
My favorite phrase:
incompetence honored, feted, even worshipped… intellect reduced to anti-thinking…
Easily the best writer on the net!
He left out the obvious part about those who are capable of thought being castigated, vilified, cancelled and reviled.
Agree………been reading Jims weekly missives for 15 years ???
The other brilliant essayist I used to follow is Jim Willie.
His hardcore writings got him banned in the alt media many years ago.
When Tom Fleming ran Chronicles, his invective was worth reading as well. Sadly, he’s become an anti-conspiracist and saw no problems with the 2020 election and the “vaccines.”
His philosophy of “every day life” and the discipline of community was great. But he himself was always a blowhard, hating all Whites who had any racial pride. As if the Founders weren’t more like them, and not him.
Did they kick him to the curb? Tucker sometimes has a Hispanic guy on who is very good. A White Hispanic. Think his name is Raimondo perhaps.
I no longer read Chronicles, but I believe you are referring to a fellow named Pedro Gonzales. I don’t know much about him. Justin Raimondo was an anti-war homosexual who died of cancer a couple years ago. He had a monthly column in Chronicles.
I actually identify somewhat with Fleming’s racial views, which can be summarized as “Race isn’t everything, but its not nothing.” I have always viewed Jared Taylor and E Michael Jones as representing the poles of thought on the right. To Taylor, race explains everything. To Jones, religion explains everything. To Fleming, and Sam Francis, it was a combination.
Thanks.
Taylor was going to debate Jones before the Pandemic stopped everything. He would have wiped the floor with him.
We believe race is very important but not everything. No blonde or red beaded Muslims need apply. In contrast Jones and his secular opposite numbers believe culture is everything and race is absolutely nothing.
They did debate. I watched it on BitChute.
I love listening to Jim Willie. But I can’t swallow everything he says. Vladimir Putin is a team of clones? C’mon man.
Never heard him say that about Putin. But clones of Hillary and Dementia Joe are possible. Obama and Michael Robinson, too.
And that’s another thing. People with magnifying glasses examining pictures of Michelle Obama’s crotch to find evidence of a penis. Sometimes, I’m embarrassed to run with that crowd. Although, there are plenty of laughs.
hmuller,
I’ve never understood the Big Mike theory either. I haven’t seen the crotch shot photo (I’m not interested), but I have seen an old photo of Michelle Obama that was touched up to give her more masculine features.
I think its a very hateful campaign to wage against someone. I loathe her husband’s politics, but let’s take on his policies and his business dealings. This is not the way.
Michelle’s enjoyment of the perks her husband’s career provided is fair game. Her job as vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center is open for critique. She earned a huge, huge salary for doing not a lot, because Obama was an IL state senator. The hospital was so enamored with this position that the moment she resigned to go be FLOTUS, they never filled the position again. Giving her the job was part of the goody basket of being an IL state senator. But challenging someone’s gender? Nope, at least not for me.
There’s plenty of evidence that Michelle Obama is a tranny and a former Michael Robinson. And that Barack is as queer as Dick’s hat-band.
Joan Rivers died under suspicious circumstances shortly after she outed Michelle as a tranny.
Michelle is a tranny and a former Michael Robinson. And Barack is as queer as Dick’s hat-band.
Joan Rivers died under suspicious circumstances shortly after she outed Michelle as a tranny.
@zappalives—
Jim W. made a two part appearance on Chris Marcus’s “Arcadia Economics” on EeewToob last week. Got things rawkin’ as usual.
Thers always Alan Chartock!
Yes Jim is excellent and has an entertaining way of shining the light on the cockroaches in charge.
I wonder what the Watchers think of his work. Will they allow him to continue to speak freely and openly when the Great Clamping Down is initiated? Does the hope of which he always writes serve their purpose and keep the herd from stampeding or turning against those who are deceiving us, or do they fear that he may awaken too many before they are ready to spring the trap?
Time will tell.
Am I not a vacuum? Nothingness, Stardust, a nucleus with some sort of proplasm? Look at the universe folks. We-re shit man. Negative waves again baby.
Weltschmerz is best treated with donuts, the sweeter the better.
Weltschmerz is best treated with donuts, the sweeter the better. – hmuller
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Weltschmerz: German for low blood sugar?
Or watching the Oscars aka the NAACP
Well at least you have the sense to see it as negative. Many people believe life is just meaningless matter – and think that that is great.
Stephen Hawking comes to mind saying that he hoped there was no God. Nothing must interfere with the sublime meaninglessness!
I gather Hawking preferred to believe a meaningless universe crippled his body rather than a God with a who-knows-what agenda. His choice. I still think donuts would have helped.
What a vicious crip.
I woke up this morning fearing enemies both foreign and domestic. At this point I fear our Commander-in-Chief more than I fear the likes of Putin or Xi.
We have a Country that is now out of control. I see a Summer of fighting going on in two fronts. While our people are destroying the streets, foreign enemies who flow across the border will be taking away our infrastructure and destroying supply chains.
By the end of the Summer this Country will be in ruin. People will suffer and will be wondering when BUILD BACK BETTER will begin.
I don’t see any fight left in the people. Defeated resignation seems to be the mood of the day, with most taking comfort balled up in the fetal position.
Desperate people do desperate things. And when the cheese doodles stop, people will get desperate. You will be surprised just how quickly defeated resignation will turn to despair, even more quickly to desperation. I’m putting my money into rat and long pork futures. What a shame.
when people have nothing left to lose they lose it–i think we have a couple more years–Martin Armstrong is my timing guru–his record is 2nd to none-he says by 2032 our goose is competely burnt
Bingo! The rollout of “Toxic Masculinity”, the advancement of the Transsexual Agenda, and the constant assault on the youth of our nation by the mainstream and social media has mollified the general public and seriously reduced or maybe even eliminated our ability to fight or resist.
A longtime analyst friend of mine with a doctorate in Poly-Sci who works for and reports directly to the Secretary of Defense once told me during a discussion on the issue that the root cause of our societal decay is that America is no longer raising men. Love ’em or hate ’em, there is good and bad in all, but when women and men with morals and decency work together, societies and empires are built and sustained. When they war against one another, it all crumbles. The music may have already stopped. Best find a chair and quickly.
Best find a chair and quickly.
But is it on the deck of the Titanic?
Probably, but at least in sitting down in a chair one can slide down the deck into the bone chilling cold rather than bouncing your way off the railings and door jambs!
“Faith — remember what that is? (It’s the conviction that all
of us together stand in some meaningful relation to existence.)”
Our host, I think, is prophetic this morning. There are so many elements in play at the moment. The bizarre trans antics, toxic masculinity, etc. All of these things will reach a point of implosion, but the question is: when will that point be reached and what will happen afterwards?
There are really only two sets of people to be found in our country at present. The first set is useless in every possible way. They have no skills, no knowledge, no wisdom, and a weird collection of beliefs that are in direct opposition to reality. They cannot and will not do any sort of work, even the least demanding.
This set of people has only two options once their world falls apart. Some will make a quick and desperate adjustment to reality and begin doing what their betters tell them to do – simple tasks that require neither skill, nor intelligence, nor common sense. If they make themselves useful and learn to be obedient, they may survive. If they do, they will be unrecognizable within a few years and their prior existence in Upside Down World will be a dim memory.
The rest of the useless group, who are fundamentally feral, will refuse to work or to give up their world view. They’ll attempt to survive by preying on those who produce things, but they’re not good at that either and will soon be picked off, having lost their special status and protections. They’re violent, but they’re also stupid and unable to cooperate. Those who are destined to survive will treat them without mercy.
That will leave group two, consisting of all the people who recognize reality and operate within its confines, the people who make things work, have skills, fix things, invent things, show up reliably at their jobs, contribute something of genuine value. Someone who carefully and scrupulously sweeps the floor all day will be (justifiably) valued more than a thousand social influencers and gender studies students who will go the way of the Dodo bird.
Group two consists of a greater number of people than you might think. They’re, for the most part, people who are absent from social media, who do real work and raise families. You don’t hear much about them, but they create and maintain the comfortable world that the woke have been taking for granted. They’ll keep making a liveable world, but at a different level of existence than we’re used to. They know how to adapt. They won’t whine and refuse to play, they’ll make a world their children can live in. It will take a while, and its birth will be ugly and violent, but this too shall pass.
“when will that point be reached and what will happen afterwards?”
As a person of faith I senses the old order of things is on its last legs and a new, greater order is soon to be upon us. As a believer in Christ it is my sincere hope that the “afterwards” as you suggest, will be the millennium of peace prophesied about in the holy scriptures.
Of course, “no man knoweth the hour…….”
The parts of the country that may be in ruin by the end of this summer are already well on their way.
Democrat cities like LA, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Chicago, Saint Louis, New Orleans, and of course the very worst one DC.
I suspect no one has learned the hard lessons of allowing people to loot and pillage freely as of yet.
Drove through Portland last year, couldn’t believe all the tents along the freeway. Used to be such a beautiful city.
Somebody wants it that way. The better to herd people into their 15 minute zones.
San Francisco ruined as well.
I have some family in Portland. Last visit I couldn’t help but ask about all the tents on the slopes to the freeway. I was told, “It’s been a problem, but the city is finally taking care of it.”
Apparently they’re taking care of it by giving them free money, needles, tarps, and designated campgrounds. Okay.
But some people still set up a tarp shanty leaning down the hill right to the freeway (sounds safe!).
Portland is a really cool place. But I’m glad I get to just visit.
Okay, Jarek, you are right on the mark for blaming capitalism for what is going on. These cities being mentioned are the collection points for the fallout of the capitalist system, bad capitalism. Capitalism provides incentive with competition. At first though, there has to be a playing field that is large enough to keep everyone occupied. That is what the Bushes and Obama did to us by allowing corporations to move middle class jobs offshore. Today when someone is fired, or let go, there is little expansion for them to move into. Hence, long term or permanent unemployment. BTW, this group is not even included in the unemployment figures. The long term unemployed are accumulating so fast and the drug and homeless problems are solid indicators of the economic malaise that exists.
Just watch the cities, they are the best measure of the failure of bad capitalism, crime, homelessness, riots are all caused by the hopelessness that our government has caused.
The Democratic Party wants dependent people to feed its socialistic machine. Right now they are as happy as a pig eating shit with what is going on. The hopelessness of bad non competitive capitalism turns into socialism and ultimately either fascism or communism with very little problem.
“That is what the Bushes and Obama did to us by allowing corporations to move middle class jobs offshore. ”
It started big-time in the Clinton administration.
No John, you still don’t have it. Capitalism is about making money. Period. The ideology that the invisible hand will save everyone is the lowest form of crap. An invisible secular god, basically. The dialectic for suckers of the capitalist persuasion. Countless people were ruined and destroyed and are being ruined and destroyed.
Competition? Really? It’s a sin in late stage Capitalism. I’m sure it was real (and ruinous for the defeated) in mid stage Capitalism. Mid-stage Capitalism leads to late stage Capitalism – so how good could it have been?
It might have been fine – but it wasn’t gong to stop itself from becoming late stage. That has to be done by men of the higher castes. In your terms, that means a Government stronger than the Corporations. Yes, that means big Government!
As Islander reminds us, the Corporations offshored our industrial base – to China! And the remaining jobs? They brought in countless third worlders to undercut American labor. Simply put, they are traitors and deserve the gallows.
It started in the 80s, under the Evil Reagan.
But under Clinton the whole traitorous enterprise became legal and encouraged, with NAFTA and the WEF.
Jobs were sent overseas and factories shuttered beginning under Reagan in the early 1980s. It destroyed many small cities and towns, especially in “flyover” country.
It’s sad to look at photos and videos of those bustling towns in the midwest in the 1960s that had lovely town centers and their own downtowns with shops and restaurants that weren’t big chains. They had local color and uniqueness.
Under Reagan they were brutally destroyed. Most of them are still decrepit and have never recovered.
I was born in the US, but left at age three, and didn’t return until 1977, age 12.
The way I saw it as a (geeky) kid, and still see it, as a geeky older man, is that America had declined, objectively (unemployment, foreign cars and goods, the US, trade deficit, budget deficit) and subjectively (crime, drugs, the behavior in the 1977 NY blackout vs 1965).
I see PaulaD and MaryQueen’s points about Reagan. The 1980s poured fuel on the “financialization” of the US economy,that started in the mid/late 1960s.
Even if this had not happened, American factory workers and factories would have face a big adjustment, in my opinion, due to foreign competition. Still, FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) made it worse.
In many metrics, on paper, “on average”, “overall”, the US never had it so good as 1992-2019, but I don’t buy it.
I think before I was born, Americans were optimistic about the future. JFK’s assassination, the Vietnam War, the race riots, inflation, the energy crisis, unemployment, pick one, or all, eroded that.
Optimism is very important.
But my views are evolving too, now. The older I get, the less I realize I know, and what I do know has been “framed” a certain way.
In the 1950s, if one was willing to work hard, most of the time, for most people, America was the best place on earth. True. Mostly. I know many people who were not born in the US who did very well here. And I know many native-born Americans who did well too, and got into the middle class–or better.
But why? Was it because of the US’ superior form of Constitutional governance? Was it because this country was very blessed with natural resources? Was it because it had no serious enemies at its borders? All of the above?
Was it because English settlers won “the lottery” and left drab and grey Britain, survived in the harsh sunny AND snow new world, were able to prevail against their French and Spanish rivals, as well as the Native Americans, and gain access to all of the above, to a virgin country, and didn’t fumble the bounty they got? (other than one bloody Civil War)
In the 1950s, in the developed world, the USA really was the only game in town. The rest of the developed world was bombed out, in ruins, or broke financially. As the world recovered, inevitably America’s overwhelming dominance would not continue.
But still, it seemed wrong to me that so many people in the US (at least in greater NYC) drove foreign cars, had Japanese TV sets and electronics in the 1970s.
Hard times make good men, good men make good times, good times make bad men, bad men make hard times.
The “good times” of the 1950s and 1960s poured fuel on the future decline with the baby boomer generation, the most spoiled group ever.
So know we find ourselves in this place.
But maybe it’s bigger than everything I just wrote.
Maybe it’s the latest chapter, the beginning of the final chapter, in a war that predates the USA.
The war that started about a thousand years ago, between the West and non-West. Between people who write in Latin letters and those who do not.
There have only been two major “NON-Western” white/European powers in history: the Byzantines, who ceased to be a major power long before the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, and Russia.
(We’ve had many Western Powers: Venice, Genoa, Sweden, Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Britain, Austria, Prussia/Germany)
The Christian Orthodox empires used Greek, and later Cyrillic (which was invented by Orthodox monks, Saints Cyril and Methodius, to give the Slavic peoples North of the Byzantine Empire an alphabet so they could read the bible and practice Christianity).
One could say, and I don’t know enough about this, but it is plausible, that the West in general, and capitalism in particular, are built on the dead bones and looted gold the Crusaders took in 1204 from Constantinople, on the way “back home” after their failed Crusade to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land. The Byzantine Empire never really recovered from this “stab in the back” by the Catholic West.
The Catholic West gave birth to Protestantism and all its various denominations; to Communism, the virus injected into Russia by the Germans (who logically, wanted Russia out of WW1), and secular humanism. The USA itself is a creation of the West, as is Latin and South America.
The plunder from Constantinople, which in 1203 was arguably the richest, most sophisticated city in Europe and the middle east may have provided the “capital”, in the form of gold, for fractional reserve banking and begun the transition to capitalism.
Capitalism was key in leveraging knowledge and science to create new products and processes that made life easier, and more importantly, enriched people, and most importantly perhaps, enriched those who could marshal and control money (capital), and make money with money.
And this catapulted the West forward.
And the money powers decided they could rule from behind the scenes by pulling the monarch’s strings using money and debt, and in this way, essentially rule. And THAT is where we have been for centuries, certainly since the 1890s.
See Dr. Carroll Quigley’s “expose”, “Tragedy and Hope”.
The Western Elite, those who write with Latin letters, want to dominate the world, by any means. They hate Russia for numerous reasons: Russia is not subordinate to the US dollar; Russia doesn’t have to be, since it is the most self-sufficient nation on earth; it has strong military; it is not Western, and it is Christian. All reasons to take it down. And that is what this war in Ukraine is about–the West’s attempt to weaken and subvert Russia. One year ago, Putin said “enough” and the Russian troops rolled in…
Russia’s recovery from the implosion of Communism during the 1990s, when life expectancy dropped to 59, is itself a miracle.
The US/West is not going to “win” this round called the Ukraine War against Russia.
And this loss will make them angry and desperate, and their policies of “sanctions” and control, overt or covert, and using weaponizing the dollar, will have a backlash in the other 80% of the world, who will accept the support of that OTHER elite that today simply want to not be controlled by the West, but tomorrow may want to rule the planet themselves.
The other elite are the leaders of China, the descendants of the far eastern version of the Roman Empire. They of course have a totally different alphabet.
We’ve seen, and see every day, the US/Western Elites have no scruples. The US incinerated tens of thousands of civilians in WW2; rather than “‘peacefully” starve the Japanese with a blockade, the US nuked them. Vietnam. Serbia, Iraq. Libya.
Closer to home: the COVID fiasco and the mRNA vaccines.
That does not mean I consider the Chinese leadership to be virtuous. I do not. They want what THEY want. They also push vaccines. The Chinese have the “Social Credit Score”.
So, the Western Globalists and Chinese leadership both seek to control their populations first, and the West seeks to then expand their control to others.
If I was half as good a writer as JHK, and knew more, I might pull this all these thoughts together more coherently.
If I was half as good a writer as JHK, and knew more, I might pull this all these thoughts together more coherently.
Enjoyable and well-written post.
I think that you nailed two reasons that the US working class did well in the 50s and 60s, Socrates. One is that the rest of the industrialized world was demolished, and the other is that the US still had plentiful resources.
I would say that another reason the US working class did well is that capital had been reined in and labor had been legalized to have interests of our own.
Income taxes were high on the wealthy and corporations paid over half of the revenue that ran the country.
The incentive was to improve wages and benefits rather than to siphon off all wealth in the country to the top 1%.
I don’t think it had anything to do with earlier capitalist plunder. The working class of England (where my ancestors lived) in no way benefited from the ocean piracy of their rulers.
And the Enclosure Acts threw them off the land and into the mines. My great grandfathers went into the coal mines at ages 6 and 8. Now they try to tell me that capitalism benefited them?
Yeah, no. My grandfather and his brothers helped organize the UMW in the 30s. THAT is what benefited them, not the owners.
There was a brief time in US history when workers were fairly well off, but the Empire struck back, and now here we are, living off the dregs of what our forefathers built, while stepping over bodies living on the sidewalks, subjected to endless propaganda pushing more wars, from our TVs and our phones.
I am not impressed.
Socrates-Detroit, If you are looking to make sense of it all, I would suggest a free book that Dalio posted online, one chapter at a time starting in 2020. He paints the big picture, and gets into the details of each brush stroke that make up the big picture. I found the correlations fascinating.
The Changing World Order
linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-order-ray-dalio-1f
The US has a unique history–at least unique for modern times. We had a long history in which land was available for free, or almost for free, or at least cheap. We also had vast frontiers where a person could be genuinely free, even if at his peril. Free enterprise was almost completely untrammeled.
In situations where people can enjoy the fruits of their own labors (as opposed to being robbed of them by government), they become very industrious. If nobody is telling them what they can and can’t do, and how they can and can’t do it, they become very innovative.
Few other nations have enjoyed this level of freedom. Not only did our nation get a taste of freedom, it’s enshrined in our Constitution and our traditions. So we’re quite a bit more troublesome to the PTB most other nations that have never experienced an era of freedom–at least not since the Stone Age.
Well said, Ant. And that’s over now. It was a temporary situation. There only so much land after all – and much of it is if not utterly worthless, good for only grazing cattle or sheep.
Of course we could open up all public lands and parks for another bonanza. That would be temporary too – and we’d be left with no parks.
Now we have to manage what we have. Balance public and private. Corporate greed heads aren’t going to do that. The WEF will do it, but in a way that only benefits them and the Corporations on board.
Sorry, a struggling family business that just wants to cut down all trees it can for lumber isn’t the highest moral authority in the world. People like that aren’t bad, but they do have to be told No sometimes.
BRH also loves the opening of America, focusing on the fighting and adventure. He overlooks the amount of mental illness endemic in the lonely lifestyle of these men. And of course the vast amount of crime also endemic in the Old West.
No system is more sensitive to consumer demand. Or more effective in meeting that. I acknowledge that. You can’t have the ladies all wearing the same five dresses or everyone wearing wrinkled gray pyjamas. Properly controlled, Capitalism adds to the joy of life. And it gives people their independence as you have said.
I read all of the Little House books, as a child. It didn’t sound very idyllic to me, no matter how hard they worked.
Maybe that’s why by the time I was a teenager, Ayn Rand seemed stupid to me.
Hope your right but wont hold breath.
bullitt – People will suffer and will be wondering when BUILD BACK BETTER will begin.
Easy. Two months before the 2024 elections.
What is the difference between MAGA and Build Back Better?
BBB is a facade!
And what is the same with the two of those concepts?
Neither one can or will be accomplished. How’s that Roman Empire doing these days? How well are those waves ruled by Britannia? It was a good run while it lasted but its time has passed.
Carthage will never die!
Oh, wait….
No it isn’t. It is another case of inversion.
All of the digital infrastructure they are putting in place to lock you out of the society is BBB.
The Clintons, Bushes, Obama and add Ronnie Raygun to the list too.
Yes. I remember my boss talking about the brilliance of off-shoring in the late 80s. When I responded by asking how the resulting unemployed would purchase our products, she started screaming crazy at me.
So tbe planning for it & early stages were underway under Reagan.
Yes, I can can remember going into a Savings and Loan in the 80’s when Reagan was President and signing a petition there against having to submit your Social Security number before opening an account there. Before that time you didn’t need the SS# to open an account. How much has been lost……
But minorities will suffer more. That’s all that matters.
Before one builds, one destroys. People are dull indeed not to catch that.
Bullitt,
I am interested in all theories. Mine is that nothing happens this summer. Who knows? Walmart just closed their last two stores in Portland because of the massive thefts (its called shrinkage in the retail biz).
The debt ceiling doesn’t reach the wall until Sept 30th this year. And I think, like they have before, Congress will stage kabuki theatre and then raise the ceiling on Sept 30.
I just don’t see a catalyst for this summer. But who knows? Nobody foretold that the death of a high-as-a-kite counterfeiter (George Floyd) would wreak all the havoc that it has.
mrs-
The debt ceiling was reached on January 19,2023. The Treasury Department will begin using accounting tools at its disposal, called “extraordinary measures,” to avoid defaulting on the government’s obligations, which Secretary Yellen indicates should allow for continued borrowing until at least early June 2023. At the point of exhaustion of those measures, absent a new agreement to either raise or suspend the debt ceiling, the Treasury will be unable to continue paying the nation’s bills and the U.S. will default.
Fetterman-Biden 2024….Our last chance at salvation…
Yeeehaw…..
Traditionally it is not considered a good place to be when faith is what is left to call upon for strength.
I think the world could do with some of it right now though, at least to give perspective as to how far we’ve slipped and why.
Godless, hedonistic, self-serving, habitual failure is not exactly conducive to a strong society. I’ll gladly take a healthy dollop of faith that we and our actions mean more than nothing…
We always have, and they always have…we’ve just collectively and joyfully heaved the “antiquated farce” of faith out a third-story window like so much dishwater of late.
Best of luck this week, all.
Agreed with all. The phrase “In God we trust” on the US dollar says it all, with “God” in this case being the dollar – money – itself. When that faith is gone, faith in everything else will soon follow.
Hadn’t really thought of it that way before. But it makes a whole lot of sense.
I have a side client that is wanting to pay me in gold ounces for my work. I said hell yes.
That can’t be deleted.
Dis
Americans have had faith in what they believe is God’s plan for us.
What has evolved in this perverted country is definitely NOT God’s plan
Have we been cast adrift just waiting for the iceberg?
Yes, Christ asked whose face is on the coin.
Caesar’s, the man answered.
Christ: Therefore render unto Caesar’s what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.
More: Since the money is false, created out of nothing is blasphemous imitation of God, it is cursed.
jesus saves–just ask the 122 passengers on the airliner as it slammed into the mountain,every one praying like the end was near..it was ….keep the faith baby….
Hmm. Would you prefer they said, “Eh, who gives a shit?” as they slammed into that mountain?
Sit in the back of the plane
Yes, we heard you the first time.
That was for happiface.
It’s what happened after their physical bodies died that matters. The fate of our souls is what matters.
Our physical bodies all die sooner or later. Better suddenly & unexpectedly than one excruciating piece at a time. See Maddie Degaray, for example.
What did Gandhi say when shot? Hey Ram. Oh God. When do people say during orgasm? Oh God. What will you say (hopefully) with your last breath? Hey Ram. Oh God.
To Him we do return. Or we can go elsewhere. There are many elsewhere. But He is best, yea, He is best.
A great line: “anything of value thrown overboard in some weird post-modern potlatch ceremony of twisted moral righteousness”
Yes, a great line.
I have felt for some time that I personally made it into the lifeboat, but where i go from my relative safety is anybody’s guess.
Things of value being thrown overboard?
The Republicans at CPAC decided that school choice was more important than the other issues we face.
Not wrenching back our public school system, once the greatest in the world, from the communists at their front men in the trans movement.
Duh! Congress, who would never deign to send their own kids to the same schools as the masses do, would love to have the taxpayers pony up for a fraction of the steep tuition they pay for their children’s high-toney private schools.
I’ve a cabin in my backwoods you’d be most welcome to inhabit while you decide your next move.
Thank you, but woods scare me at night.
That’s what the over/under is for!
School choice is the attempt to break the Woke teacher’s unions from indoctrinating instead of educating.
First thing though must be elimination of the Department of Education.
Yes. The solution to the problem in the schools isn’t more top-down control.
The way to stop the indoctrination is to stop the indoctrination.
You don’t burn down the house to get rid of the roaches.
What makes anybody think that private schools don’t support a woke curriculum?
What makes anybody thing that a school that receives taxpayer dollars won’t be subjected to government ordering them what to teach?
Haven’t we seen that already in our universities?
Who benefits most from the destruction of our public schools?
The thing is, public schools are still primarily funded by local taxes and state subsidies.
So the local level is actuallya good place to start fighting. That is why school board elections have become political hot spots.
Yes, Islander. People don’t understand much about school funding or about property taxes either, for that matter.
1000% correct. Teachers unions in America have more power than almost any corporation, religious order or charity. A travesty that has corrupted American education for the last 40 years. Look at our worldwide scholastic scores.
Ask any teacher, union head why dont tey allow cameras in the classrooms? Think about it.
The most overpaid underworked employees in America. Think I’m wrong? Do some research on the pension holdings of teachers unions. Wonder why our school tax is astronomical?
You are quite right, John.
A case example is how the system here in Germany is run.
It is impossible to home school your kid, or choose an alternative school other than a Waldorf school.
Break the rules and the fines start piling up, and, ulitmately, your child could be taken from you.
Things one learns as an ex-pat.
School choice is the only way left to do that. That and homeschooling.
The old intellectual elite warned us about public schooling. They were right – as usual.
You want Blacks to “pass”, right? Get into high school and then college? Then basically no standards is the only way to go. You’re on both sides of this issue since you believe that every one is equally smart. That’s cultural or pop communism btw.
School choice isn’t a fix, is what I am saying.
There is no fix as long as you believe in equality and consent to having it mandated since the opposite (reality) is “racism”.
Homeschooling has many good results.
Mozart, for example, was home schooled.
Then again, he died broke at 35. Okay, not broke. He had plenty of income. He just owed more than he made.
Not saying homeschooling had anything to do with that. But no matter the reason, the end result was a brilliant career followed by living far outside his means, also likely gambling, and then his kidneys exploded.
“Then again, he died broke at 35.”
Why not inform yourself of how much Mozart earned, and HOW HE DIED?
Recall, there was no such thing as copyright in those days. Mozart was a creative entrepreneur who, whenever he organized a public concert, had to compose some new pieces to perform.
Mozart died in agony, of an infection that became systemic and could not be stopped. There was no penicillin, remember?
I did inform myself on the topic. No one knows for sure what killed him given the time period and exact medical details available, but based on the described symptoms, some modern doctors/historians have speculated kidney failure at least played a role.
I did say he earned a lot of money. Also that he owed more than he made when he died. That equals broke, even if he was being paid handsomely for his work.
Technically copyright laws did exist in 1791 (albeit barely), just not for his business model (benefactor/commission/performance buyout). He didn’t live long enough to benefit from the new laws that were being implemented for creative rights.
What did I miss here?
I am unsure if I am actually entertained by the Net + flix inanities. They mostly pass the time.
Our civilization in a microcosm: waiting for the other shoe to drop.
This is not to suggest that the global elites are not working on a brighter future for themselves, but we folk, in steerage, we’re all programmed to wait to see what they have in store for us.
Like cattle in the chute at the processing facility.
We react, not even that. We have no plans for ourselves, our station, our socio-economic class.
Tell me, what are our goals?
Who represents us?
We are pieces on the board. One group wants us dead, reduced, curtailed, and locked down and the alternative wants us in 15 minute cities.
We are phucked
Yes. When Der Schwabenklaus informed us that in 10 years we will own nothing and be happy, why was he not asked what he will own at that point?
He will own everything you once had, and he will be happy.
Less and less of my friends are allowing themselves to be drugged by Netflix programming and cutting back on TV and CIA entertainment in general.
Once you understand that it is all programming, it’s kinda hard to enjoy it.
People who coined epithets like “boob tube” and “idiot box” were spot on.
For the general public who is still asleep, I would guess that paid streaming would be one of the first things to go when money for food gets tight… but of course I could be wrong.
I’m trying to quit eating sugar and I’m watching you tube videos about how dangerous the stuff is. Doctors on videos are telling me I’ll be feeling completely different and much better after I cut it out of my diet. Well, I’m working on it.
But I have managed to cut tv out of my life completely for about 30 years now. I have no cable tv, no Netflix, no nothing except for internet, and that’s a bad enough time waster as it is. When I’m out and about and in other homes, I do watch tv out of curiosity, some people have these things going constantly. Tv comes across as being really weird and fake as well as being embarrassingly stupid. A while back I was watching a very popular show at a neighbor’s house called “Yellowstone”. The scenery was great but the story lines were nonsense. People don’t act like that in rural Montana or in any other rural areas. The shows are just as silly and unrealistic as the old black and white tv Westerns.with all the endless gratuitous violence and guns coming out at the slightest provocation. And then after the shootout, the combatants dust themselves off, laugh, and go enjoy another round at the bar. .
Good for you getting rid of sugar, and not addicted to TV, either!
You will feel better. Refined sugar is poison. It’s fine in very small doses but most stuff that is sugary has too much.
I use honey or maple syrup when I want to sweeten something. And eat fruit, and you won’t crave sugar.
YouTube is great for stuff like that. I watch documentaries, old movies and informational programs like what you mentioned. I watch several psychiatrist channels. All very helpful, and not time-wasting garbage.
Are humans meant to eat honey and maple syrup?
Make your case, sugar.
Hey Jarek. There’s a big difference between how refined sugar behaves in your body and how natural sugars in honey, maple syrup, sugar cane etc. work in your body. Refined sugar is lacking all the other ingredients present in foods like honey. Those other natural ingredients reduce the toxic effects of the sugar itself.
Maybe. Bears eat honey! But only occasionally. Every day? A jar per month habit, Woody?
At AA they fully indulge in sugar to make up for the loss of a more refined sugar, alcohol. Are you going to do the same with honey and maple syrup?
Was raised on it. TV boob toob idiot box. Till 78. Went thru 20 yrs of none cept X files.
After 98 chose other distractions and preoccupational sensory stimulants. All the same thing.
Watching TV constantly or total abstinence makes no differrence.
Unless I choose judgemental ignorance.
Then I can gaslight myself as somewhat superior, evolved, enlightened, awake, aware or whatever else my ego chooses to hide behind.
F**k that!
Human beings can believe or not whatever we choose.
I wasn’t raised on tv and my parents refused to purchase one and told us the programming was garbage. My dad and mom had come to this conclusion in the 50’s after they’d seen an episode of “Pinky Lee” somewhere. I had to go down the street to somebody else’s home to watch tv. When myself and my siblings grew old enough to make our own money by mowing, raking leaves, yes – even shoveling snow – we were told that if we wanted a tv we could buy one of our own but it had to stay in our bedrooms and wasn’t about to become a permanent fixture in the living room. Allowance money came via hard work, and my money continued to be spent on stuff like bb guns, baseball gloves, fishing rods, bicycle accessories etc. I never was able to save up enough to buy my own tv. They weren’t cheap in the 50’s. I finally got my own tv in 1960 when a relative died and willed their tv to us, feeling badly that we didn’t have one. My parents went to their graves never owning one, and yes, that first tv was still banished from the living room.
Montana and I assume Wyoming are under intense attack. People are being guilt tripped for being White and living among other Whites.
Do you understand this? If you change the people, you change everything.
I was born and raised close to Helena. My summers were spent at “the ranch”. I know Montana pretty well.
People ask me if I’ve watched the Hollywood sagas Yellowstone or 1923, (my mom was born there 1922) I generally tell ’em I haven’t the need to watch it, I’ve lived it.
I miss the mountains but I don’t miss the idiots who transplanted.
I have 1500 sq feet of fenced garden space. It used to be mud season paddock for my 2 horses, so is a foot+ deep in compost. I already have garden space up by my house filled with (so-far) self-sowing kale.
My pullets started laying in a week earlier than expected, and so far are laying more eggs than expected in their breed. They are a rare breed developed in the Great Depression by a woman for women, who did most of the hen-keeping back then. Very self-sufficient foragers in spring, summer & fall. They also are “mousers” so should be able to stay mouse-free. I have a rooster for their protection, they tend to hang close to the horses & at night they roost 8′ up, so they should be pretty safe from 4-footed & winged predators. 2-footed are a different problem, but hopefully sharing extra eggs will dissuade would-be hen thieves.
My 2 horses will be transportation when there is no gas. I’m looking for reasonable harness & cart now to provide taxi service. An additional plan for them is to offer labor-free, garden “rototilling & composting” to neighbors by putting them in temporary paddocks during spring & fall mud season.
My neighbor across the street is a problem, but his mother just died do there is a chance he will move into her house. Fingers crossed.
So yes, sone of us have plans. An awful lot depends on quality of neighbors. Unfortunately, my best is 100 years old & has been sick off & on ever since he got jabbed last year.
I realized long ago that the word “neighbor” is sometimes the ugliest word in English and sometimes the loveliest.
We have a beautiful stand of “Old Growth” Red Oak. Our neighbors’ stand started dying of “Oak Wilt” (a fungus transmitted by root grafts). Over the years, I offered him mature maples to replace his losses if he would cut the trees and burn the stumps (must be burned). He declined. I offered to pay someone he chose to harvest the trees, he decline. I offered him $1,000 cash, he declined.
Once, all of his trees were dead and ours were infected, he cut down his trees so he could build a garage, which was the plan all along.
Berries
What of making him an offer he couldn’t refuse?
A friend of mine in the 90’s used to have poker nights at his home, one’s which I attended. A neighbor impugned the City council to have him stop due to traffic. (12 or 13 vehicles a night, probably) I suggested to him that he have a chat with his neighbor, and suggest that if he continued his attacks, that my friend would then move, and rent the house as an AID’S Hospice, or some other horror.
The issues were resolved.
Thanx for the suggestion but, there are complications to that approach.
I’ll tell you what I am going to do.
Some years back it rained and rained and rained, 8″ in 24 Hrs.
It flooded 1/2 of my backyard but it flooded the neighbor up to the foundation, backed up the septic tank and flooded his basement through the floor drain with 2 feet of poop water. – wasn’t anything to be done until it receded, about 10 days later. Cue – black mold, everywhere.
There was no professional remediation, he just tore out the sheet rock and replaced it. I’ve got pictures that will be useful to whomever is listing the property or interested in buying it.
As I’m sure you already know, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Nyuck Nyuck.. Har!!!
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importuned, of curse….
“hopefully sharing extra eggs will dissuade would-be hen thieves.”
Mary,
I guarantee you…GUARANTEE YOU,,, that it will do nothing of the sort.
That’s what those mean dogs that come running at you when you approach a farm are for.
@mary.m, I grew kale the year before last. It was great, but lots of insects liked it too and ate quite a bit of my crop. Last year I grew Swiss Chard, which can be used pretty much like kale or spinach. It grew like crazy and the insects didn’t bother it at all.
@ Rowdypiglet:
Around here, we harvest kale and collards till some time in June, when the cabbage worms start to eat them up. Thing is, they complete their life cycle after a couple of months, and the kale and collards resurrect, so we can harvest them from about September until a hard freeze. (They like a little frost.)
We freeze a lot of kale and collards for the times when you can’t cut them fresh.
I don’t like chard very much. I do love beet greens.
Lost one of my hens to a hawk. Thought the chickens were too big to be killed and flown away. The hawk just killed it and started eating it in place.
There are special jersey with eyes for hens. It scares the raptors.
Best Titanic analogy for our current situation yet! Thanks, Jim.
“Even if you’re too mentally drained to believe it, act as if it is so.” This is what I endeavor to do, and has become my daily intention. What helps is the realization that the PTB/monsters in charge want us to lose our minds in the chaos. Knowing that gives me resolve not to let them get their way.
Rectenwald does great work. Yet another professor who was pushed out of academia in the early days of the woke scourge. His quote is apt: If we are destined to be ruled by elites, let’s at least get rid of the current ones, and replace them with something less grotesque and psychotic.
The thing about believing something might get fixed is, if we keep going, it could happen.
If we give up, it won’t.
Exactly.
I am going down fighting. That is for sure.
Thanks to the Covid lie, I decided to adopt a whole food, plant based diet in my old age. I could no longer trust healthcare to save me, and so I had to save myself. It made sense. That was two months ago at the start of the year. I’m still on it. Can’t stand the taste of meat now…or anything the corporate monsters package as food. I don’t eat it and I save hundreds of dollars a week. Weird. Weirder, still, I’m discovering that everything these assholes peddle is a lie, and so I’ve sworn off the rest of it, too. Easy to do, because I traded in my suburban life for a small town out in the middle of flyover. Here I live in my $90,000 house with my low property taxes and utilities and wood stove and a forest across the road that has more deadwood in it than Washington DC. I guess what i’m saying is that we all make choices. I’ve made some pretty good ones before they were made for me. I have adapted and ot only is life very good, it’s actually better than it was before. Best of all, it was my choice, not theirs. Live free or die,Bitches.
amen, Liz! My family and I are in a similar situation, small town, low cost of living, and low stress. Made the choice to homeschool last year because of what we saw during the “pandemic”. Best choice ever!
Well done, Liz!!
Isn’t it amazing when you eat whole foods how much better you feel? And also when you try to return to any sort of junk it is gross and unappealing.
Our bodies really know what we need.
I envy you your setup. I am hoping to get something like that before it’s too late. We’ll see.
Congrats on getting out…
At the same time a little meat once in a while is quite good for you.
Recently made a big pot of venison stew. Mostly potatoes and carrots,
but that little bit of meat made for several hearty cold weather meals.
Hear ya. Me too. Been planting fruit trees too. Hope I’m around to get some fruit.
To add a quantitative twist to JHK’s very eloquent blog this morning, banking insiders are reporting that the Fed is putting 1-2BILLION$ patches (via reverse repos printed out of nowhere) into the banking system NIGHTLY to keep it afloat, Credit Suisse (one of few banks of banks) is having a run w/ 100Billion+ withdrawals in the past 30 days, Blackstone has defaulted on a 600Mil$ building complex in NYC, and China has just terminated 53.6BILLION$ in loans to US gov and companies, to name a few. Also, as most know by now the US Corp defaulted on its loan payment pkg at end of Jan, and many many countries, even Turkey, have applied for membership in the BRICS system. But hey, party on bros, just don’t expect a livable pension or other USD$ based entity that can actually buy anything of value. Just say’in.
Ya know, a $Billion here and a $Billion there; before ya know it we’re talking real money!
When the pension plans start to fail, the governing bodies, at whatever level, will seize and auction your tax delinquent properties.
Rest assured, by that time, you will be tax delinquent, by plan.
You may be correct, and, if so, such may be the stimulus for pitch fork time with the people. Taking one’s property is near the top of the authoritarian scale. Then again, recently they have taken one after another totalitarian actions by govmint scum and sat on their butts. Who knows?
At that time, there’s nothing left to lose so you got nothing left to lose. Is that redundant?
neurodoc,
Thank you for your post. Keep reporting on this. I know you and I don’t interpret the financial news the same way, but it is still really important for the group to hear. I am more optimistic about how long the US$ can limp along. Will it fail some day? Yes. There’s no doubt in my mind. But will it be this year or next? I just don’t see it. Maybe you can see things that I cannot.
Credit Suisse needs a bailout and the ECB just may do it. Their stock is in free fall and has been for the last ten years at least. Investors and depositors have lost confidence.
As a country, we’ve watched the kabuki theatre of the US debt ceiling crises before. We have a very inverted yield curve at present; more so than the various times this has happened before. There are all sorts of dislocations happening in the credit markets, many of which we’ve seen before.
Keep sharing what is happening and your take on it. Part of prepping for a different way of life is making decisions about how your capital is stored. Most people have almost all of the their money held in their native country’s currency (whether in cash or domestic stocks). Weimar was a great lesson on how that is not always a good idea. This is one example where diversity just for diversity’s sake can be a strength. And since we know history rhymes rather than repeats, present day situational awareness is crucial.
“And from here on, nobody is really in charge.”
🙂
And yet, everywhere to be seen is perfectly controlled demolition.
~toktomi~
Massive computer hardware and simulation algorithms with billions of variables, flipping switches
~toktomi~
Operation Looking Glass?
@hmuller
had to Google it.
Looking Glass is still probably one small pixel in the overall picture.
I mean, are we not talking about a global strategy and operations to scale down the entirety of the industrial society for the sole survival of perhaps, 20,000 among the ruling elite plus their help staff of say 500 million?
It is what I would probably do if I was in possession of $Trillions if for no other reason than to save the Biosphere from continuing to degrade to the point of becoming toxic to living organisms.
~toktomi~
I saw today that every year in Japan 800,000 humans are born and twice that number die. S. Korea, China Russia, most of Europe, lots of countries are declining in population.
You can probably thank the dramatic worldwide declining sperm count. What causes that? There’s lots of “conspiracy theories” on why and how, but it’s definitely happening.
The Elitists are getting what they want. Will they think up some nasty ways to hurry along the process?
Japan had 40 million people in 1900. That is likely far more sustainable than the 125 million it has now. But we’re supposed to wail and rend our garments if the Japanese don’t start pumping out more babies to keep the population growing?
The US had 76 million in 1900. Do you really think that our country is better off now?
Since we are talking about literature, has anyone else here read You Can’t Go Home Again?
Man! What a shock!
I heard of it, heard of the author, of course, and I finally got around to reading it at the time of the last great financial meltdown.
A real eye-opener.
Not the main story line, all the rest of it.
Yes, and the latest news from Asheville, NC, is all about cartels, street crime, Spanish speaking gangs vs black gangs, urban decay etc.
Check out who the Mayor & City Council is, which explains a lot.
Thomas Wolfe is all but forgotten, just another White author kicked off campus.
Speaking of microwaved foods, I think that much of the microwaved convenience foods and snacks are having a major impact on Americans’ health.
You can look at the labeling and these things don’t say they are especially high in calories, sugar, or carbohydrates, but people who consume a lot of that stuff will often gain weight.
I read about a study in which they gave 2 groups of people the same amount of calories, protein and carbohydrates, but one group got all processed food and one group got regular food.
Same calories, but the processed (super processed, as in extruded food-like substances, not just cooked) food eaters gained weight and the other ones didn’t.
Then they switched the groups and the group that had been eating food was put on the extruded and shaped food-like substance diet and the other one put on regular food.
The same thing happened, so you know it was the actual stuff they were eating, not personal body metabolism.
Diet is 90% of health.
Dead wrong.
Ever watch the “Devil’s Reign” with Ernest Borgnine?
@Rain
Care to offer any evidence for that quip?
~toktomi~
100% correct.
You are what you eat. If you eat chicken, you take on the characteristics of a chicken. Thus did the ancients wish to eat the heart of a brave enemy.
@Jarek
comic relief?
But I must admit I may be beginning to look a lot more like a cross between a bean stock and a rice reed.
[black beans and brown rice diet, in case the reference was too vague]
~toktomi~
Nobody looked more like a chicken than Frank Perdue.
Conrad Stalin, I have good news and bad news. A million of our peasants have developed a mental illness, thinking themselves to be chickens. But egg production is exceeding all expectations.
(Tofu-Boy nods sagely in agreement with Janos, cleans the 30.06 sniper rifle his daddy got off a hungry kraut in 1946.)
He ate the Kraut and you benefited from that. Now you have philosophical indigestion.
Alas, Vlad, you may have a point. It is moot as I lost the Mauser when Indonesian Customs had an X-ray snooper checking bagging coming off an aircraft. I loved that weapon; used to fire it on Denman Island, driving the dreamy hipsters into an unbecoming hysteria. (What will the flowers think?)
As I recall, my dad, from a Captain to a Master-Sergeant after the Reduction In Forces (RIF) at the end of the war, exchanged a carton of American smokes for the rifle.
RIF: pencil-pushers back at the Pentagon go “Thanks for fighting and dying. War’s over so you can either shove off or take four reductions in rank.”
There’s nothing like gratitude.
Reduction In Forces (RIF) – SpeedyBB
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I entered the Air Force (USAF) via a college ROTC program (as a second Louie). I was a non-flying officer and my service commitment was 3 years. The 2nd Lts who would become trained pilots had a 5 year commitment.
My 3 years would have ended in early July 1965 but along came a RIF and I was discharged April 15, 1965. I think they called it an “Early Out” program. The next day after my discharge the US bombed North Vietnam and all military discharges were halted. I started my first post-service job on May 1st. as an itinerant auditor for the Sperry and Hutchinson Company (aka S&H Green Stamps).
For some people a RIF is a good thing, for others not so much.
I agree, Robert. I spend more money on food than most people, but I don’t spend any money on doctors, so I come out far ahead.
Food, exercise, sleep, sunlight, laughter….it’s all good medicine.
Regular hours are way more important than most people acknowledge.
The irregular work schedules younger people have had to deal with for decades now probably have a lot to do with all the obesity, hormonal issues, and mental health problems they suffer from.
Congress thinks trying to pass idiocy like the Sunshine Protection Act gives us more daylight.
Here’s a study that addresses “social rhythm”.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27338753/
Actually they just did a major study on the whole world, when you think about it.
Actually they just did a major study
Yep, Beryl. I worked graveyard shift for 10 years and it about killed me.
Gave me a real appreciation for the blessing of sleep.
It’s all complete junk.
It does horrible stuff to your body, the processed crap.
Also if fat has been reduced or removed from a food that it’s supposed to be in, stay away! They usually replace the fat with sugar, which then metabolizes into fat.
I have long suspected that radiating our food is probably not a good idea (microwave).
Michele Obama got the fat out of school lunches.
“Her” guidelines allow for all kinds of crap though.
That business about microwaving food, I have heard that too, but it seems to me that it would be easy enough to gauge the nutritional value of foods pre-and post-microwaving, and to compare it to the same foods pre-and post- cooking or reheating by other methods.
Kids and adults too tend to stand right in front of the microwave until their food is done.
I’ve been reading up on resistant starches and how foods such as rice and pasta can be converted to resistant starch.
Who can forget her and the girls working in the White House garden. It’s like they were our share croppers or somethin.
I used to work with an incredibly fastidious lady a few years back in the 20-teens who swallowed the mainstream media take on fat, low cholesterol, and all that.
For one reason or another we were discussing the benefits of low or no fat dairy and I told her that the verdict was in on all that. Eat the full fat versions and avoid the sugar if you’re going to consume dairy products at all. Her head damn near exploded, but busy little bee that she always was, she went home and researched it that night (she was so conscientious that she refused to use her work computer for simple internet searches if they weren’t directly work related), and the next day she came in contrite and chastened. Said she never would have believed it, but yes, the full fat, no or low sugar added versions were the preferred versions for those consuming dairy.
This has happened before. But people back in the 30s were not universally selfish, only the rich. And we also had more resources.
But still…..
“Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
“True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.”
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.”
Who are you quoting?
Well said.
Franklin D. Roosevelt,, First Inaugural Address (1933)
If you want it well said try this:
True happiness does not come from merely possessing money; it stems from the satisfaction of achieving something and the excitement of being creatively productive. The current obsession with fleeting profits should not cause people to forget the joy and moral stimulation of work. These difficult times will be worthwhile if they teach us that our true purpose is not to be served but to serve ourselves and our fellow human beings.
As we recognize that material wealth is not the only measure of success, we must also abandon the mistaken notion that public office and high political positions should only be valued for their prestige and personal gain. Furthermore, we must put an end to business practices that have too often betrayed the trust of those who have placed their faith in us. It is not surprising that trust is in short supply when it relies on honesty, honor, the sanctity of commitments, faithful protection, and selfless effort, and these values are often absent. Without them, confidence cannot exist.
The things that bring lasting happiness are also things that require a lot of effort.
Yet, the Roosevelts were pretty rich, if his mansion on the Hudson River is any indication of wealth. That’s one historical site I have visited and it was pretty impressive.
That’s what we call ‘Old Money’. New money is my neighbor 50c garish mansion with 2 Escalades parked out front with the shiniest rims and biggest wheels you ever saw.
He was a liasion between the Capitalists and the Communists, knowing full well that the Capitalists were in charge and that Communism was their weapon against the world.
Freedom thru work! As George Bush said at one of his rallies when a woman said she worked three jobs: “Uniquely American”. What was that strange smirk on his face about I wonder?
W.C Fields: Never give a sucker an even break.
“my neighbor 50c garish mansion with 2 Escalades parked out front with the shiniest rims and biggest wheels you ever saw”
BRH,
You have my sympathy.
But I have to ask;
“How do you like it now, Gentlemen?”
Yes, he came from wealth. That is why he said that true happiness comes from being productive and serving your fellow man.
He didn’t have to, but he thought it was worthwhile to do.
E. I came into possession of a Marlin Goose Gun, 12 guage, bolt action, 36″ barrel. (My cousin gave to me, complaining it won’t fit into his safe, or any safe) I don’t know what it’s be good for, maybe shooting down drones.
I don’t hunt geese.
“I don’t hunt geese.”
BRH,
Then start doing so. Does this look familiar?
https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/99483/ICONIC-BLACK-PANTHER-POSTER-FEATURING-IMAGE-OF-HUEY-NEWTON-WITH-GUN-AND-SPEAR
Huey Newton looks to be about 14 in that picture.
Yes, Mary, FDR.
Can you imagine Joe Biden giving a speech like that?
Or any politician nowadays?
@Paul D
In one of my stories [since I possess no knowledge], I theorize no incompetence but rather, genetically predisposed to greed [busted satiation genes] and to a lack of empathy [aka psychopathy] [busted empathy genes].
…predominant conditions among European and North American white populations exacerbated among the ruling elite from generations of inbreeding.
I could be wrong. I’m just a story-teller with no followers and no believers.
~toktomi~
Incompetence? Where did I imply I think our problems come from incompetence?
I agree that our system is set up to reward (very handsomely) the greedy and evil.
If we don’t change it, it will continue.
@Paula D
“Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence,…”
I would offer that you did not simply “imply” but rather, stated unequivocally.
oh, my
~toktomi~
You are right. He did say that. I didn’t read it carefully enough when I copied and pasted.
I still agree with your points, though.
All you do is copy and paste.
Lass uns auf Deutsch unterhalten, Du lächerliche Fotze.
I copy and paste information that is useful or ideas that are intriguing.
You, on the other hand, prefer hit-and-run dumbass assertions that you demand people respond to – “I’ll wait”.
But no one bothers to respond to your dumbass assertions, they just roll their eyes and move on.
Go ahead and mutter to yourself in German, maybe it will keep you occupied.
Tell me again about politics in Germany.
Or climate change and carrying capacity.
Your thoughts are deep and rich.
Go ahead and wait.
That’s right, run along now.
Tone optimistic about the future, you have to believe that someone somewhere I’d on America and it’s people’s side.
This is not the case. Our number one enemy is our government, the illustrious Deep State. The Mob is out to get every bit of capital away from the middle class. They are global, they deal with our enemies, we really have no Allies, to steal money from Americans. Think not? It is what the climate change program is all about. It is the basis of the WEF great change. It is now number one as the Covid attempt failed.
BTW, I wonder what the labs are cooking up now.
The Uniparty is our enemy, period. Joe Average has no one watching out for him, his family, his community or his state. Right now,he is on the Titanic and the lifeboats were all cast off with the crew aboard.
The upper class women and children got into the lifeboats. They refused to row back to pick up men in the water. Such is woman. Would poor women have been any better? Maybe. Why? An interesting question. Goodness uncorrupted by money? Or because they actually needed their husband while rich women knew they would get the assets if he was dead?
I guess the Titanic is all you’ve got.
newscientist.com/article/dn22119-sinking-the-titanic-women-and-children-first-myth/
“Sinking the Titanic ‘women and children first’ myth”
Where does the notion arise that, when a ship sinks, women and children come first?
It appears to have started when the HMS Birkenhead ran aground off South Africa in 1852, but the notion became widespread after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The captain explicitly issued an order for women and children to be saved first. As a result, the survival rate for women was three times higher than for men.
This idea of chivalry at sea has gained mythological status, but you’re the first person to examine if it’s true for many other maritime disasters. What did you find?
We went through a list of over 100 major maritime disasters spanning three centuries to see if we could find data on survival rates of men and women. We ended up with data on 18 shipwrecks, involving 15,000 passengers. In contrast to the Titanic, we found that the survival rate for men is basically double that for women. We only have data on children for a limited number of shipwrecks, but it is evident that they have really bad survival prospects: just 15 per cent.
What about the noble ideal that the captain and crew put the passengers first and go down with the ship?
What we can see clearly is that the crew were more likely to survive than passengers, with 61 per cent surviving, compared to around 37 per cent of male passengers. On average, the captain was more likely to survive than the passengers.
So this notion of chivalry at sea is a myth?
Yes. It really is every man for himself.
Why do you think we bought into the “women and children first” belief?
The Titanic has been so extensively studied and it confirmed the myth. There was little empirical evidence against it. Lucy Delap of Cambridge University argues that this myth was spread by the British elite to prevent women obtaining suffrage. They said, look at the Titanic, there is no reason to give women the vote because men, even when facing death, will put the interests of women first.
In fact, you’ve found that, in general, women fare worse on British ships?
Yes, It has been claimed that “women and children first” is just a British phenomenon. But we found a lower survival rate for women on British ships than on ships of other nations.
‘Such is man’, it would seem.
Well done, GA.
Now, it would be “Those who identify as women, and children first”.
Indeed, Mr M. Can you imagine any man who is willing to compete in women’s sports being chivalrous in a shipwreck, even towards children?!
Men didn’t used to compete in women’s sports. And conversely, women didn’t used to compete in men’s sports.
Women shouldn’t compete in their own separate leagues, and that would solve the problem, on both ends, right quick.
So, if women shouldn’t compete in their own separate leagues, does that mean the stratification in men’s boxing should be eliminated as well?
GA, the Biden administration includes a high ranking health official (Richard/Rachel Levine) who identifies as an overweight woman in an admiral’s uniform. I’ll concede the first of those three points.
No, I’m not kidding. Google the picture. Warning; some things once seen, cannot be unseen
Now, that ought to be worth both a seat in the lifeboat and a Gilbert & Sullivan musical.
” I am the very model of an admirable admiral,
I’ve pumped vaccines from Boston to Cape Canaveral,”
As to your last point, GA. Logically, if a 250 pound bruiser identified as a bantam weight in his own mind, he should be allowed to pound the shit out of the little guys.
By “logically”, of course, I mean using woke logic.
hm – I’ve seen Richard/Rachel and can confirm that his/her/their image can’t be unseen, by virtue of the fact that I think I’ve only seen the image once but can recall it to my mind with much horror but no difficulty.
This is ours – and she’s all woman. 🙂
pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek4L3YMWAAAgA8a.png
Admittedly that’s the worst photo of her, (probably in existence) but still.
The methodology in that article is suspect, for them to conclude that women and children first is just a myth.
How many of those 100 shipwrecks, from which they conclude that women and children are not valued above the lives of the men and crew, (by the men and crew) — how many of those shipwrecks, going down, even had the opportunity to allow for anything other than “every man for himself”?
That’s a totally central question and they don’t even touch it, they just take it for granted that in every one of those wrecks, from whence their data, there was time for an orderly evacuation.
I bet when most of those ships went down, there wasn’t time for an orderly evacuation and so naturally, the strongest and most seaworthy, starting with the crew, were more likely to survive.
Men do place women and children first, by the way, in all sorts of comparable situations. How this dynamic messes with women in combat roles, is a familiar meme.
tldr– during shipwrecks, how often is there time for a discussion about how to proceed, and who gets a seat on the lifeboat; and if there is not time for that discussion, then it’s an apples to oranges comparison, and data drawn from same doesn’t support the conclusion that women and children are not more likely to be given seats, if there is time to decide
The author specifically said that on the Titanic the captain gave an order for the women and children to be saved first (well, the first-class ones anyway). We cannot possibly say what would have happened had he not done that – we can only surmise. Perhaps the old would have given way to the young. Perhaps it would have been a free for all. We just don’t know.
And the fact remains that it’s a bit disingenuous to create a myth on the basis of one shipwreck.
And since the Titanic is largely the origin of the myth, it is disingenuous of Jarek to repeatedly harp on about the boats not going back to the site of the shipwreck when he has no clue if the boats would have gone back if they contained only men. Who’s to say men in a boat wouldn’t have been afraid of other passengers sinking their lifeboat? It’s all based on supposition, and, in Jarek’s case, prejudice.
Also, while I don’t doubt that some chivalrous men still exist, I do recall a young female former colleague of mine not just being left behind on a platform while trying to board a busy commuter train, but being actively shoved to the ground by a man so that he could get on. Times have changed.
It’s hard to kick against the pricks, is it not meine Frau?
You don’t like what women are, but feel you must defend them because you’re one!
Stop identifying with your body and you will see the Truth.
I don’t like what women are? Women are just like men, some good, some bad, some atrocious.
I just get sick of listening to you recycling your tired incel memes, which have no basis in provable fact.
Who would you give up your seat in the lifeboat for, Jarek?
Women are just like men. Blacks are just like Whites. There’s no high or low or medium. Everyone is the same except for the paint job and genitalia.
Culture Communism. What need for any nations?
Why should men give up anything to people who are just like them? Marriage? What for?
As the song 2525 says:
Get you son
Get your daughter too
From the bottom of a
long black tube.
Stop being a disingenuous pricklet.
I said women were just like men in that there are good, bad and atrocious ones, not that women are just like men, period.
You aren’t that stupid.
But you are that devious.
And all to avoid saying that there is no-one you’d give up your seat in the lifeboat for.
Remember the Sultana! Huge wreck many people hardly know about. The poor souls went through the Civil War,starved and died from disease at Andersonville Prison Camp, and adding insult to injury. burned and maimed in a gigantic ship explosion on their way home to get back to their families. I knew all about it but my wife had never heard of it. Mostly white boys I guess. Overshadowed by the shooting of the rail -splitter.
@JohnAZ
Yours observations here might be spot on.
They’re just a little too myopic and parochial for my taste.
~toktomi~
“BTW, I wonder what the labs are cooking up now”.
Their latest pandemic tabletop, Catastrophic Contagion, features SEERS (Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome). It starts in Latin America in ’25 and targets children.
More absurdity they will push on us. Enteroviruses target the GI tract.
But their new bioweapon will be an enterovirus that targets the lungs???
They know that people will believe any bullshit they are fed, if enough news readers repeat it.
New Rule: only Mr Kunstler is allowed to make pronouncements, readers are only allowed to make comments on his pronouncements.
When did you become the boss of me. Who do you think you are. Ayn Rand?
You already broke your new rule, doc..
@doc
I’m perceiving way too much irony and humor in your pronouncement of this rule.
So, here’s mine. STFU!
kidding, of course.
~toktomi~
Things will get ugly and fast. get a patch and put in some seeds. right quick. problem is saving and protecting said produce.make sure you have a couple rounds for your loved ones an pets. sounds cruel but life is a cruel teacher.. Death is not so bad. Face the sun and get a tan. Darkness comes at sunset. Oh boy. Ouch!!
@stelmosfire
Absolutely, get those seeds in, especially if you live within a half mile of any neighbors, cuz they’re gonna be hungry and out their lookin’ for some grits.
Oh, and be sure that your seeds are from high producing hybrid stock. Don’t bother to read up on any of the science of seed saving; it’s not nearly as complicated as some would suggest.
Thanks for the life-saving advice.
okay, so I can be a sarcastic asshole when confronted by ignorant arrogance.
But on a sincere note, I would offer that death is indeed bad if you subscribe to the definition of “bad” as being simply what one dislikes.
I am literally dying of a brain affliction, and I can attest to its detestable nature.
~toktomi~
Obvious solution to that problem….don’t plant grit seeds.
It’s a simple concept bound in so many others offering explanation of human cognitive dissonance: Difference in “tolerance for ambiguity” explains why dogmatic beliefs persists without objectively reasoned basis.
One of the local papers has announced a new comments policy.
One of the new rules?
“We won’t allow comments that simply are not true, such as climate change denial.”
Where to begin.
This new policy of truth detection would seem to eliminate the need for juries and science—just for starters.
I have seen a few absurd “simply not true” accusations and fisticuffs already in comments.
The birth of the a new rhetorical weapon, the SNT-bomb.
That climate change scam has fallen apart. It’s only the MSM and John Kerry and Al Gore that believe it.
Total biosphere degradation is already “baked into the cake”.
Those alarmists regarding ‘Global Warming’ are dumb as stumps, having no knowledge whatoever of the actual science.
To wit:
All of their agenda and arguments are based solely upon atmospheric phenoma, such as greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, blah, blah, blah.
What very few actually understand is the following:
1. Water vapor is also a ‘greenhouse gas’. No one screaming about that.
2. Molecule-for-molecule, Methane is 30x more efficacious in terms of atmospheric heating than Carbon Dioxide. All are screaming however about CO2 — aka plant food.
3. The effects of anthropogenic (man-made) ‘global warming’ [hereafter ‘AGW’] we have thus far been able to measure pertain to atmospheric effects only.
4.). 80% of total AGW thus far, is not even discernable. That ‘invisible’ percentage of total planetary AGW-induced latent heat is stored in the oceans.
5.) Read 4.) again — slowly.
6.). This being the case, we have thus far only seen the measurable effects of only 20% of total heating effects of AGW to the planet.
6.) Nothing thus far has been done to remediate the measureable 20%. Simply not possible. Thus all the theatre.
7.). The ‘hidden’ 80% of the stored latent heat from AGW is now beginning to be discharged from the oceans to the atmosphere.
8.). This process is known as ‘abrupt climate change’.
9.) Due to abrupt climate change, currently 80% of arable land on the planet (land upon which food is able to be grown) is either too wet, too dry, too hot or too cold for viable food production. Plants aka animal/people food.
10.) The maximum temperature at which human beings are able to survive is 35 degrees C Wet Bulb.
11.) Your individual mileage will NOT vary
12.) Photosynthesis stops at 40 degrees C.
I’m having a bit of fun imagining all the severe cognitive dissonance that must be going on in the minds of climate alarmists everywhere in Southern Ca who are snowed in at the moment, shivering in the dark with snow piled up to their roofs and food unavailable. Whatever happened to Al Gore’s predictions about being “snow free” by this time. Instead, we can find news and information online like this:
“Record Cold And Snow To Persist Across U.S.
This has been a winter to remember for many across the United States–and Canada, too.
Even now, large swathes of Northern California remain under winter storm warnings, with residents in southern parts of the state still pleading with authorities for help following the latest round of record-setting snowfall.
“We’re stranded,” one Crestline resident told CBS News. “We’re imprisoned. We can’t get down.”
Another local waited three hours in a food line: “The neighbors across the street, they have two little kids,” she said. “They need some milk.”
Vicegrip inadvertently let’s slip the weakness with the AGW dogma.
If it’s too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry, too windy, too calm. If there’s any kind of weather at all, it proves them right.
Furthermore, anyone who talks of AGW climate change without mentioning the damaging programs of geo-engineering is not being honest with us.
A sincere person exposes the nefarious actions of those in power. A shill just repeats their tired propaganda.
It has somewhat fallen apart, but there are many younger types who believe it.
As well as a sea of lefties who now support international corporations in their fight against “global warming” and “hate.”
We are still quite a way off from victory.
I’m certain that there are leftist global warming alarmists (Ca is full of them) in the Southern California mountains that are whining right now – help us! They are buried under snow, roads are impassable. and people are running out of food. Al Gore told us snow was to be a thing of the past in the 2020’s. How could this have happened? Why is it that the warmer it gets the deeper the snow is and the colder the temperatures are?
If I’m not mistaken, the snow was forecast. Why are so many people so unprepared for a few days of isolation. The big breakdown is yet to come. Some people need to wake the fuck up.
The normal procedure is to stock up with supplies in the fall, in the event of being snowed in or having power outages during the winter. If you have plenty food that requires only heating up before eating, some candles and kerosene lamps and extra kerosene and matches, and–preferably–a wood stove and firewood, you can be quite comfortable. You should also make sure you have plenty of dog and/or cat food, cigarettes, coffee, or beer (if you indulge).
If you don’t have a wood stove, you should have some other plan, such as a kerosene or propane heater.
I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere where the grocery stores weren’t mobbed every time there was a forecast for even snow flurries.
One winter–I think it was in 2002, when there was a devastating ice storm in Missouri–we had a power outage. It only lasted one day, as we had underground power lines there. We were warm and well fed. My youngest daughter even said she wished we could live that way all the time.
In Japan, the traditional heating method before they had central heat was the kotatsu. Everyone sat around a low table with a small heat source under it. The table was covered with a heavy comforter, and the lower half of your body was covered by the comforter, with you feet and legs under the table. This was the ONLY heating method. Traditionally, the heat under the table was provided by a little charcoal-burner, but nowadays a person could save on their electric by putting a space heater under whatever table is your customary sitting place. It would be good to have a plan to rig up something like this, in case of a power outage.
Most ‘local papers’ are near bankruptcy, or are already bankrupt. Good riddance to them. They did it to themselves.
Actually this is a pretty successful local independently owned paper.
They just changed editors, and I wonder whether the new one isn’t behind this (or perhaps it is the owner?).
People won’t put up with that bullshit. They will just stop commenting. And then they will move onto places they find that still allow their voice to be heard.
MSN is the worst. Nearly anything I’ve ever bothered to write violates their community standards. They use bots. And there is no rhyme or reason to the censorship. I wrote “I disagree” and it was banned for violating community standards.
That’s actually kind of funny that a newspaper on an island would forbid climate skepticism.
Shouldn’t they be moving off the island if they are True Believers?
They will be underwater soon.
@Cavepainter
I wonder if an “[in]tolerance for ambiguity” does not explain “why” dogma persists so much as it substantively defines the very nature of dogma.
It has seemed to me over some time that dogma and intolerance of ambiguity are most often programmed into individuals throughout childhood. Would that not be “training”.
I like to think training as learning the answers and education as exploring the possibilities [ambiguities, if you will].
I like your post.
~toktomi~
Toktomi, thanks for engaging on the question of whether-or-not does exist a psychological threshold against dialogue threatening to individual base requirement of “certitude” (conjured, fictive or otherwise). That is, one’s requirement for outcome predictability. Again, tangentially nodding to Mattias Desmet’s discussion on Mass Formation Psychosis.
German Chancellor Sholtz warns China against sending weapons to Russia. “There will be consequences”. I’m sure Xi Jinping is shaking in his boots lol. What consequences? Little pissant Germany, with its LBGQT laden military, feminist foreign policy, and lack of petroleum and natgas, isn’t in any position to lay down conditions on anybody. In fact, energy sparse Germany, right now attempting a brave experiment to ‘Transition to Renewables’, and run an industrial country on solar panels & wind turbines, will be lucky to keep the lights on and houses heated above 52°F, and not return to the living conditions of say, the Thirty Years War, when 40,000 ‘Witches’ were burned at the stake, and 5 million citizens starved to death in their huts in the countryside.
I love it when western leaders get all dead serious and start throwing around the word “consequences.” Always consequences, but for whom? Ask not for whom the bell tolls, and all that. Credit to Putin and Xi for suppressing their urge to laugh out loud. It must make for some very lively table talk at night over shots of libations with the boys.
The consequences are for us. Bad enough that Germany and the rest cut off their access to Russian oil and gas (made permanent by the US blowing up their pipelines).
The US is now pushing to put sanctions on China, meaning cutting off the supply of goods that China produces (thanks to our capitalists moving production to China).
The US and NATO countries are the ones who will cut off China. Most of the rest of the world is rolling their eyes at us, and continuing their trade.
So it is Americans and Europeans who will find ourselves without our usual supply of stuff.
Our overlords will blame it on Russia and China, of course. And the terminally stupid will believe them.
Germany never stopped buying Russian oil or gas. Which you might know if you read German.
The entire thing is a charade engineered to lead to war and to reduce the living standard of the population here.
The Greens and SPD are in league with WEF and co.
You often act like you are in the know on many things lately, attacking long-time posters with a good track record.
Perhaps time to go a little more low key.
Your arrogance is only outmatched by your ignorance.
What is it the kids say nowadays? Oh, yeah. Fuck off.
Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
My ignorance.
LOL.
You are the ultimate Johnny Come Lately, except you also believe in climate change.
It is mind bogglingly hypocritical for the western countries to hold entire conferences where they brag about how many weapons they are sending to Ukraine and arm twist other countries into participating, and then turn around and threaten China for something they aren’t even doing- arming Russia.
And THEN announcing that they will send weapons to Taiwan!!
Worst. Hypocrites. Ever.
How would you know if China is arming Russia?
By all means, educate us.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice . . .
Things get out of hand for Mickey . . .
Data coming in from the St. Louis Fed (the main site for the FED’s statistical analysis and reports) shows that in the most recent sale for 10 year US TBonds at 4.001%, there were ZERO bids, where in months/years past there were myriad bids from all over the world. NO ONE in their right mind wants US Dollars or USD$ denominated assets; Now ‘we’ had to buy them from ‘ourselves.’ Can you spell WeimarAmerica? Coming imminently soon to a town near you.
That’s what happens when you steal money from people, they quit giving it to you to hold.
“But who would have thought the sinking of civilization would occur with such fantastic comic ornamentation?”
United States Incorporated has always had a flare for the dramatic… things like a Revolutionary War and dropping atomic weapons on helpless people and shooting rocket ships into the sky and funding grand World Plandemics. So if US Inc. is going to lead the downward spiral of Western Civ… it’s going to be done with flare and with sickly comedic precision.
“Men, in more ways than mere costuming, pretending to be women.”
Think back to Monty Python’s Lumberjack Song. They saw all this coming 50 years ago…
“I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK
I sleep all night, I work all day
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women’s clothing
And hang around in bars
I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspenders and a bra
I wish I were a girlie
Just like my dear papa…”
“The vacuum of leadership we’ve been living in becomes impossible to ignore, and nature (it’s rumored) hates a vacuum.”
There is no vacuum. The Deep Dark State is firmly in charge. And has never been happier and giddier than with today’s results.
“Didn’t think it would come to this when you signed on to the voyage?… Hey, let’s book a cruise!”
Not sure any of us booked ‘this’ cruise. More to the point… most of us were shanghaied aboard by parents and grandparents who themselves had already suckered on to the inbound-plank with promises to enjoy their captive adventures on the ‘Good Ship of Freedom and Democracy!’ It was too late when they found out it was really a Pirate Slave Ship run by Multi-National Ne’re-Do-Wells and Thieves who had long thrown the real Captain overboard and who were pretending to run a Good Ship Lollipop with false generational narratives and endless conjured currency.
So as times get tougher… just put on your fake smile and proudly wear your Lumberjack shirt. While you roll up your right arm sleeve and put on another layer of lipstick.
And remember… that plank your parents walked upon works in TWO directions.
They really did nail the trans agenda.
“Call me Loretta:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA&t=8s
I told y’all:
offthepress.com/spielberg-ufos-are-time-traveling-humans/
Steve knows the deal.
They can’t interact with us for good reason
Sometimes I don’t know if you’re serious or just jerking our chain.
I am serious, as far as explanations for the unknown.
Steven frames it correctly. If we can theorize that we may be a part of some future being’s simulation, then we can also be a part of some future being’s past.
That it is revisiting.
500K years from now. What if a future species can time travel?
Don’t want to upset the continuum. What if they already did?
I just can’t figure out why the aliens are abducting us at night to launch anal probes. I mean, once you’ve seen one asshole, you’ve seen them all.
Snow bound southern California is a good analogy for what is to come.
People are dying in Cal. because they didn’t have the common sense God gave a piss-ant!
Piss-ants are smart creatures, they know (learned or instinctively) that easy times are sometimes interrupted by famine, war, invasion, death of the Monarch and bad weather.
When the two legged vermin living in the mountains of S. Cal. are finally ‘rescued’ (alive) or ‘recovered’ (tits up), I think we’ll see the piss-ants weathered the storm just fine.
People like to take off all of their clothes. They can because they go from heated home to heated car to heated office. But what if the heat goes out or the car breaks down? It’s good to have an old coat in the trunk. And lots of warm clothes in the trunk at home. Sometimes it gets so cold that it’s hard to keep the house warm even with the power on.
I wonder how many cases of “paradoxical undressing” they’ll uncover (no pun intended) after it thaws in the mountains.
Like dozens of frozen corpses (formerly intrepid mountain climbers) up on Everest, maybe the bodies will be left behind. 50 ft. of snow in the towns around Tahoe, it might never melt off. It’s a new Ice Age.
An Ode to the lowly Pismire;
Rejoice in the little piss-ant;
Attempts what it can, avoids what it can’t,
Untroubled by ideas of Camus and Kant,
Never indulges in things deviant,
Sleeps well at night (if pismires sleep)
(lessons to humanity that should make you weep).
Brilliant as usual. Thank you
Having done business in Russia for years and spent a lot of time there….having friends who are near and dear to me in Russia and an understanding about Russia that is better than most people even in our Federal government, it baffles me how seemingly bright people fall for the “Putin is Good/Christian/Innocent” nonsense. The squirt is a thug. If you study his background about who he and his circle look to for their history and justification for their current actions you would discover that a lot of it is satanic; it is NOT Christian. Of course the U.S. has mishandled the whole thing and we are going in the wrong direction with our ridiculous unlimited financial assistance but stubbornly excusing Putin’s stupid decision to invade his neighbor is going to lead your conclusions in the wrong direction.
Russia didn’t survive as an independent nation this long for nothing.
No nuchs, no cucks. The only business you did in Russia was in a stall on your layover in Sheremetyevo
lolol
LOL.
Christianity per se (as such) is an otherworldly religion. It couldn’t last a day based on the teaching of Christ in and of themselves (per se).
Thank God for the Doctrine of Just War developed by St Augustine and others. Or for the Old Testament and its example.
Christ told his disciples to buy swords. Then he chastised Peter for using his sword, cutting off the ear of the Temple Guard.
We have no idea what he wanted in this regard. And nobody bothered to write down what he thought about it, assuming he ever did.
Putin is about as Christian as the Pope. No shit. So what else is new?
I don’t know what Putin really believes, only Putin knows.
But, he does respect the institution of the Russian Orthodox Church.
As for his “stupid decision to invade his neighbor”, are you saying the smart thing to do was wait until the Ukranian government eventually annihilated the Russian-speakers in the Eastern part of “Ukraine”?
Would it have been smarter for the Russian to wait until Ukraine formally joined NATO, so the US could park missiles that are 7 minutes away from Moscow?
Are you saying the Russians need not worry about an expanding NATO? About NATO putting missiles in Rumania and Poland?
Putin is a thug? Why? Because you say so?
What about George W. Bush? Is he a thug? Thanks to him, the Christian population of Iraq is now a fraction what it was before the US attacked the country. Thanks to Bush and the US, and the American war, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and millions were displaced.
Putin is probably a Christian, but whether he is or not, in this world, his actions are rational and logical, and even if they are self-serving, they are serving the interests Russia and the Russian people much more than any US President in my lifetime–or even before.
Yeah. That’s about what I was trying to say but not quite as eloquently.
Amen
Selah
I call BS. If I was a richsob. I wouldn’t advertise it. Especially at this point in time.
Idiots are everywhere. 75,000 for a Jeep or Bronco? 120,000 for a big pickup truck? All engineered to fail and depreciate like crazy? The list of stupid shit is endless, problem is they surround us like Wagner in Ukraine. To many do gooders let to much slide for to long. When the vermin come to my house no quarter will be given. Won’t be a stretch.
And for all that money you get the privilege of going on a two year waiting list. Artificial shortages are useful for stimulating demand, and more importantly, prices.
75k for a Jeep or Bronco?
You could get an M550i for that, son.
American cars. LOL.
Just get a toyota!
300K miles by just changing the oil and doing very basic maintenance.
Got a sexy midnight blue 40 year anniversary ecition 4runner and with luck will be the very last car I buy for myself.
Mine did not include the very ugly orange and white stripe.
netcarshow.com/toyota/2023-4runner_40th_anniversary/
I don’t like the orange and white stripe, either. Ew.
Nice ride, otherwise!
Toyotas have their place. But I need RWD, a low center of gravity, and some M Power.
About that M550i the roads in San Diego have become so bad you almost need a truck or four wheel drive vehicle to drive down them.
I watched a prius hit a pothole the other day that blew the tire and bent the rim. It was two feet wide on all sides and at least a foot deep.
Americas finest city is falling apart and our loser mayor knows it.
cbs8.com/article/news/local/working-for-you/what-you-should-do-if-your-car-is-damaged-driving-over-a-pothole
As cities and various governments go bankrupt everywhere it’s only natural that resources for things like fixing roads won’t be available anymore. This means that highway speeds will be drastically reduced and travel time will take a lot longer in the future that’s coming. Asphalt is made from what’s left in refining petroleum, and concrete from nat gas. Take away those two inputs and your roads will someday be made from dirt and gravel, like it is in most all third world countries. That’s why a motorbike or mountain bike is in everyone’s future. You easily go around potholes on a motorbike going at reasonable speeds. Not so easy with a car.
Ok then, 2 cycle, 4 cycle or diesel. How about something like the Oblivion bike:
httpX://grabcad.com/groups/electric-motorcycles-electric-bicycles/discussions/oblivion-movie-electric-motorcycle
In situations with unreliable electric grids or with rationed electric power, what if electric energy is unavailable for the time being? You are stuck with your bike where you are with it. If it’s in your garage no problem. If it’s beside the road or at a motel somewhere what to do? Call a tow truck? What if the tow guys are occupied towing other EV’s that are “out of gas”. Call your friends to come pick you up at great expense to them?
On the other hand, what if you have the latest model Honda 125cc Super Cub that gets 188 mpg? In a temporary electric breakdown situation, I think it will be easier to find someone willing to sell you a gallon of spare gas that had been stored for lawnmower or other use. Easier than finding someone with an off-grid electric system willing to sit around with you while your electric motorcycle charges. Right now by using the latest tech from Japan, small 4 cycle motorbikes will be the most practical. Those and bicycles. A mountain bike can go pretty fast and it runs on beans and taters that you can produce at home. People will use a bike like that most of the time for dodging potholes and doing shorter runs around town. People everywhere assume that we’ll be propelled about by motors from here to eternity. I don’t think so, and most of our future transportation will require our own legs for a power source. Don’t like it? Go talk to yer ancestors who squandered it all in a huge blow out orgy of consumption, leaving you with the meager scraps remainiing.
Not my ancestors. It was the military who blew through most of the oil in this country, and they sold it to other militaries in the first two world wars.
As Lord Curzon pointed out about WW1, “the allied cause floated to victory upon a wave of oil.”
I understand. When I lived in DC, I actually thought about moving to an SUV, despite my love for hairpins.
Prescience, sentience, and sanity, a much needed interlude served up twice a week.
I thankee, JK, sir.
More frontline video of the battles around Bakhmut seems to be available; the whole city is wrecked, appearing like Ypres in 1916. Another thing, Russian & Ukrainian soldiers look alike, Slavic types, you can’t really tell them apart. The languages are very similar too. Its uncanny, this is almost like a Civil War.
It is exactly a civil war. The war started when the US overthrew Ukraine’s elected government and the people in easter Ukraine refused to go along with the government picked by the US.
Most of last year the fighting was done by the militias of the DPR and LPR trying to liberate their oblasts from the 200,000 Ukie soldiers and mercenaries entrenched on their land, not Russian soldiers, except for Chechens and Wagner.
So literally a civil war.
Imagine the US having a civil war these days.
A bunch of people who look nothing alike fighting a bunch of people who look nothing alike.
Except maybe their tattoos and waist sizes.
IDK. Most of the prepper types who would actually fight look quite fit to me.
Perhaps you need to expand your worldview.
As if! All the preppers at wal-mart buying ammo look like their freezers are stocked with hungry man Salisbury steaks
Oh Connie, body shaming is so unwoke of you.
That shows how little you understand the American preppers.
It stands to reason since you are probably the imbecile that keeps getting booted from this site and simply makes another name.
In your Stephen Colbert bubble, perhaps.
Do you run monthly drills? Make the old lady debase herself?
“Listen babe, you’re going to lay covering fire, just make the ‘pew-pew’ noise ’cause I ain’t got simunition, and then get to your Highlander, meanwhile, I’m going to jump into my ghillie suit and hope they don’t suspect a muffin-topped viburnum ninja-rolling across the front lawn, stop at the Wingerson’s mailbox, more covering fire, I get in… we extract to Shoney’s. I’m timin’ ya so don’t mess ’bout”
I can see her on a call with your sister-in-law, “Yep it’s Dewey’s time of the month again.. what? I have no idea fer how long he gonna keep this shit up, but he promised me a suite next time in Pigeon Forge, so you know”
Check it out, BRH. Even a combatant got mixed up.
” The other day a fighter came to our positions to shoot a cigarette. He was no different from the Wagnerites, treated himself, lit a cigarette … And then the enemy rolled over. Everyone rushed to repel the attack, and the guest also grabbed the machine gun, pointing it at the “enemies”. Managed to destroy seven attackers. After the heat of battle, they sat down to fill the magazines with cartridges, and then our hero suddenly realized that he had gone into the wrong trench. And he repulsed the attack not “orcs-Muscovites”, but their brothers. The fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was praised and even promised to be presented for a reward for such performance. And sent to the rest of the prisoners.”
Yeah, I can believe it, like at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, when a Confederate Infantry Regiment from western Tennessee squared off against a Union Infantry Regiment from eastern Tennessee.
Great essay Jim. You are right, no ships in site to save the souls on this modern Titanic. In 1912 the RMS Carpathia came to the rescue. Today the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia in southwestern Ukraine, many being ethnic Hungarians are too busy trying to avoid being drafted and sent to the charnal house that is eastern Ukraine. The other ship of note in 1912 was the SS Californian. California a bellend then, a bellend now!
Them there green tinted waves paragraph did it for me today jhk. Beautious.
Speaking of Argentina, they’re making waves again over that barren piece of rock in the south Atlantic known as the Falklands.
There could be a whole new distraction coming our way if the Brits are dumb enough to go to war over it again.
The Brits? The Mouse that Roared.
Can you imagine Rishi Sunak conducting a war?
Anyway, British soldiers will be needed for quelling British civilians in the mother country. Doubtless the WEF will get around to spraying the Falklanders with something in due course, if they want the islands for some purpose. Or they could run them as a folk museum.
Prince Andrew famously lost his sweat glands in the last Falkland war, little known fact.
Haha, so he did!
That Hindenberg of an interview was one of the most entertaining things I saw that year. When was it, 2019 or so?
I don’t remember but it was hard to believe he could have so little self-awareness that he thought it was a good idea.
The other gem was that he went to a pizza take-away in Wokingham with his daughter (as if) and neither of them was recognised or remembered (as if, again).
I think I found them, I sweat like a Sami in the Sahara.
My family hails from the Alps actually. White, bright, and not too light.
Had to Google the interview. Priceless!
One Mirage with one Exocet. Buh Bye HMS Sheffield.
What’s all the fuss about? This country has been getting by on bandaids, bubblegum and temp fixes since the 1930s.And yes, Klaus is right about owning nothing in the future( just look at home and car prices). Only the corporations and the elite will “ own” anything in the future.Tbe good news is that slavery is making a comeback, an all inclusive one with lots and lots of equity.
Get out of here with that black pill shit.
They have a 50/50 chance.
The Cabalsters are few. And the closer they get to end game, the more the mask drops.
I feel far more positive about the future now than at the start of the Covid Hoax.
Don’t call it a comeback, it’s been here for years
rockin’ my peers, puttin’ suckers in fear
Makin’ the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to the bass go boom
Explosions, overpowerin’
Over the competition, its towerin’
Klaus said knock you out
Biden gonna knock you out
Tell us how you really feel, Cargill.
He said slavery is making a comeback so I played around with LL Kool Menthols lyrics
” Look no further than the fiasco in Ukraine, engineered by geniuses of the US foreign service in some daft exercise to show the world who’s who and what for. And, remind me: what was the basic idea there? To hamstring and hogtie Russia so badly that her people would overthrow the only rational head-of-state in Christendom, a figure who makes the presidents, chancellors, and prime ministers of Western Civ look like a troop of gibbering mandrills, with painted faces and blue butts, the ass-clowns of geopolitics.”
Great paragraph. I had to look up mandrills. 😀
If you’ve ever read any William Burroughs, you’ll see that purple-assed baboons figure prominently in his writings. (Not that I particularly recommend Burroughs.)
What exactly is the likely Outcome of a persistent, intractable “Real” Inflation Rate of 9% – 10% in which Costs to businesses and the working class roughly double every 5 to 7 years? The healthcare Inflation Rate in the US is much higher now….
According to Chris Martenson in his excellent book “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition), since the 1960’s, the U.S. government has progressively so debased the CPI as a meaningful indicator of the Inflation Rate that the CPI as measure of Inflation bears no relation to Reality. So, even if The Fed hits its target of a 2% Inflation Rate, the real Inflation Rate will be much higher. The real Inflation rate in the US is around 9%, which means that prices double every 7 to 8 years. Eventually, most businesses won’t be able to operate….
The politicians will pretend that the Inflation Rate is 2% and everything is normal, but the Reality is that businesses will be swamped by costs…. The House burns down while the firemen ignore the fire and the smoke….
Is there such a phenomenon as “Relative Inflation” in which the Inflation Rate as measured in U.S. Dollars is lower in different countries because of government subsidies and currency devaluations?
Living in Europe would be “OK” as long as you’re paid in U.S. Dollars or gold?
The euro and dollar have been near parity for quite some time, with minor fluctuations.
I have avoided moving any money out of my US accounts for years as a result.
So I have some income producing real estate. I guess you could call me a landlord. My rents are way below market. My wife would like to sell. I think my tenants like me. I pretty much take care of everything for them. I turn a good buck and it gives me something to do. If I sell I’m stuck with cash. Conundrums abound. I ask my wife, “What would we do with the money honey? . It’s only going down in value every year? Rents and property values go up it seems. Water source ,some fruit trees,, a little land. I pretty much have all the stuff I want or need. Well I don’t have an island in the Caribbean, a Gulfstream V or a spread like Elysianfield. but that’s not happening anyway. Perhaps a 23 YO Brazilian model. That’ll eat up some cash.
The Problem with the “Experts” is that the “Experts” for political reasons don’t use honest numbers?
The ‘numbers racket.’ It’s called “Pollyanna Creep” by some economists.
Experts – especially academics – are just like everyone else. They depend on someone to fund their work. As the old saying goes: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” Experts are just hired guns with “credentials,” which are usually bought and paid for as well. Note the explosion of “think tanks” in the past 30 years or so. All basically intellectual brothels.
According to Chris Martenson, the Russians and the Saudi’s have recently hit “Peak Oil” production in which they cannot further increase Oil Output. American Shale Oil production will probably hit “Peak Oil” in 5 years and decline thereafter. So, this means one thing, right? WAR…..
Well, they got a plan for that, but instead of dinosaurs they’ll be relying on the buried vaxxed & boosted to make more oil.
I do not believe Russia is at Peak, because they have not hardly scratched the Arctic zones, and they are definitely finding oil and gas there, just like Alaska. Remember when Trump wanted to buy Greenland? That area is loaded with resources.
The rest of the world has not even considered fracking, I wonder how large the “hard” oil areas are.
We will have diminishing oil capability for a while, world wide. Then coal. By then, I hope they find some asteroids made of petroleum. Uh huh.
Saudi Arabia has been backfilling its fields with water for a while, so peak there is probable.
To all the abiotic folks, is there anywhere where oil has been replenished to any measurable degree. Abiotic oil does not even deserve the word hope to be attached to it.
Finally, we will be running out of human opportunity and cheap fresh water before oil.
I’m just guessing, but my guess is that there is plenty of oil left in the world–it’s just that most of it is in Russia.
It’s true that gross “oil” is peaking about now. But if you take out the non oil in the quoted numbers (like Ethane), we are passed peak. Then realize that more and more of our energy is going to produce energy leaving less for the non energy economy. We are clearly on the down slope of the fossil fuel era.
This explains why the debt is blowing up, politics is tense, etc.
From here on in…
Hmmmm, should I file my taxes?
At some point writing rational, or whatever, view points based on what is actually happening in the world begins to piss you off, so you just write some stuff.
Oi!
Cue the music!
Carmen, GB 9, Act II: Entr’acte/intermezzo
Enter stage right, the regal ponce Don Jarek Jose to center stage where he finds Conniemen.
‘tralala’ is all he can elicit, but nothing is over for Don Jarek Juan, not until death in some future afternoon.
youtu *dot* be/vSHnYqA0dhU
Is it Hozay or Wahn?
The character in Carmen is Don Jose, but the implication is that Jarek is a Don Juan, a lothario, a seducer, until a death in the afternoon, not Bizet’s Carmen, but Hemingway’s Joselito
We clear?
No, not into opera.
” A natural born Kesan or follower of Kesa (who doesn’t believe that children really exist. They’re just adults in small bodies and deserve to be FREE!) ”
I dare say there really is no end of people claiming to care about your children.
But I would confidently bet my last nickle that your children will not be recieving so much as a dollar Christmas card and a thirty cent stamp from those people in 25 years —
— or a year from now.
— or one month from now.
It’s a big show when the cameras are pointed in that direction.
But the minute the cameras leave ?
They don’t know you.
I’m the one person in the room who says that’s all bullshit ,
that they are YOUR kids ,
and it’s none of MY fucking business.
But I’m the one you knock.
I’m the threat.
I’m not the one claiming you are crazy.
I’m not the one claiming you are stupid .
I’m not the one claiming you’re a monkey who needs be led by the nose in your own kitchen.
The truth is that I’m not the one who handed your kids over to Drag Queens , Drug Lords , Brown people on another continent , or Bill Gates.
You did.
😛
Haha.
Calm down, Kesh. It’s just a literary conceit for me to lionize you as a famous philosopher – with John Locke (who lived before you) being one of your followers.
You are not a threat, just the old ideas that you hold. Six year old working 16 hours a day. Their little hands were good with the machines until they fell into them as they fell asleep.
Not as harmful as letting children determine their gender of course. Letting children be exploited is small compared to that. If you let them choose their own gender, get rid of all laws against them having sex too. That’s small compared to changing their gender with their “consent”.
Leave the Slubbers do their job – Sadler report on conditions in the weaving factories. c.1870
Scrooge: You were always a good man of business, Jacob.
Marley: Mankind was my business!
Jarek: A repudiation of the Kesan Darshan (Sanskrit: view or outlook)
They wouldn’t let little Kesa smoke two packs a day when seven. Or open us shop. She burns with fury thinking of the lost wages. She wants revenge.
They saved her from herself in other words…..
“From here forward, things get pretty interesting. And from here on, nobody is really in charge. The vacuum of leadership we’ve been living in becomes impossible to ignore, and nature (it’s rumored) hates a vacuum. For the moment, circumstances are in charge, not personalities.” JHK
Abhors?
Nature abhors a vacuum salesman.
You can never go wrong with a Kirby!
Will Williams (from the comments)
Dr. William L. Pierce was a bona fide rocket scientist, a tenured Physics professor at 30 who left academia to work designing rocket systems for NASA — then he met George Lincoln Rockwell, got serious, put his successful career behind him and went to work with Rockwell, working full time for the preservation of our race.
Those of us who were old enough on the day of the moon landing remember where we were; I was at my Special Forces B-Team in SE Asia that day watching it on a small black and white TV with some teammates. C-C readers may be interested in what Pierce had to say about it that day. Our National Office has Pierce’s handwritten personal journal in which the very first entry is this:
20 July, 1969 — 80th year since the birth of the Leader
TODAY Aryan man reached the moon. I found myself profoundly moved by the moon landing. Since the age of 12 (23 years ago) I have dreamed of this.
Space travel was, in fact, my first dream. Somewhere around the age of 20 it got sidetracked — although I had still entertained romantic notions along this line years longer.
My second dream, which began first to take form at the age of 30 [1963], is to help build a National Socialist world order. This will remain the goal of my life. I have considered starting a journal for some time. If my life’s work yields any result, then such a record will have great interest and value later…
More about that, here: William Pierce on Apollo: First Step on an Infinite Journey | National Vanguard included there is this short article that Pierce wrote the following month:
—
Moon Landing a Triumph of Aryan Genius
by Dr. William L. Pierce
JULY 20, 1969, will certainly go down in the history of our race as one of the most significant dates of all time. For the moon landing is the culmination of a centuries-old dream – a dream which has always been peculiarly Aryan.
Not only have all the great dreamers of space flight been men of our own race – men like Oberth, Goddard and von Braun – but so have the daring space adventurers themselves – the Gagarins, the Glenns and the Armstrongs.
The other races have lacked either the creative genius or the driving spirit of adventure or the lofty, non-materialistic outlook of the dreamer and innovator which have all been combined by Nature in Aryan man. This unique combination of qualities has been the indispensable human prerequisite for the great feat of July 20.
And the moon landing is more than the culmination of a dream. It opens a new era for our race. The Aryan has always been a creature with a driving need for something that other races seem to be able to get along without – the challenge of the unknown, of physical adventure, of new worlds to conquer. On the rapidly shrinking Earth, new frontiers for adventure and exploration have become scarce.
Now, however, we have opened the door to a vast unknown in which new frontiers without limit lie before us. Now the whole of the starry Universe awaits Aryan man’s eternal quest.
Jarek: Is the Conspiracy born of envy and hatred against Aryan man and his genius? With the Russians focused on hatred of the key German contribution?
Gustaph sharpens a stick at both ends. He’s hungry. Meanwhile the progenitor of both Ape and Man kills another Ape Man with an improptu club. In triumph he tosses it into the sky. It becomes a space ship. Gustaph snarls as it goes by far above.
Christ, I need a bookmark for this entry
Who are you really? You’re are changing before our very eyes. No matter, I will change with you.
Ape-Gustaph laughs when spaceship lands and no one’s on it. All it emits is HAL’s voice saying, “Hello? Hello? Hello?” like an old, broken “Speak-and-Spell” children’s toy.
Do you not long to walk on other worlds?
That’s why we came here. Have you forgotten our home? Do you not long to trod the shores of orange lakes cool?
This is our world. The glimpse at others was nice, maybe (maybe) even worth the insanity it took to acquire it… although we already had all the sense we needed of these other worlds long before teloscopes, I think. We should be satisfied with our scientific escapades and successes now, and get back to our own world before we absolutely lose all grip on it. Anything else is demonic and dumb, my opinion.
telescopes*
Mow your yard and clean the gutters. Sweep your own doorstep before you sweep the neighbors.
Use your own garden hose to siphon his gasoline, at night.
“…walk on other worlds…” might indeed be a practical objective for Future Man. From what I have read, the human organism is not particularly suited for lengthy periods exposed to the vastness beyond the biosphere.
h??ps://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
Then there are the ceaseless reports of encounters with beings apparently not born on this world.
I harbor doubts as to whether homo sapiens sapiens has the will power, not to mention the bravery, to face off with such vastly more intelligent beings who have come to this planet for inexplicable reasons. (Amusingly, some UFO researchers warn against accepting what at least one tribe of ETs communicate, stating they are big liars.)
Read abductees’ accounts, as recorded and analyzed by the late Dr. John E. Mack, an eminent Harvard professor who started off as a doubter but soon came to realize that, well, the explanation for what the many abductees he interviewed was try to explain was not that simple.
Unless you are like the Mexican scientist who said famously (in the same context of UFOs): “If I cannot measure it with my instruments, it does not exist”.
The overriding emotion Dr. Mack encountered in practically all those who claimed to have been taken by ETs – even citizens who fervently believed the Visitors’ mission was noble and humanitarian – was deep distrust. And fear.
Yeah, no.
Swedenborg said many of the spirits were liars. When the aliens arrive, they’re going to talk about gay marriage, the right of women, trannies, and Blacks, etc.
They might as well be demons if they aren’t in fact.
Where is the honest Klatu and his faithful servant, Gort?
Aleister Crowley was fascinated with the process of contacting alien intelligence’s. And he certainly made a show of being a loser, a heroin addict, and of ruining some of the people around him. Yet one of the USA’s premier pioneering rocket scientists, Jack Parsons, was a Crowley disciple, a sex addict, yet also dreaming of building rockets to go “walking on other worlds”. One biographer noted that Parsons was so interested in making contact with the evil beings he encountered via Crowleyanity that he wished to travel to where THEY were instead of trying to get them to manifest on planet earth, Jack wanted to go over to their planet. Twilight Zone stuff fer sure. Yet Jack Parsons was one of the three men who founded the famous Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena. And a company started by Parsons is still in business today, they made the solid fuel propellants for the space shuttle.
The other sex addict and bon vivant who was also a rocket pioneer was Von Braun. Until he got married, no woman was “safe” around him – and it seems the ladies started a lot of it. Women behaved around him like a bunch of rock n roll groupies. Wikipedia says that when he was in college in Berlin getting his PhD, that a Von Braun date often consisted of multiple women in tow, out on the town for some fun in a night club or theatre in “Babylon Berlin”. Apparently he did a lot of partying in addition to getting the top degree at a young age of 21. After marriage and family, he eventually became a conservative evangelical Christian. Looks like the Bible Belt ruined the poor dude eh?
Crowley contracted a being called “Lam” – whose sketch resembles a Grey Alien.
Woodchuck – when he was dying of cancer, von Braun confided in the woman taking care of him that there would in the near future be confirmed contact with ETs – but the MIC would immediately twist this into an invasion and demand more goodies to go fight them in space.
Look at what they call the group begrudglingly set up by the warmongers in the Pentagon: “Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.” They pretend that they can get a handle on it, figure it out and then whack it if necessary. At least they pretend they pretend.
Anybody with half a brain – even a career officer – can quickly conclude that any object capable of cartoon-style maneuvers defying the so-called “laws of physics”, zipping from Mach 7 to a dead stop and then spitting ninety degrees to port is not going to be particularly concerned with kerosene-powered turbines lumbering after them.
I found it intriguing to read that while the Soviets used to scramble fighter jets to challenge anything coming into their airspace, so many aircraft and pilots were lost that the order then went out to turn tail and head for the base if they saw them.
One Russian psychic who claimed to be attuned to the beings piloting the craft explained it this way: “The energy field enabling our ships to defy gravity dissolves your aircraft’s metal skin”. Oops.
I do, but first we have to figure out how we moved those megaliths on every continent except (as far as we know) Antarctica.
No sense in trashing another planet when we don’t understand this one. I think there are only more questions out there.
“Walking on other worlds” currently requires vast amounts of liquid oxygen and hydrocarbon fuels. Building the facilities to launch giant rockets also requires huge fossil fuel inputs. The long term prospects of space exploring don’t look good at all.
Do you not find yourself longing to walk the shores of orange lakes cool? Our Home world is beckoning us back. The air itself is intoxicating, no drugs needed there what to speak of equipment.
Next December 8, be on a hill top above the tree line to await pickup. Hold up a Confederate flag so they know it’s you.
@ Jarek:
One dark night when all was bright
Two dead dudes went out to fight
Back to back they faced one another
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came to arrest the two dead boyz
If you don’t believe my tale is true
Ask the blind man
He saw it too!
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
After reading his excellent book, “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition), I may become a subscriber to Chris Mortensen’s Peak Prosperity website?
As Jules would say: “Chris is one smart MuthaFucka.”
he was so concerned about covid?
never mentions chemtrails.
never mentions the 3rd world invasion.
I think he’s mostly just focused on money. Outside of that, he’s fairly mainstream.
Barack Obama is so worried about Global Warming and Climate Change that he’s building his new $40 million mansion in Hawaii right up on the beach.
typical. lying politician.
one rumor is michelle was tempted to leave him early on because he wasnt rising politically fast.
Fascinating interview with Sy Hersh By Gerald Celente…listening to a grandpa tell tales of what it used to be (and should still be) like:
youtube.com/watch?v=7axxPYB5Ed4
I always read Tom Luongo if his stuff turns up not behind a paywall.
This is quite interesting—a continuation of his hypothesis and discussion that the Fed is NOT on board with Davos;
httpX://www.zerohedge.com/markets/luongo-war-dollar-already-over-part-i
Tom Luongo is deep-state honey pot
Zerohedge is owned by ABC-MEDIA-LTD, which is SERCO-UK they are private prisons and air-traffic-control worldwide; Serco-UK used to be called RCA-UK, owned by BUSH in 1920’s UK and supplied electronics to HITLER besides bringing him to power;
WEF is a joke, its just to entrap elite with pedo sex acts, its also to distract the chattering class from the real decision makers
The real deal is bilderberg and CFR & tri-lateral, they run the show
Here in USA bilderberg is ran by Peter Thiel who is president of bilderberg-usa and is also Trump campaign mgr 2024, and was bag-man for trump 2018
WEF is their public face in which they interact with the lower levels of the ownership class, like the big consultancies, world leaders, and various corporations.
A joke?
Perhaps time to choose your words more wisely.
where do ya get your information?
which 1920 Bush?
Somebody was asking, “How did Homo-Wokism’ take over high-tech and become the main religion??
Well it goes back to flaming groomers like Sam Alman, multi-billionaire silicon-valley glory boyz
Flaming HOMO that would bring in high-tech kids all over the USSA to his stanford campus to turn them into little entrepreneurs, but in fact these guys were grooming long before it even became fashionable
Another note-worthy flaming homo groomer is Peter Thiel, owner of PALANTIR(CIA), and “Human Vampire” google parabiosys, peter thiel
It’ not clear what became first inQtel (CIA TAKING OVER silicon valley) or the homo grooming? I can remember when most high-tech bay-ahrea nerds were conservative, as liberals tend to be dumber than a bag of rocks; Like Facebook, largely like Microsoft what the GOV (CIA/NSA) did was steal all the tech from real conservative guys, and then setup faux gay entrepreneurs who would only hire liberals, making the liberals rich; MS was stolen in Seattle, Gates didn’t write MSDOS he stole hit, same for Facebook it was stolen, every fucking block-buster in silicon valley was stolen on behalf CIA, and then transferred to a woke corporation where they nurtured future groomers to rule the world
Actually, it’s as simple as, “civilizations which extract obscene surpluses and call it ‘wealth’ will manifest as obscene societies of obscene individuals.”
That’s a great summation! Did you come up with that or read it somewhere else? Either way, spot on!
Thanks, Disaffected. I’m codifying biblical Jesus quotes here. “Don’t store food in barns. Look at the birds of the field. Your heavenly father clothes and feeds them.”
Barns lead to Babylon.
God feeds the birds but He does not put worms in their nest.
No, but he has worked it so that if certain birds (early ones?) start killing piles of worms a day and hoarding the carcasses, these birds will eventually overwhelm the ecologic processes encouraging worms to flourish in the area, and in this way, the birds will undermine their own existences and livelihoods, and die.
But, in the interim, these birds will call themselves “the greatest of all birds, the eternal lords of Earth and sky.”
The recommendation is, “go collect God’s gift of sustenance for the day, and do not test him on tomorrow by orchestrating artificial surpluses.”
One of Henry George’s more profound statements was that human life (like all other life) is, and always has been, hand-to-mouth. All the necessities of life must continually be created, recreated, and maintained. It is not possible to store up life’s necessities for more than short periods of time. Hence, beyond a very limited time, there is no such thing as a stored surplus.
E.g.: Food crops have to be produced every year. Clothing wears out. Houses must be continually maintained, and they eventually become not-maintainable and must be replaced. Everything must be constantly replaced by means of labor.
It’s a good idea to store up some surplus for the proverbial “rainy day.” It’s good to have savings, particularly for when you need to buy a car or a house. But you might also have large, unexpected expenses (or sort of unexpected expenses). You might have to pay for someone’s funeral or burial expenses, for example.
So why is it that most people think they can store up enough of a surplus to last a lifetime, or even to last their children’s lifetimes?
The reason is because money can be stored, thus creating the illusion that real wealth can be stored indefinitely. It’s probably not wise to imagine that fiat is storable, of course. Now, PMs are storable more or less indefinitely, but they are still not real wealth, since “real wealth” consists of the necessities of life. Even PMs “storability” depends on the availability of real wealth for which it may be exchanged. So even PMs, like fiat, are nothing more than an IOU whereby one may make a future claim on the labor of others. So collecting a surplus of either fiat or PMs is nothing more than collecting IOUs on the future labor of others. This could be kind of a precarious proposition. What if there is little or nothing being produced, or no one will sell it to you at any price?
So, the idea of storing up a surplus remains an illusion–at least beyond a very limited period of time. You could even go so far as to say that anyone who believes this can be done is about half crazy.
That’s too abstract, Anthea. Growing crops creates a surplus that lasts a year and more. That’s already too much, allowing a 365 day “holiday” during which unstable wagers are placed on the following year (a “loan” has been taken out from the Earth, on which temporary growth can be based). The cancerous cycle has begun.
“Barns lead to Babylon?”
Maybe, maybe not. For example, “barn dances”. We had those long ago in rural TN, back in the days when country music was genuine and farmers lacking tv sets might be gathered around radios listening to the Grand Ole Opry. That was before my time. In the 50’s it was “sock hops” and rock n roll dances in more conventional buildings. “Babylon barns?”. Well, yeah…….. You see, with pre-teens and teenagers, a lot of parental activity in the old days consisted of trying to keep raging hormones and natural curiosity about sex under control. And you can control teenagers easily when they are inside your home. You’ve got the rule with your sons that no females their same age are to be in any bedrooms. Socializing will take place in the parlors and living rooms under a parental eye and more formal circumstances.
Unfortunately for those parents they had a lot less control over what might happen in barns and haylofts. I’m only bringing this up in that we had a few barns left in the 50’s neighborhood that us kids played in. They were no longer in use for cattle or horses, but there was still some hay left in one of them and plenty of secret hiding places for inquisitive youngsters. We’d hide things in the barn that we didn’t want anybody else seeing. We also did things in barns that we didn’t want anybody else seeing. Yeah, barns can lead to Babylon in certain circumstances but what can a poor parent do?
Don’t forget the story of Joseph in Egypt and the Pharaoh’s troubling dreams. Egypt needed to store food for a famine that was on the way. In times of famine, a barn can be a lifesaver and part of the process of providing and storing food for an entire small community. Egypt was advised to build the equivalent of barns, and when Joseph’s family was in trouble and traveled to Egypt, they encountered the brother they’d abandoned. There’s animal feed stored in barns, and those animals will be feeding you and even providing transport as well. That mule that Jesus rode into Jerusalem was a borrowed mule and it probably spent time in barns. I doubt if Jesus went around preaching against barns any more than he did going around preaching against sex. .But what do I know, I was never in His audience.
Good stuff, Woodchuck.
Remember, pre-Joseph, when the Israelites were pastoralists in conflict with Egypt, the agricultural power choking them? Joseph’s success resulted in Israel’s enslavement by and incorporation into Egypt’s triumphant agriculturalism.
That famine, like most famines, was almost certainly a result of agricultural overdependence and/or agriculturally-caused ecological degradation in the region.
Have you heard that only 3% of mammals by mass are wild animals today?
Humanity has been in the process of killing itself via agricultural “progress” for 10k years now. We need to go back even further to look for proper models remedying the situation.
Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dream about the good years followed by seven years of famine. Knowing the weakness of man, he instituted a tax on grain to support the people for the seven bad years to come.
BUT instead of honoring this public pledge, he made the Egyptian buy back their own grain just to live, finally selling their homes and even themselves into slavery.
Then he invited his kinsmen down to live off the the downtrodden Egyptians. Luckily a new Pharaoh arose “who knew not Joseph” and put an end to his vicious shenanigans.
A clear analogy to us having to pay to use our own money. We don’t have a barn problem, we have a bank problem.
The barn is the original bank, storing credit from the soil to use today what was meant for tomorrow.
In the end, the wealth (grain) of Egypt didn’t serve either people well… created the derelict Egypt and diasporic, landless (that techno desert the Israeli state calls home doesn’t count) Israel of today.
The original fiat currency was the idea that future stores of resources could be tapped today at no future consequence. Grain is a fiat currency, a store of declared value rather than actual.
The grain, if fairly distributed, can save many lives. The proto-Hebrew pastoralists wanted in to get some of this magic.
But you don’t want to save lives, being a “naturalist”. You need your own show to be another Marlin Perkins.
Great post Jim. To think that the US won’t be lucky enough to be anyone’s dog like the British have been for the US. They’ll be no young nation on the rise to come to the rescue when America bites off more than it can chew, taking on its rivals. No the allies of US grow weaker and weaker. Will Japan filled with frail centennials and burdened by a zombie economy help us vanquish China? Will the EU and Great Britain with their small militaries and depleted inventory of weapons take on the battle hardened Russians with us, after we destroyed their energy sources and helped fill their governments with Greens.
Maybe this is by design. Maybe the only the choices will be desperate, blasphemous and imoral. Kind like unleashing a vaccine that kills millions of hopeful people
I’m not giving the vaccine zealots a pass but you have to marvel at sadistic nature of locking people down for months and showing them news of people dying 24/7 and then telling them the paralyzing fear will be over. That they can hit the lottery and take back all the normalcy that they’ve been denied by queuing up for a miracle drug
The general gullibility was also absolutely marvelous. The most marvelous thing, to me.
MKUltra torture/programming. Textbook.
Did you ever hear the Podesta abuse tapes, Mary? Sourced via the Darkweb.
If so, do you think they were real?
I heard them but there is no actual video, so it can’t be proven it’s him. Were I to guess, I’d say it is. But impossible to vet.
And it’s been a couple of years. It’s obvious he and his brother are pedos from the art in Tony’s house, and plenty of reports from formerly trafficked people.
Oh and of course from the exposed Wikileaks emails where they plan their little “outings”.
Yes, I agree on all points.
Degrowth,
Well, sometimes the “Nuclear Option” is actually the nuclear option.
Maybe coming to a neighborhood near you….
I hope the allegorical intermezzo lasts a little bit longer than a typical intermezzo because this is a very inclement time and it is very tiring and draining. And you know I continue to wonder who in their right mind would sail a ship so damn far north it would hit a big chunk of ice. Those waves are green because that is the reflection of the aurora borealis. So that tells you that all of these people are crazy. The sinking ship metaphor is a lot to deal with when one is trying to organize one’s self for an apocalypse I’ll also have you know. But the metalesson is invaluable so I do appreciate it very much. Life is what happens when you’re making other plans. And no amount of planning can take all factors and variables into account. So these people who make themselves like the action figure gods of the Earth are very limited in reality. Don’t get distracted by them when a chunk of ice is about to hit you in the face.
I also struggle when the elites are compared to mandrills. What an insult to such a handsome and beautiful creature.
I agree, they are amazing creatures.
Drudge:
“Michelle O ’24?”
Errkay. Might as well get it over with.
Oh, for the luvvachrist…c’mon, MN:
alphanews.org/100-million-reparations-bill-calls-for-formal-apology-to-family-of-george-floyd/
These people (dem house/dem senate/dem governor) have wasted no time in overstepping any and all logic in forwarding their agenda. Two months in, everything is now on the table, each item more unnecessary and mind-bending than the last.
George Floyd died, that is a bummer. But George Floyd was an established piece of shit, and would’ve probably died that day (or soon after) anyway. And his family was paid 20+ million dollars already, notably paid out a week before the officer was even found guilty by jury.
Jamar Clark grabbed a cop’s gun. We’re supposed to canonize him? His family got a couple hundred thousand in a settlement.
Philando Castile didn’t deserve to die, he had a permit to carry a gun, but he did repeatedly ignore police commands to not reach for it when he was pulled over. His family received $3 million.
Either way, ALL of these people have already been paid out due to criminal and civil cases. Why in the actual eff are they trying to extract even more money from the public who had nothing to do with any of this…to pay people who already got paid?
Formal apology? Done many times over. Formal Acknowledgement of systemic racism in MN? Wha? Many more whities are shot by cops than these trophy deaths that won’t go away. And most of the whities should’ve expected it for their actions, much like Floyd and Clark.
Anyway, I am clearly getting tired of this crap. This state can’t become OR or CA fast enough. “Everything I do is always someone else’s fault! Pay me! With someone else’s money that did nothing wrong!”
Sheesh…Governor Walz is a freaking spineless clown.
Why aren’t the taxpayers rebelling? Too afraid to be labeled as a racist bigot white supremacist?
If so, you’re sunk. That means the brainwashing is complete.
Too afraid to be labeled as a racist bigot white supremacist?
^^^
As if Mary never calls people racist or White supremacist. If you resist the narrative, she does. She’s part of the system she reviles. She has never done the inner work of rectification and integration.
I’m curious, Jarek. You’re very outspoken and obvious with your views here…in real life, would you go speak against a bill like this in a public setting? Would that affect your daily life or job in a negative way, or are you open about these things and people accept that?
Do you agree with my ideas. No, right? Why not? You won’t/can’t say – even on an anonymous blog.
You ask about me – what about you? What is the state of your inner man?
Not picking on you per se. You are a representative man. This is how Whites are now, except for the under class you have so little to lose.
So I think I have answered your question. Given the way Whites are, I’d quickly end up as one of the many articulate street people you meet if you are open to such a thing.
Real change starts from within. I’ve done the work. You haven’t. If you had, you’d be agreeing with me. You don’t and you won’t say why. Fanatics are bad, right? They end up sleeping under bridges! Subtext: they deserve it…..
Read the quotes from Plotinus about how to begin.
Perfect symmetry between the inner and outer can be a trap – unless you lead with the inner. Even an amoeba throws one part of itself ahead in order to them pull the rest of itself forward.
Instead, people make the outer the guide for the inner. Imagine the horror of having the status quo as your inner ruler and point of view.
My favorite all time quote on American Renaissance:
Your opponents understand you better than you understand yourselves and they use it go great effect against you.
Whites are still far too extraverted and thus under the yoke of the dark powers of this world.
How did they do it? They got the media and set it up as a reflection of the people. Then they began to slowly change the reflection getting people to change their actual being to fit the controlled “reflection”. Slow is the operative word. No one knew it was happening until it was too late.
I was just asking for your actual take.
Not criticizing or accusing you of anything.
Though it appears that point was missed and my comments ingested in the wrong way.
For what it’s worth, Jarek – I ordered a few “seminal works” written by the established voices espousing CRT, in order to broaden my understanding of what the state is claiming to be essential and valuable information to my kid in the coming years.
But rest assured, I ordered them used from second-hand booksellers. So not one dime of my money is going to Angela Harris, Richard Delgado, or Ibram X. Kendi.
I figure if I’m going to have to bring this topic up with the principal or the school board in the near future, I’d better have some background besides “what I have heard people say about it”. Nothing works better than using ones’ words directly back at them to prove a point.
So there’s something that I’m doing.
Hopefully I don’t end up sleepwalking into Antifa as a result. I have a feeling that will not be the case. Just want to know what I’m dealing with here.
MrMango, if you want to get started learning about CRT’s criticisms or see debates on it while you wait for your books to come in, look up these guys on YT and also for their essays (in particular, Shelby Steele’s 2002 Harper’s Bazaar article on it – I’ll see if I can find it (he warned us)).
Thomas Sowell
John McWhorter
Coleman Hughes
And Matt Taibbi did a great & scathing review of that idiotic tome “White Fragility” as did John McWhorter, you can probably find with a simple google.
Thanks, Mary.
I’ve heard Sowell touch on similar issues before and look forward to his perspective. I figure once I get the unadulterated black and white (can I say that?) of the material in my hands and read through, then I’ll make some notes and filter it through the lens of those you mentioned.
I have a feeling this knowledge will come to be valuable going forward with a child who has 12 years of school to go…unless we move to Siberia or something. Then I can go back to reading what I want.
@ MrMangoOnMyShoulder:
In case you haven’t figured Jarek out, he has scarcely any human interaction with anyone at all. He doesn’t even have a job, and it appears that he has seldom had a job. (He has mentioned that his sister is contemptuous of him for this reason.)
Normally, this is an indication of a person who lacks confidence, most likely to such a degree as to be fearful of interacting with others.
About the only way a person can manage this lifestyle is if they have some sort of financial support that is not derived from working. Could be an inheritance, or it could be that he’s on disability.
It is rare for a family to enable a son to live in this manner unless they’ve pretty much given up on the guy. You most often see this in cases in which the son has a disability of some kind. These days, said disability is usually that they are on the autism spectrum, but it could be a number of other things, such as fairly severe hearing loss, a severe stutter, or a congenital condition.
Living alone with little human contact will tend to aggravate personality disorders, and they will tend more and more to live in a fantasy world.
I know a guy like this. For awhile, I was helping him look for a house in the country, as he lives in a deteriorating city neighborhood in a house he inherited from his parents. (He never moved out of his parents’ house.) I eventually figured out that the idea that he was going to move was part of his fantasy world–as was the idea that the CIA or FBI or somebody was listening in on his phone calls, and that he needed a special hat to protect his head from 5g stuff and (I suppose) from EMFs, and that he had to keep his phone in some kind of protective covering, and that his neighbors were conspiring against him. Such people believe all kinds of stupid shit.
I also used to know a woman like this, but she died a number of years ago.
So I think we can be pretty sure that Jarek barely has the courage to leave the house. Too busy with that “inner work.”
But for introverts or extraverts with mental ability, you’d be living in an unheated shack doing chores all day. Indeed that might have been the best thing for you.
Instead they let people like you vote. Oh, the folly.
You said you have six kids with the man you hated? All girls? The probability of that is low but you never mention your sons. How did that turn out, lol!
@ Jarek:
Pretty much all of your views on all matters are defenses you have developed to rationalize being a lay-about.
1. You won’t get a job or start a business because you are anti-capitalist.
2. You won’t fit yourself for being a husband and father by accepting responsibility, Women’s expectation that you accept responsibility, and that they decline to take you in as a house pet, proves that women are materialistic. (I suggest you try getting your guy friends to support you.)
3. You rationalize both your fear of engaging with other people and your fear of engaging in any activity at all by claiming you are doing “inner work.”
4. You equate being an introvert with being productive and creative. You are neither. You just prefer curling up in a fetal position and sucking your thumb. You are incapable of building a shack or providing a means for heating it. But we are supposed to believe that your being an introvert is proof that you could do great things.
I notice too that you are able to produce these rationalizations with rather astonishing alacrity–which means you’ve had many years of practice at rationalizing, mainly to your family, being a lay-about and a mooch. (Obviously somebody is supporting you.)
What about your sons? They love their father, right? You lost that battle, you old battle axe!
You’re an extrovert and a faux Christian since Christ said, My Kingdom is not of this world.
Anthea for the win – again.
@ Jarek:
Yeah, we’ve heard the, “My kingdom is not of this world” schtick from you several times before. This is yet another rationalization you have exploited to avoid engaging with the world and with other people, lest you have to get off your ass and take responsibility.
Jesus also said, “And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?”
You probably put more effort into finding excuses to do nothing than would be required to do something or other.
As I mentioned before, this is not normal. It is actually a pretty serious pathology.
We all know math is evil and racist, but…
The black population in the US is one-fifth that of the whites.
Blacks commit violent crimes at a rate 5 times that whites.
Therefore, the black population of the US commits violent crimes at a rate 25 times, per capita, that of the white population.
Cops kill twice as many whites as blacks.
Obviously all those white people deserved to die, since no one is complaining.
Twenty-five times the violent crime, per capita, half as likely to be killed by cops.
If we want Equity – and we all do – cops will have to kill 50 times more blacks than they already do.
And that, kids, is why we don’t teach maffs anymore.
White Nationalist leader Tom Metzger estimated it took eight White deaths to wake up one White person.
In other words, we’re doomed.
I would love to see long-term stats on this.
Did black people commit 25 times more violent crimes than whites in the early 1900s? The 1930s? The 1880s?
If not, something drastically changed that would cause black people to commit more violent crimes. Maybe if we did that, we might find the cause, and then be more able to solve the problem.
Watch this, Mary, it explains a lot. 5.4 million views and it’s still on YouTube.
But if you mention “Ivermectin” on YT you are off YT.
There is an agenda going on here. And I count the Super Bowl half-time as the sex part of it.
.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXl5B5_0MY
Whoops:
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-30-deep-grimeyy-s-real-name-explored-rapper-sentenced-almost-8-years-prison
LOL.
Thanks, I remember you posting that before. Just amazing, yep.
Compare and contrast to this one from 50 years ago.
There is an agenda.
youtube.com/watch?v=F2U1OUxXSMM
It’s six minutes, so here are the lyrics.
Now’s the time for all good men
To get together with one another.
We got to iron out our problems
And iron out our quarrels
And try to live as brothers.
And try to find peace within
Without stepping on one another.
And do respect the women of the world.
Remember you all have mothers.
We got to make this land a better land
Than the world in which we live.
And we got to help each man be a better man
With the kindness that we give.
I know we can make it.
I know darn well we can work it out.
Oh yes we can, I know we can can
Yes we can can, why can’t we?
If we wanna get together we can work it out.
And we gotta take care of all the children,
The little children of the world.
‘Cause they’re our strongest hope for the future,
The little bitty boys and girls.
We got to make this land a better land
Than the world in which we live.
And we got to help each man be a better man
With the kindness that we give.
I know we can make it.
I know darn well we can work it out.
Oh yes we can, I know we can can
Yes we can can, why can’t we?
If we wanna, yes we can can.
Check out how they are dressed. Compare and contrast to the Wetass Pussy women.
It’s very sad, how low they – and society in general – have sunk.
But yes, it is the black culture taking the lead on the extra depraved content.
And as you say, there is a reason for it.
Re: the Pointer Sisters vs. today:
Music from a time when it seemed that maybe we could find a way to live together, versus, music that says “fuck no!”
Black culture as nurtured and fed by the ruling class, in order to create a violent underclass that lives for sex and murder, and cause division in our country.
Someone is making the decisions to feature criminality in music, TV, movies and other media, and it isn’t the people on ghetto streets. They are just the stars of the show. The show is produced by people at the top.
The decision was made at the top to stop featuring uplifting voices and start pushing violence and sex, in the culture. I don’t know when it started, but my usual go-to assumption is during the 80s, under the Evil Reagan.
Paula, that song is terrible. And I mean the production and execution (no pun intended) of the song. This guy has zero musical talent, he’s annoyingly and constantly ahead of the beat, and he is essentially rap/singing what sounds like a nursery rhyme.
The only reason anyone knows who he is is because of this ridiculous, gratuitous video. Can’t blame him for that though…good marketing is good marketing, even if it’s terrible.
But the product is D-, third grade trash.
Glad to hear he’s in jail now. That fits.
I’d like to see the long-term record too. I suspect it hasn’t always been this way.
Based on my familiarity with American history, my guess would be that it began in the ’60’s, and has only gone up from then with increased pandering. Seems like whites really started going crazy about that time too.
That whole “sixties thing” looks more “establishment” to me all the time.
That would be my guess, too.
Yeah, when they were afraid of us they behaved themselves.
So? Therefore? C’mon gimme something.
Jars, you wanna live with a subpopulation that fears you, or one that aspires to live like you?
My subjective reading of history leads me to think that we may have been on our way the the latter, when LBJ made sure we stayed on track to the former.
The word for fear and respect is the same in many African languages and many Black American minds.
Jefferson and many others wanted them sent out of America. He predicated the Civil War and a Race war. One down, one to go.
He met refugees from the White genocide in Haiti. He knew well what they were capable of.
Live with them in terms of equality? You still haven’t gotten the basics down if you believe that. They aren’t like us. No traditional American ever believed that.
You really love your son, so that is greatly in your favor. But you will mislead him on this issue, as you were mislead I’m afraid.
“Jars, you wanna live with a subpopulation that fears you, or one that aspires to live like you?”
I’d ask first whether the subpopulation is essentially like the general population except for some circumstance that can be overcome. For instance, immigrants to this country from Europe were poor when they arrived and thus were a temporary subpopulation, but one that had the capability to achieve their aspirations.
It’s a different matter if the subpopulation is fundamentally different in a way that prevents their aspirations from being achieved, except by a few who are atypical. The fundamental difference I refer to may consist of a determination to retain elements of the culture they came from that are incompatible with the culture of their new home. Or it could be that the difference is something such as a greater inclination toward violence or a lower intelligence overall.
For a subpopulation that can’t hope to fulfill their aspirations, they can only grow more resentful of those who can. In that case, if the two groups must continue to live together, I’d have to reluctantly say that I’d want the subpopulation to live in fear of what would happen to them if they indulged their natural inclinations.
@ MaryQueen:
I haven’t looked for statistics on this, and it’s probably futile anyway. (Try looking for statistics on black literacy rates.)
However, I doubt if the black crime rate was nearly this high prior to the 1960s. There are several reasons for this. Possibly the main one is the trade in illegal drugs. Quite a lot of black-on-black crime is because of conflicts between drug gangs.
Another and probably lesser reason is that, prior to the 1960s, the US was segregated, and black violence was contained. Whenever blacks did have contact with whites (blacks used to work as elevator-operators in white department stores, for example), they were simply not allowed to misbehave.
There was probably far less crime in black neighborhoods prior to the 1960s, simply because there were fewer drug dealers or drug gangs. And probably a lot of black-on-black violence (such as domestic violence) was not reported.
I’ve mentioned before here that segregation and Jim Crow (along with extra-judicial methods) were really just cost-effective ways to manage black violence and criminality. Putting black offenders in prison is too costly; there are too many of them. Municipalities are too broke.
I think this is the real reason that cities are so eager to “defund the police” and let violent criminals out of jail. They’re broke.
The penalty for murder and rape in the rural South was hanging. Four times as many Blacks were hung as Whites.
The Black crime rate was always much higher than the White rate.
I admit the imprecision. Maybe Whites weren’t hung for rape while the Blacks were? But in general, it indicates the general truth.
thanks i ll save that.
” The black population in the US is one-fifth that of the whites.
Blacks commit violent crimes at a rate 5 times that whites.
Therefore, the black population of the US commits violent crimes at a rate 25 times, per capita, that of the white population. ”
I don’t favor where that math and that narrative goes.
Granted , I can’t say exactly why , except by way of comparisons that are themselves broad and sweeping .
Like , for example ;
The nations that seem to bitch the most about peace and a rules – based – order are the same countries that are on the top ten list of worlds biggest arms dealers.
I suppose arms manufacture and distribution is not a charity ,
so the question arises , ” Who are these peace – loving people selling the arms ( A Hell of a lot of arms ) too , and why ? ”
And the possible answers seem like something less than wholly virtuous.
I notice JHK occasionally mentions Chris Hedges in passing.
If it is the same Chris Hedges ( ? ) I heard him say once ;
( paraphrasing from memory ) The United States and its Western Allies have exported their violence for a long time — long before I became a war correspondent. But in my time I have seen that the violence keeps creeping closer and closer to their own shores.
I would describe myself as a gun advocate on the extreme end of the spectrum , but for that reason precisely I wonder.
I have my doubts that the folks selling arms to Haiti have as their goal a Second Amendment for Haitians.
The guy who runs R J Reynolds and the guy who runs Phillip Morris are not themselves smokers ….. or are they ?
By extension , last I checked , for the tobacco farmer , the cigarette manufacturer , and the distributor to all make a fat profit , a pack of cigarettes would still cost a mere 50 cents.
The rest is a gratuitously exorbitant tax.
The folks pushing that clearly aren’t smokers themselves , but it seems to me obvious that they sure are ADDICTED TO SOMETHING.
It seems to me that one who pushes a tax of such proportions may be many things , but an ascetic would not be one of those things.
” Cops kill twice as many whites as blacks. ”
I have seen studies that claim that death – by – government has been HIGHER than death – by – conventional crime the past hundred years.
I do have my doubts about that math.
The math I do not doubt at all are those studies that say the numbers for death – by – government the past hundred years are plain catastrophic.
With the conclusion , at least , that the cure is as bad as the disease.
( Covid anyone ? Lol. )
” We all know math is evil and racist, but… ”
It has long seemed to me that this math has less to do with racism ,
a lot to do with the seeming fact that once upon a time being a victim was a misfortune and little but ,
but today being a victim can amount to winning the lottery.
This math does strike me as Social Darwinist ,
but that is a dirty stick that could be pointed at a lot more people than some 70 – years – deceased Nazis.
Well if you have a criminal population, you will never be a powerful nation – because that is based on trust among the population, at least on the upward arc before social decay sets in.
Are East Asians peaceful? Amongst themselves – very. Much lower crime rate than Whites. Thus they are often most formidable in war because so united.
Yes, Kesa Ann, we are ruled by criminals. Not street criminals, but ruthless and lawless anyway. The most psychopathic and vicious rise to the top of the system.
The beauty of propaganda is that there are a majority of Americans who identify with their owners. A bunch of house negroes who get irate if anyone points out the crimes of their ruling overlords.
“Don’t be un-American!” they say, revealing their firm belief that being a patriotic American requires bowing and scaping and licking the boots of the criminals who rule them.
Pathetic.
Yeah Blacks could create a first world industrial nation any time they wanted to. They just haven’t wanted to, right?
Wal-Mart is one of the corporations that donated money to BLM…now fleeing Portland because of the B’s in the BLM.
Malthuss,
Killer Bees.
Give it a name….
Ain’t that ironic?
A lot of people say they can’t see because their eyes are bad.
They can’t see b/c they have their heads up the asses.
Hahahahaha! Gotta love the last line. I’m betting Wheeler isn’t advertising that!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wheeler-shoots-back-at-texas-gov-on-twitter-over-portland-walmart-departures/ar-AA18kJuZ
BANNING GAS STOVES.
What the hell is that about?
Degrading our quality of life in every way possible. That’s what it’s about.
It’s also about – you will do what we tell you to do.
You will comply.
Indeed it is about control and conditioning.
Take the plastic bag ban after the paper bag ban.
Now that plastic bag ban has morphed into buy your own even longer lasting plastic bag.
This was all about saving flipper and crush from ingesting the bags but now those white bags are thicker and longer lasting.
Regressives have no real agenda but to find the next thing to change. Doesn’t matter if it needs to be changed, the only way to show “progress” is to change something, whether it currently works or not.
Mango dropping some deep thoughts.
You remain one of my favorite posters.
Just like new managers do when they take over.
Exactly.
Yep. Gotta make their mark, doesn’t matter if it’s a good idea or not.
Why most businesses are run badly.
You’re 3 weeks late learning about that – lol.
I’m continually baffled at how the Left embraces so many insane narratives. Pro-vax, pro drag show hour for children, pro Ukraine/Zelensky, pro open borders, pro green new deal, etc.
Just got unfriended on Facebook by a woman, a bit of a Karen who was on a Grand Canyon float trip with me in 2003. I made a tongue-in-cheek remark about the stupidity of taking regular “boosters”. She thinks drag queen story hours are cute. I will miss pushing her buttons.
They have no inner life whatsoever. Not just educated beyond their capacity, but rather the education destroyed whatever modest capacity they ever had.
Jarek, Silicon Valley is calling. Their AI is left leaning and won’t stand up, so they want to integrate your knowledge to perfect their bobblehead so that it won’t keep falling over.
On a different subject, I’d like your take on getting inside Chuck Schumer’s head and giving me an assessment of what he is thinking in regard to current comments regrading Tucker Carlson and Jan. 6th.
He knows who his enemies are. As he said of Tucker, “The guy needs to be stopped.”
If only White Americans knew their own interests as well as Chucky knows his. He know we’re his enemies, but most don’t know that he is ours.
It would appear that Tucker Carlson is the main sore thumb that stands out to Chuckie’s crowd, so how does this play-out?
I suppose that if a guy like Stuart Scheller had a good grasp of the big picture and wanted to call BS, that Tucker would give him a platform. Or, would Fox pull the rug out from under him? Or, do you think Tucker would give a shit, and find another stump?
Jarek, after giving this some thought, essentially, those on the right know that Chucky and his cohorts are the enemy, the problem is that they (the left) are gaming the system and playing by a different set of rules.
They control key positions in government, and their rules allow them to lie; whereas those on the right are boxed-in by a set of moral, logical rules, where lying is unacceptable conduct.
Because MSM promotes their lies, it is near impossible to break out of the box, and I suspect that by the time they are able to break out of the box, it will be too late (if it isn’t already).
Is anyone on the right in a position to bring charges of treason against anyone in the Biden administration, without essentially having to put their life on the line?
Write your congressman??? BS!!!
A list needs to be formed of those individuals that have been flirting with crossing the line, and we need to flood those individuals with letters of support.
@Jarek, and anyone else who might find this interesting. It’s from Vox Day’s blog, and I’ve also seen some commentary on this subject elsewhere recently including a long twitter thread.
It seems there exists a significant number of people who have no inner life in an actual, not a metaphorical sense – which is to say they have no inner monologue. This is a description of what goes on inside such a person:
“I think I’m very different from most people because of one main thing. I never thought with language. Ever. I moved to Canada when I was 2 from Asia, and have been basically been around English speakers my whole life. I’m in my twenties now and I can speak it relatively well, and can understand every single word. However, growing up, I never ever thought with language. Not once did I ever think something in my mind with words like “What are my friends doing right now?” to planning things like “I’m going to do my homework right after watching this show.”
I went through elementary school like this, I went through Highschool like this, I went through University like this…and I couldnt help but feel something was off about me that I couldnt put my hand on. Just last year, I had a straight up revalation, ephiphany….and this is hard to explain…but the best way that I can put it is that…I figured out that I SHOULD be thinking in language. So all of a sudden, I made a conscious effort to think things through with language.
I spent a years time refining this new “skill” and it has COMPLETELY, and utterly changed my perception, my mental capabilities, and to be frank, my life. I can suddenly describe my emotions which was so insanely confusing to me before…. Since I now have this new “skill” I can only describe my past life as ….”Mindless”…”empty”…..”soul-less”….”
(Comment from Vox Day) Sadly, it appears that he is very far from alone in this regard. Consider the anecdote where half the class genuinely refuses to believe the other half’s insistence that one can think in words. Or this anecdote, which explains why memes and movies are inordinately influential:
“I almost never think in language unless I actively try to, like when reading or when prompted. The flip side is I have a very vivid imagination. I never need to think things out explicitly in words because I think in visual/spatial concepts. For many years I thought the idea that people have “internal monologues” was a literary device. I didn’t think anyone actually thought in words all the time, and frankly the idea still seems weird to me.
This may sound crazy, but both science and observation make it clear that unconscious brain activity precedes conscious thought. Even my martial arts sensei used to tell us to stop thinking and trust our muscle memory, because the process of observe-decide-act was much slower than the process of react-as-trained. Often, when I was sparring at my best, I had no idea what I or my opponent were doing at the time, and we’d have to reconstruct what had happened by discussing the round afterward.
The apparent connection between wordlessness and abstract visual/spatial thinking makes me wonder if my heightened ability to see the logical – or illogical – patterns in texts may stem in part from my severe limitations with regards to spatial relations. The multilingual aspect is also intriguing, as the ability to speak a language is said to correlate highly with the unconscious use of it in one’s internal monologue as well as in one’s dreams. My high school German teacher used to tell us that you knew you had reached a comfortable conversational level in a language once you began dreaming in it, and I have found that to be true.
For example, what was once a solid conversational ability in Japanese has degraded to virtually nothing after 34 years of not speaking or hearing it. And yet, not long after I started listening to Babymetal, I was surprised to occasionally find myself making mental observations with Japanese phrases I’d regularly utilized while living in Sagamihara. The mind is truly a strange and wonderful thing.”
I never suspected that such a condition existed or was even possible. But if I adopt this idea as genuine, and look at the world through that lens, quite a few things make sense. I’m wondering what the rest of you think about this.
Shades of Julian Jayne’s “Breadown of the Bicameral Mind”.
And there are states of consciousness above the verbal too…..
But until people make full use of the verbal, they will be passive before the Word of Pharaoh – in our day, the mainstream media.
Yes, I immediately thought of Jayne and wondered if these people have always been with us but we simply assumed everyone’s inner workings were more or less the same.
*Jaynes* 🙁
@ Rowdypiglet:
For most people, it works the other way around. They have great difficulty turning off the “inner dialogue.” Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan recommends “turning off the internal dialogue” as a form of meditation. I think what is meant by the idea of “emptying your mind” in meditation really means that you stop thinking in words.
Another way to shut off the internal dialogue as a form of meditation is to pray the rosary. This has the effect of turning off the internal dialogue by replacing it with repetitive “formula” words, thus leaving the mind free to think and reflect. Another method is to occupy the mind with images–such as a lotus unfolding on top of your head.
Probably verbal and non-verbal thought complement each other and allow you to access two different types of knowledge.
@Anthea, I think verbal and non-verbal thought do complement one another and most people use both modes, but it doesn’t appear as if that’s what we’re talking about here. Some have said that it’s just an empty void inside their minds when they’re not speaking, and that they don’t know what they’re going to say until they have said it. I find this hard to imagine, but I have to trust what people say about the contents (or lack thereof) of their own minds.
Presumably, the words these people speak are processed on some level of which they’re not consciously aware. It’s a mystery, but an intriguing one (at least, it is to me). It suggests there may be fundamental differences between humans of which we’ve been almost completely unaware.
@ Rowdypiglet:
My impression is that most people don’t think at all but simply repeat what they’ve heard from other people. This is especially true of young people. I say this because I can remember when I did that myself. I was in my late twenties when I first began to realize that information (words and external realities) need to be processed in some formal way. This was because I first encountered actual thinking people when I was in my late twenties. Never ran into any of them before, in college or anywhere else–and never ran across any books that were helpful either.
My guess is that only about half of all people are able to think, either verbally or non-verbally. Those who are capable of thought need some kind of training in this.
Training for primarily non-verbal thinkers would have to be different than training for verbal thinkers. I think the non-verbal thinkers are usually the “hands-on” visual/spatial oriented people. Reason and logic are forced upon them by reality. One of my daughters is an excellent auto mechanic (and brilliant at all hands-on things) who struggled with language-related stuff as a child. It seems to me that such people acquire immense intellectual rigor simply from getting the job done. Verbal thinkers (of which I am one) really require a strong structure that imposes intellectual rigor. Verbal thinkers are just too impressionable when it comes to words. They’re apt to believe gossip or a slick salesman or politician. But you can’t fool a non-verbal thinker into believing that it’s righty-loosey, lefty-tighty, or that water runs uphill.
u forget sex changes for children
legal infanticide
‘equality’
WadeWaters, did she have a big picture perspective, or was she just aware of some of the “noise”?
Got nothing original to say about this post.
It’s a good one, for sure, but lately I’ve been feeling like I’m on an Information-infinity or meta-loop.
I’ve heard it before kind of thing.
Any day now the Stock Market will crash. People will be left high and dry. There will be no government bailout. The rich have prepared for this and will be fine. Pensions will be cut, prices will continue to inflate, and the American quality of life will be diminished.
While this chaos is going on, China will come in for the kill. I look for an EMP to wipe out the population but save all the land resources for China. I doubt we will see a shooting war with China, but if we do, we aren’t prepared unless we go nuclear. Our volley of nukes will just be answered with a volley from China, North Korea, Iran, and possibly Russia,
Right now, Americans feel safe and secure because all the wars we have engaged in have been fought on turfs oceans away. A Red Dawn could happen! Five million illegals need something to do, and they will be paid well to do it!
You better have a gun and some ammo to protect yourself. If the enemy doesn’t knock on your door, then those who are hungry will.
People better wake up, it’s coming!
Don’t say it could never happen!
Are guns the best answer? Are you certain of mutually assured nuclear destruction? I am with you on the market and the falling living standard (it has been soo bloated)… the women are gunna cry. Carring water is no fun.
The Jan sixth insurgency, the plandemic and the late 60’s Disney Moon Landing series, to me, are three examples of the lies we are being told.
But the good news is that I have no degrees and can prove with my GPA that I, jim e, am the world’s biggest dumb ass!
And, unlike Peter, I have no desire for a Rolex and would never wear one… I don’t like shoes much…
Wolverines!
Plotinus on the inner work:
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.”
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”
? Plotinus
Jarek: Withdraw into yourself and look. Indeed! If you see falsehood, delete it. Contradiction? Amend it. Crookedness? Straighten it. Mistakes? Correct them.
Burn your idols.
Your Hebrew Christianity is an idol. Your Abrahamic “everyone has got it wrong except us” to put in the broadest possible context. Traditional Catholicism is included in that. As is Islam.
When did Abraham ever say that? The Israelites were always working with any that loved the Creator.
Edomite, Babylonian, Canaanite worshippers of Moloch and others lead the Southern Tribes into rebellion as the others were carried away captive.
I seek to restore the Israelite faith in One rulemaker. There are no worthy contenders for the Highest.
But…
Most people pretend to look into themselves – and find themselves beautiful!
So…
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful…” Good! You may have retained some objectivity.
You’re conflating the spiritual quest with navel gazing. A profound mistake. But I suppose if you introverted, it would be that?
Narcissism or Nirvana? Black will choose the former for twenty.
Jars, I am confounded once again by the fact that you pretend to hear the opposite of what I am saying.
How many people are on a “spiritual quest”?
How many people are in love with themselves?
How much overlap is there between those two groups?
You just like butting heads on the edge of a cliff. And it seems I got nothin’ better to do.
You’re the one who when confronted with this classic quote on contemplation equated it with narcissism.
Mind blowing. Now because I called you on it, you’re trying to pin it on me.
I don’t accept your “gift”. It is yours alone, your Rorschach test. No one made you respond this way. Own it. Contemplate that (add italics).
I gave you a gift? Was it something from your OnlyFans wishlist? I’m sorry dude, I gotta plead “drunk-shopping”. Don’t open it, just set it on fire and let’s forget this ever happened…
I was just saying, that you can’t trust people, especially in these narcissistic days, to conduct a proper austere introspection.
Let’s go back upstream and argue about something more substantial.
Oh yeah, if you want to add italics:
“” At the beginning (remove the quotation marks and commas).
“” At the end.
As in:
“” blah blah blah “”
Or find an html guide. I’m still learning too.
Ok, that didn’t work…
Will this be the Year Without a Summer? As 1816 was? The temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere right now during their Summer are 10 – 15 degrees below normal. Crop harvests will not be good, to say the least.
The massive eruption of Hunga Tonga in Jan. of 2022 kicked enormous amounts of water vapor into the mesosphere. Southern Hemisphere temps have been much lower since then.
The water vapor though is now affecting the Northern Hemisphere as well. Where I live on the Left Coast the temps are 5 degrees below normal easily. This trend is projected to last at least another year. A cool if not cold Summer could be incoming.
Well eventually there will be many years without a Summer. Then we will have no choice but to reconcile ourselves with the ice. Interestingly enough where I live in the deep Gulf South we have had a mild winter overall and now it is essentially pseudo Summer. Likely this is simply a reshuffling of air masses since it is so cold in other areas. I have been checking temperature anomalies in the South Atlantic for several weeks and it appears there is a warm pocket in the middle of the ocean. But in South America I do see the colder temperatures and they have appeared to be rather consistent.
Having lived my entire life in Alabama, I am good with no Summer. I have never lived with Air Conditioning or heat unless I was Married. No HVAC for me. I got through this Winter on $165. I am all electric…
Oh wow! You must be made of some strong stuff lol. I simply lilt and wilt in the egregious Summer heat and have to have a touch of air movement so I do have AC. But i do keep the thermostat up to 78 or 80 so I have had people say dang its hot up in here lol. But for me it works. I like the Winter because most of the time nothing is needed.
SSL,
…And it ain’t a dry heat….
Oh no definitely not i couldn’t even be expected to deal with that
Modern hero.
Being married is needlessly expensive.
Snowpack in California is great news for the rest of us.
The potential emigres may stay there a little longer
Lol too funny! I don’t mind the good ones though.
We don’t get many immigrants up this way, just a lot of people who would rather be “anywhere but here”. I’m waiting for all of them to go – well, maybe except for 2 or 3 of them…
We’ve had a very mild winter here, and we seem to be having a slightly early spring: temps generally warmer than usual for this time of year–though I’ve seen them a lot warmer (and a lot colder). The forecast is for a fairly cool summer.
“Will this be the Year Without a Summer?”
At least I’d have an excuse for my pathetic garden.
It’s not (just) me, this land is cursed…
There is no Betterman than a Fetterman! And that’s a damn fact!
I heard Fetterman has been in a mental hospital for over a month. How long before the Pa governor appoints a replacement?
Some comrades are saying Fetterman is braindead, hooked up to an infernal breathing machines, with electrodes attached to his head.
No, he’s working with his team, and they published pics. He seems physically fine but who knows.
When seeking a better man,
Who better than Fetterman?
His health problems legion,
In his cranial region,
Paid for by every American….
@NightScowl
What if I told you I’m just having a go?
Winding you up? Bringing a little bit of bollocks banter?
A facilitator. Creating genuine positive negative interactions. Page hits.
And for free? No remuneration.
Not even a three Billy goat meal!
There’s only so much doom and gloom one can take.
What did they tell us Wilde said? Oscar, not Olivia salad dressing recipe Wilde (google it) ?
Life is far too important a thing to ever…
There is only one thing worse than being talked about, not being… Wilde
No one cares, Carghoul.
You will be banned again, as usual.
BANNING GAS STOVES.
What the hell is that about?
Methane emissions cause 25% of global heating today and there has been a “scary” surge since 2007, according to scientists. This acceleration may be the biggest threat to keeping below 1.5C of global heating and seriously risks triggering catastrophic climate tipping points, researchers say.
The technocrats will go after your gas heat next.
Hahahaha, right.
But that’s not the reason they gave, when many countries across the globe suddenly all started talking about banning gas stoves at the exact same time.
The story here in the states was that they need to ban them because of childhood asthma.
There was another reason given for banning them in Europe.
I call bullshit. As usual.
But it was modeled on a computer.
How dare you.
thanks
Had to go off-island today. Cut through a residential neighborhood to get to where I was going (on foot).
Street was closed because they are laying a new gas line . . .
What island are you on? If you don’t want to say, then what kind of island?
Have you ever laid gas lines? Cuz you ain’t shit if you haven’t according to Anthea.
The Pimped-Out Passive
While the commentariat here and elsewhere perpetually indignantly hoo and haw with tapping foot, arms on hips and knitted brows, about this-that-and-the other ‘glocal’ mindfuck, shock, horror or indignity, etcetera, the perpetrating proverbial WEFs, their shadow-cronies and government go-fers are busily destroying the old and creating a ‘great reset’ of their own in their own image, and under the noses of the very populations they pimp, the results of which of course they use to further those said goals.
Chris Martenson’s book, “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition) is definitely worth reading.
Half of all the world’s Oil consumed was consumed in the last 30 years, so most of the world’s limited Energy has been consumed for my benefit and the benefit of the “Baby Boomers”. I must have had extraordinarily good Karma to have been born into such a fortuitous era of abundant, but paradoxically limited fossil fuels? I’m “Generation X”, so my worldview is much different from the “Hippies”. Many years ago, I read a book entitled “Generation X” which said that the “Generation Xers” don’t think that there is much of a future, and they believe in “living out of a suitcase” in case they have to suddenly “jump out of the window.” That’s about right..,,
The China Dream may be a bit of a Fool’s Errand for the Chinese to the extent that a high rate of debt-financed economic growth in the context of Exponential Growth rather quickly overwhelms the availability of resources, particularly Energy. China also has a huge demographic problem with an aging population. It’s basically like a car going 100 mph slamming into a brick wall. X…i may not be very well educated, and he may believe his own propaganda? Somebody is going to have to take the blame for that? Probably the “Foreigners”?
Half of all the world’s Oil consumed was consumed in the last 30 years
There’s that exponential thing again. Could be that the US has the last laugh after all, as China – with three times our population – goes all in on adopting our first world life style in the face of collapsing cheap energy supplies. Alas, absent a “we all suffer through this together” mindset, which might not even be possible, we are indeed headed full speed into a massive clusterfuck.
For the next skin disease,
Fumaria… //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumaria_officinalis#Herbalism
Calendula
Theives oil aka oil of the Good Samaritan.
As per Our Lady of the End Times
Night, you will know Fumaria under its German name, as a tea.
Also, my naturopath has explained that Hawthorne speeds up a slow heart or slows down a speeding heart dependent on need, get pro advice on dosing. Ur Lady reccomended it for children with the ‘heart fever’.
———–‘x
Who exactly attended the latest ,meetings?….
://publicintelligence.net/bilderberg/#
@ anmariwakaranai:
That’s interesting about Fumaria. It’s an herb I’ve never looked into–said to be good for psoriasis, among other things. Calendula is widely used in skincare preparations. Hawthorn is good stuff. I’ve found that it improves my energy level, even though I have no known heart problems.
Re B-ball player names beginning wit Ja:
The other day I speculated that there were more college basketball players whose first names began with Ja than with any other two-letter combination.
That night there were 11 games being televised in my area. I googled the rosters of the 22 teams involved and threw in 3 others for good measure.
Here, listed by school, are the Ja player names:
Alabama: Jaden, Jaden, Jahvon
Minnesota: Jamison, Jackson, Jaden
Bowling Green: Jackson, Jamai
LSU: Jalen
Maryland: Jamir, Jahari
Kentucky: Jacob
Providence: Jared, Jayden
Loyola Chicago: Jalen, Jayden, Jacob
Tulane: Jalen, Jaylen, Jake, Jaden
Pittsburgh: Jamarcus
Penn State: Jalen, Jameel
Rhode Island: Jalen
Auburn: Jalen, Jaylin
East Carolina: Javon, Jaden, Jaxon
DePaul: Jalen, Javan
Rutgers: Jalen
Make of this what you will.
James the host
Jarek
JAZ (John from AZ)
I’m not into basketball
But Jacob Jackson Jason Jake Jared Jamison are hardly rare.
Imagine if you put your research fortitude to a worthwhile pursuit?
At least Peter has an excuse.
He don’t give no **cks
AND I LL RAISE YOU 10
This is so funny Ebonics at work
heres a long list–do share
I’m adding Quendrick to my list of great first names that I stumbled across I’ve posted this list of interesting first names before and figured some folks would get a kick out of my updated list.
All of these names are from crime stories I’ve ran across on the Internet… if I were to search for names from the rosters of NFL and NCAA football teams I’d break the Internet with this post.
Quendrick “Bailey (20) shooter at Bunny Field Park massacre in at New Orleans (LA)
Ryndreaka Gooseberry (?) survived Bunny Field Park massacre in at New Orleans (LA)
Expavious Tyrell Taylor (20) murdered in gun battle (FL)
Zyquabious Romaire Williams (18) Sexual assault (SC)
Ketrellia Monaja Harris (15) murdered white man for $3 (NC)
Breonna Thorne (19) protested black-on-black murders (PA)
Tremon Rahquis Pittman (22) murder victim (NC)
Shiparish Yates (21) looting (SC)
Jemetric Nicholson (28) cop killer(IL)
Porshau Hewitt (37) Triple homicide (NC)
Shakeem Ricks (21) murder (NJ)
Tyheem Mayfield (23) murder (NJ)
Nyje Johnson (20) murder (NJ)
Quajeir Culbreath (17) murder (NJ)
Jeavonte Dennis (18) murder (NJ)
Divonite Almestica (?) New Orleans councilman who says crime is result of lack of opportunity (LA)
Donwan Tonwlsey (26) raped U. of Indiana student (IN)
Chicwanda Forbes (32) murder (LA)
Latausha Nedd (?) goes by name Eye Empress Sekhmet and burns flags and threatens whites on youtube (GA)
Jkukuruin Corley (19) former gang member (TN)
Nanyamka N. James (20) arrested for assaulting police officer while out on parole (WI)
Jamycheal Mitchell (24) committed suicide while in jail (VA)
De’Eris Marquan Brown (21) shot 9 year-old girl named Jamyla (MO)
NuPhaeya Hassen (12) attacked a 12 year-old boy who she claimed was in KKK (MO)
Juruary Miles (30) cop killer (TX)
Barvetta Singletary (37) worked at White House! – shot her boyfriend (DC)
Shyteak Lawrence (25) killed in drive-by (MD)
Timiquae Marquan Slaton (22) murder (GA)
Jaelyn Delshaun Young (19) tried to join ISIS (MS)
Shavinskin Thomas (21) murder (PA)
Janaris Shamer Cunningham (34) pistol whipped a detective (AL)
Kingquintav Davis-Ringold (1) infant killed by mother (IL)
Lavauntai Broadbent (16) pulled a gun on a white guy in a robbery, got shot by guy b/c he had CCP (MN)
Yahdea Brown (19) part of ‘knockout gang’ group (OH)
Najee Harmon (21) cop killer (WI)
Dhoruba Shakur (25) public supporter of man who tried to assassinate a police officer (MO)
Draon Armstrong (21) claimed police brutality when police roughed him up for resisting arrest after not paying metro fare (MN)
Demaryius Thomas (27) President Obama gave a full pardon to the cocaine trafficking mother of this NFL player (GA)
Shuntayvious Primes-Willis (15) murder (NE)
Tajanetta Downing (24) beat up a 72 y.o. lady (MA)
Kenoldo Alexis (17) part of gang rape of mentally disabled girl (FL)
Ajanique Legrand (16) leader of gang of 15-16 year-old girls that mugged Brooklyn residents (NY)
Trepierre Hummons (21) cop killer (OH)
Jordyn Wade (16) QUADRUPLE homicide (OH)
Cudellious Love (59) murder (AZ)
Johnren Gaines (17) raped an 11 year-old (LA)
Shitavious J. Cook (15) murder (GA)
Quartavious Davis (19) Serving armed robbery (FL)
Dajerria Becton (15) girl who Cpl. Casebolt detained in infamous “Pool Party” incident (TX)
Lyndell Dunnigan (15) beat a white man at a public park because “whites ain’t allowed there” (TN)
K-Vonne Jenkins (21) sex offender (KY)
Malandus Pearson (32) killed two white teen-age girls (MS)
Daquantrius Johnson (21) stealing a wedding ring and other items from a woman who was dying from a brain aneurysm in a Taco Bell (KS)
Qwinterrious Dodson (22) theft (GA)
Antwonetta Jones (22) strangled baby after delivering it and put it in trash compactor (LA)
Ruhemmeion King (17) 2 counts of felony-murder (GA)
Xzoyloysius Wood, Jr. (19) shooting suspect (VA)
Shaquaid Cox (18) rape (OH)
Shanetria Lanier (21) neighbor of Detroit “Freezer Mom” (MI)
Shontavious Chestnut (25) murder (GA)
Desunda Brown (18) teen-age girl with Robbery and firearm charges (TN)
Dayvone Malvo (20) arrested for indecent exposure (TX)
Dominiq Marquan Deloach (18) murdered innocent white bystander to an argument (NC)
Tariq Jordan (15) murdered innocent white bystander to an argument (NC)
Yvon Norton Jr. (20) rape (OH)
Nehemijel Houston (?) murder (NC)
Centrilia Shardon Leach (?) murder (NC)
Demarquise Elkins (?) murdered infant (GA)
DQuan Ingram (21) aspiring bus driver (FL)
La’el Collins (22) murder(LA)
Johnesda Perry (19) murdered infant (PA)
Shyrome Jaquane Johnson (25) obstruction of justice in homicide of white 5 y.o. girl (SC)
Rohbanni Wilson (24) sex offender & murderer (FL)
Ymmacula Pierre (30) female NYPD cop who used credit cards of murder victim (NY)
Donte Adaryll Noble (41) murderer(SC)
LeRoya Moore (36) stabbed her 6 and 8 y.o. daughters to death (CT)
Lakecia Hyman (41) embezzled $10,000 from charities (NJ)
Orinthid Jabbar Hayes (19) sexual assault (FL)
Quincinio Canada (24) murdered young marine and his wife (TX)
Quinellia Shanice McKoy (24) B&E (NC)
Jamealia Moore (36) theft (NC)
Dontejio Taft (28) theft (NC)
Younikue Stewart (18) larceny (NC)
Shaequan Demetrice Johnson (22) robbery (NC)
L-Vic Nicholson (22) stolen property (NC)
Tykerious Raheem “Grumpy” Jones (17) murder (GA)
Quanterrious Wynn (18) murder (GA)
I-Key Tumazs Pinkins (18) murder (GA)
Ty’Cameron La’Darius Hayes (18) murder (GA)
Lyryan Robinson (19) murder (GA)
Jamar Clark-killed- when he tried to disarm a cop
so there Mr smarty pants
Barvetta Singletary (37) worked at White House! – shot her boyfriend (DC)
Look! A tranny with a children’s book!
?
This one doesn’t count. It’s a duplicate from list above.
Look! Yet more kids parents let ideologically-kidnap by government!
They black!
Now I have discovered that there is a pro basketball player named Ja Morant. Ja is not pronounced as Jay (as it is in Jalen and Jaden) but rather Ja rhymes with Ha as in ha ha ha LMAO. I need to be able to put an umlaut over the a in Ja but can’t figure how to do it (directions welcomed).
Anyway this Ja guy is currently in hot water because he was seen carrying a gun. I speculate that all the players above whose first name begins with Ja also carry guns. 😉 Ditto, of course, for every name on Malthuss’s list below at 7:38 pm. Almost goes without sayin’, right?
All these other player names on my 6:58 pm list above have other letters following Ja but Ja Morant is kind of a “Ja purist.”
And, hahaha, would you believe this Connie VanPeebles character implies my Ja-name research is not a worthwhile pursuit. Some people… go figure. 🙂
Umlauts:
If you have a Mac, hold down the letter key – “A” in this example – for a little longer than usual and a little window will pop up allowing you to choose from a short list of modified letters.
If you’re using a PC, I can’t help you.
I don’t have a Mac so I guess that means I have a PC.
ä ë ï ö ü
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Do an online search for how to get an umlaut with the type of computer you have. Example find:
How to Type Characters With Umlaut Marks
Keyboard shortcuts offer a fast solution
“What to Know
Windows: Select Win+R > enter charmap > double-click the character > select Copy > Ctrl+V to paste, or use Alt+numeric code.
Mac: Press and hold Option+u > type the letter or use the Character Viewer program.
This article explains how to create an umlaut on a Windows PC, a Mac, and in HTML.” ~ Lifewire
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Or if you’re just using it one time, just find one from a search for ‘a umlaut’ and do a simple copy-paste.
We don’t have a race problem; we have a problem with a race…that’s sad.
BTW…
The rich man rides the taxi, the poor man rides the train, the hobo walks the railroad tracks, and it will always be the same!
From James Roguski: things you can do to reject digital enslavement.
jamesroguski.substack.com/p/reject-digital-enslavement
Summary:
“Anyone who is focusing on, or even discussing the proposed “Pandemic Treaty,” is distracting attention away from the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations, which are a completely different set of proposals that will NOT need to be signed by any President (or Prime Minister), nor would the proposed amendments require the advice and consent of the Senate (or Parliament).
Amendments to the IHR were adopted in 2022 and no signature or Senate confirmation were required. The amendments that are currently being proposed could easily be adopted in the same manner in May 2023 or 2024. The media and politicians have been silent on this issue.
Buried among the 307 amendments to the International Health Regulations that have been proposed by 94 member nations of the World Health Organization are a number of amendments that would seek to institute a GLOBAL DIGITAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE.”
Speaking of Samantha Power (I think she was mentioned up-thread), here is an interesing and not too long piece by Philip Giraldi that features the dreadful neo-Neanderthal Samantha:
httpX://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/us-foreign-policy-goes-woke/
So, Power is a WEF plant.
Check out the embedded video at comment # 5 of the Giraldi piece (I can ‘t find the unembedded version).
The main topic is the total digitization of Ukraine, which USAID has underwritten. Power is shown crowiong about this at the WEF Forum. The rest of the video goes on to describe the utterly dystopian circumstances within “digital Ukraine.’
Really worth a look.
At this point, I’d be more surprised to find a political leader who wasn’t a WEF plant.
Who is going to get up on the stump and articulate the big picture?
” Will this be the Year Without a Summer? As 1816 was? ”
Same gut reaction as with ;
The Russians will invade
AIDS will kill everyone
Covid will kill everyone
The Vax will kill everyone
” If it sounds too good to be true …. “
The Vax can only kill everyone IF everyone gets injected.
is that the idea?
or ideas..get all shot and make sure it kills 100% of vaxed.
” Most people pretend to look into themselves – and find themselves beautiful!
So…
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful…” Good! You may have retained some objectivity. ”
Believe it or not I look into myself and see something horrific.
Generally , though , the reward for that is primarily charges of hypocrisy .
Near as I can tell , it is primarily conducive to unpopularity , not at all popularity.
Yes, we’re all horrible, marred by original sin. Look deeper. The Imago Dei is there, Kesa. Unmarred. Waiting for you to don once again.
I though Black Bird understood more than he does. I was wrong.
You’re just jealous Jars.
I’m so right that your mind is blown, like a car riding on tires inflated with methane.
Don’t hate me because I have a better Imago Dei than you do.
The Image is the Image. But the likeness is up to you. Have you been wiping and dusting every day?
” That whole “sixties thing” looks more “establishment” to me all the time. ”
You used to be able ( ? ) to read , ” Weird scenes inside the Canyon ” by David Mcgowan on the internet.
I did not agree with his conclusion that 60’s rock was a government psy – op.
But I thought it had real utility in pointing out just how many rock stars and Hollywood stars were already juiced – in long before you ever heard of them.
There are a heck of a lot of names in the book , but pretty much the only people who remotely qualified for the label , ” average Joe ” were Charles Manson and Squeaky Fromme.
Pretty much everyone else was BORN on the inside track .
With a suggestion , though , that although he was genuinely working class , Charles Manson’s childhood was not anywhere near as bad as it appears .
I always felt bad for Charles Manson. He seemed to be not all there really. And it seemed so inhumane how he was treated like an animal by the system. But the reality is that the system is an animal. Not an animal that you can find adorable or lovable or respectable or what have you. But some sort of horrible menacing beast that is a cross between a squid and a jackal that is a cold calculating predator. So don’t hate me because I have anti-civilizational tendencies. Shouldn’t the system have a responsibility to make itself more acceptable and embraceable?
Soft’ Plagiarizing
“Shouldn’t the system have a responsibility to make itself more acceptable and embraceable?” ~ SoftStarLight
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Of course not.
The system should be elite-based and coerce, plunder and pillage everything and everyone else and then (therefore) ultimately collapse itself, because…
…Because the sea levels are going to rise. And then they are going to fall. And rise and fall and rise and fall until one day all the water will eventually evaporate off of the Earth because the Sun is too big and hot.
So WFT.
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“So don’t hate me because I have anti-civilizational tendencies.” ~ SoftStarLight
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‘Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.’ ~ Kelly LeBrock
Zazelle,
The boldface type hurts my eyes.
I didn’t close my bold html tag so it was not on purpose.
Get well soon.
Not the “sick” kind of “hurt.”
The “too hard to read” kind of hurt.
Getting well = not reading.
You snark-addicted conceited ass.
I saw that coming. You’ll survive.
Nice try but i won’t let you get away with such equivocations and conflations. Essentially you are saying that because one reconciles themselves with natural cycles and climatic cycles that they therefore deserve to be pillaged, plundered, and coerced.
How dare you Zazelle
That’s not what I meant, but how dare I? It seems you’ve already made up your mind, then, so I won’t bother clarifying anything for you. Who cares, right?
Little Jewish boy to his rabbi: It seems wrong the way Jacob treated Esau. Why would God go along with it?
The Rabbi: What kind of question is that? Esau was an animal.
You can still read it on the internet:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
I like how Dave left it open just enough for people to do more work and come to their own conclusions.
@ KesaAnna:
You still can read “Weird Scenes inside the Canyon” online. httxx://archive.org/details/weirdscenesinsidethecanyonlaurelcanyoncovertopsthedarkheartofthehippiedream2014b/page/n18/mode/1up?view=theater
It’s very interesting that Jim Morrison’s father was Admiral Morrison and that Frank Zappa’s father was a chemical warfare specialist assigned to Edgewood Arsenal–where Frank lived in military housing for his first seven years.
But rather than go into a nearly endless list of 60s icons’ military connections, I’ll let you read it for yourself, if you’re so inclined. Very interesting read.
I suspected “the sixties” were one big psy-op before I read McGowen’s work. I am even more convinced afterward.
Same.
Too many of them were connected to the deep state, military or ruling families. And they all suddenly popped up at once with this new music and style, and the accompanying drugs, which the CIA had just been developing (see: the Frank Olson story).
The Beatles were a Tavistock invention.
Listen to how crappy they actually sounded at their Ed Sullivan debut. No one pays attention to that, they pay attention to the screaming.
That screaming was also not normal. It was mass hysteria, and induced.
LOL
I used to listen to this guy named Stefan Molyneux, before they kicked him off YouTube and he did a 90 minute show one time on Manson’s childhood.
It seemed pretty horrific to me. Heart rendingly horrific.
Plus, then he got fingered for murders he didn’t actually do.
I’m sure he was a horrible person, though. Abused children usually grow up to be horrible people.
Our sympathy for their plight disappears when they turn 18 and they are able to inflict abuse onto others.
Stefan Molyneux had a lot of good videos. Fascinating stuff.
Maintaining Order & Services: Anarchy As A Human Fundamental
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”If…
…, however, as Pareto suggested… a governing elite is inevitable, then we are certainly under the wrong elites.” ~ Michael Rectenwald (via JHK)
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Love that ‘if’, ‘wrong elites’ and the Pareto ‘cherrypick’ (so to speak, because naturally it’s only a quote).
In any case…
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“One of the most important recent findings in the study of the long-term dynamic social processes was the discovery of the political-demographic cycles as a basic feature of the dynamics of complex agrarian systems…
Recently the most important contributions to the development of the mathematical models of long-term (‘secular’) sociodemographic cycles have been made by Sergey Nefedov, Peter Turchin, Andrey Korotayev, and Sergey Malkov. What is important is that on the basis of their models Nefedov, Turchin and Malkov have managed to demonstrate that sociodemographic cycles were a basic feature of complex agrarian systems (and not a specifically Chinese or European phenomenon).
The basic logic of these models is as follows:
After the population reaches the ceiling of the carrying capacity of land, its growth rate declines toward near-zero values.
The system experiences significant stress with decline in the living standards of the common population, increasing the severity of famines, growing rebellions etc.
As has been shown by Nefedov, most complex agrarian systems had considerable reserves for stability, however, within 50–150 years these reserves were usually exhausted and the system experienced a demographic collapse (a Malthusian catastrophe), when increasingly severe famines, epidemics, increasing internal warfare and other disasters led to a considerable decline of population.
As a result of this collapse, free resources became available, per capita production and consumption considerably increased, the population growth resumed and a new sociodemographic cycle started.
It has become possible to model these dynamics mathematically in a rather effective way…
The models have two main phases, each with two subphases.
Integrative phase
Expansion (growth)
Stagflation (compression)
Disintegrative phase
Crisis phase (state breakdown)
Depression / intercycle
An intercycle is where a functioning state collapses and takes some time to rebuild…” ~ Wikipedia
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“Benjamin Powell argued that statelessness led to more order and less chaos than had the previous state, and economist Alex Tabarrok claimed that Somalia in its stateless period provided a ‘unique test of the theory of anarchy’, in some aspects near of that espoused by anarcho-capitalists David D. Friedman and Murray Rothbard…
The Somali experience since the collapse of the state, and especially the failure of international intervention, has offered a clear challenge to elements of conventional economic, political and social order theory and the very premises under which Western diplomacy and development agencies operate, and in particular, in the words of anthropologist Peter D. Little, ‘assumptions about the role of states in maintaining order and services’.” ~ Wikipedia
Sea Levels Appear To Be Rising
Most Recent GMSL Release
2022_rel2
Global Mean Sea Level (Seasonal Signals Removed) ~ Graph on front page at: Sealevel. Colorado. Edu.
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“Plymouth Rock and sea level.
[twitter CartlandDavid]
LOL.” ~ Night Owl March 4, 2023 at 2:58 am
You know what. The sea levels are going to rise. And then they are going to fall. And rise and fall and rise and fall until one day all the water will eventually evaporate off of the Earth because the Sun is too big and hot. I’m so tired of being emotionally manipulated because of water cycles and and temperatures and industrial activities. We would never have salt lakes and salt flats if there weren’t changes in the sea levels you know. And the seas and oceans move around too. There used to be a big sea in the middle of the lower 48 as an example.
You will also notice that I’ve never commented anything about sea level rise hereon until it was dredged up, and by some dubious anecdote no less.
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“I’m so tired of being emotionally manipulated…” ~ SoftStarLight
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You sure you’re on the right blog then?
…And, say, down with a comment or two (ostensibly from the same one) about the possibility of politically-deliberate ‘man-made Turkish earthquake, while personally attacking anyone who questions it?
Just askin’.
BTW, can you locate Betelgeuse in the sky on a clear night? I can. I can even make out its pinkishness.
At the risk of making you feel ’emotionally manipulated’, it’s in line for a supernova relatively shortly… but in all likelihood not in our lifetimes. Bummer.
Why do you say “you sure you’re on the right blog then?” Please go into more detail and describe the manipulator or manipulators. Who did I attack regarding the man-made earthquake Turkish theory? I don’t recall attacking anyone. I think I know which star is Betelgeuse? I know I have been excited about the Betelgeuse supernova for a few years now and yt manipulates me a lot with videos saying “star explosion happening now” but i always am disappointed.
“Why do you say “you sure you’re on the right blog then?” ~ SoftStarLight
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Maybe because it’s a collapse-type blog, rather than a… let’s see… a mixed hybrid semi-rational safe-space collapse blog?
But what do I know?…
‘How dare you’, ‘your bold text hurts my eyes’, ‘fuck science’?
Hey, why not– custom-fit and all that, ay?
As for your question about Night Owl’s hokey-sounding Turkish earthquake bit…
Since I’d been attempting to spoon-feed them stuff they didn’t seem to care much for (unlike my delicious tears) (I found some cool stuff for myself in the process in any case, so it wasn’t a total loss), I decided to kill three birds with one stone and copy/paste that exchange referred to right here:
March 8, 2023 at 5:45 pm
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If many people are inclined, and in counterproductive ways, to ‘just believe’ and/or dispense with a certain level of rationality or the kinds of concepts and approaches underlying the scientific method and the like, decline/collapse, and a bad one, is more likely, as is an explosion of myth, cult and religion and so on in the process.
Hoo boy, can’t wait.
https://sealevel.colorado.edu/presentation/what-definition-global-mean-sea-level-gmsl-and-its-rate
A word salad of a definition comprehensible only to those who took the “vaccine.”
“Science.”
For the lazy:
“The term “global mean sea level” in the context of our research is defined as the area-weighted mean of all of the sea surface height anomalies measured by the altimeter in a single, 10-day satellite track repeat cycle. It can also be thought of as the “eustatic sea level.” The eustatic sea level is not a physical sea level (since the sea levels relative to local land surfaces vary depending on land motion and other factors), but it represents the level if all of the water in the oceans were contained in a single basin. Changes to this eustatic level are caused by changes in total ocean water mass (e.g., ice sheet runoff), changes in the size of the ocean basin (e.g., GIA), or density changes of the water (e.g., thermal expansion).”
It’s not a change in physical sea level kids — no, no, no. That would mean the average joe could see it themselves, and where would that get Zazelle and The Science?
LOL.
Is Sea Level Rising?
“Yes, there is strong evidence that global sea level gradually rose in the 20th century and is currently rising at an increased rate… Sea level is projected to rise at an even greater rate in this century. The two major causes of global sea level rise are thermal expansion of the oceans (water expands as it warms) and the loss of land-based ice due to increased melting.” ~ IPCC
We can all read what it says.
A model that puts all of the earths oceans into one theoretical basin.
The effects of which no one has seen or experienced in any physically verifiable or even meaningful way.
“Science” from one of our vaccine-injured denizens.
LOL.
“The effects of which no one has seen or experienced in any physically verifiable or even meaningful way.” ~ Night Owl
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I’m unsure about that (and with regard to the future) but, in a way, I’m unsure it matters at this point if, in part, we’re already in decline/collapse mode whether by deliberate acts (economic & geopolitical sabotage, etc.) and/or more natural effects/dynamics.
If your contention is that sea level rise is real but not noticeable yet and/or too much of an inconvenience at this point at least for the most part, then I’m inclined to agree. It’s often about nuance of course.
” there is strong evidence that global sea level gradually rose in the 20th century and is currently rising at an increased rate”
Where IS the evidence?
What does it consist of?
Any actual measurements “on the ground”?
Ah, now it is about nuance.
But just above this post you were so sure you had proven that sea levels are rising.
LOL.
Correction;
“…and/or too much of an inconvenience…”
Should read instead;
“…and/or not too much of an inconvenience…”
“But just above this post you were so sure you had proven that sea levels are rising.” ~ Night Owl
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I have proven? Or the IPCC?
Remember; nuance, Night Owl.
There’s another logical problem with your comment, but I won’t bother. Maybe you can compete with Jarek in that vein and similar.
” ‘there is strong evidence that global sea level gradually rose in the 20th century and is currently rising at an increased rate’
Where IS the evidence?
What does it consist of?
Any actual measurements ‘on the ground’?” ~ Islander
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How about emailing those at the IPCC and/or similar/relevant outfit who do this for a living?
If they are claiming ‘strong evidence’ then, presumably, they have some?
Incidentally, if they don’t and no one does and everything coming from ‘science’ is all an illusion, then perhaps someone anonymous online such as Night Owl can tell you the truth.
I mean, maybe that’s where we’re all going anyway and we’ll all be bloodletting and evil-spirits-leave! chanting for medical practice and whatnot soon enough… Maybe some of JHK’s books’ stories involve that sort of thing. The Witch Of Hebron? Too Much Magic?
LOL (It’s contageous.)
The Army Corps of Engineers buried the evidence anent Kennewick Man. The narrative is wrong, but you like it so it you pretend that is right. How corrupt is that?
Simply declaring something repeatedly, Jarek, without any or with little reasonable support doesn’t make it true, although I realize that, for some people, like politicians, their media and the gullible, it ‘works’, so to speak.
Guilt by Association Fallacy
“A guilt by association fallacy occurs when someone connects an opponent to a demonized group of people or to a bad person in order to discredit his or her argument. The idea is that the person is ‘guilty’ by simply being similar to this ‘bad’ group and, therefore, should not be listened to about anything.” ~ Owl Excelsior Edu
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“…comprehensible only to those who took the ‘vaccine’.
‘Science.’ ” ~ Night Owl
No fallacy, simply pattern recognition.
Unless of course you can show us physical evidence of catastrophic sea-level change.
So far, you are 0 for 5.
Too bad, so sad.
Night Owl Does The Pretzel
Whether there is/will be catastrophic sea-level change is a different argument than is there sea-level change and as such a bit of a straw man– and speaking of ‘squirming’ or in other parlance hereon, doin’ the pretzel.
WRT Kennewick Man and a red herring in last threads, Jarek was much faster, although it looks like he’s since relapsed and, alas, may be beyond hope.
If you want to make your case for catastrophic sea-level change, feel free and we’ll take it under consideration.
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“So far, you are 0 for 5.” ~ Night Owl
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M-yes, that’s perhaps the human equivalent of a kitten arching its back and fluffing up its fur. You appear to like to do that. It’s cute.
“LOL” ~ Night Owl
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Lulz.
Night Fowl no doubt looked at this.
httpX://sealevel.colorado.edu/trend-map.
A half a centimeter a year on the East Coast averaged over thirty years.
That total, behind door number threem you see, is five-teen centimeters over three decades.
The typical tidal pattern on the east coast of the US, is a semi-diurnal tide. Something to do with the moon.
Two high tides and two low tides per day. Each cycle takes twelve hours twenty-five minutes. The tidal range between the high and low tide is typically one to two meters. The average of that level is behind door number two.
Ring a ding. Door number two. One hundred and fifty centimeters.
You know I have a door number one.
We have the Night Fowl to thank for it. He yanked. Found the science.
So what is the ratio to anthropomorphic sea level rise compared against the typical east cost tide variation ???
Behind door number one. Five-teen divided by one hundred fifty gives ten percent.
Don’t tell this to they guy who says he has not noticed any change in sea level off the end of the his dock over twenty years. Unless you have time to kill. And who does? He is not wrong anyway. Hell, he takes his glasses off and he doesn’t see any god damn thing at all, so how he is he going to see the sea rising!
What’s upsetting is that some scientists, and/or branches of science especially, get/got compromised by government– by politics– by the over-politicization of their fields– and it can end up poisoning the entire well.
That said, I can understand many of those who feel betrayed by the system and just want to throw the entire tub out, along with the baby and the bathwater.
I guess this is what collapse and/or decline looks like from our front-row seats.
Your tears are delicious.
I drink a lot of fruit juice.
The sea level change is so significant and real that you can’t even see it.
Science.
LOL.
Nobody understands climate (nearly enough to be practical).
However, many understand energy. In the absence of petroleum, we will either shrink our population or create some nuclear clusterfuck to dwarf all clusterfucks.
This is the system dynamic we should be arguing about (one simple enough to be measurable by and comprehensible to humans). Not climate.
I suggest moving from “rising sea levels” to “sea-level change.”
Much as with “climate change,” this can give select institutions and various cultists the cover they need to alter the narrative in any way necessary.
Then you can always be right!
Climate, because of the complexity involved, is a slush fund for every kind of intellectual manipulation, it’s true.
And it’s completely unecessary to vital environmental arguments.
Climate has been pushed as an issue by environmental obstructionists (corporations), and lapped up by the gullible.
Apparently, there has been $100 billion spent in the US since 2008 on various Climate Change projects. Where’d the money go? How does one measure whether or not the efforts to lower temps. 1.5°C in the next 50 years are effective? One alarming development that I just learned about is various scientists linked to Harvard & Bill Gates plan to spread some sort of chemical in the upper atmosphere designed to blot out the sun. Another development, one making headway so far, is dismantling the US energy grid designed by Westinghouse & Edison based upon baseload powerload generation, and replacing it with windturbines, solar panels & batteries.
Imagine the hubris involved, believing that if sea level rise were actually happening, that humans could stop it.
That’s the funniest part of all of this, to me.
Well you brought it up and I already replied in the other thread that we seem to have other more immediate things to worry about at this point.
If TPTP, perhaps by WEF consultation, are orchestrating a controlled demolition by hook or crook, and with little consultation from the rest of us, Plymouth Rock is a bit of a moot point at this stage of the game. If anything, the WEF et al., may very well save our asses in some ways, whether we want to thank them or not.
LOL <– bolded for U.
I accept your apology.
Any news on your ostensibly-deliberate ‘man-made Turkish earthquakes?
I posited that HAARP was potentially used. No updates.
Watching you squirm when being exposed for the dunce you are is hiliarous though.
” ‘List of countries that pulled their ambassadors out of Turkey 24 hours before the earthquake.
Canada
USA
Britain
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Holland
France’
[Twitter link]
?” ~ Night Owl February 14, 2023 at 5:03 pm
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“Seems a little hokey, folks.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle February 15, 2023 at 1:19 am
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“Only high IQs need respond, thanks.” ~ Night Owl February 15, 2023 at 2:12 am
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“8 western Ambassadors pulled? Proof? Sources?” ~ Amman February 15, 2023 at 8:04 am
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“They were trying to get HAARP to target Russia but it missed and hit Turkey.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle February 15, 2023 at 7:43 pm
Or measure it.
It takes a model . . .
Cf “It takes a village . . .”
K-Chien:
You remind me of my physics teacher: He would stick in irrelevant info just to confuse those who didn’t know the actual formulae and what was needed to calculate them.
Why don’t you restate this information in plain English, and using actual figures.
Thanks.
How about doing some research of your own volition too?
If I was your physics prof, that’s what I’d suggest. That’s what that text book and/or computer in front of you and so forth are for. Classes are big, limited time to spoon-feed, homework assignments, etc..
Personally, and as I’ve already said, I don’t really care, except where saving the planet and thriving are concerned. But if you do, knock yourself out and even report back on your findings, complete with links, etc..
Zazelle: Er, no.
Wrong answer
I have done plenty of my own research.
Not on this particular factoid.
And when i do and volunteer it here or elsewhere, I present it in plain English and don’t expect blog readers to be mind readers.
If I present garbled, incomprehensible info that I volunteered, and someone asks a question, I don’t say (or expect someone else to retort, “Go do your own research. ”
Which translates as “Eff you.”
I clarify my point.
Are you K-dog’s mom?
Plain English
“Since 1993, global mean sea level has increased by 3.2 ± 0.4 mm/year. This amounts to a total increase of about 9 cm between 1993 and 2021. About 30% of this rise can be attributed to ocean thermal expansion[5], the other 70% being largely due to land ice melt from glaciers and from the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets. In addition, a rise of just under 0.3 mm/year is attributed to changes in land water storage, such as soil moisture and groundwater. An increase in the rate of global mean sea level rise can be detected over the entire length of the 1993–2021 satellite record, estimated at 1.1 ± 0.8 mm/year/decade.” ~ Climate Copernicus EU
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^ There’s a tiny selection from plenty of info out there from various professional sources for one who actually wants to take their thumb out of their mouth, shake their diapers loose and do some of their own research… such as if one doesn’t understand some comments on CFN.
“So what is the ratio to anthropomorphic sea level rise compared against the typical east cost tide variation ??? ”
This is word salad. Not math.
The ratio of what to what? X1:Y1
Compared to ratio of what to what? X2:Y2
thanks.
We’ve ‘apparently’ been blowing through our fossil fuel heritage as if there’s no tomorrow for the past ~150 years or so which seems bound to have effects on the planet.
What might be some of it’s effects?
Write a 1000 word essay with proper references/citations.
Due next week. 10% off your mark each day it is late.
Thanks for clarifying what variety of troll you are, K’s mom.
Go do your homework and stop bitching.
“Go do your homework and stop bitching.”
Temper, temper, K’s Mom.
What exactly is fossil fuel anyway. Does it have to be a certain age? I’ve been called a fossil before, what is that supposed to mean? A few years back, geologically speaking,where I sit was under 2000 feet of frozen water. Why? I’ve heard lots of theories. A few years after that my land was at the bottom of a deep lake. Lake Hitchcock. Why? I don’t know. Our host was at the bottom of another huge lake, Lake Albany. I wonder what the fishing was like. I think at the end of the day all the smarty pants with alphabet soup after their names just make shit up for a paycheck.I could solve this whole climate debate if I would just get off my ass and finish that 250 mpg carburetor I’ve got in the garage.
I can tell you the ocean water is exactly where it was forty years ago.
How do I know?
I have been surfing some of the same spots and the rocks are exactly where they have always been at high and low tides.
The piers and jettys are at the same water levels at both extremes.
Don’t believe me look at the surfline cams this afternoon there are free ones you can view many California cams and at low tide today the rocks are very exposed.
Tides in Los Angeles, CA for Today & Tomorrow
Next high tide is 9:21 am. Next low tide is 3:44 pm. Sunset today is 5:56 PM. Sun rise tomorrow is 6:09 AM.
Another doom proposal and yet the very people squealing about climate change and also profiting from it are still building huge mansions on the beach and flying personal jets all over the world.
What we have here is Green porn for public consumption!
In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of related sustainable buzzwords including ‘eco’, ‘ethical’, ‘green’, ‘responsible’, ‘upcycled’, and ‘bio-degradable’, to name but a few. The question remains – how can we quantify the true commitment of these bold claims made by the green cultists? The bottom line is that the fear porn about a global warming catastrophe is based on mostly greed and a bit of Hegelian manipulation. -Clyde Lewis
These green hypocrites could attend conferences all over the world by zoom or its equivalent. Instead, they choose to fly to them. Why can’t people see their insincerity? Oh, well.
Climate change? Almost by definition, climate change is normal. Personally, I think the Earth is warming up. Human activity uses a lot of energy, so thermodynamically it seems logical. However, I don’t trust anything the government, media or other people say, so who knows what’s really happening. I do know that millions of years in the past much more CO2 was in the atmosphere and life thrived. Being worried about possibly fictional numbers is just a gimmick used by others to scare the populace. The planet Venus is used as an example of runaway greenhouse effects. While it is called Earth’s twin, it’s also 26 million miles closer to the sun as we are (67 million miles vs. our 93 million), so it’s not our twin. Comparing our global warming to Venus’ is not really accurate.
Impossible, Benr.
Everyone knows that you can’t actually feel the warming, or see any actual difference in water height.
This is key. Us plebes simply don’t understand the power of the computer model and pile of grant cash from undisclosed donors to show us what we cannot verify in any physical form whatsoever.
You are so anti-science.
“Since the early 1990s, sea level is routinely measured globally and regionally by high-precision altimeter satellites…
When combined, the current satellite altimetry record, 28-year long at the time of writing, shows that the global mean sea level is rising and even accelerating. Over the 1993–2019 time span, the mean rate and the acceleration amount to 3.3 +/? 0.3?mm/yr and ~0.1?mm/yr2 respectively1,2,3,4. Satellite altimetry also shows important regional variability in sea level trends, with rates up to 3 times the global mean in some regions.” ~ Nature (website of the magazine)
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“Us plebes simply don’t understand the power of the computer model” ~ Night Owl
More sciency models.
How many clot shots did you take based on models and promises of safe and effective, Man called Zazelle?
LOL.
These are from actual satellite radar datasets rather than predictive or other kinds of models that you seem to be confusing them with.
“A satellite radar-altimeter is a nadir-looking radar with very high range resolution, which measures the ocean surface topography with an accuracy in the order of few centimeters. Additionally, analysis of the echo amplitude and shape can extract information about the wind speed and wave height, respectively. Some radar-altimeters (like CryoSat/SIRAL) employ synthetic aperture and/or interferometric techniques: their reduced footprint allows mapping of rougher surfaces like polar ices.” ~ Wikipedia
Hey Night Owl, every time you check your news online you are dealing with kinds of ‘models’, since you are generally not physically present (unless of course you were involved in what the news item was about). They are representations.
Actually, according to the late Stephen Hawking, the whole universe is a simulation. (Many, though, including myself, are not so sure.)
BRH has been looking for decades and sees no increase. Conditions are the same in Southern New England as they were at the time of the Pilgrims some 400 years ago.
Just declare something and repeat it ‘enough’ times and it becomes ‘truth’.
Sound familiar?
Yes, that’s what you are doing.
Cute, but your BRH anecdote has as much scientific and/or statistical validity as Night Owl’s Plymouth Rock pic.
Likewise with your Kennewick man declarations.
Give us something we can chew on, otherwise it’s just… faith?
Anthea tried to make the point upthread that the idea of “surplus” is a fiction. I want to repost response here.
Anthea:
“One of Henry George’s more profound statements was that human life (like all other life) is, and always has been, hand-to-mouth. All the necessities of life must continually be created, recreated, and maintained. It is not possible to store up life’s necessities for more than short periods of time. Hence, beyond a very limited time, there is no such thing as a stored surplus.
E.g.: Food crops have to be produced every year. Clothing wears out. Houses must be continually maintained, and they eventually become not-maintainable and must be replaced. Everything must be constantly replaced by means of labor.”
This approach to the issue is too abstract and assumes only an extremely far-reaching surplus is significant.
Growing crops creates a surplus that lasts a year and more. That’s already too much, allowing a 365 day “holiday” during which unstable wagers are placed on the following year (a “loan” has been taken out from the Earth, on which temporary growth can be based). The cancerous cycle has begun.
Hunter Gatherers stored acorns just like squirrels do. There are signs of heavy fighting over the Oak Groves of ancient California. What a resource! One worth fighting for.
Sure. Acorns are not plentiful every year. Oak groves do not compromise wildlife. War is good, in moderation, with spears.
One of the ‘Peaceful Protesters’ arrested on Domestic Terrorism charges for battling Georgia State Troopers and firebombing the Police Training Center in Atlanta was Emma Bogush, 24, from Bethany, Ct. This is interesting. Bethany is a bucolic town in New Haven County known for its equestrian lifestyle and it looks a lot like Hunt Country in NVirginia. You have to wonder then, what social forces led this young woman from Bethany to a jail cell in Atlanta, facing serious felony charges and many years in prison? Why was a Police Training Facility in Atlanta important to her? What drove her down this road, which turned out to be a dead end?
Another tidbit is one of those domestic terrorists is an attorney who works for The Southern Poverty Law Center. You know, the ‘nonprofit’ who the deep state has allowed to define who is and who isn’t a terrorist group for the past few decades.
“What drove her down this road, which turned out to be a dead end”
BRH,
Examples abound. A life bereft of want or challenge produces such creatures…full of education but little wisdom.
Ken Burns, the man who said in 2021 that “U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation“…now randomly attacks DeSantis, saying:
“…the ‘suppression’ of ideas, where those ideas might lead and facts is not what makes the United States “great.” He said the country’s greatness comes from who the American people are, how they investigate who they are and how they celebrate their diversity.
“All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability to understand who we are, and they are not inclusive — they are exclusive. They are narrowing the focus of what is and isn’t American history. It’s terrifying. It feels like a Soviet system or the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village.”
Okay, Ken. So it’s not okay to decide what can/should/shouldn’t be taught in schools…but it was okay to decide what’s acceptable for people to think about “covid”, mythical roving gangs of white supremacists looking to take down the government (they’re everywhere!), and even the definition of what constitutes “misinformation”.
What a stooge.
Granted, whatever is going on with DeSantis is odd right now…it’s like he or his own party is trying to discredit his sanity in many ways lately. The FL GOP house member who recently proposed a bill to register and charge fees to bloggers who write about FL politicians, for example…where the hell did that come from. Well I wouldn’t want to be president right now either, so maybe that’s it…
Anyway, bummer. I did enjoy Burns’ baseball and Civil War documentaries back in the day, dull as they were. But I do not enjoy being double-talked by some NPR d-bag pretending he knows everything.
Ken Burns is a simp.
He’s an old white make with a stable paycheck using the same narrator to speak over the old photos he pans over and zooms in on.
That’s his shtick. His niche. He’s protecting his nut.
He’s protecting his nut. – Connie VP
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Only one?
Ken Burns has an undescended testicle? Who knew?
I’ve been protecting BOTH my nuts my entire life.
Ken Burns has an undescended testicle? Who knew?
I thought this was common public knowledge. Why else do you think he spends all of his time alone in an editing bay instead of hitting the clubs?
“I’ve been protecting BOTH my nuts my entire life.”
Ah, I knew you were a squirrely sum-bitch!
At your age it should be easy: tuck them into your sock
Lol.
“Okay, Ken. So it’s not okay to decide what can/should/shouldn’t be taught in schools…but it was okay to decide what’s acceptable for people to think about “covid”, mythical roving gangs of white supremacists looking to take down the government (they’re everywhere!), and even the definition of what constitutes “misinformation”.”
Good point.
Burns has a great gig as, basically, a culture czar.
He gets to “frame” the past for everyone and more or less create official narratives. He basically works to formula now, as far as I can tell. But I don’t have a TV, so I don’t know.
He has no particular standing to pronounce on current cultural politics. His biases are right out there for all to see, and filter “reality” accordingly.
Re DeSantis, I think he should just stay in Florida. For at least one and maybe two cycles. Maybe forever.
The Swamp will eat him alive like an alligator. He’ll never know what hit him. .
DeSantis is a swamp hatchling.
He’s growing his tail when falling in line behind Ukraine.
There is only one true American in the GOP. I wish he would get the hell out of any allegiance to the Deep State and create a third party.
I can’t stand Ken Burns. And yeah, his documentaries are dull, but accessible. They are fodder for the “intellectual” professional class. It makes them feel smart to have watched them.
And you can’t avoid his “effects” while learning documentary film-making. It’s everywhere, like a cancer. Of course, many used these effects before he came along.
My documentary film professor used to work with Burns and hates his guts. LOL.
Yeah, he’s just another stooge. As most in the US film industry are.
Pseudo-intellectuals who believe NPR/PBS confer some form of credentialed status.
Ever notice that history used to be taught color blind? Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, North and South, facts and dates of a common culture residing in the US, not a bunch of drummed up Woke nonsense.
The Woke culture has succeeded is splitting this country in many pieces. It is not the great diversity advocate advertised, is is a poison, a cancer in our society that is in all ways possible trying to divide the country to get power. Number one on the list is not BLM or Antifa, it is the coddling beta male style white cowards who are flushing any allegiance to a European common culture.
In second place is the Black zealots that forget that their success depends on the success of the common European culture. Blacks and Whites have a common culture in this country since 1619. Blacks segregate not Whites, and Blacks will soon figure out who their worst enemy is, the Deep State bringing in Latinos and their crime lords to take over the cities.
As I have said, we have had one president who is colorblind, who created jobs for anyone and everyone.
White supremacy is a joke, a malfeasance invented by Black zealots now being used by the Democratic party in an attempt to increase power. Extremely stupid White people have stopped competing and are allowing Woke mentalites to take over. Blacks control the cities, and are doing a crappy job of doing their governmental role, because of kowtowing to the Woke monsters.
Nope. The Founding Fathers considered the United States to be by us/for us. They were White Nationalists to use the current lingo.
None of them considered Blacks and Indians as potential citizens, though some admitted that the Blacks had been wronged. The real question was what to do about it. It’s still the real question. Everything we’ve done so far has just made them hate us more.
Hint: They admire strength. As Bin Ladin said, If you see a strong horse and a weak horse, you will like the strong one better.
The more we give, the more they feel inferior. The more they feel inferior the more they hate us. The more they hate us the more they attack us. The more we try to placate them, the more they despise us for being weak. The more they see us as weak, the more they will attack us.
Jarek,
A useful quote;
“Anyone in America who’s poor-white, brown, yellow or black-and does not admit that he’s a nigger is a damn fool”~Father J.W. Jones LS, MFt.
LS M,ft. ?
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco?
Saint,
You are, indeed a scholar. Father Jones, a man of various accomplishments, seemingly did not have the signature of a man of requisite gravitas…and I hoped Jarek would be, after a glance, impressed.
Elmo:
Loose Sweaters Mean Floppy Tits
“…the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village…”
So much for “history”…
That is hilarious, especially coming from “America’s preeminent historian”.
Downright knee slapping hilarious.
Record numbers of Chinese now coming through the Texas border. Released into the interior. Not making the news.
Seems like an ingenious way to mount an invasion.
Have to hand it to them. They not only work smarter rather than harder (although they do work hard), but they also make rather than break.
The US has only been good at breaking things with their expensive death toys.
They’re especially good at breaking their own country.
Look at BC, Washington, Oregon and northern California. Because of the Dems committment to change the demographics of the country, we are letting in anybody. China is sending their excess population here, they are buying up our farmland and industries, they have bought preferential treatment with the Bidens, they spy on us, and lately they have been moving gold into China and selling 800 billion in Treasuries.
All this with the smiling approval of the Deep State. They are making their move.
What percentage of the Chinese diaspora are spies? Or just crazy conjecture?
Connie dear, are you thus imply there is “a Chink in our armor”?
(I’ll see myself out now. Ow my elbow)
thanks..evil invaders.
From Reclaim the Net, re digital IDs for Americans. It seems very likely that USAID is beta-testing this whole thing in poor, prostrate Ukraine.
If you watched that video, which I strongly recommend, you will see that Ukrainians are also getting all of their “services” and financail supports etc. via the digital ID. Since the USA is now apparently paying Ukraine’s bills, including its pensions, that digital money could be coming right from . . . anywhere . . . such as maybe the US Treasury???
Also note that the whole Uke govt. hase been put in a box (literally) and carried abroad, when it has been uploaded to an Amazon cloud. this puts Amazon in charge of the Uke govt . . . This is also on the program for Estonia.
Other Big Tech players in the Uke desovereignty action: Oracle, Microsoft, Google.
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httpX://reclaimthenet.org/biden-admin-calls-for-digital-id-investment [might be behind paywall]
“Biden admin calls for digital ID investment, public-private data sharing collaboration
The White House has presented its National Security Strategy that, among other points, calls for investing in digital IDs.
The Biden administration, however, is short on detail regarding this issue and privacy implications, while mentioning the term biometrics only once.
“Strategic Objective 4.5” is a 4-paragraph section in the 35-page document that speaks about supporting development of a digital identity “ecosystem.”
We obtained a copy of the document for you here.
The administration calls for improved digital identity infrastructure that would produce “a more innovative, equitable, safe and efficient digital economy.”
Like all other justifications for the push to adopt digital IDs, this one mentions conveniences and “secure” access to government services and benefits, “trusted” communication, as well as social networks, and improved payment systems.
To get there from here, the document calls for the digital ecosystem in question to undergo “fundamental changes,” and wants to bring in the private sector – both through “close cooperation” and public-private undertakings.
The latter involves “real-time, actionable, and multi-directional (data) sharing.”
The White House complains that today, digital identity solutions lack security and privacy preserving focus, and increase “inefficiency” of both financial activities, and “our daily life.” The current situation is also blamed for exclusion and inequity.
To solve this, the strategy proposes solutions based on NIST-led digital identity research that would strengthen the security of digital IDs, provide attribute and credential validation services, and update standards for the sake of consistency and interoperability.
As for privacy, civil liberties, security, etc., the document says that the administration “notes and encourages” focusing on those – this is mentioned in the context of the administration “acknowledging” that various states are already coming up with digital driver’s license pilots.
Biometric industry observers note that the strategy seems to be promising tech companies that it will not opt for strong regulation of their activities, by saying that while they must be liable for security of software, it must also be recognized that even advanced software security programs can’t prevent all vulnerabilities.
But even if the “threat” of over-regulating the tech sector is removed, the document suggests that coming up with new standards is something The White House is interested in.
This point is seen as controversial, because it implies the government’s involvement in what has so far, at least officially, been the realm of internet and communications data services giants.”
Re “This point is seen as controversial, because it implies the government’s involvement in what has so far, at least officially, been the realm of internet and communications data services giants.””
It’s an open question, which is worse: Govt or private control of digital ID activities.
The very worst seems to be “public-private partnerships” (as with big Pharma), because that obliterates all legal precedents and guidelines and creates a useful legal limbo/fog.
IMH and non-expert O.
People still think they’re citizens, not slaves.
They think this even though they’ve been called consumers for the last 1/2 century while watching any rights they previously enjoyed disappear in thin air.
True, that.
“It’s an open question, which is worse: Govt or private control of digital ID activities.” ~ Islander
I would suggest that the very worst is an immoral authority.
Is Lloyd’s of London willing to insure that will never happen?
Then why are we messing with it? Does that imply that everyone that gets involved is immoral? It seems logical to conclude that an immoral agenda is being implemented.
When is some authority figure going to articulate and call bs on the agenda?
They are also starting to set up ‘programs’ in very poverty-stricken areas of the US. Those people will eat up UBI like nobody’s business. Anything is an improvement over what they have.
So you see why they want to destroy the economy and any tiny bit of wealthy anyone has… because a desperate population will willingly accept a place on the global slave plantation.
Yep the Ukrainians are stupid for thinking that the US is an ally. Maybe some of them are finally waking up to the fact that they are actually on the menu?
This is what should be scaring the shit out of people. But most will fluff their pillows and go back to sleep.
I tend to fluff my pillow and go back to sleep even knowing about it. Because I also know there’s nothing I can do.
And now the MN governor just signed into law a bill that grants driver’s licenses to those here illegally. It strips the guidelines of having to prove your citizenship and identity.
Okay, so I guess no one will have to bring a bank statement or utility bills proving their name and address. Neat! Might as well guarantee the right for non-citizens to vote, too! What laws? Who cares!
He explains, “Treating each individual with dignity makes all of us safer and makes our state even stronger.”
Yes. Not knowing who lives here, where they’re from, and allowing people to just flaunt the law and be rewarded for it will certainly make us “safer”.
My thought is yes, people are here, and they are people. Mostly nice people, too. But without going through proper immigration channels, they are technically criminals, even if they live their lives as good people after arriving and moving in.
So here’s what we do: Since we already have an attorney general who doesn’t prosecute people who commit actual violent crimes, yet sues Kia and Hyundai for making easier to steal cars (yes, seriously), instead of, oh, I don’t know, telling people to perhaps not leave their damn car running and unlocked in the winter while they sip a frappe inside while it warms up…or perhaps telling 14 yr-old feral youths to stop stealing so many cars and maybe consider prosecuting the ones that do…
So we might as well just have no laws, if they don’t mean anything. Laws, you’re outta here.
Also, let’s just set up vending machines at Walmart where anyone can go make and print their own driver’s license and it’ll be considered legal. Also make it a free service, paid for by taxpayers. Wrong name or address? Felon? DUI restrictions? Who cares! This will make us safer and stronger.
You are citing more reasons why I’ve never moved to Mpls/St. Paul
lol
I love St. Paul. And the far West small towns outside Mpls. But. No fuckin’ way I’d ever live in the city of Minneapolis, or any of the ring suburbs.
Wow. Minneapolis and the rest of Minnesota are going to find out what NYC and Chicago already know, you give unfettered access to the illegals and the cartels will take over your city and state. Get ready, here they come.
Crickets from JOHNAZ on his beloved Tucker Carlson and really everyone at Fox News about the Psy Ops they’ve been dolling out to you.
Some of my favorite texts, here’s a great one from your pal Tuck,
“”We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,I hate him passionately. … I can’t handle much more of this” and then “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest,” he wrote in another text message, referring to the “last four years.” “But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
And the lies about Dominion voter fraud all started from complete clown SIdney Powell, whose source was a time traveling headless woman who get’s her information from the “Wind”
There are hundreds of pages of testimony, it’s quite disgusting what fox did, YOU should be horrified, they lied to you simply because they didn’t want to lose the trump base by telling the truth and losing money, that’s all they cared about. There’s your PsyOp
Well that had nothing to do with anything being discussed…
kbird isn’t known for its smarts.
It certainly is relevant Mr Mango and MQ. This blog is known for repeating the lies that have been spread on Fox News, and now there’s hundreds of pages of proof. Tucker Carlson and co. are Frauds…con artists…and Jarek, the fact that it makes you like him more is strange but so is most of everything coming out of your mouth.
MQ, you can try to insult me, doesn’t work…it also doesn’t address what I wrote either. But most likely you’ll come up with some reason to refute it and call it fake news. Seems ya all should be more upset about being lied too…
Kbird raging that the tapes Pelosi was hiding have been released.
J6 is the third greatest hoax in US history.
Awwwww…….kbird your outrage is so cute! In a Greta Thunberg kind of way.
Awww Mick, I’m not outraged, not one bit. I don’t watch the fox news entertainment show. Many on here do, and those people should be outraged. Nobody can refute what I wrote, it has come out, so you can only try to insult me as you’ve got nothing else…LOL!!! Nightowl, this has nothing to do with the tapes, this is the Dominion Lawsuit you moron. You can read Murdochs testimony, and all of the text exchange between your beloved hosts of Fox, where they talk and confirm the Election was NOT stolen, but they were too afraid of losing their viewers to Newsmax and having the stocks tank…way more important apparently than the truth.
I don’t watch FOX News either, sunshine.
Way too establishment for me.
No run along and do your homework.
The Bird rages.
It is hiliarious.
It certainly is relevant Mr Mango and MQ
No, it wasn’t in any way. And I couldn’t care less about Tucker. He used to be on MSNBC ferchrissakes, Of course he’s just saying what he is told to by those who pay him. Whoopity doo.
I don’t watch TV, kbird.
I’m sure you saturate your brain in CNN & MSDNC though.
“…your outrage is so cute! In a Greta Thunberg kind of way.” ~ Mick
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Greta wrote the book on outrage cuteness.
“…and Jarek, the fact that it makes you like him more is strange but so is most of everything coming out of your mouth.” ~ kbird
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Jarek Grackle (perched on electrical wire): “Hey there… I’m black– just like you!”
Jim Crow: “Uh, yya… I guess.”
Jarek Grackle: “We’re the same race.”
Jim Crow: “Not really… I’m a crow.”
Jarek Grackle: “No, but you’re black!”
Jim Crow: “Ya, I get that.”
Jarek Grackle: “Same.”
Jim Crow: “Not exactly no.”
Jarek Grackle: “No really, yes. We are black. We both perch and have similar feet and beaks. And we fly. We gotta stick together.”
Jim Crow: “Ok, but I’m a crow and you’re a grackle.”
Jarek Grackle: “Yes, but we’re black.”
Jim Crow: “You have an iridescent bluish head, I don’t.”
Jarek Grackle: “Yes, but we’re both black.”
Jim Crow: “Ok, well, nice speaking with you, gotta go. Byeee…”
…
Jarek Grackle (scooches over): “Hey there…”
Felicia Redwing-Blackbird: “Booii-boii no speak-a grackle booii-booii…” (flies away)…
…
If true, this only makes me respect Tucker more. Trump pissed away much opportunity with his egotism and stupidity.
What did Hunter say about Dr Jill? That’s she’s a vicious moron? I’m sure that’s true.
Wow! MN might end up out-California-ing California.
Of course, to be as woke as CA, they also have to start putting violent male criminals into the womens’ prisons, if they haven’t yet.
They did the same thing in Ct a few years back, with the expectation that about 5000 illegals would step up for a DL; over 100,000 came forward, f#kkng up the DMV for more than a year. It didn’t help that the DMV Commissioner was a diversity hire from the Republic of the Congo. You couldn’t get your car registered or your DL renewed. The whole system ground to a halt. And it probably wasn’t a coincidence that ‘DLs for illegals’ was passed right after the ‘Motor Voter Bill’ in which you are registered to vote when you apply for a driver’s license.
See how it works?
lol
a diversity hire from the Republic of the Congo.
Ladies and germs;
Apparently, they WON’T smoke marijuana in Muscogee….
https://www.newsmax.com/us/recreational-marijuana-oklahoma-vote/2023/03/08/id/1111526/
Did you light up a blunt to celebrate?
SSL,
I don’t smoke, and I don’t chew, and I don’t go out with girls that do….
Lol
OK’s strictly a good ol’ boy working class beer and whiskey state. Definitely not one where you casually drop in to a small town tavern without expecting trouble if you’re not a local.
Well I guess that LSD lab I was building in Tulsa is out.
Dupont?
“There is the Corporate conspiracy theory that suggests hemp was banned by corporate special interests who saw hemp as a threat to oil and other synthetic fibres they controlled.
America! Corporate greed?
Gather close CFN’rs
THIS is probably the funniest commercial I have ever seen;
https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2023/03/celebrating-night-out-on-town-not-like.html
LOL omg is this even a real commercial? I didn’t see their logo anywhere.
It’s satire.
I thought it was a real commercial and was perplexed that the logo wasn’t there so that kinda clued me in to something going on.
I thought satire was something like “I’m so grateful that my man hates me “.
very funny satire.
satire . . . right?
Great work finding that one, ef!
The world is simply a very cruel place in many cases. People are really no different on the grand scale.
I planted two bald cypress trees last month and they are sprouting beautiful needles everywhere so that is very exciting! I planted a green ash tree years ago and it is doing really good but he leaves have not sprouted out yet. I’ve noticed that ash and pecan trees are like the last sprouters of the Spring. The oak trees are the earliest and they literally start sprouting out in mid Feb here. I love Spring so much!
SSL, your not worried about the Emerald Ash Borers? Another Curse from the Chinese. They’ve cut down millions of trees in the States because of the little pricks.
Oh wow I wasn’t even aware of the threat. Thank you for clueing me in. I’ll def check this out and make sure my baby is protected appropriately. I also forgot to mention that the hickory oaks are actually like the ash and pecans. They spring out last. And actually we do have ash trees here but they are not super common so maybe that is why i’m not aware of this terrible borer.
Hey SSL you got any Sugar Magnolias down there around you? If I lived there on the bayou I’d sit myself under a shady Sugar Magnolia tree all day, sipping a Mint Julep, fishing for catfish in the creek, my Marlin rifle handy in case any crocs got any ideas of making a meal out of this Yankee.
I mean Gators, not crocs.
That does sound relaxing BRH. Well see I live in what is called an upland, pine-oak subtropical woodland. That is at least the ecotone that is shown on the map for my individual area so we really down have swamp right around here other than a few little areas near the local bayous. Tbh i’m not really sure about sugar magnolias. The magnolias we have around here are called southern magnolias and the science name is magnolia grandiflora.
No gators?
Not immediately nearby, no. Several miles down the road I suspect there may be a few but where I live I never see any. We do have some very large snakes though.
@ SoftStarLight:
I had two witch hazel trees at my previous house. Witch hazels bloom in February: clusters of tiny yellow flowers. I drive by the old house occasionally, and the witch hazels were blooming in mid-February (a little earlier than usual for here).
I don’t know if you’ve seen those little miniature irises–about three inches tall. They had them at Walmart last year, so I planted some. They also started blooming around mid-February this year.
There is nothing as pretty as when all the trees start to get little leaves on them. The woods are just heart-breakingly beautiful at that time. They look like an Arthur Rackham painting (fairyland).
I haven’t seen the miniature irises but I do have a bed of purple and yellow irises growing in the front yard nearby a large confederate rose bush. They are so beautiful and they tend to bloom out in late March to April. It’s always slightly different depending on the weather.
Yes I love Spring and the pastel colors of various new leaves on the various trees and plants.
I’m not familiar with the witch hazel tree but looked it up and they are definitely gorgeous. They sort of remind me of dogwood trees though in the way they bloom but of course the dogwoods I’ve seen have purple, pink or white flowers.
@ SoftStarLight:
If I had it to do over, I would get a couple of the fancy witch hazels with the larger, more colorful flowers. What I had were the native witch hazels that I got from the Missouri Department of Conservation, which are not very showy. They sell witch hazels and other native plants for around $10 for a bundle of ten: dogwoods, paw-paws, elderberries, etc.
Wizards in DC want to start a new war. They’ve decided to take on the Mexican Cartels militarily. That should go down well. Cartels have billions to play with and I’m sure access to plenty of cool hardware channeled through Ukraine and Afghanistan. They will have no qualms about killing authorities in the USA. It would be nice to see nutless Lindsey get a stinger up his ass.
Lindsey Graham just can’t resist a man in uniform.
He’d suggest invading Kiawah Island if it gave him a chance to board a big vessel and get a tee time at Cassique.
How dare you insult Miss Lindsey lol! Well in reality, it seems like there is a way better case for a war on the border here in our own country rather than 20,000 miles away in the Russian civil war. But another genius way to shut down the cartels is for the parasites to stop doing business with them. But that won’t happen because they are greed nasty aholes so there you go.
More than that, SSL.
The government keeps paying interest payments on the debt to keep us from going bankrupt. They get their money, as does the IMF from illicit means, drugs especially. I read a book a couple of years ago saying that if the southern border was to close and the illicit US trades were to cease, the world’s finances would collapse.
That statement explains a lot.
Could it be that the cartels are “soldiers” for the IMF and our illustrious Mob in DC.
What happened to Graham’s abortion bill?
The one he introduced before the midterms?
Why, he isn’t saying a word about it. Because the intent was to throw the election
I’m certain most people here understand that we do not have opposing parties.
it is all a ruse
Almost everyone except the few hangers-on like JAZ, who really wants to believe that red = good and blue = bad.
Yes I think that the globalists cabal controlling the government works directly with the cartels, terrorist groups, etc., and are completely involved in the drug trade, human trafficking, organ harvesting, and any other illicit trade or vice you can think of.
I forget which cartel the US favored, but DEA agents testified that they were only allowed to go after the unfavored ones.
The US played back-up for their favorite.
So sure the military will go after the cartels. The same military that had US soldiers guarding opium fields in Afghanistan?
The same military that transferred heroin from the Golden Triangle in the bodybags of dead soldiers back when the US was in Vietnam?
Sure, dudes, I totally believe that the US military is going to shut down the drug trade from Mexico.
Weather events are getting more extreme!!!!
(Not . . .)
httpX://vineyardgazette.com/news/2014/09/11/eye-hurricane-edna-heels-carol
“How dare you!” lol….
I totally and completely think that hurricanes have personalities. So glad that is affirmed in the historical records!
Pardon me for interrupting the flow with this, but I just couldn’t resist posting this from PubMed, an US Government Official Website:
“The pharmaceutical industry is dangerous to health. Further proof with COVID-19”
“…..Since the beginning of COVID-19, we can list the following methods of information manipulation which have been used: falsified clinical trials and inaccessible data; fake or conflict-of-interest studies; concealment of vaccines’ short-term side effects and total lack of knowledge of the long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccination; doubtful composition of vaccines; inadequate testing methods; governments and international organizations under conflicts of interest; bribed physicians; the denigration of renowned scientists; the banning of all alternative effective treatments; unscientific and liberticidal social methods; government use of behavior modification and social engineering techniques to impose confinements, masks, and vaccine acceptance; scientific censorship by the media….”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36324959/
Wow.
Nice.
Thanks, it’s going into the vault.
There seem to be an increasing tide of those coming out in core science publications, rather than just on their own websites like in the desperate covid days, as more scientists ‘break rank’ and actually do science.
Tucker is doing great work re: J6. Chuck Schumer is in a lather. It is wonderful to see. Chuck is demanding the PTB remove Tucker’s show.
Hilarious. What a shit-show.
https://twitter.com/AntonioSabatoJr/status/1633422442956767232?s=20
It is both hilarious and terrifying.
These people are full-on fascists.
Yes. They don’t even hide it a little bit any more.
LOL, Nightowl is the fascist. You are all so good at your gaslighting… Traitors. You are the party of Oppression, Cancel Culture, Religious bullshit, taking away peoples rights… but you claim it’s the left. There are more right wing morons in Congress than ever before.. literally the dumbest people around. Like Miserable Marj, one of your people, and definitely maybe one of the dumbest. The true definition of Stupid.
Name one single right taken away by the Right?
In the meantime, the left has been busily trying to take away,
Freedom of the press, trying to shut down Fox and Newsmax, loading up every news outlet with inane Leftist viewpoints, trying to stop Tucker from displaying what should be public information but was hidden by the House Libs.
Freedom of speech. Just look at the forced censorship on the college campus of conservative speakers. The Left is trying hard to stop contrary speech.
Amendment 2, no where else has the Left tried harder to take away rights than the right to bear arms.
Right to a speedy trial. Tell this to the Jan 6 folks still rotting in jail as the congressional Leftist scum will not release them. Also the rights to bail. In the meantime, Leftist city governments keep releasing druggies and other criminals and wonder why their crime rates go up.
The Left is the bad guys relative to rights under the Constitution. There are facts, Kbird. What rights have you lost?
Opposite Land is full of fairies, unicorns and men in dresses.
You must love it!
Night Owl hates Fascism. He is a Capitalist who believes Corporations are good, apparently.
Remember, riverrunner is just 12, so he doesn’t know the definition of big words like “fascism”, “capitalism”, “communism” or even “socialism”.
But, like most 12-year-olds, he’s convinced that he does know.
Anyone who is still a leftist/marxist after saint fentanyl Floyd and the Biden 1st hundred days is THE definition of STUPID.
Disgusting dim bulb douche baggery at its finest you lie and opine and pretend your opinion is truth.
Typical Democrat supporter.
Benr is the biggest douchbag cunt around.
More lies from the kturd commie scum.
Benr the Pedo
I know it is amazing, I love Tucker! Schumer and McConnell and all those people are scumbag parasitic warmongers.
They are far worse than that.
The fact that Tucker is the only mainstream media personality to release any of this information shows you how close they were to full-spectrum dominance.
We are on the precipice of absolute tyranny.
Yes, very scary times and very evil people for sure.
LOL, Yes you are all very evil people for sure.
You’re over it and at the bottom of the abyss, looking up through the settling dust barely able to distinguish the ledge you missed what seemed like only moments before
Night Owl
You are so right. I saw predictions of a stock market crash imminently today. Not yet, IMHO, but happenings in June could collapse the house of cards.
Think about China, who does not need the US any longer. They are going to sit back this spring and watch the US collapse. Then take Taiwan.
Russia will continue to clobber Ukraine until there is no will to resist. Asia is rising into dominance and all the U.S. can do is watch. The MIC is going crazy trying to figure out who to fight to stop the collapse. Maybe the Pentagon better look around where they live. The Deep State is the no. 1 enemy of the people of this country.
There is a movie on Prime TV called Dragon Day, definitely a b grade apocalyptic movie. Produced in 2014, it is a story about EMP attack and takeover by China. It has a very dark plot of who actually causes the takeover. The main character is an NSA agent.
It may be what could happen to us, knowing what we think we know.
Johnaz must be loving Tucker Carlson right now LOL!!!
kbird is obviously riverrunner.
And he’s still 12 years old.
Yeah Kbird, I kinda do.
I predicted that absolutely nothing was going to happen to Trump as more and more of the lies about him are uncovered. The MSM is a cancer in this country, just as much as the rest of the Deep State.
Trump will run in 2024. I hope he wins, goes lame duck and destroys the liberal bullshit this government has turned into.
kbird is kchien who is kdog who is kd lang
Exhibit A: When’s the last time she released a tune?
I rest my case
Connie.
My name is green and if you click it you go to my website. None of the wanna-be imposters have the mental horsepower to do the same. I would want to pretend to be dumb why?
Think about resting that case. Don’t be on my case.
Whoo boy! Did KD Lang ever turn out to be one homely butch. I remember she was quite the novelty in the early 90’s. Wonder if she ever did the full conversion thing?
Nah, kd lang is a normal lesbian. She didn’t see or feel any need to become a man.
The radical wokesters would probably pile on and call her a “hater” if she were in the public eye these days. Meaning, on social media.
What a commentary on how crazy the culture of the West is now in that “old fashioned” gay men and lesbian women are actually normal and “conservative/boring” compared to today’s radical sexualized and degraded nut jobs with the conversion therapies and 72 different “genders”.
Yes, what is more boring than a cis gay? It doesn’t save him from being a White Supremacist.
Mick is right.
Lay off the normie lesbians and homosexuals.
They never did anyone any harm.
It’s the woke “Letter genders” who are dangerous nutters (NUTTERS+).
Think about China, who does not need the US any longer.
I disagree. they are taking over USA.
When the US collapses, China will not need to “take” Taiwan, who will be trading almost exclusively with China by that time. Taiwan will come humbly knocking at China’s door once their current master dies.
No invasion, no explosions, no “shock and awe”, just the simple reunification of China once the US can no longer interfere.
If they let Tucker stay on the air, he must be serving their purpose, right?
Like Elon Musk?
Tucker is very popular. He probably brings in a lot of advertising.
He may well have the drawing power to set up his own broad casting outfit if Fox let him go.
It would create a gigantic Streisand effect if Fox were to shitcan Tucker.
I can imagine Fox execs gnashing their teeth that Carlson has them in a kind of headlock.
I think you are right. In general, they aren’t all that conservative, many even rooting against Trump and not trying to hide it very much.
Chris Hedges is even disgusted by what is being done to J6 participants:
Lynching the Deplorables
The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.
“….those who walked to the Capitol were not aware that the Department of Justice had created arbitrary markers, what McBride called an “imaginary red line that they draw around the Capitol grounds.” Anyone who crossed that invisible line was charged with violating Capitol grounds.”
Forgot the link…..
chrishedges.substack.com/p/lynching-the-deplorables?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Glad Chris is on the correct side of this.
It is ALL being revealed. And soon (hopefully) only complete idiots will believe the official narrative.
And then those that realize they’ve been lied to will start to get angry. As I did after 9/11 and figuring out that psyops.
MaryQ, keep peddling your conspiracy theories LOL
Is Chris Hedges, a true blue liberal and one of the few remaining actual investigative journalists left, a conspiracy theorist in your eyes?
Why are we calling them theorists when they have evidence?
Should be called machination authenticator
Well, the CIA says they’re/we’re ‘theorists’, and they (CIA) rule. So….there you go.
K-turd, I’ve noticed that your contributions are usually just a sentence or two. Can you construct paragraphs?
PLEASE don’t summon the Hustler.
Biden regime weaponizes census for technocratic ends
From John W. Whitehead
“There was a time when the census was just a head count.
That is no longer the case.
The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, is the byproduct of a government that believes it has the right to know all of your personal business.
If you haven’t already received an ACS, it’s just a matter of time.
A far cry from the traditional census, which is limited to ascertaining the number of persons living in each dwelling, their ages and ethnicities, the ownership of the dwelling and telephone numbers, the ACS contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire.
At 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), these questions concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including questions relating to respondents’ bathing habits, home utility costs, fertility, marital history, work commute, mortgage, and health insurance, among other highly personal and private matters.
For instance, the ACS asks how many persons live in your home, along with their names and detailed information about them such as their relationship to you, marital status, race and their physical, mental and emotional problems, etc.
The survey also asks how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have in your house, along with the fuel used to heat your home, the cost of electricity, what type of mortgage you have and monthly mortgage payments, property taxes and so on.
And then the survey drills down even deeper.
The survey demands to know how many days you were sick last year, how many automobiles you own and the number of miles driven, whether you have trouble getting up the stairs, and what time you leave for work every morning, along with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. And the survey demands that you violate the privacy of others by supplying the names and addresses of your friends, relatives and employer.
The questionnaire also demands that you give other information on the people in your home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak and when they last worked at a job, among other things.
Individuals who receive the ACS must complete it or be subject to monetary penalties.
Although no reports have surfaced of individuals actually being penalized for refusing to answer the survey, the potential fines that can be levied for refusing to participate in the ACS are staggering. For every question not answered, there is a $100 fine. And for every intentionally false response to a question, the fine is $500.
Therefore, if a person representing a two-person household refused to fill out any questions or simply answered nonsensically, the total fines could range from upwards of $10,000 and $50,000 for noncompliance.”
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_right_to_be_let_alone_when_the_government_wants_to_know_all_your_business
“$10,000 and $50,000 for noncompliance”
Among other things it is this kind of shit that keeps me from returning to the States.
Here one sees the vindictiveness of the globocap crew that runs the show in the US. I literally laughed when I read this. 10 to 50k for not answering invasive questions on a survey.
FUCK YOU.
People drowning in debt and they think they will squeeze $10k out of them for refusing to answer questions.
It’s either disconnect on an astronomical level, or they know exactly what they are doing. I would guess the latter.
And I’m guessing they will be bringing back debtor’s prison if they haven’t yet (I think they have, I have read men who didn’t pay child support end up in jail, which I find barbaric).
And at the same time, certain “oppressed” groups of people can burn, loot, steal, kill and rob, and walk free.
Progress ‘n’ diversity, ain’t that great?
Mary, no debtors prisons. Look around they are on the streets.
It’s called the US Treasury
What if people just throw the questionnaires away and/or ignore them?
Are they going to be delivered by the county sheriff?
Or, if sent via email, say they must have landed in spam?
Or, say they don’t have time, and must be paid at the minimum hourly wage to fill these out.
Chilling
I think they’ll have a hard time enforcing any of this. Under the best of conditions, probably 25% (at least) of the population is incapable of complying, no matter how hard they try. Of course they’ll make an example out of a few high profile cases to scare everyone else, but even so, this is still bullshit. In general, the more US.Gov tries to get a handle on things, the more they find them “slip sliding away.” They better step up the tempo if they want to get any of this shit implemented, cause after the dollar and/or the nukes fall, all bets are off.
They’re building the “Narrative” that we all owe more than we are worth, and are therefore responsible for the coming dollarpocalypse, and need to finally pay our dues by surrendering everything and allowing the benevolent government to take care of us.
Bingo.
The concept of odious debt seeks to provide a moral and legal for severing, in whole or in part, the continuity of legal obligations where the debt in question was contracted by a prior “odious” regime and was used in ways that were not beneficial or were harmful to the interests of the nation.
Yes, the American Dream, the American way of life of working to consume ’til you drop surely is slip-slidin’:
God only knows
God makes his plan
The information’s unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway
When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away
When you say “mortal” is that something like illiterate?
Ask Paul Simon
I’ve never filled in a census yet.
A question that no one wants to ask,
Except Jarek.
Would this country be better off if China ran the show here instead of the numb nuts of the Deep State.
Is the political nightmare that has developed in this country a repudiation of the Constitution and freedom from the government is a thing of the past?
Is everyday life in China getting better than here?
Are free markets unmanageable? Have capitalism’s freedoms been lost to the greed of the corporations and the 1%? We may know these answers on the next few months.
IMO, China is a dead man walking. Why? Because it’s very overpopulated, the air and water are polluted maybe more than ours, financially they’re a wreck, the populace is essentially enslaved, which means they will revolt quickly if anything goes wrong.
Why do you think China is being so openly aggressive and expansionist in world affairs? Because they need what others have to survive – their farmland, their space and their physical resources.
Would I want to live there? Never!
Neither do they! They no this place is up for grabs.
They’re pouring through Mexico as we speak. Why revolt when you can pay a snakehead $35k worth in indentured servitude for plane tickets to Mexico and walk across the invisible border?
Their numbers are up 800%, and those are the ones who did not get away.
Our collapse should be set to the tune of the Benny Hill Show anthem
They know, and we know, but we know not what to do.
Watch Tucker and yell ‘hell yeah’ at the boob tube?
Ironically, China is at the beginning stages of a demographic collapse. Yes, it still has around 1.4 billion people, but it is a very old population. Over the past 3 decades the birth rate went way down. And, with the decades long one child policy they have a problem of way more guys than gals.
Yes, they’ve been aborting their girls. The men must seek foreign wives. Was this the Plan all along? But will such offspring still be Chinese? Remember how deeply racist they are.
America is aborting its girls in a much more insidious manner.
It is erasing them.
I’ll bet you a HerShe bar. With nuts.
Yes, since everyone is the same, they can become anything or anyone. In fact you should or must if you can. It’s a mandate or sacrament – like going to Mecca.
Thus all boys are girls. And all girls are boys, fundamentally. And so why not enact this deep truth physically, in the flesh?
And what god is like this? Why, Baphomet! Both male and female – a the same time!
So the idea that since we are all the same, there is no need to do anything is blasphemy. A denial of the completion of Baphomet.
How prescient The Kinks were 50 years ago:
“Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Well I left home just a week before
And I’ve never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said, “Little boy, gonna make you a man”
Well I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man
And so is Lola
Lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola”
@ Mick – Look up the story about what a woman named “Lola” did to poor King Ludwig I of Bavaria. He lost his throne because of her. Having worn out her welcome in Europe perhaps, this Lola took her adventures to the Old West in the USA and for a while was a dancer and performer in the notorious Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone Az. She wore out a number of husbands and lovers and would have certainly made Jarek angry and upset.
Sounds like they weren’t called “The Kinks” for nothing!
Or has “kinky” gone down the memory hole?
Wow, Woodchuck, she was quite something! You’ve got to admire her chutzpah!
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-royal-women/royal-mistress-series-lola-montez-spanish-dancer/
they will revolt quickly if anything goes wrong.
I disagree. they are vassals and like being so.
prove me wrong, Bill. in tomorrows thread.
IMO the genetically over-civilized Chinese and Japanese have a collective psychological death-wish and will fade quietly.
I’ve been to China and some places, as one who lives in Canada especially, were almost nightmarish.
I flew over some of China’s east coast and from the plane, it looked a mess too and like a giant kid had left all their playthings– plastic, metallic, etc.– strewn about.
China apparently has water problems, too and I’ve heard about it both online and also almost from the horse’s mouth– a Korean hydrogeologist in China while waiting for our planes.
National Socialism is the way to go, but physical reality is a huge constraint as Bill says.
Israel faces the same issue. Too many people for their size. Thus the wars to destabilize the Middle East in order to expand. It didn’t work out very well. Israel was crushed in its attempt to take Lebanon.
National Socialism created Europe’s greatest disaster and disgrace of all time. Today Germany is a hollowed out shell of its former self. It’s a satellite country of the USA and governed by delusional and confused lefty criminals. I’ve close relatives who saw Nazism from very close up and experienced everything it had to offer. In Nazi Germany, everybody had to work to help support the war effort in some way, and it didn’t matter how well connected you were. Teenagers in the USA are out partying and playing. When my mom was a teenager, school authorities determined that she’d be good at soldering up electronic equipment used in aviation. So for a period of six months, after school and on weekends instead of partying she was busy with a soldering iron at aircraft plants.. Some of her peers weren’t so lucky. She had a couple of female friends who’d been assigned to operate anti-aircraft guns. In the last year of WWII, the desperate German Nazis were doing some of the very same things the Ukrainian Nazis are doing right now – forcing teenagers, women, and old men to operate military weapons. I don’t see National Socialism as a way to go at all. Jarek seems to think socialism is a good idea. I disagree.
They lost. That doesn’t mean the were wrong.
This is classic Americanism, or America-Gone-Wrongism. Voting becomes sports betting. People don’t want to vote for people they agree with because it would be wasting their vote. They want to be on the winning side!
If we were invaded, I should hope the women and teenagers would want to help. As for Ukraine, they are idiots being used by people much smarter than are – or you either, I’m afraid. The International Jewish contingent of the New World Order said, Dress our soldiers up like Nazis and no one will ever figure out it’s us behind all this. It worked!
Your penance: Watch Red Dawn, the original version. And read one chapter of Mein Kampf and be able to discuss it rationally.
Easy one.
Answer: No.
Think about resting that case. Don’t be on my case.
My name is green. If you click it you go to my website. None of the wanna-be imposters have the mental horsepower to do the same. I would want to pretend to be dumb why?
Quit screaming in the tower of babble.
Say, you’re really impressed with yourself, aren’t you?
When you injected an untested substance produced by one of the most criminal corporations in history into your arm, did you do it in a clinic, or did you do it in the Burger King or Krispy-Kreme parking lot and pick up your reward afterward?
Inquiring minds want to know.
LMAO!!!
Sheriff Gillespie in the movie “In the Heat of the Night”:
“Oh yeah….”
“Technology has an enormous role to play in helping us to use our energy more wisely and with greater efficiency and utility, but these efforts will only somewhat delay the eventual day when our giant pile of free food is gone. At this pace, at some future point in time, we’ll once again be on a daily energy budget supplied by sun. Between here and there, it’s up to us to decide what to do with this once?in?a?species energy bonanza. Shall we increase our prosperity by creating enduring works of architecture and lavishly funding our best and brightest minds to stretch the limits of what’s possible? Or shall we use energy’s one trip down the frictionless slide merely to promote the most rapid economic growth and ostentatious consumption?”
Chris Martenson “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition)
Yes, we should have taken the Fortress America option. Close the borders and watch the world die. Then take it for our Race and Civilization. Other wise nations would have done the same.
Your ‘The Man in the High Castle’ option would be no fun.
But does ‘The Man in the High Castle’ get DoorDash?
Nazis had lots of fun. They went out hiking, drank beer, dandled buxom bar maids on their knee, loved animals, made babies with pure young blonde maidens, etc.
Stop being a green retard.
A large part of Nazi “fun” was causing physical pain and suffering for others – that’s how they got their rocks off apparently. They were sick and twisted people inside. “Pure young blonde maidens”? Where do you come up with this horseshit?
A German aunt of mine many decades ago showed me a photo of herself as a teen in her “Bund Deutscher Madel” outfit – maybe translated “Band of German Maidens”. The Hitler youth outfit for young ladies. She joked that they sometimes called it “Bund Deutscher Milch Kuh” – or “band of German milk cows” – possibly in reference to the “buxom bar maid” look you seem to like.
Well Woodchuck, you must understand that Jarek gets his historical perspectives from the Daily Stormfront.
I don’t know what to say to you at this point. You don’t like blondes? Americans are supposed to like blondes. You aren’t German and you aren’t American. What the fuck are you?
Your creator, Scott Adams, has come home to White Nationalism. You, his obedient golem, should follow. Or do you want to rush his head like the Aryan replicant, Roy Batty, did to his creator?
@ Jarek Have you ever been to Oktoberfest in Munich? You’ll see plenty of buxom bar maids working in the beer tents delivering the stuff by the armload in big liter glass mugs to all the tables. Instead of enjoying the rides and all the other carnival stuff, I’d bet Jarek would be spending most of his time in the beer tents watching the “Aryan blonde maidens”. Hoping when they are bending over handing out liters of beer that he’ll get a peek down inside the cleavage that is prominently visible in the barmaid outfit.
I said I don’t like blondes? Who am I? I reckon I’m an Appalachian American. Part redneck and part beatnik. The beatnik part of me encourages my liking those eeeeeeeeeevil Russians!
I like the cut of your jibJa’rek, y’know you just might be on to something.
Look at North Korea
Kim Jong Genius
I would have thought he might go with Kim Long Dong. He’s the Supreme Leader, why the hell not? It would make for amusing news bytes anyway.
“My expectation is a slow, but steady decline in living standards for the rest of this decade.”
Do you agree with this statement? Will there be a quickening.
Which way will it go?
I’m leaning towards a quickening. If the leaders of the West weren’t so insane, I’d say a slow steady decline.
Insane and desperate. A dangerous combination.
Definitely a quickening. Already well underway. Which way will it go seems to be asked and answered as well.
The Schlong Emergency….
Pucker,
…Or, or a black schwanz event….
May the schwarz be with you!
Diss,
The schwartz is, indeed, with you.
Trust me on this….
What would Jacques Ellul and Ted Kaczynski say is the role of “Technology”, or, more precisely, Ellul’s “Technique” in driving exponential economic growth and concomitant exponential growth in energy usage?
If the “god” is Technology, then what does the Technology god demand re: Energy usage and economic growth? Technology feeds off of exponentially increasing Complexity, right? The Technology god will create an Energy source available to it even if this Energy is unavailable to humans?
Maybe, Martenson is missing-the-boat entirely by assuming that the Future is a Human Future?
“ Technology is the prevailing religion of the era, and far too many people place a lot of faith in the idea that technology will solve any and all problems of the future. Perhaps, but then again perhaps not.”
Chris Martenson “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition).
A big pile of smoldering plutonium (like Fukushima) would provide sufficient Energy to power the Technology god without all that of the Energy inputs needed to create the infrastructure necessary to provide Energy safely to Humans, right?
Or, perhaps, the Technology could merge with Humans and use the human bodies as batteries and as a source of Energy?
Humans may be a big impediment to more efficient use of Energy by the Technology god?
If the technology god was a big genius then it would probably try to be a rock. What does a rock need? It doesn’t need energy, food, or water and can exist in all sorts of crazy conditions and temperatures. Imagine a rock that can walk and talk. How funny would it be to look at it and say wow that is the superhuman technology god. And if it was in the shape of an obelisk or cube then people would probably worship it
I’ll bet LooZeeAnnA is an ideal climate for magic mushrooms.
Lol it is. I have also seen just regular mushrooms grow to the size of dinner plates. What made you think about that just now lol?
Well if a rock is so genius how come I can render it powerless with a piece of paper?
I was saddened to see the funny and charming John Kennedy of Louisiana on the list of anti-Tucker Republican fanatics.
I had hoped there was something real about him, but apparently his masterful takedowns of Liberals are for public entertainment and votes.
SSL,
Walking and talking rocks might have had something to do with it. As in, are you sure last night’s mushrooms weren’t the *magical* variety?
“Well if a rock is so genius how come I can render it powerless with a piece of paper?”
Shows what you know about rocks.
In Scissors-Paper-Stone, the “rock” realizes that it has been caught up in a silly children’s game, and so takes the easy way out: “Ok, you win!”. The way an adult would deal with a borderline psychotic child in a similar situation.
Rocks, they’ll still be here long after we’ve gone.
J: I had soured on Senator Kennedy about 2 years ago based on some of his votes and at this point I really can’t even bear to hear his voice. Tbh I hate his quips. In deep south culture you have to be careful if somebody is really butterin you up. They might just be preparing to gobble you up. So if he always says the right things you want to hear then run lol.
Dis: Lol you are funny. But believe it or not I hear that sorta often. Like sometimes i’ll say something and someone will respond “Are you high?”. But that is just my natural state of being. Momma sometimes tells people “don’t worry the child ain’t all there”. I just roll my eyes because I feel like sometimes I do have something to say.
St. Elmo – The rock beats the paper in the fight with water and fire – or scissors of course
BB, we always called it Rock-Paper-Scissors and believe me it is no kids game. I was state champ three years running.. Did you ever read Cosmos by Sagan? If I recall there was a chapter that imagined all life was based on the element silicon and not carbon as we know it. We would not recognize the world. all the living things were billions of years old and moved and developed over countless eons. Sort of like rocks.Some goof stopped at a garage sale I was having and I told him I had some really old stuff out back I’d think about selling cheap. Predating the Civil War I said. He almost shit. I took him around back and showed him a pile of river rock I had back there. As happens so often he called me an asshole and left in a huff.
OK SSL, how does the rock beat the paper? Must be some sort of swamp rule?
Well the rock wins because water will dissolve the paper but not do anything to the rock. Fire will incinerate the paper into ash pieces but not do anything to the rock. And scissors will cut the paper up into pieces but the rock will probably break the scissors. So the rock stands.
Paper covers rock.
Rock blunts scissors.
Scissors cut paper.
Chris Martenson aspires to use the Earth’s scarce remaining Energy resources to foster High Culture and High Civilization rather than create more dumb, fat people.
Martenson is basically a Confucian….
Well the Earth is not a prize dispenser and has no particular reason to entertain Mr. Martneson’s notions of grandeur. Perhaps both his dreams and dumb fat people will be curtailed by a pillaged and angry Earth.
Or maybe we have very little to worry about at present and can simply make intelligent choices about resource use.
Like a cadre of cream-puff suburban centrists circa 1996.
I’d put my utility bills up against yours any day of the week.
When we left the States, I think our power bill was around $15 a month.
Heading out to the garden now to grab a few eggs.
With a little “urban gardening” ethos tacked on.
No, you’re right almost. We don’t need to worry about much at present really.. except decreasing global population. No amount of energy conservation or development will safely lead 8B+ through declining petroleum supply.
But I shouldn’t be giving you sh*t because I was hoping you had a link to an alt take on Kelly Ernby..
I don’t live in the city.
Were we to use the full potential of our garden, we’d probably be able to supply ourselves with 60% of what we currently consume.
Petroleum we have been over. In Germany the big focus is the introduction alternative fuels for combustion engines (primarily to thwart the faux green shift to EVs), but we have been over that, too, and nothing is going to get you off of your doomsday track.
Well in some ways yes, we have little to worry about because on an individual scale we can do very little to change the situation other than change our own behaviors and maybe some of those around us. But do you really think on the larger scale society will make intelligent choices about resource use. I mean, look how many people got jabbed.
Can’t say I’ve read a lot of Martenson, but that’s the vibe I get from him too. So in other words he just fashions himself to be a a kinder, gentler, smarter elitist. All for the love of money.
In his defense, if you believe that we’re inevitably headed for a massive civilizational trainwreck, that’s not an altogether unreasonable point of view to have. But I doubt things will work out that rationally. Best laid plans of mice and men and all that.
Martenson was one of the view sane voices with the analytical chops to dissect the covid scam in real time.
So, IMO he needs no “defense” from someone who doesn’t even know his work.
The biggets problem I have with Martenson is the format of his website. IMO impossible to navigate and access the material one has signed on for. I hope they get a handle on that soon.
And his girlfriend adds nothing to the offering. .
I’ve been on his site several times a few years back, but I got the sense that it was all one big cash register for him and I didn’t really feel he added anything that I wasn’t already getting elsewhere for free, including analysis of the Covid scam, which was totally ridiculous right from the start.
At this point, I think most “analysts” are just repeating themselves anyway. The roadmap to where we’re headed is pretty clear now for anybody who’s not in total denial.
This sounds to me a bit like 20-20 hindsight, tbh.
LOL! 20/20 hindsight might be as good as it ever gets for me. At least the rear view’s still in focus.
“Matt Hancocks messages referenced targets. What if?
These Leaders are getting massive bonuses for every month the excess death rates surpass say 15%?
It would literally explain ALL of their behaviours.”
https://twitter.com/AllBiteNoBark88/status/1633566485821132800?cxt=HHwWgMDQhYuEzKstAAAA
I have little doubt she is likely dead-on here. Just about the only sensible explanation for all of these WEF ghouls and their hangers on pushing the poison for years despite all evidence showing the dangers and highlighting the fraudulent nature of it all is that they were being paid to hit specific targets.
I think it’s been proven that they want to get rid of the oldsters.
Otherwise why put sick people into nursing homes during the height of the plandemic? They knew no one would notice amid all the other hype.
And sterilize the youngsters.
I think reducing human reproduction (sterilization) – as well as survival once reproduced (immune system destruction) – is the goal, the “long-term effects”. Increased “surprise deaths” are just an added bonus.
Well, the entire plan for the shots is to get rid of people as they age. Some additional information came out a few weeks back that in Germany the plan was to mandate 4 shots per year forever.
The reason for that is rather self-evident.
Imagine the life-spans of someone born now. Their immune systems will be garbage.
Of course, they will say it’s perfectly normal to die at 45 or so.
Does anyone know if any alternative takes on Kelly Ernby’s death? She was a California DA and outspoken vax mandate opponent who died at 46 and became the big “antivaxxer dies of Covid” story last year. Then, a couple months later, her husband also died, I’ve just read? Weird.
This may interest you..
kaliyuga.substack.com/p/kelly-ernby-was-gardening-and-died
Nice. Thank you, SSL.
Mysterious, this one.
Of course! Yeah, it is actually a very strange story. I am still looking for more info about her husband’s death. Apparently the stories floating out there I do see also blame it on the complications of covid. But I would imagine he had to be jabbed because he criticized her for and blamed her death on not being jabbed so. I’ll see if I can find anything interesting but that is what it looks like at the moment.
Interesting substack.
kaliyuga.substack.com/p/numerous-people-are-susceptible-to
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Info on the fine art of herding cats. Follow the link for videos.
@K-Chien, the quote is from C. S. Lewis and is one of my favorites statements of a wise and thoughtful man.
*favorite* I cannot type this morning.
I’m glad you have found it interesting K-Chien!!
Russia unleashes massive missile attack on targets in Ukraine
“The day will come when [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his associates are held accountable by a Special Tribunal,” Kuleba said.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Poor Ukraine puppets truly believe the US has their back. SMH.
Not just Ukraine. All the 20th century US puppets, especially NATO, are watching Biden performance right now. It is why a significant portion are going to BRICS+.
What’s BRICS+. Is that the new, improved, model?
I feel real bad for the regular Ukrainians who simply wanted their country and self determination. They are the pawns of these monsters and psychopath lunatics.
Yes.
As are the rest of us.
Yeah, Cowbell. You know who runs special tribunals, the winners. Can you imagine Russia and China running tribunals to condemn the actions of Biden?
I think summary executions would be the only way to go. Save money, time, and a whole lot of hot air, what with global warming and all.
In the news:
Russia bombed the shit out of Ukraine, and Zelensky is somehow still, in true wokie fashion, crowing victory.
Yertle fell down went boom, much like in the Dr. Seuss story, except for he tripped instead of falling off a mountain of lesser turtles. He’s in the hospital.
And, yet another random on-the-street stabbing/killing of an innocent bystander (this time a 17 year old boy) in Los Angeles, by some deranged dude.
I hope they televise the midget’s execution.
That they picked such a joke of a manlet to play the Ukraine president just shows their utter disdain for people of the entire planet.
From Bob Moran:
Thanks for making us a ‘vaccine’.
We made you a ‘play swing’.
twitter.com/i/status/1633511745766531072
Direct & to the point!
But the rumors are now they are putting the mRNA concoction in everything and they are literally going to poison the world with it. I don’t know if that is true but supposedly they are jabbing livestock and chickens with it. And some people say they are injecting vegetables and fruits. They probably are trying to figure out how to put it in the water too. Hopefully it is hyperbole but they are maniacs so I kinda think they might be doing this stuff.
I don’t know if eating or ingesting that stuff is the same as having it shot into your body, though. If it were, why would they have even bothered to do a whole plandemic to sell it to the public?
Kicks?
I do think they’ve been experimenting on us and poisoning us well before the plandemic anyway. I mean, they admitted spraying the coast of SF with a pathogen back in the late 1950s.
And yeah, who knows what GMOs or chemtrails do?
Yeah that is true. Shooting something into the blood stream directly at least seems like it would definitely be more potent and effective delivery. And yes they probably have been slowly poisoning us for a long time in many different ways.
I don’t know the viability of mRNA in food, but there are apparently nanoparticles. As in nanotechnology, which is a component of the vaxxes. The way in which they really pushed flu shots this winter, my bet is that they were compromised too.
Oh, so far everyone I know who got the flu shot…..got the flu. Of course.
Everyone I know who got the covid19 shot got sick. “But it would have been MUCH worse if I didn’t get the shot!” – of course.
Lol… One of my acquaintances who got the flu in Dec about a month after the flu shot described his symptoms to me. It sounded awful. He talked about muscle aches and pain so bad that he had great difficulty walking, and most of the time just didn’t try. The rest of his symptoms were also terrible. I’ve had some bad flus, but nothing like what he described.
And then he said, “It’s a good thing I got the flu shot because it would’ve been worse if I hadn’t!”
Bwahahahaha…..
But, in all fairness this same guy was and is still anti-COVID vaxx. Never got that jab anyway.
Doesn’t he suspect that the “flu shot” WAS the jab in disguise?
At this point, getting a flu shot is just as stupid as getting a covid19 shot.
They are all garbage.
So are the vaxxes they force on children.
As I’ve said before, CHD (RFK, JR’s org) conducted the largest study ever done – almost 2000 children over the span of years – on vaccines. The unvaccinated kids came out way ahead.
The vast majority of vaccines – if not all – are garbage.
No Disaffected, he was confident that flu shots are okay because they use the “trusted old style” technology of utilizing a killed virus. The bigger issue is everything else in the elixir.
I chose to let him stay in his delusion. I’ve learned that there’s no positive effect in challenging people’s delusions. I mean, look at all the fights here on this blog for example. Lol…
I don’t think the flu shots are COVID jabs in disguise. But, I do think they have some nasty particles in them that are probably in ALL vaxxes now. The nano variety.
Yeah I am almost to the point where I don’t even want to go to the doctor anymore. I do want to do more research to find an alternative healer or doctor.
Mick,
Ditto on convincing anyone. But to me it just stands to reason that the flu shots are very likely a trojan horse for the Covid vaxx or a very close facsimile thereof. But either way, I don’t want the flu vaxx either, so refusal is a win-win proposition to my mind. Once they’ve been caught lying about one thing, can you really trust them to tell the truth about another closely related thing?
SSL, I highly recommend you find a naturopath doctor, yes.
Yeah I am almost to the point where I don’t even want to go to the doctor anymore. I do want to do more research to find an alternative healer or doctor.
I’m thinking the same thing. I got a notice earlier this week that one of my doctors is now “out of network.” I was all excited reading it, hoping it was my Primary Care guy. Alas, it was not to be. But I’m going to shop around anyway. We no longer see eye to eye on anything.
@ MaryQueen:
I totally agree about vaccines: “They are all garbage.”
My advice would be not to vaccinate your kids at all, with anything.
NASDAQ dropping fast for the second day in a row.
Should I be concerned?
😀
The one guy I follow on matters of the markets says that this is going to be a nasty correction. It’ll probably go until mid to late April for the bottom. The “good news” is that it will take oil prices down for a corrective low too.
Thanks. I know Jack Shit about the stock market.
It is designed to take your money.
And it does it very well.
This is not trading advise.
If you are investing in paper how about GB3:GOV 3 Month 4.85-4.98%?
I think it will drop 400 points today and many more in the future but I am always wrong Sweet Mary!
500 points?
Come On 600
289.
Can I get an 800?
The markets are taking huge hits now.
Why?
Biden is responsible for a lot of it. Everything he does hurts corporate America, which is the stock market.
Today he stated that he was going for a higher tax on corporations. WTF? Guess who is going to pay for those higher taxes? You and me. Do you pay income tax on your stock market gains? Do you pay the increased prices to offset the corporate tax increases? This is one of the Democrats biggest lies, that they are going to make corporations pay their fair share. No, you and me. Biden’s mob is taxing us. The idea that no one under $400000 is going to pay more tax is another Biden lie. Watch what he is proposing right now for new taxes, you and I are going to pay them. That is so he can spend more money which is nothing but redistribution of the wealth as the spending goes to welfare and payment of the debt interest.
This government is a Mob, stealing from us using taxes as much as the Mafia ever did.
One more thing to watch from the Mob. What reaction are we going to see about the folks killed in Mexico? IMHO, it will be swept under the rug like everything else. Nothing can disrupt the cash flow from the cartels.
Should you be concerned? Long term no, short term yep. All that fiscal spending Biden wants to do is inflationary, directly. So guess what that means Powell has to do in order to corral what the idiot is doing. For every so much spending is a higher interest rate to offset it. As the stock market is a six month forecast on the economy, due to its being driven by interest rates, it portends recessionary hard times coming. Not surprising as the heart of the Democratic cause is redistribution of wealth, stealing from you and me to give to Gimmes for votes.
BTW, that is why the uniparty is enemy number one, they want to destroy the economy to make us dependent on them. They are doing more to us that the rest of the world combined. All they have to do is provide more of our money to Gimmes to buy more votes.
I expect there will be a correction as the markets absorb the very bad economic news that shows up every day. Keep an eye on the Fed, the markets are. Thank God for a GOP House, if Biden’s Mob got their way with the budget, Doomsday for America.
I have not even mentioned the long term effect of the increased taxation of corporations. Remember Obama and his 35% corporate tax rate? That is why everything is made in China now. What little increase in manufacturing here, initiated by Trump policies, will be heading offshore if Biden has his way.
I frequent a small grocery store in the center of town because I want them to stay in business.
Yesterday the manager thanked me for always paying with cash. He said that credit cards really cut into their profits. Depending on the credit card company they take between 1% and 3% of each sale.
I assume that anyone who shops there also wants to support local businesses. But then they pay with a credit card?
So for every $100 spent locally, using a card, $1 to $3 goes to Wall Street banks.
The money is siphoned from our small impoverished town to the criminally wealthy, instead of circulating here.
I’d be happy to be charged by the store for the convenience of using a card. Why haven’t retailers cracked this nut?
Good point. A lot of smaller stores will require that a purchase be over a certain amount to use a card (say $10 or $15), but I rarely see something like “Cash preferred, please. 3% will be added to the bill if paying by card, to cover purchase fees charged to us by the bank. Also, screw the IRS. Thanks!”.
That said, I remember one place about 15 years ago when I lived elsewhere that had a sign in their front window that said, “It’s OUR money, not theIRS.”
I guess they were of the same mindset.
Video store. Helluva selection, including multiple rows of library stacks containing VHS collections of 1000s of entire old TV series like Dr. Who. The place smelled a bit rough, but I can understand that.
Guaranteed they are long out of business.
I’m so glad people still use cash for things. I am hoping that it causes an uproar when they try to take cash away.
Also people use cash to tip if they are smart, so that the greedy corporations don’t get part of the tips.
People gladly pay 3% for the convenience of plastic. Most do not even realize that that charge exists as the businesses just add it onto the prices. We, as the younger crowd ages, will see a more and more cashless society.
Another thing to think about. What is a cashless society going to look like? The NSA will probably know every single transaction that happens. So far, the kids do not seem to be bothered by the federal eavesdropping continuously going on, so to them, digital money is no big deal. Thay do not understand privacy.
After all, they believe that a few electrons in the internet is worth money. I wonder what will happen why the Ad money dries up during a prolonged recession? You Tube will certainly suffer.
And then the trick is…if you ever have to buy something from a Walmart, Target, or Home Depot…then you use a card. Let them eat the 3%.
They’ve got us wrapped up pretty good otherwise. It’s a good racket if you’re on the inside, I’d imagine.
Catherine Austin Fitts recently surmised that Wall Street is basically using the Russians to grind up the Ukrainians in order to depopulate Ukraine and then use all of the money that the US Congress has thrown at Ukraine with zero oversight to then buy up Ukrainian assets on the cheap. Sick….
“ The Kyiv Independent recently interviewed soldierson the frontline and issued a surprisingly blunt assessment (given it’s obviously a news source on the Ukrainian side) that Ukrainian soldiers are by and large “unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.”
I think Russia might have something to say about said assets. It’d be a crying shame if all that Wall St. money went in and then couldn’t find its way back out again.
This is why Russia will get control of all of the Ukraine. The Kiev govt has sold land to foreign corporations in violation of Ukrainian law.
Once Russia is in control, they can just renationalize the land and any assets sold to foreign corporations or oligarchs, etc.
After all, the precedent of such seizures has been set by the USA and the West, ni pravda li?
After all, the precedent of such seizures has been set by the USA and the West, ni pravda li?
Exactly. It’ll be fun to listen to the DC and Wall St boys howl, though, anyway.
Of course. we in the West are not being told the truth that for every one Russian killed in action, eight Ukrainians are killed.
The real number of dead and missing Ukrainians combined is above 200K now. That’s after just one year. “Only” 55K Americans died over the ten-year Vietnam war. Perspective.
And that number will grow even more in the coming few months. Zelensky has resorted to ordering kids as young as 16 be forcefully pressed into the army and sent into action. It isn’t hard to find videos of them being literally taken off the streets and forced into cars, vans and trucks.
Jacob Dreizin has on his blog right now a video of a 16-year-old Ukrainian showing his draft order, giving a heart-rending message to the Ukrainian govt before hanging himself.
Remember how the MSM was talking non-stop months ago about Putin pressing tens of thousands of young men into service against their wills? All bullshit. It is the Zelensky who’s doing this. Not Putin.
Just about all of the western world’s reports on the Ukraine/Russia conflict projects what Ukraine is doing onto Russia.
Sort of like the liberals here project onto everyone else.
NATU/U.S. will be doing the fighting or blitzkreiging during summer campaign season 2024 in the direction of the Crimea to knock Putin and the Russian Armed Forces back to the eastern Oblasts of the Ukraine and force a defeat down their throats and therefore deposing Putin. This will be done to great media fanfare in the western uni-media machine right before the final sprint to the U.S. elections enshrining the Democrats as the dominant power doing WEF bidding for the rest of the century. I’m not anti-Putin, I just have crystal ball.
NATO
Your crystal ball is…….well, inaccurate. But, if true, the NATO/US military forces will be obliterated. Russia will not hold back with the US as they have with the Ukraine, their brothers and sisters.
And, if you’re right, there will be nuclear war. All military bases in the US will be obliterated. Those in cities? Well, it is what it is. Also, many if not all US aircraft carriers will be making a final trip to Davy Jones’ locker.
It’s the Accountants who really run the Law Firms. I don’t know who really runs the Military? Maybe, in the Military, it’s also just “All About the Numbers and Meeting the Sales Target”?
“ The Kyiv Independent recently interviewed soldierson the frontline and issued a surprisingly blunt assessment (given it’s obviously a news source on the Ukrainian side) that Ukrainian soldiers are by and large “unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.”
The MIC runs the military. I can assure you it’s not the military accountants. But no doubt meeting sales targets (and thus Exec bonuses) for the contractors is a top priority.
Where’d the $155 billion go?
I think that falls under “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
‘Panic in the Steets’ is running, a tense, early 50s b&w ‘film noir’, Richard Widmark desperately searching the gritty streets of New Orleans for ‘Patient 0’ carrying Pnuemonic Plague. Widmark is a Navy doctor, a one man CDC, and potential deadly pandemics are local affairs worked out between the Mayor, the city newspaper editor, and the police chief.
Gangsters involved too. Jack Palance is the perfect Bad Man.
He sure was.
Saw Widmark in “Judgement at Nuremburg” (1961) a week or two back on MGM+. Surprisingly good film.
I always check out the Svengoolie flicks on MeTV every Saturday night too. Those early black and white’s are a refreshing break from all the current CGI nonsense. The schlockier the better!
Yeah I love Svengoolie and his snarky reviews and comments. A few weeks ago it was ‘The Creature From the Black Lagoon’, an all time classic. Svengoolie was rooting for the Creature.
Check out this thread:
Gonzalo Lira:
“Within 12 hours, both
@nytimes
&
@washingtonpost
published long articles claiming that a Ukrainian group blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
German media picked it up.
Now the German defense minister is threatening to withdraw support for Kiev.
We now know what’s the plan.”
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1633512395770404868?s=20
LOL! Too funny.
When thieves fall out . . .
One can only hope . . .
But I still espy a little problem:
THE TRUTH
What happened to the unbreakable NATO solidarity in opposition to Russia?
But you know Mary I doubt the Ukrainian Navy (does Ukraine have a Navy?) has the expertise, the military infrastructure, or the trained personnel to pull off a job like that Nordstream bombing. It had to be the USA or UK/Norway.
Peter Zeihan said that the Nordstream pipeline was probably taken out by a scuba driver wielding a pickax underwater.
True story….
Peter Zeihan knows which side his bread is buttered on….
Of course!
Journalist Celia Farber got audio of Sy Hersh’s reaction to NYSlimes saying Ukraine blew it up. He laughed, couldn’t believe how stupid they were.
Germany could attack from the West, catch Ukraine in a classic pincer, coordinated with Russia from the east, like they did with Poland in 1939. Then there’d be a joint military parade in Kiev, like the ones the Russians & Germans held in Warsaw.
Don’t “They” want us to eat bugs?
“ CHAPTER 26
Where Have All the Insects Gone?: SILENCE OF THE LAMPS
Perhaps you’ve noticed: The windshield of your car no longer gathers insects, even during long trips through the countryside in summer. This is an emergency.
When I was a kid, the family would drive each summer from Connecticut to a spot in upstate New York, a distance of about 300 miles. I mostly recall our wood?paneled station wagon because of how hard it was to reach the windshield from the ground. I’d have to crawl up on the hood, sometimes blisteringly hot, at every gas stop because it was my job to clean bugs and insects off the windshield we’d gathered since the last stop. It took some effort, I can tell you, especially the big fat explosions of yellowy stuff that had dried on there.
These days? Now, I can drive those same 300 miles in August without hitting a single insect. My windshield is completely clean.
More people are aware of this phenomenon now and it’s even been in the news quite a bit. The New York Times has run long and thorough articles on the insect apocalypse, bee colony collapse, and loss of butterflies, notably the monarch. What’s missing, typically, is an appreciation for just how awful this really is.
Similar to the missing aquatic thiamin story, the insect collapse is broad?based. It was a group of amateur entomologists in Germany that first raised the alarm. They had been carrying out insect population surveys for decades, setting various traps in wild areas and then literally weighing the haul and dutifully and carefully recording the data.
Eventually, they noticed that the weights were down significantly and heading lower every year. They spoke with scientists and the concern grew from there.
Anybody over the age of 50 can tell you that once upon a time if you left your window open without a screen with a light on, on a summer night, your room would rapidly fill with all manner of insects, some of them frankly large and alarming. Gigantic beetles with huge horns flying as if blindfolded, moths of every size and shape, walking sticks and crane flies, things large and small. Now there are practically none. A porch lamp was a fascinating summer evening event when I was a boy and I truly miss those winged wonders of my youth.
As a person trained in biology and ecology, I can assure you wiping out the bottom of the food chain is a very bad, terrible, no?good idea. The loss of insects of every type spanning across every family, order, and species and from multiple continents should alarm each of us. It means, once again, that something we’re doing is having a global impact and that, once again, there’s too little apparent concern among the public to do much about it.
I am convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the neonicotinoid (“neonics”) class of insecticides is largely responsible.”
Chris Martenson, “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition)
Big Ag.
Another reason for Earth to welcome “collapse.”
I always like “Earth” used as a proper name.
A place.
Well spring is here and the lawn treatments, herbicides, and pesticides are stacked to the ceiling at the local home stores. You can’t even move in the place. All poisons.Puck I think some of the missing bugs on the windshields is certainly due to aerodynamics and the design of modern cars. All the cars look the same for a reason. They need smooth air flow. My first car had the air flow of a piece of plywood being pushed down the road.
We’re being poisoned….
It used to be that the Democrats were anti-war, pro-Free Speech, and pro-Environment. Now, it’s the opposite…except for “Climate Change”….
Go figure….
“ I wrote a long piece on the subject back in 2015 (“Suicide by Pesticide”) after the EPA under Barack Obama decided to punt and not regulate these nasty awful chemicals despite literal mountains of science telling us just how terrifyingly awful they are.
They are not pesticides so much as they are biocides. Neonics are so toxic that a coated seed kernel has enough on it and will absorb enough toxin from that coating during germination that the adult plant will be lethal to a hungry caterpillar. The coating on a single seed contains enough poison to kill a sparrow outright. The half?life of neonics in the soil and water is a mind?bending 1,000 days, meaning that after nearly three years, half of the amount first applied is still in the ecosystem working its damage. Since it’s applied every year, it accumulates rapidly. First introduced in quantity to farmers in the mid 1990s, but really taking off with the introduction of Clothianidin in 2004, ecologists and beekeepers began noticing alarming signs by 2006.
Germany took note of the science and banned the entire family of neonics in 2008. In took until 2015 for the U.S. EPA to do … well, nothing really at all. They finally ruled, after dragging out the process for years, to restrict new uses of neonicotinoids. All the old uses and applications were grandfathered in, despite strong evidence that these compounds were directly responsible for a massive insect apocalypse. There were farming dollars and corporate profits to consider, you see.”
Chris Martenson, “The Crash Course” (Revised Edition).
Surprised? I think I’ve finally reached the “shock proof” stage. If it can possibly be imagined, the corporate shysters have already done it. They’re dependable that way.
Ya know something that’s kind of pathetic in college basketball? It’s the post-game interview with players and coaches responding to talking-head questions.
The answers are filled with platitudes (like “taking care of the ball”) and are inarticulately expressed. The “student” athlete typically will lean toward the microphone smile slightly and begin with the words “Yeah, I mean.”
I think that goes for sports in general, Q. I mean come on now, how much can you really say in response to such repetitive and insipid questions?
“How were you feeling at the moment that you knew you’d just won the game?”
“If you really ant to know, I wasn’t feeling anything, because we we were STILL PLAYING THE GAME, you fucking moron! All that reflecting on your feelings bullshit is what you losers sitting on the sidelines do, so why don’t you go find a game to play and find out for yourself, if you really want to know so badly?”
On top of the insipid questions, there’s less going on upstairs, at least yet, with the college set in general. They’re still being programmed. Ah but what programming!
They could also ask a 5 year old how their apple juice tasted the moment they took that first sip-of-the-day. Bring that mic in real close.
I guess this sort of thread dialogue could also be viewed as kind of practice for possible post-collapse round-the-campfires when televisions, cellphones and computers are some of the things left behind that we pirate for their constituent materials.
“How were you feeling at the moment that you knew you’d just won the game?” – Disaff
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I was feeling like I can hardly wait to get back to my room and smoke some dope.
and begin with the words “Yeah, I mean.” – Q.
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Or the player may possibly begin with “No, I mean.”
The yoose of “yeah” or “no” have no bearing at all on the question asked or the answer given.
” Yeah Blacks could create a first world industrial nation any time they wanted to. They just haven’t wanted to, right? ”
— Jarek
We have sort of already been over this.
But , Ok ;
Africa did create agrarian societies and empires comparable to other agrarian societies and empires in the same era.
You don’t hear about it ?
Bulgaria has a rich and involved history , but you never hear about that , either.
Apparently the Dalai Lama has been doing his thing for quite awhile , but my guess is most peoples total knowledge of Tibet is , ” Seven Years in Tibet ” .
The UK is generally pretty popular with Americans , but I suppose some aspects of the UK are more popular than others.
Like , if typical comments right here on CFN are any clue , most people are unaware that in the 8th Century — 700 years after the crucifixion — a couple of hundred years after Constantine — roughly half the British Isles were in the hands of pagan Vikings
One take – away from that is that there were many , many , many crusades , which took place pretty much everywhere on the map of Europe you throw your dart.
But it’s always near exclusively the Holy Land Crusades that are remembered and recalled , though I think it entirely accurate to call the Holy Land Crusades a sideshow.
Popularity plays a role in the mainstream history you are shown.
As , likewise , agendas which have nothing to do with history itself play a role.
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” first world industrial nation ”
On that score , I don’t think anyone has the faintest clue how and why we wound up with first world industrial nations.
Like , I really doubt someone could have sat on a mountaintop in the Alps 500 years ago with a piece of paper and a pen and said to themselves , ” I’m going to do this , and this , and this , and this , and I’ll arrive at interstate highways , air conditioning , and cheese doodles. ”
I suspect that because we don’t really know how and why we arrived at industrial civilization , is one reason why no one really knows how to get out of the cul – de – sac we are in —
— a bare 200 years into the experiment.
Plan Star Trek isn’t working out .
All other solutions are some variation of back – peddling at least to some degree to the Middle Ages.
Much is made of the Crusaders from Europe going into the Levant ostensibly to bring the Holy Land back into the Christian fold; yet at the same time Genghis Khan’s Golden Hordes were sweeping in from the east, devouring everything in its path. These cavalrymen from the Mongolian Steppe destroyed entire cities, murdering all inhabitants; there were clashes with Tuetonic Knights in Hungary as the Hordes moved toward Austria & Central Europe. It’s interesting to note that at one point the Mongols focus was the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea, then as now a point on the map as a city that could determine the future of the world. (Or no future, if indeed a nuclear war is triggered)